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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08

was given the first award was
illustrated here last Sunday.
Second prize was bestowed
on N. Eric Oback of Califor-
MIA for his rs. F. Freighter,"
convincingly done in wash on
wet paper, with form out
lines and dark accents put
in with a dry brush.
Third prize went to Rob-
ert Hayes tOhio) for his
witty. simple Fox in the
Snow" which suggests adver-
Using art. Washington art
list Sheffield Kagy received
the George F. Muth Co.
award for his semiabstract
Shrimp Fleet" Three wa
tercolors fetched honorable
mentions: Harlan Holidays
"Silver Fog" with its tex
tured background; Hilda
Levy's abstraction, and Hill
ton Leech's hammered Sun
Worship"
Fine Wood Engraving
In the graphic section
approximately a quarter of
the show the major award
was given to "Phantoms of
Drought" a stunning wood
engraving by E. Hubert
Defines of Missouri. WASH
ington's Jack Perlmutter
received mention for his
handsome color Autograph
BLACK Is the Dark" Incl
dentally, Mr.. Perlmutter was
awarded a purchase prize at
the Brooklyn Museums 18th
national print exhibition,
one of the Nations major
graphic arts ANIMALS. His
color Autographs have been
shown in many other cities
during the season now end
ing.
The show is well hung in
the museums foyer bays,
and on white wall boards
arranged diagonally in the
center aisle; the installation
was designed by Hike Kap-
Ian and John organs.
Artists representing 81
States and the District of
Columbia make the show
truly national in extent if
not in comprehensiveness.
approximately one-third Of
the works on view are abb
stract and modern flgura-
tive.
Watereolors and pastels /
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Leagues Second

The second members show
of the American Art League
at the Arts Club, through
next Friday, is the award"
from the club to this group
of artists for having had the
best group exhibition at the
clubs 1857 May Fair. The
selection and awards jury
were nonmembers of the
league: Gustav TroiS, Row
land Lyon, Sheffield Kagy
and William F. Walter. All
are represented with meri-
torious paintings as an intro
duction to the show.
Oil awards were given to
George RowenS boat at a
wharf, Ruth Vests old
houses after a shower and
Audrey Glassman's high
keyed, sketchy still life.
Awards in watercolor went to
Glen Poiesz' Low Tide"
Gertrude Hamlin's still life
of old bottles, ETC., and Louis
Storms Conversation" 1.-THE
most interesting work.. The
only sculpture on view. a FIG
ure pyramidal in pose by
Valentin Simiancev, received
an award.
The American Art League
is composed of artists who
work generally in traditional
dioms. But there are a few
semiabstract paintings in
this show.
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particularly liked are those
by Henry GaSser (who made
the awards, Allen Evry,
Marlin Fenical. Ruth Galoon,
James Cupoli, r. Everbaugh,
Herbert Cute. James Iams,
Vaughn Jackson, Ruth Lee,
Dorothy Leef, Carver Miller,
Jozef Pielage, and Elizabeth
WickenheiSer, mostly con-
sentative; and distractions
by Frank Spagnolo and Ru-
dolf Won HUM.
OF graphics. there were 10
which impressed me as out
standing, and the majority
are abstract. The 10 are by
Lila Asher, Hedwig Bremen,
Noche Crist, Richard Evans,
Mark Freeman, Aline Fru-
hauf "a portrait of Edith
Hamilton), John Hannah.
Helen Loggie tan exception
ally beautiful pencil draw
ing), Marco Nobili and James
L. Wells.
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Vantage Point
Not Wasted
MAYOR WATCHING AND
OTHER PLEASURES. BY

