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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-08

Those in this country who seem
to be haunted by the fear that
Germany will not get a just peace
should read the articles by B.
Polevoy, Pravda war correspon-
dent, now running in American
dailies. One Of these releases tells
of lbs Russian girls held as slaves
on the farm of a German Colonel,
Richard Richtenau Of Sofienburg.
The girls, some of them from the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-08

attempting to take over Ralph
Reeds typewriter. We pledge our
best efforts to that end.
To the people of Kennewick
we wish to say "Hello-and thanks
for a warm welcomed"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-08
TOMoRRoW'S HOMES

One can't escape the postwar
planning for tomorrow's living,
since even the manufacturers and
designers deal with the topic as
a fact. We can understand that
present heating difficulties have
pointed to smaller and more COM
pact heating units. Air condition
ing will be part of houses costing
more than $4,000, they predict.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-08

A war is like a good football
game. It is never over until it is
definitely over. Anything can
happen in a football game and
anything can happen in a war.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-08

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-22
Fine Points in Bridqe

bid Of the opponents clubs. but a
jump in hearts gave North an
idea Of what he held When North
hoped that to game. Mr. Moore
took another glance at the score
and, noting several sbove-the-line
entries for the They" side. real
lied a slam was needed 10 win the
rubber. so he bid IL.
Back and forth he raced In the
play. The club Q lead enabled the
A and X to produce two spade dis
cards. and a third club vas ruffed
by East's heart 2. over-ruffed by
the 4. The diamond A was fol-
lowed by a ruff OF the S with the
heart S He led the spade A. then
ruffed the club 3 with the heart 9.
The diamond was trumped by
the heart :. club by the heart 10.
and diamond s by the heart A.
Then he led the spade Q West had
10 win with the X and then lead
from the heart Q-5 into the XII
to furnish the last two tricks. II
East had the spade K. that play
could still have won II East also
had the heart Q. With West hold
ing the spade X, il made no diff
ference WHO held the heart honor
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-22
SEPARATE TRUMPs NEAT

SOME OF the neatest play 70
watch Is that in which a suit de-
clarer uses a LOT OF his trumps
separately, rufing tricks with one
trump at a time and never using
two OF them on a single trick. This
can require adroi, management,
perhaps-winding up with a situa-
ton in which one OF the two hold
ings has only a couple Of trumps
left. and the opposite one is
trumpless. To make that succeed
may necessitate having a certain
defender in the lead at just the
right time, when the lead Is made
TO the next 10 last trick, or else
have some missing guarded trump
honor in the hand Of the desired
defender
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-22
Army Trucks May
be Used to Fight Fire

PORTLAND, Ore.-Nov. PINS
Some 10000 leftover army trucks
would go into battle against a new
enemy-the costly forest fires
yearly taking their toll OF Ameri-
cas- last big stand OF virgin timber
in the Pacific Northwest-it an in.
dustry suggestion is carried out.
The old army trucks can easily
be turned into highly mobile fire
fighting units by welding a simple
tank to the body and attaching hos
es pumped by the truck engine.
Five states. Oregon. Washington
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-22
Broken Ankle Fails
TO Slow Hungry @. |.

Shrivenham, England, Nov. ~
INS-T/5 Henry c. Tatzenbuehler
OF 500 West Elsmore Place, San An
tonic, Texas, took an early lead in
the race for the mess hall but In
the mad scramble he was knocked
OF fhis stride and crashed to the
ground. breaking his ankle.
Displaying remarkable recupera
tive powers, he, nevertheless sue
ceeded in having his tray in hand
first in front OF the chow line.
After his hard-earned breakfast
he reported to sick bay.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-22

Well he grimaced. 81 was the
first man in the chow line
T/5 Hatzenbuehler was taken 10
the 23lst Station Hospital where
medical men say he may be re-
leased in a few weeks on crutches.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-22
Don't Neglect Slipping
FALSE TEETH

Do fAlss teeth drop. slip or wAbbls
chen you talk. eat. laugh or sneezsf
Don't be annoyed and embarrassed BY
such handlcaps FASTEETH. an aka.
tine tnon- ac.d) powder 10 sprinkle on
your plates. kesps false teeth more
hrmly set Gives confident feeling OF Sc.
curity and added comfort No -gummy.
Eooey, paAty taste or feeling Get FASs
TEETH today 81 any drug storG
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-22

