davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

Jackson and wife, Eleanor, off for Los
Angeles. New pickings there, but will
still shoot stuff to Defender. Rousing send
off party for Jay and W. last Sunday night.
Standards AL Vaughn has been informed
he had good time.
DUBOIS Theater Guild hunting for a stage
to display its revamp Of waiting for Lefty"
and smart production of Lonesome Train
the Robinson-Lampell tata Wendell
Phillips auditorium running strong.
STORM CENTER Gerhart Eisler in Chi
cago Dec. IL, Sunday. Speaks on what Fu-
ture for Germany" at Ashland Auditorium
Z Pm. Sponsor Modern Bookstore.
Q: Why do radio announcers have such
small hands?
A: Wee paws for station Identification.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

Now, am not one to shy
away from an honest dollar.
And l see in these clippings the
subtle but reckoning opportuni-
ty to turn a quick buck writing
for a ten-cent magazine. There
is a potential thriller here.
Trouble is, 1 don't understand
the story. In fact, I seldom do
l. the ten-cent magazines. My
wife can tell me who the killer
is before she's halfway through
and I'm never sure who it was
after I've finished.
Anyhow, if you will stop me
when I'm wrong, maybe we can
figure this out.
Now there's a Whitaker
Chambers who says he used to
be a spy. He told that to Rep.
J. Parnel1 Thomas. AS a result
Chambers is under indictment
/. oh, no, Thomas is under
indictment. Oh dear, neither of
them or rather, Thomas is
under indictment because they
said he kept government money
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11
To the Editor:

10 the EQltOr-
l was glad to see your article
discussing the pros and cons of
comic books for children. This
article refers to me as teacher
"of Pine Grove Pre-School." In
this school my connection has
been that of a parent. l would
also like to correct the impress
sion conveyed by the comment
attributed to me that many
comic books are valuable in
helping to answer the questions
of youngsters in imaginative
ways"
My view of comic books is
that of the Congress of Ameri-
can Women, which character
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

EcrOfllm a b o u t
1.-THE size of lip
stick, IL Com
munists accused
of a plot to rid
A m ic ans of
t h e U n i t e d
States, and a
pumpkin. There
are more char
ac'ters, but they
only t e n d to
confuse me.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

I HAVE just crept out from a
] deluge of clippings all about
a congressman, a confessed"
spy, plane from Panama-or
was it Honolulu?-a roll of mi
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11
our TOW @4k:
BY Peter Williams

BY Peter Williams
ESTHER GRUNSFELD, YPAer, sided
into new Hasty Tasty ice cream swankorium
other night at Clark and North. Hailed the
night counter man, pointed to spot on the
menu reading: americas Second Best
Chocolate Soda Is cents"
II guess everyone asks" says Esther saw
antly, "but where do you get the first best?"
."Oh," comes back the night man, fright
over at the corner drug store across the
street."
CHICAGO Defender eartOOnist Jay
The Arizona post., 1948-07-02

Mrs. Irving Schacter has re-
turned from a months visit in
New York and Cleveland.
DIR. F. B. Shutzbank spoke be-
fore a sectional meeting of the
American Medical Assn. in annu-
al convention at Chicago last
Thursday. Newspapers quoted
from his speech at length in
which he told that many cases of
allergy originate in emotional dis
turbances that do not require nor
respond to climatic change. 9th
ers get better simply because they
left behind the cause of their ner-
vousnesS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving FierSOn
after 4 months in Tucson have re-
turned to New York.
The Arizona post., 1948-07-02
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Tobias, E. 9Th,

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Tobias, E. 9Th,
were completely taken by sur
prise when friends arrived June
23rd to help them celebrate their
14th anniversary with a patio par
ty. Guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Fox, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
w. Howard and daughter, Jac-
queline, Mr.. and Mrs. Nat Lieber-
man and daughter, Arlene togeth-
er with her guest, Nancy Janis of
Los Angeles.
Henry BecksOn recent grad
uate of the u of A has gone to
Phoenix to live and work. He
was accompanied by his mother.
Nanny, his brother, will continue
at the University and living at the
ZBT house.
The Arizona post., 1948-07-02