MAYOR WATCHING AND
OTHER PLEASURES. BY
Philip Hamburger. (Rine-
hart 81 Co.; $3.750
Mr.. Hamburger lives OPP
posite the Oracle street man
sion of the Mayors Of New
York. 1t is a vantage point
not wasted on him. He has
sat by his window for hours,
noting the goings and COM
ingS, the general tone Of the
establishment as it has been
maintained from La Guardia
through Wagner. Eventually
his patience, as recorded in
New Yorker m a gazi n e
sketches, was rewarded and
he was invited across the
street and into the house,
where he stayed long enough
to do a profile of the present
occupant. Mayor Wagner. He
even few to Mexico to in
terview a previous denizen,
Mayor O'Dwyer.
Admirable as he is as a
mayor-watcher, Mr.. Ham
burger is even better as a
maeStro-watcher. His &C
count of a Toscanini train
tour is a superb piece Of
peCit-point reporting, art
ful and humane. He begins
on the edges. with Toscanini's
bearers and managers who,
with slavish solicitude, dance
around in fervent search Of
whatever the maestro fan
cies. Gradually Mr.. Ham
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This Is British Writing
As 1t Was and as 1t Is

air and the swimming pool.
He gives us the ritual of
cruise life. He is aware he
is growing old and no longer
cuts a fine figure. He does
not mind too much. Mod
Grafton is bred. Sir Harold
is old hat, but very beautiful
old hat.
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the German by Oliver CO.
burn (Farrar, Straus 81
Cudahy; $685..
Mr.. Heinrich, who wrote
"Cross Of Iron" and has an
intimate knowledge of the
late war, now publishes an
even more memorable novel.
Crack of Doom" describes
O backwash, a small seepage
in the sprawling surge of
armies. The focus is on a
few characters, but they are
limned yividly against the
German retreat before the
irresistible advance of the
Russians in December, 1914.
The scene is the Carpathian
Mountains, in Czechoslovak
territory.
Russians in Battle
While there are some ter
rife scenes of fighting be-
tween trapped German bat
talions and maSsing Russian
tanks and infantry, the story
is conferred on a small guerrilla
war within a war, between
some Czech partisans, who
hate the Nazis with their
whole hearts, and retreating,
dislocated German detach-
mentS. This small, individual
fighting, meaningless to the
whole picture, with firing
from the windows of houses,
from behind Snowbanks, on
streets Of deserted villages, is
ruthless beyond telling-on
both sides.
Casualties and the ambush
and capture of a general and
his staff by partisanS leave a
major in command of an en-
tire division-what's left of
1t. The major has an idea:
He'll send, one battalion. in
scattered groups, posing as
deserters, into the mountains
to find the general and pun
ish the partisanS. But he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08
Could Frunce
Have Fallen
This Low?
THE QUESTION. BY Henr

