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The Russian Army
By Walter Kerr. fKnopt.J
The Growth of the Red Army
BIZ D. Fedotof White. Prince

~ u. FedOtOT White. Prince
ton University PresS.)
These two books do much to dispel
the mystery surrounding the Amer
lean conception OF the Red Army.
Mr.. Kerr's work tells dramatically
what the Red Army has done in
this war; Mr.. Whites analyzes
the background of what many con-
slider the greatest land army in
the world. Both belong in the
modern military library.
While Moscow correspondent Of
the New York Herald Tribune, Mr..
Kerr turned his reportoial talents
to studying the Red Army-a task
beset with unusual difficulties in a
nation jealous of its military secrets
To get his information. he went
into the front lines, talked with
privates as well as generals, visited
soldiers families. This is his con-
clusion:
1T is not in organization that
found the real strength of the Red
Army; nor did I find it solely in
the youth of its generals, its man
power or munitions. I found its
strength in the fighting heart of
its soldiers, in their training, their
discipline and the civilian strength
behind them"
With this groundwork, Mr.. Kerr
describes the great campaigns of the
Russo German war. In concise
newspaper prose, he tells how the
Russians outfought and outgen-
eraled the Germans, how hidden
reserves turned the tide at Moscow
how artillery concentrations that
brought death or insanity" rup-
tured the NaM hold on Stalingrad
Whereas Mr.. Kerr's book is con-
cerned with the present, Mr.. White s
scholarly work deals with the Red
Army from 1917 to 1910. BY mar
shalling facts, figures and docu-
mentary evidence, Mr.. White builds
an important study In military
sociology. He begins with the Red
Army whom It was not much more
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ward M. House at the 1919 Peace
Conference. We are assured that
the journal stands exactly as it was
then written Internal evidence,
however, such as references to con-
ditions not then existing, would in
dicate that it has been revised to
some extent at least 1t is also pre-
sented as casting useful light on
the problems of a new peace now
looming. 1t is hard to see how it
meets this claim, for it is. In the
main. just a series OF notes on per-
sonalities. sometimes critical. to be
sure, but seldom going beyond per-
sonal considerations. Even so. it
is pleasant volume to read Mr..
Bonsal, even in 1919, was a veteran
newspaperman and wrote enter
tainingly.
He describes the various unof-
fetal discussions of the delegates,
the preliminary conference and the
Peace Conference. session by ses-
sion. dealing with the manifold
minor distractions and absurdities
which generally have been passed
over by other writer's. Between
President Wilson's two visits, he
went, in company with Gen. Smuts,
on a tour through Southeastern
Europe and observed the distress
prevailing there. His word pictures
are delightful-of the Princess Met
ternich offering to exchange a mil
lion dollars worth of government
bonds for a pound of sugar. of the
wounded CleHenceau allowing him.
self to be 5ullied by his nurse, OF
the Portuguese delegate insisting
day after day that the Covenant OF
the League contain reference to
the Deity, Of Col House acting as
pacif1er. and SO on If it is not a
very important work on that Ver-
sailles business. it is pleasant one
which is good deal more of dis
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Brief Reviews
MYSTERIES


Sailor, Take Warming. by Kelley
Ross Dodd, Mead-Murder begins
on bench in New Yorks Central
Park and runs around over most of
Manhattan. The hard boiled patter
kind of thing. Lively.
You Can't Keep the Change, bv
Peter Cheyney Dodd, Mead)-An-
other Slim Callaghan story. Lively.
The Deaths of Lora Karen, by
Roman McDougald Simon S
Schuster)-A real horror thriller.
complete with screams, vanished
jewels and all.
Design in Diamonds, by Kathleen
Moore Knight doubleday. Doran
-Nazi spies trying to grab the huge
fortune of Dutch diamond mer-
chant. Absorbing.
The Baby In the Ash Can, bv Sa-
sannah Shane Dodd, Mead)-1n-
fant heir to millions is found in ash
can, then disappears even from that
dubious shelter. Kidnappers get
theirs. Lively.
BIOGRAPHY.
The Life and Works of the Hon.
orabie Robert Boyle, by Louis
Trenchard More (Oxford)-The his
tory Of the 18th century scientific
genius. A valuable addition to
biographical and scientific annals.
Baby Doctor, by Isaac A. Abt
tWhlttlesey)-A famous pediatrician
writes the story of his life and work.
Very interesting.
maggie No Doubt, by Maggie Owen
Wadelton tBobbs- -MerrilD The au-
thor OF The Book of Maggie Owen"
takes up her life story where the
earlier volume ended. Sentimental
whimsy sort of thing.
13 Against the Odds. by Edwin
r. Embree (Viking)-Sketches of
the careers OF 13 eminent Negroes
teachers, writer's, musicians, labor
leaders, scientists and Joe Louis.
Frankly adulatory in tone.
BOATS.
American Paddle Steamboats,, hv
Carl D. Lane Coward -McCann).-
Brief text on the history of the river
steamboat and many pages of pic
lures OF famous craft.
POEMS.
Love Poems Old and New, selected
by Catharine Connell (Random)-
From Solomon to Edna st. Vincent
Millay.
DRAMA.
Red Roses for Me, by Sean
OCasey (Macmillan)-A four-act
drama centering about modern
young Irishman involved in disputs
between labor and capital. and
Professionalism and Catholicism.
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A Bell for Adono

