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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
Notice To Creditors

Notice To Creditors
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN.
that the Subscriber of Montgomery
County has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Montgomery
County, in Maryland, Letters of Adj
ministration on the Personal Estate
of
FRANCES WOOD BYRAM
late of Montgomery County, deceased.
All persons resident and nonresident
having Claims against the said de-
ceased, are hereby warned to exhibit
and file, the same, in said Court,
with vouchers thereof, on or before
the 7th day of September next: thew
may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said Estate. All
persons indebted to said Estate are
requested to make immediate paw
ment.
Given under my hand this 7th
day of March in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-nine.
ERNEST c. GARTNER.
Gaithersburg, Md.
THOMAS C. KELLEY, Atty. 70
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

OF the weekly newspapers published
IN Montgomery County, once a week
for four successive weeks before the
10th day of April, 1899.
CHARLES M. IRELAN, JR.,
LEWIS F. HOBBS,
WASHINGTON WATERS,
Judges of the Orphans Court for
Montgomery County.
True Copy-Test:
HANSON G. CASHELL,
Register of Wills for Montgomery
County, Maryland. 30
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
Mentions the OWNING Rod

In his book on metals, Ode Re
Metallica" (1530), Georgius Agrico-
la mentions the divining rod, say
ing: "a miner should be good and
serious and should not make use of
an enchanted twig. If he is pru-
dent and skilled, he should follow
the natural indications which he can
see and dig"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, AS
"A COURT OF EQUITY.
No. 1886 Equity.
Helen Salzinger, Plaintiff,
VS..
Edward Salzinger, Defendant.
Order of Publication
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
Public Sale

The undersigned will offer at pub
lie sale on
Tuesday, March 20, 1889,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

j. T. ALDEKTUN,
Rockville, Md. r. No. 8.
JOHN E. oxLEY, Atty. 70
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

ALBERT NJ. BOuIc, Attorney. ~ i ls
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Now Hollywood Trembles
With Nicely Bill Blues
And Yet Some Optimists Foresee
An Industry Renaissance
Should It Become Law
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN,


With the Nicely bill rounding something resembling
reality Hywoods big brains their
Even for the ndurys jubilee
boards while studio chiefs
which, with the
President might well
Evening star., 1939-07-24

glamour girl and have not been
challenged for so contending. She
will have to discard her glamour
for the early scenes Of THE Cur
tain Rises" however. The plot
calls for Mr.. Allen to aid her in
acquiring it during the course OF
the play.
For wanderers farther afield a
bulletin comes from the Hilltop
Theater at Ellicott City, Md. Be-
ginning tomorrow night and con-
tinuing for the remainder of the
week, The Devil Takes a Bride
will be presented.
The Catholic University Summer
Institute of Drama is busy each
night out in Brookland, preparing
for the arrival of the British actor,
Robert Speaight, who will play the
lead in Henry Cheon's The Come
dian" August 7 at the university
and August 8 in the Sylvan Thea
ter.
Anxious that Mr.. Speaight find
his supporting cast of local actors
acceptable, Director Walter Kerr
has ordered nightly rehearsals. Leo
Brady has been instructed to apply
Evening star., 1939-07-24

the exhibitor, as is the case under
the present sales system of job-lot-
ting so or more sight unseen pic
lures each year. This individual
and direct method of sale on merit
alone would put it straight up to the
studio, the author, the cast and the
director"
For many years Hollywood has
been criticized for not getting the
most from its high-salaried writing
departments, conceded to include
some of the most brilliant minds
in the literary field. Instead, tt has
seemed content to follow the easiest
route-depending on purchase of big
name stage plays and published
novels (many unadaptable for NOV
les) and resorting, in too many
emergencies, to old stories produced
in screen form twice and even three
times before.
During the past year, all major
plants have been "hypoing" pro-
grams with large number of re-
makes, many disguised under new
titles. These have angered the pub
lie and brought stormy protests from
exhibitors forced to take them in
their "block" purchases.
Enactment of the Nicely bill
would end that, too," commented the
producer. Can you imagine film
salesman calling on an exhibitor
and showing him the synopsis Gas re-
Evening star., 1939-07-24

