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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
PICK BEST ACTING,
FILMS AND DIRECTORS
Motion Picture Academy Names
Candidates for Cinema Honors
for 1881.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, October s.
Out Of the many hundreds of motion
pictures produced in the last year, the
Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences today announced its selection
of the five best performances by actors.
actresses. directors, technicians and
producing companies.
The academy Is composed Of 700
leading figures of the film industry.
From the five named In each group
one will be selected November 10 to
receive the final award.
Nominees in the divisions follow:
Best performance, actresses-Mar-
lene Dietrich, in Morocco; Marie
Dressler. in Min and Biz; Irene
Dunno, in "Cimarron"; Ann Harding. in
Soul"
Best performance, actors-Lionel Bar
rymore, in "A Free Soul; Jackie
Cooper, in "Skippy"; Richard Dix, in
"Cimarron";; Frederic March. in 1.-The
Royal Family; Adolph Menjou, in
THE Front Page"
Best, direction-Clarence Brown. "a
Free Soul; Lewis Milestone. "The
Front Page; Wesley Ruggles, "Cimar-
rom; Josef Won Sternberg, Morocco;
Norma Taurog, "Skippy."
Pictures revealing the best pho
Biography "Cimarron," Morocco"
THE Right to Love-" "Svengali,"
"Tabu"
Best art direction went to "Cimar-
ron," Just Imagine" Morocco"
"Svengali" and "Whoopee." Four
studios were nominated for the best
work in sound production. They were
Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Paramount
Publix, Radio Keith Orpheum and
Samuel Goldwyn- United Artists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
Dallas Airplane Plant Burns.

DALLAS, Tex, october P.-Fire
which originated in an adjoining hang
ar last night swept the Van Cleave Air
plane Works at Love Field, destroying
seven airplanes. Firemen estimated the
damage at $4,000.
The Van Cleave company aided in
assembling the Spirit of Dallas, in
which Capt. William Erwin, World War
ace, attempted to span the Pacific. Err
win was last heard of in radio mes
sages saying his plane was plunging
into the ocean
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
WOODWARD &LOTHROP
10" land
Wise Little Folk are getting into
These Warm WooI|1es
o" UTE F AND g STREETS

Chill Autumn breeze brisk drive through the parks
these days. have for little folk whose Mothers thought
u enough to provide them with wooh like these There
really for being without hem here literally hundreds
of little the purpose of keeping the little
auocrat comfortable for the Winter
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LOS ANGELES LEADER
OF UNDERWORLD SHOT
Augusta Sasso Is Critically Wound
ed by Unknown Assailant While
Entering Home.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, october 5.-Augusto
Sasso, referred to in reports to the City
Council and the police commission as
ruler of the Los Angeles underworld,
was shot and critically wounded by an
unidentified assailant as he entered his
home early today.
i've been put on the spot" was
Sassos only remark. He refused to
name the attackers. Sasso was shot
through the chest and in the groin.
He is the owner and operator of sew
eral rooming houses In the north end
of the city and frequently he had been
called ALBERT Marcos successor as the
ruler of Los Angeles underworld"
Marco, a former police character of
Los Angeles now in San quentin Prison
serving a sentence for assault, was as
ISOLATED with SaSSo.
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WILL DISCUSS WRITER'S
Prof. C. s. Richardson to Address
Readers Club Tomorrow.

