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Evening star., 1939-05-03
Walker Of WI. Injured
In Defeat of Eastern

Washington-Lee's nine had a vic
tory over Eastern on the books to-
day, but was minus a second base
man as Pete Walker wrenched his
knee while helping defeat the Blue,
9-3.
He will be out for about week.
Walker clouted double before re-
firing from the fray. Eastern used
its second-stringers throughout the
game, and they made only three hits
off Havener.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Russell Nine Displays
Power in Loop Debut

Heurich Brewers apparently have
q brand-new rival for the Industrial
League crown today In the potent
Russell Motors nine, which served
notice 1t will be a serious challenger
for the title by shutting out 7-Up
yesterday in its leagues debut, 80.
The victors got only three hits on
Birch but made the most of them
to score two runs in the first and
another in the sixth inning. Frank
Watt and Brown held the Beverage
boys to three lonely bingles.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Training School Wins

Taking advantage of two miscues,
a walk and hit. National Training
Schools nine showed across three
runs in the ninth inning to nose out
Montgomery-Blair, 81. Legion Of
Training School and Norris of Blair
were the batting stars, banging out
double and single each.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
to 3 pounds. This Is a very good

to 8 pounds. This Is q very good
start"
At North Beach, much far
ther north in the bay, Mrs.
George w. Robson caught 26
fishing of her pier.
They were taken at night in two
hours with but one pound Of shrimp.
She has been fishing there for Is
years, and this is the earliest she
has caught them in cold water.
Last Sunday Capt. Taft Tippett Of
Ridge, Md, took his new cruiser,
the Bay Queen, on its maiden voy-
age. He caught half dozen hard
head just inside of Point No Point
Light.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
By the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, May 3-The
postman won't have to ring twice
at Chicago" Joe Wilman's door
next month.
Chicago" Joe is expecting some
checks. He'll get them-about
$500 worth-unless a dark-horse
slips into the American Bowling
Congress before Friday and re-
places his name at the top Of the
all-events list.
A former minor league baseball
player, Wilman has been knock
ing around the A. B. C. maple
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Wolfe Needs Least 367 7onq to Get AEvens Lead in Pin Tourney
Rod and Stream
BY GEORGE HUBER.
NAV a 1Q3QN

will bring reports Of the first bluehsh at Oregon
that 50oddmile stretch Of Carolina beach from
inlet Hatteras From about the first day May well into
angling thrills
will head it. In 1885 that coast had the amazing
bluenhng history
tell Of still called liars
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY.
Baseball.
Washington at st. Louis, 4.
George Washington Frosh at
Maryland Frosh, 4.
Roosevelt at Washington-Lee,
$50.
Tennis.
Georgetown at Navy.
st. Adams at Georgetown Prep,
$50.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Kovokos GriIImen Win

Kavakos Grill nosed out Reliance,
3-2, In q Sherwood Softball League
engagement. Both hit homer and
held the losers to two hits.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Commercial InouauruI

Commercial Twilight Softball
League will open next Wednesday
at Gonzaga Field. Victor Baralti is
president of the 7-team circuit.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Mems Pin Tourney
Card Tonight
TEMPLE LEAGUE NIGHT.
TEAMS PM.

TEAMS-S P.M.
Alley. Class
l Frat Order Eagles (Temple Minor -
Bright Star LIQUOR (Temple MatoD -
Queen Pin tTemple Major, - !
5 Five Point Tavern Temple Major) -
8 Takoma Billiards CTemple Major)-- !
T Senators (Temple Majorl - !
q SeRretti Bros. CTemple Major) ]
% Dixie Tavern (Temple Major) - ]
I Hoffer's Market Temple Minor) -----
q Twins Biscuit Temple Minor) -----
4 Trants Rest. (Temple Minorl -
8 Stantons BARRIERS tTemple Minor {
Is Boveglio Club (Temple Minor) -
n Dixie Tavern CTemple Minor -
L9 9reyhound LIQUOR tTemple Minor)--
20 Loggia Roma (Temple Minor -
Il Standard Brand (Temple Minor) -
,2 KidwelJ Senator's (Temple MinoD---
a Camden Tavern (Temple Minor)
Is Atlas Theater CTemple Minor --
IS Warwick A. c. tTemple Minor) .-----
~ Franks Tavern tTemple Minor) -
~ Wash. Aaueduct CWar Dept:) ---
10 Stewart Bros. Is. 8. Friendship - ]
81 President Valet g. 8, Friendship -
81 A. & W. Hot Shoppe Is. s. Friendo--
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Oklahoma. 13: Iowa State. 8.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Science and PsychicoI
Phenomena

