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Evening star., 1940-12-03
Grand Jury Clears
Deputy in Shooting
And |ndicfs Victim
Ouinn's Reinstatement
Due Soon; Sherman Faces
Assault Charges

The District grand jury today
cleared Deputy United States Mar
shall James A. Quinn, who has been
suspended since October %, when
he shot Kermit H. Sherman in the
1900 block of H street NV.
Mr.. Quinn is expected to be re-
turned to duty shortly and Sherman
was indicted today on q charge Of
assault with = dangerous weapon.
According to police records, Sher-
man was shot In the stomach and
the same bullet struck q woman by
stander in the leg. Mr.. Quinn said
he fired in seh-defense when Sher-
man approached with an open knife.
Authorities say Sherman was a for
mer partner Of Benjamin Ertel.
electrocuted recently for murder Of
New York detective, and that he
has police record of 13 arrests.
Mr.. Quinn gave his version to the
grand jury and officials say a COM
plete investigation had been made
by United States Marshal John B.
Colpoys.
Doyle H. Moore, 81, was indicted
on charge of manslaughter in the
death of Gloster Roberts, So, from
traffic injury attributed to reck-
less driving. Mr.. Roberts was in
, jured at Wisconsin avenue and Fes-
sender street, November 8. He died
! three days later: -.-,-''
. Others indicted and the charges
against them are: Eugene L. Nor
ris, Joseph H. Davis, Walter H.
Brown and Enos N. Bowen, joy
riding; Simon Millod and Sigmund
Millof, grand larceny; George e.
Poindexter, Nathaniel King, Will
liam Ferguson, Joseph King, Toyd
D. Hyatt, Melvin NJ Anderson, Os-
car w. Lonesome, Gilbert M. Morn,
Samuel N. Harper. James H. Little,
Elmer Maddox, John F. Stout, Bon
ME O'Connor, Dorothy Morgan,
jeremiah wilkins. Harris Butler,
George c. Mccormick, Lloyd Rob-
inson, housebreaking and larceny;
George c. Mccormick, David G.
Coleman, William T. Guice, Earl
Childress, Harry C. Guice, Theodore
S. Cwikiel, Margaret L. Cwikiel and
william F. Leishear, robbery; Theo-
dore Grant and Harold L. Berg, vio-
lation of the gambling laws and rob-
berry; Alfred Jones, violation Of the
numbers law; Alfred Jones, violation
of the Liquor Taxing Act Of 1884;
Eugene S. Hawkins, assault with .
dangerous weapon; Joseph Elerbee,
assault with intent to commit rape
and rape; Percy Green, assault with
intent to commit carnal knowledge
and carnal knowledge.
Evening star., 1940-12-03
Restaurant Queen
Named al National
Convention Here
Violet Reurdon Is Winner
In Popularity
Contest

Miss Violet Reardon, $40 Bu-
chanan street NV, reigned as
Queen Of Washington Restaurants
today as the National Restaurant
Association entered the second day
of its convention at the Mayflower
Hotel.
The 19-year-old waitress was the
winner in a field of more than Sc
in a popularity contest that feat
ured last nights convention pro-
gram.
Fay Carter Of the Airport Hot
Shoppe was chosen runner-up t1
Queen Violet, while Ann Wilde
of the Rosslyn Hot Shoppe, wa,
named third Miss Reardon Is en-
ployed at the s & w Restaurant
at Fourteenth and @ streets NV
From l3 States, including the Dis
trict Of Columbia. the young ladies
came, Attired in colorful uniforms.
The judges were Grace Smith
president Of the National Restaurant
Association, OF Toledo, Ohio; Mis-
Winifred Eliason Of Detroit and
william Wheeler Of indianapolis.
About 1,500 persons watched the
judging of the entrants.
Previously James Watson of Chi
cago regaled the audience with
humorous bits Of advice concerning
operation Of restaurants.
Today breakfast was to start the
program. Later in the day talks
were to be given at business meet
ings by Frank j. Wiffler of the Ma
tional Restaurant Association, Mrs
Rose M. Weidemeyer of Washing
ton, Franklin Moore of Harrisburg,
Pa, and Edward Warner.
Evening star., 1940-12-03
Woman Is Sentenced
To Serve ; Years for
Model Home Thefts
Former BoIipIoyer, jailed
As Her AceompIiee, Must
Serve Two Years

