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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
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|. HELPS SUSPECT, 70
Wife of Fresno Contractor
Asks Court to Aid Youth
Husband Paid $1,000.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 1.-THE wife of
a wealthy contractor whom 20-year-
old William E. Mannheim of Fresno,
Calf, is alleged to have blackmailed,
came to the youths assistance today as
he was arraigned, sobbing, in Magis-
trate's Court.
II want. you to help me put this boy
on the right path" said Mrs. George E.
Gibson to Magistrate Burke. HE has
made a great mistake and want to
help him."
$1,000 Demand Charged.
why did you do it?" she asked Man
helm, who had described himself as a
sophomore at the University of Cali
fornia.
IT don't know" cried the youth.
Mannheim Is alleged to have demand
ed 81 900 from Gibson under threat of
involving his son William, a student at
Dartmouth College, in a scandal AS
he was led into the court room he was
obviously near collapse. He staggered
and an attendant had to bring him a
drink of water.
Said Caught by Ruse.
After the magistrate had ordered the
youth held i'll 81 900 bail for a hearing
Friday. Mrs. Gibson went into Magis-
trate Burke'S chambers to confer with
: the Judge. Mannheim was led away, his
shoulders sagging.
Gibson, who lives in Larchmont, said
he received two letters demanding
money. Following instructions con-
tanned In the second, he placed an en-
velope in a magazine at branch of
the Y. M. C. A. A detective on the
watch said Mannheim entered and with
drew the envelope.
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LEWIS, PROMOTER,
WILL Be PAROLED
U. S. Board Orders Release of
"ModeI Cities Builder"
from Prison In Fab.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July 1f.-Edward G.
Lewis, elderly head of one of the most
spectacular real estate promotions In
Southern California land history. will
be released from prison September i
under a parole announced today in
Washington by the Federal Parole
Board.
Lewis was known as the builder of
model cities" and it was the promo
ton OF one Of these, Atascadero, that
led to his prosecution by the Govern
ment of mail fraud charges involving
sum Of about $l,300o00.
New Promotion Banned.
He was sentenced May /, 1928, to five
years in the Federal Penitentiary at
Mcneil Island, Wash, and became ell
gible for parole last May l. His release
is conditioned upon his refraining from
further promotional activities.
Investigation of his real estate COM
panieS began after they had failed, ty-
ing up about s1O,0OO,O0O. Among his
enterprises was Palos Verdes, Calf, and
university City, in st. Louis, no.
Co-Defendant on Probation.
At Atascadero Lewis built city and
sold surrounding lands. The Govern
ment charged use of the mails to de-
fraud, and he was convicted on IL
counts. Maj. Henry L. Kramer, q mil
lionaire and associate of Lewis, also
was convicted, but won probation. Lewis
was IS years old at the time
When Lewis went into bankruptcy, he
had frozen assets estimated at $4,000
600. Government officials claimed he
had raised as much as $50,000,0 900
through his promotional efforts.
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KANSAS CITY ASKS
MISSOURI GAS QUIZ
Paper Sued for $4,000 900
by Doherty Undaunted in
Domestic Rate Row.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, July ia $4,000
900 libel suit filed by Henry L. Doherty,
utilities magnate, was met by the Kan
sas City Star today with the state
ment that the newspaper would not
gas rates for domestic consumers in
the cities of Kansas and Missouri"
Doherty, head Of the Cities Service
Co., which through various subsidiaries
supplies natural gas to Kansas City
and other municipalities of Missouri
and Kansas, alleged the Star had
libeled him personally in q series of
articles attacking rates and methods
of his companies.
Plan Other Damage Suits.
Doherty's representatives here said
other damage actions would be brought
against the Star. The nature of the
forthcoming litigation was not dis
closed, but Doherty announced in New
York several days ago he had in
structed his attorneys to seek dam
ages in behalf of the stockholders Of
the Cities Service Co.
Sale of the company's curb stock,
except the first preferred, has been
ordered stopped in Kansas by the State
Securities Commission.
Missouri Gas Probe Asked.
Meanwhile, the rate fight went on
today. The city of Kansas City, where
domestic consumers pay 81 per 1000
cubic feet for gas, filed with the SMis-
souri, Public Service Commission a brief
asking the commission to compel the
Cities Service Gas Co. to present a sched-
ule of rates for sale of gas from its
pipe lines in the State to all local
distributing companies and other users
An investigation was asked If the rates
were found to be unreasonable.
