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The Washington times., 1937-05-27
MOVING Island''
PrOUeS Puzzle
To Science

Something really should be
done to keep these islands in
their proper places.
Take, for instance, the case Of
Canton Island, a little speck far
out in the Pacific, some 1900
miles southwest of Honolulu,
where the National Geographic
Navy eclipse expedition is set up
to observe a total eclipse of the
sun on June 8.
The Is scientists who are now
encamped on the island made a
shocking discovery-the island
isn't where it ought to be. In fact
its / 1-3 miles farther west and
6-10 of a mile north of where it
was supposed to be.
So now they have been forced
to recheck all their figures to
eradicate the difference in posi-
tion-no small job.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
Treasury Condition

International News Service
Treasury balance May Is: ST.
1898, 604.68; internal revenue,
$3,950,111.28; customs receipts
S39, 87S,2Ol.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
Movie Contestants
See PreVieW

Andrew R. Kelley, dramatic
critic of The Times, will accom-
pany the winners during their
stay in the film capital after a
fast flight to the Coast in a big
American Airlines luxury plane.
While there, the winners will stay
at the famed Ambassador Hotel,
where movie celebrities gather
nightly in the Cocoanut Grove.
The winnerS-whether they are
two boys, two girls or just a boy
and a girl-will meet their favor
tie film stars and be royalty feted
by studio executives.
Thus, with decisions on the win
ners hardly week away. Washing
ton anxiously waits for the judges
decisions as to those who will
represent the Nations Capital in
cinema land.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27

The 16 young men and women
contestants in The Washington
Tim SIN e tr o-G l dwyn-Mayer
quest for talent" last night saw
themselves through the eye Of the
movie camera at a sneak" pre-
view at LoeW'S Capitol Theater.
Films of their screen and voice
tests arrived late yesterday by
plane from Hollywood after M-G-M
executives had viewed the tests
and telegraphed their praise to
The Times.
These short test performances
will be shown for four days, be-
ginning tomorrow, and then four
will be selected from the Is to
run on the screen for the first four
days in June. After that two win
ners will oe picked to fly to
Hollywood for a try in the movies.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
and thrown down the steps of the
bridge.
Ford Strike Due
To Spread, Prediction

RICHMOND, Calf, May 81
G.N.S0.-Spread of the strike of
$500 members of the Ford (Rich-
mond, Calif.) assembly plant to
other Ford factories throughout
the country was predicted here to-
day by unofficial C. I. o. spokeS-
men.
The C. I. o. is waging a bitter
battle for union recognition in
Ford plants, of which the strike
here is the opening gun, they said.
The C. I. O.'s affiliate, the
United Automobile Workers, called
a strike here yesterday.
Frank Slaby, local president of
the U. A. W., said the chief reason
is union recognition, although the
immediate cause of the walkout re-
suited over unfavorable treatment
of two employees who helped weld
the plant gates when a sit-down
strike was called here five weeks
ago.
LONG BEACH, Calf, May q
UN.SO Operations at the Ford
Motor Company assembly plant
here continued today despite pre-,
dictionS that the strike in the
Richmond (CalifO plant was due
to spread.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
WPA WASTE
DENOUNCED

Charges Of wholesale waste OF
taxpayers money by the Works
Progress Administration in the
construction of highways which
lin a few short years will be no
more than unrelated crumbs of
concrete" were hurled today by
Frederick Hoitt. secretary of the
New England Road Builders AS
ISOLATION, at the annual May
meeting of the American Road
Builders Association. in the Will
lard Hotel.
Haphazard construction of
roads by political labor, under
political supervision. and the
needless purchase of new mach
inery and materials "by persons
who don't know how to use
them" were the high points of
Hoitt's allegations.
Contending that unemployment
would be as readily reduced by
private construction of the high
ways as it is by means of the
work "dished out helter-skelter"
through the Works Progress Ad-
ministration, Hoitt asserted that
ina few more years roads con-
structed by WPA laborerS would
have to be replaced by "scientifi-
cally built" highways under the
supervision of the men who know
the business"
Hoitt also called attention of
the members to the Cartwright
amendment to the relief bill,
which calls for the "earmarking'
of $50, 900, 900 for the construc,
ton Of public highways, terming
1t "the most sensible piece of leg.
islation" now pending before Con-
greSS. He declared:
with the passage of this
bill, the taxpayers may at least
rest assured that $50 millions of
their money will not be laid out
in strips Of sand and cement
that in a short spac eof time
will crumble into bits under the
pounding of modern traffic."
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
100000 NJ EN-
OUT IN THREE
BIG PLANTS
Police Armed With
Tear Gas Quickly
Modified
Continued from Page II

