Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1930, Page 20

B4 =» EXCHILD PRODIGY | SOUGHT BY POLICE Winifred Sackville Stoner’s Mother Explains Manner of Check Shortage. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 13— Arrest of Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, | former child prodigy, on charges of is- | suing spurious checks was asked here today by the Fairmont Hotel Co. The hotel company charged Mrs. Stoner issued checks for $751- to pay | her hotel bills, and all of the checks ‘were returned. A $200 check given to! the Boeing Air Lines was also present- | ed in obtaining a warrant. Mrs. Stoner visited here earlier this, month, leaving last Sunday for New York, supposedly en route to Havana. Bhe was accompanied by two maids. 1 She is well known as an author. Mrs. Stoner. who is now 28. made ap- pearances as a public speaker when she was only 4 years old. She attracted much attention at the age of 6 by her ability to speak eight languages and work differential calculus i DAUGHTER SAID IN HIDING. Mother Promises to Take Immediate | Steps to Clear Up Situation. NEW YORK, December 13 (#).— ‘The mother of Winifred Sackville Stoner, 2d, said tonight that her daugh- ter was “hiding away from the world” and not seeking to evade the police. Mrs. Stoner, at her home, in Central Park West, said she could not divulge her daughter’s whereabouts. “My daughter intended no wrong, 1 am sure,” Mrs. Stoner said over the telephone. “I have been giving her money and paying bills for her. Un- fortunately 1 was unable to deposit to her account because money I have on deposit has been held up by the closing of the Bank of United States. “I shall wire the California hotel and the air lines to which Winifred gave the checks that I will make arrange- ments for their payment.” HUNDREDS IN RUSH TO NEW GOLD FIELD' Olaims Staked for Many Miles Around Scene of Latest Nevada Strike. By the Associated Press. | MMITTEE MEMBERS OF ALOYISIAN CLUB DANCE CO Photo shows members of committee who are arranging details of dance to be held by the Aloyisian Club in the new | ball room of the cl Margaret Devers . , at 47 1 sireet, Wednesday. Left to right: Catherine Hughes, Leila Milstead, Anne Vermillion and | —Star Staff Photo. | Music and Mousicians Reviews and News of Capital‘s Prodrnms. Don Cossack Chorus Makes Sensational Debut. HE doldrums that are apt to beset Constitution Hall were shattered last night by the most magnificent outburst of applause that has been heard here this entire year. The cause was the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus. And the program that was offered was such that cheers actual- ly resounded through the vast auditoriura, and the very large and distinguished assemblage — in- Margaret Bittner and Evelyn Jane Brumback. NNOUNCEMENT is made that the Friday Morning Music Club at its next session will present & pro- gram of Christmas music. Tradi- tional carols, Bach chorales and other numbers will be sung by sing- ers of the club, assisted by Mrs. Wil- liam Channing Johnson and Evelyn Scott. INIARMON NICODEMUS, formerly of Wa: , supervisor of music in the public schools of Rocky Mount, N. C., will lead a group of (CALLERS PUT HOOVER | INTO SOCIAL WHIRL| | Senators, Governors, British Peers and Journalists Pay Respects to President. By the Associated Press. President Hoover yesterday found himself in a social whirl, with Senators, governors, newspaper editors and Brit- ish peers on his list of callers. | Senator Dill of Washington started the rush early in the morning. He was one of the few who had business with the President. He was followed by Sen- ator-elect Wallace White of Maine, who during the short session is finishing Iu-ynr-nld grandmother of the MRS. SHEPARD'S KIN DEFENDS HUSBAND Grandmother of Alleged Mur- der Victim Testifies Woman Drank. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Kans., December 13 —A blood relative of Mrs. Zenana Shepard, for whose alleged poison mur- der Maj. Charles A. aheplrgo is on trial {:d .P;denl Court, came to his defense Mrs. Zenana H. Curtis of Los Angeles, cal officer’s second wife, who died at n e, who a Fort Riley, Kans., June 15, 1929, testi- fied in support of the defense conten- tion that Mrs. Shepard drank liquor excessively and h bl ad expressed a wish With the the first . Shepai other testified, Miss Grace Brandon, the blonde S8an Antonio stenographer for love of whom the contends Ma! Government ). Shepard poisoned his wife, sat in the district attorney’s office. She said she was re- freshed, following most of Thursday the witness stand for the prosecution. i Mrs. Curtis was one of two defense witnesses who testified before adjourn- mwent of the trial until Monday, follow- ing resting of .the Government's case. The other was Mrs. Joseph J. Fraser of Denver, wife of an Army officer, who testified Mrs. Shepard was “a woman ot moods. Court attaches estimated the Govern- ment had spent approximately $100,000 preparing the case and between $50,000 and $75,000 since the trial began. — PUBLISHER INDICTED Frank Hoag Charged With Falsi- fication of Tax Reports. DENVER, December 13 (#).—Frank edi- | S. Hoag, Pueblo newspaper publisher, today was indicted by the Federal grand Jury for alleged falsification of income tax reports in an effort to evade full payment of taxes on the earnings of his newspaper. The indictment charges Hoag on March 15, 1928, attempted to evade payment of $4,183.67 in taxes out of $5,603.87 due the Government on the income of the Pueblo Star-Journal Publishing Corporation. PRISON S PLANNED ON HUMANE LINES |New Federal Penitentiary to Provide Sunlight and Fellowship. By the Associated Press. The Federal Government is about to prisons, in which inside cell blocks will be only for the hardened criminal, while others may graduate into outside rooms lacking only a private bath. Plans for this project, the new $3,- 500,000 Federal Penitentiary to be located near Lewisburg, Pa., were made public yesterday by the Department of Justice. Bids will be opened December 30, the department said, and construc- tion will be rushed to help relieve un- employment. “The planners have not assumed,” the department's statement said, “that every inmate is to be a wild beast who must placed in a steel cage and re- moved tirely from any contact with construct something new in the way of | “live at peace :'l:)ld:d ?}‘h Small wards, for g:; wing the grea provems chll‘nl;w. test im| ent of * the most advanced,” the depary ment added, “there are rooms whish approximate }h! living quarters of Aor« mal persons.’ The project 1s to be the fim upon the prison program laid out ®y Presi- dent Hoover, ——— BROKER SUED BY WIFE | Mrs. Margaret Budd Osborne, Rail Head's Daughter, Applicant. MINNEAPOLIS, December 13 (#).— A petition for divorce was filed in Dis- trict Court today by Mrs. Margaret | Budd Osborne, daughter of Ralph | Budd of St. Paul, president of the Great Northern Railway. | __The action named Willis W. Osborne, Minneapolis securities investment bro- ker, to whom she was married Janu- ary 2 last in New York. The petition | listing the complaints was removed aft- | er being recorded. Mrs. Osborne's first marriage, to John Campbell, Cloquet, Min: WAS dissolved by divorce in 1928, after the wedding. §hieff o5ne Silver Your Gift of Stieff Sterling Reflects Good Taste and Wise F orethought Prices of Stieff Rose, 150 voices in a special “candle light” out his term in the House of Repre- service to be broadcast through Sta- sentatives. White had some Prices of Stieff Rose, RENO, Nev., December 13.—With | cluding Mrs. hundreds of men and a few women at Herbert Hoover, the scene of the latest Nevade gold | strike, 38 miles north of Lovelock, in ! the rabbit hole district, claims for many | square miles around are being staked | rapidly and & few tents were set up in | the sagebrush today by prospectors. | Several expert prospectors have gone | into the field to investigate the strike, but 80 far no definite have been | Teceived indieating their opinion of its | exten! The Scossa brothers, who started the rush by displaying several sacks of very rich ore in Lovelock Thursday night have been prospecting in the dis- trict for a year, but little is known about them by Nevada mining men. They are from California. The strike is in a well known mining district where placer mining has been prospected for several years with con- siderable success. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN CHEMISTRY DIES Dr. Pritz Pregl, Universally Known for Development of Micro- Chemical Analysis. By the Associated Press VIENNA, December 13.