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PRESTO-TIMES
May 14, 1927.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
B, schools of less than 40 enrollment, it was George-
town High School, Howard E. Hall, director of band.
The winners of the North Carolina contest, held at
National Committee, of Which Secretary Hoover Is Greensboro, April 29, under the auspices of the North
Carolina College for Women, were Winston-Salem
Chairman, Meets in Washington.
High School in Class A and Lenoir High School in
Manufacturers and users of wood assembled in Class B. Wade R. Brown, dean of the School of
Music at the college, advises that the three bands
Washington May 3 and 4 for the annual meeting of
the National Committee on Wood Utilization. The competing in Class A were all of very high type
annual meeting of the committee, of which Secretary and did excellent work, while the Class B winner
of Commerce Herbert Hoover is chairman, was held compared well with any of the Class A bands.
Other states in which the contests are now being
at the Commerce Department for the purpose of
formulating a program of activity of the committee held or will be held during the coming week are
for the next twelve months, which will make for Northern California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
closer wood utilization and better manufacturing, Montana, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Most of
distributing and wood-using practices of the industry. the remaining states will hold theirs around the
middle of May.
A closer utilization of our timber resources, in the
The Florida contest was held in Orlando in March,
opinion of the committee, is the most practical means climatic conditions requiring the contest considerably
of commercial reforestation. Col. W. B. Greeley, earlier than elsewhere. The winner was the Eustis
chief of the United States Forest Service, is vice Boys' Band.
chairman of the committee, which is composed of 133'
representatives of producers, distributors and con-
sumers of forest products.
DISCUSS WOOD UTILIZATION
ZIMBALIST'S STOLEN VIOLIN
Ten Thousand Dollar Instrument Discovered in Chi-
cago When Thief Tried to Sell I t
Herman Shivell, 25 years old, was arrested in Wur-
National Bureau for the Advancement of Music An- litzer's music store, Chicago, on Wednesday, when
nounces the Early Winners.
he tried to sell a rare violin valued at $10,000 which
he confessed he had stolen seven weeks ago from
Reports of the 1927 state school band contests are Efrem Zimbalist, noted violinist, during a Los Angeles
now beginning to come in with awarding prizes on Concert.
behalf of the National Association of Band Instru-
Both Lyon & Healy and the Wurlitzer music stores
ment Manufacturers. The Bureau for Advancement on Wabash avenue were visited by Shivell, who
of Music, in conjunction with the Committee of the asked an appraisal of the instrument. Rembert Wur-
Music Supervisors' National Conference, is assisting litzer, noticing the violin's resemblance to the stolen
such contests in nineteen states, in addition to the one, which was sold by his concern to Zimbalist,
New England sectional contest and the national notified the police, who placed Shivell under arrest.
school band contest to be held in Council Bluffs, la.,
At the Central Station, Shivell told of entering
May 27-28.
Zimbalist's dressing room while the concert was in
The first state contest was that of Kentucky, held progress. He could not resist temptation to steal the
under the auspices of the University of Kentucky at instrument, he said. Police wired to Tulsa, Okla.,
Lexington, April 16. The winner in Class A, schools of
where Shivell said he disposed of an $800 bow for
more than 400 enrollment, was Louisville Male High $15. Two other bows were sold in Kansas City, he
School, A. F. Marzian, director of band. In Class said.
REPORTS FROM BAND CONTESTS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
Crossman Lumber
Company
Choice Lower Michigan
End Dried White Maple
Quartered Maple
Wide Maple
All thicknesses
RECEIVER FOR SAAL COMPANY.
Receivership for H. G. Saal Company, manufac-
turer of radio supplies at 1800 Montrose avenue, Chi-
cago, was asked in a suit filed in the Circuit Court
last Saturday by 'the Continental and Commercial
Trust and Savings Bank.
A FEW NOTES.
Kaufma^in's Department Store, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
celebrated Music Week from April 18 to 23.
Six Hardman pianos have been installed in the new
Knights of Columbus Club-Hotel, Eighth avenue and
Fifty-first street, New York.
B. Platt, head of the Platt Music Company, has
returned to Los Angeles from a recent trip to New
York and other eastern points.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Sole Agents fot
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Practice Keyboards
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
and Damper
Felts
Grand and Upright Ham-
mers Made of Weickert Felt
D«aler«' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
'
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
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Samples of Work on Request
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Manufactured by
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715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
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