Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1931, Page 5

! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., *TUESDAY, JUNE 9. 1931 CHARGE WITNESSES WERE GIVEN GIFTS Attorneys for Pantages Say Girls Were Also Entertained by Investigators. Py the Assoclated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif. June 9.—Gifts of silk stockings and entertainment of two girl witnesses, while they were held in tachnical custody in Los Angeles were stressed by attorneys fcr Alexander Pantages, theater magnate, and three other defendants on trial’ on morals charges today. Helen Livingston, 17, told a story yes- terday following ciosely that of Lydia Nitto, that they were brought here for & hotel party October 30 by Willlam Jobclmann and Olive Ciark Day, al- Jeged operators of a Hollywood “girl market,” and received $15 each. Miss Livingston sa!d she was the com- panion of Jesse H. Shreve. wealthy real estate man, and Miss Nitto was with Pantag:s. Shreve. Jobelmann and the Day woman are defendants with Pan- tages. Defense attorneys drew from Miss Livingston the statement she was given | silk stockings and a dress by woman | investigators of the Los Angeles district attorney’s office. Both she and Miss | Nitto were taken to shows, she said, and entertained at the investigators’ himes. Miss Livingston denied she had been “promised freedom when this case is done.” Miss Nitto, who had testified Pantages | was intimate with her, agyn said she | had at first denied this to 1¥ estigators, | but changed her story after she had | spent three days in the Los Angeles Juvenile Hall, { Didn't_you tell Mrs. Day ycu hoped t by changing your siory you would allowed to Temain away from Juve- n.1> Hall?” Lorrin Andiews, defense at- | v, nsked. 5 . | Miss Nitto said she had nct been given clothing while she was held in Los Angeles. RED IS ARRESTED ON CAPITAL WARRANT Yabor Department Charges Seattle Man Advocates Overthrow of Government. By the Associated Press | SEATTLE, June 9.—Armed with a warrant from the Labor Department in Washington, D. C.. police arrested Leon Glaser, secretarv of the Friends of the | Soviet Union of Washington and Alaska, | in his home here early today. | Although told by the prosecutor that the Labor Department warrant was suf- | ficient, police heeded an objection of | Glaser's attorney and did not_search the house. Glaser is charged with ad- | vocating overthrow of the Government by force of arms and with distributing | literature advocating its overthrow. ‘ Glaser’s attorney, Mark Litchman, said he would start habeas corpus pro- | ceedings today. | Glaser has been delegate of the Tai- | lors' Union local here to the Central Labor Council for 10 years Rumored Envoy to Vatican. | MADRID, June 9 (P).—It was ru-| mored_yesterday that the government | has offered the post of Ambassador to | to the Vatican to Manuel Burgos, for- | mer Conservative minister and leader | of the Constitutionalists. | B - 4 ‘The South American wild dog. about the size of a fox, has a peculiar habit | of running for hours in a course de- | scribing the figure eight. LINDBERGH PROCESS SERVER KNOCKED DOWN BY MECHANIC {Jubilant Summons Bearer Climbs Onto Plane, Delivering Paper, but Loses Aplomb as Blow Topples Him Off. By the Associated Press. |said that Lindbergh had deposited a NEW YORK, June 9—A process|check with a bureai for clippings on his - se | Atlantic flight to be delivered to his | server had a tender jaw today because | iper” When the amount of the check !he was punched after serving a sum-| e jssued for the clippings was used up, | mons in a clvil suit against Col. Charles | they still continued to arrive. A. Lindbergh, : ‘The colonei and Mrs. Lindberch were Pontoons Cost 10 Miles Per Hour. |in the cockpits of their Lockhced plane | The Lindberghs flew down the East | at North Beach, Queens, ready to take | River to the Status of Liborty and | off on a test flight with their n'wly at- back, then repzat d the trip, a total of | tached pontoons yesterday afternoon. | about 40 miles. Mrs. Lindbergh did no when a process server climbed on the | piloting. craft and handed a paper to the colonel. | “I was pleased with the performance The fiyer grinned, took it and put it |and more pleased with the speed,” said in his pocket. the coloncl. “T expected to lose quite a little speed, but, according to my air Mechanic Swings Fist. speed indicators, I lost SOt 10 saller The proccss server was happy for a|an hour.” moment only. “It's a cinch o serve He maintained an average speed of Lindbergh.” he said, “He's easier than| 180 miles an hour. the littie f llows.” | "The new pontoons were tested for the A mechanic with a big grimy fist first time when the plane alighted on swung and toppled the process server | the water at the airport when the trip with one_blow. | was finished. From friends of the Lindberghs, it| The colonel said he was still unde- was learned that the suit was initiated | cided as to the route he would take for by a clipping bureau. The same source | the flight to the Orient. ! CONVICT ADMITS KILLING ROTHSTEIN Police, However, Say Confes- | sion Is Merely Effort to Get Ride to New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 9.—Police today expressed the opinifon that Matthew | Guidera, 22, 1 jail in Los Angeles for stabbing, had confessed to the murder of Arnold Rothstein to get a free ride to New York. Matthew's brother, Thomas, was of the same opinion. Thomas lives at Old Westbury. Guidera is the sixth man to confess to killing the gambler. At least five have proved false. Guidera made_a written confession that he shot Rothstein on May 5. 1928, because Rothstein failed to p: him a note of $100,000 given him fcr transporting narcotics betwcca New | York and Chicago. Rothstein was shot November 4, 1928, The gun used in the murder, Guidera said, was given him by Evan Chasserini, | a restaurateur of East Fifty-fifth street Chasserinl told reporters he knew Guidera, but ridiculed the statement GANDHI REACHES BARDOLI Indian Nationalist Leader Begins Conference With Committee. BOMBAY, June 9 (#).—Mahatma Gandhi arrived today from Bardoli to confer with the Working Committee of the Indian Nationalist Congress on his forthcoming visit to the Second Round- table Conference in London. He was accompanied by Pandit Jewaharlal Nehru and Abdul Gaffur Khan, known as_the “Frontier Gandhi.” In order to avoid a demonstration he detrained at a suburban station and walked three miles to his resi- dence, going into conference at once with leaders from various parts of the country. Maryland Barn Burns. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MEADOWS, Md. June 9.—Fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed a barn belonging to James A. Richard- son, causing a loss of appr:ximately $500. A crop of hay stored in the barn burned quickly and the structure was consumed before the Marlboro fire company arrived. 50 PERSONS INJURED AS STAND COLLAPSES Thirteen Taken to Hospitals as Seats Give Way at Pageant in Gary, Ind. By the Assoclated Press. GARY, Ind, June 9.—More than 50 persons were injured last night when a grandstand, seating almost 500 spec- tators, at a' pageant in Marquette Park collapsed. The accident temporarily interrupted the final event of Gary's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration. Thirteen persons were taken to hos- pitals, their injuries serious. About 49 others were tfeated at first-ald stations on the grounds. City authorities said the heavy rains of the last few days probably under- mined the foundations of the stand, | which was set up on a sand bank over- looking the pageant. Many of the in- Duke University a few days ago. * A5 jurles were caused, police said, by fren- | !lrtthzflomkol hundreds to get cl!lr|MRS' JAMES }' DAV'S of the wreckage. Members of the 115th Engineers Corps, | HURT |N AUTO CRASH act{nz as ;peclfll polllce.'were unable to | e S restore order for almost an hour, due : N :o m, crush MA“:M‘“O"‘ who mshed‘c""‘p“""’“ of Wife of Senator 0 the scene. Ambulances were slowed | anns: i p down In making the trip to and from| o™ Pennsylvania Also Re- the park, due to the mass of automo- | biles parked on the single road leading to the grounds, ceives Slight Injuries. Bruised in an automobile accident —_——— near Frederick, Md., Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of the Senator from Penn- sylva FRAT DELEGATE NAMED PR — today was confined w0 her i home 2 < s av |Hyattsville Youth to Represent [o¥ M cyx;p:fig:,“,\,&;“;fi?fi.’; Duke at Convention. lJane:. also suffered from -hok. Special Dispateh to The Star. | moved 1o Frederich Gity Hecpitan aficr | HYATTSVILLE, Md, June 9.—Nich- the accident and then rcturned to Wash- | olas Orem, jr., son of County Supt.“'?gm"' They were en route to Gettys- |of Schools and Mrs. Nicholas Orem, | g, Pa. where Senator Davis was speaking. when the mishap oceur: | who recently was elected president of | A chauffeur was at the w .em‘;:dvm the Delta Tau Delta Fratemity at|Duvis car, when it collided wi:h a milk Duke T'niversity, later in the Summer | (TUCk. operated by Rufus Brendenburg, | Wi "or to Seattle, Wash.. to attend | Ao lives near Prederick. the na .onal ccnvention cf his chap- s ter in the capacity of delegate. | American tourists' travel service in | Young Orem arrived home from |foreign countries amounts to over 1$500,000,000 annually. Jro ——1 NTH From the Front Row RCV;C\VS and NCWS O{ \Vashingtcnk Thcalers. 'hispering Friend: Not Up to National S'anzard. the stanchest of George M. Cohan’s admirers will prcbably admit that “Whispering Friencs" is not the best of Lis maneuvers as “one of the band leaders of the American stage.” An old- fashioned com- edy, built on a series of marital mix-ups, it was rewarmed and served last night by the National Players, enjoyed by some and not so much by ers, and still had as its chisf virtue the fact that it went off to its own par- Roberta Beatty, ticular bed at the early hour of 10:25. ‘The humor of this play, which & great part of the audience seemed to find excessively amusing, is of the type where one of the characters says, “Don’t roast him—he’s half- baked already,” and the principals run up and down stairs and tell their wives and flancees and such like | t> “shut up.” Being but four main thespians in this, by the time they have misunderstood each other for the nth time and have yelled “shut up” for the nteenth, one could will- ingly tie the whole business up in a satchel and hurl it precipitously in the Potomac. The audience, however. to our left summed up the play as “cute.” and the member in the front row, who occupled two chairs instead of cne, seemed to be laughing unrestrainad- ly. Two ladies farther bak an nounced that “it’s an excellent § for amateurs.” So the verdict may stand as one wishes. What happens throughout these two acts and seven scenes is that a husband and wife and a fiance and flancee decide to find out if the one is quite what the other thinks. The upshot of it all b2ing, of ceurse, that he, or she, is. But since it takes a rough two hours to decide it, there are yards of entanglements and de- nouements to wade through and an A Garage for Your Car At a Price You C Garage Material Complete! an Afford to Pay Z 1/% ‘ROCK-BOTTOM PRICES 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-I5™& H Sts. N.E DOWNTOWN-6™ & C Sts. S.W. BRIGHTWOOD-5925Ga Ave.NW. “98 i1s a HIGH AVERAGE!" GRADUATION NITE but it's nothing to the heigl’ns that the Ther- mometer reaches in this neck o' th" woods. 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National Com- mitteeman Michael L. Igoe, who pre- sented Senator Lewis' name at the committee meeting, said he was “quali- fled not only as a statesman, but as a soldier and lawyer.” BUTLER- FLYN endless assortment cf tears and for- givenessos. The tea:s, as a matter of fact, are provided quite perfectly by Daphne Warren-Wilson: the wife is almost credible in the hands of Roberta Beatty, and John Warburton is quite adequate when he remembers his lines. Raymond Bramley has, how- ever, seemed better when not so live- ly. although he provided the cheer- iest note of the evening by talking about a “busybozzy.” E. DE S. MELCHER. SEEK GAS IN CANADA MONTREAL, Quebec, June 9 (A).— Active drilling operations in the natu- ral gas fields along_the south shore of the St. Lawrence River have started, with one company already at work and two others known to be contemplating the erection of machinery before the end of the Summer. 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