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Wisconsin MState Journal Still Cool Partly cloudy and cool today and Saturday. High today, about 45; low tonight, about 25. 5c 44 PAGES, THREE SECTIONS Vol. 201, No. 16 120th Year MADISON, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1959 MORNING FINAL SECTION FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Wright: A Force of Nature By HELEN MATHESON (Assistant Meneeine Editor) NOTED ARCHITECT, DIES Frank Lloyd Wright once said "the safety of the soul depends on its courage." He saw his organic architecture "the architecture of democracy" treated both as A i a's greatest creative achievement and as a bad joke.

He heard his private life described sometimes as a "circus," sometimes as "the most outstanding 20th century revolt against Victorianism." "Truth Against World' He chose as his crest a Druid symbol that means "truth against the world." And in late years, he wrote that he had experienced best and the worst of everything." At his death, Wright was probably the world's most celebrated architect. His work was known abroad as "the American expression in architecture." He was decorated by eight nations and awarded gold medals by the King of England and the American Institute of Architecture which pronounced him at 80 a "titanic force." He left behind him more than 700 structures, including some of the most famous buildings on earth: the nearly-completed Guggenheim museum in New York City, the Imperial hotel in Tokyo, his home, Taliesin, near Spring Green and plans for others: a civic center on Madison's Monona Terrace and a mile-high skyscraper for Chicago. Often Attacked Yet throughout his life, his Death at Age 89 Ends His Lively Career (Compiled From Wire Services) PHOENIX, Ariz. Frank Lloyd Wright, 89, the rebellious titanic force of modern architecture, died early Thursday. Mr.

Wright died before dawn in St. Joseph's hospital, his fame finally secure after more than 50 years of artistic and personal controversy with caustic critics. Advancing age was largely responsible for the death of the colorful, white-haired founder of modern archi tecture. Mr. Wright had undergone an emergency op eration Monday for removal of an obstruction in the intestinal tract.

Model of Proposed Monona Terrace Frank Lloyd Wright Planning 90th Birthday He had come through the operation successfully. The last hospital report Wednesday night listed his condition as satisfactory. Some Delay Seen He himself had had no inkling of poor health and already had issued instructions just before his death that, invitations for a party at Taliesin, near Spring Green, on his 90th birthday June 8 be deliv If Not Withholding Tax -What? Nelson Asks on Terrace Project ered. One of the first to receive that invitation was William T. Evjue, editor and publisher of the Capital Times, Madison, who recently had visited the The death of Frank Lloyd Wright will cause "some delay" in the Wrieht-desisned Monona Terrace project, Mayor Ivan A.

Nes- turned to local units of govern the Legislature will Gov. Gaylord Nelson Thursday I approved, tingen said Thursday afternoon. He added, however, that Mr. Wright's death "should by bo ment to minimize the effect need split Legislature have to increase the surtax on challenged a means prevent the city from com- adopt his income income tax trom 20 to 40 per cent to finance the governor's ed construction projects in local ities have on the property tax. 'Easy to' Criticize' Wrights at Taliesin West near here.

'Just Sighed, Died' Mr. Wright died at 4:45 a.m. (5:45 a.m. CST). "He just sighed and died," reported his night nurse.

Mrs. Jessie Boganno, Glendale, Ariz. She said he pleting" the project. Group Confident Drooosed building program, or tax withholdi plane or come up with something i produce another alternative. U.W.

Fee Hike Trimmed to $50 Fees for out of state students "It is simple enough to criticize anv program." Nelson said. "But Reaction of city auditorium Passage of the withholding bill else to replace it. committee members was varied with your criticism goes the providing for speeded-up collec appeared to be resting comfortably but did not speak during the last few hours of life. With Mr. Wright at the hospital were his third wife, but none of them seemed to think tion of income taxes would offer a "windfall" of $78 million.

at the University of Wisconsin would be raised $50 a year instead of $100 under an action responsibility of proposing an alternative you are willing to support and stand by." He said his statement applied Nelson has recommended that Olgivanna, and Wesley Peters, husband of Olgivanna's daughter whom Wright legally adopted. Mrs. Peters died 12 years ago. all of the state's $24 million share Thursday by joint finance committee. with equal force to the Democratic Other vivors included two daughters, Mrs.

