Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1926, Page 7

BELEF WRS. HOUCK - LNESSUPPORTED Arkansas Clue Strengthened by Fact Grandmother Lives L in Neighboring State. The possibility that Mr: ‘W. Houck was actually Blytheville, Ark., several was strengthened today when it was Jearned that Mrs. Houck's grand- mother lives in that section of the country. The grandmother, Dr. Knutt Houck, husband of the missing wo. man, recalled this morning, lives at Carmen, a small city in the north-, vestern sectfon of Oklahoma. Had Mrs. Houck attempted to reach her grandmother’s home when she dis- eppeared from Washington two weeks ago, simultaneous with Her l BANKRUPTCY PETITION FILED BY LOCAL COMPANY Autometer Restaurant Corporation Volunteers Proceedings in Interest of Creditors and Stockholders. The National Autometer Res- taurant Corporation, which conducts business at 1417 New York avenue nd 1109 Pennsylvania avenue, today filed a petition in voluntary bank- ruptey. Edward C. Boyce, presicent of the company, tells the court that the financial condition of. the cor- poration is such that it should not further continue its business and for { the best interests of its creditors and I stockholders a petition in voluntary bankruptcy should be filed. No sched- ule of assets and liabilities accom- panied the petition, filed through At- torneys Tobriner & Graham. An application for the appointment of a receiver pending the election of a trustee in bankruptcy was filed by W. S. Quinby Co., one of the credit- ors, through Attorneys Loving & Hamner, in which it is stated that the Automefer corporation has debts totaling $44,500, and that its assets consist of stock worth $6,500 and fix- tures which are encumbered to the extent of $41,500. husband’s mental c)llapse, her route could have lain through Blytheville and around Springfield, Mo. Husband Clutches at Clue. When Dr. Houck was told of the olue, detectives said he clutched at it eagerly, and recalled that he had Justice Hitz named: Lunsford L. Hamner and Charles F. Young as re- ceivers, BRIDGE TO BE REPAIRED WHERE AUTO STRUCK IT forgotten completely to mention his wife's relatives in Carmen when he gave them long list of places where she might have sought refuge. The woman who it is believed may have been Mrs. Hc seen in Blytheville last Thursday. Three men who had seen Mrs. Houck's picture In a newspaper noticed a resemblance fmmediately and told the police. Their attention was first attracted by her nervous actions and by a mark on one cheek. She arrived in the town on an interstate bus and remained only long enough to change to an- other one. Chief of Police Hardin of Blythe- ville, who notified the local authori- ties of the incident, supplemented this brief message with another last night, in which he saild the description of Mrs. Houck tallled exactly with that of the woman. Refuses to Divulge Name. The stranger, he added, refused to tell where she had come from, but declared she had been traveling seven days and nights. That would coin- cide, to some extent, with Mrs. Houck’s disappearance. 2 ‘When the detectives left Dr. Houck &t Gallinger Municipal Hospital this morning they said he seemed much improved and demonstrated pointed @nxlety about his wife. FOURTH MAN SOUGHT IN KUHNE MURDER Sheriff Redoubles Efforts to Find Suspect in Slaying of Recluse After Failure Today. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER_MARLBORO, Md., Decem- ber 28—Prince Georges County au- thorities today redoubled their efforts to find the fourth man sought in con- mnection with the murder Friday night of Daniel Kuhne, 51-year-old recluse of near Duley Station. The arrest yes- terday of Edward Grier, colored, 28, of Duley, gave fresh impetus to the investigation, and Sheriff Early ran @own several clues which indicated that the arrest of the suspect sought would do much to clear up the mys- tery which has surrounded the case since the finding of Kuhne's body in the ruins of his burned home. Sheriff Early arrested two men Sun- day. They were Leon Bryant, 18, and ‘William Lattisaw, 55, both colored, of Duley. They are still being held I? Jail here, with Grier, for investiga- tion, The sheriff had expected to find his man this morning, but he had dis- appeared. Authorities, howev. hopeful of effecting his arrest soon. No charges have yet been placed against the other three men. Nothing has developed to change the original theory that robbery was the motive that led to the murder and the burn- ing of the home. FIVE ON POLICE FORCE One Removed for Desertion and Another Suspended for Intoxication. Disciplinary action was taken by the Commissioners today against five members of the Metropolitan Police Forc Pvt. Edward J. Castell was re- moved as a result of his conviction before the police trial board on a charge of desertion. Pvt. Jeffl Van was suspended without pay on a charge of intoxica- tion, and Pvt. John A. Donoven was ordered to pay a fine of $i5 on a similar charge. Pvts. William E. Brennan and Frank A. Davis were fined $10 each on a charge of conduct prejudicial to the good order, reputation and dis- cipline of the department. Brennan was accused of striking his brother officer while they were in the basement of the seventh precinet fon house on November 22. Davis 1sed of making