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Evening star., 1926-06-19
MANS BODY IN HUDSON
IDENTIFIED AS SINGERS
Alexander Nieien, Russian Artist,
Vanished From New York
Theater Last April.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 19.--Last April
Alexander Niejen, Russian artist and
singer. vanished from the stage Of
the Forty-Fourth Street Theater.
Early TODAY his brother-in-law, Jacob
Volkoff, also an artist, identified body
which was taken from the Hudson
River last night as that of Niejen.
Volkoff told police he had been in
touch with Niejen twice since his dis
appearance. On May 25 Niejen called
at the studio apartment that they had
shared together and said he was wor
ried about the welfare of his wife and
two children in Russia.
II am sick and tired of it ALL" he
declared.
Shortly before he dropped from the
chorus of THE Song of the Flame" in
April Niejen painted set of Easter
eggs and sent the picture to President
Coolidge, who wrote him letter Of
appreciation.
Evening star., 1926-06-19
SPEED KINGS READY.
FOR BIG RACE TODAY.
First 25-MiIe Dash to Start
at 2::30-17 to Compete in
10O-MiIe Test.
By a stan Correspondent.

LAUREL SPEEDWAY, June 19.-
International honors will be at stake
this afternoon when II speed kings
toe the white line here and at the
drop of the checkered flag set forth
on a series of three motor racing
Journeys Of 25. so and 100 miles each.
To the winners of each event will go
not only cash prizes. but numerical
advancement toward the National
Motor Racing Association champion
ship.
The first race. 25-mile event, will
be off promptly at 2:30 o'clock. When
1t is completed and the contestants
have been given a few minutes to
make any necessary adjustments or
change tires the second speed test
will get under way and terminate
after the flying pilots have completed
a journey of so miles around this pine
board saucer. The classic of the day
will be the 100-mile event, and in this
something more than domestic honors
will be in sight.
Foreign Cars In Race.
Heretofore the racing at the Laurel
speedway has been 100 per cent
American proposition. cars and driv-
ers alike were American built and
American piloted. This afternoon,
however, will find the German Mer-
cedes. the Spanish Hispano-SuiZa and
the French Buggiti matching endur-
ance and f1eetness with the more IA
miliar Little Millers and F. & ]. Spe-
cials, which wrote automobile racing
history over this same course last Fall
and last Spring.
Seventeen starters had qualified at
noon today. the last four having met
the necessary requirements in hurried
tests early this morning. 1t is prob
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Evening star., 1926-06-19

Rushing into a house at 31o3
Twelfth street northeast, where a fire
in the bathroom had resulted in an
alarm being sounded, Policeman Helm
of the twelfth precinct today discov-
cred a still In full operation in the
bathroom.
Helm had followed the fire engines
to the scene. His original purpose OF
performing rescue work was changeo
to raiding after discovery OF the stili.
After Detective Mansfield and Capt.
Clemnond of the twelfth precinct had
been sumrnond, 10 barrels of corn
mash holding approximately $50 gal
Ions, and 90 gallons of the finished
product and 20o-gallon still were
Evening star., 1926-06-19
U. S. NOTE ASKS MEXICO
ABOUT PETTUS CHARGES
California Woman Says Her Land
May Be Confscated-Reply Like
ly That She Is Misinformed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, June 10. - The
United States embassy has delivered
a note to the foreign ONCE requesting
the government to investigate charges
by Mrs. W.. J. Pettus of California
that preparations were being made by
agrarians to seize a portion of the
San Pedro Coxtocan Ranch In the
state of Puebla, which she inherited
from her sister, Mrs. Rosallie Evans,
when she was assassinated some time
ago.
1t is understood that the Mexican
governments reply to the note will
indicate that Mrs. Pettus is mistaken
and that her information is erroneous.
Apparently reliable but unofficial in.
formation from Puebla says there is
no evidence of any intention to seize
the Pettus property.
Evening star., 1926-06-19
ATLANTIS is LOCATED.
German Professor Says Ideal State
Was South of Tunis.

MUNICH, Bavaria, June 1s R.-
AtIantis-praised by the Greek philos-
ophers and historians as the ideal com
monwealth-was situated south of
Tunis, says Prof. Paul Borchardt,
geographer and orientalist.
In a lecture before the Geographic
Institute of the University of Munich
Prof. Borchardt asserted that the
legendary island was engulfed by an
earthquake which caused ITS d1sap-
nearance in the sea in the year
1850 BIC.
Evening star., 1926-06-19
ACTRESS KILLS HERSELF;
POLICE SEEKING "EMIL" "
By the Associated Press.

