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Evening star., 1947-09-14
Reviewing The New Books
Right This Way, Folks, for Story of Gus,
Hiqh-Ridinq Circus Man, LikeobIe Heel
BY Thomas w. Duncan. (Lippincott; $780,
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
GUS THE GREAT

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rack rising He becomes cub reporter
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Evening star., 1947-09-14

Mr.. Reddig cannot be accused of
bias or inaccuracy.
For the most part this book lets
the available record relate the rise
and fall of Tom Pendergast ct al.
and it lets the story of the city tell
itself.
And what a story. The origins
of the Pendergast organization
wnen Jim Pendergast moved to
Kansas City in 1870 :. the arrival
of his brothers, John, Mike and
Tom the wars of the Goats"
and the Rabbits" in the Demo-
cratic factional struggle in Jack
son County the glasshouse
Republicans who couldn't always
afford to throw stones the
voice of the Kansas City Star -.
Senator Jim Reed VS.. Frank P.
Walsh Harry S. Truman, the
man who never was asked by Tom
Pendergast to do a dishonest deed
because he knew I would not do it
if he asked it,"
The late Tom Pendergast, as this
book brings out, started to slip long
before he landed in LeavenWorth
on conviction on Federal income tax
evasion. There were many causes
besides a huge insurance law pay
off and Pendergast's reported loss
of $6,000,0O0 on horse racing bets.
Toms Town" gives due propor-
ton to the qualities, good and bad,
that made Pendergast a political
master. and to the weaknesses or
wickedness that ruined him and
wrecked the machine. The book
remains essentially the drama OF
an American city and a problem
play of American government.
The city's dramatic fight for poll
tical honesty and efficient admins
tration has not yet ended. This
book does not, and probably couldn't,
show how to solve the broader prob
lem of drawing the proper line
between "boss" and leader, and be-
tween machine" and organization
in politics.
Evening star., 1947-09-14

Reviewed by BE,
AS the first account of the war
written by a high ranking British
officer, this personal record of Field
Marshal Montgomerys chief of staff
is a welcome addition to the rapidly
growing list of books by the top
commanders of World War II and
their immediate associates.
It is not a sensational volume.
Gen. de Guingand believes in praise
when it is deserved and silence when
it is not. AS might be expected,
he is an ardent defender Of Mont
gomery, but he does not gloss over
personality traits which made
Montgomery at times a problem to
his superiors.
After a sketch of the militarlly
hopeless, politically motivated Brit
ish campaign in Greece, Gen. de
Guingand tells the story OF the
brilliant comeback campaign OF the
9th Army under Montgomery across
North Africa from FL Alamein to
beyond the Mareth Line. That
great drive across the desert made
Montgomery Britain's outstanding
Evening star., 1947-09-14

peculiarities and shortcomings as
well as the virtues of the proposed
partner, the value of premarital
counseling and the necessity of
viewing marriage in an adult way
He would like to see the completion
of a course in premarital coun-
selling required before the issuance
of marriage license-a sound bit of
advice. Another significant view-
point is expressed in his discussion
of differences in religion as factor
in marital difficulties.
He looks on divorce, of course, as
last resort, to be employed after
all attempts to preserve the mar
riage have failed. He urges that in
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Here Is Innocence
Guilty. Forsoken
WHITE CROCUS
BY Peter Packer (Whittlesey
House., $2.75.)
N6VlEWtu Uy
JOSEPH A. FOX.
Reviewed by
ZANNE BINGHAM.

