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Evening star., 1939-06-04
Acting Of Broadway Stage
Has a Different Quality
Than That of Hollywood
And Much of 1t This Year Has Been
Golden Some Fine Performances
Being Remembered
By Ira Wolferf.

Although substantial part of is now gone forever the acting
OF the season just ended has been something golden
No Helen Hayes this Ina Claire
elimination acting
golden 1t has quality
going confined the
This not to that there
Of themselves before the Garfield
he talked excited about Hollywood directors
actor has gveand performers
to it neigently. of
the glamour boys" And he
asking the director What are the words s saw %
Mr. Garfield, who acting
about writing said this happened less frequently people
However, be happens Broadway
and cannot possibly happen Chiefly because
of sustaining
partly also because the moral evor most actors here acquire the
An incident occurred recently which illustrates the
young of distinguished beginning
Broadway the and ability to land
substantial play written
Night Be Blamed
a Plays Failure
Late this he landed his second job this time
play Actors rehearsing play they know bad vehicle
know will collapse under them opening night always
job these days but they running
all the from pathetic dstaste urgent
neighbohood know they poor only poor
taste but kind of let doing
so the
This young man. to the morales of the thea
demonstrate his didain for the play
before the night the
whisky down his privilege
and docking at the
heater at o'clock pull performance
suffer appreciabE AS may
have helped the performance preceding
giving him headache to think play is
But my goodness you should have heard the talk
There Much Acting
That Is NebuIous.
deal acting Some
times because acting inferior that
account for the alteration qualities
nebulous emotion
than the quality music You've
actor to utter line with people laugh
at that but not they're actors
Anyway really extraordinary
IN nn plays this year new dramatic star born when Ethel
waters turned from blues singing to Mmba Daughters
Evans proved that he well
in the heater ping Hamlet
to fat-voiced sluggish decayin Falaf
much Tor ABE Lincoln Illinois author
did Robert Benchey much satisfying
oscar Wilde
play comedy with fairy lghtnes Eddie
great experience Judith Ander
seemed maveousy right
she moved through the play like a holy
The list long but movie stars who
came from Hollywood to act here
or Franchot Tone could luminosity
descence that glow which the hallmark
very much they the movies lovely
chores.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Getting That Name in Lights
A Pet Peeve of the Stars
Billing. Conscious They Demand
The Right Size and Position
OF the Lights
By Harold Hefernan.
HOII,YWnnn


Inc term billing doesn't anything the fan
puoh ana tns no particular doesn't
even ooher define
cia that overwhelming Holywod movies
lie wouldn't be worth while without
Wen stars featured players studios On neu
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Youngsters Careers Prove
Much Happens in a Year
Many With Important Roles Today
Were Far From Hollywood
II Months Ago
By SheHah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.


Today Mary Hea playing big with
Fiddle
exchange
haired miss
Eleven months she offered brought
Evening star., 1939-07-28
President Presents Leahy
With Service Medal

Admiral William D. Leahy, retir-
ing chief of naval operations, re-
ceived the coveted Distinguished
Service Medal in a surprise cere-
mony at the White House today.
President Roosevelt pinned the
medal on the distinguished officer
and then read aloud citation prais-
ing his extraordinary qualities of
leadership and administrative abil-
ity.' The citation recited that Ad-
miral Leahy was responsible for the
planning and administration of the
Navy during the period of its great
est peacetime expansion.
Admiral Leahy, who retires next
Tuesday, said he will sail September
to take up his new post as Gov
ernor of Puerto Rico.
Admiral Leahy is to be given a
testimonial dinner at the Mayflower
Hotel tonight by naval officers here.
Some guests will come from Annap-
oils.
Some 300 officers and ranking ci-
villain officials are expected to attend
Rear Admiral Walton r. Sexton will
act as POSTMASTER and Acting Sec
retary of the Navy Charles Edison
and Rear Admiral Harold r. Stark
will be the speakers.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
| Two Victims
lOf Heat Die
I'm District Area

