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Evening star., 1932-06-05
SCIENCE FINDS WAY
TO IMPROVE WALLS
Simple Method of Stopping
~EffIorescence Found at
Purdue University.
BY HOWARD BLAKESLEE.

BY the Associated Press.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 4-When
the building revival begins science is
ready with another improvement.
This is a simple method of stopping
eff1orescence on walls. emanating from
the School of Chemical Engineering of
Purdue University.
Efdorescence is the unsightly white
streaking which has disfigured walls
almost since the pyramids were built.
Instead of being sign of age, as often
supposed. this DETACHMENT is a peculiar
by-product of leaks in the wall.
Water soaking into the interior dis
solves mineral salts. They run out with
the water, which evaporates, leaving
them to incrust the surface.
Snow and Ice Problem.
Stopping the leaks by a tight wall
protection from penetration cures this
trouble. But there are tricks in these
leaks, little things that for centuries
have escaped the watchful eyes of many
builders.
One of these white spots was traced
by the Purdue investigation to a leak
ing joint three stories higher up and a
quarter of the width of the building
over to one side. Rain washing against
the sides Of well-made walls does not
penetrate, for the same reason that a
tent or an umbrella does not leak. The
water is excluded by protecting layer
Of air in the pores Of the building ma
terial
Even rain on unfinished, unprotected
structures ordinarily runs off without
penetrating deeply. This partial rain
immunity has lulled builders into over
looking one Of the worst sources of
eff1orescence-snow and ice.
"One of the most frequent causes"
says H. c. PETER. head of the School
Of Chemical Engineering, has been
found due to Winter soaking. in cases
where unfinished structures were left
uncovered during the Winter.
"A blanket of melting snow or ice
liberates water slowly; this water sinks
by the action Of gravity and by its
weight or hydrostatic pressure in the
pore walls Of the structure until com
plete soaking frequently results.
Effects Appear Slowly.
"The effects may not appear for one
or two seasons, but damage and an un-
slightly appearance almost invariably
result. In completed buildings de-
fective design. construction and main
tenance have been found to cause great
damage.
open joints in projecting lodges,
windows. lintels and particularly in
in copings on parapet walls are fruitful
sources Of damage. In most cases
these have not been properly protected
in the design and construction of the
building. Open vertical joints in
cornices and parapets are the chief
offenders.
Most of the troubles may be cured
by the insertion Of 'hashings,' a strip
of impermeable material, between the
source Of the leak and the wall proper
" while no investigations have been
made abroad, the question Is raised BY
Purdue investigators whether the failure
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Davis Dance Recital

being the three ages of the dance, at
6, l6 and 60. Miss Davis will also be
seen in other solo numbers in the pro-
gram, Among the members Of the
senior group appearing in the recital
will be Ruth Hartung, Sara Bergling.
Jeanne Bergling. Elsie Moody, and
among the junior-seniors will be Isabel
Arcaya, Betty Barton, Bette Burch,
Betty Du Pre-. Jacqueline Embrey. Ruth
Hullings. Betty Galbraith, Anna Martha
Galbraith. Joyce Haynes, Floria Sacasa,
Eva Satterfield and Othello Satterfield.
Alice Finckel, well known Washing
ton pianist, will play the accompani-
ments for the concert, much of the
music for which has been especially
composed for the dances by Alden
Finckel. one Of the Capital City's lead
ing musicians.
The members Of the senior group
have designed their own costumes for
this dance concert. tickets for which
are to be had at the T. Arthur Smith
Concert Bureau. 1880 G street, begin
ming Monday, June 13.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Rachmaninof Composing.

