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Evening star., 1942-01-28
Evening Star Prize
In Art Exhibition Goes
To Andrea zerega
Paintings and Sculpture
= Of Society Of Artists
To Be on DispIoy

The Evening Star Prize Of 500
for the painting adjudged best in
the fifty-first annual exhibition Of
the Society of Washington Artists
has been won by Andrea Pietro
Zerega, 30l4 @ street NV.
Mr.. Zerega's still life. Spring
was chosen late yester-
day after an afternoon of delibera-
ton by the three judges-John
Walker, chief curator of the Ma
tional Gallery of Art: Thomas C..
Colt, director of the Virginia Mu-
scum of Fine Arts, Richmond, and
DR.. John Richard Craft, director Of
the Washington County Museum OF
Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Md.
Exhibit Opens Sunday.
Spring Fragrance. - together with
81 other paintings and IS pieces OF
sculpture. will be on display for the
public beginning Sunday in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art. Members OF
the society. exhibitors and friends
will view the works from pm. to
6 pm. Saturday, which has been
designated vanishing day.
"Rebecca" won an honorable men
tion for Donald Coale.
The judges also awarded four
bronze class medals and gave four
other honorable mentions.
Medal winners are followed below
by those earning honorable men
tions:
Figure composition - Ginger" T"
Jack Berkman; 'Interlude." Mary
Power. Landscape The Storm, :"
Oke Nordgren: Carlos w. Mexico
City" Rowland Lyon. Still Life
Still Life" Dante Radice; NUNS, P"
Alexandra Kay. Sculpture-"Head
in Marble" Clare Fontanini; "Bev-
erly," Belle Bellerose.
Hundreds Of Works Submitted.
Prior to the judging. a jury Of
selection composed of officers and
Executive Committee members of
the society formed the exhibition
from hundreds of works submitted.
Mr.. Lyon. president of the artists
organization, headed the jury.
Others were Roger M. Rittase, vice
president; Omar Darlington, treas
urer; Garnet w. Jex, secretary, and
Norma Bose, Catherine G. Critcher,
Robert E. Motley, William r. Walter
and Kathleen Wheeler, members Of
the Executive Committee.
Artists who had received a medal
within the past five years were not
eligible to compete in the same class
in the current exhibition. Not more
than three paintings or three pieces
of sculpture could be submitted by a
person.
The exhibition has been hung in
q second-fioor gallery at the Cor
coran. 1t is to be on view until
March /.
There will be no admission fee at
any time, in keeping with the new
Corcoran policy.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Group Health to Hold
Annual Meeting Tonight

The past years activities of the
Group Health Association will be
reviewed at a meeting Of that Or
ganization at 8 O'Clock tonight in
the Agriculture Department Audi
torium.
Three vacancies on the Board Of
Trustees will be filled at the meet
ing by election. Candidates for the
posts are Donald +. Christy, Carl
G. Farrington, Gerald Craze, Philip
NJ. HauseY, Russell 8. Kifer, Helen
w. Ttppy and Joel D. Wolisohn.
Evening star., 1942-01-28

Wis will be held at 2 pm. tomor-
row at the Hines home, also with
burial in Glenwood Cemetery.
Mr.. Davis was born in King Will
liam County, Va, July 3, 1863. and
came here a few years before the
turn of the century. He had been
in the general contracting business
for about As years.
He was a member of the Associa-
ton of Oldest Inhabitants of the
District, National City Christian
Church, La Fayette Masonic Lodge
and the Board of Trade.
Surviving Mr.. Davis are his wild
ow, Mrs. Charlotte A. Davis, and
two sons, Edwin L. and Marshall
Davis, all Of Washington.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Ask Work Law Observance

The War. Navy and Labor De-
partments urged in a joint state
ment yesterday that the States pre-
serve during wartime their laws and
regulations covering the 48-hour
week, the 8-hour day and one day
OF rest In seven. except where modi-
fcations are necessary to assure
maximum production.
Evening star., 1942-01-28

day within a
few hours Of
each other at
their home, 1922
Eighth S ire e t
NV.
Funeral serv-
ices were to be
held at 1:30 pm.
today for Miss
Davis at the S.
H. Hines funeral
uOlUe, GWl FOuI-
teenth tire e (
NV, with bur-
ial in Glenwood
Cemetery. Serv-
ices for Mr.. Da-
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Harvey W. Van Gosen,
", Old Fiddler Buried
Special Dispatch to The Star.

