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Evening star., 1943-09-12
|Newsnlail Tells
Of Japanese
Rutl1lessness
Ny Wor. With Jopon

By Carroll Alcott. Henry Holt.)
China. not Japan. was the logical
choice Is stabilixing factor In the
Far East, but America and Britain
failed to recognize this fact, ana we
are paying for this hlunder today
IN lives, cash and toll. Such Is the
theme Of Carroll Alcott's book. trsc.
ing japanese dupiicity before Pearl
Harbor.
The book. In spots, q wearisome,
8 the author tells Of personal dif-
nculties with the overbearing MD
ponese. Still, he had to pcrsouali7e
his story to give his book validity.
HIS conclusions, rather than his
personal experiences as newspaper
editor and radio commentator.
should be Of value to the pcace-
makers when victory is achieved.
Witness theseetwo paragraphs:
1T can be said that the United
States. In reality, gave Japan her
industry. The Germans presented
her with modern army. She copied
her navy from the British. The
Chinese also contributed heavily to
Japanese development. They gave
Japan her art and much Of her
culture. They are mentioned mere
ly to point up the fact that the his
tory OF Japan, as an empire, has
been one of planned, often deceit
ful, aggrandizement. In dealing with
that sort Of an enemy, 1t Is OBJ
vious there can be no temporizing,
no soft-heartedness.
Japan already has completed the
flrst and second phases of her pro-
gram. The third and last step Is
to unite the races OF Asia under
Japanese rule, with the idea Of
eventually fighting the rest Of the
world and bringing 1t under the
Mikado. The Japs are working on
that plan now. They will continue
to work on it until they have been
so badly defeated and 80 completely
crushed they never can rise to pow
er again."
Mr.. Alcott cites chapter and verse
n support Of his thesis. He en-
phasizes that crime and idealism
are two different things, and that
the same law must be applied to
international gangsters as Is ap.
piled to the individual criminal,
both being menaces to society. A
reading Of Mr.. Alcott's book sheds
additional light on the ruthlessness
Of our Pacific foe.
ROBERT G. HARPER.
Evening star., 1943-09-12

home on leave. The boy does not
understand what has happened 20
him; he continues his journey and
arrives to find his home as it was
in the days of his great-grandpar-
ents, for whom the problems of post
Civil War days seemed great and
absorbing. Mr.. Nathan uses his
customary gentle irony and wise
sweetness irAtelling his little tale.
Malta Spitfire
By Flying officer George r.
Beurlng and Leslie Roberts.
fFarrar & RinehdrtJ
Unattended by book club escort
though it be-. Malta Spitfire" is far
and away the best air book Of the
last year. It is pure fact, undressed
and unvarnished, and it is the
stronger for the lack of something
that is generally thought a neces-
sity even in q war book; to wit,
"love interest" Flying Officer Beur-
ling had no little woman back home,
no girl waiting in Montreal. The
only girl who figures at all is one
he happened to be watching in
London street one day, an hour be-
fore one of her legs was amputated
as the result of German attack.
And Leslie Roberts, who talked II
straight days with Beurling in
Canadian hospital, has had the good
sense to pour out the story just as
Beurling must have told it-no IS
words, no padding, no arrange
ments" and quite a lot of pro-
family sprinkled through. Once
in a while Roberts takes over the
mike to insert, as asides, explana-
tions of things which Beurling SHE'D
from.
Beurling is a Montreal kid who
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Supper at the MoxweII
House
By Alfred Leland Crabb.
(BObbS- Merrill

~ AJfCU LStUHu IFQOOs
fBobbs-MerriH.)
This novel of life in Nashville
after the Civil War is a continuation
of MIR. Crabb's earlier story Of that
city, Dinner at Belmont" The
hrst book dealt with captured Nash
vile, while the present volume tells
the story of recaptured Nashville
recaptured by the people themselves,
through their faith and their de-
termination to keep the city as It
was before the war. ~
To emphasize his point, Mr.. Crabb
has chosen an individual-Weaver
Cole-to represent the spirit of the
people Of Nashville. Weaver's fam
lily home, Kingsley, was bought by
q man from the North, after the
death Of Weaver's father. When
the Coles left their home, Weaver
made VOW that he would not re-
turn until it was once again owned
by his family. He kept this vow.
and was able to repurchase Kings
ley after working many years to
accumulate the money.
Probably the outstanding char
acter in the book is one referred to
only as "the driver" who was very
popular in Dinner at Belmont"
He was a typical American. and his
fine sense of humor WAS instru-
mental in keeping the spirit of the
people high. He did many won
derful things for his friends-some
of them small in size, but big In
meaning-things they would never
forget.
For few hours OF light reading,
this Is a we'll written and entertain
ing story Of the reconstruction
period in the South.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
The Hidden Enemy

