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boat and it was the seaman'S
policy not to separate man and
wife" And previously this same
Holmes had risked his life to
carry a sick girl down the tackle
falls from the sinking ship to
the longboat, and had Invested
himself of his oilskin and pea
Jacket IN the frigid water to give
them to two shivering women.
Seven passengers, all told,
we're fed to the waves before the
survivors were picked up by an
other ship on the second morn
ing. And four days later the
iollyboat company was rescued
by a French fishing lugger and
taken to thu island of st. Peter.
When Holmes reached Amer
lea. with all that remained OF
the longboat company. he was
arrested and tried for man
slaughter on the high seas, and
his case became a cause cele-
bre."
MATE WAS CONVICTED
Was he justified in sacrificing
some human lives in order to
save others, including his own?
Might not all of them have been
saved? Did he have the right to
say who should live and who die?
Who was this man, hero or mon
ster? Such were the questions
the world asked itself while the
trial proceeded.
In the end he was convicted,
but with a recommendation for
mercy, and served six months in
prison. Released, he went back
to the sea.
Paramount dug the record Of
the case out of the newspaper
files. Director Henry Hathaway
and Scenarist Groves Jones, the
team responsible for such sue
cesses as The Trail of the Lone
some Pine" and many other out
standing films, recreated it for
the screen.
Under the expert rewrite fin
gers of Jones, however, some i'm
portant changes have been
made. The iceberg disappears
and a fire in the hold takes its
place as the cause of the wreck.
A love story has been injected,
and the character of Holmes,
portrayed by Cooper, has under
gone considerable alteration.
He becomes a Yankee skipper,
shipping as passenger on an
other mans vessel after washing
his hands of the slave trade.
Altered, too, is the manner in
which the hapless passengers
sacrificed to the sea are dis
posed Of.
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MOVIE
CLOCK

RKO-KEITH'S - Deanna Durbin,
Leopold Stokowski, 100 Men
and q girl" 1850 a. M, 1850,
$3.50, $50, 1850, $3.50 p. m.
CAPITOL-Edna May Oliver, wal
ter Piclygeon, MY Dear Miss Al
drich," II a. M, lao, 4:30, 7:20.
1910 p. m. Stage, 1870, $3.50,
$40, 9:10 p. m.
PALACE-Bing Crosby, Martha
Raye, Double or Nothing, -
11:10 a. m, 1:15, $40. 5:25.
7:30, $40 p. m.
EARLE - Madeleine Carroll.
Francis Lederer, cts All Yours, I"
II a. M, 1:25, 1855. 7:05, 9:55
p. m. stage, 1890, 3, $50, 8
pm.
TRANS-LUX-News, Short Sub
jectS, continuous II a. m, IL
p. m, changing every hour.
METROPOLITAN-R on aid Col.
and Jane Wyatt, Lost Hori.
zon," 1890 a. M, 1910, 1855,
$40, 1880, 9:45 p. m.
COLUMBIA - Eleanor Powell.
George Murphy, Broadway
Melody of 1885," 1850 a. m,
2:20, 4:45, tbs, $40 p. m.
LITTLE-Benjamino Gigli, For
yer Yours" II a. m, 1927, 2:03,
$3.50, Sis, $751;, 1927, 1908
pm.
HOWARD "Draegerman Cour-
age" 1915, 2:45, Sis, 7:45
1920 p. m. Stage, Claude Hop
kinS, 1870, 400, $50, 9:15 p. m.
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manded the longboat, contain
ing the nine remaining sailors
and thirty-two passengers. And
while both boats stood by, the
William Brown" with thirty
one remaining pass engers
huddled in terror on the quar-
terdeck, canted and plunged
head first to the bottom.
That night the boats kept to-
gether. The overcrowded long
boat began shipping water, and
because the sailors had no room
to work the oars she walloWed
like a tub, unable to make head
way. Day dawned bleak and
cold; the survivors looked in
vain for a sail.
THROWN OVERHEARD
Before the boats parted on
Tuesday morning" reads the
testimony of Julia McAdden,
one Of the passengers, "the
mate repeated that they would
have to cast lots. The captain
replied, Say no more about
it, I know what you will have
to do
Shortly afterward the boats
parted company; and without
even bothering about the lots,
some of the longboat crew be-
gan throwing passengers over
board to tighten ship. This was
done under the direction of one
of the seamen, Alexander Will
liam Holmes, who apparently
was now running things in
place of the mate.
"They (Holmes and two other
seamen) caught hold of Frank
Askins and put him out" reads
another piece of testimony.
Frank ASkins had two sisters
on the boat. One was named
Mary. She said if they threw
her brother over they might as
well throw her over after him.
After they threw him over, they
threw her over, too, and then
they looked for and threw the
other sister. Ellen, overheard. "
Yet Holmes reprieved one,
James Black, from a similar
fate because his wife was in the
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GigIi's Movie
Held Over

