Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1937, Page 3

THE EVENI STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937. . GABLE IDENTIFIED BY MRS. NORTON Woman Accuser Says Star Is Man She Knew in England. {Picture on Page A-1.) By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 23.—Still convinced, after peering into his face, that Clark Gable is the father of her 1llegitimate child, Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, 47, returned to the stand to- day for the final phase of her trial for mail fraud and conspiracy. “He is one and the same man,” she testified. Asked if she could be mistaken, the Englishwoman replied, *not unless there is a living double for him.” Mrs. Norton is charged with having gought support from the movie actor for her 13-year-old daughter, Gwen- doline. She said, and still says, she knew Gable as “Frank Billings,” in England, and that Gwendoline was born of their unsanctified love. Her identification was dramatic. Peers Into His Face. Gable was on the stand for the third time, called as a defense witness. Mrs. Norton's attorney turned to Federal Judge George Cosgrave. “Your honor,” he said, “I beg leave of the court to permit the defendant to approach this witness so that she may see his face clearl; Judge Cosgrave consented Mrs. Norton rose. She approached the witness. Gable set his jaw and leaned for- ward. His eyes never left her from the moment she left her chair. Not a muscle moved in Gable's powerful frame. Mrs. Norton stood directly in front of him. She seemed to recoil slightly. She examined his face, feature by feature. Abruptly she turned away. Tells of Love Affair. Her attorney said something to her. Bhe whispered “Yes.” A moment later, she herself was on the stand, telling how she met and fell in love with “Billings,” while she was the common-law wife of another man, and the mother of | his children. On trial with Mrs. Norton is Jack L. Smith, a private detective. Frank Keenan, Canadian hotel man, has been charged in the indictment with her. NAVY MAN BUYS PRIZE PAINTING %Snakey,” Bartender's Portrait Shown in Corcoran Gallery of Art, Is Sold. “Snakey,” a striking portrait of a bartender, which won for Bernard | Keyes, Boston artist, fourth prize in the Fifteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paint- ings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, has been sold, the gallery announced $oday. The purchaser is Capt. L. W. Cur- tis, U. 8. N, retired, who is stopping &t the Army and Navy Club here. He plans to install the painting in his home in New Jersey, it was under- stood. The amount paid for the pic- ture was not disclosed. This is the seventh painting in the exhibition that has been sold. The | tax was that the theaters not only YOUR TAXES What You Would Pay and How Under the Bills Proposed in the House. ESTIMATED YIELD—$200,000. OTION picture houses and combination movie and vaudeville theaters of the District would have to pay & license tax of 2 per cent on their monthly gross receipts under the terms of H. R. 6038, one of the reve- nue measures before the House Dis- trict Committee. The license tax would be imposed on these places for the privilege of engaging in the theatrical business in the District, to quote from the bill. It would be applied to 55 of the theaters here, according to recent count. It would not be levied against the relatively small number of the theaters offering only vaudeville or stage shows. The tax would begin July 1. The yield is figured roughly to amount to $200,000 a year. Such a calculation is based on the assumption the gross receipts of the 55 theaters totals some $10,000,000 a year. Some theater owners say $10,000,000 is too high an estimate for gross receipts and suggest $7,000,000 or $8,000,000. These estimates, it is said, do not include the amount of the Federal amusement tax charged at the time of the purchase of admission tickets. The bill provides for such deductions | from the gross receipts on which the privilege tax would be levied. The intention is that the tax should be paid out of the profits of the thea- | ter operator, for the bill carries a clause stating “It shall be unlawful | for such operator to increase the price of admission by reason of this tax.” How this provision could be enforced is a question left unanswered in offi- cial circles. In fact, there are direct suggestions that the operators could easily pass the tax on to the movie patrons. It is said the price of ad- mission could be boosted because of | some increase in theater labor costs. Others insist the Government has no present right to control the price of admission, that the provision surely would be ruled by the courts to be invalid. An additional tax on theaters was one of the prospective new revenue measures taken under study by Dis- trict officials more than a year ago when the budget problem became acute. One of the arguments for the were reaping large profits, but that a great percentage of the money was taken cut of the District and paid to stockholders in the chains. Article No. 11—Motion Picture Tax. PURPOSE—To raise additional revenue. AFFECTS—ALI theaters showing movies.. Opponents of the bill insist that only 35 per cent of the theaters are | owned by the large circuits. They argue also that theaters have to pay heavy real estate and the other| property taxes and protest particu- larly against being “singled out” for a special tax. It is claimed that| “some” of the operators would be| pleased to make as much profit as| the 2 per cent tax on gross receipts | which it is proposed they may in the | privilege tax. | Motion picture houses now pay a! license fee of $30 a year under the Dis- | trict’s general license law. The fee is | intended only to cover the cost of | regulation and inspection. Theaters having stage shows pay an annual license fee of $50. During the past fiscal year the total of license fee | collections by the District was $403,- 000 and of this sum the theaters paid gallery charges no commission for | these sales. | C. Powell Minnigerode, director of the gallery, announced the gallery | will be open to exhibition visitors to- | night from 7:30 to 10 o'clock. There will be no admission charge. COLONY SEEKS LAND Residents Near Scene of Polygamy | Trial Would Move. NEEDLES, Calif., April 23 (&).