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PAGE 3Q POST-DISPATCH POST-DISPATCH. 'APRIL 26, 1937 BISHOP W. F. M'DOWELL Conductor Sails SOCIAL ACTIVITIES St. Louis Symphony C) ft-: jc -) Associated Press Photo.

VLADIMIR GOLSCHMANN CAILING from New York for Europe Saturday aboard the lie de France. He will return in June to be guest conductor of the Lewisohn Stadium concerts in New York. TO )0 HERE TONIGHT 5mphony Or- i Tunscontinental lour. Orchestra of nrii, tre ('I" House In Mu- sponsored by orrf r.MH left Philadelphia im-j It five-week tour it to the Went Zt ir.4 hi will Include 37 ih r(tVmtl Itinerary. fifil home concert last P.

ir.rn'r of the T'f! train In 1 rf concert-goers the station with them In the (th two member pi. r. K'n missed the train. UP 11 mother St. Inuin.

Sam- )l i a cellist In the or- 'he youngest musics. Ir. and Mrs. J. jjvm.

3 McThemon avenue; tf.rr. Mi" Kemeralda Mayes. frien-1. Kunlce Burtt, en hn-l to geet him when arrived at 8:40 o'clock, (j m-''T mnflded that he twet even shnve yet and looks i i fr'" Mender and hand received hie music st fu'tls Institute and la s-jrei a promising cellist. re f'Uir woman members (t r.

two of them martini the other two engaged to rrtieJ They aie Edna Phil- sj NT cello. i eecond violin. All use mil-n nms. Miss Tyre Is ru-wl McGinnls, who pvt th cistinet In the orchestra. Otmsndv.

young condue- ar, am with the orchestra the trsin arilvrd. He con- r'li concert last night tut will arrive In time tonight's program. I'urM. Spanish pianist and xfd.ift sme of the concerts, to Mnny ff the musicians lo remained in their berths after ittin Terhed I'nlon Station, "frh-l left Little Hock, Ark, at this morning. TV i runs have instruments 1 st f'i.

While on tour, mot of their time play-ti ner. M-rintf. or listening r.il hnocraph the rlub cr. Their large if i evenly divided y--p ntnl clnsfical music, II A.U rn rwcer, told report- v-ff tour began, the orches--11 fp.si.j in Atlanta. T'-rn, New Ot leans, Trrn.

nd little Rock. ete given In one fy A' snd two In New The orchestra was here 2T ears old. until re-e' 1 'y the youngest conductor it r.rrl.estra In the United He Kt one time an ln New York movie The program tonight fol- 1 in 1 Mn nrh-rmiiit -r v' Pfthoveo tr rrmmiHxfl. OrrhMtrt Mrnormlf, F'i K.rr Siravlnaky A.i the concert have CCHESS OF ROXBURGHE DIES fccer t)uii(hter of 1r. and Mrs.

Oj'len iorft of Newport, It. I. Iti1 ft I'M'ON. April dowaper of Roxburghe. who in- Mfvin.000 in 1929 from her 'ver Mrs.

Mary Goelet of New- Island, died here Th Duchess, who wss a friend of Queen Mary, was rr to th Duke of Roxburghe a 11 Me died in 193Z one of the wealthiest nrnn women in the British ll st her was Ogden Goe-An rrt'-an multi-millionaire, who "1 iv! aboard his yacht at CONDUCT MRS. NATHANIEL W. EWING of the Park Plaza has gone to Washington to join Mrs. Harry B. Hawes and her daughter, Mrs.

Henderson S. Dunn, the former Miss Peyton Hawes. The three will drive to Virginia to view the gardens. Mrs. Ewing expects to be in the East several weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ross Mc Carthy, 6481 Ellenwood avenue, re turned home this morning from a brief visit in New York. Miss Lucille Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

William P. Anderson, 7914 Hampton Park, is spend ing a few days visiting friends at Little Rock, Ark. Her marriage to George J. Cahill, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Patrick J. Cahill, 5912 Pershing avenue, will be on event of early summer. Miss Mary Edna Cruzen, daugh ter of Mrs. E. A.

