Evening star., 1940-06-20
Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. HdSktn,

By Frederic J. Hdsktn.
A reader can get the ansuer to any
question OF fact BY tortttng The Epe.
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred.
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington,
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q. When did Hitler become dictator
Of Germany?-W. C.
A. The Reichstag passed An enabling
act on March S, 1888, granting absolute
power to Adolf Hitler and his cabinet.
On August 10, 1894, Hitler WAS chosen
the head Of the German government
under the title Of Leader Chancellor.
q. What is the largest number Of
home runs ever made by Jimmie Foxx
in one season?-A. w. j.
A. The Philadelphia American League
player hit So home runs in 1892, coming
within two of Babe Ruth's all-tims
mark.
@. Please give the origin of the old
saying about he who fights and runs
away.-G. F.
A. The thought. HE that fights and
runs away may turn and fight another
day" has been expressed by a number
OF writer's the earliest Of whom is Quin-
tus Tertullian, who lived from $50 to
230. The quotation may be found in
DE Fuga in Prosecutions, C, TO-" Among
other writer's expressing this idea are:
Erasmus, Paul Scarron, James Ray,
Oliver Goldsmith and A. E. Housman,
@. What is the summer theater capi.
tai Of America?-E. G. H.
A. Central City, Colo, is often 30
called. Each year it is the scene of q
festival which includes the finest stage
and operate productions. This year the
celebration will be held from July to 27,
when THE Bartered Bride" by Smetana,
will be presented.
@. To what period does an American
flag with "a stars belone?-H D. B.
A. The United States flag had "a stars
from July 4, 1861, to July 4, 1853.
@. What is the name OF the powdered
grain grass which contains so many
vitamins?-W l.. M.
A. 1t is known as cerophyl and NAV
be purchased in powdered or tablet form.
@ Does Catalina Island, off the coast
of California. belong to that State or
Mexico?-A. r. B.
A. Santa Catalina Island is desig-
mated as part OF Los Angeles County,
Calf. 1t was secured from Mexico as
a part of California" by the treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which was signed
February 2, 1848.
@. What is finnan haddie?-E. G. M,
A. Finnan haddie is smoked haddock,
said to be named from the town of
Findon or that of Findhorn, both in
Scotland
Q. Please give the number of inde-
pendent food stores.-L. B. Y.
A. There are 390,75 independent food
stores in the United States.
Q. When was the first book on avia-
ton published in the United States?-
S. T. B.
A. The first American book on avia-
ton was w. J. P. Blanchard's journal
OF My 44th Ascension, Being the First
Performed in America, on the Ninth Of
January, 1893" This record of the first
American balloon ascension at Phila-
delphia is in the library of the Ameri-
can Antiquarian Society at Worcester,
Mass.
@. How long after the 1st Division
arrived in France did it begin to fight7
&C. D.
A. The 1st Division arrived in France
in the latter part of June, 1917, and en-
tered the line of battle on October q,
1917.
@. What is the term applied to the
residue inside the rind of an orange after
the juice is squeezed out?-E. F.S.
A. This material is called the rag,
@. Please quote Eugene Fields famous
criticism of John Mccullough in Mac
beth e. L. G.
A. Field wrote: John Mccullough
played Macbeth last night at the La
Sale Opera House. He played it until
II o'clock"
@. Where is the most isolated gasoline
filling station in the world?-H. T. F.
A. 1t is reputed to be one called Bidon
Cinq in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
A native attendant is its keeper and his
nearest neighbors are $50 miles away.
Q. What is the origin of the phrase
'Tippecanoe and Tyler, too?
A. This was the refrain of a cam
paign ballad composed by A. c. Ross,
which became the slogan of the Wings
in the picturesque national campaign of
1910. The Whig candidates in the elec-
ton were William H. Harrison, who mad
been nicknamed "rippecanoe" from the
battle in which he first gained national
fame, and John Tyler.
@. Who was the flrst woman sculptor
in the United States?-M. C. P.
A. Patience Lowell Wright u725-85)
made the earliest recorded attempts at
sculptural expression in the American
Colonies. Her portraits modelled in wax,
were highly praised in the Colonies and
in England, where she lived after 1772,
and modelled likenesses Of the King,
Queen and other notables. Her full