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The Washington times., 1935-04-30
GEORGETOWN'S
GAS NET Up

According to the report Of the
Georgetown company, net income
amounted to $3,667, as compared
wit. $2.2S2 for March, 1884, an
increase Of 1885.
Operating revenues in March,
1885. were $128,110, as against
$146,949 a year ago, a decrease Of
$18,S39. Operating expenses, in
Guiding taxes and uncollectible
bills, decreased $22, 049, the figure
being $119,139, against Sal. 1888
for March, 1884.
Incorporating revenue increased
$S,21O over 1884, resulting in a
gross corporate income Of $11,972,
compared with $7y488 for March,
1884, an increase Of $4,484. Inter
est deductions increased 5000,
the 1885 figure being $8,305
against 5,2O6 for March, 1884.
Figures for the three months
ending March 81 indicate a de-
crease Of $12,179 in operating
revenue, reaching a total of $442.-
357. Operating expenses, however,
totaling $414,594 in 1885 against
$435, 1871 in 1884, offset the de-
crease in revenue with decrease
Of $20,797, resulting in a $8.618
increase in net operating revenue.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
1,500STUDENTS
To TAKEPART
|NPAGEANT

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 80.
More than 1900 school children
of Alexandra will participate in
pageant here tomorrow por-
traying the various periods Of
life in Virginia from the days Of
the earlier settlers to modern
times.
The program, to be presented
on the lawn of Baggett'S Stadium
here at 2 o'clock, is in charge of
the physical education depart
ment of the Alexandria city
schools. The program is as fol
lows:
Lee School-Early life in Vir'
GINA, birds and animals OF the
forest, grade /; Natoma Indian
dance grade S; ten little Indians,
grade 2; Caribou dance, grade 3;
Indian dance, grade 4.
Washington hool-Panto-
mime; settlement at Jamestown,
capture of Capt. John Smith,
marriage of John Rolfe and Poca'
hontas; Indian dance Of death,
grades 4 and 5; children Of early
colonistS celebrate festivities;
seven pretty girls and seven jolly
boys, grade 8; London Bridge.
grades l and 2.
Maury School - Pantomime:
Governor Spottswood and the
Knights of the Golden HorShoe:
townspeople make merry on the
green: dances: pussy cat, grade
/; Avignon, grade 2; quadrille,
grade 3; ribbon dance, grade 4.
Mt. Vernon School-The cara
van; settlement Of the Valley Of
Virginia; Irish Long dance, grade
S; Comm Through the Rye, grade
4; Scene on the lawn Of Mt. Yer
non; How Dye Do, My Partner?
grade /; Yankee Doodle, grade
2; Hansel and Gretel, grade 8;
the Minuet, grade 6.
jefferson SCHOOLGIRL War
Period; Scene on the lawn Of
the Big House; dances, dainty
step, grade Z; Dixie, grade S.:
Old Dan Tucker, grade 6; Spirit
uals, boys of grades 6 and 4.
Virginia Reel, grade 6; Sellen-
gers Round, grade 7; the Boys
in Gray, Alexandria High Cadets.
George Mason and Alexandria
High Schools-Modern period:
Sports of the year, grade 2,
boys and girls; tennis, track,
baseball, skating: wand drill,
Alexandria High School girls;'
Civilization, Alexandria High
School girls: Virginia" George
Mason High School; finale song,
"Old Virginia." and professional.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
WASH. GAS NET
SMALLER

The report Of the washington
Gas Light Co. shows net operat-
ing revenue for the month Of
March Of $173,722, compared with
$235,O19 for March, 1884, a de-
crease Of $61,297.
Operating revenue for March,
$582,932, compare with $636526
for March year ago, decrease
Of $53,594. Operating expenses,
including taxes and uncollectible
bills, increased $7,7O3, the 1885
figure being $4O9,21O, as against
$401, 507 in March, 1894.
Incorporating rev enue for
March increased $2,908, the fig
ure being $10,397 compared with
81 ,489 a year ago. Gross corpor-
ate income was $184,119 for
March, compared with $242,508
for March, 1884, a decrease of
$58,389.
Interest deductions of $72,452
for March were $1,F52 more than
in March, 1884, resulting in a net
income of Sill ,667, compared with
$171,8O8 for March, 1884, a de-
crease of SOCIAL.
For the three months ending
March 81, 1884, operating reve-
nues showed an increase Of $685..
744 in reaching a total of $1,947,'
1873. Operating expenses, including
taxes and uncollectible bills, in.
creased $72,234 to a total of ST.
6,418, leaving a net operating
revenue for the first quarter of
1885 of $670,720. a decrease of
$36,49O from the first quarter OF
1884. Incorporating revenues de
creased from $9,801 to $5,547,
producing a gross corporate in
come of $676,267, as against Silt,
OIL, a decrease of $40,744 from
1884. Interest deductions, increas'
ing from $211,546 in 1884 to $217,
661 in 1885, resulted in a net in.
come for the first quarter of 1895
of $458,606, as compared with
$505, 1865, a decrease of $46.859.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
COUNTYRENEWS
DEATH PROBE

