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The Washington times., 1937-06-24

air pilot. Edward tried to get
me to get him a pilots permit.
Frankly, I tried to get the
Air Bureau here to waive the
age limit to carry out a promise
1 made him. But the bureau
refused and told Edward.
"He brought me an applica.
ton and said sign here. l did
but didn't notice the age. Evi.
IDENTIFY, he lied . little bit about
his age and put 16 in his ap-
plication for a permit because
1 learned today that the doctor
approved it,"
At the Air Commerce Bureau,
officials said the case of young
Edward will be investigated with
the probability that his permit
will be revoked.
The Washington times., 1937-06-24

the bedside and with his lungs
pumped life into the baby's ailing
lungs throughout the night.
Today the 81a-pound son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Attaway had been
brought from the hamlet of FL
wood and was being given oxygen
treatment at a hospital here. Ply
sicians gave the child an even
chance of living.
The Washington times., 1937-06-24
Plans Are Pressed
For Fourth Here

Final plans for the Capitals cele-
bration of Independence Day on
July S, will be arranged FRIDAY
when Commissioner Melvin C.
Hazen, chairman of the citizens
committee arranging the fete,
meets with subchairmen OF his
committee at a final luncheon
meeting at the Harrington Hotel.
Ten thousand seat tickets for
the official ceremonies and fire
works, which will be held at the
Water Gate, have been placed on
sale throughout the city.
The Washington times., 1937-06-24

WIN CASH PRIZES for best photos
taken Sunday on The Times Camera
Caravan, 25O-mile trip by train. Get
tickets now. Open to all.
The Washington times., 1937-06-24

LET'S GO on The Times Camera Cara
van next Sunday! A 25O-mile trip for
sightseers and camera fans. Win cash
prizes for best pictures taken.
The Washington times., 1937-06-24
ANIERIL CA II aIRIIszs Is

isn't II wonderful
In the time since we
left for he ihSaisr,
George hos flown to
chieoso"
The Washington times., 1937-06-24

Americans New Fog
ships, DeUsIoS.bUili,
ore the largest, quiet.
est, most luxurious,
leneest-ranss Plonss.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-27
THE GARDEN MURDER CASE
SYNOPSIS

Philo Vance. famous detective, and John
f. X. Markham, district attorney for New
York county are dining in Vance's apart.
ment when Vance receives an anonymous
telephone message informing him of a dis
turbing psychological tension at Professor
Ephriam Gardens apartment advising
that he read up on radioactive sodium,
consult a passage in the Aeneid and coun.
selling that "Equanimity is essential" Pro.
fessor Garden Is famous in chemical re.
search. The message, decided by Vance,
reminds him that Professor Gardens son
Floyd and his puny cousin, Woode Swift,
are addicted to horse-racing. Vance says
that "~Equanimity" is a horse running next
day In the Rivermont handicap. Vance is
convinced that the message was sent by DR..
Siefert, the Gardens family physician. He
arranges to have lunch next day at the
Gardens penthouse. Vance is greeted by
Floyd Garden and meets Lowe Hammle, an
elderly follower of horse racing. Floyd ex.
presses concern over Swift's queer actions.
Mrs. Garden, supposedly i'll, comes down.
stairs and places a 500 bet on a horse.
Gathered around an elaborate loud speaker
service, listening to the racing are Cecil
Kroon. Madge Weatherby and Zalia Graem,
who bet varying armounts on the race.
There is tension under the surface gaiety.
Zalia and Swift are not on speaking terms.
Kroon leaves to keep an appointment be-
fore the race starts. Miss Beeton. a nurse,
and Vance bet on Azure STAR Swift reck-
lessly bets $500 on "Equanimity" and
goes to the roof garden to hear the results.
Floyd follows Swift, remaining away sew.
eral minutes. Zalia Graem q
phone call in the den. Soon after the an.
nouncement that Azure Star" wins, the
guests hear a shot. Vance finds Swift
dead, shot through the head with a revolver
nearby. He says Swift has been murdered.
After calling the police. he finds the door Of
a vault ajar. Kroon returns and is sharply
questioned by Vance, who finds he had not
left the building. Vance orders Miss Bee
ton to guard the stairway and prevent Mrs.
Garden and Zalia from viewing Swift's body.
Floyd Garden admits the revolver belongs
to his father. Further questioning by Vance
reveals that the revolver had been found
recently by Zalia in the presence Of the
other guests. Floyd hints that Swift bet
so recklessly because of Zalia. Markham,
Sergeant Health and two detectives arrive.
Markham and Sergeant Heath scorn the
murder theory.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-27

