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The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Police Drop Duel Theory
In NJ Y. 'TattLe' Murder

NEW YORK, May 26 GN.SJ.
For 81 hours after the murder of
DR.. Joseph T. Loughlin, promi-
nent Brooklyn surgeon, the man
wanted by the police as the suS-
pected slayer-Howard Bridgetts,
3O-year-old commission broker
wandered about town, riding in
the subways, sitting in darkened
movie houses, and otherwise
avoiding the hundreds of de-
tectives who we're trying to track
him down.
Today, accompanied by his law
yer, BridgettS walked into a pO-
lice station and surrendered. He
was nervous and distraught. He
had Stubble of twO-dayS' growth
of beard on his face, and he was
suffering from a fostering bullet
wound in his left elbow.
Doctor Was Angry
DR.. Laughlin and Bridgetts had
quarreled on Saturday night and
they had driven away together
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
RADIO RACKET
[ Staying CLUE

LOS ANGELES, May 26
kINS0.-A "two-year plan" by
which Charles Crawford. politi-
clan, and Herbert Spencer, editor,
were planning to gain political
control of Los Angeles by using a
radio broadcasting station, was
being investigated today by
authorities seeking a solution to
the murder of the two men.
Associates, who have been
branded as racketeers by District
Attorney Buron Fits, disclosed
that they had heard the two and
David H. Clark, charged with the
killings. discuss their political am
bitions along this line.
District Attorney Fits said:
"Clark, who severed his con.
nectiOn from my office under
a cloud of suspicion, was
strongly allied with Guy Nc
Afee, gambling boss, and
through this connection be-
came d potent factor in the
underworld.
"There is no doubt that
Spencer was in the racket, and
the State proposes to show
that Clark, through his McAfee
connection, was opposed to the
re-entry of Crawford into the
political world"
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
PROTESTS
SPAIN DECREE

VATICAN CITY, May 26
G.N.SD.-The Vatican today for.
mally presented the republican
provisional government of Spain
a new note, protesting against
the recent proclamation of re-
ligious liberty in that country.
The Vatican was believed to
have based its protest on the
grounds that the new govern
ment, soon after coming into
power, notified the Holy See that
no change would be made in
the status of the Catholic Church
without the onSent of the people
and of the COrtes.
The Vatican also considered
the decree violation of the con-
cordat between Spain and the
church, which was signed in 1851.
MADRID, May 26.-Reduction
of the Spanish peace-time army
by so per cent was seen here to-
day as the first step in the pro-
gram Of economy adopted by the
republican provisional govern
ment.
The cabinet last night approved
the proposal of the minister of
war to reduce the strength of
the army from sixteen divisions to
eight, the measure to become ef-
fective July l. Minister of War
Azana announced the action will
save $2O,OOO,OOO a year,
More than 300 officers resigned,
accepting the governments offer
to pension them with full pay for
life.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26

in the surgeons car "to have it
OUT The doctor was angry at
Bridgetts because he thought
Bridgetts had been carrying tales
to Mrs. Laughlin about the surg
on'S nights out. The LaughlinS
had been estranged and had just
been reconciled.
The police said BridgettS
turned over to them a .S2-caliber
automatic pistol when he Surren-
dered.
DIR. LOughlin'S body was found
Sunday morning, with bullet
wounds behind the right ear and
in the right side, on the sand
dunes in Marine Park, Brooklyn.
Refuses to Talk
Doubt was cast today upon the
theory that the men had fought
a duel, although Bridgetts' re-
fuSal to talk left the police in
the dark as to what had hap
pened.
Capt. Ray Honan, of the Brook
lyn homicide squad, said the
prisoner denied forcing DR..
Loughlin into the latter's automo-
bile as they left the Loughlin
home last Saturday night.
Bridgetts admitted going to
Marine Park with the doctor,
however, but refused to tell how
he was wounded or under what
circumstances.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
MAY BIC MONTH
FOR RENO

RENO, New, May 26 G.N.SO.
The merry month of May, 1881,
will probably go down in the rec
ord books as the great separation
month.
approximately 800 marriages
were dissolved by Reno divorce
courts during the first Is days Of
this month, while approximately
SO took advantage of Nevada's S
six weeks residence law at Las
Vegas.
Although his residence time
was up, Jack Dempsey, former
heavyweight champion, has failed
to file any suit against his actress
wife, EStelle Taylor.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
MAYORS SOP UP
FRENCH BEER

