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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-27
STUDENTS CONFESS
FIRING FRAT HOME
Elderly Missouri Fire Chief
Dies Of Heart Attack
At Blaze

FULTON, Mo-, Oct. 26.-N.D-
Sheriff Hartley Crowson said to-
night that two students have ad-
mitted setting fire to the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity house on the
Westminster College campus here.
Fire Chief M. Grant Duncan, 81,
died Of a heart attack while oil
recting the fight on the blaze. Two
fraternity pledges, Henry {.
Straub, 10, Webster Groves, Mo-,
and Thomas S. Mead, 10, Slater,
Mo-, were burned seriously.
The sheriff said the first to con-
TESS was Otto Gross, %, of Granite
City, Ill. He was charged in a war
rant with arson and held in the
Galloway County jail in lieu OF
$40, 900 bond.
TIE second suspect, Tom Camp
bell, Ironton, Mo-, was arrested
several hours after Gross was
charged. Sheriff Crowson said
Campbell admitted aiding Gross in
setting the house on fire.
The youths gave nj motive for
their action, the Sheriff said, other
than to say they had been drink
ing heavily last night.
Neither Gross, a war veteran in
his first year at Westminster, nor
Campbell were members of the
Fraternity.
Crowson quoted Campbell as
saying the two youths had stopped
at a filling station in Fulton short
ly before dawn and bought a five
gallon car of gasoline.
The pair then took a cab to the
Fraternity house, poured the gaso-
line about the place, touched it off
with a match and fled, the Sheriff
quoted Campbell.
Officials of Westminster refused
to make a statement in the case.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-27

gates are expected. They will be
entertained in private homes dur
ing their stay, with some OF them
quartered at nearby Oxford and
Franklinton.
Bishop W. w. Peele, Of Rich
mond, will preside and will read
appointments Sunday afternoon at
the final session.
Stewardship will be the confer
ence theme. Among the special
speakers will be Z r. z. Tyler,
Of the general board OF missions
Of the Methodist church; DR.. Roy
L. Smith, editor Of the Christian
Advocate, general organ OF the de-
nomination in the United States;
and DR.. Gilbert T. Rowe, acting
dean of the school Of religion OF
Duke University. Dr.. James W.
Workman will speak Friday in con-
nection with the anniversary o.
the board lay activities.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-27
Alien Patent Sale
Announced By Army

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2e.-R-
The Justice department announc-
ed that beginning today the allen
property office will sell to the pub
nc Tor $40 publications summar-
lzlng $1,000 mechanical and cleo.
trlcal patents seized from enemy
nationals.
Inc department said in a state.
ment that the abstracts of the pat
ents "offer many opportunities for
American industry to msnufac-
lure new products, improve old
ones and aid in lessening produc-
ton costs and utilizing new mater
ials."
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-27
u. S. Troops Bust Be
Kept In Germany, Say
IL Touring Editors

PARIS, Oct. 90 tP Twelve
American editors who spent a
month in the United States occu-
patton zones of Europe under War
department auspices, were agreed
today that American troops should
stay in Germany as long as there
is any danger of another World
war.
Right now, the editors said in
replies to a QUESTIONABLE on their
tour, Triest is Europe's powder
key and potential breeding place
Of another war, but in general the
newspaper men did not believe that
such a conflict was inevitable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-27
METHODIST MEET
PLANS COMPLETE
Annual Session OF Confer
ence Will Be Held In
Henderson

HENDERSON, Oct. 26 - ~
Plans are virtually complete for
the annual session of the North
Carolina conference of the Metho-
dist church, which meets in the
First Methodist church here and
runs through the following Sunday,
the Rev. C. D. Barclift, lstor of
the church and host to the con-
ference, said today.
Some 800 ministers and lay dele
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-27

