Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 3

EVENING STATE JOURNAL, LINCOLN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 193K. THREE FROM TODAY'S MORNING JOURNAL UNIVERSITY SIMONY PLAYS FIRST CONCERT Renders Rich Program Well With Schmidt, Pianist, in Guest Spot. Words of praise are distinctly in order for the performance of the University of Nebraska symphony 01 chestra in its first concert of the season at the coliseum Sunday afternoon. The student musicians played with near professional excellence, and not a little of the credrt for an hour and a half of frne music is due Herbert Schmidt, guest artist, and Conductor Don A Lentz A crowd of more than 1,000 heard the concert. The orchestra, an 80 piece, nicely balanced ensemble, began auspiciously with the overture to Von Weber's opera, "Obeion The delicate opening passages and the lavish pomp and circumstance toward the end were equally well rendered.

Achieves Spirit, Ease. Outstanding, of course, was the richly musical Mendelssohn "Symphony in A Major." The orchestra played it with a spirited ease not often achieved by a student group. Response to the baton was predominantly good, in the swift Saltarello as well as in the somewhat less vivacious movements. As for the Schumann "Concerto in A Minor for Prano," it seems doubtful that much more satisfying music will be heard in Lincoln this season. Schmidt, who has achieved the reputation of being, possibly Nebraska's finest pianist, played in a manner which Indicated that his laurels have not been illy placed.

The orchestra provided a beautiful musical background for the piano voice The final offering on the program was nearly a concert in itself. Rimsky-Korsakoffs "Capriccio Espagnole" of five swiftly moving passages provided ample opportunity for a display of all the orchestra's musicianship and technical prowess. It was a delightful ending for a thoroly enjoyable concert. FIRE APARTMENT Panama Building Burns to Ground Sunday PANAMA, large Six apartment house burned to the ground early Sunday afternoon and threatened several other buildings in the business section of the town. Loss was estimated at It was covered by insurance.

Five fire companies were fighting the blaze. One Lincoln truck arrived in time to save the bank and a barn which were threatened. Bennet, Adams and Hickman fire organizations aided the Panama firemen. fc A strong wind from the south other buildings but the combined efforts of the departments kept the flames from spreading. The cause of the blaze was undetermined.

Called the Robert Mai shall home, it was owned by Mrs Robert Marshall of Panama. She was not at home when the fire started. Inez Reichenbach, Lincoln and a school teacher in Panama, lost $100 worth of her belongings in the Panama, Neb. fire. She was in Lincoln when it happened, and there is no insurance to cover her loss, she says.

BiTHWlANCO KILLED IN A FLIGHT Victim With Three Others of a Seaplane Accident in Spanish Waters. BURGOS, Spain. 'JPt. Lieut Col Ramon Franco, brother of Insurgent Gen. Francisco Franco, and foi mer aviation attache at the Spanish embassy in Washington, was killed Friday in an airplane off Palma, Mallorca.

Mallorca is an insurgent airplane base off the eastern coast of Spam A statement issued here at insurgent headquarters said Lieutenant Colonel Franco left Mallorca piloting a seaplane, with another plane following his. Soon after leaving the base, a heavy storm arose and the second plane was obliged to return to its base. The bodies of Ramon Franco and three other occupants of the plane were found nine miles northwest of Cape Formenthal and were conveyed to Palma, where they are lying in state In the town hall The body of one occupant is missing. The watch of one of the officers had stopped at five minutes past 6 Oct. 28." Lieutenant Colonel Franco was chief of the Mallorca base which he organized He first gained fame by a flight across the south Atlantic, Jan.

31, 1926. It was the first flight from Europe to South America. SNAKES IN LUGGAGE. GRAND ISLAND. (JP).

Add a new one to luggage carried by gentlemen--and ladies--of the road. Union Pacific railroad agents opened a traveling bag carried by a transient woman and her husband, and found two live King snakes and a Bull snake. "We want to show them to our folks back in Indiana," the woman explained. RITES FOR MRS. HARRIS.

ATLANTA. UP). Six grandsons were chosen pallbearers for the funeral of Mrs. Esther Larose Harris, 85, widow of the creator of the "Uncle Remus" Negro folk tales, Joel Chandler Harris, at the Sacred Heart church here They were Stewart Harris, Joel C. Harris, III, Lucien Harris, Remus Harris, Fitz Wagner and Richard Henry Wright.

UNION IMP' SESSION ENDS IN FREE FOR ALL None Hurt in Omaha Drivers Differences Over Policies in Strike. OMAHA. Police reserves rushed to Central Labor union headquarters Saturday when a free for all battle broke out between members of the General Drivers' union after a "rump" session in which the executive board's policies in the cun ent motor- transport strike were assailed. No one was injured seriously, and police made no an ests. Officers said when they arrived at the temple about 25 men were arguing outside and these later returned to meeting the temple.

