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New Britain herald., 1930-05-01

tragic testers who d.od by their own hands; Fohiue's ballet, Helen Cain. tho dir-r. who finally vas blinded when her tres hit against tho water once too often; Sidney Ludz, the loop the loopor who one day didn't jump in tim.e. Dippv up on the grand national races plers, thg daredevil who cleaned and retirad-and d host Of others.
 Trained elephants and other animals performed on its stage to the thudarous applause Of packed audiences.
 "Royal' Boxes
 Then. the "mysterious pool" which had them all guessing Dog ens Of diving girls would leap into the water never 10 come up again. Everyone tried 10 solve the mys- t.ry Of how IL vas don,. Tim disclosed I, 1s trick arrange uenr ty which q diving bsM. lu.t cf. stage, offered escape through a tap door. l. required merely th.. the swimmer 90 under water for d coupe Of seconds and ascend hack s.age by ladder. Blu bec3u5 e the prospec, ,ha, some div, might meet with a IaiSh9p. clcIs vas stationed ar inc s.atrs 10 check each performer upon h-t exit.
 Then there were rao "roy1I boxes" which had held the Prince Of Wales. the royal family Of Bel gum, Cardinal Me-ci.r and even John |. Rochetell,r and Billy Sunday.
 The beginning o' The end was sounded by -he Sunday blue law. Some Of tho largest crowds had usan attracted or th" Sabbath. and inc laaraEam mt tough, tho clos ing ordinance bitterly. Pavlowa and Toto allowed themselves to be arrested for Q. test case, and sev- Aral arrests were made on subsv- Guent Sundays Then came sori.s 0. jinns Ethel Lorraine. dances. met with aN accident and collectoI %c5.d9o, Sliv~rs committed suj- eide; q trapezo act miscucd an tell 10 death and the theatrical unions came iu. There was q fierce labor fight and Dillingham; resign ad his management; the Actors Equity non and all was settled for a tlms.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01

But it was too late. The Hippo dromc never rame back. In 1921 big spectacle was staged, but met with uncertain success: two years later Keith took the theater over for vaudeville and two years atfer that it passed into the hands O the late l.. r. AIaee Pictures vaudeville, and then sound films ali have been trled-tho Hippo drome had had its day,
 So it's 25th birthday finds it aa old totterIng man, shorn Of its yolthtul splendor and gaiety, ready 70 surrender to the ~rechers.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
Injured PlainyiIIe Man
 In 8 Serious Condition

New Haven. May i tP-Two men were dead today as the result Of q collapse of 3 scaffolding d, the At lantic Refining company. John N. 0'Dea. il semi-professional football player was instantly killed when the staging gave way yesterday and dropped four men q distance O .a feet. II. r. Miller, @4. died ln hos rltal last night.
 Two other men, Ernest Hunt Of Plalnyilie and Russell Davis. 25. of Bridgeport, were injured. Hunt vas said to be in q serious condition.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01

Seeley or 10 his counsel.
 John \. Brinsmade. retired school teacher and lifelong friend of See ley, said. "There is not q person in the town uho believes that Mir Seeloy had anything 10 do with the uarders.'
 Seeley Is republican town commit tee chairman, director of the First National bank in New Milford, for mer member ot the legislature and interested in the affairs Of the Washington Supply Co, 8 general farm equipment concern. He Is also l, tax assessor.
 Wlke has served as Q selectman in Sharon for [ years.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
COUPLE RECONCILED

When q nollc was entered in po- lice court today in the case of Sam uel Casslle formerly Of Beaver street, on thc charge of non-support, it became known that Mr. and Mrs. Cassie have settled their differences and are living together in Plalnville.
 CassiIe brought an action for di- yorce on the grounds Of intolerable cruelty and his wife made the same Pending disposition Of the actions. the non-support charge had been continued from time to tiIrr,- until today. Attorne. N, A. Sexton repre- scented Cassle.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
TO OBSERVE MOTHER DAY

Worthy Temple, Pythian Sisters, Till hold it's observance Of Mothers day at it's regular meeting tomor- row evening m Judd's hall. Supper will hc served at 6:3O o'clock. All members Of Washington < Morgan lodge, K. of P, arc invited to be present.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
Squaw's New Lawyer
 Seeks Federal Help

