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Evening star., 1938-09-04

TRAVELERS hOmlng from the
surrounding countryside report
receiving shocks en- route, and
more may be expected next
week.
Generally the shock consists of
pretty girl in a familiar stance prod
ing provocative thumb through the
air. Ha, snorts the modern knight
errant, damsel in distress! He presses
the brakes of his steed and his steed
comes squealing to halt. Whereupon
from behind bushes, from behind cul-
verts and tree troup the damsel's COM
panions, complete with luggage. They
pour into the rumble seat and on the
running board. not waiting to hear
that mo- is the answer, and the covy
continued from there
However. no alarm need be felt
Since the van of this army of shock
troops has already reached Broadway,
this department is in position to re-
port they are merely actors returning
from summer jobs-happy, healthy.
tanned and broke About 100 has
swarmed back to town already and are
now chattering their way back and
forth among the mo casting" signs.
Which according to the Actors Equity,
leaves 900 still unaccounted for. They'll
be starting for home, though, next
week Labor Day is the official end of
the summer season, alias straw hat"
theater, alias Borscht Circuit, alias
less printable nicknameS,
A THOUGH the summer theater has
yet, despite the years of its exist
ence, to produce Broadway hit, it
had the most prolific season in its
history this year The lads and lassies
are coming back with the usual tales
OF working for room and board and
sunshine and art, or leading ladies
wandering dazed on the stage and read
ing their lines from the script, of
scenery collapsing, mosquitoes punctur-
ing, audiences laughing in the wrong
places and "students' arriving in the
nick of time with tuition fees to save
the theater for yet another week.
Which means that, though the summer
lshed institution and is on the way
to becoming big business, it's still rock
citing along on the same old harum-
scarum, hit-or- miss basis.
The major incidents of the season,
as far as public attention is concerned,
center around the bee that stung Sally
Rand on her callipygian curve and
hampered her already dismal per-
formance in Rain; the debut of Sim
clair Lewis as public actor (hes been
an actor all his life in private), and
the desperate effort of the radio
comedian and accordion player, Phil
Baker to make success of the lead
ing role in idiots Delight"
But there are weightier indications
OF the growing importance of this
tSee WOLFERT, Page D-2.)
Evening star., 1938-09-04

~
\ at M-G-M was surrepti-
~ tiously calling leading mem
bers of the cast Of Marie Antoinette"
and telling them, in strict confidence,
OF course. that sneak preview of the
picture was to be held that night in
certain theater in Balboa, suburb
Of Los Angeles.
Every one was pretty much excited.
1t was the first opportunity of the
cast and working crew to get a look
at an extravagant spectacle on which
they had been working for eight
months. Previous engagements were
Cancelled. The select few invited to
the sneak" prepared to be on hand
early
There was single exception, how
ever. When Louis B. Mayors sec
retary got Robert Morley-now being
hailed by fandom as the most magnetic
character actor uncovered since
Charles Laughton-on the telephone,
the actor politely declined
You see. am playing bridge with
some of my friends tonight" said
Morley. Il couldn't possibly go along"
1t didn't matter to Morley that he
had never seen himself on the screen,
for this was his first appearance 1t
didn't matter that the Hollywood
grapevine had scattered reports that
he had stolen the show. 1t didn't
matter that he was returning to
England the following week and
wouldn't get a chance to see the pro-
duction (even If he so desiredD for
several months. He had date to play
bridge!
That attitude is typical of the man
who has figured so prominently in
fandom's curiosity since the release
Of Marie Antoinette' He is inter-
ested in delivering good perform
ance. but when the jobs done he
can't see any reason to revive ex-
citement over it. He thinks that is
anti-climatic He doesn't believe in
replaying bridge hands, either.
Anticipating tidal wave OF in
terest in Morley, who plays the boor-
ish Dauphin. King Louis XVI of
ry-r--~Hy.N- a
Evening star., 1938-09-04
The Hours Are So Long
Alice Faye Likes the Money
But Not the Travail.
By Hubbard Keavy.
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
COOLIE coat And that's
n Alice exploded. "Why-vhy-" She nabbereasted
~ She didn't know whether to
the latter but she was beyond expressing herself.
Inc script said Alice cooie
But this isn't ordinary placated is
Evening star., 1938-09-04
.Unirnpressed
Is the Word
For Robert
Mr.. Morley Stole
First Film, but He's
Not Excited.
By Harold Hefernan.
YTNT
HOLLYWOO.