Idaho and Montana, and California
are asking for the disused army We
ricles to be sold to industrial log,
ging operators for low prices.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-22

dealer: East. Both sides vul.
nerable)
II the diamond 10 TO the K and
A is followed by the heart 5 to
the A. what card should West re-
turn in an effort to beat South's
4-SpadeS7
Evening star., 1945-04-01
The Small Rain
By Madeleine L'Engle. (Th
Vanguard Press. $780,

Reviewed by RUTH DEAN.
Here is a beautifully written char
acter study of sensitive young girl
She is revealed struggling through
her teens with the bewilderment
of adolescence toward a goal te
which she aspires with artistic per-
ception.
Though assailed with the emo.
tional problems of her years, ac-
centuated by her own tempera-
ment, Katherine Forester does not
for once doubt her ability to become
as great a concert pianist as hel
famous mother.
Her mothers death and a shat
tered love affair bring misery to hel
life, but with the understanding
help of her actress stepmother she
diverts her broken feelings into
hard work, striving to keep alive the
hope of her beloved teacher Justin
mot to become mediocre or dis
honor her work. :"
The story ends on climactic note
with Katherine returning to Paris
to study with Justin. That she will
be a great artist there is no doubt
for throughout the book her teach
ers' and father-composer's COM
ments lead one to believe that her
talent is not mediocre and she will
hold future audiences spellbound.
Madeline L'Engle shows fine abil-
ity in portraying the complexities
of artistic genius, and like charac-
ters in a Checkov play the people
in her book stand on their own
rights as interesting individuals.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
By John Grifee

In relatively minor obscurity in 8
Government job, Americas crack
code-breaker of World War I today
matches hair-raising plots and write.
for the fiction market.
Herbert o. Yardley, whose revela-
tions in 1881 of 1.-THE American Black
Chamber" in a book by that name
stung high officials to decry the
volume, works by day in the District
Office of Price Administration anc
in his of hours writes "thrillerS" II
collaboration with a professor o1
English.
To would-be fiction writers whit
think it easy the master cryptic.
grapher says:
Don't, unless you have seen a lo'
of life"
He has ''lived" much of his fiction
and yet his string of books is not
long. BY living" his fiction, HI
means seeing life in the raw. Hi
latest product is Grows Are Blacl
Everywhere" (reviewed in The Star
March A., a story of intrigue ir
China, and grew out Of his expert.
ences as adviser to Generalissimt
Chang Kai-shek.
Putting together q fiction plot, II
the opinion Of this old code mar
who served as q major in the In.
telligence service in the last war, i,
not 3 difncult matter-it is the back.
ground matter that counts.
"Your suspense comes by putting
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Guns for Tito
By Maj. Louis Huot. IL. B
Fischer Publishing Corp.
S2.75.)
Reviewed by
LOTHROP STODDARD.

LO 1A1kS1 ~ 4OAA6AAsN.
In truly global war extending
literally over the five continents and
athwart the seven seas, the number
of war theaters is very great. This
accounts for the growing volume of
personal" war literature, written by
persons who were on the spot and
participated as actors in this or
that local drama. After the close
of hostilities gives more leisure and
lifts censorship restrictions, the pres
ent stream will presumably swell to
a literary food until checked by q
satiated public.
Maj. Huot's book is q good exam
pie of the type above described. 1t
is highly personal, relating in detail
the authors doings and impressions
during a special military assignment
of a single month in the autumn of
1943, described by him as "a delicate
little gun-running operation" His
job was to get arms and supplies
from newly conquered Southern
Italy across the narrow but tricky
waters of the Adriatic Sea to the
YugoSlav Partisans under their then
half-mythical leader, nicknamed
Tito, who were waging a gallant
fight under severe handicaps against
their enemies.
Maj. Huot does not attempt to
interpret or philosophize regarding
the tangled skein of Yugoslav poll
tics. His orders were to aid Tito,
and he obviously did a highly eff
cient job, wangling arms and sup
plies from varied Allied sources, and
evolving ships and crews almost out
of thin air to get the stuff to its
proper destination. In order to
facilitate matters. the author made
several trips across the Adriatic,
lodging German patrol boats, visit
ing Partisan coastal hideoutS, and
making one hazardous journey in
land to Tito's headquarters, then
established at the picturesque Bos-
nian town Of Jajce. His brief stay
there and his intimate conversations
with Tito are naturally the high
lights of the book. The authors i'm
pressions of the Partisan leader are
similar to those of other Americans
and Englishmen who have had the
same experience. Here was no
simple warrior" writes Maj. Huot,
mo primitive leader of fighting men;
he might be that, but he was much
more besides. Thinker, statesman,
artist. He appeared to be all
these and soldier as we'll, and there
was light in his face that glowed
and flickered and subsidized as he
talked, but never went away"
Gums for Tito" does not live up to
the promise in the characteristically
lush publishers "blurb" as being "as
full of adventure, hazard and in
trigue as Terry and the Pirates" It
is only moderately exciting, and
reveals nothing not already known
to the general public in the columns
of the press and through special
articles on Yugoslav current affairs.
But it is good story, honestly told
with wealth of detail which enables
the reader to appreciate the au-
thor's task and visualize the setting
in which the lob was done.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Philadelphia Holy
Experiment

