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Evening star., 1939-02-28

there is now some talk that Victor
Fleming will be unable to take over
the dictatorship of the epic. Oh,
dear! Will difficulties on this pic
ture never end?
Garbo fiddles while Rome burns.
In other words, Greta plays tennis
at Santa Barbara while Ernst Lu-
bitsch and Producer Bernie Hyman
are fighting over what to do about
"Ninotchka." Hyman wants to shoot
it as is. Lubitsch wants to rewrite
the script. If Lubitsch has his way
the picture, already long delayed,
will not be ready for another month
at least. If Hyman has his way,
Lubitsch says he will not direct the
picture. And Garbo continues with
her tennis.
Hedy Lemarr does a daily work.
out in Don Loomis' gymnasium. She
is hoping to reduce her hip meas
urement. Why? 1t has always
seemed all right to me Frank
Shields, back in Hollywood for a
brief stay, tells me he has just con-
cluded the happiest year of his life.
I've been working in a legitimate
Observation-Disclosures" he adds
Lew Ayres comments to this writer
on the publicized rumor of his love
for Norma Shearer: when you're
at studio you have to fit in with
its policies-or you're in trouble"
X X X X
High lights of the academy award
dinner Shirley Temple giggling
and stretching toward the high
microphone. "At the studio" she
complains, they bring it down tc
my level" A chair is brought, on
which Shirley stands. And now she
has to crouch because the micro
phone is too low Alice Faye
with orchids from here to there
leans silently and somberly against
Boss Daryl Zanuck's shoulder as
they try to dance on the crowded
ballroom floor =. Mrs. Basil Rath-
bone, to Hedy Lamarr-"Hello, dar-
ling. Where have you been?"
called and called yesterday and
couldn't get you'' Dorothy La
mour is asked by Escort Wynn Roc
omora, Are you cold?" "Oh, no.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Carlo Continues Her Tennis
While the Studio Argues
Producer Bernie Hynan and
Ernst Lubitsch Can't Agree
About 'Nin0tchka'
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM,


Caudette Colbert receiving slightly than $4,000 week
her current film Its Wonderful World largest
salary record? There picture
three and half weeks Chats because Woody
BY the Miss Colbert will
folk sending
Evening star., 1939-02-28
But Now Miss Hepburn
Really Is Going to Town
Present Production Certain of Gotham
Engagement and No Quibbling;
Mickey Rooney Morbid
By JAY CARMODY.

This time Miss Hepburn headed or less straight for Broadway
Iheater Guild Philadelphia
will
New York That
prevailed the Jane
to
Evening star., 1939-09-01
New York Express
DeraiIed, Hundreds
Escape Injury
Cars Hold to Rails
When Locomotive Drive
Arm Fails

Several hundred passengers escaped
injury at 7:05 am. today when nine
cars of the New York express of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad held to
twisted rails at hour
speed after the engine was derailed
by broken drive arm / mile east
of Muirkirk, Md.
The train Travelled approximately
1000 feet with the broken shaft
driving into the ties and roadbed,
according to H. F. Wyatt, division
superintendent. Only the front
trucks of the engine left the tracks,
however.
The train, with Engineer Tom
Colson at the throttle, was on its
run between Chicago and New York,
travelling east. 1t was in charge of
Conductor w. F. Griffith.
Mr.. Wyatt said the derailment was
caused by broken pin in the drive
arm. He said the break occurred at
a place where it would not be de-
tected by an inspector.
The derailment tied up traff1c on
the eastbound No. l track for more
than four hours, the crack "Colum-
bian," Deisel-driven flyer, being de-
layed for about Is minutes before
1t was routed over the westbound
tracks. All other traffic was held
up for passage of the Columbian.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Marshall Takes Oath
As Chief Of Staff

Against background of European
hostilities, Gen. George c. Marshall
today took the oath of Office as Army
chief of staff, succeeding Gen. Malin
C. Craig, who retired recently after
holding the highest post in the Army
for four years.
Gen. Marshall accepted two pro-
motions within space of min
utes. First he was sworn in as a
major general in the Regular Army
and then took the oath as chief of
staff and, with this post, an auto
matte temporary promotion to the
grade of a four-star general. With
the rank of brigadier general, Gen.
Marshall has been serving as a
member of the general staff.
The oath was administered by
Maj Gen. E. S. Adams, adjutant
general, in the presence of Secre-
tary of War Woodring in the new
council room at the Munitions Build
ing. Gen. Marshall made no state
ment in connection with the as
sumption of his new Office and de-
clined, 'for political reasons" re-
quest from newsreel photographers
to pose in front of map of Europe.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
AIhambra Divan
Receives Reports
OF Committees
Officers to Be Named
At Final Business
Session Tomorrow

