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MRS. RICKARD AND DAUGHTER
MRS. RICKARD, wife of the late Tex Rickard, box
ing promoter, is shown at her Miami Beach home with
her daughter, Maxine. They will spend the winter at
the Florida resort.
Ruth Says Love for Sessue
Blotted Marriage Vows
Following is the fourth in a
aeries of articles written by Ruth
Noble exclusively for The Wash
ington Times and International
News Service in which the actress
reveals the intimate details of her
romance with Sessue Hayakawa,
Japanese actor. *
By RUTH NOBLE
(Copyright. 1931. by international
News Service)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.—Al
though Sessue Hayakawa for a
long time said nothing to me
while we were on our vaudeville
tour, I often caught him glancing
at me. and I could tell by his
eyes that he cared for me.
But, there was his wife, Tsuru.
He was forever trying to keep
from hurting her. And so was I.
Our act played Kansas City
and I introduced Sessue to my
father and mother there. They
thought he was charming. We
moved on to St. Louis and fate.
“Be My Sweetheart”
On the balcony of a hotel in
St. Louis, Sessue met me one
afternoon and said sharply: /
“Ruth, you’ve been playing
with me. You can’t do it any
longer.”
“What, I demanded, aston
ished.
“Yes,” he continued, “you
have. I love you. I can’t stand
it. Be my sweetheart and make
me gloriously haPpy.”
I was too dumbfounded to
answer right then and he con
cluded:
“Think it over for 24 hours.
Then let me know.”
When Sessue asked me to be
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MARJORIE CLEMENTSON
THIS 25-year-old London girl
will sacrifice $7,500 in cash
and the income from $230,000
by marrying Bernard Thorp,
also of London. The money
Was left to her in a will of an
uncle with the condition that
•be remain single.
his sweetheart, I was tom by a
mixture of emotions.
I loved him and he was eager
for his love In return, but I
thought, too, of the rules of con
vention and the teachings of my
early girlhood days.
‘Yes,” Is Her Answer
It was in the afternoon that
Sessue gave me 24 hours to make
my decision, but it was the
same night that I gave him my
answer. And the answer was
“yes.”
After the show that night, he
called me to his dressing room
in a St. Louis Theater.
“Darling,” he said, taking me
in his arms, “I’ve got to know.
If you say ‘no,” I’ll never bother
you again. But I’ve got to
end this suspense. I love you
too much to go on this way.”
I told him I loved him deeply,
but that I could not betray my
marriage vows.
English Actor’s Wife
I was still married to Edmund
Darby, an English actor. I told
him I couldn’t hurt his wife,
Tsuru, like that; that his demand
was futile. But all the time my
heart was choking me.
Sessue released his hold. He
stepped back and his handsome
face was troubled.
A gale of emotion swept over
me. I started for the door, but
I turned at the threshold and
cried:
“My answer is ‘yes.’”
In her fifth life chapter, exclu
sively in The Washington Times
on Monday, Miss Noble will con
clude the story of her romance
with the Japanese actor.
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THUG FLEES
A bulging pocket in a man’s
coat today during a discussion
so alarmed Chris Sawris, lunch
room employe at 1616 Fourteenth
St. N. W. today that he called
police
Within one minute three radio
cars were on the scene ( and a
few seconds later the headquarters
“stickup” squad arrived. Sawris
explained:
“A colored man wanted to
sell me some cigarettes. I told
him we didn’t want any, and he
started to argue. I stepped to
ward him and he put his hand
in his pocket and seised some
thing. I think it was a gun.
“I hollered for help, and the
man ran, going north on Four
teenth Street.”
G. O. P. Heads Attend
Clubhouse Opening
Walter Newton, secertary to
President Hoover, and Simeon D.
Fess, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, were among
prominent Republicans who at
tended the formal opening last
night of the new clubhouse of the
National Capital Republican Club
at Scott Circle. , ’ , 1
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
‘Approach Bid 9 System Vindicated, Says Mrs. Culbertson
CITY, AROUSED,
WANTS THUGS
WIPED OUT
“Catch Them, Hang Them,”
'is Cry As Police Press
Search for Gang
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Dec. 19
(I.N.S.).—“Get the kidnapers.
Hang them.”
This was the battle cry of
Kansas City police today as
they renewed and widened
their hunt for the desperate
gang which released Mrs. Nell
Quinlan Donnelly, wealthy
kitchen garment manufacturer,
after holding her and her
negro chauffeur in captivity
for 34 hours.
The search for the abductors,
who had demanded $75,000 ran
som on penalty of blindiar Mrs.
Donnelly with acid and killing
her driver, George Blair, was or
ganized in response to’ a mount
ing public clamor demanding ex
termination of the kidnaping
menace.
Highly Organized Gang
Mrs. Donnelly’s abduction was
the latest episode In a long series
of similar incidents apr ir~ntly
resulting from operations of a
highly organized gang whose spe
cialty is seizure for ransom of
Kansas city’s wealth residents.
