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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-03

wishing to visit scenes Of foreign battles
and issuance of Springfield rifles to
firing squads.
One proposal urged that the memory
of Haym Solomon, Jewish f1nancier and
patriot of the Revolutionary War, be
honored by placing his portrait upon
an issue of postage stamps:
A military ball last night was at
tended by more than 5000 persons.
Paul C. Wolman of Baltimore, COM
mander in chief, and other national
officers were in the receiving line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-03
Sales Agency Here
Meets Depression
In Peculiar Way

These statements today. as
vouched for by a reporter for
The Star, seem a fair indication
of how at least one downtown
washington sales agency is meet
ing the business depression:
I'm sorry, SIR" said a sales
man in the agency, seeking to
mollify q customer who had
telephoned a complaint, Every
sorry ."
"Yes-yes. I know we're way
behind with that installation
Eyes, you're right, but you
know how it is with this depres-
Eyes, we've had to cut our
Office and shop force to the
bone
I'm sorry. sir, but we're be-
hind with all our orders"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-03
Rubber Tired Coach on Rails.

Tests of the motor driven coach
equipped with pneumatic tires. being
made by a railway in France, are said
to be successful The coach, which has
"a seats, is capable of normal speed
of so miles an hour The tires have a
device which prevents them from fiat
tening when punctured. 1t is claimed
that railways using the coaches may
dispense with signal men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11
State Presents
 The Finger Points
Richard BartheImess Is Starred in Newspaper
 Racketeering Role

They can't Kill newspaper man
 Behind that slogan. crusading newspapers sent police reporters in- to danger, confident in the immunity the fourth estate gave them. z Before it organized, crime grovell- ed and grimaced with itchy trigger fingers but cowardly hearts.
 And then the body of a veteran police reporter of the Big Town, was found in gutter, riddled with bull 1ets-prey to the mob which had never before dared kill a newspaper man.
 A nation, trained in the belief that newspapers were beyond the dead line of gangland's vengeance, waited breathlessly. Organized crime had defied it's most powerful enemy It had finally hung itself with rope of it's own weaving.
 But before the flowers on the re- porter's grave were faded, gangland had turned the laugh on the aveng- ing press. The "martyred" man was one of their own kind, faithful to calling of his profession. He had died as he had lived-a gangster.
 No single story in the colorful but shameful history of American rac- keteering created the international sensation that followed the death and expose. For once a newspaper man was front page copy in every city in the civilized world 2 Most of that story was never told. What was printed gave evidence that underneath was a sinister but withal terrible justice or gangland's rough idea of Justice. Most of the story was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11
Local Revuet tte
 at tie Strand
Lillian Mccoy and Five
 Other Acts of vaude- vile '.'.'i {.

Any attempt to book a stage and screen show stirpassiIlg the marvel ous one staged bys Warfier Brofhers' Strand theater last week seerns almost a despairing task. but the management of this popular theater has gone ahead and accomplished the task. Starting today and for the senting what will be 3unquestionably the outstanding show of the current season. .Fts
 Six deluxe stage acts, one of them a Waterbury production, and the most fascinating mystery picture of the year, Subway Express, constlz 2 tute a wealth of fSentertainment never before eaualled in this theater. s
 Headlining the stage show are Phil Emerton's Original Diamonds. a stage band celebrated from coast. ito coast as the classiest and hottest band in. vaudeville. Eleven irnusi ; clans with bag of tricks and hot tunes that will make you want to get up and dance in the afsles. < z x z <
 Lillian Mccoy, terbury,s rown Lillian, presents her rexuette. This clever little trouper has an act that balanced with singing, comedy and dancing. Everyone will want to see Lillian's act and here's their oppor- tunity. s
 Winifred 6 Mills have. an ecceri J tric colored comedy act and the stan ] ley Revue is1chock full of surprise numbers. Ss { ;
 Coogan and Casey present their ''The Shrinking Violet and Paul Nolan and Company, worlds champion juggiers, have an act that is second to none in which they defy the laws of gravity. What t stage show this Is and then to top It off comes Subway Express the cleverest. most thrilling murder mystery that the human mind ever Jack Holt, sterling star of "The. Last Parade" appears in, .he leading role with Aileen Pringle and splendid supporting cast.
 The picture shows a crowded New York subway in which a fight starts. 4 shot rings out and a murdered nan is discovered sitting rigid1y in lis seat. There are thrifty people to suspect and Inspector .Ikillian finds Itrong motives in a number of cases One man is in love with the dead mans wife -- another is aetuated by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11
|P Palace Brings
 Norma Shearer
In Strangers May Kiss,' She Surpasses Great
 Role of 'DivOrcee".

