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Evening star., 1935-05-02

n lost Of the towns big shots
M are busting back now from
IVv Bermuda 80. The Heigh-Ho,
4 i the Shoreham. the Club Ha-
bana and other night spots
are rife" with tanned, healthy look
ing souls. most of whom have spent
the past few weeks rollicking on Ber-
nuda beaches. or tearing around the
island full speed on bicycles 6.
Chicago's John Elting, was seen with
a GOOD OLD bronze sunburn tearing off
to the races Saturday in Baltimore
Evening star., 1935-05-02
NAMED TO AIR UNIT
Detroit Man Heads Development
Section of Bureau.

ocCLlUh VI ouTchu'
Appointment of Alfred v. Verville
of Detroit to the development sec
ton of the Bureau of Air Commerce,
Commerce Department. was an
nounced today by Eugene L. Vidal,
director. The section now is at work
on q program, in cooperation with
the aviation industry, Of developing
safer, more easily operated, low-priced
airplanes for the private owner.
Verville, who has had 20 years. ex-
perience in design and construction of
aircraft, for the past eight months has
been chief of the bureaus manufac-
ing inspection service. Lawrence v.
Kerber of Tulsa, Okla. an aeronautical
engineer of the Commerce Depart
ment, has been appointed chief of
this service to succeed Verville
Evening star., 1935-05-02

all the tricks it knows perfectly
well, too, that the moon is only half
of it,
Evening star., 1935-05-02
Supper Club Notes

entertainers direct from Pierres Roof
in New York
X
Willard Bamboo ROOm.-Dance music
is by Johnny Slaughter and his orches-
ira. and popular Ernestine Gardner
and Fenton Froom sing the lyrics.
Napoleon's.-Miss Mabel Jackson,
radio star, is featured in the Flemish
Cocktail Lounge, being assisted by Ann
Evening star., 1935-05-02

- No more Sunday afternoon
teas at the Heigh-Ho this season.
Evening star., 1935-05-02
Plans Stratosphere Trim.

Nine. Charnaux, sculptress Of
France, is having a plane built spe-
cially for stratosphere flight, and
is practicing daily in an "airless
room"
Evening star., 1935-05-02

their act In grand
opera seems
their acrobatics
60 nicely with
Faust" or any
of Verdi's redder
and hotter music
Yes, Beatrice
(Shoreham) Lau-
ri's costume is
made out Of sim
pie : cellophane
and G.. L. w.
is right when
IL
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Do You Remember?

One month ago the tollo1D-
ing names 1Dere in the head
lines. Can you recall them?
George T. Davis.
Arthur w. ROebuck.
Dorothy Rennie.
L. Louis Mora.
Vladimir Burzin.
(AnSDerSe on Page 81
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
QUAKE
TAKES TOLL Of
At LEAST 800
Series of Shocks Brings Ruin
To Province in Zone of
Frequent Disturbances

LONDON, April % d.Ns).
Killing at least 500, a series OF
destructive earthquake shocks hit
Mazaderan province in Persia, to-
day, Reuter- dispatch from TIE
heran said.
So far 483 bodies have been
recovered and property damage
is heavy, said the telegram.
Persia lies in zone of frequent
earth disturbances, and three
times in the last IL years huge
death tolls have been piled up in
earthquakes there.
In 1923 natures destroying
hand killed 1900, in 1929 1000
and in 1880 another 1000.
Fear was felt in Teheran that
the latest catastrophe would as
sumo proportions approaching
those of the earlier earthquakes,
the report said, since communi-
cations in several districts were
cut off.
The districts of Dodangueh,
Tchardangueh and Lezardjarib,
in the vicinity of Sari, were the
hardest hit.
Relief measures are being di-
rected personally by the minister
of public health.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Negroes, Famed
Foreclosures,
IsDead at 80

RICHMOND, Va, April %.
Death has silenced forever the
fiddle and bow with which
"Aunt" Betty Morris, dean of
Virginia folk musicians, had
scraped her way to international
renown and a White House con-
cert.
Her death at Charlottesville
at the age of 80 followed an
illness of two months, which
had been frightened for her by
messages from lovers of music
throughout the United States
and Europe.
She started to play the homely
folk tunes by ear on her violin
when she was 4 years old and
continued to do so until she suf-
Tered a stroke two months ago.
The skill with which she and
her brother. John Chisholm,
played Haste to the Wedding"
and similar mountain ballads
at the Charlottesville and White
Top music festival brought her
an invitation last May to play
before Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
welt at the White House. On
this occasion, she played and
sang Hell Broke Loose in Geor.
gia" and other selections.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Mae Still Claims She
Never Married in 1911

