AAusic Notes Miss Lawrence Returns to Give

Song Program Marjorie Lawrence, celebrated

Australian soprano of the Metro- politan Opera, will give a song re- cital Thursday night at 8:30 o’clock in Constitution Hall as the next at- traction of the Cappel series. This is the first full-length recital Miss Lawrence has given here although she has appeared as soloist with

MARJORIE LAWRENCE

both the National Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

The brilliant career at the Metro-

politan Opera which began for her in 1935*with her debut as Bruenn- hilde in “Die Walkuere'’ was cut short three years ago when she was

striken with a severe case of infan- tile paralysis. She refused to be- lieve the doctors who said, if she lived, she would be a helpless in- valid and began immediately to pre- pare herself to continue her pub- lic career.

Soon the gifted singer was able to

accept a few solo appearances where she was carried on the stage and sang sitting down. Recently she has made a brilliant comeback in opera at the Metropolitan, has given nu-

merous recitals throughout the United States and has just returned from a highly successful concert tour of her native land, Australia. The constant use of her voice ac-

celerated her recovery and she can

now ride horseback and even walk a few steps.

Miss Lawrence Degan ner career

at the top by singing leading Wag- nerian roles after but a few years of training. She had seen only one

performance of opera before leav- ing to study in Paris, but three years later made her debut with the' Monte Carlo Opera as Elizabeth in •‘Tannhauser.” A contract with the Paris Opera followed, but she would not accept Gatti-Cassazza’s offer to

join the Metropolitan until some

time later. Besides the Wagnerian roles, she has sung Italian and French operas. One of her greatest successes was her performance of the much discussed role of "Salome.'’'

The Thursday program will begin J with the aria of Nitocris from Handel's ‘‘Belshazzar," followed by j three Schubert songs, ‘‘The Erl- king,” Der Lindenbaum" and “Un-

geduld.” Alter the intermission: Miss Lawrence will sing Caneloube’s j ‘‘Malurous qu'o uno Fenno,” Ravel’s! “La Flute Enchantee,’’ Nin’s “El

Vito,” Harriet Ware's ‘This Day Is! Mine” and close with Bruennhilde's final scene from Wagner's “Goetter- daemmerung.”

Gorden Manley will accompany the singer and play between her

groups Brahm's “Two Intermezzi. Op. 118” and “Rhapsodie. Op. 79. No.

2” and Chopin’s “Scherzo in B Flat Minor."

Press Chorus Gives First Public Concert

The National Press Club Chorus, under the direction of Reinald Wer-

renrath, will give its first full-length concert tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock in the club auditorium. Solos will be given by Mr. Werrenrath, baritone, and Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee, the club’s pianist. Since Dr. Werrenrath took over the direc- tion of the chorus last season, it has sung at War Bond rallies, club func- tions and on the air.

The program for the first concert will be: Grieg's “Brothers, Sing On,” Sibelius’ "Dear Land of Home,” Grieg's "Landsighting.” "Erie Canal,” arranged by Bird; “Shenandoah,” arranged by Bartholomew; “When

Johnny Comes Marching Home,” ar-

ranged by Mead; the old hunting song, “John Peel”; Chadwick’s “Mar- guerita,” Sullivan's "The Lost Chord,” Logan's "Lift Thine Eyes,”. O'Hara's "A Little Close Harmony”: and the “Soldiers’ Chorus,” from Gounod's “Faust.”

First-Place Winners In Local Contest

The winners of the State contest! for students and young artists held j by the District of Columbia Federa- tion of Music Clubs on Monday in: Barker Hall are announced by the president, Thelma Callahan, and the chairman, Gertrude Lyons.

Eugene A. Kingsford. violinist, pupil of Henri Sokolov, and Frances McCartney, dramatic soprano, pupil of John Marville, received the high- est ratings from the judges and will represent the District of Columbia in the Capital district contest in Richmond on Monday, May 1. Mr. Kingsford was an entrant in the student class and Miss McCartney, soloist in the Gunton Temple Pres- byterian Church, was entrant in the young artists class with two other vocalists.

Judges for the contest were Hen- drick Essers and Don P. McAdoo for violin, and Walter Golde of New York City and Edmund S. Ender of Baltimore for voice, with La Salle Spier, who served as general musi- cian for both classes.

Group Plans Concert The newly organized National

Lutheran Chorus, under the direc- tion of R. E. Snesrud, will give its first concert June 13 at the Water Gate, when the program will con- sist of 12 well-known church chorales and anthems.

Regular rehearsals will be held each Monday at 8 p.m. in Luther Place Memorial Church. The chorus aims at a membership of 250 for its first public appearance, 160 having attended the preliminary rehearsals.

