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Evening star., 1937-08-21
ACTRESS DIES AT 70

NEW YORK, August 81 (P.-Alice
Endres, actress, died yesterday at St.
Luke's Hospital at the age Of 73
Born in London, Miss Endres came to
this country at is and toured In
productions of "Pinafore," "The Royal
MILDLY" and other popular plays OF
the day
Later she appeared in Business Be-
fore Pleasure" and Potash and PERL
n,utter," under th management OF
A. H. Woods. She Sal be buried Mon
day in Stratford. Conn.
Evening star., 1937-08-21

hard to be lighter than the air around
this town right now.
And if it's dancing you want. broth
ers and sisters-line forms to the right
please, Immediate seating on tha
upper floors.
For the sports-minded We might add
the information that Melody" has lots
OF horse racing stuff in it, too. Pictur.
isn't a picture without that angle
these days. Even hear they are plan
ming to run some retakes on Rome,
and Juliet" and turn the balcony seen,
into steeplechase.
Evening star., 1937-08-21


of stage presence even if they are not
ready yet for stardom, and from the
time the curtains open on Is local
lassies dancing (together) until they
close over the principals standing in
front of a cool artificial shower the
revue moves with something akin to
professional precision. And it's a pro-
fessiona precision considerably popped
, p by the enthusiasm of the young en-
tertainers.
The credit for turning out one Of
the most diverting stage shows seen
about here In many week proba bly,
is due Going Natives" producer, Mr..
Ford, and to its dance director, Harry
Crosley. Gene has selected his talent
with a canny eye that picket out the
cream of the crop and he has woven
the players into a unity of sprightly
entertainment that has variety and
color and everything else you could
want. The two major production num-
bers, "A Venetian Bal Masque" and
Rain and Sunshine" are items that
would be credit to anybody's stage.
And Mr.. Crosley has turned these Is
local individualists into chorus you
wouldn't believe could be rounded up
here in town. Once or twice you al
most think the Ehda Ballet has come
back home.
You'll enjoy watching all these
people perform. You'll enjoy the
song and dance contributed by pert
little Claire Gregoire, the sophisti-
Gated tap number Of Mary Jane
Zernia, the ventriloquist skit Of Joe
and Earline King, also Eearline's
song), Miss Cor is it Mrs. WASH
ington, Helen Greene, and her song
and her introduction by Gordon
Hittenmark; the pictures tossed oil
in q flash by Jack McCalley, Dick
Leslie and his impressions of radio
favorites, the fast dances by Lee and
Cody O'Neill, the mad rhythms OF
the Washboard Blues, the choral ef-
fects provided by the George Wash
ington University vocal ensemble.
Yes, Mr.. Ford and the others con-
cerned have something here.
X X X
THE motion picture accompanying
Going Native" is Shirley Tenn
pies latest, Wee Willie Winkie, y
which is quite all right If you don't
object to seeing Kipling's Wee Willie
Winkie" become Shirley Temple. II
probably will be quite all right with
the Shirley Temple fans, and nc
doubt it will help Shirley regain
some Of the favor she has been los
ing by providing her with lines that
fall more naturally from the lips OF
. child her age. In fact, Wee Willie
Winkie" probably is the best vehicle
Evening star., 1937-08-21
Going Native Top-Notch
Musical Entertainment
Local Revue on Capitol Stage Has Profes
sional Finish Shirley Temple in "Wee
Willie Winkie" on Screen.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.


OF Going Natve"a uneful
thought Washington
let alone hourlong
gracng the Capitol stage will
There's hint of the home
Evening star., 1937-08-21
Hunters Sailboat.

Ian Hunter, Warner Bros. star, has
purchased 35-foot sailboat. He keeps
it anchored in Santa Monica Bay, not
far from his home.
Evening star., 1937-08-21
"Artists and Models" Has
An Abundance of Talent
Jack Benny and Judy Canova Top Cast of
the Earle's Filmusical-Hal LIE Roy
Is Stage Headliner.

HASN'T always worked out we'll in the past when the attempt
made join together photoplay
vaudeville
Models the Earle should happy
The hasn't complete,
Models" salingly np moments it
Evening star., 1937-08-21
Paul MUM Is Cause for
Speculation at Warmers
Actor Decides to "Go Away for Awhile' and
the Talk Is Stakeholder Personalities
Found Hard at Work on the Set.
BY JAY CARMODY.

