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sister. "
She hadn't gotten up yet.
It's kind of brutal to go
waking people up to pop
questions at 'em, but she
came to the door good
naturally in a blue kimono,
a few rags still on her hair
making platinum blond
curls.
will you tell me about the
showboats?"
We'll, my brothers showboat
has gone to Charleston. It'll stay
there four weeks and then finish
the season at Cincinnati. Some
times, showboats make more
money by staying in large cities
than by doing one-night stands
since they've gotten stylish, that is.
Capt. Hyatt's boat, the Water
Queen, is right down at the end
of the street. She won't be going
out very soon. She hasn't found
any one to push her. But Capt.
T. j. Reynolds Showboat Ma jestic
is down there, too, and she's going
out almost any day."
90 we ran to the end of the
- road, stood on the banks of
the Kanawha River, and looked.
There was the Majestic, sitting
in the river, neat as you please.
capt. Reynolds, can I come
on board?"
Sure, but don't fall off the
gangplank on the way up" he
says. laughing.
Did you ever see a Showboat?
If you have seen one you know
she is long and f1at-bottomed and
she squats on top of the water
like a duck. If you've seen a real
showboat you'll understand the
old saying. that river boats dis
place so little water they could
sCoot across the fields on a heavy
morning dew"
If you don't believe it, take
look at this one-Capt. T. j. Rey-
nolds' Majestic, anchored opposite
Point Pleasant, w. Va.
"Oh, Lord, but we're busy" says
the Captain. I'VE had to clean
the whole boat, get out all the
beds and furniture. fix up the
rooms, and finish painting all the
decks. We've used 40 gallons of
paint already, white, orange, and
black"
1t is a busy time, and if you
want to see this boat. be careful
that you don't step into can of
paint. The Majestic Showboat is
20 feet wide, 100 feet long, and 4
feet deep. planned and built by
Capt. Reynolds himself.
no up the gangplank and fol-
VI low your nose to the middle
of the deck. The window on the
left for tickets. The window on
the right for popcorn. Then go
straight ahead and you're in the
theater.
The Majestic seats 500 people
every night till November, $50
downstairs, and $50 in the bal
cony, and
That's where the tough guys
sit" pipes UP a younger member
of the Reynolds family. On either
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EuEuouh
BY
WESTBROOK

NEW YORK, June 10.-Not always do find my
1 y self in agreement with Arthur Brisbane. the
editorial opinion Of the Hearst newspapers, but it
is reaSsuring to discover that think alike about
the dangerous possibilities of the przehght which
the Hearst papers promoting at the Yankee
Stadium June IS.
The principals Joe Louis, young American
Negro and Primo Camera, the Italian military re-
servist. The Yankee Stadium lies just across the
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side of the stage are box seats,
upper and lower, with cretonne
curtains to boot.
It's surprising to landlubber
to see a theater on a boat, but,
fellow landlubbbers, theaterS on
boats are not to be sneezed at.
There are steam heat and electric
fans, an orchestra pit, footlightS,
scenery and curtains-everythlng
quite complete.
An inside staircase leads to the
upper deck, the balcony, and
several rooms-the captains quar-
tiers.
There's a large front porch
with awnings, flower boxes, a
swing, and usually several chill
dren playing around. Then near
the back of the boat on this deck
there are four staterooms for
actors.
VOU go through a trapdoor to
i get to the pilothouse. Don't.
forget to mention the pilothouse;
YOU steer from up there.
Then come downstairs and go
backstage. Scenery and props
and lights. Two stories high be-
hind scenes and a lot of space.
A stairway here leads into the
hold. also into the orchestra pit.
But now if you'll just step
across to the Alta Boy we'll show
you some more. The Alta Boy
is the little steamboat at the
stern of the showboat, and it fur
nishes the power to push her
along upstream.
If you duck into the hold,
you'll see two long belts nearly
the length of the boat and about
a foot wide. Big wooden levers
sticking up.
Pull one of those and she goes
ahead, pull the other and she goes
in reverse. Here's the machine
that makes electric lights, and
here's where the steam comes up
for the calliope.
When you go up to the next
deck and inside, you see the big
dining room for both actors and
crew. Back Of that is the kitchen
and the place to do the laundry.
There is another room on the
steamboat-the boudoir for the
cook. a very important person on
any boat.
ON the roof of the steamboat,
~ placed in honor, as itsshould
be, is the calliope. Without wish
ing to insult the royal calliope,
you might say that its pipes look
like tin cans with empty spools
on top.
At one end is a small piano
keyboard. You press a key, the
key pulls a wire, the wire opens
the top of one of the canS-and
thar she blows.
Kids along the shore all come
running when they near 1t, ana
they can name any boat without
looking, by the sound of the
calliope.
Capt. Reynolds, can I ride
along when she goes up the
river?" I ask.
No reply. The captain goes on
with his work.
Finally he comes at me With a
twinkle in his eye.
ct don't know where I'll put
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