The brief alleged the holding COM
pany and affiliated companies are oper-
ating in violation of State laws against
price fixing and trusts. Officials of
the company have contended it is en-
gagged in interstate commerce and is
not subject to regulation by the State
commission.
The official fight for reduction Of
rates in Kansas is being directed by
Gov. Woodring, who has at his COM
mand fund of 100000 appropriated
by the Legislature for expenses. Do
herty rejected a request Of the Gov
ernor to reduce city gas rates for gas
in Kansas from 40 TO 80 cents per
1000 cubic feet.
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Children of Dreams" Music
Offering, at Metropolitan.

THOUGH the season seems bit
l. lax as far as musical shows are
concerned, Warner Brothers release
Children of Dreams" now at the
Metropolitan Theater. This produc-
ton, the newest work of Oscar
Hammerstein, I'd, and Sigmund
Romberg, well known composing
team, has new songs which should
make hit in the realms of music,
particularly the fascinating waltz,
My Sleeping Beauty" This song.
though sung many times, does not
lose any of its attractiveness. There
are many other songs one could
mention, but this number and one
other Cfrom the words it should be
entitled Bungalow, Yes, SirPo are
the outstanding ones: The bunga-
low number is very pleasing, though
light and not sentimental, whereas
My Sleeping Beauty" dripS Sweetly
on every word.
The story, almost Cinderella in
type, except for the end, is fairly
old and worn, but it is bolstered up
wonderfully by excellent music.
Margaret Schilling, of the stage and
screen and recently of the radio, too,
has the leading part, opposite Paul
Gregory.
Imagine for a background the
apple orchards of sunny California,
with two young people of the no.
madic fruit pickers who fall in love.
A career in opera looms for the
girl, who hasn't much choice be-
tween love and the stage, for her
father becomes involved in money
matters. So love is sacrificed for a
career which is very successful.
The two are still in love, but,
through misunderstanding, they
separate. Here the country physi-
clan, in the person of Charles VIM
ringer, comes to the rescue Zone
could kiss him on his bald head or
give him a hearty slap on the back
for the sly way he brings the two
together again, and shows the girl
that love is infinitely more to the
human heart than ever a career
could be. There are some very STIR
ring moments, however weak the
plot may be. Handkerchiefs are
noticed being brought out and car
ried to the face by strong men, and
1t wasn't bit hot in the theater
Perhaps it was the music and the
effective way in which it was sung,
both by Paul Gregory and Miss
Schilling.
Some mention must be made Of
Tom PATRICIA and Marion Byron
in the supporting cast. 1t is these
two who furnish the light love
romance behind the heavier scenes,
and incidentally sing the "Bunga-
low" song.
The eleventh of the Adventures
in Africa" this week entitled Beasts
of the Wilderness" and Graham
McNamee Newsreel finish the bill.
]. N. H.
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grand sport about this. Accustomed
to the very best that M-G-M can
find in the way of acting support,
when it was evident that Mr.. Barry
more was running away with this
cinematic horse-and-buggy, she
cried "Viva!" and took a back seat
with no forced modesty.
Thus, one may still be loyal to
Miss Shearer, while the Barrymore
tri-color is raised, and reflect on
the lambency of her charms, the
svelt, Subdued manner which she
lends to any picture and the all
too-true fact that no film in which
she has played of late has been any
thing but arresting, stimulating and
vigorous in its development.
The part the elder Barrymore
plays-that of a tipping parent,
whose graces as a lawyer fall from
him when he has inbibed too
greatly lis, however, the chief claim
this picture has to fame. Dimming
the lengthier roles by the bewilder-
ing efficacy of his proves, Barry
more is an inebriate you have never
dreamed of, and when he is dead
you feel that he is dead-cold dead
and sorry about it, at that.
Others in the cast include Clarke
Gable, the new dark menace" OF
the screen, and :. Leslie Howard
who is nowhere near as good as he
should be. e. de 8. ~.
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A FTER telling a fantastic tale of
~ several western l3, outlaws .i Of . the
Wallace Moore, SO, broke down
under questioning by Inspector Frank
S. w. Burke last night and confessed
the story was product of his imagi-
nation. He was committed to Gallinger
Hospital for mental observation.
1t was Moore'S penchant for yarn
spinning that resulted in his arrest by
Detective Sergt. Howard Ogle, who
went to Moore's home at 204 C street
after some of his stories had reached
police headquarters.
