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Evening star., 1939-02-16
Auditorium in Downtown Area
Is Opposed by Shipsteod
Minnesota Senator Terms Idea Ridiculous
And Cites Congestion Of Traffic

This is the fifth of a series of
articles dealing Dith the audi
tortum stadium problem notD
pending in Congress. Further
discussion WiH tolloD and the
opinions OF readers are inuited.
Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farm
er-Labor Of Minnesota, has come out
against the building of the Capital
Auditorium on any downtown site.
A member of the Senate Commit
tee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, Mr.. Shipstead in a signed
statement declares: II have thought
for several years that crowding
downtown Washington with public
buildings is ridiculous. For con-
venience, some of it may be neces-
sary; but in my opinion downtown
Washington has been for a long
time overcrowded.
The Senator argues: 1--WE have
come to the point where it is almost
impossible to get through traffic at
certain hours of the day, and a
pedestrian is as safe or unsafe as a
jack rabbit is when chased by pack
of hounds. Without being facetious,
I must say that downtown in Wash
ington I have seen people run for
their lives like rabbits to- get any
where at all in crowded traffic and
to escape injury and so save their
lives.%
Mr.. Shipstead, suggesting policy
OF decentralization, says: 1T has
also occurred to me that these build
ings should be spread around this
city, not only to beautifuy it but
to avoid further congestion of traf-
fic both for pedestrians and vehicles.
The city is getting over balanced.
There does not seem to be any
planning.
An auditorium or stadium with
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Kibitzers Win RIGHTS

CHARLESTON, S. c., Feb. 16 (R.-
The contractor who builds the power
house, a lock and dam for the $37,-
500,000 Santee-Cooper power and
navigation project must provide for
kibitZers. .
According to specifications, he
must erect q safe stand and shelter
from which the public can view
operations. 5y'..:-...
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Report

District OF ColumbaFair continued minimum tenn
about 20 degrees
gentle to moderate north shifting winds
MaryandFa continued tonight tomorrow nartlv cloudy
not E'' ~0NN''
VrgnaFar, slightly portion tonight tooou
increasing coudine slowly followed by rain
in southeast portion in afternoon at nigh ~ ~ ~ "
West Vhgnia-Fa
cloudness and warmer followed by snow e
Evening star., 1939-02-16

The disturbance that was over the Ap-.
palachian region Wednesday morning has
moved rapidly northeastward. being central
this morning over Labrador, Cartwright.
29.14 inches, and strong winds have cc-
CURED CURED along the middle and north Atlantic
coast. Another disturbance is central over
northwestern Texas. Amarillo, 29.7s inches.
PRESSURE is also low over northwestern
tain. 29.5s inches. A high-pressure area
is moving eastward over the Lake region
and the Ohio Valley. Detroit. Mich, 30 80
1nehes, psaes and pressure is high over the North
inches. During the last "a hours rains
nave nave occurred in the Atlantic, States. and
SHOWS in the lower Lake region. the Ap-
palaehian region and the middle and north
ern ROCKY Mountain region. Temperatures
nave fallen in the Atlantic States. the Ohio
vailey. the Lake region and over the mid
9ie ana north portions Of the Plateau and
ROCKY Mountain regions. Temperatures
have risen in the northern Plains states
and the west Gulf States. 'S'
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
at HarpeIs Ferry; Potomac muddy at
Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Botisto Welcomed Home

HAVANA, Feb. 16 (P.-Thousands
OF persons welcomed Col. Fulgencio
Batlsta, chief of the Cuban ARMY
When ne returned today on the liner
Or.zaba from 12-day visit to
Mexico.
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Congress in Brief
TO-DAY.