THE QUESTION. BY Henri
Alleg. George Braziller,
Inc: $3.50
This is a horrifying &C
count of one mans expert
ences in the undeclared war
between France and the Al
gerian Nationalist. If Mr..
Alleg is telling the truth, the
French have fallen as low as
the NaziS.
There is an introduction
by Jean-Paul Sartre (nearly
a third as long as the book
which can be disregarded as
editorial. However, while
openly espousing the cause
of the Algerians, it is quite
objective in one regard: the
father of existentialism de-
poses accurately that The
Question" is not advised for
those with weak stomachs.
The book itself purportS to
be an account of the tortureS
inflicted on the Communist
editor Alleg after his news
paper. Alger Republican, was
banned. The copy for The
Question" was struggled into
France and 10000 copies
were sold before the authori-
ties suppressed it.
According to Mr.. Alleg, he
was brutally tortured by the
French. He describes his I'M
believable tortureS in minute
detail, but states that he did
not break. He writes that
torture is a common thing in
the bitter war between the
French and the MoslemS in
Algeria, and that it is done on
routine schedule.
The reviewer has no way
Of knowing how much ere
dence to lend these claims.
But if these horrors exist
Mr.. Alleg is still a prisoner
and in no position to prove
anything at the moment
the soldiers of France are
guilty of the same crimes in
flicted on their countrymen
by the German SIS in World
War II. y. o., Jr.
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of novelists, who holds her
readers in an iron clasp un-
til the last cool promise Of
married felicity has been
given.
We suppose that part Of
the reason may be that while
times have changed, people
have not; and Miss Austen
observed humankind so mar
rowly and so justly that we
meet almost every one Of her
characters with a shock Of
recognition.
IL Still Applies
Mrs. Bennett is still every
pushy Mamma who causes
her more sensitive daughters
hair-curling embarrassment
as she details their accom-
plishments and their pros
poets. Young women with
high hopes still discuss mar
riage with that mixture Of
conviction and uncertainty
as Elizabeth Bennett and her
dear friend Charlotte Lucas.
Overpowering dowagers like
Lady Catherine De Bourgh
still prowl through society
waiting to pounce on deter
mined nay-sayers like Miss
Lizzy Bennett. And Charles
Collins in his careful trum-
peting seems like the true
forerunner of the public re-
lations man.
Miss Austen, writing a
century and a half before the
practice was institutional
lied. knew all about games
manShip. The scenes between
Miss Caroline Bingley and
Mr.. Darcy could provide an
object lesson for Stephen
Potter. Elizabeth never leaves
the room that the green-eyed
Miss Bingley is not at it:
miss Eliza Bennett" she
begins scathingly.
Unlike modern noveliSts
who tell all, Miss Austen tells
us just exactly what we need
and want to know about the
pursuit of happiness so sin
gle-mindedly engaged in by
her characters.
She is, unquestionably a
fine novelist. But she is, we
repeat, unfair to insomniacs.
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Embassy Artists

Embassy Artists, a recently
formed group Of diplomats
and staff members of foreign
missions in Washington, who
are interested in painting,
opened their first exhibition
last Monday evening at the
FA Galleries. 1923 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Eruch Munsiff, Second Sec
rotary of the Indian EN-
bassy. inaugurated the group
and as its co-ordinator
greeted the guests and intro
duced H. E. DR.. Don Gull
lermo Sfvilla-Sacassa. Am
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08
Art in Little

The Miniature Painters,
Sculptors and Gravers So
ciety whose 25th annual ex-
hibition comprising 172 works
in many media, occupies the
first two bays in the National
Museums foyer through next
Friday, is the same show as
in former years, although the
exhibits are new.
Possibly the proportion of
abstract or other modern
works is slightly larger than
heretofore. Works which re-
ceived the society's two prizes
are modern, and their desig-
nation as best" seems to me
very dubious. Johanne Bray's
"Chrysalis" elizabeth Muhl-
hofer award is far from the
shows best painting And
Reynold Weidenaar's" Broad
moor" Minor Jameson award
for best landscape painting)
is so broadly handled as to
seem a mere sketch.
On Ivory
Miniature portraits gen.
orally on ivory are here in a
good number, the best of
them by Rosina Cox Board
man, Mary Elizabeth King
and Arthur Hall Smith; and
an attractive pastel double
portrait by Anne Aspen.
Other superior works are
landscapes and urban scenes
in oil and watercolor by
Martha Bache, Merry Bean
and Colleen Lyon. in prints
by Roy Fox, Dorothy Van H.
Harrison and Margaret Long
acre; an exquisite still life by
Kathleen Hepburn, and
adroit little pen drawings by
Effim Sherman. No one sur
passes Marian Lane in illumi-
nations. three Of which are in
the show. Annette Metcalfe
and George Schefrer con-
tribute several beautiful lit
tie bound books.
Sculptures are more numer-
Gus than in last years show.
The best ito me- are Eman-
uel Aaronson's "Zaida," Ruth
Brewers little abstraction,
Eleanor Cox's two heads,
John Cops Pond Fish," all
of Katherine Hobbs animals,
and N. Kark's amusing Sun
Worshiper."
The miniaturist's annual is
also q national open show.
This year it represents artists
in Is States. the D. C.,
Canada and Turkey.
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bassador Of Nicaragua and
dean of the diplomatic corps,
who formally opened the
show and called for bids on
a large abstract painting by
s. Derachman Of mdonesia.
Contributions are to be given
to the League Of Red Cross
Societies.
Nearly so oils and water
colors are on view by II
artists of the Embassies OF
Burma, Cuba. Czechoslo-
vakia. Great Britain. India.
Indonesia, Iraq. Israel, Spain
and Turkey. These people are
so fully occupied with the
demands of their profession
one wonders how they have a
moment to look at a paint
ing, let alone create one.
Consequently the show is a
surprise and a pleasure to
see. with variety Of theme
and approach. 1t is on view
through Wednesday, open
$3.50 to 6 daily.
Pastime Painters
The majority of the artists
are pastime painters, as is
Mr.. Munsiff, who shows six
oils, mostly symbolic abb
stractions. But a number are
professionals, in training and
achievement, among them
Madiha Umar of Iraq, re-
Gently returned to Washing
ton, who had a large exhibi-
ton at the Middle East In
stitute in April, and Alberto
Duce of Spain, who regularly
exhibits at the IFA Galleries
and elsewhere.
Other paintings which
seemed to me particularly in
teresting in this group are
the abstract expressionist
Vision" by Ursula Kaiktsian
India, the colorful Bloom
ing Garden" by D. Ashari
(IndoneSia) and exotic myth
illogical subjects by Ardy
Sutono (Indonesia); small
paintings in a modern idiom
by Mrs. Asuman Kilic (Tur-
key and the charming land
scapes in watercolor of their
respective countries, by U.
Aung Nyunt of Burma and
Alexander lifelong of Israel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08

