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Evening star., 1947-05-12
Pan American Exhibit
Of 2. 500 Books to Qpen

$ A total of $500 books of Latin
American and United States pub
fishers will 60 on display at pm.
today at the Pan American Union In
the second Pan American Book Ex-
hibit.
The exhibition rejecting the grow
ing interest of nations of the hemis-
phere in the literature of their
neighbors, will continue until June
16.
Largest representation in the dis
play is from Argentine publishers
who have sent more than l 1000 books.
More than 125 publishing houses are
represented-most of them Mexican
and South American. When the dis
play here has ended, the Pan Amer
lean Union plans to send most of
the Latin American books to other
cities for exhibition.
Evening star., 1947-05-12

bllC StiCIlls NSSASS NN~' -
ical Warfare Service, and Mr.. Kohen
previously had been announced as
members OF the committee. Gen.
Grant had been named chairman.
'We are very happy Mr.. Fay has
consented to have his name added"
Mr.. Kohen said today. "This COM
mittee has the responsibility of rul-
ing on any protests which may arise
during running of the big coaster
race in July. I am sure all entrants
will agree they will be guaranteed
a fair hearing by a committee of
such impressive membership"
Mr.. Kohen went on to explain a
basic principle of the Derby is a
fair chance for every boy taking
part. Rarely has a protest occurred,
he said, but the Grievance Commit
tee always has been considered an
part of the Derby or
ganization
Additional Derby entrants In
clude:
John Chopper, Ia, 4702 Ritten-
house street, Riverdale; Charles E.
Norris, Is, 4709 Rittenhouse street,
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Mon Sets Bock $1,000
Left in Auto He Sold

| ~ The Asso<iotsd Press
cHILLICOTHE. Mo. Six days
after Omer Skinner bought 4 second
hand car Ia Kansas City, the sales-
man dashed Ia and asked to see the
machine.
Z BE opened the trunk compart-
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Foy Joins Grievance Committee
OfWoshington Soap Box Derby
Soap Box Derby Guide

The washington Soap Box
Derby is q coaster car race for
boys sponsored by The Star and
the District Department Of the
American Legion. Boys II to
Is, inclusive, and those reaching
their 18th or 10Th birthdays in
the period from June ] to
August II, inclusive, are eligible.
Ofiicial rule books are issued
on registration with a Chevro-
let dealer in the Washington
area. Entry blanks must be
signed by a parent or guardian.
The coaster cars must be boy
built at a cost of not more than
s6 in addition to the amount
spent for wheels and axles.
Precision wheel bearings are
prohibited, but ordinary ball
bearings are permitted.
These maximum limits are
prescribed: Length, 80 inches;
width, AZ inches; height, in
cluding windshield, 80 inches;
weight of racer, $50 pounds;
combined weight of racer and
driver, $50 pounds.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Annual Meeting is Slated
By CosmopoIitun Clubs

Delegates of the Washington Cos
mopolitan Club will go by boat
Thursday night to Virginia Beach,
Va. for the annual meeting Friday
and Saturday of, the. Capital Dis
trict Federation of Cosmopolitan
Clubs.
Fred j. Rice will represent DR..
Edwin H. Silver, president of the
Washington organization, at the
convention. Other Washington resi-
dents scheduled to attend are Mrs.
Rice, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Haggerty,
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael M. Doyle and
dr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Meehan.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
United World FederaIisis
|1o Present Forum Friday

IA panel discussion. entitled aWhat
ICan United World Federalists Do
to Help Prevent World War III"
viii be held at the Phillips Memorial
Gallery, 1900 TWenty-frst street
NV, at $50 pm. Friday.
Participants will include Mark
Van Doren, Thomas x. Finletter,
Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Norman
Cousins, A. j. G. Priest and Samuel
lowering, according to Mrs. Ray
mond Clapper, chairman OF the local
chapter of United World Federalists.
Raymond Swing, vice chairman. will
Ipreside.
The speakers will be in Washing
lton for meeting Of the National
Evening star., 1947-05-12

soon increase their purchasing IS 8
result Of the decline Ia prices ii
the past month.
A fair amount of print cloths,
sheetings and toboccn cloth were
sold Tor immediate and third quar-
ter delivery. Prices were mixed
with the SAL inch 64x60. 5.35 yard
number, selling III . range Of io1x
cents to 23 certs yard Tor nearby
delivery.
In the wool market worsteds were
firm. Demand for other Ncolens Was
slow. and some mills closed for lack
OF orders.
In rayon goods, interest IN the
Evening star., 1947-05-12
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Evening star., 1947-05-12

tor Charles ko-
hen announced
today.
Maj. Gen. u.
s. Grant III, re-
tired, chairman
of the National
Capital P ark
a n d Planning
Co m m / 81 on;
Federal Secur-
ity Adnninistia-
tor Watson B.
Miller and Maj.
Gen. Amos A.
Fri S, retired,
former chief of
the ARMY Chem
Evening star., 1947-05-12