HOLLYWOOD, April % QN.SO.
Mae West, beautiful blonde screen
star, could not be reached early
today for a direct statement con-
corning reports from New York
which said an old trouper, Frank
Wallace, AZ, had admitted marry
ing the film beauty in Milwaukee,
Wis, in April, 1911. However, a
representative of Miss West said:
"Au 1 can say is that Miss
West has denied ever marrying
a Frank Wallace, or any one
else"
At the same time it was pointed
out the curvacious actress yester-
day, when questioned concerning
her reputed marriage to a Frank
Wallace, in Milwaukee, had said:
"The only actor I ever knew
named Wallace played in one Of
my shows. / didn't know MS
front name, 1 wasn't married to
him and 1 was a school girl in
1911"
At her apartment it was said
that Miss West, who attended a
preview of her latest picture last
night. cannot be disturbed" but
attention was called to the fact
that the actress had vehemently
declared yesterday that she had
never been in Milwaukee till
four years ago." adding land be-
lieve me no guy ever led me to
the altar"
Representatives of Miss West,
in the absence of the actress,
pointed to Miss Vests statement
that "eight guys have called me
up since last January to insist
they had married me in one
place or another"
It could not be ascertained at
the stars apartment when it
would be possible Ito disturb"
Miss West, in order to acquaint
her with Wallace's statement in
New York.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
WED Mae West, Still
LoveHer,' Says Mate

we went on the Fox circuit.
Later we signed with Jacobs
and Jermon, the burlesque pro-
ducers. The show was the
Sporting Widow and we played
the Columbia circuit, starting
from New York and heading
west to the circuit terminus at
Omaha.
1--WE were playing at the Cal
ETY. in Milwaukee when Mae and
I decided to make it double.
Ada Woods, who worked with
Gus Fox, was the bridesmaid.
Ada made that line famous: L
drink my sandwich and eat my
beer
GOT ALONG SWELL
"a newspaper woman in Mil
waukee said we were two of the
cleaneSt kids seen in that town
in a long time. That was in
April, 1911.
1--WE got along swell for a
year and were back in New
York when Mae (whO was good
was offered a single-act con-
tract at $3.50 a week. She
asked my advice. I said:
"'Take it. Go on up the
ladder and good luck
"Then / went back to my
single and was doing a single
until six years ago when Miss
La May and teamed up.
81 worked seven years at the
Garden Restaurant and at the
FauStS, at Columbus Circle.
"JOe Moss, now of the Holly
wood, took me from Fausts to
the Beaux Arts in Atlantic City
in 1915.
"May and I got along very
we'll. We were deeply in love.
At least was and still am. But
she was kept travelling. We
were only kids. / was a dance
man. She liked to sing and
dance. 1 liked Broadway. She
liked to travel and they kept
her going, always breaking in
new acts. She got better pros
poets and we just drifted apart.
There was no part for me. /
suppose there still isn't.
LAST MEETING
"In 1913, she came to see
me at Fausts. That was the
last time we met. She was
breaking in an act with Harry
Richman. She said she could
make an arrangement for me
to work double with him. 1
didn't want to leave the cab
aret. So that was that.
Later Gus Sulke wanted me
to work in London. They Of
fered me ESQ a week.
"But I was only a kid and
I didn't know English money.
1 thought my SOS a week was
more and turned down the
job"
Concluding, the story said
quoting wallace:
"But 1 still crave Mae and
the only reason I have broken
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
HIGHER RATES
FORESEEN IN
UTILITY BILL
Power Company Head Says
Measure Is Further lnVa-
sion of States Rights
International News Service

