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Evening star., 1937-12-08
BANKER TEST|F|ES
AGAINST DAWSON
Financial Dealings of For.
mer Alexandria Mayor
Before Jury.
By a Stan CORRESPONDENT o, The Star

BY Stan Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. 8.-The
financial dealings of former Mayor
Emmett c. Dawson prior to his be-
coming bankrupt were scrutinized for
the benefit of the jury here today as
the Government started presentation
Of its case.
The 59-year-old ex-Mayor is on
trial in the United States court for the
Eastern District of Virginia as the
result of indictments charging him
with perjury and concealing assets in
bankruptcy proceedings.
The Governments first witness wa.
A. c. Harris, 1909 Ingraham street
NV. Washington, assistant to the
receiver for the Commercial Nationa
Bank, Of which Mr. Dawson formerly
was director. In March, 1888, he
testified, the Commercial held a $4,000
note Of Mr.. Davison. Mr.. Dawson
also owned 20 shares of bank stock
at par value of s1o0 each, for halt
Of which he had been assessed, the
witness told the court.
Judgment on Note.
A judgment obtained against the
former city executive for settlement
Of the note, stock and interest SUBJ
sequently was paid, Mr.. Harris testi-
fed, through check from the trustee
in bankruptcy.
cashier Of the Citizens National Bank,
was called upon to tell the jury Mr..
Dawson had savings account OF
$527 on March l, 1888, and that two
weeks later it was closed out and an
other opened In the name of Mr..
Dawson and his wife for the same
amount.
Prosecutor Sterling Hutcheson yes
terday told the jury of IL men he ex-
pected the evidence to show the So
year-old former city official concealed
more than $4,000 when he filed a
petition in bankruptcy in November,
1885.
Interpretation Issue
William E. Leahy, prominent Wash
lngton attorney, who is heading the
defense, informed tn jury in his open
ing statement there was going to be
very little difference between the Gov
ernment and the defense on facts" the
only difference being the "interpreta-
ton"
He called attention to Mr.. Davison's
record before his indictment in June
last year, pointing out he had been
secretary treasurer of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists for a
score of years and in that capacity had
handled millions Of dollars and Lived
a quiet, orderly life"
His Second Trial
The trial, which is being held be-
fore Judge Luther B. Way in the
United States Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, Is the second for
the former mayor. The first trial last
March ended when the jury was un-
able to agree.
Mr.. Dawson is charged in one in
dictment with having "unlawfully,
feloniously, wilfully, knowingly, falsely
and corruptly testified in violation OF
his oath" at bankruptcy hearings held
before Frederick L. Flynn, referee in
bankruptcy, in December, 1895. In
the other he is charged with "fraudu-
lently and feloniously concealing" from
Joseph M. Pancoast, trustee for the
estate in bankruptcy, the sums OF
$4,156.06, $500 and $387.6l.
Evening star., 1937-12-08
D. C. COMMISSIONERS
MAKE PUBLIC APPEAL
Urge Washingtonians to Buy
Tickets for Football Game to
Aid Free Lunch Fund.

The Commissioners today issued an
appeal to the public to buy tickets
to the benefit foot ball game at Catho-
lie University stadium December 1s
to raise funds for continuation of the
free lunches for needy school children
The contest will be between an "all-
STAR team of players from 16 high
schools and preparatory schools OF
Washington and it's suburbs and a
team from Monroe, Ga.
The Commissioners proclamation
was issued at the request of the We'll
fare Committee of the Variety Club
Evening star., 1937-12-08
WATER CARRIERS SEEK
HIGHER FREIGHT RATES
By the Associated Press,

Spokesman for both trucking in
terests and intercoastal water carriers
advised the Interstate Commerce
Commission today that their rates also
must be increased If railroad freight
rates are boosted.
Chester G. Moore, secretary Of the
American Trucking Association, Inc,
testified during the commissions hear
ing on the railroads request for q
Is per cent increase in rates that the
truckers are desperately In need Of
more revenuo." ....-.-.-.
Evening star., 1937-12-08
Party for School.

