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The Washington times., 1929-07-30
FAVOR WILSON
AS Elk HEAD

J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted
ruler Of the colored Elks, who Is
standing for reelection for the sew
enth consecutive term, continues. to
receive endorsements from lodges
throughout the country.
In an official proclamation calling
for a convention OF the grand lodge,
at Atlantic City, August rs to 81,
Wilson stands upon his record for
making the fraternity first among
colored organizations, in numbers,
property, constructive service and
prominent men in its membership.
Attorney Armond w. Scott, OF Co
lumbia Lodge. No. S5. Is a candidate
for commissioner Of education. to
succeed Judge William G. HeMston,
OF Indiana The post awards scholar
ships to worthy negro youth, and
conducts .oratoricaI contests on the
relation of the Constitution to the
race, ending with national contest
for a prize of 81, 900 at the conven-
tion, which is to be broadcast to the
lodges throughout the country.
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The reason, opines Benjamin
Glaxer. PatIe executive. 10 that the
voice il an index 10 character, re-
finement, breeding and disposition.
The sincere and intelligent girl
will i1stinctively modulate her
voice and learn to enunciate
clearly, just as she will groom her
self to preserve and perfect her
good looks. Because of their me-
chanical aspect. talking pictures
demand the technique OF intelli-
gent acting rather than an unre
pressed emotional force.
THE girl. who succeeds In the
screen from now on will be the
one who recognizes this fact and
prepares to meet the situations
arising from IT.
The girl who wants to be q
movie queen must not fail to take
advantage Of every cultural op.
'portunity, Glazer points out. Only
by developing her mind and her
tastes will she acquire the good
breeding that speaks In the well
modulated, refined voice. and In
poised graceful gestures.
The last vestige Of flicker In.
motion pictures has been killed
by ssynchro-lights," an invention
OF technicians Of Metro. Goldwyn-
Mayer studies.
The technicians have synchron-
lied the camera with the electric
lights used in the picture.
I'm filming q picture explains
John Nickolaus, M.G-M laboratory
chief. there IL always q minute
space between each little picture
on the film when the shutter Is
closed. And electricity always IL a
puIsating current, so there are
infinitesirnal moments when an
electric Light grows DINNER than
at other times.
BY means Of an electric timer.
we have so timed our camera mo-
tors that the shutter closes at the
exact instant the lights have their
dim instants-so that no dim
spacesever are picked up on
the film. g
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
The Cackle Bush

Kate Smith, whose voice Is
better than ever, is being given
a might" at Maurice Kafkas
Jardin Lido, Thursday. "A lot cf
bon tonnage is forecast.
Kenneth Roberts, who puts
pen to paper for the Saturday
Evening Post. is checking out
of the Mayflower today with the
missus, aiming toward the sum-
mer shack at Kennebunk Beach,
Me.
Taking advantage Of the sum-
mer lull, F. Irving ("Tommy''
Thompson, International News
reel lensman, Saturday married
pretty Anna Morris.
Sam Rubin, Loew press agent,
took friends motoring to Har-
pers Ferry Sunday. He missed
the ferry and nobody knew who
Harper was, but Sam liked it
anyhow.
No matter what John Irving
Fisher says Mr.. Zlotnick, the
furrier, did not give the Fox
cites the fur coats they're wear
ing in the Fox stage show this
week. Not for keeps.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
D. c. BOY JOINS
EDISON TEST

Milton Felstsins is-year-otd Nc
Einley High School graduate. is off
to see the sights at New York to
ride the chutes at Coney Island, to
Be entertained by Thomas Al. Edison.
and. IL he is smarter than 4S other
young geniuses to hear his name
ring round the world as successor
to the greatest inventor Of all tirne
Milton the Districts hope for the
Edison scholarship contest sat
quietly in parlor car at Union
Station today before the train lelt
to take him to the Edison Iabora.
tories in New Jersey. He was ac-
ooEapanied to the station By his
brother. M 81
No FUSS. No Cameras
There was no fuss no clicking az
cameras to disturb him.
aI'm not nervous, said, FL sup
pose l should be, but I'm not
scared At all. I have one chance IN
49s and l guess that's all there Is
to say about it."
IN this bag were two books on
physics and chemistry. He hopes
to have time for study between
various fetes planned by Edison for
the 40 boys who will take the ex-
animation to- determine which will
be trained III one of the leading
colleges and In his own laboratories
to succeed him when he retires.
Wants Him TO Win
Edison has prepared an elabor-
ate program for the competitors,
including dances. and trips to New
York, as we'll as tours of his labor
atories
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Felstein are
staying home at 1906 Crittenden
st. N. W., hopefully awaiting news
of Milton. Mrs. Felstein wants him
TO win. but she is so proud of him
already, she says. that she will be
Just as hapy either way"
80 4.H- N~su
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
Musical Note

