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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-03
EncOffined Janitor
Struns Harp While
Gas Takes His Life
Suicide Despondent Over
Loss of Savings-Plans
Own Funeral.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August S.-Detectives,
summoned to an apartment building.
found Gus johnson, the janitor, lying
dead In CONN, with his fingers on the
wires Of q harp lying across his chest.
The Jets Of gas plate In the place were
all open. The body was found yesterday
after tenants In the building reported
they smelled escaping gas.
johnson purchased the comm July az,
and it was delivered to him that night.
funeral expenses was found on o dresser
in his room. Tenants in the building
said he had been morose since he lost
most of his savings In q bank failure.
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shoes" of the now disbanded commits
sion.
Listing the aims of the half-finished
survey, Wickersham said:
TT is said that the congestion on the
criminal side of the Federal courts Is
created by the prohibition laws and the
Dyer act Covering theft and transport
tation of cars from one State to an
other). Again there Is no comprehen-
sive study available which FURNISHES
reliable answer to this contention.
cit is said that the congestion in
some districts is due to faulty admin
istration of the court, rather than TO
Jurisdiction of any particular class OF
cases. All these present questions can
only be properly answered after sucn
ing a body of reliable facts to furnish
the basis of sound conclusions"
Districts Chosen.
The committees report explained
that the time and financial limits
would make it impossible to gather data
from all the Federal courts, and that
10 districts had been chosen as repre-
Sentative of urban and rural conditions.
They are the northern district OF Cali
fornia, the district Of Colorado, district
of Connecticut, northern district Of Il
linois. district of Kansas, eastern dis
trict Of Louisiana, district Of Massachu-
setts. eastern district Of Michigan,
southern district of New York, western
district of North Carolina, northern as
frict of Ohio, southern district Of Ohio
and the southern district OF West
Virginia.
PENDANTS hesitated to have their cases
tried before Federal jury, fearing
larger penalties, and that there might
have been inducements by the prose.
cutor offered in return for guilty pleas,
The report said 92.6 per cent OF an
rrohihition eases were based on guilty
pleas. It. concluded also that practi-
caIlv 80 per cent Of the prohibition
cases were disposed Of by fines"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-03
OIL TANKER FIRE
INJURIES TWO men
Boat With 10000 Gallons Of Case
line Cut Adrift, but Sticks on
Bar and Menaces Shipping.

BY the Associated Press.
PERTH AMBOY, N. j.. August b.
Two men were critically burned today
when the oil barge J. Norman Riley,
carrying 10000 gallons Of gasoline,
caught fire ct the docks Of the Shell
Eastern. Petroleum Products Corpora
ton, In Sewaren.
The tanker was cut drift and the tide
carried it out into Staten Island Sound.
where 1t became stuck on sand bar,
menacing shipping IN the channel
Two private IRE boats were stand
ing by.
Those burned were Capt. w. F. Ma
son, IS. years old, of Brooklyn, and Carl
Petersen, the steward aboard the tanker.
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ENGLISH GOLD ARRIVES
First Shipment to q. s. Since 1929
Amounts to About 81, oOo, 900.

Amounts to About 81 ,oOo, 900.
NEW YORK, August F.-The first
gold shipment to reach this country
from England since october. 1929. ar
rived today on the liner Carmania. It
amounted to about $1,000 900 and rep
resented private commercial, rather
than a banking, transaction.
During the recent break In sterling
exchange. which for several days was
quoted well below the rate at which gold
might have been shipped probably
from London to New York, American
banks refrained from importing the
metal. Sterling now has returned above
the so-called gold point.
Tcday's shipment comprised As boxes
Of bar gold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-03
sUccUMBs ON TRAIN
John sumpter Means, Seeking
Asthma Relief, Dies.

COLUMBIA, g. O., August 8 (P.-
En- route to Asheville, N. O., where he
hoped to secure relief from asthma,
John Sumpter Means, 90, Of Gaines
Vile, Fla, died on a train just as 1t
arrived here this morning.
Trainmen said he had become seri-
ously Ill before reaching Columbia and
plans were being made to take him to
q hospital here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-03

Blindness, due to the infection Of an
insect, Is becoming general In Tiltepec,
Mexico, children sucCumbing 70 the
disease soon after birth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-03

Ninety-nve Of every 100 tractors nov
operating n Nenezuela ase AmeEaeaM
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MACKS BEAT MATS,
3-2, IN FIRST GAME
OK DOUBLE-HEADER

