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Evening star., 1946-08-18
Mr.. Abend Sounds
AWorning Note
RECONQUEST: ITS RESULTS
AND RESPONSIBILITIES
By HaHett Abend. Double
H11. coT5

by HUueLL AOeHa. tDOuOtS-
day; S275.)
HalIett Abend Of the New York
Times was one of 13 reporters chosen
by the War Department in the sum-
mer of 1945 to make a trip over
the various fronts. His book, re-
port on the Journey sounds sharp
note Of warning and pessimism.
Mr.. Abend believes that we are
taking view quite unsupported by
history when we expect to convert
the Japanese into democratic way
of life. He gives large section of
his book to review OF Japanese
history, the purpose of which is to
show that our dream is impossible
He reminds us that there has never
been such a thing as japanese lib
eral and that consequently, when we
look for liberal leadership for the
Japanese people, we are simply max
ing the way open for the old type
of leader to return.
Similarly in Europe, Mr.. Abend
feels that We are being soft with
Germany to our ultimate detriment
We earn not gratitude, but con-
tempt from the Germans by our
kindness to them, he says. He re-
ports that in Austria, the supposedly
liberated" people displayed such
hatred for the Americans that, even
in church, they turned to utter i'm
precautions. Just as there are no
liberal japanese, there are no good"
Germans, he says, meaning that
there are none capable of accept
ing defeat in the spirit in which
we hope they will accept it. Already
they want revenge" and our pol
icy is giving them the hope of get
ting it..
Turned Back the Clock.
Mr.. Attends greatest disillusion-
inent, however, has to do with Rus
sia and the Yalta agreement. At
Yalta, he holds, President Roose-
yelt and Prime Minister Churchill
betrayed the whole idealistic justi-
fication Of the war by giving away
large portions of Chinese territory
to Russia. The act violated the
Atlantic Charter and sold out an
ally, he says, but was worse still
in that 1t turned back the whole
clock TO prewar days by starting
a new course of appeasement of an
aggressor nation.
An interesting note on the Rus
sian temper toward America Is con-
tained in his report that when the
War Department requested permis-
sion for the plane carrying the cor
respondents to fly over Berlin the
Russians replied that if it did so
they would shoot it down. He also
reports that Russia used her occu-
pancy Of Chinese territory chiefly TO
loot. All the industrial machinery
Installed by the Japanese was car
ried of by the retreating Mosco-
vites, he says, so that China in
nerited In Manchuria empty fac
tory buildings with their doors
swinging in the wind"
He pays glowing tribute to our
ATC, offering the figure that, al
one time, plane loaded with war
supplies was crossing the Hump
every rs seconds and stating that
one took off from Casablanca to
cross the Atlantic every hour. He
argues for our retention of our air
bases in the Pacific as a strategic
necessity. He does not have any
faith in the outlook for peace. We
may as well face 1t, he feels. Europe
Is already out to start 4 new war.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
The Biography of AdoIph Simon Ochs,
The Man Who Built the New York Times

jective. He was in control OF a
newspaper, and before long the
Chattanooga Times was solvent
and on its way to becoming the
excellent publication that it is to-
day.
The publisher, however, did not
stick to his calling. There was no
doubt of his ability as a newspaper
man. But a real estate boom set
in in Chattanooga and Mr.. Ochs
plunged too deeply and was carried
to the verge of financial ruin. In
1896, although his newspaper was
still making money. Mr.. Ochs, while
refusing to resort to voluntary
bankruptcy, still found himself in
solvent. He had to make more
money and he decided to make 1t
in the only way he knew he could
make 1.-THE newspaper business.
That led him, more by accident
than design, into control of the
New York Times, then the wreck
of what had once been a first class
newspaper. When he took over, the
circulation of the Times was 5000,
it was heavily in debt and it was
losing $2,500 a week. In the year
marking the 25th anniversary of his
ownership the paper crossed $18,-
100000 and had more than 100000
circulation.
How was he able to do this? Not
merely because he was a good busi-
nessman with gift for making
money in the newspaper business.
Not because of any startling inno-
vations that he devised. Not even
because he had the luck" that
sometimes seems to follow a man of
industry, courage, ability and char
acter. Mr.. Ochs had more than all
of these. Above and beyond the
urge to make money or to achieve
what the world calls success, he
wanted to build great newspaper,
a newspaper truly dedicated to the
service of the public.
This he was able to do. A Titan
IN Americas era of Titans, he FASH
ioned a daily newspaper which, in
the critical judgment of many
newspapermen, is the best in the
world, an institution which plainly
bears the imprint of its creator
and which will live long after him.
Mr.. Johnson's biography of this
man of great achievement, If not
complete, is nonetheless a fasci-
mating story.
Evening star., 1946-08-18

