Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 16

EDERLE SATISFIED SHE'S AT TOP FORM Weight of 156 Pounds De- clared Ideal—Ready for Channel Swim. BY GERTRUDE EDERLI CAPE GRIS-NEZ, France, July 2 —Now I'm perfectly satisfied with m: self. That sounds conceited, but I don’t mean it that way. I weighed to- ay. at an English_pharmacy in Bou- . and found that my weight was unds, which, was exactly what zhed when I made my attempt r to swim the English Chan- nel is is a poundage which my trainer, Will Burgess, thinks is indica- tive of splendid condition. I have gained 7 pounds since leaving home, which is not surprising when you con sider that I eat and sleep so much. And here's a funng thing: While I v because of my gain, my sis- Margaret, who eats at the same table with me. is happy because she has lo: pounds. The figures on scales here are in kilos, which system we don't under- stand, but Will Burgess says if we multiply our weight in kilos by 11 and then divide by 5 eventually we dis cover our weight in pounds. So when cales tell me T weigh 71 kilas ymnastics come into play and I find my_poundage is 156. S0 1 think 1 am ready to take the ze for the Dover side of the chan- ad I'm so anxious to go that T can’t think of anything else. I'm only waiting for a good tide, favorable wind and decent weather. We have had none of the latter for several days. 1 do not care how much fatter T get before my attempt, but on my way home T'll try to take off any excess which may remain. Thus, I'll expect to eat little on shipboard en route home and I'll walk miles and miles around the deck. And I have taken a pledge not to dress for dinner any night, but will eat on deck. ter i I bought a new in Boulogne and it's was marked 95 francs in the shop win- dow, but when I asked for it the price shot upward to 150 francs (or from $1.90 to $3, American, at the current exchange The minute you sh in France the price of vou are asking for goes up. (Covsricht, 1926.) —e Primitive Bush T;ibe Found. A race of primitive Bushmen, one of the lowest types of humanity, has been discovered in the great Kalahari Desert, South Africa, says the Cleve- land Plain Desler. These Bushmen can safely be called the shyest people in the world. At the approach of a stranger, even of their own color, they will run for miles, or, If taken by surprise, they will burrow in the sand and hide themselves. Scientists declare them to be not only the most primitive race of the present time, but of all time. Their level of intelligence is considered to be the equal to that of stone age man. In 20 vears' time, it is com- puted, they will be extinct. i 9 Births Repér(ed. The following births have been reported fo the Health Department in the last 34 re: Iph E. and Helen A. Fisher. boy. n d Alma E. Goetzinger, girl and Marion Smith, girl, Adel Hungerford, girl. boy. Bashoor. bo: Myrile ¥ g ve dame yrile gswell, boys Ehasha and Camille Harrison, girl. ina Rites, £ . y shingtan. boy. Taggic Newman. boy. Charles and Anna W, John A Gearze and Wilbert and RKRaymond and Lillian Reynolds, girl. Joseph and Julia Parker, bo Harrison and Marie Higdon Nathaniel and ola Ross, girl sauc A. and L vh.” hov Nicholus and Lena Proctor, girl. Marcislo and Mabet Junusol. V0¥, John and Cora Miller, 1 Deaths Rept;rléd. The following deaths have been reported fo, the Health Department in the last 24 ours Joséph Oscar Munson, 70, 4401 Greenwich parkway G Sibiey Hos- ruride 70, 58, 727 20th Bowers Pack th Amelia Healy Brown, Anna F. Pollock, 54, 3336 O st William Ritter, 46, Elizabeth's Hos- £, McKee, 44, 914 Virginia ave. se. 322, Tuberculosis Hospital. 2, National Homeopathic st Tuberculogis Hospit amburg, 15, C. and Bain Bridge ';I:.\(h‘l W. Whorrall, 5. Children's He pial, : V'fisien Dernice Miller. 4. Children's Ho pils Jahe Armstead, 88, 1524 Upi t, 56, Freedmen's Hospital. 1, 5 Davis court. , 69 Bruce pl. s.e. . n court. ar Phynes, 28, Tuberculgsis Hospital. 