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Evening star., 1947-04-07
Bratha

sPuRLIN. wTLLIAM i. on sunday
April g. 1871, WILLIAM 49, 4 sPgRLdiE3 gnn-i3,
+. r. spariin. riir. Friends may cail at lis l.t'
residence. 3507 TAYLOR st.. Brentwood, Nd
Funeral on Tuesday, April 8, at ESQ an
Will be offered at s am. for the repose q
his soul Relatives and friends invited
Interment Scranton. Pa. tScranton papers
please COPY
THoRNE, SARA r. Suddenly. on satur:
day. April 5. 19s5. st sSN hsr home; h.iaxea aAea
wife Of Taimadge NJ. Tnorne and mother
OF Charles H. Randall Of Alexandra, Va,
and James Randall Of Hawesyille, KY Re-
1854 NJ ST. NV, where services win be
held on Monday, April Z. at pm In
terment Hawesville, Ky.
ToMrKINs. JAMES r; On sunday
April 8, l947; JAMES !, ToMPklNs. ps- ps
loved husband Of @ Mary 2 Tompk,ns' Mas "a. r..
thur cayiry Davis. Mrs. Eugene Patterson
Warner and Miss Helen Charlotte Tomp-
kins.. He also is survived by Two 2 nrotnss. sI !
| S. II. Hines Co. Funeral Home. e90l i4th
ST. NV Services Wednesday, April =, e.
II am. at st Mary's Episcopaly y snufscn
tGlehe I'd. and 26tn ST., Afnhetcn' We.
UMBsTAETTER. ISABELLA SNYDER
sSy5sE 2s 5assrday nMyBsATaErTER Aps + q $50 sof
st. st. NV, W. widow Of Robert. J. Umbstaettel
and beloved aunt Of coEris e Wells anS nS
6 e1l; aswisrs Esink Z chspsl mss 1850 Pa. ave-
HpriI 8. at : pm Interment congres:
| sionaI Cemetery. Please omit MOWERS
yICKERs, ANNETA SMITH: on Sun;
SaS AgT !, ss5as s4z 14n ANsnIA e nV vile I
eae q MRS. thss haei Nay Patterson. Mrs. yifsiais
Mrs MRS sey%aaDs s.eA iSs
Msesa H.eesrs Da ssrsioss Tasnss tie n HINES CO
esIaI Sesday HSs Apa eoi Il 4Ia nm St ns
Newland Christian Church. Newland, Va,
on wednesday, April o, at pm. 8
WALLACE, HERMAN aRsg AIsy,,.s $; On ! sunday WaY.
LACE Of 5osl MsTas5 ST nW ease
omit flowers.
WATKINS GRACE r. On Friday. April
ter, e5oo5 oskwood lane. Oakland, Nd,
GRACE r w WEn ponsa esoyss Wskns mahfE Edna
Chambers Southeast Funeral Home. 517
pash i ssRsss As'n
Lawrenceville. N. J.
WEIGH. DIR. THOMAS F. On satur-
WEIGH Of 1419 35th st. NV. beloved
SON Of Catherine Weich and the late
Thomas Douslas WEIGH. Funeral from
at 9;s0 an Iish sde sreaSSiiem Sienl mass 2, :. At
NV, at 10 am. Interment Mount Olivet
Cemetery Relatives and friends invited.
Kindly omit flowers.
WHITE, WALLACE. On Thursday April
3, 1947, at Galiinger Hospital, WALLACE
WHITE, devoted father Of Mrs. Ida Banks
and Mrs. Anna Curtis. Also surviving are
many other relatives and friends. Notice
Of funeral later. Arrangements by Dovie
G. Brooks.
WOODLAND, JULIA A. On Sunday,
April 6, 1947. at her residence, 1873 Eye
st. ne, Apt. No. 4, JULIA A. WOODLAND, !,
beloved wife of Joseph w. woodland and
mother Of Hattie Younger. Thelma Casey,
George Woodland, Norman Woodland,
Amelia Brown and Helen M. Woodland
She is also survived by two sisters, Maria
Fields and Cornelia Brown; one brother,
John Howard: seven grandchildren and a
host Of other relatives and friends. Re-
mains restAg at the Robert G. Mason
Funeral Home. Notice Of funeral later.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Fronk L. GIotzboch, IA,
Democratic Leader, Dies
By the Assoeioied Press

