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The guardian., 1952-05-03

COMPANY L, the famous
fighting colored unit which had
fought unattached for the Union,
was finally assigned to the Sixth
Mass. Regiment in 1878 and
soon won more battle ribbons
fighting on foreig n islands
against the Spanish. Mustered
out in 1899, the outfit was soon
back again in 1917, the nucleus
for the first 372nd Regiment
fighting in France.
The guardian., 1952-05-03

Church, the Rev. Mr.. MCGOWAN
has helped in most of the larger
struggles for the brotherhood of
man and the fatherhood of God.
4 Other speakers at the Hotel
Kenmore will include c. B. Bald
win, National Secretary of the
Progressive Party; Miss Florence
H. Luscomb, its Massachusetts
Chairman and candidate for
Governor, and Mrs. Vivian Hal
linan, author of my Wild Irish
Rogues" and wife of the Pro-
gressive Party Candidate for
President, Vincent Hallinan,
who is a successful California
lawyer. The public is invited to
The guardian., 1952-05-03
FOR PEACE, FREEDOM, EUALITY!
AT HOTEL KENMORE SUNDAY
In Interest of Candidates. of
Vincent HaIIinan $ Charlotte Bass

Rev. Edward MCGOWAN, New
York State Secretary of the
American Labor Party and pas
tor of the Epworth Methodist
Church in New York, will join
with Mrs, Vivian Hallinan, wife
of the Progressive Party presi-
dental candidate, Vincent Halli-
nan, in prediction campaign
meeting at the Hotel Kenmore,
Sunday evening, May 4th, at 800
pm.
Rev. MCGOWAN, fiery pastor
and leading crusader for civil
rights and for FEPC, is known
as an outstanding orator and
militant church leader. One of
the younger leaders in the
The guardian., 1952-05-03

On Monday evening, April,
Rush A.M.E. Zion Church, Cam
bridge ended the three day cele-
bration of its 18th anniversary
with a magnificent banquet held
in beautifully decorated vestry.
The program was as follows:
Invocation, Rev. Enock Wood
house, Greetings from the State,
The Hon, Thomas. P. O'Neil
Speaker of the Mass. House of
Representatives, Welcome, Mrs.
Olivia M. Solomons, mistress Of
ceremonies, Greetings from the
The guardian., 1952-05-03
Rush Zion ChurCh's 18th Year
RUSH A.M.E. ZION OBSERVES
SEVENTY. FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

City, The Hon. Joseph A. De-
Guglielmo, Mayor, Greetings
from ministerial guests, Revs.
Marvin Gibson, Union Baptist
Church, Cambridge, A. A. Perry,
Columbus ave. A.M.E. Zion, H.
Campbell Eatough, First Baptist
Camb.. A. Roger Williams, Mass.
Ave. Baptist, Camb.; B. A. Gallo
way, st. Paul A.M.E., Camb.;
William Ogle, Grace Methodist,
Camb.; Kenneth Hughes, St Bar
Continued on Page Fourj
The guardian., 1952-05-03

Dever. Prior to his appointment
he had served as an assistant us.
Attorney. He is a graduate of
Harvard College and Harvard
Law School, former broad-jump
champion, served in the Mass.
State Guard and U. S. Army and
rose to be colonel of his regi-
ment.
The guardian., 1952-05-03

An award of $25, 900 was made
by a Federal Court jury recently
to Mrs Edna K. Poulin of Cen
trail Falls, Rhode Island, in her
$4,000 suit against Kenneth E.
Richardson of Lamb st., Attle-
boro, growing out of the death
of her husband, Edgar L. Poulin,
in Pawtucket, R. L, in March
1949, as a result of an accident
three months earlier The case
was tried before Judge George
C. Sweeney.
The guardian., 1952-05-03
DR.. PETER MURRAY in
HIGH MEDICAL POST

Murray this week was named
vice-president of the New York
County Medical Society, largest
unit of the American Medical
Association.
DR.. Murray is director of OBJ
StetricS and gynecology at Syd-
The guardian., 1952-05-03

Poulin, SO, was removing bak-
cry goods from his truck, parked
on Cameron st. in Pawtucket
on the night of Dec. 81, 1948,
when Richardson's car backed
into him, crushing him between
the tenders of the two vehicles.
He was under treatment for
three months, receiving go blood
transfusionS, and died on the
operating table as his spleen
was being removed.
The guardian., 1952-05-03

enham Hospital. His winning
of the vice-presidency of the
Society will lead to his becom-
ing president-elect in 1858 and
president in 1854.
The distinguished medico is
an uncle of Mrs. Gladys M. How
ard, maSseuSe, of Boston.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
BruziIiun ContruIto
With Navy Bond