lNOHLuluCu lIOLu L age ~
Corporation worker was beaten as
he sought to enter one of their
plants.
Two Negro workers dropped off
the bridge leading into the East
Youngstown plant of youngstown
Sheet and Tube after being chased
by pickets and SO escaped.
At the same time c. l. o. organ
izers charged three o. their men
were badly beaten inside the War
rem, plant of Republic Steel.
Several Shots Fired
During the melees several shots
were reported fired.
Forty girl and women workers
were reported marooned in the
Niles, O., Republic plant. C1O
organizers charged they were be-
ing detained against their will.
Company heads denied this, say
ing the women preferred to re-
main at work. Mothers and rela-
tives of the girls asked Sheriff
Roy Hartman of Trumbull Coun-
ty to assist in their removal.
Sheriff Ralph Elser of Mahon-
ing County. swore in 20 extra
deputy sheriffS. All city police
we're within easy reach of tear gas
bombs.
40 Strikers Arrested
In the Mahoning Valley of Penn
sylvania and Ohio, in the vast
Chicago industrial area, and at
Buffalo, N. Y, work in the NAM
moth steel mills stopped exactly
at midnight as CLIO. workers, at
the command of their leaders,
laid down their tools and took
their places at the picket line.
At the South Chicago works of
the Republic Steel Corporation,
third largest steel producers in
the nation, police arrested 40
strikers who refused to disperse
as officers sought to prevent mass
picketing.
Mayor Lionel Evans, of Youngs-
town, established headquarters at
the city police station and closed
all bars to prevent the sale of
liquor to the strikers. Reinforced
police patrolled the strike area sur
rounding the steel plants.
The strike had been hanging fire
for some time and was considered
inevitable" by C. I. o. leaders
when the three steel companies re-
fused to sign union contracts, con-
tending such action was unneces-
Sary under the Wagner act. The
companies agreed to enter into an
oral agreement. This the C. I. o.
refused.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
M'KNIGHT GIRL
DEFENDED IN
AK DEATH
Counsel in Final Plea
Insists Boy Killed
Her Mother
BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN

JERSEY CITY, N. j., May 81
Q.N.SO Gladys MacKnight's at.
torney, j. Lewis Kennedy, declared
in his summation to the jury to.
day that the 17-year-old high
school graduate is innocent of the
hatchet murder of her mother,
Mrs. Helen MacKnight.
He branded Donald Wightman,
10, Gladys former sweetheart, as
the slayer, saying Wightman
killed the mother when he saw
the girl he loved being threatened
with a knife"
Donald'S counsel, Col. George T.
Vickers, will sum up this after
noon.
Throwing all the blame on Don
old, Attorney Kennedy said:
There were discrepancies in
the story Donald told you. That
indicates the story he told is
not the story of what happened.
1t leaves unimpeached the story
told you by Gladys"
Kennedy reminded the jury
that evidence had been presented
designed to show Gladys as "cold
and without feeling"
EG pointed out that Gladys lis
little different than most girls
of IT," He explained:
"She shows more Self-reliance.
She endeavOrS to cover up her
real feelings and doesn't want
the world to know what she il
going through. Understanding
this girl is absolutely necessary
to the solution Of this case"
Gladys on the stand claimed
Donald swung the ak. Donald said
GLADYS did it."
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
TO SPUR
AVIATION

Cam. re -chvrkgefa taco oil
Creation Of a commission to
study and report on a policy de-
signed to promote civil aviation
is proposed in a bill introduced IN
the House today by Representa-
tive Edward A. Kennedy Cd, of
New Jersey.
The commission, appointed by
the President, would have seven
members and be directed to re-
port not later than January l,
1888.
It's report would contain rec
concentrations of policy to pro-
mote the interest of pupils and
students in educational institu'
tional institutions
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
E. |. @. SELECTS
'HUSK|ES' FOR
FORD WAR
500 Chosen After
Organizers Are
Beaten

