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Evening star., 1937-10-09
Legislator From Louisiana
Brings Artist to Make
Groups for Garden.
By Lucy Salamanca.

FEW miles from the District
~ line in Maryland, beside the
~ quiet waters of the bay,
"A little open shed stands among
age-old oaks. 1t is not an ordinary
shed. 1t Is, In way, touched with
the magic of creation. For into 1t
are moved, from time to time, great
blocks of limestone, dug from the
mountains Of France and transported
to these shores in the service Of beauty.
And out Of 1t emerge these same great
blocks Of limestone in the form Of
enchanting maidens. Of such grace and
symmetry as must have distinguished
the goddesses Of the seasons them.
selves.
Summer" has been carved with rare
skill and infinite lovelineSs from one
Of those blocks, Spring" is even now
taking shape under the hammer and
chisel. and before the work going on
in that little shed is completed,
Autumn" and Winter" will have
been moved out into the sunlight and
shadows Of a Louisiana garden, bright
with azaleas.
For these four seasons, in the
form OF four sculptured maidens, are
being carved for Les Jardins de
Mouton. the delightful gardens OF
Representative Robert L. Mouton of
Louisiana, and will be shipped down
to take their places on the formal
terraces as soon as they are completed.
THE sculptor and artist engaged in
this work is Thomas James Coutts
Balm Of Philadelphia, who is making
Maryland his home many months to
come-or during the execution of the
task in hand. Before that task is nm
ished he will have sculptured, in addi-
ton to the figures Of the four seasons,
a group to be named Eternal Spring.
time and two other groups to be de-
cided on. He has already completed
and shipped to the Representative in
Louisiana 4 figure of Evangeline, which
will shortly be unveiled in Les Jardins
de Mouton. 1t is an impressive work,
weighing tons, and represents the
maid Of Acadia in q characteristic
pose in the picturesque dress of the
Acadian country. Mr.. Balm has also
carved out OF stone = lifelike and
artistic ram-the sheep signifying the
name of the Congressman in his native
French, "Mouton"
Mr.. Balm is known in this country
for his fine portraiture and for his
sculpture. There hangs at present
in the White House his excellent like
ness Of President Roosevelt, and on
the estate of Joseph Widener in Phila-
delphia many of his works of art
beautify the gardens. including foun-
tain and other groups. His beautiful
conceptions Of the four seasons, upon
which he Is now working for Repre-
sentative Mouton, bid fair to add to
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the sculptor's fame, for they are fig
ures of consummate grace and artistry,
markedly original in conception.
The young maiden representing
Summer typifies fruition and the vigor
of youth. She stands with her left
hand resting on tree stump. her left
knee bent slightly forward. Her right
arm Is raised, the elbow and forearm
making a gracious curve above the
head, the hand dropped to permit the
exquisitely wrought fingers to touch
the left temple lightly. Her head is
thrown back, the throat forming q
taut and graceful arch.
THE figure representing Spring is
only now emerging from the lime
stone under the skillful fingers OF the
artist, so that no more than 4 faint
conception Of her is possible. But
even in the first carving of the head
and posture of the shoulders and
raised arms. at this crude stage, one
is given the impression OF a maiden
coming to life. awakening stretching
her muscles in the FIRST faint STRINGS
Of life.
Just ~ Spring IL depicted a. q
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tive and much quoted work. In the
best sense. his wood cuts set forth
what may be properly designated as
the American Scene" Mr.. Lankes
is lecturer on the fine arts In Wells
College In New York.
Superb NeU Decorations BY
Augustus Vincent Tack.
4 MONG the special attractions set
forth in the Phillips Memorial
Gallery upon its recent reopening are
two new decorations by Augustus Vim
cent Tack, both OF which are hung in
the main gallery on the second floor
The larger OF the two-a horizontal
panel-has been placed at the end OF
the gallery directly opposite the en-
trance 1t is therefore the first thing
one sees upon ascending the stairs and
the impression on the instant is
pleasing. In the same manner and
mood as Mr.. Tack's previous decora-
tive paintings it marks advance both
in conception and execution. While
it is completely abstract 1t is SUI
premely beautiful and translates the
beholder to new world.
The subject suggests mountains
great heights. great depths. SilhOuetted
against golden, luminous sky. Pos
sessing the unbelievable beauty Of Ma
ture it Is Of no place known or ac-
tually seen. As one looks into this
picture. many forms are discerIible,
none OF which is actual-forms ,uch
as one sees in the clouds or among
the flames Of q wood fire. 1t Is re-
markable that anyone could be so
Intangible and yet SO real. In no in
stance has Mr.. Tack used familiar
symbols and yet throughout his paint
ing there Is suggestion of a living
world. 1t is fragment from the far
country of dreams. vision OF those
things upon which the eye OF man
hath not yet rested.
The smaller Of the two panels which
is upright rather than horizontal is
basically similar but in effect less over
whelming. The color scheme of blue
and green, yellow and dull red with
accents Of deep purple, is the same in
both instances. but one is far from be-
ing q repetition OF the other. The |
larger panel is distinctly three dimen-
sional; the smaller panel but two
published in "A Collection in the |
Making.'D
In . brief estimate OF the painter
Mr.. Phillips has told something Of the
way these works are done He says:
over prepared canvas and a
solid underpainting with strong edges,
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By Malinche Macev0v.

