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Evening star., 1937-10-03
LEGION AUXILIARY
|NDUCTS OFFICERS
Mrs. Dorothy B. Harper An
nOunCeS Programs and
Plans for Year.

New officers OF the District OF CO.
lumbia Department. the American Le-
gion Auxiliary, were inducted into
Office at meeting Of the Executive
Committee last Friday night. Mrs.
Dorothy B. Harper. department presi-
dent, presided and announced pro-
grams and plans for the season.
The membership was divided into
three divisions, with each vice presi-
dent having jurisdiction over her
division. Miss Minnie May Hardy
has Division No. l. including the fol-
lowing units: Victory, Costello, Kill
leen, Walker, G. P. o. and Potomac.
Mrs. Helen McCabe has Division No.
z. consisting of James Reese EUROPE.
Nash, Lincoln, McGroarty, Police and
Agriculture. Division No. will b..
headed by Mrs. Catherine Waters.
with Spengler, Sergt. Jasper and
United States Treasury.
The 1888 quota set for Division No.
1 is 875; No. 2. 885, and No. 3. 100.
making the total for the department
1850
AT the September meeting ratifica-
tion of the appointment of Mrs Ellen
Louise Warren as department secre-
tary and Mrs. Perna Zott as assistant
secretary and treasurer was an
nounced. Other appointments will be
announced later.
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Rhode Island avenue northeast when
officers will be elected.

National Capital Auxiliary will have
one business and one social meeting
each month. Commencing october II
meetings will be held at the Washing
ton Post Club, Seventeenth and L
streets when officers viii b elected
Evening star., 1937-10-03

tary Order of the Lizards, composed Of
members of the auxiliaries, was in
stituted and large class initiated.
Officers will be installed at future
meeting
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The L-3l Club of Bunker Hill Post
will hold a dance at the Beaver Dam
Country Club November 10. Mrs.
Grace Miller is chairman.
Evening star., 1937-10-03

Grace Miller is chairman.
KennaMain Post. No. 81, nominated
for officers: E. P. Hise and S. J. Par
riSh, for commander; E. A. Eslin and
V. Frazier. for first vice commander;
William Wilson and Joseph Alfrandre
for second vice commander; Seth
Boswell, for finance officer; Roscoe
Aull, to succeed himself as chaplain:
Norval I. Thomas. for historian: Tony
Borsellini. Eugene Downs and Will
liam F. Johnson, for sergeant at arms;
Thomas Crane, Russell Sizemore and
Norval l. Cox, for color bearers, and
Anthony Spudis, for quartermaster.
At the meeting october officers will
be elected.
Second Division Post will hold a
dinner dance in honor of Post Comdr.
Petrie at the Lafayette on Novem-
ber 6.
The next meeting of the post will
be held Tuesday at the New Colonial
Hotel at pm.
o. c. Holleran, commander Of
Stephen P. McGroarty Post, No o.,
announces appointments: First Vice
Comdr. Arthur P Coe, membership;
George j. Rohrick, Americanism:
Simon L. Cramer, rehabilitation;
Ethel G. johnson, child welfare;
Wiley M. Fuller, veterans preference:
Egbert Corwin, graves registration;
H. G. Scheitlin, athletics; Frank G..
Howell, Memorial day; Harry N. Nor
ris, uniforms, and Harry T. w. Sander
son, entertainment.
The post will again present the
American Legion School Award
Medals to one boy and one girl Sc
lected for their outstanding qualities
in citizenship in the graduating class
at Gordon Junior High School and
Francis Junior High School in Febru-
ary and in June.
The post will be hosts tomorrow
evening to the auxiliary at the install
lation of the officers of the auxiliary
at 1910 Connecticut avenue.
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Mrs. Helen McCabe, lie chapeau
departmental, has called a meeting
for Wednesday, when she will name
her appointments.
Evening star., 1937-10-03

Department Comdr. Herman an
nounced last week official vista
tions will be held in November in
connection with the installation of
officers OF the various posts.
Chief Of Staff Thomas c. Kelleher
chairman Of the Membership Com
mlttee, is planning for a member
ship drive to follow the Armistice
day ball.
Front Line, Advance, Defense,
Washington and Admiral Robert E.
Peary Ship Posts are now meeting
at the department headquarters,
100 I street.
Evening star., 1937-10-03

