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ΒΙΑΝ SECRET MS PROTESTED International Committee Letter Tells Ambassador of Ruthless Acts. I By the Associated Press. The International Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners yes terday sent a protest to Ambassador Troyanovsky of Russia against "secret political trials and executions by the Soviet government of persons not charged with overt acts." * The letter said there had been "scores of summary trials in which the usual procedure was suspended, with merely a review of evidence by a special tribunal sitting in secret." Not Defending Assassins. Disavowing any Intention of making "representations on behalf of assassins cr their accomplices, or terrorists or conspirators engaged in carrying out or plotting overt acts against the Soviet state," the protest asserted that "arrests in the Soviet Union go far beyond any such categories." It added : "As the facts have developed, it ap pears that many at least of the accu sations rest on no such ground, but upon the ruthless suppression of op ponents or critics guilty of no overt acts. The conclusion is inescapable that the action was taken for its restraining effect on internal opposition, not be cause of proved offenses by the ac cused. Such exemplary punishment of persons themselves innocent of crime are universally condemned." In Friendly Spirit. The letter said the protest was sent in a friendly spirit. It was signed by Roger N. Baldwin, chairman of the committee and pres ident of the American Civil Liberties Union; Sinclair Lewis, noted novelist; Profs. John Dewey of Columbia, Rob ert Morss Lovett of the University of Chicago, and Arthur Garfield Hays. Elmer Rice, playwright, and Lewis Gannett, author. Waldo Frank, novelist and a mem ber of the committee, sent a separate communication of protest to the Am bassador to express "entire loyalty to , the Soviet cause and strict partisan ship with its government in its strug gles against a hostile world." FIRST LADY AGREES TO ADDRESS SESSION Speech Will Open Convention De signed to Further Tubercu· losis Work. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt yester day accepted an invitation to make the opening address at a national meeting on tuberculosis to be held here March 30. Its object is to for ward plans for dealing with the in creasing problem of child tuberculosis in particular and that of adults in , general. I Co-operating in the meeting are the National Tuberculosis Association, the District Tuberculosis Association, the United States Public Health Serv ice and the American Medical Asso ciation. Mrs. Roosevelt's address will be broadcast over a national radio hook up. She will be followed by various authorities, including Dr. Kendall Emerson, managing director of the National Tuberculosis Association, and Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, surgeon general of the Public Health Service. . Dr. William C. White, president of the local tuberculosis association, will preside. Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing di rector of the local association, has di rect charge of arrangements for the meeting. MARION DAVIES ASKS INCOME TAX RETURN Overpayment of $52,044 in 1931 Claimed by Actress in Appeal to Treasury. By the Associated Press. Marion Davies, motion-picture star, yesterday petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals for the redetermination oi a 1931 income tax claim of $52,044. Miss Davies signed her petition as Marion (Davies) Douras and gave her address as Beverly Hills. Calif. Coincidentally, the Cosmopolitan Corp. of New York City appealed a claim of $43,499. This concern re cently was merged with the 45 East Fifty-seventh Street Co. of New York, of which Miss Davies was the sole stockholder, and its appeal repre sented an assessment against the orig inal company. Miss Davies' petition contended the Bureau of Internal Revenue erroneous ly included in taxable income $260, 222, allegedly paid her out of earn ings by the 45 East Fifty-seventh Street Co., Inc. Sh» claimed the money was a repayment of funds she previously had advanced. The Cosmopolitan Corp.'s petition eaid the bureau was in error in as sessing a 50 per cent tax claim on the ground the corporation allowed undistributed earnings to accumulate to avoid surtaxes on the stockholders. One of F. S. R. C. Artist's "Surplus" Murals This mural, depleting a hunting scene, le one oi seven painted by EUe Cheverlange Just Inside the main entrance of the "temporary" building at Nineteenth and D streets. Cheverlange