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make her home in the future with
Mr.. and Mrs. Page.
o A family Thanksgiving dinner at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. R.
Elliott included Mrs. Clydene Car
rel. daughters Marilyn and Jerry
and Miss Shirley West.
O Mr.. and Mrs. N. G.. Murray were
hosts TO members of the Tuesday
Evening Bridge Club this week.
High scores were won by Mrs.
Martin Talla and w. r. Elliott. Mrs.
Karl Fisher was a special guest.
. Mr.. and Mrs. n. G.. Murray and
Henry Duffield we're dinner guests
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. T.
Bicknell on Thanksgiving.
q Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Pottebaum
are visiting their daughter and SON.
in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Han
ns at their ranch home. Mrs. Potte-
baum has recently returned from
Prescott. where she has been for
several months because of her
health. She and Mr.. Pottebaum
viii remain with the Hannas until
their home in Casa Grande Is va
Gated.
. Mrs. Al Christensen left Monday
for Mesa to spend a week with Mr..
and Mrs. A. ]. Curtis.
. Miss Helen Darlington, student
at State Teachers College, Tempe,
spent the Thanksgiving holidays
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph harrington.
. Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Novel;.
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Q MIR. and Mrs. ]. J. Jones, Mr..
and Mrs. Leon Smith and daughter
Sandra were dinner guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. o. E. Winn
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. Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. NOVEL;,
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. Mrs AL Christensen left Monday
for Mesa to spend a week with Mr..
and Mrs. A. ]. Curtis.
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. Mr.. and Mrs. n. G.. Murray and
Henry Duffield were dinner guests
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. T.
Bicknell on Thanksgiving.
Evening star., 1944-12-24
HeHdiver Squadron
BY Robert Olds. (Dodd, Mead So.
Reviewed by
HeVIeWtu Dy
j. K. VAN DENBIIRG .Ir-


This book is an answer to the
Senate War Investigating Commit
tees adverse reports, early in 1913,
on the efficiency of the Curtiss Air
craft Corps new Navy divebomber,
the SB2C or Helldiver. 1t is the
dramatic, well-written story of the
first Helldiver squadron to go into
action-and of the 100 pilots and
crewmen who took the planes down
through curtains of japanese fire
to blast base after base in the
Pacific.
Mr.. Olds, check at the Navy
Department reveals, is a member of
the Curtiss Corps public relations
staff. This fact should not be held
against his book. 1t Is an excellent
job Of reconstruction, apparently
based on many hours research into
Navy reports and many lengthy per-
sonal interviews. Certainly the Navy
would never have passed the book
for publication had it not been
completely satisfied with it.
The story makes thrilling reading
While it is essentially the story OF
Bombing 1.-THE Helldiver squadron
it also is the story of the giant
carrier on which it was based anc
of its fighter and torpedo squadrons
War communiques do not reveal the
names Of carriers nor the sequence
'of their raids. This book does, ano
the story is overwhelming
The carrier started its first Of
fensive strike November 9, 1943.
Two daYs later its planes were at
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Belle Boyd,
Confederate Soy
By Col. Louis A. Siodud. II

By Col. Louis A. Sioaud. (Diets
Press: So
Reviewed by GEORGE KENNEDY.
We'll, if it isn't Miss Belle!" as
high Confederate officers used to
say when she would arrive within
their lines at the break of battle
with vital information.
It's Belle Boyd, Confederate
Spy" gray little volume in a
jacket of lush green and other
colors. There is Miss Belle, pris-
oner in Gone -With-the-W Wind set
ting. Her crinolined skirt of pink
billowing organdy fills the top
down phaeton. A Union soldier is
mounting the box He is about to
drive away from a white mansion
with pillared portico from which
the Stars and Bars still wave.
Well Known to The Star.
1t may be that Belle needs in
PRODUCTION to the wartime guests of
the Capital. She needs none to the
old Star readers. The author has
cited % items from The Star, many
of them from Observation-Disclosures
letter-to-t -the-editor writers in re-
cent years. 1 remember mine. 1t
was dark and wintry night with
all the cold and none of the snow
of my homeland. This newcomer
and his family were guests of Mr.
Robert R. Sherwood in his big brick
tourist house in Fairfax. Mr.. Sher-
wood talked. He mentioned Belle
Boyd, encountered ignorance, con-
cealed his surprise and told the
story of the Shenandoah Valley
girl who rode through the lines with
information for the South, married
Union officer who guarded her
and, after the war, went on the
stage. Then the gasoline station at
the crossroads with its neon lights
seemed to black out and the stark
countryside was no longer disap-
pointing but interesting.
Belle was II when the shooting
started across the Potomac. Con-
temporary reports are conflicting as
to her beauty-or lack of it. Photo
graphs show that her aquiline nose
gave her striking presence in an
evening gown-a gypsy appearance
in Jail garb. But there is absolute
agreement in the reports on two
things: Her manners were ele-
CANT, her figure was perfect.
Bellies father had a general store
at Martinsburg, then Virginia. now
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Counter Espionage Officer
Champions Girl Spy OF 1861

