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__ WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1939. *» B_1
Brown Asks
106 More
Policemen
Seeks $3,625,461;
Fire Chief Sets
$2,434,450 Estimate
Appointment of 106 additional
members of the Metropolitan Police
Department, and provision for the
opening of a new precinct station
at Forty-second street and Benning
road N.E. were among major re
quests made by Police Supt. E. W.
Brown In his estimates for the 1941
fiscal year, released this morning
by the Commissioners.
k- For the District Fire Department,
Fire Chief Stephen T. Porter re
quested $2,434,450, or an increa.se of
but $41460 over this year's appro
* priations, estimates released by the
city heads also showed. In this
sum. Chief Porter provided for the
purchase of 13 new pieces of fire
fighting apparatus, to cost $81,150.
Maj. Brown sought a 1941 total
police fund of $3.625461, or an in
crease of $237,726 over this year's
appropriations. For the proposed
new precinct station there would
be provision of one captain, two
lieutenants and 40 privates. In ad
dition 60 more patrolmen would
be appointed to increase the active
strength of the police force gen
4 erally.
Asks Funds for Helmets.
Carrying out a recent promise,
Maj. Brown also asked for $1,213.50
for the purchase of tropical type of
helmets for 1.488 men in the de
partment, ranging from inspectors
down to patrolmen and including
also motorcycle mounted men.
In urging the need for an in
crease in the force, Maj. Brow'n de
clared: “The great necessity is for
patrolmen. It is found that there
are so many details of policemen
to various duties incident to cere
. monies, legations, embassies, emer
gency situations, escorts, protection
of school children in the morning,
afternoon and recess times, and
handling of traffic during the rush
hours, that at no time are there
sufficient patrolmen to assign to all
beats, and many patrolmen are
forced to cover twro or more beats,
thus materially reducing their effi
ciency as well as the degree of pro
tection to which the public justly
U entitled."
Asks Precinct Improvement.
Included in a sum of $30,000 re
quested for buildings and grounds,
Maj. Brown sought a sum of $20,
000 for improvement of the home .
of the Second and Thirteenth pre
cincts, located on U street between
Ninth and Tenth streets N.W. These
precincts make more arrests than
any other unit, he said, and has
but eight cells in the U street build
ing. "At times as high as eight
men are confined in one cell, mak
ing conditions for the prisoners un
sanitary and intolerable,” he de
clared.
He proposed additions, including
a one-story' cell block to accommo
date 16 cells.
ror inuioi veiumes, iviaj. xjiown
sought an increase from $66,700 to
$70,000, to include provision for pur
chase of 22 small cruisers, six pa
trol cars and 20 motorcycles, as re
placements for old equipment.
Fire Chief Porter, in submitting
his first estimates as head of the
* Fire Department, requested resto
ration of the impending loss this
fiscal year of 15 privates under an
economy move ordered by Congress.
Their loss, he said, would greatly
curtail granting of annual leave
and cause the department to oper
ate almost constantly at "absolute
minimum strength” and thereby
cause severe strain on each unit
bo reduced and prevent the depart
ment from rendering proper fire
service.
Asks Winter Clothing Fund.
Chief Porter sought funds for the j
purchase of special winter clothing.
Including flannel shirts for firemen
to use at nights in winter when sub
ject to extreme exposure.
The 13 new pieces of apparatus
' would be two combination hose
wagons, five pumping engines, one
aerial hook and ladder truck, four
chiefs’ autos and one passenger au
tomobile. During the fiscal year
1941, he said, the department will
have 14 pieces of apparatus in serv
ice which are 15 years or more old.
all of which have passed their life
of usefulness, are obsolete and
ihould be replaced.
An increase of $3,000 for the pur
chase of fire hose was asked on
the grounds that the remainder of
a quantity bought in 1932 must be
condemned this year, as unservice
able, so as to avoid delays, loss of
property and loss of life at fires. He
said 65 per cent of all hose that
brust in service last year was out
Of this 1932 batch.
