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chairman of the party's State conven-
ton at Peoria next Friday.
Observers envisioned little change in
the political situation as a result of
the death of the former Governor. Ed
ward F. Moore, Cook County Repub-
lican chairman, said Small had
planned to back Brooks in the Fall
campaign.
Small served two terms as State
treasurer. He was tried and acquitted
on charges of withholding approxi-
mately 81 100000 in accrued interest
on State funds. He lost subsequent
civil suit and paid the State $3.50, 900 in
settlement.
Although Len Small achieved sue
cess as a farmer. banker. publisher
| and business man, his activities in
those lines were overshadowed by his
political career.
Mr.. Small rose to a position of
prominence in the State, and as head
of the State Republican organization
after establishing himself as a man
of affairs in his home town, Kanka-
kee. There he developed one of the
largest and most prosperous farms in
the State: organized and became presi-
| dent of a bank; published newspaper
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PARTY CH|EFSPAY
TRIBUTE TO SMALL
Former "Hard Roads Cover
nor" of Illinois Dies Sud-
denly at 73.
BY the Associated Press.


KANKAKEE, ILL.,, May 18.-Leaders
of both major parties today expressed
regreat at the sudden death of former
Gov. Len Small, power in Illinois
Republican ranks since the turn of the
century.
Small, 73, who earned the sobriquet
"the hard roads Governor" because
1000 miles of highways were con-
structed during his two terms as chief
executive. died unexpectedly yesterday
at st. Marys Hospital from embolism.
He apparently had made substantial
progress toward complete recovery
from minor operation performed last
week when the blood clot ended his
life as he conversed with his sons,
Leslie and Budd.
Democratic Gov Henry Horner Or
dered flags at half staff on all State
buildings today while he joined Re
publican chieftains in expressions OF
tribute.
Small's crowded career as farmer,
banker. publisher and business man
reached its peak when he became the
dominant leader of his party in Illinois
He was first elected Governor in 1920
with Mayor William Hale Thompson
Of Chicago as one Of his strong sup
porters.- For several ensuing years
they were political enemies but Thomp-
son again placed his powerful metro
politan organization behind Small anc
he was reelected in 1924.
Small sought the governorsh'p five
times. In last months primary he rar
second in a field of seven contenders
Eschewing stumping campaign anc
relying on his large personal following
he polled 268,983 votes to 596,445 fol
c. Wayland Brooks of Chicago.
His party standing was attested latel
by action Of Republican leaders who
agreed upon Small's close adviser
Werner w. Schroeder, as permanent
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ILLNESS IS FATAL
TO COMDR. O'CONNOR
Funeral Services Will Be Held
Tomorrow in Arlington
Chanel.

Lieut.. Comdr. William Henry O'Con.
nor, As, Medical Corps, U. 8. N. re
tired, died Saturday in Naval Hos
pital after a long illness.
Comdr. O'Connor was retired some
five years ago for disability. His last
post was at the naval dispensary here.
He was native Of Boston and grad
uate of Tufts College. After his re-
tirement, he lived at several different
places and came here about 10 days
ago to enter the hospital.
Catholic funeral services will be held
at $50 am. tomorrow In Arlington
Chapel. Burial, with military honors.
will be in Arlington National Cemetery.
Comdr. O'Connor leaves his widow,
Mrs. Virginia Agnes O'Connor.
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Evening star., 1936-05-18
Age Weakens Hearing.

In general, the sensitiveness to
high-pitched sounds weakens with
age; 1t Is quite usual to find that old
people cannot hear the shrtll squeak
Of a bat.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
Lipstick Causes Divorce.

Claiming his wife used too much
lipstick, which gave her too large q
mouth.ra man in Paris has sued for
divorce.
Evening star., 1936-03-14

so well known. His book makes
thoughtful reading. You might send
your Congressman copy.
GUINEA PIGS NO MORE. BY ]. B.
Matthews. New York: Covici
Friede.
THAT ignoble wretched known as
the consumer" has lately been
the object of much solicitude among
our writer's. Not long ago a book
called American Chamber of Hor-
rors" was reviewed in these columns;
it had as its object the exposing Of
the dangers to health involved In the
sale Of many common products. To-
day we have what might be a COM
panion volume to that. In Guinea
Pigs No More" there is an expose. not
so much of poisons and adulterations
as Of merchandising rackets, whereby
the meek consumer is cheated and
usually-delighted by the process.
Seventy-five rackets are duly set
down in the pages of Mr.. Matthews
book. They are all undoubtedly used
widely and commonly. It ought to
open the eyes of the poor souls who
are thus victimized to read how easily
they are taken. However. as none of
these devices is in itself complicated
or hard to detect, it would hardly seem
that any one so dull as to be unaware
Evening star., 1936-03-14
FALLADA REPEATS SUCCESS
Author of Little Man, What Now" Produces Story of Soil
and Its Hold on CharacterThe Baroness Another Trans
lation-Last of Trio Is Animal Story-Other Books.