Riverdale; Harry NJ. Hart, II. 42Ci
Sheridan street, University Park;
Jimmy ETnlich, 13, $500 PineWay
street, Hyattsville, and Burke L
Wilson, IA, 1881 Hamlin street NE
Read The Star for Derby ne,ps.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Snlothers Pain
corns Shed Off

Apply Masic-like E-z KoRN REMOVER
to the hardest corns and after q few
applications, these painful corns shed
OF. E-z Korn Remover helps relieve
corn pains-softens dead skin. paving
the way for the removal Of the corn.
Try this easy-to-use. ouick-action. E-z
KoRN REMOVER today, 35c at drug
stores.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
U. S. Attorney Fourth
Member Of Group
Headed by Gront

United States Attorney George
Morris Fay has agreed to serve on
the Washington Soap Box Derby
Grievance Committee, Derby Direc-
Evening star., 1947-05-12

ment, reached behind the cardboard
lining and drew out billfold from
the hiding place. 81
After counting Its contents, 1900
ia currency, he explained:
..Tnat was my bank. I forgot and
left the money ID the car 3
Evening star., 1947-05-12

popular type onstr1lctions impE0ved.
There WAS 40 change n process by1
mills despite the slow pace 1t Whicll1
slippAers of finished goods were able
to dispose 81 their goods.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Buying Inquiry Improves
In Cotton Textile Trade
~ ihs Associat.d Press

NEW YORK, May IA better.
buying inquiry developed in the cot
ton textile market during the last
week although overall sales remained
small.
Some mercants believe buyers will
Evening star., 1947-05-12

Council of United World Federalists
|at the organixation's local head
quarters. ITO 7 street NV Satilr-
day.
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-30

/ Va. Before coming home he visited
his former captain, Willis Conklir
of New York, with whom he served
while living in castle in Germany
Paul A. Mogan left Wednesday
morning for Galena, Kans., where
he will become an apprentice in meat
cutting at a market operated by
one of his relatives.
Writing April 21 from Garden
Grove, Calf, A. L. Trace, a former
Laurel resident, says Southern Cal
ifornia experienced a wonderful
winter" but at the time he wrote the
country needed rain. He sometimes
meets Mrs. c. D. Camp and Barney
Roach, also former residents of
Laurel.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Bosch and
family left Saturday for Richardton,
n. D., to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-30

Jack Foster, 62, mother of Mrs
Bosch. The funeral for Mrs. Foster
who died suddenly, was conducted
Monday. Mr.. and Mrs. Bosch will
return home in about a week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Lamb,
former Laurel residents who have
resided for a number of years in
Phoenix, Ariz., arrived Sunday and
are visiting this week with Mr..
Lambs parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. F.
Lamb. They are accompanied by
Mrs. Lambs mother, Mrs. Sullivan.
The group will spend several days
with relatives in Roundup. They
plan to visit relatives and friends
in Livingston, Butte, Helena and
number of points in the state before
returning to their home the latter
part of May.
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-30
Around

Delbert w. King, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Delbert King, Sr., arrived here
Saturday after receiving his dis
charge from the army. He was in
the service more than four years.
His overseas duty was in the Euro
Pean theater Of operations. Lately he
had been stationed at Fort Eustis,
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-30
Read outlook Want-Ads .
FOI. Want OF "A Nail

ST. Louis, and Chevrolet bodies
continued to move out of the
plants.
Hoods have been flown from
Flint to Kansas City; tenders
from St. Louis to California.
These daily air-cargo shipments
are part of the vast Chevrolet
plan to move parts, the minute
they are available, into plants
where shortages exist, move
them there fast, so that those
plants can keep operating.
Another ingenious step taken
to help beat the materials short
ages was at Chevrolet foundry
in Saginaw. Pig iron was low,
a scheduled shipment had not
arrived, and a shutdown SEEM
ed certain. Then someone sug-
gested exploring the river bot
tom with an electromagnetic near
the docks where pig iron had
been unloaded for many years.
Seventy tons of iron were
brought up, enough to keep the
plant running until the late
shipment arrived.
Chevrolet wants you to re-
ceive delivery of your new
Chevrolet complete. The men
who build your cars refuse to
relax Chevrolet's high stand
ards by allowing cars to come
off the assembly line without
bumpers or seats-and of course
cars can't be built at all unless
materials are available to pro-
duce vital parts. Chevrolet of
ten has to hold up production
entirely because some tiny part
cannot be obtained.
Even so, you can see that Chew
rolet is doing everything pos
sible to speed delivery of the
new Chevrolet for which you
have waited so patiently.
If you have had to wait, it is
because Chevrolet, too, has had
to wait all for want, per-
haps, of a nail.
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-30