Intrigued by the title of this book,
we did little research to determine
whether or not white crocus might
be symbolic of the story. Classical
legend left us still puzzled as to any
direct connection between a white
crocus and Daisy Thorne, the little
girl about whom the book is writ
ten. So we asked the author. His
reply: White crocus is Daisy's un-
conscious symbol of the innocence
she has guiltily forsaken."
A little girl with a sensitive
imagination and natural curiosity,
Daisy requires attention which she
does not receive. She had concen-
trated her hopes for normal living
on her fathers return from war
But when her father discovers that
her mother has fallen upon evil
ways, the family separates, leaving
Daisy with little hope for future
security.
Aggrieved at the repeated absence
of her father. she persecutes him
by writing him anonymous letters.
These letters are torments to his
mind and in time involve other
people rather disastrously.
Peter Packer has written en-
phatically of what may happen to
a child who has nothing but in
security and loneliness to occupy his
existence; but there is the feeling
that through overstatement he has
almost failed to make his point.
One suspects that Daisy might be
one of those persons who couldn't
be understood anyway, except in the
realm of psychiatry; that she might
have been a brat" even if her
parents had led normal, uneventful
lives, devoting their attention to her
interests.
Despite possible exaggeration, how
ever, Mr.. Packer has expressed a
sympathetic understanding of just
how seriously children regard this
business of living.
Evening star., 1947-09-14

all cases where
divorce proceed
i n gs are ini-
tiated, counselors
representing the
parties respec-
tive churches
should be utilized
in an attempt to
bring about un-
derstanding and
reconciliation.
The volume is
compact, sound,
and based on
experience and
reflection. 1t can
he recommended
Evening star., 1947-09-14

MONT FAIRIES.
field commander Sicily followed
and 9Th Army was we'll up the Ital-
ian boot when Montgomery was
called home to help plan the in
vasion of France as Gen. Eisen-
mowers land force commander.
Gen. de Guingand defends Mont
gomery's handling of the Normandy
campaign, but comedies that EiSen-
hover was right in overruling Mont
gomery's plan for single thrust
into Germany north of the Ruhr.
Unlike some of his compatriotS,
Gen. de Guingand had a full ap-
probation of the American fighting
man and of the American COM
manderS. He saw the danger in the
British press buildup of Montgom-
cry at the expense of Gen. Brad
ley after the Ardennes breakthrough
and did his best to counteract 1t be-
fore Anglo-American cooperation
could be seriously impaired.
No controversies will be settled by
it, but Gen. de Guingand's story
is valuable as an honest and OBJ
jective presentation of the British
point of view.
Evening star., 1947-09-14

that, In his ef-
fort to be read
able, he occa-
sionally seems
too fippant on
serious matters.
Yet, in noting
how well-mean-
ing reformers
often came a.
cropper on the
high hurdles of
practical politics
and how alleged
IN O n partisans'
were not above
linking hands
with Pendergast
Evening star., 1947-09-14
President Truman S
Ten Years on
Capitol Hill

a FULL 1CAL okOJtA114
BY William P. Helm. (DueH,
Sloan & Pearce, Inc; S3.)
Reviewed by
JOSEPH A. FOX.
This is largely an account Of Pres
ident Truman's 10 years on Capitol
Hill as a member of the Senate from
Missouri.
The writer, former Washington
correspondent for the old Kansas
City Journal-Post, takes credit for
encouraging the then little-known
Middle Western legislator to launch
the full-scale war effort investiga-
ton that budded into the Truman
Committee" and landed the chair
man in the White House.
Beyond the interesting details OF
Mr.. Truman's fight for reelection to
the Senate in 1910. when he beat
United States District Attorney
Maurice Milligan and Gov. Lloyd
G. Stark-a White House favorite-
by a primary plurality of only $500
votes, there is little in this biography
with which the reading public has
not become reasonably familiar since
Mr.. Truman assumed the presi-
0ency
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Epic of Pendergost Era in Kansas City
Eye-Opening Study of Boss Politics
am M. Reddig. IT, B. Lippincott Co.; $4J
Reviewed by ROBERT X. WALSH

the Pendergs political rule packs one-two
spo the tale OF tortured
broke laws and opponents
promises
farther than modern
elements
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Reviewed by
CONSTANCE BRINKMAN


