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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
Writing Pairs
Can't Agree

HOLLYWOOD, April 20 IN.SO.
For some mysterious reason dlrec-
tor-Writer teams that become sue
cessful in movies don't last!
Witness the breaking up Of the
Frank Capra-R Robert RiSkin COM
bination, and the separation OF
Henry Hathaway and Grover
Jones.
Director Capra and Riskin were
responsible for ut Happened One
Night" and Mr.. Deeds Goes to
Town" Among the Hathaway
Jones achievements we're Lives of
a Bengal Lancer" and Trail OF
the Lonesome Pine"
But completion Of 'Lost Hor-
lion" meant the separation of
Capra and Riskin at Columbia
studios, and after Paramount'S
Souls At Sea-" Hathaway and
Jones split, Hathaway remaining
at Paramount, Jones going to the
Warner studio.
Columbia rates Lost Horizon"
as its most important picture Of
the year, and Paramount expects
Souls at Sea" with Gary Cooper
and George Raft to do a big bust
ness.
This leaves only two "perma-
lent" director-writer teams-Wes-
ley Ruggles and Claude Binyon,
now doing 81 Met Him in Paris"
which stars Claudette Colbert;
and Frank Lloyd and Howard
Estabrook who are preparing to
co-produce wells Fargo"
John Ford and Dudley Nichols,
although they worked together on
three pictures, 1.-The Informer,"
Mary of Scotland" 1.-The Plough
and the Stars" never were re-
garded by RKO-Radio as per
manent team, and are separated
at the moment. But they may
be back together again almost any
time.
The studios favor the teaming
system. But the difficulty is to
find teams that will click - and
keep them together.
Directors and writer's, like the
stars, sometimes are very tenn
peramental persons.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
Loretta Dispenses
Coffee to Troupe

Loretta Young believes in start
ing the day with everyone on her
set in good disposition.
During the filming of "Cafe Met
ropole," in which she races
through a farcical romance with
Tyrone Power while Adolphe Men
jou plots against them, she served
hot coffee and doughnuts the first
thing every morning to everybody
from the prop men" to the
"juicers." Consumption of dough
nuts toward the last reached is
dozen a day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
Ruth Draper to Open Monday

>MiSs Draper sailed for Hawaii to
give two request performances at
the University. However the Uni
VerSity Auditorium was sold out
so quickly that Miss Draper ap
peared in a larger hall in Homo
lulu, to absolutely capacity.
1t is almost 10 years since Miss
Draper has toured the United
States as extensively as this year,
but her name and fame have not
been dimmed by time, to judge by
the crowds which filled theaterS
everywhere. In fact an extra Sun
day afternoon performance was
added at the Geary Theater in
San Francisco, following her
weeks engagement there.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29

Ruth Draper, internationally
famous for her incompatible
Character Sketches" will be seen
at the National Theater on Mon
day, May 3, for weeks run.
This amazing woman, who Is
actress, pantomimist, playwright,
producer and a host of other
astounding son alities, COM
pleted series of special Sunday
evening and matineer perfor-
mances in New York during the
holiday season before starting on
her present tranScontinental tour
which will close in Washington.
Following her engagement at the
Biltmore Theater in Los Angeles,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
Marion Claire Quits
Opera for Pictures

Marion Claire, one of Americas
best known prima donnas, has de-
clined the Metropolitan Opera
Company'S Geographic request to
appear in New York during the
coming season and, instead, has
signed term contract with Prin.
cipal Productions. The noted so.
prano will make her screen debut
in Make a WISH" next starring
vehicle for Bobby Breen to be re.
leased by RKO Radio.
Miss Claire for several years
has starred in grand opera, light
opera and on the concert stage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29

Left ErikSon, c. Henry
Gordon and Bodil RoSing. Clar-
ence Brown is directing and Ber-
nard Lyman producing.
One Of the intensive research
tasks was in reproducing the re-
treat from Moscow, exactly as 1t
occurred. Actual war office docu-
mentS, diaries of soldiers in Ma
poleon's army, and official reports
were used in laying out the spec
tacular moment in the picture.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
King-Smith Actors
To Offer Two PLAYS

