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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-19
B0GART-B0CALL
 IN C0-5TAR BILL
 AT 2OTH CENTURY

Dark Passage" Warner Bros. gripping drama of San Francisco cc-starring Humphrey Bogart ano Lauren Bacall, opens today at tht 20th Century Theatre.
 This is Bogart's forty-first film for Warner Bros, the studio where he reported in 1885 for his screei COW as Duke Mantee in "The Petri- fled Forest the same role that ht created on Broadway.
 In supporting parts are: Agnes Moorehead, Bruce Bennett and Ton D'Andrea. Clifton Young and Ror1 Mallinson are others who are seer in important parts. It is also par ticularly interesting to note that Delmer Dawes, who directed thi, Jerry Wald. production, also wrot, the screen play. This story is adapt ed from a David Goodis' novel ot the same name.
 All of the action is shot on the spot in San Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio and Sar Quentin, all figure in the strong stirring action. Franz Waxman con- ducted the music department on this production, with Too Marvellous fol Words" revived for popular appeal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-19
BAND PRACTICE ON
 SUNDAY p. M. AT Z

In the next to the last practice before the concert next Tuesday evening at the 20th Century Thea tre, the Juneau City Band will meet Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Grade School auditorium.
 Director Joe Shofner has arrang- ed carefully selected program and the band is going to present it with professional technique.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-19
B. F. THOMPSONS ANNOUNCE
 BIRTH OF SON IN OLYMPIA

Word has been received in Ju- neau of the birth of son to Mir and Mrs. B. F. Thompson, ot Olympia, Washington, on February 21.
 Father of the babe is known in Juneau as Mike Thompson. and is the son of Rose and Stanley Thompson of this city.
 Mrs. Thompson is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. E. s. McKeeof of Olympia.
 The new baby joins a sister, Carla Rose, age 2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-19
TELEGRAPHIC BOWLING.
 JUNEAU -SKAGWAY ELKS

A telegraphic bowling tournament between the Juneau and Skagway Elks is on the schedule and Sunday night at 3 o'clock the following bowlers will line up to see who makes the local team: E. Hagerup, B. Mork, E. Parsons, w. King, J. Alexander, A. Burke, J. Snow, j.. McGhee, H. Sturrock and w. Mo- Kinon.
 Others are welcomed to turn out and make try for the team.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-19
MONDAY NIGHT BOWLING

The next Monday Night League announced the following bowling schedule for next Monday:
 TOO p. m.-Juneau Young vs. Lamjab; H and 0 Sport Center vs City Cleaners.
 800 p. m.--Gus George vs. B. M. Behrends; Ludwig Nielsen vs. s and T. Clothing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-19
BABY GIRL BORN TO
 METCALFE DAUGHTER

News of the birth of a baby girl to MT. and Mrs. James c. Richard son at Spokane was received here yesterday by grandparents, MT. and Mrs. V. w. Metcalfe. The pound 12 ounce baby was born yesterday
 Mrs. Richardson is the former Nadine Metcalfe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-19
CONDITIONS OF WEATHER
 ALASKA DIS.

Weather conditions and temper atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4.30 a. m, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau, ,Junear. follow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-19

SCHWINN BICYCLES at MAD. SEN'S. 46 ti
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Growing Literature
About q Separate
Church and State

JUDICIAL DOCTRINES OF
RELIGIOUS RIGHTS IN
AMERICA
BY William G. Torpey. (Uniuer.
sity of North Carolina Press; So
Reviewed by
CASPER NAMES.
Here is another worthy addition
to the growing literature on sepa-
ration of church and state in oul
country. In this volume Prof. Tor
pey of George Washington Unlver-
sitv has set forth in great detail the
judicial basis for the present Situa.
ton in the United States where
church and state are separated po-
litically.
The book opens with a histor-
ical analysis of church and state
in early America. 1t then analyzes
the legal aspects of such questions
as the rights of individuals in thu
formation of religious societies, the
right of religious assembly, exemp-
ton of church property from taxa
ton, educational practices involv'
ing the right of religious freedom
and religious rights in court trials
This is companion book t.
others recently issued on the sub
ject. 1t has a distinct niche in the
growing library concerning ques'
ton that will become more impor'
tant as time goes on. The style L
clear and concise, and the divisions
logical and well done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Hale of Maine
Is Man Of Letters

1t is probably not generally
known that among the members Of
the 81st Congress is contributor
to the New Yorker, which has all
ways been considered by would-be
writer's as the toughest magazine in
America to crack. He is Representa-
tive Robert Hale of Maine, who has
sold several light sketches and
poems to Harold Ross impeccable
weekly. His wife, Agnes Burke
Hale, is perhaps better known to
New Yorker readers.
The great virtue of my poems
is that they are short says Repre-
sentative Hale with Down East
dourness.
A friend and admirer of novelist
Kenneth Roberts, Names most
celebrated literary son, Representa-
tive Hale is an avid student of New
England maritime history and
something of an authority on French
spoliation claims He came to
study this subject through a would
be law client who wanted repara-
tons for a brig lost by an ancestor
during Americas undeclared war
with France at the beginning Of
the 10Th century. Mr.. Hale couldn't
take the case because there are
no funds for such claims. but he
did become interested in the whole
matter and when Kenneth Roberts
needed some information about it
for Lydia Bailey" the Congress
man was able to oblige.
/ Representative Hale doesn't care
to talk much about his Ogden
Nash-ish sideline, feeling that it
would do little to enhance his pres
tige among congressional colleagues.
But he was prevailed upon to bring
out a copy of last years New
Yorker containing one of his efforts.
A charming little ballad, it began:
I'm the shade of the old stink
1pood tree
II shouldn't care dDtnlly TO be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Reading and Writing
GobbIede9ook Origin Is raced
By Authors of federal Prose-
By Mary McGrory

Their book was written after two
years of cleaning examples. Mr..
Masterston and Nh. Phillips dis
cussed it thoroughly and wrote it
over week ends. Right now they
are turning their bright eyes on
newspaper writing.
| Mr.. Phillips said with a rather
inscrutable expression that he had
recently been thinking over a COL
l1nn which would combine the most
striking literary mannerisms of Mrs.
Roosevelt and Walter Lippman.
A native of West Virginia who
grew up in Georgia, Mr.. Phillips
once taught in a small Southern
college, and left shortly after he
had written a piece called Kick
Colleges" which appeared in a ma
tional magazine. He took his mas
tiers degree at Harvard. Mr.. Master
son, who was born in Michigan, re-
ceived two degrees rom the Uni
versity of Michigan and his Phi. D.
1 from Harvard.
Do they think there will always
be a Federal prose in spite of their
fun poking book, which incidentally
has been well received at the
Pentagon?
Said Mr.. Phillips, IF we should
root out some cliches, others would
spring up in their place. Stereo-
typed language comes from stereo-
typed minds and Government serv-
ice seems to attract stereotyped
minds"
Mr.. Masterson summed up his
forlorn hopes by quoting Pope: I'VE
first endure, then pity, then en-
brace"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Reviewed by
T. R. HENRY.

newspaper. imbued only with a
craving for power and desire to
thwart the British, no matter what
they did. even when it obviously
was for the benefit of the natives.
Benjamin is a malevolent and not
too convincing character. Perhaps
the author wanted to show that it
takes more than one generation
and a university to uproot ancient
taboos and instill understanding.
There are times when it seems
that Mrs. Huxley has tried to cram
too much into one novel, when
dramatic situations are dulled by
long explanatory dissertations. But
on the whole The Walled City"
is an absorbing story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Vile Murder With
Labor Problems
In the BACKGROUND
FOR US THE LIVING

FOR US THE LIVING
BY Haakon Chevalier. (AUred
A. Knopt; $500.
This long, earnest. rather gritty
novel, which in the sos would have
been called "proletarian," tells OF
the murder of a brutal California
ranch manager. Three innocent
liberals are successfully tried for the
crime and freed for lack of evidence
The author Haaken Chevalier, hith-
erto known for his TRANSACTIONS OF
modern French writer's, attempts to
show how the persecution Of the trio
is tied up with ureasiness in high
places caused by the incipient labor
movement among California migra-
tory farm workers.
The characters, most Of whom
speak like left-Wing handouts, are
not particularly convincing. And
the condolences needed to keep such
an involved plot moving come early
and often. In the course of this
long -draWn-out account of the
persecution of the enlightened, Mr.
Chevalier studies such ills as labor
batting, business empire building
and anti-semitism. This last he
does most effectively. M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Mao de la Roche's
Time-KMing Tales
Of the Idle Rich
MARY WAKEFIELD

