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The Washington times., 1932-03-04
Anniversary
FlindsHoouer
Health Fine

A three-year term in "the hard
est job on earth not only has
failed to affect President Hoover's
health, but, physically, he is
actually thriving on it. His third
anniversary in the White House
today finds him in marvellous
health"
Weighing 200 pounds when he
took office, the President imme-
diately dropped to 1876, and the
continued regularity Of his exer-
else routine has hardened him to
a point where he is now two or
three pounds below that figure.
The Executives only exercise
is the brisk early-morning work
out he undertakes every day but
Sunday regardless of weather
conditions.
He and the little group now
known as his Medicine Ball Cabi-
net" assemble in the south grounds
every morning at z o'clock and
work out vigorously for half an
hour with a siX-pound medicine
ball.
Mr.. Hoover thrives on a small
amount of sleep. Although he
usually retires about II O'Clock,
he takes work or reading matter
to bed with him. He is up soon
after 6 o'clock.
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D. c. QUIZ ASKED
BY DOCTOR.

An appeal for an investigation
of the District Building, particu-
larly the office Of the Corpora
ton Counsel and the Health De-
partment, was lodged with the
House District Committee by DR..
James r. Armstrong, Of the
Montgomery Apartments.
In a letter to Mrs. Mary T.
Norton DO, of New Jersey, chair
man, DR.. Armstrong said he
wished to confer with her con-
cerning the nolle pressing Of a
case recently by the Corporation
Counsels office and the Health
Department. He did not disclose
the nature Of the case.
Armstrong said that before the
case was nolle pressed "convic-
ton was certain, which shows
that certain people appear to be
protected while others have to
suffer the consequences of their
acts"
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SICK PAY URGED
/. IN SCHOOLS

An appropriation to provide
sick leave for the public school
caretaker staff will be urged to-
day by school officials at a meet
ing of the Board of Education.
At present, these employees are
not granted sick leave with pay.
Following complaint of the Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees and
other unions, the problem has
been pending before the school
body for several months.
The cost of providing sick
leave for the 632 cuStodians for
a period between 10 and 80 days
year is being computed by the
finance office Of the school sys-
tenn.
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LUNG PRESSURE
I RELIEVED, N CT
RESTS EASILY
Another Pint of Pneumonia
Fluid Removed From
Gorilla by Doctors

His left lung again relieved
of pressure by removal of al
additional quantity of empy.
emic fluid, N'Gi is resting
easily in his cage at Nationa
Geological Park today.
DR.. John c. Eckhardt. child
specialist in daily attendance
upon the sick gorilla, gives the
little gorilla's keeper, Paul Holup
full credit for the major operation
performed last night.
Says DR.. Eckhardt:
'Tt was HoIup's idea origin
ally. He insisted late yesterday
afternoon that his pet was fast
dying and that unless some
thing was done within a few
hours It would be too late. He
suggested the x.rays. And the
operation to remove the empye-
mic fluid was the logical result"
Doctors at Operation
DR.. Charles Stanley White,
Washington surgeon, presided at
the emergency operating table set
up in N'Gi's cage last night. The
operation was witnessed by a
group of medical men, includ.
ing DR.. William Chase. DR.. How
ard L. Smith, DR.. w. e. Seymour,
DR.. H. A. Dennonwitz, DR.. David
e. Buckingham, and DR.. Eek
hardt.
1.-THE drainage tube was left in
NGi'S lung, and DR.. Chase, as
sisted by Drs. Eckhardt and Buck
ingham, again drained off a
quantity of fluid early today. The
operation viii be repeated at regu-
lar intervals during the day and
night until. the lungs show signs
Of irritation.
, Brighter and Happier
NGi was obviously better this
morning. He had emerged from
the Semi-coma in which he had
lain since Wednesday and seemed
Dr1gnCer ana happier Cnan ne mad
been for some time.
His attendants were optimistic
over his chances of recovery, feel
ing that now the pressure on his
lungs has been removed he will
be able to avail himself of the
advantages Of the oxygen therapy
chamber in which he was placed
when his illness developed serious
complications.
Same as Human Fluid
The fluid taken from N'Gi's
lung last night was turned over
to DR.. oscar P. Hunter, Wash
ington pathologist, who reported
today to DR.. Buckingham that
he had found an abundance of
pneumococcus germs identical
with those which produce pneu-
monia in human beings. The
fluid, except for a few technical
details, Is the same as that found
in a human body.
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HUSBAND HELL D
ON PEACE BOND

