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Evening star., 1948-12-26

On the list of strange characters
who also were objects Of intelligence
scrutiny are such notorious names
as Wake Gordon, Johnny Torrio
Moe Annenberg, Nucky Johnson
Willie Bioff, Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann and Tom Pendergast.
AS Mr.. Slocum relates it, Mr.. Trey
and his unit waged a running flight
with politicians who attacked from
the flank while he and his men were
conducting their frontal attacks on
the tax dodgers. Not even Mr..
Truman is spared from criticism.
AS Senator, the book says. Mr.. Tru-
man used every bit of pressure that
his Office legally permitted to keep
Pendergast out of Jail" Mr.. Irey
Is quoted also as blaming Frank
Murphy. then Attorney General. for
failure to prosecute Pendergast on
additional charges that were avail
able. In fact, Mr.. Trey is repre-
sented as having troubles aplenty
in trying to obtain action by the
Department of Justice in numerous
cases. The FBI also comes in for
some derogatory remarks.
In short, 1.-THE Tax Dodgers" Is
full of dynamite. It will long be
debated whether Mr.. Trey would
have let the book go to press in its
present surcharged form If he had
lived to give the manuscript a final
going over. In any event, Mr.. Slo-
Gums story Of the amazing Trey
story is well worth reading.
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Notes
By Donald n. Muoridee

tuXent Naval Station. and in the
course of the tournament he has
just won, he has commuted more
or less regularly between Maryland
and Greenland.
How he does it remains mystery
to his unsuccessful rivals at the
Divan. Having annexed the title,
he is now off on three-week jaunt
to Pensacola.
Comdr. Motifs win from Henri p.
Reyss in the Divan tourney, the
score of which follows, is partic-
ularly interesting because both
players were trying very hard to
win-naturaliy enough, since a re-
versal OF the outcome would have
brought about a triple tie for first
place between Mott, Reyss and
Shapiro. White seems to have a
considerable initiative. but is sud-
denly struck down by surprise
counter attack on the kings side.
wI,,te. pEvSS plack. MOTT
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what they are thinking about"
Three nights of the week find him
at the Stork Club or 81. hobnobbing
with any writers. painters, actors,
prizefighters or visiting flremen who
happen to be around. Ruddy and
weedy, Mr.. Weybright is apparently
tireless.
II like all kinds of people who
are doing something" says Mr.. Wey-
bright in his Southern-B British die.
ton. 1.-The only kind who don't in
terest me are the people who live in
Scarsdale, Larchdale or Chevy
Chase. They don't buy my books.
It's the public library users, the
workers, the students who are my
best customers"
Mr.. Weybright takes the afternoon
train down from New York every
Friday night with his wife Hide
garde Fillmore, fashion and beauty
editor of McCalls. On his Carroll
County estate, Hollow Rock farm,
he becomes the country gentleman,
his days filled with consultations
with his farmer and visits to his
herd of IS Holsteins. His dairy farm
is a going concern, he will tell you
with some pride.
Born in Carroll County, where his
family has lived since 1850, in 1907,
he was educated in the local schools,
finishing his education at the Whar-
ton School of Finance and the Uni
versity of Chicago. He is, among
other things, former secretary of
Jane Addams, All boy and
connoisseur OF gypsy lore. He is the
author of "Spangled Banner, the
Story of Francis Scott Key a one
time managing editor of Survey
Graphic and Adventure and con-
sultant to the Readers Digest in the
social field.
The Timber Ridge Bassets.
Every Saturday afternoon, he
eagerly dons the green and whits
of the Timber Ridge Bassets Of
which he is hunt secretary and
foots it vigorously over hill and dale
in pursuit of the leisurely, low-slung
hounds which are among his great
est enthusiasms. His 18th century
soul' revels in the ceremonials OF
the hunt and he spends good deal
of his time explaining the fine
points to uninitiated visitors.
At his luxurious farmhouse, he
observes happily other formalities.
Black tie for dinner is obligatory,
the morning lesson is read every
Sunday to the household staff and
guests who frequently include MEM
bers of the English peerage who.
he says, with great satisfaction, feel
very much at home here'o. Despite
his baronial proclivities. he is, how
ever, a 100 per cent New Dealer"
| Mr.. Weybright's great affinity for
the English was consolidated during
his wartime stay in Britain when he
served with the owl. He was at
tached to the United States Embassy
and worked closely with the late
Ambassador Winant. Il found 1t
very cozy psychologically.
Although he spent his last Mary
land vacation reading some "a oooks'
Mr.. Weybright is. proud that no one
ever sees him working.
81 think It's such bore to appear
harried, rushed and oppressed.
can't bear that"
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The Amazing Story of Elmer Irey's Tax
Gang Busters Is Loaded With Dynamite
THE TAX DODGERS


