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as intellectual in expressing her
grief as she has been in her fiction.
What she sets down is a thin, hard
agony, tied up with broad political
references, and one feels that the
wife who simply longs for her hus-
bands return will find it pretty at
tenuated. Miss Boyle generally ex-
GELS at portraying the pain of emo
ton without the warmth and pleas
ure. Love to her seems to be a kind
of exquisite anguish, blessing so
ennobling that it resembles closely
the blessing of the martyr. And to
the rarefied quality of her feeling, it
must be admitted, she adds the diff
ficulty of harsh verse form. Her
poem, therefore, is not likely to
strike chord in the hearts Of many
women.
Evening star., 1945-01-28

government on the situation, one
way or the other. Recently, to
be sure, the claim was made in
a book by DR.. Sun Fo, son of Sun
Yat-sen and lifelong liberal
that the Communists were collab-
Grating with the enemy, but the
remark was not elaborated nor were
the sources quoted. DR.. Lin, for
his part, both elaborates and quotes.
The Communists, he says, are fight
ing, right enough. But they are
fighting against their compatriots
and the clear aim of their whole
strategy is to sabotage Chinas war
against Japan in every possible way.
1t is a sensational charge which
becomes the more sensational for
the blandness with which DR.. Lin
introduces it,, With no obvious emo
ton he relates what amounts to
history of a domestic war with
which Chang Kai-shek's armies
have had to cope at the same time
they were fighting the foreign
enemy. In 1899, he says, the Com
munists began their policy of at
tacking government troops engaged
in making war on the Japs. Their
famous guerrilla operations have
practically all been of that charac-
ter, he tells us.
Captured Documents.
They have either been directed
at the regulars armies, or at the
peasant population which, if it did
not submit, was duly liquidated, the
favored method being, seemingly,
mass burial alive. In this manner,
the Communists have conquered
five provinces, to the immense COM
fort of the Japs, with whose puppet
governments they have collaborated.
Observing that these are things
which he would prefer not to be-
lieve, DR.. Lin reproduces captured
documents which set forth the
Communist program unmistakably.
Under the circumstances, he re-
marks, it is not hard to see why
the central government has not been
regular in sending money or sup
plies to the Communist soldiers.
His explanation as to why none
of this has been told to America Is
that the central government regards
it as a purely domestic issue. Far
from reporting it, it has censored all
accounts, even though knowing that
Communist propaganda was paint
ing a completely different picture
for American consumption. Gen.
Chang, says DR.. Lin, is a man who
thinks in decades.
There will probably be a great
outcry against DR.. Lin's claims and
more opprobrium cast on the Kuo-
mintang. 1t remains to be seen,
however, whether his charges can
be disproved OF not.
Evening star., 1945-01-28
Review
Continued From Page CID

ern. Allied planes blast Nazis in
transit. First and Sd Armies reduce
Ardennes salient to % square miles.
British gain to miles through
Holland. B-29's bomb Two Jima in
Volcano Islands with good results.
Clark Field with II landing strips
only 10 miles from American ad-
vance units. Formosa and Ryuku
Islands bombed. Allies land below
Akyab. on Burma coast.
Thursday: Reds cut off East Prus-
sia and break Oder River line in
Southeast Germany. Elbing, on
Gulf of Danzig, entered; Gleiwitz,
industrial center in Silesia captured.
Nazis slash at 7th Army over 20
mile front crossing Moder River,
miles inside France. Assault starts
final battle for Alsace" Allied
planes play havoc in German trans
port as movement back toward
Germany continues in Belgium and
Luxembourg United States troop
ship lost with 765 listed as dead.
Japs report new landings on Min
doro. Clark Field besieged. Bam-
ban River crossed. Total American
casualties for war placed at TOT, $50.
Friday: Reds break across border
of Danzig cementing isolation Of
NaZis in East Prussia Hindenburg,
6 miles from Gleiwitz in Silesia, cap
tured. Reds near border of Brand
enberg, Prussian province of which
Berlin is capital Now 125 miles
from Berlin. American 9th Army
captures miles of Siegfried Line
to make solid front with British ex-
tending 40 miles along Roer River
from Holland to Duren. Dusseldorf
rs miles away, and Cologne only 20.
Seventh Army SmaSheS NaZiS back
across Moder River. First and Sd
reach Our River across from Sieg-
fried Line. Americans pursue flee
ing Japs into hills after capture of
Clark Field. Battleship leads task
force which blasts Two Jima on
Wednesday. delayed report reveals.
Peiping and Singapore blasted by
Allied planes
Saturday: Berlin reports Russians
reach Obra River in Brandenberg,
somewhere between rs and 95 miles
from Berlin. Russians claim 381 900
Nazis captured or killed in winter
offensive Another 100000 cut off in
East Prussia. Fresh troops thrown
into assault on either side of Poman.
Captured German general urges
people to revolt. Patton wipes out
last of Ardennes bulge. Japs shell
Clark Field to keep Americans from
using air strips. Some 5000 Japs
holding cave positions in hills.
Americans encounter stiff resistance
southwest of Bamban. B-29s blast
Indo- China bases and Honshu, Jap
home island. Tokyo reports 10 Super
Forts raided capital for hour, start
ing fires which ragged for hours.
Evening star., 1945-01-28
Among
The Authors
By Carolyn Cogeins

