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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-06-12

government and a just and lastin.
peace.
Of the 18 Institutes scattered
throughout II different states
eight will include one or more Ne
gro faculty or staff members. Si1
Institutes are for high school agt
students, and IL are for people O.
college age and above. Severa
thousands will attend.
Chinese, Japanese, East Indies
and Americans of many religious
faiths will also be represented or
the institute faculties.
DR.. Ralph Bunche, associate
chief of the division of dependent
area affairs of the United States
Department Of State, will lecture
at Institutes at Whites, CAL; al
Antioch college, Yellow Springs
O.; Mills college, Oakland, CAL, ano
the Holen Bush school, Seattle
Wash.
G. James Fleming, secretary OF
the committee on race relations
American Friends Service commit
tee, and formerly regional director
of the FEPC, will serve on the staff
Of three Institutes: at Seattle
Whittier and Mills colleges. Edwin
c. Berry, executive secretary of the
Portland, Ore, Urban league, will
be a consultant at the Seattle insti-
tute.
DR. Alphonso Heningburg, edu-
cational director of the National
Urban league and lecturer in the
education department of New York
university, will appear at two insti-
tutes at the University of New
Hampshire, Durham, n. Hone
high school and one adult institute.
DR.. Rayford Logan, professor of
history at Howard university,
Washington, will lecture at the in
stitute at Albright college, Read
ing, Pa, while Charles R. Lawrence
Jr., Fisk University, will speak at
the high school institute at Anti
och college.
Maurice Moss, executive secre-
tary of the Urban league in Pitts
burgh, will attend the high school
institute at Camp Chesapeake, on
Chesapeake Bay, near Northeast,
Nd.
William Brown, science teacher
and assistant principal of the
largest high school for Ne
groes in Birmingham, will appear
at the high school institute at the
University of New Hampshire.
E. Louise Young, field secretary
for college work for the peace sec
ton of the service committee, will
serve as co-dean of girls at Camp
Miss Young is grad
late of Langston university in Ok
ahoma, and has been with the
service committee for almost
year.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

Joseph Jefferson of Rip Van Wrinkle
Tame was Asa Trenchard in the orig
1nal cast in New York, and may have
been born in Washington, a statement
he does not affirm Or deny in his auto
biography, where he says: st NAV also
say that I was born in a theater. At
all events my earliest recollections are
entirely connected with one: it was a
rlckety old frame building with broad
gable, facing on a wide avenue and
situated in the City of Washington.
The door from our back entry opened
upon the stage, and as a toddling little
chap in short frock I was allowed
full run of the place"
This reference by Mr.. jefferson eyi-
IDENTIFY means the old Circus BUILDING
on c street between John Marshall
place and Sixth street, which was de-
mollshed in August, 1898, to make room
Ior an addition to Havenner's Bakery
The Washington Theater, erecter in
1871 on Louisiana avenue to the north
OF the Circus Building-was a brick
structure, and would not fit the descrip-
ton of the building remembered by
Mr.. jefferson.
An oldtimer, about the time the
street building was being razed, once
said to Star reporter:
L remember seeing Joseph Jeffer-
son and his father and mother PLAYING
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Water Front
Continued From Page CAY

stream of Fifteenth street Sc. the
Washington Harbor channel 400 feet
wide and "a feet deep would permit
heavy commercial use, while above Fiji
teenth street depths and widths are
suitable for yachting and other in
terests.
IL. Eleventh Street Bridge to
Buzzard Point
Here engineers see the Navy Yard
area, park areas and Army and Navy air
installations on the left bank preserving
their status quo to large extent. How
ever:
(a) What about the commercial dock
area lying between the Navy Yard and
Buzzard Point on the right Bank? The
whole area bounded by M street south,
the Army War College and the Ana
costa has been approved as a terminal
and warehouse area in which railroad
tracks are permitted in the streets.
Sufficient water front exists for the de-
velopment of water terminal for bulk
and packaged goods maybe more food
could be brought to Washington, and
at lower prices, by boat than by rail and
truck)
tb) Should additional land be ac-
quired by the Government to this end?
tc) Would greater channel depths at
the Navy Yard and below be OF value7
Evening star., 1946-04-14

