Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1931, Page 12

A—12 THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, FANOLS SOPRANO WL SING HERE Louise Homer Stires Will Appear on Program With Gen. Higgins. Touise Homer Stires, famous soprano, will sing at the public meeting under the auspices of the Salvation Army at which Gen. Edward J. Higgins, head of the International Salvation Army, will gpeak in Constitution Hall next Friday night at 8:30 o'clock. Mrs. Stires, daughter and namesake of Louise Homer, made her debut in concert_some years ago with her dis- | tinguished mother, the famous con- | tralto. From the first she aroused | much interest and proved to be a so-| prano of real merit and & splendid | artist in her own right. Talent Inherited. She has traveled extensively, sing- ing in joint concert with Mme. Homer &nd giving numerous recitals alone. Her | gifts were inherited from both parents, as her father, Sidney Homer, has long | been famous as a writer of songs | Mrs, Stires is thé wife of Rev. Dr. Ernest Van Rensselaer Stires, rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church at Rich- mond, Va. Gen. Higgins, the Salvation Army head, arrived in New York last Thurs- day. He will be recelved by President Hoover at the White House at 12:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. He will be introduced by Sir Ronald Lindsay, Brit- ish Ambassador, and will be a guest of the latter at luncheon at the embassy that day. Mrs. Higgins will be intro- duced to Mrs. Hoover by Lady Lindsay at the White House Friday afternoon at| 4:30 o'clock. Stimson Will Speak. Gen. Higgins will be introduced at Constitution Hall by Secretary of State Stimson, who also will deliver an ad- dress, as will Bishop James E. Freeman. The United States Marine Band will play at the meeting. The public is invited to attend the meeting in the hall and admission will be free. Tickets for reserve seats may be had on request to Maj. James Asher at Ealvation Army headquarters, 426 Sixtn street. Maj. Asher announced yesterday that tickets previously re- quested will be mailed out tomorrow. DRY STRATEGY BOARD| WILL CONFER MAY 20 Plan of Campaign to Be Laid Here‘ for Prohibition Plank Drive Before '32 Conventions. By the Assoclated Press. Political activity of prohibitionists in| reparation for the 1932 elections will| ge planned here in less than three weeks by a Jarge and carefully selected “board | of strategy” represcnting 33 national | prohibition organizations. Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddie of the NP“ tional Temperance Bureau said yes-| terday the strategy board would meet | May 20 for its first session and that| undoubtedly some of the ground work in the campaign to obtain dry planks and candidates in both major parties would be laid at that time. | Organization of politic-temperance units in each of the 48 States is con- templated, he added. = personnel of the board will not be announced until it is completed shbortly before the meeting, but Dr.| Dinwiddie said it would consist of “nearly 50" ot the country’s leading prohibitionists. i il | WOMEN'S LEGION TO MEET| Twelfth Annual Open Thursday Morning. ‘The American Women's of the Great War will open its twelfth annual convention Thursday morning in the Hall of Service of the District of Columbia Chapter House, American Red Cross Speakers at the opening session will be Representative Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York; Col. George Ijams, direc- Conve..tion to tor of the Veterans' Bureau, and Mrs. William Sherman Walker. The business of the Women's Leglon, including the election of officers, will be conducted at a session Thursday after- noon. —_— DRIVER IS EXONERATED Verdict of Accidental Death Given in Traffic Fatality. - | A verdict of accidental death was | returned yesterday by the coroner’s jury | which conducted an inquest into the| death of Silas E. Haislip, 72, of 4514 Thirteenth street, who died at Emer- gency Hospital yesterday from injuries guffered in - traffic accident March 16. West T. Bayne, 33, of 2126 R street, who was driving the automobile which struck Haislip, was exonerated. SIGNS LABOR BILL Ohio Governor Passes Ban on Con- tracts Forbidding Trade Unions. | COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 2 (#).—| Gov. George White t:day tigned the| “yellow dog” labor contract bill, which makes illegal any labor contract which attempts to forbid either employe or| employer from organizing. Organized labor fought for such a bill for several years. The presen: cne will now become law in 90 days. | W. H. Baker of Boston. Mass., O SPECIALIST Is_now at our Washington offices. 1424 Massachusetts ave., for consultation, POWERS & JOHNSON DENTISTRY Of Character for LESS MONEY Here, we have the lstest equip- ment and all modern pain-preventive methods 10 _produs Charact rices annof 6:°the "tame “Gusi’ty of work. To Sing Here | MRS. LOUISE HOMER STIRES. DRIVE TO SAVE CHURCH {FROM AUCTION CONTINUES | $500 Before Tuesday Objective of | Dr. Lamkin, McKinley Memorial | Baptist Pastor. The drive for funds to save the Mec- | Kinley Memorial Baptist Church from | sale at auction is being continued by the pastor, Rev. Dr. S. Geriah Lamkin, | in an effort to raise $500 before Tues- day. “Owing to the fact that the church| has to raise $500 in four or five days to save the church from sale,” R Dr. Lamkin said, “the officers are ask-| might like to help save the church | from sale to make their check payable to Wade H. Ellis, Southern Building, or to the McKinley Memorial Baptist i BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATE | WILL GIVE LECTURE HERE Margaret Sanger to Deliver Ad- dress at Washington Audito- | rium on May 12. ‘ Margaret Sanger, birth control advo- | cate, will lecture on the subject af Washington Auditorium Tuesday, May | 12. Miss Sanger recently was the storm center of a_controversy among the clergy, brought about by hearings on the “doctors’ bill” before a congres- | sional committee.” | A group of Washington women's clubs is sponsoring Miss Sanger's ap- pearance. 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Church, and to deposit the check cash in the Commercial National Bank, Fourteenth and G streets, Monday morning.” ‘The total indebtedness of the church, to meet which a campaign is being carried on, is $6,500, although the im- mediat> need, the pastor explained, is for $500 to stcp the sale proceedings. THREE IN AUTO FIRE DIE MOSCOW, Mich., May 2 (#).—Three men were fatally burned last night when they were trapped in their sedan, which broke into flames after colliding with a truck on the main street of this village. Frank La Vera, 19, of Detroit, was |ing any friend, pastor or church that | burned to death as he sat, with broken arms and legs, in the automobile. John | Sadlowski, 20, and Frank Soltyz, also of Detroit, died of their burns in a Jackson hospital today. PIANOS E28 28 T 28 28 25 28 2IC 2828 2538 28 RRFERE 28 L 98 RE ZE AL AL RS We are offering a spec’al discount on any one of these five pianos used at the Fes- tival of Nations. STIEFF Chas. M. 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