Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1937, Page 5

JAMES MNTYRE, MINSTREL, IS DEAD Partner of Heath in Famed Vaudeville Act Succumbs at 79. Br the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON. N. Y., August 18.‘ —James McIntyre, 79, died early to- | day of uremic poisoning, ending (he} 64-year-old partnership of McIntyre and Heath, famed minstrel men and one of the best-known vaudeville teams of the last generation. | MecIntyre died at 6:30 am. He had | been in & coma for several days. News | of his death was withheld from his | lifelong comrade, Thomas K. Heath, | 84, who lay stricken with paralysis| and bronchitis at his home in Setau- | ket, only a few miles across Long | Island from Southampton. | Mclntyre, beloved “Alexander” of | the old vaudeville skit “The Ham | Tree,” did his first dancing as a| candy butcher on the railroad run between Kenosha, Wis,, his native tate, and his home in Rockford, Ill Graduated to Vaudeville. From Jigging in the aisles of cars to entertain passengers, he graduated | to a regular “spot” in vaudeville with his first partner, Frank Austin | Early in the '70s they broke up. | McIntyre met Heath, who had lost his partner, in San Antonio, Tex., and the team they formed lasted unt u their final appearance together Philadelphia in October, 1934 They began by playing the county fairs of Texas, passing the hat after | each performance. In 1877 they went | to Chicago after traveling for a time with Sells Bros’ wagon show, and played first at Hamlin's old Colis ‘The same year they came on m \r»\\ York to play in the old Madison Square Garden. Opened in New York. They opened in New York with Howe's London Circus, and when that show closed in Atlanta, Ga., McIntyre | and Heath organized a show of their | own, which ran for one season with indifferent success. It was in 1880 that the McIntyre- Heath team gave New Yorkers their first sight of the “coon buck dance,” in Tony Pastor's old theater on Broadway, and it was such a success that the dancers’ jumped to $150 a week in a single night After playing with Alice Oates in “Long Bran McIntyre and his partner organized the “Georgia Min- strels,” which played throughout the United States, running for 17 years without a single change in routine to | set a new vaudeville record Joined Circus in 1881. In 1881 the partners left their own | show to join Barnum & Bailey, and | four years later they played with the | Hyde Comedians, before joining \\(‘h’r and Fields in 1893 Veterans of the stage, McIntyre and Heath were headliners at the turn of the century, appearing in 1901 with Beck’s Orpheum Road Show, and in 1905 with Klaw and Erlander. Next came "“The Ham Tree,” an elaboration of an incident in their old “Georgia Minstrels.” “The Ham | Tree” was revived in 1915 and ran | for two additional seasons Asked in 1919 if it was true he and Heath had not spoken to each other off the stage for 25 years, McIntyre | answered: “Balderdash! Tom and I never quarrel.” Celebrated Forty-fifth Anniversary. In 1915, McIntyre and Heath, both 4ging, celebrated the forty-fifth anni- versary of their partnership with a November matinee of “Hello Alex- After that skit came “Red| ” which, like “Hello Alexan- | was written by Edgar Smith in collaboration with MecIntyre's wife Emily ‘ After “Red Pepper” closed the vet- erans of the stage went into semi-| retirement at their respective Long Is- | land homes, McIntyre at Todanna Is- land, Southampton, and Heath at Soundview Manor in Setauket In 1928 they appeared again in “Headin' South,” under the auspices| of the Shuberts. Their final appear- ance together was in October of 1934, when they appeared at the Forest The- | ater in Philadelphia in “America | Sings.” Surviving the old trouper is his adopted daughter, Mrs. Maud Martin. | His wife, Emily Young McIntyre, died in 1935. salary HELD IN SLAYING PATOKA, Ind., William Lankford, jr. 45, was held | here today after confessing, Deputy | Sheriff “Cap” Carey said. the slaying | of Jesse Houchin, 45, in a quarvel over Langford's wife. Lankford said he accused Houchin of paying attention to his wife, and | that Houchin replied, “I love her and | am going to have her, even if I have | to kill you.” Lankford, arrested yesterday in Mount Carmel, Ill, probably will be turned over to the September grand jury, Prosecutor Harvey Garrett an- nounced. Houchin was found dead, shot through the back, near his farm home Monday afternoon. August 18 (P)— | ONLY AIR-COOLED HOTEL It costs no more to live COMFORTABLY! Single rooms $6 to $8. Double $7 to $10. 