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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-18
KIkBR0 RITES TUESDAY

Miss Eleanor Marie Kimbro, 18,
of 815 Danner avenue, died at 8 80
a. m. Saturdayin her home. She is
survived by her mother, Mrs. Nellie
Kimbro; sister, Mrs. Mary K. Davis,
and grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
w. Garrett and Mrs. Effie Locust of
Xenia. Miss Kimbro was Dunbar
high school graduate last year. She
belonged to the Girl Reserves and
formerly to Girl Scout Troop 25.
Services, 9 a. m. tomorrow, ST.
Johns Catholic mission, 119 Krug
street. Burial, Calvary cemetery.
Friends may call at Smith funeral
home, 1853 South Broadway, after
4 p. m. today.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-18
LIFE FOR JAP Staying

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Feb. 18
(ANP) = Life Imprisonment was
the verdict of a military court for
Pvt. Robert Dickens, member of a
quartermaster unit here, when he
was found guilty of Staying Jap
anese civilian. 1t. Samuel Patter-
son, of Aurora, ILL.,, an attorney in
civilian life, helped in Dickens de-
fense. He asked for review of the
case.
Dickens, native of fernando,
Tenn, did not take the stand in his
own defense.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-18

usual committee hearings.
Informed observers knew the Re-
publicans would make as much cap
ital out of the FEPC fight as pos
sible. None knew exactly how far
they would go despite the fact that
the 1914 Republican platform en-
dorsed FEPC legislation. 1t now ap-
pears the Republicans will do moth
ing to disturb the alliance or work
ing agreement they have with
southern Democrats. The two
groups working together not only
have Harry Truman blocked but
the whole country as we'll.
What does the fight over FEPC
teach us? 1t seems clear at least
that we should not ask for a show
down fight with entrenched Ameri-
can prejudice until we can marshall
all the people and forces who be-
lieve in democracy and equal op-
portunity. To follow any other pro
cedure is to invite another defeat.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-18
five Die IN GEORGIA FIRE

MONTICELLO, Ca, Feb. 18
(ANP) = A raging fire which
burned a large home, IL miles north
of here, claimed the lives of Neal
Motley, his wife, Mrs. Lille Pearl
Motley, and their two children.
The four died in the fire and an
other man, Raleigh Gilstrap, died
after admittance to a Macon hos
pital.
Jim Franklin, Junior Johnson,
Frank Williams, Nit Lane and
Johnnie Jordan were rushed to a
Macon hospital for burns sustained
in the fire.
The house destroyed by fire is
on the old Franklin place owned by
w. C. Shepherd.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-18
BISHOP 5pINGARN
MEDAL NOMINEE

NEWTON, Kan, Feb. 18 (ANP)
The Rt. Rev. J. Arthur Hamlet,
bishop of the third Episcopal dis
trict of the CINE. church, was
named as a candidate for the 31st
annual Spingarn medal. Nominated
by r. c.. Tieuel Jr., managing ed
itor of the Kansas State Record,
official organ of the Kansas con-
ference of NAACP branches, Bish-
op Hamlet is civic leader as well
as a high ranking churchman. An
active member of the NAACP, he
is founder of the Phillips School Of
Theology and recently was the only
colored prelate to appear in Topeka
as lobbyist for passage of a Kansas
FEPC law.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-18
PATTERSON SEPARATION CENTER STOPPED

The separation center at Patter-
son Field will suspend operations
today, Col. Richard Gimbel, COM
officer, announced last
night.
The colonel estimated that the
close of operations today will end a
parade of discharges that approx
mates 10000 individuals. That total
was processed through the center
since it's opening last Sept. II.
Among those who will be sent
through processing today are men,
bers of the star performers on the
Wright Field Kittyhawk basketball
team.
The latter will be processed COM
pletely at the center and their "di-
plomas" will be presented to them
in ceremonies at the fairgrounds
coliseum tonight where the team
makes it's finale appearance against
the University of Dayton Flyers.
1t will be clock, stock and bar
rel" cleanout of the basketball team
including 1t. Guy Massey, the
coach, and Sgt. Dave Schwartz, the
trainer. Team players scheduled to
roooixo d;coborcroc ;pol,,do Cr+
John Mahnken, 1t. Chris Hansen,
1t. Bruce Hale, Tech. Sgt. John
Schick, Corp. AL Negratti and Corp
Roy Witrey.
The Patterson Field separation
center's closing means that Miami
Valley army discharge eligibles
will be converted to civilians either
at Camp Atterbury, Ind, or Indian
town Gap, Pa.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-18
POLICE ARREST MAN
IN FATAL STABBING

