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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
INSTRUMENT TO TEST
VOICES OF DECEASED
Delicate Apparatus Will Record
Speech, Inventor Says, Seeking
Cooperation of Mediums.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 1s.-Spook
voices are to be tested by delicate
instrument installed at the National
Laboratory of Psychical Research.
Scientists are eagerly awaiting the
first trial Of the new machine. Lon.
don and some of the nearby cities
boast Of 10 or 10 experienced medi-
ums who specialize in producing the
direct or indirect spirit voice. and In
ducements have been made to several
of them TO appear before the appa-
ratus at various times.
The instrument was conceived by
Prof. Harry Price, director OF the
national laboratory. and was de-
signed to establish definitely whether
alleged spirits of dead persons do
actually speak from space. as is con.
tended by spiritualists at seances.
Prof. Price says his apparatus Is abso-
lutely fraud proof and will provide the
most drastic test ever arranged for
any medium who Will agree to an
experiment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
CLARKE TO CONSIDER
EXPRESS WAGE PLEA
Appointed as One Of Three Arbi-
traitors to Hear Requests Of
$1,000 Workers.
nr the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. December 1s.-For.
mer Justice John H. Clarke OF the
United States Supreme Court has &C.
cepted appointment as neutral ar.
bitrator to consider the question OF
wages of $1,000 express employees, 1t
was announced today at the Office OF
L. X. Gwyn, vice president OF the
American Railway 1Expresss Co.
The arb!trators3are Z. A. Stednna n,
vice president Of the American Rail
way Express Co. and William B. WI
son. former Secretary of Labor.
Hearings are expected to begin here
Tuesday. December 81, when the ar.
bitrators will take up the requests OF
three unions for increases, ranging
from 10 cents to- Is cents an hour.
The unions are the Order Of Railway
Expressmen. the Brotherhood of Rail
way Clerks and the American Fedora
ton OF Express Workers.
z. II. Fitzgerald and E. V. Bradley.
president and vice president Of the
Brotherhood OF Railway Clerks. will
appear before the arbitrators for the
men, while the company's case viii be
presented by Mr.. Gwyn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
NEW YORK PLANS
.11O-STORY BUILDING
Structure to Be Started Next
Year Will Be SOC Feet
Hiqher Than WoolWorth.

By The Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 1S.-Man-
haitian is out to keep the record for
the worlds tallest building away from
Detroit. Plans have been hled mere
for construction, beginning early next
wear. of a 110-story super-skyscraper.
It will rise 1,20S feet from the street.
excluding the flagpole.
Detroit has an S5-story project I'M
der way. the Book Tower, when VIII
he 80 stories higher than the Wool
worth Building, the worlds tallest
building at present Man;lattan's new
skvscraper will be 500 feet taller than
Inc Book Tower, SOC feet higher than
the Woolworth Building and approx.
mately 200 feet taller than the EineI
Tower In Paris.
VIII Cost S18,000,000.
Manhattan's new giant VIII be
Known as the Larkin Tower BUILDING,
and II will be located in the Times
Square section on the south side or
Tortv-second street, between Eighth
and Ninth avenues. It's cost Is esti-
mated at $18,000,0 and the land II
will cover cost $4.500,000.
Building plans have been filed with
the city authorities by John A. Larkln.
president Of $50 West Forty second
Street Corporation, the prospective
builders. He and his brother, Edward
l.. Larkin, architect and engineer, and
Alexander 2. Stark, structural en-.
gineer. desigAed the building. 1t VIII
have 1865 900 square feet OF moor
space, ESQ., 900 of which will be SUIT
able for Office purposes.
will Have 10 Setbacks. M
Three other buildings surpass 1t In
its proposed rentable floor space.
They are the Graybar Building. near
the Grand Central Station here, the
Equitable Building on lower Broad
way, the General Motors Building IN
Detroit.
The building will consist of one
tower piled upon another, with 10 set
backs, or banks. Excavations for the
foundations will go AZ feet below
street level, and there will be base
ment and two-story subbasement. 1t
will rest on a reinforced concrete
foundation inbedded In the solid rock
of Manhattan Island.
The building will be served by 90
high speed elevators, two OF which
will be expresses that do not stop be-
tween the first and eighty-second
floors. Four shuttle elevators will
carry passengers upward from the
eighty-second. The three top floors
will be held for Sightseeing purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
LABOR. RADIO TO EXPAND.
Chain of Stations Will Be Pro
posed to A. F. of L. Body.

