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HOSPITAL NoTEs

William Weddelton was admitted to St. Anns Hospital Sunday for medical care
 Vernon Ellman, a medical patient at St. Ann's Hospital, was admitted for treatment yesterday.
 Frank AlforS entered St. Ann's Hospital Saturday night to receive medical attention.
 Mrs. Frank Wood and baby girl were dismissed from St. Anns Hos- pital Saturday.
 A medical patient at the St. Ann's Hospital is Lizzie Peterson. She was admitted for care Sunday.
 The following patients at the Government Hospital u n d e went tonsilectomies this morning: Helen James, Selina James, Inez Johnson, Grace Tonsgard and Peter Howard.
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CARD PARTY

At Trinity Hall Friday, November 4, pm. Pinochle and bridge; pub lie invited-50c. adv.
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WALTHERs RETURNING

WALTERS RETURNING
 MT. and Mrs. A. H. Walther left for Juneau on the steamer Bar anof.
 MT. Walther, an employee of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Con- pany, left here about month ago and was married in the south. Fol- lowing the ceremony the young couple toured the States.
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JUNEAU WOMAN.s CLUE

Meeting Tuesday, 2 pm, in the Light Company Pent House.
 MRS. c. c. RULAFORD, adv. Secretary
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FOR SALE-5-room house in Doug- las. Apply Warmers Grocery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-31

Dr. STEvES says. Comfortable feet are the key to happiness" :" Room 301, Goldstein Bldg. adv.
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FOR SALE-Late model car. Run less than 5000 miles. Will take trade. Write Empire B 99.
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FOX SALE

FOR SALE-Latc 33 Tudor Ford V-8; exceptionally good condition
 Phone Green 462. Cash preferred
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WANTED

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 FOR RENT SLEEPING ROOM in private home. 437 Seward St. ROOMS FOR RENT-Phone Green 705.
 FOR RENT - Partly furnished house. Inquire Snap Shoppe. ROOM with bath in private home; gentleman preferred. Call Black APT, after pm call Green APT. FOR RENTING offiLe rooms in First National Bank Bldg. Inquire at bank.
 ,COZy, warm, furn. apts. Light, water. dishes, cooking utensils and bath. Reasonable al Seaview
 MISCELLANEOUS DUTCH When the bears be- gin to hibernate. just put Pres tone in your cars. Dutch's Garage and Wrecking Yard DIAMOND T TRUCKS.
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FOR SALE-Canaries. POP 9th St. FOR SALE-U & I Lunch Owner quitting business. Write 20. Box 2274 or phone 334. FOR SALE-City Float Beer Parlor. Phone 541 after pm.
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TURN your old gold into value,
 cash or trade at Nugget Shop.
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MISCELLANEOUS

DUTCH SAYS-When the bears be- gin to hibernate. just put Pres tone in your cars. Dutch's Garage and Wrecking Yard. DIAMOND T TRUCKS.
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JOIN OUR Dollar-a- Week Club.
 Channel Apparel Shop.
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John Hahn, a member of the office staff of the Columbia Lum- Der Company at Juneau, is busi ness visitor in Sitka
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Squadron VP16, U. s. naval air force. temporarily stationed at Jap onski Island, entertained a number of their Sitka friends at a Hal lowe'en party Saturday evening, October %, at the base.
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NEWS ITEMS
 FROM SITKA

SITKA, Alaska, Oct. 29.-(Spec- ial Correspondence) Mrs. Harry Hagen left last week for Tacoma where she was called by the serious illness of her father.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-31

pr. H. J. Hodgins, Hugo Fred erickson, Theodore Kettleson and Filler Hansen, left last Tuesday on the boat Elsie, piloted by Louis Tisboro, for a ten-day hunting trip to visit ports in Chatham Straits.
Evening star., 1938-03-28
THREE DIE IN CHAIR
|NBELLEFONTE,PA.
Slayer of Woman and Girl
and Two Desperadoes
Are EIeCtr0cuted.
~ the Associated Press.

