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Evening star., 1947-12-14

Philip Simms Warren was award
ed the James T. De Voss trophy Of
the Washington Philatelic Society at
meeting at the Hotel Sheraton
Wednesday night. He has been an
active member of the organization
since 1923 and has served for many
years as treasurer, lihTarian and
chairman of the Membership Com
mittee. A general collector with no
specialized preferences, he is we'll
known in national philatelic circles
as we'll as locally for his services in
encouragement of juniors and his
zeal in preserving data relating to
senior collectors Of the past.
The presentation of the trophy
was made by Major De Voss per-
sonally after an Introductory ad-
dress by David D. Caldwell.
A controversy has developed as
to the place of first-day sale Of
the Francis Scott Key stamp. The
Maryland delegation in Congress
allegedly prefers Frederick, where
as the movement in behalf of the
commemorative started in Balti-
more and always has stressed the
writing of the Star Spangled Ban
ner at Fort McHenry. It is true
that Key was buried In Frederick,
but he has no other important con-
nection with that town. The event
which makes his name immortal oc-
CURED in Baltimore, and it, there
fore, seems logical that it should be
Baltimore that should be chosen for
the frst-day ceremonies.
Much, of course, depends upon
what the Key stamp actually is.
II 1t honors Key and nothing but
Key, it should be released in Wash
ington, where he spent most OF his
life. On the other hand, if it is
intended to serve national purposes
by expressing appreciation for the
writing of the words of the Ma
tional Anthem, it should be given its
initial public showing at or near
Fort McHenry.
Stamp collectors, who had as
much to do with securing authori-
zation of the Key stamp as the
Maryland Congressman did, have
attempted compromise by propos-
ing coincidental release in both
Baltimore and Frederick.
Meanwhile, all readers interested
Evening star., 1947-12-14

The Ninth Street Choirs will pre-
sent Handel's The Messiah" tonight
at 8 o'clock at the Ninth Street
Christian Church. The 60-voice
chorus of the sanctuary. adult and
vesper service choirs and soloists
will be heard under the direction of
Earle B. Lowder Morrison McCardy
is the organist.
Anne Parsons, contralto, Doris
Cumberland and Betty Lee Hurd,
soprano will assist the Y. w. G. A.
Choral Club at the Music Hour this
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Barker
Hall
George Wargo, violist, will give
local premiere to George F. Boyle's
Sonata in E Minor" in the Ma
tional Gallery tonight at 8 o'clock.
He will be assisted by Emerson
Meyers at the piano. Mr.. Boyle was
born in Wales but came to this
country at an early age. Formerly a
member of the piano faculties Of the
Peabody and Curtis conservatories
he now resides in New York.
The Fairfax County Council OF
Religious Education is sponsoring
presentation of the Christmas
portion of Handel's The Messiah"
at the Fairfax High School auditor
ium tomorrow night at 8. 1t will be
sung by the combined choirs of the
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church, under the direction of r.
Deane Shure with Dorothy Girdner
Bailey at the piano. Margaret Barn.
well, soprano, Audrey Prindle, con-
tralto, Ivan Genuchi. tenor and
Eugene Barnwell, bass, will be the
soloists.
Ethel Pyne, soprano, will sing for
the Political Study Club Saturday
afternoon in the Washington Club,
accompanied by Adele Bush. She
is chairman of the art section of
the club and member Of the Arts
Club, where she sang on Thanks
giving Day.
The l50 voice National Lutheran
Chorus will give its annual Christ
mas concert In Constitution Hall
Tuesday. r. E. Snesrud will direct
a program of Christmas carols and
sacred songs. A new four-step plat
form will be used by the chorus for
the occasion, large enough to ac-
commodate 300 singers.
A Christmas program will be
given at the Church of the Pilgrims
tonight at 7:30. The choir, directed
by John Seaton, will sing following
an organ recital by Warren F. john
son. The soloists are Mrs. Leo
Kelly, Mrs. Wilford Phillips, Mrs
Russell Lindberg. Dorothy Evans,
Louisa Bellinger, Minnie Volkmann,
Aaron Grant and 1t. Charles D.
| Ashmare, u. S, M. G.,
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Thursday night
at $3.50. T h e
artist, who has
been heard in
Chicago, N e W
York and Bos-
ton, was a fa-
vorite of the
Greek stage and
radio before the
war. At the out
break of hostili-
ties she devoted
herself to the
singing of pa
triotic songs in
fha nanaAc and
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Stravinsky's S
Psalms Listed
After christmas
By Alice Eversmon

