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Evening star., 1941-03-03

and, after an exchange of shots. the
man committed suicide Police
learned later he had come downtown
cunning for a beauty operator who
had spurned his attentions.
The young baggage clerk was
taken to Emergency Hospital, in a
serious condition. He has shown
much improvement, but he will be in
the hospital for a long time.
Medical treatment will cost a
great deal and it seems doubtful
whether Jon will be able to go back
to his old, strenuous job, when he
leaves the hospital.
He earned about 500 month and
lived with his widowed mother
whom he helped support-in Colo
nial Village, Arlington, Va. His
mother has small Government job
and he has three brothers, living
away from home.
AL have pledged to help Jon as
best they can. But Maj. Brown feels
that since the youth was wounded
while helping uphold the law, the
city should at least pay his expenses
while he is in the hospital and help
him to get back on his feet.
The city has no fund for such con-
tingencies. New York police recently
paid the expenses of recovery of a
cab driver who was wounded when
he came to the rescue of a police
man in gun battle. But the local
police have no such fund-unless
they raise it now
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Householder SIays
Man Who Persisted
In Waking Family
CuIpeper Man Is Held
In FotuI Shooting of
SuwmiII Worker
BY a Staff Correspondent Of Tn. star.

BY StaII correspondent OF Inc star.
CULPEPPER, Va, March ga
man who Culpepper County Sheriff
B. A. Wayland said gave himself up
and confessed to shooting an ac-
quaintance who persisted in waking
his family was in Jail here today.
The sheriff arrested Tom Pickett,
sawmill worker living about a mile
out of hmissyille, for the shooting
of Manuel Jenkins at the rear door
of the Pickett family home Satur-
day night.
Sheriff Wayland said he was called
Saturday night to Amissville, where
Pickett was waiting in garage to
surrender.
According to the account given by
Pickett, he, his wife and two chill
dren, William, z, and Catherine, g.
had gone to bed when Jenkins came
to the rear door between 10:30 and
II pm. Saturday. Picket warned
Jenkins to leave and the latter began
cursing and 'hammering on the
door," the accused man said.
Pickett then fired, according to the
story as reconstructed by Sheriff
Wayland, a .12-gauge shotgun from
a rear second-f1oor window and shot
jenkins in the top of the head and
in the face.
The two men lived about five
miles apart and, so far as is known
were friends until Saturday night
jenkins was married and hac
four children. He was employed al
another sawmill in Loudoun County
A warrant bringing formal charge.
against Pickett was to be obtained
this morning after conference with
County Trial Justice G. E. Reems
jr.. and Commonwealth Attorne,
r. A. Biggers, tbs sherin said.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Superior Magnesium
Produced in u. s.,
Meeting Is Told
Best Corrosion- Resisting
Product in World,
MetoIIureists Report

A magnesium believed to be supe-
rior to any produced by Germany,
which leads the world in the use of
the metal in airplane manufacture,
has been developed in the United
States, two metallurgists attending
the spring meeting of the American
Society for Testing Materials said
here today.
DR.. J. A. Gam and H. w. Schmidt,
metallurgists of the Dow Chemical
Co., said the new "high purity"
magnesium alloy was believed to be
the most corrosion-resisting product
in this field in the world.
DR.. Gam said one of the greatest
obstacles IN the production of the
metal In the past has been the diff
Guilty of getting a corrosion-resist-
ing product. Samples of metals pro-
duced in other countries, including
Germany, were tested and none
compared with the magnesium man
ufactured here, he said.
U. S. Taking Entire Output.
All of the magnesium produced by
the Dow Chemical Co., including the
output of the firms new plant in
Freeport, Tex, is being taken by the
Federal Government for use in air.
plane manufacture in the expanding
defense program Only recently the
Government contracted with a new
firm for erection of another mag
nesium plant on the West Coast.
Germany leads the world in the
metals production, having turned
out an estimated 10000 tons last
year in comparison with only 5000
for the United States. This country's
production is expected to be doubled
or trebled this year, DR.. Gam said.
The two metallurgists would not
hazard guess as to whether
magnesium would ever replace
aluminium completely in the manu-
facture of planes, but did predict
that it would be more far widely
used as time passes.
viii Propose Specifications.
While attending the meeting here
the two Dow men will propose the
adoption of specifications for the
corrosion-resisting magnesium.
Approximately 300 technical ex-
perts expected to gather for the
committee and general sessions be-
ing held at the Mayflower Hotel
today through Friday.
A number of Government tech
nicians, including G. E. F. Lundell,
vice president Of the society and
chief Of the Chemistry Division OF
the Bureau of Standards, will par
ticipate in the discussions. Presiding
over the convention is DR.. w. M.
Barr, president of the body, who is
the chief chemical and metallurgical
engineer Of the Union Pacific Rail-
road Co.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Judges and Officials
Upheld by Appeals Court

