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Evening star., 1940-03-23
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The place: Connecticut avenue
and Military road NV.

The place: Connecticut avenue
and Military road NV.
The accident: A 38-year-old COL
ored man, riding on the body of a
truck loaded with three heavy spools
of telephone cable, was crushed to
death beneath one of the spools
when the truck overturned. The
driver of the truck, proceeding north
on Connecticut avenue, made a
sharp left turn into Military road
to avoid striking a vehicle going
west on Military across Connecticut.
The truck turned over on its right
side at the north curb line OF Mill
tary, about SO feet from the inter-
section. The car crossing Connecti-
cut continued on without stopping
and the driver has not been To-
Gated. Military road traffic is gov
erned by stop signs at the intersec-
ton.
The time: About 40 pm,
March 10.
Weather conditions: Clear.
The street: Dry, downgrade north
on Connecticut, level on Military.
The vehicle: A 1880 model 3h-
ton truck, brakes good, general me-
ehanical condition good, carrying
less than half the load permitted
by law. speed estimated Of between
10 ana IA miles an hour,
THE driver A ta.yesfsold coloFsd
man stth ~ years dFivlns ssI~sls
snes, vho has had eas nilnoF sesl.
dent, - years ssa hul with ne
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Evening star., 1940-03-23
Aroused Community
Can Reduce Crime,
Curran Declares
New Prosecutor
Speoks Before
Reciprocity Club

Crime is the result of an "ihcreas-
ing intelligence" on the part of the
criminal classes, the newly con-
firmed district attorney, Edward M.
Curran, told the Reciprocity Club
at its meeting in the Mayfower
Hotel yesterday.
No lasting change for the better,
he said, could be accomplished un-
less the community stays aroused
to the crime menace and until it
forces its representatives in the
administration of criminal justice
to perform their public duties
THE good citizen acts only occa-
sionally to suppress crime" he de-
clared. "The criminal is always on
the job"
Aroused Community Urged.
MIR. Curran predicted that organ
lied crime would never be elimi-
mated but added that an aroused
community could keep it minimized
and controlled.
The public, police. prosecutor and
judiciary working together, he said,
become an, efficient weapon against
crime, but operating separately they
only serve to harden the criminal
element.
-Four factors, the new prosecutor
said, were responsible for the pre-
vention of crime-parents, school,
church and community. The job
of the parents, he declared, was to
furnish children with the fun they
crave at the proper time and of the
proper kind. Parents, he said, must
try to raise their children with
obedience and respect, so they may
later grow into respect for lawful
authority.
Equality in Education.
The teachers job, he went on,
was to deal with students as indi-
viouals rather than as groups, SO
that all children might have an
equal chance at education.
He blamed Sunday golf and auto
mobile rides for dwindling church
attendance and predicted that if
such a pace keeps up the church
"is bound to lose its place as the
most effective weapon in crime pre-
vention."
Wash B. Williams introduced Mr.
Curran, and Theodore S. Grape pre-
sided at the luncheon meeting.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
63,235 Americans
| Still Listed in Europe

The State Department, besieged
with conflicting requests to evacuate
all American women and children
from the European war zone and
to permit medical students to return
to schools in Scotland, estimated
yesterday that 63 ,235 American citi-
zens were living in Europe on Janu-
ary /. ,
The estimate included only those
classed as permanent or semi-per-
manent residents abroad. At the
outbreak of the war the department
imposed drastic restrictions on pass
ports for travel in Europe and urged
all Americans with no imperative
business there to return.
On last October IL, with nearly
10000 Americans having returned,
the department said its information
indicated all Americans In the bel
ligerent countries who desired to
come home had had the oppor-
tunity.
The departments records showed
7,5l4 American residents In Great
Britain and Northern ireland. 1881
In Italy, o927 In France. 5.27A In
Germany, 2.%7e In Greece. 5,ssi h,
Portugal. TAT In Belgium. 652 In
Denmark, se2 IN the Netherlands
and 27e In Finland.
The departments report on Amer
leans living abroad listed q total Of
ssa 400. with the largest number,
isi,i7a, resident In Canada,
aouth Airieas f,Is, sns, sssi
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Evening star., 1940-03-23
Cox Accuses N. L. R. B.
Of Funds Lobbying

Representative Cox, Democrat, of
Georgia, critic of the National Labor
Relations Board, accused officials
of that agency today of lobbying
illegally for restoration of a $337, 900
cut recommended in their 1941 ap-
preparation by the House Appropri-
ations Committee.
I'm the face of evidence that they
previously violated the law, now
they are doing a little more lobby
ing trying to get that cut back, ("
Mr.. Cox said. why, yesterday they
sent out lot of propaganda for the
full appropriation.
They'll do well to hold what
they've got, and the chances are
that the fund will be still further
reduced"
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Star Stan Photo,