A 65-year-old man, reported at
the time of his collapse as a heat
prostration victim, died early today
in Casualty Hospital.
The man, Samuel Chase of 8l3 E
street S.W., was taken to the hos
pital Sunday after collapsing on
the street. Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald withheld a certificate
pending an investigation.
Meanwhile, another death at
tributed to the heat was reported
from Kensington, Md. The victim,
Reuben Reno Palmer, 67, died after
he was overcome while working in
field near his home. Funeral
services were held yesterday and
burial was in the Rockville Gene
terry.
A break in the heat which has
prevailed here for several days was
forecast today by the Weather Bu-
reau. The forecast is for local
thundershowers tonight and tomor-
row, and cooler weather late Satur-
day afternoon or night.
The highest temperature recorded
yesterday was 80 degrees at $40 pm
At the same time the humidity was
SIS per cent.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Spanish Refugees in Mexico
May Have $4,000, 900 Gold

government agents and brought to
an unknown destination in Mexico
City. It was said today the boxes
contained gold.
The government, which has not
recognized Gen. FRANCES regime, is
silent concerning the funds which
Paris reports say we're placed in
the temporary custody of President
Cardenas.
Reports are that the reason Negrin
was "deposed" by the Republican
junta in Paris yesterday was he op-
posed establishment of the bank,
wanting to use the money to launch
campaign against the Franco
regime at an opportune time.
Nearly 5000 refugees have arrived
from concentration camps in France
Some 1000 came yesterday on the
French liner Mexique.
From Vera Cruz, 1900 refugees
will be sent to Chihuahua State
across the border from the United
States. Others will be concentrated
at Perote, Vera Cruz state, until
they are distributed in other states.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
BY the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, July 28.-Span-
ish Republican refugees starting a
fresh life in Mexico may have hid
den $5O000,00 gold treasure to dip
into in getting on their economic
feet.
The hoard was brought to Mex
leo as the secret cargo of a pleasure
yacht, informed persons say, and
will be used to start bank. The
bank will make loans to Spaniards
who fled from Generalissimo Fran
cos armies and finally reached a
Mexican haven but need money to
get started in business, professions,
farming or industry.
The gold was taken out of Spain
by the former Spanish Republican
government. Accounts from Paris
yesterday of the quarrel between
former Premier Juan Negrin and an
opposing Republican junta gave the
first clue to the cargo of the yacht
Vita, which arrived at Vera Cruz
March 80.
Huge boxes were unloaded mys-
teriously under the close watch, Of
Evening star., 1939-07-28
81 Hurt in Train Wreck
Near Grand Canyon
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GRAND CANYON, Ariz., July %.
The list of injured in the derail-
ment of Grand Cayon special train
last night climbed to 81, Santa Fe
officials disclosing that 81 had been
hospitalized and 20 more given first
aid treatment at the scene 6 miles
south. Earlier reports had listed
only nine injured.
Only five remained in the hospital
today. They were Alisa White, %.
Kalamazoo, Mich: Mrs. Minnie
Hofemeister, 10, Milwaukee, Wis:
G. B. Parker, 60, Scarborough, Eng
land; Mrs. Lillian Aston, 81, Akron,
Ohio, and Michael Sachs, SO, New
ark, N. j.
None was considered in a critical
condition.
The two locomotives and four
coaches of the train. carrying 100
cayon visitors from all parts of the
world, jumped the rails while pro-
ceeding through deep cut, blasted
out of almost solid rock.
Trainmen said the wreck undoubt-
edly was caused by a truck dropping
down on one Of the engines or .
tender. Ties were cut for some dis
tance.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
!. R. A. Spokesman Regrets
Fatality in Bombing

NEW YORK, July % P).-The
Sun published an interview today
quoting an official spokesman" of
the Irish Republican Army as say
ing the killing of one person and
injuring of 81 in the London station
bombings Wednesday were regret
table" and contrary to l. R. A. policy.
In its war against England, the
spokesman said the army councils
plans 'do not call for the taking of
English lives except as retaliatory
measure if the English take the lives
of l. R. A. soldiers
He said only two English lives
have been lost in $50 bombings
causing an estimated damage of
$5,000,0O0. The purpose in planting
bombs in station baggage rooms was
explained as merely to damage
property and frighten the English.
The local I. r. A. representative
said there have been four I. R. A.
fatalities. Three were in the trans
portation and preparation of ex-
plosives, the other a soldier who
kept bomb in his possession
longer than it was safe
Evening star., 1939-07-28
British Fleet to Begin
Secret Cruise Monday
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 28-Britain's home
fleet, backbone of her navy, will be-
gin cruise July 81, but the admiral
ty is keeping the itinerary secret.
Summer leave, which was ad-
vanced a month so the navy would
be at full strength at the beginning
of August-which many in Britain
fear will be critical month-ended
today. Last groups of holidaying
officers and seamen rejoined their
ships this morning and joined the
work of making them ready for sea-
The reserve fleet, to be called up
July 81, will join the home fleet for
Britain's biggest peace-time naval
maneuvers after an inspection and
review by King George August 9.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Chain Explosions
OF Atoms Spur Hope
OF Vast New Energy
Dr.. Frederick JoIiot and
Colleagues Plan to
Try Utilization
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

