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Evening star., 1927-09-17

thoroughly every second day with soft
soap and water and dress daily with
sulphur or mild mercurial ointments.
Where the heat or itching is very
great a few drops of tincture Of bella
donna may he added 10 the usual
dressing or applied with little
glycerin.
@. Did Marcus Loew, the movie
magnate, carry any life insurance
W. w.
A. He is said to have had a $1,000
nNn life insurance polio@'.
Q. What are some of the principal
Industries of the Bahama Islands,
r. A. IT.
A. Fruit culture is on the increase
and is becoming an important indus
try. Tomatoes, pineapples and oranges
are cultivated. Sponge and sisal are
the principal commodities on many OF
the islands. Oxen, sheep, horses. and
other live stock have been introduced
from Europe. They thrive we'll hut
not much attention is paid to live
stock raising.
Q. Who was the first poet laureate
of England?-A. q. W.
\. Ben Jonson, in the reign OF
! James /.
Q. How many prints are usually
made of a motion picture eature?-
j. f. d.
A. Enough prints are produced To
| provide one or more for each key
| city. Sometimes, with an especially
fine picture. the producing company
| wants to have simultaneous show
! ing''-that is. a showing of the picture
| in great number of places at once
| in which case a large number OF
| prints must Ire made. Peter Pan"
| shown during the holiday week OF
| 192i-1925. required 165 prints: but
| that was unusual. Seventy-fve prints
will, perhaps, fill the usual require
| ments.
| Q. Does the cucumber or blossom
| appear first on the cucumber plant?-
! G. W.
| A. The male blossom appears be-
| fore the cucumber is formed. The
| female blossom appears at the same
| time the cucumber is formed. The
male blossoms on the cucumber plant
| outnumber the female blossoms by
| three or four To one and appear first.
| The female blossom may he identified
| because n small cucumber is formed
| between the blossom and the plant.
| Q. Will you please give me the date
| and place of the explosion of the
| steamboat Princess. on the Mississippi
| River. about 1854 or 1S5S?-L. NJ. T.
| A. The steamboat Princess blew up
| near Baton Rouge. La, February %.
! 1859
| Hare arc had the pleasure of serr-
in0 UOu through our Washington In
| formation Bureau Can't IRE he of
some help to pOu in pour ddHv prob
lcmsP Our business is to furnish you
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,rc inrite Dou to ask as dny question
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Send UOur inQuirU to The E,'enin1
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Evening star., 1927-09-17

A heavyweight pugilist earns more
than a college professor. A college
professor finds no means Of utilizing
the services of publicity experts. A
physical combat between a representa-
tive Of religion and champion of
science would probably draw a crowd
willing to pay literally.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

The former Kaiser is quoted as be-
lieving that there will be another war.
Fortunately for the worlds peace OF
mind, it is easy to remember num-
ber of old predictions by Wilhelm
which have proved fallacious.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

Conferences with a view to abolish
ing hostilities too frequently appear
to content themselves with hope OF
understanding as to the terms on
which any future combats must be
conducted.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

Popular songs are playing an i'm
portant part in presidential sugges
ton. Mr.. Hughes has referred TO his
wears in connection with demands for
his candidacy. When the band gets
through with The Sidewalks Of New
York" it might respond to special
request for lis He Not the Wise Old
Owl?"
Evening star., 1927-09-17

poet and essayist he is an idealist and
something of a classicist. In his
Letters to a Doubter." written to his
friend Jacques Riviere, recently trans
lated into English by Henry Longan
Stuart and published in the United
States, he reveals himself as a devOut
and philosophical Catholic. Admitting
that at the close of his university life
he was a doubter, he gives his friend
the metaphysical arguments and per-
sonal reasons1which led him to q posi-
lion Of unwNyesdng faith.
Evening star., 1927-09-17
Rate by Mail-Payable i'm Advance.
Maryland and Virginia.
All Other States and Canada.
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated l'fas- l. Cxciusiy@iy cn;tF''
20 the use for republication of all news u'S
patches credited TO it or not otherwl$e cr'"!-
tied III this paner and also the local news
of special dispatches herein are Also eserycd
Evening star., 1927-09-17

After making his announcement al
Rapid City. President Coolidge re-
Trained from any indication that there
would be further demonstrations. He
did not even say, please stand Wy"
Evening star., 1927-09-17

AS composer Of high-class music
Mr.. Dawes enjoys undisputed reputa.
ton. Whether he can turn out a
rousing campaign song in his own be.
half remains to be seen.
Evening star., 1927-09-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Rallet of the DAYS.