By the Associa ated Press.
NEW YORK, June 19.-Ann Austin,
Young actress, Is dead by her own
hand. and police today sought some
one in Brooklyn named Emil" to
learn why she took poison last night.
Emil is the cause of 1t all. said
note Miss Austin left behind. The
note asked that a Brooklyn telephone
number be called and Emil notified.
Gertrude Flint, Miss Austin's negro
maid. said she did not believe her
mistress would have killed herself for
love of any man. Miss Austin has
heen married and divorced twice. The
maid said the actress had had imam
cial troubles recently.
Miss Austins first husband, named
Collins. lives in japan. They were
divorced in Reno seven years ago.
Her second husband, Samuel Chiffon,
is nrominent in Charleston. w. Va.
Thev were divorced last February.
Miss Austin was born in Savannah,
Ga.
CHARLESTON. w. Va, June 19
fP1-Samuel Chiffon, whose former
wife. Ann Austin, ended her life In
New York today, Is a Charleston law.
ver and nephew of former United
States Senator w. e. Chiffon of West
Virrinia. They were divorced early
this YEAR after a marriage of about
three years.
Evening star., 1926-06-19
Fire i'm Bathroom Reveals Big Still,
Police Rescuer Turns Into Raider

destroyed, according to the police.
Police were informed by a woman
in charge of the premises that her
name was Mrs. Mary Sanchez, mother
of seven children, of whom four were
present at the raid. She told the
police that the house was leased by
two men who she believed We're
Italians; and that she and her hus.
band and children received free rent,
electricity and gas merely for occupy
ing the house and keeping quiet about
the still. Police are investigating her
statement.
The fire was caused by a short
circuit of an electric wire in the bath.
room. Little damage was done.
Evening star., 1926-06-19
GERMAN REPUBLIC
FACES ACID TEST IN
VOTING TOMORROW
Not Since Revolution Has Ma
ton Been So Stirred as
by P|ebiSClte.
MOVE FOR c0NFISCATI0N
is LAID TO RADICALS
Socialist Communist Party Blamed
for Bitter Contest Sure to
Leave Recriminations'
Hy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
RERLIN. June 19.-Not since the
revolution has Germany been stlrreu
az deenly and universally as oy the
c.rnaisn over the question as TO
49, shall he the disposition of the
nroperty of former rulers III .,,
MANY. A plebiscite tomorro" ""'
attract to the polls throughout 'ie
country voters who VIII S"!
c.be+her they favor conhscation OF
no confscation. This first lesson III
direct democracy, no matter Wha' ite
outcome. will, it is believed, leave III
it's wake bitterness and recrimiha'
tions for weeks to come.
According to a leading member OIL
the cabinet, it will make fruitful labor
in the Reichstag prior TO the sum
mer recess most difficult, If not I'M
possible.
Stresemann Sees No Test.
DR.. Stresemann. the foreign secre-
tary. describes as ridiculous accept
ing that the plebiscite of Sunday
really is tantamount to vote for
q republic or a monarchy. He pre-
diets that Is or II million votes
will be cast against the former rulers
and declares this will hardly be a
sign of monarcharist sentiment.
DR.. Stresemann said the plebiscite
was a move by the Socialist-Com-
munist party, which desired absolute
confiscation of the royal property, and
which was opposed by the govern
ment and the buorgeois party.
AS the campaign has advanced. the
language of the opposing groups has
become more bitter. For both sides
the claim is made that there has been
more deliberate suppression of unwel-
come facts. more concealment Of root
issues and more distortion of the
truth INDUCED in than IN any recent
campaign.
Campaign Has Been Lively.
The past few weeks especially have
seen feverish activity for and against
the plebiscite, both sides holding
demonstrations. distributing posters,
placarding walls. sending out groups
Of sandwich men and organizing
what are called paste and scratch
squads, the function Of which, on the
one hand, have been to put out post
ers and, on the other hand. to scratch
OH InS posters OF ln6lT opponents.
The German Nationalists as
eleventh-hour sop to disappointed
holders of war loans and other now
worthless securities. introduced in the
Reichstag a bill under which persons
who lost everything through imitation
would be given an annuity
Results Expected Soon.
The polls will open at o'clock to-
morrow morning and close at s
o'clock in the evening. Then will be-
gin the task of counting the ballots
in the $4,000 precincts throughout
Germany. AS only the ayes and few
scattering nays must be counted. the
opponents of confiscation having in
structed their followers to stay away
from the polls, the preliminary results
may be expected at midnight. The
largest aye vote likely will come from
Berlin. where of the 1900, 900 quail
fled voters, 100000 have entered
their names against the former rulers
in the preliminary plebiscite.
The government estimates the cost
of the plebiscite at about $500, 900
marks.
MILLIONS FOR CONTTSCATION.
Evening star., 1926-06-19
SIX DROWNED IN GALE.
Four of Dredge's Crew Saved Near
st. Peters Island.

