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THE OSHKOSII NORTHWESTERN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1938 14 Music of Yesteryear And Old Instruments Are Shown at Museum JAR MANUFACTURER INVESTIGATION OF PENNSYLVANIA'S POLITICS STARTS Who's Who Among Wisconsin Birds 40 VPA WORKERS MOVE ON CAPITAL TO PROTEST CUTS TELLS OF ROYALTY PAID Oil MACHINES SNYDER DISCLOSES EVENTS LEADING UP TO DIVORCE IN 1937 Former Husband of Ruth Etting Alderman Tells of Early Life in Superior Court at Hollywood Head of BaH Company Testi- Gov. George H. Earla and 13 Washington (u.PJ Forty works progress administration workers from 26 states arrived in Washington today to protest relief cuts within 24 hours of an official announcement that WPA rolls declined 45,514 during the week end- ed Dec. 10. WPA Administrator Hopkins announced yesterday that WPA enrollment was 3,139,045, compared with the all-time peak of reached Nov.

5, 1938. Hopkin's announcement provoked a vehement protest from David Lasser, president of the Workers' alliance, an organization which he claims represents WPA workers. "Mr. Hopkins said at his press conference last week that no arbitrary cuts were being made, but our files are choked with protests from every section of the country," Lasser said. "Hopkins asserted that cuts were not being made, that workers were being dropped only when private industry absorbed them, but our information is to the contrary.

"Either Mr. Hopkins doesn't know what he is talking about oc he is kidding the country." The 40 delegates of the Workers' alliance planned to interview Deputy WPA Administrator Aubrey Williams and other officials. Lasser said the men and women who will participate in the conferences are "typical WPA workers." Read, Mrs. M. Villwock, A.

N. Crosby, Herman Derber, Nile Behncke, Mrs. Walter Rumery, Miss Clara Weisbrod, A. E. Sheldon, and the Pythian Sisters.

One of the instruments shown a melodeon of the Civil war period has a legend connected with it which is as interesting as the instrument itself. For years the melodeon was used in school rooms in Green Lake and Winnebago county until the legend grew that those who played it were soon married. Rather than lose those who had been hired as teachers, school boards removed the melodeon and it was stored in a farmer's attic where it was constantly hunted out arid played upon by those hoping its melodies would weave a spell of enchantment about a favored young man who would propose as a result, in keeping with the tradition of the instrument. NELL OSBOR.VS PIANO There is one piano on display which was brought to Oshkosh in 1854 from Brooklyn, N. by Dr.

A. J. Osborn. It was used by Miss Nellie Osborn in teaching music. The piano was sent to Oshkosh by way of the Hudson river and the Great Lakes to Milwaukee and from Milwaukee it was brought to Oshkosh by ox team.

Another instrument closely tied to the early history of this community is a dulcimer which was used by Mrs. Ernst Gallup, whose husband was the son of Chester Gallup, the second man to build a home in Oshkosh, coming here shortly after Webster Stanley established his residence in 1836. Music of the past tlie songs cur fathers and mothers sing and the instruments they played forms an interesting exhibit-; in Gallery No. 5 of the Oshkosh jviblic museum, It will remain on display throughout the month of December and it is expected to prove popular with people this city and with residents of other communities throughout this area. It is believed to be too first exhibit of its kind staged is Oshkosh or in any city of the Jox river valley.

Music has a uni venal appeal and the display of article pertaining to music should a responsive chord all vho view the articles. There are instruments shown which daiv back a century or more, the ldest of them being an Irish his rp made between 1680 and 1700 and given to the museum by Clarence Shep-ard. The harp Is probably Egyptian in origin, descriptive matt-rial with the harp on display rclatei. Records of.Jts existence been found in paintings at Thebes ascribed to the thirteenth Ventury before Christ. Much is added to the tdisplay by these descriptive which give the age of each of the shown and explains1, something about its origin, its former owner and about the peiiijjd in which it was used.

Museum officials have I asked that the articles displayed lie not touched as they are valuable relics of a day that is past. M.ny of them still can be played and it is hoped to be able to keep thevn in that condition so that in the future descendants of those who lived before the period of radio and "the talking moving. picture can hear the music of instruments that entertained their i ancestors. DEMONSTRATIONS GIV2SJ1 (By Frederick C. Othman, United Press Staff Correspondent) Hollywood (U.R Colonel (Moe the Gimp) Snyder solemnly limped to the witness chair in superior court here today to offer testimony he hopes will enable him to "beat the rap" on charges of kidnaping and shooting Myr Alderman, musician who displaced him as the husband of Ruth Ettir.g, blonde blues singer.

