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Evening star., 1934-11-09
BERN DEATH QUIZ
DENIED BY JUROR
Foreman Says Probe Con-
cerned Only With Court
Expenses.
BY the Associated Press.

5y the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November e.-Rec.
ords OF the strange death Of Paul
Bern. film producer and second hus-
band Of Jean Harlow, were studied by
the county grand jury today in its
investigation of expenditures of Dis
trlct Attorney Buron Fits.
AT this time we have no intention
OF investigating the actual circum-
stances OF Bern's death or the acts
of any one else in connection with
the Staying ITSELF" explained DR.. John
P. Buckley, jury foreman. "Our au-
ditors are checking every expenditure
OF county money ever made by Dis
trict Attorney Fits and they now
have: simply arrived at the Bern case
expense entries on his financial ac-
counts"
Indicted for Perjury.
Fits was indicted last week for
perjury and the grand jury announc-
ed it would continue its investigation
into all activities of his office.
After an EXTENSIVE investigation.
during which the platinum haired
widow was questioned by investigators
in a hotel suite, authorities announc-
ed Bern had committed suicide.
He was found shot to death, Sep
tember 5, 1882, pistol in hand, lying
before mirror in the home he had
purchased for his bride Of two
months. Nearby lay a note:
Unfortunately. this is the only way
to make good the frightful wrong I
have done to you and to wipe out my
abiect humiliation. You understand
last night was only a comedy"
A few days later Dorothy Millette,
described as Bern's common-law wife
before his marriage to the screen star,
ended her life by leaping from Q
River steamer.
The county grand jury's investiga-
tion came as Miss Harlow contem.
plated divorcing her third husband,
Hal Rosson, film cameraman.
Evening star., 1934-11-09
COWARD TO TOUR CHINA
AFTER VISITING U. S.
Will Go to Wisconsin With Lunts
Following Run of "Point
Valain."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, November 9.-There's no
part for Noel Coward in his newest
play so he's going to China.
The author-actor guest at the Gov
ernment House here, was asked yes
terday whether he had assigned him.
self any role in Point Valain." the
play that will open in Boston Christ
mas night.
NO" he replied. II wish I were,
darn it. There is not part for me"
Alfred Lunt and his wife, Lynn
Fontaine. are producing Point Va
lain" and Coward, who came to this
continent to confer with them. will
go to Wisconsin soon to visit the
Lunts.
As soon as he has finished visiting
around in America, Coward will sail
for China.
Evening star., 1934-11-09
JONES TO PROPOSE
FARM CREDIT PLAN
System Powerful as Federal
Reserve and Stripped OF
Private Profit.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Creation of a permanent farm credit
system as powerful as the Federal
Reserve and stripped of all private
profit will be proposed to the next
Congress by Chairman Jones Of the
House Agriculture Committee as the
key log of farm legislative program.
Essentially, the set-up would be
broad enough to afford permanent
credit facilities to agriculture in all
its operations-credit to be given at
cost, plus fractional charge to build
up a reserve and protect against
losses.
The system would be operated
through the existing Farm Credit Ad-
ministration 1t would be empowered
to issue currency-farm credit notes
similar to Federal Reserve notes-and
thus to save the interest charges re-
sulting in financing through bonds
1t would make use of existing ia
cilities of intermediate credit banks,
the Production Credit Corp, and land
banks.
The money to start the farm re-
serve system, Jones added, would come
either by earmarking gold now held
in the Treasury or by direct appro-
priation of Congress. He declined to
estimate how much would be needed
Evening star., 1934-11-09
OFFICIALS SILENT
ON R0BLES CASE
Refuse Comment on Raising
of Bond for Extor-
ton Suspect.
BY the Associated Press.

PHOENIX, Ariz., November g.
Officers seeking the kidnapers of June
Robles declined to comment today on
the significance of their latest steps
against Oscar H. Robson, arrested on
an extortion charge in connection with
the case.
Robson, a night club operator, was
held incommunicado in jail; court
action against him was delayed and
his bond hiked from $50,000 to
100000.
Officers refused to say whether the
steps were taken in the hope of first
making other arrests linked with the
kidnapping Of the 6-year-old girl last
April rs. She was found alive, i'm
prisoned in an iron box buried in the
desert, 19 days later.
Il shouldn't be surprised" COM
mented District Attorney Clifton
Mathews, IF there are other arrests"
Robson Is accused of sending a
Evening star., 1934-11-09
PLEDGE HOUSING MODEL
Master Plumbers Seek to Make
D. c. Program Best.

