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Evening star., 1950-05-21
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Evening star., 1950-05-21

CENTER MARKET CITY
5th AND K SITS. NV.
Available Immediately for progressive
merchant. bakery, delicatessen and
meat stand; also Ind commercial
Workroom space. Phone MIR. SCHO-
MAKER, DI. 5O3Q
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Legion. but his words did not
sweep the Nation as being startling
news, for on that date, with vic
tory celebrations still going on, it
was impossible to arouse public
interest in a peacetime defense
plan. Also, at that time, and Ger
tainly in 1914 when the plan origi-
mated, the U. S. S. R. had not
displayed any serious evidence of
being a problem to peace.
Basic Figure
But postwar planners for the
Army Air Forces in 1914 still had
vivid memories of the war they
fought on the home front in trying
to build overnight an Air Force
from but few Bit bombers to
the one they finally got, but it was
no overnight job. They did not
then, in 1914, believe America ever
again would have the time to
mobilize and build for another
world war, time that was granted
In 1917 and again in 194l.
That's why 10 groups became
the minimum peacetime require
ment; 1t was just the base, the
platform, the starting point from
which a more adequate Air Force
could be readily constructed and
rapidly put into the air if again
243 groups or more were neces-
sary to help clinch a global war.
Even then they knew the oncom-
ing jet fighters and bombers would
be more complex, more costly in
time and money to develop and
produce.
The 70-group program got into
the budget, not exactly under that
label. but via the need for a peace-
time Air Force of 100000 officers
and men and in the forepart of
1946 it had received formal in
dorsements not only from Gen.
Spaatz, who led Americas vic
torious air power against both
Germany and Japan, but from
Gen. Eisenhower and War Secre-
tary Patterson.
The matter appeared finally
and conclusively established when
the Presidents Air Policy Com
mission (the Finletter Board) and
the Congressional Aviation Policy
Board "a joint Senate House COM
mittee) recommended earnestly
in the forepart of l948 that this
peacetime goal be sought without
delay. They not only concurred
in the basic reasoning of the orig
inators of the 70-group program,
but they had the added concern
of an international situation that
even then was beginning to boil,
whereas If it existed at all in
1914. it was sitting on the back
Of the stove and had not yet
begun to simmer.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
By John CIogett Proctor

August 9, The Star printed the
story of the fine work of Detec-
tive George o. Miller in unravel-
ing what up to that time had
proved a mystery to the bes1
sleuths in the employment of the
Government. The Stars inter
esting account of this famous
robbery follows:
The announcement in The
Star of Saturday that our Wash
ington detectives had arrested
Theodore w. Brown and Benja-
min B. Halleck on the charge of
being connected with larceny of
the package of $47,097.65 from the
cashroom of the United States
Treasury on June % last caused
some excitement in the commu-
nifty, particularly among those
connected with the Treasury
Among the latter class the an
nouncement was particularly
pleasant to those who had charge
of the money at the time of the
robbery or whose business called
them to the cashroom that day
as since then they have been
more or less under a cloud of
suspicion.
ut appears" said The Star,
that after Browns arrest and
detention at police headquarters
by Detective Miller on Thursday
he was not locked up, but was
allowed to sit about the Office
and was under surveillance. On
Friday afternoon w. H. Ottman,
who keeps a restaurant on Penn
sylvania avenue just above
Twelfth street. called at head
quarters and had a short con-
ference with Brown, which was
interrupted after a short time by
a policeman detailed to watch
him. In a short time after this
interview, Mr.. Newman of the
firm of Moore & Newman called
and had consultation with
Brown, the result of which was
the application for the writ of
habeas corpus. 1t is thought
about headquarters that this
action was not thought of by
Evening star., 1950-03-26

Brown, but was suggested by
Ottman alone.
About July 20 information was
communicated to the Washington
detectives that Brown had a short
time before asked John Kelly,
Well-known sporting man here.
to change him $500 note, stating
that he was getting it broken for
Mr.. Ottman. Brown was not then
in town. and it was surmised that
he had gone to the springs.
Although it was known that Hal
leck, clerk in the cashroom Of
the Treasury, was intimate with
Ottman, it was not deemed advis-
able to arrest him or any one else
just them.
"On Tuesday, July 27, Detec-
tive Miller received telegram
from New York from a person
we'll known to him, asking him to
come on at once and bring with
him a blank warrant. But, know
ing what was wanted, Mr.. Miller
consulted with Maj. Richards and
Chief Clarvoe, and as a result
telegraphed that he could not
come with the warrant, and ask
ing what was wanted. A second
telegram simply said: Come
without the warrant. Being
satisfied that there must be some
thing worth going for, Mr.. Miller
started for New York on the night
of the 29th. There he met his
friend. and soon learned that
Theodore w Brown was at Sara
toga, living high and singing
$500 bills around.
He Immediately went to Sara
toga, put up at the Grand Union,
and kept an eye upon Brown. Mr..
Miller soon learned that Brown
had passed a number of $500 bills.
On being questioned as to how
he was so flush, he stated that
he had borrowed $4,000 from
Ottman of Washington and had
won considerable at French pool
on the races. Mr.. Miller informed
Mr.. Brown of his suspicious. and
the latter consented to come to
this city, but he was not taken
into custody until Thursday, as
above stated"
Evening star., 1950-03-26

