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The Washington times., 1930-02-27
GLEANINGS
SCREENINGS
By ANDREW r. KELLEY

By ANDREW r. KELLEY
Harry Lauder Is negotiating
for two appearances in Washing
ton. Matinee and evening, Sat
'urday, March 20. The theaters
got good and sore on Sir Harry
when he took $500 for singing
almost everything in his book
over the radio for which there Is
no admission. He doesn't do 1t
any more George
Perry Marshall, chronic first
nighter, can't see the talking
pictures. He has only seen
three, however, and Ldmits
that Garbo's Anna Christie"
has set him to thinking
Nick Lucas, the grooming Tip
Toe Through the Tulips" singer
of Gold Diggers of Broadway"
comes to the Earle March 8. Like
Rudy Vallee some hate him and
others can't get enough Of the
Lucas voice and mandolin
the Fox Theater starts with a
Friday midnight show tomor-
row. all seats so cents. If 1t
goes over big the fish day start
may become a permanent thing.
Mary Loane wears a blonde
wig in THE Love Duel" be-
cause her own hair is about
the same color as Queen
Ethel's Irene Dunno of
"Show Boat" is flirting with
the talking pictures and only a
difference of $500 a week in
salary has kept her from sign
ing a Hollywood contract
Dick Barthelmess has made
more money for the Metropoli-
tan The@ter than any single
movie star. His Son of the
Gods" is upholding his repu-
tation Rumor mongerS
will tell you both R-K-O and
Warner Brothers are anxious
to do business for the Washing
ton Fox Theater in case Will
liam Fox loses in his battle
with Halsey-Stuart and
the MesSrS. Shubert would love
to take over the Keith house
for their Washington stand.
Helen Wallace signed to do
leads in stock at Birmingham,
Ala, and began her new chore
Monday. Just after she signed
came an offer to play second
woman" parts on E Street for
Mons. Cochran. She cried all
night, for she likes Washington
and is trying to effect a re-
lease. Bill Hay is radios
prize supper act. He comes
before and after amos n
ANDY Will Rogers
$4,000 slap for Is minutes on
the radio tops AL Jolson'S price
Just 100 per cent.
Bill Robinson, the sepia step
per who taught Marilyn Miller,
Ruby Keeler and other Broad
way stars to tap dance, is play
ing to turnaway audiences at
the Howard Theater this week.
Variety says that next
season there will be 81 theaters
on Broadway between Forty"
second and Fifty-third Streets,
The Washington times., 1930-02-27
When The Feature
Is Shown on Screen

FOX-George O'Brien and
Sue Carol in Lone Star Ran
ger" At 1853, 2:41, 4:44, 1855
and 9:59 p. m.
RIALTO-Mary Nolan in
"Undertow." At HAS a. M,
1870, 3:11, $40, TOT and 9:25
p. m.
EARLE-Robert L. CBelieve
it or Not) Ripley on the stage.
Edward Everett Horton in The
Aviator" on the screen. At
1880 a. m, 1885, 3:45, $50,
7:40 and 9:45 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Greta Garbo in
Anna Christie" At IL a. M,
/, $40, $40, 7:2O and $50 o.
m.
METROPOLITAN-Rl C hard
Barthelmess in Son of the
Gods" At 1923 a. m., 1928,
1928, 5:28, 1928 and 9:29 p. m.
R-K-O-Keith's-Helen Twelve
trees in THE Grand Parade"
At 1929 a. m, 1880, 3:11, $40,
TOT and 9:25 p. m.
PALACE-LouiS Wolheim in
"Ship From Shanghai" At
11:5O a. M, 2:15, ass, 7:42 and
1913 p. m.
The Washington times., 1930-02-27

and every one will be playing
pictures. " Rudy Vallee
went over so big in Washing
ton N.B.C. may let him excur-
sion elsewhere, for the real
To- down is that there were
definite signs the Vallee popu.
larity was beginning to tobog
gan Laurence Stallings
announces in Hollywood if John
Gilbert can't knock the block
off Jim Tully he can and will
if given the chance. But I
think it's just ballyhoo for
Song of the West
Most of the New York critics
liked Shaw's Apple Cart" and
those that didn't are invited to
name another modern play
wright who can write a 90
minute first act, nine-tenths
dialogue, and not lose GUS
toner Fresh William
Haines comes soon to the Col
umbia in THE Girl Said No"
and if you like him that way
he's fresher than ever. The
union musicians will soon
launch a nationwide campaign
over the radio to show that
canned music is not so much
Paul Schwarz fiddles for
both Erlanger and Shubert
attractions. This week SHOW
Boat" Next week, Babes in
Toyland" Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Head are here to pre-
pare the way for the New
York Theater Guilds latest
production. "A Month in the
Country" with Nazimova and
a
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Junior Theater Will
Appear in ''PenrOd''