The Christmas season Ia a period
Of the year where choral music is
brought into special prominence.
Unfortunately much Of 1t follows
the same pattern and, while vel
come as being part Of the spirit
Of the high point of the Christian
religion, 1t is limited to familiar
numbers. Most composers have been
inspired by the meaning of this
sacred season and have chosen to
express their ideas in vocal form.
Other great works Of scriptural i'm
port are all too frequently over
looked In the planning of events,
so that much of this literature is
untouched for the most part.
For this reason the concert to
Be given by the Cathedral Choral
Society on December 2s In the
Washington Cathedral is OF para
mount interest. Paul Galloway, di-
rector Of the society, is Of progress
sive bent and many new and worth
while compositions have been given
by him either as organist at the
Cathedral or as director of the
choral group. The difficulties in
herent in some Of these works that
might deter anyone not dealing
With professional group does not
trouble him. For he is such an
excellent musician that he can
train his singers for exceptional
performances.
For the winter program of the
society, the principal number will
be Stravinsky's Symphony of
Psalms" written in 1880 In cele-
bration of the 50th anniversary of
the Boston Symphony. Companion
ing this, from among contemporary
composers. will be Hindemith's I'm
Praise of Music" Vaughan Williams
20 Clap Your Hands" and a "Te
Deum" by Douglas Allanbrook,
pupil Of Walter Piston. There will
be an % Salutaris Hostia" by the
18th century Flemish composer.
Adrian Willaert, whose fame during
his tenure as musical director at
st. Marks in Venice extended equal
ly to the two fields of compost
ton and choral singing, Brahms
austere Funeral Anthem" and the
Bach cantata, 20 Jesu Christ, Mems
Lebens LIGHT" All of these works,
to be sung by a chorus of $50
voices, have accompaniments in
which brass and woodwinds instru-
ments play prominent roles.
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Statues of the Presidents

Faust" Carmen" "The Grand
Duchess" "The Singing Girl" and
Dolly Warden" The contralto In
the opera was Miss Flora Finlayson,
a graduate Of the Bostonians. Fred
Solomon, Charles Wayne and JOS
eph Herbert were the three comedi.
ans in "Tzigane, and 1t Is probable
you may remember how the last
two convulsed the audience in .
drunken scene in this play. At the
end of the second act Miss Russell
was called for by the audience and
responded by making some very
pleasing remarks, as also did Man.
ager John w. Albaugh.
The first building on this site was
a large, double brick, three stored
residence erected in 1881 by Com.
modore John Rodgers as his home.
Later 1t became the residence Of
Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney
of the United States Supreme Court,
Secretary Of the Navy Paulding,
and for a time was q fashionable
boarding house kept by Mrs. Lat
inner, in which lived number Of
distinguished people, including John
c. Calhoun, while serving as Secre-
tary of War in President Jackson's
cabinet, and Henry Clay at a later
date. When the ground was still
vacant, 1t is said that Mr.. Clay, upon
one occasion, traded a Kentucky
mule for 1t. It was also the tenn
porary White House during the ad-
ministration of President Polk,
when repairs were being made to
the Executive Mansion.
At the time of the shooting Of
Philip Barton Key, by the Repre-
sentative Daniel E. Sickles, Febru.
ary 81, 1859, 1t was occupied as ths
Washington Club, and 1t was to this
building that Mr.. Key was carried,
and where he soon died.
Attempted Assassination.
The next near tragedy to occur
was when the attempt was made by
Lewis Payne to kill Secretary Of
State William H. Seward on the
night Of April IA, 1865, at the same
time that Booth shot President
Lincoln. Maj. William H. Seward,
tr.. son of the Secretary, was In the
house at the time and rushed to his
fathers defense. He was cut badly
in the side by the assassin, but not
fatally. The desperate managed to
escape from the house and was pre-
pared. for this emergency by having
a horse at the door. The recovery
of the Secretary and his son was q
long and painful one. and added
grief was soon afterward admins
tered when his only daughter faded
from earth. This residence was
also the home of Secretary Seward
when the treaty was negotiated with
Russia whereby the United States
secured Alaska for $7,200,000.
For season during the admin
istration of President U. 8. Grant,
Secretary of War william w. Balk-
nap occupied the Rodgers home
and it was probably here that his
wife died. Some may still recall his
sensational trial before the Senate
that established q new principle In
law. He resigned his ONCE and the
Senate's right to impeach him
stopped further proceedings.
The last notable occupant Of the
Rodgers home was James G. Blaine,
the "Plumed Knight" who became
Benjamin Harrison's Secretary Of
State In 1889, and here his son,
Walker Blaine, died January is,
1890, and Secretary Blaine died
there January 27, 1893.
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String Four to PLAY

