CEDFOUD MAIL TRIBUNE. JfEDFOIU). OTJECfON, SUNDAY," OCTOBER 21, 1931
PAGE FIVE
BOMBSHELL IS
THROWN INTO
DUNNE'S CAMP
G. 0. P. Candidate's Record
In State Insurance Legis
lation Revealed W. S.
Baker, Upstate Insurance
Man, Spills The Beans.
8ALEM, Ore., Oct. 20. (Spl.) Joe
Dunne's efforts to make political cap'
ital out of hla close association ,wlth
the Insurance business In Oregon ran
Into a bad snag today, when corres
pondence written by the Joe Dunne
for Governor committee, Paul C.
Bates, prominent Portland Insurance
man, who Is campaigning among the
Insurance fraternity for Dunne, and
a reply to the latter from W. 8
Baker, prominent In up&tate Insur
ance circles, were released.
Copies of these three leteers fol
low: May 1. 1934.
Dear Sir: Just a brief word.
You no doubt know and will
appreciate that Mr, Dunne, dur
ing his many years In the senate,
has been the friend and cham
pion of the Insurance people In
any and all legislation that came
up In their Interest.
Honorable Joe E. Dunne Is now
a candidate for governor and we
sincerely hope you will do every
thing In your power to aid In his
being nominated on Friday, May
18. If successful, you will be as
sured of a good and loyal friend'
In the governor's chair.
Sincerely yours,
JOE E. DUNNE FOJl OOVERNOR
COMMITTEE.
p. s. You of course know that
Mr. Dunne Is general agent for
the Lincoln National Life Insur
ance Company In Oregon.
The above letter was written during
he primary. The following letter
was written by Paul C. Bates during
the present campaign:
To Insurance Agents:
The Hon. Joe E. Dunne Is the
Republican candidate for the
governor of the state of Oregon,
and the election date Is November
e. I am urging all representa
tives' of the Insurance fraternity
to do their utmost In support of
his candidacy.
Insurance men should be solid
ly behind Dunne's campaign for
the reason that he Is the first
candidate for governor In this
state In over forty years since I
have become a resident, that has
had a first hand knowledge of
the Insurance business, having
been actively engaged In Insur
ance activities for many years
past, and he understands our
problems and I believe Is sym
pathetic toward sound Insurance .
and equally opposed to "fly-by-nlght"
companies and organiza
tions whose only claims for pref
erence are based on excessive com
missions and cut rates.
In other words. If Dunne Is
elected, I believe he will Insist
upon such reformation of our In
surance laws and administration
of same as will protect the public
as well as the Insurance agents
against the many Irresponsible
organizations and companies that
have for many years past been
able to fleece the Insurance pub-
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lie out of millions of dollars and
for which they have offered
worthless Indemnity, and as. a
consequence, legitimate Insurance
.men have suffered and the pub
Ho has been "buncoed." It Is
about time w support a candi
date who will take a little inter
est In suppressing such organi
sations. Dunne Is an experienced leg
islator, having served eight years
In the Oregon senate, and dur
ing that time has demonstrated
a sincere Interest In the legisla
tive problems of the entire state,
and his attitude has always been
construtlve and sound.
My recommendation Is that
you should not only vots for
Dunne but also see that your
friends support him,
. Yours truly,
(Signed) PAUL C. BATES.
To this letter Mr. Baker replied as
follows;
Mr. Paul C. Bates,
Bates, Lively & Pearson,
Yeon Bldg., City.
Dear Mr. Bates I am ashamed
to see YOUR name attached to a
letter I received from your office
today, asking me and other In
surance men to vote for Joe
Dunne for governor.
