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Evening star., 1948-03-07
Novels of a SIum Boy Who Never Grew Up'
And a C. Communist Who Tried to Walk Out
NEVER LOVE A STRANGER
BY Harold Robbins. (Altred A Knopt; $500
Reviewed by. CARTER BROOKE JoNE

al girl rang Cozzolna, midwife
opened house She had
large family the girl because the girl des
perae didn't Later Mrs
called doctor too late for the girl The baby
FRANKIE grew up Catholic orphanage At 49, he
large He spent his
helped the records OF
allowed and pick bets and
brother Frans mother located and he decided to adopt
family, and Frankie happy in their
frankie had known his family
made difference to him. he had religion
West for his health Frankie
ophanage because of legal
he He
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and his commu-
nifty were sizing
each other up
and wondering
how they were
6 ng to get
along, -detracts
n o t h In 6 from
their relevance
a n d freshness.
They have the
dateless appeal
of frs t - class
mood reporting,
with every sig
nifcant Ii fl e
detail lin the
Ernie Pyle style
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mist organizer. The hidden party
members give Ed Wicks shelter,
food and clothing, trains him, gets
him a job, tries to make what they
call a good Communist out of him.
But, when they finally plant him
on capitalist" daily, and his per-
sonal life runs afoul of party edicts,
he finds his comrades can be as
coldly ruthless as they have been
kind.
1t may be that the murderous
fury of their retaliation is over
drawn. I'm not so sure. At least,
it's what they'd like to do to those
who join them and then try to
escape. Something of the savage
spirit of American Communists was
described by Richard Wright, the
novelist, in a factual article called
Il Tried to Be a Communist" which
ran in the Atlantic Monthly.
X
BEAUTIFUL BERMUDA
BY Euphemia Young Bell and
Associates. (John Dickinson
Bell: So
This is the 10th edition of what
undoubtedly is the definitive guide
Evening star., 1948-03-07
THE TENDER MEN

.
Miss Gibbs
tells simply and
effectively t h e
story of a South
Dakota f ar m
boy who goes to
San francisco
determined to
become a news
paperman, He
can't get a job
and he is broke
and h u n g r y
when he falls in
with a Con1mu-
Evening star., 1948-03-07

1500 purposefu young
National Veterans Housing Conference who came
about getting them
their heads They orderly quiet and determined In
ewhle Yank
professional
baby the much of
ready take action when he
oha ettinon he'd
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As Beauty Does
WA I1IIDE -
BY Leonhard Frank. (Stmon &
Schuster; $3.)
Reviewed by
COURTENAY PLASKITT


COURTENAY PLASKITT.
"Mathilde" is the story of a Swiss
mountain girl who learns the truth
of beauty and the reality of good
ness from nature and fairy tales in
her childhood. That isn't so re-
markable. But Mathilde carries her
faith into her adulthood and lives
by it, and that is remarkable. Her
story is a beautiful one, written by
a man who has a fine sensitivity to
the feelings of his characters, and
whose writing ability should not 60
unrecognized. If Mathilde is too
good to be true, that should be no
ground for condemnation in this
age of superlatives, particularly
when she Is compared to most con-
temporary heroines whose chief
claim to notability is their notoriety.
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MS nltCh was up, ne returned 10
New York. He was unable to find
his relatives. He nearly starved
during the depression, and finally
he encountered Fennelli and got
back into the rackets-this time in
a big way.
Mr.. Robbins first novel has un-
questionable merits, and yet, for me,
it simply refused to add up, to come
off, to take shat be. He writes with
perception and power: he manages
to maintain interest, even suspense,
through very long narrative. So
I feel that he'll do better novels,
perhaps first-rate ones.
Life Without Pattern.
People can be as inconsistent as
April days, and yet there's usually
some pattern to every life. Frankie's
life reveals none. Apparently the
author never could quite decide
what Frankie was or how he felt
about anything. He risked his life
several times for friends-for some
Negroes trapped in fire, and for a
colored radical leader threatened by
a mob. Yet frankie could be utterly
ruthless. He allowed himself to be
kept for months by a wealthy wom-
an whom he felt he loved. Then he
suddenly decided he couldn't stay
and keep his self-respect, and so,
failing to find job, he went hum
CRY until he collapsed-presumably
for a principle Then, when he be-
came the big boss of the New York
rackets, he turned heartless again.
Men were rubbed out at his gesture.
He didn't do it himself, but he knew,
and he didn't care. Then realizing
he was in love with a respectable
girl he had known since high school,
he gave up the rackets, stepped back
on the side of the law. In the course
of achieving all this, he didn't hesi-
tate to double-cross Fennelli, who
had given him his start. True, Fen
nelli had tried to frame Frankie. But
The way these and other dramatic
developments are brought about is
not too persuasive. Our old friend
coincidence is called on more than
once. frankie tells most of the story,
and yet there are brief interludes in
the third-person which are con-
fusing.
1t is unfortunate that a. gifted
writer has spent an immense effort
on such a nebulous book. But at
least Never Love a Stranger" in
PRODUCES a novelist whose next book
will be awaited with interest.
THE TENDER MEN
BY Villa Gibbs. (Farrar, Straus
G. Co.; S2.75J
Here, at last, is novel about and
violently against American Com
munists.
And why not? The other side of
the picture has been well exploited.
We've had yelled and unveiled par
ty-line propaganda. We've had his
torical novels which might have
passed the Kremlin board of CEN
sorship. We've had present-day
novels in which unlabeled workers
organizers have been depicted as
martyrs for the people. We've had
those leaning toward Moscow de-
scribed as taking "the side of the
Evening star., 1948-03-07