A pledge to make the Washington
better housing program a model for
other cities was made last night by
the local chapter o; the National Asso-
citation Of Master Plumbers, in a
meeting at the ythian Temple. A
display of nationally prod
ucts at reasonable prices as an aid
to better housing will be held here
November 16, it was announced.
Those appointed to committees by
Joe High, general chairman of the
plumbing division of the local better
housing campaign, were Harry Steck.
manufacturers branch; Charlie Mo-
ran. wholesalers branch, and John
Mcdonald, chairman of journeymen
plumbers
Evening star., 1934-11-09
GARDEN PRIZE AWARDED
Mrs. ]. W. Pollock Again Wins
Foxhall Village Cup.

Mrs. J. w. Pollock, 4448 Greenwich
parkway, has been awarded first
prize in the annual garden contest
sponsored by the Society of Little
Gardens Of Foxhall Village This is
the second consecutive year that she
has won the silver trophy awarded
for the best garden in Foxhan Vii
lage
Other prize winners were Mrs. H.
T. Dunbar, 4423 Greenwich parkway,
second. and Mrs. Dudley Willard,
4430 @ street, third.
The society has decided to make
the alleys in the communities as at
tractive as the streets and will inau-
gurate a campaign to eliminate rub
bish and unsightly objects from the
alleyS
Evening star., 1934-11-09
MAGEE is SPEAKER
Talks on River Pollution Before

Talks on River Pollution Before
Walton League.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LANDOVER, Md, November g.
Elimination Of pollution of rivers
near Washington and vicinity was the
subject of an address by DR.. Darcy
Magee. president Of the District of
Columbia Chapter Of the Isaak Wal
ton League, before a meeting of the
Prince Georges County Exchange
Club here yesterday. He said the
new sewage disposal plant to be built
in Washington would be a great help
in this condition.
DR.. w. B. Meyers of Mount Rainier
was elected to membership and DR..
r. A. Vawter presided in place of the
president.
Evening star., 1934-11-09
Bank Bandits Escape.

OKEENE, Okla, November 9 P).-
Three men, one identified by the bank
president as Raymond Hamilton,
Texas desperate, robbed the First Ma
tional Bank of Okeene of 81 900 yes
terday and escaped in a furry of shot.
The trio took c. c. Wisdom, presi-
dent Of the bank. to the edge of town.
They were met by force of deputies,
who engaged them in a running battle.
Evening star., 1934-11-09
NORTHERN CHIEFS
OPEN HOUSE FIGHT
FOR SPEAKERSHIP

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-11-09

$4,000 extortion threat through the
mails to Fernando and Bernabe
Robles, father and grandfather of
June.
Evening star., 1934-11-09
PROTEST is FILED
BY DEMOCRAT IN
MONTGOMERY POLL

Continued From First Page.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16
BLIND WOMAN IS GIVEN EYESICHT
 BY NEW SURGERY
British Novelist Had Parts
 of Another WOnian's !, Eyes 0fafted on Hers

Boston, oct i8.-(UP)-Mrs Daphne Muir, young British novel; ist, was scheduled to appear before the American Collge of Surgeons today to show how, after being blind nearly 10 years, she now sees with parts of another wo- mans eyes.
 The petite, bobbed haired writer, wife of pr Raydon Muir of Cape town, comes as the living exhibit of one of surgery's greatest "mira- cles''--the feat of Dr Tudor Thomas of Cardiff, Wales. in graft ing on her sightless eyes corneas from the eyes of another woman, whose near blindness was incur- able.
 Mrs Muir came here last night from Quisset on Cape Cod, where she was the weekend guest of Mrs Franklin Fort. She had come to America as a sightBeer but was induced by Sir Harold Gillies, eminent London specialist, to show her new-made eyes to the congress of surgeons. Since other special ists could thus learn more about the eopochal operations, Mrs Muir lclt SIC OWCu II Lo " appear before them.
 It was a "rotten experience" the novelist exclaimed as she narrated the story of her lost sight and the tortures that preceded its return. Don't believe anyone who tells you that there's a spiritual uplift in blindness"
 Mrs Muir became blind about 10 years ago while undergoing an ap- pendix operation at a. Capetown hospital. A doctor spilled anesthe- tic on her eyes, burning the cor neas--trahsparent parts of the eye ball covering the iris and pupil. She awoke from the operation to find her sight gone.
 For four long years was In dreadful agony" the novelist oon- tinued. My personal physician told me not to do anything about it, to stick 1t out until Dr Tudor Thomas of Cardiff completed cer- tain eye-grafting experiments on rabbits and dogs. I waited, and last fall Dr Thomas was ready for the first of the operations"
 Performed year ago last Sep= tember, this prepared MT Muir's eyes for the actual grating opera ton, which occurred in April of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16

