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Evening star., 1947-06-22
Reviewed by
JOHN G. HENRY.

! Noble; S3.)
Reviewed by
JOHN C. HENRY.
The dreams and single-minded
zeal of many men went into the
winning of World War II. From
these qualities were fashioned "the
tools with which the job was done,
The Army Always Communica-
tions System constructed the high
ways in the sky, the broad and web
vital to our thousands of combat and
transport airplanes as are paved
roads to fleets of trucks. But this
war-born skyway did not just unroll
like a magic carpet when the Nation
modified it's all-out effort. Con-
ceived in the Imagination and ex-
perience of those prewar pioneers of
the Army Air Forces, the AACS had
its first difficult growth in the face
Of differences of opinion and short
ages Of personnel and materiel. 1t
survived all these and went on to
write proud history of achievement
in its contribution to victory.
Maj. Shores, with an understand
able and commendable pride in his
own association with this organiza-
ton, has recorded its story effec-
lively here. If it sometimes seems
from his enthusias IN that the AACS
really won the wa r all alone, that
can be forgiven.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
BY Margaret French Cresson

WALDO FAWCETT.
copy of which is in the Corcoran
and THE Sons of God Saw the
Daughters of Men That They Were
Fair" the original of which is in
the same gallery.
Each enterprise, naturally enough,
was story in itself Mrs. Cresson,
Mr.. French's only child, has brought
together in her book all the anec-
dotal background of his career. He
was an amazingly successful artist
Journey to Fame" is an apt title
for the record of his evolution.
Distinguished qualities of mind
and heart supplied the dynamic
force of his endeavors. Powerful
friends-from Louisa May Alcott to
William Howard Taft and Henry
Ford-gladly helped him.. His
father, stepmother, brother, sister
other relatives, many neighbors ap-
preciated and encouraged him. Even
his sorrows contributed to his
triumphs.
And Mrs. Crcsson makes all this so
real that at the end of the volume
the reader cannot avoid feeling that
he has learned to know a spirit as
rich, as compelling, as inspiring in
effect as the master modelers and
carvers of the Renaissance in Italy
whom Mr.. French so devotedly ad-
mired. He was link with the classic
past. Moreover, he set an example
which the future cannot ignore.
The author of Journey to Fame
is an ideal chronicler for her father.
A sculptor in her own right as well
as a talented interpretive writer,
she manipulates words as though
they were plastic material.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Mr.. Doremus Shows
"A Flair for Meat
And Nipping Satire
FLAW DEXTER
BY T. E. Doremus. IAN Atlantic
Monthly Press Book Little,
Bro1Dn & Co.: $780,
FLAW DEXTER
Reviewed by
PEGGY THOMSON.

Give youthful writer an inkwell
full of satire in which to dip his
pen, then let him choose to lam
poon his own trade, and you are
apt to get unfortunate results. But
T. E. Doremus, in his first novel,
Flaw Dexter" shows flare for
neat and nipping satire and only
occasionally chambers down into
smart -aleckness.
E. Harrison Hutcliffe, about whom
the story revolves, is a successful
author-fifty-ish, tall. with green
eyes that slant upward at the corn
ers'-who goes about falling down
stairs and so mumbling his words
that his listeners suspect him of being
brilliant. He has a wife who adores
him, a publisher who Worships him,
and charming mother who under
stands him.
He also has a son, Fergus, who
rather detests him and who seems
to be "imperfectly realized" much
to his fathers dismay. ("There's
always one character in novel who
doesn't quite come off, says Harry
Hutcliffe of his son. They just
wander around the edges of the
story, unmotivated, incongruous, but
there they are.'D
1t is in the hope of helping Fergus
to find himself" that Harry ar
ranges for them to take their small
yacht to Poland, laden with food,
livestock, and a number of mission
aries. All these have been procured
from Harry's twin brother George,
an energetic religious organizer, who
is head of group that sends skip
ping ropes and spaghetti dinners to
Europe's starving peoples.
In Danzig a Russian hating old
Polish general, who, as contact man
for Georges organization, channel
ICES funds and provisions into his own
underground work, enters the
strange assortment of characters.
So, too, does Wister Prentice, poet
son of one of Harry's boyhood
friends, who has found for the first
time a cause to serve in the work of
the general.
Mr.. Doremus has got together
elements that ordinarily might be
expected to explode into little more
than great deal of smoke and
fumes upon contact with one an
other. However, as developed by the
young author, the rather erratic
course of the plot becomes part of
Mr.. Doremus' sly joke.
Fergus does not find himself" +"
and that is about all the reader dis
covers in the end. But this is clever
satire, and satire is reason enough
for the books being, and being read.
Evening star., 1947-06-22

