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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

OF the vast number of questions
answered by this department only a
few can be published in this column
The ones that are printed must be of
general interest and not personal in
their nature. Do not therefore. merely
sign your initials to your letter and
ask that the answer be published. Give
your full name and address, so that
you may receive a personal letter in
reply. Inclose cents carefully wrap
pedD for return postage. Direct your
letter to The Evening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic ]. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. G.
@. What was the first show in
which Miriam Hopkins played in New
York?-S. w.
A. Her first Broadway appearance
was as water lily in the Music Box
Revue"
@. Who invented the cash regis
term. r.
A. 1t is probably the most antique
and yet in its improved form the most
modern device known to commerce.
More than 5000 years ago the ancients
used a registering device known as the
abacus for the purpose Of showing
visibly to the buyer and seller the
amount purchased. The modern cash
register was invented by Jacob Ritty
of Dayton, Ohio. patented 1879, it being
steamship which recorded the number
of revolutions Of the propeller.
@. Please give list Of the Speakers
of the House of Representatives and
their terms from 1889 to the present
S. R. S.
A. The Speakers of the House from
1889 have been: Thomas B. Reed
1889-1891 (Maine): Charles F. Crisp
1891-1895 Georgia.; Thomas 3. Reed
1895-18e9 (Maine); D. B. Henderson,
1899-1903 uowa): Joseph G. Cannon
19O3-1911 (Illinois); Champ Clark
1911-1919 (MissourD: Frederick H. Gill
lett, 1919-1925 (Massachusetts); Mich
olas Longworth, l925-l931 (Ohio)
John N, Garner. 1882 (Texas).
@. Has Able Dimnet visited Amer
ica?-D. c. A.
A. He lectured at the Williamstown
Institute of Politics in 1928 and has
since made several trips to America as
the author of the non-fction best sell
er, "The Art Of Thinking"
@. Is membership in the Dude Ranch
ers' Association confined to ranch own
erS?-H K.
A. The Dude Ranchers' Association
includes in it's membership both owners
and patrons 1t numbers among It's
members well known men and women
writer's, artists, business men, railroad
officials, politicians-in fact, men ano
women from all walks OF life. Nearly
every State in the Union is represented
and several foreign countries.
O. Which university has fund for
research on venereal diseaSe?-W. l..
A. The University of Chicago has the
A. B. Kuppenheimer fund of 81 100000
Tor that purpose.
@. What is cassation?-W. A.
A. In music, it signifies the type ol
orchestral work consisting OF several
short movements of a light character,
popular in the eighteenth century, Sere-
made and divertimento being otner
names for much the same kind OF CON-
position. Mozart wrote three works SO
named.
@. What kind of cloth is used to
cover the Macon and how much VIII II
take?-S. B.
A. The covering for the dirigible Is
made from long staple cotton, so closely
woven as to resemble linen. II 1t were
laid out in a circle, 1t would be large
enough to cover seven acres. After II
is in place 1t will be doped and water
proofed to make 1t fit tight.
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Only 2 Survivors of the
Creely Arctic Expedition

To the Editor Of The Star.
In your issue Of August IS there
appeared a dispatch from Seward,
Alaska, announcing the death of a
&c. A. Frank. 80 years old, who said
he was the last survivor of the ILL
fated Greely expedition into the Arctic
in 1881"
1t may be stated on the best of au-
thority that C. A. Frank was not a
member of the Greely expedition There
are two survivors of that expedition
living-Gen. A. w. Greely, U. S. A., re-
tired. and Gen. David L. Brainard,
U. S. A. retired, both living in Wash
ington, D. c. D. l.. BRAINARD,
Brigadier general, U. s. A, retired.
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Economists may find prosperity at
hand in recognizing the fact that with
industry capable of producing more
than enough to meet the needs OF
destitute multitude, some kind OF gen.
tlemen's agreement should suffice to
solve the situation.
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A bull market says that future con-
ditions will justify higher prices and a
bear market inquiries whether the pub
lie will have the money on hand to meet
them. The old stock ticker is engaged
in recording one of the liveliest debates
that have occurred on this subject.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

1t is somewhat remarkable that mud
lists should be circularizing the country
just at a time when the furnace men
are notifying customers that 1t is time
TO prepare for cold weather.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

