Evening star. [volume], January 27, 1935, Page A-11, Image 11

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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."
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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."
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