Philip O'Connor and Sir
Harold Nicolson have abso-
lutely nothing in common be-
yond the, fact that they are
both British writers who have
had books about their own
experiences published this
season. Mr.. O'Connor's
MEMOIRS OF A PUBLIC
BABY British Book Center;
So records his lifetime to
date, while Sir Harold limits
himself to an account Of a
RNEY TO JAVA
Doubleday; So. Between
them they afford an almost
perfect illustration of Brit
ish writing as it was and as
1t is.
Mr.. O'Connor was born
poor of a fiighty mother and
an absconding Irish father.
Sir Harold was more for
tunate in his family, his in
heritance and his tempera-
ment. While Mr.. O'Connor
assiduously cultivated his
caddishness, Sir Harold
plainly applied himself to
becoming as civilized as pos
sible. 1t is part of the felicity
Of his life that for his 10th
birthday present his friends
dubbed together to give him
and his wife, v. Sackville-
West, a two-month cruise
to the Far East.
UnStinted Praise
The most curious thing
about Mr.. O'Connor's book is
perhaps the unstinted praise
heaped upon it by British
critics. Unreserve is of
course still something of a
novelty in the tight little
isle, despite the best eff
forts of the Angry Young
Men. In a foreword Stephen
Spender explains that Mr..
O'Connor is without pose or
affectation" and that "he
wears no mask" That is
true. But is this such a virtue
after all, when all a writer
has TO say is that he has
kicked the world in the shinS
and spat in its face, that he
has dabbled in communism,
homosexuality, parasitery and
madness? Candor here has
degenerated into exhibition
ism. This is really just a
play-by-play account of a
lifelong love affair with
chaos. He is too special a
case for the general reader,
although he says in the end
in a swaggeringly humble
postscript that he is by mo
means socially irrelevant"
For sheer grubbiness it is
hard to beat.
Life Is . Song
Sir Harold on the other
hand has little quarrel with
the world. SO little in fact
that he devotes himself dur
ing the cruise to a study of
csuseless melancholy" a
state of mind he obviously
knows only at second hand.
He is q most congenial and
meticulous shipmate. He re-
cords the temperature Of the
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burger moves towards the
center, watches Toscanini
conduct a great concert, eat
a superb supper prepared by
an inexpressibly moved
Italian chef, hears him say
to his doting encourage,
Good night. my dear ones"
The whole story is somehow
q vindication of the whims
and vagaries of genius.
Also included are some
sketches by Mr.. Hamburger
in the terse role Of the New
Workers. man Stanley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Water Color Display
Highly Meritorious
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

