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Evening star., 1949-01-02
n. E.. Bates Returns
with Variations
On an Old Theme
HE JACARANDA TREE

THE JACARANDA TREE
BY H. E. Bates. (Atlantic- Little,
Bro,Dn; $275.)
H. E. Bates has written this
novel before. AS a matter of fact
he wrote it as recently as last year
and called it "The Purple Plain"
The plot Is different, but the sum
and substance is the same. He is
once again describing, with all the
atmospheric skill at his command,
the beauty of Burma, the exotic love-
illness of its jacaranda tree, the rest
full, creamy skinned charms of the
native maidens.
That is not to say that the present
performance is in any way inept.
Mr.. Bates, one of the best English
short story writer's, has a smooth,
facile prose; he ties off the ends
of story with fastidious neatness.
He is consistently readable, but his
studied simplicity pals and his stub
born refusal to get inside his char
acters or to describe emotions other
wise than through sensations is irri-
tating in writer who gives the
impression of being capable of far
more than what he has done.
His calendar of impressions is
woven into a story Of the flight of
a group of English and Burmese
from the invading japanese. The
leader Of the uncongenial band is
a kind of Anglo-Saxon superman
named Patterson, a tight-hpped,
efficient, resolutely Unconditional
character who draws strength and
refreshment from a dusky, silent
Burmese girl whom he calls Nadia.
Her brother Tuesday is one of those
fanatically faithful Oriental servants
who are almost inevitable in novels
OF the Far East. These three are
the nucleus of II fugitives who in
Iclude several SNUG colonials, a SIM
ple-minded matron and a Bur-
mese nurse lowering uneasily be-
tween two worlds. Patterson a kind
of liaison between East and West,
is obviously marked for survival
when the others, distrustful of him
and the country, head for disaster
Mr.. Bates understands the empty
pretensions of the colonial snobs who
carry England on their backs. He
re-creates the sweating, panicky
hordes clogging the roads. He
builds up moments of high tension
with the death and violence which
overtake some members of this pill
grimage under pressure. But, more
often than not, he turns aside to
describe f1eeting beauty of the
landscape, sight or sound or smell
particular to the countryside. His
characters, all potentially interest
ing, become dim in the mists that
overlay the plains Of Burma.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-01-02

diary kept in the secession winter
of 1860-61 by a man who knew the
chief figures in Washington and tells
of three interviews with Lincoln.
Several Lincoln stories have gained
wide acceptance, based On the diary.
The story that Stephen A. Douglas
held Lincolns hat at the inaugura-
ton in 1861 has been told almost
as widely as the story of Washington
and the cherry tree. According to
Prof. Anderson, both belong in
the same category-folklore.
Interest in Douglas.
Historians obtained the hat story
chiefly from the diary. Prof. An
derson holds it is not entirely the
invention of the diarist, but that it
was based on a dubious newspaper
item published a week after the in
auguration. Prof. Anderson went
to unusual pains to establish
that newspaper reporters covering
the Inauguration did not include
this in their frst-day accounts.
That it occurred and went un-
noticed by reporters is inconceivable
to a newspaperman. Douglas, de-
feated candidate for the prize Lin
coin was then accepting, was bound
to have been second only to Lincoln
Evening star., 1949-01-02

himself as the center of interest.
Furthermore, standing near Lincoln
he could have been observed easily.
And when the story finally was told
by the Cincinnati Commercial it was
told on the authority of an Ohio
Representative.
Two other stories Prof. Anderson
dismisses as complete inventions.
One is about Lincolns attendance
at the opera in New York in Feb
ruary. 1861, when he was on his
way to Washington. The other is
story how Lincoln handled a
delegation of supporters of Will
liam H. Seward, who opposed the
appointment of Salmon P. Chase
to the cabinet.
Who wrote the diary? Ever since
it was published historians have
been trying to answer that ques-
ton. Prof. Anderson himself once
believed the diary was genuine and
was written by Amos Kendall,
whose benefactions in Washington
included the gift of building and
land to what is now Gallaudet Col
lege. Now, after much additional
study, Prof. Anderson is convinced
the author was Samuel Ward
brother of Julia Ward Howe and
known after the war as King of
the Lobby" The evidence is cir
cumstantial.
1t is Prof. Andersons belief that
the published piece had as its core
rather meager diary that Ward
kept and that the events of his
torical interest which were related
were sheer embroidery on the orig
inal fabric. He believes that the
Lincoln interviews did not take
place.
Collaboration.
He regards it as likely that, Viii.
liam H. Hurlburt. a writer who
served on the editorial page stats
Of New York papers. collaborated ir
the job. And that Allen Thorndike
Rice, the brilliant editor of the
distinguished North American Re.
view, knew more about the diary
than he told his readers.
How Prof. Anderson comes to his
conclusions makes fascinating read
ing. On his original assumption
that the diary was genuine he
sought to establish what public man
had written it. Just one example
of his painstaking work is this:
Considering whether some member
of the House might have been the
author, he found that $50 members
answered the roll call on February
20. That ruled them out, because
the diarist had told of an interview
with Lincoln that day in New York
But it left 81 House members who
did not answer the roll call, who
had to be eliminated.
Prof. Anderson, now professor
emeritus of history at Dartmouth
has been seeking the solution oi
this puzzle for IS years. His ac-
count of his work and discussion
of the men of the time of secession
is absorbing.
Evening star., 1949-01-02

