Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1932, Page 11

SOUTHERN YOUTH ORATORY CHAMPION South Carolina Boy Winner of Future Farmers’ Contest. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, November 15.—Wil- From t Ham Bagot Searson, jr. of Meggetts, 8. C. last night reafirmed the tradi- tional oratorical brilliance of the old | South by winning first in the national | finals of a public-speaking contest here ! sponsored by the Future Farmers' of America | 16-year-old son of & truck poke on the subject “Give | ‘Them a Chance.” He won a prize of | $400. Second place and a $300 prize went to Armond Stalnaker of Weston, W. Va William K. Snyder of Lovell, Wyo., was third and won $200, and David Pettus | of Stanford, Ky., took the fourth prize of $100. The competitors won their way to the contest in elimination contests of the Future Farmers’ organization, which 1s one composéd of vocational agricul- ture students The contest was held here in connec- tion with the American Royal Live Stock and Horse Show. Champion Saddle Herse. Crimson Rambler, a 4-year-old chest- nut mare owned by P. E. Bennett of Dayton, Ohio, won the feature $500 Board of Governors' stake for five- gaited saddle horses. Senator Crawford, s bay gelding, owned by the Three Bar Stables of Omaha, Nebr., won the roadster contest. Purdue University swept the big prizes in the sheep department. With Southdowns, the Lafayette, Ind., School won the grand champion lamb and the champion pure-bred wether lamb titles. The same School also won rib- bons for the champion grade or cross- bred wether lamb and for the grand champion pen of three-wether lambs. “Show Boat” As Good as Ever. & HOW BOAT,” which will go down in theater annals as Ziegfeld’s most distin- guished contribution to the stage, is notable on its re- turn trip to the National for the re- taining of some of the original mem- bers of the cast, for Jules Bledsoe's immortal “OI' Man River,” for Helen Morgan’s “Bill,” and for some- thing which was never written in the original book, but which becomes sud- denly a rare and exciting feature, worth its five minutes’ operating time in_gold. We refer to Norma Terris’ im p ersonation of the galvanic Garbo. This million - d o llar Helen Morsan, imitation, which follows an aver- agely well done Ethel Barrymore run-around and & much-better- than-that Lenore Ulric, is some- thing which M-G-M movie monarchs should see. If they fear that their Green-eyed Greta is far beyond their reach, planning to remain safe on the icy reefs of her native land, all they need to do is to take a trip to “Show Boat" to see some one whose guttural hiccoughs, whose down-at- the heels mouth, whose hunched-up shoulders and long, loose fingers are all that their favorite daughter ever was. Although Miss Terris' imita- tion is a brutal duplicat® of “Grand Hotel's" queenm, although her throne is torn and ripped and generally squeezed to death, we are ced to admit that this is cne of the su- preme impersonations of all time, and that if Miss Garbo were to walk out on the stage she would have to shake hands with her double and admit that she has caught something even of the soul of her cinema sister. THE EVENING SIAR, he Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. quently had “The Pure in Heart” snached away from fit, is contemplat- ing the selection of its second play. The following plays have been passed upon, and Mrs. Sidney Thomas, the local executive of this organization, says that in a week or so she will know which one Washington is to see. The list stands: “There’s Al- ways Juliet,” which at the moment is doing well in Chicago; “Criminal at Large,” now popular on Broad- way; “When Ladies Meet,” which we doubt will come this way because of its being one of the season's smash hits; “Mademoiselle,” an- other popular Manhattan entertain- ment; “Success Story”; “Biography,” yet to see the light, but featuring Ina Claire; and “Chrysalis,” which we saw In embryo last Summer at Westport and which may be very good—or not at all, depending upon last-minute corrections. “Most Dangerous Game” Opening Tomorrow at Keith's. A WIRE from Manager Hardie Meakin, who, incidentally, has won considerable fame for his show- manship anent the “Little Orphan Annie” film (his theater being well emblazened over the pages of a film sheet), announces that the Joel McCrea picture, “Most Dangerous Game,” opens tomorrow at Keith's. Further than that, it seems that the Richard Dix-Ann Harding film, “Conquerors,” will be seen at this theater in the near future. FIREMAN HELD FOR ARSON Longview Tex., Man Faces Charge of Dynamiting Oil Well! LONGVIEW, Tex.,, November 15 () —H. L. Patton, 40, member of & Long- view ofl fire-fighting concern, was ar- rested here yesterday on a charge of arson and attempted arcon in the re- cent dynamiting of two wells in the East Texas oil field. Col. L. 8. Davidson, martial lJaw com- mander in the fleld, said Patton was in- | volved with two brothers, Troy T. Wall, | | Bahama Approves Ottawa Parley. W ADI LN U LN, ROBINS DROWNING STORY IS DOUBTED Police Get Second-Hand In- formation on Supposed Slaying by Gangsters. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 15.—Police and Federal agents are a bit skeptical of the story they got second handed that Col. Raymond Robins, prohibition leader and friend of President Hoover, has been killed by New Jersey gangsters. Carlisle O. Byrd, oil and mining pro- { moter, passed the story on to Boston | police' as coming from Ralph J. Code of the Dorchester district, who is being held in bond for $10,000 after plead- | ing not guilty to larceny charges. | According to Byrd, Code told him that Col. Robins, who disappeared early iast September, was thrown into the sea 40 miles off Montauk Point, Long | Island, after rum runners had ‘kid- naped him and taken him to an un- named New Jersey beer baron. Code, who was arraigned on charges of swlndlln%twu New York men, al- legedly told Byrd the story to substanti- ate his alleged knowledge of ship move- ments and of the underworld as an| “ex-Secret Service man.” Officials of the Secret Service at Washington said, however, that Code had never been an agent of the service as far as they knew Police and Federal men here placed little credence in the story of Robin's death and Code denied ever having spun the yarn. The case of the Dorchester man was continued until Nowember 28 on his ar- raignment yesterday. He was specifi- cally charged with the larceny of $325 from Byrd and $600 from Edmund H. Noyes, & guest at the Prince George Hotel, New York. He allegedly ob- tained the money through a scheme to raise a treasure-laden ship from the ocean bottom, police said. NASSAU, Bahamas, November 15 (#). | D. Uy Au COL.ROOSEVELT TO PROBE MORO OUTLAW SITUATION Governor General and Sultan of Sulu to Visit Jolo in Move for Peace. By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, November 15.—Gov. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt will leave Manila tonight for Jolo, in the South- ern Philippine Islands, to investigate the Moro outlaw situation, which is ap- parently still out of e=====I 6f the con- stabulary after a month of fighting in which 60 persons have been killed. The Sultan of Sulu said today he will join in attempting to effect a settle- ment. He plans to leave November 24 for Jolo. The Sultan has been held here by the 100-day session of the In- sular Senate of which he is a member. In the last two days Moro outlaws have slain a constabulary truck driver and & Slul farmer who they say was & spy. dUawounl, PITTSBURGH COMPANY EARNINGS REVEALED| Light and Heat Return 6.5 to 9.86 Per Cent Between 1920 and 1930, Trade Commission Told. By the Associated Press. Testimony that the Manufacturers’ Light & Heat Co. of Pittsburgh earned & return on its invested capital ranging from 6.5 to 9.86 per cent between 1920 and 1930 was given the Federal Trade Commission yesterday by Robert J. Ryder, an examiner. Appearing In the commission’s in- | vestigation of public utility companies, | shots with the men, Ryder said the return was on invested capital, as shown by the company's books, before reduction of Federal in- come tax. The highest return wes i 1920 and the lowest in 1921, For 1930 it earned 6.23 per cent, Ryder said. Net income before Federal tax reduc- tions, the examiner said, ranged from $2,006,623 in 1921 to $3,432,547 in 1926, The 1930 income was given at $2,231,938. Ryder said the company was organ- ized on April 21, 1903, through a con- solidation of seven existing concerns. | Records of the company as of June 30, vismbiuR 15, 1932, CHASED 10 MILES IN RUNNING FIGHT |Two Sought in Car Theft and Kidnaping of Five Seized by Officers. | By the Assoctated Press. | CHARLESTON, Ark., November 15.— | Bpreading gunfire over a 10-mile course as officers pursued them for the theft |of an automobile and kidnaping of a | farmer and his four children, two men were wounded and captured near here yesterday, The prisoners gave their names as Leo Scarborough and Prank Townsley. Scarborough, shot three times, is in a critical condition. Townsley was wounded slightly in the back. Police said Scarborough had served a one- | year term in the Arkansas Penitentiary for robbery. The theft of a car at Parls, Ark, J started the chase. With officers in pur- sult, the men stopped at the farm home of A. J. Gibson, ransacked the house and, brandishing a rifle and a pistol, forced Gibson and his four children into the Gibson automobile. Mrs. Gibson was not taken, but was warned against | notifying officers. | _The Gibsons later were put oyt on the highway, and the men continued their flight in the Gibson car. | Paris officers already were in close gursult, and Mrs. Gibson telephoned to ranch, where a deputy sought to stop | the fleeing car, but was hurled from the running board. He exchanged several Other officers joined the chase here. | | Bullets flew as the car speeded | T = through Charleston, with officers close | on the th southeast here, behind them and others joining me!zmmxmmmfim o TOCith ceciph viftaally imposiibie, | the e i o mnn,m ?mmm already wounded, left the car | was - With ‘Townsley, captured. 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Announcement was made yesterday that Ohio State University's live stock judging team won first honors, with 4,364 points, four points ahead of the second-place Oklahoma A. & M. Col- lege team. Iowa State College, which had the winning team in Saturday’s intercollegiate grain-judging contest, placed third in live-stock judging. Individual Mve-stéck judging honors went to Robert L. Morrison, Colorado Agricultural College student. [T FIVE CHILDREN SHARE IN HARRIMAN ESTATE ‘Will of 800 Words -Disposes Equal- iy of Huge Legacy From Rail _Findncier's Widow. "By the Assoiiated Press. GOSHEN, N. ¥, November 15.—The ‘W. Harrim: fortune of Mrs. 3 an, who died in City last Monday, will be' ‘divi : @mong her five chil- dren, af to the terms of the will which was admitted to probate here yesterday. ‘The will was of 00 words. The will of her late husband, Edward H. Harrl- man, railroad financier, bequeathi) his wife his $100,000,000 estate was 69 _words. Mrs. Harriman's will was dated Au- gust 19, 1926. The estate is divided equally among ber children, Mary Harriman Ri of Port Washington, Cornelia Harriman Gerry of Newport, R. I; Carol Harriman Stewart of Unionville, Pa., and William Averell Harriman and E. Roland Harriman of New York Gity, the latter two sons be- ing named executors. No appraisal of the estate was available. "No falling hair* “Dandruff gone"™* :'_GT ew my h airnm ACH day 1600 other persons are preventing baldness and re- growing hair by the reliable Thomas method. Why should you deprive yourself of the satisfaction of having a good head of hair? Thomas can end your dandruff,stop your hair-fall and re-grow hair for you, too. These let- ters tell you how Thomas is accom- plishing these results for other per- sons whose problems were similar to yours. Hundreds of letters like these are on file. Thomas treatment has been suc- cessful for these men and for a | 1903, "he sald, showed assets of $34,708,232, including $16,145,000 of fixed capital. 25, and Lawson P. Wall, 27, of Winns- 1 Both houses of the Bahama Legislature boro, Tex. in the promotion of the |approved the Ottawa Economic Confer- blasts as a stimulant to business. ence agreements unanimously vesterday. \ than ITS the regular gasoline that rates 12% better thaa U.S. Government motor gasoline specifications, PLUS very high anti-knock rating. Otherwise, “Show Boat” is as it always has been—one of the real melodic achievements, bright in theme and well enough in presenta- tion—although the Ziegfeldian beau- ties are rather scarce this year, and you will notice the Mother Superior of the convent sitting subsequently at a Trocadero night club_table robed and coiffed a la Ruth Etting. The sixth viewing, however, of this Edna Perber, - Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II classic brings to mind the following reflec- tions: That Helen Morgan is far more poised and much less full of mannerisms than she was originally and that her song “Bill” is now probably the high spot of the show; that Jules Bledsoe makes “O' Man River” more exciting than Paul Robesan ever has done; that Norma Terris’ waltz in the second act is one of the most graceful of dances; that Eva Puck and Sammy White haven't changed one iota from being as good as they always were; that Paul Keast's voice is up to the standard set by some of his cessors; that Mildred Schwenke (the Mother Superior) is probably one of the most beautiful girls on record, and that George Blackwood looks more than a little like Gary Cooper. o On the other side of the line we have to admit that William Kent is not comparable to Charles Win- ninger and that Bertha Belmore’s bustle is not as funny as was Edna May Oliver's. 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