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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
ROXY AND HIS GANG
TO GIVE Benefit HERE
Nine. Schumann-Heink to Appear
on Same Program for Hos
pital Memorial.

For the benefit OF the Memorial
Chapel at Walter Reed Hospital which
is now under construction, S. L.
Rothafel, better known as Roxy" will
appear with Nine Schumann Heink, a
symphony orchestra of 35 pieces, and
several members of his gang" at
Constitution FALL next Thursday after
noon at 3 o'clock
Assisting Roxy will be such well
known members of his gang as Beatrice
Belkin, formerly of the Metropolitan
Opera Co.; Patricia Bowman, Harold
Van Duzee, I'VE Willie" Robyn, and
the Roxy Male Quartet.
The Washington engagement is part
of a tour of 40 cities which Roxy is
making in the interest of charity.
Other members of the gang who are
making the tour are Claire Madjette,
Marie Bowman, Josef Stopak, Viola
Philo, Celia Branz. Margaret Mickey
Mckee, Harold Clyde Wright, Adelaide
de Loca, Leo Russotto. Daddy Jim"
Coombs, Frank Moulan, Isabelle
Henderson, Dorothy Miller and others
The program is under auspices of
the Grey Ladies of Walter Reed
Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
STOMACH UPSET

Get at the real cause. That's what
thousands Of stomach sufferers are
doing now. Instead TO taking tOnics,
or trying to patch up poor digeS-
ton. they are attacking the real
cause of the acknowledged liver
and disOrdered bowels.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets help
arouse the liver in soothing. heal
ing way. When the liver and bowels
are performing their natural func-
ton. people rarely suffer from indi-
gestion and stomach troubles.
Have you bad taste. coated tongue,
poor appetite. a lazy, don't-care feel
ing, no ambition or energy. trouble
with undigested foods? Try Olive
Tablets. the substitute for calOmel.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets are a
purely vegetable compound. Know
them by their olive color. They do
the work without gripping. cramps or
pain. All druggists. 15c, 30c and 6Oc.
Take one or two at bedtime for
quick relief. Eat what you like.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
WIFE SUES c. C. JULIAN
FOR DECREE AND CASH
BY the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, February Am
other chapter in the spectacular career
OF C. c. Julian, multi millionaire oil
promoter, was in the making yesterday
as ne prepared reply to a divorce suit
naming four "other women"
In a complaint filed yesterday Mary
Olive Julian, wife of the Julian Pc
troleum Corporations founder. charged
he maintained four luxurious apart
ments for as many girls. She asked
5000 monthly alimony, custody of two
children and receivership Tor slO,-
900 900 in property.
Julian blamed "arch-enemies having
Interior motives" for having influenced
his wife to file the suit. He announced
he would retaliate by making sensa-
tional charges lin few days"
Julian gained prominence through
the promotion of the petroleum COZ
poration named for him, which sue
cumbed in 1927 to a $1OO.oO0,0OO over
issue of stock, after he had disposed OF
his interests to S. C. Lewis and others.
Mrs. Julian stated she was married
to Julian in Winnipeg, Canada, Decem-
Der /. 1910, when he was an assistant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
CITIZENS PROTEST
zON|NG PROPOSAL
DevonShire Downs Group to
Be North Cleveland Park
Association.