Police are holding Walter James
Ellis, %, of 118 Ziegler street, for
questioning concerning the fatal
stabbing of Barrans Moreland, 27,
of SIT South Perry street.
Moreland was stabbed with
knife, police reported, during an
argument over SO cents at the Perry
street at address about $50 a. m.
yesterday.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-18
PROMOTIONS, TRANSFERS
HOLD UP GM-UAW TALKS

DETROIT, Feb. 18.-Negotia-
strike stalled temporarily tonight,
and CIO United Auto Workers
spokesman disclosed that all of the
original major issues in the walk
out remained to be settled.
Warding off breakdown in the
talks, James F. Dewey, federal labor
mediator and veteran of auto strike
conciliation, called a recess when ne
gotiators deadlocked over one of the
principal issues - employe promo
tions and transfer procedures.
Dewey will preside over another
meeting at 2::3O p. m. tomorrow,
with GIN President Charles E. Will
son and UAW Chief r. J. Thomas
attending.
He repeated his belief that de-
spite the new arguments over pro-
motions an dtransfers, the top Gen.
eral Motors and UAW leaders
would reach an agreement within a
day or two.
Wages, successor clause" and
local plant issues-contract griev-
ances listed on the strike ballot for
$1,000 GIN production workers in
November-still kept the two sides
apart, the union spokesman said.
However, he said, they were close
to agreement on the successor
clause, which pertains to seniority
of persons hired during the war in
GIN plants which were transferred
to different company division for
efficiency, but which now have been
returned to their old status.
The successor clause problem
arose when General Motors was ac-
cused by the union of disregarding
the seniority of persons employed
after the wartime transfer of
plants.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-18
LABOR VIEWS
BY George F. McCray :


America does not have demo-
cratic form of government. Of
course Negroes have long realized
this and now the filibuster against
FEPC has opened the eyes Of thou
sands Of other citizens.
The big problem in the FEPC
fight was to find a way to enable
the duly elected majority of the
senators to vote for what they be-
lieve in. Though times have. changed
since l was in school, in my civics
and political science classes
learned that whenever the will OF
a minority prevails over the will OF
the majority we have autocracy
oligarchy, or dictatorship = not
democracy.
Actually the senate put on a shan
battle that really stunk. 1t is clean
now that they were killing time un
til more pressing" Legislation
could be prepared. Failure to hole
continuous night sessions foreshad
owed victory for the south and those
prejudiced business interests who
feared moral condemnation for try
ing to starve a man to death be
cause they didn't like the way h
worshipped God nor the way Coo
had made him.
From the sunny shores of Flor
ida's beaches the AFL's executiv,
council sent word that it was il
favor Of FEPC. This was really !;
crowning bit of hypocrisy for whel
the AFL's lobbyists did not SHOW
up in Washington to put on TIN
pressure for the executive council
resolution all knew the AFL wa
really in different if not opposed
AS a matter of fact many Of tn
men on the AFL's Executive coun
Gil who voted for the so-called pro
FEPC resolution are presidents O
unions who are guilty of the yer.
same abuses the FEPC bill woult
have tried to eliminate.
AS this department feared whel
the FEPC fight began, CIO sup
port was not delivered with it
usual smash and vigor. This wa
particularly necessary in western
mining states and in Maine. Sidne.
Hillman,, chairman of the Politica
Action committee of the CIO, wen
to Berlin, Germany, right in th'
midst of the fight and CIO Presi
dent Philip Murray and other tol
CIO officials were too busy in ;
desperate struggle to prevent thei
unions from being smashed to Civ
much support to FEPC. Also tn
CIO was doing it's utmost to blocl
the union-busting Case bill whicl
| passed the house without even tt
Evening star., 1946-06-23

by Richard Arlington. 1t is ad-
mittedly all imaginary; nothing in
the known history of Casanova sup
ports it in any respect. And it is
| the tritest kind of Graustarkian
love story. But, because it pretends
to be an adventure" out of the
great lovers life, it will probably
be earnestly read by lot Of fairly
intelligent people.
What it purports to be is the
story Of Casanova's real love-" the
pure. innocent, idealistic passion
which he (like all men, of course)
at one time experienced. 1t tells
how. the young Giacomo became
enamored of mysterious and beau
tiful lady who disappeared after he
had had one look at her. Followed
much casual amorousness with ca
sual wives and maidens, but the
memory of the beautiful lost one
remained Then the beautiful lost
one turned up again and there was
unimaginable felicity. But she was,
as it turned out, spy in the pay
of Austria and Casanova went to
Jail for his involvement with her.
But still he loved her. And she
loved him. At the showdown she
did what all beautiful lady spies do
she died rather than fail her lover.
My reaction was pretty ho-hum,
but even SO I can see that Mr.. AL
dington has quite flair for Grau-
stark. MGR.
Evening star., 1946-06-23

