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Evening star., 1943-07-18

the American Contract Bridge
League. He was one of the coun-
try's ablest and best-known play
ers. He died at his home in De-
troit at the age Of Ct.
Another famous patron Of the
popular pastime called by death re-
Gently was Frank Bruelheide of
Minneapolis, well known in Wash
ington, where he was frequent
visitor. He was a publisher of
bridge books, an author and lee
turer on the game.
American Contract Bridge League
has announced seven special master
point games as feature of its
forthcoming summer tournament to
be held in New York City. They
are designed to give players an op-
portunity to earn the one, two or
more master points they may need
to reach their goal. Participants
will not be required to be members
of the league or to hold master
points at the time they enter the
contests. No registration will be
necessary. The schedule OF master
point awards will be the same for
all these one-session events. VIM
ners will receive two master points
and runners-up one.
Among the new masters regis
tered by the league are the follow
ing Washingtonians: DR.. w. H.
Gorton, DR.. N. J. McHugh and
Charles A. Lyons. New Washing
ton junior masters are Mrs. John
Coffee, wife of Representative John
Coffee of Washington State, w. P.
Lantz and George L. Powell.
It was the Zimmers' night on
Tuesday at the Federal Bridge
League. Throughout the play there
was see-saw between c. w. Zim-
mer and his partner, Edith Fink,
and Mrs. thinner. who was playing
with George Kathan. president Of
the league. In the finish Mr.. Zim-
mer and Mrs. Fink were first.
north and south. and Mrs. thinner
and Mr.. Kathan were second. DR..
w. H. Gorton and Sergt. Dingle
were third. East and west leaders
were Mr.. and Mrs. L. Salvatorel,
first; B. Rosson and DR.. A. J. Stein
berg, second, and Mrs. L. McConkie
and r. H. Higgins, third
The Washington Bridge League
inaugurated the first of its July
master point games at the Shoreham
Hotel. on Wednesday. The winners
were DR.. and Mrs. A. ]. Steinberg,
first: Mrs. Kitty Boyle and Mrs.
M. r.. Reddy, second; Mrs Rich
mond Skinner and al" Roth, third;
John Darsey and Capt. j. E. Teagin,
fourth. and Mr.. md Mrs. g. l.. Dick
tnson. nth.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
In Local Bridge Circles 60.
By Frank B. Lord.

A new duplicate game will be
started tomorrow night at the ON
GERS Club in the Cairo Hotel. The
play will be limited to officers of
the armed forces, both men and
women, including those Of the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard and their invited guests.
AL Roth, world champion who is
still claimed by Washington al
though he has recently removed to
New York for war work, was a week.
end guest at the Cheeks Country
Bridge Club, Churchton. Md. AS
might be expected, there was almost
continuous bridge playing for two
days, with many of Washington S
best talent seeking an opportunity
to test their skill against the ex-
pert. william Cheeks and Mrs.
Henry C.. Wolfe. the wife of Brig.
Gen. Henry c. Wolfe who is now in
Africa actink as aide to Gen. Eisen-
hover, were the principal winners
"Al" Is devoting his spare time
to writing a book on bridge in which
he will expound some of the theories
and explain the bidding and plays
which enabled him within one year
to win three national championship
events. the National Open Pair
championship at Syracuse last De-
cember, the Masters Individual in
New York and the Vanderbilt Cup.
He was scheduled to play in the 18th
annual summer tournament of the
American Contract Bridge League
in New York during the first week
of August with Tobias Stone, but
Mr.. Stones recent induction into
the Army will make it impossible
for him to participate in these
events. It Is expected that Mr.. Roth
will select as his partner Harry
Fishbein, another New York expert,
and the combination will be for
midable one. Mr.. Roth will enter
the Army in about two months.
The Women's Auxiliary of the
Washington Bridge League feels
very proud of what its members are
doing to advance the wsr effort be-
sides playing bridge. Some Is of
them have organized a Red Cross
unit which meets every Tuesday
afternoon at the Walsh Mansion to
prepare surgical dressings. They
welcome others who may wish to
join their group in this worthy
work. ...- .-
The auxiliary, as its summer &C
tivity, has contributed $25 toward
the purchase of clubmobile to be
used overseas.
Washington bridge players have
noted with sorrow the passing of
r. r. Richards, founder and first
president of the American Bridge
League, one Of the predecessors Of
the present national organization.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
By Florence S. Berryman.