there are powder marks, showing
that the gun was held at very close
range-almost a contact wound, I
should say. There's an indication of
smuggling around the orifce."
Vance took the cigarette from his
mouth and addressed Doremus.
81 say doctor; speakin' of the
blood on the johnnie's temple, what
would you say about the amount?"
1.-TWO damned little, I'd say"
Doremus returned promptly. "But
bullet wounds have a queer way of
acting sometimes. Anyway, there
ought to be a lot more gore"
"Precisely," Vance nodded. "My
theory is that he was shot else
where and brought to this chair"
Doremus made a wry face.
"Was shot? Then you don't think
it was suicide?" He pondered a
moment. "It could be, of course"
he decided finally. "Find the rest of
the blood and you'll probably know
where his death occurred"
Thanks awfully, doctor" Vance
smiled family. "That did flash
through my mind, don't y know;
but I believe the blood " as wiped
up. I was merely hopin' that your
findings would substantiate my the
DRY that he did not shoot himself
while sitting in that chair, without
any one else around"
Doremus shrugged indifferently.
"That's reasonable enough as
SUMPTION" he said. "There really
ought to be more blood. He died
instantly"
Have you any other sugges-
tions?" asked Vance.
81 may have when I've gone over
the body more carefully after these
babies''-he waved his hand toward
the photographer and the finger
print men-"finish their hocus-poc-
u.s."
Captain Dubois and Detective Bel
lamy had already begun their rou-
tine, with the telephone table as the
starting-point; and Quackenbush
was adjusting his metal tripod.
Vance turned to Dubois. II say,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-27
by S. S. VAN DINE
Copyright S. S. Van Dine
WNU Service

"Yes-oh, yes" Vance nodded.
'That's why I urged you to come
here. That piece of glass is at
present in my waistcoat pocket"
Markham showed a new interest.
"Where did you find it?" he de-
manded brusquely.
II found it," Vance told him,
ION the tiled { floor in the vault
across the hall. And it was near
some scattered papers which could
easily have been knocked to the
floor by some n falling against
them"
Markham's eyes opened incredu-
lousy.
"I'm beginning to see why you
wanted me and the sergeant here"
he said slowly. "But what I don't
understand, Vance, is that second
shot that you heard. How do you
account for it?"
Vance drew deeply on his ciga-
rette.
Markham" he answered, with
quiet seriousness; ''when we know
how and by whom that second shot
which was obviously intended for
us to hear-was fred, we will know
who murdered Swift ..."
At this moment the nurse ap-
peared in the doorway leading to
the roof. With her was Doctor
Doremus, and behind the medical
examiner were Captain Dubois and
Detective Bellamy, the inger-print
men, and Peter Quackenbush, the
official police photographer.
Miss Beeton indicated u pres
ence on the roof and made her way
back downstairs.
Doremus acknowledged our joint
greetings with a breezy wave Of
the hand.
He made a cursory examination
of the limp figure, scrutinized the
bullet hole, tested the arms and
legs for rigor mortis, and then
swung about to face the rest of us.
"Well, what about it," he asked,
in his easy cynical manner. "He's
shot in the head with a small
caliber bullet; and the leads prob
ably lodged in the brain. No exit
hole. Looks as if he'd decided to
shoot himself. There's nothing here
to contradict the assumption. The
bullet went into the temple, and is
at the correct angle. Furthermore,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-27
Lost Atlantis Again.

For more than thirty years Pro-
fessor Leo Frobenius has been talk
ing the shine off our modern civili-
cation by demonstrating that a lot
of it is old stuff. The famous Ger
man archeologist, lecturing in the
United States, is one of the leading
defenders of the lost continent of
Atlantis theory. Now sixty-four
years old, he delves tirelessly in In
dia, Africa, Egypt, Tripoli and Tur-
key. The son of a German army.
officer, also an author and scholar,
he made his first expedition in 1904.
Of all savants, he has turned up the
most convincing evidence that
many strata of great buried civil.
cations underly our house of life.
G Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-27
P W-Continued