ShieI Ginsberg, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. David j. Ginsberg, E. 9Th,
leaves about the 10th to join the
colony at the Hechalutz Farm,
newly established near Riverside,
Calf, to prepare for a pioneer ag-
ricultural life in Palestine. Shiel
joins the exodus started last Sep
tember by Herbert Straus, fol-
lowed by David and Sylvia Holtz,
Bob White and Matt Wunch.
Arthur Dunes, E. 9th, and his
brother Louis are spending week
at Hot Springs, Ark. after which
they will go on to Vincennes,
Ind, Mr.. Dunes old hometown
where he will visit friends and
relatives and then will journey
thru the state.
The Arizona post., 1948-07-02
M. Robbins, Houston, Texas, to-

Nj. Robbins, Houston, Texas, to-
day joins Mrs. Robbins and their
son Steven who have been visiting
Mrs. Robbins aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Giamakos, Veter-
ans Blvd. The family hope to re-
turn to live here. Mr.. Robbins
is in the burlap bag business and
was stationed at Davis Monthan.
Stella Linder has returned from
a grand vacation in the east, and
to her old hometown, Providence,
r. I.
Congratulations are in order for
Nathan Feldman, Oracle Road,
who recently became a member
of Allan Kol Grotto of Tucson.
The Arizona post., 1948-07-02
Social and
PERSONAL

Mrs. George Fenster of the Fen
ster Ranch School returned Wed
nesday from New York where she
terminated her trip returning stu
dents to their homes for the sum-
mer.
Evening star., 1948-03-21
HOW DOES A WAR WIDOW LIVE?

and tanks and ships. Large cor
porations presented their bills and
were promptly paid. Veterans
who fought and returned are being
shown gratitude. This is all as it
should be. But - it includes in the
smallest degree those men who
gave the most
In other words, if we acknowl-
edge our greatest war debt is to
those who lost their lives. then -
if we are paying any debts at all -
we are obliged to pay theirs, on
time and in full. There can be no
doubt that the least they would
have expected for their sacrifice
is that we who survived take good
care of their wives and children.
What are the possibilities for
LEGISLATION of the kind we have
talked about?
Lately the big veterans organi-
cations have shown growing con-
Germ for these families. The main
provisions of H.R. 3748 have been
officially endorsed in hearings by
representatives of the American
Legion, the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, the Disabled American
Veterans and the Amvets.
What Are the Chances?
Even so, the prospects for the
bill are not bright. H.R. 3748, like
many other such bills, has been
reported out of committee. Com
mittee members think that if it
came to vote it would pass over
whelmingly. But it's one thing to
report a bill out and another to get
it onto the voting calendar. Bills
get onto the floor at the pleasure
of party leaders. One of these men,
when asked recently what he
thought of the chances for a bill
like H.R. 3748, said that of course
he could make no commitments
for the January session.
Il can assure you, though"
he added, that we are not un-
mindful of the needs of war widows
and we want to do all we can for
them"
That could be. Martha Carder
and great many other widows
will be waiting to see. And every
so often while waiting, Mrs. Car
der will look at the small silver
plaque that hangs over her man.
telpiece. 1t was sent to her by the
men in her husbands squadron,
and it says. "In memory of Major
Samuel Carder, who gave his life
that his children and ours might
live in freedom. The End
Evening star., 1948-03-21
Too Few. Too Late

l HE loan proposals would author
ize government-guaranteed loans
to widows who want to buy homes
or start new businesses. That's
fine for widows with such ambi-
tious plans. But how would it help
a Martha Carder? She'd be foolish
to incur the debt for a new home.
and she has no experience that
would warrant her starting a busi-
ness.
How about letting the Wild
ows and children i'm on VA.
medical care? 1t sounds good,
but the Veterans Administration
doesn't even have enough hospi-
tails. doctors and nurses to take
care of the regular CT load.
Some of the education bills
would provide college tuition and
subsistence for all children of the
men who died in the war. But
most of the kids are young. They
wouldn't reap the benefits of such
bills for another eight, 10 or IL
years. A college education that far
Evening star., 1948-03-21

