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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-03-10, Page 3THURSDAY, MttocH 10, 1938 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN. n' YAyylbrtisssa7lydtIDermalasaraateu..7lnxuwntitam sun:e.xn r "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. Gounter kBook • We 7 -ire Selling Quality Books Books • are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. The Seaforth News 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. you. if you carry a white walking stick, Voice --But how carry it?_ a must you