Garcia Bell Williams, who will
play The Founding in New Han
over High on November 18 at 8
p. m. o'clock under the auspices
Of N. C. So~osis.
The art Of the monologue as
Garcia Bell Williams practices it
is amazingly vivid. Her plays are
effectively staged with a full cast
of characters. There is the power
of magic in the actress : play
wright's productions.
In The Founding audiences are
transported to the nostalgia elgh-
ties and the delightful, ridiculous
days of early automobiling when
one travelled heavily yelled, and
when twenty miles an hour was a
speed to brag about. In the per-
son of Garcia Bell Williams very
different women appear, the young
Viennese widow. the loyal irish
cook, the runaway daughter, &C.
leste, and her g-eat-aunt, MISS
Medora.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-27

A baby's bottle brush is excel.
lent for washing glasses, especial.
~ if your family drinks lots =.
milk. OF course it's best to rI-s ..
milky glasses promptly in co1s
water to prevent stubborn rinrl
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-27

to private law practice In New
York City. He first became an as
sistant attorney general IN 1853
and since February 1943 has been
in charge of the sedition cases.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Book Reviews in Brief
HISTORY.

Nationalism and After, by Edward
Hallett Carr (Macmillan.) A survey
Of the rise of nationalism and a
statement of the requisites for inter-
nationalism. A small volume by
the professor of international poll
tics at the University College of
Wales.
The Senate and the Versailles
Mandate System, by Rayford w.
Logan. (Minorities Publishers.) A
study of the conduct of the Senate
toward the Versailles mandate sys-
tenn, suggesting that unwillingness
to extend democracy to dark
skinned people was the basis of SEN
atorial opposition.
The Spirit of English History, by
A. L. Rowse. (Oxford University
PressD An examination of English
history in terms of the forces which
have shaped it-climate, geograph.
ical position, character of people.
SPANISH.
One Thousand Words and Phrases
by Ernest Wallenberg. Essentia
Books) A handy Spanish instruc.
ton book.
QUAINTERIE.
The Old Farmers 1916 Almanac
by Robert B. Thomas. yankee
Inc; 15c) A well-liked pamphlet
now IN its 154th year of pualication. J
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Papa Went to Congress
By Kenneth Koran. double
day, Doran;; ST.

day, Doran;; $2)
Kenneth Horan's father, James
Ingham, was elected by the Re-
publican party in Michigan to serve
in Congress in the first administra-
ton of President Cleveland. He
brought his family to Washington
for his term and domiciled them
in the house of Capt. Bob Evans,
next door to the British Embassy
Representative Ingham was con-
cerned with getting rural free de-
livery for the farmers. Mrs. Ingham
was concerned about getting into
Washington social life. The Con-
gresham failed of his object, the
lady succeeded in hers. The present
little book is the daughters attempt
to bring to life the quaint doings
Of the Washington of the period
both on the Hill and in the salons
1t is based not on actual memory
for, as Mrs. Horan explains in a
foreword, she was not born until
a decade later, but is drawn from
a book of Impressions" which Mrs
Ingham kept to the end that she
might report her Washington ex-
periences to the Ladies Culture
Club when she went back home to
Michigan.
AS far as I am concerned the
work is as fiat a failure as the
CongresSman's effort to get r. F. D
1t is obviously meant to be in the
Clarence Day vein but it stops with
the intention. 1t is so effortfully
quaint that it smothers itself. Loca
readers whose memories run so fal
back may, however, be amused by
some of the references.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
COLLECTIONS.

