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Evening star., 1933-05-25
WOMEN WOUNDED
INGANG GUN FIGHT
Broadway Pedestrians Shot
as Gunmen Fire Fusi|Iade
From Automobiles.
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 25.-Gang gunners
struck down two innocent women today
In skirmish that threw Broadway into
D shrieking panic.
The women, one of whom may die,
we're dropped in the street by slugs
from automatic shotguns when two car
loads of hoodlums, racing south toward
the white lights area, poured fusillade
into third automobile.
The target car, splitting gunfire,
careened around a corner and crashed
into an iron fence. Two men, trailing
blood, limped away quickly. The shat
tered car its tonneau ripped and blood
stained, was registered in the name Of
Edward Rosen, but at Bronx house
given as his address, he was not known
Sadie Fortine, As years old, was walk
ing in Broadway near Eighty-first street
when a slug struck her in the back. At
Knickerbocker Hospital, doctors found
her condition to be critical.
Irene Savage, "a, dropped with bull
let wound in her shoulder.
Walter O'Donald of Hornell, NJ Y,
had stopped to look at shoes in dis
play window when the running battle
roared by. A slug grazed his head.
knocking him down, but he was not
seriously hurt.
Roars from an automobile exhaust,
ganglands favorite device to drown
the sound of bullets, signalled the start
of the fights. Passersby. looking up.
saw three racing cars, one of them
sandwiched between the other two.
From the two outside cars, shots flashed
at the one in the middle.
Eleven slugs punctured it. In the
bloody tonneau were two pearl gray
fedoras, one of them bearing a Newark,
N j., store label. Police, certain that
the two men who escaped after the
crash must be badly wounded asked all
hospitals to be on the lookout for bull
let-wound cases.
No one in the panic-stricken throngs
took the numbers of the other two cars
and police were without clues as to their
occupants.
Evening star., 1933-05-25
,Capone's $lOO Given
Credit for Hating
Disorder at Prison
Pennsylvanian Discloses
Offer Made Convicts
Drop Knives.

Byth Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA May 24.-Al Ca
pone, Public Enemy No. L" before he
landed in Atlanta Penitentiary, today
is credited with Ihalting prison riot
with S100 bill.
Henry N. Woolman. president of the
board Of trustees of the Eastern Peni-
Tertiary where Capone spent year
for carrying a pistol, related the story
for the first time last night.
He said Warden Herbert Smith
learned one day that about 100 convict
workers in the prison shoe shops had
stolen knives That afternoon the pris-
oners gathered in the prison yard to
witness boxing matches.
Smith called for, the first bout. No
one responded, but the circle of convicts
started to close in.
The warden told the men he knew
they had knives and that If they
dropped them in a bucket nothing would
happen But no one made move.
The men began to growl.
"Ill give Sl00 to the first man scoring
the first knockout" Capone was quoted
as shouting.
With whoop the boxers headed for
the ring leaving the knives scattered
behind-and in the bucket.
Woolman said Capone paid-and thus
escaped being in the middle Of what
promised to be frst-class riot.
Evening star., 1933-05-25

much in the public eye since early IN
1890. when a receivership action was
successfully resisted. Control was then
taken from William Fox by Harley
Clarke through General Theaters Equip
ment. A year later Fox Film was con-
fronted by a maturity of note issue Of
SIS, 900 900 and this situation was met
chiefly through financing by the Chase
interests. After that the Chase inter-
ests were regarded as the dominant
financial interest in the company.
The statement issued by the bank
yesterday indicated that the action
taken was regarded as extremely con-
servative and that substantial recov-
cries" on the obligations may save the
use Of all CT the reserves set up. No
details as to the obligations of General
Theaters and Fox held were given other
than the statement that after write
downs they now approximate SIS 5,000, 900
Evening star., 1933-05-25
JACKSON. MISS, CHOSEN
FOR N. (. CONFERENCE
Quadrennial Session to Be April 20
1884, and Will Continue Two
or Three Weeks.

