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Evening star., 1947-12-25
6Ki||ed 81 Hurt as Bus
0verturns in Carolina
By the Associotsd Press

BEAUFORT, S. c., Dec. 25.-A bus
carrying Sc persons homeward after
Christmas eve shopping at Beaufort
overturned yesterday on st. Helena
Island, miles from here, and killed
six of the passengers. Thirty one
others were injured.
Investigating officers said the bus,
|reportedly thrown out of control
when a passenger fell against the
driver, left the road and rammed q
pine tree as it overturned. The tree
trunk carried almost all the way
through the wooden body Of the bus,
State Highway Patrolman T. s. Doar
said.
Coroner Roger Pinckney said four
Negroes were killed instantly and
two others died on the way to Beau
fort County Hospital. Three injured
veterans were taken to the Paris
Island Marine Base Hospital. Ten
more were admitted to the, hospital
In Beaufort.
Eighteen other passengers were
injured. but did not require hos
pitalization, Patrolman Doar said.
One of the injured was George
Brown. identified as the driver.
The coroner identified the dead as
Lymas Chisolm, Ethel Miller, Joseph
Smith, Clarence Green, Joe Deas
and William johnson, all presumed
to be of st. Helena Island.
Evening star., 1947-12-25
Gen. Feng Failed TO Report
On Study, China Aide Says
BY the Ass,ciofed Press

NANKING, Dec. 25.-Hollington
Tong, government spokesman, de-
clared yesterday that China invested
more than 100000 in Christian
General" F'eng Yu-hsiang's water
conservancy study" in the United
States without receiving a single
report.
Gen. Feng was ordered by Chang
Kai-shek to return to China by
December 20. Gen. Feng said in
New York that he would refuse to
comply, remarking that his criticism
of the Marking government may
result in an attempt to silence me
by recalling me to China"
He asserted that Generalissimo
Chiane's order contradicted one
from Premier Chang Chun, chair
man of the executive Yuan (cabinet)
to continue his study another year.
Mr.. Tong told a news conference
Generalissimo Chang acted for the
State Council, which, he said, ap-
proved continuance of Gen. Feng's
mission for only six months beyond
the original one-year term.
There are an estimated half mil
lion active cases of human tubercu-
losis in the United States every year.
Evening star., 1947-12-25

charity, these three; but the great
est OF these is charity"
We believe this. We accept it as
basic principle of our lives. The
great heart of the American people
has been moved to compassion by
the needs of those In other lands
who are cold and hungry.
Maintaining American Tradition.
We have supplied part of their
needs and we shall do more. In
this, We are maintaining the Amer
lean tradition.
In extending aid to our less for
tunate brothers we are developing
in their hearts the return of hope. y
Because of our efforts, the people
of other lands see the advent of
new day in which they can lead
lives free from the narrowing fear
of starvation and want.
With the return of hope to these
peoples will come renewed faith
faith in the dignity of the individual
and the brotherhood of man.
The world grows old but the
spirit of Christmas is ever young.
Happily for all mankind, the spirit
of Christmas survives travail .and
Evening star., 1947-12-25
Brooklyn Man Confesses
To s Biqan1ous Marriages
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 25.-Fran-
els Joseph Bressi, %, Of Brooklyn,
N. Y. walked into the sheriff's
Office yesterday and volunteered the
information that he had married
eight women, six bigamously, in the
last five years.
Desk Sergt. Haze Burch said
Bressi exhibited list of his wives
and asked to be locked up. Sergt.
Burch obliged.
II decided to have myself put
in Jail rather than jeopardize the
happiness of more girls" Sergt
Burch quoted Bressi as explaining.
Bressi said he began marrying
in 1912 when he married a girl
in Brooklyn. The marriage was an
nulled, he said, and he married a
girl in Little Rock, Ark, in 1914.
He listed other marriages in Fred
erick, Md, in 1915; Prescott. Ariz,
in 1945; Carlsbad, N. Mex; Nogales,
Ariz., and Eureka, Calf, in 1916,
and Tyler, Tex, last September.
"All I was doing was searching
for happiness" Bressi remarked
sadly.
Evening star., 1947-12-25
Presidents YuIe MESSAGE

