Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1929, Page 21

. IPLAYERS TOGIVE “[].I-HER_WQE MAN” 1 Endurance in Subzero Weather to Be De- termined. Short-Wave Radio Experi- ments Part of Program Just Announced. Church and Drama Groups Will Stage First Presen- tation Tonight. Players from many church and fdrama groups will unite in presenting the Yuletide drama “The Other Wise # Man"” at Luther Place Memorial Church *tonight, tomorrow and Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock. Based on_the legend written by Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the drama will be pre- sented with harp accompaniment, chosen because it was used in Eastern temple worship. The music will be based on ancient Hebrew and Oriental therhes. Use Two Ensemble Scenes. ‘The production is under joint direc- tion of Bess Davis Schreiner and Denis E. Connell, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Irving L. Koch and others. The great ensemble scenes, “For the Sake of a Little Child” and “A Pearl of Great Price,” will introduce a number of players versed in religious drama who are an- nually assembled by the Bible School Association and the Chapel Players of Luther Place Memorial Church for the Yuletide. Roman soldiers will be played by Ed- ward Eberly, Donald Moriarty, Albert Hall, Clarence Brindell, Edgar Gaards- moe, George Gates and Richard Mill- brook. _Pharisees will be played by Frank Burger, N. K. Gardner and Dr. Clifton Clark. Women of Bethlehem will be Mrs. Elizabeth Pritchard, Mrs. B. G. McIlwee, Miss Janet Jackson, Miss Roberta Galloway, Miss Helen Spurr, Miss Hattie McIlwee, Miss Anne Lynn, Miss Margaret Eberly, Miss Evelyn Gil- lette, Miss Ruth Thomas, Miss Wil- helmina Cronenberg and Miss Anna Talbert, and children of Bethlehem by Bertie Lee Spurr, Jim Taylor McIlwee, John Gilbert McIlwee, Wiiliam Cronen- berg, Anna Catherine Cronenberg, Frank Spurr, Henry Tincker, Billie Brown and others. New Feature Offered. In the final scene, “At the Damascus Gate.” the personnel will include Miss Pauline Sager, Mrs. George Gates, Miss Janet Jackson, Miss Ruth Shoemaker, Edith Garland, Miss Blossom Mill~ brook, Miss Ruth Campbell, Miss Eleanor Theiss, Miss Ruth Chindblom, Miss Carrie Mae Boyer, Miss Ruth Burd, Miss Elizabeth Bryan, Miss Anna Tal- bert, Miss Mary Seaford, Mrs. Lillian Brown, Mrs. Irving L. Koch, Miss Eve- lyn Gillette, Miss Roberta Galloway, Miss Mildred Wick, Miss Mae McElwee, Mrs. Henry Eberly, Miss Adele Justh, Mrs. Paul Blocher, Miss Rose Miss Edna Jones, Miss Edna May Mil- Mrs. Marjorie Gaardsmoe, Mrs. Reuss, Miss Aagot Nordby, Miss Marion Solt, Miss Mary Louise Snyder, Albert Hall, Hans P. Caemmerer, Robert Himes, William Tribble, Edgar Gaards- moe, George Gates, Dr. Clifton P. Clark John Cress, Richard Chindblom, Irving L. Koch, N. K. Gardner, Clarence Brindell, Donald Moriarty, Edward Eb- erly, Claude Cook, John D. Long, Her- man P. Riess and others. A new feature of this year’s presen- tation will be the ceremontial of the of- fertory by Rev. George M. Diffenderfer, Miss Ruth Campbell and eight members of the Bible school at Luther Place. doors of the church will open at 7:30 pm. all three evenings, entrances to the auditorium being at Fourteenth and N streets and at Vermont avenue Just below N. The south door of the church will be closed to the public dur- ing the presentations of “The Other Wise Man.” By the Associated Press. Flyers of the Army Air Corps will advance early in January over a 3,500~ mile “battle front,” from Detroit to Spokane, to measure the endurance of men and equipment in subzero weather and test the value of short-wave radio communication. The War Department today an- nounced its tentative plans for “the combat in the front yard of the Arctic Circle against the shock traops of Win- ter—snow, ice and subzero tempera- tures.” Experiments in long-distance radio communication between the aircraft and permanent ground stations will Le conducted in co-operation with the American Radio Relay League, which will create a network through thousands