HOLLYWOOD August 2-Pau Mum whose average OF performance
saopherc
the O Warner studio We
NUM- hand
to olrt
. inches
Evening star., 1937-08-21
Powell and Murphy
A Top-Notch Team
Contribute Some Lightning Footwork to
"Broadway Melody of 1885," Palaces
Bright Entertainment Item.
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR.

of
of
~ seemed most unlikely could
monouy with ndduastc a
personality and he sells himself with
Evening star., 1937-08-21

4 FELLOW by the name of
n Akin Tamiroff has the title
~ role in The Great Gambini,"
uhinb ic a v,otioy,
Evening star., 1937-11-23
SENATE TAKES UP
FAR|MRULE BILL
Houses Special Session
Program Still Locked
in Committees.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PFeSS.
The Senate got down to business to-
day on farm legislation, but Presi-
dent Roosevelt's special-session pro-
gram still Was locked in committees
on the House side.
Despite signs of prolonged contro-
versy over the crop-control measure,
Senate chieftains took 1t up with
obvious relief after Southerners had
talked against the anti-lynching bill
for full week of the five-weea ses-
sion.
The House Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee began hearings today on a
regional planning program. another
of the Presidents recommendations.
The proposal would create seven
regional authorities to coordinate all
proposals for conserving the Nations
resources, ranging from stream pollu-
ton curbs to construction of flood
control dams.
Chairman Mansfield of the commit
tee said he would submit tn the mem
bers suggestions that the authorities
be fact-finding "gencies only. After
conferences with House leaders, he
said he believed Congress should not
grant such broad authority as the
Tennessee Valley Authority now has.
There were indications that the
Presidents proposed message to Con-
sress on a program to speed housing
revival financed by private capital
Evening star., 1937-11-23
President Cives Garner Task
Of Growing White House Grass

President Roosevelt has given Vice
President Garner q new assignment
probably the hardest that rugged
Texan has had in his many years Of
public service and party regularity.
Mr.. Garner has been given the task
of making grass grow in the shade
of the great trees on the front lawn
Of the White House.
For many years occupants and at
tendants at the White House have
been seeking some method Of making
grass grow in those innumerable bald
spots beneath the many trees. Various
varieties of lawn seed have been tried.
but to no avail.
President Roosevelt, Is busy as he
has been with other matters, has
given some thought to this problem.
Finally Mr.. Garner came along and
assured the President that he has .
Evening star., 1937-11-23
LEAKING GAS KILLS
ENTIRE FAMILY OF 5
Bodies Found in Second Floor
Hall-Had Tried to Reach
Window of Sun Parlor.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Nov. %
Raymond c. Yeoman, Canadian World
War veteran and star athlete during
his college days, his wife and their
three children died today of illumi-
mating gas poisoning.
Medical Examiner H. r. Deluca said
the gas seeped through a crack in their
cellar wall from leak in a street
main.
The three children. George, 16; vir-
giria. IA, and jeanette, II, were found
IN bed. Their parents were lying in
a second-noor hallway where they
collapsed after an apparent attempt
to reach the window of an adjoining
sun parlor.
Mrs. Yeoman, 81. and her son died
en- route to a hospital. The others
were pronounced dead at the scene.
Repair crews, donning masks, dug
up the street Immediately to reach the
leaking main. Scores of spectators
were forbidden to smoke.
Yeoman, 45-year-old associate gen.
eral secretary of the Young Mems
Christian Association here, came to
Bridgeport from Detroit two years ago
The bodies were found by Jack
Schwartz, neighbor, awakened by
gas fumes seeping into his home. He
traced the odor to the Yeoman home
and, when unable to raise any one
broke window to gain admittance
On the second floor he found the
bodies.
Mrs. Elizabeth Winslow Yeoman wa
q native of Deerfield, Mass. Her hus-
band, an athlete at Springfield (Mass) }
College, from which he was graduated
in 1920.
Evening star., 1937-11-23