Nelson spoke to a joint session, his fourth personal appearance before the 1 a wmakers since mid January. He pleaded for support for his withholding plan and ticked off his rebuttal against The committee reconsidered its of the windfall be allocated for projects in the first year of his suggested $52-million, three-year Charles Gardner of Phoenix, and Mrs. Catherine Baxter previous action and voted. 9 to 4, of Menlo Park, mother of motion picture star (Assembly GOP Bristles at Nelson Bid, but Senators Are More Reserved. Reaction Story, Sec.

Page 12.) in favor of raising out of state Anne Baxter; four sons, Lloyd who made his own ca that the auditorium cannot be built. "The plans have been developed to a point where it is my feeling that we can complete the final plans and specifications with the talents and capabilities of the staff of the Frank state building program. He said $4 million would be left reer in architecture and John of Del Mar, Da fees to $600 a year instead of $650 a year as voted earlier. NELSON majority in the Assembly and the Republican majority in the Senate. vid of Phoenix; and Robert of Washington, D.

nine over for application on the $16.5 million, second year phase of his buildings were attacked as "monstrosities of material and form." His ideas were called half-baked, visionary, egotistical. And his private life was marked by strife, by revolt against social mores, by debt so baffling he finally incorporated himself and sold shares, and by four great romances all shadowed with grief and one, with ghastly tragedy. Wright's defiance of convention attracted merciless publicity, but as he grew older public attitudes toward him became more kind And as an old man he explained to one of his sons "The faith that is in me may be unable to go with laws, but it is never lawless." Recently he had lived most of the year at his celebrated Taliesin near Spring Green, an farm estate he valued at $2,500,000 and center of his architectural fellowship. A Striking Figure He was often seen in Madison, an erect, fragile figure wearing a jaunty pork pie hat on his white head, sports slacks, jacket, and flowing tie. gesturing with a cane, his conversation crisp and pungent.

As an architect, Wright believed that buildings must be "natural" "native in spirit and making." Taliesin Welch for "shining brow" he built out of native materials on his family homestead. "You don't spend your lives in insensitive, ugly buildings and still respect yourselves, for only beauty dignifies the soul of man," he told an audience in Madison's Unitarian Meeting House which he designed with a great glass prow to let in the outdoors. On another occasion, he explained that he and his followers "only build for people we like. They get our houses as some get religion for houses affect livingspiritual living. Architecture Assemblyman Fred Risser ID- grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and a sister, 'It is a fundamental rule in Madison said he favored only a Mrs.

Maginal Barney of New York City. building program. any democratic society that those $50 increase because the higher arguments which have been advanced in opposition to it. Sees Surtax Rise Nelson said if the plan isn't He recommended that the other 'He Was a Great Man' At Menlo Park, Miss Baxter said of her noted $54 million of the windfall be re- figure would give Wisconsin the top tuition in the Big Ten. He who have the power to successfully oppose have the responsibility to constructively propose," grandfather that the world would mourn the "passing NESTINGEN Uyd Wnht dation," Nestingen agreed with Assemblyman Rich of a great individual.

His was a full in which he Nelson said. said. ard Cates (D-Madison) that the university needs out of state certainly contributed more to others than most individ Dulles Enters Hospital for X-Ray Studies Republicans in control of the The auditorium committee re uals are gifted to do. He was a great man." ceived preliminary plans from Senate have indicated strong opposition to the withholding plan. All his life he fought for "natural housing," homes The committee defeated a mo Mr.

