Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1940, Page 6

Symphony Orchestra Concert Today May Be Last for Organization Choral Society Will Have Place on Request Program ‘The National Symphony Orches- tra will be heard in Constitution Hall this afternoon in what may be its last concert. Since members of the orchestra association decided three days ago to accept & recommendation of their Board of Directors that no plans be made for the 1940-41 season, today’s concert—the 538th which the orchestra has given since it was founded in 1931—probably will be the last, according to the orchestra management. ‘The association’s directors decided to recommend that no plans be made for next season after the Musicians’ Protective Union refused to accept a compromise plan sug- gested by a Labor Department counciliator who was called into mediate the dispute between the association and the union over next year’s contract. There have been no developments in the impasse since the more than 800 members of the orchestra associ- ation voted to accept that recom- mendation. Dr. Hans Kindler, founder and conductor of the orchestra, will close the season today with his annual Tequest program, chosen by vote of the orchestra’s patrons. No soloist was scheduled for the Pprogram, but since there were more requests for a choral composition than for any single work, one of the selections will be a joint perform- ance by the orchestra and the Washington Choral _ Society of | Brahms' “Song of Fate.” Louis Potter will direct this number. It will be the first performance of | this work by the orchestra, bring- ing to 637 the total number of dif- | ferent compositions played by the orchestra since its founding. The program also will include’ La Salle Spier's “Symphonic Visions,” Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5 in C Minor,” excerpts from Tschaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite,” Strauss’ “Tales From the Vienna Woods,” Wagner’s “Traume” and ‘Weinberger's polka and fugue from “Schwanda.” Stockholm (Continued From First Page) the Norwegians had built their ring to isolate German-occupied Oslo in a semicircle from Moss to Holen, east of Mysen, northward to the Romerike region, 40 miles north of Oslo, and then south to Tyri Fjord and Vikesund, about 30 miles west of Oslo. Last night the Germans were said ! to hold all the area within this zone. ‘The Norwegians, in addition to try- ing the prevent the new German forces from getting in, also were trying to keep the Germans already there from thrusting outward. The newest German troops were said to have landed at Skieberg, at the head of the Skagerrak near the Swedish frontier. The newspaper Lens Tidningen at Osterund, in-Central Swed site_the impbriant Norwegian™ port of Trondheim, which the Germans hold, said yesterday that a telephoned dispatch from Stjordal, 15 miles east of Trondheim, disclosed that 26 Ger- man bombing planes were stationed there. -In addition, 22 more were reported on their way there. Story of Trondheim Landing. This newspaper also brought to light a story which may solve the mystery of how the Germans on ‘Tuesday were able to pass 50 easily by the Fortress Agdenes, which guards the outer entrance to the narrow Trondheim Fjord. This report was that the fortress' had stopped the German fleet and was holding them off until it re- ceived an order from Maj. Vidkun Quisling, head of the Norwegian Nazi party, ostensibly issued in the name of the Norwegian government and ordering the defenders not to_ resist. Later, according to this story, a contradictory order came from the regular government of Premier Johan Nygaardsvold, but then it was too late. The German ships were inside the fortress. Old and Young Evacuated. Lens Tidningen said all children and old people had been evacuated from Trondheim, a rail point of great strategic value which the allies may try to take from the Germans. A stiff censorship was imposed on ‘Trondheim newspapers. Unconfirmed reports that the Brit- Ish were landing troops at Narvik, northern Norwegian ore port taken by the Germans on Tuesday, con- tinued to circulate here yesterday. The Stockholm radio last night broadcast a report that several large British warships were landing troops at Narvik under heavy bombard- ment from German warplanes and land forces. Fighting was said to have gone on all day with heavy losses on both sides. Norwegians Also Attack. Norwegian forces in the vicinity also were said to be attacking with all available force, although they lacked heavy arms. The radio gave no authority for the reports. A former Premier and fareign minister of Norway, Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, said in an interview here that the situation in Norway was brighter. Maj. Quisling, who proclaimed a group of his followers the new “gov- ernment” of all Norway last Tues- day, is in charge of only a limited district around Oslo which has been occupied by the Germans, said Mo- ‘winckel. Maj. Quisling is in control of the Oslo radio stations and newspa- ‘pers, Mowinckel said, and thus has the best means of reaching the peo- pile. DENTISTRY ON CREDIT $10 $15 $25 $35 T NATURAL KING TH Srccint Adentien- 15 Norveve Fatiants Teeth ‘We X-Rey Entire Mouth, $5.00 DR. 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Gardner is represented as having told the committee he had no con- tact with Pelley, but later to have conceded to the committee that he had been employed for six months by the Skyland Press, publisher of the Silver Shirts’ magazine, the Liberator. The defendant also is accused of seeking a position as imvestigator with the Dies Committee in order Open Evenings MONDAY and TUESDAY Until 9:30 P.M. to obtain information from groups under investigation. The commit- tee says he “concealed and denied material facts” in seeking this em- ployment. Conducting the trial will be Assist- ant United States Attorney John W. Fihelly, while Gardner is repre- sented by Attorneys James F. Reilly and F. Hunter Creech. Justice Peyton Gordon a few days ago denied the defense motion for & bill of particulars. Expected to appear for the trial are Representative Dies, the secre- tary of the House Committee on Un- American Activities, Robert E. Strip- ling; Rhea Whitley, its former Counsel, and George E. 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