LANSING, Mich, May q
N.N.SJ.-A legislative investi-
CATION of the riot at the main
plant Of the Ford Motor Com
pany In Dearborn yesterday was
proposed today in q resolution
before the Michigan legislature.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
TODAY N
CONGRESS
SENATE

SENATE
Not in session.
Interstate Commerce Commit
tee continues railroad investiga-
ton.
Appropriations subcommittee
considers District supply bill.
HOUSE
Meets at noon.
Resumes consideration Of the re-
lief bill.
Military Affairs Committee con.
Siders helium bill.
District subcommittee considers
tax program.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
Scholarship Is Won
By D. {. School Girl

BALTIMORE, May 27.-Eleanor
Layton, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel A. Freas, of 1884 Newton
st. N. E., Washington, was one Of
two girls in the Middle Atlantic.
area to receive scholarship awards
from Goucher College, announced
yesterday by President David
Allan Robertson.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27
WA5H II FINES

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at 1917 H st. N. W., Washington,
D. C.
Publisher. John T. Lambert
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The Washington times., 1937-05-27
Raskob Case Completed

NEW YORK. May q G.N.S0.
Counsel for financiers John j.
Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont
and the Federal Government to-
day were given until october 10
to file briefs following compile
ton of hearings in the Govern
ment's income tax case against
them.
The Washington times., 1937-05-27

before the michigan legislature
DETROIT, May 81 U.N.S0-A
long summer of open warfare be-
tween non-union workers in Henry
F'ord's man plant in Dearborn
and the United Automobile Work
ers Union doomed today alter more
than a score Of unioniSt. we're
hurt in a riot at the plant yester-
day as they attempted to pass out
union handbills.
Maurice Sugar, attorney for the
C. I. o. here, Immediately filed q
protest with the National Labor
Relations Board as a result Of the
fighting while Chief q. A. w. Or
ganizer Richard T. Frankensteen
threatened I'VE will go back and
give them q dose of their own
medicine"
Report to Washington
Agents G the sEollette Civil
Liberties Committee Of til q. S.
Senate we're at the plant when
the fighting occurred and were
to make a report to washington
today.
The National Labor Relations
Board also was investigating into
the riot.
Frank Bowen, NLRB director
here, said ii the protest filed by
the U. A. w. was justified, he
would sign a formal complaint
against the Ford Company and
order a public hearing.
The -'nion, it was learned, was
secretly selecting 500 Of it's huSk-
lest members for a new attempt
to distrib; the "unioniSm not
FordiSm" handbills. Date Of the
second "ttempt was being kept
secret by the union. u
Frankensteen, severely bes n
in yesterdays riot, charged the
fighting was precipitated by
Harry Cennett's service depart
ment attaches Of the Ford COM
pany. Bennett denied i and &C.
cused the union of starting the
fight Police Chief Carl Brooks
of Dearborn, whose officers
watched the riot, also charged
the union was responsible.
Guns Guard Offices
Meantime, unionistS with shot
guns guarded the U. A. w. offices
near the Ford plant. The offices
are in Detroit near the Dearborn
city line. Tension there was high.
The fighting started yesterday
when a delegation Of between so
and rs unionists, including mem
bers of the women's emergency
brigade, arrived at the plant
aboard street cars while Franken-
steen and Walter Reuther, the
latter president of the Detroit
West Side Union local, arrived in
an automobile.
Frankensteen and Reuth e r
mounted an overhead bridge lead
ing over a road from the Ford
parking lot into the plant. 1t was
Ford property and a few minutes
after they mounted it they were
rushed by Ford workers, Franken-
steen said. Both Frankensteen
and Reuther were badly beaten
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16
New Avon Writer
Tells of Events
BY Mrs. Ben Stewig