WHEN Sergei Rachmaninoff, the
w noted Russian pianist and COM
poser, returns to the United States
next Autumn for a concert tour that
will bring him to Constitution Hall as
one Of the attractions of Mrs. Wilson,
Greene's Artists Course Of afternoon
concerts, it is highly probable that he
will play for the first time locally sew
eral new compositions on which he is
now working abroad.
Rachmaninoff recently sailed from
New York for a Summer of work and
play at his Swiss estate near Lake
Lucerne-like Chaliapin, Koussevitsky
and other great Russian artists. he goes
no more to his homeland-and when
he sailed he stated that he would
devote at least a part of the Summer
to composition.
when I am concertizing, I cannot
compose" said Rachmaninof1. When
I feel like writing music. have to
concentrate on that and that only.
cannot touch the piano then, except In
trying out themes. I am slave when
composing. I begin at o'clock in the
morning and usually work through
until 10 or II o'clock at night There
must be something definite in mind to
inspire composition. A poem, a book,
. picture something concrete helps
Immensely"
Evening star., 1932-06-05
TAXI DANCE HALLS
BANNED IN CHICAGO
failing of Capone Followed
by Drive on "Ten-Cents-
a.Dance" Places.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 4.-The taxi dance
halls, long fixture of side street night
life in Chicago, are no more. Doors
have been locked. orchestra players
have packed up and thousands of girls
who formerly danced with any and all
for 10 cents a dance" have disappeared
before the city's latest moral crusade
Just after AL Capone was sent to
Atlanta Penitentiary anti-crime cam
paigners focused their efforts on the
taxi dance halls. Social. juvenile and
law and order units and the police
department joined in the drive
"Incubators of indecency. of assorted
tragedies. suicides and killings" were
the charges flung at the dancing places
Not mere dance halls" replied the
proprietors. but schools maintained
for the teaching Of ball room finesse"
Police squads raided scores of places,
the proprietors obtained injunctions
against police interference. and court
battles followed. Investigators made
the rounds of the halls, doled out dimes
danced, and wrote reports condemning
the places as immoral and indecent. "
50 great became the clamor that a
book by DR.. Paul Cressy. former grad
uate student in sociology at the Univer-
sity of Chicago. discussing taxi dancing
hall ethics in detail, sold by the
thousands
Ten cents a dance" became a torch
song to anti-crime forces and their
drive picked up momentum.
City authorities announced tonight
their victory was complete. Mayor
Anton j. Cermak helped bring 1t about
by obtaining dissolution of injunctions
making the halls immune from raids
There are no taxi dance halls now
operating in the city under their own
identity or macquerading as schools. "
William v. DAILY. assistant corporation
counsel. said. Our next move will be
to obtain passage of a city ordinance
forbidding operation of dancing schools
except for children under 16."
Evening star., 1932-06-05
EOPOLD STOKOWSKIS plan
to incorporate estheticism

u and the essentials of per-
sonal beauty into opera Is
attracting much attention. BY
next season-he announced re-
cently-he purposes to reveal his
operatic heroineS as models OF
perfect pulchritude, and to plant
tall, strong sons of foot ball in
roles in which heroes are loved
for their Drawn as well as for
their brain.
Instead of bulbous Tristans
and portly Tannhausers; in the
place of giant MargueriteS and
heavyweight ElizabethS there will
be personageS of average caliber,
whose beauty will coincide with
the demands of the script. Sing
ers whose girth exceeds the limits
set by strict standards of comeli-
mess, even if they are first cousins
| of first-class nightingaleS, will
have to sing in the dark. Only
those whose looks are as perfect
as their top E fiat will be allowed
to appear on the stage.
This is more than a mild revo-
luton in operate circles. Wag-
merriam singers, especially, have
never been lightweight artists.
The Metropolitan has had its
share of super-songbirds who
have tipped the scales at IA stone.
There have been times, in fact,
when the stage is said to have
quaked with the rollickingS of
many and much feet.
Music lovers, however, have not
cared. Wagner'S music was known
| to be singable only by those who
could do a little major believing
on the side, and who correspond
ed somewhat proportionately to
| the collection of RubenS' ladies in
| the Louvre. A few have been
| otherwise - most notably this
years find" Goeta Lunjberg-
but, on the whole, the lusty re-
|quirementS of a luSty voice have
never led to dieting, and prima
donnaS have found that mutton
and beef and Once-priZed lager
stimulated the vocal chords, as
well as white wines and tea.
|MR. STOKOWSKI is planning
the Ideal spectacle" His
process includes the recording of
orchestral music and arias by
electrical transcription, anG the
eventual Synchronization of this
music with "eye-filling figures of
| the stage" Even the conductor
apd bic orobactro will bo ont of
sight. Just where the music will
come from nobody seems to know
as yet. On the stage, however,
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Final Radio Travel Program.

