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Science
NetC Anti-Rachitic Substance
Found in Ergosterol.

Isolation Of calciferol. a substance
approximately twice as potent in the
prevention of ricketts, as anything hith
erto known TO science, has been report
ed 10 the British Royal Society from
the National Institute Of Medical Re
search.
1t is a crystalline substance obtained
by vacuum distillation of products Of
the irradiation of ergosterol. This
product appears to be physically quite
different from vitamin d, normally
present In irradiated ergoSterol and
which is credited with giving that sub
stance its high anti-rachitic qualities
Some evidence was found that this
new substance may not be present
normally, but that It is produced by
the action Of heat on ergosterol. An
other view is that the long-wave ira
diation OF ergosterol may produce two
compounds, Of which this is one IN al
most pure form. T. r. II.
Copyright, 1897
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SESSION URGED
IN COTTON CRISIS
North Carolina Governor Ap-
peaIs to Hoover, Seeing
States Curb Plan Vain.
NJ the Associated press.

~ the Associated Press.
SHELBY, N. c., August 26.-Gov. o.
Max Gardner of North Carolina yester-
day termed State legislation compelling
abandonment of cotton as unsound
without some bingilg agreement with
foreign growers and called upon Presl-
dent Hoover to convene an immediate
session of Congress to consider the cot
ton crisis.
Gov. Gardner called the cotton situa-
ton a national affair and not merely
q sectional and State matter. North
Carolina, he said, could be relied upon
to support any Intelligent and et1ectual
plan"
International Commodity.
"Cotton is not merely sectional crop
confined to the South, but Is a ma
tional and international commodity. 1t
Is grown in America and in at least IL
foreign countries. Last year the United
States produced 13,753,0 900 bales and
foreign countries produced 1l.724,OOO
bales. Shall the South grow no cot
ton in 1892, and the foreign countries
reap a harvest?
1T is my judgment that before. any
Governor calls a special session OF the
Legislature, and as condition prece-
dent thereto, the President should call
Congress into immediate session and lay
before the States and foreign govern
ments that grow cotton the absolute
necessity for unified action and con-
troll.
Nothing Is more unsound than State
legislation compelling abandonment OF
cotton growing in the South without
some binding agreement with foreign
growers. The several States can make
no treaty without foreign growers. That
Is solely the function of the Federal
Government.
Place of Beginning.
~This moment should begin with a
unified policy adopted by the National
Government and come down TO the pro-
eucing States instead of beginning In
confusion with the several State Legis-
iatures and finally heading up in Con-
gress.
II, therefore, urge President Hoover
TO call an immediate session of Con-
gress to formulate a sound national
cotton policy with respect to over pro-
duction, reduction in acreage, price
sterilization, marketing. warehoustng
and such reciprocal agreements with
other countries as may be practical"
rrxAS SrSST0N CnNSTDERED.
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Births Reported.