BY Mao De La Roche. (Atlantic-
Little Bro1pn; S3)
The phrase idle rich" comes very
much to mind during reading of
his latest in the perennial Jalna
series. None of the numerous White
oak clan ever seems to lift a hand
except to catch an occasional fish or
to pen letter or two. They just
seem to lurk in the wings of their
luxurious Canadian mansion waiting
to be summoned onstage for lively
family discussion, to fall into pic
turesque groupings, for discussions
of family crises. Their impresario is
the indestructible dowager, Adeline,
who, in this episode, is engaged In
attempting to break up the romance
between her widowed son Philip
and his children's governess, Mary
Wakefield, a fragile, winning blonde
who will remind you not at all of
Jane Eyre. The course of this true
love is perfunctorily bumpy, but
the fadeout clinch by the lake in
autumn is pretty much foregone
conclusion from the first.
Miss De La Roche, who has turned
out these good humored chronicles
Of English country life transferred
to Canada literally by the dozen,
succumbs entirely to the relaxed
atmosphere of Jalna. She never
tries to pierce the decorative ex-
teriors Of her characters, never
strains to find the exact phrase to
describe an emotion. She lets it go
with something like this: (Speaking
of Mary at the height of a love
scene) She wished she were a poet.
If she were, she could, at this
moment, she was sure, pour out her
heart in poem" A Literary Guild
selection, Mary Wakefield" will be
circulated among a million readers
who ought to find it singularly un-
demanding fare Of the time killing
variety. M. MEG,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
LincoInionu

UNCOLLECTED WORKS OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Assembled and annotated by
Rufus Rockwell Wilson. (Prt-
maUera Press; So.
This is the second of five volumes
intended to supplement Nicolay and
Hays The Complete Works of
Lincoln" 1t is for the scholar to
whom any paper to which Lincoln
put his pen may be important. The
period covered is from 1s41 to 1845.
Most of the documents reproduced
are court papers unearthed from the
dusty files of county courthouses
and from the Herndon- Weik COL
lection. F. D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Reviewed by
MEREDITH S. BUEL.

MEREDITH S. BUEL.
Hollis Summers portrays real
istically in his first novel the ten
derness and mature love Of young
high school couple, who are made
painfully to realize that love" at
their age can be another term fol
juvenile delinquency in the eyes OF
those refusing to understand OF
sympathize.
In the eyes of the dean Of women
1t is a simple case of truancy when
this boy and girl miss school to
spend a day in the country by
themselves.
Being falsely accused and facing
probable expulsion. the pair decides
to leave the city limit on the spur
Of the moment and hide out with
intentions of returning and marry
ing when everything blows over
This decision, however, to leave the
State line behind them affects their
lives with consequences for good
and evil far greater than they
visualize.
"City Limit" Is a truly human
love story with setting and at
mosphere that might belong to any
town. 1t is against this background
that Mr.. Summers successfully
deals with love and maturity. which
he feels run hand in hand, and
shows the failure to understand or
sympathize with young people who
face this crisis is in itself an i'm
maturity that may prove to be the
death of the heart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Reading and Writing

The widespread impression that
Federal Prose" or gobbledegook as
it has been irreverently called, was
born of the New Deal and got out
of hand with World War II is not so.
In fact, it is an error, a fallacy
and mjsconception.
why the Delphic Oracle spoke a
kind of Federal Prose-" say the
authors of that satiric little manual
Federal Prose-" Wendell Brooks
Phillips and James R. Masterson.
The use of protective coloration"
by officials who have to be authori-
tative and yet noncommital runs
right through history and crops up
in the very earliest State papers Of
the Republic. according to this pair
of Menckens in bureaucrats' cloth
ing.
They emphasized this fact during
an interview the other day in the
very fountainhead of Federal prose,
the Pentagon, where they are both
employed by the Army Special Staff
on the Army's 99-volume history
project.
Potomac Roc0cO.'
Both former professors of English
who took graduate degrees in Eng
lish, they discovered Potomac Ro-
COCO" several years ago when they
did a tour of duty at the National
Archives together.
Said Mr.. Phillips. balding, gray
mustached, quizzical gentleman,
I'VE found it new
And fascinating" said his COL
laborator, Mr.. Masterston, who has
round brown eyes and slick black
hair.
They discovered that they shared
a palate for the rich beautiful syn
tax of officialese and began to draw
little plums of obfuscated expression
from the official documents which
passed through their hands in the
course of the days work.
And then, said Mr.. Masterson, we
would meet the makers OF such
statements and we found that they
occasionally talked that way, and
that delighted us.
But anybody who thinks this
is all new just hasn't looked into
the subject" he went on. In any
special group certain characteristic
obscuring expressions appear. Bu-
reaucrats are no different in their
love of jargon from sociologists,
doctors or lawyers.
Il recently came across some
State Department documents dated
1892, and there was the same cut
and-dried stuff we have today. Civil
servants have always considered it
more elegant and professional to
write that way"
Mr.. Phillips recalled an encoun-
ter with an arch Federal proseur in
the archives whose work he pre-
sumed to translate into everyday
English. "She was indignant, con-
sidered me a laundering amateur"
he explained.
Saying Little in Much.
! These two students of the local
art of saying little in much agreed
that the reason for the increased
prominence of Federal prose can
be explained by the fact that the
Government is coming more and
more into the daily lives of the
! people
In the old days if farmer got
directive from the Agriculture De-
partment telling him about rodent
determination. he never related it
! to the rats In his barn and just
threw it away. Now if he gets di-
receive about crop control, he is
legally bound to follow it and so
has to understand it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
History, as Readable
As q Novel