DINARD, France. May 26
G.N.SO The party of Ameri-
can mayors now touring France
do not desire hard liquor. but
appreciate glass of cold beer, "
Mayor Richard Metcalfe, of
Omaha, told International News
Service here today. He said:
Before leaving New York
everyone seemed vOlubIy eager
to reach the tweIve-mile limit,
but when we reached the wet
zone 1 counted only 10 at the
bar"
Mayor Metcalfe defended
against criticism of the action
of the mayors in drinking while
abroad. saying they were follow
ing the customs of the country
in which they are guests. He
said:
''My wife and / have been in
France five days and have yet
to see a drunkard. Moreover,
the mayors glasses after a
banquet are only half emptied.'
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
NIGHT PROWLER
CAPTURED
Times staff Photo

Ernest J. Dotson, self-admitted
prowler who has terrorized Lyon
Village for the past several nights,
was released by Judge Harry
Thomas in Arlington police court
today.
Judge Thomas stated that he
was convinced that DotSon, a A.
year-old colored man, had no
connection with the assault cases.
He ordered Dotson to stay away
from Lyon Village, threatening
him with arrest.
Picked Up AS Vagrant
Dotson was picked up on charges
of vagrancy and held for investi-
cation.
Police said that Dotson had
confessed to peeping in windows,
but denied that he had attempted
any assaults.
The man has been working in
Lyon Park during the laying Of
gas mains. He said he looked
in windows to see if he recog-
nized anyone from whom he
could obtain food.
Two Assaults Cited
For several weeks now, resi-
dents of that section have COM
planned of the midnight intruder.
The prowler assaulted an
elderly woman as she left the car
station at Lyon Park, recently.
He also entered the bedroom Of
a child.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
HUNT z IN GIRL
ABDUCTION

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May
26.-Two men in a blue roadster
are being sought by Urbanna au-
thorities as the kidnapers Of 10
year-old Elizabeth Waggoner, who
disappeared from her home last
Friday.
No description could be given
of the two men except that they
were travelling in a blue roadster.
The missing girl has light hair,
prominent teeth, and wears a
blue dress and patent leather
shoes.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
HINT RICH MAN
IN GORDON CASE

NEW YORK, May 26 GN.S0
Arrest of "higher up" was
awaited today in the Vivian Cor
don murder mystery.
While police refused to confirm
the reports, it was strongly limited
that they hoped to arrest a
wealthy man whom Miss Gordon
was accused of blackmailing.
Police, it was said, hoped to be
able to prove that the man of
wealth, angered at his shake
down." had hired Samuel Green
berg and Harry Stein to kill her.
Greenberg and Stein, accused of
choking the woman to death on
February Is and throwing her
body into a park, were indicted
yesterday for the crime, after
Harry Schitten, taxicab driver, re-
lated how she was strangled to
death in an automobile he was
driving.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
VATICAN TRUCK
DRIVER BEATEN

VATICAN CITY, May 26
G.N.SO Authorities at the
Vatican today we're seeking a
motive that could have induced
an attack on one of it's mail
trucks by a group of black
shirted Fascist.
The attack, in which the driver
was beaten, occurred in front of
the Palazzo VeneZia, the head
quarters of Premier Mussolini.
The Vatican said that the
truck, which bore the Papal Arms,
was halted by traffic. One of a
group of Fascist was said to
have leaned from an automobile
proceeding in the opposite direc-
ton and to have crashed a stick
over the arm of the mail truck
driver.
The helper on the truck was
assaulted, it was said, by a
Fascist militia officer, who took
charge of the truck.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
CGretGker KidnQped,
Dance Hall Burned

McHENRY, ILL.,, May 26 G.N.SO
Rivalry between competing dance
halls in the Fox River section in
McHenry county was believed
to have been behind the kidnap-
ing of Thomas Aylward, care
taker for Clarence Nelson, and
the burning of Nelson's resort
today.
Aylward, kidnapped while sleep
ing, was released in an outlying
district of Chicago with a sheet
around his head by his captorS,
who, he said, were four armed
men In two autos,
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Cutting of Streets
Through Circles Hit