0y HcIUS ROT. NJ eSSHST.J
In this book. the by now pretty
we'll advertised fact that Germany
makes war according to plan, and
not just by accident. is once more
exposed to the public view. Heinz
Pol, one of Americas colony of
refugees and a former assistant
editor OF the Berlin Vossiche Zeitung,
has written resoundingly to the
effect that Germany has a history
OF militarism, that her militarism
derives from militarists, that these
militarists, rather than any parti-
cular governmental regime, are
responsible for her periodic assaults
on civilization, and that the aim of
these assaults is to establish Ger
man domination over the world. To
the testimony afforded at the mo-
ment by the entire planet to the
truth of Mr.. Polls claims, the re-
viewer adds her slender mite of ap-
probation. To it, she is forced fur
ther to add, however, that, in view
of this same testimony, Mr.. Polls
announcement can hardly be re-
garded as hot news.
In sum, his work is q review of
Germany's aggressive movements
since the eos, written from the point
OF view that the Pan-German
League was either the originator or
the strong abettor of every Ger
man threat to the worlds peace.
The league, he says, supplied Hitler
with his program, down to its casual
details. 1t also supplied Wilhelm II
with his program. When Wilhelm
was defeated, the league cast him
heartlessly aside. Right now, it is
getting ready similarly to abandon
Hitler and is working on plans for
World War III. Unless we destroy
the league, we are up against it,
says Mr.. Pol in miniatory tones.
He recommends, then, a great
purge" to be waged at the end of
this war. 1t must take in close to
half a million of his countrymen,
he observes. But, at this point, his
stern realism takes a sudden fall,
and he concludes that the purge
must not be carried out by the
victors, but must be left to the
Germans themselves. Those good"
Germans, about which we always
hear such a plenty during any
German-inspired war, must be
given their freedom to eliminate
the bad" Germans who habitually
mislead their conf1ding selves into
trouble. Then, with her evil genius
removed, the reformed nation will
take its place sincerely among
civilized states. Somehow, the re-
viewer feels that the program lacks
assurance of turning out that way.
1t is putting a lot of trust in the
good" Germans who, so far, have
shown themselves capable of moth
ing except to be pushed around.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Greece Against the Axis

By It.. Col. Stanley Casson.
fAmerican Council on Public
Ardirs.J
AS the author points out in his
preface, this Is "a story of the
greatest catastrophe which has ever
overwhelmed the Greek people" But
it Is also story of almost unbeliev-
able heroism, told by man who saw
it with his own eyes. Col. Casson
was a member of the British Mill
tary Mission in Greece during that
country's struggle to remain free,
and his book is a record Of what he
saw and heard and thought and
felt. No one can read it wrrrout
agreeing with him that Greece has
made her name forever In modern
history" P. H. l..
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Cary Fordyee
By Louise Platt Hauch. (Dodd,

0y LOUtSE TIULL xUUCW. UOUu,
Mead.)
This book comes under the head
of summer literature and summer
literature with rather juvenile
slant, at that. However, it has a
nice little plot all decked out In the
modern manner with Army officers
and defense plants. The heroine is
an unwordly big sister, who takes
under her wing an unsophisticated
f1irt OF a little sister. This is a
novel that will never set the world
on fire. Yet, on the other hand, it
may make the reader forget for a
few hours that the world is on fire.
r. r. TAYNTQN
Evening star., 1943-09-12
But Gently Day
By Robert Natht

oy HOOeTt NUtHGH. thnOpJJ
In this latest typical novelette,,
that old master Of smiles through
tears, Robert Nathan, mildly offers
the idea that the predicament in
which we find ourselves is not quite
new under the sun. He proceeds
by telling us of young soldier who
is killed in an air crash while going
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Hit the Rivet, Sister
By Ann Pendleton. (Ho,p
CocLj,,

SoSkin.)
Miss Pendleton is a Beacon Hill
society girl who has left off study
Ior a Pm. D. IN child psychology
TO take a job as a riveter for the
duration. Her society background
and extensive education have not
IN the least embarrassed her fellow
workers. They have embarrassed
only Miss Pendleton.
The story of her fight to conceal
her A. B. degree and her determine
ton not to be promoted to an sin
spector" makes diverting reading
1t treats the whole subject of war
factories In such an amusing vein
that many who have so far resisted
pleas of War Manpower Chief Nc
Mutt might well be influenced to
rivet. MARION WADE DOYLE.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Best Sellers
FICTION
FICTION.