"Penrod," by Booth Tarking-
ton, and The Ivory Door," by
A. A. Milne, will share honors
in the Junior Civic Theater pro-
ductionS at the Shubert- -Belasco
Theater Saturday matinee and
evening.
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in.. Big conference. 1t ended
with Dix entering the scene
whistling Silver Threads
Among the Gold" Said tune not
being protected by prior rights.
Yep, these here talkieS have
their moments
Ill be seeing you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
HOOVER LASHES
OFFICE SELLING
Southern States Warned
by President.

Bu United Press
WASHINGTON, March 18.-Presi-
dent Hoover has asked the justice
department to consider the report
of the senate Comr ittee which in
vestigated federal patronage in the
south, but he believes the repre-
hensible practice of selling Offices
has been ended definitely, he said
today.
Lately, charges have been
brought that a member of the new
advisory committee in South Caro-
lima has accepted contributions
from a person recommended for
appointment" the President added.
1.-THE charges were made by the
old organization, which was dis
placed. They are denied by the new
committee. This matter has been
under investigation by the justice
and postoff1ce departments, and the
facts will be determined and pub
lished.
eff South Carolina, Georgia and
Mississippi are unable to initiate an
able organization; through the lead
ership of men who will command
confidence and protect the public
service, the different federal depart
mentS will be compelled to adopt
other methods to secure advice as
to the selection Of federal employees"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
APPRAISAL HIT
IN MERCER CASE
Damaging Admissions Are
Made by insult Witness.

Aroused by the charge of an IN
sulI witness that the public service
commission appraisal produced moth
ing of value in the $70,000,000 util-
tiles merger case, Commissioner
Howell Ellis today launched a
cross examination which brought
out damaging admissions.
These included the fact that a
similar brick wall at Trenton was
listed in the utilities appraisal by
units varying from SAL to SOL a
square. Common labor at Terre
Haute was put into the utilities ap-
praisal at 60 cents an hour. Poles
in the ground were listed as butt
treated" and boosted above the
price set by commission engineers.
This testimony was brought forth
in Ellis cross examination of DON
aid M. Cook, representing Spoon
er and Merrill, Chicago, whose ap-
praisal of the proposed merger prop
critics was submitted previously as
expert"
Cook admitted go cents for COM
mon labor at Terre Haute would be
high for the present time and that
40 cents would be nearer the proper
figure.
Cook admitted the commission ap-
praisal did disclose an error of adj
dition which meant a saving of
thirty-f1ve miles Of wire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
QUIZ SUSPECT
I'M Staying OF TELLER

pital after he gasped, "a big man
shot me-"
Drawn on hastily procured slip
of paper in a hospital room, Eel
ler''s will was filed today in probate
court.
Attested by him the day after he
was shot, Zeller's will provided that
two thirds of his $4,000 estate be
bequeathed to st. Demands church,
Charlottesville, and that the re-
naming third be given to the wild
ow, Mrs. Ida Zeller.
zeller was the operator Of the
Butchers and Packers lottery, and
police believe loot obtained by the
bandits was money Zeller had re-
ceived in the pool.
Funeral services for Zeller were
held today at St. Johns Catholic
church. Burial was in Holy Cross
cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18

body weight. Fatal concentration
is about six parts alcohol to one
thousand parts body weight.
Fusel oil in liquor, he declares,
is four times as toxic as ethyl al
cohol, but never is present in SUI
fcient quantity to act fatally be-
for the subject has absorbed a
lethal dose of ethyl alcohol. The
same is true of acetaldehyde, ten
times as toxic as ethyl alcohol,
he said.
Wood alcohol appears in boot
leg liquor only rarely, DR.. Harger
stated.
In the early days Of prohibition
some liquor did contain methyl
alcohol, but the bootleggers now are
afraid of it, and if one can judge
from reports Of analyses from va
rious sections Of the country at the
present time. there is usually no
methyl alcohol in Illicit liquor"
he wrote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
Underworld, Police Left to
Guess as Beer Lord
Remains Absent.
WANTED FOR QUIZZING
'AIky' RaCketeer Is Taken
for Ride; Body Tossed
Into Street.
BY ROBERT L. LOUGHRAN,
United Press STAFF Correspondent