ALTA VISTA, Md, Dec. 8 (SpeciaD.
The Alta Vista School Association
VIII sponsor q party at the school,
Friday, December 10. Proceeds from
the party will be applied to . fund for
playground equipment for the school.
Evening star., 1937-12-08

Harry (Spike) Behrle was found
guilty at 2:30 pm today by a Dis
trict Court jury of perjury.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06

in his district, but he also has 30,- I000 farmers, hundreds of war vet erans, widows who want pensions, pacifists, militarists, isolationists. He has to know about the 10000 bills that are introduced at each session of Congress. He has to at tend meetings of the four commit tees on which he serves, make speeches in the House when his committees have a bill up, and | then return to his office to advise Mrs Grub-Stake who wants her daughter introduced at the Court of St. Jamess and Mandy Jones whose husband who has left her again.
 Didn't Plan to Come He didn't plan to come to Con- gross, although five members of his family have been here in the last hundred years He had to work for his schooling, because his father and 1 mother died before he went to col- llegs. But he had an uncle who was a lawyer
 Look here, why go to school any more,p said the uncle one day. Pound a typewriter in my office
 and I'll teach you law" The young ster snatched the chance.
 !! He stuck close to business for years because there was a pretty nurse in Nebraska who became Mrs Bell. They wanted nice home, and they have it now, on a lake
 outside Kansas City.
 Losing Money on Job
 But in 1926 he felt sure enough of himself to look around, and that landed him in the Kansas Clty
 Council for four years. That was a pleasure he says, although he lost money on the job. Then he be- came a circuit court judge, and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
PLANNING NEED FOR PROGRESS
 IN TERRIT0
Heintzleman See Oppor- tunity for Cooperat ation
 with National Program
(Continueo frt m Page One)

Allen Shattuck, chairman of the small boat harbor committee, re- ported to the Chamber that Doug las had decided to file a protest against the recommendation of the Army engineers for development of small boat harbor just north of the Douglas bridge on the Juneau side of Gastineau Channel. Com munication recently had been re- ceived from the engineering corps asking if protest was to be made
 In an effort to divide its patron age, the Chamber voted to hold it's meetings for a time at Percy's.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06

theatre. She was going back to little Hedgerow where she started. But she changed her mind.
 Stars who marry film executives frequently do retire permanently. Dorothy Jordan Mrs. Merriam Coo per- is one. Virginia Fox (Mrs. Darryl Zanuck) is another.
 Retiring is, after all, a pretty costly business. A star with a big home, swimming pool, and staff of servants has to have a substantial pile before he can do it safely-if he expects to keep up the show, Henry Hathaway, the director, was saying the other day he ex- pected to quit pictures the minute he had S2OO,o00, cold cash, stored away
 Mae West couldn't understand Ithat. Mae wants millions. For Mae ex-vaudevillian, there just isn't Iteo much money.9
 And that's how, talking turkey Hollywood really feels about it.
 Cactus. the 25-pound trained rab- bit in "She Had to Eat. has an other rabbit for a stand-in.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
HOMEBODY

OAKLAND, Cal. May G.--Twelve years after she hit the heights as The American Venus" (righD, Fay Lamphier, now 32, spenus ner time teaching her 4-year-old daughter Ann, how to cook instead of posing for page one summers.
 The backless bathing suits of today make no hit with Miss Amer ica of 1885, In fact, as she looks back On her own almost daily pub lie appearances in those suits you could see right through she is not real sure she approves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
Lost Army Balloon
 Found Near Ontario

COCHRANE, Ontario, May 6. - If the United States Navy Depart nent wants to send an expedition through the wilds of Northern On- tario to the Arctic fringe of James Bay it can collect the balloon it lost there sixteen years ago.
 Back in 1920 United States navy balloonists lost their way up above the clouds and finally hit the earth twenty miles north of Moosonee, on James Bay They were eventually rescued by Indians after being giv- en up for dead.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
American Legion EssayContestWon
 by Anchorage Boy
Valdez Girl Is Second Former Juneau Boy
 Gets Third Award

