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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
FINGERPRINTS SHOWN.
c. C. Bennett Speaks to Mems Club
of st, Marks Church.

Finger prints of President Harding.
Chief Justice Taft. and more than 100
other subjects were shown to men,
bers and guests at a meeting of the
st. Marks Church Mems Club Thurs
day night by C.. c. Bennett, clerk in
the Identification Bureau of the Way
Department.
Bennett used lantern slides to show
the methods of identification used by
the department, and accompanied the
pictures with short talk. He said
the Federal F'ingerprint Association,
with the permission of Chief Justice
Taft, used Mr.. Taft's fingerprint as
the emblem of the society on its
stationery.
ID. w. Gall, president of the Mems
Club announced that the next meet
ing will be February 10. and that the
annual turkey dinner will be served.
The ladies of the church will assist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
BY the Associated Press.

NASHUA. Iowa, January IL up --
Cupid has cleared the Little Brown
Church In the Vale of n 62.year-old
debt.
Trustees of the little chapel famous
In song and as nationally known
matrimonial shrine, recently paid off
a note given In 1864, when the church
was founded. from the receipts OF last
year. A balance Of more than $1,000
remains. T."
During 1925 429 couples were mar
ried In the Little Brown Church. This
total exceeded by 141 the number of
wedding ceremonies here during 1925.
A fee OF S. is required of all we'd.
ding parties and this with the sale of
souvenirs brought last years receipts
to $3,3S7.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
Church Society Elects.
Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HORSEHEAD. Nd, January To-
The Womans Home Missionary So
ciety of Emmanuel NJ. E. Church
South, has elected these officers:
President, DIR. Isabel Haslup Lamb;
treasurer. Mrs. Nelson Perrie; record
ing secretary, Miss Katie Richards;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Alvin
Richards; social service president,
Mrs Ward Davis; publicity superin-
tendent, Mrs. E. w. Baden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
HEADS MEDICAL SOCIETY.
DIR. Sansbury of Forestville, Prince
Georges County, President.

Special Dispatch to The star.
FAYETTEVILLE, Nd, January 49,
At a meeting OF the Prince Georges
County Medical Society held in the
Municipal Building here DR.. John Il.
Sansbury of Forestyille was elected
president to succeed Dr., H. NJ Nc
Donnell of College Park. Other on
GERS chosen We're: DR.. A. o. Etienne.
vice president: DIR. Mcdonald. dele.
gate to the state society: Or, w. Allen
Griffith, alternate to the State society
and secretary; Drs. r. A. Bennett. III.
T. Willis and w. II. Gibbons, eensors.
The society 10 planning an active
year. during which 1t hopes to bring
physicians of the county into closer
contact. standardize charges and &C.
complish other work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
Recalled to Duty in U. S.

Capts. Paul G.. Capp and Frank T.
Chamberlin, Medical Corps, both on
duty in the Panama Canal Depart
ment, have been recalled to the United
States, Capt. Capp for duty at Fort
Eustis Va. and Capt. Chamberlin for
duty at Fort Humphrey, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
COLD AT CUMBERLAND.
Wind Ushers in Mercury Drop Of
81 Degrees in 12 Hours.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Md, January 10
In the last IL hours there has been a
drop Of 81 degrees, accompanied by a
high wind, which has driven people
from the streets. The drop was to 10
above at Altanont.
The mountains, east and west, are
ice-covered and attaches Of the State
Road Commission report motoring
hazardous, even with the use of
chains. Beyond Frostburg the roads
are In bad shape on account OF ice.
Trains arriving from the West are
snowcovered and the windows are
coated with ice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
Stafford's Poems Read.
MORE SUICIDES SHOWN.
Baltimore, However. Has Decrease
in Number of Homicides.

