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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
REUNION OF RAPHAELS

BY happy circumstance, the
Gallery will bring together
again two famous Raphaels which
often are mentioned in the same
breath but long have been sepa-
rated. The Mellon collection con.
tains the famous "Cowper Ma
DONNA" and from the Widener
collection, the Gallery also gets
the Little Cowper Madonna
The list is almost endless and I
have only begun to mention
paintings-and no sculpture at all
which for centuries have set
itching the fingers of private col
lectors and museum directors.
With Melons marble temple OF
art buttressed by the Phillips
Memorial Gallery (modern art)
the F'reer Gallery (Whistler and
Japanese arD, the Library of Con-
gress (PennelD, the Corcoran Gal.
lery and the hundreds of murals
in the government buildings
Washington is bound to become
one of the worlds meccas for 9th
ers than mere politicians.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
ACCEPTS OFFER

RALEIGH, Jan. 13.-tR-Profes.
sor R. A. Fisher of the University
or London, has accepted an offer
to be visiting professor of expert.
mental statistics at N. C. State col
lege during the 1941 summer ses-
sion, Professor Gertrude M. Cox,
mead OF the newly established depart
ment announced today,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
CLUB TO MEET

The Wilmington Camera club
will meet at the Museum of Art
Wednesday night at s o'clock,
at which time Hugh Humphrey,
Star News staff photographer,
will lecture on "Aids for ANA
teurs." All members are urged to
attend and interested parties are
invited to become members of
the club.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
AUTO ACCIDENT

Automobiles operated by Miss
Mary S. Campbell, 1907 Grace
street, and G. C. Fitzpatrick, 416
Walnut street, were involved in
a collision at Fifth and Grace
streets yesterday with slight
damages to both cars resulting,
police reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
EXAMINATIONS

Examinations for journeymen
plumbers will be held Tuesday
and Wednesday by the city.
county health department.. Prac'
tical work will be held Tuesday,
written work on Wednesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
TOP o. THE MORNING

Teach me do the best can
To help and cheer mly jez1o1D man.;
Teach me to lose n,y selfish need,
And glory in th larger deed,
Which sm,oothe the road and lights the
qUdy,
For all aeho chance to come my aoay.
EDGAR GUEST.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
ADDITIONAL JOBS

Additional openings are avail.
able for skilled carpenters, power
inemen and surveying rodmen,
according to Maurice Moore,
head of the local state unem-
plOyment agency.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
IMPROVING

Friends Of Mrs. Jack Parker,
of Wallace, will be glad to learn
that she is improving from an
operation at James Walker Me.
mortal hospital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
NOT ARRESTED

Carl e. Taylor, l416 South
Fourth street, said yesterday he
is not the c. e. Taylor arrested
on automobile operation charges
Sunday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
BIKE STOLEN

Douglas Potter, 500 South Sec
ond street, reported to police yes
terday that someone had stolen
his bicycle, valued at $40 from
his home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
SPECIAL MEETING

A special meeting of the Will
mington Retail Shoe association
has been called for Thursday
night at 6 o'clock. All members
are urged to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
ILL

Friends of Mrs. Fred HI. Cole.
man will regret to learn she Is
ill with influenza at her home
on South Fifth street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
MEETING POSTPONED

MEETING POSTPONED
The annual meeting of the
Wilmington chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross scheduled for
Wednesday afternoon has been
postponed because of the illness
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
Al Smith Sets Example

AL Smith, who has had much to say against
the Roosevelt administration in past years,
has set fine example for everybody in this
(country. and especially for the Wheelers, Van
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
CLASS MEET

The Fidelis class of Southside
Baptist church will meet tonight
at s o'clock with Mrs. o. G. San.
ford, Hudson Drive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
With Ostrich Feather Fan"

With Ostrich Feather Fam"
There will be Vermeers, Ell Gre
cos, and Titians; Manet's great
painting, 'The Dead Toreador," :"
and works Of Renoir and Degas.
From the Widener collection
will come one of the worlds finest
groups of canvases by Van Dyck.
the Flemish portrait painter of the
18th century.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
CITY BRIEFS

of Mrs. Ida Speiden, Red Cross
secretary. The date will be an.
nOunced later,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
. WASHINGTON Daybook
BY JACK STINNETT


