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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21
MISSING AVIATOR
. IS SAFE IN BRAZIL
DlIqgan Is Forced Down ny
Lack of FueI-Saved by
Fishing Boat.
Nv The Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BIF,NOS AIRES. Jane 2l.-HavinS
been missing for seven days on sea-
plane flight from New York to Buenos
Aires, Bernardo DugGan. wealthy Ar
gentine sportsman. and his conf
panions Eduardo Olivero and Ernesto
Campanelli. have arrived at NiGla.
Brazil, safe and we'll
In fying from paramariho. Dutch
Guiana, week ag" Sunday. they
passed over Caienne. French Guiana.
and after this all trace was lost OF
them until yesterday. when news was
received that they had been landed
at Nigia Saturday night from a fish
ing boat which picked them up after
they had descended in rough weather
at the Island Of Maraca. on the Bra
lillian coast.
The plane had run short OF gas
owing to buffeting in tempestuous
weather. One fishing boat took the
aViators aboard, while another towed
the plane to the Island OF Maraca, 4uo
miles north of Nigia and short dls-
lance from the mouth OF the Amazon
River.
A tug with gasoline on board is TO
he sent to Maraca, and DueSan ana
his companions will continue thelr
flight.
In telegram to La Nacion de
scribinc his trip after leaving Caienne
Duggan said:
Bad weather prevented us travel
ing more than Is kilometers an hour.
and caused uneasiness lest we should
lie forced to land on the barren coast
of northern Brazil. which probably
would have resulted in disaster.
Under these conditions we arrived
off the Island of Maraca with gas FOR
only half hours fight. With luck We
sighted small fishing boat, skippered
By Iosina Cardoza'
The VOYAGE from Maraca to V1gia
consumed six DAYS. owing to the head
winds. For three days the boat was
out Of sight of land.
Dugsan and his companions left
Staten Island n y Nav "a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21
ARTIST TRIES HARA KIRI.
Scion of Wealthy Family Slashes
Abdomen in New York.

NEW YORK. June 81 P).-Arrivef
at the decision that IT was time for
him to die, Matatura Okabe. 58.year
old Japanese cartoonist. attempted
suicide yesterday by slashing his ah-
don1en with AZ hara kirt knife. His
landladv discovered him PROSTATE on
the floor some time later. Hospital
physicians expressed doubt that he
would recover.
Okabe Is said to he a member of 2
prominent and wealthy .Tapa mes"
family. A relative, Fukioka Okabe,
naid Matatura was neither in want nor
trouble. and could not explain his at
tempt to kill himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21
CENTRAI-"Th Night Cry"

In "The Night Cry" the Warner
Brothers. production at Crandall's
Central Theater the first two days of
this week, RinTin.Tin, the wonder
full dog-actor, is the outstanding fea-
ture, pleading with his eyes to be
trusted by those he loves and who
seem to doubt him, and then in a
battle to the death with n giant con
dor from whom he seeks To rescue a
child.
The human cast is led by John
IIarron and June MarloWe. Clyde
Cooke in "Wife Tamers,: and pipe
organ Music are other clements of
entertainment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21
MONARCH CLUBS OPEN
SESSIONS IN CAPITAL
BANQUET and Theater Party VIII
Be Held for Delegates
i This Evening.

Monarch Club delegates from North
Carolina. Virginia, Pennsylvania,
ohio and Maryland opened their con-
vention at the Washington Hotel this
afternoon.
The annual election of trustee
for a five-year term and the selection
of the 1927 convention city was the
main business for the first session.
Howard W. Cutler, president of the
District of Columbia Monarch Club.
will he host at a banquet tonight at
o'clock in the ballroom of the City
Club and at a theater party to the
delegates.
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AMUSE MENTS

have ever been produced-and even
then. not much, in fact.
The newsreel and other tidbits fail
to round out the program to any
great extent. The orchestra helped.
TIVOLI-"The VOlga BOatman."
THE Volga Boatman." Cecil B. De
Miles great production, yesterday
opened a three day engagement at
Crandall's Tivoli Theater. being pre-
scented exactly as during it's two
weeks engagement at the Metropolis
tan. Capacity audiences were the rule
of the day.
William Boyd certainly insures him
self stardom by the, excellence of his
work in the title role Of this tremen-
dously moving love story with it's
ba ok ground of revolt and crllmbing
ariStocracy. Elinor Fair, as the prin.
cess of the blood royal; Victor Var
conf, as the prince; Julia Faye. Theo-
dorc kas]off. Robert Edeson and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21

