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Evening star., 1933-01-29
Department Store Dealers.

Plans for the merchandising Of auto
mobiles in department stores have re-
Gently been announced in Chicago, dem
onstrating once again the fact that
progress moves in a spiral. Many of the
earlier cars were merchandised in the
big retail emporiums, John Wanamaker
being one of the most active Of the
automotive dealers when Henry Ford
was combating the organization Of
licensed manufacturers. One Of the
choicest automotive franchises still is
handled by an Eastern department store.
Many such stores carry full lines of
tires and automobile accessories.
Evening star., 1933-01-29
Lynchburg Has S9l9,42l.

kept filled with fluid and adjusted. not
merely for comfort, but for peace OF
mind. They can cause serious steering
trouble.
It has also been demonstrated that
front wheels may shimmy because of
badly worn universal joints. The con-
sequent whip of the propeller shaft
throws the wheels out of balance.
Service the car for safety!
Copyright, 1888. by the Russell Service.
Evening star., 1933-01-29

record was considerably better than
that Of 1881.
Newport News permits represented
expenditure Of $210,503, considerably
below that Of 1881.
In Petersburg, there were 18 permits
for approximately $4,000. Thirty-three
permits for repairs to old buildings
added $12,838 to the total.
Evening star., 1933-01-29
NORFOLK TOPSL|ST
IN BUILDING WORK.
Leads Six Other Virginia Cit.
les in Construction Permits
Issued in Year.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSS.
RICHMOND, Va, January 2l.-Con-
struction work approaching $4,000, 900
In value was authorized in building
permits issued in seven leading Virginia
cities during 1882.
A survey today showed Norfolk led
the list with 1856 permits issued during
tne year, having gross value Of
$l,2l9.384. This record did not include
Government construction.
The largest project covered In the
Nor1olk permits was the first unit Of
the Norfolk Museum of Arts and
Sciences, built at cost of $55,000
Richmond Exceeds S1,00o,o0o
Richmond exceeded the $1,000 900
mark In value Of permits issued by a
small margin. Indications for the new
year, however, are for projects reaching
$3,OOO,O0O In value, with construction
work by the Richmond Bridge Corpora
ton accounting for 81 900 600, and the
new Parcel Post Building for S610 900.
Roanoke during 1892 showed decided
slump in building activity, dropping to
only 1887, ,760 authorized in 305 permits,
as compared with 81 1,284,4 In 1881
and $2,768,955 in 1880.
Lynchburg Has $sIs,421.
Lynchburg had S68 permits for work
totaling s9l9,42l. Major projects there
were the new Federal building and the
new school building costing about
$4,000.
Permits for projects costing ap-
proximately $50000O were issued In
Danville. Because Of two major projects,
the new post office, costing $23l, BIS,
and the new city armory and audi
torium, costing $156,742, the years
Evening star., 1933-01-29
GENERAL SERVICE OF AUTO
HELD ESSENTIAL TO SAFETY
Any Neglect of Mechanical Parts of Car
Certain to Have Serious
Consequences.

when the car is going downhill in sec
ond. Poor fitting rings and loss of
compression make every descent as
risky as going down with poor brakes.
Driving a car with worn universal
joints is particularly serious. 1t is not
Evening star., 1933-01-29
Vacuum Pump Used.

The vacuum pump, either alone or in
combination with the gasoline pump. to
operate the windshield wiper and give
uniform service at all speeds, Is stand
ard equipment on seven makes of promi-
nent new cars
Evening star., 1933-01-29

Sliencers Standard Equipment.
Carburetor intake silencers and air
cleaners combined are now standard
equipment on the majority of new cars
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BROADWAY MERRY-CO-ROUND
BY Louis SObOl-