CONSTANCE BRINKMAN
Capt. Evan Starr, stranded on a
remote New Mexican Army base
during World War II, finds himself
infatuated with his best friends
wife and haunted by the memory
of his former fancee. whom she re-
sembles-although all the time he
is really in love with Conners Rear
don, his commanding officers
daughter. Almost all the men at
the base, in fact, are in love with
Conners, but none of them under
stands her except Evan, she COM
plains, and he doesn't realize that
he does. The rest of the characters
in the book are similarly lovelorn
and worse. they are tiresomely ad-
dicted to discussing in cosmic terms
the meaning of life as revealed to
them by their romantic misadven-
lures.
Evening star., 1947-09-14
In the Last Days
OF Old EngIond's
Sailing Ships
MORNING LIGHT
Bv H. M. Tomlinson. (Mdcntl-
lnn,; $3)
Reviewed by
Reviewed DV
J, N. HAMILTON.

Ian, $3J
Reviewed by
J, N. HAMILTON.
The advent of the smoke-belching
steamship onto the clean, wind
swept horizon of white sails provides
the stirring background for Mr..
Tomlinson's latest novel OF the sea,
And it is while writing of the last
DAYS of the old sailing ships of Eng
land that the author lapses into his
best prose. The battling of Eng
lands aristocratic die-hards and the
hopeful struggle of the young IN a
nation plunging through rebirth
and into war are handled in dex-
ferrous manner by Mr.. Tomlinson,
for they weave with purpose into a
tapestry background for youthful
Dave Gays adventures.
MI. Tomlinson. born of the Lon
don dock area, knows we'll the life
of sails and sailors he uses for pat
tern in his novels, and the life OF
young Dave Gay might well have
been taken from parts of his own.
The chapters devoted to Dawes life
aboard ship lend credence to this,
for the novel definitely takes on a
more vigorous pace here. There
also are some quite moving passages
on early immigration to America
which depict the hardships many
of those fleeing economic strife in
England underwent. Here again it
is when Mr.. Tomlinson is writing of
the sea he loves that he becomes
quite eloquent, picturesque and in
tense.
CEYLUN, by Margaret Rebecca
Lay (Rinehart & Coz. A romance
involving families along a river in
Georgia.
DIALS AND FLIGHT, by Assem-
Jordanoff Harper & Bros0. An au-
thority gives an up-to-the-minute
explanation of aviation instruments.
WHAT PRICE CIVILIZATION,
by Charles Eliot Perkins Modern
Science Press. The causes, preven-
ton and cure of cancer, in the light
of present scientific knowledge.
THE UNITED NATIONS, by Louis
Dolivet. Farrar, Straus) A hand
book on the structure and function
ing of the new world organization.
Evening star., 1947-09-14

especially to those contemplating
marriage and to those who fear they
are seeing breakers ahead on the
ocean of matrimony.
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Public Library
By M. Claire Rupert
World Affairs Room, Washington
Public Library.

In view of the convention OF dele
gates from nation members of the
United Nations Assembly beginning
September Is, it is fitting that world
wide attention be focused on the sig
nificance of this organization.
The Public Library and its
branches offers material which will
convince the student and the gen.
eral reader of the necessity OF sup
port for this great enterprise by the
individual citizen.
The understanding of the me-
chanics of its operations are vital to
this bolstering-up, however, as the
hanobocks. The United Nations"
by Louis Dolivet, and "One World in
the Making by w. G. Carr, so ably
indicate. The United Nations Sc
ries" of pamphlets issued BY the
United States Department of State
also capture the spirit Of what this
instrument is doing and proposing
to do for peace and human welfare.
Evening star., 1947-09-14

AS GOOD AS DEAD, by Thomas
B. Dewey. Jefferson House). Beau
tiful lady returns to girlhocd home
with the usual attending excite
ment.
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Monty's Chief of Staff Joins the Fray
With SkiIfuI Defense of British Leader

OPERATION VICTORY BY Maj Sir Francis de Guigand
(Scribners; $780,
Reviewed by BELMONT FAIRIES.
Evening star., 1947-09-14

THE FIRE OF THE LORD. by
Norman Nicholson. (Dutton) Tale
of emotional complications in an
English village. The bake shop pro-
prietress and the village constable.
Serious
Evening star., 1947-09-14