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Starting—in all likelihood within the next week or two—from a point a mile and a half east of Cape Gris-Nez, France, the young who aspires to be the first woman to make the formidable men have succeeded, hopes to reach England ming champion, channel swim in which only five Ameriean swim- within from 12 to 14 hours, which would be a time record for the crossing. The present record is 16 hours 30 minutes. Miss Ederle plans to take the water four hours before high tide at Dover, which also is approximately “high wa of her swim's theoretical course the continuation of the solid ling and by the dotted ter” at Gris-Nez. After the ninth hour there is a fork in the route as indicated by ne. This means that somewhere about the end of the ninth hour Miss Ederle hopes to reach a point where the tide divides into two streams to go around the famous Goodwin Sands, & shoal so shallow that the tide branches around them, one stream veering almost due north. ¥t is her aim to catch this stream of the tide, because when the tide turns at the end of her eleventh hour in the water it would leave her in slack water, robably not more than 134 miles from England. She believes she would then able to swim across the slack water to land in one more hour. If she is carried along the northeastward fork of the tide, she will lose much time and run greater risks of defeat in the last stages of the cruel swim. The time of her taking the water and her position each hour of her swim will be flashed by radio to the United States from the tug accompanying Miss Ederle. Nipa, Philippine Sugar Tree, Furnishes Natives With Food, Shelter and Rum The nipa palm, which Col. Carmi Thompson, President Coolidge’s emis- sary in the Philippine Islands, recent- ly learned may become an important source of sugar, has long been an im- portant factor- in the economic life of the people of the Islands. It sup- plies shelter and food, but it also fury nishes the basis of “vino™ one of the most brain-corroding liquids produced by the talented amateur distillers of the Orient. It is thus a tree of both good and evil fruit. As it grows wild in the Islands—it is but little cultivated as yet—it pro- duces a mass of tangled prostrate trunks that sprawl on the ground, after the fashion of the palmetto of our own South. Up from these trunks rise short stems, each with its*head of leaves, bearing the flowering structures. The Tenven are the fa- vorite thatch material in the Philip- pines, and the fruits of the plant con- tain hard, white, edible kernels. But the most important thing about the nipa palm, from the point of view of the hibulous male Filipino at least, is the sirupy sap that can be obtained in quantity by cutting off the thick flowering stem. This can be boiled for sugar or made into vinegar—but more frequently it isn't. It is fermented, and the resultant liquor, potent enough even In its natural state, is put through a crude distillation proc- ess. The result is “vino,” one gill of which ean put the best-disciplined doughboy into the guardhouse for anything from kicking his command- ing general to shooting up a prayer meeting. If nipa juice can be di- verted from its present ways of sin to the sweet sobriety of sugar, vet- eran regulars say, it will be a good thing for the Philippines. British Scientist Plans Broadcasting Hum of Mosquito By the Assaciated Press. LONDON, July 24.—The hum of the mosquito is to be broadcast throughout England. The song “of the nightingale, caught by the microphone in woods 30 miles m London some time ago, proved such a success that now the buzz of insects is to be given a trial. Prof. Moore Hogarth of the Col- lege of Pestology announces that he has in training a family of mos- quitoes which, when proficient, will broadcast the high-pitched metallic ping so familiar to human beings wherever these insects abound. A settlement worker says that Mexican women Wwill not get up and get breakfasts. Their husbands have to go to work and the children have to go to school without breakfasts. Sir Oliver Lodge Says Retirement Renewed His Vigor By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 24—Sir Oliver Lodge laughs at the theory that retirement is fatal to busy man. At 75, he says he is feeling younger than he did for years before he gave up regulay work. “Hvery one should retire in good time, for it is an absolute tonic,” declared Sir Oliver. “Don't wait till you wear out, is my advice. Retire while you are in good form 80 you can do all things you desire. ¢ I am feeling a lot betfer than I did when I was still in harness.” But Sir Oliver is. not retired in the way many men think of re- tirement. He is busy most of the time with experiments of various sorts and only three months ago announced the discovery of a new sort of wireless set in which oscillation is abolished. INCLUDED IN The Semz Annual) & Our Entire Stocks of White Slip- pers. All white, white and colors; high or low heels. Sizes are daily being c}epleted, so shop carly, i \ IMPORTANT This Sale Will Continue But Short Time Longer. Closed All Day Saturday. FRIENDS JAM SHIP ASNOBILE EMBARKS Polar Hero So Surrounded Newspaper Camera Men Are lgnored. Special Disprtch to The Star NEW YORK, July 24.