bpeclaI DiSpatch 70 The Star.
BERKELEY SPRINGS. w. Va,
Jan. 28.-Harvey w. Van Gosen, r.,
known as one Of the few remaining
old-time "flddlers," who died Sum-
day at his home near here, was
buried yesterday after services at a
funeral home here.
He played for Presidents Wilson
and Coolidge, as we'll as other nota-
bles. and was called to Washington
a number Of times to perform.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Boy Slayer Sane
But Retarded,
Court Told
More Grieved by Loss
OF Bike Than Deoth of
Three, AIienist Says
BY WILLIAM H. SHIPPEN, Jr.,
Star Stan Correspondent.

Star Stan Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Va, Jan. 28.-
The loss of his bicycle grieved 49,
year-old Thomas Dewey CBuck)
Cameron far more than the fate
of the three victims he admit
tedly shot to death in post
Office holdup at Huntley last
May 20.
This light on the mental status
of the mountain boy was brought
out at the opening of his trial here
today by a prosecution witness, DR..
Joseph r. Blalock. superintendent,
the Southwestern State Hospital at
Marion. DR.. BlalOck testified the
defendant is essentially sane, al
though his mental and physical de-
velopment is only that Of a child
of 10.
The trial before Judge j. r. H.
Alexander was developing into a
test of the boys mental RESPONSE
bility, with Defense Attorney Will
liam c. Armstrong seeking to show
his client was Influenced by cpl
leptic tendencies.
Confession Not Challenged.
No effort was made to dlsprove
testimony by Sheriff James Lillard
of Rappahannock County that
Cameron confessed he murdered
Edward johnson. AZ; his wife. Sadie
johnson, 49, and their 15-year-od
daughter. Ethel, in post office and
general store during the course of q
robbery.
Cameron, Sheriff Lillard told the
Judge and packed courtroom, ad-
mitted he robbed the cash box Of SIG
to obtain money to redeem the
bicycle confiscated by his grand
father, who charged the boy with
having stolen SIT from him.
Under cross-examination, Sheriff
Lillard said Cameron threatened his
life when he took him to the hos
pital at Marion for mental exam
ination last July. The sheriff said
that a few minutes later, the dimin-
utive prisoner threw his arms about
his neck and begged him not to
leave him at the hospital, where he
remained under observation OF
psychiatrists until few weeks ago.
DIR. Blalock said tears came into
the eyes of the boy when they dis
cussed his bicycle. Cameron. he
added, appeared to treasure the
bicycle more than anything else in
his life and obviously was more emo
tionally upset over his loss than over
the crealtsatioas he had shot three
persons. @#
s.-. Gun And Money Fsund.-ssss
Cameron, son Of an orchard WORKER
living in a cabin on the Blue Ridge
Mountains overlooking the little post
Office at Huntley, was arrested on
the night Of the murders as he lay
asleep. He at first denied his guilt,
Sheriff Lillard said, but later broke
down when led to bicycle he had
abandoned in the ditch half a mile
from the johnson store.
well, Buck" Sheriff said the boy
told, well go down the road and
shake hands with Mr.. johnson"
The sheriff added the boy then
admitted everything. He took
officers to the .38 caliber revolver he
had hidden in the bushes near the
mountain cabin and later to SIG he
had hidden under a fiat rock near
the gun.
The youth said he killed the three
Johnsons because he did not want
a survivor to identify him in the
robbery. He desperately wanted the
money, he said, to redeem his BIZ
cycle The defense made no effort
to challenge the sheriff's testimony.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
f. ". Davis, Contractor,
And Sister Die Same Day