The Mid-City Citizens Associa.
lion last night in a resolution
condemned the recent proposal
to continue Fourteenth and Thir-
teenth SITS. N. W.. through
Thomas and Logan Circles. The
resolution was offered by William
Richardson.
A. J. Driscoll, association presi-
dent, contended that widening of
Eleventh and Thirteenth Sts. N
w.. will speed up northwest
ern traffic sufficiently and that
the circles are too attractive to
remove.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
DR.. Young Leaves
On Agitation Mission

BALTIMORE, May 25 GN.S.).
DR.. Hugh H. Young, chairman Of
the State aviation commission,
left for New York today from
which port he will sail tomorrow
for England to present Balti-
more's claim as "the most logi-
cal American terminus" for the
proposed transatlantic air SER
vice direct to the imperial air.
ways of Great Britain.
During his stay in that coun.
try he will receive the honorary
degree of Doctor of Science at
Queens University, Belfast, Ire
land.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
RICH SHOULD
! BEAR LOAD,
] THEYSAY
Senators CouzenS and Brook
hart Take Lead in Attack;
New Bill Believed Certain

Progressive spokesman, led by
Senators COuzens (R.) of Michi.
gan, a millionaire and BrOOkhart
(R.) of Iowa, declared in favor
of taxing the rich in order to
meet the Governments expected
deficit of $4,000, 100000 next year.
New Tax Bill Expected
They advocated higher estate
taxes, higher surtaxes on in
comes above 100000 a year, and
b Federal gift tax against the rich.
This was in sharp contrast to
MELONS informal suggestion for
q reduction in exemptions and
imposition Of a gasoline tax.
There was a general feeling on
Capitol Hill that the AdminiStra
tion will bring in a new tax bill
Rt the next session Of Congress,
despite opposition.
While there will be a very nat
Nral reluctance to propose tax
increase on the eve of a PreSlden-
tial campaign, a number of ad-
miniStration leaders feel it would
be far more disastrous to enter
the campaign with $4,000, 900, 900
Treasury deficit and the Admins
tration doing nothing to overcome
it.
Congress Hits Leaders
The dilemma of the Admins
tration was described thus by
Senator Couzens:
"Mr. Hoover and Mr.. Mellon
for years have warned Euro
pean countries to balance their
budgets. Here's a good OppOr-
tunity for the Administration to
= practice what it breaches. I'm.
less the Treasury is used as a
political football it will come
forward with tax plan 30 bal
Snce the budget at the next ses-
sion"
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Souvenirs Stolen
At Union Station

Souvenir novelties, valued at
$500, we're stolen from the west
end basement of Washington Ter.
minal last night. according to a
report made by Edward D. Gal,
bert, manager of the Union Sta.
tion Drug Store.
The loot included IL dozen sou.
venir pillow tops, valued at $108,
and approximately 5000 pictures
Of the Capitol, White House, Lin.
coin Memorial and of the cherry
blossoms, valued at 5000. A
quantity of toys and other novel.
ties were also stolen. Entrance
was gained by breaking the lock
on the door.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Veterans to Carry
Edith Rogers FLaqs

Representative Edith Nourse
Rogers has presented flags to the
Edith N. Rogers Chaper, No. 4,
american Disabled Veterans, and
the banners will be carried in the
Memorial Day parade Saturday
for the first time.
The unit will form at Eighth
st. N. W., on the south side of
Pennsylvania Avenue at 9:30 a. m.
to march to Seventeenth and f
Sts. N. W., for lunch, after which
they will go to Arlington National
Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
SHOWCASES, Hosiery Hide
Beer and Gaming Den

Masked as a haberdashery shop,
a gaming and beer establishment
at 815 Ninth st. N. w. was
raided today by the vice squad.
Two men were arrested and a
quantity of beer and gaming
paraphernalia was seized.
The raiders broke through two
barricaded doors and found, they
said, a cache of beer, several
tables equipped for card playing,
a number of racing slips and
visiting cards of alleged patrons.
The men arrested are listed as
Samuel Green. 30, 80 U st. N. W.,
and Edward C. Ford, colored, 40,
of 121 Four and a Half st. S. w.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Bill Estimate
Called Speculation

The estimate of $2,848,000 900
as Americas annual liquor bill
was characterized as merely wild
speculation" by the Anti-Saloon
League in a statement yesterday
The estimate was announced
Sunday by the Association Against
the Eighteenth Amendment.
Enforcement statistics showing
stills and liquor seized "are not
a fair basis of estimates OF con-
sumption" but indicate efficiency
of enforcement, the league in
sisted.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26

