Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1930, Page 5

'I;HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1930. ATHREE KNOWNDEAD) [ cnutav rammee seemenen” | INSINKING OF BOAT R .~ SSeveral Others Missing in L] : ] 3 4 3 i 3 § £ H 3 K B 3 H H 3 Disaster to Holiday Fish- ing Excursion. By the Associated Press. SANTA MONICA, Calif, May 31— WVarious estimates today indicated that from 3 to 10 persons lost their lives late Yesterday in the capsizing during a sudden sguall of the fishing boat Ameco, heavily loaded with a M2morial day holiday crowd. Three bodies, those of a young woman, | & boy and a man, have been recovered. Capt. William Lightfoot, master of the 45-foot boat; Mrs. C. A. Morris, its owner, and city and county authorities, however, disagreed on the total number aboard the vessel. Lightfoot said his passengers num- red 52. There were three crew mem- bers. Mrs. Morris said she sold 55 ticksts to prospective passengers and Capt. William Bright of the sheriff's office and Chief Clarence Webb of the Santa Monica police said they believed 59 passengers were aboard. Forty-nine Brought Ashore. Police_courited 49 survivors brought ashore by other fishing boats which ‘went to the rescue. They were treated in local hospitals and allowed to go| home e. Some of them suffered no more than a wetting, while others were un- 3 consclous and were revived by inhalator squads. Bright and Webb, after questioning Ssurvivors and relatives of persons known §to have gone fishing during the day, kg e jdeclared there were seven missing. ‘The known dead: John W. Lockhard, 14, Pasadena. T. E. Barnett, 26, Los Angeles. Margaret Keller, 18, Santa Monica. ‘The missing, as announced by author- les: C. K. Lake, Glendale; James Hunts- ‘man, Santa Monica; Joseph Memoli, ISawtelle; Richard Consey, Los Angeles; 8. Ferguson, Glendale; William 'gfina. Glendale, and Sam S. Suenari, b Angeles. H 5 Some May Have Escaped. Some of these missing may have ped death. George Hughes, whos? arelatives insisted he had been aboard Egmlflshxn Ameco, came ashore at midnight barge where he had been Istranded since early yesterday afterncon “by_high seas. No passenger list had been made out, sas fishing boats are not required to take names of those purchasing tickets. “This added to the difficulty of checking the missing. Disaster struck the craft shortly after returning to the ‘4 o'clock as it was ~Banta Monica pier. Thousands of persons on n;; m-fl'm saw waves between 25 and “side of high race toward the port. the Ameco. The sudden shift ot weight as the boat towered on a wave Jerest toppled it over, hurling the crew passengers into the angry seas. 0st in & moment the boat sank. Freedom Goes to Aid. Shrill cries of the victims could be on the beaches. Another fish- ’%mg the Freedom, coming to shore, b ‘up 22 £ nearby and turned to the aid of stricken passengers. _Picking _its ;‘h‘:y carefully among the faces dotting sea, its crew succeeded in picking rsons, including the crew. of Lockhard and Barnett from the"otean.” Miss ashore from exposure. followed attempts to cate the An investigation' of the disaster was The ordered Capt. 8. A. Ken f Unikbd’sh&lnumbonlnl:;zu:n “Courage.” Leon Janney’s Triumph. OURAGE,” _the current [ feature at Warner’s Met- Topolitan and Tom Bar- ry's contribution to moth- er love complexes, was not a howling success as a play. As ice. In his account of the tragedy Capt. ghtfoot of the Ameco said: ‘under power returning to the docks hen _su ly some very lfin"’flh ere blown up by a strong d and e over our bow. Every one rushed the port side. ’nu:!mofthu vu and' the shift passengers caused the boat to keel over and she sank almost immediately. proeseu g OF JAMAICA GINGER Drug Clerks Charged With Vending ing Material Responsible for Paralysis. MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 31.—Six per- ted here Wednesda; ‘Bons were indic y by :hredenl grand jury in connection with e sale of Jamaica ginger, the use of mch as a beverage, medical authori- Sies said, was responsible for scores of of a paralysislike malady in the uthwest. Guy Simpson, Holdenville drug store , Was held in jail. His bond was t at $35,000. Doyle R. Hooper, another ldenville drug store operator, was re- on $30,000 bond. The others in- icted were E. B. Haney, Turner West d Wellman Porter, all drug clerks, Mrs. Rose Simpson, wife of Guy pso? n. ‘The indictments were returned under Hastings act, which prohibits the troduction of intoxicating liquor into dian country. The maximum penalty violation of the act is two years' prisonment and a fine of $500. - Sy ROUP OF GIRLS PROVES YOUTH IS INDUSTRIOUS embership List of Sewing Club Shows Eldest Is 12 and the Youngest 8. the Assoclated Press. & TIFTON, Ga., May 31.