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Evening star., 1945-06-10
A Lion in the Streets
Bu Adrid Locke Langley
(WhittleSey House, So

Although it bears on its f1yleaf
the customary statement that 1t is
an imaginary story both as to char
acters and plot. this novel will not
fail to remind any reader familiar
with recent American history OF the
career of the late Huey Long. With
its scene a State bordered by the
Mississippi River and the Gulf OF
Mexico, in which there is an ariS-
tocracy of French descent and a
poverty-stricken population Of poor
whites and cajunS, it gives us the
life of man who rose from the
ranks of the people to be Governor
on the strength of a divide the
riches" platform, then betrayed his
promises and maintained himself in
power by force and corruption. The
parallel hardly needs the hero's
designation of himself as the big
Lion" to match Huey's "Kingfish'
for its completion.
What Adria Locke Langley has
done is to portray the life of this
little dictator, Hank Martin, through
the eyes of his wife. She assures
us, by monotonous repetition of
scenes of marital intimacy, that
Hank has a magnetic personality
capable of sweeping away the
scruples of the most conscientious
persons. Innumberable times his
wife comes to doubt his integrity
and innumberable times his irresis-
tible loyemaking dt consists mainly
in chanting quotations from the
Song of Songs'D convinces her that
she must be mistaken. After while,
somebody shoots him and, in the
succeeding absence of his Old Testa-
mentary fervor, she concludes that
he was crook after all.
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The Townsmon
By John Sedges. (John Day
S275

By John Sedges. (John Day.;
$2.75.)
In this long and infinitely de-
tailed novel there is told the story
of young English boy who
came to Kansas in the 1905 and
there threw himself into building
up little settlement into a worthy
town. The story of his family, his
love affair, his marriage carry on the
narrative, but the center of it is
always Johnathan's sober passion
for his community, its development
along wholesome lines, it's fitness for
the living of good lives. He fights
liquor. gambling and big business,
all successfully. He is the town S
school teacher-begins giving les
sons in his sod-house residence and
ends by having fine modern high
school named for him by his CRATE
full fellow citizens. The book is
well-knit and convincing enough
though utterly without humor or
lronic shading and somewhat me-
chanical at times In its incidental
characters. NC. r.
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Family on the Hill
By Ambrose Flack. (Thomas Y
CroWeH Co.: $780,
Reviewed
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
The Otters- rugged realistic
mamma and dreamy, musical papa
and their 16 young ones-are the kind
of people to meet around income tax
time or when the bills come due. The
Offers never worry about bills or
red points or fuel rationing, be-
cause they have no money. This
doesn't upset them much, either.
In their shack on the hill, the
Offers live for months on potatoes.
They have moments of great happi-
ness, like the time they damned up
the creek during a food and COL
lected fine haul of furniture swept
from nearby farms. They have their
tragedies, too. Fire and death come
to the house on the hill. But they
manage to survive both Joy and
sorrow. spreading about them an
aura of Well-being which rehabili-
tates their next-door neighbor, a
Flying Tiger" home from the hor-
rors he has seen.
Essentially, this is string of an
ecdotes rather than a novel. In. its
leisurely way, the book is as hap
hazard as the family it describes.
For all that, however, Mr. Flack
succeeds in making Mr.. and Mrs.
Otter and each of their Is children
so individual that you even can tell
the twins apart after while. You
may have your favorites, but you
can't help wishing that you knew
them all. They have such a good
time just living.
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Island 4o
By SerQt Merle Miller

By Sergt Merle Miller.
(ThomdS Y. Cr0WeN Co., S2.)
Reviewed by J. K. VAN DENBURG
Sergt. Miller, 26, has written this
novel-his first-out of his expert
ences as a combat correspondent in
the Pacific war theater for Yank,
the Army magazine. 1t is techni-
cally sound little work but compar-
atively it is without meaning.
In effect, Island 40 is a fictional-
lied account Of an assault on a tiny
Pacific atoll. In essence it is a
warmed-over "Guadalcanal Diary
or "Tarawa." 1t fails because it
lacks the vivid reality of those two
great stories and gains nothing by
taking the form of novel
Sergt. Miller apparently hoped to
write a supplementary battle piece
one which could go below the sur
face experience of war reporting
and show both the strength and
frailty of the men who are hurled
up a beach into enemy defenses in
spite of themselves But the char
acters he has chosen are stereo-
typed and the situations too IA
miliar The result is something
less than life "a mirror without
meaning.
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Brief Reviews
THE NAVY
HE NAVY.
EamallS American Naval QfficJ