Even though the kidnapers re
leased Mrs. Donnelly and her
chauffeur without collecting the
ransom or carrying out their
threats of injury and death, pub
lic indignation against them was
at high pitch.
Reed Demands Action
This feeling was crystallized in
the words of former Senator
James A. Reed, who, as a neigh
bor and counsel of the Donnellys,
led the negotiations preceding the
wealthy vi’man's release.
“I would like to crown this
kidnaping with a good hang
ing.”
Paul F. Donnelly war veteran
and husband of Mrs. Donnelly,
concurred with the ex-senator and
joined him in co-operating with
police in their efforts to appre
hend the kidnapers.
Kidnaping is punishable by
death on the gallows under Mis
souri law.
County Committees
Shop for Christmas
Special committees from the Ar
lington county Monarch Club and
the Business and Professional
Women’s Club will meet Tuesday
night to make final preparations
for the Christmas party for needy
children.
Both clubs have made appro
priations for the purchase of
presents.
Navy Man's Home
Rifled of SSO Loot
Clothing and jewelry valued at
more than SSO was stolen from
the home of Comdr. Paul H. Bas
tedo, U. S. N., of 3055 W St. N. W.,
he told police last night.
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THIS HOUSE on Dove Street, Albany, N. Y., is where celebrating his acquittal on a
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REDISTHIGTING
FIGHT NEAR
That a real battle over the re
districting of Virginia to elimi
nate one Congressional district
in accordance with the reappor
tionment under the 1930 census
will be staged in the general as
sembly when it convenes in Jan
uary.
State Senator Aubrey Weaver,
of Front Royal, said that he sees
possibility of a real deadlock in
the legislature in view of the op
position of people in all districts
to a change.
One group of ’egislators in a
Tidewater district, he said, will
definitely oppose any change.
• Senator Weaver said that he
had held conferences with Repre
sentative Smith of Alexandria,
and Repi tentative I ishbourne,
of Charlottesville, recently.
The Senator denied that his
conference with the two Repre
sentatives concerned redistricting.
Skeleton Uncovered
In Tunnel on Hill
NORWALK, Ohio, Dec. 19
(I.N.S.).—Buried in a tunnel
which had been dug into the
side of a hill, a skeleton of an
adult person was found today
on the farm of Commissioner
Glenn Wood. State road work
ers discoveied the remains and
brought them to the sheriff’s of
fice. An investigation was started
immediately.
—lnternational Photo
The National Daily
Clara Calls Her New Home
( Mv Desert of Love’
Clara Bow has hit the come
back trail, winning back her
health in the desert shack of
Rex Bell, her husband. Recently
she built a mansion near his
humble dwelling. Miss Marian
Rhea, in the fourth article of a
series written exclusively for In
ternational News Service, de
scribes the hew "palace.”
BY MARIAN RHEA
SEARCHLIGHT, Nev., Dec. 19
(I.N.S.).—Clara Bow won back
her health in a shack on the
Nevada sagebrush.
And today she planned for a
future of happiness in a mansion
magically created where there
had only been wilderness before.
The new home, where the red
thatched film actress will live
with her cowboy husband. Rex
Bell, stands close to the original,
simple building that was Bell’s
only shelter.
Horns Over the Door
A pair of ferocious steer horns
hang over the door fbr a street
number, and endless miles of de
sert furnish the yard.
This is the house that marks
the symbol of victory to the red
headed film actress in her uphill
fight for health and happiness.
Clara says:
“It’s a swell joint.”
A Los Angeles architect was
summoned to the Bell ranch to
draw plans for the house, Clara
explained.
“We just kept moving rooms
and rooms around on the blue
print until we got what I
wanted.”
SATURDAY—DECEMBER 19—1931
Clara herself drove many a
nail in the house as it went up.
“It was lot’s of fun helping
to build my own home.”
Finally, after weeks of labor,
it was finished, a $25,000 crea
tion of white stucco and red tile.
“My Desert of Love”
There is a huge living room,
46 by 30 feet, with beamed ceil
ings and dull red cement floor
and a big fireplace fashioned
with desert rocks of a dozen
varieties—granite and silica and
dark red gold-bearing ore and
green rock.
There is another room beyond
this with a small bar and rail
and with a roulette wheel and
table slot machines for “atmos
phere,” as Clara explained.
There are rooms for servants,
a sumptuous bedrooms for Clara,
beautiful garden designed by a
landscape artist, and a giant
Joshua tree that overlooks the
patio.
Clara is entranced with her
home.
“My dearest paradise,” she re
marked. “My desert of love.”
In Monday’s article, exclu
sively in The Washington
Times, Miss Rhea will tell of
Clara's romance with Rex Bell.