Mary Helen Howe. coIoratura
soprano. has returned from Fred.
erIck. Nd. where she was soloist
for the opening OF Baker Park.
She was accompanied by the
Baker Park Orchestra. under the
direction OF Maud Waters Dit.
mar. Mrs. Dittmar directed her.
orchestra In a program OF classic
and popular numbers.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
Glen Echo Park

Mid-July finds Glen Echo Park
in. a thriving condition, to say the
least especially over week-ends,
and the one just passed was no
exception. Saturday and Sunday
until late at night the cars OF the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company were kept busy bringing
the customers for the Derby Racer.
Airplane Swing. Coaster Dip. Old
Mil and the more than so amuse-
raents at the park. In the ball
room McWilliams ana his orches-
ira continue TO please nightly ex-
eept Sunday.
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They're Off

They're Off
Joseph Won Sternberg, the d.
rector, and his wife departed last
eve for New York, EN- route to
Germany and a Flick studio. Joe
will megaphone Emil Jannings in
an aII-outloud celluloider. Tis
whispered loudly that the story is
an adaptation Of the "Rasputin"
biography. Herr Jannings should
sink his histlionic dentals into this
weird character. The case is to be
100 per cent Teutonic with ditto
speech.
What happens when the film is
edited for English hearing audi.
ences is sufficiently intriguing to
merit space for cogitation. VIII
English be synchronized with the
German characters? II so, the
lips will certainly belle the eye and
may aggravate the ear. Ha, ha.
Visualize us harassed public in
search of new and compromised
sense!
This linguistic synchronization
is being done even now. Broad
way" for example, is being fitted
for the German market at the
present Penning courtesy Uni
Versal.
Years ago, d. w. Griffith came
forth boldly in print 10 state that
some day the motion picture
would bring about natlonalizing
OF international languages. Folks
scoffed. They spurned ideaIistic
bologny. But p'rhaps the talkies
may do something of the sort.
After all. pity the poor producer
and his overhead--I said over.
Screenallties
James Hall corraIed himself a
nifty case of ptomaine poison and
baked at posing for heroic photo
graphs that day Artie jacobson,
assistant director, espied talking
) with Doris Hill in the famous
players lobbying hall. Artie wished
the news to be spread. He really
wanted to see IL / could spell his
name correctly. He's pretty much
OF a meany hathaway Robert
Armstrong is a mileage widower,
UNI. his wife, Jeanne Kent. has gone
to Oakland to emote in a play
yclept "This Thing Called Love"
ts%Ken Maynard shopping for a
cruiser. He figures his speed boat
is powerfully lonely Mary Eaton
has leased the Doug Fairbanks, jr's
home in Bev Hills. One must have
a home to enjoy birthday sunbaths.
though with airplanes and new
blimp flying so low these days not
even garden Is insured as to
privacy - Carmel Myers and her
lawyer husband. Ralph Bloom,
deliberately invited scandal into
their lives when they lunched to-
gether at Ye Mcntmartre and held
hands during two courses and
's'that'a all
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
DEUTSCHIA AND
BECKONS
Won
BY DOROTHY HERzOG

lCopyright. 1923, Premier syndicats)
HOLLYWOOD. Calf. July 30
In Ye Colony, the cinema leaves
no genius unmarked. A local sody
water palace offers, for the paltry
sum of so cents. Hollywood
Revue Special" dedicated to the
H. r. 1t consists of fruit salad,
vanilla cream, and waters. Dern
subtle, these sody water artists
bN
The Washington times., 1929-07-30

You may take your pick Of the City's
finest apartments from the rental coli
umns Of today's Classified Ads.
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wrote with 7. II. Wenning for
College Humof, has been made
into a jolly talker BY Pathe,
under the new title Of "The
SOPHOMORE which Is no inn
proyement, whichever way you
look at 1t. WThe trade papers
like the picture immensely.
There's yet another distinc-
tion to be added to Corey's list.
Percy Crosby's novel, "Skippy."
which still enjoys a healthy sale,
according to alI-around reports,
was dedicated to him. They're
close friends, Percy and Corey.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
Sacred Iberian Chapel
At Moscow Torn
To Ground

