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Evening star., 1948-10-08
Marriage License
Applications

Under D. c. hws, couples must
apply for marriage license on
one day, ,Dait three full days and
receiue the license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
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Grenier, 90. GARFIELD Hospital
Swiss industry is using more elec-
trio power than ever, thanks to
heavy rains in 1948.
Evening star., 1948-10-08

Swiss industry is using more elec-
trio power than ever, thanks to
heavy rains in l948.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Pearl Bucks Sister
Writes of Orient

Out in Bethesda, Cornelia spen-
Ger has set herself the task OF ex-
planning to American children what
it means to be japanese. She has
written copiously OF the Orient since
1898 for both children and adults.
One of her best-known books for
children is a biography Of her IA
nous sister, Pearl Buck, which she
calls "The Exile's Daughter"
In absentia at the moment Is Elo-
Use Lownsberry, who is flying around
the world with her husband. She
served overseas in World War I,
won fame as the author of THE
Boy knight of Reims" and a child's
life of Thomas Jefferso.
AS you go through the list, you
begin to think there must be q
children's author behind every tree
in Northwest Washington. At least
it seems that the area must have
more such writers than any COM
parable district in the country.
Frances Carpenter, author OF
many supplementary readers and
the famous Grandmother Tales;
Ruth Fox, who wrote Great Men
of Medicine" Roberta Whitehead,
author of peter Opens the Door;
Marian King. author Of some lS
juveniles, and Iris johnson, who
has been illustrating children's
books for 20 years. They're just q
few of the many who are insuring
that every week is children's book
week in Washington.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Pushed Into
Literary Life

Two other busy wives were pushed
into the literary life by their hus-
bands. Catherine Besterman was
entreated by her husband, U. P.
Correspondent Walter Besterman, to
tell stories to keep their lively l2-
year-old son quiet while father took
a nap during his vacation. POLISH
born Mrs. Besterman, who used to
be a magazine writer in Europe.
spun an elaborate yarn for her son
which eventually found its way be-
tween covers as "The Quaint and
Curious Quest Of Johnny Longfoot."
Now she's at work on sequel to
this enormously popular fantasy.
writes at her home at 1855 Mckinley
street NV, whenever she feels like
it, although never when it's raining.
Elizabeth Hamilton Of Belmont
road, who got her training as
story teller from her four Unsuitable
children was ordered by her hus-
band, a State Department employe.
to write down her tales one summer
while the youngsters were away at
camp. The accounts for THE p
Zoo" THE Sea Circus" and Go
West, Young Bear" She's thinking
up another now.
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Her Audience
Comes A-Runninq

