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ITALY
DECLARES
ITALY AWAITS
HER SAY IN WAR
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would not expect him to say o
because 'the order of the day will
come to us all from II Duce when he
will have decided Upon it."
And when he gives it," Ciano
continued, MILAN will leap once
again to it's feet"
The foreign minister spoke at a
time when fascists limited Italy was
being drawn to the brink of war by
German successes on the western
front.
By his speech Ciano broke a five
month silence on foreign affairs.
Blackout and air raid defense ex-
periments were ordered to begin to-
morrow in the important industrial
areas of Milan and Turin, close to
the French frontier.
First Precautions
These were the first precautions
of that kind since Italy adopted her
policy of non-belligerency at the
start of the European war last Sep
TENDER.
Authoritative Giovanni Ansaldo,
editor of II TELEGRAPH of Leghorn,
Foreis n Minister Count Galeazzo CT
amos newspaper, dwelt in his week
ly broadcast to the armed forces on
Germany's victories.
He told the troops that when II
Duce gives the order, I'VE shall con-
quer."
The outspoken II Resto Del Car
limo of Bologna also announced that
Italy's hour is near"
Describing the Italians as "impa-
tient to march" after hearing of the
German successes, the newspaper
promised there still was time for
Italy to get into the fight.
THE end Of the two giants {Brit-
ain and France) will not be sudden"
it said. They will defend them
selves tooth and nail with the reali-
cation that they deserve no quarter.
There is, therefore, glorious work
for everyone and we must not feel
any jealousy for the lightning VIC
tories our comrades of Hitlerian
Germany r winning over the COM
mon enemy
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after the current warfare in France
there will be a battle in these
islands,"
He mentioned that his address
came lin a solemn hour for the life
ct our country, of our power, of
our Allies, and, above all, of the
cause of freedom"
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FRANCE
FRANCE SELECTS
WEYCAND TO TAKE
KAMELIN'S PLACE
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sust a day after Premier Rey-
maud put the World war hero OF
Verdun, Marshal Henri Phlllppe
Petain, in his government as vice
premier.
A communique announcing the
rharse said General Weygand was
came,i ''chief Of the national de-
fense general staff ard contender
lE-chief Of all theaters OF opera
lions
The appointment resulted from
two conferences held with Pre-
mier Reynaud In the premlers Of
flee.
The first began at 2:3o p. m.
(s:sc a. M. E. S. I'd with Mar
shall petain and the premier. The
second opened at $50 p. m. Q2:3o
o. m. E.. 9. IT, when General
Wsvgand alighted from an unof-
ficial automobile and bounded up
the steps two at = time.
Ar hour. later the three men
emerged .tpiH Ivy ho"o
cha:.ed cordially on the porch for
y nirute and then drove away.
Was Foch's Staff Chief
General Waysard vas Marshal
Fccn's chisf1f-s;atf from 1916 I'M
ii, the end Of the World war, fol-
lowing the French generalissimo
81 he Was promoted to head the
Allied armies in the dark spring
of the wars las. year.
Marshal Foch: shortly before his
death in 1929, advised a French
senator to cal! on General Wey-
gand if a military peril menaced
France and promised that you
will be tranquil"
With Germany hitting the AL
lied armies harder since dawn, a
war office spokesman told of fight
ing on the edge of St. Quentin and
said larger groups of the belliger-
snts were battling Gin the woods
outside of town."
"Confused and hot was the
way military spokesman described
lhe battle from the Disc canal to
he Sambre river.
German tanks, aviation and ar
.i;iery were declared joining in
~'unceasing attacks although the
attest reports fro mthe front at
, p. m. (noon E. S. T.) said the
French troops had stopped the
Coui nl,-op1o Of CT H,orfSa ot
east temporarily.
However, the battle was admitted
70 be cup and down" with the
advantage seesawing.
more Confused"
The military spokesman said the
Mutation farther north, in the re-
gion of Landrecies, was even more
confused"
Severe combats IRE continuing in
the woods and forests where in
several unidentified places French
troops have launched attacks with
success, it was claimed.
Reports filtered through slowly
from the Maubege region where
me french Tort still holding out
against the German offensive dates
from the World war.
Gin Berlin, the German high
command said st. Quentin had been
captured. The city of 5O,O 0 per-
sons was held by the Germans dur
ing the World war from the end
OF August, 1914, to Oct. 1, 1881
The military spokesman declared
the general situation had not
changed. He added that it still was
not determined in what direction
the Nazls would drive-whether to-
ward the coast or upon Paris
rom positions on the Disc river,
which flows between Guise and St.
Quentin.
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DELEGATES PLFDCrn

