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Evening star., 1937-09-14
18 G. A. O. WORKERS GET
SCARE WHEN LIFT FALLS
Elevator Thuds g Feet to Base
ment as Brakes Fail to Hold
at First Floor.

Eighteen General Accounting Office
employees got scare at quitting time
yesterday when the elevator in which
they were descending in the building
at Eleventh and F streets failed to
stop at the first floor and thudded to
a halt feet below. No one was hurt.
The passengers, most of them
women, got out Of the elevator in
single file by climbing on the oper-
ator's stool and crawling through a
small opening at the top. The oper-
ator had tried to stop the elevator at
the second floor. but the brakes failed
to work.
District and Federal elevator In
spectors were going over the equipment
today.
Evening star., 1937-09-14

r u MS through
October Is. The
m e m b e r S h i p
quota is $4,000.
Marcy l.. Sper-
ry, president Of
the Washington
Gas Light Co.,
chairman of the
roll call, said this
morning he is
confident Wash
ington will go
over the top of
its quota.
At the same
time he made it
known that w. w.
Evening star., 1937-09-14
FREEDOM SOUGHT
FOR Plus YOUTH
Officials Say Boy Who Took
Rap Should Be
Released.

Freed at last fom the gnawing secret
which led him to accept in tight
Tipped silence an unjust" three-year
reformatory sentence, curly-haired, IT.
year-old Edward B. Plus, jr., beat his
drum in the band at the National
Training School for Boys with new
fervor and lightened heart today.
Because yesterday Edward, erect in
a natty cadets uniform, stood before
United States Commissioner James K.
Cullen in Baltimore, and, to save his
mother and 15-year-old sister from
taking the rap" as he had, testified
that his father forced the family to
spread a trail Of counterfeit quarters
from New York to Virginia.
Evening star., 1937-09-14
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the Army Band in Walter Reed
Hospital at $50 o'clock tonight. Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub
ner, assistant.
Program.
March, THE Footlifter" Fillmore
Rhapsody, "Slavonic No. g."
Friedemann
Fox trot, Roses in December" Jessel
Trombone solo, Louise" Hurrel
Clarence Hurrel, soloist.
Selection from "Attila" Verdi
(a) Irish Tune From County
Derry ------------ Granger
(b) Shepherds Hey" Granger
Excerpts from THE Chocolate
Soidler ------------------ StrauS
March, National Spirit" -Hummel
THE Star Spangled Banner"
BY the Soldiers Home Band in the
bandstand at $50 o'clock tonight.
John S. M Zimmerman, bandmaster:
Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, Long Beach Is Calling"
Herbert Clark
Overture, "Herod" d"------H Hadley
A tone picture, by the Blue
Hawaiian Waters" Ketelbev
Scenes from the opera "Lohengrin,"
Wagner
Popular numbers, Red Sails in the
Sunset" t" Williama
THE Old Spinning Wheel Gre
ques3 ------------------- Hill
Waltz suite, Morning Jour-
mails" (Morgenblaetter) Strauss
Finale, Bullets and Bayonets" Sousa
The star epanglod 1Ann1g.s
Evening star., 1937-09-14
RED CROSS DRIVE
TO OPEN SEPT. 26
Membership Quota $4,000.
w. w. Wheeler Named
Vice Chairman.

Ten thousand volunteer workers
are ready to aid the twenty-first an
nual roll call of the District Red
Cross, which begins September 26 and
Evening star., 1937-09-14
w. w. MAY DIES
T. n. A. Accountant Clerk Victim
of Heart Attack.