Quizzed by Inspector Burke, recently
appointed chief of detectives, Moore
told of having embarked on a career of
wholesale killing when he was only 9
years old.
He was sitting on the porch Of his
uncle's home at Tombstone, Ariz, he
related. when four men rode up. CO.
ing into his uncle's blacksmith shop
which adjoined the house, the strangers
had their horses shod, he said.
He Killed Leader.
Upon completion Of the work, the
men refused to pay his uncle, he con-
tinued. and quarrel ensued. Finally
he said, one of the strangers drew
pistol and shot my uncle down without
batting an eyelash."
Il had gun stretched across my
knees" he declared, land I shot it
out with the men. killing their leader
who was known as Black Jack His
companions jumped upon their horses
and disappeared in a cloud of dust"
They returned about two years later,
fhn all
They shot his aunt and beat him into
Inconsistencies, he asserted.
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'Then," he told Inspector Burke, 81
resolved to follow them to the ends
of the earth, If necessary, to wreak
vengeance.
Although I was only about II at
the time. didn't hesitate to shoot
down one Of my uncle's friends and
steal his horse. I spent the next two
years searching for the three outlaws,
finally locating them in a desert.
killed them ALL
Goes to Colorado.
Moore took the horse of one of his
victims, he related, and went to Colo
RADIO. There an attempt was made to
arrest him as a horse thief, he said,
but he shot and killed the sheriff and
another man.
Continuing through the State on a
Stagecoach, he declared he killed a
desperate who attempted to rob him
and his fellow passengers A short
time later, he said, he met bad man
known as Kid Mex, who assisted him
in the Staying of three or four others.
The Kid and I were arrested for
pulling of bank hold-up," he contin-
ued, but we escaped from Jail. The
Kid double me, however, and I
had to do away with him"
Moore asserted his other victims were
killed in various parts of the country,
including Chicago. st. Louis and New
Orleans. but he was unable to recall
any of the details
Haunted by Their Ghosts.
II had to confess" he explained
because their ghosts have been haunt
ing me all these years. They appear
every night and I can't stand it any
longer"
If you've killed all the outlaws YOU
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
DETROIT BOAT WINS
CUPBOARD MARATHON
James C. Nunneley Captures Tro-
ply in 1OO-Mile Event Of
Seneca Lake Regatta.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, N. Y, July Thames c.
Nunneley of Detroit Mich, won the
l00-mile cupboard motor boat marathon
of the fourth annual Seneca Lake Re-
gatta here today.
Nunneley led the five finishers across
the line in 2 hours 30 minutes 80 Sec
onds, with an average speed of 40.13
miles an hour. Being an amateur, he
was given his choice of five designs of
$500 gold and silver cups for first place.
There were 26 starters.
Marshall Eldredge of Boston, Mass.
established a new world record in class
E, division IL, in the second heat of
5 mile event. He averaged 45.685
miles an hour to break the record of
45454 miles an hour, made by Lester
Hunter of Rochester in the first heat
The previous record was 42.056, made
by Ray Prettenzer, jr., of Antioch, Ill,
at Middletown, Conn, last october.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
LOTTERY RING EVIDENCE .
REVEALED BY RAID
100000 Syndicate Operating in
Indiana, Illinois and Three
Other States, Say Police.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS, July IA $1,000
600 lottery syndicate. allegedly operat-
ing in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky,
Michigan and Ohio, was said to have
been uncovered through a raid today
on printing establishment here which
resulted in the seizure of tickets and
records and the arrest of two men.
John Krause of Indiana was wanted as
the reputed head of the syndicate. Po-
lice said he was in Louisville. They
arrested H. G. Meister and A. r.
Mitchell as agents of Krause.
The officers said the raid Melted
tickets for the World Series Syndicate,
the Hawthorne Gold Cup Sweepstakes
and other syndicates: revealed that a
lottery had been operated in connection
with the 500-mile speedway race. and
disclosed records describing activities
and showing receipts of the syndicate.
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say you have" Inspector Burke OBJ
served, you deserve a Congressional
Medal"
The prospect of receiving such an
award apparently did not appeal to
Moore, however, for he replied: Il don't
was just making it up"
Before being committed to Gallinger
Hospital he told the inspector he de-
serted his wife, Mrs. Inez Williams
Moore, in Durham, N c.. about three
months ago. when he came to Washing
ton.