Judges Of the United States Court
of Claims, lawyers and court Off
cials who allegedly had a part in
removing from the roster of attor-
neys entitled to practice before that
tribunal the name of Edmond C.
Fletcher we're upheld today by the
Court of Appeals.
Among the defendants named by
Mr.. Fletcher in damage suit which
he filed in District Court were:
Former Chief Justice Fenton w.
Booth, the present Chief Justice,
Richard S. Whaley; former Judge
Samuel ]. Graham, now retired
Judge Benjamin H. Littleton, and
Chief Clerk William L. Hart, as well
as lawyers assigned to inquire into
the charges against him and others.
THE charges were the aftermath
of disbarment proceedings against
APPELLANT CMr. Fletcher) in the courts
in the District of Columbia" said
today's opinion of the appellate
court, which recalled that he
brought suit against former Chief
Justice Booth and Is other de-
PENDANTS Ito recover damages
charged to have been caused by 6
conspiracy to defame him"
In the appellate court, Chief JUS
tice D. Lawrence Groner of the
United States Court of Appeals and,
sitting by assignment, these District
Court jurists-Justice Oscar r.
Luhring and Daniel w. ODonoghue
heard the case and in today's
opinion said:
"It is enough for present purposes
to repeat that the declaration shows
on its face that all the acts charged
to have been done by the various
named defendants were proper and
normal acts regularly performed by
judges, clerks and lawyers in dis
barment proceedings"
The defendants contended that
they were acting in their official
capacities and in the discharge OF
their official duties and so were not
liable. Representing the Govern
ment in the case were United States
Attorney Edward M. Curran and
Assistant United States Attorney
John L. Laskey.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Edmond T.. Fletcher
Loses His Appeal in
Suit After Arrest
OfficiuIs Involved
Connot Be Sued,
Court Decides

A Police Court judge, an assistant
United States attorney and the
superintendent of the District Jail
may not be successfully sued in a
civil damage suit for acts performed
within the official scope of their
duties, the United States Court of
Appeals decided today.
Police Court Judge John P. Nc
Mahon, former Assistant United
States Attorney Karl Kindleberger
and District Jail Supt. Thomas M.
Rives were sued for S50,000 damages
in a suit filed in District Court
charging a false arrest and impris-
onment by Edmond G. Fletcher, who
had been accused of unlawfully en-
tering and Illegally refusing to leave
a dwelling house in the District.
Mr.. Fletcher was convicted in
Police Court and served term in
Jail. District Court dismissed his
complaint and today's action of the
appellate tribunal sustained this de-
cision.
Representing the public officials
were United States Attorney Edward
M. Curran, Assistant United States
Attorney John L. Laskey, Corpora
ton Counsel Richmond B. Keech
and Assistant Corporation Counsel
James w. Lauderdale.
The case was heard before Chief
Justice D. Lawrence Groner of the
appellate court and Justices Oscar
r. Luhring and Daniel w. O'Dono-
ghue Of District Court.
Mr.. Fletcher in his action for
damages claimed the information
filed against him charging him with
illegally occupying 4132 Military
road NV. without the consent of
the Home Owners Loan Corp, the
lawful owner, was void and that Po-
lice Court lacked jurisdiction to hear
the case against him because title
In real estate WAS inv0lVed
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Printers Get Wage Boost
And Vacations With Paw