from loved ones. AS we prepare to
celebrate our Christmas this year
in a land Of plenty, we would be
heartless indeed If we were indif-
ferent to the plight of less fortunate
peoples overseas.
We must not forget that our
Revolutionary fathers also knew a
Christmas of suffering and desola-
ton. Washington wrote from VAL
ley Forge two days before Christ
mas in 1777: "We have this day
no less than 2,873 men in camp
unfit for duty because they are
barefooted and otherwise naked.
We can be thankful that our
people have risen today, as did our
forefathers in Washington's time,
to our obligation and our oppor-
tunity,
At this point in the worlds his
tory, the words of st. Paul have
greater significance than ever be-
fore. He said:
And now abideth faith, hope,
Evening star., 1947-12-25

FOLLOWING is the tert OF Presi-
dent Truman's Christmas mes
SAGE to the Nation, delivered at
the tree-lighting ceremonies on
the White House la,Dn yesterday:
MY Fellow Countrymen:
We are met on the south lawn of
the White House. Above the barren
treetops rises the towering shaft OF
the Washington Monument. The
scene is peaceful and tranquil. The
shadows deepen and the Holy Night
falls gently over the National Capt.
tai as we gather around our Christ
mas tree.
Down the ages from the first
Christmas through all the years OF
10 centuries, mankind in its weary
pilgrimage through changing
world has been cheered and
strengthened by the message OF
Christmas.
The angels sang for joy at the first
Christmas in faraway. Bethlehem.
Their song has echoed through the
corridors of time and will continue
to sustain the heart of man through
eternity.
First Christmas Homeless.
Let us not forget that the hrst
Christmas was a homeless one. A
humble man and woman had gone
up from Galilee out Of the City Of
Nazareth to Bethlehem. There is a
sense of desolation in St. Luke's brief
chronicle that Mary brought forth
her firstborn son and wrapped him
in swadding clothes, and laid him in
the manger; because there was no
room for them In the inn"
For many of our brethren in
Europe and Asia, this, too. will be
a homeless Christmas. There can
be little happiness for those who
will keep another Christmas in
poverty and exile and in separation
Evening star., 1947-12-25

suffering because It fills us with
hope of better things to come. Let
us then put our trust in the unerring
Star which guided the Wise Men
to the Manger of Bethlehem. Let
us hearken again to the Angel Choir
Evening star., 1947-12-25

singing: "Glory to God in the high
est, and on earth peace, good will
toward men"
With hope for the future and with
faith in God, I wish all my country
men a very Merry Christmas.
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Reviewed by
HUDSON GRUNEWALD,

