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, 1948-06-12
Electric Service To Be
Cut Off Mon. Morning

Electric service will be dis
continued in Christiansted
Town and Suburbs for a
four-hour period on Monday
morning, June IA, it was an
nounced today by Reuben
Nearer, Chairman of the St.
Croix Power Authority. Dur
ing the period lines to carry
alternating current will be in
stalled by the Rural Electro
.fication Division. The time
will be between the hours of
8 AN. and / Pm.
All consumers are asked to
cooperate and thus prevent
inconvenience to themselves.
, 1948-06-12
Concentrating On
Continuing Woo

Governor HASTE in a cabled
message to Administrator
Harry A. Taylor said that all
effort is being concentrated
on the bill to continue the Vir-
gin Islands Company for one
year and the language of the
incorporation act is to author
ize the Treasury to make a
loan of 100000. These are
"stop-gap" measures he said,
but it is apparently the most
that we have a chance of OBJ
tanning.
Senator Butler is attempt
ing to secure unanimous today
Friday), on one year continu-
alton. The Senate Committee
is expected to report Govern
ment Corporation bill today.
continued on page y
, 1948-06-12
Body OF SweHenbach
Flown To Seattle

The body of the late Secre-
tary Of Labor Swellenbach
was taken to his home in Seat
tie. Washington, for burial
after services were conducted
in the nations capital yester-
day.
Nh. Swellenbach was form
erly q Federal Judge and was
later appointed to the cabinet
post by his longtime friend,
President Truman.
Mr.. Truman was represent
ed at the funeral services by
Secretary Of the Interior Ju-
Illus A. Krug.
, 1948-06-12
Certificate Of Honor
Aworded Atty. Burnett

Attorney Aminta c. N. Bur-
net of New York City, has
been awarded a Certificate of
Honor as the best teacher in
the 1913 Quiz Kids Contest.
Stamped by Quiz Kids, Incor-
porated in the State of Illinois
the certificate was signed by
DR.. Paul A. Witty of North
western University Of Michi-
gan; Rev. Dr.. Phillip Moore,
University of Notre Dame and
Joe Kelly, Quizmaster of the
Kids Radio Program.
A native of st. Thomas,
Miss Burnet is nevertheless
very active in many programs
designed to help the Virgin
Islands. She is also a member
Of the Supervisory Board of
the American Virgin Islands
CONTINUED on Page q
, 1948-06-12
Stain a Prisoner
Truman Says

President Truman in one Of
his speeches yesterday said he
found Premier Joe Stain to
be a pretty nice sort of fellow
but that because he is a prison
er Of the Politburo, he cannot
keep agreements, because they
will not let him.
Mr.. Truman flew over the
flood-devasted section Of Port
land, Oregon despite heavy
clouds, to have a look at the
damages wrought by the ram
paging Columbia river.
, 1948-06-12
Progressive Porty
Cobles President

The St. croix Progressive
Party today cabled President
Harry S. Truman in connec
ton with legislation now pend
ing for there=chartering Of the
Virgin Islands Company or
the enactment of stop gap leg
islation to permit the Com
pany to continue operations
for another year. The cable
message reads as follows:
Respectfully urge support
emergency appropriations Vir-
gin Islands Company"
, 1948-06-12
Dunish Ship Hits
Magnetic Mine. Sinks

A Danish ship with several
hundred excursioners struck a
magnetic mine off Juteland
and the resultant explosion
caused the ship to sink with
in ten minutes, carrying near
ly 200 men, women and chill
dren with her.
Following the explosion
more than a third of the pas
sengers were trapped below
deck; 261 were rescused. The
vessel is now resting on the
bottom of the Kattegat, where
divers found the bodies closely
packed, indicating they were
making an effort to escape.
, 1948-06-12
A. Totem Cubles
Sen. Styles Bridges

Ashley Totten, President of
American Virgin Islands Civ
ic Association, cabled Senator
Styles Bridges and Congress
man John Taber, chairman Of
the Senate and House Com
mittees of Appropriations re-
spectively. The text of the tel
egram is as follows:
Mainland Virgin Islanders
overcome with justifiable ex-
element view with grave con-
Continued on Page ~
, 1948-06-12
]. Alexunder Says
Senute MoY Act Mon.