Washington's four newspapers will
grant their approximately TOO print
ers two weeks vacation with pay
and a 81 per week pay raise under
q contract agreed to by negotiat-
ing committee Of the Columbia
Typographical Union, No. 101, it was
announced today.
The wage increase will become
effective November II, and become
again subject to negotiation at the
request of publishers or printers at
the end Of one year. Vacations and
other contract provisions are effec-
tive Immediately, union spokesmen
said, and are for a three-year pc
riod.
Union officers commended the pub
fishers for cooperation in the
peaceful progress" Of the union,
founded In 1915.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Freedom From Want
Insures Democracy,
Forum Agrees
Dirksen and Eliot Join
Barnes and Jackson
On Broadcast Discussion

One of the Surest ways in which
the aims of democracy can be
achieved in this country is to insure
freedom from want, four speakers
on the American Forum of the Air
agreed here last night.
Harry Elmer Barnes, writer and
lecturer, asserted that "the only
possible hope of realizingsdemocracy
in this country is to revive the New
Deal and make it bigger and bet
ter. -" We must keep out of war,
at least any war except one of sheer
self-defense. 1t is sheerest fantasy
to imagine the New Deal could be
maintained and extended in war
time"
The Nations efforts must be di-
rected, according to Representative
Dirksen, Republican, Of Illinois, to-
ward generating prosperity at home,
developing security for our people,
preserving our system of govern
ment and the rights OF minorities.
Representative Eliot, Democrat, Of
Observation-Disclosures od1o VIC W ~
on bringing more security into the
lives of ordinary, everyday Ameri-
cans-those average families who
try to live on less than 81 800 a year.
And C. D. Jackson, president OF
the Council for Democracy, warned
that I'VE cannot let the pressure of
this crisis extinguish the rights Of
labor, of the businessman and Of
the individual. : We must keep
hysteria from leading us into the
ways of prejudice and disunity."
The program, broadcast nationally
over the Mutual network from the
Willard Hotel auditorium over ia
cilities of VOL, was conducted by
| Theodore Crank. forum director.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Bond Concerts

BY the Army Band in the band
auditorium of the Army War Coll
lege at 2:30 pm. tomorrow. Capt
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub
ner, assistant.
. BY the Soldiers Home Band
Orchestra in Stanley Hall, in the
Home. at $50 pm. tomorrow. John
S. M Zimmerman, bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, assistant.
BY the Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra in the Marine Corps Audi
torium. Eighth and I street S. E., al
8:l5 pm. tomorrow. 1t. Charles
Benter. conductor; Charles Bren.
dler, assistant.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Gravel Firm and Store
Suffer Damage in Fires

A shed housing the machinery of
a conveyor belt at the Smoot Sand
g. Gravel Co., 5000 block of K street
NV, caught fire yesterday, en-
gaging firemen for more than an
hour in extinguishing the blaze. A
short circuit was believed to have
caused the fire.
Considerable damageswas caused
Saturday night by a blaze in the
basement of Cohen's Grocery and
Delicatessen, 35l2 Georgia avenue
NV.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Weather Bureau Predicts
Glimpse of Spring

Arrangements are complete for an
advance Washington / showing of
spring today and tomorrow, the
Weather Bureaus forecast indicates
The exhibit will include rising
temperatures, flashes of sunshine,
hurrying clouds and occasional light
showers today, it was said. Tomor-
row will be mild, with rain. But
the show is likely to end with much
colder weather tomorrow night.
Today's highest temperature was
expected to be "a degrees, and the
lowest 81, compared with a low of
rs degrees yesterday and q high of so.
Yesterdays sunshine attracted
crowds to the Zoo and Rock Greek
Park.
Evening star., 1941-03-03