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May G. Ed Holt, son of William Holt, Su- perintendent of the Seward High School, has won the $25 prize in the historical essay contest sponsored by the Department of Alaska, American Legion.
 Ruth Converse of Valdez was second and Elliot Bradford. of Wrangell, former Juneau boy, won third prize.
 Twenty-one students from Fair banks, Seward, Valdez, Sitka, Wran- gell and Petersburg entered the con- test.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
COOKING LECTURES ARE SCHEDULED BY
 MRS. VENA GROVE

In response to the many requests for further cooking instruction, Mrs. Vena l.. Crone announced today that the two demonstrations will be given next week in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church Parlors, the first on Wednesday evening, and the second, a repeat demonstration, on Thursday afternoon.
 Because of the numerous re- quests which have come both from merchants and from the women of Juneau, Mrs. Crone is planning to present as many demonstrations as possible during the coming two months of the school year.
 The demonstrations are given through the Department of Voca- tional Education in the Territorial schools.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
 NEWS WORK IN
 CAPITOL FILM
Law-Menacing Clans h. dicted and Unveiled Tn
 Feature, Coliseum

Women Are Trouble, which op- cned last night at the Capitol The atre, is a newspaper story in every respect.
 It gives the audience the view point on current events that is had by the working newspaper craft. And, most encouraging, it presents newspaper life without exaggera- ton.
 Stuart Erwin performs an excel lent task in his characterization of Matt Casey, a star reporter. Flor ance Rice, daughter of the news paper sports authority. Grantland Rice, portrays a girl reporter as newspapermen know the type. Paul Kelly. who sits in' as city editor, draws a character with whom every reporter is unforgettably familiar.
 The picture was produced at Met tro-G Goldwyn- Mayer studios by Lu- cien Hubbard, not many years ago one of the most efficient newspa per men in the world. Michael Fessier. also an ex-reporter, wrote the screen play and Richard Blake, another one, wrote the adaptation
 A stirring indictment of the hood ed legions that once more have been menacing ideals, is found in Col umbias Legion of Terror which opened yesterday at the Coliseum Theatre.
 Bruce Cabot, Marguerite Churchill and a newcomer named Crawford Weaver enact the films more prom Iinent roles. and aid in making it Ia thrill-filled, well-acted affair.
 The story deals with two newly appointed Postal Inspectors who set out to track down the sender of a timebomb to a United States Sen ator, and run across a hooded or ganization that is terrorizing the American city. They meet a straight forward young fellow who is loud in his condemnation of the legion, and his sister, who fears for his life.
 It is only after the young man meets death at the hands of the Legion, and the girl and one of the Postal Inspectors are about to be disposed of in the same fashion, that the organization is apprehend ed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
Here's Picture of an Average
 Congressman
By SIGRID ARNE AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, May G. ~ Here's the average Congressman.
 He's 51. weighs l6o, and is 5-foot- ' tan.
 He went to college, became a law yer. married and had two children.
 Ee knows quite bit of American history, really likes the country, and would like to do something aSout it, if he only knew the best way to proceed.
 He gets 400 letters a day He hires a sl.5oO-a-year stenographer to answer letters, and a $S,500-a- year secretary to listen to world savers and iob-hunters.
 Bell Fits Description
 Good looking, 51-year-old c. Jas per Bell of Missouri is typical He's serving his second term in the House. He has part of Kansas City
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
Stars TaIk of Retiring
 But 1t Is Mostly Talk
By ROBBIN CoONS