Reports of committees occupied
the Supreme Divan of the Order of
the Alhambra at an executive busi-
ness session today at the Willard
Hotel.
With close to 300 delegates repre-
senting every section of the country,
the convention took up matters of
interest to the order. Officers will
be selected at ssflnal business session
tomorrow morning.
r, The program included a trip to
Mount Vernon aboard the steamer
City of Washington this afternoon
and a cocktail party and informal
dance in the small ballroom of the
Willard at 9 pm A pajama parade
at midnight will close the days So
cial activities.
tomorrow morning, while the
order is holding its closing business
session, the sultanas will be enter
tanned by the local Women's Com
mittee. A sightseeing tour of the
city will start at 1:3O pm. An all
States banquet will be held at 7 pm.
Gov. O'Conor of Maryland will be
guest of honor. A bail will follow at
1890.
On Sunday the delegates will take
buses at 2 pm. for Forest Glen. Nd.
for a solemn dedication of a me
mortal to the Most Rev. John Car
roll, first Catholic bishop in the
United States and first archbishop
OF Baltimore The memorial has
been sponsored by Alcala Caravan
No. Is of Baltimore. It will be pre-
sented by John M. Miller, supreme
commander of the Order of the
Alhambra, and accepted by the Most
Rev. Michael ]. Curley, Archbishop
OF Baltimore. The dedication ad-
dress will be delivered by the Right
Rev. Msgr. Peter Guilday of Catholic
University, chairman of the orders
Historical Committee. Another
speech will be given by the Rev,
John T. Kennedy, pastor of st. John
the Evangelist Church of Forest
Glen.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Dr.. Mann Asks Budget Boost
7oGet Rid of Some Zoo Inmates

Cockroaches, mice and rats have
become such a problem at the Zoo
that Director William Mann feels
the need of full time man to con-
troll them.
Furthermore, too many "unauth-
orizeo" people have keys to Zoo
lock and, in fact, the Zoo has too
many locks anyhow, according to
DR.. Mann. So he is requesting a
new lock system throughout the
park.
This double trouble was revealed
today in the 1941 Zoo budget esti-
mates submitted to the Commis-
sioners calling for 1896, ,010, which is
a $158O0 increase over the author
ization for the present fiscal year.
In asking for an assistant keeper,
who will play the Pied Piper to the
Zoos superfuous rodents, DR.. Mann
pointed out that some of the crea-
lures might be tempted to leave the
reservation in favor Of nearby
private property, and therefore the
immediate necessity Of controlling
them.
Fourteen other new positions also
were sought.
1,1OO Locks and 70 Keys.
With regard to the locks, the Zoo
director complained that there are
now about 1,100 locks Of varying
kinds throughout the Zoo, requiring
about 10 keys. He suggested new
system under which he would have
a master key fitting all the locks.
while the various branches would
have submaster keys for their special
territories.
The bulk Of the increase-nearly
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Kidnop-Robber Sought
In Several States

A police lookout was broadcast
today in several States along the
Atlantic Seaboard for young white
man who kidnapped and robbed Will
liam c. Nemeth, Is, of 5l25 Georgia
avenue NV, late yesterday. The
bandit drove toward Baltimore in
Mr.. Nemeth's car after forcing him
from the machine in Mount Rainier,
Md.
The victim told police his assail-
ant jumped in the car when he
stopped for red light at Thirteenth
and M streets NV. and pressing "a
hard object" against his side Or
dered him to drive on" under threat
Of death.
Mr.. Nemeth said the bandit took
his wallet, containing $46, and or
dered him to exchange seats when
they reached Rhode Island avenue
and Eighth street NE. The holdup
man then continued to Mount Rain
Ter, one block beyond the District
Line, before forcing the owner from
the car.
Evening star., 1939-09-01

$1OO, ,OOO-is sought to repair the
roads through the park, which DR..
Mann said in many cases have de-
Perforated almost beyond repair due
to heavy traffic.
A decrease from last years figures
was recorded when the District
Highway Department and the De-
partment of Vehicles and Traffic
announced yesterday they will re-
quire $4,228, $50 for next year. This
sum Is mailer than last years, it was
explained, due to homecoming
items IN the Highway Department
and large reduction in street i'm
provements totaling $285, 900.
Salary Item Is Up.
For the traffic department, the
salary item is up $4,000 to provide
seven new positions and some pro-
motions. One of the new posts
would be an information clerk at
the Office to tell the public where to
go. At present, it was stated, people
ask at the first window they come
to and are steered from one to the
other until they reach their destina-
ton.
For the general fund, $164,300 is
asked, less than this item in the
present budget. It provides, how
ever, for the installation of traffic
signals at "a intersections and car
ries a $4,000 item for the purchase
Of traffic signs.
One OF the non-recurring items is
the 10000 allotted this year for 4
,rahS survey.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
James |. fly Sworn
As Head Of F. T.. T..