Have you forgotten the fast one
Joe Dunne put over when he got
his law passed Chapter 87a,
1931 Oregon Laws), permitting
him to unload his defunct as
sessment company, the Pioneer
Assurance company, of which he
was president, and traded It In
or sold It to Hibbard to help him
put over the Union States Life, that
was defunct then and has been
since, and then fleeced the In
surance public for stock ssles
until Corporation Commissioner
James Mott cancelled their li
cense to sell stock; at the same
time he cancelled the stock sales
permit of the Empire Holding
company and for the same rea
son, both were Insolvent; then
the Joe Dunne deal enabled them
to sell founders' policy on a de
funct shoestring of the Joe
Dunne Fraternal, that had on
December 31, 1930, according to
Dunne's report, "assets, 23,3G6.00
liabilities, 01.681.00 Insurance
In force 330 policy, $316,000 of
Insurance In force." This was
the remnant of the original
2500 Club" of Albany.
Joe has been hobnobbing with
this man Hibbard ever since. The
Hibbard balloon had Its bubble
punctured recently when they,
the Union States Life, moved out
of their "Home Office Building,"
the old Broadway bank, and
moved to some second floor rooms
In the Guarantee Trust building,
and the Insurance commission
er, Averlll, Is patiently waiting
for the Union States to come
across with some funds to en
able him to give them a clean
bill of health. The public has
suffered to the tune of a million
dollars, or more, through this Joe
Dunne - Hibbard - Union States
outfit already, and every man
they have defrauded has lost con
fidence In Insurance men. You
and I and all legitimate Insur
ance men suffer, and yet you
have the Intestinal fortitude to
ask me to support Joe Dunne. I
should say NOT!
If you have forgotten all the
details of this transaction, go to
the flies of your Oregon Voter of
January 3, 1932 pages 21, 22,
23 24, 26, and read about this
deal. Then, after that, write
another letter to Jour friends
and save them from falling into
the hands of men of this cali
ber. Sincerely yours.
(Signed) W. 8. BAKER.
The article regarding the Dunne
Hibbard hookup In the Voter covered
three pages. The salient features of
It follow:
"During the early months of
1931, and even well into the sum
mer of last year, Hibbard made
strenuous efforts to so arrange
the finances of the Capitol Un
derwriters' Corp. that qualifica
tion under the $100,000 capital,
$50,000 surplus provisions of the
domestic insurance law might be
met. These efforts consisted prin
cipally of seeking a method by
which Capitol Underwriters' stock
purchase subscription notes might
be discounted by some money
broker or loan agent. Delay In
qualifying the original Union
States' company began to arouse
policyholder impatience. The Em
pire Holding Co.. with which Un
ion States was Incorrectly Identi
fied In many quarters, began to
radiate noisome odors. When dis
counting of stock subscription
notes appeared Impractical, some
other method of qualification
seemed necessary.
"A way was at band.
Through the ingenious men
tality, political efflcency and fore
sight of Senator Joseph Edward
Dunne an oar had been flung out
by the 1931 Oregon legislature.
We refer to Chapter 376, 1931
Oregon Laws, already referred to.
It proved to be Just the bit of
legal succor that Union States
Life needed as It strove to reach
a footing firmer than the pro
motional stage in which H then
floundered
The Dunne bill also provided,
and here's the oar, that when a
bona fide contract was entered
into covering ssle of sufficient
of a fraternal'! securities to
qualify atock or mutusi life
company, "then the said oompa-
"Grand Old Lady" at Rialto
The Andrews Opera Company
20 Yean of Opera From a Rail Fence Circuit
Interesting History of Medford's Pioneer Musical Family In One Mght
Stands In the MIddlewest Many Years Ago as Told by Ed Andrews to
Charles Hyskell.
Recalling her great triumph
Lady For A Day," May Robson 107
able star of many euoceasful stage and
screen playe Is at the Rialto theater
today In the Pad ft o Coast premiere
showing of her new picture, "Lady by
Choice." Carole Lombard, Roger Pryor
and Walter Connolly have the princi
pal supporting roles.
Rlb-tlckung comedy with a power
ful heart appeal forms the baste qual
ities of this new film play. Against
those qualities It tells a story warm
with human lnteresf.
