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Evening star., 1935-10-20
OYSTER STEW

Your family should eat meat bu,
they will welcome fresh Oysters for
a change. 1t is pretty hard to resist a
serving Of tasty panned Oysters or
a savory Oyster stew.
As You consider fresh Oysters in
your menus, notice the different
ways to serve them. Your favorite
cookbook offers many delicious
dishes-all made with ease and sur.
prising economy.
Don't forget the food value Of
fresh Oysters. They contain calcium.
iron, iodine, phosphorus and vita.
minis your system needs. And you
can always be sure Of getting the
finest fresh Oysters. Through i'm.
proved methods Of producing and
shipping. fresh Oysters come to your
dealer delicious and wholesome
always! Oyster institute Of North
America.
Oysiers delireysd 70
coRsnsssv In erisihsl ~ kessAH:sasssJ
sssIed eeReainsrs.
Evening star., 1935-10-20
Dark Waters
Continued from page eleven

knew that he was lying on the deck
of the tug with his helmet off. He took
a great gulp of air and opened his
eyes.
Joan was leaning over him, with
Lawson looking over her shoulder.
Terry looked around. Finch and the
Greek were trying to wreck the safe
with sledge hammers. Under their
blows they we're slowly driving it
ahead of them across the deck.
He looked up at Joan. She was
smiling and pushing his hair back from
his eyes. He felt cold and very tired.
She poured some rum into his mouth,
and he could feel the stuff go all
through him. Presently the pounding
ceased, and he could hear the hiss of
blow torch. He sat up then. and Joan
and the old man helped him out of his
suit.
She said. They forgot all about
you"
For a long time Terry sat on the
stern winch. Joan and the old man
stood watching him without saying
anything. At last, when he felt better,
he stood up.
GO below" he said, land stay
there until ! come for you"
They went ahead of him towards the
deck house. Finch and the Greek didn't
see them pass. They didn't even know
they we're there. Finch was working
the blow torch around the lock of the
safe, and the Greek was telling him
how to do it. Watching them through
the rear port hole, Terry drank pint
of rum and threw the bottle out of the
port.
Heknew only one thing He was going
to get them. The Thompson gun lay
on the lounge III front of him. He
checked the magazine and saw it was
full. He waited until they had opened
the safe; then he picked up the gun
and went on deck.
Standing close to the deck house,
he called to them. He couldn't shoot
them in the back. He wanted them to
know they we're getting it. He wanted
to see their faces when they knew that
they hadn't chance.
"Hey! Finch! Joe!''
They never heard him. The Greek
had strong box on the deck and was
trying to open it with sledge ham,
mer. The box bounced under the
blows, and suddenly sprung open.
Glittering in the sun. several gold
coins rolled out and across the deck.
They both sprang for the box, and
Finch recoiled under the impact of
their bodies meeting.
Cursing, Finch got to his feet, and
Evening star., 1935-10-20

way. The Greek was doing his Job
well. When he had enough cable,
Terry fastened the grapnels onto the
safe four ways. The Greek could
wrench the safe from the wall with the
hoist.
Let her CO." he called into the
mouthpiece. He watched the cables
tighten, and then suddenly the safe
swung out and away from the wall.
Hold it," he said into the mouth.
piece, but there was no reply from
Finch.
Finch. are you there?" he asked.
Only faint buzzing came through
the phones. Terry knew what had
happened. Finch had deserted his post.
Overcome with curiosity and greed,
the rat was probably looking through
the water glass. To hell with the guy
who got the stuff, to hell with every
thing. He was going to get his hands
on the gold. But not so fast, Finch,
you haven't got the safe through the
doorway yet. That required expert
manoeuvering of the hoist, which
Terry would do from above. Terry lay
on his back and looked up. The corner
OF the safe had jammed against the
side of the door, as he knew it would.
Now they'd be calling to him to guide
it through. Now that they needed him,
Finch would 60 back to the pumps.
They'd give him air now, and he'd tell
them to bring him up. The tight feel
ing in Terry's lungs began soon after
that. He'd felt it before once when the
pumps had failed and he d passed out.
Damn them, what were they doing?
Trying to tear the side Of the cabin
out. They'd break the cables. Damn
them! Damn the pain in his chest.
Unless they gave him air soon.
Finch, Finch? But what was the
good of yelping? Finch had probably
thrown the earphones overheard.
Finch" God, if the cables would only
break. If they just would use a little
sense and give up. Finch p 1t was
getting dark. The sun must have gone
under.
"Finch!' My God, were they ever
going to give up?
Looking up. Terry saw the wall of
the cabin slowly give under the pres
sure of the hoist. He wasted the last
bit of precious air calling for Finch.
Then, just before everything grew
black, he heard Joan calling to him.
Her voice reached him family. 1t was
as if she were calling to him from miles
away.
Gradually he became conscious OF
loud hammering A moment later he
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
RIVAL PLAYERS
DINE SUNDAY