Lora Wood Hughes at the age of
10 is about to become q famous
author. Her manuscript of the
story OF her SO years OF pioneer
nursing in the Northwest has just
been awarded the $500 offered for
the Life-in-America books pub
lished by Houghton Mifiin. /.
To give Lillian Smiths Strange
Fruit" another boost $4,000 is
being spent on 1t this week in
papers all over the country.
John Mason Brown, author OF
Many Watchful Night" although
in his 40s feels like an old man
after a spell in the Navy surrounded
by men in their 2Os. Back in ci-
villain life, we are told he turns a
complete somersault every time he
visits his publisher. To them, at
least, he is determined to appear
young. George w. Kaufman,
who dramatized John p.
Marquand's 1.-The Late George Ape
ley" has a beautiful daughter who
is his devoted fan. When he ap-
peared on a recent Book and Author
program she wanted to go and hear
him speak Quipped father.
Since you are neither book nor
an author, 1t would be highly inap-
propriate.' Carl GARNER,
whose STARS Fell on Alabama" be-
gan a career which has remained
SO distinguished he is now presi-
den of P. E. N.-most outstanding
of writers-and Rex
Stout, the bearded, brown-eyed au-
thor of Nero Wolfe mysteries. are
in Europe on twO-month observa-
ton trip. The Writer'S War Board
sent them on the solemn task of
bringing back information which
will enable authors to write about
the conditions facing us with more
wisdom and understanding.
Ever hear of a tripych? When
THE Young Jefferson" comes out
two weeks from now it completes
what the author, Claude G. Bowers,
calls one. For those who never
heard the word before it means a
picture on three panels and when
one realizes that triptych is often
an altar piece the attitude of Bow
ers toward his subject is revealed.
. Bowers Is Ambassador to
hill t&a Extr n
and Plenipotentiary to Spain be-
fore that. He was an editorial
writer on the New York World and
a political columnist on the New
York Journal His earlier books
about Jefferson, by the way. were
Jefferson and Hamilton and "Jef-
ferson in Power"
John Gunther ruffed his hair,
fidgeted and looked generally un-
easy the other day as we inquired
why, after all these years of writing
Inside" something or other books,
he has produced a novel, THE
Troubled Midnight 1t is the re-
suit, he explained, of experiences
Gunther had in Constantinople in
1943 which took root SO deeply he
had to use the emotions of people
to express them. This love story
expresses his own belief in causes,
people, but not in patriotism or ex-
treme nationalism as such. He
dropped remunerative radio work to
finish the book and stayed at home
last year-the first time in Is years
he has not gone abroad. When the
book appears next week he will
be deep in another. He
thinks it is going to be the best
thing he has ever done 1t is an
of the Government
and the people Of the United States,
designed to give the right idea
about us to persons anywhere in
the world who might pick it up.
Evening star., 1945-01-28
"Once in Vienna" May Be Vick1s
But She Can't Recall Title

ago in the same jacket without
protestations by Miss Baum. Indeed
we advised Miss Baum of the forth
coming publication September %,
1914. We cannot agree that this is
her first novel or that she at the
age Of Is was able to show such
precocious genius"
This reviewer has not followed
Miss Baum's development so CLOSELY
Evening star., 1945-01-28
By James Fhurber. (Harpers.
S275.J

somehow to miss the curse Of obvi-
BUSINESS and also a couple OF dog
stories, one of which should make
you hurry home to see if your own
pet is all right. I will not mention
the famous Thurber fantasies. I
think the list as it is is pretty gen.
erous for one mans pen, and the
fantasies are responsible for Mr.
Thurber's reputation for monotony
anyway.
With his drawings, 1t is different
story. All they tell you is that the
man who made them has a pretty
hard view of the human kind-and
who hasn't? In one way or another,
with the exception of Mr.. William
Saroyan, we are all misanthropes.
It's one of the few reasons an adult
has for being proud. For Mr.. Thur
ber to work at it seems little like
cutting in on the amateur status of
the rest of us. He's q good enough
writer not to have to draw, anyhow.
MIC r.
Evening star., 1945-01-28