| Oy JOftH HeTScy. IN HOpJ.J
Although written with sympathy
and restraint. this novel must have
come out of great anger. 1t is prob
ably the first novel about the work
of the Allied Military Government
and is significant in that it gives
a blueprint for what can and cam
not be done by AMG.
Mr.. Hersey explains in a beauti-
fully written foreword that he is
telling the story of Maj Victor Jop-
polo the AMG officer in the Italian
town of Adano. because he was "A
good man" Undoubtedly, he also
tells the story to illustrate what can
happen to a good man when he gets
in the way of bad general and
official red tape.
! The story opens when Maj Jop-
polo enters the town after the inva-
sion. 1t ends with the majors re-
call Three lines of interest run
through the story-Maj Joppolos
method of dealing with the citizens
of the town, his search for bell to
replace the one melted down by the
Fascists and the steps that lead to
| his recall.
The description of the general who
tries to wreck what Mai Joppolo
created will probably lead to much
speculation.
Probably" says the author. you
think of him (the general as one
of the heroes of the invasion; the
genial, pipe smoking, history-quot-
ing, snappy- looking. map-carrying.
adjective -defying, divisional COM
mander: the man who still wears
spurs, even though he rides every-
where in an armored car, the man
who fires II rounds from his cap
tured Luger pistol every morning
before breakfast. ..
Z But" he adds, Il can't tell you
perfectly calmly that Gen Marvin
showed himself during the invasion
to be bad man. sometimes worse
than what our troops were trying
to throw out"
The general is the villain of the
piece. but Mr.. Hersey makes of his
major hero of whom Americans
can be proud. 1t is by inspiring that
pride that Mr.. Hersey accomplishes
his objective-the creation Of an
awareness that the job in Europe ia
only half done when the Invasion
has been accomplished.
i MIRIAM OTTENBERG.
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BY Mary-Carfe Roberts

than an armed mob. traces it
through the years of Trotsky's
neglect. the mutinies, treasons and
executions. until, nurtured by ths
newly found Russian industrial
ization, 1t came of age in 1887. In
that year, came universal service,
mechanization. new leadership de-
veloping from purges of malcontents,
closer political ties through REIN
stitution Of the system of commits
sars and separation from the navy.
Mr.. White writes from experience
as we'll as from research. He has
been assistant naval attache at
Washington for Czarist Russia, lieu
tenant in the British Navy, an OFF,
Ger under Kolchak, resident of
Soviet cepcentration camp and once
was nominated for the chair Of
naval art at the Soviet Naval War
College. JOHN F. GRIFFEE.
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Unfinished Business
By Stephen BonSdl. Double

6V SLSpHeH bOHSut. (DOuOte-
day, DordnJ
This book Is presented as the diary
kept by Stephen Bonsal in the time
he acted as translator and assistant
to President Wilson and Col. Ed
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Chronicle of Down

By Ramon Sender. Trans
lated from the Spanish by Will
lard r. Trdsk. Doubleday,
Doran.)
The novel OF childhood is one Of
the most difflcult of all novels to
bring OIL. 1t tends to fall into SEN
timentality even in hands normally
accomplished. The present example
is a happy exception. 1t Is a fine
and delicate piece of work and alto
gether convincing.
1t Is the story Of a Spanish boy
hood by Spaniard The Latin
point OF view makes for a different
kind OF treatment from that which
such . tale would generally receive
at Anglo-Saxon hands. The young
hero, Pepe. is indeed, in many ways
reminiscent of Tom Sawyer-he is
in constant war with his elders, he
engages in gang battles with other
boys, he has 4 little sweetheart. he
even ends up by getting lost in a
cave. But Mr.. Sender has told the
story without hilarity: he treats
Pepe with grave courtesy. Instead
Of emphasizing the madness of his
childish imaginings as seen by adult
eyes. he brings out their relation to
the great source of poetry. He views
the childs world from within rather
than without. and finds 1t different
from the adult world only in that
it is inhabited by children.
A prologue to the boys history,
however. seems somewhat unrelated
1t tells how Pepe, grown to man
hood, ended his life In concentra-
ton camp after fighting in the
Spanish Civil War, and in his last
days wrote the ensuing history of
his youth. 1t is difficult to see any
essential connection between this
tragic introduction and the main
tale
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The Neuv Books
Bureaucracy Runs Amuck

