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Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF AkT, Con-
Stitution avenue i and Sixth street.
masters. Additions to Bliss col
lection American paintings,
through the summer.
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Col
lection of Fine Arts. Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Amer-
lean paintings from private collec-
tions and other gifts and loans.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, Division
of Graphic Arts. Independence ave-
Ruel p. Tolman, through July.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts, Paint
ings and stfhinss Itch by whistler .,ns ana
exhibits.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street between New York
avenue and e street-American
painting and sculpture and the ".
A. Clark collection. New exhioi,
Washinston and Vicinity. Amer
ican drawings, through September.
-Four one-artist exhibitions, Gates.
Gath. Bookatz and Calfee, through
September IL.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
1000 Twenty.first strsst~rsint, rs,s.,lIIIt1 =
American paintings alternating
through the summer.
LIBERTY OF CONGRESS, East Cap
itol and First streets-Division OF
Prints Sixth Annual Print Exhibi-
tion, through August Is. Fourth
annual OF rare books from Rosen.
valid collection. Paintings and
drawings by Hector Poleo, through
next Sunday.
PUBLIC LIBRARY - Eighth and K
streets N.W.-Exhibition BY Mar
garet Hill, through July.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Constitution
avenue and Seventeenth street
,W.-Water colors and drawings
from Argentina. through today
Paintings by Carlos otero' throush
July IA.
WHYTE GALLERY. 1918 conneeti-
cut avenue NV. ~
ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, 1903 K
street N.W.-Members show.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY. 127
Randolph place N.W,-Contempo-
rary American paintings. through
August.
PLAYHOUSE LOUNGE, 727 Fifteenth
street N.W.-Painting by Winold
Beies
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alist or even a political preoccupa-
ton. Prof. Savelle's determination
to find liberty burgeoning every
where leads in nearly every sphere
to conclusions overstrained, anach-
ronistic, or otherwise dubious. His
Americans of ITO, he tells us had
created a new culture; they knew
it, and they were proud of it," Since
the very notion of a culture arises
out of l9th-century social science,
ad the men of the enlightment
thought. not a unique national cul-
lures, but of diversification of the
arts and a refinement Of manners,
We are entitled TO be skeptical.
And in the chapter on architecture
the author indulges In prodigious
manipulation OF distractions to in
form us that in ITO Americans
built the house they could afford!
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Newest Republic

ICELAND: NEW WORLD
OUTPOST
BY Agnes Rothery. THE Viking
Press, S3.75J
Iceland, one of the newest inde-
pendent republics, which is only IA
hours flying time from New York
lies directly on the Great Circle
route-the shortest distance between
Northern Europe and North Amer
lea. Agnes Rothery makes clear
this stepping stone" to Europe is
of extreme Importance to the United
States as a strategic base in war
and a fueling station for trans-At-
lantic flights in peace. Author OF
four previous Scandinavian books,
Miss Rothery captures Iceland S
scenic wonders, surveys the coun-
try's literature, art, political and
economic trends and describes the
people as individualists with a pas
sion for freedom M. S. B.
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own training for 1t at Kelly Field.
Tex, in 1917, and his promotion to
the rank of brigadier general there
in 1910. Mr.. zerega painted the
portrait from life sketches he made
of Gen. Lakeland prior to his death
in 1914.
Tworkov at Watkins
Jack Tworkov, New York painter
who began last Monday a seven-
week session OF teaching at Ameri-
can University. is having one
man show at Watkins Gallery
through July.
Although born in Poland $1,000.
Mr.. Tworkov came to the United
States in his youth and obtained all
his art education here, at Columbia
University, the National Academy
of Design and the Art Students
League of New York. He has ex-
hibited In such national exhibitions
as those at the Art Institute OF Chi
cago, the Pennsylvania Academy OF
the Fine Arts, the Whitney Museum.
New York City; National Gallery OF
Art and Virginia Museum, Rich
mond. This is his third one-man
show; he has had previous solos at
AGA and Egan Galleries, New York.
He has taught in the Ffeldston
School of Ethical Culture and, since
1s47, has been with the Queens Col
lege Adult Education and Extension
Division.
Despite his National Academy
training, Mr.. Tworkoy paints in a
contemporary idiom with much
variety of handling. Heavy pigmen-
tation In some, emphasis on design.
and well-related shapes character
iZe his work.
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Crime and
Mystery
By Miriom Ottenbero