Neighbors estimated 100 men were frghtrng before police arrived. Walter Stultz, president of the drivers' local, said the meeting at the temple was called by a small group dissatisfied with the manner in which the strike situation has been handled. A regular session of the local at its own head- quai ters moved to the labor temple to meet with the "dissenters." Leaders of the opposition group proposed first the men go back to work on any terms, and later suggested a new executive board be elected, officers said. Then fighting broke out. Thomas V.

Smith, secretary of the local, suffered a gash on the light hand and was bruised on the back of the neck. Others suffered cuts. Stultz said when the meeting reorganized everyone was given a chance to voice his stand and the executive board was given a vote of confidence. He declined to identify back to work leaders, saying he wished to prevent further ill feeling. STURM SCULPTURE Former Lincoln Boy to Give Show in New York.

Justin Sturm, native of Nehawka and a student in Lincoln high school 20 years ago, makes his bid for recognition as a sculptor Tuesday when he opens an exhibition in the Karl Freund gallery in New York City. Sturm first came before the public eye in 1920 and 1921 when as a football player at Yale he won "All American" rating After graduating from Yale in 1922 he took up writing and sold his first novel, "The Bad Samaritan" to Harper's in 1926. Later he gained success as a short story writer, but seven years ago he decided to become a sculptor The forthcoming exhibition, his second, includes a figure group of the three sons of Gene Tunney, "Jonathan, Varick and Gene," portraits of Lily Pons, Kathaime Hepburn, Mrs. Carleton Palmer and Wcstbrook Pegler. In addition there are figure compositions find animals Sturm was a member of the Lincoln high football team.

He is the son of Mr nnd Mrs. A. F. Sturm of Nehawka, WOMAN HELD FOR MURDER Blamed for the Fatal Burning of a Baby. COLUMBUS.

O. U. Mrs. Lucille Adams, middle aged widow, was in a hospital charged with murder while funeral plans were completed for the three months old baby she is accused of burning to death. Police Capt.

J. T. Spence said Mrs. Adams put the baby, Pnscilla Ann Turner, in a coal heater at her home here after the infant had been left with her by its mother, Mrs. T.

E. Turner. Mrs. Turner told officers she left the baby with Mrs. Adams, her landlady, at the latter's lequest when she stepped outside the house.

The child's screams brought the mother back in time to drag the baby from the fire, but the infant died a few hours later. Mrs. Turner was severely burned about the hands and arms. LAURA BARNETT LOSES IN HER FINAL STAND Fighting Widow of Indian Oil King Evicted and Is Taken to Jail. LOS ANGELES.

UP). Kicking and screaming, Anna Laura Barnett, 57, widow of the wealthy and eccentric Indian Jackson Barnett was led Sunday from the gas filled Wilshire boulevard mansion which he built, but in which the government has ruled ahe is no longer entitled to live. U. S. Marshal Robert Clark and more than a dozen deputies, moving on the white colonial home from two sides in the quiet of a Sabbath morning, dragged her and her daughter, Maxine Sturgis, off to the county jail and booked them on suspicion of resisting federal officers.

Their removal followed a tear gas attack during which Marshal Clark said Mra. Barnett, armed with a hatchet, stood at the top of a flight of stairs, daring officers to come up and get her. DELAY PAT CROWE FUNERAL NEW YORK (JP). The funeral of Pat Crowe, reformed old time desperado who died in the Harlem hospital, presumably of heart trouble, was delayed by the discovery that he had a fractured skull Hospftal officials refused to release the body pending a police investigation Detectives thought it probable that the skull fracture was received long ago, but withheld a final report pending a check with Crowe's friends Nasty Monsters From Mars Give Radio Listeners Uneasy Moments Flocks of nasty monsters from Mars who smashed down Into the state of New Jersey and proceeded to "wipe out" civilization until they caught colds and died gave the public a pre-Halloween chill Sunday night. In Lincoln, 2,000 miles fiom the scene pf destruction, hundreds of people were panicked by the prospect of extinction at the hands of the invading; Martian men The switchboard at police headquai ters was jammed with calls from excited Lincolnites who asked.

"Is it true?" and "What should we do?" "War of The monsters were deliveied by courtesy of Orson Welles 1 Mercury theater on a coast to coast pro- giam of the Columbia Broadcasting system. The play was "The War of the Woilds," originally written by H. G. Wells, who lias a pretty good imagination himself, and done into a radio sciipt by Orson Welles The action rcvol around what might happen if monsters from Mars boarded flying machines resembling meteors and called upon the earth with malice aforethought. The whole thing; was done realistically and in present tense.

