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The Washington times., 1938-03-18
War Record
Will Free
Convict

TRENTON, N. j., March 10
U.N.S.) Pour battle stars for
service to the colors in France
cancel John di Blasio's debt to
society, Governor A. Harry Moore
decided today in announcing that
the one-time convict who escaped
from a prison road gang "a years
ago will not be extradited from
New York.
Moore went even further than
that. He announced that if Dd
BlaSio will voluntarily surrender
himself at the State prison, he,
Moore, will Immediately go before
the court of pardonS and request
q full pardon.
Di Blasio escaped from q Mon
mouth county prison crew in 1914
with three years of q seven.year
term still to be served. He was
not heard of again until January
Of this year, when New York po-
lice questioned him incidental to
a crime with which he was not
connected. But the questioning
served to identify him as the long
missing New Jersey convict.
Then it came out that he had
served with the 326th Infantry In
the World War, and e. M. Brown,
former commanding officer Of the
S2d Division went to bat for him,
citing Di Blasio's participation in
four battles in the St. Mihiel and
Meuse-Argonne offenSives and his
excellent service record.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18

Newt Sims, of Benton, Ark, con-
Victed wife slayer. Sims did not
make a statement.
Brockelhurst'S admission that
he had killed three men, includ-
ing Gates, also referred to the
slayings of j. Albin Theander,
Rockford. ILL.,, tailor, and Jack
Griffith. Fort Worth, Texas. night
club owner.
BrockelhurSt was convicted of
Gates murder last June a at
Lonoke. Gates was shot TO death
on a highway near Lonoke last
May 6.
GIRL ACQUITTED
Brockelhurst and a young
woman companion, Miss Bernice
FELTON,, 10, Of Rockford, ILL.,, were
arrested a few days later in
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Brockelhurst
admitted the Staying Of Gates and
also the killings of Theander and
Griffith.
The youth and the girl were re-
turned to Arkansas where they
stood trial for Gates murder.
Miss FELTON, was acquitted, but
later was indicted on Dyer act
charge growing out Of the alleged
theft Of Gates car. She had not
been tried on this charge. Miss
Felton, recently gave birth to .
child.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Youth Who Killed
3 Men Is Executed

TUCKER PRISON FARM, Ark. March 18 QN.S)-Lester
the one-tme Gaesburg ) Sunday school
turned triple murderer paid his debt to society today
The Washington times., 1938-03-18

in the electric chair.
The 23-year-old youth was exc
cuted for the murder Of Victor A.
Gates, middle-aged Little Rock
landowner.
Brockelhurst was strapped in
the death chair at $40 a. M, and
then engaged in a 17-minute talk
in which he prayed for five min
uteS and confessed the Gates muir
der and two other Slayings.
81 am going to my Heavenly
Father" BrockelhurSt told
Warden AL Reed and IA wit
neSSes, including newspapermen.
SORRY FOR CRIMES
I will get a fair trial there.
I hope and pray that everybody
here will profit by my expert
ence.
I've killed three men and I
know that was wrong.
II am sorry for what I have
done"
when you get home"
BrockelhurSt continued, II want
you to get your Bible and read
from Genesis to Revelations and
see if you can find where Jesus
Christ said, a life for q life'."
At 6:37 o'clock, Brocklehurst
said IT am through talking now"
A few seconds later, the execu-
toner pulled a switch. Five min
utes later prison physicians pro
nounced the youth dead.
The State then put to death Joe
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Teachers Give Tea
For DIR. Wallis

Teachers of the junior and
senior high schools will give q
tea this afternoon from 4:3O to
6 o'clock in honor of DR.. william
Wallis, retiring head of the de-
partment of mathematics, District
public schools.
DR.. Wallis, who has been with
the school system many years,
was at a one time teacher of
mathematics at Eastern. The
tea is to be given at the Ameri-
can Association Of University
Women's Clubhouse at Seven
teenth and I SITS. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Counterfeit Probe
Holds Virginians