Ballet of the Days.
The days go lightly slipping by
From January to July.
And then their pathway they pursue
Toward wintry scenes that gleam
anew.
The days are lightly stepping out.
No funeral chorus browns the shout.
Let old PHILOSOPHERS complain
The DAYS now sound a jazz refrain.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

Many successful men who boast of
humble beginnings are inclined to
draw the line at evolution.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

limitations from Mr.. Slemp convey
sense of considerable importance
concerning the question of what he
chooses.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

= reasonable objection asserts itself
An connection with the aviation phrase
"hop off" 1t sounds altogether too
easy.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

Jud Tunkins says a man who is
willing to believe everything he hears
is compelled to draw the line at
college yell.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

Geneva is not A large town. and
q there is a disposition to regard some
Of the conversations it has housed as
mere village gossip.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

Prohibition enforcement. with it's
temptations to irregular profit, calls
for a new faith in human nature.
Evening star., 1927-09-17
A Traffic Peril.

From the New York Sun
Hippopotami have become so OBJ
streperous as to interfere with travel
in East Africa. That is one traffic
peril from which, so far, we are free.
Evening star., 1927-09-17
The World Series.

From the New York Sun.
There will be no special session of
Congress, the statesmen realizing how
futile 1t would be to compete with a
world series
Evening star., 1927-09-17
Classics.

Classics.
"Do you favor the classics"
ITO some extent" answered Senator
Sorghum. Classic literature may
fade out, but classic dances are here
to stay
Evening star., 1927-09-17

1t remains for the Panama Canal
Zone to introduce the worlds greatest
right of.way problem.
Evening star., 1927-09-17
The Neighborhood Carnival.

From the Boston Herald
The county show is getting an active
understudy in the nsighborhood car.
nival. y &c. "t'.
Evening star., 1927-09-17
Nothing New.

A little. thought came on parade.
1t met with an ovation
We found it written where they made
Assyrian excavation.
Evening star., 1927-09-17
Beauty Parade.

There is wonderful display OF
hosiery on the shopping streets"
Yes" rejoined Miss Cayenne. Il
have decided that most beauty Is only
shin deep"
Evening star., 1927-09-17
COnu,Iering Grief.

The saxophone in doleful style
Breathes forth a lengthy sigh.
You either have to dance awhile
Or else sit down and cry.
Evening star., 1927-09-17
No Imagination.


"Why can't you keep your boy Josh
at home on the old place."
Josh hasn't any imagination" re-
nlied Farmer Corntossel. 1--WE sub
divided the family acres into town lots.
But Josh can't take any interest in
the site for picture house, simply
because we haven't yet been able to
put up a building and connect with
the electric lights and the film ex'
changes"
He who does much and speaks but
seldom" says Hi Ho, the sage OF
Chinatown, will be longer remem.
bered than one who speaks often and
does little"
Evening star., 1927-09-17

''Flattery." said Uncle Eben, lis de
same old play to git sumfin' foh nuf-
fn:." .,....-.....s
Evening star., 1927-09-17

The Evening Star with the sunday murn
ing edition ts delivered ny carriers within
the city at 90 cents per month: daily cain
As cents Der month >un t1N~ only. ga -
per month Orders NAV he sent hy mail or
telephone Main 5000 Collection 10 made hy
carrier at end OF Zach month
Evening star., 1927-09-17
THEODORE W. MOVES. Editor
The Evenin. Star Newspaper Company
Business Office

nth st anu Pennsylv ANA Ave.
New York Office no East AND st.
Chicago Office Tower Bull ing.
European Once IA Regent ST.. London
England
Evening star., 1927-09-17