Kansas has developed many men of
conspicuous bravery in expressing ideals,
and Vice President Curtis will miss his
guess If history does not record him as
one of them.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

A difficult task confronts Mayor
Walker in convincing the practical
minded citizen that a man may be
so popular that every one he meets
wants to hand him money.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

Poets used to describe farmers as
being up with the lark. Farmers on
strike in the Middle West are emphatic
In indicating that what is getting them
up early Just now is in nowise TO be
described as a lark.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

Great Britain is always thorough.
When converted to the idea of pro-
tective tariff, John Bull exhibits all the
traditional enthusiasm Of the new con-
Vert
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Paraguayan Amazons.

From the Des Moines Register.
1t should be explained to the Para
guayan girls that marching off to war,
with the inevitable kitchen police, Is no
way to evade houSework.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
International Geysers.

From the Boston Globe.
A geyser that spouts soda water has
been discovered in Yellowstone Park.
It's complement is being sought over
the Canadian border.
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Distraction.
n the indianapolis News.

From the indianapolis News
Base Eal Commissioner Lands IS
going TO investigate reports that bail
PLAYERS are betting on horse races, a
practice that may tske payers mind
Of the game in th& midst Of . triple
play.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

Brewers who are making ready to
supply demand for beer are so con-
fident Of the future that they are not
even asking the r. F. c. for loan.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
Lightning and Legislators.

From the Minnes pclis Journal
Lightning, it appears from scientific
research, can strike from the bottcr1 as
well as the top. Which mey 90 part
way toward esSa,sieI~-S Congress.
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q .aciated Press.
Member Of the

The Associated Press is eXclusivelv entitled
IN the use for republication Of all news dis
matches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper End also the local me news vs.
snerisl dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

Western dairy farmers disdain the
Wall Street bull and seek to develop
militancy in the once placid COW.
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One After Another.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
If and after beer is provided for the
workingman we may be confronted with
the problem of providing the working
man for the beer.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
Decadence.

From the Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Journal.
Note from the Old Frontier: A peace
officer was slain and three men wounded
in a pistol fight in an Oklahoma soda
hell
Evening star., 1932-08-24
Speech.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Free speech is one of the great bless
ings of the American people and will
continue to be such until scmebdy starts
compulsory listening.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
Good News for Babes.

From the Cincinnati Times.
The spinach crop, We read, is fall
ure. What a pity that most of those
whom this news would gladden. can't
read.
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Almost Perfection.

The gloomy person still will slight
Our optimistic song
Ard say, "All things would be all right
If some had not gone wrong"
Evening star., 1932-08-24
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
HOLIDAYS.

Used to feel thrill OF cheer
When the whistle shrill
Brought the men from far and near
Travelling crost the hill.
Long yet happy hours they passed
Striving at their best,
And when twilight came at last
Finding sweetest rest.
Holidays prolonged arrive
Bringing hopes immense
That some where folks may thrive,
Though at our expense.
Yet there comes sense of doubt
AS we find anew
Most too much to think about
Not enough to do.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

Patience" said Uncle Ebcn. "is no
good if 1t goes so fur ss to be nufin'
but dumb laziness."
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Amplified Authority.

"A woman can always have her own
way"
She also has the privilege Of chang
ing her mind" answered Miss Cayenne.
which gives her the privilege of having
numerous varieties of her own way"
Evening star., 1932-08-24

II shall not journey in an airplane,"
said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. Its
dangers a.e but small, but on my own
doorstep there are no dangers at all"
Evening star., 1932-08-24

do you cultivate dialect In your
speeches?"
"Oh yes," answered Senator Sorghum.
II don't dare use absolutely correct
speech to some of my audiences. They'd
think was trying to put on airs"
Evening star., 1932-08-24
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

Business once:
llth st and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York ONCE: li0 East 42nd ST
Chicago once: Lake Michigan Building.
European once: IA Regent St. London.
ENGLAND.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

Jud Tunkins says he's in favor of
popular government, but after hearin
so many complaints, he's "beginnin' to
wonder how you're goin' to get one"
Evening star., 1932-08-24
Ordeal.

