Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1929, Page 14

L DIPLOMAT'S WIFE BRILLIANT ARTIST Senora Davila Finds Time Between Many Duties to Paint Still Life. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. Fulfilling the duties of a diplomat's wife graciously, while supervising the upbringing of two small daughters, is but part of a day's work for the charm- ing young wife of the Chilean Ambassa- dor, Senora Carlos Davila. For the senora is an accomplished artist, spe- cializing in still life siudies and using for her subjects groups and objects peculiar to her own country. Old terra cotta jars, so tremendous that they might have hidden Ali Baba and the 40 thieves; quaint cooking utensils of the Chilean peasants, and ancient mis- sals and crucifixes brought in Colonial days from far-away Spain are only a few of the interesting items utilized by Senora Davila in the arranging of her groups. “I Jove to paint subjects that are ancient or have an appearance of the mystic about them,” the senora said. “Sometimes I find a corner in a simple ranch home or it may be under a trellis in a patio garden where I see a group which attracts me.” Indicating the study of a table on which stood a candle, an old painting and a vase containing a single rose, the Ambassador's wife continued: “The picture in this group was a very old and beautiful painting of the Virgin which I fcund, just as you group represented. in the home of some poor country people. It must have baen very old and I was so attracted by the picture that I offered to buy it. But the owners, poor as they were, merely shook their heads in refusal, explain- ing that the painting was sacred and see the | l | | r i | THE . SUND/ ..STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, FEBRUARY 3, 1929—PART 1.’ ENVOY’S WIFE ACCOMPLISHED ARTIST SENORA CARLOS DAVILA, g Wife of the Chilean Ambassador, photographed in her studio.—Star Staff Photo. NEW SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATION posed to giving up the rights of block- ade, seizure and search—even though itican be demonstrated to_the satisfac- tion of ‘most laymen that Britain would gain more than lose thereby. But the activity by continental nations in build- ing just those types of ships, which are the "best for ~commerce _destruction, might conceivably at the same time lead the admiralty to reconsider its position and lead British diplomats to see the wisdom of at least attempting the task to limit the auxiliary navies of conti- nental as well as maritime powers. It is doubtful, to say the least, whether France and Italy would accept the in- vitation to a separate naval conference; but both are participating in the League’s disarmament work, which, as the continental building program in- crease, may acquire new significance. 5 (Copyright, 1520.) MEXICAN WORKERS SHOT AT BY IDLE AMERICANS By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., February 2.—The Spanish vernacular newspaper El Con- tinental says that 75 Mexican laborers working on a pipe-line construction project between Monohans and Wink, Tex., have been forced to leave under threats of death by a band of idle | Americans who objected to employment of the Mexicans while they were job- less. Reports to Deputy Sheriff Richard Lewis and Constable Earl West of Mon- ahans were that a warning was first pinned to the tents of Mexican laborers in the camp. ‘The warning read: “Every Mexicdn had better be gone be- fore late tonight or we will move them.” The laborers ignored the warning, and several hours later two volleys of shots were fired into the camp, at night, but no one was injured. Mark Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 2.—The day will arrive when giant seaplanes, or fly- ing boats, will carry as many as four or five hundred passengers, and the time will come when continuous flights in the air of two weeks, or even a month, may be realized, according to speakers who discussed “aviation and its fu- ture” today at the Saturday luncheon of the National Republican Club. Capt. Ira C. Eaker, pilot of the Ques- tion Mark, which recently established the endurance flight, said that it was quite within the range of human possibility for future planes to stay in the air for these long periods of time, In 13 months or 2 years, he declared, crossing the ocean in an airplane will not be uncommon. He said that the future of aviation was secure so long as the public remains as interested in it as the publicity it re- ceives now would indicate. The captain, who was the honor guest at the luncheon, described the feeling of the crew of the Question Mark dur- \GIANT SEAPLANES CARRYING SCORES OF PASSENGERS SEEN Continuous Flights in Air of Two Weeks Said to Be Possible by Question record for sustained | | | | | | Pilot. | ing the long flight. He compared it to the feeling one would have if he in- vited four of his friends to spend a week with him in a clothes closet, where | food was passed in through the roof and unmutfied motors roared continu- ously. Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan, president of the Colonial Airways System: Sen- ator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana and | W. Irving Glover, Assistant Postmaser | General, in charge of the air mail, all | spoke optimistically of the future of aviation. C. M. Keys, president of the | Curtis Aeroplane and Motor Co., Inc., | sounded a note of warning against over- | enthusiasm for aviation when he said that every oné is too excited about avia- |tion and that the real progress will come more slowly than people now think. All of the speakers referred to the necessity of airplanes for national de- fense. Senator Robinson declared that the next war would result in victory for the superior air force. Mr. Keys said there had never been an indusiry which has had so much publicity as aviation, nor one which has had so many statistics where statistics mean so little. The slowness of sound mechanical progress and realization of the limitations of the industry should | be taken into consideration, he ryp*ad out, in making predictions as to the Civil War Battle Recalled By Two Old Finger Rings Special Dispatch to_The Star. ‘WILLIAMSBURG, February 2. —Rev. L. Peyton Little, minister of the new Bethel Baptist Church of York County, has obtained two | | finger rings, made by a Con- | | federate soldier named Clopton, who was in a battle at the old Bethel Church, June 10, 1861. One ring was made from wood taken from the church structure, and the other is of white ala- baste taken from a candlestick in the old church. The wooden ring has a design of the church upon it, while the alabaster ring has in bold relief upon a square base a diamond-shaped figure. Rev. Mr. Little has been in- vestigating information concern- ing the place of burial of persons who fell in the battle. | future. He said that his company, and | most of the aeroplane manufacturers, were at present chiefly interested in the development of the airplane for com- mercial purposes. The commercial ex- pansion of the industry, he declared, was advancing more slowly than it or- dinarily would because of the demands | of the Government for military im- | provements, notably in the speed of | planes. The development of passenger | air lines was still to come, he said.| None of them now operating in this country made it pay, he believed. In Europe the passenger service was sub- sidized by the governments, he pointed out, but in this country progress in that direction would have to stand on its own. A ] NEW REVOLT IN SPAIN DECLARED SERIOUS | Chief of Police Goes by Airplane From Madrid, According to Telephone Report. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, February 3.-—Telephone advices from Madrid indicate a serious revolt has 2gain broken out in Spain. The commanding officer at Valencia is reported to have refused to obey orders and to have defied Primo de Rivera. The chief of police has left Madrid by airplane to check the revolt. The palace of King Alfonso is sur- rounded by loyal troops and police. Newspaper men have been barred from the vicinity. No confirmation of these reports has been received here from any other | sources. MADRID, February 3 (#).—The offi- cial newspaper today published a de- cree naming as inspector general of the third military district at Valencia Gen. Sanjurjo with extraordinary powers, GESiE 18 Die in Andes Snowstorm. BUENOS AIRES, February 2 (#).— A violent snowstorm which trapped a group of Argentine cowboys high in the Cordillera Range of the Andes Thurs- day resulted in the deaths of 16. Six others fought their way through the drifts - with word that their comrades had succumbed to the cold. —e To retain a patent, Austria by a new law requires that it be worked in the country by its holder within three years of granting. had great powers for good and they | would not part with it under any con- | sideration.” | Exhibited in Santiago. This study by the senora, charmingly executed.in oil, in interesting soft, tones, | was exhibited at the National Exposi- | tion of Santiago, where it was awarded the “third medaille.” Entitled “Devo- EVOLVED BY WASHINGTON MAN Lieut. Comdr. Joseph Y Dreisonstok Devises Com- pact Set of Tables. PIANO SALK tion on a Ranch,” the picture is a de- lightful glimpse of a corner in the home | of the simple, pious country people of | Chile. Another painting, “Corner of a | Sacristy,” might be a group from one of the old Spanish masters. A candle, a missal and a crucifix form the princi- pal objects in this interesting still life. Senora Davila's works are intensely Spanish in atmosphere and the ssnora tells you that among the old masters there are none whose works she ad- mires greater than the two famous Spaniards, Greco and Goya. Asked as to how she looked upon modernistic art, she replied that, as a general rule, she did not care for it. “But I must admit I like the paintings | and drawings of Picasso.” she said, “and | I think he is a great artist, although | many of his studies are decidedly ‘fu- | turistic.’ “You have studied, T presume, since you were & small child?” the senora was | asked. [ Has Interesting Studio. “No,” she replied, “I did not serious- 1y take up the study of painting until | several years after I was married. As a child I was educated at the Lycee for young girls, in Santiago. There, I merely had the drawing which every | child has in school. I graduated when | I was 16 years old, and then for several months, I amused myself by taking a few private lessons. But I never worked serlously until after T was married and after my two little girls were born. Then I took lessons from a very fa- mous Chilean professor, Pablo Bur- chard, with whom I studied for two| years. | “I had studied with him only about | one vear when I exhibited by first | painting at the annual National Ex- hl’bltwn, :};2:! 