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Evening star., 1935-10-29
D. c. SCHOOL UNIT
WILL SUE TO HALT
SOVIET TEACHING
Injunction to Be Sought if
Other Means Fail to
Silence Facts.
COMMITTEE is PLANNED
TO DRAFTLEGAL PAPERS
Fries Announces Legion Will Call
on McCarl to Rule on Act
Amendment.

Efforts to halt the teaching of tn,
facts of communism in the public
schools of the District by court in
junction will be made by COMMITTEES
representing the District Public Schoo
Association, unless other patriotic or
ganizationS can make the ban effec.
tive through having the controller
general withhold salaries of teacher!
who present the subject to theil
pupils.
Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. S. A.
retired, said today committee from
the association will be named today
or tomorrow to which will be ap-
pointed attorneys to draft the neces.
sary legal papers unless other efforts
are successful.
Legion Asks McCarl Ruling.
Fries, president of the Public School
Association, Is also chairman of the
Constitution Day Committee and ac-
tive in American Legion circles. He
said today the Legion plans to call
upon Controller General John r. Nc
Carl to interpret the anti-communism
amendment to the current District ap-
preparation bill so that the mere men,
ton of communism by a teacher in
class room will hold up the teacher
salary.
The amendment makes the provi-
sion for withholding the pay of teach
ers teaching or advocating" COM
muniSm.
Representative Thomas L. Blanton
Democrat, of Texas. member of the
subcommittee that handled the Dis
trict appropriation bill, has already
called upon McCarl to hold up teach
ers' pay. Blanton criticized the opin-
ion of Corporation Counsel E. Barrett
Prettyman that distinguished between
teaching" and advocating" Pret-
tyman's opinion was adopted by the
Board Of Education as its interpreta-
ton Of the law.
Cannon Backs Prettyman.
Representative Clarence Cannon
author of the amendment, supported
Prettyman's Interpretation of the
meaning of the law in statement
last week
Decision to go to court was reached
last night at a special meeting of the
Public School Association in the
Thomson school. George Warren, ar
attorney. defended the stand Of the
Board of Education.
Fries was authorized to act through
q epecio1 coy,y, itfeo n, oDrlvip1 for O n
injunction until the next Congress
convenes, when a stronger law will be
sought. He said today. however. the
committee will cooperate with other
organizations that oppose the Pretty
man opinion and want the mention
of communism prohibited in the
schools.
Evening star., 1935-10-29
TEN BANDS TO MARCH
IN Halloween PARADE
George o'cornor, Chairman of
Music Committee, Announces
Entries.

The Halloween parade Thursday
night will swing along to the music
of at least 10 bands. George O'Connor,
chairman of the Music and Band Com
mittee, announced today. Excluding
those from schools and Fairgrounds,
the following bands have been en-
tered:
District National Guard. Elks Boys
Band from Langley Community Cen
ter, East Washington Community Gen.
ters Metropolitan Police Boys Band,
George Washington University. Vim
cent B. Costello American Legion
Post Drum and Bugle Corps. Sons
of the American Legion Drum and
Bugle Corps. Holy Comforter Boys
Band, Elks Boys Band, Washington
Gas Light Co. and Loew's Fox Cadet
Band.
The Southeast Community Center
will have three sections in the parade,
including royal court, the Southeast
Community Orchestra and 40 dancing
girls.
Evening star., 1935-10-29

the custody of their two children and
$40 week alimony.
If Mrs. Ellin's position is sustained
similar attachments will be resorted to
in hundreds of cases, it is predicted
Divorce lawyers say that if it becomes
generally known that the husbands
bank account, automobile or salary can
be seized whenever he is in default
without any notice to him, alimony
defaults here will be reduced some SO
per cent.
Method Discussed Before.
This is the first time the new method
for alimony collection has been put
before the court for a decision, al
though it has been discussed for many
months by attorneys and attaches Of
the clerks Office.
Boardman pointed out that there are
many cases on record of husbands de-
faulting time after time and paying
alimony only when ordered to Jail by
the judge. who often is reluctant to
resort to so extreme penalty.
The specific amount involved in the
Ellin case is only S2l. but the ruling
on it may set precedent.
Evening star., 1935-10-29
u. S. AGENTS ASSIST
POLICE IN GEM CASE

Police today were being aided by the
Department of Justice in the identi-
fication OF $4,000 worth of stolen
jewelry seized here recently with the
arrest Of Mrs. Lula Mae Bennett, %,
o former night club dancer.
The loot is belived part of that
taken by an international gang Of
gem thieves. The Department of
Justice recently was empowered by act
of Congress to participate in investi-
cations involving the transportation
of large amounts of stolen property
across State lines.
Mrs. Bennett was being held in jail
today in default of $4,000 bond on
q charge of receiving stolen property,
while police searched several Eastern
cities for her husband, James L. Ben
nett, described as having police
record.
The girl was arrested in Union
Station as she was about to catch
train for New York.
At least two pieces of the jewelry
have been identified as stolen in
Miami and Chicago.
Evening star., 1935-10-29
COL. COOPER WINS
DEFENSE POINT
Prosecution Agrees Board
Approved Loans to
Continental.

