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that most of the divisions inspected
are showing an Improvement ever
last year. This is most gratifying to
the bureau"
Local Reserve officers read with
,!Ich interest In the bulletin that the
.-tatc Legislature of New Jersey had
authorized an appropf iation OF $780,.
C0D for the purpose of constructing an
armory fer the Cd Battalion, Naval
Reserve, az Camden. Construction is
scheduled 20 begin on or abou. July
next, it was announced.
Local officers and men have for
some time been stressinG the need o.
new armory facilities here. They are
now training in Il poorly suited buId.
ing at the Washington Navy YARD.
the quarters being too small to drill
the large organization which now rep
resents the District of Columbia in
tn, United States Naval Reserve.
The Navy Department has annourc-
cd that the Naval Reserve appropria-
tiOn is not available for the purchase
Of athletic equipment, according To Il
recent decision of the General AZ
counting Office. These must be sup,
Piled by local funds.
\ bronze trophy, IN tde form Gt n
plaque, has beer donated by Harry F.
Guggenheim, president o: the Daniel
Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion
of Aeronautics, Inc, for presentation
annually to the await division o.
the Naval Reserve obtaining highest
proficiency in accordance with the
marks assigned by the Naval Reserve
Inspection Board.
This trophy is known as The i;oe
Davis trophy, in honor of the late
Lieut.. %omdr. Noel Davis, Reserve,
who did so much for Naval Reserve
aviation. both as commanding officer
OF the Naval Reserve aviation unit al
Squantum. Mass, and as assistant for
Naval Reserve aviation in the Bureau
of Navigation.
Lieut.. Comdr. Davis and his com.
panion, Lieut.. Worcester, u. S. N.
were killed last Spring in an airplane
crash while making test flights pre-
paratory to a New York-to-Paris flight
The donor of the trophy is an ex.
Naval Reserve aviation officer with
considerable wartime aviation expert.
eng.
The trophy will be awarded for the
highest marks attained during the fis.
cal year 1927 to the Sd Division of
VT-30 Squadron, located at Philadel.
phia, Pa, Lieut.. Comdr. r. s. Hedt.
Ter. commanding.
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The Four Stragglers

- Cart. Trancis Newcombe ex-officer in the
Sfeat war, who breaks into society. but WHIT
rs really Shadow Varne noted figure of the
underworld. and In charge Of various biz
e;enls that have set London agog.
Paul Cremarre. noted French thief. who
mas met Newcomhe in the backwaters of the
war, along with Runnells a valet. who had
done some big thefts his own account
and the Foarth Straggler, who hears the
crooks agree TO combine after the armistice.
Polly, wickles. a flower girl whom, New
comhe has adopted and sent TO America to
q finishing school. with the idea of insuring
social contacts of the hest before he leaves
England after executing some. big hanls
She Is the friend of Dora Marlin. daughter
Of an eccentric millionaire and her guest on
a big show place on the Florida keys. where
MT Marlin the mad magnate. has buried
more tha" halt. million dollars the exist
enre Of which Newcomhe learns inad-
Nertently from his beautiful ward
Howard Locke son of big business man,
%hn Tl. takes Newcombe and Rgnnells t.
love with Polly
{C0OtiOncd from Xost nrfIav's Starl
Evening star., 1927-12-04

Thirty-five years ago New York was
the second petroleum producing State
of the Union, ranking only after Penn
sylvia mia
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INSTALLMENT XXIV.

Continued from Yesterdays Star.)
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School met Tuesday. The housekeep-
ing class received the members of the
association and conducted them
through the building. The domestic
science class prepared and served the
refreshments.
The boys OF the school are painting
the interior Of a portable and the as
ISOLATION made an appropriation 4
decorate this room. Mrs. Giles Scott
Rafter made an address.
The executive committee of the
Langdon +. 7. A. met at the school
Friday afternoon. Plans for the meet
ing at the school next Friday at 3
o'clock were made. After the regular
business of the association has been
conducted, a Christmas program will
be given.
The Langdon T. T. A. is conducting
a membership campaign under the
leadership of Mrs. James A, Hall,
chairman.
The Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Association. at its last meeting, voted
unanimously to support the early
completion of the new 16-room build
ing at Langdon, which was appropri-
ated for by the last Congress. At
this meeting also Mrs. !. +. Iorch,
health chairman, of LangdOn =. T. A.,
was elected a delegate to the Public
School Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Millions of Homes Furnish Material for Program of General
Acknowledgements Efforts Due Survey-League
of American Pen Women.