aware of the need for a new policy.
He suggests that 1897 might be the
time, but is unable to discover the
subsequent proposed measures
which were, in President Truman's
phrase, "stifled" by opinion On
the contrary, he finds Mr.. Roose-
welt consistently assuring the
American people that they are in
no danger of war if they trust to
his leadership. Right up to the eve
of Pearl Harbor he was saying this
The neutrality legislation was re-
pealed, the two-ocean Navy was
conceded. The conscription bill, to
be sure, was not passed but. as DR..
Evening star., 1946-08-18
It's the Same
At Any Angle
THE DAZZLING CRYSTAL
By Janet Schane. (Reynal g.
Hitchcock, S2.50)
RNN FIN FNN Hy
QUENTIN MOTT


There is nothing particularly
dazzling" about this new author S
treatment of irregularities in hu-
man relationship, which is the basis
of the plot and which has provided
an ever-budding root for the peren-
nial crop of complexities. 1t is like
putting on glasses to view an
isosceles triangle which still has
three exact parts, no matter how
or when you look at them.
Janet Schane, a native New
Yorker, with apt sophistication, has
depicted cross-section of the pub
fishing business in a New York
setting. She manages to credit pub
fishers with probably more business
and social acumen than their clients
would voluntarily attribute to them.
In her novel, young girl intellectual
marries, in haste, seasoned novel
ist, whose prior associations with a
publisher the writer has strained
sufficiently to remove raw pollution
but in which she leaves sufficient in
gradients for implication. The pub
Usher thereupon wrecks the marriage
by cruelty parading the skeletons Of
the past before the girl in series
Of strategic maneuvers.
The turmoil, usually mental
which this creates, launches the
reader into tense ramif1cations COW
ering a period Of IA years but, al
anticipated, the woman wins back
her sacrosanct connubial domain
after few loosely-connected chap
ters. The simple expedient is tt
have the novelist sever all connec.
ton with the publisher after the
funeral of a mutual acquaintance
filings them together for finale ane
to have the girl meet him agair
under circumstances tantamount tt
reunion. It's deep stuff.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
MFDTCINF

Out Of Carnage, by Alexander r.
Griffin. (Howell, Soskin) A report
on medical progress made during
the war.
Evening star., 1946-08-18

Beard points out, that was not pre-
sented as war measure but as
means of ending prof1teering in the
case of war. The failure to fortify
Guam is often cited as an incident
of congressional intransigeance. As
DR.. Beard brings out. citing the rec
ord, Mr.. Roosevelt denied that he
had called for fortification Of the
island. The money was asked, he
told reporters, for dredging Guam
Harbor.
Evening star., 1946-08-18