HOLLYWOOD - When movie star says she's going to retire, you can believe it. She'll retire that highland in the morning she'll be up again and fussing about her movie future.
 When she sets a limit on the number of years she'll stay in pie lures. you can believe that too. She'll stay, that long-if she can and then she'll start all over again.
 Maureen O'Sullivan used to say that if she didn't get what she want ed out of pictures in a couple of years she would quit. She was go- ing to quit, anyway, after she mar ried. Veil, she's married, and she's still making pictures.
 Clara Bow Meant It
 Clara Bow put that retirement threat into effect. She's been liv- ing with Rex Bell and Baby Bell on the Nevada ranch, and she's happy. But still once in while, she considers offers for films. It's one of those 'if-I-get-the-right- part ideas.
 Then there was Constance Ben nett. A few years ago she was say ing she'd quit when she got a mill lion dollars plunked away. Now she says she never said it, and be- sides she'd be bored if she quit. She tried it once, and found it dull. She's back. (She indicated, too, that million was a lot of money)
 Lola Lane retired" to domestic- ity when she married Lew Ayres. They split, and Lola never liked do- mesticity, anyway She's back, too.
 Not long ago it was Ann Sothern. She was going to quit in just a few more years. She's married to Rog- CT Pryor, the band leader, and it's to be domesticity. We'll have to see.
 Airline Judge was going to quit, too. That was when she first mar ried Wesley Ruggles. She was go- ing to quit to have baby. She did. But she returned. When she divorced Ruggles and married Dan Topping. she didn't say she was quitting pictures. She demanded a leave of absence from goth Century,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06

Fay, whose weight has increased from 138 to I48, bust from 35 to 3zi9, waist from 26h2 to 27ia, hips from 37l to 40, and thigh from g to 25, has not been in beach togs for a year. And her public ap- pearances are chiefly as an officer of the Pythjan Sisters.
 Fay stepped from an Oakland stenographer's job into perhaps the strongest spotlight that ever beat down on a bathing beauty. She was one of the first of the gamor girls. toured the country in per
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
WEIDMANS WILL BE
 HERE FOR SUMMER

MT. and Mrs. Carl Weidman and small son, who arrived in Juneau aboard their own boat this week, are now established in their home on Tenth Street for the summer.
 Mrs. Weidman is a teacher at Port Alexander, while MT. Weidman is engaged in fishing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
MALONEY TO SAIL

B. Maloney, mine foreman at Tul- sequah, is stopping briefly in Ju- neau at the Alaskan Hotel, and will leave shortly for the States where he will vacation for several weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
DEL.L. WOOD IS COMING NORTH,
 BRISTOL AREA
Steamer Commissioned for Season-First Voyage
 Starts on Monday

SEATTLE, May 6. = The Alaska Steamship Company has commis- stoned the Dellwood for the first voyage of the season. The steamer leaves Monday for Bristol Bay car rying cannery supplies.
 New crew quarters have been in- stalled during the winter and pas senger accommodations enlarged and remodeled.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06

sonal appearances. appeared in ssv- eral movies and was married to Sidney Spiegsl, son ol rich Chi oago furniture family.
 The marriage was no go ard in 199l she was married to Winfield J. Daniels. her childhood sweetheart in Q little California lumber town. He now operates a bookstore in Berkeley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06

then a Congressman.
 He really likes the job. although he's losing money because he took it.
 He's getting gray here in Wash ington, but he's keeping his waist line down by horseback riding.
 He has read Gibbon and he shiv- CTS over the degeneration of the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome" He'd like to prevent repetition here.
 The worlds supply of antimony is almost exclusively controlled by China which produces 70 per cent of the total output. The yearly production is about 12,O00 tons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
Ice Remains
 Firm in Front Of Nenana

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May G. High temperatures, with a general thaw, prevails at Nenana, but the ice in front of Nenana is apparently as firm as ever.
 Water is spreading over the Cinema River in front of Fairbanks, also along the edges.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06
and she got it.
 Mary PackfOrd May Quit

Mary Pickford. unless she does something pretty soon, will be on the retired list. But Mary never said she was going to retire. That makes her almost unique.
 Ann Harding once talked about leaving films and going back to the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-06

Tcday's News Today Empire.
  Alaska" by Lester D. Henderson
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Miss Bishop Makes
Plans for Wedding