CHICAGO, March 18.-The will
O'-the-wisp tactics which brought
Scarface Al Capone safely through
ten years of gang warfare shielded
him from public gaze, as well as
from the bullets Of rival gangsterS
today, nearly twenty-four hours
after his release from prison in
Philadelphia.
Uncertainties over the big rack
eteer's return to Chicago kept the
underworld and police department
in a state of confusion most of the
day.
From the detective bureau came
the announcement by John Siege,
deputy commissioners, that he
would order Capone picked up in
event he made a Chicago appear
ance. Il just want to talk to him
about some things that have been
happening here" Siege said.
Florida Is Hinted
Seventeen gang murders, most OF
them minor ones, have occurred in
Chicago since Capone went to jail
in Philadelphia for carrying con-
cealed weapons, and it was believed
Siege wanted to ask AL about some
Of those killings.
BY noon it appeared that Capone
might have decided to wait until
sunset to enter the city.
There were numerous rumors
that Capone had made the Chicago
announcement as a ruse to hide his
real intentions, which we're to take
a boat for Florida, where he owns
an estate.
Familiar news wac awaiting
Capone's ear in his homeland
haunts. Another victim went for
"a ride Monday night. He died
in the approved gangland manner,
with eleven bullet holes in his head
and body.
The victim as Peter Bica, q
graduate of the University OF Rome,
who became involved in his adopted
land in the alcohol cooking trade,
police declared.
Empty Guns
Three gunner brought an automo-
bile to a screeching stop under a
street light and tossed out his limp
body
Then they emptied their revolvers
into it for good measure and sped
away.
A passerby stood behind a tree on
the opposite side of the street and
watched the killing.
That assassination, believed an
other phase Of a bitter north side
gang war for control of the "alky"
racket, followed closely discovery OF
the body Of John CBilliken) Rito in
the Chicago river.
He, too, had gone for a gangland
ride" but the murderers had
sought to conceal his passing by
weighing his body with rocks and
sinking 1t in the river.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
BREAD lines
SEND ENJOYS
TO Job PROBE
Witnesses BaSk in Sun on
Capitol Lawn While
Bill Is Argued.
DIRE NEED IS PICTURED
ContraSted With Scene of
Coolidge at Feast
of Plenty

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WASHINGTON, March 18.-Dis-
tressing conditions attending unem-
ployment in the country were pic
tured before the senate commerce
committee today while band of
sixty unemployed, headed by James
EadS How, the millionaire hobo"
who were not permitted to testify
today, summed themselves on the
spacious grassy lawn of the capitol.
They did not hear the testimony
of Senator Wagner dem, N. ",
who said unemployment conditions
never were worse than today in
supporting his $154,000,O00 federal
program for it's relief.
Wagner and Professor Benjamin
M. Squiers of the University of Chi
cago, who Endorsed the legislation,
warned the committee against "the
ostrich policy of digging the ma
tional head in the sand" and teSti-
fed breadlines are longer than at
any time in recent years.
Only Witnesses
They were the only witnesses to-
day before the committee which adj
journed to meet again Friday.
The unemployed group lounged
about the Capitol lawn while the
hearing went on, finally disbanding
when How, their leader, reported to
them after a conference with
Chairman Johnson rep, CALI that
they could not appear today be-
cause of the other witnesses, but
could testify later about their first
hand knowledge of conditions.
The group was not molested by
capitol police.
Smiths Roommate
Wagner, once a roommate of AL
fred E. Smith in their Albany legis-
lative days, used a recent photo
graph Of Calvin Coolidge at Los
Angeles feast" in Illustration of
conditions.
He first offered a photograph
from a Jewish language newspaper
showing the bread line at Lady
Bountiful's eating house" on the
Bowery. The line stretched for two
blocks.
Then he held up for the commit
tees view, a newspaper showing
former President Coolidge "at feast,
there to celebrate prosperity" The
pictures were taken about the same
time.
Wagner did not estimate the
number of unemployed but said the
purchasing power of the workers
apparently had fallen off $200,000,-
900 between September and Janu-
ary last.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
MOST chemicals used by the