When Della Goetz wants repre-
sentative comment on any work IN
progress, she simply leans out the
window of her pleasant Georgetown
home on Dumbarton street and sum-
mons in a few of the children who
are always around. An employe OF
the Office of Education, Miss Goetz
has been acting as unofhcial lialson
between the young people OF the
Americas ever since her first book,
"Panchita," was published in 1941.
Her latest book is "Other Young
Americans" Her nightly work
periods which begin promptly at 9
are now taken up with a translation
of "Popol Vuh" a Mayan epic which
is the oldest book on the Continent,
and sequel to THE Burro OF Bar
negat Road"
A colleague OF Miss Goetz, Glen
Blough, who works in the elemen-
tary division of the once OF Edu.
cation, has a fine system for pre-.
testing audience reaction to his>sto.
ries. Hes reads them aloud to the
fourth-graders in a local school.
The young critics have steered him
straight in several situations for
"Beano, the Riverbug Mayor" and
the story of a circus elephant which
he is finishing up.
Ida Eastwick, author of that
charming book of verse, Fairies
and Such-Like," started out by
amusing her large English family OF
brothers and sisters, and later nieces
and nephews. Now that she is
away form them, though, working
here as a secretary in the British
Embassy, she continues to write
prose and poetry and is now con-
templating a collection of her sto-
ries which have appeared In Story
Parade
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gained; it was several minutes be-
fore the bow struck the bottom.
"The wife Of Mr.. ]. w. Reed, who
was lost, was on the bow deck and
could no doubt have been saved but
for her alarm and anxiety about her
children. It is believed that she
jumped overheard with them.
Miss Cornelia Hobb, a beautiful
young lady, residing on K street
between Fourth and Fifth streets,
was under the protection OF Mr..
McGuigan and he went to her as
sistance, but before he could get her
to the side Of the boat her clothing
took fire and he was forced to leave
her. She perished in the flames and
Mr.. McGuigan swan ashore.
Miss Bette Reed, the niece of
Ofacer Reed, was a young lady II
years Of age and worked at Lans-
burgh's. She was on her way to pay
a visit to her relatives in Westmore-
land County"
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della Hobbs and Miss Virginia Mar
bury.
George Tibbs, a colored deck
hand, was lost, and 'Adeline Jen-
kins, the chambermaid.
Robert Nash, the engineer. came
up this morning. He. was saved by
his son, Samuel Nash, young man,
who jumped overheard and swan
ashore with his father. The son
was assistant engineer on the Wa
waset.
Capt. John Wood was the last
person who left the boat. He was
on the bow and did all in his power
to render assistance to the panic
stricken women. Finally the flames
and smoke drove him overheard
considerably burned about the head
and face, and he swan ashore.
Officers of the steamer Wawaset
state that many of the passengers,
bound to the different landings on
the river, were saved and started of
through the country, and that there
were not above 80 lost, including
children; this, however, is quite un-
certain. There were about this
number of children aboard and very
few of them were saved. Capt. Wood
also says that as soon as the flames
burst out he headed the steamer
ashore. She was running at great
speed and all at once the engine
suddenly stopped, from the shaft
falling, and the passengers were un-
der the impression that she had
struck the land and many jumped
overheard where the water was quite
deep; the steamer was still floating
toward the shore from the impetus
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Abbreviated View

Nearly so American paintings OF
the past five years, on view at How
ara Unlversity's Gallery of Art
through tomorrow (also open this
afternoon from to 81 constitute
an exhibition characterized as "a
kind of abbreviated view, as sam
pling" by Charles Seymour, jr., in
his detailed review foreword to the
catalogue. These paintings are loans
from 10 New York dealers, the Phil
lips Memorial and Barnett-Aden
Galleries here, and from private
owners.
This greatly varied show has
examples OF many idioms and in
dividual expressions. There Is a
good proportion of paintings with
considerable appeal of one kind or
another and a few horror-pictures
(notoriously Phillip Evergood's loath-
some New Death') the omission Of
which would have been advanta-
geous.
Nevertheless, there are many NOR,
excellent paintings in the show than
can be mentioned in our abbreviat-
ed space. Those I liked best are
Sidney Lsufman's Orchard and
Pecan Trees" Louis Bouches Roof
tops" Lois M. Jones willie dHou.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
She Had Just Finished
Dewey's Boyhood

Another local author OF children's
biographies, Alberta Powell Graham
of TIT G street NV, came to small
grief last Wednesday when the elec-
ton results were finally determined
She had very forehandedly brought
80 Roads to the White House" up
to what she and her publisher would
date by writing a long piece about
the boyhood of Gov. Dewey. When
it appeared that President Truman
had definitely renewed his lease or
the White House she sighed philo-
sophically and plunged back into
other current projects. They in
clude a biography of Columbus and
picture book of the Presidents
young lives, which will be illustrated
by a local artist, Janet Holland, who
incidentally is doing the drawings
tor THE Blue Cat of Castletown,
by Catherine Cate Coblentz, one OF
the Capitals best-known authors o1
juveniles.
Mrs. Coblentz, who specializes In
of -the-path historical themes, aver.
ages about a book a year. She Is
currently working on a sequel tc
"Sequoia," the life of an Indian
sage. 1t is called "Sequoia's Daugh-
ter" She is also deep in a biog-
raphy Of Matthew Fontaine Maury
founder of the Oceanography Serv-
ice. Much interested in the role
that children's literature has played
in world affairs, Mrs. Coblentz is
leading spirit in the Children's Book
Guild, lively group of local juve-
nile authors and editors, which has
long advocated the appointment OF
children's book consultant at the
Library OF Congress.
A neighbor of Mrs. Coblentz. on
Macomb street NV. Martha Dudley
is an author who has the collabora-
ton of her children. Bad Mousie,' >
the story of a recalcitrant rodent
was written with the aid of her
daughter, Donica, now 7 and her
son Hickey. aged 4 and a half.
Mrs. Dudley, whose literary activity
is at present stalled by the fancy
schedule" Of her four -month-old
daughter, usually writes q para
Evening star., 1948-11-14
By John cIdsett Proctor