Delora Bueno, Brazilian con-
tralto. will be guest soloist with
the Navy Band at the concert
given in the Aztec Gardens of the
Pan American Union Friday at
8 pm. 1t. Comdr. Charles Brend-
Ter will conduct the band for this
concert, offered to an invited
audience. william T. Cameron.
harpist, and Ben Mitchell Morris.
tenor. will be heard as soloists. The
band will accompany Miss Bueno
in some numbers. In others, she
will have Lester Karr at the piano.
The contralto was born in Iowa.
the daughter Of distinguished
Brazilian economist. now Foreign
Trade Adviser at the Pan Ameri-
can Union. and an American
mother, a gifted violinist. From
her third year. she was reared in
Brazil and later travelled extern
sively in that country. The four
years spent in Northern Brazil
in her childhood acquainted Miss
Bueno with its rich folklore and
proved invaluable to her later.
Her fathers transfer to the
United States enabled her to con-
tinue her musical education at
the Juilliard School of Music in
New York. where she completed
her voice studies five years ago.
After graduation. the Dumont
television network gave her q
weekly program in which she
placed emphasis on Brazilian
music. Recently the singer did the
narration in Portuguese for the
United States film, "The River" /"
Evening star., 1952-07-27
W. Blair House Is Historic Shrine

that the Avenue house was not
built until 1924.
BENJAMIN Ogle Tayloe, writing
in his I'm Memoriam." speaks as
follows Of the neglected condition
OF this part of Washington dur
ing the city's early days:
ITO Lafayette Square and its
residents ! will not direct my
observations. AS late as the War
of 1872. ] recollect the entire
square, from Fifteenth to Seven
teenth streets. as a neglected
common, entirely denuded Of
trees. The militia muster of the
period were held therein. There
was then but one house on Penn
sylvania avenue between this com
mon and the Seven Buildings"
0901-1913 Pennsylvania ayenue)
a small frame still standing.
Evening star., 1952-07-27

Organized business Washington
derived from this unfair law not sound for failure
This tax always been recognized neqable unwor
able before the arrival of the retail sales tax That latter
lin household all property
when purchased and then has to carry annually the personal property
Vigorous united and efforts should be made before
erty tax law teamwork on this proposition
effective and the District officials should back
District PIonks Approve NotionoI and LocoI Suffrage
t @ @ ea hsve Sd o
both national and local suffrage for the residents of the
sucienIy explicit cOverage
The plank in the 1852 platform of the Republican Party
"we suffrage
dents of the Nations Capital"
The adopted by the Democratic National
"we favor immediate repre-
sentation for the District Of Columbia"
BY delegations they are by far great
msnt over anything Now the advocates Of
local elective may point to the panks ndoe
To mention and omit the other would
either the groups Of voteless and Americans who
live.
Excessive Heot Not Helpful in Solving Civic Problems
The Loss Of a ones normal rest and the prevailing fatigue due
by conducive close study Of the
AS the budgetary needs Of the District Of cob. for the ,csl
ending June &c. 1854 are being ufoded by the heads Of the
require drowsine Of the the ony result
The Star last carried encouraging bit Of nfor
maton ncosed In box headed anen Looks Ahead
Sizzling Heat say heat
isn't what's worrying Sanitation Director William MIR
Xanten has just asked the Commissioners
budget for radio sending and receiving station mobile
THE purposeo keep in close touch with sanding trucks
ISnowstorms"
There strong probabilities general study by citizen
groups of District budget requirements when
caon Of the breaking heat period
among the requests for appropriation
items which deserve and require COOL mature attention
hardly the required consideration
mercury continues to maintain its altitude in the thermometer
AS the foregong is written suggeston is made to this
observer that surely printed in this column it will probably
be followed shortly unreasonable cold spell Sometimes
seems worth taking appears
one Of those times.
The remainder Of this column will supplied until such
threatened cold snap arrives
And why punish good friends readers
such discussion problems weather? Surely
the reader deserving relief much is this observer For
Lively substitute light reading the political party platforms
the National Republican and National Democratic Parties
Evening star., 1952-07-27

