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Fighting Marines
From Every AnqIe
THE MARINES WAR
BY Fletcher Pratt. fWillian1
Sloan Associates, Inc; So

The Marines WAR
BY Fletcher Pratt. fWilliana
Sloan Associates, Inc; So
Reviewed by .
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
This outstanding book about the
campaigns of Uncle Sans Leather
necks in the Pacific during World
War II is different from and sur
passes the other histories of the
Marine Corps in action for three
reasons:
First, Fletcher Pratt is an ac-
complished story-teller as well as a
first-rate historian; secondly, he
distributes the tactical BOBBY prizes
in equal measure with the laurels,
without regard to the rank of officers
involved, despite the fact that the
material Is drawn from official files
in the custody of generals and
admirals, and, thirdly, enemy moves
and deductions are chronicled by
the author so as to unven the Jap
commanders view of each battle
instead of the American side only. ,
Mr.. Pratt's exhaustive study of
the official files, plus hundreds of
interviews with the men who fought,
moved him to side with Marine 1t.
Gen. Holland M. "Howlin' Mad"
Smith in that worthy's controversial
decision to remove the Army's Gen.
Ralph Smith from command Of the
9th Infantry Division when the
assault on Saipan stalled. A move
which military and naval men will
debate for years, the removal Of
Soldier Smith is supported by Mr..
Pratt who reports that:
Gen. Ralph Smith was clearly
removed because of the complete
lack of coordination in the move
ments of his division; because this
sacrificed lives not only in his own
units but also among the Marines
on the f1anks, and because Ralph
Smith had assumed an authority
that did not belong to him."
The book is full of hitherto un-
known material, written with aston
ishing accuracy, which gives pic
ture of the Marines war as true
conflict of opposing forces, methods
and ideas. 1t is plain, from Mr..
Pratt's account also, that all the
stumbling blocks to speedy victory
were not wearing Japanese uniforms.
He applies plenty Of color and no
whitewash to the war and the mis-
takes which punctuated its progress
toward the inevitable victory.
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and retired accountant, whose wife
of 80 years has dismissed him with
cold contempt. Mrs. Hughes, the
proprietress, manages them eff
GENTLY, brusquely prohibiting them
from any contact with her beauti-
full silent daughter, Eileen.
Prepared to Blackmail.
Shortly before Mrs. Hughes is
found stabbed on the garden path
handsome young John Denton, the
dispossessed lord of the village, ar
rives on the scene prepared to black
mail his way into share of his pat
rimony. The death of his hostess does
nothing to deter him from his in
effectual operations; but the others,
suddenly rudderless, veer toward
the strongest point in their lives and
are drawn back into the mainstream
of human existence During this dis
persal Eileen and John, both of
whom have been cut off from nor
NAL human contacts, draw close
together in a tragic 'kinship.
Mr.. de Polnay's presentation OF
the case is unimpassioned and low
keyed. "The Moot Point" is ex-
pertly contrived and admirably writ
ten. While it has not the beguiling
irony of his previous novel, "The
Umbrella Thorn" nor its poignant
appeal, it is still remarkably expert,
if not affecting, fiction. M. Meg.
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Bourne who died young. After a
spell of advertising copywriting
when familiarity with the vested in
terests did nothing to lessen her
contempt, she was prevailed upon
to take the editorship of the Dial,
perhaps the most famous of the
advance-guard literary magazines,
although her qualifications consist
ed of little more than lifelong en-
thusiasn for literature. Miss Gregory
is disappointingly uncommunicative
about this famous little mag"
which first gave audience to T. S.
Eliot and many other then expert
mental writers. She also fails to
her famous late husband,
Llewellyn Powys, of the illustrious
English family, and the memoirs
end rather abruptly just before her
M. MEG.
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Crime and Mystery
By Miriam Ottenbero

