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Evening star., 1943-04-18
Bv Leila Mechlin

Nine Chang Kai-shek has re-
Gently said, wisely, that we live in
the present, dream of the future,
but learn eternal truths from the
past. 1t is for this reason that
emphasis is being placed on the
celebration of the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Thomas jefferson,
who was not only a great man, one
of the greatest this country has to
its credit, but who lived at a time
for us today most full of signif-
cance.
During the past week the hand
some memorial on the Tidal Basin,
with its statue of Jefferson by Ru-
dulph Evans, and suitable inscrip-
tions, has been dedicated, and, like
wise in tribute and remembrance,
exhibitions have been opened in
the National Gallery of Art and the
Library of Congress.
The exhibition in the National
Gallery comprises portraits of JET
ferson and some of his contempo-
raries, his architectural drawings,
together with photographs of build
ings which he designed, or showing
in their design his inf1uence-as
we'll as those from which he, him.
self, derived inspiration. Set forth
in the gallery of transient eXhibi-
tions on the ground floor it IS read
lily accessible, but from it the Wis
itor will not be tempted by vistas
beyond, however alluring.
Of the "a paintings shown, IA are
of Jefferson, who, with the excep-
ton of Washington, was more
painted than any other President of
the United States. Of these the
earliest is by Mather Brown,
young American, son of a famous
clockmaker of Massachusetts,, who
went abroad to study under Benja-
min West and won much favor. The
date is 1885, when it will be remem-
bered Jefferson was our Minister to
France and his friend, John Adams,
Minister to England. 1t was Or
dered by the latter, partly perhaps to
encourage the young artist from his
home State, but certainly out of
esteem for his colleague-and it has
remained in the possession of the
Adams family ever since
The price we are told was 5
guineas, which was cheap enough,
for it is really an excellent work In
it Jefferson is portrayed as seated
against a dark nondescript back
ground, rather young looking for
his years-he was 42-but with an
air of capability and distinction. A
statuette introduced behind the sit
ter to the right may have given in
dication of Jeffersons admiration
for the classical.
Next in date are two miniatures
by John Trumbull, aide de-camp to
Washington, historical painter and
portraitist, both of which ring true
and help to fix the Jefferson type
firm chin, square face, very blue
eyes, reddish hair.
Saint Memin Portrait.
OF outstanding interest also is the
portrait done in 1904 by Saint Mem
in who spent that winter in Balti-
more making frequent trips to
Washington for portrait sittings.
This is crayon done on pink tinted
paper, through the medium of the
physionotrace, invented by Chretien
in Paris some years earlier and at
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sculptor. on medallion. Of white
marble or alabaster, modelled in low
relief and sensitively.
Gilbert Stuart Is indeed gen.
erously represented in this exhibi-
ton, for in addition to the portraits
of Jefferson and the four other
Presidents, his painting of Albert
Gallatin and Mr.. and Mrs. Thornton
are here.
His Contemporaries.
All of Jefferson's contemporaries
were not his friends; there were
those who bitterly disagreed with
him and with each other: such for
instance as Alexander Hamilton and
Aaron Burr. portraits of both OF
whom, the former by Trumbull, the
latter by Vanderlyn, are very justly
included.
Reminiscent of Jefferson's days in
France. 17851789, are portraits OF
Franklin by GreuZe, of Lafayette by
Charles Wilson Peale and of Houdon
by Rembrandt Peale Just two
ladies have been given place in this
delightful Observation-Disclosures JEFF
ferson Randolph, elder daughter OF
Thomas Jefferson. who was with him
in Paris, and, after her marriage,
not 1nfrequently his hostess at the
White House, admirably portrayed
by Thomas Sully. and Mrs. Thorn
ton, wife OF the architect of the
Capitol, the Octagon and Tudor
Place. painted by Stuart, but not
at his best.
Sully and Trumbull are both addi-
tionally represented by studies for
important and well-known works
the former by preliminary studies
for his full length of Jefferson
which is at West Point, and the
latter by studies for Congress
Voting independence" and THE
Declaration of Independence"-now
in the Capitol
These are not great paintings as
compared with those by the masters
of the italian, Dutch and Spanish
schools at their height, but they are
very sincere, and collectively they
bring back the period in which they
were produced, a period not with
out some shadows but also glim-
mering with light-the reflection OF
high hopes and no less lofty ideals
a light which today, in time OF
stress, may indeed guide our foot
steps and give to the doubling re-
assurance and faith.
In connection with the Jefferson
Exhibition, the National Gallery an
nounces lecture to be given this
afternoon at 5 o'clock in its audi
torium by Fiske Kimball, director OF
the Philadelphia Art Museum, on
Portraits of Jefferson" and on
next Sunday afternoon at the same
hour and place one on Jefferson
as an Architect" by Thomas T.
Waterman, likewise an authority.
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one is tempted to remove them fror
their containers.
Figure Painting
By yere Wickpire.