CHICAGO, April T. Frank L
Glotzbach, IA, of Anamoose, N. Oak.
chairman of the Democratic State
Committee in North Dakota fol
10 years and former Minnesota
State senator, died yesterday of
heart ailment in suburban Evanston
Mr.. Glotzbach was visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Russell L. Cox, before
going to Washington attend party
meeting on May /. He was elected
to the Minnesota Legislature In 1906
while living in Faribault and served
16 years. He moved to North
Dakota in 1921.
Survivors besides Mrs. Cox are a
son Frank. jr., and another daugh-
ter, Mrs. v. e. Fry, both OF Los
Angeles.
Funeral services will be held here
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Whisky Output Rises
|43 Per Cent in Month
BY the Assoeio.sd Press

Whisky production took 4S per
cent squirt during February with an
output of 21,461 ,881 gallons, COM
pared with 14,974.183 in the same
month OF 1916.
A,'Treasury report which disclosed
this also showed stocks in bonded
warehouses have been built up from
359 9,O00, 900 gallons at the end OF
February, 1916, to 424.000,00 gall
ions this wear.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
r. w. Crenshuw Dies;
Tobacco Auctioneer
BY The Assoeiofed Press

LEXINGTON, KY, April Rob.
ert Warren Crenshaw, 10, retiret
tobacco auctioneer who at one tint
was reported to be the highest paie
auctioneer on loose leaf markets
died here yesterday.
Mr.. Crenshaw spent almost 81
years in the tobacco business, AZ
years as an auctioneer before hi
retired three years ago.
He was a native of Lynchburk. Va
Evening star., 1947-04-07

III. Tompkins. q. s. A. retired, Of
Los Angeles. and Robert K. Tomp-l
|kins, Kershaw, S. O.. and three sis.
tiers, Mrs. Harry T. Dixon Of Char.
lotte, N. q, and Misses Grace and
Dorothy Ton,pkins. both Of Rock
Hill, S. G.
Funeral services have been set
tentatively for Wednesday morning
in Fort Myer Chapel followed by
burial in Arlington Cemetery. The
body is at Hines funeral home, 2901
Fourteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1947-04-07

sell yesterday IN
the Nuremberg
jail, where he
was awaiting
trial on wal
crime charges.
Army officials
said Backe had
+ a S h i o n e d 8
moose from two
handkerchi e f S
which he fast.
ened to a pipe
in his cell. Her
mann Goerine
and three Other
Nazi lie a d e r {
previO11S1v haf
Evening star., 1947-04-07

committed suicide in the same jail.
Backe, who was so years old, was
born in Russia He became acting
food minister in 1912 and was APP
pointed minister by Adolf Hitler In
April, 1914. One of his tasks was
conf1scating food in occupied coun-
tries and shipping it to Germany.
Evening star., 1947-04-07

dbtdGh 01tUud9 y
nj g h t in hi.
Office, 1894 Thir-
ty-fourth street
Mount Rainier
were to be hele
at 4 pm. today
Services were
to be held al
the G old b er {
funeral hom e
42i7 Ninth street
NV, followed
by b urial ir
Ell e S a v e t grae
Cemetery.
DR.. Lavi in e
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Edwurd J. Currol Dies;
Heed of Munger Hotels
By ,he Assoeiosed Press

NEW YORK, April Edward j.
Carol, 5S. president and managing
director of the Manger Hotel group.
died Saturday. The Manger Hotels
are located in New York, Chicago,
Boston, Washington, Rochester, N.
Y, and Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Manger Hotels here are the
Hay-Adams House, Hamilton and
Annapolis Hotels.
Evening star., 1947-04-07

sMILER, JAMES H., JR, We wish to
tor, choir, officials and auxiiiaries Of Zion
Baptist Church; the Guy v. Henry Garri-
son, No. o, Army and Navy Union; U. 9.
Southeast Ciylc Association, Armstrong
Alumni, relatives and friends for their
kindness and remembrance during the
illness and the passing Of our son ano
brother. THE FAMILY. q
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Arnold Goidinq Dies