Sinister Street, by Richard Burke.
(Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.; $2.50D
Fingerprtnt.
Stolen jewels, including two dag
gers once owned by Lola Montez,
figure largely in this yarn. Dummy
Hite, Broadway private detective of
the e-and-dose school, is called
in to solve the jewel theft but finds
himself in a maze of intrigue made
more complex by murder. Glory
Balm of the sables and smoldering
eyes obviously knows too many dubi-
Gus characters and Glory is the
stepsister of the millionaire who
lost his jewels. The denouement is
something less than a shock.
Paurs Apartment, by Van Siller.
doubleday & Co.; So
Crime Clue.
Jim Cotton was successful author
with a lot of pleasant friends, a
penthouse apartment and cabin in
the woods the day Manderin Jones
tripped into his life. With her
came love and marriage. Because
of her, he lost his friends, his writing
ability, his cabin. Even his pent-
house was haunted. And yet she
seemed to him as harmless as she
was adorable. Here's a Skillful job
of creating suspense out of charac-
ter and a tantalizing display of
clues that reveal most, but not all
the possible motives for murder.
The Three Roads, by Kenneth Mil
lar. (Alfred A. Knopf. Inc; $500
1t. Bret Taylor, returning to his
bride on survivors, leave, blanks out
the night of her murder. Even
months later in the hospital, he
can't remember having been mar
ried. Much as he would like to
start a new life with an old love,
he feels compelled to fill in the
blanks of his past by finding his
wifes murderer. Psychiatry Of the
observation-disclosures -four
variety is ladled out in buckets but
underneath it all is fairly high
pitched whodunit complete with
some convincing suspects.
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|Neo-Swinburne
NEVER A GREATER NEED
BY Walter Benton. (Alfred A
Knnnf Inc. S2.50l

The poetic formula which Mr.
Benton found so successful in This
Is My Beloved is repeated in this
volume of verse. But it is less inn
pressive because this particular
neo-Swinburne style is not so easily
adaptable to subjects of such wide
range as Mr.. Benton has used here
It is most effective in describing
romantic love and the poems or
that theme in this new book are a:
good in every way as were the
verses in This Is My Beloved" The
war poems seem out Of key and
labored. -E. T.
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF
NEW ENGLAND POETS

Edited by Louis Untermeyer.
Random House; $685.
The reading of this anthology of
New England poetry is particularly
suitable occupation in Washington
in summer when the humidity
sends the barometer and the wits
reellng. "Snowbound," for instance
will transport you to cold, white
world, and the calm dispassionate
whole collection is, in fact. fine
antidote to hot-weather irritations.
The tradition of Yankee poetry
has always been one of cogitation
rather than inspiration. SerponiZ-
ing comes naturally in that rigorous
climate that is matched by stern,
moral atmosphere. The didactic
strain, initiated by Anne Brad
street, that tireless Puritan mother,
and carried solemnly by Emerson,
Longfellow, Whittier and Holmes,
reaches bright heights in Emily
Dickinson's pure. fey stanzas, that
are sharp with epigrams and illu-
minated by light and piercing shafts
of metaphysical speculation. Mr..
Untermeyer, who prefaces such selec-
ton with brief and pithy estimate
of the poets, has seen fit to include
many schoolbook set-pieces like
"Hiawatha" and The Vision of Sir
Launfall," but he has balanced these
by generous choices from Edwin
Arlington Robinson and Robert
Frost, who have rendered most truly
the recurring theme of New Eng
land song; quirky characters and
rocky hillsides. The anthology closes
fittingly with several poems of Rob-
ert Lowell, the present poet in resi-
dence of the Library of Congress
who has enriched his understand
ing of his Puritan heritage with the
imagery of an older faith.-M. MEG
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is Love Enouqh
|ToFosterGood
Marriage?
LACE CURTAIN
BY Ellin Berlin. Doubleday; So
Reviewed BY
MARY McGRORY

