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Evening star., 1949-11-20
1000 al Corcoran
See Private Opening
|0f Area Exhibition

More than 1000 art lovers
crowded the Corcoran Gallery OF
Art last night for the private
opening Of the gallery's annual
Area Exhibition.
Gallery members, exhibiting ar
lists and their friends say 271
paintings and sculptures which
were selected for the show from
more than 1000 entrants. The
works, most Of them modern In
style, are by artists within q So
mile radius Of Washington.
Hermann w. Williams. jr., d.
rector of the gallery. presented
13 award certificates to artists
whose works were judged out
standing in the show. Mr.. Will
liams also bestowed seven hon
orable mentions.
First award in oil paintings
went to George c. Sponsler OF
1922 Sixteenth street, Silver
Spring, Md. For Mr.. Sponsler,
a practicing architect for many
years, the award was his first for
fine art in any show. His win
ming painting was Of the canal
locks at Great Falls, q placid
work, and one Of the few in the
exhibition in q traditional style
C. u. Brother Gets Award.
First award in water colors and
pastels went to Richard w. Demp-
sey, of 5032 Just street NE. a
Government engineering drafts
man who was formerly active In
art circles on the West Coast.
Mr.. Dempseys work was Circus,
q pastel. Peter Blanc. a profess
sional artist who lives at 1910
st. Matthews Court NV, was
named first award winner for
drawings, while Brother Jude
Giehl, an art student at Catholic
University, received the first
award for sculpture. Mr.. Blanc's
winning work was a charcoal
drawing for Yucca plants. while
Brother Giehl's work was "A Rock
lThe Word Made Flesh."
g Other awards made last night
were:
Second award in oil paintings
to Laura Dupuy for "House on q
Hill; third award in oils to Mary
Driven for young Girl";; second
award in water colors to Theodore
Kane for Rain on Monday: third
award in water colors to Merle
Foshag for Rain and Sun After
ward; second drawing award to
Samuel Bookatz for "Robed Peas
ants; third award for drawings to
Sheila Cowan for Infant No. r.;
second sculpture award to Mrs.
Nancy Brodsky for "Annuncia-
tion," a mahogany carving, and
third sculpture award to John
Haines for Visitation" work in
CdSt otOAlC.
Open to Public Today.
Honorable mentions for oil
paintings went to Harry Leroy
Jones for Grey Day at North
Truro; Walter E. Hook for ''Domi-
nation Of Black; Whitney N. Per-
kinson for Park Fairfax in
Spring; Lois Mailou Jones, "Pe-
tite Vile, Haute Pyrenees, and
Edmund r. Demers for pisces.
An honorable mention in water
colors and pastels class went to
Sallie Metz Biddle for Storm
Over U Street." while honorable
mention in sculpture was given to
Elizabeth Sharp Mcdonald for
my Child"
The exhibition which will be
open to the public today and
which will remain on view through
December 18 was selected by two
one-man juries at the request Of
artists groups here. Judge for the
paintings was Franklin c. Wat
kins, a Philadelphia artist, while
Oronzio Maldarella of New York
selected the winning sculptures.
Evening star., 1949-11-20

