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Evening star., 1942-08-09

In these days of gasoline rationing
and tire saving, porch-sitting has
Joined the major sports, and fam
lilies are having a chance to become
acquainted again. Reading aloud
offers one source of pleasure that
may be shared by the whole family,
not only for entertainment, but TO
establish common bonds of interest
ana enjoyment And what wealth
of books from which to choose!
Humor fosters sociability there
fore, books of laughter are most
suitable for reading aloud since
fun that is shared with others is
fun twice over" When the black
outs come and the family is gathered
in the shelter room, try reading
The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks
and Mrs. Aleshine.' by Frank r
Stockton. The uproariously absurd
experiences Of the two widows and
Mr.. Craig, who find themselves cast
upon a lonely island in the middle of
the ocean, are guaranteed to bring
laughter to young and old alike.
Pride and Prejudice" by Jane
Austen, that amusing novel of Eng
lish family life, takes on new vitality
when read aloud. The escapades of
the inimitable Mr. Pickwick, found
| in Charles Dickens "Pickwick Pa
pers," will bring merriment to any
group. Along with these might &C
''St9lky and Company by Rudysrc
Kipling, a rollicking English schoo,
story wherein the three "irrepressi-
bles," Stalkv, Beetle and McTurk
manage to keep the school topsy-
turvey most of the time.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Rotioned Rubber

By Williams Haynes and Ernst
A. HauSer (Knopt.
All our lives, we have taken rub
ber for granted. Suddenly, we are
deprived of it. Millions of Ameri-
cans find themselves with a pro-
found interest in this substance
which is basic in civilization. This
volume goes far to satisfy that in
terest. It tells the fascinating story
of natural rubber, from its discov-
cry in South America to the devel-
opment of the enormous plantations
in the British and Duth East Indies,
which furnished about SO per cent
Of the world supply before Pearl
Harbor. 1t tells the even more fas-
cinating story of the development
of the various synthetic rubbers.
The rubber problem is one of ex-
traordinary complexity-chemical
economic, political. Misunderstand-
ing follows misunderstanding into
what sometimes seems an inextrica-
DIE IdIlSle WlllCli tIIedtello VIC IVA =
tons whole war effort The au-
thors have done real service in as
sembling in popularity written
book the basic facts. There would
be less silly discussion, and even
sillier legislation and waste of time
and money, if everybody concerned
with the rubber problem would mas
ter its contents.
THOMAS R., HENRY.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Desert War

Bv Russell Hill. (ATred A
KnoptJ
Russell Hill gains distinction
among the throng OF war CORE
spondents who are writing books
about their experiences on various
fronts, by having been the Young
est Reporter-that figure made
Justly famous by Don Marquis OF
lamented memory. Mr.. Hill was
only 20 when he went to Berlin for
the New York Herald-Tribune and
the Columbia Broadcasting System
And by the time he was 81, he was
not only the youngest reporter in
Berlin for his paper-he was also
the only one. The others had all
been expelled. In due time he fol-
lowed. his day for expulsion having
come up on the Nazi calendar, and
then he went to Greece, Yugoslavla
and Bulgaria to see the blltz IN
those unhappy countries.
In November, 1941, he arrived In
North Africa to cover Britain's
counterblitz in that territory. His
present book is the story of what
he saw there. He remained until
the British withdrawal from West
ern Cyrenaica.
With the best will In the world,
one can only say that his is another
war correspondents book. 1t con-
tains descriptions Of tank fighting,
as seen by the writer, and OF long
tricks across the desert. 1t men,
tions that the American tanks used
in this war stood up we'll and re-
ceived praise from British officers,
and that German soldiers who are
sent to Africa are first conditioned
to tropic weather in specially built
''hot houses" which reproduce the
equatorial climate in every detail.
1t tells of comradeship with other
reporters, of narrow squeaks from
capture. 1T Is all right of Its kind.
So are most Of the others.
NC. n.
Evening star., 1942-08-09

Best Sellers
Francisco North
American Newspaper AHanceJ
FICTION.
Break, by Louis Bromfed (Harper
Driv Elizabeth Chevaier (Macmilan).
The Song o. Bernadete, by Franz Werfel (Vkng).
by w. Somerset Vaughan Doubleday
Doran).
And Now Rachel Field (Macmllan)
NON-FICTION
Problems Lasting Peace Doubleday
Victory Through Alexander de seversky smon
& SchuSter).
Is Like That, by w M Kipinger (Harper).
he LastT Paris, by Elliot Paul (2andom).
Past Imper Ilka Chase doubleday, Doran).
Evening star., 1942-08-09
The Cripps Mission
By r. Coupland (OIford Uni

