Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1925, Page 11

CHILD “POISONER” CALLS ITFICTION' Seven-Year-0ld Los Angeles Girl Makes New Confes- sion to Police. Ry the Associated Pres. 1.OS. ANGELES, February 10— Seven-year-old Alsa Thompson, who last week bewildered authorities by confessing that she had killed her t twin sisters in Dauphin, Manitoba, two yvears ago, and poisoned another person since coming to Los Angeles, has “confessed” that her sensational narrative was fiction, it was an- nounced in Juvenile Court vesterday fn connection With the request of the girls' mother, Mrs. ‘Russeil Thomp- son. for custody of her daughter. Alienists expressed the belief that Alsa’s latest “confession” was more accurate than the one heard by po- lice, but pending further observation she was léft in custody of juvenile authorities. A | SEES AMERICA SHARING FATE OF DESOLATE CHINA Davey Predicts Disaster if Nation’s Forests Are Not Rigidly Conserved. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February e} “America ultimately will share the | fate of desolate, famine-ridden China” unless the Government adopts drastic measures to conser<e and re- #tore the Nation's forests, - Repre- Representative sentative Martin f. Davey of Ohio told the Ohio Soclety of New York 1ast night. Mr. Davey is known as one of the foremost authorities on trees in the United States. “Forest destruction,” he said. “means the disappearance of the top #0il, which is the basis of agricul- tural wealth. It takes 10,000 vears for nature to build an inch of fertile top soil. “Three-fifths of the original tim- ber of the United States is gone and we are using lumber -four times as fast as we are growing it he con- tinued. “Timber bankruptey threat- ens the United States within 40 years at the.present rgte -of- destruc- tion. Conservation of the remaining supply is imperative, Reforestation of the 81,000,000 acres of cut-over and burned forests is immediately necessary.” | Citlti;ns Are Awarded. Silver Star citations have 1 ~ sued by the War Department o Gen. Charles W. Hobbs, retircd, ‘alifornia street, for gallantry in ac- tion at the battle of Manila, in 1898, to Col. Augustus C. Macomb, retired, 3401 Massachusetts avenue, for gal- lantry in action at Hermiguero, Porto Rico, in August, 1898, and to Col John D. L. Hartman, Signal Corps, at Seattle, and to Col. Samuel Burkhardt, retired, at Chicago, for. gallantry at the battle of Santiago de Cuba, in July, 1898 Twenty-seven thousand working | -} Wash out the Bours are lost eyery day by trafiic s in London, You Feel .a COLD -Coming On Take : Laxative BROMGQO QUININE Scientist Finds Vocal Cords Not in Control of Voice Says Researches Reveal Sound Produced by Air Vibrations. By the Associated Press. : PARIS, February 10.—The vocal cords have nothing to' do’ with the production of the voice, according to Henri Frossard, preparatorat the Sorbonne, the results of wkose re- searches into the subject were read to0 the Academy of Sciences last eve- ning by Prof. d'Arsonval. Sound. Prof. Frossard declates, is caused in the throat not by vibra- tions of the vocal cords, but by Vi-| brations of the air in the cuvities) beside them: consequently the mech- anism of the human voice, he holds, is comparable to the ocarina rather | than to the accordeon. A similar theory was formulated by Prof. Saa- vart a century ago, but was never! pursued Recently observations on persons who had lost their vocal cords by operations or wounds are sald to have established that when the cavi- ties in question and the muscles and the cartilages of the larynx were ‘n-| tact the patients were able to spean aloud and intelligibly. | Save those blue days, those dull days, ~-those days of unfitness. There's an easy, pleasant, certain way, and millions now employ it. Every morning drink a glass of water. hot or cold. That's essential stomach before | breakfast. | But add to that water Jad Salts. It will make a delightful, effervescent drink. It is made from the acids of lemon and grape, combined with lithia_ - In one -hour comcs climination- of | poisons and of waste. Of that which | depresses or makes vou unfit. } The cloudy day becomes sunny. Tm] blues disappear. You start out like a boy or girl, ready for any adventure. It's a wonderful feeling. 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Martin Van Buren imported a London chef for the White House kitchen—and when he jour- neyed abroad he rode in an olive green coach with silver mounted harness and liveried footmen? William Henry Harrison once breakfasted at the White - House with a cattle drover? Edna M. Coleman, president of the League of American Penwomen, has written this intimate account of some of our Presidents, giving a human, personal touch $ to a splendid historical work 5 5 Book Section, Fourth floor. The New Sprifig_f Ceintures are Here Lightness and: grace are the striking features of the new Spring ceintures that have just arrived. The: lines are more beautiful than evér, and are perfectly expressed in the new Lily “of*France models. ¥ There is a most attractives girdle of two-toned satin figured broche with -knitted silk elastic. Touches of blue and blue garters make a pleas- ing finish. $25. ¥ 2 A lovely. ceinture, also in two-tone broche—peach and blue—with insets of knitted silk elastic.. No boning. 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