to Baldpate" is continuing for a
second week at the Cross Roads
Theater. The popular George M.
Conan comedy mystery piece is be-
ing played by cast including such
familiar faces as Dorothy ODon-
nell, Ted Field, Charles McLendon,
Edmond Evans. Neil Linger and
Ruth May. Howard Wentworth di-
rectS.
Meanwhile young male Wash
ingtonian is unhappy because
1zetta Jewel, jr., is occupied eve
nings, rehearsing for Benjamin
Hayes The Curtain Rises" which
opens in the Baileys Cross Roads,
Va, establishment next Monday.
AS he did when Miss Jewel full
filled her initial guest-star engage
ment at the theater, Reginald Allen
is playing the male lead Support
ing the popular combination will
be Mildred Beach, Forney Rankin,
Charles Grunwell, Mildred Baitz
and Buel Patch. Mr. Wentworth
is guiding this one. too.
Official Informant George Finger
and others associated with the
Cross Roads management are very
proud of the professional actress
they have persuaded to do a sec
ond show this season, proud be-
cause they have repeated that
Izetta is real. f1esh-and- blood
Evening star., 1939-07-24


Executives with investments at
stake and those holding 5000 ,OO0-a-
year jobs, on whose shoulders would
fall the brunt of revolutionary
changes in policy and setup, were
frankly worried. On the other hand,
many of those with less RESPONSE
bility and yet Importantly placed in
the business were optimistic. They
predicted great industry renais-
sance should the bill become one Of
the laws of the land.
"You would see the greatest in
spirational boom Hollywood has ex-
perienced since the talking picture
came in," said one prominent pro-
ducer whose name cannot be men
toned.
"Unshackled from block booking
we would be forced to get down to
work. Competition among studios
would be increased 10-fold. Auto
matically, all the laggards would
take to the outer gates.
Naturally, the most important
and immediate impi ovement would
be noted in stories. The bill re-
quires Aim companies to display a
synopsis of the story to the exhib-
itor, as well as a title, before he
can be asked to purchase. That
means the story synopsis must stand
up or the exhibitor will decide his
public won't 60 for it. That leaves
! the producer holding the bag-not
Evening star., 1939-07-24

quired by the act) Of an old picture
his company intends remaking?
Unless 1t happened to be the revise
Of some sensational smash success,
you could just about see the ex-
hibitor showing the salesman TO the
door,"
Box-once records on remakes bear
out this opinion, for only scat
tered few of dozens that have been
turned out in recent years ever paid
back much more to the exhibitor
than his actual house expense. On
top OF that, they pile up i'll will
among customers.
Section of the Neely bill offers
the harried big brains of Holly
wood their only consolation, in case
OF its passage. 1t reads: This act
shall become effective IL months
after enactment"-and it must be
remembered that Hollywood whipped
the talkie demon in less time than
that.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1939-07-24

lllcy WILL nave pcIlOIIIleu all dSGOIl.
ishing feat, for she has been occu-
pied turning out blood
prose in behalf of the show. Reading
her efforts should have had some
inoculative effect upon this enthusi-
astic b-thumper:
Out of Cimmerian darkness,
intensified rather than relieved by
the faint lighting of the ghostly
scene, comes the sharp, staccato
slam of a door, a long, piercing
shrek, ending on high, quavering,
sobbing note, then the muffled gasps
of woman in terror!" .. The only
light on the stage comes from two
carefully shaded lamps. Then in the
distance is heard the mysterious
rumbling of a ghostly something,
which gives the uneasy feeling that
events suggestive of the supernat-
ural are about to happen"
Two murders ''by unseen hands"
are included in the creepy doings
scheduled to take place tonight,
beginning at $40 Lansing Hall,
Catherine Knockey, Larry Law
renee, Anne Ives, George Earring
ton, Florence Konold, Ted Pro-
jector, Macubbin Waters and Sher-
man Lee are in the cast.
The Montgomery County police
really should be warneds
A double dose of chills is avail
able in this area, for Seven Keys
Evening star., 1939-07-24

himself to study of the principal
role as If he were to play it for the
public. He will play only once, in
a special performance for Mr..
Speaight August /.
X
When THE Comedian" is pre-
sented at the Sylvan it will be as
a Summer Festival Offering, but
there will be drama on the Monu-
ment slope before then. Next Tues
day the festival presentation is to
be tabloid version of Shakes
peares Twelfth Night"
The Washington Players enact
this abridgement, Bess Davis
Schreiner is the producer and Carl
ton Ayers directs.
Evening star., 1939-07-24