Charles Ciary also contribute much of
worth to the masterpiece.
The presentation is enhanced by the
ff.stage singing Of THE Song of the
Volga Boatmen" by the Imperial Male
Chorus; and Otto f. Beck, at the pipe
organ, and Ida V. Clarke, relief, adj
here closely to the brilliantly interpre-
tative score compiled by Daniel Brees-
kin, conductor of Crandalls Metro
politan orchestra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21

course there Is a girl whom Don wins
in the end by his brave deeds, and
all ends happily.
A good cast is seen in support Of
the star, headed by Barbara Bed
ford. with Lucien Littlefield. whose
spontaneous humor helps greatly to
tighten the sameness of the theme.
There are many wonderful scenes of
the herds of cattle being driven across
the plains, ard some hairraising
horseback riding adds much to the
interest of the story
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21
Continued from Eleventh Pagel

served as hors d'ouvres makes it diff
ficult to take them seriously as an
evenings banquet.
Grass" is chiefly concerned with
the wandelings of Persian hillbillies
in search Of food. When movie au-
diences become more civilized perhaps
the hardshipS of these tribes may be
taken more to heart and such a pic
tire may be characterized politely as
drama.
''Moana," with Mr.. Moana himself
in the leading role. has the ingre-
dents of melod,ana, bet makes no
attempt co stretch GU. into the realm
of movie fiction. If the director had
been less true to his art he might
have better served his box office.
But even as it is. one has the impress
sion OF being shown the essence of
all the South Sea melod,amas that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21
School for Engineers.

A school for the training of locomo-
tive engineers is the latest offering
of the Denver school seAtem. in CO.
operation with the State Board for
Vocational Education. The training
will be conducted In railroad shops
as a part of the vocational service
t0 adults
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Observation-Disclosures Daddies.

Charles Murray, George Sidney
Jobyna Ralston, Jack Mulhall, Ners
Gordon and CASTOR Glass in First Ma
tionals production of Sweet Daddies'
supply the feature at Crandall's Am
bassa dor Theater the first three day!
OF the current week, with the Fo,
film version of O. Henry's Elsie In
New York" as supplemental at
traction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21
Observation-Disclosures"

NTNIYNT7- TUTTIUIVNVFUS,
Fans who admire Bill Hart will be
glad to welcome him hack to local
screen this week at the Strand after
a lengthy absence. The Western star
is seen in his latest photoplay,
Evening star., 1926-12-14
One Flaw

I knew a man so brave and daring
that danger was his dearest chum;
where peril's eyes were tensely star
ing, you'd see the dauntless hero
come. He dragged out voters from
the briny when they were drowning,
In a storm, and laughed when we.
with faces shiny, would hang some
medals on his form. He clambered
into burning houses, where breath
was drawn in anguished pants, and.
while the fire fiend held carouses, he
rescued divers precious aunts. He
risked his life to save jay walkers
when autos tried to run them down:
his deeds were food for shilling shock
ers and all the coroners in town. One
day stranger. Idly faring. along the
main street of our grad. beheld Jim
Box, the nfan Of daring, and asked.
who is that spineless lad? Last
night ] stepped beneath an awning.
while down the street swept noisy
gales, and that poor skate was cring-
ing, fawning, behind my coats long,
sweeping tails. I've never seen such
downright terror. / felt like kicking
in y slat, for I've contempt for the
waYfarer who makes holy show like
that" "He has an Unborn fear Of
thunder" ] said, in my dramatic way,
but had you kicked his ribs asunder
y'ou d be asleep on ice today. For only
can scare him, there's
nothing else he will not face; and no
man in this town would dare him. or
say his one lone fear is base. He is
the hero lion-hearted, the miracle of
strength and grit, and in a scrap. if
he gets started. there is no power can
make him quit oh. stranger, jump
ing to conclusions is dangerous, as
Horace hints: it leads to bruises and
to plaster casts and costly
splints." WALT MASON.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1926-12-14

fore the seventh annual congress of
Russia's % professional unions.
How far these organizations are
separated, politically as well as terri
torially, Is shown by the last meeting
Of the American federation at Detroit,
where relations of the workers with
the Soviet union was discussed" he
said. 1.-THE peculiar international
character Of the federation was shown
by the opening prayers by an Episco-
pal rector. a Catholic priest and a
Jewish rabbi.
Clerical Slant Stressed.
"The clerical slant of the American
Federation was emphasized when
Eddie Sherwood, on behalf of the
Y. NJ. C. A., declared 1t was necessary
for America to recognize the Soviet
union. Great indignation followed.
Matthew Vol. vice president of the
federation, insisted the meeting was
boiling with Indignation.
1--WE will struggle for leadership of
the union movement in every country
of the world, forming q uniform front
against class distinction. against capi-
talism and against Fascisln," he con-
cluded 1--WE will struggle against
craft unions like those of the Amer
Evening star., 1926-12-14