M rs. CHARbES BROOKS SMITH.
A'A chairman of the Radio Travel
program for the District of Columbia
Federation of Music Clubs, announces
that the last program of the season will
be given over WRC Tuesday afternoon
from Sis to 5:45 o'clock by the Chami-
made Glee Club. Esther Linkins, di-
rector, and Mrs. Howard Blandy, &C
companist.
All eight numbers on the program
were composed for and dedlcated to the
club and Miss Linkins by local COM
posers The program is as follows:
'.Dalliance." by Dorothy Radde Emery.
II Peer in the Dark by Dorothy Radde
Emery twords by Grace Seton).
"Coquetry,' by Henry S. Gresor.
Dear Little Curly Locks" by Florence Hin
man.
Spring Song" by La Sale Sper.
Music at Twilight" by La Sale Sper.
THE Duel" by Karl Holer tsolos to be sung
by Morie Thomas.
Triumph of the Dance" by Karl Holer.
The composers will assist the club.
Evening star., 1932-06-05

4 WIDE variety of ensemble dance
~ numbers, many Of them done
~ In the modern manner, will
4 \ make up the recital program
by the senior group CT the
Evelyn Davis School of Dance, on next
Saturday evening, at $50 O'Clock. in
Wardman Park Theater. Thirty
dancers. Of whom the nucleus has been
working with Miss Davis for several
years, will participate in the dance and
drama creations on this occasion.
A new" East Indian number will be
a feature of the program, which will
offer satire Of 1890. known as THE
Sewing Circle: a deep psychological
study Of Fear" for which the music
has been written by Frank Holden,
straight march in modern style, by Pro-
kofief1; dance abstract, called
Flight" and a varied group Of Schu-
bert waltzes, as well as certain request
numbers by the group.
Evelyn Davis. we'll known as one of
the Capital Citys "moderns" in the
dance. will offer solo satire Amateur"
Evening star., 1932-06-05
TURKS FIGHT RED TENETS
Soviet Amity, However, Is Grad
ually Advanced.

1STANBUL P.-The Turkish ma
tionalist governments fiendship with
Soviet Russia wakes stonger every year,
but its fight against Communism with
in its own territory does not wane.
When a red flag was hoisted on a
minaret of the Suleimanie mosque here,
1t came down in a hurry and the hoist
er was hustled to jail
He was but one of 20 Turkish Com
munists arrested within a fortnight.
The others were accused of distributing
communistic tracts
Evening star., 1932-06-05
y. A. R. ACTIVITIES

Capt. Wendell Wolfe Chapter met at
the home of Miss Caroline A. Hurley,
1881 Thirteenth street. Miss Harriet
M. Chase, regent, presided.
The following delegate and alternates
were elected to the next Continental
Congress: Delegate. Mrs. A. s. Boles;
alternates. Mrs. Alexander H. Bell.
Mrs. Ada Mills Payne, Miss Eva E.
Luke Mrs. Clara A. Stine, Mrs. H. N.
Tatum, Miss Lula Purcell. Miss M. A.
Carroll, Miss Mary o. Terrell. Miss
Mabel E. Wheelock and Mrs. r. G..
Wilson.
Sarah Franklin Chapter met at the
home Of Mrs. j. A. Cochran, North
Braddock, We. The regent, Mss Brown
Evening star., 1932-06-05

of ancient historic structures in Europe,
which is at present causing so much
concern, may not be due to joints
opened by age, instead of the climate,
as now claimed At any rate, it ap-
pears incredible that the few simple
facts causing so much annual damage
should have been overlooked so long"
Evening star., 1932-06-05
ing, presided. Reports of officers were

ing, presided. Reports of officers were
given.
Columbia Chapter met at the home
Of Mrs. Palmer, "a Irving street, Chevy
Chase with the regent. Mrs. Frank
Grosvenor. presiding. Miss Ross an
nounced a moonlight trip on the Po-
tomac River the evening of June 6.
Tickets may be had from her or men,
bers of the chapter, not at the boat.
A program was presented, with Mrs.
Rice as solist in charge of the music.
Mrs. Mcintosh read a paper on the
early life and training of George Wash
ington. The State regent, Mrs. Grove,
made an address. Refreshments were
served by Mrs. Palmer, assisted BY her
mother, Mrs. Barber.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Dance Revue Tonight.

THE Spring dance revue of the pupils
L of the Anna T. Mitchell Dancing
Studio will be presented at the National
Theater tonight The theme will be
"The Holiday Season"
Evening star., 1932-06-05
NEW STAMPS ISSUED

Manchurian State Hopes to Attract
Collectors Attention.
MUKDEN [P)-Manchoukuo the new
nation" set up in Manchuria by the
Japanes@army, is hoping to gain recog-
milton Of world stamp collectors by
new issue for domestic use.
Because the International Postal
Union has not recognized the infant
state. Chinese stamps will be continued
in use for foreign mails. Meanwhile an
arrangement with the Postal Union will
be sought.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-13
urges new GRASS Be
LEFT UNCUT IN FALL
N. D. A. c. Horticulturist Says
Poor Drainage Might
Prove Damaging

