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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
Saturday Night Dinner Party Held
AT Surf Club On Wriqhtsville Beach

The Surf club on Wrightsville
Beach was the scene of the week
end dinner party last evening.
Members and their guests arrived
around $3.50 o'clock and supper
was served on the spacious porch
es of the club at individual tables.
The main lounge of the club was
decorated throughout with a
number of arrangements of sum-
mer flowers.
Among those attending were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Willett' S
Mr.. and Mrs. T. D. Love, Jr.. Mr..
and Mrs. W. H. Kelly, Mr.. and Mrs.
R. H. Pink of Gastonia, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Robbins of Gastonia,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Barfield, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert M. Williams, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles B. Parmele, Mr..
and Mrs. Hargrove Bellamy, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Strange, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Holmes Davis, Mr.. and
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24

Immediately following the cere.
mony the wedding party was er'
tertained at a reception at the
home of the bride on Market
street.
The bride is the daughter OF ].
J. johnson and the late Mrs. John.
son of Wilmington. She received
her education at New Hanover
High school and for the past sew.
eral years has been employed In
the office Of Southland Manufac'
turing company here.
Commander Galloway IS the son
of Mrs. F. Galloway and the late
David Galloway Of New York and
is stationed here with the Coast
Guard Inspection service.
The couple will reside in VIII.
| mineton,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
Miss Johnson Wsds
Ii. Comdr. Galloway

The marriage OF Miss Nettie M.
johnson and Lieut.. Comdr. James
w. Galloway was solemnized on
Wednesday evening, June 20. at Z
o'clock at the home OF the Rev.
r. H. Mills, 7l2 South Fifth street.
The Rev. Mills officiated at the
ceremony in the presence Of rela-
tives and close friends of the
couple.
The bride wore a rose cress
with white accessories and an or.
child corsage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
Contract Termination
Class Slated June Is

A contract termination class, a
follow-up to the class conducted in
Wilmington in May, will be held
in Charlotte on Thursday, June %,
according to information received
here yesterday from the Smaller
War Plants corporation office In
Charlotte.
Any local wa contractors who
need further information on the
subject of contract termination are
invited to attend the one-day ses
sion, which will be held at the
Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
assembly room from l until o.
clock Thursday afternoon.
This statewide meeting will be
held for the discussion of contract
termination procedures and to
familiarize contractors with re
cent changes and additions IN te-'
n1ination methods.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
FRANCE WINS BIG
OCCUPATION AREA

,ap1s June 23-(P)-France, in
lad twice in a lifetime from
noss the Rhine, appeared tonight
hove won her major demand
w. French troops to occupy every
IL of German soil adjacent to
her frontier
rbo ministry of information an
,rced officially that the French
sod been given the right to oc.
,ov fine rich southern half of the
Car Basin as well as almost all
n the province of Baden.
That would put her soldiers on
o,.ord along 200 miles of the Saar
5So1a+iuate and on the Rhine from
INV from Luxembourg to Switzer-
land.
nouncement:
"Tbe French zone of occupation
- Germany has been fixed. It
comprises the southern half of the
rrovince of Rheims, the Saar and
+bp Rhenish Palatinate; most of
paden. plus corridor across
nuremberg and Bavaria, includ-
imp the Vorarlberg district in Aus
ria.
France thus will occupy an area
inhabited by millions and will have
jurisdiction over rich industrial
areas in the Palatinate and the
Saar BASIN
The Palatinate covers about g.
125 miles and has a population of
about 100000. The Saar basin,
adjoining the Palatinate, covers
about 724 square miles and had
= prewar population of 2.518,1O3,
and is both industrial and agri-
cultural.
The Austrian region of Vorarl-
berg embraces 1,005 square miles,
largely meadowlands and forests.
with many war Industries and some
coal mines. The area extends from
Arlberg pass to Lake Constance
and the upper Rhine.
BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24

birth of a daughter, Margaret
Louis, on June 20, at Fort Bragg
hospital. Mrs. Marsh is the former
Margaret Daniel, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. N. Daniel of Wilson
and Harbor Island.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
PERSONALS