Readers Club Tomorrow.
Prof Charles S. Richardson will
speak on Some Modern Writers" at the
first Fall meeting of the Washington
Readers Club, to be held in the alliance
room of All Souls Church tomorrow.
The program includes readings from
THAT Brute Simmons" (Arthur Nor
rison) by Nettis May Burgess, 1.-THE
Penny That Beauty Spent" and "The
Message and Jehanne' (Thornton
Wilder) by Esther Waldron. selected
poems Of Edwin Arlington Robinson by
Anita Schade and a reading from
Marcos Millions" Eugene O'NeilD by
Emily French Barnes. A one-act play,
"Outwitted," by Harry L. Newton, fea-
turing Lulu G. Adams and Leslie
Waudby, will close the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
GEN. LEE MEMORIAL
MEETING PLANNED
Eight-Day Convention of
Foundation to Be Held
at Stratford.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Virginians interested in restoration of
Stratford, birthplace Of Robert E. Lee,
were advised today of plans for the
eig~&-day annual meeting, starting next
Sunday at Fredericksburg of the Rob-
ert E. Lee Memorial Foundation.
A memorial service will be held Oc-
tober IL, the Sixty-firSt anniversary of
the death of the Confederate leader
with Francis Pendleton Gaines, presi-
dent Of Washington and Lee University,
Maj. Giles B. Cooke. sole survivor of
Gen. Lees staff, and officers of the
foundation on the program.
To Participate at Yorktown.
The foundation also will participate
in the Yorktown Sesquicentennial ceIe-
hration October Is.
n Tie announcement of the meeting,
G:.Ss Helen Knox, national finance
chairman, advised VirginianS here that
final payments on Stratford would be
made within a reasonably short time
and that plans for restoring the HOO
acre estate as national shrine are
we'll advanced.
OF the s24O,O0O purchase price for
the property, $125,000 had been paid
% the former owners, Miss Knox said.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy national organization will pro-
vide an additional $4,000, leaving
S65.000 to be raised.
Contributions Total S19O,943.
Contributions up to September l.
including expenses Of organization and
celebrations, totaled $190,943. Virginia
led the States in gifts with $62,7
Kentucky was second with S17,026.
Other States whose totals exceeded
$4,000 were Tennessee, $14,683; Mary
land, $12,616; Connecticut S12,346;
District of Columbia, $lo,817; Pennsyl-
<arla, S19,296, and Delaware, $4,000.
The garden clubs of Virginia raised
$4,000.
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The Washington times., 1931-07-03
BGshfUL Couple Go
To Dog Tag WindOIU

Dog days must have affected
the person who directed James
H. WolfeS, "a, and his fiancee,
Kathleen M: Lewis, also "a, both
Of Lee Hall, Va, to the District
Building when Mr.. WolfeS asked
him where he could obtain a
marriage license.
The couple went to the only
license window at the building
to discover that only dog licenses
were issued there. A good Samar-
itan directed them to the District
Supreme Court, however, where
they told their story to Assistant
Clerk William F. Lemon, who
granted .them a license.
The Washington times., 1931-07-03
MISSION B D D !
ENDS MEET

Celebration Of the tenth ami.
versary of the Women's Evange.
listic and Missionary Conference
Of Washington and vicinity will
close tonight at the Mt. Nebo
Baptist Church, Sixth and P
Streets Northwest.
The anniversary sermon will be
delivered by the Rev. c. r. Alex
ander, pastor of the church.
Temperance will be the theme of
the services. Mrs. M. M. Frye,
president, will preside.
Participants have been Mrs. F.
L. Gray, Mrs. A. A. Green, Mrs.
c. r. Alexander. Mrs. S. M.
Gordon, Mrs. E. M. Ricketts,, E,
j. Simms, A. A. Yewell, Mrs. M
L. Brown, Mrs. Hattie E. Hol.
man, Ella Bracket, I. Russell,
N. Jackson and Mrs. Ida ,Bundy.
M. M. Gordon, E. E. Hart and
w. M. Hawkins are vice presi.
dents of the conference; Hattie
Holman. secretary, and Ida
Bundy, treasurer.
The Washington times., 1931-07-03
LEGION BACKS
HEARST PLAN
FOR LOAN
Victory Post, Of Capital, Goes
on Record With Resolution;
Added Service Pay Is Urged