feels for the
absence of her
husband, fight
ing in the war.
1t is a subject
to move any one
to sy m pathy
and with mil
lions of women
similarly berett
one night ex-
pect the work to
nave d b ! T d y
popular recep-
ton. I doubt,
however, that 1t
will.
Miss Bowie is
Evening star., 1945-01-28

government was
jealously hinder
ing these coura-
geous fighters,
h olding G back
their pay and
C ut ting off
t h ir supplies.
The pic t u r e
which has been
shown in this
country h a S, /,
! n d e e d, been
wholly on t h e
Communist side.
No statement
has been issued
by the Chinese
Evening star., 1945-01-28
Best Sellers
In Washington
FICTION.

The Green Years, by A. j.
Cronin.
Earth and High Heaven, by
Gwethalyn Graham.
Immortal Wife, by Irving
Stone.
The Bolinvars, by Marguerite
F. Bayliss.
Cannery Row, by John Stein
beck.
NONFICTION.
Guide to the Peace, edited by
Sumner Welles.
Anything Can Happen, by
George and Helen Papashvily.
The World of Washington
Irving, by Van Wyck Brooks.
People on Our Side, by Edgar
Snow.
Where Away, by George Ses-
sions Perry and Isabel Leighton.
This list is based on actual sales
in local bookstores during the past
week and is not to be considered an
Index OF popularity. Books highly in
demand are frequently reported "out
Of stock due to limited supplies,
Records are not kept Of verbal
REQUESTS.
Evening star., 1945-01-28

last novel, "Sar-
atoga Tru n k,"
was so bad, how
ever, that when
I re a d 1T, I
thought that she
h a d forgotten
e v e n the for
mula. 1t was a
pure reliance on
a name. Nobody
on earth would
have published
it If 1t had not
had a successful
authors tag for
justification, It
is nice to be able
Evening star., 1945-01-28
This Weeks
New Books

The Devils Share, Jan. 80.
Brazilian Literature, So, Jan. 80.
- Americas Far Eastern Policy. $3, Jan
Great Son, $3.50, Jan. 30.
The Thurber Carnival, S2.75, Feb 1,
Earth Might Be Fair, ST 80, Feb. l.
The Troubled Midnight, 2.50, Feb
Small Business and Venture Capital
q, Feb. L.
Invitation to Double Crostics, $3.50. i
Down the Stretch. $3.50, Jan. 81.
Boundary Lines, So.
Toe Scraps, So
The Old House Speaks, SO.
The Ten GrandmotherS. SO, Feb. /.
Evening star., 1945-01-28
Reviewing he New Books
Lin Yutong Aims
Attack at Chino's
Communists
THE VIGIL OF A NATION
By Lin Yutang. John Day;
S2.75.)
By Mary-Carfer Roberts

ny ih /" V-1"f AOUcItS
In September, 1943, China's un-
official liaison man to the United
States, DR.. Lin Yutang, went back
to his native land to see how China S
war, then in its sixth year, was
progressing. His idea was to report
back to the Americans on the sit
uation; he says frankly in his
preface that he went with a pub
lisher's contract in his pocket. He
spent six months in China's south
west and northwest, and "The Vigil
of a Nation" Is the result.
A good deal of it is just DR.. Lin's
familiar wit and wisdom, the sort
of thing which will be as good to
read so years from now as now, and
the sort of thing which one does
not find in the usual journalistic
report on a warning nation. One
chapter of it, however, is news.
This comes right about the mid
die of the book, preceded and fol-
lowed by the wit and wisdom afore-
said, innocently slipped in, as 1t
were, not heralded by any claim or
announcement. But evidently it is
the heart of the book and the rea-
son for which all the rest was writ
ten. It Is the doctors report on
the civil war" which has now been
going on for five years between the
Chinese regular troops and the ia
nous Chinese Communists.
Communist Fighters.
We have already heard a good
deal about that struggle in this
country. There has been hardly a
book Aon China by a newspaper
writer which has not told us that
the Communist troops were doing
the real fighting, and the inference
has been plainly made in most of
these volumes that the central
Evening star., 1945-01-28

