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The Washington times., 1934-03-03
When Manners
Are Correct
BY MRS. CORNELIUS
BEECKMAN

Who's Calling, Please?
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
When answering the tele-
phone, especially when the
caller doesn't announce himself
or herself, I usually ask, who
is calling?" before I give out
any information concerning
the person desired, if the per-
son is not in at the time. I
have been told that this is
very bad form and a serious
breach of manners. Will you
please be so kind as to set me
right on this point? H.
This form of answering the
telephone. ."Who is calling?"
or, better, who is calling,
please?" is more appropriate
for a business or professional
office than it is for a social
telephone answer. It isn't ex.
actly poor FORM" but it is
apt to sound a bit curt or
brusque. If the person who
is being called is a very i'm
portant person or a very busy
one, who must be protected
from answering too many tele-
phone calls, this is more or less
appropriate.
But. unless there is some Spe-
cial reason for this special
care, the person answering the
telephone may say, Mrs. Alex
ander isn't in. Who is calling,
please?" or even Mrs. Alexan-
der is at dinner now. May
I take a message?" or Mrs.
Alexander is busy at the mo-
ment. May I have her call
you in half an hour, or at
any time that is convenient
for you?"
I am sure that when your
friends maintain that this
''Who is calling?" is very bad
form" they had in mind the
usual reaction Of the person
telephoning, that the person
telephoned to may be trying to
avoid answering the telephone
when certain people are tele-
phoning. This reaction should
RraciouSly be avoided.
Copyright. 1884. King Features
Syndicate. 1nal
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
Picture Girl

Sometimes we are sorry that
our age limit, 13 years, was ever
set.
It has cut out so many nice
young people we would like to
have as members. For example
read this letter from Marion
Coffren, 111912 D st. S. E.
81 want to thank you for the
tickets to Cinderella I took
my cousin with me as she does
that kind of work. She gradu-
ated from a dramatic school
here and later was with the
Little Theater in New York. Her
name is EStelle Norton. I wish
she could join the club as /
know you would love to have
her. But she can't, of course,
as she is a young lady and our
age limit is 13 years.
"She is my favorite cousin
and she always says I am her
favOrite cousin. When / grow
up 1 hope 1 am just like her.
She has always been my best
pal
Marion sent us a little poem
about her cat. Here it is:
81 love my old gray kit kat
His fur is so soft and nice;
And eats up rats and MICE"
He drinks milk from a saucer
Alice Beall, Mitchellville, Md:
II haven't written to you for
a long time because one day
you published a poem sent
you and signed May Tydings'
name to it, and I have been
sore ever since. The poem be-
gan like this:
"The Adventure Club is q won .
derful one;
1t is the best club under the
sum-" etc.
"T was very disappointed
when looked at the paper and
saw Mary'S name on it. And I
will be more disappointed IL
you do not publish that I wrote
it. Also, 1 sent you a picture
of Eleanor, and I will also be
disappointed if you do not put
it in the paper.
81 know how hard it is to
keep the thousands Of letters
you receive from the members
straight, but I will appreciate
your kindness IL you will
Straighten out the poem"
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
BEST WISHES

Eight little members Of the
famous Adventure Club CelO-
brate their birthday anniversa-
rieS today. They are Virginia
Mae Raber, RoSslyn, Va; LeOna
Marans, 1917 N st. N. w.;
Anna May Nally, Bowie Md;
Paul Wiener, CharleStOwn, w.
Va; James Cooper, 1913 Eighth
st. N. w.; Vernon Roberts, 1878
Belmont st. N. w.; Tony Ne
varro, 724 Third st. N. E., and
Glenn Eskite, Tuxedo, Md.
We wish you the happieSt
birthday you have ever had.
Evening star., 1934-04-06
Tug,veI Is Not Disturbed
By Charge of ''Radical Plot
Describes His Vie,us as
Liberalism, Rather
Than RadicaIisn,.
Opposes COmpulsiOn to
Limit Production in
Agriculture.