III Number or HomlcideS.
Special Dispatch 20 The Star.
BALTIMORE, January 15.-Suicides
increased and homicides deceased in
Baltimore in 1926, while there were
$50 more deaths and 1888 fewer
births than in 1925, according to the
provisional report of the health de-
partment.
Deaths from suicides in 1926 num-
bered H. in 1925. SO; holnicides in
1926. 70; in 1925, 50.
Deaths from heart disease, inf1u-
enza, cancer and measles showed the
greatest increase in the order named.
The increase in cancer deaths. it was
explained, was caused principally by
the increase in the number of cancer
patients brought from other sections
of the country to Baltimore hospitals
for treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16

OF the million persons who buy. lot.
terry tickets semi-annually In Germany
about so per cent are women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16

Many people think they forgive,
whereas they merely have a bad
memory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

| Gates that broadcast program direc-
| tors inject a little vice into their pro
grams, and thereby reduce the mo-
notony Of present day hroadcasts. He
john Wallace--has no particular OBJ
lection TO virtue He likes 1t. 1T is
an entirely praiseworthy institution,
says he. There are many who con
tend that even to enjoy ones self Is 10
sin. And to sin is TO indulge in vice.
Would we not all, then, welcome with
open arms the interspersjon Of some
mildly VisciouS material into our eve
ming broadCasts?
'Vice always shows itself to best
advantage when. for purposes of dra
matte contrast, it shines out resplen-
IDENTIFY from the midst Of accompany
ing viceS-eVen if they be only petty
ones" says Mr. Wallace. so. our
thesis is: Resolved, that radio acquire
few vices. Radio, as we find it at
present. is absolutely, utterly, and
completely devoid of vice. It's goody
GOODNESS is positively obnoxious.
The goody-goody is always obnoxious.
For the very virtue of which he boasts
is a sterile thing, a negation. In the
same manner. radios fragrant virtue
Is a negative quality. And since its
vice Is Il completely absent quality it
LoitpNS lIldl Gdtlc mas no ppSitlNt Iudi"
tiles at all, no tendency either toward
good or toward evil. In other words
it has attained that reprehensible and
muChly-to be-aVoided state of complete
innocuousness.
The individual whose lot it is to
make written comment on any current
event rejoices when he encounters a
scandal in his particular field of OBJ
SerVatiOn. The existence of some
thing vicious gives him something
provocative to write about. He may
Jump in right merrily and fay it. or
defend it, according to his lights. The
writer on politics has an occasional
Teapot Dome scandal over which he
may wax worth and wordy. The
drama critic now and again is con.
1fonted by an affronting play con.
Corning which he may spill many
words, all Of which will be gobbled UP
by his readers. The commentator on
society has his occasional Countess
Cathcart to provide material for sen
satIonal writing. The sports editor
discovers that some team has been
bought off in advance. All this, de
plorable as ii is, adds zest to the DAVIS
work. No possibility of the occurrence
OF the unexpected faces your poor
radlo reviewer Year in, year out.
radio pursues the even and spotIess
tenor of its ways"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
Loop Aerial Benefits.

Orhand, it would not seem logical
that better reception should be had
with a loop than with a splendid
outside antenna, high above the house
ana htted with all the latest in in
suiators and leadin equipment. But
loops have one decided advantage
ana that Is their tendency to min
ilniZe static.
1t has been noted, of course, that
inside aertals pick less static than
the outside variety, but it also has
been noted. and with justifia BILE
regret, that volume and distance are
cut down in like proportion. The in
side aerial merely applies the
simplest remedy to static that is.
hitration. Less is taken out of the
air and consequently less static, but
also, naturally. less of that desirable
wave energy which the broadcasters
are sending is brought in.
With the loop 1t is different. Here
specific directions are selected auto
matlcally cutting out what comes
from other points of the compass
The loop attacks static on the
theory that it is nothing but stray
energy from directions other than
that from which the broadcast is
coming. Signal strength, of course.
is weakened by placing the loop in
doors, but it is customary with sets
using loops to amplify to higher
degree in the set itself. This COM
pensates for the sacrifice of wave
intercepting efficiency.
The loop cuts out interference
from other points of the compass
and gives the broadcast energy a
chance to come through with less
disturbance. Possibly some day it
will be discovered that there is a
way to combine the outside and in
side aerials in such a way as to
retain volume. at the same time re-
tanning the selective feature of the
loop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
Orchestra Numbers
Are Key TO Station
Chosen in Contest