Cruzen of the Winston Churchill apartments, has returned to the University Wis consin at Madison, Wis, after spending her spring holidays here. Miss Marion Hart of Oshkosh, Wis, and a classmate at the university was her house guest, during the holidays. Lieut. H. J.

Barton has returned to his post at Camp Jackson Hill near Forsythe, Ark, after visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Barton, 1419 Yale avenue.

Samuel Huston Mayes, son of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Mayes, 4483 McPherson avenue, will entertain members of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra at a dinner at his parents' home tonight preceding the concert at the Municipal Audi torium. Mr.

Mayes is a cellist and member of the Philadelphia orches tra, which is on tour. Miss Yvonne Bebie, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Jules Bebie, 4207 Mag nolia-avenue, and Miss Dorothy Ca bell, daughter of Mrs. Dorothy Mat- teson Cabell, 5160 Waterman ave nue, will participate in student activities during the Centennial Cele bration at Mount Holyoke College, May 7 and 8.

Miss Bebie, a mem ber of the class of 1937 will usher at a reception at which President Mary E. Woolley will head the receiving line. She will also usher at a dance recital and will assist in an exhibit conducted by. the French department of the college during com mencement week. Miss Cabell, a member of the class of 1940, will take part in a demonstration by the choral speaking group during the centennial.

The final report meeting of the campaign for the budget of the Maternal Health Association of Missouri, which had been extended for two weeks, will be held tomor row morning at 11 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Samuel B. Grant, 96 Aberdeen place. Members of the campaign com mittee include Mrs. Edwin Levis, Mrs.

Walter Fischel, Mrs. Clarke P. Fiske, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Samuel B.

McPheeters and Mrs. James A. Seddon Jr. The funds will be used to support birth control clinics of the associa tion at Holy Cross Dispensary, Kingdom House, and the associa tion's headquarters, 4817 Delmar boulevard. The country clinic un der the auspices of the county or ganization is at 102 West Adams street, Kirkwood.

A three-act comedy, "How Dare You?" will be given at the John Burroughs School Little Theater Saturday night at 8:15 o'clock by a group of ninth grade students of the school. Miss Patricia Gamble, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark R. Gamble, 26 Wydown terrace; Miss Edith Wiener, daughter of Dr.

and Mrs. Meyer Wiener, 4609 Pershing avenue, and Tom Wipperman, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. B.

Wipperman, 1062 Thornby place, will play the leading roles. Other members of the cast In clude Miss Janet Simon, Miss Kath-ryne Woodward, Miss Phyllis Mc Pheeters, Miss Lorraine Steiner, Robert Hagnauer, Tom Gettys, Harold Watson, Allen Klipel, Hugo Monnig. Ted Allen, also a ninth grade student, will direct the play. The Kenrick Dramatic Club of St. Engelbert's parish will present a modern dramatization of "Lena Rivers," at the parish auditorium.

4720 Carter avenue, Friday night and Sunday nfght, May 2. The fol lowing are the members of the cast, which is under the direc- MR. AND MRS. ROBERT Mc-NEELY COCHRAN, 5022 West-1 minster place, served as usher and matron of honor, respectively, in the wedding Saturday of Miss Nancy Jane Wheelock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Warren Vose Whee lock of Janesvllle, and Mrs. Cochran's brother, Paul Anderson Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Johnson of Honolulu. The ceremony took place at the home of the bride's parents, the Rev.

Herman Anker, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, officiating. Philip Torchio of Bronxville, N. was best man, and the other usher was Lindsay Dudley of Milwaukee. The bride's three cousins, John and Allen Perry Lovejoy III, and Vittorio Cuni-berti, a student at Princeton, held the ribbons to form an aisle to the altar. The bride spent a week with Mr.

and Mrs. Cochran the latter part of last month. A program of wedding music played by the Eber Arthur Trio preceded the ceremony, which was performed in ihe bay window of the drawing room that had been converted into a bower of ferns and yellow and blue spring flowers with ivory tapers in bronze holders. The bride was given in marriage by her father and wore her mother's wedding gown, a quaint model fashioned with princesse lace over satin and a long sweeping train. Her veil of ivory tulle was fastened to a halo cap with clusters of orange blossoms on either side.