Markham meditated on this for
several moments.
"Still, Vance," he said at length,
Reasonable objections could be
raised to all the points you have
brought up. They are based almost
entirely on theory and not on DEM
onstrable facts"
"From a legal point of view,
you're right" Vance conceded.
''And if these had been my only
reasons for believing that g crime
had been committed, I wouldn't
have summoned you and the
doughty sergeant. But, ven so,
Markham, I can assure you the few
drops of blood you see on the chap
pies temple could not have thick
ened to the extent they had when
I first saw the body-they must
have been exposed to the air for
several minutes. And, as I say, I
was up here approximately thirty
seconds after we heard the shot,"
"But that being the case" re-
turned Markham in establishment,
chow al you possibly explain the
fact?"
Vance Strengthened a little and
looked at the district attorney with
unwonted gravity.
"Swift," he said, twas not killed
by the shot we heard"
"That don't make sense to me,
MIR. Vance," Heath interposed,
scowling.
Gust a moment, Sergeant"
Vance nodded to him in friendly
fashion. "When I realized that the
shot that wiped out this johnnie's
existence was not the shot that we
had heard, I tried to figure out
where the fatal shot could have
been fired without our hearing it
below. And I've found the place. 1t
was in a vault-like store-room-prac-
tically sound-proof, I should say
on the other side of the passageway
that leads to the study. I found the
door unlocked and looked for evil
dence of some activity there 4. j"
Markham had risen and taken a
few nervous steps around the pool
in the center of the roof.
Ibid you find any evidence" he
asked, "to corroborate your the
ory?"
eyes unmistakable evidence"
Vance walked owe to the still fig
ure in the chair and pointed to the
thick-lensed glasses tipped forward
on the nose. "To begin with, Mark
ham, you will notice that Swift's
glasses are in a position far from
normal, indicatin' that they were
put on hurriedly and inaccurately
by e else-just as was the
head-phone."
Markham and Heath leaned over
and peered at the glasses.
"Well, Mr.. Vance," agreed the
sergeant, "they certainly don't look
as if he had put 'em on himself"
Markham Strengthened up, COM
pressed his lips, and nodded slowly.
"All right" he said; "what else?"
"Perpend, Markham" Vance
pointed with his cigarette. "The
left lens of the glasses-the n
furthest from the punctured temple
is cracked at the corner, and
there's a very small V-shaped piece
missing where the crack begins
an indication that the glasses have
been dropped and nicked. I can
assure you that the lens was nei-
Their cracked nor nicked when I last
saw Swift alive"
Couldn't he have dropped his
glasses on the roof here?" asked
Heath.
Possible of course, Sergeant"
Vance returned. "But he didn't.
I carefully looked over the tiles
round the chair, and the missin'
bit of glass was not there"
Markham looked at Vance
shrewdly.
"And perhaps you know where it
is"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-27

HERE'S spring tonic for you,
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The model at the left is the type
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Any of the lovely sheers will do
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Miss Athletic Girl.
The center package is labeled
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A Builder-Up.
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Because of it and her other Sew
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The Patterns
Pattern 1857 is designed for
Sizes IL to 20 go to 40 bust). Size
IA requires AS yards of 39-inch
material plus II yards of bias
binding for trimming as pictured.
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sizes IA to 20 (32 to AZ bust). Size
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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-27

material plus 3M yards of ribbon
for trimming as pictured.
Pattern 1894 is designed for
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10 requires 2% yards of 39-inch
material.
Send your order to The Sewing
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Calf. Patterns Is cents Gin coins)
each.
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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-27

Counsel From All
Take counsel of him who is
greater, and of him who is less,
than yourself, and then recur to
your wnjudgment. Arab Proverb.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
TOM SAWYER PHOTOPLAY
TO BE FILMED IN COLOR
Mark Twain Classic Now in Pro-
duction Under Direction of
Norman Taurog.

nAVID o. SELZNICK has an.
nounced his last-minute decision
to film THE Adventures of Ton,
Sawyer" in technicolor, since natura
color will materially enrich the heart
warming scenes of the Mark Twair
classic. The picture went into pro.
duction Monday, under the direc.
ton of Norman Taurog. Tommy
Kelly, new Juvenile find who was
discovered in the East Bronx after
nine month talent hunt, will play
the title role in the story of boyhooe
life along the Mississippi.
The other Well-known character
roles have been lined up as follows
Jackie Moran as Huckleberry Finn
Beulah Bondi as Aunt Polly Walter
Brennan as MuT Potter, Ann Gillis
as Becky Thatcher. Victor Jory as
Injun Joe and David Jack Holt as
Sid Sawyer. Other important name;
in the cast include Cora Sue Collins
Charles Richman, Mickey Rentschler
Spring Byington, Victor Killian, Mar
garet Hamilton and James SWisher
The script for The Adventures o.
Tom Sawyer was prepared by Johr
Y. A. Weaver.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Selznick Signs Colnan.