MARY McGRORY
Since the term LACE curtain
was invented by the Irish fol
those among them who hat
achieved prosperity and socia
standing in the new world, an
other designation, venetian
blind" has come into being to indi
cate even greater afluence ane
prestige. 1t could certainly be ap
pied to the Reardons of Mrs. Ber'
Inns excellent novel, a wealthy Irish
family who live in a luxurious, well.
stated Long Island mansion, where
they present their daughters to so.
ciety and live a warm, clannish ane
abundant lite.
But in this knowing and compass
sionate study of a mixed marriage
economics are of little consequence
What matters is the strenuous
undertow of divergent loyalties
which threaten to wreck the happy
union of Veronica Reardon anc
Jamie Stair, scion of an old Episco.
palian family. Despite the objec.
tons of both their families anc
their repeated promises to each
other that they will let no outside
pressure bear on their deep love
they find the weight of differing
traditions almost intolerably bur.
densome.
Convent-bred Veronica had fell
herself a stranger outside her close.
ly knit family circle, had beer
stung on being told by non Catholics
that when I speak of the Irish
don't mean yo,l," had been goadec
into fierce defense of her people
and all their old prejudices by the
barbs of her mother-in-law, whose
only previous acquaintance with
Irish Catholics had been through hel
maids. Jamie, equally proud of his
more austere heritage, and an, an
cestry which included Signer
feels an outsider while their children
are being instructed in faith
which he Goes not understand.
Skillful Climax.
The two points of view CLASH
head-on in a skillful climax. which
brings all the elements of theil
backgrounds into focus. 1t is wher
Veronica begs Jamie's aid in de-
fense of a member of her clan in.
volved in political scandal and il
refused that she understands tha'
her divided allegiance is not ex'
clusively of religious origin. Tht
alienation of the two gentle ane
considerate young people is further
deepened by the vicious anti-Semit
ism which crops up in her brother
and in his uncle. While they botr
deplore the doctrine, each, respond
ing to a passionate. instructive 10y
atty, defends the family exponen
of it.
Mrs. Berlin, whose second novel thi
is, has been both fair and homes
in presenting this delicate problem
With considerable subtlety, she indl
Gates that Veronica, whose faith Il
genuine and profound, doubts some
times if she is not acting out O
pride and possessiveness," that sh'
is triumphantly enforcing her will
on supercilious Mrs. Stair and ex'
plotting Jamie thereby. Mrs. Berlin
has been rather over-explicit II
presenting background, and grea
stretches of dialogue, especially some
rather saccharine exchanges be.
tween the children could have beer
cut without harming her story a
all. But on the whole her novel il
a serious and quite affecting in
quiry into the question of whether
love is enough to make good mar.
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which st. Luke describes. The
author is inclined to brush aside as
legend all accounts OF the back
ground and early life of the Master,
though he does not explain why. He
seems to accept as established only
the central episodes in Christ's min
istry and His death on the cross. He
does not discuss the miracles. He
insists that all the credible evidence
shows Jesus was sane.
The medical specialists who argue
one way or the other about the men,
tality of the Nazarene, regarding
Him merely as an idealistic teacher,
have narrowed their own field. The
broader, simpler explanation has re-
NAMED alike for scholars and for
the humble of the earth-that the
Man who cut history in two spoke
only the truth.
DR.. Overholser, superintendent Of
st. Elizabeths Hospital and editor
of the Quarterly Journal of PSYCHE
airy and Neurology, contributes an
interesting foreword. The author
lied translation by Charles r. Joy
is excellent.
WOLF TONE
BY Lawrence Goldman. I'M. S,
Mill Co.; s275J
Franz Benda had been concert
master of the Prague Philharmonic.
When the Germans entered Czecho-
slovakia, he stayed on and played,
unlike most of the other musicians,
who fed and fought as long as they
could. Now Franz was on his way
to America. refugee, his priceless
violin lost, his stupid. unloved wife
still beside him, his future vague.
On shipboard he met another vio-
linist and cellist, who knew him
by reputation. They played trios
and Franz formed the project of en-
listing a fourth player and organ
izing a quartet when they reached
New York.
The fourth player turned out to
be Hugo. His wife. Tatjana, cap
Sivated Franz. But at the insistence
of their financial angel, Hugo, not
the arrogant Franz, played first
violin. When Hugo was found dead
] in the wreck of his car, they got
another violinist. The new man was
known in this country, and Franz
had to keep on at second violin
much as he hated that. But the re-
organized quartet gave concerts and
won impressive acclaim. Meanwhile
unexpected events began happening
Mr.. Goldman has built around his
musicians a skillful story of sus-
pense that moves swiftly to a climax
Franz is memorably sinister char
acter. The author knows music and
writes well.
THE GULF OF TIME
BY Robert Standish. (Macmil-
Ian, So
This is the interesting story of
what followed Jim Rankins discov-
cry of gold in remote part of New
Guinea. 1t was a region where the
natives, separated from the rest OF
the world by the gulf of time,
lived in a sort of Stone Age. Jim
tried to guard his secret, but nat
urally, it leaked out. Prospectors
and adventurers hunted the hidden
treasure, and violence brooded over
the primitive country. Mr. Standish
has an intimate knowledge of the
South Seas and can weave an ex-
citing tale.
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Historical Romance
Left to Boil Over