CHICAGO. December IS C).-Plans
for a coast to coast chain of radio sta.
tons, owned and operated by the
American Federation of Labor, will
be formulated toda- on the arrival
OF William Green. president. Mr..
Green will confer with officials of the
Chicago Federation Of Labor and will
put the results Of the conference be-
fore the executive committee of the
A. F. of l.. at st. Petersburg, Fla, in
January.
1t is hoped to have the stations of
the chain operated as is VIGIL here.
said Edward n. Nockels. secretary.
treasurer of the Chicago federation
and manager Of the only labor broad.
casting station. 1t is maintained by
voluntary contributions from fedora
ton members and others interested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
COLLEGE HEAD IN GOWN
BURLESQUES DAISY CHAIN
With Flowers in Hair, He Carries
Sheet in Good Imitation Of
Vassar Custom.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, KY, December 49,
A college president and the male head
Of the institutions art department,
clad in nightgowns and with flowers
in their hair. participated in a bur.
iesque of Vassar Colleges famed
daisy chain at g. meeting Of alumnae
Of Vassar and the University of Chi
cago here Tuesday. The incident took
place at the home Of President Frank
L. McVey Of the University Of Ken
lucky, one of the bearers Of the daisy
chain.
His companions in the lark were
Prof. c. NJ. Sax and four woman resi-
dents Of Lexington. the latter gradu-
ates of Vassar. A sheet was used as
a. daisy chain and the bearers, it is
said: moved in an excellent imitation
OF the Vassar professional.
DR.. McVey and Prof. Sax were
pressed into service as carriers Of the
daisy chain owing to the absence of
sufficient number of Vassar gradu.
ates to stage the march, 1t was ex.
planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

or controversy among the art con-
noisseura Paris reports said some
art critics believed It to be the orig
inal Mona Lisa, long in the possession
or the Louvre. and that the one now
In the museum in Paris, replaced after
the theft Of 1911, was a copy.
Mr.. Jonas denied that the Mona
Lisa found In the cellar of the Paris
headquarters was the same once re-
moved from the Louvre. and said he
would sue for libel papers that pub
hshed such reports.
The picture arrived yesterday is
unquestionably a. da Vinci, his Office
said. and 1t Is of the same model In
the same pose as the Louvre painting.
1t was apparently painted. 1t was
laid. at the same period as the Louvre
picture.
Mr.. Jonas said the painting was not
for sale. but would be exhibited here
for French and American charities.
1t was brought here, 1t was said, to
give American connoisseurs view.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
SEVEN INSURANCE FIRMS
ORDERED TO LlQUIDATE
Pennsylvania Removes Suspension
Of Two Others on Condition Of
Change In Methods.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, December
1S.-Seven Pennsylvania insurance or
ganizations-four fraternai and three
beneflcial-yesterday were ordered by
E4nar Barfod, State insurance COM
missioner, to liquidate their business.
In addition, the Pennsylvania licenses
of three foreign assessment life or
plantations were revoked and two
foreign life insurance organizations
were ordered to change methods Of
operation as q condition for renewal
of their licenses In 1877.
The revocations applied 70 the FOL.
lowing assessment life organisations:
Homes Assurance CO., South Bend,
Ind: st. Lawrence Live Association,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
SUICIDE is IDENTIFIED
AS FAMOUS BANDIT
italian Ends His Life When He Is
Trapped by Police in
French City.

BY the Associated Press.
ACXERRE. France. December 1s.-
The body OF q man who committed
suicide on Monday when trapped by
police yesterday was identified as that
of Sante Pollastro. notorious Italian
bandit chief. who fed recently from
Italy. The body was identified by two
Italian carbineers.
Pollastro. for whom an intensive
search was kept on both sides OF the
Italian frontier since December L.
was sariously reported 70 have start.
ed for the United States or to be ter.
rorizing Northern Italy.
He was pursued into France after
his most recent crime by a coachful of
carabineers and an automobile loaded
with Italian gendarTnes. The arriva
of these men In Nice excited the popu
lation and for a time threatened
Franco Italian complications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
WJR Changes Ownership.