William w. May, SIS, an accountant
clerk in the Controllers Division of
the Federal Housing Administration,
died suddenly Of heart attack while
1t work today.
Complaining of feeling i'll, he went
to the administration infirrnary about
III Am. and was pronounced dead 10
minutes later. He had been employed
there three years.
Surviving is his widow. Mrs. Nell w.
May OF the CordovA Apartments.
Evening star., 1937-09-14
Taxi Scramble for Customers
To Result From T,UO AirpOrts
for City Cab Association VIII
Continue at Washington Field, but
It's Free-for-AU at Boiling.
No. 4 OF a Series.
RY JOSEPH s EDGERTON

periods Of tacab monopoly and competition
~ Washingtons
~ between Washington Boiling
Under the
Evening star., 1937-09-14


oeeen ne and death ratned to kno racty at to do
Rea erGss @ fd pointing out to ookies Of the
hsad has been cut o injured internally might fatal to jerk
policeman to know wha
20 q hoSpita
Evening star., 1937-09-14

This is safe 1Uay to lift a person suffering only
from, shoulder injury But such handling
is rarely necessary The Uctim is usually better of
it lett lying until an ambulance arriues: Hasty
movement by unskilled hands only puts his life in
further jeopardy. AnylDay, there is no need for
cessive speed in getting him to a hospital-it is
against the ld1p for ambulance to go faster
than 80 miles an hour IN the District.
Evening star., 1937-09-14

BY the Army Band in Walter Reed
Hospital at $50 o'clock tonight. Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub
ner, assistant.
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
JOB AND LIVING
COST INCREASE
COMPARE
International News Service

international NtWS StTNNN
Employment in industry IN 1880
reached 87.7 per cent of the 1929
''boom year" employment, but the
nav roll was only 1856 per cent OF
1929. And workers met living costs
8l9 per cent as high as l929-wlth
less pay to meet them with. This
situation was revealed today in an
exhaustive report handed Score
tary of Agriculture Wallace by MS
economic adviser. Louis H. Bean.
Food costs were lower, but where
there were only 1,847, 900 unem-
ployed or relief workers in 1929,
there we're 9,773.000 in 1886. Sub
tract the decreased buying power
of these unemployed or relief work
ers from the total income and the
average per capita real income OF
all available workers does not COM
pare farorably with pre-depresSion
income" DR.. Bean said.
Incomes Lower
The report covered employment
In manufacturing. mining, whole
sale and retail trade. tranSporta-
ton, utility. communications, and
service.
Average earnings for all en-
ployed persons in each group was
lower in 1886 than in 1929, eX-
cept for workers in transportation,
utility and communication. In
that group, where the average
earnings in 1929 were $1,648, the
1886 pay was $1,698, DR.. Bean
reported.
Average pay for the other
groups was:
Employment 1929 1886
Manufacturing. $1,315 $3.50
Mining ........ 1929 1880
Trade ...... Laos 1,O78
Service ...... 1854 790
Average earnings at the lowest
cycle of the depression for the
various groups in 1888, was:
Manufacturing, 1886; mining,
$9O7; trade, $1,034; transporta'
ton, utility and communications,
$1,419; service, $7O6. The report
said, further:
"The average income of EN-.
plOyed workers in 1886 exceeded
that of 1888 by about IS per
cent, but fell short Of the 1929
figure by about Is per cent. Re-
cOvery in earning has been &C.
cOmpanied by rising living costs.
Food prices fell much more
than individual incomes between
1929 and 1888, and have since
recovered faster. However, dur
ing 1886 food prices averaged
only 79 per cent as high as in
1929"
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
JOBS
STIR IRE OF
SEN. BLACK
International News Service


A contest over Senate confirma-
ton of certain appointees to the
new Maritime Commission by
President Roosevelt was presaged
today when Senator Black CD, Of
Alabama, served notice he will OPP
pose appointments before the Sen
ate Commerce Committee.
Black, accompanied by "wit-
nesses" will appear before the
committee headed by Senator
Copeland CD, of New York, on
Saturday. He declined to make
public the names of the witnesses.
Black said he objects principal
ly to the appointment Of Rear
Adm. Henry A. Wiley, who is serv-
ing on the board under a temper
airy appointment. He reiterated
his charges that Wiley is favor
able to the large shipping inter
estS."
Black, who investigated ocean
mail contracts, said he had no OBJ
lection to 1.-THE appointment Of Jo-
seph p. Kennedy, former chair
man of the Securities and Elk
change Commission, as head Of
the Maritime Commission.
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
RACKET GUILT
JAILS SEVEN

