Evening star., 1942-04-06

rying stipends totaling 1886
Awards were made to American and
Canadian scholars and creative
workers with the largest group OF
fellows engaged In various fields OF
science.
DR.. Mcclure, a graduate of Ohio
State University, is in Chevy Chase
with his family, on leave from the
University of Lingnan, Canton,
China, which has been set up else
where in Free China" since the
occupation of Canton by the jap
anese.
Made Study Of Bamboo.
DR.. Mcclure will prepare a series
of articles on various kinds OF
Chinese bamboo, Of which he made
a study while in China. He has
brought back with him many speci-
mems of bamboo and is associated
in an informal capacity with the
department of Agriculture. His
specimens are in the South Building
of the department. While in China
he was an agricultural explorer"
of the Division Of Plant Exploration
and Introduction Of the United
States Department of Agriculture
With his wife and two children
he returned last year from China.
DR.. Kates, who attended Columbia
and Harvard Universities and re-
ceiyed his doctors degree at OXFORD
on a fellowship from Harvard, VIII
prepare a book on the Imperial
Lakes In Peiping, q study OF the
court life of Old China through
eight centuries. He returned In
1s4l from Peiping where he hao
lived since 1888.
Two Johns Hopkins University
professors also received awards
They are DR.. Harold Fredrik Cher
Miss. associate professor OF Greek
and DR.. Thomas Forbes anatomy
instructor.
Among other fellows named by
the foundation were: Novelist Jonn
Dos Passos, Playwright Alexander
Greendale, DR.. Dixon Wecter, Uni
yersity of California professor who
will write a history Of the Roosevelt
family in America; w. H. Auden
English poet. and Poet George "a
briskie, Caldwell IN. j. taxicar
driver.
Seven Women Get Awards.
Seven women were on the list ol
Appointments, three Of them Notion
writers. Two sculptors. five paint
ers and four musical composers
were given awards.
The foundation trustees disclosed
that several Guggenheim fellows
appointed a year ago had beer
reuuisitioned by the Government
and by agencies doing war work te
carry on planning and research. 1r
cases in which the work could moi
be financed by Government funds
Immediately available the founda-
ton permitted use Of the fellowship
stipends.
The foundations position is tt
contribute everything 1t can to tn,
successful prosecution Of the war.
the trustees declared.
Mr.. Zabriskie, the cab driver, WHIT
studied at Duke University and Sc
ton Hall College. applied for the
50 500 fellowship while he hacked ir
Caldwell, working 80 hours a week
At present he is working In an Esse1
Fells iron works with lathe, Jig anc
drill, but will quit to complete 9
long poem Involving the dualistit
aspect of the private and socia
man"
Author of the book Of poems
"The Minds Geography. he mar.
ried Elizabeth Capehart, an artist
last summer.
Mr.. Zabriskie has worked rs .
mop salesman, farm laborer, news
paperman and day laborer and ha,
Travelled extensively through thu
South as far west as New Mexico
and Nevada.
It relied on my thumb for trans
portation rather than money" hi
says, "for the main reason that
had practically none Of the latter
and two of the former"