—Dr. Fritz Pregl, noted sclentist and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died today of pleurisy at the age of 61. He was head of the medical-chemical in- stitute at Graz. Dr. Pregl was universally known for his development of micro-chemical analysis. He orizinated methods for determining the composition of organic substances to the minute quantity of one-millionth of a milligram. For application of his procedure Dr. Pregl previously had perfected, with the co-operation of W. Kuhlmann of Hamburg, delicate scales on which could be weighed with perfect accuracy sub- stances of the tiniest quantity. Small | lass instruments were nece-sary, and | Pregl learned to blow them himself. | In addition his method permitted such analysis in relatively few minutes, com- pared with days of close experimenta- tion under the old systems. As a result many honors were show- ered upon the chemist. He was award- ed the Nobel Prize for the development of an antiseptic iodine solution which bears his name. FIND NEW WITNESS IN STABBING CASE Grand Jury Investigation in Death of Mrs. Bowles Halted to Make Check By the Associated Pres: PORTLAND, Oreg, December 13.— bing of Mrs. Lecne Bowles—a witness $0 important the grand jury investiga- adjourned whiie a check was the district attorney Detectives, the district attorney and & deputy attorney interviewed a woman | and three men, whose names were not disclosed. These persons are under- stood to have corroborated & “tip” re- ceived yesterday and to have divulged the name of an important witness Neison C. Bowles, millionaire band of the slain woman, Loucks Paris. his former secretary, are charged with first degree murder in connection with the stabbing AUTOMOBILE BODY PLANT hus- TO BECOME DORMITORY | 2,500 Homeless Men in Detroit to Be Given Free Shelter by Fisher Brothers. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, December 13.—Homes for 2,500 homeless men are to be made available immediately in one of the lo- cal plants of the Fisher Body Co., Mayor Frank Murphy announced yes- terday. Use of the plant has been do- nated, the mayor said, by the Fisher brothers, who will heat the building, ht it and provide sanitary faclities. e dormitory is eapable of expansion to_accommodate 10,000 men. Mayor Murphy said his Unemploy- ment Commission will buy 2,500 cots, ‘with necessary bedding, at once and additional cots will be purchases as the need arises. hot by the Homeless Men's the Mayor's Committee. PR —— and Irma | | | | seating §,500. one of the most zealous of the lis- teners—was lothe to go home after more than half a dozen encores ] had been offered. ‘This was in- deed the sensa- tion of the year in the way of musical rovelties. The chorus of 36 former Russian imperial army offi- cers, headed by their diminutive but fiery leader, Serge Jaroff, who seemed to evoke more and more magic from the throats of his co- horts as the program ran its course, proved itself quite as spectacular as the fame that had preceded it. There was a quality to the singing that stamped it not only as some- thing to command sattention and respect, but it carried with it a cer- tain poignancy and emotionalism far from the usual beaten path of such things. In the first place i undertook not only the four-part routine of the regular glee clubs, but had a range o\ndoi% anything that has been heard this country, and a certain haunting quality and manner of ex- pression that has not been dupli- cated on these shores. There was the very deep basso, on the one hand, there was the sonorous and tremu- lous baritone, there was the tenor who carried his notes far above the range of the usual, and, finally, there was the falsetto—the very es- sence of soprano—which overtopped everything, and in such songs as “The Red Sarafan,” was a touching and tender mood of expression. It would be difficult to say which number was the most perfect. Each one brought either the subdued chantings of the choir—which this chorus at one time was—or it burst into crescendos that sent thrills up and down and crosswise through one. Perhaps the most remarkable, account probably, of its familiarity Jaroff’s version of “The Volga Boatman,” which at this point, to the casual observer, had certainly seemed dead and buried Mr. Jaroff, however, lifted it not only out of the ordinary run of such things, but made his choristers sing it after the fashion of the enchanted —raising it for once from its self- imposed slumber into unquestioned immortality. There were others that were just as fine, in fact they all were. Whether the singers were singing or shouting, or whistling—as they did more than once—they seemed to overdo themselves at every possible point and it was a woncer from the way the cheers went from pillar to post that the audience ever let them g0 home at o1} E. de 8. M Serge Jaroff. Program Aunounced For Zlatoff-Mirsky Recital. MONG the important song re- 4 citals of the coming week is the one to be given by Alexander Zlatoff- on Tuesday ev g at the Community Center. Mr, iirsky. a newcomer here in m of song, has prepared ms like a highly attractive ram for this occasion. He will among his selections the 's Song from -Sadko,” by ky-Korssakov, the Haydn “She Never Told Her Love,” “The Two Grenadiers” by Schumann, “Prince Galitzay's Aria” from “Prince Igor” by Borodin. and the “Volga Boatman Seng.” vyoung Russian basso y N e Sadle at the piano. ’l‘HE senior recital of students of the Washington Musical Insti- tute took place last night. Alice L. Fowler, artist coach from Carnegie Hall, New York, was the guest of honor, and Nettie Sadle, who is to assist Mr. Zlatoff-Mirsky at his re- cital on Tuesday night, was one of the soloists. Others included Wini- fred Chamberlain, Bertha Gordo Evelyn Scott—soloist next Thur 2t the University Club progral —Dorothy Coggeshall, Rosetta Kro- mer, Helen Rohrer, Dorothy Sorn- borger, Mary Gastrock, Victorine Bouillen and Gertrude Dyre. OUIA VAUGHN JONES, violinist, - appeared in recital last Priday afternoon before students of the Armstrong High School. Mr. Jones is the second artist to be presented in the concert series which Miss Pinkney and Mr. Amos, teachers of music in the school, have inaugu- rated and brought to a group of d| Washington high school students this year. THE Sunday Hour of Music at 5 o'clock at the Y. W. C. A. will be given by the Girls' Chapel Choir of the National Christian Church, directed by Helen y. will_include Max. well Galloway, Helen Barbara Gibbs, tion WPTF, Raleigh, today at 5 p.m. -— g [NIGHT SHIFT IS ADDED AT CHEVROLET PLANT Company Expects to Keep 20,000 Men at Work Throughout Winter. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, December 13.—The Chev- rolet Motor Co. announced tonight that it is adding a night shift to its pres- ent force of employes and that it ex- pects to keep at least 30,000 men at work in the Detroit area all Winter. An explanation of the employment policy was given by W. S. Knudson, president, and M. E. Coyle, vice presi- dent and auditor. The plan is to con- tinue to add men as they are needed rather than lengthen the present work- ing schedule of four eight-hour days. This policy will be followed, Mr. Knud- son said, until the pay roll reaches 40,000, when the length of the working week will be increased ¥ production warrants. The number on last week's pay roll was 29,953. The Chevrolet Co. {s en- couraged by prospects for business in 1931, Mr. Coyle said. Cutter Rescues Taniter. CAPE MAY, N. J, December 18 (). —The Coast Guard station here said the tanker Papoose in tow and was proceeding toward an unannounced port. The tanker, which carries a crew | of 43, radioed for helfi after losing her | propeller about 100 miles off Cape May. Unusually Liberal Allowance § ee. On In Exchange on ' Radios . . . 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Gov. and Mrs. Kohler of Wiscon- sin were accompanied to the presidential offices by their son, Herbert Kohler Gov.-elect Pinchot of Pennsylvania paid his respects, as did Gov. Emmerson of Tlinois. The British Ambassador, accompanied by Lord Astor, an old friend of Mr. Hoover’s, made the day an international one. Last night the President continued his social activities by attending the Gridiron dinner. PG LIQUOR CASE IS MISTRIAL OKLAHOMA CITY, December 13 (#).—A mistrial was declared late to- day in the case of P. V. Ruch, Tilman County prosecutor, charged with con- spiracy to violate Federal prohibition laws. Two codefendants were acquitted and three convicted. ‘The jury found Jake Dock, Gordon Hays and Dorsey Parnell guilty and ac- quitted Jake Streber and John Jellah. | Operation of a ring which supplied liguor and sold protection was alleged. 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