Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1931, Page 22

HOODLUM IS SLAIN BY POLICE IN AUTO Robbery Gang Member Opens Fire on Officers, Who Shoot Him Down. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, January 23.—Guns of two policemen yesterday ended the carcer of Frank “Whitey” Kraft, member of the Jaworski “flathead” gang. which erpetrated sensational robberies in etroit and Beadling, Pa. His death balanced police books on & $23,000 robbery in Beadling, Pa., De- cember 23, 1923, when a pay roll car was dynamited and the paymaster killed, and the hold-up of the Detroit News June 6, 1928, when $14.000 was taken and a policeman was Kkilled. Paul Jaworski, gang chieftain, was electrocuted in Rockview Penitentiary Pa., January 21, 1929, for the Beadling robbery. His brother, Tommy Pallas, and Harry Watson are serving lif> terms in the Michigan prison for the murder of Police Sergt. George Barstad during the Detroit News robbery. Yesterday afternoon Patrolman Ed- ward L. Nowacki was taking Patrolman Glenn Chilpeck to work. They stopped at a railroad crossing in Hamtramck suburb and Nowacki recognized in his rear vision mirror the reflection of Kraft in a car behind. As Kraft passed he recognized the patrolman and opened fire. The policemen fired five answering shots apiece and when they drew along- side Kraft was slumped dead behind the wheel. His companion, John Mi- ciuda, was not wounded. He is held for investigation. i i kbt REPEAL ASKED IN UTAH “Resolution Relating to Alleged Prohibition” Is Introduced. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, January 23 (#).—Under the title “Resolution Relating to Alleged Prohibition,” Sen- ator Knox Patterson, Democrat, yes: terday introduced a proposal in the Utah Legislature for repeal of the State prohibition amendment. Without comment by the Senate, the resolution was referred to its Commit~ tee 6n Revision and Enrollmeat. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY {SOUSA, SETTING “ANNABEL LEE TO MUSIC, WORKS IN HOSPITAL March King Undergoes Treat- ment at Johns Hopkins for Old Injury. Believes Poem Is Most Musi- cal and Beautiful of All of Poe’s Works. By the Associata Press. BALTIMORE, January 23.—John Philip Sousa, the march king, has fallen | under the magic of Edgar Allan Poe's poctry and is setting “Annabel Lee” to | music—working from a hospital chair. Poe is buried in Baltimore. Fifty years of active musical life and 350 compositions lie behind Sousa, and | yet when the effects of an old injury sent him to Johns Hopkins Hospital for | treatment he could not break off work- ing. | "“When you hear of Sousa retiring, | you will hear of Sousa dead,” he once |said when there was a rumor that he | was to retire, and sitting in his hospital | room, carrying his 76 years lightly, he milingly announced that this sentiment | was unaltered. “When I Jearned I would not have to | be operated on I felt T must write,” he said. “The thought of Edgar Allan | Poe came to me because I was in Bal- timore. and I thought of his musical poem ‘Annabel Lee.' I decided to set it | Many anecdotes punctuate the band- | to_music. master’s colorful career, which started r"s'(r'hlg b bgf:r{l:';:da‘; dic o :‘lv;l;;m an orchestra in Washington. Many or so, however. e it | careful revision necessary before I shall |Stories have been told about him, and feel that I have done justice to this |he has told many on himself. With a beautiful poem. | twinkle in his lively eyes, he spoke of e | the_only golf match he ever won. Most Beautiful of Poe's Works. | It happencd about six months ago, “I think it is the most musical and [when I was attending an outing of beautiful of all Poe's works, so when I |composers at the lower end of Long learned I must remain in the hospital Island. I arrived on the links too late | for some time I read the poem again |to join the foursome with which I had |and felt I must write a song to those [played the day before. A young man words. was standing by and offered to play “The music is in the words. I be- |a round with me. lieve the treatment calls for a theme | “But he had no clubs and no other | which would almost be & monotone.” | equipment. I furnished them. He lost Leaving Poe's Annabel resting in her | three balls and broke one of the sticks. sepulcher by the sea,” Sousa went on:|but I won. Then the youth confess The radio has created a generation of | he never had played before.” people who listen to music rather than| “Music will never die,” was Sousa's play it. More music is coming into the | valedictory. “Doesn’t the Bible say that home, but the piano in the corner is|Gabriel will wake us all on the judg- silent. It has resulted in a recognition ment day with a trumpet? JOHN PHILIP SOUSA. {by many of classical music, which I | classify as ‘music that has lived.’ | hich one of my marches do T like |best? Al of them. The public, though, seems to fall in line behind ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever. I have conducted that one in 14 countries on three con- tinents, in all the principal cities of the world, in every State in the Union and the Canadian’ provinces.” Started Career in Washington. 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In his talks with economists here the Mexican official said he shared their views that a possible solution of the silver crisis would be the extension of a large silver loan to China, where the Mexican peso is steadily declining. he not He cited three other avenues of ap- | proach to a possible solution. He sald Russia uses only paper money, and it would be useful to her and the silver- producing nations to establish her cur- rency on a metal basis, principally slver. Another suggestion was that many European countries, once on a silver or a bimetallic basis, have reverted to gold, and may be persuaded to take up silver again. other suggestion was that if American exporters expected to con- tinue doing business with silver-pro- ducing countries, like Mexico, they must be willing to sell their goods on a silver basis and take silver in exchange for their products. 