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Evening star., 1946-12-08
THE MIRACLE OF THE
BELLS
By Russell Janney. (Pren.
ffce.HaH: So.

By Russell Janney. prem
ice.HaH;; S3.)
If you want good old-fashioned
cry, l cannot do better than suggest
that you read this novel. 1t is an
effective tear-bringer if ever there
was one. If it does not have all the
elements of the beloved popular
story, it has enough Of them to do
the trick.
The story has to do with poor
orphan girl, the outcast of a little
Pennsylvania mining village. When
she has buried her drunken but be-
loved father, she goes to New York
and gets job in burlesque. She is
about to be fired when a famous
publicity man wanders in and, pity
ing her terror and youth, intervenes
for her. Her stage career then takes
her to Hollywood, where she be-
comes the stand-in (read under
study for great star. The great
star founces out in fit of tempera-
ment, and the little orphan gets the
part. Gets it, acts it to perfection
and then, because her lungs are
weakened by the coal dust of the
Pennsylvania mines. dies tof tu-
berculosis, tool just as the play is
completed. The publicity man, who
has been working for her producer
undertakes to bring her body back
to her home town for burial.
One Working Christian.
There the circumstances of the
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of his fathers bank.
ing house, he received an introduc.
ton to Senator william Bingham
who lived in that city in great style
Through the Senator he became ac-
quainted with his eldest daughter
Anne Louisa, then only Is years oi
age and divorcee. OF her Historian
Benjamin Poore has this to say: She
"had Just been persuaded by the
Count de Tilly, French nobleman
to elope with him. They were mar
ried, but the count soon intimatec
that he did not care for the girl
If he could not obtain some of hel
prospective fortune. He finally &C.
cepted 5000 pounds in. cash anc
an annuity of 900 pounds and left
for France. A divorce was OBJ.
tanned and Senator Bingham wa.
we'll pleased soon afterward wher
young Mr.. Barring wooed and woc
his daughter"
The present State, War and Nav
Building, now being vacated by tn,
State Department, was begun il
1871, and the southern part, fin.
ished and occupied by the Depart.
ment of State, in 1875. The build.
ing was completed in 1887 at ar
approximate cost of $11,000,000.
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Introducing
.KinfoIk
PAULINE BONAPARTE
BY Harrison Brent. (Rine
hart; S3.5O.)
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON

The life and career of Napoleon
Bonaparte are well known to all. Not
so well known are the lives and
careers of Napoleon's very large
brood Of brothers and sisters
Letizia Bonaparte, Corsican OF
humble, but eminently respectable
origin, gave birth to no less than Il
children, eight of whom lived to
maturity. 1t was in the year 176s
that she brought into this world the
son who was to bring fame, fortune
and, later on, defeat to this hitherto
unimportant Corsican family.
Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's
youngest sister, was born in 1780
and is the central figure of this
charming and witty biography. Pub
licly acknowledged as the most beau
tiful woman in Europe, this insati-
able "Amoureuse" blazed a trail OF
glitter and frippery through a sea OF
hapless lovers. OF her two hus-
bands, both of whom she held in
contempt, accepting, however, theil
money and titles, little is said. Vain
selfish, wanton, extravagant, merci-
less in her persistent attempts tc
destroy the marriage between Napo-
leon and his wife Josephine, OF
whose position as first lady of the
realm Pauline was uncontrollably
jealous, this creature OF wflim anc
fancies had two great redeemine
features. She possessed great cour-
age and an unshakeable devotion
and sense of loyalty to Napoleon
Also, he was the only person who
had any control over this tempestu.
GUS and spoiled beauty, and his wore
was law where Pauline was con.
cerned.
At the hour of reckoning, it wa!
Pauline who hurried to the side O
the fallen Emperor. She gave hin
jewels, affection and time. Will
fully exiled herself in Elba so as tt
be with him and attempt to diver
the monotony Of his existence. Late
on she even tried to be allowed Il
60 to st. Helena, but to this reques
the British gave a firm and negative
answer. Actually, Letizia, known a
Mime. Mere" while she was at Elba
proved to be more Of an irritan
than a consolation.
After Napoleon's final downfall
and exile to st. Helena. most of the
family took up residence IN Italy.
where in true Corsican fashion, they
claimed together in high dudgeon;
but, here again, it was Pauline who
took the aggressive lead, Ia, subse-
quent unsuccessful attempts to- help
her brother. ~.
Three months before her 45tfl
birthday, Pauline died and her last
ineligible words were MY mirror
Z. Napoleon" as if to epitomize
the two absorbing interests in
her life.
Harrison Brent was of Australian
birth and in 1917 became an Ameri-
can citizen. The idea of writing this
biography came to him in 1928 while
he was in Haiti collecting material
for biography of "Toussaint L'Ouv-
erture." Pauline had visited the
island with her first husband in 1903
when the French had tried to re-
enslave the islanders. Brent did not
complete the work until l945.
A truly fascinating book about a
fascinating woman.
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petent to draw
his own con-
illusions. M Is s
H hn da rt S
ahead of such a
one, like a de-
ternained p ro-
fessional guide,
ruthlessly chat
ty, pointing out
what he should
think. But no
one can deny
that apart from
her manner she
has don e a
handsome b o =
pranhical iob
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Jules Romans
Writes Finis to
His Chain Novel
By Jules Romans. Trans.
lated from the French by Ge-
rard Hopkins. (KnoU; 3.)
THE SEVENTH OF
OCTOBER