Federal legislation eliminating
public utility holding companies
would nullify the authority of
States over companies operating
within their own boundaries, Louis
H. Egan, president of the Union
Electric Light and Power Com
pany, of st. Louis, told the Sen
ate Interstate Commerce Com.
mittee today.
Appearing before the commit
tee in opposition to the Wheeler
holding company bill, Mr.. Egan
added that the belief that regula-
ton of public utilities by States
has broken down is rot and
nonsense"
"Such a belief is inspired by
those, and only by those, who
want to Submerge the power
and authority of the States in
favor of the Federal Govern
ment."
Predicts Rate Rise
Mr.. Egan said also that enact
ment of the bill would increase
the electrical rates of 20,500,000
domestic electric consumers OF the
industry, without corresponding
benefits.
He charged the Federal Power
Commission was attempting to
regulate more than 80 per cent
of the industry, while only II
per cent of the output crosses
state lines, and of this IT per
cent, only 1 per cent is sold by
unaffiliated companies"
Bill May Be Defeated
The Administration faced prob
able defeat on its plan to outlaw
giant utility holding companies
as the House Interstate Com
merce Committee began consid'
Grafton of the Wheeler-Rayburn
bill behind closed doors today.
Only command from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, it appeared, can
force the bill from the committee
in the drastic form in which it
was submitted to Congress.
A survey of the committee
showed that IS of the Is members
were dissatisfied with the Ad-
ministration's bill as it now stands.
Some of the is members, anx-
ious to avoid break with the Ad-
ministration, were urging a COM
promise between the warning
Democratic factions. Regulation
instead of abolition was the key
note of the compromise proposals.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
CONTINUED from Page y

Continued from Page
in the profession, and when
Mae started ahead / kept quiet
and continued along my way.
"YOu know, Mae and 1 made
a kid agreement that if either
of us got to the top of the
ladder, he would help the
other. She didn't ask me; I
never asked her and / never
opened my mouth when she
climbed ahead. She deserves
all the success she earned"
Wallace related, in hating
phrases, the Journal said the
romance that he says eliminated
in the marriage to Mae West and
subsequently wound up in a sud-
den divorce in 1915 or 1917.
A Classy Dame
"And who served the divorce
papers?" the story continued.
None other than kid sister,
Beverly West, the damsel who
reported that there was nothing
to the marriage report. 1t must
have been two other people,
Conceding that Mae might ef-
fectively refute all this, the Jour-
nal said Frank told the story
'in the sincere fashion Of a
guy who still loves an old sweet
heart and is afraid of injuring
her feelings" Wallace was quoted,
regarding the romance, as fol-
lows:
Back in 1909, 1 was playing
a single at the Canarsie Music
Hall in Brooklyn on the Fox
circuit. Joe Leo, now a Fox
executive, was the head Of the
circuit.
Zone day after my per-
Torrance, q SwelI-lOOking wOm-
an came around back stage
and told me she had a daugh-
ter who was a conner. She
had seen my act, she said. and
thought I could help her kid.
"Well, she brought the kid
in, and want to tell you she
was one classy little dame. The
brunette yOungster was Mae
West. Her mother talked with
a German accent.
SONG AND DANCE
"Mae was a sweet little kid, o
brunette about 16. took her
mother up and we went into
rehearSal-in the cellar Of her
Bushwick Avenue home. lived
in Maspeth at the time; was
raised in Williamsburg, though
born on Christie Street, Man
haitian.
"She worked hard. She did a
song and dance, and the first
song she did was Lovin' Honey
Man.
"She also sang the song,
When My Marie Sings My Child
dee Biddee Bee,' and also the
song Jealous which aided her
climb.
"After O. few weeks rehearsal
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
FormoSa Quake Toll
Mounts to 3.165 Dead