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HERNDON 20 HOURS
BEHIND RECORD ON
TRIP AROUND GLOBE

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UNION HEADS HIT
WAGES AND HOURS
I IN u. S. WORK HERE

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CRIME GROUP ASKS
..$25,ooo FOR STUDY
OF NATIONS COURTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS batted for
singled to center. Manush famed.
Cfcnin forced Myer, McNair 10 Bishop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-03

roll Reitz and Ross Schilling, who is
said to have been imbibing denatured
alcohol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02

RAMA, from the standpoint Of
the lay observer, will be manu-
featured by the bucketfuls at
Akron, Ohio, soon after the
-
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The gold medal awarded by the
United Spanish War Veterans to the
student of the G. M. T. C. at Fort Myer
who made the highest rating of the stu
dents who are residents of the District
Of Columbia and for general military
excellence was presented July % to Jo-
seph MEG. Michaelson, 2548 University
place. The presentation was made by
Department Comdr. Samuel J. McWil-
liams.
Miles Camp met, with Comdr. G. F.
McGillicuddy presiding. Peter Brown,
U. 8. Navy, was mustered into the camp.
The applications of Edward Webb and
William E. Jacobs were received. The
deaths of Lieut.. Col. Joachim Thode.
William J. Anderson and William F.
OBrien were announced A resolution
favoring the portrayal of the surrender
Of Lord CORVALLIS, the commander of
the British Army. to Washington in the
pageant at the Yorktown Sesquicenten-
NAL and commencing the efforts Of
Representative Sol Bloom, director Of
the George Washington Bicentennial
Commission, to have the surrender de-
picted in accordance with the actual
facts OF history was unanimously
adopted.
Remarks were made by Junior Vice
Department Comdr. Charles A. Strobel,
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lery, has been ordered honorably dis
charged to enable him to enlist in the
United States Coast Guard.
The following reductions in Com
pany z, 121st Engineers, have been
ordered upon recommendation of the
company commander: Staff Sergt.
Baxter Smith and Sergt. Walter w.
Keyser to be privates.
The following promotions in the same
unit also were ordered:
Sergt. Harry B. Parsons to be staff
sergeant. Corpl. Henry M. Boudinot and
Pvt. Baxter Smith to be sergeants.
PvtS. Walter w. Keyser and Marion
w. Chinn to be corporals.
Pvt. John w. Brightenburg has
been ordered promoted to corporal in
Company F, 121st Engineers, upon
recommendation Of the unit COM
mander.
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Comrades Chisholm Of Harden Camp
and William Shreve of Dewey Camp.
Miles Auxiliary met, with the pfesi-
dent, jeanette e. Caffrey, in the chair.
la Wright was admitted to membership.
Department President Janet Sikkeri,
Senior Vice Department President Cath
crime HUM, Past Department Presidents
Bertha r. Cook, Margaret Burns and
Edna Summerfleld spoke. After tl1s
meeting there was a bingo party, In
which the members Of the auxiliary
were Joined by members of Miles Camn
and visitors. Past Department Comdr,
Samuel @. Mawson was present.
Rebekah K. Pedigo Of Petit Auxiliary
announced a bus trip to the Shenan.
doah Caverns,: Va, August 9. This
party will leave the Conard Apartments,
Thirteenth and streets, at 8 am.
The LineaI Society will meet Wednes-
day at Pythian Temple with the chief
ruler, Mrs. A. Newland. Mrs. Kathryn
Lawson will act as hostess Mrs Louisa
Nusbaum was initiated at the last
meeting.
The Society of the Philippines win
meet August at the Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines Club, Eleventh and L
streets.
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Drinking water is carried in special
tanks.
In the Akron, for the first time in
airShip history the living quarters will
be heated through insulated aluminium
pipes from the forward engine rooms.
The airplane compartment Is 10 by
So feet and l6 feet high. with TT
shaped hatch in the floor through
which the airplanes may be raised and
lowered. The planes will be moved
about the compartment suspended
from overhead tracks. 1t will be
months, however, before the final sys-
tenn of launching and attachment gear
and trolleys are installed.
Seven gun einplacements cover all
angles OF approach and some OF them
carry more than one gun. The final
arrangement of guns and means for
ammunition storage and supply will be
worked out by actual experience, In
GLIDING maneuvers involving simulated
airplane attacks upon the airship,
An observation basket which may be
lowered several hundred feet below the
airship on the end of cable is con-
templated for future installation.
A mooring spindle and cone are car
ried In the nose. The lower nm Is made
especially strong to serve as point
of support during ground handling
maneuvers. Various attachment points
are provided on the hull in the vicinity
of the stern and at other points to
which handling lines may be attached.
Inside the airship, working platforms,
winches and trap doors near the bow
provide the means for handling the
mooring cable and side or yaw cables
used in mooring operations. In ad-
dition there is q large door near the
bow Of the airship which may be low
cred to form a bridge connecting the
airship With the upper platform OF the
mooring mast and so provide a means
Of entrance and exit via the mast
The Akron. in short, Is a veritable
community in the air, equipped to
travel and support her crew for days
at time without recourse to the world
below. She ranks as one of the WON
ders Of modern civilization. And so.
though the tests may mean merely
hard work to her trial crew. they are
going to represent drama. and stirring
drama, to those who watch with any
comprehension of what this new giant
of the skies is and what she means.
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District National Guard