rard Hopkins. (Knobf; 5.J
The only notable thing about this
the i4th volume of Jules ROMANS
chain novel, The Men of Good VIII
series, is that it brings the chain to
an end. Mr.. Romans has been writ
ing away on his procession of novels
since 1881. His project was to pre-
sent a comprehensive picture OF
Europe in our century, but his per-
formance proved that novel which
deals with issues rather than with
people is tiresome. And prolonging
such a novel to IA volumes does not
make the going any brighter either.
Mr.. Romans, as if aware that his
tracts and treatises were lacking IN
what is called human interest, used
the indefensible means of coarse
sensationalism to supply the vivacity
which, as fiction, they sadly lacked
So his chain novel became some
thing that, In parts, was bound to
bore the general reader and, in other
parts, to offend the more discrim-
mating. Now it has come to an end,
At its inception it was hailed by
some critics as certain masterpiece
I am very much mistaken If it does
not at once start gathering dust on
the less frequented shelves of the
library. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Patriot Elbridge Gerry
Also Resided at 1901

This building had previously been
occupied by Vice President Elbridge
Gerry. President Martin Van Buren,
while he was Vice President, from
1888 to 1887, made his home on this
corner, as did Robert j. Walker when
Secretary of the Treasury during the
administration of James K. Polk.
Mr.. Gerry was a true patriot, a
member of the Continental Congress,
1861, and signer of the Decla-
ration of independence. 1t was he
who said: ct is the duty of every
citizen, though he may have but one
day to live, to devote that day to the
good of his country" And he prac-
ticed what he preached.
He died on his way to the Capitol,
November %, 1914. and Congress
marked his grave in Congressional
Cemetery with a monument which
cost $1,000.
Many remember the old brick
State Department Building which
for years occupied part OF the site
now covered by the north wing OF
the Treasury Department Building
at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue. Quite likely it was built in
1920, for in that year the State De-
partment took up its quarters there,
and continued to occupy the build
ing until 1866, when the department
moved briefly to the southwest cor
ner of Thirteenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV.
Evidently these quarters were not
satisfactory, for in october OF the
same year the Government leased
the new building erected for the
Washington City Orphan Asylum, at
Fourteenth and s streets, and took
immediate possession. And here the
treaty with Russia for the purchase
of Alaska for $4,000 was ratified
and proclaimed June 20, 1867.
In November, 1866, the old State
Department was removed. and con-
struction of the north wing of the
Treasury was begun in April of the
following year. 1t was sufficiently
completed in 1869 to warrant hold
ing there Gen. Grants inaugural
ball,
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Happy Landings!
By Ken Davis
Associated Press Sfaff Writer

"The landing instrument really Is
only doing a simple problem. I'm
surprised no one has thought of 1t
before"
If the problem is easy, the setting
of the compact little mechanism is
even easier. The pilot merely twists
a dial to his glide speed, usually go
to 65 miles an hour with light planes.
He turns another little knob either
to pilot" if the light plane is un-
occupied except for the pilot, or to
passenger" If the plane is loaded
with two persons.
Finally. the pilot sets third
dial for the estimated wind velocity,
either from personal Judgment or
from information furnished by the
landing tower, and fiips on small
toggle switch.
Weight of Instrument
From 2 to S Pounds
AS caiibrated for a light private
plane, the instrument weighs lit
tie more than pounds. II the
plane has no battery-6 volts is all
that is needed to operate the gadget
then the complete installation will
weigh about pounds.
This tiny device may be mounted
on swinging arm, similar to tina.
which attaches a sunshade or visor
to an automobile, or 1t can be set
in the planes instrument panel
ready 70 pop out at the push Of a
button.
Although the current model, just
about ready for production, is cali
brated for light planes, Mr.. Flint
says that with slight changes a
plane of almost any weight could
be landed by the instrument.
Army Air Forces engineers are
eyihg the device for possible use
with gliders. 544@,.@,s,4
., Used with gliders," the inventor
says, "tfae instrument would permit
the AAF to use formation landings
and would permit the gliders to be
released from towing planes for
straight -line landings, instead of
the slow turning landings they now
must make"
Evening star., 1946-12-08