PICTOU, Nova Scotia, June 19 OP.
Six men were drowned when the
dredge Ferguson was caught in
gale last night and capsiZed, about
IL miles west Of st. Peters Island.
Four of her crew were saved.
The Ferguson left Pictou Thurs
day for Tormentine. N. B., In tow
of the tug Coalopolis.
Evening star., 1926-06-19
POLAND WITH LEAGUE.
Has No Intention Of Leaving, For
eign Minister Says.

WARSAW, Poland, June 10 R.-
Reports in Geneva that Poland was
considering Withdrawing from the
League of Nations were denied to-
day by Auguste Zaleski, the foreign
minister.
"The Polish government has no
such desire" he told the Associated
Press. ut is satisfied that Polands
lust claims, upon which she will con-
tinue to insist, will be satisfied. Po-
land reserves the right to support
these claims with all energy"
Evening star., 1926-06-19
Extradition Treaty Signed.

ROME, June 10 GD.-An extradition
treaty between italy and Turkey was !
signed today.
Evening star., 1926-06-19
WEATHER.

90. S. Weather Bureau ForecastD
Cloudy tonight and tomorrow: pos.
sibly light showers; not much change
in temperature. Highest, IS, at $40
pm. yesterday; lowest, 65, at am.
today. Full report on page Z.
Evening star., 1926-06-19

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
Discovery of Illinillm, Rare Metallic
Element. Leaves But 2 More i'm World

elements. nor could they be attrib-
uted to other elements i'll the CON
pounds. The new lines We're faint
at first. but after more and more
diligent publication they became
clearer until the new element re
vealed itself. Prof. Hopkins called
1t illinium after Illinois.
Whether it will ever be useful as
money maker nobody can fore
see-and nobody cares just now. This
is contribution to knowledge. and
knowledge can't be measured witli
dollars. When Gladstone asked
Faraday of what use was his dis
covery which ultimately-but many
years later-led to the development
OF the electric motor, he answered
You can never tell. Perhaps you
will be able To tax it Some day" And
in the Chandler Chemical Museum
We have some old Russian earthen
ware which was sent TO be plated
with sil"er. But the canny crafts
man wanted TO save money, so ths [
instead of using the precious silver
he plated it with platinum. In those
days there was no use known for
pla unum. while it is now worth $l20
an ounce.
]. does not pay to be too practical. i.
We live and learn.
tCopyrlght. l926.)
Evening star., 1926-05-02

tlcable possibility of restoring even
an economic combination. and ! be-
neVe that Czech opinion is equally
nrnlly opposed to necessary incidental
sacrifices. Yet. strongly convinced as
| am OF the present promise of peace
i'll the Danube area. it does seem i'm
possible to believe that Europe, with
out another grand convulsion. will see
Germany come TO Vienna and Prague
and thus inevitably control at Buda.
pest. Nevertheless, not only is DO
iltlcal union between Vienna, Buda-
pest and Prague totally out of the
question, but economic combination
is almost unthinkable unless in some
measure promoted and helped from
the outside, chiefly from London and
Paris.
The supreme blunder OF the Paris
peace conference lay in failing to
insist upon the preservation of some
form of economic association. And
IN the same fashion the mistakes of
postwar craftsmanship have been the
failures TO restore this association
despite the frontiers, while the regions
were more or less under financial
tutelage. Perhaps it is now too late;
certainly time is passing and condi-
tions are hardening. But if there is
to be ndependence-real and perma-
nent independence--for any of these
new countries or for the fragments Of
the older nations. it can only be as
sured through the restoration of com.
mercial association. None can live
alone economically. although all could
live alone politically and perhaps
could live peacefully side by side. But
if this does not happen we shall have
all of these states becoming the tools
Cl #
moved against each other as Bulgaria
and Serbia were mixed before the war
and we may easily have another
European conf1agration arising, like
the last, in the Danubian area and
spreading in all directions.
However, for the present there is
peace here. peace in Budapest as in
Vienna, war passions are dying,
racial rivalries are becoming aca-
demic.
II there were craftsmanship in
Europe, broad craftsmanship capable
of thinking in collective European
terms, if there were in reality league
of nations with moral or other inf1u-
ence. European peace might be as
sured, If not forever. for a very long
time. And If the moment is lost the
fault will lie in London, Paris, Rome
and Berlin, not in Vienna or Buda-
pest, and the explanation will be that
the interests of the great powers have
been put above the peace of Europe
and against the consolidation Of the
states of the small races and nations
Left to themselves now, with only
encouragement upon the pathway, I
feel certain that the succession states
that Balkanized Europe might prove
q successful field in which to begin the
construction of a United States of
Europe, founded upon the association
Of politically disparate peoples. racial
ly divided, in an economic union ac-
tually necessary for all.
Copyright. 1o26l
Evening star., 1926-05-02
BOOKS RECEIVED