Buffalo. \. ', May ! (UPl- John $. McGovern, Lila Jimer- sons new lawyer, was to confer with United States District Attor- uey Richard H. Templeton here today in an effort 10 enlist active cooperation Of federal authorities in her defense.
 The Jimerson woman, a Cayu- a Indian, has pleaded guilty to second degree murder in connec- ton with the slaylng Of Mrs. Clothllde Marchand, but now proposes to withdraw her plea and stand for retrial on a first de- gree murder charge.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
Friends still loyal

New Milford, May l--No matter what the developments in Muskogce. Okla. L,tchfeld friends of P. G
 Seeley and John L. Wtkc. charged with the murder Of George and David Smith. remain loyal and con- vinced that the men are innocent. Yesterday tho selectmen Of Wash ington sent q telegram 70 SenlAv. their fellow-townsman. assuring him Of their sym pathy and concern. r. is estimated that 150 telegrams were sent by Washington people either to
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01

Turkish baths, beauty parlors, d tull-sized tennis court, and two stages for theatrical and other per tormancrs are features of the new Can@dian Pacific liner, Impress of Britain, 10 he launched in May.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
FAMED H|PPODRONE ID BE TORN DOWN
Once "GreateSt Iheater' Will
 Give Way to OfiCeS

NeT York. May i On its twen-r-ue-h birthday, the eamoa= Htrpodrome thea,er totters towards its grave.
 Born Ill April, 1895, a yorttable colossus Of entertainment. its death kneIl is now being sounded by the wracAers and the plar-placc o5 millions must make way for d typical New York office building. Yet the daE vas not so long ago when anyone ~ho suggested that tho Hjppodrome might ever de- cline 10 5ts rIehian present would h4re been hustled away for crauiol examination
 All tho world knew it: all Amer ic- came to sae it. f vas one of the attractions oc Manhattan. 2 household word q crowniLs amusement achievement. a syno- nym for everything that aaS big ser and better. But that was au the wake ot Thon1 pson and Duu- ] dy's fabulous spectacIes, such as ii 'Circus from Mars Or The Story 1 or the Wilson pafdars' or. s-Il l later. "EAp-unes Daughters" anI America"
 Singing and Dancing Girls l Today rha cav-rnous stag. ~hich hold inc thearr.c1llv his rcrlc tank an1 saw q ballet ot t0o dancing girls q chorus of @05 singing and dancing girls and a vast array of diving beauties, has TOW snrurE 70 taa dimensions O. a mouor picture screeu wherroa 5.a extra players are no novelty.
 But Georgc Field, who started shjfring scenery shortly after is birth and bec1me stage manager. can remen1ha~ 7han thare were .274 attaches. Recently there lave been 8 dozen ushers. Georra I.udo.nh. rho began ten years ago a. tights at~a,char for the ballet and became the chief electrician. can recall when 4ao14 electrt1 lights blazed upon the crowds. Now all is in the half darkness o' the cinema thaatcr. No mor- spectacular project ever st5Egara ] the visitor to Gotham than this 2l5Gon#g palace with seating room for o.-@7 persons. Somethtn- . like fjft@ millions or more have entered and eHited in is nerdav.
 Yet there has been no sacrat around Broadwav that for tho pae. ten years il has been gradual" shipping. The decline actually b. gan in 1918, which also was the wars Of it's greatest boz-offica tr.. ph. T. had passed from its orig mel maAagem -nt 10 Thomson and ShUherr. the latter had wake ] ou- in a huff and Charles pfllin-- ham had taken t over offarina
 Hip Hip Hooray' and otnor . pageants which ueuonahzed hl- name
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
ESTIMATES VETERANS COST

Washington, May ! IP-Director Hines Of the veterans bureau today estimated the minimum yearly cost Of the veterans bill recently passed by the house, at 5ISl,04N.650.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
Associated Press Photo

This was the second accident Of this kind to occur at the plant within a month. Three men were injured April 10 when q scafolding col Larse6
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
Peak of Popularity

The while. one name after 7.-
 other and one feat after anotb.r achieved the peak Of popularitN-- Annette kAllerman. the "dir.ns Venus; John Philip Sousa and his band Charlotte. and her slat- ITS. Fay Templeron and De Vol .4 Hopper, those most famous of downs. Toto. Slivers and Marcel line. the latter two fated to b.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
HEARING TODAY IN
 OKLAHOMA CASES
Wike and Seeley May Win Free dom on SCanty Evidence