Unqualified Endorsement of the
prosperity loan" plan suggested
by William Randolph Hearst, and
recently commended by hundreds
of legislators, economists and
business men, has been voted by
Victory Post No. 4, American
Legion, of this city. Norwood
p. Cassidy is post commander
w. c. Browning is adjutant.
A resolution recites that the
recent payment to veterans of a
portion of the face value Of their
adjusted service compensation
certificates aided business and
the unemployment situation and
further aid would come by pay
ment of the remaining value from
the proceeds of the proposed
bond issue and loan.
Business Aid Cited
AS approved by the post, the
resolution reads:
"WhereaS, William Randolph
Hearst has publicly proposed a
plan ereby S5,OOO,OOO,O 900
would be made available for
expenditure throughout the en-
tire country for the purpose of
relieving unemployment and the
economic depression from which
the country is suffering; and
whereas. this plan, known
and referred to as the pros
perity lOan,' has been publicly
indOrsed by many prominent
economists and political leaders
of both major political parties;
and
whereas, the payment to
veterans of so per cent of the
face value of the adjusted SER
vice compensation certificates
was the most direct means of
relief affecting the unempIOy-
ment and economic situation
taken by the last Congress-: and
It is now proposed that the
remaining so per cent Of the
face value of the certificates
be paid from part of the pro-
ceedS of the prosperity loan:
BE it therefore resolved:
That Victory Post, No. 4. Amer
lean Legion, hereby indOrSeS
the plan of relief proposed by
william Randolph Hearst and
the proposed payment in full
of the adjusted service com.
penSatiOn certificates; and
BE it further resolved: That
copies of this resolution be
forwarded to all posts of this
department; the department
executive committee; the ma
tiOnal executive committee; to
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
and to the public press"
The Washington times., 1931-07-03
Commerce Chamber
O.K's Auto Title LaIU

The Washington Chamber of
Commerce transportation com.
mittee has approved the new
regulations requiring the registra-
ton of all automobile titles in
the District of Columbia. con.
virced that the measure will
make the National Capital a less
popular market for stolen ma
chimes. Features of the measure
wer described by William A. Van
Duzer, director of vehicles and
traffic,
The Washington times., 1931-07-03

% days left to file your per-
sOnaI tax return. Securities
owned. whether pledged or un.
pedged, must be included In re-
tmRnA
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ner' She was also q niece of the great Chief
Justice fancy. She a sister of Philip Bar
ton Key, who was killed by Gen. Darrell E.
Sickles She had three children, Sallie and
Jennie and George H. Pendletcn, now of full
age. For IS years she was the leader of society
in Cincinnati The ola Pendleton mansion at
the head of Main street on the slope Of Mount
Auburn in Cincinnati is still pointed out
landmark to all strangers In the few years
before Mr. Pendleton was appointed Minister
to Germany the old residence was abandoned
and the family maintained Summer residence
in the suburb of Clifton and Winter home
downtown. When Mr.. Perdleton became a
member of the House of Representatives she
made her home with him in this city, where
her entertainments and receptions were one of
the features of the society OF the Capital"
y BOARDING the funeral of Mrs. Pendleton
~ The Star of May IS, 1886, said:
1.-THE simple Protestant Episcopal services
were read today at Zion Church over the re-
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aid of water and other restoratives brought her
back to consciousness. Mrs. Pendleton's body
was lying some distance Off, and when the
oficer examined her he found that she was
dead. A call for ambulance was sent out,
the coroner notified, and Driver Reilly was
placed under arrest.
AT the hospital DR.. Sherman examined the
young girls wounds and found that they were
serious, yet would not prove fatal. There were
slight Commissions of the head and face. the skin
slightly abrased. There was more to fear from
the results Of shock than anything else. The
last accounts from Miss Pendleton were that
she was not in danger.
AT the coroner's inquest the driver said he
thought the ladies jumped from the carriage
at distances Of about 100 and l55 feet from
the statue. Other testimony was taken and
the case was given to the jury.
The jury brought in a verdict declaring that
MIS-. Pendleton had come to her death through
= compound fracture Of the skull, conclusion
OF the brain and consequent shock. The coach
man was exonerated frcm all blame.
Mrs. Pendleton was born in 1925. Her
maiden name was Alice Key and she was the
daughter of Francis Scott Key the author of
the national ballad, The Star Spangled Ban
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the distance and ran off. The driver pulled
suddenly forward by the start, tried to balance
himself, but failed and pulled over the
dashboard, thrown to the ground and dragged
along the driveway. The horse dashed along
until he within $50 feet of the statue.
The two ladies screamed for help and were
beside themselves with fear. All this time the
horse was dashing on, and visible
to check his course. Miss Pendeton stood up
on the seat of the carriage and, after calling
to her mother to follow her, jumped over the
side and landed the lawn which borders
the roadway. There She lay unconscious. Mrs.
Pendleton, when she saw her daughter spring
out, followed her. but struck the pavement with
terrific force. She was hurled by the speed of
the carriage against the curbing and was I'M
doubleday instantly killed.
"OFF1oER HILL Of the mounted police
appeared on the scene of the accident.
Miss Pendleton unconscious but the officer
produced respiration artihcially and with the
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Strengthened out