The bride's bouquet was of gardenias and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Cochran wore aqua blue net, floor length, with a full skirt and a satin sash lined with maize yellow satin. Her picture hat of natural milan was trimmed with corn yellow and blue streamers and she carried pernet roses. Mrs.

Wheelock, the bride's mother, wore delphinium blue marquisette and a shoulder corsage of purple orchids. A wedding supper followed the bridal reception attended by a large gathering of relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson will sail April 28 on the Mariposa from Los Angeles for Honolulu, where they will spend their honeymoon with Mr.

Johnson's parents. After June 15, they will be at home in Schenectady, N. where Mr. Johnson is connected with the industrial department of the General Electric Co. The bride is a graduate of Kemper Hall, Kenosha, and of Pine Manor, Wellesley, Mass.

Mr. and Mrs. Cochran entertained the bridal couple at a luncheon at the Monterry Hotel Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Magnus, 4 Hortense place, and their daughters, Mrs. Busch Magnus and Miss Miquette Magnus, a debutante of the past season, will sail June 30 from New York on the Reliance for a North Cape cruise. The cruise will end when the ship reaches Russia Aug. 5. Mr.

and Mxs. Magnus and their daughters will travel in Germany, France, England and Holland, returning to St. Louis the latter part of September. Mrs. Isaac Cook 5290 Waterman avenue, will depart the end of this week for Biddeford Pool, to occupy her summer home there for the season.

Mrs. Georgie Ashford Rielley of New York, who has been here visiting her aunt, Mrs. Bertie Ashford Lewis, 5106 Westminster place, ras left for Wichita Falls, Tex, where she will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. John Coffee. Mr.

and Mrs. Rielley, formerly St. Louisans, moved to San Francisco, from here, and have been in New York a year. Mr. Rielley, now visiting in San Francisco, will join his wife here on her return from Wichita Falls in about 10 days, and they will return to New York.

Miss Georgia Ann Willmore, daughter of Mrs. Henrietta M. Willmore, 3733 Lindell boulevard, a sophomore at Mills College, has recently been elected social chairman of the Associated Students of the college for 1937 and 1938. Serving with Miss Willmore on a committee for the spring prom is Miss Helen Schmid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Edwin A Schmid, 504 Sherwood drive, Webster Groves. The spring dance will be given Saturday evening at the Hotel St. Francis In San Francisco, Cal, with 400 couples attending. DR. J.

LAYTON MAUZE DIES IN KANSAS CITY Ex-Pastor of Central rresDy- terian Church, St. Louis, Succumbs to Thrombosis. The Rev. Dr. J.

Layton Mauze, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of St. Louis from 1902 to 1917, died of cerebral thrombosis yesterday in Kansas City, Mo, where he had held a pastorate for nine years. He was 64 years old. Funeral services were held in Kansas City today with three ministers of that city officiating. Dr.

Mauze, wax formerly president of the Kansas City Council of Churches and president of the Kansas City Ministerial Alliance. Dr. Mauze, a native of Monte video, Minn, attended Hampden Sidney College and was graduated in 1899 from Union Theological Seminary. Before coming to fat. Louis he was pastor of two small churches in Virginia.

The Central Presbyterian Church was at Garrison and Lucas avenues and had a congregation cf 250 members when he became its pastor in 1902. Five years later a new church building was constructed at Delmar boulevard and Clara avenue. When Dr. Mauze accepted a call to a Huntington (W. Va.) church in 1917, the congregation had grown to 850 persons.

During his stay In St. Louis he was a leader ln evangelistic activities. He was chairman of the Evangelical Alliance and of a committee of the Church Federation which had charge of a campaign of street preaching. He directed several city-wide revival meetings and organized the St. Louis Bible Training School.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Elea nor H. Mauze four sons, Dr. George W. Mauze, a Presbyterian minister in St.

