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Evening star., 1927-05-01

THE piano is indeed the logical in
- strnnaent with which to start A
child's musical education; however,
IT is otnecessarily the best instru-
nlent fofi every child to continue to
use, sinde the choice of musical in
strument for advanced development
and training depends upon the
talents OF each particular child. In
the most advanced and progressive
schools children are taught their
basic harmony and melody and
rhythm with the piano as the basic
instrument and also combining along
with hat work study in vocal pro-
duction, elemental singing and
rhythmic dancing. AS the piano sup
Plies the fingers with outlet for ex-
preston and also provides accurate
tonsl response for the ear training
the singing gives the most natural
ct al human musical talents outlet
and choral singing develops consid-
Grafton OF others and teamwork as
no ether musical training can pro
vide, The dancing gives physica
control, develops grace and lack oi
self-consciousness in presence among
other human beings-great gifts fol
the child in whatever walk of life
or profession he or she may choose
Later TO participate.
The striuged and wind instrument!
are essential for the growth of {
school orchestra which may mean Sc
much TO the community at large
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
SCIENCE WILL
FIGHT FOR FISH
Seek Means of Saving Great
Lakes Industry.

WASHINGTON, June 24.-Sci-
ence next week will pit itself against
the elements which are threatening
to deplCse the fish supply of the
Great Lakes.
Specially trained men from the
Government Bureau Of Fisheries
will go to various points on the
lakes to launch a special investi-
cation made possible by a congress
sional appropriation.
The fish scientists will seek to de-
ternine how the waning fish indus
try can be revived through legisla-
ton governing open seasons, size Of
nets, refuse dumping, etc.
Federal and State officials agree
that corrective legislation affords
the solution.
The Government investigation
follows an informal conference Of
Canadian and American fisheries
officials last spring at which the
necessity for drastic remediel legis-
lation was discussed. 1t is expected
that new fishing laws will be enact
ed by all the States bordering the
Great Lakes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24

Power Commission to delay grant
of the preliminary permit until
Congress meets A bill by Norris
providing for public development
has passed the Senate twice but
has died in the House.
Is Scenic Spot
The lofty Lodges of the Potomac
Gorge, covered with trees, and the
Great Falls constitute show spots of
the country surrounding Washing
ton. The National Park and Plan
ming Commissions program has al
ways included them as an integral
part of the development Of the cap
itals beauty.
The Maryland and Virginia plan
ming commissions are expected to
follow the National Park and Plan
ming Commissions lead in opposing
the private hydro-electric project.
The Federal Power Commission has
set July 20 as the last date to re-
ceive protests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24

The matter referred to was not
carried by the United Press.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
PLAN TO MAKE
POTOMAC GORGE.
: NATIONAL PARK
Company Fights Proposal
Wants Site for Power
:, Development.
BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING

WASHINGTON, June GA
great national park or a sixty-mile
artificial lake from which may be
generated 100000 horse power of
electrical energy?
Which shall be the fate Of Great
Falls on the Potomac River and the
river valley from Washington to
the Allegheny Mountains2
This is the issue created by the
action Of the National Park and
Planning Commission in adopting
an $11,000,000 budget recommended
ton for identifying the national
capital and it surrounding terri
tory. The budget includes pro-
vision for beginning the proposed
national park, including the Po-
tomac gorge.
The commission also sent a res
button to the Federal power COM
mission, asking that that body deny
a request for preliminary permit
to develop the site, which has been
filed by Cleveland interests.
Fight Already Started
The action followed tour of the
&egion by members Of the national
park body, which was created by
Congress to develop the beauty of
the national capital, with members
of the Maryland and Virginia COM
missions which have been created
by the Legislatures Of those States
to cooperate with the Federal
planners.
A struggle between proponents of
public development of the power
site and the hackers of private de-
velopment had started. The Cleve-
land company, the Potomac River
Corporation, has filed tentative
plans for a $60,O0o,O00 development
to take in the Upper Potomac, Shen-
andoah and other tributaries. Sen
ators Howell, Norris, La Toilette and
others have asked the Federal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
STOLEN NEWS ABOUT
FORD MODELS FALSE
Advertising Agency Robbed Of Elk.
perimental Details
BD United Press

BD United Press
NEW YORK, June 24.-N. w.
Aver & Son, advertising agents for
Ford Motor Company, have sent the
following telegram to all newspapers
in the United States and Canada:
IN. w. Aver g. Son, advertising
counsel for the Ford Motor Com
pany, advise you that theft has
taken place from their office in
Philadelphia Of certain prelin1in-
airy and experimental advertise
ments in regard to a new Ford car.
The material used therein, which in
many particulars is fictitious and
imaginative, has been issued as
authentic news by a news agency.
N. w. Aver & Son state that the
car is not complete; therefore any
alleged specifications have no war
rant Of truth. We hope no news
paper will publish these stories.
This statement is given to all news
papers in the United States and
Canada"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

appealed to by customs officials
have decided that bottles of grain
alcohol received from China were
admissible as tonic. Each bottle
Evening star., 1927-04-03
URGES MORAL EDUCATION
Eugene c. Clark Addresses Birney
Parent-Teac chers.