Wright several weeks ago, that would give a "sense of shelter and a sense of tion that would have cut out the JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. Wl Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went to the Palm Beach Not a New Tax The governor said the withhold Upstate Man Killed as Auto Overturns MARSHFIELD (ffi Alois Newman, 45, of Edgar, Marathon county, was killed Thursday when the car in which he was riding went out of control on Highway 97 about 2 miles north of Marsh-field and overturned. but delayed recommending their approval to the City Council until per cent merit salary in space," and functional, individualistic buildings that blended precision machine-age line with nature's own crease for faculty at the univer ing system was not a new tax but sity and state colleges. Sen. was a better method of collecting some basic questions of building materials and specific features to be included are settled.

Chester Dempsey (R-Waukesha) the present income tax obligation. Air Force base hospital Thursday for X-ray studies for the first time since his arrival at this resort 11 days ago. The secretary, who is recovering from a hernia operation and living forms in stone and steel, wood, and glass. His streamline technique or "Wrightisms" stirred controversy at home and abroad, leading him to professional victories and defeats, disappointments, and sometimes personal disaster. He said it would not change the To Clear Up Points Nestingen said that the commit present tax structure.

said the trend was away from tax increases and that the salaries of "one segment of the society should not be raised without Nelson said Wisconsin's financial But there was nothing small about him, except his tee should confer with Wesley Peters, Mr. Wright's son-in-law. treatment for cancer, was away raises for other segments." problem in buildings is due to delays in the past 22 years because of depression, World War Also defeated was a motion to neat, impeccably dressed little figure. Even nis worst critics conceded his genius, and his followers considered him a giant in artistic building design. from his vacation retreat the home of Undersecretary C.

Douglas Dillon for three hours. cut the merit increase to i per or some other representative of the foundation as soon as possible to clear up some technical points. II, and the Korean War. He said cent. Acclaimed at Home Although he gained his first fame overseas, Wright it was magnified by population growth.

On the Inside Japanese Crown Prince Marries Commoner Who Will Become the Next Empress of Japan. Story, Sec. 1, Page 4. Sparta Man Among Seven Picked as First U.S. Space Travelers.

Story, Sec. 2, Page 16. One of them, he said, is to de at long last in 1950 won the reluctant acclaim of the "It makes sense to use the wind fall now to help the state and its American Institute of Architects which presented him with its gold medal the profession's highest award Today Chuckle A henpecked weatherm a claims: "My wife speaks 150 words a minute with gusts up to 180." termine who can represent the foundation in signing a stipulation dismissing the foundation's suit against the city. municipalities catch up," Nelson Kennedy to Wait on Primary Bid MILWAUKEE (if) Sen. John F.

Kennedy (D-Mass.) who reportedly may lay his presidential said. He said the state has been bor (Continued on Page 6, Column 1) The suit was to compel the city rowing from the future by failing aspirations on the line in the 1960 to go ahead with the terrace project despite the Metzner law which banned it. The law has since been 'Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Wisconsin Presidential Primary, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Other Wright News More Stories, Pictures, Sidelights on Frank Lloyd Wright Be Found on Page 6. On Page 7 Is a Full Picture Page on Highlights of His Life. See Editorial, Page 10.

repealed. City Atty. Harold E. Proxmire to Close Milwaukee Office said Thursday that he regards the primary as of great significance but his current visit to Wis Hanson has advised the auditori Chief's Defense Set to Start Tonight as Hearing Resumes um committee that th suit should consin doesn't commit to be dismissed before the prelimi- WASHINGTON UP) Sen. William Proxmire D-Wis said Continued on Page 2.

Column 1) Thursday he was closing his of enter it. "It will be a significant and important primary," Kennedy told a news conference. "In fact, fice in Milwaukee because the increasing heavy load of legisla i-j vour state mav oe as crowaea tive work and correspondence Albert J. McGinnis. 1940 Winnebago Cosmas 'Cozi Hoffman, oo-owner of the Hoffman House; and Kenneth Zerwick, 212 S.

