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SALESMAN ROBBED
OF AUTO AND COO
Pennsylvanian Thrown Out
by Pair on Capital’s
Outskirts.
Two youthful bandits were being
•ought by police today in connection
With the robbery of a Pennsylvania
oil salesman, who was left stranded
near the outskirts of the Capital after
being relieved of his new automobile
and about $200 in cash, clothing and
Jewelry.
The victim of the hold-up—Earle
R. Weaver, 38, of Lancaster, Pa —
special representative of the Amer
ican Oil Co. in Baltimore, told police
his expensive coach, purchased last
Saturday, was boarded by the youths
at Fifteenth and H streets northeast
late yesterday.
When he stopped for a traffic light
at the Intersection, the bandits, who
appeared to be in their teens, jumped
Into the car, one of them sitting up
front with a revolver pressed against
Weaver’s side and the other getting
In the back.
Making him drive around for a
few blocks, the boys, apparently
strangers here themselves, tried to
get out into the country, where
Weaver believed they intended to dis
pose of him.
"I was scared to death.” he added,
“I wasn’t sure whether they said they
were going to ‘bump me off' or ‘‘dump
me off.’ ”
As it turned out, they ‘‘dumped him
off” at the end of Channing street
northeast, forcing him to walk into a
t woods after taking his $50 watch, $70
worth of clothing. $65 in cash and $15
in dimes, which Weaver had been col
lecting ‘‘against a rainy day.” Then
they drove off in his car.
Weaver had just arrived here when
the hold-up took place. He was on his
way to Richmond.
Other robbery reports were made by
Harry B. Humphrey of Cabin John,
Md., in charge of the Christian Science
reading room, 730 Seventeenth street,
who said the room was broken into
during the night and $50 taken from
a safe, and John Hill, 752 Seventh
street southeast, treasurer of the
Mount Joy Baptist Church,
Fifth street and Virginia ave
nue southeast, who said $15 of the
church’s money was stolen from under
a mattress at his home.
HUSBAND DESCRIBES
FINDING WIFE’S BODY
Is Witness as Trial of Apartment
Employe in Bathtub Slay
ing Opens.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 9.—Fighting
to retain his self-control, Frank W.
Case, 30-year-old hotel executive and
Cornell graduate, told a jury in Queens
County Court today of finding the bat
tered body of his wife in the bathtub
of their Jackson Heights apartment on
the evening of January 11.
Twenty feet away. Major Green. 33
year-old colored houseman charged
with killing Mrs. Mary Harriet Case,
25-year-old bride of one year, sat with
half smile on his face as the young
husband detailed his harrowing ex
perience.
“I walked into the apartment and
noticed blood in the kitchen and went
through the living room, where I no
ticed disorder and a chair overturned,”
Case said. "There was more blood on
the floor there.
”1 went from the living room to
the little hallway leading to the bed
room and looked into the bath room
and turned on the light.” There was
complete silence in the court room
filled with spectators, most of whom
Were women, as Case said:
“Then X found my wife in the bath
tub.”
"Was her head below the surface
of the water?” asked Assistant Dis
trict Attorney John J. Conroy.
“Yes.
“I had to remove a heavy spread
from the bath tub in order to remove
my wife. I took her out on the floor I
and felt my wife's pulse and heart ;
and I realized she was dead.”
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They Are Tops Among Beauty Models for 1937
This quartet is rated at the head of the list of America’s highest-paid photo models in 1937. All of them led the list last
year, too. Left to right: Barbara Beckwith, Miami, Fla.; Katherine McLaughlin, New York; Frances Donelon, New York, and
Frances Joyce, Scranton, Pa. They were selected for the Associated Press by Arthur O’Neill, photographer of magazine cover
girls. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
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SILVERMAN CASE -
INDICTMENT IS NIT
Defense Attorneys Contend
Facts Do Not Constitute
Violation as Charged.