Declaring that character education"
was of the utmost importance in the
life of the child. Eugene G. Clark, sec
ond assistant superintendent of ele-
mentary schools, divisions 10 to 10, told
500 persons at the annual Spring
meeting of the Birney School Parent
Teacher Association Friday night at
the Birney School, Nichols avenue
southeast, that parents should give
their children more systematic oppor-
tunlty for character building in the
home. He said that cooperation be-
tween the home and the school was
necessary to do effective work in this
direction.
John G. Booth, supervising principal
of division 10. spoke on delinquency
of YOUTH and said there were too
many children in the Juvenile Courts.
The association unanimously in
dorsed John II. Wilson for membership
on the Board of Education.
Two plays were given. one by the
children in the seventh grade, the
scene laid in China; the other by the
pupils in the sixth grade, dealing with
the American Indian. Alfred Johnson.
director of music for the colored
schools, sang several solos.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
BIRD LONGEVITY TESTED.
Banding Process Is Reported as
Revealing Surprising Results.

The growing practice of bird band.
ing is revealing surprising instances
Of the longevity Of birds. The United
States Biological Survey has recently
received return record" Of a pin.
tail duck treated for duck sickness in
Utah by DR.. Alexander Wetmore of
the Smithsonian Institution back i'm
September, 1914. The duck was cured
and released by DR.. Wetmore. after
having affixed 10 1t Biological Survey
band No. $40. In October, 1926. the
bird was shot by H. w. Seybert i'm
California, showing that the band had
been carried for over - years. Since
the duck was a fun grown bird fully
a year old when it was released il
must have been at least 10 years old
when shot
Scientists commenting ON the Incl.
dent in the ornithological journal Con
dor, consider 1t "a most remarkable
record in view of the fact that each
season it had run the gauntlet of
hunters, and also had escaped the
poisonous aikal1 areas where many
thousands Of ducks die annually from
duck sickness and other natural
enemies -
Evening star., 1927-04-03
BID LIKELY
!. ON NAVAL A|RSH|PS
Metal Craft Builder, Here for
Patents, May Seek Diri-
gibIe Contract.

Thomas B. Slate, a former Wash.
ingtonian, who is building at Glendale,
Calf, an all.metal airship employing
hitherto unused principle of con
struction. is in Washington arranging
for patents on several features of this
unusual craft, and while here plans
to submit a bid to the Navy Depart
ment on the proposals for two 5000
900 cubic feet rigid airships which will
be opened about the middle of May.
He claims that he can build the type
of ships called for by the Navy, which
will be one-third as light as the Yep
pelin type, three times as strong
carry net load of 100000 pounds and
fly 120 miles an hour at cruising
speed.
y Mr.. States ship will be propelled
through the air by means of a fan
blower located In the center of the
nose and which in turn will be power
ed by steam engine. Two of this
type under construction have been
completely wrecked by storms since
last September, but a third now is
ready to go forward. This ship will
have a capacity of 22T 900 feet of hy.
drogen gas, will be 200 feet long and
so feet in diameter He believes that
Evening star., 1927-04-03
5I2 Pages
Bound in Cloth

many daily papers have been asking
Mr. Haskin to compile into book
form the wonderfully interesting ma
terial which has passed through his
hands. Recognizing that such a
volume would not only hive high ref
erence value, but would make fasci-
mating reading as cross section of
human curiosity and general knowl-
edge. he has long had this purpose in
mind. but the task of sitting and Sc
lecting, classifying and choosing, has
been too great for earlier accomplish
ment.
A Unique Volume.
This volume is unique in that half
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people making direct queries. and the
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America wants to know. 1t is as
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in the past. record of what Is trans
piring today. and a forecast of what
may happen in the future.
Evening star., 1927-04-03

extraordinary newspaper bureau is
in reality national chamber of COM
merce, an easy contact for the citizen
with his government. More ques-
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Readers Asked for II.
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Evening star., 1927-04-03
DR.. LEWIS TO SPEAK .
AT CHARITY MEETING
Associations Forty.Sixth Anniver-
sary to Be Followed by Campaign
for 10000 Members. =

