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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-03-26
Indict DC. Medic
On S Abortion Counts
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON - CAMP -
Fifty-Seven year old DR., y
Harris was indicted last week by
a federal grand jury on four
charges of attending an abortion
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-03-26
BroWard
County
News
BY
Walter 6owe

c. w. H. Volunteer Fire De-
partment carried out its drill at
4:45 am. Sunday morning. All
firemen met at Palm Blvd. and
Delmar ave. on the property of
the Chamber of Commerce. Drills
will be continued on each Sum
day.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-03-26
AT HOME ABROAD

Over a period of so years the
association Of the United States
has worked directly with YWCAS
in "a countries and through the
Worlds YWCA in 81 other coun-
tries. Through financial resources
and trained leadership il has been
able to stabilize and help in the
development of work abroad dur
ing critical periods. Yet the re-
suits of this support in growing
understanding and world mind
edness of the YWCA of the United
States have far outweighed its
contribution.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-03-26
MurreII Branch In YWCA
Centennial Celebration

launch the week of March 81
April 2, series of locN' ~ro-
grams to tie in with the YWCA's
Centennial Observance ard Ceea-
ration, Mrs. A. Louise B'Taylor,
executive director, announced to-
day. Highlighting the week will
be the Centennial Dinner, Thurs
day evening, March 81 at 8 o'clock
Flamingo Room of the Mary Eliz-
abeth Hotel. Miss Ruth Cowdrey,
formerly with YWCA Foreign Di-
vision, serving in India and Trim
idad, will be guest speaker. Mem
berS and friends are urged to
make their dinner reservations
on or before noon, Tuesday,
March 20.
The branch celebration will
serve as a keynote to the obSer-
vaance of world founding of the
YWCA, in London, England in
1855. Murrell Branch of Miami
was established in 1889 and to-
day is membership of 1870
adults and Y-Teens-part of
more than 100000 strong in
more than 1900 cities, villages and
towns throughout the United
States and countless others in IS
countries around the world.
Members are reminded to turn
in their Centennial Cups at this
time to help the three-fold pur-
pose of the observance: Rededi-
cation to the YWCA purpose; In
creasing membership and rails
ing a 100000 national centen-
NAL fund to strengthen and av-
pand the work of the association
in the United States and over
seas. All local associations &C
copied birthday gift detectives
toward this goal, according to
Mrs. Lawrence Rockefeller, Ma
tional chairman of the Centennial
observance.
IN TIMES OF WAR AND
AFTER
Experience gained in two world
wars, working with women and
girls on the home front as well
as with our armed forces over
seas, has placed the YWCA high
among our country's resources in
times of national emergency. Dur
ing both world wars, the YWCA
of the United States moved
quickly TO adapt its program to
meet the nations needs just as
the association is alert today to
meet the needs of women and
girls arising from fast changing
world conditions.
The overseas war work was
not undertaken for the purpose
of promoting the YWCA. Ameri-
can "Y" directors went 10 Eu-
rope simply to offer what skllls
and experience the YWCA could
supply TO meet wartime needs.
Yet in almost every instance the
work that was done commends
itself as something for which
there turned out to be a perma-
nent need.
In 1910, the YWCA was one OF
the six agencies which organized
the USO.
AT HOME ABROAD
Over a period of so years the
association of the United States
, 1955-02-21
j
CARD of THANKS

E@#@4@ @#Hs& a
The family and relatives Of
the late Ralph de Chabert,
through this medium, express
their heartfelt thanks to the
many friends and 0cqnoint-
Qnces, here and abroad, for
their kind expressions or tok-
ems Of sympathy during his
illness and upon his passing.
Special thanks also to the
doctors and nurses Who at
tended him tohile q patient in
the Hospital
, 1955-02-21
DR.. DE FREITAs coM1NGI

IL 49,
DIR. Robert M. De Freitas,
B. a. O., D. Specialist in Eye
Examination Refraction Or
thoptics, announces that on
Tuesday, February p, from
10 am. to 5 pm. g Wed. Feb
23rd from 100 to 4:30 pm.
complete o~ptometric service
will be offered to the Munici-
patty of Croix.
Will be in Frederiksted
Municipal Hospital from 900
am. until noon Wednesday.
The latest designs in Eye
glasses prepaid or COD.
, 1955-02-21
10 U R N Al
following amendment:

