Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1931, Page 4

- DEATH OF DOCTORS | PUZZLES OFFICALS Buicide and Murder Ad- { vanced as Theory by At- ! tendants at School in Chile. By the Associated Press. BANTIAGO DE CHILE, January 13. —The tragic deaths of Dr. Cora Mayer, Chile’s leading woman physician, and Dr. Alfredo de Maria, government hy- glene chief, puzzled the authorities to- day. Dr. Maria shot Dr. Mayer and himself. ‘Attendants at the public Nurses' School, where the shooting took place, declared that the two had been in love, and advanced the theory that, separated by Dr. de Maria’s marriage to an- | other woman, they had determined to die together. Dr. Mayer was 35 and unmarried. Others also conversant with the lives of the two practitioners expressed be- lief that the crime was motivated by a | | rofessional jealousy for which death of | th seemed the only solution to the impetuous hygiene official School attendants said Dr. de Maria walked into the office of Dr. Mayer, who was chief of the school, and en- gaged in Jow conversation with her. Two.shots rang out. Attendants rushed to find both dea Dr. de Maria ap- parently bhad pls a pistol at Dr. Mayer's forehead and then had turned the gun on himself. Both had been on health missions to the United States and Euro) Dr. Mayer was & leader in childres cal work and was classed by some as the greatcst of all Spanish-American woman physicians. Dr. de Maria was a medical professor in the University of Chile and acting chief of hygiene ofor the national government. Both were natives of Chile. She was ©of German extraction and he of Italian. LEGION POST APPROVES Representative Fish’s Bill on Serv- ice Certificates Indorsed. The Second Division Post of the American Legion, meeting last night at the Cairo Hotel, unanimously in- dorsed the bill introduced into Congress by Representative Hamilton Fish pro- Viding for partial payment of adjusted service certificates. ‘Three new members were admitted to the post. Comdr. Willlam E. Spicer presided. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Huguenot _ Society, St. Meeting, John's Parish Hall, Sixteenth and H streets, 8:30 p.m. Meeting, Women's Auxiliary, Master :lumben' Association, Hamilton Hotel, pm. Supper meeting, Washington Cham- ber of Commerce, Mayflower Hotel, evening. Meeting, Women's Overseas Service League, Dodge Hotel, 8 p.m. Reception, Mississippi. Soclety, ?-n Mansions, 2400 Sixteen pm. Dance, Order of Independent Recha- bites, Eagle Tent, No. 2, Logan Hotel, 1502 Fourteenth street, 8 p.m. Meeting, Society of American Bac- teriologists, Naval Medical School, ‘Twenty-Third and E streets, 8 p.m. Meeting, St. Mark’s Girls’. Soclety, Parish Hall, streets southeast, 8 p.m. Card party, St. James’' Catholle Church, Thirty-Seventh street and Rhode Island avenue, Mount Rainier, Md., 8 pm. Meeting, T and S Auction Bridge Club, Arlington Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Meeting, Business Women's Council, Church of the Covenant, 8 p.m. Meeing, Sixteenth Street Highlands Citizens’ Association, Northminster Chapel, Alaska avenue and Kalmia road, 8 pm. Merid- street, Meeting, Burlelth. Citizens' A.uocla-j tion, Gordon Junicr High School, 8 pm. : FUTURE. Luncheon, Michigan University Alum- ni, Cosmos Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard d, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayflower, Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Dinner, Ladies' Aid, Grace Re-| formed Church, Fifteenth and O streets, ‘Thursday, 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 pm. Luncheon, Optimist Club, Hamilton | Third “and A | i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. “Storm Song” Very, Very Rough Stuff. ADIE THOMPSON rode the sea last night, or at least a very impressive imitation of her, in a plece called “Storm Song,” which made its Washington bow at the National. In other words, midst a formidable ocean and & ruf- fian crew, and & father who was murdered most impolitely, this young lady found her- self defenseless on board a safl- ing craft and had a pretty poor time of it. ‘The whys and wherefcres of all this were not easy to fathom. The characters, every one of them, were as unredeemable a lot as cne could find. The hero- ine had been a San Yrancisco lass with a past, the hero a “gen- tleman” undone by dope, and the crew were coarse sons of the brine driven fairly in- sane by the presence of the girl among them. When the father of the girl was thrown overboard at the end of the first act the experi- ences began—or rather one of the Music and Francine Larrimore. Reviews and News of Capital.s Programs. Kedroff Quartet In Splendid Recital. HE icy air of the steppes and the soft stillncss of the Rus- sian Summer moon were brought into the atmosphere of the Central