NE afternoon last June the
secretary of a top executive
at M-G-M was surrepti-
tiously calling leading mem
Evening star., 1938-09-04
Theaters End
The Summer
Barn Season
Straw Hats Send
Players Back
To Broadway.
By Ira " olferf.
NEW YORK.

NEW IORk.
.RAVELERS homing from the
surrounding countryside report
receiving shocks en- route, and
more may be expected next
Evening star., 1938-09-04

(See HEFFERNAN, Page D-2.)
Evening star., 1938-09-04

. EN- years is a long time for a
cinema leading man. When a
fellow stays up near the top of
L the HOLLYWOOD hean for that
Evening star., 1938-09-04

(see MACARTHUR, Page D-2.)
Evening star., 1938-09-04
Cinema Sheds
False Tears
Over Relics
Hollywood Watches
Ghosts of Its Past
Disappear.
By Douglas ". Churchill.

w YHEN the cinema sheds a
M tear it is likely to be of
v " glycerin, and its value,
more likely than not, Is
Evening star., 1938-09-04
Sone0fTheno
Work Hard,
Some Don't
Most of the Stars
axe Life Easv,
However.
By Sheilah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.

4 II ONDAY is Labor Day-as good
M an excuse as any to check
w the working habits Of our
4 4 always complaining stars.
Evening star., 1938-09-04

tSee WOLFERT, Page D-2.)
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
PURGE GOES ON
AS HITLER MAPS
POLICY
By PIERRE ]. HUSS

BERLIN. Feb. 7 0N.SO.
of the German
foreign office came to a standstill
today pending the return from
London of Joachim Won Ribben-
trop, newly-appointed foreig n
minister, who plans to reorganize
and "Nazify" it from top to bot
tom as an aftermath Of Reichs,
fuehrer Hitler's new purge Of
doubtful elements.
Won Ribbentrop is determined
to pep up" the entire German
foreign service and inject a more
fortnight policy into the Reich's
conduct of foreign affairs.
CLEAN UP CONTINUES
In the meantime, Hitler was in
close conference with his associ-
ates at his country retreat in
Berchtesgaden, while sharp cur
tailment of all army leaves indi-
Gated the speedy but quiet con,
tinuation of the Nazi party
cleanup.
The chief diplomatic problem
Continued on Page I, Col. A
The Washington times., 1938-02-07

commitments or alliances.
Opening the second week ot
hearings on the proposed $500,
100000 naval expansion program
the Navy's top spokesman stated
emphatically that his department
"haS no thought of obtaining as
siStance from any other nation.
CLARIFIES EARLIER REMARK
Chairman Vinson CD of Geor
gia elected the admiral'S aSSer
tions with a demand that Leahy
clarity" his testimony of last Fri
day when he offered to tell the
committee in secret session the
results of recent conversations be
tween this country and the British
admiralty.
"There was inferred from that
testimony that the Navy has for.
eign commitments" Vinson said.
''Would you like to clear that
up?"
Admiral Leahy then read the
following prepared statement:
II am very pleased to have
an opportunity to endeavor to
remove any misunderstanding
that any member of this COM
mittee may have obtained
through incomplete or faulty
reports of my testimony.
CITES INCREASE FACTORS
1T has been my endeavor
throughout this hearing to con-
vey to the committee accurate
information as to the Navy De
partment's understanding of the
purpose Of this authorization
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Get Out OvercOats!
Spring Now Over

