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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
Back to Nature

ooh, come with us to Lake Tahoe"
nv boon companions said; "in our own
car we plan to go, our wagon painted
red. 1t Is the back-to-nature goods
that makes men young again: we'll
have q campfire In the woods. and
there We'll broil a hen. Unhappy Is
the luckless wight who has not seen
Tahoe; 1t is indeed a wondrous sight,
as all good tourists know. So break
away from easy chair, from this, your
resting place, and get some sandburs
in your hair, and freckles on your
face" I made reply, Full well I
know that lakes with charms replete;
I'VE read some so books or so about
the grand retreat. Mark Twain en-
balmed the place in words that move
a. man to tears; and the other nobly
gifted birds have boosted 1t for years
I have a picture in my mind that I
would keep intact; and If went there
I would find the lake a frost, in fact.
Whenever I meet celebrities, be. -they
the human brand, or merely Hand.
scapes, lakes or trees, disappointed
stand. They never live up to their
fame; they all seem gone to seed; so
play your back-to-nature game, aud I'll
stay home and read" When they re.
turned it was to croak of hardships
black and dour: they ran against some
poison oak which made their blood
turn sour. Some hunters filled their
legs with shot, mistaking them for
deer, and everywhere they went they
fought misfortunes strange and queer.
And while they scrapped with every
foe that misery could spring, I sat
and read of Lake Tahoe. and slipped
a Volstead sling. I have mo scars, i
do not ache. do not itch or burn; and
know more about that lake than
they will ever learn.
! WALT MASON.
lCopyright. 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
CORPORATION TO BUY
TWO OIL COMPANIES
$3, 500, 900 Transfer Involves ESQ
Acres Of Land Leased From
Government.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, December
24.-Negotiations have been closed by
the General Petroleum Corporation
for the purchase Of the assets Of the
Boston Pacific Oil Co., and the Balboa
Oil Co, aggregating more than So
100000. The announcement was made
here yesterday by officials of the pur-
chasing company. The deals are sub.
ject to the approval Of stockholders
Of the two selling companies next
week.
The Boston company holds 200
acres on a Government lease in the
Midwat Field, with Is wells producing
1000 barrels of oil daily. The Balboa
has a Government lease on $50 acres
in the Buena Vista Field Of Kern
County, with a production of 1900
barrels daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
McDUFFIE HELD SANE.
Former White House Policeman
Wins Release.

Paul A. McDuffie, former White
House policeman, was adjudged sane
Yesterday by a Jury before Justice
Hoehling of the District Supreme
Court. McDuff1e was ordered released
from st. Elizabeth's Hospital. where
he has been held since last July when
he was declared insane following the
filing of an indictment against him
for an alleged assault on his wife,
Norma McDufie. He gave bail Of
81 500 to answer the Indictment and
will spend Christmas in freedom.
McDuffie is charged in the indict.
ment with shooting at his wife at their
home, 1913 E street southeast. He Is
represented by Attorneys Wilton j..
Lambert and Arthur German Lam
bert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24

the ranks of the "haves'' and depicting
the ranks Of the "have-nots." These
are constructive, but the
millennium has not yet come. The
capitalistic exploits of labor are con
Quoted by unions representing 10 per
cent of all labor groups.
William e. Knox. former president
Of the American Bankers Association.
states that IL the life insurance and
savings of the country were dis
tributed among all Americans evenly,
there would be less than $4,000 OF
protection for each family and hardly
more than 1000 Of funds saved up
in the banks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
BRAZIL PLANS STATION.
Will Be at Manaos, Far Up
Amazon River.

Far up the Amazon River, in an iso-
lated but commercially important
region, the government Of Brazil pro-
poses to erect a 1-kilowatt broadcast
ing station. with a wave ZENITH Of 100
meters, and has already purchased
apparatus from the Marconi Co. of
London, according to adviceS just re-
ceived by the Department OF Com
MERGE from @. +. Settler, vice consul
at Manaos, Brazil.
The station will be located at Manaos,
and 1t Is reported in Brazil that the
government intends to install a radio
outfit in a central location in every
municipality within receiving range of
the Manaos station. Commercial no.
tees pertaining to market quotations
in export products, exchange rates,
stocks on hand, port movements and
the like, will first be broadcast. Later
it is expected that interest will be
stimulated enough to make the region
a good market for receiving sets for
popular usage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
EQUIPMENT OF NAA
IS BEING MOVED
Washington viii Have Two
Standard Frequency Sta
tons After Transfer.

Station MA, operated by the United
States Navy at Arlington, is now occu-
pied with removing it's broadcast
equipment across the Potomac River
to the Navy Yard at Washington.
Thereby, Navy officials hope to elm
mate code and other noises picked up
by induction caused by nearby radio
apparatus. and they hope also to i'm
prove the stations meditation and
quality.
The transfer Of station NAA from
the Virginia shore gives Washington
two of the standard frequency. sta.
tiOns recently designated by the Blu
scientists SO times during the last 10
months, NAA had not deviated from
its assigned frequency of $50 kilo-
cycles, or 434.5 meters.
WRC Tested 1850 Times.
WRC, which is operated by the Ra-
do Corporation Of America, was tested
100 times during the past 35 months,
and it's deviation from its wave length
of $40 kilocycles also was so slight
that it was likewise listed as a stand
ard frequency station.
In making known the list of stand.
ard frequency stations. the Bureau of
Standards calls attention to the fact
that their transmitted frequencies
have been SO constant that they may
be used as standards for celebrating
frequency meters. All Of the tests are
on kilocycle frequencies, which are
easily translated into meters.
These are the other standard fire.
quency stations: KDKA, operated by
the Westinghouse Electric & Manu-.
featuring Co.. at East Pittsburgh. on
All and $40 frequency kilocycles;
WBZ, Westinghouse Co. at Spring
field, Mass. 900 kilocycles; WGY, Gen
eral Electric Co., at Schenectady, 100
kilocycles; WIZ, Radio Corporation of
America, at Bound Brook, N. j., go
kilocycles; WEAF, National Broad
casting Co, New York City, go kilo-
cycles: VIVA, United States Army. at
Annapolis. 100 kilocycles, and MSS,
United States Navy. at Annapolis,
cies that are standard were the four
stations Of the Radio Corporation of
America-WII, New Brunswick, N. j.,
21.SO frequency kilocycles; WGG,
Tuckerton, No. /, n. j., 1886: Wei,
Tuckerton, n. j., 1895, and WSS,
Rocky Point, n. Y, 1850.
The Arlington station is the only
radio broadcasting station maintained
by the Government for it's own use.
1t is operated by the Navy for any
Government department or activity re-
quiring the transmission of official
Government business. At present it
is used not only for the three daily
weather reports and time signals, but
for lectures by the United States Pub
lie Health Service, the Department of
Agriculture and the Civil Service Com
mission. ---..'.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
PLANS SMOKE WAR.
DR.. Fowler Increases Force To
Halt Violations.

Or. William C. Fowler, District
health officer, increased his force of
smoke inspectors yesterday from one
to six men, preparatory to inaugu.
rating a drastic campaign against vio-
lators of the anti-smoke law. a.
There is absolutely no excuse for
Washington being ravaged by smoke
blots," said DIR. Fowler, land I am
going to do what I can to stop Ii.
There IL q good quality Of coal to be
had this year. and people should use
1t. Most Of the smoke comes from
cheap COAL"
The anti-smoke ordinance prescribes
a penalty of fines ranging from SO
to 500. Private residences, steam
shovels. locomotives and steam rollers
are excepted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
JOINS cox PAPERS,
Nebraska Editor to Direct Policies
Of Ohio String.

LINCOLN, Nebr., December "a
R).-Walter L. Locke, associate edi-
tor OF the Nebraska State Journal
has accepted the editorship Of the
Dayton, Ohio, News, owned by James
M. COX, 1t was announced here last
night. Mr.. Locke will leave here
shortly after tho first Of the year.
The position includes directing edi-
torial pages Of the Springfield, Ohio.
News and the Canton News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
GAS CAR is CHOSEN.
New York Lawyer to Supervise
Gotham's Independents.

NEW YORK, December "a @.-
BENJAMIN A. Jarvitz. general counsel
for the Petroleum Merchants, Inc,
of New York, has been named
GEAR Of 95 per cent Of the indie
pendent gasoline distributors oper-
ating in the metropolitan district. he
announced. .~~.---- !
AS impartial arbiter at their head,
1t will be his duty to supervise the
maintenance of standard quality and
the elimination of bootleg gaso-
line. he said.
The new policy has been in effect
for about two months, Mr.. Javitz
said, and already has produced
gratifying standardization of quail
ity in the gasoline sold by indie
pendents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
Lack of Work Kills Most.

ENDICOTT, N. Y. December "a
CR.-"More men, die from lack Of
work than from overworl," il the
adverse comment by. George r. John
son. head sof the extensive Endicott-
johnson Shoe Co, upon the proposed
FIVE day week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24

Pasadena, Calf, December "a
N).-Dr Rudolph Schiffman, mil
lionaire discoverer OF an asthma pow
der, formerly of st. Paul. Mimi, died
here early yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
|LocalRadio Entertainment,
Friday, Dec. "a, 1926

NAA-Naval Radio Station, Radio,
Va. (434.5 Meters).
s:55 p.m.-Time signals.
1906 pm. - Weather Bureau re-.
ports.
WRHF-Washingtoh Radio HOSPITAL
Fund (256 Meters).
IL to ~ noon-Current events; police
reports daily.
WRC-Radio Corporation of America
1855 Meters).
$50 to s p.m.-Concert by the United
States Marine Band broadcast Jointly
with WEAF from the Marine Bar
racks.
p.m.-Mayf1ower Orchestra.
$50 pm. - Community Christmas
tree celebration from Sherman Square.
$50 p.m.-George r. Ross, pianist.
e:45 p.m.-"Book Reviews" by Mrs.
Nina Reed.
p.m.-Hamilton Orchestra.
f:60 pm. - Chimes from Grace
oAnrch, New York City.
p.m.-Carol service from Grace
Church, New York City.
. p.m,-Ice Cream Hour, from
10 pm. - Anglo, Persians, from
wEAF.
1890 p.m.-Christmas carol chorus,
with DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, from
wEAF.
1906 a.m.-Midnight mass from the
ehrine of the Sacred Heart.
Early Program Tomorrow.
1856 a.m.--Arlington time signals.
10 noon-Organ recital.
pm.-Mayfiower Orchestra.
ap.m.-Mixed quartet from WEAF
$50 pm. Markets Balalaika Or
khestra~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24

tuberculosis in young children most
frequently attacks the Emphatic
glands of the neck. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24

An automobile that can be run side.
ways has been invented to make park
Ing easier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
RADIOS BEST OFFERINGS
TONIGHT.

Community Christmas Tree
Celebration from Sherman
Squares WRC, $50 o'clock.
Christmas program, WABC,
$50 pm. to |: 80 am.
Yuletide concert, WNYC, |
$50 to 80 o'clock.
Chimes and carol service
from Grace Church, New York
City, WRC and WEAF, $50
to 9 o'clock.
Novelty night, Hanging the
Stocking" WRNY, 10:l5 to II
o'clock.
Christmas carol chorus, with
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, WRC
and WEAF, 10: 80 to II o'clock.
Midnight nsass from the
Shrine OF he Sacred Heart
Church WNC, 12:05 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24

NAA-Naval Radio Station, Radio,
Va. (434.5 Meters).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
HF-WashingtOh Radio Hospital
Fund (256 Meters).

IL to IL noon-Current events; police
reports daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24

SOB p.m.-Tine signals.
1906 pm. - Weather Bureau re.
ports.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
Glands for Tetany.

TWO physicians of Florence have
performed an operation which boil
sters up the failing hope that gland
grating had put a new weapon i'll the
hands of the medical profession for
subduing hitherto unconquerable dis
ease.
Drs. Cesare Frugoni and VittoriO
Scimone have announced, says Science
Magazine, the results of treating a
case of tetany. a chronic disease re-
sembling lock jaw, with a graft of hu-
man parathyroid, one of the small
glands placed around the better known
thyroid in the neck. The technique
followed was that of DIR. Serge VorOn-
off, one of the original experimenters
in transferring glands from apes to
humans.
The results were almost instantane-
Gus, according to the authors. The
patient, released from the terrific pain
suffered during six or seven long at
tacks every day, picked up amazingly.
Tests made some time later still
showed slight ps.At.hyroid deficiency,
but the ingrafted piece vas still firmly
attached under the skin five months
after the operation.
The question of greatest concern to
physicians with respect to the case is
how long the gland will persist, for
the laws that govern a CRAFTS chance
of survival comprise one of the sub
jects on which the medical profession
is still in the dark.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
The Rambler Writes of Famous Stage
Folk Who Once 'Played" the Capital
Who Thrilled Big Audiences
of Washngonans