In March, Beware Of:
1. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. Four
pedestrians were killed doing
this in March, 1910. Three of
these were over S. years Of age.
2. Standing in the street. A
93-year-old man lost his life do
ing this in March Of last year.
The sixth trafiic victim during
March, 1910, was a passenger on
a truck who was crushed be-
meath q spool of cable when the
truck overturned.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Drive Leaders to Meet

Leaders of the membership cam
paign being conducted by the Dis
trict branch of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People will meet at 1916 Twelfth
street NV. at $50 pm. tomorrow
To date 637 of the 5000 member
ships desired have been obtained
Evening star., 1941-11-23
SUNDAY

'Rlngside Maisie"
and "Whistling in
the Dark"
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Marriage Is Career Enough
Being Mrs. Gable More Important
Than Film Roles, Saws Carole

While the Gables were on their
last hunting trip Producer Alex
ander Korda sent Carole the script
of To Be or Not to Be" urging her
to- read it. Clark was due back
anyhow to prepare for his next
M-G-M film and so, Carole said,
II couldn't resist it, 1t was divine
comedy To play opposite Jack
Benny was fun enough. but another
big inducement was Ernst LubitSch
directing.
They Might Aspire.
"All the 10 years we were on the
same lot at Paramount I never had
a chance to work under him. He's
marvellous and he's the greatest
actor on the set. Every night / 60
home and tell the old man c'Pappy"
is another of her pet names for the
glamorous Gableb all the amazing
things Lubitsch has done that day"
In To Be or Not to Be" Carole
Lombard and Jack Benny are the
Lunt and Fontanne Of Poland-who
do scene from Hamlet" The
Clark Gables might aspire to be the
Lunt and Fontanne of the movies.
They could afford to have their own
producing company, such as Mary
Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
once had. Their joint salaries ap-
proach million a year They could
make their home represent what
Pickfair once stood for in the film
capital.
But Carole and Clark had differ
ent plans They started life in
modest farmhouse on a model TO
acre ranch in San Fernando VAL
ley, purchased from Raoul Walsh.
They remodeled and enlarged the
barns. stables. and built model
chicken houses. Gable painted
these. as we'll as the fences. with
spray gun while Carole was having
a wonderful time dashing about in
the station wagon looking for
antiques. or making gingham cur
tains for the kitchen windows, and
hemming the ruffles for the organdy
curtains in her bedroom.
They Met and Laughed.
I'll wager she stuck her tongue
in her cheek-it's a manneriSm Of
hers anyhow-when she recalled
those boudoir curtains Bill Haines
made from black lace shawl which
she had in her former home on
upper Hollywood boulevard!
When she met Clark Gable, he
was estranged from his second wife.
Rhea Langham Gable. She amused
Clark-they had grand time
laughing together, outdoing each
others gags. Clark had never had
a woman as playmate.
He grew up with an inferiority
complex which was responsible for
his marrying two mature wives He
first married Josephine Dillon, dra-
matte teacher-she taught him how
to act After their divorce he mar
ried the wealthy widow, Rhea Lang.
ham, who taught him how to act
In drawing rooms. Insure of him.
self then, he needed a helpmate |
more than a playmate.
Not until Clark reached certain |
height and could afford to play, |
did he meet capricious. prank-loving |
They laughed themselves
into love. Each has a sense OF hu-
NOR that lights every hour OF life
for them.
Carole tells me that instead of |
going cunning for the gossips who
are constantly separating them,
they laugh the loudest!
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1941-11-23
By Mayme Ober Peak.
HOLLYWOOD.