p ONALD COLMAN, who Just COM
pleted co-starring with Madeleine
Carroll in selznick's The Prisoner Of
Zenda," is the latest top-ranklng star
to sign an exclusive, long-term con-
tract with the SeIzlick International
Studios. Colnan joins list Of stars
which includes Janet Gaynor, Carole
Lombard and Douglas Fairbanks, jr.
Immediately after the contract was
signed Selznick announced that COL
man would alternate between light,
modern pictures and the more preten-
tlous type Of the caliber of The Pris-
oner of Zenda.'
Carole Lombard is at present CO.
starring with Fredric March in the
Technicolor picture. Nothing Sacred, "
While Janet Gaynor is set for another
Technicolor production, Angel on
Broadway" which will be directed
either by John Ford or George Cukor,
both under contract to Selznick. An
other color feature on the Selznick
roster is Prom Girl" now being writ
ten by John Monks. ir, and Fred P.
Flnklehoffe, who wrote the Broadway
hit, Brother Rat"
Evening star., 1937-07-29
MARE DISAPPROVES
Aged Mail Fuller Refuses to Go
to New Post Office.

CAPITOLA, Calf. [P.-When the
Government built a new post Office
1t reckoned without Fanny, a o.
year-old mare. which for II years
has hauled the mail from the railroad
station.
Jack Nicol, her driver, has been
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Widow Meets Husband.

"nen Mrs. NJ. Rudge of Lower
Weston, England, entered the village
store to spend part OF her widows
pension man approached her and
said: Don't you remember me?" 1t
WAS her husband, from whom she had
not heard IN "a years. The emotional
strain was too much for Mrs. Rudge,
and she was taken home Her hus-
oand followed. but collapsed in the
street and was placed in 8 hosnital.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
SONGWRITER SIGNED
Brooks Bowman, Princeton Grad,
Goes to SelZuick.

BROOKS BOWMAN, 24-year-old
Princeton graduate. who wrote
the first Triangle Show songs ever
published commercially, has been
signed to long-term contract as
composer and lyricist by Selznick In
ternational Pictures
Bowman will first work on songs
for Nothing Sacred" the Technicolor
comedy co-starring Carole Lombard
and Fredric March. His next as
sionnlent will be Prom Girl" COL
lege musical to be photographed in
Technicolor. from the story now be-
ing written by Fred F. Finklelofe
and John Monks, jr., authors of the
Broadway success. Brother Rat
The song writer previously COM
posed East of the Sun" Love and
a Dime and viii Love Find a Way"
ell of which reached the best-seller
class.
Both Nothing Sacred and Prom
Girl will be released by United
Artists
Evening star., 1937-07-29
EXPERIENCED
Famed Maitre d. to Play Famed
Maitre d in Film.

Famed Maltre q to Play Famed
Maitre d in Film.
JULES MOLNAR, who served such
greats as Theodore Roosevelt and
Diamond Jim" Brady in bygone days,
was yesterday cast on the screen for
the same role he has played in real
life-a maitre d'hotel Molnar was
signed for a part in the Selznick
technicolor farce. Nothing Sacred" :"
which co-stars Carole Lombard and
Fredric March.
He will work on a set representing
the banquet hall of the Waldorf As
toria, where he first became a chef
At Delmonico's, Sherry's. Little Hun
gary and other famous eating places,
Molnar attended the gustatory whims
Of many of the renowned of Theodore
Roosevelt's day. III health brought
him to Hollywood where he turned to
acting.
William Wellman is directing Moth
ing Sacred" from the screen play bv
Ben Hecht
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Bodyguard.

RECOM1NG a director has done
strange things to Gregory Ratof
The garrulous ex-Russian (he's q
Yankee. now is making his first pic.
ture as director with the shooting Of
''The Life of a Lancer Spy" at 2Ott
Century-Fox Studios. Reports from,
the coast relate that he has hirec
William Bling" Conley, veteran of the
prize ring. as a bodyguard-to keer
people from bothering him on the
Get.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
SECOND PLAY

The GHOST TRAIN" second pro-
duction of the CROSSROADS
Players first season, will open its
engagement Monday night at 8:l5
O'Clock at the groups barn theater
at Bailey's Cross Roads.
The mystery comedy Is being di-
rected by Marvina Gentry.
The barn theater may he reached
by crossing Memorial Bridge, turning
left to Columbia pike and then straight
to Bailey's Cross Roads.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Career.

