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Evening star., 1943-11-14
Stories Of Russia
AT War Explain
|Nazi Setbacks
The Night Of the Summer
Soistice

Inc NI9nt or the 9Un5nSof
Soistice
Stories of the Russian Wor -.
lected, and 1oith a preJacG, by
Mark Van Doren. (Holt.)
The short stories In this col8eo.
ton give to the reader q deep feel.
ing of the strength and conviction
with which the people Of ths soviet
Union are carrying on the war.
The reader is taken into the xsses
where the actual combat II ragine3
he is present at villages the invAdsu
has overrun: he is part a t11e Vsf
effort in the distant Mtssios. ~
all times he is IN the compaa,V a
the little people who ere 6oht1n1
the battles, and he Is shocked no
a realization Of how the Wae ha1
transformed everyday Yves.
Two or three stories, an By 1son1d
Sobolov, make the leap from VIVID
journalism to literary achievement
His Sweetheart" Is the story Of N
unattractiye nurse who fees when
the blind soldier she has attended
is about to have the bandages re-
moved from his eyes. She wanted
him to keep the picture Of besatO
he had imagined rather than b
disillusioned by reality. Tho Bhss
Scarf" was carried by flyer hel1ts1
as the knights Of old had wont
them, but the Soviet airmAn Wugs
it to remember the defenseissa
young girl who had been shot down,
with many others, on . bathing
beach by bullet-spouting German
planes.
These two stories are literature
and will be long remembered. The
others, however, do not fall much
below them. They are all poignant
and vivid incidents, pulsating with
life under horrible conditions,
Through them the reader can un-
derstand why the Russians were
not beaten. Through them, the
reader can appreciate war in a
world far removed from our own,
CASPAR NAMES.
Evening star., 1943-11-14
By Florence s. Bergman.

ny 1'oIe IeHCe y. bergman.
Costa Rica's artists are excellent
emissaries, to judge from the ex-
hibition of work by Francisco Ami
ghetti Ruiz, sponsored by the Am
bassador of Costa Rica, which is on
view at the Pan American Union,
and from the show last autumn by
Pachita Crespi at the National Mu-
scum. These artists publicize the
charms and picturesqueness of their
country, and undoubtedly many of
us who see the paintings will want
to visit the Central American re-
public which inspired them.
Mr.. Amighetti Ruiz's exhibition
comprises 40 works, the majority
pen and wash drawings, with a few
gouaches and group of wood en-
cravings. The pictures are small,
precise and clean cut in execution,
inviting close inspection. They are
illustrative in character and would
reproduce we'll; one is not surprised
to learn that the artist has had a
successful career as book and
magazine illustrator.
But the little paintings in the
present display are complete in
themselves, each portraying a type,
an individual, group or landscape,
with unpretentious charm and sim
Evening star., 1943-11-14
Malta Muqnificent
By Francis w. Gerard.

By Francis w. Gerard. whit
tleSey House,
For two years, Francis W. Gerard
served in the information Office CT
the British government on Malta
The latter part of the period he was
information officer. His Malta resi-
dence conceded with the severest
part of the famous air seige of the
island. This book is his account of
what that seige meant to the NAL
tese people and the British defend
ing garrison.
1t is Well-planned structure
Evening star., 1943-11-14

Brief ReUie1Cs of Current
DetectiUe Fiction.
The Man Who Was Not There, by
Ethel Lima White tHarper) Creepy
thing about seven who meet after
long years only to have sudden
death strike among them. Lonely
tower scene, with private zoo
playing an important part. Good.
The Stars Are Dark, by Peter
Cheney tDodd, notwithstanding
tale of Secret Service. $3.50.
The Affair of the Painting Butler,
by Clifford knight CDodd. Mead)-
Hollywood mystery centering around
lady writer. $3.50. .. -.rsT ...l
Evening star., 1943-11-14
In Bed We Cry
By IlkG Chase.