ROCKVILLE, Md, April 80.
Following the discovery of addi-
tional evidence, the State attor-
ney's office of Montgomery county
will reopen it's investigation of
the murder of William Hill, re-
tired Potomac farmer, whose body
was found lying at the foot of a
flight of concrete steps in the
basement of the Potomac school,
last October, States Attorney
James H. Pugh announced today.
When last seen, Mr.. Hill was
leaving a store in the neighbor-
hod of his home. Investigation
of the crime at the time revealed
he had been robbed of small
sum of money and had died as
the result of blows on the head.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
R. v. POWERS
TOHEADC 6.

EVANSVILLE, Md, April 80
Ralph w. Powers last night was
nominated for president Of the
Prince Georges Chamber Of Com
merce. His election is assured
at the next meeting. Daniel Cox
Fahey, president for two years,
declined to run again.
Other officers of the chamber
were renominated at the meeting
at the Beaver Dam Club last
night.
The question of joining the Re-
tail Merchants Association OF
Baltimore in a test case on the
sales tax was referred to the ex-
ecutive committee.
Mr.. Powers, as chairman Of the
executive committee, will be given
a hearing Friday before the Pub
lie Service Commission at Balti-
more on reducing the number of
street car zones to BeltSville.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
TEXTILE GROUP
HEARS MAINE
SPOKESNEN

Sharp demand for immediate
restriction of Japanese cotton i'm
ports was sounded before the
Presidents Cabinet Textile Com
mittee yesterday at its opening
conference with manufacturers.
Headed by Governor Lewis j.
Brann, and accompanied by two
Senators and three Representa-
tives from Maine, 20 spokesman
for the textile industry in that
State told the committee only
quick relief steps can save mills
now operating.
Import Rise Noted
Declaring Japan has shipped
more cotton into this country in
the first two months of this year
than in all of 1884, Governor
Brann asserted the growing men
ace Of Japanese competition
threatens the American textile
1dustry in both North and South.
/ - said:
1.-THE increase of japanese
textile imports has precipitated
an economic contest between
standards Of civilization and
peoples of different ideals"
Senator Hale proposed consider
alton of dropping the processing
tax, imposition Of quota on Jap
aneSe imports, or readjuStment Of
wage differentialS between the
North and South. He said:
Conditions in this industry
today are intOlerable, and il
mot changed will involve the
State in inevitable ruin"
Senator White told the COM
mittee New England mill owners
have spent vast sums for modern
iZation of their plants, but that
the processing tax has Saddled
them with overpowering burdens.
Ask Sales Tax
Proposal that a general sales
tax be imposed as substitute
for the processing tax was made
by Philip Dana, owner Of the
Dana Warp Mills, of Westbrook,
Me. Many mills, he said, have
been forced to close through lack
of capital to carry stocks with
the processing tax added. Dana
told the committee II mills have
closed in the last year.
Charles A. BealS, State labor
commissioner of Maine, asserted
if the decrease in workers con-
tinues at its present rate, there
will soon be no mills operating
in that State.
Today Governor Green Of Rhode
Island, who conferred with the
President yesterday on problems
confronting the textile industry,
will lead a delegation from his
State before the committee.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
CRIME CASTLE
PROBE ORDERED

PROVIDENCE, r. T., April 80
Q.N.SD.-Shocked by disclosures
Of the "crime castle" at fashion
able Warwick Neck, Governor
Green today demanded thorough
investigation of possible con-
nivance between gangsters and po-
lice.
Pursuant to the executives call,
Mayor John O'Neill, of Warwick,
ordered the city solicitor to initiate
the probe.
The eerie story Of the nations
most astounding crime syndicate
continued to unfold today as Fed
eral agents, armed with axes and
sledgehammers, sought to wrest
more secrets from the palatial
Crime castle"
Added interest arose with up.
cropping of rumors that men of
prominence may be drawn into
the Governmental net for alleged
ly furnishing $4,000 to $4,000
cash for loads of contraband
liquor.
Already they have found charred
bones-possibly human-rotting
in metal box in cement walk
beside $4,000 in bank notes
part of the $4,000 Fall River
mail robbery loot. Scrapings of
stains from dungeon wall have
been determined as those of hu.
man blood. Notebooks have been
found, marking numerous promi.
nent New Englanders for kidnap.
ing.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
Dime Chain Mail
Piles Up in Denver