Natalie Anderson Scott, author of
'"The Story of Mrs. Murphy the
widely heralded novel which E. p.
Dutton & Co. is publishing late this
week. hopes that definite good will
come out Of a story which has a de-
pressing theme.
The central character of the book
is an alcoholic, and Miss Scott hopes
that the sordid story of Jimmy
Murphy's disintegration will focus
wider attention on problem which
is only beginning to receive intelh-
gent study.
The author expressed this wish for
the book during visit to Washing
ton which ended at the week end
1.-THE Story of Mrs. Murphy a
Book -of-the-Morth Club selection
will be reviewed in The Star next
Sunday.
Miss Scott pointed out that in
most cities "drunks" still are treated
as criminals, thrown into cells in
stead of receiving medical treatment.
Like the Insane.
"In most places" she added, 'they
still treat alcoholics as we used 70
treat the insane during the Middle
Ages. And alcoholics are just as
sick as if they had tuberculosis or
typhoid fever"
Yet, despite her interest in the
theme which is recurrent in the
novel, it does not please Miss Scott
to hear some one who has read the
book in advance or only heard about
it dismiss it as a study of an
alcoholic.
It's SO much more than that, she
feels. It's a full-length study of a
middle-class Irish family in New
York. She's willing to stake the lit
erary reputation of the novel more
on it's vitality and breadth as a
picture of a whole group of people
and their environment than on the
clinical picture of alcoholism which
it also brings out.
Born in Russia.
Somebody at Miss SCOTS pub
fishing house said it was a novel
Dostoievsky might have written had
he lived in America today. Well,
Miss Scott doesn't know how much
she was influenced by the Russians.
There is the matter of blood, she
pointed out.
For she was born in Russia of
Russian parents. True she was
brought to England as a baby and
to America as a schoolgirl, and her
remembered background is all An
glo-American.
She has read the Russians care
fully, of course, as she's read the
French and English classics, and
she admires Tolstoy, Dostoievsky
land Turgenev. But she feels that she
was influenced consciously more by
English writers, particularly Dick
ems. She loves Dickens. Of Ameri-
cans, she likes Dresser and Sinclair
Evening star., 1947-06-22
old England
OF an Almost
Forgotten Era
THE SEMI-ATTACHED COUPLE
BY Emily Eden. (Beechurst
Press; S275j
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

Eighty-six years ago Emily Eden's
book, "The Seni-Attached Couple,
was published in London. Now il
is presented to the American reader
unaltered except in one respect
namely, a biographical introduction
by the authors well-knoWn kins-
man, Anthony Eden.
ITO read the "Semi-Attacheo
Couple" again is to get a glimpse
of the social history of an Eng
land of which scarcely vestige re-
mains" Anthony Eden writes. 'Yet
it is not necessary to deplore the
change in order to enjoy this pic
ture of world remote from our
own in it's entire pattern of life
and close to our own in the hu-
manity of its characters"
True not a vestige remains OF
Emily Eden's way of life, but from
the great gray London houses and
quiet squares, now defaced and torn
by high explosives, and from the
cold and dying country houses, there
seems to come an echo of the past
That echo is one of solidarity and
tradition.
A point of interest to the Amer
lean reading public is that Emily
Eden was the niece of the last Co
lonial Governor of Maryland. II
the Hall of Records at Annapolis
there are some letters written by
Emily's father, William Eden, to
his brother, the Colonial Governor,
who married Caroline Calvert,
daughter of the fifth Lord Balti-
more. The correspondence shows
a great divergence of opinion be-
tween the Colonial Governor and
his brother William, a politician and
Ambassador to many lands.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
"A WiseSurgeon
Listens Unto
HIGH PLACES
BY Helen Todd. (J. B. Lppin-
colt Co.; s2.75.J
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.