The homicide tendencyS almost a fad.
1t drives us almost into fury.
Though often I'm sad. of one thing I'm
glad
I'm not on a ccroners jury.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

After seven days in office, the new
Secretary Of Commerce, Roy D. Chaplin,
Michigan motor magnate. took to the
Evening star., 1932-08-24
Rate by Mail-Payable In Advance
MARYLAND and Virginia.

All Other States and Canada.
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Lessons i'm Gold.

JPV 7 NV 2
A-A~a
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bit Of coaching on the side when they
needed it.
Mrs. Fortescues father died two
years ago. Her step-mother, Mrs.
Charles Bell, is in Europe, and one OF
Mrs. Fortescue's three children is with
her-Marion, or 'Rion" for short.
When Grace Bell and Granville
Fortescue were married in washington
81 years ago this June, it was an i'm
portant event on the social calendar.
Miss Bell was pretty and popular.
Fortescue was a cousin Of Theodore
Roosevelt, and had been rough rider
in the famous troop.
Have Been Globe Trotters.
The Fortescues went to Central
America after their marriage, and there
the b. Tide learned to speak Spanish.
She knows French German and Ital-
ian. also. The children have linguistic
knowledge, too, for the Fortescues have
been globe-trotters.
Thalia, the eldest daughter, has blue
eyes like her mother, but the family
says she is much more phlegmatic in
temperament, but very sweet girl"
1t seemed in accordance with family
tradition that she should have been
chosen by navy man, who would take
her to far corners of the world.
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STRAWN SEES TAX
RAISES NECESSARY
Every Income Garner, Large
and Small, Must Aid Ma
ton, He Declares.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, January 14.-SiIas H.
Strawn, president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, declared yes
terday that an increase in both upper
and lower brackets of the income tax
is necessary to aid in balancing the
national budget.
Every man in the United States who
earns an income, large or small, must
aid in the governmental money crisis,
he said in an address before the Balti-
more Bond Club, and declared that
the most disquieting aspect Of the
present times is the disposition of
people to avoid payment of taxes and
shift the burden on some one else"
Balancing of the national budget is
absolutely necessary to maintenance of
the governmental credit, Mr.. Strawn
said, and even an upward revision of
the income tax will not accomplish 1t.
New and other methods of balancing
must be devised, he declared.
The financial status of the Nation
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insult and defiance Of every Law OF
the Territory and country.
Admiral Pratt's statement added fuel
to the flames and caused an outburst
from press, pulpit and legal profession
The people are resentful and alarmed
that a conspicuous officer of the Nation
should openly sanction contempt for
the courts and condone the killing OF
one whom the laws Of the land hold
innocent till proved guilty.
Criticizes Admiral Pratt.
Honolulu had an experience In the
famous Fukunaga case Of an excited
demand for the life of one who was
proved to be innocent. II the mystery
had not been solved an innocent man
probably would have been convicted and
hanged on the testimony Of hand
writing expert. A frequent reference to
that case in local conversation assists
one in sizing up what appears to the
Navy as lack of forcefulness Of the
local public toward Kahahawai and
others.
Generally speaking, the declaration
of Admiral Pratt is accepted as infer
ring that Mrs. FCrtescue and Lieut..
Massie did a good job. Former Chief
Justice Robertson has, in public state
ment, declared that the latest issue is
whether our Nation is for lynch law or
against it, putting Admiral Pratt on
the side of lawlessness. The influence
of Admiral Pratt's statement on Navy
personnel is obvious and must make
the position of Admiral Stirling in
creasingly difficult, because some one
has to keep his balance in time OF
public ex0tement.
The oietzens of Hawaii have never
resorted TO lynch law and deeply resent
and are outspoken in condemnation OF
condoning of such methods in any
down of Mrs. Massie's assailants is
grievously complicated by counter-ex-
element that stirs the deepest feeling.
But in the midst of 1t all special
committees and city and territorial
officers are continuously seeking every
clue and bringing every possible inf1u-
ence to bear to get at facts in such
a way that no alibi can be possible for