Bu Laurence SttlliDGn. (B0bbs-
MerriHJ
The theme of this book is that
our Federal Government, through
the inspiration OF the present ad-
ministration, is using the war emer-
gency to bring about national
socialism. The idea, OF course. is
by no means peculiar to Mr.. Sulli-
van. 1t has been expressed by
many serious observers, including
members of the Government. Mr..
Sullivan, however, has presented it
In q brilliantly shocking manner.
He deals almost entirely in facts,
making a minimum, though a
pointed minimum, Of comment. For
page after page he goes on piling
up evidence cleaned from many
governmental agencies And the
American who can read it without
losing some part of his conviction
that this Is the best of all possible
worlds will have a heavy skin, in
deed.
The immense growth Of Federal
power Mr.. Sullivan illustrates by
vivid statistics. A fifth of the
United States Is now owned by the
Government. he observes, and, ex-
elusive of men in the armed forces.
there is one Federal employe for
every Al citizens In 1941 $99 ,0OO, 900
of the taxpayers money went for
Federal travelling expenses, and In
1912 $3.50, ,OO0, 900. Our price control
mechanism, the OPA, employs 1000
people and asks billion dollar
budget. In Canada the same work
has been done by $50 people on
budget of a little over a quarter
of a million. Congress has been
crowded out until now over half
the Federal law is being written
by the administrative agencies
rather than by the legislative
branch. Labor has been protected
in obstructionist tactics at the ex-
pense of the war effort. And SO on.
Mr.. Sullivan traces these ap-
parent follies to far-from frivolous
source group Of "alien-minded"
planners who, he declares, have
gotten control Of the bases OF power
in our state structure. He describes
efforts Of Congress to remove men,
bers OF the group, and shows how
inevitably, when the effort sue
ceeded. the individual was promptly
restored to power in another job
He proceeds In this, as, indeed, he
does throughout his book, by citing
records and not by dealing in gen.
eralities.
The reviewer suggests that his
book be read in connection with the
following: "As We Go Marching" +"
by John T. Flynn; THE Spirit OF
Enterprise" by Edgar M. Queeney;
The Machiavellians." by James
Burnham United States Foreign
Policy" by Walter Lippmann,
Evening star., 1944-02-27

Red Roses for Me, by Sean
O'Casey CMacmillan)-A four-sct
drama centering about modern
young Irishman involved in disputs
between labor and capital. and
Professionalism and Catholicism,
Evening star., 1944-02-27

Love Poems Old and New, selected
by Catharine Connell (Random)-
From Solomon to Edna st. Vincent
Millay.
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eodaCIille Is almost as long as Chile &
Along the Andes Plateau the densit,
OF population is nearly two hundret
persons per square mile, which is ,
favorable factor for any large-scal,
plan of industrialization.
In spite of their political division
the countries of Central Americ.
have achieved much economic prog
ress. Almost without exception
they have highly efficient bankin5
organizations and private credit hal
been established on most solit
foundation. There are still larg,
undeveloped tracts of ground suit.
able for cultivation with the aid o.
farm machinery.
Two Crops 4 Year.
Mild seasons permit the gathering
of two crops q year. Central Americs
could produce as much sugar q,
Cuba, as much henequen as Mexico
as much fruit rs Hawaii and q.
much rubber rs Java.
In Central America nobody Il
opposed to the idea of q federation
not even the governments. Tit
failure Of this ideal has thus far, II
the past century, been due to {
number of factors, internal ans
external, with which 1t is not m,
purpose to deal in this article, bu
If their people and their govern.
ments are in principle in favor of /,
federation, international co-opera.
tion-especially pan-American CO.
operation-would act Is 4 decisiv,
catalytic clement.
The Central American peoples ant
their governments are at the momen,
suffering from crisis Of hesitancy
They live in passive expectation, bu,
with an alert conscience. That is VIII,
| believe the time is ripe for givini
the Central American Federation
problem = continent character.
tDistriba4sl ~ NertA Aaariean NevwApel
AlAAAeA, hA)
Evening star., 1944-02-27

