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Evening star., 1932-03-02
MANAGER CANCELS PLAY
BECAUSE OF CHILDREN
"Bridal Wise" Not to Come to Cap
ital-Two Juvenile Actors
Required for Cast.

The actors, stage hands, musicians
and house staff involved in the sched-
uled production of Bridal Wise" at the
National Theater next week will be add
ed to the ranks of the unemployed
temporarily because of the District of
Columbia child labor law forbidding the
appearance of minors on the stage, ac-
cording to an announcement made to-
day by S. E. Cochran, manager Of the
theater.
After viewing the production at the
Majestic Theater in Brooklyn last night
Manager Cochran Cancelled his booking
of the play, which was to bring Madge
Kennedy here March Z. The cast in
cludes two children under the legal age
prescribed by District law, Cochran said
This fact not only will throw out Of
work the actors and theater staff. he
said, but will keep the theater dark for
the second consecutive week.
bill liberalizing the restrictions on
appearance of juveniles on the stage
hers is new pending in the Senate.
Evening star., 1932-03-02
HAM|L TON HOTEL
SOLDFOR S529,O))
D. c. Supreme Court Refuses
to Approve Petition to
Halt Auction.

The Hamilton Hotel, northeast cor
ner of Fourteenth and K streets, was
sold at auction yesterday shortly after
Justice Daniel w. ODonoghue of Dis
trict Supreme Court declined to ap-
prove petition of opposing financial
interests seeking to halt the sale.
The property was bid in by A. A. La
porte, representing the Hamilton Hotel
Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
which, 1t is said, is controlled by the
George E. Roosevelt Committee, formed
to protect interests of certain bond
holders on the property. This commit
tee, it is said, represents 80 per cent of
the first mortgage bondholders.
Bid Is s529,OOO.
The successful bid, made in competi-
ton at the sale, was $529,000. The cur
rent assessed valuation placed on the
property for taxation purposes is ST.
100000 for land and building.
The petition seeking to halt the sale
was taken to District Supreme Court
by w. Gwynn Gardiner, ST., Washing
Ton attorney, representing a bond in
terest In the property. Mr.. Gardiner
stated today he planned to prepare q
petition to the District Court of Ap-
peals seeking a special appeal from the
ruling of Justice O'Donoghue.
The sale, conducted by Vernon G.
Owen, brought an opening bid of $780,
OOO from Mr.. Laporte. James ODon-
nell of this city also engaged in the
bidding
Financed by Smith Co.
The Hamilton Hotel, History Struc-
ture, was one of those financed by the
+. H. Smith Co. and the failure of the
concern operating the property was the
formal incident leading to prosecution
OF officers of the Smith concern.
In 1929 the Smith company adver-
tlSed a bond issue totaling $1,55O0OO
on the property. At that time the COM
pahy reported the property had a total
appraised value, less depreciation, as of
April 1927, amounting to $3,O15,470.
Evening star., 1932-03-02
TWO HELD TO JURY
IN THEFT OF LIQUOR
Pair Accused of Taking $500
Worth of Pre-War Stock From
Realty Mans Home.

Two men. who are charged with
taking approximately $500 worth OF
pre-war liquor from the residence Of
Horace H. Wescott, real estate broker,
at 1910 Sixteenth street, were bound
over to the grand jury under 81, 500
bond each by Judge John P. Mcmahon
in Police Court yesterday.
Benito Castillo, Westcott's chauffeur,
and James Joseph Mangan are ac-
cused of having taken the liquor, which
included rare brands of whiskies and
wines, from a closet at the home Feb
ruary 10. They pleaded not guilty to
the charge of grand larceny.
Police said they found part OF the
liquor in Mangan's apartment, near
Fourteenth and r streets. They de-
clared he told them it had been
brought there by Castillo
Castillo, however, police said. told
them he and Mangan hauled the IL
quor away in Mangans car. The men
were held for the grand jury over the
strenuous objection of defense attor-
neys, who claimed the liquor had not
been sufficiently identified.
The loot included quantity OF
champagne, some Irish whisky, Ba-
cardi rum, chartreuse and other bev-
erages. There was also wine made
from grape bricks.
Evening star., 1932-03-02