The ..best selling novel by Ursula
 Parrott now comes to the talking
 picture screen as Metros best pie ture of the year, and of course, in line with it's established policy of |playing only the pick of the pictures from the studios of Fox, Metro |Goldwyn- Mayer, and Paramount, the Fox-Poii Palace theater will offer starting Sunday afternoon for a Limited engagement of four days lonly, Norma Shearer in strangers May Kiss" This marvellous picture excels even her wonderful |"Divorcee,'' which won Norma IShearer the highest award in film dom. Now it is confidently predicted lin Hollywood that strangers May Kiss" will win this prize for Miss Shearer again for 1931. Here is the brilliant young stars answer to those who said there could never be an other picture as good as "The Di- lvorcee." Already the talk of the country, Strangers May Kiss" is as daring, truthful, gay and sophisti-
 cated a talkie as the screen has yet produced. Millions read the novel by Ursula Parrot, but millions more will enjoy this success of all suc- , cesses. Our hope for the perfect picture is at last realized and ful- l lfilled-at last the Fox-Poli Palace
 presents the crowning achievement l of the theater, of beautiful Norma
 Shearer, and of the Metro-Goldwyn-
 Mayer studios-Norma Shearer as "Lisbeth" in Ursula Parrots "Strang-
 CTS May Kiss.' Only Ursula Parrot
 could write the love story of to-day's g
 girl, and only Norma Shearer could
 play that girl. But 1t remained for
 George Fitzmaurice to direct this
 great picture, and for Metro-Gold-
 wyn- Mayer to assemble the perfect
 supporting cast including Robert Montgomery, who delivers a per- ] formance that Is to win him star dom; Neil Hamilton; Marjorie Ram- l beau of "Min and Bill' fame; and
 beautiful Irene Rich. Metro has 1 made Strangers May Kiss" with | Norma Shearer as rLisbeth" as smart, as sophisticated, as daringly
 original. as the Ursula Parrot novel. In this story "Lisbeth" saved herself for the man she loved only to find that the modern world is ruled by scandal whitening in its cruelty. She -Ilearns that men mix many things, but take their women straight! An Interesting coincidence is the fact that this is the second picture in
 which Norma Shearer is the heroine of best selling novel from the pro- llific pen of Ursula Parrot, who wrote |the book from which "The Divorcee"
 was adapted. Tn 1880 Miss Shearer won the award of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the outstanding performance of last
 year. Already it is freely predicted
 that Miss Shearer's work in sStrang- CTS May Kiss" at the Palace, Will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11

< Of $3,000, 100000 world expendi-
 lures for roads this year two-thirds will be spent in the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11

based on suspicion, surmise and that sixth sense called the nose for news" but suspicious and surmises are not newspaper copy so the story was eventually shunted to the inside pages and finally dropped with only occasional flashes back to prom thence. The whole truth will never be printed-may never all be known.
 The new Richard Barthelmess pie ture, made with great secrecy at the Warner Brothers First National studio and opening four day en- gagement to-day at the Warner Bros. State theater, The Finger Points" is equally dramatic and pow erfuI and is based on the facts un- covered when the sensation was in vestigated.
 It is laid in an entirely fictitious city, about a police reported on an imaginary paper, but it's similarity to the notorious case will not be missed by anyone who reads the papers or knows the news. It has merely adopted the most dramatic real-life story of the generation as basis for d fiction plot which John Monk Saunders and w. R. Burnett devel- oped for the talking screen.
 There the similarity ceases. Bar thelmess plays a young police re- porter who find the power and in- fluence his position gives him too great temptation to withstand. And he pays for his folly with a certain rough justice" that provides the punch to the outstanding picture of a generation.
 If you still believe that "they can't kill newspaper reporter, the Barthelmess picture holds a thrill for you.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11

