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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
CAPITAL IS COMBED
FOR BANK BANDITS
IL Detectives Are Assigned
to Find Four-Car Is
Recovered.

With virtually no clues to guide them
other than a description of the bandits,
Headquarters detectives were going
through the Capital in fine tooth-comb
fashion yesterday and early today as
they continued efforts to find the four
perpetrators of the $4,000 hold-up of
the washington Mechanics Saving
Bank branch at Ninth and East Capt.
toll streets Friday afternoon.
Inspector F. S. w. Burke, chief of
detectives, had assigned II picked men
to the case yesterday, and in addition
had called upon the commanding OFF,
GERS of all precincts in the city to keep
a sharp lookout for the four white men
who staged the daring daylight rob-
berry
Bandit Car Recovered.
The bandits car, which it developed
yesterday was the same one stolen from
salesman for the Blanton Motor Co.
Tuesday, was recovered some hours
after the robbery at Second and D
streets northeast, but microscopic ex-
animation of the machine failed to
yield any fingerprints which might aid
the investigators.
Sergt Fred Sandberg, fingerprint ex-
pert for the Metropolitan Police De-
partment, said he believed the men
either wore gloves or carefully removed
all such discriminating markings
The man-hunt yesterday took investi-
eating officers to dozens of hotels OF
the cheaper class and to rooming houses
in all sections of the city in search
of suspects. Patrolmen also were in
structed to visit lodging and rooming
houses in their precincts to make in
quiries as to whether men of the de-
scriptions given had stayed or were
staying in those places. All hotels were
under surveillance
The theory the bandits fed Wash
ington by train after deserving their
stolen machine near the Union Station
was considered by authorities, and word
flashed. to cities and towns all over
this section of the country to be on
the watch for the men
In the meantime, Washington police
were instructed to be on the alert for
automobiles containing three, four or
five men, especially If the machines
bear out-of-town license plates.
Special attention was given by police
yesterday to the guarding of banking
establishments of the Capital, partic-
ulariy those In the outlying sections.
Had Unusual Cash Amount
The branch bank had had more
than usual amount of ready cash on
hand at the time of Fridays hold-up
principally because it was the 18th OF
the month and a pay day for many
business houses and for the Govern
ment The bank was open until &
O'Clock that day.
The bandits made off with Slabs in
currency after forcing five employees OF
the bank and three customers to recline
face down on the floor of an ante.
room in the rear OF the establishment
| and admonishing them mot to move
for 10 minutes and you'll be all right
The gunner were armed with a ma
chine gun and three other weapons
! They smashed through a glass door tt
gain admission to the cages.
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.SnMSON TRIBUTE
PAID AL CLARKE
Dinner Follows Veteran Star
Reporters Announcement
of Retirement.

