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Evening star., 1932-07-29
PENITENTIARY TRUSTY
PROVES TO BE GHOST
Joliet Mystery Cleared When Pris-
oner Singing to Keep Up
Courage Is Discovered.
b. the Associated Press.

JOLIET. Ill, July 29.-The prison
cemetery ghost" who was only singing
TO keep up his courage, has "piped
down"
In flesh and blood the ghost was re-
vealed Yesterday as William ChrySler
penitentiary tIusty, who holds nightly
vigil tending the pumps at a quarry
near the abandoned potters' field.
For three weeks crowds had gathered
on the lonely hilltop, whence a myS-
terious voice chanted hymns late at
night.
ChrysIer was surprised when the
warden ordered him TO quit haunting
the graveyard and do his singing our
ing daylight hours. The songs were in
spired by fright, he admitted, but they
were In Lithuanian, not in Latin, as
the ghost seekers believed.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

HOLLYWOOD. Calf, July 90
(NANAD y HOLLYWOOD movie magnates
are smilingly taking it on the chin dur
ing these Olympic days. Visiting the
studio sets is one of the expected
courtesics. AS an initial courtesy con-
tribution some 5000 visitors have been
subdivided into squads and shown
through the various lots of the colony
already.
1t has been estimated by producers
that loss occaSioned by set visitor
may run from 500 per minute to close
to 81 900, depending on the production,
temperament of the players and direc-
tor and so on.
That there is an appreCiable loss OF
time with each arrival Of an individual
foreign to the company. cannot be de-
MED With visitors 1ocking in dro"es
through the studioS-loss on picture
making during the first half of August
will be heavy. Certain sets are chosen
as show places and an attempt is made
to have visitors halt proceedings as
little as possible.
One of the prize performances of the
coming year will be that of Jack Barry
more as the deyilmay-csre young
princeling of Reunion in Vienna'oa
part ideally suited to his comedy talents.
Diana Wynyard whom I saw this Win
ter in the New York production of The
Devil Passes is not only lovely in that
British blonde way but an excellent
actress. lionel Barrymore will have a
part in it also.
Unheralded by even the smallest line
in local papers, Roscoe Fatty" Arbuckle
resumed his picture activities by accept
i'll Brooklyn studios as part of test to
see whether or not the one time famous
comedian has retained his technique.
Once a great playboy of this village,
Arbuckle was so busy that he sent an
emisSary to Los Angeles to choose a
S25,000 ring for then fiancee. The
friend" found a swell ring for $4,000
Evening star., 1932-07-29
WINNERS SELECTED
BY WALTHER LEAGUE
California Girl Gets Scholarship for
First in 0ratory-Colorado En-
try Takes Short Story Prize.
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July 29.-Thelma
Kruschke of Berkeley. Calf, who rep
resented the Northern California dis
trict in the International Walther
League oratoTical finals, was announced
as winner of the contest yesterday at
the close Of the organizations fortieth
international convention.
Miss Kruschke. victorious over IS
competitors, won a scholarship in VAL
paraiso University, Indiana
The Short-Story contest was won by
Miss Theila Groh of Wheatridge, Colo,
a resident of the leagues sanitarium
there.
The convention closed officially with
Rev. H. H. Feiertag OF Wheatridge an
nouncing an extensive building program
at the sanitarium, report by W. F.
Weiherman of Chicago or Recreation
Committee activities and an address by
Edwin Meese, jr, of Oakland. Calf
Many of the delegates intend to re-
main for the Olympic games.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
HOLLYWOOD i'm Person
Olympic Visitors Cost Movie Mdgnates Enormous
amount in Delaying Pictmes-Loss by INTERRUPT
ton Runs as High as 81 900 Minute.