Cartoons are a branch of art in
which the transmission of ideas Is
paramount This is currently DEM
onstrated by the exhibition of orig
inal cartoons by Clifford K. Berry
man now on view at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art.
The storytelling" aspect of pic
lures, so strongly condemned by
modern artists, is the lifeblood of
a cartoon. A drawing may be beau
tifully executed, may have decora-
tive quality, admirable composition
and creative design, all of which will
make it good art. But unless it pre-
sents an idea, forcefully and con-
vincingly, 1t is not good cartoon.
The primary Importance of ideas
has always been stressed by Mr..
Bergman. Many boy in his teens,
aspiring to be a cartoonist, and in
some cases having gotten a start on
his high school paper. has come to
The Stars cartoonist for advice.
Study history and politics." Mr..
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Forty Poems, 7935-7o43

By Robert Knor Bishop and
John Claiborne DaviS. (St.
Adams PreSs.)
These poems, taken together, are
picture of the cropping spirit of
the age in which we live-an age
in which people everywhere are try
ing to find some sort of practical
reconciliation of the contradictions
they encounter on every hand. Fol-
lowers OF the two poets will find this
new collection of their work up to
their usual standard. Some of the
poems saw previous publication in
The Star and other newspapers.
p. H. L.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Richberg Sees !,
y. S. Way as
Basic Model
Government and Business
Tomorrow

By Donald Richberg. (Harper.)
In the eager swarm Of books about
what we ought to do when the war
Is over this one belongs with that
small minority which so far has
seemed to relate dreams to reality
and the desirable future to the his
torical past. Mr.. Richberg Is like the
windy minds in wanting much
better world, but he differs from
them in estimating what better
world will be and how to 60 about
getting it. He thinks, for example,
that our American system, though
not perfect, has provided a satisfac-
tory model for the future design.
He suggests few improvements
within that models limits. The aim
Of those changes, however, is not to
destroy our traditional democracy
under the guise of making it work
better, but to preserve it in chang
ing world.
In the controversial field Of pri-
vate enterprise versus governmental
control, for example, he points out
that at present neither side has a
definite statement of its RESPONSE
bilities or powers. Business is sub
Ject to direction by many govern
mental agencies which operate vir-
tually as laws unto themselves.
These agencies, moreover, duplicate
and contradict themselves. Nowhere
is there clear statement of the
rights of both sides, drawn up in
legal and constitutional manner to
serve as a guide and a reference.
There should be such a statement
covering the whole course, says Mr..
Richberg, and the present confused
condition should be ended. That
makes sense.
Again, in the disputed territory
between capital and labor there is,
says Mr.. Richberg, need for clari-
f1cation. The element which has
kept this dispute raging so con-
stantly and has made it so bitter
on both sides is, in his view, the
element of violence. Business has
used economic violence against
workers and workers have used
physical and class violence against
business. The future calls for elm
ination of violence of any kind.
Get the gangsters out of the labor
unions and end the labor rackets
which at present disfigure the pic
ture, draw up regulations which Will
prevent the life of the worker from
being violently interrupted by eco
nomic disaster, and then let both
sides go ahead. Government, says
Mr.. Richberg, should act only as a
mediator Or referee after that in
cases where private mediation fails
to bring results. r,-',
With like fundamentalism in
common sense he considers num-
ber of pastwar problems. He par
ticularly deplores class antagonisms
and warns that such strife within
our Nation will make it prey to the
European maladies of Fascism and
Communism sooner than any kind
of penetration. His book deserves
wide public. The reviewer would like
to put it. together with Edgar
Queeny's THE Spirit of Enterprise"
on the desk of every congressman.
The pair formulate excellently the
spirit of our American history.
NC r
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at $18 1000, while colored monotype
by Degas, "Danseuse," fetched 81, 300
Twenty-Five years ago paintings
by American artists of especial note
sold from $4,000 to-in rare in
stances-$50 900, but during the past
season there were no outstanding
records for such in the auction room
sales.
London Art Market.
The London art market is, accord
ing to report, very similar to our
own. There, as we'll as here, ac-
cording to r. P. Grieg, in "The
Connoisseur, interest does not flag,
nor Is there want of buyers. Curl
ously enough, the complaint of the
dealers is that there are more
would-be buyers than works to be
bought-the result of collections
having been dispersed earlier to
meet war taxes and restore depleted
incomes.
There has been in London boom
in old English silver, as there has
been here for silver of American
make. Persian carpets and rugs
have also been sought and we'll paid
for. A remarkable occurrence was
the bombing of London during a
sale for the benefit of the Red Cross
last January. when the sale went
on without interruption and next
to none of those in the audience
left their seats.
1t should be understood that the
prices quoted for works of art are
exclusively in the auction room
and not at private sale, and there
fore only cover a section of the art
market. The art museums of the
country for example have acquired
some very valuable works during the
past year, but the amounts paid
therefor have not been made pub
Evening star., 1943-07-18
The Century of the
Common Man

