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The Pittsburgh. Press FINANCIAL NEWS SPORTS-COMICS IN FOUR SECTIONS SECTION THREE PITTSBURGH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931 PAGE 29. SPORTS SOCIETY MAGAZINE TS BURGH 5 'UWN 'MOV E' MARS I Dare vSX herein We Go Piecemeal Again FLORENCE FISHER PARRY EMPLOYMENT PLANS SENT TO CITY Utilities Corporation Gives Check Equaling Day's Pay of Ail Employes CITY MANAGER PLAN PRAISED BY C.j TAFT, League of Women Voters Told of System's Benefit to Cincinnati their start I True stories of how they Roberta Gale Breaks Hollywood i Herself Out of Embarrassing Positions There Was That Time She Floored Her High School Teacher Who Crusaded Against Ro uge But Her Best Stunt Was to Burlesque 'Rose Marie' When Her Voice Failed Her in Play By JAMES A. BAUBIE AND CLAYTON FRITCHEY SOME girls mature physically much more quickly than the majority. Roberta Gale, another Pittsburgh-born actress who is looked upon as one of the coming stars of the movies, is an exception of that kind.

Here, lor instance, is a girl who today is only 17 years old and who, beiore she was 16 had been given a contract to play adult parts. It was this very early blossoming of her tropical beauty at an age when most guls are still awkward anything to help Roberta toward success. It brought her so many opportunities to shine in public, one of them being the leading role in a high school production of "Rose Marie." At one of the biggest moments in this operetta, Roberta's voice broke on a dramatic note. She was in a desperate situation go on a stage and gangling that did as much as before a big audience and see how some day and sing for the first time desperate it feels. As events turned out that was Roberta's first big break of luck.

For it was the brilliant ruse she employed to save the situation that attracted .3, i yT i i 3p 'V To Crash QclcLLo Pictures vx THEN SHE was only 2, her father organized one of the first auto insurance companies in the United States and later formed a pioneer auto club known as the Northern Automobile Service Association. sjrvs iV riXrr mi4k, 'h: I High Note one in the life of her successful daughter. "You see," she said, "Roberta's hair is now a natural red. And red-haired people usually get what they set their minds on." 6 JAILED, 3 STILLS SEIZEDBY RAIDERS Constables and Dry Agents Descend on Bootleggers Six persons were arrested by prohibition agents and constables in raids yesterday in which three stills, an auto and liquor and beer were seized. Louis Tomaso was arrested in a garage in the 1200 block Franklin Street, where agents seized a 125-gallon still and a small quantity of moonshine.

An unidentified man, driving away as the agents arrived, leaped from an auto and escaped. "Tony's Place," Pittsburgh Street, Cheswick, netted a seizure of two quarts of whisky, 60 gallons and 696 pints of beer. Tony Klemencich was arrested. A garage in the rear of Pittsburgh Street, Cheswick, was searched later and agents found a 75-gallon still, 18 barrels of mash, 60 gallons of moonshine and material. They arrested John Starina.

Mary Kalin and Frank Kalin were arrested when agents raided a building on Roosevelt Road, R. D. No. 3, Bellevue, and found a 25-gallon still, 104 gallons of moonshine and sugar. John Fullerton was arrested when an auto and 12 quarts of whisky were seized in Fifth Avenue.

HEAVY SNOW ENDS DROUTH IN WEST Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico Crops Aided by Downfall Br The t'nited Prmi DENVER, CoL Heavy, wet snow settled over parts of Colorado. Wyoming and New Mexico today, bringing the first precipitation for much of the region in several months. The mixture of rain, sleet and snow started falling early Thursday and continued intermittently. Snow has been forecast for another 24 hours. The moisture was considered vital to crop needs, especially winter wheat.

1 A ALTHOUGH, have sworn off doing my bit in the prohibition war, I feel that I shoufd risk these lines, which I came upon a moment ago in a touching little volume of sob- ballads called "I'm Sorry If I Have Offended." which must be sunt? to be appreciated: "In a place known as 'The Frenchman's' A restaurant ill-famed Some young men sat at dinner. Said one. 'This joint, it's Mr. Parrv claimed. Sells liquor.

What's your They agreed upon straight rye. When serv'd. the youth who'd spoken Was first his drink to try. iAs the others raised their glasses He gasped, Oh, give me air, Don't drink! That liquor's Then sank from off his chair. His chums tried to arouse him, He smiled and shook his head.

It's no use. boys; I'm He stopped, then feebly said: mother I died for my country, That its laws might be obeyed. Tell her I wits doing my duty And my part in the game I played. If our government chooses harsh methods To bring prohibition about, I will not complain, for 'twas always my aim To help stamp the liquor curse out." Rnmeo Still a Topic QUESTIONS are still coming in about Romeo My thanks to for the mouse that squeaks and to "Delia" for the book on The Care and Feeding of Dogs, which I strongly suspect Stella pneaks into her room when my back is turned and to "Elise G. Dean" for the puppy calendar, which temporarily diverted Romeo Jrom the hooked rug's total demolition We bathed and curried him and took him Up Home for the week-end without an invitation the general consensus of opinion there is that Romeo just Won't Do as a name.

They suggest Brutus with strong emphasis on the Brute But you simply can't tell at six months looks are no index Wallace Beery is the best dancer I ever danced with and Ronald Colman is chronically Off Women So you see? Did you see "The Devil to Pay?" Well, that dog in the shop-window is Romeo whitewashed. Good For Children QUITE IN line with my views on wholesome excitement for children, rabidly expressed some evenings past in this column, are the delectable advertisements now playing hide and seek all over town and celebrating the Junior League's "Blue Bird." This enchanting fairytale is to small children exactly what "Subway Express" is to husky-throated Junior, or "Death Takes a Holiday" is to us grown-ups: An excursion into naming fancy, an adventure of the mind. Do we deny our own adult escape Into the healing realms of illusion? Do we eschew a rousing novel or a suspenseful play? Do we forego our moments of high ecstacy, or count it unhealthy to cut adrift from routine? If such indulgences may be ours, why bar them in a proportionate degree from our children? Our chemistries, theirs and nurs, are almost identical: and may be prescribed for out of the same bottle of elixir; for ourselves, a large riose, a tablespoonful, say; for our younger ones, a few drops distilled in water. Routine Is Criticized OH TT ENRAGES me to see a small child exemplarily fed, nnd given so much sun and air, and raised by cabbage rule, and not be piven to glimpse enchantment ever! 2 see them In the Best Homes, I see fJiem everywhere. They eat at such nd such an hour from proper porridge bowls, and at the stroke of len and three are taken for an airing.

They walk, demurely or rebel-iiously, beside a tight-faced nurse, nnd "Don'ts" and "Mustn'ts" are to them the diet of the day. Oh, there lire books occasionally, and sometimes even stories, but not NEARLY EAR enough to feed their innate nense of drama. Classic for Juveniles THERE IS, perhaps, no lovelier play than "The Blue-Bird" for mir children. Its innocence, its color, its lucid poetry, have made of it a juvenile classic for all time. The most impoverished child will find warmth at its hearth.

It's friendly and it's tender, and makes concrete the literal dreams of children. The chance to see it so affectionately produced may not come to Pittsburgh children soon again. I recommend it from my heart to every child, and older too those of you even who are gray and nearly spent of life. For the wand of Maeterlinck evokes Jairies who long have been asleep, it stirs fancies to life again that have been dead for years. "The It is caged.

I think, in every heart on earth. Its gong is not articulate to those who've lost their childhood. But all the same, in some dark recess of our souls, it can be found moulting Its feathers are dingy, Sts chirp is very faint It is parched for the sun and air of our erstwhile illusions. But you would really be surprised how soon it can revive, given a moment's loving care, every once in a while Guests Get Rabbits Feet CHICAGO Roberta Simcoultz as three years old today, Friday the thirteenth. She invited 13 to her birthday party.

Then presented each with a horseshoe mnd a rabbit's foot. Early In her infancy, Roberta had a passion for chickens. "One of my chicks," she says. grew up to be a good-sized rooster and I called him Aloysius, for no reason except he was different from the rest of the chicks. I don't know i where I got the name.