By G.. N. NJ. TyrreU. NeaU York:
Harper & Bros.
For century science has froWned
on psychical phenomena-clairvoy-
ance. telepathy. communication with
the dead. and all the rest. Eminent
scientists such as Sir William Crooks
and Sir Oliver Lodge suffered cloud
ing of their regulations when they
took these things seriously.
Only within the past few years
with the controlled experiments of
DR.. Rhine and his colleagues at
Duke University have extrasensory
researches gotten even one foot into
the temple of science, apparently to
the great annoyance of scores of
scientists. Psychology, the natural
field into which such researches fall,
has been particularly antagonistic.
Some of its practitioners have not
hesitated, DR.. Rhine's supporters
feel, to hit below the belt. They are
naturally concerned that their
science should not become contami-
mated with charlatanism.
Yet deliberately refusing to con-
slider or passing over lightly a field
in which such an enormous mass of
evidence has piled up through the
ages seems to many the most un-
scientific attitude conceivable. This
Evening star., 1939-05-14
WASHINGTON.

FICTION-"Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck; The Tree of Lib
erty," Elizabeth Page; Guns of Bur-
goyne," Bruce Lancaster; "Wickford
Point" John P. Marquand; All This
and Heaven Too Rachel Field;
THE Yearling," Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings
NON-FICTION -" autobiography
With Letters" William Lyon Phelps;
Reaching for the Stars Nora
Vain; "Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler
Stackpole; Days of Our Years
Pierre Van Paassen: It Wanted to
Be an Actress Katharine Cornell;
MY Memoir" Edith B. Wilson.
BOSTON.
FICTION-"Wickford Point" "All
This and Heaven Too The Grapes
of Wrath, Three Harbours, F. Van
Wyck Mason; Guns of Burgoyne.
NON-FICTION - Reaching for
the Stars Autobiography With
Letters" "A Peculiar Treasure" Ed
ma Ferber; "Mein Kampf," Take 1t
From Me" Neal OHara.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
News and Reviews of Novels and Books Theories
Brief Reviews of New Books

Places.
A LANDMARK HISTORY OF
NEW YORK. BY Albert VI.
mann. New York: D. Appleton
Century Co.
A history of New York told in
terms of the famous sites of the
State. Interesting and simply
written.
NATIONAL PARKS OF THE
NORTHWEST BY Martelle
Trager. New York: Dodd, Mead
e. Co.
A history of the national park
system, together with accounts Of
the outstanding parks of the North
west. Informative.
Indians.
DEZBA. BY Gladys A. Richard.
New York: j. j. Augustin.
A picture of the life of a Navajo
family told in narrative form and
illustrated with photographs. In
formative.
so YOU'RE GOING TO STOP
SMOKING! BY J. c. Furnas.
New York: Simon e. Schuster.
An analysis of the methods by
which you can renounce the weed.
Ingenious.
Next Generation.
GETTING READY TO BE A FA-
Their. By Hazel Corbin. New
York: The Macmillan Co.
Simple points in the education of
male parents. Illustrated with
photographs.
Encyclopedia.
THE AMERICANA ANNUAL, 1889.
Edited by A. H. McDannald and
j. B. Mcdonnell. New York ::
Americana Corp.
A yearbook of current events.
Useful.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Quartet

Bv Emil LudWig. Translated
from the German By Ernest
Boud. NeU York: Alliance
Book Corp.
In this novel Herr Ludwig seems
10 have undertaken to square the
TRIANGLE of fiction. That is to say,
he gives us four lovers instead OF
tnree-two husbands and two wives
who, for a brief period and quite
without the slightest Ill will. change
mariners. They all love one another,
he tells us. and, beneath the love, ne
further says, they are frlends' 80
the marital shift is no great matter
When it is over. the couples are re-
united and the four are still loving
and still friends. 1t sounds like a
neat trick if you can do 1t, but per-
haps. more literary than lfehke
outside of this forward-and back
movement, the book has little IN II:
The two husbands are artists and
one suspects that one of them is the
authors self portrait. The two wives
are. of course. divinely beautiful, IN
fnitelv understanding creatures-or,
In other words, female characters In
fiction There is considerable obvl-
Gus padding which gets pretty tire
some after a while and there are
also some scenes which one imagines
the author to have put in as bait to
q certain element of the public.
Well, there it is-for any one who
wants it.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
The Bonoportes in America
By C. E. Mccartney and Cor
don Dorrance. Philadelphia :

