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Evening star., 1927-10-16
u. S. SHOWS HOW
TOBEND DABR|Ck
TWo-MilIionths of an Inch
Strain Recorded on New
Device.
Can YOU bend a brick?

SdA yOu OStlA a D4tNh.
Certainly" says DR.. L. B. Tucker
man of the Bureau of Standards. "And
you don't have to be Jack Dempsey
either. Barely press on its surface
and it will bend"
DIR. Tuckernan has devised a
mechanism by means of which any
body can see brick bend under a
slight pressure of the fingers. The
marvel is not in bending the brick.
but in the extremely fine measuring
apparatus which enables one to de-
tect the movement-an apparatus
which can measure strain of approx
imately two-millionths of an inch.
Scale Shows Pressure.
A light pressure Of the fingers, it
is shown by this apparatus, bends the
brick abOut one-hundredth-tho
of an inch. The principal feature of
the device is an autocollimeter, tele.
scope with special lens and lighting
effect. On the surface of the brick is
placed bit of steel with knife edge,
delicately balanced and held in place
with a rubber. band, or some similar
contrivance. Any strain on the sur
face Of the brick causes a slight dis
placement of this bit of metal which
is shown on a special scale, read
through the telescope device.
This device, says DIR. Tuckerman, is
a triumph of infinitely fine workman
ship by mechanics in the various Gov
ernment workshops. The knife edge
was ground in the Bureau of Stand
ards workshop to an accuracy of two
ndrcd-thousandths of an inch. En-
gravers Of the Navy photographic
Office made the infinitely fine scale
each mark on which must reflect with
absolute accuracy one hundred-thou
sandth Of an inch. A prism is used
one surface of which was polished
down so that there is no error from
absolute fatness Of more than one
millionth Of an inch. The prism was
contracted at the Navy gun factory
and has 80 degree angles which can
not vary from absolute accuracy by
more than two seconds of an arc
an error which it is practically i'm
possible TO detect.
Another phenomenon shown by the
device is the bending of a presumably
rigid bar Of steel by its own weight
BY lifting one end of the bar, a stres:
of undred-thcusandths of an incl
is shown.
These are only stunts" according
to DIR. Tuckerman. The apparatus
has practical use in detecting Sigh
strains in various materials used II
industry. which appear absolutely rigiC
until subjected to so severe a test.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
TECH GROUP ELECTS
BERGER PRESIDENT
Student Government Body Organ
izes-Stage Crew to Build
Facilities for Puppets.