NJ c. Hanks has developed the re-
tentive power of his memory because
the most beautiful sight he ever saw
was also the last sight he ever saw-a
grand panorama Of the Rocky Noun
tains and the American desert In the
rising sun.
The mental picture Is as clear now,
Hanks said yesterday, as the visual
picture when, at the age of 81, it was
obliterated in one binding flash which
had an aftermath of darkness.
Hanks remembers, with a smile of
pleasure. the sun like "a ball Of gold
warming the towering cliffs of the
Wasatch range in Utah and the vast
expanse Of desert rolling in to the base
of the mountains.
That image, he said, helped him re-
construct a useful life from the wreck
age wrought by box of 100 percussion
caps for dynamite which exploded In
his hands and blinded him.
Message of Optimism.
Hanks, whose grandfather was a
cousin of Mrs. Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
mother of Abraham Lincoln, has become
a lecturer, writer and philosopher,
whose message of optimism has been
heard in countless school and college
class rooms over the country.
He began the long and tedious prepa-
ration for this task when he was dis
charged, six months after the accident,
from the Provo, Utah, General Hospital,
permanently blind. further manned by
the loss of both hands, and penniless.
Hanks was abe to summon enough
courage, he told an interviewer here
yesterday, to see him through conva-
lescence, but he never saw the light
until he talked to an Easterner then
lecturing in the little Utah city-Byron
W. King of Kings School of Oratory, at
Pittsburgh.
Hanks, who Is stopping between lee
lures to visit sister, Mrs. Eunice Culli-
more, at 1922 B street southeast, said he
listened to Kings lecture on Eyes That
See Not-Ears That Hear Not"
The manned youth, broken and al
most hopeless, heard King say there
was useful work in the world for every
man and woman, no matter what their
condition.
II asked him." Hanks said, what use
there might be for a blind and penni-
less cripple. And he told me how
Homer, the blind poet, composed great
poetry walking the shores Of the Medi-
terranean.
He advised me to develop my mem
ory and to seek knowledge. This I
have done to the best Of my ability"
And Hanks, it would seem, has done
Evening star., 1932-03-02
LEFT ON MEMORY
WHEN EXPLOSION BLINDS MAN
Capital Visitor, Whose Grandfather Was
Cousin of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, AL
ways Sees bright Side.

lust that. For seven years Hanks fol-
lowed King about the country, learning
and studying through readers" who
interpreted for him the worlds greatest
literature.
Later Hanks worked his way through
Leland Stanford University, took two
years of postgraduate work at Har-
ward and an additional course at Co.
lumbia
He has committed to memory over
40 900 words from classic literature, can
recite most of Hamlet and has writ
ten for numerous magazines and news
papers.
Hanks was a student in Provo when
the accident occurred. With three
other young men, he climbed into the
Wasatch Range one vacation to work
a leased lead and silver mine. Two
of the youths had gone down the
mountain to market a burro load of
ore, and Hanks was working at, the
mouth Of the shaft while his COM
panion prepared breakfast in the
cabin nearby.
Caps Overheated by Sun.
Hanks had laid the percussion caps
in the sun to dry and they became
overheated. He picked up the box and
tapped it gently to brush out some dirt
and the explosion followed
The other young man came running
and found Hanks standing helpless and
blind, with his hands in shreds. 'I
took my first walk as a blind man"
Hanks smiled, back to the cabin that
day. My companion seemed almost as
badly cut up as I, and sitting on my
bunk, I told him we must face the
thing calmly.
He found handkerchiefs and bound
my wrists. I lay in the bunk for II
hours while he went down the noun
tain on foot and returned with a doc
tor.
THE others returned also and thev
made stretcher of canvas and boards,
carrying me by turns for miles down
the torturous trail. It was almost 60
hours before they finally got me to the
hospital"
Hanks still returns on vacation to
his native Rocky Mountains, where he
trolls for rainbow trout from a canoe,
sWms In the mountain streams and
even follows the hunters when they 20
shooting on the slopes.
I used to do all those things as well
as any man when was young" smiled
RANKS, and now my memory serves me
almost as well as my eyes and hands
once did"
ASKED If he would lecture here, Hanks
SAID, Perhaps, but then there's SO much
oratory In the National Capital a blind
man might have difficulty finding an
audience"
Evening star., 1932-03-02
HOWARD j. BUDGET
CUTS TEMPORARY"
House Members Call SIaShes
Mere "FurIoughs" of Nee
essary Projects.