Officers of EQuality-Walter Reed
Post, No. 2S4, District of Columbia
Department, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will be elected next THURSDAY
night at meeting at Pythian Temple
Those nominated are: Commander
Paul E. R. Nordquist: senior vice
commander, Asbury B. Hammond and
Albert M. Armstrong; junior vice
commander, George G.. McLeish and
William P. O'Hara; quartermaster
Albert M. Armstrong; post advocate,
Nathan H. Glueck; chaplain, Rev
Howard E. Snyder.
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The SKINS Heat

Meters that measure the tempera-
lures of stars, used to test the heat
of the human skin, show that, con-
trary to popular belief, colored skin
is virtually no better protection
against heat than white complex
ions. Although black paint absorbs
heat, it is found that black human
skin absorbs no more of it than
white. The star meters, which pick
up the human heat rays at a dis
lance and thus do not upset the
skins natural response by contact,
show that mans skin measures heat
changes as sensitively as the most
delicate thermometers. A normal
person can feel temperature rise
at a rate of less than one thou
sandth of a degree per second. His
subconscious faculties are aware Of
the change within three seconds and
Immediately set his skin "heat reg
ulators" to work.
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aster, proved their ability to 60 to
the rescue of unfertunates marooned
in the Arctic, and airplanes and rae
dio communication have improved
by leaps and bounds since that time.
Landing Planes is Tricky.
Conditions as they are known to-
day do not permit satisfactory air.
plane base in the vicinity of the
pole. The pole itself is merely
mathematical spot; the area in
which the spot is located is broken
field of ice. One year it may re-
main thick and solid when winds
from the south force the ice togeth-
er. In another year local storms
may scatter it crunching and JAM
ming for many miles in any direc-
ton. When leads are opened up
heavy fogs, through which aerial
navigation is all but impossible,
loom. And as yet little is known
about the ocean current which also
may affect the movement of the ice.
It takes a skillful-and lucky-pi-
lot to land and take off on the bro
ken, jagged surface of the polar ba-
sin. When two of Anundsen's
planes were forced down 100 miles
from the pole in 1925, it took the
men three weeks to get themselves
out.
1t is entirely possible that there
may be some small islands which
are yet large enough to support
an air base. It is certain now that
there is no such thing as an Arctic
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Poor Mans Gold
Courtney RyIey Cooper ''" ~sg s., Cooper

