Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1930, Page 5

HOUSE REEETS DUTY ON SLVER Senate’s Levy of 30 Cents Per Ounce Is Defeated by 200-to-72 Vote. By the Associated Press. Driving toward a vote on the contro- verted increased sugar tariff, the House today rejected the Senate duty of 30 cents an ounce on silver, which is on the free list in the present law and House bill. The proposal, defeated 200 to 72 on a division vote, still is subject to another test in_the Senate, where Senator Pitt- man, Democrat, of Nevada, succeeded by & big majority in having the duty approved in the closing hours of Sen- ate debate. No record vote was taken in the House on the duty. one of four facing scparate votes in that branch before adjournment tonight. Opposing the ~duty, Representative Hawley, Republican, 'Oregon, argued that silver imports, although much more than domestic production, did not pre- gent a tariff problem. Utahan Favors Duty. Favoring the duty, Colton, Republican, Utah, argued the silver mining industry was languishing due largely to Great Britain “forcing” the gold standard upon India and “dumping” millions of ounces of silver on_the world market. Other far West Republicans and Democrats from silver mining States #rgued for the duty. Taking up the lumber and shingles controversies, Chairman Hawley pro- posed compromises on both, namely 75 cents instead of the Senate rate of $1.50 & thousand feet on soft wood lum- ber and 15, instead of 25 per cent. as carried In {he House measure on shin- gles. Representative | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY DAY AT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Little Theodore Wolfe undergoes a physical examination at Children’s Hos- pital as part of the general May day health round-up. Left to right: Dr. Mar- garet M. Nicholson, Theodore Wolfe, Mrs. B. Wolfe and Miss Frances Miller. ~—Star Staff Photo. LIEUT. ROSS DESIGNATED HEAD OF 1930 RIFLE TEAM Is Named Captain of Army Engi- neer Unit—Now Instructor of The Senate measure keeps shingles on the free list, while the House bill carries no duty on soft wood lumber, now free of duty. Under the Hawley proposal, railroad ties and telegraph poles of all woods would be stricken from the Senate pro- vision covering soft wood lumber. Chairman Hawley’s Plea. Leading the Republicans, Chairman Hawley of the ways and means commit- tee sought approval of a rate of 2.20 cents_a pound on Cuban sugar, while the Democrats urged concurrence in the Senate rate of 2 cents. Originally, the House voted for a duty of 2.40 cents. ‘The present rate is 1.76 cents. Administrative Items in Dispute. Indiana National Guard. Pirst Lieut. Lewis T. Ross, Corps of Engineers, son of Col. Tenney Ross, U. 8. Infantry, and a native of the Dis- trict of Columbia, has been designated by the War Department as captain of the Engineer rifie team for 1930. Lieut. Ross, now stationed at Gary, Ind, as instructor of the Indiana National Guard, has had considerable experience in rifle competition. He was a member of the Engineer team at the national matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, in 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1927 and was assistant to the executive officer in the matches in 1928. The Engineer team won the national matches in 1924. ‘With the administrative provisions will come disputes over the export debenture plan, the modified flexible provisions and the proposed reorganiza- tion of the Tarlff Commission which were incorporated in the bill by the Senate. ‘The administration is confident that the House will reject the export Gebegture plan as it did when that pro- posal came before it in connection with the farm relief bill. It was written into the tariff measure by the Senate’s Dem- ocratic-Independent Republican coali- tion against the vigorous objections of President Hoover. Late yesterday the House adopted the Blrtll] conference report on the tariff ill, accepted the Senate rate of 6 cents & hundred pounds on cement and re- jected a Senate amendment te permit free entry for cement imported for pub- lic_construction. ‘The vote on the conference report was 241 to 152, and on the cement amendment, 221 to 167. The cement dug was approved without a record vote. Married at Rockville, ROCKVILLE, Md.,, May 2 (Special). Miss Mildred F. Mockabee of Washing- ton and Earl B. Whittington of River- dale, Md.,, were married in_ Rockville shortly before 10 o'clock Wednesday night by Rev. Frank A. Tyler of the Methodist Church at the home of the ministe: Why Wait? By Ste. s i nd don Ko "l'""l‘ new % Kauf- man Bui{y,, /s i g 4"# You, Pop' s cash ’z,.;'mfl" Ya Graduating from the West Point Mili- tary Academy in 1918, Lieut. Ross has since served tours of duty at Fort Hum- phreys, Va.; Camp Lee, Va.; Fort Bliss, Tex.; Corozal, Panama: Savannah, Ga.. and at Gary, Ind. He is married and has three children. His wife is the daughter of Col. Charles W. Kutz, re- tired, former Engineer Commissioner of the District. Col. Tenney Ross, his father, is stationed at Fredericksburg, Va., a8 a member of the National Mili- tary Park Commission. $3,500 DAMAGE AWARD Verdict Against Moving Company for Loss of House Furniture. Sarah O'Nell Wallis of Scarsdale, N. Y., has been awarded a verdict for $3,500 damages against Samuel Madeoy, operator of & moving business here, for the loss of her furniture in transit from A RARE GROUP Rifle Team Head Washington to her new home. The verdict was rendered by & jury in Cir- cuit Division 2 before Justice Bailey. Thé defense claimed the furniture was lost when the van caught fire, At- torneys Vandoren, Rafferty & Rogers and W. E. Furey appeared for the plaintiff. . Reward Traffic Police. ROME (#).