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Evening star., 1945-10-07

By JOnH moore. tHuTCOuTL,
Brace & Co., 81
Reviewed by
JULIA EDWARDS.
By divorcing the evils of lynch
ing from the Negro and the South
John Moore presents a social in
dictment that cannot be nolle-
pressed through prejudice and Sec
tionalism.
Indian Paul" a simple charac-
ter, lived in the Mackinaw country
OF Michigan. Fired by the white
mans liquor, he scalped his mother
with an ak. The author purpoSe1y
makes the nature of the crime hor-
rible and refuses to excuse Or eX-
plain it. He does not becloud his
issue with a defense of the in
dividual or his race. He does not
spice the medicine with humor OF
sex.
His concern is with the self-styled
solid citizens. His aim is to show
how their bigotry, hysteria and vio-
lence infectS their children
Fortunately, the book is short
(159 pages. Morbidity is engross-
ing only in small doses. 1t is easy
reading and has just enough plot
to hold the reader until he has
finished it in one sitting. Mr.. Moore
inveigles his readers into expecting
the lynching on every page, then
draws them up short with a sud-
den, sardonic ending.
The atrocity he depicts is not the
violent act committed by a few, but
the stupidity and malevolence OF
the many. The politically minded
will regret that so pointed an edi-
torial stops short of offering a So
luton. 1t does clear the air heated
by arguments over antilynching leg
jSlaiion. Southerners cannot dis
miss it as libel. The townspeople
depicted might live anywhere in the
United States of America. The con-
sequences to the community are
more terrible than the victims
tragedy.
A greater artist would have built
up more steadily to the final, in
evitable tragedy. He would have
woven together more skillfully the
two threads of the story, the elders
and the adolescents. Instead, the
story of the elders reaches its ch-
max on page As and the sudden in
PRODUCTION of the younger genera
ton appears at first as a pointless
excursion.
The fact that this is a first novel
reveals little. Now at Missoula,
Mont, Mr.. Moore has taught Eng
lish since he graduated from the
University of Michigan in 1886. He
has learned to be frugal with words.
He has listened to people talk and
has learned to let them draw their
own characters by what they say.
Evening star., 1945-10-07

I e r e n c e S or
W h e t h e r you
want a book for
serious S t u d y
now and vital
reference in the
future, you will
find Miss Arne's
United Nations
Primer a book
to fill the bill.
With the same
skill, keen n e S S
a n d unbiased
approach which
h a V e marked
her as one OF
the best inter-
Evening star., 1945-10-07
AGermunCo Collection
Of Sneers Against
The United States
THE GERMAN TALKS BACK

ne oLnuAN ALhS DhCh
By Heinrich HauSer. Holt,
S2.50J
The amount of attention which
this book has received so far Is
altogether at variance with the
works importance. The thing seems
to have imposed itself first on its
publisher, who is advertising it very
extensively, and the next on the
critics, who are disposed to take
1t with great seriousness. 1t is no
more than a collection of sneers
at the United States and prophecies
of the complete failure of our forces
of occupation to accomplish any
thing in the beloved Vaterland. 1t
is shiny with smart-aleckness and
riddled with factual errors.
As far as I can see there are only
two possible reasons for its COM
position. One is that the author,
having lived some years in America
and observed that Americans like
paradoxes, has decided to collect
some handy American royalties by
pandering to the taste.
We all remember how it was
after the First World War in the
matter of the Russians. There was
not a Slav dockhand who did not
spend his evenings writing his
memoirs as an eX-archduke-and
we lovedst.
Mr.. Hauser seems to have de-
cided that he will be the first OF
a new crop of literary paradoXes
for our amusement. Man bites dog
is our idea of news, as is well es-
tablished. Enemy sneers at victor
and gets paid for it is just varia-
ton of that theme.
The other reason is'less obvious.
1t lies in Mr.. Hauser's repeated in
situations that Germany and Rus
sia are linked by strong ties, and
that the people who found totali-
tartan Naziism palatable will find
the change to totalitarian commu-
nism easy to make, whereas for them
to become democrats would rend
6lQ Iulu Cllc1I p1Ouu oPA1oS'
These frequent hints, one sus-
poets, are aimed at the great BROTH
erhood of fellow travellers who live
in our democratic midst, for the
purpose of arousing their sympathy
for the Germans. If the erstwhile
murderers suddenly cleave to the
party line, Mr.. Hauser evidently
thinks their crimes will be forgiven
them. He has hatred for the
United States, where he has had
asylum from his fellow Germans,
but only cynicism for Russia,
where, he evidently believes, the
standard of morals is not different
from that to which Germans have
become accustomed.
AS for his claims that the United
States will fail to convert the Ger
mans to democracy, some one ought
to enlighten him. We are occupy
ing Germany as conquered terri
tory. He does not seem to have
heard of it.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Reviewed by
ROBERT r. BARBER.