LIEGE, Belgium (By Yankee Clip
PER- Evidence of chain reac-
ton in the potentially earth-rock-
ing subatcmic energy first tapped
last winter, which has far-reaching
implications for the eventual use
and control of this vast power, was
reported to the French Association
for the Advancement of Science
meeting here by DR.. Frederick Joliot,
Nobel prize winner of the College
de France.
He and his colleagues, DR.. Joliot
said, may soon undertake expert
ments in the actual utilization of
the vast energy which results when
an atom of at least one form of
uranium is hit squarely in the nu-
cleus by slow neutron fired from
cyclotron or other atom smash
ing machine.
1t can be calculated mathemat-
ically, said DR.. Joliot, that the to-
tai energy released must be of the
order of 200,000,000 volts. 1t may
actually, he believes, 60 consider
ably higher. The uranium nucleus
breaks into two unequal fragments
which are hurled for distances of
approximately 2 inches, literally
cosmic expanse of space in the sub
atomic world.
NeutrOn Shattered.
But about 100000 volts of the
calculated energy, DR.. Joliot said, still
must be accounted. for. A portion of
it, he demonstrated to the French
scientists, is explained by the fact
that the nucleus really breaks into
the two major particles and prob
ably three or four smaller ones. These
small particles are neutrons, similar
to the atomic cannonballs which
caused the explosion in the first
place. Following an explosion an ex-
cess of these can be detected in
solution.
The explosion of a single uranium
atom means little, so far as any prac-
tical power is concerned, but the
nearly simultaneous explosion of a
few billions of these nuclei has po-
tentialities of producing energy far
beyond mans fondest dreams in the
past. The vision of practical tap
ping of atomic power always has
been marred by the realization of
the enormous expense which would
be involved due to the necessity Of
making direct hits with neutrons for
every nucleus broken up.
viii Set OFF Chain Explosions.
If his preliminary results hold up,
DR.. Joliot said this necessity is elm
mated. Once the process has started
part of its own energy, in the form
of the neutrons, will be diverted au-
tomatically to continuing the ex-
plosion by striking other nuclei
Thus there will be set up something
like a trail of cosmic gun powder.
1t is possible that the process will
work, M. Joliot believes, with an
unpurified mixture Of the various
forms of uranium. American SCI
entists now are working on another
clue-that only one form of the ele-
ment-the so-called light uranium
or actino-uranium- capable of
such explosions. This involves OBJ
tanning a pure sample of this SUBJ
stance, present in uranium only In
the ratio of about one atom to every
thousand, before even a start can be
made on setting up chain reaction
Although a theoretical method has
(see SCIENCE, Page A-3o
Evening star., 1939-07-28
GarfinckeI Store
Sale 10 Corporation
Approved by Court
$4.890, 900 Transaction
To Furnish Funds to
Garry Out Will

The sale of the department store
owned by the late Julius Garfinckel,
together with the real estate on
which it stands at Fourteenth
and F streets NV, to Julius Gar
flnckel g. Co.. Inc. has been ap-
proved by the District Court of the
United States for the District of
Columbia for a total consideration
as shown by the petition to the
court of the executors and trustees
of the estate, of approximately
S4 800, GOO. 1t is expected that the
sale will be consummated shortly.
The purchasing corporation was
organized by a group of representa-
tive investment banking firms. It
is anticipated that an offering of
the corporations securities will be
made to the public by the under
writing bankers. However, no an
nouncement regarding such a pro-
posed offering can be made until a
registration statement has been filed
with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, except that the estate
OF Julius Garf1nckel will continue to
have a substantial interest in the
business.
To Fulfill Will Terms.
The Riggs National Bank, William
Townsend Pheiffer and William E
Schmid, the executors and trustees
OF the estate, who conducted the
negotiations for the sale, stated, in
their petition filed with the court
that upon consummation of the sale,
the estate will be in a position to carry
out the terms of Mr.. Garfinckel's
will 1t will be recalled that Mr.
Gartinckel provided in his will for
the payment of cash legacies of
SILL 900 to old and faithful en-
ployes, the All Souls Unitarian
Church, Emergency Hospital and
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation Of the District of Columbia
The will also provides that an
nuities totaling $4,000 a year shall
be paid from the income of the
estate to certain relatives and en-
ployes. Eventually, the residue OF
the estate will all inure to the Young
Womens Christian Association OF
the District of Columbia for the
purpose Of establishing the Hannah
Harrison School of Industrial Arts
IN memory of Mr.. Garfinckel's
mother. The purpose of the school,
is to provide a free education in
industrial pursuits for girls ano
young women under the necessity
of earning their own livelihoods.
Since Mr.. Garfinckel's death on
November S, 1896, the business
which was unincorporated and
(See GARFINCKEL, Page A-40
Evening star., 1939-07-28