The Case of the Lonely Heiress, by
Erie Stanley Gardner. (William
Morrow & Co.; $2.509
This time Perry Mason and his
ubiquitous Girl Friday must learn
the identity of an heiress advertis-
ing for "pen-pals" in lonely hearts
magazine. Finding the heiress
proves less difficult than learning
who murdered the nurse whose tesA
timony is vital in will contest
And Perry must find the murderer.
Not only is his client charged with
the crime but he's not in such a
healthy spot himself as accessory
after the fact.
AS usual, Perry acquits himself
nobly in the inevitable courtroom
scene. He CANDLES on the testi-
mony of a witness he's never seen
but you just know he'll pull it off
and the true criminal will try to
flee from the halls of justice and
but why go on? The Perry Mason
fans have been here before and
they'll like this one just as much as
the 80 previous Mason whodunits.
X X X X
Flight Into Darkness, by Philip
Clark. (Simon g. Schuster, Inc; So
Why should national leader sud-
denly retire to his California plan
tation at the moment he Is tapped
to be a presidential candidate and
is needed to handle a United Ma
tions crisis? And why take with
him known collaboration still reek-
ing with the odor Of his wartime
activities? Those twin problems
bother Hallam Clay, foster son of
the great man, even before murder
also comes to the plantation. And
the greatest problems of all: Did
Barclay, wicked son Of the national
leader, actually die in the war? It's
all told against a shodowy back
ground of swamp and cypress. =.
X \ Il Il
He Died of Murder, by Shelley
Smith. (Harper g. Bros; $2.50)
Finding the foul fiend who mur-
dered the master of the Seekers
should have been easy since the
Seekers were an order devoted to
truth-telling. Detective Chaos (sic)
suspected, however, that one or
more of the religious eccentrics
worshipped the truth less ardently
than the others. How otherwise
could a man have been killed in
full view of all of them without
somebody spotting the fiend? Then,
there was the matter of motive.
Were there, by chance, romantic
strays in this celibate society? The
murky atmosphere and artfully
drawn characters combine with a
battling plot to make this a first
class suspense story.
Il II
Death of an Author, by John Rhode.
(Dodd, Mead & Co.; $2.50)
Nigel Ebbfeet, British author of
many failures and one best seller,
wanted only to retire to his country
cottage-there to spend the rest Of
his days pottering in his garden,
visiting the village pub and occa-
sionally chopping a few logs for ex-
ercise. He couldn't believe that pot
shot that narrowly missed could
have been meant for him. But, only
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Reviewed by
BELMONT FAIRIES

bELMofN1 FAfG1E0
In the United States no law bars
a Jew from holding certain jobs, or
living or vacationing in certain
places, or joining certain organiza-
tions. No Government bureau lim-
its the number of Jews who may
study medicine, or law, or liberal
arts.
But the bars are there, as def
nitely as they were in Czarist Rus
sia or Hitler's Germany, and the
Jew, like the Negro, the Japanese
American, the Mexican and the In
dian, Is very likely to find civil
rights" a meaningless phrase when
he asks for an even break.
Mr.. McWilliams, who has ex-
amined the position of other Amer
ican minorities in Prejudice" and
Brothers Under the Skin." pre-
sents. in "a Mask for Privilege"
searching analysis of the cancerous
growth of anti-Semitism in the
United States in the last 70 years,
of the way in which restrictions
have been imposed, quietly and
effectively, by industry and trade,
banks and insurance companies,
real estate boards and citizens asso-
Citations, clubs and societies, COL
leges and universities.
"Gentiles Only"
Social discrimination, particularly
among the wealthy in the East, was
the first step. About 1880 Jews
began to find themselves barred
from many resort hotels and clubs.
Economic discrimination followed,
though it was 1910 before "Gentiles
only" help wanted ads became
numerous, and not until the 20s
that universities began to adopt the
quota system. In the '30s Father
Coughlin demonstrated for the first
time in the United States the effec-
tiveness of rabble-rousing Jew-bait-
ing as a political weapon.
With notable exceptions such as
Atlanta's Columbians, Inc, anti
Semitism has been less open since
the war, perhaps because Hitler's
death camps are not yet forgotten.
But discrimination continues, par
ticularly in employment and educa-
ton. Mr.. McWilliams is convinced
that anti-Semitism has been used
by privileged groups to mask an
attempted monopoly OF social, eco
nomic and political power.
A Starting Point.
What can be done about it? Mr..
McWilliams sees in the report of
the Presidents Committee on Civil
Rights, with its stress on affirmative
Government action to protect the
rights of minorities, a starting point
for a campaign to eliminate all
forms of discrimination based solely
on race, creed or color.
Many readers will disagree with
some of Mr.. McWilnams' conclu-
sions, but few will fail to find "A
Mask for Privilege" sober, realistic
study of phase of American life
Of which we have very little reason
to be proud.
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Public Relations
CounseI's Advice
PUBLIC RELATIONS
AT WORK
BY Herbert M. Baus. fHarper
$500
Reviewed by
FLETCHER F.. ISBELL.