S. Wesley Mckee, director of the
drama department at the King
Smith Studio7School, announces
that two plays will be given at the
Playhouse this spring, "Liliom"
and Spring Dance" Although the
exact dates of performance have
not been set, plans are well under
way and parts are being cast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
Gets Break

When Margaret Sullivan re-
tired from the stage to become a
mother, attention was centered on
Phyllis Brooks who appeared with
her in "Stage Door," Studios bid
for Phyllis, and now she is under
contract to goth Century-Fox,
where she will soon be cast in i'm
portant roles.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
Rush Wardrobe

Since Barbara Stanwyck went to
work with Robert Taylor in This
Is My Affair" at goth Century-Fox
without a days vacation from her
last picture, she had to eat lunches
standing up while experts fitted
her for the II costumes of 1900
vintage which she wears in the
film
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29

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Friday.
SiSsle and his
band, each an
entertainer, as
well as being
master inStru-
mentalist, are
international ! y
famous for their
outstanding en-
gagenent at the
famous French
Casino.
erf o rning
seemingly mean
ingleSs gy a :
tinnS with his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
Noble SissIe
For Howard

Noble Sissle, exponent Of suave
rhythm, opens at the Howard
Theater for a weeks engage
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-04
FIND OF BODY
REVEALS WIDE
LIQUOR FEuD
Joe Spann, Dead Man,
Under Indictment for
Oteen P. 0. Robbery

EDGEFIELD, Dec. a. (UP).-
Discovery of q partly deeomposed
body of North Carolina boot
logger led authorities Of two
states last night to investigate his
Staying and a bloody feud be-
tween rival liquor runners plying
between Asheville, and Augusta,
Ga.
The body was that of Joe
Spann, described as a bootlegger
of Asheville. It was discovered
Yesterday buried in an unkept
spot beside a creek 10 miles north
of here. Officers were led to the
crave by John Thomas Lane,
Pineville, KY, who volunteered to
tell officials he was with Spann
at the time Of the Staying, last
September %.
Officers held Lane in Jail at
nearby Aiken and his companion,
listed as Clemson Carson, in jail
at Asheville. No charges were
filed against the two men pend..
ing further investigation OF
Lanes story.
Lane, arrested at Waynesville,
for traffic violation, while
travelling in the dead mans auto
mobile recently, said he and Car
son were present when two
liquor runners, rivals of Spann,
followed Spann to a lonely spot
on the road, forced him from the
highway and killed him by frac-
turing his skull and firing a pis-
to. bullet int ohis head.
After witnessing the Staying
and burial, Lane said he and Car
son took Spann's automobile to
Augusta, where they separated
and he kept the car.
Lane denied any completely in
the crime. He told officers he
had made several trips running
liquqor during the past several
weeks.
Spann was under indictment in
North Carolina for robbing the
poStoffice at Oteen.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-04
Japanese Army In s. Miles OF Marking
ARMED CLIO. ORGANIZER IS
BEHIND WITNESS STAND WHEN
LABOR BOARD HAS HEARING
Boards Subpoena Of Maya
zine Materials Telling
Story Of Hearing Will Be
Resisted