The sixth station selected for
Identification for the ninth week
of The Stars radio contest,
broadcast last night about $40
o'clock, broadcast Just One
You" and she Looked Like
Helen Brown" played by an
orchestra.
The seventh aud final station
for the week win be picked up
tonight between 1:30 and 8
o'clock. The contest winner will
be announced Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
WIRELESS TO COMPETE
WITH AUSTRALIAN CABLE

The new beam wireless transmitters
being erected In Australia by the
Marconi Company for the Amalgamat-
ed Wireless viii compete with ths
cable service and probably the rates
TO England will lie lower than the
present cable rates. according TO adj
vices from Trade Commissioner
Rabbit at Sidney.
The main offices Of the beam system
in Victoria VIII be in Melbourne, but
the trapsmitter viii be at Ballan.
about fifty miles distant and the re-
ceiver will be located in RoCkbank.
fifteen miles from Melbourne. All
messages from the Commonwealth will
be sent to Melbourne via wire and
wireless circuits for transmission 10
London directly.
Transmission will be rapid. 1t is
said. approximating 100 words
minute The beam circuit to London
win be available for kilograms to and
from the United Kingdom and all
Europe, while the circuit to Canada
will take care of the United States
and South American countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
Will Gives Estate to Children.

BY terms of the will of Mrs. Edith
Anderson. who died February %, her
interest in the commission business
of W. s. Anderson, 901 B street, Is
left to her son, Edward f. Anderson
The property at AGA + street south
west is given to her daughters, Min
ME f. Larcombe and Emma Smoot
who are also to have the household
and personal effects. House No. 621
r street southwest is devised to Mrs
Larcombe and premises 629 and 6291a
r street southwest to the three chill
dren. Benjamin RI. Parker and Eva
j. Turner, the executors, are to sci
houses 1921 and 122112 c street north
east, and after paying the son S2,6OC
are to distribute the remaining pro
ceeds among the three children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
Hawaiian Guitar Aided.

In the same class is the Hawaiian
guitar, with its plaintive, appealing
tones produced by sliding steel bar
along the strings with the left hand
while they are being strummed with
the right. 1t was responsible for the
great vogue for Hawaiian music in
America some or 10 years ago.
but it has required the aid of the
microphone to revive its popularity,
The accordion is another implement
which is liked by the mike, and at
the present time 1t Is being heard
both as a solo instrument and as an
adjunct to several leading dance or
chestras.
The vividness which the microphone
lends to humming has brought about
a whole family of musical tools built
on the same principle as the paper
wrapped comb with which all children
at some age amuse themselves. They
are known as kazoos, yaZoos. and by
other outlandish cognomens and they
assume wide variety OF shapes, but
essentially they are the same. When
used by persons possessing good
voices, they produce music Of unu-
sual quality in ii loud speaker.
Another large group Of tools which
succeed in convincing the microphone
hat they can originate music has
sprung from the tin whistle and the
octarina, commonly known as the
sweet potato" an instrument made
of clay and enameled black, shaped
much like the vegetable from which
st takes it's name. The members of
this family Of implements also assume
strange shapes and are known by
equally weird names, but all OF them
produce unusual and not displeasing
sounds when used in broadcasting.
Radio has been partly responsible
for great increases in the popularity
Of the harmontca, another instrument
which has become the father of a
large and varied family. Today, har-
monica bands are often heard over
he air, and when proper harmonica
arrangements are used, the effect Of
the music is distinctly pleasing.
There are others. Of course-hun-
dreds of them. probably. And hardly
a week goes by that some new instru-
nent is not offered to the National
Broadcasting Co. program depart
Tnents for testing. Still the process
goes on. New instruments are brought
to light or manufactured, and some of
them which suit microphons require
ments become famous through broad
CaStiI Z.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
Bathtub Sales Gain

