Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1936, Page 8

A—8 » IS ANS TURNS 0 CARTY WORS :Actress,. at 47, to Dispose ¢ of Property and Follow “God’s Inspiration.” * By the Associated Press. i TARRYTOWN, N. Y., July 7.—Elsle \Janis, on whom fortune smiled ‘through a long stage career, looked today to a new role as she resolved to dispose of her possessions and de- vote her life to aid the less fortunate. ! “This is a divine inspiration from 1God,” said the 47-year-old actress. »*T am doing it because I want to do :something swell, something that would :give me a reason for living. . “I'm glving up everything I have ‘except the talent, personality, pep, or +whatever it was that put me in the ‘money as ‘Little Elsie’ and kept me there for 30 years.” Will Entertain in Hospitals. Miss Janis, who won fame early as &n impersonator, disclosed she would ‘spend much of her fortune in Gov- ernment hospitals entertaining dis- abled World War veterans, many of whom knew her overseas in 1918 as the “Sweetheart of the A. E. F.” She often went within the sound of the guns to play for the men just out of the trenches. ° Her plans were made known in & lengthy letter to the editor of the "Tarrytown News. Miss Janis wrote that she herself would auction her manor house and her ‘“so-called important souvenirs and valuable nicknacks,” but the house, she said, would not be sold to a private owner. “These great old trees have sheltered gelfishness long enough,” she ex- plained. Several acres of woodlands make up the estate. “All of my much-blessed life,” Miss Janis wrote, “I have been greatly de- pendent upon guidance. * “Mammon, who was certainly a co- “director until I left the stage in 1929, “ has been trying to horn in end swerve “me from the peace I have sought. Auction Proceeds to Charity. 4 “I finally turned on him and said: « "Listen, I know all about your set-up Land just what you can give. The < only really inspired happiness I have ~ ever had was when I was giving with- #out any thought of you—in the war <and after.’” . The proceeds of the auction, she said, would be given to local charities, “but the house will be sold with the provision it will be devoted to some | “ public purpose such as & museum or * school. It is an historic structure, the - first part having been built in 1683, Miss Janis began her stage career, carefully planned by her mother, at the age of 5, and made her New York debut as “Little Elsie” when she was 11. Leading roles in many famous plays followed. She wrote her biography , after she retired from the stage, and ¥ then went to Hollywood to do film dialogues, Married Man 16 Years Younger. It was in Hollywood that she met * Gilbert Wilson, 16 years her junior, and married him. Wilson now is a & bond salesman. § “Anyway, I want to be a rookie again, and as any army guy knows, the less you carry on a march, the better,” she wrote. “The dear old - manor is the first thing I'm giving up.” Unfortunately, she said, she could not give the house away because at this time “I have everything but money. That is just old Mammon being sore at me. “However, I am going to sell it for Just enough to pay for what I owe, which, thank goodness, is not much, comparatively, and is owed, not ‘or fine feathers, but for fine folks ..ke doctors, coal dealers and even lawyers (a hangover from the Mammon days Wwhen T had income tax worries).” FILIPINOS TO HONOR 'MURPHY AT DINNER Paredes, Resident Commissioner, and U. 8. Officials Will Attend. » Prank Murphy, United States high & commissioner of the Philippines and « former mayor of Detroit, will be the guest of Quentin Paredes, Philippine Tesident commissioner, and a group of Philippine residents of Washington } tonight at the Shoreham Hotel. Several high Government officials will attend the dinner, including the Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern, Attorney General Cummings, Assistant Secretary of State Sayre, Dr. Stanley Hornbeck, chief of tne Division of Foreign Affairs; Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening, director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions; Brig. Gen. Creed F. Cox, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, War De- partment, and former Senator and Mrs. Harry B. Hawes. rrrseraen i U. S. to Attend Poultry Congress. The United States Government has accepted the invitation of Germany to attend the World's Poultry Con- gress at Leipzig at the end of this month and appointed 22 delegates to represent this country. The dele- gation will be headed by Dr. John R. Mohler’ of the Department of Agriculture. e ] e Tevasy e O .ul'i:u 2 E{ we have been CA'E'E old gold and paying SPOT PEITOTMATATAL KTE 2o 2 puRE ADVERTISEMENT. His Best Friend Told Him It was his wife and she told him the truth. But she didn’t say he had “bad breath.” Instead, she said, “My dear, you need E-Z Tablets.” A hint to the wise was sufficient. Don't wait for some one to tell you. If you feel slug- gish; headachy, dizzy, or bilious, due to constipation, you may be quite sure your breath is telling others, Get & package of E-Z Tablets today. At all good drug stores, of 25¢. f graes s b b s charity. G _STAR, WASHINGTO Elsie Janis (shown here with her husband, Gilbert Wilson, bond salesman) has announced her intention of disposing of her property and stage souvenirs and devoting her life to —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. |WOMAN AND HER LOVER SENTENCED FOR MURDER Plead Guilty to S8laying Her Hus- band in Plot to Obtain His Land. BY the Associated Press. ELKADER, Iowa, July 7.