NEW YORK, April 8 G.N.So.
Prison sentences which ranged as
high as is to 20 years were i'm
posed yesterday by Supreme Court
Justice Philip McCook on the seven
men convicted last month in the
restaurant racket trial.
2 In court, evidence was produced
showing that Paul N. Coulcher, SO,
organizer of Local 16, of the Cafe
terra Walters Union, had at
tempted to bride q witness with
$500 in cash.
Coulcher was given the heaviest
sentence, IS to &C years. Other
sentences follow:
Abraham Cohen, attorney and
counsel to the Metropolitan Res.
taurant and Cafeteria Association.
10 to Is years; Philip Grossel, of.
ficial of the Metropolitan, 10 to IS
years; Irving Epstein, official of
Local 302, of the walters union,
10 to IS years: Aladar Retek, Of
ficial of Local 16, 712 to Is years;
Harry A. Vogelstein, attorney and
official of the Metropolitan Asso-
citation, 5 to 10 years.
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
SPEEDS TWICE
IN HOUR, FINED

When Policeman Roger Randall
stopped Christ Aravanis, Of the
210O block of Pennsylvania Ave.
N. w., at Sixth and F Streets
Northwest, one night last week,
he handed him a ticket charging
him with speeding at "a miles an
hour.
At that time, Randall told Traf.
fic Court Judge Walter ]. Casey
yesterday, Aravanis told him he
was driving a strange car and
didn't know how fast he was going.
One hour later the same night,
Policeman Randall stopped Ara
wants again at Georgia Avenue,
and Trumbull Street Northwest,
he told the court. This time he
charged him with going 40 miles
an hour and ordered him to the
Second Precinct station house,
where the defendant posted $25
collateral.
In court yesterday, Aravanis
pleaded guilty to both charges and
Judge Casey find him SO on each
of them,
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
Sitters Get Battered
Heads in New Mexico

SANTE FEE, N. NJ, April 8
U.N.SD.-Sit-down strikers nursed
battered heads today after police
used clubs and arrested ringlead-
ers of a group of IS communists
who chose Gov. Clyde L. Tingley's
office as the scene Of their demon
stration. The sitdowners included
men, women and children, many
Of whom brought bed rolls and
provisions for a comfortable stay
until the governor would provide
them with jobs.
Governor Tingley ordered them
evicted when he returned to Sante
Fe from business trip. Police
laid down a barrage of tear gas
bombs and then went into action
with night sticks.
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
} D. {. NURSES
TO SPEAK

Talks by three of Washington's
prominent nurses will feature the
meeting of the Health Aid Corps
Of the District Chapter, American
Red Cross, to be held tomorrow
afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Chap
ter House, 1880 E st. N. w.
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, direc-
tor of volunteer service for the
chapter; Miss Janet Fish, superin-
tendent of nurses at Emergency
Hospital, and Miss Sena Anderson,
of the District Health Depart
ment'S nursing service, are the
speakers. Miss Fish will tell of her
experiences during the World War.
Following the talks, plans for
the participation of more than 500
volunteer workers in the flood re-
lief tableau, to be given during the
National Red Cross Convention
the week of May 10, will be dis
cuSsed.
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
Combed
For "BriCkbat SLAYER

LOS ANGELES, April 8 G.NS).
The dragnet was spread over the
underworld today for the "brick-
bat slayer" who has murdered a
child and two women and at
tackled five others. The search
was intensified after the double
murder, Sunday, Of Mrs. Edna A.
Worden and her 12-year-old
daughter in their apartment
here.
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
Citizens TO Discuss
Tax Bill Saturday

The new District Of Columbia
appropriation and tax bills will be
discussed at a meeting of the
Federation of Citizens Associa-
lions Saturday at 8 p. m. in the
United States Chamber of Com
merce Building, it was announced
yesterday by David Babp.
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
Cummings to Probe
Baseball ''IruSt''

against a baseball team because
it only has nine men?"
"YOu will find that every good
team has a number of substi-
tuteS."
He added that the departments
antitrust division is seeking to
determine whether major league
clubs are violating certain sections
of the anti-monopoly laws, and
indicated it would take some little
time to reach a conclusion. He
added jocularly:
THE division might make a
more personal investigation of
the situation by attending this
seasons opening game"
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
Inseparab|e in Life,
Three Aged Spinsters
Reunited in Death

