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Evening star., 1947-12-07
Nativity Boy Tells
Of Visit to 'Tip.Top'
OF Tallest Building
Prize Contribution
By Thomas Walter Toppon, 8
Nativity Sehoo

Nativity School
My mother and father took me
to New York City on train. The
greatest part of my trip was visit
to the Empire State Building.
In the reception room on the first
floor saw some farmers and ragged
little boys buying tickets for the
trip upstairs. They were so poor
looking that I wondered where they
had gotten the money. The charge
was S1.10 for adults and IS cents
for children under II.
When a crowd Of about 20 persons
had gathered, the elevator took us
to the 80th floor. My ears seemed
to close as we went higher and
higher. We changed elevators and
continued to the Tooth floor, then
walked up two flights to the OBJ
servation tower. I was sitting on
a cloud.
I looked down at the city from
all four sides of the tower. I used
a powerful telescope which is in
stalled there and saw Long Island,
New Jersey and Brooklyn. The
people on the streets resembled tiny
ants.
AS our elevator took us back down,
my ears seemed to pop and IN no
time I was again on the ground
floor. When I went out on Thirty
fourth street and looked up, I could
hardly believe that I'd just been
to the tiptop Of the tallest building
in the world.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Veterans Guide
By Moj. Thomos N. NiaI

whose countries have oversubscribed
immigration quotas. The quotas o1
some countries are not oversub.
scribed., That is, not as many eligi-
BILE people want to come to this
country as the law allows.
Germany is one Of the undersub-
Iscribed countries, and the State De-
partment thinks the German quota
will stay undersubscribed beyond
December 81, 1947. So German
fiancees will be able to keep on
coming over here beyond that date
for as long as the German quota
remains undersubscribed.
A few other countries also are
undersubscribed. If the quotas OF
these countries and Of Germany
become oversubscribed at some fu-
ture date (after December 81. 194D
fiancees then will have to wait their
normal turn before getting over
here, just as finances in coun-
tries now oversubscribed will have
to wait their turn after Decem-
Der 81.
From H. T.. Easton, Pa: When
a veteran going to school under the
GI bill gets married can he have
his subsistence allowance raised to
$50 from the $65 he's now getting?"
Yes. He should apply to his near
est VA Office as soon as he gets
married. That's because the in
crease in allowance will not start
until the VA has received word Of
the marriage, even II that should
happen two or three months after
the marriage takes place.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con.
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings and sculpture By great
Tssters NsSa s.rSes Men Of wo1s Astioq We Of shs
to December 10.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col
lection Of Fine Arts, Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Ameri-
can paintings from private collec-
tions and other gifts and loans.
ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING.
Jefferson drive and Ninth street
graphs.
Of Graphic Arts, Independence
avenue and Tenth street-Etchings
by Charles Dahlgren, through jan
FREEk IiEk GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
entail and Far Eastern arts: Paint,
ings and etching by Whistler and
other American artists: changing
coRcoRAN GALLERY OF ART.
York avenue and E street-Ameri::
can paintings and sculpture and
the W. A. Clark collection. New
o Of water co9Ts and vcrty Sy AZ
Alexander James Memorial Exhlnl-
ton: Wars Toll of Italian Art;
both opening today.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
1900 Twenty-first street-Paint-
ings and prints. Exhibitions by
James McLaughlin.. Laughlin Phil
lips and Augustus Y. Tack, opening
today.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Capt.:
tol and First streets-Dtvision, OF
Prints. Photographs Of early archi-
lecture by Frances BENJAMIN
Johnston; extended to January yA
ARTS GhnB, I@17 20 II. street Atkyns and
Samuel Bookatz. through Friday.
Randolph place NW.-Paintings
and other work by Elizabeth
Catlett.
WATKINS GALLERY. American Uni:
versity campus-Artists' Guild
show. through January 3.
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and K
streets ,bqn1gh paoemb.r BY
DUMBARToN OAKS. COLLECTION,
ARTISTS co-oPERATIvE, 1920 NJ
street NW-Christmas Gift Ex-
hibition, opening today.
BUSH g. WEEKS GALLERY, 201o
street NW-Exhibition by Jozef
Pielage, opening today.
PAN AMERICAN UNION. Constitution
avenue and Seventeenth street
NW-Photographs Of folk fes-
tivals in Venezuela. by Francisco
Perez. through Tuesday.
WASHINGTON WORKSHOP. 2o2o
Massachusetts, avenue NV. -
Christmas Sales Exhibition, through
CoSNSoTssEUR's CORNER, zoos @
street N.W-Drawings by Cusu-
mans.
Evening star., 1947-12-07