Forever Yours" romantic
musical that brought the voice
of Beniamino Gigli, worlds
greatest tenor, to the screen,
will begin the second week Of
its premiere engagement in
Washington this Sunday at the
Little Theater.
A tender love story, based
upon the mutual struggle for
happiness of a lonely concert
singer, his motherless child and
a pretty society girl, form the
background for some OF the
most magnificent music ever to
reach the screen.
Gigli, who left the Metropol-
itan Opera Company at the
height of his career, sings arias
from nine operas, including
Martha" "Rigoletto," "L'Afri.
cane" La Boheme," 'Mignon,"
La Favorita," Faust" and 10
hengrln.
Forever Yours" which CO.
stars Joan Gardner, beautiful
British actress, will be followed
at the Little Theater by a re-
vival of "Arrowsmith," widely
acclaimed film version of Sin
clair Lewis best seller. Ronald
Coleman, Helen Hayes and
Richard Bennett head the cast.
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Receipts of S1,4OO were refunded
to disappointed play-gOerS.
Having seen three leading
men play Barrie Drexel in
"SuSan and God" it is my
matured opinion that Paul Nc
Grath who stepped into the role
through the tragic death of
OsgoOd Perkins. is best Of the
trio. Bert LyteH Overplayed the
drunken scene when I saw the
play in Philadelphia, and the
late OSg0od Perkins played its
every moment in grim and
gloomy mood. McGrath'S touch
is lighter - and "SuSan and
God" needs more light touches
and having rehearsed original
~ for Barrie, he is letter perfect
and assured. At least he was
last night.
Whether he will retain this
important part has not yet
been determined by Rachel
Cr0therS. the Observation-Disclosures
who has the last word on every.
thing concerning her brain
child. Producer John Golden
liked his performance. Actor
McGrath'S principal liability is
he is not yet a Broadway
name" and pet of the New
York critics.
Walter Huston, at present on
the Pacific coast, has been Of
fered the role and a script has
been air.mailed to him. He may
accept it.
RIALTO TO REOPEN
Max Wilmer and Emmett Call
han announce that they have
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taken over the Rialto Theater
on Ninth Street and, after reno
vations will reopen it with a
burlesque policy on october II.
SKOLSKY TO RESUME
Sidney SkoISy resumes Holly.
mood colunlning on October rs
for the NeW York Mirror and
King Features. Will do tiUe
columns q week at a contract
price of 5000 every SeUen days.
His old contract called for $500.
He also begins a network radio
ShoD october 3.
HAYES AIDS PRESS
On October 1 Helen Hayes
makes a nice gesture to the BOs-
ton press. She will contribute
an extra performance Of "Vic-
toria Regina" turning over the
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Helen Troy Fishing
Fools Even Sharks

A month ago Helen Troy had
yet to hold a fishing pole. Now
the Metro oldwyn-Mayer &C
tress is so enthusiastic about the
sport she devotes hours each
week to the piscatorial pursuit.
She has caught a total of 3
sharks, Z yellow-tail, 176 bass
and 543 mackerel.
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KeUeygrGms

Eye strain, due to lack of
sleep for 66 hours, caused
physicians to order Gertrude
Lawrence of Susan and God"
to fOregO the regular WedneS-
day matinee at the National
Theater. She played last night.
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entire orchestra to the Fourth
Estate. Each of the eight BOS-
ton papers will get so seats and
II papers in and around the Hub
will get in on the ducat feast.
The balconies will be sold to pro-
vide expenses since all of the
cast must be paid according to
Equity law, Miss Hayes said.
Since Victoria Regina" has
sold out for every performance
of the four weeks engagement it
was impossible to care for nor
NAL newspaper requests. Bill
Fields gets credit for the idea
of a press matinee.
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Concert Stardom Step