Senate:
Considers miscellaneous bills.
Noon.
Military Affairs Committee recalls
Secretaries Morgenthau and Wood
ring on French plane trasaction.
1890 am.
Monopoly Committee quizzes
Charles D. Hilles, former Republican
party leader, on insurance direc-
torates. 10 am.
Naval Committee considers minor
defense measures. 10 am.
House:
Debates appropriation for congress
sional offices. Noon.
Ways and Means Committee hears
old-age pension advocates. 10 am.
Naval Committee considers naval
base in Southeastern United States.
1890 am.
Banking Committee studies ex-
panslon OF mortgage insurance for
Federal Housing Administration.
10:30 IN.
Labor Committee considers bill to
make c. c. c. permanent. 1890 a m.
Post Once Committee debates bill
to broaden penalties for transmitting
threatening communications. 1890
am.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Will not be in session.
Monopoly Committee is expected
to continue hearing.
Appropriations Committee may
meet on independent Offices bill.
House:
Completes consideration of the
legislative appropriation bill.
Parks and Recreation Subcommit-
tee Of District Committee resumes
hearings on Bland bill to prevent
erection of an auto inspection sta
ton at Tenth and F streets S.W.;
10 am.
Appropriations subcommittee
continue hearings on Interior and
agriculture supply bills: 10 am.
Evening star., 1939-02-16

CAPTOR AND CAPTURED-A 29yearold taxi driver Merritt
Gordon Qeft of $50 Newcombe street SE watching
st precinct police last Saturday night booked cap
tured after wild automobile chase Yesterday the giving
his George Linkins 22 Maryland Pak Md was
formally charged with attempted robbery He
attempting to snatch the poebook of Reagan
OF 2l50 street NV. Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1939-02-16
River Report
Report for Last - Hours,

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
ago Al.
Lowest. 25. 7:3o am. today. Year ago,
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 6S. on Februsry Is.
Lowest. II, on January 20.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Hishest, % per cent. at pm. yesterday.
Lowest, 32 per cent. at noon today.
Evening star., 1939-02-16

FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1939-02-16
Precipitation,

Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Cspltal (current month to datel:
Evening star., 1939-02-16

FOREIGN STATIONS.
q an, Greenwich time. todeyJ
TamperAtur0. weather.
Evening star., 1939-02-16

Flood Menace Lowered.
The sudden change in tempera-
ture lowered temporarily the flood
menace in the upper Ohio River
Valley, though the effect of rainfall
in the lower valley, still unreached
by the rivers flood crest, remained
doubtful. Several streets in Paducal
already were under water and Rec
Cross officials prepared to move fam.
lilies living in the lowlands of the
rivers unruly tributaries, the Ten
nessee and Cumberland.
Floods inundated bottom land in
Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi
One death from exposure was re-
ported in Arkansas and another in
Mississippi, where the Red Cross al
ready was caring for three COM
munities-Marks, Sledge and Oar.
ling.
Crowder, a town of about 500, was
surrounded by water and residents
we're able to reach the outside worlc
only by telephone and boats. The
VAAA06O AVoCA WOO AAy.
AS far South as Jacksonville, Fla.
34-mile-an-hour wind dropped the
temperature from II to SO degrees
in an hour. 1t was the strongest
wind reported there in three years
Smaller streams in Tennessee con-
tinued to rise today, but the Ten
nessee Valley Authority's Norris Dam
alleviated some of the flood danger
by impounding millions of gallons
of water.
From Leonardtown, Md, came the
report that yesterdays freak wind
storm blew down four large tobacco
barns in st. Marys County. with
damage reported in excess Of 10000
Tobacco stored in the barns wa!
blown for miles by the gale. One
of the storehouses was on the farm
Of Claude Johnson, president Of thu
Board Of County Commissioners.
Evening star., 1939-04-21
Florence jenkins
Gives Recital

Florence Foster jenkins, soprano
Of New York, gave recital yesterday
morning at the Washington Club,
assisted by Nation Boyce and Olga
Biber, both Of whom acted as her
accompanies. Mr.. Boyce, in addi-
ton, shared Mrs. jenkins program
as a s6loist. Active in club life,
president of several organizations
and founder and president of the
Verdi Club of New York, Mrs. Jen-
kinS for several years past has been
making annual visits to the Capital
each Spring. visits climaxed by her
appearances in public.
LAS on former occasions, Mrs.
jenkins entertained some hundred
friends by her singing, choosing an
ambitious program which included
some well-known favorites of the
vocal literature and novelties not
generally known. To these belong
two Hungarian songs, "Csak egy sep
lany van Villagon," meaning in the
translation you Alone" and Mem
kell Szoke," or Little care for
comely blonds."
Appearing in q Hungarian ma
tional costume for her closing group,
wearing a picturesque hairdress
studded with flowers, Mrs. Jenkins
brought out with her Miss Biber,
Evening star., 1939-04-21