GREEN BAY, Wis, July % R.-
Mrs. Lucy Weidner, So, who blud-
geoned her husband Mathew, So, tc
death because he never took me
out" pleaded guilty to first-degree
murder today and was sentenced tc
life Imprisonment. Mr.. Weidner's
body, the head battered by steel
banded pike pole, was found In his
bed July IA.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
$1,000 Police
Round Up Ira.
In Britain
Terrorist Suspects
To Be Deported
Under New Law
BACKGROUND

oAS n hoItOONO-
OutlaDed Irish Republican
Army last Winter opened CAM
pdign OF terrorism against Great
Britain to back up demand that
sir northern counties comprising
Ulster be reunited 1Uith Southern
Ireland. British government has
undertaken drastic campaign to
suppress terroristic activities,
most recent of 1Ohich Uds series
OF fue bonlbings in London and
Liverpool Wednesday.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 2S-Sixteen thou
sand police were mobilized today for
a swift, countrywide roundup Of
suspected Irish Republican Army
terrorists.
Those arrested were to be deport-
ed under Britain's new Anti-Violence
Act or questioned in connection with
recent bombings.
TWenty-One persons were wounded
and one died as the result of two
bomb explosions in London on We'd
nesday. There were three blasts the
same day in Liverpool.
Bill o. KID by King.
Special powers for expulsion Of
suspected terrorists went into effect
when an emergency measure re-
ceived the Kings assent through a
royal commission in the House of
Lords.
Before the measure was passed by
the Lords Lord Sempill proposed
that 10 strokes of the birch be added
TO the penalties it contained.
The amendment was discarded,
however. when Lord de la War;,
president of the Board of Educa-
ton, said the bill was INTENDED to
prevent crimes-not to deal with Of
lenses committed, which were pun
lshable under normal law.
visitors were barred from the
houses OF Parliament over the week
end as a precautionary measure.
Three men seized yesterday bv
Scotland Yard were arraigned on
charges of Illegally possessing ex-
plosives.
Authorities indicated King Georges
assent would put into action a re-
lentless campaign against I. R. A.
members and sympathizers whose
hope it is to drive England out of
Ireland" is, bring about union
between the 26 southern counties
which form independent Ireland
and the six northern counties form
ing Ulster, part of the United King
dom.
A preliminary list of more than
40 men and women who NAV be
expelled from the country at once
was studied by officials. Govern
ment sources said about 5000 sus-
poets have been under surveillance
pending completion of the anti
I. r. A. act.
Ports Closely Watched.
Meanwhile close watch was kept
on ports of embarkation for Ireland,
Officials said some undesirables al
ready had started to leave Britain
and they were on the lookout for
any among these who might have
been connected with the Wednesday
bombings.
In Hyde Park yesterday a hostile
crowd quickly surrounded an Irish
man who unfurled the Irish flag and
shouted, 1--WE soon shall all be de-
ported and when we get there Cto
Ireland We will blow the English
out of it,"
The IriShman was fined 10
shillings (S2.34 for using language
calculated to cause "a breach of the
| neace"
Evening star., 1939-07-28

LOS ANGELES, July % P.-
Wine before breakfast brought Mrs.
Eliza Jane Ferguson into her hun
dredth year today.
The woman, who went to Colorado
from Kentucky 65 years ago because
of tuberculosis but outlived her Civil
War veteran husband and two of
her children, attributed her longev-
ity, in part, to her daily glass Of
port.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Fast Bomber's Flight
Details Withheld
BY the Associated Press.
ey the Associated Press.