BELLEFONTE, Pa, March 28.-
Three young men who met for the
frst time in Rockview prisons death
house died within II minutes today.
the first triple execution in Pennsyl-
vania in four years.
They were Ralph Hawk. 2l-year-old
Franklin County farmer convicted of
the torch Staying" of his sWeethearts
mother and sister, and two despera-
does, Fred Reibaldi, 81, and Albert
Gregg, 80, both of Philadelphia.
The heavy-set, black-haired Hawk
was the first to die. He walked
steadily to the chair.
He had announced he was ready
to die" and silently watched the straps
adjusted. The current was turned on
at 1881 am. Three minutes later,
the prison physician announced he
was dead
Reibaldi and Gregg followed quickly.
Reibaldi staggered into the room
between two guards, gazed around
the chamber and called out so long
warden. Good luck to you. That's
ALL
As the mask was fixed ne attempted
to speak again and was still mumbling
As the current was turned on at 1926
He was dead three and a half min
utes later.
Gregg. sobbing spasmodically, glumly
watched the straps fastened. The
switch swung down at l2:42 and he
was dead three minutes later.
Hawk confessed he burned to death
Mrs. Hazel GelwiX and her daughter
Helen, Is, and unsucessfully sought
in 1887 to kill his fiancee, Kathryn
GelWix, in an attempt to escape mar
riage. Kathryn disclosed at the trial
she was to become a mother.
Reibaldi, a paroled convict. held up
q motorist at a stoplight in 1887 and
robbed him of $40. As he started to
flee, two policemen ran toward him
He killed one of the officers, Maurice
Handloff, but the other captured him.
Gregg, paroled convict from Illinois
Penitentiary and former resident Of
Milwaukee. killed c. Morgan knight
2s-year-old Philadelphia bond broker
in shooting his way out of Philadel-
phia department store after holding ur
cashier on the eighth floor. He was
captured as he lodged into a hotel
across the street.
Evening star., 1938-03-28
FOOTPRINTS OF 1938'
DRESS TRIAL TONIGHT
Entire Cast Of 1000 to Assemble
for First Full Rehearsal.
Opens Thursday.

First dress rehearsal of "Hoofprints
of 1885," costumed pageant to be
presented in five performances at Fort
Myer. beginning Thursday night. will
be held tonight, when the entire cast
of more than 1000 persons will be as
sembled after several weeks of inten-
sive separate rehearsing OF the various
acts and scenes.
Capt. John B. Reybould has de-
signed gorgeous costumes to make the
pageant one of the most colorful ever
attempted by the Army post. Those
taking part in scenes from the life Of
Tamerlane, when he conquered q
world which was ruled from the saddle.
will wear gowns and robes of the type
that were the rage in his day around
the capitals of Asia.
The pageant is divided into three
parts. The second part, The Ballet
of Horses" will feature Capt. Isaac
L. Kits and American Lady in waltzes,
together with the artillery march and
the hunt ride. The last part. Life
and Death on the Prairie" will show
the hazards encountered during the
days of the prairie schooners and
early settlement of the West.
Evening star., 1938-03-28
HULL'S PLAN STUDIED

LONDON. March % (P.-Secretary
OF State Hull's proposal for establish
ment of an international committee to
aid political refugees from troubled
European lands was studied today at a
conference of officials of the foreign
Office and home office.
Officials previously said the proposal
was receiving the most sympathetic
consideration" of the British govern
ment.
Evening star., 1938-03-28
P. W. A. WILL OPEN
KEY WEST HIGHWAY
175.Mile Overseas Road Will Be
Used Tomorrow for First
Time Since 1885.

An overseas highway, linking Key
West, Fla, with the mainland for the
first time since 1885, will be opened
tomorrow. the Public Works Admin
iStration announced today.
Utilizing railroad bridges, partially
washed away by the 1885 hurricane,
the P. w. A. has constructed a 175-
mile highway between Miami and the
southernmost city in the United
States.
A P. w. A. loan of $3600,0OO en-
abled the Overseas Road and Toll
Bridge District to purchase the right
of way and reconstruct the IL bridges
for highway purposes. The road has
been hard surfaced for its full length.
From 1885 until the present trav-
elers to Key West were forced to use
ferries across two long stretches be-
tween keys.
Evening star., 1938-03-28

Needs, has recommended to the SEN
ate Committee on Unemployment and
Relief q flexible national program of
relief to serve all on an equal basis.
He declared in q statement sent
to the committee that the majority Of
the newly destitute unemployed have
had to go on home relief during the
recession, rather than on w. P. A.
1T is unfair that the large group
on home relief should receive an aver
age of only $22 q month and those on
Evening star., 1938-03-28

w. p. A. $50 q month";" Mr.. Burns
said. "Such q situation need not and
did not exist under F. e. r. A."
Mr.. Burns proposed joining OF Fed
eral, State and local governments in
a unified system by which there would
be adequate relief for all and special
treatment for none.
Evening star., 1938-03-28

Empowered to Enforce Arbitration in
All Industrial Disputes" Catholic
University will take the negative side.
The debate will be held at McMahon
Hall on the school campus.
Evening star., 1938-03-28
w. P. A. TERMED FAILURE
I'm Meeting 'EMERGENCY

Community Mobilization Head
Urges National Relief to
Serve All Equally.
Charging failure Of the w. P. A. as
an emergency measure, Allen T.
Burns, executive director OF the
Community Mobilization for Human
Evening star., 1938-03-28
DEBATE ON n. R. 1. B.
Catholic q. and W. and L. Teams
Will Meet Tonight.