| reviewed Dy
ROBERT r. BARBER.
Louise Spencer's personal nara.
tive of two years in the Philippin,
jungles, on the island of Panay
with a little band of refugees is al
| inspiring as 1t Is dramatic, and per
haps is the story of many peoples
of invaded Pacific isles.
The wife of mining engineer
she tells graphically of the refugees
fears. of their hopes of rescue after
the Japs came. There are inter.
eSting character studies of those
VINO made up the little band which
constantly fed the approaching
Representatives, only matter oi
hours before the enemy hordes
reached their camps.
The refugees steadily moved far.
ther and farther into the hills
leading strange, gypsylike life
but always endeavoring to preserve
what they could of their previously
civilized existence.
They slept on bamboo poles or or
the ground, concocted cocktails
which they poured from kerosene
cans and nurSed one fire for months
to save matches.
Soap was luxury and gradually
time and the jungle took toll oi
their clothing Sometimes clothing
of the dead was confiscated
cleaned and worn by another.
Strange, distasteful native food:
became delicacies. Their houses
were made of bundles of grass
hung in rows to form walls, and
the framework was of bamboo. As
many as nine persons sometimes
slept in single room.
Some of the husbands joined
guerrilla bands, retarding the Japs
in their drive, and slipping back tc
the hideoutS of their wives and
friends whenever they could.
Some members of the band un-
knowingly walked into the hands
of the Japs and were butchered.
And yet, even in the fastness OF
the jungle, they endeavored to keep
up their spirits and hope. They
had their holidays, their parties
and their celebrations. And they
also had their tragedies. A 7-pound
girl was born to one of the party
and Louise Spencer, the author
knew that she, too, would soon be-
come mother. For 27 months they
lived dangerous lives, never know
ing when the Japs would find them
struggling to live in regions where
even natives who had never seen
a white person before could only
live with difficulty in normal times.
Finally word was received by the
party that an American submarine
would come to Panay to pick them
up and, for the most part barefooted,
they trekked to the assembly place,
where they waited in fervent hope.
The submarine finally came and
took them to Australia.
Guerrilla Wife" is not, however.
a story of tragedy and fear. There
are moments of wry humor, and
Louise Spencer's description and
writing style presents an altogether
interesting and well-balanced mar
rative.
Evening star., 1945-10-07

lld dtlOlIdltlCo WIZ
have come to
an isolated Med
iterranean island
in S e arch of
peace, hold the
stage.
The action of
the entire novel
takes place on
the island in the
early phase of
the war before
the American in
vaSion of North
Africa.
To these es-
Evening star., 1945-10-07

opera. But to me this bubbling is
a severe pain. I cannot work up
the slightest enthusiasm for it. A
veteran writer, particlarly, when
going bubbly is hard for me to take.
So I will just tell you that this is
Miss Kaye-Smith's essay and leave
you do as you please.
She writes about the processes of
thought which brought her to the
realization, during the war when,
of course, she had to cook that
cookery was as good way for a
woman to occupy herself as any,
and better than many. That part is
all right, and Miss Kaye-Smith has
something there, too, though I don't
think it should take world war
to bring it home to woman who
presumably has developed her in
tellect.
But when Miss Kaye-Smith, ac-
customed to be leader among her
sex, understakes for lesser women
to set down what she knows about
cooking, I find her pretty much
on the debit side. If I couldn't
knock out a better meal than the
ones which she SO bubblingly recon-
mends, and do it without losing my
dear old train of thought, too, I
simply wouldn't talk about it. Ger
tainly I would never make it the
subject of book.
Says she, Baked apples can be
improved by pushing date into the
empty core with a teaspoonful of
sugar and dab (sic) of margarine. "
Oh, come, madame. If baked apple
has to be improved for you, don't
serve it. A date and dab are
not going to change it that much,
no nor teaspoonful of sugar
either.
Then she says, eff gelatin is
too much of a problem (sic) delici-
Gus jellies can be made of almost
any fruit juice or fruit pulp" So
they can. But not by a woman
who finds gelatin too much of q
problem!
And also Miss Kaye-Smith offers
this piece of wisdom to woman
kind-if you are getting a meal
for guests, don't. she says, try to
cook it and dress for the company
at the same time. No, 7 wouldn't
But any girl bright enough to read
will not need to be told that in
book.
can't take it. I've been keep
ing house for years and writing, too
My idea is that both are profes-
sional jobs and I'm hard -boiled
about it. Butter, or a dab of mar
garine, simply wouldn't melt in my
mouth.
Men Who Have Walked With God
by Sheldon Cheney. (Knopf) A
volume of biographical sketches OF
great mystics, from Lao-Tse to Will
liam Blake.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
New Books
.Fhe River Mathematics. A. Hoo,