WARREN F. JOHNSON, ORGANIST CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS

22d * P Sts. N.W. 7:30 O’clock Norwegian War Rhapsody

Christian Binding1 Arioso-Leo Sowbery

HEL^EN TRAUBEL, Leading dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, who will be the soloist on the all- Wagner program with which the Philadelphia Orchestra will conclude its season Tues- day night in Constitution Hall, with Eugene Ormandy con-

ducting. Miss Traubel will sing arias from “Lohengrin,” "Die Walkuere’’ and Goetter- daemmerung.”

Program to Honor Pan-American Day

In celebration of Pan-American Day, a program will be given in the Hall of the Americas, Pan American Union, by the Marine Band Orches- tra, Capt. William F. Santelmann, conductor, on Saturday at 9:30 p.m. The orchestra will be assisted by Olga Coelho, Brazilian soprano, and the Secretary of State. Edward H. Stettinius, jr„ will speak in honor of the day.

The selection for the orchestra will be Villa-Lobos' “Suite.'’ Santa Cruz's "Five Pieces for String Orchestra" and Paul White's "Sinfonietta.” Miss Coelho will be heard in several of her arrangements of Brazilian folk and popular songs.

Born in Brazil, Miss Coelho started her professional career in 1936, when she first visited a foreign country. Argentina. It was also that year that the Brazilian government, by a

decree of law signed by the Presi- dent of the republic, recognized her unique talents and authorized her to promote the interest in Brazilian music in all countries, an honor never before accorded any artist. During the following years she toured the world, appearing not only in concerts but also in broadcasts in every continent, and becoming an

internationally known artist. Since 1941 the Brazilian singer has been heard often in the United States, both in person and over the air, where she has been regularly fea- tured over the Columbia Broadcast- ing System.

Series to Close With Recital by French Pianist

Robert Casadesus. celebrated French pianist, will be presented In recital this afternoon at 4 o’clock in Constitution Hall as a concluding event of the Dorothy Hodgkin Dor- sey concert course this season. He will give an interesting and varied program in which numbers by French composers will predominate.

Mr. Casadesus is not a newcomer to Washington, having made fre- quent appearances on Mrs. Law- rence Townsend morning musicales and having given a piano recital last season under Mrs. Dorsey’s auspices. Born of a distinguished French mu-

sical family, he won highest honors at the Paris Conservatory and, after a series of European tours, made his American debut in 1935. Today, in the pianistic world, his name is

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ROBERT CASADESUS.

synonimous with a refined and bril- liant style oi playing which contains all of tiie most outstanding features of the French school.

He makes his home in an old stone Revolution-period home in Prince- ton, N. J., just off the college cam-

pus. where he resides with his wife, a talented pianist: his two sons and a baby girl born in the United States. Composer as well as pianist, Mr. Casadesus has written a con- certo for two pianos, which has been performed by him and Mrs. Casa- desus with the Cincinnati Sym- phony and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras.

This afternoon's program will open with four numbers by the 18th century composer, Rameau: "Ga- votte variee,'’ "Le Rappel des Ois- eaux.” "Les Cyclopes" and "Les

Sauvageo." followed by Schumann's "Etudes Symphoniques Op. 13," Chopin's "Ballade in F Minor Op. 52." “Berceuse" and "Tarantelle, Op. 43." The recital will close with De-

bussy's Images" <first series' and Ravel's "Alborada del Gracioso."

In Local Music Circles The Sunday night program in the

National Gallery of Art will be pre- sented tonight at 8 p.m. by the Gor- don String Quartet. The program will include Haydn's "Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3": Hanson's "Quartet, Op. 23," in one movement and Schumann's “Quartet in A Mi- nor, Op. 41."

Isaac Feldman, Brazilian violinist, will be heard in recital at the Pan American Union this afternoon at 4 o'clock as another of the mu-

sical programs for service men and women, Government employes and the general public. He will play music of the Americas.

The Felicia Rybier Music Club will present Eva Stark, violinist, in recital tonight at 8:30 o’clock at 2 Dupont circle. Admission is by in- vitation only.

A pupil of Leah Luboschutz and Efrem Zimbalist, Miss Stark has toured the country in recital and has just completed the season with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Recent recitals have been in the Art Museum of Pittsburgh and in Princeton. N. J. Mathilde McKen- ney, pianist of the Pittsburgh Sym- phony, will accompany Miss Stark.

Louise Burge, contralto, accom-

panied by Frankye Dixon, will give a song recital tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. in the Phillips Gallery, her program consisting of the O'Connor- Morris "Alleluia’.” Wilson's “Come, Let’s Be Merry," a group of Schu- bert and Brahms songs, "La Proces- sion” by Franck and two numbers by Faure, the aria, "Adieu. For- ets,” from Tschaikowsky’s "Jeanne d’Arc,” and a group of all-Negro compositions.

A native of Tennessee, Miss Burge studied at Knoxville College, later at Howard University and was three times fellowship holder at the Juil- liard Graduate School.

The program for the Marine Band Symphony Orchestra s concert Wednesday. 8:15 p.m., in the Marine Barracks, will be Tschaikowsky's “Symphony No. 4," Walton's "Con- certo for Viola and Orchestra," played by Joseph De Pasquale; Bach's Chorale Prelude, "Sleepers, Wake,” “Tlie Marines’ Hymn” and the National Anthem.