Joseph Alexander, Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Com
merce, cabled headquarters
here that the Senate took no
action on the 'stop-gap" leg
~islation to continue the Virgin
Islands Company on Thursday
as had been expected. It is not
expected that the bill will
come up unanimous consent
calendar before the Senate
not later than Monday, June
18th.
Recommendations of the
Senate Committee seem to in
dictate that the $95O,OOO will be
reduced to $500, 900 if the bill
is passed.
, 1948-06-12
Local Drurnufc Club
To Present Operettu

The St. Johns Dramatic
Club win present an operetta
in three acts entitled 1.-THE
Belle Of Barcelona" on We'd
nesday, June 3, at the St.
Johns School house in Chris.
tiansted.
Rehearsals have been inten-
sified IN order to assure pa
irons an enjoyable time.
, 1948-06-12
Parents Health Orc.
To Cele. June is

The Parents Health Organ
ization Of Christiansted will
celebrate their first anniver-
sary on Wednesday, June 16
at a special meeting to be held
in the Steeple Building at
7:3OsP.M.
An invitation is extended to
persons interested in the work
of the Organization to attend.
Evening star., 1948-12-12

THE SEMlDETACHED HOUSE
BY Emily Eden. (Houghton Mit-
fin Co.; 49,
Reviewed by
MARGARET BLAIR SHUMAKER
The jacket of the "Semi-De-
tached House" informs the reader
that the Hon. Emily Eden was
born In 1897, but the book itself
seems so intrinsically modern that
one wonders If this is not all hoax,
like the plays of Clara Gazul. 1t
turns out that Emily Eden, also
author of The Semi Attached
Couple best seller in 1947. actu-
ally was the niece of the last Co.
lonial Governor of Maryland and
not merely wrote of but lived in the
early 18th century In England.
There is an easy grace about this
novel that lifts it out of the stream
Of stilted and pedantic writing of
its time to give it very modern air
This is a comedy of manners where
the world of fashion, which was
then the hub of the universe, is por-
trayed with loving but amused care
Nothing more important than find
ing suitable husbands for two young
girls ruff1es the smooth surface OF
the story, and while charming char
acters glide in and out of ga'den
parties and well-appointed drawing
rooms doing and saying charming
things. the reader finds himself
thoroughly enjoying this pure echo
from delightful past.
Evening star., 1948-12-12
How a Sick Germany, B'ind|y Obed;ent,
BIitzkrieqed Itself to Certain Doom
THE DRAGON IN THE FOREST
BY Richard Plant Doubleday & Co.; S3D
7 THE FOREST

What was there about Germany
and her people that paved the way
for Hitler?
In this novel. Richard Plant, an
expatriate German, undertakes to
give the answers and does a credit
able job.
He delineates Germany in the
years Immediately following World
War I as a morass of economics and
moral decay; politically the country
was fostering and ripe for any kind
of nostrum no matter how patiently
quack the medicine. The sickness
of the country was the sickness OF
the people-a malady that mani
tested itself, among other things, in
hercely blaming everybody but
themselves for the country's plight.
TIE farmers blamed the city people,
the white collar class the unions,
the unions the politicians and when
there was no one else to blame they
picked up Hitler's cry about the
"bolshevist Jews" and the "interna-
tional capitalists"
The German character was con-
ducive to this state Of affairs. AS
Mr.. Plant points out, the key to The
German personality was in his blind
obedience to authority. The recur-
rent theme in his makeup is. obey,
obey. no matter whom, so long as he
is in authority" There was, too, as
Mr.. Plant points out, and as the
horror camps at Auschwitz and
Buchenwald have borne out, fierce
sadism in his nature-a hungering
demand to make his fellow man
suffer.
The framework for Mr.. Plants
thesis is a story about Willy Halder
son of a Frankfurt physician, who
was boy at the end of World War
I and grew into young manhood just
about the time the Nazis were COM
Evening star., 1948-12-12
Countess Eleanor Palffy
Is Home for Good

An eXpatriate come home is
Countess Eleanor Palffy, author of
Largely Fiction" VINO spent many
glittering interWar years in Paris,
but who now is settled in her naive
land and doesn't ever want to live
anywhere else again.
Discovered in her room at the
Sulgrave Club during rare pause
in her recent whirlwind visit, the
countess was wearing a silolt. tai
lored dressing gown, and as haggard
a look as one of her elegant mien
ever comes to.
Heavy Speaking Schedule.
The Countess was UNDERSTANDABLE
weary after heavy speaking sched-
ule which has kept her on the road
and at the lectern since the publi-
cation OF her book last month. She
had excellent training for such barn.
storming during the war years,
which she spent here working for
the Red Cross and lecturing some 10
times. She lived in Georgetown
with her 4-vear-old grandson.
Evening star., 1948-12-12
Reading and Writing
Dr.. Wright Explains Why American
Literature Is a College Stepchid
By Mary MeGsory

