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Evening star., 1937-07-28

T INTON WELLS, who left foreign
corresponding for the papers to
become Hollywood press relations
ace, and then left Hollywood in order
not to be a press relations ace, was
a visitor in Washington yesterday.
Dropped around first thing to see
Garter Barron at the Capitol, where he
,Wells) got his first, and last, stage
experience .. That man with beads
of perspiration dropping from him as
he walks through the alley between
the Capitol and National Theaters is
Gene Ford. He goes to the latter to
direct rehearsals Of his Going Ma
tive" revue The local people who
want to be remembered to E. deS.
Melcher in Hollywood would reach
from here to Hollywood il laid end to
end. Or, even side by side Tay
Garnett, back from the Malay jungles,
thinks Malayan women the most
graceful in the world and worthy Of
emulation by Hollywood's prouder
stars. Although he knows the Malay
ans learned to carry themselves
gracefully by balancing heavy burdens
on their heads, he does not advocate
the same thing for film beauties d.
Aside to Leonard SchloSs if he can
hear us above the excited yells OF
roller coaster riders at Glen Echo:
We won't be able to make that visit
we promised ourselves, but may we
send a substitute? Dreaming
Lips with Elizabeth Bergner, will
open Sunday at the Rialto, second pic
ture in the series which converted
the house into a flrst-run establish
ment "Maedchen in Uniform" ;"
which you should see II you haven't,
will be the next attraction at the
Little :. NJ. Forney Reese, who has
done about everything in amateur
dramatics, adds an impersonation of
Elbridge Gerry to his experience in
Our Constitution" pageant to be
presented by the Northeast Citizens
Association tomorrow night 1t
is quite a change from his role of
the squire in The Drunkard" which
ran so long on the Willard roof a
couple of years ago.
Evening star., 1937-07-28
|Maureen O'SulliVan Cast
Opposite Robert Taylor
Goes to London for "Yank at Oxford" Film
ing Soon-Best Role Since "The
Barretts"
Barretts.' %
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oLLYWooD July % 'NANAo-Maureen osulvan is going to
- London completion
feminine in "A Yank Oxford"
No l. Robert Taylor lucky
be
Evening star., 1937-07-28
Ping-Po Pong Woman's Game
When Ruth AarOns Plays It
Champion, Now at Earle, Shows Both Skill
and Mercy Playing !Critic--Sea Picture
Cycle Now Is Forecast.
BY JAY CARMODY.

G-PoN BAH Its womans game lh department @ % whn , mas
l. child
match with Ruth
slightest
Evening star., 1937-07-28
PLAGIARISM CHARGED
IN HIT-PLAY SUIT
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 28-Broadway's
madcap hit play You Can't Take 1t
With You," about a firecracker- max
ing, ballet-dancing, play-writing FAM
lily, was drawn into plagiarism suit
yesterday.
Virginia Gordon charged in Fed
eral court that she and Frances Ross
IN 1884 wrote play called Last Mo-
ments' and that George Kaufman
and Moss Hart copied the scene, plot,
technique, atmosphere and dialogue of
You Can't Take 1t With You" from it.
Miss Gordon asked for an account
ing of profits damages and an in
junction against the authors and Sam
H. Harris, producer.
Evening star., 1937-07-28

her Hollywood debut in Paris on
Broadway" the Oscar Hammerstein
musical >. Don Ameche joins Sonia
Henie in Bread, Butter and
Rhythm" You will see Ralph
Forbes and his mother, Mary Forbes,
together for the irst time, in "Stage
Door"
Copyright. 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1937-07-28
ON SCREEN AGAIN.

Seventy years Of age but still going
strong, Tully Marshall, old-time stage
and screen star, enacts a character
comedy role in B. p Schulberg's Para
mount feature, Accidents Will Hap
PEN Retired on a comfortable an
nuity, Marshall accepts only such
roles as appeal to him.
Evening star., 1937-07-28

narrow, director
writer husband Of
Miss O'Sullivan,
will travel with
her as far as Eng
land on his way
to Rome to re-
ceive a knight
hood from the
Pope in recogni-
ton OF his book,
ID a m j e n, the
Leper."
Ginger Rogers
a n d Margaret
SullaVdll are run
ming neck and
neck for the fem
Evening star., 1937-07-28
WITH THE TIDE

David K. Hope and Charles Ste
phens go into 'Ebb Tide" Paramount's
technlcolor film, starring Oscar HON.
Okla, Frances Farmer and Ray Mil
land.
Evening star., 1937-07-28

as Norma Shearers sister in The
Barretts Of Wimpole Street" Johnny
Evening star., 1937-10-29
MARKET DELAYS
NEW SECURITIES
FIotation Held Up Pending
Wall Streets Return
to Stability.
By the Associated Press.

