Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1930, Page 7

SOCIETY OF NATIVES SUPPORTS HOSPITAL Group Backs Drive to Raise $50,000 Sought for Casualty. The support of the Society of Natives | of the District of Columbia was thrown | to Casualty Hospital's campaign for a| $30.000 building and equipment fund | yesterday, Fred Emery, president of the i society, announced. | Foregoing its regular annual picnic to | throw its resources back of charity, the | soclety will substitute for its June out- | ing a trip down the Polomac River next Tuesday night on the Wilson Lines | . steamer, City of Washington. | The Wilson Lines, Inc., have donated the use of the steamer to the hospital for this occasion. The proceeds from ticket sales and concessions will be | turned over to the hospital’s fund. I ;i | Dinner to Be Served. +_ J. Mitchell Owens, chairman of the fttee on arrangements for the trip. | particularly urged that members of the wociety attend the blue-plate dinner, which will be served aboard ship at 6 | @clock for 85 cents a plate. The| er will leave the Seventh street wharf at 8 o'clock. Other attractive features of the trip will be dancing to music furnished by | Happy Walker and his orchestra and | entertainment specialties under the di- | rection of Miss Edith Reed. Fred East, | Bill Raymond, George O'Connor and | Matt Horn also will take part in the | entertainment. Mr. Emery's message to members of the soclety stated, in part: “I hope that A8 many natlves as can find it possible to join in this combined outing in the name of charity and of a great public institution will take part in this trip. ‘There is no worthier cause in which the people of Washington can join than in | this effort to help a hospital whose mis- | sion is to help others.” Soclability Committee Named. A committee to represent the Society of Natives in individually promoting so- ciability aboard the ship was appointed as follows: Mrs. Lewis J. Battle, chairman; Mrs. Dora_ K. Muir, Mrs. Roscoe J. Oatley, Mrs. Henry Fenno Sawtelle, Washington Topham, Miss Etta L. Taggart, Miss .+Elsie Green, Miss Mildred Green, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Groverman, Ralph L.| .Hall, Mrs. Ella C. Robinson and Miss Emana A. Bright. RADIO S 0 S SIGNAL REMAINS A MYSTERY Lommission Unable to Establish Origin of Call That Silenced For- mer Senator Reed’s Speech. By the Associated Press. A week of investigation by the Federal o Commission failed to establish | the origin of the mysterious S O S call which silenced _stations broadcasting | former Senator James A. Reed's speech June 7. Commissioper Lafount said the evi- dence obtained so far has shed very little | light on case. W. D. Terrell, of the radio division of the Department of Commerce, transmitted#to the com- mission the reports of radio supervisors stationed along the Atlantic Coast. La- fount said the operator of the Tucker- | ton, N. J,, station of the Radio-Marine | Corporation, subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America, apparently was the only person who heard the § O 8. | Reed, speaking at Sedalia, Mo., over a | network of stations associated with the | Columbia Broadcasting System, had » launched into an attack on the Radio Corporation when the naval office in| New York ordered stations in the dis- | trict to cease broadcasting. Navy offi-. cers explained this was done on receipt | of word from Tuckerton that an § O had been picked up. NEW MARKET SOUGHT Armour Co. Reported in Agreement With Koenigsberg Firm. BERLIN, June 17 (#).—The Butch- ers’ Union Journal said yesterday that ' Armour & Co. of Chicago had con- | cluded an agreement with the East Meat Supply Co. of Koenigs- | berg, characterizing it as an effort to | capture the European market for fresh | meat, bacon, sausages and margarine. | The paper added that a number of new plants were planned in Germany. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, From the Front Row|SPIRIT OF FASCISM Reviews and News of Waa}findton's Theaters. “Your Uncle Dudley” National Players’ Swan Song. REDDIE SHERMAN was sing- ing “Good-by, Forever!” as the curtain descended on last night's performance of “Your Uncle Dudley,” and although most of the audience didn't know it, he was bidding farewell (not, it is hoped, “for- ever”’) to the audience for all the National Players, Thus, after a most invigorat- ing 12 weeks, these players are calling it a day, and for the nonce Washing- ton finds itself & city deserted by the two- faced muse. Lest patrons of this art be ac- cused of cal- lousness, let them betake themselves to the National and see what their own players are offering as a parting gesture. They will be well repaid. “Your Uncle Dudley” is not an important play, but it is an amus- ing one, and one which this A-1 company handles with dexterity. Each member of the cast has a sur- prise to offer. Adelaide Hibbard pauses momentarily on the stairs to explain honestly where she is going; Freddie Sherman appears briefly in a startling pair of striped “under- pinnings,” and Marion Wells speaks in the slow, contralto accents of a titian-haired Dane. The only real surprise about Walter Gilbert is sprung when his mother tells his future wife that “he has only one kidney—and that's floating.” The story resolves itself really more dround his scheming sister Adelaide Hibbard. (Edith Gresham) than Uncle Dud- ley himself. For she it is who rules her brother’s home, and, rather in the capaciéy of prize fight manager than a mother, “trains” her daugh- ter for an important concert which will win money for her to continue her studies abroad.® All goes well and the daughter wins the coveted prize, when suddenly she announces that she was married immediately after the concert, which prompts the mother to whip out a bottle of poison to keep her child from run- ning off with her half-hour-old hus- band. After this trouble piles on trouble, until Adelaide Hibbard fixes everything by a deft maneuver, so that the daughter gets her man, Uncle Dudley gets his money and Edith Gresham gets a possible tenor Tecruit (poor Freddie Sherman), whom she is obviously going to work on in the future. ‘To Adelaide Hibbard goes the laurel wreath for provoking the most laughter. Her role is the largest and most. luscious of the season. She plays the part of the grandmother, who lets nothing slip by her ears, with every ounce of wit and wisdom in her, She is grand throughout. So is Edith Gresham as the tyrant mother, and Walter Gilbert as the most pular man in town, who yearns or a “gold cup” of appreciation from his townsmen. Perhaps the most astonishing bit of the evening is to see Romaine Callender waltzing around as a youth in his twenties, although the ‘shock of the Freddie Sherman “lingerie” is just about as breath-taking. And to_those lovely ladies of the company, Marion Wells and Marion Sterly, let it be said that great things are expected of them ‘in the future. They have all been a keen de- light during their fast and fleeting season. It is with a sense of real loss (as the valedictorians say) that we bid them a fond “farewell.” E.de C. M. \PEDESTRIAN DEATHS HIGH IN AUTO TOLL Over Half Traffic Fatalities Oc- curred at Intersections, Figures Show. More pedestrians were killed than passengers in autonfobiles as a result of motor vehicle accidents during the past year, according to the Third National Conference on Street and Highway Safety. Fifty-five per cent of the 31,000 automobile deaths in 1929, the statis- tics show, were pedestrians run down by automobiles. More than half of the accidents involving vehicles and pedes- trians took place at street intersections. ‘What happened at these intersection accidents was briefly catalogued as follows: No signal, 27,177; against the signal, 9,022; diagonally across the intersection, 1,482, and with the signal, 4,244, Violation of the right of way was said to be one of the most productive causes of vehicle accidents. The con- ference report declared that this showed the need for definite right-of-way e regulations. A. KAHN INC. . . . TUBERCULOSIS EXPERTS TO ADDRESS MEETING Kendall Emerson and Mrs. George Becker to Speak on Work in ‘India. Col. Kendall Emerson, director of the National Tuberculosis Assoclation of America, and Mrs. George F. Becker of Washington, who spent several years in |India in tuberculosis work, will be among sflelkern to address a meeting of the Indla-foreign committee Wednes- day evening, June 25, at 8 o'clock, in the council chamber of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. 1 The committee has undertaken to ad- | vertise in this country the need of tu- | berculosis relief in India. Mrs. Becker spent several years in Bangal, and is recognized as an authority on the progress of rellef measures in that country. She will illustrate her lecture | with slides. The chairman of the committee, Mrs | Ernest D. Grant, and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas are expected to assist | with the ~meeting. Afterward, Mrs. Becker is to entertain at a reception at |her residence, 1700 Rhode Island avenue. Col. 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Taxation has in- | creased enormously, not so much through increased rates or new kinds of imposts—rates have increased but slightly and many taxes have been re-| duced or abolished—but simply by rigorously collecting income and other | taxes, which in the old days too fre- quently were dodged. ‘These increased tax burdens have caused much distress and dissatisfac- tion. The Fascist government’s remedy for these evils is enthusiasm, and that is the biggest factor in explanation of Premier Mussolini’s occasional bursts of jingoism. The people, he rightly calcu- lated, do not mind making sacrifices if these are for the greater glory of their country. Until last week this correspondent had not visited Italy for three years, and the changes were striking, though possibly not percelved by those living there or visiting' the country more fre- quently. Blackshirt Squads Are Missing. Blackshirt squads no longer parade in the streets with martial stride, dart- ing menacing glances right and left. Orders have been issued that the black shirt must not be worn except on active duty, and while many Italians wear the. Fascist emblem in their buttonholes, they are by no means in the majority. 8till more surprising to this writer was the freedom with which Italians now will discuss politics. Three years ago, even in the privacy of their homes, few could be induced to reveal their frank opinions on political matters and the natives showed a fidgety embarrass- ment when questioned by foreigners. Now they will say wiat they think in any public place without even lowering their voices. Even the newspapers, though still strictly in Fascist hands, have in many cases adopted a new tone of independence and freely express criticisms of administrative abuses, par- ticularly in municipal affairs. Government Is Costly. | ‘The Fascist form of government is | extremely costly. Army and navy costs | have risen to wild heights, compared with the old regime, and the cost of | civil administration also, through the multiplication of government offices. Paternalism and public works call for millions daily. Rome and Milan are being wrecked rapidly and rebuilt and the taxpayer foots the bill, stimulated to sacrifice by Mussolini’s engaging pic- ture of a new, strong and modern Italy rising on the ashes of the old “Dolce | far niente” spirit—the spirit of those who find pleasure in idleness. Predictions that the new regime will collapse under the working of economic laws have been so often repeated, both in Italy and abroad, that they are now BACK HOME ALABAMA Birmingham. . .$25.00 Mobile . ..$31.65 Montgomery. .$26.65 FLORIDA GEORGIA Atlanta Columbia icksburg ....$35.05 GOOD TO 15 TRAINS TO THE SOUTH DAIL From Washington, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 2nd Reduced Round Trip Fares to SOUTH CAROLINA Spartanburg ..$16.60 : LOUISIANA New Orleans. .. .$35. 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