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Show People In the News . BY UNITED PKESS When a committee in charge of a picnic at Riverton, Wyo., started a dance exhibition and discovered discover-ed there was no piano player an unknown stranger stepped out of the crowd and volunteered to fill in. . . . She played several ragtime rag-time numbers ... As she stepped down, the committee discovered she was Mrs. Hall Roosevelt, concert con-cert pianist of the Detroit symphony sym-phony and sister-in-law of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. National Youth Administrator Aubrey Williams told the Virginia Institute of Public Affairs that disappearance of the American frontier and the tendency of modern mod-ern technology to abolish jobs has made it tremendously difficult for American youths to make a living. Premier Mitchel F. Hepburn of Ontario disclosed he is working on a plan for large scale evacuation evacua-tion of British children to Canada in the event war, involving the United Unit-ed Kingdom, breaks out in Europe. Dr. Eduard Benes, former president pres-ident of Czechoslovakia, and his wife left Chicago by airplane today to-day for New York to sail for England Eng-land to fulfill a temporary position posi-tion as visiting professor at an English university. He will return to the U. S. within a few months. An indictment against Roy Gardner, former bank robber, charging him with sending obscene ob-scene matter through the mails, was quashed in Portland when a U. S. district judge said a letter in question "was vulgar and coarse but not criminal." |