BY Trey told to William j. slocu (Greenberg Pub
Hsher S3J
REX COLLIER.
publication It is
little ongerong enough least to have
highly melodramatc Of
busters of the Internal Revenue Bureaus Intel
igence Unit
history Of the units
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IroWoIfert
I'm War Novel
|LmeIight
AN ACT OF LOVE

AN ACT OF LOVE
BY Ira Wolfert. (Simon e.
Schuster;; $685.
Ira Wolfert, the celebrated
combat correspondent, here en-
ters the lists of the most ambi-
tious war novelists, bidding
strongly for the attention cur
rently centered in "The Naked
and the Dead" and 'The Young
Lions" Comparable in length and
scope to that stalwart pair. its great
difference is that it is a psychology
cal war novel which is not only
record of violence, but search for
it's meaning. It's hero is wincingly
sensitive young Jew, who fights a
war within war, whose enemies
are not only the japanese, but a
world that is "a jungle of struggle" !"
a society hostile to his race and
finally himself.
Harry Drummer, the first neurotic
in battle dress to emerge from recent
war fiction, faces with a kind of
inner shrieking dismay the fact that
war is a facsimile of peace-"for
what was the normal business of an
American If not war-if not struggle,
struggle to remain alive, struggle to
keep what you had and take what
your neighbor had, struggle to wip
in competitions" That is the es-
sence of Harry's dilemma, and it is
not solved until he witnesses a
sacrifice on the battlefield, which
convinces him of the existence of
God and the brotherhood of man.
That is the burden of Mr.. Wolfert's
message, and he states it emphati-
cally, repetitively and even bombasti-
cally before he is done.
Freudian Symbolism.
Gan Act of Love" opens on a note
Of Freudian symbolism with Harry's
vision of a burning woman. The
scene is an unnamed Pacific island,
where Harry, castaway Navy pilot,
has washed up after the sinking of
his carrier, and been cared for by
the native women His desire for
one of the women sets off a train of
psychological splitting and
agonized soliloquy and erratic i'm
ages which slows the action to a
complete halt. His appalled, recog-
milton Of the fact that mans soul
and body are and always have been
locked in mortal combat is labored
endlesSly. Mr.. Wolfert sets forth his
ideas in a kind Of modern plain
chant. with one word repeated in
one sentence after another until he
has said something in every con-
ceivable way.
1t is after Harry is taken to the
plantation of an American family
and falls in love with the daugh-
| A.
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Penguin, Ltd, Mr. Weybrlght
shows an unshakable faith in the
American people comparable to Mr..
Truman's in the recent election.
"An adult with a quarter can make
up his mind whether he wants a
couple of beers, a magazine or a
book. I personally am willing to
gamble on the taste and literacy Of
the American with quarter to
spend" is his philosophy.
It seems to be paying off. Au-
thors who sell only moderately well
in regular trade editions roll up sales
Of in the hundred thousands as they
60 through the 10000 outlets reached
by reprints. And it has been found
that new books by authors whose
previous works have gone into
pocket-sized editions do increasingly
better in regular trade editions.
Reprints Right Away.
Young publishing houses have
discovered that one of the ways to
launch promising new writer is to
rush him into a 25-cent reprint
Thus Mr. Weybright has on his list
such possible future Hemingways as
Basil Heater c'The Dim ViewD
and William Gardner Smith ("The
Last of the ConquerorsD. They are
doing very well and making friends
for their subsequent output.
Other young comers whose novels
are published under the Signet i'm
print are Carson McCullars c'The
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'D, Tru-
man Cspote ("Other Voices. Other
Rooms") and Frederic Wakeman
Among their more established au-
thors represented are w. Somerset
Maugham, Ellen Glasgow, Edna
Ferber, Christopher Morley, D. H
Lawrence, Dom Byrne, o. Henry
Saki, Ludwig Bemelmans, E. M
Forster, Henry James and Sher-
wood Anderson. Mr.. Weybright
seems to have cornered the realistic
school, with Erskine Caldwell, Will
liam Faulkner, John Dos Passos,
Richard Wright, James Cain and
James T. Farrell under his wing.