The general organization, Tech s
stud government body, known in
school circles as the &c. o." elected
! to vacancies occurring by reason of
graduationS last June the following
officers: Louis Berger, president;
Howard Adcock. Katherine English
August Glasgow and Frank Daniel
semester representatives for the
eighth. seventh, third and first semes.
ters. respectively. and John Dunning.
ton and Edward Tippett to fill the va.
cancies in the quartet Of cheer lead.
ers.
The Tech stage crew, which is
headed this year by Wade Longfellow
as foreman, has begun work with
energy. This organization was be.
gun last year and did good work in
preparing settings and properties for
'Iolanthe, given by the Opera Club
and Clarence" the Dramatic Club
presentation, which won the Brown
Alumni Cup in the local play tourna.
ment.
Their first project will be a port.
able stage for puppets, which will be
a permanent addition to the school
equipment for dramatics. It is
planned, moreover, that the crew will
stage a puppet play, the manuscript
. of which was written by Mrs. Coe OF
: the faculty. The electrician for this
year is Joseph Feigley, with Harold
: Stolar as assistant. Leon Stein will
: probably act as head carpenter.
: The pals and Palettes," Art Club
: of Tech High School, met for organi.
: zation Friday a week ago. The meet.
-iing was called by the president
: Grace Bauer. and the plans of the
s1927-2S club period We're discussed.
8 Among the recommendations of the
! president was the suggestion to get
-9an early start on Halloween and
: Christmas cards, posters and pres
ents.
Howard Bayley, class of 1903, q
:, consulting and construction engineer
: who resided at Richmond, died ir
: August.
Helen Woodward, daughter Of the
: assistant principal of Mckinley High
: School, and graduate of Tech and oi
: George Washington University, Is
: now filling a teaching fellowship al
: Ames College. Iowa, where she will
@also continue her studies toward hel
: Ph.D. degree.
: Grace Moomaw. honor student al
: Tech, is now working in the Congress
sional Library. For many semesters
: Miss Moomaw was among the scho
: lastic leaders at Tech.
: Jack Wild. 1926, student at tn,
g American Institute Of Banking. wa.
: awarded the first prize Of SIS fol
: work in the commercial law class
= While he was a student Of CONNER
: cial law at Tech, he made the phe
- nomenal average Of 9s.5 per cent.
Miss Helen Roeder Of the class o
: 1928 is now Mrs. Selden Cole, havint
: married in September. Mrs. Cole Il
= living in Silver Spring. Md.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
SHRINE DEDICATED
TO WALTER REED
Restored Birthplace Is Gen.
ter of Ceremonies at
Belroi, in Virginia.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEWPORT NETS. va, October
t5.-Be!roi, in Gloucester County,
birthplace of the late Walter Reed,
restored virtually to the condition in
which it was at the time of the boy
hood Of the srort public health
leader, today was dedicated as a
national shrine before several hum
dred people who gathered to do honor
to "the father of public health work."
The exercises were under the au-
spices of the Medical Society of Vir-
ginia and the Walter Reed Memorial
Commission. through whose instru-
mentality the restoration was made.
Tributes of the highest order were
paid the c9nquerer of yellow fever
by several speakers and many nota-
bles were among the audience.
Dedicated to World.
DIR. Edward c. s. Taliaferro. chair.
man of the commission acted as mas
ter of ceremonies, explaining that the
purpose of the gathering to dedicate
to the world the birthplace of that emf
nent physician, Walter Reed. who
gave of his time and energies unstint-
ingly that mankind might be forever
freed from the scourge OF yellow fe-
YER"
DR.. Clarence Porter Jones Of New.
port News, ardent worker for the res.
toration of the story and a half
frame building in which DR.. Reed was
born, gave the history Of the Walter
Reed Memorial.
Motives for Restoration.
Outlining the motives for the resto.
ration, DIR. Jones said they were,
first, to do honor to a great mill.
tary hero. the first one who had
achieved fame for saving life; second.
to encourage research"
There is no better way to stimu.
late research than to tell the world
the story of Walter Reed" he de-
clared. 1.-THE commission is deter
mined it shall be told in every school.
room In America. 1t will kindle the
young hearts with a zeal to do some.
thing for humanity. It will bring
forth fruit a thousand fold"
Evening star., 1927-10-16
BUSINESS LEADERS
MEET IN INDIANA
United States Chamber of
Commerce Still Fighting for
Big Tax Reduction.
4 IPEfDo-Ao n
By the Associated Press.