The Robe, by Lloyd C. Doug
las.
Hungry Hill, by Daphne Du
Maurier.
The Human Comedy, by Will
liam Saroyan.
The Ship, by C., S. Forester.
So Little Time, by John P.
Marquand.
NON-FICTION.
30 Seconds Over Toxic, by
Capt. Ted Lawson.
Under Cover, by John Roy
Carlson.
U. S. Foreign Policy, by Wal
ter Lippmann.
One World, by Wendell L.
Willkie.
Journey Among Warriors, by
Eve Curie.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Americas Role in Asia
By Harry Patton HoUard.
(HotDeU, SoSkin.)

by Harry Patton HoUdrd.
(Ho,oell, Soskin.) =
1t would be hard to imagine a
more bitter indictment of the. role
81 Western powers in the Far East
than has been written by Harry
Paxton Howard, journalist in Japan
and China for Is years. His thesis
which probably will not prove too
popular In the midst of war, is
simply this:
China, in the last 800 years, has
declined in power and sunk deeper
and deeper into subsection by West
ern powers, while Japan has become
the Leading power of the Far East.
He believes that the reversal of
power lies in the influences and
pressures of Western countries
which militarized Japan as a part
ner against China toward the end
OF the 18th century.
AS told by the author, it's a story
OF corruption, intrigue and brutal
lty 1t is well documented, how
ever, and should give the reader
some thoughts for sober reflection.
BAINBRIDGE cPIer
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Doyight on Saturday
By J. B. Priesiley. (

By J. B. Pr1eSLLey. (HGrperJ
This novel deals with the post
Dunkirk state of the English mind,
as contrasted with the indomitable
temper of that famous period. In
Mr.. Priestley's view, the contrast is
not favorable. England has slumped,
he says. The politicians are crawl
ing out OF their holes and reaching
for power again, and the people are
letting them get it. Altogether, Mr..
Priestley gives a depressing picture
of his countrymen as victory begins
to seem to them assured.
His story is told in terms Of a
huge airplane factory. The leading
character is the superintendent,
who, by sheer fury, got production
going in the Dunkirk period. He is
recognized by every one connected
with the plant as the man who
saved the day, but he is edged out
as the swing toward political ma
neuvering begins, and his place is
given to an old-school-tie lad with
Fascist tendencies. The workers are
aware of the edging, but. with their
personal safety no longer menaced,
they have sunk back into indiffer-
ence
Mr.. Priestley's pessimism is inter-
esting, and his novel is brought off
with good deal of skill.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Current Books
By Mary-Carfer Roberts.

and the African colonies be inter-
nationalized; plead for more gen.
erous immigration policies to take
care of overpopulation; suggest that
the Mediterranean be kept free from
the domination of any one power by
an international police force. They
recommend that Italy pay her war
reparations by contributing free
labor. Above all, they insist that
there be 4 purge of all Fascist lead
ers above certain rank, and that
the entire clique which has been
associated with Mussolini be swept
away. They reject Indignantly
Prime Minister Churchills claim
that "one man" has been responsible
for Italy's policies. All high-rank-
ing Fascists share the guilt, they
assert, and all must suffer.
A very large section of the book
is given over to an examination OF
the relations to be maintained by
the victors with the Vatican. The
authors feel that it is most i'm
portant that the independence of
the Holy See be assured and that
Fascist-minded churcnmen be re-
moved from power, or, as they put it,
"purged. ...-e
Evening star., 1943-09-12
What to Do With Italy

Uut ~ ~ WIN ItOIy
By Gaetano SdlUemini and
George La Piand. (DueH,
Sloan & Pedrce.J
This book contains plan for
dealing with Italy now that the
Fascist government has been de-
feated. Its authors are two dis
linguistic dscholars. Prof. Salve-
mini is refugee from fascism who
once so aroused Mussolini's rage
that the Duce challenged him to
a duel. Prof. La Piana has been
connected with Harvard Univer-
sity for more than 20 years and
is now professor of church his
tory there. They recommend the
establishment of republican regime
in their motherland with the re-
moval from all power of the House
Of Savoy; urge that Albania and the
Dodecanese Islands be relinquished
the Yugoslavia boundary be rectifled
Evening star., 1943-09-12