memory had, to degree, at least,
brought about truce in the bitter
ness between Mckenzie Joe and
himself. The signing over of the
necessary papers which had put
Jack in possession of all the claims
had been done in silence, it is
true, but not taciturnity.
Write to me sometime, Joe?"
Jack had asked as the older man
took his departure.
"Sure-Tl be glad to do that,
Jack. If there's anything to write
about. And say"
"Yes?"
"Don't hold it against Jeanne for
what she said. Me n Jeanne have
always thought lot of each other.
It was kind of natural that she'd
take up for me-"
"Of course, joe"
The older man had looked far
down the lake, CLASSY smooth, and
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direction in which they are most
likely to drift.
Russians, according to a report
from Moscow, believe that the ice
moves in a circle about the pole,
but this does not agree with the OBJ
servations of others. When Nansen
crossed the polar basin, his ship
drifted across it in nearly straight
line, short distance from the pole.
Even in winter the marooned sci
entists will face the grave danger
of the ice foes breaking under them,
for they are always moving. If a
split in the ice appeared suddenly
they would stand the chance of los
ing much of their valuable equip
ment. The loss of a considerable
part of their food supply would prob
ably be fatal, for seals and bears do
not ordinarily live that close to the
top Of the world.
II their food supply ran short in
the cold and dark periods of winter,
their chances of rescue would be
rather slim. However, the Russians
IL years ago, in the Chelyuskin dis
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continent. But for transarctic fly
ing, which is sure to come some
day, the observations of Russia's
floating weather station should be
invaluable.
If an air base could be maintained
at the pole-and who can say, look
ing back over the aerial accomplish
ments of the past score of years,
that it cannot?-the United States
and Canada might well be griev-
ously concerned. Russia seems bent
on continuing the development Of
what is already, in numbers at
least, the most powerful air force
in the world. A base at the pole
would bring the industrial centers
of the United States and Canada
within reach Of even the present
day bombing planes, and perhaps
within a days pleasure jaunt for
the bombers of ten years from now.
Canada's most valuable mineral
properties are within 1000 miles of
the pole, and her principal cities
only another 500 miles south. The
distance from the pole to New York
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with drifting, imaginary islands
floating in mirage.
"For that matter, she's always
thought an awful lot of you. A lot
more'n she did of me-"
ST know it, joe"
The older man had looked at him
keenk, his eyes sparkling, as if he
were about to say that this was
just the trouble, that Jack didn't
know it. But he only replied:
well, I guess I'd better be get
tin on-better be takin' advantage
of this calm. Old Sapphire gets
pretty nasty sometimes.
"Yes-it does, joe" Impetuously
he had put forth his hand. "Shake
with me, Joe?"
The prospector had shifted his
canoe paddle suddenly and turned
to his former partner. Then had
come silence, except for the faint
grind of callus against callus. the
jerky intake of heightened breath.
There had been no other sound; on
ly the swish of Joe's moccaSins
as he had conferred his weight in
the canoe, and the soft dip of his
paddle. After a long time, the rip
plies had rolled smoothly into CLASH
ness again; and Joe was only tiny
silhouette rounding faraway bend.
So now, two months had gone
by. It was early September, with
the nights beginning to be sharp
with frost, the foliage of poplar
splashing the deeper green, heav-
Ter growths with floods of gold, the
grizzly wandering the berry patches
on the rock slides, and night COM
ing out of the hills more quickly
and for longer duration. Yet time
had only brought Jack the deeper
conviction that Mckenzie Joe had
been wrong in his suspicious.
He was frenzied these days for
gold. Early morning found him at
his placer workings on Loon Creek,
with an extra man engaged to help
his two other employees with the
grueling work of raising the gravel
from the pit which ran down to
the bedrock gravels, and himself
laboring hour after hour to shovel
the piled-up earth into the cease
less flow of water of the sluice
boxes. There was something in his
efforts which amounted almost to
desperation; big work was going
on above, where he and Kenning
were testing out the biologists the
cries, and men must be paid, es-
pecially up here, north of '58, where
labor brought a dollar an hour.
Jack and Bruce Kenning were part
ners now.
Only two things could break the
continuity of Hammond's labors
"a trip to the upper workings or
the announcement Of a cleanup
from Kay's claim. She had just
called to him that the flow of the
sluices had been halted.
Jack Hammond dropped his SHOW
ell and went upstream. Kay ap-
peared excited as usual, herself TAX
ing a pan and filling it with a part
of the scrapings. Hammond bent
beside her at the stream, where,
dipping water, she began the work
of reducing the conglomerated resi-
due of the rifles to tangible loss
or gain. There beside her, as the
pan slowly twisted and dipped and
raised and circled, it came to Jack
that Kay had learned much of min
ing in the short time she had been
here. Now she spoke casually of
pockets and faults, of pay gravel
and sedimentation = suddenly he
halted. The pan had been cleared,
the girl had given an exclamation
and was bending over it, point
ing by nod to nubbin of gold
which lay there.
cts Knockout" Hammond ex-
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g Western Newspaper Union.
Soil Barren 20 Years Is Saved

Lhor, Germany, is boasting how
it has made poor soil, unsuited for
agriculture, yield riches. The land
was first planted thickly with oak.
After 20 years it was underplanted
with beech, which acts as a nurse
tree for the oak to bring it to ma
turity. The oak is being marketed,
and brings the highest price of any
in Europe.
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CHAPTER TX

More than two months had passed
since that morning when Jack had
walked drearily back from the lake,
gaunt with the weight of strange,
foreboding sadness. Once the heat
of their quarrel had begun to cool.
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FOUR MEN AND DOG AT THE POLE
They Are the Pioneers Rss Grand Scheme Establish Air
Routes Over Vast, Shifting Fields of Arctic Ice
BY WILLIAM c. UTLEY.