that S n e C a n
name her writ
ing phases with
a n y authority,
but she will say
that she prefers
Baum early to
Baum ! a t e, if
this be Baum
The n ov Ell is
quite unpreten-
tious. 1t is just
a simple little
tale of backstage
love in the vi
e n n a op e r a,
where an aging
to~or ~,oi~to;x,e
Evening star., 1945-01-28
7ruont
By Richmond Barrett. (Dut-
tOn.J

tOn.)
Reviewed by LUCY McCLENON.
The eye-catching feature of this
novel is its fictional presentation of
the amateur tennis world. It
comes of little exaggeratedly, as
a sort of bacchanalian road show;
but, at any rate, Mr.. Barrett is not
merely using his typewriter to ex-
ercise his fingers. There is an un-
derlying authenticity to the scenes,
and the characters who activate
them are both credible and
readable.
The psychological aspects of the
book are of more than usual in
terest. The central figure, Jona-
than Colt, Is stubborn product of
a set of unfortunate circumstances,
crusty, pathetically naive, ruthless
and pitiful. AS his nemesis, Mr..
Barrett has erected a woman with
a hair-trigger personality and a
vacantly clever mind. There are
Others who bear attention, too, and
who seem at the time to happen
rather than to have been planted.
Evening star., 1945-01-28
Sea Language Comes
Ashore
By Joanna Garner Colcord
(CorneH Maritime Press; $225.>

Reviewed by w. G. ROGERS.
1t is surprising, as you will dis
cover in this book, how many words
and phrases the landlubber owes to
the sea; railroad men, flyers, mo-
torists, baseball players, even news
papermen, have picked Up some of
their vocabulary from the sailor.
This is really glossary but Miss
Colcord so smartly turns nauticisms
into witticisms that most people will
not be able to wait until they need
it for reference but will sit down
and read it at once from clew to
caring. The author comes from five
generations of seafarers and was
born at sea. Sailors, she says, are
Nice Nellies when women are about,
but she managed to overhear enough
so that this work is far from prudish.
Evening star., 1945-01-28
American Citizen

By kay Boyle. (Simon &
Schuster; 50cJ
Published in pamphlet form, we
have here long poem in which Kay
BoYle utters the sorrow which she
Evening star., 1945-01-28

firm that sold four quarts Of
whisky for $500 and paid the ex-
press charges, horned monographs.
delicate matters like pneumatic bust
forms, ostrich boas and-again-so
on.
The volume is good fun-it goes
without saying. But, more seri-
ously, it is mine of motor history.
And in the broader sense, it is a
record of development in two fields
which, more than any others except
the motion pictures, have Influenced
American psychology - automobiles
and advertising. For almost any
body, then, it is a book worth hav-
ing.
Mr.. Clymer is still working among
motors. He lives in Los Angeles
and goes right on selling automo-
biles. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-01-28

WIT H"uH' JSllUI IIIdIII
his illusion of youth by desperate
affairs with young students. The
theatrical atmosphere is convincing
and the story, though unimportant,
has quality Of leading you on. That
is all there seems to be to say
about it,
Evening star., 1945-01-28
Great Son
By Edna Ferber. doubleday
Doran; $780,

It has been long time, Of course,
since Edna Ferber has really had to
work. She established her formula
years ago and it worked for her. Her
Evening star., 1945-01-28
How to Read Better
And Faster

By Norman LeiDiS. (ThomdS Y.
Croi0eH;; $2.50.J
Reviewed by w. G. ROGERS.
Here's five-week assignment for
you, and though haven't been able
to spend the required time on it. 1t
looks as though it would perform
all it promises. Most peoples read
ing habits are slovenly; they don't
use their eyes efficiently, or their
brains. This book is full of exercises
and tests. 1t takes time but it ought
to save time. Recommended espe-
ciallY for book reviewers.
Evening star., 1945-01-28
Two So|itudes: A Story of Canada
Between Two Wars
Reviewed by
JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

By Hugh MacLennan (DueH, Sloan G. Pearce; s3J
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Ickes' Property Called
Still 0verassessed'
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-Mrs. Mabel G
Reinecke, Chicago election COM
missioner, today told a press con-
ference that property on which ar
So, 500 tax reduction for 1943 and
1914 was obtained last yeaS by Sec
retary of the Interior Ickes, "is still
way overassessed on value
Mrs. Reinecke said she furnished
rental figures for Mr.. Ickes' appeal
to the tax board, on which the re-
duction was based She said the
firm of George Reinecke, Inc, head
ed by her husband, had been Mr.
Ickes' real estate agent for several
years, and that she furnished the
figures in an agents capacity.
John S Clark. county assessor
said an affidavit signed by Ickes and
asking for the reduction contained
erroneous information regarding
rent income from the Loop building
Mrs. Reinecke returned today
from Montana vacation. She said
she would confer Monday with Cor
don Nash, assistant States attorney
who began an investigation of the
tax reduction January 26.
On January 80, Mr.. Nash said a
woman clerk in the board of tax ap-
peals Office, and not Ickes, wrote in
the disputed rental figures on the
affidavit. Olive Flanagan, the
clerk, said the figures were given
her by Mrs Reinecke when the Ickes
document lacked sufficient informa-
ton.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Annual 'WaIIow' Held
By Order Of Carabao

