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Evening star., 1933-12-12
PARK VIEW GROUP
ASKS TO STAY DRY
Citizens Favor Local Option
and Request Sales Ban
for Themselves.

Favoring local option by commune
ties under the prospective District liquor
control system, the Park View Citizens
Association voted last night to keep
their territory dry.
This action constituted Endorsement
Of letter expressing the same view
which the associations Executive Com
mittee already had sent Commissioner
George e. Allen.
Five proposed improvements in the
community were recommended to H. G.
Whitehurst, District highway engineer,
for inclusion in the local civil works
program. They were:
Laying of curbing on both sides Of
Warder street between Otis place and
Newton street.
Filling in Of the parking on Kenyon
street between Georgia avenue and
Warder street, where the dirt is said to
have been washed away.
Light surfacing of a short alley of
the 500 block of Columbia road.
Sodding Of the terraces Of the Park
View Municipal Playground. The banks
were said to be subject to erosion, earth
often washing down over the sidewalks.
Installation Of an adequate drainage
system for the playground.
lie clLlZCllS lIlOOIoCO t4lC OiA~oSC
pension bill for the District, introduced
in Congress by Senator Copeland Of
New York.
All officers of the association were re-
elected by unanimous ballot. They
were F. v. Hale, president; B. j. Kroger.
vice president; John S. Cole, secretary;
H. H Moore, treasurer; Miss Emily
Scrivener, M. Rubin and r. H. Pres
colt, members of the Executive Com
mittee: F.. S. Walker and F.. E. Smith,
delegates to the Federation of Citizens
Associations, and Mr.. Cole and Mr..
Moore, delegates to the Public School
Association. The following were re-
appointed to the Executive Committee:
Mr.. walker, w. j. Kanof, Mr.. Cole. j.
T Talbert. Miss Edith Shannon. Mrs.
George Schreyer. Mr.. Kroger. w. I.
Kenner, George H. Russell. Mrs. r. ..
Walker and w. A. Sommers.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
Nurse in CiviI Var
Celebrates Tooth
Birthday in Vest
Marine Band Here Plays
Number Today in Honor
of Mrs. Hayes.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 12.-Still
bright-eyed and vivacious, Margaret
Hayes rounded out century of life
yesterday with birthday celebration
cake with 100 candles and all.
She Is one Of the few surviving
Sanitary Commission nurses Of the
Civil War.
: Today the United States Marine
Band at Washington played one of her
favorite selections as special honor
TO her.
"I will never be old-with all my
friends-never," she said at the home
Of her granddaughter, Mrs. Marguerite
Baldwin.
Mrs. Hayes was a widow when the
Civil War broke out. For two and a
half years she served in q hospital at
Memphis. Tenn. There she eventually
married her wardmaster, Sanford
Hayes. who died several years ago.
AS far as we know. grandmother is
one Of two surviving commission
nurses" said Mrs. Baldwin. I'VE un-
derstand another lives in Florida"
Evening star., 1933-12-12
THIRD JAILED IN PLOT
FOR $4,000 ExTORTION
Brother of Man Already Held Is
Arrested in Conspiracy
Against Judge.

BY the Associated Press.
OXFORD, Miss, December 12.-De-
partment Of Justice agents made third
arrest yesterday In connection with a
reported $4,000 extortion plot against
Circuit Judge T. E. Pegram CT Ripley,
taking into custody Afford Spencer,
brother 70 Mark Spencer. who was ar
rested Friday with Nathan c. Richard
son.
Arraigned before United States Com
missioner j. j. Vance here today, Rich
ardson submitted to charges of "wil-
fully and feloniously conspiring and
using the mails in an attempt to ex-
tort $4,000" The Spencers both pleaded
not guilty.
Vance set a $25,o00 bond for each of
them, In default Of which they were
taken to three North Mississippi jails.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
County Leaders Back
Tournament Plans