Built by Samuel Finley Breese
Morse, sculptor and organizer of
the present National Academy of
Design in New York, the original
machine is still in working condi-
ton. Refinements have made the
modern machine smaller and more
efficient, but the principle and even
the code used then is still flashing
messages throughout the world.
DR.. Thomas Midgley, jr, board
chairman of the American Chemi-
cal Society and inventor of the
process for manufacturing ethyl
gasoline, brought the machine from
Ithaca, N. Y, for temporary dis
play here.
The machine incidentally led to
the founding of Cornell University
Ezra Cornell was employed as a
linesman to string the wire to Balti-
more. His experience made him one
of the organizers of Western Union,
and his pay checks from that ven-
ture were sufficiently fat to pro-
vide the original funds for the
university.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Miss {. W. Wushinqton
Funeral Rites Held

Miss Elizabeth Westwood WASH
ington. descendant of Lawrence
Washington, half brother of George
Washington, was buried yesterday
in Congressional Cemetery after
services at Gawler's funeral chapel.
She died Wednesday at her home,
2724 Ontario road NV.
Born near Manassas, Va, Miss
Washington had been resident of
this city since childhood. She
worked for the Treasury Depart
ment and the General Accounting
Office, retiring several years ago
after 80 years Federal service. AS
young woman she had been a
telegraph operator in one of the
city's old railroad stations.
She was active in affairs of the
Daughters of the American Revo-
luton.
A sister, Mrs. Fannie Washington
Wilkins of this city, died Janu-
aryi 80.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Door Of Headquarters
Of Grant Displayed

Displayed in the Crater Museum
at Petersburg National Park, Va, is
the original door to Gen. y. S.
Grants cabin at City Point, where
his headquarters throughout the en-
tire Petersburg campaign was estab-
lished, from June, 1864, to April,
1865.
City Point, now Hopewell, in ad-
dition to being headquarters for the
Union Army, was the base where
supplies were landed and transferred
by wagon train or railroad for con-
veyance to the Federal lines around
the besieged city of Richmond, Va.
One of thousands of the historic
relics assembled under the conser-
vation program of the National Park
Service, the door was presented to
the Government by Edward T.
Stuart of Philadelphia. After the
war Gen. Grants cabin was trans
ferred to Fairmount Park, Philadel-
phia, but the door now Is on display
in the Crater Museum.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Bentley Reoppointment
Urqed by Citizens

Headed by Lawrence E. Williams.
president Of the Washington Board
Of Trade, nearly Q score Of men and
women representing civic, religious.
charitable and other organizat ations
yesterday visited the Justice De-
partment to urge the reappointment
OF Judge Fay Bentley Of Juvenile
Court.
The delegation met Matthew p.
Mcclure. special assistant 10 the At
torney General. who passes on the
qualifications of judicial candidates,
and were advised that q report ot
the visit would be made 10 Attorney
General Jackson upon his return
isasA PinssdA,
tsiss benlieys l<fm sspiTea e.,
pse' ~eSy<>D
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Records of Wild Life
Preserved BY Films

How the record of American wild
life is being preserved for the future
by color film was demonstrated to
members of the National Geo.
graphic Society last night by DR..
Arthur A. Allen, professor of orni-
thology at Cornell University.
Attwater's prairie chicken, now
extinct except in a few Texas coun-
ties, was among the birds he has
stalked and filmed during wander
ings from coast to coast.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Wender Says Congress
NeqIects Probe Results

Predicting that Congress will pass
no suffrage bill for the District this
year, Vice President Harry S. Wender
of the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations last night declared the Sen
ate, and particularly the House,
chronically neglect the results of
their own investigations.
investigations of welfare agencies
and conditions, and the question of
reorganization, are frequently in
vestigated-and then nothing is
done about It," he told an audience
at the Bookshop, GIG Seventeenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Apple Blossom Fete
To Be May 7 and ;
By the Associated Press.