By r. Coupland (Ortord Uni
Uersity Press.
This little book by DR.. Coupland,
Belt professor of Colonial history at
Oxford, appears when the Indian
crisis is more dangerous to this
country's hopes for victory than it
ever has been in the past.
With admirable brevity and clar-
ity, Prof. Coupland traces the course
of events in India from the outbreak
of the present war, through the
August Offer" the answering "Sa-
pru Proposals. the arrival in India
of Sir Stafford Cripps with the
Graft declaration, down to the final
rejection of the declaration by all
political parties
BY a careful analysis of the at
titudes of Congress and the Moslem
League, as well as those of the
minority groups, and the sharp
divisions of opinion between Oppos-
ing factions within the parties, the
author is able to show why the nego-
| tiations, begun and carried on with
high hopes on both sides, eventually
| broke down.
At the moment, the Indian ques-
ton. stirred to volcanic heat and
fury by the demands of Gandhi
overshadows every problem in the
world-the conflict in the Caucasus
the question of the second front, the
| fate of Hitler. For the Indian ques-
ton is intimately bound up with al
those other questions. 1t is we'll tc
seek an understanding of 1ndia'S
problem, and this book will help
toward that understanding B. B.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Brief Reviews

Pertinent Comments on q
Variety of Current Books.
MYSTERIES.
They Came to Kill, by Margaret
Scherf tPutnam) - A physician
turns detective to solve the murder
of a man he might have killed him
self. The authors third and best
thriller.
The Case of the Vanishing Wom-
EN-, by Robert Archer (Howell, Sos
kim - Complex but fast-moving
story involving many levels OF
Criminal life. Good.
Murder Among Friends, by Lange
Lewis (Bobbs- MerrilD-Five women
are slain, each in a different way,
and wise and honest detective
finds life rather complicated for a
while. Good.
NOVELS.
The Ghost of Hamlet, by Jeny De
Klein CDorrance)-Family problems
wrapped up in an amateurish story.
POETRY.
Satyriasis and Other Poems, by
Irwin Sternberg Dorranve) - A
worthy collection OF verse on a va
riety Of subjects.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
From Below the Border
Anthology of Latin American Writers
Shows Their Different Viewpoint
Bp Marv.( ayfer Roberts,
Fiesta in November
By Mary-Carfer Roberts.

Edited by Angel Flores and Dudley With ntroduc
ton by Katharine Anne Porter. fHouohton Mf7n co..
This stories by
Latin American living today. Presum
ably of entirely
general understand
ing all the selected stories
pehensbe and even sympathetic to North American readers
troubling the AngloSaxon mind in
Latin quality of seeming to be intense and agmentary
absent from the present
the of is hat OF anthology.
shoa not be houghc t rre in inns I @ snort %t nt, ed ,a' ne W
thought of certain classes
and corrupt country being against
and ha they the he t fhe
hessh bs e not en on the of atn yet At es on
formalized collection
shaped to their material and the material viewed without
~ This contrast is the more remarkable in that the overwhelming
% o a . T @ an the @ p ov na nsn as sno @
knows seldom primarily intended to be story
In rms OF Huma Feeling.
Latin American writer's the other hand to be able view
ters feeling rather theory result
moving than the same
particularly good "1he Fug
v The tale tells Of two poems who
slavery for the men one has worked
% river town. they sauande the whole
0n % p GO ss sye s Back he
One dies the jungle The other reaches the town and promptly
episode @ m a In our moae
lack labor M lack health a the 'eI ae has anf had M
timely
greedy stupid
cruel Quoga writes on that foundation Your
the foundation
Wall Street something of the sort The deeper founda
make the memorable story
characters themselves are frequently
fishermen 1tneran laboe peasant
all shown terms OF type But
limited status Is
for granted What
emotions within
limitations.
One a Socia Theme.
in the collection
novelties That exception Fiesta in
of
long sustained contrasta in
another of the city Fascist thugs are numbering young
tyhes class feeling he believes that such evils come from the
daughter of the house achieves higher
view decides dedicate herself some manner not pec
hmsef conclusions
merely attitudes laboratory
slide
Brother ASS by Eduardo BaIro Of
with struggles artist turned monk to free himself
of the world The picture of the development OF
monastery finely turned bit of irony.
life with broad satire in the
Mexican Ruben
This is the most conventional piece in the volume
considered Country Glrl by Luis
Tabana Colombia Rain by Arturo Uslar Petr OF Venezuela
Davalos of Argentina and THE
Fugitves' particularly fine.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
American ReveHle
BIZ Ward MorehOuSe. (Putndm'S.)