of amateurs to span the country from coast to coast and border to border. Skis Instead of Wheels. January 5 has been tentatively set as the day when 18 pursuit planes and two Army transports, equi] with skis instead of landing wheels, will start from Selfridge Field for Spokane by way of Duluth, Grand Forks, Glasgow and other intermediate points. The return route will take the fiyers through Helena, Butte, Miles City, Bismarck, Fargo and Minneapolis. Maj. Ralph Royce, commanding of- ficer of the first pursuit group, will be in charge of the flight. H. J. Adamson, assistant to F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, and Lieut. Charles A. Harrington will super- vise radio communication en route. The co-operation of the American Radio Relay League, of which Hiram Maxim, famous inventor, is president, was enlisted by Mr. Davison and Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of the Air Corps. Daily reports of the pursuit units will be speeded from isolated places through thousands of amateur stations to the message centers in Washington, in of Lieut. Arthur I. Ennis, and in Hartford, Conn, in charge of F. E. Handy, and various Army posts. Short-Wave Experiments. “Short-wave radio communication under conditions such as will be en- countered on the pursuit maneuvers,” Mr. Davison said in announcing the project, “is still highly experimental. While it may be possible for the ission to establish direct contact with the mes- sage centers, it is quite certain that communication may have to be relayed from point to nt. “The route followed by the relays and the speed with which they func- tion will furnish valuable and interest- JEWISH WELFARE BODY INSTITUTES CALENDAR Will Co-ordinate Activities and Prevent Conflict Between Im- portant Organization Events. The Jewish Welfare Federation will institute & Jewish communal calendar for the purpose of co-ordinating Jewish activities and of obviating the conflict- ing of important Jewish events, it was announced today. A questionnaire has been sent ta all Jewish organizations in Washington, asking for the data which will enable the federation to compile the calendar and keep it up to date. If the data gathered will justify it, t.h& !edfdr:unn mgulune ‘:‘ list which will gul organ! ons arranging any of their special affairs. Jewish organizations wishing to list with the communal calendar are asked to communicate with the Jewish Wel- fare Federation office, 711 G street. T e POPE RECEIVES ROYALTY. VATICAN CITY, December 26 ().— The Duke and Duchess of Aosta, the Duke of Spoleto, the Count of Turin and the Duke of the Abruzzi, all mem- bers of ar very near the Italian royal family, were received in private audi- ‘ence by the Pope this morning. The visit of the princes of the house of Savoy was made in five automobiles, in which were also ladies and gentle- men of the court. The prescribed for the visit of Ambassadors. ‘They then visited Cardinal Gasparri after which they worshipped in St. Peters. The Duke of Aosta is a cousin of the King. Pre-Inventory SALE! Fri., Sat., Mon. and Tues. of Entire —~ Full Fashioned Silk Chiffon and Service Weight All Our $1.00 Hose 89caPair ————— All Our Picot Top and Service Weight $1.25, $1.35 and $1.45 51 . P & o =ararr. 31 % a Pall' 3 Pr. for $4.00 259, OFF! 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Were Sll.";se‘“'NowILE 750 Pairs Men's Fancy Hose, sizes 10 to IDAHO DRY EVIDENCE AGAIN UNDER FIRE Counsel for Sheriff and 27 Others Charged With Conspiracy Re- new Counter Move. ! By the Assoctated Press. COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, December 26.—Their Christmas respite ended, counsel for 28 persons accused of con- | spiracy to violate the Federal prohibi- tion law today renewed their attempc to refute the evidence presented againsu them by Government witnesses. A vacation over Christmas was called Tuesday after the defense had called witnesses for a day and a half tw controvert ~Government accusations that the city council of Mullan, Idaho, had flaunted the prohibition law by licensing _bootleggers, gamblers ana keepers of disorderly houses, and that the Shoshone County sheriff and Mul- 1an police officers had worked against Federal investigators who attempted t enforce the dry law. It was expected that much of to- day’s testimony would be aimed ac clearing Sheriff R. E. 