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CORCORAN EXHIBIT SOLDTONEW YORK Metropolitan Museum of Art Purchases “Wings of the Morning.” ‘The Corcoran Gallery of Art today received notification of the purchase by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, of Henry E. Mattson's painting, “Wings of the Morning,” one of the outstanding works in the Fif- teenth Biennial Exhibition of Con- temporary American Oil Paintings, which opened at the gallery yester- day. C. Powell Minnigerode, director of the gallery, was advised of the pur- chase by Frank K. M. Rehn, Inc., the New York gallery which was the sales agency. A “sold” sign was placed under the painting at the request of the agency. The Mattson painting is a dra- matic seascape, showing the sea breaking over rocks. It is one of the larger canvases in the exhibition. Mattson, who also has a self-por- trait in the show, is nationally prom- inent in American art circles. At | the Corcoran Biennial two years ago | he was awarded the W. A. Clark third | prize of $1,000 and the Corcoran bronze medal for another seascape, | *“The Beacon,” showing a stormy sea and a lighthouse. Sales of paintings in the biennial ghows are encouraged by the Corcoran Art Gallery, which charges no com- mission for any services rendered. Exhibitors have netted thousands of dollars from past exhibitions. The show will be open to the public through May 9. Director Mmmgemde announced that 52 of the exhibiting artists at- tended the preview of the show Satur- day night, when a total of 3,167 per- sons saw the array of pictures. More than 3,000 persons visited the exhibi- tion yesterday. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and con- tinued cold tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 32 degrees; fresh northwest and north winds, diminishing late tonight. River Report. Potomac River cloudy and Shenan- doah clear today. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature, Barometer. Baturday— Inchy 4 pm spm Midnight Record for Last 21 Hours. 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The truck on the crest of the hill is speeding forward too far to the left; the car heading to the right also is out of line, while the car in the immediate fore- ground, correctly driven, almost surely will be caught in the smash-up—an “innocent bystander” The picture is one of more than 400 chosen by a distinguished jury of artists jor inclusion in —Star Staff Photo. 'Communist Charge Is Spurned By Anti-“Sit-Down” Elements (This is the second of a series Obviously it is impossible to read vantage, and that of the great middle | group, whose heads are in a whirl over | it all. With the two first mentioned, of course, there is no argument. “Labor is inert,” said an official of one automobile manufacturing con- cern. “It creates nothing of itself. It exists only because of the ingenuity of management and the investment of capital in creating jobs.” This man naturally regards sit- down strikers, or any other kind of strikers, as ungrateful rascals. | “Criminals, plunderers, inhuman | scoundrels” are frequent terms in the | literature of the strikers themselves. | | They create the wealth which the automobile magnate squanders “at | Palm Beach buying chsmpagne at $1,000 a case.” When police make any move against a striking orgsmim- tion they are “thugs and criminals.” The really vital factor in the whole situation is the man or woman whose | “head is in a whirl.” If the person is | | an employe or prospective employe of | an automobile concern there is a natu- | ral fear to say anything. True or not, the general impression prevajls that there are spies everywhere, and for This widespread suspicion is one of the worst by-products of the whole situation. There is the impres- | sion that nobody is quite to be trusted. | Sit-down Least Uncomfortable. Another widespread idea is that| it there must be strikes the sit-down strike is probably the least uncom- fortable for the innocent bystander, for there is a singular lack of violence discernible on the outside. There is no dodging of bullets or police clubs. That has won the strikers a good deal of public sympathy. About the last place one could ex- pect much favorable sentiment to- ward Jabor is among a group of bank officials. Yet a report from a meet- ing of bank credit men was that it was the almost unanimous opinion that the wise course was followed in making no attempt to evict the strik- ers from the Chrysler plants by force. Not that the credit men believed 1 the cause of the U. A. W. A, but they dreaded the effects of & pitched battle on public sentiment. There is fre- quent mention of the “mistake” of ex-President Hoover in dealing with the bonus marchers. Detroit apparently doesn’t want martyrs. That is one of the union’s trump cards. It is also notable how carefully everybody refrains from dragging out the red flag. Even representatives of the manufacturers themselves stress that there is no “red”—meaning in- ternational communistic—elements in the strike. Last week there was a mass meeting of auto workers attended by approximately 50,000. It was sup- posedly a gesture toward a general strike if jnegotiations between Gov. Murphy, Walter P. Chrysler and John L. Lewis failed. The Detriot news- papers stressed the orderliness and “The Family Lumber Yard” is always prepared to deliver choice, seasoned lumber—with no extra charge for cutting to required sizes. No order too large or too small. Always Free Delivery Get our free estimates on Mill- work, made in our wood-work- ing shop from your pattern. Buy now and save money. Lumber and Millwork divers elements in its population which make up American life. major trends of thought are discernible—that of dyed-in-the-wool conserva- tives, to whom any labor movement is loathsome; that of organized labor itself, which is eager to seize any ad-< Don't waste ‘“insurance money.” ~ Cali DEAL, ¥ith 25 years' exver! Lin- 1 coln 2121 Ga. Ave. NOrth 1341 Even Manufacturers’ Representatives Stress Absence of “Red” Character- istics in Detroit Strike Situation. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Btaff Correspondent ot The Star. of articles on the sit-down strike.) DETROIT, March 29.—What does Detroit, hub of the so-called Michigan revolution, think of the sit-down strike? the mind of a big city, with all the But three thoroughly American way in which | the demonstration was conducted. The police had nothing to do except direct traffic. The strikers themselves make much of their “Americanism.” When they evacuate a plant they march out behind the American flag with & band playing patriotic airs. It is a little bit reminiscent of the rampant “Americanism” of bonus marchers. Terrorism Charged. The business group claims that everything isn't so rosy behind the scenes. Men are terrorized into join- ing the union, they say. One method described is that of the “paint bomb"— & wiskey bottle filled with red paint, which is hurled through the window of a recalitrant worker. It is a quick way to ruin a living room or bed room. One who holds out, they say, is likely to have some remarkably narrow es- capes from serious accidents. The union men deny these charges and hurl them back at the companies. They assert that men are coerced by all sorts of means against joining the union and that in their scheme of things an unwilling member is a serious handicap. He can't be de- pended upon to “go through.” Why | should they seek recruits who will go back on them at the first opportunity? The newspapers are filled with “letters to the editors.”” They appear without signatures. Many are from wives of non-union men who are out of work because of the activities of the union. Naturally they are very bitter. Interspersed among them are fewer letters upholding the cause of the strikers. Union officers claim that these letters represent only a small number of those received favor- able to their side. But few would seriously contend anyway that “let- ters to the editor” are a fair index of public opinion. This brings us back to the fellows whose “heads are in a whirl"—a f. /- orite expression. They lean one way and another. They see something unbelievable happening— perhaps the whole social order changing under their eyes. They don’t know what to do about it. They can't picture their own place in the new order, if it comes. Lean Towards Labor. Sentimentally perhaps most of them lean towards labor. They themselves, for the most part, work for a living. Always the man who earns his bread | by the sweat of his brow appeals to | the highly sentimental middle-class American—and the union makes much of this both in practice and in its somewhat cynical instructions for strike organization. On the other hand these fellows with their heads in a whirl see law and order, the ancient bulwark of their own liberties, apparently suc- cessfully defied—at least in the letter. They have few vested interests to protect. But somehow or other it seems all wrong—or maybe this is a | new age which they don't understand, & sort of Alice in Wonderland time | when what was all wrong is now all right. This, of course, is far from reading the mind of Detroit. There are so | many shades of opinion among this | great group that it would be impos- sible even to attempt to classify them. 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Congress, putting aside three months of comparative inactivity, was prepared to busy itself this week with major legislation, including crop insurance and the Guffey-Vinson coal measure. Those items were on the Senate’s program of debate this week. The House had legislative and District appropriation bills before it. Speaker Bankhead, contemplating Congress business up to now, said: “I don't know exactly why things are so dull, but it appears that emer- gency conditions are decreasing and Congress wants to be more deliber- ative, particularly since some of the measures hurriedly enacted were in- validated by the Supreme Court. “Greater deliberation, I believe, is & good thing.” None of the regular appropriation bills has been enacted. Three have passed both Senate and House, but differences between the bills of the two branches must be composed in conference. Court Bill Occupies Attention. Except for interludes when its Ratl- road and Civil Liberties Investigating Committees have held hearings, the Senate has devoted major attention to the President’s court proposal, now in hearing before the Judiciary Com- mittee. The House awaits Senate action on the court bill before it steps into the controversy. The House Agriculture Committee, one of the more active in that branch, has fallen into a virtual deadlock on legislation to aid farm tenants. A Senate Agriculture Subcommittee will start hearings this week on the same subject. Labor legislation marks time, pend- ing enunciation of presidential views on regulation of hours and wages, and a Supreme Court ruling on the Wag- ner labor law. ZHERE TO SHARE IN FELLOWSHIPS Father Strittmatter and Prof. Brown Gain Gug- genheim Awards. 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