He begins with a review of the
period following World War I, of
which it has been charged that
'evil men" in the Senate prevented
us from joining the League-which
junction presumably would have
Ensured world peace-and also that
the isolationist attitude of the coun-
try at large was responsible for
League rejection and hence eventual
involvement in World War II. His
purpose is not so much to try the
validity of these widely held as
sumptionS as to show how they
furnished the State Department
with cushion on which to rest its
subsequent charges against the
American people. Since, in pre-
World War II years, there was an
extremely vocal group holding forth
about our guilty isolationism, it be-
came easy for the State Department
subsequently to use the claims Of
this group as an excuse for its own
policy when that policy proved to be
something less than adequate.
Let Us LUUk db tA6 INCGUku
The report issued in 1943 an
nounces that at some unSpecified
time in the period between 1881 and
1941 President Roosevelt and the
department became aware that our
policy of neutrality would not meet
the situation, but were hindered by
public opinion from taking %he
necessary steps toward more ef-
fective stand. Let us look at the
record, says DR.. Beard.
He reminds us that Mr.. Roosevelt
was nominated on an express re-
lection of internationalism. The re-
lection was brought about, moreover,
by a challenge launched at the can
didate by William Randolph
Hearst, who demanded it as price
for his support. Mr.. Roosevelt
seized the vast domestic problem of
the depression for his campaign
ammunition and based his platform
solidly on domestic reform. Up to
his famous quarantine" speech in
1887, he made no statement in favor
of departing from this policy, as Dr.
Beard finds it. And the quarantine
speech, as correspondents COM
planned at the time, was left "up in
the air" 1t was accompanied by
no practical plan. Reporters, seek
ing to learn what was behind it,
were treated to evasions which read
very strangely today, in the light of
what has happened. DR.. Beard does
not offer it as an explanation of the
address that the Presidents do
mestic reforms had that year suf-
fered spectacular breakdown, but
he mentions the circumstance.
His effort is TO ascertain the date
at which, according to the State De-
partment report, the President and
his department advisers became
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Best Sellers

NAHUM WIDE,
according to Publishers Weekly
FICTION.
1st-This Side of Innocence, Taylor
Caldwell
2d-The Hueksters, Frederic Wake
man.
3d-The Snake Pit, Mary Jane
Ward
4th-Rritannia News, Margery Sharp.
6th-Then ana Now, w. Somerset
Vaughan.
NONFICTION.
1st-The Egg and /, Betty Mac
Donald
2d-Peace Of Mind, Joshua L. Lieb-
man.
3d-Top Secret, Ralph Insersoll.
4th-Last Chapter, Ernie Pyle
5tli---I Chose Freedom, Victor Krav-
chenko.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Jan VoItin Pays
Great Tribute to
American Courage
CHILDREN OF YESTERDAY

By Jan Valttn. (Readers'
Press, $3.)
The author OF this book is Richard
Krebs, the German ex-Communist
and ex-Nazi. who a few years ago
wrote the best-selling "Out Of the
after he had served q term
in San Quentin Prison for activities
contrary to our country's laws. He
told In that book the story of his
life-how, a young man in postwar
Germany, he took up communism
as the surest way Of bringing about
Evening star., 1946-08-18
AMERICANA.

A Volunteers Adventures, by John
William De Forest. Edited by James
H. Croushore. (Yale University
Press) The record kept by a Union
captain of his adventures through
out the Civil War. Valuable and
interesting historical material.
The Doctor to the Dead, by John
Bennett. (Rinehart) A collection
OF legends and folk tales about
Charleston, S. c. Eerie and humor-
Gus. An item for the folklore
student.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
By Mory-Corter Roberts
Seeking Responsibility for Our Foreign
Policies in the Critical Prewor Years

By Charles A. Beard. (Yale University Press; S4J
disconeng faculty
this
cratic leaders that the
the due not to the negligence her political
leaders, but to the soationst attitude
the
chief objects DR. Boards
port Peace and
Harbor investigation which e
blame Having the volume through enjoyed thoroughly
the conclusion that would like
Beard matter
Evening star., 1946-08-18
AN HONORABLE TITAN
By Gerald w. Johnson. (Har-
per & Bros; $780,
Reviewed by
JOHN H. CLINE.

