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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06
KEATON SAYS
REFUSED TO
Give MONEY
Attempt to Force
Loans Follows
Bet Payment

LOS ANGELES. Feb. 5. R-Bus-
ter Keaton, clown or the screen
knew today. by scratches and bruis-
es that there is nothing so wrathfuI
as an angry woman.
The marks on his face, he said
were put there by the hands Of Miss
Kathleen Key, former film beauty
when he refused to help her out oi
financial straits. He said she beat
him yesterday In his dressing room
on a studio lot.
Miss Key simply said: Call UP
Mr.. Keaton and see what he has to
say about it,"
On the telephone heaton said:
Yes. she completely wrecked ~
dressing room. she clawed me and
scratched and tore my clothes"
Miss Key was overpowered BY
two studio policemen and taken "a
the Culver City bastile, but was re-
leased without any charges being
filed against her.
Keaton. who Is married to Ma
tale Talmadge, sister OF the fam
GUS Norma and Constance, had
known Miss Key for many years
and when she returned from Eur
ope about a year ago she came te
him to learn II she might be able
TO return to pictures.
Il told her she was getting toe
stout-she weighed 139 pounds
and that II she could get her
weight down. she could become Q
big bet in talking pictures" Keaton
related. He said she wagered $500
with him that she could take off &C
pounds in ten days but she lost
only six. Il told her You've tried
hard enough. You've Won the bet
And I gave her q check for $500
She had a photostat copy made i'm
mediately. cashed the check and
spent it-holding the photographed
copy over my head to collect more
money. She talked so much that
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06
Baby Is Pronounced
Dead Two Times

LATROBE, Pa. Feb. 8. CPy-Tn
Pickering candle light. Paul Bunci's
family knelt in prayer beside a
little white casket.
A few friends dropped in to see
the week-old child surrounded by
flowers.
The prayers stopped abruptly.
The little form stirred-then a pitt
full, feeble cry.
Physicians we're .lmmed. The
child vas not dead. aid the doctor
who had pronounced him dead a
few hours before: suspended ami
nation. another explained. It had
not been embalmed.
Removed to a bed the child
frightened. then lay still. A few
hours later he again was pronoun-
'ced dead.
Today he was buried.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06

the play developed easily. Declarer
being able to exhaust Mr.. Shepard's
Diamonds and Clubs SO IS to force
him to lead q Heart at trick twelve"
The contract bidding OF this
hand, under the Common Sense
System would be-. South two
Spades; West Pass; forth three
Spades, and then whether South
should bid four or pass would be
doubtful. His bid Of two would
have shown the fun strength OF his
hand. but with q partner able TO
assist Spades. the distribution OF
the hand was most satisfactory; SO
South probably would bid four
Spades. The Common Sense Sys-
tenn would be the only one which
would permit South TO bid two
Spades originally, and therefore the
only one that would shut out bids
by West and East. It probably
would be the only one that would
produce a game bid by South. How
ever, the game bid would be dis
aStrous in the hands Of any but a
master player.
For the final two problems in his
Handicap Test series. Mr.. Work an
nounced these cards: South: Spades.
A, J, ., 4; Hearts. A. 8. s: Dia-
monds, A. 9; Clubs. A. 10. 7. 2.
North: SpadeA X, q. Z. q: Hearts,
], z; Diamonds, K, j, 10, 6. 5. 2;
Clubs, 9.
South IS playing a No Trump de-
claration cat Contract three No
Trumps). West leads to the first
trick the 6 Of Clubs: North plays
the 3: and East the King or Clubs.
QQuestion 10. Which Club should
South play on this trick?
Question 20. When South obtains
the lead which suit should he lead?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06

Moved--A- r.. Foster Realty
Company has moved from their
Levee Street locs.ion 10 213 Mer-
chants National Bank Building.
See them for bargains In real
estate. Adv. 8.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06

There are about 344. 900 Indians
III the United States today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06

vague reports reached the studio
and I was called upon to explain
the gossip.
Then Miss Key came to see me
again. She said she needed $4,000
TO pay the debts she owed. 7 final
~ agreed to loan her $4s000-and
$1,000 on top Of that for her to buy
a ticket 70 China or any other
place-just so the gossip would b
stopped.
"She called yesterday for the
5000. I had the check already
prepared. She came TO my dressing
room. Cliff Edwards CUkelele Ike
and Clarence Logan, a friend, were
with me. / offered the check buI
she demanded $4,000 more. I re-
solved not to give her a cent AnC
tore up the check.
Then the fight started. Sht
manhandled me something awful
breaking all the windows In my
dressing room in the struggle. Ed.
wards and Logan left the scene but
my negro boy. Willy, came 10 ms
rescue. He ran for the police anc
came back with the studio police
chief and another officer. who put
her in an automobile and took hel
to the Culver City police station
She was still screaming as the car
went out of the studio"
There are about $4,000 Indians
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06
Health Authorities

agree that neglected colds often
start epidemics. Don't neglect
your cold. Take S~t.Joseph's Lax
ara double strength) and get
overnight results. Combines best
cold medicines with quick-acting
laxatives. Fine for both children
and grown-ups. At all drug stores.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06

A prom inent health authority has sent
cot a warning against possible
INFLUENZA epidemic. Now liz the
time 10 be on guard for the influenza
germ. Watch your cold. "A good plan
70 follow fs 10 heat a little OF ABSORBO
Tn . spoon and inhale the vapors night
and morning, also apply a little up the
n~ostrils several times a day, especially
Just before being exposed to crowds.
ABSORB0 Is composed Of MENTHOL.
EuCALIPTOLs CAMPH0R, OIL OF
PINE and other ingredients whose
vapors when inhaled carry the medlca.
tion directly through the lungs and All
passages and at the same time * II
absorbed through and stimulates The
s<ans renewing the congestion 49,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06
NO GAMBLING

sOur preacher Is so strict he
won't even perform q marriage
ceremony"
Good graciousI Why7"
He says that his conscience
won't permit him to take part in
any game OF chance."-Answers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06

Prof. East OF Harvard. estimates
that the population Of the United
States will become stationary at 200
million before the year 1000.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06
FLU EPIDEMIC
DANGER seen

Prepare now 20 night orr INFLr-
KNxA- Simple precautions and home
aruatmcnt would avoid great majority
20 emsen.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-06
City Briefs

Listen in-McKesson Hour, Spe-
cial Music, KPRC Tuesday, Q p. m.
Becker's Drug Store sells McKess0n
goods. Phone I'll. Adv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
SCHOOL FOOD BILL
PUSHED BY M'LEOD
District Committee Refuses
Emergency Consideration
of Free Lunch Plan.

Representative Mcleod of Michigan
failed to receive emergency considera-
ton at the special meeting of the House
District Committee today for his bill,
which proposes to authorize free lunches
for undernourished children in the Dis
trict schools under Board Of Health
supervision.
Mr. Mcleod Immediately called
special meeting of the Subcommittee
on Judiciary. of which he is chairman
and to which his bill has been re-
ferred. to be held next Tuesday morn
ing. He hopes to get favorable action
by the subcommittee SO that the bill
can be reported as privileged matter
and acted upon by the full District
Committee next Wednesday.
The House District Committees ac-
ton today was not prejudicial to the
Mcleod bill. The special meeting had
been called to consider the barbershop
Sunday closing bill and the measure re-
curing life insurance companies in the
District to maintain adequate reserves.
Both of these measures were reported
favorably by the committee, but con-
sideration Of them occupied the full
time of the special meeting and Mr..
Mcleod had no opportunity to bring up
his free food bill.
Mr.. Mcleod today again expressed
confidence that this measure will be
passed at the present session in sufIi-
cient time to get the authorized appro-
priation of $50 900 included in the sec
ond deficiency appropriation bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
RED CROSS AWARDS
BUILDING CONTRACT
Philadelphia Firm Given Work
on Office Structure on
$693,48O Bid.

