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Evening star., 1932-11-20
ComposerReginaN deKo0en SDream to Bring
to the Nation s Capital a Great Orchestra OF
IsOzvu Seems N0zv About to oBeRealized.

It was a brave attempt and the results
tragic blow to men, who with De Koven, worked
unselfiShiy and lost money so thai washington
might have its own orchestra and take its cul-
tural place beside Boston. New York, Fhila-
delphia and other cities OF comparable size.
Among the men who toiled SO indeiatiyably
with De Kopen was Herman Rakeman, well
known as violin teacher in washington.
With the backing of several prominent citizens,
Mr. Rakem2n reorganized the orchestra and,
with him-elf a. conductor gave concert at
the Columbia Theatcr, January 7. 1910. cnly
two mere concerts followed before this orcLec-
tra becGu-c of discouraging financial returns,
was obliged to dsband.
In 1912 hopes for an orchestra were again
reviycd by the musical activities of Heinrich
Hammer Although under the baton of Mr..
Hammer the Washington Symphony Orchestra
of SO inctrunlentalists gave several competent
performances the stumbling block CT INSULT
cient money proved again insurmodn,a1lc.
Naturally with the advent of the Worli War
sterner Issues AFFORDED every on2's attention.
Bras bancc AMI not symphony orchastras were
the order CT the day. Nevertheless, With ih7
end of the war came a reawakening desire Tor
what seemed now an almost impossible goal.
ONCE more a passage Of years-ard then
~ another orchestral This time. in the
Spring Of 1925 Kurt Hetzel Washington or
ganiet conducted a single concert of the Wash
ington Symphony Orchestra at Polls Theater.
It was merely a futile f1utter. M-sic lovers
sighed and resigned themselves to orchestra
less Washington But then significant things
began to happen in local music circles.
Moving picture theater orchestras began to
reach symphonic proportions. Musicians OF ex-
Evening star., 1932-11-20

ceptional skill began to pour into Washington
to take posts with these orchestras. One or
chestra in-tituted a ceries of Sunday afternoon
concerts which met with high favor with the
theater patrons. Washington, in sense was
becoming music conscious. The Capitals musl-
cal soil had become especially fertile Tor SYM
phonic sec:s to take root. Onto this coil came
a generous gardener in the person OF Frank
Frost Mr. Frost who became nationally famous
for his :uccess in the mining industry, Is a
musician Of considcrabl. ability
In Anril, 1926, while he was still living In
California where he made his hcme until NOV
ing to Washington two years ago, Mr. Frost
gave one of the most remarkable music festi-
vals ever given anywhere in conjunction with
Mrs Frederick G. Coolidge, the famous pa
troness of music, who donated the fund to
build and sustain the chamber music hall IN
the Library of Congress. 1t was, perhaps, at this
festival given in Ojai Valley, CaEf- Where
Hans Kinder appeared as soloist, that the
icea for a Washington Symphony Orchestra
was born anew.
Shortly after his arrival in Washington, Mr..
Frcst con-ulted with many of our foremost
musicians and a plan was evolved whereby
80 musiciens acting comparatively would give
three experimental concerts to determine
whether or not Washington would support
symphony orchestra. Civic organizations,
notably the Friday Morning Music Club, re-
sponded whole -hearteoly Business leaders were
prompt to ackn0WleQge Lne Cultural Impetus
such an organization would give our city and
promised Their vigorous support.
The conductor for the first concert was
Ru.oiph Schueller, director of the Opera
School of the Institute of Music in Cleveland.
Rehcarssls were held in the dingy, musty hall
of the Musicians Union. The cooperative
efforts OF the men in the orchestra was an
element of the undertaking which enlisted the
. sympathies of even the Indifferent. On the
afternoon of January 81. 1880, the orchestra
gave its first concert at Constitution Hall.
Encouraged By the ovation <eceived, the next
concert was planned with Hans Kinder as
conductor
Mr. Kindlers fame a cellist stimulated
tremendous curiosity as to his qualifications
as con:uctor. He demonstrated his ability as
an orchestral conductor at the second concert
March a. 1880. His scholarly musicianShip
and pleasing personality convinced the cpon-
sors of the orche-tra that he should be the
man to grace the ccEducto.'s podium.
The concluding concert OF the experimental
series was given at Constitution Hall April s.
1890, with Gustav Strube, Baltimore's Sym
phony Orchestra leader assisting Mr.. Kinder
as guest condu3tor.
1lese conccrt5 were sufficient to establish
the fact that Warrington possessed hrst-Iate
musical talent with which an excellent Cr-
cheStra could be mainteine5 bus the economic
Evening star., 1932-11-20
BY NELSON SOKOLOVE.