By Henry A. Wallace. Edited
By Russell Lord. (Reyndl &
Hitchcock
This Is a sampling drawn from
the recent public papers of Vice
President Wallace. concerned for the
most part with the problems of a
postwar America and world. 1t is
very noble in tone and. whatever
your political faith may be, there is
something in it to appeal to you.
Mr.. Wallace speaks in favor OF
private enterprise-and also of Gov
ernment control. He declares his
faith in the common man-and also
makes 1t plain that he considers
Evening star., 1943-07-18

lie. This is, as rule, true of works
acquired through dealers or from
the artists direct. However, the auc-
ton prices may invariably be taken
as a general index to commercial
value and public estimate.
When the art market slumps it is
the contemporary artists who suf-
fer most, for sufficient time has not
elapsed to fix, for them, valuations.
This also applies to contemporary
printmakers, although it is true that
some Of our best are able to main
tain former appraisals.
A work Of art is worth what some
one will give for it-no more, no
less. 1t is for this reason that the
prices obtained in the leading art
markets are not only Of interest but
great significance. AS in other fields,
supply and demand control not
merely prices but the quality of the
commodity and its intimate asso-
citation with life.
Exhibition of Prints
The division of graphic arts Of the
United States National Museum is
showing for the month of July an
exhibition of prints by contempo-
rary printmskers, selected from it's
permanent collection. Among the
artists represented are John Taylor
Arms, Mildred Bryant Brooks, Ma
bel Dwight, Kerr Eby, Fritz Eichen-
berg, John Groth, Alfred Hutty,
Bertha E. Jaques, Philip Kappel,
Martin Lewis, George T. Plowman,
Louis c. Rosenberg, Ernest D. Roth,
Chauncey F. Ryder, John Sloan and
others.
This exhibition is being held in
the new exhibition gallery of the
division of graphic arts in the
Smithsonian Building, the Mall,
Jefferson drive at Tenth street.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
A FWe-Yeor Peace Plan
BIZ Ed,Dard J. By1ag. (coDard-
McCdnn.)

MCCQHHJ
If the countries Of the world go
to the conference table after this
war without any definite plans. 1t
will not be the fault OF political
writer's. And here is another book
on postwar planning, which has ap-
parently become the great indoor
American sport.
It attempts to set forth the eco
nomic and political framework Of
the future, as well as plans for what
might be termed a democratic Of
fensive on the educational front.
With all due respect to the author,
who has had years of experience
as foreign correspondent for a press
association, he has tried to do
something no one man should try
to do or can do-settle the affairs of
very mixed-up world.
The book, however, should prove
of interest to those who are con-
cerned over planning for the future,
for it contains a number of specific
proposals, which at least form q
basis Of discussion.
BAINBRIDdE CRIsT.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
War Wings for Carol
By Patricia O'Malley. (Dodd

By Patricia O'M1lley. (DOdd,
MeadJ .,.
This is an aviation novel for older
girls, written by Washington's Pa
tricia O'Malley. Miss OMalley has
been active in the field of aviation
for l8 years and is now manager Of
the public information department
for Transcontinental e. Western
Air, Inc.
The story deals with a young air.
line hostess who becomes assistant
to an executive at a new air base in
Northern Maine. Against a moving
background of wartime flying oper-
ations, the plot-complete with spy
will satisfy young readers who
have met Carol" in a previous book,
as we'll as her new acquaintances.
Real merit, however. lies in the au-
thor's authentic and interesting de-
scriptions of aviation life.
HARRIET GRIFFITHS,
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Africa: Facts and Forecasts
By Albert Q. MaiSel. (Duell,
Sloan & Pedrce)