geous," cast Of -Four Daughters" in
another family drama: IL am. :05,
3:15, $40, 7:30 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Maisie," that explosive
blond is back again: 1875 an, lao,
3:45, $50, 7:50 and 9:55 pm.
Little - Animal Crackers" zany
Marx brothers comedy: II am, 1:30,
3:35, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Open-Air II Was a Spy" with
Herbert Marshall and Madeleine
Carroll: $50 and 1880 pm.
Olney-"Petticoat Fever" comedy
with Dennis King: $40 pm.
Roadside - "Spooks," mystery,
murder, thrills: $40 pm.
Cross Roads Seven Keys to
Baldpate,' the familiar George M.
Cohan mystery-comedy: $40 pm.
Evening star., 1939-07-24


j. C.'s ankle.
This film, known heretofore both
as The Dictator" and The Dicta-
tors" has been much in the public
prints of late and of long ago, too
for that matter. Mr. Chaplin had
given the whole thing up. Mr.. Chap
lin had not given the whole thing
up. but was positively going to start
filming the next sunny Tuesday. Mr.
Chaplin could not make the picture
because his leading lady, Paulette
Goddard. was discovered to have a
prior commitment to party at the
Basil Rathbones and would not be
available. Mr.. Chaplin was going
to make the film and had okayed
the final script. Mr.. Chaplin had
chased three script writers to Albu-
querque, tied them to pole, built
a funeral pyre of the final script and
forsaken the cinema forever. Mr.
Chaplin, immune to sneers from
within the totalitarian states, was
going bravely ahead. The picture
would never be made because of
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Another Scheduled
For Bette Davis

Bette Davis next starring vehicle,
following her Queen Elizabeth role
in THE Lady and the Knight" will
be "West of Frisco" modern ro-
mantle drama by Milton Krims.
George Brent, who was teamed
with Miss Davis in Dark Victory
and THE Old Maid" is slated to ap-
pear opposite her again in "West of
Frisco" and Edmund Goulding, who
directed the academy award winner
in those two productions, once again
will guide her emoting.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showind

Earle-"Man About Town." come
dy and song with Jack Benny and
Dorothy Lamour: II am, 1:40, 4:25,
ITO and 9:55 pm. Stage shows
1880, 3:35, $40 and 905 pm.
Palace - Goodbye, Mr.. Chips, :"
screen version of James Hilton's
great novel: 1880 am, 2, ABS, ITO
and 9:45 pm.
Keith's-"I Stole Million" crime
with romance angle or vice versa ::
11:15 am, l, 2:45, 4:35, $40, $40
and 9:55 pm.
Capitol "On Borrowed Time
earth-touched fantasy: II am. LAS,
4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage shows
12:45, $3.50, 6:15 and 9 pm.
Metropolitan Daughters Coura-
Evening star., 1939-07-24

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Opening Tonight

OLNEY-"Petticoat Fever" is
the weeks attraction, with
Dennis King the guest star as
Stunning the leading role in the
popular comedy: $40 pm.
ROADSIDE-"Spooks' brings
two weeks of ghostly doings, the
Rockville pike players busting
off a scary old thriller: $40 pm.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
HomIet Is Named

Discovered hidden on a narrow
side road near Clydeside, Scotland, a
hamlet OF miners cottages has been
named Finmeoot (Find -me-out).
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Local Drama GROUPS
Ghosts to Have Their Fun
Tonight at Roadside
BY CHRIS MATHISEN.

opening OF spooks at the Roadside Thea
night probably Will
the ranks of the paying onlookebut of
publicity
department consists of Catherine Prchard
If the Roadsiders
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Mr.. Charles Chaplin's Next
Is Still a Major Issue
Now It's Slated to Start Today;
Eunice Healey Is Signed
To Dance in Irene
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Returning find the drama department going bhe about its
business all efficient
blow But to discover via the mailbag that Mr. Charles Spencer
forthcoming motion
closely resembling chap
Hitler versais still may
Evening star., 1939-07-29
Death Halls Mercy Dash
Of British, U. 5. Ships
By tie Associated Press.

oy TEE associated Press.
HONG KONG, July 29.-Death
last night of Lawrence r. Schilline.
25-year American teacher. from
an infantile paralysis attack halted
efforts OF two navies to save his
life.
Mr.. Schilling, teacher at the
Anglo Chinese College Of Foochow
for the last three years, was strick-
en- at Foochow. When word of his
death reached Hong Kong the
United States destroyer Pillsbury
already had steam up in preparation
for a 500-mile dash from here with
serum and an iron lung"
The Pillsbury would have halted
at the mouth of the Min River and
the British destroyer Dainty had
volunteered to carry on through
mine fields to Foochow itself.
The United States consulate had
procured the serum, and the iron
lung" was one of those recently do
mated by Lord Nufheld, British
motor car magnate. to English CO.
lonial hospitals.
Mr.. Schilling, son of the Rev,
Walter E. Schilling of Clintonville,
Wis.,, was stricken while waiting for
. steamer to return to the United
States.
Evening star., 1939-07-29
Duce, 56 Today,
Paid Homage by
ItoK's Farmers
BY the Associated Press.