Section 2. The Governor may, subject to the approval
of the Finance Committee Of the Legislature, transfer be-
tween items on the appropriation ordinances referred to in
Section ] Of this Act amounts within the individual depart
ments; but no such transfers shall be made by the Governor
except Upon the recommendation of the Finance Committee
of the Legislature. Transfers Of ~budgetted amounts between
the departments shall only be effected by special money
bills.
The Committee recommended favorable action BY the
House. The Committees Report was accepted and the Rules
Of Business for the Legislative Assembly Of the Virgin Is
lands was suspended to permit immediate adoption Of the
measure, The Yea and Nay votes on the bill were as follows:
, 1955-02-21
CARD Of, THANKS

The three children Of Mrs.
Juilana Dowdy also her
grands. great grand and great
great grandchildren express
their thanks for the condol-
ence shown at her burial. She
was IS years old.
, 1955-02-21

Before you buy furniture for
your new house or for your
remodeled house why not see
our line Of fine RattanP
Call ia for appointment or
see
Mrs. Lucia M. NeIthropp
Real Estate
King Street, Christiansted
This is the type of furniture
you have always hoped to
own. Now you can. Come or
call.
, 1955-02-21
NJ 8 N D A \
500 & $50 pm.

ON OUR PANORAMIC SCREEN
with Sp anish Subtitles
river OF NO RETURN"
starring
Robert Mitchum : Marilyn Mon
roe
10th Century Fox up-to-the min
ute News and Short Feature, in
Cinemasccpe Tournament of
Roses"
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Burrows Ballads
|Beut the Blues
Better Il Booze
THE ABE BURRoWs sONG-

THE ABE BURROWS SONG
BOOK. BY Abe Burrows.
DOUBLEDAY: $4.50.)
Granted Abe Burrows amt
no Irving Berlin. he certainly
has the Noel Coward conces-
sion In the sovereign borough
Of Brooklyn safely In his hip
pocket.
Mr.. Burrows, who thinks
Brooklyn Is the only place in
the world ('sYes. I've seen the
Tai Mahal. TITS q picture no
artist can paint. fBut TAI Ma
hal. Shmaj Afahai, fFlatbush 1t
amt, has collected 23 Of his
Oh -heat ballads into q bewild-
ering volume The soft-ifearted
win be horrified ut his LAM
pooning Of the tender passions,
but Mr.. Burrows will ind q
large audience that considers
the genuine articles even more
ludicrous than Abe's parodies.
Mr. Burrows obviously thinks
that anybody who wants TO go
back I'd Dixie is nteslsHggu.
"I'm gonna eat possufn pie
with my old ma and pm. he
carols In his Southern-type
song. land hog-jowls and chit
Inns, whatever they are. .
Abe has experienced love. OF
course with THE Girl With
the Three Blue Eyes.'l, and he
has managed to accumulate
some memories t''rhe pile Of
dirty dishes and the garbage
In the sinkiThe spot upon the
carpet where your mother
spilled her drink The picture
Of your father that was taken
In the clinkf Tender little foolish
r1emories..) But this doesn't
stop him from thinking big
hairy-chested thoughts l"Give
me the road. the road. the
great outdoorsfr don't want .
house to reside iniAll ] ask Is,
the road. the white. winding
highwayfAnd . big Cadillac to-
ride in.").
To enjoy these songs to the
fullest. my pious friends and
drunken companions, you win
need . soundproofed recreation
room. and Q tinny piano. From
there on out. you're on your
own. WILLIAM HINES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16
DOCTOR AT DIENnIENPHU.

~VGAOA9 - - AAA<kN kbAA1ASA - A%e
BY Mai. Paul Grauwin. tJohn
Day; 81
Gen. Henri Eugene Nayarre's
monumental hlunder at Diem
Bien Phu cost France some 500
men killed and $500 others
wounded. including more than
1000 litter cases. Another
$4,000 were captured, later
to be released. Also. Of course,
Dienbienphu cost France and
her Wet Namese allies half Of
Wet Nam.
American military men and
generals on Nayarxe's stan
begged him to reconsider ON
the very night before he sent
paratroops to occupy the bowl
shaped, natural-b born death
trap Ia the Wild and moun-
famous northwest territory Of
Wet Nam.
He Knows II Best
Perhaps even those who
warned Gen. Navarro did not
foresee the extent of the
human tragedy that unfolded
ct Diem Bien Phn. Mai. Grau-
win, q veteran French Army
surgeon who was the officer
in charge OF the medical corps
of the garrison. tells the grue-
some story IN this book. He
Ii the man who can tell It
best. He personally attended
most Of the 1000 casualties
Their heroic story Is told
with q hero's simplicity.
Ainputations. abdominal OPP
erations. head wounds and
their treatments. how legless
men were carried back TO the
trenches to fight, all this Mai.
Grauwin describes. There Is
an especially warm chapter
devoted to the nurse Of Diem
Bien Phu. Genevieye de Gall
ard.
II the printed word can send
O reader into shock, this is the
printed word that can do It.
Day by day. ~ hours, II hours.
sometimes "a hours O day.
Mai. Grauwin and his medical
units toiled In their unventi-
lated. underground operating
rooms. Most Of the majors
patients were his friends--he
had spent long years In the
French Army. 50 he could eive
an insight into each individual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Neuberger Collection
At Phillips Gallery
d. FLoRENCE 5. BERRYMAN