The Zoning Committee and other
Citizens Association were to appear be-
fore the Zoning Commission hearing
today to enter protest against a pro-
posal to reZone from A restricted to
A area a tract of land bounded by Con-
necticut avenue, Reno road, Albemarle
and Chesapeake streets. This action
was decided upon at a meeting of the
association last night after petition
opposing the rezoning was presented
by p. H. Willis and resolutions were
adopted condemning the action as
detrimental to interests of home owners
In the affected area.
It was brought out that owners OF
homes in the community had come
there with the understanding that 1t
would be a detached residence develop
ment and the change would result in
decrease in resale value of their prop
critics. while the only possible benefit
in the coming change would be increase,
IN property values on large areas OF
vxcant land held largely by corpora
tLsnS.
Appropriation Items Cited.
DIR. George C. Havenner, president
of the Federation of Citizens ASsocia-
lions. addressed the meeting. outlining
items in the 1882 appropriation bill IN
Congress. He told of the federations
stand on the proposed Zihlman bill for
assessments for improvements to road
ways and said that while the measure
is opposed. should a new law be en-
acted section Ia of the. Zihman bill
should be amended TO provide for
board of review, composed OF five bona
fide residents of the District OF Column
bia, to consider appeals from street as
SeSsmentS. He stressed the need for
each association studying fiscal rela-
tionS and urged the association to APP
point committee for this purpose.
committee to work with the federation's
Blcentenial Committee also was urged.
Preceding his talk the association
adopted resolutions opposing the Zihl-
man bill for special assessments.
Association Name Changed.
The name of the association was
changed in resolutions adopted to that
of North Cleveland Park Citizens As
ISOLATION. Mrs. M 2. Baughman. z.
A. Jones, P. H. Willis Maj. Jones and
Carl Mack composed the committee
recommending the change A proposal
was presented by Mrs. Baughman to
extend the boundaries of the aSsocia-
ton to include Rodman street on the
south and Albemarle street to the north.
On recommendation of DR.. Aldrich,
chairman of the Committee on Streets,
It was decided to ask for the removal
of the present car stop in the center
of Friendship Circle to the north thereof
because of the danger and inconveni-
ence to street car patrons.
New members elected were L. E.
Bowen. Miss Pauline NJ Bresnahan. z.
NJ. Spencer. Lewis M. Thayer, william
Crouch. George H. Campbell. Mrs S.
E. Lum, L. w. Patch and H. w. Ireland.
President A. j. Barrett presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04

years old. Mexican, was held for the
grand jury yesterday under $4,000 bond.
He was charged with presenting the
January 90, for the purchase of jewelry.
The name he is alleged to have forged
is that of DR.. Jose Cercero Of 1918 Con-
necticut avenue, said to be connected
with the Pan-American Union. He was
arraigned before Judge John P. Nc
Mahon in United States branch of
Police Court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04

Because some one entered his cream
cry at night and destroyed many milk
bottle, A. j. Hogg has demanded that
the Coleraine Rural Council Of Ireland
nav him $1,000 damages
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04

in a plumbing shop. She asserted
Julian attempted to have her adjudged
insane in 1928 in an effort to gain
control of her fathers estate and win
sole title to his own holdings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
TESTS FOR VACANCIES
Review Editor and Cytologist
Positions Are Open,

Examination for two positions were
announced today by the Civil Service
Commission. The tests will be for the
posts of assistant technical review editor
of the material division, Air Service. at
Wright Field Dayton. Ohio. and
associat cytologist of the Bureau of
Plant Industry at Riverside Calf. The
former will pay from $4,000 to $4,000 an
nually and the latter from $4,000 to
$4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
HELD FOR JURY

Mexican Is Charged With Passing
Forged Check.
Charged with passing a forged check
in the sum of $196, Jose A. GaXiola. 35
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06
HOOP CONTESTS 10 BE PLAYED
 HERE TONIGHT
Juneau Firem en, High School, Capitol and
 Douglas Meet

Good exhibitions of basketball are promised tonight in the Juneau High School gymnasium. Juneau Bremen will meet the Juneau High School, and Capitol Workers will encounter Douglas Bremen.
 The Juneau Bremen have dis shown some high class play lately They have lost only one game and that was their first, before they really got under way They are expected to score an easy victory over the school boys, who have not won major contest here this winter. Yet in basketball, as in horse-racing, nothing can be fore told with certainty, which accounts for the popular interest.
 The contest between Capitol Workers and Douglas Bremen will he hard-fought and is likely to oe close. The workers were de- feated by the smoke eaters at Douglas a week ago. The Capitol players were bothered by the low ceiling of the Douglas Natatorium then. They will perform better here tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06
GIRLS SETTLE
 CHANNEL TITLE
 SATURDAY EVE
Juneau and Douglas Girls to Decide Basketball
 Championship