thing is wrong when an able-bod-
led veteran, married or single, who
may never have seen service out
side the States, is entitled to more
help than the wife and children of
a man who was killed.
In addition, the widows them
selves are becoming more vocal.
Last July two of them, Frances
Nelson and Mary De Van. ap-
peared before the House Commit
tee on Veterans Affairs to state
their case. They pointed out that
the war widow has no priority on
housing. is not entitled to a CT
loan, is not eligible for education
benefits or job training, is no
longer permitted to use service
dispensaries or commissaries. They
reminded Congressman that the
Serviceman's Leave Act does not
permit her to get her husbands
accrued leave pay, that the only
recent law benehting the war
widow is one emitting her to
refund on income-tax payments
her husband made between
December 7, 194l and January of
this year.
Evidence of this kind has in
spired dozens of Congressman to
propose scores of bills to help the
widows and children. Most of the
bills fall into four categories: loan
privileges, medical care. educa-
tional and training benefits, or
higher pensions.
Evening star., 1948-03-21
Continued from page fire

away buffers no parsnips today.
The bills providing education or
job training for widows would be a
real help to those who expect to
work for years. But again, that's
only one group, and no immediate
help even to one.
Plainly, the fault of all these
bills is that they help too few or
they help too late. The only kind
of bill that faces the problem
squarely is the kind that provides
for increased pensions. Cash. Now.
This Would Help
ONE of the most-discussed of
these bills is H.R. 3748. introduced
last year by Rep. Frank Mathews
of New Jersey. 1t provides that a
widow alone shall receive SIS a
month (instead of 500, then $40
more for the first child and $40
for each additional child. For the
average family involved "a wild
ow and two children the
monthly pension total would be
$135 instead of the current $3.50.
Not a lot, but enough to make a
difference.
Bills of this kind are given a
stiff workout in the hearings of the
House Veterans Affairs Commit
tee. The main objection, of course,
is their ultimate cost. If we assume
again that the average war widow
in our total of $4,000 has two chill
dren, we will find that the total
pension paid annually today comes
to $67,OOO,OOO.
Now if H.R. 3748 becomes
law, that annual total would be
increased by about $30.O0O,0OO.
To be sure, the cost would de-
crease each year as the children
grew up, but it is still whale of a
lot of money to ask an economy
minded Congress for. There are
plenty of men on the Hill who
would say. 1--WE simply can't
afford it. The war cost us $50 bill
lion and the VA. is already spend
ing eight billion a year."
They Gave the Most
How about arguments in favor
of the bill? During those hearings
in July, Mrs. Frances Nelson
showed that the money spent in
one year for subsistence allow
ances for veterans in school and
in training (almost two billion
dollars) would pay the entire cost
of H.R. 3748 for 40 years. She
added, This is just as surely
war debt as the payments for guns
Evening star., 1948-11-14
New York Acting Governor
Has Riqhf Eve Removed
By the A,sesiotsd Pros,

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 13.-Acting
Gov. Joe r. Hanley had his sight
less right eye removed today at
Albany Hospital.
A hospital spokesman said the
72-year lieutenant : governors
condition was satisfactory" He
said Mr.. Hanley was expected to
remain at the hospital five or six
days"
Mr.. Hanley was taken to the
hospital Monday for treatment Of
acute glaucoma In the eye, which
has been sightless since last jan
uary.
The hospital said Mr.. Hanley was
recovering from q slight attack Of
pneumonia that developed Wednes-
day.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
AZ Women to Fill PuIpits
In Milwaukee Churches
By the Assoeio3ed Press

BY the Assocofed Press
MILWAUKEE,, Nov. 13. Forty
two women ministers and religious
leaders will occupy pulpits in Mil
waukee Protestant churches to-
morrow in opening phases Of the
fourth national biennial assembly OF
the United Council of Church
Women.
|. The assembly. ending Thursday
is expected to draw more than
Evening star., 1948-11-14
St. Andrews Society
To View Four Films

The st. Andrews Society OF
Washington will show four films at
its first meeting of the season at 8
pm. Thursday In the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church.
The pictures will be Caller Her
rim; The Edinburgh Festival; film
Of the pianist, Myra Hess, and
Voices of Malaga. Society pipers
will play at the meeting and Miss
Elizabeth McGrory will sing some
Scottish songs, accompanied by Miss
Gladys Cunningham, pianist.
The meeting is free and open to
the public.
Evening star., 1948-11-14

