THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JULY 20, 193 i -.1 11 Weashington Off The Record A NEW YORKER AT LARGE By JAMES B., RESTON NEW YORK - Trivia: Rudy Vallee didn't like the shape of his eyelids, so he had them changed. That explains the dark glasses he has John Reindel In Finals Of Detroit Tennis Meet Indians' Pitcher May Be Lost Forever To Baseball By SIGRID ARNE SENATOR SHEPPARD of Texas is one of the smaller men in the Senate, but a political op- ponent found it unwise to attack him on that score. "What?" shouted the opponent in a speech. "Send a little guy like that to represent Texas. Why, I could swallow him in two bites." Sheppard smiled and rose. "If my opponent swallows me," he said, "he will be an oddity. He will have more brains in his stomach than he has in his head." Serious as Representative Mary Maverick of Texas can be in his advocacy of TVA, he cotldn't resist a pun while talking about the agency on the House floor. "Why, TVA," hei said, "is the busiest New Deal agency by a 'dam' site." SUNSET picks out in startling clarity the 21 figures carved on the south pediment of the new archives building nearing completion. Those figures have been in process of creation for a year and a half. James E. Fraser of New York, the sculptor, cast them first in a six-foot model; then in an 18-foot model; and finally in a working model of 118 feet. Now he is scanning them through a field glass from positions up and down the mall to assure himself the lights and shadows stand out the way he wishes. Representative Dewey Short of Missouri was wound up in a harangue against a bill he didn't like,. He concluded with: "You can't change the condition of a rotten egg. Boil it, fry it, scramble it, poach it-- and you'd still have to open the windows." TICE-PRESIDENT GARNER'S sense of mis- chief got him into a George Washington- cherry tree episode at a dinner party. The guests wanted to play bridge, but Garner protested he didn't play well. However he sat down, refused to move from one table all evening, and piled up a huge score. When the hostess brought him and his partner the evening's prizes, Garner chuckled. "Thank you, mam," he said, "I can't accept it." And he pointed to a large mirror hanging just be- hind his partner. THERE is a legend about Washington's many equestrian statues. It says: If the right foot of the horse is raised, the rider was killed in battle; if both feet are raised, the rider was wounded, and if all four feet are on the ground, the rider came through safely. However, it is just a legend, says the fine arts commission. ECAUSE Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the secretary of the navy, was a famous Virginia beauty in her "deb" days, she can afford to tell this story, which is one of her favorites: A Virginia deb; returning home, told her mother of a lovely girl she had met. "But I forgot to ask her where she's from," she concluded. "Never do that, my dear," said the mother, "if she's from Virginia, she'll say so. And if she isn't there is no need to mortify her." There may be some relation between the fresh pink cheeks of Senator McNary of Ore- gon, and his lunch. He drinks a huge glass of buttermilk. DETROIT, July 19. - UP) -- Milton I TITUSVILLE. Pa.. July 19. - (AP) - Bielfield. Detroit public court's vet- Clint Brown, pitcher for the Cleve- eran, and Johnny Reindel, former land Indians, is probably all through University of Michigan star, will clash with baseball, relatives disclosed to- tomorrow in the singles finals of the night. city tennis tournament. Clint. who has won four games and Bielfield won his way into the finals dropped one this season, is blind bracket yesterday by beating Bill in one eye and may lose the sight of Croul, 6-4, 6-0. 6-0. Reindel defeated the other because a fan tossed a fire- Frank Donovan, 6-4. 6-4, 6-4, in the cracker out of the stands and in front semi-finals. of the players' bench. Dust and pebbles flew into Brown's BUT NO GOLD face as the firecracker exploded. The A hand-hewn wheelbarrow and accident occurred shortly before July other equipment used by Spanish 4th. w ----- ENDS TONIGHT - "STOLEN HARMONY" plus "HOME ON THE RANGE" Sunday - Monday - Tuesday Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler "GO INTO YOUR DANCE" plus BETT E DAVIS "GIRL FROM 10th AVE." been wearing .. . a .. j Myrna Loy, back from Europe, tells me that the Germans think conditions over there are serious but not hopeless, and the Viennese think they are hopeless but not serious. The summer theaters in the suburbs are attracting more stars this season than ever before. If any of your favorites are in this list, you can find them playing some- where around town: Ina Claire, Earle Larimore, Flor- ence Reed, Fay Bainter, Fran- miners more than a century ago was found by a prospector near Big Pines, Calif. Hal Schumacher of the Giants held opponents to nine hits or less - no double digits-through eight straight games, all of which he won. MAjE S EC 25c SATN OA Matinees 35C Evenings ces Starr, James Kirkwood, June Walker, Lenore Ulric, Ruth Gordon, Tom Powers. Ethel Barry- more, Mary Phillips and Libby Holman. Donald Ogden Stewart is in town seeing the shows . . . Edna Ferber has closed her midtown apartment and is off to Hollywood to help with the movie script which will be written from her novel, "Come and Get It." . . Two of the richest hotels in town are the Gotham and the Plaza, and by the same name are two others, on the Bowery . . . Now that "The Petrified Forest" has closed, Peggy Conklin, who played opposite Leslie Howard, is off to Bermuda: Irene Purcell and Frank Milan are also there . . . Charlie MacArthur and Helen Hayes are spending the summer eve- nings driving around to see the plays at the coun- try theaters. Incidentally, they have been troubled so much by movie fans that Charlie had to have a huge wall put