AllU uixu wuxu au ll window in the morning until I let him in and gave him some of my breakfast. He was a jealous bird, too. When another chicken would come near me, Aloysius feathers would rise in anger, and he would strut about until the enemy re treated." Roberta's father next organized an auto club in Miami, and built a permanent home there. Then he sent for them. HAT TRIP came close to be- berta recalls.

"I had a little brother, i Chester, and while the train was speeding across Georgia he was thrown from his seat and his head cut. There was no doctor on the train, and the baby was in grave danger of losing his life because of loss of blood. The conductor noti- fled the train crew, and they worked feverishly to save him. The fireman shoveled coal, whistles tooted and we sped like mad. If Chester hadn't been hurt so badly, I think I would have enjoyed that ride a lot.

We finally got to a small town and a doctor dressed Chester's wound. "When we arrived in Miami it was raining. The gutters were roaring like mountain rivers. That wasn't the Miami father had described in his letters. I cried as I had never cried in all my six years.

"Then, that first night was a nightmare. Mosquitos were everywhere. Every 15 or 20 minutes mother or father would get up to clear the room of the pests. As soon as he got back in bed, another swarm descended. ipjUT IN THE morning, the sun JD aDDeared.

and Miami was its beautiful self. I soon forgot all about Pittsburgh. I started to school, and those days were just about the same as any girl experiences. Their dullness was broken only after I met Winston Clark, who lived in the next block and was in the same class with me. "Winston used to call for me every morning and give me a ride to school on the handle bars of his bicycle.

Winston was a good looking boy and after school would take me to a soda parlor and we'd eat our fill of banana, splits and grapefruit sherberts. "One day a rival came on the scene. I mean a rival to Winston. He was Bud Maxwell and was driving his new miniature auto, which his parents had given him for a birthday present. It was the cleverest little red car you ever saw and had a real engine and a cutout that made it sound like a racer.

Bud timed his appearance at an embarrassing moment for Winston. He drove past just as I was mounting the handle bars of the bicycle and that never is a graceful procedure. "I was thoroughly impressed and that afternoon, when school was finished, I accepted Bud's invitation to ride home in his car. I got in and lifted my chin just a trifle as Winston started off on his bicycle. Bud stepped on the gas and we shot out of the school yard a mile a minute.

Then something went wrong. Bud couldn't stop the car. I was scared and jumped. I turned a somersault and struck my head. Bud got the car stopped and ran toward me, his face white as powder.

But he was a trifle too late. Continued on Page 36 festivals celebrated in Rome more than 1,500 years ago. Priests are said to have changed tlie festival to observance of a Saint. BANDITS GET $2,100 IN 5 ROBBERIES HERE 3 Steal Clothing Worth $600 From Clothing Company Three men who escaped last night after robbing the Lang Cleaning Company, 6200 block Hoeveler Street, of clothing valued at nearly $600, are being sought today by East Liberty police. H.

L. Brissett, manager of the company, was alone in the office when the men entered. TBesides the clothing, they robbed Brissett of $20 and the keys to his auto, in which they drove away. Clothing and valued at $1,500 were reported stolen from the home of Mrs. Edgar E.

Wertheimer. 1200 block Bellerock Street, during the absence of the family. The home of M. J. Chernoff, 550 block Raleigh Street, was robbed of two coats and a radio.

A lone Negro bandit held up Anthony Monico, proprietor of a candy store in the 6300 block Everett Street, and robbed tht cash register of $12. It. Lu Boggs, manager of a Kroger Grocery Company Store in the 7600 block Hamilton Avenue, reported thieves during the night stole $20 in merchandise and $17.50 from the cash register. Seek Trial Change Br The CniUMl Pm NEW YORK A change of venue for the trial of Isidor J. Kresel and seven ether officials of the closed Bank, of United States on felony charge will be asked by defense attorneys, it- was learned today.

JOBLESS AID DRIVE TO COVER COUNTY Emergency A i ation Moves Rapidly to Give Relief for Needy Employment stabilization; plans todav beean to take ilpfinitp shatw as the Allegheny County Emergency Association announced receipt of a second industrial corporation contribution and the mailing of 10,000 application blanks to unemployed persons. The contribution was from the Philadelphia and affiliated companies. The amount, not made public, equaled the aggregate sum of salaries and wages of all employes of the companies in Allegheny County for one day. When the application blanks are returned, the association will have a catalogue of unemployed persons and full data regarding the individuals. To Cover County Blanks were mailed from lists compiled by the city in the distribution of relief funds.

Later, blanks will be mailed throughout the county. Jobs for unemployed persons will be provided as the projected fund provides labor for rit.v. county, public and other projects not included in current budgets. Materials for the jobs will be furnished by the party to which the association will provide paid labor. Applications tor jobs will not be received at the association hpnrf- quarters in Grant Building, officials said today, as many persons applied mere.

Distribution of jobs will be handled through other stations to be installed later. The "Pittsburgh Plan" of stabili zation of employment, as conceived oy tne association, was lauded by Frank R. Phillips, senior vice president of the Philadelphia and affiliated companies, as he sent Treasurer Roy Hunt the contribution check. Operation Plans "Stabilization of employment Is the most serious problem confront ing us today," Phillips said, "and I believe the Pittsburgh Plan will go a long way toward solving it." A plan of operation to be followed by the association was drafted yesterday at a meeting of the operations and will be announced next week. Chairman F.

R. Phillips presided at the meeting, which was attended by A. E. Braun. president of the association; W.

S. Linderman, Frank Chesterman, Edgar Kaufmann. Frank Bell, E. W. Mudge and Major Matthews.

The budget for relief organizations was taken up by the committee and Treasurer Hunt was instructed to make disbursements. To date the organizations which have sent checks to the emergency association are the Retail Merchants Association, composed of Kauf-mann's, Joseph Home Company, Gimbels, Meyer-Jonasson, Frank Seder's, Rosenbaum's, Harris Department Stores pnd Lewin-Neiman Company, and two corporations. The first corporation to send a check was the Gulf Refining Company. The Philadelphia Company check included payrolls of Equitable Gas, Duquesne Light, Pittsburgh Railways and Pittsburgh Motor Coach companies among others. DEMOCRAT ATTACKS PINCHGTS METHOD Charges Minority Rights Are Disregarded By The rnitfd Vrnt HARRISBURG The Pinchot administration stood accused today of disregard of the rights of the minority in the House by Representative Wilson G.

Sarig, Berks, Democratic floor leader. Sarig claimed that the present legislative session is a battleground in the struggle for control of the state between "two almost evenly matched factions of the Republican party" with the stake the delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1D32. "As a result," he said, "a wave of factional frenzy and prejudice now hangs over Capitol Hill. Under these abnormally surcharged political conditions law-making becomes a means to an end rather than an end in itself. Political control comes first.

"The Pinchot faction has been the chief offender in trampling down our neutral and minority rights. Although posing as the very embodiment of all virtue, fair play, and the Rooseveltian square deal, they gave the minority the rawest and most unfair treatment the Democratic party has received in the state Legislature in 16 years," Sarig declared. PLANT WILL REOPEN 1,000 Men to Get Jobs In Clarksburg: Mills of Weirton Company Sperial to The I'ittbiirth Pre CLARKSBURG. W. Va.

The tin plate plant of the Weirton Steel Company here, which has been closed during the installation of electrical equipment, will reopen Monday. Four hundred men will start work in the mills. Ten days later, when other departments resume production, 600 more men will be added. CITES FUND SAVING FREE OF POLITICS Young Citizens Given Credit for Rout of Party Machines City manager government has survived the high tide of opposition and will sweep on with growing impetus to new and greater conquests over organized politics, Charles P. Taft, Second, predicted in an address here today.