EGINALD DE KOVEN, who wrote 50
many delightful light operas, such as
Robin Hood" Maid Marian Rob
Roy" etc. and who bequeathed for all
/ time to glowing brides and bridegrooms
the perennial wedding ballad 20
The Washington times., 1932-01-06
PR|NCEGEORGES
TABLES VICE
INQUIRY
Five Counts Unsupported by
Prior Investigations, De-
clare Officials

There will be no "fact-find-
ing committee" to study vice
conditions in Prince Georges
county, it was decided yester-
day when the county commits
sioners were told by counsel
that they had no authority
to appoint such a body.
Agitation for such a committee
followed presentation of a petit
ton by a group led by Edwin M.
Bolte, of Riverdale. This group
was chosen at a mass meeting
following the killing of Grover
Amick at the Old Colonial Tea
House in Bladensburg.
Cite Five Counts
The petition alleged:
l. That there are many vice
dens in Prince Georges county.
2. That these dens receive Of
ficial protection.
3. That petty graft in the form
of excessive fees for towing and
storing seized automobiles was
practiced by certain county Of
ficers.
4. That relationships existing be-
tween certain bondsmen and peace
justices result in excessive pre-
miums on bonds.
S. That peace officers concen
trate upon minor infractions OF
the law and let more serious
duties of office go unattended.
Walter Grimes, president of the
board of commissioners, said that
the items contained in the petition
had many times been considered
by the county grand jury, but
that no evidence to substantiate
the accusations had ever been un,
covered.
The Washington times., 1932-01-06
Misconduct Alleged
AqdinSt Mother of 2

Charging misconduct, Lewis
David Nash, of Takoma Park,
Md, has filed suit for an absolute
divorce in Rockville Circuit Court
from Hazel A. Nash, whom the
bill states resides at 1910 Eleventh
St. N. w.
The Nashes were married De-
cember 2, 1925. in Washington
and lived together until June l.,
1881. They have two children
Hazel A., 5, and William Richard,
2, whose custody the plaintiff
asks. Attorney Walter w. Daw-
son of Rockville represents Mr..
Nash.
The Washington times., 1932-01-06
400 Attend Dinner
For ROsengdrten

More than 400 persons attended
a testimonial dinner at the Shore
ham Hotel last night given for
E. H. Rosengarten, vice president
and treasurer of the building firm
of Davis, Wick and Rosengarten,
Inc, on the occasion of his re-
tirement as president of the
Building Trades Employers AS
Sociation.
James S. Taylor, from the Blu,
reau of Standards; Major H. L.
Robb. Assistant District Engineer
Commissioner, and w. w. Hus
band second assistant Secretary
of Labor, were among the
speakers.
The Washington times., 1932-01-06
N. J. Traffic Official
Arrested as a
Speeder

A drive by county constables
to stop speeding on roads in
the metropolitan area of Prince
Georges county netted a score
of motorists yesterday includ-
ing Chief Inspector Frank Gift
ford of the New Jersey State
Road Police.
Clifford posted $3.50 col
lateral with Judge Robert E.
Altemus. of Bladensburg. Con-
Stable Carl M. Blanchard said
Clifford was doing IS in a 25-
mile-an-hour zone.
The Washington times., 1932-01-06

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Ruth ChatteFtOn In Once LADY.
No. 8-"GaIIOping Ghosts"
The Washington times., 1932-01-06

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time, and time is The most pre-
cious thing in modern life.
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places Of business and in homes
-erows year by year. As more
telephones are added, the value
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The Washington times., 1932-01-06
JTY GUILTY AS BRIBE-TAKER IN ANNAPOLIS VICE PROBE
ROTARY CLUB REPORTS

Committee chairmen gave re-
ports covering activities of their
groups for the past six months
at today'S luncheon meeting of
the Rotary Club at the Willard.
The Washington times., 1932-01-06

0VUN6BN Southwest
ITALLULAH BANKHEAD and
7 FREDERIC MARCH in MY SIN
The Washington times., 1932-01-06
lNNPROPR|ETOR
. PAID HIM $50
MONTHLY
Jury Out Hour In Trial OF
I Sheriff's Aide, Third to
| Be Convicted

