The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-03-08

Canadian Air Force, is a book that
will make you sit up and think.
When you have read il you will
realize that global aviation is not
somewhere in the future, but is an
accomplished fact. The author tells
the story of aviation from Kitty
Hawk to the BIO Superfortresses,
much of it is in terms of his own
personal experience. He shows us
how our world has already been
greatly changed and how these
changes will either be for great good
or great evil It is written with
burning urgency and zeal to make
us understand the realities of world
aviation today The proved possibili-
ties of stratospheric flight and roc
ket and jet propulsion, have already
rendered obsolete every plane now
in the air New York to London in
three hours is assured. To-morrow's
air age is herel
While Still We Live, by Helen Nc
lines, is thrilling novel of the
siege of Warsaw and the adventure
of Shela Matthews. Shela, a young
English girl, was listed on the War
saw police blottcr as Margareta Koch
a known Nazi agent, while the Ges-
tapo knew her as Anna Braun and
also thought that she was a Nazi
agent. How this came about you will
follow with the same tenseness and
terror that she herself felt. After
Warsaw fell the Germans ran into
difficulty with the Underground, in
which Shela also figured. Her love
affair with Captain Adam Wisniew-
ski, born leader and expert guer-
lila fighter, leads through many ex-
citing situations to a dramatic
climax.
Washington from 1923 to the pres
ent is most entertainingly depicted
in Vera Blooms book, There's No
Place Like Washington. Daughter of
Congressman Sol Bloom of New
York, the writer came to Washing
ton during the Coolidge administra-
ton, when her father was first elect
ed to Congress, and has watched
Washington change from the leis-
urley, light-hearted town of the
twenties to the high powered, over
grown place it is today. Her relation
of varied events is an observant,
amusing and occasionally exasper-
ated chronicle of social life in the
Capital, where pleasure is obliga-
tory; where name and fame and
power forgather at dinner tables
that nations may be honored and in
terests pursued
Ranger MOsby, by Virgil Caring
ton Jones, tells the story of Mosby
and his men, the "hellcats on horse
back" who so effectively harassed
Grant and Sheridan in GA and IS.
Wearing a plumed hat and flowing
cape, he became almost a legendary
figure. Penetrating the Federal lines
at will, he was a swift and invisible
scourge to outposts and supply
trains. After the war he made peace
with Grant and was welcome Wis
itor at the White House.
Who Killed The Doctor? by Miles
Barton, is an unusual mystery story.
DR.. Kurt Wiegler couldn't under
stand the mentality of English Will
ayers, He had lived in London for
thirty years and felt that he knew
something about Londoners, but the
stupidity of the farmer was beyond
him. He didn't keep his opinions to
himself, consequently he was thoro-
ughly disliked in the little town in
which he was living and when he
fell off a cliff, no one greatly cared.
The probability that he had been
murdered upset no one, not even the
village police. But when the friend
ly young doctor who replaced him
also met death in violent manner.
the village was aroused and investi-
cation began in earnest.
Men, Women and Dogs is a per-
fectly delightful book of drawings
by James Thurber. There is nothing
else just like the people Mr.. Thur
Der draws, and the situations he puts
them are amazing to say the least!
They must be seen to be appreciated.
Dorothy Parker, who wrote the deft
and sparkling introduction is partic-
ularly intrigued by the picture show
ing man, his wife and a male
guest They are standing in an en-
closure furnished mainly by book
case which resembles the leaning
tower of Pisa. On top of the book
case reposes a woman on all fours
and the host is saying nonchantly,
That's my first wife up there and
this is the present Mrs. Harris" Now
what do you make of situation like
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