Nearly two hundred years ago
Benjamin Franklin wrote the
famous lines about how a king
dom was lost because a
battle was lost because a
rider was lost because his
horse was lost because a
shoe was lost and all for
want of a nail.
We keep thinking of those
lines whenever we're asked
what's holding up production
of the new Chevrolet cars. You
see, it requires more than 5000
parts to build an automobile,
and if a shortage of material
prevents production of just one
of these parts, then production
of the entire car is halted.
For want of nail? Yes, it's
almost literally that. Of the
5000 parts in a Chevrolet,
about $500 of these are nuts
and bolts alone. The production
men at Chevrolet tell us that
nuts and bolts are hard to OBJ
tain just now, and are shipped
by special planes to assembly
plants all over the country
whenever a source for these
vital parts is found.
At ten o'clock one morning it
was learned that Fisher Body
plants at Kansas City and ST.
Louis would be forced to shut
down the following morning if
a supply of window channels
was not available by seven a.
m. These parts were at plant
in Amesbury, Massachusetts,,
and none of the passenger air.
liners had doors big enough to
admit the long channels.
Arrangements were finally
made for a CAT cargo plane to
fly from Chicago to Boston to
pick up the channels trucked
there from Amesbury. The
5000 pounds of channels were
then flown to Kansas City and
Evening star., 1947-11-23
WoIfe's Place
Literature
THOMAS WOLFE

BY Herbert ]. Miller. (NeD Di-
rections; $2J
Mr.. Muller has written a pene-
trating appraisal of a novelist whose
place In literature has been de-
bated hotly and left in uncertainty.
This controversy undoubtedly is due
in part to the confused power and
disorganized originality of Thomas
Wolfe's novels, in part to his early
death, with the work of his maturity
presumably unrealized.
Mr.. Muller is aware Of Mr.. Wolfe's
failures of expression, of the dis
parity between the words he was
able to put down and the grandeur
of his dream. Yet this critic be-
lieves that the young novelist was
more successful in bridging the gap
between himself and the world about
him than most typically American
writer's, from Whitman to Sherwood
Anderson" Mr.. Muller also states
"Wolfe towers above most of his
contemporaries because he was SC
deeply rooted to his native soil
and native tradition" Concedine
that Wolfe was mo Homer" Mr.
Muller adds that he should say
Wolfe was our closest approach tc
Homer. His life work as
close as we can expect to come te
an American epic"
Readers of Wolfe need not agree
with these assertions to find Mr.
Muller's book an interesting anc
stimulating account of the man ano
his work. Mr.. Muller. a teacher o1
English at Purdue University, il
author Of numerous critical studies
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Crime and Mystery
By Miriam Ottehberq

THE BLANK WALL
BY Elisabeth Sanxay Holding.
(Sin1on G. Schuster, Inc; $780,
Lucia Holley was just not-too-
efficient housewife who wrote long
dull letters to her husband overseas
when murder and blackmail came
suddenly and shatteringly into her
life. She found herself moving a
body, consorting with blackmailer,
defending herself against her chill
dren's suspicious of unfaithfulness
and generally acting like anything
but an almost middle -aged wife and
mother.
The unsympathetic bystander
might consider that Lucia brought
all her troubles on herself when
she arbitrarily forbade her daughter
to see a n-about-town, when she
failed to tell the police the whole
story of the mans death and when
she neglected to conf1de in daugh-
ter who was obviously a much
stronger character than she was
But then, q well-sheltered matron
Is bound to find murder discon-
certtng.
Evening star., 1947-11-23

