Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

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O. Where did the Friendship land on
its fight across the ocean?-N. T.
A. The three-motored Seaplane
Friendship took off from Trepassey,
Newfoundland, at 9:51 am, June II,
| 1928, and landed on the Loughor
estuary at BURY Port, South Wales,
soon after noon of June Is. having
been in the air about 81 hours. Will
mer Stutz was pilot: Amelia Earhart,
co-pilot, and Lou Gordon, mechanician.
@. What causes acne and blackheads
to appear on young boys and girls
| faces?-N. o. A.
A. Faulty diet is to blame to some
| extent, but lack of care III cleansing
! the skin is one of the chief causes.
The Public Health Service says that in
order to avoid blackheads and acne,
the first essential as far as local con-
ditionS are concerned is cleanliness.
Scrub the face with soap and water
and use good soap. Do not be afraid
| that the skin will be injured by rub
bling hard with face cloth. Dry the
| face and apply cold cream. Then. after
| this application, rub the cold cream of
with rough cloth. This wet cleaning
! and dry cleaning process should take
place at least twice day.
@. If another league wishes to buy q
base ball player. can the club which
| has bought his services sell if it
| chooses?-F K.
A. The manager Of the club to which
the player belongs must secure waiver
| from each club in his league. II no
club within the league wishes to take
the player, the deal may be made with
an outside club.
@. Was the Byrd expedition Of excep-
| tional size?-E. G.
! A. The Byrd expedition to the South
Pole sailed in a fleet of four ships-the
City of New York. the Eleanor Boiling,
the Sir James Clark Ross and the C. A.
Larsen. 1t was the most elaborately
equipped expedition that has ever I'M
dertaken polar research More than a
million dollars was spent in outfitting.
@. To whom was Lady Aston married
before she married Waldorf Astor?-
N. N.
A. She was first married to Robert
Gould. Shaw of Boston, whom she d.
vorced.
@. Where was the Hammurabi Code
OF the Babylonians found?-R. w. G.
A. The only fairly complete text of
the Hammurabi Code was found at
Susa, inscribed on diorite STEELE 8 feet
high. 1t had been taken to Elan as
plumber by invaders. Fragments of the
code were recovered at Nippur and an
Assyrian copy Of the seventh century at
Nineveh.
@. Is there a standard by which dia-
monds are weighed in the United
States?-H. L. p.
A. All precious stones are weighed
by what is known as the metric carat
of 200 milligrams. This was brought
about July /, 1918, by DR.. George F
kunz, who obtained the cooperation Of
the Bureau of Standards, Secretary of