Prominent judicial, political
and business leaders OF Prince
Georges county will head the re-
ception committee for the an
nual southern Maryland tourna-
ment, sponsored by the Upper
Marlboro Volunteer Fire Depart
ment August 2.
The committee includes Judges
j. c. Mattingly and j. Chew
Sheriff, State Senator L. G.. Sas-
seer, County Commissioner Frank
Small and Brice Bowie, Rev. j.
Loughran and Rev. j. G. M.
Shrewsbury.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
Craps Game Breaks
UpPrayer Meeting;
PLAYER Fined

When a preacher and his
flock become disturbed by those
we'll known words, "Sebbin'
come eleben'," it is mighty hard
for them to continue prayer.
A complaint was sent to po-
lice by a sympathizer and that
is why William Washington,
colored, of Huntsville, Md,
found himself in Hyattsville Po-
lice Court yesterday.
Washington was one of eight
"crapShooters," according to
police, who used lot ad-
joining a Huntsville church for
their gaming table last Sunday.
All ran but Washington, who
denied he was playing the game
of dice. He was fined 81 and
costs by Judge c. Chew Sheriff
anyway.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
Hutton Starts Career
TODAY As a Crooner

LOS ANGELES, July 20 Q.N.
S0.-1gnoring pleas of his evange-
list wife, Mrs. Aimee Semple-Mc-
Pherson-H Hutton, that she loves
him and doesn't want to be
divorced, David Hutton, jr., today
prepared to launch career as
crooner of love melodies.
Hutton was scheduled to make
his first appearance today in a
Long Beach theater.
Hutton had said that instead
Of marrying the blonde evangelist
nearly two years ago. he had mar
r1ed her "and Angelus Temple as
we'll"
To which Mrs. Hutton replied
by cablegram:
II am entirely satisfied with
David's church work and that
Of my associates"
Hutton filed suit here Monday
20 divorce Mrs. Hutton.
Miss Harriet Jordan, super
intendent of the Bible class at
Angelus Temple, of which she also
is manager, struck at Hutton for
making public his wife'S love let
ters to him from Paris. She said:
"Any man who would make
public such intimate letters as
O prelude to his vaudeville tour
well, he's just beyond me-"
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
GANGSTERSK|LL
MAN, WOUND 8

CHICAGO, July 20 U.N.S0
Police squads today stood guard
at the saloon of Clemento Cozzi
in the Italian quarter, where
attacks by an automobile load of
gunmen have resulted in the
death of one man and the wound
ing of three others in "a hours.
Several hours after they had
shot and killed Emil Onesto and
seriously wounded two others, the
squad of gunmen returned.
Ignoring a lone policeman who
stood guard, the six hoodlums
opened fire from a leisurely
cruising automobile and Frank
Tiritilli, 80, fell with a revolver
bullet in tn EARN.
Angelo Mazzo, who was shot in
the head during one Of three
separate assaults on the cafe
Tuesday night, is expected to die.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
PARTY TRAPPED
WITH SUICIDE

SANTA BARBARA, Cal, July
20 Q.N.S0 How they we're
marooned three days on isolated
Santa Cruz Island with the body
of beautiful woman who had
committed suicide was told to-
day by Attorney Ambros e
Gherini of San Francisco.
Gherini related a narrowing
story of efforts by members of
the party, which went to the is
land 10 days ago for an outing,
to attract the attention Of pass
ing boats.
Mrs. Carolyn Imbaden, SO, a
member of the party, dis
appeared Monday, Gherini said.
Her body was found hanging to
the rafter of a ranch building
near Scorpion Bay.
Gherini and other members Of
the party were unable to attract
attention until seen and rescued
last night by the schooner
Gitana, outbound from Los An
geles.
Mrs. Imbaden, the wife of
Daniel C. Imbaden of San Mateo,
Calf, left two notes attributing
her act to illness.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
AIMEE PLEDGES
. ALL HER LOVE
To HUTTON
BY international News Service