Muskogee. Okla. May lP--Tvo retired Connecticut farmers, known as leading citizens ot their home communities, faced preliminary hearing on murder charges today as Nfuskogee county authorities sought to pierce mystery that has cloaked the staying Saturday night in d hotel here of two brothers, David Smith. sharon. Conn, and George Smith. West Cromwell. Conn.
 The accused men--PoTe'I C. Sec ley 73, of Washington, Conn, and John L. Wlke, !, Of sharon, have been held under guard in hotel since their arrest immediately after lhe Smith brothers were found shot to death. Seeley and Wlke were AS soclated with inc smiths lp the bankrupt New Milford, Conn. Se- cur,ty company. The prisoners oc- cupied d room adjoining inc quarters Of the Smith brothers. Both have denied committing the crime.
 Uncertain of Status
 Authorities frankly were uncer- tain as 10 whether the hearing would shed any light upon the pu5zIing questions produced by the double sIaylnE. Whether the motive was robbery. as Wlko has related in his story. or whether the motive was . hidden one, still was d riddle to- day.
 The four men came west in David Smiths automobile on d combined business and pleasure trip. They were inspecting investments ot The dafunct security CoUpary in soltr- western states and looking after ln- d}vidual busness interests See1ey said they wanted 10 determine what could be realized or mortgages. thoE held on lands in Missouri Okla homa, Arkansas, Kansas and Texas.
 Arriving herr from Springfield, Mo, Saturday afternoon they called upon Virgil Coss, Mpskog-e agent for the detunc- company. Loss than two hours after they had left him and retired 10 their hotel t-s shooting occurred.
 Done All Possible
 PhAtp K. Oldham. assistant cOln- r. attorney who has directed tha }1- yestigation. declared local au,horl- ties had done everything possible 10 clear up tho staying and that all th= facts gathered would bo presented IT. the preliminary hearing.
 seeIey who last night was begin n,ng to show effects ot his four days IF custody. anI Wihe were expected 10 reteu. in testimony, their yer sons Of the cr'me.
 Wike has sad the Smith hrothe,S were shot by robbers who then bound and gagged nlm. Sealev has related h. vas in the bathroom al the time and emerged 10 find the Smiths dead and Wike in bonds. He did not see -he robbers he said, although he heard the sho,s.
 Indignant over the arrest Of his brother, ". T. Seeley. Of Peoria III. a caske- manufacturer. arrived here yes.e-dar. Ralph Seelev, of New York. a so~ Of inc arrcst-I man, arrived last oi@h,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02
NIGHT BALL GAME
ON WRC TONIGHT
Brilliantly Illuminated Dia-
mond at Des Moines Scene
of Radio Interest.

Ears OF the sport world will turn to
Des Moines tonight for a play-by-play
description of the opening game in the
Western League between wichita and
Des Moines, to be broadcast by an ex-
tensive network of National Broadcast
ing Co. stations, in which WRC is to
be link.
The game will mark organized base
balls first venture into the hours of
darkness. 1t will be played on a dia-
mond brilliantly Illuminated by more
than 100000 candlepower in electric
lights. Sen" Kaney, popular Chicago
announcer, will be at the microphone.
Broadcasting is scheduled to start at
IL O'Clock, Washington time.
In addition to the ball game, WRC
will broadcast the usual variety of N.
B. C. music attractions. These include
the Cities Service hour, the Raleigh
Revue, the Old Company songalogue
and the Kodak week end program.
Bass to BE Soloist.
Wilfred Glenn, bass, will be the SOLO
list in the Raleigh Revue. He will sing
"Cheerio," from the musical comedy sue
Gilman and Arden, the piano duo of this
presentation, will be 1.-THE Rustic of
Spring" The orchestral selections range
from 1.-The Indian Love Calf from
Friml's Rose Marie" to the popular
"'Tain't No Sin"
Nathaniel Shilkret's orchestra as
sisted by Countess Olga Albani, soprano,
and Jack Parker, tenor, will present the
Kodak program. Countess Albani and
Parker will be heard in both solo and
duet numbers. The orchestra will play
a group of popular melodies, including
excerpts from the musical score OF the
talking picture, 1.-THE Rogue Song" and
1.-THE Song of the Vagabond."
Songs Of men at work, Scotch ballads
and primitive rhythmS make up the
songalogue program. The Cities Serv-
ice broadcast will feature theme songs
of recent popularity. Sandwiched be-
tween the dance tunes to be played by
the Eskimos will be a solo by Tom
Stacks, Minnie the Mermaid"
WMAL Headliners.
Concerts by the United States Navy
Band and the Juniata College Girls
Glee Club, directed by c. L. Rowland
headline the program tonight of Station
WMAL. The station also will broad
cast a group of Columbia Broadcasting
system attractions. Prominent among
them are the Gold Medal Fast Freight
program, the True Story hour and the
feature known as 1.-THE Sign of the
Green and White"
Old and new selections are on the
Gold Medal program. Among them are
California, Here 7 Come" Song of
the Islands," selections from "Maytime"
and THAT Old Gang Of Mine"
"She Tried to Make Him Jealous" Is
the title of the story to be dramatized
in the True Story hour. David Men
doza's orchestra, Leonard Stokes, BARI
tone; q quartet and the comedy team
of Brokenshire and Polesie will provide
the Sign of the Green and White pro-
gram.
VOL will broadcast tonight concert
by its own studio orchestra, several
talks and a recital by Jane Lane, con-
tralto. The WJSV schedule contains a
concert by the Army Band and half
hour program by the Old Dominion
Quartet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02
LIBRARY EXHIBITS
EIGHT WATER COLORS
Takoma Park Branch Loaned Pri-
vate Collection of Paintings
of Interest Here.