planning for each industry q program
Of expansion and entering into con-
tracts with each concern that agrees
to cooperate. These contracts are.
for benefit payments, to be made
when proof Of cooperation is given,
and the object Of the payments is TO
insure the cooperating firms that
non co-operators cannot undersell
them. Labor conditions and wages
will be set down in the contract.
The book works it all out in con-
siderable detail, even to offering an
abstract Of an industrial adjustment
act" in which the proposed machinery
is set up. The only question which
occurs to the reviewer Is this-that If
the N. r. A., which was based on
voluntary cooperation, and which
was Of much lesser comprehensiveness,
failed to earn that cooperation, Is it
likely that a tremendous scheme in
volving, ideally at least, the total in
dustry Of the country. would do bet
ter?
However, here it is, duly worked out.
It seems to be this weeks outstanding
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suggestion for Utopia. Last week. II
Townsend plan. And next week it
will be something else. Our writer's,
at least, are thinking of the country's
good. Reviewers can attest to it.
WHY KEEP THEM ALIVE? BY Paul
de Kruif New York: Harcourt
Brace and Company.
pAUL DE KRUIF, who has in the
past set down so brilliantly the
struggles Of scientists agains' death,
here writes a dramatically angry book
to demand that the discoveries of
these wise men be made available to
every one, and especially to children.
He describes the widespread suffering
among the young, not only in city
slums but, less known, in the country
too. where, as he says, even on dairy
farms the poverty Of the parents under
the present economic system compels
them to sell all their milk and con-
denim their own offspring to go hun
CRY and ill-nourished. Yet, he says,
the materials and the knowledge
needed to give abundant life to every
body are here. They are not applied
or commonly available, because they
are so expensive that only the rich
can have them.
This condition Is not new in history.
It has obviously been q phenomenon
of human society from its earliest be-
ginnings, when the accumulation of
materials and knowledge was much
smaller but was still no less a monop-
oily. However, de Kruif writes with
the wrath Of discoverer a. closes
each of his chapters with a call to the
people to rise and demand the things
they need, or, for that matter, to take
them. For that is what they will do.
he says, when they understand how
abundantly these things exist for the
few, while their own children die for
the lack of the price of them.
He Is especially angry over the doc
trine Of putting premium on scarcity,
which he calls "the folly Of trying to
prop up an unjust price system, an
unavoidable profit system, by bringing
about greater scarcity, so that farm
ers will get higher prices for the food
that the city people-on account Of
those higher prices-will be less and
less able TO buy"
He closes with q chapter descriptive
of the first months of the life Of the
Dionne babies, whose chance to re-
main alive was one in million, and
who survived In the face Of such odds
because the materials and knowledge
OF science were made available to
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sounds all right, but it has not, one
feels. quite overthrcwn the ancient
truth propounded by Barnum.
American Chamber of Horrors"
incidentally. has become best seller.
One feels that this book may follow
in its footsteps. The consumer evi-
IDENTIFY enjoys such reading. Maybe
he is filled with envy at the clever
ness Of the rascalS.
IN DUBIOUS BATTLE. BY John
Steinbeck. New York: Covici
Friede.
THIS is a novel Of striking laborers.
It contains some dramatic mo-
ments-as for example the last para
graph, where the dead strike leader.
his face shot away, is put up on the
platform and the substitute speaker
begins his address as follows: This
guy didn't want nothing for himself
-" . Comrades! He didn't want Moth
ing for himself" with which the
astute writer brings his book to an
end. But for the most part it is Just
a novel about striking laborers, preor-
dained and dull. One hopes that such
works may accomplish something to
correct the wrongs they celebrate.
They do very little, certainly, for the
American novel.
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By NJ. G.. r.
Non.Fiction.