Slashes in the Howard University bud
get for 1888 through reductions in the
Interior Department bill were char
acterized today by members Of the
House Subcommittee on appropriations
as mere "furloughs" of necessary prof.
ects and in no way indicate permanent
curtailment of the university's develop
ment. Members of the committee in
Guiding Representative Edward T. Tay
lor of Colorado, chairman, were guests
of Howard today at elaborate exercises
marking the 65th anniversary of the
granting of Howard University's charter
by Congress.
Representative Taylor, referring to the
committees action in reducing the esti-
mates. assured his audience, which
jammed the Andrew Rankin Chapel,
that there's no reflection anywhere on
Howard University"
Had to Call a Halt"
"The cuts were made" Chairman
Taylor declared, because We had to
call halt. They represent mere fur
loughs of projects which still are to
come"
Addressing the students, Representa-
IlhC lOl ulSCo IOAO-EO yOOlAA W 81
all the education you can" He urged
particularly the girls to prepare in
school to support themselves.
"Of course, every girl hopes to marry
well and be happy, but under existing
conditions it's quite probable that many
of you will marry no count boys and
will find yourself in real need of indie
pendence."
Representative Frank Murphy of Ohio
quoted Paul Laurence Dunbar, colored
poet, in his reference to the appropria-
tion cut.
"I go to meet the dawn and not
setting SUM-" was Mr.. Murphy'S quota
ton from the poet in assuring Howard
University that the cuts do not mean
permanent retrenchment of the institu-
tion's plans.
Louis c. Cramton, former chairman
Of the committee, who now is a legal
adviser in the Interior Department, an
other guest, reviewed his 18 years OF
service in Congress. He said he regard
ed the work he did in connection with
Howard University as the most impor-
tant accomplishment made during his
term in Congress.
French Is Speaker.
Representative Burton L. French of
Idaho also spoke. Representative Will
liam w. Hastings of Oklahoma and
Representative William j. Granfield of
Massachusetts,, who also were to have
spoken, were unable to attend. The
exercises were presided over by DR..
Mordecai w. johnson, president of the
university. In his introduction of the
members of the committee, he paid
tribute to the thoughtfulness with which
they always had considered Howard's
budgetary needs. He said that cuts en-
forced this year merely are in line with
The countrywide necessity for economy.
Rev. D. Butler Pratt, dean Of the
school of religion, opened the exercises
with the invocation. Vocal music was
presented by the Howard University
Choir, the Glee Club and by Mrs Edyth
SeWell, who sang solo.
Howard University's charter was
granted March 2, 1867, and the insti-
tuition was named for Gen. Oliver Otis
Howard, a Union officer, whom Presi-
dent Lincoln had placed in charge of
the Free Mems Bureau of the Federal
Government.
Evening star., 1932-03-02
JOBLESSA|D NEARS
END IN DISTRICT;
MONEY RUNS Low
Committee to Cut Pay Roll
Starting Saturday-Sum
of $4,000 Left.
WORK WILL BE SLOWED
ALMOST TO STANDSTILL
Only Skeleton Organization to Re
main After April Public Help
Asked in Providing Jobs.

