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Evening star., 1947-06-21
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, d G..
SATURDAY JUNE
Capitol Park Hotel 5
Former Owner Tops
Bids With $4,000

High bidder for the controversies
Capitol Park Hotel on Union Sta
tion Plaza is its former owner, the
Capitol Park Hotel Corp.
The corporation bid $4,000 yes.
terday for the building, registering
the highest of five bids opened by
| the Public Buildings Administration
A bill to remodel the hotel. used
for the United Nations Service Cen
ter during the war, and to use 1t fol
Offices Of the District Court, mean
while, has passed the Senate and il
now in the hands of the House
Public Works Committee.
There Is good chance the bill
will be pigeon -holed by the House
committee, however. The House
committee already has tabled two
other bills for using the hotel as a
dwelling.
Bids were asked for the hotel sale
before the Senate committee re-
ported fayorably on the present bill
after House committee leaders had
urged PBA to sell.
Other bidders for the hotel were
Harry l. Friedman, $500, 900; Henry
I. Margolus, New York, $267 600:
Joseph Wolf, New York, s251 500
and Raymond Sher, Chicago, $14o,-
600.
Evening star., 1947-06-21

found the body Of 8 man washed
ashore about miles south az vir-
einia Beach. Identification had not
been established LAST night.
Evening star., 1947-06-21
Ford Reports 9Th Beating
In Detroit Foremen's S Strike
BY the As,ociotsd Pres,

DETROIT June 21.-Another
beating of nonstriker in connec-
ton with the month-old walkout of
$500 Ford Motor Co. foremen was
reported by the company yester-
day.
A company spokesman said a
group Of men attacked Albert l..
Klein, Al, production foundry FORE
man at the Rouge plant. It was
the eighth reported attack on a
nonstriker.
Mr.. Klein was severely beaten in
a parking lot in the plant vicinity
was treated in the plant hospital
for dislocated shoulder and cuts
and bruises, the company said.
Dearborn police took two men
into custody for questioning.
The Foreman's Association of
America, independent union of su-
pervisory workers, has been on strike
against three Detroit area Ford
plants since May 81. A prime union
demand is for exclusive bargaining
rights for all Ford's foremen.
Evening star., 1947-06-21
| Soviet StockpiIes
| |Armor-Piercing
tungsten Ore

Russia Is stockpiling strategic ma
terials used in the making Of ar
|mor-piercing projectiles at the rate
of nearly 10000 tons a year.
This development, one of the
most closely guarded Of postwar
Soviet secrets, has just come to the
attention of experts attached to the
United States Arrny-Navy NUM-
tiens Board.
The secret was divulged not by
Russia, which is pretty tight Tipped
about such matters, but by China,
the worlds largest producer OF
tungsten ore. Tungsten is the
critical ingredient in the manufac-
ture OF rmor-piercing shells.
Chinese maritime customs sta
tistics show that all of China S
tungsten is going to Russia. IN the
last Is months, shipments totaled
more than $4,000 quintals (220.5
pounds per quintaI, valued at more
than s., SOC, ,000, 900 in Chinese money.
Under an ironclad barter agree
ment, the Chinese say they are
Evening star., 1947-06-21

India's Bombay Province still suf-
fers shortages Of food, cloth and OIL
Evening star., 1947-06-21
Flyer Rescued Off Coast
Body Of Another Found
BY the Assoe;o,sd Press

NORFOLK. June 2l--A Navy
flyer narrowly escaped death when
his plane crashed into the ocean of
Virginia Beach yesterday
The crew OF an amphibious Coast
Guard truck which answered the
rescue call found a body believed to
be that of another Navy airman
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washed ashore . short distance
from the scene Of the crash
The rescued flyer, 1t. g.
George j. Webb, was picked up by q
plane from the Elizabeth City IN
CD Coast Guard Station half hour
after his fighter plane fell into the
ocean about Q miles on Virginia
Beach.
The Coast Guard vehicle later
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Iconpelled to ship their total tang-
1sten output to Russia In payment
Ifor arms shipped to China In 1888
to fight the Japanese.
tReleased By North American Newspaper
| Alliance.)
Evening star., 1947-06-15
National Gallery Opens Extensive Show
Of Sc Seldom.Displayed Chiaroscure Woodcuts
d.,
as a pair
BY Florence S. Berrymon