The Budapest String Quartet,
Josef Roismann, Edgar Gutenberg,
violins, Boris Kroyt. viola, and
Mischa Schneider. cello. will return
for program Friday night at $50
under auspices of the Gertrude
Clarke Whittall Foundation in the
Library of Congress. The group will
not be heard here again until
Spring. when they will give a series
of concerts.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Organize Opera

The Washington Art Center Asso-
citation, Inc, is organizing an ex-
perimental opera company modelled
after the New York Lemonade
Opera which made its recent ap-
pearance here. DR.. Frederick Fall
has been retained as music director
and Maj. Andrew Miles as stage di-
rector. Tentative plans have been
made to name the new venture the
Washington Civic Opera Company
and to favor contemporary Ameri-
can works. The first meeting was
scheduled last week.
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CIIe CdIIIpS anu
hospitals until an organized attack
on her life in the streets of Athens
led to her imprisonment. Under
ground forces helped her escape to
Egypt, where she lived until after
the liberation. -,
Nine. Vembo will begin her pro-
gram with recitation in rhyme
and sing songs descriptive of Greek
resistance during the occupation,
and include folk and patriotic songs
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- PRESIDENTS. 10 washington
there are two, the obelisk and an
equestrian statue; memorial to
Thomas Jefferson, an equestrian
statue to Jackson, statue to
Buchanan. two statues and a memo
rial to Lincoln, a statue each to
Grant and Garfield and memorial
in the making to Theodore Roose-
welt.
There are no outside monuments
to the first John Adams, nor to
Madison, Monroe, John Quincy
Adams, Van Buren, w. H. Harrison
Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce,
johnson. Hayes, Arthur, Cleveland,
Benjamin Harrison, Mckinley. Taft,
Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
or Franklin D. Roosevelt.
For many years another statue
to President Washington stood in
the open to the east of the Capitol.
This Is the famous Greenough
statue that for a few years stood
In the rotunda Of the Capitol, was
subsequently removed to the east
front of the Capitol, where 1t was
inclosed by temporary building,
and finally, in 1908. removed to the
Smithsonian Institution, where it
now stands.
In nearby Alexandria there is, Of
course. the George Washington
Memorial, erected by the Masons
of the country and dedicated on
May IL. 1882.
The Jefferson Statue.
A bronze statue to Thomas JEFF
ferson, which at one time stood in
the White House grounds and
which is now located In the ro-
tunda of the Capitol, was executed
by David dangers in his studio
in Paris upon order OF Uriah P.
Levy, lieutenant in the United
States Navy. It was modelled from
an excellent portrait Of Jefferson
by Sully, In the possession Of Gen.
Lafayette, and which is said to
have passed the ordeal OF that VEN
erable patriots criticism. and when
the work was completed he pro-
nounced 1t a most faithful counter
felt OF the man.
But in this connection the late
Charles E. Fairman tells us:
There had been from time to
time considerable objection to the
acceptance Of this statue. which,
however, never materialized as bear
ing the support of majority Of
the members Of Congress. One Of
the objections was based upon the
theory that If Congress desired to
have a statue of this distinguished
man (Jefferson 1t would be more
consistent with propriety to pro-
cure one for themselves than to be
indebted to any person whatever.
At the time that the resolution was
introduced providing for its removal
from the rotunda one of the men,
bers, in discussing the question, said
that a present ought not be accepted
from any but distinguished source.
After being absent from the rotunda
for about 40 years the statue was
returned to the Capitol and has
since been considered a valuable &C
cession to the art works of the
Capitol"
After the Jefferson statue had
been In the White House grounds
for a few years the bronze lost its
luster and became dark, which
caused 1t to be referred to fire.
quently as the BLACK Thomas JET
ferson."
Andrew Jackson Statue.
Thus two statues, which formerly
stood in the open, were finally
placed within doorsthe Washing
ton statue in the old chapel of the
Smithsonian Building and the JET
ferson bronze figure in the rotunda
of the Capitol, surrounded by many
statues, some Of which are not so
good and some a whole lot better.
But when President Truman looks
out of the north windows of the
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Greek Soloist to Sing
Patriotic Numbers

The Greek War Relief and the
Pan Macedonian Societies will
sponsor a recital by Sophia Vembo
famous Greek singer, in Constitu-
Evening star., 1947-12-14