~ L. E. mccartney ana Cor
don Dorrance. Philadelphia: :
Dorronce G. Co.
This is a collection of accounts
Of the various members of the Bona
parte family who came to America
to make their homes here or visit.
1t also includes a chapter on the
legend that Marshall Ney escaped
to the United States and lived to
old age in North Carolina village,
one on American plots to rescue
Napoleon from st. Helena and
others on the settlements which
groups of French exiles made in
Alabama and Texas. It is informally
written and contains some highly
interesting material 1t can be read
with absorbing interest.
The most conspicuous of the Bona
parties to settle in ou1 country was,
of course, Joseph. Napoleon's brother
and one-time King of Naples and
Spain He bought an estate near
BordentoWn, N j., and lived there
in a sort of idyllic splendor for many
years, happier, the book indicates,
than when he had worn the crowns
which his brother put upon him.
After him in interest comes Jerome,
who married beautiful Betsy Pat
terson and founded the family S
own enduring American line. This
line the authors trace through the
generations down to the present day.
Other members of the family who
Evening star., 1939-05-14
What Is Being Read Today?
Best Sellers in Washington and Other Cities
CHICAGO.


FICTION - The Grapes of
Wrath, wine of Good Hope" David
Rame; "Wickford Point" The Pa
triot," Pearl Buck; "All This and
Heaven Too"
NON-FICTION - Reaching for
the Stars" Days of Our Years"
"Mein Kampf," "A Peculiar Treas
ure, " Autobiography With Letters. p"
NEW YORK.
FICTION - The Grapes of
Wrath, All This and Heaven Too"
WEXFORD Point The Patriot" -"
The Tree of Liberty
NON-FICTION - Reaching for
the Stars" Autobiography With
Letters. Days of Our Years" "A
Peculiar Treasure, ," "Mein Kampf."
SAN FRANCISCO.
FICTION - The Grapes of
Wrath, "Wickford Point" THE Pa
triot," "All This and Heaven Too
The Tree of Liberty"
NON-FICTION-"Mein Kampf,"
Inside Europe" John Gunther;
champagne Days in San Francisco, -
Evelyn Wells: Reaching for the
Stars, My Days of Strength" Anne
Walter Fearn.
Evening star., 1939-05-14

is the burden of Mr.. Tyrells volume
in which he recounts a good deal of
this evidence without pretending to
pass final judgment upon it.
The field, let it be granted is
difficult for the objective investl-
gator. 1t is suffused with emotion
There is boundless opportunity and
incentive for deceit. But the world
will never be content until the evil
dence is answered by something
better than sneers.
Categorical denial of the posi-
bility of psychic phenomena, we feel
may be Just as "superstitious' as
blind faith in every case of the
marvellous reported in the news
papers. Some such book as this
should be required reading in every
graduate school of psychology Sc
that the budding Phi. DIS may go
out into the world a tri1e skeptical
of the dogmas with which, in so
many cases, their professors seek 10
straight jacket their minds.
Mr.. Tyrrell, of course, believes
there is something to it. This may
or may not be SO. He doesn't prove
his point here. But he proves
abundantly that there is plenty OF
room for investigation. T. r. H.
Evening star., 1939-05-14

foundly interested in all life, she
failed to fit into any category of
womankind which the French men,
tality could recognize and yet sue
ceeded in making hosts of friends.
1t devotes considerable space, of
course, to her history of the Stand
ard Oil Co., recounting her efforts
to find court records which had a
way of disappearing, her interviews
with Henry Rogers, who had a re-
freshing way of admitting the
rogueries with which she charged
the company, and the efforts which
were made to frighten her out of
completing the damaging tale.
From there it goes on through her
career as editor of the American
Magazine, her war work, her lee
turing, her authorship. 1t has a
lively style, good wit and of course
it carries before the reader a pa
rade of celebrities, for Miss Tar
bell in her time has known every
one.
The best chapters, to the review
ers mind, are those which describe
the authors early struggles, and
the one at the end in which Miss
Tarbell, looking back over three
generations, notes that every one Of
them has had a financial panic,
labor troubles, political medicine
men and genuine idealists and con-
cludes that the problems of the
present day are not unheard of in
history. Like Oswald Garrison VII
lard, whose book is reviewed above,
she feels that the solution of the
puzzles of civilized life lie in the
education of the individual rather
than in the form of the government,
and she sees America moving slow
ly toward improvement. Her book is
a complete expression of personality,
of the personality Of the idealist
who, embracing liberalism as the
only decent mode of thought, also
In the newness of woman's freedom
In her day, took upon herself .
mission simply as q woman.
Evening star., 1939-05-14

