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has suddenly awakened to the fact
that her eight children, whose ages
range from l to IL. have no legal
father. Living in good faith with the
man whom she thought she had mar
ried in 1914, this conscientious woman
discovers that the father of her chill
dren has a wife living from whom he
has never been legally separa ted. Pro-
cedure for the annument of the false
marriage has been instituted. Such
annulment will legitimatize the chill
dren.
One child is crippled, but, thanks to
the interest of the orthopedc commit
tee of the kiwanis Club, is receiving
special treatment, has steadily inn
proved and has learned to walk. The
mothers relatives are contributing as
they are able, but $25 week, or 300
for years planning is needed to keep
this home together.
Amount asked for. 81 10000
Plate Printers Local, No. O.. 500
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Communion Rite Tomorrow.

The last communion of this year will
be celebrated tomorrow at $50 pm.
in the Mckinley Memorial Baptist
Church Fourth and L streets. Rev.
DR.. S. Geriah Lamkins, the pastor,
will preach at II am. and at pm.
Sunday school is at $50 am, B. Y. p.
u. at $50 pm. and union prayer meet
ing Tuesday at pm.
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IL you will send me copy thereof, as
| wish to make contribution for
some of the deserving cases"
81 Children In List.
A newspaper man. upon reading
this years list selected as the mos;
appealing one, that of the colored
father in Opportunity No. Z, who IL
working himself TO death to keep his
little brood of motherless children to-
cether. The man is obliged TO rest
all day Sunday in order to lap ur
enough reserve strength to do his
work the rest of the week.
1t is difficult. however. SO say the
Associated Charities workers, to
select one family as more deserving
than another for all face the same
serious problem of absolute depend
ence. If, however. the need is
proportion 10 the number of childre,
in these families. and there are 81
children in all then No. 49, where
there are s children. and No >, where
there are Z. and No. 3. where there
are including new baby are III,
ones requiring the largest sums for
their maintenance.
The total amount acknowledged to
day is Sl.660.90. leaving a balance of
Sl3.!l9.10 required 10 complete the
entire fund of Si5.0SO.
Contributions may be sent to thu
Associated Charities. John 4. Larner
treasurer. 1022 Eleventh street. or tt
the office Of The Star.
Here are the cases for which helm
is so urgently needed:
OPPORTUNITY No. /.
Amount asked for. Sq26 M
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Nice. r. -. 93s.00
Closed.
OPPORTUNITY No. 2.
Seven children are a heavy response.
oillty for a woman married to a man
who has repeatedly sidestepped his
obligations to his family. After stand.
ing by her husband through MANY
hardships and for many years the
mother has now decided that her first
duty is TO her children The oldest
OF these Is hoy Il and the Youngest is
The former has permit to work
out of school hours. but he earns
hardly more than enough to clothe
himseH. He is attending the Voca.
tlonal School. where he is taking
course which will lead to an an.
premiership at profitable trade, IL All
goes well. But this is in the future.
Meantime. one of the other six chill.
dren presents serious health prob
lem and requires special diet and care
IhirtY dollars week is the least that
WIN properly support this family of
eight and give them nourish,ng food
ana other necessities, or $1.560 for
the next II months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-17
DEDICATION PLANNED.
Metropolitan Church Will Hold
Services in January.

The Metropolitan A. NJ f. Church
is undergoing extensive repairs. The
congregation Is worshiping in the
basement. The rededication of the
church will he held in January.
The minister. DR.. William Fl. Thorn
as. will preach Sunday morning on
Getting the Heart Ready for Christ
mas"
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Rev. E. Hez Sven Will Preach.

How a Washington Woman Got
Free Treatment From a Dentist" is
the title of a story to be related to-
morrow night, 8 o'clock, by Rev. +.
Hez Sven, pastor Centennial Baptist
Church The II o'clock morning SER
mon subject is "Servitorship.
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Trade Is Pastors Theme.

THE Financial Depression Sweeping
the Country-What Caused IT," is
the subject of the lecture to be given
by DR.. 3. G. Wilkinson, dean of the
ology, Washington Missionary College,
tomorrow night at s o'clock in the
Arcadia Auditorium, Fourteenth street,
at Park road.
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Brethren Church Topics.