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DECOY INVITATION TRAPS PAIR WHO FLED NEW YORK PRISON und at Apartment. Where Former Fellow Inmates Were Expectcd. times received his mail, found a letter signed with the name of a prisoner he had known at East View. The letter, which purported to have been smuggled from the penitentiary, sald the prisoner was to get out Tues- day and was to hold a party celebrat- ing his release at a New York apart- ment. A cordial invitation was extended to Sirico and de Stefano. When they arrived at the party, they found four policemen awaiting them. They then learned that the letter had been sent by penitentiary authorities. NOTED ASTRONOMER DIES. ANN ARBOR, Mich, December 26 () —Ralph H. Curtiss, 49, professor of astronomy and director of the Univer- sity of Michigan observatory since 1927, died here yesterday of pleurisy, Professor Curtiss was born in Con- necticut, received his education, in- cluding his docorate, at the University of California and was an observer and instructor at California and at the Lick Observatory until 1905, He spent two years at the Allegheny Observatory before joining the staff of the University of Michigan in 1907. He is survived by a widow. Woobpwarp & l.oTHROP DOWN STAIRS STORE riday is Remnant Day Remnant Day Merchandise is not returnable or exchangeable; not sent C. 0. D. or on approval; Phone or Mail Orders not accepted Silk Dresses, $7.75 51 Dresses, including flat crepe, canton, velvet and silk-and-wool tweed. One, two and three piece styles in broken sizes for misses, women and special sizes. 5 Evening Dresses, satin and georgette; broken sizes. Were $16.50 and $1s99.50. Were $16.50 8 Women's Dresses, satin and canton; SED. 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Wvery man hereabout carries either & knife or revolver and disputes over dancing partners became numerous and bloody. today. CONNOS BRI INJURED MAIL PILOT ASSURED OF RECOVERY Thomas Hill, Crash Victim, Says' “It Wasn’t Such a Bad Christ- mas, After All” By the Associated Presm. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., December 26. —Thomas Hill, 26-year-old Kalamazoo, Mich,, airmail pilot whose plane, loaded with last minute messages of Yuletide cheer, crashed in the blinding snowstorm = Tuesday night, grinned from beneath a mountain of bandages at St. Anthony's Hospital here yester- day and observed that “It wasn't such 2 bad. Christmas after all.” He had just been assured that his injuries, which physicians first thought might prove fatal, were not that serious. Hill suffered fractures of both jaws, a crushed face and minor body injuries. When the plane crashed Hill was pinned beneath the wreckage. He was rushed to St. Anthony’s Hospital, where a preliminary examination indicated grave injuries. But when the youthful pilot regained consciousness he survey- ed the situation optimistically, Sports Writer Dies. CLEVELAND, December 26 (#).— Ray Campbell, widely known boxing au- thority and writer for the Cleveland News, died at his home here last night after an illness of three weeks from typhold fever and influenza. Uncross your fingers and snap them at Jack Frost. Fill up with AMOCO-GAS 21 HOTEL DE GINK CLOSES WITH HOLIDAY DINNER Work of Buffalo Hostelry Homeless Men to Be Assured by Social Agencies. BUFFALO, N. Y., December 26— Hotel De Gink, a hostely for homeless men which had become known through- out the greater part of the country, closed its doors yesterday after serving & Christmas dinner to more than 1,000 outcasts. The institutioin has been sponsored by Mayor Frank X. Schwab, who will relinquish his office January 1. Its work will be taken over by various city and social agencies. 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