CHICAGO, April 8 G.N.S).-
Death, attributed in each case to
heart disease, today united three
SpinSter sisters who for IS years
had lived together and were in
Separable.
Olga Schoenthaler, 70, was the
first of the trio to die. Within u
hours her sister, Clara, 10, was
dead. While the funeral services
for Miss Olga were being held
yesterday the elder sister, Joan,
80, Succumbed to a heart ailment
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
Bus transportation
To Blossoms Provided

To provide transportation to the
Tidal Basin, scene of today's
Cherry Blossom Festival, the Capt.
tai Transit Company yesterday
announced it would run buses
from the south end of the Treas
ury Department Building to the
Tidal Basin boathouSe.
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
International News Service

Charges by Representative Can
non (R.) of Wisconsin that major
league baseball magnates are VIC
lating the Sherman antitrust law
will be investigated seriously"
Attorney General Cummings re-
ported today.
While saying his department
will make a thorough inquiry into
the allegations, the Attorney Gen
eral discussed the subject in hui
morous vein with newSpapermen.
He was asked:
Us the Justice Department
The Washington times., 1937-04-08
Judge Page Dead
At Norfolk Home

NORFOLK, Va. April 8.-Judge
R. ]. B. Page, 40, of the Norfolk
Civil Court, was found dead in bed
yesterday at his home. Death
was due to a heart attack. He was
one of the youngest and most popu-
lar jurists in the Norfolk area.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Sepio Troupe
At Goyety

Brown Skin Models" a collec.
ton Of sepia entertainers, moved
into the Gayety for the last week
Of the season. The new attraction
is in the spirit of Harlem. It Is
fast and hilarious, and, as one
might well expect, there Is a
wealth of good harmony. includ.
ing some singing in the grand
manner. and dances Of every de.
scription. $500
For sheer variety, speed and
tunefulness, the sepia entertain.
ers are setting high mark.
The orchestra of the Hardy
Brothers plays the musical score
for this revue and their arrange.
mentS are rather coed. Two boys,
Seals and Cade, carry the comedy
roles in highly acceptable man.
ner and their umor Is good with.
out being tinged with offensive.
ness. e. A,
Blanche West, typical Harlem
number, gives us a number OF
songs in the Lenox Avenue style
Tanya, an acrobatic dancer, de
serves especial mention as does
Jessie James, the last named be.
ing a tap dancer on clutches who
gets away with a marvellous act.
The chorus performs Snappily
and rounds out a good revue with
some fast and colorful routines.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
"Romeo-JuIiet'
Here Fridoy

The long waited for return of
Romeo and Juliet" at popular
prices will begin at Loew's Palace
Theater next Friday.
Starring Norma Shearer and
Leslie Howard, this gigantic film
spectacle, one of the last works
Of the late Irving Thalberg, has
been shown from one end Of the
country to the other as q road
show, which means that it was
shown twice daily to. reserved-seat
audiences and at legitimate show
prices.
Included in the cast are John
Barrymore, Edna May Oliver,
Basil Rathbone, c. Aubrey Smith,
Andy Devine, Ralph Forbes, Regi-
maid Denny and thousands Of
extras.
Selected short subjects will be
included in this program Of enter
tainment.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
F.
CLOCK