TAIHOKU, Formosa, April %
U.N.S0 .-Steady streams of ragged
peasants, injured in Sundays
earthquakes, continued to pour
into emergency aid centers today
as the army and Red Cross
battled to bring order out Of the
chaos resulting from the death
OF 3,165 persons.
Airplane surveys of the north
western section of the island in
dicated that 1000 square miles
had been devastated, with whole
villages reduced to heaps of dirt
bricks and ashes.
Want Of food and medicine still
caused suffering to thousands of
homeless Chinese in the mountain
valleys, cut off by continuing
landSlides. but airplanes brought
partial relief while Army contin-
gents struggled to reopen the roads
and railway.
Hundreds of dead remained un-
buried, and doctors in the more
than so emergency stations re-
ported that the death roll was
slowly mounting.
In many towns medical treat
ment had to be given in the
streets, and in the larger centers
hospitals were damned to over
flowing.
With the aid of troops, temper
airy shelters were put up by the
score to shelter the bewildered
natives from the alternating
showers and blazing sun. At least
81 900 houses were destroyed in
whole or part.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa, April
% Q.N.SO Clyde Kelly, former
Representative in Congress and
known as the father of the air.
mail" battled for his life in a
hospital here today after acct
dentally shooting himself with a
rifle.
The bullet passed through his
left lung and out his back, his
physician, DR.. George M. MusSer,
said.
DR.. Truman Abby, Of Wash
ington, close friend, was on his
way to Mr.. Kelly's bedside.
Mr.. Kelly served several terms
in the House. He was known as
a consistent fighter in behalf Of
postal improvements.
Former Representative Kelly is
widely known in Washington, and
with his wife have been promi
nently identified with public at
fairs in the District for many
years. They live in the 3700 block
Mckinley St., Chevy Chase.
Mrs. Kelly formerly was presi
dent of the Congressional Women'S
Club, and Representative Kelly
for many years was president Of
the Pennsylvania State Society Of
the District. Under his leader
ship it became the largest State
society in Washington.
Author of several books dealing
with governmental subjects, he
was a pioneer in the development
Of the parcel post and air mail
and throughout his career in Con
greSs served on the House Com
mitee on Post Offices and Post
Roads.
At one time he was prominently
mentioned as a possible contender
for the governorship of Pennsyl
Vania.
During the World War he won
the nomination of all of the
political parties in his district
which included the East End OF
Pittsburgh and adjacent suburbs
and industrial districts, including
Braddock McKeesport.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
UST0B0OST.
TAXES, WARNING
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CONTINUED from Page y
Of any of the separate pending
measures.
Mr.. Morgenthau revealed he had
talked the whole question over
with President Roosevelt before ap-
pearing before the committee, and
disclosed that the views he ex-
pressed were also those of the
Executive.
LEGION IN FIGHT
The American Legion threw it's
heaviest artillery into the Senate
fight for enactment of a non
inflationary bill to pay the SOL
diers' bonus today.
National Commander Frank N.
Belgrano, Jr., of California, and
John Thomas Taylor, legislative
representative, appeared before
the Senate Finance Committee in
support of non-inflationary legis-
lation.
Both denounced the Patlnan bill
passed by the House as a measure
with which the Legion would have
no connection, and as a proposal
which would never be written into
law.
Settle Question
Mr.. Belgrano said:
Veterans and business men
alike are anxious to have this
troublesome question settle
once and for all. The Legion
does not feel that it is its part
to say how Congress shall pay
the bonus. That is a matter
with which we have no concern.
We stand behind the VinsOn bill,
defeated in the House, provid-
ing simply for payment of the
bonus"
Mr.. Taylor outlined the history
of bonus legislation for the conl-
mittee, appearing ahead of Mr..
Belgrano. He outlined the L..
gion's objections to the Patman
bill in these words:
What we object to in the
Patman bill is that it contains
a method of payment that has
been rejected by this commit.
tee, and that has been rejected
by the Senate before.
Therefore, the Patman bill
is one that can never be passed
in the Senate, and therefore il
can never become law, and
therefore the veterans can never
be paid the face value of their
certificates with this bill con-
Sidered."
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
BIGGEST CASE
We We HAD
SAYS HOOVER .
Police of IL States Join In
Hunt '0vershadoWing' That
For John DiIIinger