(COnGlnued FTOm rlTst rage
Efforts to get Mr.. Lewis and the
coal operators together have
fallen fiat.
The trustees, by a 2-to-1 vote.
cut off payments of the welfare
and pension funds. except for
emergencies, on September Is
when funds were running low.
Mining ceased from September
10 to November 8 when Mr.. Lewis
sent the men back to work for
three more weeks.
The current truce is due to ex-
pire December /. The meeting OF
trustees tomorrow might bring
from the unpredictable Mr.. Lewis
some new move to break the
deadlock over contract terms.
However. indications are that
Mr.. Lewis and Senator Bridges
will be on opposite sides about
any proposed resumption OF well
fare payments until . new work
ing agreement is reached between
the UNIV and the operators.
!. Senator Bridges Is expected to
propose at tomorrows meeting
that until 4 new agreement Is
signed:
1. All fund payments. including
the emergency hospital cases. be
suspended.
z. The entire administrative
staff Of the welfare fund be su-
spended.
M Raynents From Idle Mines.
~ fund dispute is batlt up
10 royalty payments Of 20 cents
. Ton on coal mined under an
agreement that expired last June
In the absence OF q contract.
some operators ceased making
payments to the fund. And OF
course no payments at all came In
when the mines were idle.
For a time Sen. Bridges voted
with Mr.. Lewis to continue well
fare and pension payments from
funds that had been accumulated
prior to July l.
Ezra Van Horn, former trustee
for the operators. opposed these
payments and later resigned to be
succeeded this month by Mr.. Daw-
son, a former Federal Judge from
Louisville. KY.
On September Is during 4
stormy five-hour session. Senator
Bridges voted with Mr.. Van Horn
and against MFR. Lewis to stop all
payments except for miners un-
dergoing emergency hospital treat
ment.
Bridges Presses for Contract.
Since then Senator Bridges has
said the voluntary payments by
some operators had built up the
pension fund by some $12.000,-
900 or $4,000, 900.
Senator Bridges and his lawyers
contend that any funds paid in
since July cannot legally be ex-
pended until a new contract be-
tween the miners union and oper-
ators Is signed.
Evening star., 1949-11-20
(Crommein Voices
Hope for .Reopening
OF Defense Inquiry


against uniflcation policies was
closed by the Navy high command
yesterday, but the reprimanded
captain Immediately expressed
hope Congress would reopen its
investigation Of the bitter defense
row. .r
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman,
chief Of naval operations. an
nounced that the captains reply
to his stif reprimand-in which
the naval chief questioned the A.
year-old Crommelin's fitness to
command-had been "considered''
and that mo further action will be
taken"
Capt. Crommelin had requested
that he, be given a court-martial
or that the reprimand be wiped
from his record. The case grew
out of the captains unauthorized
disclosure of documents criticizing
defense policies.
Takes New Post Soon.
But Capt. Crommelin, who will
report in early December as West
ern Sea Frontier aviation officer
in San Francisco. indicated to re-
porters that he is not yet finished
with his campaign to bring about
4 change In what he terms the
policies of Pentagon "zealots" with
q "lust for power" to clamp Nazi-
like controls on the Defense De-
partment.
"It is my fervent hope that the
defense establishment will be fur
ther investigated by Congress. he
declared.
MY personal welfare is unim-
portant," he added. 1.-The real Is
sue goes deeper than that. ]
strongly hope that Congress will
restore the system of checks and
balances so necessary for the
operation of the defense establish
ment and our national security"
He got one more lick IN with
the statement that the general
stan system" ct the Pentagon Il
"totalitarian in organization and
administration"
A Navy spokesman said Admiral
Sherman's action left the captain
with no further recourse within
the Navy to get the record
changed. The reprimand is =
part of his official record and
cannot be removed except by or
der of the secretary,
Promotion Chances Fade.
Admiral Sherman's reprimand
may have ended any chance Of
Capt. Crommelin rising to the
rank of admiral since the Navy
bases promotions Of officers on
their records.
In the admiral's original letter
Of reprimand Capt. Crommelin
was told he could make a reply
and this he did in q lengthy let
ter late Friday. In the letter. he
defended his action in releasing
the documents on the grounds
that it was necessary because he
said top Army and Air Force
generals were running the Nays
fighting power and endangering
the Nations safety.
The release of the documents
by the captain last October 3 set
of chain reaction:
He was suspended by Admiral
Louis Denfeld, then operations
chief. ..-.
The House Armed Services Com
mittee quickly started an investi-
cation Of all the trouble at the
Pentagon.
DenfeId Indorses Letter.
Admiral Denfeld. who had in
dorsed Vice Admiral Gerald r.
Bogan's letter which Capt. Crom-
melin released and later told the
committee the Navy was denied
q full partnership in defense
planning, was ousted as top Navy
officer. Admiral Sherman, who
helped draft the original armed
forces unif1cation plan, was put in
his place. =
Admiral Sherman reprimanded
Capt. Crommelin. The admiral
Evening star., 1949-11-20
CoIored Women Plan Teu

The Southwest region of the
National Association of Colored
Women will hold a tea at 4 pm.
today at the groups headQuar-
tiers, lila o street NV
Evening star., 1949-11-20
Kings Doctor Hits Curbs
Applied by Health Service
By the Associated Press