Thomas and Margaret De Barre, boy.
ROY L and Jessie Glover. boy.
Harry T. and Florence T. Ferguson. boy.
James nj and Edith T. Wheatiey, boy
Philip and Sonia Diatz, boy,
JoSeph s. and Lena r. Gray, boy.
Tlnonnas H. and Mary a. Msnni1s boy.
CLAW III and ida II! Gray. boy.
Jesse H and Annie Harrington girl.
Nicholas g. and Anna u. K1atta, girl.
Iohn and Nancy NJ. Boziewieh. girl.
Antonio and Sandrfna Guerro. girl
Francesca 8. and Cagnela BrUzzese. giFl.
Haisey w. and Frances l. Smith, boy.
Gustav A. ard Josephine p. Cooper. boy.
Lewis and virginia A. Deschlef. boy,
Otis H. and Hazel Lawrence, boy.
william A. and Louise Kllerlane. boy,
Elmer and Blanche Haislip, boy
Victor and Sylvia Fsgalls, boy.
william n. and Peggy y Conway, boz.
Harry G. and Ivy O. Wafne, gtrl.
De Forrest and Emily Bailou, Rirl.
Irwin X. and Mary ~, Wtukiert girl
Lawrence L. and Resale Cockrell, girl
James and BeFnice Mcpherson, boy.
Lucius A. and Cora Bussie, boy
steven and Annie Cathron. boy.
James and Jennie Cunningham. boy.
John c. and Dorothy Ballard. Riu.
Denton r, and Lucille Bell. girl.
John III. and Clara ByxouaA, Girl
Cal and CECILIA Hartman, boy.
Clarence and Agency Davis boy.
Robert T. and Cassie l. Fiemmfng, boy.
Sherman and Irene Henson. boy.
webster r. and Lily TWeedS. boY.
4hofpton j. and Clara B, Hart, eifi.
emnei p ard Mamufe q Brown, girl.
E!iils and Lenlie Walker. SRI.
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NEW ROAD OPENS BIG
WESTERN WILDERNESS
Mile Loop Pierces Washington
Area, Where Indians Pre-
dominate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORT ANGELES. Wash August &c.
"A celebration marking completion Ct
seven years work in building a $780,
mile loop highway around the Olympic
Peninsula began here last night with a
banquetN and speeches by prominent
northwest officials.
At Kalalock today Gov Roland H.
Hartley will formally open the last Is
mile link of the loop to traffic. The
road opens a great area which had been
practically an untra mmeled wilderness
since its discovery by white nlen. In
dams predominant there.
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CHINA WHEAT DEAL
FORESEEN BY M'NARY
Most Important Duty of Farm
Board at Present, Says Senator,
Is to Get Rid of Surplus.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND. Greg. August 26.-Sen-
ator Charles L. McNary, chairman of
the Senate Committee on Agriculture.
said today he believed negotiations for
the sale of 100000 to 25,000.o00
bushels of wheat to China probably
would be successful.
McNary declared it to be the most
important duty of the Federal Farm
Board at present to get rid of the
surplus of wheat, the weight of which
is pressing down the price of new
wheat.
In the proposed sale to China, Nc
Nary saw more than elimination of
price depressant.
"It will have an important effect
in helping to supplant rice with wheat
in the diet of the Chinese" he said.
"I believe the same might be accom-
plished In India. Thus it would benefit
the farmer in the future, creating a
new market"
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Emmanuel so that the former Governor
could be decorated during the Italian
convention.
Ambassador Is Invited.
Signor Giaccomo de Martina, Italian
Ambassador at washington, has been
invited to confer the honor on Mr..
Cooper.
It Is the second friendly gesture Of
the Italian government toward the city
Of Cincinnati in connection with the
convention. 1t recently was announced
the city of Rome, through Premier Be-
nito Mussolini, is sending q bronze
replica Of the capitoline wolf, oficisl
nicipality.
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Nominated for Congress.

SAVANNAH, Ga, August IS P1.-
Homer C. Parker, former adjutant gen.
eral of Georgia, was nominated yester-
day In the first district Democratic phi
mary to succeed the late Representative
Charles c.. Edwards. The nomination
here is equivalent to election.
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RITES FOR MRS. KNAPP
TO BE HELD FRIDAY
Washington Woman Who Died in
Paris to Be Buried in Fort
LINCOLN Cemeferv.

Funeral services for Mrs. Anna D.
Knapp, who died in Paris, France,
August IS, wiz be held at the S. H.
Hines funeral home, 290l Fourteenth
street, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Burial viii be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Mrs. Knapp had left Washington on
May % to visit at the home Of her son
Ralph. who is with the Paris Office Of
q motion picture company. She had
been q resident of this city for 10 years.
She is survived by daughter, Mrs.
Bessie 4. Pierce. 504 Aspen street, -,
whom she lived in Washington, am
four sons, Arthur Of Woodbury. Heights,
". j.; Walter of Lancaster. Pa; Paul Of
waynesboro. Va, and Ralph Of Paris.
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and sympathetic attitude toward the
Italian people performed by Mr.. Cooper
during his gubernatorial administration.
Usual procedure in conferring the
commentator" is to award it to a
person who first has been honored with
the decoration of chevalier, then that
of officer chevalier. There is a minimum
interval of two years between each
honor, Consul Ginocchio said, but the
time requirement was waived by King
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Austrian Deficit $s1 .Ooo. OOO.