Famous American Naval Officers,
by Charles Lee Lewis. (Page) A
new edition of work of biographi-
cal sketches, revised to take in
heroes of the present war.
A Naval Log, by W. K. Thompson
and G. w. Strong, jr. ID. Van
NostrandD Two naval officers write
a handbook of essential information
for officers and officer candidates.
Brassey's Naval Annual. Edited
by Rear Admiral H. G. Thursfield.
| (Macmillan) The 55th edition of
a standard work. Emphasis on pres
ent war, of which naval history is
included with account of changes in
naval construction and methods Of
fighting.
STEEL.
Principle to Wheeling, by Earl
Chaplin May. CHarpersJ The story
of the Wheeling Steel Corporation,
its history and part in the present
war
Tanks and Armored Vehicles, by
1t. Col. Robert j. Icks, edited by
Phillip Andrews. Duell, Sloan and
Pearce) Pictures of armored war
vehicles from the Egyptian chariot
to the present, with brief explana-
tory text.
NOVELS.
"a Charlton, by Rene Kuhn. (Ap-
pleton-CenturyJ A novel of an old
New York family which lives in
Greenwich Village without being
village-y.
MEDICINE.
Doctors at War, edited by Morris
Fishbein. DuttonJ olXt;uu 4oau-
ing medical authorities write of the
work of physicians in various aspects
of the war Most interesting.
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! Married Them
By Janet Van Duyn. (HoWe
SOSkir 50 50
Reviewed by