Andrew Fraser, the head surgeon
of a mill town hospital, is serious
high -principled man who cannot
compromise with his conscience For
that reason it is interesting to see
what happens when he runs up
against the hospitals cold eyed
board of directors on issues involv-
ing humanities. Nor is it less
absorbing to see what he will dc
about high-spirited Kay Eliot, an
ace pathologist, although one does
feel that inevitably he will dissolve
into mere man and clasp her in his
arms. AS, of course, he does.
Although it is human and some
times moving story about the doctor
and his love for his work and girl
the story has several modest over
tones which make the story more
important than it otherwise might
be.
For Dr.. Fraser's fate is interlocked
with that of his pet project: The
creation of a community medical
treatment plan-a plan which a
few years ago was, and in some
quarters still is, regarded as social
istic.
And then there is his dramatic
action which forces the directors
hand in the case of Dr. Warren
DR.. Warren, of the hospital staff, is
a brilliant physician but he talks
too much on the wrong occasion
about the ills of society and the
underprivileged third of the Nation.
The scandalized directors fire him
but quickly retract when the in
dispensable DR.. Fraser resigns in
protest against this violation of the
principles of free speech.
DR.. Fraser is, as you can see, quite
a man. His ethics won't even let
him declare his love for Kay until
he is certain nothing will ever come
of her involvement with his best
friend, amiable, charming, but
already Jim Cornwall.
Except that her characters are
invested with an inordinate and
maddening prescience (they can
always read each others thoughts)
the author has done a creditable
lob of telling worthwhile story.
Evening star., 1947-06-22

a
(HarUard University Press; S4.5G
Reviewed by JAMES
Nowhere else in the world will this
biography of Daniel Chester French
mean so much as in Washington.
He was the greatest American
sculptor of his time and the noblest
work to come from his gifted hand
is here-the glorious seated figure in
the Lincoln Memorial.
But the Federal City also was
important to Mr.. French in other
respects. He met and fell in love
with his cousin Mary at the Convent
of the Visitation in Georgetown;
they were married in his aunt's
house on B street II years later.
Meanwhile, he had labored in a
studio on ground now included in
the site of the Library of Congress
and created the statue of Lewis
Cass for the Capitol and the GAL
laudet group for Kendall Green.
These achievements plus the Min
ute Man at Concord, sponsored by
Emerson, gave him the reputation
which he needed. From them he
went on to THE Angel of Death
Staying the Hand of the Sculptor" "
Evening star., 1947-06-22
The Author Sees
Red in China
THE UNFINISHED
REVOLUTION IN CHINA
BY Israel Epstein. little, Brown
& Co., Boston, $500
Reviewed by
NICHOLAS RADFORD.

U 90, 6USLOH, SO.JUD
Reviewed by
NICHOLAS RADFORD.
Israel Epstein tells the story OF
Chinese communism, and few Oc-
cidentals are better equipped for the
telling. He has lived in the Orient
since he was a baby, speaks Chinese
and Russian, and reported the Sino-
Japanese troubles for English-lan-
guage publications from the mid
'30s onward.
He regards Chinese communism
as part of the peasants struggle for
emancipation that began with the
TAPPING rebellion of the 1850s. For
a century western imperialistic ma
tions have supported the various
Chinese governments that hold the
masses in feudal shackles.
Japan's attack in 1887 united the
Chinese factions for nearly two
years, during which the Communists
waXed great in the occupied terri
tories and waged war of their
own. They continued growing even
after the Kuomintang "blockaded
and then attacked them.
Isolated between the invader and
the unfriendly Kuomintang, the
Chinese Communists operated an
agricultural economy and govern
ment that are communal rather
than communistic in the MARKHAM
sense. They organized a militia
that helped fight the japanese
They built crude industries that
functioned remarkably we'll This
eyewitness account of how they did
1t is fascinating reading
The author is convinced that the
peasants emancipation will come
about not only in China but
throughout Asia. His book is weak
ened, however. because he sees
Red" and nothing else. Chang
Kai-shek is a tyrant with tail and
hooves; the United States is being
duped by the Kuomintang. The
U. S. S. r. wants only peace and
security on its Asian frontiers; its
looting of Manchurian industry was
justified. Those who know some
thing of the Orient will doubt that
I. international affairs-particularly In
China-are so simple.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
CLEVER HANDS OF THE AFRI.

CLEVER HANDS OF THE AFRI-
CAN NEGRO. BY Wilfred S. HAM
Ebly. ASSOCIATED Publishers; $2.65)
Primitive ingenuity of the natives
described by the leaders of an Afri-
can expedition sponsored by the
Chicago Natural History Museum.
THE TYRANNY OF TIME. BY
Chalinder Allen philosophical Lii
brary: So. The author depicts time
as the root of pain, desire and dis
ease. He thinks we should quit
worshipping this mere chimera of
mans mind.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Osborne a S q Boy
THE RIMLEss | WHEEL

BY Roger Eddy. Macmillan; So
In this novel. Mr. Eddy traces the
boyhood of Eben Osborne from the
time he goes to live with his strong
taciturn grandmother in a lonely
New England town until he reaches
the age of 20. The boy grows uI
trying to reconcile the conflict be-
tween the past in which his grand
mother lives and the world about
him. Her ambitions for him and his
own hopes are far apart. Eben is
narrator of this vivid story.
C. B. J.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Woshinqton in Summer