Cross Section 1945, edited by Ed
win Seaver. CFischer; $3.50.)
Stories, novelettes and poems writ
ten by American authors this year
Rather mediocre.
Tales for Males, selected by Eo
Fitzgerald. Cadillac; $2) Twenty.
nine stories allegedly having specia,
interest for men.
NOVELS.
Evening in Spring, by August
Derleth. (Stanton and Lee; S1.49.)
Love story about high school boy
and girl. Sweetish.
Tomorrow's Another Day, by w
R. Burnett. (Knopf.) Story o.
gamblers and characters of the hal
world of an American city.
My Felicia, by Paul Driscoll
(MacmillanD Story of New Eng,
land industrial city and immigran
girl being loved by rich mans son
COUNTRY LIFE.
Pay Dirt, by j. /. Rodale. Devin
Adair.) A book of directions OF
farming and gardening with com
posts.
Country Flavor, by Haydn S
Pearson. (Whittlesey House.) /
book of short sketches on the vari
GUS pleasures of country life, charm
ingly illustrated by photographs.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Country Mouse
By Louise Andrews Kent
(Houghton, MiHin; $780,
Reviewed by
MARTHA LEWIS.

Mrs. Carmody and Mrs. Hunter
tried hard but couldn't quite make
the grade in Beacon Hill society
They were as literary as any one in
Boston, Mrs. Carmody insisted, for
didn't she have three shelves OF
autographed books she hadn't even
read? They were musical, for they
went to the symphony to hear "those
awful things that make your ears
ache" They took up everything
petit point and antiques and bad
minton. They played a good game
of contract and bought tickets to
everything
Then Mrs. Hunter got an idea in
the bathtub. Why not establish ar
institute of arts and letters some
where in the country? 1t was pa
triotic because they'd grow food; il
Was philanthropic because they'd
entertain refugees. If there were
profits they'd go to the Red Cross
And, above all, it would put them
on the map intellectually in Boston
1t was Mrs. Appleyard, a heroine
out of Louise Andrews Kent's pre-.
vious books, who found them the
place in the tiny Vermont village OF
Roland Hill, where they surrounded
themselves with cellists, violinists
painters, writer's, teachers and refu-
gees, including the beautiful but
impossible Lady Finchfallow, and q
French cook, Therese.
Many readers will find the bool
an absorbing, light story. Others
will probably feel that Mrs. Kent
sometimes tries too hard to be
amusing and that many of hel
characters are rather sketchily
drawn.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

tory part to identify the various
characters.
They are all drawn from the ranks
of the manual workers and most of
them are city bred. There is one
boy of italian extraction who wants
to be a priest. This is the sole in
stance which Mr.. Bellah allows of
any kind of idealism. He endows
the members of the group with
group sympathy-they help one an
other in their physical needs, and
there is an episode in which one
legless man eXerts himself to secure
the Purple Heart for a comrade who
has been hurt in noncombat duty
and is depressed by his inglorious
status. But except for these casual
spontaneous expressions of fellow
ship the soldiers are shown as living
pretty much in the bitter present
Their talk balances between sar-
donic comment and witless good hu-
NOR, all heavily colored with sex.
Three of them, in the day which
Evening star., 1946-01-13
The American Art
Annual. Volume XXXVI
Edited by Florence N. LeDy.
(The American Federation OF
Arts, Washington, D. c.; S12J
Reviewed by
FLORENCE S. BERGMAN