NEW YORK, April 7tP.--Arnold
II. Golding, president of the Essex
House and Chatham Hotels here
and a director of the Sterling Ma
tional Bank 81 Trust Co. Of New
York, died yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Rites Scheduled Today
For Dr.. |. N. Layine,
Former D. {. Lawyer

Funeral services for DR.. Isador M
Lavine. 42, Mount Rainier general
practitioner and former Washing
ton lawyer, who died of q heart
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Hitler Food Chief Hangs
Self in Nuremberg Jail
BY the Asseeioted Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, April T..
Herbert Backe, German minister
of food and agriculture during the
latter part Of the war, hanged him
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-22

Helen Shaeffer portraying the heroine Other members of the cast were John Quillico, Dorianne Barnes and Harriet Shaeffer The concluding lines of the playlet were lost in the delighted shrieks of the audience when Peter at tempted to kiss Miss Shaeffer a teacher at Juneau High School.
 Finally the long awaited moment arrived, when Mrs Santa Claus was contacted by radio at the North Pole. and it was learned that Santa was on his way, having stopped at Point Barrow.
 At that moment he came jogging down the aisle, jingling his bells, and announced to the kiddies that gifts would be distributed ill the lobby. with the assistance of Boy scout Troop No. g, who had acted as ushers He said he was a little pressed for time. as he had to visit Ketehikan before returning to the North Pole. It's hard to believe, but the jolly old gentleman was really Don Miller
 As the audience passed out of the theatre everyone received a red Santa Claus sucker, provided by the Juneau Womans Club.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-22

ry Valle, Bruce Parker, R. Burke.
 Sitka to Juneau. Elizabeth Mosh- CT, Ruth Moy, C. c. Malice, M Almquist, Miss Hurley, c. McNulty, c. Rusher, Don Foster, Bruce Park CT, Bill Martin, Harry Larson, Henry Valle.
 Juneau to Wrangell Corbitt Shipp, H. J. Floresco, Mrs. V. John son, J. Hayes, Miss Coulter, Harold Dawes.
 Patterson Bay to Juneau: Russell Cotton, Mrs. s. Gotten.
 Hood Bay to Juneau: Clarence Whitman, Dan Kersal, J F Nelson.
 Juneau to Pelican: A. J Raati- kainen.
 Pelican to Juneau: Lief Thorkil- son, John Johnson, Karl Makinen
 Sitka to Cobol: M Sarvela
 Juneau to Hoonah: F. R. Norton, Alfred Horton.r Freida' Greenwald, George Miegeta.
 Hoonah to Juneau Annie Will lard, Norma Savage, A. B. Hicks, Jr.. Peter L. Jones, Mrs. Bessie See.
 Juneau to Petersburg: Bill Aud, Herb Shaub. c Hurd
 Wrangells to Petersburg Tillie Carlstrom.
 Martin Creek to Ketchikan: Carl Nelson.
 Juneau to Ketchikan: ". E.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-22
Big Crowd Attends
 Christmas Program
 Sunday, 2Oih Gent

The 2Oth Century Theatre was filled almost to the ceiling yes terday afternoon with an estimated l0oO children and adults who went to enjoy tine Community Christ was program sponsored by the Juneau Womans Club.
 Although the attention of the youngsters was divided between the stage and the rear entrance throuqh which Santa Claus was momentarly expected. the program went of well
 Del Hanks, master CT ceremonies, introduced the program with few carols sung by the audience, and the Philippine Orchestra, with Dan- nv Constantine, August Lapitan and Frank Panida offered a num- Der of wen-received Island songs They also provided the accompani- ment for two songs presented by Mrs. Florendo, Mrs Isturis, Mrs. Pelayo and Juanita Diaz.
 A pantomime, The Little Match Girl" was then presented, with MT. Hanks as narrator and Mar iorie Malcolm as the heroine. A dancing doll, a trio of little fair ies. and a group of carolers DOT traved bv the Douglas Rainbow Girls. added to the entertainment.
 Several Christmas carols were sung both by the Juneau Mems Chorus and the Juneau Girls Glee Club Dorianne Barnes and Wllda Husted provided the organ accom- paniment.
 A one-act play, Home for Christmas, directed by Richard Peter, was then presented, with Peter playing the male lead and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-22