1861 to about 1890, sang In opera and
concert and drew large audiences.
She was advertised and acclaimed as
"The Great American Prima Donna"
and it was accepted that the lady was
singer of the first rank. an excellent
actress and as much liked for her
character and way of living as any
other woman on the stage.
She was born in SumpterVllle, S. C.,
July -, 1912, and made her first APP
pearance In opera as Gilda in "Rigo-
letto" at the Academy OF Music. New
York, In 1861. She toured the United
States many times and in 1868 and
1872 sang in London with great sue
cess. II is recorded that her voice
was a pure and flexible soprano and
her execution brilliant" She organ
lied an English Opera company In
1874, travelled throughout the United
States and organized an Italian opera
company in 1876, which was success
full. She married her manager. Carl
Strakosch, in 1887 and soon after that
retired from the stage. She published
her memoirs in 1919
Speaking of Annie Louise Cary
suggests that | look up her biography.
She was born in Wayne. Me. October
%. 1912, studied in this country and in
Italy, most of the time at Milan. and
made her debut at Copenhagen I'm
1868. She returned to the United
States in 1870 and made tours of the
country until 1852. when she was
married to Charles ". Raymond and
retired from the stage, but she cor
tinued to sing in private and for
charity for years how many ! do not
know. | have heard many arguments
as to whether Miss Kellogg or Miss
Cary was the better singer. They
were talented women and perhaps
some of my tired readers remember
them.
These "reminiscences of Clara Louise
Kellogg and Annie Louise Cary re
call to you-it should--anOther famous
American singer who lived in the
times we are thinking of. She was
Emma Abbott. She was born at Chi
| cago in December. 1S49, and died AT
Salt Lake City. January >. 1891. She
began her public singing in the choir
of Plymouth Church Henry Ward
| Beecher's church, in Brooklyn. and
| studied for several years under IA
nous instructors in Milan and Paris.
In Col. Mapleson's English Opera
/ company she made her debut at Covert
| Garden, London, and travelled with the
| MapleSon company in Great Britain
and the United States. Later. think
! about 1880, she orEa nized the Emma
Abbott English Opera company. That
company opened the Washington
! Light Infantry Opera House, leased
! TO John W. Albaugh. about 1884. I
am not sure of the date and am not
| going TO take the time 10 look 1t up.
| If l am wrong about it you can have
the fun of calling me down.
| Upon reconsidering the foregoing
sentiment, I find that Albaugh's Grand
/ Opera House was opened Monday
night. November 10. 1884 II was the
Emma Abbott English opera com
| pany. and among the singers We're
Miss Laura Bellini. Miss Lizzi AMMAN
dale. William Castle. Walter Brod-
efick. Walter Allen, Campobello. TagiI
apietra and Fabrina. The operas for
the week were "Semira mide," king
| for n Day" Mariana" :" Bohemian
Girl "Mignon" and La Traviata,"
Evening star., 1926-06-20