THE SWORD OF IL GRANDE
BY Will Greed. little, Bro,Dn G.
Co.; $3.)
Young Will Greed has been very
generous with the ingredients in
his first historical romance. His
hero is a great, blond mercenary
whose soul is not for sale. II
Grande has two loves: One a torch
haired" tavern maid. the other a
fawnlike aristocrat with executive
ability. Grande starts reaching for
his sword when Uriel di Modena,
adopted son of the magnificent and
kind Gonfalonier of the free city OF
Cicenda comes home from Spain
f1inging gold and bringing unrest
The trouble is that Mr.. Greed
leaves his brew of plot and counter
plot on the fire so long that most
of the excitement boils away and by
the time that II Grande has finally
drawn his sword against the in
triguing usurper, the reader, despite
bubbles of necromancy, hidden let
tiers and alarums by night, has lost
interest. And Uriel, an interesting.
complicated Renaissance type, who,
having hanged four Guildheads just
to show his i'll temper, uncharacter-
istically, lets his mortal enemy
Grande, walk out of his palace with
a weak little threat of a price on
his head. That seems mildly incon-
sistent in a character who had cele-
brated his birthday by poisoning his
former mistress and the father and
brother of his fiancee.
Mr.. Greed has been most careful
with his background and portrayed
the activity of the city and its
government its spirit with an appre.
citation not often found in novels
of this type. His characterizations
are for the most part plausible, the
comedy relief provided by two old
cronies is pleasant. the love scene
uncommonly restrained and the
writing very sensible. But the best
of pageantry pals after while
and The Sword OF II Grande' is
ultimately little more than that.
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IA Study of the intellectual and Cultural
Output of the Early American Colonies
SEEDS OF LIBERTY: THE GENESIS OF THE AMER
BY Max Savele. (Knopf; $780,
Reviewed by DONALD MUGRIDGE.


American History, Library Of Congress
handsomely volume Prof Savee OF the
University Washington whole intellectual cultural
Colonies decades 175017 He
supplemented reading udicous Of
scholarship but he himself written for
untechnca
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Statue of Liberator
By Florence 5. Berrymon

Bolivar, Mo-, largest of 10 cities
in the United States named for the
liberator of Venezuela, Bolivia, Co.
lombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru,
is celebrating this week end with
ceremonies to honor its namesake.
High point in three days Of festivals
will be the dedication tomorrow of
the statue of the hero, given by hi7
native Venezuela. July this year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-01
JUNEAU LAND CASE
 GETS NEW START

The case of the U. s. Government vs 1895 acres of land in Juneau was begun this morning in U s District Court. The suit involves title to tidelands here which the Government has appropriated
 Occupants of the land lost an ap- peal on a government demurrer to the Ninth U. s. Circuit Court of Ap- peals based on aboriginal rights claims and the case has been mar rowed down in it's scope to where the defense must prove continual use and occupancy under Federal possessory rights laws of 1884 and 1900
 Today, defense attorney William L. Paul, Jr., made an offer of proof to enter several lengthy arguments. This took up the entire session and defense witnesses will be called to- n orrow. The government is repre- scented by U. S. District Attorney P. J. Gilmore, Jr., Assistant District Attorney Stanley Baskin and Spec ial Assistant Robert Boochever.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-01
FROM PETERSBURG

Vernon Heimdahl and Bill John son of Petersburg are registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-01

states were reviewed with the gen. uine desire that any revisions that may be made can only advance the present good relations between the parties concerned.
 Price structures and their relation to current market trends were stud jed with the hope that fair return for the fishermen may be more cas- fly arrived at.
 Much concern was indicated over the recent drastic price rises of gas cline and fuel oils, and it was hoped that protests registered with the oil companies would cause them to re- consider their actions since any upward trend in production costs will certainly reflect in higher price demands by the fishermen.
 A new working agreement with the Fishermen's Co-Operative Associa- tion of Seattle is being jointly con- sidered with the ultimate aim of avoiding difficulties of the past.
 John Olofson formerly with the Alaska Fishermens Union at Ket- chikan has taken over his new dut- ies as Executive Secretary of Local 100 and will conduct the affairs Of. the Union in his office in the Val entine Building in Juneau.
 Olofson has expressed his sincere desire to cooperate with any and all organizations, civic bodies and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-01