) The front Of the place was
fitted out like any haberdashery
establishment. Show cases con-
tanned ties, socks, golf hose and
other appurtenances of the we'll
dressed man. On the shelves
were empty boxes bearing trade
marks of wellknown shirt and
garment brands, while a cash
register reposed on counter.
The front windows contained
posters, which, serving as a
screen, proclaimed that hosiery
could be bought within for IS
cents per pair, or three pairs
for 81,
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Mexico to Return
COnfiscdted Property

MEXICO CITY, May 26 GN.SD
The hopes of landowners, includ-
ing a number of Americans, in
the State of Jalisco for the COM
plete restoration of their prop
erty appeared brighter today than
at any time since 1922.
The supreme court yesterday
ordered the state to return prop
erty confiscated in 1922 under
the agrarian laws, pending its
final decision on The cases.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Hero of Prison Fire
AfOuL of LQuU AgaiEl

DETROIT, May 26 GN.SJ.-
David Brennan. 26, Ohio State
penitentiary fire hero, and two
companions who were arrested
here when found in an auto
mobile alleged to have been
stolen from Marietta, Ohio, will
be prosecuted on a charge of
violation of the Dyer act, accord.
ing to Federal authorities today.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26

SAMUEL GREENHEAR
ALLEGATIONS that Samuel
Greenhesr, alias Greenberg, was
an accomplice in the killing Of
Vivian Gordon, Broadway
beauty. were made to police
by Harry Schlitten, driver Of
the death car.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26

Whatever your wants may he there
is always a possibility that they can
he satisfied through the many services
advertised in tOday's Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26

HOWARD BRIDGETTS
DIR. LOUGHLIN, prominent
surgeon of Brooklyn, N. Y, is
said by police to have been
killed in a duel with Howard
Bridgetts. Police are searching
for Bridgetts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15

WE shift the scene from our
w white brothers merriment to
stage Of black folks, or brown
folks, as you will. There Is mer-
riment there, too. There we find
human nature at other tricks, the
tricks Of rhythmic dance, of ma
tive song, of humor that creepS
up from the bottom, as we might
say. The theater presents here
another. picture of life. We are
amused. We are entertained. We
even applaud the efforts that in
some strange way give us pleas
ure. And we go home to our beds
to sleep, or to wonder. Why have
we been able to enjoy ourselves
with this simple, almost childish
fun and frolic? We do not know,
and, perhaps, we do not care. But
those who sometimes think
console ourselves with the notion
that what prejudice has termed
lower order of beings, aping
their more civilized brethren, If
you will, are striving to reach a
be disposed to look down upon
them. And yet we must admit
they have what we call talents,
even the very soul of pure drama,
although, perhaps, in its crudest
form. But it Is clean and whole
some. It gives them a power. The
power to make us laugh, the
power to make us forget cares and
worries, the power to please. And
who pleaSeS may persuade. We
miss the art Of language that
hides the forbidden in a translu-
cent veil of words. We miss the
lure, of license. And some of us
feel that it has been in a way a
comfort not to feel the debase-
ment of the shock that thrills
whom we pretend to abhor. Well,
it's a grand old world! It's q
grand old civilization But the
public isn't to blame-at least, it
thinks so. It is our wonderful old
theater that has gone wrong.
A MOTHER of the Theater Guilds
productions, GAS Husbands
Co." and our fidgety old friend
AL Jolson, with his night club en-
tertainment, THE Wonder Bar"
are here. The former brings a
good recommendation from an in
stitution which Washington has
always loved to honor. The Jol-
son show is an old friend, ripened
with the mellownesS Of expert
ence, unless it has been tempered
with. And even then, it Is still
the night club, which believes
THAT II you can't get Mahomet to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
Alfred Lunt Describes
The Kick" of Watching
Yourself on the Screen
In Washington During the Past Week. lie Viewed
The Cuardsman" and Tells How 1t Impressed
Him-The Life in Hollywood.
By E. de S. Melcher.