A stipulation that the board of d.
rectors of the defunct Commercial Ma
tional Bank approved all loans made
to its one-time affiliate, the Conti-
mental Trust Co., and other borrowers,
was agreed upon today by counsel rep
resenting both sides in the trial of
Col. Wade H. Cooper for alleged mis-
application of funds of the commercial
bank.
Irving Goldstein, assistant United
States attorney in charge of the prose-
cution, concurred in a statement by
William E. Leahy, chief defense attor-
ney, that minutes of the board meet
ings show all major loans were called
to the attention of the directors and
approved by them before being made.
The stipulation was regarded by de-
fenSe attorneys as a point in favor of
Cooper, who is charged with making
improper and illegal loans to the Con-
tinental bank
Minutes Again Cited.
The stipulation vas obtained during
cross-examination by Leahy of Fred
erick w. Pimper, former head note
teller Of the Commercial Bank and
now employed by the banks receiver.
Goldstein also agreed to stipulation
to the effect that minutes of the
Board of Directors of the Commercial
also showed that attention of the
board was called regularly to the bal
ance of the deposit liabilities of Con-
tinental. which were being liquidated
by Commercial under an affiliation
plan. The minutes also show, it was
agreed, that the directors were in
formed regularly of the balance Of
Continentals assets pledged to Com
mercial as security for the deposit Ia-
biliies.
Col. Cooper formerly was president
Of both banks.
The jury was led through maze
of financial transactions yesterday by
prosecution and defense.
Pimper described numerous notes,
checks. ledgers and other papers in
troduced by Goldstein in his efforts to
trace allegedly fraudulent moves by
Cooper.
illustrates on Blackboard.
Leahy conducted a vigorous cross
examination, using blackboard in
an attempt to clarity the transactions
for the jury. At one point in his ex-
animation of Pimper the defense at
torney declared he intended to show
that interest charges .totaling $2l0,17l
made against Continental by Com
mercial were unlawful. He contended
that had these charges not been made
Continental would have had an ex-
cess of assets with which to make
dividend payments which the Govern
ment charges were improper.
Leahy brought out that all loans
Of $1,000 or more were approved by
the Board of Directors Of the Com
mercial Bank. so that If anything
was irregular about the loans COM
planned of by the Government, the
directors as well as Cooper were
responsible.
Evening star., 1935-10-29
Test Case May Giue Short Cut
To Collection of ID. C.. AlirnOny
Wife Seeks to Haze
Clerk Issue Writ of
Attachment.
If Sustained Method Will
ObUiate Cumbersome
One NO,U Used.

A SHORT cut in the collection
~ of delinquent alimony may re-
~ suit from test case brought
= in District Supreme Court to-
day by Mrs. Catherine Knapp Ellin,
1916 Upshur street northeast, to COM
pei attachment of her husband s
property.
Heretofore. payment of alimony
usually has been enforced by contempt
proceedings, which often proved in
effective. In contempt action it is
necessary for the court to find that
the husband deliberately failed to pay
when he had the ability to do so. A
second action then was necessary to
attach the husbands property, the at
tachment being issued only where
there was a formal adjudication that
a certain amount was in default.
This rather cumbersome procedure
often has proved expensive to the
wife, sometimes costing her a third
of her alimony to collect it.
Writ of Mandamus Asked.
Under the new procedure, which
Jean M. Boardman, Mrs. Ellin's at
torney, is attempting to set up, the
clerk of the court would be required
to issue writ of attachment against
the husband without notice for any
alimony in arrears. on application of
the wife.
The question was brought before
the court when Mrs. Ellin, through
Attorney Boardman, sued for writ
Of mandamus to compel Acting Clerk
Charles B. Coffin to attach property
of Benjamin August Ellin. from whom
Mrs. .Ellin obtained an interlocutory
decree last February. She was awarded
Evening star., 1935-10-29
DROUGHT is BROKEN

ATLANTA, October 20 P).-Belated
but bountiful rainfall soaked Georgia
and other Southern States yesterday
to definitely break a two-month
drought, the weather man said.
Starting in the Middle Gulf States
and sweeping over the Mississippi VAL
ley to the Great Lakes region, a
barometeric depression originating in
Northern Mississippi moved to the
Atlantic Coast, bringing heavy and
general rains to Georgia at nightfall
Evening star., 1935-10-29
Botanical Society to Meet.