The Toughest Fighting in
World
By George H. Johnston,
(DueH, Sloan e. Pedrce.)
G. !. Jungle
BY E. J. Kahn, Jr. (Simon G.
Cehaetn~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13
Buried In
ThdtB0iIed

7-HE mystery Of the boiling and cracking graves of
the Kartooran family plot i'm the cemetery at Dogan-
schir. Prley which have long struck terror To resi-
dents the community given Near East
goosencsh has finally been solved
Despite satisfactory explanation as what caused
strange nights to shine through cracks IN the mounds coy
crne The deceased mcnhers Of The queer Kartoorau
family and hnhhiing orupons of thick and eoocy chcmi
Gals 10 gush ont of Their bU1H4 places. there still
people Turkey who cling TO the theory that witches
used the collins Caudrons FOR their evil alchemy
Investigators who opened the eight mystery graves
the members tho KaroOrian family
psychn- nrHrest& scientists ticscribr niChto
phobaor fear OF the dark This obscssion in life they
say followed all of the members the graveyard after
death 1t resulted in Of the most sensational post
norton insurance" plans in an history to provide per-
,c'ual illumination their graves.
The ghostly lights that enanatcd from chance open.
lngs the graves electric light bulbs
round and The boiling chemicals which sometimes spouted
rom the same holes were created hy the deterioration
giant storage batteries which the kartoorian clan had
laJ buried with them.
While it is not at all unusual for person suffer
from nchtophobia psychatriss have rarely recorded
where all Of the members OF family stricken
with the dread mental abnomality
The eight Kartoouans- father mother and six chill
AN wealthy slept each night with al of the lights
I'M their house burning brfhtlv Special bulbs big lights
spotlights were installed in tho basement and
attic of tho residence Candles were always haniv placed
for case the power failed
When the elder Kartoorau passed away. his faithful
widow and children Installed his grave elaborate
lighting system connected with meter in their home
traptoor WIS provided TO the grave in order that
bulbs could Doe inserted into sockets whom old ones
ont one 10y one the Kartoorians died but long
survivors remained. there little fear that any
corpse would rcposc in darkness Kartooran grave
Finally only Kartooran OF the immediate family
remained alive and De faced with the responsibility
az insurrc light for the seven loved buried
af'er be was gone as long as ne lived the family plan
for grave illumination safe enough but Dhjamgoff
Ktrtoarau lived fear Of tho day WHOM hc too would
die and mo- one would remain who could Toe counted upon
change bulbs keep the electric system
just h,Gor, his death hc ordered the installation Of
a, a,.,. possible. storage batterte. cl,auae each one
.H' r.r1
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13

store This time he really alarmed and felt that
II his duty 10 act he had written his anonymous
warning TO the police.
Then, after reading of the actual robbery in the
his story.
DonNo decided that the youth sincere, but
that what he said incredible. Nor being thorough
going and conscientious police official he entirely
without suspicion 1t possible he considered that
young de AlCala might have had understand
able knowledge of these crimes than dreams To be
he rich of good social position but the police
records filled with of and who
had turned to get thrill from life that other
wise bored them
oThanIz You Don Pedro he said and rest assured
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13

shots at the chief not a block from his office.
Now Don Jose had dc Alcala brought
You had better confess than later" thun-
dcrcd the Infatuated Confess that you have
had association with gang of criminals and have
been trying yourself by absurd stories"
The young millionaire. however. firm in his
denial and finally the unbec1ng Don Mlrequn ordered
him locked up and held incommunicado.
At the end OF two weeks Don Mirequin told that
the prisoner wished speak with him He had dc Alcala
brought his office confident that had
last broken the young mans obstnacy But de Acaa had
something different to say.
Listen, Don Mireqin" he declared for two weeks
have sent received a letter, talked with any
your and yourself Now dreamed last night
that midnight tonight crooks VIII blow the vault of the
Banquc Nacioual de Rosario
still skeptical Don Milrequn laid a police trap in
the bank and at midnight his men captured gang Of
notorious Buenos Aires bank-robbers.
The Rosario police released the crime dreamer with
apologies and now waiting for his next dream.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13
Where Youngsters Have To Be
. == LdssOed Into Learning Sc