Steadily falling temperatures
today will bring discarded over
coats and blankets back into popu-
larity this evening, the Weather
Bureau predicted today.
From a high of SO yesterday
warmest February day since 1882
the temperature dropped stead
lily throughout the night and will
continue to fall today until it
reaches a low of "a degrees, the
forecaSter predicted. The mer-
curry registered Is degrees at
40 a. m.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
i3O.DAY Term,
FINE ORDERED
FOR TOWNSEND
Court of Appeals
. Denies Plea

DR.. Francis E. Townsend, ell
derly sponsor of revolving old
age pension fund movement, must
serve a 30-day Jail sentence and
pay a $100 fine imposed in U. S.
District Court a year ago when he
was convicted of contempt Of the
U. S. House of Representatives.
The U. S. Court of Appeals, in
an opinion by Associate Justice
Justin Miller, affirmed the con-
viction and sentence imposed upon
Townsend, who caused a near riot
in a House committee hearing last
May, when he refused to submit
to further questioning regarding
his pension plan and Stalked out
of the committee room.
GRONER'S VIEW
Associate Justice Harold M.
Stephens filed a separate opinion
in which he partially dissented
from the majority, but his dissent
was not from the final conclusion
as to DR.. Townsend's guilt.
It was based on an interpreta-
tion of the legal definition of the
world "wilful" and he held that
before DR.. Townsend could be &C"
cused of "wilfully" refusing to
testify, there should be evidence
of evil intent and lack Of good
faith in his refusal.
TWO AIDES INDICTED
Indicted with DR.. Townsend
were two of his aides in the old
age pension movement but both
had changed their pleas to guilty
and were used as prosecuting wit
neSSes during the trial.
They were later given suspended
sentences after they had testified
that at a meeting of the board OF
directors of the Old Age Revolv-
ing Pensions Ltd, shortly before
the committee hearings, lit was
agreed that DR.. Townsend would
walk out of the committee hear
ings at the proper time for the psy-
Geological effect and the attend
ant publicity"
Leslie C. Garnett, then United
States attorney, and his assistant
Harry L. Underwood, conducted
the prosecution.
DR.. Townsend was represented
by attorneys Elisha Hanson and
Joseph A. Cantrel. They have not
indicated whether they will ask
the Supreme Court to review the
case,
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Ship Abandoned;
Set Afire by Crew

BOSTON, Feb. 7 GN.S0.-Dis'
masted during a gale and leaking
the Halifax IN. S. schooner
Leona was set afire by her crew
of six who took to rowboats, it
was learned today as the oil
tanker Harry F. Sinclair, jr.,
which rescued them II miles oft
Nantucket Lightship, neared Bos'
ton. The Leona was set afire to
prevent her becoming a menace to
shipping. The Coast Guard cutter
Algonquin was ordered to locate
and dynamite the derelict.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
AFL ExPELS
3 Clio UNIONS,
INCLUDING UNIV

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 7 G.N.SO-
The executive council of the
American Federation of Labor to-
day formally expelled threen major
unions affiliated with the Commit.
tee for Industrial Organization.
The three unions we're, the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America, the
principal union of the CIO and its
chief financial contributor; the
International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers, and the
Federation of Flat Glass workers.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Broadway Angel
Goes Under Knife

LOS ANGELES, Feb. Z Q.N.SO
Although still in a critical condi.
ton from an abdominal operation,
Rheba Crawford splivalo, evan
gelist and former "Angel Of
Broadway" today was reported
resting comfortably. She has
been strengthened by blood trans.
fusions. Miss Splivalo formerly
was co-paStor of Aimee Semple
McPherson's AngeluS Temple.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07

In the experiment, conducted
near Rochester, the two pilots
were in telephone communication
until two levers released the sea-
plane.
Major r. H. Mayo invented the
double plane to eliminate danger
Gus take offs Of planes heavily
loaded with fuel and cargoes.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Plane Launched off Back
Of Flying Boat in TEST

