Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1935, Page 22

‘=B2'« PARKS IN COUNTY PROVEN POPULAR Survey Reveals Heavy Pa- tronage of Newly Opened Montgomery Areas. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., September 28.—The recreational faeilities of Montgomery County’s 3-year-old parks and four playground areas, two of which were opened to the public only last Spring, are being extensively patronized, according to records com- piled by the Maryland-National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission, under whose supervision these areas were laid out and are being operated. Jesup Blair Community House and | Park, a spacious remodeled dwelling | and 17-acre tract on the east side of Georgia avenue at the District line, attracted the largest number of rec- | reation seekers—an estimated total of 39,000—during the past 12 months. 17 Miles of Paths Used. Additional thousands made use of | the various playgrounds, picnic groves, tennis courts and log cabins provided in Sligo Creek Parkway, the Maryland section of Rock Creek Park and the playground areas of Takoma Park. | Kensington, Garrett Rark and Cabin | John, while equestrians- utilized the 17 miles of new bridle paths in the Maryland portion of Rock Creek Park | and attended the horse shows at the county’s show grounds. on the north | side of the East-West Highway, oppo- | site the Meadowbrook Club. | Approximately 10 horse shows are held there yearly, with an average attendance of 1500 persons, accord- ing to the commission’s survey. Pro- ceeds frora these shows go to charity or some other worthy cause. | 8 Tennis Courts Crowded. The 13 hard-surfaced temnis courts and the number of players using them each week, at a cost of 5 cents an hour, are as follows: Editor’s note: This is the twelfth of a series of articles by E. de S. Melcher, dramatic ,critic of The Jesup Blair (five courts), 600 play- ers; Sligo Creek Parkway (four courts), 120 players; Kensington (two courts), 55 players, and Cabin John (two courts), 70 Dlayers. Two additional courts are nearing completion at Garrett Park and four more will soon be built in Rock Creek Park near the recreation area at the end of Leland street. GAS RATE HEARINGS Star, who is in Hollywood to tell you how the film folk work and play, and to write of the production activities in the big studios. An- other article will be published to= morrow and each day thereafter as long as Mr. Melcher remains in the moving picture capital. | I sneaking suspicion that Mar- | lene Dietrich might be a sad- eyed soul, given to melancholy, soli- tude and aloofness from her fellow man. The screen having presented her WILL BE RESUMED Assistant D. C. Assessor Will Be profile, rumor had it that she could First Witness Wednesday | inrow bricks with the best of them Morning‘ and cause plenty of hallelujah when As a prelude to resumption of study | WOTKig at the studios. of a proposed sliding scale arrnnge-‘ How pleasant then to come upon ment for annual adjustment of the | the great Marlene and find her skip- rates of the Washington and George- Ping around like Shirley Temple, town Gas Light Cos., the Public Kicking out her heels, jumping up and Utllities Commission Wednesday at down on tables and walking around 10 a.m. will resume public hearings | the set arm in arm with Director on the valuation and rates of the Frank Borzage. companies. We thought aet first it might be The first witness is to be H. D.|somebody else. But a glimpse of the Scantlin, an assfitant District asses- | Dietrich profile, neatly etched under a sor, a commission witness, who will black hat that shot forward over BY E. de S. MELCHER. OLLYWOOD, Calif., Septem- ber 28.—We've always had a testify as to new reproduction values and Teproduction value less deprecia- | tion. He will be examined by Hinman | D. Folsom, commission counsel; Peo- | ple’s Counsel William A. Roberts and Stoddard M. Stevens, jr., and John Bruton of gas company counsel. A number of other witnesses also will be heard before the case is con- cluded. Thereafter, commission and | company counsel will resume studies | of a proposed sliding scale. The peo- ple’s counsel has proposed an imme- diate slash -in rates amounting 101 $820,000 in connection with a pro- | posed sliding scale. | A temporary discount of 8.5 per | eent has been in e.fect since the Sum- | mer of 1932, when the original valua- tion case was started. TAXI MURDER TRIAL T0 BE OCTOBER 7| Kendall Hill Pleads Not Guilty in Atwell Killing, Harford County, Md. By the Associated Press. BEL AIR, Md., September 28.