RICCIONE, Italy, July 29.-Benito
Mussolini, head of the Italian gov
ernment and Duce of Fascism, was
56 years old today.
At his birthplace. the hillside
hamlet of Varano di Costa in the
Commune of Predappio near here,
10000 farmers gathered from all
parts of Italy to pay him homage.
II Duce himself, who in recent
years has chosen to ignore his birth
days, this year received Fascist
leaders at his summer castle, Rocca
Della Caminate, before going to
Varano.
Fuehrer Hitler cabled II Duce a
birthday greeting from Berlin in
which he said the Rome-Berlin axis
would contribute to the maintenance
of European peace.
The farmers at Varano, arriving
by train and motor car, went first
to visit the tomb of II Duce's par
ents. a blacksmith and a school,
teacher.
Many bore fruit and vegetables
and they deposited their offerings
in the central square, which soon
had the appearance of an open-air
market.
According to Mussolini's autobiog-
raphy. he was born at 2 o'clock In
the afternoon of July 20, 1883. His
birthplace is preserved for the visits
OF faithful Fascist followers.
Evening star., 1939-07-29

100000. These have been made out
to persons who had proven their
claims.
The Commercial National Bank,
for which the receivership Office Is
also at 1886 New York avenue, has
unproven claims amounting to
$206, 900, and 2,11l undelivered
checks amounting to about $4,000.
It has paid 10 per cent.
The four other bank receiverships
under supervision of Mr.. Young are
located at the site of the closed
United States Savings Bank at
Fourteenth and U streets.
Paid 100 Per Cent.
The United States Savings Bank,
which has paid 100 per cent has
$50,846 of unproven claims, and un-
delivered dividend checks amount-
ing to s7996.
The Bank of Brightwood, which
has paid g. y per cent, has unproven
claims of SAL 500, and undelivered
checks amounting to $6,986.
The International Exchange Bank
which has paid As per cent, has
unproven claims amounting to
$4,000 and undelivered dividend
checks worth $500.
The Industrial Savings Bank has
no undelivered checks, Mr.. Young
reports, but has unproven claims
totalling $114,500.
Evening star., 1939-07-29
Bureau Has Figures to Prove
Fish Scale Bonneville Dam

Fish counting is not an easy job,
it seems. The counters peer at the
fish as they come over the dam for
16 hours a day, recording each one
according to specie.
Experience proved that no matter
how muc ha man loves fish, he can't
look at them for over As minutes at
a time. Then he must rest his weary
eyes for Is minutes.
Experiments also revealed that
how much a man loves fish, he can't
much by night as they do by day.
So the counters shut the gates for
eight hours at night. The fish just
swan around and waited for the
doors to open.
September, the month of the big
fish run, found the counters record
ing as many as 10000 in one day.
If anything would make man
sick Of fish, it seemed, it would be
this job, but Charles E. jackson
acting commissioner Of fisheries
said that isn't the case at all.
These men like fish," he added
Tn fact. when they're not counting
they usually 50 fishing to relax"
Evening star., 1939-07-29
{. Phelps Dodge Dies
Headed Community
Chest -Four Times
Death in Denver Follows
Attack Of Pneumonia;
Had Been III Long

Clarence Phelps Dodge, news
paper publisher, philanthropist and
president of the Washington Com
munity Chest for four terms, died
in Denver, Colo, this morning
friends here were informed. He was
81 years old Wednesday.
Mr.. Dodge had been in Denver
since June, when he suffered an
attack Of pneumonia while vaca-
tioning in California. He had been
in poor health for more than a year
Mr.. Dodge had been a resident
of Washington since 1880, when he
disposed of his interests in Colorado
Springs. Here he found fresh out
let's for his interest in civic affairs
and welfare work. After first serv-
ing as vice chairman of the budget
committee of the Community Chest
he was elected president of the
Chest in 1884, serving in that
capacity for four terms.
He was a trustee and member of
the Executive Committee of the
Brookings Institution, a member of
the Board of Trade and was active
in many other civic enterprises. His
Washington clubs included the
Burning Tree Country Club and the
Cosmos Club.
Mr.. Dodge also served as chairman
Of the National Committee for So
cial Education and was director of
the George Washington Memorial
Parkway Fund. He held the chair
manship of the Committee on Hous-
ing in Washington and headed q
Evening star., 1939-07-29
British Object in Toxic
To Hostile DISPLAYS

