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Evening star., 1939-04-10
Marian Anderson Wins Tribute
Of $4,000 at Concert
Dienitories Are Among Crowd Awed
By Singers Rich Voice

paused and barred their heads. A
ripple, resembling a sigh, went over
the crowd as the voice died away.
Sings Three Spirituals.
The concert continued with %,
Mic Fernando" from Donizetti's La
Favorita," and Schubert's, Ave
Maria" which captured any part OF
the crowd that hadn't already been
won by the opening selection.
After the brief intermission, dur
ing which she sat chatting with
Secretary Ickes and Representative
Caroline ODay of New York. Miss
Anderson sang three spirituals and
concluded with Nobody Knows de
Trouble I've Seen" as an encore.
The amazing range of her voice
was demonstrated by "Trampin, "
which was pitched so low 1t was
hard to believe it was the same per-
son who had been singing.
After the applause for her encore
died away, she returned to the
microphones to thank the audience
In a quiet, well-modulated voice
she told the crowd she was "over-
whelmed."
"You don't know what you've
done for me-" she said. THE i'm
mensity of this affair has had such
an effect on me that I'm not up
to a speech" .
Besieged by Crowd.
After her short talk, when the
crowd started to surge toward her'
the guards fought to protect her
from the hundreds who wanted to
shake her hand or get her autograph
Sponsors, caught on the platform,
were showed away by the crowd.
The singer achieved temporary
refuge in the Office of the memorial
building while harassed guards
sought to discover way to get ner
through the crowds.
After waiting more than Is min.
utes, Miss Anderson. accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Anna Anderson,
who with other members of the fam
lily had come down from Philadel-
phia for the concert, was taken
through the crowd. More tnan
10000 persons remained on the
grounds as the singer, surrounded
by score of policemen, MADE ner
way toward her car.
No disorders were reported at the
concert. Augmenting the sO-man
park police force were 200 special
Evening star., 1939-04-10
King May Ask Fund
For Teaching CrippIes

Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee is considering ask.
ing the Senate to allow an item Of
$8,400 in the new District supply
bill for the salaries of six teacher
required to teach group Of crippled
children in the local public schoo
system. This teaching force was pro
vided for through the Work.
Progress Administration for the cur
rent year. Efforts were made to hav'
the necessary funds included in th'
regular budget for 1910, but without
success.
Senator King said he was lookini
into the details of the project befor'
taking 1t up with the District Sub
committee of the Senate Appropria'
tions Committee.
Evening star., 1939-04-10

A repiew OF Marian Anderson's
concert by the Stars music critic
appears on Page BIG.
Marian Anderson sang yesterday
and $4,000 persons paid her the
tribute of awe-struck silence.
The crowd that filled the Lincoln
Memorial plaza and stretched along
the rejecting pool stood motionless
as the colored artist sang to Wash
ington. The first half hour of the
concert was also carried over the
National Broadcasting System.
Marian Anderson stood in the
shadow of the memorial and gave a
free concert to the greatest audience
of her career. Applause greeted Sec
retary of the Interior Ickes when he
introduced the singer with the words
I'm this great auditorium under the
sky, all of us are free"
Applause punctuated every SEN
tence as the Secretary paid tribute
to Lincoln and Jefferson and sharply
criticized those who "pay mere lip
service to these twin planets in our
democratic heaven"
Called Appropriate.
"There are those" he said, "even
in this great Capital of our demo-
cratic republic, who are either too
timid or too Indifferent to lift up
the light that Jefferson and Lincoln
carried aloft.
"It is as appropriate as it is for
tunate that today we stand rev.
erently and humbly at the base of
this memorial to the Great Emanci-
pator while glorious tribute is rem
dered to his memory by a daughter
of the race from which he struck
the chains Of slavery"
When Marian Anderson appeared
to face barrage of microphones,
photographers and newsreels, whis-
Ting and cheering echoed from the
far end of the rejecting pool, while
cabinet officers, Senators and other
leaders in Washington official and
musical life, who were seated on
the platform, rose to their feet.
The singer took off the fur
trimmed hat she had been wearing
and her long mink coat hung free
over her trailing velvet gown as she
clasped her hands before her and
with closed eyes started America.
There wasn't stir in the crowd
as the rich voice was amplified
across the park. Late arrivals
Evening star., 1939-04-10