The Botanical Society of Washing
ton will meet at 8 pm. next Tuesday
in the assembly hall of the Cosmos
Club. Illustrated lectures will be de-
livered by L. w. Kephart, ]. A. Martin
and H. 3. Humphrey.
Evening star., 1935-10-29
ROBBERS DRAG VICTIM
INTO ALLEY AND GET $50
$215 in Jewelry and Household
Effects Taken by Burglars.
Ray Lamp Is Stolen.

Dragged into an alley of I street
southwest by two colored men last
night. Philip S. Gordon, 66, of BIT
Sixth street southwest, was robbed
of a billfold containing $50, he re-
ported to police.
Jewelry and household effects
valued at $2l5 were stolen last night
by burglars who entered the home Of
Clarence Stanford at 512 A street
southeast with a duplicate key.
Thieves broke into the Office of
DR. David A. Coe at 1901 o street
yesterday and made of with a violet
ray lamp valued at $3.50, DR.. Coe
reported.
Evening star., 1935-10-29
MUM VARIETIES SHOWN
Cross-Breeding Work of Depart
ment of Agriculture Displaved.

ment of Agriculture Displayed.
Attracting much attention at the
Department Of Agricultures thirty
fourth annual chrysanthemum show
is a supplementary exhibition of a
number of the more popular varieties,
showing the work of the Department
in cross breeding.
This new addition to the annual
shows was introduced by ]. Wise
Byrnes, superintendent Of greenhouses.
Evening star., 1935-10-29
Auto Horns Silenced

Paris has extended its ban on the
sounding Of automobile horns to be-
tween pm. and Am.
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Apollo Offering
Shirley Temple
Child Star Dances and Sings
Curly Top

The happiest picture of Shirley
Temples career, Curly Top" will
come tomorrow to the screen Of the
Apollo.
In Curly Top" a story of little
girl who captures the heart of a
lonely bachelor and makes both
their dreams come true, Shirley has
two new songs to sing and several
new and intricate dance routines for
audience approval.
In this Fox Film comedy drama,
John Boles is cast as a bachelor who
adopts Shirley and her big sister,
Rochelle Hudson.
His generosity takes them from
the drab and dreary atmosphere of
an orphanage to the sunny summer
surroundings of palatial home in
Southampton.
There the romance of Boles and
Rochelle Hudson flourishes under
the childish guidance of little Shir-
ley who sings, dances and laughs
her way into their hearts.
Shirley is really happy in this pic
ture, for she has the opportunity of
displaying her full talents when she
sings Animal Crackers in My Soup"
and when l Grow Up"
Ray Henderson, Americas ace
song writer, wrote the melodies for
all the song numbers for Curly
Top" which was produced by Win
field Sheehan and directed by Irv-
ing Cummings.
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and guying out of the 81 tents Of
the huge organization.
According to circus statisticians,
this rope, if laid into coil, would
top the famous Empire State Build
ing. Were it brought down to a
single strand it would span the
state of Texas.
The show buys rope in carload
lots. Two heavy wagons loaded with
reserve supplies of it are carried on
tour.
And to no one does rope mean
more than to the performers. With
out it many could not present their
acts. To it's rarely failing sinews a
great army of daring celebrities of
the big top twice daily trust their
lives. 1t is part of them and their
art and is spliced into their very
being.
If you have never thought to do
so, note what an important part
rope plays in the worlds largest cir
Gus, when it exhibits in indianapolis
next Monday.
Performances, filled with new fea-
lures never before seen in America,
will be given at and 8 p. m.
The doors will open one hour
earlier in each instance to permit
leisurely inspection of the 1909 rare
animals in the mammoth menagerle.
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Loew' S to Show
Double Feature
Let EN- Have IT Booked
With Calm YOURSELF

