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Evening star., 1926-04-28
.ELG|N IS DETAINED
ON $4,000 BOND
Hearing Continued Three
Weeks Pending Outcome of
Mrs. Mays Wound.

Carroll T. Elgin. arrested Monday
in connection with the shooting of
Mrs. Mary May in front of the
Raleigh Hotel, was held on a bond of
$4,000 following his appearance be-
fore Judge George II. Macdonald in
Police Court today. The preliminary
hearing was continued for three
weeks, pending the condition Of Mrs.
May, which today was said to be inn
proving.
When asked how he pleaded to the
charge of assault with a dangerous
weapon. the man answered.: "Not
guilty. Intentionally"
Ralph Given, assistant United
States attorney, informed the court
that the 24-yearold defendants de-
fense was that he was drunk at the
time and remembered nothing about
tho affair.
"That plea does not find any lodg-
ing in my breast" Judge Macdonald
replied.
High Bond Is Sought.
Mr.. Given recommended the high
bond for the reason that another
charge will be made out later, in re-
gard to the alleged brandishing Of his
pistol at q taxi driver.
AT Emergency Hospital today physi-
clans expressed satisfaction at the
improvement in the condition of Mrs.
May. believing that the bullet, which
lodged in the base of the brain, will
not produce fatal results. A partial
paralysis of her body is rapidly dis.
a vi l.
which gave physicians concern yes
terday was alleviated.
After investigating circumstances
surrounding the purchase of the
weapon by Elgin shortly before the
shooting, Detectives Arthur Scriveno1-
and Joseph Waldron reported it ap-
peared that the pistol was purchased
from Norris Berman, at 1907 f street,
while Elg1n was under the influence
OF a pint of corn liquor, and that the
ammunition was purchased from
Groce's hardware store, at Eleventh
and e streets, Immediately afterwarCl
At both stores, however it was denied
that at the time of either sale was
the alleged intoXicatiOn of Elgin man
ifest.
Was Rebuffed by Girl.
Detectives announced today that FL
gin mad signed statement subStan-
TALLY recountinG what he could re
member Of the shooting, much in line
with the interview appearing from
him in yesterdays Star. In addition,
however, Elgfn is said to have re
counted in the signed statement that
he left his home at am, going to q
telephone exchange, where he en-
gagged in a conversation with his es-
tranged sweetheart, who rebuffed him.
AS a result Of the dependency pro
duced by the rebuff he is said to have
admitted purchasing and inbibing
the liquor, with the resultant shoot
ing while under it's influence. He said
he was hazy as to the happenings
after purchasing the pistol and am
munition; but stated that such pur
chaseS were made after he had drunk
at least q pint of corn liquor
Evening star., 1926-04-28
American Influence in Radio.

Until radio became a part of Ameri
can communication service this coun-
try was, in effect, reliant upon foreign
countries, especially in time of war.
Since radio has been developed, how
ever, the United States has taken it's
place in the sun, so to speak. and
within the last six years has, through
it's private and public enterprise and
initiative, given America direct COM
munication with Great Britain,
France, Italy, Germany, Holland. Po-
land, Sweden, Norway. the Argentine,
Japan, Java, Hawaii. Brazil, Chill. the
Philippines, China. French Indo China
and Australasia. The American radio
network" is comparable only to the
cable network of Great Britain.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
Alloys Give Fine Glaze.

A new method for alloying alum
mum with other metals to produce
assurface resembling glazed porce-
lain has been discovered, says the
Popular Science Magazine, by B. NJ.
Jirotka, German electrical engi-
neer. The new alloys are of spe-
cial value to the automobile indus
try in the painting of bodies, it is
said, for they produce a body sur
face which will withstand hard
usage, will not show scratches, and
will combine color with finish, thus
doing away with expensive painting.
German parents sometimes change
the name of their baby If it is seri-
OuSly i'll
Evening star., 1926-04-28
NORTHEAST PLANS
/ PARADE TONIGHT
Turning on of New H Street
Lights Is Occasion for
Civic Celebration.