around his old white house in Nya ck, N. Y. THE COMPETITION between the night clubs and the countless drinking dens in town has become so keen that the proprietors are resorting to all kinds of intrigue to get business. Mainly they are using girls. Some of the places have as many as 20 girls working for them on the out- side. The girls make a deal whereby they bring their men to the bar and get a cut of the amount of money they spend there. Of course, they can't make a living at this, but at least they make enough at it to buy their meals. Some of the girls have working agree- ments with several places, and drag the suckers from one spot to another. * '* * STRANGELY quiet spot in the midst of the bustle of lower Broadway is the Old Trinity graveyard, wherein many famous historical char- acters are buried. Much has been written about Old Trinity and the men now in the yard, but little about Samantha Proctor, who also lies there and has this inscription on her headstone: Here lies our wife, Samantha Proctor; She ketched a cold and would not doctor. She could not stay, she had to go.; Praise God from whom all blessings flow. We understand that one of the Ethiopian princes is going to turn his lions loose on the invading Italians. The Italians, in their turn, plan to burn holes in the Abyssinian's feet with a powerful chemical spread by tanks. Then, again, the Ethio- pians will loose tse-tse flies in Il Duce's camps. It leads us to wonder if such old-fashioned things as guns and cannon are to be used in this "nice" war. 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HURRICANE" ________________________ _________ FRo "Vaca "F11ightil W Two Paul Muni "BLACK FUL About The Auto Horn Nuisance Y1 5- yf/ James 0. Spearing in the New York Times THE AUTOMOBILE HORN has come to be rec- ognized as an international nuisance and, in its disturbance of sleep and agitation of nerves, often a definite menace to health. In the opinion of many, it is also frequently a contributing cause of accidents instead of the aid to safety it is sup- posed to be. The argument is that too many driv- ers depend upon loud blasts rather than brakes to prevent collisions with vehicles and pedestrians. In virtually every country in the world in which automobiles are used extensively, measures have been taken to restrict the use of horns. In some places, this restriction has gone to the limit of ab- solute prohibition of the noise they make, except in cases of emergency. This is true in many cities in Italy. Some months ago, the use of horns was forbidden in Rome. Since then, it is reported, most Italian cities have availed themselves of a law giving every municipality the right to prohibit the blowing of horns in inhabited areas. Beneficial results have been achieved by this outlawing of horns, accord- ing to Arnaldo Cortesi, correspondent of the New York Times in Rome. "The experience of the various Italian cities," he reports, "has proved conclusively that it is pos- sible for traffic, even very heavy traffic, to move without the use of any warning signals what- ever." * * * * Sweden has also gone far toward silencing the horn. It is reported from Stockholm that the national Riksdag has passed a measure decreeing that horns shall not be blown anywhere in the country except when a driver wishes to signal an- other driver of his intention to pass. The driver receiving such a signal must respond by extending his arm or flashing a light. The law expressly forbids the blowing of horns at street and high- way intersections. One of the latest recruits to the movement for the limitation of horn blowing is Great Britain. In August of last year, it was ruled that no horns should be sounded between 11:30 p.m. and 7 a.m. within a five-mile radius of Charing Cross. Re- Prefect of Police, forbade the blowing of horns between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. seven years ago, but it remains one of the noisiest cities in the world during the day. "The ego of the French taxi driver, as well as of the young man about town, is far too powerfully developed to permit slowing down at intersections," says P. J. Philip, Paris correspondent. "In the daytime, such drivers blow their horns and at night they switch on .their lights as signals, but they never stop. If they weren't permitted to hoot in the daytime, they might get into the habit of slowing down. "Throughout the country, the blowing of horns is carried to a majestic pitch, and villages along the main roads are usually reduced to a state of nervous prostration after a two-day public holi- day." Horns have become unpopular in Austria, too, and word from Vienna is to the effect that honk- ing will probably be forbidden there within the next few months. * * * * The search for relief from raucity by tempering the sound.of horns has been especially successful in Belgium, according to report. All cars are re- quired to have the same kind of horn which, it is said, minimizes the shock of traffic noise for horses as well as human beings. Germany presents a picture considered typically German-little activity in regulation, yet rela- tively quiet. The Reich has a uniform traffic code which merely provides that horns must not be too loud and must have only one tone. In New York City, so far, little has been accom- plished in the direction of silencing horns, but members of the legislative and police departments of the municipal government are interested, and private organizations have renewed propaganda for peace in the streets. Without proposing any definite degree of limitation, the League for Less Noise has begun a campaign to arouse public sup- port for restriction of the use of horns, and the First Avenue Association has joined the move- ment. One definite proposal has been made. It is that (' v s. read iV' ashington SNews, kno the U in b ia s e d ! 1I , N L=" S y r_..' X' 7. t} y.