Doris Hughes of Grade 8, with an average of s6.4, leads the Spra@ue school honor roll for Sep- teinber. The complete honor roll announced by Principal Jennie c. Phillips, follows:
 Grade s.4--Lioyd wright, s$: Lena Williams, 9l; Maria Fappianu, 91; Henry Lefevre, B8; Rosario FarDiano. S7; Milton Jones, 86; Jo- seph Killeen, S5; Gertrude Ulin- { skas, S5.
 Grade a.--Martha Finn, se; Thomas Kelly, 94; Anne Horman, 92; Gilbert Hubbell, 91; Jane John son, 90; Edgar Davis, 90; Walter Faber, D0i Patrick Moriarty. S9, Jane Cookson, S8; Priscilla Henchel S7; John Miclette, ST: Mary Ciac- cio, ST; Lucille Siser, SB; Robert Moran, 85.
 Grade 4.--Dorothy Blanchard, 91.1; Marie Diugou, SS: Anita Ale many, S6.1; James Duncan, 86.1.
 Grade 4.-Ruth Batchelder, g6; Ernest Lauonette, 96; Robert Al. bon, 90; Pauline Fulton, 90; Ray. mon Buckley, 90; Peter Ciaccio, 86; Louis Montinko, 86: Albert Shell don, Sb; Mary Ryan, S5; Shirley Knight, S5; Catherine Knight. S5; Ann Romspert, S5.
 Grade 5.--Frances Finn, 93; James Morrow, 91; Walter Hoer. man, 8S; Earl Dunn, 8S: Dorothy Cook, ST; Lena Plourde, ST: Jennie Flores. 86;. Carmela Palo, SC; Enid Chauvell, 86.
 Grade 5.--Ann Darlington, ss.S; Russell Truelove, SS; Albert Caron, s7; Ellen Paul S5.2; Nancylou Tot.
 Grade 6.-Edward Higham, 93.4; John Reihl. 9s! Eleanor Hoethe. 92.6; Doris Stevens, .91.2; Nancy Lefevre, 89.4; Betty Dimock, S9.2: Virginia Meyers, SS; Emily De- Mand. S6.S; William Hart. ss.e: Arnold BlatherwiSk, 84.S.,
 Grade 6.--Mary Donahue, 93.2; Betty Hali, 91.S; Roberta Davis. Ss.S; John Moriarty, s7.s; Medella Lanouette. S7: Benjamin Bradley. 86; Veronica Whalen, sB.2.
 Grade 7.-John Burger, 95.2; Nancy Platt, 92.2; Catherine Will- jams. 9S; Louise Lafevre. 92.I: Barbara Cookson, 91: Vincent Sang Lloret, 00,S; Norman Johnson, 9O.4: Donald Marsh, 90.4; Irene Stafford. 87; Marie. Watson. S.6: Harold Hubbell. sM.4; Edward Martin, 85.2.
 Grade 7.-Frank Keliher, 94.s; Constance Smith, 94.4; Rosemary Denehy, 94.2! Doris Downs, 92.S. Frank Castanheira, S9.2; Joseph Ciaccio, Ss,6; Christine Donahue, 'Ss.8: Rosemary Winston, S5.2.
 Grade S.-June Cook, 95.S, Ed ward Finn, 95.2; Claire Mulligan,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16

charge, which also includes Harry Schnaerof, Sidney Pasternak, Jack Pasternak, Louis Rubin, Morton Priilig, Irwin Neirenhurg, Louis Cohen.
 It was also announced that the use of the Palmour club rooms has been granted to the Alphi Pi and Phi Beta fratefnities, and the Chi Alpha Sigma sorority. Attor- ney Max Traurig will address club members and invited guests Oc- tober 29. at the club rooms. The meeting will be in charge of Law renee Matzkin, chairman of the speakers committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16