A check-up of Securities and Ex-
change Commission records indicated
today that a huge backlog of new in
dustrial financing may be released
once business is assured Of fairly stable
market conditions.
One Of the obvious designs Of the
Federal Reserve Board change in mar
gin requirements was to encourage the
floating of these security issues, which
would finance new and expanded busi-
ness activity.
To some Federal economists one of
the most disturbing elements in the
current industrial situation has been
the slump in security offerings in the
wake of the stock market decline.
Securities Commission records
showed that since September l.. SO
companies have requested postpone
ment of the effective date Of issues
totaling more than 5000, 100000.
Ten Are Withdrawn.
Ten of these issues have since been
withdrawn, but the backlog remaining
on the commissions books included
securities of A companies totaling
SIZE, 6,000, 900, In addition to is others
recorded only by number Of shares.
Commission ofiicials said this was
only part of the picture. Many Of the
bigger companies, they said, probably
(See s. e. c., Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-10-29
AUTO CRASH DEATH
OFFICIAL
Coroner's Jury Rules High
way Inspector Driver in
Kelly Accident.

A coroner's jury today ordered Ed
ward d. williams, 39-year-old Dis
trict highway inspector, held for &C
ton of the grand jury in the traffic
death Tuesday night of Charles E.
(Finney) Kelly, 42, former District
policeman and for many years a
pitcher for the police baseball club.
The jury decided that Williams, who
lives at 1860 North Carolina avenue
Sc, was driving the automobile in
which Mr.. Kelly and George H.
Durity, SO, of Upper Marlboro, Nd,
were riding.
Mr.. Kelly, who lived at 435 Fiji
teenth street Sc, was pronounced
dead at Casualty Hospital after the car
crashed into a light pole and small
tree, careened across the street, ran
over a vacant lot and came to rest
against house at 1885 Good Hope
road Sc. Mr.. Williams, who appeared
at the inquest with his arm in a
sling and his face cut, told the jury
that Kelly was driving.
During Mr.. Williams statement to
the jury Mr.. Kelly's son Charles began
crying and muttered: Hes lying"
Mr.. Durity did not appear at the in
quest because of serious head in
Jury. He is in Casualty Hospital.
Detective Sergt. John H. Wise Of
the Homicide Squad testified that Mr..
Durity had told him he believed he
Was sleeping on the rear seat of the
car at the time of the accident and
didn't know who was driving.
Policeman Raymond L. Eubank,
eleventh precinct said he removed
Mr.. williams from under the drivers
wheel several minutes after the crash.
An autopsy report showed that Mr..
Kelly died Of q crushed skull, q
crushed abdomen and accompany
ing hemorrtage and shock
Evening star., 1937-10-29

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 R.-Iames
A. Mof1ett, board chairman Of the
California Texas OIL Co., returned
from London today on the United
States liner Manhattan to testify in
the Federal Governments case against
20 oil companies and so ofncials un-
der indictment at Madison, Wis.
Mof1ett was Federal housing ad-
ministrator in the first Roosevelt ad-
ministration.
Evening star., 1937-10-29
employees Benefit
BY APPORTIONMENT
265 Workers of Standard Oil Co.
in Washington Area Will
Receive Minimum of $50

Two hundred and sixty-five WASH
ington employees of the Standard Oil
Co. Of New Jersey will share in the
apportionment of 100000 to be
made shortly by the company, it was
said at local offices of the concern
today.
The apportionment, which was an
nounced locally by w. H. Evans. man.
ager of the -Virginia-District
area, will benefit approximately $4,000
employees by minimum of $50 each.
The allotments are to be made in
the form Of crediting the additional
amount to the individual accounts of
employees participating in the COM
pany's annuity and thrift plan. OF
the $4,000 individuals, about $4,000
already are participating in the plan.
For regular participants the proposed
contribution will amount to almost %
per cent Of their own and the COM
pany's contributions between Novem-
ber /, 1886, and November / of this
year, it was said.
Last year there was distribution
Of $2,500,0 -
Evening star., 1937-10-29
DR.. Carrie ". Smith Dismissed
As Head of Training School
Is Relieved of Post OF,
Recommendation of
Welfare Board.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Appointed superintendent of Ma
tiondl Training School for Girls a
year and half ago, Dr. Carrie
Weaver Smith obtained 100000
appropriation to Improve condi-
tions at institution and aroused in
terest OF Mrs. Roosevelt after she
had entertained the girl inmates at
White House tea Later, hoUeDer,
her administration uds com plicdted
by riots at the school,
DR.. Carrie Weaver Smith, superin-
tendent of the National Training
School for Girls, who won the SYM
pathy of Mrs. Roosevelt and the ap-
proval Of Congress for a 100000 ap-
preparation for physical improvements
at the institution, was discharged by
the Commissioners today "for the good
of the service"
The action was taken on recon-
mendation Of the Board Of Public
Welfare, which is charged with re-
sponsibility over this and other well
fare agencies. It was said to be based
in part on riots staged at the school
by inmates.
The Welfare Board told the Com
missioners it had been unable to
satisfy itself either that the situation
is under control or that it is likely to
be under control under the present
administration"
DR.. Smith was suspended early to-
day by the Welfare Board after she
had refused suggestion that she re-
sign, according to the reports Of Dis
trict officials. The issue then was
carried to the Commissioners, who
approved . recommendation for the
discharge.
Evening star., 1937-10-29

