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WARRANT JAM
HOLDS 'GRIEF'
FOR POLICE
Improvemets in the methods of
handling the thousands of war
rants issued each year against
motorists for minor traffic infrac
tions were discussed at length yes
terday at a conference of officials
in the Police Court chambers of
Presiding Judge John P. McMahon.
At the conclusion of the session,
which was attended by Major Er
nest W. Brown, superintendent of
police. Corporation Counsel Elwood
Seal and Judge Isaac R. Hitt,
» Judge McMahon said the subject
had been gone into "rather infor
mally” and that no important con
clusion had been reached. Another
similar meeting will be held at an
early date.
Warrants a Problem
The problem of serving these
warrants has long been a pressing
one, but this year's accumulation
far exceeds that of any previous
year.
To formulate some workable
plan by which traffic violators
can be haled into court within a
reasonable length of time is the
objective of these meetings, Judge
McMahon said.
Under the present system,
motorists are inclined to ignore
tickets placed on their illegally
parked cars until the end of the
year.
Adds to Congestion
This, it has been pointed out,
makes for a congestion of the
entire court and traffic bureau
machinery which the officials feel
is not altogether necessary.
It has long been the custom of
the Police Court staff of the Cor
poration Counsel s office to refuse
issuance of a warrant if the com
plaining policeman fails to make
application for it within 15 days.
There is no set regulation cover
ing this, according to Assistant
Corporation Counsel Glenn Sim
mon.
This fall, nearly every attache
in Police Court was pressed into
service writing out warrants for
which applications had been made
as far back as January. These
warrants were sent by the hun
dreds to the Traffic Bureau, jam
ming that department as thorough
ly as it had the Police Court.
Motorists at Fault
Another apparent discrepancy
which the officials are trying to
iron out, arises when hundreds of
motorists named in the warrants
moved, leaving no record of their
new address.
This resulted not only in the
inability of police to serve the war
rants, but also in the filing of
thousands of additional charges of
failure to change address against
these delinquents.
The applications for 1937 tags
which have not already been
mailed will not be mailed until
the warrants against the owners
of those cars have been satisfied
by the posting of collateral at the
bureau, it was explained today.
Police Too Gentle
Laxity of police in serving the
warrants when they are finally
placed in their hands; inefficiency
of the various clerical staffs
charged with the issuing of them,
and the tendency of the general
public to ignore original tickets
have from time to time been
blamed for the mess in which the
Traffic Bureau annually finds it
self.
The cooperation of the police,
judges and Corporation Counsel’s
office, as evidenced by this most
recent attempt to remedy a state
of affairs which seems to be no
body’s problem, forecasts, accord
ing to Judge McMahon, greatly
relieved conditions by the time the
District’s next “warrant season”
rolls around.
DR. "TOWNSEND
INDICTED
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room before his inquisitors could
recover from their surprise.
Immediately the matter was re
ported to the House and it was
voted to certify him for Grand
Jury action. Within a few days
the certification was transmitted
to United States Attorney Leslie
C. Garnett over the signature of
the late Speaker Joseph E. Byrne.
It was one of the Speaker's last
official acts.
Delay in presenting the Town
send case to the Grand Jury has
not been explained. It has been
reported, however, that the local
prosecutor followed instructions
from “higher-ups’’ to withhold the
matter until after the presidential
campaign. Dr. Townsend was re
ported to have an enormous politi
cal following in his campaign for
S2OO monthly pensions for persons
over 60 years of age, and political
wiseacres are said to have feared
to make a test of his strength. His
pension plan required that the
pensioners spend their S2OO during
the month it was received.
The first count of the Townsend
Indictment charges that he “un
lawfully, knowingly, and wilfully
and without leave of the commit
tee did depart and absent himself
from the presence of the said com
mittee.” The second count charges
that he failed to give testimony
before the committee.
Two counts are also contained
In the indictment against Wunder.
Both are based on separate sub
poenas that he failed to heed.
Kiefer is held under only one
count, alleging failure to respond
to summons.
TcfcpAsn* District 7000
The World of Music
Theme From First Movement, "Symphony No. 40," by Mozart.
(A suggestion for using and preserving the daily music theme;
Many teachers of music appreciation advise their pupils to clip and
paste them on a 3 x 5 filing card with composer’s name at the top
and file them in alphabetical order.)
By CARL L. BEMIES ’
Thomas L. Thomas, young
American baritone who won the
national $5,000 Atwater-Kent
Radio Audition prize in 1932, will
appear in joint recital with Dr.
Kurt Hetzel, Washington pianist
and conductor, Wedensday after
noon, December 9 at 3:30 o'clock
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THOMAS L. THOMAS,
in the ballroom of the Shoreham
Hotel.
The joint recital will be given
for the benefit of the House of
Mercy. Tickets are on sale at
Mrs. Dorsey's Concert Bureau; the
Shoreham Hotel, and Mrs. Henry
C. Morris, 2727 Thirty-fourth Pl.
N. W,
Mr. Thomas, since winning the
signal radio honor, has sung bari
tone roles in opera under the di
rection of Schelking, Sevitsky,
Amato, Elkan and Kasschau. On
November 1, he was heard in the
“Metropolitan Opera Audition of
the Air,” on which occasion Wil
fred Pelletier, the well-known con
ductor of these auditions and staff
conductor of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, said, "I think
Thomas L. Thomas is a fine artist
and I believe with time will be a
splendid new star among the
younger artists.”