$500 churchwomen from "a Pro-
testant denominations.
Mrs. Harper Sibley, National
president from Rochester, N. Y,
said the sessions will seek to map
comprehensive church program
dealing with postwar employment
and education, housing, health, race
and population problems.
Evening star., 1948-11-14

VALLEY COTTAGE, N Y.-FREIGHT TRAIN LEAVES RAILS
freight of Oscar West Shore Railroad fast
freight train srewn along the tracks just north of here
after wreck in which 20 of the left the rails
No one in the wreck but all traffic the line
blocked engines pulling the train from Selkirk N y
N. j. not deraied. "A. p WirephOtO
Evening star., 1948-09-12

Run to Death, by Patrick Quentin.
(Simon g. Schuster, Inc; So
Inner Sanctum
When a blond asked for lift in
Peter. Duluth's car, he welcomed
the company on his sightseeing
trip to some Mayan ruins. Peter
learned later that fear, rather than
his masculine attractions, inspired
the blond to spend the night in
his room. When the girl jumped,
fell or was pushed into a sacrif1cial
we'll, Peter found himself the un-
willing heir to her terrors. He
didn't know whom to suspect-the
American bridegroom with his
Mexican bride, the too hearty
Cleveland businessman or the plump
little matron from Newark. Before
the denoument in New Orleans
Peter gets cracked on the head, shot
at and wooed by tempestuous ex-
ballerina. Ancient ruins provide a
sinister backdrop for very modern
shenariigans.
Over the Edge, by Lawrence Treat.
william Morrow g. Co.; $2.50o
Imagine the embarrassment OF a
jury foreman midway through a
murder trial to discover the victim
is his sometime mistress. tHe
hadn't known her married nameo
If he tells, his marriage will be
Evening star., 1948-09-12
Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Gutenberg

wrecked. II he doesn't, he's liable
to a prison term. And just to COM
plicate matters, the unhappy juror,
Alec Rambeau, has a fancy set OF
complexes involving high places.
The murder victim fell or was
pushed over a cliff. Alec's mother
also died in a fall, which accounts
for the complexes. Mr.. Treats old
standbys, Jub Freeman and 1t.
Decker, get into the act but it's Alec
who finally discovers what actually
happened at the edge of the cliff.
Not recommended for acroph'obes.
X X y X
The Baited Blonde, by Robinson
MacLean. IN. S. Mill Co.; s2.50)
A Dutch scientist, foiling the
Nazis, tore his secret weapon blue
print into four parts and distributed
them to assistants who went under
the names of Carl, Fedor, Anna and
Tad. One of the assistants was
killed, another turned traitor. All
that happened while the war was
on. Now. Capt. Duane Hogan is
dispatched to Djibouti to locate the
missing pieces of the plan and, in
cidentally, the assistants who got
away. In the course of his adven-
lures, he comes upon as weird an
assortment of characters as ever
crept out of spy yarn There's the
Javanese stepdaughter of an Ameri-
can boogie player, French spy dis
guised as a bartender, checker
playing priest on sabbatical leave.
a Mohammedan who goes under the
Percy and, of course, the standard
beautiful blond. An ingenius plot
practically gets lost IN the shuttle
of fantastic doings in and around
Port Said.
Murder in Any Language, by Kelley
Roos. CA. A. Wyn, Inc; so
Haila Troy, the feminine half of
the Troy detecting couple, gets q
telephoned request from a Mary
Connors to change the hour Of her
Spanish lesson. Haila obliges,
thereby signing the death warrant
for her Spanish instructor whose
charm. it develops, covered null
titude of sins. Haila can't be-
lieve that any of those nice people
at the Randall School Of Languages
is givenfto murder. but her attitude
begins to change when she catches a
suspicious snatch OF telephone
conversation and some one bops her
over the head. Mary Connors. Of
course. is the key to the whole thing
but there's reason to believe no
such person actually exists. Haila
and Jeff deduee like mad. thereby
reaching the not-too- obvious solu-
ton In customary fashion.
Evening star., 1948-09-12