Acquisition of Detroit's high-pow-
cred broadcaster wJR by the Rich
ards Oakland Motor Car Company
was announced yesterday. 1t is one
of the most powerful stations in the
country and was erected at cost of
$4,000.
A special studio will be constructed
in the show rooms Of the motor car
company. The new management ais
expects to retain the studio in the
Book -Cadillfc Hotel. The station
plans to continue broadocasting some
of its present commercial programs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
GOTHAM WINS MEDAL.

PARIS, December IS (R.-Sir Alan
Gotham. British aviator, who now is
visiting the United States, yesterday
was awarded the annual gold medal
conferred by the International Aero
OF 10 nations participating in the
meeting voted his recent fight from
London to Aust lila and return the
greatest flying feat of 1925.
Second prize was awarded to the
Spanish engineer, Ricardo de la Ger
va, who developed the helicopter.
Third prize went to Capt. Georges
pelletier Doisy for his Mediterranean
flight.
Germans participated in yesterday s
meeting for the first time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
ROAD HOUSES ARE RAIDED
IN ILLINOIS RUM WAR
Federal Agents Start Cleaning Up
Williamson County, Scene Of
Gang Fighting.

By the Associated Press.
CARBONDALE. ILL.,, December 1s.-
Federal prohibition agents yesterday
started a series of raids on William.
son County roadhouses. Liquor was
found at the first three places searched
and the proprietors. Nathan Riddle,
A. J. Sizenlore and Monroe Bulliner,
were arrested and ar1aigned before
a United States commissioner at liar.
riSburg.
These were tho first Federal raids
since Oren Coleman succeeded George
Galligan as sheriff. James w. Pat.
ten, in charge of the East st. Louis
prohibition office. said the Govern
ment planned to war the roadhouseS
out Of business in williamson County.
Several roadhouseS have figured in
the recent warfare between the rival
Shelton and Rirger gangs for control
of the coal belt liquor business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
ORIENTAL RUGS MAY PAY
$50, 600, 600 MORE DUTY
y. s. Starts Investigation Into
Valuation of Imported Products
by Calling Dealers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December lS.-An
investigation that may lead to the
basing Of duties on Oriental rugs on
their value in the American market
about thr. ce that in the foreign mar
ket-and thus adding approximately
S5o,000.o00 to the yearly customs
receipts was under way today.
T. J. II. Kracke. appraiser of the
port of New York, who started the
inquiry, has summoned leading
Oriental rug importers and their books,
and it has become known that one
Of the purposes of the investigation
is to determine whether the original
markets are price controlled. The butt
OF the investigation is the Chinese
rug market, 1t was said.
Oriental rugs are now subject TO a
duty of about So per cent of foreign
manufacturing value. Their value in
the American market Is much higher.
The. imports of Oriental rugs are es-
timated at about 100000 annually.
but this value is increased to about
$l50,000,000 in the American market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
WGY Plans Christmas Feature.

WGY has decided to become o
Christmas broadcast testing station.
Christmas morning at $50 o'clock the
Schenectady transmitter will go on
the air at $50 o'clock, enabling per.
sons who received a radio set from
Santa Claus to test the outfit for dis
lance and quality. AS most Of the
country will be in darkness at that
hour the range of the station should
be very nearly that of night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
K0LAI0 BE EXPLORED.
By Radie 70 The Star and Chicago Dali
News. Copyright. 1929.

By Rndie 70 Tho Star and Chicago Dalty
News. Copyright. 1929.
OSLO. December 1s.-In conjunc.
ton with the Russian government. q
compretensive Norwegian scientific
expedition viii 60 to Kola peninsula
in the Spring.
The expedition has chartered two
ships and all plans have been pre-.
pared By Prof. Nansen and other Nor
wegian Arctic experts. Tho stan OF
the expedition viii comprise experts
on anthropoiogy. ethnography. ethnoi-
ogy ana folk lore. and IL planned BY
the International Institute for com
paratfve cultural researches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

New York City. ana Union Casualty
Co.. Detroit.
Suspension Of the Detroit Casualty
Co., Detroit. and the United States IL
demnity Society. Boston. Mass. wis
removed with notice that they reduce
management expenses and acquisition
cost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
%, 900 Accidental Deaths Yearly.