CS tIe hSSoCldleo FIeSS.
SANTA MONICA, Calf, July %.
The War Department withheld
performance and design details to-
day of a new twin-engined bomber
repeatedly with flying speed of 300
miles an hour.
Army Air Corps tests of the me-
dium- weight, all-metal, low-winged
ship brought only the announce
ment highly satisfactory"
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Anger al Lewis Attack
May Aid Advocates
Of Wage Act Changes
Gamers Friends Also
See Nome-CoIIine os
Help to His 40 Chances
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Fair Labor Standards Act be-
came effective last October, i'm
posing q minimum 1Dage of rs
cents hourly and marimun,
1oork 1Ueek of a hours. By a
gradual process 1UageS in covered
industries are to be raised to 40
cents and hours set at 90 per
,ueek. Efforts to reDiSe legislation
hare precipitated unique par
liamentary tangle.
By the Associated Press.
John l.. Lewis denunciation of
Vice President Garner stirred up
such congressional tempest today
that some legislators said it had
improved chances for revision of the
wage-hour law at this session.
Mr.. Lewis was demanding that
Congress make no change in the
law when he told the House Labor
Committee yesterday that the TO-
year-old Vice President is a labor
batting, poker playing, whisky
drinking evil old man"
Ignoring the G. I. o. leaders op-
position to any wage-hour altera-
tions-a stand in which the A. F. l..
joined-the Labor Committee agreed
after tempestuous closed meeting
to try to bring so-called non-contro-
versal" amendments to the House
floor next Monday.
A short time later the Rules Com
mittee decided to send to the floor
three separate proposals for chang
ing the law and let the chamber
take its pick. A tangled parlia-
mentary situation was certain to de-
velop.
Roosevelt Recalls Another.
President Roosevelt, at his press
conference today, had no comment
on Mr.. Lewis statement except to
remark that the same gentleman
had said some things about him q
little while ago and he thought
there had been no comment.
There was no elaboration on this
but listeners recalled that during
the 1887 sit-down strikes Mr.. Lewis
had spoken harshly of the admins
trations attitude.
Mr.. Roosevelt interpreted the
sending of three different wage-hour
amendatory bills to the House floor
as hopeful step toward adjourn
ment.
Asked for comment on the COM
mittee's procedure, the President
said only that after you get all kinds
of legislation to the floor, you are
more apt to get action than if all
kinds of legislation remained in
committee.
Mr.. Lewis bluntly accused Mr.
Garner of responsibility for what he
called the campaign against la
Dor" in the House and said:
Il am against him in 1889, and I
will be against him in 1910 when
he seeks the presidency of the
United States"
Angered and astounded friends of
the Texan rallied to his support in
both the Senate and House. Several
of them quickly predicted that Mr.
(See WAGE-HOUR. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1939-07-28
3d. Decision
Date Left in Air
--
By President
By the Associated Press,

by tne ASSoclateo freSS.
President Roosevelt left up IN
the air today the question OF
when some statement might be
expected from him on a third
term.
A reporter asked, at his press
conference, whether he could
say anything about when the
country could expect such a
statement.
With a look of seeming sur
prise Mr.. Roosevelt responded
with a firm no and chuckled.
Jestingly he remarked that
he was not cracking down on
anybody. Previous inquiries
about a third term have re-
suited in the Presidents tell
ing the inquiring newsmen to
don a Ounce cap or go stand IN
a corner.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Roosevelt Cites
In Hatch Bill
Fovors Objeetives,
But Keeps Silence
About Signing 1t
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Hatch bill to "preDent per-
nicious political activities" among
Federal employees 1Uas passed by
Senate April 13 Without dis
senting Dote. In the House a
number OF amendments ,Dere
11ritten in, and last Thursday
night, after a stormy session, the
House passed the amended meas
ure. Nert day the Senate, BY
motion Uote, adopted amendments
and sent bill to White House.
Questions as to application and
enforcement OF legislation, both
in the District and nationally,
haze been raised since its passage.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Fuehrer in Berlin
On Unexpected Visit
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN, July 8.-Reichsfuehrer
Hitler arrived unexpectedly in Berlin
today in a one-day interlude in the
Wagner Music Festival which he
has been attending at Bayreuth.
Authoritative quarters were unable
to give any reason for his return,
but surmised he would attend the
10th radio and television show be-
fore returning to Bayreuth tonight.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
French Diplomat Arrives

NEWPORT, R. l., July % R.-
The Marquis Henri dAssche of
France arrived from Bermuda today
on an undisclosed diplomatic mis-
sion aboard the bark Sea Cloud, pri-
vate yacht of Joseph E. Davies, Am
bassador to Belgium. Mr.. Davies
was not aboard.