Colonel Moe, questioned by Atty. Jerry Giesler, related his early life, including his meeting with Miss Ettir.g in 1920, when he was 25. "I met her in the Marigold Gardens, a beautiful eating place," said the colonel "She was a $25 per week chorus girl. I helped her in her work and helped her get a job in the Terrace Garden in the Morrison hotel." The Gimp at that time had a political job, he said, with the Chicago sanitary district. Proudly he intimated he was a "somebody" in Chicago politics.

"MISS CITY HALL" "The other kids in the chorus at the Terrace Garden called Ruth 'Miss City Snyder testified. Colonel Moe said he went through the fourth grade in school and then sold newspapers in the Chicago loop. He got his "gimpy" leg in an accident when he was 5. When he was 17 or 18 years old he worked on the circulation gangs of Chicago newspapers, he said. Then he got a $350 per month job with the sanitary district.

When Ruth was a "big shot" in the music world in 1927, said the Gimp, he and Miss Etting, CANVAS BACK and Gulf coast and to British Columbia. The diet of this bird consists of wild celery, seeds and the tender parts of wild rice, pondweeds, water lilies, lotus, arrowhead and rushes with some mollusks, crustaceans, small fish, tadpoles and insects and their larvae. Back in the days when wild ducks were sold on the open market, the Canvas-back brought the highest price. (Scrapbook page 12 of the second series of the educational program of the Wisconsin Wildlife federation in cooperation with the department of public instruction.) ment offices. Its leader, the communique said, was a major on the government general staff who later was identified as Maj.

Antonio Aimat Mareo, a friend of Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco. The announcement, apparently was not clear as to whether all the 400 were in custody. In at least one previous Barcelona trial some of the defendants were tried and sentenced while safe in insurgent territory or abroad.) Precedent in South African municipal elections was believed set when a candidate there did not poll a single vote. His requisition was signed by 25 registered voters. The Canvas-back is a large duck usually seen during migration in flocks on open water lakes or flying in compact wedge-shaped formation in a steady, direct course.

The males appear almost white on the back and wings, the head long and sloping. The female is a uniform rusty brown. This duck is now largely a spring and fall migrant through Wisconsin, but formerly was a common summer resident. The Canvas-back breeds chiefly in the prairie regions of north-central United States and Canada. It winters mainly in the southern United States, along the Atlantic school will be the 28th annual sponsored by the County Highway Commissioners' association and the Association of Highway Committeemen.

Sessions will be held at the Hotel Schroeder. There will be a Christmas party instead of the regular weekly card party Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the WPA recreation center. Refreshments will be served and gifts exchanged. The tap dance class will be held at the center tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 with Miss May Woodlock in charge. Bonecraft classes are held each Friday, Tuesday and Wednesday night at 7 o'clock.

A group of carolers at the recreational center have been practicing and will meet Friday, Dec. 23 at the center and then carol about the city. HUGE SPAIN SPY RING REPORTED DISCOVERED Barcelona (P) The Spanish government arounced tonight that an insurgent spy ring of 400 agents had been' discovered and that some members already had been tried and sentenced to death, A communique from Premier Juan Negrin's office said that 200 of the spies had been given prison terms of from 20 to 30 years. The ring was said to have tried to foment an uprising in government Spain last August and to spread sedition among govern eeo riiri giscgueb iioii to PAY LESS FOR HOLIDAY ITHiSKEY Outof 1,000 Men 960 Found OLD QUAKER Now 3 Years Old-Rich, Mild and Deliriously Smooth Yet This Famous Whiskey Sells at a Rock-Bottom Price! We asked 1,000 men to try Old Quaker and give us their opinion. None knew the name of the whiskey yet 960 of them praised the rich flavor and mellow smoothness of Old Quaker confirming our belief that Old Quaker rivals many more expensive brands.