Nelson Eddy once sang at a
concert, in a Los Angeles Audi
forum, without a rehearsal, as
a substitute for a noted oper-
attic star. This accomplishment
introduced him to metropolitan
Los Angeles and Hollywood, and
to a Metro Goldwyn-Mayer con-
tract.
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mOIION'
THRILLING SEA TALE
Ted Lesser, Central High
School graduate and native
Washingtonian, was the writer
who saw a good movie in the
story of this sensational trial
that shook the world. He called
it to the attention of Adolph
Zukor and sold him on the idea.
Grover Jones was given all the
data available and instructed to
put it in scenario form. Hence
Souls At Sea"
Here is the story, as cleaned
from United States Circuit Court
testimony of the survivors. re-
ported in 1912 by the Phlladel-
phia Public Ledger:
On the night of April 10, the
previous year, the Yankee packet
civilian Brown" Liverpool for
Philadelphia. with 81 souls
aboard, struck an iceberg off the
coast of Newfoundland and stove
in both her bows.
Capt. George L. Harris ordered
the lifeboats lowered-a jolly
boat and longboat, with safe
room for no more than 80 per-
sons between them.
The skipper took eight with
him into the jollyboat, seven
of them members of his crew.
The mate, Francis Rhodes, COM
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Washington Author Told Of
Mariner Who Played God
With Human Lives
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

From the files of the Philadelphia Public Ledger of April
g. "a and 25 1912 Paramount Pictures found maritime MIS-
orv that makes the gripping screen drama Souls at Sea.
They screened the picture the Earle bourlum yesterday
matinee story of life the stormy with Gary cooper
George Raft and Frances Dee the leading roles 1t kept the
select audience we'll Interested suspect it will the larger
crowds which will see the Earle Theater beginning to-
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Sketches Wife

John Beal has an entire wall
in his studio filled with charcoal
sketches he has made Of his wife,
Helen Craig, stage actress.
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This picture livesI lts characters ore
people you meet on the street, read
obovf in your newspaper - perhaps
even know. lis setting might be q street
in any city. Amuzins il is that a SCREEN
pIuy should thus be obIs 10 eopivre
the very feel Of life.
Only a playwright such as Sidney
Kingsley, who wrote the lons-rUn
stage pIoy.. only the production genius
Of SomvsI GoldW'yn. who thrilled
you with "Sfrssf Scene" GmOns
so many other great hits -.
could hope 70 achieve this
end; a motion picture you'll
never forsetl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-06
Military Fuel Is
Problem OF Nazis

BERLIN, Aug. 6.-(UP)-The
oil fields of Russia and the Unit
ed States are regarded here as
one of the decisive factors of the
next major war.
German military observers and
economic experts are Worried
about the consequences of the
great mechanization of modern
armies, each of which in war time
would rapidly consume more than
the normal world production of
gasoline and oil.
1t is estimated that several of
the leading nations, in wartime,
would run short of mobile power
within several weeks.
Even Russia and the United
States, overlooking with the life
blood of modern fighting forces,
could not carry on with normal
production during wartime for
longer than six months, it is ar
gued, for today's armies, navies
and air forces have voracious APP
petlteS.
Production of synthetic gaso-
line and oil is not considered suf-
ficient to meet the need which
would arise.
Writing in the leading German
economic magazine, the German
Economist" DR.. +. Fridenburg
summarizes the situation as fol-
lows:
L. Oil needs of every great mil
itary power in case of war will
reach 100000 to 10000, 900
tons annually, or several times
that Of peace production.
z. Self-supplv is possible only
Tor the United States and Rus
STA. and even for those two in
view of domestic requirements
and enormous transportation dis
tances involved in case of war,
difficulties are. certain.
3. For other ountries, require
ments in the given amounts cans
not be fulfilled even with free
unhampered imports.
4. Synthetic manufacturing has
significance only in coal-rich
countries, although grave finan-
cial and technical obstacles of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-06
u. S. Davis Cup
Team Winner OF
Coveted Trophy
"Bitsy" Grant Finds Life
in Germany Rigid"
Wants Some Fun

NEW YORK, Aug. 6. (UP)-
The Davis cup came back to the
United States yesterday in the
hands of the youngest and most
modest team ever to go abroad
in quest of the holy grail of in
ternational tennis.
The young men gathered on
the top deck of the S. S. Mauhat-
tan as she steamed slowly up New
York bay and told how they had
succeeded where such veterans as
Bill Tilden. Ellsworth Vines and
George Lott failed in the l0-year
span since France lifted the tro-
ply in 1927.
1t was q tale unSpiced by con-
troversy because none of them
Don Bulge, frankie Parker, Gene
Mako, Bryan Grant or Wayne
Sabin-would shoulder any cred
it for winning the cup from Eng
land.
Their answers to questions
were phrased so automatically
that it seemed possible they had
been "schooled" by non-playing
Capt. Walter s. Pate.
All during the interview Pate
kept his charges from going off
alone into a corner with report
erS.
"BitSy" Grant, the fiery little
Southerner, was the only recalci-
trant. He and Sabin, who was an
alternate, managed to break away
for 4 few minutes.
Grant said he had u lousy
time" He said the reason he
played so badly against Germany
because "when j play tennis |
gotta have some fun, too. Life
was too rigid over there. All we
did for amusement was play
checkers. The weather was rotten
and the food was awful. Them
English are"
"Bitsy. come over here with
the other boys" called Pate.
Bulge said he was not consid-
ering an offer to turn profession
al.
On October II Bulge and Ma
ko leave for Australia to play
in several championships. They
return in February and will rest
until the 1888 cup defense.
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CAMP MINNEHAHA

