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"Let's All '.Go To the Music 'Hall"
The honorable company of enter-
tainers who carry the banner' for lav-
ers of music hall entertainment on the
national network of the CBC, will be
heard next on 'Saturday, March .12, 8
to 1810 p.m, EST. when 'George
Young presents a full roster of stars
in "Let's 'Ali Co to, the Music 11111."
Such well es'tablis'hed favorites as
(George Patton, 'Pat Rafferty, Red
,Newman, Yvonne Miller and the en-
trepreneur himself, will 'be !flanked by
a supporting cast, including Lottie
Cotter and 'Dbnna . Conway, 'with
Prank 'Gladstone acting as chairman.
and Simeon 'Joyce conducting the 'or-
hestra. Marjorie Daines will be at
the pianq.
,Highlights of the song presenta-
tions, in which memories of• famous
London music hali stars will he re-
called, will be "Moonlight Pronen-
adie", sung by Red Newman; "Man -
ma's Gone Dancing", with Pat Raff-
erty; '"Joshu-ah", by Yvonne Miller;
"(Pretty Little 'Girl From Nowhere",
Iby !George 'Young; "She Cost Me
Seven and Six", by the Three Wait-
ers and "Ask a 'Policeman", by
George (Patton, Mr. (Patton also 'wil'l
oblige with one of his famous mono-
logues, "Sam's Medal" in the Hol-
loway manner.
Tschaikowsky's "Serenade in C
• Major" on' "Melodic Strings"
Alexander Chiiiialdin ,will conduct
his "'Melodic Strings" orchestra in the
performance of the Tsch'aikowsky
"Serenade in C Major, 'O'pus 418" for
the national network audience of the
CBC on Wednesday, March 1116, 8t30
to 9 p.m. !EST.
The Serenade is arranged in four
arts (.a)1 Andante•+A•llegro; (ib)
Vain; (c) T_legie and Id) Finale, and
is the only work of the great Russian
'composer written especially for string
orchestra, The music reveals the
charm .of Tschaikowsky's lighter mo-
ments so far removed from the mood
wwhich prompted such sad •and impres-
" sive work.' as 'Symphonic 'Pathe-
,'tique" or the noble "Sixth Sym-
phony,'
Tschaikowskv has been 'called the
Swinburne of modern mnsic anvil the
;greatest ;of 'Russian composer;, He
was born in 115410 and died •of cholera
in 1189.1 He experienced an unhappy
marriage andone of the most unusual
friendships in history,' that of Ira -
dame von Meek, who set aside a pen-
sion for him, wrote to him regularly
for years but declined to meet •hint.
Stories of Two Hymns
The province of Quebec will enter
into the story of "The iRomance of
Sacred Song" when the CBC cast at
Vancouver 'dramatizes the writing of
"Tell Me the Old, Old Story," .and its
companion -,hymn, "I Love to Tell the
Story." As will be related during the
'broadcast Sunday, 'March 20, at 2 p.
su, EST, both hymns were written in
11866 by Katherine Hankey of Lon-
don, Eng'l'and, a ban'ker's daughter.
Bath are a tcerpts from. two long
poems: "The Story Wanted" and
"The Story Told."
An international meeting of the Y.
M. C. A. was 'held in Montreal in
Confederation year, 1867. Dr. W. H,
Doane of Cincinnati was present at
the gathering, which was presided
over by MajorlGeneral 'Russell, in
charge of 'the British troops in Can-
ada during the Fenian raids, Major-
General Russell recited Miss Hank-
ey's poen, "Tell Me the 0.1•d, Old
Story" and it is said that he was so
profoundly moved. that ',tears stream-
ed down his cheeks."
Dr. Doane obtained a copy of the
words and on a stage -coach en route
to the White Mountains in 'Quebec he
composed the tune which is still used
today, That sane evening the hymn
was sung .for the first time at Craw-
ford Hoarse by a small group of peo-
ple eegistered there. It is now known
all over the world and has been trans-
lated into many languages,
LBC $io-Briefs
Colin Ashdown, CBC Baritone,
Ilalifax' Studios:
!Full name is Colin :Edmund Thorn-
ton !Ashdown.