If you agree with this judgment, you can probably cut your bills for holiday whiskey a third. Act on this holiday tip! Try Old Quaker today 1 fies Before Monopoly Com--mittee Concerning Cost of License Washington (JP) Frank Ball, Muncie, fruit jar manufacturer, told the federal monopoly committee today his company paid $400,000 for the semiexclusive right to use machinery patented by the Hartford-Empire Company. Ball, president of Ball Brothers Company, testified his company signed a license agreement with Hartford-Empire on condition that no other United States corporation be given the right to use the same manufacturing process thereafter. The license was not entirely exclusive, he said, because two other companies already had obtained Hartford-Empire licenses for manufacture of fruit jars for domestic use. The thick-set, gray-haired industrialist said his company entered into the license agreement in 1933 after Hartford-Empire had claimed damages for patent infringements.

MAKES 60 PER CENT Ball said his company manufactured about 60 per cent of the fruit jars produced in this country for household use. Since the agreement was signed with. Hartford-Empire, he said, no other companies had been granted the right to use the Hartford-Empire fruit jar patents. Ball testified that F. G.

Smith, president of Hartford-Empire, offered to exclude other companies from ths fruit jar license after 1933 as an "inducement" to bringing the B3II company into the Hartford-Empire licensing system. Ball spoke with deliberation in answering the questions of Hugh department of justice attorney. GERMAN GOES TO PRISON FOR TAKING EASIER JOB Frankfort, Germany (U.R) Heinrich Schmidt was sentenced to six weeks in prison today for refusing a job digging potatoes, allotted to him by a labor exchange, and finding himself "another and easier job." encourage the enlistment of sol diers badly needed to fight the war which was to make the world safe for democracy. SONGS OF WAR DAYS There were many who went gladly to war and on their lips as they tramped away were the songs "It's a Long Way to Berlin, But We'll Get There" and "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France." The song in their heart and on their lips was subdued when they came face to face with the tragedy of war, but spirits must be kept up and so the song writers wrote the tunes and again put the words into the mouths of soldiers and others: "1 Don't Want to Get Well." And back in this country, those who stayed behind learned to sing "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight for Her Daddy Over There." They learned also to sing "K-K-K-Katy" and in its stammering tuneful melody forgot for a time that some of those, who shortly before were singing too, would not sing again. But after the war there was frivolity and in 1919 toe nation was humming and singing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" and by 19f3 everyone had broken out with that nonsensical song "Yes, We Have No Bananas." In 1929 the nation was singing "xiap-av Days Are Here Again" little knowing in the boom times of the era that the same year would be gin, a period which brought the stock market collapse and provid ed anything but happy times for thousands of people.

So interesting is the music ex hibit at the museum that it may prove one of the most popular ever held at the Oshkosh institution. fop fc Men STRAIGHT wiismr 1 Aho Available in Ry YEARS OLD COPR. 1938, THE OLD QUAKER LAVVRENCEBURG, IND. 90 PROOF Associates Charged With Being Engaged in "System of Crime" Harrisburf, Pa. tfP) grand jury assembled in Dauphin county's century old courthouse today to begin an investigation of political campaign charges filed seven months again against 14 men high in Pennfylvania's New Deal leadership and the Democratic party.

The jurors 13 Republicans and 11 Democrats were concerned with a charge by Dist, Atty. Carl B. Shelley that Gov. George H. Earle and 13 associates engaged in a "system of crime' in the administration of the state government during the past three and a half years.

Shelley, a Republican, said he was prepared to present evidence he claimed would support charges that Governor with. Democratic State Chairman David L. Lawrence and others, "conspired to cheat and defraud the people of Pennsylvania." ENDS BITTER BATTLE The start of the investigation came only a few weeks before many of those named leave office and ended a bitter battle in the courts and the legislature to block it. The court fight brought numerous delays. The Democratic assembly enacted legislation to permit a legislative committee to investigate the charges first.

Some of the laws later were declared unconstitutional but the committee was termitted to go ahead. Republican leaders cried "white wash" when the committee, after considering the chaiges for 20 weeks, reported it found "no evi dence" to support them. In the meantime, the state supreme court ordered the grand jury investiga tion to proceed. The charges originated in the spring primary campaign, most of them coming from Charles J. Margiotti, who then was Earle's attorney general and an independent candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

CHARGED COERCION Margiotti, defeated for the nomination, accused the Democratic, organization leaders of "coer cion and maeing" of state em ployes, demanding and accepting kickbacks from architects appointed to state jobs, and "selling" beer and movie legislation in the 1935 general assembly. Earle fired the chief law officer shortly after Margiotti refused to divulge his evidence to the governor. As a "private citizen," Margiotti went directly to the Dauphin county court. A grand jury peti lion was submitted and the in vestigation authorized. SHORT NOTES Townsend club No.