under Frederick Hummel, but the
result is less than gratifying. Mr..
Eidus' fiddling, which is compe-
tent enough, is burdened by in
tolerably bad orchestral playing
and balance. The conSiderate
thing would be to rematch the
perfectly acceptable Brahms A
major violin sonata, which is on
the back, with something that
won't be liability. MIR. Eidus
and Mr.. Mittman are the sonata S
expopentS.
Pfitzner and Roger are repre-
|sented on two Urania discs in the
purely orchestral realm. Pfitzner,
Ia German romantic, died in 1949
almost unknown in this country.
Roger. another German of like
school. died in 1916. Two of
Pfitzner's lengthy overtures are
coupled with Rogers ballet suite,
lOp. 130. on one disc. Rogers
serenade., Op. IS, is on the other.
Both music and performance-by
the Berlin Philharmonic under
IEugen Jochum-on the second
disc are better. None of it is too
exciting.
Finally, we have four records
lof songs. Miss Rowland, men
toned above. sings effectively II
Brahms lieder on Stradivari disc,
with Paul Ulanowsky at the piano.
Margareta Klose, German con-
ltralto, offers full-voiced. fully
Idramatized treatment Of songs by
Grieg, Richard Strauss, Pfitzner,
Cornelius and Jensen on a Urania
disc. Five German singers Of note
are assembled for music of Schu-
bert and Schumann (solos by
lTiana Lemnitz, Mime. Klose. Kari
Erb, Wilhelm Strienz; duets BY
/ lLemnitz and Peter Anders), also
under auspices of Urania. AND
fanny Felbermayer. soprano. anG
ALFRED Poell, bass. alternate ir
EMahler'S is Songs Of Youth" or
Ia Vanguard disc. with Viktol
IGraef at the keyboard.
4 The Mahler is easily the mos
,loutstanding Of the four: it's som.
riof the best singing to be had
Evening star., 1952-07-27
FRIDAY.

ARMY BAND. Capt. Hugh Curry. con-
ductor; east 'front.' Capitol. 8 Pm.
Smiths Colts Armory," Beethovens
'Leonore Overture. No. g." Cadman's
minstrel Of Kashmira." mira. "Garniysi clsarHt
"fnslesina," waltz Of the Week"
Evans Lady Of Spain" Fox's Hills
from Donizetti's II Elisir d'Amors:" ore.
TsTEt Ea cf hnassy SsIss Great oaas
Of Kiev." from Moussorgsky's Pic
lures at an Exhibition"
AIR FORCE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Col; George 8; Howard, conductor;
Watsrgate; s:so p Pm I...3ys Overture .srbo to
sSeeins Ssssi Ars oses Sssh!yA Ase 1sihfD si Dupree
Prokofieffs Peter and the Wolf;
Carnival of Venice" arr: Clarke.
A/2c. Danny Desiderio, accordionist;
Nisss NSsstii Tor sfsSnaas" sinsins." arr kspnsr
"Dear Hearts and Gentle People"
arr. Gass; DRY Bones. arr. Cray.
Singing Sergeants. 1t. r.. L: Land
sain..sasns sss ss5ssS ana beliiaS
Bach's ''Double Concerto" violin
duet. .A/2c Gerald and Wilfred Biel.
violinists; "scherzo,' ;. from Mendels-
Sonn'S MiQSummer Nlgnt3 . OFenm7s
vocal selections. M/Sergt. Bill Jones,
baritone; 1T Remember the Corn
Fields" arr. Kepner; Freedom Is.
Eyerybody's job" arr. Gass. Singing
SerReants.
NAVY BAND. 1t. Comdr Charles Bren-
Ter, conductor; Delora Bueno, Bra
lillian contralto, guest soloist: VIII
liam T. Cameron, harpist. Ben
Mitchell Morris, tenor, assisting
artists; Aztec Gardens, Pan Ameri-
can Union. pm. Attendance BY
invitation, Arancibia's viva mi regi-
miento March," Santos Martha"
overture. Morrissey's Bamboula," !"
the band; Filbo's "Cidade Maravil-
hosa," Henriaue's .'Tamhataja,''' .
Barro's "Baille de bole." MARKS "Oh
saia Bamba." Miss Bueno; Zayala' s
'.Bolero,' Zelaya's 'sBoy Scouts
March" Abreu's sTico-Tico,H Mr..
Cameron; Lacarda's "a Jardineira," /"
Trayares' .tFesta." ''Oia o sapo"; De
Carvalho's "Maringa," Barroso's S
.Aausreie do Brasil" Miss Bueno;
valderrama's Inca Step" Lara,s
Granada" Sandovars .Eres Tu,"
Mr.. Morris: Pan American Prone
made" arr. Bennett. tine band.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Federation Lends q Hand
To Aid Musicians Abrood
TuIent in Many Foreign Londs Assisted
By Free instruments, Parts and Scores
By Alice Eversmon