WASHINGTON, Jan. 13-Art came from the
people and, in the United States at least, it
seems to be going back to the people.
When the great doors swing open here on
the late Andrew W. Melons $15, 600 Ma
tional Gallery of Art, Mr.. and Mrs. John @.
Public will walk between the towering col
urnns, stand in rotunda that stretches 100
feet to the vaulted dome, and take over one
of the worlds greatest collections of paintings
and sculpture.
The National Gallery is staggering, Win
dowless expanse Of pinkish-white Tennessee
marble that runs along between Constitution
and Pennsylvania avenues within hailing dis
tace of the Capitol. Even in a city that con-
tans buildings whose floor-space can be meas.
ured only in acres, the National Gallery is an
eye-stopper.
But what is in it is far more arresting and
many times more valuable than the building
itself, for MIR. Mellon not only gave the build
ing to the nation but threw in, to boot, 122
great paintings and numerous pieces of fine
sculpture, valued in the neighborhood of $685.
900, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
MORE GIFTS FOLLOWED

Augmenting this within few months Samuel
H. Kress, the New York five-and-dme tycoon,
announced his gift to the Gallery of 375 paint
ings by the old Italian masters and more
sculpture And more recently still, Joseph E.
Widener, heir of traction magnate Peter A. B.
Widener in Philadelphia, announced that he
would strip the walls and pedestals of Lynne
wood, his ancestral home at Elkins Park, Pa,
further to enrich the museum.
1t is next to impossible to place any dollar
and-cents value on art, but guesses are that
when the National Gallery opens, the building
and its contents will represent an outlay OF
between one hundred and two hundred million
dollars.
Here will be Rembrandt's 'The Mill" for
which it is reported the elder Widener paid
England's Lord Landsdowne tidy half million
and which has been called one Of the world S
greatest pictures There will be % other Rem
brandts, including his Descent From the
Cross. THE Man With a Tall Hat and Lady
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Rally in Ninth Inning
Gives St. Louis 6-5
Victory Over Mats
Griffs Get Tying Runs
On Boses in Their Half,
But fuII One Short
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

A three-run uprising in the ninth
inning presented the st. Louis
Browns 6-5 victory over the Ma
tionals today at Grifith Stadium, a
Washington rally producing only
one run in its half of the inning.
Washington entered the ninth
with 4-3 lead as the result of Jake
Early's home run over the right field
fence with none on in the eighth.
But singles by Chet Laabs and Joe
Grace, and errors by Pitcher Steve
Sundra and Left Fielder George
Case gave the Browns three runs
and Ga lead.
When Case walked to open WASH
ington's portion of the ninth, George
Caster was sent to the mound to
replace the Browns Bob Harris.
Casters first pitch hit Roger Cra-
mer on the leg. Buddy Lewis flied
to Laabs. Case taking third after
the catch, and Case scored as Travis
forced Cramer. Mickey Vernon flied
to Right Fielder Grace for the
game-ending out.
FIRST INNING.
ST. LCUIS-Archie threw out
Heffner. Cliff took a third strike.
McQuinn fouled to Early. No runs.
WASHINGTON-Case popped to
Berardino. Cramer singled to CEN
ter. Lewis singled to center, send
ing Cramer to third. Travis singled
to left, scoring Cramer. Lewis stop
ping at second. Vernon hit into a
(See BASEBALL, Page 2-XJ
Evening star., 1941-07-26
BuIIa Smashes Out 1873
To Lead ST. Paul 0pen
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
ST. PAUL, July 26.-One of COLTS
longest hitters, big Johnny Bulla of
Chicago, used his power to advan-
tage at Keller Course today to come
in with second straight So for a
36-hole total of 1873. This gave him
the lead among early second round
f1nishers in the st. Paul Open Golf
Championship.
Clipping three strokes off par a
second straight day, Bulla slipped
stroke over par at the fourth hole.
but came back to get an eagle at
No. Z when long drive and a strong
iron put him on this par S hole in
two. Then he canned a IL footer,
winding up with IS, one under par,
for the nine. Coming back he had
one bogie at II, then birdied the
18th and 18th for a two under
par "a.
Harry Cooper of Chicago. a few
years ago the most consistent scorer
in golf, added par 72 to his open
ing round 68 for 14O aggregate. A
third member of this threesome.
Harrison R. (Jimmy) Johnston. for
mer national amateur champion.
had 76 for Isl total.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
China Reported Ready
To Fight With Soviet
Il Japan Attacks
Plan to Place 100000
Soldiers in Field Said
To Have Been Agreed On
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 26.-Joseph Stain
and GeneraliSsimo Chang Kali
shek were said by reliable source
today to have an understanding by
which China would put half mil
lion or more" soldiers in the field
alongside Soviet forces in the event
Japan attacks Russia.
This source said he had been in
Japan !"chose Indo China instead of
a direct attack on Russia to aid her
Axis partners"
Russia, it was stated has been
informed on all British discussions
with China and the United States
about Japan, and the Far Eastern
position is declared to be in line
with the British-Russian alliance.
Russia soon will be aided by Polish
troops fighting the Germans under
a Polish-Russian pact nearing
conclusion. this source declared
Polands soldiers are those taken
prisoner by the Russians when East
ern Poland was occupied in 1899,
and are estimated to number 1000.
The Czech leader Eduard Benes
announced in a broadcast that the
Czecho-Slovak government in exile
was continuing negotiations with
the Poles, adding that "a Soviet
Yugoslav agreement already has
been reached and I hope that soon
Soviet-Polish agreement also will
be reached"
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Earlier Story on Page A-D


