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The Washington times., 1933-08-26
"Penthouse" " Film
Stars Baxter,
Myrna 10y

He never says so though he
would be justified in talking
about it, but w. S Van Dyke
who directed the Metro-G -Goldwyn-
Mayer Cosmopolitan production,
to be released soon. Penthouse, I"
the Arthur Somers Roche's story
that appeared in Cosmopolitan
Magazine, once was a newspaper
man himself.
So, when a sequence in the
production called for a complete
city room of a New York news
paper office, he did not forget his
host of unemployed newspaper
friends in Los Angeles.
Van Dyke rounded them all up
and invited them to play movie
Ractor for day; and when the
city room scene was taken there
was a real city editor barking
commands from the movie city
editors desk, real news reporters
banging on typewriterS, scamper-
ing in and out on assignments,
real. sob sisters doing their stuff.
The scene is the opening of the
Arthur SomerS Roche's story
Penthouse" newspaper activity
receiving, editing, preparing the
stories for the sensational yarn
of the acquittal for murder of
Nat Pendleton, playing the role
of New York's Public Enemy
Number One.
Besides Baxter and Pendleton,
the sterling Penthouse" cast in
cludes Myrna 10y, Charles But
terworth, C. Henry Gordon, Mae
Clarke, Martha Sleeper, Phillips
Holmes, George E. Stone, Robert
Emmett O'Connor, Raymond Hat
ton and Arthur Belasco.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Warner Bros. Theaters

AMBASSADOR-sund Monday and
Tuesday: Leslie Howard, Paul Lukas,
Douglas Fairbanks. jr., and Margaret
Lindsay in "Captured!" Wednesday
and Thursday: Lionel Barrymore and
Miriam Hopkins in strangers Re-
turn; Eton Boys short. Friday:
Wynne Gibson and Edmund Lowe in
Her Bodyguard"; Cattlett comedy and
traveltalk. Saturday: Buddy Rogers
and Marian Nixon in BEST Of Enc
mics; Mickey Mcclure comedy; Nc
Hugh comedy.
APOLLO-sunday and Monday: Char
lie Ruggles and Mary Boland in
Mama Loves Papa; Judels comedy;
screen song. Tuesday and Wednesday,:
Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea in
Bed of Roses; Laurel & Hardy com
edy. Thursday: Cary Grant and
Bonita Hume in Gambling Ship" +;
cartoon. Friday: Wynne Gibson and
Edmund Lowe in Her Bodyguard" ;
Bobby Jones short No. 6; all-starr
comedy. Saturday: Buddy Rogers and
Marion Nixon in "Best of Enemies" =;
Taxiboys comedy and cartoon.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Beer Drinking Drops
By Half in Gern1Qny

Things must be getting tough
in Germany. The stock market
has been dropping over there,
and that has them worried. But
the Commerce Department today
supplied the real inside informa-
ton on Germany. The Germans
are only drinking half as much
beer as they did in the pre-war
period!
They averaged only II gallons
of beer in the twelve months end
ing March 81. The average was
% gallons back in 1913-14.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
RADIO RAMBLES - PROGRAMS
TODAY'S PROGRAMS
NVRC

w NV
p. NJ.
l:30-Roxanne Wallace,
Contralto.
4:45-Three Scamps.
5:00-Musical Interlude.
5:1O-Uncle Charlie.
5:15-Viennese Ensemble.
5:3O-Afternoon Varieties.
5:45-Baseball Scores.
5:50-Musical Interlude.
6:O0-Meyer Davis Orches-
ira.
6:30-Jack and Loretta
Clemens.
6:45-" 7 he Optimistic
Mrs. Jones"
7:0O-M ayf wer En-
semble.
7:15-Kellogg Br a n d
Peace Pact.
7:3O-Under the Bridges
of Paris.
7:00-Greater show Week
3 l0-M Y w En-
semble.
S:30-K-7 Secret Service
Spy Dramas.
9:00-The Saturday Night
Dancing Party, B,
A. Rolfe.
1O:0O-Special NRA Talk
by William Green,
President of Ameri-
can Federation OF
La Dor.
10:15-COngress Hotel Or
Chestra.
10:30-Harold Stern's Or
Chestra.
11:00-Last Minute News.
IL 1:02-Nillage Barn Or
chestra.
11:15-Symphonies under
the Skies.
12:30-Johnny SIaughter's S
Orchestra.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Don't Miss These

9:15 A. M.--(Every yweekday)-"Keeping Up
with the Times" by n. Il. r.
Meekins (WMAL).
7:2O p. M.-Herald News Spotlight (WOL.
$500 p. M.-Saturday Night Dancing Party;
b. A. ROlfe and Orchestra
CWRCJ.
1000 p. MIRA Talk by william Green,
president of American Federation
of Labor (WRC).
80 2. M.-WashingtOn Herald Globe TrOt-
ter, Arthur Reilly (WJSV).
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
The Big Show

The million dollar" NRA radio
show goes on the air tomorrow
night at 9:45 over the networks
of the big systems and over the
independent stations, many of
which are joining for the entire
broadcast.
In addition to bringing into
play the entire network facilities
of the nation the porgram will
also present a most impressive
array of leading radio. screen and
stage talent.
Byrd Reviews
Senator Harry Flood Byrd of
Virginia and former governor of
that State, will review the prog
resS to date of NRA over an
N.B.C.-WJZ (WMAL) network
at lis p. m. (ES.TD
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
John D., Jr., Speaks

An Army bombing plane from
Mitchell Field, N. Y, is trans
porting a crew of Columbia engi-
neers and a special field ampli-
flying unit to Seal Harbor, Me-,
today so that John D. Rockefel-
Ter. jr., may make his first radio
broadcast in behalf of the NRA
cause.
Herbert B. Glover, CHS. direc-
tor of news broadcasts, is a re-
serve officer. He will introduce
Rockefeller at 9 p. m. (E.S.T0
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Here and There
In the Realm Of
Broadcastins
By STANLEY BIGELOW

The fifth anniversary of the
signing of the Kellogg-Briand
peace pact will be observed to-
night with a program originating
in the N.B.C. studios in Wash
ington.
The program will be broadcast
at 7:15, EST, over WRC.
The principal speakers will be
j. Pierrepont Moffat, chief of the
division of Western Europe af-
fairs of the State Department,
and Count Pierre de Leusse, at
tache of the French embassy,
representing the French ambas-
Sador.
The program is to include a
summary of accomplishments un-
der the international agreement
and forecasts of the future under
it's provisions. The speakers are
to be introduced by Miss Mabel
Vernon, disarmament campaign
director of the Women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and
Freedom.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Maharaja on Air

His Highness Maharaja Gaek-
war, who rules an Indian state
of 8,100 square miles and more
than two million subjects and
who rates a salute of 81 guns in
the British Empire, is to give
radio talk at $50 p. m. (E.S.TO
over N. B. C.-WJZ tomorrow.
The Maharaja, regarded as one
of the most progressive rulers in
India. will address the final con-
Vention session of the World Fell
lowship of Faiths.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Picture Review

Picture Review
High spots in the history of
motion pictures are to be spot
lighted tonight in a Greater
Show Week" review over an
N.B.C. (WRC) hook-up tonight at
O'Clock (E.S.TO
Roxy and David Wark Grif-
fifth, pioneers in the making and
presentation of "super features" "
will star in the program, which
will be on the air a half hour.
The review will include the
early day spectacleS of "Intoler-
ance," Birth of a Nation" i"
Rudolph Valentines Blood and
Sand" and Charlie Chaplin's Win
ners as well as the later day
talkie successes.
Evening star., 1933-06-01
BUILDING TRADES
SHOWING ACTIVITY
Industry Takes New Hope as
So, 800, 900, 900 of Federal
Funds to Be UnIeashed.
~ the Associated Press.