MOST chemicals used by the
Iva government in denaturing
industrial alcohol are removed
easily, but originally are not pres
ent in sufficient quantity to cause
death before ethyl alcohol kills
the subject, he said.
81 have no desire to defend the
bootlegger Or his ware" DR.. Har-
ger said today, commenting on the
article. "He is a criminal and
should be treated accordingly, but
fiction will not subdue him. For
some time chemists have known
that most Of these tales about
poison liquor should be claSsed
as modern mythology. OF course,
present day liquor will kill II the
consumer takes too much, but
that Is precisely what always has
been true Of hard Liquor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
CUTTING VENTS
IRE At SMOOT
in BOOK BATTLE
Employs RidiCuIe in Support
of Bill to Eliminate
Censorship.
CITES FAMED CLASSICS
New Mexico Senator Claims
Publicity Is Boon to
Disputed Novel.
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Bu United Press
WASHINGTON, March 18-Sen-
ator Cutting (Rep), New Mexico,
opened his fight in the senate today
against literary censorship by
customs agents, by charging that
Senator Smoot (Rep., Utah, high
Mormon church official, had given
such wide publicity to one of the
alleged obscene books" by his OPP
position to it that it now is being
distributed widely.
The New Mexico senator, sup
porting his tariff bill amendment
which would prevent censorship by
customs agents, declared an Amer
lean edition Of the book had been
published since Smoot gave it
publicity and that students of the
University Of Mexico, who never had
heard of it before, now are circulat-
inl, it among themselves.
The book Cutting referred to today
was Lady Chatterly'S Love-" by d.
H. Lawrence.
Cutting Uses Ridicule
The New Mexico senator, q Har-
ward graduate, resorted to irony in
his attempt to ridicule the cam
paign Smoot is making to defeat the
Cutting amendment, removing the
censorship which the senate adopt
ed several months ago.
Millions of Americans who never
heard Of this particular book before
are now demanding it at the book
Stores,' Cutting said.
The senator's publicity will make
this book a classic. Who can say
that with the changing stands of
the species it may not be compul-
sorry reading in the kindergartens
100 years from noWi"
Children now are reading clas-
sizes that were considered obscene
100 years ago." Cutting pointed out.
king Lear Indecent
"The first part of King Lear is
grossly indecent" he said.
THE love making of Ophelia and
Hamlet is coarse and obscene. In
Romeo and Juliet, the conyerSa-
ton between Mercutio and the nurse
is highly improper and yet all these
books are compulsory reading in
our educational institutions"
Cutting brought Smoot into the
debate by referring to an interview
in which the Utah senator de-
clared he would read portions of
Lady Chatterly'S Lover" to the SEN
ate in closed session.
Smoot did not carry out his
threat, but passed the books among
senators to inspect at Monday
nights session.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18

Held as a suspect in the murder
of Charles Zeller, 46, of 800 East
Southern avenue, operator Of the
Butchers and Packers lottery, a
man, whose name was not revealed,
was being questioned today by po-
lice and detectives.
The man was arrested Monday
night after he answered the descrip-
ton given by Don Cutshaw, 602
North Sherman drive, who was with
Zeller when he was shot Wednesday
night in front of his home. The
murderer of Zeller wore a handker-
chief over his face and resembles a
bandit who has held up several 10
cal filling stations in the last month,
police declared.
zeIler was shot after he had been
robbed of $40 and grip containing
two lottery drawing boxes. Zeller
died Saturday morning at city hos
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
MUCH HoocH
ETHYL alcohol. the kick in all

ETHYL alcohol, the kick in all
- liquor, rather than methyl
wood alcohol or other poisons, is
the reigning cause of alcoholic
fatalities. according to P. N. Har-
ger, Phi. D., Indiana university
school of medicine, associate pro-
feSSor Of biochemiStry and toxi-
cology.
Its concentration in the body
usually is responsible for news
paper headlines accrediting poi
son hooch" with additional vic
time, and the post prohibition
moonShine ordinarily is no more
poisonous than imported or pre-
war liquor, DR.. Harger asserts in
an article What Is the Poison
in Poison LiQuor'?" in a current
issue of the Indiana State Medical
Association Journal.
Deaths from alcohol have de-
creased since passage of the eight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
WetS i'm Lead

Of 1895 indianapolis resi-
dents first voting in the Liter
airy Digest'S prohibition poll,
two out of every three favor
modification or repeal.
First indianapolis figures, as
announced from New York to-
day, showed 1878 here favor
ing strict enforcement; 1882
for modification, and 1,645 for
repeal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
PAINT STOP STREETS
Action Forced by Failure TO
Obtain Sign Funds.

