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Evening journal., 1923-02-06
SUPPORT FOR
wife, NOW SICK
Veasey Willing TO Support
Wife While Caring for
His Mother
AGED PARENT
TELLS OF ABUSE

The feeble eighty-year-old mother
Of Frank Veasey. former police Of
ficer. gave testimony in a quivering
hardly audible voice against her son
when he was given a hearing in Mu-
nicipal Court this morning on a
charge OF breach of the peace.
The aged woman. who seemed un-
able to stand without assistance,
told the court that Frank came
home under the influence of liquor
Sunday night and, iourlshing a
poker in his hand. commanded her
20 go from the cellar where he was
working on the furnace.
Veasey expressed a desire to leave
his wife and son and furnish a home
for his mother. Judge Hastings, be-
ing agreeable to this arrangement,
placed an order of $40 a week
against the former police officer for
the support Of his wife.
Asserting that his wife and son
want TO put me in Jail" Neasey
laid the blame for his drinking on
his wife's alleged quarrelsome dis
poSitloH' III "ApldHdtloh VI the ar-
cusation that when he went home
Sunday night he went into the cellar
and raked the fire from the furnace.
he said he did that as there was no
more than a handful OF fire in the
furnace and he intended building
fresh fire.
When the question OF support for
his wife was taken up by the court.
Neasey pointed out that his wife had
declared in court that
she did not want any support from
him. His wife is now III with pneu-
monia.
Judge Hastings admonished Yea
sey. You get that bad liquor in you
and don't treat your mother right"
Evening journal., 1923-02-06

dertake such a thankless and dis
couraging task, giving gratutiously
their time and make the necessary
sacrifices.
The city board is composed of
seven men an business men, who
could only serve at a great sacrifice,
who had the interest of the schools
land the education of our children
at heart. These men assumed this
great responsibility only because of
the provisions of the new code
making it mandatory upon Council
to authorize the issuance of bonds
equal to seven mills on City taxable
property which would have given
the board about S5OO,OOO per year,
etc. To our chagrin and discourage
ment Council refused to counten-
ance this provision and even after
consulting the city solicitor and
trying to exercise our rights we
were denied this help to provide
adequate and suitable schools for
the children of Wilmington. Great
care, deep thought and most de-,
liberate consideration should be
given this exceedingly grave and
important problem. One cannot real
ize perhaps, what harm can be
done by novice until he has spent
years in study Of schools and con-
ditions. It is unfair to say the least
to discount or criticise any execu-
tive body without definite know
ledge Of the situation and problem
involved.
NO condition should exist where
by any so-called superior body could
hamper or impede the whole sue
cess and efficiency of the school sys-
tenn by depriving it of funds for its
imperative needs, as planned for
and asked for by the submission of
a most economic budget.
Every member of both the city
and State Boards of Education is in
tensely interested in the work and
would enjoy giving his best to af-
ford better schools to Delaware if
they could have the good will,
interest and cooperation of the peO-
pie. Every man of the executive
staff of both boards is doing his full
duty. giving the best of service and
II there is any public service man
coming nearer to earning his salary
I would not know where to look for
him.
The books and records OF each
department of Education are open. I
cards on the table. face up. Every /
or any citizen is privileged to in |
spect them at any time. Forms
and any information can I
be acquired in short order. Our
meetings are all open, no secret /
sessions. Press and everybody are
not only invited to come hut earnest
Iy solicited and invariably given an I
for expressions of views 7
and to make suggestions for more (
management.
Il am avoiding any statistics or 1
figures at this time but putting this ,
issue before the public in a plain /
natter of fact way. that all may un- !
derstand just how we feel about ,
this much agitated and all import
ant question.
I herewith ask the General As
sembly now in session at Dover, 10 .
consider we'll the imperative needs (!
If better housing Of our children,
md if in any way possible grant,
approve and pass favorably upon the
,uilding program submitted by the
3Oard of Education. But above
.verything, let nothing stand in the
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
OPEN BIDS FOR
DREDGING NURDERKTLL

Bids were opened at the United
States Engineer Office, Sixth and
King streets, today, for 27O tons OF
stone TO be used in repairing ietties
on the Broadkill river, near Lewes.
Three offers We're made, the price
being given by the ton. The bids
were as follows:
Arundel Corporation, Baltimore.
So; Frank r. Jones. Wilmington.
$44O; Joseph Anderson. Delaware
City. $3.50.
1t is expected the successful bid
der will be announced by Colonel
Earl I. Brown, L. 5. Engineer officer.
within a few days.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
TWO MORE NEGRO
SCHOOLS FOR STATE

