Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1932, Page 16

B—4 = ° PLAY T0 BE GIVEN IN CHURCHES HERE First Presentation of Dralma,l “The Nativity,” Planned This Afternoon. “The Nativity,” fifteenth century French miracle play, will be given in a series of productions in Washington churches beginning at 4:30 p.m. today in the Church of the Holy City, Six- teenth and Q streets, by members of | the Religious Drama Committee of the Washington Federation of Churches. The drama, adapted for modern pres- entation by Eduardo Sanchez and Don- ald Fay Robinson, will be repeated at 8 pm. in the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church and at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Help in Production. The production staff for the drama includes Mrs. Eliz:beth Gatlin Pritch- ard. director; Lewis Barrington, Miss Mildred Merrill, Mrs. H. G. Torbert, Herman P. Riess, Mrs. R. L. Sanford, Hugh Stewart Smith and Bess Davis Schreiner. The Religious Drama Com- 0 is comprised of many rep- resentatives of church denominations in Washington, including Miss Nell Burghaut, Dr. Clifton P. Clark, Mrs. S. Carroll Coale, Francis Hoffheins, Miss Janet Jackson, Rev. H. A. Kester, Miss Lois Kugler, Miss Lena G. Parks, Mrs. R Dr. Frederick V. Rand, Miss Viola Faudolph, Rev. M. Elmore Turner, Mics Rhoda Watkins and Miss Katharine Wil The players in the drama are Miss C:roline McKinley, Harry Schonrank, Robert D. Chase, Miss Louise Harrison Miss Martha Fisher, Wade n, Wayne Bobst, Ralph Keister, E. R. McKenzie, Miss Lilla LaGarde, Miss Judy Lyeth. Miss Betty Sleeper, Arthur Bradley White, Thomas M. Ca- hill, M. Forney Reese, Herman P. Riess, Dr. Clifton P. Clark, Robert H. Middle- ton, Stanley Chase and Walter Bucher. Singers in the drama are Charles Whit- | ten. Harlan Randall and Dr. Robert Howe Harmon and the male chorus of Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church. W. Princ Many Costumes Loaned. Many costumes_have been loaned by the Communily Center department of Washington and others by the D. C. Bicentennial Commission. Mrs. anse’ Wynne of the Community Center de- partment is assisting the costume chair- man, Migs Mildred Merrill, and Roy W. Prince, John Bowman and Richard Buckingham are assisting Lewis Bar- rington in the lighting effect for the drama. COAST GUARD AREAS | TO BE REORGANIZED Greater Efficiency Is Aim of Di- vision in 4 Districts—Effec- tive Jan. 185. By the Associated Press. Reorganization of the Coast Guard areas to provide greater efficiency in the which enforces all the Nation's laws on the high seas was an- ’nounued last night at headquarters here. In announcing the rearrangement, it was emphasized that liquor smuggling did not fizure in the plan, which was the culmination of years of study by two boards of ranking officers of the e ler orders issued by Rear Admirel comn nt, the Coast Guard on January ill be divided into four arcas. eaeh under a commander who will b2 in complete charge of land and sek operations. These districts will be: The East- ern, running from Maine to Cape Hat- te! the Southern, from Cape Hat- teras’ down the Atlantic and through the Gulf to Mexico; the Western, tak- ing in the Pacific and Alaskan coasts, and the Northern, comprising the Great Lakes, The headquarters of the FEastern area will be at New York and prob- ably be commanded by Capt. B. M. Chiswell. now_division commander at New York. The Southern headquar- ters will be temporarily at Mobile and probably under command of Capt. H. D. Fisher, while the Western, with headquarters at San Francisco, prob- ably will be commanded by Capt. Eu- gene Blake, ir. and the Northern. with headquarters at Cleveland, probably will be commanded by Capt. H. H. ‘Wolf. Ham THREE HELD UP HERE; SHOPKEEPER SLUGGED Woman's Pocketbook Snatched. Bandits Obtain $116 in Series of Robberies. Robbers obtained a total of $116 in three holdups and a purse snatching late yesterday and last night, in one tnstance knocking the proprietor of repair shop unconscious before taking his_money. The assault victim was James B. Hutchins, 47, of 4414 Thirteenth street novtheast, who was robbed of $81. Police arrested Juan Paxing, 62, and booked him for investigation. Hutchins was treated at Emergency