forest fires may obtain copies by
sending names and standard size
stamped envelopes to the AFP1
publicity office at the above ad-
dress with clippings of this notice
Slogan cancellation dies in aid
of the crusade against cancer will
go into service in many different
cities shortly. Washington, D. c.,
heads the list. Other commu-
mites for which dies already have
been ordered include: Fargo, N.
OAK; Wilmington. Del; Charlotte,
N. c.; Raleigh, S. c.: Newark
Camden. Trenton and Jersey City,
N. j. The dies will read: Strike
Back at Cancer. Give to the
American Cancer Society,""
Jack O. King, 900 F. street NV,
will conduct an auction of U. S.
stamps and covers at the Hotel
Raleigh. Monday evening, April
II. Copies CT the catalog, listing
600 items, may be obtained by
phoning Metropolitan 1921.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Art
Society's Members
Show so Works in
Annual Exhibition
At Arts Club
BY Florence S. Berrymon

The Society of Washington
Artists, which held it's annual
exhibition in December, at the
National Museum, is now having
a members show at the Arts Club
through April 7. 1t comprises
more than so works in oil, water
color and sculpture, none of which
has been exhibited previously in
Washington.
The Society awarded four hon.
orable mentions for outstanding
entries" selected by jury of nom
members: Mrs. Smith Mayo,
director of Chequire House Art
Gallery, Alexandria, and Heinz
Warneke, sculptor and instructor
at the Corcoran School of Art.
The honors, all equal, went to
three paintings, Rock Creek at
GEORGETOWN" by Eugen Weisz, a
small, much simplified landscape
in deep-toned colors; "Schevenin-
gen, Holland by Mary Ruth
Snow. a view from height of the
famous Dutch coast resort; and
MAX Meadow" by Arvid Hedin,
another landscape in the closely
harmonious blues which have been
a feature of this artists work in
the past; and to one sculpture,
Skaters, 1890" by Hazen van
Natter, a near abstract group in
polished wood, cleverly suggesting
the theme.
General Effect Conservative
The exhibitions general effect is
conservative, although it has a
fairly good number of works in
modern idioms. There is also
variety in subject matter. Por-
traits and figure paintings in
clude such competent items as
Helen Townsend's pastel portrait
of Helen Mccormick, an excellent
likeness in a color scheme we'll
suited to the subject: Clara Saun-
ders' impressionistic portrait in
colored chalks of Sarah; In
terim" by Robert Willis, and
Stephen by Carl Nyquist, sue
cessful captures of young boys;
and John Phrantzes" a re-
strained, masculine portrait by
Marcella Comes
Ruth Osgood's figure in land
scape, Blind Woman Smelling
Peas" is an ingratiating work
with a life-like cat. Circus I'm
preston" by Mary Jane Swan
niger, is visually effective, with
out emotional appeal Cara Kim
berley's Bridge" (card players in
a garden) gets away from over
worked subjects.
Landscapes, urban scenes and
other views usually predominant
numerically. In the present exhi-
bition. I liked Alice Acheson's
Autumn Corn" After Rain" by
Henry Olson. in which he has
abandoned his favored heavy
black outlines and produced his
effect wholly with watercolor;
Minor Jameson's restful "At the
Evening star., 1950-03-26
By Donald H. Muqridqe

The last match in the District
Chess League was played on We'd
nesday, when Naval Communica-
tions won eight games from the
University of Maryland, lost one
and forfeited one. Thus con-
cluded the most successful sea-
son of team matches which has
ever been held in the District of
Columbia. The first matches
were played in the last week of
October. The schedule was first
drawn up for 10 teams; to these
two newcomers, George Washing
ton and Maryland Universities,
were added some weeks later
without abandoning the original
arrangements; this caused some
crowding and some delays, and it
need not happen next year.
All matches scheduled were
played except six: The Army Map
Service team lost six successive
matches and thereupon forfeited
Evening star., 1950-03-26