New Avon-Mr. and Mrs. Mil
ton Quesenberry entertained at
cards Wednesday night when
Mrs. A. E. Steinhaus won low
prize and Emil Anderson won
high honors. Lunch was served.
Phil Schurhammer of Wabasso
was a caller at the Ben Stewig
home Saturday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Haupth
and family were dinner guests
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Crippen of Redwood Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Overmey-
er and daughter Joyce were sup
per guests Sunday of MIR. and
Mrs. Fred Selke of Clements.
MIR. and Mrs. Leroy Woodford
and son left Friday for Iowa to
visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Anderson
and son Leo were dinner guests
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Gray.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Kerby and
son George attended the funeral
of John Lyons at Seaforth Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wenzel Goblirsch
and son Herbert and Miss Airline
Hansen We're callers of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Hauptli and Mrs. Ben
Stewig Monday night.
School district 101 will give a
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16

of the Holy Redeemer at Mont
gomery, MINI. Rev. Polasek was
ordained in 1899. He served as
pastor at Lamberton and Willow
Lake and in 1905 was appointed
pastor of the Holy Redeemer par
ish, which he served until his
death, December 6.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Goblirsch
and sons and Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Lemke and family of Vesta were
Saturday evening dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Goblirsch.
Miss Helen Swoboda returned
Friday evening from Lamberton
where she spent the week visit
ing frier.ds.
Mrs. William Serbus was hon
ored at surprise birthday party
at her home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alois E. Kodet
ana family were Friday evening
callers at the John Wilt home.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16

Christmas program Monday
night. Miss Airline Hansen is the
teacher.
School district IA will give its
Christmas program Thursday,
December %. Miss Lois Long
bottom and Mrs. Ray Thomas are
the teachers.
Miss Lucille Bryan is assisting
at the L. E. Backer store during
the Christmas rush.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Quesen-
berry and family spent Sunday
night at the parental I. E. Bunnell
home in Clements.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Kerby spent
Friday night visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Goblirsch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Wheeler
and daughter of Sanborn spent
Sunday at the Henry Hauptli
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Parker,
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16

Wesley Scholtz and Mr.. and Mrs.
A. E, Steinhaus and two daugh-
ters spent Sunday with Mr., and
Mrs. George Stern at Sanborn to
help Mrs. Stern celebrate her
birthday.
Sunday night, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Parker, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
E. Steinhaus and two daughters,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Parker and
Wesley Scholtz visited at the
Ed Scholtz home in Shutdown
where Miss Edna Scholtz cele-
brated her fourteenth birthday.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Knisley
Sr. and family moved Monday to
Bechyn where they will live in
the house of John Malacek Sr.,
Mrs. Knisley's father.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Hou-
dek and daughter Mary spent
Monday at the George Goblirsch
home in Vesta.
Word has been received that
Raymond Zetah and Roman Kod-
ct are in Santa Barbara, Calf,
where they are visiting Ray
mond's sister, Doris.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16

evening of last week. The build
ing was being heated for a de-
monstration and movie by Sam
born oil company. A passerby
noticed clouds of smoke coming
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16
SANBORN OPERA
HOUSE DAMAGED

Sanborn-A blaze, thought to
have started from an overheated
furnace, caused some damage to
the Opera house here Tuesday
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16

from the first story and immed-
lately turned in an alarm. The
damage, however, was slight due
to the prompt response of the
firemen.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16
Bechyn Reporter
Sends News Items
By Loretta HorejSi

BY Loretta Horejsi
Bechyn-Rev. F. j. Tomek at
tended the fur eral of Rev. Emil
Polasek Thursday at the Church
The Redwood gazette., 1937-12-16

If an artist puts his own soul
into the picture, the cow looks
like zebra.-Ex.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

wave with Green's megaphone in "Old
English" "Disraeli," and THE Green
Goddess" And he'd be there still, !"
said his director, ''if he hadn't wanted
to boss his pictures. When that hap
pens, 1 get divorce from my stars" :"
Wallace Beery would now be playing
In two-reeler comeoies-or not at all
if Green hadn't spotted him one
day disconsolately complaining of the
elusiveness of work. I've got ter
rife part for you in The Unpardon-
able Sin,'" said the director. From
there Wally went places in picture
land.
In 1919, Green called on Mary Pick
ford. "a friend of mine has friend
who wants chance in pictures, he
told her. Whats his name?" queried
Mary. Something French-Adolphe-
er-I think it's Adolphe Menjou," re-
piled Green.
ri gave her a terrific sales talk"
the director told me- How much
does he want?' she finally asked. I
took a chance and said $3.50. It's an
awful lot of money, said Mary but
If you say he's good" Chaplin
saw the picture and hired him for "A
Woman of Paris"
When Bette Davis received the
Academy award for Dangerous" she
made the usual protestation that she
owed everything to her director. But
this time the statement was true. The
director was Green.
Bette was hard to handle at first
Evening star., 1937-09-09

