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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
W A R n | n G

Laxity in the observance of
ordinances legislated in behalf of
the moral welfare of minors will
occasion strict enforcement be-
ginning the date of this notice.
All children of school age ZIG
years of age and under) will not
be allowed on the streets or in
any place of business after the
hour of 9 p. m. unless accompan-
led by their parents or suitable
guardians. Parents of violators
will be arrested and dealt pun
ishment in accordance with Or
dinance provisions.
Owner and managers of estab-
lishments operating punchboards
or other games of chance are
warned against permitting min
ors play these games. Owners
and operators of pool halls will
not allow minors of school age in
their place of business at any
time. Violators will be arrested
and dealt with in accordance
with law.
| By order of the Mayor and
Council. Town of Browning.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
Births, Deaths Fewer
Than In Previous Year

Fewer people were involved
than last year in the figures re-
leased by Clerk and Recorder J..
Lee Anderson this week on births
and deaths during 1947. But the
indications were that the popula-
ton of Glacier county was still
growing.
Births in 1947 totaled POI COM
pared wit h 289 in 1916, and
deaths were SO compared wi t h
1O2 for the previous year.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

$500 year In advance
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

year licked of the lives 81 1oo,-
600 persons and injured over TO-
400, 600 more.
Until every individual takes a
sane attitude toward accidents
and respects the forces which are
combating them, he or she can
expect to die-perhaps agoniz-
ingly-or to see the life of some
one in bis or her family or circle
Of friends needlessly snuffed out.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
Price Paid
For Feeder Calves

A new top was hit at the cattle
sale in Shelby recently for Mon
tana when Frank Dennison of
Shelby, local order buyer, pur-
chased feeder calves for $29. 10 a
hundred.
Eighteen head of calves con-
signed by Lee and Archie. Violet
of Lothian, Mont. were sold for
$15O.81 each, averaging 543 lbs.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

United States Savings Bonds have
made last minute Christmas shop
ping worries a thing Of the past for
wise Americans. In fact even though
you thought about what to give
members Of your family or close
friends for month of Sundays you
could not come up with better
idea than Savings Bonds. Think Of
Savings Bonds in terms of what they
will do for the recipient. For ex-
ample, bonds provide immediate
funds in the event Of an emergency
and help to pay for education, trav-
Ell, a new home or a dozen and one
other things which members of your
family dream about. Your gift OF
bond makes you partner In the
realization Of the fondest hope Of
someone you love. What more could
You ask Of ! Christmas gift?
U. S. T'scsa.y D'td,;meat
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
PRESSING Cloths

1t IS a good idea to be particular
about the cloths used for pressing.
When using new material for this
purpose, wash and rinse it thorough.
ly 20 that not . bit Of starch or
sizing remains. Keep the clotha
clean always and wash out every
trace Of scorch. II by any chance
the iron gets too hot. A scorched
cloth can discolof the garment
underneath.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

MON TANA..
Names Places
WnEA1iAab COUNTY


By H. G. Stearns, Editor The Hariowton Times
Organized in 1917, its came fl the extensive
wheat growing boom of the time Since then the livestock
industry has taken in the old days Charley
Russell rode herd before the of the hoesteaders. The
veant hills and praes today dotted with thousands of
critters and wooies And there's oil b m in the
making lots of drilling going And prehistoric animal de-
posts are where you find them.
Judith Gap denotes the gateway to Judith Basin
country. Rothemay named by Scotsman George Pierre
for his home town. Shawmut is the Inun for street
in Maine town. Hedges named for the famed Cornell
us Hedges early pioneer. Twodot G. r. Wilson's
nowned cattle brand Deposits of museshes along the river
banks account for the II valley and river
handles Harlowton is the county seat
TREASURE COUNTY
By H. G. Isaacs Editor Hysham Echo.
This segregated part of Rosebud county, which took place
by legislative action in 1919 given the Treasure
after Montana the Treasure state It is of the small
est counties in the state geographically well population
but of the BEST Sugar bees alfalfa and small grain
produced from her thousands of irrigated and prime
purebred stock from her upands and sheltered valleys
Treasure county in class and has population of 1900
Hysham is the county seat
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
More Montanans employed by the Anaconda Copper
Mining Co. than by any other firm or corporation.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
Greenland's Glaciers

Some 7O5,0O0 square miles Of
Greenland's total area of 839,782
square miles are covered by gla-
cierS.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23