with money in George simenoh.
his hands and freedom in his mind.
At that point his solution of it all
was to embark on a career of mur-
der, his favorite victims being the
ladies of easy virtue.
BY the time George Simenon has
taken his leading character through
some 200 pages of subtle and anus
ing reading, Kees is in an asylum
for homiciGal maniacs and the frus-
tration which he has transmitted
to his family and friends has even
begun to apply to the reader.
Simenon. Belgian by birth and
former newspaper reporter, has
written some 200 popular-type
novels under 16 pseudonyms Andre
Glide once referred to him as the
most truly novelistic novelist in
French literature today" For ira
ditional summer reading, "The Man
Who Watched the Trains Go BY"
has something to recommend it on
the "novelistic" side.
Evening star., 1946-06-23

perately hard at shslon Aleichem.
humble occupations with no hope
Of doing better than keeping them
selves and their families alive. I am
not familiar with Sholom Aleichem S
work but I am told that the Jews
themselves love him. That does
not seem surprising. He has written
about his people without vestige
of sentimentality but with amazing
sweetness. He has spared them no
mention of normal shortcomings, but
he has imbued his little tales with
tenderness that is perceptible
and moving to any one. His atti-
tude seems to have been that of a
plying deity who was still human
enough to be able to shrug his
shoulders.
The u stories vary considerably
in their methods. Some are slight
episodes, too slight to stand outside
a collection. Some are close to
conventional forms. But all deal
with the worries of the harassed
little Jews with wry humor which
L find pretty well exemplified in
this passage from the first tales in
the volume:
This lucky town has two rich
cemeteries, the old and the new
The new one is old enough and
rich enough in graves. Soon there
will be no place to put any one
especially if pogrom should break
out or any Of the other misfor-
tunes which befall us in these times
But it is of the old cemetery
that the people of Kasrilevka are
especially proud .. For this
is not only the place where. their
ancestors lie but also the
only piece of land of which they
are master, the only bit of earth
they own where blade of grass
can sprout and q tree can grow
and the air is fresh and one can
breathe freely"
This authors work has stood the
test of time among his own people
1t is fitting that it should have a
wider audience.
Evening star., 1946-06-23


CRESTON B. MULLINS.
When Ernie Pyle went to the
Pacific after his triumphal covering
of the European war he had pre-
monition and his frank expressions
of fear run through this last of his
great war books. But it was not the
fear of coward; rather was it the
fear of the strong and the coura-
geous, the fear that sends brave
men in to win battles.
Symbolically it was near the close
of Americas greatest war in the
heat Of Americas last and costliest
campaign against Japan-that Err
ME Pyle met his death. Ernie took
his place among the other brave
men whose dirty. dreary existence
he had publicized to the American
people.
Just as he had done in Europe
Ernie quickly caught the spirit of
the war in the Pacific; he sensed
accurately the contrasts with the
way men fought in Europe. Europe
had been mud and dirt and bloody
hell. The Pacific war, he came to
see, was fought in almost a para
disc of comfort in comparison. But
1t was that very leisurely tempo,
where men had clean beds, clean
clothes, warm sunshine, tropical
Evening star., 1946-06-23

LhC OGftCJ " HCC HtCb UftOoC
dirty, dreary existence he had
publcised to the American
people"
beauty and the best the Navy could
give them. which drove men to de-
spair. Ernie Pyle apparently did
not discover the term rock happy
but he expresses the meaning of it
in a dozen other ways.
He reached the Pacific too late,
of course. in early l945 to have
given a picture of the early struggle,
when almost every naval action was,
at best, successful defense, and
the offensive against Japan was be-
ing prepared in Australia, New
Guinea and the Solomons. Although
his experiences with the island
garrisons, the escort carriers, the
B-29s and the ground forces which
went ashore on Okinawa-were rep
resentative of the latter phases OF
the war they were far different
from what they would have beer
two or three years earlier.
With his other two books-"He
Is Your War" and Brave Men
Last Chapter" is in many ways
effective antiwar propaganda, fol
Ernie Pyle did better job of ex.
pressing the average fighting mans
disgust for the work he was doing
than the CT could do himself.
Evening star., 1946-06-23
Brief Reviews
THE WAR.