BY the Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala, May c5.--The
General Conference Committee on En-
tertainment Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South yesterday selected Jack
son. Miss, as the meeting place for the
quadrennial general conference.
The General Conference will meet
April 26, 1884, and will be in session
about two or three weeks, member OF
the committee said 1t win assemble
600 delegates Visitors to the last con-
ference. in Dallas, numbered about
Is 900
Five other cities were considered al
the final meeting of the committee here
today-Nashville. Birmingham. Winston.
Salem, N. c.. Columbia, S. c., anc
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Members of the committee attending
the meeting were p D. Maddin, Nash.
vile. chairman: Fred N. Tate, High
Point, N. c.. secretary; Rev. o. p
Clark. Sweetwater, Tex; Rev. r. H
Harper. Baton Rouge, La. and z. c
Watson of Clarksburg, w. Va.
Evening star., 1933-05-25
GARDENS INSPECTED
snecial D;spatcb to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SANDY SPRING. Md. May 25.-The
gardens and two artificial lakes at the
home of Mrs. William H. Hough were
inspected by the members of the Little
Garden Club at a meeting held with
Mrs Hough.
Judges for the annual flower show in
Sandy Spring at Community House on
the afternoon of June are to be Mrs.
Joseph l. France of Baltimore and Mrs.
William F. Bevan of Ruxton, Md.
Mrs. Henry Owings, president of the
club, was its representative at the meet
ing of the Federated Garden Clubs
Wednesday at the Hagerstown Country
Club, with Mrs. Milton Bancroft. dele
gate. and Mrs. Joseph Tlton, alternate;
Mrs William Hough; director, and Mrs.
Mortimer O. Stabler alternate.
Evening star., 1933-05-25
SEEKS SCHOOL AID
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY. May IS fF.-
Warned by Gov. william H. Murray
that only immediate re-enactment Of
three tax bills with emergency clauses
would prevent chaos in the school sys-
tenn and place the State on firm
financial basis, the seventh Oklahoma
special Legislature convened yesterday.
The Governor asked repassage Of the
sales, income and cigarette tax bills
and re-enactment of the school land
regulation law. The bills were passed by
the regular session a few weeks ago
without emergency clauses and would
not become effective until July 81.
The sales tax bill provides per
cent rate on articles sold at retail. The
cigarette tax bill provides levy OF
cents package. while the proposed
income tax rates are from / to per
cent, with surtax to 10 per cent.
Evening star., 1933-05-25
LYLE Womack Weds.

LOS ANGELES. May Is (P.-Lyle
z. Womack, former husband of Ruth
Elder, the ayiatrix, was married last
night to Miss E. Louise Tucker. as
the climax of romance which Womack
said began in front of lion cage
He first saw Miss Tucker among the
spectators when he was lecturing at q
lion farm They will leave next Fri
day for Balboa Heights, Canal Zone
where they will live.
Evening star., 1933-05-25

robbers had not taken anything but the
safe. Entrance was made through a
rear door The safe, weighing about
500 pounds. had been carried to the
front of the station and imprints
showed where it had been set down.
Tracks showed some rubber-tired We
hicle had been backed to this point.
Evening star., 1933-05-25
Former Stage Agent Dies.

SAN DIEGO, Calf May 25 LE).-
w. B. Gross, 72, once a prominent
theatrical agent. died here yesterday.
Gross represented many celebrated
actors of the last generation, includ-
ing James A. Hearn and Robert
Mantell He came here from New York
20 wears ago
Evening star., 1933-05-25
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~ street car conductor
informed the shabby
- man, these transfers
aren't any good"
The forlorn fellow shifted
a child in his arms. The
child's bare toes could be
seen through ragged shoes.
The mans companion. a
thinly clad woman with
baby, began to cry. you
Evening star., 1933-05-25
Plan Strawberry Festival.

