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Evening star., 1925-05-26
ROCKEFELLER BUYS SITE
FOR FOSDICK'S CHURCH
Block on Morningside Drive Is
Believed Logical Place for
Big Edifice.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 26.-Purchase of
the block front on Morningside Drive,
from 117th to 118th street, has been
made by John d. Rockefeller, jr., 1t
was learned yesterday, as the prob
able site for the new Park Avenue
Baptist Church, ito comply with one
Of the conditions laid down by Rev.
Harry Emerson Fosdick when he re-
ceived the call last week to become
pastor of the church, succeeding Dr.
Cornelius Woelfkin.
The property is considered the log
ical location for the new "edifice near
Columbia University" asked for by
DR.. Fosdick.
Harry Hall. vice president of VIII
liam A. White & Sons, admitted last
night that the property had been pur-
chased through his firm for Mr.. Rocke-
feller but said that he was not at
liberty to say that it had been den'
nitely selected as the site of the new
Park Avenue Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1925-05-26
Births Reported.

The following births have been reporte,
to the Health Department in the last "a
hours:
Thomas and Frances Abellera. girl.
Claud H. and Ellen f. Wise. girl
Charles s. and Frances Embrey. girl.
Joseph and Mary p. Baer. girl.
Harry J. and Margaret Demaree. girl.
Lawrence o. and Dorothea Mankin, boy.
Sidney C. and Florence E. Cousins. boy.
Thomas and Ellen Deckelman. boy.
John R. and Virginia N Jones. boy.
James and Viola Smallwood. boy.
George and Beatrice johnson, girl.
Samuel and Inez Lawrence, girl
Isaac and Viola Tonkns boy.
Lucius A. and Maggie Bunch. boy.
Evening star., 1925-05-26
Soroptimists Enjoy Picnic.

The annual Summer picnic Of the
Soroptimist Club was held last night
at the country home of DR.. Julia
Minerva Green. The committee on
arrangements was as follows: Mrs.
Marie Stair Lawyer. chairman; Mrs.
Helen Fowler, Miss Helen Woods
Mrs. Eva Turner, Mrs. Annie Ball,
Mrs. Mary Ellenberger, Mrs. Marie
Pierce. The regular weekly luncheon
will be held Wednesday at the La
Fayette.
Evening star., 1925-05-26
CLARENDON CITIZENS
SEEK new MEMBERS
Old Residents of Community to Be
Solicited-Fire-F e-Fghtjng
Unit Planned.
Special Dispatch to the Star.

Special Dispatch to the Star.
CLARENDON, Va, May ga
campaign for new members was
started by the Clarendon Citizens
Association, meeting at Citizens Hall
last night, when letter drafted by
Secretary Campbell urging all resi-
dents TO join the association and
otherwise to lend their aid to the
civic improvement activities of the
organization was ordered circulated
by the membership committee.
Supervisor Ingram has promised to
start work in a few days on rebuild
ing the sidewalk on the south side
of Wilson boulevard from Clarendon
avenue to Clarendon School, accord
ing TO the report of A. j. Porter
chairman of the road committee. The
walk is almost impossible during
rainy weather.
A. B. Eaton, former chief of the
Fire Department, announced that there
would be a mass meeting Tuesday
evening, June 2. for effecting "a fire
fighting organization. An organiZa
tion committee recently appointed, he
said, would have the constitution and
bylaws ready. and upon their adop
tion officers will be elected
Evening star., 1925-05-26
TR0TSKY MAY BE PICKED
FOR ECONOMIC COUNCIL
Moscow Reports Indicate He Will
Have Charge of Plans to
Electrify Nation.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, May 26.-Rumors are
current in Communist circles that
Leon Trotsky will be appointed a
member of the Supreme Economic
Council. where he will be intrusted
with the direction of the work of
the electrical department, embracing
scheme for the electrification of
the country as well as the manag-
ment of the councils scientific and
technical branch. In addition, it is
rumored that he will be appointed
chairman of the chief concessions
committee, a post now held by NJ.
Paitikoff
1t is impossible to confirm these
reports officially. 1t is apparent
Trotsky's appointment to new post
is expected within q few days.
Evening star., 1925-05-26