WASHINGTON, Dec. A. (UP)
Sen. H. Styles Bridges, R., n. H.,
yesterday denounced the National
Labor Relations board in the sem
ate as menace to press freedom
while magazine editor challeng-
ed the boards power to subpoena.
Bridges attacked the board for
its efforts to subpoena magazine
material in which Hartley w. Bar
clay, editor Of steel trade maya
zine. bitterly criticized the board
for its conduct of the Wierton
Steel company case.
"In my judgment this is one of
the most open attacks on freedom
of the press we've SEEM" Bridges
said. at is one more typical ar
bitrary action by the board"
Attorne"s for the board, insist
ing that the subpoena was within
powers granted by the Wagner
act, prepared to ask the eastern
Kentucky U. S. District court to
validate the subpoena and order
Barclay to observe it.
Elisha Hanson, attorney for
Barclay and Conover-Mast. pub
fishers of the mill and Factory"
magazine in which the article APP
peared, said the subpoena repre-
sented an open and dangerous at
tack on freedom of the press. He
said Barclay had been instructed
to defy the subpoena.
of efforts are made to fight
our position in federal court"
Hanson said, "they will be resist
ed and resisted to the utmost.
81 want to point out that the
Weirton Steel company had no
connection with this magazine. 1t
held none of its stock. No Weir
ton advertisements ever had APP
peared in the magazine. The ar
ticle was simply matter Of jour
nalistic enterprise, similar to other
attacks on the labor board"
The article said, in part:
"Highlights of rip-snorting COM
edy provide a welcome relief from
the depths of tragedy to which
certain phases of the trial have
plunged.
when the attorneys for the
NLRB, with supercilious smirks,
announced during the trial that
the only statement upon which
they could agree with Weirton
counsel was that that table is a
table'-CIO observers and Weir.
ton loyal workers alike roared
with laughter.
at was high comedy when the
Weirton attorneys called atten-
ton to the fact that CIO organ
izer was standing behind the wit
ness chair wearing large revolv.
er and an ammunition belt loaded
with ammunition. ;.
"The biggest and most ironic
comedy Of the whole thing is that
when this Ogpu-like trial is con-
cluded and if the case goes to the
supreme court, the review of the
case will not and cannot be based
upon whether or not a fair trial
was held because the Wagner act
does not provide for fair trial.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-04
Demand Renewed
u. S. Troops Quit
Asia's War Zone
Strict Neutrality Advocates
See Continued Danger
in Policy

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. (UP)
Congressional advocates of strict
neutrality last night renewed their
demands that L. s. troops be with
drawn from the Sino-Japanese war
zone after American Marines al
most claShed with japanese troops
in the International Settlement in
Shanghai.
Sen. Gerald p. Nye, R., n. D.,
leader of the senate mandatory
neutrality bloc, said the troops
should not have been sent to the
settlement "in the first place"
Sen. Bennett c. Clark, d., Mo-,
warned that every day American
soldiers remain in China there is
danger of embroiling the whole
nation"
Their comment came after the
state department had expressed
grave concern over the narrow
margin by which a serious Incl
dent between the Japanese and
American troops had been avert
ed. While official comment was
reserved pending receipt of dis
patches from American Consul
General Clarence +. Gauss at
Shanghai, Secretary Cordell HUI
said that American officials at
Shanghai and Tokyo had warned
the Japanese of the inadviSability
of holding the victory parade
which precipitated the incident.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-04
FRENCH BLOCK
PASSAGE IN
new INCIDENT
Crisis SINNERS Down; AS
sumo Formal Apology
Made to Marines
JAPS NOT CERTAIN OF
FOREIGN BOUNDARY
Copyright. 1887, by United Press
IIfD