SOSklH, SI.5U.J
Reviewed by
RICHARD D. MONTGOMERY.
The vogue for novels about eccen-
trio people continues in this semi
factual story of an upstate New
York family. Other families have
ghosts or skeletons in the closet but
the MacLeans have "Gramp," the
first of three generations who be-
came doctors. Gramp was of the
old school about operations anc
said, IF you want to cut, cut. Don't
peck man to death"
The MacLeans have no respect fol
privacy. In fact, they wouldn't un-
derstand any one wanting it
Wherever they gather the radio
blares, drinks are mixed and any
thing from family decisions to towr
gossip is settled in the confusion
The favorite meeting place is the
boudoir, where the seat of honor is
an old worn chaise Tongue affec-
tionately known as the SHAGGY
PIN, the daughter, is in and Out
of love as often as she diets; Mrs
MacLean always performs at parties
Aunt Grace paints and makes
samplers of felt; George plays the
piano in a style distinguished by g
'wallop"; the Count de Gotha is q
second man who came to dinner
Mr. Ace is remarkably philosoph-
ical plumber. and there is Cleary
who sews, and who is always ir
search of something to do.
Told by the wife of George, the
third-generation doctor, this is 9
lively and humorous tale. for she
found that she really did marry
them all. What effect this family
had on a small town must have
been tremendous. comparable tc
what the Sycamores of You Can't
Take 1t With You" had on New
York
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of all of us. Fall Walter Van T. Clark.
! ing short of this ideal biographical
novel is just a record, narrative.
Aristotle, comparing history and
poetry, said that poetry would tell
us what a certain kind of man might
do and history what a single man
did. There is so much that is first
rate in The City of Trembling
Leaves" so much that is poetry, in
short, that l hate to say that the
book as whole is history, but that
is how it seems to me- The hero re-
mains a single individual. He never
takes on himself the trappings of the
race.
In His Private Dreams.
He is young composer of music
of lower middle-class origin, who
grows up in Reno, New, in the teens
and twenties of the present century.
He is exposed to the historic mores
of the time but, not being, as Mr.
Clark explains, a 'realist," he lives
in his private dreams and is not
shaped by outward pressures. He
comes upon his crucial time in his
! early 20s when he is in process
of changing from a natural artist
child in his world of Imagination
to a conscious one-a composer liv-
ing in human society. America has
little sustenance or place for youth
in that situation and Mr.. Clark pre-
sents the forlorn cropping of his
Timothy very well. He does not
labor the virtual nonexistence of
any thing which might be called
culture in the boys environment. He
presupposes an understanding of
American city life on the part of the
reader and contents himself with de-
scribing the sights and sounds of
the streets as they strike on Tim
othys senses.
The Tragedy Of Compromise.
But Timothy escapes his darkness,
he comes through triumphantly. he
realizes himself and precisely ir that
he fails of being universal. He never
has to come to terms with life, to
face at long last reality Reality
comes to terms with him. That
renders him altogether specific 1t
is the tragic which is universal, and
there is no tragedy so complete as
the constant partial tragedy of COM
promise.
But if Mr.. Clark fails to make his
hero universal, he succeeds notably
in imparting universally to the land
in which his hero moves. His West
ern country is described in the most
faithfully specific manner. The
streets of Reno, the surrounding
mountains are set down with guide
book fidelity. Yet, miraculously, they
become the streets and mountains of
the world. They become the setting
of a stage on which anything might
happen. One does not try to think
beyond their boundaries.
There is, as said, much excellence
in the book. 1t is infinitely better
than the biographical novel of the
average young writer.
NC. r.
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ers and its action is no more than
a tracing of the hard path of intel
lectual growth which creative minds
have had to follow in land where
a basically puritanical society is just
emerging from its pioneer stage
Personal inhibition and intellectual
puzzlement before questions of world
scope are the result, as Mrs. Dark
shows it, but combined with an
honest determination to grow and
keep pace with the world Her pic
ture is presented through the life
of one Gilbert Massey, a novelist,
and consists in little more than a
recapitulation of his intellectual
growth from a repressed childhood
in a conservative home toward per-
sonal and political freedom.
NC. r.
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practice. A psy-
Geological study
Of the woman.
whose whole life
was shaped by
political forces
beyond her con-
troll, grows into
a broad dark pic
ture of political
persecution as
an institution.
as the author
studies her Vari-
GUS friends and
lovers in Ger
MANY Snain and
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and 1t adds up
to t h e good
r e a din G con-
t a n e d in "GI
Nightingale.
Writing in a
simple and di-
rect style, the
author, Theresa
Archard, cap
tain. A. N. c.,
has made the
book convey in a
convincing man
ner the courage
and determina-
ton of Ameri-
cas- OW n "G1
.
Evening star., 1945-06-10
Taps Is Not Enouqh
By Carl GARNER. (Ho

By Carl Garner. Holt; ST.
These two long poems are alike in
being written for radio audiences
and in treating of the conditions of
the peace. Both eloquently recapit-
ulate the cost and horror of the
war and the denominations of the
relationships and demand that
measures be taken to make certain
that no such conditions ever arise
again. Both also score the failure
of governments to take the proper
measures at the end of World War I.
And, to any one old enough to re-
member the admonitions which ac-
companied the end of that past
conflict, both sound remarkably
familiar.
M n .
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GI Nightingale

By Theresa Archard, Captain,
A. N. C. Nv. w. Norton e. Co.;
S2.50.j
Reviewed by ELIZABETH AMAN
Mix graphic descriptions with a
complete factual record. sprinkle in
some elements of suspense, and
season with humor and frankness
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ographical novel
and when a BIZ
ographical novel
attains greatness
it d o e S so be-
cause its h ero
becomes man ra-
ther than a man.
I think of "Ot
Human B o n d.
age" as the most
c on S pic u o u S
modern example
It's hero was a
very specific in
dividual, but his
life was the life
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New Books

