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Evening star., 1925-03-01
Short-wave Work Improves.

Through the use of the experiment
tai short-wave transmitter NKF, at
the Bellevue Radio Laboratory, the
Navy communication office in Wash
ington is now communicating regu-
larly at night with London, Balboa,
San Diego, San Francisco and Pearl
Harbor. Naval operators at San Fran
cisco and Pearl Harbor, following the
lead of those at Balboa, have built
themselves short-wave receivers, and
the number of words sent each night
is steadily increasing on the 71.5-
meter channel.
During the Pacific maneuvers this
Summer radio engineers expect to
conduct extensive tests with a new
54-meter set, soon to be installed on
one of the vessels of the feet, and
special receivers located in remote
parts of the Pacific Ocean. Lieut.. F.
H. Schnell, a naval reservist and a
Radio League official. will have
charge of the low-wave or high fire.
quency experiments. His ship call
will be NRRL.
The study of short waves has develop
ed the fact that distances of more than
1000 miles have been covered in day
light with an input of less than 1000
watts. Communications to Belle
vue indicate that this 10-kilowatt
Evening star., 1925-03-01
WOO Links Up PIunketteers.

The Plunketteers of the Mark Strand
Theater, New York, are now perma-
nent feature of Station WOO. Philadel-
phia. in conjunction with Station WEAF,
New York. 1t is expected by Joseph
Plunkett. managing director OF the
Broadway theater, that soon four or five
other stations will be hooked on with
WOO and WEAF.
An extravagant stage and studio pro-
gram will feature the Plunketteers on
the air tomorrow night. "The Walls of
China a colorful overture, will be
played for the first time by the Mark
Strand symphony orchestra, with Carl
Edouarde conductor and Alois Reiser
associate conductor. The mikes" on
stage will next pick up for the air a
two-part advertisement, featuring Emily
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Science.

A unique test to determine how
much food the human brain needs
to work at highest efficiency will be
conducted by medical student of
the University of Chicago. For the
last two years he has carried scales
with him to determine the amount of
food he consumes normally. Then he
has taken intelligence tests to meas
ure the functionings of his brain
under normal circumstances. From
now on he will eat only when he is
hungry, will pay no attention to reg
ular schedules for his meals, and will
eat very little. He will measure the
amount of food he takes and will
again submit to the intelligence tests.
This latter experiment will last for
two years
Two years ago a 15-year-old school
boy put his name and address In a
pop bottle. sealed 1t and threw 1t
into the Detroit River. Last week he
received a. letter from q sailor on the
Pacific coast who found the bottle
near Santa Barbara, Calf. The bottle
evidently fioated out through the
lakes and the st. Lawrence River
route to the Atlantic coast, southwark
along the coast. to the Panama Canal,
through the canal and up the Pacific
coast to Santa Barbara
The discovery in Central America
of fossilized remains of prehistoric
North American animals and also of
animals known to have lived in South
America in the early days of that
continent was announced by the Field
Museum of Chicago this week. This
discovery comes as a climax to the
three years work OF an expedition
led by Prof. Elmer S. Riggs. Prof,
Riggs, together with other fossil ex-
perts, believes that this discovery
shows that Central America was the
great battlefield In a struggle be-
tween the animals of the two con-
tinents.
An earthquake. described as the
severest ever felt by the Alaskan
pioneers, rocked the towns along the
Alaska Railway. according to reports
from Anchorage and Seward, Alaska,
this week The shock was recorded
by the seismograph at Georgetown
University here and was the most vio-
lent that has been recorded in three
or four years.
After trial trips to Bermuda, Porto
Rico and the Canal Zone, which will
take place in March and April, the
dirigibie Los Angeles Ia to take an
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Art.