The Steering Committee of the Dis
trict of Columbia Committee on En-
ployment decided today to lay off most
of its employees and slow down the work
of the committee almost to standstill
by the end of March. The decision was
made solely on the basis of lack Of
funds.
The committee has only 100000 left
of its S250,000 appropriation from Com
munity Chest funds. Of this S81 900
will be needed for administration and
providing work for unemployed during
March, and the balance probably Will
be retained for keeping a skeleton or
ganization together until next Novem-
Der.
About 10000 Jobless Here.
Laying off of committee workers will
begin next Saturday, and by the middle
of May, the number will have been
reduced from 35 to 6. According to
statements from various committee
members at the meeting today, there
are about 10000 unemployed persons
in Washington, and approximately 135
rew nersons applv to the committee for
help each day.
G. C. Bliss, general commercial super
tntendent of the Chesapeake & Poto-
mac Telephone Co. and chairman OF the
committees work stimulation subcom-
mittee, reported the start OF WORK
stimulation campaign to last not less
than two months. Folders will be sent
with monthly telephone bills, and efforts
will be made to reach the public through
the pulpits next Sunday. and by other
means, urging the creation of work by
householders and others, in an effort
to stave off the worst OF the unem-
ployment.
The main committee has not decided
vet whether to continue its work at full
speed through March or to slacken 1t
down so as to continues at half speed
through March and April. At any
event, work will practically stop at the
end of April, unless funds for the COM
mittee from some now unexpected
source should be forthcoming.
ReicheIderfer Asks Aid.
DR.. Luther H Reichelderfer, presi-
dent OF the Board of Commissioners,
today called on the people of the city
to do their share in furnishing Jobs
for the unemployed. He urged home
improvement as means Of providing
needed work His statement follows:
While Washington Is the Capital of
the Nation, it is the home city Of
approximately half million men,
women and children. We take great
pride in its beauty. 1t is an inspira-
ton to us, and it represents hope and
well being for the children of the COM
munity
But the well being Of any of us as
individuals is dependent on the well
being of all of us. AS we remember
this we can help to make Washing
ton-our home city-the finest place in
which to live
In days like these we can each do
much to help. In remembering that
this is our home city, we can help keep
our homes beautiful within and with
out. In SO doing, we would help fellow
townsmen by releasing arrested dollars
Evening star., 1932-03-02
N'Gl Is VERY LISTLESS
AND LACKS APPETITE
Condition Not Up to Expectation,
Zoo-Keeper Blackburn
Saws

N'gi, the Zoo gorilla, was about the
same today, William H. Blackburn,
head keeper, said.
Ngl, who improved considerably after
ne was placed in an oxygen chamber
last week, was not so well yesterday.
Last night he Gid not eat heartily, Mr..
blackburn said. N'gi is expected to
nave occasional bad days, but his condi-
tion this morning was not quite up to
expectations
He remained very listless, showing
Scant interest in the food with which 1t
was hoped to tempt his appetite.
Evening star., 1932-03-02
TOURISTS ARRIVE SUNDAY
Baking Company Employees to Visit
Capital.

Six hundred employees of the Cen
erai Baking Co. and their wives will
arrive here by special train from Phil
aoeIphia at l040 o'clock Sunday morn
ing for visit to Washington during
the Bicentennial Celebration, it was
announced today from the company's
Offices here.
Ihey will tour the city and dinner
VIII be given for them at the Raleigh
HoteI Sunday evening. The trip Is
pelng sponsored by the company.
Evening star., 1932-03-02
Garden Club Meets.

CHEVY CHASE, Md, March 2 (Spe-
clal) The Chevy Chase Garden Club
at It's meeting today will hear Wilbur II.
Simonson. SUPERVISING architect of the
Mount Vernon Boulevard, discuss the
planting of trees, shrubs and flowers
along the new highway. The club viii
meet at the home of Mrs. Frank p.
WILCOX. on Meadow lane.
Evening star., 1932-03-02
QUIZZED IN SHOOTING
Wife Denies Having Trouble With
Bryant Mcmahon.