tween Pinckney, Ark, and a point
near Coahoma Light, off which she
sank, practically has been established
as the principal cause of the disaster
to the United States steamer Nor.
man on May 6, in which % persons
lost their lives, the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal said today.
THAT the port rudder of the Nor
man wa4 broken off almost complete
is an established fact, and it affords
the most logical reason for The cap
sizing of The steamer, the first reason
to be offered that can be hacked up
by concrete evidence" the article says.
Evening star., 1925-05-26
FOREIGN.
FOKEIGN.
Is am, Greenwich time, toda
John A. Burgess Buried.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, May 26.-
Funeral services for John A. Burgess,
68 years old, truck farmer, who died
Friday, were held yesterday afternoon
at the residence, Sargent road,
Chillum. followed by services at the
Church Of Our Savior, Brookland. u.
c.. the Rev. kfr. Stephens officiating.
Evening star., 1925-05-26
Want Road Fixed.

Acting on the recomme ndation OF
a. NJ. Dawson, the meeting voted to
instruct the road committee to request
the board of supervisors to improve
Washington avenue from Spruce street
station to Pershing drive.
+. w. Pumphrey of the Lyon Park
Citizens Association invited the school
committee to meeting tonight in the
Office of Lyon & Fitch, Lyon Park
at which the question of the new
school building on Fort avenue will
be considered. Mr.. Humphrey pointed
out that although a four-room school
was provided in the plan as presented
at the bond election. it is now planned
TO erect two-room building. 1t has
been explained by the school officials
MIR. Humphrey said, that two rooms
are all needed for the present and the
other rooms will be added as the need
arises. The Clarendon school commit
tee was instructed to attend the meet.
ing.
Evening star., 1925-05-26
MISS STUDEBAKER DIES.
Was Sister of the Seven Brother
Who Founded Corporation.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. May 26.-Miss
Maria Studebaker, sister OF the seven
brothers who founded the Studebaker
Corporation, and the last TO bear their
name, died here late last night on the
eve of her S5th birthday.
Miss Studebaker recently suffered
u stroke of paralysis. Aunt Maria" :"
was the last of the Studebaker fam
lily of 13 children. Miss Studebaker
was born at Ashland, Ohio, May 26,
lS40
Evening star., 1925-05-26
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TONIGHT

lONlGHI.
The Rhode Island State Society will
meet, o'clock, in Thomson School
Kalorama Citizens Association will
meet. 8 O'Clock, in Parish House of
st. Margaret's Church.
IneZ Eudora Perry of Los Angeles
will lecture at Playhouse, o'clock
Subject: why a Woman Cannot Be
come a Mason
Col. James S. Petit Camp, No. g.,
United Spanish War Veterans, will
meet, o'clock, at 921 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast. Nomination and
election of commander and of dele
gates and alternates to the depart
ment convention.
Brightwood Citizens Association
will meet. s o'clock. in Parish Hall
of Holy Comforter Church.
lexington w. c. T. L. will meet
7:45 o'clock. at the home of Mrs.
Burkitt, SO U street northeast.
The G. F. S. candidates of ST.
Marks Church will present Grand
mothers Birthday" an operetta, 8
o'clock, in Parish Hall of the church.
With only one case for trial at a
London court recently, there were 16
justices, 20 grand 1urymen, Sc petty
jurors, 2 barristers and dozen
policemen and court officials in at
tendance. and the prisoner got three
months for stealing two mugs.
Evening star., 1925-05-26
Carn Of Tbanks.