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Heath is 84 and McIntyre was 79 at the time of his death —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. - ROUND TABLE UNIT BEGINS SESSIONS Knights Open 13th Annual; Convention Here—Fete Scheduled Tonight. The thirteenth international con- | vention of the Loyal Knights of the Round Table began today at the May- flower Hotel with members from all sections of the country registering | for the three-day session. | A visit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with greetings from Di- rector J. Edgar Hoover, was scheduled for this afternoon. A meeting of the | Board of Directors was to follow. | Willlam A. Edelblut, president of | the Washington Round Table Club, will be in charge of an informal re- ception in the hotel ball room at 8| o'clock tonight, with a welcoming ad- ered by Commissioner | ) C. Hazen. The response will | be made by Homer C. Shaffmaster of | | Detroit, president of Round Table | International. Also appearing gram_ will ver, Cnln 4 on tonight’s pro- | be James Landrum, Den- international secretary and | M. Ellison, | give the "Legend of King | in connection with the initi ¥ to be performed by the | local organization James E. Sm oresident of the National Radio Institute of Washin: ton, is general chairman of the con- vention Arthur” 5-Year bl('('p of Patricia Maguire “Sleeping Beauty™ in Se- rious Condition as High Fever Develops. By the Associated Press o CHICAGO, August 18 —Patricia Maguire, 31-year-old suburban Oak | Park girl, who has slumbered for more than five years in the grip of lethargic encephalitis, was in West Suburban Hospital today, her condition made worse by a high fever. | Peter Miley, her stepfather, said Miss | day, and was taken to the hospital from her home last Saturday. her condition was serious. Secrecy surrounded the latest de- velopment in the ‘sleeping beauty's” long fight for life. Hospital attaches refused information and Dr. Eugene F. | Traut, her family physician, declined to comment. It was on February 18, 1932, that| Miss Maguire lapsed into a deep cnma‘ | from which she has never completely‘ rallied. Doctors diagnosed her strange case as that of lethargic encephalitis— sleeping sickness. do good Wor what you ar® opti tered Cptome an eye test: WAWEE { trust | public | Passenger cars, | $12 and trucks from $15 to $150, de- trist in char K PAYS FO D. C. Taxes (Continued From First Page.) term of office that this vicious prac- tice of attaching unrelated riders to tax or appropriation bills has oc- curred. “The country will recognize the un- fairness of placing any President in the position of having to disapprove | the major bill just because an ex- traneous rider has been attached to it. In the present case I have no | hesitation in approving the ! legis- | lation for the District of Columbia, but | I have distinct hesitation in approv- | ing the rider, which weakens the anti- laws, “Several of the departments of the Government have pointed out, in reports they have given me, ex- | tremely objectionable features in this rider and recommended my veto of the whole bill on this account. There is, on the other hand, some estimable | opinion that the effects of this rider | will not be as serious as it is Xeaxl‘d‘ by the departments that favor a veto. “I have decided to sign the bill in | the hope that it will not be as harm- ful as most people predict, and I call | attention to the fact that one of the principal objections to the rider is | that the departments opposing it be- lieve it will seriously raise the cost of many articles to the consuming | | “But in signing it, I express again | the objection to this unusual method of passing laws, and I sincerely trust that future sessions of the Congress of the United States will forego the practice of attaching unrelated riders to important and specific bills.” $8,875,000 in New Revenue. The bill is estimated to raise a total of $8875,000 in new revenue from the following sources A business privilege tax of two- fifths of 1 per cent on the gross re- | ceipts of all business and professional groups, with a $2,000 exemption, Yield, $3.000,000. Increase in the rate on real estate and tangible personal property from $1.50 to $1.75 per hundred of as- sessed value, $3,125.000. Weight tax | on motor vehicles, in addition to the present personal tax based on value. | ranging from $5 to pending on weight. Yield, §1,500.000. Inheritance and estate taxes, $800,- 000. Increase from 1!, tax rate on net premiums of insur- ance companies, $200,000 Tightening method of personal taxes, $250.000. Of immediate to 2 per cent in collecting estimated to bring in| importance to Lhe He said | § Special Platters c, 70c, 80c Full Course Dinners 5 to 9 smn FORDS conn CALVERT 11ST WHARF k unless you doing. The rove '10“" eye sit R GLASSES! 