The Washington Water Color Clubs 6st annual exhibit
ton at National Museum Constitution at Tenth
NW3 through Friday has many technically
competent paintings and graphcs it must have been difficult
to decide the awards and mentions.
The painting by Harry Leith-RoSs of Pennsylvania which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08
New Novel Is Strikinu
Indictment of War
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
aAar BOok Critic

The second World War; could have been expected of
the most stupendous in history has spawned great
number of books whole vast library fact and fiction When
still another book appears the temptation to aside
to something with freSher theme. But I'm glad
didn't discard this one:
CRACK OF DOOM, by Will Heinrich translated from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08
READING AND WRITING
There Is No Hypnosis
In q Book Like This
BY MARY McGRORY
star stan Writer

We have become somewhat conditioned not resigned
to the idea that books society have egated
to the status Of soporcs People tell that taken in small
doses at bedtime they induce sleep unerrngy the
most vaunted pills.
We happened to do little involuntary research in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08

Three hours later, only be-
cause our eyes would no
longer focus, we reluctantly
laid down the book at that
moment when Darcy, spurned
by Elizabeth, surprises her
on her morning ramble and
hands her a letter.
Yawning the next day, We
pondered the question of
why Miss Austen is for some.
o veritable Ancient Mariner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08


matter q recent wakeful mid
night. We thought we un-
derstood the prescription.
The reading should be of
a sufficiently diverting nature
to take the mind OF Sleep
lessness but not 30 stimu-
lating as to ward it on
entirely.
With all this in mind, we
took pride and Prejudice"
of the shelf. Three previous
readings, plus the movie we
felt were sufficient insurance
against any urgent page
turning. 1t was our thought
merely to refresh ourselves as
to the excellence of that in
comparable opening chapter.
The Artistry. Of 1t
1t was just as we remem-
bered it: That rallying first
Sentence-"It is a truth uni
versally acknowledged that a
single man in possession Of a
good fortune must be in want
Of a wife"
We read it through again.
We saw the brevity, the
artistry of it, the swift es-
adjustment of Mr.. Bennett,
the hooking husband of a
woman "of mean under
standing, little information
and uncertain disposition"
A fine beginning for a novel,
undoubtedly. Surely, we
thought, another chapter
will do no harm.
Miss Austen's plots, as we
all know. unfold at the
stately pace Of a minuet.
That tenuous tissue of calls,
balls and walks in the shrub
berry could hardly constitute
a threat to the peace of mind.
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NEW OPENINGS

'.PAsT AND FUTURE GROUP ExHI-
BfTIoN. Ores GALLERY, 1929 TWen-
tieth street NV. Current-June -,
PAINTINGS BY ROBERT WILLIS.
rranz pader GALLERY. 1908 q street
NV June li-Juiy Is.
sRRIoRAPHs By SISTER MARY
CoRITA. Il r. A Qailleries 20 3
Connecticut avenue NV June To-
July 5.
pArNTrNos BY KARPMAN AND
sPRUYT The Artists Mart. 1881
Wisconsin avenue, current-June 30,
PAINTINGS AND DRAWN BY
NaNNFTTE eCHWEIo silver Spring
AZ Gallery, Q2iB Flower avenue.
Opening today with Z lecture pro-
gram. Through July 3.
PAINTINGS BY RALPH DE BuRoos.
me Art shop, sass Georaia avenue
silver spring current-June 80,
GROUP EXHIBITION. Glen GALLERY Of
AT South Glen road, Potomac
Nd. current-June so.
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Drawing by Sh ella
Hawkins for Trans
lationS From the
SiameSe."