The success of such caviarish
nonfiction fare as Ruth Bene-
diets Patterns of Culture" lone
of the Mentor Books, which sell for
35c). 100000 copies of which have
been sold at drugstores and news
stands, has come as no surprise to
Mr.. Weybright.
ANY one catering to obvious mar
kets is missing a bet" he says, for
such books have little positive rela-
ton to the adult education upon
which our rising cultural standards
must be promised. We Kurt
Enoch, my partner and myself try
not to go by the previous sales rec
ord of a book, but by what it
should do If made widely avail
able"
Keeps Busy Schedule.
While in New York through the
week arranging such deals as a
reprint of The Snake PITT to COIN
eide with release of the movie, Mr..
Weybright lives the life of the typ
ical Manhattan publisher. He's up
Iat 6 and reads book before break
fast. At his desk promptly at 9, his
lunches are always business, either
to dicker for rights or to find out
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No one who has ever torn his hair
over an income-tax return will want
to miss this little manual which
explains how the anonymous bards
of the Potomac compose their mas
terpieces of double-talk. The au-
thors, who found their Harvard
training in English totally inadeqate
to the battling minuet-like for
malities of Federal prose, gleefully
examine the whole subject of COB
bledegook, point out how and why
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GCl Va tIlC 1IOOSC
that the novel
really gathers
force. Uneasy in
Eden, made i'm
potent in love by
the guilt and
outrage Of the
war, Harry, con-
fronted with an
American radio
patrol, relives
the sinking of
the Minot and
his conduct dur
ing the last
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Vyshinsky Weighs
Freedom Against
Russian Might
THE LAW OF THE
SOVIET STATE

SOVIET STATE
Andrei Y. Vyshinsky, general
editor, translated by Hugh w.
Babb. (Americdn Council of
Learned Societies Macmillan;
$15J
Reviewed by
W: G. ROGERS.
Written in 1886 just after Vyshin-
sky prosecuted Kamenev, Radek and
others for treason, translated for
the first time, this volume which
according to the foreward, is read by
every Soviet student of govern
ment and law" ought also to be
read by every American student of
the same subjects.
1t does not seem, it is true, to have
much information new to us. unless
We are surprised to learn that the
President of the United States can
name more judges Ito assure him
self majority in the Supreme
Court" or that John Adams Il
assume George Mason is meant
drafted the Virginia Declaration of
Rights. But this book is not just
dry law. This is, in fact, definition
plus exhortation; this is the law and
the prophets.
In view of the period when this
was written, it is natural that Hitler
should come in for much attention.
But VyShinsky and his contributors
are not content with calling Fascists
bloody and harbarous";; to other
foes they apply equally sharing
terms, not as if to argue but to
destroy and liquidate. Enemies like
Trotsky and Bukharin are ban
dts" and others are "deyilish i.
traitorous malicious :. per-
verted" folk.
The book begins with the assump-
ton that the old state, "a machine
to crush and to repress the toilers, :"
must be destroyed before new can
be built. And the new must be
mighty and invincible." It's law
will not be, like our bourgeois
Ao1A ~ viz CAPA CooAO1l vi dbSIi az
tions, but must arise out of "the
economic production relationships. "
Then follow descriptions of the
constitutions of 1918, 1924 and 1886,
the final Stain constitution which
is explained and extolled at length.
There are odd observations on
democracy, and telling quotes from
Bryce and Wilson and comments on
Dreyfus. Sacco and Vanzetti and
Negroes. But some of the most
interesting sections have to do with
Russian police power. the classical
freedoms ard the nature in general
of the Soviet state Democracies
hold onto member states by force,
it is charged, whereas some Soviet
republics may secede, though "of
course, we have not single republic
which would wish to withdraw from
the structure of the U. S. S. R.; that
would not be in its own interests"
Evening star., 1948-12-26
Probing Love Story
Set in England
|Of the TWenties
EVERGREEN
EVERGREEN
BY Edward Holstius. Double
day; So
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON

day.; So
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON
Evergreen" is probing love
story woven around three principal
characters, Shandy, Lorraine and
Benedict. Benedict, egocentric and
endowed with a brand OF charm
irresistible to women, always man.
ages to have his own way. To say
that he invariably succeeded in hav-
ing his cake and eating it would
be putting it mildly. Lorraine, Ben
edict's beautiful wife, would have
been far better of had her path
never crossed that of her irrespon-
sible playboy husband. Shandy,
more of a brother than friend to
Lorraine, has to bear with playing
the role of mediator, conf1dente and
general buffer against the unending
follies, weaknesses and devious do
ings perpetrated by Benedict.
The setting of this cleverly and
realistically told story is England
in the early '20s, and carries on
through to the desperate days of
the Wall Street debacle and Lon
don in 1888.
Readers can follow without in
terruption the tireless selflshness of
Benedict Drew, from postwar at
tempts at becoming a well-known
figure in the world of art through
to the ignominious flight to South
Africa following the financial crash.
Throughout the, years he succeeds
in weaving garment of fascination
around his lovely wife, whose only
fault is her inability to see beyond
the attractions of her unlovely Ben
edict.
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it differs from English, list require
ments for people aspiring to create
it and append glossary indicating
the Federal preference for such
terms as "educationist" over teach
er," "quasiobtainable" over hard te
get" It is an authoritative anc
unique publication recommended fol
utilization by personnel engaged ir
the work of government for direc-
tives in their issuance of informa-
ton regarding administrative de-
mocracv. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1948-12-26
Reading and Writing
Reprints and Pocket-Sized Editions
Becon1inq Book Business Bononzos
BY Mory McGrory

The man has brought Virginia woof and Joyce
into the dugsores America Victor Weybght native and
Maryland who talks looks and acts
much like English country squire.
Editor chairman 1946 of the New American Library
which peaceay parted from the British
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Reviewing The New Books
A Book Reviewer Winds Up the Year
And looks Ahead at What's in Store
By Carter Brooke Jones

vagrant thoughts for the most anticlmacc
day of the year. the day after Christmas:
Wonder many selfapponted masterpieces of 800
each will the presses during the how
for publication the week.
Wonder how many historical meodramas each with its eli
Evening star., 1948-12-26
Deciphering Uncle Sans Code
OF DoubIetuIk on the Potomac

FEDERAL PROSE- HOW TO WRITE IN AND/oR FOR
WASHINGTON
BY Wendell Brooks Phillips (Unuersitg
Evening star., 1948-12-26
White: REYSS. Black: MOT
Oueep'S pawn'e Game

It takes some examination TO con-
vince one that White is really with
out resource after Blacks last move.
Fast chess. at the Divan resulted
as follows: On December Is, Nathan
Robins ran away with the 10-second
tourney, winning all II games. Down
the track were D. H. Mugridge, with
8-3. and w. C.. Michaels and s.
Naidel. with 71a-31a each.
On December IS the pace was
increased to S seconds, and Oscar
Shapiro won with 7la-1R. Robins
and Richard S. Cantwell were just
behind with To each.
Evening star., 1948-12-26
reviewed by
W; G, ROGERS.