who visit the large memorial exhibi-
ton of his work which will open to
the public this afternoon, having
been inaugurated yesterday with a
tea for members of the Corcoran
Gallery Association.
Entering the two large galleries
containing more than 10 paintings
and sketches, the visitor will be
initially impressed, perhaps, with
the New England reserve which
seems to characterize the exhibition
as a whole. These are sound con-
servative works in low key, which
appear at first glance to be painted
mostly in browns. But the portraits
remind one Of the New England
people they represent; when one be-
comes acquainted, they reveal many
rich and glowing colors. But the
regular gallery-goer's eyes are SO
accustomed these days to the clam
orous insistence Of color in modern
paintings that one has to become
acclimated to the subtlety of Alex
ander James palette.
Attitude Plus Insight.
AL but four of the paintings are
portraits or figure studies. They
seem to have something of William
James attitude toward life, some
thing of Henry James insight into
character However, Alexander
James doubtless had a far wider ac-
quaintance with humanity than did
the novelist. An anonymous COM
mentator wrote of Alexander: HE
certainly painted people Uncle Henry
never knew existed-humble farm
folk, weary in their working clothes"
and he painted them with the same
penetrating observation and warm
friendliness as he revealed In paint
ing New England's social leaders
and intellectual elite.
Alexander James was born in
Cambridge in 1890. the youngest son
of Prof. William James of Harvard.
He studied at the Boston Museum
School and with Frank Benson and
Abbott Thayer He travelled much
In his youth, lived in California a
few years, taught for brief period
at the Corcoran School of Art and
worked abroad. He is quoted as hav-
ing said, while painting in Paris, ut
became increasingly a wonderment
to me that I was working from
French models when my own kind,
with aches. irascibilities and native
twists which I could gauge were up
and down the road at home"
He returned to live in Dublin,
N. H., and to paint his family,
friends and neighbors-people of po-
sition and attainment, and the
rugged individualists of rural New
Hampshire. He had begun his career
painting in an academic style, ex-
emplified in the memorial show by
the large portrait of his wife done in
Washington in 1920. But eventually
he developed a strong personal mode
of expression, essentially traditional
but simplified, with emphasis on
faces, the subjects softly Illuminated
with diffused light.
Among notables whose portraits
Evening star., 1947-12-07

with st. COiumbla'S Churcn. Inc
last show, given November 10, raised
funds to help the Young People's S
Canteen in the church.
Alvina became interested in fist
puppets when she was 10. These
puppets are put on like a glove and
controlled by the fingers. A little
later, she advanced to marionettes,
little cloth figures of humans con-
trolled by strings, and started max
ing her own. The dolls are Is inches
tall and very lifelike in detail.
The shows are presented on a
4-foot stage that stands nearly feet
high and has indirect lighting. The
stage and all its scenery were also
made by Alvina. Between the three
acts of the play she does a clown
act and flying carpet act, while her
three assistants change the scenery.
Alvina lives at 4432 Chesapeake
street NV. and attends Alice Deal
Junior High School.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
My Puppy
Prize Contribution
By Mov Frances DevIin, 10

Woodland School, Wiehto, kans.
My puppy's just the cutest thing.
She's cute as she can be,
But when she's sad she Just sits
there
And rolls her eyes at me.
One day we got nice new harness
And took her for stroll,
But she was stubborn and lay right
down,
And rolled as hard as she could
roll.
I finally figured out that she
Wanted to get loose,
So I took it off right then and there,
And carried her like papoose.
When we got home she was so happy
She gave me great big kiss.
And she is happy to this day,
And there's my poem-it ends like
this.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Safety Circus Talks
Bv Dick Mansfield

Pupils Of five District schools and
one in Maryland will hear chalk
talks this week by Inspector Dick
Mansfield, director of The Stars
school safety program and former
chief Of detectives.
The Safety Circus" cartoon talks
are sponsored by The Star, IN CO.
operation with school authorities of
the District and nearby Maryland
and Virginia. This weeks schedule:
Tomorrow, pm, Wheatley.
Tuesday, IL am, Edmonds; 2 Pm,
Maury.
wednesday. Poolesville Hish. Montsom-
cry County.
THURSDAY, Q pm. Kingsman.
Friday, II q m, Fairbrother.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Contemporary Mediaevalist