Two more colored schools were
turned over to the State Board of
Education today by the Delaware
School Auxiliary, which built them
out of the p. S. DUPONT Education
Fund. The schools are located at
Trinity and Middleford, Sussex
county. and cost $4,000.
Work on the remaining colored
schools being built by the Delaware
Auxiliary is progressing rapidly and
il is anticipated all soon will be
turned over to the State Board.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
ST. JOHNS men
FOR EDUCATION
Church Club Opposes Re-
dictionary Move in State
School System
WILL APPEAL
TO LEGISLATURE

BY unanimous vote the Men
Club of St. Johns Protestant Epis
copal Church of this city last nigh
went on record as being heartily II
favor of a legislative program il
Dover which will promote and con
serve the educational interests OF
, the boys and the girls of Whining
/ ton and the State at large. 1t waf
decided by the club. which is one ol
the most influential church organi'
cations in Wilmington. TO stand
/ firmly against any reactionary edu-
catiOnal tendency in the State.
The secretary was directed to send
copies of the resolution TO the presi-
dent of the State Senate and the
speaker of the House.
1t was after a discussion of the
educational troubles in Delaware,
due to the unfriendly attitude of
some members of City Council and
some members OF the Legislature,
that II. /. Etchells, one of the
prominent members of the club Of
fered the resolution. 1t was adopt
ed without a word of dissent from
any quarter.
1t was at the monthly meeting of
the club in st. Johns parish house.
that the above action was taken.
Frederick Bringhurst, the presi-
dent, presided.
The chairman of the entertain
ment committee for the evening was
Ellwood Souder, a vestryman of the
church. Guy r. Ford. president of
the Wilmington Kiwanis Club. made
a short address on salesmanship and
led the choral singing George
Henry Day, organist of the church.
played the accompaniments. One OF
the pleasing features OF the evening
was solo singing by Thomas John
son of the St. Johns Boys Choir,
who was encored heartily.
The first speaker was John S.
Mullin, Wilmington merchant. and
prominent in the affairs of Grace NJ.
Il. Church. His topic was Business
Ethics" Mr.. Mullins address,
which was both philosophical and
humorous. contained many telling
points benehcially applicable to
everyday social and business life.
The next speaker was George Car
ter editor of the Evening Journal,
and a vestryman of st. Thomas =. e.
Church in Newark. He urged the
Mems Club to become more potent
by focalizing its energies upon
projects Of a religious
and civic nature. He expressed the
view that at the present time the
club could do nothing better for
tself and for the city and State than
10 become the ardent and uncompro-
mising champion of twentieth CEN
tury educational advantages for
twentieth century children.
Prof. william II. Beacon, head of
the Beacon Business Colleges, who
was to have been a speaker, was
prevented being present because of
illness of two mem bers Of his facul-
-y. After the meeting refreshments
we're served.
It is probable that at the March
Meeting of the club the speaker will T
1e Harry whitney, of Avondale, Pa,
Arctic explorer and naturalist. Mr..
Whitney will be asked to produce his
;tereopticon and moving pictures
made in the Arctic and to deliver
he interesting lecture which ac-
them. Several months !
lgo he was the guest Of the Will
ningtOn Rotary Club.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
NEGRO HELD FOR MURDER.

The jury IN the inquest OF SllviO
.Angeletti and Elsie Dobbins return
ed a verdict Of death by breathing
monoxide gas generated by the mo-
tor Of the bus, in which they were
found.
The jury, after hearing the evil
dence on the death of Robert Bile
good, Negro, who died in the Della
ware Hospital as the result of a stab
wound at a party held at Eighth
and Buttonwood streets. held j.
Henry Pryor negro. who is charged
with the stabbing, for the grand
jury.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
CARAGE SUES TICANI

Judge Rice. in Court OF Common
Pleas this morning, reserved deci-
sion in the suit of Martins Garage
against James Tigani The plain
tiff seeks to recover S45O. which he
claims. is the amount Of a bill for re-
pairs made to the defendants auto
mobile.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06

much as ye have done good to the
hungry. the naked. the sick and the
prisoner. We have done 1t unto me,
enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord"
I'VE find fellowship with people
on that basis. When Unitarians are
absent from any movement for the
betterment Of human life under the
spiritual leadership Of Christ. as
rule, it is because they have not
been invited. Probably they are not
invited for the same reason that a
clergyman Of this city refused to sit
beside me a few months ago at a
public dinner-because l am a Uni
tartan. Thank God l would rather
be a Unitarian than Christian Of
that tyne"
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
WOMAN SLIPS. HURTS SELF.