Jere Wickwire's first one-man
show in Washington, now on view in
the English room of the Raleigh
Hotel. was brought here from New
York City, where it was exhibited in
February. 1t comprises Is paintings,
the majority of them portraits and
figures, and a series of drawings of
a young man, made for the large
"Crucifxion," the shows major
work, completed last December. It is
a sincere and reverent personal in
terpretation of the subject, and a
laudable piece of figure painting.
But the visitor will doubtless see in
1t more symbol of the sacrifice OF
youth, in such periods as the present,
than q representation of Christ. The
Italian Renaissance Interpretation of
Christ has been so completely ac-
cepted by the Christian world that a
beardless, young American type does
not seem familiar in that conception.
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Concert Schedule
TODAY.

TODAY.
mach. huts: 1t. Edwin ''e. &. Hh Davis,
piano; Phillips Gallery. 5 pm.
c,iss Sundsy Music Music Hour. sliso Music
vergns Jefrries. director, YWcA,
Chamber Music Guild String Quar-
tet, margaret Sheridan, soprano: Paul
Gallery OF Art. pm.
TOMORROW.
Washington Music Teachers Asso-
ciation meeting. The Highlands. pm.
Library. Eighth and K streets NV,
q, Sterling WheelwriEht, crssn re-
cital. L. D. 8. Chapel. 8 pm.
TUESDAY.
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Or
mandy, conductor. Marjorie Law.
renee soprano. soloist. Constitution
Army Band, Auditorium, Fort Myer,
oMarin. Band. Marine Barracks,
:. soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
Stanley Hall. $50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Marine Band Symphony Orchestra,
Albert schoepper.s violin. soloist. Ma
rine Barracks. 8:15 pm; Marine
Band. Marine Barracks, 1:46 pm.
Symphonic Hour, YWCA. 8 pm.
d: Sterling Wheelvright, organ re.
cital, L. D. 8. Chapel, 8 pm.
THURSDAY,
Budapest String Quartet, Library
OF CongreSs, S:15 pm.
Howard Mitchell, cello recital,
Howard University. $50 pm.
Ronald Hodges, piano recital, Arts
Army Band. Ellipse, 5 pm.
Soldtels Home Band Orchestra,
Stanley Hall, $50 Pm.
FRIDAY.
Budapest String Quartet, Library
OF ConGress, S:16 Pm.
Navy Band Symphony Orchestra,
Oscar Shumsky.. violin, soloist, De-
pArtmentAl Auditorium, $40 pm.
Marine Band. Marine Barracks,
SATURDAY.
d, Sterling Wheelwright. orean Ye.
eital + p. Chapel, 3 pm.
ARMY band, Auditorium, Fort Myer,
"a. 1l:5O a.nh. Pop" concert.
0oldiers' Home pand Orchestra,
STANLEY Han. $3.50 pm.
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Song Service