and pocketed the ten grand as an un-
official commission. He late~ told the
story as a good joke on old Fatty
Arbuckle's past is punCtuated with the
type of luxurious old-time Hollywood
naively enjoyed. Super-cars painted in
superlative Colors. jazz parties. plenty
of noise and the money rolling in. His
various comeback attempts have in
cluded vaudeville in Paris where he was
Missed off the stage: in London. where
he was booed to death, and a show in
his home town. Hollywood. which died
on its feet. Through his ups and
downs. Lew Cody has been his stanch
friend.
Jean Harlow is being built up as the
super-SeX attraction at M-G-M. But
cOincidental with the announcement
that she would next make "Congai'' -
one of the things that makes P. T. A.
shudder and protests come rolling in
is a publicity campaign revealing the
platinum one in the arms Of her new
husband In the old days an actress Of
this type would not be allowed TO admit
she was married-to say nothing of
publiciZing her marital happiness.
Theda Bara at her height, received
reporters in a dim-lit room with incense
burning, reclining on leopard couch
and murmuming vague neuroticisms.
"She fell short of serving tigers blood
in gold cups" said the old-time re-
porter who told me this. but all the
rest of the Oriental fourth -dimensional
hokum was there
Finishing strange Interlude" just
about finished Director Bob Leonard
/ who is arbitrarily taking a rest, al
though he has four weeks more at his
studio and plenty of time tin the minds
of producers) to make another picture
before leaving. Cinema Director Leon
ard thought he'd 60 home and take a
rest. He'll start Job hunting again
after that-pcrhaps on another lot
/ Leonard has directed many of the
movie great including Marion Davies.
/ copyright, 1882. by North American News
/ paper Alliance. IncD
Evening star., 1932-07-29
HENRY FORD HOLDS
|. DRY LAWS TO STAY
IndustriaIist Believes Prohi-
bitiOn viii Be Neither Re-
.peaIed Nor Modified.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, July 29-Henry Ford
reaffirms in this weeks issue of Col
liers his belief in the efficacy of pro-
hibition and his doubt it will be modi-
fed or repealed.
Il know from daily observation for
over 40 years" he says at one point,
that there is not l per cent of the
drinking done in the United States that
was done formerly"
At the same time the Detroit motor
magnate admits the necessity for "a
renewed campaign for temperance" but
warns that every temperance campaign
in the last hundred years has issued
in a demand for prohibition"
Sees L. S. Advantage.
"If efforts succeed in again making
prohibition a big. inSistent national
question" he predicts in reference to
the wet movement, then we shall see
a hundred years of national conscience
rolled into one indignant act that shall
SllenCe the QueSllOll lOl oil U!lIC-
The campaign against liquor is world
wide in scope, he says, and the United
States has the advantage that the law
is on the side of sobriety and not on
the side of liquor
Ford was emphatic in his belief that
liquor and gasoline do not go together"
and that drinking has no place in the
machine age.
Il have never known drinking man,
even moderate one-n there is such
thing-who has stood the test of crisis,
he continues - No one wants any
drinking man to be at the mercy of
machinery, and no one wants to be at
the mercy Of any machine in the hands
of a drinking man.
Cites Conversations.
The question was narrowed down to
the automobile manufacturers own
home with the statement that here in
Detroit, for example, many of our really
best people are for prohibition-many
more, 1 may say. than two years ago"
He illustrated his stand by citing sew
eral instances of conversation with
friends. This was the most striking:
Il told a famous writer, who had
criticized me and said he would have
bought a Ford station wagon If l had
not insisted on Sobriety in our factories.
that when I saw him willing to intrust
his wife and children to a drinking
chauffeur I might consider trusting our
works to drinking staff
Evening star., 1932-07-29
Rockville Police
Feed 20 FOOtsOre
Bonus Refugees
Hikers From Washing
ton Get Spread in Court
House in Early Hour.

The long road home won't be rough
one. after all, if Rockville's reception
of 20 bonus marchers is criterion
for the rest of the country.
A footsore, weary remnant OF the
scattered army arrived in Rockville
about 2 am. today after hiking from
Washington.
The men were hungry. thirsty and
almost exhausted. Their plight was
described to Police Chief Alvie A. Mox-
ley by the officer on duty, and Moxley
ordered the jail keeper TO prepare a
meal.
Smoking hot dogs. coffee and sand
wiches were soon prepared for the vls-
itors, who were served in the corridors
of the court house
The men rested on the lawn for a
time and then resumed their westward
Journey.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
KENSINGTON PLAYGROUND
TENNIS COURT APPROVED
Planning Commission Authorizes
Second Layout to Relieve
Congestion.
BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.


SILVER SPRING, Md, July 29-
The construction of a second tennis
court on the playground at Kensing-
ton was authorized by the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission yesterday and work was
to begin today under the direction of
Irving C. Root, engineer for the COM
mission.
Construction of the second court was
urged by womens clubs of Kensingtcn
because of the congested condition of
the present court at the playground
permit for the construction Of a
filling station at Thirty-third street and
Rhode Island avenue. Mount Rainier,
in Prince Georges County. was ap-
proved. while the commission also gave
its approval to final plans submitted
for the development of section l of the
Westmoreland Hills subdivision on
oVaDna eYtpn6e6
Evening star., 1932-07-29
MORRIS BEN DIES
IN TAKOMA PARK
Former Official of Bureau of
Reclamation Once Headed
National Engineers Group.