President William Mather Lewis IL
George Washington University viii be
the principal speaker at the anniver-
sary public meeting of the Associated
Charities tomorrow evening at Rausch.
er's. 1884 Connecticut avenue.
This meeting marks the forty-sixthA
anniversary of the founding OF the
Associated Charities. and just precedes
the opening of the annual Easter cam
paiGn Tuesday. This will extend until
Easter Sunday In the hope OF securing
10000 members or partners in the city.
wide relief work for which the society
stands.
The slogan Of this years campaign
will be Your money or their lives"
There will be no solicitation of funds
at the anniversary meeting.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
CHICAGO ELECTION
TROOPS DEBATED.
Governor Orders Survey
After Appeal to Have
Guard Ready.
By The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 2.~~Adjutant Gen.
Carlos Black was ordered to Chicago
from Springfield today to determine
whether it will be necessary to call
out the national guard to insure a
riotless mayoraity election here next
Tuesday.
Gov. Len Small,.in a statement re-
veaiing the order TO the adjutant
general. said:
II have instructed Adjutant Gen.
Black to- go to Chicago 10 confer
with Maj Gen Roy d. Keenhan and
Sheriff Charles E. Graydon and give
whatever situation may arise his per-
sonaI attention.
Confidence in People.
II have too much confidence in the
people of Chicago to think there win
be race riots or other serious disturb
ances. But when sheriff asks in
tervention or preparation for inter
ventioh, his request must be taken
seriously.
1--WE are going to see that the people
of Chicago can go to the polls Tues
day and safely cast their ballots"
The Governors action followed a re.
quest by Sheriff Graydon of Cook
County. that the Governor be prepared
to mobolize the National Guard on
quick notice.
Pandemonium in Streets.
Pandemonium in the city's three
cornered mayoralty contest broke to-
night. Shouting, jostling crowds
jammed downtown streets. Spasmodic
fist lighting was reported by police.
The streets about the hotel in which
Mayer William Il. Dever, Democrat,
and William Hale Thompson, Repuh-
lican, both have their headquarters,
were crowded. The third candidate Is
DIR. John Dill Robertson, running on
an independent Republican ticket.
Sheriff Graydon, who is aligned
with the Republican organization
backing Thompson's candidacy, said
he was impelled to ask Gov Small to
be ready with troops by what he
characterized as a 'Democrat-inspired
plot" This was the sending of let.
ters to 10000 negroes under the
stamped signature of Thompson. The
letters requested the recipients to
meet Thompson at his hotel headquar-
ters yesterday.
Thompson said he believed the let.
ters were for the purpose of filling
the downtown streets with large mum.
bers OF negroes wearing Thompson
badges. A fight was to he started, ac-
cording to Thompson adherents, with
the possibility of a riot resulting.
Managers of Mayor Devers cam
paign said the plot appeared to them
To be somebody's April fool joke, They
disclaimed knowledge Of it. Whether
or not soldiers are called to guard the
ballot boxes, there will be unusually
strong police protection.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
HORSES MENU REVISED.
Army Finds Mounts Need More
Food in Field Than in Garrison.

After three years Of experimenting.
the Army has found out that it's
horses require more food when on
field duty than while in garrison. and
SO on July /. when the doughhoys' ra.
ton is increased, the menu of the
stables likewise will be revised. In ad.
dition they viii get softer beds.
The grain ration for the draft
horse is to be reduced from IA pounds
10 12I2 in garrison. but will be left
undlsturbed when he takes the field
Ills hay allowance will be cut from
II pounds TO Is for garrison duty but
he win be given Is pounds when on
the march The I-3 pounds allow
ance of straw 10 bed down the draft
horse at the garrison win be increased
10 pounds but when in the field the
bare ground will be his only bed
Proportionately revised schedules
have been worked out for Army mules
and lighter horses
Evening star., 1927-04-03

it can carry 90 passengers for. q "a
hour nonstop flight and only four
gallons OF water win be necessary to
obtain the steam for that perform
ance, he claims.
After test flights Mr.. Slate plans to
fly 1t to Washington for exhibition TO
officials here. During the war Mr..
Slate invented the wind driven gem
orator for radio equipment. He said
the work was undertaken in a small
shop near the p Street Market.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
Auto Owner Sued.

Benjamin j. DekeIbaum and his
wife. Sadie. have filed suits aggregat.f
ing 100000 damages against Joseph.
HANDEL as the result of an automobile
collision November "a last, at Eighth
and F streets, in which the wife saws
she sustained serious injury The wife
fixes her damages at $25. 900 and the
for the loss of her services and tho
expenses incident to her illness At
torneys Shefferman & Aronson repre-.
sent the plaintiffs.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
U. S. PAY ROLL CUT.

