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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 3C WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1939 LOUIS POST-DISPATCH RADIO STATIONS ADOPTiUTTLE SYMPHONY SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Uppmann Says Axis Can't Bluff Any Longer SELF-DISCIPLINE CODE IN SECOND CONCERT To Be Married Esther Jonsson. Soloist Plav; MISS MARGARET SHAP-LEIGH, 4950 Pershing avenue, has as her guest, Miss Deborah Lowell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B.

Lowell of Worcester, who is being entertained at Small tables covered with checkered cloths were set up in the tern-lit garden, and supper wae served buffet style. At the concert Miss Jonssom, called "Miss Mozart" in Salzburg, played Haydn's Concerto in Ma- Bar Programs Attacking Any Race or Religion, Order Time Given for Controverisies. i One Knows Which Coalition Is Strong- cr, Neither Has Decisive Superiority, Reports Writer Back From Europe. Piano Concerto With Orchestra. a series of informal parties.

Mrs. Lowell is the former Miss Ethel Cox of St. Louis, a close friend of Miss Shapleigh. The visitor, who was ATLANTIC CTTT, N. July 12 (AP).

The radio industry set out A LESSON in musical transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century was riven today to show "proper public inter i jor for the first time in this coun-Itry. Mrs. Austin P. Leland, 89 Aran-, idel place, will leave tomorrow to (join the St. Louis colony at Char- ievoix, Mich, where she" and Mr.

Leland have leased a cottage near TiLTER LIPPMAyy. who ha just returned from a trip to Great graduated last month from Smith College, has college friends here. by Conductor Hans Lange. the Lit if tle Symphony of St Louis and its est" in an effort to lessen the Lov-ernment's control over its license. R.adio station owners, meeting here at the National Association as well as former schoolmates at Chateau Brillantmont.

in Lausanne, Switzerland, which she attended before entering Smith. Monday night Miss Shapleigh nf Broadcasters seventeenth an By WALTER LirrMAKN about Europe is Therefore in 1939, London ana Pari wish to stiffen the Poles, not to soften them as they did the nual convention, yesterday adopted a new 'self-disciplining code as a gave a dinner and opera party for Czechs. And their immediate con Miss Lowell. Luncheons, swimming polite reminder to Uncle Sam that the Belvedere Hotel. Mrs.

Leland will be accompanied north by her young daughter and son, Mary Tat-bot and Austin Porter Jr and by her mother, Mrs. Robert L. Lund, who will visit her daughter untU Mr. Leland goes north on his vacation. Later Mrs.

Lund will be joined by Mr. Lund, and together cern is to convince Hitler that they NaoMible at this time because no Zt knows hch coalition is because everyone real-that neither side has anything decisive superiority. bc nnt nnw have the parties and dinners complete her they would like to run The industry guest artist, Esther Jonsson, American pianist, at the second concert of the ensemble in the Washington University quadrangle last night. The first example 'as the Symphony No. 3 of Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach, followed by a recently unearthed Concerto of Haydn, who used this particular Bach as his mentor, and next by the Symphony No.

5 of Franz Schubert, who followed Haydn in a direct line. To clinch the procedure. Miss Jonsson played a Mozart selection as an calendar. free from constant supervision by the Federal Communications are not bluffing, for if he thinks they are bluffing then his misunderstanding of the Anglo-French policy may cost the world a great war. Mrs.

David Randolph Calhoun of Spoede road, and Mrs. William Francis Niedringhaus, 10 Westmore The commission has sole power Jv to tap" its will. AnM not as yet i they will motor east, probably first have the to revoke, suspend or decline to renew operating licenses of any of land place, have leased the beach house of Mrs. Nicholas Ludington the nations stations, incenses encore after the Concerto. must be renewed each six months.

at Santa Barbara, CaL, for August, and will leave later this month to tma to compel the axis to re-nre it ambitions. The alliance Tl Twoufrb force to make another 4ssion very dangerous, but not force to make aggression fobVUy and absolutely danger-0D h. uttemnted. be attempted. The character of this main sec tion of the program was almost too uniform for comfort.

