Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1933, Page 24

OHID PROGRESSING IN DRIVE FOR JOBS Shorter Hours for Highway Workers and Forestry Camps Help. By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, April 14—Ohio’s fight #gainst unemployment moved forward on three separate fronts yesterday. Developments in the drive for jobs were: Establishment of the 30-hour, five-| © day week in the maintenance and re- ir division of the State Highway De- rtment. Formulation of plans by the State lief Commission for the enlisting of ation army. Creation of a school for unemployed by Ohio State University to help those out of work to be better able to handle Jobs when they present themselves. forestation army will be exclusive of the 1,500 already en route to Fort Knox, Ky., from Cleveland and Cincinnati. Business Brightened . PONTIAC, I, April 14 (#).—Busi- ness has brightened in this city with the reopening of the National Bank under a conservator, the revival of coal mining locally, with a staff of 50 miners at work, and the beginning of produc- tion by the Fashion-Bilt Shoe Co., which absorbed all the city’s unem- ployed. Buys 9,000 Tons of Rails. NEW YORK, April 14 (#).—Purchase of 9,000 tens of rails was authorized by the New York Central Railroad. Rail Shops to Reopen. ¢ _BUFFALO, N. Y, April 14 (#).—The : East Buffalo shops of the New York ! Central Railroad will reopen Monday giving work to 300 men. The division superintendent said carloadings in this ll’ukshld trended upward for several weeks. Big Mill to Resume Work. PORT ANGELES, Wash.,, April 14 ().—The Olympic Forest Products Co., operating & hemlock sawmill and sul- phite mill at Ennis Creek, two miles east of here, has recalled 275 employes for reopening of their plants tomorrow. Spared Added Pay Cut. NEW YORK, Aprili 14 (A).—Em- of the American Smelting & Co., be spared a third pay cut which was to have become effective on May 1 as a result of the recent marked improvement in metals . markets. The company had planned to reduce salaries and wages an additional { & per cent. *SCHOOLBOY KILLED BENEATH BUS WHEELS Eight-Year-01d Churchville Child Falls Beneath Vehicle and Skull Is Crushed. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va, April 14—Ralph ¢ Tharp, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. ‘Edward Tharp of Churchville, was in- stantly killed in the school yard yester- day afternoon when, in attempting to board the school bus, he slipped and fell under the rear wheel. The truck, driven by Donald Kesner, 19, was owned by W. H. Ralston. The driver was ignorant of tragedy until he heard the children scream. er Catlett pronounced death due to fracture at the base of the brain. e MASKED MEN ROB BANK { Cashier, Teller and Bookkeeper Locked in Vault by Gunmen. MULESHOE, Tex., April 14 (#).—Two * masked gunmen robbed the Muleshoe State Bank yesterday and escaped with P — about $1,600. The cashier, J. M. Osborn; Miss Opal Morris, teller, and Mrs. Inez Bobo, bookkeeper, were locked in the vault after overhearing a discussion by the yobbers of the advisability of taking them along for use as shields in the event of a gunfight. Seventh Street 2,000 men in the President’s reforest- | Washington's Playe HLE PETIT THEATER,” a group of amateur French players, made its debut Wednesday evening on the stage of the Arts Club in two short plays, “Un Arriviste,” by Miguel Zamacois, and “La Dame de Bronze et le Monsieur de Cristal,” by Henri Duvernois. These clever and amusing satires were excellently acted and produced with a smooth- ness of stagecraft that had no trace of the amateur. The settings, while not elaborate, were adequate and realistic in the details that were necessary to completely depict the scene. The cleverness of an opportunist in seizing the right moment to refill his empty rse and eventually achieve happiness with a rich wife was the subject matter of “Un Ar- riviste.” The lines are bright, ex- posing with a skillfully placed word the color of many a doctor’s clien- tele and the convincing pompous- ness by which their ailments can be further fastened on to them. Leon The additional recruits for the re-| | Dostert was excellent as the young doctor who won over the specialist’s patients to his own profit. “Le Monsieur de Cristal” is the last desperate form taken by a Mr. Sourcier in his efforts to_escape a nagging wife. Through the insist- ence that he is made of crystal, he is admitted to an insane asylum and there pursues his love of painting in peace and quiet, only interrupted by a short daily visit from his wife. Secure in his refuge, he is horrified to discover that, unable to endure the loneliness of having no one to scold, his wife has declared herself the Statue of Liberty (La Dame de Bronze) and thoroughly convinces the doctor of her qualifications for confinement in the asylum. An excellent cast acted with nat- uralness and ease and spoke their lines with quick smoothness that carried effect without straining. Leon Dostert as the young doctor and Dr. Beneteau as Mr. Sourcier, “Le Monsieur de Cristal,” were ex- cellent