The Shahan Debating Society team
Of Catholic University will oppose q
team from Washington and Lee Uni
versity at 8:15 O'Clock tonight on the
subject, Resolved, That the National
Labor Relations Board Should be
Evening star., 1938-03-28
Fraternity Club to Meet.

The weekly luncheon OF the Wash
ington Interfraternity Club will be
held at 1890 pm. tomorrow at Wes-
ley Hall, 1903 X street NV.
Evening star., 1938-03-28

The Oriental woman's hair is long,
thick, absolutely straight and Of q
wonderful glossy blackness.
Evening star., 1938-07-23
Winning Contract.
BY THE FOUR ACES.

David Burnstine. Mervin D. Maier.
Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken.
worlds leading team -of-four. inventors
of the system that has beaten every
other system in existence)
Evening star., 1938-07-23

THE Union Savings Bank g. Trust
Co. OF Davenport. Iowa. faced q
crisis on September 80, 1881. Some one
started run on the bank Then
Fred label. vice president Of the in
stitution, got an idea. A jazz band
was hired to play popular selections
from the balcony. Many actually re-
deposited their money which they
had just taken out!
Next morning found the Union Saw
ings Bank back on q normal operat-
ing basis.
Aged Automobile.
Seventeen years ago Gus Gsiney,
Dunn. N. c., Negro, bought an auto
mobile for $500 cash. The dealer to
close the bargain, threw in gallons
Of gasoline.
Happily, Gainey drove and drove
until he ran out of gas The speed
ometer showed 100 miles. Disgust
edly, Gainey pushed the car under a
shed and decided it was too much Of a
financial strain to keep it in gas.
Last spring Gainey died and among
his effects was found the car Of 1921
vintage. The speedometer still showed
100 miles.
Evening star., 1938-07-23
PLAY Safe.

THE winning contract player Is one
who cheerfully gives up over
tricks in order to play for his con-
tract in the safest possible manner.
BY this is meant that he visuslizes
about the worst distribution possible
and proceeds to play the hand on that
basis, cheerfully conceding one or even
two tricks as long IS his contract IS
still in sight. There are about a half
dozen well-known safety plays, but
In addition 4 resourceful declarer can
always manage to dig up one 4 little
out of the ordinary. Here Is . hand
that was chucked because declarer
went after an overtrick.
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East West vulnerable.
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North. East. South. West.
| 4 Pass ~ "a
~ Pass Pass Pass
West opened the ace of spades, then
followed with the ace Of diamonds.
He now shifted back to . spade and
declarer, expecting to take the rest of
the trick, promptly trumped In
dummy. The contract was now lost
Declarer led q low club to his queen
and followed with the ace and q small
trump. East now showed up with four
trumps, and declarer received another
Jolt when the same player trumped
the ace of clubs. Declarer over
trumped and obtained one more run
in dummy. He wound up three tricks
short of his contract.
True, the hand had broken badly,
but it should still have been made.
All declarer had to do was to pass the
second spade and let East win the
trick with his king. If East then re-
turned a trump, the club suit could
have been established by merely ruff
flng one club with the ace Of trumps.
Dummy's four trumps would have
taken care Of East's. On any other
return declarer would have won . trick
with each Of his two black queens
and, in addition, would have taken
eight tricks by cross-runlng-a simple
safety play that was completely over
looked.
Copyright, 1938)
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Beverly Theater
To Open Soon