Secretary of State Stimson. speaking
last night at a dinner meeting of the
State Department Correspondents As
ISOLATION, paid tribute to the service
of a veteran reporter of The Star, Al
fred j. Clarke, who has just applied for
retirement.
Secretary Stimson, the only speaker
at the gathering, proposed toast in
honor of Mr.. Clarke, whose absence
from the meeting he had noted.
The gathering was attended by 81
newspaper men of Washington, who are
engaged in reporting news emanating
from the State Department, and 81
Ambassadors and Ministers from for
eign countries.
Veteran In Service.
Secretary Stimson, arising to make an
informal talk, said he had learned OF
the intention of Mr.. Clarke to retire
from active newspaper work and tina
he looked back upon a pleasant and
long personal association with The Stal
reporter, a veteran in service at the
State Department.
Mr.. Stimson recalled that of all the
correspondents now in service at the
State Department al" Clarke was the
only one he had known 20 years ego
when he was Secretary of War.
Mr. Clarke became associated with
The Star in 1893 following service on
the old Washington Critic, and has
spent most of the ensuing SO years at
the War and State Departments, where
he established many close friendships
with Government officials.
Foreign Diplomats There.
The meeting of the State Department
Correspondents Association was presio-
ed over by Harold J. T. Koran OF the
Washington Post. newly elected presi-
dent Of the body.
Foreign diplomats attending the
dinner include representatives OF the
governments of France, Japan, Poland.
Chile, Turkey, the Irish Free State:
Haiti and Canada. other guests OF
honor were Secretary Of War Hurley,
Assistant Secretary of State Castle.
Assistant Secretary of State Carr end
Michael J. McDermott. chief of the
press division of the State Department:
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after one of two convicts, who had es-
capped from the prison, attacked Mrs.
James O'Dowda, a school teacher, jan
uary 2.
This attack precipitated the first out
burst of public feeling, which came to
a climax in the abduction and Staying
of Kahahawai The attacker, Lul Kali
kapu. a native, who had been serving a
sentence for burglary, was soon caught
He admitted the attack and was re-
turned to prison for life.
The other escaped convict, Daniel
LYMAN. murderer, still is at large.
Under territorial law, Lane, who is ar
Hawaiian, could have been removed
from office, but his salary would have
continued until the legislature acteo
against him. With a special session OF
he law-making body near, Lane decided
to resign
Lanes administratio ct the prison
was featured by the mild treatment Ui
prisoners. The prison board found tha'
he had allowed murderers to become
TRUSTEES and drive trucks about the is
land and do other outside work.
In five years u convicts escaped from
the prison All but two of these wert
captured Oahu being an island, from
which escape is possible only by steamer
prisoners making their getaway from
the institution generally have sur
rendered after a few days OF freedom.
Montgomery VIM, defense attorney
conferred with Mrs. Fortescue and HI
! three other clients today and later an
nounced he would insist upon trla
as soon as Maj Fortescue could recove
from his illness in New York and com
! to Honolulu.
| The next scheduled meeting OF tn
grand Jury is next Thursday, but it ma,
convene earlier If the city and count,
attorney completes his investigation ant
/ is ready to present his case before then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, January 16.-Mrs
Edward T. Stotesbury, wife of the
Philadelphia banker, tonight issued q
statement concerning her recent cable
to Mrs. Granville Fortescue in Homo
lulu saying she was satisfied Ito en-
dure the personal notoriety' aroused
by her message if it would help her
friend.
Her statement said in part:
When 1 sent my old friend, Mrs
Granville Fortescue. private and per-
sonal message of sympathy in the ap-
palling tragedy which has overwhelmed
her and her family, 1 had no idea her
attorneys would make my message pub
lie They evidently believed this pub
LEFTY would be Of some benefit to her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

acting without authority, warrant or
command-behavior disgraceful to the
commonwealth which he represents
and to his comrades and officers of the
motor vehicle traffic patrol force.
The hysterical action OF State
officer in this case precipitated an in
cident for which the State owes an
apology to its visitors"
Gov. Pollard Immediately ordered an
investigation by the motor vehicle divi-
sion upon receiving the complaint from
the Washington newspapers, and the
inquiry Is now being made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
JUDGE HARVARD GRADUATE.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, January Is
R).-Judge Albert Moses Christy, who
will preside 'at the Massie-Fortescue
trial in Honolulu. is native OF Hudson,
Ohio, and son of Rev. Albert Cristy, a
former superintendent OF the Anti
Saloon League of Rhode Island.
He was graduated from Brown Uni
versity in 1909 and taught school at
Williston Academy, Massachusetts. for
two years. He was graduated from
Harvard Law School in 1914.
Judge Cristy was formerly secretary
OF the Hawaii Bar Association He was
appointed TO the Circuit Court in 1926.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.

TODAY.
Rehearsal, Rubinstein Club, Willard
Hotel, pm.
Tea, Gamma Phi Beta Alumnae Club,
1701 Holly street, pm.
FUTURE.
Luncheon. Special Gifts Unit, Com
munity Chest, Willard Hotel, tomorrow
l Pm.
Meeting, Monday Evening Club, Will
lard Hotel, 8 pm.
Luncheon. Alpha Delta Phi. Univer-
sity Club tomorrow, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. University of Michigan
University Club, tomorrow, 1880 pm.
Card party. benefit st. Teresa's
Catholic Church of Anacostia, l409
street southeast tomorrow, $50 pm.
Dinner meeting, Torch Club, Cosmos
Club. tomorrow, $50 pm. DR.. Charles
C. Clark, assistant chief. United States
Weather Bureau, speaker.
Meeting First Needlework Guild OF
Washington, 1929 K street, tomorrow
IL am.
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WINTER TO RETURN
TO EASTERN AREA
Cold Spells in Other Parts of
U. S. Ease-No Change
Here.

