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Evening star., 1945-12-16
RICHARD D. MONTGOMERY.
BY Carolyn Coeeins

If you saw Ruth Adams knight,
you would say to yourself, why,
she's just little slip of a girl.
What can she do?" There is no
more deceiving female abroad in the
writing world, for, although she is
small and rather fragile looking and
as slender as her own grown daugh-
ter, she is one of the top-flight in
come producers. For years she has
written some of the most distin-
guished radio dramas on the air,
and, between one or two daily pro-
grams, she writes short stories about
war wives for McCall's magazine.
She has also written numerous
books.
Life really began for her out in
Toledo. Ohio, where she studied
journalism in her home town uni
versity until sidetracked by the local
paper. She soon married and is
now the mother of boy and a girl
She was busy woman, and later,
as a widow, brought her little fam
| lily to New York to pursue her
writing career. The ups and downs
have been pretty shattering affairs,
preparing her probably for just what
she has turned into-a happily
married professional woman who can
either take it," make it" or enjoy
what good comes her way.
The biggest bit Of the latter was
in the person of a very tall, dark
man, Dickson Hartwell, whom she
met as a result OF her interest in
the Seeing Eye dog development
when 1t first originated in Switzer-
land. People concerned wanted a
book about the dogs and it was IN
this connection that Dick appeared.
He persuaded her to write "A Friend
In the Dark" That was her first
book eight years ago. It took him
longer to persuade her to marry him
than to induce her to do the book.
This interest in the Seeing Eye
actually took her into radio for, a
serious career. She had done
scripts before, and then had dropped
all radio contacts. But she was
called in as adviser when 1.-The
Cavalcade of America" wanted q
Seeing Eye script. That is how she
was asked to remain and write
scripts on other subjects. too.
She has written five books since
that first one, the last being Brave
Companions" which Is a dog story
about one of those magnificent
shepherd K-9s which fought in the
Pacific.
Clifton Fadiman has signed a
contract with Random House to de-
liver book within three years on
Living Literature of Greece and
Rome" 1t will probably run into
two or three volumes because Fadi-
man intends to do around 100000
words of conversation" about the
classics he believes still speak to us
today"
Readers of THE Manatee" would
have been surprised had they called
with me on the author, Nancy
Bruff, at her duplex apartment on
Park avenue. This creator of the
hard-bitten seagolng character of
Evening star., 1945-12-16
7 he Art World
Phillips and Whyte Galleries Exhibit
Pictures Aimed at Christmas Trade

unity. These works occupy the walls
of the printrooms and large port
folio. Many of the artists repre-
sented have exhibited in earlier
Phillips Gallery ANIMALS and else
where in Washington.
The exhibition starts at the top
of the stairway leading down to the
printrooms. Considering the works
in the order in which they are
hung, the reviewer found the fol-
lowing good: Aurelius Battaglias
Clown" a swarthy Mediterranean
type in soft red; Marcella Comes
March Snow" an impressionistic
interior in which young woman
is having her hair brushed while
she looks at winter through the
windows; Walter T. Carnelli's
Nativity" interpreting the theme
in a symbolic rather than orthodox
manner, by placing the family group
and the gift-bearing visitors in a
lush summer landscape, and Mary
Elizabeth Partridge's serene, we'll
ordered view from a window, Mon
hegan."
Also admired were Herman Maril's
simple little marine, Rocky Shore;
Prentiss Taylor's miniature, Max
inc Sullivan at the Oynx"; Harold
Weston's clean, cool pattern of trees,
"Adirondacks March; Lois Mailou
Jones skillful arrangement, "Libe-
rian Abstraction; Celine Tabarys
airy "Menemsha Creek; Robert
Gates West Virginia Roadside;
Henrietta Hopes tiny Victorian
interior in tempera entitled Cats"
and Margaret Gates River in
Winter"
Visitors should not overlook the
large portfolio in the second print
room. It has such good things in
its as Mary Balls little water color,
vegetable Wagon; Lloyd Embry's
Sun on the Deck; three mono
types by Otto E. Kallenbach, ab-
stractions in soft, lovely colors with
forms which suggested their imag-
NATIVE titles; Isabel Mahafie's COM
petently handled Lake" and "Old
City; one or two items from Mich
olas Michnya's group of water colors
from Leyte and several Autographs
by Prentiss Taylor.
One regrettable aspect of this
Christmas exhibition, however, is
the considerable number of paint
ings which have an unfinished
appearance. The artists have not
carried them through to complete
realization of their subjects-cer-
tainly not from the standpoint of
the layman. Sketches or bare sug-
gestions may satisfy the artists, but
if there is one thing the public
consistently favors Ito judge from
popular votes and purchases of art)
it is finished craftsmanship. And
if one understands the objectives
of this annual Christmas exhibition,
it is the gallery's major effort to
appeal to the public.
Evening star., 1945-12-16