Convicted of threatening the
life of his wife, Elmer Hayes, 925
G st. N. w., today was ordered
by Police Court Judge John P.
Mcmahon to post a $500 peace
bond or serve so days in Jail.
Mrs. Laila Hayes, 2525 N st.
N. W., said her husband put her
and their two children out of the
house Wednesday night, while
clad only in their night clothes,
and refused to readmit them.
The next morning. when she
returned home after spending the
night at the home Of her brother,
she said Hayes threatened to kill
her. Hayes denied the threat,
but said he was angry because
he believed his wife was aSSo-
ciating with another man.
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Circle Club to Be
NUsOns' Group Host

The Circle Club Of the District
will entertain delegates to the
annual convention Of the Ma
tional League Of Masonic Clubs
here May lila.
The Advisory Board Of the Ma
sonic Clubs of the District, with
President D. D. Isbell presiding,
discussed details at a meeting
last night at the Hamilton Hotel.
A ball May IL will be conven-
ton feature.
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Concrete Men Inspect
Mt. Vernon Road

r. E. Toms, principal highway
engineer Of the Mt. Vernon Boule.
ward, told members Of the Amer.
lean Concrete Institute at Ward.
man Park, Hotel today that traffic
and aesthetic conditions had been
given first consideration in the de-
sign of that thoroughfare.
The Institute has been holding
it's twenty-eighth annual conven.
tion here, and will adjourn today,
after a sightseeing trip to Mt
Vernon. The next convention will
be held in Chicago. Charles Up
ham was chairman Of the local
convention committee.
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Cathedral Heights
Citizens VIII Meet

Cathedral H Ell g h S-Cleveland
Park Citizens Association will
meet Monday at 8 p. m. in the
auditorium of John Eaton School,
Thirty-fourth and Lowell Streets
Northwest. Fl. J. Smith viii
discuss the growth Of the tele-
phone industry, and legislation
pending in Congress will be dis
cussed.
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Gen. MiLIer's Home
Looted of ,TeUeZru

Thieves, who last night entered
the apartment Of Gen. Samuel
w. Miller, U.SA., at 1861 Crescent
Pl. N. w., and stole jewelry val
ued at $445 were the object of a
police search today.
Entrance was gained by use
of a duplicate key. Among the
tewelry is General Miller's West
Point class ring.
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u. d. C.. Women viii
Mark 20 GrGUes

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, March
4.-The graves of 20 Confederate
soldiers in Hardy county, sought
out by members of Winnie Davis
Chapter, United Daughters of the
onfederacy, will be marked with
marble. markers supplied by the
Government. Other graves of
soldier dead are in the county,
and the U. D. c. chapter has as
sumed the task of locating them
and the individual war records Of
the soldiers.
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G. w. Medical School
Has Another Blaze

Fire in a mop closet at the
George Washington University
Medical School, 1885 H st. N. w,
last night caused furry of excite
ment in the George Washington
University Hospital next door.
The fire did slight damage.
There was a similar blaze in the
same closet two months ago, the
cause Of both fires being unex-
planned,
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Le0therneck LOUe,
Theme of NeU Soma

my Sweetheart Is a Leather
neck" a fox trot composed by
Mrs. Rachel Cook Mahoney, wife
Of Lieut.. Michael Mahoney, U. S.
Marine Corps, will be sung for
the first time publicly tonight at
a dance to be given at the rec
reation hall at Quantico Marine
Barracks, Quantico, Va.
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Mrs. Lamont Sits
For Si01LL Portrait

Mrs. Robert P. Lamont, wife of
the Secretary of Commerce, had
her first sitting Thursday for her
portrait in the studio of Joseph
Sigall, at the Mayflower Hotel.
Mr.. Sigall recently completed a
portrait of President Hoover at
the White House.
The Washington times., 1932-03-04
Passion Play ShOIUn
In Pictures SlInd1u