By Struthers Burt. Double
day Doran; $3.75.)
Here is that modern literary form,
the profile" applied to a city. In
a racy and popular style, Struthers
Burt gives us just such a portrait of
his home town, Philadelphia. Be-
ginning with William Penn and end
ing with the Wares, he finds his
native spot a mass of contradictions
"a great seaport which is inland,
the country's third largest city with
the characteristics of a country viii
lage, a seat of science and learning
which permits a famous degree of
civic corruption, town dedicated to
brotherly love with history of
picturesque violence. 1t outrages
probability, he says, and for that
reason he admits a passion for 1t.
He does not undertake to report
its full history. The great part Of
his volume, indeed, goes to the pc
riod of the Revolution. Romances
of that time, scandals, riots and
great projects involving the city's
prominent men and women and its
not infrequent mobs fill up most of
the pages. Depicting later years,
the drawing thins oGt and one sus-
poets that Mr.. Burt finds his city
growing larger, less manageable as
an entity. But, by talking hard and
fast, he does contrive to give his
attenuated narrative an impact and
conviction. Among the many recent
books on American places his stands
out noticeably for liveliness, though
there will be people, of course, who
will hold that the quality has little
harmony with the subject.
NC R.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Brief Reviews
POETRY.


The Selected Poems of Alfred
Kreymborg. Dutton0 Selected from
the poets work since 1912, these
poems are record Of his growth.
Whisperings From Ancient Ore
CANA, by Clifton L. Inman. Chap
man and Grimes.) A long nara
tive poem about prehistoric Oregon.
Neo-Longfellow.
HEALTH AND HYGIENE.
How Shall I Tell My Child? by
Belle S. Mooney, M. d. (Cadillaco
Instruction to parents on how to
impart sex education.
Women's Medical Problems, Max
inc Davis. (Whittleseyo An up-to-
date volume.
GOVERNMENT.
OPA and Its Pricing Policies, by
Alfred Auerbach. (Fairchild) A
statement of OPA's obligations and
legal limitations"
AMERICAN NATIONS.
Our American Neighb0rs, by the
co-ordinator of Inter-American At
fairs. Public Affairs Press) A
simple handbook to Central and
South America.
Evening star., 1945-04-01

at Shad well Claude G. Bowers.
latterly the brilliant student at
William and Mary. and in q few
short years his emergence as a lead
er among great contemporaries in
his State, then in the Nation.
Mr.. Bowers is an enthusiastic BIZ
ographer. Had Jefferson died be-
fore Washington's Inauguration he
would still be one Of Americas few
immortals," he writes at the out
set-then sets out to prove this.
The reader sees the young revolu-
tionary in the House of Burgesses
agitating against the expressions of
the crown and with equal fervor
challenging the indifference bred OF
conservatism among his own people
Then his facile pen spins out the
trenchant Summary of the Rights
Of British America" which soon was
to be overshadowed by a more
august document-The Declaration
of Independence.
And all the while he is fighting
for reforms in Virginia; for free
education; for the principle of re-
ligious freedom that eventually was
to be the bulwark of a Constitution
for struggling young Republic.
These familiar chapters gain in
the vivid retelling.
The author also seeks to correct
some Of the misconceptions of JET
ferson. For example, he says OF
Jefferson's political philosophy that
it came more from the English
than from the France he knew In
the throes of revolution.
Il have tried here to rescue a
very human being from the wilder
ness Of myth and fable" the author
says. An intensely human Jeffer-
son is the result.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Swing Low
By Ed,0in A. Peoples. (Hough-
ton Mi61in; S2.50J