West Virginia. A maternal uncle
was Congressman. Although close
to the frontier, the family leaned
toward gentility and Belle was sent
to the Rev. George Lewis Staley's
Mount Washington Female College
at Baltimore.
Belle told her story in London to
an enterprising English journalist
after the war and the collaboration
resulted in its publication in two
volumes. Belle was figuring on en-
tering show business at the time
and she made it good.
Her campaigning against the
Northern side started before Ma
nassas, she said, when a Union
soldier used offensive language to
her mother in her home.
Il could stand it no longer" "
Belle wrote. My indignation was
aroused beyond control, my blood
was literally boiling in my veins. I
drew my pistol and shot him. He
was carried away mortally wounded
and soon after expired"
Belle wrote that there was an in
vestigation and that the Union Of =
ficer in charge found that she had
done perfectly right"
Evening star., 1944-12-24

ness his account of the charming
incident in which Belle. already
suspect as a spy, obtained a pass
from the Federal provost marshal
at Winchester to visit Confederate
held Front Royal
She went to a florist and selected
a handsome bouquet. This she sent
to 1t. Col. Fillebrown with her COM
pliments and demure request for
a pass to return to Front Royal.
The answer was not long delayed.
The pleased provost marshal wrote
that he thanked the dear lady for
so sweet a compliment and inclosed
the pass"
In Miss Bucks Diary.
But Col. Sigaud includes passages
written by one of Bellies greatest
detractors, her childhood associate,
Lucy Buck.
Speaking of boldness," Miss Buck
conflded to her diary, reminds me
OF an exploit attributed to Miss Belle
Boyd Wednesday. 'Tis said that she
wished some information conveyed
to the Army about the time of the
keenest firing and not being able to
get any one to 60 for her, she went
herself to a most exposed point,
where bullets fell like hailstones
about her. riddling her dress. I
know not what truth there is mathis
rumor."
That was Bellies greatest exploit,
when she ran through the lines at
Front Royal to tell Stonewall Jack
sons forces that the town was light
ly held and that if they hurried in
they could save the bridges. Jack
son almost destroyed Banks and his
command near Winchester as a re-
suit. Although there is no evidence
that she met the general, Belle
wrote that Jackson thanked her In
a personal note.
She was brought to Washington
and lodged in the Old Capitol Pris-
on, where the Supreme Court Build
ing now stands. The Stars reporter
wrote of her plain frock, low in the
neck" and added that her arms
and neck were bare. He discredited
the "romancers" who said she was
beautiful. He said she was smart,
plucky and absurd as ever"
She was released without a trial,
and that is the principal reason that
her exploits lack Recommendation
She was arrested at least twice later.
The last arrest occurred when the
British ship Greyhound was
searched and seized at sea. Belle
was charming all right. The off,
Ger assigned to guard her, Naval
1t. Samuel w. Hardinge, was CASH
Tered for allowing one of her COM
panions to escape. When Belle was
allowed to leave the country he
followed her to England and mar
ried her in st. James Church, Pic
cadilly
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Public Library
Book Pointers
By Mary Jane Frost,

