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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

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happen. Sylvia Sidney and Joel Nc
Crea play what are supposed to be
the leading roles of the picture,
but Humphrey Bogart as Baby Face
Martin and Claire Trevor as the
sweetheart he deserted, just take
possession of the picture and romp
away with the honors.
1t is nothing new for secondary
players to steal show. You may
remember that it was in "Flying
Down to Rio" in which Gene Ray
mond and Dolores del Rio were
supposed to be the stars, that Fred
Astaire and Ginger Rogers scored
the knockout success that made
them about the most popular young
couple in the country.
*
Fred Warning is getting to be an
industrial magnate of such proper
tons that he has had to take whole
floor of an office building in New
York to house his music arrangers,
secretaries, contract signers, and
scrap books. No sooner had he and
his versatile boys worked their way
East from Hollywood where they
made VARSITY Show" for Warmers,
than he up and signed a contract to
play at the Drake hotel in Chicago.
There he and his frenized cohorts
are working up new specialties,
madden than ever.
-
When you see Metro Goodwin
Mayors madame K" you will see
a scene made under most unusual
circumstances. John Beai, making
voice and makeup tests when they
were getting ready to produce the
picture, ran through the biggest
dramatic scene, largely to see il
he had his lines all memorized. Aft
or the picture was shot, some Of the
star were . little disappointed in
the way he played the courtroom
scene where he defends his mother.
Then they remembered the test
shots-dug those outof the film vaults
and substituted them for the less
spontaneous performance he gave.
Later.
Carole Lombard is going to have
such fun in her next Paramount
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16
MORE THAN A FAD

Just a few years ago when
the first auto trailers began
to appear in this section there
were citizens who looked
them over and pronounced
them just a passing fad.
The vacation season just
reaching it's close has proved
how far off they were, with
every highway in the land
literally cluttered with them.
Like the moving picture and
the radio, both of which were
pronounced fads when they
first appeared, the trailer is
not only here to stay but
seemingly destined to become
a great industry. In fact, it
mas already reached gigantic
proportions, with more than
so plants engaged in manu-
featuring them, and some of
these plants working as high
IS 1000 employees. States
that cater to tourists are
spending large sums in build
ing parks, or camp sites, in
which these trailers can be
accommodated; at least two
national magazines are being
published in the interest of
trailer owners and already a
national organization has
been formed of the owners of
auto trailers with a member
ship that even now runs well
into the thousands.
1t merely goes to prove
that when American people
find something they want,
they are willing to spend
their money for it, and soon
make it a national institution.
The trailer offers the family
of small means a chance to
visit far places, see strange
sights and enjoy a period of
rest and recreation at a mini
mum of expense. 1t hits the
high-priced summer resort
and tourist cabin owners a
hard rap, but there's still
enough trade left for them.
The main thing is that it
makes a real vacation posi-
be for the working people of
this country-men and wom-
EN- who really make the coun-
try what it is and who are,
therefore, entitled to travel
about and see a little of it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

ly-dramatic of all
stories of New York.
The setting is an
East river street
where a millionaire
apartment house is
S u r + o u n d e d by
squalid, sinister ten
enent houses. Back
to this neighborhood
comes Baby Face
Martin, a hunted
gangster who had
left ten years before
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16
STAR
DUST
Movie Radio
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u Ado amateurs played al
N big part in the preparation
of the dramatization of Peary'sI
dash to the pole, presented re-
Gently. If they had not come to,
the rescue of the authors, Henry
Lanier and Alan Bunce, it might
have been a year or more be-
fore this program could have
been heard.
In dramatizing historical events ii
is necessary to get permission of all
living participants to impersonatei
them on the radio, and of Peary's
North Pole expedition Matt Henson.
the negro who was the only one to-
accompany him on the final dash,
Capt. Bob Bartlett and McMillen
still survive.
1t was easy enough to locate Matt
Henson; he was right in New York.
But Bartlett and McMillen were of
somewhere in the Polar seas.
Lanier and Bunce appealed to va
rious clubs of radio amateurs and
for days the short wave channels
were filed with calls to the two DO
lar exploration ships. Finally COM
munication was established with the
Bartlett and McMillen ships, and
permission to go ahead with the pro-
gram obtained.
-
The best picture of the week Is
dead End" the most breathtaking-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

picture, True Con-
fessions.' She plays
the part of a. con-
firmed liar, such a
habitual liar that
she even confesses
to a murder that she
did not commit.
J o h n Barrymore
will support her,
playing an eccentric
amateur detective
who falls for every
false clue, and Fred
MacMurray will be
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16
The Hussars