While walking down Third street.
between Tatnall and West streets
yesterday afternoon. Mrs. William
Z. Young, OF the Central Apart
ments, Third and Market streets,
fell on the icy pavement, severely
bruising one leg. She was removed
to her apartment in a taxicab.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
EIRE INSURANCE.

COURTLAND l., PIERSON COM
PANY'S Fire Insurance Policies are
written with close attention to the
customers needs and in the light of
long experience.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06

way of passing our budget for up
keep and maintenance. This bud
get is based upon requirements Oc-
casioned by progress attained. and
to provide for efficiency we hope 70
acquire. We know what not TO ask
for, give us what we need"
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
HAS FIT IN CHURCH.

Seized with an epileptic fit, while
in Asbury NJ E. Church, last night,
Harry Cade, who makes his home at
the Salvation Army barracks,
Fourth and Shipley streets, was re-
moved to the Delaware Hospital in
the police ambulance.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
"oRPHANs OF THE STORM, 4,

The National Theatre will show
on Thursday and Friday d. W. Grif-
hth's greatest masterpiece. THE Or
phans Of the Store" The Gish Sis
ters are at their best in the pic
ture
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
FIRE INSURANCE

Telephone 1880, COURTLAND z
PIERSON COMPANY. odd Fellows
Building, for your Fire Insurance
ADV.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06

Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop n little
"Freezone" on an aching corn, in
stantly that corn stops hurting, then
shortly you lift it right off with
fingers. Truly
Your druggist sells tiny bottle
Of "Freezone' for n few cents. sufii-
cient TO remove every hard corn,
soft corn. or corn between the toes,
and the calluses. without soreness
or irritation.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
HANOVER MEN TO NIEET.

Professor J. A. Barkley OF the
wilmington High School faculty will
address the Westminster Club of
Hanover Presbyterian Church to-
night on THE Mental Machine" a
social hour will follow.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06

at the nexl succeeding term as az
present.
Evening journal., 1923-02-06
JAS. T. MULLlN & SONS

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Evening star., 1923-03-04
Move to Improve Artistic
Feature of Photoplay Industry

EOR the purpose OF formulating a
set of principles for the artistic
development of motion pictures, lead
ing novelists. artists. dramatists,
editors. educators and others promi-
nent in public affairs in this country
and Europe will be invited by Adolph
Zukor, president of the Famous Play
ers-Lasky Corporation. to attend a
conference to be held in New York
soon when the artistic needs and pos
sibilities of the screen will be ex-
plored. Announcement of his plans
for the conference was made by Mr..
Zukor before he sailed for the pur-
pose of interesting European writers
and artists in the project.
These artistic standards, said Mr.
Zukor, will guide picture producers
in discharging their obligation toward
the cultural development of the mil
lions of people all over the world who
rely on the screen for their principal
recreation. A supervisory board of
well known men and women will be
appointed by the conference. and this
board will award series of prizes,
amounting to several thousand dol
lars, which Mr. Zukor will offer at the
conference to those elements contrib
uting most to the motion pictures ar
tistic development during the year.
while the artistic progress Of the
motion picture has been great said
Mr.. Zukor. "the greatest develop
ment so far in the pictures short ca
reer has necessarily been in the tech
nical side of picture craftsmanship
and in the stabilization of the indus
trial side.
To-day we have pretty nearly at
tanned perfection in photography,
Evening star., 1923-03-04
COLUMBIA-'The Toll of the Sea.