Hungarian pianist Of New York, who,
by means Of clever prelude, trans
ported her audience into q far-away
country, creating a setting for what
followed. Singing in Hungarian to
the intricate improvisations on the
piano, Mrs. Jenkins indicated the
seriousness of the first and the
gayety of the second song, accenting
the mood Of the latter by gestures.
Following a popular demand, ex-
pressed In cordial applause, the
Mem kell a Stoke" was repeated
and two more encores added at the
close of the program, both written
for and dedicated to Mrs. jenkins.
These were Gypsy Fantasie," by
Cosmo McMoon, and the Brook"
by Elmer Russ.
The balance of Mrs. Jenkins pro-
gram included "Amaryllis," by Cac-
cini, Gounod's Ave Maria; aria.
Queen Of the Night" from Mozart's
Magic Flute; Strauss Voices of
Spring" and Rossini's "Tarrantella
Napolitaine."
Mr.. Boyce, local pianist, who ex-
pertly supported Mrs. jenkins in
Evening star., 1939-04-21
Where and When
Current TheaterA Attractions
and Time of Showinf

oIIO llllS VI 0I1OWluS
National-"The Mother" women
look at war, with Nazimova: $50
pm.
War d m n Park-"The Trojan
Women" by the Washington Civic
Theater: $3.50 pm.
Keith's Three Smart Girls
Grow Up." and Deanna Durbin
sings: 1l:l5 am, 1:20. 3:25. $50,
7:35 and GAS pm. March of Time:
l. sos. $40. tbs and $40 pm.
Capitol-"Let Freedom Ring" Me-
son Eddy in an outdoor romance:
II am, 1:50, 4.35, 7::20 and 1915 pm.
Stage shows: 1910, 3:35, $40 and
8 pm.
Earle-"I'm From Missouri" Bob
Burns and his mule on a fun ram
page: 10:30 am. 1:20, 4:15. 7:10 and
1905 pm. Stage shows: 1925, 800,
6:15 and 9:10p.m.
Metropolitan-"Blackwell' Island, "
John Garfield goes to Jail: II am,
ITO. 3:20, 5:35. 7:45 and 1905 pm.
Columbfa-"Prison Without Bars"
romance with grimness: 1850 am,
las, 3:55, $50, TAO and $50 pm.
Palace-"Wuthering Heights" pic
turization of the Emily Bronte clas-
sic: 1850 am, 2:20, 4:40, TOO and
9:35 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 o'clock.
Little-"Pearls Of the Crown, -
more Of Sacha Guitry fun: IL am,
1:10, 800. $50, TAO and $50 pm.
Open-Air-"Sky Devils" with VIII
liam Boyd: 8:03 and 1920 pm.
Evening star., 1939-04-21
Count Basic Swings
On Howard Stage

Back for their second appearance
Of the season, Count Basic and his
orchestra take over the Howard
stage this week. The screen attrac-
tion will be OF the Record" with
Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien and
Bobby Jordon in the story of a
newly married couple who attempt
the reform of young hoodlum.
Basic and his crew come here fol-
lowing successful engagements in
such places as New York's Famous
Door, Pittsburgh's William Penn
Hotel and Boston's Ritz-Carlton.
Speciality artists with the Basic
show are Helen Humes, who is
known to Harlemites as one of the
best Jump" singers North of the
Mason Dixon line, whatever a Jump
singer may be; James Rushing, $50
pounds of singer; Dancers Moke
and Poke and the Addison Carey
dancing maids.
Evening star., 1939-04-21
'kreutZer Sonata
Opens Belasco