Hospital for & slight injury to the head. John P. Doncvan, manager of a Sani- tary Grocery Store at Second and G streets northeast, was held up at pis- tol point by two colored men and rob- | bed of $12° Mrs. Maude Benfon, 2124 Second street, was robbed of about $20 in cash by two colored men who jumped on the running board of her automo- bile in the 200 block of Elm street. Ada Childs, colored, 900 block of Westminster street, told police her pocketbook, containing $3, was snatched from her by a young colored man near her home. TWO SLAIN BY BANDITS; BANK ROBBED OF $20,000 Four Suspects Released by Police at Minneapolis After Ques- tioning. By the Astociated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, December 17.—A sec- ond death today followed in the wake of the machine gun robbery of the Third Northwestern National Bank by five men who scooped up $20,000 and fled after killing a policeman and seri- ously wounding another. Oscar Erickson, 29, the second victim, died from wounds inflicted by the rob- bers, who_stopped in Como Park, St. Paul, to change automobiles. Erickson, who had been selling Christmas wreaths, was shot as he and a companion slowed their car near the bandit automobile while driving through the park. Four persons taken into custody were released after questioning failed to con- nect them with the holdup. Patrolman Ira L. Evans was killed and his, companion, Patrolman Leo Gorsky, wounded by the robbers as they arrived at the bank in response to a burglar alarm. Detective Capt. Frank Forestal ex- pressed the opinion the raiders were x:g?en of a Kansas City “mgh” which assert robbed another bank of the Northwestern group here in March, Players LILLA LAGARDE. WIEE OF DISTRICT TREE CHIEF IS DEAD Mrs. Alice B. 0‘Neill Lanham Born Here 56 Years Ago—Active in Catholic Church. Mrs. Alice B. O'Neill Lanham, wife of Clifford Lanham, Superintendent of trees of the District of Columbia, died Fridey at her home, Fort Dupont. on Alabama avenue southeast, after an illness of a year. She was 56 years old, a native of Washington and_ the daughter of Charlcs W. and Ellen Francis O'Neill, the former th> late superintendent of Congressional Cemetery. For years a member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Mrs. Lanham had been a Sunday school and music teacher. In recent years, after the family moved to Fort Dupont. she had been a regular attendant at St. Francis Xavier Church, Twenty-seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. Besides her husband, Mrs. Lanham is survived by a son, Lieut. Charles T. Lanham, U. 5. A., former high school cadet_colonel, who now is stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., as an instructor, and & daughter, Mrs. Ellen Lanham C ley. wife of Lieut. Samuel Glenn C U. S. A, who was her brothe classmate at West Point. Mrs. Conley and her husband reside at Fort Meade, Md., where the latter is stationed. Get Pearls on Anniversary. GLENDALE, Calif., December 17 () —Instead of chira for their twentieth wedding = anniversary; Mr. and Mrs. PFred Sheridan got pearls. The unex- pected gifts came in the first course of the dinner. Sheridan found a pearl in an oyster and the guests found four more. e Film Star Adopts Son. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, December 17 ()—Marion Nixon, film star, an- nounced today she and her husband. Edward Hillman, jr.. sportsman, have adopted a 10-week-old boy. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER ‘18, 1932— wenneniew The HUB—Seventh & D Sts. N.W.—The HUB ssxaxmxmcmniss DENIES HE KNEW INSULL WAS BROKE Owen D. Young Questioned for Creditors on 1931 Conference. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 17.