RIALTO-Jan Kiepura, BE Mine
Tonight" II a. m, 1888, AIS,
7:o2, 9:48 p. m. W. c. Fields,
cts a Gift" 1882, $40. $3.50,
8:42 p. m.
LITTLE Freddy Bartholomew,
Elizabeth Allan, David Copper
field" 1927 a. M, 200, 1927.
1854, $40 p. m.
CAPITOL-Loretta Young, Tyrone
Power, "Cafe Metropole," II
a. M, 1:40. 4:25, 1870, 10 p. m.
Stage. Sibyl Bowan, 1910.
$3.50, $40. 9 .. m.
HOWARD Hugh Herbert "That
Mans Here Again." 1880, 5,
$50, 8, 0:20p. N. stage, Fats
Waller, 2, 4:S0, z, 900 p. m.
BELASCO-"Gods at Play" II, 2,
1858, $3.50. sos, 10 p. m.
R-K-O KEITHS-Ginger Rogers,
Fred Astaire, shall We Dance, 81
1851 a. m, 2:15, 4:39, 1908,
9:27 p. m.
FALACE-JaneG Gaynor, FTeQrlC
March, "A Star Is Born" 1850
a. m, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 pm.
METROPOLITAN - Richard Ar.
len, Lii Palmer, Silent Bar.
riers," II a. m, LOS, $40, $40,
7:25, 9:35 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Jean Harlow, Robert
Taylor. Personal Property"
1925 a. M, 1880, $3.50, 5:35. TAO,
9:45 p. m.
Enrol Flynn, Claude
Rains, prince and the Pauper, !"
1890 a. M, 1920, 4:10, 7, 9:55
p. m. Stage, Hal Kemp, 1885.
1928, $40, $40 p. m.
Neutrality-suspicious. shows
IS minutes, 10 a. m. to IL p. m.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
New Program
At Trons-Lux

The Trans-Lux Theater program
this week features, as usual, a
great amount Of purely local news,
including some excellent shots Of
Western High School cadets who
won the annual drill. Other local
scenes show the war Mothers pay.
ing tribute at the Tomb Of the On
known Soldier, the District chill.
drne'S festival circus and some
sharpshooters Of the Metropolitan
Police Department.
Another thrilling shot Of the
Hindenburg crash is shown along
with very impressive scenes Of the
funeral rites Of the victims Of this
horrible disaster.
There is a very excellent Sc.
quence showing the Duke Of Wind.
sor speeding to his visit with Mrs.
Wallis Warfield and a shot of Mrs.
Warfield herself, unfortunately
cut short when Mrs. Warfield evi.
IDENTIFY spotted the cameraman.
Among the short subjects shown
is a grand burlesque on the March
Of Time" done by the artists who
make Krazy Kat. This delightful
bit Of whimsy is one Of the best
short subjects this reviewer has
ever witnessed.
A splendid travelogue Of Mount
Vernon, a Paramount Pictorial and
a reel Of foreign sports concludes
a program hard to match for in
tereSt and variety. j. w. B.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Prince-PouPer
Winners in
Contest

Marjorie Elizabeth Stuart, 1349
Randolph st. N. W., has been
awarded the first prize Of $40 in
The Times-Earle Prince and the
Pauper" contest. Miss Stuart's
entry was selected by the judges
as the neateSt, most original OF
the correct entries received. She
crowned the boy in the pauper COS
tune who Is really Prince Edward
Bobby Mauch. Her entry fea-
tured a reproduction of the crown
with imitation jewels carefully
placed around it.
The second prize Of $500 was
awarded to Tom Pritchard. liz
Willow Ave-, Takoma Park, Md,
for his original entry, which pre-.
scented the two boys against the
background Of large reproduc'
, ton of the crown.
Guest tickets to see THE Prince
and the Pauper," which is now at
the Earle Theater, go to the ten
next best entries which were sub,
mitted by: Miss Gladys Hickman,
GOT Mississippi Ave-, Silver Spring,
Md; Carolin Loving, 6032 TWEEN.
tieth St., N. Arlington, Va:
Mildred Putnam, 1880 Irving ST.
N. W.; Iverna Eiker, TBS Quebec
Pl. N. W.; Malcolm Morgan, 1905
Porter st. N. W.; Mary Atwood.
5307 Third ST.; George H. Buckler,
1888 o st. N. W.; James WaSser-
man, 400 Alban Towers; T.. A.
Young, 1880 Belmont st. N. W.,
Apt. 408, and Dorothy Hutchin-
son, 712 Virginia Ave. S. E.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