sure-fre method of making grass grow
where 1t never grew before. He told
the President he has spent years
experimenting on his shady lawn at
Uvalde, Tex, and finally succeeded.
The President listened attentatively
and assigned him to the White House
Job so quickly the Vice President was
momentarily at loss for words.
However, he promised the President he
would accept. Mr.. Garner has sent
to his Texas home for the magic
seed" and President Roosevelt is look
ing forward to ultimate success.
The White House gardeners, who
have been caring for the historic lawns
for many years, are skeptical. They
contend they have tried everything
They ventured the opinion that the
Garner seed might help under certain
big tall trees but will be Of no avail
beneath the close-leaved short trees.
Evening star., 1937-11-23
HOUSE RULES BODY
REFUSES TO FREE
WAGE-H0URS BILL
"Every Possible Effort" to
Get Committee to Vote 1t
Out Held Exhausted.
LABOR GROUP MAY CALL
PLAN UP AND REPORT IT
Rayburn Becomes 158th to Sign
Petition to Discharge Unit,
Bring Measure to Floor.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Wage-and-hour legislation ,Das
one OF major pieces OF legislation
sponsored By administration last
spring. When Southern bloc halted
measure in House and Congress
adjourned, it became one of four
proposals listed as urgent in call
for special session. Labor leaders
haue been lukeWarm to measure
throughout although previously
g'uing it qualified support.
BY the Associated Press.
House leaders today abandoned
hope of getting the Rules Committee
to withdraw its opposition to the ad-
mlnlStrations wages and hours bill
At Speaker Bankhead's press con-
ference, Chairman O'Connor of the
Rules Committee said the leadership
had exhausted every possible effort
to obtain sufficient votes In the COM
mittee to let the House consider the
legislation.
There is no possibility Of the bill
being considered by that method" he
said.
Majority Leader Rayburn went i'm
mediately from the press conference
to the House chamber and added his
signature to a petition which, If
signed by 2l8 members, would bring
the wage-hour measure to the floor
about mid-December. When the
House adjourned yesterday. l53 men,
bers had signed
In response to questions, Mr. Bank
head said he did not intend to sign
the petition and expressed belief that
no Speaker of the House, whether
Democrat or Republican. who occupies
a judicial position. should be asked to
sign netition to discharge commit
tee, especially the Rules Committee. u
Mr.. Rayburn's action was regarded
as designed to get all friends of the
legislation In the House to follow his
example.
A short time before Mr.. Bankhead
and Mr.. Rayburn conferred secretly
with committee members opposing the
legislation in the hope Of changing
their stand.
O'Connor, who announced he would
not sign the petition. although in SYM
pathy with the legislation, suggested
an alternative to the petition method
OF bringing the measure before the
House.
He said the Labor Committee could
call it up on calendar Wednesday,
when that committees turn comes.
Feud Lessons Chances.
Organized lapor's internal feud,
some legislators said, has less
ened the chances for enactment of
wage-hour legislation in the special
congressional session.
William Green, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, de-
manded that the bill be revised or
another substituted He stated his
organizations position in a letter yes
terday to Chairman Norton of the
House Labor Committee.
House members received last week
(see WAGE BILL, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-11-23
INCOMES UP TO $4,000
TO ESCAPE PROFITS TAX
UNDER NEW HOUSE PLAN
President, Still in Bed, Begins
Utility Parleys on Building g
Condition Improving.
Conference With Nc.
Ninch Also Set.
BY ]. RUSSELL YOUNG.