This story sweeps over you like a
symphony. It's theme keeps coming
back in different moods and varying
nuances, carrying its narrative
against background of shifting i'm
pressions. You follow it tensely as
it moves with unbroken suspense
toward the finale, expecting it to end
in a crash of symbols Instead, 1t
breaks off, quite without ending, and
you are left with a ringing in your
ears.
It is a disturbing symphony, in
terwoven with disharmony and dis
cord, its theme one of decadence
and depravity; an evil story of evil
people.
Gerald Kersh tells it with striking
skill.
AS In his Faces in a Dusty Pic
ture" and Might in the City," its
low characters are wildly alive, and
this is essentially story of their
downfall. From prostitute to psy-
copath, punch-drunk pug to pam
derer, they are longtime habitues
of the old Bar Bacchus on London
side street, involved now in the as
|sault and murder of 10-year -old
girl and in a search for the fiend
among themselves.
Kersh etches these lurid suspects
and their case histories and fits
them into a pattern of violence. He
fastens guilt first on one and then
the other and makes the criminal
talk to the reader before identifying
him. But the quest never ends. 1t
simply goes on-like crime itself. A
demon of depravity has been brought
into your room. 1t is his voice that
you find ringing in your ears.
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en- line, a SUCK "
valve, a misread gauge and soon the
ship lies helpless, wallowing in the
troughs of the sea.
This is the story of the men far
below-the engineers whose fabric
of life is interviewer with the thun-
dering maze of machinery. Some
times the complex, sensitive mass
breaks its bounds and mere men are
overpowered by the thing they have
wrought.
Here is highly dramatic tale OF
three engineers, thrown together for
the first time on voyage to Africa
in 1912 with cargo of war material
for the then hard-pressed Allies
The characters are delineated with
almost cinematic sharpness. There
is the chief, aging and hard-drink-
ing, beaten by the knowledge of his
own ineptitude; the first engineer
gangling, indecorous Southerner
with a genius for engines, and the
second, an intelligent, but confused
young man, beset by sense of in
adequacy and fear of nameless
things.
The book is exciting, full of sus-
pense, heroism and humor, whether
it relates to events at sea or a classic
binge ashore at Lagos. This is mas
terful writing by a young man who
served as an engineering officer
aboard ship during the war. There
is strength and Imagination in his
prose, interlarded though it is with
much technical discourse about
engines.
1t is a powerful story, powerfully
written,
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vestigate the feasibility of setting up
q prison colony on Easter Island.
Landing on the island, ADJUST and
Perez necessarily are guests of the
only white man on the island, Will
liam Brown, an Englishman, who is
manager for company which leases
part of the land.
Perez is the center Of the diff
Guilty which SINNERS at first, mar
ticulate, in the minds of the two
others, but finally breaks like
storm out of the bleak Pacific. The
evil which turks in Perez seems at
first to find expression in the usual
vices Of sophisticated men, but, I'M
der the black magic of the island,
it takes a darker shape, mounting
to sadistic fury as he experiments
with one Of the native women, de-
scribed as the most promiscuous in
the world. But the man still is a
mystery.
Remains AIOof.
Brown has been on the island u
years, and he has managed after
bitter conflict of the spirit, to re-
main aloof from its women and to
hold the upper hand over the sullen,
hostile men. ADJUST, an idealist,
Who has dedicated himself to SCI
ence, is afflanced to an English girl,
and he wants to keep himself un-
sullied for her during the year or
two he may be away. But the Poly
nesian women are handsome, and
he is tempted. He is torn, too,
when he learns Of the war, by the
feeling that he should abandon his
research and go back to England
and fight. Meanwhile, there1l be
no ship for months.
At last the island wrests from
Perez his secret, the horror which
has haunted his whole life.
Easter Island" should add greatly
to Mr.. Freund's growing reputation.
1t would be hard to find fault in
this tense. close-knit novel; it
seems to me to be, of its kind. al
most flawless. I think you'll find
Senior Perez one of the most fasci-
mating men Of iil-will you've en-
countered.
In these days of rambling, inter
mirable novels. it's relief to fino
writer who knows the value of
words and does not waste them,
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Fine Contribution
To Americana
CENTURY OF SILVER

A CENTURY OF SILVER
By Earl Chaplin May. Mcbride,
$780,
Mr.. May, who has written a his
tory of the circus and the story of
several industries. has fine fair for
making fascinating reading out of
the factual.
This book traces the annals of the
Yankee silversmiths from their be-
ginnings as peddlers in 1847 to the
development of the art and craft
into a great silverware industry.
The story of the Rogers brothers
and the others who founded and
built, the business centering in
Meriden, Conn, is told in significant
detail. The book is profusely Illus
trated, and many of the pictures
are interesting examples of early
Americana. c. 3. ].
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