Mrs. Mary Virginia Blatt. 81, at
tractive blond wife of a District En-
gineering Department employe, was
sentenced to three years in the Mary
land House of Correction today in
Montgomery County (Md) Circuit
Court on charges Of larceny and
house-breaking.
John Jones, former major league
baseball player, who had pleaded
guilty last week with Mrs. Blatt, re-
ceived q two-year sentence In the
House Of Correction. He, admitted
being an accomplice Of Mrs. Blatt
in the theft Of quantity Of fur
nishings from several Montgomery
County model homes and to the
theft Of jewelry from the home of
Mrs. Jacob o. Sponseller, 2l8 Ray
mond street, Chevy Chase, Md, last
May 81.
Before imposing sentence on Mrs.
Blatt, Judge Charles w. Woodward
asked Mrs. Sponseller to take the
stand. She testified that Mrs. Blatt,
after her arraignment in court last
week. had passed her as she left the
courtroom and said:
II will get even with you"
Judge Woodward said he had never
heard Of anything more outrageous
than the action of Mrs. Blatt in in
viting Mr.. and Mrs. Sponseller to her
home and making arrangements
with Jones to enter the Sponseller
home and steal the jewelry Of her
guests during their absence.
Mrs. Blatt received a two-year
sentence in the Sponseller case and
an additional year on one Of several
other larceny cases to run consecu-
lively. She received q one-year SEN
tence on each of two other larceny
cases to run concurrently.
jones received two-year sentence
on one larceny case and sentence on
two others was suspended generally
by Judge Stedman Prescott, who ex-
planned Jones already had spent
six months in jail,
Evening star., 1940-12-03
Bond Concert

BY the Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra in Stanley Hall in the home
at $50 o'clock this afternoon, John
s. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; !;
Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
/. March, Loyal Comrades"
Blankenburg
2. Overture, Hungarian"
Gruenwald
3. Antr 'acte-
(a) "A Summer Dream" Flath
(a) "The Cuckoo Clock"
Castillo
1. Excerpts from musical comedy,
Sweet Adeline" Kern
5. Popular numbers
Lazy Bones" Mercer
"The Last Roundup" Hill
6. Valsette, "Muetterchen" cLittle
Mother'D Rapee
Z. Finale, Liberty for All" Francis
The Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1940-12-03
Fleming Named Head
OF Finance Committee
For Inaugural
Amount To Be Roised
Expected to Exceed
$4,000 Plus for 1886