Still confined to his bedroom be-
cause of an infection from an alb
scessed tooth, President Roosevelt to-
day held the first of a series of con-
ferences with representatives of pub
lie utilities.
The President has been represented
as eager to have the cooperation of
the big utility companies in the ad-
ministration's vast construction pro-
gram aimed to stimulate private build
ing.
The Presidents utility conference
today will be with Wendell Willkie of
the Commonwealth g. Southern Corp.
Frank McNinch. the new head of the
Federal Communications Administra-
ton and former head of the Power
Commission, who will have a separate
conference with the President, prob
ably will be present during the Presi-
dents conference with Mr.. Willkie.
1t is understood the President will
continue these public utility confer
ences tomorrow when he confers with
(See PRESIDENT, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-11-23
FRENCH LINK C0TY
TO R|GHT|ST PLOT
Police Probe PassageWays
of Perfume Makers
Chateau.
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, No.. 23.-Secret passage
ways and subterranean rooms in a
chateau owned by the late Francois
Coty, perfume manufacturer, were
explored today by Surete Nationale
agents investigating suspected Right
ist revolutionary plot against France.
The Surete began its investigation
Of the chateau, on the outskirts of
Paris, just before Marx Dormoy, min
lister of the interior, told the cabinet
important documents had been seized
in another raid by Surete agents.
No Arms Found.
After inspecting the maze of secret
passages and underground rooms
constructed by M. Coty a few years
before his death in 1884, Inspector
Marcel Sicot said no arms had been
found.
The chateau is still owned by the
Coty family, but there was no one on
the premises except three caretak-
ers. Coty was founder of the semi
Fascist French Solidarity League
which a few years ago claimed 300.-
900 members. The league was dis
solved in 1896 and its members joined
other extreme rightist organizations
Breaks" in Probe Expected.
The government is on the verge
of important discoveries" in its drive
to crush an armed, secret revolution
ary society, Dormoy told the cabinet
Numerous documents of great i'm
portance were seized in raid during
the night, Dormoy said. Details Of the
documents were kept secret. The raid
was somewhere in Paris"
The guard was reinforced around
the military airport at Lyon-Bron as
Surete agents Investigated the revo-
lutionary committees activities in
Lyon itself.
Evening star., 1937-11-23
FAILING SIGHT ENDS
IN DUAL TRAGEDY
Brother Kills Sister Because
of "BeautifuI Eyes," Then
Stays Self.
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Nov. ga former army
officer, maddened by the gathering
darkness of total blindness. shot his
sleeping sister dead with bullets
through her beautiful eyes" today.
then ended his own life by slashing
his throat with a razor.
DR.. John Horace Dancy, husband of
the victim of the shooting, DR.. Naomi
Dancy, 49-year-old baby specialist,
rushed to the bedroom scene of the
tragedy and barely missed bullets fired
from pistol in the hands of Maurice
Tribe. 43, the invalid former officer.
The husbands 70-year-old mother,
also physician, said Tribe, embit-
tered by failing sight in his one good
eye, shouted to his sister, you've
beautiful eyes," then slew her.
The double killing occurred in the
Dancy's austere red and white brick
mansion in the sylvan suburb OF
Richmond on the Thames.
DR.. Naomi Dancy had dressed her
brothers injured knee and had lain
down for nap when he entered her
room. Her husband escaped bullets
aimed at him by switching off the
lights when he ran into the room.
Tribes years of brooding over the
loss of one eye and failing sight in the
other reached climax after midnight
when Mrs. Dancy, returning home
from a London lecture, went to his
room to dress his injured knee.
Looking at her strangely, he told
her:
Naomi, you have beautiful eyes,"
She had retired and fallen asleep in
her own room a short time later when
Dancy heard shot and dashed up
stairs. There, he said, Tribe, pistol in
hand, told him:
II have just shot your wife. Now
will shoot you"
Dancy switched out the light and
lodged. Bursts of flames spurted from
Tribes pistol. A few minutes later
Tribe was found seated before q mir
ror on the bathroom floor, the pistol
in one hand and an open razor in the
other. He was dying from throat
wounds.
Evening star., 1937-11-23
Complete Revision
of Corporate Sys.
tennis sFavOred.
LARGER FIGURE
TOBEMODIFIED
Levies on Individu.
ais Due to Be Cut
$6O,OOO,OOO.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
A House Tax Subcommittee today
tentatively approved complete revi-
sion of the corporate tax system. It
would involve repeal of the undis-
tributed profits levy for all corpora
tions with incomes up to $4,000 and
retention on a modified basis for
those with larger incomes.
The new plan, Chairman Vinson,
Democrat, of Kentucky said, will be
particularly helpful to the hardship
cases-corporations needing money
for the purpose of debt payment,
plant expansion, to repair capital
structure and the like
The new plan would impose on cor
porations with incomes up to $4,000
an income tax of 1912 per cent on the
first $4,000 of earnings and of IA per
cent on earnings of $4,000 to $25, 900
Corporations with incomes in ex-
cess of S25,000, Mr.. Vinson said, would
pay tax graduated from 16 to 20
per cent, the rates graduating accord
ing to the amount of profits dis
tributed to stockholders IN the form OF
dividends.
Estimates show, Mr. Vinson added
that these two sets of rates will yield
the same revenue as the existing cor
porate tax law, making up for reduc-
tlon IN the amount of taxes that in
dlviduals will pay on dividends.
Taxes on individuals, he said, should
be lowered by some s60,O00,OOO under
the new proposal.
Meanwhile, attempts of both the
Roosevelt administration and Republi-
can congressional leaders to find meth
ods OF helping business resulted in
three other developments:
l. President Roosevelt began a series
OF talks with private power leaders
talks which informed observers said
might lead to a truce in the five-year
feud between the administration and
private utilities.
2. Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
OF Michigan offered an Opposition
program, in which he said business
should be permitted reasonable lati-
tude to run ITSELF"
- @A0aoS ASN NHA0AiSallo, db Vic IcQu6Sl
OF Representative Knutson of Mime
sofa, who opposes the levies, arranged
to caucus on the question of advocat-
ing repeal of the undivided surplus and
capital gains taxes.
Although many Democratic and
Republican congressman have asked
immediate modification of the busi-
neSS taxes leaders mopt tn hold oH
until the committee finishes its gen.
eral tax survey, probably in January.
Senator Vandenoerg, who has re-
ceived mention as Republican presi-
dental candidate in 1910, made 10
suggestions for improving economic
conditions in speech last night over
the National Radio Forum, arranged
by The Star. The text of his address
appears on Page AT.
Evening star., 1937-11-23