ARE chemical elements whose names are
X familiar only to a handful Of chemists are
gradually finding increasing importance IN the
scheme OF modern industry Gallium' gerhlanluIh'
fndium zrconium. caeSium, rubidum, cerium. oarl-
nm and nthum might be mentioned as lew OF
them. =,
some OF these rare metals find their use as In
gradients OF alloys but others are being used IN tne
Barurn is being used today in the production OF
a high nickel alloy which is used IN the manulac-
ture Of ignition equipment for automoohes: ClgaIeC
pocket lighters make use OF pyrograpmc alloys COM
posed or cerium alleged with some base metal Such
Csesiur and rudibum are both finding uses in
the construction Of photo-eleotric cells or electric
eyes" Iithium. the highest metal known Is en-
Moved as a deOxidzing agent in the refining OF cop
re- In addition Mthium is used TO make certain
alloys.
-rPcONrrrN finds its chief use in fashight pow
II ders and ammunition primers Both chromium
and barium also are used IN the manufacture OF
vacuum tubes. Because Of their high sosoroaolIty
OF gases they are useful in maintaining good
vacuumS. ,,. -, -,
An interesting use FOR the metal gallium has been
found in thermometers for registering high tenpera-
lures A tube OF fused quartz Is uSeo LOT the tneI
r,or,eter The thermometer is used at tempera-
lures above 700 degrees centgrade- AT these lehl-
peratures gsllium is liquid.
number Of other uses has been suggested lor
gallium One is the production OF optical mirrors
Another Is in an alloy with aluminium as the elec-
trode for metal vapor lamps.
The United States Bureau has also constructed
a uronochronatic lamp. that L lamp giving on
only one wavelength Of light which makes use OF
an alloy OF gallium and cadmium
Only a small amount OF gallium. about per
cent IS used but It seems TO give the CADMIUM
qualities which greatly reduce the mechanical pr J.
lens involved in the design Of the lamp.
The bureau has also constructed quartz vacuum
lanip using an alloy OF gallium and ENC
~ERMANIUM. recent experiments snow, may
" Prove useful in strengthening the hard alum
mum alloy known duralumin. Patents have been
taken out on aluminium magnesium alloys contain
ing per cent OF germsnium.
Some experiments have been tried TO replace
silicon with germanium the manufacture OF glass
but the germanium glasses were found 10 have much
lower melting points.
Indium Is not yet Of commercial Importance, al
though experiments are under vay in which the
effect OF small percentages Of tndium in various
allows is being tried out
Hafniun. another Of the rarer metals may md
some use in the manufacture Of radio tuoes and for
the electrodes in X-ray tubes Patents covering
this use have recently been taken out.
Another rare metal for which no use has yet been
found Is masurium.
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Businesses OF CONNECTICUT For a
full FIVE days. including a long night
session. I have been referring TO
myself as your chairman" That is
bad. Ny attention has been called
on numerous occasions to the fact
that I use the personal and vertical
prOnOun much too often. So be it.
Can the approach be actually avoid
cd by the simple mechanism of
calling yourself 1t is learned on
good authority?
One Of the reasons why I wish
70 catch fast train heading home
is the fact that for five days I have
bncn a r1nru1anpr,f chairman 7 ran
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GR0CERS TO DISCUSS
NATIONAL CONVENTION
City Group to Make Final Plans for
Event Opening Sunday.