The reader of this biography OF
Adolph Simon Ochs, truly great
newspaper publisher, will come to
the end of the story with the feel
ing that some of the ingredients, if
not the essential ingredients, of
the mans greatness have eluded
Evening star., 1946-08-18
AGreot Actress
Comes Home >
RETURN ENGAGEMENT
By GBen Davenport. (Bobbs-
Merrill Co 50 50
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON

Reviewed Dy
NINA PEMBERTON
Sophie Van Eyck had been Ole OF
the greatest actresses of her time.
The food upon which she thrived
was fame, alteration. and a life led
the way she. Sophie Van Eyck,
wished to live 1t. 1t was this last in
dulgence which was to prove the
stumbling block to the eccentric
ease and unconventionality of her
day-to-day existence.
At the end of glorious career on
the stage. circumstances had
brought Sophie back to her native
State of Maine to spend the sum-
mers at her birthplace, Goose Neck.
1t was the casual and unimpressed
reception she received upon arrival
which first caused her to raise those
fine eyebrows in mild establishment.
Could it be that they did not feel
proud Of this product of their own
countryside? Well, more the fools,
then! But the attitude OF the VII
lage continued to be one of complete
detachment. The people were
shocked by Sophie to the point
where Clarence Hathaway, the only
man in the village with a taxicab,
refused with subtle brutality to work
for the Van Eyck household.
1t is around this household that
the whole matter rests. When
Sophie had retired she created for
herself far-from- unconventional en-
tourage, and had set up house with
three or four of her contemporaries,
all men, all old actors, and all OF
whom had, in their turn, laid down
their love and their lives at her feet.
such menage had not only been
accepted, but looked upon with favor
and frlendlineSS in her Villa over
looking the warm Mediterranean
Sea on the south coast Of France,
but with the coming of the Germans
Sophie had torn up these roots, lock,
stock, and male companions, and
had decamped to New York for the
winters, and to Maine for the sum-
mers. Stole Maine proved to Sophie
that gold, glitter and pleasure are
not the only things in life. The prin-
ciple prof1teer in this change of
mentality, but not necessarily of
habit, was Vicky, Sophie's grand
daughter who had felt herself to be
most definitely eclipsed and out of
place in this old peoples paradise.
There is something of the SUBJ
lime bordering on the ridiculous in
this novel. and the reader must be
in the right mood Of tolerance and
lightness to appreciate it.
MEDICINE.
Out Of Carnage, by Alexander r.
| Griffin. Howell. Soskin) A rerort
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Wall, Injured Jockey,
Takes Turn for Worse
By the Associoted Press

SAN MATEO, Calf, Oct. 81
Nick Wall, one of the Nations fore
most jockeys, remained in a critical
condition today from internal in
juries suffered Tuesday in a fall
from his horse during race at Bay
Meadows.
The 102-pound rider took turn
for the worse last night. Earlier
yesterday, he had rallied briefly after
a blood TRANSMISSION. He was under
treatment for Il broken ribs and a
spine injury.
Track stewards, after viewing
motion pictures of the race, blamed
a horse named Chris Junior, owned
by A. G. Brammer of Vancouver
B. c. They said the horses drifted
out of the straightaway abruptly and
caused Walls mount. Fluther, tt
stumble. Chris Juniors rider, Robert
! Ranum, was absolyed of any blame
but the horse was barred from the
track.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
CooIidqe-Tech Game Shift Puts
Spotlight on Anucostiu- Eastern
By George Huber