DENVER, April 80 Q.N.SJ.
With the daily total Of letters
passing through the Denver post
office expected to reach 100000
today, Denver postal inspectors
withdrew their threat of arrests
in connection with the Send-a-
dime chain letters and announced
they would concentrate their ef.
forts on illegal practices growing
out of the fad.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
STREET IS SEEN
|. DISAPPOINTED
WALTER ANGEL
By WALL STREET SPECTATOR

By WALL STREET SPECTATOR
NEW YORK, April 80 QN.SO.
Wall Street is disappointed. 1t
was confident that yesterday
would see the dissipation Of the
uncertainties surrounding the sill
yer situation and the rail pen.
sion law. Now both are still up
in the air. The market naturally
had the filters, but the way it
came along at the close displayed
a surprising amount of conf
dence over coming events.
In this respect it seemed to
agree with the President that re.
covery was at least just around
the corner.
That flareup in the mail or.
ders was an inevitable response
to the way sales have been 60
ing since the first of the year
.. and it puts a different com.
plexion on the drought and dust
storms, confirming recent pre-
dictions that crop failures this
year would be relatively limited
compared with the widespread
disaster a year ago. "A number
of shrewd people have been bet
ting their money for some time
that the farm stocks would come
through in a big way in 1895
and make the best showing in
years.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
R|VERDALE ASKS
DRINKS PROBE

RIVERDALE. Md. April 80.
The town council last night asked
the Prince Georges county board
Of license commissioners to in
vestigate charges of drunkenness
at local beer parlorS.
The council also ordered the
town assessor not to increase eX-
listing assessments.
Members Of the council will at
tend a hearing before the Public
Service Commission tomorrow at
Baltimore to petition for an ex'
tension of the trunk sewer up the
Northeast branch of the Ana
costa River at the request Of
the Women's Civic Club Of East
Riverdale.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
Chicago u. to Get
Psychiatry Office

CHICAGO, April 80 G.N.SO.
Plans were laid today for estab-
lishment of a department of
psychiatry at the University of
Chicago Medical School, made
possible by an aggregate gift of
$243,000 from the Rockefeller
Foundation.
The university received $168, 900
for the psychiatry division, which
will emphasize research in the
causes and cure of mental dis.
eases.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
Cities Service Co.
Income Increased

Consolidated net earrings of
Cities Service Company and cub
salaries before depletion and de-
probation for 1884 amounted to
$61, 593 1921, according to the
twenty-fifth annual report just
mailed to stockholders.
This is an increase Of $780,
989 over 1888 and is more than
double the total requirements for
interest on all public indebted
ness Of Cities Service Company
and subsidiaries,
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
Brentwood Picks
Mayor Tonight

BRENTWOOD, Md, April 80.
The Brentwood town council will
hold a special meeting tonight to
name a successor for Mayor Lloyd
V. Monkey, who died at his home
Sunday of pneumonia.
The successor will be picked
from the council, it was said, and
he will serve until the town cleo
ton in June. The vacancy thus
caused in the council will not be
filled.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
NEW YORK WOOL

firm. Domestic fleece, unwashed. Ohio
and Pennsylvania, 2O@27h; domestic
pulled, secured basis. 5000: domestic
Texas, clean basis. 4s@67; domestic ter
ritorys clean basis. A0@67s
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
Local Stocks

SALES
Capital Traction SIS, $3,000@98.
Washington Gas Light SIS, 1860,
81. OOO@1151a: $1,O00@115h; ST.
O00@115h.
Capital Traction, 1908; SO
10.
AFTER CALL
Mergenthaler Linotype, 2@28.
The Washington times., 1935-04-30
NAVAL STORES

NEW YORK, April 80 (I.N.s.).-Pe
buckeye. 1877; corning, S12: lima. 115
Anseed oil, per h., 9.5 carlots. TNrpen
tine easy. 62A @52h. Rostn easy; com
Hnnn- Az.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-09-05
THE STORY