Copyright. 1887, by United Press
SHANGHAI. Dec. 1. (UP)-
Japanese advance units today
were within 80 miles OF Marking,
a japanese spokesman asserted.
Meantime in Shanghai, Japa-
nese soldiers were involved IN an
other tense incident with foreign
troops. following on the heels of
Yesterdays situation in which they
withdrew from the I. :. Marines
defense sector in the International
Settlement.
French police, backed by arm
ored French cars, halted five Japa-
nese military trucks when they
tried 10 pass through the French
concession bund en- route from
Hongkew, Japanese section of the
International Settlement. to Nan
tao, old Chinese city between the
concession and the Whangpoo
river.
Fifty French police barred the
way when the trucks sought TO
enter the concession. Leaders OF
the two groups stood in the street
arguing hotlv over the situation.
Three French armored ears were
Immediately behind the police,
their guns pointed towards the
japanese trucks.
The French forces consisted OF
steel helmeted AnnamiteS with
fixed bayonets. The Japanese
numbered 35 soldiers armed with
rifles and several officers.
French authorities granted per-
mission for the japanese to pass
through earlier provided they were
unarmed, but the convoy was halt
ed when il was discovered the
Japanese were carrying weapons.
A Japanese officer photograph
ed the scene while a colleague ar
gued vigorously.
The Japanese army yesterday
made its first retreat during the
four-months-old Chinese-Japanese
war rather than risk a clash with
more than 5000 seasoned fighters
of the United States Marine
Corps. e.
A group of Japanese authorl-
ties today visited Brig. Gen. John
c. Beaumont. Marines command.
ant, presumably to tender formal
apologies for the action of their
Infatuated soldiers for the en-
croachment on the American de-
tense sector of ShanghaiS Inter
national Settlement.
The Japanese yesterday assert
ed the invasional was "uninten-
tionap and that they were un'
familiar with the settlement boun-
Diary lines. II followed wild scenes
when a Chinese Ultra-Nation-
alist hurled hand-grenade into u
military demonstration the Japa'
nese armed forces were conduct
ing in the heart OF the Anglo
American area of the settlement
Gen. Beaumont was inclined TO
accept the apology and 1t was
hoped the incident would be end
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-04
BREVARD WILL HAVE
MIXED COURT TERM

BREVARD, Dec. 4. Especially
The December term Of superior
court will convene in Brevard
Monday for the trial of civil and
criminal cases.
Judge Felix Alley of Waynes-
vile, will preside at the mixed
term, with Solicitor Clarence 0.
Rulings of Forest City, appearing
for the state in criminal actions.
The court calendar, as compil-
ed by the Brevard Bar associa-
ton, calls for civil court to con-
tinue into the second week, with
the criminal docket to be complet-
ed by the end Of the first week.
Jurors have been summoned for
both weeks by Sheriff George D.
Shuford.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-04
257 PERSONS
RECEIVE GIFT
CERTIFICATES
$500 People Out for Win
dow Shopping as Buying
Season Opens
INAUGURAL BEYOND
ALL EXPECTATIONS

Out Of a crowd of about $500
people who Shopped Henderson
vile store windows last night at
the beginning Of the Christmas
season, 257 persons received gift
certificates of 81 each, and today
the first of these certificates were
being redeemed in the stores with
the compliments of the donors. In
addition, 35 shoppers received
theater tickets.
While only about one of every
ten window shoppers received a
certificate or theater ticket, the
crowd apparently enjoyed the
event, and today officials of the
merchants division of the chamber
of commerce said the effort to at
tract people to the business dis
tricts so that they might get a
glimpse Of the merchandise that
has been stocked for the Christmas
trade was successful even beyond
their expectations.
With the colored street lights
turned on for the first time, with
Christmas trees lining the streets,
with attractively decorated win
dows ablaze with light, and with
the high school band giving a
concert the evening, despite cold
weather, was termed an enjoyable
and profitable one.
Eight unidentified persons -
seven women and one man-paSs-
ed out the gift certificates and
theater tickets. AS they did so
they requested the participants to
keep it to yourself" For perhaps
an hour few persons could be
found who admitted having re-
ceived certificates, but later many
were exhibited in the crowd on the
streets and in drug and other
stores that were open. Although
the certificates may be redeemed
at any time this month, scores
were turned in today, merchants
said
"The window displays which
were on view last night certainly
should convince anyone that Hen.
Jacksonville merchants. are well
stocked for the Christmas trade
and that no one need go else
where to fill Christmas gift lists,
II. +. Mitchell, chairman Of the
merchants division, said today.
"Of course the merchandise IN
the windows was only a small
fraction of the thousands of items
on display in the stores, and while
the merchants very much apprre-
ciate the response of the public
last night, they are very anxious
that every person who came out
last night and everyone else IN
Henderson county and adjacent
trade territory who could not at,
tend last nights event should
follow through" by inspecting
the merchandise on view in the
stores before making purchases.
In addition to SO business firms
whose names were published yes
terday, the Superior Laundry;
Dixie Store and City Ice and
Storage company donated gift GER
tificateS,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-04
bloc
SEEKS AID TO
TRADE FIRST
Bridges Suggests Business
Revival Plan Take
Precedence
HOUSE SADDLES ITS
BILL WITH CHANGES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. tUP)
Senator King, D.. Utah, offered
an amendment to the senate farm
bill restricting expenditures for
the far reaching farm program to
500,000.000 today.
Meantime Senator Vandenberg
renewed his attack on the meas
ure, denouncing the amendment
providing that the secretary OF
agriculture shall determine the
character and necessity for expen-
ditures under the act.
A bloc of senator's seeking I'M
mediate legislative encouragement
70 business threatened further de-
lay on farm bill action today when
Senator King proposed an aid-to-
business program.
Facing bipartisan opposition to
the crop control measure, admin
istration leaders feared that final
action might not be obtained by
the middle Of next week.
As the senate met for its first
Saturday session, Majority Lead
or Alben w. Barley said that
there was no plan to limit debate
despite the fact that voting on
committee amendments has been
DELAYED two DAYS bv lengthy OPP
position speeches. There was some
cloak room talk, however. that
leaders might decide to hold night
sessions.
Although speaking on the farm
bill, King will digress to propose
modification of the capital gains
and undistributed profits taxes.
He will suggest that the modifica-
tions be offered as an amendment
to a house bill which would repeal
the salary publicity act and which
is now pending before the senate.
Kings speech was expected TO
start the senate again on an e%-
tensive discussion Of business con-
ditions and the current recession.
Kings proposals will be in line
with sentiments of various sena-
tors - that immediate considera-
ton should be given to the bust
ness situation.
Sen. H. Styles Bridges, R., n.
H., has suggested that the firm
bill be put aside.
"More important and more fun
damental at this time than the
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-04
Mail Robbery With Loss High AS
100000 Probed After WPA Man
Fishes Mail Bag From East River

