Evening star. [volume], October 21, 1935, Page A-10, Image 10

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CREATOR, KILLED
Cartoonist Dies in Auto
Crash After Signing
$750,000 Contract.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 21—Sidney
Emith. 58, widely known newspaper
cartoonist, was killed at 4 am. yes
terday when his automobile collided
with another car on United States
Highway 14. near Harvard. 111.
Smith, en route to his Summer
heme at Lake Geneva. Wis.. was dead
when removed from the wreckage of
the automobile in which he was rid
ing alone. State Policeman Osmir Cl
eon said.
The driver of the second car, Wen
dell Martin of Watseka, 111., suffered
6erious injuries.
Smith, creator of “the Gumps” and 1
“Old Doe Yak.” had driven three i
friends to Chirago from Lake Geneva !
end was returning to the latter point, j
Had Signed Contract.
Smith's attorney, Ednyfed Williams,
disclosed that a few hours before the
fatal journey the cartoonist had re
newed his contract with the Chicago
Tribune-New York News Syndicate.
He said it stipulated the payment ct
$750,000 for a five-year period.
A native of Bloomington. 111., Smith
had been a staff member of the
Chicago Tribune since 1911. He be
gan his career as a cartoonist on the
Bloomington Eye in 1895.
Smith was married to Mrs. Kathryn
Imogene Eulette in 1926. His first
wife, the former Gertrude C. Crad
dock of Pittsburgh, died in 1925.
Son Also Survives.
Besides the widow, survivors in
clude a son, Robert Sidney Smith. 27.
of Phoenix. Ariz.; four sisters and
two brothers.
Smith told friends he had prepared
drawings of his comic strip for three
months in advance.
The ultimate fate of the strip was
tinder consideration today, with mem
bers of smith's staff expressing them
selves as anxious that the comic be
continued after Smith's advance sup
ply of drawings is exhausted.
Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGNERS
TO REPORT ON DRIVE
600 Already Signed Up as New
Members—Prizes to Be
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Awarded.
Entering the final lap of its cam
paign to enroll 600 new members by
Wednesday, the Young Men's Chris
tian Association will tabulate prelimi
nary returns tonight at a dinner of
the 150 campaigners in the audi
torium of the Central Y. M. C. A.,
Eighteenth and G streets.
John L. Vandegrift. general chair
man of the drive, will preside at the
rally. Reports will be made by three j
division leaders. George E. Harris. \
George B Kennedy and J. O. Martin, I
and by captains of 15 teams. Prizes j
will be awarded for individual and
team enrollment honors.
Nearly 500 new members have been
Signed up to date, according to un
official reports. Final returns will
be received at a "victory dinner” of
the campaign organization Wednes
day night at the Central Y. M. C. A.
Building
KILLED IN GUN BATTLE
Salesman Is Slain by Former
Employer.
CHICAGO. October 21 (/Pi—Roy
Young. 32. a salesman, was shot and
killed, and Daniel Bentz. 33, head of
a private watch service and Young's
former employer, was seriously
wounded yesterday when the two men
engaged in a gun battle.
Bentz told police Young shot at
him when the watchman attempted to
arrest the salesman for allegedly
breaking a shop window. The watch
man said he returned the fire in self
defense. Young. Bentz said, although
fatally wounded, fired several shots
in return, wounding the watchman in
the left arm and abdomen.
NEW TRAIN SERVICE
“The Floridian" Will Operate on
Daily Schedule.
CHICAGO. October 21 UP).—Opera
tion of the Floridan, de luxe train be
tween Chicago and Florida, on a daily
basis during the Januarv-April period.
Was announced yesterday by Illinois
Central officials.
The train has been dispatched on a
tri-weekly basis for the past four
years, but officials of the road said
they anticipated a marked increase in
Florida travel this season.
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Wreck That Cost Cartoonist’s Life
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Wreckage of the auto in which Sydney Smith, prominent newspaper cartoonist, was killed in a collision
near Harvard, 111, yesterday. Inset shows Smith. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
Slieeliy Protests Procedure
In Hearing on Gardiner Tilt
The scheduled appearance of W.
Gwynn Gardiner, former District Com
missioner. at a hearing tomorrow of
rharges that he assaulted Attorney
Vincent A Sheehy was opposed by
Sheehy today as ‘ unethical.’’