place next spring. The option of
$1,000 in cash or debut recital
in Town Hall, New York, re-
mains the chief attraction for
contestants in piano. violin. voice
and string quartet. A new award
of a guaranteed addition at the
Metropolitan Opera House before
Rudolf Bing has been added for
singers. Dependent on the out
come of the additions, three other
awards are possible; a six-week
scholarship in the Kathryn Long
opera course, an appearance on
the Metropolitan Additions of the
Air and an apprentice contract
with the opera company itself.
The guaranteed managerial
contract with the National Con-
cert and Artists Corp. and one
with NBC for an appearance with
orchestra on it's network for one,
and perhaps all three winners,
have been renewed. In the student
division, IA scholarships were
awarded this spring and summer.
Many were for study in music
camps but others were for winter
instruction.
The extensive work being done
by this enterprising federation is
building a solid future for Ameri-
can musicians. While encouraging
talent in this country, it is also
weaving a firm band of friendship
with musicians Of foreign lands.
With talk lavish and expenditures
overwhelming in national quarters,
the federation is accomplishing
the same objective without any
furore.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
By John clasett Proctor

facing the house, was q small front
room used for Office purposes by
Francis Preston Blair and his son,
Montgomery Blair. grandfather
and father, respectively. Of Maj.
Gist Blair, and it was in this room
that Gen. Robert E. Lee was
offered the command of the Union
Army in the field, early in 1861.
Every room in the house was
crowded with history, either writ
ten or objective, and this room,
of course, was no exception, for
here were kept manuscripts OF
more than passing value.
A letter to Montgomery Blair
from Lincoln, in whose cabinet he
served as postmaster general, was
kept. together with private cor
respondence from other great men
interviewer in the lives Of the two
older Blairs.
The room to the left of the hall
was probably what we in our
younger days would call the par
lor. but what we were told was the
living room. This room con-
tanned maybe a dozen or more
family and ancestral portraits,
some by such distinguished paint
ers as West and Peale.
Wedding of Sherman
Toward the front of this large
room on May 1, 1850. was cele-
brated one of the most important
weddings of its day-that of VIII
liam Tecumseh Sherman and
Ellen Boyle Ewing. The bride was
the daughter of the Secretary OF
the Interior, Thomas Ewing.
1t must have been a brilliant
affair, for it was attended by
President Zachary Taylor and his
entire cabinet, as we'll as by
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and
Thomas w. Benton.
The Blair house was erected
about 1924, by DR.. Joseph Lowell
who entered the Army in 1872
and rose to be Surgeon General
by appointment of President Mon
roe in 1918. He saw active service
as surgeon during the War OF
1812-1815 on the Niagara from
tier. His first address In Wash
ington is given in the city
directory Of 1922 as Twelfth ano
r streets NV, which indicates
Evening star., 1952-07-27

The concert by the Navy Band
tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the
east front of the Capitol win be
dedicated to the WAVES. who cell
ebrate their 10th anniversary
Wednesday. Birthday greetings
will be delivered by Capt. Joy
Bright Hancock, assistant chief of
naval personnel for women. 1t.
Comdr. Charles Brendler will
direct and Sololsts are Ben Mitchell
Morris. tenor. and Robert Baird,
cornetiSt..
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Stamps ~.
By jones Waldo Foweett

Liberia Today for May explains:
"The latest series of stamps issued
by the Liberian Government pays
tribute to Jehudi Ashmun, who
figured prominently in the found
ing Of the republic. Each stamp
in the series of eight carries his
portrait. On the cent. green, the
Seal Of Liberia also appears. Ash
mum shares honors with Lott Ca
rey. colonial agent in his success
sion in 1928. on the 2 cent. scar
let and indigo. He has with him
on the 3 cent. purple and green,
Robert Goodlee Harper. soldier
and statesman. United States
Evening star., 1952-07-27

Chief Justice John Marshall Is
shown with Ashmun on the 4 cent.
green and brown. The 5 cent blue
and orange bears portraits Of Ash
mum and Thomas Buchanan, last
white governor (1839-1841). JOS
eph jenkins Roberts, first presi-
dent of Liberia, is featured with
Ashmun on the 10 cent, orange
red and dark blue. James Monroe.
the American president for whom
the capital of the Liberian nation
was named. is represented in COM
pany with Ashmun on the IS cent
lilac rose and black airmail.
President William ". s. Tubman.
incumbent since 1914, takes q
bow with Ashmun on the so cent
dark blue and carmine airpost
label.
Israel in September will bring
out four beautiful stamps for the
New Year 5713. They illustrate
themes from the Song Of Solo,
mon, as follows: 15-pruta. green
and yellow, "The fig tree putteth
forth her green figs and the vines
with the tender grape give a good
SMELL; 40-pruta, violet. blue and
yellow, Il am the rose Of Sharon.
Evening star., 1952-07-27