Painting of stop" signs on
through streets has been started
by the police department as result
OF the failure to obtain funds for
purchasing metal stop signs.
Charles R. Myers, safety board
president, said it had been 'impos-
Sible to paint earlier in the year
because paint will not dry on the
streets in cold or wet weather.
The painting crew was ordered to
paint New York street, main east
and west thoroughfare, first, and
then to start on Twenty-f1fth street,
Myers said.
The Times recently directed at
tention to the fact that delay in
marking through streets was per-
uniting a serious traffic hazard,
blameable for a number Of serious
accidents.
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zenith amendment, he shows from
statistics.
LIS allegations, attacking re-
- ports of fatal doses of fusel
oil and acetaldehyde in raw
moonshine and denaturants in
diverted industrial alcohol, he
says parallel findings of con-
temporary toxicologists, notably
many prominent scientists in the
east, where the alcoholism death
rate is high. In the past year
alcohol caused 4,700 deaths in the
United States, almost one-third
OF fatalities from all poisons.
Ethyl alcohol itself is a poison
if taken in sufficient quantity.
This is. not new Pharmacologists
for years have classified alcohol
with ch'oroform and ethea as a
cause Of death" DR.. Harger writes.
What is the fatal dose of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
SNOW is FORECAST
Mild Cold Wave to Settle
on Middle West.

Chill rains of early today may
turn to snow by night, with drop
in temperature to several degrees
below freezing, the United States
weather bureau here forecast this
morning.
Northern Indiana will be blan-
keted with snow tonight, and south
ern portions will experience rapid
decline in thermometer readings as
a mild cold wave settles down on
the middle west, j. H. Arlington,
meteorologiSt said today.
Weather Wednesday probably will
be unsettled. Rising temperatures
are due Wednesday night, accord
ing to the weather bureau.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
3 DIE IN EXPLOSION
Engineer Injured in Blast
of Oil Burner.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
GUTHRIE, Tenn, March 18.-
Three persons were killed and one
injured seriously in an explosion Of
Louisville & Nashville freight
engine near here early today.
The dead: Henry L. Russell,
brakeman; Aaron Moss, fireman,
both of Evansville, and an uniden-
titled tramp.
Joseph T. Crandall, Evansville, en-
gineer, was injured.
The engine exploded on siding
between Guthrie and Springfield,
and sent flames into the air seen
for miles around.
Thirty-one freight cars were set
on fire by the explosion. The en-
CINE was an oil burner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18

RV Times Special
PERU, Ind, March 17.-Head-
quarters of the American Circus
corporation here, where the nations
leading tented attractions spend the
winter, is a scene of intensive &C
tivity this week as preparations are
made for putting the first circus on
the road for the season. The Sells
Floto shows will leave for Chicago
Monday for a months stand.
Thousands of persons are expect
ed here Sunday when Tom Mix of
motion picture fame and Tony, his
wonder horse, will be the headlinerS
Of a rodio and round up program
which will be in the nature of a
farewell party to the Sells-Floto
show on the eve Of its start OF the
seasons travels.
The program headed by Mix will
be staged by cowboys and cow girls,
and will include roping and bull
logging, steer tying, trick riding,
bronco busting" whip cracking and
other sports of the old west
Mix arrived here few days ago
from Chicago, making the trip in
a large taxicab. He and Tony
greeted each other at circus quar-
tiers shortly afterwards.
Dates have not yet been set for
departure of the John Robinson,
Hagenbeck- Wallace and Ringing
circuses. One Of them may open
here about May /, circus corpora
ton officials announce.
Each Sunday after the Mix show
until the Robinson and Hagenbeck-
Wallace shows begin their tours,
they will present programs at the
winter quarters. .'..'e.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
DON SET FOR TRIAL
Intends to Go After Speed
Record This Afternoon.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, March
16.-Repairs to Kaye Don's car were
practically completed at noon today
and Don said he would take it to
the beach about p. m, with the
intention of making an attempt to
set a new worlds speed record be-
tween then and p. m.
A new super-charger was installed
by mechanics, who worked all night
and several minor readjustments
were made. Louis Coatelen, designer
of the car, personally supervised the
work.
The sun was shining brightly and
visibility was better than any day
since Don arrived here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
Not So Insane

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KANKAKEE, Ill, March 10
Frank McKinsey was placed in
the state insane asylum after his
landlady said he prayed ali night.
Attendants smiled and gave him
stationery so he could write to
county, state and federal officials,
asking something be done about
1,400 hidden in a trunk in Sto-
rage.
No one believed him. His sister,
however, looked up the trunk. She
found the $1,400. A petition is to
be filed to obtain McKinsey's re-
lease.