an outstanding pair of ends in Bill
Foley and Phil Taylor, just the thing
needed to stop the double-wing for
nation used by Anacostia in its last
two games.
Anacostia's chances may depend
on whether Quarterback Willie Um-
holtz returns to the passing form
shown in early games. He's been er-
ratio in recent outings, and also has
caused Coach Zuzu Stewart some
anxiety with his selection of plays
The Indians also are depending on
speedy Gene Schroeder for some
breakaway running. with the plung-
ing to be handled almost exclusive
ly by Louis Groot now that Bob Lohr
has dropped off the squad.
Riders Much Improved.
Roosevelt Wilson, too, could be a
tight game, with the Rough Riders
greatly improved over early-seasor
showings and in position to end q
long string of defeats by Wilson
Jess Houstons passes provide much
of Roosevelt's punch, and Wilson's
pass defense has not been the best
this season.
Best attraction outside the public
high series Is George Washington
High of Danville, Va, invading
Washington-Lee High of Arlington
Danville is rated nearly as good as
the outstanding Portsmouth clever
which topped WI. three weeks ago
! Game starts at 3 o'clock.
Evening star., 1946-10-31

Shifting the Coolidge-Tech game
from tomorrow to Saturday after
noon at Central Stadium leaves only
Eastern at Anacostia and Roosevelt
at Wilson on the District public high
series football program tomorrow.
Starting time is 3:15.
The four teams taking the field
tomorrow virtually are out OF the
running for this years title, but
some tight football is in prospect
nevertheless. Particularly exciting
should be the Eastern-Anacosti tilt
The Indians are having one of those
often a bridesmaid but-never-a-
bride seasons, having lost three
games in a row by one touchdown
margins. Eastern is their big rival
and if they can take the Ramblers
it will be a gratifying season regard
less of what else happens. Eastern
points more particularly for Tech
and Coolidge, and Coach Dick Ment-
zer may have difficulty getting his
boys up" for Anacostia.
Eddie Smith Returns.
Comparative scores make the out
fcome a tossup, although otherwise
the Ramblers may have a slight
edge. Eddie Smith, who has been
missing for three games because of a
charleyhorse, is whole again and
will start at quarterback instead OF
Sal Di Giorgi, good blocker and
runner but sometimes inconsistent
as a signal caller. Eastern also has
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Day-WiIman 1enpin Match
Ends Sunday In Chicago
By the Assoeioied Press

CHICAGO, Oct. 3l.-Ned Day OF
West Allis. Wis, former national
all-star individual match game
bowling champion, and Joe Wil-.
man of Berwyn. H.. the present
titiist, will wind up their transcon-
tincl1taln match here Saturday and
Sunday.
Day and Wilman have bowled 162
games since the tour started in West
Allis, continuing at San Francisco,
Long Beach, San Diego and Santa
Monica, Calf, and Philadelphia.
Day has toppled 33.162 pins for a
Petersen point total of 767.37/50.
Wilnian has 32,418 pins and 7l4.43h50
points. The final set of 27 games will
be divided into three blocks.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Eight Top Players Vie forHonors
In Football Classic Tomorrow

in the game but with 174 points as
against % for the opposition, are
counting on John Big" Brown,
center, of Spaghetti Bowl fame; Tom
Mitchell, guard: Flash" Galbreath,
quarterback, and Tim Armour, full
back, to pull them out of tough
spots. Galbreath ran 86 yards for
a touchdown last week as Carolina
whipped Virginia Union, 1870
Coach Kean has lifetime record
of 1856 victories and 26 losses.
Tennessee worked out at Howard
University today and Carolina was
to drill in private at the ball park.
More than so per cent of tomor-
rows proceeds will go to scholar
ship funds. Tickets are on sale at
Classic headquarters. 410 Florida
avenue, and at Griffith Stadium.
Evening star., 1946-10-31

Harry P. Child, new supervisor
of the Metropolitan Police Boys
Club, is well qualified for the job,
his athletic background indicates.
He made the all-Maryland prep
football team while playing for
Loyola High School in Baltimore
and also won honors there in base
bail and basket ball. Child later
played with Loyola College.
In 1926, Child won the inter
scholastic breaststroke and later
held the South Atlantic half mile
swimming championship for three
years.
He took fling at boxing and in
1928 won the Baltimore Post tour
Evening star., 1946-10-31
|ce-Capades to.0pen
Engagement Here
Tomorrow Night