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The Scandalous Adventures of Reynard
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The Anatomy of Peace, So, June 13.
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The Church and the Returning Soldier,
So. June 49,
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Evening star., 1945-06-10
Best Sellers
-NATION-WIDE-

according to Publishers weekly
FICTION.
1st-Captain From CASTLE, Samuel
Shellabarger.
2d-Immortal Wife, Irving Stone.
3d-The Ballad and the Source,
Rosamond Lehman.
4th-Earth and Hish Heaven, Gweth-
allyn Graham.
5th-A Lion 10 in the Streets, Adria
Locke Langley.
NONFICTION.
1st-Brave Men, Ernie Pyle.
2d-BIack Boy, Richard Wright.
3d-Anythins Can Happen, George
and Helen Papashivily
4th-Try and Stop Me, Bennett Cert.
5th--Pleasant Valley, Louis Brom-
field.
I'm WASHINGTON
1st-Commodore Hornbiower, c. g..
Forester.
2d-Captain from CASTLE, Samuel
Shellabarger.
3d-The Wide House, Taylor Caldwell.
4th-Th. Wine of San Lorenzo, Her.
bert German.
5th-A Lion in the Streets, Adria
Locke Langley.
NONFICTION.
lst-Brave Men, Ernie Pyle.
2d-RePort on the Russians W. L.
3d-FiEhtinr Liberal. Georse W. Nor
ris.
4th--A Book About the Bible, George
Simpson.
5th-BIack Boy, Richard Wright.
Evening star., 1945-06-10

i 1IneleSS Lana,
had a wide cir
culation in the
United States,
in her own coun-
try she is ranked
among the lead
ing writer's.
H er present
book has its in
terest chiefly in
it's attempt to
present the con-
temporary Au-
stralian literary
scene. Practical
ly all its char
q acterc are Irit-
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The City of
Trembling Leaves

By Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Random House; So
If Walter Van Tilburg Clark had
waited somewhat longer before writ
ing this book, he might have made
a great thing of it. 1t is a BIZ
Evening star., 1945-06-10

By Robert NeuWd1. (DuttOn, =,
$780,
The refugee novel is a literary
staple which seems likely now to
lose its market appeal That one
of the best, and certainly the most
mature volumes on the subject
should come out in this twilight of
the subjects Importance is regret
table. The Inquest" will deserve
wider reading than it is apt to get.
Beginning with the seeming sui
eide of an Austrian woman refugee
in London, the story works back.
through the thoughts of the wom-
ans associates, to the early days of
political exile as it has recently
flourished in Europe-to 1929 when
the Italians were the pioneers in the
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France, where they change prison
for prison, and finally even in Eng
land, where. as enemy aliens, they
are cast into internment camps. 1t
is piece Of work done with a kind
of black eloquence, blasting, terrible,
unlikely to be forgotten soon.
Evening star., 1945-06-10
The Little Company

By Eleanor Dark. Macmillan,
$275.J
Eleanor Dark is one of the grow
ing company of Australian novelists
of whom Americans are becoming
conscious. Her last book, THE
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|On q Note of Triumph

By Norman Cor1Uin. (Simon G.
SchuSter, $780,
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The Inquest
benefit OF ideolooieS.

By Robert Neumun. (Dutton
$780,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
AND AUTH OHIZATIO

WHEREAS. The First American Fire
Insurance Company
Has filed in this department a sworn
statement of it's condition on December
81, 1914, in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Revised Codes of Montana,
1885, relating to insurance organiza-
tons; and whereas, said statement
shows that said insurance organization
has complied with the Laws of this
State;
THEREFORE, in pursuance of law,
], JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor and
Commissioner of Insurance, do hereby
certify that the above named insurance
organization is authorized to transact
the business of Fire insurance in this
state until the thirty-first day of
l further certify that their statement
shows that on December 81, 1914, the
actual amount of Capital-U. S. Deposit
to be ,000,000.00; the aggregate In
come for the year 1914 453,117.81;
the aggregate Disbursements for the
year 1914 $1,336, 1912; the aggregate
Assets are s5,472,930.29; the aggregate
Liabilities. except Capital, are s1.375,-
26O.59; the Surplus over all liabilities
is $3,097. 669. 80; the Surplus as regards
policyholders is S4.097, 669.S0.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have
hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal, at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena. this End
day of April, 1945.
JOHN J. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
Legal Advertising
office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department