Robert v. Fleming, president Of
the Riggs Bank, will heal the ri.
nance Committee for the peesiden.
tial Inauguration next month.
The Washington banker was
named to the finance chairmanshir
at q special session OF the Inaugural
Committee yesterday with the Com
missioners.
Just how much will have to be
raised for the ceremonies will be
determined by Mr.. Fleming's COM
mittee, Joseph Davies, chairman of
the Inaugural Committee, said after
the session. He said some $140,00O
to $50, 900 was raised at the last
inaugural, but that more would prob
ably be necessary this time due to
increased costs Of materials and
other expenses.
It was announced Mrs. Mary
Holmes, sister of Presidential Sec
retary Stephen Early and widow of
George Holmes, former head of the
International News Service Bureau
here, has been named committee
secretary. Mrs. Arthur Condor will
be assistant secretary.
To Open Headquarters.
Headquarters for the inaugural
group will be opened at the District
Building and an assistant to Mr.
Davies will be named within the
next few days to take charge there.
This will be q volunteer job, Mr..
Davies said.
Appointment of special subcom-
mittees is expected to follow soon
and the full committee will meet
again in about two weeks.
Columnist Dorothy Thompson,
chairman of the Committee on Ma
tional Participation, conferred yes
terday with Mr.. Davies, returning
to New York later In the day. She
and her committee will work up
Nationwide radio programs. Gov.
Max Gardner Of North Carolina will
be chairman Of the Committee on
Reception of Governors.
Financed by Subscriptions.
Mr.. Davies said q careful program
of fiscal procedure has been worked
out under which all matters relating
to finance, either for expenditure or
collection, must be submitted to q
budget and audit committee, headed
by James A. Councillor, for approval
before any commitment is made. Mr..
Councillor heads a local firm Of
certified public accountants.
The two-day inaugural program,
which will begin January 10, will be
financed from q guaranty fund from
public subscriptions. The contribu-
tions, Mr.. Davies explained, will be
returned to the extent that funds
are available from the net operating
income Of the program-consisting
mostly of revenues from sale of seats
for the inaugural parade. Where
money has remained after meeting
expenses and repaying contributions,
it has been the custom in the past
to give the surplus to the Community
Chest.
"An possible care and safeguards" "
the committee said, "are thrown
around the collection and economical
disbursement of such funds in the
interests of the public spirited
citizens of Washington who are
responsible for the guaranty fund
through their individual subscrip-
tons"
Evening star., 1940-12-03
Bishop Corrieon Given
First Trinity Medal

Bishop Joseph M. Corrigan, rector
Of Catholic University, today was
presented with the first Of thou
sands of Holy Trinity medals which
will be distributed throughout the
Nation by the Missionary Servants
of the Most Holy Trinity in the hope
that increased devotion prompted
by the medals will lead the world
to peace through God"
The presentation was made by the
Rev. Thomas OKeeffe, who empha-
sized the need of bringing God to
the people and the people to God. +"
Evening star., 1940-12-03
Traffic Record

The trafiic record, as revealed
at police headquarters. for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 81.
Motorists injured. II.
Motorists arrested, 401.
Pedestrians injured, 6.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 5.
Motorists arrested for failing
to give right Of way to pedes-
TRANS, none.
Killed in 1910 trafiic, ST; by
December 3 in 1889, 70.
Evening star., 1940-12-03
6. O. P. Hormony Dinner

BALTIMORE, Dec. 8. R:-Paul
Robertson, chairman Of the Repub-
hcan City Committee and head Of
the United Republican Clubs Of
Maryland, planned today 4. "har-
mony banquet" for January ~ In an
effort, he said, to end factionalism
IN the 1spuhhcan party h the otate.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
Mona O'Connor Recital
At Mason Church

Compositions OF Chopin, Bach.
Grieg. Paderewski, Debussy. Cyril
Scott. Dvorak. Haydn, Lavslle,
Boccherini. John Thompson. Rebe,
Krogman. Burgmuller. James Rog-
ers, Strea bbog, N. L. Wright. J. L.
Gaynor and GODDARD will be played
by pupils OF Nina O'Connor at
Mason Methodist church Saturday.
June 1, at p. m.
The following pupils will be on
the program: Patricia Hoyt, Caro-
lyn Cummings, Margaret Mary
Sullivan. Shirley Monzingo. Mari
Ign Meek. Georgette Phill. Joan
Bjorkman, Helen Breskovich. Joy
Lundgren, Pauline Serka, Marie
Anich. Anna Marinkovich. Rox-
enne Meyer. jeanne Berry. Dolores
Westerdall. Michiko Yokobe. Mary
Rogerson. Patty Serks, Lorraine
Ross. Pauline Babich. Sonia Gil
Itch, Jean Hoyt, Joan Hoyt, Teresa
Miller, Dorcas Eggesbo. Frances
Markovich. Reths O'Connor, Garry
MARI. Richard johnson. Raymond
Sullivan, John Ross, Anton Kash,
Sonny Markoyich, Leonard Gustaf-
son.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
America---Not Ours" Nor Yours"
But my" Country IT'S Of Thee
individual Appeal in Americas Best known and
Beloved Song Emphasized by Or. Holmes