—Roman traffic cops who secure convictions of fraudulent taxi drivers, experts at meter juggling, are rewarded with bonuses of 25 lire, or about $1.30. FOR PLAYING URGED Wilbur Would Spend More to Provide Recreation for Children. The expenditure of “a portion of the profits of industry” for the develop- ment of recreational facllities for chil- | dren was' urged by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur in an address before | the committee on recreation and physi- | cal education of the White House con- ference on child health and protection, | meeting in the Interior Department | Building yesterday. | *'Stressing the_importance of recrea- tion, Secretary Wilbur said: T feel that with Spring and Summer coming on recreation is an_important thing in the Government with its na- | tional parks as well as to individuals. |1t is rather striking that in the White | House conference on_child health and | protection recreation has a most promi- | nent part to play. It shows the ad- | vance that has been made in our think- |ing about children as our civilization has gone forward. Recreation used to be the opportunity on Saturday after- noons to go in swimming, perhaps fish- |ing, perhaps playing a little base ball on the corner lot. j “We are cutting down the nuriber of places in our industrial centers for our children’s recreation. Every time we put another story on & building we decrease the opportunities for the child. The higher the buildings go the more difficult it is going to be to provide adequate play space for our children in industrial centers. It is about time for a portion of the profits of our city to be used in the development for recreation of children who have been Tobbed of thelr opportunities.” EMPLOYMENT AID FOR VETERANS BEGUN Labor Department Establishes Of- fice for Specialized Service. The first of a number of employment offices to be opened by the United States Employment Servipe throughout the country for specialized service to vet- erans has been opened in Temporary Building No. 1, at 1800 D street, the Department of Labor announced today. ‘The new service will be known as the | Veterans' Division of the Employment Service and will establish additional of- fices at strategic points over the coun- try. {mhm J. Peters, who for & number of years was in charge of the public employment service for the State of Pennsylvania, will be chief of the vet- erans’ division and H. L. Brunson, for- merly with the Veterans' Bureau, has been appointed field representative, Raymond C. Cogan, a former service | man, has been selected superintendent of the office here. Secretary of Labor Davis asked the co-operation of District employers. So effective has been the law passed in the Gold Coast of Africa the first of last year restricting the hours during which liquor could be sold and raising license fees, that a special committee is seeking ways and means of making up the lost revenue. BETTER FACILITIES |[From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. “King of Jars” The of Them All. NIVERSAL PICTURES INC. has done it! It has pro- duced the most brilliant re- vue thus far created by the celluloid paintbrush. “Ki of Jazz,” which is built around Paul ‘Whiteman and his excellent band, is indeed a thing apart—a thing of joy and beauty. It is the new feature Rialto thing that has come from the Hollywood melt- ing ‘pot, that all else seems to shrine to Lillipu- tian size. The most glamorous throughout in ex- treme good taste —which is something to boast about. Under the direction of John Mur- ray Anderson, whose art heretofore has lain in the fleld of terpsichore and such spectacles as the “Green- this _picture comes as & revelation of what the camera can do. The photography throughout is amazing. It suggests that Mr, Anderson not only has an eye for color, but that he knows just where the camera can find that color best. Each scene is worth a tribute in itself. If intrinsically there is nothing on the surface that seems of especial value, Mr. Ander- son twists his lense around until he finds it. In this way he has caught beauty wherever it is possible to find it, and the film thus becomes a string of the most exquisitely diamond-like sequences. Perhaps the most astonishing part of this spectacular revue is that the star and.his orchestra appear before the camera only spasmodically, and that _considerable merriment is had at the expense of Mr. Whiteman himself. The latter has contented himself with paying attention to his music, and has wisely refrained from allowing himself to be mesmerised into the pseud shiek class—the fail- ing of so many unHollywoodites. Furthermore, the first short episode he came to be “crowned Jeannette Loft. g J is one of the grandest bits of fun in the whole thing. ‘There is a good deal of harmless “kidding” in this, too. William Kent has some curt moments of drollerie, and Laura La Plante in a skit about newspaper efficiency, is almost worth the price of admisison alone. ‘The more romantic side of this Tevue is well taken care by John Boles, whose two songs “Monterey” and “Song of the Dawn" should re- volve for months and months in the music halls, Jeanette Loff does some singing, 100, but not so nicely; she should, in fact, save her blond beauty for such pageant-like sketches as “The Bridal Veil,” which discloses her as the model bride for anybody who is thinking about such things. A young lady by the name