e - ERES" in ancient mythology
was worshiped as the god
deSS Of corn as we'll as
~ fruits. She is represented
claSsically 'as a ma jestic woman
with golden hair and crowned with
ears Of wheat; in her right hand
she holds poppies and ears OF corn
and in her left flaming torch"
But how can that be true, even
in mythology" the average person
will comment. 1--WE all know, one
will 90 on. that corn was not dis
covered until 1920, and as far as
writing about it goes-that is just
some writer's Imagination" We shall
see.
A careful search into ancient doc
uments reveals that the word corn"
however. originally meant q small.
firm grain of salt. grain or sand
Hence it was that the word first be-
came pertinent to the small. hard
seeds OF plants. and We find 1t still
in the words peppercorn and barley
corn. Very often this term is inter-
preted to mean the leading cereal
crop OF the district in which the
crop Is grown.
For instance. in England it refers to
wheat, for wheat is the largest OF
England's cereal crops; in Scotland
and Ireland 1t refers to oats for the
same reason, and in the United States
it refers to maize or Indian corn,
which Is also true Of the South
American countries, wherever Eng
lish is spoken. Corn means only one
thing-maize. And the reason is prob
ably the same in each instance; it
Is the most important cereal grain
grown in both countries.
In the United States the bulk Of
the maize crop is fed to live stock.
the remainder being used as food
and in production Of maize factory
products. This country has also been
an exporter of maize for more than a
century. In the early days most OF
the shipments went to the West In
dies and only q small quantity to
Europe. Shortages of staples. like
bread and feed grain, caused Great
Britain and Ireland to import maize
in great amounts.
IN RECENT years the United States
has imported quite q bit Of maize
from Argentina, for the reason that
the seaboard markets found 1t far
more economical to do this than to
bring it from the interior surplus
areas.
The early Indians, when possible,
always planted one or two crabs or fish
in the holes with the kernels of corn
as fertilizer. They also planted pump
kins or beans between the rows Of
cornstalks. Not having improved i'm
plements Of any sort they were reduced
to the necessity OF using shoulder
blades of buffalo, elk horns, or clam
shells. Imagine the farmer Of today
getting along in this manner.
In addition to Argentina, Chill also
grows much maize. And from Amer
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:lared 1t his belief that art Is time