Morris Bien, 73, former legal counsel
and assistant commissioner of the
United States Bureau of Reclamation.
died yesterday at his home, so Elm
street, Takoma Park, Md, after a
brief illness
A native of New York, he moved to
California when a child and was edu-
Gated in the California schools and
the University of California. In 1879
Mr.. Bien joined the Hayden Survey,
an organization later absorbed by the
United States Geological Survey, and
in 1895 he took charge in the Cen
eral Land Office, of rights of way over
public lands and irrigation matters.
Studied Law Here.
He began the study of law after
his arrival in Washington and grad
uated from Columbian University, now
George Washington University. in 1895
and from National University with his
masters degree the following year
With the organization of the Rec
lamation Service in 1902, Mr.. Bien be-
came it's legal counsel and later
assistant director and assistant COM
missioner.
Mr.. Bien represented the Interior De-
nartment on the Interdepartmental
Board of Contracts and Adjustments
Retiring from the Federal service in
1924, Mr.. Bien for a time practiced
law in Washington.
Active in Many Groups.
He was a charter member of the
National Geographic Society and the
University Club and member of the
Cosmos Club the Washington Society
of Engineers and the American Asso-
citation of Engineers, having served as
president of the latter.
Except for a short period, he made
his home in Takoma Park Md. from
1888 until his death, and served as a
member of the Town Council while
they were installing their first sewer
and water system.
He is survived by his widow, Lila
Virginia Hart Bien; by his daughter
Miss Corabel Bien, and son, v. T. H
9ien. all of Takoma Park.
Interment will be at Washington Me-
mortal Park.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
LIMA BASQUETTE
SWALLOWS POISON
Note Found Believed Ad-
dressed to Jack Dempsey.
Actress Critically III.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. July 29-Lira Bas-
quette, 25-year-old actress, swallowed
poison today a few hours after she
announced her engagement to Teddy
Hayes, former trainer of Jack Demp-
sey, to stife rumors she might marry
the former world heavyweight cham
pion.
Beside the actress when police found
her in her apartment writhing in agony
was a note addressed to Jack" 1t
read:
Il love you. Only you. I couldn't
help it. 1 couldn't go on without
you"
Physicians said her condition was
critical
The twice married actress took a
caustic poison after spending the eve
ming with Hayes. She had been so de-
Spondent, Hayes said. that after leav-
ing her at 1870 o'clock he telephoned
her when he reached home.
Tells Hayes of Poisoning.
"Are you all right?" Hayes said he
asked
Sure I'm all right" he quoted Miss
Basquette as replying. I have just
taken poison"
He said he rushed to the apartment
and was so busy giving first aid treat
ment he couldn't open the door TO let
police in.
The police came in answer to an
anonymous telephone call that Wom-
an had taken poison. They broke IN
the door of the Hollywood apartment
and found Miss Basquette writhing in
agony on the divan.
She was taken to the police emer-
eencv hospital, where first aid treat
ment was administered before she re.
turned to her home under the care OF
her private physician. Police said it
might be several days before she would
be out of danger.
Police said an empty bottle was 1ound
on the bathroom floor
Miss Basquette attempted suicide once
before. That was in 1880 after an un-
successful effort to obtain custody of
her child from Harry Warner, brother
of her former husband, Sam Warner.
Married Cameraman.
Following the death of Sam Warner,
film producer, Miss BaSquette married
Peverell Marley, Cameraman. Divorce
ended that union.
Hayes, 10 whom she had announced
/ her engagement, had been at odds with