The history of Raf1ies' life was
pretty much the history of the East
India Co. in his day, which was
pretty much the history Of British
expansion in the Far East. Beyond
this Raffies himself was a comph-
Gated character scientist, a lin
guist, student Of native cultures
humanitarian The abolished
slavery and a historian. Miss Hahn
makes her narrative carry both the
intricate personal record and the
massive historical one and her
authoritative knowledge Of her sub
ject is impressive. NC. +.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Emily Hahn
Writes Of a
New RuffIes
IRAFFLES OF
SINGAPORE
BY Emily Hahn. Double
day; $780,.

s0Vy VOsDVI 55s5e ~
1t seems that Thomas Stamford
Bingley Rafies was the man who
founded Singapore. I doubt ii many
people know 1t. Raffies means to
most Of us O. picturesque sort of
cracksman-or q horse. That there
was an empire builder who bore
the frivolous name Is g fact that
somehow has escaped popular diges-
ton. But, according to Emily Hahn,
Raffies of Singapore deserves to be
rated along with Give and Hastings
for his craftsmanship and a good
deaf higher than either for his
humanitarianism.
He was poor boy who got a job
at the age Of IA in the East India
Co.'S London ONCE, worked hard
and rose in rank, just as the model
prescribes. He was only "a when,
In 1905, he was sent out to Penang
with the rank Of junior merchant
and salary of f1,500. After that
he distinguished himself more or
less consistently. Like most empire
builders, to be sure, he fell afoul
of his own government and was
hailed home to face parliamentary
investigation. But he had built up
record in administration which
even the most niggling OF courts
had to respect.
Even so, Sir Thomas Che hao
been knighted died with no flnan-
cial gains of his own. On the con-
trary the company which he had
served for 80 years answered his
request for a modest annuity with
a. charge that he owed it about
100000. When he fell dead OF a
stroke on getting this news his for
mer employer took $50, 900 from his
widow-all she possessed-and con-
sented to call it day. In Miss
Hahn's picturesque phrase the COM
pany behaved toward Raffles like "a
carefully selected committee OF
highly pedigreed hogs"
The book is lively reading, though
there are times when Miss Hahn's S
obvious efforts at brightness are
tiresome to reader who feels COM
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Popular Theme and Situations Are Used
To Force Effective and Sensitive Novel

girls funeral work a miracle. The
selfish turn from selfishness, the
proud humble themselves. the miners
forsake the saloon for the church
the mine owners volunteer to put
improved machinery in the mines
The town is cleansed, purged and
swept out of itself.
Aristotle said that great drama
should purge by the loftiness of its
beauty and its morals. Mr.. Janney
writing for people who are pretty
close to immune to loftiness of any
kind, offers the purge of promise
of hope of escape from petty sordid-
ness, of renewed belief in living
faith, of life beyond the grave
These are the current heart
hungers. His book speaks to them
directly. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
"yHE removal of the Offices of
the State Department from

ME removal OF the ofnces OF
the State Department from
Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue to the
new War Department Building at
Twenty-first street and Virginia ave.
nue., brings to mind not only the site
it is now vacating, but also its other
locations since this department was
moved to Washington in the summer
of 1900.
With its eight employees it first was
crowded into the building erected
for the Treasury Department on
Fifteenth street about opposite F
street. BY August21 1909, it is said
to have moved into one of the "Six
Buildings, in the 2l00 block of Penn
sylvania avenue. This is debatable
but. assuming it to be true, the de-
partnent soon was relocated in the
corner hense in the Seven Build
ings" at 1861 Pennsylvania avenue,
Bull StclLSillS, WllC1C oo4AAA 4NAo1 oAAa "a
resided as Secretary of State some
time between June 6, 1900, and
March 4, 1901, or to the end of John
Adams administration, when he was
not only Secretary but Chief Justice
as well.
After the burning of the White
House on August "a, 1914, the de-
partment took UP quarters in house
on the south side of G street between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets.
President Madison moved into the
Octagon at Eighteenth street and
New York avenue, built by John
Tayloe in 1900. This still stands.
The President remained there until
1915 when the previous State De-
partment location at Nineteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue be-
came his home for the remainder of
his term.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Gift Book Suggestions
On Art