an untruthful t 10 a superiors officer con- cerning the discoloration of his face, N . Sue to Recover on Notes. Nathan Musher, 2817 Connecticut avenue, was sued today in the District Supreme Court by Charles A. Carry, Mary C. Didden and Anna, Carry xecutors of Albert Carry, to recover $40.950 alleged to be due on three promissory notes. The court i t0ld that Musher made the notes p able January 1, 1924, 1925 and 1¢ for $13,650 each, but none of them been . Attorneys Bell, hail Rice appear for the plaintiffs . Petition in Bankruptcy Creditors of Robinson’s Music Store, Inc., today filed a petition in the District Supreme Court to have the corporation adjudged bankrupt. | The petiti ¥ they have claims | totaling and assert that the comp: is inzolvent and mitted acts of h sets of the co Fiven as $20,000. Attorne. 7. Husghes r.. appears for the complaining creditors Contract for Police Station. Contract for the construction of the proposed new police station for the fourteenth precinct was awarded by the Comm! ay to Arthur L. Smith & bidder, who quoted a_price of §50, OU’LL BE GLAD YOU SAVED YOUR MONEY! When Your Daughter Grows Up. Q Street Structure Will Be Re- stored as It Was, Say District Officials. The 20-foot section of the concrete parapet at the eastern approach to the Q Street Bridge, which was broken out when an automobile collided with it early Sunday morning, will be re- stored without changing the present construction, according to the Bridge Department. of the District govern- ment. Officials of that office said no changes in the plan of the bridze approach are contemplated, because it is felt the existing concrete parapet, several feet high and one foot in thickness, is ample. They pointed out that about one foot of the wall near the ground did not give way and that the ma- chine did not go through. No cne was serjously injured. The roadway of Q street curves just before the bridge is reached at Twen- ty-third street and the wall in ques- tion extends out around this curved approach to thestructure. Officials said a special variety of sand was used in the_construction of the par- apet to make the concrete a light color. It will cost about $200 to re- store the break in the wall. CYCLONIC STORM HITS SPAIN; SEVERAL KILLED 100 Fishing Boats Sunk, Country Home of Ibanez Damaged at Valencia. By the Associated Press. MADRID, Spain, December 28.— Spain today was recovering from the effects of a cyclonic storm which struck various parts of the country, with the loss of several lives, yes- terday. The fishing village of Castellon suf- fered particularly heavy losses, at least 100 fishing boats being sunk. Valencia also was hit by the storm, among the buildings damaged being the infant sanitarfum and the country place of Blasco Ibanez, the novelist, who is now living in France. The electric power plant was forced to close down and no newspaper could be published. More favorable weather reports were received from the affected areas today. INSECT PESTS STUDIED. Argentina Orders Survey When U./8. Bans Fruit Shipments. BUENOS AIRES, December 28 (). —Acting upon_several communica- tions from the United States Federal horticultural board, refusing to ac- cept fruit from Argentina at the port of New York, the minister of agri- culture has ordered another inspec- tion of the fruit zones in several provinces to determine if any insect pests are present. The minister will authorize the exportation to the United States of fruit only from those reglons found free from infection. The Argentine embassy in Wash- ington is being advised to this effect. THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON., D. ¢, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1926. Clementi Tammaro Held for Grand Jury in Death, Sun- day, of Aaron B. Vail. Clementi Tammaro, 49 years old, of 1315 Potomac avenue southeast was held for the action of the grand jury today at an inquest at the District morgue into the death Sunday of Aaron B. Vall, 54 years old, of 1630 Newton street northeast. Mrs. Louise C. Vail, widow of the victim, told in a choked voice how her husband had gotten out of his au- tomobile on the road near the filtra- tion plant reservoir, not far from Hobart place and Warder street, to repair a blow-out and had jacked up the rear axle. “I saw this light coming,” she sald, “and before 1 could turn to see or say a word the other machine had hit our car, moving it about 10 feet, and run over my husband. The driver didn’t get out of his car. I could hard- ly get him to back off.” The two daughters of the deceased also testified, and Miss Pauline Hunt of 232 Bryant street northeast, riding in a machine with her sister just be- hind the Tammaro automobile when the accident happened, said that as the latter machine turned a curve the headlights showed up the figure of a man repairing a tire on his auto- mobile. Sergt. Williams of the tenth pre- cinet, who arrested Tammaro, said that he claimed not to have seen the man until he had struck him. Tammaro does not speak English fluently and since he could not clear- ly understand Coroner Nevitt’s warn- ing as to his constitutional rights, did not take the stand to make a statement. Assistant United States Attorney John Littlepage appeared for the Government at the inquest. REVOLUTION GAINS SEEN IN BRAZIL, IS REPORT Rebels Defeat Government Column in San Borja and Are Menacing Cacheira. By the Assoclated Press. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, De- cember 28 —Revolutionary movements in Brazil are reported by La Nacion in dispatches from Montevideo, Uru- guay, based on messages from the Brazilian border. A government column, it is reported, was routed by revolutionaries at San Borja, Rio Grande do Sul and several loyal officers killed in the encounter. Rebels also are reported to be menacing Cacheira. Part of garrison at San Pedrito in Rio Grande do Sul has gone over to the revolutionary side. The government is hurrying loyal forces to Cacheira. SUES FOR PENSION. Former Soldier Says 20 Years’ Pay Due for Time in Asylum. Alleging that his monthly pension of $30 was withheld illegally from him while he was detained at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital under an Army order from March 12, 1906, until August 20 last, when he was released, Myer Landerman, 126 E street, today filed a petition in mandamus in the District Supreme Court to recover his pension, which amounts to $6,740.54, he says. Named as defendants are Hubert Work, Secretary of the In- terior; Dr. William A. White, super- intendent at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, and Winfleld Scott, Commisisoner of Pensions. Through Attorneys Godfrey L. Munter and M. T. Albertson, the petitioner says he was never ad- Judged insane by a jury and that his detention was unlawful and he should not have been deprived of his pension for the period spent at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Tl s Claims Pact Ratified. 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She offers a _de lightful interpretation of a little Vir- ginia girl whose heart and head are both far too weak. Sidney Blackmer, as Gregory Farnham, her ultimate fate, and Jack Willard, as Count Scipione Varelli, provide ample sup- port. In some other directions, how- ever, the casting director might have exercised more care. The story revolves around Diana Wynne, portrayed by Miss Kennedy. Diana is one of those impetuous Southern girls—the scenes still being laid in the mountains near Charlottes- ville—who just can’'t bear to think that any silly man might kill himself over her. So, in the very first act, she loses Gregory when she clandes- tinely engages 'herself to another man, who threatens to blow out his brains unless she wears his ring. Gregory goes away on an exploring expedition and when he returns he sets out to win Diana again. His success is immediate, but just at the psychological moment Count Varelli turns up. Diana has engaged herself to him in Gregory’s absence, under- standing he is dying for her and feel- ing that she is only making death easier for him. To her dismay, he recovers and arrives to claim her, Of course, Diana resorts to “white lies,” but In vain. She is trapped.’ Varelli snoots himself and Gregory goes away. Then a miracle happens! Sidney Rose Wynne, Diana’s cousin, nurses the count back to health and he falls des- perately in love with her. Naturally enough, Gregory and Diana “happen” to meet, too—otherwise it would not have ended as all comedies should end. The play is filled with more or less meaningless dialogue. And there also Is & disappointing absence of suspense and doubt throughout the evening. It is altogether too evident what is to happen next. BELASCO—Mrs, Fiske in “Ghosts.” After rousing Western audiences to a high pitch of enthusiasm and to critical pralse that at times seemed extravagant, Mrs. Fiske, distinguished actress that she is, with the assist- ance of a superb supporting cast, held a Belasco audience spellbound through the three acts of Henrik Ibsen's fascinating play “Ghosts” last evening. It was a rare treat in the theater, because Ibsen is a rare dramatist, ‘a wonderful painter in character’ drawing, and the creatures of his fancy were presented, doubt- less, as he would have had them, with dramatic art so blended with nature as to create an atmosphere | ality, of life into which the audience was irresistibly drawn and held as if it were a part of the drama. The casual patron of the theater in these days of musical frivolity and gushy romance is apt to be somewhat awed by the mere thought of an Ibsen play, it indeed he knows any- thing at all of the wonderful work of the great Norweglan dramatist, who by a sort of common consent is left to the “highbrow” of the li- braries. He might also think that “Ghosts” is a study in departed spirits. ‘Whatever speculation he might be inclined to indulge in, he had an awakening last night, and sometimes seed that falls upon rocky soil has been known to flourish and fructify. The action of the play takes place in the living room of Mrs. Helen Alving, widow of the chamberlain to the king, who has died . with the respect and admiration of his neigh- bors for his wonderful accomplish- ments. Her boy, Oswald, now in his late twenties and from whom she has been separated since he was seven, has returned and is to spend the Winter with her.. Pastor Manders, a cleric, who has long been the friend and adviser of her and her husband, also has arrived to consult with her about a new orphanage provided for in the chamberlain’s will. The