The Government Printing Oflce
Stamp Club will meet in Harding
Hall Thursday afternoon at 4:40. A
constitution will be submitted, Of
ficers will be elected, there will be
an exhibition, and all GPO col.
lectors and members of their fami-
lies are invited to attend and par
ticipate.
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The Collectors Club of Washing.
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV, Tuesday evening at 8.
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WEDNESDAY.
WADE N. STEPHENS, organ recital;
LID. g. Chapel, 8 pm.
NATIONAL, SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

NATioNAL 2s sYH2PshoeNWY II ORCHESTRA.
stitution Hail, $40 pm. cowell's
Hymn Tune and Fuguing Tune"
Malipieros symphony No; g." In.
PRODUCTION TO Act NJ" Dance OF
Mastersingers," from Wagner's Die
Meistersinger" prelude to Act III. :"
Prelude to Act T. Love Death"
from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde"
Evening star., 1947-12-14

= HERE are not many memo
rials in the open parks Of
the Capital to our former
. Presidents. To Washington
Evening star., 1947-12-14

Anne Parsons, contralto, Doris
Cumberland and Betty Lee Hurd
soprano will assist the Y. w. G. A
Choral Club at the Music Hour this
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Barker
Hall
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Workers In Poland
Go Barefooted AS
|UNRRA Shoes Rot

WARS A w, Poland. lap
The Communicated news
paper. Clos Ludu, declared 20
railway carloads of shoes sup
piled by UNRRA were allowed to
rot at Mroclaw (BreslaW while
workers are walking around
barefooted."
The journal said the shoes were
stored in the warehouse of the
government monopoly "Spolem"
at Jelenia Cora in Lower Silesia
last July, for distribution among
workers.
The newspaper added: 'As the
warehouse was damp, Spolem
notified the authorities, advising
immediate distribution or re-
moval of the goods. AS no steps
were taken by the authorities,
the whole transport of shoes was
completely ruined, while the
workers are walking barefoot
ed"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
10000 German
War Prisoners
Still In Poland

WARSAW, Poland. - (AP) -
The Polish government feels
that German prisoners of war
should be required to help re-
build what they destroyed dur
ing the war in this country, but
apparently there is no intention
to import any sizeable quaint
ty of Germans here to work.
There are only 10000 Ger
man war prisoners still in Po-
land. Five thousand are being
used in the reconstruction of
Warsaw. Five thousand are work
ing on Polish farms, and 10000
are employed in the mines. The
Germans are housed in 10 sep
arate camps.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01

ago from the tyranny of their
native land, to remain to make
Key West their home and to
make it different from any other
city in the United States.
The Army and the Navy cele-
brated the occasion colorfully at
the officers club in true Amer
lean fashion, but it was the Gu
ban and the "Conch" who took
over their town last night and
once more claimed it as their
own, while the lights burned far
into the dawn. 1t is to be noted,
that among the celebrants was
one who at midnight at the La
Concha found himself the holder
of the lucky number and the
winner of the much heralded
real live baby. For a while 1t
seemed as if the infant would
be smothered in its perambulator
as the crowd surged to get a
glimpse at first hand, but he
finally rescued his prize mot ex-
actly certain what he would do
with it. He finally admitted that
he would roast it for dinner, for
the La Concha prize, a real live
baby, turned out to be a baby
pig!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
Health Boards
Fight Against
tuberculosis

JACKSONVILLE, Jan. L.
(FNS)-The State Board of
Health expects to examine IS
per cent of the adult population
of Florida for tuberculosis of
the lungs annually and will ap-
peal to the 1947 legislature for
funds to carry on follow-up work
on cases of the disease discover
ed in the survey.
In the current issue of Florida
Health Notes, the agency reports
acquisition of three. mobile, X-ray
units and says it plans to install
permanent survey equipment in
Tampa, Miami and on the hospi-
tai ship at Jacksonville.
'''It is expected that as many
as 100000 X-rays a year can be
done with these units if we have
the full cooperation of the COM
munities where surveys are be-
ing performed" DIR. c. M. Sharp,
director of the bureau of tuber-
culosis control, said.
DR.. Sharp reported the X-ray
units could handle as many as
$50 persons an hour at a cost of
about Is cents an individual. An
experienced observer can check
some $50 chest films per hour.
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said. Believe me, that was no
fun. They stole IL billion dollars
worth of our money and mer-
chandise. | can't lay my hands
on my bank account yet.
when the Germans left, l felt
the urge to go abroad. Being
president of The Danish Ad-
venturers' Club l had duty to
go. chose America because it
is a free country where free
people can do more or less as
they want to-"
The Dane said that he repre-
sents a string of Danish neWspa-
pers. This is his fifth visit to this
country, so he speaks almost
faultless English.
Makes Home On Wheels
When he arrived in the United
States he didn't know whether
to tour by car. truck or trailer,
so he settled for sort of COM
bination of the last two. He
bought a White truck and con-
verified it into a snug tWo-room
compartment. 1t took the Dane
and his daughter two months to
do it, but when they finished
they had a home on wheels with
every modern convenience. in
Guiding a toilet, running hot and
cold water, a shower, stove, ice
box, kitchen, sink, electricity,
cupboardS, drawers, gun racks,
fishing tackle compartments, etc,
The original truck cost Sl,4OO,
but the total cost represented
now is $4,000.
Expenses are pretty high, so
Clausen-kaas lectures to Danish
A m eric n societies, colleges,
schools, civic organizations and
other groups for a fee. He has
a color film on Denmark and
gives some first-hand descrip-
tons of Nazi occupation tactics
and the work of the under
ground.
On the rear of the truck Is a
large map of the United States
The proposed itinerary is drawn
in blue and the completed mile
age in red. The latter route eX-
, tends from New York to Key
West through Washington, DC,
, and Miami. En- route the Dane
lectured at three South Carolina
colleges and Eva picked up q
stray mongrel puppy in Winston
Salem named "Skippy", the only
American in the party.
He already understands
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
key Wester And Danish Writer, Boyhood
49, Chums In Denmark, Meet Here By Chance

Two of the most surprised men
in the world looked at each 9TH
er unbelievingly for a few sec
onds M On d ay afternoon on
Caroline street near the post Of
flee. Then almoStsin unison they
broke forth in a torrent of
Danish and English exclama-
tionS.
Captain Alex Brun, Key West
ship pilot, and Knud Clausen-
Kaas, writer from Copenhagen,
Denmark, were meeting each
other for the first time in 20
years. Once boyhood chums in
Denmark, they had now crossed
each others path a generation
later purely by accident here on
the southernmost tip of the
United States. Neither knew the
other was in Key West-nor, for
that matter, within 1000 miles.
"Why, you old blankety-
blank" exclaimed slim, tanned
Capt. Brun, bare to the waist in
waterfront attire. Il can't believe
my eyes!P
"No,' it can't be" yelled Clau-
sen-Haas, scholarly looking
newspaperman. Eva, Eva" he
yelled to, his beautiful 20-year-
old daughter who was within
the trailer. Out tumbled Eva and
her girl friend, Olga Rasmussen,
%, typical Scandinavian girls
with long blond tresses, and the
air became even more cOlorful
with Danish phrases intermixed
with English.
Citizen Conducting Interview
The Citizen city editor hap
pened to be Interviewing Clau-
sen-Kaas at the time, and the
shift from one language to an
other was not conducive to gooC
note-taking. The interview was
about over anyway and the edi'
tor finally made his departure
The reunions joyful sounds
which had completely drowned
out the incoming and outgoing
post office trucks, died away il
the distance.
The editor had what ht
thought was a good story for i
is not every day that people like
Clausen- Kaas come to town
Furthermore, Clausen-Kaas is
newspaperman who is going t(
write a book about his American
travels and a separate article or
Key West which, he added, he
likes very much.
I'VE had the Germans on u
for five years" Clausen-Kaa
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dislike it, but because the ugliest
part of woman in his opinion is
the back OF her neck, especially
if she has big ears.
Armstrong always has painted
his girls with long hobs even
when the high pompadours were
"the rage. He prefers brunettes
because he thinks they have more
sparkle than their blonde sisters
Usually his girls are vivacious
five-feet-tWo misses, but height
makes little difference if the girl
is the Well-rounded type who has
man-appeal.
Where are girls found who
please pin-up artist? Seldom
in model agencies. where Arm
strong says the girls usually
are too sophisticated and blase
to be painted with a big happy
smile that is a calendar girl
must; sometimes at football
games or on buses or in res
taurants.
In the case of Joan Conant, his
l947 model of the top-selling
Brown and Bigelow calendar
See You Soon," it happened be-
cause Armstrong was a friend OF
the family and first saw Joan
when she was two days old.
So you see. sometimes just to
be sure. he grooms 'em from
the cradle. ~,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
THIEVES GET $4,000 PENNIES

CLAYTON, Okla. - Burglars
who looted the vault of the
Clayton State Bank recently
must have been disguised when
they opened the sacks they took
and found that they contained
only pennies-33,900 of them.
The banks larger cash was kept
in a SAFE. which was not dis
turbed.