Deputy Sheriff ChrlS Dali
man was found guilty of ac-
cepting bribes for protec-
tion from inmates of Belle
Grove Inn this afternoon.
The jury had not been out
but little over an hour. This
is the third county officer
to be convicted in the vice
crusade here.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 6. - In
the witness stand on the Sec
ond day of his trial Chris
BalIman, deputy sheriff, was
forced by Judge Robert Moss
to remove two pistols from
his person.
The defendant, on trial for
bribery, said he had one OF the
guns to introduce in evidence.
This one was unloaded.
Yesterday witnesses including
the inn proprietor testified to
Ballman having received $50 a
week from 1929 up into 1881 as
protection money from Belle
Grove Inn. The State also
showed that there were seven
other similar houses in the Fifth
district of Anne Arundel county
where Ballman was on duty.
Others Mentioned
So far witnesses have fire.
quently mentioned the names of
q former justice of the peace
and three other county officers,
including another deputy sheriff
The session yesterday was en-
nvened by a fight between wit
nesses in the corridors Of the
court house when one man is
said to have struck Mrs. Ida
Valienti, principal witness for
the State.
Judge Robert MOSS, at the be-
ginning of court today, posted
special deputies throughout the
corridors with instructions to
preserve peace.
In yesterdays trial one county
policeman was found guilty of NAL.
feaSance. The policeman found
guilty was George Harrison. Ruben
Grempler has been convicted of
bribery, and kid" Julian has
been convicted of carrying con,
Cealed weapons.
One witness was Herman Val.
enti, who pleaded guilty to operat-
ing Belle Grove Inn as a dis
orderly house. Valenti said he
paid Ballman $50 a week for
protection.
Under questioning about slot
machines, Harrison had admitted
taking some drinks while making
his rounds.
The Washington times., 1932-01-06
CONCERT TONIGHT

The United States Marine Band
Orchestra will give a concert in
the auditorium of Marine Bar
racks tonight at 8 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1932-01-06
HOOVER GETS CLOCK

A hand-carved clock bearing
the inscription Time Tells the
Story" was presented to President
Hoover yesterday by j. D. Fisher,
of Waynesboro.
The Washington times., 1932-01-06

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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
Proposes Tax On
Driving Licences

LOS ANGELES. March 10. U.P)-
A proposal by Roland Vandegrift,
state director of finance, to tax ev-
cry automobile owner in California
SO cents for examination and
operators permit" as a means of
financing the state highway patrol
was considered here today.
The tax plan was advanced at
a meeting of state officials and
business men, who will meet again
May 81 to discuss the matter fur
ther.
Vandeglift pointed out that reg
istration of automobiles this year
was 52,883 less than in 1881. The
proposed tax would return $780,
900 he said.
Vandegrift, Thomas Hurley, San
Diego county supervisor; Daniel
OBrien, state director of penology;
William German, state railroad
commissioner; Mrs. Leland Ather-
ton Irish, of the state chamber of
commerce. and Assembly.nan Will
liam B. Hornblower were among
those attending the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
SCANDAL
ARRESTS
AWAITED
Criminal Action Hinted
In American Mortgage
Investigation.
LAWYERS AROUSED
Los Angeles Club Urges
Resignation OF Judges
Under Cloud.