Sheehy likewise declared the case
was not within the realm of Assistant
District Attorney David A. Hart, who
has announced he will conduct the
preliminary hearing.
Shcehy's charges are the outgrowth
! of an affray which occurred Thurs
day at the counsel table in Supreme
Court Justice Jesse C Adkins' court.
A mistrial had just been declared in
| the divorce proceedings of Mrs. An
netie Pauline Nixon, second wife of
Capt. Thomas Hay Nixon. U. S. A
Gardiner represented Mrs. Nixon and
Sheehy Capt. Nixon.
"The District attorney’s office."
Sheeehy said, "has nothing to do with
the defense in this case. All that is
necessary is for me to apply for a
warrant, with the evidence that
Gardiner struck me. As to whether
the assault was provoked or unpro
OYSTER SCALD PLANNED
Young Democrats of Prince
Georges Hosts November 16.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE. Md„ October 21.—
Saturday. Novemoer 16. has been set
for an oyster scald under auspices of
the Young Men’s Democratic Club of
Prince Georges County, it was an
nounced today by H. Winship Wheat
ley, jr., of Hyattsvile, president of the
club.
The scene of the scald will be an
nounced later, John A. Johnson of
Colmar Manor, -hairman of the
club’s Outing Committee, is in gen
eral charge of arrangements.
yoked is a question for the court alone
to deride."
His complaint was based on the an
nouncement by Hart that Gardiner
had been invited to appear at the
hearing, to begin at 1:30 p.m. tomor
row at Hart's usual desk in the public
outer room of the District attorney's
Police Court office.
Hart explained it was the custom of
his office to notify respectable bus
iness and professional men before
issuing warrants when charges are
made against them. He further stated
Gardiner would be given opportunity
to be heard if there was any doubt
in the mind of the prosecutor that
Sheehy had been assaulted.
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IN FWCONCERJ
3,500 Music Lovers Crowd
Hall as New Season
Opens.
Three thousand five hundred Wash
ington music lovers yesterday jammed
Constitution Hall for the first of the
Winter series of concerts of the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra.
Another striking fact shown in the
attendance at the concert was that
the Summer concerts, played aboard
a Navjj barge oft the Potomac Water
gate, had played their part In edu
cating Washingtonians to good music.
The concert yesterday marked the
opening of the fifth season in Wash
ington and it also marked the be
ginning of a new era of permanence
for the orchestra. Every season be
fore has been a difficult struggle.
Members have been paid only for
rehearsal periods and for concert time.
Under the new regime, brought about
through the success of the Summer
series and through the co-operati«n
of Government agencies, musicians
now are on a salary basis for the
first time.
Under the new arrangement great
er musical triumphs are expected,
since more time can be devoted to re
hearsa., according to C. C. Cappel,
business manager o. the orchestra.
Reception of the orchestra yesterday
tended to bouy the spirits of its spon
sors. Hundreds of new faces were ob
served in choice seats at Dr. Hans
Kindler lifted his baton for the open
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ing of his fifth season. When the or
chestra was seated it was found that
82 members were present, more than
ever before.
Dr. Kindler said he felt a new con
fidence in the permanence of the or
chestra after the reception yesterday, j
He said the organization is now a bet
ter musical unit and that its place as
a major orchestra is assured.
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Fairfax Marriages licensed.
FAIRFAX, Va., October 21 (Spe
cial).—Marriage, licenses have been
issued in the office of the clerk of the
Circuit Court to the following: James
E. Hogue, Jr., 31, and Catherine Sapp,
21. both of Elkins, W. Va.; Robert Lee
Cavlness, 28, and Margaret Geneva
Bensinger, 24, both Takoma Park,
Md ; Robert IJ. Elder. 22, and Jean
Hayes, 21, both Washington, D. C.;
Berryman Franklin Good, 22, and
Evelyn Virginia Plggott, 23, both Falla
Church; Willis Morel Richards. 23,
East Falls Church, Va., and Etta
Bowles, 19, R. F. D. 3, Fairfax, Va.;
Delbert Blaln Linton. 20, and Diana
Arlena Leedy, 20, both R. F. D., Clif
ton Station, Va.. and Lewis E. Mason,
22, Burke, Va„ and Edna Frances
Randall, 16, R. F. D., Fairfax, Va.
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