Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1929, Page 12

LINCOLN BIRTHDAY PLANS DISCUSSED Potomac Department of Grand Army Meets for 61st Annual Encampment. Plans for the celebration of the 149th birthday of Abraham Lincoln February 12 were discussed when the Department of the Potomac, Grand | Army of t< Republic, met-at 11 o'clock | this morning at headquarters, 1412 | Pennsylvania avenue, for its sixty-first | nnnual encampment. A business meet- | ing was held and a second is sched- uled for 11 o'clock Thursday, A reception and banquet will be held tomorrow night at the Raleigh Hotel, | Twelfth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue, in honor of Comrace John Reese, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., and his wife, while another honor guest will be Minnie K. Horseman, national president of the Woman’s Relief Corps. G. A. R. Auxiliary. The reception will | be held from 7 to 7:30 and the ban-| quet follows at 7:45 ck. The Potomac Department and its nuxiliary will meet in joint session February 1 at 8 pm. in G. A. R. Hall, 1o install newly elected officers of the | respective organizations for the ensu- ing year. Preliminary plans for the celebration by the department of Lincoln’s birth- cay include a meeting at 8 p.m. Feb- | ruary 12 in_Congregational Church, tenth and G streets. Departmental officers have invited patriotic organi- zations as well as the general public. The committee appointed by Depart- | ment Comdr. Harry T. Dunbar to ar- 'THE EVENING I S-4 DIVER’S HEROISM RECOGNIZED l Left to righ torpedoman, U. § Comdr. M. L. Hersey, jr, U. N. R. S. N, and Joseph Eiben, chief —Star Staff Photo. GOLD STAR— PRESENTED TO TORPEDOMAN EIBEN Naval Hero Risked Life Repeatedly During Attempts to Salvage range for the birthday celebration con- sists of L. H. Shepherd, chairman; John | McEiroy, vice chairman: Maj. Gen.| John L. Clem, E. D. Godfrey, L ML Oldrovd, S. G. Mawson, A. J. and Alexander Ogelsby, GIRL'S PURSE STOLEN. | Thitaker | Miss Marjorie F. Warner of 1101 Clif- | ton street, a librarfan in the Depart- | ment of Agriculture, reported to police ©of the eighth precinct that her purse, containing $8 in bills, a pair of eye- | glasses, keys and papers, was snatched from her arm by a colored man as she was standing on the corner of Seven- teenth and Euclid streets last night. She saw the robber when he was some distance from her, she said, and when he passed, he seized the purse. The street was deserted, Miss Warner de- the man fled. 7 N \ . . . . . N\ \ . . | \ 7 2 Z 2 Z 27777727 M/WQ/Z' Sunken Submarine. Joseph Eiben, chief torpedoman, U. | 8. N. R, was presented with a gold | star last sunken submarine 5-4, at which time he repeatedly risked his life in the work. Chief Eiben received the Navy Cross previously for his diving to the stricken submarine S-51. The star, signifying a second Navy Cross merit, was presented to Eiben at the Naval Reserve Armory by Comdr. M. L. Hersey, jr., U. S. N,, who repre- sented Rear Admiral A. L. Willard, U. 8. N., commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, in the ceremony. The award was witnessed by the Washington Naval Reserve Battalion. Chief Eiben served during the World War as a gunner’s mate on the U. S. S. |to Washington. night for his diving opera- | | tions during the attempts to salvage the | | CANNON DENIES ASKING HOUSE TO PASS DRY FUND Bishop Says He Has Not Been in Washington Directing Pres- sure on Members. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Bishop James Cannon, jr, of the Methodist Church, issued a statement here yesterday which denied 1hat he personally was in Washington th> last 10 days directing an cffort to secure adoption by the House of Representa- tives of the Senate amendment to the deficiency bill which would appropriate $24,000,000 additiona! to secure better prohibition enforcement. The bishcp said that many newspaper stories recently had charged he was in Washington directing pressure upon January 29.— | House members and sought passage of the amendment. Bishop Cannon passed through Cin- cinnati today en route from Nashville He said the only time Stockton, which was based at Queens- |he had been in Washington the iast 10 t town, Ireland. He subsequently became | days was fcr a few hours last Thursday clared, so she did not call for help as' prominent in the diving operations of |and that he did not see or talk with any ubmarine House membe: SAVE’56 A Consolidation of Two Great Radio Companies—the FRESHMAN and the FREED-EISEMANN — has effected vast economies in manufacturing costs. We Pass This on to YOU L 2% - YOUR ULTIMATE RADIO A wonderful set at an amazing price! The Aristocratic High-Boy 2 Weeks it. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. TUBSDAY. FOUR ARE FINED $50 ON LOTTERY CHARGES Fifth Granted Continuance of Case in Alleged “Playing” of Stock Exchange Numbers. Arraigned in Police Court yesterday, charged with violating the Federal lot- tery laws, four alleged violators of section 864 of the District of Colum- bia code were fined and a fifth was granted a continuance until February 9. All the defendants are colored. The arrests are the result of a police drive to check gaming, which was or- dered halted by United States Attorney Rover. After an agent made “plays” on | numbers on the New York Stock Ex- i change, special officers entered prem- ises on L street and arrested Ruther- ford Anderson. In Police Court he pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial. Arthur Smith and Frank Claybourne were arrested on D street by Officers J. E. Kane and G. R. Browning after “plays” had been made. Smith tes- tified he did not know it was a vio- lation of the law to play the num- bers. Each man was fined $50. Plays having been made on three oc- casions, police arrested Marjorie Heburn and Joshua Green of Wards court and charged them with permit- ting gaming on the premises. The woman was fined $50 and the man $25, the agent having testified he made the “plays” with her, but a marked bill wasf ound in Greon’s possession. torney Thomas L. Jones prosecuted the cases for the Government. Anderson, Green and Marjorie Heburn were arrested by Officers M. A. Anderson, S. F. Gravely and J. A. Mc- Carty. —_— Lucy Larcom was & mill hand in Lowell, Mass., who started a little paper on her window sill newspaper scraps ed by heart. List Your Rented and Vacant Houses with J. LEO KOLB 323 N. Y. Ave. 1237(Wis. Ave. Main 5027 Aest 74 the full range | AMUSEMENTS NATIONAL THEATER—“Scars.” Despite many, many odds, the com- | edy drama by Warren F. Lawrence pre- | sents in interesting light and with un- | doubted touches here and there of | clean-cut authenticity the tribulations of a war-time ace as a misfit in post- | war days, both in domestic and busi- tuation of a captain of the air | corps ‘ho soared overseas to great ! heights, literally and figuratively, in | bellicose times as an American aviator, | only to fall into a “tail spin” in later | days of readjustment and placidity, no | doubt has many counterparts in real | life. The authar of the new offering at this | house thus caught a worthy idea for | the stage, but the handling of the sit- | uatton proves something different. In- | terest attaching itself to the story as told by Lawrence, it must be said, can be attributed primarily to the idea mo- tivating the play and to the sincere and capable efforts of the cast, rather than to the mechanical operation of the plot. | ssimilating such _productions | ; “What _Price " and others of similar mode, the | “Rain,” “Chicago,” Glory : | theatergoing public offers little objec- JANUARY 29. 1929." merely a3 to their necessity. They were not needed and the audience heard them in frigid silence. The play would have been just as effective with a little deleting. ‘The world apparently knows itself rather well today and accepts realistic | presentation of, for instance, life in the | mud and slime of the trenches, but here we have a play announced not as | a war play, but as one of the time of | readjustment. But one scene pertains | | to the days of combat. | Clark Gable capably handles the role of the chap who, though having moral | objections to war as a social remedy, joins the air corps, makes a great record as an ace and then is dropped down In his old life, unfitted for the deadly routine of business and social | life, fettered by conventional require- | ments and a life of seeming unimpor- tance after days of importance and glamour at the front. Of a sud-| | den he marries the sweatheart of a | brother of the air corps, forgetful of | the girl whom he loved and who waited for him. Domestic troubles ensue, nd | indifferent to all life generally, he loses | one job after another. At last, how- | ever, the situation is cleared. his wife departs and he is freed to take up life anew as a commercial aviator and to marry the girl who understood him. The story would have been more con- sitently entertaining had subjects not | germane been omitted: the war scene flash of fire at the climax and Edward | Arnold, formerly with the National Theater Players, effectively carries the role of the “Dollar-a-year” man who turns thumbs down on the veteran. George Mecker played the part of the youth who lost and regained his bride, handling as best as possible the role | of one who was given little definite character. A scene In a “speakeasy” was a bright @he Foening Htae spot in the production where Seth Ar- nold, John Irwin, Jack Bennett and Mabel Allyn added real interest to the story. The production was staged in good form by Edward Clark Lilley and was presented by the Spad Producing Co., Inc. Breaking of the act into short scenes, marked by the lowering of the curtain, added action and sustained in- terest to the play. ADVERTISENENTS HRANEH offl Weller’s Pharmacy—8th & Eye Sts. 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