CAyANNA We wish TO express our sincere
thanks and grateful appreciation to our
many friends and neighbors for their
kindness and floral offerings at the death
of our little grandson, JAMES CANANNA.
MR.. AND MRS. 6. w. KEENE AND
Family es
Evening star., 1925-05-26

The District Of Columbia Congress
of Parent-Teacher Associations will
have a special meeting at Columbia
Junior High School Thursday. pm.
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter. Mrs. William
Wolff Smith and Mrs. Joseph Saunders
will give reports Of the convention OF
the national congress held in Austin,
Tex.
Evening star., 1925-05-26
BlAMES BROKEN RUDDER
FOR SINKING OF NORMAN
Memphis Paper Explains Cause of
Disaster That Cost 90 Lives,
on u. S. Steamer.

BY the Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 26-ThG
smashing of her port rudder some
where in the Mississippi River. be
Evening star., 1925-05-26
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported
hours
Walter F. Carter II. Union Station, D. G.
Elizabeth l.. Ryan. 81, the Brunswick
Apartment.
silas II. Sherwood. s5. I1Os 9th st.isw
Hospital.
Elsie r. Lind. "a. 11O4 Park pl. ne.
John Butler. 81 1929 PENNSYLVANIA ave
Matilda Green. 30 stanton Park Hospital
Robert l.; Fairall. SO. 4O3 9th st. ne
Edward Grumley, so. Emergency Hospital
and Market space
Margaret L. Runion. IL. Oil Emerson st.
Paul J. Nesline. 1 month. 1889 Summit
pl ne
Maria McDermott. 8 days. l1a7 Genoa
st. ne
Evening star., 1925-05-26

The Seventh International Sample
Fair at Padua, Italy, this year at
tracted exhibits of commerce, industry,
trades, agriculture, arts and science
from all parts of the world
Evening star., 1925-05-26

A 500 card party will be given for
the benefit of Liberty Council. No 6,
d. OF A., tomorrow. pm, Pythian
Temple.
Evening star., 1925-05-26

The endowment committee Of Joppa
Lodge Chapter, No. 81, o. E. S., will
give a card party Thursday, pm, at
sos Taylor street.
Evening star., 1925-05-26

The Maryland State Society will
meet for last time this season Thurs
day, 8 pm, at Thomson School. John
Ritchie. jr.. will preside. and 10 v.
Morgan, historian, will give talk.
Evening star., 1925-05-26
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge will lay the
corner stone of Theodore Snow Memo
rial Hospital at the Florence Critten-
ton Home. 4759 Conduit road, tomor-
row at AS pm.
Warren G. Harding Chapter, No. 81
o. L. s., will give a card party, s
o'clock. at the home of Mrs. Bushey,
1414 Euclid street, for benefit Of the
endowment fund for Masonic and East
ern Star Home.
Evening star., 1925-05-26

Mrs. w. l.. Darby, wife Of the execu-
tive secretary of Washington Fedora
ton of Churches, will lecture tomor-
row at s o'clock at Peck Memorial
Chapter. Subject, The Great Octo-
pus." Public invited.
Evening star., 1925-05-26

IONIrHI.
The Rhode Island State Society will
meet, o'clock, in Thomson School.
Evening star., 1925-05-26

kalorama Citizens Association will
meet. s o'clock. in Parish House of
st. Margaret'S Church.
Evening star., 1925-05-26

lexington w. c. T. L. will meet.
7:45 o'clock. at the home of Mrs.
Burkitt, 33 U street northeast.
Evening star., 1925-05-26

Brightwood Citizens Association
will meet. o'clock. in Parish Hall
of Holy Comforter Church
Evening star., 1925-12-27