Dean Howard Thurman announces
that the Howard University Glee
Club and Choir, under the direction
OF Warner Lawson. will be presented
in a special Palm Sunday service of
song. Some Of the selections to be
given will be two spirituals, THE
Crucifixion" and Were You There's"
chorale, "Oh. Sacred Head Now
Wounded, The Cruciflxus" from p
Minor Mass" by Bach, The Palms. /"
Il Will Extol Thee o Lord" by Kerr.
and "Alleliua," by Randall Thomp-
son. The Glee Club and Choir are
made up almost entirely OF students.
The service will be at $50 pm, in
the Andrew Rankin Memorial
Chapel, Howard University. The
public is invited.
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A pageant entitled ''The Christus," !"
written, produced and conducted by
DR.. H. Augustine Smith of Boston
University will be given this eve
ming at 8 o'clock at Foundry Metho-
dist Church with a cast of IS. The
five scenes are called: "Old Testa-
ment Prophecy of Better Days."
THE Christ Triumphant" THE
Christ of Tragedy" THE Christ of
the Resurrection and a Warless
World" and The Christ of All
Peoples"
At $50 and II am. services the
choir will sing the "Infammatus"
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from Rossini's "Stabat Mater" with
Linda Fraeser as guest soloist and
Faure's Palm Branches with solo
by Ernest Livingston, guest. Justin
Lawrie Is choirmaster and Glenn
Carow, organist.
At the morning service Mr.. Carow
will play Purceu's voluntary" as
prelude and Bach's ''Fugue' as post
lude. His program for the evening
will be Du Mage's Grand Jeu" and
Williams "Toccata."
Tonight at 8 pm. in st. Matthew'S
Cathedral, Rhode Island avenue be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, there will be given a per-
formance of the ''Stabat Mater
Emusic of Dvorak) by the cathedral
choir (augmented under the direc-
ton of Nation Boyce, NJ. Mus. Solo
quartet: Soprano, Fannie Shreve
Heartsill; alto, Helen Marie Koontz;
tenor, T. L. Costaggini; bass, F. P
Heartsill
The baritone solo, Fac ut Ardeat
Cor Meum," will be sung by j. j
Mcmahon, and the duet, Fac ut
Portem Christi Mortem," by Mrs
Dean and w. T. Hannah.
There will be special Palm Sun
day service in the Fort Myer Post
Chapel at 1880 I'm. today. Special
music of the Army Band String
Quartet will be preceded by the
ceremony Of the blessing of the
palms and procession, after which
Corpl. Sidney CoWen, Army Band
soloist, will sing "The Palms." by
Faure.
This afternoon at 4:30 o'clock the
choir of st. Pauls Lutheran Church
Connecticut avenue and Everett
street NV, under the direction OF
Lynn L. Gillchrest, will sing ]. H
Maunder's cantata, "Olivet to CAL
vary" The soloists will be Alice
gene Carver, soprano; Fern Mae
Byrd, contralto; Lynn L. Gillchrest
tenor, and Charles A. Appleby, bari
tone. Lila Haupt will be at the
organ.
"The Crucifixion," by Stainer, will
be sung by the senior choir of the
First Baptist Church this evening at
8 o'clock. Soloists will be Charles
Stebbins, jr., tenor, and John Parry
baritone. HarWood Hall Is minister
Of music.
The choir of Ingram Memorial
Congregational Church under the
direction of Marion st. John AL
bridge, organist, will give the fol-
lowing program at the II O'Clock
service today: Prelude, "Panis An
gelicus," Franck; Among the
Lilies" Frey, Helen Ogle, violinist;
the anthem, Filing Wide the Gates
Stainer; THE Palms." Faure, sung
by Connie Kreuger, and Bach's
Fantasia in G Minor as postlude
At Wisconsin Avenue Baptist
Church tonight a program Of music
will be presented by the choir with
instrumental assistance, giving the
Holy Week story from the triumphal
entry of our Lord into Jerusalem to
the Resurrection.
James Blackman, futist, and Mary
Alice Ferguson, violinist, will give
duet arrangements of Mailed to the
Cross" (Tullar) and Christ the
Lord Is Risen Today" Other num-
bers will be "Hallelujah Chorus"
from "The Messiah" Ruth Fergu-
son, pianist; II Know That MY
Redeemer Liveth," Handel, Mrs.
Clarence Ferguson; 1.-THE Palms, /"
Faure, Norman Ainsworth, pianist;
Jerusalem" Parker, Leroy Haslup,
tenor. The Ferguson family will
sing several quartet numbers, and
the choir will be heard in God 50
Loved the World" Stainer, and ION
Calvary's Brow" by Sweeney. Mrs.
Ferguson Is choir leader, and Edith
Audrey Gaylord is arranging the
program.
A x>,,~a~~N -
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row, Wednesday and Saturday, 8
to 8 pm, at the Mormon" edifice
on Sixteenth street and Columbia
road. Edna c. Wheelwright, who
served as her husbands secretary
in the recent research, will assist
as soprano soloist and community
song leader in the spring series Of
concerts.
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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-13
.Fdscists Hunted
In Tres(d KiinQ