BY the Associated Press.
n 4 INEOLA, N. Y, Oct. 29.-Mrs.
NH Elizabeth Eaton Guggen-
VI helm, divorced in Reno Tues.
4 4 day from Col. M. Robert
Guggenheim, and her escort reported
to Nassau police they were beaten and
robbed of $400 by two men early today
as they were leaving a Jamaica ave-
nue restaurant.
Mrs Guggenheim. whose chin and
cheek were cut, said the men took
$500 from her while her escort, John
Frey, jr., %, said he lost about $100.
The robbers escaped.
Frey suffered a split scalp and a
black eye. They were treated at
Nassau Hospital after telephoning
police.
Mrs. Guggenheim, 35, won her di-
Evening star., 1937-10-29

vorce in a private trial on grounds Of
cruelty. She was married to Gug-
genheim. one of the heirs to the
Guggenheim mining fortune, in 1923.
Frey said Mrs. Guggenheim took a
plane from Reno to Cleveland, where
he met her. and that they were on
their way to their homes in Babylon,
Long Island, when they stopped at
the Commercial Club, Queens Village.
for something to eat.
When they came out and walked
toward their parked car, he said, the
two men attacked them, knocked him
unconscious. robbed them and fled.
After being treated at the hospital,
Mrs. Guggenheim and Frey went to
the third precinct station to give po-
lice a more detailed account of the
incident.
Evening star., 1937-10-29
CREST NEARS WILLIAMSPORT.
River Is Feet Above Normal and Rise
Of Feet Expected.

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Oct. 20 (Spe-
ciaD The Potomac River is receding
at its headwaters and nearing its crest
at Williamsport, 30 miles below Cum
berland today. At z am. it was rs
feet above normal at Williamport and
is expected to rise more feet before
this afternoon. Clear skies today
ended q threat Of serious flood. The
damage is comparatively small.
The National highway west was
closed this morning when feet OF
water poured over the road at Licking
Greek.
Evening star., 1937-10-29
POTOMAC BATTERS
SPAN /, AT HANCOCK
Flood Crest Passes Cumber.
land and Threatens to
Wash Bridge Away.
fPicture on Page AL
BY q staf1 Correspondent Of The Star.

BY stan Correspondent Of The Star.
HANCOCK, Md, Oct. 29.-F1ood
waters battered the Potomac bridge
here today and threatened momen-
tarily to sweep it from its foundations
While muddy waves and debris
pounded the bridge, the rivers over
flow was feet deep over several
low-lying blocks in Hancock's business
district.
Occupants of at least 40 houses were
removed in boats, and other residents
were driven to the second floors of
their homes by the rising flood. The
crest, however, was expected hourly.
A bridge on the Cumberland high
way near here was under feet of
water today. This and the Potomac
bridge were closed by highway police.
The Potomac bridge was replaced after
it was washed away in 1896.
Evening star., 1937-10-29