By the Associat ted Press.
The person least disturbed. ap-
parently, over DR.. William A. Wirt's
charges of revolutionary plot" by
administration professors is the So
called mo. 1 Brain Truster," DR.. Rex
ford G. Tugwell.
Writ. Gary Ind, educator. has been
asked to tell congressional commit
tee about statements that administra-
tion PROFESSIONAL advisors told him
they plotted revolution.
Tugwell. former professor Of eco
nomics at Columbia and now Assist
ant Secretary Of Agriculture. COM
mented that he did not know DIR. Writ
and let it go at that.
Has Own Definitions.
Called a radical" by congressman
on several occasions, Tugwell says
this is untrue. He has his own defini-
tions for radical and liberal and
he places himself in the latter cate
CORY.
Here is what he says:
THE essential contrast between the
liberal and the radical view of tie
tasks which lie before us is that lib
eralism requires this experimenting
and that radicalism rejects it for i'm
mediate entry on the revolutionary
tactics. Liberals would like to re-
build the stations while the trains are
running: radicals prefer to blow up
the station and forgo service until
the new structure is built"
Tugwell is well liked by most of
Evening star., 1934-04-06

his associates at the Farm Admins
tration, even by some Of those who
disagree with his fundamental out
look.
Friends Disturbed.
Concerned over attacks In Con-
gress, friends have sought to per-
suade him to mix more with the leg
islators. but he shrugged the sugges-
ton aside. He has no political am
bitions. those close to him say, and
disliked the idea Of becoming Assist
ant Secretary Of Agriculture.
Credited with influence that shapes
many administration policies, Tugwell
is not so frequent White House Wis
itor as several other officials At that,
he is there several times during the
ordinary week
His point Of view usually comedies
with that of Secretary Wallace, and
they are warm personal friends. 1t
irks Tugwell and other farm officials
Evening star., 1934-04-06

China to Build Planes.
China will build an airplane factory
under Sino-G German auspices.
Evening star., 1934-04-06
RITES TOMORROW

With full naval honors, Lieut..
(Junior Grade) Philip A. Rodes,
US N, who died yesterday in Bristol,
Tenn, will be buried in Arlington
National Cemetery tomorrow. The
last rites will be held at 1890 am,
the escort forming at the Fort Myer,
Va. gate.
Officiating will be Capt. Sydney K.
Evans. chief of the Nays Corps of
Chaplains. Honorary pallbearers.
classmates Of Lieut.. Rodes. who grad
uated from the Naval Academy in
1923. will be Lieut.. H. N. Williams,
Lieut. G.. NJ Nicely. Lieut.. H. A.
Schade and Lieut.. D. F. J. Shea.
naval officers. and First Lieuts. Will
liam c. Lenly and Shelton c. zern
of the Marine Corps.
Evening star., 1934-04-06

for members Of Congress to assert that
the Assistant Secretary dominates his
chief. Wallace, his subordinates say.
is boss.
Opposes Compulsion.
Tugwell gets credit for framing
many farm programs that he has
little to do with. He opposed the
Bankhead bill for cotton control and
has opposed compulsion for agricul-
ture generally.
Invited out often, Tugwell dislikes
the ordinary social function. When
ever he can he spends his evenings
quietly at home with his wife and
children.
He is an early riser and much of
the work at Columbia that has since
been issued in book form was done
between the hours of and 8 am.
He is not a golfer and he gets most
OF his exercise by gardening.
Evening star., 1934-04-06
MISS JESSIE S. CLAUDE
EXPIRES AT HOME HERE