rapid fire, coloqualy written account of motor trip
North South
trip having beento taking
critical industrial Mr.
Warehouses; he the Atlantic to
though everybody who would him
way alnight
of less interest than these of highly officials
the
indifference the
fighting His
the old
manner mentions that gambling and prostitution
Army posts but nothing
new in the viewed in historical perspective
cooru piece of writing designed to paint
the probe beneath AS uch
successful.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Simon HASTINGS
BIZ F. M. Tibbott.
(BObbs-

By F. M. IlooOtt. t6oooS-
MerriU.J
The woods country OF Northern
Maine, during the period OF the Civil
War and two or three decades there
after, is the stage upon which F. M.
Tibbott dramatizes the life Of Simon
Hastings. son of a lumberman for
whom he is named.
In this rugged environment, a
host of strong, finely pictured char
acters, unfettered by the amenities
of more sophisticated social order,
move through fascinating story OF
primitive emotions.
There's Cora Appleby. the comely
school teacher at Wateegan, whose
mad infatuation for the lumber
man, Simon Hastings, leads to a
hasty marriage. Within 10 days
Hastings loses his life in fire.
Cora, although still in love with him,
within six weeks of her widowhood,
marries Temp Thurston out of graft
tude for having saved her life in the
fire At the time of her marriage
to Temp she reveals that she is to
bear a child by her first husband.
Her marriage to Simon was never
officially recorded. although the
priest who performed the ceremony
made note of it on fly leaf of
Cora's Bible. These circumstances
give rise to the usual village gossip
and Cora and Temp and the g.
month-old baby boy move to a
farming community in the North
| Country. Cora soon learns of cir
cumstanceS in the life of her first
husband that disillusion her, and
she aWakens to the fine qualities
of Temp. Thus, complete happiness
! and deep love come into this new
domestic setting.
Cora names her first-born after
his father, Simon Hastings. and the
structure of the story is built largely
upon the life of this boy. He has
inherited the deep love of the woods,
| but his dreams of life in this timber
country come true only for brief
part of his life. A tragic accident
cuts him off forever from the pur-
suits of lumberman.
! Two sons, WaShburn and Parker,
| are born to Temp and Cora. Parker
becomes villainous character and,
by his chicanery, Simon and Wash
burn are kept at constant swords
point. At length, Parker, seeking
to burn timberland belonging to
Simon, meets his own death in the
fire. The half brothers become
reconciled. Simon marries happily,
he goes into business and all ends
well. GLADYS WOOD DANIEL,
Evening star., 1942-08-09
The Coming Bottle Of Germany

William Zf. With Introduction by Brig. Gen. William
Gilmore u S. Army Air Corps, retired (Due, Sloan
PearceJ
already ping
question United Nations
aviation,
surprising his take the form of country
all others 1t
that Gilmore head OF the Army Air
Corps zf with little qualification
none OF the agree lV cent Wnat
writes general but at the doubt that reader
expert officer reader OF the
daily will able aside starts reading
1t dynamite OF the
is needed to win this war;
that Seversky "in his Victory
in blanks"
The comparison one reading
regard it the
necessity the United States should form powerful
air force with the utmost speed
surveys present planning to
train million for land armies he and
he asksatack where? BY landing
old with all the mechanical equipment
style demands hope achieve nothing
the question
where that is he with bold simplicity, Germany
should concentrate all production planes
bomb the literal he out OF
sspendng all but the most indispensable CIVILIAN
manufactures with the
raids that Germany had
capitlated
attack failed provide our
miscaculaton enter in can
achieve what Germany missed
to Germany is
the identical kind for attack on u.s. and
is waiting defeating Russia it,
Like Mai Seveky zf for separate
the head OF De
He De aul the finest soldier alive
nothing in Mr.
opinion United Nations have achieved
Gaues would be sign OF that so far missing
spirit he it. NC. r.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
The UNLIMITED