Patsy, played by the lovable Miss
Robson, la a perpetual, genial old
soak, a regular feature in the night
court, which lands her there for the
steenth 'time when she busts up
cafe and a waiter's nose, when he In
sists upon singing "Mother." Before
the Judge Is also Alaibam' Lee, fan
dancer, called Into court regarding her
rather dubious performance.
Later as a publicity stunt the
venerable Patsy is adopted as a mother
by Alabam' but, Instead of Just tak
lng things easy, the old lady decides
to go Into her job seriously, resulting
In some hilarious comedy and the foe
terlng of a romance to say nothing
of ridding the dancer of her gold-dig
glng, chiseling activities.
ny may be converted or changed
Into a mutual or capital stock
company, under such provisions,
' rules and regulations as the In
surance commissioner shall pro
vide." Oregon's Insurance department,
headed by Alva Hart Averlll, com
missioner, la on the alert with
respect to supervision of Union
States Life Ins. Co. In his deal
with Pioneer Assurance Ass'n,
Hibbard availed himself of exist-,
lng law. The insurance commis
sioner did not make that law.
Neither was Hibbard responsible
for Senator Dunne's S. B. No.
335, but he availed himself of it
without hesitation. Whether that
Dunne bill authorized a practice
or a legalized method that was es
sentially good or bad insurance
policy, is a question not now be
fore the house.
Ex-Dry Chief Honored
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 30. (AP)
Col. Amos W. W. Woodcock, former
federal prohibition administrator,
was formally Inaugurated president
of hlstorlo St. John's college here
today.
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Number VII. I
Well produced light opera etui
possesses a powerful charm in us
combination of music, spectacle,
comedy and action, and it will
ultimately get a new hold upon
the pubilo in America. But wltn
present competition, it can be done
only with highly competent organ-1
Izatlons of singers and actors, at
low snlarles and the low admission
prices that have always prevailed
in European cities for the high class
standard operas of the 'Fra Dlavolo"
type.
This opera, long one of our stand-
bys, has survived more than a hun
dred years. Its humor and romance
are laid on lines so sound that it
remains today an effective work.
Its musical score was so good that
It marie Daniel Francois Esprit Au
ber's permanent reputation when
produced first at the Paris Opera
Comlque in 1880. It waa especially
useful to na because the baritone
lead was particularly suited to the
personality of my brother George.
and he sang It with marked success
hundreds of performances we
gave throughout our career.
The book was by Scribe, who
adapted It from Lesuer'a opera
Caverne." and produced It In Paris
in 1808, and In Vienna In 1822
under the title of "The Robber of
the Abruzzl."
Fra Dtavolo" la said to have been
the first French or Italian opera
to Introduce English prlnclpala in
the cast. The opera is built around
a mountain bandit and hla manner
of robbing two English tourists,
Lord and Lady Allcash.
For the season of 1880 we en
larged our repertoire until we were
up in half a score of the better
operas. We outfitted especially for
Iolanthe. Pirates of Penzance. Pat
ience. The Mikado, Mascot and Bo
hemian Girl.
At about this time we met George
Broad hurst at Marlon, Ohio. He was
advance man for a dramatic com
pany, with aspirations for play writ
ing. Making the same towns for i
week or two we became well ac
quainted and dlv"sed with him
an Idea for re-wrltlng the book of
Frledrlch von FlJtow's "Martha" for
a light opera in English. When one
day he came glumly in at our re
hearsal, with a telegram from his
manager, advising that their com
pany had disbanded for lack ol j
funds, we at once gave him the 1
Job of re-wrlting "Martha." We 6ave
the first performance with the new
script at Charleston, W. Vs., and
It waa a success from the start.
With that deathless solo for tenor,
"Ah, Bo Pure," our Jay Taylor never
failed of recall by audiences of
every type, In either rural or met
ropolitan centers. The music of this
opera has universal appeal. The part
of Lady Henrietta was particularly
adapted to one of our prima donnas,
Catharine Lee, a lyrlo soprano with
a voice of great sweetness and tonal
purity, and whom I afterward mar
ried.
Her only daughter, known to
present day radio audiences as "The
Lark," u the Caroline Andrews who
la often heard on N. B. O. programs
broadcast from the Capitol theater,
New York.
