Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1931, Page 31

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 14 GIRLS ESCAPE ALABANA SCHOO. hee Institution Few Hoursj After New Superintendent i Takes Over Duties. NORMA TALMADGE WINS RELEASE FROM SCREEN Movie Actress Insists Upon Right to Select Pictures in Which She Appears. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 14—Because Nor- ma Talmadge, screen actress, insisted on choosing her own vehicles, Samuel Goldwyn of United Artists, has an- nounced her release. “Because of her prestige T felt that it was a mark of esteem due her long association with this_organization to MISQUOTED ON FIGURES, Total of $83,333,836 Does Not In- clude Value of All Church Prop- erty, Says Rev. N. E. Davis. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 14.—Rev. | N. E. Davis, D. D., executive secretary | of the Board of Hospitals, Homes and | Deaconess Work of the Methodist Epis- copal Church in America, sald here today he had been misquoted in a talk at_Columbus Tuesday. He was reported to have said the GORKY RETURNS HOME M. E. SECRETARY AVERS Noted Writer Is Cheered by Wel- coming Crowds at Moscow. MOSCOW, May 14 (#).—Alexel Max- imovich Pyeshkoff, known to thg world as Maxim Gorky, came back today from exchanging visits. THE HECHT CO. D. C, THURSDAY, Sorrento, Italy, where he has been living recently, and was cheered by & great crowd at the station. ‘The writer is 69 and somewhat feeble, but he remains one of the most popu- lar novelists in all Russia. MAY FARMER HELD SUICIDE North Carolinian Slays Self After Finding Dead Women. CONCORD, N. C., May 14 (#).— A | Barrier's suicide with the deaths of the ' , Mrs. Criss Starnes, 75, Nurses of Germany and England are | coroner’s jury vesterday decided here | tWO Women, | - ’ 4 that R. L. Barrier, 47, farmer who wui and her daughter Ada, 40. THE HECHT CO. | THE HECHT CO. 14; 1981, found shot to death two days after he discovered the bodies of two slain wom- on & farm he owned, “came to his death | from & self-infiicted shotgun wound.” | No attempt was made to connect | Free Auto Parking Space for Customers—E Street Between Sixth and Seventh B—15 Two Rooms, Kitchen and Bath with Balcony Electrical Refrigeration THE ARGONNE 16th and Columbia Road Reasonable Rentals By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 14.— Fourteen girls were known to have grant her request for her release,” MT. | total value of property and endowments Goldwyn said in a statement. He ex- of the Methodist Episcopal Church in plained that for reasons of policy it | America was $83,333,836. This sum, was impossible to continue her contract. | he explained, represents only the value escaped late yesterday from the Ala- Mlt&s Tnilmadge Ifll‘sio L<sucd‘ x:e S(dn(f- | 0}!] Prgpe;tg' :ung gndowmenu of the ment, saying: “I do_not intend to |church’s hospitals, homes and deaconess bama Training School for Glrls a few | [tk pictures until T find the story 1| work in América, and does nor ineide hours after Mrs. T. F. Adams Was|want to do.” She explained she had | investments in schools, churches and appolated acting superintendent _to | several offers from producers here and | other church institutions and_proper- cceed Mrs. Ira F. Champion, who |in Europe. | ties, the value of which, he said, was slgned yesterdu. i S, | not’ known to him, rsons living near the school placed . " = e e the number of escapes as high as 25, e o e | ey EIpIE Ve os Sbetesh while a newspaper man reported he saw , OReCEiGHlovakIE Y Lo 14 make thelr way over a fence sur- | has just been inaugurated. THE HECHT CO. across nearby fields. Bacn's o fo s atrue Bor maacy s | F Street at Seventh BERRY SCHOOL FOUNDER Portable Electrlc | HONORED FOR HER WORK | Baiat M h. Martha McChesney Berry Given| erng aC lneS had left. | Mrs. Adams said many of the former | officials were gone from the school | Town Hall Medal for Education | of Hill Children. ‘ By the Associated Press. | Axminster when she took charge, and that she has been secking others to fill their laces. She said she anticipated hav- ng the school back on a definite pro- gram by today. Mrs. Champion’s resignation followed upon & week in which the girls had rebelled three times and policemen had been called to quell disturbances. NEW YORK, May 14—Martha Mc- Chesney Berry, founder of the Berry School for mountain children in Georgia, has been chosen as winner of the Town | Hall Club's gold medal for “an accom- plishment of lasting merit.” She won in the final balloting over Booth Tarkington, novelist: Marc . . 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