Unable to obtain employment, he
said, he started drinking about 10 DAYS
ago and continued until the time of his
arrest.
Maybe that's why I told you that
stuff" he added
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
BAND CONCERT is WON
BY WASHINGTON GROTTO
Parade of 1000 Members Of Asso-
citation Staged on Boardwalk
at Atlantic City.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., July IL
Two thousand members of the Middle
Atlantic Grotto Association paraded
the boardwalk this afternoon and
heard the plaudits of thousands.
Grottoes participating came from
Lynchburg, Va; Richmond, Washington,
Baltimore. Newark, Philadelphia, New
York, Pottstown, Pa, and several
points in New England.
drill contest was won by Al Time
Grotto, Atlantic City. Kallipolis Grot-
to, Washington, D. c., was second.
Kallipolis won the band concert.
Fem Fem, Jersey City. won the drum
and bugle contest with Samis second
and Kallipolis third.
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PARENTS RECEIVE CARD
MAILED 20 YEARS AGO
Little Girl Who Sent It While on
Vacation Has Now Grown
Up and Married.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW EGYPT, N. j., July Little
Jennie Robbins of White Horse, N. j..
went to visit relatives at Flushing, Long
Island, one Summer some 20 years ago,
and while there she sent her mother
and father, Mr.. and Mrs William F.
Robbins, a picture post card
Jennie Grew up and got married.
She is now Mrs. Harry Errion.
Her family moved here.
Today the card arrived in the mails.
a little dog-eared, but bearing still the
message of vaCationland:
Having a wonderful time. Wish you
were here"
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Film Play by Peter Kyne
And Good Acts at Earle.

THERE is more than the mere ca
l. pacity to make plots and NOV
ing scenes in the creative output of
Peter B. Kyne. His touch always
means a series of characters as diff
ferent as are those observed in a
living world. yet touching each other
in sucn a way as to produce a story
which passes beyond the screen and
becomes part of the observers ex-
peRience. He makes odd characters,
who speak their own language and
conduct themselves in their own
way. Yet all are linked as if des-
tined for the contacts that are made
in his tale of romantic interest. 1t
is this kind of play that is pre-
scented at the Earle Theater in
Never the Twain Shall Meet" It
is not the East and the West that
are pictured but. the mainland and
the island in the ocean; not the
study of the Orient through the eyes
of the Occident, but a singular at
tachment between the Caucasian
and the brown race. 1t is an i'm
possible alliance, which must end
when the story has run its course.
Mr.. Kyne may be credited with
the capacity which only occasionally
touches the output of stage and
screen-the ability to picture feminine
character in its individual and sin
gular types. 1t is possible to recall
one other writer who had the same
cap7city-Clyde Fitch, producer of
a fairly long list of plays. Mr.. Fitch
always entertained his admirers be-
cause, as it appears, the mimic world
demands outstanding feminine char
acters. One such role is provided in
this Kyne production at the Earle.
Conchita Montenegro, hailed as
screen find, is the fortunate choice
for the part of the young SOUTH Sea
woman who drags the heir to big
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
GUST a GigOlo,"
With Mr.. HaineS Not So Good.

THIS being the STEALING sea-
son in the film world, it seems
only right to report that In
4 William HaineS' new film,
Just a Gigolo''-currently
visible at the Palace-Mr. HaineS is
not the most important thing. First
honors go to c. Aubrey Smith. an
actor of the old school, who brlstles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

into the new
with a will. and
the second hon
ors go to a
handsome Upper
fashioned to
the back of mi
lady's afternoon
tea gown. Other
wise, this film
has less of the
slapstick to it
than most of
Mr.. H a i n e s.
screen manifes-
tations. 1t is
S o m e t i m e S
amusing, some
tim es libald,
and. but for a
foolish SOlilOuuy
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to cow, is easily dlgeSted, ana just
as easily forgotten.
Fashioned from the David Belasco .
opus, Dancing Partner" and incor-
porating into its screen soul two
actresses who were in the original
production, Irene Purcell and Char
lotte Granville, there is enough OF
the original flavor to bring occasional
bushes to maidenly cheeks and also
enough to bring roar from less
maidenly mouths. Miss Purcell, a
newcomer to motion picture ranks,
without possessing Al beauty, is a
personality well worth cultivating
and an actress whose ability along
vivacious lines is considerable. And
Miss Granville, doing some kind of
an "umpty- dumpty- daisy dance
with her gigolo, is a sight worth
coming from miles around to see.