By Ed1tn A. Peoples. (Hough-
ton Mi61in;; s2.50J
The current interest in Negro life
Is reflected in this little story,
though not the current attitude to-
ward the Negro people. For the
characters are pretty much in the
earlier tradition of literature on the
race; they are those singing, pray
ing, amoral children who antedate
in our writing the socially conscious
and bitter colored folk of today.
Though they are aware Of their
wrongs, they have no hope of justice
and shape their lives humbly to the
end of avoiding trouble" with the
unpredictable whites.
The scene is a slum of Atlanta
where, in squalor and neglect, the
colored people occupy such quarters
as are allowed them. The story is
of a land-loving country boy who
follows his city wife to this wretched
spot and tries to adapt himself to its
complications. Bootleggers, loan
sharks, installment statesmen and a
white sadist are few Of the afflic-
tions that plague him. Both ne and
the long suffering community are
presented with a good deal of con-
viction. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Herbert Yord|ey, Master Code-Breoker,
Writes ThriIIers Durinq His of Hours

your characters in trouble and then
taking them through the results
And If you have seen enough life you
have no trouble creating the char
acters and setting up their troubles
and triumphs."
In writing "Crows Are Black
Everywhere" Yardley supplied the
facts, plot and color; Carl Grabo,
professor of English at the Univer-
sity Of Chicago, gave the story the
writing polish. The result was q
piece of fiction that has been gen
orally well received by reviewers.
Writes When He Feels Like It,
Yardley roams because he like It
and writes after he gets his facts. He
brought back from his two-year
China experience q 30,O00-word
brochure packed with description OF
war, refugees, dives, gruesome events
strange characters and stranger ex-
periences. Out Of this probably will
come other books based on life and
war in China, but Yardley makes nc
promises. He writes when he feels
like It.
His first book was ''The American
Black Chamber" in which he told
OF his work as q code breaker fol
the State Department from 1919 tc
1929. He brought it out In 1891
and he recalls that 1t ran into criti-
cism In diplomatic quarters, where
it was felt the book embarrassed
oncials in diplomatic dealings with
other nations.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Jennifer's House
By Christine Noble GoDnn
(Houghton Mi17in Co..
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Reviewed by
MIRIAM OTTENBERG.
Isabel Page, about whom "Jen-
nifer's House" revolves, Is a latter
day Scarlett OHara but without
Scarletts fire. Perhaps uninten-
tionally, Miss Govan has followed
the pattern of Scarlett's life SO
closely that the inevitable compari-
son is even cited on the jacket of
her novel.
Like Scarlet and her devotion to
Tara, Isabel wants to rule River
ridge, a gracious Southern mansion
Also like Scarlet, Isabel puts the
house before her true love. Unlike
Scarlet, however, Isabel doesn't
force circumstances to go her way;
she simply makes the best possible
use of her opportunities.
Isabel Is a Yankee who comes
to the fremont plantation at 16 as
q nurse-companion for the aging
and arthritic Jennifer fremont
When she decides that although
she loves one of the fremont grand
sons, Evan, she should marry an
other to become mistress of River
ridge, their grandfather proposes
and she accepts. Grandfather Ire
mont dies and SO does the daughter
who would have inherited the plan
tation. Riverridge passes to the
daughters husband and Isabel
winds up by marrying him.
Miss Govan is at her best when
she leaves the plot alone and dwells
on the leisurely customs of the era
just before the last war when life
on the fremont plantation, despite
Isabel, was nleaSant.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Chungking Dialogues
BIZ Lin MouSheng. John Dag

By Lin MouSheng. (John Day.
S2.)
Following the ancient pattern of
presenting a case through an imag-
mary conversation, Lin Mousheng
states here the argument for Chang
Kai-shek's China by having five
modern Chinese discuss their coun-
try pro and con. They represent
the points of view of Confucian
philosopher, a social scientist, a
conservative judge, young radical
and young working woman. The
Confucian philosopher wins out.
The wisdom of the early sage is
adequate for modern China, he
holds, and the Kuomintang govern
ment is shaping according to that
wisdom. 1t is a nice little book, well
filled with shrewd and witty OBJ
servations on government in general.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
James Fighting Ships
1o43-A