again win her this prize in 1881. Despite the unusual character of this
 attraction, up to the high standard esta blished by the Palace since it be- came a picture house, there will be no advance in prices, and no doubt the story of New Haven last week and New York city the present week will be repeated in Waterbury, as
 both these cities stormed the doors of the theater playing Norma Shearer in strangers May Kiss" to turn away business afternoon and even ing. The engagement at the Fox-Poli Palace theater of Norma Shearer in "Strangers May Kiss" is, just one
 more proof, if one were needed after the superb program of the past sea son, that this picture house still plays
 the pick of the pictures from Fox. Metro c Mayer and Para mount. The surrounding bill is strong. Three stars appear in as many short subjects, including Ches- ter Conklin in Paramount comedy, Taxi; Eddie Buzzell in Check and Rubber Check; and Frances Wil-'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11
Starting at the strand Theater To-day

advance. Vice President and Gen. eral Manager Winfield Sheehan, in charge of Fox Film production, per- sonaIly assumed charge of the prep arations. Exactly four months of research work and careful working out of details were consumed before the first crank was turned by the battery of cameras which filmed East Lynne.I No motion picture of the Fox Film organization were sent to! England, where the play originated, to obtain valuable ma terial. From England they moved on to Vienna and to Paris and other continental cities that serve as locales for this picture.
 On this same bill is a big comedy featuring Victor McLaglen in Not Exactly Gentlemen.''
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11
LEGION HUNTING. BULLET
 tf STOPPING MOUNTAIN

New Britain, Conn -- (UP) - 'Wanted mountain, thick enough to stop bullets"
 Members of Eddy-Golver Post, American Legion. may advertise in this fashion if someone desn't vai- unteer a mountain in answer to their appeal for a riflesrange. "Our chief need,'' said Harold | White, chairman of the rifle club, 'is a range with mountain behind 1t to stop; buIlets."; s{ ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11

Hams in Lets Stay Single series of song hits. Fox Movietone News |reel completes the program. On Thursday through Saturday
 comes another big double feature
 program headed by Loretta Young.
 John Wayne, Lew Cody and Joyce Compton in a Fox Movietone, Three Girls Lost; and on the same bill, Charlotte Greenwood and Reginald
 Denny ,, in a Metro c Goldwn-Mays sr' picture H Stepping Out"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11
OLD COSTUMES TO BE SHOWN

Cologne-A style show which goes back more than 200 years will be held at Easter in the museum of Applied Arts when Rhenish folk cos- tunes and every day dress from 1700 to 1900 will be displayed to show the changing modes throughout these years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11
Double Feature
 Bill at The Lyric

a'If a play can survive for half century, 1t stands an excellent chance of living forever" William Archer, the famous dramatic critic once wrote, provided 1t is builded upon a foundation as solid and per manent as life itself and that it pos sesses an appeal of universal rnagni- tude."
 Perhaps, itSswas this truth that prompted Fox Film Corporation to sponsor9a Movietone production of that world renowned romantic classic East Lynne.s at the Lyric ltheater.
 ' Never in the history of the audi ble screen was an entertainment vehicle so elaborately planned in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11

Eugene, Ore.-Irvin Schulz, Or egon lad, has been elected captain of the 1891 University of Oregon foot ball team. He succeeds Johnny American mention. Head coach pr c. w. Spears will call out his candi- dates late this month for spring training.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-11

revenge " and so on. A medical ex- aminer finds out the murdered man was not shot. The denouement Is startling and unexpected and one that defies anticipation. And its and particularly strong character ization. i12 i..s
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
PEDDLER
. ADMITS GUILT

Following a long argument by
Assistant District Attorney Mich
ael Keogh, Judge Ralph Given in
the jury branch of Police Court
today accepted a plea of guilty
in the case of Joe Dagostino, song
sheet vendor, to a charge of VIC
lating the copyright laws.
There had been a question as
to whether a Police Court had
jurisdiction, and Judge Given had
declared he was convinced that
the case should be tried in the
District Supreme Court where
Abe Schrott. former employer of
Dagostino, was recently fined
$100 on similar charge.
This afternoon, however, Judge
Given agreed to accept the plea
and the case was continued un-
til Saturday for sentence. Da.
gostino is accused of having sold
printed sheets containing the
words of copyrighted songs.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
HISTORY MAD {
IN FERRY SUIT