The Oberammergau Passion
Play of 1880 will be presented in
pictures and description at st.
AuguStine's Auditorium, Fifteenth
Street between r and s Streets
Northwest, Sunday at 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-03-04
Sergt. Burdine May
UnderQO ODerntiOn

Sergt. Earl Burdine, of the
Montgomery county police, was
suddenly stricken with acute gas
tritiS today at the Silver Springs
police station, and was rushed to
Walter Reid Hospital at once for
probable operation, on the ad-
vice Of DR.. w. r. Haynes.
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BUILDING IN CLARENDON

A building permit was granted
Yesterday by Arlington county
authorities to T. e. Kraushoppe
for erection Of a dwelling on
Arlington Avenue, Clarendon.
Cost of the dwelling was placed
az 5000.
The Washington times., 1932-03-04
DIS0RDERLY, FINED S25

Charged with disorderly con.
duct. George Russell, colored, was
ordered to pay $25 and costs OF
serve 80 days in the Montgomery
county jail by Police Court Judge
Charles w. woodward in Rock
vile. .
The Washington times., 1932-03-04
Army and Flag Days
Get Fete CO-ODerntiOn

The U. s. and District Bicen-
tennial Commissions made plans
today for cooperation in the
Army Day april 16) and Flag
Day (Ju11e I'D programs.
The Washington times., 1932-03-04
True to Type
JIC-SAW IN THE HOME
AND A GOOD TIME
,. ON THE AIR
Rv GILBERT SELDES

T HOPE it is not true that all the American makers
of jigsaw puzzles inferior to the British, be-
cause at this crisis in foreign trade and foreign rea
tions we cannot afford to let major industry go into
the hands of our rivals Addics of the g-saw assure
The Washington times., 1932-03-04
MEET NEXT MONDAY

The Sixteenth Street Highlands
Citizens Association will meet at
Sixth Presbyterian Church, Mon
day, at 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-03-04

GLBERr sELDES which find any pleasure and the
reason is simple; to it is the single pastime which
actually absorbs attention. The anagram may excite
you temporarily the crossword may, and does irrtate;
but the cut-out puzzle makes it impossible for you to
think of anything else in the world while you doing
It. There fortunate people who get this effect of
complete absorption when they hear music, but most
music is unengrossng that the mind goes off into
hundred bypaths-a very good thing too for writers,
inventors, and business men, all of whom ought to go
to concerts in order to let their subconscous function
for them Reading books, after the first ten or ten
thousand is semi-automatic; you can read quite at
tentivey and follow totally different train of thought
at the time wouldn't try to do this with War and
Peace the works of D. H. Lawrence; but it can be
done with nine books of ten.
The igsaw puzzle is also attractive because although
it occupies the mind it requires not grain of in
tegence That to say the of matching pieces
of pywood depends instinct for form, and not
the burrows of the brain. Perhaps that is why the in
tellecuals taking it up; but it doesn't explain the
quite unreasonable triumph you experience when get
two pieces obviously intended to go together, actually
to go together. AS for the great moments when the
coocaton of half dozen pieces brings forth vacuum
into which shape which has perplexed you for hours
naturally fals-that is of the great moments OF
life and beginner should rest in silent awe be-
fore it and not try to explain it's mystery.
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Time on the Air