Winter is coming back to the East
after hardy thrusts at other sections OF
the United States.
Signs of Spring along the Atlantic
seaboard fled Saturday before rapidly
falling temperatures. Conditions i'm
proved elsewhere, except for food con-
ditions in the South and scattered
snowfall in the West.
The abrupt turn from high tempera-
lures was hailed at Lake Placid, N. Y,
where snow and ice Is needed for the
Winter Olympics. The weather man
limited at a chance for snow Sunday LII
New York City.
Planes Aid Indians.
Army airplanes were called into serv-
ice to carry food to hundreds OF Indians
snowbound in isolated settlements OF
the Navajo reservations in Northern
Arizona and Northwest New Mexico,
The Red Cross reported l,5O0 famllles
had been driven from their homes In
nine Mississippi counties flooded by the
Tallahatchie River. Others were III
peril as relief workers riSked their lives
to effect the rescue of the thousands
marooned There were minor nood
troubles or threats in Tennessee, OKLA
homa and Texas.
Los Angeles Milder.
Milder weather came to Los Angeles
and other Southern California points,
which had the first snowfall on record
Friday
1t was warmer in the Rocky Noun
tain region, but temperatures as low as
~ Ill g,.nfN lH n
Dakota and Is below in Minnesota.
A heavy snowstorm caused postpone
ment at Watertown S. Oak, of the in
augural flight of southbound airmall
service to Omaha, Nebr. The storm ex-
tended into Nebraska end Iowa.
Rain or snow was predicted at Chi
cago and other Midwest cities. In a
wide area around KnaSaS City high
ways and streets were ice-coated and
dangerous.
Capital to Stay Warm.
Increasingly high temperatures are
in store for Washington today ana TO-
morrow, despite an expected blanket OF
clouds, and the Weather Bureau ex-
poets no normal" January weather for
at least three days.
This was the announcement made by
the forecasters last night. who said they
could offer no hope for crisp Winter
cold.
With q maximum temperature yes
terday of so degrees in midafternoon
the day was marked by thermometer
readings of IS degrees above normal
for January Is at o'clock last night
and Is degrees above normal for am
Today the mercury will climb slightly
higher than yesterday, and tomorrow
! the peak will be even higher than to-
days expected maximum. While the
forecasters expect the sky to be over
cast today and tomorrow, they do not
look for rain on either day.
Lima, Peru. has ruled that there is a
sufficient number of omnibusses on its
streets. and no additional ones may
operate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

Committee Decides to Wait
on Richardson Before Or
dering Own Inquiry.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Before it does any investigating on
its own account, the Senate will wait
to see what Seth Richardson and his
Justice Department assistants find out
about crime in Hawaii.
The Senate ordered the department
headed by Attorney General Mitchell
to determine what caused recent out
breaks involving Americans there, and
Mitchell passed the task to Richardson,
an Assistant Attorney General.
There was still pending. however,
the Mcclellan resolution for Senate
inquiry into the situation in the islands,
but after hearing four cabinet officers
yesterday, the Territories Committee
decided there was no hurry about 1t.
Secretaries Adams, Hurley, Wilbur
and Attorney General Mitchell SAID. IN
effect, that they felt the Justice De-
partment could find out what was
wrong.
Oppose Separate Probe.
An informal poll of the committee after
the four had testified every effort was
being directed toward island law
changes to improve conditions showed
q majority against separate inquiry,
at least until the Attorney General has
reported on his departments study.
Chairman Bingham said the reSoiu-
ton proposing a separate inquiry would
remain before the committee until the
Justice Department investigation was
completed, and then it would be deter
mined II further study were needed.
The general opinion expressed by the
cabinet officers, Admiral William V.
Pratt, chief of naval operations, ana
Victor Houston, Hawaiian delegate,
was that changes in island law were
required. and that the four Americans
held for the Staying of a Hawaiian,
growing out of the attack on Mrs.
Thomas MaSsie. would obtain fair
trial in the island courts.
Senators complained vigorously
against the island law holding rape Is
not a capital offense and allowing vio-
lators BAIL and also the law requiring
corroborative testimony to convict.
Law to Be Corrected.
Houston said the Legislature, at the
coming special session, would be asked
to correct the law in those respects.
Secretary Wilbur said he had fun
confidence in Gov. Lawrence M. Judo,
who had informed him there had been
only one acquittal in rape case In
the last three years.
As Secretary of the Interior, he Is
responsible for the supervision OF
Hawaiian affairs.
Admiral Pratt said the department
had under Amusement a request from
commanders in Hawaii that participa-
ton IN coming feet maneuvers by naval
men stationed in Hawaii be shortened
80 that they may protect" their
families.
He said the Hawaiian attitude to-
vsfd women was different from ours"
and the Hawaiian boys" were not
entirely to blame in assault cases.
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PLANE RATES REDUCED
Ludington Cuts Round Trip to New
York From $50 to $3.50.