VIENNA, August 26 lPl.-Austria' S
deficit fer the first six months of this
fiscal year was S31 ,000, 900, it was an
uounced TODAY
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10000 TO BE AIDED
Denver Radio Prayer League Re
quests Surplus Wheat and Coffee.

DENVER, Colo. August rs ga
request for 38 carloads of surplus wheat
owned by the Federal Farm Board, and
seven carloads of Brazilian coffee has
been sent to Walter S. Clifford, chair
man of President Hoovers Emergency
Employment Committee, by the Radio
Prayer League of Denver, which has
undertaken to feed hungry persons in
Denver next Winter The league has
established a center known as General
Necessity House, where it proposes to
aid 10000 persons.
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$40, SIS, $50 and SIS
Sports Coats, in $1Q.75
all the popular -
fabrics
SO, SO and $3.50 White
and Striped Flannel SETS
and Serge Trousers "
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Golf Hose

Madras and Broadcloth,
etc. SIS and $3.50 $3.50
grades .......... 4
Imported Flannel, Pop
lin, etc. SO and $A.as
$12 grades .....<
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
Mary Michael in
Pauline Lords
New Drama

Guthrie McClintic has engaged
Mary Michael. who has been gen.
eral understudy for all the femt
nine roles except Elizabeth Bar.
rett in Katharine Cornell's com.
pany Of THE Barretts of Vim
pole Street." in the Empire Thea
ter in New York. for the part Of
Mrs. Clemmens with Pauline Lord
i'll Distant Drums" as a recogni-
tior of her splendid performance
of Henrietta, which she played
for six times during Margalo Gill
more's sudden illness last week.
She will be succeeded as I'm.
derstudy in the Empire by Stella
Moore, niece of Mrs. Patrick
Campbell Miss Moore appeared
in Ruth Chatterton's talking pic
ture, "Once a Lady" which Nc
Clintic directed in Hollywood last
summer.
Pauline Lord makes her first
appearance on any stage In Dis
tant Drums" in the ShubertBe-
lasco Theater on Monday, Janu-
ary 4. as the fourth attraction of
the Professional Players.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
When The Feature Is
Shown On The Screen

FOX-George o'Brien in rid.
ers of the Purple Sage" At 11:46
a. M. 2:1O, ABA. 7::34 and 1000
p. m. Stage shows at LOS, 1929,
6;29 and 9;O3 p. m.
RIALTO-Walter Huston in
"Jourrey to He'll" At 1901 p.
m, 2:12. 4:06, 6, 7:54. and 9:48
p. m.
PALACE-Kay Francis in Tho
False Madonna" At 1850 a. M.
2:10. 4;50, 7:25, and 9:45 p. m:
Stage shows at 1:20, 4:05, $40
and 9 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Ramon Novarro in
''Ben Hur." At 11:15, 1:40, 4:l0.
6:35. and 9:05 p. m.
EARLE-Gary Cooper and
.Claudette Colbert in His Won
an" At 11:25, 1;55. 4:30. 7:25
and GAS p. m. Stage elbows at
1855, $50, $50 and 9:05 p. m.
R-K-O-KETTH'S-Lois Moran in
S'Men in Her Life" At 11:10 a.
1n, 1:16, 1922, 5:28, 1894 and
0:40 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-Buddy Rog-
.ers in Working Girls" At IL.
.17:47, 2:34, 4:21, 500. 1855 and
'e:b4 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
Conrad NageI Will
Head Palace Bill