It was when she returned to Paris
after the war that she decided to
come home. for good. she explained
as she slipped her orange juice.
THE people hadn't changed. They
were just the same. But I had.
Being around a small boy and his
friends and working the way I did
does something to you. Now I'm
back and want to stay here"
After her first marriage to Harri-
son Tweed had ended in divorce, the
countess met and married Count
Paul Palffy, a Hungarian made
Czechoslovakian by the treaty Of
Trianon. They have since been
divorced and he has been remarked
several times.
Those European Titles.
On the subject of international
marriages involving American wealth
and European titles, she is still
n-minded.
They're often quite happy" she
said. You only hear about the
ones that don't work out. Every
one seems to feel that the Amer
lean girl brings everything to the
match. Don't forget those men are
quite charming and they have an
cestral homes. She gets a beautiful
estate, rent-free, and that's quite
consideration
A native Rhode Islander and
third cousin to Senator Green, the
Countess combines Yankee durabil-
ity with continental worldly wisdom.
She is now q third of the way
through her second book, which will
be about New England.
Evening star., 1948-12-12
1T GIVES ME GREAT
PLEASURE

1T GIVES ME GREAT
PLEASURE
BY Emily Kimbrough. Illustrated
by Helen E. Hokinson. (Dodd,
Mead; $780,
THAT'S ME ALL OVER
BY Cornelia Otis Skinner. Draw
ings by Alajalov. (Dodd, Mead :
$780,
With Cornelia Otis Skinner and
Emily Kimbrough, good humor takes
the place of good sense. A couple
of years ago the ladies teamed up
to produce Our Hearts Were Young
and Gay" which was a positive riot
Of blithe inadequacy in continental
travel. Separately as well, it seems,
each one would rather be victim
of circumstance than president OF
a woman's club.
It is in the woman's club that Miss
Kimbrough has happily discovered
a whole rich new field of inconse-
quential catastrophe. From the
treacherously single-spaced timer
ary prepared by her lecture agent
through the fiowery introduction
which omits her name to the un-
answerable compliment at the post
lecture tea, it is all as perilous as
if the lectern were actually mined.
Miss Kimbrough's touch is feather
~ -
she succeeds (as does her illustrator
Helen HokinSonD in laughing so
gently at the busy ladies that there
is every chance in the world that
she will be asked back again. One
chapter on the 'motherliness" OF
hotels is, incidentally, as nice an
example of the familiar essay as
you could ask for.
If anything, Miss SINNERS f1irta-
Evening star., 1948-12-12
If You Want to Know What's Good Fun,
Here's Pair of Laughing Answers

ton with disaster is more obvious
than her erstwhile partners. Her
trouble is almost entirely of her own
making. She will try summer hotels
and folk-dancing: she will go to
horseshows even though all Steeds
look alike to her and she suspects
the judges with their endless note
taking to be writing home to their
mothers. She goes to her sons
school Christmas play with hang
over. Her style is little heavier
than Miss Kimbrough's because she
likes to play with cliches-a danger
Gus game-but the total effect of
this collection of pieces, culled from
previous books, is cheerful and
diverting.
In fact, If you are looking for
comedy relief. you will find these
two inept ladies more than ready to
oblige. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1948-12-12
Edqe Makes His Life
An Open Book
"A JERSEYMAN'S JOURNAL
BY Walter E. Edge. princeton;
So
Reviewed Dy
FLETCHER F. ISBELL.


An impetuous young man. Walter
ter E. Edge grew up with the
whoop- of Atlantic City. In
the '9Os he was one of its profess
sional eXponents. promoting auto
races, floral exhibits, Easter pa
rades. His advertising agency pros
pered so that In 1905 he branched
out to Europe. where among others
The Star paid him $40 week to
hustle advertising.
With the years he achieved what
he wanted: Financial independence
to devote himself to politics. Most
of his journal is the even, unexclt-
ing record of his career as Repub-
lican Governor of New Jersey,
Senator, Ambassador and Governor
again. He has few revelations to
make for a man of his Self-confi-
dence. When he first entered the
Senate he asked brightly for For
eign Relations and Finance Com
mittee assignments, and drew Post
Office and Post Roads. But what
ever happened, he was a straight
party man. If his achievements
were not large, he kept his errors
minor. Most were on the scale
of his speech at the State prison in
Trenton. Fellow citizens" he said
to the assembly, Il am delighted to
see so many of you present here to-
day"
Evening star., 1948-12-12
Art and Love
FIRE IN THE HEART