The third annual one-act play
tournament dinner will be held at
9 p. m. Sunday in the Admiral,
Seventeenth Street and Rhode Is
land Ave. N. w., it was announced
yesterday by E. Francis McDevitt,
chairman of the dinner commit
tee for the Community Center De-
partment.
The speakers on the program
will include Mrs. Elizabeth K.
Peoples, director of the Commun.
ity Center: DR.. Stephen E.
Kramer, assistant superintendent
of schools; DR.. William Lee Cor
bin, and the dramatic critics of
the Washington newspapers who
served as judges for the final
performances.
Two Skits, 1.-The Fatal Quest
and "Ill Be All Right on the
Night" will be presented during
the evening. Miss Francis Shea,
of the Blackfriars Guild, will pre-
sent a musical program.
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
Merriam Threats
Face Investigation

SACRAMENTO, Cal, March !
G.N.SO.-Investigation of threat
ening letters against Gov. Frank
F. Merriam, with threats Of
forcibly delivering Tom Mooney
firm San Quentin prison, was un-
derway today by the State Bu-
reau of Criminal Investigation.
Two letters, one mailed in Cali
fornia and the other from the
East, contained vague but not
actual direct threats against the
governors life.
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
1884 PAY ROLLS
. Of j. 6. SET At
S1,363,000,000.

Salaries totaling $1,363, ass, ,857
were paid to the 950,982 civil
and military employees of the
Federal Government during 1884,
a bulletin entitled Trend of
Employment" prepared by the
Department of Labor, revealed
today.
Employees in the executive
branch, constituting force of
672,273 last December, received
$1,107, ,456,537, the monthly pay
roll ranging from a low Of ST.
450,498 in January to a high Of
500, ,787 ,487 in November.
In Military Service
Military employees, including Of.
ficers and enlisted men in all
the services, whose number
ranged from 262,942 in January
to 272,200 in December, were
paid a total of $239, ,106,836.
The legislative service, whose
force ranged from 3.845 in jan
uary to 4,648 in December, dis
OuA SCO p4A,O ObO'JVS UuAA AAAAS VAAC ~
month period.
Employees in the judicial serv'
ice, numbering 1,760 in January
and increasing to 1851 in Decem.
ber, received salaries aggregating
$5,316,975.
The pay rolls for the four Serv.
ices for December were, executive,
$100,736,351; military, $20,971,.
678; legislative, $1,070,881, and
judicial, $451,653.
Increase Upheld
The Labor Departments bull.
letin corroborated the recent re-
port of the Civil Service Commits.
sion showing there was an in
crease of 18,600 or 24.7 per cent
in the number of Government EN-.
ployes in Washington last year.
The force here totalled 78,045 in
January and increased to $4,000
by the end of last December.
The number of Federal workers
outside the District increased by
45,003, or s.44 per cent, according
to the departments bulletin,
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
Maybe He
At Bridge

To the Editor of The Times:
I would like to see a new
amendment to the Constitution,
one making it illegal to play
contract bridge and providing
the death penalty for violation
of this law.
For bridge, in my estimation,
is one of the worst things ever
invented by man. It wastes
valuable time. l. wastes money
that these bridge players
gamble.
Women, instead of staying at
home cooking, taking care of
the house and minding their
children, are out playing bridge
every afternoon.
Business men instead of aid.
ing in national recovery are
spending hours over the bridge
tables.
If it were game, we'll and
good, but it is now a national
curse and should be recognized
as such and banned by law.
FINESSE.
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
Teach the Young Idea
HoW to Shoot