OH CIl6 scene Dy OuIuSIllIlS QOTueS
of amateurs.
Never exactly fortunes darlings,
they have been considered hope
lessly out of touch by their COL
leagues, begrudged space by editors
who need it for explanations of
Democratic victories, and chided by
their readers for being either too
high or low brow. At least once
a week, a reporter, dashing off to
some nerve center Of the world
stops by long enough to jeer, "You
mean you get paid for reading
bookS?"
Smiles Wearing Thin.
The plucky smile summoned to
meet this and similar jibes is wear
ing thin these days as it becomes
increasingly evident that the public
cares less and less what a mere
book reviewer thinks about a book
The quoted literary critics of the
day are opera singers, baseball play
ers, movie stars and cafe society
queens.
Time was when the book ads
used to run something like this:
For Instance, My Fancy is a
plangent poigant work of art des.
tined to stand with the immorta
human expressions of all time
Agnes K. Muldoon, West Cowhide
(MoD Democrat-Sentinel' Nov
it's more likely to be: II cried
Margaret O'Brien," or Joe Di Mag.
gio says it's a home run with the
bases loaded" or simply TOO Di'
vine-Elsa Maxwell"
But there is more to fear. L
the trend begun some years agt
of showing a shapely authors pic
ture as guarantee Of a book!
excellence is carried over into bool
advertising, the reviewer faces OBJ
livion. How can we, nearsightet
and round-shouldered as we hav'
become in line of duty ever hop'
to compete with clear-eyed, lis
some connoisseur of bellies lettre
like Betty Cradle?
The best we can hope for is tina
DR.. Gallup will need a lot of hard
working, self-effacing people lik
ourselves to help with the research
on why the polls went aWry.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Exciting Times
In RevoIutionor'
New England
RELUCTANT REBEL
BY Frederic Van de
(Duell, Sloan & Pearcc
Reviewed bv
COURTENAY PLASKIT-


A little-known slice of history is
that enacted on the eve of the Rev.
olution, when land title disputes
rocked New England, and Ethan
Allen, better known for the subse-
quent role he played in the war, led
the Grants settlers against York
for their claims. He cuts not only a
boisterously magnificent figure, but
a powerful one as well with his
Green Mountain boys.
1t all makes good reading, en-
hanced by Mr.. Van de Waters pre-
else and stimulating descriptive pow
ers in portraying this section of the
country. Love interest, of course, is
accounted for. The setting and the
time are exciting in themselves and
the author has made the best of
them.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Crime and
Mystery
By Miriam Gutenberg
Saint Errant, by Leslie Charterie
no11hledau Qr Co 60 O5l

Saint Errant, by Leslie Charteries.
doubleday & Co.; $2.250
Crime Club
Simon Templar, alias the Saint,
that rakish Robin Hood of Modern
Crime" gets involved with nine
damSels in varying stages of distress
in this series of short adventures.
In Montreal. a girl persuades him
to rob a safe. In New Orleans, he
is practically forced to steal a price
less string of pearls. There's mur-
der in Miami, slight case of black
mail in Chicago and bit of bigamy
to frustrate in old Mexico. Occa-
sionally, the saint is more distressed
than the damsels, but never for
long. The moral of these fables
seems to be that beautiful women
aren't above trying to take advan-
tage of even the most gallant knight
errant.
In Cold Blood, by George Bagby.
doubleday & Co.; $2)
Crime Club
AS the Tramp limited. the $4,000
chinchilla coat had lot to do with
the machine-gun murder of Selma
Rourke outside a night club puck
ishly called Sang Froid. Selma
changed escorts in midstream, but
was that any reason to riddle her
with bullets? And why did Selma
reel with drunkenness when she had
been drinking only cokes? The
Tramp, an ubiquitous salesman, the
night club proprietor and a grim
trio named the Shelley brothers OBJ
viously knew more than they were
telling, but Inspector Schmidt had
more trouble with this one than the
canny reader will probably have.
X X II +
The Black Coat, by Constance and
GWenyth Little. doubleday &
Co.: $2D
Crime Club
A train mixup involving two girls
named Anne and such identifying
items as a red rose and an ancient
seal coat launches q wacky tale ir
Grandma Smiths private hotel
Housed there are a weird collection
of guests, including some gangsters
looking for hidden treasure and q
character apparently visible only tt
the wrong Anne. Poor Grandma
who wanted only to confide a secret
to the right Anne, gets murdered in
this not-so-comic comedy of errors.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
A Pacific Road Map
ANATOMY OF PARADISE
BY j. c. FurnaS.
reviewed by
JANICE R. DOHERTY.