was employed by the Federal Surplus Relief Corp. when the job of rehabilitating and renovating the structure, which waa built during the war. was undertaken. The murals have been mounted on removable panels so they may be transferred if necessary. _ —Star Staff Photo. Created to dispose of surplus agrl- 1, cultural products, the Federal Surplus ( Relief Corporation has done a little branching out. In this direction, its greatest j : achievement was that of spotting a I surplus building, engaging some sur plus unemployed, including a surplus , ] artist who could paint some surplus murals, and thus making itself a new home. The surplus space left when j the corporation moved out of the Walker-Johnson Building soon was filled up with surplus employes of the | Federal Emergency Relief Administra tion. The building in question is located | at Nineteenth and D streets. Built during the war, it carried on bravely for some 17 years as a "temporary" structure until last Summer it was officially designated as "surplus" and i listed for the long-delayed destruc tion. In practically no time, or sooner, the F. S. R. C. had rallied to its sup port. The District relief office re sponded to a call for help and sup plied 35 surplus unemployed workmen. Also, it supplied Elie Cheverlange, who had made known to relief officials that he had artistic ability which was In a i fair way of becoming surplus unless he could find employment for it. They asked Cheverlange if he would like to paint some murals and he con fessed to having some surplus ideas right then for a few murals, seven in fact. The result of it all has been im pressive. All the walls have been painted or calcimined, window cords and panes have been replaced, stairs repaired, some distinctly surplus rat holes and leaks in the roof have been stopped up. Outside some surplus grass seed has been sown and a lawn is expected j in the Spring. The problem then will | be to find a surplus man with a sur- ! plus lawn mower. And just inside the main entrance ; of the building are the seven murals ; born from Cheverlange's surplus ideas : and ability. In subject matter they ! range from farm and hunting scenes j to waterfront views, from apple or chards of the North to orange groves of the South, and from cotton planta tions of the South to barnyards or the North. So effective, in fact, were Chever lange's murals that they have been mounted on removable panels so they may be transferred to a new home In case the D street building again lapses into the "surplui" class and receives » new sentence of destruction. Undoubtedly some surplus wall space will turn up at that time, offl clAls of the corporation point out, and the murals can be saved for a poster ity that Is likely to be surplus Itself unless the brain truster· get things fixed pretty soon. Logan Discovers His Lecture Vain In Sunday School By the Associated Press. Senator Logan, Democrat, of Ken tucky, yesterday related an experi ence—not as legislator or judge—but as a Sunday school lecturer. "I mentioned to a friend on the train that I was about to miss Sun day school for the first time in many years," he said. "A priest overheard and said he was to visit a Sunday school at Lake Louise when the train laid over for a half-hour, and asked me to go with him. "It was a little Indian Sunday school, and when we arrived he told me to talk to them. I talked 15 min utes. When I finished, I said to & member of the Canadian mounted police there that maybe It wouldn't do much good, but perhaps they liked it." " Oh, that's all right,' he said. They didn't understand a word." FREE LECTURE j -ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE —BY— Paul A. Hartch, C. S. B. of Toledo, Ohio Member of the Board of Lecture ship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. In the National Theater Sunday, January 27 at 3:30 P.M. Under the Auspices of Second Church of Christ, Scientist No Collection All Welcome EYES EXAMINED EYESTRAIN HEADACHES POSITIVELY RELIEVED Special Τ hit Week KRYPTOK Invisible Bifocal Len.es. One pair to .90 see far and near. $12.00 value W OCTAGON RIMLESS Fine quality clear lenses. One pair to $£,$5 see far or near. Λ $13.50 value V USE OUR BUDGET PLAN Prescription* Filled at These Special Price» ρ Exclusive Optical Service and Satisfaction Cylindrical or Tinted Lenses Not Included · Prices Include Eye' Examination by Licensed Optometrist Est. 24 Y tare 0. C. HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF'Î8 DINES Eight Members Out of 51 Present at 57th An nual Gathering. The class