JUuye OUUHSeTS DTVU7CE uS EUSl KESUTI
Even for Marriages Not Made in Heaven
MARRIAGE ON TRIAL
Judge John Sbarbaro saonsta
macmillan Co.; s2J
Reviewed by DR. WINFRED ovERHoLsER
Superintendent Of ST. EHsabeths
Quarterly RepeD OF Psychaty and Neuroogy
The author Chicago experience
In hearing divorce He has thus
of
volume he presents in simple language his
be made successful.
courtshp learning
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Mirage of Love
In the Desert

NO CERTAIN ANSWER
By Audrey Toulin Carney. (Hdr-
per Eros; S2.75J
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Engaging Novel
in
Britain of 1910

RIDE EAST! RIDE WEST!
BY Anne Powers. (BobbS-MerriU,
$2.75J
Evening star., 1947-09-14

The Sunday Star has arranged Dith some OF
the leading booksellers of washington and
suburban areas to report each Deek the BOOKS
Which sell best as guide to Dhat Washington
is reading title must be named by at least
four stores to appear on this chart.
This report is for the week ending Sept. IL
Evening star., 1947-09-14

STEVENS THOMSON MASON;
misunderstood PATRIOT
BY Kent Sagendorph. (E. P. Dut
ton & Co.. S4.75.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

Charging the Communist Party with "brazen eftronteryg in eff forts to sabotage the effect of Free dom Train, Lafayette A Lewis, Los Angeles attorney and Grand Ex- alted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in state ment to Victor Power, Exalted Ruler of Juneau Lodge No, 420 has de- clared. The Elks eagerly accept this Communistic challenge" He has directed the l475 local lodges with more than 100000 members to ''redouble our efforts i'll support oi this Train and it's sacred documents in every city where there is ar Elks lodge"
 At the recent national conven- ton in Portland. Ore. the ordei emphatically and enthusiastically endorsed the American Heritage Freedom Train. "Our order i'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

composed of men in every walk of life, every party every creed, rich and poor, said MT Lewis But we are all one hundred percent Americans. We say unequivocably that there is no place for Commun- ists in our order-no place for Communists in the United States. We believe in our constitutional form of goyernment-a government neither to the right nor to the left, but straight down the middle of the road. We pledge our entire effort to prevent these saboteurs from defiling the clear stream ot American life.
 The braZen effrontery of the educational department of the Com munist Party through it's memo on the Freedom Train, dated August 20, i947. cannot remain unchalleng-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

dustrial centers in Canada and the United States was urged because of recent international develop ments greatly increasing necessity fer such development"
 Support was pledged for early construction of a four lane high way from Oregon to the Canadian border, a security highway west of the Rockies through British Co., lumbia and the Yukon Territory to connect with the Alaska Highway at Whitehorse, and a railroad
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

ed. The purpose of that foreign directed group is to sabotage the great object of the Freedom Train and to make it appear that the only supporters of the American constitutional form of government are it's big business packers.
 "As Americans and Elks we re- dedicate our resources to the ful- fillment of the noble purpose of this Freedom Train carrying with it thoughout America the sacred documents which secured and quar- anteed our freedom and American heritage"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02
MARRIED TO-DAY

Don L. Mack and Ruth K. Mack, both of Juneau, were married early this morning by U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray at his home in Douglas. Witnesses were G. H. Hanna and E. H. Cashen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02
ARRESTS INCREASE

City Police are continuing their traffic safely campaign. Four more persons received tickets yesterday for parking automobiles on the wrong side of the street.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02
NORTHWEST NEEDS MORE AND BETTER
 TRANSPORTATION
Northwest Trade Group Asks for Better Arctic
 Transportation

SPOKANE, Dec. 2-iR-Resolu- tions adopted by the Pacific North west Trade Association as it closed it's meeting at noon today included one calling for development of transportation facilities from the Boring Sea and Arctic rcrts t. in-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02
FORFEITS BAIL

