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master gridiron mentor, and
such is none too high praise for
the man who, as an 18-year-old
boy, graduated right out of Wash
ington'S own Central High School.
Thus Jones was not only Wash
ington-born October 8, 1880, but
Washington-bred, as well.
A Trying Moment
If you knew Biff Jones like we
folks who have been deploying
around the edges of sport, you'd
realize how much it must have
grated his high sense of ethics to
have undergone the humiliating
experience of being virtually die
tated to in his football maneuvers
at Louisiana State University by
CONTINUED on Page 10, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
SChaefer Holds
Big Lead

CHICAGO o. Jan. 30.-Willie
Hoppe had handicap of almost
500 billiards to overcome today as
he and Jake Schaefer concluded
their $500 point match for the
worlds 1872 balkline champion
ship.
Despite a run of SO billiards by
Hoppe yesterday, Schaefer won
both afternoon and evening blocks
to take a lead Of 1000 to 1,546.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Gonzdgd Holds
Clean Record

Gonzaga High Schools unde-
feated basketball team kept its
slate clean by trimming st. Johns
in a red hot battle by a score OF
81 to 10.
The game was played in the
gymnasium Of Catholic University,
and more than $100 Of the gate
receipts were donated to the Red
Cross fund for the relief of the
flood sufferers.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

S Record
FaiIst0BdCk
RdiSeCIdinn
By FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL

ny ENAANN DUN " ANGAAA
The holdout threats of Louis
Buck" Newsom, accompanied by
requests that he be traded, pre-
ferably to Detroit, where he could
aid Tommy Bridges and School
boy Rowe to win the 1887 pen.
nant, are something like the boom.
ing of a bullfrog in a pond. You
can listen to them without being
annoyed, and they're not in the
least alarming.
Newsom wants substantial in
crease in salary. Of course, you
can't condemn him for that, but
when Newsom bases his claims to
increases on his record, you can
not hold too much sympathy for
him. AS a matter of fact, his
record is nothing to inspire any
faith in his ability to win against
ranking competition.
Won II Games
Newsom won II games and lost
Is. He ranked fourteenth among
the pitchers of the American
League on a basis of earned runs
per nine inning game with 4.31.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Jones' Choice
Moi Easy
T0Mdke
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor


The United States
Army loses a fine Off
Ger and = splendid
gentleman, and t h e
University of Nebras-
ka gains as good a
football coach as there
is in the land, in the
signing of Lawrence
'Biff" Jones to a five
year contract.
And I imagine it was no easy
decision for this native Wash
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Fans Saw a Foot Race
Instead ofEght,
Walsh Claims
By DAVID J. WALSH

NEW YORK, Jan. 30-Like something furtive, sneakng
home in the night the information today that Bob
Pastor the Old Blue from N Y U stayed ten rounds with
Joe Louis before 10000 disturbed and drat souls at Madison
Square Garden last night
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Deacon Boxers
InVadeArena
For Benefit

The boxing taems of Columbus
University and Wake Forest Col
lege will meet tonight at Joe Tur.
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ner'S Arena,
and the flood
sufferers of
the Valley Of
the Ohio will
be beneficial
rie S. Every
nickel in the
house above
bare expenses
will be turned
nUer t0 the
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

NUBIUIUHy'B NVHUIVJ
Western, 80; Central, rs.
Tech. 43; Wilson, 10.
Tuesdays Game
Central VS.. Wilson at Roosevelt.
Previous Results
Central, 28; Eastern, II.
Western. "a; Wilson, 12.
Tech, 22; Roosevelt, 10.
Eastern, 25; Western. "a.
Roosevelt, "a; Central. 22.
Eastern, 40; Wilson, IL.
Western, 23; Tech, II.
Eastern. 81; Roosevelt, 16.
Roosevelt. 90; Wilson, IL.
Eastern, 10; Tech. II.
Roosevelt. 26: Western, 10.
Tech, 80; Central. rs.
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Yesterdays SCORES
WILSON
TECH