Final arrangements for the FIVE
day convention of the National AS
ISOLATION of Retail Grocers, which
will begin here Sunday, will be dis
cussed at a meeting of the Indian
apolis Retail Meat and Grocers As
ISOLATION in the Hoosier Athletic
Club at 8 tomorrow night. The
meeting will be a joint session of
all arrangement committees for the
national convention.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DreuU Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON June Congress- the White House and
w most of country absorbed with the Court de
RooeveS newly established
watching.
Commission charged With super
vision of
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o-Give the relative population figures for the
Z s g r. In 1897 and 1884.
A-The 1897 population was los 49, 800, and in
1884 1t was 10000 600 aan increase Of approximately
100000.
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HERE COMES THAT SHOWBOAT!
Romance and Glamour Still Ride ON Americas Great R7prS

.smHv that ply
Of Of
Ninxt Dries Of uhieh his Il he
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II Seems hM
Haywood BROIN

CLEVELAND June iO.-This column IS merely TO
~ indicate 70 New YORK that here come. Al
though no brass bands nor spontaneous mass action
OF citizens is likely 70 occur this morning still must
testify as 70 my own satisfaction in getting back to
the home t0vn.
Every now and so often any Broadwayite should
venture forth for purposes Of education and expert
ence. have had ny experience and it is in the
family plan 10 retire as quickly as possible to the
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BY BERTHA WELLMAN
MA service special CORES pondent

IT'S showboat time on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
Things are beginning to boom in Point Pleasant w.
Va where the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers meet The boats
have been in dry dock through long winter months
When do the showboats really get started? Go down
Point Pleasant ard you'll find out Inquire at the bus
station in the Phoenix Hotel
Hey Sis" shouts man as he leaves the restaurant,
'f any one wants me- I'll be in Huntington all afternoon
Well Sis seems to be the bureau of information, so
question her.
"IIey, Sis. where are the showboats? They haven't
left yet, have they? want to get on a showboat
"Cmon, then" she says, follow me- Billy Bryants
sister is in this hotel She'll tell you all about EN- Billy
Bryants had showboats on this river for years"
We got up old dusty wooden staircase through
long cold hail. with high ceilings, and cobwebS in the
corners.
knock on thai door, No. g. that's Billy Bryants
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SENATORS QUIZ.
OUSTED ROPER |
ASSISTANT |
Charges Dragged Into Open as
'HiIp Gives Mitchell 0ppor:-
tunity to Talk g

TIL OINCo "IkViINu SFF".
tunity to Talk
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there are scandaIOuS things go
ing on"
DENIES ACTION DELAY
Mitchell denied this, saying:
II tried my best to get these
things adjusted from the In
side"
Mitchell's testimony at the out
set was critical of the Govern
ment contracts with the United
States lines-including especially
the recent arrangement under
which the line was permitted to
lay up the Leviathan.
In this case, said Mitchell, the
United States lines should return
to the Government the money 1t
got several years ago for a con-
tract to operate the big vessel for
five years.
He said he believed the whole
United States Line contrac t
entered by the Government should
be rescinded. He said:
"The United States should be
protected from the racketeers."
Attacking Admiral Cone, the
witness said the former Shipping
Board head was a mere mes
senger" for the International Mer-
camille Marine, which owned the
United States Lines. He said:
"Why, when I was in the Ship
ping Board, I stopped the scrap
ping of "a ships. L stopped the
delivery of nine ships to the
LykeS Brothers.
QUOTES ADMIRAL
"And Admiral Cone came to
me and said, You're going to
get yourself in a terrible jam If
you keep on this way"
Mitchell brought into his testi-
mony the names of Vincent Astor,
frequent host aboard his yacht
Nourmahal to President Roosevelt,
Kermit Roosevelt, cousin OF the
President. and others. Senator
Vandenburg asked:
"WhO do you continue to
bring in the name of Vincent
AstOr and Kermit ROOSEVELT"
Because they are prominent.
Vincent AstOr is q big stock
holder in the International Mer-
camille Marine. Kermit ROOsei
welt has been active here in
shipping matters-that's in the
records"
Senator Bailey returned to his
questioning as to why Mltchell
did not make his charges public
earlier.
81 tried to clean up these
things from the inside. Do you
think should give these things
out to the public while I was
still in Officer"
81 do"
CALLS 1T CESSPOOL
"'WeI, every man has q right
to his own opinions, Senator"
Mitchell said any Government
official could easily see the "cor-
ruption" going on in the depart
ment.
every intelligent newspaper
reader knows the Shipping
Board was a cesspOOl Of cOrrup-
ton"
The witness drew frequent
reprimandS from committee
members including Republicans.
Senator Copeland interrupted
Mitchell once to ask whether he
was making new charges or going
over old ones. Senator Copeland
said:
these things are on the
record"
That's just it. All this was
called to the attention Of Sec
rotary Roper. What did he do?
Nothing"
Senator Vandenberg asked:
why, these matters should
be referred to the Attorney
General"
No Direct Evidence
Under constant questioning, the
witness finally admitted that on
many of his charges, he had no
"direct evidence"
Turning to another phase of
his blanket charges, Mitchell
charged collision between opera
tors Of the American West African
Line and the Shipping Board.
Senator Copeland said:
"All this was brought out in
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Smoke Forces FelOns
To Surrender Mine