WHEREAS. The Fidelity and Guar
anty Fire Corporation of Baltimore.
Maryland
Has filed in this department a sworn
statement of it's condition on December
81 1914, in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Revised Codes of Montana,
1885, relating to insurance organiza-
tions and whereas, said statement
shows that said insurance organization
has complied with the Laws of this
State;
THEREFORE,, in pursuance of law,
I, JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor and
Commissioner of Insurance, do hereby
certify that the above named insurance
is authorized to transact
the business of Fire insurance in this
State until the thirty-first day of
March, 1916.
/ further certify that their statement
shows that on December 81, 1914, the
actual amount of Capital to be $1,000
O00. 90: the aggregate Income for the
year 1914 1924, 175.45; the aggregate
Disbursements for the year 1914 ST.
O97.9S5.22; the. aggregate. Assets are
S12,201, 327.26; the aggregate Liabilities,
except Capital, are $S,2O1,327.26; the
over all liabilities is $1,000,
600. 90; the Surplus as regards policy
holders is $4,000, 100000.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, l have
hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal, at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this End
JOHN ]. HOLMES. State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
AND AUTH ORIZATION

WHEREAS, The Dubuque Fire &
Marine Insurance Company
Has filed in this department sworn
statement of its condition on December
81, 1914, in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Revised Codes of Montana,
1885. relating to insurance organiza-
tons; and whereas, said statement
shows that said insurance organization
has complied with the Laws of this
State;
THEREFORE,, in pursuance of law,
/. JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor and
Commissioner of Insurance, do hereby
certify that the above named insurance
organization is authorized to transact
the business of Fire insurance in this
State until the thirty-first day of
| further certify that their statement
shows that on December 81, 1914. the
actual amount of Capital-U. S. Deposit
to be $1,000, 10000; the aggregate In
come for the year 1914 1921. 204.02;
the aggregate Disbursements for the
year 1914 s2,s72,905.21; the aggregate
Assets are S5,947, 26153; the aggregate
Liabilities, except Capital, are S3.793,-
1880: the Surplus over all liabilities
is Sl,153, SS6.23; the Surplus as regards
policyholders is $2,153, S86.23.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, / have
hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal, at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this End
day of April, 1916
JOHN J. HOLMES. State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
DISRUPTION
OF HARMONY
CHARGED

Efforts on the part of certain groups
in the Polish-American communities
to undermine and, If possible, destroy
the San Francisco Conference of the
United Nations will be exposed at the
Second National Conference of the
American-Polish Labor Council, to be
held at the Hamilton Hotel in Wash
ington, DC. on April IL and IS, it was
announced today by DR.. Eugene ia
sinski, executive director of the coun-
Gill;
Dr. Jasinski charged today that a
conspiracy is being Matched on Amer
lean shores by certain Slav pro-fascist
groups among the Yugoslavs, Poles,
and others, who are working against
the interests of the American people
DR.. Jasinski declared that the Second
National Conference of the American
Polish Labor Council will name names
and give the details of the plot against
America and her allies in the war
against the Axis.
Dr. Jasinski announced also that one
of the main speakers at the two-day
conference in Washington on April II
and Is will be Professor Oscar LANCE,
Polish-American professor of econom-
les at the University of Chicago
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-04-13
office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
AND AUTH

WHEREAS. The Columbia Fire In
surance Company
Has filed in this department a sworn
statement of its condition on December
81. 1914. in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Revised Codes of Montana,
1885, relating to insurance organiza-
lions: and whereas, said statement
shows that said insurance organization
has complied with the Laws of this
State;
THEREFORE, in pursuance of law
I. JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor and
Commissioner of Insurance, do hereby
certify that the above named insurance
organization is authorized to transact
the business of Fire insurance in this
State, until the thirty-first day of
March. 1916.
1 further certify that their statement
shows that on December 81, 1914, the
actual amount of Capital-U. S. Deposit
to be $1,000, 100000; the aggregate In
come for the year 1914 S1,075. 291.59;
the aggregate Disbursements for the
year 1914 S925,759.65; the aggregate
Assets are $3.50, 532.9S; the aggregate
Liabilities. except Capital, are s1.023,-
06666: the Surplus over all liabilities
is s1.927 ,466.27; the Surplus as regards
policyholders is S2,927, 466.27.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have
hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal, at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this End
day of April, 1945.
JOHN ]. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance.