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Evening star., 1927-10-08
This Is Remodeling Year.

That 1927 is remodeling year can
no. he questioned. says Building Sup.
ply News. Up to date, since the be-
ginning of January. great number
of dwellings, have been transformed
from disappearing neiGhborhOod b!g s
to some of the most picturcsquely
modern domiciles.
Evening star., 1927-10-08

from 81 per cent to al per cent. due,
in part, to better industrial relations,
in part to the reduction Of seasonal
and other irregular employment. The
productivity per worker has increased
approximately q per cent during the
last nine years. not so much because
Of greater personal skill as because
Of better management and improved
industrial equipment"
Evening star., 1927-10-08

Better sanitation and better build
ing methods are making it harder for
rats to find food and shelter, and 1t
is believed that they are slowly de-
creasing in numbers in the United
States
Evening star., 1927-10-08

Only about one-fourth OF the earth
receives the amount Of rainfall best
suited to agriculture-that is, between
20 and 80 inches of rain a year.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

On August 10th 172S. vitus Ber- ing, the discoverer of Alaska, who sailed from Nizhne Kamehat- six on the Kamchatka River in that year for explorations in the un- known Eastern Sea as it was call ed by the Russians, sighted land to the southeast of Cape Chukot- ski, and named 1t Saint Lawrence in honor of the Saint of the Russ ian Orthodox Church of that day. He passed 1t without landing.
 It was not again heard of un- til 1766 when Lieutenant Synd, also on an exploring expedition. passed near 1t and 1t is possible that one of the islands charted on his distorted map of his voy- age may be intended for this is- land.
 Captain Cook in 177S saw the edsleTu epu Ol tue lSldHu anu SuP> posing 1t to be new discovery he called 1t Anderson Island after his surgeon, Dr. William Anderson. Later he called the main body as Clerke's Island still confusing it with. the western portion which he considered a separate island un- der name given by Boring. Saint Lawrence.
 Kotsebue. when on his voyage on which he discovered the sound named in his honor. was the first to land on the island. About a P. M. on July 2s, 1876. he "ob- served the top of high mountain to the NE". and the next day he landed at the southwestern part in small open bay (Kotze. bue's Voyages ?. 1ss. Vol Il He tells amusing incidents of how the natives greeted him by split. ling on their hands and rubbing
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

them over his face, and says that the native name for the island was Tschibockt, and that they knew of the country to East. Am erica, and called 1t Kililack. They offered him whale blubber, as a delicacy, which he tried to eat. but found 1t a trying ordeal for an European stomach. He records Not a single tree, not even small bush, adorns the grey rocks. only short grass sprouts up here and there between the moss. only a few stinted plants rise above the ground. and yet many flower blow there." "The arms of the is- landers which they use for the chase as well as for war, consist of bows. arrows. and lances; the two latter are furnished with broad, well-wrought iron head; these. as well as their other European utensils, we afterward learnt they received from the Tschukotskoi C"Chukchee"). They do not ap- pear ever to have seen any Euro pean, to judge by the amazement with which they beheld us."
 On the 29th he sighted the north western point, where Gambell is now situated, and some of the is- flanders came out to the ship in three baydares. (oomiaks). This cape still preserves the native
 name of the island in it's name. Cape Chibukak. from the name Tschibocki.
 The Russians visited the island
 for trade purposes during their oc- cupation of Alaska, but made no
 settlement there. After about 1846 the whaling ships regularly
 called there and traded with them
 especially exchanging intoxicanta
 for furs and ivory. About 1878
 so much rum was distributed to
 the villagers that they stayed
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
FORD DIsCONTINUEs ARTICLES
 HOSTILE TO JEWISH PEOPLE