MOSCOW. July so n.N.sJ. 1.-The
famous sacred Iberian Chapel,
built in 1869, containing an Ikon
Of the Virgin Mary brought from
Mount Athos. was suddenly torn
down today without any previous
warning. The wreckers started
work All the sIberian gateway on
Red Square, of which the chapel
was a part
The destruction Of this historic
chapel caused CONSERVATION among
the devout.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
Talkies Wedding Out
DumbeH Film Stars
By FREDERIC A. CHASE

HOLLYWOOD, July 80 (INS).--The takies elimi-
mating actresses who are beautiful but dumb
Publicity departments long have kept secret the fact that
not always intelligent they might
be- but the talking pictures ruthessly and rapidly
posing the beauties whose minds and cultural backgrounds
ID not keen stem with their apnearRnces.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
FOREST FIRES
 CONTINUE OVER. NORTHWEST.
Flames Racing Uncontroll- ed in National Forests,
 Private Holdings
VANCOUVER ISLAND
 FIRES ARE SERIOUS
Large Tracts of Tim b CT Land Theatened-Fire
 Along Fraser River

SEATTLE, Aug. 14.-The Fire God continued to hold sway in great timber stands in the North west today racing uncontrolled in National Forests and private hold ings in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia.
 The fires are gaining headway in the Pend O'Reille, Colville and Kaniksu National forests.
 One hundred and twenty five men have been sent from Spokane to battle the flames.
 The situation in the Selway, Lolo, Butte, Blackfeet and Missoula re- gions is reported unchanged. Fire fighters are holding their own over most of the region.
 The situation in lower British Columbia and on Vancouver Is- land is extremely hazardous. Fires are nearing large tracts of stand ing timber.
 Several buildings have been de- stroyed on the Fraser River by the Jackman Road fire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
Mayor and Chief of Police First Arrested in
 Indiana City
GIRLS OF SCHOOL
 AGE ARE CAUGHT
Operators of Gambling and Other Resorts Are Talk
 en Into Custody

HAMMOND, Ind, Aug. IA. Girls of school age, a May or, Chief of Police, several men and women operators Oi gambling resorts and speak easies are among 200 persons arrested during the night and early today by Federal Agents who mOpped up what they termed the Calumet district of a vice and liquor ring.
 Mayor Raleigh Hale and his Chief of Police Began were among the first arrested and charged with conspiracy.
 In many places the agents found young girls acting as barmaids.
 State officers said the "civ- il machinery and law enforce ment in the area has been broken down to such an ex- tent that Gov. Harry Leslie will be justified by placing the district under artia l law"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
SURVEY OF NEW
 LAKE WILL BE.
 MADE AT ONCE
Kinzie Directs Fla to Pro- ceed with Survey of
 New Lake on Taku

There will be no delay by the Cameron interests in surveying the newly discovered lake on Taku Inlet, it was made known today by J. A. Cameron, who is enthusiastic over the advantages it offers in carrying out the pulp and paper mill program here. The lake, which is but IT miles from Juneau, was found last week by Commander A. w. Radford of the Navy Alaska Aerial Expedition in mapping the east shore of Taku Inlet.
 MT. Cameron said today that R. A. Kinzie, consulting engineer for the California syndicate. had tele- graphed Engineer A. J. Ella to pro- ceed at once to the lake and make survey of it. An application will be filed at once with the Federal Water Power Commission for de- velopment permit.
 MT Fla is now in the vicinity of Taku Harbor completing the detail survey of the transmission line route from Speel River to Point Greeley. MT Cameron has wired him to come here at once for an aerial trip to the lake after which arrangements will be made for the survey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
By EDWARD STANLEY "A. P. Feature Writer