Residents Of Northeast Washington
will join III celebrating the turning on
of the new lights on II street north.
east in an elaborate parade under the
auspices OF the Northeast Business
Mems Association tonight. Official and
business Washington will be repre-
sented.
Starting at Fifteenth and II streets
northeast at s o'clock, the parade will
be in five sections, with q band for
each section. There will be also IT
special floats, with hundreds of deco
rated private automobiles and trucks
IN the line of march.
The parade viii proceed along the
ioiloWlng route: West ON III street to
North Capitol street, north on North
Capitol street to * street, east on X
street to Fourth street, south on
Fourth street TO III street and east on
IL street to Fourteenth street, where
the celebrators will disband, just one
square west Of where they started.
w. r. Lewis, treasurer OF the
NOrtheas- Business Mems Association,
IS marshal of the parade. Harry F..
White is president Of the association,
which worked out plans for the pa
rade.
New Type Of Lights.
The now lights, mounted on 16-foot
poles, are similar in design to those
on Sixteenth street, and extend on
II street from Fifteenth street north
east 10 North Capitol street.
Capt. Charles Peck. accompanied
by an escort Of mounted police will
precede the parade. Maj. Edwin Is.
1Eesse. superintendent of police, will
ride in the first car with the District
commissioners, Alr. White and 1Iu-
bert NeWSom. Chairmen Of the parade
committee; Mr.. Lewis, the marshal,
and William Smith, aid.
Business houses have been deco
rated for the occasion, while addi-
tional decorations of red and green
lights are to he strung over the street.
Additional coloc viii he added by red
flares and searchligrts.
First and second prizes of SIS and
$40. respectively, viii be given for
the best decorated float, private car,
truck and store and onlookers at
the procession Will receive souvenirs
distributed by the business men.
Represented in the third section of
tho parade viii he the Northeast,
Trinidad, Lincoln Park and stanton
Park Citizens Associations, with DIR.
X. w. Mccullough as aide. +. Il.
lNsi<s'N , i iflilN > lNNit t'l't- - ~ NCp'N
and T.. Clarence PoSton viii serve as
aides for the other sections in the
order in which they march.
The District Chapter Of the Amer
lean Red Cross viii have representa-
tives in the parade, while an exhibit
of carpentry, by the public school
children Of the District, of the sixth.
seventh and eighth grades, mounted
on a float. will be among other at
fractions.
Among the large floats in the pa
rade will be those Of the Northeast
Business Mems Association, American
Security and Trust Co. Northeast
Savings Bank. Sanitary Grocery Co,
Potomac Electric Power Co, floats of
NJ. Herson, y. i. Lottler, Carry Ice
Cream Co, Louis kaTakas, THYME
Bottling Co. Griffith Coal Corporation,
w. NJ Smith, Semmes Motor Co.
Chapin-Sacks, Modern Auto Supply
Co. and float by John NJ. Beane.
About $50 Boy Scouts are to be sta
toned along the sidewalks to aid in
keeping the line of march clear.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
VOLGA RIVER RACES.
Deaths Follow in Wake of Russian
Floods.

MOSCOW, April IS LR--Deaths
and destruction due to floods in the
Volga River and tributaries are re
ported from several districts around
the Soviet capital.
Eight persons were drowned at
Orekhovo, between Moscow and
Vladimir, and others perished at Ry-
binsk, on the Perograd-Moscow Rall-
road, where the Nolga reached level
of 80 feet above normal. Scores of
villages are under water, with their
inhabitants compelled to seek refuge
atop their houses. Many bridges have
been swept away and mills stopped.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
SHIPPING BOARD PLANS.
Hopes to Take Government Out of
Commerce in Pacific.
BY the Associated Press.

commerce IN FacIHc.
BY the Associated Press.
Shipping Board plans virtually to
clear the Government out of CONNER
cial shipping ownership in the Pacific
at the earliest possible date were dis
closed yesterday by Chairman O'Con-
nor.
The pending sale of the five pas
senger ships of the Admiral Oriental
Line to II. Stanley Dollar of San
Francisco, if the deal goes through,
will be followed by the offer for sale
of the eight freighters of the same
line operating out Of Puget Sound
ports to the Orient.
Evening star., 1926-04-28

Mems Spring Hat season,
new blocks and colors.
Silk lined, snap d A Or
brims. $500 and 9H .OC
5000. 0........... x
(Street Floor
The Washington times., 1926-03-19
TRAFFIC. Survey.
To Be URGED