dously your already very great prestige
and popularity at Colgate.
Il regret that I was unable to hear
the improvised program for Mr. Mutch
and I were out on the road searching
for the truck, but every one present was
delighted, and wo d not have missed
1t for the world"
National Security
Holds Up Concert
Even last December the orchestra was
late for Baltimore concert when it
was sidetracked mile from Baltimore
to let troop trains pass through.
But transportation hasn't been the
only difficulty. There was that trying
time in New Haven, Conn. when several
bass f1ddlers and violinists, with some
time to spare. went to New London to
see the submarine base They were
1nnocently swapping photographs when
suspicious shore patrolmen hauled them
of to headquarters, convinced they were
all spies. The musicians were severely
lectured on national security before they
were sent back to the concert hall.
There have been housing troubles,
complicated, of course, by the presence
of 19 woman musicians. When they per-
formed at Williams College the men were
assigned to the college dormitories and
the women to private homes of pro-
fessors.
When they played last month in Cum
berland, Md, the concert had to be cut
short so the musicians could move on to
Hagerstown, Md. for their nights lodg-
ing. Cumberland couldn't provide hotel
accommodations for 80 musicians.
Space Shortage Felt
On Some Stages, Too
The concert halls, too, have presented
their share Of difficulties. The orchestra
has played in Masonic halls, college
Evening star., 1946-04-14

be corralled for experiments because the
waves strayed of ordinary conductors
such as copper.
DR.. G. C. Southworth devised hollow
rectangular tubes which literally i'm
prison high frequency waves while they
are being sent from one part of circuit
to another. DR. Southworth,s tubes be-
came known as waveguides. The metal
lens actually is series of waveguides.
built in concave shape to bend the radio
waves and shoot them out into the
atmosphere in predetermined pattern.
The metal lenses range in size from
tabletop model to 10 and 20 foot
giants. The latter one has achieved
the emission of radio beam one-tenth
of degree wide.
Semiconductors Provide
Field of Research
While the researchers were busy with
this and other radio research at tbs
Holmdel laboratories, another group of
men was engaged in a different sphere
of investigation that is still going on
at the Bell research center in Murray
Hill, N. J.
This project got its start when 10Th
century electrical pioneers discovered
substances which do not obey the normal
laws of electrical conduction. These
materials, instead of having a constant
resistance to electrical currents, change
their resistance with the magnitude Of
the current. They are called semicon-
ductors, because they occupy a sort Of
no mans land between ordinary con-
ductors and insulators.
Another important thing was discov-
cred about semiconductors: Some of
them passed currents travelling in one
direction, but blocked currents moving
in the opposite direction.
Bell also dug into a third branch of
the strange family and studied metallic
compounds that reverse the ordinary
behavior of conductors by showing lower
electrical resistances as their tempera-
lures increased. While the resistance of
an ordinary conductor, such as copper,
doubles if the temperature is hiked 800
degrees, these unusual substances (for
examples, oxides of manganese and
nickeD cut their resistance in half with
only 20-degree temperature rise.
DR.. j. A. Becker of Bell says I'VE are
now reaching a point in experimental
ton and research with these devices
which indicates we will be able to de-
velop an entirely new order of tempers.
ture standards" s.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

chapels, high school and municipal audi
torlums and stripped down stages. The
music reviewer in Salisbury, N. c., wrote
that when the orchestra played on the
local high school stage some of the
players were all but hidden in the wings
SO that their instruments appeared to
be played by detached hands"
But DR.. Kinder has grown accustomed
10 making the most of bad moments.
There was the time when baby started
bowling fortissimo just as the orchestra
went into the opening measures of the
"Berceuse and Finale From Stravinsky's
Fire Bird Suite" Undaunted, DR.. Kind
Ter halted the music, turned in the
direction OF the bowling and explained
that the literal translation OF "Berceuse"
was cradle song" The orchestra re-
sumed and the baby was lulled back to
sleep.
with all its war-born troubles the
orchestra has broken all sorts of records
Tor a 15-year-old organization.
Iwenty.seven Concerts Played
In Ihlrty.one-Day Tour
Last month, it played 81 performances
IN 81 days, sometimes performing twice
a day SO that the children could hear
symphony music, too.
In its first season the orchestra visited
Chambersburg, Pa, and Richmond, Va.
During the season just finished, it PLAYED
49 concerts on tour.
While it has increased it's tour sched-
ule, it also has given more music to
Washington. In the last season the
National Symphony played ITO concerts
In all as compared with 26 its first
season.
The orchestra has played in 124 cities
IN l9 States as we'll as in Ottawa.
Toronto and Quebec in Canada. Added
last season to the list of places visited
were Is towns, some of which haven't
heard symphony orchestra in years.
There was, for instance, Pottsville,
Pa. With last nights concert" wrote
the reviewer, "a goal of seven years
Evening star., 1946-04-14