The story is an indicate fable
concerning the amorous meanderings
of a rich nephew of rich lord, who
feels that he will never marry I'M
less he can find some lady whose
morals are without blemish. His
uncle insists that he has found his
lady par-eXcellence, while the
nephew swears that she is as give
in-ish" as all other JulietS. They
both hop to BiarritZ to put their va
rious theories to the test. Once ar
rived, Mr.. Haines (the gallivanting
Lothario) DISCUSSES himself as one of
those continental gigolos. whose life
is one round of stepping on other
peoples toes, and he INDUCES in a
series of misadventures and gets
final slap in the face, which has the
ultimate effect of disproving his
theory. thus gaining for himself a
delightful wife whose past has been
as white as the driven SHOWS.
The cast that has to do with all
this is excellent, although it seems
as if Mr.. Haines is less effective in
his part than the other and perfect
three-right here Haines worship
pers may, if they please, start throw
ing things.
The stage show is pleasant revue
entitled Exit Smiling" with Bert
Frohman as its guiding spirit. Other
items on the bill include a splendid
shore, "Fisherman's Paradise" COM
edies and news reels, all to be seen
and heard in a really icy setting.
E. de S. MELCHER.
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SHIP RELOCATING FAILS
Tug Sent to Aid Freighter Ground
ed Twice in Two Days.

PLYMOUTH, Mass, July II R)-
The British freighter Crandon, which
went aground twice in two days, failed
to pull clear of mudbank in Plymouth
Harbor at high tide tonight. A tug
was sent from Boston to make an at
tempt to pull her off on the next high
tide, tomorrow morning. The Crandon
grounded on the Peaked Hill Bars off
Provincetown in a fog yesterday morn
ing, but foated clear last night, only to
ground again on entering Plymouth
Harbor, her port of destination.
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Norma Gracious
Lionel Triumphant.

SEVERAL rather startling novel;
~ ties are discernible in "A Free
Soul" which is continuing its gay
career for another week at Loew's
Columbia. In the first place, patent
leather bandits, whose eyes fore
bode trouble to the weaker sex, mean
nothing more than orderly trips to
the altar. Shy, quiet, retiring young
polo players are quite capable of
shooting dead their rivals in love;
parents with a propensity for the
bottle may be "swell-elegant" lawyers
on the side; and Lionel Barrymore
may, and does, run OFF with a pic
ture in which Norma Shearer is
meant to be the indubitable queen.
Miss Shearexs 1t is said, was o
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TOXIC AVIATORS AGAIN
DETAINED BY RAIN
Robbins and Jones Postpone Flight
From Nome to Fairbanks.
Alaska.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NOME, Alaska, July 11.-Overcast
skies with rain today again caused Reg
l.. Robbins and H. S. Jones, Fort
to Fairbanks with the monoplane Fort
Worth in which they were forced to
abandon nonstop flight from Seattle
to Toxic near here Thursday.
The flyers plan to make another at
tempt to reach Toxic after returning
to the United States to install a more
powerful motor in their plane.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-29
MOVEMENT IN STATE TO STOP
SALE OF UNS0UND STOCKS
THOSE SELLING FRAUDU-
LENT STOCK TO BE HANDLED
Promoters Ordered Out of State by
Attorney General Satterthwaite
With "a Hours Timely Notice

Attorney General Satterthwaite
few days ago gave a crew of
stock promoters twenty-four hours
in which to leave Wilmington or be
prosecuted under the new statute
covering the sale of questionable
securities, law which was passed
by the last Legislature. Mr.. Sat
terthwaite is cooperating with the
Investors Protective Service of the
Chamber of Commerce in routing
from the State persons who are
selling alleged fraudulent stocks
and bonds. In the case handled by
the attorney generals Office a few
days ago, stock was being offered
in company that after mailing
prospectuses to residents of Della
ware, followed it with letters stat
ing that the company had paid $50
per cent in cash dividends and sue
cessive stock dividends of over 700
per cent. The Chamber Of Com
merce submitted that the state
ment was misleading and would
persuade the prospective investor
that the company today was in a
sound financial position and earn
ing dividends. From Standard
Corporation records it was pointed
out that the losses in the opera
tions of the particular company
were 18 cents a share for 1929;
Sill a share in 1928, and SAT- a
share in 1927. The company had
paid no dividends or showed no net
profits since 1926. In letters to
Wilmington people, promoters Of