The high point, necessarily, was the playing of the Concerto, which revealed a to the Adirondacks. Late in the summer they may go for a cruise. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Gale Bar-stow, 414 North Union boulevard, returned Monday night from Lake Forest, HI, where they spent 10 days with their sister-in-law, Mrs.

Benjamin Leslir Behr, at Arcady Farm, her country estate. They also visited the new Lake Forest home of their nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stanley Jr, and their baby son, Edwin III. Mrs.

Stanley, the former Miss Edith Margaret Behr, has often visited War might come also as a result of any one of several miscalculations. Hitler might think that he can crush Poland in a lightning war, say in six weeks, and that he can then negotiate a peace before the democracies could make effective the blockade or consummate the offensive through Italy against the German flank. Hitler would be speculating on the possibility that a sufficiently savage attack on Poland and on London and Paris would demoral 7 -r Ttiituation has reached a point t7 the axis can probably not another Important conquest fShout provoking a general war 7 has BOt reached a point ft" dear to all that the 1 could not win a general war. fVmU be said that, if he prc-80 Hitler faces the risk of war. Snot dear that he faces take possession.

Mrs. Ludington di-j vides her time between New York! and Nassau. Mrs. Calhoun is expected home the last of this week from Pointe Aux Barques, where she has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Albert T.

Terry, and helped to open the Terry cottage. Mr. Calhoun returned a day or two ago from a visit in the north. Mrs. Samuel Tucker Gay, 36 South Elizabeth avenue, Ferguson, and her three children, Tucker, and Barbara and Vincent, twins, have returned from Arcadia, where Declining to be quoted by name, NAB officials said privately they were seeking automatic renewal of licenses every year.

They said they considered the FCC's supervision too strict and believed it unfair to have to fill out endless questionnaires and spend time in court proving they served the public interest well enough to justify renewal of their privileges. Stephen T. Early, President Roosevelt's secretary and a speaker at the convention, told the radio men two hours before they adopted the code behind closed doors they could not expect the Government to relieve them of responsibility to the FCC. -As an agent of the people, he said, the Government should at all fin, hivp ATi oTiTjortunity to deter less serene and more dynamic Haydn than one usually hears. However, in light of the vast field of Haydn composition, the Concerto is not anything to bring an audience to its feet cheering, and didn't.

Even the soloist was better appreciated in the Duport Variations of Mozart which followed. Into this elaboration of a theme supplied by a 'cellist friend of the composer, Miss Jonsson brought a clarity, precision and unhurried ize the Eritisn and French peo ples, especially if they were con Iso trie ecoaUtion against him now here. Mrs. Charles W. Massee of the Forest Park Hotel, will leave Aug.

1. for Grand Forks, S. where she will visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. F. Massee, for a month.

vinced that the United States would refuse to let them buy arms because the American people did not care what happened to the West Julen Plerlow Photoeraph. ern democracies. Such a calcula they have been visiting Mr. Gay's mother, Mrs. Roger W.

Gay, at her MRS. ROMAN S. WALDRON, trnne to be iuuuuua. SSfSons enough to be invnv Sle Consequently, the issue of and war hangs upon the com-E mulation and intuition of SZ. ere isno pred tion would certainly increase the country place.

Mrs. Lee Petit fF the Park Plaza, who will be married at 6:30 this evening to chances of war. another daughter-in-law, is also We must regard this as a mis oeuauBc the formeri west garden will serve as a back mine whether a radio station is do Samuel C. McCluney Jr calculation because, unless all the signs are misleading, once a war is tne side ing right by the public. Amonir other things, the new code unleashed, it will not end until one liquidity that even the composer must have approved.

The Schubert Symphony, played at a Little Symphony concert in 1936, shows the tone-poet not at his best but as a talented young man writing in the Mozartean idiom. In it, one felt at times the insufficiency of the small orchestra. Despite the uniformity of the major portion of the program, con would bar from the air lanes pro Sler will think is the truth. This is 8 mad world. But there is Miss Dorothy Leggett.