—Press and other professional camera men are not often thwarted when it comes to mak- ing pictures under difficuities, but they came near to being so today when Gen. Umberto Nobile, designer of the dirigible Norge, sailed on the Lloyd-Sabade liner Gente Blanca Mano. The general came aboard surround- ed by a swarm of friends dnd ad- mirers, by whom he was literally mebbed. A police officer cleared a way for him through the perspiring crowd, and he was taken to the boat dack to be photographed. Before the regular camera man could handle their machines he was sur- rounded by a crowd of amateur pho- tographers, who proceeded to “‘shoot” him from all angles, oblivious to the repeated requests of the profession- als to move out of the ranges of their lenses. The general's terrier, which accom: panied him on the polar flight, was following his master in the arms of an attendant, but beeame soparated in the crowd at the = gangplank. Guards at the gangplank didr't know the netable history of the canine. No, he couldn't go aboard. The general must have his dog. Eventually ship's officers went ashore and retrieved the animal. “I am sorry to leave America, but E glad to be ng home. That is " And that s all that could be gotten out of the general. On the subject of recent contro- versy between himself and Ellsworth he maintained silence. Asked if he would attempt to fly over the South Pole, he said he would merely obey orders. (Copyright. 1926.) SQUATTER' BEACH ENRICHES CHICAGD Capt. Streeter’s Breakwater Adds Valuable Acres to Water Front. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, July 24.—A small, ir- regularly shaped strip of land north of the Chicago F r and adjacent to the “Gold Coa has been dubbed with many a high-sounding name, in- cluding "the billion-dollar triangle.” But to Chicagoans for generations to come it probably will be known by the homely name of “Streeterville.” For the district, far less than a square mile in area and of tremen- dous value, got its name from the late Capt. George Wellington Streeter, an eccentric personality, who fought for a generation a losing fight in Chi- cago courts to make good his claim to the land through squatter sover- eignty, which began in 1886, when his houseboat was wrecked off Lake Shore drive. Sand Adds Acreage. He built a breakwater about the craft and rapidly shifting sands filled in the space between it and the shore until eventually many acres were add- ed. This was the beginning of the “deestrict” of Lake Michigan whic Capt. Streeter sought to have recog: nized as a separate Federal territor: outside the jurisdiction of Chicago and Ilinois. ‘The annals of four decades are vo- luminously filled with records of that fight, which continued after his death when his widow took up the gauge, but with as little success. Today, with the smoke of battle for sovereignty still in the air, the dis- trict has nevertheless forged ahead, until it has vecome one of the most precious pieces of real estate in the world. It is a veritable forest of towering and spacious apartment buildings and hotels, the abode of the wealthy and the socially prominent. There is the white and majestic Drake Hotel, and a number of other - CHICAGO PLANS NEW RIALTO IN NEWLY RESURRECTED DISTRICT Many Big Theater Men Consider Putting Up Houses in Section Carved From Riot of Congestion. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 24.~—Chicago some day will have a new Rialto, as mag- nificent as that of any other city in the world. The location is ready for theatrical building, just outside the farous “loop,” but within a stone's throw of the.present theater center. That location is on the Michigan avenue extension just north of the $16,000,000 boulevard link bridge, and on Wacker drive, the new double- decked boulevard skirting the south bank of the Chicago River. Carved Through Congestion. These two broad highways, which meet at the bridge, were carved through a congested and down-at.the- heel territory as Baron Haussmann carved the boulevards of Parls, and they still are flanked in places by the new edges of buildings mown down to create their opulence. But as towering spires and domes have begun to spring up along the two miles of new highway theatrical men have been eveing the location with in- terest, and several, including Florenz Ziegfeld, have announced tentative plans to erect theaters