THE Kreutzer Sonata" French
fllm based upon Count Leo Tolstoy's
famed story and Beethoven's equal
ly famed music, will be shown to-
morrow and Sunday at the Belasco
Theater.
The film is a story which, while
it does not attempt to interpret the
music of Beethoven nor to follow
literally the story of Tolstoy. takes
the Tolstoy PHILOSOPHERS and the
Beethoven music as a background
against which to portray its love,
hate, jealousy, despair, hope and
redemption.
The cast of THE Kreutzer So
nata" is headed by Jean Yonnel,
the Comedie Francaise veteran, and
includes Gaby Morlay. Pierce Re-
noir and Edmonde Guy.
Evening star., 1939-04-21
Theater Society
Opens the Books

Renewal blanks for the l939-4O
season Of the Theater Guild and
the American Theater Society will
be available next week for sub
scribers for the current season Of
six subscription plays at the Ma
tional.
Present subscribers who wish to
retain their same seat locations and
those wishing to change locations
for next season are urged to send
their renewals as soon as possible
to Bess Schreiner, the guilds sub
scription director.
Those not already subscribers are
invited to join the subscription lists,
too, and blanks will be mailed to
all persons requesting them. The
Theater Guild-A. T. S. Office at the
National Theater is open daily, ex-
cept Wednesdays and Saturdays,
from noon until pm.
Evening star., 1939-04-21

Patricia Morrison was understudy
to Helen Hayes on the stage before
she began her career in motion pic
lures.
Evening star., 1939-04-21
Railroad Research
Costs a Tidv Sum

Months before a camera turned
on his latest picture, Union Pacific, +"
Cecil B. De Mile spent more on re-
search than is yearly paid the Pres
ident of the United States, reports
the Paramount Studio.
Some $4,000 was expended In
salaries to researchers, necessary
trips as we'll as certain fees for in
formation and material, according
to the report.
This careful study was made of
the circumstances under which
Americas first transcontinental rail-
road was constructed 10 years ago.
kmyriad of detail concerning dates,
speeches, costumes and properties
had to be accumulated and authen-
ticated before Producer De Mile
could start recording on film the
story Of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Evening star., 1939-04-21
Wuthering Heights Ranks
AS Great Film Romance
Dramatic Excellence of Classic Tale
Retained in Goldwyn Picture
On Screen of Palace
BY JAY CARMODY.

stranger group Of genus than Emily Bronte Charles
Between them they have produced wuhens Heights
beautiful
fascinating
Evening star., 1939-04-21
News From Europe
At the Trans.Lux

Latest pictorial reports on the
European and Far Eastern tempests
feature the IS minutes of news on
the new Trans-Lux bill, which
starts today. And, as usual, there
will be the latest in the realm of
sports. politics. fashions and any
outstanding events which have
taken place within camera range.
The weeks travelogue is a visit to
ireland, including a st. Patrick s
Day parade. an Irish sweepstakes
parade and visits to Limerick, the
River Shannon. King Johns Cas-
tie. Cork, the Blarney stone and
the lakes of Killarney.
Other shorts are a new Stranger
Than Fiction" release, Navy
Champions" and the color cartoon,
always Kickin'."
Evening star., 1939-04-21
Bersner Film a Hit

Adding impetus to the publicity
and exploitation campaign on Para
mounts American release of the
British production, Stolen Life, "
was news received from London re-
Gently Of the box Office appeal of the
picture in England and Scotland.
Starring Elizabeth Bergner in a dual
role, the picture continues to play
to packed houses at the Carlton
Theater, London, after a run Of
three months.
Evening star., 1939-04-21