Is currently appearing in CRC ser-
ies, "From Sea to Sea."
Was attracted to radio when, as he
describes it, "the theatres folded up."
'Had his first professional engage-
ment at the age of '5 in London,
Ile is not inlfluenced by numerol-
ogy, :finds his greatest relaxation is In
reading and smoking his pipe, and his
greatest interest outside of his work
and home life, his dogs.
Admits that the greatest thrill of
his life was his first salary, che'q'ue,
that the most horrible incident of his
life was when he was fired alt by a
machine gun, and that the most dra-
matic moment in his radia career was
when he filled in at tine last Moment'
with music he had never sung before.
Says that his most prized' .posses-
sion is his clog because it never asks
questions, that his favorite dish is
steak and oniotla, that he ,bas a weak-
ness for pipes and cigars, and that 'he
would rather live in South Africa
than any other country.
Jeanne Pengelly, Guest Artist
On "CBC Music Hour"
Add: Last minute flash:
'Jeanne 'Pengelly, Canadian dramatic
soprano, will be ,guest artist on the
"CBC \lnsic `'Hots" to be presented
over the national network of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
9 to 110 p tn., 'ii:ST Sunday, March 2'A!
Miss !Pengelly, who has had a sac-
cessful radio and 'concert career with
several important engagements in
grand opera, sang the title role of
"Aida" with the Toronto 'Opera
Company last winter and Richard
Hageman, conductor, was so int -
pressed with the beauty of her voice
that he arranged an audition for her
at the Metropolitan lO:pera, New
York. Shortly afterwards she sang
the role of Eurydice in iGluck's opera,
".Orpheus and Eurydice," repeating
the performance on the 'Metropolitan
stage the same season.
Miss Pengelly has since sung with
the Cincinnati 'Opera ,Association, un-
der the baton of Wilfred Pelletier,
with, the Toronto (Opera Company,
under Cesar Barre, and with the San
Carlos. Opera Company, as "IGilda" in
"Rigolletto." She learned the entire
role in Italian in five days.
AAs usual (Geoffrey Waddington will
conduct the "Music Hour" orchestra.
John Duncan, brilliant harpist, also
will be heard during the programme.
Corporation Features Day by Day
'Alli Times 'Eastern Standard.
Thursday, March 110:
7451 p, m. 'A' Westerner Looks
About—talk Iby George Ooote. From
Calgary, ,
IFridav, March 4114:
8:1310 p. m. The United States—a
Canadian comments on Current events
across Ifhe. border, Talk by Steven
Cartwright. Mas -CBC international
exchange programme. From New
York.
10e415 p.11 I Shall Never Forget—
memories of Toni Thomson by A. Y.
(Jackson, R.C.A. From Toronto.
Saturday, March 12:
7:30 p. in. Book Review—by Pro-
fessor J. F. 'Macdonald. From To-
ronto,
18 p.m. R'etlections—IQuand is Brise
Vag:abonde—the Lyric Trio and or-
chestra direction !Allan b['c]ver. From
Montreal. •
.10:310 'pm). N'B'CSymphony Orches-
tra --guest .conductor. INB'C-CBC in-
ternational exchange 'program. F•ronri
IN e'w York.
Sunday, March 11131:
3 p.m. 'New York -Philharmonic
Symphany'Orc'hes'tra under the direc-
tion of 'joint Barbirol'li, -CBS-CBC in-
ternational exchane'e programme.
From 'New 'York.
6.30 p.m. Dr. H. •L. Stewart—news
commentary, From Halifax.
;110,00 p;m, "''Whither Democracy"—
a series, of forum broadcasts on the
problems of Canadian 'democracy.
From Winnipeg, and Montreal,
'Monday, Marcel
'745 p.m. Canada 'Week by Week—
review of trade and industry, From
Ottawa.
Tuesday, March' 115:
7.30 p.m. Organ (Recital — Allan
Reid, organist. 'From Halifax.
9.00 pan. OBC Symphonic; Series—
orchestra direction Jean Marie Beau-
clet with Cecil Leeson, saxophonist,
From Montreal.
Wednesday, March 116:
7.45 p.m. "Science at Work ---talk on
"'Gasoline Standards" by Alan
given in eo-operation with the Na-
tional Research Council of Canada.