1004 F St. N.W, | Senate committees over District Comimssioners is the author- WEDNESDAY PANTS BURGLARIES SUSPECT 1S SEIZED Bandage on Hand and Find- ing of Clothes Lead to Arrest. Searching for a man with a cut on his hand as the elusive “pants burg- lar,” police last night arrested Louis Johnson, alias Willie Simms, 32, col- ored, and held him at the ninth precinct for investigation. The “pants burglar,” so called be- cause he always made off with the trousers of his sleeping victims, jumped through a window to escape from the home of Louis Teivsky, 500 block of Sixth street northeast. Detective Sergt. R. J. Barrett and Precinct Detectives George Thornton, D. L. Gest and E. E. Scott found Teiv- sky's’ trousers near Johnson's home saw a bandage on his hand. He is seven robberies. Pedestrian Is Stabbed. be robber at Fifth and G streets last night, George Brown, 20, of the 400 block of Twelfth street, was in a seri- ous condition in Gallinger Hospital today. Brown said his assailant, a colored man, asked him for a dime and then whipped out a penknife and ity contained in the bill for the Treas- ury to advance funds to keep the | stabbed him. Herbert Cohen, 1417 Park road, re- city going until local tax collections | | ported he was struck over the head by for the current fiscal year come in. District officials have been fearful the | small amount of revenue they have a colored man at First and L streets | The man apparently intended to rob him, but became frightened, Cohen told left to their crediv in the Treasury | police, He was treated at Sibley Hos- | would be used up on current operat- | ing expenses before the tax measure | became law Passage of the measure marked the end of months of debate in House and how best w0 | meet the $/,000.000 deficit that stared | the city in the face for the current fiscal year. Since the chief sources of revenue | in the bill were compromises agreed on at the last minute, Congress in- cluded a direction to the Commission- ers to make a thorough study of the entire tax structure and submit a re- port when Congress reconvenes in January. receipts one ye 38 Full-Time Workers Needed. the Dis- business tax was limited to The money to be used by trict for the increased staff is to come | out of the 1938 appropriations for the | assessor, collector, department of ve- hicles and traffic, corporation coun- sel and the contingent for purchase of office furniture There will be 38 per diem workers, the latter able the traffic director to the motor vehicle weight tax There will be three “big” new jobs Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal will be given an assistant at $4,600 a year and Tax Assessor Fred D. Allen will be given two assistants at $3,800 One of these will be placed in charge of the business privilege tax and the other in charge of the inheritance and estates tax. All told, the assessor will get 33 new assistants, the collector 3, the corporation counsel 2 and the trsb fic director 24. Commissioner Hazen promptly or- dered Seal to start at once on the drafting of regulations for the opera- tion of the several new levies. The major job in this connection is with the business privilege tax. to en- Westyle a With this in view the gross | full-time annual | | employes appointed and 24 part time pital. Coat Stolen in Park. Seeking relief from the heat, fell asleep on a bench in Lafayette Park early today and awakened to find that his coat, containing $113, had | been stolen | Bernard Flax. 4120 Fourteenth street, reported that his apartment had been entered by a jimmy thief who made off with jewelry and old coins valued at $100. EEN ey AT | TRYST PROVES FATAL SPRINGFIELD, Mo, August ()—A sunset tryst of an elder! ple ended in tragedy yesterda; when a motor car plunged down a 75-foot cliff, killing Mrs. J. E. Halligan, 70, Quincy, IlI Mr. and M Halligan were g | in their motor car watching the sun- 18 son, Mo. Malligan got out of the car The brakes failed to hold and before he could stop it, the car rolled over the cliff, carrying his wife to her death. establish | ' ‘\(,I'D | coxbiTiON Mnunmn Valles Mineral Water from Hot | Springs. Arkansas. This natural mildly al- | kaline Diuretic is Nature's four-way elimi- nant of body acids and poisons. Phone | MEL. 1062 or write for free booklet. MOUNTAIN VALLEY MINERAL WATER 1105 K St N.W. MEL. 1062 nd Fruhauf TROPICAL WORSTED SU Formerly 25 0 *40 *50 359 $70 ITS NOwW 18.75 22.50 30.00 37.50 41.25 52.50 Your Chance for Real Savings! Sidney West,~14"%:G EUGENE C. 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