first half of the nineteenth century.
was a pupil of Trumbull. He painted
700 portraits in. oil, as-sveH as .minrs
lures. Henry Inman, another Nstv
York artist and friend of Elliott. like-
wise became famous as portrStt
painter. He was the first vice presi-
dent of the National Academy OF De
sign, founded in 1926.
Among the English artists VIII"
adopted America after the Revoln
ton may be mentioned William Birch
and Thomas SuIly. Birch inaugura ted
the art of enamel painting on copper
in this country. Sully was A pupil ~
both Stuart and West and an ahlc
successor to them for more than 50
years.
Not only will visit TO the minia
ture exhibition bring one nearer 4"
these immortal personalities. but It
also. Will create n more profound ad
miration for our forefathers, who
realized the importa nee of art TO life
and made time for 1t in the midst or
their heroic activities to establish .
nation.
Evening star., 1925-12-27
YALE GIVES UP FALL
TESTS FOR ENTRANCE
Beginning in 1927, School Records
and Reports Will Determine
Fitness for Admission.
BF the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. December 26.
September examinations for fihal
candidates for admission TO Yale Uni
versity will be discontinued beginning
in 1927, Prof. r. n. Corwin. chair
man of the board of admissions. an
nounced today. The fitness of appli.
cants for Yale will be determined by
their school records and confidential
reports of their head masters and
the entrance examinations taken i'm
mediately at the close of the school
work, Prof. Corwin said
Under the present practice. Prof.
Corwin said, most Of those applica nts
who are burdened with admission
conditions at the completion of the
June examinations plunge neadlons
into tutoring schools IN the hope of
gaining sufficient number of credits
to give them admission in Septem-
Der. At the end of these examina-
tions, however, but a small portion
of the total number of these eleventh
hour applicants can be admitted.
II seems as Unfair to require Sep
tember exa limitations of any applica Mt
whose deficiencies are such as to
leave practically no hope of admission
as it is unnecessary to require them
of any candidate whose deficiencies in
June are insignificant. The few hectic
gestures which may be made during
the late Summer months. usually un-
der the direction of coaching staff,
have little value and are Of measur-
able benefit only to the tutoring
school, This discontinuance is in ac-
cordanCe with the best college pro-
redure."
Evening star., 1925-12-27

a submerged stream save land mass
iE the center of the Arctic Sea?
No one knows exactly what the
Mackenzie does. But it has been
proved that the polar sea, like all the
other seas, is the plaything of the
moon. 1t has itS tides. Moreover.
these tides have been observed, timed
and measured at many points around
the polar circle. They have been
studied bv many scientists.
SverGrup, the explorer, observed the
tides himself and concluded that as
far as they were concerned he could
safely say that no land exists between
Alaska and the mathematical pole. His
findings are disputed by Rolln A.
Harris. the American ocea nographer,
who believes he has proved that land
does exist.
"Since Nansens discovery OF ocean
depths along the track of the Fran,
says Harris. lit has been quite gen
orally assumed that deep water covers
all or nearly all of the unknown Arctic
territory situated north of known land
masses That such is not the case
can be conclusively proven. But there
is difficulty in showing with certainty
whether land or very shallow water
is responsible for certain observed
phenomena.
In this connection Harris made the
point that the tide streams at Point
Barrow should come from the north
il there is deep water and no land
due north. But" he wrote. the
Point Barrow food streams come
from the west instead OF the north"
Sets Form Of Land"
Having arrived at this conclusion,
Harris made his mathematical formula
carry him on to the point where he
could write:
From various indications it will be
assumed that land in question is
trapezoidal in form and contains near
ly half a million square miles. One
corner of it is northward of Point Bar
row, another northward of Bennett
Island Its coast 10 the east could he
traced in nearly to Banks Land, thus
forming the northern boundary of the
Beaufort Sea. Another corner would
be found northwest OF Grant Land as
indicated by the discovery of Peary
Crocker Land"
Harris calculation have been as
sailed. But TO some scientists they re-
main the bedrock of conviction that
an undiscovered continent waits to he
found somewhere beyond the far
tnest north" of the whalers and ex-
plorers who have tried to follow the
nleridians which lead northward from
J Point Rarrow.
II Capt. Wilkins succeeds in follow
ing one of these meridians- to the ice
pole he Will be in Harris area OF
potential land after his plane has been
III the air only an hour and half
If Harris is right IL there, is a trape
Zoidal continent up there nearly a
half million square miles in area /"
the Detroit Aviation Society will ten
Ger to the United States a new Alaska
/ that will be larger than all the British
Isles taken together. nearly twice as
large rs Texas and something like 10
times larger than the State Of New
! York
! Copyright. 1928 by North American News
paper Alliance
Evening star., 1925-12-27
MINIATURE EXHIBIT CONTAINS
WORK OF CELEBRATED ARTIST.
Special Collection at National Gallery Has Reproduce
tions of Celebrated Figures in American His
tory Produced by Great Early Masters.