DANVILLE, Va, March 1S.-Ex-
tensive investigation Of an alleged
countelfeiting ring which has been
passing bogus SO and $40 bills
here and in Durham, N. c., is
being made by Treasury Depart
ment agents here, it was revealed
today. James r. Moize, of Dur.
ham, vas arrested yesterday. and
charged with supplying the bills to
Thomas Daniels, also Of Durham,
which Daniels is alleged to have
Hoated here.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18

GoTHENBURG, Sweden, March
Is UN.S).-Swedish shipbuilding
in 1887 enjoyed a record year. The
total tonnage launched was 1885,.
900 gross tons against $4,000 in
1885. OF last years production,
$4,000 tons, or So per cent, were
for foreign owners.
Orders on hand amount to about
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
ICC Grants Permit
For Motor Rates

N.N.S.). Special permission for
filirg a master tariff for motor
carriers was granted by the Inter
state Commerce Commission in an
order made public today. This
action opened the way for higher
rate levels for the trucking in
dusty.
The usual 80 days notice has
been waved and the master tariff
may be made effective five days
after notice to the commission and
the public.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Midshipmen Name
New Commander

ANNAPOLIS, March 18.-Frank
C. Lynch, jr., today was named
commander, or 'five-striper," Of
the Naval Academy midshipmen
regiment, from March 20 through
June week ceremonies. He will
replace j. K. Leydoh, Of Philadel-
phia, Pa, who will become regi-
mental suhcommander.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
By CARROLL PEEKE

trict Jail today.
On the point of collapse, Robin
son was strapped in the chair and
the current turned on at 1904
Only one shock was required, and
he was prone z1ced dead by Coro
ner A. Magruder Macdonald al
10:07Ha.
KILLED EMPLOYER
Convicted of the murder OF
Mrs. Florence Goodwin, Govern
ment worker who operated a fash.
ionable boarding house in which
he was employed on Sixteenth
Street in September, 1896, Robin.
son had been given nine stays of
execution, the last only three
weeks ago, when it was found he
had been sentenced while an ap-
peal was pending.
Without friends and without
family, Robinson sat alone in the
death house for more than a year
He wrote no letters and had no
visitors.
This morning he was accom-.
panied to the chair by the Rev.
James Pinn, colored pastor Of the
Good Will Baptist Church. He
made no statement to Warden
Thomas Rives, and made no final
requests.
FALTERS, THEN RALLIED
AS he crossed the rotunda of the
jail, held between two guards, and
saw the chair set up in the end Of
the dining hall, Robinson faltered
and seemed about to collapse.
The guards frightened their grip
on him, and helped him down the
stairs. Then he seemed to brace
himself and walked to the chair
without looking to the right or left.
He said nothing as the guards
strapped him in, and died without
uttering a word. Although it was
10:0712 when he was pronounced
dead, doctors kept their stetho-
scopes on him until 1911.
CONVICTED BY SCIENCE
The conviction Of Robinson
came through scientific crimin-
ology.
Mrs. Goodwin was found
beaten to death with q furnace
shaker, and Robinson, q former
janitor in her boarding house, was
taken into custody for question:
ing.
Detectives found bits Of cloth
under his fingernails, and examin.
ing these, found they were from
the dress she was wearing wher
she was murdered.
Confronted with this evidence
Robinson, admitted he had killed
her but said "he did not mean to
do it," She owed him some money,
he asserted. When she refused to
pay him, he struck her, and took
a small amount Of change from
her purse.
Robinson had been kept under
close guard, as he had threatened
to kill himself rather than go to
the chair.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
PettegreW Rea
Funeral Today

The body Of Pettegrew Lee Rea,
IA, has been taken to his native
town, Edenton, N. c., for funeral
services and burial today. Rea,
who came here last summer to
live with his daughter, Mrs. A.
G. Peoples, 2126 R st. N. W., died
Wednesday at Georgetown Hos
nital.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Shipbuildi11g Increases

twice the tonnage launched in
1887, and are estimated to keep
the yards busy until the end Of
1899 or the beginning Of 1910.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18