Totals. -. 10 626I Totals. ....l5 8
Evening star., 1937-07-24
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Capitol-"Saratoga," Jean Harlow''
last picture, at 1915 am. 1885, 3
$40, 7:45 and 1910 pm. Stage show
at 11:55 am, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05 ano
e:25 pm.
Keith's-"The Road Back" post.
war Germany. at 1870 am, 1870
$50, $50, 1880 and $50 pm.
Midnight Madonna" q
mother fights for the right to keep
her child, at 1890 am. 12:40, 8. $40,
755 and 10:55 pm. Stage shows at
11:40 am, 2:o5, 4:25, I and 9:l0 pm.
Palace-"Easy Living" cheerful and
light hearted comedy for the fun OF
laughing. at 1915, 2:45, Sis, TAO
and 1910 pm.
MetropolitAn-"The Singing Ma
fine," Dick Powell's latest musical, at
1l:l0 am, l:l5, $40, 5:25, 1885 and
o45 pm.
Columbia-"The Emperor's Candle
sticks" espionage, adventure and ro-
nance, at 1l:15 am, l:20, 3:25, $50,
TAO and s:45 pm.
Elephant Boy" film trans
htion of another KipIng story. for
children and everybody elephant
minded, at so am, 1:50, $50, 5:45,
7:5o and 955 pm.
Little-"Anna Karenina," Garbo
hit revived, at 1l:25 am, 1:3o, $40,
6:45. 7:5o and e:55 pm.
Trans -Lux-News and shorts. Show
runs hour and Is minutes, con-
tinuous from 10 am. until midnight.
Ambassador-"There Goes My Girl"
hight comedy in the modern manner,
1t 2, 4:o5, $40, 7:55 and $40 pm.
Penn-"Pick a Star" little girl goes
10 Hollywood, at 2, 4:lo, 6:15, $40
and $50 pm
Sheridan-"Wings Over Honolulu" ("
boy, a girl and the Navy are the
triangle, at 1875, $50, 6, 7:50 and
e.45 pm.
Tivoli-"Pick a Star" at 1, 2:55,
(:55, 6:45, BIS and $50 pm.
Uptown-"slim," strong lads stretch
high tension lines across the country,
At /. 3:20, $50, 7:35 and e:35 pm.
Evening star., 1937-07-24

off the roof Of their New York apart
ment The coat lands on the head
of a girl, the girl lands in some of
the silliest and best comedy situations
of the season
Mitchell Lessen directed the piece
with sure hand getting fine shadings
Of the outrageous at times. going
straight overheard for slapstick when
he felt like it. There are so many
laughs, Of such infinite variety. that
even the cooling systems cannot pre-
vent certain sense Of exhaustion
from creeping over the customers.
The Palace also features this week
an Academy Award Revue" of Walt
Dlsnev's best productions. including
Three Little Pigs Three Orphan
Kittens" Flowers and Trees Tor
toise and the Hare" and The Country
Cousin" This alone would justify a
trip to the Loew show shop. and any
one VINO passes up the dual attractions
has only himself to blame. Not us
We're all for it, right out loud.
Evening star., 1937-07-24