II u difficuls n trace the esskfn
Il the tune. sesue suppose u wss
composed In England sheat t7ta
by Henry Carey. past and ma.
stefan. who died IN iTsa. Rat the1s
seems 90 Re ~ sufficient FessnH
for attrieutinE n him the air Il
which the national hymns 81 Amer
Ca. England and Germany ars
sung. The New York sun. = mum.
eer % years ago. In . clever an.
swer 20 = correspondent. q. 10 ~
beginning 81 America music
essayed to follow ths tune de~s
the centuries ~ follows
The tune WAS not English
originally. Il was used BY IN
Germans long before Il was takes
up by the English. and The Ger
mans got II from the Norsemes
who had probably heard II aans
BY the Finns. who most ilkel,
captured Il from tho Huns WIS
doubtless brought I, from Assa
when they entered Europe. W.
found that II had been known 4
various races. and we found II a.
far hack IS We could 90. II. al
something like II. had neen suns
by the Jews In tho first Temple
and they may have borrowed Il
from thu Egyptians. We need no
be afraid 10 nse the tune because
II existed In other countries befors
We adopted u. or was used ny
generations that lived before Co.
lumhus discovered America or VA
known 10 musicians before The
time os Sc. Ambrose.
whatever may he the hls-
tory Of this tune. one thing I.
strikingiy significant, there
certainly mu<t be something
more than ordinarily Inspiring
In ma air which has struck the
popular heart ~ . number NJ
the greatest nations 81 The
earth"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
Seems A. II They
Want Grand Opera

The New York Metropolitan
opera has bean sawed" The cam.
palgn for 81 .ooo. ooo went well over
the top snd the directors have
authorized ths purchase ~ the cd
Broadway and soth street house
from the boxholdera
Reoonatruction work win pro.
coed through the sumner 10 have
q refurhished house ready for ihs
ie40-ieti season nest fall. AmonE
the changes win BE- the tearing out
Of the grand tier. or second circle
of boxes. ones occupied only by
the elect. and their replacement
with seats for thu public In nsw
balcony which viii Increase the
seating capacity Of tha house.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
DISC ussions
Whot's Doing in Records
Nv BENORA MESSING

A choice bit of record news con-
Germs the reissue from T5-cent
Victor to 35-cent Bluebird Of one
of Benny Goodman's greatest rec
ords. 1t is a pair OF trio numbers
made during the Wilson-krupa-
Goodman combine. Tunes are
More Than You Know" and No
bodys Sweetheart Now" This
disc on the more expensive label
has always been very good piece
OF merchandise and should con-
tinue with greatly added activity
with the extra advantage. II Is
Goodman. as most OF US like him
best.
Charlie Barnett has a new origi-
nal called Afternoon OF a Moax"
In strong rhythm. certain to make
hit with the dancers. The COM
panion piece Is a blues number,
"Wanderin' Blues" II features the
voice Of Mary Ann Mccall. This
Bluebird is much more impressive
than the average release. and IL
wouldn't be surprising II It took
hold with the best OF Barnetts
arrangements. There Is a spot of
guitar on the "B" side that will
make you take a second and third
listening.
Dinah Shore and Dick Todd join
their talents in performing pair
Of clever tunes from Irving Ber-
Inns LOUISIANA Purchase" The
tunes You Can't Brush Me OFF,
and Outside of That I Love You
are particularly suited 10 this type
of arrangement and the voices OF
these two Bluebird songsters COM
plement each other surprisingly
well.
Four tunes from Universal's IF
/ Had My Way" are waxed by
Decca. Bing Crosby. the star. pre-
sents them In the vocal version
while Glen Gray and the Casa
Iona aggregation put them over
in dance fashion The tunes are
II Haven't Time to BE a Million
aire," April Played the Fiddle. -
Meet the Sun Halfway" and
The Pessimistic Character"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
Pageant Opens Garment
Workers Convention