ROY ana Marie Neuberger
Of New York have one Of the
earliest private collections tbe-
gun iii 1881 devoted entirely
to goth century American art.
They are exceptionally gener-
Gus ID sharing their paintings
and sculpture with the public.
The most recent loan exhibi-
ton from their collection II
nov 1T the Phillips Gallery, ID.
remain through October.
one hundred works were III
the exhibition which opened
last November &c the Whitney
Museum. New York City. Fi1ty
of them have been visiting art
galleries and museums during
the past year. the Phillips Cal
lery being the last stop on the
seven-rnuseuna tour.
Perhaps the most impressive,
facet Of this show Is the CATH
olicity II reveals, of the owners,
tastes. The Neuhergers s'cui-
lect with enthusiasm. " says
John i. u. Haur III his fore
word To the illustrated cats-
logue more than 40 illustra-
tons. four ii color. 5tcl. They
have also collected with d
growing understanding of the
numerous modern move
inents. Paintings III the show.
which the public win consider
conservative. are al BY artists
whose work Is accepted hy the
ilioder1ls IS hitting into the
progressive movement. for 0ne
reason Or another. Further
i more. some of these represent
rational paintings are early
works BY the respective artists
e. 8, Edward Hopper,s beau-
tiful Gravel Bar. White
River, 1887. and Georgia
OsKeefEes lush green Lake
George BY Early Moonrise. =
1896.
This collection Is particu-
larly well adapted. Il seems to
me. TO engage the layrnan's
interest In contemporary idi-
orns. because the examples In
50 many instances, are direct,
simple and understandable.
There are ito mention only d
few1 Two Girls at d Desk.
In nat color areas, BY Milton
Avery: Stuart Davis early
tiD30l Barber Shop with its
poster like shapes and bright.
primary colors: Philip Ever
goods Little Captain inn
perturbably rowing his boat
through waves ag frightening
as Hokusaiis: the handsome
Cubist High Houses" by Ly-
onei Feininger: Herbert Katz-
mans slashing. brilliant ''Zin-
/ Mas: Loren MacIver,s life-
sine portrait Of the famous
clown. Emmett Kelly: Morris
Graves. Bird In the Mist. !"
lonely and fearful on It's dark
rock. but looking hopefully
into the light filled rift These
and many others should en-
snare the visitor. whatever
his predictions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16

IS q hreathless tale Of plot and
counterpart ii the Greek
underground after the Ger
mans overran Greece In the
early part Of the second world
war.
Mike Morrison. an American
novelist. had gone to Athens
10 settle his late Wife's estate.
for she was Greek. and the
moment he visited the law
yer he stepped into . maze Of
intrigue. The lawyers ap-
parently simple request that
he deliver an envelope when
he returned 10 London set him
on IN 4 labyrinth Of violence.
deceit and betrayal. with his
life constantly at stake.
The envelope turned out to
contain names Of key persons
who could be counted on to-
help the Anglo Greek UNDER
ground. Mike memogized the
list and destroyed it. Even so,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16
Our English I Cousins
Went Wild Over This

been transformed into strari-
gers who do not recognize each
other. She thinks she Is an
old family retainer. He Is con-
WINGED he Is an ex-saiior with
. lsirid past.
Mr.. Dennis most telling
strokes. however. come In the
form Of papers read BY, various
club members. There is q
stately story Of the co-warden
Of the badgeries. an ancient So
ciety which lives by symbols.
or sometimes merely . token OF
q symbol. There Is D roWdy
farce about i man who doesn't
know what sex he Il, having
been brought up BY esl1ight-
ei1ed parents who have told
him there Is no such thing IS
pure male or pure female. And.
finally. there Is d report from o
drunken priest who lives III an.
abbey exclusively peopied BY.
ex-C Communists.
The last Is the most savage
Of nh. ''The only road To Rome
nowadays Il via Moscow"
The public listens only to
prayers made with red hands
Our Abbey win never run
short Of funds 80 long as the
public keeps IT'S highest fayors
for those who have plundered
IT. These are but q few Of
the gibes &c the current pl1e-
nolnenon Of the confessing
Communist.
To cap the puzzlement. Mr..
Dennis winds up with d blank
verse play In Ehakespearean
style, enacted by the cast. /
defy the most fervent English
reviewer to tintangle this. Pos
sibly Cards Of Identity sur
fered some sort Of sea-cnange
on the transatlantic voyage.
It has moments, to be sure,
but not enough OF them TO
warrant the hosannas which
have accompanied IL.
MARY McGRCRY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16
Peruvian Painter