tween the lane of guards. Serving
as a habitual criminal, McMahan
was one of the II prisoners who
scaled the walls and escaped in
January, 1884.
After ordering breakfast for
the conquered crew, Warden
Simpson took time to praise the
bravery of his mer and especi-
ally Guard o. N. johnson who
held the gun cages single
handed against the rioters, and
Robert Murray, superintendent
of the mine. who went down
alone and unarmed in an effort
to bring peace.
Murray was the one who
brought back the word that
caused the Prison Boards decla-
ration of war.
The guards held as hostages
by the prisoners were unframed,
Warden Simpson said.
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6 MILLIONS
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used for storage of Government
publications, and the construction
of a fireproof building to replace
these old buildings.
The project also contemplates
the acquisition of land across the
street from the present main build
ing and the erection thereon OF
a warehouse type of building, with
railroad connections for the han
ding of freight.
The report adds:
In addition to the fire hazard
to be eliminated by the remodel
ing of these old buildings, the
additional space to be gained
by the warehouse and the new
building will permit the elimi-
nation of considerable work now
performed at night at increased
expense of Is per cent on &C
count of insufficient space for
day time production"
An appropriation of two million
dollars is proposed in the bill to
begin the remodeling and extern
sion of the old Pension Office
building. The estimated cost of
the entire project is $4,700,000.
Build Two Wings
The project contemplates the
addition of two wings to the pres
ent building consisting of subbase-
ment, basement and seven stories,
and the remodeling of the exterior
and interior of the present build
ing and the facing of the exterior
with stone. The report states:
when this space is completed
the general accounting office
will be able to surrender 279,OOO
square feet of space in other
Government buildings, and that
will become available to other
Government activities which are
now paying rent outside"
The bill also carries a total of
47,362.15 for deficiencies incur
red during the current fiscal year
by District government activities.
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GUT ONE-TH|RD
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poned construction of HiwaSse
Dam.
A total of $2O,oOO,OOO was al
lowed for construction at 38 vet
Grams hospitals, to take care Of in
creasing mental cases.
Funds For Dams
The IVA fund, the committee
report said, will permit construc-
ton of Guntersville Dam, costing
$1,000, 900 and Chicamauga Dam,
$4,000, 900. The comm e
allowed $14,OOO,OOO for Boulder
Dam.
The bill carried $1O,OOO,O00 for
a floating drydock at Pearl Har-
Dor, Hawaii; $75O,OOO for a float
ing dtydock of different type;
$1,124,000 for buildings at the
fleet air base, Pearl Harbor; and
100000 for ammunition stor-
age facilities in the Canal Zone.
A sum of $750,000 was included
for a new building at Shanghai,
China, to house all government
activities and $250.000 to acquire
an embassy residence at Rio de
Janeiro.
The committee allowed 1924
$50 to expand West Point Military
Academy, and $4,525,750 to begin
work on an airdrome at Fort
Kamehameha, Hawaii.
Indian Suits Curbed
Rivers and harbors improve
ments provided for include: Bon
neville Dam, Oregon, $8,244,000;
Brunswick. Ga. $4,000; dredging
in Lake St. Clair and st. Clair
and Detroit rivers, 100000; Cape
Fear River, N. c., $1,163,000.
To prevent the Government be-
ing forced to pay huge sums on
Indian suits totaling $4,000, 900,
the committee wrote a provision
in the bill requiring courts, in
allowing Indian claims, to deduct
all gratuitious advances by the
Government.
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KILLS |,
LEVELS CROPS
IN MARYLAND
Washington Given Relief From
Record Heat of 95 As
Rain Hits Capital

