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Show 1500 Selected Voices to Sing at Ward Choir Festival Fifteen hundred voices selected from fifty-nine wards will be presented pre-sented in a Massed Ward Choir Festival, the highlight oi the Conference Con-ference Week entertainment, Saturday Satur-day evening, April 8th in the Salt Lake tabernacle. The choirs participating par-ticipating come from stakes located in Salt Lake, Tooele and Davis counties. The festival, sponsored by the General Music Committe of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is intended to create a new interest in Vard choirs. One of the objectives of tha committee is the organization of a voluntary choir in every ward of the Church. The :r.usic to be rendered at the concert will be anthems and home composers. J. Spencer Cornwall, director di-rector of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Ohoir, will conduct the massed choirs of the festival, and Dr. Frank W. Asper will be at the organ. Frederic Dixcn, well known and distinguished American pianist, will be guest artist. Mr. Dixon has crossed the continent .many times on concert tour and has received the acclaim of music critics wherever lie has appeared. In January of this year, after his recital in Town Hall, the New York World-Telegram stated: "Novel arrangement and unconventional selection were merits of Frederic Dixon's piano recital re-cital in the Town Hall yesterday. The welcome departure from the beaten track should be pondered and imitated by other pianists. To the performance cf the program Mr. Dixon brought his intelligence, musicianship, mu-sicianship, earnestness, and well developed de-veloped technic. The audience was duly responsive. Months of preparation assure a concert of the highest quality. Re-x Re-x hearsals were first held by ward ' eSoir&--This-ma fon'3ed--y- sectional sec-tional rehearsals, and now for several sev-eral weeks, combined rehearsals nave been held in the tabernacle. Elder Melvin J. BaDard heads the General Music Ccrnxittee of the CQiurch sponsoring the Festival. Tracy Y. Cannon, second vice-chairman, is in direct charge cf the concert. A small admissicn charge will be necessary 25c for general admission admis-sion and a few reserved seats at T'Oc each. ) Fired First Shot J ' A Geruiian launch, with a cutter in tow, was speeding across the harbor of Guam cn the fateful morning of April 6, 1917, the day that America entered the World War. Out on the bay lay the interned in-terned warship Cormoran, its Teutonic Teu-tonic crew unaware that President Wilson had just signed the war resolution. Suddenly, according to a release by Postmaster Ray K. Bonne, a sr.ot whistled across the bow of the launch, followed by two others. The first shot was fired by Corporal Cor-poral Michael Chockie, one of a ,iarty of fifteen U, S. Marines, commanded by Lieutenant W. A. Hall of the Navy. Every seafaring man understands this manifest command to "heave to." The enemy en-emy launch immediately surrendered. surrender-ed. Meanwhile the Governor of Guam had sent his aide in a barge to the interned Cormoarn, demanding her surrender. He was complying with orders received fom the Navy De-patment De-patment at Washington, when word ! cf our entry into the war had been flashed to the faraway naval station sta-tion in the Pacific. Soon the aide boarded the .warship .war-ship and informed the captain of the surrender order. But the Ger-xans Ger-xans had anticipated his errand, and the Americans scarcely had time to leave the vessel before it was blown up by its own crew. For the next half hour small boats in the haborr was picking up survivors. surviv-ors. More than six mcnths later, on October 23, the men of Battery C, Sixth Field Artillery, First Division, Divis-ion, hauled a gun up on the firing line near Bathlemont, and sent a shell soreamng in the general direction di-rection of the German lines. It was America's first hostile shot in France. But the bullet that Corporal Chockie, of the U. S. Marines, fired across the bow of the German launch at the isolated naval station in the Pacific on April 6, was America's first shot in the World War. |