Maj. Bernard @. MacNeil, command
or OF the District Of Columbia Depsrt-
n1ent Of the American Legion and di-
rector Of one of the medical units at
the regional ONCE here Of. the Vet
erans Administration, before the as
senbled troops of the National Guard
Of the District of Columbia last Tues
day night presented plaque to the
29th Division Military Police Company.
The plaque was an appreciation OF
the services rendered Dr. MacNeil as
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department. CON-
Hiander of the Lee
gion during his
regime by the To-
cal military police
troops in the de-
tail Of officers and
m en- as col or
guards and for va
rious other duties
at en- 0 n / e S
which required the
presence of uni
formed troops. DR..
MacNeil praised
the work of the
members of the
command and ex-
pressed his appre-
citation of their
q arUiRAR The
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Spanish War Veterans
Meetings This Week.

Monday-LAwton Camp, Pythian
Temple; Aston Camp, u. S.
Soldiers Home; Dewey Auxil-
larry, Northeast Masonic Temple.
Tuesday - Aston Auxiliary, 921
Pennsylvania avenue southeast;
Society of the Philippines, Sol
diers and Sailors Club.
Neutrality-suspicious. Lineal So
ciety, Pythian Temple.
Thursday-Harden Camp, Pyth-
ian Temple; Miles Auxiliary
Drum and Bugle Corps, Gen.
trail High School.
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plaque was accepted by Capt William
T. Roy, commanding the company. In
addition to the presentation by the Le-
the Guard were presented with trophies
and medals which they won at the re-
cent Small-bore matches at Sea Grit,
N. j. These presentations were made
by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, COM
manding the local Militia and the 2oth
National Guard Division, comprising
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IAN invention Of the devil" was how
Very Rev Clarke, ex-moderator of the
General Assembly, described jazz music
when speaking at festival at Caledon,
Ireland, recently.
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First Lieut. Joseph w. voelker, Dental
Corps, 260th Coast Artillery. has been
granted two months leave of absence
with permission to leave the continental
limits of the United States.
Pvt. (First Glass; Edward p.
Cameron, Battery B, 260th Coast Artil-
The Washington times., 1931-06-22
When Feature Is
Shown On Screen

PALACE-Paul Lukas and Kay
Francis in "The "Vice Squad" At
IL, 2:O5, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:40 p. m
Stage shows at 1:25, $50. 6:35
and 9 p. m.
FOX-Victor MacLaglen and
Edmund Lowe in Women of All
Nations" At 1855 a. NJ, 2:21,
4:46, 1885 and 1901 p. m. Stage
shows at 1:20, 3:45, Gal and g
p. m.
EARLE-Carlole Lombard in
up Pops the Devil" At 1875 a,
M, 2:O5, ABS, 7:30 and 10 p. m.
Stage shows at /, $3.50, 6:25 and
8:55 p. m.
R-K-O-KEITHS Betty Comp
son and Conrad Nagel in Three
Who Loved" At IL, 12:45, 2:35,
4:25, 6:15, sos and 9:55 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-Lila Lee in
Misbehaving Ladies'" At IL
12:48. 2:36, 4:24, 6:28 and 9:46
p. m.
COLUMBIA-Olive Brook and
Fay Wray in THE Lawyers Sc
cret," At 1855 a. M, 1:55, 1855.
5:55, 1855 and 9:55 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-06-22
Hinda Wausau
Stars At Cayety