Ketchikan to Juneau: J. Waddell F. Clayton, F. c Adams, II. E Anderson. Ruth Binka
 Ketchikan to Sitka Samuel Sam uel, Williams. Williams, Burdett Ridley, Innon. Hamilton
 Ketchikan to Hoonah: Sheakley Behrends. Johnson, Tuplette, Davis
 Wrangell to katchikan. Sonia Burgess, Jerry Marshall, Arthur Wattebury.
 Petersburg to Ketchikan Peter H. Holm, James McGurdy, John E Wenger.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-22
SEvENTY-SEvEN PERSONS FLY BY ALASKA COASTAL
 kIRLINES OVER WEEKEND

Over the weekend Alaska Coastal Airlines carried TT passengers with stops at Skagway Sitka, Wrangell, Patterson Bay, Hood Bay, Pelican, Cobol, Hoonah, Petersburg, Martin Creek and Ketchikan.
 Passengers from Juneau to Skag- way are. Morgan Reed, R. Selmer, G. Battinger.
 Skagway to Juneau: J. B. Day, J. Woodford, Ed Vogel. Juneau to Sitka: Don Foster Hen
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-22
TWO FIRES TO-DAY

Members oJ the Juneau Volun- teer Fire Department were called out twice today, but neither fire resulted ill serious damage. A 5-3 alarm, at $40 a. m took them to Fish Face San's restaurant near the Small Boat Harbor to extin- guish a fire beneath the stove caused ! by an oil leak At 12:35 D. m, the Department answered a 4-9 alarm of 843 Willoughby and put cut fire caused by an overloaded stove in the home of Dorothy Konkle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-22
AT THE JUNEAU

Peter Gravrock of Tenakee i. staying at the Juneau.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

it made and it could grow just
as fast as it put men and ma
chimes together.
WHAT did that m an to
buying power? 1t meant that
millions of dollars of wages
were being paid in industries
where the workers. didn't buy
the product they produced.
And during the war, even the
consumers good industries were
limited in what they could pro-
duce: you remember "priori-
ties?" That meant that when
the war was over, there would
be a lot of buying power
stored-up. buying power which
business itself did not actually
pay out, but which was paid
out through government-spon-
sored expansion of industry.
Now business is on its own.
More and more, it must pro-
vide its own market. Through
high prices and attacks against
the unions, business has pretty
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21
Frank avis

OF the Negro ancestry which is
supposedly inferior?
Consider the cold mathemat-
les, unburdened by any herren-
folk nonsense. Few of us can
trace all of our ancestors even
three generations back. Can
you name all eight of your
great-grandparents? When we
go back five generations, -as
did Neil Kingsblood, we must
account for 80 foreparents.
How's your list now? And how
do you know that one of those
you can't identify was not At
rican? If only one was, ac-
cording to our national beliefs
you are Negro. The remain
ing 81 forebears might all be
platinum blondes from NOR
way, but they don't count.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

to add to his growing empire.
For four years he worked
to get proxies and control.
until at last he was sitting
firmly in the drivers seat.
with plant after plant COM
ing into the growing orbit of
Republic.
HE WENT after Truscon
Steel, the largest fabricator of
building-shapes, doors, lockers
and window-frames in the Mid
die West, effected a merger and
built up Truscon until it was
the largest plant of its kind
in the world. All this cost
money, and from 1880 to 1885
Republic lost something around
$4,000, 900.
This did not affect Grid
Ter: he drew his income from
his own huge salary. He did
not own the combine - he
merely had control.
No single stakeholder held
more than six per cent of the
total stock, but by 1885 Grid
Ter was so firmly in the saddle
that no one could challenge his
rule-and since the financial
industrial empire was growing.
in spite of some 1000 addi-
tional shares of watered stock,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21
STATE OF THE NATION----
This man Tom GirdIer
|1l:H1:I}: Fast