From Ottawa.
DUBLIN
The hume of a ;;ori'$ nun-ber of
folk who have retired from the farm,
Dublin boasts an unusual record. A
village of approximately 118A souls,
nearly one •in every five citizen, has
lived beyond the ali'o'ted span of three
score yessw and ten, Thirsty -three are
beyond tlae age of 70.
The oldest lady in the village is
Mrs: Catharine Carpenter • who will
the 91.1 ye\irs old nest July. and the
oldest .man is William Jordan, now in
his 59th year.
(Mrs. Carpenter, who gets a great
'kick out of listening to the heavy-
weight .prize fights on 'the radio and
who hopes somebody will come along
one of these days who can knock out
J'.o'e Louis, was barn in St: Colunban,
which for many years was 'known as
Irish Town. Her parents, the late Mr.
and Mrs. 'Patrick Carlin, who. came
originally •from Ireland, were among
the very ,first settlers of the district.
Married at the age of 214 to the late
1To'hu Carpenter, she and her husband
took up farming here at that time,
and Mrs. Carpenter has 'been a resid-
ent of Dublin ever since, Do My. Car-
penter's
arpen•ter':s death eleven years ago the
farm was sold to Michael Nagle,
"All the country around St. Coun1-
bann and Dublin was wilderness when
I .was a girl," Mrs. Carpenter recall-
ed, "and 'Dublin used to be (known as
Carronbrook. Parol homes were few
and far between and what is now
Dublin did not amount to very much
in those days. There were two or
three stores here .and a man by the
name of Robert -Duncan used to op-
erate the !first hotel. There used to
be quite a 'few bears in the district,
halt they .never bothered people or
attacked them. I remember how they
used to frequently carry off the pigs,
though."
The last member of her own fanc-
ily, Mrs. Carpenter has three daugh-
ters and one san of her own living.
The son, Joseph Carpenter, is a farm-
er in ivIclKillop, and the daughters are
Mrs. Mary Byrne and Mrs. Dave Mc-
Connell of Dublin, and ?e[rs. William
Devereaux of Chicago. et
Mrs. Carpenter does not look al
all like 90. 'Possessed of all her facul-
se•nse of humor. Mrs. Carpenter en-
joys reading, sewing and helping her
daughter Mrs. Byrne with the house-
work. She does not believe in being
idle if there are things that she can
do.
Mr. Jordan, et native of Streetsvili ,
Ontario, moved into Dublin three
years ago after spending vieltually all
Itis life on the farts in Hibbert, not
far iron the village. 'His •parents
came to Canada from Ireland in :1849.
\dr. Jordan wax married in 111181 to
bliss Mary Ann 'Roach, who died
three years ago. T•fe has one daughter
and eight lints still living: Miss Macy
Jordan of Toronto; ';John and .Toe of
T-Iibbert; Patrick of Dublin; 'Eddie of
St. Clements: Jin' of Toronto; Prank
of Copper Cliff; ;Albert of Detroit.
and Lyle of Wildwood. 'Alta, He has
also two brothers, James. of Dublin
and Cornelius of 'Niagara Falls.
Mr, (Jordan sloes not get out of the
house a great dead, but he rarely
plisses his weekly excursion dawn to
the -barber shop. He remembers when
Dublin had eight hotels and when
was "a busier place than it is today."
Died in Goderich Tp.—
William Thomas -Jennings clied at
his home in 'Goderich township on
Sunday morning following an illness
of five weeks'. duration. A native of
Devonshire, ?England, he came at the
age of six years with his parents to
Canada, settling in Whitby, Later he
farmed for four years in Colborne
township but for the past sixty years
he had been a resident of Goderich
township. In 111354 he married Miss
Mary 'Jane Campbell of Summerhill,
who predeceased hint a few years
ago, Surviving are his slaughter, Miss
Alma Jennings, an only child, and'
:five sisters. Interment •was in Clinton
cemetery.
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,
PROVEN FAKE
Take it finally, from the Postinas-
ter-General of 'the; U.S.A,---there is
not now, nor ever was there a Baker
Estate in 'Bhilacleiphia which would
be a gold mine to countless heirs.