.Phe River Mathematics. A. Hooper, Oc-
tober IL.
Proverb for Ii. 3. J. Marketos, octo-
ber 10.
France, Florence Gillian, October 8.
A Fellow Of Infinite Jest, Thomas Yo-
seloff. October 8.
Taking Russian Before You Know it,
Morris II. Swadish, October IL.
First Encounter, John Dos Passos, Oc-
tober 3D.
The Big Fire, Elizabeth Oids, october @.
The Unspeakables. Layerne Gay. Octo-
ber 8.
Petar's Treasure, Clara Ingram Judson.
Trial Balance, william March. octo-
ber IL.
The Building Of the Burma Road, Tan
Pei-ying. October s.
Necessary Nellie. Charlotte Baker. oc-
toper .. 4
Evening star., 1945-10-07

obvious despise, who sees life as a
whole and is acquainted with the
balance of forces in the human soul
the good and the rotten"-that the
professor sees hope and salvation
for mankind.
The book ends on this note of hope
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Kitchen Fuque

By Sheila Kaye-Smith. (Hdr-
per's,' s2.75.)
It seems to be the privilege of
lady novelists, after they have given
proof of their solid abilities, to cast
off discipline and break down and
bubble. Delightfully."- bubble, Nof
course. Charmingly bubble. 1t is,
indeed, practically obligatory on the
working reviewer to use those ad-
verbs in describing their bubbling
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Reviewed by
JOE VAN DENRURG

Dedicated to the enlisted men OF
the Royal Navy-the ''lower deck
in the persons of the gun crew of a
British destroyer, this book tells
of the A action-crammed days that
preceded loss of the ship off North
Africa with heavy casualties.
The strained days and nights of
Malta convoy duty, however, are
only the thread on which the per-
Sonal narrative of the gun crew is
told. With a fine eye for detail
and characterization, 1t. Davies
Evening star., 1945-10-07
United Motions Primer
By Sigrid Arne. (Farrar 4
Rhinehart, Inc.)
Reviewed by
HOWARD P. BAILEY.

Whether you desire some one to
take you by the hand and lead you
gently through the confusions and
complexities of international con-
Evening star., 1945-10-07
The Dreomers

By J. BigeIoD Clark. Double
day, Doran; $780,
Reviewed by RUTH DEAN.
Here is another Ivory tower
novel, though in this one the en-
phasis assails that type of philoso.
ply. Five characters of different
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Needle in q Huystock

The Exciting Adventures OF q
Federal Narcotic Agent. By
William J. Spillard and Pence
James. (Whittlesey House,
$780,
Evening star., 1945-10-07

fayorite lines has had to close down
1t is regrettably frequent suffer-
ing, for despite the fact that the
small trains still provide bona fide
connections between certain remote
points, they seldom make money.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
LOWER DECK

By 1t. John DaUieS, r. N. V.
r., 1Dith an Introduction by
Admiral Sir James Someruille.
macmillan, 1856 pp.; s2J
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Personal Narrative
OF Two Years in a
Philippine Jungle

WIFE
By Louise Reid Spencer
Thomas Y. CropeH Co.;
$275.)
Evening star., 1945-10-07
The Forest of the South

By Caroline Gordon. fScrib.
nerS; $2.50.)
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Indian Paul

By John Moore. fHarcourt
Brace & Co., 81 }
Reviewed by
JULIA EDWARDS.
Evening star., 1945-01-06
Clio Takes Step TO Help
Meet Labor SHORTAGES
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The CLOS Reconversion and Man.
power Committee will meet Janu-
ary l3 with Government officials in
a new move to speed the flow OF
workers to essential war plants.
The meeting was scheduled by CIO
President Philip Murray as part oi
labor's answer to Government claims
of manpower shortages. The COM
mittee, headed by Ted Silvey, COM
prises Washington representatives
Of eight of the largest CIO unions.
These include the million member
United Automobile Workers, the
United Electrical Workers, Steel
workers, Marine and Shipbuildine
Workers, Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers. Rubber Workers, Chemical
and Textile Workers.
Efforts will be made through this
committee to smooth out any wrin-
kles existing in quickly filling local
demands for workers and in shift
ing from one plant where cutbacks
may occur to others needing workers
q spokesman said.
Evening star., 1945-01-06
Colonel 5 Son, Is, Missing;
ID. {. Police Start Search