The hussars were the light caval-
ry troops originally raised by Mat
thias Corvinus in 1853 to fight
against the Turks. OF the several
possible origins suggested for the
word, the most generally accepted
Is that It Is derived from the Mag
var word, husz, meaning twenty, the
troops having been raised by select
ing every twentieth man in the corr.
munity
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

But what of other world powers?
Lately, the Chinese have entered in
to a treaty with
What or Soviet Russia by
Other orDers? which that nation
promises not to
participate in war against China.
The treaty is simple enough and yet
what is written there is only a shad-
ow Of what it all means. The So
Wet, while apparently not desiring
to engage Japan in hostilities, is
unwilling to see Japan 60 too far in
extending her frontier. It is only
short while since Japan set up the
puppet state of Manchukuo. It bor-
ders on Russian territory and the
feeling along that border has been
none too harmonious. It seems quite
logical then that the Soviet was de-
sirous of showing to Japan the pos
sibility of an attack from two sides
if Japan forces her tentacles too far
inland in continental Asia.
Also, it ought to be mentioned that
the treaty between the Soviet and
China may be influential in Europe.
The general understanding is that
Hitler has committed Germany to
the aid of Japan if the Soviet moves
against the island power. Besides
this circumstance, the Soviet is I'M
willing, if one may judge circum-
stances of the last two years, to en-
courage the i'll will of Great Britain.
Dictator Stain does not want to
have Great Britain and France ar
rayed against him and he can see
obviously that Great Britain and
France, as well as the United
States, must favor China.
Word comes by cable from Paris
that the French government has ma
tionalized all of
Takes ODer the railroads with
Railroads in the borders of
that nation. It
may be that this news item will be
passed over by many persons with
the remark that the condition is sew
eral thousand miles across the At
lantic. It is, however, most sig
nifcant step because France, along
with the United States and Great
Britain, long has held to the idea
that private initiative and private
brains always are better than gov
eminent initiative and government
brains.
] call attention to this develop
ment for another reason. It hap
pens that about three years ago
members of President Roosevelt's
so-called Brain Trust were planning
exactly the same thing for the Unit
ed States.
Strangely, the terms by which the
French government, which is now
completely socialistic, took over the
railroads Of France are identical
with those which were under consid-
Grafton by the Roosevelt Brain
Trust.
1t may be news to many persons
to learn that the bunch of theorists
who infest our government once
actually drafted bill for action by
congress to nationalize the Ameri-
can railroads. That bill would have
taken over the rail lines for their
bonded indebtedness and would
have left nothing at all for the stock
holders. The French radicals have
done exactly that thing in national
izing the French railroads.
1t may be that "It can't happen
here" but must confess a very
deep fear. 1t seems to me the time
has arrived for those who believe
In ownership Of their own homes,
possession of their own money
whether the sum be small or large
to awaken to the trend of world
events.
q Western Newsnaner IInion
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