guards. The only member of the
Metropolitan force present was E. G.
Comingore of the traffic division
who acted as the singers escort to
and from the concert. Other traffic
officers tried to untangle the snarl
of autos as the concert broke up.
Dignitaries on Platform.
Among the dignitaries who sat on
the sponsors platform were Associ-
ate Justice Hugo Black, who arrived
in the middle of the third number;
Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Morgenthau, Senators Capper OF
Kansas, Clark of Missouri, Taft of
Ohio, Wagner of New York and
Austin of Vermont; Mrs. Clifford
Pinchot; New York Commissioner
of Revenue Hubert Delaney, Nor
decai w. johnson, president of How
ard University, and Charles Houston,
chairman of the Marian Anderson
Citizens Committee.
Mrs. Roosevelt, one of the sponsors
of the concert, did not attend. She
CAPAdA4Co w AACA CASoo SoAAASAS ASAASS
this morning that in her wire to
Representative O'Day, accepting an
invitation to be sponsor, she had
explained she would be unable tc
appear, having promised the Presi-
dent she would spend Easter Sunday
in Hyde Park. At the same time, she
was asked If 1t were definite that
Miss Anderson would sing for the
King and Queen on their visit here
She replied that the musical enter
tainment would attempt to show va
rious types of American music, but
denied that any one had been def
nitely asked.
Senator Capper, one of the early
arrivals, told a reporter the occasion
reminded him of the dedication OF
the memorial when a similar crowd
gathered in tribute to Lincoln. He
recalled sitting next to Robert Todd
Lincoln while Chief Justice Charles
Evans Hughes, a sponsor at the con-
cert, conducted the ceremony.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Street Is Silent
On Lewis Analysis
OF Relief Fund
Comment Withheld
Pending Details
On Alleged Errors

Welfare Director Elwood Street
today declined to comment on a
statement issued yesterday by Bur-
dette G.. Lewis, special relief in
vestigator, interpreting the $500 900
relief appropriation recently ap-
proved by the House.
In his analysis of the bill, Mr..
Lewis declared that it tells the Dis
trict to provide proper manage
ment and use all of the SIT 900 pos
sible savings shown in the Lewis
report as wisely as possible and
then. when that has been done,
come back to the House with plan
and request for additional appro-
priations."
Mr.. Street said the Board OF
Public Welfare was unwilling to
comment on the statements until
the relief investigator supplied the
board with the Identification Of the
cases cited in his report alleging
that the Public Assistance Division
had erred.
Mr.. Lewis appeared before the
House subcommittee on appropria-
tions but none of his testimony was
recorded in the transcript of the
hearings. He said yesterday, how
ever, that his report to Congress was
as follows:
start early in January; divert re-
lief grants to those in greatest need,
using S717,00O of possible savings
for this purpose and for better or
ganized or new projects; employ on
public works and in public building
construction 1000 from relief rolls
or from the ranks of those accepted
by District w. P. A. for relief work,
and make additional appropriations
for hurrying up more training, re-
training and rehabilitation, and the
ending of this relief business
Mr.. Street, who recently submit
ted his resignation. effective June
Is, along with M. Alice Hill, director
of public assistance, and her aide,
May o. Hankins, were subject to
criticism in the Lewis report.
Mr.. Street said today there had
been one application for his post,
which Carries salary of $4,000. He
added that he has written the Joint
Vocational Service, a national social
service employment bureau, the
American Public Welfare Associa-
ton and the Civil Service Commis-
sion for advice concerning his Sue
cessor. The position. however, he
pointed out, is not under civil serv-
| ice
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Businessmen to Meet

A discussion of municipal reor-
ganization and taxes will feature a
meeting of the Northern Seventh
Street Business Mems Association
to be held tomorrow at 8 pm. at
Immaculate Conception Hall, I'll
N street NV. Raymond Gitte!-
man, chairman of the Legislative
Committee, and H. ]. Cohen, chair
man of the Tax Committee, will
give reports of their groups.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Hasty House Passage
Of D. {. Budget Bill
Raped by Members
Commissioner Ban
On Card Games
Is RidicuIed