Fargo, N. D., Sept. 13.-To cut OF
rot to cut the lawn-that is a ques-
ton uppermost in the minds of lawn
owners these days. Some people say
that late fall cutting will invite win
ter kill, while others argue it will not
Prof. G. B. Waldron, horticulturist
at the North Dakota Agricultural
college. settles the dispute by point
ing out that numerous experiments
with late fall cutting of lawns failed
to kill where the stand of blue grass
was mature. The late cutting does
not aid in killing the lawn. but poor
drainage will kill it, he states. Where
ice and water are allowed to stand
in the spring and during the winter
there the grass will die. He recon-
mends that new seeding be left with
out cutting this fall, however.
It Is possible for blue grass to with
stand the hard winters because it has
underground stolonS or root-stockS
according to Waldron. Other grasses
and forage crops that winter-over and
that do not have stolons are likely to
winter kill, especially when cut late
Alfalfa, for instance, when cut late is
likely to winter kill
Whether or not the leaves are tc
be left all winter Is a matter of taste
to the lawn owner. A fine compost
or well-rotted manure spread at the
rate of one-half to one inch thick anc
raked in this fall will aid the growth
of grass next year. The addition Of
two pounds Of ammonium sulphate tt
each square rod Of lawn in the spring
on top of the compost will make the
grass luxuriantly green.
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protect the marchers as we'll as 9TH

pTOtSCC IIlc uldICl1eIS DIS well DIS Ot4l'
erS.
There were men among that group
in Washington who came in an order.
~ way to state their case, whom
would lay down my life to protect
There were wonderfully fine mer
among them. But there were other
men there, too. All were not angels
And want to tell you that this is a
government Of majority and not a
government of a minority"
Gibbons had said that order pre-
vailed in the Washington bonus
camps and that laws were being en-
forced when the army took control
Gibbons referred to rough treat
ment" accorded the bonus march
ers, to the great patriotism of the
throngs who stood in the rain and
sang the national anthem" They
were law-abiding and orderly, he de-
clared.
Curley Gets Cheer
Delegates cheered speech by May
or James M. Curley of Boston who
said war time heroes had been shot
down like dogs in the capital of our
nation"
Hurley was said by members of the
Oklahoma delegation to have accepted
the badge of a delegate from that
state and In doing so to have promis-
ed to vote for immediate bonus pay
ment as an instructed delegate. How
ever, he remarked later he probably
would leave for Huron, 8. D., before
the matter comes to a vote.
The war secretary was expectd tc
march In the ranks Of Tuesdays par
ade as buck private among the L.
gionnaires from his home state. He
had been asked to watch from the
reviewing stand but preferred tc
march.
An admittedly hopeless battle
against a demand for immediate pay.
ment of the bonus was waged yigor-
ously by group of delegates.
Determined Pennsylvania delegates
promised to carry their fight to the
convention floor, If necessary, for a
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-13
N. p. Freight Train
Wrecked Near Beach

l., Beach, N. D., Sept. 13.-Three load
ed gondolas were piled up In the
ditch and nearly a quarter of mile
of track was torn up when a Northern
Pacific freight train was wrecked at
Yates, six miles west of here at $3.50
p. m. Monday.
Although several transients were
riding on the cars that were ditched,
no one was believed to have been
killed or injured. The wreck was be-
lieved to have been caused by brok-
en- journal on gondola loaded with
coal. The train was a through east
bound freight, loaded with stock,
fruit and coal.
Traffic was restored temporarily
Tuesday morning, railway officials
said.
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r. ON TIN U E u
~ from page one
Flying Family Is
Reported Safe on
Greenland's Coast

what it costs to send rescue expedi-
tons when such flights fail.
Flights across Greenland are work
for men," said the newspaper, mot
for women, and especially not for
little girls"
"That's great load off my mind"
said Premier Staining when he was
informed of the rescue, nevertheless
most Danes cannot help liking and
admiring Mr.. Hutchinson's undaunt-
ed pluck"
News of the rescue was broadcast
Immediately by all Danish radio sta
lions to relieve the anxiety of those
who had been following the search
for the fliers.
The Hutchinson family, father,
mother, and two small daughters,
with crew of four, left New York
Aug. % on flight by sy stages
over the northern transatlantic route
to Europe. They hoped to be the
first family to cross the Atlantic in
plane.
Their flight eliminated Sunday in
frantic SOS. calls-and then 81
lence. BY radio Hutchinson report
ed his plane had been forced down
off eastern Greenland on its way to
Anamagsalik from Julianhaab and
it was feared all eight persisted in
the icy waters.
Hutchinson's two little daughters,
Catherine, 8, and Janet Lee, 6, who
carried their doll with them. were
the first children to be passengers
on transatlantic flight attempt.
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resolution censuring the president for
the manner in which the bonus ex-
peditionary force was elected from
the capital.
Portland was given foretaste OF
Tuesdays event in the 40 and par
ade last night. The entire business
district has been turned over to the
Legion, business houses will close and
traffic will be routed around 1t.
Local and federal authorities raid
ed number Of soft drink parlors
converted to "dugouts" by the addi-
ton of imitation log fronts and real
alcohol to the beverages on sale. Sew
eral proprietors were arrested.
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4: o N T l N u E ID
~ from page one
Legion to Vote on
Resolution Censuring
Eviction of B. E. F.