course. girls with nothing but
beauty sometimes get breaks,
too. They marry milliOnaires
and end up in Reno.
I wish sometimes they'd hold
a contest for plain looking girls
Il don't mean ugly girls-I
m can the kind who slip
through a crowd unnoticed.
Kids, perhaps, with nice eyes
and nice compilations, but with
no particular beauty of face.
I'd have the contest run on
the basis of intelligence, quick
ness of mind, personality. Then
give the winner of the contest
that much coveted ticket to
HOLLYWOOD and give her a
chance in the movies. The re-
suit would be interesting.
Speaking of beauties, a wire
from the Coast informs me that
a well-known pretty named
Jean Harlow and an unknown
but equally beautiful extra had
a hair pulling match over the
handsome Max Baer, but while
the Squabble was at its height,
the susceptible Max slipped off
quietly with still another beau
ty named Estelle Taylor.
There were more than 100
words in the telegram and the
person who sent it is a personal
friend who paid cash in advance
to send the wire, from which I
conclude that there must have
been a hair-pulling match over
Max Baer, which excites me no
end, for it has been many
months since there was any
hair-pulling matches in this
part Of the country over any
body of importance-and be-
tween anybodies Of Importance.
Still on the subject Of puIchri-
tude, two beauties got me on
the phone yesterday to advise
me they were in town, the
SenOritas Raquel and Renee
Torres. 1t was q thrill, it ap-
pears, to be back in dees dar-
leeng New YOrk-cOuld I tell
them what they could do dees
next cOppIe days in the way of
excitement-that is, exciting
places to 60, for they're to leave
today or tomorrow for Europe.
So Z mentioned every speak
easy and night club in town and
If they make them all I hope
they find the excitement they
seek and If they do, I hope they
let me know, for I've been try
ing to find excitement in these
places for months without sue.
cess.
Spend q Dollar and Make q Job
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
AGEN 7 FACES
COURT TODAY

Karl o. Spiess, prohibition agent
and former Washington police
man, must appear in Traffic
Court today to face three charges
growing out of his spectacular ar
rest at Twelfth and F Streets
Northwest, during the rush hour
late yesterday.
Spiess was arrested by Traffic
Policeman E. G. Commingore and
charged with assault and disobey-
ing an officers signals and an
official sign.
The trouble started when Spiess
attempted to make a left turn
through the heavy traffic and
Commingore motioned him to go
straight ahead. Spiess refused
and the officer leaped on the run
ming board of the car.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01

This seems to be the open sea-
son for beauties. Every day
almost every hour-appeals ar
rive to please act as a Judge at
this beauty contest or that. I
have never acted as a beauty
judge. I'm not even certain that
my standards of beauty con-
form to line. I once knew a girl
with freckles, a snub nose and
slightly bucked teeth whom I
considered the most beautiful
girl in the world, but I couldn't
get anybody to agree with me.
Personally, these beauty con.
tests give me a pain in the neck,
and some of the girls who COM
pete in them a worse pain-ex-
cept the ones who have intelli-
gence, and I've only encountered
one or two at the most-and
their intelligence couldn't have
been of the highest type or they
wouldn't have entered the con-
tests. There's a chap out on the
coast who agrees with me-a
Daryl Zanuck, aggressive NOV
ing picture producer who insists
that most of the beauties in
these contests are. worth, at
most, speaking from the view
point of producer, about So a
day.
they rate a little more, Of
course, in the shows Of Earl
Carroll, George White, Lew
Brown and a few others who
need them to decorate chorus
lines, but Zanuck assures me
that to him mere beauty is do
ing well to earn a dollar an
hour. A homely girl with brains
and talent is worth 500 a day
in the pictures, ana a girl with
beauty, brains and talent Is
worth $1,000 up.
He points to Helen Hayes as
a girl who didn't require beauty
to be close to the top of the
heap. Aileen M M ahon is
another. Marie Dressler is
another. On the other hand,
Constance Bennett, Joan Craw-
ford, Greta Carlo, Norma
Shearer were able to toss in
beauty with their bralns-re-
suit: fabulous salaries.
Manhattan is flooded with
beautiful girls. Gorgeous crear
lures. There's a score Of them
or more at the Hollywood Res
taurant, another score or more
at the Paradise. When the
musicals open, you'll see several
h u DIR e d ravishing creatures
with shapely bodies and limbs.
They're nice to look at and
they're nice to take out.
Somewhere in one of those
chorus lines, occasionally. you
detect q girl who somehow
draws your attention and holds
it. If you study her closely,
you may find she's not half as
pretty as her chorus mates. You
discover, perhaps. that she has
a certain peculiar smile or o
certain manneriSm or an indie
finable magnetism.
Then, the first thing you
know you see this little girl in
another show and she has o
minor role. You begin Observ-
ing her name in the dramatic
notes in Broadway columns.
And then, pop, one day you're
suddenly aware that the new
star of the day is the little gal
who first caught your atten-
tiOn in the chorus. And nine
times out of nine, you can bet
that it's been a girl who had
brains and used them. OF
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
MOB THREATENS
. I'm TORTURE
. SLAY|NG