Chevy Chase Branch, Washington Public
Il Library.
With the holiday season here and
more winter weather inevitable, why
not let the Public Library, Eighth
and K streets NV, or its branch
in your neighborhood, supply you
with suggestions for your winter
program of exercise and entertain.
ment?
Among many good books available
on ice skating for the amateur is
Maribel Wilson's Primer of Figure
Skating" For the more accom-
plished enthusiast is her book, "Ad-
vanced Figure Skating" If you pre-
fer watching good game of hockey
or even playing it yourself Spaldingjs
Official Guide to Hockey" will be
invaluable.
For the few who can take winter
vacations these days. Skiing In the
East a Writer'S Program book, is
a fine guide to the best ski trails,
how they may be reached and the
accommodations available near each.
Enjoyment may be had at home in
learning to play chess with Eman-
uel Lasker's Manual of Chess" or
Chess in an Hour" by Chess Cham
pion Frank Marshall as a guide. The
latter contains an extensive bibli.
ography for obtaining more infor-
nation about the game. Supple
ment these books for home enter
tainment with Millard Hopper's
How to Play Winning Checkers"
and Dale Adams Fun with Cards"
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Tbev Sa1V More Acti0n IN Less
Time Than Most Other FLYERS

tacking Rabaul, then the key to
Japan's South Pacific lifennes. A
week later, after a refueling stop,
it blasted Tarawa both before and
during the landings there. De-
cember it smashed the phosphate
works on Nauru. December Is it
ripped enemy naval forces in Ka-
vieng harbor. January l it was
back at Kavieng for another strike.
After another brief respite the
carrier joined Admiral Marc
Mitscher's famed Task Force So in
covering the Kwajalein Atoll land
ings January 29 Then on Feb
ruary Is came the famed attack
on Truk-until then considered an
unassailable bastion. Six days later
Tinain in the Mariannas telt the
weight of American bombs and
shells.
AL this action came in little more
than three months. In the words
OF Capt. John j. Ballentine, the
carriers first skipper:
No crew Of any carrier has ac-
complished more or seen more &C
ton in so short a space of time"
Its return to Pearl Harbor and the
assignment of its seuadrons to
shore stations was well deserved.
Several Washington area men
figure in the book. Among Bomb
ing It's flyers were 1t. Comdr.
James E. Vose, jr., now assigned
to the Navy Department; 1t. Rob-
ert Wood and 1t. q. g. George A.
Gibbs. 1t. James C. Wilson was
intelligence officer for the carriers
torpedo squadron. And Capt. Bal
lentines successor, when the for
mer was promoted to rear admiral,
was Capt. Thomas p Jeter, Hyatts-
vile, Md, now commodore.
Evening star., 1944-12-24
NEW Books Planned
On Contemporary
Life in the South
By Caspar Names

Contemporary Southern life OBJ
jectively set down in all its aspects
is the subject of group of novels
Robert Penn Warren, consultant of
the Library of Congress in poetry
in English for 1944-5, plans to
write.
Mr.. Warren, who began writing
poetry as a student at Vanderbilt
University 20 years ago, has already
done some of the preliminary work
in his novels, Night Rider "At
Heavens Gate" and "All the Kings
Men" The first. 1888, portrays life
in that part of Kentucky and Ten
nessee in which he grew up as
boy. "At Heavens Gate" 1s43,
deals with the effects of business
on the businessman, and the last
story, which he expects to finish
next month, tells about bossism in
Southern State politics.
His poetic instinct reveals itself
in Mr.. Warren's aim to use a form
having a realistic surface for the
story with a symbolic structure. "
The realistic side, Mr.. Warren ex-
planned, tries to tell the story in
terms of world the reader recog-
nizes, while the symbolic level seeks
to dramatic the basic conflicts of
the day in the characters.
Book on John Brown.
Though his first published writ
ings were poems in various maga-
zines, Mr.. Warren's initial book
was a biography, John Brown, the
Making of a Martyr" 1929. His
short stories, 'outgrowths of his
novels" rather than independent
efforts, have several times been
chosen in the o. Henry and OBrien
yearly short-story anthologies, One
of them, "A Christmas Gift" is a
good example of the writer's two
level method of realistic and SYM
bolic writing.
Described by critics as zone of
the most expert poetic craftsmen in
America" Mr.. Warren's first pub
lished poem appeared in the Fugi-
tive, magazine published at VAN
derbilt University during his stu
dent days. Among others contrib
uting to the magazine were Donald
Davidson, John Grove Ransom and
Allen Tate.
Mr.. Warren won recognition as a.
poet with the publication of
"XXXVI Poems" In 1886. He has
since won, among other awards, the
Prize for Poetry, 1943. He
is now working on book of bal
lads, basing the stories upon Amer
lean history and folk tales. One of
them, '"The Ballad of Billie Potts"
appeared In his Selected Poems"
Mr.. Warren is at present on a one
year leave Of absence from his po-H
sition as professor Of English at the
University of Minnesota. He Is do
ing photographed work for the
Library In American poetry for the
yearS 1850 to 1910.
Evening star., 1944-12-24
And Now to Live Aqoin
Normal Lives
For the Disabled
By BetSey Barton. (Appleton
Centuru. S1.75.)