—Mrs. Pear] Shine, 28, was sentenced to life imprisonment and Maynard Lenox, 19, her harmonica-piaying lover, to 40 years yesterday when they pleaded guilty to murdering Mrs. Shine's 60- year-old husband in a plot to obtain | by Judge W. L. Eichendorf. | In a hearing to determine degree | of guilt, Mrs. Shine and Lenox impli- cated Jim Hines, the bride’s uncle, and Albert Cornwall, of Manchester, Jowa, after he had married. Confessions of Mrs. Shine and Lenox told how they attempted to make Shine's death ap- pear a suicide. his land. The sentences were given | The farmer was killed May 5, a week | D. C. YOUTHS ASSIGNED Five Washington youths, graduates of the University of Maryland, are among the seven recently commis- sioned second lieutenants of the Or- ganized Reserves who have been as- signed to the 12th Infantry at Fort Howard, Md,, for one year's training as provided in the Thomasen act. They are Joel O. Castle, Ernest R. Eaton, jr.; John M. Firmin, William A. Hart and Hanson L. Spencer. Maryland youths chosen were: Brady {J. Dayton, jr., of Bivalve and Joseph | H. Morgan, Welcome. = = If Your Watch Is Worth Repairing manship and fale prie CASTELBERG'S 1004 F St. N.W. JEALOUS HUSBAND HELD IN SLAYING Bullets Fly as Man Finds Es- tranged Wife in Car With Another. By the Associated Press. CUMBBRLAND, Md., July 7—Ray- mond Fiorita, 26-year-old miner, charged with slaying a man he found in & parked automobile with his estranged wife, was held today for action of the grand jury. Albert Hosselrode, 36 - year - old Pennsylvanian, was killed last Sun- day night near Barrellville, Allegany County. A coroner’s jury held last night that Hosselrode came to his death from wounds inflicted by Fiori- ta. The latter was slightly wounded. The only eye-witness to the killing, during a gun battle, in which Hossel- rode returned Fiorita’s shotgun blasts with bursts from a .38 caliber re- volver, was Mrs. Rosella Fiorita. She testified before the coroner’s jury. She told the jury her husband came upon them as they were sitting in Hosselrode’s car. Fiorita greeted them with “Hello,” she said and then added “Don’t come near me.” Both replied, “I won't,” Mrs. Fio- rita said. “Then Al (Hosselrode) opened the car door.” she said. “Buck (Fiorita) shot first.” The witness said she was not certain how many shots her husband fired | or how many Hosselrode returned. Mrs. Fiorita was not hit during the exchange of shots. She became hys- terical and fled. State Policeman B. M. Cecil testified that he found bullet marks on the in- side of the door of Hosselrode's car. Other witnesses testified that Fiorita and his wife had been estranged for some time, They also testified the SWAT THE FLY Take advantage of an early start by an aggressive war on the fly at the beginning of the season. The Star has for free dis- tribution wire-handie fly swat- ters. Ask for one at the main office of The Star, 11th and Pa. Ave. N.wW. D. C, TUESDAY, miner had threatened to kill his wife and himself. County officers learned that Fiorif had borrowed the shotgun and some shells from George Conrad, his land- lord. He did not tell Conrad what he planned to do with the gun. The shooting occurred near the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bridges, parents of Mrs. Fiorita. Fiorita was taken to a hospital here and kept under guard. LAKE KILLARNEY’S DONOR DIES IN WEST B. Bourn, California Multi- millionaire, Gave Historio Area to Ireland. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.—Wil- liam Bowers Bourn, who gave his- toric Lake Killarney to the Irish Free State after accumulating a for- tune from California mines and public utilities, is dead. ‘The 79-year-old multi-millionaire died Sunday at his Filoli estate, on the San Francisco peninsula. Born in San Francisco and edu- cated at Cambridge, England, Bourn inherited the famous Empire mine at Grass Valley from his father, and later reorganized the San Francisco Gas Co, Electric Co. He purchased Lake Killarney and 10,000 acres surrounding it from Lord Ardilaum in 1905, and in 1932 pre- sented the property as a gift to the Irish Free State in memory of his daughter, Mrs. Maude Vincent, wife of a Free State senator. His active career ended in 1922, when he was stricken with paralysis Private funeral services were to be held today. w. now the Pacific Gas & | JULY 7, 1936 TAX LAW TERMED ADVERTISING SPUR Tremendous- Increase Predicted in Newspaper Volume Next Six Months. BY the Associated Press. SEATTLE, July 7.—A tremendous increase in national mewspaper ad- vertising during the next six months was foreseen today at the annual convention of the Pacific Clubs Asso- ciation. Leslie M. 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