Edwin w. Davis, president of Da.
Wis. Wick & Rosengarten Co., Inc,
general contractors, and his sister,
Miss Lucy c. Davis, died yester-
Evening star., 1942-08-09

isfied that the interval between the
withdrawal Of British rule and the
establishment OF stable provisional
government would provide an open
opportunity for the enemies Of or
der and for all dissident elements
in the population. '"'
1t is not too much to say that
acceptance Of the demand
must mean the betrayal Of the Al
lies whether inside or outside Of
India and the betrayal In particu-
lar Of Russia and China -.
There is nothing the government
of India regret more than this chal-
lenge at so critical juncture. But
on them lies the task Of defending
India .. That task thegov-
ernment of India will discharge in
the face of the challenge now
thrown down by the Congress Party
with clear determination -.
They urge the people of India to
unite with them in resistance to
the present challenge Of the party.
They appeal to them to lay aside all
political differences and tor the
period OF the war to place before all
other considerations the defense OF
their country and the achievement
of those common aims on which de-
pends the future not only OF India
but of all the loving peo-
pies OF the world
Evening star., 1942-08-09

impossible to reconcile with q full
sense Of responsibility by them of
the realities OF the present situa-
ton
The Congress Working Commit
tee admit there may be risks In
volved." They are right. Accept
ance OF the resolution must mean
the exposure of India to an Axis at
tack from without.
Internally. withdrawal of British
rule invites civil war, the collapse
of law and order, the outbreak Of
communal feuds and the disloca-
ton of economic life with its in
evitable hardships.
Nor can the government sccept
the claim of the Congress Party to
speak for India as whole. $50 In
the interests Of securing their own
dominance and in pursuit OF s to-
talitarian policy, its leaders con-
sistently impeded the efforts made
to bring India to full nationhood.
Betrayal Of Allies.
But for the resistance of the Con-
gress Party to constructive efforts,
India might even now be enjoying
self-government. - The fullest
opportunity for attainment of self
government by the people OF india
has been guaranteed by his maj
esty'S government.
The government Of India are sat-
Evening star., 1942-08-09

authorized payment OF their salaries
as Congressman, less the amount
they had received for their services
in the armed forces. Five of the
veterans declined to accept pay
ment. Two of them now are prom
inent in the Senate-Carl Hayden OF
Arizona, who served as major of
infantry, and Tom Connally OF
Texas, who was captain and adju-
tant and had previously been an
enlisted man in the Spanish -Ameri-
can War. The other three who did
not accept were Marvin Jones of
Texas, now judge of the Court of
Claims and for many years chair
man of the House Agriculture Com
mittee; the late Representative
John j. Rogers of Massachusetts,,
who enlisted as a private and after
his return was chairman of the
Foreign Affairs Committee and
whose widow, Mrs. Edith Nourse
Rogers, has been serving in his seat
since his death in 1925, and the late
Representative Albert johnson who
was captain in the chemical war
fare service, and formerly a Wash
ington, D. c., and Washington State
newspaper editor and publisher.
Three of the Congress veterans of
the World War accepted the back
pay" to a total of $4,000, and one
of them received more than $11 900.
Two of these men are now dead.
Mayor La Guardia of New York is
the third man.
Other World War Veterans.
There are others prominent in
Congress today who served in the
World War, including Senator Mil
lard Tydings of Maryland, who
rose through the ranks from enlisted
man to lieutenant colonel and was
cited by Gems. Pershing, Morton and
Upton; Maj. A. L. Bulwinkle OF
North Carolina, acting Speaker OF
the House; Senator Bennett C.
Clark Of Missouri, commissioned at
the First officers Training Camp at
Fort Myer, who was chairman OF
the Paris caucus which organized
the American Legion, one OF the II
charter members and incorporators;
Representative Jere Cooper of Ten
nessee, who was a captain of in
fantry overseas and served in the
hottest engagements in France and
Belgium; Representative Charles I.
Faddis, Pennsylvania, who saw
service in all major offensives in
France and rose to the rank OF
colonel; Representative j. Hamilton
Fish, New York, who served overseas
as a major of infantry and now
holds the rank of colonel in the
reserves; Representative James E.
Van Zandt, who had two years over
seas service and was discharged
with the rating of chief quarter
master and who now Is commits
stoned as lieutenant, senior grade,
in the Navy.
Representative Graham A. Barden
OF North Carolina, who succeeds
Mr.. Secrest as chairman of the
House Library Committee, served in
the United States Navy during the
World War. He is completing eight
years Of continuous service.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Two Navy Yard Employees
Seized on Bribery Charges
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-Two civilian
inspectors of construction at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard were arrested
on bribery charges today in the
second visit to the yard this week
by agents of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation.
P. E. Foxworth, assistant FBI
director, said one of those taken
in custody, Albert L. Rodkin, 38,
an inspector at the yard since last
January, had admitted accepting
fees from contractors for "favors." )"
The other man held was indenti-
fed as Harry G. Sechtman, 80, en-
ployed at the yard since last May 10.
Samuel Sheber, "a, another in
spector, was seized by FBI men
Wednesday and accused of asking
a $3.50 fee from contractors
employe.
Mr.. Foxworth said that when
Sheber's patriotism was questioned
he replied: ITO hell with patriot
ism. The Good Lord helps those
who help themselves"
Rodkin, Mr.. Foxworth said, was
arrested previously by the FBI in
Los Angeles in 1923 on New York
charge of impersonating secret
service agent, and was sentenced to
10 months in a Federal peniten-
tiary.
Sechtman said he had been en-
ployed as a drummer IN various
bands for many years.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Text of British Statement
Acceptance Of Congress Demand Would
Betroy Allies, India Government Says

