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Recount il Cistd Motorcycle Explodea
Reduces Hodges lead on Northside Rood:
to 3;F' 4 Recount tonite Putolmm Escapes

The recent recount of votes
in Christiansted which took
place on Wednesday night at
$3.50 reduced the lead Of Wal
ter Hodge over Henry creque
from 5 votes to 3.
The recount IN Frederik-
sted IS being awaited with in
tense interest both here and
in st. Thomas. Judge Alphcn-
SO Christian, representing Mr..
Creque was present on We'd
continued on page ~
, 1954-11-12
Governor Alexander
Guest 81 Locul Repubs
at Dinner Lost Night
Ford Foundation
ProgrcE1n sponsors
The Forgotten Villdge

On Monday, November 18th $500.
81 rr..8 .Nrsm.asa.., guest at a dinner given by
s.. the local Republican Club at
-. - a,a ~ Prosperity Plantation Club
r--.4e 81 - last night. Among those pre-
sent were Chairman Stanley
The script was written by Farrelly, Senator-elect John
John Steinbeck and narrated MerWin, John Burgess, john
BY Burgess Meredith9It IS the Stevens, Enanus Christian,
story Of life in q small, isolat- S. Christian Chase, Clarence
ed Mexican Village IN which Payne, Samuel Henner1an,
sickness threatens the lives of Hon. Eric H. Carroll and the
many children; the supersti- Hon. Walter Hodge.
, 1954-11-12

The Police Departments
motorcycle, used BY PATROL
man Petersen exploded and
was badly damaged at 8 o.
clock this morning On the
Northside Road off Princess
Estate. The officer escaped in
jury but the machine was
badly damaged.
Patrol1nan Petersen. observ
ed two speeding vehicles start
ed to crank his machine when
the sudden explosion blew off
and burned his cap and set
the machine ablaze. The acci-
dent, though 4 freak one, was
believed caused BY gasoline
leakage on the hot exhaust.
Examination showed that
the motor is still good and re-
pairs can be effected.
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features, the other In impress
sionistic form-a vertical line
for the nose, two horizontal
lines for the eyes, etc.
To-day we have both the
conflicting impressionistic and
realistic schools of art" he
remarked. But this Is moth
ing new. Those two types Of
art existed in the sixth
century"
Mr.. Batigne pointed out
tapestries which showed where
one civilization had been re-
placed by another but evil
dences Of the first still re-
NAMED in works of art. He
indicated a Spanish weaving
which included both Valencia
oranges and Moorish lions.
The Textile Museum Is open
Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day from 2 to 5 pm.
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ing the type used was itchy
and took too long to dry.
Mrs. Greene gets informa-
ton from the technical de-
partment on how a fabric Is
woven before restoring it.
Certain textiles react differ
emily when wet and she must
compensate for this.
The Textile Museum was
founded in 1925 as a nom
profit corporation. George
Hewitt Myers, the president
and founder, bought his first
rug for a college room in 1896.
He soon purchased another,
wondered why the second was
better than the first, and be-
gan to study textiles. The
museums huge collection is
an outgrowth Of his interest.
Mr.. Batigne. who came to
Washington in 1918, was
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curator Of the French art COL
lection loaned to the National
Gallery of Art during World
War II. He draws interesting
parallels between tapestry art
of centuries ago and paintings
of today.
1T is considered very mod
ern to use color just for COL
or's sake without regard to
subject matter" Mr.. Batigne
said. However, we have Inca
tapestries made of feathers In
800 BIC. that are nothing but
color, arranged in striking
patterns
Mr.. Batigne went on to show
two tapestries done by Asiatic
Christians in approximately
the sixth century. He indi-
Gated faces woven on the tex
tiles and pointed out that one
was done as the eye sees the
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Nine. Rosa and her girls"
A boyhood gangster in Chi
cago. he soon organizes the
rest into a hi-jacking outfit,
which. while the Italian police
look calmly on, Systematically
raids allied truck.
''Tombolo" is pretty strong
stuff. There is lust and vio-
lence on almost every page.
But for all that Mr.. Fersen is
plainly not of the "rock-'e EN-
and-shock-'em" school Of fic-
ton. He is q shrewd student
Of individual and national pSy-
chology. His presentation of
the attraction between the
cultivated italian girl, Grazia,
resistance veteran. and Jimmy
johnson. the bitter colored SOL
dier. Is both plausible and
touching. Their coming to
Tombolo In love and purpose
truly shocks the hardened
criminals who are its other
denizens.
Tombolo is lean. vivid mar
rative Of wars backwash,
based, according to the author.
on actual events in Italy. Mr..
Fersen, a veteran of the Ital-
ian campaign, is now a Ian
guage teacher in Washington.
M. Meg.
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Bless This House
BY Norah Lofts.
DOUBLEDAY & Co.: $500

Miss Lofts novel is as solid
and well-conStructed as the
house it celebrates. Those who
like a long story. packed with
character and incident, lightly
brushed with social history,
will give themselves over to it
with a sigh of satisfaction.
Actually, BLESS This House"
is eight novels for the price Of
one. Each episode, complete
in itself. Is linked to the one
that follows. The constant ele-
ment is Merravay, the beauti-
full E-shaped mansion in the
South Suffolk hills which was
built by loving English crafts
men In 1857 and four CEN
turtles later reverted to an
American who again gave it
the love It deserved.
Between times. Merravay Is
the scene Of royal visits, star
crossed loves. cavalier con-
spiracies and roundhead re-
venge. It passes from gentry
to commons and, through
marriage. back to gentry
again.
Under Miss Lofts competent
hand. all moves smoothly,
absorbingly, unstartlingly. For
those who hold the English
novel to be one of the crea-
ture comforts of life, Bless
This House" will be a COM
plete joy. M. MEG.
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ence gradually overwhelmed
them. The slow fading Of their
dreams through the years.
their inevitable retreat from
their modest paradise, the
narrative describes poigantly.
In "Ride Out" Shelby Foote,
the author of Shiloh" tells
alphabetically Of q Negro
horn player from Louisiana
who drifts through life on
waves OF hot music and drifts
unwittingly into q murder.
Clyde Miller in 1.-THE Gentle
Season" recalls perceptively
through a boys eyes his aunt's
thwarted romance. Jean Stat
ford. who contributes "A Win
ter's Tale" has published
three well-regarded novels.
Here. as usual. she writes with
insight and wit. expressing
herself with economy of words,
phrases that expose whole
characters. Her story. though,
a woman'S memory Of a youth
full romance. Is rather slight.
American Settings
Mr.. Simenons three novels
mark his first stories to have
American settings. And 1t is
astonishing how well he has
absorbed his adopted, country.
He. roams. in the course Of
these stories. from Connecti-
cut (where he lives) to No
gales. Ariz.; Florida. Brooklyn
and to the Imperial Valley of
California and he is equally
at home In each Of these di-
verse regions. He il such a
close observer that little in the
way Of atmosphere has escaped
him.
The author has written mys-
teries and more ambitious
novels. Like other French
writers. he is partial to the
brief novel. He has mastered,
too. psychological suspense,
and these stories are examples.
The first one. Belle" is the
highest knit. It is about a
murder and the pressures that
close In on a suspected man
who is innocent. Both the sue
ceeding stories are about
brothers. 1.-THE Bottom of the
Bottle" which happens on the
Mexican border of Arizona, is
more diffuse. less effective.
THE Brothers Rico" is a
never-lagging account of three
brothers enmeshed in the un-
derworld Of rackets. We fol-
low Eddie as he is sent by the
overlords of his syndicate to
find and put the finger on his
brother Tony. who has gone
straight and knows too much
might talk.
Mr.. Simenon still writes in
French. The translations are
by different hands. There are
some awkward phrases, par
tlcularly In "The Bottom OF
the Bottle"
Let's have more short nov
els. They're a pleasant change
from the 800-pagers publish
ers seem to favor these days.
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suits. and that anything much
less than 500 million dollars
is inadequate to the needs"
And for the man who sees
dangers in working through
the United Nations, Mr.. Bing-
ham has qualified agreement:
The United States in its
own security interests cannot
afford to surrender control of
all the funds it is prepared to
spend for assistance to the I'M
derdeveloped areas. We could
not take the chance that the
countries in the most acute
danger would not be given the
amount of aid we felt they
needed in order to survive as
free nations"
What is more. a significant
increase in United States con-
tributionS to u. N. technical
assistance programs would
raise this country's participa-
ton percentage to 30 or 95
per cent.
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1..I 30
Letters to Milen0 a
BY Franz Kafka. (Schocken: s3.75J