— Trial of Kendall Hill for the murder of Albert Atwell, Baltimore taxi driver, was set tocay for October 7 in Harford County Circuit Court. The trial date was set as Hill, former Perry Point Veterans' Hospital attendant, was arraigned before Judge Walter W. Preston. He pleaded “not guilty” to the in- dictment. State Senator Harold Colbourn of Cecil County, Hill's counsel, asked the court to appoint two alienists to examine Hill to determine whether there should be a hearing on his sanity before his trial. The request was taken under advisement. Handcuffed to Sheriff Granville C. Boyle, Hill was brought under heavy guard of deputy sheriffs, town officers and State police. State’s Attorney Paul McNabb represented the county. ARKANSAS EXECUTES TWO MEN FOR MURDERS One Drops to Knees by Electric Chair and Prays, Protesting Innocence to Last. By the Associated Press. TUCKER PRISON FARM, Ark, September 28.—The State today claimed the lives of Bill Barnes, 21, and Paul Nelson, 23, for separate murders for robbery, the two going to the electric chair mwmuring crit- icism of the legal machinery which sent them to their deaths. Nelson protested his innocence of the crime of which he was convicted; Barnes held to previous claims that he had not received a fair trial. Beside the - chair, an ordinary household chair wired for death, Nel- son dropped on his knees and prayed aloud. “Q, God, I am an innocent man,” he said. —_— WILL ADVISE KING Greek Republicans to Tell Him to Obey Will of People. ° ATHENS, September 28 (#)—Re- publican leaders were reported today 1o be drafting a letter to former King George advising him, “It is your duty not to return without the full will of the people.” (A Greek plebiscite her brow like a salad leaf and a glimpse THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 29, 1935—PART ON Melcher in Filmland Among the Stars Being One of a Series of Hollywood Chronicles by The Star’s Dramatic Critic. (NTRODUCING THE NEW DIETRICH o of a giant silver fox fur that began at one shoulder, swung clear over to the | other and then ran down the entire length of her coat convinced us that we had come to the right place. | She grinned, too—Christopher how she grinned! And when she talked, | in her low, slightly Germanic accent, she didn’t throw bricks, or emote, or cry, or dig her fists into her eyes. She behaved very much like a human being. | Miss Dietrich is quite es handsome as every one says she is. Her halr is gold—not platinum white, or dirty yellow—plain gold. Her nose is small and slightly pointed. Her mouth is | exactly as it is on the screen—and she is smaller and slimmer than you might suppose. | She was in fine feather yesterday. In her scene in “The Pearl Necklace” | (not the Du Maupassant story, by the | way) all she had to do was walk across | a room—a doctor’s office—open a door |and disappear. But when Dietrich | walks—she doesn't walk like anybody | else. She doesn't bounce, or trot or | canter. She stands straight as a pin, throws back her head, dishes out that profile and makes sure that her small, trim ankles are not out of the picture. ‘When she had done this a few times, | she suddenly bounced about like a kit- ten. “The new Dietrich,” said she to 'the few extras and Director Borzage, Would Like an BY JOHN J. DALY. Who wants the loan of a dog? Major, a thoroughbred German shepherd dog, is looking for a part- time home—a place he can sleep o' rights, have three good meals a day, with the privilege of walking in the Zoological Park each afternoon with his owner, Miss Anne L. Sanders, an employe of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp., who lives at 1931 Calvert street. Here is the situation: The Calvert street premises are getting just a bit too small for the Major, now entering his fourth year. A native of Augusta, Ga., he is accustomed to plenty of romping place. As his little mistress has to go to office each morning, the Major is without a companion during the day. And he does love company. Especially children. $o Miss Sanders figures out the best thing she can do is to throw the Major on the mercy of some good-hearted soul who has & big back yard, plenty of children, and a Roosevelt Accused Of Ignoring Colored Clerics With Letter By the Associated Press. CHANUTE, Kans,, September 28.