Taft, a nephew of the late Chief Justice, and a former prosecutor of Hamilton County, addressed the a Aiiegneny county League of Women Voters on the established in Cincinnati in 1925, in aniesie Aiusic HalL "Last fall saw the high tide of destructive opposition to the high aims of city manager government as practiced in Cincinanti," Taft declared. Enemies Routed. "In 1925, the first election in which the City Charter Committee participated, we elected six of nine council members and almost a seventh. Last fall we barely elected the sixth member. But the enemies have been routed.

They have passed their high tide." Taft cited two of the savings effected under the city manager government in Cincinnati. "In 1925," he said, "oiling of streets cost $5.75 for a 50-foot lot. In 1928 the cost was 97 cents. "In 1928 the city built 60 miles of new streets at a cost that represented a saving of $263,000 upon the 1925 rate of costs." Taft told how the young civic leaders who sponsored the model city manager plan first gained control of the city, lining up Independent Democrats in their ranks, and then extended their control into the county, the stronghold of the organization. Young Leaders "Put your local leadership in young men," he advised the women voters.

"Amend your state constitution so that you control your own destinies, free of machine Legislature; adopt a charter with a small Council elected at large by proportional representation, and organize in every wara ana aistrict." Regardine activities of Taft said: "The national nartifts women as scenerv. but cannot. niist their activities in ordinary party aquaoDies. iNever would women, regardless of party, oppose such an organization as our city charter committee. "On the other hand tmmpn -nnt.

only have formed the backbone of our organization, out tneir leadership has been and they not only vote themselves, and get OUt the vote. but. thpv npver stop promoting our interests." Party Lines Hold The City Charter Committee has failed to disrupt the Republican vote nationally, Taft said, saying that Hamilton County gave President Hoover nearly 40,000 more votes than were cast for former President Coolidge. "In state affairs our progress has had no reflection," he said. "The large vote at the Cincinnati primaries has given- Cincinnati an influence in Republican nominations for state officers out of all proportion to its size.

"In these nominations the old machine has been unrestricted. Ability among its legislative candidates has been rare. "The Cincinnati vote nominated able Cincinnati men for Governor and Attorney General in 1928, but their allegiance has been strictly and uniformly the machine. "This condition will continue until independent citizens of the other cities of Ohio break loose from the inertia which leaves them quite literally in chains politically." HITS TWO OFFICERS; FINED $12.50 EACH Magistrate Sets Cost of Swinging on Polce One may smash up McKeesport police officers at $12.50 per if one can, judging from a sentence imposed by Acting Magistrate Calhoun in McKeesport Police Court today. Babe Johns, 30, of 1400 block Soles Street, McKeesport, arrested last night as drunk, unleashed fists and feet in the station.

Patrolman Hamilton received a broken nose and Wagonman Robert Hurley a broken hand before the scuffle ended. Calhoun todav fined Johns $25 and costs with option of 30 days, in jau. WILLIAM J. HOLLAND STRICKEN AT DINNER Says He Will Be in Office in Few Days Dr. William J.

Holland, director emeritus and publications editor at Carnegie Institute, who was stricken ill Wednesday night at the formal initiation banquet of Sigma Xi Fraternity, in the Schenley Hotel, said today that he is almost recovered and will be back in his office in a few days. Before the banquet was over, Dr. Holland, 1 who had been suffering from a severe cold, left for his home in the 5500 block Forbes Street, where he was under fthe care of a physician. He is former chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh and prominent in scientific work. Lucius UtLLe, EcLsterLcL miss the attention of a movie magnate and eventually opened the doors of Hollywood to her.

When she was asked to tell her life story for The Pittsburgh Press, she was puzzled, "because nothing very important happens to a 17-year-old girl. I guess my life's been just about the same as any other American youngster, except that I found out what I wanted to do and did it, just a bit sooner than most folk do." But her life has been full of excitement. Not moving picture excitement, but the adventure of living a modern girl's life. She was born in South St. Clair Street, Oct.

13, 1913. Her father's name is J. M. Gale and her mother was the former Blanche Harris. For a few years, the father was an executive in the distributing branch of a motion picture concern.