The future of the still youthful and
comely "Widder" Marcia Howe, recently
released by death from her idling, self
ish husband, is a conversational tit-bit
among the housewives of the little
hamlet of Wilton. Eligible bachelors
and widowers also evince more or
less unselfsh interest in the "Widder."
Marcia despite her unfortunate ma
trimonial experience, finds pleasure in
her daily life, but is lonely at times,
and has invited her late husbands
niece, Sylvia Hayden, whom she has
never seen, to visit her. The girl ar
rives and Marcia takes to her at once,
while Sylvia, expecting to see some
what elderly aunt, finds Marcia more
like a sister.
Into the uneventful, happy lives of
the two women comes adventure. A
stranger, on the verge of exhaustion,
finds his way to Marcia's home. Cared
for, he explains that his power boat
ran aground in the fog. His wrist is
injured. Secretly, he asks Marcia to
hide package containing jewelry.
which she does The doctor comes, with
Elisha Winslow, town sheriff, bringing
the news of jewel robbery on neigh
boring Long Island estate. The stran-
ger, Hospitality put to bed, gives his
name as Stanley Heath. The story
continues:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-09-05

swiftly and SO far that it came to
earth with crash when Marcia opened
the door.
It was not alone the buffeting of
the salt breeze nor the exhilaration of
walking against it that had trans
formed her into something radiantly
lovely. From within glowed a strange
fire that made her another creature
altogether.
y-why-Marcia!" breathed Syl-
via, bewildered.
1--WE had such a glorious walk,
dear!" cried Marcia. "The fog has
lifted and the sky is sheet of anne
thyst and gold"
did the men get the boat OFF,"
eyes. She is floating TRANQUILITY as
dove"
What is her name?"
"'My Unknown Lady"
Mercy on us! That ought to satisfy
even Elisha"
ut did," said Marcia.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-09-05

Marcia came back into the kitchen
She finished preparing the lobster
Strengthened the silver on the table
and let in Prince Hal.
Ten minutes passed!
Fifteen!
Half an hour went by.
She fidgeted and stopped to pat the
setter. Then she went to the window
Slowly the fog was lifting. BY after
noon the weather would be fine just
the right sort to get the boat off. She
| would go up the beach and watch the
men while they worked. The house was
close. She longed for air and the big
reaches of the out-of-doors.
A jingle of glass and silver 1t was
Sylvia returning with the tray. Hell
eyes were shining.
"He ate every bit!" she cried "You
should have seen him, Marcia. 1t
would have done your heart good. The
poor lamb was almost starved. He
asked for you the first thing. I don't
think he altogether liked your not
carrying up the tray, although he
was too polite to say So"
you explained that I was busy?"
Eyes. But at first he didn't seem
satisfied with the excuse. However,
he soon forgot about it and became
gay as lark. Didn't you hear us
laughing? The potato would fall off
the fork. I'm not as good a nurse as
you. My hands weren't so steady I'm
going back again for his wet clothes
We can dry them here by the fire, can't
we?"
eyes, indeed"
tits a pity there isn't tailor at
hand. His suit ought to be pressed"
II can do it," Marcia declared with
eagerness. I'm quite used to pressing
mems clothes. I always pressed ia
sons"
This time the name dropped unno-
ticed from her lips Indeed she was
not conscious she had uttered it. She
was not thinking of Jason.
Sylvia was glad Heath was asleep
very glad indeed. She did not be-
grudge him moment of his slumber
But what delightful person he was
when awake! His eyes were wonder
ful-so dark and penetrating. They
bored right through you. And then
he listened with such intentness, watch
ing every curve of your lips as if fear
ing to lose word Such attention
was distinctly flattering. Even though
your chatter was trivial, he dignified
1t and transformed 1t into something
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-09-05
CHAPTER v