~HE REAL BILLY THE KID.
BY Miguel Antonio Otero. New
York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson,
Il Inc. A history Of the famous
outlaw by q former Governor Of New
Mexico, based on facts and shorn Of
rumors. Interesting and readable.
Jessie Benton Fremont, a Woman
Who Made History. BY Catherine
Comm Phillips. San Francisco: Printed
by John Henry Nash. Conventional
biography Of the wife Of Gen. John
Charles Fremont. Comprehensive.
Deficits ana Depressions.- BY Dan
Throop Smith. New York: John Wiley
q Sons. Study Of Treasury opera
tions and banking problems in these
times and the hopeful future. Not to
be read for fun.
i'm the United States. BY Paul Bake
well. jr. New York: The Macmillan
Co. Exactly-past and present facts
about money In the United States.
The author is an eminent lawyer.
, Aerial Odyssey. BY e. Alexander
Powell. New York: The Macmillan
Gu. Around the Caribbean Sea by air.
Routine travel chatter. Fairly lively.
Tho South American Handbook.
1885 Edition. London: Trade 81 Travel
Publications, Ltd. just what it calls
itself. Also includes Central America,
Cuba, Mexico and the West Indies.
Year Book and Almanac Of the
Holy Land. Edited by A. p. Anthony.
Chicago: Holy Land Almanac, Inc.
Profusely Illustrated volume Of infor-
nation about travel In Palestine.
The Diplomatic History of Georgia.
By John Tate Lanning. Chapel Hill:
University Of North Carolina Press.
Companion volume to Spanish Mis-
Evening star., 1936-03-14
Brief Reviews of Books on Various Topics
FICTION.

FICTION.
The Man Of the Storm. BY Ethel
Hueston. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill
90. Historical romance about the
man who discovered the Yellowstone.
Romantic, indeed.
This Was Life. BY James Weber
Linn. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill
Co. Serious novel about Chicago (more
particularly the university Of the sos.
Literate.
The Aconite Murders. BY Sidney
williams. New York: Dodd Mead 81
Co. Murder by poison in Philadelphia
during the Mummers' parade. Solved
by Jabez Twombley. the "stolid county
detective" who collects postage
stamps.
Murder in Hollywood. BY Cromwell
Gibbons. New York: David Kemp 81
Co. Murder of q motion picture di-
rector In the library Of his Beverly
Hills mansion. Solved by 'the cele-
brated criminologist" Huxford-and
written by Universal scenario writer.
4ne Daue DVVks oJ &sdSaAtCA nAnShs
New York: John II. Hopkins g. Son.
Advertised as an absorbing tale Of
romance-mystery-love."
LoyabIe. BY Mary Raymond. New
York: John II. Hopkins & Son. Look
at the title.
JUVENILES.
Mountain Neighbors. By Edith M.
Patch and Carroll Lane Fenton. New
York: The Macmillan Co. A collection
Of excellent nature stories on the
fauna of the Rockies.
The Magic Makers and the Golden
Charm. BY Margaret Sutton, with
pictures by Pelagie Doane. New York:
Grosset g. Dunlap. Fairy tale Of q
little boy who went to tls wonderful
land Of Halo. PLEASANT, -.
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tian colony there was visited by Morse
voyagers. Ancient maps picturing a
so-called Island of -3razil"-Brazil is
an old Irish family name-are so &C.
curate that they hardly could have
been pure products of the Imagination
Perhaps the most exhaustive analysis
of the evidence is that of DR.. Joseph
Dunn. former professor of Celtic at
the Catholic University of America
here, and one of the most competent
scholars in the world to eyaluate the
ancient Irish sea sages and the well-
known voyages of st. Brendan.
This st. Brendan-St. Brenainn. the
Navigator, of the ancient Celtic liter
ature-was fifth century Irish Co
lumbuS. Such a man actually lived.
He appears to have been the boldest
Of the Irish missionaries, who wan
dered over the known world, teaching
and preaching, and who were tbs
chief agents in converting Northern
Europe to Christianity.
It now can be fairly well established,
DR.. Dunn holds. that he visited the
Canaries and probably the Madeira
Islands. He then undertook a second
voyage, upon which, there is some
reason to believe, either he or some
other man who has been confused
with him landed on the coast Of Nova
Scotia. Throughout the Middle Ages
various accounts of the voyages OF
Brenainn were among the most popu-
lar literature throughout Western Eu-
rope. Largely apocryphal in the first
place, they were greatly enlarged upon
by the various authors who expanded
and versified them.
ONE of these accounts tells how the
" saint and his companions set sail
for an
isle beyond the sea,
Where wild winds ne'er held revelry.
But fulfilled are the balmy skies
With spicy gales from Paradise;
These gales that vaft the scent OF
flowers
That fade not, and the sunny hours
Speed on. nor night nor shadow
know"
The existence Of this isle had been
revealed to Brenainn by an angel. He
and his companions sailed westward
is days from Ireland. Then they were
caught in doldrums and drifted for 9
month, until their boat struck rocky
island. From this they journeyed fol-
six months through sea that resem.
bled q marsh.
They journey on to where the ses
sleeps and cold runs through thei
Evening star., 1936-03-14