All good things must come to
an end and Jimmy Lakes Gay
ETY. Theater which winds up this
week is no exception, although it
did manage to outlast its sister
theaters by several weeks.
Manager Lake played his best
card and brought Hinda Wausau
back to Washington. Miss Wau-
sau seems more willing to enter
tain than on her last visit, and
kept those in front in good hui
NOR.
Jackie James, a new little
blonde, on her first appearance
here, scored a sensational hit
with her singing and dancing,
while Gertie Reed, red-haired IA
vorite who has been playing here
for several weeks, came in for
much praise.
Sally Levan, Lillian Rose and
Helen Forrest have each given
such sterling performances that
their admirers confidently look
forward to their return next year.
That same trio of good come
dians-Billy Fields, Bimbo Davis
and Chuck Callahan-are In this
production.
Lew Petel, straight man, and
Ray Parson, singer, are well
adapted for their parts.
The Washington times., 1931-06-22

OF ClgnC pdIeLI LILA LEE
leather shoes is quite likely to
bring to mind some similar per
sonal predicament. In fact, the
homely, human touches make
this a splendid character sketch.
Louise Fazenda rather steals
the show, for she is pretty near
perfect as Aunt Kate, who so
eagerly welcomes the returning
princess.
Lila Lee Scores
Lila Lee, in the dual role of
the princess and the seamStreSs,
is charming and delightful. Ben
Lyon must garner his success in
whatever personal appeal he
makes to the individual. The
young cousin all agog over the
advent of a real princess" is
we'll done by Virginia Gray, a
very appealing child.
A travelogue, the eighth of a
series, depicts exploration into
the jungles of Rhodesia, which,
with a comedy and the news re-
lease, winds up pleasant pro
gram. II. IL
The Washington times., 1931-06-22
Light Turned
On Crooked
Police
BY ANDREW r.. KELLEY

Some weeks ago New York city
was properly shocked over revela-
tions that unscrupulous vice
squad police had framed" in
nocent women in their campaign
against the erring girls OF the
metropolis.
Oliver H. P. Garrett saw in
these disclosures material for a
screen story and so we have
'The Vice Squad" current at
Loew's Palace Theater. AS an
author with a mission. Mr.. Gar
rett might have done better with
his social propaganda theme had
he given both barrels to the
Shiny police system which reIleS
upon agents provacateur for con-
victions. Instead the force OF
his screen broadside is weakened
by bringing in a somewhat IN
credible romance.
Lukas Fine Actor
Paul Lukas, a consistently fine
actor, is given the unhappy role
of police stool pigeon" A set
of far-fetched incidents tumbles
him from the polished duties OF
an embassy attache to enforced
preying upon SHINING sisters as a
paid informer. While actor
Lukas registers a deep contempt
for his job, gives a convincing
portrayal of conscience-tor'
mented spy, the character never
generates vestige of audience
appeal.
Kay Francis, in a role of rela-
lively minor Importance does well.
The most effective supporting
characterizations are provided by
Helen johnson (who portrays the
innocent girl caught in the police
metz, and William B. Davidson
as a police magistrate.
Some All Wet Comedy
Wesley Eddy is presiding over
the stage show this week and
was given a royal welcome back
to F. Street by Saturday nights
audience. He's the same ener-
getic and capable entertainer as
of old, getting a great hand for
vocalizing Muddy Waters" and
"Please Don't Talk About Me
When I'm Gone" But my ballot
goes for a couple of new songs,
Wesley. The Three Sailors are
fine hooters, good rough house
comics. but ruin any chance Of
being rated an act of class by a
disgusting exhibition of water
splitting. It's really nauseating
except for strong stomachS.
Andrew and Louise Carr, an ex-
ceedingly agile juvenile dancing
team, and Olive Bailey, soprano,
complete the lively 40 minutes
assigned to the Banquet of Melo-
dies revue.
The Hearst Metrotone news reel
and music by the Syncopators
roun''s a program that is solidly
entertaining.
The Washington times., 1931-06-22
International Rotary

The world will listen in to an
Intercontinental Radio Rotary
Club meeting between the Schen-
ectady and the Melbourne (Aus-
tralia) Rotary clubs when N.B.C.
attempts to pick up and rebroad-
cast the proceedings over an
N.B.C.-WEAF network Thursday,
June 25, from 6 to $50 a. m. Get
up early for this.
The Schenectady club will be
havisg breakfast while the Mel.
bourne club will be holding 9
o'clock dinner. Greetings and
songs will be picked up by the
General Electric short-Wave sta,
ton at Schenectady. The com
bined signals, from both Schenec,
tady and Melbourne, will be re-
broadcast by short wave in order
that delegates to the International
Rotary convention at Vienna may
hear this interchange of songs
and greetings between the United
States and Australia.
The Washington times., 1931-06-22
Lawyers s Code
Theme Of Film
At Columbia