Cook your pork wen and You won't
get trichlnOsis. Distressing experience
Of Farmer Hoerner and his 81 children
and grandchildren with the meat Moses
forbade, draws attention anew TO the
way of making It safe to eat. In the
American Weekly, with Sundays Wash
lnGton Herald Times.
The Washington times., 1938-08-29

The overnight disappearance
Of the moustache was as much
of a surprise to Martin as it will
be to many of his feminine fans.
Maestro Martin, it seems, is
one of those delights Of the
razor blade industry, a man who
has to drag razor over his IA
nous face twice daily. It seems,
also, that Mr.. Martin thinks
lot.
He was thinking pretty stead
lily during one of his shaving SeS-
sions on the train coming East.
Perhaps he was wondering what
the public reaction would be to
his personal appearance, follow
ing a quartet of pictures in
which he got a pretty steady
build-up from his studio.
Perhaps he was wondering
how the brass section of his
band would sound in the special
arrangement Of might Ride"
with which he opens his show.
Or perhaps he was thinking
about Alice Faye, who had to re-
main in Hollywood to finish a
picture, but who is flying East to
join her husband as soon as she
can get away. Mrs. Martin is
worth lot of thinking about.
Be that as it may, Martin sud-
denly pulled himself back from
Hollywood or wherever he had
wandered, to realize that he was
in the midst of a shave and that
half of his upper lip was bare.
The Martin moustache, which
had tickled the 1maginationS OF
countless fans, was in ruins.
After that, there was nothing
to do but shave the whole thing
off, for anyone knows that half
a moustache is far worse than
no whiskers at all. That's why
Martin arrived in Washington
with a bare upper lip. And he
admitted last week in Philadel-
phia that it was going to be q
real surprise for Mrs. Martin.
It seems Alice, along with q
majority of his other fans,
thinks he is twice as handsome
with a mouStache!
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
The Old Soak
AtVo. Barn

"The Old Soak" by Don Mar
quiS, with Arch Mcdonald in
the title role, opens tonight at
the Cross Roads Theater for q
two-week run, to close the sea-
son.
The play, which was Cancelled
, after one performance earlier
in the season when Arch McDon-
aid broke his ankle, is an anus
ing story of a reprobate who re-
deems all his failures in one
grand gesture that saves his
family from ruin and his son
from jail.
In the supporting cast are
Don Sisler, Ruth May, a new
conner to the company; Almyra
Davis, Peggy Mansfield, Theo-
dore Field, Janice Norton,
George Finger and Frank Boil
ton, all of the original company.
1.-THE Old Soak" was well re-
ceived at the one earlier per.
formance and promises to be
one of the most amusing plays
of the season at the Virginia
barn.
The sets have been designed
by Joseph Orendorff, and the
production is under the direc-
ton of C. Adolph Glassgold, as
sisted by Jack Wilson.
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
Screen Stors
Aid Contest

Famous stars from all the
studios will appear in "The
World is Yours" a special short
subject which will be released
nationally in connection with
the Motion Pictures Are Your
Best Entertainment" Campaign.
The subject will present the
movie-going experiences Of q
typical American family, and
members of the family circle
will be portrayed by Mickey
Rooney, Lewis Stone, Cecilia
Parker, Fay Holden and Charles
Grapewin. The script will util-
ize in important scenes leading
players from all the Hollywood
studios.
The production goes before
the cameras today under the
direction of George B. Seit1.
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
'Noyer|ing' IS
At Little

The foreign film that has
proved the most important box
office item to be sent across the
Atlantic is back in town. The
Little Theater is showing
"Mayerling." This screen version
of an unhappy love affairs
ending is a touching cinema
effort. and Danielle Darrieux's
subsequent work in the Amer
ican-made "The Rage Of Paris"
increases the advisability Of an
other viewing of the picture that
introduced her to audiences in
this country.
That Rudolph, Of HapSburg,
was a virtual prisoner and that
he was enamored of the young
and beautiful Marie Vetsera is
known, but the death tale Of
Mayerling Castle has occasioned
much speculation. "Mayerling"
makes the story that Of a love
pact, and the treatment makes a
film of genuine merit.
The wide-eyed Danielle plays
her role appealingly, and
Charles Boyer does some OF his
best acting for the camera.
Director Anatole Litvak supplies
a deftneSS of technique which
constitutes a large portion Of
the pictures praiSeworthy
aspect. The musical score is the
creation of Arthur Honegger
whose name is not unknown to
devotees of contemporary
serious COMPOSITIONS.
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
MOVIE.
CLOCK

CAPT. OIRandloph Scott,
Joan Bennett, "The Texans" ="
II a. m, las, 4:35, 7:25, 1910
p. m. Stage, George Hall, p"
1855, 3:45, $50, 9:20 p. m.
PALACE-Don Ameche, Alice
Faye, Tyrone Power, "Alexan-
der's Rag-Time Band" l1:55
a. m, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:55
p. m.
COLUMBIA - Jane Withers,
keep Smiling" 1925 a. M,
1870, 3:35. $40. 7:45. $50
p. m.
R-K-O KEITH'S-Ginger Rog-
ers, Fred Astaire, "Carefree," I"
1870 a. m, lis, 3, 4:40, 6:25.
8:05, $50 p. m.
EARLE-Pat O'Brien, Marie
Wilson and James Cagney in
boy Meets Girl" 10 a. m,
1920, 2:40, sos, 7:25, 9:45
p. m. Stage, "Tony Martin,
1870 a. M, $50, :410, 6:35.
1855 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - Edward G..
Robinson, claire Trevor.
Amazing DR.. Clitterhouse,"
1885 a. m, 1885, 1925. 5:35.
1885, 9:40 p. m.
LITTLE DanielIe Darrjeux-
Charles Boyer in 'tMayerling. "
At IL a. M, 1870, 3:25. $780,
7:35 and $40 p. m.
TRANS-LUX-NewS and shorts,
10 a. m, to midnight, shows
IS minutes.
MT. VERNON (drive in)-"Stage
Door," 7:55, 10 D, m,
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
KFI1LEYGRAMS

Washington will welcome
Gene Ford's promotion to be
production manager of Loew's
Eastern division, with headquar-
ters on F Street Gene comes
from radio station WIN. where
he has been production and
program manager, and his new
position places him in charge
of stage shows at the Capitol,
the Century in Baltimore,
LoeW's in Richmond and Nor
folk, and such presentations,
using the stage, as are made
in Wilmington, Harrisburg and
Reading. His promotion also
brings good news for musicians
in Baltimore, for it restores
stage presentations to the Cen
tury Theater, a house without
living music for almost two
years. Present plan is to use
q concert group of about 40
musicians, alternating with a
2O-piece swing band. He pro-
duced the six "Going Native"
revues seen here, and was for
two years managing director Of
j the Capitol. When Division
Manager Carter Barron told
Vice President Joseph r. Vogel
Of Loew's that Gene was "in-
diSpenSable" in this territory,
the promotion was okayed. :.
Mr.. Ford will soon bring his
lovely wife, Katharine, or Kay,
his son, JiggSie, to a Connecti-
cut Avenue menage, where they
will await heir conditioning. ..
Gene was born in Portland,
Me-. . Almost next door to
your correspondent. But I
don't hold that against him. ..
Director John Ford Of Twen-
tieth Century-Fox is another
Portland neighbor who has
made his mark in the movies.
! ABOUT A NEW SHOW
7 The latest Clarke Booth
! comedy, kiss the Boys Good.
by" which will have its first
performance on any stage at the
National Theater, September 10,
Is arousing considerable inter
est. For it comes from the pen
of the smart playwright who
wrote "The Women" which
Norma Shearer will have as he1
next picture "A Brock Pember
ton bulletin advises: It's about a
mixture of cafe and cafeteria so
ciety gathered at Connecticut
week end There is something
about a suitably simple South
ern girl to play a heroine in 6
film version Of a best selling
novel Benay Venuta, who
plays the Hollywood star, is very
well known on the radio, playec
the lead here when Anything
Goes" was offered at the Ma
tional Theater Miss Venuts
also gained some front page at
| tention for a flying stunt
across country She took tn,
plane after a Hollywood break
fast, stopped off in Cleveland t.
sing q luncheon meeting, SAN
that same night in a New Yorl
night club. All done within /
hours, something Of a recor
two years ago Miss Venut
now has her own network pre-
gram on the radio Sunday aftel
moons.
WILL IT DIE, YES, YES
"A Tisket, a TaSket" will 500
be in the casket. Or will it?..
It seems to me it's been sum
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
Drums to Get
A PreVeW