cult and a people living in har-
mony and brotherhood, their pur-
pose to save the worlds art beauty
and culture in a timelesS treas
ury. The common law is kindli-
ness, the doctrine, moderation in
all things.
BEAUTIFUL SCENES
Well, Robert Conway grows to
like it, and so do some Of the
others. After they have become
accustomed to this fantastic world
in the heart of the Himalayas-
where time is harnessed to a pace
that permits men to live for cen
turies, where worries are taboo,
and a serene calm pervades life
they decide to remain in the re-
mote Utopia.
Only Conway's young brother
rebels, induces his Eve of the Eden
to attempt escape from this colony
ruled by the High Lama. Their
foolhardy trip ends in death. Con-
way sets out to rescue them, finds
his way back to normal civiliza-
ton, discovers its turmoil unsatiS'
factory, once more seeks the lost
horizon.
In passing out credits for an ex-
ceptional picture Stephen Gooson,
the art director, places high in the
list. Since his creation of an amaZ-
ing lamasery-which is the Tibetan
equivalent of a monastery-pre-
sents a rambling, mystic garden
cooled by sparkling pools, lying be-
tween Handicapped terraces and
surrounded by towering noun
tains, the placid scene surveyed by
hundreds of fluttering doves. AS
captured by the cameras it is a
panorama of striking loneliness.
is WELL ACTED
For the inspirational philosophy
and message of Shangri-La much
depends upon the acting, and it is,
in all cases, AL. First honorS 60
to Ronald Colman, for his meas
ured and authentic portrait Of
Robert Conway, the explorer
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technique fits this character per.
fectly. I liked the spiritual mood
created by H. B. Warner for the
dignified and holy Chang, the
humility and calm of Sam Jaffe
as the High Lama.
To Edward Everett Horton and
Thomas D. Mitchell is entrusted
the task of lighting the story with
relieving comedy and they serve
neatly, never condescending to
cheaper the mood of the fantasy.
Jane Wyatt, Mango, Isabel
Jewell and John Howard are well
equipped to carry the threads of
romance woven into the engross-
ing narrative.
Getting down to earthbound
facts and figures, Columbia Pic
lures expended fortune on this
Frank Capra special. For their
investment they have a picture
that must go into the cinema
archives as permanent evidence
that Hollywood can travel hand
finland with great authors.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Fields Fun at
The RioIto

Inc golden voice Of Jan K1epura
returned yesterday at the Rialto
Theater, again to enchant the
public no less than it did several
years ago when BE Mine Tonight"
was first released in this country
by Universal Pictures.
With a nice, but somewhat
tran ucently inconsequential,
story, yet more than compromising
for its narrative deficiencies with
its exquisite popular and classical
music, this foreign-made musical
romance is still a delight.
Mr.. Nepura sinPs the theme
song, "Tell Me Tonight" with
lovely lyrics and lifting melody:
Sonnie Hale MARBLES the novelty,
"The Things I Do I Do For You,
and Betty Chester does the mon
Stop" number. Pleasing as are
these selections, it is Mr.. Kiepura s
operate numbers which mark the
musical high point Of the picture.
Included are a scene from Verdi's
"Rigoletto," the duet from that
composers la Iraviata," and q
whole act from Puccini's LA
Boheme."
Comedy as only he can do it is
added to the program by w. C.
Fields in TITS Gift" Mr.. Fields
needs no story; it is good and suf.
ficient just to have the dubious.
nosed buffoon cavort in his own
inimitable way.
At the two evening perform
anceS, Pearl Hauer's nimble fin
gers render more patrons requests
at the console Of the Wurlitzel
organ.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
"CoPperfieId'
At Little

Taking its place among the truly
great pictures Of all time, David
Copperfield," which opened a re.
vival engagement yesterday at the
Little Theater, is at once one Of
the most pretentious and one of
the most intimate photoplays
ever made. AS it unfolds its
familiar Dickens story it runs the
full gamut Of entertainment quail.
ties.
OF the three score of actors,
perhaps the most sensational per-
Torrance is that Of Freddie Bar
tholomew, who here made his
screen debut. Playing the juvenile
David, he gives a performance
whose depth Of comprehension and
Interpretation would indeed do
credit to seasoned thespian.
Frank Lawton, then q new.
conner to the screen, plays the
adult David in a realistic manner.