8. s. CITY OF HAVRE, July
20 Q.N.S) She has never con
sidered divorcing her husband
David Hutton, and is still com
pletely in love with him, Mrs
Aimee Semple Mcpherson Hutton,
Los Angeles evangelist, told Inter.
national News Service today.
Mrs. Hutton, convalescing from
her recent illness, Is aboard this
ship bound for Baltimore, en-
route home. She said:
"After David sent me on a
health cruise a regrettable mis-
understanding arose at AngeluS
Temple W h c h completely dis
COuraged him and caused him
to consider other fields for his
voice.
II think he felt a theatrical
line Of work would be incOm.
patible with my evangelism and
embarrassing to me. Hence he
proposed divorce.
His letters, written a fort
night ago, we're brimful of Low.
ing devotion and eagernesS for
my return.
II console myself with the
faith that with the business
tangle adjusted, the cloud will
quickly pass and we will live
happily ever after"
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
80 Capital Students
Get r. o. T. C.. Papers

Certificates were awarded %
students of George Washington
University and is from George
town University at annual Re-
serve Officer Training Corps
commencement exercises yester.
day at Carlisle Barracks, Car
Isle, Pa, according to word last
night.
The students were there for
four weeks training. They were
drilled under direction of Brig.
Gen. Matthew Delaney, COM
mandant of the post. Lieut.. Col.
F. Johnston, of the University
Of Pittsburgh, was camp com.
mander, Capt. j. G. Fuller, of
Cornell University. serving as
adjutant.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
n { v | Y-WEDS
To COMMUTE

When Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Yule were married they decided
not to let work stand in the way,
but agreed to cooperate with that
demon" which happily enough
brings pay checks. Because of
this their marriage takes on an
ultramodern form.
Yule. a bursar of the National
Academy of Science here, mar
ried the former Marjorie Meikle-
john Saturday at the home Of
her sister. Mrs. Harry Sweat, at
Putnam, N. Y.
Mrs. Yule is supervisor of
schools in that State. She is va
cationing here at present, how
ever. Mrs. Yule will not relin.
quish her job, nor will Mr.. Yule.
It is their plan to work week days
and visit each other on weekends.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
Here and There
In the Realm Of
Broadcastins
By STANLEY BIGELOW

High spots in the visit which
Gen. Italo Balbo, Italy's air min
lister, and officers who took part
in the flight from Rome to
Chicago, are making in the
National Capital today are being
broadcast over national hookups.
Radio announcers, not to men
ton the corps of skilled techni-
clans, were waiting at Boiling
Field when the fleet of 10 Army
and Navy planes carrying the
intrepid Italian fliers arrived
from New York.
The colorful scenes at the field
being described the radio officials
accompanied the guests of honor
to the White House, where Gen.
eral Balbo and members Of the
italian Embassy were received by
President Roosevelt. Also to the
Carlton, where the visitors were
guests of the Overseas Writers,
and to the Mayflower, headquar-
ters for the group.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20

Fun for all-DiCk Tracy Color COn-
test. See the Washington Herald comic
pages. Four new comics headed by
Dick Tracy. The Gumps, Winnie Winkles
Gasoline Alley.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
War on RacketS

The opening attack in the Fed
eral Governments war against
racketeers will be launched in a
radio broadcast by Joseph B. Kee-
nan, special assistant to the At
torney General, at 1O:45 pm, Sun
day, over N. B. C.
Mr.. Keenan, was recently named
by the President to coordinate the
activities of the national govern
ment with those of the State and
municipal authorities in the drive
to rid the country of racketeers.
He has limited broadly that gang
leaders whose. political connections
have enabled them to defy the
law will be the first to be hunted
down. keenan, will give his first
talk on the subject from the NB.C.
studios in the National Press Build
ing,
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
Cabin Life

Characteristic bits Of life as
lived in and about a plantation
cabin will furnish the subject
matter for a new series of pro-
grams to be given by a colored
group-The Dixie Harmonists, be-
ginning over WMAL, Sunday.
The musicians and players will
broadcast from Nanny Louis
Cabin from $50 to 9:45 p. m.
Themes of the skits will change
from week to week, but the cabin
life will be the central topic.
Sunday nights program will pro-
vide a number of popular spirit
uals.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20