Miss Jessie Steele Claude, IS, a
great-granddaughter of Francis Scott
Key. composer of the "Star Spangled
Banner" died of paralysis yesterday
at her home, 3945 Connecticut
avenue.
Surviving is sister, Mrs. R. K.
Dwight of Boston. vino was with her
at the time Of death. She was a
daughter Of Judge Dennis Claude of
Annapolis, Md
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at noon in Gawler's funeral
establishment. 100 block Of Penn
Sylvania avenue, and burial will be
in Annapolis.
Evening star., 1934-04-06
WRIT TO APPEAR
HERE ON TUESDAY
Gary Educator Answers
Summons of Special House
Committee.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GARY, Ind, April 6.-Dr. William
A. Writ today announced he would
be present next Tuesday to tell a
House of Representatives Committee
at Washington details of his charges
that certain members of the admins
tration brain trust" were plotting to
overthrow the Government.
DR.. Writ dispatched to Representa-
tive A. L. BulWinkle, Democrat Of
North Carolina, telegram announc-
ing he would appear. Bulwinkle.
chairman of the select committee of
the House named to investigate the
charges, summoned the Gary educator
yesterday by wire.
Wirt'S telegram follows:
Accept telegram April as service
subpoena for hearing as a witness be-
fore Select Committee House of Rep
resentatives. Will be present at COM
mittee rooms 10 am. April 10"
A spokesman for Writ announced
the doctor would have no public COM
ment to make before appearing at the
committee hearing.
WRIT REPEATS CHARGES.
Evening star., 1934-04-06

will include . brief address by J. p.
Yort, vice president of the company,
and an act" in which members of
the underwriting department will par
ticipate. In the "cast" will be DR..
J. B. Nichols. medical director; DR..
Charles M. Beall, assistant medical
director; Frank ]. Halliday, assistant
actuary; Walter Parker, Granville
Dickey, Nathan Clark and Trennis
Jones'
William Montgomery, president, and
Ben A. Harlan, executive secretary,
will listen to the broadcast In the st.
Louis convention hall.
Evening star., 1934-04-06
WRIT REPEATS CHARGES.
Pamphlet Declares Propaganda Will
Be Basis of Revolution.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 6-The brain
trust" says DR.. William A. Writ in
the fifth installment of his copyrighted
pamphlet attacking regimentation as
a means of economic recovery, de-
pends upon propaganda as the means
of overthrowing the present social
order.
Issued by the self designated Com
mittee for the Nation, the latest in
stallment of the Writ dissertation is
largely repetition of the Gary edu-
GATORS first charges of radicalism
against the brain trust" as read be-
fore House committee in Washing
ton by James H Rand, jr.
Names Not Mentioned.
Writ reiterates his story of discus
sing their program with some men,
bers of the brain trust in Washing
ton last Summer. He does not, how
ever, name them.
II was frankly told" Writ con-
tinues, that I underestimated the
power of propaganda. That
they could make the newspapers and
magazines beg for mercy by threat
ening to take away much of their ad-
vertising by measure to compel only
the unvarnished truth in advertising
That they could make the financiers
be good by showing up at public in
vestigations the crooks in the game.
And that the power of public investi-
cation in their hands alone would
make the cold chills run up and down
the spines Of business leaders and
politicians-honest men as we'll as
crooks. Note the recent despicable
efforts to destroy the reputation of
Col. Lindbergh.
Charges Aim to Starye.
''They were sure they could depend
upon the psychology of empty stom-
achs, and they would keep the stom-
achs empty.
They we're sure the leaders Of in
dustry and labor could be kept quiet
by the hope of getting their own share
Of Government doles in the form of
loans and contracts for material and
labor-provided they were subservient.
They were sure the colleges and
schools could be kept in line by the
hope Of Federal aid until the many
new dealers in the schools and COL
leges had control of them.
Evening star., 1934-04-06
BEATS OF HEARTS
TO BE BROADCAST
Sounds Will Be Transmitted
From Washington to
st. Louis Meeting.

For the second time in two days
beats Of both healthy heart and a
diseased one will be broadcast late
this afternoon from the board room
Of the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance
Co.. First street and Indiana avenue.
The heart beats will be transmitted
to st. Louis by radio telephony as a
part OF program arranged especially
for a convention Of the concerns rep
resentatives being held in the Mis-
souri, city.
Today's broadcast, like yesterdays,
Evening star., 1934-04-06
AUTO INJURY FATAL
TO HARRY KRUPSAW
Native of Russia Had Been Resi-.
dent of This City Past
40 Years.