For sale-baby bathinette, as
good as new, bargain. SHELLS
Grocery.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
First Bible Society

The first Bible society was the
Canstein Bible institute, in the Or
phans' home in Halle. founded by
the Marquis of Canstein in ITO,
which distributed. before 1913, 49,
600 Bibles and 100000 New Tesla
mentS.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-23
Unlucky Marriage Month

OHuCNy .FEfsfE1"bS k'Ho1HsHh
Tie month of May was regarded
as unlucky for marriages by the an
cient Romans because at this time
the festival of the unhappy dead was
celebrated.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Ottenbero

cause some one was Chicks exact
double. even to the shape of his
ears. The over worked double theme
gets new treatment in this some
times incredible but always fast
paced tale of a man who battled
fantastic odds to regain his identity.
y y 4
Symphony in Two Time, by Alex
ander Irving. ODodd, Mead q Co.; !;
$3.50
Red Badge.
All kinds of music, from a Bach
fugue played in the wrong key to
a symphony manuscript that dis
appears, figure in this puzzler. Twin
targets of homicidal attention are
a wealthy patron of the arts and her
youthful husband. An assortment
of parasites. some Of them remote
kin of the dowager, manage to con-
fuse the issue-as does the pres
ence of three varieties of poison
for two deaths For some reason
the author has made every female
character unpleasant, but then. the
men are no prizes either. DR.. Tony
Post. an anatomy professor, is the
reluctant sleuth.
X \ +
The Fourth P0stman, by Craig Rice.
(Simon g. Schuster, Inc; $2)
Inner Sanctum.
Why should anybody murder a
postman, Attorney John J. Malone
asked himself. More particularly,
why should an amiable If some
what balmy old gentleman resent
postmen to the point of homicide
Obviously, letters were involved but
the postmen's packs were never
rifed. The only letter the old man
awaited was one from his boyhood
sweetheart, but If the girl went
down on the Titanic she probably
wouldn't be corresponding. Allotted
by q beer-drinking mutt, Malone
works his way through q parcel Of
suspects, ranging from the inof-
fensive old Rodney Fairfax to a
Karlo1- type butler. Craig Rice's
first whodunit In three years Is her
usual blend Of w1y humor and
wholesale homicide.
Bait for Murder, by Kathleen Moore
Knight. doubleday & Co., Inc;
49,
Crime Club.
Swordf1shing provides the atmos-
phere and most Of the excitement
in this yarn Of . literary plagiarist
stabbed to death on his fishing boat.
Prime suspect Is the victims lady
love, although plenty Of other per-
sons cordially hated Ives Berrien,
the complete heel. Elisha Macom-
Der. . local sleuth, makes with the
clues, assisted by . female mystery
writer.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
.Of Old st. Louis
And Points West,
East and South
IPERSlMMON HILL
BY Elizabeth Kennerly RUSSELL
University OF Oklahoma Press,
c275
PERSIMMON HILL
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

William Clark Kennerly, who died
So years ago in st. Louis, remains
the first-hand author and all
around main character in this early
account of that city-as we'll as
points West, East and South-from
the Louisiana Purchase to the end
of the Civil War.
He and his family contributed to
the still unappreciated history OF
the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys
More fortunate still he left daugh-
ter, Mrs. Russell of st. Louis, who
treasured his records and reminis-
cences. In this book she has honored
her father and helped to give broader
Knowledge of a segment of our ma
al story.
Persimmon Hill. was the Old ST.
Louis estate CT the Kennerlys. The
book has great deal OF family
That will provide better reading and
recollection in st. Louis than else
where. Yet, the book is not old-laCe
or living gin-the-past. The Kennerly
family had relatives and acquaint-
ances all over the map" of the early
United States-such personages as
Gen. William Clark and Meriwether
Lewis, the Fremonts and Bentons,
Black Hawk and Black Hawk War
volunteer, Abe Lincoln.
William Kennerly also got around
These pages picture ancestral man.
sions in Virginia, political poW-WowS
in Washington, battlefields in the
Mexican War, gold rush sites in
California, hoartbreaks of the Civil
War, and trips up and down the
ageless Mississippi.
Honey rather than professional
history. this work shows regard for
accuracy. 1t has a charming but
careful way of describing what
American people did and thought
of one another a century ago. 1t
lends better perspective to a period
that seems centuries ago to us mod
ern" Americans but is actually nc
farther away than the lifetime of a
man whose daughter now brings his
story to life.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
NINA PEMBERTON.


Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.
Wicked, indeed. were the under
currents Of London society in the
days of the Napoleonic wars. Play
ing no mean role in this drama was
Glory Webster. Glory was the prod
uct of an East End gutter She rose
to the heights. using as her ladder,
the influence of her contacts and of
her charms. But Glory died in the
very same gutter that had been her
birthplace.
When Glory was but small girl.
Old Mother Davenny, the corrupt
old woman in whose house Glory was
reared, saw the possibilities of capi-
talizing on beauty through black
mail. When Glory was in her teens.
several London gentlemen received
embarrassing epistles from Old
Mother Davenny. There was moth
ing for it but to do as she bade, and
from that point onward Glory's
ascendancy was as we'll l-organized
and as unscrupulously planned as
any criminal plot. Glorys fame ran
the gamut from slum belle, to be-
coming the favorite of the Prince
Regent. Only one man ever had any
real power over Glory. and that was
Innocent Paradine, thief and mur-
derer. 1t was this Svengali who
haunted her heart and her body.
Her life began and ended with
Innocent Paradine.
Evening star., 1948-10-10

get the boy, as we know from the
start. but meanwhile will watch
some poking of brisk fun at the
Stiffness of some of her relatives,
the added grandmother who genu-
fleets before tired symbols of a
dropping past; brother and
sister who are strange in several
ways, and sundry iron dowagers and
party -obsessed females.
Too, as in his Mrs. Candy and
Saturday Night" the author intro
duces a touch of the supernatural,
in the matter of an angel who
turks in the armoire Grandma
Wickliffe confldes in him, appeals
to him, sees his influence at sue
cessive crises. Though there isn't
so much whimsey that it becomes
painful, that angel has no incon.
siderable role in the story.
The Garden District.
The major scene is the uptown
garden district, in New Orleans
American" section. but encounters
occur with the downtown Creoles
and also the residents of the Irish
channel" where the less well-to-do
live in close neighborhood (at least
in a physical sense) with the more
secure elements. The young lady
comes of the garden crowd, the
young man is the son of an Italian
immigrant. (Such are the COM
plexities of New Orleans mixtures
that colonies of Italians in the Irish
channel seem no anomaly In sew
eral chapters action shifts to the
French quarter of the bars and
Bohemian life, to good effect.
Especially pleasurable are the in
cidental points, the shafts against
a certain element of carnival hier-
archy and Mardi Gras pretensions
Some of the lower" and middle
elements come to life better than do
the upper ones; and now and then
Mr.. Tallant appears to weigh the
scales a trifle. But it's all fun, and
often lively at that.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
A Path of Hatred
That Led Stroioht
To Firing Squad
WALK IN DARKNESS
BY Hans Habe. (Putnam's;: $3.,
4tCFlCHCO Uy
FLETCHER F. ISBELL.

FLE Cf1Eft r. ISbELL.
Washington Roach was a soldier
In the American Army occupying
Germany. A Harlem Negro, one
quarter white, he hated whites in
general. Southerners and Jews in
particular. In any matter -of-fact
order he saw a personal persecution
from a background approaching the
pathological. C"When I earned
money my mother took it away
every Saturday, as If I wouldn t
know what to do with 1t anyway
He could not understand T/Sergt.
Redding, Southern Negro. CYou
don't hate white folks. A lot less
than I do, anyway. I don't get it,
But he knew what he wanted. and
over Redding's protests and Army
orders he married a complaisant
German girl Earlier he had begun
quartermaster pilferage. Now he
began wholesale thievery for the
black market. The trail led on. Too
many obstacles began to wreck the
marriage. He deserted to join the
criminal underground. When his
daughter was born, his wife banished
it to the care of a nurse.
Suddenly-in the only major flaw
in a well-motivated story-Roach
changes an evasive, shifty charac-
ter into one of incisive leadership,
becoming head of bandit gang,
complete with castle, to which he
takes the baby and big loot. Mr..
Habe, whose plot mechanics stick
out here, has not yet attained en-
tire ease in the manipulation of the
novel. But he RECEIVERS with a full
awareness Of emotional values in a
driving, poignant finish. Roach S
murder of a trooper and his flight
provide path of tragic inevitability,
and Mr.. Habe sends Roach at last
to face the firing squad.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
ATenderIy7 old
Story ofHorsh
FightingMen