l wonder whether the editors of Time aren't with
natural pride in their offspring exaggerating the loss
radio of their departure from it. Their selecve
skill and the talent Of Donald Sauffer, who put the
March of Time the air. made that half hour notable
readers of Time have written to the magazine protest
ing vigorously against the "ppearance of the
ber but the publishers feel that they have done what
they set out to do-that is, make people of
the nature and quality 4 their weeky-and that they
are not obligated to ntinue at $4,000 so week,
the entertainment the world at large. They point
out to manufacturers of radio and to broadcasng sta
tons the number of protesting letters which assert that
their half hour goes the radio will follow-out OF the
window
The particular merit of this period that it was
made for broadcastng whereas with the exception of
reports almost all the good things on the air are
there because the broadcasters catch them:
speeches by important individuals concerts by good
orchestras, great events which would take place with
out the assistance of the microphone The people in
terested in the continuance Of radio industry
concentrating these events helping to arrange inter-
national hook-ups nveiglng great men, spending huge
sums, to make the radio important The rest of their
time they give to advertisers who being good business
men, put on what everyone else is putting at the
moment, crooners, dance orchestras as duologues.
isn't exactly true that the radio advertisers are CIV
ing good intelligent entertainment on the air. The best
things the sustaining hours during which sta
tons build up people who are still fresh still have
something novel to or do. Those which please
merclal minds are bought overland almost instantly
grow stale either because they had little except a
stunt to start with, or because hundred mitators
going down and dialogues are going UP, especially
comic ones. Thus the end and interocutor of the
old minstrel show, using the old minstrel show jokes
come into their own. Most of them are unbearable
No Relief
few years ago there was some satisfaction in Civ
ing the knob good swift turn Now when you are
bored offended by the pawky esting of radio
dians it is of little to search for another station
The alternative is music which has ceased to have
character, which repeats itself endlessly and which is
StH-n spite of resoundng protests-overloaded with
plugging Orchestral personality almost non existent
the air. unless the fast that band plays fast and
one slow can be called character. Furthermore, the
SOIi6 no n hon has o oil
the quarter hour little scrap of this and that is ali
that remains.
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me that the true lnterIocks, the
well-balanced color schemes, and the
amusing designs of the pieces, are
only to be found in the imported
puzzles; and my one experience with
the native product bears them out,
because nine-tenths of the puzzle is
all in one shade of dull brown and
four hundred of the five hundred
pieces have the same nasty little
hook which seems to fit everywhere
and fits nowhere. Nevertheless, like
a brave young patriot, / keep an
open mind. ....r
II lives Again
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1t Lives Again

Of all the revivals of parlor games,
the jig-saw puzzle is the only one in
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through winter and summer in the
fortunes they share. they are jolly
trio until disturbed by the advent of
young and disturbingly attractive
girl.
One of the lads. suffering from
enlargement of the heart, or some
other ailment, which afterwards
keeps him out of the draft, brings
into the happy household the ador-
able young lady. who has been
haunting theatrical agencies and
slowly starving to death.
The adorable one poses as the sis
ter of her benefactor, and every
thing runs smoothly until two of
the boys cast their lots with the
forces who are aiding to make the
world safe for democracy. Then
the young lady suddenly leaves for
parts unknown, carrying with her
the coffee can savings of her three
lovesick housemates.
The time shifts, but the scenes
do not. All three acts have the
same setting-the inside of the
Eighth Avenue snuggery. The boys
have come marching home again,
and it is Christmas Eve.
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Rye Waltz
Featured
at Lyric
Old Dance to Be Taught
Tuesday Night in
Ballroom.

The waltz has so rapidly jumped
into favor with local dancers that
Enroll MushruSh, manager of the
Lyric Ballroom, announces that he
has set aside Friday night for the
featuring of the Rye Waltz.
This step is, according to Mush-
rush, an old German dance which
was popular many years ago and
was generally danced to the tune
of Coming Through the Rye" from
which melody it received its name.
The Rye waltz will also be taught
on Tuesday night between 7:30 and
$3.50 in the ballroom without extra
charge.
Ladies continue to have their
inning on Wednesday nights when
they are admitted free to the ball
room. The Leap Year party on
Thursday night is treat for the
gentlemen. Ladies may bring their
boy friends without charge by pur-
chasing one lady's ticket to the
ballroom.
Hal Bailey and his Collegians
continue to supply the music in the
Lyric ballroom. This popular or
chestra is also featured over radio
station WF'BM every Wednesday
Saturday and Sunday nights be-
tween 1000 and 10:45.
They broadcast direct from the
ballroom and will play requests
when written in to the ballroom
management one day in advance.
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"ARROWSMITH" is
NOW AT THE PALACE