Mrs. Clark Gable is the happiest
woman in Hollywood. And Carole
Lombard doesn't give darn wheth-
or she ever makes another picture.
Daring to defy the Hollywood ink
on marital happiness, Carole made
this statement to me in her port
able dressing room on the set of
ITO Be or Not to Be'-the first pic
ture she's made in more than a
year.
mo matter what career women
tell you she said, you cannot find
happiness in career. Pictures are
tust side issue to me now. If one
comes up that interests me-all
right. But I don't care if I never
make another one, and certainly I'll
never make picture that interferes
with my married life"
DO you mean to say you find life
on the Gable farm satisfying enough
to make up for the loss of the lime
light you bathed in so long?" I
asked.
Seek a Large Ranch.
Gosh, yes! Farm life is the most
exciting I've ever lived. We don't
sit in the house and listen to the
radio. Clarke's running the trac-
tor or building a fence-I'm feeding
the chickens and counting the
eggs"
Coming from Carole. this was fun
ny enough. But for her terrific
sincerity it might have been lu-
dlcrouS. for she was CoStumed as
Ophelia-her long golden tresses
garlanded with flowers. her stream
lined figure lost under a flowing
Greclan gown of white and gold:
"We're shopping for a big ranch
now" she went on. "and this is
going to be commercial. Believe
me. it will be thrilling when we
start raising cattle. . Clark and I
hunt and fish. We travel lot, too.
We have gorgeous time!"
Evening star., 1941-11-23
brown n-eyed girl was the one for the

brown-eyed girl was the one for the
part.
Miss Drake, whose real name IS
Liese Lotte, was born in Vienna.
but came to the United States II
years ago. Daughter of Carl August
Mayer, well known Viennese opera
star, she has been a dancer. singer
and actress since she was S years
old.
Prior to coming to Hollywood to
accept a scholarship at Max Rein
hard's Work Shop, Miss Drake lived
for five years in Salt Lake City, for
eight years in San Francisco. Al
though she has had considerable
radio and little theater experience.
her screen work has been limited
to bit parts in four films. Sweater
Girl" Too Many Girls" The
Chocolate Soldier and Fiesta
The Tuttles of Tahiti" which
stars Charles Laughton, was adapted
from the Charles Nordhof- james
Norman Hall novel. Out of Gas"
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Electrician Saves
Day When Bonita
Fades Into Wall
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Bonita Granville came into a set
attired in a gray suit. with access
sories of the same color. She sat
down in a chair. The chair was
against a wall that was as gray as
the clothes the actress wore.
William Dieterle, the director,
walled loud and long.
Look" he exploded. "she is part
Of the wall. That is terrible"
Dieterle, observers thought. was
so concerned that it seemed the
entire success of his picture. "Synco-
patton" rested on the contrast be-
tween wall and girl, which 50
obviously was missing
An electrician fixed it up. He
threw shadows on the wall, turning
it very dark gray. Miss Granville
no longer was part of Mr..
Dieterles wall.
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Bette Davis and
Herbert Marshall in
The Little Foxes"
Franchot Tone and
Carol Bruce in This
Woman Is Mine
Evening star., 1941-11-23
To Direct Kyser

Tay Garnett will direct Kay
Kyser's next screen vehicle. My
Favorite Spy" which Harold Lloyd
will produce for R-K-O Radio.
Lloyd produced "A Girl, Guy and
q Cob" for R-K-O-Radio. Kyser
has just completed his starring role
in "Playmates," his third film mu-
sical for this company.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
TUESDAY

Passage From Hong
Kong and There's
Magic in Music"
Errol Flynn. Olivia de
Havilland. They Died
With Their Boots On. {"
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Newcomers Role

Margaret Peggy" Drake, 20-year-
old. comparatively unknown screen
actres, has been signed by R-K-O
Radio Studios to appear in the role
of Tamara opposite Jon Hall in
THE Tuttles of Tahiti"
Scores of actresses were tested
before Director Charles Vidor de-
cided that the petite. brown-haired,
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Pred Astaire and Rita
Hayv orth in You'll
Never Get Rich p"
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Highway West" and
Mountain M o o n
light" Also amateurs.
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Sonia Henie and John
Payne in "S,In Valley
Serenade."
Evening star., 1941-11-23
In His Own Pool
The Temperature
Is UnimpOrtant
By the Associsted Press.