LONDON, Feb. Z G.N.SO-Avia-
Etion history's first Launching Of
one airplane from another in mid
air was voted a success by experts
today.
Designed for use in trans
atlantic service, a "pick-a-back"
seaplane scared from the top of q
big flying boat at TOO feet altitude.
Each machine had four motors.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Strong Quake
Hits Tokyo

TOKYO, Feb. 7 G.N.S0.-A
strong earthquake shook Tokyo at
HAS p. m. today.
The quake rocked a wide area
from Shizuoka to Nikko, with in
tensity most severe in the Tokyo
suburbs. Some railway and tele
phone lines we're disrupted but
first reports did not indicate heavy
casualties.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
DIED IN SLEEP

DIED IN SLEEP
The brief announcement of his
death was made by his son, Rus
sell. The rubber king died in his
sleep, it was said, but the an
nouncement did not give the cause
of his death.
The announcement by the son
said funeral plans have not yet
been completed but added that the
body will be returned to Akron,
Ohio, his home for burial.
The rubber magnate apparently
had been in good health, and only
last Saturday night he talked for
a time to a newspaper reporter
over the telephone.
Mrs. Firestone, the former Isa-
belle Smith. of Jackson, Mich, was
reported to have been at the home
when the body of her husband was
found. Although she did not ac-
company FireStone to Florida, she
arrived a few days later with O
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Firestone.
Firestone arrived at his winter
home, Harbel Villa, only a few
weeks ago, bringing with him a
corps of clerks and stenographers.
"JuSt because have come
South for the winter is no rea.
son why I should stop working"
he explained to reporters who
met him at the station.
ACTIVE UNTIL LAST
Despite his advanced years, Fire.
stone remained exceedingly active
until the last, and only recently
he announced a huge expansion
program for the Firestone Tire
and Rubber Company.
Firestone was born in Colum-
biana county, Ohio, December 20,
1868 and became engaged in the
rubber business while young
man. In 1900 he founded the
Firestone Tire and Rubber com.
pany, using only II employees at
the beginning, but through the
years he built of it one of the larg-
est rubber firms in the world.
In 1922 he led the campaign
against the British restriction of
crude rubber, a campaign that led
to the breaking of the Strangle-
hold which England had held on
the rubber industry for many
years. A few years later, he
leased huge tracts of land in
Liberia, on which were developed
huge rubber plantations.
WROTE TREATIES
In addition to his industrial
work, he authored two books on
the development Of the rubber
industry-"Rubber, Its History
and Development" and Men and
Rubber"
(FirestOne'S obituary on Page 14)
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
100 MarOOned
On n. Y. Ferry

TARRYTOWN, N. Y, Feb. 7
U.N.S0. After being marooned
for three hours in the fog
shrouded. ice-piled Hudson River
while the ferryboat Manadnock
was getting untangled from a
buoy chain, 100 passengers pro.
ceeded to their destinations today.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
President Talks to Scouts
On Nationwide HOOk-Up

eighth anniversary of their or.
ganization. On the program will
be Walter W. Head, president of
the Boy Scouts, and DR.. James
E. West, chief scout executive.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07

President Roosevelt will ad.
dress the Boy Scouts of America
today in a nationwide broadcast
at 6:45 p. m. in connection with
the celebration Of the twenty.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Nazi Ship Sinks,
l8 Feared Lost

BERLIN. Feb. 7 0.N.SO-Eight.
cen men of the crew were feared
drowned last night when the Ger,
man freighter Richard Borchardt
foundered in a North Sea storm
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
MARKET PACT
Drawn BY AAA
IS VALIDATED
Independents Lose
Year-LOng Fight