no srockholder or group of
stockholders made serious eff
forts to challenge or unseat
him.
FOR ALL of his drive and
all of his large talk about free
enterprise" Girdler's tactics
were toward monopoly. He in
terlocked with Youngstown
Sheet & Tube; he interlockedN
with Jones & Laughlin.
He thought and talked COM
bine-and he operated in that
direction with a ruthlessness
that bowled over his COMPETE
tors like tenpins. And when
it came to dealing with his 5O,-
000 workers, he chose the same
tactics of ruthless and direct
aggression.
When the Memorial Day
Massacre occurred in 1887, he
was earning 100000 a year.
One might consider his state
ment that he would go back
to hoeing potatoes before he
bargained collectively with his
employees as a piece of not-too-
original verbiage. At the same
time, he never gave any ind
cation that the dead men and
wounded women and children
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21
Smoking EN- out


tries were greatly expanded.
Output more than doubled
during this period. More work.
ers were at work than ever be-
fore. In fact, the government
estimates that before 1899, out
put increased on an average
of about 4 per cent year, for
about 10 years before the war.
BUT during the war output
increased by an annual aver
age of Is per cent. faster than
in any previous period. They
say that by 1914, output was
well ahead of what it would
have been, if there had been
no depression in 1929-33.
The big thing about this ex-
pansion, which big business
doesn't want to talk about, is
that it was all done by the
government. The market was
provided by the government
and the war needs. not by pri-
vate industry. AS the War Pro-
duction Board has said, ''this
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

RIDICULOUS. isn't it, to look
down your nose at other peo-
pies when 200 years ago John
Rankin and Jackie Robinson
and you might have had at
least one common ancestor from
Africa or Palestine or Man.
churia. I think that the stimu-
lation of this kind of specula-
ton is one of the major con-
tributions of Kingsblood Royal.
L a st week a Star reader
named Sam Field condemned
Howard Fast for his favorable
review of the volume. There
! are not enough progressive Ne
: gro characters to suit Mr.. Field.
This, to me, is a narrow APP
proach. One presumes that
Mr.. Field measures the effec-
tiveness of book only by the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

number and prominence of
Marxist labor leaders crammed
into its pages.
AS A MATTER of fact, Sin
clair Lewis has a more real
jstic picture of Negro America
and its thought currents than
do most white progressives
who are used to dealing al
most exclusively with Negro
leftists.
The non-Marxist preachers.
teachers. scientists. business
men and workers far our
number colored Communists:
Walter White. Joe Louis. A.
Philip Randolph and few
others still rank high with
the black masses. This must
be remembered by Mr.. Field
and all others who share his
views.
Personally, think Kings
blood Royal is SO important
that wish it could be made
required reading for every
American. National thought
patterns being as strong as they
are, even many progressives
still have enough latent preju-
dice to need the purification
of the Lewis crucible.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

strewn over the Chicago prai-
RE disturbed either his sleep
or his equanimity.
YET it would give very
false picture of the Industrial
situation in 1887 to single out
Tom Girdler as industry's bad
boy.
Nor could the dreadful oc-
currence of Memorial Day be
understood from that point of
view. From that point of view
alone, the Chicago massacre
becomes an isolated instance
of one mans callousness-but
it was by no means such AN
isolated instance.
Half century before, the
Haymarket Affair, also in Chi
cago, became the labor cause
celebre of the nation and the
world. The four labor leaders
who were then framed and put
to death in Chicago became
martyrs or devils, according to
the reaction of one class or an
other. But they could not have
been so framed and murdered
had there not been complete
accord on the part of the most
powerful forces in American
finance. The same accord OPP
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21
By HERMAN scHENDEL