Rev. Homer A. Kent, pastor of the
First Brethren Church, Twelfth and
e streets southeast. will preach at
II o'clock tomorrow on the subject
When Jesus Came" At 7:45 pm, the
subject will be Elisha
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-17
prophetic Certainties" Is Topic.

Rev. Henry J. Smith, pastor of
Petworth BAPTIST Church, announces
the following subjects tomorrow morn
ing: prophetic Certainties," and at
pm, Gods Aspiration for Man"
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Detailed to Baltimore.

Col. Arthur s. Conklin. Coast Ar
tillery Corps, at Fort Monroe, Va,
has been detailed to the General Staff
Corps and assigned to duty at head
quarters. Sd Corps Area, Baltimore.
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CLASS TO HEAR ADDRESS.
w. U. Varney Will Speak at West

At West Washington Baptist
Church, W. u. Varney will speak to
the Berean Bible class tomorrow at
10 o'clock
Rev. C. B. Austin will preach at /
am. on 1.-THE Supreme Business of
the Church." and at 9 pm, "A Week
With Dr. Luke"
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Still needed. ...............s1,415.1o
OPPORTUNITY No. 3.

OFTORI UNITY NO. ).
The approach of Christmas finds
the father of this family i'm the hos
pital. He has already endured months
Of illness. Now il is impossible to
say whether the future will bring
partial recovery or release. AS long
as he was able to work the man
took excellent care of his wife and
children. When he broke down his
employer held his job open for him
and his fellow employees contributed
as long as they were able There
are six children, including an infant
IN arms. just as the oldest left
school and was ready to go to work
he met with a serious accident. He
is only now recovering from pneu-
monia. Notwithstanding family mis-.
fortunes, the mother. splendid man.
ager, maintains her optimism in spite
of discouragement. Thirty dollars a
week is the minimum budget which
VIII maintain the health and well
being of this household. This is
$l.56O for the year.
Amount asked for. 81 $50, 90
Plate Printers Local, No. g.. 800
Still needed $50. 90
OPPORTUNITY No. 4.
I'D rather earn IL myself" she
says, when offered outside assistance,
And this mother. with five children to
care for. ranging in age from months
to years, could easily make a living
for her family il she were free to do
so. For she is a trained professional
worker. But what. meantime, would
become of her babies, who demand her
best care and training?
Her husband. in a reckless moment,
committed a serious offefse. for which
he is now paying the penalty. But
his wife still has implicit faith in him
and is trying to keep the home to.
gether until he returns, a chastened
and better man. The superintendent
of the institution where the man is
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Still needed. $1,035.00
OPPORTUNITY No. 10.
Is No. IS always an unlucky one?
May we hope that in this case it will
prove a fortunate designation for a
most unfortunate colored mother. who
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now learning a trade says the man is
going to make good. Meantime. 81
a week is needed over and above what
the church and friends can contribute,
or $I.144 for the coming year.
Amount asked for. ,14400
Plate Printers Local, No. O.. 500
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11
YEAR Sees MANY
IMPROVEMENTS
in AIR CRAFT

BALTIMORE l0-Airplanes have
been made safer, cheaper and easier
to control at low speeds than was
possible at the beginning of the year.
Coincident with these advances in
the scientific phases of aviation, out
lined by DR.. Joseph S. AmeS, provost
Of Johns Hopkins university and
chairman of the national advisory
committee for aeronautics, has come
distinctly beneficial surge OF public
confidence in the art of flying.
That is a development of the last
year which DR.. ArneS views as most
interesting. The public has been per-
suaded by the achievements Of avia-
ton to recognize it's commercial pos
sibilities. Today the United States
has more privately owned airplanes
than any other nation. They are no
longer viewed as mere vehicles Of
hazardous, expensive sport, but as
Valuable means of quick trensporta-
tion for business and professional men
and of swift delivery for needed arti-
cleS.
In the scientific field DR.. Ames
finds four distinct advances which
have grown out of the patient work
of research. 1t has been made pos
sible to increase the strength of air.
plane structures, the problem of corr
troll at low speed has been "90 per
cent solved" more reliable motors
have been evolved, and one of the
major questions of balance has been
answered with a Change in the shape
of wings.
The engineer has been ready to
make a sound airplane structure If
he could find out just where the
greatest stresses would be encoun-
tered during flight. The scientists
Job was to tell him how the loads
were distributed in the form of air
pressure at different points, by conf
pleting that task this year, he has
made it possible for the manufacture
to work more efficiently, at a lower
cost, and produce planes which are
rafer. One rarely hears, now, of a
plane breaking apart in the air and,
DR.. Anes observes, "there is no longer
any reason for such accidents
Control of planes ut low speed,
difficulty encountered most Ere
quently when they are taking off or
alighting, has been a battling prob
lem for many years, but within the
last month or two several schemes
have been tried out which have
proved more or less effective. DR..
Ames regards the ETandley Page auto
matte slot, invented in England, as
the best thus far developed At
tached to the forward edges of the
wings, this device opens automatic
ally when the speed of the plane
drops to the danger point and pro-
vides the air pressure needed for ma
neuvering.
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11