LOS ANGELES, March 10. U.p)-
Possibility of criminal action was
seen today as an inquiry into con-
duct of two former receivers for
the defuncI $18,000,000 American
Mortgage company Widened its
scope.
City Prosecutor Johnson prepared
to assign Investigations to work with
officers of the superior court to
determine if offenses punishable
under the petty theft section of the
state penal code had been commit
ted.
Action by the Los Angeles county
grand jury also appeared possible.
Superior Judge Walter S. Gates
and Foreman Charles s. Hutson of
the grand jury discussed the Amer
lean Mortgage company case yes
terday.
At the close of their conference.
the following announcement was
made:
"The situation is too big to take
any hasty moves. Something ought
to be done and will be done"
The Lawyers club joined the Los
Angeles Bar association in de-
manding an asserted receivership
racket" situation be cleaned up.
The board of governors of the
club voted to ask Superior Judges
Daley S. Stafford, Caryl Sheldon
and Walter Guerin, alleged to have
received gifts from the former re-
ceivers, to explain and vindicate
their actions in connection with the
American Mortgage company dis
aSter."
The board of governors also ap-
proved resolution calling upon the
three judges to resign, thus back
ing up similar resolution passed
by the bar association.
A. j. Showalter and Charles F.
Allison, the deposed receivers, will
be ordered to show what became
of money assertedly missing from
their accounts according to Judge
Gates. Auditors checking the &C
counts of the receiverships report
ed discrepancies.
Members of a bond holders CEN
trail committee of the American
Mortgage company were under or
ders today to appear before United
States District Judge William
James to show cause why they
should not be cited in contempt
for refusing to cooperate with the
federal receiver in equity for the
company.
The order was issued after
Frank Mortimer, federal receiver,
filed an affidavit charging the
committee attempted to "thwarL
and defeat" Mortimer's efforts 70
rehabilitate the company's hold
ingS.
Judge James set March 25 for
the committee to appear.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
POLICE APPEAL TO MOTHER NOT
TO CARRY OUT HER RASH PLAN

there is no one to know or to ask
about us. But we want to listen
in on the broadcasts our son and
brother loved so much, just once
more before we go. We hope Off
Ger Cuttings will be speaking"
Since the death of her son, Har-
Old u years old, Mrs. Brown wrote
that she had nothing to live for.
Harold, she said, loved to listen to
Officer Cuttings, and pretend he
stood beside him at KGPL.
San Francisco officers were asked
to watch for the couple.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10. U.H
Bay and ocean fronts on both
sides of the Golden Gate were pa
trolled by officers today in hopes
of preventing Mrs. w. I. Brown of
Boulder Creek, Calf, from carrying
out her threat to drown herself
and her small daughter.
Notified that the woman had
promised to listen to the Los An
geleS officers broadcast from San
Francisco, police here exhausted
every clue in a hunt for her. They
said there was little hope for sue
cess unless she approached the
waterfront.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19

LOS ANGELES, March 10. W.R)-
Los Angeles police hoped today
for a word of mother and daugh-
ter to whom they addressed radio
appeal to block a threatened sui
eide.
Over police radio station KGPL
flashed the message of Officer
Floyd Cuttings every 10 minutes
between $3.50 and 8 o'clock last
night, appealing to Mrs. w. I.
Brown of Boulder Greek in the
Santa Cruz mountains.
She was urged not to carry out
the plan she revealed in a letter
to the broadcaster, whose voice her
dead son had admired over the
radio.
No check of the letters authen-
ITCHY could be made, but police
were not inclined to doubt its sim
cerity.
Mrs. Brown declared she and her
daughter were slipping out of the
picture Friday night"
She said she and her daughter
would abandon their cabin for the
San Francisco waterfront.
Our bodies will never wash up"
she wrote. "Ill see to that, and
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
Plaintiff Wins
In Land Action

BY memorandum filed in the
county clerks office yesterday af-
ternoon Judge Vaughn N. Thomp-
son found Ben Hulse entitled to
possession of property in Westmor-
land and to the north half of ranch
property near there, and 10 33907.3G
damages, sued for IN an action
against Mrs. Gertrude Lawson.
Mrs. Lawson was given nothing
on her cross-complaint, in which
she asked that Hulse pay her $6573
expended upon the property by her.
self since it was acquired by Hulse
June "a, 1927, at sheriff's sale.
The memorandum decision also
held that Hulse is entitled TO
$764.68 being held by the American
Fruit Growers as due the owner OF
the property.
Hulses complaint charged that,
although he acquired the land at
a sheriffs sale, Mrs. Lawson had
possession Of 1t, and has been In
possession ever since, refusing TO
turn the ranching property and
the Westmorland lot over 10 him.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
FELONY CHARGE
FILED AGAINST
POLICE EXPERT