NEWTON, ILL.,, Sept. 1 0.N.SJ.
Three suspects arrested for the
torture murder of Mrs. Mary
Schroeder, 80, wealthy widow, in
an attempted robbery. were held
under heavy guard today in the
Crawford county Jail to prevent
O threatened lynching.
Two hundred residents of New
ton, outraged at the crime, set
out for the Jail at Robinson, 20
miles away, determined to lynch
the three.
State police summoned by Sher-
Hf John Keller intercepted the
long automobile caravan, how.
ever before the Jail was reached.
Tortured Women
In their raid on the Schroeder
home in search Of a large sum of
money, the robbers tortured the
aged woman and two members of
her family with Burning matches
and criminally assaulted Mrs.
Schroeder and her 47-year-old
O6uSuCGTs
Angry groups of citizens gath
cred when the three were brought
here from Indianapolis, Ind, and
Danville, Ill.
NeighborS o. the murdered wom-
an identified the three prisoners
as the men seen lettering near
Mrs. Schroeder'S rural home.
The three prisoners gave their
names as Henry Shelby, Is, of Til
ton, ILL.,; Harold Packinpaugh, IS,
of Indianapolis, and John Allen,
IS, of DGnville.
Got Only $40
The robbers entered the Schroe-
der home Tuesday night and de-
manded $4,000. When told there
was no money in the house, they
held burning matches against the
bare feet Of Mrs. Schroeder,
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
Pageant to Feature
Presidents REGATTA

A night pageant Of gayly deco
rated boats will be held as part
of this years Presidents Cup
Regatta, it was agreed. at a
meeting of the committee in
charge in the Homer Building
last night. The marine parade
will be September 20, second day
of the regatta. The course, ten
tatively, will be down the George
town channel side of Potomac
Park to Hams Point, then up the
channel and back along the
shoreline of the Army War Col
1ege grounds.
Evening star., 1933-06-01
FIRST LADY GUIDES
MONTICELLO PARTY
Shows White House Group,
Including Howe, Through
JefferSon'S Home.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, June L.
Mrs. Roosevelt, in white and blue, was
the guide who yesterday showed q
White House party. including Louis
McHenry Howe, through individual
istic Monticello, home Of Jefferson.
"Td never seen Monticello, and Mrs.
Roosevelt was determined I should do
So" said Howe, as he went from room
TO room in the train Of the Presidents
wife, who pointed out the famous
Jefferson gadgets.
At least three times previously Mrs,
Roosevelt had explored the place
from wine cellar to octagonal dome,
and it seemed she could tell the party
more than it could find in any one
guide book.
Louis, you n st see this" Mrs
Roosevelt insisted as she arrived at the
blue white mantel, at either end OF
which was a dumbwaiter that went
down into the wine cellar in Jefferson's
day. She tapped on the wood to sig
nal the way the sage OF Monticello
used to do to indicate which wine he
wanted.
Admires the ManteL
Howe peered down the dumbwaiter
shaft, but made no comment until
Mrs. Roosevelt demanded as she was
leaving the room, Louis, don't you
love that mantel?" He replied that
he did.
Next she pointed out the one-horse
gig in which jefferson rode from Mon
ticello to the Continental Congress in
Philadelphia.
We'll, if he rode to Philadelphia in
this gig I admire his skill in writing the
Declaration Of independence afterward," P"
drily commented Howe.
The Jefferson desks, chairs and tables,
each with some tricky design that made
It convenient, were Mrs. RooSevelt's
special joy to demonstrate.
You don't make furniture, so you
wouldn't be so interested" she remarked
as she Slowed the drawing board in
Jefferson's own bed room, with the
peculiar peek-holes above the bed-al-
cove, where the master OF Monticello
could get out of bed on one side and be
In one room or get out on the other
side and be in another.
Appeals for Fairgrounds.
Outside delegation from the Mothers
Club of Charlottesville, headed by Mrs.
Elmer BIIrruss, president, appealed to
Mrs. Roosevelt to help them in their
playground movement.
Just say few words for play
grounds" they begged. Mrs. Roosevelt
paused to sag that communities were
learning they must properly provide for
all children.
Your own child will suffer If all
children are not properly taken care
Of" she said.
After her outdoor luncheon at the
Pennington County Club, she motored
to the University of Virginia, where she
was shown about the campus by Acting
President John Lloyd Newcomb.
Among the group accompanying her
from the White House were the Presi-
dents sister-in-law, Mrs. j. r. Roose-
welt, of New York, and Mrs. Henry
Morgenthau, jr.
Evening star., 1933-06-01
SEEK TO PREVENT FIRES

MILWAUKEE, Wis. June 1 R.-
The National Fire Protection Associa-
tion yesterday tentatively adopted new
regulations for construction Of ocean
liners to prevent fires.
Recent fires on seven ships repre-
sented losses of more than $27, ,000, 900,
S. D. McComb Of New York, a member
Of the Board Of Marine Underwriters
Evening star., 1933-06-01
PROTECTION OF ARKANSAS
BONDHOLDERS PROMISED
Governor Reassures Those Who
Surrender Holdings for Refund
ing Bonds II Program Fails.