Washington viii be among the
few key cities to be given an
advance glimpse of the motion
picture Drums" weeks prior
to the national release date.
Tonight United Artists organi-
zation, through which this
Technicolor thriller is being re-
leased, will play host to q Spe-
cial screening at the Rialto
Theater, at which many Of the
city's most prominent citizens
are expected to be present.
Subsequently it is expected to
be shown on either the Loew'S
Capitol or Palace screens.
Drums" is expected to emerge
as one Of the most exciting films
ever to be made, and it is a
stirring adventure on India'S
Northwest frontier.
Sabu, the handsome young
East Indian lad who first won
cinema fame in another Alex
ander Korda production, "Ele-
phant Boy" is said to be even
more charming as the little In
dian Prince whose bravery and
loyalty save a whole regiment
from slaughter at the hands Of
a power-mad potentate.
Sabu is one of a large and
distinguished cast that includes
Raymond Massey, Roger Live
sey, Valerie Hobson, David Tree,
Desmond Tester and a cast OF
5000. Zolton Korda directed.
and the film is entirely in Tech
nicolor.
The Monday night preview
will take on many aspects Of a
premiere.
The Washington times., 1938-08-29

500 times, more or less, the last
fortnight in this Jurisdiction
counting air waves, stage, night
clubs, moonlights, park and no
tel bands. But the worst is yet
to come. Paul Schwarz, who
is one of the new contact men
for the Musicians Union-and
a good one-stops by to say that
one of the Washington union
card men is making an arrange
ment of the tobacco auctioneer'S
chant for swing bands. Seems
to me that the words don't make
any sense, but, after all, what
floy-floy swing lyrics do make
sense. You guessed it. .Ambi.
tious composer, when he fin
ishes his novelty rhythm, hopes
to hear "Sold to the American
Tobacco Company"
MRS. WIGGS" AT OLNEY
Tonight at the Olney Theater
among-the trees, Mrs. Adelaide
Hubbard, former First Lady of
Boston, opens in MRS. Wigs Of
the Cabbage Patch"
BELASCO AUTO SHOW
First booking of the new sea-
son for the BeIascO Theater is
an auto show. One of the big
companies will round up its dis
tributOrS and dealers for q sneak
preview Of the new 1889 models.
%. Cincinnati is the home town
Of Tyrone Power Hence the
Shubert Theater there will play
"AIexander's Ragtime Band" for
seven weeks, followed with five
weeks of "Marie AntOinette," ,"
and then five weeks Of "Suez"
Ito be released), all Of which
will have Tyrone as handsome
leading man / trust that by
this time Tyrone has got "hOt, I"
since, from this perch, he looks
as though he might become the
1888 Buddy Rogers mean
that when you have leading
women as delectable as Norma
Shearer, Alice Faye, etc., the
idea is to clutch them as though
it was pleasure.
NORMAN CLARK COMEDY
If debutante Evalyn Mclean
really is interested in a dramatic
career-aS some columniStS say
Claude Grenecker writes me
that the MesSrS Shubert are
nightly interested. Norman
E. Clark of the Baltimore News
Post and Louis E. Schechter, ad-
vertising executive, have written
a comedy about a department
store called, "In Garfinkle'S
Window" Producer John
Golden liked it well enough to
pay $500 for an option, but
didn't produce it. .. Play has
now been acquired by Tom Kill
patrick, who promises a fall pro.
duction. You Can't Take It
With You." Pulitzer prize play
of 1887, has hung around so long
on Broadway, the movie of the
same has caught up with it. .
Columbia screen version Of the
play opens at the Music Hall on
Friday, and the best guess is
that the Sam Harris stage
production can't stand such op
position long.
Aside to Mrs. E. S. Thorne
am interested, and so, 1 think
would be readers Of this page
Send your memory souvenir In
a fortnight before George M
COhan arrives In "I'd Rather
Be Right"
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
InCondition