Law students during the course
Of their studies are prone to
discuss unusual cases and ques-
tions of ethics the likes of which
they will probably never be con-
fronted with in active practice.
Such a problem is presented
in '"The Lawyers Secret" at the
Columbia this week. Should a
lawyer betray the confidence of a
client when an innocent life is
at stake if divulgence of the con-
fidence risks the neck of his own
client?
This film fails to answer the
question thereby sacrificing much
of it's dramatic effectiveness. The
lawyer wriggles out of the diff
Guilty and justice emerges tri-
umphant, but no solution of the
ethics of the case is attempted.
Not that it makes any difference.
Some of the leading lights of
Paramount were brought together
for this film. Give Brook car
ries away the acting honors as
the lawyer trying to protect his
fiancee's brother and spare his
conscience at the same time.
Buddy Rogers as the weakling
brother and Richard Arlen as
the innocent youth going to the
moose for the crime of another
are effective IN their roles. Fay
Wray and Jean Arthur, the
women in the cast, are deserv-
ing of slight praise.
An Our Gang" comedy with
a plot and a villain has a few
scattered laughs.
Other short subjects include an
animated cartoon and novelty
"Curiosities," strange pictorial
facts from all over the globe.
The Washington times., 1931-06-22

Frances GoOd-CAROLE LOMBARD
rich follows the original with re-
markable accuracy and the
versatility of the screen only
augmentS the humor and dra.
matte complications of the stage
show.
The devil pops up" very natur-
ally from series of events lead
ing to the climax when a strug-
Cling young author resents his
Wife's efforts to support him
while he remains at home to pen
the best seller of the season.
Replete with sparkling dialogue,
the play has an able cast of
youthful stars. Norman Foster,
plays very much in character in
the part executed on Broadway
by Roger Pryor. The young wife,
Carole Lombard, also a new star,
handles her characterization with
fineSSe.
TaShman'S Comedy
Lilyan Tashman, usually the
sophisticated Snob, turns out
new portrayal here as a
comedienne. Skeets Gallagher
and Stuart Erwin, the two in.
separable comedians, do a very
effective drunk act and Elliott
Nuggent also handles his part
well.
On the stage, the feature is
Buster Shaver's Tiny Town
Revue" a song and dance act
with six midgets. Josephine Har,
mon and Georgia Sands
condolences de luxe, are funnier
than ever. Crockett's Kentucky
Mountaineers," of radio fame,
and Serge Flash, in an original
juggling number, complete the
stage show.
The program closes with Rip.
ley'S Believe It or Not" Bobby
Jones in How I Play Golf" and
the Universal NewSreel.-J. A. B
The Washington times., 1931-06-22
NewsGossip
or Radio
World
By BROADCASTER

Having known Kate Smith
when she took $50 a week for
singing six times day and was
glad to get it, it is a pleasure to
report that Anheuser-Busch wants
the Swanee singer for its pro
grams and the salary mentioned
is $4,000 week. Some pay
raise.
S.What is there about buxom
Kate Smith that makes her dis
Hnetive? It's hard to say. Her
7Gcef is not remarkable, but she
s66hsyto choose songs that people
like to-, hear and can extract
sentiment from lyrics. She also
Np folks can understand
W.T. she warbling about.
q IN 1nformal poll was taken
las Friday among the employees
Af nearby commercial estab-
thnent. The question was
whether Ruth Etting or Kate
Smith should be awarded the
title of Queen of the Air Sing
ers." Kate won by two votes.
In sending the result the tabula
tor remarks: Don't print our
names. The boss might get mad
over the way we spent our spare
time" o. K.
The Washington times., 1931-06-22
Stanley Ridges Hits
In Strange InterIude

Stanley Ridges, already known
as one of the finest of the
musical comedy stars, and later
as splendid player of repertoire
roles, now comes forth as a por-
trayer of serious drama.
The critics were unanimous in
their praise of his work with the
National Theater Players in
Strange Interlude," where he
plays the part of Sam, one of
Nina Leeds three men, as they
are known.
The Washington times., 1931-06-22

in the cast are
some of the
actors of the
earlier Sile n t
version.
Lucien Little
field, as Uncle
Joe, is as un-
derstanding and
human as they
come, and the
S y m p a t h etc
laughter which
greetS his dis
comfiture in a
dill e nina con-
cerning a pair
of ticht, patent