BY fhe Associated PTesS
LONDON, Nov. 19.-Lord Hor-
der, one of the Kings doctors, ac-
cused the Labor government today
of putting undue controls on the
medical profession. ...-
Criticizing Britain's socaliZed
medicine program, he said notice
recently posted in one hospital
read: Operating theater will not
be used except between the hours
of 8 am. and $50 pm"
Another example of government
control, he said, was an order to
hospitals saying: "Use of peni-
cillin in this hospital must be cut
doWn-it is so expensive"
Evening star., 1949-10-08
All Is Not Lost

1t Is The Stars happy privilege to come
forward today with virtually conclusive
proof that the Communists are not yet able
to take over this" country.
The gentlemen of the extreme left are
clever at covering up their weaknesses.
They are skilled at squeezing the last drop
OF advantage from what may seem to be
their own strong points and exploiting to
the fullest the cracks in the decadent capi-
talistic structure. They have a genius
which exceeds even that of the Republic
cans for detecting trends in their direction
which no one else can see, and for hiding
the chinkS in their own armor.
But as some one has said before, truth
will out. 1t may be tortured, bullied, man.
gled and buried under tons of lying propa-
ganda. But there will come a day when
the truth will be plain for all to see, when
not even the Communists will be able to
make us believe that red is really white.
That day has arrived. The Daily Worker
has been forced to give top billing on
Page l to the World Series. The party
line, with all of its devious and intriguing
twists, has to be content with a place
on the inside pages. When that can
happen to the Daily Worker, when its edi-
tors are driven to the implicit confession
that their readers are more interested in
baseball than in the venal schemes of the
wicked capitalists, then the rest of us can
know that all is not lost and that the'coun-
try Is safe for a while longer.
Evening star., 1949-10-08
GEORGETOWN Traffic Expediter

1t was entirely appropriate that the
new elevated freeway in Georgetown
should bear the name of the late Colonel
H. C. Whitehurst, who served the people
of Washington faithfully for so many
years as director of highways The free
way is monument to Colonel Whitehurst's s
vision and intelligent planning as high
way engineer. It was his brainchild, born
of his determination to find some means
of relieving traffic congestion in what he
aptly termed that M street bottleneck." "
Colonel Whitehurst was concerned of
course, over highway and bridge prob
lens throughout the District and initiated
steps to meet the more pressing of them.
But he considered the M street congestion
as special challenge, to which he de-
voted great deal of personal study in
recent years. The problem was not an
easy one to solve. M street had been
Widened about as much as was practicable.
Elimination of parking during rush hours
had failed to afford much relief. An al
ternate route seemed to be the only answer,
but the whole area Is SO heavily CONNER
cialized as to make condemnation of prop
erty not feasible.
An elevated viaduct along the line of
street was hit upon as the only way to
provide a maximum of traffic relief with
minimum of interference with business
in the vicinity The Highway Department
long had planned to make X street q main
artery through the heart of the city. In
cluded in the long-range program was to
be an underpass at Washington Circle
1t was logical to extend X street over an
elevated structure direct to the Key Bridge,
thus by-passing M street completely.
Motorists who for so many years have
had to endure the Illustrations of the M
street bottleneck will benefit from the
freeway whether they live in Virginia or
in parts of Washington west of George
town. The new Arizona avenue approach
to Key Bridge will provide ready access
to the freeway. Traffic congestion on M
street should be materially reduced, max
ing 1t easier for persons to shop there
Thus, the merchants of Georgetown also
will find the freeway blessing.
Eventually, another bridge across the
Potomac River will have to be built be-
tween the Memorial and Key Bridges to
afford additional relief for the heavy
traffic crossing the river every day. In
the meantime the Whitehurst Freeway
should be real boon to every motorist
travelling through the Georgetown section.
Evening star., 1949-10-08
Perfection