Fun for all-Dick Tracy Color Con-
test. See the Washington Herald
comic pages. Four new comics headed
BY Dick Tracy, The Gumps, Winnie
Winkle, Gasoline Alley.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
RADIO RAMBL LES - PROGRAMS
TODAY'S PROGRAMS
Don't Miss These

9:15 a. m.-(Every week day)-"Keeping Up
with The Times" by n. e. f. Meekins
CWMAL).
7:OO-Rudy ValIee and his Orchestra, guest
artists (WRC).
7:2O D. m.-Herald News Spotlight (WOL).
$500 D. m.-Pageant Of Melody (WRC).
1880 p.m.-U. s. Army Band Concert
(WMAD.
II 80 D. m.-WashingtOn Herald Globe Trot-
ter-Arthur Reilly (WJSV).
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
Music Memories

Popularity of the music mem
ory contests which Jimmy Harbi-
son, popular Washington pianist,
is conducting over WMAL, is at
tested by the volumes of prompt
answers received.
BY noon yesterday 308 answers
had been received at the radio
station to Tuesdays contest-the
third in the series.
Tickets to Keith's for the COM
ing week are awarded for the
first twenty-five answers filed
with numbers listed properly, and
spelled correctly.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
KIWAMIS OUTING

An outing by the Kiwanis Club
will be held today at Bay Ridge,
Md. Golfing, fishing, boating and
other sports will be held in the
afternoon. For members who can
not attend the outing meeting, a
luncheon meeting will be held at
1890 p. m. at the Mayflower
Hotel.
The Washington times., 1933-07-20
LAWN EEIE

Mrs. Theodore S. Mason heads
the committee in charge of ar
rangements for the lawn fete to
be given by the Ladies' Aid So
ciety Of the Rockville Presbyterian
Church, Thursday.
Evening star., 1933-10-05

Rialto.-"S. o. S. Iceberg" continues
for another week at this theater. The
picture took a year to make-the Pho
tographs, that is, not the story; Wnlie
the latter is thin, the views OF the colo'
end even if the explorer don't accom-
Evening star., 1933-10-05
Wynn Very Much Surprised
When His SO-O-O-OM Made Hit
Comedian Traces Expression to Form of Family
Joke-Insists Funniest Spoken Thing
Is Really Good Pun.

cont know yet what made them laugh.
I thought 1t was mistake, but I
wanted to be sure. So little later
said 1t again, and 1t was a bigger laugh
than before Well, used it six times
before the final curtain, and kept it III
the show. Since then 1t has become
national catchword, but don't ask
me why!
There's fine line-a very fine line
between comedy and tragedy. wonder
ing act had in "The Perfect Fool" L
was all bogus, Of course. and I always
told the audience I didn't believe III
mysticism. AS matter Of fact had
a code-word system with my assistant,
who worked in the audience.
One evening in the middle OF the
act, as I sat blindfolded on the stage,
I heard a creaky old gentleman's voice
challenge me belligerently, :'You can't
tell what have in my pocket" said,
"An elderly gentleman says cannot
tell him what he has in his pocket"
He flashed back, How do you know
I'm elderly?" But ignored the ques-
tion because by that time my assistant
had worked to the mans side. began
getting the code words.
Your name is w. L. Cowen," said.
you have a passport in your pocket.
You are sailing for Europe tonight on
the steamship Scythia.' Now all this
was true. But because the mans atti-
tude had nettled me- I added
Moreover, you will have a bad voy-
age and will never make another trip
to Europe" Why I said this I do not
know.
Four weeks later I received letter
from England. I still have it. 1t was
from friend of Mr.. Cowen's, who was
in the audience that night and had
sailed with him to England to do work
in psychic research. 1t said:
Mr.. Cowen sailed on the Scythia
and was found dead in his cabin the
second day out. Did you have psy-
chic message that night?"
I put the letter down and my hands,
I don't mind telling you, were trem-
bling. dropped the mind-reading act,
hokum or not.
Evening star., 1933-10-05
Carpentier Wine Merchant.