Girl basketball championship 1 honors will be decided tomorrow night when feminine athletes of Juneau and Douglas high schools meet in the Natatorium at Doug las. Each team has to its credit two games in the scheduled five game series, and the victor in the approaching event will be accorded the Gastineau Channel title, quail fled to contend for the Southeast Alaska pennant against the winner of the Petersburg -Ketchikan tour nament.
 The Douglas girls started the sea- son like certain winners. They took the first two games. Juneau came from behind with dash in the third contest and won it after a hard struggle. The local squad in its second victory last Friday appeared to fine advantage. It IS favored by many followers of the sport to win tomorrow nights cru cial contest.
 In addition to the girls game, Douglas high school boys will play Juneau high school alumni boys The Douglas boys are the Channel champions, having disposed of the Juneau high school teams in suc- cessive victories. The Islanders will meet a better team in the Alumni than was presented by the Juneau boy students.
 Play will begin at 8 o'clock. A special voyage will be made by the Juneau Douglas ferryboat at 7:30 to accommodate residents of the city who wish to see the games.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06
BOYS AND GIRLS WILL PLAY GOLF
 ON SATURDAY
Grade and High School Pu- pills Will Contest for
 Weekly Honors

Grade and high school boys and girls will engage in weekly tour nament play tomorrow afternoon at the indoor Midget Golf Course. Grade boys will tee off at l o'clock, grade girls at 1:15, high school boys at 30 and high school girls at 2. Entries follow:
 Grade school boys-Ralph Bardi, Roy Smith, Henry Behrendts, Bud dy Lindstrom, Banner Smith, Phil lip Bertholl, Archie Gubser, John Krugness, Jr., Frank Behrendts, Fred Harris, Earle Monagle Thom- as Harris, Casey Harris and Robert Douglas.
 Grade School Girls
 Grade school girls-Vivian Pow CTS, Jean VanderLeest, Beatrice Boutwell,, Annette Folta, Lenore An derson, Phyllis Jenne, Martha Peter son, Bessie Powers, Dolores Tarr, Patricia Harland, Jane Blomgren, Enid Jarvis and Mary Jean Mo Naughton
 High School boys-Horace Perk- ins, John Stewart, John Hellenthal, Lloyd Jarman, Toivo Lahikainen and Hiding Hagland.
 High School Wards
 High school girls-Corinne Jenne, Annabell Simpson, Fern Gubser, Geraldine Bedding, Dorothy Olson, Barbara Simpkins, Jane Elliott and Carol Robertson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06
MORE ELEVATOR MEN
 NEEDED AT CAPITOL

The U. s. Civil Service Commis- sion announces an open competitive examination for filling vacancies in the position of Elevator Con- ductors, Custodian Service. Ju- neau, Alaska, at 1920 a year Re- ceipt of applications to close Febru- ary 20, 1881. Examination will be held in this city.
 For further information and ap- plication blank apply to the Sec reary, Board of U. s. Civil Serv- ice Examiners, Room 3ll, Federal Bldg, Juneau, Alaska, or to the Manager, 11th U. s. Civil Service District, POT Post Office Building, Seattle, Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 6-From the rigors of the Arctic zone where his only companions were a fur trader and son and Eskimos, Dr. George M. Sutton has returned with results of the first exhaustive study of bird, animal and plant life on Southampton Island.
 Southampton Island was the only charted land of the north of which a study had not been made. Dr. Sutton was the lone member of a privately financed expedition.
 In praise of the Eskimos, Dr. Sutton is enthusiastic He found only two who could master little English, but all, he said, were in- telligent, and he had little diffi- cul5y in communicating with them. He succeeded in learning little of the Eskimo tongue.
 They knew a few simple card games and we played them when we had nothing else to occupy us. I taught them to play slap jack
 On radio set Dr. Sutton heard broadcasts from station KDKA in Pittsburgh.
 T heard my mother at various times during those broadcastA" he said. Of course it wasn't always possible to hear distinctly, but often we could"
 Dr. Sutton brought to Carnegie museum here 1000 birds, 500 man. mals, about 2,000 plants, mineral
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06
LONE SCIENTIST DEFTEs ARCTIC WINTER
 TO STUDY LIFE ON UNEMPLOYED ISLAND|

ogical collection, and many butter flies and insects. He also has many paintings of birds and about 700 photographs.
 He established that the island is the home of the whistling swan.
 Several hitherto uncharted is- lands were discovered during Dr. Sutton's explorations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06

The history of Virginia is to be put in moving pictures for use in the schools.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06
SEA VETERAN
 PASSES AWAY
Capt. John Winderstrom, of Windjammer Days,
 Dies Tn South