Washington. - More and more
newspapers throughout the country
are demanding
Brutal that the President
Japan invoke the terms
of the American
Neutrality act with respect to the
war-undeclared though it is-that
is raging on Chinese soil. These
editorial expressions obviously will
have considerable weight and will
convince very great number of
American citizens that President
Roosevelt ought to invoke the neu-
trality act and, by SO doing, pro-
claim that Japan is the aggressor
That, in simple terms, is what a
presidential announcement of APP
plication of the neutrality act would
mean.
There probably has never been a
brutality comparable to the UNI
speakable outrage which Japan is
committing in China; certainly,
never in modern times. It is a
stain upon the name of the jan
anese people and the smooth work
ing of the Japanese military machine
will never be able to offset the hos
tility which the subjects of the Ris-
ing Sun are creating by this display
of brutality.
Although the Tokyo government
has yet to say it is fighting a war,
the Japanese aggression in China is
just as much war as though the
United States and Canada had taken
up arms against each other and had
proclaimed to the world that they
we're belligerents. The very fact
that there has been no declaration
of war, however, complexities the
situation as regards the United
States and Great Britain. Unless
these nations, along with some 9TH
ers which have interests in China,
are willing to shoulder the re-
sponsibility that comes when an out
side nation says publicly that two
powers are at war, neither nation
can afford to endanger its neutral
position by saying to the world that
japan is trying to subjugate portions
Of China.
That is exactly what Is happening.
In spite of the declaration of the
Japanese statesmen that their mill
tary machine is only protecting
Japanese nationals, the whole af-
fair may be treated as pure hypoc-
risy-as movement by the jap
anese to gain control Of new re-
sources, new land, over which the
teeming millions from Japan may
run as the hordes of Chinese are
displaced. The whole thing shows
how long we have been fooled by the
responsiveness of the Japanese
statesmen.
You may ask: What can we do
about it? The answer is exceeding
ly difficult. have fear that we
can do nothing because of the in
ternational policies that the United
States pursued during the admins
trations of Presidents Coolidge and
Hoover and those that are continu-
ing under President Roosevelt.
Only once in all Of those years did
the American government speak out
firmly concerning the apparent jap
anese plans and on that occasion
the assistance given the United
States by Great Britain and France
amounted to little more than whis-
per.
So now the patience of a great
many people is wearing rather
thin. / think also, from what I hear
in diplomatic circles, that the Brit
ish lion has begun to bare his teeth
and unsheath his claws. Again, to
what purpose ] do not know, because
the United States and Great Britain
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

Hard-boiled old politicians
are useful. They know how
TO save the party's bacon
when a younger politician is
about to let the fat fall into
the fire.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

What has become Of the
old fashioned grocer who
used to give the kids a bag
of candy when their Dad set
tied his grocery bill on Sat-
urday night?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

thus far have discussed no plan fol
acting in unison. Certainly, with
out concerted action between them
and including France, little can be
accomplished. 1t does seem that
they could get together because of
the community of interests but eth
er the United States lacks leader
ship in the circumstance, or there
are some bugs under the British
and French chips about which we
do not know. ! repeat that in the
face of Japan's devastating actions
and the ever-growing threat of her
overlordship in the Far East, these
three powers ought to work out an
understanding by which they can
trim the wings of the japanese war
birds.
AS the fighting continues on Chi
nese soil and as one disturbing act
after another is
Tough committed by the
Problem Japanese, / mag
inc many persons
are going to inquire why the United
States does not brave world diplo-
macy and invoke the neutrality act.
In that eventuality, there ought to
be a clear understanding of the
various implications and results
that would flow from such an Amer
lean action. In the first instance,
Japan is now virtually self-sufficient
in the matter of munitions. If we
declare an embargo against ship
ment of war materials to the fight
ing nations, believe it is generally
agreed the action would hurt China
more than it would hurt Japan. It
would result in cutting off supplies
which the Chinese sorely need.
Americans are wholly willing to
sen supplies to them because, gen.
orally speaking, it is apparent that
the sympathies of American indi-
viduals are with the Chinese even
though the government officially re.
mains neutral.
Further, if our President declared
that war existed between Japan and
China, doubtless Japan would be
encouraged to declare war on China
formally. In that event the Jap
anese Immediately would establish
a naval blockade Of the Chinese
coast.
In some quarters in Washington,
one will hear arguments that the
United Stat e 8
Some Say ought to continue
Hands of to keep its hands
off the Far East
situation. That school of thought
takes the position that the United
States is not obligated either from a
moral standpoint or from the neces-
sity of protecting American inter-
ests, to use force in putting Japan
back within its own borders.
The basic reason why these think
ers argue against firm American
attitude, however, is that China new
er has been subjugated. China has
been attacked; it has been over.
run from many quarters and it is
now being overrun again; but it has
never been conquered. That sounds
like broad statement but history
proves its truth. The Chinese
through all of their thousands Of
years of history have managed tc
survive and maintain their racial
characteristics and traditions. They
never have sought additional terri
tory. They have been content to dc
things in their own way and to alb.
sorb Western civilization slowly. In
other words, the Chinese have gen
orally allowed human nature ID
change only as human nature does
change through the years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