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, June Gov.
Futren promised yesterday he would do
of bondholders who surrender their
holdings IN exchange for per cent re-
funding bonds, in event Arkansas re-
funding program fails.
He announced to newspaper men he
would recommend to the Legislature
the enactment of a law providing that
in event a substantial majority of
State highway bonds are not surren-
dered for refunding, the bonds Of those
who did surrender them would be
returned.
Only a relatively small amount Of the
$l46 900 900 of State highway bonds
issued or assumed by the State have
been exchanged for the refunding bonds.
Evening star., 1933-06-01
HNTOLERANT TREATMENT
OF PROFESSORS SCORED
American Association Protests to
League of Nations Regarding
Actions in Germany.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The American Association of Uni
verSity Professors announced today it
had protested to the League of Nations
Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
against 'fntolerant treatment" of pro-
feSsorS in German universities.
The announcement said the aSsocia-
ton diSclaims any concern with 'the
polictical life or ideals of any nation"
but asserts the principle that science
and scholarship have long since become
international and that the conditions
OF intellectual life IN every important
country are matter Of legitimate con-
eern to every other"
At the same time, the organization
said it was urging the creation of emer-
gency fellowshipS and part-time teach
ing positions in colleges and universe
ties to meet "the grave unemploy-
ment conditions" facing thousands of
teachers.
Evening star., 1933-06-01
ASSETS OF CONTINENTAL
TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION
Chase National Bank Reported
Planning Sale Of Collateral Left
for Loan of $4,000, 900.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 1.-The New York
Times SAYS the bulk of the assets Of
Continental Shares, Inc, huge invest
ment trust, will be sold at auction here
June IL by the Chase National Bank,
with which they were pledged as COL
lateral in 1891 for a loan Of approx
mately S30,oo0,00o. =,
The market value Of the assets at
closing prices yesterday was $18,119,15o.
AS of December 81 the trust showed
notes payable Of SAL, 1,474,723, part Of
which represents the Chase Bank loan.
Evening star., 1933-06-01

The collateral includes working con-
troll Of the United Light & Power
companies, large public utility holding
company, and heavy interests IN tire
and rubber and steel companies.
The bank is asking minimum prices
Of about $1S,170,000, the paper says,
and stock viii be sold in blocks of
10000 shares or less.
Evening star., 1933-06-01
PAYS BACK BOND

CHICAGO, June R.-The name
sounded familiar so Traffic Court work
ers checked while Al Riskind, 90, ar
rested for illegal parking waited. Then
they took s85 away from him for bond.
It seemed the court held II other
warrants for Al. on II other traf1c
charges for which he had failed to
appear II times.
Evening star., 1933-06-01

and chairman Of the associations Ma
rine Committee, said in presenting the
new rules to the annual convention.
The same principles Of fire prevention
which have been applied successfully to
large buildings should be applied TO
ships, the committee urged.
Evening star., 1933-06-01
COMMONS PASSES BILL
Farm Marketing Act Must Now
Go to House of Lords.

Go to House OF Lords.
LONDON, June 1 (P)-The agricul-
tural marketing bill for regulation OF
imports and home production, designed
to stimulate British agriculture, passed
the House of Commons yesterday.
The measure will go to the House OF
Lords and then must obtain royal assent
before becoming law.
Evening star., 1933-06-01

Activities Of handbag snatchers have
caused the fashion IN handbags in Eu-
rope to swing to those with patented
fasteners
Evening star., 1933-06-01
WASHINGTON STUDENTS
ELOPEMENT REVEALED
Peggy Ann Kent, Daughter of Fox
Films President Attended Fair
mont School Until Easter.

mont School Until Easter.
BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June News Of the
elopement and marriage during the
Easter holidays of Peggy Ann Kent, sub
deb daughter of S. r. Kent president
Of the Fox Film Corporation. and stu
dent at the Fairmont School in Wash
ington, D. c., and Bud" Dow, mem
Der Of socially prominent New York
family, was received here yesterday.
Mrs. Phyllis Banks, the girls aunt,
said the two have known each other
Evening star., 1933-06-01
four years. Dow has been attending
Culver Military Academy.