NEW YORK; July g. QP)-The New York Am erican in a copyrighted article, says that Henry Ford ordered his magazine, the Dearborn Inde- pendent, 'To discontinue permanently all articles hostile to the Jewish people," He has also with drawn from publication the pamphlet in which such items are being distributed. He has also signed q statement expressing deep regret for any injury hurt caused by his series of articles In disclos- ing that Hearst offered him million for the Dear born Independent. Ford replied 'T won't sell it but am going to make it house organ and I'm going to stop absolutely everything could possi- ply cause complaint or hurt anybody's feelings"
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

drunk so long that they forgot to hunt for their winter meat and three villages, one on the north side, one at the east end, and one on the south side, were complete ly depopulated by starvation and pestilence that followed. Hund reds of people perished.
 In 1881 the Revenue Cutter Corwin, with Edward W. Nelson. the present chief of the Biological Survey, and John Muir. the fam ous Geologist. visited the island. Muir says it is "Planed down by heavy oversweeping ice sheet. slightly roughened here and there with low ridges and hillocks that alternate with shallow valleys" and is chiefly composed of various kinds of granite. slate. and lava. "The highest portion along the middle is diversified with groups of volcanic cones. some of which are of considerable size and clear ly post-glacial fin age. presenting well defined craters and regular slopes down to the base"
 A school was established on the island in 1894, by the Bureau of | Education, missionary of the Presbyterian Church, Mir. V. c. ! Gambell. being the teacher. MT. Gambell and his wife remained there until 1897. when they went to the States on a furlough and on returning to their post in 1898 they were shipwrecked on the Jane Cray. and drowned
 There are at present two schools on the island. one at Gambell. and one at Sevoonga. The island Is about one hundred miles long, east and west. and averages about twenty miles in width.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR CONFIRMATION

PARIS July g, QP)-Maurice Drousin's sation hin'ti at of h:ty thousand dollars The sum appears rather stuosLdous to the F,eLc: public Th. ,.a;lto, newspaper which .charact Drou- sins decision to pilot Levine the Atlantic as. Henry Farman. the verteran airman. condemnng both men. He says that he thinks that Levine might have chosen pilot from a large number of efficient men, who only too willing to go. with out taking the who had been training for his own transatlantic flight
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
LEVINE CHOOSES MAURICE DROUSIN
 TO PILOT COLUMBIA BACK TO U. s.

PARIS July 8. R)-Levine announced that Maurice Drousin, the noted long distance French nier, was selected to fly the Columbia back to Am- erica and he has accepted Levine will go as a passenger. Levine, Drousin and Chamberlain will ny to Croyden. England tomorrow. where Chamber lain will instruct Drousin concerning the plane. Drousin does speak English and Levine cannot speak French. Drousin had been planning Par is-New York flight long time He three times held the worlds long duration flight. He is thirty six years old
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
CIGARETTE CAUSES SEVEN DEATHS
 BIG APARTMENT HOUSE BLAZE

VANCOUVER, B. C., July 9. (P,-seven per- sons three of them children, burned to death when a fire gutted the upper stories of the large Royal Alexandria apartment house. late yesterday afternoon and injured dozen. David Hender- son, painter, is declared by the police to have ac cidently started the blaze. He is held charge O. manslaughter. Immediate steps will be taken revise the city ordinance relating to the ton of buildings, Mayor Taylor declared. after survey of the ruins. He said that the rapid spread of the fire appeared due to drafts through the air shafts Most of the occupants of the apartment house visitors and all of them lost their cloth ing and personal effects Many of them are being cared for other hotels at the expense of the city The police said that Henderson accident ly dropped sparks from his cigarette into of highly inhamble paint remover. Henderson said that a cigarette. dropped in some paper by a pass er-by, responsible for the blaze
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
TURKISH WOMEN CAN NOW AMAss WEALTH;
 LADY EDITOR LEADS

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 9. (Ep-The richest in Turkey is comparatively pauper, be- cause old law, jut ansnuled by the civil code prevented Turkish from acquiring great wealth by inheritance Old traditions, also previously prevented them from acquiring wealth or even pin money by their own earnings.
 According to American standards, there is wealthy woman in Turkey. but there is a rich lady to-be in the person of thirty-year-old Madame Sa- biha zecheria. She has. by four years of strenu- ous pioneer work in Turkeys hitherto barren field of magazine publishing. rapidly to the front.
 After three years of study in New York. where she was sent with husband on Scholarships giv- en by Charles R Crane, she returned Turkey in 1922 and in collaboration with her husband began publishing three magazines, of them the first children's magazine appearing in Turkey. At the time there only magazines published in Constantinople. each with circulation of only thousand Madame Zecheria launched 5000 copies of the first number of her magazine and has since raised the circulation three maga- zines to 1S3.OOO month, the total monthly sales amounting to $16.700, sum little short of col- lossa in Turkey
 Madame zecheria attributes this the knowledge of American magazine methods gain ed while she studied in the United States Popu- larized versions of inventions and scientific cries, profuse illustrations. simple Turkish instead of the usual literary language burdened with Per- sian and Arabic phraseology-these are the innova- tions which have helped to give the zecheria masa- zines unprecedented sales throughout Turkey. even in the remote peasant districts
 Madame Zecheria's road to success has been fraught with grief but undaunted she has surmount- ed them all The zecheria funds are now pins up but Madame continues her routine of editorial work. her simple mode of dress and her quiet mode of living.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
MUSIC ROCKS FILMS