Stanley Chappie will give a lec- ture on “Creative Analysis.” on

Wednesday at 10:30 a m., at 1325 G street N.W.

The annual spring concert of the Friday Morning Music Club will take place in the residence of Mrs. William S. Corby, No. 9 Chevy Chase Circle, Md., on Friday at 11:30 a.m.

Arranged and directed by Louis A. Potter, the program will consist of Carpenter's "Concertino,” played by Sally West, pianist, and Mr. Potter, organist, and excerpts from Honeg- ger’s "King David” sung by a choral ensemble with Ruby Potter, soprano, and Henriette Bagger Plum, mezzo-

soprano, as soloists.

Franceska Kaspar Lawson will give a song recital at St. Rose’s Technical School Friday afternoon, assisted by Myrtle Alcorn at the piano.

Capt. Arthur Loesser, pianist, and Pfc. Erno Valasek, violinist, will be the artists appearing at the final meeting of the National Symphony Forum Friday, 8:30 pm., in the Phillips Gallery. Capt. Loesser will play Mozart’s “Sonata in D, K. 576,” Mendelssohn's “Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, Op. 35”; Chopin's "Noc- turne in F Sharp” and “Variations on a Theme of Halevy.” Pfc. Valasek will be heard in Handel’s "Sonata in F Major” and Raymond Gram Swing’s sonata.

Due to official reasons the concert by the Navy Band Symphony Or- chestra scheduled for Friday in the Departmental Auditorium has been canceled.

The eighth annual 1945 song com- petition sponsored by the Chicago Singing Teachers’ Guild for the

W. W. Kimball Co. prize of $100 was awarded to the American composer Sydney King Russell of 22 East Sixty-fifth street. New York City, for his song "Harbor Night," the poem by Katherine Garrison Chapin. Mr. Russell is the com-

poser of a number of highly suc-

cessful songs. Information concerning next

year's competition may be had by writing Mr. E. Clifford Toren. 3225 Foster avenue, Chicago 25, Illinois.

Manager Announces Symphony’s Soloists

Soloists for the two regular series of the National Symphony for the 1945-6 season which begins on

October 28 are announced by J. E. Mutch, manager of the orchestra. Under the direction of Hans Kindler the series will consist of 10 Sunday afternoon concerts and 9 Wednes- day night programs instead of the 8 of the past years.

Six of eight soloists for the Sun- day series have been already en- gaged and will include the world's greatest guitarist, Andres Segovia; Percy Grainger, pianist-composer and perennial favorite of Washing- ton audiences; Emery Darcy, the new heroic tenor of the Metro- politan Opera, heard here at the Water Gate last summer; Gyorgy Sandor, Hungarian pianist; Patricia Travers, the brilliant American violinist, who, as child prodigy, played twice with the National Symphony with great success, and Dougherty and Ruzicka, duo- pianists who made a deep impres- sion at the Library of Congress earlier this season. Out of the 10 concerts scheduled two will feature all-orchestral programs.

Admission to the Wednesday night series will continue to be on an all-subscription basis. Seven distinguished artists will be heard as soloists, leaving two evenings for orchestral music. Blanche Thebom. mezzo-soprano, the newest ‘'find” at the Metropolitan Opera, will sing on this series, which will include such names as Lauritz Melchior, Artur Rubinstein. Richard Crooks, Joseph Szigeti, Claudio Arrau and Rudolf Firkusny.

Concert Schedule TODAY.

Robert Casadesus, piano recital. Con- stitution Hall, 4 p.m.

Isaac Feldman, violin recital, Pan American Union, 4 p.m.

Concert recorded music. Public Ll- orary. Sixteenth and Lamont streets N.W., 5 p.m.

Gordon String Quartet, National Gal- lery of Art, 8 p.m.

TOMORROW. Louise Burge, contralto, song recital.

Phillips Gallery. 8:30 p m. National Press Club Chorus. Relnald

Werrenrath, director. Press Club Auditorium. 8:30 p.m.

Wade N Stephens, organ recital, L. D. S. Chapel, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY. Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Or-

mandy, conductor; Helen Traubel, soprano, soloist; Constitution Hall, 8:3o p.m.

Marine Band, Marine Barracks. 12:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY. Stanley Chappie, lecture. "Creative

Analysis." 1325 G street N.W., 10:.3o a m.

Concert recorded music. Public Li- brary. Sixteenth street and Good Hope road S.E 7:30 p.m.

Wade N. Stephens, organ recital. L. D. 8. Chapel, 8 p.m.

Marine Band Symphony Orchestra, Joseph De Pasauale, viola, soloist; Marine Barracks, 8:15 p.m.

THURSDAY. Mariorie Lawrence, soprano; song

recital, Constitution Hall, 8:30 p.m

FRIDAY. Friday Morning Music Club, spring

concert. No. !> Chevy Chase Circle, Md.: 11:30 a.m.