lean worl<men. Already we have a
uniform front among Soviet and Chi
nese workmen and among portion
Of the Japanese workmen. The shores
of the Pacific will play a great role
in future military attacks and in fu-
ture political conflicts"
Though their speeches have not yet
been published in the newspapers.
Leon Trotsky and Gregoire Zinoviev
are reported to have defended them
selves and their policies passionately
before the meeting of the presidium
of the Third Internationale. Zinoviev
spoke for an hour and then was given
an addition 35 minutes. Trotsky
was allotted Is minutes, but when
he protested and demanded two hours
he was given an hour. Trotsky deliv-
cred his address in German.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
INDUSTRIAL MOVE
TO WEST IS seen
EIectro-chemicaI Head Holds
Tennessee Valley Will Be
"Ruhr of America"
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December l4.-Pre-
dieting that the Tennessee Valley Will
one day be "the Ruhr of America,
Elon III. Hooker, president of the
Hooker Electro-chemical Co. of this
CITY and Niagara Falls, said at the
survey dinner at the Hotel Astor last
night that the Nations industrial
center is shifting from the Atlantic
seaboard to the Mississippi Rasin. .Ir.
Hooker made a study recently OF Mus
Gle Shoals and the Tennessee River
watershed.
"The next century of American
progress viii he known in history as
the hydro-electric age, Mr.. Hooker
said. "The country will be threaded
with transmissios lines, and the farm
er will decrease his cpnual labor with
the same current th~.. produces his
machinery and his clothes.
Estates which were dominantly agri
cultural % years ago are now reckon
ed as industrial. such as Ohio, Indi
ana, Illinois and Missouri. Georgia is
already demanding a protective tariff
and Alabama Is q steel center of great
importance. Southern States which
were once interested in plantations are
demanding power to run manufacture
ing plants Gulf ports are looking
forward to becoming rivals of New
York and Boston, for the shifting of
markets from Europe to South Amer
ica and the Orient by way of the Pan
ANA Canal is opening up a new indus
trial map Of the world. This change
is now gradual. 1t will be accelerated.
however, when the power which now
lies latent in the Tennessee Valley Is
harueSSpi to transmission lines which
will carry it to a half dozen neighbor
ing States
Establishment of a power authority
to study the possibilities of water
power development in New York State
and to submit a comprehensive plan
of the method of such development for
approval by the Legislature was
recommended by Gov. Alfred l..
Smith in q speech. The governor de-
clared the State never should relin-
Quish control of the water-power sites.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
OPPOSITE POLES
IN LABOR CITED
Solomon Lozovsky Thus
CharacterizeS A. F. of L. and
Red Internati0naIeS.
RY .urNIIIS Il. WOOD.

BY Cable 70 The Star and Chicago Daily
News Copyright. 1929
MOSCOW, December IA The
American Federation of Labor and
the Red Workers Internationale were
characterized rs the two opposite
poles of the world labor movement by
Solomon Lozovsky. secretary of the
latter organization. in an address be.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
Heads Savannah News.

SAVANNAH. Ga. December IA up.
-Haschel V. Jenkins was yesterday
elected president Of the Morning News
here to take active management of
this newspaper property. He resigns
as assistant treasurer of the Central
of Georgia Railway to assume his new
d1rfiac
Evening star., 1926-12-14

"Deauville Sandals" which have be.
come popular in America and Eng
land. are being taken up in British
Dutch and Portuguese colonies in the
tropics.
Evening star., 1926-12-14

Reptile skins from Ecuador may
be sold as commodity in America
II the offer made recently by a
dealer in that country is accepted.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
90 PER GENT CONVICTIONS
 ON YOLSTEAD ACT CLAIMED
Stone Declares Prohibition Has Not Yet Received a Fair Trial
 In United States.