Ice-Capades of 1947 ends q sue.
cessful engagement in Philadelphia
tonight and Immediately entrains
for washington to open a 17-day
engagement of 23 performances at
Uline Arena at $3.50 o'clock tomor-
row night.
The all-new ice show Of cham
pions will feature nightly perform
ances through November II at $50
and Saturday and Sunday mat
mess at 2:30.
Ice-Capades set new paid attend
ance records in Pittsburgh, Cleve-
land and Philadelphia, and prom
ises to better last February's high
here, compiled during run Of II
performances.
Former world, national and Olym-
pic skating champions top the cast
of 176 performers.
Bobby Specht and Donna At.
wood, holders of several national
speed and figure skating champion
ships, will headline the cast. How
ever, Ann Robinson. dainty soloist
and former national junior queen
is improving fast, and is pressing
both OF the acknowledged stars fol
honors.
Robert Dench and Rosemarie
Stewart, the former Olympic pre-.
cision dance team; Edythe anc
Nate Valley, holders of several for.
mer worlds figure skating crowns
and the internationally prominent
Mar-Yan, Red Mccarthy, worlds
barrel-iumping king, also are prom
inently cast j ~
Eric Waite, Chuckie Stein, Orrir
Markhus and Irma Thomas, Patti
Phillippi, Larry Jackson and Bernie
Lyman. Trixie Dan Condor. Al
Surette and Leo Loeb are a few
more established fayorites return
ing with the show. 1f", u
Evening star., 1946-10-31

Four players from Tennessee State
and a similar number from North
Carolina State are expected to wage
a merry battle for honors in to-
morrow nights fifth annual Capital
Classic at Griffith Stadium before
an expected throng of $4,000.
With a chance for the winner to
move in as the leading contender
for the national intercollegiate
colored football championship, these
eight gridders will be very much IN
the spot light, according to Capital
Classic headquarters here.
= Tennessee's Tigers, arriving today
with a squad of A, with Henry
Arthur Kean as coach. will pin much
of their hopes on Ray Whitman
quarterback; Nat Taylor, halfback;
Bob Drummond, colored all-America
tackle, and Warren Cyrus, end
These four have been responsible fol
an unbeaten season and victories
over Texas College. Langston, CLARK
and Wilberforce.
Carolinas Eagles. the underdogs
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Colonial Village Assumes Lead
In Mems Major Bowling Loop

Colonial village, with Fl win
over Lucky Strike, moved out on
top by one game in the Mems Major
District Duckpin League last night
when Hiser's Boulevard relinquished
its grip on the top rung by losing
two games to squirting Greenway
quint which has won 8 of It's last
II games.
The defeat dropped the Hisermen
into a. tie for second place with
Hi-Skor and Bethesda Bowling
Center. 1t was the third straight
loss for Boulevard.
Frank Carter rescued the first
tilt for Colonial Village against
Lucky Sttike with double header
in the final frame, while FL Geib and
AL Cissel grabbed the last skirmish
out of the fire by striking on last
box spares after the Luckies bagged
the middle game.
Boulevard started OF well enough
against Greenway by annexing the
first game, 656 to $50, as Jack Tai
bert led with 148, but the heavy
counting ended there as Greenway
won the final two with sos and SGT.
In the highest-scoring match Hi
Skor won two from Brookland with
1 900 to 1855. Hokie Smith, Hi-Skor
captain, opened with triple-header
strike for 1865 to start a 433 set,
while Karl Gochenour was best for
Brookland with 149 and 404 Brook
land won the middle tilt. $50 to 616,
and Hi-Skor the final, 671 to 623.
Kelly Beach's 153 and 389 led
Rosslyn's 2-1 victory over Chevy
Chase Ice Palace. Tony Santini's
l53 salvaged the final for the
Palaeers.
With top set of 436 and 166 his
high single, Ray Watson gave Clar-
endon 2-1 edge over College Park.