The United States Merchant Ma.
rine at War. The Report Of War
Shipping Administrator E. 8. Land
to the President. An 80 page book
let illustrated with photographs.
Hungary To Be Or Not To Be.
by Rustem Vambery.- Ungar) A
discussion Of Hungary's future. pre-
senting the arguments for her sur
vival as nation.
Spirits Unbrsken, by A Renton
Hind. (Howell) The story of the
authors three years in a Philippine
concentration camp.
Sergt. Mickey and Gen. Ike, "
Michael j. McKeogh and Richatd
Lockridge (Putnam.) Gen. EiseI-
hower's orderly, Sergt. McKeogh,
gives an informal and proudly ad-
miring picture of the general as he
knew him.
POEMS.
Lough Derg, by Denis Devlin,
(ReynaT and Hitchcock A first
collection Of poems by a young Irish.
man. Gifted, but dreadfully serious.
Local Measures, by Josephine
Miles. Reynal and Hitchcock A
collection of short poems in mod
erately modern manner. Strong ef.
fort for effect.
Quatrains, by Albert Ralph Korn.
Comet Press.) A collection of four
line poems, on the newspaper poem
level.
CHILDREN.
Your Child and the Summer
Camp, by David E. Bergh. (Odyssey.)
A guide book on what to look for
and where to find it,
Through Cbildren's Eyes, by
Blanche c. WE'LL. 1sland Press CO.
operative) A work on better han
ding of children, approaching the
subject from the childs point Of
view.
Evening star., 1946-06-23
Diary of a
'WHiomsburo
Hostess
By Helen Jones Campbell. (G
P. Putnam's Sons; S3.)
Reviewed by


P. Putnam's Sons; S3J
Reviewed by
MARTHA LEWIS.
Helen Jones Campbell tells here
of the trials and tribulations of be-
ing hostess for Williamsburg, Va,
the historic town that has been
restored to the last nailhead."
After she got her appointment
first there were rigorous physical
exams, the filling out of query pa
pers. a tour Of the buildings and a
good "hashing over" by a hawk
eyed board as to her suitability
Mrs. Campbell was put into Colonial
costume, told to dress her hair IN
18th century fashion, wear neither
nail polish nor modern jewelry
And, oh, yes, plenty of petticoats.
From then on it was her job to
hold her hands properly. show Wis
itors around the town and answer
their many questions as sweetly as
possible
Her book might be more interest
ing if she had not used diary form
The short. choppy sentences, the
loverabundant use of capital letters
in the middle of sentences tHostes.
Head, inability to Make the Grade
Our Visitors, Hospitality and Coco
Manners, etc) make 1T difficult
reading indeed
Evening star., 1946-06-23

comfort should be exposed to such
conditions" he gives no indication
that, in his young mind, there was
any question as to his right to be
miIistered to or, In his adult
thought, any lack Of taste in re-
ferring to beings less fortunate than
himself as 'hags." 1881
Iconfess that, on reading this pas
sage, I remembered certain COM
ments of Matthew Arnold on the
British attitude toward the "lower
orders" made apropos Of the mean
ing of culture. But, If my thought was
correctly taken, it only adds to the
accuracy of Sir Obert's presentation.
I am willing to leave 1t at that.
Evening star., 1946-06-23

sAAS AAAtS2 AAo tAoA4
al social set who
is oppressed by
the emptiness of
it all. Like all
beautiful ladies
who are suffer-
ing from that
complaint, she is
incapable of do
ing a n y t h i n g
about her trou-
BILE alone. She
waits for q man
to diagnose and
prescribe. So she
meets the man
nd he dag
Evening star., 1946-06-23
|Of Life in England:
Country Mansions
THE SCARLET TREE