Winter passenger fare rates, repre-
senting reductions In price of from
5 to IS per cent. were put into effect
Yesterday on all branches Of the Lud-
ington Lines, flying between Washing
ton and New York and Washington
and Norfolk.
The round-trip rate between Wash
ington and New York was reduced from
$40 to $3.50, the one-way rate from
s13 to $40. New fares between Wash
ington and Philadelphia are 81 one
way and $13 round trip. The rates to
wilmington, Del, are the same as to
Philadelphia.
The Baltimore rate remains I'M
changed at 81, with no round-trip pro-
vision. Between Washington ano
Norfolk the one-way rate Is $40 and
the round trip sl8.
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Reelected by C. of G..

HAGERSTOWN, Md, January Is
(SpeciaD John B. Ferguson has been
reelected for the third consecutive term
as president of the Hagerstown Cham
Der OF Commerce. L. Vinton Hershey
was reelected vice president and Frank
L.. Bentz Secretary-treasurer for an
other year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
Sol Metzger Critically III.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., January Is
(P.-No change was reported today IN
the condition of Sol Metzger, former
foot ball coach and sports writer, who
is dangerously i'll at his Ventnor home.
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END OF CHURCH WORK
IN MEXICO PREDICTED

possible Soon, Declares Reviewer
In Vatican Newspaper.
BY the Associated Press. 90.
VATICAN CITY, January 16,-Os-
servatore Romano, the Vatican City
newspaper, said today that religious
assistance to the faithful in Mexico
soon will be impossible because Of the
acts OF the Mexican state
Today's article summed up series
on the situation in Mexico and said
OF conditions there: This is the WORT
of government which promised re-
ligious freedom, and even now boasts
that the agreement OF 1929 has been
applied in full"
The Mexican government. said the
newspaper, protects Protestant propa-
ganda, especially in the schools, and
asserts its motive is not to combat
religion, but to hinder fanaticism."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

Traffic delays in London are estimated
to cost the public about s125,O00, 900 a
year in gasoline time wasted and bust
ness DELAYS
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Wales Sees Rugby Game.

SWANSEA, England, January Is Up.
The Prince of Wales turned foot ball
fan today to watch Wales defeat Eng
land at rugby IL to 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

Lima, Peru, has ruled that there is
sufficient number of omnibusses on its
streets. and no additional ones may
operate.
The Washington times., 1932-11-25
When the Feature Is
Shown On the Screen

= COLUMBIA - George O'Brien
III "The Golden West" at 11:15
a. m, 100, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, sos
and $50 p. m.
EARLE-Joe E. Brown in "You
Said A Mouthful," at IL a. M,
1888, 1925, 7:17 and 1910 p. m.
Stage shows at 1880, 1924, 6:15
and 9:08 p. m. ~
FOX-Clara Bow in "Call Her
Savage" at 10:45 a. m, 1895,
4:25, 7:10 and 10 p. m. Stage
shows at 1875, 3:15, 6 and $50
p. m. a
PALACE-Marie Dressler in
prosperity" at 1880 a. M, 1888,
1886, 5:39, 7:42 and GAS p. m.
METROPOLITAN -Ric hard
Barthelmess in "Cabin in the
Cotton" at II a. M, 12:4O, $3.50,
4:20. sos, 1850 and $40 p. m.
.R-K-O KEITHS-Richard Dix
In ''The Conquerors" at IL a. m,
12:45. 2:sO, AIS. 5, 7:45 and
$3.50 p. m.
RIALTO-Pat O'Brien in "Air
Mail" at 1885 a. m, 1888, $40,
5:42, 7:45 and 9:49 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-11-25
Clara Hits Hard

It is a rough and tumble Clara
Bow you will see on the screen at
the Fox in her new picture, "Call
Her Savage" She plays a half.
breed Indian girl who will fight
at seconds notice and her Setto
with Thelma Todd is the last
word in hair pulling. These fem
mime scraps make me uneasy and
so I tender bow to Director
John Francis Dillon for just sug-
gesting the last and most devas-
tating Of the catch as catch can
fighting. --
Clara has beautiful eyes and her
figure has improved through los
ing 80 pounds and some Of it's
plumpnesS in a two years vaca-
ton. At the start Of "Call Her
Savage" Clara is distinctly self
conscious but when she. warns up
her acting is first class.
AS a result Of clicking in Call
Her Savage" Bow gets a new con.
tract which permits her to name
her director and cast as well as
pick her StoryF She turned down
$1,000 a week to join the Brown
and Henderson musical show and
tossed aside a $4,000 offer for one
week Of personal appearances
with her picture at the Roxy.
Tells any and all she can't act
before an audience.
The Washington times., 1932-11-25
Mum Disappoints