2 will hold a meeting Friday evening at 7:30 0 clock at Moose hall. Irving Stilp, captain of the Winnebago county police, was in Green Bay today attending a statewide meeting of county traf fic officers and safety committee officials. Miss Cava Wilson, superintendent of Sunnyview, with Miss Catharine Josslyn as scorekeeper, conducted a quiz test on tuberculosis this noon at the Lions club meeting. E. J.

Bell was winner of the contest. Sparks from the smokestack fell on the roof, starting a fire at the Paragon Products Corporation plant on Lake drive about 10:45 o'clock Wednesday night. Fire Chief Revland said minor damage resulted. Mrs. E.

M. Burlcton left today for Los Angeles, where she will visit for, seven weeks with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rawson. Mrs.

Rawson is the former Elizabeth Crowner. Members of the Winnebago county highway committee received invitations today to participate in the 193! road school to be held in Milwaukee, Jan. 23. The on lttT Military Brushes Silk Rob Wool Robfs Gabardine Robes Leather Jarkrts Persons desiring to hear music of these instruments, pi ir-ticularly the tantalizing, tinkling tunes of the music boxetv--of which there ore several shovUi have only to ask members of 4 he museum staff and they will glaid'ly crank one of the instruments at id soon the room will be filled wit melodious sounds that pleaad people of the past. Music boxes shown are of two kinds, some of them of the cylinder type and others playing frcujj tune sheets which are large than steel discs with holes punched into them.

Earliest tune sheets hrrdl pins or projections which caused vibrations and produced the rau- sic, but these pins frequently broke off and fell into the ma, chine. An improvement was made back about a half century ago with perforations being substituted for the projections. Thus grandmother and grandfather of today when they were young could enjoy a selection without a note or two being skipped. One of the music boxes shown plays eight different tunes and another plays six. Those on which tune sheets were used were somewhat like the later phonographs and proud were the children of their father when he delighted them by bringing home a new tune sheet for their entertainment on long winter evenings.

Early Oshkosh like other com munities of the country had its band and its ever-popular band concerts and several of the instru ments used in these musical groups are now the property of the museum and are shown in me present display. Among these are a trumpet used in 1860, a cornet used in the Kitz band first organized in 1872, a clarinet with glass mouthpiece made in 1800, and a. flute and a fife. PROPERTY OF MUSEUM All of the material shown in the exhibit is the property of the Osh kosh museum, having been given to the Sawyer foundation over a period of years and kept for the present display. Many of the donors are since deceased, but a number of others are among those most interested in seeing their gifts along with the others that have been presented to the museum to make this interesting exhibit possible.

Among the donors are the fol lowing: Towne Miller, Clarence Shepard, Walter Havemann, Mrs. Charles Roeder, Miss Ida Ganzer, Mrs. Esther Williams, Miss Alma Leupold, Miss Nellie Osborn, the Mitchell collection, Mrs. Marie Motternich, Mis. W.

J. Owens, Mrs. Arthur P. Kanncnberg, Mrs. Ernst Gallup, A.

D. Hoffmann, Mrs. L. Shelter, Miss Mable Behncke, Miss Gene Sturtcvant, Mrs. Theresa Bowron, Oscar Kitz, Ernest Church, Edwin Marhcine, Arthur P.

Kanncnberg, Mrs. Ben The dulcimer is one of the earliest types of string It is played with two wooden ham mers. Other instruments shown in elude a hand organ made in Germany about 1800 and brought to Wisconsin in 1848. Also on dis play is an accordion invented by Damian of Vienna, Austria, in 1829. There is also a gem roller organ patented in 1887, a zither, an early violin, a mandolin, musical casket, and the organina Pianos or melodeons at first were rare and the instruments chiefly used were those of the type read ily carried from place to place.