of 1878 of the Washington High School held Its fifty-seventh an nual dinner last night at the Cosmos Club with eight members present. It marked another link in the class' un broken chain of yearly get-togethers. Presiding at the dinner was C. O. Bohrer, president of the class. Other members present were C. W. Holmes, secretary; J. B. Espey. J. Harry Jones. Frank B. Noyee, J. H. A. Fowler, A. E. Middleton and G. A. Prévost. Mr. Holmes, the class secretary, stated that about 20 members of the original class of 51 graduates are liv ing. Twelve are residents of Wash ington at the present time. Frank A. Sebring. class member and regular attendant at the dinners, was unable to be present due to Illness. A letter of greeting from A. J. Lamb, class member, now residing in Bir mingham, was read. PARTY HEAD TO SPEAK John P. Qulnn, national organizer of the Socialist Labor Party, will dis cuss labor problems in an address Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Musicians' Hall under auspices of the local section of the party. His subject will be "Strikes or the Lockout of the Capi talist Class." Since 1912 Qulnn has been active in Socialism as an advocate of indus trial unionism. In recent years he has been making studies of labor prob lems throughout the country. YALE NEWS' WEEK OF REFORM FRUITFUL, YOUNG EDITOR SAYS Progress Made in Transforming Paper From Institution to Newspaper, Bing ham Declares. Βτ the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., January 2β.— Tall, lean Jonathan B. Bingham. Yale '38, passed today to survey the results of- his attempt to change the Yale News, student dally publication, from an "Institution to a newspaper" and was sure he saw signs> of progress. The seventh and youngest son of former United States Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut pointed with satisfaction to several changes in the contente of the Yale News during the past week, his first as chairman of the 1936 board, and added "others will come soon." The 20-year-old youth's brown eyes sparkled as he spoke about the ideal paper he hoped to make the Yale News—about the ideal paper he had outlined In hie opening editorial. This editorial in which young Bingham wrote "we are tired of being stodgy, of being predictable, of being so oppresively respectable" was echoed and re-echoed everywhere that Yale men gather. "There is an opportunity at Yale for a good newspaper and ii I had my wish the entire board would make the News a full-time job," said Bing ham. "My ideal paper would be one that would make exciting reading, and by that I mean one that would contain scoops, new angles on activities in college not well known to every stu dent, news. It would contain things the other newspapers in the country do not get about Yale and it would lead the college opinidn and not re flect it. "The trouble in the past has been too much of a willingness to sit back and wait for the news. I'm not strlv- , lng so much for a change in policy as In aggressiveness.'* Bingham then listed some of the changes made thus far. "We have selected what we call a star reporter in Henry N. Barkhausen of Chicago, 111., who Is that in every sense of the word. He Is the man who has been given the task of writing all the im portant news. He is to go out and cover it himself or rewrite stories of importance turned over to him by other reporters and 'healers.' "Healers," Bingham explained, "are freshmen reporting for the first time. We have an excellent stall and beard that is only too willing to do more than fulfill their assignments and obligations." Aside from the editorials, the youth pointed with pride to an action pic ture of a basket ball game which ap peared in the Yale News the morning following a contest—a real "scoop." Mattresses Remade ^ The Stein Bedding Co. 1004 Eym St. N.W. ME. 9490 AMERICAN RADIATOR HOT-WATER HEATING SYSTEM As Low $ as 285 Completely Installed In 6 Rooms 5-Year Guarantee Payments Start April 1st THREE YEARS TO PAY At Slifht Additional Cost No Interference With Present Heating Plant While Installation Is Being Made. Free Estimates at Your Convenience ECONOMY HEATING CO. 906 10th St. N.W. MEtropolitan 2132 AU over the store you will find outstanding offerings not only pre inventory clearances but special purchases at unusual savings. Almost every section has interesting news. · · and there are many . items not advertised. Cold weather needs, including blankets, galoshes, rubbers, overcoats, and coats—all at special prices! STOCK-T. 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