An extensive traffic survey in
every metropolitan area, and the
creation of permanent traffic COM +
mission. composed of municipal OF,
ficials in every large community, /
would help to save Americans two
billion dollars annually, now wasted
or lost because of inadequate traf-
ffc facilities, the committee on
metropolitan traffic of the National
Conference on Street and Highway
Safety viii report to the conference
which has been called by Secretary
of Commerce Hoover for Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday of next
week.
The committee, of which Frederic
A. Delano is chairman, is one or
six which have been studying vari-
GUS phases of street and highway
safety since the first conference
in December, 1924 1t has figured
that the country loses or wastes
two billion dollars annually because
OF congested thoroughfares, heavy
grades, insufficient traffic police,
prevention of access to places OF
business and other such traffic sit
nations which, with proper study
and the outlay OF sufficient money,
the committee believes could be
corrected.
The committee report declares
that the saving of the huge waste
would more than justify the out.
lays necessary to correct traffic
conditions in large centers Of which
it complains.
The permanent traffic coIpnais-
sions, which the committees pro-
poses for various large centers,
would be composed OF the heads Of
all municipal departments which
have to do with any phase of the
traffic situation in their respective
communities. This commission
would be authorized to employ OK
pert engineers. whose efforts would
be devoted to the solution OF traf-
fic problems. An unofficial traffic
commission also is recommended.
This would be composed Of members
Of the official traffic commission.
with representatives of various civic
organizations.
The Washington times., 1926-03-19

unnIeasant breath--were looked upon as more or
Lees of rnsfortune< Now people realize that these
defects frequently result from careessness neglect
or from improper methods Of dental hygiene So
tfey are not now so readily excused
cream are becoming common knowledge there IS
less excuse than ever for tooth decay and gum nfec
ton. Acids cause teeth to decay. Some attack
tooth enamel. Others irritate the gums and pre-
disnose them to disease The problem is to keep
these acids neutralized and consequently harmless.
Souibbs Dental Cream does just that. Il con-
tains more than so per cent OF Squibbs Milk OF
Magnesia-a safe, effective antaeid. After each
brushing with Squibb's Dental Cream, tiny particles
IS Sn,,ibbs MIX of Magnesa remain in the crevices
Al The Danger Line-where gums meet teeth, They
neutralize harmful acids for considerable period
Thus Squibb's Dental cresm protects against both
tooth decay and gum infection, It you want brilliant
teeth and coral gums, begin ts use fooay AT urus
stores everywhere-only 40 cents tube.
The Washington times., 1926-03-19
HOG CALLING CONTEST.
WON BY WOMAN, 65

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, March ~
Mrs. Maud Gilbert, 65, a frail lit
tie Laomi, Ill.,, woman, won the hog
calling contest of Sangamon county
at a banquet given by the city OF
Springfield to the farmers and
stock raisers of the county.
Mrs. Gilbert's plain "whoo-ooey'
was declared by the judges to be
the most perfect call for swine.
The little woman competed against
a field of forty-five persons, most
of them men.
The Washington times., 1926-03-19
100, SHE ATTRIBUTES IT
TO SMOKING SINCE 10

LANCASTER. Ohio. March 10
Seated on a. bed in a tiny home
in Pleasantville, a village near here.
with a clay pipe between her lips,
Mrs. Nancy Gamble observed her
hundredth birthday. She attributes
her longevity to the soothing in
fluence to Dame Nicotine. She has
smoked eighty-two years.
Mrs. Gamble has never ridden on
q railroad or on a street car. She
has never voted, seen a motion
picture or witnessed a baseball or
football game.
The Washington times., 1926-03-19
The proper care OF
your teeth and gums
Brilliant teeth
and coral gums

MOUTH beauty has become
more important these days
than almost any other. At
one time bad teeth and un-
healthy gums, with their
usual accompaniment--an
The Washington times., 1926-03-19
Neck Broken, Walks