tampering with the loyalty OF gov
ernment servants and the inter-
ference with defense measures, in
cluding recruitment.
One Answer to Challenge.
The government of India waited
patiently in the hope that wiser
counsels might prevail. They have
been disappointed in that hope. To
a challenge such as the present
there can only be one answer. The
government of India would regard
as wholly incompatible with their
responsibilities to the people OF In
dia and their obligations to their
Allies discussions about demand
the acceptance of which would
plunge India into confusion and
anarchy and would paralyze her
effort in the common cause of hu-
man freedom.
For the demand of the Congress
leaders there is no warrant in the
view of the government of India
that the demand is difficult II not
Evening star., 1942-08-09

e, the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, India, Aug. S.-A
partial teIt OF the statement
issued tonight by the British gou-
ernment OF India in reply to the
AH-India Congress party resolu-
ton on independence follotDs:'
The An-India Congress Commit
tee have ratified the resolution
passed by the Working Committee
of the Indian National Congress on
August 5.
That resolution demands imme-
diate withdrawal of British power
from India and sanctions starting
of a mass struggle on non-violent
lines on the widest possible scale. y
The governor general in coun-
Gil has been aware, too. for some
days past of the dangerous prepa-
rations by the Congress party for
unlawful and in some cases violent
things, to the interruption of COM
munications and public utility serv-
ices, the organization of strikes. the
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Citizenship Restoration
Will Be Sought for Fall
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, Aug. 8.-Mrs. Al
bert B. Fall disclosed tonight she
had received forms from Washing
ton on which to apply for restora-
ton of her husbands citizenship
lost when Fall, Secretary Of the In
terror, was convicted of accepting
q bribe.
Fall, central figure in the Hard
ing administration oil scandals,
served nine months In prison for
taking 100000 from E. H. Doheny,
lifelong friend, who was acquitted
of giving the money.
The 81-year-old Fall now is an
invalid. He is in the Veterans
Hospital at Fort Bayard, N. Mex.
His citizenship can be restored by
presidential pardon, after applica-
ton through the Department of
Justice.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Buses
Continued From Page abb

should continue to come to work
here by private auto and but 5000
by public conveyances.
He noted also that seven of the 16
major highways leading into the
District from Maryland and Vir-
ginia points do not carry mass trans
portation bus services and that this
did not appear to be a most eco
nomical" distribution of bus services
considering the number of persons
who seemed to be available as pos
sible passengers for mass tranSpor-
tation services, judging from the
origin and destination survey.
Mr.. Hankin also announced that
hearing will be held at the Dis
trict Building at 10 am. August 27,
into proposed changes in District
taxi zone boundaries. Petitions for
boundary changes had been filed by
the Combined Cab Services, Inc, a
grllp of taxi companies and as
sociafisps, and by United Taxicab
Drivers, Inc, representing organized
taxi drivers. Each petitioner was
assessed $3.50 and If the costs exceed
$500 the assessments will be in
creased, Mr.. Hankin said.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Rites for Mrs. Fisher
Set at Woods Hole, Mass.