Year-LOng Fight
Paving the way for rigid Federal
control over local milk prices, the
Court of Appeals today set aside
an injunction which led to suspen.
sion of the controversial milk mar.
keting agreement year ago.
The injunction was obtained by
group of independent dairy farm.
ers, who contended the agreement
would raise the price Of milk to
District consumers without con-
ferring any appreciable benefits
on the producers.
ORDER SUSPENDED
Secretary Wallace suspended the
order signed by the President to
enforce the marketing agreement
on February 8, 1897, after an in
junction obtained by the independ-
ent dairymen in District Court
made its enforcement impossible.
Since then the Federal Govern.
ment has made no attempt to reg
ulate prices in the Washington
milk shed.
The order can be revived by an
administrative order of Secretary
Wallace, but AAA officials today
said they did not know what
action will be taken until a
thorough study is made of the ap.
pellate court decision
CONSUMERS VIGILANT
One of the last orders issued
under the agreement increased the
price paid the farmer from $2.77
to 1924 per hundred weight. This
schedule expired in April, 1887.
Donald Montgomery, consumers
counsel for the AAA, and Mrs.
John Boyle, jr., chairman of the
Washington Consumers Council,
said they will watch developments
closely to protect the interests of
local consumers.
Mrs. Boyle vigorously protested
PRONUNCIATION of the marketing
agreements at hearings in the sum.
mer of 1886. contending it was
unfair to consumers and farmers
alike.
The controversial agreement was
promulgated by the Secretary of
Agriculture on September IT, 1896.
A large group of dairymen In
nearby Maryland and Virginia
filed the injunction suit in United
States District Court within two
weeks after PRONUNCIATION Of the
order.
CITES POWER CASE
"AS to appellants first conten-
tion, that appellees have no
standing to maintain the suits"
Justice Justin Miller said in the
decision, lit is settled law that
the courts have no power to con-
slider in isolation and annul an
act of Congress on the ground
that it is unconstitutional; but
may consider that question only
when the Justification for some
direct injury suffered or threat
ened, presenting a justifiable is
sue, is made to rest upon such
an act. The term direct injury
is used in its legal sense, as mean
ing a worng which directly re-
suits in the violation of a legal
right. If the act complained of
does not violate any of the per.
sons legal rights. he has no
cause to complain"
In this Interpretation of the
law, Justice Miller made reference
to the ruling of the United States
Supreme Court in the recent Ala
bama Power Company case in
which the power company lost an
Injunction to prevent the PWA
from allocating funds to munich.
palities Tor publicly owned power
plants.
The only legal rights of the
dairymau which appear, Justice
Miller said, arise under their con-
tracts with the handlers of milk
which they produce, and the only
violation of rights which could be
threatened would be by a breach
~
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
JAP PANESE DENY
GIANT WARSH|PS
ARE BEING BUILT
BY JAMES r. YOUNG

TOKYO, Feb. 7 G.NS0.-EX.
cept for denying she is building
or intends to build 43.O00-ton bat
tleshipS. Japan today "regretfully''
declined the request of the United
States, Great Britain and France
for information on her naval
plans.
In the midst of a storm of press
and governmental accusations
against the foreign powers for
their virtual ultimatum demand
ing naval information, the foreign
office merely issued a perfunctory
denial of the 43,000-ton battleship
reports.
GOVERNMENT SORRY
But at the same time, Japanese
newspapers quoted the navy min
istry as saying:
after serious consideration,
the government has reached the
conclusion that there is no nee
essity for informing other ma
tions of its naval plans"
The papers added that the gov
ernment felt "very sorry"
To all requests for amplification
Of his simple denial. the foreign
office spokesman turned a deaf
ear.
PLANS KEPT SECRET
But he did pledge, with what
seemed to be an attempt to
mollify occidental opinion, that
Japan was ever-ready "to consider
any proposals based on the funda'
mental principles Of non-menace
and non-aggression."
The foreign office spokesman
thus answered two of the ques,
tions asked concurrently by
America, Britain and France, but
much of his friendly tone was
drowned out in the reported de.
ciSion of high naval officials, at a
meeting today, to keep Japan's
naval plans a secret.
Newspapers dug deep into their
supply of adjectives to find abusive
words to apply to the tripartite
notes, calling them absurd, un-
reasonable. insolent. naughty, ar
rogant and intimidating."
TT is hardly necessary to add
that Japan will reject, point
blank, this insolent attempt to
interfere with Japan's rights"
said Nichi Nichi, summing up
the general opinion.
(Other details on Page y
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Leahy Denies Navy
In Joint Action Pact
Admiral Says u. S. Defense Plans Are to
MOUe Alone in Traditional Way'