Charles Richard Warndof. jr., 1e,
son of 1t. Col Charles Richard
Warndof, was being sought by police
today after he failed to return to his
fathers Mayfower Hotel rooms last
night from sightseeing tour of the
Capitol.
The boy, who is described as of
nervous temperament, left the hotel
at II am. yesterday and was due to
return at pm, Col. Warndof said.
The boy is 5 feet 7 inches tall,
weighs 135 pounds. has blue eyes
and light hair, and prominent
hook nose, according to the infor-
nation. He was wearing blue black
wool trousers, a white shirt, dull
red wool tie, maroon sweater
brown leather upper jacket and
brown shoes. According to police he
had from $40 to $25 in his possession
Col. Warndof, who lives at Blue
Ridge Summit, Pa, is attached tc
the Army Engineer Corps.
Evening star., 1945-01-06
Negligence Blamed
For Test Plane Crash
Supper
in Belgium
By the Associated Press.

! by the hSSOCidleQ fTeSS.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, jan Ga
coroner's jury yesterday accused
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp
of gross negligence" in connection
with the Navy-type Liberator bomber
crash here November % in which
all six civilians in the flight test
crew were killed.
Coroner Chester D. Gum said
that, by an ILL vote, the jury found
that any criminal negligence would
rest with Consolidated Vultee Air
craft Corp, due to its gross negli-
gence and lax, haphazard methods
of inspection"
Testimony at the two-day in
quest by various company officials
and by three of the four employees
discharged after. the crash showed
almost 100 bolts were missing from
the outer wing section when the
Inflated plane took of. This wing
panel sheered away, causing the
plane to plunge into a ravine and
burst into flames
District Attorney Thomas Whelan
also said he probably would file in
voluntary manslaughter complaints
against three, and possibly five, en-
ployes.
The company, through its exec
utive vice president, I. M. Laddon
denied inspection was negligent OIL
haphazard.
Mr.. Laddon's statement said:
THE proof of the adequacy OF
its inspection system is demon
strated by the fact that the acci.
dent was the first in over 9,00C
production planes inspected and
flown from Lindbergh Field alone.
Evening star., 1945-01-06
Gen. Frederick Coleman
Rites Will Be Held Monday

Funeral services for Maj. Gen.
Frederick William Coleman, 66, U.
s. A., retired, governor of Soldiers
Home, will be held at pm. Monday
from Stanley Hall at Soldiers Home,
with burial in Arlington Cemetery.
The body will lie in state at the
Soldiers Home Chapel from noon
today until am. Monday.
Gen. Coleman died yesterday at
the Governors residence at Sol
diers' Home after an illness of six
weeks.
A native of Baltimore, he had
been governor of the home since
1886, shortly after his retirement
from active duty. He was chief Of
the Army Finance Department from
1926. He was a director of the
American Security & Trust Co.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Blanche Lippincott- Forbes Cole
man; a son, 1t. Col. Frederick w,
Coleman III. now overseas; a grand
son. Frederick W. Coleman Nv, and
a sister, Mrs. Mai Coleman Carter,
wife of Col. c. c. Carter OF WASH
| iuRtOn.
Evening star., 1945-01-06
Mrs. Eta D. Mckay, 83,
Dies at Daughters Home

Mrs. Eta Double Mckay. SO, died
yesterday at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Walter E. Shipp, 542l Caro-
lima place NV.
Mrs. Mckay came here from Front
Royal, Va, in September to live with
her daughter. She was the widow
OF Charles Edward Mckay.
Besides Mrs. Shipp, she is survived
by three other daughters. Mrs, HUI
bert Mckay, Nineveh, Va: - Mrs.
Lawrence MILAN, Alexandria, and
Mrs. Hale Golden, Washington, and
four sons, Leo Mckay, Washington:
Clarence and Aubrey Mckay. both
of Front Royal, and Hunter B. Nc
Kay, Belmont, Mass.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1945-01-06
THE EVENING STAR washington, D. c. ~
lS<I
Vote Canvass Today
To Make Roosevelt 5
Reelection Official