drama wakes 100 lAT-IeJCIeQ 1OT lJS
own good. This business OF kidnapping
judge, for instance, to prove to
him some Of the witnesses in 4 trial
he has just heard are perjurers,
doesn't 60 down 50 easily. But you
really don't have to believe it; it
makes the plot 60 and it makes for
enjoyable, if not engrossing. cinema.
Midnight Madonna" achieves It's
best moments as an entertainment,
however, when it is dealing with the
business Of a mother. whose little
daughter is being taken from her by
a court and handed over to a father
who wants not his daughter but the
millions she has inherited from his
father. There are some scenes which
have to do with this that pack some
thing OF a punch, hokum or no hokum.
X
MUCH of the force OF Midnight
T Madonna's' better moments may
be credited to Macy Correll, a young
lady from the stage, who makes her
film debut in the picture Her play
ing OF the mother branded as unfit
to raise the daughter she loved is
sincere, always believable and bright
ened by the spice Of considerable emo
ton. Miss Correll ought to go places
in this cinema business
Kitty Clancy. the bewitching 4-year-
old who is being called the new child
star sensation" may or may not be
that, but the fact remains that she
is tops in this first featured role. She
may be little too reminiscent OF
Shirley Temple for the good OF her
career. but none the less she's a
darling and has something that sets
her apart from the rest OF the kiddie
car crew.
The man in the piece is Warren
William and he plays Warren William
with passable suavity, which is all
right with us If it's all right with you.
THE Earle's stage show is about all
to the good this week Five acts
there are, and five good ones. The
top-notch feature probably is the ap-
pearance of Ruth Hughes Aarons and
Vlktor Barna. table tennis champions.
It's fun to watch them in their skill
ful battles, whether or not you're a
devotee of this game that's one of the
more strenuous of the indoor sports.
And II you do play table tennis,
you'll get great kick out of the pro-
ceedings.
You'll like. too. the original and
diverting things Tommy Trent does
with his Punch and Judy show You
may have seen it before, but it's still
fun. For comedy there are Forsythe,
Seamon and Farrell, whose turn packs
a lot of real laughs.
For dancing there are Enrico and
Novello and the Condos Brothers.
The former duo can give lessons to
lot of people you've seen doing ball
room dances and their grace is such
that even their version of this thing
Evening star., 1937-07-24

that which she could do 80 we'll in
the right kind of parts.
1t Is a shame to have come this
far without mentioning Frank Nor
gan and Una Merkel, who also are
blessed with juicy if not notoriously
original comedy parts. Morgan,
jittery, hay fever victim, who sneezes
at the sight Of horse, is effectively
cast as the jealous husband OF Miss
Merkel, who is mad about horses
and Gable.
Complete coverage OF the horse
world from the sales ring at Sara
toga to the Hopeful Stakes (even
though the track did look like Santa
Anita) is to be found in the film.
There is some particularly fine pho-
Biography Of laundering hoofs, the
miracle being that the hoofs did not
come laundering right through the
lens Of the camera
There are no morbid implications in
Saratoga" despite the fact that its
blond star died before it was COM
pleted. In it she achieves completely
the dream of all good troupers, that
of sending them away laughing.
4 X X
THE exuberant spirit OF the picture
pervades the stage show. Red
Shelton, m. ing the Capitols vaude-
vile bill for the third week, works
with the fury of whirling dervish
and achieves perhaps the greatest
success Of his popular stay here. His
one-man base ball game. the high
light Of his performance, was the
preferred item.
Gus Van, the singing man, who has
been singing since the approximate
morn Of civilization still knows what
audiences like, even modern ones He
hasn't changed his style OF putting
across songs. but whether he uses it
on old or new melodies, straight or
dialect pieces, they go over.
The Gae Foster girls, held over for
a second week, have varied their rou-
tine, but it still is thing Of spirited
grace as seen from the wings (Where
one critic had to see it because the
overflow was about to topple out the
window Of Carter Barron's office).
Beth Mitchell was impressive, as
usual, in that control dance item
which every one knows she does bet
ter than any one else (She also counts
louder from the wings when the Fos-
ter girls are going through that new
hoop bit)
Dorothy Crooker, whose dancing
you probably know. is fine to look at,
either from in front or in the wings.
The bill is completed by Carter and
Holmes, who do funny sayings and
stuff.
Evening star., 1937-07-24
1.-THE SINGING MARINE"
BACK FOR SECOND WEEK