— Residents in the vicinity of Short Creek, Ariz., scene of a polygamy trial | a year ago, are negotiating for the purchase of land 20 miles north of Needles, near Fort Mojave, for the establishment of a colony, it became known today. Plan Needlework Center. The Women's League of Jamaica will open a needlework center at Kingston to give employment to over 300 women and girls who will make embroidered handkerchiefs, linen un- derwear and other articles to be sold by local stores and possibly for ex- port. _LOST. 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DAILY TRIPS MOVING LOADS AND PART ioads to and from Balto, Phila. and New York Frequent trips to other Eastern eities, “Dependable Service Since 1896." THE DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE CO__Phone Decatur 2500. oN AFTER APRIL 1937, THE United Petroleum Products, 25 Florida ave. ne. will be owned and operated by Richard " D. Pelicano and _all ~btsiness after that date will be transacted by him. LONG-DISTANCE MOVING. in $1,760. Mediums and clairvoyants | pay a license fee of $250 a year, dairies, | $160; abattoirs, $100; wholesale fish' dealers, $30; employment agencies, | $100, and restaurants, $15, to give an | idea of the range of the fees. | Some supporters of the plan for the | privilege tax on theaters are suggest-} ing that the bill be broadened to in- | clude other forms of commercial| amusement. One is that vaudeville and legitimate theaters be included along with those using motion pic- tures. Another is that professional base ball, foot ball, wrestling and box- ing exhibitions likewise be taxed and that the levy be applied also to carnivals and circuses of the com- mercial operators. The bill provides that each oper- ator of a motion picture or combi- nation movie and vaudeville theater shall flle with the District assessor a certificate containing the name under which he is operating, the names and addresses of persons con- stituting the association, partnership or other type of business organiza- tion, the names and addresses of the principal officers, the resident manager and the attorney in fact. Until such certificate was filed the operator could not engage in his business. A sworn statement showing the gross receipts of the theater would have to be filed with the assessor each month, covering the business of the preceding month. The tax would have to be paid each month for the levy on the preceding month. Each operator would have to keep such records and to render such sworn statements as may be required by the assessor and the records would be open to the assessor or his repre- sentative at any time during the business hours of the theater. The assessor would be given power to draft rules and regulations, subject to approval by the Commissioners. The Board of Personal Tax Ap- peals of the District would be directed to hear and determine controversies arising in connection with the tax. The taxpayer would be given 10 days, after receiving notice of a levy, in which to file an appeal, but he would have to state the grounds of his pro- test in asking a hearing. The board is directed then to determine the cor- rect tax. The bill provides for an appeal to the United States District Court from a decision by the tax board. In case an operator refuses or neglects to make the returns or tax payments, or otherwise fails to comply with the act, District authorities would have power to stop him from “doing any business whatsoever” in the District during the period it re- fuses and neglects to comply with the law. Further, as an additional penalty, the bill provides for a fine of not less than $1,000, which would be collected by a suit instituted in the United States District Court by the legal department of the District. Those organizations or institutions which are exempted from the real estate and personal tax laws of the District likewise would be exempt from the proposed theater privilege tax. Before July of this year each oper- ator would be required to file with the assessor a statement showing the total capacity of the theater and a request for a certificate to operate the theater. The tax receipts would go into the general fund of the District. Liquor (Continued From First Page.) feet of churches located in business districts. The proposed amendment referred only to churches in business areas and, therefore, would not make the amend- ment apply to schools. The proposal was laid before the | Commissioners last week, but was not | made public until today's meeting of | the Board of Commissioners, when the date for the public hearing was fixed Among those especially invited by the A. B. C. Board to participate in the hearing are Wilbur La Roe, jr., of the Civic Affairs Committee of the Washington Federation of Churches; Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington; Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore; Rabbi Abram Simon, Rabbi Moshe H. Levinson, Thomas E. Lodge, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Asso- ciations; Hugh V. Kaiser, the Central Business Men's Association; E. D.