Mrs. Marie Mcmahon, 26, wife of
Bryant Mcmahon, was questioned by
police last night in connection with the
shooting Of her husband early yester-
day. She was released this morning
after denying she had had any trouble
with him.
Mcmahon, under treatment at Cas-
ualty Hospital, has refused to give any
information which would aid in identi-
flying his assailant. He first told police
he had been shot by the recent "phan-
tom sniper."
Detectives. r. o. Brass D. j. Murphy
and Carlton Talley are investigating
the case.
Evening star., 1932-03-02
PLUMBER PLEADS GUILTY
TO HENDRICKS MURDER
Justice Let's May Sentence War
den Tilburg Next Week
in Staying.

Warden Tlburg, plumber. pleaded
guilty before Justice Let's in District
Supreme Court today TO second degree
murder in connection with the slay-
ing January 8 of Mrs. Jeannette Hend-
ricks, 40, of 2318 Eighteenth street.
He probably will be sentenced next
week
Mrs. Hendricks body was found in
the basement of her home, the skull
battered. Police learned Tilburg had
been a visitor at the house the night
before and his arrest followed.
Evening star., 1932-03-02
COL. HEBRON TO SPEAK
To Address Advertising Club at
Luncheon Tomorrow.

what the Advertiser May Expect
from Advertising in 1892" will be the
subject of Col. Leroy W. Heron, ad-
vertising MANAGE of The Star, sched-
uled as principal speaker before the
weekly luncheon meeting of the Adver-
tising Club of Washington tomorrow,
at 1890 o'clock, In the Raleigh Hotel
Evening star., 1932-03-02
NOVEL PLANE DESIGNED

A Tennessee inventor has designed a
combined dirigible balloon and airplane
from which the wings and engine can
be dropped in an emergency, passengers
remaining in the gas bag.
Holding il?
Evening star., 1932-03-02
HELD IN EMBEZZLEMENT
Former Washingtonian Under Ar
rest in Florida.

Harry NJ Smith, former employe of
the Carroll Supply Co., TIT Twelfth
street, has been arrested in Miami. Fla.
to answer a charge Of embezzlement
Of 1910 of the firms money
Detective Michael j. Dowd has been
sent TO Miami to return Smith hers
for trial.
Evening star., 1932-03-02
Church Program Tonight.

BALLSTON, Va, March 2 Especially
The members of the Central Method
ist Episcopal Church will give an en-
tertainHiefit a. the church tonight.
There will be mo admission charge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-28
! Y -@ z s1#t-tah sfsf sffssl-~@-asH, 5asss-
 UNEMPL DYED ] TAKEN CARE OF BY FIRST ! CITY
Ketchikan Has Fine Pro- gram for Relief of Local ] People, Says Flory

Ketchikap is attacking its un- employment relief problem in a systematic manner and preparing to look after it's own, people during the coming winter, according to Charles H. F'lory, Alaska 'Commis- sioner for the Department of Agri- culture, who returned from there early this week.
 The city has already extended considerable relief and has cen- tral organization as a clearing house for all activities of that nature, he said
 MT. Flory attended a meeting of the Ketchikan City Council at which relief matters were dis cussed at some length. The Coun- cil, the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other social welfare organi- cations as well as fraternal or ganizations interest in the work are represented on the relief com mittee.
 That body lists the City's un- employed, those needing relief and the extent of the need. It directs the allocation of funds for relief work to avoid duplication of ef- fort and otherwise acts to control the situation. 3 '
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-28
HELEN l. E HA yES, IS ACCUSED AS
 HOME WRECKER