SATURATED CIVILIZATION. By
Sigmund Mendelsohn. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
THE GIST OF EVOLUTION. By
Horatio Newman, Phi. d., author
of Evolution" etc. The MacMil
Ian Company.
THAT NIDDER; A Play in Five Acts.
BY Mary +. Bradley. New York:
Frederick II. Hitchcock.
THE SILVER STALLION; a Com
edy of Redemption. BY James
Branch CabeN New York: Robert
NJ. Mcbride 4 Co.
OUR DEBT TO FRANCE. New York:
Published by the Washington-La-
fayette Institution.
DIVINE LAW APPLIED, OR MANS
RELATIONSHIP TO GOD. By
Fred E. Dobbins. Kansas City:
The D. l.. Press.
GRAY MOON TALES. BY Minnie
Belle Mitchell. Illustrated by WIN
Vawter. Indianapolis: The Bobbs
Merrill Co.
THE FOURTH QUEEN. BY Isabel
Paterson. New York: Boni & Live
right.
FLECKER'S MAGIC. BY Norman
L IL.
Liveright.
THE DYBBUK; \ Play in Four Acts.
BY S. Ansky. Translated from the
Original Ytddish by Henry G.. Ais
berg and Winifred Katzin. Intro
duction by Gilbert w. Gabriel and
Note on Chassidism by Chain
Zhitlowsky. New York: Boni &
Liveright.
--yIr1 >-nIrrlJ pu William I
NcNulty. Boston: The Christopher
Publishing House.
LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES. By
Liveright.
THE MISSING GATES. BY r. F.
Foster, author Of THE Body in
the Shaft" New York: Siebel Pub
fishing Corporation.
THE FLOWER OF THE FLAMES.
BY Louise Gerard. author of "A
Son of the Sahara" etc. Fronts
piece by a. ID. Rain. New York:
The Macaulay Co.
THE TEDDY" EXPEDITION;
Among the Ice Floes of Greenland.
BY Kai K. Dahl Translated by
Grace Isabel Colbron. New York:
d. Appleton & Co.
THE FIRST NORLD FLlGl1I, De-
in the Personal Narratives Of Low
ell Smith, Erik Nelson, Leigh
Wade. Leslie Arnold, Henry Ogden
and John Harding. Written by
Lowell Thomas. Illustrated. Bos-
ton: Houghton Hifflin Co.
SIX PRISONS AND TWO REVOLT
TIONS; Adventures in Trans-Cau-
casia and Anatolia, 1920-1921. BY
Oliver Baldwin, Sometime Lieu
tenant Colonel in the Armenian
Army. New York: Doubleday,
Page & Co.
THE CONFESSIONS OF RE-
FORMER. BY Frederic c. Howe.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE DIVIDING LINE OF EUROPE.
BY Stephen Graham. author of
"Tramping With a Poet in the
Rockies" etc. New York: d. Ap.
pleton & Co.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
Electric Chair Horrible
In Eyes of Filipinos

In the view of Filipino natives the
electric chair. by which a new law
DEGREES condemned murderers shall
be executed at Bilibib, the state
prison in Manila, is a horrible instru.
ment of torture. by the side of which
the Spanish garrote was mild and
humane. Holding this attitude, the
native officials mitigate the rigors Of
the chair. The condemned are put
under an anesthetic and in the sleep
thus induced they are placed in the
chair, strapped down and electrocuted.
1t is because the letter of the law
must be complied with that the an
esthetic is not made a lethal dose
sufficient to produce death. Legal
executions lag too much for Filipinos.
They prefer immediate personal
vengeance, and when it is delayed
they incline to mercy
Evening star., 1926-05-02