—A colored pastor criticized President Roosevelt today for “failing to recognize Negroes” through letters similar to those to white ministers. Commented Rev. C. Howard Hickerson of the New Hope Bap- tist Church! “I guess he figured all of us are Republicans anyhow and that anything we have to say on restoration of the monarchy is to be held in November.) L} A would not help much.” | who were watching her, and with ene supreme bounce landed outside of the door. Miss Dietrich seems (o be enjoying her work with her new director. And Mr. Borzage, recently busy with War- ner's “Shipmates Forever” (as you re- member if you saw him battling with the heat down at Annapolis this Sum- mer), seems to be enjoying working with Dietrich. After each scene she comes over to him and they go into a huddle. They joke, they kid, they laugh. Dietrich a sad, sour young thing? | Nevaire! | * x ok ok T'S something of a jump from Deit- | rich to Joe Penner—but anything can happen out here. “Wanna Duck” Joe is a new man—a new personality like Dietrich—"a new” Penner. He's | through with ducks and “you nasty | so-and-so0.” He's going to be a | straight comedian for a change in a | picture called “Collegiate,” in which | he shares honors with Jack Oakie, |Lynn Overman and Ned Sparks. As | he talks he chuckles, and as he | chuckles he grins, and as he grins he heaves all ovi “Yes, | time,” says he, “I'm going to do | what the script calls for—and noth-| No animals, no snorts, no | | ing more. grunts, no groans.” The Major, Waiting First Snow, Adequate Home supreme desire to have the loan of & dog. The Major came into the possession of Miss Sanders when but a puppy, four weeks old. TWO years ago, when the Major was a full-grown dog, Miss Sanders came to Washington to see her first snow- fall. There has never been & snow- fall in Tampa, Fla., her first home, or, for that matter, in Augusta, her later one. At least, not during.Miss Sand- ers’ periods of residence. She saw her first snowfall in Washington, liked it so much that she wrote back for the Major. The Major arrived here in July—rb time to see a snowstorm; but Miss Sanders believes that she may be able to entice some good sport to keep the Major for his first Winter in Washington—so he may see & snowstorm. It is all rather involved, what with crowded parking places, and & pref- erence of a country estate for the Major instead of the conventional city street home, but Miss Sanders— who is‘waiting at Adams 0552—can explain it all. —_— DRY ON LIQUOR BOARD COLUMBIA, S. C., September 328 (P).—Gov. Olin Johnston today ap- pointed former Gov. John G. Richards, an ardent prohibitionist, to the State Tax Commission, which South Carolina’s liquor laws. The appointmer.t named Richards to fill the unexpired term of F. C. Robins, which ends February 7, 1936. Robins resigned last month. The Governor made public & letter of acceptance in which Richards said: “I wish it distinctly understood that I have not in the remotest degree, changed my views upon the liquor question.” DR. BUTLER URGES Representative Stefan Plans Bill Calling for Consolidation of Departments. By the Associated Press. Departments into one department of | national defense was urged yesterday by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- | dent of Columbia University. But, he added in a letter to Repre- sentative Stefan, Republican, of Ne- braska, “to bring about this reform will be no easy job, for the armchair admirals and generals in Washington ,and their sympathizers in the Senate and House Committees on Military | Aflairs and Naval Affaits have great influence and will be unceasing in their opposition.” Stefan said he planned to introduce legislation to bring about the consoli- 9-TUSE MODRL C9-4 8401 kes. Magic Eyel New Magle Illlllml ‘lum Colorband Dial — Avtomatic Volume Con- ml,.urm:u»sl'"' pensation, etc. Only With RCA World-Wide Antenna System, Jordan’s Budget Plan sir—this | WAR-NAVY MERGER | Consolidation of the War and Navy | | | | He's going to be plain Penner—and he sends his very best to