tional institutions. the press and pub
lie utility officials. Through initial
meetings the co cooperation of the bust
ness men, university extension ser
vices, the schools and the rural
groups was assured
The Minnesota campaign has been
going on informally for some months
under the direction of Mrs. Willard
Bayliss. who has addressed more than
80, 1000 women to date, on health, con-
servation and the elimination of
drudsery through adequate home
equipment
other States doing just as fine and
fascinating things to raise the stand
ards of living in American homes in
clude Nevada. Rhode Island, Florida,
Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi, Colorado,
Oregon, Washington. Idaho. New
Hampshire, Name and many others.
ONE Of the interesting members of
~ the National League of American
Pen Women is Nine. Olga Samaroff
StokoWslli. a vice president of the
Philadelphia branch of the league. to
whom the league is Offering its special
tribute of pride and appreciation in
the form of a reception in her honor
on fEIudy AFTERNOON OIL ltilS NSth d l
the Willard Hotel.
Long recognized as an artist of first
rank in the field of instrumental
music. Nine Stokowski in the past
few years has added to her means of
self-eXpression, and has put her ad-
mlrers still further in her debt by her
SCintilating musical criticism. her ar
ticles on musical subjects and her lee
lures under such distinguished aus
pieces as Yale University and the
Juilliard Foundation Graduate School
in New York, of which she is a
faculty member.
She speaks with authority, for her
own education began in babyhood and
has continued down the years. Born
in San Antonio, Tex, of a mother
who was a distinguished pianist and
who had inherited her talent from her
own mother, little Olga Samaroff
found in the piano a familiar friend
almost from birth. She was improvis-
ing and playing by ear at the age
of 3. but was saved by the wisdom
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~ ALTERING and compiling
4 facts and figures on the SAM
Il tary equipment and labor
saving devices and other
valuable information on that
most basic of all American institu-
tons the home. was the first step in
the unique program of the General
Federation Of Women's Clubs initiated
by Mrs John Dickinson Sherman
when she was elected president three
years ago.
Information CLEANED from nearly
8 900 900 urban homes and 10000 farm
homes, the greatest and most amaz-
ing mass of facts and figures on this
subject ever assembled by any organi-
cation or agency, is now being utilized.
Interesting, even startling, as much
of this information is, it is ValuelesS
excppt as it. serves as basis for effort
to remedy defects and improve condi-
lions. The home equipment survey
was not the end of this organized eff
fort, it was but the beginning.
The great accomplishments actual
" getting water piped into homes into
which it las heretofore been carried
by the tons annually; getting cleo
tricity wired into homes to raise bur
dens from already bending backs get
ting gas piped into homes that have
hitherto had only old-fashioned wood
and coal stoves for cooking and heat
ing-these are the next remarkable
projects on which the federation is en-
barking.
With what success and interest this
work is meeting is set forth not only
in letters of gratitude from women
whose problems the federation is try
ing to help solve, but from leaders in
Americas governmental life, includ-
ing the Departments of Agriculture,
Commerce and the Interior, and from
the greatest minds in science, letters
and industry, the Nations professions
and it's industries being fully repre-
scented in the general federation's cor
respondence files in highest COM
mendation of the federation's home
equipment survey and follow-up cam
paign.
To date. 33 State Federations of
Women's Clubs have expressed the
desire to do something to improve the
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Of her elders from a too early ex
ploitation of her talents.
At the age of IL. after careful home
training, where she was brought IN
in an environment in which things
musical PLAYED a most important part
she was taken abroad. 1t is worth
remembering that she was the first
American girl TO win piano scholar
shin at the Paris Conservatoire, where
she studied for several years, going
later to Berlin. where she was trained
in piano technique and Interpretation
by Jedliczka, studied organ under
Hugo Remann and composition under
Roise A careful general education
and the cultural advantages OF travel
contributed to the well rounded dc
voIonment which has eXerted so grea.
an influence on her playing and is
clearly visible in her added work Of
writing and teaching.
An accomplished linguist ana an
omnivorous reader. Nine. SamaroH IS
thoroughly familiar with the ntefa-
ture of three languages. In addluon
to these accomplishments she mas
heen gifted by nature with personal
beauty and charm AMI with partlcu-
larIv sympathetic temperament.
Throughout her career she has done
seemingly impossible things, such as
playing all of Beethoven's 81 sonatas
i'm a series of eight concerts both IN
New York and Philadelphia, feat
she accomplished in 1921. she is siiIl
the only woman pianist ever 10 nave
undertaken and accomplished such
task. TO her new work of musical
criticism and to her activities as a
writer she brings the force of years
of experience in addition to the i'm
pressions and reactions of a highly
gifted and sensitive musical person
ality.
The Philadelphia branch OF tho
National League of American Pen
Women, of which Nine. Samaroff is
an officer, was formed last Spring and
now numbers 40 members. most of
whose names loom large in the vari-
Gus fields of literary and artistic en-
n 0n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
FIGHT TAX ON PIANOS.