Goose paintings "grotesque and un-
suitable" He said he preferred decora-
tions more in keeping with the charac-
ter of the hospital as public in
stitution.
A storm of protest was Immediately
raised. and Commissioner Allen STEP
ped into the picture to direct that the
paintings not be destroyed until after
he could have jury Of competent
persons pass on them. DR.. Rutland
had suggested that the question be
submitted to jury. but he added
that it should not be a committee of
Just any sort of artists and sug-
tSee MURALS, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-11-23
NEW MINISTER TO SPAIN
APPOINTED BY ENGLAND
W. H. Leche, Former Charge
d'Affaires at Valencia, Gets
Post at Barcelona.
Rx the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 23.-The govern
ment announced today that w. H.
Leche, former British Charge d'Affaires
at Valencia, had been named Minister
Plenipotenttary to the Spanish gov
ernment 1T Barcelona.
No ofncial explanation was given for
Mr.. Leche's new title but informed per-
sons said it was status halfway be-
tween Charge d'Affaires and Ambassa-
dor.
The appointment was regarded as
move to appease the Spanish gov
ernment, angry over the exchange of
commercial agents between the British
government and Gen. Francisco
Frances insurgent government.
Sir Henry G. Chiffon, the British
Ambassador to government Of Spain,
has been at Hendaye, France. since the
start Of the Spanish civil war. Some
sources thought he now would return
home.
Evening star., 1937-11-23
$434,0DO NEEDED
IN CHEST CLOSE
Solicitors Freed to Break
Boundary Lines to End
in Success Today.

WIN S454,UUU 10 De raised before
6:l5 pm. today to meet the record
Community Chest quota of S2,059,000,
nearly 5000 volunteer solicitors in
Washington and its suburbs today were
disregarding all barriers in a final
whirlWind effort to insure success for
the tenth anniversary campaign.
The Very Rev. Arson Phelps Stokes,
canon of Washington Cathedral, will
preside at tonight's final report meet
ing. Joseph D. CRadio Joe'O Kauf-
man has turned his time on radio sta
ton WMAL over to the Chest tonight
and reports of the various units will
be broadcast between 7:30 and 8 pm.
Leon Brusiloff, local orchestra leader,
will provide an orchestra and singers
for tonight's meeting, the usual union
requirements having been waived by
tho Musicians Union through the CO.
operation Of Albert c. Hayden as q
contribution to the Chest.
Lack of understanding on the part
Of Washingtonians Of the acute need
existing was given by Herbert L. Will
lett, jr., director of the Chest, as the
probable reason for slowing down Of
the campaign during the last few days.
People seem to have the idea that
reaching 80 per cent of goal, like get
ting grade of 80 in school, makes a
good mark" he said, mot realizing
that the loss of that 10 per cent means
that families may be denied the little
help necessary to lift them over hard
spot, that sick people may be left with
out necessary care. that orphans may
be refused admission to institutions
and foster homes and that many other
services may be curtailed. If Washing
ton could just realize conditions, am
sure the contributions would come
flowing in, putting us beyond our
goal"
The city was declared wide open"
for the final 80 hours of the campaign
and solicitors were told at the final
report luncheon yesterday to disregard
all solicitation areas or lists and to
get contributions wherever they could
find them. Restrictions were removed
in the hope that possible contributors
who have not been solicited up to now
might be reached, or that persons who
already have given contributions or
signed pledges might be induced to
increase their gifts
Chest officials renewed their ap-
peals to all persons who may have
been missed by solicitors to send con-
tributions t. permanent Community
Chest headquarters, 1101 M street
NV, or to telephone the Chest at
Metropolitan 1884 and ask that So
licitor be sent to them.
Near 20 Per Cent of Quota.
The close of yesterdays report
luncheon found a total Of $1,624, ,906,
subject to final audit, in hand in the
form of cash or pledges, payable dur
ing the coming year. This is 1891
per cent of the quota established by
the Chest Budget Committee as the
minimum necessary to carry on the
work of the 50 Chest-supported organ
izations during 1888.
In the ears of the team captains
and key men, as they left the luncheon
meeting to begin the final 30-hour
assault on Washington's collective
pocketbook, rang the pleas Of Chest
leaders and Of Gen. Hugh r. johnson
for more universal support Of the
Chest locally and through the Nation.
"You need $434,000 more to 60 over
(Ceo CIJEST pooe A.A1