true to their own people or so COM
pletely devoted to common cause
Mr.. Winant made no pretense of
disclosing any sensational secrets.
His book serves more to put in what
he considered the proper per-
spective things already generally
known about the happenings of
1941 than to add greatly to such
knowledge. It's greatest interest is
In the intimate detail with which
it fills in the high spots of history.
Summary for Peace.
The book ends with Pearl Harbor.
Any idea Mr.. Winant may have
had of carrying forward his story
In other volumes ended with his
death. He had retired as Ambas-
sador to Britain only last Decem-
Der, and should have had much to
tell of Allied relationships in the
years that brought victory and the
birth of the United Nations.
In this book he summed up his
ideas of the war and struggle for
peace with these words:
"War with us was only a means
to an end. We engaged in it to
maintain our way of life. 1t was a
defensive war. In the hearts of men
there was a deep desire for world
peace which called for world CO.
operation.
while explaining the art of war
and pointing out the sacrifices made
in war, I do not accept the inevita-
bility of war.
But I do believe that if civiliza-
ton Is to advance to serve the
ultimate good of mankind we must
find ways and means OF transfer.
ring the willingness to sacrifice on
the battlefields to the peace front" :"
Evening star., 1947-11-23

past to match for sheer color the
annual rendezvous of the fur trade
In the mountain valleys.
There was no craft and no skill
at which the mountain men did not
come to excel the Indians, Mr..
De Voto says. Among the numerous
company who ride through Mr..
De Voto's narrative are Jim Bridger,
Tom Fitzpatrick, Joe Meek, Black
Harris, Andrew Drips, Jim Beck
wourth, who became a Crow war
chief, and Joe Walker.
It Is also a vivid pageant that
flowed up and down the Missouri
or took the trail that followed the
North Platte and the Sweetwater
into the mountains. There were the
leaders of the trade, their engages,
an occasional Indian. There was
Macmillan, Prince Of Wied-Neu-
wied, making scientific journey to
the Indian country. There was Capt.
William Drummond Stewart, n
Scotsman who became the seventh
baronet of Grandtully.
MaXimilan took with him the
Swiss artist, Charles Bodmer. Stew
art, who spent several years in the
mountains, brought with him on one
trip Alfred Jacob Miller Of Balti-
more, who painted pictures of the
West for Stewards Scottish castle.
Pictures by the two artists and by
George Catlin are reproduced in
large number of Mr.. De Voto's book
and add immeasurably to It's in
| terest.
Mr.. De Voto's people are q more
compact group than the diverse ex-
petitions Of 1.-The Year of Decision" I"
which made that book bit confus-
ing. He gets all the characters and
all the action of this heroic age
into an easily readable and intensely
| !.ak
Evening star., 1947-11-23
OF Postwar Youth
Working Against
Terrific Odds
ABOUT LYDDY THOMAS

ABOUT LYDDY THOMAS
BY Martha Wolff. (Random
House; $500
The least squeamish student OF
the seamy side of life, Martha Wolff
still provides a gaudy patch Of color
in current realistic fiction. thanks
to her persuasion that the low
income brackets are not necessarily
low-spirited. The brightness IN the
lives Of her factory workers may
come from an unshaded electric
bulb, and their mutual aid and COM
fort be rendered in the most halting
and uneloquent speech (Miss Wolff
being a great one for the literal
transcript, with every "sorta" in
cluded), but still it is enough to make
them living. protesting, hopeful
human being instead of surly VIC
tins of circumstance.
About Lyddy Thomas" her third
novel since she astounded the read
ing world at % with whistle Stop
has all the raw vitality of it's prede-
cessors and a good deal more form.
It begins violently exciting story OF
pursuit, with Lyddy Thomas, be-
wildered, conscience-stricken young
wife in full flight from her husband
Ben, a psychoneurotic veteran who
has threatened to kill her after
building up in his mind conviction
that she has been indiscriminately
to him during his absence.
When Lyddy takes refuge with a
factory friends tumbledown tene-
ment known as Gogarty Hall, the
book broadens out to consider the
rough times of other young couples
who are trying to pick up the pieces
Of their war-broken lives.
Against the steady beat Of swing
music, they struggle with their
shared troubles which are resolved
by final explosion Of melodrama.
No detail, however sordid. is over
looked by the inclusive and knowl-
edgeable Miss Wolff, whose un.
vanished presentation of the post
war readjustments of a certain seq
ment Of humanity has warmth and
life if little selectivity. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1947-11-23