Miss Patricia Van Schoiack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Van Schoiack, 56 Chestwood drive, will also make a debut this fall.

She will be presented to society during the Christmas holidays when grams attacking any race or re ground for the ceremony. Atrio of stringed intsruments will play behind this natural screen during the wedding and the reception. Mrs. Waldron will wear a long afternoon gown of rose beige chiffon, with brown orchids at the heart-shaped neckline. She will Miss Annadell Pegram of Car-rollton, HI, is the guest for rw weeks of Miss Jane Dean, a classmate at William Woods College, Fulton, Mo.

Miss Dean is the daughter of Mrs. H. T. Pott, 146 Helfenstein road, Webster Groves, where a luncheon will be glveu Tuesday in honor of the visitor. Yesterday Mrs.

Claude Harrell entertained friends for luncheon and swimming at Algonquin Golf Club in honor of Miss Pegram and tomorrow Mrs. R. E. Field of will also be a luncheon side or the other is decisively beaten. Another possible miscalculation would be to assume that the resistance in Eastern Europe, particularly in Poland, can be dissolved by in ligion, and would make it a pudui.

duty" for stations to bring contro- i 1 PTonoro "rf- listeners re versial discussion to Mrs. Roger Gay's guest, and will; remain for a longer visit. Mrs. Samuel Gay's niece, Miss Harriet Marvin Wilson, daughter of Mrs. F.

Reed Fenton of Scarsdale, N. who visited her before her departure for Arcadia, is with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Price, and will be guest of honor tomorrow at a luncheon for last year's debutantes. The party will be given by Mrs.

Price at the St. Louis Country Club. Miss Wilson made her debut in New York last season. Mrs. Fenton, who accompanied her daughter to St.

Louis left last week for the East. she is home from Rollins College gardless of the ability of others to there is a general wi will be the Winter Park, Fla, and will return! wear a broad-brimmed hat of nat- i- noor future, it pay for it. T'ndcr this second nrovision sta a ZLnt of a misunderstanding, trast was supplied by the opening calculated act after the vacation to Winter Park. Miss Van Schoiack attended Rollins this past winter. She recently left tions would be expected to either! and closing selections.

The orches- recalculation, or a ternal intrigue and propaganda, and by a progressive demoralization resulting from prolonged humiliation and from the tension of remaining passive. There is no evidence as yet that such a campaign would work. But it might work if it lasts lone enouch. On the other give away equal time to both smarten me evening wim of a question or refuse to sell and Galliard" by William 6f desperation; isw Last vear, Hitler knew at first Tll Provided the French to either one. Political broadcasts jxyra.

uus amaueuau a ural straw, trimmed with ribbors to match her gown. Mrs. Hill's gown is of white embroidered organdy, with which she will wear a wide white straw hat and green orchids. Mrs. George Leicester Schaberg, another daughter, will be gowned in white embroiderefi Da-tiste over pale blue, also wearing a garden hat, and gardenias.

would be excepted. plaintive, meiocac wor tnat, guaranty could be canceled because cok could made The engagement of Miss Marian Grace Pfingsten, daughter of Mrs. C. Frederick Pfingsten, and Dr. William T.

K. Bryan, was announced today at a luncheon given by the the uzecuu-on'. againsi me uuor wtoliiic uunuiiigs of the quadrangle, was highly at Sixty per cent of the nations stations, controllers of 95 per cent for Crystal Lake, Mich, to join her parents at their newly-completed summer home. Before returning to St. Louis this fall she will visit classmates in New York.

Miss Carol McCarthy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ross McCarthy, 6481 Ellenwood avenue, will be- presented to society this fall VM without fighting, he couia hand, it might have just the oppo- of the dollar-volume of advertis Miss Ann Rutledge, daughter of Mrs. Lynton T. Block, 3 Edgewood, will leave early next week for a ranch in Montana, where she will mospheric and perhaps the most beguiling selection of the evening.