WINCHESTER, Va, March 23.-
May 2 and were selected yesterday
as the dates for the annual Shen-
andoah Apple Blossom Festival, an
event that attracts thousands to
this valley city every year.
The festival Executive Committee
announced the dates after being as
sured by horticulturists that North
ern Virginia apple blossoms would
be In full bloom at that time.
The committee said a queen would
be selected later TO reign over the
festival.
ofiicials announced Miss Margaret
Bell of Suffolk would represent
Madison College of Harrisonburg In
the Court OF the Queen, with Miss
Rosellh Tuck Of Richmond repre-.
sentins MARY Washington College
OF rrederickabufs MisA Peas, Towlsa
of Roanoke, Wsffenton CountE,
school, and Misa Dar,hula wolis nj
Dante, the College Of kmosr sna
Henry,
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Nine at A. U. Elected
To Betu Betu Betu

Beta Beta Beta, national honor
ary biological fraternity, has elected
nine new members at American
University, it was announced yes
terday.
Those elected are Elizabeth Acton
Harold R. Bean, Lois v. Evans
Elizabeth Matthew, Robert Nef
Jacqueline Waldron, Betty Wilson,
Clayton E. Wood, and Joseph Johler
All but Miss Acton and Mr.. Johler
are WaShingtonians.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Beut New Deal Now
Or Never, Gonnett Says
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, March 23.-Frank
Gannett, Rochester IN. " news
paper publisher, brought his cam
paign for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination into Minnesota
yesterday with a prediction that the
New Deal will be beaten this year
or never.
II expect Mr.. Roosevelt will be
the Democratic candidate" Mr.
Gannet told interviewers, "and it
won't be easy to beat him. But he
can be beaten at the November eiec-
ton, and he must be beaten. Give
the New Deal four more years and
we will never get rid OF It."
The Republican nomination Ia
still wide open. he declared. Hs
predicted that 600 or more dele.
gates Ia the national convention 81
Philadelphia would be unlr slfuetea
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Edqerton Gets Bar Post

Justin L. Edgerton, Washington
attorney, has been appointed local
director Of the public information
program for Washington of the
Junior Bar Conference, American
Bar Association. 1t was announced
yesterday In the organizations Chi
caso ofiices. The programs purpose
Ia 10 stimulate discussion Of current
civic and legal questions.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
pressmun TO Be Speaker

lee Freshman general counsel for
the G o. will speak tonight al
the fourth annual dinner and dance
ei redsfal security Agency Union
ei the United Federal workers At
tHs Nallonal rtest Club There
slll hs slsa . series of "sfldiron"
ssllA under the direction oi Herman
hse,man.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Roosevelt Urged to Name
Neqro as Commissioner

The Washington Council of the
National Negro Congress yesterday
urged President Roosevelt to ap-
point Negro to the vacancy on
the Board of Commissioners created
by the recent resignation of George
E. Allen.
In telegram to the Chief Ex-
ecutive signed by Arthur D. Gray,
local council president, the congress
said colored citizens of Washington
had made definite contribution to
the community life with q per cent
of the population.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
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Evening star., 1940-03-23

Conway United States commissioner of patents Qeft
yesterday given temporary custody the
received the first telegram in 1874 Mdgley jr
Gght member of committee appointed help celebrate
the sesqucentennia of the patent egsla
ton, brought the machine from Cornell University.
Star STAFF Photo.
Evening star., 1940-03-23

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Evening star., 1940-05-02

version of the story makes no pre-
tense that they are.
Helping to make the screen ver-
sion of February Hill" memorable
picture are the efforts of a number
of qualified players who rarely have
made credit lists in recent years.
They include Marjorie Rambeau,
who does an excellent job as Mamie
Adams, the mother of the brood,
who succumbs to the temptation
to take the easy way when her
alcoholic and Intellectual husband
lets down the Adams family:
Queenie Vassar as the harridan
grandmother, who goes all out for
the best possible time regardless of
its effect upon the rest of the FAM
lily; Miles Mander as the Intellectual
husband and Joan Carroll as the
kid sister who is being trained by
grandmother for the kind of life
which no child should lead.
McCrea's Interpretation of the
role of Wallace, the upright young
man who really does not belong in
the Adams family, is an excellent
piece of work within the limitations
which the part imposes upon him.
After all, Ed had small chance
to express himself among the very
expressive Adamses. 1t is not i'm
portant, however, for the rest of
the family does such an excellent
job Of making itself-and its odd
impulses-clear.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
ANU sEMENTs.