BILE homes of these men. That is not
the fact. The fires were set by the
men themselves. No members of the
army would do that. All the fatalities
that occurred on the day Of which
you have heard so much took place
before the arrival Of the United States
army"
Hurley read the order he had
written at President Hoover's direc-
tons.
Nov, can you find any fault with
those orders?" he asked. Are they
unjustly harsh? I ordered out the
armed forces Of the government to
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-13
Man, 80, Disrnayed
By Mothers Death

New York, Sept. 13.-(R}-A
son, the last Of IL children, be-
came hysterical and threatened
suicide Monday following the
death Of his mother. He was re-
strained by neighbors.
The son, John Meyers, is 90
years old.
His mother, Mrs. Dora Meyers,
who died Sunday, celebrated her
10th birthday July IA.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-13
TREE FIRE TANGLE

Houston, Tex.-Two robbers mere
disdain the use Of guns or blackjacls.
preferring the common kitchen vari-
ETY. Of red pepper. Approaching w.
L. McMeans, they demanded his val
let. When he refused, they threw red
pepper in his eyes, seized his wallet.
which contained $35, and fled, leav-
ing McMeans helpless. temporarily
blinded.
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AmidOn Man Killed
At La Crosse, Wis.

Valley City, N. D.. Sept. 13.-(P)-
F. Friedrich of Amidon, N. D.. was
fatally injured when struck by a
switch engine at La Crosse. Wis.
Monday, according to word received
here by Mrs. ]. F. L. Bohnhoff, sis
ter.
Friedrich was en- route home after a
visit with relatives In Chicago. He
was unmarried.
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BY ROBERT TALLEY
NEA Service Writer

When Colonel Raymond Robins, 50,
silently vanished into the realms Of
missing men while en- route from New
York to the white house to keep an
appointment with President Hoover,
he left behind career of adventure
and mystery-equaled by few men.
For a generation Colonel Robins
had been prominent figure in Amer
lean public life. Progressive - even
radical-in his views, he was no par
Tor reformer. He loved life in the
raw; and the rawer the better.
His most noted service was when
he headed the American Red Cross
relief mission to Russia during the
early days Of the Bolshevik revolution
in 19l7-18. There he became the
Amertc a n governments unofficial
channel of communication with the
Soviet government, almost blocked
RusSia's untimely retirement from the
World war, spent American govern
ment money to send Russian Bolshe-
vik agitators into Germany, and be-
came friend and confidant OF Niko-
1a1 Lenin, whom no other allied rep
resentative had ever been able to ap-
proach.
A born adventurer. Robins joined
the gold rush to Alaska in 1898, only
two years after his graduation from
Columbian university (now George
Washington. In Alaska, he struck
it rich" and made enough money to
support himself comfortably for the
rest of his life. A persuasive speaker
and q favorite with the rough and
ready miners around Nome, they
elected" him their preacher, though
he never had been ordained.
Relieved of the worries of having
to earn a living, Robins took up social
service work in Chicago in 1902 upon
his return from Alaska. He became
superintendent Of Chicago's munich
pal lodging house-and that suited
him exactly, because he liked to ex-
plore the souls Of men and restore
social derelictS to sound life.
He remained there until 1905, and
then became member Of the Chicago
board Of education for four years.
When Theodore Roosevelt bios
somed as Progressive candidate for
the presidency in 1912, Robins was
one of the first to support him. He
assumed charge OF the Roosevelt
campaign in Illinois. Two years later
he ran for the United States senate
on the Progressive ticket, and went
down in defeat.
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nesday; not so
cool tonig h t,
warmer WedneS-
day.
For North Da-
kota: General y
fair tonight and
Wednesday; not
so cool tonight
west and north
portions: warmer
Wednesday.
For South Da-
kota: Fair tonight
and Wednesday,: