Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1931, Page 12

A—12 *» THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER' 29, 1931.. EGSCHAFERCD Resolved! A New Pierce-Eastwood Heating Plant! 4100 Georgia Ave AD.0145 " READ TWICE The Pan-American- New England Dispatch | (Monthly)—Out Shortly I you are interested in Continental, Educational, Political and Financial Life and Entanglements Social, i S0 per x 1692 Yale Other_ sub- 74 In- advance (students only) Address money order bo: Haven. Conn write Boston Bureau, New Year’s Party Favors P.;[e:r:“s) 50(: Noise- | Dozen ($3.50 per 100) makers and up Balloons, 25¢ & 50c Per Dozen Dennison Paper Goods Napkins, Tablecloths Cups, Etc. A Complete Stock to Choose From Open New Year Eve Garrison’s ol Novelty Co. 1215 ESt. N.W. America Round Trip Excursions NEW YORK ........ CUMBERLAND BUFFALO CHICAGO ST. LOUIS WINSTON SALEM JACKSONVILLE Regular Schedule Round Trip BALTIMORE ... $1.25 LOW ONE WAY FARES RICHMOND RO 1) FREDERICKSBURG .... 1.75 HAGERSTOWN . . 3100 Union Bus Depot 1336 N. Y. Ave. N.W. MEtropolitan 1512 Blue Ridge Term. At'o: “BLUE/] JliGE AT SCHOOLTIME . .. AT BEDTIME ~ ) BREATHE % AWAY. VAPEX RBes. U. . Pat. O The delightful inhalant discovered in England during the war ITCRY ECZENA ON BABY'S FACE In Red Rash, Could Not Sleep. Cuticura Healed. *Eczema broke out in a red rash on my baby’s face. It itched and burned so badly that she scratched it and could not sleep. In the day- time she was 0 cross that I had to hold her in my arms, and I did not know what it was to get any sleep sement for Cu- ment and sent for a free sample of each. She got e hem sol purchased s than two weeks * (Signed) Mrs. H. , Mo., Feb. a Soap, Ointment and 1 0836 | BEN HECHT FIRES - MOVIE BROADSIDE Pans Films in Acrid Rhymes. Goldwyn Says He Dis- charged Him. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 20.—Armed wit of caustic adjectives, Ben Hecht, novel- | ist-playwright, went atilting yesterday | against the movies. He was met on a forensic field of | battle by Samuel Goldwyn, movie mag- | nate, who defended himself and Holly- wood with a broadsword of statements and figures. Hecht led off with a few fambic tet- | rameters. One went like this | “Grind out your sterile panorams, | O, camera god of smirk and pose, ! Buy up the friars and the lambs | AN your Janes in underclothes, And all your bankers' high flim-flams, Can't change the cabbage to a rose. | One look at you and Thespis scrams Into the night to thumb his nose.” | Then Hecht hurled a little prose in | which he said he had quit Hollywood, | after signing a $50,000-a-year contract, | because of the hypocrisy he found there | | Through With Movies. | He mentioned Mr. Goldwyn by name. He called the producers “those nervous, y guys” And he made it clear he was through with the movies. | When Goldwyn saw the printed at- k he paced back and forth in his se- apartment. Newspaper editors California _interrupted his perambu- 1g to ask by long-distance telephone if he intended to ignore the jibes. He did not, but “give me a little more | time,” he told them, and continued his | pacing. | Then he hurled & 600-word statement {at his critic. Hecht had not resigned, it stated; he had been fired. “I found Mr. Hecht had not only my contract, but several others,” Gold- wyn said. “Simultaneously he was working on three pictures. I asked him about these contracts. His answer was brief. Says He Fired Hecht. ““You wouldn't stop me from making a little easy money, would you?'” he demanded “I would. I did. I fired him. * ¢ “He can well afford to be ‘through’ with motion pictures. I think motion pictures are pretty well through with him, for the perfect reason that they've | found him out. * * “With the fine writers working con- scientiously and honest—I mean men |like Sidney Howard—a certain num- ber of drifters and racketeers had to be taken in. They are caught and numbered. The motion picture indus- try has them labeled and fingerprinted. t the same time,/the search for honest writing talent continues. Writ- ing for the screen is a very special talent that has to be backed by a cer- tain kind of technical training as well. Patient With Writers. “We are patient with these men and women to whom we are looking for the new literature of the screen. We carry them for months waiting for the de- velopment of their talent—for the one single idea that may justify thelr exist- ence to us for & year or more. Fatience, encouragement and money are tpent on them. In return an honest effort is asked, I mean ordinary decency, & plain honesty. “Certainly any one who can't give it |is through™ with the screen and the | screen is through with him.” r. Goldwyn glanced at some of hi's other jibes. That Sam Goldwyn, he's worse than 102 wives * * * he pounded his desk and nouted ‘don’t call it a movie—it's & Well, who could stand such pocrisy?’ ” Then another bit of verse that started | off like this: Flicker forth you squawking [ “You pasteboard heart and candied voes, | | “You little gibbering diagrams “Of silly plot and infant prose.” “All T can say about that is that it's cretty rotton poetry,” Goldwyn remarked with a grin. BEAVERS SLAYING ARRESTS FORECAST | - | Two More Are Expected by Com- monwealth's Attorney in Sterling Murder. | Spectal Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG, Va., December 20.—Two more arrests are expected to bs mide today, according to Commonwealth's Attorney John Galleher, in connection with the finding of the dead body of Alfred Beavers, 49, with a gunshot wound in the back of his head in an abandoned well on the Swedberg place nesr Sterling last Friday evening. Beavers, & dairy hand, left home rsday morning at 4:30 o'clock to go to work, 2 miles away, and never re- ported at the place where he was em- | ployed. A pool of blood and a part of his skull was found 200 yards from the well, which is half way between his sme and his employers. Aubrey Fox, , a farm hand, was arrested Sunday and questioned yesterday. The ques- tioning threw no light on the murder. Beavers' wife was brought from | Gainesville, Va., where she was staying wi’ friends, and questioned for four | hours last evening. Nothing definite learned from her. It is said that ox and Mrs. Beavers left six weeks ago . Beavers’ brothers and later ed home, but Mrs. Beavers ed other places and did not return e until her husband's dead body been found She returned to nesville after the funeral Sunday. » names of thcse expected to be today were not disclosed. sharp spears of poetry and lances | N Baden-Powell Asks Scouts to Destroy All Chain Letters By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 29.—Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts. sppealed yester- dsy to Scouts throughout the world to destroy any “Chain Let- ter” that comes into their hands instead of passing it on. Describing the “Chain Letter” practice as senseless and danger- ous, He said: “Letters 1 have recelved have threatened me with all sorts of disasters if I disobeyed their in- structions. 1 have destroyed scores of them in my life, but the dis- asters have never come.” BLIND ENTERTAINED AT HOLIDAY PARTY Braille students of the District and members of representative blind insti- tutions were guests at a Christmas party in the Hamilton Hotel last night, given under the joint auspices of the District Association of Workers for the Blind and the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind. Miss Dorothea Jennings, president of | the association, and H. R. W. Miles, president of the institute, delivered speeches of welcome to the guests. Col George P. Ahearn, U. 8. A. retired, was guest speaker. Entertainment was furnished by Miss Jennings, who sang Adams’ “Cantique de Noel”; Vernon Creamer, who pre- sented a saxophone solo, and Mr. Miles, who performed a burlesque number. Blind committees of local organiza- tions represented at the gathering in- cluded those of the Junior League. Jewish Council, Jewish Sisterhood, Red Cross Transcribing Service, Catholic Alumnae Transcribing Service and the American Legion. Gifts and refresh- ments were distributed at the party. rom, Tuxedo uits $24.50 HYATTSVILLE HITS MAPES INCOME TAX Chamber of Commerce to| Fight D. C. Bill Pending Now in Senate. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 29.— Energetic opposition to that portion of | the Mapes bill, now pending before the | United States Senate, under the terms |of which Marylanders working in the | District of Columbia would be required |to pay an income tax to the District government was voiced by the Chamber | of Commerce of Hyattsville at its De- | cember meeting, held last night in the county Police Court room, in the Met- | ropolitan District Building here, the new meeting place of the organization. | "“The matter was referred to the Legis- | latlve Committee of the chamber, of | which S. Marvin Peach is chairman, for | such action as is necessary to combat | most effectively the proposed legislation. | At the last meeting of the Cheverly | | Citizens' Association the corresponding | | secretary of that organization was di- | |rected to get in touch with Senators | | Goldsborough and Tydings of Maryland and Representative Stephen W. Gam- |brill "of the fifth Maryland district, | | urging them to use their influence to | | block passage in the Senate of the bill, | which already has passed the House. | [ Name Change Discussed. | | ‘There was a lively discussion on the proposition to change the name of the chamber leaving out Hyattsville on the ground that some other name would be | appropriate in view of the fact that the | influence of the organization extends | | throughout the upper section of Prince | Georges County. A special committee, appointed by President William T. Jen- |nings at the November meeting and headed by Morton T. May, recommend- ed a change that would be more indica- "YORK_AVENUE. o pecial New Year Full tive of the territory served by the cham- ber, but said that it had been unable to decide on a new name for retom- mendation. The upshot was decision to refer the matter to the Executive Com- mittes for further study and report at the next meeting, January 25. Sentiment appeared about evenly di- vided in favor of a change as against retention of the present name. Some thought the growth of the chamber was being hampered by the fact that the impression in some quarters is that the organization, in view of its name, was local to Hyattsville. On the other hand, others believed that the Chamber of Commerce of Hyattsville had in its seven years' existence become known throughout the State and had attained prestige, much of which might be lost through a change in the name. Among some new names suggested were Cham- ber of Commerce of Upper Prince Georges County, Prince Georges County Suburban Chamber of Commerce and Intercity Chamber of Commerce of Up- per Prince Georges County. Reports on Relief Funds. Dr. C. P. Close, chairman of the Prince Georges County Red Cross Chap- ter, reported that he had been granted a hearing by Thomas E. Campbell chairman of the Departmental Relief Committee, with regard to having all contributions made by Prince Georges County residents to the departmental fund and not designated to any special organization, automatically sent to the County Red Cross Chapter. All officers of the chamber were nominated for another year. They are, besides President Jennings: Daniel Cox Fahey, jr., Riverdale, vice president; C. D. Anderson, Hyattsville, secretary; William Bowie, University Park, treas- urer; A. H. Seidenspinner, Riverdale, execttive committeeman; Mr. May, na- tional councilor, and B. W. Anpson, associate national councillor. Officers will be elected at the January meeting. It was voted to send letters of thanks to the Prince Georges County com- missioners and Judge J. Chew Sheriff of the County F(lht‘t Court, manklng_ them for granting the chamber use of the Police Court room. == Boy Deer Hunter Killed. DURANT, Okla., December 29 (P).— A deer hunt proved fatal to J. B. Cross, a l4-year-old Durant boy, near here vesterday. He was shot by the acci- dental ‘harge of his own gun. TEENTH FINAL [)AYS of P-B’s Closing-Out Sale Prior to Reorganization B’S NAME IS YOUR SURETY OF SATISFACTION ® MORE THAN 41 YEARS IN WASHINGTON * Sale Dress Suits $39.50 are all you need forall toilet uses. Soap to cleance, Ointme=t to soothe, Talcum to powder. 'MAN DIES AS GUN In our opinion this is the lowest price in the city for The lowest price in Washing- ton, we believe, for full dress suits of fine unfinished wor- | TRAIN WORKER DIES IN CROSSING CRASH Baltimore Man Is Killed by Express on Which He Was Employed. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. GLENN DALE, Md., December 29.— Coke W. Smith, 41-year-old baggage master of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was killed by the train on which he usually worked at the grade crossing here last night. Riding alone in a heavy sedan, Smith was hit and instantly killed by a Har- risburg to Washington express at 11 oclock. The impact demolished the automobile, threw it about 100 yards from the crossing and disabled the train. Smith’s body was badly mangled The crash awakened the residents of | Glenn Dale. Several members of the local Fire Department who were in their fire house near the crossing were startled by the sound of the collision. They were among the first to reach the scene. The watchman leaves the Glenn Dale grade crossing at 10:30 o'clock, and no one saw the collision. A coroner’s jury was impaneled by Justice of Peace John | A. Downing and a verdict of “unavold- | able accident” was returned at an in- quest held immediately in the fire house. According to Constable William Kreitzer, who investigated the accident. the train was in charge of Engineer GUARDIAN GAS HEATERS Simplest and most 1 burner of its kind. Deieck Comes Apart for Cleaning Priced from $3 to $65 Remember your heating trou- bles last Winter—let us correct them. Full Line of Coal Ranges and Heating Stoves W.S. 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