The National Gallery of Art has
opened an exhibition of chiaroscuro
woodcuts of the 10Th through the
18th centuries. 1t is the first time
that large group of such work has
been shown in Washington. AS a
matter of fact, examples OF this
graphic medium are seldom dis
played. I have seen only one i'm
portant exhibition in more than a
decade. Shown at the New York
Public Library, it was largely a loan
from the private collection of W. G.
Russell Allen. The exhibition at
the NATIONAL Gallery is lent anon
ymously, and will remain on view
until mid-seRember.
The exhibition is important be-
cause of it's several facets of in
terest: The method in its varia-
tions, as an experiment in color
printing and as an Illustration OF
phases of several national arts.
Wood engraving was more than a
century old before the chiaroscuro
method was invented in Germany
in the first decade of the 18th CEN
tury.
In chiaroscuro woodcuts effects
of light and shadow are obtained
by areas of fiat color, rather than
by lines. although in many in
stances the latter supplements the
color with the same objective. The
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subject of the print is cut in outline
on one block and shadow areas
on one or more additional blocks
When tones from these are printed
on an impression from the outline
block the resulting picture is a very
good imitation of a pen drawing on
tinted paper. The chiaroscurists
obtained high lights by cutting
them out of a tone block, which
left the paper white in some places
while the rest was toned gray
earth red, apple green or some other
subdued color.
The collection now on view at
the National Gallery is an outstand-
ing one, having many prints of ex-
ceptional rarity. The earliest pc
riod of the art in Germany Is rep
resented by two rare prints, Lovers
Surprised by Death,' by Hans
Burgkmair, and the Beautiful Vir-
gin of Ratisbon," by Albrecht Alt
dorfer. The latter print depicts a
famous miracle working statue on
an altar in a church in Ratisbon,
which was erected in 1919 and be-
came the center of a large cult.
| A portrait by Durer, also his IA
nous rhinoceros which appears to
be clad in a suit of armor, and Hans
Baldung Gruns Witches Sab
BATH" are other outstanding prints
| by German chiaroscurists. Several
street scenes and architectural sub
jects by Erasmus 10y, and prints by
Tobias Simmer and Hans Weiditz,
10th century Germans, and Flem-
ish contemporary, Crispin van den
Brock, afford more evidence OF
northern use of the medium.
But generally speaking, Italian
artists made the best chiaroscuro
woodcuts Ugo da Carpi, who in
vented his own process decade or
less after the Germans, and in 1916
claimed protection for it from the
Doge and Senate of Venice, is rep
resented in the exhibition with II
or more prints of subjects from the
Bible and classical mythology. Two
of "a Sibyl Reading" after Raphael,
are in line, color tone and white
high lights, and one is printed in
reverse. Some of his prints are
from tone blocks only with no lines.
Ugo da Carpi, son of Count As
tolfo da Panico of Carpi was born
about 1850 and died in the 1520s.
Another group of prints is as
cribed to da Carpi or his follower,
Niccolo Vincentino, a 10Th century
chiaroscurist who worked at Bolog-
ma He used three blocks and made.
Woodcuts after drawings by Ra-
phael, Caravaggio, Parmigiano and
other masters. Parmigiano taught
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Commercial Art
Exhibit Announced

All phases of commercial art, from
elaborate illustrations painted in oil
to black and white line cuts, will be
shown at the annual commercial art
exhibition to open this afternoon at
Columbia Technical Institutes art
school, 1899 Vermont avenue NV
The public is invited to view the
show from to pm. today. It will
last through Friday.
Work by graduates of the school,
now employed in Washington ad-
vertising agencies and on news
paper staffs, will be shown along
with students work. OF major in
terest in the latter group is work by
veterans who lost several years dur
ing their war service, but have re-
turned with new ideas. Approx
imately 125 exhibitors will be rep
resented.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
VFW Department
Annual Sessions
..
At the Mayflower