LONDON, July 20 (P.-British Of
ficials said today Sir Robert Leslie
Craigie, Ambassador to Japan, had
been instructed to make representa-
tions to the Toxic government over
continuation of anti British DEM
onstrations in the Orient.
The officials indicated that the
current British-Japanese negotia-
tions in Toxic over China policy had
not been going we'll.
1t was understood Japan had
asked that Chinese government sill
yer held in banks in the British
concession at Tientsin should not
be protected by the British. Sir
Robert was said to have asked for
instruction from London on this
point.
The value of these silver stocks
has been reported at about $15,-
100000. Japan has insisted that
they be turned over to the Japanese
dominated Peiping regime.
A foreign Office spokesman said
most of the silver in question was
held in French and British banks
and that Britain could not discuss
(See SHANGHAI, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1939-07-29
Sufe-Cruckers Free
Liner Romu's Funds
Bv tie Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
HOBOKEN, N. j., July 29-Pas-
sengers, crew and everybody con-
cerned aboard the Italian liner
Roma had their financial difficulties
solved today-but the line will have
to get a new safe.
A paper bearing the safes COM
bination disappeared at sea IL days
ago and since then efforts at the
Roma's ports of call had failed to
free the ships funds.
Emergency cash had been rushed
overland to the ship at Bar Harbor,
Me-, during Quebec Bermuda
cruise to accommodate passengers.
Safe-crackers were summoned
when the ship arrived here and, the
line said today, finally succeeded in
opening the box.
Evening star., 1939-07-29
$780, ,OO0UncIoimed, Receiver
Opens Drive to Find Owners
Half Million in Deposits, More in Dividends
Await Depositors of Six Closed Banks

Frederick j. Young, receiver for
SIX Washington banks, has started q
campaign to find the depositors
who own more than half a million
dollars worth Of "unproven claims" F"
and about 100000 in unclaimed di-
vidend checks, ready to be cashed.
Letters are being sent out to de-
positors listed as owners of the
money, at their last address, and
representative of the receiver is
working out of the receivers Office
in an endeavor personally to find
missing depositors who cannot be
located by mail.
Receivers of closed banks, accord
ing to the official records of the
Government, consistently have diff
Guilty in getting creditors to call
for the last funds left in a receiver
ship.
$4,000 in One Bank.
Mr.. Young said the Federal
American National Bank and Trust
Co., for which the receivership Office
is located at 1886 New York avenue
NV, has paid rs per cent dividends
to depositors and has 100000 un-
proven claims for which no one has
called to prove ownership. Persons
who can prove claim to their part
of this fund will receive dividends
totalling rs per cent of the claim
In addition there are about 5000
dividend checks in this bank, un-
called for, amounting to about
Evening star., 1939-07-29
BY the Associated Press.

The Bureau OF Fisheries has a
flock of finny figures to cast at the
skeptics who said fish would never
scale Bonneville Dam.
Releasing the first report on the
piscatorial pilgrims which have rid
den the elevators over the huge dam
in the Columbia River, the bureau
said the first years traffic totaled
1,174,134.
Among the thousands of people
who visited Bonneville Dam during
the summer $780," said the bu-
reau, probably the majority saw
few, if any fish, and many of the
visitors went away with feeling of
doubt regarding the success of the
f1shways."
The fish folks at Bonneville rea-
tied they had a problem. Fish were
climbing the dam, but they weren't
getting into the record. Something
had to be done.
In May. 1898, the bureau placed
workers who know their fish at vsri-
Gus stations on the dam and said
Count EN-"
Evening star., 1939-07-29
AZ Bombing Planes
Going to Britain, France
~ the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
SAN PEDRO, Calf, July 29.-
Twenty-Five bombing planes, first
half of $500, 900 French govern
ment order, are scheduled for ship
ment Monday aboard the French
Lines Wisconsin. The remaining 20
planes are to leave August Is aboard
the Oregon.
The British liner Lochgoil loaded
30 bombers and training ships today,
preparing to depart for England.
The shipment is valued at 81 500 900.
Eight more military planes will be
placed aboard the .reighter Colum-
bia Star. bounde for Liverpool, with
II = few days, ,es