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Children to Repeat
'Wizard of Oz'
A "command performance" of the
"Wizard of Oz” will be given by
youthful actors of the H. D. Cooke
Playground at 7:30 o’clock tonight
In the Cooke School, Seventeenth
and Euclid streets N.W. This marks
the third time the group has given
the play.
Miss Eleanor Carroll, playground
director, and George Gadea, assist
ant director, aided the children in
designing their costumes and-sets.
Truck Overturns,
Spilling 2,500
Gallons of Oil
Traffic on Montgomery ave
nue and Fenton street, Silver
Spring, Md.. was detoured for
several hours today when a
truck overturned at the inter
section. spilling most of its cargo
of 2.500 gallons of crude oil on
the streets.
John C. Gates of Baltimore,
driver of the truck, wTas unhurt.
• The truck was being used to
transport oil to State roads, po
lice said.
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HOLDUP VICTIM.—George W.
Shipley, 51, proprietor of a
Hyattsville, Md., delicatessen,
was robbed of $22 in his store
early today by three bandits
who fled in a car bearing New
York license tags.
—Star Staff Photo.
Meeting Set Tonight
In Hope of Settling
Gravel Strike
Progress Made Toward
Accord, Union
Spokesman Says
Possibility that the Smoot Sand
and Gravel Co. strike, which has
tied up work on almost every con
struction project in the city for a
week, would be settled today, went
glimmering this morning.
The Sand and Gravel Workers’
Union. A. P. of L„ was to have called
a meeting early today to pass on
certain of the proposals advanced
for settlement of the strike by the
Labor Department.
The meeting, however, was post
poned until tonight and Howard T.
Colvin, Labor Department concili
ator said there would be no settle
ment until after the union meet
ing. Earlier Mr. Colvin had said he
"was very hopeful of settling the
strike today.”
a union spokesman said that
"progress” was being made toward
a settlement.
At the same time, the Labor De
partment prepared to move in on
the strike called by the Plumbers’
Union, Local No. 5. against a num
ber of building projects here. Mr.
Colvin said he would try to begin
negotiating for peace in this con
troversy.
Ernest S. Ott, business agent for
the plumbers’ local, said his organi
zation would be “more than pleased
to sit in on the negotiations.” Joseph
G. Hildebrand, secretary of the
Plumbers’ Guild—the organization
of plumbing contractors—would not
state whether his organization would
participate in the negotiations.
The strike against the Smoot
company has been on for 10 days.
This company furnishes almost all
the sand and gravel used in the Dis
trict. Stoppage of this supplv has
halted work on much of the $56,
000.000 worth of construction in the
District.
The union members are demand
ing wage increases, shorter hours
and a closed shop.
The plumbers are demanding an
increase of $1 a day and certa>i
other concessions. Mr. Ott said
two or three small contractors would
sign with the union today, but indi
cated the Guild had given no indi
cation of coming to terms with the
union. Approximately 300 plumbers
are on strike.
Traffic Record
The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for 24
hour period ending at 8 am
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 29.
Motorists injured. 2.
Motorists arrested. 230.
Pedestrians Injured, 6.
Pedestrians arrested for vio
lation of pedestrian control
regulations, 11.
Catholics Told
To Emphasize
Work in U. S.
Bishop McGuiness
Addresses 3,000
At Field Mass
American Catholics, highly aware
of their “white man's burden” to
convert the heathen of Africa and
the Orient, “have not fully realized
their obligation to bring the light of
truth to the benighted legions" of the
United States, Bishop Eugene J.
McGuiness of Raleigh, N. C„ told
3,000 participants in a pontifical field
mass at Catholic University Sta
dium today.
"I want to call your attention
to North Carolina, where the Cath
olic percentage of the population is
less than the Catholic ratio in
China,” Bishop McGuiness said. “In
North Carolina there are 3,500,000
people, of whom 8,100 are members
of our church—representing one
fifth of 1 per cent of the population.”