dis- cussion between the pastor and Mrs. A N Evening Exceptionally Priced at LIPPERS to tured, scroll junior heel. B t,u;': RS A 22 P Jewelled slipper = 7 9P h P % Silver & Gold for-New Year’s “Picture” for every Daugh- ter of Eve—on New Year’s Eve. Glittering Gold Kids, as. pic- work Silver Kid Instep-strap Pumps or D'Orsay Opera Pumps, with slender skyscraper heel klets, chains and other unusual garni- tures—cobwebby, sheer chiffon evening evening hose—at our “Stocking Shop.” OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERS Alving develops that in her early marnied life she had left her husband and gone to the pastor, who had de- nounced her wickedness and sent her back to her lawful spouse. In re counting this, in perhaps one of the longest speeches ever made in a play, the pastor reprehends the widow, and, stung to the quick with his re- proaches and injustice, she retaliates with the truth about her husband, who has been a weakling and a wanton, but whose faults she had religiously concealed. It is then dis closed that her maid, Regina Eng- strand, is none other than her hus. band's child by a wanton woman, and the tensity of the drama is increased when it is disclosed that her son has really come to her to confess that he is losing his mind and that he con- ceives there is no help for him save through Regina. Mrs. Fiske's portraiture is a mas- terpiece of dramatic art into which she injects a bit of her own person- o that, instead of & mor- bid Norweglan woman, she shines throughout the play as might a mother of our own time, disillusioned, perhaps, in many “ghosts” of the past that ever and anon arise to torment her, but strong, noble, resolute through it all, even when her avn son seems inclined to reproach ker with lack of mother love. And Mr. Theodore St. John, whose work is not so familfar to local play- goers, presents a characterization of the son which will not soon be for- gotten. Tndeed, in it he rises with Mrs. Fiske to the very heights of dramatic conception. Mr. William C. Mason, who supplles the comedy that could be tolerated in a play like “Ghosts,” is admirable as the reputed father of Regina, and Mr. Walter Ringham, as_Pastor Manders, and Miss Jarvis Kerr, as Regina, com- plete a cast whose excellence canrot be overpraised. The play'is a revision by Harrison Grey Fiske of the English transla- tion of William_Archer, and it was staged by Mr. Fiske and presented under the direction of Charles D. Coburn and Patterson McNutt, AUDITORIUM—"“Front Page Stuff.” Replete with tuneful music, gor- £eous in scenic embellishment and cos- tuming, and with an exteptionally talented cast of prinicpals, “Front Page Stuff,” the twenty-first annual union opera of Mimes of the Univer- sity of Michigan, w presented last evening at the Washington Audi- torium to an enthusiastic audience. Added to this s a chorus of basses, making the entertainment worthy of the professional stag “Front Page Stuff” is a musical comedy, the entertainment ranging from the patent fun of female im- personators to song, dances and stage settings of such beauty as to compel spontaneous applause. The enti show, product of the students, is put on with the vim and enthusiasm so charecteristic of college activities. The | evident care and time spent in train- ing the cast and writing the book and lyrics attest the importance of the show to college life and the esteem in which it is held by graduates and friends of the university. The music was compnsed by two students, Milton A. Peterson, who also is author of the book, and Willlam M. Lewls, jr., who plays the leading feminine role. The lyrics were also composed by Peterscn and Lewis, with additions by Dorothy Stone. “My Lady of the Snows” is the out- standing *scenic achievement of the show. It combines an entrancing song, a dazzling parade of snow queens and a novel dance by 16 8Now men. The costumes for this number are comparable to those of famed revue ensembles, being of white satin, white fur and lace, Wil- liam Lewis proved a distinct hit in the role of June, winsome little maid, the leading lady. He maintains throughout his acting a remarkable feminine faclal expression, sings well and dances with the grace of a bal- let star. Russell A. 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FREDERICK C. KLEIN, CHURCH OFFICIAL, DEAD Was Corresponding Secretary of Methodist Protestant Board of Foreign Missions. By the Associated Press. BERWYN, Md., December 28— Rev. -Frederick C. Klein, correspond- Ing secretary of the board of foreign missions of the Methodist Protestant Church, died at his home here last night Mr. Klein, who was 69 years old, had been in ill health for some time. } Mr. Klein was the first foreign mis- sionary ordained by his church, his investiture taking place in 1880. He served for eight years in Japan, where he organized Nagoyva College, of which he was the first president. Failing health forced his return to the United States in 1893, and five years later he was chosen corre- sponding_secretary of the missions board. He was born in Washington, D. C. . Florida SOUTHERN RESORTS Via Double Track-Sea Level Route SPEED — SAFETY — COMFORT PUNCTUALITY 8 Thru Trains Daily rrgas O TASHINGTON E 1des — Everglades Lid. 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