IN AMERICAN LIFE
BY Malcolm Ross. (Reynal & Hitchcock; $780,
by NEWTON
timing this book
be coming the of President
sweeping civil rights legislation The problems dis
ancng confronting
explode
thing approaching atomic force.
powerful plea of racial dis
especially job oppor-
wartime Fair Employment
Committee brought
work again Federal invested with
distributed fairly
color creed national origin
thing part of his
hereabouts He would to be
well better qualified to handle his subject than any person
England family educated
experience working
years with the National Labor Relations
died for lack
support chairman of the FEPC He
with the University Of Miami
controversial Offices set here
And head the terrific barrage
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INFORMATION PLEASE

Edited by John Kieran. DOUBLE
day & Co.: ST.
The Information Please Almanac
bears a commendable resemblance
to the popular resort islands. Eu-
phemia Young Bell was the pub
lisher's mother She had lived in
Bermuda Is years when she wrote
the first edition, which her son pub
lished in 1902. Other children, Su-
same E. Bell and william E. Bell,
are co-authors of the present revi-
sion. And, at 78, John Dickinson
Bell is still the publisher. The
guide contains everything any one
could want to know about Ber-
muda-history. climate, amuse-
ments, industries. Mr.. Bell is filling
autographed mail orders at P. O..
Box 3214, Washington 10, D. c.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

Animals and Their Stories" by A. H.
Verrill; Minds and Manners Of
Wild Animals" by w. T. Hornaday,
and Animal Reveille,' by Richard
Dempewolff.
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The fact that these sketches
(most of which appeared in the New
Republic) were completed in the
early postwar days when the veteran
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How 1t Was When the Boys Came Home;
"A Fine Report of Their State of Mind
The BEST rs NONE TOO GOOD

BY Ralph G. Martin (Farrar, Straus; $500
Reviewed by MARY McGRORY
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Malcolm Ross Book on Racial Crisis
Powerful Plea to End Discrimination

ALL MANNER OF MEN: THE RACIAL CRISIS
IN AMERICAN LIFE
BY Malcolm Ross. (ReHnaL & Hitchcock: $780,
Evening star., 1948-09-01

Prices slightly in Maryland Virginia Stores o,
. few items which under State Contract Laws Rish
reserved to limit quantities.
Evening star., 1948-09-01

This Is the knife all campers
wantl Each blade Is for q
different purpose: Can
Opener: Leather Punch;
Heavy Blade: Bottle
Opener and Screwdriver.
Heavily constructed, good
quality.
Evening star., 1948-10-10