clared 1t his belief that art Is time
less
Now, however, with the publication
by the American Federation of Arts
OF . monograph by Mr.. Phillips on
Giorgione. it is made known that for
20 years he has pursued with scholarly
diligence and enthusiasm all that bore
or threw light upon the life and works
OF this great Venetian painter, who in
his art bridged at the most critical
period in the Italian Renaissance the
old and the new.
This IL not, perhaps, either 30
strange or illogical as it may seem. for
always Mr.. Phillips has been particu-
larly sensitive to beauty and its ex-
preston through the medium OF the
arts. Also he has been q seeker of
new truths in this field, knowing well
that such pursuit often leads one up
blind alleys.
In his work on Giorgione Mr.. Phil.
lips has had the encouragement OF
the leading students OF Italian art
and he has certainly left no stone
unturned toward the accomplishment
OF his end. All of his researches
have been made with scholarly dill
gence.
GiorgiOne, 1t will be remembered
Was the pupil Of Bellini and the
teacher OF Titan. Born at Castel-
franco In l477. he lived most OF his
life In Venice, where, In 1910. he died
OF the plague. But In those few
years he made an impress upon the
art OF his time which was most re-
markable, literally turning the great
stream into an entirely new channel.
This Is the more astounding when
the ScantineSs in number OF the works
ne left as witness to his genius is
considered. There are only three
canvases which all critics agree are
his from start to finish, and there
are less than 20 in the painting Of
which there is indisputable suggestion.
II not evidence. OF the original con-
ception and inspiration Of this mas
ter. Reasonably, under such circum-
stances he might we'll have dissolved
by now into q Giorgione myth, but,
instead, although centuries have
passed since his death, scholars still
discuss him, painters study him and
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tion which are invariably on a high
spiritual plane. Improvising on the
theme OF high mountains Tack sees
the majesty Of omnipotent purpose
emerging in sublime symmetry out of
the turbulence OF storm. or slowly
shaping the earth In the continuous
movement speaking as Of human
yearning in the various voices OF many
waters. Symphonic compositions are
built upon repetitiOns OF chosen forms
selected from the accidents of Nature
and OF his own alchemy"
There have been many today who
have striven to express that which is
abstract through the medium of
/ painting, but the majority who have
| 80 striven have only succeeded in pro-
ducing puzzle pictures, because they
have resorted to the use OF symbols
familiar and with fixed associations.
Also they have utterly disregarded the
potentisiities Of beauty.
Mr.. Tack has not fallen into either
OF these errors. He uses no symbols
and invents his own forms. He Ia
conscious OF, and makes manifest in
all OF his works. beauty, which is ele-
mental and everlasting. There has
always seemed to be \ close relation
ship between the decorative paintings
by Tack and the strong head OF The
Egyptian Youth" which is one of
the prized possessions OF the Phillips
Memorial Gallery, and why? Because
they both are based on the elemental.
on that which Is inherent to all great
art. 10 the creative works Of both
God and Man.
Augustus Vincent Tack was born In
Pittsburgh. studied art in Paris and
New York with Mowbray ana La
Fargo. He married q daughter of
George Fuller. one Of our American
geniuses, and lived for some years
on the Fuller farm at Deerfeld. He
has painted subject pictures and por-
traits as we'll as mural decoration. All
Of his works have q spiritual quality
which he himself believes inseparable
from life.
Scholarly Work OF GiorgiOne by
Duncan Phillips Published.
DUNCAN PHILLIPS, founder and
director Of the Phillips Memorial
Gallery. is thought OF most frequently
as a leading exponent OF modern art.
despite the fact that his acquisitions
for public showing have included
works by old IS well as modern mas
tiers and that he has repeatedly de-
Evening star., 1937-10-09
Housing Experiments.

he movement Tor prefabrlcefeA
houses is given some support ss q
result OF experiments carried on st the
Forest Products Laboratory conducted
In Wisconsin by the Forest Service
Experimental houses have be-n
ouilt with prefabricated wood panels
from three to four feet wide and A
much as Is feet long.
Plywood has been used in the .vork
the rigidity of this material giving
support rather than acting as a bur-
oen on the joists. As result. the
Joists have actually been reduced IN
size. 6-inch joists being employed IN
place Of the usual 10 inch.
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u. S. Holds Lead.

ESTIMATED supplies Of phosphate
rock In the world are set NJ
$4,000 100000 tons by the Department
OF Agriculture. The United States
possesses more than a third. Russia
nearly third and South Africa holds
the greater part Of the remaining sup
plies.
Europe alone uses about 5000. .0on
tons = year and Japan about 900. 900
tons. Japan's supplies in the man.
dated Islands she controls are set a.
4l.000000 tons, putting a decided
limit on how long she can maintats
her self -sufficiency.
Evening star., 1937-10-09
DRY Point Portraits and
Landscapes by Cdd1Dallader
Wdshburn OF Rare Merit.