To the Editor Of The Times:
A news note today says:
MOSCOW, Feb, I935-So-
Uiet Russia today classified 677,-
900 civilians as nrorksmen. The
official figures indicated 46C,.
900 have been trained in jump
ing with porachutes."
And in the meantime the
American Congress is propos-
ing to further restrict the pos.
sessions of firearms by our
civilian population. In another
ten years the descendants of
Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett
and Buffalo Bill won't know
one end of a gun from the
other.
A patriotic. loyal, trained
citizenry should be our first
line of defense. A fine navy
and lot of big guns will
amount to nothing unless
manned by the right kind of
personnel. OBSERVER.
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
MOrgenthau Asks
Treasury Bill Bids

For the second time Secretary
Morgenthau today invited bids on
the new type nine-month Treasury
bills. He asks for tenders on $780,
100000 Of the 182-day bills. Bids
will be received at Federal Reserve
banks and their branches up to 2
p. m. March 4. Both issues will
be dated March 6, 1885. The six
month bills will mature September
4, and the nine-month bills De.
eemher 4
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
"Wrong Man" ConUicted
In NeW Jersey

To the Editor of the Times:
After following the Haupt-
mann trial in your paper, fail
to see how any jury could send
him to the electric chair on the
evidence they gave against him.
The whole trial is a disgrace
to the New Jersey people.
I hope this terrible wrong
can be righted by a change of
sentence for Hauptmann, or
acquittal, for the right person
is still at large. I believe. Cir
cumstantial evidence certainly
cannot send a man to the
chair. If it can, justice is in
deed a farce.
CONSTANT READER.
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
Maternal Death Rate
Is "A Disgrace

To the Editor Of The Times:
In my estimation it is a ma
tional disgrace that the mater
nal death rate in this country
is the second highest in all civil
lied lands, according to an ar
ticle I read recently.
It seems to me when so much
money is spent on other prof.
ects, more should be spent to
see that fewer women die in
child BIRTH and find means to
cut down this excessively high
death rate.
People are concerned about
the falling birth rate, but with
so many lives lost, we must safe
guard American mothers and
rectify this sad condition.
D. A. D.
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
Police Should Use
Radio Code

To the Editor of The Times:
Sitting by my radio last
night, listening to police calls,
I thought of the absolute stu
pidity of the police.
Here they broadcast infor-
nation as to their movements,
and any criminal can listen
to them and know just what
the police are doing.
1 realize that the police ra-
dio is an excellent thing to
guide officers, but believe the
messages should be broadcast
in code so that the criminals
would not learn just what the
officers are doing.
If that were done there
would not be so many escapes.
RADIO LISTENER.
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
BURGLARY Is HELP

QUINCY, Mass. G.N.S)-When
newspapermen could not get into
the press room at police head
quarters, Lieut.. John j. Avery en-
tered in a few minutes by using
burglar tools.
The Washington times., 1935-03-01
Letters to. the Editor

Letters to the Editor should 200 They
be signed by the Oriter Dith address, 1Uu
be held confidential initials publication
Evening star., 1935-10-27
Give Program for Shrir,e.
A VARIED program, under the di-

rection Of Mamie j. Allen will be
presented at the Ladies' Oriental
Shrine Charity Affair to be given at
the Shoreham Hotel on Wednesday
evening at $3.50 o'clock. Part of the
proceeds will go to the Children,s S
Hospital and the remainder to buy
clothing for tubercular children.
The musical program will be pre-
sented by Regina Vicarino, soprano;
accompanied by Nation Boyce, Will
liam Webster and William Moran,
tenors; Elizabeth Graebner, at the
piano, Norman Frauenheim. pianist;
Henri Sokolov, violinist, with La Sale
Spier accompanying, and the George
Washington University Glee Club, DR.
Robert H. Harmon, director; Paul
Gable, accompanist.
Dance numbers will be given by
Helen Hoyem. Avis Belt. Joanne Lea
sure, Jane Phelps and Virginia Elm
endorf of the Marian Chace Studios
with Lyman McCreary at the piano;
Margaret Mary Edmonston and Vir-
ginia Barry of the Bekefi-Deleporte
Studio; Gertrude Effenbach, accom-
panist, and the Capital Society Chill.
dren of American Revolution: Mrs
Henry Fenno Sawtelle, director; Mrs
E. w. Scott, accompanist.
Tahmineh Irani, Eleanore Farr
Ella Harlee and Richard Stringfellow
of the Hester Walker Beall Studio oi
the Spoken Word and Mrs Ross H
johnson, radio star, will be heard in
dramatic readings.
Evening star., 1935-10-27

who recently returned from Summer
course in vocal study at the Chigana
Music Conservatory, Siena, Italy, was
soloist for the Montgomery County
Soroptimist banquet at Olney Inn last
Monday. Sue Blandy was the accom-
panist.
At the first meeting of the new sea
son the local chapter of the American
Guild of Organists honored three OF
its members who successfully passed
the examination for the associate de-
gree last Spring. The members were
each presented with copy of the
complete orchestral scores of all oi
Beethoven's symphonies. The sue
cessful candidates are: Mrs Macon
r. McArtor, secretary of the chapter
Kathryn Hill Rawls, organist of West
ern Presbyterian Church. and c. Rich
ard Ginder, student of the Sulpiciar
Seminary.
Judy Lyeth. prominent Washington
dancer, has joined the teaching staff
at the Studio of Theater Arts, Con-
stance Connor Brown, director Miss
Lyeth will offer course in rhythmic
dancing.
A musical program will be given al
the Calvary M. E. Church South, 302S
@ street northwest, on Saturday al
BIS pm, under the auspices of Loui.
Potter, jr, director. The guest soloiss:
will be DR.. Lawrence Petran, organist
member of the faculty of Peabody Con.
servatory; Ruby Potter, soprano; Heller
Ware, contralto, and Paul Ledig, tenor
An offering will be taken for the organ
fund,
Evening star., 1935-10-27
Music
Series Here
Is Forecast
Kreisler, Miss Moore,
and Tibbett Have
Visits in Capital.

ERITZ KreiSler, eminent Austrian
violinist. who will inaugurate the
Constitution Hall recital season OF
1856 when he appears there on
Wednesday evening. November 6, at
$50 O'Clock, under the management
of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey, will
shortly make his debut as COM
poser for the screen.
Dispatches from both New York
and Hollywood confirm an earlier
report that Grace Moore, the Metro
politan Opera soprano and screen
star, during her European sojourn OF
the past Summer, purchased the
screen rights of Kreisler's successful
musical comedy, "Cissy", which had
prolonged stage run in Vienna and
other European cities.
Miss Moore, it is understood, per-
sonally bought the screen rights to
"Cissy" and then turned a handsome
profit by selling them to her screen
producers as a motion picture produc-
tion for Miss Moore's own talents. So
1t appears that, before long, Washing
ton can expect to see and hear Grace
Moore in a musical comedy of Euro
pean royalty, with an original score
by Fritz Kreisler.
Tickets for Kreisler's only concert
of the current season in Washington
are already on sale at Mrs Dorsey's
Concert Bureau. in Droop's 1900 G
street northwest.
Lawrence Tibbett, American BARI
tone of the Metropolitan Opera. who
will make his only recital appearance
of the current season in Washington
at Constitution Hall on Sunday after
noon, November 10, at 4 o'clock, under
Mrs. Dorsey's management, believes
that the presence of numerous op-
cratic stars in Hollywood during the
past Summer will result in a wide
spread improvement in what passes
for acting on the operate stage.
Most acting Of the operatic variety
Is inexpressibly bad, believes Tibbett.
Histrionics on the singing stage are
too undisciplined. Most operas. Tib-
bett points out, are in foreign Ian
guages. whereas few Americans can
understand foreign languages. Ac-
cordingly,
Acting for the screen" says Mr..
Tibbett, especially singing for it, will
develop in the opera singer the art
of pantomime. Before made The
Rogue Song, I found 1t necessary
to revise my entire acting technique.
This change in style has been a
permanent one, for. In returning to
Hollywood for my role in 'Metropoli-
tan, I found myself stepping natural
ly into the acting style of my fellow
players. I think that the other sing
ers who come to the screen from
opera will experience the same
change"
Tickets for Tibbett's Washington
recital on November 10 will 60 on
sale tomorrow morning at Mrs. Dor
sey's Concert Bureau. in Droop's,
1900 G street northwest.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
"Hit" Numbers Are Among
Newest Autographs
Deposited Here.