Miss Maxine Davis of 1907 N
street NV. is the author of a story
in the July issue of Holiday entitled
Washington as Summer Resort. p"
The story disputes the rumor that
Washington is so hot it is un-
pleasant.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Mr.. r.Forester's
General Returns
THE GENERAL

lHE GENERAL
BY C. S. Forester. little, Broa0n
g. Co., S2.50J
The creator of that popular his
torical character, Horatio Hornblow-
er, wrote The General" some u
years ago 1t was published in Amer
ica in 1886. but has been out of print
since 1943, and now is being re-
issued.
This earlier novel apparently
reached only a small portion of Mr..
Forester's present American public.
1t is such subtle and yet devastat-
ing satire on typical British gen.
eral who helped plan and carry out
the costly operations in France dur
ing World War l that one wonders
why it ever got out of print any
where. It sold widely in European
countries. Hitler is reported to have
read it at the time he was preparing
his war and to have recommended
it to his inner circle-evidently be-
cause of its careful analysis of
British military methods in the ear
lier war: the satire probably was
lost in the Fuehrer.
The mythical but highly probable
character called 1t. Gen. Sir Her
bert Curzon is no worse and no
better than any prototype probably
was. He is presented dispassionate-
ly as the general staff's ideal of a
professional military man of the old
school. We find him. as the vast
and futile offensive on the Somme
started. and 10000 British soldiers
drive against machineguns. lighting
cigar carefully, for there was no
reason for an English general to
show n-English emotion"
&C. B.. J.
GUSTAvE DORE album. All
the French fairy tales, by Charles
Perrault. Retold by Louis Inter
meyer. With the original illustra-
tions by Gustave Dore. (Didier;
S3D A beautiful volume.
THE QUEENS AWARDS, 1916,
edited by Elery Queen. Little,
Brown; s2.75.) The Is stories which
won prizes in the first annual
contest sponsored by Ellery Queens
Mystery Magazine,
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Making on Honest
Citizen Feel
More Secure

THE STORY OF THE FBfs
BY the Editors Of Look, With
an Introduction by j. Edgar
Hoover. fDutton,. S3.75.)
Reviewed by
HUDSON GRUENwALD.
This picture book with texto tells
the story of the FBI, like docu-
mentary film. Lacking sound and
animation, it suggests q collection
Of crime-movie stills for a pro-
ducer's portfolio. or the pictorial
representation of a radio program
for sponsors prospectus. But it
is well correlated. well edited, well
presented and well put over. It
delivers message with wallop.
It shows the making of G-madl
from high school days through FBI
College; it tells how he functions
as a postgraduate specialist in
crime detection and law enforce
ment; it portrays the famous cases
he solves tfrom the bureaus actual
files) and it disclcsos si1e vital role
he performs during wartime. It
is a good job. Good enough to
scare a criminal out of robbing q
bank, or to make an honest citizen
feel more secure; good enough to
cause lawmakers in Congress to sit
I'm and take notice It bears the
Official stamp of ]. Edgar Hoover.
Evening star., 1947-06-22

THE ART OF THE MYSTERY
STORY, edited by Howard Haycraft.
(Simon g. Schuster; So A collec-
ton of critical writings on the art
of mystery story writing. dating
from 1868 to the present.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Noted Sculptor Made Washington Most
Important Milestone on His Journey
JOURNEY INTO FAME

The Life of Daniel Chester Frenc
(HarDard University Press, $3.50
Reviewed by JAMES
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Story of Wartime
Skywoys That
Led to Victory

HIGHWAYS IN THE SKY
BY Louis Shores. Barnes g.
Noble: S3.)
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Introducing
AMemorobIe
Character

GIVE US OUR DREAM
BY Arthemise GoertZ. whit
tlesey House; $2.75.J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-04
Air Forces Plea Spur.
Democrats Fight for
Restoration Of Funds
By ths A.seeia,sd prsss