1t is not every one VINO can live
opposite, or nearly opposite. the
White House. pass the meridian
of life. and still reside in that
house in which he was born.
Such was the distinctive sit
uation Of Major Gist Blair. whose
home was at 1851 Pennsylvania
avenue. OF course Lafayette
Square Immediately faces the
White House. but the Blair house
is the only building in the adjoin-
ing blocks along this celebrated
thoroughfare. strictly occupied as
a residence.
It was the writer's pleasure and
privilege some years ago to be
shown through this old mansion
by Major Blair. and to be told
many interesting things about its
quaint furnishings. He saw its
valuable historic relics and heir
looms and its collections made
by the genial owner of what was
quite likely the chief wonder
house in this city.
Major Blair first showed the
room in which he was born. It
is a rear room and I believe it
was on the third floor. It was
formerly two rooms, having been
originally separated by folding
doors, but these doors were many
years ago removed, seemingly to
good advantage. There are all
sorts Of descriptions of relics in
the room. Old family portraits,
snuff boxes of exquisite designs,
Andrew Jackson's walking stick,
presented by the general to Fran
els Preston Blair; historic swords,
an engraving of the Blodgett
House. which in the early days
stood on the north side of E
street between Seventh and
Eighth streets.
Relics Of Eorly Doys
On the second floor were other
collections, including much glass
ware and chinaware. Some of the
rooms at that time, as well as on
the floor above. were fitted up as
bed chambers. One room was
called the curly maple room and
was trimmed out in that wood,
the furnishings in the main having
been selected to- match. Another
room contained mahogany fur
nishingS.
On the first floor, to the right,
Evening star., 1952-07-27
TurntobIe Talk:

A glance at q batch Of new
records proves something about
music-how much of it goes al
most unheard in the concert hall.
This mornings list offers music
for harpsichord, harp, guitar;
works by Roger, Pfitzner, Spohr,
Busoni; early Mozart, and songs
by Mailer, Brahms and others.
Some of it might not find favor,
but most of us never have had
the chance to judge. More power,
then. to the record makers!
Fernando Valenti is one Of our
two harpsichordists Of the morn
ing. One disc is devoted to q pair
of suites by Rameau. Two others
contain sonatas Of Scarlatti
(Valenti also did an earlier Scar
latti disc). The harpsichordist. q
teacher at Juilliard, plays fluently.
and the music is interesting, es-
pecially the Scarlatti. West
minister's recording as usual Is
top notch.
Londowsko Is Supreme
Wanda Landowska is our other
exponent, and her offering should
appeal to the collector who is
more curious than confirmed. A
single Victor LIP contains Is Sc
lections by eight composers -
among them Bach. Couperin,
Purcell and Handel, as well as
Rameau and Scarlatti again. Only
one inclusion this reviewer can't
abide - Mozart's "Rondo AHA
turca." The harpsichord really
isn't for Mozart, whatever Lam
dowska may say. But the rest
makes up for it. LandoWska still
is supreme in her realm.
A harp recital comes from
Evening star., 1952-07-27

assessor Of taxes detailed statement of their
holdings Of tangible personal property as of
June 80.
The statement is required to be signed and
sworn to before q notary public or a member Of
the office staff in the personal tax office. Now,
with the Federal Government accepting income
returns which are not required to be notarized,
there is no reason why the District should not
follow q similar course. =.
A notice printed on the blank that any false
statement is subject to prosecution for perjury is
SUFFICIENT protection to the United States-why not
for the District?
Eliminating the notarizing would only remove
one little annoyance but the whole law is unfair
and unenforceable and should be repealed
Evening star., 1952-07-27
WEDNESDAY.

MARINE BAND, 1t. Col. William r.
Santelmann, leader; east front, Cap
itol, 8 pm. Grand March" from
verdi's "Aida"; Copland's IAN Out
Hanson's 'Nordic SYMPHONY" Save
rino's Janus Douglas Stevens.
French hornist; selections from
Puccini's La Boheme." Sousa's
Wolf -Ferrarfs Dance Of the Ca
morrists," oliver Zinsmeister, ma
rimbist; finale from Shostakovich'S
Symphony No, So
Evening star., 1952-07-27

Joseph S. Herbert, jr., long we'll
known in Washington philatelic
circles, has been named acting
president Of the American Phila-
telic Congress. with Franklin r.
Burns, jr., philatelic curator Of the
Smithsonian Institution. as editor
of the annual Congress book.