Miss Jane Evelyn Bishop, whose
engagement was announced In No.
vember to Mr.. David Stovsll Lyon
of Forest Hills. N. Y, by her aunts,
Miss Jane Edna Burns and Miss
Evelyn H. Burns, has completed the
plans for her wedding.
The ceremony will be performed
Saturday afternoon, April 3, at 4
o'clock in the Metropolitan Memorial
Church at the corner Of Nebraska
and New Mexico avenues.
The bride-elect will be given in
marriage by her uncle, Mr.. Arthur
G. Bishop. Miss Ellen Snider will act
as maid Of honor for Miss Bishop
and Mr. Richard Snow Of Washington
will be best man for Mr.. Lyon. The
ushers will be Mr. Robert Smith, Mr.
Wayne Cisney and Mr.. Whitman
Cordes Of Forest Hills, Long Island,
and Mr.. Thomas Baptist Of Washing
ton.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Mrs. Young to Give
Tea This Afternoon

Mrs Ford Evans Young, jr., will
entertain in honor of her mother,
Mrs. Miller v. Parsons, with tea at
her apartment in the Klingle this aft
ernoon. Mrs. Young was formerly
Miss Verno Lenore Parsons Mrs.
Parsons is now living at Quantico, Va,
where Capt. Parsons is on duty.
Mrs. Parsons will receive with her
daughter, while alternating at the tea
table will be Mrs. John Edwards, Miss
Margaret Naylor, Mrs. A. p. Anderson
and Mrs. F. E. Young Of Alta Vista,
Md.
Also assisting the hostess are Mrs.
Darnall Burke, Mrs Mortimer More
house, Miss Maude Hudson, Miss Mary
Clark and Miss Charlotte Garland.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Functions
Of State
Societies
Organizations Make
Plans for Enter
tainments.

TINE Maryland Society Of Wash
ington, of which Col. George
H. Calvert, jr, is president,
Il will have an entertainment
and dance Tuesday, March 80, at the
Kennedy Warren, at o'clock in cele-
bration of Maryland day, the 25th OF
March.
The entertainment will begin
promptly at GAS O'Clock and will be
furnished by the University Of Mary
land Mixed Glee Club, directed by Mr..
Harlan Randall.
Those asked to be in the receiving
line are Senator and Mrs. Millard E.
Tydings, Senator and Mrs. George l..
Radcliffe, Representative and Mrs.
David J. Lewis. Gen. and Mrs Fred
erick w. Coleman, Gen. and Mrs. Ed
gar T. Conley, Admiral Charles H. T..
Lowndes, Admiral and Mrs. William
S. Pye, Surg. Gen. of Public Health
and Mrs. Thomas Parran, Collector Of
Internal Revenue for the District of
Maryland and Mrs. M. Hampton Ma
gruder, DR.. H. c. Byrd, president Of
the University of Maryland; Mrs.
Arthur P. Shanklin, State regent Of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton Of the State of Maryland; Mrs.
Francis j. Parran, president of the
Southern Maryland Society of Colo
NAL Danes, and Mrs. George H. CAL
vert, jr., wife of the president Of the
society. The introductions will be
made by COL Calvert, president, and
Mr.. John Marshall Boteler, first vice
president of the society.
Guest cards may be obtained from
any OF the officers of the society, or at
the door that evening. The recep-
tion will be from 8 to 9:45 o'clock;
the entertainment from GAS to 10:15
O'Clock, and the dancing from 1915
to lis o'clock.
THE Massachusetts, Society of Wash
ington will hold its annual evacu-
alton day and St. Patrick's day dane
ing party and reception in the main
ball room of the Wardman Park Hotel
this evening. The honor guests will
be members Of the Massachusetts,
congressional delegation, as well as
the numerous Bay State sons ano
daughters now connected with the
official life of Washington. The re-
ceiving line will form at 10:15
headed by the president of the society
Mr.. Frank E. Hickey, and Mrs. Hickey
During intermission an entertainment
will be given and during the dancing
numerous novelties in keeping with
the spirit of the day will be introduced
The chairman of the floor committee is
Daniel Crane and he will be assisted
by the ladies' committee, of which
the chairman is Miss Helen Burns
All former residents of the Bay State
are cordially invited to join with the
society in celebrating one Of the
States holidays.
The Town Meeting Current Event!
Club will meet March % at the Ward
Evening star., 1937-03-17