The sales OF bathtuhs In the United
States has gone ahead By leaps and
bounds during the last few years, and
the total sales are now more than
100000 a year.
A few years ago the annual output
and ssales were about 500. 600. The
Installation OF some of these tubs
calls for elaborate plumbing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

tionaI Lutheran Home for the Aged.
National Training School for Boys,
National Training School for Girls,
Rupert Home, Sibley Hospital, st.
Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum, ST.
Roses Technical School, Freedmen S
Hospital
Garfield Hospital. St. Vincents
Orphan Asylum, George Washington
University Hospital, German orphan
Asylum, Gospel Mission, Hebrew
Home for the Aged, Jewish Foster
Home, District Industrial Home
School, Masonic and Eastern Star
Home. st. Johns Orphanage. SWart-
zell Methodist Home for Children
Tuberculosis Hospital. Washington
City Orphan Asylum, aid Association
for the Bind of the District, Home
for the Aged and Infrm, Industrial
Home School for Colored Children and
Gallinger Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

Greenberry b. Rose of near Clea-
ton, Ky. has lived 70 years on the
farm bought by his grandfather $50
wears ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
An Essential Need

THERE many people who by dint of hard work
money for the proverbia rainy day..
nOO many people, when they have accumulated
W little, have tendency be led into speculation and
unwise investments with view of materially increasing
the rainy day fund
143E know of no safer way of employing rainy day
~ funds than by placing them work for you in
safely secured First Trust Notes well located North
properties.
THE fact that these First Trust Notes pay 6la96
w should be interesting That they absolutely
safe is undeniable
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Street I1CREALLoks]C 4752
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

harmless laxative 1t never cramps
or overacts. Contains no narcotics
or soothing drugs.
Tell your druggist you want only
the genuine California Fig Syrup"
which has directions for babies and
children of all ages printed on bot
tie. Mother. you must say "Califor-
MIA Refuse any imitation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
BENEFIT FOR RADIO
FUND LOSES $500
$500 Needed Now to Make
Drive for Hospitals
Here Successful.

| Faced with a 5000 deficit as d re-
! suit OF it's latest attempt 10 raise
| $4,000 TO reCOnditiOn and replace dis
abled radio receiving sets in 40 hos
! pitfalls, charitable Institutions and or
! phan asylums in The District. the
! Washington Radio Hospital fund com
mittee yesterday again appealed to a
/ sympathetic public for financial aid.
The last effort Of the committee to
! raise the $4,000 through the medium
| of Il benefit show by prominent radio
| artists at the Washington Auditorium
/ was defeated by the only snow and
sleet storm of blizzard proportions OF
! the Winter, which struck Washington
February 10. Two performances had
| been scheduled, Only the matinee
show was given. The night perform
ance was called off because of the
weather
Instead Of a financial success. the
show therefore, proved to be serious
blow to the committee. Bills totaling
approximately 5000 for the rental of
the Auditorium and other incidental
expenses are waiting to be paid and
the committee funds are completely
cxha uSted.
Face Hard Struggle.
Ever since it's organization in 1928
the committee has struggled for funds
with which to keep the hospital sets
III operating condition. The public
response to it's appeal for funds never
did produce sufficient amounts to
maintain the sets from one year to
another Now seven Of the institu-
tons are entirely without the use Of
their radio equipment, and others
have been bombarding the committee
with repair lists.
The sets in the 40 institutions,
serve I 900 bed patients AT least one
third OF these "shut-inS" are being
deprived of radio entertainment as q
result Of the benefit performance to
produce the money needed to overhaul
the sets which are out of order or
require new tubes, batteries or other
accessories.
The committee operates radio station
WRITE to furnish the "shut-ins" who
are unable to read with the current
events Every day from II am. to II
noon the newspapers are read to the
inmates The entire expense CON
nected with the operation Of this
station, however, is being borne by
the Piggy Wiggly Grocery Co.
Asks Dime From Each Fan.
Leroy Mark, chairman of the com
mittee. believes that if every radio
listener in the District will contribute
only 10 cents to the fund, the commit
tee will be able to erase it's deficit
and put the hospital receiving sets
in first class operating condition and
maintain them for at least another
year Contributions should be sent
TO Herbert T. Shannon, treasurer, 208
Colorado Building.
The institutions in which the com
mite installed the sets, follow: Catho-
lie Home for Aged Ladies, Emergency
Hospital, Central Union Mission,
Georgetown University Hospital,
Children's Hospital, Columbia Hospi-
tai Edes Home, Church of the
Epiphany Home, House of Good Shep-
herd. Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat
Hospital, Providence Hospital, St
AIMS Infant Asylum. Episcopal
Home for Children, Methodist Home,
National Homeopathic Hospital, Ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
PIG SHIPMENT GROWS.
IL Increase to 90 Before Destina-
tion Is Reached.