Conrad Nagel will be seen in
person at Loew's Palace Theater
beginning next Friday, Christmas
day. Mr.. Nagel consented to play
a few weeks on the road during
vacation ii the East and Palace
fans will have the opportunity Of
seeing him at every performance.
On the screen Buster Keaton
will be seen with Anita Page in
his latest production, THE Side
walks of New York" A Capitol
Theater, New York, revue will
also be on the program.
For the last show of the old
year Warner Bros. Earle Theater
will present for the week begin
ming Saturday, December 20,
double program that will eclipse
any show presented during the
year. Winnie Lightner will be-
the featured screen star in War
ner Bros. and Vitaphone's Man
haitian Parade" and Joe Penner,
Washington favorite fun comic
will play a welcome back engage
ment as the featured star of the
stage program.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
Dressler $ Next

Metro -Goldwyn will be host at
an after Christmas pre-view
party. The attraction will be
Marie Dressler's latest picture,
Emma" directed by Clarence
Brown from Frances Marion's
original story. The Ambassador
Theater. Tuesday, December 20,
at 2 p. m, is the time and place.
Ike Hope, for many years COM
pany manager for Wagenhals &
Kemper, followed a custom of
presenting dramatic desks with
new headgear at such times as
one of his attractions played here.
Now as a Fanchon & Marco
company. manager he continues
the custom. The morning mail
brings an order for a new iron
hat for the editors head. 1t was
forwarded from Atlanta where his
F & M company is spending
Christmas week.
In passing it might be appro-
pirate to mention that the late
Lincoln J. Wagenhals rated Ike
Hope the best Of his travelling
representatives. His esteem was
noted in his will, recently filed, in
which he bequeathed Mr.. Hope
Al mn
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
Extras Were Paid to
Spend lime Eating

Seventy-five extras were paid to
spend day dancing. eating chop
suey and drinking tea, just for at
mosphere effect, during the pro
duction of a scene in working
Girls" the screen attraction at
Warner Brothers Metropolitan
Theater.
Authenticity of scenes in which
players eat, means that the food
called for in the story is actually
served, and whether or not the
actors enjoy the various dishes.
they have to eat them.
Paul Lukas recently went
through a severe ordeal in his in,
PRODUCTION TO Chinese dishes.
which he dislikes intensely. He
is reported to have consumed a
plate of chop suey. dish of birds
nest soup, and ar order of sharks
fins.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
Late Stage News
Direct From
Broadway

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-An ad
vance performance of "The Bride
of the Sun Shines On" opening
next Saturday night at the Fulton
Theater, will be played on Satur-
day afternoon for the benefit OF
the Actors Dinner Club, recently
opened at the Union Church in
West Forty-eighth Street. Seats
are now on sale at the Fulton
box office.
Man About Town" revue
by Charles S. Steinberg, will be
placed in rehearsal soon after
January l by Arno Productions,
according to announcement yes
terday.
"Son of Satan" described as
horror play about a maniac" and
the work of Ernest and Louise
Cortis, is announced to open on
January II at the Ambassador
1heater: The authors we're rep
resented here in the spring of
1917 by a play called "One for
All"
Jack and the Beanstalk," the
opera with libretta by John Frs
kline and score by Louis Gruen-
berg, which was recently present
ed at the Juilliard School OF
Music, will begin a two weeks
holiday engagement at the Forty"
fourth Street Theater tonight.
Earl Carroll will sail Saturday
on the Leviathan for West In.
dies cruise. On his return he will
begin casting for a revue, to be
either the second edition of
Sketch Book" or the long an
nounced Personalities, which
will go in rehearsal in February.
Society Girl" the John Larkin,
jr., play opening at the Booth
Theater next Monday evening.
will begin a weeks preliminary
engagement at the Majestic Thea
tire, Brooklyn. tonight. Claire Luce
will head the cast.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22