Morgan and Walter Pidgeon. I
still can't see Hedy in musical. She
requires something with . little
more body to 1t. No double en-
tendre intended.
Nelson Eddy and jeanette Mac.
Donald have some retakes on New
Moon" The picture Is scheduled
to reach the public Of the songsters
In mid-June. Lost, stolen or
strayed: That Laurence Olivier.
Vivlen Leigh British epic which Co
lumbia was going to release In this
country. wonder what happened
to it? P. 81 have Just checked
again with the studio, and the an.
swer Is: "A tentative release for
May in New York" but nothing
regarding the rest Of the country!
Rsleased By the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1940-05-02
Developing of Stars
Is Definite PROGRAM

A definite program for the build
ing of new stars was launched by
Goth Century-Fox with the placing
of two "unknowns" in the leads of
Rain or Shine" The first candi-
dates for this building project
are Virginia Gilmore and Robert
Sterling, 20 and % years old, re-
spectively.
Other young players will be given
similar opportunities during the
coming year, according to Sol M.
Wurtzel, executive producer of the
picture. In each instance the young
Evening star., 1940-05-02

AL d way dIdt ~ IldS UCCOlllc d AllIli
at all for the story of the peculiar
Adams family hardly is the stuff
OF which screen entertainment is
made The Adams, with their ap-
petite for gin and their disillusion-
ment, to be very polite about what
their problems we're, simply are
not the kind of people ONE meets on
the screen. 1t is to the credit of
Mr.. La Cava that he is able to in
troduce them in their odd kind of
glory without frown from the
Hays Office.
Miss Lincolns novel, which was
turned into play last year by
George Abbott, provides Miss Rogers
with the most dramatic vehicle of
her career. AS Ellie May Adams,
the third generation representa-
tive Of that none too attractive
group of alcoholics and amoral
citizens, she demonstrates that she
is quite we'll beyond any necessity
to dance to please her audience.
She can act, and she does act, and
that is all that Is necessary to this
highly sympathetic study of what
might be called an under privileged
family. She, the other members of
the cast, and Mr.. La Cava have
been extraordinarily deft about in
Producing this novel subject to the
screen.
Ellie May, as those who read the
novel need not be reminded, is the
third generation representative of
the none too progressing Adams
family. Hers is a sordid world, but
she does not succumb to it. AS a
way OF escape, she inveigles Ed
Wallace, hamburger joint employe,
into marriage, a wise act save for
the fact that she conceals the truth
about the home from which she
comes
AS it is bound to, that conceal
ment leads eventually to a separa-
ton, poignant affair which comes
off very well in the La Cava transla-
ton of the Lincoln story.
1t comes out all right in the end,
an end which involves the death of
Ellie Mays mother, but in the
process there are indications that
Ellie May might possibly go the
way of the other Adamses-a way
that is none too wholesome all the
way from grandmother to grand
daughter.
There is daring in the La Cava
translation of this story of a group
Of subsurface humans, but it takes
a close look at the picture to per-
ceive that truth. That Is because
the overall tone of the picture is
that of comedy, robust kind of
comedy, which bespeaks a quality
Of freedom that is too rarely a part
Of screen entertainment.
For all its merit in this respect,
however, THE Primrose Path" is
not light film by any means. La
Cava's direction has humanized it
In dozen different ways, but he
has been limited by the circum-
stance that his people are up
against grim phase of living.
Morally none of them are what
they should be, and the screen
Evening star., 1940-05-02

another best seller-"Chad Hanna
bought by Twentieth Century,
Fox. Lillian Russell" as be-
fits q glamour girl Of her caliber
gets three premieres-in Holly
wood, Clinton, Iowa, and Pitts
burgh. !. >. It's always dangerous
to make q picture that has q real
or imagined resemblance to q liv-
ing person. And Sigmund spaeth
is currently suing Warmers over the
professor character played by Dick
Powell In Naughty, but Nice
which, Spaeth aflrms, holds him
up to ridicule.
X X X y
'Ziegfeld Girl" which has been
on the fire for a couple Of years
at Metro, now bears a starting label
Of June IS. The cast as this Is
written consists OF Eleanor Powell
Hedy Lamar, Lana Turner, Jimmy
Stewart, George Murphy, Frank
Evening star., 1940-05-02
In This Biography
Even Double Must
Stay in Character
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
When Hollywood sets out to film
a biography, it expects all manner
of suggestion and criticism about
its methods.
Usually it isn't disappointed. But
Kenneth MacGowan, associate pro-
ducer at Goth Century-F Fox in charge
of Brigham Young" says he's had
but one such so far:
Riding shots of the great Mormon
leader were being made with a
double playing the part. The dou-
BILE, between scenes, would light up
his pipe.
Cautiously a delegation ap-
preached MacGowan, explained that
Brigham Young never smoked, asked
If he would so inform the double
The latter obligingly kept his to-
bacco in his pocket from then on
Evening star., 1940-05-02
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