Ism and cotempOrary of Charles Dar-
win, is the author of a recent biog-
raphy, Charles Darwin" Darwin
was born on the same day as Abra-
ham Lincoln, February II, 1SO9--a
great day for both science and politi.
cal history. Darwin's grandfather.
Erasmus Darwin. and his father.
Robert Darwin. were both successful
physicians. His mother was the
daughter of Josiah Wedswood, creator
of WedgwOod pottery. General read
ing. studying birds, shooting and put
tering in homemade laborato in.
terested the boy Darwin far more
than the classics and mathematics of
his Shrewsbury school, and of course
his father was disgusted and thought
he would never amount to ANYTHING
in life. Parents and other elderly
see genius in the erratic ways of the
younger generation. Before he was
II Charles Darwin entered Edinburgh
University. intrusted to the care of
his elder brother. Erasmus. with the
intent, on his fathers part. to make
him a country doctor. Two years
there were supposedly wasted. in col
Letting and studying marine speci-
mems, while medical subjects were
neglected. Then his father sent him
to Cambridge to prepare for the
church. Collecting and dissecting
continued; theological studies in
terested him not at all. His first big
opportunity came when Henslow. pro-
fessor of botany. gave him an invita-
tion to go on cruise with a party Of
naturalists. From this cruise grew
the Origin Of Species" for slight diff
ferenceS which he noted between
related birds on the Galapa gos Islands
started him on the years OF research
which led him to the formulation of
his theories Of the origin and develop
ment of life.
Paul Claudel had been known to
readers and lovers of French litera-
ture for many years before he became
Ambassador to the United States. As
Evening star., 1927-09-17

thoroughly every second day with soft
soap and water and dress daily with
sulphur or mild mercurial ointments.
Where the heat or itching is very
great few drops of tincture of bella
donna may he added TO the usual
dressing or applied with a little
glycerin.
Evening star., 1927-09-17

Q. Will you please give me the date
and place of the explosion of the
steamboat Princess. on the Mississippi
River. about 1854 or 1S5S?-L. NJ. T.
A. The steamboat Princess blew up
near Baton Rouge. La, February q.
1859
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

Some months ago a young news
paper woman in Honolulu announced
to the city editor that life in the Ha
waiian Islands was too soft, toe
easy, everything too balmy."
She was going some place-any
| place-to seek high adventure, she
told the editorial room as she quit her
! job on the Honolulu Advertiser. Yes
terday papers throughout the world
carried front-page stories about Mil
dred b. Mitchell. American newspaper
woman, held in Picking for investiga
| ton.
Guarded by armed Chinese, who
stand outside the door of her hotel
room in Peking, and facing question
! ing for spreading Nationalist propa
ganda, "Milly." as she is Familiarity
| known to the San Francisco and
/ Honolulu newspaper fraternity, has
/ found the excitement and adventure
/ she craved.
Arrest Followed Raid
| Her arrest followed the raid on the
Soviet embassy by Northern soldiers,
/ Wilbur Burton, American newspaper
/ n n who had been connected with va
| rious papers in Shanghai alleged to be
pro-Cantonese, was also arrested in
the raid, and is held on similar
charges.
For several months Mrs. Mitchell
has been editor of the Chung-Mei
| News Agency, organ of the Cantonese
party, which is alleged to have been
spreading Nationalist propaganda
throughout northern China.
AS the only woman and the only
American connected with the agency,
Mrs. Mitchell has been living in an
old stone compound adjoining the edi-
torial room of the agency, and so pro-
vided foreign protection for her asso-
ciates.
1.-THE police raid the agency every
few days, and I'm getting so / don't
mind having the boys drop in at all, !"
she wrote in a recent letter, which
went on to tell how the police had
threatened to take away some of her
translators and typfsts and so disrupt
the agency.
Landed With $35.
without a job or a prospect of one
and only S35 in her purse, Milly
Mitchell arrived in Shanghai about 10
months ago.
1t had been her original intention
to land on Chinese soil with $50. but
smart-looking hat for sale in the
beauty pdFlOD Ol the Steamship LeSi'
dent Taft attracted her eye just as
she was about to walk off the gang
plank and Milly paid SIS for it, leaving
a stake OF S35 with which to start ad-
venturing in China.
Business depression already was be-
ginning to be felt in China and news
papers, along with other enterprises,
were cutting down rather than adding
to their stats.
Mrs. Mitchell however, managed to
make a living by writing feature
stories on space for the Shanghai
News.
There was great rejoicing one day
in the little room of the French
boarding house where Mrs. Mitchell
lived with another newspaper woman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

on river boat bound for Peking and
unknown adventure.
Letters to friends in America have
told thrilling tales of the life in
Northern China as head of an agency
of the Southern Cause. There were
also rumors of great Nationalist
paper in Hanchow, of which the edi-
tor and most of the staff were to be
Americans.
Press dispatches to the effect that
Mrs. Mitchell had planned to leave
shortly for Hanchow to work on a
paper indicate that the Nationalist
paper, a dream of American sympa-
thizers of the Cantonese, Is being
started.
AS an notwithstanding girl and a
clever writer Milly Mitchell is one OF
the best known newspaper women in
San Francisco. She covered the IA
nous "gangster" case I'm San Fran
cisco. and her serial stories attracted
considerable attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
5th and DeIa6eId NV.