Mrs. J. L. Fulbright, Jr, is a
patient at James Walker Memorial
hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Palmer Bar
rett, Jr., of Ponce, Puerto Rico,
are spending few days in the
city as the guests of Mr.. and MS.
Warren Barrett at their home IN
Oleander. Mrs. Barrett is the
former Ethel Williams of Whining
ton.
Mrs. ]. c. Williams is spending
the summer season at MAYHEM
Manor in Blowing Rock.
Mrs. H. R. Emory and Mrs. LIE
liza Corbin left Wednesday for a
ten-day vacation in New York City
Misses Betty and Irene Emory
are attending the Girl Scouts camp
near Mt. Olive for six weeks.
Mrs. M. L. Goldstein has return
ed to the city from a business trip
to New York City.
Mrs. Eugene Norfleet Davis Is
spending the weekend in Chariot
te with friends.
Mrs. Sherwood D. Dudley I'D
daughter, Ann, will arrive today
from Knoxville, Tenn, for an ex
tended visit to Mrs. Dudley's par
ents, Mr.. and Hrs. o. F. Cooper
at their home on Chestnut street
Russell Clark of Tarboro, is the
guest Of Miss Marguerite Walker
at her cottage on Wrightsville
Beach.
Lieut.. w. D. McGrath, U. S. N
f., will leave Monday for the
west coast to report for assign
ment.
Miss Ann Fitzsimmons of Char.
lotte, arrived Friday to spend ten
Gays at Wrightsville and is stop
ping at the Lands cottage.
Miss frankie Albright and Miss
frankie Adams of Danville, Va,
are the guests of Miss Barbara
Leeuwenburg.
Mrs. George Hayward of Colds
boro. is the house guest of Mrs.
L. M. Dewey at her home in Clean
der.
Capt. Norman Curtis is visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H
Curtis, 300 South Fifth Street, for
a few days. Capt. Curtis is now
stationed at Richmond Amy All
Base.
Stewart 3. Warren OF st. Peters
burg, Fla, is visiting his mother,
Mrs. A. G. Warren, 512 Chestnut
street, and relatives in the city.
Charles M. Rivenbark, S 1-c, has
returned to Providence, r. l., after
spending a nine-day furlough with
his wife and son, and his parents.
James H. Scull, who has been on
a business trip to New York and
New Jersey, will arrive in the city
on Wednesday.
Jimmy Wells, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Wells, will leave today
to enter The Citadel at Charleston,
S. c.
lat q
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24

News, Va. Cargo johnson of New
port News, Va, Mrs. Nolan, Mr..
Baker of Newport News, Va, Mrs.
J. D. Sprunt and party of 6, Jim
Harriss and others.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24

BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Warrant Officer G. w. Marsh,
Jr., and Mrs. Marsh announce the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24

Paytogs which ana tie youngsters up in style but open out
mothers will WELCOME The waborn answer to summers heaped-
uar Dido Made all in piece of Dan River pink and
white striped cotton they slip over head are pulled
through the Yanked back and tied in front
Evening star., 1945-05-13

By Ernst Lothdr. Translated
from the German by James A.
GalSton. Doubleday, Doran, i,
s2.75.J
Novels about Nazis' wickedness in
Europe being too numerous to be
regarded as other than a class,
Ernst Lothar has shreWdly given
this Nazi story an original twist by
showing us some Hitlerites trans
planted to our own land. His scene
is camp of war prisoners in Col
orado and his plot turns on the
maintenance, among the prisoners
and under the noses of the Ameri-
can guards, of their NaZi hierarchy
and habit of terrorization. One OF
the group, Anton Fritsch, had fallen
under the ban of party disapproval
even before he became a soldier
The party brethren in the camp
take on themselves the task of
carrying through his liquidation. As
DR.. Lothar tells it to us, they are
able to proceed far in the business
without sacrificing any of the be-
loved mumbo- jumbo of their clique
They notify young Fritsch that he
is "ostracized," that he will receive
the warning" at a certain time
by which they mean a physical at
tack, and, if he survives that gentle
hint, that he will stand a secret
trial and be formally condemned
and executed. Furthermore, DR..
Lothar informs us, they have a
grapevine between camps so that
the transfer of a prisoner thus
marked down will not save him
1t is horrible and grotesque pic
ture of fanaticism in it's last ditch
and, in the light of what We know
entirely credible
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Among
the Authors
Bv CAROLYN COppins.