The party responsible for blame is
in doubt. but there has been a de-
cided rift among those who have been
planning to carve out of the great
granite face of Stone Mountain, near
Atlanta, Ga, a memorial to the South
ern heroes OF the Civil War. Gutzon
Borglum, sculptor for the memorial,
started the ball rolling last week.
which resulted. a few days later in
his being discharged from his posi-
tion as sculptor for the memorial, and
later a warrant was sworn out for
his arrest, which he has successfully
eluded so far. Mr.. Borglum issued a
statement from those he criticized to
verely those who have been directing
the work of creating the memorial.
His denunciation was followed by a
statement fro mthose he criticized to
the effect that the chief trouble with
plans now was TO be found in the
sculptor. Later Mr.. Borglum was dis
charged, and Immediately after II was
found that his models for the piece of
sculpture had been destroye ed, and
Borglum was blamed for their de-
struction. A warrant, not yet served,
has been sworn for his arrest.
A 20-year-old girl from Mobile, Ala,
Mary Frances OConnell, tred the
heights Of victory one night last week
when she made her grand opera, de-
but in the leading role of new opera.
Coming to New York unknown two
years ago. she studied year on a
scholarship she won in Alabama, sup
ported herself for. studying another
year by singing In the chorus and
finally won a vocal contest which re-
suited in her choice as leading lady
and assured her a chance at success
in grand opera.
Evening star., 1925-03-01

other long ocean flight similar to its
flight here from Germany in October.
Capt Steele, commandant at the
Lakehurst naval station, stated that
the next ocean fight has been plan
ned to test the ability OF the Los
Angeles when inflated with helium. a
less buoyant but a safer gas than
hydrogen, with which 1t was inflated
when il crossed the Atlantic.
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Radio Rates in U. S.

The Grimeton high-power station,
recently completed for the Swedish
government by an American company,
is reported as giving excellent serv-
ice. The rates from Sweden to the
United States are the same for radio
as for cable, but both are very much
below the relative prices OF other
services and OF general living costs
I'm Sweden.
Evening star., 1925-03-01
CiUicS.

With only two more working days
before this Congress comes to an enc
Wednesday, Charles b. Warren $
nomiEation to be Attorney General
remains unconflrmed. 1t has been the
plan of administration leaders in the
senate, however. to let the confirm =
tion go over until the special session
OF the new Senate. which comes into
being at noon Wednesday,, is ready to
act. The Senate Judiciary con)mittee
favorably reported the nomination of
Mr.. Warren by a vote of to 4 on
Tuesday
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Farmer. Like "stock Yard Mu.lc.v

ITO me the sweetest music on the air
is your musical voice saying cattle
strong to so cents higher or hogs. Is to
a quarter higher" writes a farmer
from Narka, Kans to Miss Mamie B.
Cox. who broadcasts live stock reports
from the Kansas City Office of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
81 then feel" he continues, "at peace
with the world, and can easily imagine
you to be the most beautiful lady in the
whole United States. But when you say
| cattle and hogs are so cents lower
static seems to spoil your musical
voice and you seem-welI, not quite
so good looking"
Evening star., 1925-03-01
RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS

Day, soprano and the Mark Strand
male quartet.
Walls From n Wireless Man.
The life Of Sparks" seagoing
| radio operator is not always a happy
experience One from Washington
complains to his superiors ashore
| that, between a skipper who is a
radio bug" and the skippeTs Belgian
police dog. which seems to have a
| taste for radio operators. he is far
from pleased with his present berth.
Operator Sparks" was seeking a
soft assignment and thought he had
II when he shipped aboard a freighter
at Savannah, but now he writes as
| follows:
I'm the first place, the operator who
left this wagon certainly had his
reasons, as probably reports on re-
pairs coming in to you will show. He
has things all fixed up for me. except
ing that the skipper is radio bug,
for whom he built a four-tube set.
The 'old man" has to have "A" bat
teries and takes 'em out of the radio
shack. I use the other battery until
it is run down and then suspend
operations of listening in until 1t is
charged again. Maybe after it's
! charged, the 20. M" will bring back
the other and take my full one. Then
l have to wait until that one is
| charged. Then again, 1 can't open UP
to answer any calls until j run ur
and see IL he Is listening in. He told
me to let him know when l cut In, sc
l wouldn't burn up his set
| This is only half my trouble. The
! skipper has two Belgian police dogs
one of them is ugly and bites. Nippec
me twice, and bit the steward good
also a previous second mate. Pro
| tests availed nothing-the dog still
| rides with US; everybody is afraid Of
| him, but scared to say so.
Besides all this. 1 have to check
! cargo and do part of the purser's
work. / don't know whether i have
| TO do all this or not, but l go ahead
| and do IL. and say Yes. sir and No
| sir The mates both kid me, but Tn
| going to rest all the way home. Can't
| open up the set, anyway. at night
| because the o. NJ. listens in and I'm
afraid to disturb him"
Evening star., 1925-03-01

set, operating on Ills meters, is being
heard practically all over the world.
Letters from Holland, China, Britain,
New Zealand, Australia, France, Ger
many, India and Honolulu have been
received. New Zealand also copied
the Shenandoah during her transcon-
tinental flight. A French operator on
the Rhine says he has heard NKF
while 6 feet from his phones. An
operator in Samoa picks up the RCA
station WGH, at Tuckerton, n. j., on
l03 meters, regularly.
Evening star., 1925-03-01
History.