THE COMMONWEALTH OF
ART, by Curt Sachs. Morton; So
A study of style in the fine arts
music and the dance.
THE HUMAN FACE, by John
Brophy. prentice, Hall; S3.) A
delightfully."- written study OF fashions
in faces, in art and life.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Much American History
Stems From Treasury

The site of this old State Depart
ment Building at Fifteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue is very
interesting one, for here much
American history was made. In
deed, the Kiwanis Club, in co-opera-
ton with the permanent COMMITTEES
on marking points of historic inter-
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Gardeners

Gardeners
THE PICTURE PRIMER OF IN
DOOR GARDENING, by Margaret
o. Goldsmith. Illustrated by Harrie
Wood. (Houghton Mifflin; So
Vivid, colorful little book, with sim
pie directions for raising potted
plants.
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tlon'S trickleSt problems
landing in limited space or oyei
obstructionS
Earl E. Flint of Middletown, q
39-year-old Ohioan whose low alti-
tude bombsight helped turn the
Bismarck Sea Battle into smash
ing Japanese defeat, has come uI
with an adaptation of that device
which he says will tell pilots the
exact point at which to begin a
landing glide, regardless Of altitude
Actually, the pilot bombs" his
plane into the proper landing spot
IT am enthusiastic about this new
instrument" Lou Wehrung, chief
test pilot for Aeronca Aircraft Corp.
declared after exhaustive tests. 1T
is so accurate a pilot can land on
the exact spot he selects while still
hundreds of feet in the air,
inexperienced pilots will find the
instrument so simple they will be
able to adjust it in 80 seconds. In
event of a dead motor, the pilot will
know long before he reaches q
prospective landing space whether
he will be able to maintain altitude
enough to land there"
How Device Works:
Watch Dot 'on Ground
The landing procedure is just like
following the bouncing ball at one
of those movie singfests. An orange
dot, projected by optical and elec-
trical means from the compact little
instrument, appears to be racing
along the ground. When the racing
dot reaches the desired landing
point. the, pilot cuts his motor aac
begins his. landing glide, 49,
A few minutes later, the plane
wheels touch the spot where the
orange dot had rested at the moment
the glide began. af
There are only three factors
which influence the landing of an
airplane," explained Mr. Flint. They
are wind velocity. glide speed ano
the weight of the airplane.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Centers Of u, 5. Diplomacy

quite agreeable for Webster to be of
service to Lord Ashburton since his
appointment proved quite gratifying
ITO the great Massachusetts, states
man, he having become personally
acquainted with the baron when he
visited England in 1889. Therefore,
Mr.. Webster rented the residence
1925 H street NV, erected by
Matthew st. Clair Clarke, clerk OF
the House of Representatives from
1922 to 1884. At the time of its erec-
ton it is said to have been quite the
largest structure of the kind at
tempted in the city. However,
through financial troubles, Mr..
Clarke was unable to finish the
house and it was left standing for
some time in an unfinished state.
Rent OH Enjoys House
$4,000 for 10 Months
The rent fixed upon by the owner
was $4,000 for 10 months, with an
additional $1,000 for any damage
which might be done, and here the
British envoy lived during the nego-
tiations. The following year it was
occupied by John Nelson the At
torney General. and later by the
Right Hon. Richard Pakenham,
Minister of Great Britain, 1846. 1t
is a large double house succeed and
painted to resemble brownstone. 1t
stands just east of st. Johns Church
and still is apparently in good con-
dition.
In the two residences mentioned
and in the Dolly Madison house,
now the Cosmos Club, at the south
east corner of H street and Madison
place, details Of the treaty were gone
over and discussed by MIR. Webster
and Lord Ashburton in an amicable
way.
Upon one occasion, when he Wis
tied Philadelphia in 1898. as the
Evening star., 1946-12-08
By John cIogett Proctor