Bishop McGuiness said that the
technique of Christian preaching for
conversion is “always the same,”
adding: "Christ our Lord came to
preach to all men, forgive sins of all
men, to bring truth to every people
and and to every Nation.
Choir Presents Music.
“That is the reason why the church
cannot be a national church, nor a
racial church, nor even an interna
tional church—she must be a supra
national church, whose purpose is to
call all people to the one fold and
the one Shepherd.”
The Most Rev. Francis J. L. Beck
man, Archbishop of Dubuque, was
celebrant at the mass for the Cath
olis Student Mission Crusade dele
gates, meeting at the university
through Friday. Music was pre
sented by the Choir of Marist Col
lege, directed by Edward Kelly, S. M.
Afternoon sessions were devoted to
panel discussions on work in China,
India, South America and the South
Sea Islands.
Modern missionaries must not
only preach on the steps of pagan
temples but in the parliaments of
so-called Christian governments
where the modern heresy of totali
tarianism threatens even those who
glory in their democracies, the Most
Rev. Frank A. Thill, bishop of Con
cordia. Kans., told the delegates last
night in a keynote address opening
the conclave.
Greeting From Pope Read.
Addressing the group which in
cluded mission leaders from China,
Africa and South America, follow
ing the reading of greeting from
Pope Pius XII, Bishop Thill stated
the fundamental missionary activity
today consists in supplying the need
of men and women to do God's
work for the church at home and
abroad.
‘‘Just now when so many false
shepherds are leading the masses
astray, when so many demagogues
are making themselves the apostles
of inhuman causes and leading the
people into slavery of the state,
the machine and the majority, it
is a good thing for Catholic stu
dents in America to join Catholics
throughout the world in proclaim
ing aloud the claims of God and
the value of man's immortal soul,”
he said.
A meeting of mission aid was
scheduled for tonight, with Msgr.
Thomas J. McDonnell, the Rev.
Thomas J. Reed and 13-year-old
Martin Good Rider, a Rocky oMun
tain Indian youth, as speakers.
Vatican Message.
The message of Pope Pius ad
dressed to the Most Rev. John M.
McNamara, auxiliary bishop of
Baltimore, was read by the Very
Rev. Msgr. Lawrence J. Shehan.
director of Catholic Charities in
Washington, who acted in the ab
sence of Bishop McNamara. It read:
"The holy father commends the
splendid zeal and accomplishments
of the Catholic Students' Mission
Crusade. His holiness recommends
to the special consideration and
sympathy of the national conven
tion of the Catholic University of
Peking. In token of his good wishes
for the continued success of the
crusade and for abundant heavenly
favors, the holy father bestows from
his heart, the apostolic benediction
upon the officers and delegates of
the convention and upon their
deliberations.”
First-Degree Murder
Charged to Man in
Neighbor's Killing
Three Youths Indicted
In Series of Petty
Robberies
A first-degree murder indictment
was returned by the grand jury at
District Court today against Richard
J. Colton, 59, father of 10 children,
who w’as accused of killing a neigh
bor with a shotgun.
Colton, whose home is at 3579
Thirteenth street N.W., was arrested
August 11, a short time after Joseph
B. McKenna, 42, 3549 Thirteenth
street N.W., was almost instantly
1 killed by a charge from a 12-gauge
; shotgun. The victim was wounded
on the street a few doors from his
own residence.
Under questioning by police, Col
ton allegedly admitted he bore a
grudge against McKenna for two
1 reasons. He was quoted by police
; as saying the neighbor had pro
j fessed to be infatuated with Mrs.
Colton. He also blamed McKenna
i with forcing him to drink liquor of
doubtful quality, which he at first
believed was poison.
Among tne others indicted were
three youths cited in a series of
petty robberies. Paul M. Ward. 20,
was indicted on five counts of house
breaking and larceny, while two
companions, Roland j. Henderson,
18, and Wayne C. Bromley, 18, were
indicted on four counts each of
housebreaking and larceny.
Other indictments included:
Automobile theft, James E. Grove,
Thomas W. Joyner, Carl J. Akow
skey; housebreaking and larceny,
Walter T. Kowalewski, Oliver W.
Warfield, Marion G. Navaro, Harry
Belford; housebreaking and assault
with intent to commit rape, James
A. Wills; automobile theft, James R.
Dickie; forging Government checks,
William O. Johnson, Perline Peter
bark; violation of Narcotics Act,
Charles T. Jordan, Alphonso Feem
ster, Luther Feemster, Clarence Cro
mer: robbery, Fred Saunders, Leon
E. Wilson, William Davis.
Assault with intent to commit
robbery, Stafford Lee; robbery and
assault with dangerous weapon,
James Harvey; Assault with dan
gerous weapon, Silas Surratt, Har
vey Wyatt: carnal knowledge and
assault with intent to commit car
nal knowledge. Samuel Robinson;
carnal knowledge, Nathaniel Queen;
first degree murder, Charles E. Jack
son.
The grand jury ignored cases
against Clyde R. Noland, John New
man, Hillman L. Bright, William
Engram, Katie Engram and Precious
M. Freeman.
$25 Offered for Identity
Of Murder Victim
Inspector Bernard W. Thompson,
chief of detectives, today announced
a reward of $25 will be given any one
who can help identify the body of a
murdered mulatto woman which was
returned here last Sunday from
Atlanta, Ga., where it was found In
a trunk which had been shipped
there from Washington. The body
now is at the District Morgue.
Band Concerts
By the United States Navy School
of Music Band at 7:30 pm. at the
Navy Yard bandstand. Lt. Charles
Ben ter, officer in charge; James
Thurmond, bandmaster, conducting.
Program.
March, “Light Cruisers”. .Lt. Benter
Overture, “Merry Wives of Wind
sor" . -Nicolai
Solo for trombone, “Atlantic
Zephyrs”.. Simons
Musician J. E. Whitinger.
Suite, “L’Arlesienne, No. 2”...Bizet
I— Andante Sostenuto.
II— Intermezzo.
III— Minuet.
IV— Farandole.
Chorale, “Jesu, Joy of Man's De
sire” . Bach
“Kaiser Waltzes” ..Strauss
Excerpts from the Operetta, “The
Fortune Teller” .. Herbert
Rhapsody, “First Norwegian”
Cristiansen
March, “Florentiner”.*.Fucik
“The National Anthem.”
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nun ntw TKArriij CIRCLE WILL LOOK—The manner in
which the new circle will be built at the south end of Memorial
Bridge to correct the traffic hazard existing at the point is shown
in the above sketch. Memorial avenue, leading from the bridge to
Arlington National Cemetery, is in the foreground while in the
background is the bridge and Lincoln Memorial. Leading off to
the left are the two traffic loops which cross Columbia Island and
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connect with Lee boulevard. The lines to the right represent the
two new traffic lanes to be built to carry Memorial boulevard
traffic to and from the circle, supplanting an existing 1,000-foot
stretch of the boulevard. The circle will be 400 feet in diameter,
about half the size of the circle on which the Lincoln Memorial
stands.
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Memorial Span Traffic Circle
To End 'Cross Over' Hazard
Bids to Be Asked Soon on Project
At Virginia Approach to Bridge
By JACK ALLEN.
Regarded as one of the most dan
gerous traffic hazards in the Wash
ington area, the Virginia approach
to Arlington Memorial Bridge soon
is to be improved by the National
Park Service and Public Roads
Administration.
A traffic circle 400 feet in diameter
will be built this fall to remove the
present menace of traffic “cross
overs'’ and the lack of adequate
safety facilities.
Automobile signal lights are to
control the movement of vehicles—
currently estimated at upward to
2.000 cars an hour during “rush"
periods—around the circle, the sys
tem in use at a number of intersec
tions in the Capital.
Necessary funds are available,
earth “fills" were put in some time
ago. preliminary surveys have been
finished and plans for the construc
tion work itself are in the process
of development. Bids are to be asked
shortly.
Cross-Overs Necessary.