Starting tomorrow at Loew's an
other double feature movie bill will
be shown.
Let En- Have 1t" with Richard
Arlen, Virginia Bruce, Alice Brady
and Bruce Cabot and Calm Your
self" with Robert Young and Madge
Evans will make up the bill.
Let EN- Have It." which Harry
NJ. Goetz and Edward Small pro-
duced for release through United
Artists, is a swift-moving thriller
which tears its subject right out of
the headlines of the nations press.
Richard Arlen, as Nal Stevens, an
attorney; Harvey Stephens, as a
wealthy sportsman, and Gordon
Jones, the sensational new football
star find" as a dead-shot cowboy,
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became the three musketeers" of
the Federal sleuths.
At the outset they apprehend
band of criminals about to kidnap
wealthy society girl Virginia
Bruce. A romance develops be-
tween Nal and the girl, only to be
shattered later when her young
brother eric Linden) is killed upon
his first assignment and she charges
Nal with encouraging the boy to
join the service.
The girls chauffeur (Bruce Cabot
who received a light sentence for
participating in the kidnapping plot,
is liberated at her instigation and
careens madly on his career of crime
until he becomes Public Enemy
No l.
He sweeps across the Middle West
leaving a shocking trail of destruc-
ton behind him, and as the Federal
sleuths close in, the action becomes
just about the most realistic and
thrilling the screen has ever shown.
The question of what to do if
suddenly unemployed is answered in
Calm Yourself" the new Metro
Goodwin Mayer picture with Robert
Young and Madge Evans teamed
in the leading roles.
The swift comedy drama deals
with young man who, bounced out
of his frances fathers advertising
firm, starts an agency of his own
confidential services" whose slo-
gan is Calm Yourself" and guar
entees to handle any problem. no
matter how delicate. for its clients.
This leads to the amusing situations
enacted by Betty Furness, Ralph
Morgan, Nat Pendleton, Hardie Al
bright and others in the support
of the popular team.
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the individual contributions to the
picture.
In addition. Rogers also viii in
troduce Jack "Screwy" Douglas,
comedy vocalist: the dance team Of
Shayne and Armstrong, from the
College Inn, Chicago; the Three
NonchalantS. harmony trio. and
Fioreua Mario, formerly with the
Chicago Civic Opera Co. and more
recently featured in several Broad
way operettas.
On the Lyric screen, Don't Bet
on Blondes" based on the exploits
of a big-time gambler who reforms
and enters the insurance business in
the manner of Lloyds of London,
by underwriting every risk brought
to him Warren William has his
first light comedy role as the in
surance man who inSures against
rain. twins. or anything.
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In both cases they we're i'm
pressed with the possibilities of
radio and felt as much at home
before the microphone as dog be-
fore a fireplace.
But. for the moment. let's take
the boys and review their individual
careers.
We start with Gene. Thirty-three
years ago in Chicago, among the
blCe-eyed light haired baby boys
who were ushered into the world
with the dawn of April 13, was one
who was called Eugene Francis
Carroll Somewhere a baptismal
record bears this name But the
neighbors insisted on calling him
just plain Gene.
OF course. there were school days.
After two weeks period of being
absent from school, in a showdown
with truant officers. he said good by
to high school days of his own VIC
lation. His family did not happen
to be wealthy and Gene was forced
TO work for his spending money. He
started out and found a Job in a
drug store. The pay was SO a week.
A grocery mail order house of
fered Gene SIS to help put up orders,
do a little clerical work and he
jumped at the chance. However. this
worl was rather dull and he passed
the time away by whistling and
singing his favorite popular songs.
Many nights he says he sauntered
along Michigan-blvd. when most of
the people were home in bed. sing
ing I'll Be Leaving in the Morning
Molly Darling. Il Want a Girl Just
Like the Girl That Married Desr
Old Dad"
In short order he had three pals
and organized a quartet Then as
circumstances often transpire, Gene
found himself in vaudeville without
quite definitely remembering how it
happened
In 1917. he made his debut in
Cleveland at the Priscilla in THE
Junior Frolic" After that, he and
a boy friend, named Jack Grady.
entered the business of team work.
1t was quite by accident that the
team of Jack and Gene should walk
into the studios of WIS one day
and decide that radio was their
meat. This partnership however,
was not TO last. AS. in time to come,
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Jack contracted throat trouble and
was unable to sing.
And now leaving Gene for the mo-
ment, we turn the spotlight on Glenn.
Glenn was born two years after
Gene in Pontiac, H. And his family,
believing every boy should have d
middle name, called him Glenn
Owen His father was French and
it is from him Glenn got his dark
brown eyes and stocky build. Glenn's
three assets we're his ability to play,
sing and laugh.
The greatest of these was his
laugh. In no time, he would throw
the whole class into commissions and
many hours of his school life we're
spent in the front seat because he
was charged with diSorderly con-
Guct.
School bored Glenn too. He wasn't
cut out for it so he didn't even
wait for a grammar school diploma
When he reached the age of 8, his
family moved to st. Louis. His par
ents rather looked with favor upon
his inclinations to study piano and
violin.
After doing a lot of touring,
G.enn's show had to move near
Chicago on one of its engagements,
which made it possible for him TO
slip into the city and find himself
a job singing personality songs be-
hind the counter of and 10-cent
store.
For a while after that he played
the organ in church and sang in the
choir, Then he played the piano
and organ in motion picture thea
tiers. Like Gene, Glenn happened
to meet a partner whose name was
Ford Rush.
Ford and Glenn started singing
for radio over WIS. They were very
popular and they remained at the
station for several years. The teams
of Gene and Jack, Ford and Glenn
were probably at this time each
barely aware of the other.
Gene and Jack had left WIS for
WLW, Cincinnati. 1t was in Gin
cinnati that the foursome met.
Genes partner Jack had had the
misfortune to have throat trouble
and Gene was more or less stranded
until he could find a new partner.
For the time being, Ford and
Glenn invited Gene to work with
them, and then one day Ford retired
for a protracted period from radio
and that left Gene and Glenn each
with half an act.
They liked each other personally
and they began to sing together.
Their songs took like a vaccination.
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Circus Will Be
inCityMonday
Ringing Barnum & Bailey
Sets Performances.