The Welfare Board promptly desig-
mated DR.. James Lewald, head of the
District Training School at Laurel,
Md, to serve as acting superintendent
of the National Training School for
Girls, and Mrs. Margaret Corridor,
matron at the District Jail, to be
acting assistant superintendent.
DR.. Smith, located after the an
nouncement at the Office of Miss
Katherine Lenroot, head of the Labor
Departments Children's Bureau, told
reporters she was discharged with
out hearing or any notice whatso-
ever
Il was just called before the Board
Of Public Welfare and told to get out, "
she declared. "I was asked to resign
and I refused. Director Street Gel
wood Street, told me that was to be
(See DIR. SMITH. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-10-29
FLOOD PASSES CUMBERLAND.
Residents Of Ridgely Prepare to Re-
turn to Homes.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Oct. 20 (R.-
As the flooded Potomac River wearily
bore its weakening crest downstream
today, Cumberland and its river-bank
neighbors gazed with relief at evi-
dences of inches-high waters in their
business and residential districts.
Assured finally that repetition of
the disastrous floods Of 1886 was not
at hand, residents and National
Guardsmen began to tear away sand
bags and river barricades. They had
been thrown up hastily yesterday to
ward off the threatening waters.
Across the river, at Ridgely, w. Va,
at least $50 residents were prepared
to return to the homes they left last
night when flood waters swept in. Last
night they sought shelter in a school,
house and several highland residences.
Before midnight the waters in the
threatened areas had begun to recede
appreciably.
CREST NEARS WILLIAMSPORT.
Evening star., 1937-10-29

WAR IN FAR EAST.
Three British riflemen killed by jap
anese shells. Page Al
Japan insists China must propose
peace talk direct. Page AS
FOREIGN.
Davis makes first contact for nine
power conference. Page Al
Floods delay warfare on Aragon front
in Spain. Page Az
NATIONAL.
Truman adjourns rail hearing after
tilt with witness. Page Az
Floating of securities awaits more
stable market. Page Al
House Committee divided on crop con-
troll program. Page Al
Violence flares in New York milk
strike. Page As
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Husband slashes wife, mother-in-law
and self. Page Al
DR.. Carrie Smith, head Of girls train
ing school, discharged. Page Al
All about the rise and fall of Gen.
Craie's mustache. Page AS
Ickes launches traffic reform program
in parks, Page Ais
DR., William Jef1ries Chewing dies IN
walter Reed. Page B-l
Palanisano starts study of D. G. gov
ernment costs. Page B-l
Hundreds in eleventh-hour rush to
pay taxes. Page B-1
virginia legislator to push, Gravelly
Airport bill. Page B-1
Evening star., 1937-10-29
HUSBAND SLASHES
WIFE AND SELF
Mother-in-laW Also Cut in
10th Street Apartment
Fray.

A frenzied husband, armed with a
banana knife and a carpenters
hatchet, today cut his wife's throat,
slashed her mother and then attempted
to take his own life in a blood
smeared apartment at 908 Twentieth
street NV.
The 19-year-old wife, Mrs. Rosa
Belle Ainsworth, was said to be in a
critical condition at Emergency Hos
pital. The mother, Mrs. Rachel Beans,
As, an invalid, was badly cut on the
face, but physicians said she would
recover. The husband, Martin Aims
worth, 80, had slashed his own throat,
but the wound was not believed serious.
Son Found Unframed.
Their 1-year-old son, Leslie Aims
worth, was found unharmed in his
crib when police forced their way into
the apartment.
According to the story told to po-
lice by Luther Thomas Beans, Aims
worth's brother-in-law, the husband,
VINO lives at 927 Twentieth street
NV, came to the apartment about
10 O'Clock this morning to see his
wife.
Martin knocked on the door,"
Luther said. land let him in. First,
he walked to the back porch, picked
up my fathers carpenter hatchet and
asked If thought father would OBJ
ject to his using it today. I knew
that he had borrowed it before and
told him I didn't think there would
be any objection.
Then he asked me if I would mind
gong to parking lot on K street to
get mis- car so he could 60 to work.
Not expecting any trouble, left, but
when got to the lot the attendant
told me Martin had taken his car at
O'Clock this morning. hurried
back to the apartment then, but they
were taking them to the hospital
when arrived"
Maid Escapes.
The only witness to the cutting was
maid, Gorda Bell, who had been
employed to attend Mrs. Beans. She
was unable to give coherent account
of the attack, but said Ainsworth,
after cutting, the two women, turned
toward her with the bloody knife in
his hand and shouted:
Damn you, might as well kill you,
too"
AS he advanced toward her, she
ran out of the apartment and called
police.
When officers arrived from the third
precinct station, which is in the rear
of the apartment, they found the two
women and Ainsworth in the kitchen.
One of Mrs. Ainsworth's eyes was
swollen shut, and police expressed the
belief the husband struck her with the
blunt end of the hatchet before cut
ting her throat. Mrs. Ainsworth and
Mrs. Beans were taken to the hospital
in the third precinct patrol, the hus-
band being removed in an ambulance.
Mrs. Beans husband, Luther Turner
Beans, a carpenter, left for work
early today and could not be located
Immediately by police seeking to
notify him Of the tragedy.
Definite Motive Not Established.
A definite motive for the attack
could not be established, but police
believed Ainsworth demanded that his
wife, who had been living with her
(See SLAsHING, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-10-29
Dies at Sisters Funeral.