Bill raises an Interesting
question. He wants to know
why production could be ex-
banded SO much during the
way and why it can't be ex-
banded now in peace.
Here are some hard facts to
look at, Bill. You Remember
a few weeks ago we showed
where buying power for con-
sumers' goods comes from. A
great part of it comes frcn
the wages paid in the big heavy
goods industries whose prod
uct is not for sale to consum-
ers. to the workers. 1t is
bought by the capitalists and
used for further production.
If these big industries slow
down or cut their production.
they cut quite a hole in buying
power because of the millions
of dollars of wages paid in
such industries.
During the five years of
war, these heavy goods indus
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

well taken away that stored
up buying power You notice
how the papers are reporting
that installment and credit
buying by consumers is pick
ing up and going back to pre-
war patterns. Buying power
is running behind-fast.
And you can see, that when
crash comes this time, Bill,
it will make 1929 look like a
practice maneuver. When the
profit system is on its own, it
always has the problem of the
market. of selling w h a t has
been produced. That problem
of the market today is greater
than ever before. You can see
this much, at first glance: the
program Henry Wallace is
fighting for is the kind of -
gram the whole people must
fight for. The big bosses may
like war as their best market
but the people are not trading
lives for jobs.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

Vldual trees.
What must be understood is
that no other first rate Ameri-
can novelist has ever tackled
the subject of race in this dy-
manic fashion, ridiculing our
popular myths, barring the abb
surdity of medieval thinking
which DEGREES that if a blue
eyed Nordic blonde is found to
have one drop of African blood
whatever that isl-then that
person is automatically changed
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

growth has been stimulated
and supported by what amount
ed to a guaranteed market for
almost everything that could
be produced. the process of
expansion has largely been mi
tiated, guided and controlled
by the Federal government"
Business didn't have to worry
about selling what was pro-
duced. It could sell anything
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

lik d a. good rough and tum-
BILE fight; he talked tough and
tried to look and act tough.
But his toughness was the
toughness Of the rear-echelon
general, the armchair two-gun
man. 1t was never his lot to
face even small reflection of
the violence he created.
HE WORKED for control of
Republic by chasing down
small holdings Of shares wher-.
ever he could locate them. He
begged proxies. Because his
Ohio plants were a good dis
lance from the ore deposits of
Minnesota, he planned and ex-
ecuted a merger with Corrigan-
Mckinney of Cleveland.
When this went through he
had a lake port to operate
from, and a modern steel plant
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21
THE MEMORIAL Day Mas

THE MEMORIAL Day Mas
sacre was both a part and focal
point in the pattern of open
shop violence. The strange.
wild, tragic and disordered
years of the third decade of
the twentieth century, here in
America, were not unproduc-
tive. Out of depression and
despair came the greatest or
ganization of labor this coun-
try ever knew-the industrial
unionism of the clio.
The America of today is not
and cannot ever be the Amer
lea of a decade ago. And those
who would turn back the clock
to the days of shop vio-
lence will have to reckon with
the new power of organized la
Dor. The CIO is not the or
ganizing-infant it once was.
The ALL is learning, if slowly,
the value of labor unity. Even
though the press is no more
faithful, by and large, to the
truth today than ten years ago.
the American people have
learned a good deal.
And if such an incident as
that in Chicago occurs again,
It is wholly possible that those
responsible will have to face
the anger of millions instead
of thousands.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21

WhamS with a
sledgehammer.
But now / also
see that S o m e
progressives are
so preoccupied
w t h sectarian
theology t h a t
they cannot see
the forest. In
stead, they con-.
centrate on indi-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21
SPEAKING
The Lewis Controversy

from white" to black" and
presumed to have a completely
different and rigid set of char
acteristics.
Because the author is Sin
clair Lewis. winner of the
Nobel prize. his book will
be read by people who would
pass it by were ii the prod
Vet of a less famous writer.
That. too. is important to re-
member.
FRANKLY. if I were white
and had the common attitude
toward Negroes, plus imagina-
ton, / would be terribly upset
after finishing Kingsblood
Royal. For how could Tor
you, for that matter - prove
that ] was completely devoid
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-21
EXPECTED conserva-

i tives and reactionaries
to condemn "Kingsblood Royal
by Sinclair Lewis, for it is
strong fare. The book slips a
stilleto into Americas queer
racial superstitions and then