Dr Th0mas' direction. I had to move my eyebeiiD at times during the operation % the new tissuts c0uid Dc frnkted pr0perly.~
 It was hhid Co be the first dous ble eye operation in surgical his- tory.
 Her blindness made Mrs Muir a novelist and in 1929 produced her first novel. In all, she has dictated i've novels, the last. Very
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16

this year. The burned corneas. now white and opaque, were rec moved from corneas from the eyes of the almost-blind woman grafted in their place. peacribing the final operation, the writer saidi
 "The experience was decidedly unpleasant. They didn't give me any general anesthetic, because my only q suaAli local anesthetie. At
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16
NEW GARMENTS FOR MEMBERSHIP
Needlework Guild Seeks Clothes for Needy Fani-
 flies of City

The Needlework Guild needs members because the poor of the city need clothes. It is as simple as that. Enrolment may be made through any member of the Guild Board, any visiting nurse, at Lin- coin House or through your club, church or 'fraternai order. over 200 workers are out working this week on the annual mem bership drive. The membership fee Is two new garments.
 How would you like to help Ann Marie. She is suffering from a bone disease and sometimes she has great difficulty in walking. All summer she has been in the cou1- try and is rosy and brown and feels better than she did. Slfe Is only five, with big brown eyes and a heart shaped little face. Her knees are more than twice the size that knees should be. She could be made very happy if she could have two sets of warm ui- derweaf, a sweater, a coat and hat and leggins and one or two dresses. It would give her great pleasure to see some warm clothing iii her house for her brothers and sisters, aged ? to g.
 sAnn Marie's mother and father and their children live in three rooms of top floor tenement-- up four flights of dark stairs. They have very little furniture and not too much to eat but the house Is scrupulously clean and there is a faith in that home which is not often found in this day and age.
 Ten members could make this family Happy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16
Palfnours to Give Masquerade Dance

The annual Halloween masquer- ade of the Palmour Club will be held Saturday. October 27, it was announced at the meeting last night. Dancing will start at mid- night. and there will be costume prizes, games, refreshments and entertainment. Mamie Weisman Is chairman of the committee in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16

Heaven" beine the mQsk saeS ftil.
 Although by no means r1tf4s. Mrs MuIr's restored niEht fS H4HN that she has been able Co 0latli4zzE am attendant who for nine ye4EN was her guide and ccmp1nl4u Ordinary light, in or out Ok dr4kA. doesn't bother, but in strong g'1Ei light she wears dark glasses to pre- koct her eyes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16
Doris Hughes Leads
 ! Sprague Honor Roll
Eighth Grade Student Complies 06.4 Average for
 September Cook Runnerup

g5; Ralph Gulliver, 94.s, Eleanor Waters, 94.6, Lorraine Kraft, gg.s: Leuria Caron, 90.6; Spencer Stee- han. s0.6; Marguerite Robinson, 90.4,
 Grade s.--Doris Hughes, 96.4; Norman Farnl0f, 95.4; Dorothy Atherton, 95; Janet Brodie, 9b; William Laiiouette, SAP; Lois True love, 92.6;s Barbara Rogers, 91.2; Howard Platt, 90.2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-16

More autom oblies are seen in In- dia this year than last.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

roaring attack on sin, joins lin a
prayer to Mary, asking her protec-
ton and aid in the struggle of the
Catholic youth Of this land for the
triumph Of virtue" But soon he is
back again at the pool parlor, drink
ng, visiting the bawdy houses. The
book ends in 1929, after a New Years
Party.
Studs Lonigan in 1929
The dirty gray dawn of the New
Year came slowly. It was showing.
There was drunken figure, hud-
died by the curb near the fireplug
1T Fifty Eighth and Prairie. A
passing Negro reveller studied it. He
Jaw that the fellow wasn't dead. He
rolled it over, and saw it was a young
man with broad face, the eyes
pulled black, the nose swollen and
bent. He saw that the suit and coat
were bloody, dirty, odorous with
vornit."
ut was Studs Lonigan, who had
once, as boy, stood before Charley
Bathcellar'S poolroom thinking that
come day, he would grow up to be
strong, and tough, and the real
stuff"
It is a terrifying and brutal pic
ture which Farrell gives us, the pic
ture of section of the postwar
generation growing aimlessly through
coarse and brutalizing experiences
into frustrated and vicious men. In
the sheer accumulation of his hard
boiled, superbly- detailed scenes, he
intensifies the sense Of Illustration
and defeat one feels, with Studs
Lonigan. at the end of the story.
A More Significant Thread
But there is another thread which
runs through the novel, slighter in
its execution, but far more slgnifi-
cant both for the understanding of
the book and Of it's author. It is
the recurrent and STRENGTHENING
overtone OF the italicized passages
between the separate chapters-the
passages which set the stage for the
detailed actions OF Studs and his
rang, and which, far more thoroughly
than the major theme, set the trend
and direction Of the milieu.
Thus we find Mr.. lie Care BLACK
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Art Young's Inferno Is Hard
Slap at Capitalism on Earth