Miss Kent left school for New York
when the Easter holidays began, and,
according to friend at the Fairmont
School, It'll Massachusetts, avenue, was
married to Dow on Long Island. She
did not return to school. y
Evening star., 1933-07-21

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difficulties of encountered"
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ciation Contest Committee.
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1t the complete fuel 1t better perfo
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premium AMOCOGAS has been reduced II gallon As
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Ford Economy Run, for Instance. The mileage on
GAS was 20% greater than the 1873 miles gallon mentioned
Fords letter, making A0co GASon mileage basis aIor
regular gasoline In other words get greater rid|n
greater driving freedom from nothing
up AMOCOCAS! Always the best buy better buy
The AMERICAN OIL COMPANY
Evening star., 1933-07-21

rule, only missionary priests or Rus
sian priests wear boards, and he had
the appearance Of being neither. And
yet, II assumed for purposes of dis
guise, 1t would have entailed q long and
patient process, for 1t was q real
beard.
He mad not only taken psins to ar
range false alibi, but he had lied
himself. and-which was still less what
one might expect In a man Of God
he had practically forced little Marcel
to lie in order to support his story.
Pucci croaked, scratched and fiuttered
clumsily down from the chair The bird
had been in the lounge with me Just
before Marcel had entered 1t the pre-
vious afternoon. I wondered what he
had seen. I wished there were some
way to wrest from him the knowledge
that might be back Of those bright,
shoe-button eyes-eyes that looked as
knowing and secretive as his mistress
eyes.
This time Pucci croaked as discon-
solately as he had scratched, sided
over to the priest and pulled himself
up on his knee, whence he scrutinized
the beard closely.
There was suddenly an impatient
rustic Of the newspaper, and behind 1t
the priests red beard and angry eyes
appeared. ! did not realize that must
have been looking. as felt, family
amused at the cockatoo's cynical ex-
preston until Father Robart snapped:
We'll, have you stared at me enough?
Evening star., 1933-07-21

And Is 1t 30 amusing an -occupation?"
"As . matter Of fact, was watching
the cockatoo," I said, "and thinking
of what Marcel told me-"
was looking directly into his eyes,
and 1t was with interest that I noted
the singular way they became hxed and
rigid like a cats. His face, too, looked
suddenly rather yellow back Of that
flaming thin beard. Presently he said,
his yellow-gray eyes never wavering in
that rigid secret stare into mine:
Marcel? And what was that, since
you've introduced the subject?"
hesitated, resolved in a fraction Of
second that was doing no harm,
and replied:
HE told me the truth about the
story you gave the police concerning
your whereabouts the night the un-
known man was murdered He said you
were not Ill and that he was not in
your room with you"
It occurred to me that he had
braced himself for it; had perhaps
known what was coming. He said
coldly:
"Well?"
shrugged, and promptly resolved
not to indulge in that gesture again
until my shoulder had healed.
"Well?" said. with his own infiec-
ton. His eyes remained still, and yet
it seemed to me there was an angry
flash back of them. Clearly he re-
sented the implication that 1t was not
my place to speak.
He remained stubbornly silent for q
Evening star., 1933-07-21
about the information little Marcel had

about the information little Marcel had
given me the better
followed Lorn through the small
lobby and into the court. No one was
in the lobby, but Father Robart was
sitting outside in the court; he was
smoking and hastily put up . news
paper as he saw me and began to read
assiduously.
Pucci was sitting disconsolately on
a chair back near the priest, and
took another chair. It was rather dis
concerting to see q policeman's head
and blue cap pop out from around the
wall by the entrance arch, survey me
unwinkingly and leisurely and then
pop back again in a way that left no
doubt in the world that had actually
the closest Of company.
Suspiciously I shifted at the tobacco
the priest was smoking, could not trace
in it the fragrance of the tobacco
smoke that had inexplicably drifted
into my room during the night and
fell to speculating regarding that enig-
matical figure. Why had he taken so
much trouble about an alibi?
The fact that ne had SO carefully
arranged needless alibi was In itself
suspicious. Highly suspicious. told
myself, looking at his long. black
legs and American shoes. He'd ex-
planned the shoes when he'd said cas-
ually that he'd spent two years in
America.
But 1t suddenly struck me that his
beard itself was suspicious point. As