pACKED to the hilt with hit tunes,
Dick Powell's latest musical ro-
nance, The Singing Marine" yes
terday opened at the Metropolitan for
second week downtown. It's bright
piece, with a lot Of good humor and
enough Of a plot to tie the laughs
together and it ought to be just
what the doctor ordered for forgetting
the heat, arguments over court re-
form and that nag that was supposed
to be 80 good yesterday in the fifth.
Much Of the enjoyment derived from
looking upon THE Singing Marine"
Is due to the musical score contrived
by Harry Warren and AL Dublin. Five
hits the boys have brought forth
You Can't Escape From Love To-
night" Because My Baby Says It's
so,' Night Over Shanghai" Il
Know Now" and The Lady Who
Couldn't Be Kksed"-and that's a
lot OF music for one film musical
Especially when it's sung in the en-
gaging manner Of Dick Powell and
this cinema newcomer, Doris Weston.
who makes her debut as Dicks lead
ing lady. The Singing Marine" Is
further aided upon its way musically
by Larry Adler and his harmonica.
combination that makes Night and
Day" something you won't FORGET.
Evening star., 1937-07-24

LIlOcICuIIcIlt VI SubpclSS tIldI W1li
keep you pleasantly tense when Miss
Harlow and Clark Gable are not going
through the antics Of love deferred,
but not to be denied. There is lot Of
comedy in the pair Of hard-boiled
parts those two play. There Is con-
siderable more Of the same in Lionel
Barrymores frost-bitten grandpappy,
who obviously is going to get a stud
for his rundown breeding farm or die
Of fury over his failure to do so.
The part of the hard-boiled heiress
(heiress to a bunch OF mortgages, we
mean, who is digging for gold in the
top strata of the aristocracy. fits Miss
Harlow to perfection. Gable as a
roguish bookmaker who has a way
with women and another for men and
horses, has not been so happily cast
since he was "Blackie" in San Fran
cisco"
The picture aims to be very en-
tertaining in the process Of diverting
Miss Harlow from her fair for the
upper crust until she dissolves in the
arms of Gable That it is going to be
successful is evident from the moment
she is caught in the spell of his charm
over the wires Of a transatlantic
telephone. He gives her verbal
spanking on that occasion and fol-
lows it up with others until it be-
comes clear to Mis- sHarlow that
spankings are what her life has lacked
and that he's the boy to provide them.
RETWEEN the spankings, the book
making lover devotes his time
turing her into aiding him to double
cross the rich young aristocrat Of her
financial (no other) dreams.
Gables methods in this procedure
are by no means conventional. They
reach their climax in scene which
Is one of the more memorable ones
which Miss Harlow left behind. In
his effort to force the rich flance
to be a sucker for his book, Gable
invades the girls room. He threat
ems 10 compromise neI unless Sic puIS
over the arrangement, then hides
under the davenport to listen in on
the deal.
Well. in plops the fiance, sees Ga
ble's cigar smoking in an ash tray,
casts a questioning glance at the girl
With never the flicker Of an eyelash.
Miss Harlow picks it up and begins
@lr
looked funnier, nor was funnier.
But she is not funny all the time.
At other moments she is hoydenish
wistful, tempestuous. seductive. out
ragged, remorseful and things like
Evening star., 1937-07-24

CARROLL EXPERT CARVER
Leo G. Carroll spends his time be-
tween scenes of MG-M's The Um-
brella Man" by carving a miniature
church out of scraps Of wood.
Evening star., 1937-07-24

company boy, should be delighted to
find their rotund pet cast in a comedy
role. something of burlesque of the
pompous and important gentlemen he
has portrayed in his recent pictures.
Mr.. Arnold is by no means the only
laugh-maker in the crowd, his able
job being supplemented by excellent
Evening star., 1937-07-24

performances from Jean Arthur, Ray
Milland. Luis Alberni and Mary Nash
AS to plot, Easy Living has none.
1t is composite of gags, daft Sc
quences, far-fetched tie-ups. The
whole business begins when an angry
banker filings his Uifes new fur coat
Evening star., 1937-07-24

called the Shag looks good The
Freres Condos are pair Of boys who
can do a lot Of smart things with a
couple OF pairs OF tap shoes on clever
feet. For downright loveliness there's
Audrey Seiber. who looked practi-
cally delectable yesterday, or it was
the weather.
There's Popular Science short on
the bill, too, that is among the better
incidental subjects.
Evening star., 1937-07-24
Easy Living" at Palace
Full of Sheer Good HumOr
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr

HEN the awarded
undoubtedly
Palace yesterday combination
choice dish for those who had
he
Local fans Thee
Evening star., 1937-07-24
'Saratoga's' Lusty Comedy
Makes Fine Harlow Adieu
of Sound, Fury and Fun-Stage Show
Also Is Spirited Affair.
BY JAY CARMODY.

you waiting with vitality the
vaedictory
Capitol
snbed Pmico Preakn day. there
feel that
bubbng
Evening star., 1937-07-24
Midnight Madonna" New
Earle Film, Entertaining
Engaging Child STAR Kitty Clancy, and
Mady Correll, From Legit, in Debuts.
Table Tennis on Stage.
BY HARRY MacARTHJIR


Y1TH 4yearold
Of
Midnight
dog days
You won't believe it all Of the time,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27

declaring in a letter which. President
Coolidge transmitted to the Senate
that this body was seeking no con-
structive end and was seriously inter
fering with the work of his depart
ment.
Argument Over Taxes
The secretary came under fire again
when, within month of the Presi-
Dental election, it was, disclosed he
held stock in the Aluminium Com
pany of America, which the Federal
Trade Commission held to be mo-
noply. Mr.. Melons reply was a. state
ment that the Trade Commission re-
port was unfair and later the Depart
ment of Justice issued an opinion hold
ing that the secretary and his broth
aluminium concern
Besides the controversies he carried
on with Congress, Mr.. Mellon engaged
in an extended argument that Senator
Couzens, of Michigan, himself a veal
thy man, after the senator chal-
lenged the contention of the Treasury
head that heavy reductions in sur
tax rates would produce greater reve-
nue. in the long run.
The controversy was carried on in
correspondence which each made pub
lie, and later Senator Couzens headed
the special Senate committee which
investigated the Internal Revenue and
made charges of negligence and inef-
ficiency in the settlement of tax cases.
Then followed the somewhat sensa-
I
Couzens, as we'll as other former hold
ers of Ford Motor Company stock,
for the payment of some additional
ten millions of dollars in taxes on the
sale of that stock. The senator charg-
ed he was prosecuted for his investi-
cation of the Internal Revenue Blu
reau, but this Mellon denied.
Enemies of the secretary had an
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request as he passed awav
The funeral will be held Saturda
AFTERNOON in Pittsburgh at the Eas
Liberty Presbyterian. church. q mas
nilicent edlflce which Mellon and hi
la.e prother, K. B. Mellon, made pos
Slple by their benefactions.
Was World Figure
entering public life at the age O.
slxty-seven, Andrew William Mellor
became world figure as Secretary o.
the Treasury. -
Chschooled in politics, shy and re
elrlng, he furnished ready target fol
i CRITICS In Congress, but through all the
/ long period of hectoring he quietly
/ guided the difficult postwar financing
of the nation.
| .brlnglng to his task the talents
| which had enabled him to amass one
| OF the greatest fortunes in the coun-
try the Pittsburgh banker quickly
| gained the confidence of the business
interests and came to WELD more
power, perhaps than any other one
man in either the Harding or Coolidge
administrations.
Both Presidents under whom he
served not only left to him the solu-
ton of the pressing financial prob
lens of the time-problems involving
billions in public and war debts and
taxation-but frequently called upon
his Judgment in the conduct of other
affairs. In time he became bulwark
in their cabinets, his prestige constant
ly increasing and his voice in cabinet
meetings always growing stronger.
I<I -
Assailed in Congress as the repre-
sentative of big business, Mr.. Mellon
had many a pitched battle with that
body over taxation, prohibition en-
forcement, the soldiers bonus, war
debt settlements, and farm relief.
Moreover, he found himself fire.
quently under fire because of his form
er extensive business connections, and
especially his stock holdings in the
Aluminium Company of America, and
saw one abortive attempt in the Sen
ate to drive him from office after he
had warned that body to keep within
the law in conducting Investigations
during the days of the Teapot Dome
and other scandals.
The first tax reduction program of
fered by the secretary involving sharp
reductions in the high wartime sur
tax rates, was assailed as favoring
the rich and was revised. His insist
ence upon the settlements of war debts
by foreign nations was denounced at
home and abroad as too hard and the
terms he approved were criticised in
Congress as too lenient.
Persistently urging his policies, the
secretary finally saw most of them
adopted, Congress eventually accept
ing his plan of taxation and approving
the war debt settlements totalling ten
billions of dollars.
With a call for economy in govern
mental affairs Immediately after he
took office, Mr.. Mellon first devoted
his attention to balancing the budget
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= .
other opportunity tc assail him after
his first venture on the political plat
form in espousing the denomination
of Senator George Wharton Pepper in
the 1925 Pennsylvania primaries, in
which it later developed three mil
lions of dollars were expended.
During the years of controversy over
the soldiers bonus, the Treasury
secretary opposed such legislation on
the ground that it was unsound econ
onnically and would seriously inter-
fere with government refinancing. He
won out against a cash bonus plan,
but lost the fight against the insur-
ance plan.
Another piece of legislation which
he branded as economic folly was the
McNary- Haughen bill for the relief of
agriculture. Congress passed it over
his opposition, but President Coolidge
upheld his view with a veto, and
there was no effort in Congress to
override it.
In 1900, at the age Of As, Mr.. Mel
Ion married Mora McMullen, of Pitts
burgh. They were divorced a decade
later. Their two children, Ailsa and
Paul, remained with the father and
upon them he devoted his undivided at
tention outside of office. Ailsa moved
to Washington with her father and
presided over his home until her
marriage in 1926 to David K. Este,
Bruce, son of Senator William Cabell
Bruce, of Maryland Paul was in
school during his fathers service at
the capital
Mr.. Mellon was a member of the
church and was chair
man of the committee which raised a
huge endowment fund to pension
ministers. He also was
interested in other public and chart
table enterprises. He and his brother
founded, in 1913, the Mellon Institute
of Industrial Research as a memorial
to their father.
During the World War, Mr.. Mellon
was a member of the executive com
mittee of the Council of National De-
Tense and was active in many other
capacities when men or funds were
needed.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27
cTATE PRISON TO
BE ESCAPE PROOF
nrovenents Being Made Will En-
IMP nance Its Resistance to Wiles
of Criminals
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
-. NV,n Ssv. NXYsnIAA- WH-U