tell me something about my fam
ily?' Mr.. Mckinney replied feel
ingly: Would to heaven I could
give you some encouragement, but
it would be cruel to deceive you.
Your family were all lost Mr..
Reed therefore broke into a wall of
despair, wringing his hands and
showing such' marks of hopeless
agony as to bring tears to every
eye. 1t was, indeed, a household
wreck for Mr.. Reed, who at one fell
swoop, loses his wife, three children
and niece. The children were all
under 8 years of age and the niece,
Bette Reed, was a beautiful and
amiable young lady, about II years
of age.
List of Casualties
Continuing, The Star gives a list
of those, up to that time, known to
be lost or saved, but subsequent ac-
counts greatly increased the num-
Der.
List of passengers saved (white)-
Mr.. McAshton, j. B. North, o.
Eddy,/J. H. Wise, A. Melvin, Benja-
min Bartlett, A. j. McGuiggan,
Thomas Massie, Thomas Owen, w.
T. Emmerson, E. Nash, John Reed,
G. Emerlvie and Kate Mcpherson.
List of colored-R. D. Beckley,
J. Tate, William Saunders, James
Brooks, Henry Street, George Par
ker, Samuel Blackwell, Charles
John Hughes, John
Scott, Thomas Coxton, Lewis Scott,
Robert CASTOR, H. Taylor, William
Herring, Moses Gordon. Ed Haw-
kins, J. Christopher, M. Walker, A..
Strout, ]. H. Wood, boy; Thomas
Rich, H. Blackley, William johnson,
william Brooks, Lewis Woodie,
James Newman, Lindley Jackson,
Mrs. Ogleton Taylor, Laura Taylor,
Mrs. Price and child.
Susan Parker, May Blackwood,
Eliza Matthews, Laura Barnard,
Julia Christopher, Mary Campbell,
Matilda Dunlop, Daffrey Winters,
Mary Norman, Julia Shankland,
Clara jackson, Nancy Baylor, Sarah
Payne and M. Ball were also saved
and more or less burned.
The white ladies and children
known to be lost are Patsie Sands,
Julia Kelly, Esther Griffin and two
children, Mrs. J. w. Reed and
three children, Miss E. Reed, Cor
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The Burning Of the Wawaset

The recent collision of the Nor
folk & Washington passenger boat,
near Old Point Comfort, Va, in
which three persons were injured
and one killed, was certainly a re-
grettable accident, but when we
look back over the many years of
steamboating on the Potomac River,
or to our passenger craft plying the
Potomac and the Chesapeake Bay,
we find that history records a few
marine mishaps that might be
stretched into a calamity. Indeed,
the most appalling one of this kind
occurred August 9, 1873, when the
steamer Wawaset was burned to
the waters edge.
Though Is years have elapsed
since the burning of this vessel,
there still may be q few persons
who can personally recall this trag-
edy with all of its horrible details,
in which the Reed family was the
greatest sufferer. Joseph w., a
police officer at the time, lost his
entire family, consisting of his wife
and three small children, and his
niece, Miss Bette Reed.
The accident occurred when the
boat was about 40 miles down the
river. off Chatterton's Landing,
about II a. m, from some unknown
cause, and the vessel was entirely
destroyed in a brief while, the fire
having gained such a headway be-
fore being discovered that any at
tempt to put 1t out would have
availed nothing.
Among those on the boat on this
fatal occasion were women with
large number of children who were
en- route to visit their friends at
the different river landings. There
were also many colored people on
board who suffered equally in the
great misfortune.
Lifeboat Capsized
OF the two lifeboats on the ves-
sci, one was pitched into the river
by inexperienced hands and nearly
all of those within were thrown out
and drowned. Indeed. this is an
old story that we still read about in
present-day marine disasters.
The appalling loss of life always
has been, and no doubt always will
be, due to a lack of drill and disci-
pline among the crew. The life
preservers with which the boat was
provided were found to be in ex-
ceIent condition, although in the
excitement of the moment, none
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Taking an Impatient
And One-Sided Look
At Occupied Japan
JAPAN DIARY
BY Mark Gayn. William Sloane
Associates, Inc; 81
Reviewed by
ALLEN MOORE.