Before it reached its climax, with the monsteis picking up germs and, very satisfactorily, dying, late tuner inner were getting pretty upset. Lincoln newspapers and the radio stations were besieged with calls despite the fact that the broadcast (from 7 to 8 p. was interrupted four times with the announcement: "This is purely a fictional play." A few people were hysterical with anxiety, A St. Louis, Mo, woman. In a panic as the result of misunderstanding; thp radio drama, called long distance Sunday night to bid a final goodbye to her daughter in Lincoln.

One Woman Weeps. One woman who called The Journal wept as she talked. Her son had been killed in the World war, and the too realistic radio description had brought her to a state of nervous shock. Another woman who could scaicely speak for excitement said she had heard the invaders had taken St. Louis.

She wondered if Lincoln was endangered. Even until 11 o'clock the calls kept coming in. Cine bewildered gentleman wanted to know If The Journal had heard anything "about a piece of the planet Mars bieak- ing off and coining down and hitting the world" The police, the newspapers and the broadcasting stations did their best to calm the citizenry. Some Actually Evacuated. In the east according to the Associated Press the excitement bordered on mass frenzy, and actually resulted in panicky evacuations from sections of the metropolitan area.

Many New Yorkers seized personal effects and raced out of their apartments, some jumping into their automobiles and heading for the wide open spaces. Samuel Tishman. a Riverside Drive resident, declared ho and hundreds of others evacuated their homes fearing; "the city was being bombed." He told of going home and le- celving a frantic telephone call from a nephew. "I turned on the radio and heaid the broadcast which corroborated what my nephew had said, grabbed my hat and coat and a few personal belongings and ran to the elevator. When I got to the street there were hundreds of people milling around in panic.

Most of us ran toward Broadway and It was not until we stopped taxi drivers who had heard the entire broadcast on their radios that we knew what it was all about. Almost Had Attack. "I heard the broadcast and almost had a heart attack," said Louis Winklei, of the Bronx. "I didn't tune in until the program was half over, but when I the names of federal, state and municipal officials I was convinced that it was the McCoy. I ran into the street with scores of other sand found the people running in all directions.

The whole thing came over as a news broadcast" Tishman denounced the piogtnm as "the most asinine stunt I ever heard of" and Winkler as "a pretty crumby thing to do." A woman ran into a church In Indranapolis screaming; "New York destroyed; it'a the end of the world. You might as well go home to die. I just heard it over the radio." Services were dismissed immediately. The switchboard operator at New York police headquarters said his exchange was Jammed by people who wanted to know "about the 40 killed by a meteor exploding in Jersey." James Powers of the Brooklyn police telephone bureau said several had asked if it -was safe for them to stay in their homes--near their radios--and one woman asked If she should seek refuge in a subway. Right in the center of the warfare--with every trunkline on the switchboar lighted--sat L.

W. Smith and S. M. Zimmerman of the fire and police dispatchers' office, Trenton, Mercer county, N. J.

Trenton Calm. They were answering all kinds of calls, local and long- distance, assuring everybody concerned that Trenton was as calm as could be expected. It seems that the first arrivals from Mars had just landed at a hypothetical city called Grovers Mill which sounded to listeners like Groveville, another community in Mercer county. At Payetteville, N. people with relatives in the section of New Jersey where the mythical visitation had its locale, went to a newspaper office In tears, seeking information A message from Providence, R.

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with MORE PLEASURE for millions Copyright 1938. LKX.BTT ToiwceyTo. the massacre and destruction at Now York and officials of the electric com pan received scores of calls urging them to turn off nil lights so that the city would be safe from the enemy." Hysterical "See" Invasion, Mass hyhtciia mounted so high in some cases that people told police and newspapeia they "saw" the invasion The Boston Globe told of one woman who "claimed she could 'see the fu e' and said hhc and many otheis in her neighborhood weie 'getting out of Minneapolis and St Paul police switchboards wci deluged with calls fiom frightened people. In Atlanta, theie uas worry in some quarters that "the end of the woild" had arrived. It finally got so bad In Now Jei- sey that the state police put icas- surmg messages on the state teletype, insti ucting their officers what It was all about And all this the fact thai the radio play was interrupted four times for the announcement: "This is purely a fictional play While the invading Maitians were still a long way from California, one excited man called the Oakland police telephone opeiatoi and shouted: "My God 1 where can I volunteer my aeivices? We've got to stop this awful thing!" The Beatrice Sun anid a neatly hysterical woman telephoned a member of the cditotial staff at his homo, and warned him "to listen in--something teuible is happening Too frightened to give hei name, when asked for details she shouted "turn to KFAB, hurry, something awful is happening.

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