The title of this study Of the "vot-
ing behavior" of the Supreme Court
since 1887 need not disturb the
tribunal or cause election-yeaI
jubilation or jitters elsewhere. Prot
Pritchett uses the term descriptively
"as shorthand for the Supreme
Court as reconstructed and redI-
rected by President Roosevelt's ap-
pointees." :,
The work moves on a difficult
not TO say delicate ground. 1t delves
perhaps dangerously into personal
and political influences that might
have led to the findings of indivld-
ual justices and the patterns OF
court decisions. Be it said for Prot
Pritchett that he is neither un-
friendly nor disrespectful.
Frankly Liberalist.
He frankly leans toward the lib
eral tradition" Yet, while defending
the present court and particularly
some of its members from what he
deems one-sided or ill-informed at
tack, he achieves a good measure o1
obiectivity and offers common sense
counsel. This merits careful public
and professional hearing in this pc
riod of social change and challenge
Mr.. Pritchett is a political scient-
lists and not a lawyer. A professor
at the University of Chicago since
1e4O. he now is on leave here with
the Hoover Commission on the Or
ganization of the Government. Ear
Ilier he was associated with the
Labor Department and the IVA
No stranger to the judiciary, he has
prepared annual analyses OF Su-
preme Court decisions.
A Profound Study.
Appearing at first blush to center
statistically and temperamentally
on the numerous dissents, disagree
ments and concurrences as well as
legal uncertainties" coming out
of the Supreme Court in recent
years. the book actually goes deep
into the philosophy of law and the
political factors.
Without concurring wholly in Mr.
Dooley's dictum, Prof. Pritchett
holds that the court acts in a "po-
litical context and that this proper
fact should be realistically faced by
every one concerned. His purpose
is to list, chart, study and comment
on "the policies and values OF the
Roosevelt Court" through the non
unanimous opinions"
In so controversial and compll-
Gated a field he is certain to pro-
woke dispute on interpretations il
not on motives. He concludes
among other things, that the pres
ent court has expanded its power
only in the area of civil rights pro-
lection: that its fundamental di-
vision is between conflicting sys-
TENS of preferences on matters OF
social and economic policy; and
that the court not only tackles more
hard" cases than its predecessor
but that its efforts are badly COM
plicated by the presence OF COM
peting values"
|. He is equally eager to note that
this court on some questions has
tended to be as dogmatic as the
Evening star., 1948-09-12
DR.. BoIlowe Writes More Richly Framed
Folk Yarns About Louisiana Characters
CREOLE FOLK TALES


By Hewitt Balowe Louisiana State University Press s3J
Reviewed HARNETT T. KANE
Author Ne Orleans Woman and the forthcoming BRIDE OF
friends and neighbors and
himself better Last DR. BaoW reten
thousands chuke Win
framed Delta below New
Orleans Mississippi with the wide blue gull
with yet better results
people firmly, ferventy French
Evening star., 1948-09-12
Blackstone Would
Not Approve of This
BLACKSTONE AND WHITE
ROCK.
BY Milton Farber. fDutton &
Co..; $2.75J
Reviewed by
IRVING r. LASH,

Comes now law book with no
resemblance, coincidental or other
wise, to the musty, dull tones COM
monty associated with the legal pro-
fession. 1t is about eccentrics, who
took their bizarre cases to an eccen-
tric lawyer; to wit, the author. The
title is misleading. White Rock
never makes an appearance. Black
stone and Black Label is more accu-
rate.
The authors father had consider
able influence on his sons selection
of a career. The elder Farber spent
much time in court, sometimes as a
defendant, but more often on the
bench beside a judge who had great
respect for his unofficial opinions
Every case cited herein is a
pungent one, without a single
whereas,
Evening star., 1948-09-12
Vivid "reminiscences
OF Cab Driver
MY FLAG is DOWN
BY James Maresca. fE. p. Dut-
ton e. Co.; $780,
Reviewed by
HARRY LEVER.
Reviewed 5v
HARRY LEVER.

In writing about the taxicab
business Mr.. Maresca of New York
follows in the steps of Washington
Cabbie James j. Brennan, who
crashed the Saturday Evening Post
with a feature on hacking.
However, Mr.. Maresca's series of
anecdotes about some of the strange
characters he has carried is not up
to par. Instead of an amazing
logbook of rolling room rented
by the mile" as stated in the jacket
blurb. the book chronicles one in
cident after another with little at
tempt to arouse interest. This is
unfortunate because strip-teasers,
bug doctors and snake charmers
with snakes, who receive mention,
could be wonderful book material.