GAITHERSBURG. Md. May IS
(SpeciaD A strawberry festival and
chicken and ham supper, according
to an announcement, will be held in the
Mcdonald Chapel. Ounce Orchard. this
evening under the auspices OF the
Ladies' Aid Society.
Evening star., 1933-05-25
MARTINSBURG ROBBERS
STEAL LOCKED SAFE
Between $125 and $3.50 Contained
in Strong Box of Tire Dis
tributing Firm.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va. May 25.-
Unidentified robbers hauled away the
locked safe from a tire distributing
agency in the suburbs here some time
last night The management said this
morning between $l25 and $3.50 was in
the safe A hurried check indicated the
Evening star., 1933-05-25
SURPLUS ACCOUNT
| OF CHASE BANK CUT
Provides for Writing OFF OF
Covering Reserves of
Theater Concerns.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 25.-The Chase
National Bank yesterday announced a
reduction of its surplus to $50, 900, 900,
one reason for which was to provide
for writing off or covering by reserves
of obligations of the Fox Film Corpora
tionS and the General Theaters Equip
ment Corporation.
AT its meeting today" said an an
of the Chase National Bank directed
certain charge offs and additions to
reserve accounts and authorized the
reduction of the surplus of the bank
to s50,000,000.
Writes OF Obligations.
"As one of the results of this action,
the obligations of the General Theaters
Equipment Corporation and the Fox
Film Corporation and its subsidiaries
have been written of or covered by
reserves. so that the total amount of
such obligations now remaining are ap-
proximately $l5,000,000.
The capital of the bank will remain
at Sl48,OO0. 900, the surplus as stated
will be $50,000,000. and the undivided
profit account will be in excess Of
$500 900. The total capital funds will
therefore be IN excess OF S2OU,OU0 ,U0U.
1T is the firm belief of the directors
that the bank will have substantial re-
coveries in many of the items which
we're subject to the action taken today.
The surplus was written down to
$50 ,000 900 compared with 100000, 900
as reported in the statement of March
81. The undivided profit in excess of
S7,500,000 compared with $l3,200,0 900
renorfed 0f March al
The General Theaters Equipment
Corporation is in receivership. A few
months ago action by a stockholder
calling upon Fox Film to show cause
why receiver should not be appointed
was withdrawn. Last March. w. w.
Aldrich. president of the Chase Ma
ticnal Bank, and several others retired
as directors of Fox Film.
The fortunes of Fox Film have been
Evening star., 1933-05-25

Eastern area Of the American Red
Cross, Family Welfare Committee. The
chairman OF the child welfare division
has not yet been selected.
Mrs. Whitman Cross was elected to
fill the vacancy on the board caused by
the resignation of Miss Grace Abbott.
Mrs. Cross also was named chairman
of a committee to be composed of men,
bers of the boarA of agencies In the
council to consider questions and plans
relating to the agencies in which they
are interested.
Evening star., 1933-05-25

can't put us off," she cried,
"the children are cold and
hungry and we have no
money"
A working man on the rear
platform of the car pushed his
way through the crowd, "I'll
pay their fare" and extract
ing the money, he added,
land here is a dollar to get
some food for those kids. I
Evening star., 1933-05-25
lisa
racket
By
James E. Grant.

wish it were more, but it's all
I have"
The row d, sympathy
aroused, began to shove
money into the crying wom-
ans hands when a voice cut
in.
Never mind, folks. I'll take
care of them-at the police
station-it'S a racket" Sergt.
Hogan emerged from the
crowd. You, too, come
along" he barked at the
Evening star., 1933-05-25

working man who had given
his all. "A rotten racket,
keeping these kids out in the
cold and the poor youngsters
only half dressed.
BE quiet" he told the pro-
testing crowd. "We investi-
gated these people. They
have been making $50 and
$100 a day. This other guy,
giving his only dollar, is the
come-on."
Evening star., 1933-05-25

advise and the public
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-22
Overpaid Executives

One of the lessons of the depression
seems to have been that some of our
brightest executives were very grossly
overpaid.
A case in point is furnished by the
story OF an Ohio bank, the Guardian
Trust Company of Cleveland, which
took to its bed at the time of the
recent bank holiday, plucked fitfully
at the covers and then quietly
breathed its last.
The Ohio senate is now Investigate
ing this bank, and it has found that
It's president was drawing salary of
around 100000 year-which Is more
than the president OF the United
States gets. In one year salaries to
the banks leading executives totaled
a sum greater than the dividends
paid to stockholders.
To earn a salary Of 100000 a year,
a man has got to be very, very good.
When he repays his employers by
permitting his firm to drift straight
into insolvency, one hardly needs to
be unduly critical to suspect that he
was being very greatly overpaid.
One wonders just how many firms
that went bankrupt in the last few
years were supporting big shot exc
cutives in style to which they had
no right to become accustomed.
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The PATRONAGE Evil