The closing number was Ernest have what he wanted without tne site effect, that is to say, it mig.it i ir nf treat war. The British provoke an explosion. 5 Fre.ncfwere neither able nor prospective bride's mother at their ding wiu be Mr. and Mrs. iJf M'ss Bloch's modern "Four Episode spend several weeks.

She will be -willing to risk a war, inij js necessary also to take into ing, are members of the N. A which as yet has not devised a means of enforcing the code throughout the industry. Under the code, time limits are fixed for "commercials" on 15-min- of Corpus daughter-in-law of Dr. Pftngrten, is a graduate of S. Waldron Jr, son and joined at Chicago by a group of at a reception xuesoay artemoon, classmates at Foxcroft School, and ct- 17 followed by a dinner dance go with them to the ranch.

Later at her parents home. The pros-this summer, Miss Rutledee will Pective debutante was graduated Mrs. Waldron: and Dr. and mary insmuie and Washington University. arms, allies ana lui.w-"".

account the possibility of a war were internally divided. So launched as an act of desperation, real policy, as Filler knew from ex- There ig nQ doubti think, that the eelient sources, was to sotten Anglo-French coalition is becoming Czechs and to make Britis progressively stronger than the Dr. Bryan, the son of Mrs. Wil- ute. half-hour and one-hour pro- visit friends in the East i from Vassar College this springs crams.

and returned for a summer course. Trench opinion axis. Germany and Italy are using for Chamber Orchestra," mood pieces that range from the collection of scary sounds called "Hu-moresque Macabre," to the movie sound-track approximation of the Flowery Kingdom, called "Chinese." The audience gave it the readiest applause. Attendance was slightly larger than at the opening concert last week, but still in the neighborhood of 900. C.

Mc. Spiels on 15-minute night programs are limited to two-and-a-half minutes (day three minutes and 15 She will visit Easern friends before returning home late in Laurence Grossman of Saginaw. Mrs. Grossman is Mr. Hale's niece.

After the reception, Mr. and Mrs. Hale will leave for Chicago, to board a Great Lakes steamer for Canada, where they w-ill remain until October. They will live in Saginaw. They met last winter while on a South African cruise.

ham M. C. Bryan, 5262 Maple avenue, and the late Dr. Bryan, is a graduate of Washington University Medical School. He is engaged in the practice of otolaryngology.

Wedding plans have not been Miss Ann's brother, Thomas G. Rutledge, landed last Saturday in England with a group of Yale friends for a tennis tour of England. He will spend the summer abroad. seconds), to three minutes on hall their reserves of material and men. This is not the position today.

It; Except in the training of officers is certain. I think, that the British anfl B0ldiers, time is against them, and French look upon Poland, not In the Germany and Italy is a small nation to which they owe stjjj may have some superiority. oMiE-ation. but as an m-iTn lonsrer have sunremacv. hour nrocrams (day four and a half minutes), and to six minutes one one-hour programs (day nine Mrs.

Roman S. Waldron of the Park Plaza, and Charles Vernon Hale of Saeinaw, Mich, will be Mrs. Waldron is the widow of the WISCONSIN" minutes). i dispensable ally in the protection and in the end they are Dound to nf their own position in Europe and joge tne race of armaments. The married this evenine at late a.

aiaron, ana aaugn- o'clock at Greenway, home of ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Added to the debutante list for this fall is the name of Miss Betty Lee Leggett, daughter of Mrs. James A. McVoy, 17 North Taylor avenue.

Miss Leggett will remain HENHY H. BROWN, RETIRED PELGJS Waldron's son-in-law and Gardner cuipepper or xnomasvme Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Burge Hill Ga. Mr.

Hale is a widower. RAILROAD MAN, 77, DIES here this fall to make an informal at Chesterfield. Mo. It will bej in the world. internal morale in Italy, in Austria, Rightly or wrongly, British Bohemia is deteriorating; accord-French conservatives last year re-jig to the best information, it is garded Czecho-Slovakia as a danger- certainy not improving in Ger-ous commitment.