The Federal pay roll in the District
Of Columbia reached its lowest total
at the end Of February in number of
employees since early 1917. On Febru.
ary 28 there were but So, ,502 employees
on the Government pay roll In Wash
finBton, net loss for the month OF
sl3. Five hundred and fifty-six addi-
tions during the month were more
than balanced by 669 separations.
The largest turnover occurred in the
Treasury Department, where there
were So additions and 1875 separations.
q net loss OF 81. Other departments
showing reductions In total force were
War, 20 Post ONCE. IL. Labor, 2 Gov.
ernment Printing Office, 8; Interstate
! Commerce Commission. /: Civil Sery-
ice Commission. 4: Alien Property Gus
1odisp. !; Public Buildings and Parks,
81: General Accounting Office, S, War
Finance Corporation. T. The figures
were made public today by the Civil
4Service Commission
Evening star., 1927-04-03
EUR0PE'S FALLING BIRTH
RATE CONSOLES FRANCE
French Welcome Report of Sharp
Decline in Several Nations,
Including Germany.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 2.-The falling birth
rates of nearly all European countries
consoles the French.
Statistics aren't up to the minute,
but the 1925 figures, just complete,
show France no longer is the only
dying nation.
France, in 1925, had 1907. births
per 900 population. Sweden dropped
TO It's, and even England made a
poorer showing than France.
Blu the glorious part Of it, to the
French, is that Germany, with a rate
of 35.7 a quarter of century ago,
now boasts only 20.5.
Mature hates a vacuum" says one
commentator, "and Asia, resuming
her march, will swarm over TO fill the
void"
Even Switzerland, say the statis-
ticians. is on the downward trend in
Its birth rate.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
Here Is the Story of the
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Evening star., 1927-04-03
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Evening star., 1927-04-03

MISS FRANCES ID. PARTRIDGE,
Supreme Record Keeper, Woman's
Benefit Association, the largest fra
ternal benefit society composed ex-
ciusiveIy of women In the world. Miss
Partridge is making trip through
the South i'm the interests Of the as
sOciatiOn, and viii be the guest of
honor at the Quadrenniai Great Re.
view of Washington ID. C., which will
be held April f.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-25
MRS, KNAPP PLAYS STRONG DEFENSE
Noted Syracuse Attorney Joins
 Her Counsel

Syracuse. \. Y, Oct. 25 P,-Mrs. Florence F. <, Knapp, former sec 1 retary Of state Of New York, assist cd by at least two lawyers and sev-
 eral friends, set today for beginniuc of preparation of her answer to
 charges of misfeasance. malfeasanco and nonfeasance in connection with her administration of the 1925 state census.
 At preliminary conference with Alexander Otis, of New York. her attorney and in additional confer ences, Mrs. Knapp outlined plan 'of defense which may eventually lead her to the witness stand at the
 Moreland act investigation now un- der way in Albany. Final decisions on whether Mrs. Knapp will take the stand will be reached later in the week. MT. Otis said today after testimony so far adduced at the hearing.
 The enlistment Of additional legal assistance for Mrs. Knapp's defense was disclosed upon Mir. Otis arrival here with the announcement that MT. Cowie, an attorney of Syra- cuse, who is a relative of Mrs. Knapp" would confer with her dur ing the week. Although no further identification was given, it was pre- sumed to be Alexander H. Cowie, a only attorney of the name in this city.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-25
AT THE CAPITOL

Tonight is the last showing Of f;chard Dix with Mary Brian in their new photopIay hit Shanghai Bound" It is very fine picture and the two stars both have excel lent roles.
 Beginning tomorrow the entire program changes and brings q dou- hle feature show for three days. The main attraction will offer Constance Talmadge, the greatest comedienne on the screen in her latest picture ''Venus of Venice" Miss Tal- madge is assisted by Antonio Mor- enc in this tale of beautiful Ncnirs and it's canals. Constance Talmadsc is cast as little canal gypsy, i'm pulsive and mischievous. whose life is one of thievery among the gon- dolas Of the canal.
 The companion feature will offer Where Trails Begin.' q tale of the great northwest and featuring Johnnie Walker and Silvcrstreak k the dog actor.
 Beginning Saturday for q four day run the management announces The Rough Riders with Noah B"cry, George Bancroft, Mary Astor and q great cast.
 Wednesday night will offer the last Of the Merchants Gift Nights and valuable line of gifts will be distributed.