BY Henrietta Buckmaster. (Har-
court, Brace & Co.; $3J
Fire in the Heart" is the love
story of Fanny Kemble, girl whose
heart was filled with passion and
rebellion. Miss Buckmaster has
very skillfully woven these, two
major elements into the make up
of Fanny Kemble, who, by virtue
of her brilliance on the stage, was
forced to give up such when she got
married. The artist in Fanny was
at permanent loggerheads with the
overwhelming love she bore her
husband.
Fanny Kemble came from Covent
Garden in the early 1800s. She took
America by storm. But 1t was
Pierce Butler who did the storming
Of Fannie's heart. 1t all makes
good reading. IN. P.
Evening star., 1948-12-12

now and then with our conception
of time and space. but its scene is
postwar London and it is a .ory
told with mounting excitement of a
struggle for survival in both the ma
terial ard spiritual sense. The GEN.
trail figure is strange character,
Simon the clerk an evangelist ol
the devil, whose blasphemous solilo-
quies make scornful reference to
that other Jew born two thousand
years ago." and yet the effect is not
one of fantasy. but rather of fan
tastic realism. All this is seasoned
with the story Of great love. In
essence, it is an allegory of our
times and an essay on love, and it's
good reading.
This is the first of Mr.. Williams
novels to be published in this coun.
try.
Evening star., 1948-12-12

a reprint, but a first American edi-
ton of a novel published in England
in 1887. Mr.. Mccoy is an American
writer who has attracted more at
tention in Europe than in this coun-
try. When his first novel, They
Shoot Horses. Don't They?" was
published, he was hailed by some
critics in France as the peer of
Steinbeck and Hemingway. I can
only wonder why and whether
French reviewers mistake a fast
moving, tough style for something
worth writing. The publishers call
No Pockets in a Shroud" "the dra-
matte story of daring idealist," 1t
might be called more fittingly the
adventures of phony in city
that could never be.
II
MELVILLE'S BILLY BUDD
Edited by F. Barron Freeman.
fHarpord University Press, So
Mr.. Freeman has accomplished an
outstanding feat of scholarship in
ferreting out the complete manu-
script of Herman Melvilles last nov
el, Billy Budd. Foretopman." In
the course of piecing together this
disordered and almost illegible'
manuscript, Mr.. Freeman explains,
he discovered a hitherto unknown
short story. Baby Budd, Sailor,
out of which the novel grew. Pub
lished versions of the novel have
varied considerably in detail. The
editor presents what he feels to he
the first accurate transcription. with
the numerous deletions and correc-
tions of the author indicated. The
short story also is printed. These
manuscripts, Mr.. Freeman points
out, provide "the only sustained ex-
ample OF his creative method in
unproofed form" There is an in
teresting chapter on Melville's last
days and an analysis of the way he
wrote. The book will be an inval-
liable addition to the saga OF Mel
vile and his work.
Evening star., 1948-12-12

One Of the contributors to the
Literary History of the United
States" that massive three-volume
affair which has immobilized the
Nations book reviewers for the last
few weeks, is a comparatively new
citizen of Washington, DR.. Louis B.
Wright, recently seated director of
the Folger Shakespeare Library, who
hasn't yet seen the whole finished
product.
How does 1t look?" he inquired
cheerfully the other day in his Of
flce, which is Elizabethan except for
portable typewriter and telephone.
The idea of a ShakeSpearean au-
thority writing about American Co.
lonial literature for definitive lit
erary history might seem a trifle
paradoxical. But In his pleasant
way, DR.. Wright, smallish, lively
man, who looks somewhat like
James Thurber, provides quite few
contradictions, all of them logical.
In the first place, he didn't go to
Shakespeare. Shakespeare came to
him via his intensive study of Eliza
betnan society. He comes by his
knowledge Of American Colonial his
tory because he chose to follow the
transfer of Elizabethan culture to
this country. One of the first prof.
ects to be undertaken under his di-
rectorship will be an exhibit of early
American books. And just to round
it off, his favorite poet is Chaucer.
Depl0res Ivory Towers.
Dr. Wright was in entire agree
ment with the basic policy of the
editorial board of the United States
literary history which called for the
Intervening of political and social
history with literary criticism. Rel
evacce is the big thing with him. A
one-time newspaperman and for
mer member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Huntington Library, he
deplores ivory tower scholarship and
can't stand academic lingo
The breakdown of intellectual
communication" is. one OF his favor
lite themes, and he thinks that mod
POCGS anu 4tANo dlC AAlOIC
astrously out of touch with the peo-
pie and yield less public influence
than ever before in history. The
reason? They are talking to them
selves" he says succinctly.
The position of American litera-
ture as stepchild in American COL
lege curricula Is the professors fault,
he goes on to say.
They try to teach it as bellies
lettres, and 1t simply can't be taught
that way. 1t has to be presented in
relation to the life of the times"
Battle for Shakespeare.
The academies have almost ruined
Shakespeare, he thinks. The author
of some five books on Elizabethan
life both here and in England, the
most recent of which is The At
lantic Frontier" he emphatically
will not add to the barrier of books
which has kept Shakespeare from
the people
We'll, if I do," he amended, "it
will be something like Shakespeare
on the Frontier"
Evening star., 1948-12-12
Covering the War
LINE OF FIRE