" the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 1.-The building
industry has taken new lease on hope
hs the result of the national industry
recovery act, which will unleash some
ss, ,300. .oo0, 900 of Federal funds for con-
Etruction purposes.
Fer the first time during this period,
beports also indicate, tht home owner
eeels justified in adding that postponed
sun porch or putting on a new roof.
Repair and modernization work in the
uon-residential field Is likewise show
ing increased activity.
During the first four months of 1888
constitution volume as measured by the
valuation of contracts awarded in the
"a States east of the Rocky Mountains
vas about 38 per cent under the like
period of 1882. Public works and utili-
ties made the best comparative showing
Of any division, showing decline of 81
per cent. This was attributed in large
measure, however, to the unusually low
level of activity in this class of build
ing during the first half of 1882.
Non-residential work made the next
best score, with value of contract awards
registering drop of 38 per cent. While
residential building declined 48 per
cent, the April figures were cause for
satisfaction, awards advancing 20 per
cent over the March total, much bet
Ter than seasonal improvement
The F. w. Dodge Corporation. COM
piler of these statistics, points out that
the money value of the contracts
totaied $3.50, 900 900 for the four-month
period this year, as against $408, ,000,0 900
o year ago.
But building authorities look pri-
marily to the Governments public works
program to expand the monthly figures.
Just how much will be spent within the
Evening star., 1933-06-01

next year Is a moot point However.
active prosecution of the program is
anticipated, inasmuch as projects do
not necessarily have to be "self-liqui-
dating" Heretofore advances from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
were limited by this qualification.
Ruthless retrenchment tactics by the
Evening star., 1933-06-01

public. epitomized In the doubling up"
OF families and the moving from larger
to smaller quarters, are subsiding,
building companies state. They look
for the administration's home mortgage
bill to strengthen the home mortgage
market, further stimulating residential
construction.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
New Trophy Goes
Into Competition
In Bay Title Race
Miles River Homecoming
Regatta to Be Held
August 4 and 5.

OF. MICHAELS. Md, July "a new
y Miles River Trophy, emblematic of
the speedboat championship Of
Chesapeake Bay. will be placed in COM
petition by the Miles River Yacht Club
at its Twelfth Annual Eastern Maryland
Homecoming Regatta here August 4
and S.
E. C. Chase Of Baltimore carried away
the original trophy last Summer, when
he won a third and permanent leg on
the 12-year-old cup with his Pep III.
The new trophy has been presented to
the club by Commodore Thomas F.
Scott
The Miles River Trophy race will be
the feature Of the power boot division
of the coming regatta, which has 80
events scheduled for the two days. The
colorful log sailing canoe race for the
Governors Cup headlines the sailing
division, which also includes free-for-
all for the championship of the Chesa-
peake.
The power boat racing schedule calls
for 125 cubic-inc inboard runabout and
class B, C and unlimited outboard races,
in addition to three 10-mile heats for the
Miles River Trophy, open to all types OF
displacement craft, with no limit on size
or power. Chase plans to defend his
championship in the Miles River Trophy
race with the Arctic Tern, Gold Cup
boat he purchased recently from John
Shibe of Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1933-07-09

it was impossible for a boat to live in
the storm tossed waters, and it was not
until Tuesday that the boat captains
again ventured forth to the fishing
grounds. But the fish this year do not
seem to mind anything, rain, wind OF
rough water. After the big waves re-
ceded, the denizens of the deep were
lust as anxious as ever to take the bats
and some really remarkable catches
have been made.
The largest catch of the season
and think the largest ever heard
Of was made last "Wednesday by
Heinie Manush and his wife, Billy
Nishwitz and Joe Hanlein. They
went to Plum Point and had Capt.
Sam Dixon take them across the
bay to what is known as GOoSes.
The total catch weighed over 1000
pounds, which included Is trout,
the largest trout weighing pounds
2 ounces.
This was a very remarkable catch
The anglers left over 600 pounds OF
fish on the wharf at Plum Point, and
Capt. Dixon said he gave fish away
right and left. They packed 300 pounds
of fish on ice and brought them to
Washington. Capt Dixon said he would
guarantee that any of his fishing par
ties would return with not less than
200 fish. He also said that following
the full moon he expects plenty OF big
sea trout will be landed by the bay
anglers.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
Ac[GnS -
e 52SI1s 81 c