Marine Band, Marine Barracks, 12:30 p.m.

National Symphony Forum, Cant. Ar- thur Loesser. pianist: Pfc. Erno Valasek. violinist; Phillips Gallery. 8:30 p.m.

SATURDAY. Marine Band Symphony Orchestra.

Capt. William T. Santelmann, con- ductor: Olga Coelho. soprano, so- loist: Pan American Union, 0:30 P.m.

Concerts recorded music, Public li- braries, Seventh and H streets S.W., 2 p.m.: Seventh and D streets S.E., 8 p.m

Wade N. Stephens, organ recital, L. D. S. Chapel. 8 p.m.

By Frank B. Lord The open-pair event of the 12th

annual Old Dominion champion- ship bridge tournament is in play in two sessions today at the Wardman Park Hotel. The first round begins at noon, and the second will start at 6:30 p.m. in order to conclude in time to comply with the curfew. The trophy is the Richmond News- Leader cup, which was won last year by Mrs. W. S. Athey and Maj. Jack Feagan. An extra charge is added to the participation fee to constitute a donation to the war

orphans fund being sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League.

After having been suspended for two weeks, during which a Red Cross benefit game and the monthly mas- ter point game were held, the Fed- eral Bridge League on Tuesday night resumed the second half of its team-of-four series. It will be con- cluded next month. In Tuesday’s game the Government and the Rough Riders teams tied in Sec- tion A, each winning 14 '4 out of 24 boards. The Jeeps won a similar number of boards in Section B. The Redskins, however, in Section C won 171 a boards out of 24 and ad- vanced to the last position in Sec- tion A The Yanks continued to lead Section D.

Hie score of the several teams to date is as follows:

Section A. Won. Lost. Pet.

Government llh 71 .tv;4 Gruesome _ 100 80 .576 Cascades 108 85 .550 Army 105 84 .555 Gripers 106 86 .557 Roush Riders 105 87 .546 Westerners .. 01 77 541 StaRS 101 01 .570 Redskins __ ! 1171 a 0112 .573

Section B. Jeeps _ 08 01 .518 Victory __ 08' oo'a .516 Pickups -- 07*2 01 f‘2 .516 Mixed Party _ HO*.a M2* a 515 Penguins _ __ 9«‘a 83'2 .513 Bees _ 06'i 03 *4 .510 Allies __ o5‘,2 03 ’2 .505 Greyhounds _ 07 05 505 Oaks _ 93 93 .60(1

Section O. Skyrockets _ 05 07 404 4 Ms __ 05 07 404 W’arsiors _ 03 90 484 Co-Ops __ 01 98 .481 Falrchance _ 97'/j 80*4 481 Vols 88(2 lOOVa .468 Wild Deuces 87 99 ,467

Section D. Yanks 80 103 .463 Nu Aces __ 86 100 .461 New Team 8o>4 oo'a 447 Scotties _ 79 101 430 Hi Speed 75'2 104'/a .416 Scoops _ 73 107 .405 Treasury _ 70 mo 390 SHPB _ 321 a 51‘2 .388

The duplicate players of the Cap- ital City Chess Club concluded a six-month series of games on March 29. The cumulative score

■ showed Mme. Marie Boschan to have made the highest average in the series. Her percentage was .5554. Mrs. H. W. Tallman was second with a percentage of .5551 and her husband was a close third with .5512. These games have been played every Thursday night during

j the period. I In the Saturday night cumulative 'score games the awards went to A. J. Stone, who won 91 >2 points. John Donnelly was second with 8412 points and Mrs. John Donnelly third with 83.

The William S. Sullivan award in the quarterly series, the con-

cluding game of which was played last week, was won by W. R. Gar- rett with a percentage of .5340. Charles W. Stark was second with .5122 and John Donnelly third with .5118.

Cash prizes and national rating points were awarded to the winners in each of these events and rating points also went to the runners-up. New scries were started Thursday and Saturday nights of last week. Dr. J. V. Waits is director of the games, assisted by Mr. Donnelly.

In the duplicate game at the National Press Club on Monday night the leaders were Mrs. Ray Richards and Ralph Webber, first: Mr and Mrs, David Sentner, sec-

ond, and Mr. and Mrs. Newton P. Montgomery, third.

Beginning on April 16 there will be a series of four games every other week for the club's major trophies. The Culbertson cup will be the first to be played for in a

team-of-four match. Each of the others will be pair games. They include the Victor Smith cup, the McIntyre cup and the Mexican Ambassador's cup.

Only club members will be eligible to play for the McIntyre cup, but there will be a women's game at the same time and the winners will receive club awards, the same

as are made in all the regular duplicate games.

Can this be the last roundup? Could be. Buy one extra War Bond today.