! Dempsey. Hayes and Dempsey eX-
I changed words when the former reput-
| edly accused the ex-champion of having
| stolen" Miss Basquette from him.
| OF late the actress and dancer had
been much in company with Dempsey,
who had announced he would star her
| in his Reno, New. night club. A few
days ago they returned from brief
vaudeville tour together, during which
Miss Basquette was injured in a fall
into the orchestra pit of an Oakland
theater.
At the age of Is she was premiere
danseuse Of Ziegfcld's FollieS She
attracted the attention of Cecil B. De
Mile, film director, who starred her in
THE Goddess Girl"
Miss Basquette is the daughter of
Mrs Ernest Belcher, whose husband is
noted Hollywood ballet master.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
MISSISSIPPI GETS
SALES TAX RESULTS
Levy Put Into Operation May
Has Brought $31S,776 Into
State Treasury.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss, July 29.-Mis-
Sissippis sales tax, created as the cor
ner stone of a revenue program to boil
ster rapidly shrinking incomes from
other State levies. is fast developing
into the revenue raiser it was designed
to be-
Put in operation May 1, the levy has
brought $318,776 into the State treas
ury.
Originally estimated to yield $685.
600 month, the levy already has ex-
ceeded that during the first two
months.
The levy carries a fiat per cent on
merchandise sold by retailers. This
provision, reaching approximately IT,
900 merchants, contributes the largest
portion of revenue from the tax.
In addition, per cent levy is i'm
posed on incomes of professional mer
and the rate graduates down to one
fourth OF l per cent for certain clas-
siflcationS of manufacturers.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
Grocer Cuts $1,000
In Debts Off Books
And Thinks 1t Pays
Patrons Flock to Store for
Receipts and Many
Buy Goods.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RACINE, Wis July 29,-The cash
register is tinkling in the grocery of
Mike Brusha, a melody not heard very
often in the little store Of late.
Brusha is back on a cash basis, and
the money is coming in because yester
dav he assured the community he isn't
expecting to be paid for $1,000 written
down in his ledgers. In a newspaper
advertisement he announced:
ANY one owing us for groceries
please bring in the bill and we will
mark it paid. We will appreciate the
continuance of your patronage on a
cash basis"
The line of old customers reached all
the way from his Office in the rear to
the pickle jar. Last night before he
closed the beaming grocer had written
off hundreds of dollars in small ac-
counts. Grateful patrons thanked him
and most of them stayed to buy some-
thing for cash.
"This cancellation Of debts isn't char
itv." he said. II think it's a rather
slick scheme to get some business"
Evening star., 1932-07-29
AIR PARTY ABANDONS
HUNT FOR ALASKAN GOLD
Members of Expedition That Took
Five Planes Into Yukon Area
Bares Decision to Disband.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JUNEAU. Alaska, July pa mem
Der of the Detroit expedition which
few north in five airplanes two months
ago to prospect in the Lard district
of the Southern Yukon Territory re-
turned here yesterday and said the
party was disbanding, after abandoning
all prospecting activities.
c. O. Butcher, Detroit contractor
reported the partys breaking up. say
ing that no promising gold prospects
had been found. The expedition was
headed by Thomas M Mitchell
The report of Harry Townsend, an
Alaskan mining engineer. was unfavor-
able to continuing prospecting, Butcher
added and the party's eouipma 1t will
be disposed of within short TIM.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
BARKLEY GIVES FULL
SUPPORT TO REPEAL
Incredible That Any One Should
Question Party Loyalty, Says
Kentucky Senator.
Rv the Associated Press.