tance indicated by a succession of
planes; Charlotte Kimball's Sun
flowers" against the background of
a seacoast village rejecting the same
colors, and Sybil Bonbright's little
glimpse of a Quebec countryside are
all paintings one would enjoy in
association. ..'-
Harold Weston's portrait Of Bar
bara," little girl in green with an
alert face. and Mary Watkins land
scape with horses. painted with
breadth and vigor, also stand out.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
IOnce in Every Lifetime
By Ton, H1nltn. fViktrg; ST.
4 Reviewed by
HARRY. MACARTHUR.

11Aftft1' MdCAN 11VU.
When al, author declares on the
first page Of chapter 2 that no
body has ever written this way be-
fore" he Is announcing that the
season is open and he is the game.
When he continues and says though
I'm telling the oldest story In the
world, the way I tell 1t you'll get
the same sensation you get reading
the ink-wet stop press" he will not
have long to wait for some one to
reply that the sensation is not that
one at all.
It is Mr.. Hanlin's thesis that
every man, sometime or other when
he's young, goes on fire for some
particular woman: every woman
goes on fire for some particular
man." He further insists that these
people who go on fire for each other
never marry, but drift apart to find
mates elsewhere. In Mr.. Hanlin's
version of "the oldest story in the
world" young Frank Stewart and
Jenny Dewar set each other child
ishly afiame against a background
of poverty in a Scottish mining vii
lage, though the caloriflc content
of their romance is closer to that
of a backyard bonfire than a FIVE
alarm blaze.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings and sculpture by great
sIenfa3 srench and n's,.ls Belsisn PAINTINGS aIn:
NATIONAL MI MUsEGM, seGi '0Satiil National Col
lection of Fine Arts, Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Amer-
ican paintings from private collec-
tions and other gifts and loans.
Society Of Miniature Painters,
SMITHSONIAN 1BGILDING. Division
Of Graphic Arts, Independence ave-
nue. and Tenth street-Etehings by
Charles Charles ". Dahlsreen Fund to
FREER SasAs GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
and B streets S.W.-Oriental and
Far Eastern arts. Paintings and
etchinss by Whistler and other
coRGoRAN Hsea5ii GALLERY OF ART.
Seventeenth street between New
York avenue and E streets-Amer-
van va pantnss caps eoactons one ie4p'uFs spees hf
exhibition, fourth annual Merchant
Seamen's Exhibition, to December
26. Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Har-
bor'' United States Navy combat
pHiIIiFs Rhiliks A'Ni MEMORIAL GALLERY.
1900, Twenty-first street-Paint-
tngs by artists of Washington. Bal
timore and vicinity. to December
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Capt.
tol and First streets-Division Of
Prints. Special exhibition of Illus
trated books and manuscripts from
the Rosenwald collection, to Janu-
airy Is.
WHYTE GALLERY, 1918 Connecticut
avenue-Modern American artists,
to December 81.
ARTS CLUB, 2O17 I street NV
Exhibition by Ethel Robertson Gath
and Mary Rush Snow, to Decem-
BARNETT-ADEN GALLERY. 127
Randolph place N.W.-Paintings by
Jack Perlmutter, through Decem-
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and K
streets, NW.-Exhibition by Pietro
pan AMERICAN UNION. seventeenth
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF The DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA, 1880 s
street NW-Rugs, tapestries and
other textiles of the Near and Far
East. Open Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday. 20 pm. Admission
by card obtainable at ONCE Of
George Hewitt Myers, 730, FIJI
teenth street NV.
INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES, 2O12
S street N.W.-Exhibition by How
ard Conant and Paul Thompson,
to January 3.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Poems