OF 70 British bombers the night
before.
Monday another 1000 American
planes hit a plane factory at Bruins
wick, Is bombers and five fighters
failing to return from the attack
which cost the Nazis at least 80
planes.
Striking powerfully both from Eng
land and Italy on Tuesday, American
planes badly damaged aircraft fac
tories at Bernberg, Aschersleben
Halberstadt, Regensburg and Peters
hausen. A total of SO American
bombers were lost, while the Nazis
lost 1873 planes. The number OF
American aircraft failing to return
mounted during the week, but be-
cause of the quantity involved, the
percentage of loss dropped from 81
since the start of the war to 22 for
February.
Thursday the aircraft factory at
Gotha was bombed and the roller
bearing factory at Schweinfurt was
hit again with heavy load. Steyr
also was bombed and at night
the British followed with fresh
raids against the same targets
During the American raids 1856 en-
emy planes were shot down, while
the Americans lost, IS bombers and
Is fighters. Regensburg, Augsberg
and Stuttgart were smashed Friday
and yesterday heavy forces OF
American planes again were out to
follow up Friday night British
raid on Frankfurt.
London underwent five raids in
six nights with the British report
ing that the number of German
planes involved is far below the
number In the Battle of Britain,
but each plane now packs a heavier
wallop. The British are using q new
rocket gun in their defenses
Disaster was the Nad portion In
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-30
Shores Youth. II.
Admits Car 1heiis
kebbed by State Police
Tells Of Tour OF Crime

The arrest by Center Line
State Police of a l7-year-old St.
Clair Shores youth today solved
a series of car thefts in Detroit
and Toledo, o., as well as a
burglary from an East Detroit
residence.
State Police who apprehend-
ed the boy Wednesday morning
said he freely admitted taking
an auto from Detroit, driving to
Toledo where he abandoned the
first car to steal another and
then abandoned that one as we'll.
The youth, who is now in GUS
tody of Detroit authorities, told
police that he drove a third car
from Toledo to his home and
then left il at Nine Mile and
Harper avenue. Center Line au-
thorities declared that the boy
had confessed to breaking into
the home of Wallace Mcmillan,
22487 Shakespeare avenue. East
Detroit, on Sunday, and taking
over SIPS worth of clothing and
valuables.
A second youngster, also II
years old, is implicated in the
crimes, and is being sought by
the police.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-30

LONDON, March 30-(P)-'
George Bernard Shaw declared
today that he was willing to be-
queath his entire fortune TO
establish a new 42-letter English
alphabet which would represent
all speech sounds in the Ian
guage.
In a letter to the Times of
London endorsing basic English,
Shaw said he had used the al
phabet-which lie devised him
self-for years to save time in
his own writing.
IF only the British govern
ment were as intelligent as !
am he jibed.
I'VE have no English alpha
bet" Shaw wrote. English
speech has AZ sounds which
must be spellable before the lam
guage can be written or read
intelligently. To do this with 26
letters we havesto resort to per-
mutations and combinations
Pointing out the time saving
advantage of his proposed sys-
tenn, Shaw said that only frac-
ton Of a second is lost if man
spells though" with six letters
instead of two, but that fraction
should be multiplied by the totel
time lost throughout the British
Empire and North America.
The fact that Russia, with
her 35 letter alphabet, can spell
my name with two letters in
stead of four may conceivably
make it impossible for us to COM
pete economically with Russia,
he said.
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Flood Waters
Ravage South
Four Stote Area
Suffers; Five Decd
By tn. Associated Press

Flooded rivers swirl over the
lowiands in Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and North Louisiana
today, causing heavy property
damage. blocking highways and
drowning at least five persons.
The American Red Cross
sheltered 80 persons in the
Gadsden, Ala, area and expect
ed the number 10 increase to
200 if streams continued 10 rise.
Montgomery, Ala, prepared to
move Is to 80 families from
low-lying sections.
Two Georgia towns, Dover on
the Ogeechee river, and Newton
on the Flint river were inundat-
ed. A $500 horsepower hydro
electric plant on the Flint at
Albany, Ga, was thrown out of
operation. Operation Of the
Reeichholds Chemical Company
plant at Fox. Ala, on the War
rior river was suspended when
the river rose to els feet.
George Hickman, %, and two
Negro boys drowned near Aber-
deem, Miss, yesterday as the
Tombigbee river rose to 40 feet
three feet below the all-time
record, and inundated thou
sands of acres of lowlands.
George Mathews, 81. of CO.
lumbus. Ga, lost his life when
a small rowboat in which he
was attempting to cross the
Chattahoochee river, capsized
In a flooded creek near
Shreveport, La, searchers founo
the body of Willis w. Deloney
55, Athens, La, planter.
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Farm War Aid
Film is Shown
Utico Rotarions
Enjoy Portrayal