The present situation is the result
of the Columbia Island traffic loop.
Memorial avenue, linking the bridge
and Arlington National Cemetery;
Memorial boulevard, running south
ward from the bridge, and the road
way over the bridge itself converg
ing at the Virginia end of the span.
Vehicles from Lee boulevard or
from Oil road, which reaches out
toward Clarendon and Rosslvn, en
tering the lower section of the Co
lumbia Island loop, must cross
through west-bound traffic on Me
morial avenue and enter eastbound
traffic to reach the bridge or to
reach the Memorial boulevard if en
route to Alexandria or other points
the latter thoroughfare serves.
A crossover through traffic also
is necessary when cars leaving the
bridge wish to turn southward on
the boulevard; when automobiles
northbound on the boulevard turn
west on Memorial avenue or cross
the avenue to reach the eastern
section of the Columbia Island loop,
and also when eastbound traffic on
Memorial avenue swings northward
on the eastern section of the loop.
Traffic westbound on Memorial
avenue from the bridge and from
Memorial boulevard also has to
cross through traffic emerging from
j the western section of the Columbia
Island loop.
Traffic Reported Heavier.
It was said by Public Roads Ad
ministration executives that when
the traffic loop on Columbia Island
was opened last November a 24
hour che*k on traffic showed 10,550
1 automobiles en route from Wash
ington to Virginia, and 10.470 en
route from Virginia to the Capital.
Another survey disclosed that on
a week day 1,170 cars traveling from
Virginia to Washington used the
loop between 7 and 8 am., and 1.
896 traversed it between 8 and 9
a m., or a total of 3.066 automobiles
for the two-hour period when many
Virginians were bound for places
of employment in the District.
Officials said that since the count
was taken last fall the density of
early-morning traffic has increased
greatly, and added that in the late
afternoon “rush” period between
4:20 and 5 p.m. the flow of vehicles
en route to Virginia exceeds the
early morning "rush' -hour traffic.
On holidays and on Sundays, they
added, the intersection is called upon
to handle an even heavier volume
of traffic than on week days.
Will Fit Into Present Plan.
It was explained that the circle
to be built this fall will be con
structed about halfway between
Memorial and Boundary Channel
Bridges.
The circle will fit into the present
road plan at the end of Memorial
Bridge with the exception that a
1.000-foot stretch of Memorial boule
vard leading southward from the
bridge must be abandoned in favor
of two new 1,000-foot lanes, similar
to those on Columbia Island. They
will carry boulevard traffic to and
from the circle.
The circle will be 400 feet in
diameter and in it will be located
a 40-foot roadway, sufficient to
carry’ three lanes of traffic.
They added that a “cloverleaf”
type of crossing such as is in use
at the Virginia end of Highway
Bridge was suggested in some quar
ters, but declared it would not be
feasible because all of the roads
converging at Memorial Bridge are
on the same grade and the cost of
making the changes necessary for a
“cloverleaf” would be prohibitive.
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D. C. Grants in Aid
Reduced $12,796
In Month
Cass Reports July
Figure at $158,785;
1,787 Recipients Affected
Reductions in grants in aid to
1,787 District relief recipients, or
roughly 30 per cent of the total of
5.888 cases which received aid, were
made during July as a result of
limits imposed by Congress, accord
ing to the monthly report of the
Public Assistance Division.
Making his first formal report
since he became director of public
assistance. Otto J. Cass informed
the Board of Public Welfare total
commitments during July amounted
to $158,785. as compared with $171,
581 in June, a reduction of $12,796.
The figure for July, 1938, was
$176,581.
July was the first month in which
the new restrictions on assistance
grants became effective. The maxi
mum grant which may be made for
old age and blind assistance is $30
a month. For aid to dependent
children and general public assist
ance the maximum grant may be not
more than $24 to a single person,
not more than $30 to a family of
two persons and not more than $6
to each additional person in the
family under the age of 16 years;
and not to exceed $60 to any one
family.