Following an illness of two weeks,
Mrs. Margaret Simmons Fisher, 81,
widow of Alexander Metcalf Fisher,
died Thursday at the home of her
son, Capt. George Wright Fisher,
8712 Old Georgetown road, Be-
thesda. The funeral will take place
tomorrow at Woods Hole, Mass.
Besides Capt. Fisher, Mrs. Fisher
is survived by another son, 1t. Alex
ander Metcalf Fisher, u S. A.; a
sister, Mrs. Warwick S. Carpenter,
Santa Barbara, Calf, and five
grandchildren.
Mrs. Fisher was born in New York
State. She lived in Washington for
about 10 years and at one time
in Arlington.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Coral Sea, Midway
Heroes Lecture al
Naval Academy
Changing Bottle Trends
Told to Midshipmen
Behind Locked Doors
By the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 8.-Realistic,
first-hand accounts of major naval
engagements in the Philippines, the
Coral Sea and at Midway Island
have been added to the Naval Acad-
emy's stepped-up program for pro-
ducing topnotch Junior officers.
Hard hitting lectures by the
Bulkeleys, Jarretts and Wagners,
heroes, provide senior midshipmen,
reservists and academy officers with
graphic illustrations of modern naval
warfares stringent demands.
Experts in Every Field.
Although there are no established
lecture schedules, Rear Admiral John
R. Beardall, academy superintendent,
said today the Navy hoped to send
experts in every f1eld-from aviators
to submarine commanders-to An
napolis to narrate their experiences
and describe changing battle trends.
Already midshipmen have received
technical, but vivid, details OF action
in the Pacific naval theater from
men whose names now are written
on the war records.
All lectures are conducted behind
tightly locked doors Academy civ
ilian instructors and attendants are
barred. What is said and the advice
midshipmen receive remains close
ly guarded military secret.
Speakers thus far have included
1t. Comdr. John D. Bulkeley, cred
tied with sinking several Japanese
warships in Bataan torpedo-boat ac-
lions; Col. William T. Clement, U.
S. M. c., formerly attached to the
staff of the commander in chief of
the Asiatic fleet; Comdr. Henry
Eccles and 1t. Comdr. H. B. Jarrett,
Coral Sea heroes; Capt. Frank Wag-
ner, survivor of the patrol wing
10" unit, who suffered severe hard
ships wandering through South
Pacific wildernesses for days, and 1t.
Noel Gaylor. flyer, stationed aboard
the ill-fated aircraft carrier Lex
ington.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
40-Y Year Cancer Death Rise
Shown in Census Survey

Cancer has become so great
killer in the United States that If
deaths each year were localized at
one point. a city of the size of
Des Moines, New Haven or Fort
Worth would be completely wiped
out, a Census Bureau report pointed
out yesterday.
Cancer is one of the few diseases
whose mortality record has grown
steadily worse during the past 40
years, according to census records.
In 1910 the death rate per 100000
population was 1908 as compared
with "a in 1900 Records of the
death registration area show that
cancer killed 3,l15,932 persons be-
tween 1900 and l940-a total almost
equal to the population of Chicago.
Cancer is one of the few diseases
in which the death rate among
whites is higher than among Ne
groes and Indians. The death rate
for whites is 1875 as compared with
1874 for Negroes, and 52.1 among
Indians.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
French Labor Recruiting
Office Damaged by BIost
Ry the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Aug. "a
building housing bureau for re-
cruiting French workers to go to
Germany was demolished by an ex-
plosion, the Swiss Telegraph Agency
reported today in dispatch from
Annemasse in Haute Savoye,
France. The dispatch said the
French prefect had expressed
regrets to the chief of the German
commission at Annemasse and that
many arrests were expected to be
made.
Evening star., 1942-08-09

UAuc CSCo, WCdI"
ing ma w blue
dress, white COL
lar, black and
W h l tie S h o e S,
carrying a blue
&C k e t + o o k;
missing from
2544 Seventeenth
street NV. since
July 25.
John E. Bur-
CESS, 81, 5 feet
8 inches, 200
poun n d S, blue
eyes, bald head; !;
missing from So
New York ave-
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Missing Persons

| Those having information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
,Uith the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, No
tiondl 1000.
Francis Dacktell, "a, 5 feet, 105
pounds, blue eyes, dark hair; missing
from Cedarcroft Sanitarium since
August 7.
Jane Crago, Is, feet, $50 pounds,
Evening star., 1942-08-09

nue. NV. since August 4.
Willie Gibbs, 8. colored, average
size; missing from 1853 Vernon
street NV. since August s.
Evening star., 1942-08-09

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