Speed with which the House passed
the 1910 District appropriation bill
last Thursday was criticized by
members of the District Legislative
Committee at their regular weekly
meeting today.
The principal complaint was regis
tered by Representative Seccombe,
Republican of Ohio, a new member
of the House. He said he was unable
to procure copy of the bill until
it had been reported to the House
at noon Just a few hours before
its passage.
Il sat in the dark during con-
sideration of the BILL he declared.
The Appropriation Committee Ger
tainly pulled fast one on me. If
I had been able to procure a copy
of the bill before it was reported,
I certainly would have offered some
amendments
That's the history of the District
appropriation bill" remarked Chair
man Randolph. 1T was not un-
usual this year. 1t occurs every
year"
Representative Seccombe also criti-
cized the latest order of the Com
missioners forbidding police and
fremen from playing a friendly
game of cards for stakes in their
own homes.
II see by the papers that firemen
are prevented from playing tiddle-
winks or drop the handkerchief in
their own homes" he said. "1t's
time now to dress them up in Boy
Scout uniforms"
The committee favorably reported
bill authorizing the Commissioners
to widen Wisconsin avenue from R
street to Mount Alto Hospital and
decided not to seek House action
today on a bill designed to establish
so-called fair trade practice" law
for the District.
The fair trade practice bill was
favorably reported by the committee
last week at the request OF its
sponsor, Representative Kennedy
Democrat, of Maryland.
Representative Bolles, Republican
of Wisconsin asked for the delay
He said he had conferred with
representatives of the Federal Trade
Commission and they had offered
some serious objections to the
measure.
Representative Shafer, Republican
of Michigan said he thought the bill
should be recalled from the House
calendar and public hearings held
on it before any further action Is
! taken by the committee.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Jewelry Agreement Made

j. v. Mulligan of the 100 block
of F street NV, q dealer in school
and fraternity rings, has entered
into an agreement with the Fed
eral Trade Commission to discon-
tinue the use of the term 40 carat"
or other phases as descriptive of
articles of which the gold content
Is other than that amount, accord
ing to word today from the COM
mission.
Evening star., 1939-04-10

contended that the Hutchins firm
was operating a big business with
comparatively small capital.
Notwithstanding this shocking
disparity" the Appellate Court said,
Its CHutchins) financial set-up Is
within all the requirements of the
general insurance laws Of the Dis
trict."
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Dr.. Wilson to Speak

DR.. G. Lloyd Wilson, professor Of
transportation and public utilities
at the University Of Pennsylvania,
will speak on Transportation as q
Profession" at q meeting of the
Federal Transportation Association
tomorrow at s:45 pm. in the Com
lnerce Department auditorium.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
F. H. A. Action Slated

The Rules Committee cleared the
way for House consideration to-
morrow of legislation raising from
So 3y00O, ,00O, 900 to $4,000 ,000, 900 the
amount Of insured mortgages the
Federal Housing Administration
may have outstanding.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Author to Speak

Benjamin F. Ferill, member d
the Writer'S League and author d
Western stories, will discuss the shor
story at a. meeting of the Profes
sional Writers Club of the Y. w
c. A. tonight ut sis O'Clock In clul
headquarters.
Evening star., 1939-04-10
Virqiniu Auto Inspection

RICHMOND, Va, April 10 @.-
Gov. Price has issued proclamation
designating the month Of May for
the next semi-annual period for in
spection Of automobiles. ..
Evening star., 1939-04-10

A reDie,D OF Marian Anderson's
concert by the Stars music critic
appears on Page BIG.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-19
Wednesday At Fair Sets
Record, Managers State
School, Day Brings Tremendous Throng to
Grounds in Afternoon and Evening; Another
Big Crowd Anticipated Today; Band Plays
Tonight.

fair was to offer free admission, ana
the Art Wilson Midway attractions
were to throw open all OF their at
fractions free to the children.
An extra added feature OF to-
NIGHTS program will be the appear
ance of the Henderson high school
band in several numbers. The con-
cert will start at 1880 o'clock. Band
members will be admitted free. Tins
event is expected to attract large
crowds to inc fair, because OF the
COMMUNICATIVE popularity Of this
musical organization.
Last nights record crowd Of the
week thrilled to the free acts, includ-
inc the trapeze work high in the air
bv Jay-Dee, who dresses as mon
key and ascends to the top Of the
ladder. where he puts on comedy
act, initiating monkeys, toying with
a dummy that is kept at the top Of
the pole, together with an artificial
bunch Of bananas. His stunts have
been a high light Of the program.
Another number, and perhaps the
Captain Jimmy Jamison. the high
diver, who leaps from the top OF a
11C-foot ladder 10 a thankful OF water
on the ground below. Just before he
leaps, gasoline is poured on the sur
face Of the water in the tank and
set ablaze 1t is into the cauldron that
the daredevil takes his plunge nightly
The high dive is an Old old stunt at
fairs and like events, but it never
loses its popularity.
The fireworks Wednesday evening
were on the largest scale Of the week,
following Immediately after the free
acts.
The fair proper will come to close
Friday night, but the Art Wilson
Midway attractions will remain over
through Saturday night and operate
at full blast.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-19