sreiled HON Slice
in raisin sauce, made mo'e
delicious with Nu-Ma'o
Spinach -,
with mild, swee, Nu-Mald ;" TO o''"s
'''' ou, natural goodness
naked Stuffed Aeer" sa'''"
better tasting WIN Mai,
,,.de-for-,he-table Nu-m"''
Parker House .o"' ,,d
and Nu-Maid-no finer sP's''
~ at any price
ehoeo,o+s Loot Coke
extra good because SCI IT'S ,,aia ma0e
with f1avorful Nu-Ma'o
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Guild Calls Congress
Record 'Reactionary'
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.-Dele-
gates to the CIO American Newspa-
per Guild Convention yesterday
condemned the record" of the
Eightieth Congress as "reactionary"
and urged union political activity to
elect what it called progressive
candidates"
The convention took this action
In adopting the report of its Polit-
ical Action Committee. The report
called attention to passage OF the
Taft-Hartley Act and other meas
ures which the guild looks on as
"anti-labor."
The guild also criticized the do
nothing" attitude OF Congress to-
ward the high cost Of living.
Dorothy Rockwell OF Washington,
in presenting the committee report,
recommended that the guild join
with the C1O in a "Nation-wid
drive to elect progressive can
didates."
She also urged q national drive to
induce citizens to register. She said
that in 1946 only one of every three
CIO members registered and only
one In four voted.
Earlier, Harry Martin of Mem
phis, president OF the guild. was
appointed a special labor adviser to
Paul G. Hoffman, administrator of
the European Recovery Program.
The convention gave unanimous
approval to Mr.. Hoffman's wire re-
quest that Mr. Martin be given
leave of absence to undertake the
European mission.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Prominent Missouri Pastor
And Wife Killed by Train
By the Assoeiotsd Press

DAYTON, Ohio. July "A ma
tionally prominent Presbyterian
minister and educator and his wife
were killed last night in an auto
mobile train collision at Bachman,
II miles west of here.
Dead are: Dr.. Charles Ryan
Adams, 70, Parkville, Mo-. and Mrs.
Myra Oldfather Adams. u, his wife.
Identification was made by an old
friend. E. A. Twitchell. of SPRING
field, Ohio. who was passenger on
the fast Pennsylvania Railroad train
that struck the Adams automobile.
Long after the bodies had been
taken to Dayton. Mr.. Twitchell
heard their names. He made the
Identification in Dayton's Good
Samaritan Hospital after early re-
ports gave the victims names mere
ly as Charles and Evelyn Adams Of
Parkville, Mo.
DR.. Adams and his wife were on
vacation from their work at the
Parkville Community presbyterian
Church. He had been scheduled to
speak at the Covenant Presbyterian
Church in Springfield Sunday.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
6 Children Found Slain;
Fother Held for Murder
lx fhs A.soeiotsd Rress

SYDNEY. Australia. July six
children Of an Australian family
were found shot dead in bed today.
Their father was charged with
murder.
Police found their bodies lying
In a double bed in three-room
shack where they lived at Glen
Innes in Northern New South Wales.
The cbildren's ages ranged from
two to 13. Their father. Charles
Hall, IS, q laboror, is in hospital
under police guard. Their mother is
in . maternity hospital, where she
gave birth to a still born child last
week. She has not been informed Of
the tragedy.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Fot McNair Soldier
Indicted in Attack on
High School Girl, IS

A Fort McNair soldier has been
indicted by Q District grand jury on
a charge Of carnal knowledge involv-
ing a 15-year-old high school girl
whom he is accused of attacking on
May % on the Mckinley High School
grounds.
The soldier is John j. Cook. ls.
Police reported the girl was beaten
badly at the time of the attack
which was the climax of a date.
The carnal knowledge charge carries
a death penalty If the jury so rec
ommends.
The indictment of Cook was one
of 66 returned by the grand jury
yesterday before Justice Edward M.
Curran of District Court.
Four other persons were indicted
on carnal knowledge charges, In
Guiding Preston v. Coleman, 23. coll
ored, first block of Pierce street
NV. accused of breaking into a
house and assaulting a 13-year-old
colored girl, and Leroy johnson. 81,
colored. first block of p street NE.
also accused of breaking into a
house and attempting to have car
nal knowledge of q l2-year-old and
a 6-year-old girl, both colored.
A gypsy woman, now fugitive.
was indicted on a charge of steal
ling nearly $1,000 belonging to Mrs.
Dorothy Wyche, 48. colored, TOO
block of Euclid street NV.
Police said the woman, Doney
Stevens, %, also known as Nine.
Golden, used a variation of the
"money-blessing" trick to obtain the
money She is charged with grand
larceny.
In another indictment Charles H.
Smith, jr., Roanoke. Va, was accused
of embezzling $1,000 from a District
plumbing firm where he worked as
paymaster by changing the figure
on a cheek
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Chicoeo Livestock