Virginia White speel, Mrs. Harry Hull,
Mrs. Bruce Baird and Miss Janet
Richards.
Recent reservations include Mrs.
Charles M. Lea, Mrs. Henry Albers.
MIS-. Augustus Thomas, Mrs. Russell
Harrison, Mrs. James ]. Davis, Mrs.
Clarence Hancock, Mrs. Jacob Lean
der Loose, Mrs. Cuno Rudolph, Mrs.
Z. A. Hartman, Mrs. Franz Ridgway,
Mrs. @. L. Tarbell, Mrs. Maud Whit
man, Mrs. Lloyd Morrison, Mrs. James
Barnes, Mrs. J. n. Rranson, Mrs. Ellen
E. Rolph, Mrs. Stanley Young. Miss
Ann @. Paul, Mrs. James A. Gwynne,
Mrs. Mary Baker, Mrs. Louis Adkins
Miss Frances williams, Mrs. Flora Nc
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Republican Women
Hold Lunch Friday

Plans for the luncheon to be given
by the League Of Republican Women
on Friday at 1:l6 O'Clock at the Ra-
leigh Hotel are about completed and
Mrs. William Fitch Kelley, president
Of the league, has announced that the
following persons will be seated 1t the
speakers table: Nine. Cantacu1ene,
the guest speaker; Mn. Ralph Harris,
national committeewoman from Kan
sas: Mrs. Harvey Wiley. Mrs. William
Corbin, Mrs. Lloyd Biddle, Mrs. Karl
Fenning, Mrs. Frank Mondell, Mrs.
Louis Weller, Miss Edna Patton, Mrs.
Evening star., 1937-03-17

.HE Maryland Society Of Wash
ington, of which Col. George
H. Calvert, jr., is president,
Evening star., 1937-03-17
To Hold Luncheon

The Columbia Chapter Of the
Delphian Society has concluded its
six year course OF study and will hold
a luncheon Thursday at o'clock at
Tilden Gardens. A special program
will be given and the presidents
jewell will be presented to Mrs. G.
M. Norris, the retiring president.
Evening star., 1937-03-17

GIL Keefer, Mrs. Frederick Mills, Mrs.
Thomas J. Howerton, Mrs. Acheson
Hassan, Miss Sara Woodward, Miss
Rosa Eberly, Mrs. Adds B. Browne,
Mrs. James w. Adams, Mrs. Mary Lo-
gan Tucker, Mrs. v. M. Pierce, Miss
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Residential

Continued From Third Page)
will become the bride Of DR.. Kinsey
M. simonton Of Mayo Clinic, Roch-
ester, MINI. The wedding will take
place the latter part Of March.
The table was carried out in Saint
Evening star., 1937-03-17

N. R. Macomb, Mrs. Henry Cover.
Mrs. F. G. Munson, Mrs. j. I. Steel,
Miss Roberta Thomas, Mrs. s. Fetty,
Mrs. G. Evans, Miss Anna Hughes,
Mrs. M. L. Anderson, Miss Ella Nor
rison and Miss Laura HanninR.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Conptons Entertain.

Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Compton en-
tertained q group Of 40 fy.eads at din
ner last evening in honor II Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Landsem, who will leave
April for their home in Oslo, Norway.
Evening star., 1937-03-17

THE New York State Society Is
sponsoring dance Saturday in
the west ball room Of the Shoreham
Hotel A prize dance number will be
one Of the features Of the evenings
program. A dance will be given on
Friday evening, April 70, without cost
to the members, in the west ball room
Of the Shoreham Hotel.