NEW YORK. Jan u tUP).-
Federal Bureau of investigation
agents and police searched today
for fanatical Italian Fascists sus-
pected OF assaSsinatinE Carlo
Tresca. 6S. veteran radical and
impassioned enemy OF Benito Mus
solini.
TreSca was shot down on Fifth
avenue last night, a few feet from
the office OF the bitterly anti
Fascist newspaper II Martello
The Hammer). which he pub
lished with friend. Giuseppe
Callabl.
AS TreScs and Callab' turned
into Fifth avenue from West
Fifteenth street. an automobns
was AZ the intersection. waiting.
The avenue was in semidarknesS,
because Of the dimout. There
was almost no traffic and very
few pedestrians.
A man stepped from the auto
mobile and fired four times, Thres
shots went wild. but a fourth
pierced Tresca's head. Tresca fell
in the gutter.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-13
Story i'm Meats, Fofs Different

By working millions of prisoners and i'm
ported labor, Germany has kept up the bread
potato and vegetable supplies. The socalled normal
bread and cereal ration amounts to a rate of about
260 pounds person per annum, against the 2OO
pounds the American people eat.
But the story in meats and fats is far different
The blockade greatly reduced imports of vegetable
and fish oils and feed for animals Animal products have
greatly diminished.
All calculations Of meat and fat supplies very
involved. but the following represent approximation
and indicate the trend:
In 1886 the Germans consumed at the rate OF
about 165 pounds of combined meats and fats of all
kinds person per annum.
In 1889 the normal ration at the rate of
about los pounds in 1910 about 81 pounds in l94l
about 81 pOunds-and in 1912 it about 20 pounds
per annum.
Hard workers get This does not indicate
any substantial meat fat supplies from the Ukraine
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-13
Confidence of Victory Gone