Justice Peyton Gordon of District
Court had under advisement today a
demurrer to the indictment returned
more than a year ago charging a dis
missed Army general, a former mem
ber of Congress and Joseph Silver
man, jr., and his brother Nathan with
conspiring to defraud the Government.
Attorneys for the four men verbally
attacked the Indictment at length In
court yesterday afternoon, contend
ing the facts alleged do not consti
tute a violation of the statute under
which the defendants are charged.
The true bill specifies that they con
spired to prevent Frank E. Speicher
from testifying before the House Mili
tary Affairs Committee during its in
vestigation of alleged War Department
lobbying.
The Silvermans were surplus war
goods dealers and had numerous trans
actions with War Department officials.
Another of the defendants. Thomas
J. Ryan, former member of Congress
from New York, was their attorney,
while the fourth accused was Brig.
Gen. Alexander E. Williams, one-time
acting quartermaster general of the
Army.
Seeking to convince the court the
indictment should be voided, Attor
ney Frank Swacker of New York con
tended no facts were alleged which
would support the conclusion there
was the deceit and chicanery neces
sary to constitute fraud on the Gov
ernment.
The picture drawn in the indict
ment might well support a charge that
an obstruction was placed in the path
of the investigating committee, but
in no sense amounts to the offense
alleged, he argued.
Assistant United States Attorney
Irvin Goldstein, who will retire as a
prosecutor February 15, defended the
validity of the indictment.
Following the hearing, Nathan Sil
verman issued a statement denying
that he or his brother had attempted
to keep Speicher away from the House
committee, and insisting that they
helped the committee in every way
possible.
Cornell Professor to Speak.
Prof. Edward A. White, head of the
floricultural department of Cornell
University, will be guest speaker at a
luncheon to be held tomorrow at 12:30 ;
p.m. in room 6554 in the south build- :
ing of the Agriculture Department by
the alumni of Massachusetts State
College. White was a member of the
Massachusetts State class of '95.
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Nose Most Important Feature
In Beauty, Photographer Holds
Arthur O’lSeill Lists Four Girls Re
peating This Year as Members of
All-America Beauty Model Team.
What does it take for a girl to be |
a camera cutie? Arthur O’Neill,
photographer of magazine cover
girls, tells all. Three years ago
O’Neill selected an all-American
beauty model 11. Annually since
that time he has chosen the top
ranking models for the Associated
Press. In this article O'Neill nom
inates the 1937 beauties and tells
about those who have kept in the
running since his first selections
were published.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 9—The
dazzle-eyed girl on the magazine cover
didn't get there because of her eyes.
It’s the nose—pert, aristocratic,
classic or “teasy”—that counts most
of any single feature in the struggle
to reach the top among America's
highest-paid photo models.
Arthur O'Neill. New York photog
rapher of magazine cover girls, voiced
that dictum today in announcing the
names of four ‘ repeaters” on the 1937
"all-America beauty model” team—
selected from literally thousands of
hopefuls streaming into New York
annually from every section of the
country.
Quartet Is Listed.
The quartet, as listed by O’Neill,
follows:
Frances Donelon of New York City,
No. 1 photographic model of 1937.
"She's got everything,” says O’Neill.
Barbara Beckwith of Miami. Fla.,
daughter of a physician, typed as
"sweet.”
Katherine McLaughlin of New York
City, “girl with a classic profile."
Frances Joyce of Scranton, Pa., the
ideal "evening gown girl.”
Only these four repeated from last
year's selections. Eighteen others
have either married, gone to Holly
wood to seek fame in the movies, or
dropped from sight.
About 50 girls a week come into
O'Neill's studio, wanting to be models.
“And some of them are knockouts—
to the naked eye—but not to the
camera. I'm lucky if I can use one
in a hundred,” he said.
"It isn’t surface beauty that counts.
When I’d see a pretty girl in a cafe,
I used to get all excited and say,
‘There's a girl I’d like to take a picture
of.’ But I tried it once, and she came
out in the photographs looking like
Donald Duck. Her clever make-up
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didn’t show blue in the picture—hid a '
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Figure, poise, grace of movement,
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in selecting a model, O’Neill said, but
there has to be a face to go with it.