'Vile must magnificent swindle of
the 20th century," the Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia
'Records dabs it. in reporting the Far-
ley announcement that: Twenty-four
members of the various groups en-
gaged in this .fraud against the public
have been brought to trial and eon-
victed."
In fact, it .goes back into the 19th
century. for '510 years ago, or there-
abouts, there were 'Ontario res'iden'ts
who already , saw themselves ra'lling
in riches on their shares Irani the
huge property in the heart of the
Quaker City that would, any clay
now, fail into the hands of the heirs
of Colonel Jacob Baker, whose ser-
vices in the Revolutionary War had
bcen •generously rewarded ,by 'Govern -
inent.grants which the course of time
had transformed into gilt -edge, built -
upon corner lots,
Behind the brief Farley statement.
said the Record, was the story of a
gigantic racket •carrieil on through the
United States snails, which netted its
operators more than $1,000,000 and
numbered among its victims gullible
citizens of every State of Union, Ca-
nada, :Mexico and Cti•ha.
That million dollars must be a mo-
dest estimate; in 111313, the president
of Toronto's B'a'ker Heirs' .Associa-
tion told the Ontario 'Securities Com-
missioner that from 4! 2-I1i131b more
than 11141011,1100 was collected by local
heirs' associations and 5.328,000 in
cash had gone into the hands of one,
Seligman, of Pittsburg, to investigate
claims, This ,president of the Baker
Heirs was five years previously, sen-
tenced to one year in jail •on the
charge of theft of 5411708 from the
Drake Watson -Springer lHeirs, a sis-
ter association of which also he MILS
president, la was testified then that
511714,000 had been collected from
these '"heirs." Subsequent to the sen-
teneing, 500 Baker '"heirs" met, •ex-
pressed their continued confidence in
their president, and discussed finan-
cial arrangements to he made with
their Pittsburg. investigator. .111 Nrsv-
enmer, 1.9129, the Attorney -General's
Department announced that until Sel-
igman had returned substantially
mare than $111.90,000, received as re-
taining fee, the 'department refused to
believe there was anything to the
Maker estate, and that the stop order
ltnpnsed the year before to prevent
further selling of memberships in the
association would be continued. An
tttempt to find Seligman for finest -
toning wax fruitless.
.\ faked will, dated "Dec. 2;7, 116.9."
was the lore which caught thoosands
of heirs, the Washington correspond-
ent explains, for it provided, opera-
tors of the racket assured their vic-
tim,, indisputable proof of the exist-
ence of a "Maker" or "Becker" estate
in the very centre of ;Philadelphia,
worth 1+h9,11110,000, and including pro-
perty on which now stand 1ndepencl-
ence Hall, Franklin Square, the Veil-
ed States Mint, the Broad Street Sta-
tion and the abutments of the (Dela-
ware 'River Bridge.
To make the proposition even more
attractive, the promoters added t
those properties the grave of Benja-
min !Franklin and 11,111011 arn'< of Iaht-
tble coal, lead and zinc lane. through -
ea Pennsylvania.
The will, claimed to have been exe-
••nted by one ''Jacob Baker," purport -
;d to dispose of the fabulously valu-
able properties to the Baker heirs.
Basi, of the racket in the United
States was to solicit money through
the mails for the pretended purpose
'ai probating the amazing document.
it the person solicited was not
named Baker or Becker, he was of-
fered a 'share" of the mythical es-
tate or perhaps an "enrollment" as
Slt) or 520 each, Even "memberships`
with nionthly dues were collected
'tont those who hoped eventually to
collect several thousand per cent.',
ornfit..
"inspectors assigned to this work'
thought it very unusual that an au-'
hcntic• will to such valuable property
should remain 15nprobatcd for almost
150 years," !Postmaster -General Far-
ley announced, "The alleged will was
ahtained through court proceedings
and submitted .to analysis by a chenti-
_al engineer and handwriting expert."
As a result, pos'tiflIce inspectors
discovered what they suspected: The
naper on which the will was written
was not manefacturcd until 30 years
after its •da'te.. The si'gnatures were
forged.