Sooner or later it all comes blythe
most of it chaotic. confused, raucous.
Now and then, though, there drifts by
a bit of beauty, a CLINT OF sunshine. q
thread of music under the terrible din,
a second of pause in the mighty tur-
moil. Men and women throng here,
and, probably to hold the matter to-
gether at all, Passos impresses a hand-
full of characters. But these, or
course. are like leaves in a driving
tide, whirling, drifting, caught in the
whirl again, finally beaten to death.
Nobody can pack monstrous artlil-
ciality like Il great city into book.
But PaSSoS has tried.
GARDENING. BY DIR.
James Empringham. New YORK:
Matthew Bender Il Co.
A BACTERIOLOGIST of demon
strated ability and high standing
In both England and America here
applies his research to the special field
of the intestinal tract in the human
body. AS a result of his investiga-
tions, the author offers this simple
study for the purpose of preventing
disease, incidentally for the purpose
of prolonging individual vigor and
In simple language the
lessons tell of the domestic war 60
ing on within every human organism
between the necessary health-promot
ing bacteria and those that are vicious
and harmful. The object of the whole
is to describe measures by way of
which these destructive elements may
be supplanted by those which will re-
inforce the ranks of the beneficial
bacteria. The physiology Of this tract
simply described. forms the basis of
the succeeding lessons. The work of
both kinds OF bacteria, the good and
the bad Is given. with the effects of
both upon the human system. The
means of doing away with the vicious
elements. of supplying their place
with bacteria that will cooperate in
the general upbuilding of the system,
are given in terms that any one can
and apply. 1t Is a field
worth careful consideration. And
here at hand Is carefully projected
mode of applying the facts discussed
by scientist of experience and au
thority
Evening star., 1926-05-02
Party Song of Fascist
Has a Curious Career

"GiovanneZza." or The Marseillaise
of the New Age" as the Fascist de.
scribe their party song, has had a
curious career. The song was not COM
posed with any political intention. In
fact. like the tune OF THE Star
Spangled Banner" it was originally d
drinking song. The composer. Giu-
seppe Blanc. dashed it off in 1909
while a student in the Civic School
of Invrea. at the request of the law
students, who wanted song for a
drinking party with which they in.
tended to welcome the coming vaca-
ton. It's original refrain began with
the word "Commiato" vacation in
stead of "Giovannezza" youth. Later
it was interpolated in q musical COM
edy. became popular and was adopted
by the arditi, or Italian shock troops,
during the World War. 1t was espe.
cially the arditi who rushed to dan
nunzio's colors when he was about to
seize Fiume, and, Of course. they took
their song with them. The Fascist
movement, which branched off from
the d'Annunzio crusade, adopted the
song. Now it is heard oftener than
all the other patriotic songs Of Italy
put together. sig. Blanc is now a
popular composer of operettas and
musician laureate to the Fascist party
Evening star., 1926-05-02
BY ELLWOOD HENDRICK,
Curator OF the Chandler Chemical Museum
Columbia University.

Curator or the Chandler Chemical Museum,
Columbia University.
There is always something dra-
matte i'll the discovery of new
chemical element of which not only
the earth but even the whole ma
terial universe seems To be composed.
Ninety-tWo such elements are pos
sible, and with the discovery of haf-
MUM. called after the Latin name for
Copenhagen, in 1928. by two physi-
cists working there. there remained
only five TO be found. Reports have
erred in saying that No. G1 was the
first of these five; for last year two
German chemists discovered Nos.
43 and -. which they named masur-
ium (for the Masurian Lakes, and
rhenium (for the Rhine). The find
two more that are still unknown.
\ new method OF analysis by
means of N-rays and the spectre
scope has been of great service TO
chemists in discovering the uneX-
pected. Hafnium. masurium. rhe-
MUM and now illinium have all been
found in this manner.
OF the 80 elements there are be-
tween Is and 90 which belong to
the group of so-called rare earths.
and of such is the new one illinium
All are mineral. and they arc called
rare because it is so difficult to Sepa-
rate them from one another. Some
are indeed rare, while others are
plentiful. Thus thorium and cerium.
which as oxides form the sub
stance of incandescent mantles, are Of
this group and are found in mona
Zite sands.
Not many years after Columbus
discovered America Paracelsus was
at work on the separation of copper,
and he found two other bodies that
were so hard to pry loose that he
gave them the names of imps or
devils that were popularity supposed
to prevail in the Harz Mountains.
where the ore was mined. ThesS
where the little koholds which wcre
said to hide things and to cut up all
kinds of mischief. and the little nicHs
or nickl which were just as bad. We
still know these recalcitrant sub
stances as the elements cobalt and
nickel. But the two metals in their
chemical behavior are like perfect
Sunday school children compared
with the rare earthS.
Prof, B. S. Hopkins of the Uni
versity of Illinois at Urbana, with
two Of his students, j. Allen Harris
and l.. f. Yntema, was looking FOR
the missing element in mixtures of
neodymium and samaritan COM
pounds, which are also found in
monazite sands. They found in
their X-ray spectograph, which they
had specially constructed, that lines
appeared in the spectrum which in
dicated neither of the two known