Peary Ship, VFW, Plans Installation; Other Activities

Representative Bernard W. Kear- ney of New York; former com-

mander in chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, will in- stall new officers of Admiral Robert E. Peary Ship, No. 427, at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Hamilton Hotel.

The new officers, all of the Hos- pital Corps, except the paymaster and trustee are: Captain, Lt. (j. g.) J. D. Thomas; executive officer, Lt. O. L. Young; navigator, Lt. (j. g.) R. W. West; paymaster, Chief Yeo- man T. A. Reynolds; surgeon, Ensign J. W. Grant; chaplain, Lt. H. H. Heppi trustee, Patrick T. Ryan.

A past captain’s medal will be presented to the outgoing captain, J. E. Wicker.

William J. Hogan, jr„ past captain of the ship, announced last week that the membership of the post, which extends over the world, is now

over 8,000.

McKimmie-Catterton Police and Fire Post selected Battalion Fire Chief Carlisle Petersen and Police Sergt. John F. Ryan to receive the post annual VFW citizens’ award for outstanding service to the com-

munity during the past year. The award was the result of the work done by Mr. Petersen and Sergt. Ryan in organizing and heading the auxiliary police and firemen during the past war emergency when Wash- ington was preparing to meet pos- sible air raids or attacks.

Presentation of the award will be made in conjunction with the an-

nual joint installation of post and auxiliary officers at Henderson Castle on Sixteenth street April 18. National Comdr. in Chief Jean A. Brunner is expected to make the presentations. Past Department Comdr. Edward K. Inman will in- stall the officers of the post.

At the last meeting of the Council of Administration of the District ot

Columbia Department went on rec< ord as recommending to the Presi- dent that a representative of the VFW and other veterans’ organiza-

! tions be invited to attend and repre- sent their respective groups at the San Francisco Conference to be held April 25.

The following posts elected officers last week:

Internal Revenue Post—Com- mander, John J, Saunders; senior vice commander, Edward Fagan; junior vice commander, McKinley K. Kriegh; quartermaster, John E. Jenkins; post advocate, Joe N. Mc- Collum: chaplain, Thacker V. Walker; surgeon, Dr. Walter B.

Vogel, and trustee, William A.

Murphy. McKimmie Catterton Police and

Fire Post — Commander, I. B. Wetherall: senior vice commander, John Jasinowski: junior vice com-

mander, J. F. Bower; quartermaster, C. M. O'Malley: adjutant. P W. Graves; post advocate, C. J. P. Weber; chaplain, J. C. Statz, and trustee, Richard K. Burton.

The following appontiments were

made: Officer of the day, B. H. Statz; patriotic instructor, C. T. Cully; historian, J. M. Mclnerney; sergeant major, C. M. O'Malley; quartermaster sergeant. P. W. Graves; colorbearers, William Tem- ples, J. C. Crews. F. S. Hawthorne and E. D. Klepac; service officer, R. K. Burton; post employment. J. J. O’Donovan; sentinel, P. C. Wheeler, and guard, F. S. Hawthorne.

Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards Post—Commander, George H.

Young: senior vice commander, Eric S. Stearns; junior vice commander, Eugene George Anderson; quarter- master, Nathan D. Golden; post advocate, Byron G. Carson; chaplain, John Caswell; surgeon, Frank D. Norton; council of administration, Frank D. Norton, and trustees, Byron G. Carson and Joseph P. Jordan.

United States Naval Gun Factory Post—Commander, Edward M. How- ard: senior vice commander, E. A. O'Neil; junior vice commander, F. C. Warnock: chaplain. C. S Johnson: post advocate, C. W. Beal: quarter- master. C. C. Funk: adjutant, H Cohen, and trustee. P. Jochum.

Meetings this week are: Monday. Front Line Past, 1319 K street N.W Wednesday, Washington Post, Co- lumbia Post, 1319 K street NAY.; Follow Me Defense Post, 1809 Rhode Island avenue N.E. Thursday, Potomac Post, 1319 K street N.W.

American War Mothers District of Columbia Chapter will

meet at 1:30 p.m. April 13 at the YWCA, Seventeenth and K streets N.W., with the president, Mrs. Mar- ion Barrows, presiding. Arrange- ments for the sale of carnations May 10 will be completed.

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OES Activities In Local Chapters Meetings scheduled are: Miriam Chapter—Tomorrow. Con-

ductress and associate conductress night. Entertainment, refreshments.

Trinity Chapter — Friday. Joint meeting, Home and Temple Boards, Home of Dorothy Tuggle. Contact Virginia Cowling for transportation.

Bethlehem Chapter — Tuesday. "The Story of Adah.” Home Board sale.

Chevy Chase Chapter — Wednes- day. Anniversary celebration. The grand matron and patron, honored guests.

Goodwill Chapter—Friday. Initia- tion.

Harmony Chapter — Thursday. Motion pictures.

Electa Chapter — Tuesday. Recep- tion in honor of Mrs. Alice L. Wolfe, associate grand conductress.