Pi oneers of Oshkosh and this vicin ity gathered from miles around at some log cabin for a "sing" or a dance, there being no entertain ment of the present-day type to which to go. SHEET MUSIC, TOO But not least of the interesting musical display at the museum is the exhibit of sheet music which dates back to 1864 and continues until a few years ago. On the walls about the room one can fol low, to a certain extent, the rise and fall of the spirits of the people of a nation as exemplified in the songs that were sung at any particular time. Not all types of mu- tiic are snown nor is mere music from every year since the Civil var period, but that which is dis-layed is representative of all that as published in those many i interesting among the cinrrliest songs is that of a Wisconsin poet Ebon E. Rexford of Shi-otnon who penned the almost irnnortal words of "Silver Threads Afvong the Gold" in 1873.

"the early periods in the lives of people connected with music and their subsequent rise to great popularity is shown in the songs thej presented. -In 1897 Charles K. B'arris wrote "Break the News to Mother" which proved popular in 18 37 and was brought back to popul arity at the time of the Worfi I war. A period of mourning in the nation's history is shown in a core-' of an arrangement of "Beaut iful Isle of Somewhere" which i was sung by a quartet at the futieral of the martyred president, William McKinley. Then 3 were gay times as well as sad.

In 1911 Harry Lauder was popular in the rendition of his "Roamtrh' in the Gloamin'." The same ywar Irving Berlin wrote his "Alexa tuder's Ragtime Band," which j'st recently was revived by a mot ing picture by the same name, dome songs were written to make their hearers laugh, others to ake them cry and still others hud a mora to them like the one ima Cams, noted singer, introduced in 1913 when she successfully sfmg "The Curse of An Aching Knart," the moral song with a blessing. Along cume the World war and a nation urtded new songs around which to n-ai'ly. The United States entered, the. war in 1917 and mothers many nf them reluctantly along with others of the country were singing Here's My Boy," words of which were put into the mo; ths of everyone to STREET who then was Mrs. Snyder, moved to New York.

"I married her in 1920," Snyder said. "I got her a lot of Jobs. I was her business manager until 1936. I negotiated her contracts and did the fighting and she handled the money." Giesler asked him if his love for his wife continued throughout the 17 years they were married. "Very much," Snyder shouted in a high-pitched voice.

NEVER STRUCK HER Snyder shouted "Never" when naked whether he ever had struck his wife. Miss Etting testified Wednesday that Snyder beat, cursed, pinched and shoved her about during their married life Miss Ruth Etting and Alderman, whom she married yesterday, sat in the back of the courtroom and held hands as gimp testified. He stole a few glances at them, but most of the time he looked into Giesler's eyes. Snyder turned to the jury and with tears in. his eyes told how Miss Etting came to him in 1937 end asked for a divorce.

"So I says, 'Mummy, what have I done? I love "She says: 'You've been faithful. You can give me a "I say: 'Hey! Here I am just back from seeing my sick mother end you're hitting me between the eyes. Is there mother "And my wife looks at me as if she was awfully insulted and says: 'You ought to know there So I says, 'I'm sorry, and I press her to my chest and kiss her, DIVORCED IN 1937 "So after awhile she says: 'Come here with me and get in my but not me! I go downstairs and fall asleep and next day everything is ginger ale and sodapop cold. "So after awhile I say, 'Mummy, if you're sure there is no other man, I'll give you a and she says she'll give me the money I need and we go to Chicago and get the divorce in November, 1937." Giesler asked him what happened in Chicago. "We stopped at the Sherman house.

Mr. Frank Bering, the manager, gave us the penthouse and didn't charge us. I tried to reason with her. She said 'Don't worry, I may change my But she got the divorce. Then we went to New York and she gave be 15 81,000 bills, $35,000 in Liberty bonds, and some other and a half interest in the house in Beverly Hills." He denied he had ever used the expression: 'That Etting dame." OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN BY LETTER CARRIERS Annual election of officers of Branch No.

173, National Association of Letter Carriers, held at Moose hall last night, resulted in the naming of the following: President, Harvey Meyer; vice president, Joseph Reddy; secretary, Emerson Neuenfeldt; financial secretary, Floyd DeVoe; treasurer, Oscar Hess; sergeant at arms, Ray Rasmussen; collector for national sick benefit, Edwin Marquardt; and trustee, Harry Payton. After the business meeting refreshments were served. It was planned to hold a joint meeting with the ladies auxiliary at the January meeting. HERE ARE GIFTS THEY'LL REALLY USE OFTEN Most people like to receive Rifts which they will use, end appreciate, every day in the year. No Rift answers the purpose better than one of these finest quality, guaranteed electrical appliances.

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