Community Center in the presentation of the Kedroff Quartet by the Community Institute Jast night. The audience was highly appre- ciative of the all-Russian program and showed that appreciation in the applause. The program, arranged in four parts, opened with a group of Rus- slan folk songs, two of which w:re harmonized by N. N. Kedroff, bari- tone of the quartet and formerly professor at the Imperial Conserva- tory at Petrograd. Singing with the true temperament of the Russian, th: quartet seemed to put their hearts into their work. The singing of the tenor was commendable, es- pecially in that he sang some excel- lent high notes, even though labor- ing under a slight cold. . ‘The second part of the program ‘was devoted to art songs, containing two written for and dedicated to the Kedroff quartet by Cesar Cul. Light- drabbest evenings in the annals of the theater. Mr. Buchman, who knitted this de- pressing yarn together, must have taken a deep breath before he began to pore over a dictionary of slang and to whip out an endless amount of “shut-ups!” for characters who didn’t mind what they said and then turn them loose on Davy Jones’ locker with instructions to scream and swear when they had nothing better to do. The result is that in “the big moments” the people con- cerned might better be screaming Mother Goose rhymes at each other instead of the brutalities that would curdle the ink to print. Apart from the torrent of abuses that echo around all this, and a minimum of milk and honey (the hero does give up dope for the sake of the gal in the end), the author has contrived a ship which heaves and groans and lunges about like a cork (with the help of the back- drop) and is about the best of the evening’s entertainment. The actors, except for Miss Larri- more and Charles Starrett, are not distinguished for anything beyond their slang vocabulary. Mr. Starrett seemed especially at his ease and to know what it was all about—and so did Miss Larrimore, whose powers, however, are pretty much submerged, especially when one thinks of her net so long ago as the delightful heroine of “Let Us Be Gay.” E. de 8. M. Musicians ness was brought into the singing by the rendition of “A Brownie's Dance,” by Dargomijsky. Attention must be called to the exceptionally fine bass singing of N. Kedroff, who is able to take some lower than low notes with good tonal quality and who also furnished the personality for th: four in his expressions and the evident joy of singing. The quartet sang five encores, in which was included “The Volga Boatman.” The gradual shading of the singing of the boatmen as they tug at the boats along the river and th: fading of their song as they dis- Appear into the distance was su- perbly expressed in the singing of all members of the quartet, One feels that a more appropriate number than the melodious “Waltz of Flowers,” from the baNet, “The Slecping Beauty,” from the pen of that master, Russian _composer, Tschaikowsky, could not have been selected to bring to an end a de- lightfully arranged program. The work of the quartet in rendering this was magnificent, tenor and baritone alternating in leading in the flowing melody of this beautiful w‘;fll}z‘_ SENATORS TO HEAR BANKERS MONDAY Eugene Meyer and J. W. Pole First to Be-Called by Glass Committee. By the Assoclated Press, The start of the Senate’s study of banking conditions was fixed today by Chairman Glass of the special com- mgfe for next Monday. gene Meyer, governor of the Fed- eral Reserve Board, and J. W. Pole, Controller of the Currency, will be the first called by the committes. They are to be followed by George Harrison, governor_of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and J. H. Case, chairman of the board of directors of the New York bank. ‘The Inquiry was ordered last session by the Senate and was directed into the general banking situation, with particular reference to the relations of the stock exchanges. Senator Glass has introduced legi lation to revise both the national ban ing act and the Federal Reserve He would place a curb on chain bani ing and seek also to prevent the use of Federal Reserve funds in speculation on the stock exchanges. This bill will form the bdsis for the | study to be conducted by his group, a branch of the Senate Banking Co Hotel, tomorrow, 12 o'clock noon. Luncheon, Monarch Club, Hamilton | Hotel, tomorrow, 12 o'clck noon. “SHADES OF 1920 The Lowest Price and Best Values We Have Quoted in 11 Yrs Give Once for All! B mittee. Already, the committee has directed questionnaires to stock brokers, stock exchange officials and leaders in the banking world. TWELVE HUNDRED $30--$35--$40 New Suits--pocoats ancl N \\} RN BROTHERS INDICTED N LINGLE NURDER Declares He Knows Nothing of Slaying and That He Never Even Saw Tribune Reporter. R, By the Assoclated Press. g CHICAGO, January I3.