Martha Chapter—Auxiliary Tem- ple Board, Tuesday evening.

Lebanon Chapter—Tuesday, men’s night. Entertainment and refresh- ments.

Brookland Chapter — Tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., Home Board, luncheon and cards, home of Past Matron Virginia Carleton. Wednesday, Endownment Committee, home of Past Matron Elsie Milstead.

Columbia Chapter — Tuesday. 4209 Ninth street N.W. Entertain- ment and refreshments.

La Fayette Chapter—Wednesday, line officers’ night. All line officers are invited. April 17, card club, home of Mr. and Mrs. I. Billhimer.

Cathedral Chapter—Wednesday, initiation.

Warren G. Harding Chapter —

Tuesday, birthdays celebration. Naomi Chapter—Today, religious

services at 3 p.m., Masonic and East- ern Star Home. Wednesday, chap- ter meeting, balloting, entertain- ment.

Treaty Oak Chapter — Monday, election of secretary. Thursday, luncheon card club, with Mrs. Hulda

^Williams. VFW Auxiliary To Place Wreath; Officers Elected

Mrs. Ida Emmert, president of the District of Columbia Depart- ment. Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, will place a wreath at the Jefferson Memorial on Tuesday. Mrs. Grace Fields and Mrs. Joseph- ine Wright will carry the colors.

Department officers are invited to attend the birthday anniversary party of the Military Order of the Lady Bugs on April 24 at 713 D street N.W.

The joint installation of Govern- ment Printing Office Auxiliary will

,be tonight at 713 D street N.W. by Mrs. Ethel Sendlak, national council member.

Front Line Auxiliary elected the following officers: President, Mrs. Faustina Dorough; senior vice pres- ident, Mrs. Lillian Reynolds; junior vice president, Mrs. Wall; treasurer, Mrs. Dorsey; chaplain. Mrs. Neva Clark: conductress, Mrs. Ella T. Newton; guard, Mrs. Wilcox; trustee, Mrs. Mary Nichols; two-year trustee, Mrs. Bettie Williams; one-year trustee. Mrs. Parker; secretary, Mrs. Signa Hasslacher: patriotic instruc- tor, Mrs. Mary Tucker. There will be a joint installation with the post on April 23. Mrs. Ruth Franco was

given the obligation.

Police and Fire Auxiliary will have a joint installation with its post on

April 18 at Henderson Castle. The department president will install; President, Mrs. Mercedes McCal- lum: senior vice president, Mrs. Lethia Burdette; junior vice presi- dent, Mrs. Lillian Eades; chaplain, Mrs. Josephine Young; conductress, Mrs. Mary Wetherell; guard. Mrs. Amelia Quinta; three-year trustee, Mrs. Harriet Eldridge.

Treasury Auxiliary will have a

joint installation April 18 at the Gold Chevron Club. Mrs Daisy Hilleary announced a card party at Mount Alto Hospital is being ar-

ranged for this month.

All-American Auxiliary will have entertainment at Mount Alto Hos- pital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Mrs. Edith Starner, president-elect, to-

jgether with her officers will be in- ! stalled jointly with the post on

April 20, 1319 K street N.W. i

Meetings this week are: Monday. Treasury Auxiliary, 1319 K street N.W. Tuesday, Equality Walter Reed Auxiliary, 1319 K street N.W. Wednesday, Firecrackers Cootiette

(Club, 713 D street N.W.: Hornet .Circle, Military' Order of the Lady iBugs, 6112 Thirteenth street N.W. | Friday, Potomac Auxiliary’, 1319 K |street N.W. Saturday, Cootiette ; dinner, Fairfax Hotel.

SWV Auxiliaries Col. James S. Pettit Auxiliary will

meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Naval i Lodge Hall. Officers are requested to I wear white.

The annual spring dinner spon- sored by Admiral George Dewey Naval Auxiliary will be held at Northeast Masonic Temple Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. The public is in- vited.

I Capitol City Fort, No. 22. Daugh- j ters of '98, will meet at 8 p.m. Thurs- j day at 921 Pennsylvania avenue S.E. Department President Mabel G. Hesen and her staff will make their official visit.

The department president and her staff will make their annual visitation to the Gen. Nelson A. Miles Auxiliary Friday at Odd Fel- lows’ Temple. Officers are requested to wear white.

Women of the Moose Meetings this week are: Monday,

1 to 3 p.m., child care and training, home of Mrs. Jane McDermott, senior regent. Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. home nursing course, 2200 Twentieth street N.W. Wednesday, 8:30 p.m„ Homemaking Committee, bingo. Fri- day, chapter meeting, special pro- gram.

American Legion Membership Call Planned April 26

The American Legion will hold its fourth wartime annual airmail membership roundup on April 26. The goal is a 1945 membership of 1,500,000. |

This airmail roundup has re- 1

placed the annual aerial roundup! for the duration of the war. :

Department Comdr. Lee R. Pen-! nington urges post commanders,! membership officers and Legion-! naires in general to obtain new! members and renewals on or before] April 24, the termination date for; the aerial roundup. Only a few! hundred more members are needed, it was said, to exceed the total membership of 1944.