SOMEWHERE in a vast blue
~ and white desert of eternal
ice and snow there drift today
four men and a dog. For a year
they will seek to keep alive, in
deed to accomplish important
scientific work which will make
history, in the shadow of the
north pole.
The four are led by Ivan Papinin,
grizzled veteran explorer of the Arc
tic. His companions are Ernest
Krenkl, radio operator who will be
their only means of contact with the
world outside, and who accompa-
MED Admiral Richard E. Byrd to
the Antarctic in 1929; Pyotr Shir-
show, hydro-biologist who was ma
rooned with 101 others aboard an
ice breaker in the Arctic in 1884,
and Eugene Feoderov, magnetolo-
gist who has been studying the mag
netic waves of the north region for
three years.
They are one of the most vital
and certainly one of the most dra-
matic-components of fantastic,
but possibly practical, scheme of
the Russian communistic govern
ment to remap the polar regions
with air routes that will cut thou
sands of miles and many hours of
travel between northern Europe and
Asia and North America.
The plan necessitates the estab-
hshment of an airplane base some
where near the pole, base that
would involve international compli-
cations Of vast proportions in the
years to come, if it is successful.
The Russians are certain that some
day it will be. But first of all there
are a great many facts to be dis
covered about the polar basin, par
ticularly concerning weather condi-
tons, existence of solid ground and
the drift of the great ice foes. It
is up to the four drifting heroes to
find these facts insofar as they are
able.
Dog Warns of Bears.
It is hard to imagine more utter
desolation than that which the sci
entists face. They live in tents re-
inforced with snow walls on field
of ice three or four meters thick.
Their quarters are hardly spacious,
for they have kept with them
great mass of equipment, including
apparatus for observations of wealth
er, ocean depth, photography, mag
netism, currents, etc. For food they
have four tons Of powdered chicken
and other concentrated foods, BRAN
dy, tea and caviar. There are also
windmill to generate electric pow
er, skies, wolf-pelt sleeping bags,
guns, sledges, photograph with Is
records, radio, chess set, ciga-
rettes and cigars, cameras and
books. The dog is included in the
party to warn them of approaching
bears. DIR
The Russians were left on an ice
foe about 10 miles from the pole
by DR.. Otto T. Schmidt, chief pro-
tagonist of Russia's development of
the Arctic, and his convoy of air.
planes. If they are to remain near
the pole they will have to do some
moving around before the year is
out. 1t is impossible to predict the
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Column Is Removed

In the Hall des Invalides, Paris,
a soldier once hanged himself on a
certain column. Twelve other SOL
diers hanged themselves on the
same column, until the authorities
destroyed the baleful influence by
taking the column off.
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First Book ON Horticulture

Robert Squibbs' Garden Kalen-
dar," published at Charleston, S. c.,
in 1887 was probably the first sep
arate book on horticulture published
in America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13
Today's Sport
 Parade
By HENRY McLEMORE tunited Pssas staR Correspondent

Wichita, Kans., Aug. l3.--(Up)- This is the land of Alfred Mossman Landon.
 This is the home of Carrie Nation and her little red hatchet.
 This is the home of 3.2 beer.
 So, in the name of all that is good and glorious, I ask you why I, Henry McLemore, am in Wichita?
 I am not from Maine or Vermont, which lets me out as far as Landon is concerned.
 I never liked aggressive gals, al- ways making my play for those soft and silly creatures who never hatch- eted anything but Q pocketbook.
 And as for 32 beer-for mouth wash you still can't beat that soap mama used to use when, in a mo- ment of passion, you let a "doggone' and "dern" slip through your lips.
 Tourney Opens Tonight
 The only reason I can figure out why I am in Wichita is because tonight under more bulbs than there are broken hearts on Broadway, the rs .!onal semi-pro baseball congress begins at Lawrence Stadium.
 The last congress I covered was that of the United States, in which there was no runs, no hits and ell errors.
 This congress, am informed by those who have seen 1t in years past is mostly runs, mostly hits and damned few errors. They tell me
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13
Parks Suvin1ig Chapionsip To Be Decided Nett Week
BOwSer JObbed Of Title Again
By DAN PARKER
GOsHNN. N. N. AuQ. i2.