prelude, string quartet played
Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and
nine players of woodwind and small
brass soloed.
When the truck finally arrived, DR..
Kinder didn't take time to change to
his dress suit. He conducted in tan
tweed sports jacket, brown trousers and
an open-throated tan shirt. For a
podium, he used box Communicated
from the chapel basement
Wrote Charles r. Wilson, head of the
Colgate history department: "It is hardly
necessary for me to state that your
sportsmanship and geniality under try
Ing circumstances enhanced tremen-
Evening star., 1946-04-14

Maxims" and also about the same time
in The Gay Parisian'
After the assassination of President
Lincoln, every man was held guilty until
he was proven innocent, to reverse a
well-known legal phrase. This was the
state of mind of the authorities in WASH
ington. Many innocent people along
with few guilty ones were arrested
and placed in Jail Among those sus-
pected were the three Ford brothers.
connected with the theater. They were
John T. Ford. the proprietor and man
ager: James r. Ford, business manager,
and H. Clay Ford, treasurer. They were
lncarcerated in the old Capitol Prison.
in the block where now stands the
Supreme Court Building, but were re-
leased after they had been held 40 DAYS.
- The old stage, the boxes, the floor and
approaches and other interior parts of
the building have long since disappeared.
Fortunately substantial accurate figures
and details have been preserved, and
today, beginning at $3.50 o'clock, a minia-
ture model, measuring about 4 feet
inches by feet, will be exhibited during
the exercises conducted in the Lincoln
Museum Building, by the Lincoln Club
in cooperation with the National Capt.
tai Parks. To add attractiveness to the
model, small flags, similar to the original
flags with which the boxes were dec
Grated the night President Lincoln was
shot, will be used. The model has been
executed by Rudolf Bauss, under i'm
mediate supervision of the historical
division OF the National Capital Parks.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

~HEY nave gone through bliZ-
yards. They have played by can
delight because the electricity
failed. They have brought music
to villages that have never heard con-
cert.
That is the story of the National
Symphony Orchestra on tour, trouping
from Kuebec to Florida, following the
tradition that the show must go on,
even if the bass fiddles get stuck in a
SnoWdrift.
fairly uncomplicated affair. In the first
place, the young orchestra had fewer
out-oftown engagements. In prewar
days the musicians Travelled comfort
ably. Sometimes they had special
train with sleepers. Other times they
had two coaches reserved with a bag
gage car for the heavy instruments.
But in 1912 the Office of Defense
Transportation, cracking down impair
TALLY on symphony orchestras and base
ball teams, prohibited special coaches
and chartering for groups.
Musicians Set Out
In Wartime Traffic
The musicians found seats in crowd
ed trains as best they could, juggling
their violins and piccolos along with
their baggage. Trucks carted the harp,
bass fiddles, drums and cellos.
Usually the trucks left day ahead
of the musicians to be sure of reaching
the concert scene on time. To Man.
ager J. E. Mutch was left the headache
of making sure the truck drivers didn't
get lost.
Mr.. Mutch remembers with a shudder
the time between Albany and Niagara
Falls, N Y, when the orchestra ran
into a blizzard. The musicians were
travelling by train but the instruments
were going by truck The musicians
listened gloomily while their fellow
travellers assured them the truck would
never get through. From the windows
of their train they saw trucks over
turned in bitches.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
The Lincoln 7 ragedy
BY John Clagett Proctor

