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a mS . = wrath Te “THE EVENING BULLETIN, 11 German Pianist | Calls Off Tour, ‘Will Leave U.S. by immigration agents and facing an SM exclusion hearing, German pianist §, Walter Giescking cancelled a pro- ° tested American concert tour and was leaving the U.S. voluntarily to- }* day. He was held in custody overnight, and his agents said they had booked passaze for him on a plane leaving for Paris, A number of Jewish groups and others had protested Gieseking’s ad- & inission to the country because he F played before Hitler and perforined & in Germany throughout the Nazi & regime. The pianist denied he ever F was a Nai. : , Selzed Just Before Recital Gieseking was picked up Sy the immigration officers yesterday, a few ¢ hours before a scheduled recital qt & Carnegie Hall was to have opened an American tour. . _o The concert and the tour were can- | net: celled at the pianist’s direction after ; ot eee *? rs ti ‘his seizure, but a crowd estimated : ; ' rene geet: eer at. 5000 milled around the hall lagt.- ++ Walter Gleseking should ee eee my - ees Continued on Page 6, Col. 2. -play. the piano in Carnegie (CONCERT CALLED OFF: Members of the Jewish War Veterans pause in their picketing of [Puma Gi oe aS | fall lastnight. He didn't. . Carnegie Hall last night to read a sign announcing ‘cancellation of -a*concert by German’. . ese 12 Tite \U Amother Picture On Page 6. . fr ““ > * pianist Walter Gieseking. The pianist, who jplayed for. Adolf Hitler, was picked up by im- | migration officers shortly before the concert; andthe Justife Department in Washington an... nounced he had agreed to leave the pountryg imare tia se fuse eas Wfepiiotos a = . « af : & his 13 b ; bad Se's > _