Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1931, Page 11

CITIZENS REVIEW- RESERVOIR PLANS Sixteenth Street Group See Slides—Favors Sunken Garden for Area. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1931. Taken With Auto, . Child Restored Yelling to Parents By the Assoclated Press, FRESNO, Calif., April 7.—Cry~ ing lustily, but unha.rmtd 5-year- old Walter Harralson was restored to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Harralson of Mendota, Calif,, early yesterday after a motor car thief had unwittingly kidnaped him—the boy was asleep in the rear seat when the thief took the car. Police found the automobile and the child at the outskirts of NORRIS SHOALS BILL DEAD, ASSERTS TILSON Representative Suggests Alabama- Tennessee Commission to Solve Problem. By the Associated Press. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., April 7.— Representative John Q. Tiison of Con- necticut, Republican House leader, said in a statement here yesterday that in his opinion the Norris bill for operation of Muscle Shoals is dead. He suggested a commission, or two commissions representing the States of but in time of peace thm is no justi- fication for this purpose. “It has been sugzesbed that in the Seventy-second Congress the presi- dential veto would not be sustained, but in my judgment there is no probability of a veto of such a government opera- tion proposal being overridden by the House of Representatives.” TS e Actress to Wed Broker. LOS ANGELES, April 7 (#).—Jean- ette MacDonald, musical comedy and screen actress, said today she and Rob- ert G. Rlu'hle New York stock broker, would be married here the first week in June. The couple met at a party in the Mayfair Club in New York three years ago. HERBERT DRUCE, NOTED ENGLISH ACTOR, DIES Pneumonia Victim in New York First Appeared at 17 in “Blue Bells of Scotland.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 7.—Hubert Druce, English actor, who for more than 40 years had been associated with the the- ater both as a producer and a_player, died of pneumonia yesterday, He was 61 years old. Mr. Druce first appeared on the stage known tvluwnthndnhbfloln “The T B, & X gl and y- ing the role 987 = Among the more rece: . plays in which he appeared were “Deburau,” “Manhat- tan" and “Seventh Heaven.” In 1912 he appeared with John Drew in “The Perplexed Husband.” His participation in the ction of plays extended back to 1901, and among his associates were Weedon Grossmith, Frank Curzon and Beerbohm Tree, Pennsylvania Bank Closes. BROWNSVILLE, Pa., April 7 (#).— The Monongahela National Bank here failed to open its doors yesterday because of heavy and contintied withdrawals, = A FIRE HITS SEASIDE PARK |grigin badly damaged the Hiswathe Hotel and Six Cottages Wrecked, Others Damaged in Jersey. SEASIDE PARK, N. J., April 7 (#).— The beach front Manhasset ' Hotel, largest Summer hostelry at this resort, and six cottages were destroyed by fire early yesterday. Another hotel, the Gladwyn, and 20 other cottages were damaged. Fire Chief Cilfford R. Brown esti- mated the damage at greater than $250,000 and said he believed the blaze was of incendiary origin. Come in for a lctnouluhon of the new ATWATER KENT RADIO Or Call North 1567 Campbell & Colcord 2212 Rhode Island Ave. N.E. Alabama and Tennessee, hhe]:fl, u}?} to s 1Bn(‘llfnnf;mé atflthedlllle ;II 17 in * T}T‘e Blue | posted notice said the institution would work out the Muscle Shoals problem 1 s of Scotland.” e made his New | be reorganized and reopened. In its|a block square three-story brick and on the basis suggested by President {Mnre than half of the world's reserves | York debut two years later, in 1889, as | last statement the bunkpereponed de- | frame str;?ttum. None ofr{he buildings of bituminous coal are in the United | Catesby in “Richard III” in support of posits of $4,411,43.89 and assets of | was occupled. Hoover in his veto message. Tilson, a native of East Tennessee, | States. Richard Mansfleld. One of his best| §5,336,404.50. Two weeks ago, & fire of incendiary is visiting relatives here and at Erwin. the city. ‘The fire originated in the Manhasset, Debate regarding the disposition of the site on which an abandoned reser- voir now stands, commonly known as| SHORE LOSES APPEAL the Sixteenth Street Reservoir, last . ON YEAR’S JAIL TERM | ® “Musclé "Shoals and the Tennessee River are natural resources of the two night consumed a majority of time at a meeting of the Sixteenth Street Heights it OCitizens’ Assoclation. The meeting was | Court Holds Evidence of Seizure|STeat States of Tennessee and Ala- 0 5 006 intls Presbyterian Chirch, bama,” he said. “If necessary for war, they can be pro aken over and Bixteenth and Kennedy streets north- Delivers the New Atwater Kent Golden Voiced Compact —With the New Pentode Tube THE HECHT co. Priced at $69.50 Complete PO . Warranted His Conviction of perly utilized by the Federal Government, ‘west. Contempt on Padlock. —_— ‘The lx!oclmlon which favors the es- parck THE NEW tablishment of sunken gardens upon| The injunction ordered the site, last night devoted its time|gagainst premises at 1223 New York ave- | ATWATER KENT RADIO %o & showing of plans and projection of | 0 " ocoupled by Prank Shore and IS ON DISPLAY slides by the Reservoir Committee, a LES KOHLER body recently appointed to investigate | others, was sustained yesterday by the the feasibility of the idea. Edgar C.|District Court of Appeals in an opinion Bnyder. vice president of the assocla- | by Justice Groner. Shore is under sen- BATT. & ELEC. SERVICE 3403 Conn. Ave. Clev. 0844 10 tion and chairman of the Investigating | tence of one year in jail for contempt of Committee, last night declared, showing | court for a violation of the injunction. hu plans as proof, that the sunken gar- | His appeal was based on a claim that ns could become a reality. the search warrant was illegal betause contained only the house number and OO W Eo o, did not specify the business he con- In conjunction with the favorable|qycted, Three different businesses were Feport given by Mr. Snyder, the associa- | peing carried on there, he claimed. tion last night voted to send coples of | ‘The court finds that the evidence of | \b Plans to the iPork snd (FIanning | the seizure was properly allowed to Te- b e prasscd themserves. g3 | M8l n the evidence | opposed to the idea. 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Higham 105 B St. S.E. Linc. 0647 HUSBAND TELLS OF PARTY AS DIVORCE SUIT BASIS Jack Luden, Film Actor, Files Ac- tion for Decree Against Lisa- beth Seltzer Luden. By the Associated Press. Foligwood partyformms ihe.Seckeroand forms the backgroun of a divorce action Jack Luden, film actor and member of a wealthy Read- ing, Pa., family, has instituted against Lisabeth Seltzer Luden. “My wife told me I had to throw nrdes to get anywhere in Hollywood,” iden testified yesterday. “I didn't see how I could on my salary of $75 weekly, but I finally consented. “I invited 2 persons and my wife asked 12 or 13. At least 75 came. The first to arrive ate up all the boiled ham and potato salad. It wound up with four drunken men in one room asleep. My wife was drinking, too. I tested and she said I wasn't enter- into the spirit of the occasion.” iden charged his wife once “threw s picture and three ashtrays—all to- gether—and swung a golf club at me.” Mrs, Luden, who filed a cross-com- plaint, was to testify today. TWO MEN KILLED, THIRD WOUNDED IN SHIP FIGHT Becond Engineer of Freighter Com- mits Buicide After Shooting Two Shipmates. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 7—Two men ciing pesecniay aboned coe freightes y al e e Helen, anchored in the Delaware River. The shooting followed = uuzgea drink- ing bout in Camden, N. Claude McRoy. 33, wm Frankford, ., second engineer of the vessel, shot and kmed ‘Wilfred Moller, 36, New York, an oiler, and wounded William Cough- hn. z'l mmmore with bullets in the id wrist. The second engineer llf&ed the pistol to his head and Killed himself. RN I SR A FLYER AT CAPE TOWN Xidston Completes Air Trip From England in Six Days. 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