CHICAGO, July 28. Helen Hayes, whose last stage role was as the good fairy in play of that name, was accused by Carol Frank Macarthur, newspaper screen critc, of wrecking her home in the declaration of $1O0,- 900 damage suit. & q Miss Hayes married Charles c. MacArthur, the playwright, in Au- gust. 1928, two years after he ob- tained a divorce from the motion picture reviewer of the Herald and Examiner here.
 The first Mrs. MacArthur's dec iaration charged that in 1922, less .s,an two years after her marriage, Miss Haynes began "wilfully, nal iciously, to destroy and aleniate the affections" of MacArthur from the plaintiff and to disturb and break up their home"
 It said she "clandestinely sourit the society of MacArthur, prosss- ed affection for him, made Ice to him, and wrongfully sougb ana obtained his confidence anf love.
 Miss Hayes also was acised ot ! "wickedly advising, persusang ana inducing Macarthur t separate from and abandon his Wl1e.
 Attorney Gerald f Wuey said his client would seeFa Jury trlai.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-28
COLISEUM PUTS
 DOWN ITS PRICE TO FORTY CENTS N
New Reduced Admission
 Charges Will Co Into Effect Tonight Z

Lower prices of admission to the Coliseum theatre were an nounced today. Starting tonight Ithe charges will be loges 50 cents, general admission 40 cents, youths i25 cents and little children 10 cents
 In announcing the reduction, w. D. Gross, owner If the Coliseum, Said
 The management of the Coli scum theatre, after considerable thought and Investigation as to whether adnssion prices should remain as tley have been to meet the new Federal tax, or be low cred to a'oid the tax, has come to the colclusion that lower pric- es shouL be tried.
 Benefit Given Public
 Tines and conditions in the States and in Alaska too. are such that we think theatre prices sho,ld be lower. We shall give ths public of Juneau the benefi. O a general admission price of 70 cents, which will avoid the Federal tax that prevails on tick cts above that amount. We feel that a Federal tax of 10 per cent. is a burden to the general public.
 Special Attractions Extra
 The management of, the Coli scum will establish a price of 50 cents on loges, 40 cents for gen. eral admission on all shows, ex- cept special attractions and on these attractions the prices will be raised accordingly. not through any fault of the management but because of the cost of certain pro- auctions, Some of these will be shown in the near future.
 The new prices of admission are to be in effect only tempor- arily to see If the public will support us in the cutting of the price of shows 20 per cent. 'y
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-28
TWO FORESTERS GO SOUTH TO INSPECT
 VARIOUS PROJECTS

\ On an official inspection trip to cover Tongass National Forest points south and on the west coast B. F. Heintzleman and M. L. Mer- r;tt, Assistant Regional Forester left here yesterday on the For ester, Capt. Georges Peterson. They will be absent two weks.
 They will visit PeErsburg, Wran- gell. Craig, Ketchikan and smaller communities. MT. Heintzlemap will inspect timber cutting tracts and look over other areas for timber sales for next season. MT. Mer- ritt will study road and trail de- yelopment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-28
1|flE['N|T|RlEs E ' l IN
 HOSPITAL KEEP
 IFS STAFF BUSY
Daughters Born to Mrs. ] J. Connors and Mrs.
 A. P. Laurie

Eleven entries in the St. Arl's hospital in the, past "A h,uri gave the institution staff it's pus- fest time in several months Tw, of the. new inmates brough' cheer and joy to everybody. Taey arg two little girls, one the daughter of Mrs. James J. Colnors, Jr and the other the aughter of Mrs. Philip McKenna Both the births took place lee yesterday, the parents in each instance liv- ing in Juneau.
 James. J. Comes is associated with his father in the connor's Motor Company
 MT. McKenn is employed by the Alaska J-neau Gold Mining Company.
 Other hoyital entries were,
 Frank Vahto, 10 and Douglas Wahto, II of Douglas, whose ton .sils were removed; Rado Pekovich. of Fund, who also underwent a 'tonsilit; operation; Miss Vera Bayer of Juneau, who success fully u9derwent an operation, for app4idteitis; A. P, Laurie of Haines ans Paul Norosovich, Robert V. L4igheads and William P. Thomas .c Juneau who entered for medi- al treatment.