WASHINGTON Dec. 10 R.- The
wide field of peace time activities open
to modern day navy was graphically
described today in the annual report
of Secretary Wilbur, who told of ocean
searches for lost aviators; the navy'S
part in Mississippi flood rescue work
the operations of American ships ir
Chinese and Nicaraguan waters and OF
the work of marines and bluejackets
ashore on foreign soil.
With all of these duties to be per-
formed, Mr. Wilbur said the navy had
carried on with the personnel so re-
duced that one ship could not be placed
in active service until another was put
into drydock. This process had gonS
on until it was seriously affecting the
efficiency of the operations of the fleet
The operating plan of Seagoing forces
in 1927 was based on an enlisted
strength of $4,000 men but only 82,93l
men were available because of the linli-
tation fixed by congressional appro-
priation.
Legislation proposing an increased
attendance at the naval academy ano
higher appropriations for the enlisted
personnel, was recommended to relieve
the shortage of officers and men now
keenly felt throughout the service.
The failure of the Geneva confer
ence, the report said, requires a build
ing program to meet our legitimate
requirements for national defense ano
to maintain the 5-5-3 ratio in cruisers
and aircraft carrier. Replacement ton
-1o
Except for the completion of major
alterations in the battleShips New
York, Texas and Wyoming, the mate
rial condition of vessels of the fleet
was maintained as during the previous
year, the report said. The nloderniza-
ton of the Oklahoma and Nevada
authorized by congress had been de-
layed awaiting the appropriation ol
necessary funds. Five more battleshipS
of the Oklahoma class should be mod
ernized making with the Oklahoma
and Nevada, seven in all to be sc
treated, the report said
The Asiatic fleet and the special
service squadron bore the brIlnt of the
years activities. The situation il
China called for extensive additions tx
the fleet and unusual activity in tht
protection OF American lives and prop
erty in areas affected by the Chinese
disturbances.
"The protection of American citizens
in China" it was declared, "has beer
most difficult and has required tht
greatest amount of tact, patience anc
calm judgment in the face of tremen-
| dollS prOyocatiOn and insult bv VaTioil.
local authorities, as we'll as actual as
sault and attack by mobs of frenziec
zealots."
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11
AIRWAY BEACON
OF RED IS AID
TO NIGHT FLIERS

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.-(R-A new
airplane beacon that points a NOV
ing finger of red light has been de-
veloped in the research laboratory OF
the General Electric company.
Since red light waves are longer
than white, engineers hope the bea-
con will be effective in penetrating
fog-greateSt hazard of night flying
Although experiments on the beacon's
visibility in clear and heavy weather
have not been completed, preliminary
tests at short distances have shown
that the beam will pierce mist.
Operated by neon gas rendered in
candescent in "a quartz tube by a
llow-voltage electric current, the
$4,000 COO -candIepoWer lamp is in
some respects similar to the neon
lights now used in advertising signs
Up to the present, however, this ele-
mental gas has been made luminous
only by the application of high volt
age. The new light can be operated
by 125 volts, thus removing the need
for transformers on an airfield.
Perhaps the chief value of the
beacon will be it's color" said G. c.
Found, research engineer inStru-
mental in developing the new aid to
aviation. THE beam will offer a
sharp contrast to other lights and
will be a guide no flier can mistake.
Thus a red light, now the sign OF
danger to other transportation agen-
cies, may become the symbol of safety
to the airman.
"Until we have finished our tests
we can make no predictions as to
the range of the lamp. We do know,
however, that a beam of half its
power can be seen IS miles on a fair
night"
Seeking to eliminate high voltage
in a lamp of this type, Mr.. Found
and his associates discovered that the
hot cathode in a vacuum tube sup
piled sufficient eIectron emission to
Illuminate the gas. With the low volt
age, however, it was necessary to use
greater voltage, with the result that
the neon was heated to 1000 degrees
Fahrenheit, or beyond the melting
point of glass. 1t was therefore i'm
possible to use a glass tube as a con-
tainer for the gas, and SO quartz,
which fuses at much higher tenn
perature, was substituted.
The quartz, fashioned into thin
spiral for the sake of greater con-
centration of light on the reflector,
is mounted in a 244-inch revolving
searchlight. When tilted at an angle
of five degrees the powerful beam
widenS 0OO feet for every mile If
penetrates beyond the lens.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11
Stone Age Method Is
Tried in Experiment
In Modern Mine Test