Doctor-Did thru medicine straighten your
husband out all right?
Wife-Yes, we buried him yesterday.
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It was while he was serving at this post
that Mrs. Pendeton and one Of her daughters
made q trip back to this country. where on
May 20. 1886, she met tragic death, of which
The Star makes announcement in its columns
on May 81, as follows
DEATH OF MRS. PENDLETON.
"The Wife Of Our Minister to Germany Killed
In Central Park.
while Taking an Afternoon Drive the Horse
Runs Away. and Mrs. Pendleton and Her
Daughter Jump From Carriage,
the Young Lady injured.
Mrs. Alice Key Pendleton, wife of George
H. Pendleton, United States Minister to Ger
many, was instantly killed about O'Clock yes
terdAy afternoon in Central Park, New York,
and her daughter, Miss Jennie Frances Pendle-
ton, was severely, though not fatally injured.
Mrs. and Miss Pendleton were enjoying a drive
through the park in an open Victoria, which
had been hired, and Hugh Reilly, inexperi-
enced driver, was on the box. They were going
up the center drive and were then within 800
feet of the Webster Statue when the horse
became frightened at some rlmbling noise in
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CHARLES F. WOOD, almost 25 years ago in
giving his recollectons of c street, referred
to the Key home follows:
THE localities to which you have referred
are closely identified with the days of my youth
My father and also my uncle George Wood,
were residents of c street for many years and
I remember distinctly the house that sat back
from the street, at 308 street next to DR..
Jones residence) which was occupied at that
time by Francis Scott Key, Esq. the distin-
guiShed district attorney and l we'll remember
the day his young son was brought there
corpse. having been killed in a duel by Mid
shipman Sherburne.
THE excitement caused by this tragedy can
hardly be imagined at this day. The two fami-
lies were so well known, and the youth of the
two midShipmen increased the interest in the
affair. Dr. Thomas Mattingly, then residing
here, SherburneS second and also the sur
geon. He attended Key
Then came the tragedy of February 81 1859,
when Gen. Daniel E. Sickles killed Philip Bar
ton Key, the district attorney, in jealous rage.
Fortunately for the father he at this time had
passed on to his Maker, leaving only the remain
ing children to grieve for their murdered
brother.
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requests for copies of his sermons he
has 100 900 or more printed every week
Letters come from persons who tune
their radios to the IS or more stations
in a Columbia System hook-up over
which Father Coughlin each Sunday
evening broadcastS a sermon on eco
nomic and social problems, unemploy-
ment communism, drought relief, the
responsibility of the church and of the
employer.
Protest Stimulates Mail.
His mail received a great stimulus, he
says. from a recent protest to the CO.
lumbia System which requested him to
temper" a contemplated sermon. He
consented, but the next week delivered
it with some added touches.
In what was intended to be the liv-
ing room of his home. but now is a
store house for pile upon pile of tied-up
bundles of letters. which barely leave
room for couch and a bookcase,
Father Coughlin told how it all started
The bishop called him from Lapeer,
Mich, and sent him to Twelve-mile
road to organize the new parish. but
before long he found himself with a
parish debt of around $4,000, plans
for a $760 900 church shrine and some
80 families in the membership.
He took up broadcasting from the
pulpit in the little rough temporary
frame church building. He never has
asked for money. but voluntary contri-
buttons so far have paid the expenses.
Capital stock of Mississippi firms in
corporated in 1880 amounted to $40,-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-29
HOLD-UP THWARTED;
FOUR SHOT, TWO HELD
Spectacular Gun Battle Marks
Third Large Robbery in
Last Few Days
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 29.-In a spec
tacular gun battle that followed the
attempted robbery of the Baskin Cloth
ing Store on Michigan Boulevard, four
men were wounded yesterday and the
two colored hold-up men were captured
The robbers gave their names as
Isadole wilkins and Clarence Hughes.
They said they came from New Or
leans recently.
The Baskin store robbery was the
third large hold-up in Chicago in the
last few days. Last Saturday night
the Hillman Food Store in the center
of the loop was held up, one money
guard killed and another wounded. The
robbers escaped without obtaining any
loot. Monday the Weiboldt Depart
ment Store at Lincoln and Ashland
avenues was robbed of $4,000 and a
policeman and one other man were
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ANSWERS 100000
/ LETTERS WEEKLY
Parish Priests Sermons
Broadcast Over IS Stations
to Vast Audience.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT. January 29.-In sparse
ly settled suburb is 40-year parish
priest who receives and answers as
many as zoo, 900 letters a week.
Within the precincts of the parish OF
the Shrine of the Little Flower on the
Twelve-mile road live 81 families but
the congregation which hears its pastor
Father Charles E. Coughlin, is num-
bered by the hundreds of thousands.
His secretarial staff numbers exactly
the same as the families in his parish
and is divided into four sections. each
In charge of a chief secretary.
Expenses $4,000 Weekly.
Every one is a salaried employe. His
expenses come to $4,000 week and
his list of employees includes a Wash
ington correspondent. To take care of
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cites a day and no one but the city's
524 citizens and gentlemen-in- waiting
actually on duty may buy tobacco in
any form at all.
Signor Boselli, general director Of the
administration of state monopolieS in
Rome. who has been making careful
survey of sales and prices, says that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-29