of Jeanie Lang had one particularly pleasing scene, and a number called “Happy Feet” proved to be not only a ryth- mic tune, but a grand background for some highly effective dancing. Thus might one go on about this “best of them all” revue. It has, of course, moments that seem a trifie overdrawn, but what more can one want, there is the “Rhapsody in Blue,” played as it was first played, with the author himself at the piano, there is Mr. Whiteman and his or- Guaranteed Bolton and Kilbride Worsted Suits featuring Sabre Grays...Navy and Grenade Blues . . . Sudan Browns 25 every suit has two trousers We believe this to be the first time that these renowned fabrics have been presented onywhere near this price. They have always been associated with expensive clothes —and would still be, were it not for our great 26-store business, and direct-selling plan, which makes every Bond store a direct branch of the Bond factory. 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Walter Hamp- den takes the part of Canon Caponsacchi, priest of the people. ‘The role of Pompilia, innocent wife of the villainous Count Guido, is taken by Ingeborg Torrup. Count Guido is played by Ernest Rowan, ‘The story, briefly, is that of a human triangle differing in some degree from the ordinary conception of the term. The side represented by Guido. the cruel and licentious hus- band, is true to form, but the love of Caponsacchi and Pompilia is not of the ordinary sort. It is the love of a frightened girl for the man who befriends her, and the worship of a man for the distant stars. Things of the flesh are not for him. Guido is the devil incarnate. ‘When he plots to entrap the inno- cent two, the very air becomes sur- charged with villainy. He has mar- ried Pompilia for her money, and now would kill her and her parents to secure it. Caponsacchi tries to save her, but fails, and is jailed as & libertine, Upon being released he goes to bid Pompilia farewell and finds that she and her mother and father have been mortally stabbed by Guido and his henchmen. There is a trial, and in the end the right is triumphant. ‘The play is melodrama of the deepest, darkest sort, but enlivened by the clowning of Cecil Yapp, who appears as Canon Conti. This priest, who laughs as only fat men can, is the ardent friend of Caponsacchi, nd his work serves nicely to count erbalance the effect of bloody dag- gers and outraged womanhood. Moffat Johnston, who appears all too briefly as Pope Innocent XII, is one of the most satisfactory ch: acters in the play. His final dialogue plumbs deeply into the hearts of men and human frailties. ‘To Walter Hampden was allotted the “ difficult role of Caponsacchi Praise for his artistry and skill was on every tongue as the audience filed from the theater. Walter Hi chestra at their best—and there is such beautiful color, such scintillat- ing scenic construction and withal such rare expression of good taste, that—why not be honest and admit that the talkies have done something to brag about? E. de S. M. HELP OF BUSINESS SOUGHT BY HOOVER More Economic Information |3 Declared Nation’s Need in C. of C. Address. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Government and business both need more economic information. This is the substance of President Hoover's ad- dress to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. It means that the disturbance of last Fall has revealed the inadequacy of authentic informa- tion on business conditions. The Presi- dent's promise to help organize a body Tepresentative of business, economics, labor and agriculture to study plans for greater stability for the future is in line with many utterances he has made since he first became Secretary of Com- merce nine years ago. What the President did not say was that such information and warnings issued by the Government last year in the face of growing speculation was for the most part ignored. The committee on recent economic changes, which made an exhaustive study of the busi- ness trends of seven years, made its re- port last May and it was a remarkable prophecy with respect to the strain on business and credit. Looking back over it today it reads almost as if it were a warning in itself. But the public paid no more attention to this than to the Federal Reserve Board's warnings and the era of speculation continued. ‘The problem, therefore, has been how to establish greater prestige and cre- dence for Government information. Unquestionably, the statistical serv- ices of the Government have not been all that they could be and the President openly favors improvements in that di- rection. Mr. Hoover reflects that he is not yet convinced that the rediscount rate be used as & weapon to stop specu- jon, ‘'The alternative,” he said, “of lift- ing commercial rates still higher in order to check speculation by checking business is also debatable. The whole bearing of interest rates upon specula- tion and stable production requires ex- haustive consideration in view of these new experiences.” Mr. Hoover pointed especially to the weakness in the credit situation which deprived the home builder of first and second mortgage rioney. This has not been cured as yet and, according to the President, the ownership of homes and the improvement of residential condi- tions is “the first anchor in social sta- bility and social progress.” Stability in interest rates, as empha- sized by the President, is the key to future prosperity and particularly is it vitally related to the upswing in busi- ness. 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