By Edna Yost, in collaboration
1Dith DR.. Lillian M. Gilbreth.
macmillan. $780,
Reviewed by LUCY McCLENON.
What happens to person after
his body or his mind has been
smashed? How can he help himself
and how can his family and friends
help him? Those are timely uues-
tions and they have been the sub
ject of considerable discussion re-
Gently, much of it regrettably super
f1cial. Here are two hooks which
deal with the psychology of disable
ment, in somewhat differing ways.
Both deserve careful reading.
OF the two the Yost-Gilbreth
book is the more objective. 1t is
written for the handicapped person
himself and faces his problem with
him. Miss Bartons book seems in
tended more for those Who work
or live with people who have suf-
fered disablement and discusses the
cases in more personalized, emo
tional way.
Betsey Barton knows her subject
through protracted bitter expert
ence. A severe accident 10 years ago
has led her from bed of pain to
operation to dreary four walls time
and again. Her writing has an
urgency that stems from this per-
sonal knowledge. The great inner
strength that often comes to those
who have fought personal battles
shines through from time to time,
but Miss Barton shows ner reader
the storms that produced it as we'll.
The main conclusion which comes
after reading her book is that such
a road must always be a gruelIing
one and that it can never be the
same for any two people. Or even
for the same person from day to
day or even hour to hour.
Convincing and Readable.
The Yost-Gilbreth book, while
lacking the passionate note of the
other work, is convincing, and de-
spite its pedantic title quite read
able. 1t is sympathetic treatment.
1t goes into the distresses attendant
on disability, tries to explain them
and offers the practical means and
the general attitudes to combat
them. But it does not cater to
mollycoddling.
The authors, in explaining the
social and vocational adjustments
which must be made by the disabled
person, offer a remarkable chapter
on personality. complete with ques-
tionnaire, which is quite as appli-
cable to the well and whole as to
those for whom it is primarily In
tended. 1t is all quite specific with
out being pat.
One final conclusion, which comes
from the reading of both these
books Is that love from without and
strength from within, both miracles
in themselves, are necessary to
successful meetings with personal
catastrophe. But from the observa-
tiors Of these writers it would seem
that divine grace dispenses these
miracles in some degree and man.
ner In nearly every case.
Evening star., 1944-12-24

Carter h. Harrison. tells of the ex-
periences which have left lasting
impressions with him as an individ-
ual, rather than as a political figure.
The effect of the book is wholly
charming. Whatever historians may
say of Mr.. Harrison's performance
as an official, the sensitive and in
telligent reader must know from
this book that he is a sensitive
and intelligent man.
Memories Of childhood homes and
playmates. adolescent recollections
of theatrical performances and
stage favorites, more mature remi-
niscences of foreign travel, the epi-
curean high spots of career which
included much banqueting. humor-
GUS episodes called up from the
gritty world of Chicagos politics
these are the ingredients of the
book. And the spirit is that of
mind capable of detachment and
wonder, capable, that is to say, of
evaluating phenomena with sophis-
tication and enjoying them with
1v d VI
which Is entirely delightful to read
But, though it is so richly indi-
vidual a performance, it must also
be considered in terms of environ
ment. The reviewer, as she read
it, was obliged to think q number
of times that such q work could
hardly have come out Of the East.
There is plainness and what
seems to be quite unconscious
spirit of democracy bound into the
very fabric of the thing which
belongs to the middle frontier. The
life which Mr.. Harrison lived was
privileged; he knew luxury, he ap-
preciated culture, he associated with
the great and accomplished in
many fields. But he did not fall
into either Of the traps OF the
class conscious. He did not over
value or consciously despise. He
kept his perspective as a citizen
of republic. He never talks about
it. It is just implicit all through
his story.
The reviewer would rate his book
as one of the valuable autobi-
ographies of the year. She COM
mends 1t heartily. NC. r.
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Slgaud is romantic enough to be car
ried away by Bellies charm.
Col. Sigaud checked the records
of the initial Federal occupation of
Martinsburg. He found no report of
a Union soldier having been killed
by civilian. But he did find the
grave of Pvt. Frederick Martin of
the 7th Pennsylvania Volunteers in
the Martinsburg Cemetery whose
demise is unaccounted for in the
records. Col. Sigaud does not say
that Pvt. Martin was shot by Belle
Boyd but
Could be!
At times Col. Sigaud almost tells
the story in Bellies own words. Wit
Evening star., 1944-12-24
My Aunt Louisa
And Woodrow Wilson
By Margaret Arson Elliott.
Chapel Hill Press. S3.J
Reviewed by
MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