Mr. Cass reported that reductions
affected the various categories, in
cluding assistance to dependent
children, the aged and blind as
well as general public assistance
cases.
Man Seizes Woman;
Flees as She Screams
A man who seized Mrs. Margaret
Warner, 25. of 5040 New Hampshire
avenue N.W., as she entered her
apartment last night was sought
by police today.
Mrs. Warner told police she was
in the hallway of her apartment
house when the man approached,
picked her up in his arms and
started to carry her out of the
building. She screamed and he
dropped her and fled.
Plan Offered
To Push School
Lunch Fund
W. P. A. Proposes
Co-ordinator to
Aid in Program
The Commissioners were consider
ing today a plan submitted by the
District Works Projects Administra
tion for a co-ordinator to work with
the W. P. A. in scheduling a balanced
local work-relief program.
The plan was given special
significance by an announcement by
the Federal Surplus Commodities
Corp. yesterday that'it would help
to make possible free school lunches
for 15,000 needy District children
and 5,000.000 children throughout
thp 'Mq t
Whether the District can take ad
vantage of the expanded school
lunch program, howevef, has not
been decided. Mrs. Mary Steele, di
rector of District W. P. A. profes
sional and service projects, explained
I that additional funds for personnel
and equipment, as well as bread and
milk, which the F. S. C. C. does not
supply, would have to be raised.
A co-ordinator, according to Maj.
George Parker, acting District W.
| P. A. administrator, who submitted
j the plan to the Commissioners,
might be able to work with the
W. P. A. in diverting funds from
other locally-sponsored projects to
j the school lunch fund.
Tansey and Parker Confer.
He explained that under the new
W. P. A. law which provides that
the sponsor contribute 25 per cent
to each W. P. A. project, the Dis
trict must raise much more money
for school lunches than was pro
vided in the 1940 appropriation bill
for this purpose.
Capt. Patrick T. Tansey, assistant
Engineer Commissioner, who met
with Maj. Parker yesterday to con
sider the co-ordinator plan, said
the Commissioners are weighing
both the appointment of a co-or
dinator and the provision of funds
for the expanded school lunch fund.
He added that he didn't know just
how far the sponsors’ contributions
! for the various projects were ear
marked and how easily funds could
I be shifted from one project to an
other. If a co-ordinator were ap
pointed, he would represent the
District in deciding which projects
would be most beneficial to the Dis
! trict and which could be sacrificed.
Capt. Tansey said, however, that
no decision had been reached as to
the possibility of the Commissioners
authorizing a co-ordinator to repre
; sent them in dealing with the
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Maj. Parker explaining that a co
ordinator would make it possible for
the W. P. A. to deal with one man
| instead of working separately with
a number of sponsors.
Meeting to Be Held Friday.
“A co-ordinator would simplify
operations,” he said. "With a pro
j gram scheduled for the whole city
I in advance, the W. P. A. here could
be operated on a sound business
! basis.”
Representatives of the W. P. A.,
the Board of Public Welfare, the
Public Assistance Division and the
Board of Education will meet Friday
to attempt to work out difficulties
1 in the way of expansion of the free
school lunch program, Mrs. Steele
said.
Mrs. Steele said the personnel for
preparing the vastly increased num
ber of lunches if full advantage is
taken of the F. S. C. C. program,
would have to be raised from 170 to
250. The one central kitchen, she
said, would have to be enlarged 100
per cent or duplicated.
As a possible source of funds, she
suggested that money be supplied
from the W. P. a. appropriation for
nursery schools which has not been
used. Congress cut the sponsors
contribution to the W. P. A. nursery
school project from the lf.40 appro
priation bill.
Congress approved an appropria
tion to provide 6,500 ne/dy chil
dren with school lunches. Another
2,000 certified by the Board of Edu
cation as needy are on the waiting
list of the W. P. A. With the F S
C. C. supplies. Mrs. Steele said, at
least the 2.000 additional cases prob
ably will be taken care of.
Statistics Presented.
From July, 1938, to July, 1939, a
total of 1,415.577 school lunches
were distributed to 5.200 children
in 83 schools here.