Students of that strange
genius. Franz Kafka, no doubt
will find a measure of expla-
nation and enlightenment in
these letters which he wrote
Milena JeSenka, a gifted Czech
writer. The general reader
may find them less infornla-
tive. not because Of their
form, which Is matter Of fact,
bat because Of the same elusive
meanings which sometimes
make Kafka's stories difficult.
Kafka encountered Milena In
1920. when he was SO. she "a.
Milena was unhappily mar
ried. She had translated some
Of Kafka's stories into Czech.
They met rarely. and their
love affair was pursued large
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Mystery and Suspense
Reviewed BY Miriom Ottenber

Death Of a Lake. BY Arthur
w. Upheld. doubleday &
Co., Inc; $2.75.)
Crime Club
Nature itself provides the
horror in this Inspector Bona
parte saga. A flood-produced
lake beside an Australian out
post Is evaporating and five
men and two women stand by
tensely for the end. The rea-
son: At the bottom of the lake
is the body of a man known
to have had 1880 pounds
sterling, and a gold locket that
disappeared with him may hold
the clue to the whereabouts of
the missing money. The drama
Of the characters appears tepid
in comparison. The plot is never
on a par with the spectacular
background.
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ly In letters. Kafka's letters
we haven't Milena's-are sim
gularly free from ardent pas
sages; most of them are, in
fact, almost impersonal in
their detachment, though there
are innumerable phrases indi-
eating how constantly he
thought of this girl. Kafka,
already afflicted with tubercu-
losis when the correspondence
started, died in 1924. Shortly
after German troops occupied
Prague, in 1889, Milena gave
Kafka's letters to her friend
Willy Haas, who has edited
the collection. Milena died in
a German concentration camp
in 1914. Kafka's letters were
translated by Tania and James
Stern. C. B. j,
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The Blind Spot. BY John
Creasey. (Harper & Bros;
$2.50.)
Mass mayhem distinguishes
the latest adventure of the
likable Inspector Roger west
of Scotland Yard. The corpSes
are just members of London's
underworld but their demise is
all part of a plot for revenge
against the good inspector. The
plotters, indeed, are not above
making targets of Vests wife
and kiddies. With an assist
from his friend, Mark Leasing,
a criminologist and writer,
West sets out to learn who
among the criminals he has
sent to prison is after his
hide. The narrow squeaks in
volved in the effect produce a
fast-paced thriller.
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British Lecturers

Sir Herbert Read QUOTED in
foregoing) will inaugurate this
afternoon at the National Gall
cry of Art. the third annual
series of the A. w. Mellon
Lectures in the Fine Arts. His
subject will be the art of
Sculpture" to be given at four
o'clock on six consecutive Sun
days. Admittance will be by
card. which may be obtained
at the ground floor informa-
ton room the week preceding
each lecture.
Next Tuesday, the Freer
Gallery's fifth lecture in its
1953-l954 series on Oriental
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The Wars Of Love
BY Mark Schorer.

The clash in these wars OF
love is curiously muffled. Some
how you never hear the cries
Of the wounded and the victor
is uncertain.
Mr.. Schorer's story is of four
young people-three men and
a girl-who enjoy lovely sum-
mers together during Adde'S
cence and then are reunited in
New York many years later.
The narrator. a self righteous
liberal tthe time is the Spanish
Civil War; notices that the
girl and one man Systematically
keep all the facts of life from
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This Shows You How Much Good
Your Tex Money Is Doing Abroad
Shirt-Sieeve Diplomacy: Point 4 in Action
BY Jonathan B. Bingham. (John Day; So
Reviewed by EaH H. voss

Mr.. Bingham. former deputy
administrator Of Point Four.
has written what Is essentially
q final report on his sections
work. It is entertaining and
full Of the wisdom acquired In
; day.to-day contact with the
brand-new ideas embodied in
point four. It also should
make Americans proud to
know that such q small part
Of their tax money Is doing so
much good abroad, not only
for our neighbors. but for our
sons, who will need their
neighbors more than we need
ours. (.
To the hard-bitten conserva-
tive who broods about give~
Always Mr.. Bingham throws q
bone:
Although liberals are gen.
orally on-materialistic in
their personal lives. they have
somehow developed the belief
that plenty of Government
dollars can solve almost any
kind Of social and economic
problem. whether it be in the
field of State or National Gov
eminent, or In the field of
international affairs. The truth
is that dollars. no matter how
many, will not solve the prob
lens of the underdeveloped
areas. In the long run a coun-
try's institutions and attitudes
will be more important in its
development than the amount
of wealth 1t can command.
Those institutions and atti-
tudes cannot be bought with
dollars. or with any other kind
of money; indeed, the avail
ability of too much money may
actually be harmful to their
growth"
How much should the United
States spend on Point Four?
My own feeling is that any
thing over / billion dollars q
year would be difficult to spend
wisely and with lasting re-
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Reviewed By Carter Brooke Jones

The short novel called.
variously. novelette,, nouvelle
and novella, depending on
linguistic parentage and pref
erenee has been . literary
Mepchild. Some magazines
Use the form, but publishers
regard it as too brief for q
hook unless attached TO two
DC three others Of It's kind or
number Of short stories,
which may make q mismated
and unpromising collection.
It's too bad, for some great
noveliStS have found. say. TO-
900 words the perfect vehicle
for certain themes. And some
Of these short novels, some
times less accurately called
long short stories, have lived
despite editorial disfavor.
Henry James called DAISY
Miller" a nouvelle. Other brief
masterpieces at once come to
mind. such as Villa Gathers
"A Lost Lady" and Edith
Wharton's ETHAN Frome,"
both Of which did manage to
become slim and well-remem-
bered books. Conrad found
the form highly effective. Re-
member Heart Of Darkness?
Do They Mark q Trend?
Mrs. ASwell, O former fiction
editor Of Harper's Bazaar, Is
. setting out to do her share
toward overcoming q preju-
dice which does not. she feels.
extend to readers. The authors
Of the four short novels she
sponsors are Jean Stafford and
Shelby Foote. both established
noveliStS: Elizabeth Etnier and
Clyde Miller, little known, al
though Miss Etnier has contri-
buted extensively to magazines.
Three OF the stories have not
previously appeared in any
form. Mr.. Shelby's novel was
expanded from . short story
printed In q popular maya
zine.
The prolific and popular
French novelist. Georges Sine
non. for some years resident
in the United States. writes
under the title Tidal Wave"
three unrelated novels -
Belle" 1.-THE BottGrn of the
Bottle" and THE Brothers
Rico"
The four novels in the
Aswell book all are worth read
ing. The best, it seems to
me. is Elizabeth Etnier's 1.-THE
Willow" an idyllic story of an
island off the Maine coast,
told with lyrical simplicity and
a sure touch that makes every
detail seem relevant. It is the
story of a young couple, ar
tistic, impractical, who bought
a place on the desert island
for back taxes and went to
live there the year around be-
cause they loved, the beauty
OF the spot and the life it
promised. But they had no
money. and, when the two chill
dren came along and times got
worse, the struggle for exist
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Jumieson Honored

The Corcoran Gallery OPP
ened on March IL an exhi-
bition Of recent paintings by
Mitchell Jameson, which will
remain through April Is. This
nationally known painter is
one Of the Washington areas
most gifted artists, who has
had not one. but three one
man shows in the past year.
in New York City and WASH
ington. The current show will
be reviewed here later.
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who believes In human per-
fectibiIity. Since America was
founded on that hope, he Is
bound to love It If only just for
the idea. For Mr.. Barzun the
authors Of modern scripture
gre Blake. .Nietzsche. William
James and Shaw. which indi-
Gates his philosophy. He be-
lieves I'VE are not inherently
better men than our fore ]
fathers. but by dint Of needing
the better men among us, and
doing something practical
about 1t, we have developed a
truer because more exacting
conception Of mankind"
Minimizes Medioerity
Some Of his readers might
like to debate that q bit with
MIR. Barzun. but all will. I
think, rejoice In his original
and witty criticisms. He brushes
aside the by-now standard
charges Of mediocrity. con-
formity. materialism. Is
American materialism any
more reprehensible or UNI
lovely than the European
brand which fiourished might
lily for centuries when the GO
ing was good?
No. Mr.. Barzun goes his own
way. amusing. even hilarious.
I like his reaction to traffic
fatality statistics. Confronted
with the figure Of certain
deaths. he says he trusts that
some citizen other than him
self will be public spirited
enough to comply with them.
He Is Illuminating on the
subject Of hospitals. schools,
child-rearing. sex and career
wives cher home life is In q
"briefcase built for two'') and
New York. His remarks on
cordially by formula" and
other manifestations Of our
no uaSnaee -
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f4om either cliche or the in
temperate criticism. which
marked Louis Kronenberger's
Company Manners"
This book might we'll be
exported by our Information
Services. To be sure, it ex-
pounds the view that we are
inherently different-a no.
ton that infuriates Europeans
but since most of US hon.
estly believe it. why not the
best possible explanation of
our conviction and one that
is articulate and amusing,
too?
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(McG rGW-Hill; So