The American Art Annual has just
been published in its 36th volume, its
first appearance in four years be-
cause of war conditions. Such is the
value of this unique reference book,
however, that a publication fund was
established a year ago, through the
interest of Mrs. Flora Whitney Mil
ler, president of the Whitney Mu-
scum of American Art, New York
City, making it possible for the
American Federation of Arts to re-
sumo publication of the annual.
The American Art Annual was
founded in 1898 by Florence N. Levy,
editor of the present volume. CThe
annual had other editors between
1919 and 1941.) For nearly half a
century, it has embodied the factual
record of art in the United States
more completely than any other pub
hcation. Actually, there is nothing
comparable. The Nations growth in
art is indicated by the fact that
Volume listed $50 museums, socie-
ties, art schools and private art
classes. The present volume has
total of 2,113 such entries in the
United States and. in addition, lists
81 in Canada and 545 in 20 countries
of Latin America. Information on
the aforementioned was prepared for
the annual by staff members of the
Archives of Hispanic Culture, Lii
brary of Congress, the Inter-Ameri-
can Office, National Gallery of Art,
and the Division of Intellectual Co.
operation of the Pan American
Union.
The U. S. A. School Section
was obviously compiled with great
care. A new method of tabulating
courses offered makes it a simple
matter to ascertain where any spe-
cific type Of instruction is available,
in nearly TOO places where art may
be studied.
The paper stringency made it nee
essary to condense every report, to
print entries in double columns and
to employ many abbreviations.
Nevertheless, although details are
omitted, information is increased.
An eight-page review of -Four
Years of Art" covering the period
from July, 1941, to June, l945, may
seem a trifle strange. But the edi-
tors objective has always been tc
keep the annual complete in its doc
umentary role. Any one wanting q
succinct picture of the progress OF
art in the United States for nearly
half century, could get it by read
ing the Introductory reviews in all
the volumes.
i Prices of paintings sold at auction
during four seasons in three New
York auction houses occupy 10 pages
and several extensive indexes in
crease the books value.
H. o. McCurry, director of the
National Gallery of Canada and
chairman of the Advisory Committee
on that country. says: "' This
book, with its collection of informa-
ton covering an entire hemisphere
will add immeaSurably to the
understanding and cooperation be-
tween the various countries of the
Americas"
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Lost Continent?
By Noel F. Busch. (Harpe
S25O)
Reviewed by
RENA LEVANDER,

Noel F. Busch styles his third book
IAN informal Baedeker to the mod
ern badlands" 1t is based on a
rapid survey Of Yugoslavia, Italy
Germany, Austria, Luxembourg
Belgium, the Netherlands, France
and the United Kingdom in the
summer of 1945.
Mr.. Busch, an editor on Life
magazine, writes in breezy, otter
flippant, self-confident manner. He
definitely has the Readers Digest
approach, as outlined recently by the
New Yorker magazine. He has
lively descriptive powers when he
sticks to the straight and factual
rather than spoil good story, how
ever, if he doesn't have the facts
he traffics in half truths or par
italy qualified statements prefaced
by: According to the rumor men
toned above, what truly occurred
." "it is said," go on pur-
pose or otherwise" and so on. I'm
fortunately, he has a prediction
for gossiping about personalities
and slips easily into a digres-
sive, rambling technique. OF course
if it tickles you to know that
Ambassador Francis Biddle gave
party in prewar Warsaw which
required flights of cargo planes
bringing tulips from Holland, roses
from France and fish eggs
from their submarine refrigerators, y
or that the American Ambassador to
Italy, Alexander Kirk, actively dis
likes cut flowers because his IA
vorite color is gray, but on the other
hand, he once sneaked away from
party by ducking gradually unde,
grand piano near the door
Mr.. Busch suffers from acute
oversimplification and is given tt
making rather glaring generaliza.
tions: Under normal conditions, OF
in a well-organized country, a for.
eign correspondent who wants tx
find out what makes the wheels Il
around can do so in a perfectly con.
ventional manner He merely ask.
the people who know and they
gladly tell him."
Finally, Mr. Busch defines civil
zation as a matter of communica
tions, considers Russia and the atom
among factors to be reckoned with
and concludes that the primar,
necessity in helping this lost cont
nent of Europe is complete freedom
of investigation.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
In the Blazing Light
By Mar White. (Duell, Sloa
& Pearce; $2.75.)