landed two barrels of fish, the
hardheadS predominated, but 80
trout made up the catch, the
largest weighing 7 pounds.
Capt. Garvin said his boat was the
only one on the Diamonds that eve
ming, but that plenty of other boats
from Tilghmans were out at other
places, and that they all landed big
catches. Garvin also reports there are
plenty of blues around Sharps Island,
but they have to be landed trolling or
cumming. and will not take bait still
fishing at the present time.
II there is any angler who
doubts the big catches of fish re-
ported from the Eastern Shore of
Tilghman and Sharps Island,
Bloody Point and Poplar Island.
he should be convinced by the
latest report sent in by Capt.
Robert H. Lee of Shady Side.
Capt. Lee said that Capt. Ralph Lee
returned from Bloody Point with 1875
hardheads; Capt. Snip Lee, fishing at
Sharps Island, returned with catch Of
271; Capt. Warren Crandall landed 80,
Capt. Clark Andrews, 367; Capt. Robert
E. Lee, son of Capt. "Bob," returned
with 1877; Capt Roy Wilde had a catch
Of 102, Capt. Benny Rogers. 81, and
Capt. Amos Proctor, 166, all landed OF
Sharps Island.
Capt. Eugene Lee, fishing with
skinny" Fletcher, Will Jefferics and
Ross Lowell off Sharps Island, made a
catch of 271 hardheads in four hours.
Last Tuesday night Capt. Robert H. Lee
took all his boat captains and jos
Pacyna on q trip to Sharps Island to
ind out just what the conditions were
over there and to learn II the trout were
Evening star., 1933-07-09
Handicap System
Works Well for
Cupboard Racing
So Effective in Marathon
1t Has Been Extended
to Free.for-Alls.

20 equable was the handicap system
y in the Albany-to-N York mara
thon that extension of the system
to free-for-all events in the average
has been authorized by Charles F.
Chapman, chairman Of the National
Outboard Racing Commission.
James S. Y. Tyson, vice commodore
of the Philadelphia Outboard Associ-
alton. who handicapped in the Albany
classic, has been appointed head of the
National Outboard Racing Commission
Handicap Committee. Each month
Tyson will announce handicaps for the
various classes and base them on the
times made by winners in all sanctioned
events.
From races of the Stockton, Red
Bluff, Yosemite Lake. Chicago, South
Bend and Eastern intercollegiate the
time allowances for smile races TOR
the month of July follow: Glass A,
2:07; B, I'll; c. 0:19; F, scratch.
It is proposed to wind up regatta
programs with a Smile handicap for
all classes instead of the conventional
scratch free-for-alls, in which class F
jobs always are standout choices to
win.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
Italy May Enter
Harmsworth Cup
Contest in 1884
Mussolini Is in Group In.
terested in Going After
Mile Mark

ATEW YORK, July 8.-Word has
been received that Italy is con-
templating placing challenge for
the Harmsworth Trophy in 1884 with a
$500 horsepower boat.
A group of Italian sportsmen, includ-
ing Premier Mussolini, the Duke of
Spoleto, Prince Ruspoli and Count Ros-
81 di Montelera, are interested in smash
ing the one-mile record now held by
Gar Wood and bringing back the COW
eted trophy. Four Of the five world
inboard records are held by Italian
drivers.
Should italy send q challenge, It
probably will place its hopes upon a
large hydroplane powered with two Of
the 24-cylinder Schneider Cup Fiat en-
gines.
One Of these engines was used in the
recent Italian record-breaking perform
ance In the air.
Evening star., 1933-07-09