One of the strange things to
figure out is why Paul Mum in
I'm a Fugitive" did not do bet
ter business. No picture released
in 1882 received more critical &C.
claim. Yet washington is one Of
two cities in the United States
where it failed to get better than
normal trade. New York gave
I'm a Fugitive" $4,000 in its
first week at the Strand and the
feature will be held there for q
month.
Roxy announces he will not be
hamstrung by contracts compel
ling him to play pictures in his
new theater although they are
weak product. He can reject any
Hollywood feature which he feels
can't make the grade.
Under his former contract with
the original Roxy Theater he was
obliged to run IS Fox pictures in
the 50 weeks and this frequently
forced him to exhibit weak sis
ters in movie way. The top for
his new theater will be $50,
with the orchestra priced at IS
cents, 49,.
The Washington times., 1932-11-25
Richard BsrtheImess As a Cotton
Pickin Hero Of the South

tenant girl. In the end it irons
out as you like it.
Easy BartheImeSs
If Cabin in the Cotton" lacks
conviction it may be because the
suffering and oppression are
talked about and not visualized.
The mass meeting to clear up the
problems finds Actor Barthelmess
carrying his point by threats
which amount to open blackmai1
and with his chief opponent
yielding without much Of a Strug.
gle.
Dick Barthelmess never gets
excited enough about this role to
musS up his well Smoothed hair.
Bette Davis is the wealthy blonde
charmer and Dorothy Jordan the
girl in calico. Berton Churchill,
David Landau, Tully Marshall
and Dorothy Patterson have the
other important roles and serve
well.
Fatty Returns
CdGLy AEUuCk1G TGUuTu 10 b16
comedy screen is noted in a two
reel short, "Hey Pop It is a
sentimental tale of the orphan
and his protector, well daubed
with slapstickS and tried and
true gags including a brace of
wild chases. The Paramount
news reel offers some impressive
shorts of the English King at
the Armistice Day ceremonies.
ANDREW r. KELLEY.
The Washington times., 1932-11-25
Drama GuiIders Seen in The SquaI|'

night nervousness" were A.
Bethine Coe, who played Nubi, the
gypsy, and did her most by the
part; Hester Walker Beah; who
gave a fine account of herself as
the mother Of the house; Bernard
Barton, Maurice Jarvis, Anne Ives
and q number of others, all Of
whom acquitted themselves well.
Also lacking in any amateur
ishness" were the setting, a fine
piece of work, and the lighting,
which produced any number Of ef-
fects realistically. Dennis Con-
nell's directing hand is evident
throughout the play. =
The play will be repeated to-
night and tomorrow night.
The Washington times., 1932-11-25

The Drama Guild Of Washing
ton presented 'The SQuall" last
night as their first play Of the
season. A number Of socially
prominent attended the perform.
ance, given in Wardman Park
Theater. .
A finished and enjoyable pro
duction, with a realistic setting
and clever acting, was to be seen.
Laid in Spain, the story is Of the
havoc wrought by q gypsy girl
who enters a household and pro
ceeds to infatuate all Of its male
members.
Among the members Of the cast,
which lacked any apparent first
The Washington times., 1932-11-25
Music at No. 2400

I had music with my turkey
at Meridian Mansions yesterday
eve, and Peggy Clarke, the Maxim
Lowe pubhcist, explains why in
the following bulletin:
"Estelle I-unt Dean, popular
and well known soprano, will
be the first sOlOist to be heard
in the new series Of Sunday
evening concerts played by
Maxim loves Concert Orches-
ira from the Lounge Of 24OO
18th Street N. w.
Mrs. Dean will include i'm
her program o request number
Somewhere o Voice is Calling"
The other selections heard are:
'That Old Irish Mother O.
Mine;" Cant You Hear Me
Calling Caroline;" "a Dream"
by Bartlett, and the daisy song,
False Prophet"
These concerts are arranged
for the guests Of the hotel, but
the public is welcome to drop
in the lounge and enjoy them
also. The program "a 7 to 9 p.
M, Sunday, and on Tuesday
and Thursday $3.50 to $3.50.
The Washington times., 1932-11-25

Cabin In the Cotton" is the
story of conflict between the pr
white trash of the cotton picking
South and the grasping landlord
plantation owners.
It is Richard Barthelmess who
is caught in the middle Of this
bitter social strife and economic
war, with his solution as provided
by the picture on the Metropoli-
tan Theater screen, cooperative
contracts between rich and poor.
While the locale is set south