By Mac White. (Duell, Sloan
& Pearce; $2.75.)
There have been a number of
novels on the life of Francisco Goya
whose headlong career and char
acter are an open invitation to the
romantic writer, but this is the most
thoughtful one which I have yet
read. I reach that opinion largely
because Max White has pretty much
ignored the derring-do approach
He has taken Goya as the subject
for serious portrait and has held
to the method with good consist
ency. 1t is a sober book that he
has written, therefore-not in any
sense a romance.
He begins with the return of Goya
to Madrid after he had studied in
Rome and carries on the Napoleonic
invasion of Spain. Goya is intro
duced as a penniless young painter
ill-esteemed by the court artists and
suspected of dangerous liberalism in
day when the Inquisition was pow
erful. His rise to success and fash
ion, in Mr.. Whites view, however
was less dependent on outer factors
than on inner. He introduces the
young Goya as a complete human
phenomenon, containing his future
within himself . and in recounting
the details of that future he adheres
subtly to that concept. Not the
fights or the loYe affairs in which
Goya was so generously involved, OF
the brushes with the authorities in
terest him of themselves, but the
hard core of the man, the artist
the unchangingly objective realist
Holding this concept uppermost, he
strips the picturesque patiently from
most of the celebrated episodes OF
the painters career.
One could wish, however, that his
care for a consistent method OF
viewing his subject had been carried
on to his own work of writing. II
has not been. The book is full OF
trite phrases and heavily wordeo
observations. In. avoiding the color
full in his hero, Mr.. White seems
to have imposed an unnecessarily
pedestrian standard on himself
There are times, indeed, when his
work reads like a series of notes
painstaking but artlessly made.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
This One Will Keep
You On the Edge
|Of Your Chair
THE PAVILION

THE PAVILION
By Hilda Laurence. (Simon G.
Schuster;; $2J
One of the penalties of being a
professional reviewer is that you sell
dom get to read anything for fun.
The famous relaxing with good
love story or whodunit' is simply not
for you. There stands, on your table,
the latest three-volume biography of
a forgotten hero of the Mexican
Wax, and it is the book of the day
and you must do it. When you are
through, you will not relax with any
thing printed. You will call your
dog and 60 for long tramp in the
woods, wondering why your parents
thought illiteracy was such a hard
ship.
But, at this time of year, three
volume biographies are usually some
what scarce on the market, as are
also interpretations of the history
of philosophy in the 18th century
and reports on the economics of the
Irish famine. Making hay while the
sun shone, I consequently took me
home thriller.
1 report that I had a good time
with THE Pavilion" don't know,
of course, how the habitual reader
of thrillers will respond to its creep
mess, but, comparative novice at
such tales, crept. Not as I have
|crept at certain classics, at '"The
Masque of the Red Death" say, or
1.-THE Upper Berth" or H. G.. Wells
immortal 1.-The Red Room" which
scared me to death, though I read
1t outdoors on sunny summer
afternoon with the neighbors play
ing croquet just across the hedge.
But still I crept. Even so, I am
proud to report. I guessed the Grim
inal. The old critical sense was
not completely anesthetized, though
rendered groggy.
THE Pavilion" is one of those
things where an innocent young
woman comes into a gloomy old
HOUSE lull Ol SltllStCT ClldI dCOclo dIlu
marked by tendency toward violent
fatal accidents. In this case, the
young woman has been summoned
by a strangely worded letter from
the master of the house, her elderly
cousin. He does not say so, but, be-
lieve it or not, he implies that some
thing dirty is afoot. He needs her.
She comes-and 10, he is already
dead. footed, padding relatives
with fat white faces fill up the place
They regale the young woman with
accounts of how two other young
women came to sudden death from
living around there But she Is all
full of zeal to solve the mystery and
so she stays. And solves it, too.
Only I solved it first, as said above.
Precisely on page 1T, knew which
of the paddy relatives was it.
My tribute to Hilda Lawrence lies
entirely in the circumstance that, in
spite of this, I still read on. wanted
to know. In short, I was interested
I didn't relax with her good book; ]
sat on the edge of the chair. So. ii
that be praise, praise 1t.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