matter and its handling, to say
nothing of sort of awe at the in
trepidity of the writer.
While she says very little about
herself, that little reveals that in
addition to being trained ornithol-
ogist, Mrs. Nice is a housekeeper
and mother. Her expeditions into
bird watching must be sandwiched
in with many other occupations
Trips into the deep woods and
gloomy forests long before sunrise
call for great physical courage and
stamina. Motionless watching near
birds nest in bright sunlight for
two hours at time is a nerve
racking occupation. Submitting to
the lances of the vicious Oklahoma
mosquitoes for hours at a stretch
calls for fortitude. These expe-
riences point up the results and OBJ
servations set down by The Watch
er at the Nest" R. r. T,
Evening star., 1939-05-14
By NC. r.
All in the Days Work
By Ida M. TdrbeU. Ne1D York.
The Macmillan Co.

~ lud NJ. IuTOett. NelD YOTk.
The Macmillan Co.
Miss Tarbell writes here her own
estimate of her busy, lively life. Hav-
ing reached her 80th year. she would
certainly seem competent to rem
inisce too. Very few of the auto
biographies in the stream now COM
ing from the presses cover so long
period. And not many of those which
do 60 back into lost era preserve
the flavor of that time with the fresh
fidelity which Miss Tarbell uses.
She gained her first fame when
feminism was a new and vital force
in the world and when career women
looked upon themselves somewhat as
pioneers and eXemplars rather than
as mere workers toiling to earn their
bread. Consequently everything these
women did, even the performance of
the humblest tasks, had a thrilling
significance for them; they saw their
Jobs as brands won from the burning
and they took zest in keeping the
flames clear and torchlike. Miss Tar
bell, with her uncommon gift for en-
thusiasm and work, fit we'll into those
times, and now she brings something
of that youthful outreaching spirit to
her story of her long and busy life.
She attended one of the early CO.
educational colleges at time when
the women students were still re-
garded as strange innovations. She
wanted to be biologist but had not
the money to study for the profess
sion. She took a job in an editorial
Office because such job was offered
her and so great was her capacity for
work that she presently was given
editorial duties to perform. From
this humble beginning she entered
on the career of writing and editing
which has brought her international
Evening star., 1939-05-14
The Kingdom Of Swinq
By Benny Goodman and IrUing
Kolodin. Ne1D York: Stackpole
Sons.

By 6eHHy GOOdTldn ana IrUt1Q
Kolodin. Ne1D York: Stackpole
Sons.
Divided though the mythical
Kingdom of Swing may be into
equally ardent opposition camps. all
must bow down to the boy who had
clarinet showed into his hands at
a tender age and who proceeded to
make the instrument speak as a
symbol Of musical cycle.
Benny Goodman, cultivated in
the fallow districts of West Side
Chicago, part of host of IL or so
other Goodmans, lived as a boy in
the closest approach to squalor. He
rose from the precise bottom to the
precise top and on his own power
But until that fateful clarinet began
to repay the unfagging zeal of the
knickered Benny. hunger and want
were his closest companions next to
his family. Even schooling had to
make way for the plant talent and
tireless ambition of the prodigious
Benny.
A part of the world of jazz that Is
now tradition, the King of Swing"
can and does in his book talk with
authority on American music from
Beiderbecke to Bessie Smith to the
Teagardens. Like the jazz special
lists of his time. Goodman has shut
tied constantly about the country.
meeting most of the great names
connected with all branches of
swing COR what you wild music. The
list will be interminable.
Although the idol of "jamming"
America confesses pardonably that
his profession holds on endearing
economic charm, he feels seriously.
and unquestionably sincerely, that
1t is something genuinely Amer
lean, because it's the expression of
the individual-a kind of free
speech in music" A neat sum-
mary. and from this chair, con-
siderably more convincing than Mr..
Kolodin's gesticulations on behalf of
the institution that is making youth
deliriously dance-happy and fol-
lowers of Bach gloomy to a man.
! 6
Evening star., 1939-05-14