in spite of hard times the italian pub
lie is buying dearer cigarettes than
they were a few years ago. The strong,
black cigars are losing favor and only
in the rural districts is their odor gen.
orally felt"
Copyright, 1881. by North American News
paper Alliauce.)
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wounded. The robbers also escaped in
this robbery, but i've suspects are being
held.
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TOBACCO SALES LIMITED
Cigarettes Cheap in Vatican City
but Purchases Restricted.

VATICAN CITY (NANA). - Here,
in the freest of all free-trade realms,
tobacco in all its forms is very cheap,
but its sale is severely limited. No
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-29

Capital stock of Mississippi firms in
corporated in 1880 amounted to $40,-
100000.
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SECOND FREE WOOD
BARGE is UNLOADED
Jobless Earn $267.94 Handling
Marines Donation to Needy
Families of District.

The District of Columbia Committee
On Unemployment today announced
that the second barge of free kindling
wood donated by the Marine Corps base
at Quantico, Va, had been unloaded and
distributed at cost to the committee
Of S267e4 This sum was paid to un-
employed men who were given the
work of unloading the barge at the
Municipal Fish Wharf, Eleventh and
Water streets, at $3.50 per day.
The wood was transported from
Quantico by q Navy tug and barge, and
the trucking In Washington was fur
nished free by the Army Transport
Corps and by Wash B. Williams, local
coal dealer The trucks conveyed the
wood 70 individual needy families,
whose addresses were submitted to the
committee by various local organized
charities. The cost of distributing the
wood works out TO SO cents per cord
The conclusion Of the committee S
statement reads:
1T might be stated that the COM
n1ittee finds that the man now out of
work is not a floater, but rather a ca
pable and willing worker, who performs
his duty with good will and energy
and who Is entirely disSimilar from
what some persons conceive to be the
unemployed"