Harry I. Krupsaw. 70, Of 1856 New
ton place, who was injured by the
automobile of James w. Chocos, Al, of
4025 Blaine street northeast, in 'front.'
Of Benning power plant, where he was
employed as electrician. late Wednes-
day night, died in Emergency Hospital
yesterday.
Krupsaw had just left his place of
employment to go home and was on
the road when the automobile of
Chocos appeared and struck him, ac-
cording to the police. His skull was
fractured. Chocos was paroled by
Coroner l.. Magruder Macdonald to
appear at an inquest at the morgue at
1880 this am.
Krupsaw a native of Russia. had
been resident of this city the past 40
years. His wife died a number of
years ago. He is survived by five
daughters. Funeral services probably
will be held Sunday morning.
Evening star., 1934-04-06

Is years ago and made his home at
603 Irving street.
Surviving are q daughter, Mrs.
Mary B. Oden; son, william T.
Fitzgerald, and q brother, Thomas
Fitzgerald, all Of this city. Funeral
services will be held tomorrow at 10
am. in St. Gabriel's Church and
burial will be in st. Marys Ceme-
terry.
Evening star., 1934-04-06
FLYING ANTS

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Cause $4,000 0cO damays annually "a
woodwork In homes and buildings.
GUARANTEED TREATMENT.
Vacating Unnecessary-Free Inspection
Tune in Every Thursday Might 1890 PM.
WCAO. Baltimore-WABC. New York
Terminix Company of Washington
National 1894 Bond Bldg,
Evening star., 1934-04-06
JOHN P. FITZGERALD,
RETIRED BAKER, DIES
Native Of Georgetown Passes
Away at Age Of 73 Years.
Rites Tom orrow

VGICcS I 4UIIOI TOWe
John Patrick Fitzgerald, 73, a re-
tired baker and a charter member of
the Districs Bakers Association, died
late Wednesday at his residence after
an illness Of about three months.
Mr.. Fitzgerald was a native of
Georgetown and entered the baking
trade as young boy. He retired
Evening star., 1934-09-08
"CHAINED" is
HELD FOR A
SECOND WEEK
Cra,Uford-C Gable Star
ring Vehicle Proves
Popular at the Palace.

Chained" the latest version Of the
Crawford Gable combination, con-
tinues at the Palace for second week
for the edifcation Of those who have
not seen the pair make love on two
continents at Millionaire Otto Kruger's
expense.
Although structurally weak, the
piece succeeds in being entertaining
mainly through the efforts Of its three
principal characters, its elaborate back
ground and its spots of brilliancy. On
the other hand, the habitual flaw
picker will find much to delight his
soul in the films about face ending
and other evidences of short sighted
direction.
AS misunderstood miss, who lets
her ship magnate employer (Mr.
Kruger) ruin his home life for a
bread-and-water love affair with her
on the assumption that she didn't
know what 1t was all about until she
ran up against the seven course
dinner tactics Of persuasive South
American ranch owner, Clark Gable;
Joan Crawford is her usual self
adorned with extreme new clothes
and hair styles, in the sort of semi
serious role that suits her I'1l-be-sad-
one minute and gay the next tenn
perament.
Mr.. Gable is substantial as the
Brazilian horse and cattle raiser who
meets Miss Crawford the first day
of her Buenos Aires cruise and spends
the rest of his time on ship trying
to break through her 'touch me not
I'm promised" poses. The fact that
he succeeds later, that she returns to
Employer Kruger to tell him, and
marries the whimpering old do-dad
instead, and that kind hearted old man
Kruger then turns around and gen.
erously gives her a divorce a year later
so that she can marry the still willing
Mr.. Gable only goes to make I'D the
rest of the story.
A canary bird cartoon partly done
IN technicolor, an Educational comedy
and the usual news reel complete the
bill. M. w. 3.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
After Dark
Smart People. Smart Things, Smart Places.
By the Spectator.
Trade Marx Regte o. PatentO
Trade Mark Registered, U. s. Patent once