When a woman is sick of
marriage she begins to look
sloppy, but when a man is
sick Of it he begins sprucing
up.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

Judging from the open-top
hats some of the women are
we arin g, air conditioning
seems to have gone to their
heads.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

Whoever thought the time
would come when the great
est problem in the United
States would be finding a
place to park the car.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-09-16

Carole Lombard is going to have
such fun In her next Paramount
The Washington times., 1937-05-05
Made to Sell for Much Higher Price1
Play Suits III

they're the type you'll welcome all this when you
come home from downtown hot and tired slip into one
OF She crisp cool suits and enjoy fe Gay and coorfu in
grand selection of styles. Sizes IL to 20.
The Washington times., 1937-05-05
Fine Fur Felt
.Cartwheels
3+79

Just $50 :. we couldn't get more! Made of
fur felt that's gloriously supple and fine
amazing at 3.79. In white (imagine it at this
low Lansburgh Day price!) and all the delight
full new pastel shades. In all headsizes too
only our advice is to be early!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-06

The letter was signed Betty" in typewriter capitals.
 "Did she ever write to you on a typewriter, signing her name Ike that?" Neal asked, taking the note- paper from her nerveless fingers.
 "Y-yes, but how can we know she wrote tl1is?" Martha swayed agianst him The dismal disap- pointment of not finding Betty had drained every ounce of her strength. "Oh, Gerry, I'm going to the policel"
 He caught hold of her. Mot yet. Your cue is to go on as if nothing had happened, As if you hadn't the slightest doubt as to the au- thenticity of these messages from Betty"
 But how do I know that's the thing to do?" She faced him with an effort. live no reason to be- lieve you"
 "If you make a fuss now you will probably cause Betty Haynes death, Martha"
 (TO Be COntinued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-06

read it with her.
 "Well," Neal chuckled. "The boss Is sore, all right. But you're let of with a warning-and there's your check attached"
 Martha looked at him, puzzled. Perhaps 1 was wrong about Sloss, after all."
 He's a swell boss, all right. Come on, let's get down to the Palace"
 Unerringly Gerry Neal swung into Market street, headed rapidly toward New Montgomery where the Palace lowered in gray dignity above San Francisco's busy 'slot." !" Alive with curiosity. Martha watch ed the milling traf1lc.
 "So this is the famous Market street."
 Gerry Neal nodded. You bet it is. Greatest little street in the world"
 My father used to tell about the horse cars that went down to the ferry building-they're certainly not here nowl How do you ever cross a street like this with four street cars zooming at you9"
 "It's a gift acquired by all true San Franciscans-native or other wise," Neal told her. There's the ferry building down there. We'll have to take look at the new bridges, and some of San Francis co.'s night spots"
 He turned from Market into New Montgomery, rolled the coupe be- meath the grand marquee of the Palace. The portly, pleasant door man welcome them, and trio of uniforms sWarmed over their lug gage.
 At another time Martha would have been interested in the white marble foyer of the spacious lobby with its colorful flower shop, its air of having stood shoulder to shoulder with city that carved its own destinies. She would have noticed the famed Palm Court just beyond, into which grand ladies and gentlemen once entered, carriages and horses and all.
 But Martha hurried directly to the desk to inquire for Betty Haynes. There was an efficient con- sultation of the records, sym pathetic smile. There's no one registered with that name" Her heart sinking, Martha went to the mail window. While her breath seemed to stop within her breast she watched the letters flying under those expert fingers.
 Here you are, Miss Britain"
 She was about to open it when Neal confronted her. From Betty?"
 TT think So."
 Let's open 1t upstairs. I've asked them to send your register card to your room"
 In the hallway of the fourth floor Martha opened the letter. II was written on Palace stationery not dated. The message was type written, apparently on portable somewhat out of adjustment.
 Dear Martha (she read)-Nc matter what happens, be sure tc keep to your schedule as Caring ton outlined 1t. I'd hoped to see you in San Francisco, but I know it WI be soon. Everything is all right, but can't explain to you now"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-06