A crowd that in some respects dis
tanced any other day IN the history
Of the Golden Belt Fair attended
Wednesday for School Day, Secretary
c NJ. Hight said today He estimat-
ed the DAYS attendance at $4,000 to
10000 persons.
All white schools in the city and
county had half holiday from their
classes and pupils were admitted
free. With them in most instances
came parents and other relatives or
friends to swell the gate to one OF
the biggest the fair has ever expert
enced. MI. Hight said the Midway
business was the greatest on record
for a single day.
The grounds began to fill early in
the afternoon Most Of those who
came remained until evening for the
free acts and the fireworks. Early
in the evening these were augment
ed by the usual influx of city folk
who had not been in the afternoon,
swelling the total to a high figure
The exhibit hall was thronged
most of the afternoon and evening,
and visitors admired the display Of
agricultural, educational and institu-
tional work Every booth was taken
and contained interesting set-ups
throughout.
Concessions prospered in the best
day OF the week SO far.
Another large crowd came for the
Thursday events of fair week, and
was expected to rival the big We'd
nesday crowd.
Nj. Hight said today the children
from the Oxford orphanage would
not attend. They had been invited,
all 100 OF Them for today or tomor-
row. but the management decided it
best not TO undertake the movement
of the big orphanage family for the
event expressing appreciation. The
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-19
NJ. D. FAULKNER, 90;
DIES AT HIS HOME
Funeral Will Be From South
Henderson Baptist
Church Friday

Melville D. Faulkner, as, died at
his home in North Henderson Weo-
nesday afternoon after an illness OF
some nine months He had suffered
from a complication Of ailments. He
was born in Vance county April 10.
1898, and had lived here all of his
life.
Mr.. Faulkner is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Bessie Jenkins Faulk-
ner, and six sisters, Mrs. D. M
Stokes, Mrs. Floyd Fletcher and
Misses Lula, Beulah and Lucy Faux
ner, all Of Henderson, and Mrs. b.
T. Parkinson, Of the county.
The deceased had been a member
of the South Henderson Baptist
church for about Is years, and fun
eral services will be held there at
o'clock Friday afternoon, in charge
Of the pastor, Rev. Ray Harrington
assisted by Rev John Edwards, {
former pastor.
The deceased had been employed
and before his health failed.
Active pallbearers were announced
IS follows: S. B. Rogers, c. J. Lester
Henry Hight, E. 0. Faikner, H. B
Rogers and w. B. Hight.
The following will be honorary
0allbearers: Rem Hale, K. p Davis
!. D. Gupton K. w. Allen, Joe Rem
Cliff Rem, w. r. Hope, jim Ross
Roger Ellington, VIII Range, Robert
Bum. Monk Hughes, Thurston Viii
Jansen, Eddie Terrell, Hartweil Will
'yerson, Matthew Edwards, Howard
Thomas, DR.. Vance Rollins. DR.. e. F
Fenner, E. F. Murphy, Tasker Hight
Bill Hight, Leo Hight H. V. Hale
G. C. Gupton, Doc Clapton, June
Champion, Horace Robinson, Chief
Tohn Langston, D. t. Clayton, J. w
Gill. Ben Croker, Elvie Parrish
Luther j. Hughes and William Brame
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-19
Prices Firm
For Tobacco
Wednesday
570,594 Pounds Sold
fer $14.9O Averages;
Season Total to Date
Is 5,947 ,496 Pounds.

Prices remained firm on the
Henderson tobacco market Wednes-
day, with sales of 570,594 pounds
sold for $85,0l8.51 for an average
Of $1490, Fred Allen, sales super
visor of the tobacco market, an
nounced today This brought total
Doundage for the season to 5,947.-
$50 pounds, the supervisor tated.
Sales were blocked, with no like
lihood Of floors being cleared en-
hrely even today. The market has
been in continuous block since sales
were resumed on Tuesday Of last
week following the market holiday
Another day Of heavy sales is
looked for Friday, last sales day
+ 1he week.
Slightly better quality leaf is now
Being sold Dy growers. All of the
damaged tobacco that was on floors
u the opening was cleared several
Gays ago.
The best quality Of tobacco in the
1op has not appeared in predomi-
mating quantities as yet, however,
md when it does the price is ex-
cected to improve. Sales to date
have been the heavies for the same
Neriod Of time in the history Of the
market.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-19
High School
Band Ready
For Duke Day