By Franz Wertel. Translated
from the German by Edith
Abercrombie Sao1D. Prince
ton University Press; ST.
This volume introduces the poetry
of Franz Werfel to an English
reading audience. 1t includes 49
poems, small portion of Mr.. Wer-
fel's works. The German text is in
every case published on the page
opposite the English, an arrange
ment which is always advantageous
with translated verse.
The selections deal mainly with
mortality, with the germ Of death
which is innate in all life. From
such a theme the turn toward reli-
gion is natural, and SO many Of the
poems have religious cast. In
general they come into English
smoothly. The level OF the volume
is one OF good poetic accomplish
ment. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Current Books
EverAfter

6VSI AIISI
By Els,oyth Thane. (DueH
Sloane & Pearce;; S3.)
Reviewed by
RICHARD D. MONTGOMERY. .
In her third novel of the Day.
Sprague Murray clan, Elswyth
Thane brings her narrative almost
to the present-at least to the men,
ory Of many Of her readers. 1t is the
end OF the 10th century and the
United States is on the verge of war
with Spain. It is Victoria's jubilee
summer in England when Bracken
Murray, special correspondent for
his fathers New York paper, goes to
London. Bracken's Viennese wife
has deserted him for the more ex-
citing pleasures Of the Riviera when
he meets Dianah Campion, the 15-
year-old daughter of the Earl of En-
stone. Primarily the love story OF
Bracken and Dianah, the plot Il
shared in this by Bracken's cousin
Fitzhugh Of Virginia, who is sent on
an assignment to Cuba.
There are scenes of fashionable So
ciety in New York and London, OF
the music halls Of New York, the
invasion Of Cuba and the quiet dig
nifty Of Williamsburg.
Ever After" will be welcomed by
the readers Of "Dawn's Early Light
and Yankee Stranger" as a sequel
but 1t may be enjoyed as a story in
itself. Miss Thane is thorough and
convincing, and weaves her fiction
into history with excellent results.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Two.Man Shou,

The art of Howard Conant and
Paul Leland Thompson can be
studied in comprehensive two-man
exhibition of about 100 examples at
the International Galleries, 2012 S
street NV. until January 8. Framed
pictures occupy all of the wall space
and there are groups of drawings and
water colors on tables, for closer
examination.
1t Conant has essayed oils, wa
ter color, crayon and lead pencil
and gives evidence of being a pro-
life worker. But water color is his
forte, if one is to judge from this
show. His work in this medium has
"a sparkle and verve which is lacking
in his oils and drawings. This is
vividly illustrated in two versions
of the same theme, Potomac Near
Mount Vernon" one in water color.
the other in oil. Furthermore, he
is better at landscape than at
figures.
He was born in Southern Wis
consin in 1921, was interested when
a child in painting and drawing;
majored in art at the University of
Wisconsin and Milwaukee State
Teachers College. He has exhibited
extensively in his native State and
elsewhere in the Middle West and
more recently in New York and
Washington. He had a group OF
paintings at the Public Library here
last season.
In 1912 he enlisted as a private
in the air forces and continued to
draw and paint, during hours off
duty, for USO and service clubs.
After receiving his commission 1t.
Conant was stationed at Mitchell
Field and took advantage of his
proximity to New York by studying
art with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the
Art Students League.
Paul Leland Thompson is well
known here. He is member OF
and regularly exhibits with the So
ciety of Washington Artists and the
Landscape Club and with other or
ganizations, and he was represent
ed in the Corcoran biennial last
spring. Mr.. Thompson Is showing q
larger number of paintings in oil
than in other media. His primary
interest seems to be in expressing
essential form and in suggesting
bulk and solidity. He favors rather
somber color schemes. His best
painting, in the reviewers opinion
is 4Fletcher's in Winter" a boat.
house on a river bank where tht
rowboats are drawn up, the entire
scene snow covered and stark, ye1
limiting, Can spring be far be.
hindu"
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Local ChHdren's Work