During the past year, the F S
D C. supplied $15,000 worth of food
white the W. P. A. spent $65,000 on
the school lunch program here. Al
though Mrs. Steele was unable to es
timate in terms of dollars and cents
what Increased F. S. C. C. contri
bution would amount to. she said she
expected it to be more than twice
what it was last year.
She also pointed out that not only
the quantity but the variety of food
would increase. In addition to the
citrus fruits, dry skim milk and
evaporated milk, whole grain cereals,
flours, butter and eggs, she said she
expected other foods adaptable to
school lunches would be provided
In announcing the expanded na
tional program, the F. S. C. C. ex
plained that it would provide ad
ditional outlets for agricultural sur
pluses.
William J. Walsh, 39,
I. C. C. Attorney, Dies
William Joseph Walsh, 39, attor
ney with the Interstate Commerce
Commission for the past 13 years
died yesterday at his home, 205
Primrose street, Chevy Chase, Md,
after a long illness.
He was a graduate of Holy Cross
College, Catholic University and the
Georgetown University Law School.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Del
phine Barr Walsh: a son, William,
Jr.; a daughter, Margaret Angela,
and an uncle, William E. Walsh of
Auburn, Me.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day at 10 a.m. at the Blessed Sacra
ment Church, Chevy Chase. Burial
will be In Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Strauss Waltz to Be High Light
Of Final Sunset Symphony
Dr. Kindler Enthusiastic About Composition
Found in Library of Congress Collection
“You see, I believe that if you look
long enough at a Matisse, a Picasso,
a Cezanne, a Gauguin,” said Hans
Kindler as he waved an all inclusive
hand, “that 50 years from now your
wallpaper will be not quite so ugly
as it is.”
Sitting on the couch on the sec
ond floor of the Arts Club, the noted
conductor was thus evaluating the
Water Gate concerts of the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra which
conclude tonight.
It was his way of saying that
throughout the past summer the
“integrity” of the programs had
been maintained, that the audience
had been absorbing the very best in
music and that the level of appre
ciation is rising.
"I think,” he added with a grin,
“that I have lived down my repu
tation as a rainmaker. Yes, tonight
will be the wind-up of a really good
season.”
Rescued From Obscurity.
It was difficult to get the volatile
conductor off the subject of “to
night,” when he plans to play for
the first time publicly, in this
country, a Strauss waltz called
‘Paroxysms.”
“It’s a great waltz, he said en
thusiastically. “As great as the 'Blue
Danube’.’’
The composition, he went on. was
rescued from obscurity because he
happened to be poring through the
Paul Loewenberg collection of
Vienese waltzes in the Library of
Congress. Incidentally, It Is said
the collection was acquired Just
k
in time to prevent its being taken
over by the Nazis.
"It sounds almost Russian in
spots,” he said.
Next summer? More opera? “Yes,”
he said, “I have been thinking about
it seriously. Perhaps we could even
go further into pantomine, or bal
let."
Recalls "Madame Butterfly.”
He recalled the performance of
"Madame Butterfly” a few weeks
ago and laughed.
“I went to the rehearsal,” he
grinned in recollection. “Toward
the end of the opera a 12 or 13
year-old child wandered out on the
stage. ‘Who is that?’ I demanded.
‘Why that's little Trouble,’ they told
me ’’
Trouble, he said by way of ex
planation, is the 3-year-old daughter
of Cho-Cho San and Lt. Pinkerton.
“I hunted up the stage manager,”
Dr. Kindler continued, "and said
this was impossible. ‘It’s your own
fault,’ they told me, ‘it's the law
here that requires it’.”
As a result, the conductor said,
“they had to use a doll which no
body but I saw because I was look
ing for it.”
Between season Dr. Kindler said,
he becomes an "explorer,” going
through various pieces for possible
future program material. He claims
already to have uncovered a Haydn
symphony in D major that has never
been played in America, not to
mention a Mozart in C major that
is as great as any that composer
has done.
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