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 Suddenly yell moving by Southland like Dixie Fer passing Ears background of him little moving dashed heang eamng Hanks though the colt his all for Shirley wouldn't lot Into the home stretch they Shirley deourng the track with dainty fell like meter beautiful t looked would burst lung his final effort But he neither burst lung flashed finish e shys Hambeonian prize; Hambletonan stable in the history Of classic
 BowSer, c good loser disappointment . something pleased with the showing his orattan.
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 Copyright 1887, King Features syndcate)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13

that outside of the worlds series this is the country's biggest baseball show.
 From 4e states the semi-pro ball players come to Wichita. They come here and stay two weeks, during which time 6S games are played to decide the national championship. My informers, who doubtless are biased as HnaIna's $l7 skirt, insist that the baseball played is just 0 cug beneath that which is executed day after day in the leagues that are major.
 might as well say right now that I do not believe this. But l am willing to be shown.
 I am going to Lawrence Stadium tonight, along with 17,000 other peo- pie, and am going to train my liquid blue eyes on the games that are played. If they are good I promise to say so. If they are bad I promise to say so. Frankly, am hoping they will be good because the city of Wichita, I have been given to understand, has Q small but efficient group of tarrers and featherers who handle those gentle men who find fault with their semi pro baseball congress.
 am not a man who liked being tarred and feathered. I was tarred and feathered once by a group of Georgia enthusiasts who objected to my celebrating my twenty first birthday by voting republican.
 Ruth Over DiMaggio
 This Is my first trip to Kansas and 1t is not Q great deal different from other points of the country. Tn my 24 hours here I have met several men who knew Sweet Ade- line, sliced all their golf shots, and thought DiMaggio had Q hell of Q long way to 90 before he was an- other Ruth.
 Thus ends my first dispatch from Kansas. Tomorrow, if l am not tricken by some dread prohibition disease, I will give you further acc counts of my adventures where the Arkansas flows slow and its hotter than Biily-Blue.Heii.
 Copyright 1887 by United press)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13
WORLD SERIES
 OF SEMI-PROS
 STARTS TODAY
Tourney in Wichita, Kas., Watched By Moguls
 of Baseball

Wichita, Kas, Aug. i3.-(UP).- eemi.professional baSeball's great est show--the annual National semi- Pro Baseball Congress-opened here today with many of basebalps lead- ing figures on hand to take part in the tournament which closes Aug. 26.
 Thirty regional championship teams from ell sections of the country were here to compete with the Duncan, Okla, Cementers and the Bulford, Ga, Bona Aliens, de. fending national champion and run- ner-up respectively, for the l037 semi-pro crown.
 Included among the notables talk. ing part in the show were Honus Wagner, high commissioner of semi- pro baseball; E, c. Quigley, super. visor of the et. Louis Browns but now with the Semi-Pro Congress, and Ford Prick, president of the National League.
 League Scouts Present
 Also on hand were ie major league scouts, representing each club in the American and aNtional legaues, who comprise the all-American board to select the i0 outstanding young players in the national finals.
 Each os tho regional champions entitled to compete In the tourna- ment was selected after winning Q state and regional tournament. Tho 30 regional champions were required to play . 6-ganie series to deter. mine which team would be eligible for the national finals.
 The following regions are repre- eented:
 California, Oregon Washington, fdaho.M Montana, Wyoming Cobra do, Arizona. Nevada Utah New Mexico. North Dakota South Da- kota, Nebraseka. Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, WiSeonsin-fowa, Missouri Arkansas, Minnesota, Louisiana. MisSissippi Tennessee Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Florida Georgia, Alabama, Ohio. Maines New Hampshire, Vermont-MasSa- chusetts. Connecticut Rhode Island. New York, ,Now Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Maryland Delaware, Virginia. West Virginia, North Carolina South Carolina.
 Winner Gets Sb,00O
 The national tournament winner s guaranteed c minimum of sb,oo0.
 Following iS the opening nights schedule: Kansas City, Mo. Police ys. Waco, Tex. Dons; Tacoma, Wash. W. Maine-New Hampshire regional champion.