friends spent his weeks pay on
chivalrv last night and the young
lady said to me this morning: Il
showed him nine jewelry windows on
F. street and / didn't get bangle.
pointed to dozen lovely wrist
watches and all the dumb brute said
was. They serve hot cakes at Childs'.'
That fellow never breaks more than
a, dollar bill at a time and he carries
the change in a purse. He takes his
best girl to dinner at cafeteria and
buys balcony seats at the movie
before o'clock. He is q Thrift Cam
paign!'
GERTRUDE, in the days am
~ thinking of. when young fellow
lifted his beaver with a flowing geS-
tpre and showed his freshly oiled hair.
shifted his gold-headed malacca walk
ing stick to the other hand, bowed as
low as courtier asking Queen Eliza
beth for a raise in pay, and then
handed over one of those tight bokays
done up in a paper collar, ne was
irresistible. No lady could turn him
down or give him the air. Please let
me- cut out that phrase, Give MIN the
air." and make the sentence read,
mo lady COuiu say HIN nay 70
more courtly. I see some of those old
bealx on f street now. And not a
woman turns to look at them! Pretty
tough, this getting old?
I know that Lotta Hough was in the
opening show at Growers Theater,
Tuesday evening, April %, 1862, be-
cause The Star said she was going
to be there and then said she was
there. / rest my case on that. The
old Star may not be scintillating at
all times and may not print enough
thrills to throw you into a fit, but
we get the facts. In The Stars ad-
vance notice Tuesday afternoon,
April %, 1852. was this Miss Lolita
Hough sustains the principal female
character. Miss Hough was the
special pet at Laura Keene's for the
past two seasons and is said to be
the very finest soubrette on the Amer
lean stage
The second attraction at Growers OF
which l have the record was Grau's
Italian Opera Troupe, which sang
Ia Favorita" May 5, 1862. Elena
d'Angri, Brignoli, Amodio, Mancus;
and Susini were the stars and Muzio
the conductor. In the history OF
Growers Theater 1 find that IL. N.
Gottschalk, pianist, in conjunction
with the opera" appeared. Constru-
Evening star., 1926-06-20

. HE program given to the audi
ence in Growers Theater on its
opening is before me. You
Il may read 1t.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
The "American Type"

Az American type of man is de
veloping. In the older American
stock this type has already reached
q point where ii is possible without
much difficulty 10 distinguish it from
the peoples of other countries. This
is the conclusion of DR.. Ales HrdliCka,
anthropologist of the Smithsonian In
stitutOn. based upon many years of
scientific measurements and study of
those whom he designates as "old
Americans" and of the immigrants
differing A'om the original stock.
The work as now completed" says
DIR. HrdliCka shows that the older
stock has approached the formation
of a distinct American type. This
type is still nearest to that of it's main
progenitors, the British. but in stature.
in phySiognomy and in behavior it is
already more or less different-Ameri-
can. The type is a good one"
Here is DIR. Hrdlicka's description of
the American type of man so far as Il
has been developed:
ut is haracterized by tall stature.
being the tallest of all the larger
groups of white people; by, on the
average, u medium pigmentation of
the hair, with scarcity of adult blondS
and near absence of blacks: by preva-
I0HtiS IlilAeu eyes, OF llSIll OlleS SHOW
ing more or less of a brown admix-
ture; by an inclination. especially in
youth, to sinewy slenderness. and by
other features. The main character
istiCs of it's behavior are, in general.
frankness. openness yet shrewdness,
energy and persistence with, in gem
eral, but little sentimentality or af-
fectation, and relatively few extremes
except perhaps in industrial. financial
and occasionally in religious en-
deavors.
This type. contrary to recent un-
scientific belief, is not Nordic: 1t is
not even nearer the Nordic than it is
to the Alpine. Like the British, it is
an intermediate type.
"The bulk of the immigrants repre-
sented in our records, outside of head
form and few other features. are re-
markably uniform in physique, with
the exception of the Jews and the
southern Italians, both of whom are
characterized by smaller stature and
other more or less aberrant features.
They are, in general, a good, sturdy
lot. In average stature, in size of
chest and in muscular strength they
are above the mean of the Europeans.
They present. as groups, no signs of
physical degeneration"
Evening star., 1926-06-20

From the advertisement of Upper
Ten and Lower Twenty" in The Star
| get these names of the company:
Miss Lofty Hough. Miss Susan Denim,
Miss Efiie German, Miss Julia Mel
son, Mrs. G. c. Germon, Miss Sophie
Climber, T.. l.. Tilton, u. Setchell Ben
Rogers. Mr.. Meldrum. Mr.. Bokee and
Mr.. Ward. II. B. Phillips was the
stage manager.
x X X
On May 80, 1862, Clara Louise kel'
~ logg began q short engagement
at Growers. ! see a strange mistake
in the old history of the National
Theater for 1t says: Miss Annie
Louise Kellogg stepped for the first
time before the footlights of the Ma
tional. in the opera Lucia di Lam
mermoor.'" Miss Kellogg was Clara
Louise. and I wonder if the writer of
the line quoted had not in mind
another sweet singer of the Kellogg
time whose name was Annie Louise
Cary. Clara Louise Kellogg, from