1 was awarded a pre- mium. T studying with Pablo Burchard, I continued my work at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, in Santiago. “If you will come with me,” said the senora, “I will show you my studio.” Leading the way to the third floor of the beautiful "Massachusetts avenue home, she conducted her visitor to a large, well lighted room, ideally ar- ranged for a studio and filled with all sorts of interesting, curios collected from various parts of the world. Little Time in Washington. Senora Davila sighed as she looked about the room. I should so much | like to be able to paint now, but I have very little time in Washington during the Winter. There are so many things I must do, duties to attend to, that 1 do not have time to do the work with my painting. And there are so many things which I should like to paint,” she continued, picking up an odd Af- rican Instrument, formed from the shell of a tortoise, which lay on a near-by table. “I found this in Africa, last Summer, when I was abroad with my family. I picked up 5o many odd things in ail the countries I visited, and hope to use them some day in my still life groups.” Many beautiful and interesting things from her own country have been gath- | ered by the Ambassador's wife in the | artistic studio. Native rugs. hand- odd bits of Indian and native tery; funny little brass bells on red cords, which tinkle the presence of donkeys or patient llamas in the crowd- ed places of picturesque Chile; all the many colorful bits of a colorful country are collected in the atelier of Senora Davila. s SEARCH FOR MISSING PARTY IS CONCLUDED One of Supposed Victims of Auto Accident Says Nome Was Drowned in Lake. By the Associated Press. COVINGTON, Ky., February 2.—Po- lice and firemen discontinued dragging & small lake near here today for bodies of victims of an automobile which skidded off a slippery highway and plunged through the lake ice when a telephone message was received from a ‘woman occupant of the automobile that no one was drowned. The automobile was raised by a wrecking car, but no bodies were lo- cated. Efforts to locate possible victims stopped when Mrs. Frances Brames told police that a woman occupant of the automobile whom she believed had been riding with her.husband, Frank Brames, from whom she is separated, telephoned that no one was drowned. RUM SUSPECT CAPTURED Following an exciting chase through the streets, streets southwest, Sergt. George M. Little and his liquor squad yesterday arrested Samuel Greenberg, 22 years old; who gave his address as Baltimore, and confiscated 364 quarts of alleged corn liquor which Greenberg is reported to have had in his car. Greenberg was taken to No. 6 precinct and charged with transportation and illegal posses- sion of liquor and reckless driving. Sergt. Little and his men first saw the car on Third street and decided to follow. Greenberg is alleged to have driven the automobile rapidly down Third street to C street and out C street to Sixth street and then down the latter thoroughfare to Sixth znd B streets southwest, where he was siopped after having run upon the curh, n;ccr%g w e o ending at Sixth and B| Method, Used by Navy in Panama Maneuvers, Is Highly Lauded. A Washingtonian, Lieut Comds. Joseph Y. Driesonstok, U. S. N., of 1616 Six- teenth street, has evolved a new and simplified method of solving naviga- tional problems, whereby with a pocket- sized set of tables, necessary charts, a nautical almanac, a sextant and a watch, a navigator can take a battle- ship, an airplanc or a lifeboat under every condition on its course. new navigational tables, officially desig- nated as “H. O. 208,” will be ready for public distribution by the Hydrographic Office of the Navy about the middle of the month. Comdr. Dreisonstok is ngw commanding the U. S . S. Lardner. Already, the Navy Department an- nounced yesterday, the new system has been put to the test, for vessels of the United .States fleet were supplied with copies for the maneuvers in the Gulf of Panama and the department “is daily receiving complimentary comments from the fleet.” Prepares Tables for Byrd. ‘The new tables are proving very popu- lar and bid fair to replace other navi- gational books now in use, the depart- ment said. The hydrographer of the Navy, Capt. C. S. Kempff, U. S. N. has had prepared for the special use of Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, U. S. N,, tables for latitudes 66 to 90 degrees and these will be mailed to Dunedin, New Zealand, to be forwarded to the Byrd Antarctic expedition base in the Bay of Wales. “With the extension of the tables, a navigator can pilot his ship or plane from the Equator to the Poles,” the De- partment asserted. The tables for the “Use of Mariners and Aviators” were made, and the method and formulae deduced by Comdr. Dreisonstok while a member of the naval examining board. He was later attached to the division of nautical re- search of the Hydrographic Office and there he completed the calculations and placed them in the present form. Comdr. F. J. Roberts, U. 8. N, and G. W. Lit- tlehales of the Hyvdrographic Office, as- sisted Comdr. Dreisonstok with valuable suggestions and criticisms in the prep- aration of the tables. Explaining this important new navi- gational method, the Navy Department said: “This method of solving naviga- tional problems can be applied withcut variation to all problems regardless of the position of the heavenly body, be it sun, moon, planet or star. It requires few figures and gives a quick solution for determining line of position, cor- pass error, meridian altitude, Grc Circle course and distance, and iden fication of urknown stars. The accura of the Azimuth data fully justifies i.. use in obtaining compass error. The same simple