BY NEG Chase. doubleday,
DOran)
In this, her first, novel Ilka Chase
Is not as amusing as she was in her
best-selling autobiography. Past
Imperfect" 1t is a lively book, but
hasty and slapdash, as if its versatile
author, having scored so great a
success with her first literary effort,
had decided that there is not much
to this writing game, after all. One
can say that she is too acute to be
dull, but she is not craftsmanly
either.
Her story revolves around the
heart trouble Of a heroine who, one
feels, is a type which she greatly
admireS herself. Devon Elliott, the
lady in question, is a self-made busi-
ness woman, a cosmetic maker who
began as an operator and climbed
to such peaks of success that. at
the age of 35, she is internationally
known. She has a husband who
leaves her for an ideals sake; she
consoles herself with a lover whom
she recognizes as a heel She ends
up by having no illusions whatsoever
about love or herself, but frankly
facing the fact that a man in her
life will be necessary, if only for
social reasons Her business, how
ever, is her real love, and one knows
that as long as nothing happens to
it she will manage the emotional
storms. somehow.
What Miss Chase wants to say is
that the coming generations of
women are adopting the attitude
toward love which has previously
been the property of the male. They
are going to subordinate it to work,
to regard it as incidental rather than
as central. She makes this case pretty
well, except for one omission-she
says little about the propagation of
the species. Her heroine is pre-
sented as a creature of enormous
vitality. but somehow she never has
child. The book. therefore, be-
comes entirely a study Of love in
the gallant sense-love stripped of
its purpose and reason. One feeels
that the examination is not quite
complete without at least mention
of the biological justification.
Evening star., 1943-11-14

ton to her credit. The National
Institute of Arts and Letters re-
Gently elected her to membership,
which was signal honor.
Society of Miniatures.
The Society of Miniature Painters
Sculptors and Gravers of Washing
ton, of which Elizabeth Muhlhofer
is president and Mary Elizabeth
King secretary, announce its 18th
annual exhibition to be held in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, February
26 to March %, 1914. The jury
of selection will be composed of the
officers and members of the society
Further information and entry
blanks can be obtained by applying
to the secretary, 1913 Twenty-eighth
street NV, Washington, D. c.
Pictures for the Home.
Much can be said in praise and
appreciation of the purpose and pro-
gram Of the little gallery recently
opened at 127 Randolph place NV.
by the former curator of the How
ard University Art Gallery, Alonzo
B. Alden. The paintings which
largely make up the initial exhibi-
ton are for the most part by Negro
artists, considerable number OF
whom have already gained distinc-
ton. These are shown in a taste
full home atmosphere, primarily to
evidence the desirability of such
possessions. On the second floor
there is an attractive print room
which invites collecting. Informal
talks on art and occasional concerts
Tor small groups are being planned
the desire being to emphasize the
unity OF the arts and create a rea.
art center.
illustrated Art Lectures.
The Corcoran School of Art an
nounces two courses of illustrated
lectures on art to be given during
the present season by Eugen Weisz
instructor, and Richard Lahey
principal. Each will consist of five
lectures to be given in the school
auditorium on successive Tuesday
evenings at $3.50 o'clock. The series
by Mr.. Weisz, which has already
begun, will deal with Subject Mat
ter in the Fine Arts" very live
topic. A nominal fee is charged
for course tickets. Application must
be made to Miss Agnes Mayo
secretary, the Corcoran School OF
Art. IN writing or by telephone
Metropolitan 32ll.
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represented in the principal print
collections both here and abroad.
The Royal Society of Arts, London,
has made him fellow, and at
the hands of his confreres he has
received many medals and awards.
More than half of his prints, now
on view, are portraits of celebrities
writers, artists and statesmen.
Included in this goodly company
are Joseph Conrad, Bernard Shaw
and G. K. Chesterton; Forain,
Agustus John, Lavery and Robert
Henri; also the late Justice Holmes,
not to name all. His style of rem
dering differs widely, at times be-
ing rather bold and again very
sensitive. Obviously he suits it to
his subject. Without question he
has a gift for portraiture, success
fully getting likeness and also indi-
eating character, individuality.
His skill with the etching needle
and his ability as a craftsman are
both evidenced with exceptional
clearness in three architectural
works included in the present COL
lection. They are of ST. Bartho-
news Church, the Cathedral of st.
John the Divine and of the Grand
Central Station, New York, to all
of which he has, through his tran
scription, added distinction. Rarely
does one see finer drawing or bet
ter handling of light and shade
| A word should also be said of
his dry points Of statues-one of a
group at Chartres. another of a
Greek figure, one of the Elgin mar
oles. While capable of great exact
itude, and practicing. it, Mr.. Title
possesses a delicacy of touch which
is very ingratiating.
Brenda Putnam Sculptures.
A monumental work in sculpture
by Brenda Putnam was lately un-
yelled in Lynchburg, Va. Commits
stoned by DR.. Rosalie Slaughter
| Morton as memorial to those OF
her native city whose courage
courtesy and foresight she holds in
highest esteem, it is allegorical in
treatment. Three draped figures OF
women representing; respectively
Vision" ''Fortitude" and Kindli-
ness" stand in group, each facing
IN different direction, thus welded
into unified composition of dignity
and strength. The manner of han
ding is simple and dignified. Placed
On a low platform it can be seen
to excellent advantage against q
background of foliage. Miss Putnam
S best known in Washington by her
bewitching Puck" of the Folger
Memorial. She has, however, num-
erous other works Of equal distinc-
Evening star., 1943-11-14