Correspondence of the Associated Press
PARIS.-"Hide your piano" was n
popular phrase that eventually was
turned into a song several years ago,
when the instruments first were taxed.
Hiding proved impossible. and it. is
only now. after years of submission,
that piano teachers of the nation are
organizing to fight the tax on the the
DRY it is illegal.
The piano, to a musician. say the
leaders. is a tool of trade" and has
the same right to exemption as any
workman's tools, a right generally
recognized even in customs agree
mentS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
FOX SISTERS MEMORIAL.
Spiritualists to Raise a Monument
to Them.
Correspondence Of The Star.

Correspondence of The Star.
ROCHESTER,, n. 1.-TWO country
girls who, in their teens in 1S4S,
heard "raps' in little farm cottage
near Hydesville, and thus gave a basis
for "the appreciation and intelligent
comprehension of modern spiritual
ism" will be honored on December A,
when granite shaft is dedicated to
their memory in the yard of the Ply
mouth Spiritualisr Church.
The girls. Katy and Margaret Fox.
became mediums ard toured the coun-
try as the Fox Sisters.
Erection of the memorial results
from a suggestion by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle The international Snr-
itualist Congress viii hold four-day
meeting here at the time of the dedi-
cation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

standard OF home-making methods and
hOme-maklng equipment revealed in
their States by the survey. This in
tere; It has for n year past taken the
form of definite activities in many of
the states. In others intensive work
is now being launched or it will be
| launched before the end of the year.
Under the direction of Mrs. W. t.
Miner of Oakland president. 1925
| 1927. of the Nebraska Federation of
Women's Clubs, that State was first
to get under way a Statewide pro
gram to bring home equipment condi-
tons abreast of modern scientific
achievements. Nebraska approached
its problem through publicity. exhibits
and club programs on the subject.
THE home equipment story of all
towns and cities in Nebraska that
, were surveyed was sent to the editors
of the newspapers in those places and
in most instances it was published, -
says Mrs. Miner. She adds: The Ne
hraska Federation has had splendid
cooperation from the agricultural col
lcgeS of the State University. business
firms, manufacturing houses, public
utilities companies, newspapers. mag
aZineS, and motion picture houses" In
turn, one of the comments made by
J. w. Searson of Lincoln, in a letter,
was:
MANY hundreds of homes are be
ing definitely benefited as a result of
the constructive and fOrceful cam.
paign in the interest of better equipped
homes. The syndicated articles on
Better Homes are the first ever pub
liShed in Nebraska which have made
anything like a lasting impression. I
certainly congratulate the president
Of the Nebraska State Federation on
the splendid results achieved"
X IL X x
Texas very shortly followed Ne.
braska's lead. A campaign was
launched in that State during the
second week in February of this year
Following the successful showing in
Nebraska, the Texas State president,
Mrs. j. u. Fields. and the American
Home Department chairman, Mrs. j..
L. Young. initiated activities by call.
ing a joint meeting of representatives
of the State Federation, State educa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
Luxurious Flats in London.