HOLLYWOOD Cal. June 10. Qp-A musical is filling the motion picture studios of Southern California with discordant argumentative notes.
 One school of directors says that orches- tra each film set to inspire the actors is ab- solute necessity The other side declares that ic is useless and a nuisance likely to distract the players than to help them.
 And midst the clash and cang of the war, violin scrapers, cello jugglers, harmonious tcklers and horn tooters go right ahead making their tunes on most of the lots
 Luther Lee, Paramount director. started the row by ordering all musicians o1 his sets.
 Cecil B. De Mile agrees with Lee that music s . deterrent to film directing but agrees that it inspires the players. De Mile says that it "helps everyone but the director"
 Rudolph Berlner. former conductor of sym phony orchestras. studio musical director nat. urally sticks up for his music as an nspiratiouaI medium. Home Sweet Home" "Aloha" Forgot ten" and similar airs provoke tears, he says; the June Barcarrolle" by Tschaikowsky or the "Mnuet' by Bocherin creates smiles, and ..Promise Me- .Iu the 0loanins" and the like inspires love-making
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

PARIS, July g, QP)-Byrd and his compa nions said good-by to Paris. leaving on the train for Calleis. There formalities but large crowd cheered the avators From Calais they will motor to Dunkerk, where they will be made free visitors of the city and then to Letnnanet. ara there large banquet is planned. They expect 2, arrive in Cherbourg Tuesday in time to board the Leviathan for New York and the good old U. s. A.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

NEW YORK, July g. lP,-John D. Rockefeller reputed ruler of the destnes of Standard Compan- es. celebrated his eighty eighth birthday. He was born in the when whale oil the worlds il- illuminate. Rockefeller lived to bath tubs. tee- graph, telephones. electric lights motor cars. rad io and arpanes. become integral parts of American life
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

GENEVA. July g. lF)-"No progress has been made was the advice of Viscount saito. of Japan which he told the Associated Press. he emerged from a meeting of the executive committee of the naval conference He appeared extremely downcast
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
BYRD BIDS G00D-BY TO PARIS
AIRPLANE COLUMBIA ARRIVES AT LONDON
NORTHERN LIGHT DUE NEXT WEEK

SAN FRANCISCO, July S. UP)-The yacht, Nor thern Light. owned by John Borden of Chicago reported having located the Motorship Brewer. by means of her radio compass. They found that it in danger and had got on the beach.
 The Northern Light, with party of excursion ists, who in the Arctic on cruise around Al aska. is due to arrive in Nome next Week.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

PARIS, July 9,1P)-Byrd told the French news papermen that he plans his projected South Pole expedition "before the end of the year. The difficulties of the trip exceptional. The South Polar exploration is much dangerous than North To reach the South Pole he says he will be obliged to fly at height of four thousand feet and the wind will make flying most ardous and per- ilous. Our party of forty fifty will include ex- perts from various branches of science
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
RECEPTION RIVALING LINDBERGHS
 AWAITS FIVE AMERICAN AVIATORS

NEW YORK, July 8, LP-A reception rivaling that extended to Lindbergh awaits the five Amer- can transatlantic fers now in France Grover Whalen, Chairman of the Mayors Reception Com mittee said that definite announcement of the sailing of the fiers the only thing needed to set in action the plans for their welcome
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
MOIOKSKIP KRONER ARRIVES NOME

The Liebes Company motorship Chas. D. Brow arrived in the droadstead about 1:30 P. M. today ffom St. Lawrence Island where the vessel slightly grounded The vessel is enroue Point Barrow and way points on a trading trip.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

DECARPOINT oHIo July g. LP)-Wiam P. MacCracken, Junior Assistant Secretary of Conner for aviation. declared that five large railroads are considering supplementng their rail service with air passenger service. They have been in conference with him but nothing definite has been decided upon.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