GROWN POINT, Ind, Aug. IA The royal road to romance takes q detour here to the divorce courts
 Crown Point, only 40 swift miles away as Cupid flies, is Chicago's $ Gretna Green.
 Thousands of "whoopee brides elope here yearly and take solemn VOWS that they later decide they didn't mean Sometimes they can't even remember the words.
 Then they scamper for the court of domestic relations to weep and have it declared no contest.
 Maybe they wed on dare, may be it's true romance, but often it's the gay climax of a "whoopee party" That's why they're given the sobriquet "whoopee brides"
 The marriage license bureau is an important industry here, and has been for years. One judge retired as early as 1915 with a for tune estimated at $50000. He had married more than 15,000 couples
 Judge H. E. Kemp has married more than twice that number. He ties the knot for about 4000 a year. In his marriage parlor,' just across the street from the courthouse where the license is issued without quibbling and gaudy certificate urged upon the couple for dollar, Kemp has thousands of tiny plush lined boxes, cocoons that have
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matched many matrimonial ven ture. They used to hold wedding rings.
 Kemp i.as oone well at $5 a mar riage, or whatever the bridegroom thinks right. Rudolph Valentino, one of Crown Points celebrated customers, thought it worth $50.
 It's not hard to get married in Chicago. Then why Crown Point?
 "Oh, they're so polite" one 'whoopee bride" said, explaining that they didn't ask embarrassing questions. They even have rings all ready, all sizes"
 But when they come out of the gauge many of the girls wish it hadn't been so easy. Chicago's lat- est and most spectacular "whoopee bride," Beatrice Kemmett Debus, wishes that very thing.
 Beatrice went on a gay party June 27. She woke up on the morning of July to find a strange young man beating her.
 Whats the big idea?" she asked.
 T guess I got a right to beat you-Im your hu b al" the strange young man told her.
 He showed her marriage cer- tificate, tore it into shreds and threw them into her face Then he ducked and hasn't been seen since.
 Beatrice pieced the shreds to- gether and found she was Mrs. De- bus, married at Crown Point, which was news to her. Friends told her she met Henry Lewis Debus on the party and after a few drinks an- nounced she was going to marry him. Then they had more drinks During the ceremony, Beatrice says she had to be held up. Now she's asking Chicago courts to annul her marriage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
HURRICANE IN
 VERMONT DOES
 GREAT DAMAGE
( Cottages Overturned Buildings Damaged
 Property Destroyed

RUTLAND, Vermont, Aug. 14.- Cottages were overturned and buildings damaged by a hurricane which swept path of 25 miles from Lake Bomessen to Middlebury late yesterday.
 No loss of life has been reported up to early this morning.
 Livestock was killed in the fields and crops ruined.
 Communication is disrupted and highways are blocked by fallen trees.
 Hail stones fell, some of them as large as silver dollars.
 Damage is estimated into the thousands of dollars.
 The su m m CT colony at Lake Bomessen was the hardest hit, twenty cottages having been blown over. The hail smashed windows and tops of automobiles.
 Several boating parties were in great danger. One boat capsized and the occupants were finally got ashore but badly cut and bruised by the hail.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
ALL CONFESSIONAL
 SECRETS GUARDED
 BY ITALIAN CODE

ROME, Aug. 14.-Protestant cler- gymen and Jewish rabbis will here after enjoy the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in being able to plead the professional se- cret" when declining to give testi- mony before the Italian courts. This is made clear in the second por- ton of the new Code of Penal Pro- cedure issued by Minister of Justice Rocco.
 As the coue m.ll be introduced in the Senate and Chamber next autumn as government bill and since the Fascists have an over whelming majority in the upper house and a practical unanimity in the lower, it should pass without question. What it will do is to secure to non-Catholic ministers the same right of keeping confess sions inviolate that has long been tacitly granted to priests of the Ro- man church.
 The codes text says the new dis position is in strict accord with the Lateran treaties. The text specifi- cally exempts from giving testi- mony on confidential matters the ministers of the State religion d. e., the priests), maintaining also the guarantee for the ministers of those cults permitted in the State" It is further added that the privi- legged position obtained by the Ro- man church, owing to the concor- dat that forms part of the Lateran accords, does not signify "diminu- ton of the liberty and guarantees enjoyed by other sects.
 Cardinals, unoer the new code, have peculiar privilege. If they are cited as witnesses in legal &C., ton, their testimony may be taken at their domiciles, since they are considered on par with princes of the blood royal and high officials of the State. The idea behind this provision is that every Cardi- nal is a potential sovereign, being eligible to election as Pope on the death of the reigning pontiff. and therefore comparable with an Ital- ian prince in line of succession to the throne.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
WA.
Hundreds of heao ve stock Killed Serious
 Problem Arises