More so, probably. Incrediblel
Wonderfully comfortable"
ture?"
"Ah, don't know" Mr.. Lunt.
IN his dressing room at the Ma
tional Theater, smoothed down a
HapSburgian hair. "I don't know.
We"-the 1--WE" he uses at all
times referring, Of course, to his
W1re, Lynn Fontanne-"we would
like to have done Private Lives
but Miss Shearer has finished IL
with Bob Montgomery"
Its sort Of far cry from Noel
Coward to Montgomery, isn't it?"
Il don't know. Bob is splendid.
Wait til you see him. He'll sur
prise YOU"
The Hollywood of the tabloids.
the tinSel, the glare, the gyrating
parties, the tempestuous Haunting
OF personalities and emotions
all of these the Lunt family seems
to have been fortunate enough to
escape. They closed their play,
Elizabeth the Queen" on a Sat-
urday night and but for a brief
stop in wisconsin ito plant things"
lthey have a garden out there)
they were almost Immediately in
Hollywood. There they were met
by their private car, whipped over
the California hills to their Bev-
erly house and a day later were
down at the studios ready for
work.
Mr.. Lunt seems to have en-
1oyed himself tremendously. He
talks about it with q CLEAN in his
eye. There Is little question thai
ne would like to go back, In spite
OF the waits, and the hour It re-
quireS for O Straight" makeup
and the three hours for q COM
plicated one. But the Lunts, q
in everything they do; win un.
doubtedly pause until they have
the material for a film which they
really want to do. There Is none
Of this halfway business for
them. On the stage or the screen
they are always the same-a hum
dred per cent finished"
What do you think about the
'trailerS' they've sent around
ahead Of The Guardsman'?
There's been a good deal Of dis
cuSSion about them In Washing
ton"
CAN that business about don't
believe the title, etc.? Well,
don't know. What's wrong with
the title? I can't see that it's 80
bad. AS a matter Of fact,
wanted them to use one I made
up myself, Because He Loved Her
So That wouldn't have been
bad, would 1t? I mean, that's
what the picture is about. Well,
they wouldn't, so that's that. It
doesn't matter. It's rather unirn-
portant, isn't it?" and Rudolf
Maximillian Won Hapsburg
stretched out his long legs and
looked at himself In the mirror.
what I like about the ,fifm is
that sometimes ] look so nice.
CONTINUED On second Pasel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
Who Threw the Pie?
1otheosis Of the pie!

TIE apotheosiS Of the pieI
After being thrown and hurled
about through countless comedies, the
humble pie, on which many q screen
comic has built UP reputation, now
comes into its own, and is starred in
its own right in 1.-THE Great Pie Mys-
terry" the new Educational ennett
comedy, at the Fox Theater this week.
"The Great Pie Mystery Is one Of
the most elaborate comedies the Sen
nett studios have turned out, and all
the weird accessories to mystery melo-
drama have been combined In this baf-
fling film.
who threw the mysterious pie?" is
In the memory of every person who
sees Harry Gribbon, May Boley, Harry
Myers and q host of other well known
Sennett stars enact this striking" mys-
terry under the direction of Del Lord.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
Must Have His Audience

A FTER five years in the talking films,
Al Jolson. sans Nanny" sans
blackface, returns to the Belasco
Theater this evening, in person." as
the talkies have 1t.
Time was when the street was seldom
Jolsonless, when the New York Winter
Garden kept his name up in lights al
most continuously, but that was before
the pictures took both AL and the Win
ter Garden. His new vehicle Is the con-
tinental combination Of musical comedy.
drama, revue and cabaret, 1.-THE Wonder
Bar" which invades Washington for
the second time.
II wanted to see audiences for a
while" he says. THE old applause has
been missing for five years. I want to
hear 1t again. You make picture, and
that's that. Then you start to make
another one. They tell you the first
one was WOW In Kalamazoo, Boston
and hundred other towns. They tell
you the people cheered in New York.
forniap ! guess it's sentiment. Those
big salary checks leave something want
ing, and it's not salary"
Five years in Hollywood have not
changed, Al Jolson.
He still takes an avid interest In
every phase of plays production. from
engaging the cast to designing the cos
tunes. He reaches rellearsals before
the others and is the last one to leave.
He even writes his own second verses
for all the songs.
Now Al has 80 "stooges" In "The
Wonder Barbados and gentlemen
ranging all the way from a real RUS
sian prince and German countess TO q
tumbler who makes o heroic attempt
b fracture vertebra at each perform,