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16
B0rnetts at GWut

Two recent graduates Of
George Washington Univer-
sity and the Corcoran School
Of Art. Thomas Barnett and
his wife Martha Mckay, are
having q Joint exhibition at the
University Library. 2O23 q
street NV, through Octo-
Der. Al biographical article on
these two young artists was
published In The star for Sep
TENDER 80.
Having studied with Eugen
Weisz here. they went TO Paris
four years ago. and studied
with Fernand Leger. the infiu-
ence Of whom Is strong ID the
work Of both. Il Is d worthy
influence. Of an artist whose
half century Of achievement
has brought him recognition
a. q modern master.
Both Barnetts use Leger's
heavy black enclosing outline,
But Thomas Barnett's paint
ings are the better group In
the Leger idiorn. His simpli-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16

not seem to know what he
wants or to care much.
re Is not that there are no
such characters as Mr.. Mailer
depicts. The question Is
whether they are worth q long,
serious analysis.
This Is Mr., NEailer's third
n0ysi The Deer PARK Is
better done than his strange
novel. '.BarhhTy Shore, = which
was N enigma. but It has vir-
tsiaily none Of the yiyidness
and urgency Of The Naked
and the Dead. Z There Is great
preoccupation with Illicit sex
III The Deer Park. But the
whole interminable pattern Of
sameness leads TO one con-
cIlsfOn::
sin can be unconlmoniy dun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16

,ress . saTshe one i / oye,s ar,d3
other books. and many articles
In the New Yorker, Holiday,
Vogue, etc.. win be 81 watkins
Gallery. American University
campus this Afternoon from 4
to &, for the opening 81 his
exhibition there 81 coIorful
original paintings for his new
book ..parsieyp q wei Al
scenes from tie Afadeleir1kg
series and ia1dscapes done
last summer At calnpobeiiO
Me T,he sl1oW win remain
through November Id. pro-
pllesy Is not i l,roper iurredi.
ent 81 al III column, hit from
memories 81 lis New york
exhibition of two or fllree
wears arc ] venture Ia nre-;
dict tl1at this MN 81 tile most
popular chow the gallery llas
had Il, 4 tong dine
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16

ned and abstract forms are In
tegrated with more care. into
complex designs His large
industrial Landscape fNo.
sol Is i Handsome structure Of
thrusting diagonaIs and circles
In varied gray-b1ues. His
Composition and Plant"
(both painted last year1 are
admirable arrangements.
But Martha Mckay is the
more independent Of the two
(fro1i the evidence Of this
show). Her paintings Of 1851
and so stem from Leger's
teaching. But those Of the
next two years indicate that
she has struck out along
different paths to q more per-
sonal expression. She shows
imaginative compositions Of
monumental nudes with soft
outlines, and several views Of
Paris and French countryside,
rich III color. simple and repre-
Sensational.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16
CRIME AND MYSTERY
SCORPION REEF. BY Charles
ugi1iiey, ms fAFacyafIlan VA /.
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

SCORPION REEF. by Charles
williams. fMacmillan Co:
s2.75.)
A deserted sloop found drift
inR In the Gulf Of Mexico sets
the scene for this thriller. A
ships log tells most 81 the
story OF two people caught IN.
ia i ruthless search for sunken
treasure. This one has every-
thing Ian adult romance. !
foreknoWledge Of doom 70
heighten the suspense, . knowl-
edgabiiity about the sea. A
superior tale OF high adventure.
THE CASE or THE NERVOUS
ACCONaPLTCE. nv Erie Stan-
ley Gardner, william Nor
row IL Co: S2.75.
Perry Mason,s client wants
him to buy 4 large chunk az
stock ID mess 10 8 real estate
deal for her husband. Object:
10 win back the husbands
strayine affections. what she
actually does ii get herself ac-
cusefi 81 murder. perry's tricky
rnaneuyerinr backfires. leaving
lawyer and client ia the SOUP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16