WEST BADEN, Ind, October 49,
Potentates of American business were
assembled here today for the conven-
ton of the United States Chamber Of
Commerce, which opened with a meet
ing Of the board of directors. The
convention will continue through
Tuesday. 1t is the first time the an
nual workshop" sessions of the
chamber have been held in the
Middle West.
Foremost national problems under
discussion were agriculture, Missis-
sippi flood control, tax reduction,
Federal Reserve currency, foreign
commerce, domestic distribution, nat
ural resources, immigration, produc-
ton and transportation.
General Session Tomorrow.
Leading economists, heads of great
corporations, directors and business
minds from all sections of the coun-
try are registered. A general meet
ing will be held Monday morning.
when Lewis E. Pierson. president of
the chamber, is expected to give
his report touching on various phases
OF commerce, government and finance.
He was among the arrivals today.
Keeping in mind the adage that too
much work hampered the mental alert
ness of boy named Jack, indications
were that there would be plenty of
time out from the heavy discussions
of business legislation for horseback
riding, billiards and other diversions.
Sightseeing trips, luncheons and other
forms OF entertainment have been pro-
vlded for wives of the delegates.
Insist on Tax Reduction.
Recent expressions attributed to the
national administration that the ma.
tional chambers recommendations for
S40O,000,000 reduction of Federal
taxes is asking too much, have not
caused the directors to swerve from
conclusions arrived at through ex.
haustive study. 1t was the attitude at
the opening of the meetings that this
reduction would be asked Of the next
Congress. The principal Federal tax
reduction proposed is the one known
as the corporate tax.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
'L|NDBERGH GUEST
OF GOV. BYRD
Baltimore Next Stop on Tin.
erary After Greeting by
Richmond Thousands.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. October 15.-Col
Charles a. Lindbergh arrived over the
city at 1853 o'clock this afternoon
from Winston-Salem, n. C., to make a
perfect landing at the Richard E..
Byrd airport few minutes later. after
circling the airport one time. AS
the famous Spirit of st. Louis TAXED
down the middle of the field to a
speedily prepared hangar, crowd,
estimated at 5000, pressed vainly
against the military Gordon thrown
around the field to see more closely
the smiling, slender youth, whose
aerial passage to Paris won for him
the plaudits of the world. Cameras
clicked on every hand as the famous
smile flashed again and again upon
the cheering crowd. and members of
the city's official reception commit
had stepped from the mechanical unit
Of the celebrated "We," which was
moved to a nearby hangar where a
guard was delegated to keep watch
over it.
Greeted at Fair Grounds.
The world.famed young colonel took
his place in the rear seat of big
automobile with Mayor Fulmer Bright
to begin his triumphal march to the
State fair grounds where a huge
crowd was waiting both to see and
hear him. over flag -hunS streets
linel with cheering and enthusiastic
persons the air pathfinder to Paris
rode to receive an almost unbroken
ovation along the eight trek.
A thunderous acclamation greeted
Col. Lindbergh at the fair grounds
where he spoke from a raised plat
form, equipped with a microphone to
carry his voice far beyond the borders
of the Old Dominion. His brief speech
was in the interest of the advance
ment of aviation.
John Stewart Bryan, publisher of
the Richmond News-Leader, presided,
and conferred upon the young avia-
tor the Richmond Medal of Dis
tinguished Service, bearing the follow
ing inscription:
"a city of proud memories, Rich
mond, Va, to Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, jr., whose exploit made the
Nation proud"
Greeted by Governor.
Following the reception at the fair
grounds, Col. Lindbergh was rendered
a reception by Gov. Byrd at the gov
ernor's mansion, which was sue
ceeded by several hours of seclusion
there for him to relax bit.
A banquet, assembling approx
mately 500 guests, was given this
modern mariner tonight at a Local
hotel.
Col. Lindbergh will spend tomor-
row here as the guest of Gov. Byrd
it was announced this afternoon. The
time of his departure for Baltimore
the next stop on his itinerary. was
not definitely made known tonight.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
ALUMNI PLAN DINNER.
Massachusetts, Agricultural Col.
1ege Men to Meet Saturday.

Washington alumni of the Massa.
chusetts Agricultural College are ar.
ranging to participate in the ninth
annual World Aggie night. with a
dinner next Saturday at o'clock at
the Harrington Hotel. S. w. Men.
dunn, 218 Claiming street northeast,
is in charge Of the local arrange.
ments.
Plans are being made for As gath
erings of M. c. A. men in almost
every State Of the Union. the Dis.
trict of Columbia, Cuba, Porto Rico
and Hawaii. The radio program will
be broadcast through the Springfield
and Boston. Mass, station WBZ.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
DROPS DANvILLE GREETING.
Lindbergh Flies Over City 10 Minutes
On Way to Richmond.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va, October 15.-Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, flying from
Winston-Salem, N. c., to Richmond,
flew over Danville for 10 minutes to-
day and dropped greeting. He was
sighted at 1850. South Boston, 80
miles away, reported he was passing
% minutes after leaving Danville.
Thousands came here for a glimpse
of the Spirit of ST. Louis.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
BRITISH WOMAN ADMITS HOAX
IN SPECTACULAR CHANNEL SWIM
DR.. Logan Reveals Letter Telling of Plan
Written Before Attempt to Prove
Ease of Faking; Returns Prize.

use Of them until have published the
full facts.
"(Signed)
DOROTHY COCHRANE LOGAN,
M. D. d. c."
She says she remained on the boat
for several hours during which she
was seasick. She slipped into the
water again after daylight Tuesday
when three miles from Folkstone, Eng
lang. She swan ashore and received
the greeting of the crowd.
When Miss Logan returned to Lon
don she was nearly mobbed by admir-
ing throrgs. She was. congratulated
by friends and the newspapers and
officials paid tribute to her.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
STUDIO is MOVED.
Miss Ostrander Announces New
Location on X Street.