Carpenter Wine Merchant.
NEW YORK P).-Georges Carpen-
tier, former boxer. arrives today from
France in a new role-that Of wine mer-
chant.
He ought to know something about
wines. One of his occupations since he
faded from boxing after his memorable
fight with Jack Dempsey has been that
of restaurant operator.
Evening star., 1933-10-05
| Where and When
| Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

NationaI-"Her Man OF Wax at
$50 pm.
Earle-"Secret Of the Blue Room, az
11:lO am, 1:5O, 4:40, Tbs ana 9:oo
nm. Stage shows, Barbara StanwycK
in person, at l, $40, $40 and 9:Oo pm.
PaIace-"Stage Mother" at 11:l5
am, 1920, 1928, $50, 7:35 and s:4o pm.
Ambassador-"B Broadway to Holly
wood" at 6:15, 8 and 9:45 pm.
Gayety-"The Pennant Winners" at
ais and 8:15 pm.
Loew's Fox-"Big Executive" at II
am. 1:2O. 4:1O, 7 and $50 pm: Stage
shows at 1890. 800, 6:1O and pm.
Columbia-"Doctor Bull" at 1888
am. 1:5O, $50, $50, 7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan-"Too Much HARMONY =
at II am, 12:45, 2:30, 4:20. sos, 7:5o
and 9:40 pm.
R-K-O Emperor Jones' at
11:44 am, 1:46, 3:48, $50, 1852 and
Riaito-"s O S iceberg" at 11:4s
am. 1:43, 3:43, SAB, 7:45 and 9:43 pm.
Tivoli-"Penthouse," at ais, 400,
$50, TAO and 9:25 pm.
Evening star., 1933-10-05
Icebergs, Aviators, Some
Wild Boys and An Emperor
All These Will Have Part in New Weeks Screen
Fare-National to Be Dark-Croup OF Stars in
Might Flight Robson on Screen.
Bv E. de S. Melcher.

TINE coming weeks attractions, the National which
seems have into snag following this weeks
hugely showing Napoleon his Josephine
ice rs Iceberg" at the Rialto), Mr.
ONells saga of Pullman porter himself emperor,
much flying German star some very wild boys OF the
Southern the Metropolitan and the beauteous
appears starting Sunday at the Gayety with her
annual Girls in Blue" They're always In blue)
Evening star., 1933-10-05
BY ED WYNN.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, october S.
Here am propped up in bed with
more pain than glass factory. and
my good friend Mollie Merrick calls up
and says, Ed, want you to write q
funny column for me-"
All day yesterday, from o'clock In
the morning until after midnight, I
took scenes for my new Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer picture, 1.-The Chief" It
isn't hard to make scenes for motion
pictures unless you have to wrestle a
bear. That's what I did for Is hours.
The bears name is Samson and it
weighs 1886 pounds. I might say in
passing that If you have never wrestled
a bear you have never really lived; this
morning feel that it wouldn't make
much difference.
The question I hear most often out
here in Hollywood is, Whats funny?"
Directors ask it. Writrs ask it. Actors
ask It, Everybody concerned with the
making Of comedies is always worrying
about what's funny.
They don't believe me, but I still say
that the funniest spoken thing on earth
is a really good pun. Also one of the
most intelligent, and one of the hardest
to write. I just love puns! And not
with coffee either, you!
The reason the so-called intelligentsia
goan when they hear pun is because
they didn't think of it first. Also be-
cause it is fashionable not to like puns.
But let some of those same people try
to write really clever pun. And .see
what happens!
When I crack a pun and hear some
body say it's terrible, I'm always glad.
You know why? Because that person
will repeat the pun to at least 10 people
next day as that terrible thing Ed
Wynn pulled last night" And as long
as they talk about me, I'm a success.
Like the origin of "so-o-o-o---." Now
what's funny about the word $50?
Nothing. of course My mother. bless
her soul, liked to tell stories, and she
always said so" at least 10 times in
every story. 1t came to be a sort OF
family joke. Every family has those
home used to say it sometimes mock
nothing ever would have made me
imagine it would be funny outside our
family circle
Well, on the opening in New York
of "Tf1e Laugh Parade" which was
supposed to be terrific flop, mother
and some Of her friends were down in
the front row. Toward the end of the
show, just to clown with mother, said
"so-o-o-o-o---" as I did around the
house
You can imagine my amazement
when the whole audience roared! ]
Evening star., 1933-10-05