Paintings by Washington chill
dren are now being exhibited at
the Children's Art Center, 1910 I
street NV. through Christmas.
The show is open to the public from
3 to 6 pm. daily and on Saturday
mornings.
These paintings present consider
able contrast to those by Soviet
children shown last month, which
reflected their more immediate ex-
perience with the war. Our children,
spared such fears and needs, have
painted pictures revealing their
more fortunate circumstances.
Evening star., 1945-12-16

CQdTleS ". 6ClLe
proceeds to ap-
praise what Is
being done for
the veteran, how
the veteran feels
about 1t and why
some veterans
including him.
self-want to es-
tablish a vet
erans' organiza-
ton of their own.
To avoid the
charge that one
veteran has set
himself up as
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Among the Authors

Jabez Folger was knitting that aft
ernoon. She had made so many
things for her baby which is ex-
pected in the spring that she de-
cided 1t was time TO make something
for mother, and she continued work.
ing as we talked.
y
Irene Dunno has been selected to
play the part of Anna in the movie
version of Anna and the King OF
SIAM" by Margaret Landon. That
ought to insure It's box Office appeal
Evening star., 1945-12-16

100000, the author quotes ex-
tensively from letters the American
Veterans Committee, which he heads,
has received from servicemen, as
well as from material in service
publications.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
The New Veteran
By Charles G. Bolte. (Reynal &
Hitchcock s5ses
Reviewed by I
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

After telling just enough about
himself to give the reader picture
of how a man feels when he loses
his leg in combat and comes home,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-09
FACES CHARGES

Olivia Brown, -, NEGRO ianmlrcss.
who lives M &78 Holt VIII appear
i'll Justice OF the Peace ! f. ;Snp-
sons court Friday for preliminary
hearing Oil charges ol assault with
a deadly weapon. The complaint WAS
filed Wednesday by Btuucp Block
Gil 119 Brighton.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-09
IndustriaIists Eye
Atomic Power
As Long Way Ahead
By T. w. KIENLEN