LINE OF FIRE
BY Jack Bell. (Glade House; So. J
Jack Bell ex-soldier and wartime
correspondent for the Chicago Daily
News and The Star, writes about the
war in Asia, Italy and Northern
Europe in the language of the front
line CT.
Combat veterans will recognize
their outfits and perhaps themselves
in this. illustrated account of wal
as seen from a slit trench.
B. McC,
Evening star., 1948-12-12

ing to power From his father, Willy
absorbed traits that made him abhor
the gangsterism and duplicity of the
Nazi movement. He met up with
these incipient Nazis in his elemen-
tary school and they were full
fiedged when he met them again in
the university.
To Arlene, lovely daughter Of a
famous French move actress, who
had come to Frankfurt to study,
goes the credit for supporting Willy,
a sensitive soul, in a period of great
turmoil, and for saving him from
sure destruction by the Nazis.
The real story here is in the grow
ing disintegration of people and a
country. Once you get past the first
two slow-moving chapters this novel
becomes rather exciting reading.
Evening star., 1948-12-12

r. ~. H.. HIS FEHSONAL LIZ i
Edited by Elliott Roosevelt. (D1
This is the second in a series of
three volumes of letters which the
late Presidents son is editing. The
first volume covered the period from
childhood to young manhood. The
last will take in Mr.. Roosevelt'S final
momentous years.
The present book begins with the
belated honeymoon of Franklin and
Eleanor Roosevelt in Europe in 1905
"a trip postponed several months SO
the bridegroom. could finish the
spring term at Columbia Law School.
Most of these earlier letters are to
the future Presidents mother, Sara
Delano Roosevelt. A great many
of the later letters - stretching
across the years when Mr.. Roosevelt
was Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
a New York Senator and an active
figure in national politics, up to the
time he was stricken with polio-are
to his wife. He almost invariably
addressed her as Dearest Babs," a
Evening star., 1948-12-12

BY Charles Williams. (PeHe9rin
Reviewed by THE
This is an exciting book not only
because the author is master story
teller, but probably more because his
personality is an integral part of his
writing, and that personality is
singular thing. T. S. Eliot in his
rhspsooic introduction to All Hal
lows Eve" describes it when he says,
For him there was no frontier be-
tween the material ard the spiritual
world And this peculiarly
gave him that profound insight into
good and evil, into the heights OF
heaven and the depths of hell,
which provides both the immediate
thrill and the permanent message Of
his novels
The plot does not lend itself to
synopsis, dealing as it does with this
world and the next and dispensing
Evening star., 1948-12-12

ell, Sloan G. Pearce, 49,
nickname which Elliott Roosevelt
says his mother cannot recall the
reason for, but which presumably
was derived from baby"
These family letters naturally are
more concerned with personal mat
tiers, including such momentary
topics as the weather and condi-
tions Of travel, than with events OF
significance. Yet there often Is a
comment typical of the later Roose-
velt, as when, in the summer OF
1914, he wrote his wife: Il feel hurt
because the Emperor William has
left the U. S. out-he has declared
war against everybody else"
The record of these scattered let
tiers should prove of the utmost
value to historians in determining
dates and in orienting situations,
Elliott Roosevelt has prefaced the
letters, where necessary. with ex-
planatory notes. Mrs. Roosevelt con-
tributes q foreword. &C. B. j.