ton to her credit. The National
Institute of Arts and Letters re-
Gently elected her to membership,
which was a signal honor.
Evening star., 1943-11-14
Current Books
By Mmy-Carfer Roberts.

which contrives to touch on most as
poets Of the islands life, to give
picture of the practical difficulties
in the way of defense and to re-
view Malta history. 1t is told by
means Of brief episodes, each of
which has its point to make, though
offered simply as story. The air.
raid sirens walled 5000 times in
Maj. Gerard's period of residence on
the battered island, and there was
one stretch of five months when, he
says. air bombardment was prac-
tically continuous. 1t conditioned
people. His book shows what that
conditioning was and undertakes to
make its readers understand histori-
cally the isolated little group which
Is Malta's population. 1t is recon-
mended as lucid presentation of a
unique chapter in the present war.
Mrs. Heoton's Daughter
By Dorsha Hayes. (Zif-
DaDiS.)
Miss Hayes has written cross
between an old-fashioned melo-
drama and a modern psychological
novel. The action is frequently
melodramatic, sometimes unneces-
sarily so for what she has in mind,
but she usually manages to lay a
groundwork of sufficient motivation
to carry the action.
The story is essentially triangle
There is Mrs. Heaton, frustrated
In her ambition to be a great singer,
frustrated in the love she finds too
late. There is her daughter, Diana,
a child in some ways, a woman in
others. And there is Nick, who
loves Mrs. Heaton's daughter and
is engaged through most of the
book in trying to sever the bonds
that tie Diana to the woman who
has changed from loving, indulg-
ent mother into ruthless harridan.
Torn between her two loves, Diana
finds refuge and escapes from her
self only in her dancing. The
author was dancer herself before
she turned writer, and her descrip-
/ tions Of dancers spirit bear the
ring of authenticity. Some of her
descriptions of backstage life may
be resented by the theater world,
but she does make a distinction
between the theater's periphery of
cheap characters and the hard
working people who become its stars.
Miss Hayes is inclined to over
emphasize to make her characters
come clear. In her anxiety to make
them understood, she occasionally
makes them unbelievable, but her
writing is rich with the emotion
and the color of the theater.
MIpTAM nTNTENDEDC
Evening star., 1943-11-14
For the Mystery Fans

Brief ReDie1US of Current
DPtocfj7,o Ejof;oO
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
JAPS lombard
CHINESE LINES
Artillery Attack Launched
Against Western Area
OF SaEween

CHUNGKING, Oct. 26.-(R-Jap-
anese artillery opened up bonn
bardment today against the Chi
nese positions west of the SalWeen
river in western Yunnan province
most important battlefront now
active in China-but they failed to
silence the defenders, the Chinese
High Command announced tonight.
A Chinese communique described
the situation unchanged in t h S
strategic sector where the invaders
are seeking to eject the Chinese
from all positions west of the Sal
Ween.
The favorable military situation
in western Yunnan-in which the
American bombers in China play
ed a PARTED Chinese army Of
ficers to predict the Japanese op-
erations would fail miserably, with
the Japanese retiring to their Bur-
ma bases within a few weeks. The
Japanese operations were designed
principally to remove the danger
of an Allied couenterattack against
northern Burma.
Even if the Japanese yet sue
coed in forcing the Chinese back
Chinese military authorities point
ed out, the invaders still would be
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
YUCOSLAVS DRIVE
FOE FROM BASE
Important Industrial City
In Bosnia Taken By
Patriots