Two huge eight-story apartment
houses are under construction in Lon
don, England, at cost of $500, 900,
and will contain flats" of various
sizes and degrees of luxury. The
largest will cost SIS year and
the average about $4,000. There will
be 150 in all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

The Force Adams parent-Ieache~
Association met in Force School las
Monday. Mrs. Lee Cox, social hygiene
chairman, gave a talk on Social Hy-
giene Problems of the Mother" The
president made the following an
nouncements: The next meeting is to
be held January 9 instead of January
l and Miss La Sale will be the
speaker. One hundred and fifty chill
dren had been immuniZed against
diphtheri d., and any child who for
one cause or another had not had the
full number of inocula tions could go
to the Adams School tomorrow at 10
o'clock, Mrs PurVis was appointed
Child Welfare Magazine chairman.
| Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter gave talk
on the merits of keeping children ar
rested for minor offenses under con-
| troll other than police, pending out
come of their cases.
The following resolutions were pass
ed: That So dues be paid to the Pub
! lie School Association. That 81 be
paid to the National Plant, Flower and
| Fruit Guild. That three subscrip-
| tions for the Child Welfare Magazine
/ he taken. That the children from the
! Washington Home for Children, who
| attend Force School, be provided with
| rubbers and that in case of sudden
| severe storms suitable provision be
made for transportation back to the
asylum. That the Force-Adams Par
ent-Teacher Association indorse the
action already taken by the District
of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teach-
err Associations, requesting that an es-
| innate be prepared by the Commits
| sionors and submitted to Congress,
| providing for a receiving home. under
! the control of the Board of Public
| Welfare, for dependent and delinquent
children. The secretary was instruct
ed to send a copy to each member of
| the board That n letter be sent t.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Rohm thanking them for
! the cakes and punch furnished after
! the meeting. That a letter be sent the
! Board Of Education asking permits
sion to give two complete sets of
| tools for the boys manual training
class-one each for Force and Adams
| buildings.
The Lenox French Vocational
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

Representative John c. Ketcham OF
Michigan will address the Bryant AS
ISOLATION at it's meeting next Friday.
at 7:30 pm. Miss Elizabeth A. Hum
mer supervising principal of the sew
enth division, and Mr.. II. f. Warner,
principal of the Hine Junior High
School, will also give addresses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

At the meeting of the Brookland T..
r. A. December 2 Mrs. Frank Lit
schert, chairman of the health and
hygiene committee. urged the mem
bers to take up this study as a group,
The association voted to appropriate
S. for the shoe and rubber fund and
money for the fitting up of the teach
ers' room, the purchase of files for the
principals office and benches for the
group work in the fifth grades. Miss
Pepper. the principal reported the
playground equipment is being re
paired and will soon be in use on the
schoolyard Miss Zimmerman, ga
grade, read the District presidents
message.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

The Edmonds' Teacher AS
ISOLATION will meet tomorrow at s
pm. The speakers will be DIR. Bal.
lou, superintendent of schools. and
Miss Adelaide Davis, supervising
principal of the sixth division. Re
freshments and a social hour will fol.
low.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

Gage P. T. A. will meet tomorrow
at pm. DR.. Murphy will be the
speaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

~ ALTERING and compiling
facts and figures on the SAM
7 tary equipment and labor
~ saving devices and other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

The Joseph r. Keene p. T. A. viii
meet at the school Tuesday at s pm,
and will have as guests Mrs. Giles
Scott Rafter, Mrs. +. r. Kalmbach,
Mrs. Joseph n. Saunders and Mrs. j..
w, Byler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

The Lenox French Vocational
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

The executive board of the Henry
Polk p. T. A. met Monday at . pm.
sThe message of Mrs. Giles Scott Raj
ter, president of the ID. c. Congress
of p. T. A., was read by Mrs. Dun
ham. The following resolutions were
adopted: THAT school children should
be granted transportation at one-half
the fare charged adults; that they
are opposed to any change in coming
IS regulations which will permit the con-
struction after January 81, 1928. of
$ semi-detached or community houses
IN residential a restricted territory"
The following expenditures were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
STUDY SCHOOL AIDS
Stammering Is Handicap to
Progress of Child.