and be terrified into her tortured
escape from it.
In building toward its brilliant
climax "Wuthering Heights" is re-
plete with scenes of tremendous
force. The essential natures of its
central characters are quickly es-
tablished In passages which are
stark In their revelation of two
turbulent, perfectly matched hearts.
The same simple forcefulness of
treatment carries the pair to Cathy's
meeting with the rich neighboring
Lintons, to her first awareness that
there is less terrifying If also less
ecstatic relationship than with
Heathcliff. Even the lighter scenes,
which are light only by contrast
with Miss Bronte's somber ones,
always carry the sense of doom
which hangs over the love of the
pair. Mr.. Wyler has devised some
extraordinarily clever touches to
point the contrast between the low
ers and the saner characters Of the
story. and one of their especial
virtues is that they speed as we'll
as clarity his story.
Wherever he found it, Mr.. Wyler
offers background for his Aim that
measures up In Photographic ex-
cellence to that wild, craggy ter
rain which was the locale of Miss
Bronte's narrative. It's desolateness
markedly heightens the effects of
the drama for which 1t provides a
stage.
With his usual flair, maybe one
should say his old flair, since it sort
Of disappeared in the last year, Mr..
Goldwyn has cast his picture with
skill throughout. As the unloved
Linton girl who dared become the
wife of the Heathcliff Cathy re-
jected Geraldine Fitzgerald is ex-
cellent. The same is true of David
Niven as the husband of the ca
PRECIOUS Cathy, of Hugh Williams
as the cowardly, besotted brother
of Cathy and of Flora Robson as
the servant foster mother Of the
stormy lovers.
"Wuthering Heights" is a picture
to teach screen followers that here
tofore the movies have merely dab
bled with love, that when its large
ly untouched resources are tapped
the result is great and beautiful
drama.
Evening star., 1939-04-21

with taste Tor excellence can an0rd
to miss seeing it.
Miss Bronte's story of a wild, tenn
pestuous romance, starring Laurence
Olivier and Merle Oberon, flashes
from the screen with its dark, for
boding passion, its suspense and its
horror undiminished. Vastly to the
credit of Mr.. Goldwyn and his fellow
workers is it that they did nothing
to the spirit Of the story even as they
modified its outline. The major
change is in limiting their account
to the exciting events in the lives OF
the beautiful, capricious Cathy
Earnshaw and the violent, vengeful
Heathcliff. The second generation is
ignored and the drama gains force
thereby.
Director William Wyler, hitherto
concerned with such different ma
terial as Dead End" and These
Three" handles Miss Brontes classic
with the same superlative skill. The
wild winds and billiards. which swept
the bleak moors that nourished the
fatal passion between Cathy and
Heathcliff blow as coldly upon the
heart IN the picture as in the novel.
Every one concerned with the film
saw the forceful fascination of Miss
Bronte's story and had the wisdom to
photograph it without retouching to
spare the emotions of the timid.
~ 4
In the role of Heathcliff. Olivier
comes to audiences as a compara-
tive stranger. It is a certainty that
they will never forget him, for he
has identified himself through
splendid performance with one of
the least forgettable characters of
romantic literature.
No gloomy corner of the mind of
the dark gypsy lad who could make
OF love such a fierce and violent
obsession escapes Olivier's search
for its drama. The passion he
feels for Cathy makes him alter
nately a craven weakling, q brute
who could beat the object of his
love. an ecstatic poet, a conqueror
OF everything but himself and at
last raving madman killed in
blizzard while pursuing the ghost
Of the long dead woman he loved.
Less impressive but excellent,
none the less. is Miss Oberon's por-
trait Of Cathy. The beautiful child
OF the highlands whom she brings
to life is altogether a person who
might inspire Heathcliffian love
Evening star., 1939-04-21
TwizzIer Answer

The minute hand travels four
times as fast as the hour hand so it
travels II minute markers while the
hour hand travels one. With that
knowledge you can see that the
hands will be exactly together at
2l and Gil minutes after 4 and ex-
actly opposite at 54 and Gil after
4. Therefore the elapsed time of
the young mans examination was
80 and Gil minutes.
Evening star., 1939-04-21

her selections was heard In Bee
thoven's Moonlight Sonata" Lecu-
onas "Malasuena," Debussy's "Claire
de Lune," Lebich's Music Box"
and Albeniz's "Seguidilla" contrib
uting towards the artistic side of
the program. e. de s.
Evening star., 1939-04-21
Sherry at Gavetv