Bridge" and Florence Everhart's S
cheerful "BuSsard'S Farmyard. "
Garnet Jex painted his Beach
Scene" through roSe-colored
glasses. Rowland Lyons sunny
view of a boardwalk concession
also looks more attractive than
the real thing.
Flair for Unusuol Color
John Chapman Lewis Blue
Net" impressed me as one of his
best paintings to date. He has a
flair for unusual color combina-
tions. William F. Walters Oyster
Boat has the clean-cut simplicity
characteristic of his work. liked.
too, Norma Bose's thinly painted
"Harbor" and Charles Shinn's
"Timeless Combat Richard La
hey's Midtown" is a good paint
ing of a drab place. A novel still
life study is Mimi Du Bois Bottoms
Reflections in a Shop Window" )"
Jessalee Sickman and Lucia Hol-
lerith show Well-painted fruit and
flowers, respectively.
Jack Perlmutter, who has been
painting very original Semiab-
stractions on a cubist foundation,
has changed his style noticeably
in his jazz Quartet which
nevertheless reveals its inspiration
to visitors who study it. Russell
Houston and Clare Fontanini, best
known as sculptors, are showing
paintings in the current exhibi-
tion. Mr.. Houston's a grim group
of modern heads, Miss Fontanini's
misrepresentation work.
Sculptures are few, in addition
to the above mentioned Skaters. "
Katherine Sater's little plaster
galloping horse is convincing.
Belle Bellerose's Scared Bunny"
and Jane Loves Camel give
animals an edge. THE Wave" "a
woman) by Sarah Silberman re-
veals her usual imaginative treat
ment.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Stamp News
By james Waldo Fowcett

Lester Stratten, representing
the headquarters of the Boy
Scouts of America in New York,
was in Washington last week to
confer with Post Office Depart
ment executives about the design
for the forthcoming Boy Scout
commemorative.
The Capital Precancel Club will
meet at Weeks Stamp Shop. 1929
New York avenue NV. tomorrow
evening at 8. Visitors welcome
Ask for C. c. Fisher.
Harry L. Lindquist. editor of
Stamps Magazine, 2 West Forty
sixth street, New York, asks the CO.
operation of collectors of the
stamps of Portugal and colonies.
Brazil and the United States for
the making of a special number of
his publication for the Luso-Bra-
lillian Colloquium, to be held at
the Library of Congress in
October.
D. H. Coates won the grand
award for the best exhibit shown
in the recent Baltimore Philatelic
Society exhibition. He displayed
Austria, acknowledgements.
The Austrian Centenary Stamp
Exhibition now is current at
the National Philatelic Museum,
Philadelphia. 1t will continue
until April 13 and we'll deserves
the attention Washington special
lists in Austrian stamps and covers.
A great international philatelic
exposition. will be staged in New
York in 1856.
The Associated Press says: Last
September. Israel issued a special
stamp honoring Rosh Hashonah,
the Hebrew New Year. Inscribed
on the stamps were the words:
Joyous Holidays Many weeks
after the holidays. a bereaved hus-
band received q coincidence card
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Local Rebekuh LODGES
Lodge meetings this week

Lodge meetings this week:
Ruth, divine services today, 4
pm, IOOF Home, 1888 N street
NV.
Deborah, 419 Seventh street
NV, Monday.
Mrs. Hazel Hunter. president of
the Rebekah Assembly, will pay
an official visit Monday to Esther
419 Seventh street NV.
Schuley Colfax, Tuesday, 822
Twentieth street NV.
| Mount Pleasant, Wednesday, to
entertain residents of the IOOF
Home.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
THE TEARS OF THE
BLIND LIONS
BY Thomas Merit

BY Thomas Merton. (NeD Di-
rectionS Press; $1.25.J
The noted Trappist author OF
The Seven Storey Mountain
writes religious mediations in this
series OF short verses. There is a
note of affirmation in them and
there is also some excellent imag-
inative writing. Father Merton is
a master at blending the realities
of the outside world with the con-
temptation of the cloister. It is an
attractive and soothing method.
Evening star., 1950-03-26