LONDON, Oct. 26.- tR Fiery
Yugoslav Partisan fighters have
driven the Germans from the last
Nazi-he1d center of heavy industry
in Bosnia, central Yugoslavia, cap
turing the steel city of Vares-May-
dan after a 12-hour battle, a Yugo-
slav National Liberation m y
communique announced today.
Stockholm reports, meanwhile.
said that Vienna had been bombed
on Sunday, and declared the bomb
ers came from Foggia in Italy in
the first American raid from new
bases there to hit Austria and Hun
gary. Yugoslav patriots assisted
the raid by sabotaging Axis COM
munication lines to Austria and
southern Germany, these reports
added.
The Stockholm newspaper Social
Demokraten said there was chaos
in Vienna as bombs fell in the
unexpected raid from the south.
The Germans had told the people
that the bomb-battered Foggia air.
field would not be ready for use
by Allied planes for another week.
Allied headquarters in Algiers
kept mum as to whether the bomb
ers had come from Italy, or North
African bases. This was the first
report that Vienna had been one
of the targets.
Northwest African Air F e
planes struck yesterday at the Pod
gorica airfield in Yugoslavia, and
against shipping and coastal points.
In the zig-zag struggle for con-
troll of the eastern Mediterranean
islands-a potential gateway f o r
Balkan invasion-the Middle East
command acknowledged that the
island of Kos had been evacuated
successfully.
The Germans invaded Kos Oc-
tober 4 with perhaps 1000 men,
including 1000 parachute troops,
and many planes. It was second
Crete, even down to caiques or
small boats that rescued British
defenders who hid in the hills many
days after the Germans had won
control of the island.
Capture of Wares Maydan. 20
miles north Of Sarajevo, by the
Yugoslavs was announced in a
communique broadcast by the Yu-
goslav radio. Partisan warriors
also stormed into the town of
Brcko on the Sava river far to
the northeast, it said, and the Nazis
had to rush 10000 reinforcements
to bolster 5000 garrison troops in
order to force the patriots to with
draw.
Cairo dispatches said a division
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
Planning Boards Agree
On Mutual Assistance

The findings of surveys being
planned by the City Planning Board
and the City-County Post War
Planning Committee will be made
mutually available it was agreed
in discussions at a joint meeting
of the organizations Tuesday night
at city hall.
Henry R. Emory, chairman of
the City Planning Board, in open
ing the discussion of the differ
entiation of activities and objec-
tives of the two groups said that
it was the purpose of the meeting
to dovetail the work of the two
organizations who have no conflict
in detectives. He pointed out that
the work of the joint city-county
committee was primarily concern
ed with the future including econ
,omic activities and expansions
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
NAZIS RETREATINC
Karnovatka, Two And A
Half Miles From City,
Is Taken
VESELOYE CAPTURED
Hundreds OF German Dead
Left On Streets OF
New Prize

LONDON, Wednesday, Oct.
27.-(P-Soviet forces cap
tured a railway station only
two and a half miles from
strategic Krivoi Rog yester-
day as the Germans - re-
treating in disorder before
the blows of three Russian
armies - sought to extract
themselves from the closing
Dnieper bend trap, Moscow
announced today.
The midnight Russian COM
munique reported that Soviet
units took Karnovatak, two
and a half miles northwest of
Krivoi Rog, industrial, iron
ore and rail center deep in
the Dnieper river bend which
the Germans said the Red
army already is storming.
On the southern arm of the
giant pincers, the war bulletin,
broadcast by Moscow and record
ed here by the Soviet monitor,
told of the capture of Veseloye,
"a miles northwest of Melitopol
after particularly fierce fight.
ing" Hundreds of German dead
were left on the approaches to
the town and in its Streets" the
communique added.
In their drive the three Soviet
armies have taken nearly 100 towns
and villages, % of these being in
the Melitopol sector, where the
Russians advanced from four tc
II miles and are tanning out in
three directions across the STEP
pes and marshlands from the fall
len gateway to the Crimea.
The Germans were said 70 have
lost more than 1000 dead in the
fighting for Dnepropetrovsk and
Dneprodzerzhinsk, newly captured
sister industrial cities on the
Dnieper, while in the latest en-
2agement in the Krivoi Rog area
German casualties amounted to
about two regiments Gnore than
2 900 men, This made a speci-
lied German death toll of $4,000.
Declaring that the Germans were
Offering stubborn resistance in
the Krivoi Rog area-the point
of the northern arm of the pine
ers-the communicate said the
Nazis had thrown in fresh tank
forces including the Oath tank di-
vision recently transferred from
Italy"
The Red air force followed up
ground attacks by bombing con-
centrations of German troops flee
ing the Dnieper bend, wrecking
three railway trains and smashing
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
Wrightsville Fire Unit
Inadequate For Demands

of the pumper feature. This truck
together with a small trailer-type
pumper assigned to the town by
the O.C.D. constitutes our present
fire-fighting equipment which is
and has been inadequate for the
protection needed for the town llv-
ing now on a year round basis. ;"
1.-The town Board of Aldermen
seeing the need for better protec-
ton in the fire department ordered
survey in the fall of 1941 by
the South Eastern Underwriters as
sociation. This survey resulted in
the recommendation that the town
purchase a modern 500-gallon trip
lie combination pumper and install
suction stations at intervals of 300
to 500 feet along Banks Channel
together with other minor require
Continued on Page Nine; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27