tier Of a century ago caused scratch
ling of heads and smiles when his ia
Imous king of the Atlantic Coast, with
a top speed Of "a miles an hour, sped
along with a box on string.
~ ATTENFIELD, commodore of the
liz Eastern Power Boat Club, located
on the Eastern Branch, basks in
the reflected glory of Gar Woods 100
nile-an- hour Miss America in Gold
CUP craft, which will churn the Po-
tonac in September at approximately
three times the speed of his own STEP
less Gray Bat of more than two decades
ego. and now in still another triumph
In speed-the mile minute outboard.
Sixty miles an hour over the meas
lred miles now is the goal OF Amer1-
Ian cutboard motorboat racing drivers
this season, James w. Mulroy. secre-
farv of the National Outboard Associa-
lion. has announced, in offering a re-
Eised list of speed records which the
lying shingles will shoot at this SUM-
ner
Only 16 marks, instead of "a last year,
remain on the record books through
he elimination of Glasses D and
b from competition. The highest speed
bf all is the one-mile Glass F record
bf 5891 miles an hour, made by Art
6auerberg, ST. Louis professional, in
bis Elto powered outfit last October
N the national championships.
Outboard speeds have risen at ter
ific pace during the last two seasons
nd last Summer saw so miles an hour
cached in competition for the first
Evening star., 1933-07-09

Howard, Lewis, Mumma and Leaham,
from the Army Medical School, motored
to Herring Bay and selected Albert
Ward as their guide on the morning of
July 4. They fished in Herring Bay
and landed So hardhead and eels. the
catch weighing 200 pounds.
ITENRY H. BROWN, local
II angler, writes in concerning
a fishing trip to Solomons
ISlands He was accompanied by
Albert w. Tucker, Ellsworth C. De
Vaughn, Edwin D. Brown, Everett
c. Brown and Buddie Brown.
He said: If fish were biting any
better anywhere than they were at Sol
onions Island June 28, the fishing sea-
son is going to be one of the best we
ever had. We took two dozen peeler
along and caught 108 Of the incest
hardhead ever have seen, weighing
from 21a to 4 pounds"
Taking advantage Of the lull in
the weather and the expected
hunger of the hardheads, Rev.
DIR. John E. Copenhaver. w. G.
Heitmueller and L. A. Lehman
went to Bro0mes Island early
Thursday. They had q good time
pulling in big ones.
These anglers reported no trout or
blues were seen, but claim it is a bit
early for these fish at that place.
Another report received comes from
Evening star., 1933-07-09

r ONG since has ]. E. Battenield's
legendary Gray Bat, pride OF
Washington's racing fleet %
years ago. relinquished its title
as the fastest craft on the Atlantic
Coast. No longer does the veteran pilot
of IS years on the Potomac race IN
formal competition But today, as each
new speedboat record is written into
Americas water racing history. smiles
crease his countenance as memories OF
a towed soap box. which once createo
wonderment, leap into mind.
Many a Washingtonian who spent
his boyhood days in the early lsoos
on the Eastern Branch, awaiting Bat
tenfleld's famous Gray Bat and its &C
companying waves to swim into, Won
dered why the soap box towed behind.
lust as Bob Fulton was good for
few smiles in his day, so must have
been Battenfield as he sped along at
the incredible" speed OF IL miles an
hour. with the boiling box trailing:
That soap box! Many wondered, put
few queried or knew. :,
Pioneer of motorboat racing IN
Washington, Battenfield was Tar aheao
of most of the boat world when ne
drove a nail into each the top ana
Evening star., 1933-07-09

Just what Dodge plans to do with
e new hull being built in England has
bt been disclosed. He already has
(e British-built boat, Delphine VIII,
bwereL -ith' the Duesenberg motor
ken from Miss Syndicate, and which
bid Cup championships next Fall.
Like Delphine VIII and Delphine v,
Se new hull was designed by Fred
boper, creator of Miss England II.
he hull is 26 feet long, foot and a
klf shorter than Delphine VIII. but
e has an 8-foot 9-inch beam. inches
ore than the newest of the Delphines
Dodge's other racers are Gold Cup
aft, the Delphine w. which won the
tesident's Cup last year; Delphine vi,
old Impshi, which has been powered
Evening star., 1933-07-09