the guilty persons when they are finally
brought before the court.
Can Take Care of Self.
Reports circulating in the mainland
press of riots, race hatreds and acute
danger to women in Honolulu would
be hughably ridiculous If they were
not so yiciously false and did not
utterly misrepresent the pAple and
the spirit of Honolulu among m races
and all classes, except few u cssoea-
inal tendencies.
Al special session of the Legislature to
handle police legislation and other
matters was under consideration weeks
before the last affair The Governor
and legislators were lining up a pro-
gram to assure results
Hawaii is fully capable Of handling
its own affairs.
(Copyr!ght 1892. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
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SOCIETY IS AGHAST
At HAWAIIAN CASE.
Friends of Mrs. 'Fortescue
Refuse to Believe Her I'm
pIication in Murder.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 14-Aghast
over the Hawaiian murder, with Its pro-
lopue of attack, society can talk of
scarcely anything else these days.
Patrician Grace Fortescue, with her
craving hair, arrested for the Staying
of a native Hawaiian-her friends 1v-
ing here 5000 miles away say they
cannot believe 1t.
Only an inner circle knew why Mrs.
Fortescue so suddenly left the comfort
able mid Victorian house OF the Roose-
velts at Bayport, Long Island, last Sep
TENDER. after cable from Honolulu.
But those who have known her since
girlhood say they can we'll imagine her
state of mind when she learned her
Youthful daughter, Thalia, wife Of Lieut..
THOMAS H, MasSie, U. S. NJ, was in the
hospital in a pitiable condition after an
attack by Hawaiian natives.
COURAGEOUS and Brilliant.
"Grace would have been President
If she had been a man." the World
Telegram today quotes a saying OF her
late father, Charles Bell, head of the
American Security & Trust Co. in
Washington.
A courageous, able, brilliant and low
able woman, the newspaper says her
friends describe her She has blue eyes
and a slim, straight figure, Is an eX-
cellent golfer, likes bridge, and loves
riding.
A mutual love of horses and the
thrills of canters and jumps were a
strong bond Of interest between her and
her adventurous husband, Maj. Gran
Vile Roland Fortescue, who now is Ill
with pneumonia In hospital here.
AS a girl, Grace Bell spent her child
hood in q stately house on Connecti-
cut avenue in Washington. Her young
est brother, Bobbie, now Robert Bell
of west Fifty-seventh street, New York,
will leave for Honolulu this week to be
with his sister. Her sister, Helen, now
is Mrs Julian Ashton Ripley OF Lexing-
ton avenue.
Headed Her Glass.
Childhood Sumrusfs were passed near
Boston. at Twin Oaks, the estate Of the
Children's grandfather, Gardiner Hub
bard, Boston f1nancier. 1t was he who
gave their uncle, Alexander Graham
Bell, money to put the first telephone
on the market.
At school, Grace was at tt< head OF
her class. At Mount Vernon Summary
she used to help her friends with
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delegated to secure statistical facts
Admiral Pettingill went of half-cocked,
and Admiral Pratt has followed his
example.
Admiral Stirling repeatedly urged that
the defendants in the Massie case be
kept confined. I have it on good
authority that the judge urged attorneys
for the defendants to turn them over
to be jailed, but under the law could
not refuse to release them on bail
The Judge stretched the law in requir-
ing them to report regularly to court.
The Judge was neither Indifferent nor
neglectful Up to the kidnapping Of
Kahahswai from under the very caves
of the court and later the killing, the
community sentiment was wholly with
Mrs. Massie and still is as concerns the
assault.
The citizens, through the Chamber of
Commerce have been spending time
and effort without limit to get the
culprits and put them away. But the
kidnapping and killing in which Mrs
Fortescue and Lieut.. Massie are In
volved Is regarded as an outrageous
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necessitates the immediate passage Of
the reconstruction finance measure. he
declared, and said that "our intrepid
financiers are responsible for many Of
the troubles we now face" in connec-
ton with governmental and private
debts owed by foreign nations to the
United States.
IT do not charge them with sole
responsibility, he said, but think In
making many of the loans, they mis-
judged capacity of the debtors to meet
the service charges"
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TAXI DRIVER ROBBED
Tells Police Two Bandits Relieved
Him of SO. so and Cab.