Mabelle Jen- nings and adds why the dickens don't the Andrew Kellys and Nelson Bell come out here, too? And isn't it a nice place, anyway? And with that he rolls off, taking Jack Oakie under his arm and looking off in | the direction where a young girl in ing, surrounded by eight men. It is | Wendy Barrie. We have never seen her at the studio without eight men. * %k x 'HE evening is given over to Howard Strickling and Kay Mulvey's Tro- cadero jamboree. Una Merkel joins us and sends flattering messages back | to the Carter Barrons and looks very handsome indeed in a black velvet dress with a black velvet hat and a small veil. Tom Brown and his new blond girl friend say hello. So does Robert Taylor with his favorite per- son, Irene Hervey. And while the music plays a hot rumba, up pops Joseph Schenck and does the mean- est rumba of them all. And Jo's no chicken. Later the King's Clb and George Givot swing into view and a good- looking Patsy Ruth Millér with inevit- able escort John Lee Mahin. And later—it is time to go home and we are indebted to M-G-M for a very| ! swell evening. dation at the next session of Congress. “Since we have officially renounced | |war as an instrument of national policy,” said Butler's letter, “it is sheer hypocricy for us to continue to main- tain a huge Navy, to say nothing of | the extravagance involved. * * * | “It would be splendid if we might | substitute a department of national | gray trousers and a blue shirt is walk- | D. C. EDUCATION GROUP TO MEET First Session of General Council Will Be Held Tuesday Night. The Executive Committee of the Education Association of the District of Columbia at a recent meeting un- der the direction of the president, Dr. Edwin C. Higbie, made plans for the coming years activities. ‘Tuesday night at 7:15 o'clock in the Wilson Teachers’ College auditorium the first meeting of the General Council, & new body composed of| delegal from each school in the system and from allied organizations, will be held. Other plans include the first public meeting. This will be a recreation and health forum at which the guest speaker will be Dr. George H. Ruh- land, District health officer, and on | the panel for the discussion will be Birch E. Bayh, director of physical | education in the public schools; Henry 1. Quinn, member of the Board of Education, and others. The second public meeting of the year will be held in December. This will be another forum on the subject | “Mental Health and Hygiene” and the guest speaker will be Dr. Frederick | L. Patry, a leading psychologist of | New York State. On the panel for discussion will be Dr. William A. | White, director of St. Elizabeth’s Hos- | pital; Prof. Robert A. Maurer, mem- | ber of the Board of Education, and | others. | The Midwinter meeting of the or- | ganization will be held the May- | | flower Hotel on Saturday, February 8. | There also will be two other meet- | | ings to round out the year's program. Besides Dr. Higbie, the other mem- bers of the Executive Committee are Hugh S. Smith, Thomas F. Ferry, Margaret Gessford, Annie C. Keliher, | Dr. J. Orim Powers and Dr. Harold | E. Warner. . ULTIMATE IN QUIET Taking Off Hat Makes Noise in New Planetarium. NEW YORK, September 28 (#).— | The new Hayden planetarium is so quiet that you can hear a man take off his hat in the place. When he | takes off his coat he makes a racket. The planetarium, soundproofed by acoustical devices, will be opened | October 3. The tests of its quietness were announced tonight In terms of decibels, it is 15 times less noisy than the volume of sound ! which a normal ear can barely hear. | Sound-recording instruments showed a jump of five decibels when a man | took off his hat there. Writing with | a pencil on paper was even noisier, by | one added sound unit. | Bingo Party Planned. | CAPITOL HEIGHTS. Md., Septem- | ber 28 (Special).—The Capitol Heights | Community Welfare Organization will | cponsor a bingo party next Saturday | night in the fire house. Ship Sponsor DESTROYER TO BE NAMED FOR LATE ADMIRAL. MISS BEVERLY MOFFETT. Miss Moffett yesterday was designated by Secretary Swanson to act as sponsor for the new de- stroyer to be named in honor of her father, Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, who died in the crash of the airship Akron. No date has been set for launch- ing the ship, which is under con- struction in Quincy, Mass. Miss Moffett lives at 2019 Massachusetts | avenue. | —Underwood & Underwood Photo. | FARENHOLT WILL HEAD | NAVY SELECTION BOARD Successor as Inspector of Medical Department Activities to Be Selected. A rear admiral in the Medical Corps will be president of the Selec- tion Board which will convene to- morrow at the Navy Department to pick his successor. Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, now serving as inspector of Medical Department activities at the San Diego, Calif., Naval Hospital, will be retired January 1, and Secretary Swanson announced vesterday that Admiral Farenholt will be the presi- dent of the Selection Board that will choose a new rear admiral in the Medical Corps. Serving with him on the board will be Rear Admirals Middleton S. Elliott, John B. Dennis and Charles S. Butler. | obtained by | Denhardt annc he Avenve'elih, Bk sad O Sa defense for the War Department and the Navy Department as now consti- | tuted. The overhead cost of adminis- | tration would be greatly reduced and | co-operation would be insisted upon | | between these serval administrative ! units, where costly competition and | lack of co-operation now too often | exist.” s Bull Wins Scholarship. Award of an undergraduate scholar- | ship to Norman G. Bull, son of Mr. | and Mrs. Norman E. Bull of 3709 Northampton street, was announced at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- | | nology yesterday. The award, which '1s made on the basis of high scho- | lastic records, will assist Bull in con- ! tinuing his studies this year. by RCAVICTOR Come in to see radio's latest and hear perform- ance to which only a dem- onstration can do justice. The new, greatly improved Magic Brain radios and radio - phonographs are here now. They are as startlingly different as a streamline trainl Visit Our New Victor Record Department ARTHUR JORDAN PIANO COMPANY 1239.G Street ~ Cor.13% NW. GUARDSHEN AGAIN TRAMPTO HARLAN Officers in County Deny Dis- order, but Governor Sees Terror Reign. | By the Associated Press. | FRANKFORT, Ky., September 28.— | National Guardsmen tonight advanced on what Gov. Ruby Laffoon calls Har lan County’s “reign of terror,” over | roads made familiar to them by two other marches this year. Although Harlan County judges and | peace officers said there was no civil | disorder in the rich soft coal fields, the Governor ordered the occupation after hearing United Mine Workers of America denounce conditions Adjt. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt said at least half of his expedition will oc- cupy the county—theater of violence in labor, political and factional strife | for a century—tonight. Denhardt said | the union men gave the Governor “affidavits concerning the terrible cone ditions in the county and after heare ing the testimony the Governor dee cided to protect the lives of the citi- zens of the county it would be neces- sary to send troops.” Howard Willlams, Negro, told the Governor deputy sheriffs beat him Wednesday night, took him to the | Virginia line and told him to stay out of the county. Gov. Laffoon said he received “scores” of telegrams and | telephone calls about Harlan condi= tions, asking for troops. | Judge James M. Gilbert of the Harlan circuit said at his Pineville, Ky., home that there was no disorder, ‘ He summoned A. J. Pinko, labor ore ganizer, who has been quoted in ree ports of trouble. Harlan County Ate torney H. M. Fuson said at Harlan: | “We know of no disorders of any kind.” County Judge Morris Saylor | said he has checked all sections and | that there was no trouble. Saylor said | no eviction suits had been filed by coal } companies, as charged in complaints revealed by Denhardt. “Feign of terror” has been a key word for Harlan County in official documents in Kentucky this year. The Governor adopted the phrase when he sent Denhardt with 700 soldiers to regulate the August primary election. The general is under indictment in Harlan County as a result of that oce cupation, accused of bringing his troops in defiance of an injunction the sheriff against it. nced that the August occupation thwarted a plot to steai the August Democratic primary for Lieut. Gov. A. 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