The studio Of dramatic art, public
speaking and voice culture, formerly
located at 1857 K street, has been
moved to 1745 X street, 1t was an
nounced yesterday by Miss Emma
Ostrander, by whom 1t Is conducted
Miss Ostrander. a graduate of the
Boston School of Oratory and Ora
matte Art, has been connected with
several of the leading girls schools
Of the country.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
RUSSELL TO SPEAK.
English Writer to Be Heard in
Auditorium Tuesday.

Bertrand Russell, English writer
and lecturer. who last week arrived
in New York to begin an American
lecture tour, will speak here at the
Auditorium Tuesday evening on the
subject, Education and World
Peace"
Mr.. Russell spoke in Washington
about three years ago at the City
Club.
". r. Calverton of Baltimore. editor
of the Modern Quarterly. will preside
at the meeting here, which is to be
held under the auspices of the local
chapter of the League for Industrial
Democracy.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
Child Struck by Auto.

Ellwood Beavers, years old, GA
Ninth street southwest, sustained body
bruises yesterday when hit by an au.
tomobile driven by Joseph Splitter. 119
d street, while on G street southwest,
between Ninth and Tenth. He was
treated at Emergency Hospital, where
his condition was reported not serious.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
Cripple" Quickly Cured.
Correspondence of The Star.

TIFFIN, Ohio.-Police were ordered
to halt all begging on the streets in
Taffin recently. The order was issued
by Mayor John Dreitzler, after he had
witnessed a miraculous" cure Of a
panhandler. A few minutes after he
had given a one.armed cripple the
price of a meal, the mayor met the
man swinging both arms and walking
briskly down the street.
Evening star., 1927-10-16

Cotton fabrics are the chief import
Of French West Africa in point Of
volume.
Evening star., 1927-10-16

Fewer than 10000 whites control
1S,5O0,0O0 natives in French West
Africa.
Evening star., 1927-10-16

The South African government
plans to finance a building program.
Evening star., 1927-10-16

Jugoslavia is importing more than
it is exporting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-29
Socialists Reveal Their True COLOrs.

It is no mere accident that the official spokesman of the
party should take the attitude toward the parade
Today the ashes of these workers marred by the
university chairs of Massa
York Hundreds of thousands OF workers de
sire express again their indignation at this monsrous exhibit
ton pay their last tribute to these two
workers bravey and dean to their death after
But defenders of capitalism the police department
faithful ackeys of the master class the socialist lead
es carry after the death of Sacco and Vanzet
the policies they have consistently pursued.
August Claesen local secretary of the socialist party en-
the capitalist class by betng the desire of
stage demonstration the arrival OF the
and Vanze The master class responsible for
of these workers wants to forget about its crime
working class forget They take the attitude
the incident is closed They want to accept the YER
dict of the murder final
That vengeance in its most hdeOus form is not con-
fined Massachusetts, but also extends to New York. revealed
by the statements Police Commissioner Warren, whose att
ude precisely that of the socialist leaders Warren considers
it mot fitting permit such parade In life and IN death,
in calm as storm socialists sing the songs of the enemies
of labor bourgeoisie in its fight against the working
class.
Surely the advanced section of the working class of New
York and Of the entire country who have witnessed the long
struggle Vanzet has long realized the fact
l the burden the fight fell upon the Communists and that
every energy and that could mobilize
thrown the fight So determined to conduct the
fight with command that eXerted every
soe effort often publishing thousands thousands of
COPIES DAILY WORKER for the purpose of giving wide
publicity this Today the day of the arrival of
the ashes of and Vanze in New York compelled
to appeal readers and supporters to the aid of
The DAILY WORKER that continue the fight and
emphasize denial that the Scco and Vanze not
closed and closed until the working class under the
leadership of the Communists has definitely settled matters with
the capitalist class and all its agents whether appearing officially
head of police departments disguised socialist leaders
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-29
American Communist Party Convention