Christine Noble Govan has been
so enamoured of spring in Chat
tanooga, where she lives, that her
contemplated trip to Richmond,
Washington, New York has been
delayed. She wrote "Jennifer's S
House" with real place in mind,
the ancestral home of Alice Stock
ell, well-known bookwoman in
Nashville. Christine lives in ram
bling old house herself and has
always done her writing in the midst
of books, children, reviews, gar
dening and things generally tum-
bled together in magnificent con-
fusion all over the place She has
enormous calm in spite of it all and
can always add to her chaotic
household whatever guests show up
Unexpectedly in town.
Mrs. Govan is definitely on the
rounded side, with brown eyes and
hair. Her story writing is done in
her head as she goes about the
many tasks of a housewife and
mother. When she sits down at her
typewriter after the last bed is
made, the story comes out whole.
She says she types so badly, how
ever, that an expert is required to
figure it out and alter her spelling.
The Gcvans are an energetic and
q writing family. Gilbert Govan is
editorial writer and literary editor
Of the Chattanooga Times. He is
head of the University Library also
and teaches literature. There are
two daughters and a son in the
family; one daughter, Emmy, is
the author of "Katy-No-Pocket."
i:
We see that Margery Wilson,
known for her Pocket Book of Ell
quette," has turned to new theme.
In another month a book by her
will appear on the scene entitled,
How to Live Beyond Your Means" j."
]. H. PriestIey has finished writ
ing novel Three Men in New
Suits"-the new suits being civil
ian garb donned after demobiliza-
ton. The manuscript has Just
reached his publishers in this coun-
try. Gen. MacArthur's son is
growing up. He is now studying
Winston's arithmetic and reading
books. =.
Evening star., 1945-05-13

plicit enough, they tell us the old
universal story of our species, the
aspiration of it's spirit, the falli-
bility of its flesh. The explicitness
lies in the circumstances that both
scene and people are very thor
oughly English. An English soldier.
lost from his group on maneuvers,
stumbles into an out-of- the way
farmhouse and, in his state of
spiritual homelessness, becomes at
tached to the family living there
A short period intervenes before he
is sent on foreign duty and in that
interim" he Identifies himself
with his accidental hosts and pene-
trates to the heart of the problems
which are plaguing them. The uni
versatility of the tale is contained in
the nature of those problems, which
might be part of life anywhere.
Whether to serve the love of God
or the love of person-that is the
question before the father, who has
been "a missionary doctor to the
Chinese and has given up his work
in Difference to his wife's wishes.
Whether one can believe in God
while one engages in the bombing
of cities-that troubles the son, who
is an officer in the RAF The
daughter, social worker, is con-
fronted by the necessity of deciding
whether the claim of her social
work should have precedence over
the demands of a husband from
whom she has long been separated.
Basically, it all is a conflict between
idealism and the normal mode of
life which, by contrast to the ideal,
is selflshness. Mr.. Hutchinson lifts
the smug-sounding argument above
smugness by a genuine spirituality,
a sane and lovely fire.
With this, he does not forget the
righteousness of appearance which
is the bane of nobility in the hu-
mankind and he seasons his fire
with absurd elements-sometim
one feels, rather dutifully, though
always plausibly. His novel will
probably not be widely read-and
it is an exceptionally fine one.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Book Reviews in Brief

(Putnam) Hilarious business about
American movie troupe making pic
ture on life of the Virgin Queen In
sedate old England.
Manhattan Furlough, by Hiram
Hayden. (Bobbs-Merrill) Story Of
soldiers dramatic week Of leave.
Good psychological tale.
MYSTERIES.
Fatal Purchase, by Ann Rowe.
(Mill) Murder centering around an
object of Oriental art. Routine.
There Was a Crooked Man, by
Kelley Roos Dodd-Mead0 Muir
der, which has been haunting the
campuses for some seasons, gets
around to Columbia University.
Crime Wind, by Marion Holbrook.
Oodd-Mead) American girl with
job in an Embassy to one of the
South American republics finds her
self in a nest of spies. Fair.
Blood From Stone, by Ruth Saw.
tell Wallis. CDodd-Mead) Arche-
ologists digging in the caves of the
Pyrenees come on murder. Fair.
Born to Be Murdered, by Dennis
Allan. (Simon & Schuster.) Muir
der among the sophisticates-a New
York publisher with dubious connec-
tions comes to bad end. Lively.
Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh.
Gittle Brown) Murder on a New
Zealand sheep ranch. Good.
The Outsiders, by A. E. Martin.
(Simon & Schuster.) Crime in Q
sideshow. Bizarre.
DRINK.
Alcoholics Are Sick People, by
Robert v. Seliger, M. D. alcoholism
Publications.) A brief analysis of
alcoholism based on psychiatry.
THE WAR.
A Miniature History Of the War,
by r. c. K. Ensor. (Oxford) An
extremely condensed history in a
pocket-size volume. Covering all
fronts down to the liberation Of
| Paris.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Nooh's Shoes
BIZ Maj FleiScher.