Publicity, says Mr.. Baus, is not
public relations; and he explains
the judgment, timing and sense of
tone that make a public relations
chief like the conductor of an or
chestra. He may not play all the
instruments himself. but he syn
chronizes them into harmony. The
author, an experienced practitioner
insistent that public relations at
its best Is profession, here gives
an acute and thorough analysis OF
value not only to the entrant into
the field but to the prospective en-
ployer Of public relations counsel.
ut is not full head" he warns,
that makes a man run off at the
mouth"
The best route to good public re-
lations is to deserve them; and Mr..
Baus is a compass in this regard
to enterprises that think space vol
ume is a measure of success. Create
frame of mind in your public, he
says, by having a firm foundation
to start; then tell about it. The
ways of doing. the latter are here
in complete array, with guiding
signposts that perhaps reduce to
the one credited to Mark Twain
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THE DAY IS GONE
BY Alyse Gregory. (E. P. Dutton
To S2l

w., SoI
These memoirs of a one-time edi-
tor of the Dial have an artless
period charm. Alyse Gregory was
the daughter of a New England
doctor who was swept along In the
currents of her time, having been
variously militant suffragette, a
free-lance labor reporter, an educa-
tional reform organizer and Bo-
hemian in those heady post World
War I days when the lettered young
liberals were gathering in Green
Wich Village. She was also for a
while an advertising copywriter and
is an antivivisectionist and vege-
tartan
What may strike the reader most
forcibly in these rather sketchy ana
effusive "reminiscences is Miss Greg
ory's failure to explain her many
enthusiasmS. Musically talented and
beautiful, she was as romantic as a
bouquet of violets on muff.
After her sheltered girlhood in
Connecticut, Miss Gregory's musical
education took her abroad many
times. She describes rather visit
fully her early experiences of love
on the continent. All of her men,
cries of Europe, which are recorded
in little impressiopistic sketches OF
spring flowers in Naples and swans
in London are heavy with nostalgia.
During her days as a social work
er and later as a tearoom pro-
prietor in the Village, Miss Gregory
had as her intimates such immortals
of the '20s as William Rose
Benet and the promising Randolph
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The snralton life behind front of an
elegant Me York apament house sharply drawn By Alan
IN EAST OF FIFTH" (Son Schuster,
Yorker cartoonis vhose Dohy OF his pictures
panpered houseolders ho conuened
ar retaining the mutual curiosity not the
days OF afraid drills The aual OF tenan-n 6B-s
occasion for much and speculation
community and the spreading OF the by
pipeline Peggy Poole the counterpart any uage gossip
Dunn usits them all the OF "a
small army OF maids managers maintenance elevator
iOho shield the lucky leaehodes from the
hpng EAST OF FIFTH" WONDERFUL commentary on urban
liuinq-soctology without tears, in fact
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a few months later, Ebbfleet was
unquestionably dead with his head
dashed in. His cousin Guy con-
ceivably had a motive as heir to
Ebbfleet's royalties. But Guy had
an alibi. And the only other visitors
to the isolated cottage had been
Ebb fleets literary agent, a Polish
friends and a stray photographer
all Of whom had paid their calls
months before the murder. Supt.
Waghorn of Scotland Yard solves it,
with an assist from Mr.. Rhodes
criminoligist creation, DR.. Priestley.
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Characteristically. 1.-The Moot
Point" his third novel, although
story of murder, derives it's dramatic
tension not from the detection of
the criminal but from the tracing
of the dislocating effect of this vio-
lence on the strange inhabitants of
a bleak English seaside boarding
house and the gradual revelation of
the victims attitude toward her
deaf-mute daughter.
When discovered, the four perma-
nent guests of Red House have COM
posed themselves for death, clasp
ing their idiosyncrasies and their
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INVITATION TO BOSTON

BY A. C. Lyons. Photographs by
Samuel Chamberlain. I'M. Bar
ro1DS;: $780,
A spirited tour of a storied town.
which is mellow with history and
unstrainingly and incorruptibly diff
ferent from any other city in Amer
lea. A. c. Lyons lively prose is set
Off by the beautifully atmospheric
pictures Of Samuel Chamberlain. 1t
makes an excellent guide for the
tourist who may be as interested in
present-day diversions as In monu-
ments to Q glorious past.
M. Meg.
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DlGIer memories.
They represent
varying degrees
of futility and
fru S ira tion:
A. grieving wild
ow, a stingy-
spirited, untal-
ented Spanish
pianist, who has
been las vile to
life as life had
been to him; a
S elf = efacing
lech er, who
hopelessly yearns
for the buXonn
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Murder by the Sea Provides De PoInoy
With Theme for Expert Third Novel
THE MOOT POINT
BY Peter De Polnay.
(CreatiUe Age Press: $3.)

