Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1931, Page 7

GREEN T0 TESTIFY AT WAR HEARINGS Maj. Gen. C. C. Williams Aiso. * to Give Views—Meyer Holds | Cost Taught Lesson. THE EVENING From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. “Dr. Harmer” at the Belasco. muse of “Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyds" seemed to be upon Sir Arthur Wing Pinero last night at the Belasco, For in his latest play, “Dr. Harmer,” when one of the most distinguished of current _ actors, the clergyman wooed the young lady back again almost immediately end the doctor went back to his vaca- tions and was discovered, as the final curtain came down, thoroughly demd to this life and not too sure of the next. As a matter of fact, the final cur- tain was & bit uncertain last night, but that, no doubt, will soon be rem- AR, WASHINGTO \DEATH APPEAL GIVEN | TO SUPREME COURT Ex-Page Contends Second Jury; | ‘Was Open to Prejudice i in Aldridge Case. | After hearing arguments yesterday | afternoon, the United States Supreme Court took under advisement the plea for a new trial for Alfred Scott Aldridge. colored, who is under death sentence | at the District Jail in_connection with D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1931. A7 INA CLAIRE AND GILBERT WILL WAIT ON DIVORCE| By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif.. Ina Claire, allayed rumors that she wi March immediate divorce from John Gilbert, |matter with Los Angeles, Calit.?” she “T am_much too busy,” she | asked. | film star. ‘d last night, “to worry about that' now. I have not discussed it even with Mr. Gilbert or my attorrey.” The actress, found on a picture set. 17— | caid she had a now mction picture con- stage and screen actress, has | tract and denied the planned to estab- ould seek an lish a residence in Reno. “What's ths Reupholstering and Repairing Ask About Our Easy Monthly Payment Plan Dirigible Aloft 60 Hours. - Miss Claire, her friends said, had not| TOKIO, March 17 (#).—A Japinese seen Gilbert since she returned from' semi-rigid dirigible today set what' was New York severs) weeks ago0 nd a1°| ciaimed to be s .world's enduranée o ki record for this type of craft when it Efforts to establish an income tax in | completed a stretch of 60 hours aloft Ceylon have failed. | without refueling. ladies! 81 men! Tapestries, Mohairs, Brocades and Velours edied. Even if, however, Sir Arthur was not perhaps at his most “top- ping,” vale certainly was, 5 in the cast, such Connfe Graham, Viva Birkett, Helen Vinson and Wallace Erskine. Although Boston doubtless may choose to play this play in Quincy, it has its many ups as well as its many downs and may be heard from quite pleasantly in the future. E. DE S. MELCHER. 'FIRST-DEGREE ARSON " CHARGED T0 15 GIRLS | #;al Reserve Board and former director | American audiences at the Belasco |North Carolina Delinquents- Will of the War Financd Corporation said | Theater under the auspices of the that experience had taught that war is| Professional Players. It proved to ‘ Be Tried in Burning of State “profitless for all concerned, winners| be a curious and interesting study | % of & man who finds that his vaca- | Institution Buildings. William -~ Green, president of the| American Federation of Labor, and Ma. Gen. Clarence C. Williams, retired, for- mer chief of ordnance, will be heard this afternoon, when hearings are re- sumed by the War Polictes Commission, ) appointed to consider plans for equaliz- | < e ing burdens and minimizing profits in | ddwn _not only the event of future wars, | on the tussle The last war taught the world a | but on the pros- ,Jesson about the cost of such a conflict | trate body of which would by ver{y te t Mr. Merivale, uld be a powerful deterren Mr. Mexival, ceived what was evidently com- Philip Merivale, was leading the players to bat- tle, virtue and J| other things were having something of a | the fatal shooting of Policeman Harry | J. McDonald two_years ago. Standing in the same court room | where he had served a$ a page a num- | | ber of years ago, Attorney James F.| | Reilly presented.the contention of the | defendant that the trial judge in the | | District Supreme Court erred in not questioning prospective jurors as to | whether they had any race prejudice. District Attorney Leo A. Rover up- | held the action of the trial judge as proper, declaring that Washington is free from gencral race prejudice that would justify such a question. i Aldridge was tried twice, the first jury being unable to agree. In asking that prospective jurors at the second | | tria] be questioned regarding race prej- | udice, Attorney Reilly told the court he had received hearsay information that { one of the jurors in the first trial had | | entertained a racial prejudice. Mr. | | Rover argued that the jury in the second | trial was selected from a different group. | Bornot cleans your HAT Send It NOW! Also Chair Caneing and Porch Rockers Splintered by Our Experts at the Now Prevailing Low Prices for Two Days Only. 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Overstuffed Suites Dining Room Chairs Cleaners s well as Josers.” War Cost $186,000,000,000. | ~f don’t say there will never be an- ether war,” Meyer said, “but there is 1o immediate prospect of one and I dcn't see that any is coming for a long while.” | Meyer testified the late war cost the | world $186,000,000,000, equal to the en- | tire wealth of the United States in 1912, | and that it cost this couniry alone 23,000,000,000. ; | He said the details of financing a war cannot be planned in advance and recommended that enactment of legis- lation providing for such financing €hould await the emergency. Wants Bills Drafted. Meanwhile, however, he said, general | plans could be made so that legisia- | tion would be ready for presentation to Congress at the outbreak of hostilities. | Meyer testified the Government's | agencles for financing the World War and regulating private financial opera- tions were adequate and could be used as a model for a future conflict. He added that finance was not the ‘‘con- trolling factor” in a war and that na- tions would continue hostilities as long s their man power, material and mo- rale lasted. . Charles B. Robbins, chairman of the National Defense Committee of the American Legion and former Assistant , Becretary of War, recommended price- fixing to take profit out of war.” ‘Would Register Civillans, He urged the creation of a peace- time organization similar to the War ¢ Industries Board to be ready to take over control of prices at the outbreak of a conflict and raise finances for con- ducting the war. Robbins also advocated the registra- tion of all civilians in time of war, but opposed drafting capital and labor, A. H. Griswold, vice president of the | International Telephone & Telegraph Co., testified communication companies should be left under private ownership | during a war, but regulated, if neces- | sary, by the Government. | —_— Deaths Repor;d. The following deaths have been reported o the Health Department in the last 24 ou: 77, 718 Shepherd Cathedral Mansio 18th ime: 81, 1535, Kenyon st | LIQUID or TABLETS 3 e gt e Gurneld Hoemisl - | Cure Colds, Headaches, Fever g e CURES BABY’S COLD tion runs him thoroughly amuck, | though for the rest of the year he | is as genilemanly and as doctorly as | the best and whitest of men. | The most oufstanding of all this “ | i The industrial worker of India is to- | day making increasing use of the strike- CARTHAGE, N. C, March 17—Fif- | weapon. | esn young women, inmates of Samar- | ————————————— State Institution for Delinquent were bound over to Superior cn charges of first degres arson lay afterncon at a prelimin g in connection with the burning two buildings at th institution | By the Associated Press. Was Mr. Merivale's impersonation of the doctor. Not only was it & won- derfully lucid performance, but in the rather uncertain moments, when the author had str he ination of bis gudience to the break- | ing point, such as in act two, when | Thursday. | the young oirl became disengaged First degree arson is punishabls in from her clergyman lover. engaged | this State by death. Five girls confessed to the doctor and then back again | to seiting the fires and implicated the to the first love. Merivale kept such | others. an even keel of temperament that the signs of evident merriment from the audience soon subsided and he restorsd order to a play that might have met its Waterloo at that par- ticular moment. ‘The idea behind all this was some- thing as follows: Dr. Harmer, a broad-shouldered handsome man, dangerous perhaps to have around in any household, especially one kept strictly by a comely landlady and her even comelier niece, was a man with great personality and charm and much respected in his locality. For a few weeks every year he dis- appeared in what seemed to be a great unknown. This unknown proved to be a rather horrid bit of London in which unsightly wemen and their consorts brawled and fought and had their tonic all over everywhere. To this patch of deso- late humanity went the noble doc- tor, instead of breathing the pure air of Hampstead, as most of the doting neighbors suspected. And in- variably he came back three weeks later to his loving household with rings under his eyes and indications that perhaps the great indoors rather than the great outdoors had been his home and hearth, Then love came to the doctor. A weak-kneed clergyman had decided that his flancee was too anaemic to meet the requirements of a bristling parochial life, and £0 he tossed her into the waiting arms of the medical man, who thereby hoped tn raform himself. Unfortunate! || Just Think of It— i ye The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 1's¢ per day and 5¢ Sunday. 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