Joseph, the Rev. J. Lay-ton Mauze assistant pastor of the Huntington (W. Va.) church where his father was minister from 1917 to 1928; Jean Mauze of New York City, and Charles W. Mauze, a student in Davidson College; two daughters, Mrs.

Sanford Conley Jr, of Columbia, Mo, and Mrs. Charles C. Carson Jr, of Chattanooga, a brother and four sisters. Since 1931 the Central Presbyterian Church has been at 901 South Hanley road, Clayton. tion of the Rev.

H. E. Stitz, pastor of St. Elizabeth's Church: Miss Eugenia Witt, Miss Elise Kaintz, Miss Bernice Koerner, Miss Catherine Johnston, Miss Jane McDonnell, Miss Miriam Wilhelm, Miss Catherine Grote, Edgar Goellner, Thomas Dolan, Harry Goellner, John Linton, Gus Bergjans, George Spink, Robert Scott, Frank Stroot, Johns Christen, Charles Kenkel and Ray Webb. Dr.

and Mrs. Mauro C. Gonzalez, 5857 Maple avenue, will leave Wednesday for Sabinas Hidalgo, N. Mexico, to atten dthe wedding of Mr. Gonzalez's brother, Raymon, which will take place Saturday, May 8.

Dr. and Mrs. Gonzalez will return to St. Louis May 12. The senior class of Ursuline Academy, Kirkwood, will give "Pride and Prejudice," a dramatization of Jane Austen's novel, as its class play the evenings of May 12 and 13.

The play will be given at the Ursuline Academy Auditorium under the direction of Miss Mary Jo Adrain. Miss Rita Ward will play the role of Elizabeth Bennett and Miss Peggy Smith will take the leading male part, that of Mr. Darcy. Miss Margaret Bishop Breen has designed the costumes. Members of the College Guidance Group of the St.

Louis College Club have invited girls who will graduate from St. Louis high schools in June to a "Shop for Your College" tea Wednesday afternoon at the club, 5428 Delmar boulevard. -Club members working on this project are: Dr. Clara M. Auer, Mrs.

James E. Baker, Mrs. James L. Barngrove, Mrs. Robert L.

Latzer, Miss Anna E. Miss Sarah Dritt, Miss Marie Ernst and Miss Jean Kimber. Representatives of various colleges will be present to tell what each has to offer. i i NOTHING EX- FOR FIRST 6 ff TT SHIRTS. ADDI- 55 YEARS IN ST.

LOUIS FOR SALVATION ARMY First Meeting Held on Ice in River, Speaker Recalls Program. Fifty-five years ago, the Salvation Army held its first St. Louis meeting on the ice of the Mississippi River, its use of the streets having been forbidden by city officials. Yesterday, it observed the anniversary of its organization with a program at the Municipal Auditorium including addresses by city officials and religious leaders and heard a former Mayor as a member of a trio which sang one of its favorite songs, on the Hills." It was Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isser-man of Temple Israel who referred to the Salvation Army's early difficulties wvich drove Commissioner Scott Railton to the wind-swept ice of the river for its first meeting in 1S82.

City officials continue to discriminate in permitting the use of public facilities. Rabbi Isserman added, with obvious reference to the refusal to permit a showing in the Auditorium Friday night of the anti-Hitler motion picture, "Der Kampf." After talks by President William L. Mason of the Board of Aldermen and Dean Sidney E. Sweet of Christ Church Cathedral, Forrest C. Don- nell, chairman of the St.

Louis Advisory Bdkrd, introduced Gen. Ed ward J. Higgins, former internation al commander of the Salvation Army, who, with Mrs. Higgins, was a guest of honor. Gen.

Higgins observed that in the year of the establishment of the St. Louis organization there were but 500 workers in three nations, while today 26,000 are active in 90 countries. The invocation was pronounced by the Rev. William Crowe of West minster Presbyterian Church and the benediction was said by the Rev. Loren M.