Martha" Is a very old oners,
first produced in Vienna In 1847.
It originated at the Paris Grand
Opera House when In 1842 M. de
St. Georges, a newspaper man. wrote
the libretto to a ballet, entitled
Lady Henrietta, or the Servant of
Greenwich," dealing with two ladles
of his acquaintance who had at
tended In disguise a servants' fair.
The ballet score waa contributed
by three composers, Herr von Flotow,
Herr Burgmuller and M. Deldeves.
The remarkable success of the bsl-
let led Flotow and St. Georges later
to collaborate In writing It Into
an opera and the result was one
of the most popular operatic works
in the history of the stage.
We frequently played Bizet's "Car
men." because of the edaptlblllty
of its contralto title role to my
sister, Florence Andrews Clayton.
Very many people have read Pros
per Merlmee's romance, from which
the opera of Carmen wss adapted
and first produced at the Paris
Opera Comlque In 1875. It has been
favorite of standard and grand
opera companies for nearly sixty
years and has made the reputation
of many modern singers, notably
Calve. In color It Is distinctly Span
ish. This one opera made the rep
utation of the Frenchman, Georges
Bizet, secure for all time as a great
musical artist and composer.
Of the various middle-west cities
that I have known In the business
of giving "summer opera" In the
parks, Peoria and St. Louis were
the pioneers.
To a Peoria newspaper man. F.
Baldwin by name, belongs the credit
for building one of the most suc
cessful of these theaters, seating
about 3500 people, In Sylvan park.
The first time we played this theater
we had an excellent company, in
cluding the prima donna, Laura Bel
lini: Jay Taylor, a New York tenor,
and Herman Purley, for musical dir
ector. Isaac Norcross was our stage
manager, Joe Brown was business
manager and George Andrews was
as always, the general boss. Business
was not good and Mr. Baldwin con
ceived an unusual advertising idea.
He gave a reception at the theater
and Invited all the buslnes people
of Peoria. We gave a show after
the reception and ' they were so
pleased with our work that Peoria 1
started coming to the opera. Busi
ness boomed and we played at
Sylvan park twelve weeks.
We made money and spent It.
We were as Irresponsible, as most
show people are, and I don't believe
the breed has changed much to
this day. Our weakness was a lack
of any definite plan for expansion.
When business was bad the family
members were the first to go with
out salaries, looking to the uncertain
future with a. careless confidence
that now puzzles me in the light of
subsequent events.
That a good show. If It will
weather ft poor start, can win
reluctant public, was proved by
summer opera season that we played
at Minneapolis. We had barely start
ed when Frank DeShon and his
opera company came In and began
an engagement. We decided that
Minneapolis couldn't stand two opera
companies and went to see Frank.
It was agreed that we should tons
nickel to see whether he would
hire us or we would hire him.
It resulted In consolidation of
DeShon with the Andrews Opera com
pany, so we selected the best ol
both companies snd went on with
our engagement. Still business sulk
ed, although we knew that we were
putting on a real show. In desper
ation we sent our road missionaries,
Luclen Wakefield and Clay Burgess.
to Peoria again to book Sylvan park
theater.
They made a tremendous advance
sale of tickets at Peoria and we
were all set to go when Minneapolis
began coming In great crowds to our
show. We tried vainly to cancel the
Peoria engagement and In the
height of a smashing business at
Minneapolis we were forced to leave
It and go to Peoria. We had lost
Laura Bellini and taken Latlshe
Frltsch, a prima donna from the
Hess Opera company.
We had flayed only the first week
at Sylvan park when the theater
caught fire from some unkown cause
and burned everything scenery and
costumes for ten operas, thirty-six
trunks we didn't save a stick ot
grease paint. And no Insurance. We
paid off the disconsolate company
and went to a 300 -acre farm that
we had bought at Lake Te tonka,
near Watervllle, Minn. It lay In that
lush, blue-grass Lefleuer county,
where there are U beautiful lakes.
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