JUNEAU, July s. tP)--Returning from a sue cessful two months hunting trip to Westward AL aska. W. Tansil, leader of the Alexander Revell, Field Museum Expedition arrived on the Motor ship Ethel
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

RAPID CITY, July g. LP,-James R. Sheffield turned in his resignation as Ambassador to Mexico to Cowlider
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
COLUMBIA ARRIVES ENGLAND

LONDON, July g LP)-The transatlantic mono plane Columbia. bearing Chamberlain. Levine and Drousin, arrived here from Paris today.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

An executive is a man who thinks the lunch hour means an hour and forty-five minutes. ..
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09

SAN FRANCISCO. July g. tlP,-John Drew, az ed seventy three noted American actor died af- ter confinement in the hospital since May 31st with arthrits and rheumatism.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
MACMILLAN DEPARTS

SYDNEY NOVA SCOTIA, July g, Lq,-Com- mander MacMillan's subArctic expedition sailed for Battle Harbor, Labrador, this morning.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-09
EARLY HISTORY OF ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND

Contributed by c. L. ANDREWS
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sUnscRlss TOR FAn NoaO w1nxLr NUoosf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
MAJORITY OF ENTRANTS
TO DEPEND UPON CREASE
Contestants i'm Distance Race Will Be Anointed With
Slippery Compound--No Spectators at Start,
and Sexes to Be Separated.

Timson. Lynn, Mass, representing
the American Legion; Hardy J. Rey-
nolds, claimant of the long -distance
championship of Ohio; Ethel Hertel,
New York Swimming Association;
Pete Meyers, Cincinnati; Pauline Jack
son. New York, and Anther Isele,
Lake Constance, Austria.
Big Prize at Stake.
\ rich reward awaits the success.
full swimmers. if any. Wrigley has
offered $4,000 to the man coming in
first and SIS 900 to the first among
the women. If a woman should be
first to land she will get $4,000 and
the men nothing.
The distance from Avalon to the
breakWater at Los Angeles Harbor is
% miles, but deviations from the
course could add many miles and awk-
ward currents make a straight course
ahead almost impossible.
Three big steamers of the Catalina
fleet, led by@rhe flagship Avalon, will
escort the swimmers and will be pre-
pared for any rescue work that may
be required
Il sincerely hope some one will let
me give him or her new year pres
ent of SIS 900" Wrigiey said IF no.
body makes the grade in the first con-
test l shall certainly arrange for an
other attempt and will keep it up
until the Catalina channel is con-
uuered'
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new YORK RANGERS
TOP HOCKEY LEAGUE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 10.-New
York's fast-skating Rangers, back at
the top of the American section in the
National Hockey League as a result of
their Al verdict over the Detroit
Cougars last night, will be called upon
to defend their position against three
foes in the next six days.
Montreal Maroons will lombard
their goal tomorrow night in the open
ing assault. Two nights later the
Gotham puckmen will face the Toron-
to st. Patricks, who last week lifted
revolving sticks from the international
section cellar to score two triumphs.
Then will come a battle on Sunday
night with the Chicago Black Hawks.
who have been hanging to the Ranger
jerseys since the start of the season.
st. Patrick players also will take a
crack at the stonewall Ottawa defense
this week. Their puck-chasing party
| is down on the card for tomorrow
night, after which the Senators, two
nights later, will invade Pittsburgh.
| The pacemakers then will have a
chance on Saturday to balance the
scales with the Boston Bruins for
their unexpected defeat on the Hub
rink last week.
| The team standing:
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Fe1U VIII Wear Suits in S1Uin1
LEGLESS SWIM MER
IN DISTANCE EVENT

BY the Associated Press.
AVALON, Santa Catalina Island.
Calf. January 10.-Charles Vimmy
of Oakland. although legless, be-
lieves he has good chance of cross
ing the turbulent passage between
this island and the California main
land. He is entered in the $4,000
Wrigley marathon channel swim
starting from the isthmus on the
island next Saturday morning.
Vimmy thinks he has a better
chance to win than many of his
competitors because he has no legs,
which, he claims, drag a swimmer
down. Just to prove his aquatic SKIN
he swan 10 miles in his opening
workout Yesterday. His time for the
distance was 6 hours and 43 minutes.
minutes.
Vimmy was born legless. J1e is 80
years old and weighs 1853 pounds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10