Edwards of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. The musical program included numbers by the United Chorus, Mid land Divisional Band, the Second Presbyterian Church Choir and the trio composed of former Mayor Henry W. Kiel, treasurer of the St. Louis Salvation Army Advisory Board; Phil M. Brockman, vice chairman of the board, and Lieuten' ant-Colonel Victor Lundgren, divi sional commander.

COMMUNITY FORUM LISTENERS INVITED TO CHARITY PAGEANT Fifteen Catholic Institutions to Be Included In "Highway of the King' Next Sunday Afternoon. An invitation to listeners to at tend the pageant of the Catholic Charities, next Sunday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock, at the Municipal Auditorium, was extended by the Rev. Martin J. O'Malley, C. in a talk during the Community Forum program of Radio Station KSD yesterday.

Fifteen institutions, among them those for the blind, the deaf and orphans, will take place in the pageant, entitled, "The Highway of the King." Father O'Malley paid tribute to the nuns and to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for the charitable work they are do ing. "That there is good will In the hearts of our people is abundantly evident in the magnificent spirit manifested in the annual United Charities campaign and in the support of the agencies of mercy so well organized to combat suffering in its myriad forms," he said. TRANSMUTATION OF ELEMENTS ANNOUNCED BY 3 YALE MEN Scientists Transform Chlorine Into Potassium and Argon Into Calcium. By the Associated Press.

NEW HAVEN, April 26. Yale University announced last night that three of its scientists have succeeded in transmuting chlorine into potassium and argon into calcium. The scientists. Dr. Ernest C.

Pollard and his assistants, Howard L. Schultz of Cassadaga, N. and D. Gordon Brubaker of Nelson, bombarded chlorine and argon with helium nuclei which move with a speed one-tenth as fast as that of light and with an energy of 9,000,000 volts. They succeeded In transmuting the two elements, the university said, and during the experiments developed a method whereby the size of the nucleus of any atom may be estimated.

CROWN JEWELS OVERHAULED Under Special Guard After Transfer from London Tower to Store. By the Associated Press. LONDON. April 26. The crown jewels were taken from the Tower of London today for an overhauling before the coronation next month.

Special squads of detectives and police will guard the jewels, which included St. Edward's crown, four scepters and maces, the sword of state and the anointing spoon. The transfer to a jewelry store was made a few hours after thieves tore heavy shutters from a fashionable store, snatched $15,000 in gems and outdistanced a patrol car. Colin Chase, Movie Actor, Dies. LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 26.

Colin Chase, movie actor, died yesterday. He was 51 years old. He appeared in "The Ten Commandments." "King of Kings," 'Lone Star Rangers," and others. WASHI M. E.

Church Prelate, 79 Succumbs to Heart Attack After Lecture Tour. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, April 26. Bishop William Fraser McDowell, for many years a prominent figure in the Methodist Episcopal Church, died here today. He was 79 years old.

He suffered a heart, attack soon after returning to his home from Morganton, N. where he had been on a lecture tour. McDowell was bishop in charge of the Washington area from 1916 to 1932. Since then he has been chair man of the committee on unification of the Methodist Church, formed to bring about unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. As president of the Board of Tem perance, Prohibition and Public morals of his church for years, Bishop McDowell had an outstanding part in obtaining national prohibition.

Associates called the Bishop the supreme preacher of the Metho dist denomination." He was born Feb. 4, 1858, at Mil- lersburg, und 'was ordained in 1882. He held various pastorates in Ohio before becoming chancellor of Denver University, in which post he served from 1890 to 1899. He was corresponding secretary of the board of education of his church. 1899-1904, and later its president.

He was elected Bishop in May, 1904, for life, and served 12 years at Chi- He married Clotilda Lyon of Ohio, Sept. 20, 1882. They had one daughter, Olive Vincent, who died several years ago. Funeral services will be held in Washington Wednesday, with burial at Delaware, Thursday. M'NUTT ARRIVES AT MANILA TO ASSUME PHILIPPINE POST New High Commissioner Receives Warm Reception; Confers With Financial Adviser.