'ArroWsmith," the masterpiece of
Sinclair Lewis, the only American
novelist ever to win a Nobel prize,
came as a motion picture to the
Palace on Friday, in a production
by Samuel Goldwyn, with Ronald
Colman playing the title role of the
crusading young doctor.
Metropolitan critics have already
hailed "Arrowsmith" as one of the
most important pictures of the year,
and Sinclair Lewis himself, after
witnessing it's New York premiere,
acknowledged publicly that it had
succeeded in doing everything he
had tried to do in the book.
Helen Hayes, the stage star, who
recently triumphed in her first
screen appearance in THE Sin of
Madelon Claudet," plays opposite
Ronald Colman in the role of the
devoted wife who risks her life for
her husbands career.
Richard Bennett, the stormy pc
trel of the stage and father of Con-
stance, Joan and Barbara Bennett,
has major role as Sondelius, the
plague fighting Swede, and A. E.
Arson, an eminent stage figure
making his motion picture debut,
has another rich character role.
Myrna 10y, Florence Britton,
Claude King, Alec B. Francis take
important parts.
The story of "Arrowsmith'' is the
story of one mans devotion and am
bition in the battle of humanity
against the death-dealing plaques
which have always been the scourge
of mankind. 1t sweeps from the
mid-western countryside to a trop-
ical island in the West Indies,
where young DR.. Arrowsmith and
his colleagues go to battle against
the black death.
His relations with the little nurse
he marries as a struggling country
doctor, continuing throughout the
picture, weave a broad current of
romance through its scenes.
''Arrowsmith" as novel is &C
knowledged by most critics to be
the finest work of Sinclair Lewis,
its author.
John Ford, who has been one of
the best-known directors in motion
pictures ever since he did THE Iron
Horse" directed "Arrowsmith" for
Samuel Goldwyn. 1t was adapted
from the novel by Sidney Howard,
the famous dramatist and winner
of Pulitzer prize several years
ago with his They Knew What
They Wanted" as presented by the
New York Theater Guild.
A Mickey Mouse Cartoon, "The
Duck Hunt and the newest issue
of the Hearst Metrotone News
complete the program.
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Orchestra
Remains
on Roof
TiISon and His Band Will
Return Tuesday to
Ballroom.

McKinney's (OriginaD Victor Re-
cording Cotton Pickers will play the
second of a three nights engage
ment in the Indiana Roof ballroom
tonight.
The Cotton Pickers are to be sue
ceeded by Jack Tilson and his or
chestra, starting next Tuesday eve
ming on the roofs ladies night"
Tilson will return to the ballroom
with the same orchestra which he
featured there a few months ago.
Its nucleus is composed of a group of
musicians who played with him
during four years engagement at
the Indianapolis Athletic Club.
Among the men used to augment
the orchestra are Cuffy Morrison,
Reagan Carey, Kenny Knott and
Lou Thurman, four former Charlie
Davis men.
Dance instructions under the di-
rection Of JAG Broderick will be re-
sumed in the ballroom Monday eve
ming at $3.50. The fundamental prin-
cipleS of the waltz and fox trot will
be taught to beginners.
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Lowry
to Return
to Civic
Next Production Will Be
The Sacred Flame
by Vaughan.

Hale MacKeen's fifth production
at the Civic theater is to begin a
week from tonight. After two
highly successful light comedies, he
turns to serious drama with the
presentation of Somerset Maug-
hams THE Sacred Flame"
AS headliner in the cast, Judith
Lowry is to come from Chicago
where she played the mother role
while 1.-THE Sacred Flame" was run
ming at the Goodman theater there
MacKeen is to take an important
role himself, this being his first ap-
pearance as an actor at the Play
house.
In support of Mrs. Lowry there
VIII also be two other visiting play
ers while the remainder of the
company comprises three of the
pest known members of the resi-
dent company.
While this is the first in-the-f1esh
presentation Of THE Sacred Flame. y
the motion picture version was
SlloWn mere a year ago.
Mrs. Lowry as the mother is
called upon for the Interpretation
OF particularly delicate role. Hale
MacKeen as her crippled son, ap-
pears only in the first act, but in
Characterization which should
give Civic theater patrons a chance
to judge his histrionic talents in
this his first appearance.
The other two out-of-town play
ers are Ruth Hayes, a former mem
Der OF MacKeen's Nashville COM
pany as the leading woman. and
David Clarke, leading juvenile of
I'll Leave it to You," who remains
over for this engagement.
The cast is completed by Mary
Allen, Sherwood Blue and David
Mllligan of the regular company.