II Hear America singing" q
pageant In which 100 participated,
was a feature Of the opening night
OF the international Garment
Workers union convention at Mad
ison Square Garden, New York.
The pageant. with music by
George kielnslnger. a student At
the Juilllard School Of Music, Ia
based on the poem by Walt
whitman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
Rrodes' Band
Booked for
The Temple

Last OF the seasons concerts
BY the Tacoma Junior Concert
band will be given at the Temple
theater Friday and Saturday.
afternoon and evening. June
and & Louis c. Wersen viii
conduct.
From a group Of . dozen indif-
ferent juvenile players the organ
ization has been developed into q
standard concert band Of IS pieces.
II has become internationally
known through several broadcAsts
in this country and Canada.
The band IL now under the spon-
sorship n Rhodes Bros depart
ment store and IL maintained as =
part OF the oompany's contribution
TO community service.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
Young Tacoma Musicians Will
Perform in Recital Series
Music Teachers Club Sponsors Program az
Mason Chureh-Two at Lakewood

End Of the season recitals In
clude several complimentary pre-
sensations by pupils Of Tacoma
music teachers. Included is the
third in a series sponsored by
members of the Tacoma Music
Teachers club at Mason Metho-
dist church, No. 2sth and Madison.
next Monday. June 8, at s p. m.
Besides individual student presen-
tations there will be several num-
bers by a junior orchestra. string
and woodwind trio and string
quartet: harp ensemble and a
group by the First Presbyterian
church choir. The program fol-
lows:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Haldn
Violin-Virginai Hermann. Jean
McCrea. Gordon Scraggin. Aud
rey La Konskl, JOY Mobers, Marie
Olson. Mona Kleiner.
Cello-Pa.ricia Madison. Harriet
Hermann. Genevieve Martin.
Nightingale Coird whistler - Frank
Madison.
Piano. Catherine Prentice; flute.
Charlotte Prentice: triangle, John
Carr, bells, Carol Ions; director.
Mrs Paul Prentice.
Two planos-Valse ...... Arensky
Winifred Cray. Joan Ingels
Madrigai .............. simonetti
Flute. Charlotte Prentice: cello.
Eunice Moberg: harp, Jane Bron-
vi. - 49,. p.ch-co,,nod
Ruth Johns
Violin. Luigina Lento; piano. Edith
Anderson: organ. Richard Giltner.
String quartet = Selections from
Quartet In G Major ....... Mozart
Angel Gabriel. ................
... Stewart. arranged by Poehon
-. Raft. arranged by Pochon
Quartet from Mason Junior High
First violin. Barbara Reed. second
violin. John Giltner; viola, Cath
crime Coors. cello. Dolores Hart
man.
Trio~Paraphrase on the Pastoraie
Violin. Leonard wasserman; harp,
Jane Bronson. organ, Doris Smith
Two pianos-Mozart Concerto.
Minor, First Movement
Mrs. Evelyn Weber
Orchestral parts on second plano,
voice-Meditation from That's
Massenet
Elss's Traum from Lohengrin;
Wagner
Mrs. Bernard Basan
Violin. Dorothy Seldom; piano,
Edith Anderson: organ, Grace
Van VechteE
Harp Observation-Disclosures .Lemare
Blue Danube Waltz 49,. Strauss
Edith Knapp Lundgren. Jane Bron-
son. Joan Doe, Airline Otis. Greta
Mccall. BETTY Gettman. Joy
Lundgren
Chorus-God Is a Spirit ......,.
.. Scholin sung capella
OH All Ye That Pass by 49,.
...... Morales (sung capeilal
Soloist, Harry Wade
Psalm $50 ........ Cesar Franek
First Presbyterian Church Choir;
directed by Mr.. Frank Nurding
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
Kesile 10 Teach
Al Inierlochen