aAlIGlN MOOftG.
Mark Gayn is an impatient man
and he has written an impatient
book. He is angry because the
Americans haven't made Japan
democracy overnight. But the pub
fishers apparently were not so i'm
patient in getting the book before
the public. Although the jacket
claims this to be IAN eyewitness
record Of what is happening in
Japan and Korea" the last date re-
corded in the diary while in the
Far East is May 3, 1947. Much has
happened in Japan and Korea dur
ing the last year and half and
while the last few pages of Mr.
Gayn's book comments from the
vantage point of New York in May,
1948, on these changes, his COM
mentS are not based upon recent
personal observations.
1t is an interesting book as are
most diaries of newspapermen. but
no one who has been in Japan or
Korea since the occupation and tried
to be objective could call it a fair
book.
From his own account of what he
did and whom he talked to, it is
obvious that Mr.. Gayn went to
Japan and Korea looking for the
weak spots and the mistakes in Cur
occupation policy. He found them
and has taken considerable glee in
recounting them.
1t is also apparent from Mr..
Gayn's own account that he spent
considerable time with Japanese
Communists and that he was on
sufficiently good social terms with
the Soviet representative on the AL
lied Council and Tass correspondents
to have them accept an invitation
to 4 Thanksgiving dinner. There is
no indication in the diary that state
ments made by the japanese Com
and the Soviet representa-
t.veS were subjected to the same
healthy skepticism which greeted
everything coming out of Gen, Mac
Arthur's headquarters.
The accounts of the inner circle
around Macarthur and of Mac
Arthur's attitude toward his Allies
are fascinating and somewhat
There is undoubtedly
nuch truth in this book which
needed telling but one can only wish
that Mr.. Gayn had taken the trouble
to find out the other side Of the
picture also. But that wouldn't
have made as interesting book.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Her Father Was
LincoIn's Secretary

The dean of Washington large,
congenial and prolific band of chill
dren's authors is an 82-year- -old
maiden lady who never went to
school a day in her life, never had
brothers and sisters growing up
around her and who spent her girl
hood helping her father to write one
of the great biographies OF America.
She is Helen G. Nicolay, daughter
of Lincoln's secretary a small, spirit
ed woman who smilingly attributes
her success as writer for young
people to the fact that "she never
grew up"
Now waiting proofs of her biog-
raphy of her father, John G. Nico-
lay, who, with Lincoln's other secre-
tary, John Hay, wrote the monu-
mental 1O-volume Life of Lincoln,
she works every day, despite her
years, at the desk which her father
used in the White House. She sum-
mers at Squam Lake, N. H., where
she does many landscape paintings.
Several of her sylvan scenes dec
crate the walls Of her living room
at 3l33 Connecticut avenue NV.
For the Rainbows.
She was speaking the other day,
in her firm, precise tones. OF her
unusual youth, which was dedicated
to work on the biography. Because
her fathers eyesight had failed too
E.uch for him to write, she took his
dictation. She spoke fondly Of his
concession to her tender years: "He
always let me have two pieces OF
paper in front of me, one for the
work and the other so that 1 could
chase any rainbows that might come
to me- she said.
In the years when she was helping
her father with his research, the
Library of Congress was housed IN
three rooms in the Capitol, and she
can remember when Ainsworth Rand
Spofford, then librarian, used to ride
down Pennsylvania avenue III his
surrey, the reins clutched between
his knees, intently reading a book.
Miss Nicolays first literary work
on her own was the completion OF
the one-volume life of Lincoln
which her father left on his death
in 1901. Since then she has written
some 20 books, including the Boys
Life" series of biographies of Lin
coin, Hamilton, Washington and
Grant. Gen. Macarthur and Nine,
Chang have been among her recent
subjects. She has written book on
Washington which, like her biog-
raphy of her father, is for adults.
She has always considered biog-
raphy "a vestibule of history" loves
to write for children because she
thinks that "one should give ones
best for them," and because she
wants them to know that history
was made by folks, not fossils
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Anthony Eden
.Epitomizes His
Own PhiIosopy
FREEDOM AND ORDER
BY Anthony Eden fHoughton,
Mif1in Co., S5.00.j
Reviewed by
CRESTON B. MULLINS.