The fifth convention OF the Workers COMMUNIST Party Will
be held in New City this week It has been two years
conventions two years during which events of
Notwithstanding Importance has occurred TIVE years which the
situation confronting the working class has become vastly
complicated.
imperialist powers mady driving forward to
against the Soviet Union and wagng against
every semance of ancy the part of the working
classes in the home countries.
the question of the mmnence of another world
that devastating will revove the decisive policies
that will be adopted the convention of the Party The of
the labor bureaucracy against the Communists and the left wing
part of the conspiracy attempt
to weaken the and deprive of its militant ee
that the master class may be assured completely
working class when finally decides openly launch
program The fight against the reactonary labor bur-
eaucacy and yellow socialists who ape the lowest of the
journalistic scavengers Imperialism with the cry that the
Soviet Union peace must be supplemented with
the most relentless determined fight against the blight of
social pacfism
Communists the defenders of the historical class
the working we'll the most devoted and
esacrcng fighters the every day struggle The defense
the elementary demands of the working class and the relen
less fight against attempts to destroy the organizations of the
working class nseparabe from the preparation for the final
struggle against capitalist despotism.
ever in critical situation, is it essential for
every worker who participate in the front lines of the
fight against Imperialism to align himself with the
revolutionary in this country which is represented
alone by the Workers Communst) Party.
Just previous Party conventions have registered emen
strides forward the realm of theory and
practice the coming convention will register another mile
the road toward the proetaran revolution in the United
States
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-29
Max Reinhardt Bring
ing His Salzburg Com
pany to America

Accorng to an announcement from
Gilbert Miller, who is now in Paris.
Max Reinhardt and his celebrated
players from his Salzburg theatre will
come to America some time next
month. Although no confirmation
can be secured here, there is no doubt
that the famous German actor and
director is considering making a tour
of the principal American cities. Ac-
cording to Miller's statement cabled
from Paris, it will be the first time
that an entire theatrical plant has
been moved across the Atlantic.
The actors and the lighting appa-
ratus and scenery used in the famous
German performances will be trans
ported to New York in order that the
presentations may differ at no point
from those which have drawn theatre
lovers from all parts of the world to
the little Austrian town.
The Reinhardt company is COM
posed of an all-star cast taken from
the three Reinhardt theatres in Ber-
lin and Herr Reinhardt's Josefstadt
Theatre in Vienna. The trip to the
United States consequently will close
three or four European theatres for
the eight weeks that the actors are
absent.
In the cast are such notable ac-
tors as the Timing family, known as
the German Barrymores, which in
cludes Helen, Hermann and Hans; the
classic actor Moissi, who created
"The Living Corpse" presented in
this city as Redemption; Lii Oar
vas, the Hungarian actress, wife of
the playwright Molnar; the Russian
actor. Sokoloff, and the comedian,
Hans Moser. Rosamond Pinchot, who
played the nun in "The Miracle" and
who has recently appeared in Rein
hardt's Salzburg productions, also
will be a member of the company.
While Mr. Miller stated that the
production will range from fantasies
to ultra-modern plays, perhaps the
most famous will be the Reinhardt
adaptation of "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" Other plays will be "Dante's
Death" "Love and Intrigue" and GA
Servant of Two Masters"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-29

EVEN if The Times were not de-
Il liberately distorting the facts of
the situation for its own purposes,
confusing an increase in total world
production with the production level
of individual nations, only disciple
of the vulgar school of political eco
nomy would see a contradiction.
THE contradiction is not in Trotsky's
thesis but in the capitalist system
itself.
Declining production make it inn
possible for the capitalists to employ
and feed the huge sections of the
working class and the class struggle
becomes acute.
Increased productions sharpens the
struggle between capitalist nations,
and groups of capitalist nations, for
markets, sources of cheap raw ma
terials, and export of capital, and this
competition in turn induces the capt.
talists to reduce the standard of liv-
ing of the working class in order to
meet competition in the world mar
kets.
THE class struggle and the inn
perialist struggle tend to become
sharper. For the capitalist system
there is no escape from these con-
traditions.
That war is a desperate attempt on
the part of the capitalist class to
solve these contradictions can be
proved, and has been proved by thou
sands of concrete instances.
What are the chickering's over coll
onies, markets, mandates and spheres
of influence which have taken up the
time of the diplomats ever since the
end of the world war, if not attempts
to divide among the victors the loot
for which the war was fought?
WHAT is the struggle between the
" oil giants, Royal Dutch Shell,
backed by the British government,
and Standard Oil, backed by the
American government, if not strug-
gle for the raw material, and mar
kets in which to dispose of the crude
and refined product?
noes The Times contend that this
- bitter struggle, which induces first
/ one and then the other competitor to
deal with the workers and peasants
government of the Soviet Union,
tends to stabilize the British Empire,
the capitalist system as a whole, or
make more remote the danger of war,
merely because production of oil and
the market for it is expanding?
Or is there a direct connection be-
tween this titanic struggle, the Cen
eva conference and the evident in
tention of both Great Britain and the
United States governments to in