How he was robbed Of $3.50 by two
bandits who drove off in his taxicab
was reported to police early today by
Thomas Payne of 1887 D street south
east. Payne said the pair employed
him at Eighth and E streets northeast
to drive them to the 1900 block of
Union street southwest. There, the
driver said, his fares" produced guns,
demanded his money and made off in
his cab.
Police were looking for men and
taxicab today from descriptions fur
nished by Payne.
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MASSIE AID PLANNED.
winchester, KY, Citizens 10 Hold Mass
Meeting Today.

WINCHESTER, KY, January IA (Rl.
"A mass meeting of Winchester citizens
will be conducted here this afternoon to
pledge aid and support to Lieut.. Thomas
Massie and his mother-in ~w, charged
in Honolulu with killing ~awaiian &C
cused Of attacking the officers wife.
Massie's mother, Mrs. w. S. Massie,
and sister, Miss Dorothy Massie, live
here. The Massie family is wealthy and
has funds to retain counsel, but the
meeting today will take steps to aid in
obtaining fair trial for the accused.
A group Of 20 citizens was formed
yesterday to arrange for the meeting
and the mayor issued proclamation
asking all toWnspeople to assemble at
the court house. Representative Virgil
Chapman of this district informed the
group by telegram of his efforts in
Washington in behalf of MaSsie,
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more home-loVlng community and no Judlclal OIL
icer more schooled in law than the judge who
presided over. the trial of the five defendants
harged by a grand jury with criminally assault
ng Mrs. Thomas H. Massie.
When the trial began was in the Orient, re-
turning only when it was its close. Public
ointment then was all for Mrs Massie. The at
iorncys for the defense, however, established an
aIibi that caused even trained reporters who. had
followed the case in its every detail to doubt
whether the police had the right men.
The jury was not divided on race lines nor
was the division at any time within narrow mar
gin Apparently the prosecution felt 1t had a sure
case. Attorney General Hewitt OF the Territory
was in close touch with the city prosecutor. Mt
Hewitt served under me deputy and was later
promoted to attorney general. I can vouch for his
being hard-boiled and able.
In the light of past events 1t appears that
mistake was made in not trying the men separate
ly to strengthen the possibility of one or more
turning states evidence, If they are guilty.
Father Defends Son.
Hawaiians generally do not make hardened
criminals and when involved In serious crime
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This attitude on the part of any local
citizen apparently embitters Navy peo-
pie who are resentful that the direct
testimony of Mrs. Massie is not taken
as final by everyone. Apparently poor
Judgment was used by the police in
selecting the men sent out on the case
on the first report of the assault, and
wretched Judgment in handling persons
apprehended They were willing enough,
but apparently lacked experience.
The police administration has been In
agitation in Honolulu for nearly four
years. The Legislature of 1929 pro-
vided larger police force, supposedly
the solution. The famous Fukunaga
case of 1929, similar to California's
Hickman case, showed the sheriff was
woefully weak in executive direction
and control. He was reelected in 1880
because he is honest"
Continued agitation resulted in de-
mand for an appointive chief OF police,
but the bill failed by narrow vote to
pass the 1881 Legislature.
Went on Half Cooked.
Admiral Stirling has kept his balance.
but must have been misled by persons
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ELWOOD STREET SPEAKS

Elwood Street, director of the Com
munity Chest, will address the Wash
ington Hebrew Congregation tomorrow
night at o'clock.
Mr.. Street, using the topic "Our Com
munity," will tell Of some of the social
and philanthropic problems of the city.
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CALLS MRS. FoRTEsCUE.
8sepnother Of Accused Woman Leaves
Italy to Use Telephone.

ROME, Italy, January IA (P).-Mrs.
9. j. Bell stspmother of Mrs. Granville
Roland Fortescue who is under arrest
in Honolulu charged with participating
in the Staying of the alleged attacker
of her daughter, tried to telephone
Mrs. Fortescue from here but. finding
communication difficult, left for Men
ton, France, in hope of getting better
connection.
Mrk, Bell was st b hotel here for
sevesss days. ..r .--l---.--s
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BY WALLACE RIDER HARRINGTON,
Former Governor Of Hawaii.
By Gable to The Stal

HSNoT is
assaulng ynch
andm Of perons IN Of the courts
of handling
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Hawaii Can Care for Self
Former Governor Declares Island People Fully
Capable of Conducting Own Affairs.
Criticizes Two Admfals.


history M
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During an action in High Court at
Seven Oaks, England, it was brought
out that a house in Devon was under q
lease Of 1000 years from the death OF
Queen Elizabeth, in 1903.