Robert Allen, young romantic
player on the goth Century-Fox
lot, believes in keeping tough
ened for his movie roles. He
is clearing single-handed a dense
growth of underbrush on a half
acre tract in Bel-Air, where he
will biuld a southern colonial
hnnnA
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
Miracle Racket to
Start Soon at RKO

Miracle Racket" with Sally
Eilers and Ann Minner in the
leading roles, will go before
cameras this week at RKO
Radio. B. P. Fineman will pro-
duce, Les Goodwins direct.
In the supporting cast will be
Lee Bowman, Paul Guilfoyle.
Cecil Kellaway, Jack Arnold,
Jonathan Hale and Alma
Kruger.
The Washington times., 1938-08-29

to beat Mickey Rooney.
COME ON, GET STARTED
Are you going into that $780,
900 Movie Quiz contest? Then
you'll be interested in these five
questions, which are some OF the
80 YOU must answer to win that
$5O,000 first prize. They are
based on pictures now showing
on the downtown screen, give
you a good idea of the contest.
In "Dr. Clitterhouse" at the
Metropolitan. How does Edward
G. Robinson escape from the fur
vault in The Amazing DR..
Clitterhouse"? (Check oneO
g BY crawling through the
transom.
9 BY accidentally stepping on
the fire alarm.
{ BY waving a fur piece out
the window.
& BY means of an acetylene
torch.
In "The Texans" showing at
the Capitol Theater. How did
Randolph Scott come to Texas?
,(Check one.)
G BY Stagecoach
,() On foot
( On horseback
In keep Smiling" At the
Columbia. Jane WitherS initiates
o group of movie stars, three OF
whom are: (Check one.)
9 Eleanor Powell, Deanna
Durbin, Bobby Breen.
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
Fans Help

Movie fans are building up
one of Tyrone Powers proudest
collections. During the filming
Of "Suez." they sent him more
than so photographs, sketches
and newspaper clippings about
his great-grandfather, the first
Tyrone Power and a celebrated
Irish actor Of his day, and his
second Tyrone Power, who died
in 1884. The young romantic
star is filling an elaborate album
with the mementos.
The Washington times., 1938-08-29
Gle a g S
and
Screenings
By Andrew R. Kelley

Monday roundup: You could call Ulysses Kerr, retired
Army sergeant best of Loews Palace Thea
ter without being far from the truth MoveGoer Kerr
saw Love Finds Andy Hardy IA times at the Palace topped
off with two more screenings of his avorte picture when it
moved down to the Columbia When saw him Friday he
was making his first visit to "Alexanders Ragtme Band,
"Cant tell how many times I'll see it, he said If
like picture we'll enough every day. Sorta bucks
me up added Mr. Kerr. I'D go to the movies if
was sure I'd see good When find one like is when
reneat His favorite star Well you'll have to 60 some