A private loan collection of eight
water color paintings of special interest
to WashingtonianS Is on exhibit until
May 8 at the Takoma Park branch of
the Public Library at Fifth and Cedar
streets.
These paintings of washington in
the 1905 by Raymond Sayer and
Walter Paris show some Of the old
landmarks.
Interesting views of Lafayette Square
and Thomas Circle as they looked 40
years ago are charmingly sketched by
Paris. There is a painting of the old
David Burnes estate, which extended
over the land now occupied by the
White House, the Mall, the Daughters
of the American Revolution, the Red
Cross, and the Pan-American buildings
The District Commissioners had great
difficulty persuading Burnes to sen his
property, which was needed for the
completion of the L'Enfant plan. He
finally sold part of his estate to the
Government, and bequeathed the re-
mainder to his beautiful daughter
Marcia, who married Representative
Van Ness of New York.
Sayer Sketched an unusual view OF
Washington as it then looked when
seen from Arlington. He also painted
lovely picture Of Shadyside, which
sometime later was purchased by the
Government, and at present is known
as Walter Reed Hospital.
The Blaine House, another sketch by
Paris, Is well known to all Washing
tonians for its historical associations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02
SUIT MAY DECIDE
THIRD NETWORK
WGBS Seeks to Operate on
Channel Only 80 KiIocycIes
From WNYC-WMCA.

Plans for creation of a third broad
casting network, competitive with the
National Broadcasting Co. and the Co
lumbia BroadcaSting System, are en-
twined in the litigation now pending
before the District Court of Appeals, on
petition of Station WGBS of the Cen
eral Broadcasting System, operated in
New York City.
Actually the litigation involves the
engineering question of the feasibility
of permitting this station to operate on
a channel separated by only 80 kilo-
cycles from the channel on which two
other regional stations in New York,
Engineering opinion is practically unan-
imous that at least 50-kilocycle sepa-
ration between stations in the same
metropolitan area is necessary.
But the contention of Station WGBS,
following exhaustive field tests, is that
this opinion is not applicable in so far
as New York City Is concerned. New
York's strange conflguration of steel
and iron construction, having the fac
ulty of sapping the strength of radio
signals, makes it the exception to this
engineering rule.
Case Squarely Presented.
The case has been brought squarely
before the court by WGBS in an appeal
from the decision of the Federal Radio
Commission denying 1t continued use of
the 600-kilocycle channel, on an expert
mental basis. The commission held in
reference would result from the opera
ton of the station on this channel when
Stations WNYC, owned and operated by
New York City itself, and WMCA, of the
KnickerbOcker BroadcaSting Co., were
operated on the 570-kilocycle channel,
only 80 kilocycles away. 1t ordered
WGBS to return to its former assign
ment on 1,180 kilocycles, effective May
l, and assigned the holly contested 600
kilocycle channel to Station WICC, at
Bridgeport, Conn.
The two New York stations had pro-
tested vigorously the granting of the
WGBS application for the frequency,
arguing that cross-talk interference
would result.
But WGBS got from the court last
Saturday stay order preventing the
commission from removing 1t from the
600-kilocycle channel during the pend
ency of its appeal.
Chain Plans Are Told.
Daily Paskman, president and man
ager of WGBS, which formerly was
owned by Gimbel Brothers, told the
commission of plans for the creation of
the new chain. He said dozen stations
were committed to it, while 80 or 40
stations had approached him about the
idea. Although he did not divulge
names, he said he had been negotiating
with individuals who would back the
project Between $250,00O and 81, 000, 900
would be needed, he declared, saying
that the former amount already had
been committed.
For the past three months WGBS has
been operating on the 600-kilocycle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02
HELD FOR EPIDEMIC