Mills president of the Wisconsin Brick Corp. The commission did not hold "has compelled us to concentrate By JUNE DTECKMANN (State Journal Staff Writer) Police Chief Bruce Weatherly's defense testimony is scheduled to start tonight when the police and fire commission resumes its hearing at 7 p.m. in Circuit Court on five misconduct charges filed against the chief. Atty. Jack R.

DeWitt, Weatherly's counsel, said he may call the chief as a witness in his own. all of our staff in order to get Spring Green Rites Pending; Body to Arrive on Saturday the job done in Washington." His home secretary, Jerry- Bruno, will be assigned to the Weatherly's hearing day night because of the absence of the last prosecution witness. next session will be held. Washington staff, Proxmire said. DeWitt said he has 15 defense Jcharles i Chuck I Hoffman, co- as a college campus pbone booth next year.

But I will not decide until the end of this year or earl in 1960 whether I am going to be a candidate." Kennedy held the news conference shortly after his arrival to address the annual Gridiron Dinner of The Milwaukee Press club. After this appearance he travels to seven state cities to make six speeches in the next three days. Kennedy is scheduled to make three talks in Madison Saturday. At 9 a.m., he will speak at a owner of the Hoffman House, 514 E. Wilson st.

Instead, it held its belated monthly meeting. No mention of Chief Weatherly's misconduct- witnesses subpenaed ana mere "may be a few more." DeWitt declined to name all of the witnesses he has subpenaed. but he said some will be medical men. to testify about Weatherly's crash injuries and resulting condition; character witnesses; and "others who saw Chief Weatherly at the Hoffman House where he is defense either tonight or Saturday, depending on how other test imony progresses. i sion Pres.

Albert A. Taubert said the hearings will be held tonight and all day Saturday in an attempt to com plete testimony before Sun Feature Finder Bridge Sec. 1, Pase 7 Calendar See- 1. Pate 7 Comics Sec Pass II Crossword Sac. Pa II Editorials Sac.

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1, Paie 2, TV-Radio Sac. 1, Page IS Weather Table Sec. 1, Pase Women's Paw Sac. 1 Pase charge hearing was made by the The chapel was constructed more than 80 years ago as a wayside place for prayer and was formerly known as the Wyoming Valley Unitarian Church. Mr.

Wright, as a boy. attended services at the chapel on those occasions when traveling Unitarian ministers stopped there. Mr. Wright was often quoted as saying that he heard some of the greatest voices of Uni-tarianism in the chapel in his boyhood. His uncle, the Rev.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones, regarded as the most important single figure in the growth of Unitarianism in the Midwest, often preached at the chapel. Funeral arrangements for the rites at Spring Green will be made by the Richardson funeral home, Spring Green. (Specie! te The State Journnl) PHOENIX The body of Frank Lloyd Wright, world-famed Madison area architect who died in a Phoenix. hospital Thursday, will arrive in Spring Green Saturday. The body will lie in state in the living room of his winter home at Taliesin West outside of Scottsdale.

until Friday. Only close friends of the renowned architect are being admitted. Spring Green funeral service arrangements are still pending for Sunday or Monday. Burial will be in the Hillside Unitarian chapel cemetery just east of Taliesin East, the Wrights' resident grounds south of Spring Green. Most of Mr.

Wright's relatives on his mother's side are buried at the chapel cerrietery. comrrJssioncrs or the police chief Chief weatherlv reported in breakfast in Hotel Loraine; at tfi person on the March police busi ness: Fire Chief Edward J. Page alleged to have been drinking gave a report on his depart DeWitt said among the WQrk duHng March 12:45 p.m., to a Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Wisconsin Center, and at 1:30 to University of Wisconsin students in Music hall. A press conference also is planned in Madison. Th Wisconsin Legislative; News the commission approved the one-year renewal of private detective House witnesses will be Jack Stevenson.

4230 Esch lane, deputy Dane county coroner and a for- day. If not, he said the commission will decide DEWITT (Turn to Pages 3 and 5) 'Continued on Page 2, Column late Saturday afternoon when themer Madison policeman; Atty. i.