CAMP MINNEHAHA, Aug. 6,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Warwick and
charming daughters have ended a
two months stay at the camp
here, which is being operated for
adults this year by Mrs. Belle
Abbot Roxby, and have returned
to their home in Gainesville.
Miss Ruth Clark of Atlanta has
been spending her vacation here.
Miss Rose Cloversettle of Tam
pa, Fla, has just finished her
fourth annual visit of a month
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Bremen of
Rockledge, Fla, are spending the
season in camp.
Miss Leila Stetson of Cincinna-
ii is here to spend a period in
her cabin at the camp.
DR.. Anna barrow of Fl. Lau-
derdale, Fla, and daughter, Miss
Dorothy barrow, have b n
spending a few days here.
Miss Estelle Montgomery of
Fort Lauderdale and friend, Miss
Nina Hickman, of Miami have ia
ken Slabsides cottage for the
month Of August and are enjoy
ing exploring trails about the
camp.
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RANGER MAKES
RECORD, KEEPS.
AMERICAS CUP
Briton Starts Late But
Time Equal or Better
on Two Legs

NEWPORT, K. L., Aug. 6. -
(UPJ.-Harold Mike Wander
bilt and Ranger sailed in again
yesterday for their fourth
straight victory over Endeavour
ii, retaining the Americas cup
and proving beyond any doubt
that Iron Mike and his big white
boat are the greatest Class-J rae
ing team that ever footed before
a booming sou'wester.
Vanderbilt brought Ranger
home in a 30-mile triangular race
three minutes and 81 seconds
ahead of TOM. Sopwith's Brit
ish challenger to sweep the cup
series, four victories to none, but
he had to set a record to do it.
Ranger sailed around the
course in three hours, seven min
utes and 40 seconds, the fastest
time in the modern history of cup
racing, whiting a minute and II
seconds off the mark set three
years ago by Endeavour |.
1t was the best race of the Sc
ries, and one of the greatest races
in the history of competition be-
tween American and British sea-
men for the musty old cup that
lies in a vault at Tiffany's.
Endeavour III had one stunning
stroke of bad luck at the start,
when she overshot the time signal
and went across the line too
early. She had to jibe around
and go over again, more than a
minute behind Ranger, and head
ed for the most heartbreaking
race any cup challenger ever
faced.
But it was a gallant blue boat
that made the effort, and as the
British challenger boiled down on
the finish buoy a half mile astern
of Ranger. the folks on the decks
of the spectator boats knew they
had seen a great boat beaten by
a greater one. :,
If Sopwith had not mis-judged
the starting time, the entire race
might have been different. En-
deavour III was well ahead and in
a position to harry Ranger on her
way TO the windward turn.
Instead she had to heel over
and then take of again in the
wake of boat that yacht racing
experts say has no equal. 1t was
a hopeless task, but Endeavour
ii went to work on it. She hung
on grimly along the weather leg,
turning u half mile behind the
American defender after snap
ping at her heels all the way up
to the mark. :,
Only one mystery remained
after yesterdays race, and that
was, what happened to Endeav,
our ii on that disastrous second
leg of Mondays race over the
same triangular course when she
lost seven minutes on the reach.
Her performance yesterday
lent weight to Sopwith's theory
that she may have snagged lob
ster pot, because she footed along
evenly with Ranger all the way
home, and even gained ground on
the middle leg.
AS Ranger slid over the line,
she hove to and her crew lined
the deck to cheer the blue British
boat as she tore down the finish
ing lane amid the deafenlng
scream of steam whistles, fog
horns and sirens.
Rangers sweep was the 18th
in the history of the cup series.
It also brought Vanderbilt even
with Capt. Charles Barr, who de-
Tended the cup successfully three
times with Columbia and reliance
against Sir Thomas Lipton's first
three Shamrocks back at the start
of the century. Vanderbilt de-
Tended in 1880, 1884 and this
year.
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ALFRED REITERATES
THIRD TERM STAND

MEXICO CITY Aug. 6. (UP)
Governor James V. Alfred of
Texas, here on a leisurely tour
of Mexico, yesterday reiterated
his stand in favor of third term
for President Roosevelt.
The governor added, however,
that while 81 believe the people
of Texas would back him-I
don't know about the politicians.
Governor George Earle Of
Pennsylvania, another Democrat
ic leader, recently placed himself
on record as favoring another
term for the president.
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FARM TO AID CHURCH
EAST LONGMEAnOM H.