UTICA Members of the
Utica Rotary club viewed
showing of the film Soldiers
of the Soil which was put out
by the Dupont Corp, at their
meeting Tuesday night, through
the courtesy of Frank M. Mason,
Of the Farm Service division of
the Detroit Edison Company.
Leroy Tyack was pro gram
chairman.
II portrayed the story Of a
farm family. of the parents and
two sons. in most dramatic
and convincing manner and was
perhaps one of the finest bits of
propaganda regarding the part
contributed by farm workers
who are as truly in service as
the boys on the battle fronts.
Even Rotarians who claimed TO
be immune TO emotional appeal
felt a few heart throbs and there
were some damp eyes.
;; On Tuesday evening. April 4.
the Utica members will attend
a meeting of the Richmond club
and participate in the celebra-
ton of Richmond's fifteenth an
niversary.
The district meeting will be
held on April "a in Detroit and
several members with ( h 7
wives will attend the National
Conference in Chicago May Is
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|M. P.CoIoneI
Dismissed
From Army

DETROIT, March 80 - TIP
Col. Victor l.. Colson. former
commanding officer OF the
728th military police battalion
at River Rouge, was found
guilty yesterday by court
martial at Fort Wayne of violat-
ing three articles Of war.
The Court, comprised of eight
colonies and lieutenant colonies,
recommended his dismissal
from the Army and forfeiture of
all service pay and privileges,
Col. Colson was the second
of three officers ordered to
stand trial on charges OF flying
expense accounts and failure
10 report the existence of a So
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Arrange Upkeep
Of GratiOt SIGNS

Welcome signs at the North
and South Gratiot entrances to
the city will be maintained by
the Board of Commerce, in &C
cordance with 500 annual
grant made to that body by the
City Commission last night.
The amount does not cover the
entire expense, which includes
insurance, and the balance will
be met by board funds. 1t is
anticipated that a revised ar
rangement will be made when
the South Gratiot sign will
again be illuminated. Commits
sioner Fred Breitmeyer and
Clerk Joseph H. Matthews ar
ranged the matter.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-30
Man of Letters Advocates
More Letters in Al phobet

81 am ready to bequeath all |
possess (if war taxation leaves
me anything to bequeath) to
establish a new 42-letter alpha
bet with it. I have saved years
by using the alphabet for my
own works, but they all have to
be transcribed and typed and
setup and printed in Phoenician,
so nobody's time is saved except
my own"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-30
Tokyo Raiders,
Bataan Defense
Saved Vast Area

KALAMAZOO, Mich, March
30 Up Bataan and Corregi-
dor saved Australia and Gen.
Doolittle's raid on Toxic turned
back a japanese invasion fleet
off southern India, DR.. Wilson
M. Hume, a YMCA secretary in
India for % years, declared here
last night.
DR.. Hume spoke at the open
ing of the YMCA world fellow
ship campaign. He and his wife
were repatriated on the Grip
sholm recently after Fl months
in the Japanese internment
camp at Santa Tomas, Manila.
DR.. Hume said no atrocities
came under. his personal obser-
walton, but explained he could
not say they did not occur else
where" He reported that the
68 army nurses taken at Correg-
idor and the IL naval nurses
captured at Manila had never
been treated with discourtesy.
There are some good men
in all lands" he asserted, land
it is to men of good will every
where that we must look as
builders of the new world that
is to follow this war"
The Filipinos, DR.. Hume said,
have made greater progress in
the last 40 years than any other
people in history in an equal
length of time. and are awaiting
patiently the downfall of Jap
anese rule.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-30

Battleships are the biggest
and toughest warships afloat.
Modern ones are about two
blocks long, one-third Of block
wide, and more of them are UNI
der water than above.
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called slush fund Capt. Leigh
to-. E. Ware, former adjutant of
the battalion, was ordered dis
missed from the service Tues
day.
Major Edward l. Eggleston.
former executive officer, was TO
90 before the court today.
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Report Dr.. Eeume7
Somewhat Improved

The condition of DR.. OSWALD
c. Fluemer, local physician, who
has been seriously i'll in st. Jo-
seph Hospital for several days.
was reported to be somewhat
improved today.