—Counsel for creditors of the Insull Utility In- vestments, Inc., in receivership, sought to learn today when Owen D. Young knew that Samuel Insull was “broke.” Young_answered “no” to the ques- tlon: “Didn't you know that Mr. In- sull was financially irresponsible in De- cember, 1931, when he offered his in- dorsement to you for the loan (82, 000,000 from the General Electric Co.) —that he was broke?” The chairman of the General Elec- tric Co. was then asked by Attorney Lewis Jacobson, representing the creditors: “Do you know that he is broke now?” Affairs Not “Probed.” “I suppose he is,” Young replied. “I haven't probed his affairs.” “When did you find out he was broke?” Young said that last February, in & conversation with the former Chicago utilities magnate, he learned that In- sull was not able to meet his obli- gations. This was Young's second, and last, ‘dfl_" as a_witness in the hearing before | Referee John Joyce, at which Attorney iJacobson has sought throughout to fix an approximate time when New York financial interests knew of the impend- ing collapse of the Insull utility structure. | Jacobsen expressed surprise that In- | sull would go to the General Electric | Co. for a loan. | . “He was a large customer,” replied Young, “and if he was in need of a mflion or two. it was not extraordinary that he should come. to us for it.” ‘ Interest in Collateral. | The matter of Insull's personal in- | dorsement of this loan to his holding company precipitated the questioning as to his financial responsibility at the time. Young replied ‘that his interest | lay only in collateral for loan, that he | was not “greatly concerned” with the | financial statements. In response to questions dealing with | ils services as an intermediary between New York bankers and Insull, during the negotiations for a “stand-atill agree- ment” on collateral, Young replied: “My efforts through February and March (1932) were to see whether there was any way of avolding receivership. Because I knew well that if it could not be avoided, many thousands of investors | might suffer. That is why we tried to | carry that company along. The investment company was thrown into receivership April 16, after the col- lapse of the agreement. _JAMES HALL ARRESTED ON THEATRICAL TOUR | Non-support of Wife Charged by | New Haven Police in Message ! to Louisiana. | By the Associated Press. | NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 17— James Hall, motion picture actor who |is on tour, is a fugitive from justice in the opinion of Chief of Police Philip | T. Smith who today asked the authori- weés of Baton Rouge, La, to arrest him. Hall, whose right name is James E. Brown, failed to appear in court for hearing on charges of non-support of his wife, Irene Gardner Brown, who has becn ill more than 6 years with tuberculosis. Brown was brought here from Los | Angeles November 7. In court he asked | for a continuance and furnished a bond. He failed several times to appear for jtrial. On his failure to show up today Chief Smith wired a warrant to Baton Rouge. BATON ROUGE, La.. December 17 | () —Police sald today James Hall, motion picture actor on a vaudeville tour, was arrested at request of authori- ties in New Haven, Conn., who sald he was a fugitive from a court there for failure to appear last week to an- swer a charge of non-support. | 'Hall's bond was fixed at $100. He displayed telegrains from his wife, now in New York, saying she had no further desire to prosecute him. 'THEORY BLAMES DISTANT STARS FOR AUTO WRECKS ON EARTH Physicist Thinks Study of Secondary Structure of Matter Will Yield Universal Life Secrets. By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif., December 17— A new study for general sclence was proposed here today by Prof. Fritz Zwicky with a suggestion it may bare | universal life secrets underlying all matter of the universe. This study involves what the pro- fessor of astrophysics of the California Institute of Technology described to the closing session of the American Physical Society here as ‘“‘co-operative phenomena.” Taking a cross section of the dis- coveries in physics, astronomy, chem- istry, biology and other fields of re- | search, he finds a strange relations: 1 between evidences pf this “co-operative | phenomena.” For instance, he says, when a motor car is going too fast arcund a corner and overturns, the most distant stars are even more responsible for the dis- aster due to gravitational effect than | the sun or earth itself. ‘The sharp melting point of metals, which is in the range of a thousandth of a degree centigrade, for each par- ticular metal, is merely & sudden gen- eral collapse of the atoms in the struc- ture due to the same co-operative phenomena. 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