TRICK Or TREAT. BY Doris
Miles Disney. Doubleday b
Co. Inc; $2.75.)
Crime Club.
a businessman and the Sec
rotary he wants to marry were
the only ones who could profit
By the Halloween murder OF
the mans wife. But the man
was far away In Texas when o
sheeted figure shot the wife
and the secretary had q per-
feet alihi. Enter JeR d
Marco Of the insurance COM
pany TO match means with
motive. Put this down as one
Of the seasons most satisfac-
tory puzzlers.
THE BROKEN SHIELD. BY
Bed Benson. civilian Nor
row u Co.: $2.75.)
Rookie Trooper Ralph Lind
sey trades patrols with aYl-
State policeman and lands
himself In q pack Of misery.
The man who took his patrol
Is killed. His buddies think
Ralph Is yellow and the rookie
faces exile TO q mountain beat.
AS In earlier Beanson yarns.
the real heroes are all the
State police. whose sacrifices,
risks and triumphs he records
SO well.
LADY. GET YOUR GUN. BY
Paul Ernst. william Nor
row Il Co: $2.75.)
Bill Harper. featured In the
authors earlier "Hangman's
Hat" gets reluctantly involved
in the case Of d former girl
friend who admits shooting
but not killing--her gambler
lover. Bill decides her whole
performance Is out Of charac-
ter. He much prefers q rival
gangster In the killer role.
Bright dialogue and fairly
planted but not obvious clues
make for lively entertainment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16
Long Awoited New Novel
By Moiler FuiIs to Shock

THE DEER Park. By Nor
man Mailer putnam: ~. has
been awaited with more than
usual interest, aside from the
reputation the author won with
"The Naked and the Dead
The word went out from plib-
fishers row and was printed In.
trade publications that The
Deer Park had been turned
down By d number Of leading
publishers. one of them going
SO far as to drop it after put.
ting 1t In type. The explana-
ton was that the novel was too
daring even for this day OF
candor. Advance publicity
from Putnam, where the man
uscript finally stuck. stated
that It had been largely re-
written.
Whatever the story was hi
Its original form, as published
It u not rough In language or
particularly shocking In situa-
ton.
II there is . shock in ''The
Deer Park. 1t is because 8
novelist Of some stature could
offer . syrnpathetic study Of .
whole group Of characters
without . single principle 10
guide them, with expectancy
their only standard.
Sergius lnot . RussiaE,l who
is the narrator. Ii just out Of
the Air Force and combat dy-
ing In Korea. He won $4,000
In d poker game Ia Tokyo.
and he settles III q fabulous
town called Desert Dor, In
the cactus Wild Of Southern
California. q gilded resort 400
miles from Hollywood.
There the young ex-lieuten-
ant meets Dorothea Grave.
d retired actress and niait
club singer. repsitesiiy rich,
who maintains what passes
for d salon In Desert
Dor. The characters he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16
News IN Brief

The Freer Gallery Of Art ar-
nounces the opening Of its
1866 series Of Illustrated
lectures on Oriental art ID tho
auditorium at $3.50 next Tues
day. October 10. The speaker.
Or. Aschwin Lippe, associate
curator in the department of
Far Eastern art ut Metr0pcli-
tan Museum Of Art, New York,
will talk On Early Chinese
Paintings In Formosa.s The
lecture is q fruit of his ex-
tended trip to the Far East
last year when he had the
opportunity to study the most
important single collection Of
this material now In existence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-16
| Doctor | els d Shocking
Story Of Wartime Agony

tragedy as it unfolded under
his knives and saws and anes-
thesia.
Does Not Blame
Mai. Grauwin tacticaIly
shu1s all political comment.
There is no slight trace of
blame attached to the Wet
Mimi enemy.
Yet some Of the bigger pic
ture intrudes. Part Of the.
agony for the men In Diem
Bien Phu was their knowledge,
as early as two months before
the end came, that there was
no hope OF breaking out. Frus-
trated headlines from Paris
had found their way TO the
Diem Bien Phu trenches.
And the insensitidity to the
problems Of colonial peoples
attributed to ..the, French
was conspicuous by Its absence
in Diem Bien Phu. Germans,
East Europeans. Berbers.
Arabs. Wet Namese. Thai, even
Chinese. shared infrequent
liquor rations, chamber-pot
details and hunks with metro
politan Frenchmen. Long be-
fore Diem Bien Phu, these
tough fighting men had looked
death In the face and learned
that black men and brown men
and yellow men stop bullets and
bleed and think fast and suffer
and sacrifice their lives for
their fellows quite as freely
and well as white men.
The. outmoded colonialist
thinking in Indo-C China. Of
course, was on q much
"higher" level than the II bat
talions' at Diem Bien Phu.
EART, RI VO99