Mr.. Bellah has chosen to follow
make plans for future jobs or edu-
cation-two under the influence oi
their families, one from native am
bition. One dies and one goes mad
The others, one feels, will be pen
sioners for the rest of their days.
1t is a pretty savage picture, and
when one relates the figures pro-
portionately to the figures for all
the wounded, a thoroughly gloomy
lone.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Merchant Ships, 1914

compiled, dra,Dn and edited By
E. Talbot-Booth, r. D., r. N.
V. r. Macmillan; $19.)
This new edition of the standard
reference work on the worlds mer-
chant fleets carries its usual mine
of information. 1t offers all avail
able details on boats recently built
and sunk, surveys the merchant
fleets of all countries and gives 1870
line drawings of tunnels for recog-
milton. In addition there are 600
photographs and 2,400 line drawings
of ships and $40 drawings of house
flags. The work is, in short, an
encyclopedia on its subject. Its pub
lie will know its worth.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
New Books

Treasure Hunter, 1t. Harry z. Reisep
berg, January 16.
Guide to Model Aircraft, David C. Cooke
January 16.
John Dryden, Mark Van Doren, Jan
uary IA
The shapes That Creep, Margerie Bon
ner. January IA.
Patton, Fighting Man. William Bancroft
Mellor, January Is.
Robin Hood, l. Walker McSpadden
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Best Sellers
-NATION-WIDE-


(According to Publishers Weekly
FICTION.
1st-The Black Rose, Thomas B.
Costain.
2d-The White Tower, James Ramsey
3d-Cass TimberIane, Sinclair Lewis.
4th-Forever Amber. Kathleen Win
5th-The Peacock sheds His Tail,
Alice Tisdale Hobart.
NONFICTION.
1st-Up Front, Bill Mauldin.
2d-Thc Esq, and !, Betty Mac
Donald.
3d-Brave Men, Ernie Pyle,
4th-Pless.nt Valley, Louis Brom-
5th-Gen. MarshaIl's Report.
In WASHINGTON
FICTION.
1st-The River Road, Frances Park
2d-The Kings General. Daphne
3d-The Perilous Fight, Neil H.
Swanson.
4th-Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn
Waugh.
5th-The Gauntlet, James Street.
NONFICTION.
1st-The Egg. and I. Betty Mac
2d--Lovely Is the Lee. Robert Glib
sd-soldlsr oi Democracy. Kenneth
4th--Gen. MarshalPs Report, George
c.. Marshall.
5th-Saints and Strangers, George
r. Wilson.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Ward 20
By James Warner Belldh
/no,hJoIo,, nor1,,. eol

By James warner B e u q n.
doubleday DorGn; s2.)
In a rather splashily sensational
style James Warner Bellah, veteran
of two wars himself, attempts here
to get right down to earth on the
matter Of the hopelessly wounded of
World War II. His novelette, is laid
out to cover a day in a surgical
ward in military general hospital
1t gives us eleven patients, all of
whom have suffered major amputa-
tions, some of whom are blind. Pre-
sumably it also gives us eleven indi-
vidualities. 1t falls down, however,
on the latter point. The majority
of the men are so alike in their
speech and attitudes that, even IN
the last pages of the story, was
still checking back to the introduc-
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Parachute to Berlin
By Lo1DeH Bennett. (The Van
guard Press; S2.50.J
Reviewed by
ROBERT BRUSKIN,


The author of this work, wal
correspondent, parachuted from a
wrecked bomber over Germany early
in the war. He was captured, tried
to escape three times, was sentenced
to death as spy, but wound up ir
a prisoner-of-war camp after ar
unparalleled opportunity to witness
the effects of area bombing on civil
ians.
Excellently written, it is one oi
the few books affording view OF
wartime Germany and its citizens
before the Allies landed on the con-
tinent. Mr.. Bennett claims that the
area, bombing of German cities
hardened morale of civilians ano
was a needless waste
Evening star., 1946-01-13

My True Love, by Darwin L.
Teilhet. (Appleton Century, $2.75)
A veteran comes home to find
changes. He has a time.
High Bonnet, by Idwal Jones.
prentice Hall, $2.50) Hilarious a6-
ventures of a famous French chef.