NEW YORK, Dec. 4. (UP)-
A former WPA worker who was
fishing for cells in the East river
found himself the center of an in
vestigation through which police
and postal inspectors hoped TO
solve the mysterious robbery Of
a United States mail truck loaded
with valuable packages and regis
tered mail.
Peter Schieb, 40, dropped a line
into the river and pulled up a can
vas mail sack nearly filled.
He notified police who. fished
out four more sacks.
Postal inspectors said the truck
was robbed Thursday night but
refused to admit how much was
lost. Estimates of the value in
volved ranged upward from ST.
500 to 100000.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-04
ST. JAMES IN
DINNER EVENT
80 Members and Visitors
Take Part in Annual
Parish Affair

The members of st. James Epis-
copal church held their annual
parish dinner at the Henderson
vile Inn on Friday night. Ninety
members of the church here and
from st. John the Baptist, Up
ward. and St. Pau'S, Edneyville,
together with others, Were among
the guests. Rev. George Floyd
Rogers, rector of Trinity church,
ASheville. was the chief speaker.
Rev. Mr.. Rogers outlined the
work Of the church, his key
thought being that the "heart of
the Christian church is Christ"
But he showed Christ as an cX-
ponent of determined principal
and law rs we'll as Of divine traits
of character that made Him low
able.
Among the items Of the recent
triennial convention recitcd by the
speaker was the fact that q large
gathering of Chinese and Japa-
neSe native Episcopal bishops,
missionaries and church workers
had united in a communion SER
vice exclusively for them during
the progress of the convention.
Rev. Mr.. Rogers estimate of
the work of the pastor, Mr.. Burke,
and his repetition of a high esti-
mate placed upon him by the dean
of the theological institution which
Rev. Mr.. Burke attended drew u
round Of applause.
Incident to the dinner, which
was arranged by the every-mem-
Der canvass committee, Frank A.
Ewbank, A. S. Truck and II. h.
Scheper, Mr.. Ewbank read the
proposed budget for the ensuing
year, and the first pledges for the
budget were made. The commit
tee will arrange to reach others
who were not present last night,
for a continuance of the canvass.