LOUISVILLE, KY, July 29-The
statement that he would support the
Democratic platform from beginning to
end without reservation or equiVoca-
ton, was made here yesterday by
United States Senator Alben w Bark
,ey in a telegram thanking G Lucien
Drury of Morganfield for Withdrawing
from the Democratic primary and sup
porting him.
The question Of whether Barkley,
long an advocate of national prohi-
btion laws, would support the repeal
plank of the Democratic National Con-
vention was raised by former United
States Senator George B. Martin, one
of those seeking the Democratic nomi-
nation in the August primary.
Barkley wired Drury it was "lncred-
ible" that any one should question
whether he would support the party
platform. Drury had expressed con-
fidence he would Senator Barkley was
temporary chairman of the Democratic
National Convention.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
IN JAIL AT TIME, SAYS
FLEISHER IN MURDERS
Detroit Defendant, Who Figured in
Lindbergh Case, Offers Alibi
as Trial Nears.
BY the Associated Press.

DS lllC hSSOCAdLeQ PreSS.
DETROIT. July 29.-Harry Fleisher,
whose trial is set for Monday on a
charge of murder. will base his defense
upon claim that he was a prisoner
in the Reading, Pa, Jail September
l6, 1881, when three gangssers were
shot to death in a Detroit apartment
house.
Notice of the alibi was filed in
Recorders Court yesterday. Fleisher,
once widely sought for questioning in
the Lindbergh kidnapping case, is &C
cused specifically of the murder of
Izzy Sutker, one of the slain hoodlumS.
Threa other men are serving life
terms for the triple Staying. on testi-
mony Of Solly Levine. who claimed
he accompanied the three victims to
the apartment where they were killed.
He named Fleisher as a member of
the four-man execution squad, but
when Fleisher's case first was called
for trial last Monday the prosecution
said he could not be found.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
COMPLETED R. F. C. j.
SPEEDS UP WORK
Selection of c. A. Miller,
Utica Banker, Fills
Final Vacancy.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Its reorganization completed with the
selection of Charles A. Miller OF Utica,
N. Y, as the last director. the $780,
0000eO Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration plunged ahead today with It's
relief program.
Announcement Of new loans, pending
completion of the directorate. was be-
lieved imminent. Illinois has already
gotten s3,00O,0O0 from the 100000 900
fund for relief advances to States, and
numerous applications are pending.
Miller, a Republican banker and
lawyer who has been regional commit
tee chairman for the Reconstruction
Corporation in the second Federal Re-
serve district, including New York, will
be elected president of the relief agen-
cy. An Ohio Democrat, Atlee Pom
creme, is scheduled to be chairman.
The announcement of Miller's ap-
pOintment was made after all directors
Of the corporation but Jesse H. Jones
of Houston had conferred with Mr..
Hoover. They said nothing about
Pomerene's election as chairman ex-
cept that it had not yet taken place.
Filling the vacancy left by the re-
tirement of Charles G. Dawes as cor
poration president. Miller is head of a
Utica Savings Bank, is a graduate of
Harvard and was elected president of
the New York State Bankers ASSocia-
tion in 1909. His appointment still
leaves Democrats with a nominal ma
jority on the relief agency's directorate
-four members to the Republicans
three.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
SHIP OFFICER ENDS LIFE
FOLLOWING REPRIMAND
Assistant Purser on Liner Presi-
dent Coolidge, 20, Sends
Bullet Into Head.

BY the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY, N j. July 2s.-Rep-
rimanded by a superior officer Tor
drinking. authorities said, Assistant
Purser Charles A. Golf fired a bullet
into his head aboard the Dollar liner
President Coolidge last night and died
an hour later in a hospital
GofT's parents were said to live in
San Francisco. He was % years old.
There were no passengers on board
at the time of the shooting, inasmuch
as the boat had docked early yesterday
morning.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
MAY NAME PROF. DANIELS

Western Rail Lines Reported Plan
ming to Hire Commissioner.
NEW YORK. July % lP'.-1t was
reported in railroad circles today that
winthrop NJ. Daniels, professor Of trans
portation at Yale University, and
former Interstate Commerce commits
sioner. would be offered the position
Of commissioner over the western rail-
roads.
Oficials of Western roads declined TO
afirm or deny the report, pointing out
the committee of presidents empowered
TO select a commissioner had hardly
Sagun TO function. The duties OF the
commissioner would be 10 eliminate
costly and meconomic competition
among the carriers.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
SOUTHEAST FIGHTS
HIGHER FREIGHT RATES
Protest to I. c. C. Points Out Heavy
Shipping of Cotton Goods and
Other Commodities.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. July ga protest against
the interstate Commerce Commission's S
recommendation to establish freight
rates from South to Southwest higher
than from the Northern territory was
made yesterday by the SOUTHEASTERN
Association of Railroad andt Utility
Commissions.
In session here. the Southeastern
association appointed a committee to
appear before the Interstate Commits
sion and object to the proposed rates.
1t was pointed out large shipments of
furniture, stoves, cotton goods, stone
iron and steel are made by Southeastern
States and that the increase in rates
would be unfair to this section.
w. c. Womb!e of North Carolina was
among those present.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
LYNCH TRIAL NEAR END
Six Accused of Staying Colored
Man Await Jury Verdict.

IRONTON, Ohio, July 90 (P).-Clos-
ing arguments were made yesterday in
the second degree murder trial of six
white men accused of lynching Lake
Murray Atlanta, Ga, colored chauffeur,
and the case was expected to go to the
Jury later in the day.
Prosecutor Lee d. Andrews asserted
the six defendants banded together for
mob violence and were responsible for
the death of Murray. A body identified
as Murray'S was found in the Ohio
River after he had been removed from
the South Point, Ohio, Jail.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
EXPERT LAUDS STABILITY
OF INSURANCE BUSINESS
New York Financial Critic Finds
Hope in Way Companies Have
Steered Through Depression.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, July 29.-Alfred
NJ Best, New York financial critic, yes
terday praised the stability of the insur-
ance business during the depression as
"one of the most remarkable and en-
couraging features in Americas eco
nomic history"
Practically all CT the companies are
still in business and are still paying
beneficiaries as usual" Best said. In
surance companies have had no easy
time. All have had their troubles and
many of them, but so far they have
overcome such obstacles and the public
is beginning to appreciate that fact"