The postal pay bill and the legisla-
tive appropriation bill are now before
the President for his signature, having
heen passed by Congress last week
The President, by signing the first,
VIII grant an average increase of $500
a year to postal employees and in
crease some rates BY signing the
latter he will grant a salary increase
TO members of Congress. the Vice
President, the Speaker of the House
and the members of the Cabinet.
After bringing its investigation to
an end, suddenly and with explana-
uons which did not sound very
plausible to newspaper men who
covered them. the House aircraft
inquiry committee resumed omen
hearings again last week and heard
about the same line Of give and
lake" testimony which has featured
the investigation from the start. The
most interesting witness, however.
was Rear Admiral William S. Sims,
retired, who in his charact eristic
manner gave the COMMITTEES his own
views about the American Navy. The
battleship has become a back number.
ne said in effect, while the submarine
and the airplane should be deyeloped
TO Inc greatest extent possible. He
agreed with Brig. Gen. Mitchell as
slstant chief of the Air Service. that
z,0o0-pound bomb from an airplane
would sink a battleship. but he came
CUT strongly for separate air services.
declarlng the naval aviation branch
snoula be composed of naval ayiators
thoroughly trained in the tactics of
the Navy.
The District rent bill, which would
continue the Rent Commission Great
cd during the emergency of the uar
ana about which there has been so
inuch discussion pro and con during
the snort session of this Congress. is
uoolneu. fallure of the House rules
committee last week TO agree 70 q
special rule which would eiva -
privileged consideration in the crowd
ed hours of Congress wind-un SMELL
ed failure for the measure, as It's CON
troVersial nature would prevent its
consideration now.
The new retirement bill, which low
ers the age and increases the annui-
Iles Tor retirement of Government
employees, passed the Senate last
week, much to the qualification of
thousands of employees. The bill has
a good chance to pass the House in
the closing hours of Congress
The law-ridden American public
VIII face 10000 proposals for new
laws IN the rorious State Legislatures
this year. and about 1000 to $500
OF them finally will be enacted. ac-
cording to A statement by the Ma
uonal Industrial Council in New York
last week. The statement said n
fair volume of anti business" legis--
latton is to be found, although this
GLASS is considerably less than usual
Evening star., 1925-03-01
KOA BiIIs Song Fest.

KOA's radio audience will have first
opportunity next May to hear Denver's S
far-famed Music week celebration and
annual Spring festival Of more than 500
events.
Musical organizations Of 81 Western
cities will be represented, according TO
Freeman II. Talbot, KOA program man.
ager and executive director of the Den
yer Music Week Association. Included
on the program will be the opera
"Erminie," an evening of dancing by stu
dents OF Denver dancing schools. com
petitive choral singing by senior choruses.
an afternoon concert for advanced stu
dents, a chorus of 4 900 school children
and a novelty attraction of 10 concert
grand pianos which will be played al
once.
More than 40 instrumental bands and
orchestras will be heard by listeners, in
addition to so choruses and 60 church
choirs. Other features during the week
include community singing in factories
stores, churches and among neighbor-
hood groups, competitive singing by
service clubs and educational lectures or
musical topics.
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Economies.

In order to help in restoring Euro
pean currency to the gold standard
world currency parley has been sug-
gested to the Senate Commission of
Gold and Silver Inquiry. Participation
In such parley by the United States
would not be from a wholly unself1sh
standpoint. as the condition of bad
money" in Europe is unfavorable TO
successful trade and intercourse be-
tween the United States and Europe.
While all the talk goes back and
forth over World War debts, the
American Debt Commission an
complished the arrangements for pay
ing half of them. When the Debt
Commission was organized s10,150,-
100000 in principal plus more than
81, 900, 100000 in interest was due this
country. Settlements. extending over
a period of 60 years, have been made
with Great Britain, Poland, Finland.
Lithuania and Hungary, while Cuba
has paid her debt OF SIC, ,000, 900 in full
Despite the steady rise of gasoline
prices this Winter, figures announced
by the Interior Department last week
show that 1924 saw the greatest pro-
duction of gasoline in history, the
total being S,95s,Ss0.220 gallons. This
exceeded by more than 1000. 900. 900
gallons the previous high mark in
production.
by the War Department, 100000
veterans have made bonus applica-
tions under the adjusted compensa-
tion act. The payment of cash bonuses
to those whose compensation amounts
to $50 or less is effective March l.
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Education.