President Roosevelts action In
putting all postmasters under civil
service seems to be long step in the
right direction. And 1t leads to the
hope that our major political parties
will eventually have sense enough to
drop the patronage game entirely.
That the federal service suffers be-
cause parties try to reward their
hacks with public office is notori-
Gus. It is also beginning to be clear
that passing out these jobs usually
creates more enemies than friends.
The number of jobs is strictly limit
ed: the job-hunters are like the sands
Of the sea, uncountable. For one who
Is chosen there are a dozen to be
rejected, and those who are rejected
are very apt to get sore about it.
Deciding to fill state and govern
ment positions on merit basis might
turn out to be good politics as well
as good government.
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7 IN Nh
/ NEW
| YORK
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York, July 22.-Most of
Broadway's celebrities had amazingly
inauspicious beginnings. John Gold
en-. for instance, one Of the most sue
cessful producers, once was a brick
layer-and even was q member of q
construction gang on theater in
which some Of his plays later ap-
peared :. And George Gershwin
who was born George Brushkin in
Brooklyn, used to be a half-starv-
ed song plugger in Tin Pan Alley
His next job was in vaudeville
act in cheap movie house, and he
lasted exactly one performance
1t was only a few short years age
that Ethel Norman was failing q
typewriter in a realty office. And
now she's starring in "Take Chance, >
the musical hit that has moved ia
Chicago. Samuel Rothafel, now
known as Roxy" is an ex-bartende1
and a former marine. Rosa Ponselle
vaulted from the vaudeville stage to
the Metropolitan Opera Company j. .
And Mae West was vaudeville aero
bat >. George S. Kaufman, after be-
ing fired from at least half the news
papers Of New York and Washington
now has become the foremost direc-
tor-playwright in the American
theater
Eddie Elkins, the orchestra leader
graduated from dental college; Fred
Warning took degree in architecture:
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Let's Be Devilish

One Of the significant things about
the allotment system is that the gov
eminent obviously doesn't expect the
American farmer to do as much work
as he Is used to doing.
Restrictions are placed upon the
use Of land taken out Of wheat pro-
duction because, 1t is explained, other
provisions will be made for the corn,
hog, livestock and dairy industry and
development Of these crops on acreage
formerly given over to wheat would
only complicate the situation.
It will be a real problem when we
get to it and one of vast importance,
for the use or misuse of the leisure
now in prospect will determine the
fundamentals of future society. If
the extra time is devoted to self
improvement it will be OF vast bene-
tit to the race and we shall have in
America the most advanced and
highly cultured people in the world.
II, on the other hand, the old adage
about the devil finding things for
idle hands is permitted to hold true,
we shall have more complications
than we now dream of.
Nevertheless, all of us will welcome
the situation which presents such a
problem. Most of US yearn for SELF
improvement-or think we do-and
not few would relish the opportun-
1ty for little devlishness after keep
ing the nose to the grindstone in an
effort to earn a bare living.
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Margaret was crying, very quiet
~. Mathews looked At her. shook
his head warningly. She was say-
ing-"My fault-all nv fauit
Irayers, do you blame me very
He replied, slowly.
No, l understand. You wera
forced into it by circumstances hv
my old madness, by-oh. I dont
blame you. But can't understand
her. Playing that part"
De thought of things he believed
no one knew but Mary Lou and
himself. OF her eyes when shs
had said she cared. A part. too ?
Just the role, just carrying on
Mathews said, steadily:
N your mind is made up. va
nave NO night to try and dissuac.~
you, not even your mother. And
= you are being hard on Mary Lon
Inurston in your thoupht-don't
De. She was forced into this To-
Don't think she liked It'll She's .
very honest person. But 81. h.d
to 60 through with it for vonr
sake, and she did so. You owe
ner everything. You owe her,
even, TINS final honesty, this clari.
;! y.ng OF an the muddled, darkened
issues. You owe to her even The
strength with which to meet them N.
lace them and to resolve them"
ID. 10 Be continued
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A Memory of Mr.. Coolidge
Duluth Herald

During the summer Of 1928 the late
Calvin Coolidge, then president Of
the United States, honored Wisconsin
and the Lake Superior region by
choosing the Brule river for his sum-
naer vacation site.
But vacation to the serious mind
OF Mr.. Coolidge meant little more
than a change Of scene, and each
day during the months he spent at
the Brule he travelled about twenty
miles to his temporary office in Su-
perior to carry on the heavy duties
and responsibilities of his place.
People along that road often speak
about a wave of the hand or a kindly
smile from the pale man they
gnmpsed as he journeyed back and
forth that summer.
Last Tuesday, the Fourth of July
and his birthday, by the way, Supe-
rlor and Douglas county people trans
lated their pleasant memories of Mr..
Coolidge into permanent memorial.
The road he used was formally dedi-
Gated as the Coolidge Memorial High
way, and an association was organ
lied properly to maintain it.
1t was a gracious tribute to a great
man and honors all who took part
IN it.
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Barbs