* WASHINGTON GA modern
y refinement of Stone Age
!. method of fashioning rock has
y come into use in the United
+ States this year as the result of
y an experiment conducted under
= the supervision of the bureau of
y mines.
* The device, known as a wire
y saw, proved its utility in Penn
= Sylvania slate quarries by cutting
i. large masses of the rock without
y the necessity of drilling, blasting
* and cutting, which by old meth
= ods have resulted in considerable
y waste.
= DR.. Oliver BoWles, one of the
y bureaus experts, arranged for the
s. experiments in cooperation with
=. quarrymen after government en-
* gineers had studied operation of
* the wire saw in Belgium. The
* saw is merely a long steel cable,
.*' drawn at high speed across rock
y surface and fed continuously with
* wet sand. The sand acts as an
* abrasive and enables the cable to
* sink into the rock at rate of
:s about two inches an hour. Oper-
* alton cost, the bureau asserts, is
* half that of methods now gener-
y ally in use, the speed of cutting
* is much greater, and the waste of
F material is much less.
r. Notwithstanding the thorough
y ly modern aspects of the ma
:* chine, the bureau engineers find
* its efficiency depending upon the
T same phenomenon which pre-his-
+ toric man utilized to make his !
y arrow heads and tools of stone
4 the effect of abrasion or grind
Y ing.
y
= =. * s. * s. * * * * a * * 81
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11
Lens TO GIVE
MOVIE NATURAL
b COLOR IS MADE

PTTTBURGH ga lens attach
ment as sensitive to color as the
human eye may transform motion
pictures from the familiar black and
white projections to screen records
that are true to life in every detail
of natural hue
The device is the invention OF
Harold N. Cox. When it has been
placed on any camera the pictures
are taken in the ordinary manner
developed and printed in the usual
way without artificial coloring, and
prospected by using a similar attach
ment on any protector.
The colors are said to be so &C
curate that the pictures have a stere-
oscopic effect, due to the fact that
proportions are more, readily con-
ceived because of the delicate varia-
ton of tints.
Mr.. Cox explains that his lens does
not limit the number of colors that
can be taken and reproduced. Pres
ent two-color methods, he points out
embrace only half the color circle
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11
NAVY TAKES PART In SEARCH
FOR LOST AVIATORS AS PART
!. OF PEACE time ACTIVITIES

"The principal clash occurred at
Marking on March "a. There can be
mo doubt that this attack on foreign>
ers, including Americans, was prenedi-
tated, carefully planned well organized
and efficiently executed by organized
troops" Secretary Wilbur said. "Nor
can there be any doubt that the
prompt and energetic action of naval
forces of America and Great Britain
and later firm stand demanding the
safe evacuation of foreigners in the
city prevented possible wholesale
massacre"
The special service squadron, the
duties of which include the protection
of American interests in Central Amer
lea, operated on such large scale as
to require various units of the battle
fleet to assist in work in Nicaragua.
Facilities of the naval air station, at
Pensacola, Fla, were made available
to the Red Cross for relief and rescue
work in the Mississippi flood area. AS
many as 80 planes were in constant
use for months and every demand for
Seaplanes was met. Patrols flew over
the stricken area, aiding in the rescue
of thousands Of persons.
A total of 81 vessels from the battle
fleet took part in the search for miss
ing Dole flight planes. The total area
searc h e d was approximately $4,000
miles, some of which was covered sew
eraI times. The total amount of fuel
Oil and gasoline expended in the
search was about 1885 05O gallons. The
excess cost of this fuel was approx
mately $77,142.29.
The continued progress in the design
and performance of aircraft during the
year, the report said, was particularly
gratifying to the department.
On July l, 1926, there were on hand
Of modern types 351 planes; during
the fiscal year 1T planes were added,
bringing the total to 1863 During the
year ending June so, 1928, there will
be delivered to the navy a total of
1876 planes, giving the department a
total Oh hand at the end of the COM
ing year, of 718 planes, after allowing
for Wastage.
The health and morale of the Off
GERS and enlisted men has been main
tanned at a high standard, Secretary
Wilbur said, and the entire department
has funcSloned smoothly and eff
GENTLY
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11
SCIENCE GUSTS
DISEASE FROM
RIVER VALLEY
By COLEMAN B. JONES