By Sir OSbert SttDeH. (Ltt-
tie, Bro,on: $780,
The first volume OF Sir Osbert
Sitwell's memoir, Left Hand, Right
Hand!" was of average length. 1t
carried its authors career forward
to his seventh year. In the present
volume we have young Osbert
brought a decade farther, to his
unregretted parting from the halls
of Eton at the age of II. It sounds
like a feat of remarkable auctorial
egotism-that a man setting out to
write his autobiography should de-
vote two reasonably thick books
to his childhood alone-but 1t is far
from being that. The Sitwellian
method has been to report, not what
the young Sitwell did and felt, but
his whole environment. And, since
that environment was an immensely
complicated and significant one
the world of England's privileged
society in its last Victorian and
Edwardian twilight-two volumes is
really not excessive.
The material of the present
volume, then, is mainly made up
of pictures of English life in the
great country houses. 1t cannot be
said, either, that it is written much
from a child's point of view. The
understanding of the social setting
which the book expresses is ma
ture one. The portraits Of the adults
who thronged the homes of Sir
Osbert's youth are certainly done
with the benefit of hindsight. AL
most nothing is said of Sir Osberts
childish emotions except that he
was oppressed with a sense of
foreboding, a precocious intimation
that the comedy was about finished
that he (and his sister and brother)
being incipient artists, suffered from
knowing that they were different
and that they hated the English
public schools with the classic hatred
of the sensitive boy since those
schools have been In existence.
The memoirs are of extraordinary
richness. The procession of adults
produced by generations Of privilege,
living in their enchanted world
without question as to its normal
ity and eternal permanence - and
conditioned by these aJtitudes-is
when set against the history which
must be in any readers mind, pure
drama.
1t should be noted, however, that
So far in the autobiography, there
is no word about an awakening In
the authors mind as to the stupen-
dous artiflciality in which he lived
He mentions in an opening chapter
that he had become aware of the
poor who lived in London-"gesticu-
lating automatons whom want drove
to every action, to thieving and
every kind of crookedness and
crankiness, even to killing them
selves or the slaughter of others.
There is no evidence, however, that
up to the age of II he questioned
the justice of such a division OF
mankind. On the contrary, close ia
the end of the book, there is a pas
sage Of astonishing-and seemingly
unconscious cruelty which indi-
Gates that he accepted and still
accepts it. This comes when he
describes a glimpse which he had
into the kitchen of the shop where
the Etonians customarily had tea.
Il saw" he says, "a vista of about
twenty hags armed with pokers
toasting forks and long rusty knives
Evening star., 1946-06-23

noses and prescribes. He, a serious
minded young labor lawyer with
an active social conscience di-
rects her to Albania where, free
of the machine, the people live in
all the beauty of feudal servitude.
The splendid mountaineers with
their drudgery, their dirt, their
superstition, their subjection of
women, move her to admiration and
a wish to help. So she decides to
devote her life to working among
them. The man is very much
pleased. MGR.
Evening star., 1946-06-23

a. snip cnanC-
ler's Office in
Groningen.
Most of all,
however, K e e S
was a man OF
i m a ginat.ion -
more than ordi-
narily might be
expected to at
tend his prosaic
occupation-and
W h e n circum-
stances fell into
the appropriate
pattern he found
himself in Paris
Evening star., 1946-06-23
Queer Inhabitants
OF Rural England
MOON IN THE RIVER
By Jim Phelan. "A. A. Wun
Inc; $780,
Reviewed by
MARGARET CHILD.


There may be times when it is
politically expedient to change
horses in midstream, but if ever
there was a novel that proves you
cannot judiciously change plots
midway through the book, Moon in
the River" is that novel.
Author Phelan's story opens on
an eerie note. Two near-naked
village maids leading a black goat
pass silently down a moon-streaked
English country lane. It is Midsum-
mer Eve, time of superstition and
evil in rural England.
AS quickly as the two girls round
the bend Of the dusty road out of
the disinterested gaze of the village
nalf-wit, Simon Barton, they cease
to be factors of any note in the
story. What follows for the next
several chapters is a series of char
acter introductions and word land
scapes of the queer inhabitants and
the archaic English village of Sui
borrow.
Alter the moon has been in the
river some $50 pages, the author
abruptly abandons his dark muir
murs Of superstition and ancient
ritual to reveal the core of his story
Moon in the River" is then ex-
posed as nothing more exciting than
the oft-told tale of one mans con-
troll over the destinies of a COM
munity of people, their economy
social life and law, through the use
OF terror, adultery and bribery.
Jim Phelan has an easy, uncom.
pllcated style that makes his work
speedy, pleasant reading. His char.
acterizations are adept, his wore
sketches Of the rural countryside
almost visual. But he has unwisel,
split his novel into two barely relat.
ed stories. either of which, alone
would have been commendable, bu
which together are merely incom
patible.
Evening star., 1946-06-23
CENTRAL AMERICA.

Blood in the Streets, by Albert c.
Hicks. (Creative Age) The story
of the rule of President Trujillo of
the Dominican Republic.
Caribbean, by German Arciniegas
(Knopf) The gifted Colombian
author writes the history of Amer
ica'S sea,
Evening star., 1946-06-23

their forms III
by the fires they
tended, thei ir
draggled, un-
kempt hair and
toothless, sweat
ing, earle t
faces seen dim
ly thr GU g h
ascending, frag-
rant st e a m"
And though he
mentions that
"it see m e d
VIZ ng tina t
those who min
istered so faith
Evening star., 1946-06-23

faithful rack on
which to hang
new - or old -
plots. A story
which, without
the magic of his
name, would be
m e re costume
romance usually
gets serious con-
sideration il the
hero is identified
with the famous
b ! o W h a I'd. II
you doubt that
you have only
to think a little