NEW YORK, Aug. 9. CUPD - II
will be a long time before atomic
power comes into everyday use.
Our leading industrialiSts agree on
that almost unanimously.
IN time-a long time-it Will be
developed for peaceful pursuits -
said Dr. NJ Lelyn Branin, technical
consultant of the Bituminous Coal
Institute. 1T will undoubtedly be
generations before the atom will
make all the nations steel, power
the nations locomotives. generate
the electricity or furnish the bill
lions of hours of industrial horse
power that coal does now, let alone
heat the nations homes
Charles w. Kellogg. president Of
the Edison Electric Institute. said
atomic power in its present stage Of
development was akin to lightning.
CITES LIGHTNING
1--WE all know what lightning is.
and can do, but we haven't learned
yet how to control it." he said
Actually, the nations top indus
trialistS were not let iii on the Sc
cret Of the atom smashing develop
mentS until news of the atomic
bomb came out this week. Such
giants of industry as Alfred P
Sloan,s chairman Of General Motors
Corp, asked to be excused from
making any exact statements until
further information was available
outside military production circles.
Most agreed with Dr. w. A. Glib
bonS. research director Of u. 6. Rub
Der company, that for the genera
tion Of large quantities Of power
and to overcome The gcO2raDiicaI
limitations in obtaining power
atomic energy seems to be the an
sWer." But thcv did not think the
dav of atomic power would be soon
One stumblino block is the cost
1t was pointed out that in war tins
only can q $2.000G00C evpori-
mental cost such as that on tho
atomic bomb be borne
The weekly bulletin Of the An
thracite Institute whose members
control $40OOa0,000 worth Of mines
/ commented:
1T has been stated that Goa
I could produce over 2.0U)0Gl times a
much energy if used atomicailV. in
'tead Of combustion. ObV'Cusjv thi
would revoluinniZe tile generation
Of heat an3 power. cjn~c n this "a
! ton. One-sjXth &c an ounce ut Goa
would equal the annual AVERAGE fuc
requirements cG an AVERAGE home
and twenty tons would reHl4ce c1ly-
rent annual anthracite production.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
However, there are thren Iman-
sWered questions which lead 10 the
/ prediction thai. it will be many wear,
before the breakers are torn dow1
to make room for atomic factories
The first is. can atomic energy
! be controlled and directed? Tni
second is that uranium and tht
other materials now repeatedly be
ing used all have the heaviest. most
complex atoms which are relative
" unstable and comparatively easy
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-09
Russia Swings
Into Battle;
Hits Manchuria
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territory, Chungking sources said.
A communique from the KWan-
tung army headquarters in Man
churia indicated that the main at
tack had been directed against the
eastern frontier from the narrow
silver of Siberian territory wedged
in between Manchuria and the sea
and tipped by Vladivostok.
The Kwantung army, comprising
some 100000 Of Japan's toughest
and best-trained troops, presumably
was waiting for the Soviet attack
in long prepared defenSeS inside the
border.
Russia, for her part, had bolstered
her far eastern forces with battle
toughened veterans of the fight
against Germany in the west and
also sent vast quantities of tanks,
planes and munitions to the Far
East
1t equally was obvious that the
Russians launched their offensive
only after long preparations-prep
arationS of the kind that enabled
them to advance 200 to 300 miles
across Europe before pauSing for
reinforcements and supplies.
HARD TERRAIN
Russian progress was likely to be
slower in the Far East than in Eu-
rope The terrain alCng the Siber-
IAN Manchurian border is rugged
and lacks the many roads that bi-
sect the plains of Europe
First word of the attack came
from the Tokyo radio in the form
of a flash" bulletin from head
quarters of the KWantung army in
Hsinking in central Manchuria at
3 80 am. Manchurian time
The Soviet army suddenly
launched an attack against Japa-
nese forces on the eastern Soviet
Manchukuo (ManchurianD border
Shortly after midnight last night,
the dispatch said.
according to a communique re-
leased by the KWantung army
headquarters here at 3: 80 this morn
ing, Aug. 8, the Soviet army sud-
denly opened an attack against ia
paneSe forces on the eastern bOr-
der at 1910 am. with its ground
forces
AERIAL ONSLAUGHT
The communique added that 81
simultaneously a small number Of
Soviet aircraft started bombing at
tackS on strategic points in Man
chukuO territory -
Thus fighting started at 6:lO pm.
"Wednesday Moscow time-one hour
and 10 minutes after Russia notified
Japan Of her decision to enter the
Pacific r-and l1:l0 am. Wednes-
day EWT The broadcast made it
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-09
Russia S Move
Held Second
TO Atomic Bomb