ton Is Reached.
PITTSBURGH, March Lp).-"Pigs
is pigs" to Joe Mccullough, railroad
freight agent at Minerva, Pa.
A consignment of IL pigs numbered
II when they reached Joe. Much per.
turbed, he had his clerk, Cliff Eli
man, verify the count. The consignee
refused the shipment on the grounds
the excess pigs did not belong to him.
Joe called on officials here for help
Before they could solve the problem
Gilman reported there were 20 pigs.
Joe then took it upon himself to
change the bill Of lading to read "12
pigs plus natural increase, total 20"
and induced the consignee to accept
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

Hurry, motherl A teaspoonful OF
California Fig Syrup" now will
sweeten the stomach and thoroughly
clean the little bowels, and in a few
hours you have a welk playful child
again. Even if cross. fsNerish, bilious,
constipated or full of cold, children
love the pleasant taste OF this gentle,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

The worlds smallest school open
ed at Fort LeavenWorth, kans.. with
two students. 1t is the Chaplains'
School of the United States Army,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
Vice Needed. Writer Saws

Radio is too Internally virtuous, says
critic John Wallace in the March is
sue of a radio magazine. He advo-
New Britain herald., 1927-03-28
BRISTOL H, S. TO PLAY
GILBERT, ARIz., FIVE
Bell City Basketball Team
In National Tourney
Wednesday

Chicago. March % - Bristol High
school. representing Connecticut in
the national intcrscholastic net tour
ney that opens Tuesday morning at
the University of Chicago, drew Il
bye for first round Of the tourna-
ment. and will play its first game at
o'clock Wednesday afternoon. They
will meet Gilbert High school, OF Gil
bert. Arizona.
1t was impossible to fit either Bris-
toll or Gilbert into the first round
brackets when the drawings We're
made, and both iivcs are thus ad-
vanCcd to the second round without
the necessity OF beating any of the
other state champions entered. Bris-
toll is conceded an excellent chance
tor victory over Gilbert, which is
one OF the two teams competing
from Arizona.
Stafford High OF Stafford, defeated
Gilbert in the Arizona state tourna-
ment, but inasmuch as the victory
was by a single point. Stafford re-
fused to come to Chicago to COM
pete unless Gilbert was invited as
well. Teams from the far west have
never been overly successful with the
tourney here, and have almost in
variably fallen before Quintets that
play the eastern style of basketball.
the long passing game popular on
the west coast being effectively
blocked by the close guarding de-
Tense taught to teams on the Atlantic
Seaboard.
If Bristol downs Gilbert it will &c
INTO the third round, meeting one OF
the teams that has come through
the eliminating o. ,ae second round
New Britain herald., 1927-03-28
NO MORE SYMPATHY FOR
WOMEN LIQUOR DEALERS
Hartford Judge Thinks They Are
Being Financed BY the
Steiner Sex

Hartford, March % Up)-
Women presented here for violation
OF the liquor laws are being back
cd by the sterncr SEX and are ''ra-
pidly eXhaustng the patience of the
court" Judge Nathan a. Schatz de-
clarcd in police court today
They need expect no lcnlcncy,"
continued Judgt Schatz. las it is my
firm belief that they are set up and
financed in business by men who
believe women will receive lighter
penalties than men.
From now on the plea that they
are women will make no difference
with me. Their cases will be han
died the same as others