From the very first Roberta was lovely looking. She was born with little tufts of auburn hair covering lAjjLtuLrnn" as posed by ySr Hollywood Rim Shop St. Valentine's Day Here To Have Varied Observance 'Beau Ideal Another Foreign Legion Thriller, Sequel to 'Beau nested Doesn't Equal the First Film, Says Critic By DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer her head like a brightly colored blanket of down. As the weeks passed, the red turned to blond, which curled noticeably when she was 12 months old. Roberta's mother recalls this fact as an outstanding duction as he did with "Beau Geste," the film offers a good evening's entertainment and should be a money-maker.

ANOTHER of this week's previews which caught was Louis Wolheim's first directorial effort, "Sin Ship." Wolheim's direction is above reproach, although he is entirely out of place as the leading character in the picture. In our opinion, Wolheim doesn't belong in romantic roles. Mary Astor is also miscast in her role of a woman of the streets. Although she did some good work, there is too much of a refined air about her to make her part convincing. With the proper players in the principal roles, "Sin Ship" could have been an excellent film.

But in its present state, it is just a bit below average. The story itself is powerful and handled in such a manner as to hold an audience's interest right to the finish. Wolheim, the hard-boiled skipper of a trading schooner, is converted to righteousness by Miss Astor while she and Ian Keith, her crooked partner, are making a get-away aboard Wolheim's ship disguised as a minister and his wife. CROSS BURNED HERE Pittsburgh's celebration of St. Valentine's Day tomorrow will vary from laughter over witty cards to a Valentine wedding banquet in a local hotel.

The tradition said to have sprung from a Roman priesthood reform, is as strangely interpreted as its beginning was novel. Witty cards today were being purchased on a par with the serious ones at Pittsburgh book stores and shops. Jewelers and various other businesses were Dutttng Valentine cards on proposed gifts ranging from stickpins to diamonds as they planned window displays. Prices of cards at one of the better shops ranged from 5 cent to $1 each, the highest priced one being, "To the Wife." More" than 300 guests will attend the wedding of Milton Smith, Wil-liamsport, and Fofo Vaharopoulos, 200 block Ophelia Street, tomorrow night in Fort Pitt Hotel. St.

Valentine's Day is said to have grown out of the Pan and Juno SPEEDING OFFICERS ARRESTED BY WOMAN Pursues Policemen When They Go Through Red Light By The United PreM EVANSTON, m. The traffic light at an Evanston intersection glowed red as a police auto streaked past, while Mrs. Allen R. Frey of Glencoe, crossing with the green light, swerved her motor car sharply to avoid an accident. She turned to pursuit of the police car, slanted across its path and stopped Patrolmen Henry Engstrom and Henry Dricker.

"You're under she cried. The two Henrys gasped and fingered their stars, but meekly along to the station, mumbling that they were after a speeder. Chief of Police W. O. Freeman indicated they'd be suspended for three days and Mrs.

Frey drove off in triumph. HOLLYWOOD The French Foreign Legion appears to be gaining considerable favor with film producers as a background for their pictures these days. We have seen two such productions within the last few weeks and un-d rstand there are two or three more in the offing. The most recent to make its a arance is "Beau Ideal," a sequel to the highly a ised "Beau Geste," made as a silent film several Loretta Young years ago "Beau Ideal" was made by Herbert Brenon, who directed "Beau Geste," and there is one man of the original cast, Ralph Forbes, back again. As you may remember, Forbes as John Geste was the only one of the three Geste brothers who survived the terrific battle in "Beau Geste." i Ty EAU IDEAL" carries on from 'B to 10 years in the penal battalion for having killed a superior officer during that battle.

Lester Vail, who plays the role of Otis Madison, the American pal of the Geste brothers, learns of this from Loretta Young. Forbes' sweetheart, and sets cut to find his friend. From then on there are the usual battles that might be expected in a film with a Foreign Legion background, and in the end both Forbes and Vail are freed for their part in saving a Legion fort from capture. Although Brenon did not do quit as good a Job with this pro ii ft' At Firemen Cat Down Blazing Symbol In Btechview A sharp explosion announced the firing of an cross on Price Hill, overlooking the 400 block of Crane Avenue, Beechvicw, last night. Firemen chopped down the biasing symbol, first of its kind to burned here in years.

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