AT'er Bill Briggs who not long
before brought Count Robert de Buis-
seret to Hi Hat on special missions
-. South American diplomats Finot
and Saenz spoke in mellifluous voices
In a corner while Bowman and
Mrs. Bobby" Macarthur high
flyers Paul Collins, of Boston and
Maine Anyways John S. Wynne,
assistant to the director of aeronautics
Luke Harris, Monocoupe's general
manager :. and others leaned back
in the modernistic chairs stretched
legs beneath modernistic tables and
lounged on the wall benches.
Not to be outdone by mere bar
tender Hawaiian Gordon st. Chad,
whose singers make the welkin ring
and ring announced his guitar
istas and vocalizers will play on re-
quest any piece written within the
past five years :. bargain being that
if they don't know it, maybe you do
and you can all sing it together .
free.
Surprised ladies at the Shoreham
Terrace last week found themselves
accosted by a gigolo apparently
a supersalesman Of nimble terpischore
.. at first were either pleased or an
noyed, according to their feelings about
such things later amused upon
discovering the gigolo was none other
than La Fayette, dancer in the floor
show, who will twirl with any Of the
guests ere the spotlights go on ..
only it Is not for pelf, but for fun d.
Susan Hall, lately of Going Native"
honor of being the first local talent
on the Terrace programs where
she appears with Walter Doe, another
local light. known as the boy orchestra
leader, but now skipping through a
hooflng routine with Susan -.
4 \ X X
When the kissing, the booing and
cheering had subsided atop the VIII
lard roof 'tother night villains,
heroes, proud beoooooties of THE
Drunkard" cast danced in the Tavern
received compliments from 20
Alexandrians who sat at huge table
and plotted to raid the show some
night in costume of the '90s .
watched smiling Sally Harris :. and
Douglas Laing and sister Laura
e. whip gracefully hither and yon
while the accordion mewed its ditties
. Libby Ulman and friend sat be-
moaning the exodus of one Galloping
Wimble -. while Actor Hero Ishaam
Keith, who can lead songfest better
than the next man and protect true
virtue when its course runs rough .
sat talking with those inevitable air.
men who are pleasantly everywhere
these days.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
OLD AQUEDUCT BRIDGE
SLOWLY BEING RAZED

About Is per cent of the stone in
the piers of the old Aqueduct Bridge
In Georgetown has now been re-
moved, E. j. Merrick, engineer in
the United States Engineer office, an
nounced yesterday.
This job is being done by Federal
Emergency Relief Administration
workers, and the engineers say that
because of the emphasis placed by the
administration on employing hand
labor the task is proceeding slowly
and not in the most economical
fashion.
The likelihood is that Congress will
have to be asked for funds to remove
the old bridge entirely. Prospects are
that at the present rate of procedure
the bridge will not be torn down for
many moons, as the emergency forces
have been tussling with it now for
a long time, without making appre-
ciable headway.
The stone is being taken to Ana
costa Park, where it is being utilized
for sea wall foundations. So far
some 1900 tons of stone have been
removed.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
Diplomacy and Patriotic
Zeal Mixed in This One
British Agent" With Leslie Howard and Kay
Francis. Portrays Troubles In Russia
During the Revolution.