ESTHER COMMET RETURNS
 Esther Commet, of the Alaska Unemployment Compensation Con- mission, has returned from a 3H month vacation in the States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-01
U. ,. LIBERTY SHIP IS ABLAzE ON OCEAN,; ABANDONED, CREW

SYDNEY, Australia, March l. R-The U. s. Liberty ship Cecil G Sellers caught fire today in the h. dian Ocean and radio silence to- night indicated her 38-man crew had taken to lifeboats.
 Sydney agents for the Sellers said l6 hours had elapsed since the 7,2l6-ton vessel reported she was ablaze and her crew ready to abandon ship 200 miles off the Cocos Islands. She left Free mantle, Australia, Feb. 2l, her agents said.
 Three ships were racing to the aid of the stricken vessel, loaded with grain for France.
 The Sellers is skippered by a Seattle man, Elmer Yates, 31. Yates has been captain of the Sellers for about four years. He was gradu- ated from the University of Wash in9ton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-01
Puget Sound
 Ferries Stop
 All Operation

SEATTLE, March l.-tR-An es- timated 100000 residents of the Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound Islands were virtually stranded today.
 The ferries stopped running at midnight or shortly thereafter.
 Capt. Alex M. Peabody, Puget Sound Navigation Company presi- dent, emerged from a four and one-half hour meeting with Gov ernor Wallgren shortly before mid night last night and said.
 We are going to start the ord- erly liquidation of the company at once"
 The lengthy, last-minute meet ing between Wallgern and Pea body broke up after the Governor proposed that the state join with the company in asking the Thurs ton County Superior Court to set aside it's judgments pending a complete review of the case by the states Department of Trans portation.
 Tn a bull-headed manner he Peabody said he didn't want any mere to do with the Department, D Wallgren said.
 Wallgren said the offer would have permitted continued operation under its present 30 percent tem- porary rate increase while the State Department restudied the case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-01
HOspIIAL NOTES

Admitted to St. Anns over the weekend were Mrs Andrew Ander- son for medical treatment.
 Discharged over the weekend were Mrs, Russell Angel and baby girl; Mrs. Hubert Brown and baby girl; Mrs. Roy Johnson anc baby girl; Mrs. Clayton Fleek and baby girl; and Mrs. Nila Hall.
 At the Government Hospital, Esther Kitka of Sitka was admit ted for medical treatment and Mrs. Jeanette Eli whose girl baby was born at 1:58 p. m. Sunday and weighed eight pounds, five ounces.
 Discharged from the Govern ment Hospital was Lawrence Will son of Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-01
HEADQUARTERS OF
 ALASKA TR0LLERS
 TO BE IN JUNEAU
John 0Iofson Establishes 0ffice-Exeeufive Coun-
 CiI Ends Session

The Executive Council of the Uni- ted Trollers of Alaska in session at Juneau the past week concluded its deliberations and many problems pursuant to the establishment of a Headquarters here and the installa- ton of the Executive Secretary were met with high degree of unanimity,
 Under the new merger plan re- gently adopted by the former Uni ted Trollers of Alaska Locals, Branch Chapters will be issued to Juneau, Pelican City, Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan and Craig as well as to other localities now under consideration.
 Contracts with the many fish buy CTS in Southeast Alaska and the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-01
WRANGELL AND KETCHIkAN IN
 TITLE DISPUTE

A dispute exists today over the basketball championship in South ern SEE Alaska because of Wrangell High Schools 39-26 victory over Ketchikan High at Wrangell Sat- urday night.
 Wrangen argues that it has won a total of six games and has lost two during the season, while the Ketchikan team has won only five games and lost three. Wrangell says that it should be declared champion so it can meet the Juneau High School team for the SEE Alaska title.
 Ketchikan argues that, in the past, the championship has been based on the winner of the most series of games. It points out that both Ketchikan and Wrangell de- feated Petersburg ill their series with that team and that, in the Ketchikan- Wrangell series, the score IS tleu, eaCn ledlh AaFh4b won two games. Ketchikan says that one more game should be played to determine the title holder.
 Wrangell has asked Dr. James C.. Ryan, Territorial Commissioner ot Education, to act as arbitrator III the dispute, but he said today he won't interfere unless both teams make the request. Ryan did ex- plain, however, that in the past, unless other arrangements were made, the title has been based on series winners rather than game winners.