Loews Columbia Theater will pre-
sent this week. beginning this after
noon, THE Toll of the Sea- a pic
lure that is regarded as one of the
most remarkable of cinema produC-
lions, inasmuch as it is the first mo-
lion picture ever photographed in
natural colors by perfected process
and one which reveals with lifelilie
fidelity the events of a thrilling
drama of the orient and occident.
featuring Anna May Wong, beautiful
Young oriental star, and Kenneth
Harlan.
This picture. which was photo
Graphed by the Technicolor process, it
* said. fascinated the critics and pub
lie of New York when il was shown
as a Broadway attraction. Its story
abounds in charm. distinction and is
frequently interSperSed with pathoS
II concerns a beautiful Chinese girl
who rescues an American from the
sea. falls madly in love with him and
is overjoyed when he returns her love
and marries her. Later. though, he
begins to pine for America and the
girl is left to wait and hope for his
return. How he returns under in
tensely dramatic circumstances max IS
one of the best climaxes the Palace
has revealed this year.
The picture was directed by Chester
NJ. Franklin from story by Frances
Marion.
Bull" Montana also will be pic
tured in a travesty of Robin Hood. I"
entitled "Rob-'Em- Good and minor
features will include the International
News and an orchestral overture and
score
Evening star., 1923-03-04
METR0POLITAN-Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Lloyd in DIR. Jack"

A great comedy bill is announced
for Crandall's Metropolitan Theater
this week, beginning this afternoon.
The chief attraction is DIR Jack"
featuring Harold Lloyd and Mrs.
Lloyd, nee Mildred Davis. The COM
panion offering pictures viii Rogers,
in Fruits of Faith" The Metropoli
tan world survey. d scenic subject
and a concert overture and interpre
tative accompaniment by the orches-
ira are added attra actions.
DIR. Jack" is claimed 10 be the
greatest laughing picture ever made.
! not only affords d wealth of comic
situations, but also eXpounds
theory of medical treatment-or rath-
er non medical treatment-by an ultra
modern young physician, whose prac-
1ice netted him $500 during his first
year, and then all.he had to do was
to-colleGt it. A young heiress under
the care of another physician becomes
hAVe gone to her home in the city.
The manner in which he effects
cure and wins bride is said to stamp
tKs picture a classic of fun.
aEruits of Faith" concerns a tramp
who listens to street corner revi-
vaIfst~expound the power of faith In
God as a means of accomplishing de-
sired ends. He at once puts the theory
TO the test and is amazed at the re-
suits. BY the merest chance he
comes into possession of an orphaned
baby, and in time learns that hard
work is not necessarily fatal. He
builds a romance to crown his hap
piness and comes into possession of
those things which he most desires.
The doors at the Metropolitan will
s'ag.'4 sA - ''' p'
Evening star., 1923-03-04
RIALTO-Anna @. Nilsson i
Hearts Af1ame"

Reginald Barker's production of
Hearts Aflame," adapted from the
novel, Timber" by Harold Titus. will
be shown at Moores Rialto Theater
this week, beginning today. Empha-
sis is laid on one episode in which a
Forest FIRE sweeps through a pine
forest and through the heart of il
all a locomotive is driven by a young
girl. determined to reach powder
magazine TO obtain materials to blast
hillside, thereby saving the homes
and lives of hundreds Of people. This
forest fire scene is said to be one
Of the most impressive spectacles of
It's kind ever filmed. 1t is only one
of many, however. almost equally
thrilling
The story concerns young man
who leaves his rich fathers home and
goes to the Michigan woods to make
good. He meets an aggressive miss.
who, single handed, has defeated the
aims of neighboring lumbermen in
tent on depriving her of her valuable
timber tract
The cast includes Frank Keenan,,
veteran of stage and screen; Anna
Q. Nilsson. Craig Ward, Russell Simp-
son, Ralph Cloninger, Richard Head
rick and Lee Shumway.
"A Ringer for Dad" with Mr.. and
Mrs. Carter De Haven in the stellar
roles: the Fox News and Fun From
the Press" also will be shown Musi-
cal numbers by the orchestra and hits
by the Rialto Melody Boys will be
added attractions
Evening star., 1923-03-04

lighting. scenery and in other phases
Of picture production, which go into
the making of merely beautiful and
effective photography. The last two
years also has seen the business put
on firm and stable financial basis.
The big field of picture progress,
therefore. lies in developing the
screen along the soundest artistic
principles. Millions of people all
over the world not only get all of
their amusement from motion pic
lures, but they also depend largely
on pictures for their cultural devel-
opment.
The responsibility of picture pro-
ducers toward fostering sound taste
and artistic standards in these people
is an enormous one. l know pro-
ducers have tried to meet this respon-
dustry has been so swift that atten-
ton has had to be concentrated on
the physical development of the pic
ture business.
so that in discharging this respon-
sibility we may have the best ad-
ing to invite the leading novelists.
dramatists. artists, sculptors, editors
and educators to explore the artistic
and cultural possibilities of the mo-
tion picture in a conference to be held
in New York in the very near future
women, representing the best In
American thought and American taste,
will evolve some set of principles
which can be accepted by the motion
picture industry as its artistic guide.
Our aim is to have a conference that
will be to the motion picture what the
French Academy Is to French letters,
what the Royal Academy is to British
art and what the Pulitzer Foundation
is to American Journalism"
Evening star., 1923-03-04
Movie Neus From California.