THE WINE OF ASTONISHMENT
BY Martha Gellhorn. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; So
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.
When 1t. Col. John Dawson
Smithers, commander of a COM
bat battalion, acquired a new
jeep driver named Jacob Levy he
was openly displeased. He didn't
like Jews.
Not that he was q vicious Ku
Klxer; he was a plain country
Georgian. without much education
or experience in travel, and he had
inherited certain age-old prejudices.
The mark of the man was his
complete about-face when Jacob
Levy, already twice wounded, proved
himself good man in battle. Levy
was a quiet, sensitive lad and in
credibly handsome. Smithers act
ually got to admire and like him.
On a trip back to a rest area, Levy
knew he had found what he wanted
in innocent. tender Kathe, a Lux
embourg City waitress. just as
Smithers eventually found that
Dotty, a Red Cross girl whom he at
first disliked, was what he wanted.
A somewhat exaggerated study Of
Levy's tender spirit and his ex-
tended periods Of juvenile introspec-
ton no doubt Is intended to explain
why the sights and smells Of the
death camp at Dachau drove him
to an act of violence and folly in the
climactic chapter.
This novel, while not the best Of
the war books, is sensitively written
with several gulp-provoking pas
sages and occasional bursts of wry
humor. The amazing thing is
Martha Gellhorn's descriptive writ
ing about combat. Only one who
has been up close to 1t could do it
so well-and she is as successful at
conveying the actualities Of war
fare as any one we've read to date.
Evening star., 1948-10-10

The Skeleton in the Clock. by Car
ter Dickson. (William Morrow g.
Co.; $500
Three anonymous postcards, hint
ing that the 20-year-old death of
Sir George Fleet was murder, send
Sir Henry Merrivale to Fleet House
The puzzle: How could Sir George
have been pushed off his roof when
he was clearly visible to two persons
on a neighboring gable and they
saw no one on the roof with him?
Complicating the irrepressible H. M. S
task are the events Of a midnight
expedition to a defunct prison, an
indomitable old dowager, a lovelorn
and therefore blind swain and an
irrelevant murder The clues are
all there, but planted with such
deftness that the master of the
locked-room type of whodunit is as
completely mystifying as usual. An
added attraction: This time. H. M
fancies himself the reincarnation of
medieval cavalier.
The Man With My Face, by Samuel
w. Taylor. GA. A. Wyn; $2.50D
A day that began like any other
for Chick Graham wound up with
MS own wife claiming he was an
imposter. the law hunting him as a
bank robber and the real imposter's S
gang tracking him down with man
killing dogs. All this happened be-
Evening star., 1948-10-10
Heaven on Earth

IHE PILGRIMAGE OF PETER
STRONG
BY Paul Geren. Harper & Bros,
S2.75.)
A spiritual odyssey of a young
American wandering over a war
torn world in quest Of "the church
invisible" where beauty and truth
exist in real brotherhood of man.
Peter Strong's pilgrimage brings
him near heaven on earth. yet never
quite reaching it. He is symbolic
of the sensitive men of his genera
tion searching for spiritual certainty
with a goal of lasting fellowship
that includes all mankind.
M. S. B.
Evening star., 1948-10-10

ne WILL SoON II
BY Louis Bromfield. Harper &
Bros, S2.75J.
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON.
The wild country" is near
Ronnie's grandfather's Missouri
farm. 1t is a rendezvous for i'm
moral characters, who are almost
certain they will not be discov-
cred. It's influence nearly cor
rupts the boy Ronnie: its sinister
attractions singularly fit into the
schemes of a promiscuous, lecherous
young member of Congress. and
it temptS. and threatens to swallow
up, an unfortunate woman who had
been redeemed by the love of a
simple farmer.
1t is a weakness of the book that
it's author has told it in the first
person, rather than in the third.
The reader cannot escape the con-
clusion that sensitive Ronnie, 13
and IA throughout most of the book,
is seeing life as Mr. Bromfleld, an
adult, sees it. At times Ronnie can
not remember what was said, but at
other times, although he wasn't
within gunshot, he can quote lengthy
conversations.
There is suggestion throughout
that truly free spirits, not perverted
in personality, can live by private
code without damaging society or
suffering retribution. The grand
father, who hampers with the lives
of almost everybody and who
wouldn't be caught dead in church,
is held up as an example of conduct,
perhaps in worth exceeded only by
his wife, who left him 80 years be-
fore to live abroad with French
man. When the romance of these
two amoral people ends, the pleas
ant lady. who spurned divorce for
fear it would injure her husband S
reputation, bounces back to his side
without a ripple of scandal. Later
she charms wide circle of friends
mere in the Nations Capital
As the book nears its end, tre-
mendous reaches are covered in
staccato sentences. One feels that
Mr.. Bromfeld has gone to unneces-
sary lengths to bring in a gallery of
Old World props to glamorize what
otherwise would be an almost too
earthly vehicle
Evening star., 1948-10-10
S>' ~ " ~ ~
CATHERINE D. HILL