| Sylvia's plans, so well laid and ap-
parently SO easy of execution, did not,
to her chagrin, work out, for instead
of awaking and demanding supper.
Stanley Heath slept without a break
until morning.
Sun was tinting the lavender sands
to rose and gliding the water with its
first hecks OF, gold when she saw Mar
ella standing at the foot of her bed.
I "Mr. Heath has high fever and can
scarcely speak aloud" explained she.
"I'm afraid he is quite i'll. I wish
you'd call up Doctor Stetson.
Mercy on us!"
The girl, drowsy and heavy-eyed,
sprang out of bed.
'sI'll be down in just minute" she
exclaimed. Glow do you happen to be
up so early?"
1--WE been up off and on all night"
answered Marcia. "Mr.. Heath was rest
less and thirsty. About midnight I
heard him tossing about, and thinking
he might be hungry, / heated some
broth and took it to him. He declares
he is going back to New York today"
/ "But he can't-he mustn't"
"He is determined to. He says he
has something very important to at
tend to. OF course have no author
ity over him but perhaps Doctor stet-
son can exert some. That is why I am
anxious to reach him before he goes
out" explained Marcia, moving toward
the door.
II will call him right away"
| "1'll go down and start breakfast,
then. Mr.. Heath is doing. He has
promised not to get up for at least an
hour. We must have the decor here
| within that time"
"Ill tell him to hurry
Marcia tiptoed down the stairs
Prince came bounding into the house
from some distant pilgrimage of his
| own, almost knocking her down in his
eagerness for breakfast.
She glanced far up the shore and
saw, serenely rocking with the tide,
"My Unknown Lady"
| AS she whispered the name, she was
conscious of hot blood rushing to her
cheeks.
How ridiculous! Stanley Heath was
simply a stranger Of night, he was
nothing. to her
| Well indeed was it, too, that he was
not!
During her hours of sleeplessness
the ardor of her faith in him had, to
a degree, cooled. True, she still main
tanned her belief in his innocence;
but that belief, she now realized, was
only blind unfounded intuition. Both
| the circumstances and sober second
thought failed to back it up. The mans
Impotence to be gone, his complete
silence with regard to the jewels, al
though perfectly justifiable, did not
strengthen it.
Marcia conceded he had every right
to keep his affairs to himself Had he
started to conf1de his secret to her,
she would have held up her hand to
stay him.
It was the fact that through the
dim hours of the night, while she sat
at his elbow trying to make the dis
comforts he suffered more bearable,-
he talked of almost everything else but
the thing uppermost in both their
minds. That was what hurt. She did
not want to know. She wanted to be
trusted; to help; to feel his depend
ence upon her. Instead he held her
at arms length.
He spoke with appreciation of the
crew who had dragged his boat off the
sand-bar, appearing to consider them
tremendously kind-as undoubtedly
they were! Still, they had not begun
to come into the close contact with
him that she had.
ITO Re Cnntin,1ad)
Evening star., 1935-10-27
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


Meeting, Mercantile Club. Hamilton
Hotel, pm.
Meeting. Alpha Zeta Sorority, Ham,
ilton Hotel, pm.
Dinner. Mutual Benefit Society,
Hamilton Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting. University Of Chicago
Club. Women's University Club, 1884
7 street, $50 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Touchdown Club, Ham,
ilton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Newcomers Club, Carl
ton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Fra
ternity, University Club, 1890 pm.
Meeting. Cleveland Park Union, W.
c. T. u. Metropolitan Methodist
Church, New Mexico and Nebraska
avenues, pm.
Card party, Ladies of Holy Name
Church, West Virginia avenue and
Neal street northeast, $50 pm.
Dance, Loyalty Lodge, No. 4, Order
Of Shepherds of Bethlehem, North
east Masonic Temple, Eighth and F
streets northeast, pm.
Dinner, Delta Theta Phi, Univer-
sity Club, $50 pm.
Meeting. Oklahoma State Society,
La Fayette Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Mount Pleasant Union, w.
C. T. u, Friends Church. Thirteenth
and Irving streets, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Optimist Club, Hamilton
Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, october 26-A mo-
tion-picture contract, the golden
dream of an uncounted army Of hu-
man beings, left one woman fright
ened and frankly unhappy today.
She was Dolores Costello, recently
divorced wife Of John Barrymore.
For her a movie contract is no
new thing And the sight of her
image on the screen is an old story
Yet, it is not this fact alone that has
robbed the approaching return to
pictures of what should have been
normal thrill for her.
1T means opening a door that ]
once thought was closed forever" she
observed.
Looks to Future.
She said she was re-entering the
movies for a variety of reasons" But
she named only one.
"I'll put it this way" she said. mo
matter how secure things may seem
now. no one can tell what the situa-
tion will be, say. IS years from now.
You understand"
The terms of her settlement with
John Barrymore were considered am
pie. Yet. fear of the future, she
said, forces her to retrace her steps
of four years ago.
She said she believed a few more
vears' morLy u,o,,ld ipe,,re Tho f,,tura
for herself and her children.
The girl and the boy-Dolores, 5,
and John, jr.. 3-are now the end and
aim of her existence, she said.
"You must realize that I never was
completely happy, or fulfilled. when
was devoting all my time and ener-
gies to acting" she explained. IT never
walked out of a theater with that
glow, that have heard other women