Scores OF the remaining players
who filled or alternated on top
board in a significant number of
matches: Divan: M. Stark, 21a-
~; o. Shapiro, AZ; E. Knapp,
5-4; Federal: E. Nash, AZ; Nav
com: L. R. Chauvenet, 5A-3 "a;
Eagles: H. Steinbach. 4-3; B.
Schwartz. 41a-4R; Paragon: C.
Gardner, 5h-41a; C. Eddington,
I612-3R; F. Miller, 512-41a; Mary
land: r. Ilderton. As; GPO: M.
Everhard, 1-8; NJ Raybould, 2-6;
NGF: S. Schwartz, As: George
town: G. O'Rourkh, 4h-51z: r.
Cantwell. 3h-31a; Army Map: A.
Whitaker, 2-3.
Most of the credit for the sea-
sons success must go to the
leagues secretary, Philip D. Bell.
who also doubled as Bald Eagle
captain. Mr.. Bell has now taken
on the direction of the District
championship tourney. and issues
a last call for late entries to phone
him at johnson 3-6258. Round /.
next Saturday.
Evening star., 1950-03-26

with the Joyous Holidays stamp
on it. The incensed recipient
wrote a letter to his newspaper.
Other newspapers took up the
cudgel. Postal authorities re-
called the issues and destroyed the
remainder of the stamps"
The official gazette of the gov
ernment of Chile has announced
that advertising labels are to be
printed in connection with postage
stamps and that such stamps will
be sold at discount of 10 per cent
from face. A contractor is to con-
duct the business involved in this
new commercialization of postal
paper. paying the government a
fee to cover the discount plus 10
per cent on all stamps sold.
Spain has produced three new
air letter sheets-60c, 90c. lip, for
different parts of Europe.
Milton H. Cullen. well-known
Washington stamp and cover deal
er, has been i'll with heart trouble
but is improving with rest. The
store meanwhile is being kept open
by Mrs. Cullen.
Janis North, daughter of the
City Postmaster and Mrs. Roy M
North, was chosen Miss Cover Girl
of the Sorrell Club at the annual
dance of the organization at the
Washington Hotel. Saturday eve
ming, March 18. She won over %
rivals.
A separate postal administration
for the United Nations Is being
considered by the United States
Post Office Department, the State
Department and representatives OF
the u. N.
Dwight B. Ball, Chicago col
lector of classic covers. recently
told the Chicago Sum- Times: my
biggest thrill among many In
stamp collecting happened many
years ago in Washington, D. C.
was attending school there at that
time. My father. also collector
came home one evening after q
big fire at a storage warehouse
and showed me an envelope bear
ing a stamp of the One Cent De-
spatch of Baltimore and Wash
ington, a private company which
issued it's own stamps in 1856. We
both went down to the still-smol-
dering ruins. There were
many souvenir hunters around
but guess we were the only stamp
collectors. Digging through the
rubble, I found two more of those
local stamps on pieces of cover
They were burnt around the edges
but the stamps were intact. I still
have them in my collection. Even
today, I wonder how many more
of those and other fine stamps
might have found if I had dug
just a little bit deeper"
The American Forest Products
Industries, Inc, 1919 Eighteenth
street. NV, has brought out an
attractive illustrated pamphlet
entitled Keep America Green" "
Collectors of slogan cancellations
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Star staff Photo.

the remaining five. GEORGETOWN
University and the Library of
Congress had not much greater
success, but did not follow so pitt
full an example: they played out
their schedules to the bitter end.
The Government Printing Office
forfeited one match, to the Penta-
gon Club.
Altogether 297 players partici-
pated in the 80 complete matches.
The Washington Chess Divan
used 80 different players, the Balc
Eagle Club 80, Naval Communi-
cations 20 and George Washing
ton 26. The matches varied ir
size from 5 to % boards, and tht
impressive total of 500 games
contested was registered.
The final league standings fol-
low, with the scores given first in
matches won, lost and drawn,
and then in games won and lost
1t will be noted that Naval Com
munications and Bald Eagle TIED
in their match scores, but that
Naval Communications took third
place by reason of a slightly bet
ter percentage in their games
score, and that the same consid-
Grafton gave the Library of Con-
gress 10th place ahead of George
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Ladies' Oriental Shrine

An open installation of officers
of the Ladies Oriental Shrine of
North America will be held at
ip.m. Saturday at Stansbury
Masonic Temple.
Evening star., 1950-03-26