Edited by Francis E. McMurtr1e
Macmillan; S19.)
JAMES ALL THE WORLDS
AIRCRAFT 1943-44
Compiled and edited BY Leon
ard Bridgman. Macmillan
s19J
The annual appearance OF these
two authoritative volumes is always
an event. In time of war, of course
one does not need to labor their i'm
portance. Fighting Ships" in the
present issue, presents great mass
of new material, most OF which re-
lates to the navies of the United
Nations. Concerning the enemy
navies," says the foreword, there is
not a great deal of news of impor-
tance to record. Both the German
and Japanese fleets are showing
signs of the steady process OF attrl-
ton to which they are being sub
iected." Neutral navies also have not
"altered their composition to any
great extent" But tremendous de-
velopments have been made in the
shipyards of the winning powers ano
they are thoroughly covered in the
book up to July, 1914.
"All the Worlds Aircraft" is not
devoted solely to military aviation
1t undertakes to give record ol
general aeronautical progress. 1t has
a section each on progress in mill
tary and civil aviation; third Sec
tion records what types of ships are
made in every country in the worle
except those which, by reason o.
enemy occupation, could not bt
reached: and a fourth which gives
the same information concerning
engines.
The two books are encyclopedia
of their subjects. No other works
offer the coverage or the authority
Evening star., 1945-04-01

raphy of a girl
who has spent
y e arS running
from one theat-
rical haunt to
a n o t h er in
search of a part,
any part, in a
play, any play.
Miss Hunter OBJ
viously r cog
niZes her condi-
UlOn as q SOrC OF
disease, an in
c u r a b ! e one
from which she
does not really
seek release, but
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Among
the Authors

Readers venerable enough to re.
member Father Brown, the cherubit
little priest and detective of G. X
Chesterton's creation, will be glad tt
hear that for the first time all the
stories about him have been col.
lected in one volume and will be or
sale sometime in April. Dedd Meac
will be the publisher.
4 X
On the jacket of the recent vol
ume Of Private Breger" and &c. I
Joe" cartoons, Ernie Pyle has this tc
say about 1t. Dave Breger, the car.
toonist, HE even had to carry on his
cartooning while on maneuvers. HI
did all his work then in the bach
end of a truck, with the tail light
extension hanging over his shoulder
and his face covered with mosquito
netting" He adds that Gen. Eisen.
hover gets a photostatic copy Of
each cartoon and that the censor
also sees them all. 1t seems safe tc
bet that the Breger mail is daily
break for both officials.
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The Literary Guild authors seem
to have particular luck in hitting
the movies. Edna Ferber's Great
Son" has just been sold to Michae
Todd for 100000. Last year arounc
100000 went from the film com.
panies to eight Guild writer's, with
Elizabeth Goudge's Green Dolphin
Street" taking s125 900, the highest
single figure, and Ben Ames vii.
liams' Leave Her to Heaven" ano
Gwethalyn Graham's Earth ane
High Heaven" bringing $l00,0ot
each. Captain From Castillo" an.
other Guild selection, is also under
production.
Two million copies have been sole
of the three pocket" anthologie.
edited for Pocketbooks, by Philip Var
Doren Stern-"The Pocket Read.
err" 1.-THE Pocket Companion" anc
"The Pocket Book of Modern Amer.
ican Short Stories" A fourth vol.
ume is to come out this month, "Tht
Pocket Book of Adventure Stories,
also edited by Mr.. Stern. These
books all sell for rs cents.
Julian Messner, Inc, is offering s
prize of $1,000 for the best bool
combating intolerance in America
You can get contest rules by writing
to West Fortieth street, New Yorl
City.
\ 4 "a
The annual Houghton Mifflin fel
lowship awards. stepped up this veal
to S2,400 each, have been awarded
to Ann Petry for a projected move
on Negro life in Harlem and Be.
atrice Griffith for a non-fictior
study of Mexicans in the United
States The Catholic Literary
Foundation announces for its Apri
selection Theodore Maynard's "Toe
Small a World" a biography oi
Mother Cabrini, who may be the
first American saint, and the Cath.
olic Book Clubs latest choice 1,
Rev. Charles Hugo Doyle's Life ol
Pope Plus XII"
Evening star., 1945-04-01

was carried out by public-spirited
citizens, and, in spite of having a
large cast of characters and young
romance it reads pretty much like a
guide book. 1t reminded me OF a
French reader which I once studied,
which told of the wanderings
through Paris of a group Of tourists
who dutifully explained the sights
Of interest to one another. 1t Is
nice to know that The Hermitage
was restored, but I, for one, will take
the information straight. A novel is,
or ought to be work Of fiction.