George Rothe, detachment com- mander of the Sons of the Amer- ican Legion, announces a meeting of the detachment at the Legion clubhouse this afternoon. He said a drum and bugle corps is being i organized and any young men in- terested in joining should com- municate with him, Franklin 9286.

William Branch, a student of the Dunbar High School, who won the final in the District of Columbia National High School Oratorical Contest on Tuesday night at the De- partment of Commerce auditorium, will go to Charleston. W. Va., on

Wednesday to compete in the finals for the District of Columbia. Dela- ware, Pennsylvania and West Vir-; ginia, which includes Region 10. The winner there will compete for honors on Friday at Harrisburg, Pa.

The four sectional winners will contest at Buffalo, N. Y„ on April 16, for which the grand prize is a $4,000 scholarship at any college or] university of the winner’s choice. Lesser scholarships will be awarded the other finalists.

U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post will meet at the Legion clubhouse tomorrow evening, with Comdr. Jessie L. Col- lins presiding.

The proposed new District of Co- lumbia Taxi Post will hold a meet- ing on Tuesday at the Legion club- house. All prospective members

! should attend, as officers will be elected and refreshments served.

The ritual team of the Forty and ;Eight Society initiated a large'class’ : of new members in George Wash- ington Post last week.

Ail posts desiring such ceremonies to be perlormed may communicate with Grande Chef de Train Fred Money, care of the clubhouse.

The annual "wreck" of the society- will be held April 25 at Stansbury Hall, directed by Grande Conduc- teur W. Leo Collins.

Chairman William H. Hargrave of the District of Columbia World War Memorial and May Day *Corp. an- nounced a meeting will be held at the Legion Club on Wednesday, 8 p.m. Plans are being completed for the annual observance at the Dis-

I trict of Columbia Memorial on May 13.

Newly elected officers of Fort Dupont. Sons of the Legion, will be installed by the detachment com- mander at a meeting at 8 p.m. to- morrow at the clubhouse. 2954 Min-

j nesota avenue S.E. Meetings this week are:

Monday—U. S. S. Jacob Jones, i Lincoln and Government Printing 1 Office Posts, Legion clubhouse; ; United States Treasury Post, Colo- j nial Hotel; Woodridge Post, Odd Fellows Hall.

Tuesday—James Reese Europe Post, 1314 Vermont avenue N.W.; George E. Killeen Post, 3204 M street N.W’.; United States Depart- ment of Agriculture Post, Colonial Hotel; Department of Labor, Fire and Police and Capital Transit Posts, Legion clubhouse; Fort Du- pont Post. Minnesota avenue and M street S.E.

Wednesday—Kenneth H. Nash Post, 209 Pennsylvania avenue S.E.; McAllexander Post. Legion club- house: Potomac Post, Palisades Fieldhouse.

Thursday—James E Walker Post, Twelfth Street YMCA.

Masonic, OES Home Religious Services

Craig L. Reddish, master of Bar- risters Masonic Lodge, announces religious services will be held at 3 p.m. next Sunday at the Masonic and Eastern Star Home. The chap- lain, Harvey W. Goddard, will de- liver the sermon. Robert C. Nichol- son. baritone, will be the soloist. Members and their families are in- vited.

The 20th degree will be conferred by the Scottish Rite Tuesday eve- ning. Preceding the exemplifica- tion of the degree. Evangelist Chap- ter Rose Croix will meet for elec- tion of officers.

A short class has been scheduled as follows: May 2, fourth degree: May 3, 14th degree: May 4, 18th degree. That class will then join with the spring class for the re- mainder of the degrees on May 8, 15 and 22.

Trestleboard. Monday—Washington Centennial,

officers' meeting, 6:30 p.m.: degree team rehearsal, 8 p.m.; Dawson, Stansbury, E. A.: Joppa. Benjamin Franklin. Mount Vernon Royal Arch. Mark Masters degree; Anacostia Royal Arch.

Tuesday—Federal. Acacia. Ta- koma, Samuel Gompers, Potomac Hiram Royal Arch. Mast Excellent Masters degree: Woodridge Royal Arch, Brightwood Council. Royal and Select Masters; De Molay Com- mandery.

Wednesday—Harmony, Warren G. Harding, Chevy Chase. Brightwood. Washington Commandery.

Thursday—Naval, special, 7:30 p.m., E. A.: New Jerusalem, George C. Whiting, F. C.: Temple Noyes. Cathedral, Washington Royal Arch Chapter, William R. Singleton Royal Arch Chapter.

Friday—St. John’s, Hope, Eureka- Naval Royal Arch Chapter, Mount Pleasant Royal Arch Chapter.

Saturday—Grand Lodge school of instruction.

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By James Waldo Fawcett. The time seems ripe for another

National Stamp Conference after ihe model of the meetings and dis- :ussions held at the Hotel Carlton in the spring of 1937.