OF all the temporary exhibitions
which will be shown in Washington
this month, that composed of illumi-
nations, bound books and pencil
drawings by Marian U. M. Lane, just
opened at the Central Public Lii
brary, will undoubtedly be the most
beautiful.
The library could not have chosen
a display more appropriate to
Christmas, although these works are
not seasonal in any respect. But
their exquisite craftsmanship, jewel
like colors, and gold burnish, and
specifically the miniature paintings
of the Madonna in number OF il
luminations, as we'll as the hand
some bindings Of volumes Of classics,
whisper christina" to every OBJ
server.
Marian Lane has been Washing
tonian for more than 80 years. Born
in Great Gransden, Huntingdon
shire, England, she obtained her art
education in London. She studied
bookbinding under Sangorski and
Sutcliffe, Illuminating and lettering
under Alberto Sangorski, miniature
painting under Edward Clifford, R.
l.. and water color and black and
white, under Henry Rice.
She is a charter member of the
Arts Club of Washington, which
elected her in 1910 to emeritus life
membership. She is also afhliated
with the Washington Water Color
Club, Society of Miniature Painters,
Sculptors and Gravers, and is mas
ter craftsman of the Boston Arts
and Crafts Society. She has received
prizes for illuminations In four
Metropolitan State Art contests at
Evening star., 1947-12-07

are included, are John P. Marquand,
Prof. William James presumably
done from memory or photography ,
the painter George de Forest Brush
and his beautiful daughter, and
Alice Acheson, whose portrait is one
of six lent by Washingtonians. Mr..
and Mrs. L. Corrin Strong have lent
three, and Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Ellis
ton two. The head of Langdon War
ner, curator of Oriental art at the
Fogg Museum, Harvard, is good ex-
ample of James endeavor to har-
monize his method with the subject:
simply done in red chalk on cream
tinted paper, it has the delicacy OF
an Oriental drawing.
Like many other artists, James
found himself useful model. Eight
self-portraits show him in various
moods and poses: a mischievous full
face. a sardonic profile, and others
more or less straightforward cap
lures. One or more portraits of each
of his sons, Alexander, Daniel and
Michael, and his wife, are done with
loving truthfulness. They constitute
an attractive family gallery.
Great Variety of Characterization.
There is great variety in the por-
traits of farmers, hunters. stone
cutters, carpenters and other char
acters. The portrait of Philip Rocca
entitled Bread and Wine" (now
privately owned which won the
popular prize in the Corcoran Gal
lery's 18th Biennial, has the rich
ness and flavor of an old legend.
Many Washingtonians who voted for
it, and now see it again, will doubt
less wish they could trade half a
dozen of the Corcoran's accessions
of the last few years for this admir-
able painting. Several beautiful
New Hampshire landscapes OF winter
on the hills demonstrate how well
James painted the country.
He was one of the jurors for the
Corcoran Biennial in 1941. The same
year his health began to fail. He
was only SIS when he died early IN
1916. His work deserves to be much
better known than 1t now is. The
memorial exhibition, which came to
the Corcoran after showings in
Manchester, N. H., and Boston,
should help to spread his fame.
Also just opened at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art is an exhibition OF
photographs, WARS Toll of Italian
Art" which will be reviewed next
Sunday.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
James Portraits Show How Dill gently
He Labored to Reach Perfection
By Florence S. Berrymon

Alexander Of personal distinction and out
unfair write about him always
mention the fact that he the youngest Of the eminent
philosopher William James, nephew the famous novelist Henry
intellectual endowment his nheritance
but worked indeagably to bring it to fulfllment.
he will apparent all
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Guild at American University