The unusual spectacle of JUS
tice of the Court of Appeals sit
ting in the trial of a case with
two justices of the District Su-
preme Court will be presented
Monday when the suit involving
the establishment of a new ferry
from the Eastern Shore of Mary
land to Chesapeake Beach is
called for trial. This is the first
time in the history of the local
courts that the statute under
which the hearing will be held
has been invoked.
The proposed ferry line Is in
opposition to the Claiborne-An-
napolis ferry and an order Of
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion authorizing the new line is
being contested by the older line
A special statute, which re-
quires that when an order of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
is in dispute, the matter must be
heard by three judges and one
of them must be circuit judge,
was invoked.
Justice D. Lawrence Groner,
of the Court of Appeals, will sit
in the case with Chief Justice
Wheat and Justice Jessie C. Ad-
kins of the District Supreme
Court
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
CLEAN BILL DUE
HOLDING FIRM

The North American Company
powerful holding corporation
which now has a dominant posi-
ton in the local traction set-up-
is going to emerge from it's probe
by the Federal Trade Commits
sion with a "clean bill of health"
There were unmistakable indi,
cations to this effect today. as
the first lap in the commission
inquiry, covering the Cleveland
holdings of the company. was
completed.
So elated with the commits
sion's report was Harley P. Will
son, director of the North Ameri.
can Company and generalissimo
of its campaign to consolidate
the local street railway and bus
companies, that he said:
This is a remarkable vindi-
cation of the policy of our COM
pany. When the report comes
along dealing with our hold
ingS of Washington Railway
and Electric Company stock, 1
predict that it will be just as
favorable"
The report upon the North
Americans dealings in the local
field is slated to come before
the Federal Trade Commission
next Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
LACK
PLAY SPACE
At KEENE
Girls Sewing and Cooking
Class Is in Furnace Room;
Two PortabIes Being Used

The Board of Education has
continually ignored requests Of
the Keene Parent Teachers AS
sociation for a new building to
replace the miserably poor one
on Riggs Road at Second Street
Northeast, Mrs. John c. Brown,
of the PIT. A., revealed today.
The girls sewing and cooking
classes are held in the furnace
room, with the toilets just through
a door.
The manual training class also
met in the furnace room until
the Fire Department forced con-
struction of a fireproof wall
across one end of the basement,
behind which the class now
works.
Two POrtabIeS Used
Two portables are still in use
at the Keene School, as the main
building contains only four class
rooms. About 200 pupils attend
Keene.
The seventh and eighth grades
have been transferred from keene
to the Paul Junior High School,
Children in those grades now
have to go about a mile to at
tend classes.
Playground facilities at the
Keene School are inadequate,
but nothing has been done to
improve conditions, Mrs. Brown
said.
Hillside Playground
The only part of the small
playground that is level is a
basketball court. The rest of the
area is on the side of hill.
There is no auditorium or gym
nasium at Keene. In bad weather
the children have no place to
play except in their furnace room
classroom -kitchenette.
In the last few months, be-
tween $50 and 200 new .omeS
have been built near the Keene
School, Mrs. Brown said. AS
many more are under construc-
ton.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
HOWELL READY
To OFFER DRY
BILL AGAIN
Alters Search Clause in Hope
"Bone Dry" Law Will Pass;
Believed to Have No Chance

A prohibition enforcement bill
for the District. somewhat
weaker than that which failed
Of enactment at the last session
of Congess but essentially the
same measure. is being prepared
for presentation as soon as Con-
gress reconveneS.
Howell Already at Work
Senator Robert B. Howell (R.)
of Nebraska, who fathered the
bill in the last session and
nearly forced it through the SEN
ate, is already at work on q
new measure, he said today.
In an effort to win additional
support for the bill, particularly
among the lawyer group in the
Senate, it is understood Senator
Howell will modify the drastic
search and seizure clause of his
former bill
Senator Howell, in modifying
the search clause, will bring it
more nearly into conformity with
the search provision of the Vol
stead law, it is believed.
Bill Has Little Chance
His former bill went far be-
yond national provisions and it
was this extension of the right
of search that drew the brunt
of fire of vets and drys when
the measure reached the floor
of the Senate several times in
the last session.
Even with notifications, how
ever, it is doubtful if the bill
will get far in the new Congress,
which will have a decidedly
larger number of vets in its men,
bership than the last.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
CALLS
FOR SPIRITUAL
DOMINANCE
Companionate Marriage Also
Hit by Southern Leader;
Delegates Call on President