As the will and representations of
the promoters called .for property
thronghout Irennsyl aria as part of
the mythical inheritance, postoffi.ce
inepertors were obliged to trace the
name of 'Baker" or "Becker" and
various properties in all the 67 cont -
ties of the state. from '1062 to the
Present time.
,-After 114 months of in'vestigation,.
the inspectors discovered: 01) none
of the property mentioned was own-'
IS
IMPERIAL TOBACCO'S
INSPIRING PROGRAM
FRIDAY 10 P, M., EST
STATION 681
•d by a Jacob Baker or by any other
Baker at the time the will was pur-
ported to have been executed: (2)
there was no vast unsettled or un-
distributed Baker or Becker estate
anywhere in the State of IP•ennsyl-
vania,
Ramifications of the racket, it was
discovered, were almost limitless.
For example, some promoters claim-
ed that '.Jacob Baker ar some other
Baker executed a 95 -year lease to one
Martin Yalu for property upon which
now stand most of the buildings in
downtown Philadelphia. That lease,
expired next year, would, of course,
be incredibly valuable.
Another method by which money
was claimed, it came out in the .trials,
was in the .compilation and sale of
so-called '"genealogical charts," Need-
less to say, they 'traced ancestors of
the victim bank to the Baker or Beck-
er of whom they were 'supposed to he
an heir. Charges t� for. those charts
ranged from 511' to `.x50.
"Associations" or "'leagues" were
organized, memberships to 'which
were sold .to gullible citizens in every
state at from 51) to VO. (The initial
payment, however, was far from the
total extracted from. individual 'vic-
tims. The investigation revealed sev-
eral whose contributions amounted to
as much as $i7,AAO.
The inspectors found promoters
wrho had represented various ibattles
and trust companies in Philadelphia
as holding ffiillions of dollars for
"Baker heirs" in the form of rentals
and nrher collections from the 99 -
year leases executed by the Baker
"ancestors." investigators disclosed
not a single penny was being so held
by any of the institutions mentioned.
Search of army and navy files pro-
duced proof, however, that .there nev-
er utas a 'Jaco'b Baker from iPennsyl-
vania who served as a commissioned.
officer in the Revolutionary \Var and
that no land grants were made by the
l'nitt"d States 'Government to any
captain or colonel or any other Baker
in Pennsylvania on account of such
asserted service.
No less than 44 different organiza-
tions had been engaged in this gigan-
tic racket at one time, it was reveal-
ed. Most of theist, after conducting
their scheme for a comparatively brief
period, would fold up when pressure
became too great.
Until the 11. S. ,Post Office Depart-
ment took a hand last year, the re-
production process had been going on
for years.
"There is no Bakerestate and
there never has been such an estate
that could possibly be the subject of
such schemes." 'Farley concludes.
"Something that started as a rumor
grew into a ,gigantic fraud. Thousands
of .people were deceived into contrib-
uting their time and money for many
years without any return or possibil-
ity of reward,"
Kitchen Range Explodes—
An explosion occurred at the home
of \!r, and Mrs. (Philip Assent o.f
Brussels on -Friday morning, caused
by the water pipes 'being frozen in
the 'kitchen range. Mr. Arnett un-
knowingly lit the fire. The range was
blown to pieces and the kitchen al-
most wrecked, -No one was in the
kitchen at the time.
.A rural witness in a Scottish dog
case related how the defendant, M' -
Nish, carte up and struck him, and
proceeded:
"So 'I joist up and gives hint a
wipe. juist 'then his dog came along
a.nd T hit 'hint again."
Hit the dog?" asked the magis-
trate.
311o. Hit IM'Nish, An' then I ups
wi' a stane and thrawed it at him and
it rolled hhn over an' over."
"Threw a stone at M'iNish?"
"At the dog, Ayr' he got tip and hit
me again."
"The 'dog?"
"No, \'''Nish, • 'Alt' wit that he
stuck his tail atween his legs an'
went off,"
"i\!'Nish?"
"No, the dog. Yen' when he came
hack he pounded me."
"The dog came back and pounded
you?"
"No, if Nish, An' he isna' hurt a
bit."
"'Who isn't hurt?"
"The dog."
Explorer—A tiger •tvfll• not ,harm.
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stick,
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