High-ranking Army and Marine
Corps officers Joined in the annual
"wallow" of the Military Order OF
the Carabao last night at the Army
and Navy Club in celebration of its
46th anniversary.
Maj. Gen. Kenzie w. Walker, U. S
A., retired, was installed as grand
paramount carabao, succeeding Maj
Gen. James A. Ulio, the adjutant
general.
A f1rst-hand account of the Amer
lean landing on Leyte in the Phil
ippines was given members by Col
Allan L. Feldman of the Army
Ground Forces, who went ashore
with Gen. MacArthur's forces. Army
Signal Corps movies showing the
naval preparation for the Leyte op-
Grafton and the actual landings
were shown.
An orchestra from the Marine
Band, led by Capt. William F. San
lehman, furnished music, and men,
bers sang songs dating back to the
beginning of the order. 1t was
formed at the time of the Philippine
Insurrection.
Following q custom since the be-
ginning Of the war, the dinner was
confined to members Of the order.
Among those attending were 1t.
Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, commandant
of the Marine Corps, and Maj. Gen.
John A. Ryan, U. S. A., retired.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
War Babies in u. S. Outnumber
.Seryicemen Killed by Six to One

babies that would normally have
been expected under the prewar
birth rate.
In the World War, the principal
belligerent countries, after short
initial boom in births, had very low
birth rates.
Even In the United States the
birth rate showed a tendency to drop
in the latter part of 1918 and In
early 1919.
Evening star., 1945-02-04

81 the Associated Press.
The stork has been much buster
In this war than In the World War.
Census Bureau Expert John D.
Durand says one reason is that vari-
|ous European nations have delib-
erately granted more furloughs for
married men TO visit their homes.
Another reason Is that both Euro
pean countries and the United
States have paid aliotments to SER
yicemen's dependents In this war.
In the United States, the birth
rate has stayed SO high for three
years that the population effect Of
the war has been q large net gain.
For every soldier or sailor killed in
the war, six war babies have. been
born-in addition to the number Of
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Writer'S Wife Sponsors
Launching Of fonker
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 8. The
launching Of the 16,Oo0-ton tanker
syosset. which was postponed We'd
nesday because of high winds that
lowered the water level In Baltimore
harbor, took place today.
Mrs. Barnet Mover OF washington
wife of the Washington Post col
umnist, sponsored the vessel at the
Bethlehem -Sparrows Point Ship
yard.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Bill Would Place
| FBI Agents on Trail
| OF Plane Thieves

A bill which would place Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation
agents on the trail of any air.
plane thieves who cross State
lines will be reported favorably
to the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee tomorrow by a subcom-
mittee.
The bill defines aircraft as
"any cQntrivance now known or
hereafter invented, used, or de-
signed for navigation of or for
fight in the air."
Chairman McCarren of the
Judiciary Committee who is
sponsoring the measure said,
1--WE are entering an air age.
The owner of an airplane
should have the same protec-
ton as the owner of an auto
mobile"
Evening star., 1945-02-04

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Evening star., 1945-02-04
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NOTE FOR YoUNG HopEfULs
(Christian Science Monitor)

christian Science Monitor)
Several editors and publishers who,.
incident to their inspection trip to the
German prison camps, have talked with
Generals Marshall, Eisenhower, and
Bradley, comment on these officers
magnificent command of the English
language This is both interesting and
significant These men are neither pro-
fessional writer's, orators, nor students
of literature. But they are men of ideas;
they have become masters first at clar-
flying these ideas to themselves, and
then successfully communicating them
to others. This process demands pre-
else selection out Of a rich storehouse of
words, Joined together in the architec-
ture of accurate thinking. The three
Generals are not great because they know
a lot of words and obey the rules of
grammar. But clear thinking, rich
vocabulary, and lucid expression develop
together They not only produce what
we call "a command of English" they
also enter into the product we call "abil-