By Dorothy Mdcardle. (Dou-
bleday, DoranJ
Ghost story devotees might be
divided roughly into two classes
those who demand a logical expla-
nation of the phenomena which
frighten the daylights out of the
inhabitants of light novel and
those who will accept the super
natural if an author wishes to toy
with it. 1t is the latter for whom
Miss Macardle has spun her yarn
THE UNLIMITED" is not for the
realists. This, of course, is the real
lists misfortune, for Miss Macardle
can, she demonstrates here, weave
a tale which bristles the hair on the
necks of the susceptible.
Principally involved in the story
are a British Journals" and his
sister, who flee the maddening Lon
don croWd-all this is before the
war-to take a house on a cliff in
North Devon, there to be startled
somewhat out of their wits by the
discovery that there apparently is
some basis for the gossip of the
neighborhood. Their lovely house,
it seems, is the battle-ground of a
pair of ghosts, which Cor is it who?)
make their presence known every
night, not only to Roderick and
Pamela Fitzgerald but, just to prove
they're really there, to any one
else who might be on hand.
To delve any further into the
efforts made to track down these
disturbances" would be to spoil
the fun for the ghost story fans.
Let it suffice to say that Miss
Macardle's story is tightly knit,
that her prose is serviceably facile
II not brilliant and that she can
rouse up a shade In a manner to
raise goose-flesh. n. M.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
The Roots of American Culture
By ourke Edited and ith preface by Van WICK
Brooks. fHdrcourt, Brace G. co..

By Edited ih preface BY Van WICK
Brooks. fHarcourt Brace G. co..
collected
a
Wyck Brooks
the this projected work serious
completed the public The book which results
its publication
early American drama music Negro rad1-
little Voare
whose Miss Rourke dis
application tteecognzed Through these diverse
which culture
opinion held but has been
The popular theory has been of that we have Euro
all suffering from cultural lag time
developments
culture
series of jerKsfrst
which valued little if
all recognition reValuaon
period she with intense peoccupon the american
artistic make mistake
the
following
particularly early
ontieman
knowledge. critical hand in
did
live to carry her projected history to completion
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Our Enemies to the South
Author Sees Disease Greater
Menace Than Axis Penetration
Ambassadors in White
Bu Charles Morroto Wilson Henry Holt.

Bu Charles Wilson (Henry Hon)
Those Axis penetration Latin Amera
know there an even menace than rsa afs
d ns '"s shocking e nerea6e
yellow pulmonary ailments of high en'e and terrifying most
Million Mr. non wn says LATIN there sm afs om the RD
this he adds w tro is s0qd o bet n as at aS s of almost
all the diseases that the United states & % ou oe we
salute Charles Fnlay OF Taoa
place a healthy place to visit
Health of Iai America Is
meaning than the phrase precisely implies wilson the health
with the chances es
Asia asd he N With 9fs hs
Despite almost ambassadors
fought brilliantly with the medical and
superstition ignorance make
% M f so M H n n1 from @ the vork
work chapter in the aged story OF mems
Walter Virginia Says
greatest tangible Washington which
he would have preferred As for fame
medicine what he really had accom-
With the warning hitch
o Nob M Ame M as n1i that n the Veow
itself cropping about in search Of
worlds to and of eonquerng them But yellow h
fever Just one m b Tah m " Ween h
and intimate association
in the fight against the common Axis enemy
Biographies o Ambassadors in White.
Mr. Wilson's searching study of the health and sanitation problems
America knits and closer ties with Latin
thrilling OF five
ambassadors white stands story OF aV
work just BEGINNING and tough job lies ahead
1 Wilson
better
multiple William Crawford
sanitaran the world has known We in
Carlos Fnayyoung Of medicine
Ilustrious Pasteur of Cuba
We need ambassadors in white We need them because
this
potentially
hemisphere
solidarity impede toward the good life Latin
| LESTER GRANT.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Bowen's Court
Ri Eli7nbeth BO7Den (AIfred A KnOpfJ


Elizabeth fiction
likely be disappointment 1t the history OF Miss Bowens family
family
Elizabeth
dodgment their
teresting people.
Through the lives Henrys Johns and Robert (al of
usually
lived their and quaed law property
unexcepion
century buried the 17th families
bo fighting in the building
rebuilding family home.
But though the members of the tribe are not memorable creatures
themselves
consumed their
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-05
A Quick Homemade Soup
Is Made From Fish Stock