NationalE"The Return of the
Vagabond," George M. Cohan in
his sequel to THE Tavern: $50 p m.
Keith's-"Primrose PATH" up to
the straight and narrow with Ginger
Rogers: HIS am, 1:20, 1925, $50.
7:35 and 9:45 pm.
Palace - Strange Cargo" with
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford.
Ills am, las, 4:25, 6:55 and 9:35
pm.
Earle-"The Doctor Takes Wife"
comedy d'mour: II am, 1:35, APO,
7:10 and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1910,
1925, 6:15 and 9:05 pm.
Capitol - Johnny Apollo" T..
Power visits the ganglands: 10:45
am, 1:40, 4:25, ITO and 1905 pm.
Stage shows: 12:45, $3.50, 6:15 and
e:10 pm.
Columbia - Grapes Of Wrath" :"
screen translation of the Steinbeck
novel: Ills am, 1855, 4:25, 6:55
and 9:35 pm.
Keith's-"1t's a Date" the new
Deanna Durbin adventure: Ills
am, 1:45, 4:20, 6:55 and $50 pm.
March of Time: 1:25, 4, 6:35 and
9:10 pm.
Metropolitan - Seventeen" film
version of the Booth Harrington
story: II am, ITO, 800, $40, 7::3O
and $40 pm.
Little-"Harvest," the No. French
film of 1899: II am, l2:45. 2:3O,
Ais, 6, 7:50 and $40 pm.
Belasco-'Ecstasy," at II am,
1890. 2, $3.50, S, $40, $40 and 9:4O
pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Open-Air First Love-" with
Oeanna Durbin: $40 and 1890 m
Evening star., 1940-05-02

Victor Moore returns to Holly
wood-when his current assignment
on Broadway is finished-for the
role in Paramount's THE Country
Doctor" Fred Astaire is con-
sidering a weekly radio show to
start in the fall. The last time
Fred did a weekly broadcast was
two years ago, when he was paid
5000 per broadcast. At that time
he complained that this sum merely
went to pay the huge income taxes
on his picture salary. Nowadays
Fred appears only in one picture a
year-at the most-which cuts down
his taxes to point where it will
be profitable for him to do a radio
show.
X X X
Another $4,000 has been paid for
Evening star., 1940-05-02

ing Bette. sheilsh Graham.
Merle Oberon is out OF the run
ming for House on the HILL" which
leaves Marlene Dietrich in sole pos
session of the field. Merle had to
back out because Of her continued
Ill health. Her sickness, incidentally,
was almost an asset while max
ing the recently released "'Til We
Meet Again." in which Merle's
realistic portrayal OF q sick woman
was not entirely due to good acting.
The leading man in the picture
with Marlene is Richard Ainley,
who was recently on tour with Con-
stance Bennett in easy Virtue"
and is currently the lady's favorite
escort.
It seems I was slightly prema-
ture in stating that Sylvia Sidney
had been definitely signed as Jimmy
Cagney,s leading lady in "City Of
Conquest" She is still in the run
ming fer the role, but nothing will
be final until Cagney returns to
Hollywood and is tested with all the
feminine stars who want the role,
among them-Ginger Rogers, Alice
Faye, Ann Sothern, Ann Sheridan
and Priscilla Lane.
Evening star., 1940-05-02
CrOuchO's Limit

Groucho Marx will WOO. man.
handle or insult no stately dowager
in Go West" 1t will be the first
picture IN which he has eliminated
this comedy, stating that he has
reached the limit of variations with
the idea just as Harpo stopped
chasing girls across scenes years ago
because there are only one or two
ways to chase q girl.
Evening star., 1940-05-02

le lover), Bette is
This will be the
Evening star., 1940-05-02
Primrose Path,' at Keith's,
Is Sentiment at Its Best
La Cava Production of Best Seller
Keeps Spirit of Daring Story;
Ginger Rogers in Star Role
BY Jay CARMODY,

Sentiment fares well when left to Gregory cava Latest
evidence
Path starring Ginger and
FEBRUARY
Hill"
the contrary It is SURPRISING
Evening star., 1940-05-02

ACAVlSSt uuIl
for Miss Davis
since "Of H u
man Bondage" "
K . t h artne
Cornell pla y e d
the part on the
sta &c. An d
Jeanne Eagles In
the earlier hlm
version. There is
sure to be q lot
of com p arison
Of the perform
q n ces of tn e
t hire e ace ac-
tresSes, I'm back
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Evening star., 1940-05-02
players will be surrounded by strong

CdSCS.
David Burton, former Broadway
stage director who IS directing Rain
or Shine" says the future of Miss
Gilmore and Sterling is assured.
"The studios plan to create new
stars will pay big dividends. There
never have been enough stars to go
around and the only way to develop
young players is to put them in front
Of a camera and let them act"