Industrial accidents cause the death
each year Of 1900 to 5000 persons
employed in the major group OF in.
dustries, according to- survey Of the
Reconstruction Hospital, One Hun.
dredth street and Central Park West.
Transportation, which takes the
largest toll, causes 24.8 per cent Of
the deaths. Agriculture, with 1876 per
cent. is slightly ahead Of mining,
which causes ISL per cent Of the
deaths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Sends "Auto Girls" Home.

The chancellor Of the University
Of Illinois IL proving he meant II
when an order was issued forbidding
students TO keep cars while going to
school there. Fight viola&ors Of this
rule. three Of them girls. have been
sent home. The chancellor. noting
the direction our so-cailed higher
education" says the Capper Maya
zine, is heading, is applying the
brakes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
WABC Opens with Gala Concert.

To celebrate its change of owner.
ship and simultaneous shift In call
letters, .WABC. formerly WANG,
went on the air Friday night with a
special program that was picked up
in Washington with clarity and vol
ume. The studios of the new firm
known as the Atlantic Broadcasting
Company. are located in Steinway
Hall, New York. and the transmitter
at Richmond Hill. about 10 miles
away.
Under the announced policy of the
station. the talent facing its micro.
phone will be supplied in part by paid
advertising features.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
DA VINCI PAINTING
ARRIVES ON LINER
Duplicate Of Mona Lisa Is Brought
to New York for Exhibition
in This Country.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 1S.-An
original Leonardo da Vinci painting,
an exact duplicate of the Mona Lisa
in the Louvre, arrived here yesterday
in a packing case in a cabin of the
French liner Rochambeau.
The picture, owned by a French
admiral, was brought to this country
In the custody Of a woman, acting as
a special messenger for EdOuard
Jonas, New York art dealer. and ap-
praiser of art for the French gov
eminent.
Some weeks ago 1t was the center
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Radio Exports Reach Peak.

This country's budding export trade
In radio goods reached its high peak
of 1926 during October, when appa-
ratus valued at 81 .317 .S46 went to for
eign customers, chiefly Great Britain
the Netherlands and Spain. This fig.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

Those who want to invest in a going
concern should make sure which way
Il Is going,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

Beauvoir once the home of Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States is preserved
as Southern shrine The old house is located
between Gulfport and Biloxi Miss, and it was
there Davis wrote The Rise and Fall of the Con-
federacy."
c Underw Cnder wood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14
MISS MARJORIE OELR1CHs speaks for
New York's brilliant Younger Set
Photo hy Casson

THE hectic whirl of dances,
1 formal functions, and sports,
conspire to ruin the most velvety
skin!
"And they would-but for
Ponds Two Creams, which come
to the rescue. So it isn't strange
that Ponds is the method | fol-
low to guard the freshness of my
skin"
So says Miss Marjorie Oelrichs
now in her second season in the
brilliant social life of New York's
younger set.
%" Dinners, dances and sports, at
Palm Beach and Newport as we'll as
in town, and frequent trips to Paris
with her beautiful mother, Mrs. Mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

and dirt and repeats the process, 6n-
ishing with dash of cold water.
Over he, nesely el<ansed skin, before
she powders, she 5mooths Pond5 Van-
i5hing Cream. 1t gives her damask
smoothness over which her powder
goes beautifully and stays long.
This thin veil of Vanishing Cream,
moreover, guards her skin from dry
ing, chapping and burning from sun,
cold, and wind. So she always uses
it before going out.
When you buy Ponds Creams to
give your own skin this perfect pro-
lection, this freshening and finish,
ask for the big generous jar of the
Cold Cream. Both Creams come in
two smaller sizes of jars and in tubes.
The Ponds Extract Company, 131
Hudson Street, New York Civ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