the girls husband. who has. it
is true. suffered a severe shock
in the loss Of his parents. The
narrator is obseSsed with the
idea Of rescuing the girls hus-
band from this suffocating
conspiracy. What he actually
does is to seduce the girl, which
really doesn't help anybody
very much.
Usually, these psychological
tales of mental torture have
considerable, If morbid. fasci-
nation. THE Wars of Love"
is too pale and wan to exert
much of anything. M. MEG.
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LocoI SeuIptors

The Washington Sculptors
Group will meet at the Artists
Mart. 1861 Wisconsin avenue
NV. Wednesday March "a.
at 8 PM. Sculptors interested
in membership please bring
sculpture or photographs and
art history to the Mart be.
tween 2 and 4 PM. March "a.
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of the riff
r a t + o I
every army
a n d t h e
dregs of the
c | vi / / a n
population
At I / r S t
Tonbolo is
an anarchy.
B ut W 18th
Roy. q gil
gantic Chi
cago Negro.
the dread
I III CO m :
~y,nftry A.
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At Silver Spring

A talk by H. z. Syed Amjad
Ali, the Ambassador of PAX
istan. and a film of his coun-
try. will be features of an
opening this afternoon at 4
o'clock at the Silver Spring Art
Gallery. 9216 Flower avenue.
An exhibition by the Cherry
Tree Textile Designers, di-
rected by Lyn Egbert. and in
Guiding work by>her and nine
other artists, will be on view
through April %,
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American Federation Of Arts
and 20 leading museums which
will In turn be host to 1t over
Q period Of three and one-half
years.
The outstanding feature Of
the show to me. Is its unusual
method Of handling. which
promises q revolution In pre-
paration and transportation.
and which will eventually per-
haps. enable more important
exhibitions to be shown less ex-
pensively In small. remote
places.
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~oSASAS1S
be loved and
s u c c e s S full
are eminent
ly sound and
quotable. His
case histories
a re. marred
only by a
IA ulty ear
for dialogue
and a PEN
c h mt for
punS. What
is refreshing
is the COM
falafa aacanana
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From the BuItic

Design In scandinavia, "
the exhibition at the Balti-
more Museum Of Art, men,
toned here last Sunday as
worthy Of a visit before 1t
closes March 80. marks the
first time that Sweden. Nor
way, Denmark and Finland
have united to present an ex-
hibition Of their art. It is
sponsored by the Presidents of
the United States and Fin
land, and the Kings Of the
other three countries.
This comprehensive show
has TOO examples of furniture.
textiles, glass. metal. ceramics,
and other items for practical
and decorative use in the
home. Contemporary Scandi-
navian decorative arts are. of
course, well known in the
United States, having been
presented in earlier exhibits
(the Smithsonian Travelling
Exhibition Service for instance
inaugurated several smaller
ones here in 1852. each de-
voted to a single country and
offered by commercial outlets
in many cities.
Scandinavian Art
But the size and comprehen-
siveness of the show now at
Baltimore enables the visitor
to see the similarities and con-
trasts Of work from the four
Scandinavian countries. 1t
oversimplifies matters. per
haps. to say that each coun-
try seems to excel in some
particular medium: Sweden's
glass, Denmark's silver, Nor
ways enamels, and Finland's
weaving and ceramics stand
out memorably, although each
country has superb examples
in many other media.
Although the roo exhibits
were selected by top experts
in Scandinavian design" the
show has q number Of things
that do not seem to me adj
mirable. The long-looped rugs
would be chewed to rags by
an electric sweeper, and would
be hazards to women In spike
heeled shoes. The heavy. inch
thick pottery in dull dark grays
and browns suggests the kit
chen rather than Shower
rooms. A number Of very tall
slender pottery vases. also tea
and coffee pots. may be sturdy
on their bases, but they do not
appear to be. The visual fear
that they could be knocked
over with a feather. is psyche
logically, hence esthetically.
bad. Also, certain Swedish glass
vases look like something from
a chemists laboratory.