% - D@gudt Cdrg
GrandOpera
Season In
January

The local operatic world is
gratified by the announcement
of the Cosmopolitan Grand Opera
Company's forthcoming appear
ance in Washington for a week
of grand opera, right after New
Year Day.
This Cosmopolitan Grand Opera
Company Is headed by Jacques
Samossoud, the man who brought
us that very fine production of
Deems Taylor's THE Kings
Henchman" in the fall of '27
and who, before that, had ex.
temporized a remarkably fine
version Of NINE. Butterfly" at
the Auditorium right after sever
ing a none-too-pleasant arrange
ment with the washington Opera
Company, by whom he had been
engaged as a conductor.
SO much for the conductor. The
Cosmopolitan Company, which he
has gathered together for an
American tour this winter, start.
ing with its Washington engage
ment, numbers seven operas in all
in its repertoire and its Washing
ton schedule calls for six evening
and two matinee performances at
the National Theater from Janu.
ary to 9, inclusive, at a price
scale that starts at 81 and goes
no higher than So. In all, not an
unpromising outlook, especially
for a city that has grown accus-
toned to a midwinter as we'll as a
spring opera season and sees only
the midwinter in sight.
Samossoud's company. it might
be stated, is somewhat Russian in
flavor though this does not apply
to the diStaff side Of the roster.
Dorothy Dickerson, leading So
prano, is a lovely American singer
who essayed a musical stage ca
reer before going in for opera
and concert abroad.
Bianaca Saroya, another prin
cipal soprano. with a glorious
voice and an illustrious back
ground. is. like Miss Dickerson.
lovely in appearance as we'll as
in voice. while Gladys Mathew.
a third leading soprano, Is of
the same type.
In addition, there is Dreda
AYES, a Texas girl with Metropoli-
tan Opera experience; Helen Els
ler, a 19-year-old Gretel Of win
some charm and captivating
beauty and many more who will
doubtless be adequately described
before the close of the engage
ment, which starts Monday even.
ing. January 4, with "Rigoletto."
It will offer during the week.
the following repertoire: Tuesday
evening. January S. I'll Trova
tore" Wednesday afternoon. Jan
uary s, Romeo and Juliet"
Wednesday evening. January 6,
"Hansel and Gretel" I'm GERMANY
and "Pagliacci;; Thursday even
ing. Faust" Friday evening,
Carmen; Saturday matinee.
"Hansel and Gretel" in English
and "Pagliacci;" Saturday even
ing, "Rigoletto.'
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
.R-K-O-Keith's Plans
Big New Year Party

R.K.O Keith's is planning a
gala New Years eve party with
festivities scheduled for an 11:45
p. m. start on that "big" night.
Plans are practically all set
for the R.K-O celebration with it
how definitely set for additional
R-K-O vaudeville acts to augment
the regular program; a special
overture and an appropriate pro-
duction bit for the moment that
the old clock strikes IL bidding
goodbye to 1881 and welcoming
1882.
All seats are to be reserved for
this special gala performance
and the young ladies that grace
the box office of the RK-O
Keith house report seats "as
loving fast"
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
Bernstein Setting in
New BeIasco Drama

Alice Bernstein. who designed
the settings for Paul streger's
production of Jewel Robbery
with Mary Ellis and Basil sgd,
ney, coming to the Belasco Thea,
ter as the New Year week attrac
ton. Is the most sought-after
scene designer N the profession.
The plays for which she has
won commentator are far too
many to list but Grand Hotep'
and the current Theater Guild
success, Reunion in Vienna" )"
were both done by her.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
How the Film Extras
Spend Their Leisure

An observation of a group of
100 atmosphere players working
on the set of Paramount's THE
False Madonna" current at
Loew's Palace Theater, gave a
revealing insight into the lost
effort of these least important
film players.
While Kay Francis, William
Boyd and Conway Tearle were
studying dialog and rehearsing,
the extras. between the scenes,
found their own amusement.
They spent the time as fol-
lows: Gossiping, So; playing
bridge, "a: watching them, three;
sleeping, seven; sitting and think
ing, six; sitting and watching the
players, two; studying the tech
nique of the director and players,
one,
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
Jackie s Xmas Party