NEW YORK, April % G.N.S).
Federal Department Of Justice
agents were cooperating with the
police of a dozen Eastern States
today in an attempt to break
up an international organization
of jewel thieves whose operations
were described in Washington by
j. Edgar Hoover, chief Of the
Federal men. as being the most
extensive turned up" by his
men in recent years.
Spurred by the mystery sur
rounding the recovery in Florida
last month of gems worth $685..
600, stolen from Mrs. Margaret
Bell, the Federals and local po-
lice were swooping down on all
known criminal haunts today in
a determined effort to round up
the gangs ringleaderS.
Coincident with the activities
Of the Government men, it was
learned the Federal grand jury
here is investigating the activi.
ties OF Noel C. Scaffa, private de-
tective noted for recovering stolen
jewelry. Scaffa was instrumental
in the return Of the Bell Valu-
ables.
Detective Questioned
Scaffo first came into promi-
nence when he returned jewels
stolen from Mrs. James P. Dona-
hue, Woolworth heiresS, in 1925,
and his activities have been in
vestigated several times before.
He spent four hours under ques-
tioning by the Federal grand
jury last Saturday. No charges
of any wrong-doing have been
made against him.
Any tendency on the part Of
his men to underestimate the
Importance of the current lnvest1-
cations, were entirely diSpelled
by Mr.. Hoover when he said:
This is the most important
case we have ever had. 1t COM
pleteIy Overshadows the Dillin-
ger case.
''New arrests are being made
hourly, from the Canadian
border to the foot of Florida.
/ cannot yet reveal the names
of the men involved, but they
are among the most important
in the underworld"
Rhea Whitley, new head Of the
Department of Justices New York
bureau, branded as a hoax" the
original story of the return Of the
Bell jewels, which had it that the
jewels were placed in an auto
mobile being used by Chief Of
Detectives Eugene Bryant, of
Miami, and c. Harrington, Scaffa,
aide, while they were in a hotel.
Gangster on Trial
The Department of Justice
charges that Scaffa himself de-
livered to Bryant the key to a
railroad station box in which the
jewelry was found. Scaffa, the
department alleges, asked Bryant
to conceal the fact that he per-
sonally had returned the gems.
The disclosure of the wide
spread investigations against an
alleged international gang" here,
came as Nicky Montone, Brook
Ign gangster, and Charles Cali
went on trial in Miami on
charges in connection with the
theft Of the Bell jewels. The
charge against Montone was mol
pressed some time ago, while Cali
was permitted to plead guilty of
simple robbery for which he re-
ceived an eight-year sentence.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

Higher priced untrimmed
coats and suits prOportionate-
ly reduced each model an
individ u a l style leader Of
Spring 1885!
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Eccles Given O. K.
By Senate Group
International News Service

The nomination of Mariner S.
Eccles, of Utah, as governor of
the Federal Reserve Board was
unanimously approved by the
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee today. There was no
roll call of the committee, which
acted in less than half an hour
after it met.
Senator Carter Glass CD of
Virginia who has opposed the
Eccles nomination, was not
present.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
NELSON WILL SPE AK

EVANSVILLE, Nd, April %.
H. A. Nelson, acting director of
the Beltsville government farm,
will speak at the meeting Of the
Prince Georges Chamber of Com.
merce at the Beaver Dam Club
next Monday night, announces
Daniel C. Fahey, president.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

this long silence, is the reve-
lation Of the old records in
Milwaukee.
81 still love Mae, God bless
her, and I'm not going to do
anything to embarraSs her.
She is everything they say she
is"
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
ALLEGED PEPPER HELD

LYNN, Mass. GN.SO. Too
many peeps into the apartment of
Fred v. Abbott ended in the ar
rest of a man, who said he was
Carl H. Johnson, "a. The alleged
culprit slid down a veranda post
into the arms Of a waiting police
man,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-22

Mrs. G. L. Weaver, of Elkhart, Ind,
visited at the home Of her niece, Mrs.
Arthur Lawton, recently.
There will be services in the church
at Deer Park Sunday evening at eight
o'clock, Rev. D. C. Trimble conducting
the service.
Conservation Commissioner H. w.
McComas was in Baltimore and An
napolis yesterday attending meeting
of the commission, returning to Oak
land early this morning.
Mrs. J. H. McRobie, who recently re-
turned from visit to Washington, D.
c., left Oakland yesterday for Detroit,
Mich, where she is visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. 7. Rush.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Jackson went to
Buckhannon on Sunday. Returning to
Oakland they were accompanied by
their daughter, Miss Betty Jackson,
who had attended the Epworth League
Institute, Morgantown District, as a
representative of the local League.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Field, with their
SON and daughter and their guest,
William Steinbeck, Weston, returned
to Oakland yesterday evening from a
motor trip of several days which took
them to Philadelphia and Baltimore.
They were accompanied home by Miss
June Mogul, of Baltimore.
Hugh Garner, lockwood, Pa, and
William Burton, Gainesville, Md, are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. l. R. Rudy at
their home on Oak street Mr.. and Mrs.
Rudy entertained with a picnic sup
per at Deep Greek Lake last evening in
honor of their guests. Others present
included Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Arnold.
Miss Colleen James, Kitzmiller, and
Harry Arnold, Parsons, w. Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-22
Card of Thanks

We desire in this manner to thank
those who were so kind and helpful
during the illness and following the
death of our mother, the late Mrs.
Mary Catherine Wrightsman.
We also appreciate the expressions
of sympathy, the floral tributes and
the use of automobiles for the funeral
service. THE CHILDREN.
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