EAST LONGMEADOW, v,.
- CUP). - The Congregs,.o.,
church ladies' aid society :,
started a chicken farm a> a r,,.
Of raising money for the ct.g
Mrs. Andrew Nelson has parh,
ed 100 chicks and hopes TO 4.
them by donations of grain.
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GREATER AREA.
IN GRASS LAND
URGED FOR U.S..
Federal Agronomists Tour
World to Study Ma
tive Plants
Bv FRED o. BAILEY
r;teJ Press Staff Correspondent

United freSs otali
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. CUP
The department of agriculture is
LAYING the groundwork for return
Of millions of acres of farm lands
to grasses through study OF TINS
neglected plant at home anu
abroad. %
Agronomists have been sent TO
all parts of the world TO STUDY
grasses in their native land. SeeuS
and plants of hundreds OF diile h+
emit varieties have been brougm'
back and are being tested III en-
perimenral farms, .oss 70
"The Importance of grass W
the agriculture OF tne ne nav now
States is appreciated more now ",
than at any time in the history
Of the country" P. V. CARBON
rs specialist of the depart
ment told the fourth Information
al Grassland congress at Aoer!
stwyth, Wales, in July.
BROADER PROGRAM
FOLLOWED -
Although the interest IN pas
ture nIants is in breeding new va.
rieties, there is no lessening OF
interest in the problems of man.
apement and soil fertility. Car
don said. Rather, he said, SCENT
lists are engaged in perfecting a
grass breeding technique that
will integrate and clarity broad
detectives in all interdependent
fields of activity. :.
As guide-poSts in the breeding
program, Carbon listed eight spe-
cific detectives: More dependable
supplies of viable seed, produc-
ton of grasses which will help to
extend the summer grazing perl
cd, grasses resistant to disease,
determination of competitive
values of important species, study
of quick recovery values, toler-
ance to extreme soil conditions,
palatability, and nutritive values
Grass breeding also is expect
ed to fill another gap - the
summer period when most COM
mon grasses stop growing Agron-
omists hope to find or develop
pasture plants which, because
thew mature later or because OF
some other quality, are able to
thrive when other grasses are DOR
mant.
SOLUTION NOT DEFINITE
Varying soil and climatic con-
ditions preclude any single solu-
ton to pasture problems in the
United States" Carbon said. pre-
liminary studies show that grass
growing well in two or more re-
pions may be both palatable and
nutritive in one but in another
may be lacking in both.
1--WE are laboring under no IL
lusions as to the magnitude OF the
task and the difficulties that 1t IN
wolves. We know that grass breed
ing must be fortified with other
organized efforts. In the United
States this means that agrlcultuf-
al extension agents, crop improve
ment associations, seed certlfica-
ton officials, growers co-opera-
tives and the seed trade general
" must work with the grass
breeder Just as he worked with
the cereal breeder.
"As improved strains become
available they will pass through
we'll defined and carefully pro-
tected channels into utilization
over as wide an area as possible.
Only by such coordination OF eft.
fort can adequate supplies OF
good seed be maintained" Car
don said.
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UTAH WAGES UP IL PCT.

SALT LAKE CITY. (UP)-
Wages in Utah increased about
II per cent during the last year,
the state industrial commission
reports. The biggest increase was
in mine employment, with little
advancement shown in agricul-
tural, railroad and domestic en-
ployment.
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PAYS FOR BURIAL

SAN JOSE, Cal. (UP)-Stiner
A. Stinerson, laundryman, adopt
ed as his hobby in life the build
ing of a 50-foot, l0-passenger
motor boat. He worked on it off
and on for 26 years, and then
died just before it's completion.
II will sell for more than enough
to pay his funeral expenses.
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SPUR MANUFACTURING

WARSAW. (UP).-lndustrali-
ization of Poland and establish
ment of vast manufacturing CEN
ters to cost half a billion dollars
is cnvisioned in its four-year plan.
Poland's export business will be
stimulated by charging the mer-
chant marine, notably the Gydnla
American line.