Scientists at u. 8. Department o.
Agriculture announce progress In wal
on garden pests. But 30 far theJ
seem to have been unable to do any.
thing about the neighbor who Is al
ways borrowing our rake.
y y y
Movie star, 50 the Hollywood
press agents say, practices singing
his popular song hits while In the
bathtub. Maybe that explains his
liquid notes.
Fishing wouldn't be 50 bad. If the
fish would only bite just half as Of
ten/as the mosquitoes.
X y \
Considering the weather we've
been having, what p. T. Barnum
really intended to say probably
was 1.-THE American public likes
to be cooled"
y y y
Anti-repeal leader says prohibition
speakers should popularize their re-
marks by making more wise-cracks.
Does this mean we are to have some
dry humor?
Copyright. 1888, NEA Service, 1nc)
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Newspaper Pulling Power

One of the things the depression
years seem to have taught American
business men is that the newspaper
advertisement Is the surest and most
effective means Of reaching the con.
suming public.
Figures just made public by the
Bureau of Advertising of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers associa-
ton show that newspapers received
So per cent Of the total advertising
appropriations OF 1872 national adver-
tisers in 1882 and constituted the
preferred advertising medium of 1s
OF the principal trade groups in the
United States.
Newspapers, for example, got 81
per cent of the automobile advertise
ments, "a per cent of the gasoline
ads, 90 per cent of the railroads ads
and 81 per cent Of the shoe and
clothing advertisements.
The figures are a remarkable trib-
ute to the pulling power" of the
newspaper advertisement.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Modern Surxerv

Feel would not be doing my duty
If I did not tell you of the highly sat-
isfactory result from removal Of
hemorrhoids by the injection method
which you recommended. Not only
hemorrhoids but other associated dis
turbances were completely cured by
this treatment without one bit of in
convenience to me -. (Mrs. G. K,
c.
Answer-Thank you. The injection
treatment, which does not incapacitate
the patient from ordinary occupation,
Is proving uniformly successful, but
we regular doctors are nothing II not
backward about having truck with
these newfangled methods, and 1t
will be long time yet before the
medical profession at large Is pre-
pared to deal with such conditions in
the modern way.
Tragic Wedding
Is there q law forbidding T.B. pa
tients from marrying? (Mrs. I. c.
Answer-1 believe in some states 1t
Is illegal for a person to contract
marriage knowing he has tuberculosis,
Forty Winks After Lunch
I am SO years old, in the plumbing
business. I generally take nap for
20 minutes after my noon lunch. A
friend says this is bad practice, that
it Is hard on the heart to get up and
go to work after such a nap. III. j.
W.
Answer-I should say q stroll out
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One Little Law

When an airplane landed at the St.
Louis airport the other day the man.
ager of the field looked it over and
grounded" it. That is he issued an
order that it was not to be flown
again until certain repairs had been
made.
Wednesday this plane crashed In a
st. Louis suburb, carrying to death
21-year-old boy and his uniden-
titled companion. The youth had
defied the law by taking the machine
into the air and he paid with his life
for the offense.
There Is some sort OF a moral in
this which all of us might take to
heart. Perhaps, it is the idea that
the violation of laws which are
grounded in justice and common
sense are certain of punishment, al
though 1t is hardly ever as swift or
severe as was the fact in this case.
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when struck by an automobile As he
was walking along highway No. 10
about seven miles east Of here.
Pat Mclaughlin, Dickinson, driver
Of the Car, said he was blinded by the
headlights Of an approaching vehicle
and did not see 'Ygnotowiz until It
was too late to avoid hitting him.
Eugene Burkmaier Of Dickinson was
with Mclaughlin when the accident
occurred.
Ygnotowiz was with his nine-year-
old son William, who saw tho cs--x
approaching and jumped off the road.
Mclaughlin and Burkmaier picked up
Ygnotowiz to bring him to the local
hospital. He died en- route. He SUI
fered q fractured skull.