The conservative philosophy has
largely been lost sight Of in the
heat Of theological conflict, particu-
larly in Britain, where socialism
has been holding sway since the
summer OF 1945.
Anthony Eden has collected his
speeches-in Parliament and out
between 1899 and 1916 and pub
lished them in this volume, whose
title epitomizes the philosophy OF
the l948 British Conservatives.
What he has to say in those seven
years is a lucid expression-not as
literary, perhaps, as Winston
Churchill would make it-of the
conservative idea, not only in do
mestic affairs, but in world affairs
as well.
Mr.. Eden states his thesis sue
cinctly in the foreword. It is sim
ply that freedom-of the individual,
of the nation-must be reconciled
with order-both in the domestic
and the international. spheres.
The essence of this reconciliation,
Mr.. Eden holds, Is in parliamentary
government by free community.
1t was toward this shining goal that
Mr.. Eden raised his eyes in the
dark days Of the war when men
began to wonder what they were
fighting for. Mr.. Eden's vision OF
what he was fighting for was clear.
His analyses are shar and In
cisive, although some of his COM
ment on Russia sounds little naive
and too-trusting in this year OF
crisis.
There is much Of profit for to-
days world to be found in the read
ing of Mr.. Eden's addresses Of the
wartime and postwar period, even
II allowance must be made for mis-
conceptions of which not only Mr..
Eden, but many Of Us, were at one
time guilty.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Georgetown Artists

The Peabody Library Association
10. Georgetown, affiliated with the
Public Library, has just inaugurated
"a series of art exhibitions in the
Peabody room, Georgetown Public
Library. Wisconsin avenue and r
street, with a display of paintings
by Alice Acheson and Marcella
Comes and sculpture by Alice Decker
and Maxim Elias.
Mrs. Acheson's II oils and water
colors, include many Georgetown
street scenes, a few mountain land
scapes painted in Jasper Park, and
still life. Miss Comes MRS. Wins
low has Is oils on view, including
portraits of people and famous old
Georgetown houses and still life.
Alice Decker's heads and figures
people and animals) some tradi-
tional, some modern, are done in an
interesting variety of materials:
Walnut, applewood, mahogany, shale,
alabaster, bronze and aluminium.
Maxim Elias is represented with
several of his hammered lead convex
and concave figures, and other works
in wood and stone.
The Peabody room is we'll suited
to the display of art and the present
show is effectively installed. The
four artists, all active in Washington
art circles and frequent exhibitors,
compose felicitous group to inau-
gurate the new venture. 1t will
remain only through November %
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graph at a time while her washing
Is in the washer, thinks out plots
while she irons She also keeps q
diary of her children's sayings which
have proven excellent sources OF
copy.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Society of Washington Artists

A members exhibition of the
Society of Washington Artists is on
view at the Arts Club through No.
vember 26. Nearly 40 works, mostly
paintings, occupy all the first-foor
exhibition space. The show is gen.
orally middle-of -the-road in char
acter although it has a few tradi-
tional and few abstract works.
Samuel Bookatz won first prize
with his deserted street scene, Red
House." in a low key. quiet and
melancholy. It is "in between" the
traditional works which have won
him past awards, and the modern
experiments he showed at the Cor
coran last summer. Second prize