est, placed a bronze tablet on the,
northeast corner of the Treasury
Building, setting forth some of the
great events which took place in the
Did State Department Building which
had occupied the spot marked. Un-
doubtedly all the treaties with for
eign governments from 1920 to 1866
were signed here, amounting in all
to about 202, with rs separate coun-
tries.
One of the most important OF the
treaties signed here is the one OFF,
cially known as the Treaty of Wash
ington (1842), more popularly known
as the Ashburton Treaty, or the
Ashburton- Webster Treaty, because
the negotiations were conducted by
Lord Ashburton on behalf of Great
Britain and by Daniel Webster for
the United States Government.
This controversy over the bound
ary line of Maine originated in the
wording of the second article of the
treaty of peace between the United
States and Great Britain following
the Revolutionary War, and which
was concluded at Paris September 8,
1888: ratified by Congress Oanuary
IA, 1874, and proclaimed the same
date.
Boundary to St. Lawrence
Caused Serious Dispute
In 1917 a commission had been
formed to settle dispute as to the
ownership of the Passamaquoddy
Bay. But a more serious difficulty
developed in determining the bound
ary westward from the st. Croix to
the st. Lawrence and the time ar
rived in 1842 when the matter had
to be settled. Daniel Webster was
Evening star., 1946-12-08

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio.
FORMER gas engineer turned
inventor apparently has a
N solution for one of ayia-
tion's trickiest problems
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-08-30
Fiorello H. LaGuardia O
situaci " CSR.

New York (CTK) IA. sr-
pna We stredu vecer promluvil
kratkovlnnym rozhlasem &c
zenevy do Spojenych Stat1 ge-
neralnf reditel UNRRA Fiorel-
10 LaGuardia O situaci V Cesko-
SlOvensku.
V 1vodu sv6ho rozhlasoveho
projevu zmfnil Sc LaGuardia Q
tom, re Sc prav6 vratil z nav
Stevy Ceskoslovenska, kde Iii
still potesitelnou skutecnost, re
tato zeme ucinila cd ukonceni
valky znacny pokrok v rekon-
strukci pres to, re byla prvni
nenemeckou zem1, ktera byla
N6mci ~obsazena, a poslednf,
ktera byla osvobozena.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-08-30
Ministr dr.. Ripka zransn " au-
tomobilove nehode.

Praha (CTK) = V pondel1,
10. srpna utrpel ministr zahra-
nicn1ho obchodu DIR. Hubert
Ripka ma cernokostelecke sill
nici vazne zranen1. Poole
"Svobodnych novin" jde O po-
hmozdenf klfcnf kosti, O zlome-
niny dvou prstG a trznou ranu
ma hlave. Rovnez RipkGv So
fer byl zranen. Automobilova
nehoda vznikla vadou vozidla
a doslo k nj kolem poledne. Mi
INSTR Ripka byl O 3 iodine Cd
poledn1 osetren docentem DIR.
Polakem We vinohradske ne
mocnici. Vecer uz mohl FRA
neny ministr jfst a jeho celko-
w zdravotnf stav je dobry.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-08-30
zeleznicni doprava Brno-
Widen zahajena.

Praha (CTK) - Oprava Sc
sti znicenych most1 ma trait
Brno-V1den byla skoncena, tax
re doprava ma teto trait je O.
pet zahajena.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-11-23

SUMMONS

In the District Court of the Eighth Judicial
District Of the State of Montana, I'm and
for the County of Cascade.
HARRIET 9. OLINCER, Plaintiff, vs..
JAMES MELVIN OLINGER, Defendant
THE STATE OF MONTANA Sends
Greetings to the Above Named Defendants,
and to Each of Them.
You are hereby summoned 20 answer
the complaint In this action which is filed
in the office of the Clerk Of this Court, a
copy of which Is herewith served upon
one Of you IN each County wherein any
of you reside, and 60 file your answer and
serve a copy thereof upon the plaintiffs
attorney within twenty days after the
service of this Summons, exclusive OF The
day of service, and In case of your failure
TO appear OF answer, Judgment VIII be
taken against you, by default, for the re-
lief demanded in the complaint This Is
an action for divorce brought by the above
named plaintiff against the above named
defendant on the gr GU n Of extreme
cruelty which has existed and been per
sisted In on the part of the defendant for
more than one year Immediately preceding
the commencement Of this action and for
further particulars see plaintiffs verified
complaint on file herein.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said
Court this 31st day Of October, 1916.
AGNES SCHRAPPs.
(sEAL) Clerk.
z. J. STROMNEs,
r. J. NELSON,
ATTORNEYS for Plaintiff
Montana Power Building,
Great Falls. Montana
Date Of first publication Nov. o. 1916. AZ