Just around the corner from
Sherman Circle. on the highest
point of PetwOrth, facing south.
They are Homes you
will be very proud to
own and very comfort
able to live in and you'll
have an asset that is well
worth while.
All 6 of the rooms are
very large; the 3 porches
are covered and as large
as rooms; tile bath with
buiIt-in tub and shower;
very best grade of hard
wood floors; immense
closets-one with mirror
door on the first floor
and big wardrobe closets
in every sleeping room;
big brick pantry - a
Home that you can be
sure has been built of
the best and by the best
workmen - truly Life
time" in its character.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
Get Indians Money
To Buy New York;
Are Now in Jail

By the Associated Press.
MONTREAL. April 7.-Charged
with raising a fund among Ca
madam Indians to buy back
the State of New York for the
red men," Orrin Kellogg, his
wife, Mrs. Laura Kellogg. and VIII
liam X. Cornelius of Wisconsin
Tuesday were held by Chief Judge
Decarie for trial at the next session
of the Court of Kings Bench in
May.
They are charged with con-
spiracy against the Indians of
various Canadian reservations,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
BY MINIFRED ALLEN.

Note--MjsS Allen, q g0uhg
American newspaper 1comdn, is an
old friend and associate Of Mrs.
Mildred n. Mitchell. n0t0 being
held BIZ the authorities in Picking.
accompanied her to China aud acds
rith her until recently. taking
part in many Of her activities and
experiences prior to her arrest
4leSterddu.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
AMERICAN WOMAN HELD IN CHINA
WENT THERE FOR ADVENTURE
San Francisco Newspaper Worker Landed
in Shanghai With $35 and No Job
10 Months Ago.

when a wire came from. William
Phrome, former editorial writer on
the San Francisco Examiner. who was
at the time in Peking, saying Job
for Milly in Picking"
Two hours later Mrs Mitchell was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
HANFT AID VICE PREXY

Former President Named by Club
at Special Meet.
Advertising Club of Indianapolis
members named Jesse E. Hanft vice
president at special meeting at
the Spink-Arms Thursday.
He is a former president of the
club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Charities Board Head Says
New Probe Is Due in
10 Days.
MAY REPORT ON JULY !
To Confine Activities to In
human Prison Treat
ment Charges.

State Investigations of the affairs of
D. C. Stephenson will surround the
State charities board probe of the
former Khan grand dragons charges
that he is treated inhumanely at In
diana State Prison.
Secretary John A. Brown an
nounced today that the new investi-
cation will start within ten days.
The board voted the secret inquiry
. at an executive session Thursday aft
ernoon, when it considered the reso-
luton of prison trustees asking that
Stephenson's charges be sifted.
jackson to Get Report
A report will be made to Governor
Jackson and the prison trustees,
Brown said. Whether they make
public the findings is up to them.
Stephenson, in a petition for a
ninety-day parole, filed with Gov
ernor Jackson, charged that he was
subject to cruel and unusual punish
ments; that he could not confer I'M
hampered with his lawyer upon his
appeal from his conviction of the
murder of Madge Oberholtzer, In
dianapolis GIRL that attempts to take
his life have been made; that prison
officials are cognizant of his plight
and concur in it, and that all his
troubles are traceable to Hiram w.
Evans, imperial wizard of the Ku-
Klux Khan.
Our investigation will be con-
fined, of course, to the charges made
against prison authorities" said
Brown. 1--WE undoubtedly will have
a complete report ready by July l..
Will Visit Prison
The charities board members will
visit Stephenson at the prison and
interview persons wherever they
deem it necessary. The board has
the power to summon witnesses.
Corroborating some details of a
copyright story printed in The Times
regarding punishment of Stephen
son in the prison, Mgr. Francis I'll.
Gavisk, charities board member, de-
SC11DGQ Inc IlGIIlOO hllOWl eAo fAS~S
ing a prisoner in 1.-THE hole"
1.-The hole is solitary confinement
CELL" Mgr. Gavisk declared. "The
prisoner who has been unruly is
placed there and required to stand
upright during working hours with
his hands manacled outside the bars.
There is a concrete floor and plank
for sleeping. He is held immovable
and erect, perhaps four or five hours
at a time. Doctors examine him at
the end of each stretch of standing. "
jackson Heads Board
Members of the board investlgat-
ing the former Khan dragons
charges includes Monsignor Gavisk,
Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht, w. H.
Eichorn, Button; the Rev. William
]. Sayers, Muncie; Mrs. E. c. Rump-
Ter, Indianapolis, and Secretary
Brown. Mrs. Florence H. Ham,
Knightstown, will not take part, as
she is leaving for Europe.
Governor Jackson is president of
the board, but left for Chicago,
Thursday, to attend the flood proven
ton conference and was not pres
ent at the meeting. Eichorn pre-
sided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
GOOGLE SPECS OUT
0ptometrist President Says
Lighter Rims in Mode.