The annual encampment of the
District of Columbia Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will open
at 8 o'clock tonight at the Mayflower
Hotel. Sessions will be held to-
morrow and Tuesday nights. OFF,
Ger will be elected and installed at
the closing session. Comdr. Charles
OMalley will preside.
Extension Officer Julian c. Tatka
installed officers of the new South
West Memorial Post at the Nye
Council House, Eighth and F
streets S.W.
They are: Commander, Frank A.
Gambino; senior vice commander,
Otto j. Boyer; chaplain, Richard G.
Kirke; quartermaster, John C.
Meyer. The commander made the
following appointments: Adjutant,
John C. Meyer; officer of the day,
John r. Taylor. Trustees elected
were: Three years. Chester B.
Whetzel; two years, Charles E.
Cummings, and one year, George E.
Cassell.
Front Line Post met Monday night
at the Gold Chevron Club. Comdr.
Harold T. Grier presided. Depart
ment Adjt. Clyde w. KERN gave the
obligation to Charles L. Revere, D.
w. Hoover, Earl M. Dimmick and
Thomas J. Gallagher, the latter a
transfer.
The Front Line Post Degree team
has been invited to attend the en-
campment Of the Department of
Virginia; in Norfolk during the first
week in July, and will put on the
long form initiation for the Virginia
Delegation.
Equality-Walter Reed Post will
hold but one meeting during July,
August and September, on the third
Thursday.
At the first June meeting, Charles
S. Sullivan, jr., Charles M. Holmes,
E. j. McDermott and Allen c.
Schieck were elected to serve on the
Council of Administration.
Comdr Dewey B. Carter presided
over the last meeting of H. L.
Edmonds Post at the Gold Chevron
Club. The Front Line Post Degree
team obligated Clarence T. Huff
man, Arthur J. Gang and Boyd A.
Mason.
Clinton L. Mattingly, chairman of
entertainment, announced tickets
are available for the moonlight |
cruise down the Potomac on June
27 on the S. S. Mount Vernon of the |
Wilson Line.
Meetings this week:
Wednesday = Maj. Gen. Edwards
Post, 1921 K street NV; Police Fire
Fost, 713 D street NV; United
States Treasury Post, 1919 K street |
NV; United States Naval Gun
Factory Post, 1910 Good Hope road
Sc.
Observation-Disclosures Reed
Post, 713 D street NV; National
Capitol Post, 1919 K street NV.
Friday-All-American Post, 1891
3 street NV.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Art Critic H0n0red

Miss Leila Mechlin, former art
critic of The Star, has been made
an honorary life member emeritus
of the Arts Club Of Washington.
The membership is in recognition
of her work as art critic of The
Star for As years until her retire
ment last year.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
News About Stamps
By james WoIdo Fowcett

| into collectors albums, because even
the utilitarian meter stamp and its
SLOGANS now has its philatelic fol-
lowers. They are making metered
mail an interesting if minor branch
| of the greatest Of all hobbies"
Elmer C. Pratt, writing in the
Camden Courier Post. says: 'The
Sunday newspaper syndicate maga-
zine This Week had a lead story a
few weeks ago by Lawrence w. Shen-
field entitled The Big Stick-Up in
Stamps This story has done lot
of harm to philately because of its
many half truths and misleading
deductions, say most of the stamp
columnistS and philatelic magazines.
Chambers Stamp Journal, however,
had a more temperate editorial than
most, which concluded, We are all
aware of the fact that our philatelic
house needs some cleaning out in
spots, but I doubt If any of us would
60 so far as Mr.. Shenfeld, who
states that the hobby Is slowly rot
ting at the core" Rather, I would
say that the spots are all on the sur
face and the sooner they are pealed
of the better"
If, as or when the British finally
abandon India to it's fate, the Hin
dustan Peninsula almost certainly
will be divided into perhaps as many
as 80 different political organiza-
tions-"states" more or less inde-
pendent-and each of these estab-
lishments probably will bring out
quantities of postal labels for sale
at home and, especially, In the world
stamp markets.
The Sc American Medical Associa-
ton commemorative was released at
Atlantic City last Monday and with
regard to its design and engraving
1t is an acknowledged masterpiece.
Unfortunately, however, the color
of the doctors stamp Is too dark.
Post Office Department and Bureau
of Engraving and Printing officers
are considering the possibility of q
second edition, but hope for such
correction is not bright. The num-
Der of copies ordered was 125 ,000, 900,
and it Is understood that actual
press work has been completed.
From 1847 to 1947 the world wit
messed the production of approx
113,700 different postage
stamps, according to Kent Stiles,
philatelic writer for the New York
Times. The United States, he adds.
was responsible for ASH major and
minor varieties, or less than 3 per
cent of the whole number.
To buy all new issues OF stamps
as they appear would cost a collector
about $3.50 a month--and the in
vestment certainly would be worth
it's cost in terms of money saved.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV Tuesday evening at 8.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Closed for Sum me

The Textile Museum of. the Dis
trict Of Columbia viii he closed
from today through se., Is
Evening star., 1947-06-15

To buy all new issues Of stamps
as they appear would cost collector
about $3.50 a month-and the in
vestment certainly would be worth
it's cost in terms of money saved.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

Transcontinental & Western Air,
Inc, will inaugurate service from
Detroit on Route FAM-27 to Ireland,
France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece
and Egypt on Wednesday.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

DR.. Prichard Won David, we'll
known philatelist and antiquarian
adviser. is recovering from a serious
illness at his home, 1922 Tolma
avenue, Pittsburgh, and will be glad
to hear from friends.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