35 & 2 2 223 N 3 X"_ w X2 i, 34 R e The abo 1 concrete proposal | | World-Acclaimed Artist Was Nearing Her Forty-Sixth Birthday. Pleurisy and Pneumonia Ter- minate 35 Years of Suc- cess on Stage. By the Associated Press. | ‘THE HAGUE, January 23—Death | today stilled forever the dainty fragile form of Anna Paviova, whose dancing stirred millions, clvilized man and the savage alike. She would have been 46 years old January 31, Pleurisy and _influenza, | early this week after she had bsen held | for ‘hours by a railroad accident in a | waiting train at Dijon, France, rang | down the curtain upon a life which for 35 years she devoted to depicting in rhythmatic movement the beauty she aw around her. With her at the end were her hus: | band and accompanist, Victor D’Andre two Dutch physicians, and her own Russian doctor, Prof. Valerski, who yes- terday resort>d to a pulmonary opera- tion in a vain attempt to save her life Planned to Retire. Death interrupted her plans to in- terpret for Occidentals what she had found of grace and beauty in a recent visit to Japan, China and Asiatic coun- tries. Upon completion of this project she intended to retire, fulfilling a prom- ise that she would leave the stage while in _the prime of life “darling of the aristocrats, caran contracted | ANNA PAVLOVA DIES IN HOLLAND, ENDING GREAT DANCING CAREER | Denounced by the Bolsheviki as the | claim—in the capitals of Europe, Amer- he died in |ica and in Maori and Zulu camps of | virtual exile from the Russia in which New Zealand and Africa. 23, 1931 most_famous ballet was e Dance of the Dying sw.&.‘ in which she made er debut at M.Irorolllln House in New York in 1910. 8he was considered the world's greatest bal- lerina_and ranked with Ellsler, Grisl and Taglioni of the early nineteenth century. Although she departed from rl%}‘d classic forms for her conception of the ballet, she criticized modern interpreta- tions, such as those of Isadora Duncan with her entourage. ‘The maintained a home in Paris and at Ivy House, Hampstead, England, where she kept seven swans, her affec- tion for which presumably was inspired by the swan dance, for which she was | best known. KOSLOFF PAYS TRIBUTE. DALLAS, Tex. January 23 (#).- Death has erased an estrangement of 20 years' duration, leaving only grief for Theodore Kosloff, Russian dancer and motion picture actor, in Dallas. at the passing of Anna Paviova, Russian ballerina, who died yesterday at The Hague. Paviova and Kosloff were premiere danseuse and danseur, respectiv | the first independent public appearance of either, at the Krasnoe Selo, near | St. Petersburg, in 1801. They dance in a command performance befor | Czar Nicholas I The two artists E | fresh from the Imperial Theatrical he was born, began her ballet lessons | = at the age of 10 and achieved her first | [““I [nlm success. In recent years Communist | Curbed Quick EasyWay influences had led even to rejection of | annual contributions of $500 to other | Put_6ne drop Kondon's Cat nose~breathe deep—instant| (oven up nose Russian dancers. | It was during her last visit to the | Ing_vapors which auickly Feel clea bell right Feel warm low United States, in 1924, that she an- nounced her marriage to d’Andre, her accompanist, later revealing that it had taken place 17 years before. Other de- Kondon's pre- vears because it cts auicker than any other remedy. ruggists. now talls of her private life she kept secret, with the plea that the public regard: the artist as an fllusion and she pre: ferred to remain so. hal Jellv in rns 1o heal- She was received everywhere with ac: Probably her | g Wiy fl@!fih!’i’fln This $32.50 Coil Spring Day Bed L 0 i[{uslm/inn merely shows the Gothic arch style of this handsome, genuine coil-spring Day Bed; no picture would aptly describe or portray its fascinat- and today's jasz dancing. Her tempera- | mental flights led to occasional quan’el.s} living | | School of St. Petersburg, appeared in | “The Parisian Market,” Thereafter until 1900 they were | partners in various ballet performances | in European capitals. . In 1910, however, rival { the two reached' a peak Pavicva i Detween intensity. vroposed & merger of their | separate troupes. Kosloff rejected the | offer. He never saw Paviova again Baldina. who is now Mrs, eodore Kosloff, was a protege of Paviova and g remained on good terms with her, the two corresponding until recently When informed last night of Pav- lova's death he said, “She was a | genius.» | _“Now she is dead.” he added. “and | Diaghtlev died last vear. So in two vears hove passed the two greatest fig- ures of the Russian ballet. There have | been thousands of fine woman dancers. | but none to shade the popularity of _ Paviova.” She was known to the Kosloffs as ishka, which in Russian meant “Little_Anna.” FURNITURE RENTING Notice to Subscribers in Apartment Houses | | Subscribers wishing the | carrier boy to knock on | the door when delivering | The Star will ¥lease tele- | phone circulation depart- | ment, National 5000—and instructions will be given for this service to start at once. all| Delivers Any Odd A CLEARANCE— Boys’ 4-Piece Wool Suits 675 10 23; were $9.75 17 ; were $13.75 ing attractiveness. 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