Martha half expected Gerry Neal to try to persuade her they could stay longer at Del Monte, but he held to his bargain. At the stroke of midnight he suggested they call halt so that she might get some sleep before the drive to San Francisco.
 "I'll get room for you here," he said. Martha protested that there was the trailer.
 "But you won't want to sleep right at the front steps Of Del Monte-and won't have you driv- ing out to parking lot on the edge of Monterey" Neal told her. Let me get you a room"
 every well. But I pay the bill"
 Next morning at breakfast he was smiling as if at some secret. "You might let me in on the joke, Martha suggested.
 "Sleep well?"
 ''Wonderfully! There's something in the air here-and that big room was delightful after the trailer. But you didn't let me in on the joke"
 "I was wondering what you'd sag if told you that slept in the trailer last night" . Martha stared. Are you serious?" every. I slept well, too"
 'tBut why did you do that?"
 Neal looked at her quizzcally. "1 lust wanted to be sure no one tam- pered with it--or tried to make away with it."
 "What made you think they would?"
 "I don't know, really. But any, how, I was wrong whatll we do to the menu. this morning?"
 
 Martha was too excited at the prospect of seeing Betty again to eat very much. And Meals mysteri- out attitude about the trailer fur ther disturbed her. Just at the mo- ment when she had been ready to account him as normal person, he was unpredictable and enigmatic again!
 She breathed more freely when they were on the road to San Fran cilsco. Neal took the wheel, and just before noon they began pass ing through Redwood City and Palo Alto and the other suburbs south Of the great western metropolis.
 At the city limits of San Fran cisco, Neal insisted on unlocking the trailer and park it in garage. "Why couldn't we put both the coupe and the trailer in the hotels garage?" Betty wanted to know.
 I'm taking good care Of this trailer" he told her. "Now-Where were you supposed to stop for Air speed Trailers when you reached San Francisco?"
 Martha consulted the little leath- CT book in which Darlington had written her itinerary. "The Bridge Auto Park" she read, giving him the address.
 "We'll drive there first. Sloss has probably sent you a message"
 Martha nodded. "I'm sure he has! I was supposed to report to him twice week. He must know by now that I've been letting him down."
 "But I don't think" said Neal 'that he'll fire you"
 At the Bridge Auto Park the manager assured himself of Mar tha's identity and handed her ar airmail letter. Quickly she tore il open, held it out so that Neal could
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-06
IHR STORY 60 FAR

MARTHA BRITAIN and BET- TY HAYNES begin e trip up the west ooast to demonstrate the new Airspeed trailer. They pick ID GERRY NEAL, handsome young hitch-hiker. Neal tells them hs i1 Co meet . friend. JACK GPKDDON, at the Long Beach auto camp. But at Long Beach, Neal disappears from the trailer and Gpeddon drives away with Betty, failing to return.
 Frantic, Martha calls police. Then she gets a wire, hours later, signed Betty" and advising that Betty will meet her in San Fran cisco at . designated hotel FeverishIy, Martha starts out, trying to trace Betty en route. Returning to her trailer the sec- and day, she is startled to see Neal. He tells her that "this thing may be bigger" than she imagines.
 She agrees to accompany Neal back to San Francisco to finG Betty. Martha Is troubled because she likes Neal, yet she does not know whether to trust him. She wires San Francisco and finds that neither Betty nor SpeddOn are registered at the designated hotel Neal persuades Martha to spend the day at Del Monte. They bathe in the surf and Neal res- cues Martha when the breakers suck her under. Martha and Neal know after that they are falling in love. Dancing with Neal that night, Martha finds it pleasant to remember his kiss earlier that day.
 NOvV fsO ON WITH THE STORY