James Lawrence Fly took Office
today as chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission. Mr..
Fly, formerly attorney for the Ten
nessee Valley Authority, was sworn
in by Miss Pansy Wiltshire, assistant
in charge of commission personnel.
The new commissioner announced
he had received a letter from Presi-
dent Roosevelt formally designating
him as chairman to succeed Frank
R. McNinch, who resigned recently
because of i'll health.
Mr.. McNinch was the first to offer
congratulations to the new chair
man. He assured Mr.. Fly he stood
ready to give any advice he might
desire. The former chairman de-
clared the position is one of the
most important in Washington to-
day.
Others present at the ceremony
include F. c. C. Commissioners
T. A. M. Craven, Paul v. Walker and
Frederick I. Thompson, and officials
OF the T. v. A. Immediately after
ward, the new chairman held an
informal conference with Mr.. Nc
Ninch and the commissioners.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Court Rules D. {. Police
Can Make Capitol Arrests

The Capitol Grounds are within
the territorial confines of the Dis
trict of Columbia and Metropolitan
Police have right to arrest traffic
violators there, Judge Edward M.
Curran ruled today when an ac-
cused traffic offender contested the
authority of Metropolitan police
man to give her a traffic ticket
within the Capitol Grounds.
The defendant, Mrs. Amy S. Ham
ilton, 101 Eighth street Sc, told
the court that two years ago when
some one ran into her car within
the Capitol Grounds and she re-
ported the accident to the fifth
precinct she was told that the Met
ropolitan police could not make
arrests on traffic violations within
the Capitol Grounds.
Judge Curran assured her that
the Metropolitan police do have
jurisdiction to arrest any one they
see violating the law within the
District
Mrs. Hamilton was arrested Au-
gust IA for failing to come to q
complete stop at a stop sign in
front of the Capitol.
Although Judge Curran decided
the point of law against her, he
suspended sentence.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Leohy and Winship
Honored at Reception

Rear Admiral William D. Leahy,
former chief of naval operations
and new Governor of Puerto Rico,
and Brig Gen. Blanton Winship,
the retiring Governor, were guests
Of honor yesterday at a reception
rendered them in the Mayflower
Hotel.
Admiral Leahy said he would sail
for San Juan from New York on
September Z, while Gen. Winship
disclosed plans for hunting trip
in Canada with Eugene Stetson,
vice president of the Guaranty Trust
Co. of New York City. The retired
Army officer said he planned to
visit his former post in the Phil
ipines before returning to his old
home at Macon. Ga.
Evening star., 1939-09-01

activities in shaping American
destiny abroad function.
A thick sheaf Of dispatches from
Europe lay on President Roosevelt's
desk during his press conference this
morning, and he pointed to them
and remarked that developments
abroad would determine his action
in regard to calling Congress into
special session and invoking the
Neutrality Act.
Praises Diplomatic Service.
The President said the diplomatic
service deserved high praise for its
quick and efficient functioning in
the crisis today He was advised of
the invasion of Poland as soon as
any other outside nation, Mr.. Roose-
velt said in commenting on the speed
OF the neutrality-suspicious. and
communications system.
Throughout the world are scat
tered Ambassadors and Ministers
whose job is to keep the President
and Secretary of State informed of
what is going on, what foreign gov
ernments are doing and may do.
On the basis of this information,
the heads of this government decide
United States action in foreign af-
fairs. When German planes bomb
Polish cities, for instance, the Presi-
dent is quickly informed by his
representatives abroad and there
quickly follows an appeal from him
against the bombing of civilian
centers.
Many Phone Calls Come.
Some of the most urgent infor-
nation, of course, comes in tele-
phone calls from European capitals.
These are routed through the State
Department switchboard down the
corridor from Mr.. Salmon's Office.
At other times, the Ambassador
In London, Paris, or Berlin may
make a call at the foreign office
there, then hasten back to the En-
bassy and dispatch a cable in code
that soon is being decoded here for
perusal by Mr.. Hull.
Because of the time difference
that makes it mid-morning in
Europe before dawn here, much of
the most important information
may come in during the pre-dawn
hours here. 1t is at such times, fire.
quent In the past few days, that ex-
ira help must be called in to the
communications Office here and you
may see the lights on the fourth
floor of the State Department burn
ing brightly.
And it is at such times that Mr..
Salmon smokes his big, curved-stem
pipe most furiously.
LET me light up my pipe-1 can
not get along without It," he NUT
ters when the pressure is on.
Evening star., 1939-09-01