6y MAI FLeISCHeT. (6LOCHJ
Reviewed by LUCY McCLENON.
Have you ever heard of Coypus,
an Equitoon or a Wurmb? Well
neither had Mr.. Fleischer until he
got around to preparing this book
In the course of it, these and
myriad other animals, birds, rep
tiles and insects take their bows
Some are merely named, while
others are examined as to living
habits, appearance, etc.
What Mr.. Fleischer has tried te
do is to put himself, imaginatively
in the shoes of Noah and face some
Of the colossal tasks of preparation
which fell to Noah's lot. He goes
at it in a light-hearted way, but
nevertheless manages to pile ul
page after page of naturaistic lore
all of which is said to be authen-
ticated in fact.
If you are interested in this sort
of thing, you will probably have as
much fun reading it as the author
evidently had in writing it. And
If you're not, you still might find II
better than average skimming ma
terial.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Library
BUILDING THE PEACE.
By Dorothy P. CIemen,
Readers Adviser, Washington Public
Library

Readers Adviser, Washington Public
Library.
Of vital interest today are the
four-page leaflets Foreign Affairs
Outlines Building the Peace" just
issued by the Department of State.
These four outlines are an elabora-
ton in non-technical terms Of the
Dumbarton Oaks proposals for q
general international organization.
Pamphlet No. outlines plan for
peace, lays down the basic principles
for the prevention of future wars,
and shows how this organization
differs from the old League of Ma
tons.
The second pamphlet, on the pro-
motion of prosperity, discusses the
very weighty questions of an inter-
national bank, a monetary fund,
government-imposed restraint on
trade and transportation. Efforts
toward social well-being in the hands
of the proposed General Assembly
and the Economic and Social
Council, as well as the achievement
of freedom and the international
Bill of Rights comprise the final
pamphlets.
Evening star., 1945-05-13

speed of the Pacing White Mustang"
But when he represented the state
of his knowledge to Prof. Comma
ger, he was told that it did not
matter. What Cambridge wanted,
he said, was an explainer of Amer
lea who had had American mud
between his toes and grass burs in
his heels"
He seems to have filled that
hearty formula perfectly. Cam
bridge recently conferred an hon.
orary NJ A. upon him, and part of
his citation stated that "de bobus
longicornibus quod lille non cog
novit, inutile est aliis cognoscere, !"
which is Latin for what he does
not know about long-horned cattle
isn't worth anybody's time" The
requirements of honor obviously
were satisfied, both for the class
room and the range.
His book is report on various
English traditions which are cur
rently scoffed at as conservative
and on acts of courtesy which he
experienced and observed. The con-
servatism, he tells us. is in SEEM
ing only. The courtesy bellies the
charge that the English are rude.
This is simple formula but Mr..
Dobie's book is not wholly simple.
It's bluff surface covers some shrewd
observations. One sees the erst-
while professor somewhat as a
latter-day Mark Twain, acting the
American for European enlighten-
ment, but acting him well. His
book will provide food for thought
to all those who are concerned with
the precarious structure of good
will at the present moment-food,
perhaps, beyond his imagining.
NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
By Norman Kahl

James Thurber, who has written
and illustrated some of the fun
niest pieces that have gotten into
print during the last 20 years, was
back in Washington recently for a
few hours-only this time his So
journ here was less eventful than
when he lived here between 1900
and 1902.
Forty-five years ago, when Mr..
Thurber was "a sprout in knee
breeches, his father, who had a
minor job in the Theodore Roose-
velt administration, brought the
family to the Capital, where they
stayed for two years. They lived in
Falls Church, Va, and it was there
that Mr.. Thurber had the accident
which has given him SO much trou-
BILE with his eyes in the past five
years.
He and his older brother were
playing Indian one morning when
both of them should have been in
Sunday school, and the brother
shot Mr.. Thurber in the eye with
an arrow. A DR.. Burnett, who was
the husband of Frances Hodgson
Burnett, author of Little Lord
Fauntelroy," removed the left eye,
but not quite in time to prevent a
sympathetic infection from devel-
oping in the other eye.
Nevertheless, for 40 years the in
fection remained latent and Mr.
Thurber had normal vision, with
the aid of glasses, out of his good
eye.
The only other thing Mr.. Thur
ber remembers about Washington
was that his father had a friend
who was a newspaperman and that
this friend died later in a mental
institution, where he had spent his
declining years reading book up
side down.
DraaDS Like Lightning
Mr.. Thurber lives and works in
Cornwall, Conn. His neighbors in
clude Mark Van Doren, poet and
critic, and Lewis Gannett, book re-
view editor of the New York Herald
| Tribune. Mr.. Thurber spends about
half an hour in the morning at his
drawing board. That's all the doctor
will allow. Actually, it's enough. be-
cause he can turn out one of his
celebrated line drawings in about
minute and half. He works with
the aid of special magnifying de-
vice on large board with heavy
black crayon. Recently, Life mag
azine rigged up a light with six
powerful photographers bulbs tc
throw on the board while he draws
His writing is slower. He usually
spends about three hours in the aft
ernoon at this part of his job. Until
his vision gave out, he used a type.
writer. Now he writes in longhano
on yellow copy paper with a big
black pencil. At first he got only
about 20 words to the page, but he's
increased 1t now to so. He can't
actually see what he's written, but
he can make out existence of black
lines, which keeps him from writing
over lines.
His wife, Helen, who used to edit
three or four pulp magazines at
the same time, not only can tran
scribe his scrawling hand but is a
Evening star., 1945-05-13