in this show place area of the city. From this center three lovely vistas stretch away into the distance, the north and south branches of Michigan avenue, and Wacker drive, at a right angle. Towering buildings grace the space adjacent to the four corners of the bridge—-the Gothic serenity of the Tribune tower and the white beaaty of the Wiigley “twins” on the north bank, and the London Life and Bell buildings en the south bank. Other impressive structures are springing up along the way. Retain Individuality. The lo(‘ltlsn is unique in that build- ings of distinction are not lost in a forest of masgonry, but are splendidly isolated from their surroundings. ‘Whatever the future of the prospec- tive Rialto, however, nothing seems stem the growth of the present theat- rical district, centering along Ran- dolph street, two blocks south of toWacker drive. A dozen new theaters have been erected in the area in the last few years, as the white way of Chicago's night life moves steadily westward along Randolph. In this neighborhood are located the new Four'Cohans, the Oriental, lav- ishly decorated in the style of the East; the new Palace, A. H. Wood's Apollo, the Selwyn, the Harris and the two movie palaces, Roosevelt and Chi- cago. Diplomat Arrives DR. ANGEL MORALES, The new Minister of the Dominican Republic to Washington, who will succeed Dr. Jose del Carmen Aritza, has been Minister to France and be- fore that a vice president of the League of Nations. “Rum War” and Styles of Revolution Seen in New York Historical Exhibit By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 24.—A wartime barbarism that might have causea Sherman’'s horse to echo his master's words is recalled in the Centennial Exhibition of the New York Histor- ical Society. “Caltrops,” picked up on the battleflelds of the past, are today museum curiosities. They are star- shaped iron spike, about two inches in diameter, intended to pierce horses’ hoofs and cripple them. A “rum war” existed also in the days of America's first fight for free- dom, as the Revolutionary Exhibit shows. “Rum was extremely preva- lent during the Revolution,” com- mented Alexander J. Wall, secretary Roast Pig Tickles Palates of Cubans As National Dish By the Associated Pross. HAVANA, July 24—Cuba’s na- tional dish is roast pig. The pig, 20 to 40 pounds on the hoof, is stuffed with a dressing made with a bread base, to which is added spices to suit. the indi- vidual taste. It takes the place of honor on “Noche Buena” (Christ- mas eve) instead of the familiar American turkey on Christmas day. The most popular dish is chicken and rice. The chicken is stewed and the rice steamed separately. They are combined with a few strips of a mild red pepper grown in Cuba and placed in an earthen- ware dish and baked. Sometimes eggs or saffron are added to the rice. . — e hostelries of the same caliber, and canyons of exclusive apartment build- ings housing many of the city's elect. Marshall Field, 3(; for instance, has an entire floor of cne of the large co-operative apartment structures. There also is rising Northwestern's “downtown" skyscraper university in varigated limestone. Three buildings, one a sky-reaching Gothic tower, are nearing completion, and other units are to cluster about them. There also are the Chicago Riding Club, the Ca- sino Club, the Chicago Athletic Club and other buildings identified with the social life of the cltzA The Montana Moss Agate The third hardest stone in the world. transparent and filled with besutiful moss spots and colors. Fine cabinet gpecimens highly polished. prices very reasonable. The Yellowstone Gem Co. Billings, Mont. East View fm “Mountain Crest” Hotel Site and Cottage Colony Lots Atop the Massanutten in Luray-New Market Gap on Lee High- way, opposite the Shenandoah National Park area; this is an un- miatched available location for altitude, surrounding beauty, scenic cutlook or accessibility. Main Street Luray, Va. Colonial Mansion Nice 8-Aere Grounds Rare Hardwood Trim Beantiful Outlook Over Valley and Mountains Qur other properties for sale in this section of Virginia inclnds the following: 48 acres, “Luray Heights,” with new brick veneer bungalow of 8 rooms and bath—absolutely unsurpassed view of Page Valley and Blue Ridge and Massanutten Mountains. 336-acre Raj nnock County Estate, house of 18 rooms and tower, good barn, fertile, well watered land and fine orchard. 1, hotel bui tion as a -acre Rare Medicinal Springs Resort, valuable timber, large Ings; an ideal property for sanitarium use or for opera- Summer resort and a real bargain as an investment. 