Final preparations were being
made today for the Henderson high
chool bands trip to Durham Sat
Jrday to participate in the Duke
Homecoming festivities and attend
the Dukes Syracuse football game
IN Duke Stadium in the afternoon.
The band will gather at the high
school at 8 o'clock Saturday NOR
ming for the making of a motion
picture. The trip to Durham will
be started at 9 o'clock, and the band
must reach its destination and
placement for the start Of the par
ade through Durham's main bust
ness section at 1890 a. m.
After the parade the band will
be guests of Duke University at
luncheon, as we'll also one driver
for each car that takes members
Of the band to Durham They will
have assigned seats in the stadium
for the game. The band will march
onto the football field in advance
Of the game, it is understood, and
Will also join with several other
bands, including some from high
schools, in a program in the sta
dunn between halves Of the game
1t was stated today that trans
Dortation had been arranged for the
entire band, and that parents who
would take their children were re-
quested to notify Mrs J. S. Evans,
in charge Of transportation arrange
ments. Between halves, the band
will take part in the mass musical
program Of all the bands, giving
"The Star Spangled Banner" and
"Auld Lang Syne".
The band last year made its first
appearance in Duke Homecoming
Day program in Durham, and was
enthusiastically received by the
throngs along the line Of the parade
and in the stadium. The band is
much larger and much better
trained and drilled now than a
year ago. 1t is under the direction
Of w. T. Hearne, who has built
the band to its present proportions
IN musical excellence.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-19
One Dead, One
Hurt In Wreck
Near Manson

One man was killed and another
seriously, if not critically, injured,
early this afternoon in an automobile
wreck on U. S. highway No. at
the Vance-Warren county line, about
8 Miles north of Henderson.
The dead man was identified from
papers in his pocket as Russell Tay-
Tor, about 80, of route 2, Spring Hope.
w. M. Averette, of Rocky Mount, is
the injured man at Maria Parham
hospital He has a broken right
shoulder and possibly internal in
juries.
Taylor died in an ambulance en-
route to the hospital here.
Averette was conscious at the time
he was picked up and brought to
the hospital. He was quoted as say
ing that Taylor was driving the auto
mobile, which was enroute south, to-
wards Henderson, and crashed into
pole.
Deputy Sheriff E. A. Cottrell, who
responded to the call for assistance
here, said the accident was on the
Warren county side of the line, and
warren officers have been notified
by the local sheriff's office
Taylor sustained broken neck and
battered left shoulder.
Another wreck occurred in the
vicinity of Manson, about a mile
north Of the scene Of the fatal crash,
about 80 minutes earlier A miller
Motor Lines truck was said to have
overturned in an attempt to avoid
striking an automobile. AS far as was
learned, no one was injured in the
accident.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-19
FAULKNER CAPTURED
IN WARREN COUNTY
Prison Camp Superintendent T. ID.
Aycock Finds Prisoner Along
Highway; Returned to Prison

Roger Faulkner, member of a
gang that terrorized tobacco farm
rs and store keepers by its daring
+hefts, was recaptured last Thurs
'ay night, after a short freedom re-
-lltng from his escape from
Nadeebcro. Chief Of Police J. H.
.anaston .tated today.
Chief Langston stated that he had
,cen Noticed by T. H. Aycock, SUD-
2r-ntendent of the Warren county
srieon camp, that he had captured
Faulkner while the young man was
landing alongside a highway near
Farrenton. Faulkner offered no re
-i~tance, Chief Langston said he was
old
Faulkner was turned over to
State Prison authorities in Raleigh
Nv Mr. Aycock, the Chief stated
Faulkner was a member Of a Gang
convicted in Superior Court here
on charges Of various thefts. The
7na feed similar charges in other
counties.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-19
FRANKLNTON LIONS
HERE FOR MEETING
Henderson Club Host at In
ter-City Meeting; Good
Program Had

The weekly meeting Of the Lions
Club last evening at the Vance Ho-
tel was an inter-city meeting. with
The Frank]nton club as guests here.
James Mcdonald was in charge
Of the program, and presented q
Negro quartet that sang several
selections, which were greatly en-
The drawing prize went to Sol
HAYES. and Harold Nixon won the
attendance prize.
Thomas J. Harrington was vel
coined into the club as new mem
Der.
Erskine Clements, Jr. and Fred
Kesler were guests Of the club, and
there were eight members Of the
Franklinton club in attendance.