A fellowship fund of 100000 is
the gift of Simon Guggenheim, a
mining millionaire of Colorado, as a
memorial to his son. 1t is to be
known as the Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. The scholarships will be
open to men and women, married or
single, of any age, race, color or
creed. The first appointments will
be made for the academic year 1926
81. After the first year there will
probably be 40 or SO appointments
annually, and each will carry with it
about $4,000. The student may study
in any university in any country.
Only college graduates who have
shown marked ability in their sub
ject will be appointed. and they will
be expected to make some real con-
tribution to knowledge.
Evening star., 1925-03-01
John Smith and His Radio
BY FREDERICK c. RUSSELL

he has radio,
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Evening star., 1925-03-01

DIR. Frank Ballou, superintendent
OF schools in Washington, was elected
president of the department of super
intendence of the National Education
Association, at the annual convention
of that department in Cincinnati
last week
Evening star., 1925-03-01

Eighty per cent of American stu
dents entering colleges in the United
States have given up prayer and do
not consider it necessary to take God
into their lives, according to a test
made among freshmen entering the
University of Chicago. The test re-
veals the need of more thorough
religious education of youth, accord
ing to those who conducted it.
Helen Taft Manning, daughter of
Chief Justice Taft, last week was ap-
pointed dean Of Bryn Mawr College.
Mrs. Manning Is the mother of two chill
dren. Her husband Is associate profess
sor of history at Swarthmore College.
The Democratic members who con-
stitute the minority in the Indiana
General Assembly last week sought
the same expedient adopted by some
Republican members of the Rhode
and to halt the legislative machinery
fed the State. Their absence pre-
vented any action by the General AS
sembly, because there was no longer
a quorum The members, who feared
the Republican majority would be
able to pass a bill which they de-
clare would be detrimental to Demo-
Gratis in the State, left the State
capitol at Indianapolis in a chartered
motor bus, which brought them to
Dayton. They were served with
warrants, but refused to acknowl-
edge them
Assured that the measure to which
they objected would not be passed,
the Indiana State Senators, however,
returned to Indianapolis after their
short and self-imposed exile and
were greeted by the governor. They
will not be fined or otherwise pun
ished for their desertion.
Senator Stanley of Kentucky, who
opposed drastic legislation against
shit -and-run" motorists in the recent
Senate discussion, was knocked down
and run over by an automobile which
did not stop last Monday night. His
condition was not serious, and he Is
recovertnx. -.
Evening star., 1925-03-01

After trial trips to Bermuda, Porto
Rico and the Canal Zone, which will
take place in March and April, the
dirigible Los Angeles Ia to take an
Evening star., 1925-03-01

Turkey has signified her intention
of participating in the proposed
league of nations arms conference.
Evening star., 1925-03-01

Indians in the district of San Bias,
Panama, revolted last week and killed
20 Panamans, resulting in the decla-
ration by the Panaman government
that the district was in "a state of
siege" The Indians base their Feyelt
Evening star., 1925-03-01

Day, soprano, and the Mark Strand
male quartet
Evening star., 1925-03-01

Michael Frunze, who has succeeded
Leon Trotzky as war minister of So
Wet Russia and chief of it's army,
made his maiden" speech on the
army last week. He sounds a warn
ing that "a big military crash with
the enemies of Soviet Russia is in
front of it," and urges that Russia
prepare for it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-22

My attention has been called to a
pamphlet containing extracts from
YOUTH" second edition, by DIR.
George Starr White of Los Angeles,
California. The circulation of this
pamphlet seems to have for its OBJ
jective an attack on the tuberculin
test, in other words, to discredit the
use of tuberculin as diagnostic
agent. In view of the fact that thir
pamphlet was circulated among tn
members Of the last Assembly, wher
he tuberculosis Eradication bill was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-22

To be paid for and published by
and with the sanction and commenda-
ton of the River Falls Cow Testing
Association.
Pres.-John Chapman, Jr.
Vice Pres.--L. P. Sherman
Sec. Treas. Henry Day
John Chapman, Jr., Henry Day,
Bert Taylor, Harold Ritter, Directors
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-22