Newest in Warner Bros neighbor-
hood theater chain, the Beverly, on
Fifteenth street NE. between Ten
nessee avenue and E street, will open
Friday, December %.
Described as a SISTER theater" to
Warmers Penn, Sheridan, Uptown
and Calvert Theaters-all of which
were opened in the last three years
the Beverly will seat 1000 persons
on one floor. It was designed by
John Eberson. noted architect.
The Beverly will be operated by
Warner Bros. under a long-term
lease arranged with the Kass Realty
Co. OF Washington, the owners and
builders.
Through Harry E. Lohmeyer, Dis
trict manager for Warner theaters
in Washington, John j. Payette,
Warmers zone manager, also an
nounced today that Arthur Kilburg
will be manager of the Beverly. Mr..
Kilburg goes to the new theater
from the Apollo, where he occupied
similar post.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"Our Town." Thorn
ton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize play:
$3.50 pm.
Wardman Park-"High Tor" the
Civic Theater's production of the
Maxwell Anderson play: 8:30 pm.
Earle-"Comet Over Broadway"
Kay Francis new starring picture:
II am, 1:55, ABS, tbs and 9:55
pm. Stage shows: l, 3:45, 6:25 and
9:05 pm.
Capitol-"Dramatic School," with
Luise Rainer the prize pupil: 11:1O
am, 1:50, 4:35, tbs and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 1855, 1886, $40 and
8 pm.
Palace-"The Citadel" absorbing
story of a doctors struggle for the
right career: 11:3O am, 2, 4:3O, 7:O5
and 9:35 pm.
Metropolitan-"Angels With Dirty
Faces" Jimmy Cagney gives the
Dead End" kids some lessons: II 80
am, 1:30, $3.50, 5:25, 7:35 and
9:35 pm.
Columbia-"If I Were King" ad-
venture with Ronald Colman as Viii
lon, the gutter poet: IL, 2:25, 4:55,
7:20 and $50 pm.
Belasco-'Moonlight Sonata" with
Paderewski playing it and other fine
music: Ais, sos, 8 and 9:55 pm.
sKeith's-"Little Tough Guys in
Society,"" Park avenue invaded by a
gang of back-street brats: IL, 2
4, 6, 8 and 10 pm.
Little-"Forever Yours" with a
generous portion of Beniamino Gil
gli's songs: 1l:50 am, 1855, 3:55
$50, 7:50 and 9:45 pm.
Evening star., 1938-12-14


Rachmaninoff recital and always
the great compositions that can
never be heard too often.
Mr. Rachmaninoff's reserve and
dignity is so much a part of his
personality that they have a charm
of their own. But more interest
ing still is his power to put himself
in a contemplative mood from the
very beginning and, apart from the
atmosphere of a concert hall, weave
into his music all the thoughts and
ideas so discovered. From that in
ner realm he sends out music, care
fully preparing it for what it must
do, and leaves the rest to the lis
tener. And so marvelously wrought
are these phrases of beautiful sound
that no one can miss nor remain
Indifferent to their message.
So it was last night. Without any
effort toward gaining an effect
either by a display of his superb
technique or temperamental out
bursts of emotion, he played with
complete simplicity that carried the
greatest power of projection. There
is beautifully insidious quality in
all that he does that registers more
surely than the apparent emotional
ism of other artists.
One felt it at its peak particularly
in the poetical presentation of Liszt's
"Sonetto del Petrarca," in his own
prelude in G major" and in the
IL "Preludes" of Chopin which he
programmed. In these, Rachmani-
noff's originality as an artist, and
the peculiar character of his pianis-
tic talent shone supreme. His COM
mand of polyphony, his clear in
sight into the reason of a phrase
and the trueness of his style are
more important than his facile and
sparkling technique.
Two rarely heard works, Rameau's
variations" and Beethoven's so
nata, opus 3d." were axoong the
first numbers he played Joined
with the Bach ''Toccatasin E minor"
they gave the artist the occasion
for demonstrating his fine feeling
for purity of line and classic dig
nifty. The three movements of the
Beethoven sonata, LES Adieux,"
"L'Absence" and lie Retour," do not
quite live up to the romantic titles
nor are they Beethoven in his freest
and most inspired moments. Parts
of the second movement and the
Evening star., 1938-12-14

to steal or buy the mNlntain from
the f1ercely stubborn Van Dorm.
The bandits come because they are
fleeing the police after a bank rob-
berry, and the police naturally arrive
because they want the bandits. It
is hard to believe that any dramatist
could give unity and meaning to
such an oddly assorted group and
the material they represent, but Mr..
Anderson did so and we'll earned the
prize his genius won for it.
Backing him up splendidly in this
production, directed by Mr.. Strick-
land, is one of the finest casts in
Civic .Theater annals. Heading it
is Harrison Libbey as Van Dorm.
To the role of the liberty loving
Van, the chap whose kingdom of
beauty and love is the mountain he
refuses to sell to the trap rock COM
pany, Mr.. Libbey brings the same
excellence which made his playing
of Johnny johnson last year such
telling portrait. The part of the
half-ghost, half human Lise, the
beautiful girl of another, earlier
age with whom Van Dorm falls in
love, is played effectively by Frances
Brunt. Miss Brunt's sole difficulty
is in her reading of some of An
dersons complex musical speeches
in the first act. Completing the
triangle is Virginia Rand as Judith,
who represents the warm, human
love of Van Dorn's life, but who
also represents deal of impatient
jealousy for his love for the noun
tain.
The gusty comedy of High Tor"
is played by one of the most happily
cast pairs you ever saw, Kenneth
Banghart and Harry Westcott.
Theirs is big and trying task for
the play is full of abdominal laugh
ter. Another splendid bit of comedy
capering is that offered by Richard
Kreuzburg as De Witt, the ghostly
sailor who is alternately truculent
and wistful fellow. Rudolph Watson
makes the philosophic Indian a vital
element of the play.
William M. Girvan earns another
medal for his High Tor" settings,
especially for the reproduction Of a
steam shovel boom and bucket right
there before your eyes.
On the whole, High Tor" repre-
sents one of the most worthy efforts
of the Civic Theater.
Evening star., 1938-12-14