In recent years much attention
has been given to the specific han
dicaps under which children pursue
their studies in school. In the pub
lie schools of Indiana the child's
eyes, ears and throat are receiving
examination to detect conditions
harmful to his advancement; and
speech defects in children, especial
ly in the primary grades, are re-
ceiving more attention than for
merly.
According to Benjamin N. Bogue,
president of the Bogue Institute for
Stammerers, it is more difficult fos
a stammering child to learn at
school than one who talks normally.
His day at school is practically
wasted at best, and there is always
the possibility that he may trans
NIT his stammering speech to otheS
children. The amount of learning
that child acquires at school in a
given day is small at most, but the
injury that he may suffer from be-
ing obliged to try to recite when
he shutters cannot be estimated.
THE suffering child disturbs the
school and detractS the attention of
other children. He takes the teach
er's time and attention from her
work. Parents should not under any
circumstances send children to
school when they Stutter.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
AUTO THIEVES
Get RICH LOOT
Cars Valued at 2 Millions
Stolen Here in Year.
3 Head-See Puzzle

Automobiles valued at $2,224,371,
totalling 3,770 machines, were stolen
in indianapolis during 1927, police
records show. The records were COM
piled on order of Police Chief Claude
M. Worley by Policewoman Bertha
Duclus of the missing car depart
ment.
Of those reported missing, 1890
were recovered, which amounts to
$2,082,450 in property value. Miss
ing yet are 280 cars, valued at SAL
921.
In 1926 there were 1901 cars stolen
and 1904 returned.
This year there were 2O791 out
of-city cars reported stolen and
ninety-siX recovered.
There were 248 arrests made on
the charge of operating a stolen We
hicle, an increase of twenty-eight
over 1926.
Many machines recovered were
wrecked and abandoned or stripped.
Most of the requests to search for
out-of -city machines come from de-
tective forces in other cities or in
surance companies. State police and
the sheriff's department aided in
many recoveries, the report points
out.
May and June are the big months
for car thefts and the lowest num-
Der is recorded in December and
January.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
PHONE GUIDES OUT
100000 Copies of Directory
Being Distributed.

Approximately 100000 copies of
the January, 1928. telephone direc-
tory are being distributed tn Indian
apolis homes and Offices this week,
an increase of 5000 over the de-
livery of July, 1926. The directory
contains 36,500 changes in names,
locations and numbers.
All the 5000 Randolph numbers,
changed to Talbot, are included. Six
thousand copies have been sent by
mail to the rural districts and 90
900 copies have been distributed
downtown.
According to 2. w. Leach, super
visor of directory advertising, this
years book contains twenty more
pages in the classified directory than
the last issue.
The delivery was handled by 100
school boys and young men under
supervision of ten foremen. Fifty
pushcarts, each hauling 200 books,
we're used to accelerate the delivery
Five days will be required to COM
plete distribution.
Compilation of the next issue of
the directory will begin early in
January.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
BONUS LIMIT IS HERE
Veterans Must Apply Today
for Compensation.

When the clock tolls out the Old
year tonight. 5000 ex-service men
will have lost more than 100000
in cold cash.
That is. they will lose it if they
don't apply for their Federal bonus
before that time to the State De-
partment at the American Legion
Bldg, TIT N. Meridian st.
Individual service men are eligible
for the adjusted compensation rang
ing from $50 to S1,575. The ma
jority of the procrastinating ex-sol-
dierS live in Marion County and In
dianapolis. Legion officials say.
Repeated warnings have been
broadcast by the Legion and other
service mems organizations through
newspapers and by letter. A rush
of applicants resulted today in a
mad ,ast-minute effor ito get money
due on the bonus.
State department Offices will be
open until 5 p. m. today. After the
cfhCs is closed, letters postmarked
before midnight Sunday will be CIV
en- consideration, say Legion Off
Gals.