, CHICAGO I ocn July ., 2, Pe:mootusDAl,.sal,;; s,;
and very uneven; butchers up to around
steady to 80 lower; heavier weishts in
beth classes 50 to 100 eSs market
losd nso, Ouls scos os and aase nos noSnds
g: S2 81 soosdo oo1sd9 gGanss soas so 4oo to
$50 pound butchers, 2O.5O-21 80; good
and choice sows under 375 pounds, 1900
"a 80: sows 400-55O pounds, 19.00-21 80.
salabls cattle; 200; total. 700; salable
steady; choice steers absent choice IL 90
pound heifers topped at 37OO; most me-
dium to good steers and heifers,, $500
$500; averase-choice 1,240. pound steers
very dragEy at 10000 90: canner. and
cutters firm at l5.OO-1s50: bulls slow
at $500 down: vealers steady at $500
down; good to choice steer stock calves.
5000.
Salable sheep 500; total. 200; slaughter
classes generally steady; short deck GOOD
81 so; few medium and good. 2S.00-30 60;
deck medium and sood shorn ysarlinss
% 80; deck common Of same shipniert
1000; good and choice snorn slaushter
ewes. / 100-11. so; few choice, 11.75; very
common down to $50,
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Chicago Printers Reject
Offer and Submit Substitute
By me Assoejotsd Press

CHICAGO, July 2.-Union print
ers voted yesterday to reject final
contract proposal put forward by
Chicago newspaper publishers as a
basis for settling a 3l-week-old
strike.
The union made q counter-pro-
posal of it's own. The members
approved it and voted to submit it
to individual newspapers If 1t Is
rejected by the Chicago Newspaper
Publishers Association, collective
bargaining agent for the papers.
John ]. Pilch. president of Local
16, AFL international Typographical
Union, said the vote rejecting the
publishers proposal was 1.011 to 60
He said the vote in favor of the
unions counter proposal was 42l
to 7.
He did not explain the disparity
in the number of votes.
The publishers final" offer in
cluded a 50 weekly wage boost.
This would bring day scales to $3.50
weekly, and night and early morning
scales to 500. The day and night
shifts work 34k hours weekly and
the early morning 80 hours.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Capital Bank Deposits
Down Slightly From
Total Of April Il
By Edward f. Stone

Deposits in Washington's 10 banks
ard trust companies aggregated ST.
019,424,o55.13 on June 80, a small
decrease of $l.001 1888 from the
total of $1,o2o, ,425, ,7S7.06 on deposit
on April IL.
Following a condition call issued
today by Controller of the Currency
Preston Delano, it was learned that
deposits in eight District banks
gained in the second quarter and
eleven had slight decreases Riggs
and National Savings reported S.
100000 gains.
The call disclosed the following
deposits in the individual banks on
June 30, end OF the Government S
fiscal year:
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Rail Stocks Advance
In Irregular Market;
Some Oils Higher
By the Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK. July Railway is
sues once more took over leader
ship of the stock market today.
Gains for the carriers ran to
around points or more. Other
issues-except for a couple of oils
picked their way through mar
rowly irregular price range.
Volume, aside from few fur
ries of activity. was unusually small.
The ticker tape was motionless time
and again.
Probably the major block to more
active trading was the approaching
long holiday week end. Security
traders customarily cut down their
business, and often tighten their
holdings Of stocks, prior to a long
recess.
News that United States Steel
Corp. and other major interests in
the industry had charged John L..
Lewis and his soft-coal workers with
unfair labor practices had no i'm
mediate effect on the price struc-
ture.
Steel stocks, as matter of fact,
improved. This reflected IN part
the announcement late yesterday
that President Truman had decided
to rely on voluntary steel rationing
rather than ALLEGATION by Govern
ment order
Superior OIL of California jumped
10 points to 230 at one time. The
company reported a huge jump in
earnings for the nine months ended
May 81.
Nickel Plate, favorite for some
time, ran ahead points or SO to a
new 1948 high. Buying has been in
fluenced by a number of factors, in
Guiding an excellent May earnings
report, prospects that arrears on the
preferred stock will be cleared up
in time and the equally excellent
earnings reported by Wheeling &
Lake Erie Railway. Nickel Plate is
expected to lease the other road In
the near future.
Other issues higher included New
York Central, Southern Railway,
Baltimore g. Ohio, Seaboard Air
line, Western Maryland tat a new
high. Central of New Jersey. Rich
field Oil, United States Steel, Re-
public Steel, National Steel. General
Motors. Montgomery Ward, Inter-
national Nickel and Paramount Pic
lures.
Trimmed bit were Studebaker,
Firestone Tire. J. I. Case, Douglas
Aircraft, American Telephone and
United States Gypsum.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
0.P. Picks Navy Veteran
To 0ppose Marcantonio
~ fhs Associated Press

