Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1926, Page 20

GRABTREE FORTUN COURT FIGHT BEGUN California Woman Claims She Is Child of Late Ac- = tress’*Sporty” Brother. ated Tyess December dation on which Mrs, burn of San Gabri bulld proof that « niece of the Lotta Crabtree popular actress of another day, and thus quall- £y for a shar was laid by Proba The spectal estate, which trust fund for War or thel The foun- lotta Cock- if., hopes to late administrators inciuded as offered > actress’ death in i in I how . clair daughter of John A Crabtree, the family ‘“black sheep,” who s “too sporty” for his famois sis! 3 Jack married record which fo e. and that she was born in Tombstone, | pted by Ed Builock, her v in the livery busi- Ariz, and father's par 3 e heard vest iay, 1 score of depositions Two San Francisco of- that all marrlage rec- troyed in the great fire. zen depositions concerned deeds recorded in Tombs in 1881 ohn and h Buliock to be Labitually 67, of Sun Francisco, v be the fiffeenth man i set forth that he had seen both Lotta and Jack Crabtres in San Franelsco in the hen Lotta Wi known da of Call 1 that Jack toid him | u brother of Lotta. but that | mily look on me as a blac too spprty.” rtiflc d he was He died in Charle: Mrs. Cockburn, | > is pronounced as if it | d Coburn, was in court terday. She Is netall, halred woman in Judge Frederic H. for the administrato ndicated the course h d when he told the dourt he would quc tlon the general respectability of th ombstone elghties, together with the manner of life there and the reiations between | men *nd won He sald that he < the credibility of certain witnesses. 1920, GEN. SLAVENS TO RETIRE., Relieved of Duty in Hawair Be-| cause of Ill Health. Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Slavens, re- cently serving with troops at Fort Schofleld Barracks, Hawall, has been relieved from all duty on account of | 1 health and ordered to his home to | awalt retirement. Gen. Slavens ls| from Indiana and was graduated from | the West Point Military Academy 1n| June. 1887 ved in_the Cavalry | until November, 1899, 1 he was! transferred to the Quartermaster Corps, and reached the grade of colo- | nel in May, 1017. In July, 1920, he | was transferrec nfantry and | n Beptember, moted to | the grade of brigadier general. 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And thus the practice is continued until the round has been | made of all the radio stores. But this practice is going to stop, | the radio dealers declare, by much the ame tactics that the phonograph | dealers adopted to curb the “dead’ ibeut.” Hereafter, the names of all radlo dealers as they sat down at a persons who borrow sets “on trial” luncheon meeting of the Radlo Mer-|will he listed at the h Assoclation of the District | the Radio Merchants day afternoon at Harvey’'s Res-|and dealers will have the priv g consulting it whenever an b here are in Washington a tlon is made for the loan of & group of radlo fans who have enjoyed | “Dead beats” uncovered by | the use of receiving sets for months, [tem will be blacklisted. )t them for a year or more per-| The dealers also discussed other hape, ut the entire expense of tha|questions of policy relating to their unsuspecting dealers, was freely ad- | business, and made plans for the . These sets are borrowed | Christmas trade. Fred Huber, When the batteries run down [ &=t of the association, pi [ History repeats itself. | The radio deslers of Washington have just revealed that they are !betng made the victims of the same | innocent but uneconomical little trick {that played havoc with the profits of the phonograph dealers in the heyday ¢ “canned music.” “What shall we do with the dead heat?" This was the dominating cry that went up among the organized POES CHARACTER GETS NEW DEFENSE Poet Blamed for Acts His El- der Brother Did, Assert " Biographers. By the ated Press. NEW YORK, December -A false | impression of the life of Edgar Allen Poe prevails in the national mind as the result of biographers confusinz his life with that of a little known brother, it is contended by Hervey Allen and Thomas Ollve Mabbott in a biography of Willlam Henry Leonard Poe, the brother, to be published soon. Henry Poe, as the authors call him, was born, like his brother, in Boston, in 1807. He died in 1331. He was JEWISH FUND CAMPAIGN |HEADLESS BODY MYSTERY | MEETS LIBERAL SUPPORT| NOT SOLVED IN MISSOURI Rev. W. L. Darby Finds Many | Prominent Washingtonians Con- tributing to Relief in Europe. | Officers Trying to Decide if Ohio Painter Was Slain or Died | of Exposure. Wi ¢ | By the Associated Preas | Prominent ns are re-| e ,‘,‘;tmingwnh: eal sent |, CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. Decem| sponding liberally to an appeul Sent| e, 3 __officers had not determined | out a few days ago by the American |yt night whether John Zoubeck, 30, | | Christian ¥und for Jewish Relief, /& union painter of Cleveland, Ohio, | Rev. Willlam L. Darby, secretary of | Whose headless body was found | the Federation of Churches, told the | Wednesday night near Patton 30| workers in the $150,000 United Jewish | miles northwest of hLe campalgn yesterday at a luncheon at deliberately or died of exposure. The mmunity. body had not been robbed and a gold Dr. Darby said that the next move [ watch was in one pocket. {in the local drive will be to enlist the| The headless body was found by a | active co-operation of the Protestant |hunter, who notified offlcials. The lat |and Catholic clergy. | ter, searching through thick woods | | the Jewish Edgar's elder by two vears. The authors do not find confusion in the general character of the brothers, due to alleged composite pictures in pre- vious biographers’ writings, for, they ort. the brothers were much alike, but they perceive a confusion of the brothers’ experiences. Henry Called Rather Wild. “Henry,” they say, “is known to have been rather wild, to have early developed a fondness for drink, to have been fond of female soclety—and to have died voung. That he must also have possessed a considerable charm. not a little talent, a some- was kilied | what precocious development, and a| vivid imagination—what little we have from his immature pen seems, clearly to indicate.” Even Henry's physical appearance much like that of Edgar, but he s a little taller. He wrote poetry the West Indies and South America, as he indicates himself in his work. “His adventures at least furnished forth a chapter of life which was ap- propriated and perhaps enlarged upon by his younger brother (Idgar) for trade purposes. It now appears, in- that many of the ‘standard of Edgar Allen Poe are a synthesis of especially in_rezard to the y 2 3 Henry Poe, say the authors, was, in editor for six months of the North American, an obscure literary magazine from.which some of the material in the forthcoming book, “Poe’s Brother,” was taken. In this magazine appeared excerpts from “Tamerlane” above Henry Poe's ini- tials, Edgar then being enlisted in the Army under an assumed name and in disgrace following his expulsion from the University of Virginia for debts. Correspondent to Speak Sunday to Forum Members. Frederic William Wile, newspaper correspondent, will address the third meeting of the National Jewish Forum Sunday evening at the center. Mr. Wile's topic will be “What's Going on in Washington” and will be along the line of his radio talks over WRC on “The Political Situation in ‘Washington.”” The Young Men's and Young Wom- en’s Hebrew Associations will act as hosts at the meeting, to which the public is invited. “Store Teeth” Can always be had, but you can never get “store eves,” unless they are the glass, sightless kind. Our service Is thorough. If you do not wear glasses but need them, we tell you; DECEMBER 3, 1926. HOLLYWOOD VICTORIOUS. Paramount Long Island Studio Reported About to Close. 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The next meeting of | the workers will be Sunday evening at, the center and the campaign leaders hope to pass the $100,000 mark by that time. "The iuncheon feet from a highw Zoubeck was last seen in this \‘lmn«! last September, when a State | with his automobile near where the, body was found. Sheriff Matthews | learned yesterday that Zoubeck had been In a Government hospital at Lit-| tle Rock, Ark.. and presumably was on his way to Cleveland yesterday was the ||l most enthusias meeting of workers | || vet held. “Pep” talks were made by David L. Frank, major of drive force: Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, honorary rman, and Mrs. Henry Hirsh. The rabbis of the various local syna- ! gogues and the Eighth Street Temple | R0l devote part of their services to- || night to an appeal to ali Jews to give | liberally to the fund, that the quota | imay be attained in the allotted time. BLOW PROVES FATAL. 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