Announcement was made today OF the
awarding of a contract for $693 ,480 to
McCloskey & Co. of Philadelphia for
the construction of an Office building
for the American Red Cross TO be To-
Gated on Eighteenth street between D
and E streets.
Lieut.. Co. U. S. Grant, Sd, director of
the Office of Public Buildings and Pub
lie Parks, who has jurisdiction over the
erection of buildings of a public or
semi-public character, when so author
lied, is writing to the firm requesting
the proposed program of construction
and the layout of its plant to be used
on the ground here. When this plan
is approved by him, with the list of sub
contractors, McCloskey & Co. will be
advised 10 proceed with the work.
The Red Cross Office Building will
take the place of the semi-permanent
structure on the south side of the Red
Cross quadrangle, which now houses the
ma jority of the Office force. The new
building will be five stories in height
and will be faced with Vermont marble,
conforming to the architecture of the
national headquarters building and that
used by the District of Columbia Red
Cross Chapter
Tentative plans Of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission
call for the construction of another
building, on the site of the present
semi-permanent building In the space
between the buildings it is proposed
to erect a memorial to the nurses who
served in the World War.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
BANDIT FIRES SHOT
AT TAX|CAB DRIVER
Had Been Knocked Down by
Sudden Starting of Auto
to Foil HoId-up.

One taxi driver felt the swish of a
bandits bullet past his head after he
suddenly started his cab and knocked
the robber to the street and a second
driver was robbed of $40 early this
morning.
Carl Wilmington, 1400 L street, pick
ed up his fare at Fourteenth and S
streets and drove to the 1900 block of
Church street where his passenger
pressed a gun in his back.
Give me your cash." demanded the
bandit.
Starts Car Suddenly.
After repeatedly telling the bandit he
had no money Wilmington suddenly
started the cab and as he swept forward
the rear door of the taxi struck the
bandit. knocking him into the street.
Leaping to his feet. the bandit fired
after the fleeing taxicab. The bullet
tore through the rear window and
lodged in the front of the cab.
Wilmington described his assailant
as being about 20 years old, having dark
skin and a smooth face. He said he
wore dark clothes.
Another Driver Held UP.
Merle Webster of Ballston, Va, the
other bandit victim, picked up fare at
Seventh street and Florida avenue and
was asked to drive to the Cathedral
School, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin
avenues.
AS he arrived at his destination he
felt gun pressed in his back and heard
the demand:
Cash or I'll pug you"
Webster gave up $40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
OLD MEDICAL MUSEUM
TO BE TORN DOWN
War Department to Nave Exhibits
to Structure Planned for
Walter Reed.

The old Army Medical Museum Build
ing, on B street southwest not far from
the Smithsonian Institution group Of
buildings, is to go as part of the Gov
eminent building program.
This was learned today from the War
Department, which has made tentative
plans for transferring the exhibits in
the building TO a new structure TO be
erected at the Walter Reed Medical
Center some time in the future.
No definite appropriations have as yet
been made for this specific purpose but
1t is part of the general plan under
way for development of the great medi-
cal center around Walter Reed General
Hospital. The center would thus in
clude the hospital, the Army Medical
School and the library and museum.
Removal of the old brick building on
B street, where the museum is now To-
Gated, is considered by experts who have
been studying the Identification pro-
gram for the National Capital a very
desirable step.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
U. S. SEALS PITTS
HOUSE IN FLORIDA
Property Seized as Security for
Governments Claim of
100000 in Taxes.

Internal revenue agents, who seized
Ell Lado Del Mar, sumptuous FloriTs
ho-1e OF G. Bryan Pitts, Wednesday, to-
day sealed its doors to hold the prop
erty as security for the Governments
claim OF 100000 in overdue income
taxes
Fifteen agents went in the home
Wednesday and searched for securities
on which the Government might lew
IN support of its claim.
The bureau alleges that the taxes are
due from Pitts and his wife, Mrs. GLADYS
y. Pitts, from 1926 through 1881. Last
Tuesday steps were taken to seize ali
property owned by the couple in five
states and the District.
Pitts Is now in the District Jail under
sentence of IA years in the penitentiarv
Tor MS part IN conspiracy to en-
oezzle $5,0o0,000 from the F. H. Smith
Co. and to destroy certain records of
the corporation. He was found guilty
OF this offense last December.
Counsel for Pitts has commended that
the taxes claimed for 1880 and 193i
are not due. 1t was pointed out, how
ever. that the Governments action was
taken under a section of the law which
empowers the internal revenue commits
sloner to close the taxable year of a tax
payer at any time upon receiving in
formation of the taxpayers intention to
leave this country or to secrete his prop
erty with 1ntentio INTO drefraud the
Government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
HOSPITAL ROBBERY
SUSPECT IS TAKEN
Walter 0. Jones Held at San
Diego in $1,000 Pay Roll
HoId-up Here in July.