Meetings this week:
Monday - Department Legislative
Committee. Department Membership
Committee, Guard of Honor, Legion
Club; Quentin Roosevelt Post, Po-
tomac Boat Club.
Tuesday-Cooley -McC Cullough and
Maritime Posts, Legion Club; Ma
tional Press Club Post, National
Press Club; End Division Post, New
Colonial Hotel: Bunker Hill Post,
3736 Tenth street NE; Pepco Post,
Legion Club.
Wednesday - General Accounting
Office. Leslie and Douglas McNair
and War Department Posts, Depart
ment Convention Committee, Le-
Igion Club: Washington Gaslight
Post, Stansbury Hall.
Thursday-Stanley Church Depue
Post, Legion Club; Internal Reve-
nue Post, Stansbury Hall
Friday-Kenna-Matn Post. 1910
Good Hope road Sc.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

Clear and neat hand cancellations
may be obtained from the post
master at Center Sandwich, N. H.
Inclose clipping Of this notice with
request for markings.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

Proceeds derived from the annual
boatride of the James E. Walker
Post on the Steamer Robert E. Lee
next Saturday will be used toward
the post building fund.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

The George E. Killeen Post and
Unit will hold bingo party for
disabled veterans at the Walter Reed
Hospital next Tuesday evening, ac-
cording to Comdr. Norman E. Rosser.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

District delegates will indorse the
Presidents loyalty investigations to
keep subversives of the Federal
payroll. This plan, however, calls
for establishment Of loyalty tri-
bunal" to determine which organi-
cations are subversive. 1t also would
give personnel fired under the 10y
atty checks right of appeal to the
Civil Service Commission.
Another convention fight is ex-
|pected to rage around supporters Of
Henry Wallace. Foremost among
them will be Michael Straight, pub
Usher of the New Republic maga-
zine, who accompanied Mr.. Wallace
on his recent speaking tour Of
Europe. MIR. Wallace, who spoke at
the convention last year, was not
invited to appear this time.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

Bureau of Internal Revenue Post
indorsed Chester T. Bennett for the
office of department commander for
the year 1947-1948.
Evening star., 1947-06-15

There will be department meet
ing of all who took the hospital
workers indoctrination course at
10 pm. Tuesday at the Legion Club
with Mrs. Pearl Heagerty presiding.
Mrs. Heagerty has also called a
meeting of the department Building
Fund Committee the same night at
the clubhouse at 8 pm. Plans for
the benefit telephone card party
on the night of June 20 will be
discussed.
Evening star., 1947-01-28
Pusb-Butt0n War Is Far Off,
Eisenhower Tells Press1V0naen
By Gretchen Smith
Women's Club editor

could not have been rendered by
men," he declared, and added that
the War Department highly recon-
mended legislation making the WAC
a permanent branch Of the Army
as "a sister service to the nurse
CORPS"
Questioned following his address,
the general proved himself a diplo-
mat as we'll as military leader. On
the controversial question of Russia,
he quoted an earlier statement, that
soldiers and sailors are not policy
makers-we're merely executives and
do what we're told to do"
He said, however, that his per-
sonal contacts with Russian leaders
and soldiers proved them friendly
and fun-loving: Much like Ameri-
cans and extraordinarily anxious to
be friendly with Americans"
Among those at the speakers
table were Mrs. Eisenhower, 1t. Gen.
and Mrs. j. Lawton Collins, director
of information, War Department:
Mai. Gen. w. S. Paul, director OF
personnel and administration: Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. Floyd l.. Parks, direc-
tor, Bureau of Public Relations:
Col. Westray Battle Boyce, director
of the WAC; Miss Margaret Ban
lister, head of the Women's Inter-
ests Section, War Department, and
Mrs. John Nicholas Brown. wife OF
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Air.
Mrs. Alice Hager. club president.
presided and introduced the honor
quests.
Evening star., 1947-01-28
Fund Drive Headed
Bv Mrs. Chandler

Announcement has been made by
Mrs. Howard G. Nichols, president
OF the Washington YWCA, of the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Bernard Chandler
as chairman of the local Round the
World YWCA Reconstruction Fund
Campaign Committee.
The goal of the campaign, sched-
uled to extend through February, is
$2,100.000. It's theme is "Women's
Work Is Just Begun" and its pur-
pose is to provide citizenship train
ing and guidance for women Of 30
countries abroad.
Mrs. Chandler will be assisted
throughout the campaign by an
executive committee consisting of
Mrs. Wiley B. Rutledge, Mrs. WAL
dron Faulkner, Mrs. George N.
Everett, Mrs. Harold Moulton, Miss
Gretchen Feiker, Mrs. Stuart A..
Rice, Mrs. John Ladd, Mrs. Paul
E. Shorb and Miss Gertrude Ennes
Through the Round-the World
YWCA Reconstruction Fund Cam
paign the American YWCA plans
to send overseas experienced Sec
retaries to help in training young
people of other countries for
leadership, to give an oppor-
tunity for rest to the fine pre-
war leaders who were often i'm
prisoned, to provide temporary sub
stitutes for bombed-out equipment,
and to extend the YWCA program
to emergency areas where it is
needed.
Evening star., 1947-01-28
Baby Cbristemed.
In Nary Chapel
1t Annab0hs