In gold and set with precious stones.
The majority Of them are painted on
ivory. which succeeded the vellum
first extensively used; few are on
wood. porcelain, copper and other
materials.
Panorama Of Greatness.
This exhibition Is miniature pano-
rama of past greatness, including
women of the eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. There are
many aspects OF George Washington,
by Birch, Field. Charles w. Peale.
Petticolas, Trumbull and an unknown
artist.
Lafayette, too, is here, surrounded
by the clouds of battle, the American
flag and other patriotic emblems; Mrs.
Paul Revere, the second wife to cap
ture the heart of the great Boston
patriot. who fashioned the gold frame
which surrounds her little portrait;
Alexander Hamilton, as a lad Of Is,
in a blue coat and powdered wig,
looking extremely young to have
played so dramtic a role just three
years later; Lighthouse Harry Lee,
handsome and impressive in his mill
tary uniform; Daniel Webster, with
the massive forehead which added TO
his reputation for scholarliness;
Dolly Madison, in one of her famous
1urbans; John Randolph of Roanoke,
looking very gentle to have had a
reputation for bitter and sarcastic dis
position: Charles Francis Adams. sr..
descends mt Of two Presidents; Thomas
Jefferson the familiar profile with
the piquant, tip.tilted nose; Gov. VII.
liam Aiken Of South Carolina. sing
ularly care-free in appearance for one
so heavily burdened; Robert Morris
the banker of the Revolution, and his
wife, and Martha Washington, an un-
usual Interpretation: G o m M d r ?
Perry, looking every inch = hero, and
romantic one, his handsome face
sparkling with animation, dimple in
one cheek, and his black hair touseled;
President Tyler StonewaIl Jackson,
in his Confederate uniform, and. to
go back more than century beyond
these. Lord Baltimore, as child. one
OF the most attractive portraits
painted by John Smibert. artist of
early Colonial days.
Had Unusual Career.
Benjamin West, our first great
painter, had sensational career. a
Quaker lad, born near Philadelphia IN
1898, he early began to paint. using
brushes made of hairs from his pet
cat. IL is said. and crude colors OBJ
tanned from clay and other natural
sources. the secrets of which were inn
parted by Indians. Eventually he es-
tablished himself in London and en-
joyed the patronage of the King and
nobility and the friendship of Eey-
nol6s. Gsinshorouch and the rest Of
that great coterie of British masters.
in association with whom he founded
the Royal Academy and became its
second president.
John Singleton CopIey, who was ex.
ceedingly handsome Ito judge from a
miniature OF himself in a frame set
with diamonds) enjoyed Boston's most
sristocratic patronage for about 20
years prior To the Revolution. Being
Evening star., 1925-12-27
BY FLORENCE SEVILLE
BERGMAN.