-EW days in American history stand
II out more prominently than April
IA. 1865, 81 years ago today, when
Abraham Lincoln, 18th President
Of the United States, was stricken down
at the hand of the assassin, John Wilkes
Booth, in old Fords Theater, at 511
Tenth street NV, where he, Mrs. Lin
coin and party had gone to see Laura
Keene in Our American Cousin" The
next morning he passed away, Just
across the street from the theater, at
SIG Tenth street, at 1922 o'clock.
The tragedy occurred on Good Friday
and religious services incident to Holy
Saturday and Easter Sunday were de-
voted largely to prayers for the lamented
President. Both buildings today stand as
mute reminders of the tragedy, and
since both structures are the property
OF the Government, the chances are that
many generations will come to view
them with awe and sadness.
The interior of the theater building
has been stripped of everything that
went toward making it the most attrac-
tive playhouse in Washington in 1865,
but its walls are the same. picture of
the exterior at that time would be about
the same as view of it today, although
it stands in neighborhood where old
buildings are the exception.
The First Baptist Church originally
occupied this site, with Rev. Obadiah
Brown as pastor The building was
erected in 1884 and the first services held
there were on June 26. A quarter of a
century later the church property was
offered for sale and was sold December
10. 1861, to David w. Heath, who soon
conveyed a part interest to John T. Ford.
The building first was used as theater
by Miss Carlotta Patti, 1.-The celebrated
cantatrice," who opened the house
November 10.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

there. In December, 1899, the lights
went out as the orchestra filed on the
stage. Musicians groped their way to
their seats, candles were found and the
music started. Just as the orchestra
reached the fortissimo in one of its
numbers, the electricity came on.
In 194l, when the orchestra visited the
university, one of the buses carrying the
musicians went into a ditch. The musi-
clans were hauled out unharmed.
But the climax came in December,
1943, when concert time came and the
truck carrying the larger instruments,
Conductor Hans Kindlers dress suit and
his podium was still 40 miles away.
DR.. Kinder chatted with the audience
for an hour. acting as master of cere-
monies for an impromptu program. The
violinists, who had carried their instru-
ments under their arm, gave a Bach
Evening star., 1946-04-14
New Science Miracles
BY William Glover
Associate Press Staf Writer

A revolutionary lens antenna that
focuses radio waves into the sharpest
beam ever produced. and an electrical
thermometer" that detects minute
temperature changes miles away have
been disclosed by the Bell Telephone
laboratories as new research develop
ments.
Resulting from separate lines of long
range investigation, the two technioues
are significant examples of the ways in
which laboratories supply major con-
tributions to the Nations secret wealth"
Of scientific knowledge.
The new antenna, called metal lens,
works similarly to glass lens with light
rays. An optical lens gets results by
slowing down light rays and thereby
changing their direction, but the
antenna lens speeds the radio waves.
Passing through the lens, individual
wave fronts actually move at double
the normal speed of light and electricity
$4,000 miles a second.
DR.. Winston E. Kock, who has played
major role in developing the metal
lens since l943 at the Bell Laboratories
in Holmdel, N. j., says one experimental
model has been able to narrow the beam
of radio signals into a path one-tenth
of degree wide, compared to the beam
3.6 degrees wide emitted by Mickey
Mouse" one of the antennae developed
for radar.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Instrument Truck Stalls
90 Yards From Hall

When they reached Niagara Falls,
hey found the truck had beaten them
there-only to get stuck in a snow drift
100 yards from the concert hall. Moth
ing daunted, Mr.. Mutch appealed to
the city fathers, who set the highway
department to work. The truck was
hauled to the very door of the concert
hall and the orchestra went into its
opening number minutes late.
Although Colgate University is
favorite tour spot for: the National
Symphony. something always happens
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Name of Play Changed
After LincoIn's Death

After the assassination of President
Lincoln the name of the play was
changed to Lord Dundreary," the name
OF the character played by E. A. Sothern,
an English actor, who made a great
success in the part. Mrs. Sothern also
was in the original cast The son, E. H.
Sothern, who died not so long ago, was
born year after the play had been
introduced, and at one time also acted
the part played by his distinguished
father.
Miss Laura Keene was the only mem
Der of the original cast who was in the
company on the night of April IA, 1865,
and when~ the cry was made that the
President had been shot she went to the
front of the stage and tried to quiet the
frantic audience
For Gods sake" she said, "have
presence of mind and keep your places
and all will be WELL Then, responding
to the cry of Miss Harris, the fiancee of
Maj. Rathbone, for water, she made her
way through the dress circle to the
Presidents box, where she took the
dying Presidents head in her lap and
bathed it with the water she had
brought. According to an account, "the
locality of the wound was at first sup
posed to be in the heart. 1t was not
until after the neck and shoulders had
been barred, and no mark discovered,
that the dress of Miss Keene, stained
with blood, revealed where the ball had
penetrated"
Before her death in Mountclair, N. j.,
in 1873, her early popularity had waned.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Concentrating Waves
Reduce Interference