the leads in Jack London's THE Cali
Of the Wild" which Fred Jackmar
will direct. Al Lichtman, vice presi
dent of Preferred Pictures, has de
SPARED of finding the kind Of stories
jected feature films and has started
for continental Europe. He admits +,
he Is negotiating with Franz Molnar.'
author of 'Iiliom.'' for the screen
rights to Fashions for Men" He will
Spanish dramatists.
X *
lust because no one has ever even
imagined Mary Pickford in the
part of a Spanish dancing girl, Mary
is sure the public will like her new
play. She has just started work on.
"Rosita.' a play Of Spanish court ana
peasant life of the fifteenth century
The drama which Ernest Lubitch dug
out of the bottom Of his trunk was
written by a Berlin dramatic critic
and is said to be colorful and grip
ping. Holbrook Blinn will play the
part of the king of Spain and Cheva
lier Is being imported from Paris for
the part of Hero. After "Rosita' is
finished Mary will rush through
Haddon Hall" and then she and
Douglas Fairbanks and fifty invited
guests will sail around the world OF
the chartered liner Persia.
~ X e
nOLA NEGRI. now busy working or
The Cheat" is to fall heir TO q
costly manuscript which the Para
mount Pictures Corporation purchas-
ed early last year for Valentino. Thin
play is nothing less than the Span
ish Cavalier which Is to be partially
rewritten in order. to give the WON :
ably will be changed. The Spanish
Cavalier" was originally Don Caesar
De Bazan. 1t was written in the
D'Ennery, author of The Two Or
phans." and was a stage success at
intervals for many decades. The de-
cision to give Pola Negri the Valen-
tino play will afford the PUBLIC
chance to compare Pola and Mary
Pickford as Spanish dancing girls.
Antonio Moreno will be Miss Negri's,
leading man.
DCMORS OF further shake-ups at
~ the sky lot continue to receive
credence here despite the usual Off
cial denials which precede all formal
announcements of an overturn. OFF
cially it is denied that the contracts
Of Betty Compson. Alice Brady. Elsie
Ferguson and Dorothy Dalton have
been bought up and will be Cancelled
April 1, but the stars themselves have
talked frankly with intimate friends
and these changes may be confidently
expected. Moreover, il would sur
prise no one IL the long threatened
break between Adolph Zukor and
Jesse Lasky. respectively president
and vice president Of the Famous
Players-Lasky Corporation. is now
due. Hollywood will not be surprised
IL Al Kaufman, now in New York.
were to succeed Mr.. Lasky as mana
ger of the West Coast studios here.
Mr.. Kaufman has successfully acted
as European manager for the concern
and has been mysteriously recalled
from Berlin.
Copyright. 1929. by North American News.
paper Ailiance.l
Evening star., 1923-03-04
CENTRAL - "Conquering the
Woman"

"Conquering the Woman" adapted
TO the screen by King Vidor from
Henry c. Row1ands novel. "Kidnap-
ing Coline," will be shown the first
four days of this week, beginning
this afternoon, at CrandalTs Central
Theater. Florence Vidor is cast as
the beautiful young woman to be
conquered. and David Butler the con-
queror. The story relates the man
ner in which an irate father had his
own daughter and one of his trusted
cowpuncher friends kidnapped and ma
rooned on an uninhabited island in
order to cure the girl Of snobbishness
mo Luck" featuring Lloyd Hamil-
ton. also will be shown.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Marie Provost, Kenneth Harlan, Har-
ry Meyers. Tully Marshall, Louise Fa-
zenda and Cleo Ridgely will be pic
tured in Warner Brothers screen ver-
sion of F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel of
the modern f1apper, "The Beautiful
and Damned" with minor pictures,
and Thompson's organ recitals.