City Government. BY Daniel w.
Hoan. New York: Harcourt Brace e.
Co. Story of the experiment in mu-
nicipal management which produced
the present Milwaukee by the man
who has been mayor of that city for
the past 20 years.
Man and the Motor Car. Edited by
Albert w. Whitney. New York: Ma
tional Bureau of Casualty d Surety
Underwriters. Practical and valuable
handbook for drivers. Interesting to
any one concerned about safety in
traffic.
The individual Against Moloch. By
Benjamin DeCasseres. New York:
Blackstone Publishers. Exactly-by
BENJAMIN leCasseres.
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sions of Georgia" Covers last years
of Spanish possession and diplomatic
struggles between Spain, France and
England to acquire ownership. Schol-
ariy and interesting.
The True Physician. By Wingate
NJ. johnson. MD. New York: The
Macmillan Co. Advice to young doc
tors on conduct during the first years
of practice by a doctor somewhat
older. Founded on lecture given at
Duke University.
Gardens and Gardening. Edited by
+. A. Mercer. London: Studio Publ
cations, Inc. Fifth annual issue. Beau-
TRULY illustrated and certain to be
useful to any one working on the
subject.
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them. When children so handicapped
at birth can so be saved, what might
be done for the normal ones, who still
die from the poverty of their parents,
he demands?
They are not new ideas, Of course.
They might occur to anybody. But
they are put down here with Mr.. de
Kruif's familiar skill and backed by
an impressive and shocking array of
facts, facts which are probably not
Evening star., 1936-03-14
By Thomas r. Henry.

1<HERE Is q growing Dooy OF clr-
cumstantial evidence that the
Irish discovered and colonized
\ North America some time In
the fifth or sixth century.
They not only preceded Columbus
to the shores Of the Western World by
about eight centuries, but they were
at least four centuries ahead Of Left
the Lucky.
This belief, revived every st. Pat
rick's day and usually dismissed lightly
as a pure legend, now is gaining more
and more credence among geogra-
pliers. It's latest proponent is the
Canadian explorer. Stefansson. When
the evidence is subjected to scientific
and linguistic analysis, its probability
becomes very high. 1t seems, in fact,
that it would have been almost a
miracle If Irish voyagers hadn't landed
on the Canadian shore.
There was, almost certainly, cen
turies before the fall of Rome, knowl-
edge in Western Europe of an Irland
it Mikla, or Great Ireland, which lay
across the Atlantic. A white. Chris
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Of them from practice would be much
enlightened by reading of them in
print.
Following this expose, Mr.. Matthews
does what all writer's of non-fiction
do today and affixes his plan" BY
this plan, says he, consumers can es-
cape being cheated Obviously. they
could escape it at any moment, if they
truly wished to do so. The plan"
Evening star., 1936-08-06
Elephant Remembers Tree.