NEW YORK, July 2.-John Ellis,
IS, a Navy veteran. was selected
yesterday by Republican Party ON
cials to oppose Representative Mar
cantonie In New York's 18th con-
gressional district.
Representative Marcantonio. Amer
ican Labor Party. now represents
the Upper East Side district.
Democratic leaders recently named
Assemblyman John P. Morrissey as
their organization candidate In the
district.
Thomas ]. Curran, New York
County Republican chairman, an
nounced Mr.. Ellis designation yes
terday after a meeting Of assembly
district leaders.
At the same time. he said Harold
Burton, 60. will be organization
choice for Congress in the 22d con-
gressional district.
Adam Clayton Powell. ir.. Amer
ican Labor Party-Democrat, now
represents the 22d district.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. July 2 tP,--Grains slipped
tel temperatures M io in the Midwest M % forecast tan an
excellent corn-growing week end.
The July corn contract was the weak,
cents at times. Weakness in the cash
market was in part responsible for this
slump. Premiums at which buyers were
willing to take cash corn over the July
future were reduced / to 3 cents.
despite moderate foreign flour business
Trading was not active in view Of Mon
days holiday. The usual short session
will be held tomorrow
Wheat closed 1h-1s4 lower. July 230.4-
"a corn was ~ to 3ss lower. July 219h
oats were a.-1 "a lower. July s9A-h. and
soybeans we're l to 2h lower; July Al
Wheat. none. Corn, M. / yellow. e.3ota;
81 %: No. 2. 2.2SH-30a4; No. 3. 2.29h;
No. No. heavy mixe9 ahm9' s6ids os S9 No. Cats
mixed, l.O1: No. 3 heavy mixed. 96h:
No. j white, 1.00.-03: No. 3 white. a3s4
Barley, nominal; mailing, 1.70-95; feed
1.2b-56 Soybeans, none.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Illinois Collision Kills
DC. Woman; Husband Hur1

Mrs Frederick 10y, 10, Of 5l3
Eighth street S.W.. was killed and
her 72-year-old husband suffered
undetermined injuries yesterday in
an automobile collision near Chenoa.
H., according to the Associated
Press
Mr.. and Mrs. 10y had left their
home early Tuesday to drive to
Manhattan Beach, Calf, to visit
their only son. Mr.. 10y, who was
taken to a hospital after the acci-
dent, Is a retired machinist.
Neighbors today said they knew
little about Mr.. and Mrs. 10y.
She was said to have been a member
of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Besides her husband and son, no
other survivors are known.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. July 2 R-Foreign ex-
change rates follow toreat Britain IN dol
Canadian dollar In New York open
market, 81. per cent discount or o3.43a4
q. 8. cents, unchanged.
changed; France Hranc), .32a4 Of 3 cent,
unchaneed; italy tiiyal. july nxed rate,
.0O1734; june. .001739; sweden tkrona,,
~. rs, unchanged: Switzerland tfrancb
tconi'D, 23.40, UNCHANGED.
Latin America-Algentina: free. 20.94n
down .01 Of 4 cent: Hrasil. free. so. un-
Nominal
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Wiegins' Resignation
From Treasury Reported
By the Assoeiotsd Press

Usually informed persons said last
night that A. Lee M. Virgins had
resigned as Undersecretary Of the
Treasury.
They reported that Mr.. Virgins
had sent his resignation to Presi-
dent Truman, but there was no word
from the White House whether it
would be accepted.
Mr.. Virgins, former president OF
the American Bankers Association
and associated with banking inter-
ests In Hartsville, 8. c., said when
he became undersecretary two years
ago that he did not intend to make
Government service a career.
Evening star., 1948-07-02

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Evening star., 1948-07-02
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. July 2 R.-Cotton fu-
lures moved lower in slow pre-holiday
trading today. Scattered liquidation was
encouraged by very favorable private crop
There was some selling In the nearby
months by leading spot firms which wes
credited partly to hedsins. Private 3D.
continued small Some mills sold high
grade cotton out Of their stocks.
Late afternoon prices were to 30 70 10
bale lower than the previous close.
July 1924. October 32.49 and December
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Brokers' Looms Goin
Sl20, ,000, 900 in Week
by the Assoeioisd Press

The Federal Reserve Board re-
ported that loans to brokers and
dealers on securities held by men,
ber banks in New York City totaled
$961, ,000, 900 Wednesday, an increase
of $120,000,000 from q week ago.
Included was $4,000 900 lent to
purchase or carry United States
Government obligations, an increase
of $85 900 900 for the week.