Answers to Excerpts Taken From
DIR. Geo. Starr Whites Youth"
An Attack on all Forms of Serum,
and Particularly Against Tubercu-
lin Test.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
WAL TER I. HOL I
IS FESTIVAL
LEADER
Again Elected President Of
American Guild, Banjo,
Mandolin and Guitar

Walter T. Holt, Washington's
leader Of that unusual "fretted in
strument" orchestra, the Mandolin,
Banjo and Guitar Orchestra. has
again been signaIly honored.
For the fourth consecutive time
Mr.. Holt was reelected as president
Of the American Guild Of Banjoists,
MandoIists and Guitarists at their
convention and music festival held
ct the Hotel Waldorf, Toledo, Ohio,
from May ~ to May u.
This Is the first time In the
twenty-four years Of the guild that
an officer will have served for more
than two terms.
Probably the most important
business transacted at the cOnven-
ton was the outlining Of country
wide campaign to have the various
State legislatures enact laws re-
quiring teachers Of these instru-
ments to be registered or licensed
by State examining boards.
The festival program was given
In the Auditorium Theater, Toledo,
when Mr.. Holt conducted the
massed organizations In an impress
sive concert program.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
CarIa PasvOlskaya AT
Mayflower Art
Cabaret

AS q special feature OF the
supper dance in the garden to-
morrow evening, the Mayflower
will present-in q program OF
Russian music-Mlle. Carla Pas
volskaya, Russian opera prima
donna.
Mile. Pasvolskaya is a mezzo
of charming personality and
beautiful voice, and as q men,
Der of the Russian Opera Conn
pany sang IN the role of Eco
dor" opposite Chaliapin as
"Boris," with conspicuous sue
cess.
Born in Russia, Mile. Pasvols-
kaya has lived for the past
seven years in America and has
appeared in concert at Carnegie
Hall, Aeolian Hall, Yale, and
Columbia universities.
Her progran-presenred IN
the brilliant costumes of the
Royal Court of Imperial Rus
STA and the equally picturesque
peasant costume will be: Part /.
In peasant costume, Fearful
Moment" (Chaikovsky); "Ro-
NAME" (Dargomizshskyl; "Ka:
linka" 6olk song); "Hopak"
(Moussorgsky). In court cos
tune she will sing an aria from
"The Cars Bride" the opera
by sky-Korsakov; and a SEE
lection from "The Stone Guest"
by Dargomizshsky.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
o. c. COLLEGE OF MUSIC
COMMENCEMENT FRIDAY

The nineteenth annual commence
menu Of the Washington College
Of Music will be held in the audi
forum Of Central High School mex.
Friday evening, beginning at 8:15.
Immediately following the invo.
cation by the Reverend Bernard
Braskamp, the degree of Doctor Of
Music will be conferred upon Care
Illus Emil Christiani, president OF
the college, and Wilberfoss George
Owst. dean OF the department Of
theory. The degree of Bachelor of
Music Education will be given
James Frederick Browne of st.
John, n. B. lin absentia.)
An interesting program by gradu-
ates, the string ensemble and the
repertoire class will follow. The
| class Of 1925 is: For artist. diplo-
mas - Benjamin Rather, piano.
Teachers Diplomas-Mary Elizabeth
Garrett, music education; Burrus r.
Williams, piano; Clara Evelyn Scot.
violin; Lawrence Cleophas Greene.
| voice. Graduate Observation-Disclosures
Lyle Alexander, piano; Virginia w.
Cureton, violin; Emma Lydia Char.
ters. voice: Annie Gregg Gibson.
piano; Jane Virginia MACPHERSON
organ; Emile Rose Mann, piano;
Edna Keith Steinbrucker, piano:
Sophie Snyder, piano; Evelyn Wells.
piano.
Certificates are given to Sylvia
Altman, piano; Emile Christiani,
piano; Katherine Hereford, piano;
Harry MantZuranus. violin; Mar
gaIet Oxenburg, piano; George
Roth, violin: Rebecca Rosenblunl,
piano; Robert Lord, violin; Anne
Smith, piano, and Clara Evelyn
Scott, piano.
The college cordially invites all
former students. their families and
| friends and any who are interested
in the work Of the students To
attend. There are no cards of ad.
mission.