The author of And Sudden
Death" in his new book, Anatomy
of Paradise" gives us the impress
sion that about all the white man
brought the South Sea Islands was
trouble. The jacket of this book
says it "is for any one who has had
his imagination or curiosity stirred"
by the islands of the Pacific. But
more than imagination and curiosity
can be satisfied by this work; it is,
in fact, pretty complete history,
geography and ethnography of the
South Seas. And there is wit and
humor, too, in the chapter on the
Hawaiian Islands, and the accounts
of the troubles the "haoles" brought.
An exhaustive photography shows
more study of this subject than any
yet noted. Mr.. Furnas has drawn
good road map of the largest but
least-peopled area of the earth. And
there are some Is pages of excel
lent photographs.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Happy New Year
THE ART OF BEING HAPPY

THE ART OF BEING HAPPY
Edited by Samuel G. Killing and
Esther B. King. II. B. Lippincott
Co.; $500
AS a famous explorer once searched
fruitlessly for an eternal fountain of
youth. people through the ages have
sought for in vain that precious key
which will turn the lock to happi-
ness. Here are the inspired observa-
lions on this search for happiness
from Sc of the leading thinkers of
past and present. They remind us
that real sunshine comes from with
in-not through wealth or power
and happiness can be achieved by
working at it, much the same way
as mastering certain techniques in
business or a profession.-M. S. B.
Evening star., 1949-01-02

a grand pldH IoT
the brothers. AS
he saw it, the
English were too
strongly settled
in the Eastern
part of America
to be driven out,
but the French
had a great op-
p or t u n t y to
seize the Missis-
D ! y u l, COlOIllLe
a n d h oil d all
lands west of it.
Charles m a n
aged to ne
Evening star., 1949-01-02
What the President
May Be Expected
To Do Next Term
THE TRUMAN PROGRAM

THE TRUMAN PROGRAM
Edited by M. R. Schnapper.
Public Affairs Press; $685.
Reviewed by
JOSEPH A. FOX.
This collection of presidential pa
pers indicates the legislative line
that Mr.. Truman can be expected
to follow in the next four years.
The material is composed largely
of talks made during the campaign,
but there are other talks and some
messages also.
Both national and international
issues are treated.
The introduction is by Senator
Myers, Democrat. Pennsylvania. He
attributes the Presidents victory in
November to this program which
he promised.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Historical Expose Brands Famous Diary
Of LincoIn's Time as MOSTLY Fiction
THE MYSTERY OF A PUBLIC MAN"

THE MYSTERY OF A PUBLIC MAN"
Maloy Anderson Universy of Minnesota Press $5
Reviewed by FRANCIS p DOUGLAS.
of historical detective Prof
presents convincing published
regarded historians writing
beginning Civil large part fiction.
the DIARY Public Man,
the
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Reading and Writing
Book Reviewers Face the New Year
With Pessimism and Misqivinqs
By Mary MeGroy

II there one class Of citizens greeting the with
something than bighteyed enthusiasm reviewers
the Nation Like the posers completely
ouaed by that greatest OF prophets portfolio President
Truman the people who sit in obscure
shackled to wrbreaking historical
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Dos Possos Novel UnfoIds an Entire
Panorama of New Deal Wushinqton
THE GRAND DESIGN
BY John Dos Passos. (Houehton-Mi6zin; $780,

Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
decade that expedients
1882 and ended in the middle of the warthe of the New
Deals summed with the critical effectiveness historian
and the compassionate understanding artist surely
is one of the significant novels of our times.
Somehow historian artist do divergent
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Prof. Anderson Expects
A Lot of WoiIino