Gothic cathedral. 1t is a likeness
of st. Elizabeth, who lived in Mar
burg in the 18th century, and st.
Elizabeth's Cathedral stands to-
day as what one historian has
called "the greatest monument to
a woman in all the world" Eliza
beth was the daughter of the King
and Queen of Hungary. She was
married at IA to Ludwig, landgrave
of Thuringia, young man who
shared her devotion to work
among the poor After Ludwig died
on one of the crusades, Elizabeth
gave her whole life to the welfare
of the destitute and the care of
the sick. Miss Seesholtz says Eliz-
abeth was "the first settlement
worker in Europe" She was driven
from her castle; she suffered per-
secution and privation; she was
sustained by her faith in God. At
"a she was dead, and four years
later she was canonized. No Won
der so many hospitals are named
for st. Elizabeth, among them
great institution in Washington.
The author has written a sympa-
thetic chronicle
A SHORT HISTORY OF
CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
BY Fung Yu-lan. (Macmil-
Ian: $5.)
This is an excellent introduction
to Chinese philosophy for the West
ern reader, clearly expressed, simpler
in language than most philosophical
discussions are. The Occidental
who has little knowledge of Chinese
philosophy may think of it as dating
back many centuries in concepts
and little changed through the years.
DR.. Fung shows that this is not
true, that Chinese thinkers have
adjusted their ideas constantly to
the times, although various schools
often continued to bear names be-
slowed in antiquity. The author
brings out that the philosophical
method known as negative has been
much in favor throughout China S
history and so Chinese philosophy
has lacked clear thinking, which is
one Of the reasons why it is marked
by simplicity" And this simplicity,
he adds. has been quite naive"
DR.. Fung, who is professor of phi
losophy at Using Hua University,
Peiping, holds a Phi. D. degree from
Columbia University and an LII. D.
from Princeton. This book is edited
by Derk Bodde, associate professor
Of Chinese at the University Of
Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1948-12-26
FRANCIS LIEBER: Nineteenth
Century Liberal.

FnANC1O L1EoCN. NlIlCtCcllIll
Century Liberal.
BY Frank Freidel. Louisiana
State University PresSJ
Mr.. Freidel, q former assistant
professor of history at the Univer-
sity of Maryland, has written life
of little-known German INTEL
lectual who was a refugee here
more than 100 years ago. Francis
Lieber advocated nationalism. free,
trade, prison reform, international
copyrights and codification of inter-
national law. He was a professor,
publicist and speaker of influence.
His almost pathological advocacy OF
the cause of the Radical Repub-
licans who wanted to destroy the
South almost destroyed him after
the Civil War. There was q wide
streak of the terrorist in him, little
of the liberal as We know the word.
e. r.
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War Pilots Novel
BENJAMIN LAWLESS

oI4Nd11AA44N LA w AGjko
BY Ernest X. Gam. William
Sloane Associates, Inc: $780,
Reviewed by
CECIL HOLLAND.
A modern soldier Of fortune, Ben
jamin Lawless, became dissatisfied
with the life of an adventurer but
found in the end he could never
desert 1t. not even for Betty, who
loved him and believed in him.
There is nothing deep or very
emotional about the story, but it
contains enough action and sus-
pense to be interesting throughout
The author has drawn on his own
experience as an Air Transport
Command pilot for much of the au-
thenic description and detail to be
found in the story.
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SAINT ELIZABETH
BY Anne Seesholtz. (Philosoph
ical Library; $2.75J
The seal of Marburg, In the Ger
man province Of Hesse, is th'
figure of a woman wearing q golt
crown and carrying q model of ,
Evening star., 1948-12-26