The exhibition by members OF
the Artists Guild Of Washington
which has Just opened at Amer
ican University, to remain through
January 8, is the best show I've
seen by that organization in the
past year. Thirty-six Of the guild s
So members are represented, some
with two and few with three
works each. Nearly 60 oils, water
colors and sculptures fill the Wat
kins Gallery, and range from abb
stractions to comparatively tradi-
tional work. Certainly there are
plenty which should win public ap-
proval, as well as an equal num-
ber whose appeal Is strictly lin
tied.
I liked Alice Acheson's view of
Jasper Park with Mount Robson;
Skyline Drive" by Eliot O'Hara,
conveying successfully the sensation
of space and height one gets from
the actual place; Prentiss Taylor's
colrful still life, Pear and African
Violet; John Gernand's poetic
Window and Flowers" Carl Ny
quist's appealing portrait of little
girl, Herman Maril's Dock" Shef-
field Kagy's landscapes, one oil, one
watercolor; a Paris street scene and
landscape with chateau, painted
last summer in France by Lois
Mailou Jones; Celine Tabary's two
scenes, one of Paris, the other Of
Georgetown. These paintings would
all be livable works for the average
home.
The guild exhibition has other
well-done paintings and sculptures.
Mitchell Jameson shows two en-
caustics, tragic reflections Of the
war. Alice Decker's portrait Of her
daughter in brentwood, Is beautiful
in handling, as well as color and
grain of the wood. Sarah Silber-
mans sculpture, too. demonstrates
her competence; a Siamese head in
limestone and a cedar figure Of an
Oriental nude.
This is not presented as Christ
mas sales show; the guild has set
no price limits, a necessary feature.
But it is about as near one as Wash
ington will see this year, since the
Corcoran and Phillips Memorial
Galleries have dispensed with their
ANIMALS of works offered as Christ
mas gift suggestions.
Evening star., 1947-12-07

The first statue of George WASH
ington and the first public memo
rial of its kind in the United States
was erected on the State Capitol
lawn in Raleigh, N. C.
Evening star., 1947-12-07

By Edword A. Greene
Avina Chs into the
making of her 1edo maonee show beginning pay off, for
charity.
presented the fairy tale THE Enchanted
collected aided
connected
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the National Museum, and has also
been honored for bookbindtng.

the National Museum, and has also
been honored for bookbinding.
Miss Lane has bound some not
able books during her career, among
them presentation volumes for the
late Queen Elizabeth Of Belgium
(for which the artist received a
medal, the Emperor OF Japan,
Prince Henry of Prussia and Charles
Lindbergh. The Book Of Remem-
brance of the Women's Auxiliary"
presented to Washington Cathedral,
bound by Miss Lane, continues to
grow, as it's pages are illuminated
by her when occasions call for It,
In the present exhibition, there
are about 20 illuminations, with Sc
lections of permanent interest beau-
tifully lettered and surrounded with
painted and FURNISHED borders, en-
bellished with initial letters and
miniature paintings. More than a
dozen books are bound in colored
morocco or levant, with gold and
blind tooling and colored 1nlays.
The pencil drawings of beautiful,
old buildings in Washington, Nam
tucket and elsewhere have the del
icacy Of silverpoints.
Miss Lane gives fresh interpreta-
ton to ancient arts, and 1t Is graft
flying to know that she is trans
mitting her craftsmanship to stu
dents.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
PLAYING Cards

It is estimated that TT different
card games are played in the United
States.
Before the printing press was in
vented, playing cards were hand
painted.
The modern deck of playing cards
stems from the 18th century Italian
Tarot or Tarochi pack, which had
% face cards and Sc numerical cards.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
Ruefher Sues
For S5O0,000

DETROIT, Oct. % LPA)-
President Walter Reuther, of
the United Auto Workers-CIO,
last week filed a S500,000 libel
suit against new weekly pub
lication, 'FDR," charging that
the paper printed malicious.
libelous and inflammatory state
ments against him.
Naming Cy Aaron, of Detroit,
as publisher, Reuther's suit
claimed that on Sept. 25 the
paper carried a Special con-
fidential bulletin" attempting to
link him with Gerald L. K.
Smith, "a notorious labor
batter and tool of anti-democra-
tic and reactionary elements"
The paper, cor d i ng to
Reuther, catered to certain
minority political groups" which
have also spread false rumors"
that Reuther was backed as a
candidate for the vice-presi-
dency of the U. S. Gin associa-
ton with a presidential candi-
date whose views on economic
and political matters are an
anathema to this plaintiff.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
2-B Women
Planning
Conference