The early American miniatures
which compose part of the special ex-
hibition now at the National Gallery
Of Art, arranged by the Washington
loan exhibition committee. have many
points Of interest, and as many phases
OF appeal to the public.
This group, numbering more than
two hundred miniatures, Is probably
the largest ever assembled. No one
who saw the J. Pierpont Morgan col
lection of minia lures at the Metropoll
tan Museum "A decade or so ago, will
ever forget it. But it was interna-
tional in scope, including large num-
bers OF French. English and other
European examples, whereas the pres.
ent group is composed wholly of the
work Of native-born American artists
or those temporarily resident in this
country before 1S40.
These tiny paintings are jewels of
color. Such minute art would seem to
require exceptional skill; but the pro-
portion Of excellence in this group is
greater than one will usually find in
any group Of large oil portraits by as
many different artists.
Derivation of Word.
The word miniature" is derived,
not from the Latin word minus
tsmalD as is generally supposed, but
from "minium," red mineral color
used for initial letters and decorative
headings in the illumined parchment
manuscripts of the Middle Ages. The
small portraits and fancy heads
painted into the initial letters were the
ancestors Of The miniature as we
know II. Miniature painting rapidly
achieved lofty expression under Hans
Holbein. court painter to Henry VIII
of England: and in the opinion of
many connoisseurs. no one has ever
surpassed the great German in this
field of art.
But that number Of our early
American painters euualed him in
their best work is apparent through
the present exhibition. The great di-
versity of expressions, features, and
facial contours (for the MIXTURES are
almost wholly portraitsj lead TO the
conviction that these must have been
excellent likenesses, in most instances.
Miniature painting enjoyed exception
al popularity during the period of the
Revolution and for a generation
thereafter Indeed, until the invention
of Daguerre), so il is no wonder the
artists attained To high degree of
skill. All of our first great painters,
Benjamin West, John :. Copley,
Charles Wilson Peale, John Trum-
bun and Gilbert Stuart, are repre-
sented, as well as most OF those who
carried on their traditions in the pc
riod Of the early republic, Edward
g. Malbone, Charles Fraser. Thomas
Sully. Charles LorinG Elliott. Henry
lnman and numerous members OF the
Peale family. More than 80 known
painters are represented and in ad-
dition. there are about a. anonymous
works, which. could the artists he
known. might raise their number to
so or more.
Many of the miniatures are in the
form Of brooches. lockets, etc, framed
Evening star., 1925-12-27
One Womanly Way.

Rose--Cla ude says he worships the
very ground ! stand on.
Madge-I don't blame him. A farm
of that size is not to he sneered at.
Evening star., 1925-12-27
Eskimos Ship as Sailors.

So far as there is any record tie
first Eskimos ever to ship as sailors
We're those who went aboard the
schooner Jean Revillon in Northern
Canadian waters last Summer. They
cruised with the schooner into fur
producing ports. When Spring comes
they Will return to their homes in the
North. The Eskimos' trip to Halifax
was their first time out of the frigid
zone. The captain said he probably
would have been unable to sail on
schedule except for the fact that the
four Exkimos signed on as sailors for
the voyage down.
Evening star., 1925-12-27

ArSentinians are agitating for A
free port at Buneos Aires to com
pete with the free port which Cru-
quay has begun to construct at
COlonia
Evening star., 1925-12-27

Mrs. f'anniebell Southerland. mem.
Der OF an old Southern family. - a
Police Court judge In Paris. Ky.
Evening star., 1925-12-27

affects the favor, this was important.
lie had come to Washington in search
of holes. Next day four-page re
port on holes for Swiss cheese was
on his desk. 1t said in part, that bac-
teria known as Swiss culture were the
excavators. or, more properly, the
bellows. Gas generated by the bac-
terra expands the rubbery, raw cheese
as yeast does bread. Further, that
the orGa Gansms can be he'd from the
Department of Agriculture and GER
tain State universities.
'The Department of Agriculture not
only knows Swiss cheese. but also
makes it in it's experimental dairy.
A visitor to the dairy division can
see most any day q pint bottle with
enough bacteria to initiate a cheese
the size of the Los Angeles"
Evening star., 1925-12-27
ESCAPED II YEARS AGO.
Man Held in Staying May Be
Former Convict.

RICHMOND. Va. December 26 tEol.
C. y. Walker. thought to be the
man under arrest in Somerset County.
Md, in connection WITH the staying
last Thanksgiving day Of John Ster-
ling at Crisfield, escaped from the Vir-
ginia state prison farm in Goochla nd
County on June 20. 1918. Is months
after he had been sentenced TO Is
years Imprisonment for the murder
of J. NJ. Shackleford.
Walker was convicted OF second de
gree murder, and when he entered the
penitentiary here on January l., 1912,
was SO years of age.