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 @.-Com-
planning Of illness, Mrs. Ida Berner,
46, arose among 20 relatives and
friends attending the funeral Of her
sister last night and said: you're
going to carry me out Of here like
my sister," In . few moments she
was dead.
Evening star., 1937-10-29
Crest Here Tomorrow.

Possibility Of flood damage along
the Washington water front was les
sened today by the prospect Of con-
tinued fair weather and general let
up Of rain over the Potomac Valley.
The crest Of the high water, which
has caused considerable damage IN
Cumberland and Hancock, Md, Is ex-
pected here tomorrow morning. Un-
less southerly wind backs up water
In the Potomac at high tide, the crest
Is expected to pass here with little Or
no dama1o.
Evening star., 1937-10-29
THE 1888 AUTO SHOW

Next Sunday in q specioI sec
tion of The Sunday Stor will be
found pictures of the new model
automobiles with q detoiled de-
scription of the various makes
and their specifications. The
section also will contain signed
stories relating to troffic and
sofety by both Federal and Dis
trict Officials, reviews OF the
outomotive industry and forecasts
for the coming year by Ieodine
manufacturers. The section is
compiled by 6. Adams Howard,
Automobile Editor.
Evening star., 1937-10-29

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 90 R.-The
Argentine government today forbade
expectation of wheat and wheat flour
until further notice, when consign-
lnents of new wheat arrive ON local
markets.
The decree was based on an unusual
rise in bread prices and the limited
supply Of old wheat.
Evening star., 1937-10-29

HuDe QTQJL " OLt Teuuy UfScb
Congress assemblies November IS.
Fine SubcOmmitteeS Uere named to
draft provisions for corn, tobacco,
dairying, ipheat and rice and cot
ton.
BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Jones said today the
House Agriculture Committee had
reached general accord" on three
major features of a farm control bill
1t was generally understand. he
told reporters, that:
The present soil conservation pro-
gram be continued; an ceremonial
granary be established for those crops
to which it is most adaptable, and
any benefits paid farmers be on a
basis Of titled acreage rather than pro-
duction.
The chairman added that the COM
mittee was making progress on get
ting together" but that it had not
reached agreement on any specific
legislative language.
He said members would meet again
Monday, when drafts of some of the
general provisions might be ready for
consideration.
The question of marketing quotas
penalties and processing taxes has not
yet been covered, he added.
Penalties Held Unnecessary.
Chairman Fulmer of a subcommit-
tee in charge of formulating pro-
visions for cotton told reporters he
would recommend that cotton farmers
be given l-conservation benefits. a
subsidy OF 3 cents a pound, and per-
haps additional benefits to be paid
from proceeds OF a small processing
tax.
He said he did not believe penalties
or marketing quotas would be neces-
sary because the plan could be made
70 attractive" that virtually all cot
ton producers would comply.
Fulmer said he favored, too. appli-
cation of the granary-the storing o1
surpluses for use in lean years-tc
the cotton crop. He said it would
tend to keep down speculation in cot
ton, protect consumers, and stabilize
the price level.
Some spokesmen from the cotton
States, however, have argued that
cotton should not be brought under
the granary provisions because lean
cotton crops are rare.
Members of the committee disagreed
over making the proposed crop-control
program compulsory or voluntary.
Wallace Wants Compulsion.
They will not make a final choice
until subcommittee have drafted all
other details of bill for presentation
to the special session of Congress.
Representative Coffee, Democrat, of
Nebraska was one of those expressing
opposition to compulsory control.
Il don't believe in it, and don't
believe we are going to have it." he
said.
He suggested a dual price system
that would assure the farmer a fair
price on the domestic markets and
allow him to compete in the world
markets with surpluses."
Secretary Wallace has said definite
control over surplus crops is essential
to success of the proposed ever
normal granary program.
IF We have high loans Con stored
crops)," he said, there is no question
but that strong control should accom-
pany them. Otherwise the Govern
ment would let itself in for a tremen-
dous loss"
Evening star., 1937-10-29
Mine Blast Toll Now IA.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 20 R.-
Recovery Of the f1naf two bodies raised
the death toll to II today In the Evan
Jones coal-mins xhlosion Tuesday.
Evening star., 1937-10-29
Germany Not Participant.
Chinese Ask Pact Observance

SHANGHAI, Oct. 20 tR.-The Ma
tional Associated Chambers of Com
merce of China telegraphed nine
power pact conferees in Brussels to-
day. deprecating any attempt at Chi
nese-Japanese Cancellation involving
abandonment of principles. of the
pact.