NEW YORK, May 2 tP1.-Under IN
dictment in Cincinnati in connection
with the Jamaica ginger paralysis cpl
demic which spread over several West
ern and Southern States this year, Wal
ter Anderson, SO, was arrested in Brook
lyn Wednesday by special Government
agents.
Anderson, said to have held import
ant positions in two firms named In the
Cincinnati indictments, was held In
$4,000 BAIL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02
WIFE SUES EX-POLICEMAN
Infidelity Charged in Action Filed
Against James S. oliver.

Mrs. Mary Anna Oliver, s14 Farragut
street, filed suit yesterday for an abso-
lutte divorce in the District Supreme
Court against James S. Oliver, former
member of the metropolitan police
force, attached to No. precinct. Mrs
oliver alleges infidelity. The correspond
ent Is said to be married woman. On
account Of his relations with the
correspondent her husband was dis
charged from the police force. she says.
Through Attorney Godfrey L. Munter
Mrs. Oliver petitions the court that her
maiden name, Mary Anna Dieste, be
restored to her, and that she be granted
permanent alimony. The divers were
married December IS, 1919, and sepa-
rated April II, 1928. There are no chill
dren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02

channel under an experimental license
subject to cancellation without advance
notice or hearing, If interference re-
suited. In refusing to renew the license
the commission held interference had
resulted. WGBS produced testimony at
the extended hearings before the COM
mission that field tests did not show
interference was caused.
Copyright, 1880, by the Consolidated Press)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02
LABOR CHARGE HEARD
Herman Shapiro Given Suspended
Sentence Of $25 or 80 DAYS.

Herman Shapiro, proprietor Of q mer-
camille establishment in the 1900 block
of G. street, yesterday was found guilty of
violation of the female eight-hour labor
law by Judge Robert E. Mattingly, in
Police Court, and given suspended
sentence of $25 or 80 days.
]. w. Millspaugh, M. Louise Simpson
and Martina r. Haynes, inspectors of
the Health Department, testified that
on April IL Miss Louise Sheridan, as
sistant manager of Shapiro's store,
worked approximately an hour overtime.
Miss Sheridan denied it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02
WyAEAT 475.S Meters.
w NAAA $50 Kilocycles

WMAL s ssS'y x MssecI.
2:30-Today in history.
2:32-"Plastic Surgery" by Dr. Lyman
j. Spaulding.
245-"Radio and Sun Spots" by DR..
Harlan T. Stetson.
Spotlight opera gems.
3:30-Club Plaza Orchestra.
4:00-"Chats With the Weather Man"
4:10-WGHP CaptivatorS.
4:45-Bookhouse Story Time.
5:00-"Topics of the Times" by Eliza
beth Hume.
s:l5-"The Boy and His Leader" by
George Macdonald.
5:30-"Radio Topics"
5:45-Yoeng's Orchestra.
6:00-Rebroadcast from London-Talk
by Chancellor Johann Schober
of Austria.
6:15-Flashes from The Evening Star.
6:30-Evangeline Adams, astrologer.
6:45-A. A. A. radiologue. by George
E. Keneipp.
7:00-Correct time.
7:01-Jimmy and Jane.
7:30-United States Navy Band.
8:00-Correct time.
9:OO-Sign of the Green and White.
9:3O-Gold Medal Fast Freight.
10:O0-Juniata College Girls Glee Club
0:30-Biltmore Orchestra.
l1:00-Sleepy Halls Orchestra.
time.
Early Program Tomorrow.
understanding for every one.
8:3Oa-Morning Moods.
9:O0a-Columbia Grenadiers.
9:30a-United States Army Band.
1O:30a-Saturd y Syncopators.
IL :00a-Adventures of Helen and Mary
IL :30a-Yoeng'S Orchestra.
IL :30-Barclay's Orchestra.
1:O0-Organ recital by Ann Leaf.
1:3O-Dominion Male Quartet.
2:OO-Columbia Ensemble.
2:3O-For your information.
3:0O-Manilus School Cadet Band.
3:30-Club Plaza Orchestra.
400 to 4:30-French Trio, with Ken
yon Congdon, baritone.