What I Want When I Want It" and
when You're Away" or-to recall
only a few of the hits" from
Naughty Marietta" score to which
the talking pictures have only recently
given a new lease on life-"Italian
Street Song "Ah, Sweet Mystery Of
Life" and I'm Falling in Love With
Some One"
That Victor Herbert's scores were
rather adds than detracts from their
interest as exhibition pieces. Scarcely
single number that does not have its
full quota Of cuts, cues, changes. and
directions for copyist and conductor.
Sometimes these annotations bear wit
ness to the trying conditions under
which the scores were completed, often
at the last minute; one number from
''Babette" is marked, "Will have the
parts for this-opening in Washing
toni" Elsewhere they record trying
conditions of another sort; the over
ture to 1.-THE Red MILL" begun at Lake
Placid in the Adirondacks on August
%, 1906, and completed the following
day, Is headed Hot as the devil"
Hastily written pencil-sketches enable
the student to reconstruct the develop
ment of more than one familiar page;
autograph orchestral parts testify to
Herbert's prodigious industry, as does,
indeed, the collection as q whole.
To say that there are in all about
$500 pages in the composers hand
writing Is to estimate conservatively.
And in one sense-and an important
one-the great majority of these pages
are unpublished, for the Herbert
operettas invariably appeared with ar
ranged piano parts, never in orchestral
score.
In the music division of the Library
Of Congress Victor Herbert's manu-
scripts take their natural and rightful
place with the scores of his con-
temporaries in representative and
comprehensive collection of American
scores-with autographs Of Sousa and
de Koven, of MacDowell and Parker,
of Chadwick, Converse, Gilbert, Critics
and Loef1ier. They belong to the story
Of American music, more especially to
the story Of the American operetta.
without them that story cannot be
told. In placing them at the disposal
Of the Nation, Mrs. Bartlett has made
it, telling possible. -
Evening star., 1935-10-27

Comments on Program of
National Symphony Orchestra
Today at Constitution Hall at 400 Pm.
By DR.. Hans Kinder.
Willem Van Hoogstraaten, Guest Conductor
Sooist: Grace Castagnetta, Pianist

thoven that they we're thought by him
to be worthy themes for the sum and
substance of a great symphony
It is known h01 :iI- composer,
upon hearing tina, Napoleon had him.
self crowned Emperor. tore the title
page Of the work, thereby expressing
his disappointment at what he con-
sidered his heros weakness and
degradation. He changed the dedi-
cation from Bonaparte to "the MEM
ory of a great man." However, the
music, thank heaven, he did not
change. and we have thereby what
can still be regarded as the greatest
ode to liberty ever conceived. AS such.
it seems to me, we can best regard it..
Personally, I but rarely agree with
the Literary ideas" other listeners are
certain to perceive in certain music.
But in this case I do understand the
nearly tangible connection between
the inspiration and It's final result.
The spirit of liberty seems to perme-
ate the entire work
FROM a purely technical stand
point the introduction of third
horn carefully considered by Bee
| thoven) is important The symphony
is in four movements. The first Is the
very embodiment Of the spirit Of free
dom. Materially, it goes as far as the
sounding of the main theme (after
the much-grander- -than-usual devel-
opment section) against the discord-
ing dominant in the violinS, until then
an unheard-of procedure. The amaz-
ing coda, with its sudden modulations
and surprising shifts Of dynamics,
also is real development in musical
science.
The long funeral march Gnstead Of
the usual adagio) is yet another in-
novation, as is the typically later
Beethoven scherZo (taking the place
of the more stately minuet), and the
finale with its enormous brio and its
variations developed from the gentler
rondo form.
These four movements constitute
this great work, great in many ways
great in conception, great in execu-
tion. great in the mastery Of a new
and more human language-opening
up new possibilities for entire gener-
ations of composers. That is the
great historical and artistic signifi-
canoe Of the "Eroica" symphony. But
1t is the end of the funeral march,
with its appealing. yes, imploring.
hesltating tenderness, which is one
Of the highest pinnacles in all music.
Evening star., 1935-10-27

Michon, formerly with the Moscow
Art Theater: Anita Ross. Prince
Dmitri Volkonsky and Ronney Cum
Mngham.
Nine. Natalie Scheffer, playwright
and impersonator, will give a dra-
matte sketch from N. Gogol, with
Nine. Irene MiShtowt.
Performers and gypsy chorus from
q Russian night club will give several
dance and song numbers.
Nine. Seraphine Joukowsky, secre-
tary of the benefit. will assist Nine.
ZalipSky and members of the COM
mittee. which includes a group Of
Russian women active in welfare work
for the organizations branch In
Washington.