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Evening star., 1937-03-07
CHA|N-NOTE CRAZE
ED|NDENvER
Police Take Cognizance Of
Games Kebirth-CIub
Plan in Operation.
Ey the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, March 6.-Chain letters
again are forging links Of dimes, quar-
tiers and dollars in Denver.
Two years ago the money-mailing
craze, started on q send-a-dime basis,
reached epidemic proportions.
Mail service was severely crippled
under a food Of letters and before the
fad died, nearly every family in the
city was involved, despite warnings
from Federal officiaS the chains vio-
lated postal laws.
William E. Guthner. manager of
safety, said today police have taken
cognizance Of the rebirth Of the chain
letter here within the past few days.
Chain Held Suckers Game"
He called the chain "a suckers game
that is as crooked as anything could
be-" Guthner said he and District At
torney John A. Carroll would confer
Monday on steps to combat growth
of new operations.
1--WE have learned four chains sprang
up this week" Guthner said. There
will be A next week II something isn't
done to stop them. These things are
worse than mushrooms"
The chain plans of sending anything
from a dime to dollar to fellow
participant and receiving dimes or
dollars in return reached its peak here
in April and May, 1885.
Under a typical chain letter method
two years ago, a person would receive
a letter containing six names. He was
supposed to mail dime to the person
heading the list, scratch of this name.
add his own to the bottom and mail
copies Of the list to six other persons.
Harvest of Dimes-In Theory.
AS a persons name worked to the
top of the list by the process of elm
ination, he was supposed TO reap a
harvest of dimes.
Guthner said he received reports of
a Club membership" chain letter plan
now in operation here.
Evening star., 1937-03-07

estimated elapsed time between spe-
cific points, based on predetermined
minimum cruising speed.
In addition to the charts them
selves, lone of them is always spread
out on the pilots knees. the vital
statistics of each portion of the flight
are recorded in compact memoranda
for easy reference. One Of several
clocks, by the way, is set at zero" at
the start, so that it records the
elapsed time in the air for that par
ticular fight.
Husband Helps Expedition.
what about fuel and supplies at
stopping points," ....
We've tried to cover all that"
Miss Earhart replied. Mr.. Putnam
George Palmer Putnam, her hus-
bandD has had much experience in
expedition organization. I think he
has had a lot Of fun-and some grief!
in working out the arrangements" !"
Specified amounts of gasoline and
oil are now on hand at over 80 points
on the $1,000 mile course, with a
representative in charge at each.
Extra engine parts are spotted" at
strategic places. and expert mechani-
cal aid arranged.
Doubtless there are many places
on the existing itinerary at which ]
actually will not STOP" Miss Earhart
explained. But, it's sensible TO be
prepared all the way. Which of them
1 will leap frog depends upon
weather, on mechanical matters and
even on the feelings of the pilot.
by the way" she continued. sin
all this preparation we've been for
tunate in having the help Of an old
friend of ours, the Viscount Jacques
de Sibour. He and his wife, the for
mer Violette Selfridge, have cruised
in their own planes over much OF
the territory I hope to traverse. He
is connected with the Standard Oil
Co. of New Jersey, which has gener-
ously co-operated in 'spotting our
supplies
Another matter to be thought about
it developed, is governmental per-
missions. Even q lone woman flyer
or perhaps especially one-has to
! have all sorts of permits and official
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Amelia Earhart supervising inspection at Burbank

gauge. All Of which gives skilled
navigator about all he could wish to
work with for determining course and
location aloft.
A laSt-minute addition to naviga-
tional equipment is a Bendix direc-
ton finder, installed during the last
week Its loop" carried on the out
side of the ship just above the cock
pit. is adjustable by the pilot SO that
it may be turned in any desired di-
rection. In effect this uncanny de-
vice does with man-made radio ennis
sions what routine compass accom-
plishes with magnetic forces. in de-
termining position, and direction to
a desired location.
Both navigator and pilot may util-
ize the two-way Western Electric
voice and telegraph radio commune
cation system with which the ship is
equipped. Code transmitting is from
both cockpit and cabin. On her previ-
Gus Pacific flight, Miss Earhart's voice
messages carried over 1000 miles.
Students "Swing" Compass.
A few days ago Comdr Clarence
Williams brought to the field a bevy
of aeronautical students using them
for man power to move the big
Electra about on the compass rose
until all its compasses-there are
three of them-were properly swung.
Which means checked exactly and
co-ordinated
And just what are you yourself
doing?" Miss Earhart was asked
Plenty" Illustrating that answer
the aviatrix offered an informal pre-
view of her maps-dozens of them.
Merely assembling these, getting
information on fields. weather condi-
tions, servicing facilities. has taken
months. And now Comdr. Williams
has just finished another months
work laying out the courses. It's
really very lovely job"
On previous long g-distance flights
the woman flyer has developed her
own technique of maps for use in the
air. Clearness and simplicity are the
key requisites. For each flight the
compass course. with its hourly OF
periodic changes, is set down. The
distances also are shown. and the
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Staying