| Shaw, secretary of the Merchants and | Manufacturers’ Association, and the following attorneys for liquor dealers: L Brill, Albert Levin, David Hornstein, Milford F. Schwartz, Manuel Davis and F. Joseph Donoghue. o Wheel of Fortune. BERKELEY, Calif. (#)—Mrs. Dor- othy Mundt celebrated her 75th birthday anniversary by rising at 4 am. and pedaling 4 miles over the city's streets. It's the same routine she has followed every morning since her husband gave her the bicycle on her 50th birthday anniversary. n te you m o while the medication g at cause. Don't suffer ossly PILE-FOE today for guaranteed results. At Peoples Drug Storss or ather geod druggist REPUTATION in time-honored time pieces For 45 years we have steadily adhered to the principle of QUALITY in our WATCH collection . . . only those time-pieces with guaranteed and proven qualities are featured -+ BUT, OF THE REPUTABLE MAKES . . . PRESIDENT HONORS EDWIN MARKHAM Sends Tribute to Testimo- nial Dinner for Dean of Poets. B the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 23.—A tribute from President Roosevelt was the high point of a testimonial dinner given by Staten Island neighbors and other friends last night to Edwin Markham, dean of American poets, on the eve of his 85th birthday anniversary today. Markham himself addressed the 350 guests in the Meurot Club on the island several times, responding to presentations and reading his poems, including “Child of My Heart,” dedi- cated to his son, Virgil, and “Lincoln, the Man of the People.” There had been some doubt whether he would be able to attend. A few months ago his health was so im- paired that a New York court judged him mentally incompetent to care for his personal affairs, which were turned over to his son. Markham, in his responses, reiter- ated time and again his firm belief in immortality. The President praised his work and expressed regret that he was not able to attend the dinner. A scroll from Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York and a booklet with the names of the guests were other presentations. Mrs. Markham was unable to at- tend, but Virgil Markham, a writer of mystery stories, was present. Anna Hempstead Branch, an honor guest, was referred to by the elder Mark- ham as ‘“one of the three or four greatest living poets.” Divine (Continued From First Page.) resulting from the stabbing of Harry Green, a white contractor, of Wee- hawken, N. J., in a riotous flare-up at Divine's so-called “No. 1 Heaven” in Harlem. Hearing was set for April 30. Green, now recuperating from his stab wounds in a Harlem hospital, had accompanied a process-server to the black-belt cult headquarters to serve Divine with a summons in a civil suit. Immediately the summons was placed in Divine's hands, police said, the little “Messiah” and his followers set upon Green and the process server in a frenzy, ultimately ejecting them from the hall. The dapper, smooth-spoken evangel- ist, arrested after a two-day hideout in one of his “extension heavens” at Milford, Conn,, after his followers had described his disappearance as his having “gone up in de spirit,” appeared in the police line-up prior to his ar- raignment in court Denies Striking Green. Dressed in a blue suit, shirt and | tie, with a gold insignia on the lapel | of his coat and two fountain pens and a gold pencil stuck in the breast pocket of his coat, Divine blinked into the bright glare of the floodlights as Police Capt. Thomas Dugan began to question him. | “Did you strike Green?” Dugan | asked. “I did not, your honor,” the ecult leader replied. “Did you direct any one to do s0?” “No, your honor, I did not.” “What was the cause of the trou- ble?” “I was not the cause of the trouble,” the prisoner said, wrinkling his high forehead in annoyance. “I was preach- ing at the table and looking at th + LAWYERS’ BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRINTING ADVERTISING SERVICE BYRON S. ADAMS ® Dis. 820 Father Divine in Cell FRPIITTA 512 11T ST. Millford, Conn., police ended a two-day search for Father Major J. Divine when they found the colored spiritual leader, who calls himself “God,” hiding of his Millford “Heaven.” behind a furnace in the cellar He 18 shown in a cell as he waived extradition and was returned to New York for questioning about an attack on a process server. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. organist and preaching on ‘The Great Enthusiasm.’ Some one snatched me | and some others started to push. The | crowds pushed and I pushed back. | Then some one snatched me.” | “Was it Green who snatched you?” “I don’t know.” “Had you a knife in your posses- sion?” “I did not. I have a very small knife on my watch chain. I didn’t | leave the table. Ididn't hit any one.” | Asked if he had ever been arrested before, Divine nodded. *“I have. I believe they termed it disorderly con- | duct. That was in 1931 in Sayville, Long Island “Ever before that?” Capt. Dugan | pressed. “That’s all I can recall,” Divine said. The cult leader breakfasted heartily from a tray brought to police head- quarters by an attractive young col ored woman, who asked a police officer to take it to Father Divine with the message: “Tell him this comes from his true and faithful children.” Angry words swept through ?.ho‘ crowd outside Felony Court when de. tectives sought to form a lane to| MAN ALIVE! THIS IS NEWS! permit the “Messiah's” following his arraignment. “If you don't let him go,” one dem- onstrator shouted, the father will get tired of all this and just walk away— Just vanish.” The crowd began to gather long before the self-proclaimed “prophet” was due to appear, intermittently shouting, “They can't jail God,” and ‘“‘He's still God to us!” And when the arraignment was over they hailed his departure wi departure, on earth!™” There was no guestion of their con- tinued faith in the le man whose slogan, “Peace! peace is wonder- ful” has allegedly led hundreds of his disciples to turn over all their worldly goods to his “kingdom.” Police found Father Divine at Mil- Prevent Costly Damage From LEAKY ROOFS Have us £o over vour roof now! Repaired by expert roof men x FERGUSON : 3831 Ga. Ave. COL. 0567 For a Limited Time the Price of a DELCO OIL BURNER Only Is ‘299 Think of it . . . a saving of $26 on a DELCO OIL BURNER. 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