Mentally the people have retreated from confidence
Of victory and have fallen back upon resolutions of
defense. They now realize that they island in a
of 2O0000000 invaded and starving people who hate
them with an irreparable bitterness
And thus the Germans know the dream of the New
Order in Europe has vanished.
Terrors of aerial bombardment and losses in battle
having depressing effect upon the spirit of the
people
That the home front is far from contented is ndi-
Gated by the Naz fortifcaons Of strategic buildings in
preparation quell civil disturbances and by the place
of Naz generals in command of the armies the
old staff
Further degeneration cannot be stopped However,
do not believe the Germans will collapse again internally
at the end of this their fourth winter in this
But it is impossible for them withstand indefinitely
these pressures on the home front.
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when fairly accurate estimate
was obtained a few days back.
He will have a few more by the
end of January.
But we should have accumu-
lated enough by then 10 assert
a superiority.
His plane concentrations In
Tunisia have so far counted no
higher than 200 to $50. most OF
which are fighters. Counting all
he has in Sardinia, Sicily and a
few more he has lately rushed
TO Rommel, or whoever is now in
charge of the Nazi army in
Tripoli, he has no more than 500
in all that area. We can top
that. Perhaps we have done so
already.
DISPATCHES refer to "the
~ fighting line in Tunisia.
There is no line. The British
advanced along paved roads on
the coast, and our armies went
forward on the few usable high
ways in the interior. Fighting
has been confined largely 10
clashes where we both encoun-
tered the Germans on these
roads.
Unfortunately. at the start,
Hitler seized the two best air.
fields in all Africa. at Bizerte
and Tunis. Both are very large
and have long. paved runways.
We had TO construct practically
all our fields. and photographs
recently arrived here show our
men working up TO their knees
in mud on these fields.
Naturally. there could not be
much activity either in the air
or with armored and motorized
vehicles on the ground at any
points except upon the very few
prepared highways during the
rainy season.
We found no gas there when
we arrived. Most OF il had 10
be shipped 5000 miles or more
from the United States. While
some of our original supplies
came from Britain and few
are still being sent in from that
source. the expedition is based
on this country.
HITLER has had enough
IL planes TO damage and sink
some of our ships as they neared
our Mediterranean coastal ports,
and at the unloading docks. The
only safe port we have is Al
Casablanca on the Atlantic
coast.
Hitler has bombed this twice.
but his bombers came 900 miles
from southern France and were
unable to carry enough OF a
load 10 do much damage. Sew
eral landed in Spain and were
interned.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-13
By Paul Ma||on
Registered U. 3. Patent offies
Continued from Page One)

The inferior railroad from
Casablanca, a thousand miles up
10 the front. offers such DIM
culties, however, that 1t is bet
ter for us TO try to get ships In
directly when we can.
Thus. "the appalling mud and
very limited communications,
mentioned by Mr.. Roosevelt,
have annoyed us in the accumu-
lation of superior fighting power,
which we lacked when Hitler
first decided TO make his stand.
GENERAL MONTGOMERY'S s
" British army, cutting in
from Libya, has not been able TO
accomplish his expectations
either. He thought he had the
Rommel army trapped two
weeks ago west of FL Agheila,
and the headlines were high ex-
pressing these hopes. When he
came UP 10 the line. however.
he found Rommel had merely
left behind two divisions as a
rear guard.
The smothering OF these
seemed foregone conclusion.
but, in the end, the Germans got
away with the loss of only 500
men. Details are not yet avail
able. but it appears that the
rear guard was two armored
divisions, which circled south
into the desert and escaped
while the British sought them
UP the coastal road.
There are two more places
Rommel can make stand be-
fore Tripoli, in the coastal range
of mountains. leading south
either from Misureata or HONS.
But il is unlikely that he will
be able 10 extricate himself in
the end.
THE Germans do not have
L enough troops in Tunisia and
Libya to hold a triangle from
Bizerte down 10 Misureata or
HONS. Will Rommel attempt
TO cut his way across the
Tunisian border and join the
North Tunis Nazi forces, or will
he seek escape by sea from
Tripoli and join them?
In either event, the Nazi hold
on Africa will be concentrated
in a small area with the sea al
its back. wide open 10 the
weight OF our inevitably coming
superior air power.
The Tunisian-Libyan battle
fronts, therefore, offer a deadly
serious job ahead for us. A
quick victory is out OF the ques-
tlon. Important results are not
even to be expected within the
next few weeks.
But the weight Of final expec-
tations is heavily on our side.
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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-13
Rofions. Below Health Level