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend was
so impressed with Mr. Thomas’
voice that she has engaged him
to appear in the Monday Morning
Musicale series during the season
of 1937-38, and she heartily in
dorses him at this time.
Alix Young Maruchess, who has
espoused the cause of the neglect
ed viola d’amore, will give a con
cert tonight on her chosen instru
ment at 8:30 o'clock at the Textile
Museum, 2330 S St. N. W.
Mme. Maruchess has made ap
pearances with the Friends of
Music in the Library of Congress
and the Coolidge Festival. She
has traveled in gypsy fashion the
country in an auto trailer several
times, often giving impromptu
concerts even in tourist camps.
The program follows: “Komm
Suesser Tod” (Bach), “Concerto
in B Minor” (Handel), “Medita
tion Hebraique” (Bloch), “Arullo
del Burrito,” “La Maja y el Ruise
nor” (Grenados), “Irish Dance”
(Cyril Scott). This group will be
presented on the viola. The fol
lowing group will be played on
the viola d’amore: “Suite” (Marc),
“La Romanesca” (Sixteenth Cen
tury dance), “Les Tendres
Plaintes” (Rameau), "Scherzando”
(Hammer), “Polonaise,” “Tam
bourin” (Gossec). Dorothy Paul
will be at the piano.
The first of a series of eight
programs of chamber music pre
sented under the Gertrude Clarke
Whittali Foundation was given
last night in the Chamber Mustc
Auditorium of the Library of Con
gress by the Stradivarius Quartet
and Beryl Rubinstein, pianist.
The audience, which filled every
seat of the small auditorium, was
highly appreciative of the efforts
of the Quartet which used the set
of Stradivarius instruments that
were given the Divisioff of Music
last spring by Mrs. Whittali.
The program opened with a
transcription for string quartet by
Alfred Pochon. of “Passacaglia in
C Minor” (Bach), which proved ’o
be an attractive quartet arrange
ment with plenty of motion for
all the instruments. The bass figu
ration usually present in a passa
caglia was not so evident with the
violoncello given more melodic
lines. The work was not quite up
to the traditional quartet form.
The beauty of tone of the
Stradivarius violoncello was ad
mirably displayed by Iwan d’Ar
chambeau, violoncellist of the
quartet, when he played Bee
thoven’s “Sonata in D, Opus 102,
No. 2,” with Beryl Rubinstein at
the piano. Both of the Allegro
movements contained fast dis
play passages and the Adagio was
devoted to a charming melody.
Although d’Archambeau did not
use the full power of his mag-
■nificent instrument in the Sonata,
there were several occasions in
the ensemble work that this was
done. In drawing a heavy tone
from this violoncello, there is no
loss of tone quality nor scraping
of bow sound.
The Quartet ensemble concluded
the program with Beethoven’s
"Quartet in D, Opus 18, No. 3.”
This’quartet is charming in its
simplicity and feeling with the
emphasis upon the melodic lead
ing voice. The Stradivarius quar
tet—Wolfe Wolfinsohn and Al
fred Pochon, violins; Marcel Dick,
viola, and Iwan d’Archambeau,
violoncello—was given an ovation
at the conclusion of the pro
gram.
This quartet will give the sec
ond concert of the series to
morrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
in the Chamber Music Audi
torium, Library of Congress. The
program follows: “Quartet in B
Flat, Opus 64, No. 3” (Haydn);
"Suite for Viola and Piano
(Bloch), and “Quartet in A
Minor. Opus 51, No. 2” (Brahms).
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the radio, the automobile or of
travel by fast steamships and by
air. He declared:
“And yet, you and I are very
certain that if they were alive
today, the founders of our gov
ernments would look with ap
proval on what we are seeking to
do to use the practices of demo
cratic government in solving the
new problems.
FACE NEW CONDITIONS
“Every nation In all the
world has been compelled to
recognize the fact of new condi
tions. It is of the utmost im
portance that the nations of the
new world have found it pos
sible under vigorous leadership -
to find the answer within the
spirit and the framework of con
stitutional government and dem
ocratic processes.
“We have not completed our
task. In accordance with the
objectives and theory of demo
cratic government, that task is a
continuing one. We seek new
remedies for new conditions;
new conditions will continue to
arise; sometimes the remedies
succeed, and sometimes they
must be altered or improved.
But the net result is that we
move forward.”
OLD RESIDENTS
HONOR WOMEN
A 71-year-old precedent was
broken last night.
The Association of Oldest In
habitants voted to permit women
to attend the annual banquet.
Therefore, Paul E. Lesh and Com
missioner Melvin C. Hazen, prin
cipal speakers at the affair in the
Raleigh Hotel. Monday, will face
a mixed audience.
This radical action was taken
at a meting of the organization
in old Union Engine House last
night. Officers were elected at
the meeting as follows:
Theodore W. Noyes, president;
John Clagett Proctor, vice pres
ident; J. Eliot Wright, recording
secretary; James F. Duhamel, cor
responding secretary; John R. Ma
honey, financial secretary; Frank
W. Dowling, marshal, and John
Clagett Proctor, chronicler.
Miss Stamp to Speak
COLLEGE PARK, Md„ Dec. 3.
Miss Adele Stamp, dean of women
at the University of Maryland, will
deliver the principal address at
the monthly meeting of the Rock
ville Women’s Club in Rockville
this afternoon. Her topic will be
"Adult Education.’
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