ago, George B. Parker, deputy ad-
ministrator, has been actively in
charge. He is leaving September Is,
also, to take over new duties as as
sistant w. P. A. administrator for
Mississippi. with headquarters at
Jackson. Like Mr.. Allen, he is Mis-
sissippian.
The appointment of new District
administrator had been expected, for
Mr.. Parker had notified Washington
headquarters that he would carry on
here until September IS, when he
was slated to depart.
The Commissioners had not been
notified of his appointment late yes
terday when the announcement was
made by Howard o. Hunter, deputy
w. P. A. administrator, at a press
conference The latter said, how
ever, that the appointment had Mr..
Aliens approval.
The new administrator has been
with the w. P. A. for several years.
He has held the post of acting ad-
ministrator for Massachusetts and
also served as assistant finance di-
rector at the Washington headquar-
ters.
About two years ago, Mr.. Edwards
was appointed to his post in New
York City, where he has had charge
of co-ordinating the numerous Fed
eral arts projects. Under the new
relief act these projects are being
turned over to local sponsors and it
is this task of completing the trans
fer that now engages him.
He was educated at the University
of California and at the Pace In
stitute of New York.
officials here said he was an ex-
perienced executive, capable of Civ
ing an efficient administration OF
the local Office. There were 9,407
persons on the District relief rolls as
of August %, they said.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Couple in Shooting
Still in Serious Condition

Mrs. and Mrs. Edwin R. McEntee
principals in what police described
as an attempted murder and
suicide in P street rooming house
Observation-Disclosures in a serious
condition at Emergency Hospital to-
day with bullet wounds.
The husband, who, police reported,
shot his wife with revolver before
turning the gun on himself. was
said by hospital attaches to be in a
condition more serious than that of
Mrs. McEntee.
Two bullets entered his body, one
lodging above his heart, while she
was shot In her left shoulder.
The shooting occurred in the 1000
block of P street NV. after a re-
ported violent quarrel" between the
couple. A note was left by Mr.. Nc
Entee to the Police Department.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Bond Concert

BY the United States Army Band
this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the
United States Capitol. Capt. Thomas
F. Darcy, leader: Karl Hubner, as
sistant leader:
Program.
March, "The Military Maestro"
Becker
Overture, "Sakuntala" -Goldmark
Scene, Entry of the Little Fauns,"
from "Cydalise and the Satyr,"
Pierne
Trombone solo, "Slippin' Around"
Mole
Clarence E. Hurrel, soloist.
Ballet, "Coppelia" Delibes
Rhythm classic, Tango Medley"
Yoder
Lyric piece, Virginia Rhapsody"
Wood
Mosaic, Nautical Fantasia" Tobani
Novelty solo, E-Fer's Holiday"
Yoder
Raymond Meyer, clarinet soloist.
Tone poem, "Liebestraume" Liszt
Finale. Festival March" -Cadman
THE Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Fenwick Reelected
Committee Chairman

Charles r. Fenwick has been
unanimously reelected chairman Of
the Arlington County (Va0 Demo-
cratic Executive Committee, officials
OF the organization said today.
At meeting of the committee in
the Democratic headquarters in
Clarendon Wednesday night, j..
Maynard Magruder was elected
vice chairman, Mrs. John E. Nevin
reelected treasurer and Mrs. Ruth
Marcy reelected secretary.
Among the party's nominees who
were present were Homer Randolph
Thomas, Sheriff Howard B. Fields
F. Freeland Chew. Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Magruder, Leo Lloyd, Basil De Lash
mutt and Edmund D. Campbell. All
of the nominees pledged to support
the full Democratic ticket in the
November Z elections.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Roosevelt Sees
Model Ship
Testing Basin
Favorable Reaction
To Navy Project
Is Reported