FRESNO, Calf, March 10. U.P)-
Ed Verdieck. who photographed and
fingerprinted thousands of men
while identification expert here and
in Los Angeles, today was named
in G felony warrant signed by no
less than former Sheriff w. F..
Jones, who brought him here in
1928.
Jones complaint alleged Verdieck
stole several valuable pieces of ap-
paratus before he left office year
ago last January, among them a
lense valued according to Jones at
5000.
Jones said he had learned Ver-
dieck now is in San Bernardino
county Jail serving a sentence for
failure to provide. He said Ver-
deck will be returned here after
expiration of the Jail sentence in
July.
Jones said that when Verdieck
lost his position here he explained
the absence of missing equipment
by saying he had bought some of it
with his own money ard other
pieces had been lost. Jones said
he recently had located some of
the articles in Fresno pawn shops
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
CRISIS FEARED
in SITUATION
AT MANCHURIA
Russia And Japan Report
ed To Be Making War
like Movements.
BY JOSEPH ii. BAIRD
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 19. The
Far East's danger zone" appeared
today to have shifted from Shang-
hal back to Manchuria. Reliable
reports received here told of three
developments:
l. Soviet Russian forces are
making intensive military prepar-
ationS" at Vladivostok and are stor-
ing up wheat there. Relations be-
tween Russia and Japan appear
strained.
2. There is widespread opposi-
ton among some Chinese soldiers
to the new Japanese -fostered regi>
me of Henry Pu-Yi
3. The political situation in
Japan was described as troubled
American officials do not con-
ceal their concern over the first
report, but they find some somfort
in the fact that both Moscow and
Toxic have repeatedly affairmed
their desire for peace.
According to advices of western
observers Vladivostok, Russia's
great Pacific port adjacent to Jap
anese-controlled Korea, appears to
be preparing for a state of siege.
-Four train-loads of wheat have
passed over the Chinese Eastern
railroad destined for Vladivostok,
and 20 more are expected.
Faced by these preparations,
Manchurian authorities are consid-
ering an embargo on wheat ex-
ports. They are thinking, too, of
closing the frontier at Pogranich-
mia, where the Chinese Eastern rail-
road enters Siberia not far from
Vladivostok.
Soviet Russia now has about
$4,000 men in Vladivostok, terminal
of the long trans-Siberian railroad
and RuSsia's only port OF conse-
auence on the Pacific. Russia
probably has $4,000 more troops
east of the UralS. Any other re-
enforcemenets, according to the best
information here, would have to
come from European Russia, more
than 5000 miles across the bleak
Siberian wastes. Only one single
track road is available to carry
troops or to bring supplies to those
already in the Far East.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
FLOODS CAUSING
SERIOUS DAMAGE
in WASHINGTON

SEATTLE, March 10. W.P)+The
state of Washington was threatened
anew today by landslides and
floods which recently took IA lives
and caused thousands of dollars
property damage.
At Walla Walla, Mill creek broke
through new bulkheads in two
places and flooded the city. Citi-
zens worked throughout the night
to fill the breaches with sandbags
and avert a flood similar to the
one last year which caused nearly
$1,000,000 damage.
A gigantic slide SO feet high and
a quarter mile long slipped off 2
peak near Carnation, southeast OF
Seattle, and completely damned
the Snoqualmie river. Water
Tapped around dozens of homes as
the river surged back from the
barrier.
Thirty-siX hours of steady rain
and heavy run-off of snow cause |
streams to overflow throughout the
northwest
EUREKA, Calf, March 10. (U.P)E-
Heavy rains swept Del Norte
county in Northern California to-
day, swelling the Smith river be-
yond its banks and inundating
lowlands. Houses in the lower Sec
tions of Smith River Valley were
abandoned and cattlemen moved
their stock to higher ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
BRAWLEY MAN IS
FOUND DEAD IN
BUSINESS PLACE

Walter Thorn Corder, 40, Brawley
photographer, was found dead in
his bed at 10 o'clock last night by
the night watchman on his rounds
through the town.
The photographer had been i'll
and when the watchman found the
door ajar at Corder's establishment
at 140 South Sixth street, he inves-
tigated Corner Bert Underwood
was called.
A post-mortem held this morning
at Thornton's undertaking establish
ment in Brawley revealed that
death was a result of pneumonia
and a weakened heart.
Corder served in the navy dur
ing the World war and was a men,
Der of the Brawley post of Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars. He had made
his home in that town for the last
two years.
Brief funeral services were con-
Quoted at the Thornton chapel at
3 o'clock this afternoon and the
body will be sent to San Diego to-
night. A private funeral will be
conducted there and he will be in
tered there beside a daughter who
died in 1929.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Murial Corder, who was with rela-
tives in Lemon Grove at the time
of the death; one daughter, Mrs.
James A. Maudlin of Lemon Grove,
and other relatives.