./
Because of the role Africa already
has played in Americas part in the
war, and because of the future role
she is to play, this is particularly
timely book.
1t records data that will be i'm
mersely useful to followers of the
war, but it has another purpose, too,
for Africa is coming out of her shell.
From Rabat to Capetown, she is
undergoing great changes and she
ceases to be dark, slumbering
continent. Africa now presents the
world with numerous and serious
problems, not only for the duration
Of the war, but when the time comes
to reconstruct the world.
Literally interspersed with maps.
Africa: Facts and Forecasts" gives
the answers to such questions as:
What does Africa mean to the world
at war? What is Africa like, what
do her people think and do and
work at? What do other nations
expect to gain or lose in Africa's
lands? GEORGE CLARK.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Torpedo 8
By ira Woltert. (Houghton

Io5pedo 8 ..-.s---
By Ira Wolfert. (Houghton
Mi1fin.) ~.
When the Nays Torpedo Squad
ron 8 took the air in combat for
the first time at the Battle of Mid
way it consisted of six torpedo
carrying planes and As men. In q
few-very few-minutes 1t consisted
Of one plane with one of its crew of
three injured beyond resumption of
duty. They had been jumped by
about 30 Zeros. Requirements we're
sent in and the officer who had
trained the original outfit trained
the new one. Up to that time the
squadron's motto had been ATTACK"
The officer, 1t. Harold H. (Swede)
Larsen, changed that. He made the
motto "attack - and vengeance.
Within little over the next three
months Torpedo carried out 80
attack missions. 1t accounted for
two Jap carriers, a Jap battleship,
five heavy cruisers, four light
cruisers, one destroyer and one
transport. Its AZ dead had been paid
for, not in hundreds but in thou
sands.
That is the story that Ira Wolfert
tells here, tells in short book OF
only 1877 pages, tells with a cal
culated brilliance which marks him
for the artist. He saw the exploit
OF Torpedo 8 as thing in itself
an episode clear cut and apart in
the vast confusion of the global
war, not less noble than the Spar
tans at Thermopylae or Pickett S
charge at Gettysburg, and he has
told it in such proportions. In
language he is superb. He has gotten
the vernacular of the present gen.
Grafton better than any writer whom
the reviewer has yet read. He quotes
his f1shting Americans in such words
as Americans use-'I broke the rule
OF conduct" he has a young man
say, Tor example, after he had vol
unteered for a particularly danger
GUS job, which is, never volunteer
for nothing" And again, INV
mother told me never to get nv feet
wet" said a flyer as his plane began
to sink In the Pacific. Mothers are
the kind OF people who are sore at
the Navy for not issuing umbrellas, +"
replied his companion. Mr.. Wolfert
adapts this style of talking to make
a style of writing which is litera-
ture. In more ways than one he has
written lasting piece of history.
One adverse comment only occurs
to the reviewer and that can be
applied to most books now being
written about our men at the various
fronts. 1t has to do with the in
clusion, in the fighting narrative, of
passages about the pangs of some
particular fighters wife or sweet
heart and of the fighters thoughts
OF her while he does his work. It
Is a prevailing fashion to use such
material and thereby many superb
stories of battle are marred. Pre-
sumably authors consider heart in
terest" indispensable-as If the war
were a movie and the reading public
took up war books for entertain
ment. Mr.. Wolfert yields to the
style in giving us from time to time
intimate pictures of the loneliness
OF 1t. Larsen and his wife in their
enforced separation. To the re-
viewers mind that is the Larsens'
business and nobody elses, and she
holds that the American people can
appreciate a hero without being ex-
plicitly told that he is devoted hus-
band and father. But fashion is
fashion. She does not expect her
criticism to change anything estab-
lished with such profundity.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Give Us a Little Smile, Baby
By Harry J. Coleman. (E. P

II
Going clear off from problems OF
the present which fill most books
just now, Harry J. Coleman has
written here a mellowly amusing
volume on his past as a news pho
tographer. The great part of his
work dates in the early years of the
century when newsgathering and
picture-getting were conducted ac-
cording to free-for-all tactics, with
no holds barred. Mr.. Coleman's
memories of his picture scoops on
Hearst journals in New York and
San Francisco are accordingly joy
GUS and picturesque.
Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim
Brady, Berry Wall, Jack johnson,
Joe Cans, Lincoln Beachy, Barney
Oldfeld, Samuel Pierpont Langley,
Garry Nation. Tex Rickard, Joaquin
Miller, young Charley Nicholson,
young Jack Barrymore-these are
Evening star., 1943-07-18
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Current Books
By Marv.Carfer Roberts.