QNS In unmistakably clear terms, Admiral William D.
Leahy chief of naval operations denied today before the
House Naval Affairs Committee that the Navy has foreign
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
Firestone, Tire
King, Succumbs
At Miami Home
Magnate Passes in Sleep at Age of 60;
Akron Rite Planned

MIAMI, Feb. GNS -Harvey Samuel Firestone, famed
rubber magnae and friend of Henry Ford and the late
Thomas A. Edison found dead in bed at his palaa winter
home in Miami Beach early today.
Hew as SO years old last December 20.
The Washington times., 1938-02-07
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair, colder tonight, minimum tempera-
ture about "a; Tuesday fair; moderate
northwest winds. "Details on Page 12J
The Washington times., 1938-10-08

sible BECAUSES that were sug-
gested we think that because
Cecil Blumenthal is not exactly a
pure Aryan name and anti
Semitism is growing strong in
Italy and because of the trou-
bled international situation are
the most probable.
But what is certain is that the
beautiful Villa Marlia (once the
home of Napoleon's sister) in
Lucca, Tuscany, closed its doors
to the glittering and blue-blooded
members of European Society,
many of which had arrived before
the cancellations of the party were
issued and that the Pecci-
Blunts, who are American citi-
zens, will leave Italy for while
and that the fiasco caused
more comment than if the party
had been given :. Maybe it could
be an idea for our Washington
hostesses? Or better not =.
we don't like to talk about parties
which DON'T take place!
Grand Duke Cyril of Russia,
who is recognized by most of the
exiled Czarists as the legitimate
Emperor of all the Russias, is dam
gerously ill in Paris The White
Rooshians have already sworn
obedience to his young son, Grand
Duke Vladimir Countess van
der traten-Ponthoz, the wife Of
the Belgian Ambassador to Wash
ington, is expected back here in
about a month with her cute 15-
year-old daughter, Betty =. Char
lie, who is serving his military duties
as a cavalry officer in the Belgian
army, was posted on guard at a
The Washington times., 1938-10-08
By igor CaSSin1

bridge mined with dynamite dur
ing these recent days of political
troubles The serious trouble,
though, was that in case of Ger
man invasion, Charlie was sup
posed to blow up with the bridge!
.. I hate to think how Charlie
was waiting for the news!
Big preparations are being made
in New York for the wedding of
Anne Child to Charlie Dick, on
Saturday, October Is -. . The night
before the ceremony Charlie will
furnish a dinner for 80 or 40 of
his closest friends and the we'd
ding ceremony (not the recep-
tion) in the chapel of st. Bar
tholomew's Church will be quite
small, too Annie and Charlie,
after their marriage, will live half
of the year up North and the other
half in little town in Texas near
the Mexican border, where Char
lies parents, the Langhorne Dicks,
have coal mines and truck gar
dens Muffin" and "Ivy"
Bacon, charming daughters of the
late Representative Robert Low
Bacon, also will be missed this
winter in Washington, cause
they'll both go to college some place
in Longuyland!
"Debu-taunts," jitterbugs and
all went to the dinner-dance OPEN
ing at the Russian Troika last mite
Il take off my hat (even if I am
not wearing a hat nowD to
Helen Hamilton for the really in
genious Gypsy Revue, the fas-
cinating music, the excellent Rus
sian delicacieSI