Jimmy "Snozzle" Durante acts
as Santa Claus for Jackie Coop
er's Christmas party which will
be Metro Goldwyn's choice one
reeler to be seen at Loew's Pal
ace and Columbia Christmas day.
Wallace Beery, Polly Moran ana
Marie Dressler serve the turkey.
Charlotte Greenwood, Marion
Davies, Clark Gable, Lionel Barry
more, Ramon Novarro, Leila Hy-
mans, Cliff Edwards and Anita
Page are among the others who
act in this all-star holiday
comedy.
Jack Singer, boss stage hand
with the Loew revue unit at the
Palace, is the same Jack Singer
who owned some of the best bur
lesque shows on the old Colum-
bia circuit. He lost scad of his
savings in Shubert vaudeville.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
All In u Day

MARK HELLINCER

NEW YORK, Dec. y.
As write this piece I'm riding to Boston the Kncker
booker Limited. The papers before filled with
various of the Jack Diamond murder The train
flies along kids playing in the country streets They
seems to be happy Jack Diamond must have started the
same they What happened?
I wonder about the boyhood of such man. wonder
it. when he very small his father ever took him by
the hand and said.
Come on, kid. You're going out with your old man.
We re going to see ball game together Always remem-
Der that you and your dad pals. buy you frank
furter don t tell your mother"
The Washington times., 1931-12-22

irons concerning availability OF
seats.
Senator Carey is chairman OF
the subcommittee of the Senate
District Committee which deals
with police and fire department
matters.
This is another measure which
the movies will have to fight as
both impractical and unnecessary.
Even though it succeeded. which
is nightly improbable. it would
merely serve to boost the cost of
admissions. The existing low
scale for motion picture entertain
ment is predicated upon turning
over the show half a dozen times
a day. The proposed restriction
in the sale of tickets would COM
pei higher prices and fewer per-
fOrmanccS.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
What Price Vulgarity?

How old must some vaudeville
performers be before they awaken
to the fact that the coarse. the
common and the vulgar things OF
the stage lead to the Minsky cir
cult?
George Gershwin composed a
Rhapsody in Rivets" for the new
Gaynor-F Farrell film. But 1t is not
available for theater orchestras.
The symphonic rights are re-
tanned by Composer Gershwin and
they will cost you a pretty penny.
Mayor James M. Curley, OF
Boston, personally censored Zieg-
fields "Follies." He cut out Jack
Pearls toast bit and tanned down
the wiggles of the Albertina
Rasch dancers.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22
New Joan Crawford
Picture OPENS Xmas

Joan Crawford and Clark Ga.
BILE will be seen at Loew's Colum
bia Theater beginning next Fri.
day in their latest starring pro
duction. Possessed"
This production is said to be
the most entertaining of all
Joan's starring vehicles and the
fact that the popular Gable is in
the cast assures it's success.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22

recent pictures. A pippin of a
story that maintains suspense
and interest to the finish. Raul
Roulien, a newcomer, sings the
most tuneful Gershwin melody
Delicious" Gaynor plays a Scot
tish waif with all of her wistful
appeal. She dons a Russian
makeup for a cute number a la
Chauve Souris. I can't think of
any more nice things to say
about this one except if you like
Charlie Farrell and Janet Gaynor
there's a treat for you coming
Christmas.
Joseph Bernhard is the new
general manager of all Warner
Brothers theaters, succeeding
Dan Michalove who remains with
w. B. in another executive
capacity.
The Washington times., 1931-12-22

plans to intro
duce in the Sen
ate Immediately
after the Christ
mas recess.
The bill will
prohibit allow
ing patrons to
stand inside or
In en- ira noes
and exits while
waiting to see a
show, and wilh
provide a pen4
atty for any
employe Of the
the theater who
nicinf0rYNa na-