The man or woman who wears
shell-rimmed glasses is as old
fashioned as the June bride, who
knows all about cooking.
That was the opinion of DIR. 0. I.
Crawford of Marion, Indiana Optic
metrists' Association president, in
two-day session at the SEVERN.
"Shell-rimmed, over-heavy glasses
have given way to a lighter. more
handy white-gold trimmed spectacle"
DR.. Crawford said. 1--WE have found
that the lighter glass is easier on the
eye"
Eyesight is improving chiefly be-
cause optometrists are learning more
about treatment, DR.. Crawford de-
clared. Never before, he added, has
so much time been spent in ed
ucating the public to the needs of
perfect sight.
A banquet and dance was given
Thursday night for delegates. The
convention was to adjourn Friday
afternoon. Clinical lectures were on
the program for both days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
CONSERVATISM URGED

Gilliom Says State Should BE More
Tolerant.
BU Times Special
LA PORTE, Ind, June 3.-Reas-
sertion of Indianas famous conser-
walton is the States greatest need,
Attorney General Arthur l.. Gilliom
told Chamber of Commerce meet
ing here last night.
Other State needs are more toler-
ance of others, strengthened control
of the peoples emotions and a re-
vival of real citizenship, Gilliom
asserted.
He made no reference to the liquor
controversy he is in.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Attorneys Prepare Reply to
Accusations Made by
Comedian.
CALLED POOR MOTHER
Wife Neglected Children Is
Statement in Long Com
plant Filed.

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, June S.-Attor-
neys for Lita Grey Chaplin today
were preparing her reply to the
comedians charge that she was
butterfly" wife who neglected her
husband and children for the COM
pany of unnamed young men.
Chaplin's long-delayed answer to
her suit for divorce was filed yes
terday. The comedian denied all her
charges and made some of his own.
In return, her attorney, Lyndol
Young said, she will file an answer
next week in which she will refute
his charges and insist on her fitness
to be custodian of the two Chaplin
children.
Chaplin's reply to her allegations
was that he was a loving husband
and kind father while she was an
extravagant and undignifed wife
and neglectful mother.
Charges She Drinks
In a 72-page answer he denied all
of her charges of cruelty and in
22-page cross-complaint charged
Mrs. Chaplin with associating with
at least two men, drinking liquor
to excess and planning the divorce
which both are now seeking. He
asked that her complaint be dis
missed and that he be granted a di-
vorce and the custody of their two
children. An automobile salesman,
unnamed. was specified in his COM
plant.
Alleges Much Dancing
"Mrs. Chaplin" the complaint set
out, "habitually occupied almost all
of her time dancing at hotels. cafes,
and beach resorts in and about Los
Angeles, thereby absenting herself
from her home and children to the
grievous neglect of said children:
and on numerous occasions Mrs.
Chaplin did not return to her home
until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning.
and on many of these occasions she
was accompanied by the same auto
mobile salesman"
Chaplin also referred TO "a Young
man with whom he said Mrs. Chan
lin was infatuated during a part of
their married life. The young man.
who, like the automobile salesman.
remained unnamed, was also invited
to the Chaplin home, the comedian
SAID. She persisted in seeing him
over his protest, Chaplin said.
Attorneys for Mrs. Chaplin will
make every effort to bring the case
to trial within thirty days. they an
nounced here today.
While we might ask that numer-
Gus charges in the answer be strick-
en- out, such action would only fur
ther delay the case, and we are will
ing to overlook technicalities to
bring the case to an early trial."
Lynol Young. counsel for the come
dams wife, said.