And here is how he rates the value
of facial attributes:
1. Bone structure—the ‘ chassis’’ of
the whole design—30 per cent.
2. Nose—25 per cent.
3. Eyes—15 per cent.
4. Chin—15 per cent.
5. Teeth—10 per cent.
6. Hair—5 per cent.
Poor Features Made Beauty.
‘‘But, he added thoughtfully, ‘‘one
of the best models I ever had—I
wouldn’t have given her 5 per cent on
any feature she had. Individually
they were all bad: taken together they
made a striking beauty. She's in the
movies now.”
Few remain long as models, O'Neill
said. They try Hollywood or drift
away to other channels of life—al
though they may earn as much as $25
an hour or average $200 a week.
But there is a never-ending flow of
the Nation’s most beautiful girls con
stantly laying siege to O'Niell's offices.
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Stranger Species.
A “Noah’s Ark” of American wild
animals will leave the Zoo here for
the East Indies this afternoon in order
that Dr. William M. Mann, Zoo direc
tor and leader of a collecting expedi
tion to Sumatra, may give, as well as
receive, zoological specimens.
Dr. and Mrs. Mann and Dr. May
nard Owen Williams, staff representa
tive of the National Geographic So
ciety, already have arrived in Japan
on their way to Sumatra.
Alligators Included.
The “Noah’s Ark” contains 10 alli
gators. 2 jaguars, 2 mountain lions, 3
’possums, 2 raccoons, 2 black bears
and 5 hellbenders. Like the animals
in the original Ark, there is a male
and female of each kind.
Acting in the role of Noah will be
Roy Jennier and Malcolm Davis,
keepers from the Washington Zoo.
They are provisioned for a long voy
age.
The "Ark,’' which in this case will
be the Dutch motorship Talisse, will
sail from New York tomorrow, and
will take 40 days to reach Belawan
Deli, Sumatra, by way of the Cape
of Good Hope.
The alligators are expected to doze
most of the way, especially if the
weather is fairly cool. Like all cold
blooded creatures, the alligators’ vital
functions almost cease if they are
kept a little chilly.
All Used to Cages.
The two jaguars were bom In the
zoo here 18 months ago. All the ani
mals have spent aU or most of their
lives in captivity.
The ’possum will be a rarity In
the Par East, Sumatra and the near
by mainland of Asia, for there are no
marsupials, animals which carry their
young in a pouch, in that region.
The nearest are the kangaroos and
their cousins in Australia.
The Orient has crocodiles and the
long-snouted gavial, but no alliga
tors, except in China, and that is a
different species. There are bears,
but none like the American black
bear. Some scientists beUeve the
raccoon is a very distant relative of
Asia's famous giant panda.
The animals will travel to New
York in an express car, attached to
a regular passenger train.
Russians bought 200 per cent more
candy in 1936 than in 1935.
Local Counsel to Outline
Legislative Proposals
Also.
The proposed legislative program of
the National Retail Credit Association
was to be outlined by R. Preston
Shealey, local counsel for the organi
zation, at the final sessions of the con
ference at the Mayflower Hotel today.
Numerous other retail credit prob
lems were to be considered by the
nearly 250 representatives of .credit
agencies in seven States and the Dis
trict.
“Retail Credit Inflation: Is It a
Possibility or a Fact?” was to be the
subject of a discussion by Presldeht
John A. Reilly of the Second National
Bank of Washington. ,,
Election and installation of officers
and selection of the date and place for
the next meeting were to conclude the
conference this afternoon.
With the credit business here rap
idly returning to the 1928 high mark,
Washington credit men are faced with
the problem of whether to liberalize dr
tighten up on accounts. John K. Al
thaus, secretary to the Washington
Associated Credit Men, Inc., said in an
interview yesterday.
There was a 15 per cent increase in
local credit business last year, Al
thaus said, and a similar rise was ex
pected in 1937,
Kentucky Warns Job Hunters.
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