Gambling, Hunting Sinners, An Art
Gallery, Courts, Money Incentive,
The Sluns, and many others. There
is even a "Sanitarium for the Queer
in AIT Young's Inferno, some Of the
inmates of which are Voltaire, Hulk
ley. Daunier, Socrates, Hugo, Heine,
Karl Marx, Lsnin, Jean Jaures, DAN
ton. And Art Young tells us that he
saw others in this sanitarium-in-
Guiding Walt Whitman, Beethoven,
Shelley, Byron, John Reed, Clara
zetkin, Eugene Debs, Rosa Luxem-
burg, Anatole France.
YES, Art Young has observed much
during his long life, and he has
put most of what he has seen in
white drawings of the kind
he has in this book. His satires on
caitalism have been double-edged,
evcking laughter from his audience
and instilling a keener, clearer vision
- their struggles. And I am one OF
the legion who hope to follow his own
warm and peculiar art satire for
many years to come.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Carlin's ''Interview''
With Paul Blanshard
Featured in New Masses

Among a number of outstanding
features in this weeks New Masses
on the stands today, is a brilliant
interview" by Sender Garlin with
Paul Blanshard, Socialist on the
Bandwagon," who is now New Ycrk's
Commissioner of Accounts in the
Fusion administration of Mayor La
Guardia.
Taking BlanShard at his own Sug-
yestion, when an appointment for
an interview for the New Masses was
requested, that Garlin do his carl
cature of me cut of his own imagina-
tion," Garlin prepared the interview
and obtained Blanshard's official an
swers (from Blanshard's published
utterances) to number of ques-
tons on unemployment, the Social
ist Party, the Communist movement,
the class struggle, and managed to
show Blanshard tangled I'D in re-
vealing contradictions and oppor-
lunistic evasions.
Ilya luxembourg, noted Soviet
writer. contr' butes a fine background
analysis of the Stavisly scandal in
France which has precipitated a
crisis in that country.
There is also IN illuminating sur
vey of the hotel workers strike in
New York; an article bv Jack
Stachel. Lewis Sits on the Lid" on
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea convention in INDIANAPOLIS. and
2 piercing report on the Welfare IS
land revelations" made by the city
cdrinistration-for its own purposes.
IS is shown by Daniel Allen unde~
The title, "Rcse Water for a Sewer"
Book reviews by Granville Hicke.
Michael Gold and others, mass
recitation poem, America, Amer
scalp. by Alfred Kreymborg, and
rawlings by Bill Copper, Do'. .r~co',
Surck. Reginald Marsh, and others
also appear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

listed! No hotel IN the city would
hire him. He had been q waiter
all his life. What work could he do
now? the blacklist meant the
dust heap, the garbage can for a
man his age. And his sons, daughter,
wife, didn't understand; It was
tragedy, living with peoHle who
couldn't understand what a man
was doing o.. He wasn't a fool
He wasn't He had been right. And
they needn't have lost the strike, If
only they had all shown cour-
age, heart He coulO see it 50
clear. They could have won if only
. Some day all the American work
ing men would strike, and even the
walters would have to then. and then
too they would win ="
Farrell Looks Forward
And young Danny O'Neill, look
ing out of the window of the Upton
Service Station on corner of
Wabash Ave. in the black belt where
he worked realized that the
Church twas not merely ignorance
and superstitution. 1t was perhaps
not merely vested interest. 1t was
a downright hatred of truth and
honesty He realized that all his
education in Catholic schools
had been lies He tried again to
study. He envisaged a better world,
a cleaner world, a world of ideals
such as that the Russians were try
ing to achieve. He had to study
to prepare himself TO create that
world ."
Farrell has within his own ex-
perience the material OF which great
novels can be written. And he is
enough of an artist, as this book
clearly shows, 10 bring out the eS-
5ence, the core Of vitality, in this
material. 1.-THE Young Manhood OF
STUDS Lonigan" is not clever, nor
slight, nor witty, as so many of the
highly praised novels of the past few
years have been. 1t is deep and
real. 1t tackles it's problems hard
and clearly. Farrell possesses the
type Of perseverance and honesty
and ability which, given big enough
theme, can produce a monumental
work.