Boston. Feb. l5 dPl-The record of liquor convictions by United States court iuries here approXimates 90 per cent, according 10 Assistant [. S Attorney Elihu h. Stone, and of the remaining 10 per cent many boot Iecger has found deliyerance in tech nicalities."
 The Nolstead Act "siill in its in fancy, has not received fair trial" he declared, in an address here last night and even a superficial observ- CT will testify that no adequate ma- chinery has been perfected for its enforcement" He believed prohibit ton was constantly improving, how ever, but declared that prohibition will be enforced only through the cooperation of the state and national government, when every police off cor and every constable will consid- er himself a prohibition agent
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
CHINESE DOCTORS NOT
 PAID ONLY IN SUCCESS
Returned Investigator Claims Re- port Only Healthy Pay l.
 Myth.

Bos,on. Feb. l. CP'-'rhe Chinese health myth has been exploded. Dr. Reginald M. Atwa'cr, instructor in ,pidcmiology at the Harvard modi- cal school who has just returned from a visit 10 the Far East. told students yesterday that he had been unable to find a single instance of where a Chinese doctor was paid only when his patients were we'll
 Discussing the obstacles to public health progress in China, Dr, At water said: "Pcrhaps tho most sig niGcant of all is the inertia that comes from the firm adherence 10 traditions which have their heritage through these thousands of years. The dependence of the masses on wrong ideas of disease. veneration of the old because if is old, rather than because it is good; general dis trust of the new because it is new, failure 10 profit by the scientific method and fatal tendency to I.aisscZ-Faire, these arc the real ob- staclos to public health progress
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
NINE ARRESTED IN
 RAID ON VILLAGE
Highland Falls, N. ', Visited
 by Liquor Agents

Highland Falls, \. Y, Feb, 13 'P) Nine men. eight Of whom are charged with violation o' the prohi- bton laws and one with keeping Il dsorderly house, were taken 10 New York for arraignment today after q night of raids in this village.
 Ten prohibition enforcement agents, armed with search warrants and aided by Captain Joiner. Lieu tenant Fellows and detail of miii- tary police from the United States reservation at West Point, conduct ed the raids. Thirteen places were visited.
 Only a little spjrituous liquor was found, but the raiders contiscatel and destroyed several barrels Of beer. About 90 soldiers from the West Point reservation were found in the places raided, and all were taken back to the post. with inc owners Of the illicit premises who were arrested.
 The raids followed q complaint uy General Sladen, superintendent Oi the United States military academy ! that soldiers were getting liquor il this village.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
l9 AND 65 BOTH
 ID SING IN OPERA
Marion Tally and Segamanh
 Heink at Metropolitan

New York, Fob. IL P,-Two singers, one l2 years old girl the other a G5-ycar old graudmo'hor are equally happy today at th,Ir coming appoardnc, on lbr hourds ur 'A" Metropolitan Opera Huusr.
 Marion Talcy, Kansas City so- prano, the young"st girl to sing as a principal at the Metropolitan since Patti made her dchut al lG, has reached the threshold of ono of her most cherished ambitions,
 Mme. Ernostine Schumau Hymk, who the Metropolitan has just called. will return to the scenes of her carly triumphs ~ years ago when Sj. made her first appearance there.
 Yesterday Miss Tul,y devoted several hours 10 pracricing her role as Gilda in "I;igoletto,' aS fl friends who knew her as a choir singer in Kansas City. started for New York to hear her debut Wednesday. others also plan to make the trip which has been estimated aS cost ing d total Of s75,Quo.
 Among those coming here is the young singers father. Charles N Tallry a telegraph operator who iS taking his first vacation in IS years 10 hear his daughter sing. It WAS through his untiring efforts that sh- received her musical education which he estimates cost $2j,0OQ.
 Miss Talley's greatest hope is that she will be in good voice so that her father and friends wilt not be disap- pointed.
 "Th"y'vc believed in me so, even coming here to hear me-" she said. Its worth sacrificing lots of good time to study and make good ill q case like mine"
 Mime. IIeiuk. mother of eight children and grandmother ol eleven, after a ten years absence from the operatic stage, will appear lat tho Metropolitan as Erda in "Das Rheingold" March 9.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF
 KLANSMAN CONTEMPLATED
5000 Reported to Have Scccded From Georgia Jurisdiction--
 Opposed to Evans.