By the Associated Press. MANILA, April 26. Ready to assume his duties as the United States new high commissioner to the Philippines, Paul V. McNutt, who arrived here this morning, conferred with J. Weldon Jones, acting commissioner.

Jones said he would return to his post of financial adviser to the commissioner. He is a former Texan and Ohio State University faculty member and previously served as Insular Auditor. McNutt, accompanied by his wife and daughter, received a warm welcome. The Welcoming Committee was headed by Jones and Jorge B. Vargas, secretary to President Manuel Quezon.

AMELIA EARHART TO START AGAIN ON WORLD FLIGHT Says at New York She Will Leave Burbank, Cal, by Next Saturday. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 26. Amelia Earhart said today that her proposed round-the-world flight, halted at Honolulu on he first try by an airplane crash, would be started again by next Saturday, with Bur-bank, as the nopping-off place. She said: "I fly just because I want to not for the advancement of science or anything else.

But when you go 27,000 miles over a route nobody has traveled before, you can't help finding out a few things." DR. COLE'S LIBRARY TO YALE 2000 Books About Books Donated by Bibliographer. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, April 26. Dr.

George Watson Cole of Pasadena, librarian and bibliographer, has given his collection of 2000 books about books to the Yale University Library, it was announced yesterday. The collection covers a wide range of subjects, those relating to authorship to the final publication of a book and its dis tribution to the public The history of writing and printing, the illustration of books, book collecting, bibliographies of authors, places and subjects, and the history and administration of libraries, form the greater part of the collection. ELECTION OF JEWISH YOUTH Resolution Urging Firmer Stand for Peac Adopted. A resolution urging youth "to take a firmer stand for world peace" was passed by the Southern Jewish Youth Assembly at its annual convention here yesterday at Temple Israel. Felix Caldwell of Memphis, was elected president, succeeding Byron Lippman, 5667 Waterman avenue.

Harris Abrahams, Nashville, won the assembly's oratorical contest and was chosen first vice-president. Raymond Witt-coff, 7220 Pershing avenue, was elected second vice-president. ANTI-SALOON LEAGuTsESSION Trustees to Outline Program for Next Year. The board of trustees of the Missouri Anti-Saloon League will hold its annual meeting at Church Federation headquartei4 in Central Y. M.

C. A. tomorrow. The Rev. Dr.

Marvin T. Haw of Warrensburg, head of the State organization, will preside, and P. A. Tate, State superintendent, will make his report. The league's program for the next year will be out- I line; in resolutions to be presented.

DIES NGTON HENRY C. WHITESIDE DIES; 39 YEARS WITH SHOE FIRM Associated With Roberta, Johnson Si Rand Since Its Organization; 63 Years Old. Henrv C. Whiteside, in charge of city sales of the Roberts, Johnson St. Rand branch of the International Shoe and an employe of the company since 1898, died today or heart disease at his home, 8 Washington terrace.

He was 63 years old. A native of Shelbyville, Mr. Whiteside became associated with the Roberts, Johnson Rand firm the year of its organiaztion, as cashier. He was one of the two surviving employes of the company who had served with it since its organization. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Mamie Whiteside, and a daughter, Mrs. Edward Banister. CLERGYMAN DIES IN PULPIT The Rev. G. L.

Kleffer, Lutheran, Victim of Heart Disease. Hy the Associated PTess. NEW YORK, April 26. The Fev. George L.

Kieffcr, 57 years old. statistician and librarian of the National Lutheran Council, collapsed and died yesterday as he was addressing the silver anniversary service of the Ladies Aid Society at Christ Lutheran Church, Rosedale, L. I. Dr. Kieffer, pastor of the church from 1914 to 1926, had just begun his sermon, "A Former Pastor's Memoirs" when he collapsed.