Captured in San Diego, Calf, after
an international search. Walter O.
Jones, 80 years old, will be brought to
Washington for trial as principal in
a $1,000 pay roll hold-up here in July,
1880.
Jones was arrested yesterday on a
charge of snatching a satchel contain
ing $4,000 in cash and $4,000 in checks
from the hands of Miss Eleanor Page,
assistant treasurer of Children's Hos
pital. He was taken into custody as
result of an illustrated circular dis
tributed by Inspector William S. Shell
by. chief of detectives.
Miss Page identified Jones from a
Department of Justice circular as the
man who seized her from behind, threw
her to the sidewalk, grabbed the pay
roll bag and fed as she screamed fer
aid. The young woman had just re-
turned from the Riggs National Bank
and was about to enter the hospital
on w street when attacked. She was
accompanied by Miss Margaret Ans
dale.
Chase Fails.
The robber left the scene in an auto
mobile driven by an accomplice. A
fruitleSS pursuit Of more than a mile
was made in another machine by
Varney Wilson and John Brown, col
ored attendants of the hospital, who
drove up shortly after Miss Page was
overpowered.
AS an eyewitness had taken the
license number of the bandit car. police
were able to locate the automobile,
which was abandoned in the 1900
block Of Champlain street. The car
had been stolen from a patient at
Walter Reed Hospital A drivers per-
NIT found in the machine bore Jones
name and led to his capture.
Pair Indicted.
Both Jones and Earl c. Roberts were
indicted for the robbery several months
ago by a District grand jury. Police
were unable to definitely determine
whether a third man participated in
the hold-up.
A. r. Hill, chief of San Diego police,
advised Inspector Shelby that Jones
had waived extradition He will be
brought to Washington by a deputy
United States marshal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
CITIZENS REQUEST
ALEXANDRIA LINE
HEARING
Absence of GotWaIS Results
in Postponing of Action
on Petition.
BILL IN PREPARATION
WOULD REPAY RAILWAY
Reichelderfer Points Out That
Commissioners Are Not Bound
by Measure, However.

The Committee on Public Utilities Of
through William NICK. Clayton, its
chairman, today requested a hearing
before the District Commissioners take
any action to pay the Mount Vernon,
Co. $4,000 to indemnify the railway
for its prospective abandonment of
service between Washington and Alex
andria. The petition came before the
Commissioners at their regular semi
weekly board meeting. However, since
Engineer Commissioner John c. Got
walls was absent, being engaged with a
meeting of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, the Com
misSioners decided to delay considera-
ton Of the entire proposition until he
Is present, probably at their meeting
next Tuesday. The Board of Commits
SionerS has never officially considered
the proposition.
Street Rebuilding Seen.
A bill providing for the contribution
from the District Golfers to the Alex
andria Railway is in preparation, the
tribute to be paid on the theory that
it will be worth the money If the inter
urban line will take up its tracks from
the District and depart. A coming
rebuilding of Fourteenth street ex-
tended, south of Water street south
west, is said to be the reason why
the District is anxious TO get rid of
the railway tracks, and the District is
also considered In some way responsible
for the apparently inevitable abandon
to- kI1A ptYH u
Utilities Commission has refused to
grant it a terminal north of Pennsyl
Vania avenue.
Present Terminal Taken.
The present terminal of the line at
Twelfth and D streets has been taken
by the Federal Government in con-
nection with the Federal building pro-
gram in the Mall-Pennsylvania avenue
the triangle area will also compel the
company to remove it's tracks east of
Fourteenth street by April l.
The company is said TO be unwilling
to consent to a new terminal south of
Pennsylvania avenue, and the only ap-
parent outcome is for it to cease bust
ness The bill provides also for a pay
ment to the railway of 100000 by the
Federal Government for the loss Of its
terminal and its trackage east Of Four
tenth street and of $4,000 by the
Washington Railway g. Electric Co. for
the tracks on Fourteenth street north
Of Water street.
The bill was prepared in conferences
at which the railway, the National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commission, the
Public Utilities Commission, the Treas
ury Department and the District COM
miSsioners were represented. DR.. Luther
H. Reichelderfer, president Of the Board
of Commissioners. said today, however,
that the Commissioners were not bound
by the bill as prepared and that the in
strument has not yet been before them
for action. 1t Is expected that the
completed bill and Mr.. Clayton's petit
ton will both come up for action to-
gether Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20