tCOnLlnucQ from f1ISt fABe.D
lay in the water, he "held her down
by the hair for a short time" while the
other boy stepped on her stomach.
Parker quoted the 5-year -old boy as
saying:
Me and Beverly Ann were playing
near the river when the other boy
came along He pushed her down and
pulled off her overshoes
"She cried some He hit her with a
piece of brick. He knocked her out.
He rolled her in the river. Then
threw one OF her overshoes out into
deep water about so feet away and I
threw the other one in beside her.
Then-stepped on her stomach while
she lay in the water and held her
down by the hair a short time.
Says Boy Ran Away.
"The-boy ran away and I picked
up an iron hoop and tried to pull her
out by putting that around her neck.
I couldn't move her because she was
too heavy"
When Beverly Ann was found by
searchers yesterday five hours after
she disappeared from the home of her
aunt, her jawbone was punctured
and an iron hoop was around her
chest.
Referring to the story Of the 5-year-
old child, Parker declared:
II can't believe q child of that age
could imagine such a story. On the
other hand, I do not like to see any
person incriminated on a 5-year-olc
childs story. We are continuing the
investigation"
Beverly's strange death upset THU
entire town of 1000. Almost isolated
Windsor nestles near the New Hamp.
shire line at the foot Of Mount As
cutney. tallest peak of the Green
Mountains in Vermont.
Child's Gang" Reported.
Repeatedly during the day. investi'
gators asserted that they sought mort
| information about the activities OF
group of youngsters, described by Po.
lice Chief John Edmonds as "hellions.
He declared he had evidence that soml
Of them, little older than young Bev'
erly Ann herself, had practiced cruel.
ties on other children in the neigh
borhood.
The townspeople were kept in
ferment as the case unfolded, marked
Evening star., 1937-03-07
FATHER K1RSCH
TO LECTURE HERE
"Everybody's Saint" Will Be
Theme of Address Tomorrow
Night.

Rev. Felix M. Kirsch, o. M. Cap,
who recently completed a year of re-
search in Assist, Italy, on st. Francis,
will lecture tomorrow at 8:l5 pm at
the Willard Hotel on "Everybody's
Saint" Father Kirsch will speak un-
der the auspices Of the Convert League
of the Catholic Daughters Of Amer
lea.
Rev. Edward M. Roach, chaplain
Of the Catholic Daughters, will talk
briefly on an Early American Set
ting" and Rev. A. j. Burggrafi, C. S.
p. spiritual director of the organiza-
ton, will discuss a Prologue on the
Power Of Personality"
The Glee Club of the Catholic
Daughters will present a musical pro-
gram under the dictatorship of Harry
Walsh. Miss Florence NJ. Winter,
chairman of the league, will preside
at the meeting.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
~ URBANK, Calf, March g.
- What does a round-the-world
flyer think about?'
~ When asked that question.

n URBANk, Calif., March g.
- What does round-the- world
flyer think about?"
~ When asked that question.
Amelia Earhart, poised in California
for a hop across the Pacific to Au-
stralia and beyond. just grinned.
IF, as and when get back" she
countered good-naturedly. perhaps
I'll be able to answer-although proba-
bly, I wouldn't even if could" But,
she added, IF you want to discuss
what one who plans a 27,000-mile
fight has to think about, its not an
uninteresting subject-to me, at least. v
Miss Earhart added that even be-
fore the inquiring reporter INDUCED
in much inquiry he'd do we'll to look
around a bit. He did and it was.
These days the Lockheed Electra
plane alternates between prepara-
tion in the hanger OF Paul Mantz,
who is Miss Earhart's technical ad-
wiser, and periodic test flights. On
the ground or in the air the big ship
fairly swarms with technicians and
mechanics. tinkering with the thou
sand and one details of its complex
equipment.
Special Windows Installed.
One of the things this particular
world-fiight planner evidently has
been thinking about with particular
effectiveness is the fitting out of the
chart room" to be used by her
navigator, Capt. Harry Manning
In size it hardly compares with the
quarters he was accustomed to on
Atlantic liners he has commanded.
but as land planes 60 it probably sets
a record in the completeness OF Its
air navigational equipment.
Normally the Electra. which is q
transport plane in use on many air
lines, carried 10 passengers. In Miss
Earhart's specially prepared flying
laboratory" the fuselage has been
cleared of passenger seats. Instead
about half of it is occupied with ex-
ira gasoline tanks, whose fuel makes
possible q cruising range in excess OF
1000 miles. The rest of the cabin is
now equipped for navigation pur-
poses.
About 10 inches of the floor Man
ming has q wide table for charts
Beneath it, visible through glass inset
in the table top, is master aperodic
compass. Special windows OF fia'
glass have been installed on both sides
free from the distortion Of the curved
surfaces of the routine passenger
compartment windows. Through
them the navigator makes his celestial
observations, using . special bubble
sextant. A pelorus also is mounted for
use at both windows.
Two-Way Electric Voice.
An arrangement has been divised
to open the cabin door about four
inches, where it Is held rigidly in
place. A pioneer drift indicator Il
mounted for use looking down through
this aperture, to check wind drift on
the earth or sea below. For this worl
flares are used at night over water
smoke bombs in daylight.
Beside the chart table are mounted
three chronometers, altimeter, oil
speed indicator and Temperature
Evening star., 1937-03-07

and the Coast Guard, all Of whom are
cooperating.
For q fortnight complete weather
maps" of the Pacific have been COM
piled daily. When plane and pilot are
ready, one such map that is satisfac-
tory-or at least acceptable-will come
through. Then the pioneer air ad-
venture will start-after Lockheed in
spectors have made one final. pains
taking check of the ship from engines
to ailerons.
All of which indicates that on such
. modern expedition one doesn't sim
ply I'LL up the tank and shove Of"
(Copyright, 1877
Evening star., 1937-03-07
NASHVILLE WRITER DIES
Long Illness Is Fatal to John G.
rooko 40


Cooke, 81.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March R).-
John c. Cooke, so, dean Of Nashville
newspaper reporters, died today fol-
lowing long illness.
Cooke joined the Nashville Banner
at the age of % and was q reporter
for the first edition it published on
April 10, 1876. He remained . men,
Der of its staff until the time of mis-
death, with the exception of nine
years when he worked at Lexing-
ton, KY.
He was best known as an authority
on race horses. He had missed only
three runnings Of the Kentucky Derby
since 1880. He conducted q column
on racing under the pen name Of
"Jay See See."
Evening star., 1937-12-24
Dorothy Dix Says
Here Are a Few Good Pointers
On How to Keep Friends.

ask questions. They will tell you VOL
unfairly all they want you to know.
And don't unlock your own skeleton
closet and rattle the bones in it for
their entertainment. We never forgive
others for our own indiscretions.
Many friendship has ended when
two women let down their hair and
told each other things that they
should have cut out their tongues
rather than reveal.
If you want to keep friends don't
t-y to boss them. Because a woman
is your friend is no reason why you
should try to impose your religion and
politics on her, make her join your
clubs, go to your doctor and dentist and
dressmaker, or supervise the way she
rears her children and treats her
husband. Friendship has to be free
to last.
IF YOU want to keep friends never
tell them of their faults or the
things they would rather die than
hear. Leave that to their enemies.
Nothing is more common than for q
woman to make friendship an alibi
for telling another woman the cruel
and catty things that wound her pride
or break her heart. Nothing could be
more fatal, for no friendship ever sur
vived a dose of home truths.
And finally, if you want to keep
friends don't put too great a strain
on friendship. 1t Is the flower and
grace of life, not meal ticket It is
a silken cord with golden threads that
binds us lightly together, but it is not
a hempen hawser to haul lis out OF
the bitches we have fallen into.
1t is q great art to know how to
keep friends. It calls for exercising
all the major and minor virtues, but
it Is worth all the trouble and work
it costs. For, when all is said and
done, life without friends, even though
they borrow our automobiles and tele-
phone us from the station that they
are in town and tell us our faults and
shortcoming for our own good. is
cinders, ashes and dust.
DOROTHY DIX.
(Coryright. 1877
Evening star., 1937-12-24

Captains Courageous" last-minute
arrangements were made for him to
speak from Hollywood. The year be-
fore the reading was beautifully done
by the well-known actress, Cecilia
Lotus, one of the 5000 residents Of
the apartment-city that stands on
the stored site of the Moore home.
MUSIC and singing follow, and an
A interesting feature of the en-
tertainment is number by the Bob
by Chorus" This is composed of the
door attendants. who are uniformed,
even to pith helmets. after the man
ner of London's famous hobbies" as
the policemen there are known.
In many other ways the district
clings to names and customs that are
a legacy from old Chelsea, across the
sea, after which DR.. Moore's grand
father, Thomas Clarke, named the
home that he built on Manhattan
Island in 1880 Old Chelsea was then
a separate village as was Greenwich
Village to the south. In course of
time, as the city spread northward,
these communities became districts
of the metropolis Of New York, re-
tanning, however, the individuality Of
their names and boundaries.
It was about 1845 that DR.. Moore
was persuaded to sell the family prop
erty which he had inherited through
his mother, so that city streets could
be cut through. New houses-notably
a row of aristocratic brownstones
named London Terrace"-attracted
people Of artistic tastes to the new
neighborhood, which was then way
uptown!
Some of the bygone great who
brought a further need Of fame to
old Chelsea, and whose shadows per-
haps still haunt the spot, are Ray
mond Hitchcock and Edwin Forest,
famed in the world of drama, Horace
Greeley, the distinguished etlitor, and
Lily Langtry, who lived in this neigh
borhood while in New York. Edna
St. Vincent Millay is said to have
written some of her poems in one OF
these Chelsea cottages, and Josie
Mansfield, recently recreated on the
screen, in THE Toast of New York, y
held court in an old Chelsea brown
stone.
The district is stepped in host OF
traditions which old Chelseans revere
and are determined to preserve. but
DR.. Moore's memory is the bestowed.
Evening star., 1937-12-24
Ry BARBARA BELL.

NE OI lIle lulIlSS you VIII ike
about this dress is the fact
\ that the top is wearable as
~ a separate blouse with other
skirts and suits. 1t is one of the most
fiattering designs imaginable, the
blouse being softly shirred into a high,
fitted girdle that gives a smooth line
to the midriff The skirt, too, is
pencil slim. so that you have a long,
slender silhouette that makes you
look inches simmer. Wear this dress
for winter parties and see how your
friends will envy you. Made up in
the right materials. you will find the
dress your favorite dress throughout
the spring. Choose pretty flower
print for the blouse and plain fable
for the skirt in color that picks
up the dominant note of the print
The pattern is easy to follow. 1t
includes complete sewing instructions
with diagram. For other patterns of
this type see the Barbara Bell Winter
Pattern Book.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1868
Is designed for sizes 81, "a. So. 38, 40,
AZ and A. Size "a requires l q yards
of IS or 80 inch material for the
blouse, 25s yards for the skirt.
Send Is cents for the Barbara Bell
Fall and Winter Pattern Book. Make
yourself attractive. practical and be-
coming clothes, selecting designs from
the Barbara Bell well-planned, easy
to-make patterns. Interesting and ex-
elusive fashions for the little children
and the difficult junior age; slenderiz-
ing well-cut patterns for the mature
figure, afternoon dresses for the most
particular young women and matrons
and other patterns for special occa-
Evening star., 1937-12-24
My Neighbor Says:

Merry Christmas to all our
readers!
A wooden spoon or broad
spatula is suggested to use for
beating taffys and fondants.
Cheese sprinkled over the top
Of mince pie before it is heated
for serving gives glossy top and
delicious flavor.
1t is usually economy to pre-
pare more foods than are to be
eaten so that leftovers can be
utilized for meals to follow.
(Copyright. 1872
Evening star., 1937-12-24
BY MARGARET WARNER.

TINE old adage that the best things
come done up in small pack
i ages is particularly true of the
inconspicuous envelope that
Santa Claus often places carefully
under the tree among the important
looking gifts and which when finally
opened turns out to be a nice check
or some "greenbacks" of interesting
denominations. This, after all, is one
of the most welcome presents, because
1t Immediately conjures up a lot of
ideas and wishes that have been
pigeon-holed for a long time due to
the usual reason-lack of funds
Here is your big opportunity to in
dulge in some whim or fancy that
friends and family do not feel impor-
tant enough to include on the gift
list. In many instances it is the
one thing that will make you happier
than anything else, and when all the
gifts are opened and admired there is
still something left to anticipate. Sc
leCtlllS yOuI OWu Sllb ID always d
pleasure, and if you wait until the
other side of 1888 you will find that
those dollars will have almost twice
their present buying power.
January is a slack month in most
shops, and merchandise is slashed in
price Immediately. If it is clothes
that you need to see you through the
winter, now is wonderful chance to
pick up splendid coat, bearing a
label that you are proud to show, at
a lower price than it would have car
ried at the beginning of the season.
With half the winter already gone, the
coat will be as good next season, and
you will be lucky, indeed, to have
waited so long before buying one. It
is the same story with furs, and you
no doubt will be able to find a mar
velous fur bargain if you do a little
scouting around"
Evening star., 1937-12-24

repeJlJlOIlS. 1ne nlBIlC DtIOTo CnTlSI-
mas OF 1922, DR.. Clement Clarke
Moore, learned professor of Hebrew
in the General Theological Seminary,
New York City, went out to buy
turkey for the last of the baskets
which his good wife was preparing for
the neighborhood's poor.
1t was as he came home through the
snowy streets that the verses began
to take shape in his thoughts. so
shutting himself into his study he
wrote the poem and read it, as an
after-Supper surprise, to his delighted
family seated round the living room
fire.
DR.. Moore thought so little of his
Jingle that when word of it en-
evitably got out" he was at first un-
willing to admit authorship; yet it was
to bring him fame that has far
overshadowed his scholarly reputation.
1T IS to preserve the spirit in which
DR.. Moore wrote this Christmas
classic that the children of a great
New York apartment house unit are
hosts to the less fortunate kiddies in
the district of Old Chelsea at gala
gift celebration.
The setting for the event is the very
essence of theater. An immense,
decorated tree in the center-ropes of
laurel swung between the "Old Lon
don" lampposts-fioodlights outlining
the large tablet to DR.. Moore's
memory-turn an acre of secluded
garden into a faerie scene upon which
900 candles blink down from 1000
easement windows of the apartment
city.
The chatter of the excited children
Is suddenly stopped. 1t is the sound
of sleigh bells-and there is Santa
Claus-a spotlight playing upon him
l9 stories above 1000 upturned faces
Calling to the assembled group that
he'll be right down. he reappears
with the magic of immediacy in the
garden. From the sparkling gift
laden tree he gives something to each
child. and then the youngsters troop
indoors at his heels for the remain
der of the program, more presents
and, of course, ice cream and cake.
The highlight of the affair is the
reading of THE Night Before Christ
mas" always by celebrity. Last yeal
the honor went to Freddie Bartholo-
NEW. He was to have come to New
York, but when it was found that he
could not be spared from the set OF
Evening star., 1937-12-24

A YOUNG girl asks me ii will
n tell her how to keep friends.
~ Well, daughter, if you would
4 a keep friends you must culti-
vate them. Just because people like
you at one time of your life is no
indication that they are going to con-
tinue to like you unless you do some
thing to stimulate their interest and
affection and make them keep on lik-
ing you.
Most friendships are killed by neg
lect, and if you want to keep yours
alive YOU must never cease nourishing
them with love. There is no place in
a friendship where you can sit down
and take it easy and let things slide.
You have to be continually on the job
if you want to keep it going con-
Germ.
Many a friendship has been lost
for lack of a letter or telephone call.
So if you want to keep your friends
you must keep in touch with them.
You must keep your image fresh in
their hearts. You must do something
to make life pleasanter for them. You
must send the telegram of congratu-
iation: write the letter of sympathy;
visit the sick, so that they will always
feel that you are rejoicing with them
in their good luck and grieving with
them in their misfortune.
X
VOU mustn't expect too much OF
your friends. Many people lose
their friends because they are too
critical. They demand perfection of
them. They drop this friend because
she is faddy; another because she gads
too much; another because she doesn't
get along with her husband; others
because they don't like their tastes,
and they soon find themselves friend
less. Whereas the wise thing to do
is to take the best that people have
to give and like that and ignore the
rest. All Of us have qualities that CRATE
on other peoples nerves.
If you want to keep friends you
must never make friendship a racket.
Because people give you their affection
does not entitle you to graft upon
them, or to expect them to support
you, or to regard their belongings as
your own. The quickest way in the
world to lose friends is by borrowing
and paying unlimited visits.
If you want to keep friends don't
get too intimate with them. Don't
pry into their private affairs. Never