With very open dissenters, these same con-j it is possible that Hitler and Mus-nervatives today regard Poland as solini rnayr feei that it is now or Flyer Scott to Keep Anniversary. Orville E. Scott, veteran flyer, will take 12 disabled war veterans on flights over the city this afternoon, from Lambert-St. Louis Field, in celebration of his twentieth anniversary as a pilot. Scott was one of the first pilots to oper- Former Assistant General Man an informal garden wedding, at-1 Miss Mary Bolland Taussig gave tened only by members of the fam-ja Bavarian beer party after the ilies and a few friends.

A small second Little Symphony concert last debut, and return after Christmas to the University of Arizona, where she was a freshman this last year. ager of Frisco Will Be Buried Tomorrow. Henry H. Brown, former general manager of the St. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURS I Scenic Cruues, Indians, Speed Boating I EXCLUSIVE CRANDALL HOTEL I ONE WEEK ALL EXPENSE $48.55 1 Vi Illinois Central Mllwaukn R.

R. I For Itinerary, Call I night at her home, 50 Westmoreland reception will be given afterwaru Miss Leggett previously attended military asset of the very flrstinever, that the risks of war are Tmportance. terrifying than the risks of a Louis-San Francisco Railway, died, ate out of Lambert Field, and was yesterday of heart disease at the first field manager. He said place. About 50 friends were invited to meet Miss Esther Jonsson, young American pianist who was; guest soloist, and Hans Lange, coit-! ductor of the Little Symphony; Beries, and Mrs.

Lange. i Mary Institute and was graduated! in the garden. The Rev. Dr. Hulbert from the Academy of the Sacred A.

Woolfall of St. Peter's Churcu Heart. She returned to St. Louis will perform the ceremony. There this month, after visiting friends will be no attendants, at Phoenix, Ariz, after the close A natural semi-circular arrange-of school.

She is a sister of Mrs. ment of evergreen trees In im URK He was 77 years his guests on the flights today John's Hospital. TOUR a TRAVEL SERVICE would include several World War pilots. 1815 Railway Exchange Bide. H.

old. Mr. Brown was employed by the Frisco in 1887 as a train dispatcher and remained with the railroad This view rests on no exaggerated rustrated peace. It is also possible erUmate of what the Polish armyj they may reaijze that the ter-could do but on the realization rorization of Europe has already that without Poland resisting some-jproduce(J such a reaction that in where in eastern Europe, there canithe end severai nations may turn be no Eastern front, and therefore, ifrom the passlve defensive to the no blockade. If Poland falls, there oeIlsjve will fall too the Baltic states.

Hun- gary, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece. Nothingj in Enortt is ciear and it until 1830 when he retired. He has resided in Kansas City, Mo, for the last five years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. aner mat.

aytmr.g can nappen be very misieadiEg to report iKiweenx.ubs.ia wmdiij, tti there is anything now in sight Clara Brown, and three brothers, juit viiuw puwer 01 vjeiiuaii) yvuuiu iu Ae available for a campaign of in-) wepkR fnr th. mn.th. that ,1 Paul (Beverly) Brown, owner of the Pioneer News Service, a racing news service; James D. timidation or even of attack against anead. France and England.

(Copyright, 1939.) Brown, and Ward A. Brown of Houston, Tex. HUGH A. SPRAGUE, VETERAN WARNS OF HEW BURS Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 9 a. m.

to St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Sixth and Biddle ST. JOSEPH PUBLISHER, DIES One of Founders of Audit Bureau streets, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. EMPLOYING WIVES of Circulation Succumbs at 73 to Long Illness. ST.

JOSEPH, Mo, July 12 (AP). Hugh Almeron Sprague, 73 years Your ATX ANTIC Business Women's Leader Tells Convention More Adverse Legislation Is Expected old, publisher of the Gazette and the News-Press, died last night. He had been ill two years. He was one of the founders of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, TOIETABJLE KANSAS CITY, Mo, Julv 12 'AP). Miss Earlene White of Washinrtm-i which certifies newspaper circulation for advertising rate purposes.