Victor kestIs. member II tks
Tscoma puhle sehpni mus,e stsfE.
has h<en nefifaef n hk@ eieettan n
she STAFF - fhe Maternal Mnsse
Camp Il llns<fanesen. Nieh. ~
TIE 1910 summef sesson T'oe camp
has lonf eesa kseNn for the hlKA
character q Enstfeesion ard ths
opportunities fssr music stsasiy.
Resides teaehlnK. Mr. Ksstie vii
study celle wIth Frank Miller. we
Y TpecsninI's sese esiitsf vita ne
MIC cfchsstFs. TIE season lasts
from Juns - n Aux. 10
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
South America Buys
Ioscanini on Faith

The National broadcasting COM
pany reports that the entire series
of IS concerts which Arturo Tos-
canini and the MIC. Symphony
will present IN South America dur
ing June ard July were sold out
within six hours after the first
tickets went on sale.
Long queues formed a. ticket
offices in Rio de Janeiro. Busnos
Aires and other cities. The tour
will open IN Rio de- Jansiro on
June II. II will be Toscanini's
first appearance in South America
in rs years.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01

in an equal degree. in the same
individual
No man has ever said. Il will
write a national hymn" and conf
posed either words or music which
the nation was willing 10 take for
its own. when Mozart was asked
how he set To work 10 compose =
symphony. he replied
IF once yea think how you
are 20 do 10. you win never
write anything worth hearing.
I write because ! cannot help
a."
II we turn To history. we find
that nearly every author or COM
poser OF a national or likewise
famous sacred song Ia known only
by that particular one. For IN
stance, Francis Scott Reyes Star
spangled Banner: Julia Ward
Howes Battle Hymn OF the Re-
public; Rouget de Isles Mar
seillaise Hymn, sehenckenbergers
watch on the Rhine: Isaac
Watts when | Survey the Won
derous Cross: Augustus Toplsdy's
Rock Of Ages: Charles wesley's
Jesus Lover Of My Soul; Ed
ward Perronet's IAN Hail tho
Power Of Jesus Name; John
Henry Newman's Lead Kindly
Light"
DIR. Samuel L. smith also
was n man Of one song--one
that towers grandly above all
other songs he ever wrote.
While he h author Of that fine
popular mission hymn, The
Morning Light Il Breaking"
II was my Country It's Of
Thee" that made his name and
his fame . part Of the Inn
perishable history Of America.
Or, Smith was graduated from
Harvard university IN the class
with Or. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
who. In later years. thus referred
to his classmate In reunion
poems
And there's . fine young
ster of excellent pith :"
Fate tried TO conceal him by
naming him Smith Three years
after his graduation. this young
ster Of excellent pith" wrote a
poem Of -four stanzas. II did not
then appear to be special con-
tribution to our patriotic litefa-
ture or Of any particular value TO
the hynnology of the church; but
e5 years later. DR.. Holmes said.
short time before his death in
1894
Now there's smith. Ills
name will b. honored BY every
school child In the land when
have been forgotten = hun
dred years. ~. wrote Ny
Country IT'S Of Thee n he
had said Our Country the
HYMN would have not be@s
immortal. hat that MY vss
a matter stroke. Everyone
who sings the hymn NJ oaes
feels . personal ownership IN
his native land. The hymn viii
last NJ long - the country"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01

AArgrsie AndsFsan. recratiy r.
turned from : seasan 20 study IN
California. wlll - presented n con-
cert ~ shs Daughters % Norway
It Normanas hail sunday after
noon At Z e'elock In the following
program;
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
Saengerbund Concert
Is Saturday Night

Members and friends OF the Ia
coma Saengerbund are looking for
ward to the monthly entertainment
at Fraternity hall next Saturday
at SIS p. m. The program will
include several instrumental and
vocal solos. Choral singing by the
Saengerbund will be directed by
Won Tanner. The accompanist will
be Miss Ruth johnson.
Refreshments and dancing viii
follow the program.