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r. Tucker
man are back from Annapolis where
they went for the christening Sun
day of their infant grandson, Draper
Laurence Kaufman, jr., son OF
Comdr. and Mrs. Kaufman, who
was born iii Washington November
18.
The christening took place in the
chapel at the Naval Academy, where
both the babys father and grand
father, Vice Admiral James Lau-
renee Kaufman, Commandant @!
the Philadelphia Navy Yard, were
graduated.
Mrs. Prescott Bush, the former
Miss Betty Lou Kaufman, aunt OF
the child, was named godmother
and Admiral Kaufman and Mr.
fTuckerman both were named god
fathers.
The baby wore the beautiful
hand-embroidered dress in which
his mother and her four sisters had
been baptized, and was held on the
|lace-covered pillow which had been
used at his fathers christening.
Other members of the family who
went to Annapolis for the ceremony
were Col. and Mrs. Robert Hugh
Williams, Mrs. Benjamin H. Bays,
jr., and Miss Laura Tuckerman.
Comdr. Means Johnston, who was
best man at Comdr. and Mrs. Kauff-
mans wedding, and Mrs. Johnston
were in the group of close friends
who witnessed the ceremony.
Evening star., 1947-01-28
Iuni0r C0tilliOn
Valentine Dance
Slated Saturdav

A Valentine motif will be carried
out at the Junior Army and Navy
Cotillion to be held Saturday evening
at the Officers Club of the Army
War College.
The dance is the third In the series
sponsored by members of the West
Point class of 1924 for the younger
group in local service circles.
The central decoration will be a
large red heart trimmed in white
lace and the climax will come when
the leaders OF the grand march step
through an opening in the heart.
Miss Judy Summerall, wearing a
red dress, will lead the march with
her partner, Mr.. Ralph zwicker, and
they will be followed by Miss Bar
bara Lee Talbot, in a white dress,
and Cadet Warren Brown. Helping
to form picture effect will be Miss
jeanne Holbrook and Mr.. Hanford
Claybrook, who will stand beside the
heart.
The favors will be valentines con-
tanning charm bracelets, with hearts
and cupids, for the girls and small
address books for the young men.
Col. and Mrs. Charles P. Sum-
jr., will head the receiving
line which will include Capt. Donald
r. Osborn, U. S. NJ, and Mrs. Osborn;
Col. and Mrs. James G. Anding, Mrs.
Elizabeth Henney and 1t. and Mrs.
Gerald j. Sullivan. --.
The junior hosts will be the Misses
Betty and Emily Arnold and Eliza
beth Wood, Messrs. Donald Osborn
and Fred Henney, and the three
couples heading the grand march.
Evening star., 1947-01-28
Phyllis Beames
Becomes Bride

The wedding of Miss Phyllis Joann
Beames, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Sewell Bean1es to Mr.. Ed
mund John Wells, jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wells of Washington, took place
last evening in the TRANSPORTATION
Episcopal Church.
The ceremony took place at
8 o'clock with the Rev. John j.
Queally officiating.
The bride was escorted and given
in marriage by her father. She wore
a gown of white satin with a veil
of illusion held in place by a Juliet
cap of white satin trimmed with
white ostrich feathers. She carried
white ostrich feather muff with
white orchid on the front.
Miss Patricia Kendrick was the
maid of honor and the matron of
honor was Mrs. Arthur r. Myres, jr.
They wore gowns of burgundy velvet,
and carried ostrich muffs to match
their dresses.
The other attendants were Miss
Shirley Simms, Miss Ruth Spencer,
Miss Dorothy Sharkey and Mrs.
James Klaasse. Their gowns were of
moss green velvet and they carried
feather muffs to match.
Mr.. Allen Forbes was the best
man and the ushers were Mr.. James
Klaasse, Mr.. Arthur r. Myres, jr.,
Mr.. Ralph Miller and Mr.. James
Miller.
A reception followed at Hotel 2400.
The couple will make their home in
Washington. The bride attended
George Washington University. Her
husband attended v. M. I. before
entering the Naval Air Corps and
now is attending George Washington
University.