She ICONS from the skies, does
pretty Jennie Rooney-that is, she
seems to, when Ed Rooney, her part
ner, swings her from the dome of
the largest tent in the world to a
point perilouSly close to the ground
far below, as you will agree when the
Ringing Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Combined Circus comes to
town.
Of greatest Importance to this
sensational act and to hundreds of
other men and women arenic stars
with the big show is an item of
which the public seldom thinks.
That item is-rope.
But rope is used for many other
things besides aerial riggings in the
circus. More than forty-two miles
of rope is used in the construction
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Noted Radio Stars TO Appear in
Stage Presentation; Bette Davis
Will Be Starred in Film Show
Team Was Well Known in Vaudeville Before Earning
National BroadcaSting Prominence; Front
Pace Women on Screen

GONE Of the pig radio acts of today big previous radio
~ name o
radio And although Gene and Glenn famed NBC will
the Circle well
of
Both their the radio station
different almost wholly of the In both
thai they the studLo- and do l5-mlnu
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Buddy Rogers, besides contrib
uting his own performances to the
stage show, will act as master of
ceremonies in order to introduce his
supporting crew of speciality artists,
Foremost of these will be JEANNE
Lang, billed as Radios Sweet
heart" who also gained recognition
on the screen by her work with Paul
Whiteman in King of Jazz"
Her singing of Ragamuffin
Romeo" in that film generally was
considered one of the highlights OF
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Lyric Bringing Buddy Rogers
TO Stage With His Own Show;
Coined y Drama TO Be on Screen
Popular Entertainer Will Sing and Conduct Orchestra in
Addition 10 Serving as Master of Ceremonies;
Large Cast Will Present Film.

ID ROGERS idol and radio will appear
d Lyric
his himself
stage will and conduct his dance orchestra.
bill
which that
William Claire Dodd Kibbee. which
a-gan Cavanagh Walter
Evening star., 1935-04-26
MRS. METCALF DIES
after LONG ILLNESS
Wife of Government Official De.
scendant Of Old Family
in New England.

Mrs. Haven Metcalf, wife of DR..
Haven Metcalf, chief Of the office Of
forest pathology Of the Bureau Of
Plant Industry, Agriculture Depart
ment. died early today at her home.
1928 Vermont avenue. She had been
Ill for months.
Mrs. Metcalf, native of Nashua.
N. H., was descended from the old
New England family Of David Holt,
who settled In Newbury, Mass. in
1925. She was graduate Of Brown
University and had experience in
both teaching and in library work.
Mrs. Metcalf had lived here many
years and for some time taught art
history at Miss Madeira's School
for Girls. She was an accomplished
linguist and student of art criticism
and had travelled extensively In this
country and abroad. She was a men,
ber of the Twentieth Century Club
and until her illness had been espe-
cially active in the clubs French
section.
Besides her husband Mrs. Metcalf
is survived by several cousins.
Funeral arrangements had not been
completed today, but will be an
nounced later, 1t was said.