kokomo Ind. Feb. 1 , P(-Three thousand klansmcn, meeting here yesterday. are understood to have voted to secede from the order Of the Knights Of the Ku klux klan of Georgia, incorporated, and form an independent organization.
 The meeting was called by 'insur- gents" in protest of the recent ap- pointments of w. Lee Smith of EV- ansville as grand dragon in Indiana and because they believed H. w.. Evans, imperial wizard at Atlanta, Ga. had gone too far for the good of the order in his alleged dictation of the klans politics, it was reported.
 Another meeting will be held here next Sunday for the purpose of Vot- ing on a new constitution which will however contain the same principles as those which govern the Georgia corporation.
 T. had been reported that klan representatives from Ohio, Michi- gan, Illinois, Kentucky and other states would attend. Whether they were present was not ascertained.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
AUTO TOLL 354 IN
 CONNECTICUT IN '25
While List Of Persons Injured
 Totals 7,992

Hartford, Feb. l5--Motor vehicle accidents cost S54 lives in Connecti- cut in l995---5g mere than the toll in 19gi--and 7ae@ were injured last year, which is S&i more than were hurt in the year previous, The pro- perty damage from the samn cause Increased S2G0,SS7 last year, reach- ing tine enormous total Of $9l30,- >>1. While the accident increase for inc twelve months closed December %l last, was l2.7 per cent that con. siderable figure Is less than the in- creased percentage in accidents in 1924 over the record Of 1928.
 This is the disclosure of the Feb ruary issue Of the bulletin Of the state motor vehicle department. which says that the great majority of accidents are shown by analyais 10 be due 10 the reCklessncss of motorists, Sixteen thousand. three hundred and scyenty-cight of the -, ,56S accidents in 1925 are classi- fled as the result Of carelessness.
 Accidents set down 10 driving too last under given conditions were L. o54 last year and 405 the year be- fore, which is heavy increase. However, the department was un- able to discover that any motorist came 10 grief trying to beat q train 10 q grade crossing, while the year before there were two such cases recorded. There were more acci- dents resulting from drunkenness, and less from cutting in. The num- bcr of accidents resulting from fol- lowing too closely was reduced al- most one half, but cutting corners caused almost twice as many acci- dents in 1925 as in 1924.
 Accidents due to defective equip ment of cars in the last year are given as SS4, which is quite drop from the record of t,1l3 for 1924. However. the Carelessness of child pedestrians, as recorded in the acci- dent statistics, shows an increase in the figures for this class of accident. being 1,54S In 1925 and 1,109 the year before. More accidents were caused by improper parking, pass ing standing trolley cars, passing on
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15

to share with residents of New Or. leans the entertainment of what Many "old-timerS' believe is tho greatest Mardi Gras in the city's his- tory.
 The carnival funmakers made their way through the crowded streets today amid small army Of street vendors, Antique shops or horso and dog racotracks and ia nous French restaurants attracted many visitors, while thousands of s,ghtscors Inspected places of scenic and historic interest,
 Practically alIl lho population nuotiVc and temporary--lookcd for Hard "a witnessing the parade of Iroicus along lho guyly decorated ercrts tonight, Balls and other so- rial vents will be held in all paris of the city after the unique process sion passes by,
 Tomorrow is Nardi Gas--'he happiost in New Orleans calendar r is then that street dances are in lOgnr,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
Through the Static

Saturday night, Knight of The Bath, was a beautiful one for radio, and last night, well. we'd rather not talk about it. All day yesterday the boom and bark Of the static took LIS back 10 the days of 191S-when we used to be steady customers al the Y. NJ. C. A. Junior Department rife range. As darkness approached and night laid it's dark and gloomy hand on the face of the earth. as they say in the movie subtitl"s, the static in creased so alarmingly that We be- came honestly frightened. l. was one of the worst nights we have had this winter-so far. But on Saturday evening there was plenty of volume, distance wasn't out Of the question and everything came in with de- gree Of tone quality which has never teen eXcelled on our set.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
Military Honors for
 "PrisOner Song" Publisher

San Antonio, ToN. F'eb. 8 IPJ - Full military honors for the dead were accorded Guy Massey. world war veteran, boxer, singer and pub fisher of "The Prisoner Song" al Fort sam Houston yesterday. Mas sey died at the base hospital Satur- day, following an illness of long du- ration.
 Chaplain A. F. Vaughn conducted the services, with military escort and the band from the second division. The body was sent 10 Dallas, Texas, Tor burial today.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
At 90 Years, Walks
 Days With Broken Leg

Maiden, Mass, Feb. 15 Rl--A 90 year old woman hobbled around her home here eight days before she realized she had Q broken leg. She is Mrs. Eunice Taylor and today she is in the Maiden hospital. The leg has been set and she is described as resting comfortably. Neighhors dis covered Mrs, Taylor's condition. The aged woman lived alone.