—The critics Who think modern youth is idle should Btudy the membership list of a sewing lub at Brookfield and would learn it its oldest member is 12 and its 'wn‘est 8. i The girls are believed to have the t _membership of any sewing ub in Georgia anyway. Their meetings mean no extra work mothers, for the members “do the " after refreshments and clean up house. Recently the hostess was a little girl 9 years, She prepared the menu baked her cake without help. But she decided to emboss “sewing le” on the cake she had to call her er to spell it. TWO BODIES FOUND ®olice Believée New Jersey Gang- 4 sters “Taken for Ride.” i - ’KENSACK, N. J., May 31 (#)— 'HACKE! K, N. y “ bodies of two found half buried in the brush a lonely Bergen County road day. ‘They were Stanley “Sparky” iida of Wallington and William “Wild " Schlessinger of Passaic. “we | INDICTED FOR SALE | a movie, it seems even less so. Glossed over with much sen- timental var- nish, it can be T e ¢ ommended Belle Bennett in a blonde wig and flowing robes is the spirit of sweet motherhood. Luckily, how- ever, bstween the sermonlike speeches with which Miss Ben- :';:t is bu!l';lened Benne ere are flashes P ‘amusement f provided by one of the cleverest youngsters on the screen. The part in which little Junior Dirkin tri- umphed on the stage has been han- dled with equal skill by Leon Jan- ney. As the youngest child, Billy, of that otherwise hopeless Colebrook family, he plays rings around all the other members of the cast, including his own (celluloid) mother. His smile, his gestures.and his general enthusiasm seem only remotely con- nected with grease paint, arc lights and technical Hollywoodism. He is acting is the Ofie thing that will de- mand any one’s attention to this Alm. Billy and Jerry, the goat, are the bright interludes in this account of how a weak woman tries to rule her roost. Blessed with six of the most irritating children that ever were huddled under one roof, she has to fight a lone battle to support them, ‘when her miserable husband, who had been a cad, is safely under d. In the middle of her troubles comes “an echo from the grave,” in the form of her dead hus- band’s sister, who tries to lure her children away from her and insults the doubtful parentage of the young- est child. Luckily, when the sky seems to be its darkest, the owner of Jerry the goat, a much hated old woman, dies, leaving the goat and her fortune to young Billy, who thus solves the pecuniary -~ difficulties, brings the family together and, in- cidentally, sends his mother into the arms of the man whom she had loved long before she ever married Mr. Colebrook. Belle Bennett is less teary-eyed than usual in this film, but her voice and wig are against her. She acts her quite unbelievable part with occasional grace, however, in spite of the more than lachrimosal wand of the director that hangs over her. The others, except, perhaps, Marion Nixon, are inconsequential, “Courage” is Leon Janney's pic- ture—if he wants it. An_especially interesting Evening Star-Universal Newsreel, introduced by Graham McNamee, and Vita- phone Varieties complete the bill. E.de 8. M. “Sweethearts and Wives” Pleasant Tomfoolery and Some. “SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES,™ currently visible at Warner Bros.” Earle Theater, is an impudent bit of tomfoolery, whose main virtue is that it never takes itself seriously. Skating often on the thinnest ice, this half mystery, half bed room farce is a flimsy bit of entertain- ment treated in masterly fashion by an excellent cast. All of which is to say that it has its good moments. Although Billy Dove is, to all in- tents and purposes — electrically, physically and technically—the star of this picture, it is Leila Hyams who seems to do it the greatest amount of good. In a role far flung from her usually blondine whimsi- calities she cavorts through the bet- ter part of this film with all the graces of the veteran comedienne. One could have wished, in fact, for a good deal more of her at the mo- ment when she was sniffing the fumes of the champagne bottle. Why Sidney Blackmer should suddenly have discarded her for Miss Dove and her maid’s bib and tucker is probably another one of those “sweet mysteries of life.” Hyams 1is not, however, alone in her glory. Clive Brook gives another one of his excellent portrayals of clever boredom, Sidney Blackmer seems to have a consider- able sense of humor, and Billy Dove is effective in pajamas, but other- not so muchy The story is one of those mixed- up night-at-an-inn fantasties, in which there seems to be a murder, a stolen necklace, a divorce detec- tive and a whirlwind romance, which terminates the whole thing, however, very satisfactorily. It all stdrts with Leila Hyams, a married lady, trying hard to have an affair with Mr. Blackmer, and then frightened by when she discovers that they are stranded for the night at an inn. . Police believed they ‘I:lbeey“tl::{;n éu{ yesterday, after sho Wwounded Frank LeVullo. LavVul- friends were believed to have kill<d After that comes Billy Dove, dressed as a maid; Clive Brook, obviously a detective, and the fun is on. Several weak-kneed short comadies, the FPathe and FParamount gews- -4 JOURNEY’S END,™ ‘Two soms of Chaplain Arthur Marsh of the 1st Division, who lost his life in battle in France, place their Memorial day tribute at the 1st Division Monu- Arthur Marsh, jr., is at the left and Richard N. Marsh, right. —=Star Staff Photo. From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. reels and, starting today, Will Os- borne and his orchestra complete the program. E. de 8. M. “Journey's End” till Drawing at R-K-O Keith's. Tiffany’s faithful and inspiring picture version of R. C. Sheriff’s stage suc- cess, is being held over for a second week at R-K-O Keith’s Theater. All that has been said in praise of the play may be transferred literally to this en edition of the original. It has the same atmospheric pathos, the same touch of quiet heroism, the same humor that breaks through the hard and creased surfaces of the nerve-riddled British officers. Add- ing only one or two scenes that show actual fighting in the open, the film shrewdly has kept within the limita- tions of the script, adding nothing new except a most effective ending. It is this ending that has caused some comment. It has been said that here the picture descends to un- necessary theatricalism; that the subdued murmuring of the guns at the time of Raleigh’s death and the candles being snuffed out by degrees lend an unnatural touch that never could have been true in the original. Coincidence %, however, invariably the friend of the dramatist, as it is often man’s ally in real life. In this case the muffiing of sound, just at the time one of the most courageous of those young officers expires, seems not only just, but dramatically convincing. There must have been occasional doldrums at such moments, and as a climax to a picture of this sort it comes as a thankful interlude to the usual thunderings that the directors are apt to instill into the finale of their war pictures. The story of these British officers at the front has become almost a legend—a legend that needs no rep- etition. Colin Clive plays the part of Capt. Stanhope magnificently, Tan MacClaren, David Manners and Billy Bevan do all that could possibly be done with three splendid roles. An- thony Bushell, of them all, seems at one point curiously ineffective. “Journey’s End” is not to be avoided, because its subject is war, or because you have seen it before on the stage. The older it grows the more mellow it seems to be- come, and' the screen has been in- finitely kind to it. g “Caught Short” Catching the Populace. IN “Caught Short,” the best that Hollywood seems to have been able to do in the way of pictures for those excruclatingly funny ladies, Marie Dressler and Polly Moran, the story has been dropped mostly in the wastepaper basket. However, even with the slimmest of plots, the mildest suppert and the oldest song sung since Adam made a theme- song out of his rib, this couple re- main the moet satisfying buffoons of the screen. And the crowds are fairly pouring into Loew’s Columbia without ceasing. Just why after all these years Marie Dressler should still be able to make faces that wilt the spine with laughter, is one of those mys- terles that p-cbably will be solved only in another talkie world. Faces she certainly can make, and the more she twists her mouth up and down the four poles of her facial hemisphere the funnier she becomes. Bad to relate. neither of these two blissfully ridiculous ladies seem as silly as has been her wont. Due to the added and vapid love interest the introduction of a Spanish song that falls pathetically flat and a few moments when sentiment is sup- posed to engulf the audience in tears, there are stretches when even the potency of their billy-goating cannot possibly make any headway. Somewhere in the middle of all this they are allowed fleeting and neb- ulous bits of comedy, which reach a grand climax when the final fade- out fades on a cat getting an airing. Constant bickering, heckling and the rougher sort of teasing keeps Polly Moran busy as she tries to get Marle to put her money in Wall Street. This is the profound theme on which hangs this Hollywood drama. Marle, of course, like every one else, heeds the lure of the Street, Roes broke and returns to normaley. So does Polly. Their son and daugh- :lr get mal and thus ends the Im Needless to say the two leading players are themselves throughout, Charles Morton is adequate as the lover and Anita Page takes the prize for the most insipid heroine ever to win her man. Amusing short subjects, newsreels and the Columbia orchestra augment this tonic for warm weather digestion. SALESMEN WANTED WANTED: m.ficffif"évfi““ Pyl il :ul\ have auto ai oney. ceive their prelim it Commission e e ance save your time. WoODWARD & [LOTHROP Beginning Monday, 9:15 i | The Annual June Selling CoTTON AND RAYON FABRICS ' Seven specially-priced timely items . . . and one feature value, a"standard value regularly found here . . . are offered in this selling. The prices are far below the regular prices for like quality. Imported Cotton Tweeds . . . $125 yard French cotton tweeds . . . exclusively here . . . in two and three tone weaves. Smart for sports clothes. 36 inches wide. Specially priced. 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Six Chic Essentials for the Smart 1930 Summer Footwear Wardrobe Every smart woman counts these six models necessities in her scheme of Sum- mer chic. New fabrics make pumps . . . brown and white proves the classic resort shoe. . .the pump still leads and sports footwear is smartly varied. The Moccasin Oxford . . . is smart for golf; of white buck with brown or black coecieiiiencarinicsionsee . $1250 White end Brown Classic Opera Pump « « - with built-up leather heels; also with black; leather heels ...... ..$12.50 Shantung One-strap Open-shank Pump « + . smart in dead white (or may be WoMEN's SHoES, THIRD FLOOR. Were $49.50 to $79.50. Now The Perforated Tie . . . white buck with brown or black; leather heels; for spec- tator sports . Pastel-colored Linen Opera Pumps, with embroidery; in blue, green, pink, yellow «nd natural ....... 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