He started as a reporter in St Joseph in 1891. From 1892 until 1895 he was editor and publisher of the Journal of Commerce. Re to EUBOPE England Ireland France Germany National Federation of Business turning to the News, forerunner of the News-Press, in 1895, he became advertising manager and, in 1918, business manager. He later became publisher of the News-Press and vice-president of the News Corporation, which bought the Gazette in 192a He was born in Orfordville, Wis, and came here in 1889. Two children and four grandchildren survive him.

md Professional Women's Clubs, to convention here, told a special Imim meeting last night that the working wives problem" was the organization's most important is-tue. Referring to introduction of bills state legislatures to bar married omec from gainful employment in nd other jbs Bhe asserted: ot one of us really feels that the bills which came up to legislatures and were reported te 'killed" in many states this spring I i. Vjf ALICE AND DICK VES.THE BIG BOX OF UlX. PLEASE II rto DRIFTI N6 APART- i. I 1 jg9Y- I MATE TO RUN OUT OF I 'U Vi; fK UV-H IT'S ALICE'S fTMAKES fT SO EASVTO BEi r.

I' i -FAULT. I MUST r.or.,1 rAj 'J Svrl t-uTarid Daintiness win I V-vr- 1 IPO (somehow you seem so) Avoid undie adorer lw I I sweet these DAys so LovELy Jj it kills romance I I f' I PLSxI lP Even a hint of perspiration odor 1 fffiS? from underthings destroys charm i j' If fL s.VI kills romance. Especially in ft Wrr roid offendin.s- 'v' ') I Alv I 1 Lux lingerie after every wearing. I I I lVli Lux removes perspiration odor A lnV keeps undies new-looking longer. (4, ltC jf' jj Avoid cake-soap rubbing, soaps Mj PfTYflx '(; containing harmful alkali.

Lux has 1 A Vfl (H0WH no harmful alkali. Buy the BIG i jJ fi I lv box for extra economy! Lux is thrif tvrSU DEUTSCHLAND JULY 20 BREMEN JULY 25 HAMBURG JULY 27 EUROPA AUG. 2 NEW YORK AUG. 3 HANSA AUG. 10 BREMEN AUG.12 DEUTSCHLAND AUG.

17 EUROPA AUG. HAMBURG AUG. 24 i dead. Manv of us ex -MRS. ALLISON FOWLE, FORMER they -will rsisp thpir hrnds NEWSPAPER ARTIST, DIES Ex-St.

Louisan, Who Was Miss Hamel Before Her Marriage, Snccumbs to Bermuda. CABIN CLASS $176 up according to ship end port. when the legislatures meet in all have need to be over the bills to keep women from public and pri- service, for these bills are but ntering wedge of an attack all Women -hn vnrk htiH Mrs. Allison Fowle, the former Miss Juanita Hamel of St. Louis, rcpon democracy.

Reduced Round Trip Rates to Europe in Tourist and Third Class Aug. 10 to Oct. 12. Rates as low as $138. Free Folder on Request.

iu tile 1 Tt.UJ State! are approaching the second fcajor general fight for their own Your Travel Agant, or once a newspaper artist, died yesterday of a cerebral hemorrhage at her home in Hamilton, Bermuda. She was 42 years old. After studying art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and in Chicago, she began drawing for newspapers in St. Louis.

Later her work was syndicated. Following an illness in New York, she xaoved to Bermuda 10 years ago. There she met and married Fowle, who is in the shipping business. Her mother, Mrs. Lucille Hamel Craven, lives at 4336 Olive street.

Two brothers also survive. The funeral will be in Hamilton. Will NORTH GERMAN LLOYD "There is at present a definite "tiffening resistance to the de- th6? of women eJog many aL-fej lin which they have sed out for themselves" she toBirf married women, fla-. 6111 Dut of business and in- 903 Locust Street St. Louis Tel.

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