The mere mention of home
made soup often brings a frown
to the housewives forehead. Now
everyone knows that frowns are
bad things as they make wrinkles.
The reason for said frown is
usually the fact that one pictures
soup in the making as an all day
process with the stove going all
day. Stuff, and nonsense, say we!
There are short order soups as
well as short order anything else.
Nearly everyone saves the
liquid from boiled fish and with
this as base the housewife can
get to work and in no more than
a half hour have as fine soup
for lunch or dinner as if she had
spent all day preparing it.
This soup is a good family style
shrimp soup and is made by mere
ly adding one quart of fish broth
to one pound of picked shrimps,
and bring to a boil. Then add
one pint of boiling cream, season
with salt and pepper and chopped
parsley; add one-half cup of
broken Saline crackers, and four
tablespoons of sweet butter. The
soup is all ready to serve as soon
as the butter is melted.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-05
Peach Growers Urged
To Spray At Once
For Peach Leaf Curl

Maryland orchardists who did not
apply the peach spray last fall
are advised to do so at once by DR..
Ernest A. Walker, specialist i'll
plant pathology for the University
of Maryland Extension Service.
The spray must be applied before
the buds swell and when the tenn
perature is above 40 degrees
Fahrenheit.
The disease which causes peach
leaf curl is a parasitic fungus.
Spores of the fungus hibernate on
twigs and bud scales of the peach
and the same weather conditions
which cause peach buds to swell in
the spring also cause the spores of
the fungus to terminate.
DR.. Walker says that the best
material to use in controlling peach
leaf curl is made by mixing IL gal
Ions of concentrated lime sulfur
(S2 degrees Baume) and sufficient
water to make 100 gallons of spray.
This spray will control both San
Jose scale and peach leaf curl.
If San Jose scale is not a prob
lem then a 6-6-10O Bordeaux mix
ture spray, or 6A gallons of lime
sulphur in 100 gallons of spray may
be used. Where red mite eggs and
terrapin scale are present petrol
cum oil should be added to make a
8 per cent Oil-Bordeaux dormant
spray.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-05
Good Templars To Hold
Special Services Sunday

A portion of special series of
Good Templar services are sched-
uled to be held Sunday, March 8,
i'll the following churches:
11:00 A. M.-Carollne Street
Methodist, Baltimore. Rev. DIR.
Thomas S. Davis, pastor.
500 P. M. Christian Church,
Lansdowne. Rev. C. M. Cook.
These services will be under the
auspices of the 1. o. G. T. and the
further promotion of temperance
through education. The Rev. H. o.
Keen. will be the speaker.
This is a partial program plan
ned in the field for the spring and
carly summer months. Beside the
Rev. Keen in the field, other lee
turers are the Rev. j. Raymond
Schmidt of Washington, D. c., the
Rev. Frank R. Isaac and James M.
Hoffa of Baltimore.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-05
Extra Goodness For
Lenten Season With
ScallOped Lobster

With Lent well under way, it
can already be imagined that
there are ever so many women
who are wondering just what to
do about a fish dinner. AS is so
often the case, we have just so
many fish dishes that we prepare
well, and we usually stick pretty
close to those, but come every
Lenten season. of necessity we
must branch out. Here is one
to try very soon, and if your FAM
ily is a lobster lover, it is almost
bound to become another STAND
by"
DEVILED OR SCALLOPED
LOBSTER
2 cups fresh or canned lobster
1 cup soft bread crumbs
1 hard cooked egg
2 teaspoons. lemon juice
Salt
Cayenne
Nutmeg
l tablespoon butter or other
fat
l tablespoon flour
1 cup milk
Cut the lobster meat into dice.
Add oneZhalf cup Of bread crumbs,
the egg chopped very fine and the
lemon juice, seasoning generously
with salt and cayenne pepper and
grating of nutmeg. Make a
white sauce of the fat, flour, and
milk. Add the white sauce to the
lobster mixture to make a paste.
Fill scallop-shells or shallow rame-
kins with the mixture. smooth the
tops, sprinkle with remaining
bread crumbs and bake in a mod
crate oven $3.50 400 FL from
fifteen to thirty minutes.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-05
Employ Operators

Montgomery County Commits
sioners have voted to employ six
switchboard operators for night
duty at the report centers in Silver
Spring, Bethesda and Rockville.
These will be the first paid en-
ployes in the county civilian de-
tense set-up. The report centers
flash the air raid alarms to the air
raid wardens and other emergency
services and it was decided that
permanent trained operators would
contribute to the safety of the
community.