(ASSOciated Press Science Ed1tOr)
WASHINGTON QR-The value Of
those finishing touches which the
scientist persists in long after a spe-
cific task seems to have been COM
pleted has been strikingly demon
strated in the pellagra situation this
year in the Mississippi valley.
While the number Of cases has in
creased since the flood, the situation
has not become alarming and United
States public health officials are graf
flied that the disease has been kept
so firmly under control at a surpris-
ingly low cost in money and human
suffering.
A few years ago such an upheayal
in the living habits of half q million
persons would have been followed by
a rapid spread of this extremely dis
abling malady. Even more recently,
before DR.. Joseph Goldberger of the
public health service had completed
his experiments, the cost of prevent
ing pellagra epidemic would have
cost about 81 a day for each person
Continued on Page Egh0
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11

center. The building is in Whitish gray
with an orange border at the founda-
ton and the window and door trim
mingS being olive brown. The interior
of the rooms is done in rose and white
BuIlet-PrOOf Rooms
The structure is of adobe and the
walls are as much as four feet in thick
ness at places, thereby offering heat
resistant in the period of summer when
mercury at times climbs high in the
tube. It is not that in future they
may be converted into forts, although
in that connection there is an inter-
esting old wall card in one of the
pioneer hotels which harkS back to
the days when things were filled with
excitement because of flying missiles
and war ragged in the land. The card
which hung on the wall until recently
at least perchance is there still, read
''Bullet-Proof Rooms-ONE DOLLAR. y
And judged by the story of the natives
the rate was low enough
Standing at the front of the club
house, there may be had a most in
spring view of the countryside. The
writer stood on the steps of the club
just as the sun had slipped down on
the west side of the mountain leaving
it's golden glow high in the sky behind
it. The entire western portion of the
landscape was fringed with a reddish
and gold tint which faded out as it
approached the zenith into the usual
empyrean color of the late afternoon.
Toward the east, down at the edge OF
! l. r,&1 rtnI In0yN
blended between the Alice and indigo
blue Just as the more striking colors
in the west had done, this shaded away
toward the zenith but on the eastern
side it melloWed down to rich and
strikingly beautiful opalescent hue, fl
nalIy fading out into the usual over
head sky color at evenings.
Mountains AS the Side
With this wonderful sky as the
canopy the mountains furnished a
wonderful sidewall to hang it upon
To the north there was a pillar at the
northwest corner that might have been
great sand dune coming to a sharp
cone point Thence easterly the wall
was carried by a bronze-coated line,
here and there being q high point in
dicated by a jagged peak from which
toward the valley, ran folds and
creases which afforded different shades
and colors in the gathering twilight
At the east end of the line stood q
| flat-topped peak and from it turned
across the east end of the valley an
other low range To the west, the
range which had furnished the sun his
final curtain behind which he could
drop and leave the earth in the shad-
ow, the ridge is more broken and
rugged and as the gold faded out and
the blue of night came on, this Jagged
edge enhanced the beauty of the pic
ture. Naco and the Foreign club en-
| joy beautiful setting
Around the town of Naco there are
many types of the adobe house rang
ing all the way from mere huts tc
two-story affairs. Mercantile bust
nesses of various sorts are conducted
in some of them while many are used
for living quarters of the Mexican fam
| lilies. The little town has schoo
buildings of considerable proportions
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