—Leo V. Brothers, St. Louis gunman, was under | indictment today for the murder of Alfred Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter. The grand jury returned a true bili | three witnesses, Otto Svoboda and War- ren Williams, reported to have been | eyewitnesses to, the slaying, and Police Capt. John Stege. | “All T want to say,” Brothers said on | his way to jail, “is that I don't know | against him yesterday after hearing but | | anything about the murder.” He added that he had never seen Lingle. | At the jail Brothers was greeted by | | his ‘mother, Mrs. Cordell Jessen, who | said she “knew he didn’t commit the | Krum and Loyls Piquett. They said | Harvey Brothers, a barber, and ex: pected to interview him today. Concession Returned. AMOY, China, January 13 (#)—The | former _Britjsh ' concession in Amoy, consisting of a small area within the city limits, was returned to Chinese ju- risdiction ‘today. The concession was established in 1851. Its retrocession does not concern the existing interna- tional settlement. AU Yol o Overcoats BUY 'EM ON THE FAMOUS KAUFMAN BUDGET crime,” and by his attorneys, Tyrell, they had located Brothers’ Tather, V.| mith Smart 10 ASK §74,030,000 Sum to Be Recommended as Step to Bring Service Up to Treaty Strength. Chairman Britten of the House Naval Committee expects to present a modi- fled naval construction program to the House this session in a bill authorizing $74,030,000 as the first stcp to bring the service up to London treaty strength. Proposals pending - before Congress would authorize $172,935,000 for the work. The other recommendations include one before the House Appropriations Committee to set aside $52,300,000 al- ready authorized for 10 destroyers and one des.royer leader. The Navy also has asked authority to expend $30,- 000,006 for modernizing, three battle- ships. In laying the administration’s pro- gram before the committee, seucu:ry} or | Adams recommended $90,635,000 new construction, Britten predicied his group would cut that amount by $16.- 605,000, the sum requested for a 6-inch | gun vessel, Items in the $74,030,000 bill which Britten predicted his committee wauld approve include an aircrafi carrier to cost $27,650,000; a $20,780,000 flying- deck cruiser unlike any other ship now afloat and four submarines to cost $4,- 400,000 each, In addition, Britten said, the bill will carry $5,000,000 for 130 airplancs and $3,000,000 for experimentation with sub- marine and surface craft engines. Included in the authorization for the aircraf, carrier would be money o pro- vide 114 airplanes, 36 would be pro- vided for the cruiser-carrier, The Naval Committee prepared to end its hearings soon on the bill. At the same time an appropriations sub- committee began taking testimony on the Navy annual supply bill, which carried $380,000,000 for the current year, Only one of. the four most popular sports in the country today—golf, ten- nis, base ball and foot ball—was born and bred in this country. Base ball alone can claim the United States as its native land, The others came from across the sea, L] Elite Controlled Method Services URGE SOKDAY WEK FOR JAL GUARDS Citizens Would Vest Commis- sioners With Power to Execute Plan. A resolution urging the adoption of a bill by the Senate which would vest the District Commissioners with the author- ity to establish a six-day week for guards of the District Jail was unani- mously passed last night by the Con- gress Heights Citizens' Association, meeting in the Congress Heights Bap- tist Church, Ester street and Brothers place. In adopting this resolution the association was following a similar ac- tion passed recently by the Federation of Citizens’ Assoclations. The establishment of the proposed plan would mean the employment of four additional guards to supplement the present force, the cost of which would be negligible, declared Galbman, secretary of the association. Work conditions to which the guards are subject were deplored by Mr. Galb- man. ‘The movement has received the rec- commendation of Maj. W. C. Peake, superintendent of the jail and of the Board of Public Welfare, Senator Cap- per has also lent his support to the effort. J. C. Ritter of the Southeast Wash- ington Citizens' Association stressed the need of increased contributions to the Community Chest, which will soon start its drive for funds, in & speech before the association. The unemployment problem, he pointed out, was acute, and & certain measure of Telief could be afforded by the Community Chest if the increased quota for which it has asked could be made. Held in MEXICO CITY, January 13 (#.