The following Navy Day proclamation was is
sued by Mayor Bruce B. Cameron in honor of the men
now serving the nation:
whereas, by official designation October p has
been set apart as Navy Day; and
whereas the Secretary of the Navy has officially
desgnated the Navy League of the United States as
o11cla sponsor to obtain appropriate observance of
Navy Day; and
Whereas the Navy League of the United States has
called upon the people of the nation to devote some
time during the week of October "a to Octobr 80 to ap
propriate celebration of the accomplishments of our
Navy, and particularly on October ~ pay respect to
all of those who by their sacrifice and service in the
Navy has made it the spearhead of victory.
Now, therefore, ], Bruce B. Cameron, Mayor of the
City of Wilmington, North Carolina hereby proclaim
and set apart the week Of October "a to October go
1913, the appropriate and designated period of fit
ting celebration by people and the paying of proper
respect to all of those who in the Navy, Marine
Corps, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine and partcu
larly on October n, 1943 request that our Schools
civic organizations and churches sponsor celebrations
of respect, that all of citizens pause for moment
Of prayer and that accordingly express appre-
citation to all of the aforesaid units constituting our
NavySpearhead of Victory
I'm testimony whereof l. Bruce B. Cameron Nave
aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and caused the Of
ficia seal of the City of Wilmington North Carolina
be hereto affixed; this 23rd day of October 1943
BRUCE B. CAMERON,
Mayor
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27

tie Mondragone hills on the Tyr
rhenlan coast to Vasto On the Adri-
attic shore.
1t is well Fashioned front, &C.
scribed by Allied spokesman as
nearly ideal for defensive pur.
poses 1t looks it on available
Typographical maps. There seems
small hope of any sudden and de-
clslve Allied break-through by
frontal attack given enemy will
to fight it out on that front.
That line also is the last short
and well integrated natural de-
tense front across the Italian pen
lnsula before the Rome hub. A
triple network of major highways
and railroads, all stemming out of
Rome, serve to reinforce its noun
tain and river bulwarks with quick
communications.
But the Mondra gone-Vasto line
IS vulnerable on both flanks as
we'll as in the center where TO-
mile lateral road connecting Vena-
fro and Esneria is the strategic
key. 1t can be turned by leap-frog
amphibian operations at either end
as were successive Nazi positions
in Sicily as the Allies drove their
way around the Mount Etna bas-
ton.
There is no defense line on the
Italian peninsula short of the Etru-
scan Apprentices or the Pc itself
not subject of amphibious flank
ing thrusts. Allied rupture of he
eastern end of the Vasto line in
Continued on Page Five; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
Kirke Simpson Says:
Foes Greatest Crisis
Near In Dnieper Bend

Nazidom's greatest crisis is tax
ing shape in the Russian-Germar
death grapple in the Dnieper bend
and below it.
On its outcome, and on the Rus
slams ability to exploit twin break
throughs that have shattered the
Nazi right flank position from
Kiev to the Crimea, may turn the
whole trend of the struggle.
By contrast, the slow-paced
Allied advance in Italy offers small
prospect of early decisive devel-
opments. There remains no doubt,
however, that American-British
troops slogging their way north
ward toward Rome-methodically,
remorselessly and step by step
are aiding their Red Army COM
rades-ln-arms as much as though
they were fighting shoulder to
shoulder with them in Russia.
They are pinning the bulk of the
Nazi strategic reserves in a los
ing battle. The Nazi press now ad-
mits that lack of those troops to
brace the east front has forced
the Germen retreat to the Dnieper
and now flight to the Bug line
that could become a morale-crush-
ing disaster.
In Italy the fight obviously is
entering new phase, the first
phase of the actual battle of Rome.
Allied military spokesman figure
that the Nazi retreat from the Vol
turno-Biferno line above Naples
is about completed. The enemy,
by every sign, is preparing to
stand again On a short line from