Luck Goldberg. c. NJ Rosenthal, Heinie
Stern, Joe and VIII Shah, G. Richards
and Ben Madden. These anglers, fish,
ing of Point Lookout July 4, landed 40
big hardhead and 10 kingfish. These
fish were reported caught during the
heavy northeaster.
Robert E. Casey, with his son Junior;
George c. Slicer, Chas Helm, Benjamin
Hurdle, Harold Lichett and S. S. Cog
Manor, in the bay near the fish nets,
landed 1873 hardhead, 78 of them being
Of the largest variety. They started
early IN the morning.
Evening star., 1933-07-09

boards H, I, J up to 1,010 cubic inches
displacement, final heat; special un-
limited outboard, final heat; unlimited
inbcard, final heat, and unlimited in
board handicap, final heat
Races Saturday will begin at 230
o'clock On Sunday they will start
at 1890 am
Entries may be sent to J. A. Ana
dale, secretary of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Power Boat Association, 1917
H street, Washington.
Evening star., 1933-07-09


Storm Merely Delays.
CAPT. GEORGE BOWEN at
" Solomons Island reported
that the big storm last Sum-
day and Monday stopped fishing
for about 20 hours and that it
was Tuesday before the boats
could again get out. Since then,
he said, the anglers have been
returning with more fish than
they could possibly carry home,
the catches averaging 200 to 300
per boat.
OF these catches, he said. each boat
had or 10 trout, some of them weigh
ing pounds and more. He reiterated
his statement of last week, saying that
the best fishing was in the evenings
that twice as many fish are being
landed at that time than in the early
morning hours. Cedar Point, Cove
Point and the channel of the bay are
the best grounds, he declares.
Last Saturday night and Sum-
day morning party consisting
of Robert w. Wooley, X. A. Craw-
ley, Leslie C. Garnett. Col. c. B.
Garnett, Dan McGrath and John
p. Branhall, visiting at the Fish
ing Point Hotel, located across
the Patuxent River from Sol
omans Island. had two very sue
cessful trips. Saturday night they
bagged 100 hardheads and Sun
day morning made another haul
of $50.
Another party Of local anglers con-
sisting of H. L. Schuh, w. L. Schuh
Donald Carpenter and Tom Gale picked
up 5o-odd big hardheads using the
same fishing grounds
Capt. c. F. Willoughby at Ridge, Md
on st. Jeromes Creek, reports many
fish being landed off that place, around
Evening star., 1933-07-09
Eastern Power Boat Club, 80
Years Old, Formed by Angg lers

the ground, during the World War.
the club house was placed on pom
toons and fioated to Anacostia Park.
Five years later it was moved to its
present location, approximately at
the foot of Fourteenth street.
j. E. Battenfield is in his twelfth
year as commodore of the club.
Other officers are Frank Vermillion,
vice commodore; Barry O'Rourke,
recording secretary: William F. Bat
tenf1eld. financial secretary; William
Ruckert, treasurer, and Charles
Snyder, fleet captain. The commo-
dore, Ruckert and William Wayne
are the charter members still in the
organization.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
ROD AND STREAM
.RY PERRY MILLER.

VERY angler has his favorite
r. place to cast for bass in
IL the many fresh streams in
Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia. These anglers had
clear water on the opening day,
July /, and then along came the
storm which muddied up all
streams. Practically all these
streams still are badly discolored.
The Potomac and Shenandoah
Rivers are very muddy.
The recent storm played havoc in
Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, not
with the fish, but fishing boats piers
and wharfs. Last Sunday and Monday
Evening star., 1933-07-09
Fishing Is Good
On Golf Course

IH1PPEWA FALLS. Wis. R.-
~ There's particularly large
water hazard on the Ojibway
golf course and George Wakefield.
like others, had been having his trou-
bles getting drives clear Of the pool.
One day he noticed action in the
water-and It was not made by the
splash Of golf balls. So Wakefield
got his casting outfit and laid nice
fat bass plug beside some lily pads.
He did that a few times ana
hauled out q fine string of the fight
ing beauties. But the shock came
when he was dressing the f1sh.
One contained two golf balls
Evening star., 1933-07-09

DOJlOIn Ol d Soop
box, tied 1t to a
rope and towed it
along. studying the
reaction of the box
as it was pulled
through the water,
first by one nail,
then to another.
In B a t t enfeld's
mind was born the
hydroplane theory,
and though he does
not profess to be
the inventor Of the
step = bottom. he
nevertheless takes
keen pride in pres
ent = day vindica-
tions of the the
o,-v which q mar.