JAMES ELLISON, playing the ro-
mantle lead in R-K-O Radios
Annapolis Salute lays claim to the
shortest athletic career in the history
Of Los Angeles Polytechnic High
School
Back in 1925, erueling weeks OF
scrlmmage and rigid training landed
the young husky the post of tackle
on the Poly eleven, which opened its
city conference schedule against FIRE.
mont High.
On the first play of the seasons
f1rst game, the opening kickoff, a
particularly thorough tackle brought
jim to earth, his leg broken in two
places-endine his foot ball career
after exactly % seconds of actual play
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Opening
Tomorrow
New Films Appear at
Downtown Cinema
Theaters.

~ ~APITOL-"Slave Ship with
Warner Baxter, Wallace
Beery, Mickey Rooney and
~ Elizabeth Allen going down to
sea on slave-running schooner. The
stage show will feature Mr.. and Mrs
Jesse Crawford with their new Or
chestra and Guy Robertson, singing
star Of The Great Waltz"
Earle-Fred MacMurray and Frances
Farmer 60 into the newspaper game
for new film drama which promises
1t is a city room yarn with no cub
reporters scooping the world. Others
involved are Charlie Ruggles. Lloyd
Noland and Ralph Morgan, Cine De
Quincy and Lewis and Steve Evans
in Screen Snapshots and the Whirl-
wind Tumblers will be the featured
attractions in the variety vaudeville
show.
Palace-"Saratoga," the racy race
track yarn that was Jean Harlow
last film, moves here after a record
week at the Capitol. Clark Gable is
the late Miss HarloWS costar and the
cast features Lionel Barrymore, Una
Merkel, Frank Morgan and Cliff Ed
wards.
Metropolitan The slot-machine
racket is exposed in King of Gam
blers," new Paramount melodrama,
starring Akin Tamiroff The cast in
cludes Claire Trevor and Lloyd Nolan
and the picture was adapted from a
story by Tiffany Thayer.
COlumbia-"A Day at the Races
the latest chronicle of the mad doings
of the mad MarXes, sets out upon an
other week on F street. Groucho
Chico and Harpo are supported by
Maureen O'Sullivan and Allan Jones.
Evening star., 1937-07-29

dedication by Leon BrusilofY's string
ensemble.
The Newton box office will be open
at : O'Clock this afternoon, but the
doors will not open until 7 pm, at
which time patrons will be given an
hour to inspect the new house.
The comedy feature, II Met Him in
Paris" starring Claudette Colbert,
Robert Young and Melvyn Douglas.
will be the inaugural attraction.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
TO COMPLETE SCORE
Ira Gershwin to Continue on
"Goldwyn Follies' Music.

Ira EershWln to continue on
"Goldwyn Follies" Music.
WHEN Ira Gershwin returns to
Hollywood he will continue work
on the musical numbers for Samuel
Goldwyn's technicolor production,
"The GoldWyn FollieS," on which he
and his brother had been collaborating
when George died. Another composer
will be selected to complete the score
With him.
The top-rankng tavorites in The
Goldwyn Follies" include Helen Jep-
son, the Ritz brothers, Zorina, Phil
Baker, Bobby Clark. Virginia Verrill,
Adolphe Menjou and Charles Kull-
mann. The famed Balanchine Ballet
will be featured in modern balletlc
numbers United Artists will release
the production.
Evening star., 1937-07-29

unable to teach the aged horse to 20
to the new post once, 4 block away
Daily she stops in front Of the old
building. and Nicol has to dkmount
and lead her on by the halter.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
NEW NEWTON THEATER
DEDICATION IS TONIGHT
Commissioner Hazen and Civic
Leaders to Speak at
Ceremonies.

THE Newton Theater, at Twelfth
and Newton streets northeast
fourth in the chain OF theaters oper-
ated by Louis J. Bernheimer, will be
dedicated formally at o'clock tonight
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen will
be present to welcome the theater on
behalf of the District, and there will
also be talks by John j. Hurley
president Of the Michigan Park Citi-
zens' Association. and by John Fowler
secretary of the Brookland- Woodbridge
Business Mems Association.
John Mclean, president of the
Brookland Citizens Association, will
act as master Of ceremonies.
There will be music prior to the
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Rats Tunnel Landing Field.

Rats have tunneled an airplane
landing field near Karachi, India, un-
til it will not bear the weight OF 4
plane