The following we're the II best
scores among those participating
in seven or more matches. The
players name. team and average
board position, and wins. losses
and draws are given:
Evening star., 1950-03-26

one-man show at Ginn's Art
Center in Silver Spring.
X
'Gothic Fervor'
Today is the final one Of the
special exhibition of prints by
Mary Editha Whelan. on view in
the Division of Graphic Arts print
gallery, Smithsonian Building. The
artist, still in her 20s, was
born in Minneapolis, but spent
her formative years in Sioux City.
Iowa. She attended Clarke Col
lege. Dubuque. and came East to
study at the Art Students League
with Harry Sternberg and Morris
Kantor. She had her first solo
exhibition at the Sioux City art
center. followed by others in Iowa.
She has received several awards
at mid-Western group shows.
Jacob Kainen, curator of the
Division of Graphic Arts, says
Mrs. Whelan's prints reveal in
tense compassion for the humble
poor as we'll as strongly marked
religious feeling. Her woodcuts.
representing her latest work. have
a Gothic fervor and a vigorous
feeling for design"
I found Mrs. Whelan's prints
extremely dismal. They hark back
to medieval woodcuts. but with
present-day distortion. so that
they have a crude, harsh appear
ance that one doesn't find in most
of the old woodcut illustrations in
the Rosenwald books at the Lii
brary of Congress, for instance.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Robertson's Third

Donald Robertson is having
his third one-man exhibition in
Washington (his native city, in
five years. During the war. he
served with the Army Air Force
lin Europe, and on his return, had
beautiful exhibition at the Cor
coran Gallery of water colors he
had made IN Corsica, elsewhere in
Italy, also France. England and
Germany. In December, 1916, he
had a one-man show at the Gen.
tral Public Library, which is now
showing (through next Friday
his recent work.
More than 80 paintings and
drawings on view include a few
of the European scenes. and other
works of the years 1914 to 1850.
Mr.. Robertson's style is chang
ing; he is working in many media.
and experimenting industriously.
His current show ranges from the
wholly traditional "Corsican
Scene" U944 to two distractions.
The exhibits which I thought
among his best works include
'Phantasy with a Knight de-
relicts" c4D, several sheets of
animal drawings, and water
color Wooded Landscape" c49
Mr.. Robertson is an alumnus
of Central High and the Corcoran
School of Ayt. where he won
various prizes and honors. In
1888 he worked at the Tiffany
| Foundation on scholarship.
Just before the war, he was re-
presented in the 17th Corcoran
Biennial. In recent years he has
studied at the Art Students League
in New York, and has lately had
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Doumier at Howard

Howard University Gallery of
Art is showing through next Fri
day, 80 Autographs by Daumier
from it's permanent collections.
In connection with the show, Prof.
Franz Rapp has written an in
formative brochure on the ia
nous French artist.
Evening star., 1950-03-26

The American Forest Products
Industries, Inc, 1919 Eighteenth
street. NV. has brought out an
attractive illustrated pamphlet
entitled Keep America Green" :"
Collectors of slogan cancellations
relating to the campaign against
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Woshinqton Artist and Industry

Recent issues of Fortune and
Time magazines carried full-page
color plates reproducing a mon
tage-effect watercolor by James
F. Minnicks, native Washing
tonian, employed by the N. w
Aver Advertising Agency. The
painting is a striking composite
portrait" of Washington, tele-
scoping a number of outstanding
buildings, the Potomac and Me-
mortal Bridge, in a pictorial ad
for Container Corp. of America
Mr.. Minnicks attended Western
High, studied at the Corcoran
School of Art, and after gradual
ing from college, joined the Aver
Agency. which has many excellent
advertising artists and illustrators
on it's staff.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Portroit of Mrs. Hurid

Alexander Clayton recently COM
pleted a portrait of Mrs. Emil
Hurja, which is another successful
capture of a Washingtonian. Mr.
and Mrs. Hurja showed it to
friends at a reception at their
home on st. Patrick's Day.
The portrait is a close likeness
nearly full-length, showing Mrs
Hurja seated against a japanese
gold and painted screen. The color
scheme is a pleasing one. COM
posed of the subjects heliotrope
satin gown, with varicolored bead
embroidery, delicate green tulle
over her shoulders. held in place
by pink roses, and she is holding
a jade green bag. These colors
constitute a combination as fem
mime as an 18th century French
court portrait, and complement
Mrs. Hurja's own blond coloring.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
LocoI Artists in New York

Washington artists Pietro Laz-
zari and Peter Blanc have been
exhibiting paintings with . the
Spiral Group at the new School
for Social Research, New York
City. The Washingtonians were
responsible for bringing an exhibi-
ton of the New York organization
here a year ago.
Pietro Lazzari has also been
having a one-man show in New
York City, comprising drawings
exhibited at the Betty Parsons
Gallery. which has presented solo
exhibitions by John Chapman
Lewis, Bernice Gross and other
Washington artists.