A War Department claim that
cuts in funds to buy planes
would be extremely detrimental
to an already impoverished air
force spurred House Democrats
In their fight today to restore
SAC, DOC, 900 to the $5,240, 982, 423
Army supply bill.
The Appropriations Comnittee
whitfield this sum from the $40.
000, 900 requested by the air force.
for new planes, spare engines ant
parts.
AS the bill neared the voting
stage Representative Mahon, Dem.
ocrat. of Texas, told reporters hi
would offer an amendment to null
lily the committee action.
Mr.. Mahon cited letter from
Secretary Of War Patterson assert.
ing that the effect Of the commit
tees action would be to reduce new
aircraft procurement in the veal
starting July from the planned
932 to SOL.
The original estimates, MIR. Pat.
terson wrote, were prepared last
September at a time when it was
believed 932 new planes and spare
engines could be acquired with
$40, 000, 900. Since then. he said
increased costs have cut the esti.
mates down to TAG, which would be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-04

tion for the suburban Metropolitan
Area Of Washington.
In i941 Mr.. Carretta was awarded
The star Trophy for outstanding
civic achievement by the Arlington
Civic Federation. He is vice presi-
dent of the Fort Myer Heights
Citizens Association, member OF
the Board OF Trustees of the Com
munity Chest, the board of the
Bureau of Catholic Charities OF
Northern Virginia, the Arlington
Democratic Club, the Knights Of
Columbus, the Gen. Billy Mitchell
Post No. IS OF the American Legion
and the American Bar Association.
Other candidates In the August
primary are George Damn and ].
Maynard Magruder. both incum-
bents, and j Harrison Mann, at
torney.
Mr.. Miller will oppose Assistant
Commemorative Attorney Denman
T. Rucker in the primary and the
winner win run against Orren r.
Lewis, Republican, in November.
Seeks Progressive Vote.
Mr.. Miller said he seeks the votes
"of those who believe In the need
for d change to q more progressive
and vigorous county government"
A graduate of Grinnell College and
Georgetown Law School, he practices
law in Washington. He has served
as chief counsel Of OPA common
carrier section, special assistant To
the Attorney General, examiner for
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and fingerprint classifier for
the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mr.. Miller, who is 38, has lived in
Arlington for 10, years, is married
and has three children. He Is legal
chairman for the Citizens Com
mittee for School Improvement and
acting chairman of the Public Util-
tiles Committee of the Arlington
Civic Federation and a member of
the Better Government League Of
Arlington.
Born at Abindon, Ill. he lived in
Washington for three years before
moving to Arlington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-04
| Steel President
| Hected Mayor Of
| Wenton, W. Va.
BY The Assoeioisd Press

WEIRToN. w. Va. June 4.-The
president Of the steel company which
controls the economic life Of Greater
Weirton was assured today he would
head the civic government as well
when the Nations largest u1incor-
porated town takes on municipal
status July /.
Returns from all but i've Of the
new city's "a precincts gave Thomas
E. Millsop. president Of the Weir
ton Steel Co., 1918 votes for Mayor
"a lead OF nearly 5000 over Steve
Barron, district constable and his
only opponent.
Consolidation Of Weirton with
Holidays Cove, Weirton Heights
and Marland Heights each OF which
has had its own town government
will create a new municipality of
81, 600 to 10000 persons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-04
Arab Unit Committed
Against Cooperation
With Palestine Probe
BY the Assoeioted Press

CAIRO, June 4.-The Arab Execu-
tive Committee on Palestine was
committed today to a policy Of not
cooperating with the special United
Nations inquiry commission on the
Holy Land and said 1t would recon-
mend that the Arab League adopt
such a stand.
Arab foreign ministers are sched-
uled to meet here tomorrow to dis
cuss the inquiry.
Emile Ghoury Of the Arab Execu-
tive Committee, who has just re-
turned from the United Nations
sessions in New York, made public
communique asserting that the
inquiry into the Palestine problem
has reached saturation point-al-
ready Is commissions of inquiry
have investigated the Palestine
nr0hIer1 ,,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-04
2 District Area Pastors
To Address Lutheruns

Two Washington area pastors viii
give reports at the 18th annual con-
vention Of the Eastern District Of
the American Lutheran Church, tc
be held June to 10 at Birmingham
Pa.
The Rev. Otto C. Schuettze, pastor
of Christ Lutheran Church, Be-
thesda, Md, will deliver a paper on
The State of the Church in the
World" and the Rev Robert w
Long, pastor Of the Faith Lutheran
Church, Arlington, Va, will speak
on THE State of the Church in
America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-04

further reduced to SOL by the COM
nittee's action.
Mr.. Patterson said the funds were
to be used almost wholly for the
procurement OF the most modern
bombers and Jet fighters In guam
titles barely SUFFICIENT to sustain a.
relatively small, efficient, modern
air force.
While conceding that committee
action would leave the Army's air.
plane inventory at 30,566 craft, Mr..
Mahon told the House yesterday
many of the planes now on hand
are of the cracker box type.
He indicated that Democrats
would offer no other amendments,
but would pack all their ammuni-
ton into this one blast In the hope
Of winning over some Republican
support.