who had been told all about the new
"Escula Panchto named in his honor
They arrived late at night, so Pancho
and tho Don awaited the morning 10
see the school in operation
Paucho was awakened az eight
O'Clock by frantic shouts IIo dashed
10 window and saw the Valcz cow.
boys. mounted on horses chasing In
dian youngsters with lassocs and catch
ing the squcaling boys and girls who
had been selected for education
Al the door Of the schoolhousc the
teacher stood checking In each young
ster as IL was dragged 10 the door
ON the steps Of the hacienda house
was the old Non ewing directions TO.
his cowboys lie Seemed worried when
Pancho REACHED HIS side
son" said the Don this is worse
than The Spring roundup. How much
education do You think the little ones
Wen have 10 hire some extra hands"
educational experiment is over Pancho
United states and now the schoolhousc
The Indian Youngsters are
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13
\ on JOSE MILREQULN. chof OF police OF the pro

HON JOSE MILREQUIN chief Of police of the pro-
j viucal metropolis of@Rosaiio i'm Argentina. simply
%~ couldn't believe his He gazed, wonderngly. at
the young ma The visitors chair beside his official dcs
Ibid understand you 10 say, Senior" asked the police
Official that you knew that the shop of the jeweler,
Miguel Flores going TO be robbed night before last
yes, Don jose said young Pedro de Alcala, of
the Wcathicst and best known youths in Rosario.
"But, why" asked Mirequin didn't you give your
information 10 the police
II did" replied the young millionaire
"Tut we have received such report from you"
II sent the information to you anonymous
letter 1t seemed TO be the only way"
But" said tho police officer pay little attention
to such letters. fou should realize that Why didn't
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13

realized suhconscousy that they nothing but dreams
They did not brighten when they terrible in
nature However they generally pleasant dreams
and as matter of fact enjoyed this kind Of double life
Tt was month ago when l dreamed that
witnessing the murder of young woman who had been
kidnapped by two rcpusve looking thugs They stabbed
her TO death in dngy little rancho the pampas May
ask If there is anything familiar ABOUT that dream"
The face OF the police chief had grown lined and
stern He stared intenty at the young
'Of course, it seems familiar Senior You must be
aware that you speaking Of the kidnapping and murder
of poor Carmen Espiuosa And you must also be
that only last week arrested two Eauchos and charged
them with the crime. You must have read all that in
the newspapers"
Certainly read it in the press But when finished
the story with the confessions of the gauchos it
curred 10 me that here, word for word and action FOR
action almost my odd dream"
DE Alcaa went to explain that he had put this
down first of all, to coincidence but tha only three nights
ago ne had dreamed the robbery of the Flores ewery
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13

name o."
Because if 7
had you W ouId
have thought that
WIS either crazy
or trying to make
the police the oh
ject Of n pra C.
teal joke. And l
did not wish to
place myself in any
such position. You
see" he continued
calmly, Il dreamed
a bout TIN rob
berry"
d on Milrequin
looked at him GU
riously. He W a $
ryin e to deter
mine whether tie
Alcala was trying
10 DC humorous at
the expense Of the
National Il oliCc.
Certainly it did not
seem likely - and
yet there were
times when rich
V oun & men did
queer things.
You'd better
tell me about it"
he said clipping
the end from a
cigar and lighting
it.
well Colonel il
is this way I al.
ways have had cx-
{ r e m G ! V vivid
dreams. They were
not Nightmares, for
no matter how ViV-
id they seem e q
W h @ n ! dreamed
them, I alw IS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13

that we shall be
happy to be in
formed Of any fur
ther dreams along
these lines that
YOU may have. -
"ISsee," said the
young man, rising
with dignity and
going to the door,
that you do not
believe my story.
Yet it is true"
1 Wo Gays passed
and the detectives
who had been as.
signed to shadow
I h e young crime
dreamer reported
that Don = dro
lived a normal life
Then e arfY one
morning. Don Mil
CcquIn was aWak-
q by a tele-
phone call.
For the love Of
heaven. Don lose 4"
said the agitated
voice Of bon Pedro
de Alcala, watch
yourself carefully
/ n a V @ ! u s [
dreamed that an
attempt viii be
made TO assassin
ate you when you
20 TO your office
in the morning
The police chief
went back 20 bed
un q isturbed. He
still had no faith
in the young mans
dreams.
The next morn
ing a discharged
convict fired three
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2 June ~. Iat3
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13

Thank you, Don Pedro he