Tentative plans for the
Third Annual Conference of
women of Region 2-B UAW-
CIO were made on Wednes-
day night of this week by a
group of woman who met in the
IUAW-CIO regional office, AIS
Winthrop st.
Plans call for the conference
to be held early in December
with a full schedule of sessions
to be held for two days. AS has
been the practice in previous
meetings, speakers on many sub
jects of particular interest to the
women members of the United
Automobile Workers will be
given time to present these
topics.
Sessions will either be held at
the headquarters of the Toledo
Industrial Union Council, Gil
Huron ST., or at Local IL, 425
Winthrop. Plans were tenta-
lively approved for dinner to
be held in one of the downtown
hotels to be followed by a talk
from Richard Gosser, UAW-CIO
regional director.
Members of the committee
will select their own chairman
and secretary at a meeting this
week.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
Slight Progress
Is Reported In
Local Strikes

Slight progress was reported
in two of the three Local IL
strikes this week by union Of
ficials engaged in negotiations
between the union and COM
panieS.
Settlement of a number of
issues were reported by Lloyd
Speidell, Local IL recording
secretary in negotiations which
took place this week between
the union and c o m I'M ere "a,
Metals Treating Co. manage
ment. However, final solution ol
the strike is not yet assured.
Negotiations between Loca,
12's Ransom and Randolph Unit
and the company were continued
this week with steady but in
conclusive progress reported
strike has been in progress foI
the past two months.
No meetings have yet taken
place to settle. the two months
strike of employees of the Hall
Mfg. Co.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
Murray Hits
AT Comrof

BOSTON, Oct. % (LPA) -
Philip Murray, with the soft
Scotch burr that's been known
to make delegate wither, saved
his most penetrating crack to in
terrupt a Communist-line speech
attacking the Marshall Plan, at
the CIO convention.
James Kehoe, of the American
Communications Association, had
said, when we have a right to
criticize American foreign pol
icy let us really mean it."
Murray broke in sharply on
the oration, to inquire tellingly:
Il assume you also believe that
the heroes of Stalingrad have
the right to take the rostrum
and criticize their own govern
ment."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24

people first" program by calling
for immediate action by Con-
gress to deal with both the for
eign.aid and domestic initiation
situation, as close to each other
as heads and tails on the same
coin. Stassen raked President
Truman for not calling Congress
back before now.
II terms of Congressional ac-
ton, the divided opinion of Rep
resentatives and Senators return
ing from Europe was tipped in
favor of aid by the statement of
Rep. Everett Dirksen R. Ill.) who
has a larger personal following
in the House than any other
member. Dirksen, whose district
includes Peoria, in isolationist
Chicago Tribune territory, never
theless went all out.
Dirksen implied that, as has
been predicted by others, the
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
Unions Fight
For Columbus

BOSTON, Oct. % (LPA) -
The only jurisdictional dispute
that reached the floor of the CIO
convention last week centered on
Christopher Columbus.
The convention opened on Co
lumbus Day, and Massachusetts
State CIO President Joseph
Salerno, never a man to leave
distinguished gent without a un'
ion card, insisted that Mr.. c.
had been a weaver in his youth
and belonged in the Textile
Workers Union.
That started it. BY the end
of the first morning, Brother
Columbus was claimed by the
National Maritime Union. Only
one lone perfectionist held out.
He insisted that Brother c.
would really have signed up with
the Mastrs, Mates & Pilots.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
LOST Ifems To
Be Returned

Articles and wearing apparel
left by boys and girls who at
tended the Local IL Sand Lake
Summer Camp have been re-
turned to Local IL headquarters
by Frank Molik, camp director
where they may be claimed by
their owners.
Included in the items are
sweaters, T-shirts, sport shirts,
Ipajamas, swimming suits, swim
ming trunks and miscellaneous
articles of both boys and girls.
Those who left the articles at
the summer camp are asked to
come to Room 203, Local II
headquarters to claim their pro-
perty. The office is open daily
from 900 a. m. to $50 p. m.
and evenings from 500 to 1000
.p. m. Unclaimed articles will be
given to social service agency
if not called for within the next
two or three weeks.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24

tax-that have been offered in
one way or another to the Ways
& Means Committee, which orig
mates all tax legislation in Con-
gress.
The Committee, weighted IS
to 10 with Republicans, is domi-
mated by its Chairman Harold
Knutson (R. Minn) whose rob
the-needy; Autobiography tax
program was twice vetoed by
President Truman this year.
Over the violent objections of
liberal members of his Commit
tee, Knutson named a special 10
man tax advisory committee,
composed of "outside tax ex-
perts," to whip up another COP
tax program. The experts" will
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