An investigation of the food experience during the
last war; made after the at my direction indicates
that the present amount of fats in German rations is
below the full health level for the ordinary
But equally important is the degeneration of
practically all other supplies for civilian use, including
clothing and COAL The people suffer from cold in winter
Overcrowding is adding its miseries.
Wear and tear on the railways and machine shops
and their destruction by air attack creating difficulties
in transportation and manufacture.
German manpower on the home front is weakening
steadily despite forced labor from the occupied countries
A work week of so hours is the minimum in
factories compared average of less than "A hours
The workmen feeling the pressure of overwork and
Germany making frantic efforts to skilled
power from occupied countries.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-13
By HERBERT HOOVER
Distributed by international News Service


A LII is not well upon the German home front
II today. The bitz and terror which were to
n have won short war have in large sense.
failed.
Germany has abandoned the hope that she
can bring the war to a swift conclusion.
Warned by the collapse on the home front in
World War !, the Germans this time made great
preparations in expanded agriculture, in stored
food, metals, textiles and in synthetic production
of OIL rubber, explosives.
Upon invasion of Norway, Holland, Belgium,
Yugoslavia, France Poland and the Ukraine she
seized their accumulated stores
In consequence of advance preparation and
this robbery Germany was not substantially short
of supplies during the first two years of the war.
But she has consumed her stocks and there is
much less to be taken from the invaded countries:
The tide has turned on the home front, and
all the forces Of internal degeneration are now IN
action
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-13
j. ). Names Il.
Wdrships Lost
In SoIomons 4
Carrier Hornet With
Three Cruisers, Seven
Destroyers Victims

WASHINGTON. Jan. Il GNS).
Loss Of the 20000-ton United
States aircraft carrier Hornet
sunk by American naval gunhre
last October after being badly
damaged in battle by the Japa-
nesc IN the Solomon Islands, was
Q tnounced today by the navy de-
partment.
The navy for the first time
identified 10 other United States
warshipS-three cruisers and seven
I destroyerS by enemy action
in the furious engagements Of
October 26. November 1915 and
+ November 30-Dcccmber l when
American sea and air forces
crushed powerful Japanese at
tcmptS 10 recapture the south
eastern SolomonS,
The sinking of these II ships
had been acknowledged in earlier
navy CommuniqucS, but their
names had been withheld for
security reasons and until the
next of kin Of personnel killed,
wounded or missing had been
notified.
The navy made no estimate of
total casualties, which are be-
lieved 10 have been comparatively
small but said that the command
ers OF five of the ships are miss
ing The IL ships carried approx
Imately 5000 officers and men in
Guiding the flying personnel of the
Hornet.
In addition 10 the Hornet
fourth aircraft carrier 10 be lost
by the United States in the Pa
Icific, the navy listed the following
lshinS- as sunk: =-->>-..-
Cruiser NorthamNton, 9.o5o
| tons.
Cruisers Atlanta and JNNeau,
each 5000 tons.
Destroyers Gushing. 1883 TINS;
Preston. 1,4S0 tons; Benham. 300
tons: Walker, 1870 tons; Mons
sen. 1880 tons; Laffey, 100 tons,
and Barron, LOO tons.
The japanese, in these three
battles, lost 55 ships sunk or
damaged. Of which 81 were sent
TO the bottom by United States
warships and bombing planes. 1t
has been estimated that approXi-
lmately 10000 enemy soldiers and
sailors were killed or drowned.
3 CARRIERS LEFT
The United States aircraft car
Iriers lost prior TO the sinking
lof the Hornet were the Lexington,
yorktown and Wasp
The United States is known 10
have three other carriers in COM
Imission-the Ranger. Enterprise
and Saratoga-with several others
either now in service or about
Ito join the fleet.
Built at Newport News, Va,
the Hornet was launched in De-
Icember, 1910. and went into COM
mission in October. 1941. 1t was
no feet long, with a beam Of
ls3 feet and was armed with eight
Iflve-inch guns. She had a normal
complement of 81 to IS planes.