BANDITS TAKE $6
Two men are sought today for
the robbery last night of Rich
mond Hairgton, colored cabman,
of 4503 J St. N. E., at New Jersey
Avenue and N Street Northwest.
The bandits took $6 from the
man.
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LENTfflm
‘MORATORIUM’
NEW YORK. Dec. 19 (1.N.5.).
The net score in the Lenz-Culbert
son bridge tournament stood at a
new high today.
Sidney Lenz and Oswald Jacoby,
pitting the 1-2-3 version of the of
ficial system against the approach
forcing method played by Ely
Culbertson and Theodore A. Light
ner, were 7,915 points behind.
With 87 rubbers remaining to
be played, there was no occasion
for despair in the Lenz-Jacoby
camp, but both hoped for an early
turn in the cards before the total
reaches a figure where a mora
torium may be in order.
The teams got through nine
rubbers last night. Six went to
Culbertson and Lightner.
W CONTINUES
UN M’FADOEN
A determined campaign by
President Hoover’s personal friends
in Congress to politically destroy
Representative Louis T. McFad
den (R.) of Pennsylvania was in
full swing today.
The President’s friends declared
“no quarter” in their reprisals
for the Pennsylvanian’s attack in
the House in which he charged
Mr. Hoover was “the tool of
international bankers.”
They were not satisfied with
stripping him of patronage and a
threat to enter a candidate
against him. They attacked his
motives.
McFadden stood his ground, in
viting congressional investigation
of his statements and demanding
an investigation of international
bankers.
One member of the Pennsyl
vania delegation, Representative
Golder, came to his defense, de
claring:
“There is not a member of
our delegation who has the
affection or respect of his col
leagues to a greater extent than
Mr. McFadden.”
A riotous scene was narrowly
averted in the House last night
when Representative Free (R.) of
California, close friend of Presi
dent Hoovr, rose to attack Mc-
Fadden.
Dance Marathoners
Pass 375’Hour Mark
Marathon dancers at the Wash
ington Auditorium passed the 375-
hour mark at noon today with
22 contestants still in the run
ning. The nearest approach to a
casualty in the last 24 hours was
Jack Sellers, of Indianapolis, who
was forced to take time out be
cause of an injury to his leg.
He returned to the floor in the
prescribed time, however.
A capacity crowd last night ap
plauded the efforts of the weary
marathoners to entertain the
spectators. “Amateur night” will
be celebrated at the ringside to
night. Volunteers will be called
upon to provide entertainment
for the marathon fans.
SHE CHIDES EL!
FOR GESTURE.
'DON'T SHOOT’
Good-Humoredly Raps His
‘lmpetuosity’ Which Moves
Lenz to Cite Rules
Following is the description by
Josephine Culbertson of the ninth,
night's play in the Culbertson-
Lenz contract bridge tournament.
By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
World’ll Greatest Woman Bridge Player
(Copyright. 1931. by International
News Service)
NEW YORK. Dec. 19.
When the Ninth Rubber of the
ninth session and the Sixty-
Third Rubber of the match be
tween my husband and Sidney
S. Lenz, to test the merits of
the approach-forcing system of
contract bidding in contrast
with the official system, had
ended last night, the number of
aces held by the respective
sides was even at 744 each.
Ely and his partner. Theodore
Lightner, had held 16 more Kings
than had Mr. Lenz and Oswald
Jacoby, his partner. However,
we were 7,915 points ahead in
the score and had won 34 rubbers
against 29 by our opponents.
Sees System Proven
While Aces and Kings are not
necessarily decisive measuring
sticks of the value of the cards
held, all other things being equal,
they do paint a reasonably ac
curate picture of the strength of
the hands, provided the number
of hands is great enough to
eliminate the question of freak
holdings.
This being true, a lead of
nearly 8,000 points would indi
cate that the approach-forcing
system of bidding is proving its
case.
One thing seemed clearly evi
dent today: If Mr. Jacoby had
not entirely recovered from his
propensity for psychic bidding,
he was at least convalescing.
There was not a single psychic
bid o psychic overcall from him
or from any other player during
the session.
Users of the approach-forcing
system do not utilize psychic
bids, although they make many
psychological bids.
A “Beautiful” Example
There were many instances
uuring the evening that tended
Continued on Page S, Col. 2.
Credit Men Deny
Teachers Fail to Pay
Protesting charges by a local at
torney that Washington school
teachers often fail to meet their
credit obligations, the Associated
Retail Credit Men of Washington
yesterday, in a letter to Dr. Frank
W. Ballou, superintendent of
schools, declared that the percent
age of such teachers is small.
The letter, signed by S. H.
Talkes. secretary of the associa
tion, points out that teachers “as
a whole meet their obligations in
a prompt and entirely satisfactory
manner.”
Beauty in Reno
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MRS. TOM HEARN
THIS YOUNG woman who
was selected as "Miss Canada”
two years ago, has established
a residence in Reno to obtain
a divorce.
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