Practical advantages of beaming radio
signals like spotlight are that their
strength is concentrated and there is
reduced chance for interference to other
receivers. The technique is expected to
have important applications in the de-
velopment of radio relay systems.
Previous directional antennae have
depended to considerable extent on
methods of rejecting radio signals in a
manner similar to that in which light is
reflected by mirror. Adjustment of
radio reflector devices must be extremely
accurate and unexpected jars easily
knock them out. The lens antenna re-
quires no such fine adjustment.
DR.. Kock and his associates developed
the antenna by applying an incidental
discovery. The problem in 1888 was
to find eticient conductors for high
frequency radio waves which couldn't
Evening star., 1946-04-14

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth
President OF the United States.
She had lost her theater and was trav-
cling and starring with only partial
success. Worst of all, her health failed
her and she was forced to retire, never,
however, giving up hope, even to the
end, that she would soon return to the
stage.
w. j. Ferguson remained on the stage
until he was veteran actor, and the
writer recalls seeing him at the. National
Evening star., 1946-04-14

in Walkers Circus, as, we'll as many
others who in after years reached
great prominence in the theatrical
world. Mr.. Jefferson's mother, besides
playing part in the circus, was kept
busy during the day in looking after
mending and restoring the circus play
ers' costumes, while the elder jefferson
was also very much in evidence in a
business way about the place.
There were generally three acts in
each of the plays produced there. two
being on the stage and the closing act
IN the circus ring 1t wintered in Wash
lngton for several years. The building
used was originally livery stable, and
1t was kept warm enough except during
very cold weather, when the perform
ance was supended for a couple of
weeks at a time"
Evening star., 1946-04-14
BY Miriam Gutenberg

. HEY have gone through bliz-
yards. They have played by can
delight because the electricity
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-04-05
DiSoIIe Attacks
S+o+ion WTOL
Talk Against Tox
Anqers couneiIman

Vice-Mayor Michale V. Di-
Sale, chairman of the United
Toledo Committee which is
campaigning to retain the In
come-Payroll Tax Ordinance at
tackled Radio Station WTOL on
Tuesday of this week because of
a talk given by Sol Wittenberg
in opposition to the tax.
Mr.. Disable suggested that if
such talk were given where the
figures were not correct that a
membership should be set up.
He referred to a figure of
$500, 900 for administration of
the tax allegdly given by Mr..
Wittenberg and stated that 1t
was ERRONEOUS.
Gives Public Service
Radio Station WTOL has been
contributing its time nightly to
the tax issue with speakers from
each side of the controversy be-
ing given equal time. Mr.. Wit
tenberg spoke as an individual
veteran to veterans in his oppo-
sition to the tax.
Lawrence N. Ste i n berg,
URWDSEA-CIO regional direc-
tor in commenting on Mr.. Di-
Sales attack on Mr.. Witten-
berg and WTOL said: 81 think
that WTOL is rendering a par
ticularly useful and commend
able public service to the people
of Toledo in giving time to both
sides of the tax ordinance con-
troversy. If we and those who
oppose us cannot accept the
views of the other side and COM
bat them in open forum we
should not attack the station
which is taking no side".
List CIO Speakers
Speakers who will appear
against the tax nightly until
election are as folloWS:
Tonight Melvin Schultz,
president of Local IL. 700 p. m.
Saturday, April S, Morris
Bame, TIUC executive board
member, 7:15 p. m.
Sunday April 7, Clayton n
Rusch, PAC chairman, 800 p.
m.
Monday, April 8, Clyde
Shamblen, vice-president, TIUC,
700 p. m.
Tuesday, April 9, Lawrence
Steinberg, URWDSEA director,
700 p. m.
Wednesday, April 10, Richard
Gosser, UAW-CIO director, ZOO
p. m.
A forum will be held over
WTOL, Monday, April 8 at $50
p. m. Speakers will include Tom
Burke and Richard Gosser.