Andrei Y. Vyshinsky, general
editor, translated by Hugh w.
Babb. (American Council OF
Learned Societies Macmillan;
l$l5.I
Evening star., 1948-01-18

orchid ta11eta with matching Juliet
cap and the bridesmaids wore SINH
lar frocks and caps.
Mr.. Carl I. Sanderson, jr.. was best
man for his brother, and Mr.. Henry
Hendrix and Mr.. Joseph Sudano
were the uSherS.
The reception was held in the
home of the bridegroom's parents
after which the r1ewlyweds left on
their wedding trip to New York. The
bridegroom resumed his studies at
American University after serving
with the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administration fol-
lowing his service with the Army Air
Forces through the war.
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ciated, assisted by the Rev. Herbert
Craig, rector of the Cooper's Hill
Episcopal Church In Maine. uncle
Of the bride. The reception was
held in the home OF the brides
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John Allen
Bennett. in Teaneck, N. ]. Mr..
Confehr is special assistant for
planning and training In the Vet
erans' Administration. He is son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Confehr of
Schuylkill Haven, Pa.
MIR. Bennett gave his daughter in
marriage and she was attended by
Miss Judy Hudgings of Winter Park,
Fla, as maid of honor and Miss
Eleanor Wilkerson of Louisville as
bridesmaid.
Mr.. Ralph Giddings of Colorado
Springs, was best man for Mr.. Con-
fel1r and the ushers were Mr.. Hart
land Bennett, brother of the bride,
and Mr.. Robert Wilson of New York
The bride wore white satin
trimmed with seed pearls. Rare ole
rose point lace trimmed her veil.
which was held by a tiara Of pearls,
and she carried a cascade of white
roses and snapdragons. Her maid
of honor wore green faille taffeta
and carried yellow roses. The
bridesmaid was in gold color and
carried tailsman roses.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
Miss H0resky " ed
TO Mr.. Sanders0u

The marriage Of Miss Mable Lor-
raine Horesky, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John B. Horesky, Of Norton,
Kans.. to Mr.. Leroy Archer Sander
son, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl I.
Sanderson. took place January 8
The ceremony was performed in the
North Carolina Avenue Methodist
Church, the Rev. Elmer Wilcher off,
ciating.
The bride was given in marriage
by her mother and was attended by
Mrs. Albert King as matron of
honor and Miss Virginia Sanderson,
sister of the bridegroom and Miss
Marie. Shaeffer Of Johnstown, Pa,
were the bridesmaids. White satin
and a f1ngertip veil formed the
brides costume and she carried a
white orchid surrounded by white
roses. Mrs. King was dressed in
Evening star., 1948-01-18
Mr.. Comfebr, Bride
To Lipe Here

Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer D. Confehr
will be at home after February Is
at 2901 Eighteenth street. They
have gone to Florida and will spend
some time at Key West for their
wedding trip. The marriage of Mr..
and Mrs. Confehr, the latter for
merly Miss Edith Ruth Bennett,
took place yesterday afternoon in
the Second Reformed Church In
Hackensack, N. j. The Rev. How
ard Hartzel, pastor of the Calvary
Baptist Church in Hackensack off,
Evening star., 1948-01-18
State Societies

The Florida State Society and the
University of Florida Alumni Asso-
citation will entertain jointly at a
dinner dance Thursday evening n
the Hall of Nations at the Wash
ington Hotel. Dinner will be served
at 7::3O o'clock and dancing will be
from 10 until o'clock. Many PROM
inent~ guests are expected to attend.
North Carolina
A Leap Year dance will be given
Saturday evening at the Shoreham
Hotel by the North Carolina State
Society.
Further information may be OBJ
tanned from Mr.. John K. Slear or
Miss Annie Lee Chisholm, the lat
ter at Glebe $3.50,