By the Aseocisted Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
Robert Preston and his actress
wife. Catherine Craig, recently
bought q new home. Its their FIRST
boasting q swimming pool.
It's getting well into winter, but
Preston still takes a plunge every
morning.
Sure, it's cold" he says. But
what q feeling to dive into your
own pool"
Evening star., 1941-11-23

william Gargan and
Edmund Lowe in
"FlyinR CadetE
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Three Mesquiteers. In
Outlaws of Cherokee
Trail"
Evening star., 1941-11-23
WEDNESDAY,

Pa ssage From Hong
Kong" and There S
Magic in Music -
Rrrol rIvny, Olivi. A.
Evening star., 1941-11-23

uona Massey and
Georse Brent In
international Lady"
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Sonia Henie and John
Payne in sun Valley
Serenade."
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Prank Bucks
"Jungle Cavalcade."
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Bette Davis and
Herbert Marshal, in
The Little Foxes"
Evening star., 1941-11-23
SATURDAY


"Bowery Blitxkries"
and Three Men
From Texas"
Bing Crosby and
Mary Martin In
Birth Of the Blues.
Clark Gable and
Lana Turner in
"Honky Tonk.
Burma Convoy
and "Parson OF
Panamint."
Sonia Henie and John
Payne in Sun Valley
Serenade.''
Prank Bucks
"Jungle Cavalcade."
Henry Aldrich for
President" Murder
Ring" Also stxe show.
william Gargan and
Edmund Lowe in
Plying Cadets"
Sing Another Cho-
rus" and Secrets OF
the Lone Wolf.
Carolina Moon" and
Raiders OF the
Desert"
nona Massey and
George Brent In
international Lady"
Bette Davis and
Herbert Marshall in
The Little Foxes"
Edward G. Robinson
and Edward Arnold in
"Unholy Partners"
Outlaws Of Cherokee
Trail" and
Hello, Sucker"
"A Man Betrayed"
and
Young Bill Hickock."
Mexican Spitfire's
Baby" and Secret
of the Wasteland."
Pred Astaire and Rita
Hayvorth in you II
Never Get Rich"
James Lydon. June
Preisser. Henry Aid
rich for President"
BAD Man OF
Deadvood" and
Mystery Ship"
The Saints
Vacation" and
"Tight Shoes"
Gene Autry and
Smiley Burnette in
Down Mexico Way"
Wings Of the Navy"
and
Hit the Road
James Ellison and
Jerry ColonnA in
Ice Capades.
King of the Zom-
bies" and Man They
Couldn { Hang
To be announced.
Flying Blind and
Sweetheart Of the
Campus.
Robert Taylor
BILLY the Kid"
Nine Lives Are Not
Enough and
"Rawhide Rangers"
Pred Astaire and Rita
Hayworth in you'll
Never Get Rich"
We Go Past"
and
Hurricane Smith "
Little Abner ana
Cyclone on
Horseback
To be announced.
Rolling Home TO
Texas" and Down
in San Diego.
Rolling Home to
Texas" and Down
in San Dego."
Three Coekeyed Sail
mrs" and Riders Oh
D,,p.la 0aae
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Carolina Moon" and
Raiders OF the
nexeyt -
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Sing Another Cho-
rus" and Secrets OF
the Lone Wolf.
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Outlaws Of Cherokee
Trail" and
Hello, Sucker"
Evening star., 1941-11-23

MONDAY

"Ringside Maisie"
and "Whistling in
the Dark"
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Fredric March and
Martha Scott In "One
Foot In Heaven.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
THURSDAY

Navy Blue and
Gold" and
sya dffe
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Edward @. Robinson
and Edward Arnold in
"JJnholv Partners
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Errol Flynn and
Pred MacMurray in
"Diye BOMBER"
Evening star., 1941-11-23

Mexican Spitfire's
Baby" and Secret
of the Wa6teland "
Evening star., 1941-11-23
FRIDAY

Navy Blue and
Gold and
"Laddie."