WHICH Is precisely tIlc 1dIc ClldGs
befell the professional cast headed
by Burgess Meredith when the
drama first was performed two
years ago.
The extremely long and difficult
first act presented the chief stymie
to the large cast, due in measure
to the fact that it does not repre-
sent the playwright's most terse and
adroit writing. Then, too, the pat
tern of the authors blank verse
sometimes proved too complicated
for the smoothness of reading
which shows what a melodious and
eloquent fellow Mr.. Anderson can
be when he goes Heavens -storming.
Against its faults, the play is
dotted with some luminous char
acterizations which prove how far
the Civic group has come under
the intelligent direction of F. Cowles
Strickland. Mr.. Anderson's figures,
real and ghostly. and more varied
than another playwright would dare
to make them, acquire genuine sub
stance through the talents which
Civic has mustered in its produc-
ton group.
High Tor" which won the crit
les prize two seasons ago, is pre-
sented here for the first time 1t
reflects Mr.. Anderson in one of his
most intense moods, tampering as
is his won't (and j. B. Priestly's)
with time and space. The play
takes its name from the mountain
which is its locale, a mountain
whose owner symbolizes the lover
Of individual freedom whom Mr..
Anderson sees-sometimes merrily.
sometimes in hurt anger-being
swallowed by a rapacious, evil sys-
tenn.
1t is a strange, fantastic aggrega-
tion of people with whom the play
wright surrounds his symbolic Van
Van Dorm. They include band of
ghostly Dutch sailors lost on the
mountain for 200 years, pair of
craven realtors, bandit trio, a sad,
philosophic Indian, and a group of
State policemen. Mr. Anderson
makes it seem altogether logical
sometimes uproariously funny and
sometimes hauntingly beautiful, that
they all should be there. The Dutch
sailors, and the lovely wife of one
of them, belong because it is just the
wild place where such group might
be lost for 200 years. The real estate
men are present because they want
Evening star., 1938-12-14

third are loosened from a certain re-
straint while the first is chiefly in
terestlng for its treatment of the
short initial theme.
Twelve of the Chopin "Preludes,"
played with exquisite care, and
Schubert's delightful 'Impromptu'
and "Rondo' completed the pro-
gram. Except. 'of course, for the
encores for which almost the entire
audience waited. And the beloved
Rachmaninoff Prelude" was among
them, greeted with spontaneous ap-
plause at the sounding of its first
ponderous chords. incidentally. how
different and how full of color is
the composers playing of it. some
thing that should be noted by many
who essay it.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Blackfriars Guild
Presents 'Maeic'

The Blackfriars Guilds production
of G. K. Chesterton's Magic" pre-
Sented last night at st. Paul's Audi
torium, will be repeated tonight and
tomorrow night.
The play, one Of the only two
Chesterton ever wrote, is the story
of conjurer, who, faced by skep-
tical audience, performs feat of
magic that is so good he even mysti-
fles himself
The cast includes Denis Connell,
Charles Grunwell. Carleton Ayers,
Loren Freund, Edna Evans, Mary
Olive o'Connell and Paul Whip
peau.
Magic" is directed by Walter
Kerr. on the teaching staff at Catho-
lie University.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
F. B. |. Group Stages
PLAY Tomorrow

THE Enemy" Charming Pollock's
indictment of war, will be staged
tomorrow night at Roosevelt High
School Auditorium by the F. B. I.
Players.
The cast includes Herman Spilker,
Helen Burhart, John OLeary, Don
Chase, Mildred Musy, Sam Cotton,
Peggy Chamberlain, David Hodge
Baker, I'd, and Grant Stetter.
w. Cleon Skousen is directing.