A doctor attributed the death to heart disease. Dr. Kicfcr was considered one of the leading religious statisticians of the country. He was president of the American Conference of Religious Statisticians, organized the statistical system of the National Lutheran Council and the American Lutheran btausuci-ans' Association. Chicago Tair Wins Bridge Cup.

My th Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, April 26. Win-gate Bixby and Jack Howe of the Crock ford Club of Chicago held the Roy E. Adams cup for the interclub bridge pair championship today. The title was determined in matches closing the tournament here last night.

The United States Bridge Association trophy for the special open game went to Mrs. C. C. Mathews of Owensboro, and Mrs. M.

I Ent of Indianapolis, and Hunter Kennedy and Thomas W. Johnson of Indianapolis won the amateur pair championship trophy. i 7 7 ,111 nun 1 1: 'i(ijli. JACOBY WINS OPEN PAIR BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIP lid and Partner, Lester Bachner, Defeat 28 Entrants In Hew York Session. -By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 26. Oswald Jacoby, leader of the four aces. yesterday became the first defend ing champion to repeat in tne united States Bridge Association's national championships. Playing with a new partner, Les ter Bachner of New York, Jacoby defeated 28 entrants in the open pair championship. The two had a grand total of 450.5 points, and the final session's high of 236.

Their nearest rivals, the New York combination of M. D. Maier and Waldemar K. von Zedtwitz, had a grand total of 426. Third place went to Lillian A.

Peck and Lewis A. Bernard, also of New York, with 416.9. Last year Jacoby won the pair championship with David Burn-stine, a member of the four aces, who are competing in the team of four final today against the Minnesota quartet of M. Schanfield, S. Sanders, Edward Burns and Len Reiter.

At the end of the first half of the mixed team of four event yesterday, Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbert-son and Mrs. Peck and Bernard were leading with 19 points. Mrs Ralph Young and Charles H.

Goren of Philadelphia, playing with Mrs. M. Stengel and M. D. Maier of New York, held second with 17 points in the 24 boards played.

PUBLIC MEETINGS AND ENTERTAINMENTS Probate Judge Glendy B. Arnold will speak on "The Probate Court and Its Relation to Widows and Orphans" at a luncheon meeting of the Scottish Rite Club Wednesday at the York Hotel. An exhibit of 163 photographs by Arthur W. Proetz, 18 North Taylor avenue, is on display at the Artists Guild, 810 Union boulevard, until May 12. The exhibit may be visited from 1 to 5 p.

m. each day. except Tuesday, and from 3 to 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Robert L. Finch, manager of the minor league baseball teams of the St.

Loui3 Cardinals, will discuss "The Cardinal System" at a meeting of the Cathedral Luncheon Club Wednesday at the Bishop Tuttle Memorial. He will speak again Thursday noon before the Sandwich Forum of the Downtown Y. M. C. A.

"Highways of the Future" will be the subject of a talk by Frank T. Sheets, consulting engineer for the Portland Cement Association, Chicago, at the Engineers' Club, 4359 Lindell boulevard, at 8:15 p. m. Thursday. Dean Frank M.

Debatin of University College, Washington University, will discuss "Implications of Culture Today" at a dinner of the Modern Language Club of St. Louis at 6:30 p. m. Saturday at the Forest Park Hotel, 4910 West Pine boulevard. "The 1937 Radio Stars' Jamboree," sponsored by the National Radio Artists' Association, will be presented at 2:30 and 8 p.

m. Sunday in Municipal Auditorium. Included on the program will be contests for fiddlers, yodelers, accordionists and singers. Funeral of Michael R. Fay.

Funeral services for Michael R. Fay, retired Police Sergeant, who died Saturday of heart disease at De Paul Hospital, will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. at Albert H. Hoppe Mortuary, 4111 Lindell boulevard, with burial in Valhalla Cemetery.

A native of Ireland, he joined the force ln 1888 and became a Sergeant in 1900. He retired ln 1929. He was 80 years old. He resided at 1107 Aubert avenue. Surviving him are a daughter, Miss Anna M.

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