stood upon a hill IN nid-October.
Beloa0 me bldzed the circles OF the trees.
For miles, they ,oourd their scarlet
pu71or1nds. .-'... .~-.
stood and thought: What stage is set
like these?
Consider all the tedious rehearsdls
That Man requires, to giue scanty
shoD!
Why do pe bother, phen ,oith quick
perfection,
A uaHey bursts NTH bloom or autumn
glo1D?
I seemed to hear an ans,Der from the
autumn:
Whether you toll to add a personal BIT
Ofbeauty to the toorld or safe your hunger
By seeing beauty-drinking deep Fot it
Makes little difference to the untuerse.
Beauty Is spread for you in euery cline.
But never think that ,De did not rehearse
Our autumn shoD - hop, many
niuAnth time!
- z#MARaERY MANSFIELD. ~
Evening star., 1949-10-08
Star Stand on Day-Care Centers
Called Amazing and Twisted
( To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
It is amazing to hear that the editors of
The Star consider proper care of children q
luxury. Perhaps to them it Is indeed fool
ish waste Of District money for parents to
put their children in day-care centers while
they work to earn their daily bread, because
they personally have never had the need to
take advantage of their service and don't
realize what it means to a mother to be
assured Of safe. proper care Of her child
These mothers are not working for the fun
of it; they are working because they have
to: and who making on the average $40 a
week, can afford to pay $65 and up a month
for a private nursery school? It can be
DONE of course, if you keep your eating to a
bare minimum, go without clothing and live
twhere IN WashingtonO on what is left
Just because the war is over it doesn't
mean all mothers have stopped working
There are more than "just q handful that
have to earn the family living. Even If
these were "just . handful" aren't they
just as important as. very large group?
Are they supposed to leave 5 or 4 year old
leave an older child to get his own breakfast
and play on the streets after school?
It Is a twisted mind that considers it more
important for a city to have fine, up-to-date
institutions to punish wayward children
than to maintain adequate day care to keep
them out of trouble. Is 1t Christian to erect
beautiful buildings and bridges with one
hand and suppress the development of our
children with the other hand? The slogan
for all you so-called good citizens should be.
Millions for Europe but not dime for
American working mothers"
ss' SR n AO0GR9,
Evening star., 1949-10-08

American Ecclesiastical Review "a Catholic
publications. I quote: 1T seems incredible,
yet the statement has appeared in Catho-
lie publication that we are not striving to
make America Catholic country. OF course
we are trying to make America Catholic"
Does our liberty in these United States
stem direct from the Catholic colony OF
Maryland as Mr.. Eglise states? The facts
are that although Lord Baltimore was a
Catholic, he came from Protestant country
and found it necessary under Protestant
government to guarantee tolerance" to all
persons who believed in Jesus Christ.
Concerning Spain, quote from Article 6
of Frances so-called Bill of Rights: "Cere-
monies and manifestations other than those
of the Catholic religion will not be permit
ted" This policy is vigorously enforced, as
any Protestant now in Spain or who has
been driven out will testify.
Do Catholics desire to bring about union
between church and state In America, and do
they actually favor equal rights and freedom
for all people? Let the hierarchy speak for
itself. Cardinal O'Connor said. Religious
liberty is merely endured until the opposite
can be carried into effect without peril to
the Catholic world" Pope Plus TX said, The
absurd and erroneous doctrines or rawlings
in defense of liberty of conscience are most
peStilential error-a pest, of all others, most
to be dreaded in state" Again quoting from
Plus TX in his Syllabus of 1864, The mere
fact that person sincerely believes cer-
tain religion to be true gives him no genuine
right to accept that religion in opposition to
Gods command that all must embrace one
true religion (Catholic). Neither does it
oblige others to allow him the unrestricted
practice of his religious beliefs"
EVERETT I. ZOERB.
Evening star., 1949-10-08
BuIIdozinq the Senate