BY Peter Ponay (Creatve Age Press; s3J
British author
exceences with films another which
his countymen conspcuos adept serious situation raught
with evil calmly examined and last psychological
excitement The incidental comedy arises character
quite everyday through
skllful understatemen
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Reviewing | he New Books
Harper Prize Novelist Is a YugosIovion
With Rare Understanding of India
BY Joseph George Hitrec. Harper; s3.)
SON OF THE MOON

Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES
India much the lately Of this vivid searching
novel,
trip which journey
into the lives Indians guided alien
reading his will think better
understanding ahng faiths Of
trumphs and tragedies.
Mr. Htrec born in Yugosav At 90 he went to India
manning He learned English write his
1946 volume his stories this
country Harper prize
Of 1948.
For puzzled westerners Mr. Hrec has perhaps explained phases
Indian life auhenicaly Pearl Buck interpreted China But
while he Good Earth she wrote of the humble Chinese Of the soil
described Hindu family much
mastery too detailed denaton
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Books in Brief
RIDGE RUNNER

BY Gerald Averill. (Lippincott;
$2.75.)
Ridge Runner" is the story of a
Maine woodsman. 1t is also the
autobiography of a man who under
stands what he is writing about.
Gerald Averill has spent his whole
life in the backwoods of Maine. In
later life he became a game warden,
having spent his earlier years work.
ing in lumber camps. Life in a
lumber camp in 1915 was no soft
bed of roses, but in this autobiogra-
ply one will find much humor and
much local color. 1t is a witty and
observant addition to outdoor
literature. IN. P.
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MILK ROUTE
BY Martha Ostenso. (Dodd
Mead & Co.; $3.)

Milk Route" is the unsatisfactory
story of small Midwestern town
during this postwar period. While
the milkman threads his way along
his daily route, the reader follows
the tedious journey, meeting a
series of uninteresting people at
their back doors. If the book had
merit, one might regret the con-
fusing number of characters that
tend to appear at backdoors, but,
as it is, any variety is welcomed.
Only the most indomitable will get
through this book, and even they
will probably complete the journey
solely in the hope that the milk
wagon breaks down and puts a
quick end to it all. M. B. S.
THE BURNING SPRING
BY Fynette Rowe. "A. A.
Wyn; $3)
Story of the two sons of an honest
farmer in a lost valley of New York
State. &C. P.
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The difference between the right
word and the almost right word In
sthe difference between lightning
and the lightning bug"
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Civil Rights Plea
For American Jews

A MASK FOR PRIVILEGE:
ANTI-SEMITISM IN AMERICA
BY Cary McWilliams. little,
Bro1Dn; $2.75.)
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BY the Assee;oted Press

~ tfS Hss0statc2 EtesS
CHICAGO, Aug. A.-It probably
will be late next week when 4
Superior Court judge decides
whether a. = month old Pamela
Frances Lamphere viii be submit
ted to an operation which might
give her q chance to live.
Doctors have given the child two
years to live without the operation.
Her parents have come to the brink
Of divorce as the result Of . dis
agreement over whether the child
shall have the operation.
The father. Fred, 23, q shipping
clerk, asked Judge Walter r. OMal-
ley for . court order compelling the
surgery. The mother, Irene, Al, op-
poses the move. "1'd lose her for
ever If she were operated on" the
fearful mother told the court.
The child has q rare deformity.
Her bladder has been outside her
body from birth. Operations to cor
rect similar malformations have
been performed successfully. but
failure in such cases has meant
death.
Judge oMalley said he would
have the deans Of four medical
schools here examine the child and
make recommendations as to an
operation. The parents agreed to
abide by such . decision.
Today, attorneys for the parents
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'MorreII Plant Curbs
Operations, Charging
Series Of 'Sitdowns'
" the As,se;etsd pfssa

oTTUMwA, Iowa, Aug. 1.-THE
big Morrell packing plant here sus-
pended operations in six depart
ments today after what the COM
pany described as a series Of spora-
die Atdowns" occurred.
The CIO Paekinghouse Workers
Onion challenged company asser-
tions that "sitdowns," "slowdowns"
and attempted sabotage" had taken
place.
The unions approximately 5000
Norrell workers have been without
4 contract since midweek.
No violence was reported at the
plant today but the company said
there were some instances where
workers "cornered" department
foremen and kept them hemmed In
while they argued grievances.
Woman in Hospital.
Meantime, Mrs. Eta Swartz, 50,
remained hospitAlized as the result
Of an alteration which took place
last night when 4 plant ofncial
sought to relieve . colleague who
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Cancer Society Chapter
Elects Rev. John Grey
Special bispsteh 70 The Sser

special Dspafeh - Ihe Sfor
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Aug.
1.-THE Rev. DR.. John Grey, pastor
Of the Charlottesville Presbyterian
Church, has been elected chair
man Of the Charlottesville -Albemarle
County Chapter, Virginia Division
of the American Cancer Society
Other officers elected are Mrs.
Lynn Stout, vice chairman; r. v.
Riddick, secretary; william Trevil-
han, treasurer; and Mrs. Rawlings
Thomson, executive secretary.
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cNitons to Hear Dr. Smith