President Roosevelt paid his first
visit yesterday afternoon to the
Navy's recently constructed model
ship testing basin at Carderock, Md,
near Cabin John, and is understood
to have been favorably impressed by
It's complete and modern facilities
for studying the design and expected
performance of new naval vessels.
The primary purpose of the trip
was to enable Mr.. Roosevelt to see
the composition material used in
construction of the building that
houses the basin, to decide whether
1t would be appropriate for use in
erecting the new Naval Hospital,
foundations for which are under way
at the spacious new site near Be.
thesda, Md, just off Wisconsin ave-
nue.. The President is said to have
expressed satisfaction with it's an.
pearance in the testing basin
building.
Visits Hospital Site.
Before returning to the White
House, the Chief Executive drove by
the hospital site on Wisconsin ave-
nue., in the planning of which he
has taken deep personal interest.
But, while the hospital project was
his main consideration yesterday,
Mr.. Roosevelt showed keen interest
in the highly scientific details of the
ship testing basin as Capt. H. E.
Saunders, the officer in charge, ex-
planned the minute degree of preci.
sion with which it will be possible to
test the specifications of warships
in the new structure.
Although the building is finished,
and the nearly 1,200-foot- long basin
filled with water, no tests are being
made at this time. Additional scien-
tiflc equipment remains to be in
stalled during the next year. The
basin is to augment the old testing
facilities at the Washington Navy
Yard.
$4,000, 900 Available.
For the erection of the new hos
pital the Navy Department has
$4,000 900 available. With work al
ready started on the excavation and
foundation, the next step will be the
awarding of contract for the SUI
perstructure.
The central building will be four
stories high, but will be surmounted
by a tower containing additional
stories. Four wards will extend out
from the rear of and parallel with
the main building, and there will be
several smaller structures to house
facilities essential to the operation
Of modern hospital.
The President was accompanied
on the inspection tour by Acting
Secretary Of the Navy Edison, Rear
Admiral Ross T. McIntire, surgeon
general of the Navy; Rear Admiral
Ben Morreell, Capt. Dallas Sutton
OF the Surgeon Generals Office, DR..
Lucius johnson, in charge of the
hospital planning, and Capt. D. J..
Callaghan, White House naval aide.
Evening star., 1939-09-01
Work Relief Rolls
Cut 10 100000,
New Low Level
Schedule Raising Scale
In South and West
Goes Into Effect
Star Staff Photos.

With 650,0O0 relief workers au-
tomatically dropped from the rolls
because of the 18-month rule. the
employment record of the Works
Projects Administration today stood
at new low level of 100000.
Also effective today was the
revised pay schedule which in
creases w. p A. wages in South
ern and Western rural areas and
cuts them in the Eastern and West
ern metropolitan centers. How
ever, the monthly national wage
average is boosted approximately
$3.50 to meet some of the inequan-
ties under the new schedules.
The drastic cut in relief rolls made
necessary by the rule requiring
furloughs for all persons except
war veterans who have been 18
months on w. P. A. rolls, will work
many hardships, officials admit
ted, but cannot be avoided. As
other workers attain the 18 months
status in the future, they also will
be dropped. Thus the number will
far exceed 650,00O, it was estimated.
Steady Drop Since 1898.
w. P. A. rolls reached an all-time
peak of 3,346,107 employed per-
sons during the week ending Oc-
tober %, 1888. Since then there
has been a steady decline, due in
part to an average of 100000 leav-
ing monthly for private employ
ment. To ease the wholesale re-
ductions under the 18-month rule,
Col. Francis c. Harrington, w. P. A.
commissioner, had furloughed $780,
600 more than a month ago.
After one month all such dis
charged persons are entitled to be
recertified if they have not found
private employment. That does not
mean they will get their w. P. A.
Jobs back at the end of a month. It
puts them on the waiting list and
they have to 60 through the origianl
procedure as before.
Of1cials anticipate trouble" they
said, but thus far only rumbles of
dlscontent have been heard. The
new wage schedule also is expected
to result in sharp protests from
Eastern centers and from Southern
businessmen, who may find that the
higher w. P. A. wage in the South
may compete with pay for cheap
industrial labor.
Many Projects May Close.
Many projects may have to be
closed down, it was feared, because
the 18-month rule will eliminate
large numbers of workers in certain
classlflcations. Teachers, writer's.
artists and recreation workers, espe-
clally, have been hard hit.
Nationwide reaction from the
wage scale is not expected to ex-
press itself fully until the next nav
day. two weeks hence.
In Southern rural areas the for
mer $26 minimum wage has been
increased to $31 20 for unskilled in
door labor and to $3.50 for un-
skilled outdoor labor.
The District of Columbia has been
moved up to the scale of Region l.
the highest in the country, affordine
a $52 minimum and top scale Of
$9490.
Officials here said the real test
Will come when discharged relief
workers spend the last of their pay
and then seek establishment.
Local relief agencies, it was feared,
will be strained to the utmost to
provide for their actual wants. In
some sections, particularly the South.
they feared this was impossible.