Frank Msloy Anderson, the aca-
demic detective who pulled the rug
out from under great many
Lincolnists with The Mystery of "A
Public Man" (see review elsewhere
on this page, turned up at the con-
vention of the American Historical
Association here the other day
looking quite pleased with himself.
1t took him IS years to expose the
fraudulent author of the Diary"
and he anticipates a good deal Of
wailing from sentimentalists who
cherish some of its stories.
In a brief speech given at a
breakfast held in his honor, the
white-haired spider-thin old gen.
tleman revealed that he is now hard
at work on another piece Of
Lincolnia, a history of the 200
days" between Lincoln's election
and the outbreak Of the Civil War.
ITO do this, the newspapers Of
that period must be read in a way
they have never been read before"
he said. Il don't know whether
will live to finish the task. At my
age CID no man can be too certain.
So I am taking notes in such form
that somebody else can carry on
from the point where 1 drop them"
| Later, DR.. Anderson expressed
privately some confidence that he
might be able to see the project
through. He comes from a long
lived family. His mother died at g.,
WHATSOEVER THINGS
ARE LOVELY
BY Jessie Wilmore Murton. IRE
UieU and Her1ld.)
Sincerity shines through the pages
of these poems descriptive Of ma
ture, the subsection Of the will, the
grace of the spirit and the simple
yet eternal values of home and
brotherhood. H. L.
Evening star., 1949-01-02

HIGH TOWERS
BY Thomas B. Costain. (Dou-
bleday; $3.)
Mr.. Costain's immense public
should not be disappointed in his
new historical novel. 1t reflects
faithfully the atmosphere of a time
and the story 1t develops is as alb
sorbing as the narratives of "The
Moneyman" and "The Black Rose"
In High Towers" he has followed
again his bent for glorifying neg
lected figures of history. This
romance is based on the almost
legendary LIE Moyne family of
Montreal. The most famous of the
10 sons who were noted in New
France at the end of the 17th CEN
tury was Pierre LIE Moyne d'Iber-
vile. He was Frances greatest
colonial fighter. He had defeated
the English and the Indians at
every turn, conquering Hudson's
Bay and Newfoundland and sewing
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-22
BULLETIN

A coroner's jury found late Monday evening that Mrs. To- loff had been bludgeoned to death with a blunt instrument. Dr. R. E. Garrett testified that there were four bruises on the Woman's skull. Only one, which crushed the left side of her head, was severe enough to cause death.
 Mrs. Toloff, AS years old, is sur vived by her husband Pete of Anchorage and by her nine chil- dren. Her youngest child is re- ported to be about eight years of age.
 Investigation of the crime is being conducted under the direc- tion of marshal Paul Herring of Anchorage, deputy marshall Bill Bouwens of Palmer, highway
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-22

patrolman Stanley Laird of Pal mer, and Jack Jenkins of An chorage, special investigator for the Alaska Native Service.
 The men spent Tuesday beat ing through the wooded area where the body was found on the Springer farm, in an effort to locate brown coat Mrs. Toloff was reported to be wearing when last seen. Other clothing was found on or near the body, but at time the coat still was missing.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-22
Eugene Marsh Browns While Swimming
Continued from Page D

The position of the body, sprawled in the ditch, indicated that the woman had been slain elsewhere and brought to the spot where she was found. Evi- dence showed that she probably had been thrown from a passing automobile.
 It is believed that the dead woman had been lying at tbe side of the secluded lane for the past Is days. She was last seen alive at about noon on Sept. 4. At that time, she walked into a local bar, had one drink with two local acquaintances, and walked out of the door to vanish.
 Her daughter and son-in-law reported her missing to Anchor age police. Local law authorities had been watching for her, but
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-22
Community Calendar

Thursday NORTHLAND Pioneer Grange at Grange Hall at 8 p. m. WASILLA Homemakers at Mrs. Ola Grafton'S.
 Friday WASILLA veterans farm class at Community Hall at 8 p. m. JUNIOR Homemakers at Mrs. Jean Fruits. CHUGIAK Community Club at Chugiak Coffee Shop at 8 pm.
 Saturday FAIR ASSOCIATION-SPON ed dance at Palmer Gym at 9:30 p. m. AMERICAN Legion Auxiliary food sale at Koslosky's.
 Monday KIWANIS CLUB at former libra ry at noon. VETERANS farm class in for mer library at p. m.
 Tuesday MOOSE at Moose Hut at ?. m. WOMEN of the Moose at Moose Hut at p. m. COMMUNITY Chest in Luther an Church basement at 8 p. m. REMUNERATION Clinic at the Health Center.
 Wednesday CARPENTERS Union in Car penters Hall at 8 p. m. 3-BEDROOM FARMHOUSE FOR RENT-See NJ. D. SnodgrasS
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-22