Using the framework and tech
nique of a well-planned detective
story, Robert Spencer Carr deals
with thoughtful and even mysti-
cal material in The Room Be-
yond"
Essentially, The Room Beyond
is the story of a search-a search
by a famous doctor, Daniel Bryce,
for a beautiful and mysterious
nurse he met and loved when a
child. But as Miss Cristina, the
nurse, says: mo one should ever
know beforehand what's coming
1t spoils the surprise and
no matter how carefully you explain
exactly what to expect, the real sur
prise when it comes is different" s."
Suffice it to say that every plant"
in the beginning is a neat clue to
the development of characters or
the real surprise" at the end.
Mr.. Cars first novel was pub
lished when he was II. This book
was written after 20 years of work
and travel in many places. includ-
ing war years in the infantry He
spent three years writing The
Room Beyond"
You may be metaphysicist, es-
capist or realist. You may think
this the best book of the year or
the most melodramatic But you'll
read with growing intensity. stop
ping only to look at the clock
the clock printed in the book, not
the one on your wall.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
|MocDonuIdPen
|BHghtens Up
IA S0nitoriun
THE PLAGUE AND
BY Betty Macdonald. IL. P. Lip.
pincott Co.; $2.75J

THE PLAGUE AND
BY Betty Macdonald. IL. P. Lip
pincott Co.; $2.75J
Reviewed by
MARTHA LEWIS.
About the first thing Betty
Macdonald admirers will want
to know is whether her new book
is up to the sensationally hilari-
Gus THE Egg and l." which re-
manned at the top of best-seller
lists for SO many months.
"The Plague and I" is a most
amusing book. indeed, but it doesn't
have the "laugh-to-every-page" of
its predecessor.
This time Miss Macdonald
deals with her 9-month stay in q
tuberculosis sanitarium-hardly a
place for laughs.
But somehow she manages to find
them, and you'll get many a chuckle
at her experiences and at the strange
characters who make sanitarium life
brighter.
Early chapters disclose more of
Miss MacDonald's childhood. There's
Daddy Bard and his health pro-
grams"-the children must jump
into ice-cold water and dash around
the block at break-neck speed in
subzero' weather before breakfast.
! And there's Gammy, who sabo-
tages his programs as fast as
he inaugurates them. And the au-
thor's fun-loving sisters and BROTH
ers.
1t is after Miss Macdonald leaves
the chicken ranch (of THE Egg and
I") and comes back to the city to
work that she contracts tuberculosis,
presumably from a fellow-worker
who coughs constantly in her face,
and here again is displayed a color
full talent for description, so vivid, in
fact, that you're sure you're right
there IN bed in the same room.
| Betty Macdonald has served up an
omelet of fun from a sickroom tray.
There are sadder sequences, to be
sure, but all ends we'll, and you'll
cheer her plucky fight for health.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
Field Biography
THIS LEE I'VE LOVED

An Autobiography by Isobel
Field. (Longmans, Green G. Co.;
$780,
Isobel Field, who became the STEP
daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson
presents in a book the unique ex-
periences of a life of travel and
companionship with artistic and fas-
cinating personalities. Much of the
autobiography deals with her STEP
father, the stories and anecdotes OF
whom would provide sufficient rea-
son for reading it. were the rest of
her life not as colorful as 1t is.
&C. G. B.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
Uptown Garden Set Is Target for New
Robert ToIIont Satire of Mordi Gros City
ANGEL IN THE WARDROBE
BY Robert Tallant. doubleday; So

Reviewed by HARNETT T. KANE
tAutnor OF New Orleans Woman and Bride OF FortuneD
Mr. Talants Orleans bright witty quick
upper reduced being reduced
of the worlds affairs
1t has grpoor theme except that the girl belongs to