—A man giving his name at Eduardo Haller has been arrested by police at San Juan Del Rio and returned here for investi- gation of his connection with the mur- der of Emilio Lopez of Laredo, Tex., last week, Haller denies any knowledge of Lopez, but police are not quite sat- isfled with his story. Lopez was stran- gled to death in his hotel room, Lewis | JANUARY 13 LARGER DEMANDS OF CHEST Dr. Freeman Cites Oversub- scription in Many Other Cities. Want Calls for Sympathy and Joining Hands in Great Cause. BY THE RIGHT REV: JAMES E. FREEMAN. Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Wash- ington. As we approach another city-wide campaign for the Community Chest we are compelled to assume that the mini- mum amount asked for by the 70 or more beneficent agencies must be met. We base our assurance on the fact that in the case of the recent Com- | munity campaign in Cleveland, where $5,300,000 was asked for, the amount actually pledged was in excess of this. As_illustrative of the spirit that pre- vailed in Cleveland, may I cite the fol- lowing: The vice president of one of the large corporations in that city told me that at a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of his corporation, where divi- dends had been cut and where a situa- tion was presented that seemed critical, the question was raised: “What are we to do this year about our corporation contribution to the Community Chest?” Larger Sums Required. After protracted discussion, a mem- ber of the board aske How much did we gi:Z last year? ‘The chairman replied: “We gave & dollar for dollar what our employes contributed, and the amount was $21,000.’ hat was a large amount,” said a member, “but, Mr. Chairman, the pres- ent situation calls for more generous action, and even if we have to lose our dividends, I move that we give $2 for every $1 our employes contribute.” ‘The action was unanimous on this proposition, Minneapolis, Detroit, Erie, Pa., Pitts- burgh, Cleveland—all have exceeded the proposed budget for community in- terests. This at least augurs well for :he approaching campaign in Washing- on. To my mind there are two conspicu~ MUST BE MET, SAYS BISHOP RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, ous reasons why we must be successful, Pirst, because the need is pressing and the situation critical. If pity makes the whole world kin,” then certainly we must disclose a fresh spirit of kinship in an undertaking that has to do with the appealing needs of a great number of our indispensable beneficent institutions. To relieve dis- tress, to care for the unprotected youth and the aged, to minister to the sick, to feed the hungry—in fine, to meet the pressing needs of the community— is a primary call upon our generosity and sympathy. Spirit of Brotherhood, A second reason I submit and one that is worthy of serious consideration is that the Community Chest enables us at Jeast once a year to forget our party passwords and to join hands in a great effort that is eminently human- itarian and Christian in spirit. We are the victims of divisive forces and agencies and all too infrequently we coalesce and co-operate one with an- other. The Community Chest affords us an_opportunity of laying aside our conceits and our prejudices and of pro- moting the spirit of comradeship among men and women of all classes and_types. The appeal for 1931 must not fail! Film renters and the New Zealand government are in a deadlock over the government's hire tax plan on films, the film men threatening to hold pictures from theaters if the tax is enforced. “a touch of | CHURCHES PLAN CHEST AGTIVTY Special Services Will Be Con- ducted Throughout City January 25. The Sunday after next will be “Com- munity Chest Sunday” and members of Washington churches will hear not only special sermons by their pastors, but speeches by representatives of the char- ities group. January 25, the day before the Com- munity Chest campaign begins, was des- ignated at a meeting held yesterday in Calvary Baptist Church, Eighth and H streets. The plans decided upon include the distribution of descriptive leaflets to all churchgoers, the printing of ex- planatory material in church calendars and bulletins and the placing of posters on bulletin boards and in church lob- bies. Churches Pledge Co-Operation. Pastors of all the variods Protestant churches in the District of Columbia pledged their whole-hearted' co-opera- tion in the charities group's drive. This co-operation, Right Rev. Willlam F. McDowell, senior bishop of the Methodist Fri-copal Church, who pre- sided in the absence of Bishop James E. Freeman, chairman of the Commun- ity Chest Committee on Church Co-Op- eration, declared, “enables us to put a new emphasis on the significance of the truth of God in the world.” Church in Action. “The Community Chest is the church in action,” Rev. Robert W. Brook, pas- tor of Lincoln Temple, said. “It is our ideals being mad: practical. 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