The history-making reelection OF
President Roosevelt for fourth
term will become ofhcial this after
noon when Congress goes through
the formality Of canvassing the
electoral votes Of the 48 States.
Although the Nation has known
for two months that the President
polled 432 electoral ballots to 90 for
Gov. Dewey, the law requires that
the House and Senate meet in joint
session to see the results checked.
The House and Senate win adhere
to all the ceremony and ritual that
has marked this final step in the
election Of Presidents for 1856 years.
Shortly before pm. the Senators
will assemble in their own chamber
and march in a body to the other
end OF the Capitol. At their head
will walk two page boys, carrying
the traditional wooden cabinets, In
which the certificates from the
States have been kept since theiI
u HAAcAAAAooAOA1 w SOA. LII N. x1dloEy
secretary Of the Senate.
No one in the crowded galleries
will be surprised as the tellers oper
each envelope and solemnly an
nounce that this State went to Mr.
Roosevelt. or that to Gov. Dewey.
The law provides that after al
the returns have been checked, Vice
President Wallace will ask if there
are any objections. In close elec-
ton this could be a tense moment
but today it Is expected to be just
another formality.
The tellers chosen for this occa.
sion are Senators Green, Democrat
Of Rhode Island: Austin, Republic.
an, of Vermont and Representative
Worley. Democrat, of Texas ant
Gamble, Republican, of New York.
Evening star., 1945-01-06
Union Furnishes Subforemen
In ShipbuiIding Stoppage

BY the Associated Press.
CAMDEN, N. j., Jan. 6.-Five hum
dred subforemen, who called OF
their one-day work holiday at the
New York Shipbuilding Corp. plan,
here, have been deprived of union
rights for six months, a spokesman
for the Industrial Union OF Marine
and Shipbuilders' Local (CIO) said
yesterday.
Further discipline, If any, will be
determined by the general MEM
bership at January l8 meeting
Benjamin Maiatico, executive Sec
retary of the local. said.
The union had branded the dem.
onstartion, which ended yesterday
morning, as a wildcat work stop.
page"
Members of subforemen's com.
mittee said their action was
prompted ~ a grievance over re.
classification negotiations.
Evening star., 1945-01-06
AP Wor Writers to Tell
Of Work on Rudio
BY tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-Front- line
action in Europe and the Pacific
will be described by Associated Press
war correspondents in broadcast
of the radio program "vox Pop
Monday night.
Among those who will be heard in
the salute to AP war coverage are
William Smith White and Don
Whitehead, who covered the D day
European invasion and subsequent
operations; j. Norman Lodge, who
covered the campaigns Of Guadal-
canal, Bougainville and other South
Pacific fighting, and William Allen
Italian and African campaign cam
eraman.
The story OF how the AP gathers
and distributes the news to more
than 1000 newspapers and radio
stations will be told by Paul r
Nicholson, AP general news editor
Evening star., 1945-01-06
Equitable FurIough Plan
Urged by House Member
Hx tho Associated prssx

By the Associated Press.
Representative Dworshak, Repub-
lican. of Idaho said today he has
urged Maj. Gen. J. A. Ulio, adjutant
general, to give immediate consid-
Grafton to more equitable rotation
plan for servicemen in the South
west Pacific theater.
Numerous complaints have been
received, Mr.. Dworshak said, from
Idaho parents of men who have
been overseas as long as 80 months
without being furloughed to the
United States.
Il am particularly interested in
appealing in behalf of men whose
health has been undermined and
who have suffered combat dis
abilities" he added.
Evening star., 1945-01-06
Part Of $50, 900 Loss
Sent Bock by Messenger

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 6.-Chief of
Detectives E, L. Kenerstrass kept a
rendezvous with messenger boy
yesterday and was handed a shoe
box containing hundreds of watches
and other valuable pieces of jew
elry.
The collection was identified by
executives of. the Goldman Jewelry
Co. here as part OF the $50, 900 loot
taken from the company's repair
shop over the week end.
Mr.. Kellerstrass received an
anonymous phone call telling him
to- meet the messenger boy. The
16-year -old youth told officers an
"average-looking" man had given
him a dollar to turn the box over
to the chief,
Evening star., 1945-01-06
Reds AssaiI Campaign
For World Free Press
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 6.-The Soviet
publication, War and the Working
Glasses, has published an open let
ter disagreeing with the world free
dom Of the press campaign inaugu-
rated by Kent Cooper, executive di-
rector of the Associated Press, A
CHS broadcast from Moscow said
today
George Moorad of CHS. in broad
cast heard here by the Soviet moni-
tor, reported that the magazine S
letter to Mr.. Cooper said, in effect,
you mind your own business and we
will mind ours"
The magazine took the position,
Mr.. Moorad said, that the Russians
do not insist up on their type OF
press in the bourgeois countries, and
they do not expect our ideas on
freedom to be thrust upon Russia -
Mr.. Cooper has been campaigning
to insure free access to news at its
sources throughout the world, to-
gether with equal transmission rates
for all, as means of promoting in
ternational understanding and
ayertinp future wars. s"A '' '7-'