For months past there has been i gradually expanding difference be- tween the Post Office Department and the philatelic public. If the prevailing tendency continues, the results may be a break which all concerned naturally would deplore.

To illustrate the difficulty, the case

of the stamp proposed in honor of the Marine Corps is cited. The sug- gestion for a postal adhesive show- ing the raising of the Stars and Stripes on Iwa Jima was put for- ward by Senator Joseph C. O’Ma- honey of Wyoming on March 11. No one opposed the idea. On the con-

trary, everybody indorsed it. The expectation was that department officials would accept it with alac- rity. Instead, four weeks have come

and gone, and no action has been announced.

Spokesmen for the department, of course, deny that the delay indicates a lack of interest on their part. They explain that they have the suggestion under consideration, that no announcement can be made un-

til President Roosevelt and Post- master General Frank C. Walker have approved a model, that no

model can be prepared overnight, that other proposals have to be taken into account, that regular procedure must be followed and that it does not help for outsiders to make “frantic” inquiries about what is being done or not done.

Meanwhile, the psychological mo-

ment to say "Yes!” to Senator O'Mahoney's appeal has been lost, four of the Marines who raised the Star Spangled Banner on Mount Suribachi have died in action, their relatives and friends wearily wait for news that the homage intended for them finally has been agreed upon.

A similar story might be told about the long-expected Red Cross blood plasma stamp, first proposed in De- cember, 1941. The department months ago released an official “hand-out" to the effect that such an issue probably would be author- ized shortly. A design created by a

gifted young engraver in the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing was

approved by the President. But the adhesive which was to dramatize one of the most notably humane campaigns in modern history still has not appeared. Post Office of- ficers express irritation when they are asked what has become of it.

They also are frankly impatient of the drive for reprinting the 5- cent Korean stamp, suddenly with- drawn from sale in the Philatelic Agency less than eight weeks after it was made available there on No- vember 2. Gossip hinting that it has been an object of speculation on

the part of a small group of "in- vestors" is contradicted with ve-

hemence by department heads. Their books, they insist, prove that there were no large purchases of the Ko- rean item. It would be a breach of precedent to reprint any stamp, according to their contention. Yet they admit that the 3-cent Susan B. Anthony "commemorative” has been sent to press 10 different times.

Perhaps a second National Stamp Conference would help to solve these and other existing problems. Dep- uty Third Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral Roy M. North yesterday de- clared that he would welcome such an effort. The stamp department of The Star therefore suggests an

open meeting or series of meet- ings between representatives of the Post Office Department and its agent, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and accredited officers of philatelic organizations and phila- telic writers along the lines of the conference of 1937.

Among those who should be in-

vited to take part in the conference discussions, the following are ob- vious nominations: Senator O'Ma- honey. Mrs. Catherine L. Manning, philatelic curator of the Smithson- ian Institution: David D. Caldwell, chairman of the Postage Stamp Centenary Committee: Harry L. Lindquist, president of the National Federation of Stamp Clubs; Donald L. Lybarger. president of the Ameri- can Philatelic Society: Vincent Do- manski. president of the Society of Philatelic Americans; Franklin R. Bruns, president, and Jere Hess Barr, secretary of the American Philatelic Congress; Albert F. Kunze, president of the Washington Phila- telic Society; Charles H. Vaughan, president of the Collectors Club of Washington: Delf Norona. postal historian, Moundsvllle, W. Va., and Hugh M. Clark, editor of the Scott series of Standard Postage Stamp Catalogues.

Among the citizens of Portland, Oreg.. who want the Korean stamp reprinted are Helen E. Kirsch, Vir- ginia E. Dewar. Emily Shand. T. A. Newholm. Henry C. Collette, W. J. Lewis, Troy Hoover, Charles P. Werner. Jean Holmes, Carl S. Bald- ing. H. D. Johnson, Mabel Farring- ton, G. A. Sprague, Louise Anderson, Mrs. Ella Adams. Ernest Sellars, A. P. Waldron. D. E. Bennett, Vio- lette Olstad, Dorothy Root, Helen Ward. Mrs. C. A. Nielsen, Mildred Meyer. Gerald Phillips, Lorene Lisk, R. B. Watts. Leroy C. Porter, Harry F. Turner, D. G. Dunbar. Mrs. E. L. Chapman. Mrs. E. S. Le Blanc, B. F. Adams. Lois F. Wagner, Irma Perris, Thomas C. Kimm, Helen E. Kidrick, C. W. Lee, Lois Atwood, Janet Far- rell, Mrs. E. H. Bellinger and Verda R. Lockyear.

The Collectors' Club of Wash- ington will have a business meeting at the Thomson School, Twelfth and L streets N.W., Tuesday evening at 8.

The Washington Philatelic Society will meet at the Lee Sheraton Hotel, Fifteenth and L streets N.W, Wednesday evening at 8.

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