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 6. Capt. John Winderstrom, aged
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06
REACHES EAST IN TINY PLANE
Mrs. Bruce Arrives in New York After Long,
 Lone Flight

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-MrS. Victor Bruce, 29 year old British aviatrix, landed her tiny 120 horsepower plane at the North Beach Airport late yesterday afternoon. She flew alone across Europe and Asia and shipped her plane from Japan to Vancouver, B. c. Mrs. Bruce then flew across the continent via. California. She will ship the plane on a steamer leaving here tomor- row for Havre, France, and then fly home to Hastings, England.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06
PORTLAND-V VANCOUVER PLAY HOCKEY TO TIE

PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 6.-Van couver and Portland hockey teams played to a 2-2 tie last night in regular scheduled game in the Coast Hockey League.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06

62, veteran of windjammer days, is dead here at his home.
 Capt Winderstorm had been a ships master since he was 21 years of age. He sailed for 25 years for the Alaska Packers Association. His last command was the sailing ship Star of Falkland which was wreck ed in Boring Sea, in 1928.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-06
NOTICE

Owing to increase in price of coal, prices delivered on and after this date will be as follows: screen ed coal, family trade, SIS; restau- rants SIT D. B. TRIMMER,
 adv. Phone IA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
AFRICAN FILM "UBANGT'
AT THE CAMEO THEATRE

The all-talking film "Ubangi," pho
tographed in the heart of the Afri-
can jungle now current at the Cameo
Theatre, where it is in its second
week, contains some interesting
scenes of wild animal life in this lit
tle-known part of the world. The
picture is a record of the Davenport
Quigley expedition which spent some
five years in the African wilds.
The expedition was heaoed BY the
we'll known scientists, Drs. Louis
Neuman, Jacques Maus and Daniel
Davenport, who conducted a medical
group to this part of the world, Or.
Davenport brought back many en-
crossing pictures Of native life, which
are now being shown for the first
time at the Cameo. Many villages in
the Belgian Congo we're visited, as
well as Angola, the Cameroons, Nj
geria, the Sudan, Abyssinia and
Western Uganda
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
TO PROTEST MICH.
FINGERPRINT BILL
New York Meets to Hit
Anti orker Measure

NEW YORK.-The City Commit
tee for the Protection of Foreign
Born. New York City, representing a
large number of working class or
CARNATIONS, condemns the passing of
the anti working class bill in Michi-
gan that calls for registration. fin
ger-printing and deportation of the
foreign born and that has been
signed by Governor Wilbur M.
Brucker.
I'VE consider the passing of this
bill only as starting point and
warn the workers of New York that
similar laws will be passed here if
we do not at once organize ourselves
for mass protests" the committee
declared.
The City Committee for the Pro-
lection of Foreign Born has decided
to hold series of mass protest
meetings against the Michigan bill
We urge all working class organiza-
OlOllo, WlICOIlcI dllllidJCu w LliC SltJ
Committee or not. to participate in
these meetings and to Immediately
send resolutions and protest against
the Michigan law to the Governor of
Michigan.
The meetings will be held in Brook
Ign on June IS. in Manhattan on
June 26 and in the Bronx on June 81.
Delegates from the City Commit
tee will visit affiliated organizations
to secure their cooperation in ar
ranging these meetings. Every eff
fort will be made to organize the
workers and rally them to fight for
the repeal Of the Michigan law, and
to prevent such measures of being
passed in the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
THE GoNDOLIERS" CONTINUE
AT ERLANGER,S.

The Gondoliers" continue for an
other week at changers, and will be
followed a week later by another of
the Gilbert and Sullivan operas
Patience" AS in the case of 1.-The
Mikado' and "Pinafore," 1.-The Con
doliers" have been drawing large au-
diences at the theatre in w .44th st.
Howard Marsh, william Danforth,
Frank Moulan, Joseph Macaulay,
Ruth Altman, Vera Ross and Celia
Branz, Dorothy Seegar and Sudworth
Frasier, comprise the chief artists in
the operetta. The opera Patience"
was first offered in New York in the
early eighties" and has been re-
vived here upon one occasion since
that time. An earlier generation Of
comic opera devotees will recall the
work as an Oscar Wildean satire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
800 TAIL0RS MEET
TO FORM DEMANDS
ASK REAL STRIKE
Expose Amalgamated
Takers