Washington was cool today
after gasping through yesterday
when the thermometer went to
95 degrees to set new record for
the year, accompanied by ex-
cessive humidity.
Rain and winds last night
drove the temperature down 80
degrees to a low of g., and at 8
o'clock this morning it had
mounted only two degrees to "a.
which was Is degrees lower than
at the same time yesterday.
Rains throughout the day
promised to keep the temperature
down, with fair and warmer
weather in prospect for tomorrow.
One Dies In Maryland
While the District enjoyed re-
lief from the heat, Maryland was
visited with a terrific storm which
took one life and caused damage
of more than 100000.
The storm centered around
Hagerstown, where the wind ap-
preached tornado velocity. The
roof of the Woodmen of the World
building was blown off. crushing a
parked automobile and narrowly
missing a group of children.
Telephone and power lines were
brought down as poles toppled in
the wind and trees were uprooted.
Crops suffered serious damage,
survey showed, many orchards
being uprooted.
Heat FrOstrates Five
Ralph Barrett, of Colora, was
killed when tree under which he
had taken shelter was struck by
lightning.
More than an inch Of rain fell
in Western Maryland during the
storm, and Northern Virginia also
reported high winds and heavy
rains which did considerable dam
age to the fruit crops.
In the Capital five persons were
treated for heat prostrations in
hospitals, and many Government
clerks were reported to have
tainted and been sent home after
emergency treatment.
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Will Rogers
Says:
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there are scandalOuS things go
AVaw nm

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 10.
That's great news about those
two South American nations
that have been fighting for
three years, Bolivia and Para
quay.
According to the terms Of
peace neither side has to take
any Of the land that they were
fighting over. Bolivia thought
for a while there she was going
to have to take it. 1t goes back
to the Indians.
Murray for Judge Lands, the
old judge made a mighty wise
decision. Especially in not al
lowing them 10 exploit this boy
just for publicity alone. You
young blades might not know it,
but in us fellows young days,
this same Judge Lands hung
a 21.milliOn traffic fine on the
Standard Oil Company.
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committee chairman, stopped this,
saying:
Suppose you hit the high
spots, and let the memorandum
go into the record"
The inquiry started with an ex
PLANTATION by the witness of his
discharge from the Commerce De,
partment. Senator Copeland
asked:
"Why did Secretary Roper say
he wanted you to leave the De-
partment?"
"Well, Secretary Roper called
me in one day and said he
wanted me to leave the Depart
ment-he didn't say that he
wanted me to resigns 32/<
NOT A LEADER 8
81 asked him why, and he
said: Because you are not
leader of men,
81 asked him how could
lead these hard-boiled Republi-
can bureau chiefs and subchiefS
when every time 1 got after
them they went around me and
he whitewaShed their actions.
II also said this was not the
real reason. The real reason
was that 1 was complaining. I
was turning up graft and IT.
regularitieS."
Mitchell did not explain what
he was turning up" He has,
however, filed additional charges
as follows:
1. That Secretary Roper
tried to get him out of the way
by offering him an appoint
ment as Minister to Rumania.
2. That officers Of the Ship
ping Board had contracted to
sell Is ships, built at a cost of
178 million dollars, for $4,000
each. That 40 of these were
strapped and sold to Japan be-
fore Mitchell halted the deal.
3. That Senator Tydings and
others had exerted pressure on
him to withdraw his opposition
to the ship sale scheme.
4. That his attack in March,
1884, on Pendergast, Demo
cratic leader of Kansas City,
led to his dismissal by the
President.
5. That graft and corruption
abound in the War and Navy
Departments.
In another surprise thrust, Mr..
Mitchell requested the President
to instruct the Attorney General
to appoint him a special as.
sistant" to present his information
of alleged graft to a Federal
Grand Jury. The unusual proposal
was contained in q letter to the
White House.
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Annex to Library
Contract Awarded

A contract for six million two
hundred sixty-nine thousand four
hundred dollars for erection Of
the annex to the Library Of Con.
gress was awarded the Consoli.
dated Engineering Company yes
terday by the Architect of the
Capitol, David Lynn.
The exterior will be of modern
treatment in the Italian Rennais-
sance motive, of fireproof con-
struction, five floors high, with the
last story set back.
Overall dimensions are 400 by
228 feet, with the central portion,
lat by 1922, to be used exclusively
for bcokStacks.