Miss Geraldine Floy Free, daughter of
Representative Arthur M. Free of Cali
fornia, early today became the bride of
Thomas P. Littlepage, jr., son of a
prominent local lawyer, at Towson, Md
The ceremony was performed by Rev
Richard w. Wickes, pastor of the
Towscn Baptist Church. Following the
ceremony the couple sent kilograms to
their parents, who bestowed their
parental blessings upon the newlyweds.
The elopement was planned yester
day afternoon. Accompanied by Charles
r. Weaver, a student at George Wash
ington University; John w. Dooley, a
broker; Marjorie Norman and Caroline
F. Jackson, all of this city, and Thomas
L. Arbogast of Chicago, the couple
awakened G. William Parker, clerk of the
Baltimore County Court at Towson.
about midnight and obtained a hncese
to wed. They declined to reveal where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
URGED
FOR BENN|NG ROAD
WhitehurSt Seeks to Protect
Pupils Going to Proposed
School in Northeast.

An underpass under Benning Road
northeast at Twenty-fourth street was
recommended for construction by High
way Engineer Herbert G. Whitehurst to-
day. The underpass would enable chill
dren to cross the Benning road in
safety on their way to the new school
and recreational center about to be built
in this locality.
"Benning road is now a heavily trav-
eled thoroughfare," Capt. Whitehurst
wrote, in a report to Assistant Engineer
Commissioner Hugh P. Dram, land
when improved with its double roadway
is destined to become one of the heav-
lest travelled thoroughfares in the Dis
trice in view of its direct connection to
the Marlboro pike. and ultimately by
the improvement of Kenilworth avenue,
a very desirable connection into the De-
.ense Highway.
Development Started.
The District has started the de-
velopment of what promises to be
large colored school and playground
area on the north side of Benning road
about opposite to Twenty-fourth street
The school, which is located in this
area, will draw large percentage of the
pupils from the area south of Benning
road which is now well built up and
continuing to develop and spread.
1.-THE separation Of the school area
from the residential area, in which a
large portion of the children live, by
an arterial highway. with a heavily
travelled street railway line, handling
interurban cars and freight. will. in the
opinion Of this Office, create hazard
Gus and dangerous condition. Practi-
cally all hazards to all classes of traffic,
including pedestrian, can, in the judg-
construction of a pedestrian underpass
in this vicinity.
$4,000 Cost Estimate.
"It is the belief Of this Office that
such an underpass could be constructed
in connection with the improvement of
Benning road at a cost not in excess
of $10.0 00-probablyles If construction
can be undertaken in connection with
the road improvement, it would be pos
sible to arrange the underground work
so as to cause little, If any, interference
with the project. while, on the other
hand, If construction were deferred until
after the completion of the school area.
it would be difficult and expensive to
rearrange the underground work to per-
NIT of such an underpasS Plans are
now being completed by the various
underground departments and utility
companies for work in the north and
south roadways, so it is necessary that
a decision be reached in order that
perfected accordingly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
MORE PROPERTY BOUGHT
FOR MUNICIPAL CENTER
Purchase of Two Parcels for $17S,-
500 Authorized by Com
missioners.

The District Commissioners today au-
thorized the purchase of the Hotel Ven
dome, at Third street and Pennsylvania
avenue in connection with the acquiSi-
ton of land for the new Municipal
Center site The price agreed upon Is
$160,000. The purchase will be made
from Christian Heurich. The Commits
sioners also authorized the purchase Of
3l8 c street for the same purpose from
w Gwinn Gardiner and Harold c..
Kenney for $18,500.
The purchase of several properties
for a 12-room addition to the Giddings
School was also authorized. Charles B.
Henderson will get $36,500 for seven
lots: Mrs. Fannie Leannardo will get
$4,000 for one lot; Joseph F. Wathen,
$4,000 for one lot, and Julia and William
Crumb, $4,250 for one lot. The school
is at Fourth and G streets southeast.