Representative Zihlman of Mary
land, chairman of the District COM
mittee, introduced in the House last
week a bill to provide a longer closed
season for bass in the District of Co
lumbia. AS previously stated, this bill
was sponsored by the Izaak Walton
Chapter of the Potomac Anglers AS.
ISOLATION. 1t was sent to Commits
siOner O'Malley, who in turn for
warded it to the District Commission
ers for their approval.
Following Representative Zihlman's
action in the House Senator Halves.
fathoe' of the bill passed at the last
session of Congress to prohibit the
interstate shipment. of black bass,
asked Commissioner OMalley of the
Bureau of Fisheries to draft for him
q bill prohibiting the sale of bass,
large and small mouth, in the District
for 10 years.
Senator Halves proposed bill met
with the hearty approval of Commits.
sioner O'Malley, who said he would
draw up the bill at the earliest pos
sible moment.
The past week has been an I'M
usually busy one for the Commits
sioner, as he has been in conference
every day with scientists from all sec
tions of the country. AS soon as Sen.
ator Halves gets Mr.. O'Malley's draft
he will submit it to the District Com.
missioners for their approval.
In view of the fact that Potomac
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D. c. GOLFER IS THIRD.

c. I, Putnam, a member of the
Indian Spring Golf Club, and pub
Usher of the Washington Times
Herald, tied for third place in an
1S-hele medal play handicap golf
tourney yesterday, played as g. pre-
urinary to the championship tourna-
ment of the Winter Golf League of
Interests. which started
today over the St. Augustine, Fla,
course. Putnam had card of S8-16'72.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
RY John X. EMGE.


AVALON, Catalina Island, January
16.-Two hundred pounds of axle
grease and a hundred pounds of prime
lard have been delivered here to anolnt
the bodies of the mermaids and mef-
men who will compete in the cross
channel swim from this island to the
southern California mainland next
Saturday for the $4,000 offered by
William Wrigley.
Ignoring protests by the w. C. I. u,
the Ministerial Association and other
organizations. which fear the swim is
q to be a n immodest spectacle. most of
the $50 contestants will enter the water
nude, their bodies protected and hid
den, they insist, by copiOuS plaster
ings of grease and lard Compond.
Fifteen pounds of this slippery and
dishguring concoction will be spread
from neck to heels of each person.
Grease More Modest.
Mrs. Lottie Schoemmell of New
York, who was the first to declare
she would not swim if obliged to wear
clothing of any kind. declares that a
casing of grease several inches thick
is positively more modest than a one.
piece bathing suit, and after she had
demonstrated how the grease con-
cealed what the average bathing suit
reveals, Wrigley declared himself
neutral and agreed the contestants
could dress as they pleased.
AS a concession to Mrs. Grundy.
Wrigley will not permit spectators in
thei inclosurew here the swimmers
start end has also ordered a sep
aration of male and female contest
ants at the time of entering the
water
Long Beach authorities have an
rlounced that any unclethed swimmer
landing on that part of the coast
Will be arrested. The city council
of Los Angeles. however, has ignored
petitions to order arrests. Observers
in the boats will carry cloaks in
which TO wrap nude swimmers as
they land, or if exhaustion forces
them to leave the water before the
finish.
Sixty Women on List.
OF the $50 entrants about so are
women, but probably not more than
100 will start, with about 80 women.
All parts of the country are repre-
scented in the entry list, the most
notable including j. sullivan and Mrs.
Mile Gade Corson, English Channel
veterans. "Trudy" Ederle, who is in
Los Angeles will not compete. Hav-
ing hit the bulls eye once, she won't
risk a second shot
Clara Belle Barrett of New
Rochelle, who got cold feet after
dabbling her toes in the water, and
declared she would withdraw rather
than freeze, is reconsidering and is
likely to be among the starters. Miss
Barrett, who remained many hours
in the 64-degree English Channel.
is regarded by most woman contest
ants as their most dangerous rival.
Six Eastern natators, already on
hand for the event. include Louis
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WILL PASS ON PADDOCK.

LOS ANGELES, January 10 CPp.-
The amateur status of Charles Pad
dock, champion sprinter, challenged
recently by the National Amateur
Athletic Union. will come up before
the Southern Pacific Association OF
the A. "A. U. for discussion Thurs
day evening.