Vernon Horton forfeited S25 bali at Police Headquarters this morn ing on drunk charge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

About 10 percent of the U. S.. population was more than 50 years old in 1940.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

Penicillin was first isolated as a brown powder in 1940 at Oxford University
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

The Mississippi annually moves to the Gulf of Mexico about 600 million tons of material.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02
SKAGWAY VISITORS

MT. and Mrs. c. J. Roehr of Skagway are staying at the Cas- tineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02
FROM FORT RICHARDSON

N o. Thompson of Fort Rich ardson is stopping at the Gastin- eau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02
FROM KAKE

MT. and Mrs. Raymond Bell of Rake are staying at the Hotel Ju- neau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

Tagalog is the basis of the na- tional language of the Philippine Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02
HERE FROM NOME

Howard Lyng Of Nee is regis tered at the Gastineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

The output of the U. s. food manufacturing industry has quad II Ipled since 1899
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

through British Columbia and Yu- kon Territory to Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

Total compensation of U. s. employees more than doubled be- tween 1940 and 1944, representing increases in wage rates, more hours worked and more workers.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-02

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Evening star., 1947-12-02

Very new, the Porls-pretty hip interest on this
suit dress with whistIe-s|jck lines, eoId-toned
buttons all the smart detailing thot
makes it Misses fovorite Smooth black royoo
crepe Sizes II to 20.
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Evening star., 1947-12-02

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
Ap SPORTS
 ROUNDUP
By HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.

NEW YORK, June 13.-iR-Whils the name" golfer. of the present are scrapping for tLe open cham pionship at St. Louis, the name golfers of the future are tuning up their shots fer the National Ipter- collegiate Tournament at Ann Arbor, Mich, ten days from now The intercollegiate tourney has helped to produce four national amateur champions, one open champ and two British amateur winners .. There's no telling who'll come out on top of the college heap this year, but you can tab such players as Charles Babe" Lind of Denver, runner-up to Walker Cupper George Hamer last spring; Charles Coe of Okla homa, L. L. Campbell of Princeton, Ed Hopkins and Hugh Dahlberg of Texas. Ed Schalon of Michigan, Bob Rosburg of Stanford, Lou Staf- ford of Oregon and Joe Moore and Jimmie Wittenberg of Louisiana State are golfers who'll be heard from in the not-too-d distant future.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
OPEN GOLF TITLE
 TOURNEY STARTED

ST. LOUIS, MO, pune 13.-iR- Three players shared the leadership with four -under-par CTS in yester- days opening 18-hole thrust of the 72-hcn National Open Golf Cham pionship at the St. Louis Country Club
 Today's 18-hole test will trim an original field of more than 160 pro fessionals and amateurs to GO cdd battlers for tomorrow's concluding 36-hole scramble.
 Two Texas products, Harry Todd of Dallas and Henry Ransom. Hous- tons gift to Chicago's Northmoor Club, and long driving Chick liar bert of Worthwhile, Mich, were the pace setting trio.
 A stroke behind the pace-setting three-som was Bobby Locke, whose South African national flag was run up on the clubhouse pole yesterday as he tackled together 33-35.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
JOE LOUIS 10 GIVE
 BOXING EXHIBITIONS,
 AUSTRALIA, EUROPE

SPOKANE, June 13-tR--Heavy- weight champion Joe Louis intends to swap punches in exhibition box ing matches in Australia and Europe next year.
 This was disclosed today by Fred Sommers, representative for the Brown Bombers current exhibition tour through the West, as Louis rested for his four-round bout to- night with Tiger Jack Fox of Spo- kane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
OLD FRIENDS VISITED

Irl Thatcher, Zellerbach repre- sentative, and Mrs Thatcher left today by plane for their home in Ketchikan, after spending the past few days here on combined busi- ness and pleasure trip.
 Mrs. Thatcher, the former Abbie Arnold of this city, has been en- toying visiting old friends with whom she grew up, and renewing old acquaintances during the week