IL
ro1,ioh Aug. 27.-The Federal nri
- llcatraz is called escape-proof
SUI ,,,-f,qnia. current news stories
Il Going to have a circular peni
I'l' .;ar,, ilist about as hard to get out
h,,t right here in Raleigh the Cen.
oi cf9.e's prison is going to- be !
' ,',l nni 10 crack when present i'm
n- ',',oants and work are finished.
Coming right on the heels of the
..cana of eight fe'Nns in one joint get
a,,av any story about the difficulty
e. cnttina away from this States
,.ooseoov may seem somewhat far
fatched. oscar Pitts, acting director
Of the penal division, agrees, but he
:. confident that there will be no re-
notition Of any such incident.
Trcludrd in the construction now
roino on al the prison-most of it al
roadv complexed-is installation of
f,,,,. complete new cell blocks in
which to confine the approximately
-oo inmates There will be a block of
two and four-prisoner cells for whites.
similar block for Negroes, a tier
- one-prisoner cells for those who
orc nut ~on the shelf" by way of
enlistment and a fourth block of sim
oIo-nrisoner cells on a new Death
Row
All these cells will be constructed
o. the finest material and will have
tne latest and best type locking de-
vices. The locking machinery will be
an exact duplicate of that in use at
AIcatraz. II is being built and in
stalled by the same concern which did
thu work at the noted U. S. prison
on the rock.