MO ONE who is interested in prints
or connoisseur of etching can
fail to find delight in the collection
of drypoints by Cadwallader Wash
burn now on view in the upper atrium
of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. OF
the IS prints in this exhibition nearly
three-fourths are portraits and the
others for the most part landscapes
The variety in subject heightens. on
the whole, the effect. This is not the
i1rst time that Mr.. Washburn has ex-
hibited in Washington. A collection
q his drypoints was shown in the
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for the time element inherent in mu-
Sic. We are lured away on wonderful
Journeys Of the eye and the mind over
maplike color areas suggesting the In
terwoven or conflicting interests and
pleasures Of life. to unities of concep-
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Tack drags q jeweled incrustation,
film over film. leaving q surface rich
in light yet fiat in texture With
chromatic orchestra OF fused earth
colors. attuned to harmony and re-
strained in power, the painter seeks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-27
MAY DAY MASS
 MEETING HELD
No Disturbances Expected Saturday-Supt. Roach
 Issues Permit

The communist party has been granted permission to hold a May Day mass meeting at Soldiers and Sailors monument at the west end of the Green Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, it was learned today. Police Superintendent William J.. Roach said he had given the neceS- sary permission, and added that he expected no disturbances of any kind in the city.
 Police have made plans to take the usual precautions, which have been in order since the May Day troubles of some years ago. Supt. Roach did not announce definite plans for police assignments but said the department would be fully prepared to handle any situation that might arise. For the last, few years there have been no May Day disturbanches m the city, though extra police have been held ready for duty. Supt. Roach said that the communists application was the only one he had for an outdoor meeting on May Day. Other groups which make the same request will be given perlnis- sion, he said.
 The communists plans to have several speakers at the Saturday afternoon meeting. Out of town party leaders will be among those heard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-27
PALM IDENTIFIED
 IN COURT TODAY
Woman Who Was in Car Last October Claims
 He Was Slayer

New Haven, Conn, April 27 = (UP)-Miss Meta Shaw, who was seated in a parked automobile at Milford with Deputy Sheriff Peter J. Kaminski when he was killed by a bandit last October, today iden- tified John A. Palm, Mt. Vernon, N. Y, in superior court as the off, cer's slayer.
 Miss Shaw, Kaminski, Mrs.. Lil- lian E. Del Grego and John Miller were in the car when the robber drove up in another machine, pulled open the doors on the left side of the Kaminski car and an- nounced:
 "This is a stickup. I mean it. I'm not fooling."
 Miss Shaw said Kaminski pulled his badge from his pocket and re- piled:
 "You don't know who you're fool ing with. I'm deputy sheriff."
 Palm, she said, then fired two bullets into his body. Turning to the back seat where she was site ting with Miller, she testified, he told them:
 There's more where that came from"
 She said she was positive of hei Identification because she recog- nized some of his facial features when the wind blew handkerchief covering partly from his face and she remembered ''he had . very clear voice and a slumped right shoulder"
 The witness said she picked Palm from group of i2 men in . police lineup at Mt. Vernon, where he was arrested in February.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-27
CONNECTS BREAK our OF PRISON
Outside Aid Is Believed Giverl-O One WaslKiller; Bandit

Concord, N. H., April 27-(UP)- Apparently with outside aid, two long-term convicts-one of them 8 killer bandit escaped from state prison today.
 Genaro Piccoli, g. of Lynn, Mass and John J. Mccarthy, 30, of Dor chester, Mass, hacksawed their cell bars, squirmed up ventilator, clambered through 8 skylight, and slid down a 50-foot rope to freedom.
 Warden Charles B. Clark believed they escaped in a new black coupe which had been seen parked near the prison earlier, with its radio blaring dance music.
 Police throughout New England were urged to watch for the fugi- tiveS.
 Piccoli was serving 30 to 40 years for the second degree murder of Mrs. Florence Foley, 40, of North Andover, Mass, during an abortive hold-up at Pony inn, near Rock ingham racetrack in Salem, N. H., in April, 1885. During scuffle, Pic coli fired a revolver, the bullet pass ing through a beaverboard partition and striking Mrs. Foley in the ab- domen. She died a few days later.
 Mccarthy was serving five to seven years for armed robbery of Derry filling station. At the end of that term he was to serve an ad- ditional three years for previous escape.
 Authorities believed that both fu- gitives were armed and warned that neither would hesitate to shoot if cornered.
 The Lynn and Dorchester homes of the pair were placed under sur- veillance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-27
DROVE GAR INTO
 HERS IS CHARGE
Wife Claims Husband Also Struck Her Judge
 Issues Warning