Dr.. George @. Smith, research
economist for the United States
Chamber Of Commerce. win address
the Civitan Club ct 1880 pm. Tues
day at the Mayflower Hotel. Dr..
Smith will speak on Business
Trends"
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GAR Auxiliary TO Meet

q. S. Grant Circle No. Of the
Ladies Of the Grand Army Of the
Republic will meet at Z pm. Tues
day In Room 4iS Of the Warrington
Loan and Trust building. Ninth and
r streets NV.
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Judge to Rule Late This Week
On Operation for Doomed Buby

i, said the deans would be notified
Of the courts order for examina-
tion Of the girl Monday or Tuesday.
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Townships are being built IA India
to house excess refugees.
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The Gold Coast has started q
youth movement among natives.
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had been surrounded more than m
hour by as women workers.
A company statement said plant
officials had reported numerous
evidences Of sabotage in certain de-
partments involving various metal
objects found which might cause
serious damage to machinery"
"It seems obvious" the statement
said, that the developments Of the
last two days are the result Of a
planned program to stage Z series
of sitdown strikes and slowdowns in
various departments Of the plant de-
signed to cripple operations"
Ed Filliman, chief steward Of the
union local, said:
I'VE have had no reports Of So
called sabotage and don't believe
it. The union denies that any sit
down strikes have occurred. When
our contract expired the company
posted working rules which do not
provide any grievance procedures,
Our people are just trying to work
out their troubles the only way they
can"
Hundreds Leave Plant.
Hundreds Of workmen left the
plant at niid-morning ut the order
Of plant foremen. As the plant pre-
pared to close over the week end
the company said 1t would open for
normal operations Monday. The
union said Its members would report
for work.
The work interruptions began yes
terday when what the company
called - three-hour sitdown Of 100
workers in the canning department
occurred after . union and . nom
union member got into . flght. Po-
lice were called and the workers
were persuaded to return to their
jobs.
Police were called again last night
when Plant Superintendent c. l.
Campbell attempted to end the
stalemate in the sliced bacon de-
pArtment. Mrs. Swartz and three
co-workers charged Mr.. Campbell
with assault. He was released on
bond,
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Drop in Some Prices
Hints Initiation Check
But Trend Ism 'tGenera|
~ ~ ksseeiotsd Press


NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Is infla-
ton being checked?
Many farm prices recently have
plunged below the bottom they
reached during the February COM
modify price break. and in the
opinion Of many will not go up
again. Reports this week of bounti-
full crops seemed to confirm these
forecasts.
The notable exception, of course,
is livestock, and consumers can ex-
pect high prices for meat for some
months.
Farm prices are the traditional
bellwether for all the prices the con-
sumer has to pay. Historically they
rise first and drop first in general
price movements.
Business leaders, economists and
Wall Street are all watching the
Nations markets closely these days
along with farmers, trying to figure
out what lies ahead for the whole
economy.
Raw Material Prices Up.
They are watching to see whether
industrial raw materials and other
things that eventually figure in the
cost of living will follow farm prices
down-or stabilize without further
price increases.
The overall price structure fails
to reflect some of the internal
changes that have been taking
place, and these may be significant
for everybody.
For instance. the price of steel
billets has gone to $50 a net ton
compared with s45 two months ago.
but wheat closed yesterday at 1920
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trial raw materials. including such
items as steel billets, lumber, ce-
ment. petroleum, soft coal and rub
ber, have advanced above the high
of last January. So have the nom
ferrous metals-antimony, tin, zinc,
lead and copper. So have livestock.
Food Staples Below High.
The food staples group-eggs,
sugar, cocoa, coffee, flour, lard and
butter-is five points above the low
reached after the February price
break but nearly IA points under
the January high. Grains and cot
ton are II points under the Feb
ruary low and So under the Janu-
ary high. Textiles are down 20
points from the March low and
IS under the January high.
February's break in agricultural
commodities was too short-lived to
test the theory that other COM
modities follow. The stimulus of