When found, Mrs. Toloff was wearing a light blue gabardine jacket, coral blouse and white t-shirt. Her navy blue rayon slackS had been tossed on the ground near the body. She wore a black glove on her right hand, but her left hand was bare and was unadorned except for 6 plain
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-22

silver wedding band. Her blouse was fastened with a rhinestone pin shaped like a four-ieafed clover.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-22

were able to do little because of the meager description given.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-08
AZ MosIem Religious
Officials On IsroeI
Payroll

JERUSALEM - Forty seven
Moslem religious dignitaries were
paid out of the budget of the Is
raeli Ministry of Religions for
their religious services to Isla-
mic communities throughout Is
rael, the World Mizrachi head
quarters here reported. The
ministry has appointed a Mos
lem Archaeology at the Univer-
sity of Jerusalem, to study the
state of mosques and other Mos
lem holy places in Israel.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-08
Anti-zionist Arch
bishop Returns;
Sings New Tune

JERUSALEM (MNB) - Mon
signor George Hakim, Arab Bish-
op of the Greek Orthodox Com
munity in Galilee, has returned
to Israel singing a new tune.
Prior to recent hostilities,
Bishop Hakim was VIGOROUSLY
anti-Zionist. When Arab-IS-
raeli warfare broke out, he fled
to Beirut. From there he left
for Europe where he Travelled
extensively preaching anti-Zion-
ism. This month, the Bishop re-
turned to Haifa on a United Ma
tons plane, accompanied by
three clergymen. On landing,
Bishop Hakim stated that now
Israel is a fact, the Jews must
treat Arabs fairly without dis
elimination. He said he had left
political life and hoped the Is
raeli Govt. would now permit
him to visit all sections of his
community in order to prepare
a memorandum on the position
of churches in Israel, which he
would submit to the Pope.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-08

Administration at Dropsie, who
will speak on "a Curriculum for
Modern Middle East Studies"
Speakers at the Tuesday morn
ing session will be John Marsh,
Secretary of the Middle East In
stitute. who will speak on ''The
Aims of Students of Modern
Middle East Studies" and DR..
John A. Lotus, Professor of
Economics at the Middle East In
stitute, who will discuss "The
Aims of Middle East Studies. /"
Professor Samuel will preside.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-08
Mizrochi Completes
First Step In
Housing Project

RAMAT YITCHAK-The Miz-
rachi Housing Project at Ramat
Yitchak, near Tel Aviv, has just
been completed and the first six
tv houses were handed over to
the owners last week. Housing
for another Is families will be
provided during the next two
weeks, the World Mizrachi head
quarters reported. This project
marks the first stage in mass
housing effort the VINO is now
engaged in with the support OF
American Mizrachi.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-08

Sponsoring the scholarships
are various Zionist organizations
which will select candidates who
are to approved by a five-man
national board of judges COM
posed of leading Jewish educa-
tors. Particular significance is
attached to the fact that in this
area of Jewish youth education,
common ground was found by all
shades of American Zionists in
a coordinated endeavor.
The Zionist Organization of
ships. The American Zionist
America is offering 100 scholar
Youth Commission, made up OF
Junior Hadassah, Masada, 1ZFA
and Young Judea, as well as Ha-
bonim, Hashomer Hatzair, Jun
ior Mizrachi Women, Hechalutz
Hadato have joined the plan and
will specify how many scholar
ships they propose to sponsor as
soon as financial arrangements
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-08

have been made.
Candidates will be judged on
the basis of their leadership quail
ity and their knowledge of He
brew and Zionist and Jewish his
tory, according to Youth Depart
ment spokesman. The year in
Israel, under the scholarship
plan, will be divided equally be-
tween formal study and practical
work in a settlement. Upon their
return, they will be expected to
spend a year in service with the
organization which sponsored
their scholarships.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-08

Tuesday.
Speakers at the opening ses-
sion, at which President Neuman
will preside, are Harvey P. Hall,
Editor of the Middle East Journ-
al, who will speak on "The Defin-
itions of the Middle East Area;
DR.. Cyrus H. Gordon, Professor
of Assyriology and Egyptology at
the Dropsie College, who will
discuss Modern Middle East
Studies in the United States,
and Professor Edwin Samuel of
Jerusalem, Visiting Professor Of
of Middle East Government and