With such practices as compan-
ionate marriage, birth control and
Communism facing the world in
these days Of disturbance and
turbulence" the church must as
sert its spiritual dominance.
This opinion was voiced today
by DR.. S. w. Taylor, president of
the North Carolina Conference, at
the annual convention at the
Methodist Protestant Church at
Memorial Continental Hall.
Cites Evil Influence
Reciting the deIeteriOus infIu.
enceS on the youth Of today and
telling of the materiaIism that
has disrupted the church, DIR.
Taylor declared that the church
must face these conditions and
train its paStOrate to overcome
them.
Asserting the necessity of facing
the problem of recreation of the
youth as opposed to reverence Of
the symbols of religion, DR.. R. l..
Shipley. pastor of the First
Church. of Newark. N. j.. de-
clared that the denomination
must make religion so attractive
to youth that young people will be
willing to consecrate their lives
to it.
Received by Hoover
President Hoover received the
conference delegates at the White
House following the morning Ses
sion. The group will continue its
sessions through tomorrow night.
The Rev. Joseph r. Sizoo, pas
tor of the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church, will address the
convention late this afternoon on
THE Romance of the Ministry -
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
TWINS, 2, GAIN
CITIZENSHIP

The Misses Antonina and Nun
ziata Ciatto, of 1850 Park Rd.
N. w, pretty 22-year-old twins
born in Italy, today are Ameri-
can citizens. They won their
citizenship by a race across the
Atlantic from Naples.
Letterrio Ciatto, father Of the
girls. brought them to the United
States with their mother in 1911
when they were only two years
old. Then, in 1924, the twins re-
turned to Italy with their
mother.
The law provides that foreign
born children become full-fledged
citizens of the United States upon
coming of age-provided' how
ever, that they are in the coun-
try on their twenty-first birth
day anniversary.
Antonina and Nunziata learned
of that proviso just in time to
board a ship leaving Naples on
July S, 1880. They were in Wash.
ington on the twenty-second, just
three days before their birth an
niverSary.
If they had missed that ship
they would have become italian
citizens, and gained citizenship
here through naturalization.
Their mother is still in Italy,
with an older sister. The sister
is the only member Of the family
who is citizen of Italy.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
CIVILIAN DRAF 7.
RULE URGED

Drafting of men for the Army
in time of war should be left to
civilians, Benedict Crowell, war
time Assistant Secretary of War
told the War Policies Commission
today.
Mr.. Crowell also favored civil
liam control of the industrial
mobilization which would be nee
essary in time of war. He urged
the passage of bill which would
grant to the President ample
power for the prosecution Of war.
Capt. H. K. Cage. representing
the Navy Department. told the
commission that the Navy favors
in general the plan prepared by
the War Department for indus
trial mobilization.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
HAYNES TRIAL
DEVELOPS ROW

The effort of counsel for Harry
V. Haynes, former president of
the Farmers and Mechanics Ma
tional Bank, on trial on charges
of making false entries on the
banks books and illegal abStrac-
tions, to prove that the banker
was out of town number of
times when the alleged false
entries were made, brought a
sharp legal tilt between counsel
in the bankers trial today.
Attorney H. Winship Wheatley,
counsel for Haynes, asked H. w.
Burnside, former official of the
bank, whether there we're occa-
sions during this period when
Haynes presence was required
out of town. Before the witness
could answer, District Attorney
Leo A. Rover objected.
Justice Peyton Gordon declined
to allow the relevancy of the
question to be shown by counsel
at this time and directed that
the proper time for the line of
questioning had not been reached.
George Willard Bennett, former
note teller of the bank who is
serving a nine-year term for en-
bezzlements totaling $1O4, 900, has
not yet been called, but Mr..
Rover has announced that the
testimony of the former bankers
aide will be used only for the pur-
pose of identifying certain entries
that were made in books under
his custody.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
Halted y. S. Building
Work to Be Pushed

Work on the new Agriculture
Building, halted two months ago
when the contracting firm con.
structing the building went into
the hands of a receiver, will be
started again in few days, the
Treasury Department announced
today.
Following the failure of the
contracting firm, the Government
ordered the bondsmen to com,
plete the work. A number of
conferences have been held in
the meantime to name a contrac.
tor satisfactory to the Govern
ment and to the bonding com
paIly.