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Mrs. Elliott, sister of Wilson'S first
wife, does much to dispel the legend
of Wilson's inaccessibility and brings
that great President down to what
would be known in some Govern
ment circles today as the family
level" Certainly no one living to-
day could give q better picture Of
the home-loving Wilson than Mrs,
Elliott. Most of her adolescent
years and up to the time Of her
marriage to the one-time dean of
Princeton University was spent in
the Wilson household at Princeton.
It is perhaps unfortunate that the
authors marriage took her to the
West Coast and out of the Wilson
household, particularly during the
White House period.
Mrs. Elliott's Aunt Louisa, stern
but fair guardian of the madcap
Margaret in her early years, could
be the subject of book by herself.
The author paints vivid picture Of
that Southern household in the
fictitious town of "Ilyria" during the
trying DAYS of the reconstruction
and the dominant role Aunt Louisa
played in keeping 1t together fol.
lowing Sherman's march to the sea.
This is both an entertaining and
important book, one well worth add.
ing to your library.
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Book Reuie1us in Brief

kin)-An anthology of American
and British verse with a selection
of poems from the armed forces.
Some of it is poetry and some is not
Heart on Her Sleeve, by Clarence
Buddington Keuand. (Harpers. }
Murder thriller in Mr.. Kelland's
familiar manner.
RELIGION.
The Bible and the Common
Reader, by Mary Ellen Chase. Mac
millan) A history and explanation
of the Bible, its background, its
characters. Will probably be a best
seller.
Behold the Man, edited by Ralph
l.. Woods. (Macmillan.) A collection
OF writings about Christ, mainly by
modern writers.
HUMOR.
High Time, by Mary LassweIl
(Houghton Miflin) Funny doings
with three hearty old ladies helping
the war effort Novelette,.
Purser's Progress. by Tom o OReilly.
doubleday Doran) Imaginary ac-
count of the adventures of purser
in the hardy Merchant Marine.
Novel.
Coming Major! BY Ezra Stone
and Weldon Melick. Gippincott)
The authors tell Of their efforts to
organize soldiers entertainments.
The Gals They Left Behind, by
Margaret Shea. CWashburn.) Sup
posed letters of two brides to their
soldier husbands.
Papa Was a Preacher, by Aly-
enc Porter. abingdon Cokesbury }
Light-hearted account of the au-
thor's childhood in an American
parsonage.
Yankees Were Like This, by Edith
Austin Holton. (Harpers.) A story
of Cape Cod and thereabouts at the
end Of the horse and buggy days.
Small Fry, by William Steig.
Duell Dlaon and Pearce.) Collected
pictures of kids from the New
Yorker.
COLLECTIONS.
Take Them Up Tenderly, by
Margaret Case Hartman. (Knopf )
A group of "profiles" originally writ
ten for the New Yorker.
Bachelors Quarters, edited by
Normal Lockridge. (Biltmore.) A
superb collection of stories and tales.
One Of the best the reviewer has
ever seen.
BIOGRAPHY.
Arthur st. Clair, by Frazer Wilson.
Garrett & Massie.) The life of the
Revolutionary hero who was so great
a contributor to the settling of the
Northwest Territory.
Peabody Of Groton, by Frank D,
Ashburn. Coward McCann.) The
story of Endicott Peabody, head
master Of Groton, his brilliant career
and associates.
PLACES.
Russia Then and Always, by Nina
v. and Fillmore Hyde. Coward
McCann) A book about modern
Russia dedicated to the idea that
Communism, under Russian difec-
ton. has been changed from Marx
ism to conform to certain long,
established Russian habits Of CO.
operation.
Brazil On the March, by Morris
Llewellyn Cooke. CWhittlesey House.)
A book dedicated to the idea that