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. UP) -
Congress welcomed Russia's en-
trance into the Pacific war but
ranked it second to the atomic
bomb in fastening victory over
Japan.
The twin developments of the
week left no doubt in any minds but
that the end of the japanese war is
approaching. All agreed that the
Russian entry can be of benefit in
speeding the day of complete vic
tory at a saving of American lives.
NOT DECISIVE FACTOR
There were expressions, however
that the Russian action at this time
should not be considered the deci-
sive factor.
The most direct comment along
that line came from Sen Alexander
Wiley, (Rl, Wisconsin, who had de-
manded in a senate speech two
weeks ago that Russia get into the
war against Japan.
Wiley suggested that the first
atomic bomb hurled against Japan
last Sunday was a factor in the
Russian decision.
1T is obvious that RuSsia's entry
at this time will not have the de-
ciSive effect it might have had two
weeks ago. before the atomic bomb
was introduced" he commented
Apparently the atomic bomb
which hit Hiroshima also blew Joe
(RusSian Premier Joseph Stalin) off
the fence"
Wiley believed that RuSSia'S action
may slightly help tip the scales
to force a Japanese surrender. He
insisted. however, that the United
States should take the position that
I'VE are no more disposed now
than before to reveal to Russia (and
the WOrld) our secrets on the atomic
bomb at this time, even though she
is our war ally again.
MUST KEEP TO PLANS
'RuSSia'S late entrance should not
dispose us to agree to territorial
readjuStmentS in Asia which would
be inequitable and unjust We must
recognize that it was American blOOC
! and sweat and tears q. which have
brought us to the present point OF
near victory"
Sen. Sheridan DoWney, (DD, Cali
fornia, suggested that the Russian
decision would have been great
news six months ago" Since the
atomic bomb development he fount
the Russian news merely interest
ing"
A barrel weighing IS pounds
when made of wood weighs only Il
pounds when constructed out ol
aluminium.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-09
DISTRICT EMPLOYEES GET
GENERAL WAGE INCREASE

Irrigation District employees. uJu
on a monthly basis VIII have SO 80
more in their pay envelopes start
ing August - and the uail. Wurtin.
by the hour viii have tive cents
more an hour added. Day by day
cmplyoes' ralsewill be equivalent to
the increases granted the other two
groups. The amount ot thr increase
approved by the district board last
Tuesday inadvertently Vls omitted
from the statement issued by ,h.
board.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-09
Firemen Chase
Burning Hay

Firemefi in the county truck were
forced to pursue their fire Thurs
day morning when phone call
from Heber told them that a truck
load of blazing hay had just passed
through that town.
After a hot chase the truck was
stopped two miles east Ct Heber,
where firemen managed to save the
truck, but the loac of hay and the
semi trailer burned at an estimated
loss of $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-09
.Chinese-Sovief
Forces Join
In North Sector
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Continued from Page i
nese now will withdraw from south
China Us fast as they can move
their equipment.
Coordination of military efforts
with the Russians-un now a
highly guarded secret-was on the
same scale as that existing between
the U. S. China command and the
southeast Asia command Of Adm.
Lord Louis Mountbatten.
There is an open exchange Of in
formation. intelligence and overall
planning.
Wedemeyer said the Russian dec
laration OF war against Japan OPEN
ed up the possibility Of shuttle
bombing between OkinaWa and 81
IBERIA Re believed it Will shorten
the conflict AN awful lot
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-09

A new variety of 4ug..r cane
which has been Gcsignltcd a.
"C P.-lO7" uJ. been developed at thu
Louisiana State University EXpen-
mcnt Station. It Will he available as
seed IN linAc.j amount duriug this
fan
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-09
LACK OF EDUCATION MAKES
SAFECRACKERS WORK HARD

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Aus 8.
tUPl- Being llAtcratc was bis
handicap to couple Of san An
tonic safecraCkerS-
At a local produce company Of
flee, a pair 81 burglars broke into
a. room containing a larac safe
chiseled the safe away from its
Wall-bOlts and dragged ,he bulky
wheels into Jhe back WI " ware
room in the buildng Then they
blasted it open Inside they found
less than ST in small change.
And hanging On the >l.r door
plainly visible. was si-n readua
This safe is not locked Wn
handle and open"