Charges that her husband crashed his car purpoSely into an automobile she was driving on North Main street yesterday were made in city court today by Mrs. Helen Gaudiosi, wife of James Gaudiosi, 24, of 176 Lakewood road. She also claimed that he struck her and ia- jured her when she went to see her child at his home yesterday.
 Mrs. Gaudiosi said that she and her husbandl have been separated for some time, and that the child has been in his custody. She went to visit the child yesterday, she said, and Gaudiosi came in while she was there and gave her beating. She suffered injuries to her side and nose, she said.
 She then left the house, the woman said, and drove down North Main street. Below North Square, she testified, her husband came along In his automobile, drove di- rectly against her car and sped away. Later, she testified, he told her: T didn't get you that time, but won't miss next tinle."
 Gaudiosi admitted striking his wife, but denied the automobile in- cident. He claimed that his wife, who now lives in New Britain, has been keeping company with an other man.
 Judge John F. McGrath gave Gaudiosi suspended jail sentences on charges of assault and reckless driving, and warned him to leave his wife alone in the future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-27
Tlvo Local Women Get Damages For 1880 Bus Crash Ln England
Fannie L. McCOrmack Is Awarded SIG, ,4O5; Trin-
 da Hall Gets $2,2oO

London, April 27-(UP)-Two American women were awarded damages today in the first two of 8 series of damage suits arising from notorious accident nearly seven years ago. x
 Miss Fannie 10is McC Corrtack, Waterbury, Conn, was awarded G3,281 .($16,405 damages and Miss Orinda Elizabeth Hall. Waterbury, was awarded G458 ($2,290). In both cases costs were awarded the plaintiffs. Miss cCormack was the only one of the American plaintiffs -15 in alto come to England for the hearing. Witnesses testified in her case that she was crippled for life. Miss Hall suffered 8 broken leg and other injuries.
 The cases are being tried in pairs before Justice Sir George Branson and blue-ribbon special jury in the kings bench division of the high court.
 Of the American plaintiffs all were women but one-Prof. George Sher- man Dickinson of the music depart ment of Vassar college. There is one British plaintiff, Frederick Bowyer, guide of the motor coach in which the plaintiffs were sight, seeing. <
 The bus was between Bicester, in Oxfordshire, and Aylesbury. in Buckinghamshire when it collided
 Continued on Page N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-27
WALLY FREE TO
 SEEK DEGREE
Can Apply Now With Time Limit Expected
 By Monday
BY H. L, PERCY

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 London, April 2z- U.PJ = Mrs. Wallis Simpson Was free today to apply for a final decree of divorce which would permit her to marry the Duke of Windsor who gave up his throne for her.
 The six months period prescribed by British law as the interval be- tween the granting of preliminary and final divorce decrees expired to- day. Mrs. Simpson obtained her final decree nisi from Ernest Sirnp- son October 27, at Ipswich.
 It was expected that Mrs. Simp- sons solicitors would apply for the final decree, the decree absolute, to- morrow and that teh decree would be awarded next Monday by Jus- tice Sir Alfred Bucknill, speed champion of the high court of jus- tice in final decree applications.
 Best informed opinion was that while no exact wedding day had been set, the Duke and the Amer ican born double-divorcee would be married in France, in or near the Chateau De Cande where Mrs. Simpson is staying, about the mid- dle of the week beginning May A, or about two weeks after the cor- onation of the Dukes brother, George VI. to whom he relinquish- ed his throne.
 The Duke, nervous and lonely at his villa at St. Wolfgang. was ex- pected to leave for France as soon as the final decree was granted and be at the Chateau De Cande by May or Mays.
 Mrs. Simpson moved to the Chau- teau from Cannes, France, to await the day when the Duke could rejoin her.
 There was every prospect that tho most famous romance in modern history would pass its pre-climatiO
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-27
BRASS WORKERS
 DENY REPORTS
Claim Reported CIO De- mands Not COntenl=
 plated By Union

Adolph Curtis, president of the Waterbury Brass Workers Union, Local No. 251, of the United Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers, a local CIO affiliate. and two international officers of the union, Alex Cashin and Philip Brainard. today denied story which appeared in yester- days Democrat to the effect that workers of the Chase Rolling Mills branch of the Chase Brass & Copper Go. would present demands to employers for wage increases and changes in working conditions this week.
 The union officers further stated that they made no official state- ment whatsoever in connection with the story which appeared yes, terday and were most emphatic in stating that there were no plans under way for any kind of strike.
 The union officers stated today that the reliable source quoted yes. terday. as far as they were con- cerned. was not reliable. and that they have never been unwilling to issue statements with their names attached to such statements.
 Alex 0nshln and Phillip Brainard are organizers for the local 9rasS Workers union and nrainard Is also financial sccrciafy-trcasurcr of the union.