released convict is not want
ed for anything-there is not
much they can do. The for
mer sergeant is clever. He
strikes stealthily.
Mounting Suspense
He starts by poisoning the
BoWdens' dog. Then he aims
at the children.
Sam tries q private detec-
tive. He arms himself. But
he can't simply shoot down a
man adroit enough to avoid
proof that he has done any
thing to the Bowdens. But
he keeps moving in, and the
family is terrified.
There were, you might say.
many things Sam might have
done. But what? What would
you do?
This is the most exciting
story of the kind I have read
since Joseph Hayes THE
Desperate Hours" and quite
as well written.
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aoss OF Pennsylvania which
Evening star., 1958-07-15

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE
UNIMPROVED q ROUND 10.
GATED ON THE EAST SIDE OF
LIVINGSTON ROAD, SOUTH OF
ATLANTIC STREET, NORTH OF
CHESAPEAKE STREET SOUTH.
EAST, ZONED R-5-A.
By virtue Of n certain deed of trust
duly recorded, in Liber No. 1041S,
Folio 625 ct sea-, Of the land rec
ords of the District Of Columbia,
and at the request Of the party
secured thereby, the undersigned
trustees will sell, at public auc-
tion, in front Of the premises, on
DAY OF JULY, AID. 1865, AT
TWO O'CLOCK PM, the follow
ing-described land and premises,
situate in the District of Colum-
bia. and designated as and beina
Lots ] and , in Block 8 in C. G.
Taylor's subdivision Of Washing
ton Highlands, as per plat re-
corded in the once of the Sur
yeyor for the District Of Columbia
in Liher Is. at Folio %; nov
taxed as Lots 800 and sol in
TERMS OF SALE. ALL CASH. A
utpOoit oA TbbO Will bt ANduAIch ~
time of sale. Adjustments made
as of date of sale. All conveyance
ing, recording, revenue stamps
etc. at cost of purchaser. Terms
Of sale to be complied with within
THIRTY days from day of sale
otherwise the trustees reserve the
right to resell the property at the
risk and cost of defaulting pur-
chaser, after i've DAYS advertise
ment of such resale in some news
paper published in WASHINGTON
D. c.
JOHN N. LYLE.
MURRAY BLACKSTONE,
jy15-17-19-21-24 Trustees.
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AuctiOneers,
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THOS. ]. OWEN q SON.
AuetiOneers,
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TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE
DETACHED FRAME DWELLING
KNOWN AS 1918 NINTH STREET
NORTHEAST.
BY virtue Of . certain deed Of trust
dull recorded in Liber No. 10764.
Folio 29S. ct sea-, OF the land rec
ords Of the District Of Columbia.
and at the request Of the party
secured thereby. the undersigned
NEsDAY THE SIXTEENTH DAY
OF JULY AID. 1858, AT TWO
FORTY-FIVE O'CLOCK PM, the
following described land and prem
ises, situate In the District Of Co.
lumbia. and DESIGNATED as and be-
ing all of Lot IA and the south
1887 feet front on 9th street by
full depth of Lot / 5 in Abram W
Harris and A, Charles True. Trus-
tees subdivision Of lots in Block
Corded e; fOE1'TiS; IN LiSer County Dy Z, Folio
las, Of the records Of the once
Of the Surveyor Of the District Of
Columbia. said Block 5 now taxed
as Square $3.50.
TERMS: Sold subject to a prior
building aSsociation1 deed OF trust
for approximately $500 81. and
q second trust for approx
mately S2,100: further particulars
Of which viii be announced at
time of sale; the pArchase price
cash, A deposit Of $500 required
conveyancins. recording. etc. al
purchasers cost, Adjustments
made as Of date Of sale. Terms 20
be complied with within thirty
GAYS, otherwise deposit forfeited
and the property may be adver-
tised and resold ct the discretion
OF the trustees.
PHILIP W. THOMAS,
THOMAS W. PARKS.
1ys,e.l012,I6 Trustees.