NEW YORK CITY. JUi1e' 9Th, -
500 clothing workers attended a mass
open forum of rank and file tailors
and cutters held at II noon at Try
ing Plaza Hall
The hall was overpacked Rank
and file tailors at the meeting ex-
posed the real aims of the Amalga-
mated nnisleaders in the coming gen.
eral strike of the clothing workers.
They pointed out that the manner
in which the strike is being organ
lied, without real demands to i'm
prove the workers conditions, ana
without the organization of a broaa
rank and file strike committee, can
be no other than a fake strike.
The rank and file called upon all
the tailors to make the coming gen.
eral strike real and effective; to Or
ganize shop strike committees In
every shop on strike; not to go back
TO work without improved conditions.
The meeting unanimously accepted
the sesolution condemning the buro-
Gratis for organizing the strike Sc
cretly from the workers, demanding
that the demands put forth by the
rank and file committee should be
put before the entire membership
and voted on by the membership.
Tbs following demands we're vot-
ed on unanimously:
l. Introduction of the 40-hour wk.
2. Re-int-oduction and extension
at week work.
3. Guaranteed minimum wage
scales for all workers in the indus
try.
4. Increase the Unemployment In
surance Fund to 5 percent and this
fund to be controlled by the Rank
and File.
5. Ali work cut in New York to be
made in New York union SHOPS.
6. Recognition of shop committees
and the election of all real repre-
sentative shop committees in all the
shops
T. Equal pay for equal work for
women, Negroes and youth.
9. Abolition of the impartial ma
chinery, which is the hookup be-
tween the bosses and the bureau
Gratis who are responsible for the
ruination of our conditions.
A.ota2r meeting will be held this
coming Wednesday in the same hall,
at IL noon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
BY HARRIET SLOVENIAN.

The electric light bills of small
users will be doubled next month on
the basis of the new rates ordered
by the so-called Public Service Com
mission. But big business" will save
money. The new rates are called
saving of $5,5O0,oo0 to users" 1t
is clear as day, that once more, the
whole burden of increasing the pro-
fits and dividends of the light and
power trust will be placed on the
backs of the workers.
The minimum bill is TO be 81 for
so that even if your bills
have been only fifty or sixty cents
a month, hereafter no matter how
little you burn, the Electric Light
Trust will demand and get no less
than $100 and up. The new ruling
goes into effect at the New York
and Brooklyn Edison Company, the
United Electric Light and Power
Company and the New York and
Queens Electric Light and Power Co.
Instead of reducing the rates at this
time the Public Service Commission
saw to it that the profits of the
power trust would be increased and
that big business would benefit,
While profits are boosted, for the
trust, the Brooklyn Edison Company
recently fired close to 1000 workers
the profits last year for
this one company, amounted to $84,-
1884. The company paid S57080,-
s08 in cash dividends which is SILL
100000 more than they paid In 1929,
Matthew S. Sloan, president of the
company calls these 1000 workers
casual labor, and tries to justtf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
Electric Rate Raise GiVes
Power Trust Millions Graft

firing the workers on this ground.
Sloan who is a member OF Jimmy
Walkers Employment Committee,
can't prove this, nor can he bluff his
way out of the charge that the COM
pany fired these workers just when
their vacations we're due, which nets
the company extra millions!
The extent ITO which the electric
light and power trust has strangle-
hold on the bosses government was
again exposed at the recent Cover
nor's Conference held in Indiana.
Governor Pinchot. reactionary who
likes to pose as a liberal, in his speech
before the conference, charged that
the electric power trust is cleaning
up at least half a billion dollars
year in graft. THE power of the
utilities" said Pinchot, the same
gentleman who had nothing to offer
the Unemployed Delegation that
came demanding relief for the starry
ing workers of the state, lis mani
fest in every political assembly from
the congress of the United States
to the smallest town meeting, and
from the government of the least
political unit to that of the largest
state. Indeed it reaches the ma
tional government itself Here We
have it, the proof again that the
corporations, trusts and bankers rule
the Wall Street government, but
this time from the mouth of a re-
dictionary himself!
Ninety-five percent of the electric
power industry was until now con-
trolled by four main capitalist groups,
the Morgan Mellon group which had