one another's throats politically,
which, of course, somewhat compli-
Gates the tender emotions they feel
when gazing into one another's eyes.
AS unofficial representative Of his
country, Stephen makes some rash
promises in hopes of keeping the Reds
in the war. When his home Office
repudiates him, he joins with three
other young men In frantic attempt
to start a counter revolution and
place in power the forces interested
in keeping Russia in the fracas.
Needless to say, this bit of plotting
displeases the Reds and their mySter-
ious police, the Cheka, who set about
to eliminate Stephen and his pals
without delay. Both our hero and
his Elena, who betrays him and then
rushes into the trap she set for his
destruction, intending heroically to
end it all by his side, would have
been very dead bunnies, indeed, had
not the wounded Lenin decided to
relent against all political enemies.
Thereby the charming Lockes are
saved for posterity, which they have
vowed to pass in an English country
village, cultivating their garden.
Mr.. Howard and Miss Kay Francis,
the dark-eyed Elena of this saga, deal
ample justice to their roles in Brit
ish Agent" and on every side they
are helped to make the story enter
tanning by such lesser lights as Will
liam Gargan, Walter Byron, Ivan
Simpson, Haliwell Hobbies, Irving
Pichel and others.
The Earle stage show this week is
headed by Isham Jones and his ma
tionally famous band, which gives a
smooth and pleasing program of
dance music, distinguished by the
medley Of popular airs Mr.. Jones
himself has written. The other acts
include Jane Moore and Bill Revel, a
diverting dance team; Steve Evans,
whose Hollywood impersonations are
among the best, and the Five Wonder
Girls, acrobatic dancers, whose feats
will amaze you.
There is also a newsreel and a
short subject or two. r. B. p, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-09-08

1
songs and Georgia Crosses dancing
this week, is also on q program round
ed out by news reel and short subjects.
Urine WITHOUT PASSION" is
a triumph for the new picture
producing unit of Ben Hecht and
Charles Macarthur, for Claude Rains,
who plays the lead in 1t, and for Lee
Garmes, who photographed the story
as few have been pictured in the his
tory of the talkies. No lesser adjective
than triumphant will serve to char
, acterize the feat achieved by the
aforementioned gentlemen and their
colleagues in the manufacture of the
picture at the Metropolitan this week.
1t is an intelligent and mature story;
the people in it are built on the pre-
misses of good, evil and desire which
control living human beings, and the
manner of telling the rather macabre
story seemed to us quite flawless.
The original of Crime Without
Passion" was not intended to be an
epic, the worlds most heart-rending
yarn or any of the other things the
Hollywood boys like to pretend they
are producing when they collect q lot
of beautiful thespians, a few thousand
extras and some noise-making ma
chimes on a movie lot. The tale con-
Germs a diabolically charming bar
rister, contemptuous of the stupid dolts
he meets in the world, worshiping no
gods and no laws, seeking his soul
Oy1lxy in the 1nxyo nf eifpI,
men not infrequently are won't to do.
Tired of his affair with Mexican
dancer, and in love already with an
other woman, he plots to desert his
first love and finds it more difficult
than he had anticipated. Telling you
more of the twists and turns followed
by his mind and his actions would be
almost unfair, for no words generated
by this mill can adequately describe
Claude Rains magnificent portrayal
of the disintegration of the lawyer
from sneering egomaniac into self
hatred and contempt. Mr.. Rains is
neither so handsome nor so muscular
as many of his screen contempo-
raries, but by comparison to most of
this years heroes he is Gallant Fox
in a stable of carpenters horses.
Messrs. Hecht and Macarthur have
discovered in Margo, the suplhurous
Latin dancer, young lady whose
acting glows warm every moment she
is before the camera. She will never,
never do as the heroine Of kitchen
maid-to-riches story, or even of
Pollyanna piece about life in Ne
braska, but Margo should sail far In
more realistic and adult channels.
OF the others in the supporting cast,
we thought Whitney Bourne admirably
cast as a blond and heartless corner
of the triangle, and Stanley Ridges
especially effective as Eddie White.
The producers also knew what they
were doing when Paula Trueman was
given the role of Buster Malloy.
Lee Garmes apparently had Roman
holiday welding his camera around
the set Of Crime Without Passion"
for his results have a flavor exciting
as the story or the acting. All three
share In general the qualities Of hon
esty and intellectual imagination.
The Metropolitan program also in
cludes an extensive group of short
subjects and long news reel.
r. B. p, Jr.