that the common man Is incompe-
tent to manage his destiny without
very considerable safeguards from
government. He approves large
Government spending-and also
Government economy. He feels that
America after the war must give up
isolationism and take its place
among the powers-but indicates
that this place must be different
from that held by any other power;
1t must not be that Of a great State
looking out for it's own interests.
but that Of a great State seeing that
all other States get a fair break in
the distribution of materials and
trade. He calls on the initiative of
American businessmen to meet the
let-down which will come when the
war ends-and implies that this
initiative will serve best If exercised
In accordance with a Government
plan. And so on.
He resents sensitively the "canard"
that he has advocated that Ameri-
can dairy farmers furnish a quart
Of free milk every day to everybody.
He never said any such thinA he
asserts with feeling. But he does
want everybody to be In good health
and well supplied with the necessary
vitamins, as we'll as with permanent
employment that is congenial, an
old-age pension, social insurance, a
home of his own and higher stand
ard of life than has ever been COM
mon heretofore. He believes that
this wish can be fulfilled, and short
ly, ii American business is harnessed
to the job, with Government doing
the driving, yet, somehow, driving
i'll such manner that freedom of
enterprise will not be hampered.
In short, Mr.. Wallace, to his ever
lasting credit, believes that If we
all are good, unselfish and truly
guided by Christian principles, the
world will be a fine place to live in.
There are places in the book, indeed,
where he will almost bring tears to
your eyes in his eloquence in AFFIRM
ing that same.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Victory Throuqh Africa

~ samuel OGShieu. (Sn1ith
& Durrell)
The foreign correspondent who
wrote this book was stationed in
Algiers from the spring of l941 to
the early part Of 1912. when he was
expelled by Vichy politicians on the
charge of being a British agent.
There is little in his work beyond
the usual rehashing OF the conflict
between the collaborationists and
the free-minded French people. He
says that the free-minded kept an
active movement going all the time,
that Gen. Weygand was a true pa
triot who laid the foundations for
a constructive welfare program in
French North Africa and thus won
the native support. that the Ger
mans looted and plundered all food
supplies in the territory and thus
lost native support, that spies were
everywhere, and that correspond
ent had little to do in the place
because the Vichy censors permitted
virtually no news to be sent out.
The book is very repetitious and
seems to have been padded to bring
1t to the necessary length.
Evening star., 1943-07-18

Washington bridge players have
noted with sorrow the passing of
r. r. Richards, founder and first
president of the American Bridge
League, one Of the predecessors Of
the present national organization,
Evening star., 1943-07-18

could only have been created by an
lnsidious campaign bred by political
fear and jealousy.
The work is no mere paen of
praise for the general, however. 1t
gives credit to the generals men,
too. 1t contains, indeed, a five-page
index OF names of soldiers-in small
print-whose personal exploits are
described in its course.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Three Hurt
In Durham IN. C.) Riot
Many Others Injured
In Hour of Fighting
BY the Associated Press

BY tne Associated lreSS.
DURHAM, N. c., April 3-Three
Durham policemen. bus driver and
an undetermined number of colored
persons were wounded early tonight
in an hour-long general fight in a
colored section which was finally
controlled after tear gas was used
and a heavily armed detachment
of military police arrived from near
by Camp Butner.
Police said the trouble began
when a disorderly colored soldier
in an alcoholic beverage control
store on Fayetteville street drew a
knife on ABC Officer T. L. Bailey,
jr. The officer, police said, black
lacked the man and drew his pistol
when other colored men closed in on
him. Mr. Bailey earlier had ques-
toned the man about the number
of whisky ration books he carried
Meanwhile, a crowd of men out
side attack a police squad car, cut
the tires and tore away the radio
aerial. Other vehicles were dam
aged and several persons injured by
rocks and other thrown missiles.
Patrolmen H. R. Wilson and D.
A. Branton were treated for head
injuries and Patrolman w. L. Jones
suffered leg injuries when he went
to Mr.. Bailey's aid.
The Durham unit of the State
Guard, which was modified shortly
after the outbreak. was held tonight
on order of 1t. Gov. Frank Bar
| hour. division commander.