Sherry Britton is the new head
liner scheduled for the Gayety, top
ping the cast of the revue which
opens with the Sunday matinee.
Sharing top honors with her will be
Billy Boob Reed. popular bur-
lesque comic.
Others in the cast of the show
will be Harry Seymour. Jess Mack,
Joyce Breazelle. Grace Gordon, Jean
Lee, Wilbur Rance. Mona Lees,
Rudy Horn and the usual "bevy of
beautiful rirls."
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-11-17
Quake
Hits Northwest
Heavy Damage

SEATTLE, Nov Il - An earth
quake described by University of
Washington biologists as the heav-
lest recorded ON their seismograph
in 10 years, rocked large areas of
the Pacific northwest at Hat o.
clock Sunday night.
Damage. however, was not ex-
pected to run very high. It consisted
mostly of cracked walls on some
buildings, broken water mains and
broken power lines
In Seattle. there was near panic
in one theater when patrons. alarm
ed as a heavy glass chandelier in
the center of the ceiling began to
sway, rushed to the exits.
A corner section of the National
Bank of Washington in Tacoma.
weighing about $50 pounds, broke
loose and crashed six floors to an
alley at the rear of the bank.
The quake covered an area from
the Portland district north through
Longview, Centralia, Grays Harbor
cities, Olympia, Everett, Bellingham,
Victoria, and as far north as Van
couver. B. c. then into eastern
Washington.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-11-17
HIGHWAY
DECLARED FEASIBLE
MAGNUSON REPORT

SEATTLE. Nov. II - Congress
man Warren G. Magnuson. chairman
for The United States ON the Inter
national Highway Commission, has
made public a preliminary report to
the state Department eharacterizing
the proposed Observation-Disclosures
ted States road as "a worthy and
feasible project OF reasonable cost.
The preliminary report withheld
recommendations on route and III
naneing due to lack of information,
but suggested that Blaine was the
most feasible contact between the
United States and Canada and ten
tatiYely favored Route A.. which
would be a .3S9-mile road between
Seattle and Fairbanks. via Naneou-
Yer, Hazleton. Atlin. Whitehorse
and Dawson.
Estimates of building costs of the
project are unavailable at this time.
the report said
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-11-17
NOTICE

Notice is hereby gwen that Dean
A. Blodgett, of Wrangell Alaska.
has made. application for home
site under the act of May &c, 1884
(48 Stat. 500 for tract of land
embraced in U. s. Survey No. 1921,
Wrangell Group of Homesites, and
designated as Tract "R" containing
$40 acres, and it is now in the
files of the U. S. Land Office, An
chorage, Alaska.
Any and all persons claiming ad-
versely any of the above mentioned
land should file their adverse claims
in the district land office within the
period of publication or thirty days
thereafter or they will be barred by
the provisions of the Statutes.
GEORGE A. LINGO,
Register
Date First Publication Nov. IT, 1898
Date Last Publication Jan. IL. 1910
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-11-17

pressing our Gratitude
Il noon Bible School: Warnings
and Promises" Study Matt. 7:l-14.
7sSO p. m Evening Worship The
Thanksgiving Feast Of the Israel
ties
Wednesday. 100 p. NJ Prayer
meeting IN The Church Parlor.
Thursday, the 23rd, Community
Thanksgiving Service in the Presby-
lerian Church at 1870 a N. with
Brigadier Dillingham; as the speak
er His subject Will be "Thanksgiy-
ing and Praise
Come and Worship God with US.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-11-17
ALAsKANs TO BE GIVEN
EVERY OPPORTUNITY FOR
JOBS, ANDERSON SAYS

Every effort IS being made by
contractors at sitka and Kodiak to
see that Alaskans are given a chance
to work on the naval base projects.
according to IYer G. Anderson,
President of the Seims Spokane
Company, one of the three firms
in the syndicate awarded the con-
tract for the naval work.
Mr.. Anderson who is now in Ko-
diak, expects to return shortly to
the Sitka project. He is comforting
with the various agencies in the
relative to the problem Of
getting Alaskans on the Alaska jobs
he pointed out