every day-and you can't say that
for the theaterl"
Producer Cohen plans big cam
paign to boost Miss Ardler to screen
fans. Keystone of his belief that she
will soon rise to the top rank of film
stars is the fact that she is entirely
unlike any other current favorite.
incidentally. Miss Ardler's greatest
stage successes have been in the more
serious types of the drama, while her
first movie role is strictly comedy. In
fact, it borders on the slapstick in a
couple of sequences. However, the
actress took the switch from drama
to comedy in good spirit, maintaining
that after all, it may be a pleasant
relief"
With Miss Ardler in the new Para
mount comedy are John Payne, play
ing his first lead for Producer Cohen:
Grant Richards, Katherine (Sugar)
Kane, of radio fame; Isabel Jewell,
Luis Alberni and number of other
outstanding players.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

she's highly nervous" he said. But
she soon settled down"
Latest rising star on the directors
nonstop list is Kenny Baker, who re-
Gently made his screen debut in "Mr.
Dodd Takes the Air" He'll go long
way-if he sticks to the Charles Ray
type of part" said his discoverer.
A large percentage of the best di-
rectors and producers now in Holly
wood began as assistant directors to
Green-among them Mervin LIE Roy.
Sidney Lanfield, Al Hall.
The secret? Scope. 1 give people
who work for me scope and oppor-
tunities to develop their ideas. The
first thing I tell acting newcomers is
to stop acting. I talk to them quietly,
make the whole thing as casual as
possible.
THE most apt of my acting pupils
was George O'Brien, who now prefers
to make Westerns" said Green. Il
hope I'll have as much luck with Who
ever substitutes for Freddie Bartholo-
NEW Con pay strike) in my next as
signment, 'Thoroughbreds Don't Cry"
Green's entry into pictures was a
lucky accident for the above-men-
toned folks. Twenty-Five years ago he
was sitting with several out-of work
companions in what he calls glori-
fed beer house.
ANY of you guys want to work in
pictures?" a stranger demanded.
What do you have to do?" some
one asked
Just pretend you're sailor on a
boat
The amazing salary of SO day for
pretending to be a seaman clinched
the deal for Green. When the whistle
blew for lunch I started to join the
others. The director stopped me-told
me was an extra and to eat with the
extras. I swore then I'd be a success
and eat with the big shots. -Four years
later, to the day, was a director with
the same company"
(Copyright, 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1937-09-09
Comedy Hit for Films.

a L SANTELL, who recently COM
pleted the Barbara Stanwyck-
Herbert Marshall starring vehicle,
Breakfast for Two" will direct the
screen version of Arthur Kober's prize
comedy, Having Wonderful Time"
Pandro S. Berman will produce the
film for R-K-O-Radio, with Ginger
Rogers In the stellar role. Kober is
now writing the film adaptation of
his Broadway success.
Produced in New York by Marc
Connolly and Bella Blau, Having
Wonderful Time" won the annual Roi
Cooper Megrue Prize for the finest
American comedy Of the year-an un-
usually high honor in a season that
saw production of such comedy hits
as You Can't Take 1t With You,"
Room Service" and Brother Rat"
Miss Rogers, recently co-starred
with Katharine Hepburn in Stage
Door" now is travelling in Canada,
Evening star., 1937-09-09
Newcomers Break.

A mn MILLER got break by being
introduced to the cinema public
as a Taper par excellence in New
Faces Of 1887" but now she is getting
a bigger break in stage Door"
Making her second appearance for
R-K-O Radio, Ann not only has an
important dramatic role, but dances
again, this time with Ginger Rogers.
These two divert from the highly