formula is used for each problem. “The precision is within 0.1 of a mile. Table Made Compact. “To facilitate the use of this table, it has been made small enough to fit into a side coat pocket. The book contains: about 84 pages, 17 of which are devoted to an explanation of the construction and use of the tables. Seventeen prob- lems which cover all possible applica- tions are computed in the book. “The equipment of a navigator using this method need only include H. O. 208, a nautical almanac, a sextant and a. watch. With these articles and the necessary charts, he can navigate battleship, airplane or lifeboat under every condition.” Comdr. Dreisonstok was born in ‘Washington on July 4, 1889, and was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1908, being graduated in 1912. Seooiagh o VILLAGES TERRIFIED " BY WOLF INVASIONS Two Children Reported Snatched From Cradles and Devoured. Adults Also Attacked. By the Associated Press. SAREJEVO, Jugoslavia, February 2.— Hunger-maddened wolves are reported to be invading towns and terrifying the populations of various villages on the snow-covered mountain sides in this region. Huge snowfalls have marooned many cottages, adding to the horror. Advices from the town of Bihatch in lBusnh state that two children were | snatched from their cradles by wolves and devoured. Cases even have been reported of wolves entering homes and attacking adults. Rumsanians Terrified. BUCHAREST, Rumania, February 2 (#).—Packs of starving woives have in- vaded villages in Moldavia searching for food. The inhabitants of the district are terrified. The most severe cold wave, coupled with unusually heavy snowfalls, has not only driven the wolves out of their regular habitats, but has also played Here in havoc with communications. ' Bucharest tr have befigfiflg 5 19 ‘These | LT. COMDR. J.- Y. DREISONSTOK. NAVAL PLANS HELD DISARMAMENT BAR Moves for Limitation Seen as | Dependent Upon Powers’ Ambitions. BY HAROLD E. SCARBOROUGH. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, February 2.—During and after the Geneva naval conference of 1927, ‘European opinion generally tend- ed to regard naval rivalry as a question | | primarily concerning the United States, Britain and Japan. But gradually dur- ing the past year, and particularly within the past few months, Continental | nations seem to have been discovering that in the words of one diplomat “if they can’t fight on the high seas they still can fight on the narrow ones.” The result is that today any conference looking to the limitation of naval aux- iliaries would be ineffective unless the naval ambitions of France, Germany and Italy were taken into account. It is true that Germany's neersats preussen, “vest pocket battleship,” ex- ists as yet only on paper, The British ! view the new German venture quite almly. In the first place, there is no articular justification for assuming .at in any future European war Ger- | many and Britain would be on opposite | sides. In the second place, this coun- try possesses a number of ships, any one of which conld make short work of a German cruiser. The French, however, take more tragically Germany's re-entry into the Baltic as a naval power, and although French official ‘sources have denied that they were allocating any of their Wash- ington treaty capital ship tonnage to ships just sufficiently more powerful than the German to render her’s useless certain British newspapers continue to insist that the French naval staff is toying with the idea. However, as to the reality of naval rivalry in the Mediterranean there are no available statistics which speak for themselves. Tonnage Tables Printed. ‘The naval correspondent of the Daily Telegraph prints tables showing that since 1920 France has built and author- ized 164 new warships of a total ton- nage of 277,400; Italy, 89, of a tonnage of 192,000. He moreover points out that on January 16'a rapporteur of French navy estimates, in demanding 16 war- ships and 2 auxiliaries, declared their construction essential, “partly in_order that France may keep pace with Italy.” On January 25 the Italian govern- ment sanctioned the speeding up of the building program to include 13 ships this year. Since 1920 both France and Italy ; have built or sanctioned six 10,000-ton cruisers; the French navy maintains submarine superiority, while the Italian navy is stronger in destroy- ers and flotilla leaders, which in size and performance approach small cruis- ers. It is perhaps due to the realiza- | tion of the havoc the French and | Italian navies would wreak upon the British . Mediterranean and Atlantic trade, as well as to the gradual per- ception of this country that even with the 15 projected 10,000-ton cruisers the American Navy would not be superior to the British, that the tendency has almost entirely disappeared for the British press to refer slightingly to the unjustified American naval expansion. Combined Force Seen as Peace Clasp. ‘The British press—particularly its Lib- eral section—Ilong since admitted frank- ly that if the United States and Britain were to conclude a pact guaranteeing the freedom of the seas, the best guar- antee therof would be the combined force the two navies could oppose to | the covenant-breaking nation or na- | tions. Thus 15 new American cruisers, | if not yet exactly welcomed, have cer- ONE DAY Monday ONLY EVERY TYPL of Piano Included A Sacrifice Sale of Necessity Our building is literally jammed with used Pianos of all styles, makes and condition. 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