LEEDS, England. March H.
With his head hanging to one side,
Charles Coates. walked into q hos
pital and asked for help. His neck
was broken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-18
Fans Have Gone 'Gag-Mad'

a DVICES from the Harold Lloyd
s studios say new epidemic has
surged upon us. Fandom has gone
gag-inad.
For the benefit Of the unenlightened.
it must be explained, in moving pic
ture parlance, that gags are the single
pieces OF business and incidents that
go to make up a comedy picture.
When a comedian naiEely pats a
skunk, thinking it to be a cat. that Is
a gag. When he lodges d piece of
custard pie and it hits an unusupect.
ing man behind him, again friend gag
Is with us.
And now, to come back to our story.
folks seem to be sitting UP nights and
neglecting the radio to think up side
splitting gags to suggest to their ia
vorite screen comic. As result.
Lloyd's fan mail has increased by
leaps and bounds until. according to
the statistician. il the gags submitted
by Lloyd's admirers were placed end
to end, they would extend from Adam
and Ewes chestnut tree to the Los
Angeles Public Library
Not a day passes. 1t Is said, but
that a score or more of letters are
received by Lloyd reading somewhat
as follows: Dear Harold: As / was
walking along the street last night, /
saw a man suddenly slip on a banana
peel while chasing his straw hat. 1t
struck me so funny / thought I.would
write to you about 1t, so that you can
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fuse this incident in your next pic.
ture.
Mr.. Newlywed writes confidentially
Of his wife's first biscuits as possible
for screen material. "A street car con.
ductor hastens to inform the bespecta.
cled comedian of the funny passenger
who dropped basket OF eggs just as
he was aligfting from the car. "A
young brother confides how he caught
his older sister spooning in the parlor
Plumbers and physicians, manicurists
and merchants, BARRIERS and bootleg.
gers all think their businesses afford
Lloyd material for gags and are eager
to acquaint him with all the funny
facts.
The general public does not seem
to realize. says the informant, that
gag connecting is q highly specialized
science. What seems funny in the
parlor would probably not be funny
on the screen. In q picture of the
Lloyd type, every gag must fit into
the story for a definite reason, and Ia
built and mulled over by staff OF
experts In order that the biggest laugh,
possible might be gotten from 1t. Gag
men. as these comedy specialists are
called, are a scarce product. Indeed,
1t Is said that many professional hu
morists Of the literary and Legitimate
field have tried their hands at moving
picture ''gagging," to find that they
are not fitted for the work. 1t seems
to be a field unto itself.
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.f1l111OgraIns

Dale Fuller both played frivolous
roles in lighter vein.
Drums and biigIes were used all
through 4 Volcano by William X.
Howard to create emotion.
George Melford, dean Of screen
directors. lis to make the screen version
OF Going Crooked, No date has
been named for starting the picture.
n, William NeiW will direct the
brated stage play, The city, which
is to be made under the personal
supervision Of Ernest Mas.
James Madison, one of the best
known of stage comedy writers, has
been signed by Fox Films to inject
comedy Into feature pictures made by
that company, his first subject being
what Price Glory"
Madge Beliamy, Fox Films star. who
has returned to Hollywood from two.
month tour Of Europe with eight
trunks full Of clothes unpacked, has
been notified to return to New York i'm
mediately to begin work on new
picture, The summer Bachelors. 9
story BY Warner Fabian. author Of
AsssstsAsE Auhtkn. <NAsnIas T - ~ - -
In The Eagle Of The sea Frank
Lloyd 3 first production for Paramount.
George Irving win play the historical
character Of Andrew jackson. Produc.
ton Of this story OF old New Orleans
and the exploits Of the last pirate,
begin shortly, with Florence Vidor In
Iffa loo dfnf, fnf,6ISatr4n YnIo
Douglas MacLean's new Paramount
| picture, which was begun recently;
with Constance Howard as his leading
| woman and the pOrtly Walter Hers
IN an important supporting role, has
It's locale In Africa.
So successful was the combination
of Ford Sterling. Lois Wilson and
Louise Brooks In The Show-On' I
that studio ofIlcials decided to cast
| this trio In Love EN- and Leave
En-" taken from the play OF that
name. Lawrence Gray viii round out
| the featured members Of the cast,
Love En- and Leave En-" viii be
directed by Frank Tuttie and win be
filmed in the East.
George Bancroft, to meet require.
| ments OF his role in Old Ironsides.'
it is said. hasn't had a haircut or
shave since last October.
Capt. M. O. Hull. great-grandson OF
Isaac Hull. one.time commodore OF
the frigate Constitution, recently was
an interested witness of the battle
| scenes for James Cruces odd lion
sides" gigantic historical and roman.
tic sea photoplay exploiting the deeds
of that ship in its conquest against
| the pirates OF old Tripoli.
Eddie Cantor, who has made mil.
lions laugh I'm the theater, is said now
TO be keeping an entire company roar
| ing from morning until night I'm his
| first picture, kid Boots" with new
and fast ones.
RAYMOND Griffith. star of you'd Be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-18