w WHILE the mental and physical
a ! fear complex in the screen
wv version of Emperor Jones"
is not so acute as it was
when you saw it on the
stage this film is literal and impress
sive copy of the original. with pro-
logue which has been well constructed
by Du Bose Haywood. The film which
opened a day or so ahead Of time yes
terday at R-K-O Keith's. and which
was serenaded out in the open last
night by a quartet of jubilee singers
who sang songs into the ears Of visiting
producer John Krimsky Che and Gif-
ford Cochran started out their careers
by bringing "Maedechen in Uniform"
to this country, is notable not only
for its workmanlike transcription, but
for the work of Paul Robson, who, be-
sides being one of the most likable sing
ers in the world, gives evidence of being
also a shrewd and likable actor.
Robeson's Emperor Jones' is bril-
liant study of ego in the raw and IN the
rough. While his portrayal of the pull
man porter who rises to self-dubbed
emperorship on a distant isle, is not
the neurotic struggle and triumph and
tragedy which characterized Gilpin's
work, frightening you by its emotional
upheavals, it is a sincere and penetrat-
ing exhibit of fear done on a lesser
scale.
The reason for this "lesser" is be-
cause Mr. Robson is not a man who
can easily turn gruff. He is even per-
haps too pleasant. But this weakness
is only minor weakness, since for the
most part you will be delighted by the
way in which he swings himself about
and rules his island with a fist of iron.
The story needs no repetition. 1t is
the story as ONeill wrote it, plus that
prologue which carries out the earlier
history of Jones for which there was
no room in the original play. In this
sequence you will see Jones rise from
the bottom to the top" and witness
that murder which subsequently haunts
him. You will see snatches of Harlem
and be told why it was that his ambi-
ton eventually got the better of him.
Evening star., 1933-10-05
Mental and Physical Fear
Dominates Emperor Jones'
Screen Version of ONeill Play Is Well Done With
Paul Roseson in the Leading Role Shows
Prologue Which Was Missing on Stage.

Later. you get down to the ONeill lines,
and hear the islands tom-tom. and fol-
low Jones through those island thickets
which ultimately became his Waterloo.
This part we have to admit having
been disappointed in. The shrubbery IS
too obviously Astoria, Long Island,
studio shrubbery Nevertheless, you are
there to see Robson and listen to O'Neill,
and watch Dudley Digges, who O'Neill
says is the best of all such men, and
you will be stirred by the complications
and the drums and the utter futility of
Jones ending-and come home both a
sadder and wiser man. E. de S. M.
Evening star., 1933-10-05
Bangkok Gains.

Foreign trade of Bangkok, Siam, Is
16 per cent greater than last year.
Evening star., 1933-10-05
TAMPICO MENACE GROWS

TAMPICO, Mexico, october S P.-
Problems Of relief and sanitation aris-
ing from a hurricane 10 days ago and
subsequent floods became increasingly
serious today, and officials planned to
order the evacuation of 1000 refugees
to tighten the task of caring for more
than 1000 additional homeless.
Medical authorities awaited the ar
rival from Dallas of an emergency
chlorinstion apparatus, which they
hoped could make possible pure water
supply Food supplies ran low, but a
train with provisions was expected to-
day from the United States.
Evening star., 1933-10-05

Today affords you a glimpse
into some of the most interest
ing revelations of human nature
as told by Ed Wynn.
MOLLIE MERRICK.