396-ncrd Sheriandoah River Farm, very fertile, excellent hunt- shi) 0od six-room tenant dwelling, 40x70 bank barn, grazing and 150 , 46 acres in acres in timber, y new ma- ‘two-thirds of .76 per acre. % Only river fords Wflm bargain, mountain of the soclety, “judging by the num- ber of rum bottles that have been picked up over the fighting areas and presented in museums today.” What the well dressed man wore during the American Revolution and what his less well dressed con- querous wore is shown in graphic detail at the exhibit. The green and blue coats of the ‘‘Queen’s Rangers,” the green touched with red of the “Westchester Cowboys,” the blue “Speék-eas-i;:s” N_ow; Double Number of 1918 Gotham Bars By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 24.—There are more ‘‘speak-easies” now in New York City than there were licensed saloons in the whole State before prohfbition, according to an estimate of Chester P. Mills, local Federal Prohibition Admin- istrator, who placed the number coats, breeches and hose that shaped the famous name of the ‘Jersey Blues,” the red-face blue jacket, white walistcoat and buckskin of Haslet's Delaware Regiment — “the best- dressed men in the colonial army'— all are on display in painted piates, Australia Bans Wives on Voyages, English Protest By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 24.—Australia is set against wives. When the Australian cricket team sailed for Great Britain the Australian cricket board of control put a ban on wives accompanying the mem- bers of the test team. And now the Australian branch of the Em- pire Parliamentary Assoclation has advised British parliamentarians who are soon to visit Australia that they are not expected to be accompanied by their wives. J H. Thomas and several of the other members of Parliament have refused to make the trip because their wives are barred. Hawaiian Sugar Lands Gain, HONOLULU, July 24 (P .—Ha wail's evaluation for taxation pur- poses of 43 leading sugar plantations in the territory_of Hawail has been increased approximately $16,076 over last vear. Their tatal va is §109,593,450. i l ing a home test. of “speak-easies” at 15,000. Records for 1918 compiled by Excise Commissioner Herbert W. Sisson show that only- 13,085 li- censes for saloons were issued for the whole State that year. The 15000 “speak-easies” are more thgn double the number of licensed saloons in the five bor- oughs in 1918, when only 6866 licenses were granted. The insular department of the Phil- ippines is to establish a rubber ex perimental station in southwestern Mindanao. UNQUE MENGRAL FOR DV SR Rugged Tribute in Lonely Spot in New York State Erected by Society. By the Asspciated Press PLATTSBURG, N. Y., July An odd memorial to Sarah Bern- hardt, French tragedienne, erected by a devoted admirer seven months after her death, stands in a little frequented spot mnear here, its ex- istence unknown to the outside world. The date of its erection, October 16, 1823, marked 1t among the first in_this countr The monument crete blocks on base standing W built by 24— composed of con- stone and cement rteen feet high Charles D. Bean Geneva lawyer and descendant o colonial settlers, who had followed her career in this country and the foreign capitals. Mr. Bean built the statue in the name of one of the oldest school societies in this coun- try, the, Knights of Cyprus, of which he is a trustee. Tnseribed With Tribute. Situated in a wooded plot on Mr Bean's estate, the memorfal has on ity face a plaque of Vermont marble bearing this inscription: “To Madame Sarah Bernhardt. The greatest actres e world, whose lyric fire and divine voice gave more intense and supreme life to the poets. In profound admiration is built this rugged memorial, by the Knights of Cyprus and devoted friends, 1845 1923. Romance Holds Open the Door to_Eternal Spring.” The Knights of Cyprus Society was founded at St. John's School, Trinity Parish, here, many years ago. It was formed after the plan later followed by college fraternities. Society Met Bernhardt. The president of the fraternity once was presented to Mme. Bern- hardt in Paris, which gave impetus to the study of the theater by the mem- bers of the society, and later many other members met the tragedienne in New York. Mr. Bean said that she became en- thusiastic_over the society’s plans to bufld a chapter house in a wooded section of New York for Summer use. 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