in the difficult’characteriza- tions given them. Mme. Barbecot, as Mme. Sourcier, did some clever acting in her desire to imitate the Statue of Liberty, while Mme. Felian Garzia was & charming patient in the asylum who imagined herself a princess and in “Un Arriviste,” the first patient of the young doctor to succumb to_his wiles. A.E. IN keeping with the spirit of the Lenten season the Calvary Dra- matic Club of the Calvary Methodist Church recently presented the bibli- cal drama, “The Rock.” The play, dealing with the calling of Simon, the Galilean fisherman, by the Master and of the worldly tempts- tions of his family life, provided interesting insights home life and customs of the day. The drama was well acted and color- fully executed, with brilliant cos- tumes and settings, giving a decided religious value in this season of the chureh calendar. Paul Sapp, as Simon, the fisher- man, played his role with judgment and understanding. Adine, his Wite, as portrayed by Mary Lesta Wake- man, was surprisingly realistic as his trustfully and adoring helpmate. Deborah ‘and Ucal, as brother and sister, enacted by Mrs. A. M. Daniels and Bruce Anderson, were represen- tatives of the merchant class under the Romans, Prutia Pierce, Thomas Hynson, Richard Pilkinton and Albert Sappington completed a cast of merit. 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Coleman, | for which her young husband i, serv- ing a life sentence on a chain gang. James Starks, burglar and convict camp inmate, told officers he crushed Mrs. Coleman’s head with a poker on the night of March 14, 1929, and that Robert Coleman, the husband, is not guilty of the crime. Legal steps to have Coleman’s sen-| tence lifted will be taken immediately, officers said. A condemned colored man, Rader Davis, who is to die this month for another murder, tipped officers that Starks knew about the Coleman slay- ing. Starks was brought here from a conviet camp and officers said he con- fessed he beat Mrs. Coleman to death while her 9-month-old baby lay crying in_its crib. He gave no motive, but said Mrs. Coleman hurled a chair at him when he went to her home here, and, finding her alone, “talked to her.” Coleman—according to his testimony at his trial—camé home and finding his bed room in shambles and his wife dead, telephoned the police. He stead- fastly maintained he was innocent, but authorities, seeking to break his story, led him to an undertaking par- lor where he viewed his wife’s body and he broke down, but still denied any guilt. A maze of circumstances convicted him, and he was sentenced to life im- prisonment on a chain gang. He was 22 then and his wife was 19 when she was_Kkilled. “I'll be powerfully ‘l.nd to get out of this place,” said Coleman when told of the confession. “You know I haven’t seen my baby since my wife’s funeral.” COL. L. A. THOMPSON DIES Was Governor of Veterans’ Home in Hampton, Va. HAMPTON, Vs, April 14 (#).—Col. L. A. Thompsen, Goh,’sovemor of the Veterans' Administration Home here, dropped dead at his home early today. Col. Thompson was commissioned leutenant st the outbreak of the Span- ish-American War and sént to the Phil- &plmu. He suffered wounds in action , which caused the loss of his leg. He came to Hampton in 1903 as as- sistant of the Soldiers’ Home here, and about a year later was made chief surgeon. In 1920 he became gov- FOUR GIRLS ARE INJURED WHEN AUTO OVERTURNS Machine Crashes Into Wooden Light Pole on Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 14—When an automobile in which they were pas- sengers crashed into a wooden electric light pole and then overturned on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway near Mount Vernon yesterday afternoon, three nurses from the Blue Ridge Sanitarium at Charlottesville, Va., and a Washington girl, whom they were visiting, were injured. ‘The injured nurses were Miss Alma Shorter, 36; Miss Carrie Arehart, 35, and Miss Sarah Woodhouse. Miss Shorter was admitted to the Alexandria Hos- Arehart and Miss Woodhouse were treated for lacerations, bruises and shock. Miss Mildred Thornton, 20, of the 100 block of C street southeast, Washington, whom the nurses were visiting, was also treated at the hospital for cuts and bruises and shock. Police said_the machine was driven by Francis J. Mass street address, Wash! P CONVICTED SLAYER DIES AFTER HUNGER STRIKE Paul Wexler, 20, Who Refused Food to Protest Hanging, Changed Attitude Too Late. By the Associated Press. HATTIESBURG, Miss., April 14— Paul Wexler, 20-year-old condemned prisoner, died last night after a hunger strike. Thus ended his long fight to escape hanging for the slaying of J. L. Odum in a filling station hold-up. Last November Wexler refused food and was kept alive by artificial feeding. Recently he consented to eat, but Dr. Leo H. Martin, county physician, said the self-imposed starvation broke down the youth’s constitution and he died of general weakness. Wexler was convicted December 9, 1931, and sentenced to hang. The case was fought through several courts. 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