PHILADELPHIA, May 1s-ls
All but one of Pennsvlr..
delegates to the republican r~a,t,.
convention were pledged tonight ~
support Gov. Arthur H, Jar,.
the 1910 presidential nominate.
long as he has a chance" ''
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RICHMONDS WINS

NORFOLK, Va, May 19-RE
lave Smith, rookie highlander, al.
lowed the Norfolk Tars two runs in
the first inning today and then held
the HON hitters helpless the rest
OF the way as he pitched Richmond
to a 80 victory.
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BOATS

SAN PEDRO, Calf, May 19.-R)
coast guard patrol boat Au-
today seized two 7O-foot purse
seiners and crews totaling 20 men
within the 300-yard defense zone
surrounding San Clemente island,
United States navy training area.
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The Dead Sea is Al miles long.
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AfPOlNItu

PARIS, May 10 ~ -rrsr..,
charles.Roux, heretofore ambass ~.ol'
to the Vatican, was appoin+,I SSauor
tary-general at the foreign OFFICE ~,
day. He succeeded ALEXIS L"
who a decree said would bs L n5s'
another important post S"el
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BIG CROWDS VISIT
NEARBY BEACHES
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Of the craft went Ii and reported
good catches Of bottom fish, and
also a few Spanish -mackerel.
The surf at both resorts was
perfect for swimming during the
afternoon and it's temperature was
practically the same as in the mid
die of July.
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A covered colonnaded walk or
gallery on the outside OF a build
ing is known as a piazza. y
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Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

Gallery Seventeenth
re works by old and modern masters aces Barge
brOnzeS prints paintings by Francis Spegt and drawings and
paintings by Daniel CARRIER: through October.
Arts Club Of Washington 20l7 NW-FieSta de
Americas ande evening October %, %,
Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1900 Twenyfr street NW-Re
permanent Gallery
School closes today autographs and quans by Goa October %
to November IA.
Library K NW-Paintings
ings by Roy Schat through October.
Library of Congress, Division of Fine ArtsLhograph
Joseph Penne etchngs and other works by
lecture.
Gallery Art at sw-orental
paintings sculpture pottery Whistler paintings
prints; Peacock room; American paintings
Textile Museum 1880 street NW.-Rug tapestries
textiles OF the Near East Mondays Wednesdays
FRIDAYS Admission by card obtainabe office of George
Hewitt Myers. 73O Fifteenth NV.
Whye Gallery, l7O7 street NW-French prints by modern
artists from Manet to Picasso; through October.
National Museum, Natural History Building,
Constitution NWThe National Collection
Guiding the Gea Evans Johnston johnson and Pe collections
paintings porcelans
West Indian Negroes and Polynans by
York pasel drawings and Autographs Memories of
by Lily E. Smulders through October
National Museum Arts and Industries Building, south side Of
the Mall at Eighth street flowers Walter
Green of Chevy Chase, Md: through October
ALLEGATIONS Gallery, 86 Independence
water coors by Nelson Rosenbeger Alfred Goldchmd
Children Gallery 6l6 Independence SW-Work
during the by children gallery through
october
D.A Museum Continental Memorial Ha-Amercan scenery
represented by English potters: December
Chalet Nonpare 7l03 Old Georgetown road Bethesda
Drawings and other works by Auriel Bessemer
Howard University Art Gallery. 24O Sixth
ings by Howard NJ jackson; to November
Little Gallery 1908 o street NW-Ognal Designs Mural
Studio Gallery, George Washington University
NWOn Paintings and Drawings by William Caee
November g.
Bookshop Gallery Seventeenth street Naturalization
of oils and Autographs by Joe JONES' to November 16.
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The introduction to the catalog was
written by Alain Locke, chairman
Of the Art Committee and pro-
fessor of philosophy at Howard
University, lecturer on modern ait
and author of an outstanding es-
say on THE Art of the Negro"
What he has said is to the point
and worth considering. 1t is that
the Negro artist is not so very diff
ferent from his brother artists. A
desire to document every phase
of American life and experience is,
he finds, common ground; an eff
fort to be realistic and socially
minded, common means to the ex-
preston of national and racial
traits. But even so the painter or
other artist must, he rightly insists,
find beauty in his or her life and
surroundings, must be spiritually
stronger and socially and culturally
more worth while. These are ideals
which should be universally shared.
There are no barriers of race which
will prevent their fulfillment.
The current exhibition will be fol-
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Prints by Goyo to Be Shown

On Tuesday of this week a COL
lection of autographs and aquatints
by Francisco Goya-the great Span
ish painter and print maker whose
dates were 6-1828-will be placed
on exhibition in the print rooms of
the Phillips Memorial Gallery.
These prints come from the collec-
ton of Mr.. Philip Hofer, curator of
the department of prints of Har-
ward University. They will include
selections from Goya's well-known
series-Caprices. Disasters, Bull
fighting and Proverbs. Some of the
proofs are thought to have been
drawn By his own hand, a few of
which have actual corrections and
additions by him. There will also
be the four famous Autographs of
bull fighting, which were practical
ly his last works. Also early prints
after Velasquez which were it will
be recalled. about the earliest prints
of Importance by a Spanish artist
produced, Spanish artists before
Goya, strangely enough. not being
interested in print making-as for
instance were the Dutch.
This exhibition will open with a
private view on the afternoon of the
22d, and continue free to the pub
lie from the 23d of this month to the
14th of next.
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he New York Neqro'
Portrait Studies Are Made b1
Robert NJ. Jackson.


Twenty -four paintings and a
group of drawings by Robert M
jackson, Negro artist, are now
and until November 10 to be on
view in the Art Gallery of Howard
University. The paintings, which are
in oils, are life-size portraits charac-
terizing The New York Negro"
There are "a of these on the walls
of the main gallery, the prints be-
ing shown in the small room ada
cent, and they are shown TO the
best advantage. the line being bro
ken at intervals by pottery on sim
pie pedeStalS.
Those represented have been TAX
en- from various walks of life, in
Guiding a painter, a sculptor, a
judge, as we'll as dancers and night
club entertainers. All have been
represented boldly, as though
carved rather than painted, with
little variety in texture and no
vitality in expression. The flesh is
hard, the eyes dull but the style
employed is naturaliStic. 1t would
seem to the observer that the worst
rather than the best of the Negroes
of New York had been selected
for impersonation and portrayal, for
the faces on these canvases are
not intelligent and kindly but dull
and unfeeling, in some instances
capable of hatred and violence.
This is not typical of the race but
rather indicative of degenera-
ton to which all races are liable,
and the white race is by no means
immune. To call these portraits by
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Robert NJ Jackson typical Of the
New York Negro is as misleading
and unjust as to say that the crowds
found on Broadway represent, en-
masse, the best of the white citi-
zenry of this great metropolis. The
great portrait is one which in
terprets the inner man, his thought
and his spiritual quality-a COM
posite derived by profound study
and sympathetic understanding on
the part of the artist. By this
measure of merit these paintings
utterly fail.
This is by no means true of all
Negro painting today. In Chicago
last summer an extensive exhibit
ton of THE Art of the American
Negro from 1851 to the present
day was held under the direction
of Alfonso j. Alden, curator of the
Howard University. This included
primitive African sculpture, indica-
tive of inherent instinct work of
the early period in this country,
and contemporary work in painting,
sculpture and the graphic arts.
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closing day, Mr.. Jones himself will
be present at a reception in his
honor from 3 to 5 pm.
Bessmer in Bethesda.
Auriel BesSemer's exhibition at the
Chalet Nonpareil, Bethesda. which
opened October 6, will remain until
the 81. 1t includes nearly rs works,
paintings, drawings, Illuminated
poems and sculpture, among them
preliminary sketches and also photo
graphs of the murals the artist
painted for the post Office at Arling-
ton, Va. (Which Miss Mechlin de-
scribed in full on her page of Octo-
Der g.. He has executed other Gov
eminent mural commissions, for
post Offices in Winnsboro, S. c., and
Hazlehurst, Miss. Small oil sketches
of these are shown: the former. a
broad pastoral landscape, the latter
a contemplating scene. Still another
mural series on view deals with his
toric episodes in the development Of
st. Louis. These are small gouaches.
sharp and clear in rendering, and
apparently built up from careful
study of the events depicted.
Additional landscapes are dealt
with in a manner similar to the
murals-flat, decorative treatment.
The subjects are imaginative and
the smooth application of paint
gives feeling of repoSe. Portraits
in pencil and imaginative heads,
both drawings and paintings, reveal
the artists preference for a calm,
academic type Still another group
of exhibits comprises poems by Mr..
Bessemer, hand lettered with SIM
pie border decorations by Paul
Hessemer.
Walter L. Green of Chevy Chase,
Md, is showing 60 flower photo
graphs in the section of photog-
raphy, Arts and Industries Build
ing, United States National Museum,
throughout this month. The exhibit
ton should appeal both to photog-
raphers and to horticulturists. The
flowers photographed in black and
white only are emphasized against
black or white grounds in all but a
few instances.
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dence. r. T., in 1888, Is entirely self
taught, and lives in Orangeburg,
N. Y, where he "tills his soil, cares
for his cattle, has raised a family,
and whence he is enriching world
badly in need of that which he has
to give with those canvases and
prints which speak So eloquently of
the mans profound consciousness of
the simple, elemental things of life,
told in terms of enduring beauty"
When so much car be said, and
trrly by one artist OF another, it
is very evident that art and the
great impulse which has given us
masterpieces in the past is by no
means dead.
Washington Artists
Exhibit in Richmond.
A group of Washington artists
are exhibiting in Richmond, Va,
this month by invitation of the
Academy of Sciences and Fine
Arts of that city, co-sponSorS of
the Virginia Art Project with the
Work Projects Administration, and
incidentally, the oldest art associ-
alton in this country, having been
founded in 1885,
This exhibition, which is on view
in the academy's rooms at 102
East Franklin street, was assembled
by Mrs. Theodore Kane, painter,
end for several years. director of
the Georgetown Gallery in which
monthly display were held during
the successive season.
Included in this showing is CITY
by the Tracks by Oke Nordgren,
which won the first cash prize for
landscape at the Swedish Ameri-
can exhibition in Chicago. Paul
Arlt, who has lately bad an exhibit
ton of his handmade frames at
the Whyte Gallery. is represented
by a painting entitled South of
the Border souvenir of a trip to
Mexico. and winner of the Evening
Star prize for the best picture in
the Society of Washington Artists
1889 annual exhibition A third
notable contribution is House on
Prospect Avenue, by Ann George,
to which prize was awarded in
the Metropolitan State Art Contest
Exhibition held in the National
Museum last year Among the
other exhibitors are quite number
who have held one-man shows in
small galleries in Washington. but
are now, for the first time, stepping
out into a broader field. The exhi-
bition will continue throughout the
month.
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BY Hester MerWin (Ayres). Thest

by Hester Merwin (Ayres). These
are shown at the present time and
until the end of the month in fiat
cases in the north lobby of the
Natural History Building. To eth
biologists this exhibition will prove
of especial interest but no less so to
artists and art lovers, for the por-
traits. while carefully studied and
racially significant, are very senSi-
lively and artistically rendered 1t
is rather interesting to compare
these drawings with the paintings of
Negroes now on view in the Howard
University Art Gallery, as these.
while much less pretentious, are
much more imbued with spirit and
character, as well as much more
alive. The best are perhaps those
Of old people so sympathetically por-
trayed that beneath the many wrin-
kles the spirit is seen burning
brightly despite the burden of years.
Born in Bloomington, Ill. Hester
MerWin, now Mrs. Ayres, studied
first under the sculptor, Albin Pola-
SEX, at the Chicago Art Institute,
later in New York with Howard
Giles, painter and illustrator, and
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lowed next month by one Of paint
ings by the late H. o. Tanner lent
by museums and galleries.
From Alumni

Phillips Gallery School Offers
Timely Examples.
The current exhibition of work by
the Alumni of the Phillips Gallery
School, which opened the season in
the gallery's print rooms and con-
tinues through today, consists al
most exclusively of paintings. There
are two typical, imaginative land
scapes in monotint by Elizabeth
I Poe-one of Dream Hills" the
other of a valley" Mary Eliza
beth Partridge shows two very at
tractive water colors in her usual
direct and simple manner, one of
which recalls little, in style, the
work of her uncle Clifford Beal C.
Law Watkins, head of the school,
contributes water color of a scene
in the West effectively rendered
while Robert F. Gates, a member of
the school faculty. has chosen to be
represented by his oil painting.
Ranch House" to which The Eve
ming Star prize was awarded in
recent Society of Washington Art
lists exhibition. From Margaret
Gates has come one of the most at
tractive paintings in this little show
"a bunch of anemones in a vase. a
little reminiscent perhaps Of Ma
tisses painting Of the same flower
which is in the Phillips Gallery COL
lection. There is another good still
life, Melon and Grapes" by John
Genard-particularly pleasing in
color and treatment; virtues which
are not so obvious in Running Boy"
his second contribution.
Mary Bradley's Morning Land
scape" is rather cluttered with trees,
hillside, meadow, bushes, etc, which
are not well co-ordinated, but her
Cherry Blossoms have not this
fault, to the contrary are almost
stark in their simplicity. Without
doubt it is the slaughter Of the
cherry trees to make way for the
Jefferson Memorial which has in
spired her painting, and, to say the
least, all the tragedy inherent there
W IldS lOuilu ChpI CoSlOll tilCl ClIi
This is of the day and hour-but
what meaning will it have tomor-
row when the incident is forgotten?
Perhaps it does not matter.
Margaret Burgess and Julia Eckels
both show heads painted in a way
to impress but with apparent dis
regard for craftsmanship or beauty
of textures. Miss Burgess second
contribution is tiny little interior
a Music Room"-suggestiv of
major works by members of the
French contemporary school. Ber-
nice Cross, who delights in imitat-
ing in her paintings the naivete of
childhood, exhibits two character
istic works. Paul Arlt and Edward
Rosenfeld in their paintings
BUS to Amecameoe" Us there really
such a placeO and Street at Night"
"a rather terrifying aspect lend va
riety but certainly no beauty to the
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competitions from Government art
projects to paint murals for post
Offices.
He was early identified as an apos-
tie of violent social protest, which
was scarcely surprising in view of his
unhappy early life. According to a
little biography published by the A.
c. A. Gallery in New York City,
where he has exhibited, he grew up
in the slums of ST. Louis, and was in
volved in various complications aris-
ing from his environment. He began
his career as a house painter. a be-
ginning which may be very benefi-
cial. Any one who has watched a
house painter at work has noticed
the facility with which he handles
his brush.
Although Mr.. Jones appeared to
be getting away from economic and
social evils as subject matter, judg-
ing from his exhibited work last
season his present show here is al
most entirely concerned with the
downtrodden and their backgrounds.
Of his Is paintings, four are dust
bowl landscapes. arid wastes with
broken-doWn farm machinery, re-
mains of barbed-wire fences, etc:
fifth depicts lynching Cor rather,
two men cutting down the victim),
another represents an evicted share
cropper and his family, silhouetted
with appraised. clenched fist against
a mournful nocturne: legless, for
lorn old man selling pencils is the
touching theme of a painting and
also a Autograph, ironically entitled
Joy Ride; three paintings depict
mechanics apparently railroad
workers.. These paintings are done
with somber palette largely limited
to gray blues, states, muddy browns
and dark neutral tones.
Sketches for Murals.
In happier vein are two small
sketches for Government murals,
representing harvest scenes; a sultry
nude, and a very unflattering por-
trait of Lee Chopper, a grinning boy
at the age when baby teeth begin
to disappear; he is said to be the
son of William Chopper, painter and
leader of the social protest" group.
1t is difficult to escape the con-
viction that such an expensive
medium as oil paint and canvas Is
the wrong one for such subjects as
engage most of Mr.. Jones attention.
If his chief purpose is to stir up the
public toward remedying the evils
he depicts, some multiple-reproduc-
ton medium would be far superior.
The present exhibition, as men,
toned, has few Autographs; one is
surprised that he has not concen-
trated on them for his propaganda.
One can mention number Of artists
who have actually been responsible
for social reforms by their art-but
in every case it was graphic art,
circulated as cheap prints, or pub
lished in the newspapers, and hence
seen by thousands of people. Oil
paintings with subject matter re-
pellent both In appearance and i'm
plication, will not find many pur-
chasers Cat prices running into three
figures) and on the other hand, will
be seen by only fraction of the
public that prints would reach.
At any rate, Washingtonians can
view the exhibition at the Bookshop
Gallery until November Is. On that