Jorie Oelrichs, would tax the fresh
ness of her skin, were it not for the
following wise care she gives it every
day:
Ecfry night and se,eral times dur
ing the day she eleans<s her skin yith
Ponds Cold Cram, patting it over
and letting it stay on long enough for
its pure oils to bring to the surface
all the dust and dirt which clog the
pores. She wipes off all the cream
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-16
c. L. Young Talks
on" Cri1ne Wave" at
Rotary Luncheon

c. l.. Young addressed the Bis
marck Rotary club at its luncheon
this noon on "The Crime Wave"
Giving the deplorable lack in infor-
nation and the absence of reliable
crime statistics in the United States
as obstacles to an investigation Of
the situation, he told Of the invcsti-
cation by a committee Of the Amcri-
can Bar Association in 1927 and
subsequent Investigations by Richard
Washburn Child and others. One
leading jurist, after considering con
ditions in every phase. came to the
conclusion that the only absolute
crime increase was in the number
OF rObbpries. Discussing the low
rate Of h0micides in England aud
continental countries in comparison
with the United States and thei,
higher proportion If arrests and con
victions, Mr.. Young stated that the
need was a realization Of the situa-
tion and the possibilities for improv.
ing it.
lie gave the following explanations
Of the higher crime rate: the terri.
torial extent Of this country; the fact
that we are not homogeneous PEG.
pie: the attempt to regulate every
activity and phase of life in this
country to such an extent that re-
spect for law Is seriously impaired;
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-16
HO,v "a s10ko
Strawberry jam
Keep tie c0!Or and fa,Or
Of tie fresh berries

Your jam will taste enough like
shortcake il you make it this new,
easy short.boil way with Certo.
Save the following recipe to use for
your first hatch Of strawberry jam.
Cut in halves lengthwise with
stainless knife about 2 quarts Of
small or medium-sized fully ripe
berries. After halving. weigh out. 2
lbs. berries, or measure Az level cups
of berries. packing solidly into the
cup until Juice and fruit come to the
top of the cup. Add Z level cups
c. lbs.) sugar and mix we'll. Use
hottest fire and stir constantly be-
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full rolling boil and boil hard for !:
to 3 minutes. Remove from fire and
stir in \: cup Certo. Skim and stir
repeatedly for just ) minutes after
takin~ from fire. to cool slightly
Pour quickly and cover hot jam u,
once with hot melted paraffin.
The short boiling time, possible
| only with Certo, prevents the loss OF
: delicate flavor and the darkenine
in color which used to occur during
the old long boil. 1t also gives you
larger amount Of jam, since you
save the large quantity of juice which
used to boil away.
Certo is a pure fruit product =
the jelly substance of fruit re-
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/ recipes comes with each bottle.
Your grocer carries Certo.' or you
can send 1Oc (for postage) and &c:
! trial half-sizc bottle which will
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/ jelly, depending upon the recipe used
Address Douglas-Pectin Corporation
6l99 Granite Building. Rochester
" " adv
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-16
Mary Ellen Morton
Wed Yesterday to
John L. Scharff

The wedding Of Miss Mary Ellen
Morton and John L. Scharff Of Green
Acres, WASH, was solemnized at 7:3O
o'clock Tuesday morning at St.. Mary's
pro.cathedral with Rev. Father John
Stag officiating. Miss Violet Nor.
ton, Driscoll, sister Of the bride, was
bridesmaid. and the groom was at
tended by Michael Tokash, Bismarck.
The bride was gowned in white
satin and wore veil Of tulle. She
carried an arm bouquet of roses and
lilies Of the valley. Miss Violet Nor
ton wore frock Of pink satin crepe
with a hat and other accessories TO
harndHize.. t IN
Following the ceremony q wedding
breakfasf'was served at the Grand
Pacific hotel. Covers were marked
for 25. Last evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Scharff were honor guests at a re.
ception in the Sterling hail..
Mrs. Scharff has been employed in
Bismarck at the Guaranty fund COM
mission for the past year. The
groom is interested in fruit grow
ers association ut Green Acres Swhere
the couple will make their home fol-
lowing two weeks wedding trip in
Minnesota and Wisconsin,.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-16

the inadequate police system in com
parison with European countries
which he attributed to fewer police
and their lack Of training in this
country; the vices practised under
the, present bail system; and the de-
lays Of the law. Concluding, he stated
that the matter Is q question of
public opinion, that our citizenry
must respect and fulfil their jury
duty. and that all must study and
work to the solution of the problem.
Is. X. Skeets presided over his first
meeting as incoming president of the
club.
Visitors included: w. j. Englcrt of
Valley City, Chas. Pollock. Roy Baird.
Walter l.. StOckwcll Of Fargo, Benton
Baker. Duane Diehl, Il. w. Rowland
Of WahpetOn. A. II. Bell and Nelson
Sanvain Of Devils Lake, =. j. Hen