i
Mr., Gunther, writer of Inside
stories of Europe, Asia and Latin
America, observes that no country
SIS SO ignorant about ITSELF as is
| the United States. He might have
added that few are less understood
by others. In an ambitious plan he
undertakes to introduce this Nation
to its people To everyone else con-
lcerned-practically the whole world
today - he also tries to convey
knowledge and meaning about fac
tors, forces and political philosophy
at work here.
The attempt may seem presump-
tuous. the presentation superficial
and the array sometimes bewilder-
ing. If so, this comes largely from
the impossibility of serving so vast
a spread in only 900 pages and of
| digesting so varied fare at one
reading.
Democracy at Work.
This book is offered as "a study
of democracy in action" Mr.. Gun
ther need not apologiz, for the
purpose or the net result. He is at
his best as reporter. His leg work
on this project brought him into
contact with every State and hun
dreds of cities and towns in an
exciting discovery of America. We
in Washington must wait for a
separate volume he promises on the
inside of the District of Columbia
and the Capitol dome.
Mr.. Gunther's report to the Ma
ton on the Nation is Informative at
all times in it's multitude of specific
facts. 1t is irritating a few times
in its generalities. Mr.. Gunther
sought especially to learn what
runs" each community and like
wise who or what runs men who
run for public Office. Certain of his
judgments and interpretations will
arouse controversy.
Taking Issue.
Readers may take issue with him
not so much for his view of their
pet State or city but for an occasion
ally one-sided way of ascribing mo-
tives to man, municipal govern
ment, a political organization or
social or religious groups. =
Inside u S. A." however, is an
eye full and an eye opener. It
moves with immense verve and
vitality, both because of its subject
and its author. 1t is we'll to be
admonished by Mr.. Gunther that
the United States is neither so new
nor so young that it can excuse
'rawness, crudities, infantilism, ad-
ministrative utilities and lawless-
ness" 1t is equally we'll to be re-
minded that this "heaven-rescued
land" still has the greatest respon-
sibilities and opportunities ever
known to man.
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u ul AHt SthE. 81
holder of the Guggenheim Chair Of
Aeronautics, Library of Congress.
that neither the Wright brothers
nor Langley we're first to fly a.
heavier than-air machine, an honor
they attribute to earlier inventors in
this country and abroad.
Mr.. Noel describes as "hypo-
critical" Smithsonian statement
issued in 1912 which modified the
stand of previous secretaries in
favor of the Langley machine and
states:
''It is everywhere acknowledge
that the Wright brothers were the
first to make sustained flights in a
heavier-than-air machine at Kitty
Hawk. N. c., on December II, 1908.
1t was MIR. Noel's view that this
was "double-talk," which could be.
interpreted as meaning only that the.
Wrights were first to fly at Kitty
Hawk on that particular day.
Mr.. Randers-Pehrson, however, de-
tails the accomplishment of tbs
Wrights as well as Langley, includ-
ing the local flights by which they
followed up and demonstrated the
soundness of their early experiments
at Kitty Hawk.
The successful flights of Langley,s
huge models, one of them witnessed
and photographed by the late Alex
ander Graham Bell, were described,
along with the disappointing efforts
to launch a larger machine with q
pilot.
In 1908, successful flights were
made in an airship from Fort Myer
to Cherrydale and return, and that
same year Orville Wright arrived
with his airplane.
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Ria Regardie Browne is the main
character -. Bad Christi in Ger
many Is the main setting. In 1922
Ria was an impressionable and over
intelligent girl of IS, who had been
brought up and educated in Ger
many and Japan Herself an Ameri-
can, Ria had later married an
American. In 1913, the time of this
telling. he was dead, a casualty of
the war.
1t is. the state of mind in which
Ria now finds herself that leads her
to turn back the pages of her life
and see the cure for her present
apathy. Somehow she does not seem
able to remember clearly anything
which happened before the time
when she was in her early teens and
found herself living in Bad Christi.
Bad Christi, the strange people there
and the satisfaction that this young
girl got out of the companionship
of older people, fill these pages of
the past and constitute the sub
stance of this decidedly different
type of novel.
Mr.. Forrest is by profession a sci
enlist and wrote this book while he
was overseas during the war. He
has lived a great deal in Europe and
as child in the Far East.
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mans faith in God.
ut is the most heartwarming book
] have read in years." Mr.. Jolson
went on-thus joining fellow-stars
Kate Smith and Eddie Cantor in
praise of this amazing story.
THE MIRACLE OF THE
BELLS, an inspiration to people
of all faiths, is on sale at all book.
stores for $500. ADvr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01