Age has not dimmed the memory Of
Alice, one of the best known OF cir
Gus elephants. While she was being
transported with two elephants of
circus on a railway train between Ia
ronga and Waini, in New Zealand, she
came to a spot she knew well. Two
years ago she had reached out with
her trunk and grabbed tree leaning
toward the rails. The tree refused to
give, and the car left the rails. Re-
Gently as the train rolled past the spot
Alice remembered. Inciting her two
companions to help, she again thrust
forward her trunk. seized tree trunk,
and two cars were derailed.
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called letter opposite
Spring.
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I. Cicatrix.
2. Robust.
8. Disappeared.
4. Abandoned ship.
5. Annul.
8. Eat away.
Z. Prong.
8. Grass plant.
9. Noisy
10. Servants costume.
II. Motionless.
II. Boundary.
13. Liberated.
10. Bar for charging muzzle- leaders.
81. Celebration.
"a. Undersurfaces of shoes.
25. Feminine name.
26. Require.
27 Chopped.
20. Book of the Old Testament.
80. Tourist.
81. Monster.
80. Troubles.
"a. Written challenge.
IS. Lengthen.
81. Exterior
38. Broad smile.
80. Teamster.
40. Midgets.
Al. Rants.
AZ. Turn outward.
43. Category.
A. Animals trail.
46. Portico.
Al. Pertaining to the dawn.
48. Withered.
so. Part of a circle.
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Across.
/. Molt.
S. Prohibit.
g. Precipice.
IA. Cavern.
Is. Melody.
16. Ocean vessel.
II. Winged.
18. Infringe.
20. Deserter.
%. Punish.
%. Overjoyed.
"a. Ached.
25. Put in storage.
27. Hard.
.2e. Birthplace of Mahomet.
% Serf.
80. Drag.
80. Collide.
s34. Intimidated.
,S5 Therefore: Latin.
Sc. Attach.
81 Fertile desert spots.
fs8. Fierce look.
80. Remedied.
10. Herds.
Al. Meeting for boat races.
A. Pigs.
As. Disinclined.
46 Sequins.
49. Airing device.
81. Drug yielding plant.
g. Strayed.
63. Housetop.
81. Rend.
IS. Cubic meter.
Sc. Vehicles.
81. Sea eagle.
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Younger Set to Act
AS Mattresses During
Capital Horse Show

MRS. GEORGE WALKER has been
named chairman of the commit
tee Of mattresses, who will serve in the
Junior League cafeteria during the
National Capital Horse Show opening
today.
Her aides include Mrs. Charles
Darlington, Miss Yolande de Mauduit,
Mrs. William Laird Dunlop. Sd; Miss
Eleanor Flood, Mrs. Richard Jewett,
Mrs. William Legg. Mrs. Daniel Long,
Miss Isabel Ogilby, Miss Anne Ster-
rett, Miss Mary Wells, Miss Ordway
Whitford, Miss Priscilla Watson, Miss
Elizabeth Lyster. Miss Jriscilla Parker.
Also Miss Dorothy Tirrell. Miss
Nancy Lesh. Miss Louise Alexander,
Mrs. Gerald Linke, Miss Dorothy
Dodge, Miss Emily Davis, Miss Miriam
Scott, Mrs. Richard White Miller.
Mrs. Francis Foy. Mrs. Pilson War;
ren. Miss Inder Tucker London, Miss
Ruth Sewers, Miss Sylvia Meredith,
Miss Katherine Hall, Mrs Alec Preece,
Miss Frida Fraser, Mrs. James Watts,
Miss Estherbelle McHarg, Miss Jane
Thorp. Mrs. Gregory Prince.
And Mrs. Edward Haakinson, Miss
Helen Clifford. Miss Dorothea Sewers
Miss Katherine Pearson. Miss Mary
Lewis Hall, Miss Martha Davidge,
Mrs. Richard Sanger, Mrs. Myra
Morgan Stump, Mrs. Goodwin Moore.
Miss Christine Gawne, Miss Eleanor
Powell. Miss Mary Jane Pelley and
Miss Patsy Douglas.
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Mrs. Lewis to Speak
On Russian Trip

Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis, wife
Of Senator Lewis of Illinois win be
guest Of honor at the monthly club
luncheon Of Washington Branch, A.
A. U. w. tomorrow at lis o'clock.
Following the luncheon, she will tell
the members Of her interesting expert
ences in Russia last Summer. Mrs.
Howard g. Nichols, president Of the
Washington Branch will introduce her.
Among other guests who are ex-
pecting to attend the luncheon are
Mrs. Samuel Herrick, Mrs. e. w. Nc
Comas, Miss Carrie Davis, Miss Isa-
bella Grove, Mrs. David Segel, Miss
Lena Evans, Mrs. Goodwin p. Graham.
Miss Frances e. Chickering, Miss
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son have moved to the Wardman
Park Hotel. where they have taken
an apartment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry p. Magill have
come from their home at Danville,
KY, and are at the Shoreham for
several days.
DR.. and Mrs. c. M. Brooks. accom-
panied by their two children, Of Car
bondale, H., are stopping at the Dodge.
DR.. and Mrs. T. r. Gagion Of West
Pittston. Pa, are visiting in Washing
ton and are stopping at the Fairfax.