ALBURQUERQUE, N. M., Aug. 14.-4-The village of San Acacia has been swept away, San Marcial is inundated, hundreds of heads of live stock have been killed and property damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of dol lars has resulted from flood waters of the Rio Puerco River.
 Heavy rains sent the river out of the banks.
 Despite the violence of the floods, no lives are reported lost, villagers evacuating be- fore the flood hit them.
 Drowned livestock presents .a serious problem.
 Officials are planning dis pOsal of the carcasses to pre- vent an epidemic.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
BRITISH CREDITS AIR FORCE
 WITH AVERTINC AFGHAN VAR

SHREWSBURY, England, Aug. 4. How fighting planes fought as angels of peace in recent far eastern crisis was described in an address here by Sir Francis Hum phreys, former British minister at Kabul.
 Prompt arrival of planes from Bagdad and Egyptian outposts of the British Empire during the siege of Kabul by Afghan insurrec- tionists probably saved England from another war;" Sir Francis said.
 When all means of communica- tion by land were hopelessly cut off" he explained, "airplanes flew to our rescue from Bagdad and even from Egypt, covering as much as HOO miles in single day.
 "These machines had operated before only in hot climates at a maximum height of 4,000 feet, and they were suddenly called upon to fly over snowbound and inhospit- able mountains at heights far great CT than the Alps, in a temperature 30 degrees below zero, and to land on a strange airdrome in two feet of snow, with a fierce battle raging in the neighborhood. But never once did they refuse my call.
 More than eighty journeys were made and 35,000 miles flown, with a loss of two machines; and 500 Brit ish subjects and foreigners were conveyed to safety without a single casualty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
French Prison nas
 Big Financial Row

PARIS, Aug. 14.-There are 126 bankers in the financial row" of La Sante prison. Nearly all of them ran banks but often the banks did no real banking business.
 Although most of them trimmed their customers as thoroughly as possible, none of them seems to have profited much. Usually, they in turn, were victims of handsome but extravagant women or of their faith in their ability to guess what the stock market would do.
 One of the first remedies agreed upon by parliament was the re- quirement of clean legal record from those who wish to start banks. -convicts no longer need apply for charters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14

There was one exciting incident. King Amanullah, besieged with a garrison of 5000, was given a 24- hour ultimatum to surrender to an attacking force of 16,000.
 "The alternative was a murder ous assault with scaling ladders, no quarter, and general loot and mas sacre. The king replied that noth- ing would induce him to come out unless the safety of himself and his ladies was taken in hand by Englishmen.
 we had no soldiers and no means of enforcing authority, ex- cept with our tongues. The air drome was situated between the two armies, only 400 yards from each other, and was raked with a devastating cross fire. We had to take the risk, and telegraph for airplanes. When the machines ar rived in sight we gave the signal to both armies to cease firing.
 Fortunately for us they obeyed the signal The airplanes landed in silence, and the king and his ladies, escorted by unarmed Eng lishmen from the legation, went to the waiting machines and were flown safely to India.
 There is no doubt whatever that the Royal Air force on this occa- sion not only saved the city and foreign legations from terrible fate but probably saved England from another war"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
SWEDEN FINDS ANSWER
 TO BIG WORK PROBLEM

STOCKHOLM. Aug. 14.-From 1914 to 1924 Sweden spent $64,10O,- 900 for relief of unemployed, says a report of the State Unemploy- ment Commission.
 At present the number of unem- ployed in Sweden shows a mini- mum figure, but the number regis tered during 1922 averaged about 10000 every month. Only about
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capitol he plans to drop message to the Department of Commerce, from which has come the sugges- tion that an endurance refueling flight under actual load carrying conditions would be of benefit to aviation
 Lieutenant Manner received his training in the army air corps, and became known nationally as pilot by winning second place in one of the New York to Spokane air der bies during the national air races two years ago. His co-pilot, Art Walker, is another veteran birdman
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
RETURN FROM TRIP

Lieut.. N. S. Haugen, U. s. c. G., and Mrs. Haugen, returned to Ju- neau aboard the steamer Alameda after having spent a week in Ket- chikan where they were the guests of Lieut.. Haugen's parents, MT. and Mrs. J. Weibust, who are spending the summer in Ketchikan and who are the owners of the Independent Salmon Canneries in that city. Lieut.. Haugen also has an interest in this cannery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-14
Bull Goes on Rampage;
 Woman Killed in Home

VALENCIA, Spain, Aug. IA bull fought it's way from drivers today and killed woman when 1t invaded her home. The bull gored three horses and frightened the populace. The bull was finally captured and taken to the bull ring to await a chance against matadors.