HAVE YOU ever heard Of the Prin-
cess Nacoomee?
Her name means handful Of
flowers" and she is a remarkable lit,
tie Indian maiden. daughter of Chief
Tahan, an Usage Indian, who was a
captive raised as KioWa chieftain,
who possesses the wonderful gift OF
talking the Indian sign languages
with his hands.
But the Princess Nacoon1ee is also a
rare vioIinist, an adept In Indian music
and a former pupil of the New Eng.
land Conservatory of Music.
For three seasons she was feature
of the Chautauqua circuit. She has
appeared before boards of education
and the schools in Cleveland. in Buff
falo, in Boston. where they did her the
honor of having her play in the Old
South Meeting House before a iistin.
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Surprised. who Is bachelor, says ut
Is my belief that no man, no matter
who he is, is good enough to marry a
good girl" But they do, just the same.
"Gunboat" Smith, who has the part
of Bert, the street car conductor, in
Herbert Brenon's THE Great Gatsby,' =
Is q famous ex.pugilist playing his first
role with the movies. and by the terms
Of his contract he Is restrained from
having improvements made upon his
battle-scarred physiognomy.
Raymond Hatton, Paramount char
acter comedian, is going down the So
cial scale in pictures. In Behind the
Front" he was doughboy transformed
from pickpocket. In Born to the
West" he was a tramp COW puncher.
and in 'Forlorn River" his current
production, he is just an ordinary no.
account tramp, ragged, unkempt and
unshaven. 'sForlorn River is q pic
Irritation Of Zane Grey's story. B. p.
Schulberg, associate producer Of Para
mount, is personally supervising it.
Frank Hopper, recently chosen
after a nationwide search, to play the
role Of Theodore Roosevelt in 1.-The
Rough Riders the epic of the
Spanish American War which Victor
Fleming will direct for Paramount, is
declared by Hermann Hagedorn, biog-
rapher of Theodore Roosevelt, to be
an astounding likeness in figure and in
mannerism to Col. Roosevelt.
Percy Marmont recently left the
Hollywood Hospital after undergoing
an operation and is said to be rapidly
regaining his strength. His latest
featured role Is In "Mantrap." with
Clara Bow and Ernest Terrence, a
Paramount production directed by
Victor Fleming.
Pola Segri has a veritable League
Of Nations staff for her new Para
mount starring picture, Hotel I'm
perial.1 Erich Pommer. supervisor, is
German: Maurice Steller, director, is
Swedish: Alexis Davidoff. military
technical adviser, is Russian, Pola
herself Is Polish, and the cast includes
many nationalitieS, Americans pre-.
dominating, of course.
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guished audience, and in other cities
Of New England and throughout the
country.
Members Of the Kiwanis and Rotary
clubs, of the City Club. and of the
Almas Caravan Club Of this city viii
recall her as an artist guest back in
1928, when President Harding met her
and was deeply interested In her at
the big concert given at American
League Park by 5000 Washington
| school children. She was introduced
locally by Robert Lawrence and with
DR.. Sigmund Spaeth, the famous New
York music critic.
Mischa Guthrson. director of the
Rialto Orchestra. is featuring the lit
tile Indian princess this week in an
exquisite scenic, Sky and Water" at
the Rialto Theater, when she will play
THE Land of the Skyblue Water. z
Yo,l will like her
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Invade Foreign Field.

HIRAM ABRAMS, president Of
: : United Artists Corporation, an.
nounces that d contract had been
signed between ia, subsidiary Of
United Artists Corporation. and the
Phoebus Film Company Of Germany.
whereby United Artists pictures are
given preferences In the loo theaters
OF the Phoebus organization In Ger
man cities ana towns.
This means that the films OF Macy
PickfOrd, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas
Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, John
Barrymore, Buster KeatOn and Samuel
Goldwyn's players will have pre-
cedence over all films in the great
German chain of theaters. 1t is said
to mark the biggest step Ut American
.fllnas into the European market. Not
only will fiIms released By United Art.
lists Corporation be shown In the pres
=ent Phoebus houses. but the American
stars viii be seen III 20 large firat-run
houses now under construction
throughout the Reich.