LIAM A, M1ILEN.
Here is his evalution of the other
court members: Justice Black can
take it" and has already received
a nod from history, due to his work
in the field of civil liberties.
Justice Reed, who still has a
medium sized tobacco farm in Ken
lucky, can not be labeled on the
court" for he takes each case or
its own merits.
Justice Douglas is brilliant In
bankruptcy and corporate finance
and disciple of Bran6eis who
has had a varied career.
Justice Frankfurter:: mo justice
has reduced his thoughts to writing
so often or has a wider circle OF
acquaintance" He is not man to
play second fiddle to anybody and
has feeling that history is look
ing over his shoulder"
Justice Murphy, although for
mer Army lieutenant colonel, has
blasted the military position with
verbal blockbusters. He is a jealous
fighter for all religions and freedom
of the press and is sympathetic with
the defendant.
Justice Rutledge contracted tuber-
culosis, long arrested. but he still
camps and fishes several miles from
any road in the Rockies. He is YER
satile. "a New Dealer without hav-
ing labored in the New Deal vine
yard" and his personal prestige Ii
unsullied.
Justice Burton. close friend OF
President Truman, who saw him
sworn in. is .'paradoxically as per-
sonally popular as he is unprovoca-
tive of anecdotes and color items.
BY special permission. he works Out
In the Senate Office Building gym
uaSium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Philip Freund
Writes a Novel
OfGreot Power
EASTER ISLAND
BY Philip Freund. fBeechhurst
Press: $3.50.
Reviewed by
CARTER BROOKE JONES.

ShASA GAAs D1tOOrAE JlNES.
Against the brooding background
of lonely Easter Island, with its
sinister beauty of towering rocks
and pounding sea, its enormous
stone figures OF forgotten gods, Mr..
Freund has delved into dark re-
cesses Of the mind in a story of
gripping power.
This strange outpost of the Pa
ciflc, whose deteriorated inhabitants
cannot remember even in their leg
ends the race that carved the great
statues in some unrecorded era, is
really the leading character of this
memorable novel. It is, ostensibly,
the story of three men and their
psychological struggles. But the
island, which, like some chained
monster, stirs and almost speaks,
under the spell of a poetic prose,
has q profound influence on these
men, each struggling with battling
problems. The island seems to prod
them on to the crisis which slowly,
inevitably engulfs them.
Black Magic.
The year is 1914, and the Euro
pean war has started, though those
in the far corner of the South Pa
CHIC don't know about 1t for some
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u. S. Nays Role
In Keeping Peace
FUNDAMENTALS OF NAVAL
WARFARE
BY Lee j. Levert. THE Mac
milan Co., NetD York, So
1bCFICWCU ny
REX COLLIER.


milan Co., NetU York, So
Reviewed by
REX COLLIER.
This is textbook on naval
strategy, tactics, ships and weapons
written in language that can be
understood by the average citizen.
Moreover, 1t is a textbook that will
hold the interest of the average citi-
zen as well as that of naval and
military authorities concerned with
the future of warfare in the atomic
era.
The author. an engineer, naval
architect and lawyer, was on active
duty in the Pacific during World
War II as a commander in the
Naval Reserve. On the basis of
that experience he has ventured to
express opinions concerning past
and possible future strategy that, as
he points out, do not necessarily
reflect the opinions or policies of
the Navy Department" Some of
his opinions regarding past strategy
and tactics are extremely critical
as in his analysis of the Battle of
Leyte Gulf-and some of his ideas
about warfare of the future are
novel, to say the least.
Comdr. Levert believes the naval
task forces of the next war will be
radically different from those which
roamed the Pacific under command
of Admirals Halsey, Mitscher and
Mccain. Indeed, he devotes an en-
tire chapter to what he calls the
twilight of the aircraft carrier"
The big carriers of World War II.
he declares, are too vulnerable to
persist as a type. In their stead, if
Comdr. Levert's proposals prevail,
there will be huge 'battie-car-
riers'-100, 000-ton combination bat
tleships and carriers. with offensive
and defensive capabilities never be-
fore built into one vessel. Each of
these great ships would be designed
to operate as one-ship task force,
if necessary. The Levert battle
carrier would bear little resem-
blance to the makeshift battleship-
carrier of the Japanese.
The Navy Department will find
much to agree with in this book,
however, not the least of which is
the authors insistence that strong
military and naval esta blishment in
time of peace is the best possible in
surance against war. He warns
against scrapping today's weapons
until push-button warfare is more
than dream. "Wishful thinking
cannot give us peace" he asserts.
Let us be ready for war and only
then shall we have peace. 1t will be
cheaper to police the world during
this and even the next century
than to risk being destroyed by
atomic rockets and bombs"