family could renew themselves, :"
and he preserved the fortlike exte-
rior which made it a landmark in
the countryside. But he wasn't so
far gone in ancestor worship that
he didn't get his wife dish-washing
machine for her kitchen. This in
novation prompted an inspecting
neighbor to hold forth on the i'm
portance Of keeping the housewife
in the home, dissertation climaxed
by the pronouncement that "a wom-
an who likes going better than stay
Ing is better off gone"
John Gould gives the lie to Yam
kee "closeness" in sharing lavishly
with his readers bits of down-east
country wisdom. He tells of the
tradition of the stub-tailed cat in
the farmhouse-a long-tailed one
takes too long going through the
door (Which opens in, of course)
and every minute counts in the
Maine winter. He demolishes for
ever the myth of the pleasures of
"dashing through the snow" with
recollection of sleigh rides that are
evidently frozen in his mind
AS each new room in the new
house takes shape, John Gould re-
members its counterpart in the old.
Some of his proudest memories are
clustered in the little-used front
parlor, where his grandfather, who
started the Battle of Gettysburg,
was married on his return from the
Civil War and held reunions of his
old 18th Maine Regiment. He tells
a story about one of these gather
ings that is one Of the most affect
ing things you have ever read and
should permanently cure any no.
tions that Maine hearts are as rock
ribbed as its coast. Two stories il
lustrate Yankee probity: One about
man who drove a sick neighbor's
span of oxen to beat his own at
the Topsham Fair: the other about
a deaf mute who walked 3 miles
through the snow to give back
change on special Christmas sal
ary of dollar for one days wood
chopping. His rate was rs cents
every day in the year.
While he gives much food for
thought, John Gould also dwells
lovingly, even little unfairly, on
more solid fare, and he reconstructs
the epic strawberry shortcakes and
pumpkin pies baked by the women
of the Gould household since time
was. These chapters give special
flavor to book, which as record
of bountifui, industrious and self
reliant life, with its roots deep in a
good tradition is pure pleasure to
read, especially at a time when SO
much nonsense about the decline
Of the Yankee spirit is being ped
died around and so many amateur
rustics are sourly returning to the
city. John Gould is as good a writer
about the country as E. B. White
His neighbors should be proud of
him,
Evening star., 1947-11-23


"thin faced, gaunt, eyes sweeping
the land, Hawken rife unslung and
held across the saddle" Because 1t
affected their lives, he is no less
interested In the rivalry between the
American Fur Co. and its opposition,
the Rocky Mountain Fur Co.
The bankers and suppliers made
the money-the Chouteaus, Robert
Campbell and others in st. Louis,
Astor in New York.
The fight In the 1830s between
the American Fur Co.. with It's sys-
ITEM of forts and fixed trading places,
and the Rocky Mountain Co., which
sent It's brigades into the mountains
was waged with prices, whisky and
Indians. When it was over. the
Rocky Mountain Co. was destroyed
the American Fur Co. lost out west
of the mountains to the Hudson's
Bay Co., the streams were becoming
trapped out and, perhaps the factor
Of greatest Importance, gentlemen
in London had taken to wearing the
new silk hats.
| There is nothing in our country's
Evening star., 1947-11-23

more about everything implicit in
the questions which they constantly
ask.
The Chicken With the Crooked
Eyes" explains how chick with this
handicap overcame 1t. Suzie Chic,
the one whose cross eyes eventually
Strengthened, explains at the end
Nothing can be crooked if we think
straight"
Marc Brody has illustrated this
handsome book with black-and-
white sketches. This is another in
novation. The children are sup
posed to color the drawings with
their crayons or paints. Story
Book House has headquarters In
Philadelphia.
Mr.. Acher was born in Washing
ton and attended high school here.
He later took courses at the Acad-
emy of Allied Arts in New York. He
has had wide experience in thea
trical and radio work He has writ
ten and directed stage productions
and radio programs. He has been
an assistant director OF popular
programs on CHS for three years.
&C, B. j,
Evening star., 1947-11-23

sador to Great Britain-the year
before Pearl Harbor. The book was
published little more than fort
night after Mr.. Winant shot him.
self to death at his home in Con-
cord, N. H.
1t reflects something of the dis
couragement that must have driven
the author to suicide, but is in no
sense suicide note"
"One Of the deeper reasons" for
his writing the book, he stated at
the beginning, "is the growing dis
of today, which not
only dims and obscures the present,
but is trying to cloud the past"
he hoped to give his
readers some encouragement by
telling about the simple virtues
"the courage and the kindliness,
the common sense and the bits of
humor and the faith that I found
In men and wonderland the part
they played in the war as he saw it.
THE heart would fail many
times" he wrote. were it not that
out of the worst that mankind can
do the spirit of sacrifice somehow
never dies, and the persistent.
dogged courage of. the human race
continues to rise above its crimes,
and follies."
Lauds Churchill, Roosevelt.
He eulogizes the wartime leader
ship of Winston Churchill and the
late President Roosevelt. OF them
he wrote: Both had an uncon-
querable courage - the President
kindly and determined-the Prime
Minister forceful and magnan-
imous. I do not believe in the an
mails Of history that the leaders Of
two great nationsS were ever more