Juveniles.
SEEING THE WORLDS FAIR.
BY Elsie-Jean. Springfield: Nc
Loughlin Bros.
A book of cutouts by which the
determined and ingenious infant
can construct his own fairgrounds
back home in the nursery. Also
illustrated.
A PICTURE DICTIONARY FOR
CHILDREN. BY Garnette Wat
ters and S. A. Courts. New
York: Grosset g. Dunlap.
Dictionary of names Of ordinary
objects which a child might ask,
showing how to spell in print and
longhand, and giving picture and
definition. Useful.
Poems.
IN AMERICAN. BY John v. A.
Weaver. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf
The collected works of this poet
OF the vernacular.
COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT
P. TR1SIRAM COFFIN. New
York: The Macmillan Co.
Mr.. Coff1n's complete works, in
cluding so poems hitherto unpub-
lished. Valuable.
Mysteries.
RENO RENDEZVOUS. BY Leslie
Ford. New York: Farrar g. Rine-
hart.
A corpse in parked car, a charm
ing woman determined to get a
divorce. Pretty good.
Government.
THE AMERICAN CITIZEN IN
GOVERNMENT. BY Judge c..
Ellis OFT. New Orleans: Pen-
can Publishing Co.
An academic volume on the duties
of private citizens and public Of
cials in government, pointing out
the commonest ways in which both
| sometimes fail, and why.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
The Power of the ChorIoton

By Crete de francesca. Trans
lated from the German By
Miriam Beard. Ne10 HaUen:
Yale University Press.
This learned and amusing book
will, to the superficial, probably ap-
pear only as literary curiosity; a
careful study it is of the habits,
practices. mentality and history of
charlatans. or those who undertake
deliberately to sell to the public
panaceas and powers which they
have never possessed. To the
subtler mind, however, the work
will appear as satire on dictators
and great popular political leaders,
for the author, though keeping his
tongue demurely in his cheek,
makes it plain that the ballyhoo
of the common patent medicine
vendor in the streets is not and
never has been essentially different
from that of the great man who
promises a nation salvation from
its troubles-if only it will accord
him unlimited power over the
peoples lives and wealth.
The work appears as an erudite
study of charlatanism in Europe
from the 10Th to the 18th century.
1t discusses the various kinds of
quacks, from those who pulled teeth
IA the marketplaces to those who,
by protesting to be able to manu-
facture gold or forsee the future,
gained control over governments.
Since the methods of all these gentry
are essentially the same, there is in
the book a certain monotony. But
1t is no different from the general
monotony of history, in which ma
tlons and men repeat with precision
the mistakes which countless genera
tions have made before them. Con-
sequently the quality will hardly
annoy the philosophical.
The work in the main examines
the practices of the charlatan as a
class but, in the cases of certain
superb rascals, it devotes chapters to
individual triumphs of quackery.
These are Bragadino who was sum-
moned by the Republic of Venice to
fill its Golfers with gold made by
alchemy; Thurneisser, who, by his
professions of scientific knowledge
gained the patronage of the Elector
of Brandenburg and Archduke
Ferdinand Of Austria, and Vital, who
though genuine scholar became
charlatan from love of vagrant
! life. There is also a chapter on the
great courtier charlatans Of the
Evening star., 1939-05-14

crossed the Atlantic we're Napoleon's s
nieces and a reputed illegitimate
son. Picturesque eccentricities seem
to have been common to the breed,
and these the authors describe in a
lively manner. The book is a little
known chapter in Franco American
exchanges, so to speak, and fortu-
nately a completely readable one.
It is therefore recommended.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Wall Street Under Oath
By Ferdinand Pecora.

BY Ferdinand Pecora. Nep
York. Simon and Schuster.
The shortcomings of American
financial leaders during the hectic
l920's are presented in a rather
convincing fashion in this book
by the prosecutor extraordinary of
the l7-month investigation which
was started by the Senate Commit
tee on Banking and Currency in
January, 1888.
brought out in the investigation, Mr..
Pecora's book drags before the bench
of public opinion one prominent wit
ness after the other. marvels at his
widespread influence, examines his
motives and condemns his conduct.
At proper points, the losses of the
small investor when the prosperity
bubble burst are emphasized.
The manipulation of market pools
to create artificially high prices for
securities while the public was ris-
ing to the bait, the palming off of
doubtful securities by supposedly
responsible banking groups, the
draining of assets from large cor
porations into the personal pockets
of unscrupulous officers and direc-
tors, all of this fits into the picture
along with unwise and reckless ex-
pansion.
Mr.. Pecora presents the situation
in an interesting way, although the
zeal of a prosecutor prevents him
from offering anything constructive.
AS in the investigation. the aim of
the book is to prosecute. If he found
any good motives or any wise con-
duct among the financial leaders, he
chose to ignore them. If he found
that the public's desire for easy
money, highly unpredictable con-
ditlons or any other outside factors
contributed to the situation, he chose
to ignore them. His main concern
was the accused. 1t cannot be SAID
that he writes without prejudice.
One wonders whether the fact that
these men were financial leaders,
that they were in the securities busi-
ness at all, wasn't their original and
awful sin. But If we are to have no
financial leaders or securities busi-
ness, what Is to take their place? Tho
GOVernmento-n u II