President Truman is singularly inept in
his efforts to secure Senate approval OF
Leland Olds for third term on the Federal
Power Commission.
: He began by writing letter to the COM
s1nittee considering the nomination. The
letter implied that unless the committee
approved the nomination it would be play
ing into the hands of selfish corporate
interests.
:, Then he instructed the Democratic Ma
.tional Chairman, William M. Boyle, jr, to
appeal to State political bosses to put the
heat on the Senate The State leaders
were told to let the Senators know that
"'the people want Olds confirmed" 1t
would be hard to think Of anything Sillier.
The chances are that SO per cent OF the
people had never heard of Mr.. Olds until
this week and it is cinch that SO per cent
have not the foggiest notion whether he
has been a good, bad or indifferent men,
sber of the Power Commission.
Finally, the President personally under
takes to make the issue one Of party regu-
.larity He claims for himself the power to
determine that some question-the noml-
nation of Mr. Olds, for instance-is party
matter And once that determination has
been made, he says, the Democratic Sena-
tors are expected to fall into line and vote
as they are told to vote. Never mind that
the Senators take an oath to support the
Constitution, and that the Constitution
contemplates that they will exercise their
own independent judgment in voting for
or against nominee. Skip the fact that
the President, in effect, is demanding that
Senators vote contrary to their convictions
and without regard for what they may sin
ecerely believe to be best for the country.
When the partisan whip is cracked they
.are expected to toe the line. .s@s-=g--. ...
1t can be argued, with truth, that there
It's need for some party discipline. It Is
also true that this is not the first time,
nor will it be the last time, that party
bosses have tried to bulldoze one or both
.branches of Congress. But when, in
.matter of this kind, a President goes to the
'lengths to which Mr.. Truman has gone he
deserves fgurative rap on the knuckles.
And that probably is just what Mr. Truman
will get from the Senate.
Evening star., 1949-10-08
Worth Careful Study

The problems which School Superintend-
ent Corning said would be involved in the
use of buses to distribute pupils more even
ly among the schools must, of course, be
weighed against the advantages of full
time classes for everybody. But DR.. Corn
ing's preliminary report to the Board of
Education makes 1t plain that the prob
lens are not insurmountable. And the
obvious advantages of full-time education
are such as to warrant thorough study
of the plan.
The health, safety and department. fac
tors which the superintendent cited on
the debit side do not seem, offhand, to be
of major importance. Thousands of chill
dren outside of Washington ride school
buses regularly without creating any seri-
Gus health, safety or discipline problems.
AS for DR.. Corning's fears that a tempo
rary bus-distribution program might be-
come permanent, neither parents nor Con-
gresS are likely to be content to accept
school buses as a permanent solution of
the school-crowding problem. If the plan
is adopted, it should be distinctly under
stood by every one concerned that it is an
interim expedient, to be dropped as soon as
adequate classroom space is available. The
only permanent solution of overcrowding,
of course, is more schools
But the bus proposal does offer one an
swer to the question of what to do about
school system which suffers, at one and the
same time, from overcrowding and under
populated classrooms- to what
part of the city the schools serve. Planned
schools in congested areas eventually will
bring an end to part-time classes, but in
the meantime children in these classes
are not receiving the sort of education
they ought to have. reapportionment
of the school population by bus trans
portation would cure this defect until new
buildings are ready.
Evening star., 1949-10-08
To Our Newspoperboys

j.. Child labor laws and other wise regu-
lations for the protection of children have
about done away with the smudgy-faced
little street gamin of other years, darting
through city traffic and hawking his news
papers on busy street corners. The news
boy of Horatio Alger's day has gone out
of the picture.
His successor is a respected and respect
able young businessman, with fixed route,
regular customers and definite RESPONSE
bilitieA There are about half million
of them in the United States, serving their
customers with some 100000 copies Of
American newspapers every morning.
afternoon and Sunday.
Throughout the newspaper world this is
the National Newspaperboy Day" set
aside for acknowledgment OF the vital
services performed by these young men.
Here at The Star we rate them highly
indeed For The Star is paper that Is
delivered in the homes. OF all the thou
sands of men and women throughout the
world who help to make The Star-gather-
ing its news, preparing its advertising,
manufacturing the paper and the supplies
that go into its production-the news
paperboy is the one who closes the final,
and most intimate link, between the paper
and its readers.
In Washington, the Metropolitan Area
and the fringe cities and rural areas be-
yond, there are some 2,700 Of these boys
who deliver about 174.000 Stars into as
many homes each weekday afternoon,
about is2, 600 on Sundays. The papers are
brought to distributing points in Star We
hicles that cover nearly 5000 miles day,
through city streets and country roads.
The boys buy their papers from Star deal
ers and their profit represents the differ
ence between what they pay and what they
collect-95 per cent of them doing their
own collecting. The routes range from
about so to 125 papers day, and the boys
success depends for the most part on his
own initiative, sense of responsibility and
ability to get along with people-valuable
assets in any career. -
Fhs star and it. reader. lean n eytly on