renee uellS US. ""sephhe H"
She tells us without giving her
novel any particular development.
She states the problem, for SO she
regards it, early in her course, and
then shows us the various things,
pleasant and unpleasant, which
duly happen 1t is all predictable.
The enlightened people of both sides
accept the marriage; the relatives
in-law and friends of both sides
who are of the kind given to making
trouble for young couples are not
above using the racial issue to add
to their accustomed sport. But, as
the convent-bred Cecilia and young
Hyman are both excellent people,
the marriage is happy. What Miss
Lawrence tells us in effct is that it
is individuals who marry, not races
something eminently true.
The curious thing about the book
to me is that any one should feel the
need to treat Gentle Jewish mar
riages as problem at this late date.
They have been taking place for
generations in our country.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Darling, This Is Death
By Dana Chambers. (Diai
Press. S2.)
Reviewed BY RUTH DEAN.

Reviewed BY RUTH DEAN.
When Ashley Rawdon boarded a
bus one cold New England morning
bound on the first lap of his jour-
ney to Miami, he little realized he
would be plunged into a series of
hair-raising adventures involving
two murders, a missing airplane
part, a beautiful girl and a ruthless
international spy ring.
From the moment Ashley and
Kay Wendell, "the beautiful girl"
befriend mysterious stranger, their
lives are fraught with danger faced
with death. The story moves toward
a fast-growing climax that leaves
you gripping the edge of your
chair
Unaware that they are the valu-
able pawns of an unscrupulous
enemy who is as suave at handling
a blackjack as cocktail glass, Kay
and Ashley flee from one peril to
another. 1t seems as though there
is no escape for them. for no mat
ter where they go, mysterious gun
men shadow them, their hotel rooms
are rifled, and Q friend is murdered
in her home.
The author, a counterespionage
agent In the last war, shows quite
clearly how sinister enemies can
and are now operating within war;
time America, and how dangerous
they would be to the country's well
fare if it were not for the ever
ready alertness of our counter
espionage service.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
STORIES.

o1Oft1ESo.
Time to Be Young, edited by Whit
Burnett. Uippincott) A collec-
ton of SO stories of the growing
years, all by eminent authors. Fifty
on that subject is too many.
Best Stories of O. Henry, selected
and with an introduction by Ben
nett Cert and Van H. Cartmell.
(Sun Dial Press) Thirty eight
tales. He is wearing very we'll.
Best Short Stories of Jack Lon
don. (Sun Dial Press) Twenty
one tales. Some Of them still un-
beatable.
PLACES.
The Pacific Islands Handbook,
1914, by r. w. Robson. (Macmil-
LAM, The valuable new edition of
the standard work.
Greater Good Neighbor Policy, by
Wade Crawford Barclay. (Willett
Clark & Co.. An examination OF
the religious factors involved in un-
derstanding of Latin American
countries BY prominent Method
ist minister.
NOVELS.
Magic Lantern, by Lady Eleanor
Smith. CDoubleday-Doran0 Pure
costume romance about handsome
English gentleman with Gypsy
blood and home on a sinister moor
From there on, what you would ex-
pect.
Sage Quarter, by Bernice Kelly
Harris. (Doubleday-Doran) Story
of a rural North Carolina family
chiefly the love affairs of two daugh.
tiers. Trade fiction.
How About Tomorrow Morning:
by Helen Haberman. prentice.
Hal) Routine tale of successful
businesswoman getting a conscience
Drink to the Hunted, by Eller
Marsh. CDuttonD Novel of young
daughter of American father ane
German mother growing up between
the two wars. Serious.
Cuckoo Time, by Ralph Temple
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Whimsey Flows Fast From FociIe Fingers
When James Thurber Puts Ideas to Work

helpful critic and editor. He has
just finished a 20,000-word fantasy,
illustrated, as usual, by hims II, to
be published this fall under the
title. "The White Dear"
Mr.. Thurber says he really can't
tell when he first started drawing.
He's been doing it all his life as
sort of an advanced form of dood-
ling. The drawings were first pub
lished in the Sun Dial, humor mag