1t. Gen. Flip Ivanovitch Golikoff,
head of a Russian mission, said to-
day he had come to Washington to
establish a military mission here
"for as long as necessary to ar
range for the purchase and sending
of American military supplies to the
Russian Army.
Accompanied by Ambassador Ou-
mansky and Engineer Gen. Alexan-
der Respin. aviation expert and only
other member of the commission, he
called at the State Department to
confer with Acting Secretary Welles.
Later they will call on Gen. George
C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, at the
War Department to discuss the mill
tary situation more thoroughly.
With the Ambassador acting as
Interpreter, Gen. Golikoff, who is
deputy chief of staff of the Red
Army, said that more members of
the military commission would be
added as needed. He gave the un-
QeTSIdHulHS tlldl tIic nuSSidH Coai-
mission is to be established on the
same lines as the British War Mis-
sion.
Gen. Golikobf will remain here
indefinitely to set up the machinery
necessary for the functioning of the
commission and to take full charge.
The two Red Army generals ar
rived here from New York by plane,
having flown from London to Mon
treal by way of the air shuttle ser
vice.
The commission. once it is set up
here, will arrange for the co-ordinat-
Evening star., 1941-07-26
0. p. N. Limits Processing
OF Silk and Freezes Stocks

Spurred by threatened shortages
due to unsettled conditions in the
Far East, the Office of Production
Management today issued an order
freezing stocks of raw silk and lin
iting processing of thrown silk to
levels of the week ending today.
The order by E. R. Stettinius, jr.,
director of priorities, forbids deliv-
cry or acceptance of raw silk with
out o. P. M. authorization, and ap-
plies to both warehouses and mills.
1t does not. however, prevent deliv-
cries from ships to importers. Mills
are forbidden to knit or otherwise
process thrown silk an intermedi-
ate stage) in. excess of amounts
processed during the past week.
The United States, which con-
sumes more than half the worlds
supply, imports almost wholly from
Japan and China. Last year Japan
furnished 81 per cent of the Ma
tion's imports.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Baltimore Woman Held
After Shooting in Home
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, July 26.-A a.
year-old Seamstress, docketed as
suspected of assault and shooting, I"
was held at Southern Police Station
today after Vernon. Hahn, %, dis
tillery employe, had been fatally
shot at her home.
Patrolmen Joseph Langley and
William Otto said they were called
to the home of Miss Virginia N.
Porter, who met them on the front
porch, holding a pistol in her hand
and moaning: MY God, help me.
I've shot him. 1t was an accident" I"
The officers said Hahn, shot under
the right eye. was lying in the door,
way of the parlor with his feet in
the hall. He died an hour later at
South Baltimore General Hospital
Langley said Miss Porter told him
she kept the pistol in the house for
her own protection.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Porisions Defy Nozis by Singing
Morsei||oise, London Reports

cheered and sang the Marseillaise,
were declared the direct result of
Gen. Charles de Gaulle's broadcast
to all France to unite that day in
the cause of liberation.
In Nantes, it was added, the
demonstrators decorated the graves
of British airmen with flowers, and
on the Riviera the tri-color and
Union Jack were hung side by side
while passing italians Missed and
were Missed in return.
In Paris, Free French reports
said, German soldiers made futile
effort to disperse the assembly and
prevent it from reaching the Joan
of Arc statue in Rue de Rivoli. and
attempted to hush shouts of "Vive
De Gaulle" and "Vive Angleterre"
England.
But, it was claimed, the surge of
the crowds was so strong that they
marched to the Arc de Triomphe,
where the unknown soldier is
buried. and demonstrated.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Pete Alexander
Found in Street,
Badly Injured
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July z6.-Grover
Cleveland (Old Pete) Alexander, one
of baseball's pitching immortals,
was taken to Bellevue Hospital early
today with a deep cut over his
left eye and possible fractured
skull.
Alexander, the last pitcher to win
300 games or more until Lefty
Grove of the Boston Red Sox joined
the group with his 300th victory
yesterday. was found lying on the
sidewalk by Patrolman Peter Dunn.
Alexander had suffered injuries in
a fall.
Hospital authorities said that,
pending X-rays, it appeared the 54-
year-old Alexander, a native of St.
Paul. Nebr, was suffering from a
fractured skull and that complete
rest was essential. His condition
was described as serious"
Alexander won 373 of the 696
games he pitched for the Phillies,
Chicago Cubs and st. Louis Cardi-
mails.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Malta Roided by Italian Forces;
Secret Weapon Believed Used

voy which fought off Italian at
tacks Wednesday and Thursday
carried reinforcements "in ships,
fresh troops, munitions and
stores" for Mediterranean forcesD
Last night the well-protected
naval base of Malta was violated
with unparalleled daring by a group
of assault craft of the Royal Navy"
said the special Italian war bulletin
Light units which took them
within a short distance from the en-
trance to the harbor reported
forcing the passage fully notwith-
standing violent crossf1re of enemy
artillery and machine guns placed
in alarm by the f1eeting discovery
of searchlights.
The light units themselves were
discovered and shelled without Sue
cess.
Eight very violent explosions
with high flames were observed in
the harbor. thus giving indisputable
proof that the audacious under
taking of forcing large enemy base
was crowned with the deserved Sue
cess owing to the intrepid faith of
Italy's sailors"
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Former Chief
OF Staff Recalled
Active Duty
General Will Outrunk
Present Department
Head Under Order
Earlier Story on Page A-1)
By NELSON Nj. SHEPARD.

Gen. Douglas A. Macarthur,
former Army chief of staff and
now military adviser to the Phil
ippine government, was recalled
to active duty today by Secretary
of War Stimson and designated
commanding general of a newly
created United States Army force
in the Far East.
President Roosevelt at Hyde Park
earlier in the day issued an order
placing the military forces of the
Philippine Commonwealth, som e
$4,000 men, into the United States
service because of critical conditions
in the Far East.
Presumably the Army's estimate
of $4,000 men excluded partially
trained reServistS. Earlier Il had
been estimated that the order af-
fected upwards of 10000 trained
and partially trained Filipinos.
To Have Supreme Command.
Gen. Macarthur will be in Su.
preme command of all land and air
forces and Maj. Gen. George Cru
merit, present commanding general
of the Philippine Department, will
be subordinate to him.
1t was announced at the War De-
partment that the President intends
to appoint Macarthur a temporary
lieutenant general
The new command created in the
Far East will include the Philippine
Department, the forces of the Com
monwealth of the Philippines and
other forces which may be assigned
to it. Gen. MacArthur's headquar-
tiers will be established in Manila
where he has served continuously
with the Philippine government
since his retirement from the Army
in 1887
Was Adviser to Manila.
At the conclusion OF his service
as chief of staff in 1885, Gen. Mac
Arthur was detailed as general mill
tary adviser to the Philippines to
assist in military and naval affairs
and in the establishment of
Philippine system of defense.
He retired from active service
December 81, 1887, but remained
with the Philippine Army, having
been appointed field marshal.
Gen. Macarthur personally COM
manded Federal troops which dis
persed the bonus army" here in
1882.
The general has Is foreign deco
rations for his World War and other
services and holds the Distinguished
Service Cross for heroism in France
in 1918.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Force Of 10000
Is Reported
About TO Land
First Columns of
Military Trucks
Stort Arriving
Earlier Stories on Page A-1)

B, the Associated Press.
The japanese government
struck swift blow of retaliation
at the United States today, or
dering American assets frozen
throughout the empire, and pre-
pared to take similar action
against Great Britain. The
United States and Britain froze
japanese assets yesterday.
There were indications Japan also
would take over Shanghais famous
International Settlement where
America, Great Britain and France
have eXtra-territorial righu.
At the same time Japan began
occupying her ewly-acquired bases
in Southern Indo-China. Ranking
army and navy officers arrived by
planes and the first columns Of
military trucks began rolling in from
Hanoi.
At Hong Kong, the Chinese Gen.
trail News Agency. quoting reliable
informants in Running. reported
that a Japanese force of 10000 was
about to land in Southern Indo-
China.
The Straits Settlement govern
ment at Singapore in coordination
with other British governments ord
cred the freezing of japanese funds,
effective today and applicable to all
subjects and residents of the jap
anese empire Bankers are per-
mitted to honor obligations con-
flrmed before today.
The Royal Dutch East Indies Air
ways announced cancellation OF
service to Saigon. French Indo-
China. Reuters. British news
agency, dispatch i:om Batavia to
London said.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Mans Body Recovered
From Anucostiu River

The body OF a young man was re-
covered from the Anacostia River,
near the Benning Bridge, late to-
day by harbor precinct police. An
automobile drivers license found on
his person gave the name, Hoyt H
Painter, %, of 1925 Thirtieth street
NE.
Police said Charles Michel, I'LL
Fiftieth street NE, who had been
fishing from the seawall, told them
he had noticed the man wading near
shore He disappeared from view
suddenly, Mr. Michel reported.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, July 26.-The high COM
mand reported tonight that Italian
naval assault craft raided the Brit
fsh naval base on Malta last night
and caused eight very violent ex-
plosions with high flames in the
port"
The special communique did not
identify the type of craft which
made the attack under an escort of
light warships but belief was ex-
pressed that they may have been
the secret naval weapon which the
italians twice have reported using
in raids on British harbors in the
Mediterranean.
(An earlier British communique
called them motor torpedo boats
and said about dozen were de-
stroyed. The British report, is
sued jointly by the Admiralty,
Wal Office and r A. F., said the
attack was made this morning
and was repulsed 1t made no
mention of any damage to Malta
"a. V. Alexander, first lord of
the Admiralty, disclosed in
broadcast that the British con-
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Lord HuIifox Delays Return

SAN DIEGO, Calf, July 26 (P).-
Lord Halifax, British Ambassador,
delayed his departure for Washing
ton because of unfavorable flight
conditions today.
He went deep-sea fishing yester-
day, catching a 22-pound yellowtail.
Lady Halifax spent the day in
specting relief projects in suburban
La Jolla and Coronado.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Earlier Story on Page ALL

tEaruer Story on Page ALI
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 26-The German
Luftwaffe broke Russian resistance
today in bunker positions ON the
eastern bank of the Dniester River,
D.NB., German news agency. an
nounced today.
There was no indication where
the reported break-through oc-
CURED, although the river is nat
ural obstacle on the Ukraine from
tier.
The LuftWaffe broke loose with a
heavy bombing attack, D.N.B. said,
then infantrymen forced an entry
into the fortified line and took the
bunkers in close fighting.
There was no indication of the
depth of the penetration after the
taking of the bunkers.
D.N.B. added that one German
panzer corps had destroyed 1,O86
Russian tanks in fighting between
the Bug and DnieSter Rivers.
In another action, D.N.B. said. the
air force smashed at the rail line
between Leningrad and Bologoe, 200
miles southeast, at nine different
points, making traffic impossible.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 26.-Free French
sources in London said today 100,-
900 Parisians assembled at Place de
LOpera and defiantly sang the Mar
seillaise under the windows of the
German commandments headquar-
ters on June II, Joan of Arc feast
day.
The De Gaullists have adopted
the Lorraine Cross, the banner of
Joan of Arc. as their own stand
ard.
In occupied Bordeaux another
100000 fervent French marched in
a body, the same sources said. to
the city hall and there placed let
ter of protest on the desk of the
mayor, M. Marquet. The letter was
said to have objected to M. Mar
quets activities in behalf of collabo-
ration with the Germans.
Other pro-ally demonstrations
such as at Nantes where 10000
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Two-Doy Invasion Test
Planned in West Juvo

BY the Associated Press.
BATAVIA. Netherlands Indies,
July 26.-West Java's defense will
have tWo-day invasion test start
ing tomorrow, when several of the
Netherlands Indies most formidable
army units will move to strategic
coastal points while this capital
undergoes air raid exercises.
Maj. Gen. w. Schilling, COM
mander of the West Java division
and director of the maneuvers, said
today some of the best trained and
best equipped troops of the Dutch
Army would participate The ma
neuver area is to be from Batavia
to Sunda Strait.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Two Russian Generals Arrive
To Buy Military Supplies

ing of Russian purchases in this
country. The presence of Gen Res
pin indicated that bomber planes
will be the most urgent need in mill
itary supplies.
1t was also understood that this
government will make arrange
ments to give the Russians access
to military tools and machines.