ORDEAL. BY FIRE
BY Fletcher Pratt. William
Sloane Associates, me-; So.
Reviewed by
FRANCIS DOUGLAS.
This one-volume history Of the
Civil War is history as readable as a
novel. 1t was published first more
than IS years ago. The publishers
have done we'll to make it available
again.
Mr.. Pratt has revised the book
and written new introduction, in
which he expresses irritation at
college graduates who never heard
of Chickamauga and to whom the
name of Sheridan means only an
English dramatist. They can correct
those deficiencies with pleasure and
profit by reading this volume.
Accompanying the text are excel
lent maps by Rafael Palacios.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09

Morrow G. Co.; $780,
Reviewed by
MARGARET BLAIR SHUMAKER.
And Ride Forth Singing is a
very short novel, which is a well
come rarity, indeed, in this day of
tones that make an ordinary book
shelf sag and groan. Such a book
is even more welcome when it en-
braces the fine tradition of the
novella, which presents a tale 50
sharply focused that there can be
no loose ends to distract from the
unity and simplicity that is its pur-
pose.
katherine Dunlap's new novel
follows in this tradition. 1t is a
simple story of postwar France and
of girl who spends quiet sum-
mer in the country trying to decide
what her future is to be. Leaving
Paris and man who wants to
marry her, she finds during her
months in the country the answers
to her questions and a man who
shows her what real love is
Although the background of the tale
is rich with country folk whose per-
sonalities are clearly drawn, they
never force themselves into the
main stream of the tale to disturb
its surface or destroy its unity
Here, in effect, is a novella which
gives clearly in microcosm what the
longer novel often thrllsts forward
in unGisciplined and confusing
macrocosm. There is considerable
unevenness of style in this novel
however, which detracts from the
full enjoyment of the simple, sensi-
tive story.
And Ride Forth Singing" should
be of special interest to Washing
tonians since Mrs. Dunlap is a
native of this city and is at present
living in Georgetown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Press Association
Life Is Theme
OF Vivid Novel
AN EDGE OF LIGHT

AN EDGE OF LIGHT
BY Frank K. Kelly. (Atlantic-
Little, Bro1Un; 49,
For some reason not entirely clear
few newspaper novels are altogether
successful. Perhaps those who know
the business best and could write
about it most cogently never have
time.
This first novel belongs. if not
quite with the few, certainly not
with the failures. 1t is a portrayal
of distinct merit, and its short
cornings are not too important. 1t
presents neWspape rmen as human
beings. with pretty much the same
ambitions and desires as others;
not as bunch of permanent Adde'S
cents and lushes, with neither
manners nor taste.
And Mr.. Kelly has written Of a
species probably not too we'll known
to the public-the press association
man. Jimmy Hammill had been
almost everywhere and done almost
everything; most recently he had
been a war correspondent. in the
thick of action. Now he was in
charge of the night news desk in
New York-the nerve center OF the
whole world wide service, vortex
Of incessant teletype machines.
scurrying copy boys and jangling
phones, a frenzy of activity ca!cu-
lated to crack any man before his
time. Jimmy hated this job, but he
found solace in his recent marriage
to Derry. widow of colleague killed
in Greece. Jimmy had always
wanted home. But Derry wasn't
sure Jimmy didn't prefer Lila, who
worried over her correspondent hus-
band in China, but was always
willing to be comforted. Jimmy's
domestic situation couldn't stay
tranquil. any more than the worlds
could, with the Russians refusing to
get out of Iran and defying the
United Nations.
Ask ANY Old FRESHMAN.
If YOU think Mr.. Kelly's portrait
Of the coldly calculating general
manager of the flctional organlza-
ton he calls consolidated Press
is overdrawn. ask any old press
association man. This executive
moved his men about as if they
were cardboard figures; their am
billions and wishes never counted.
The Russian correspondent is a
sympathetic characterize believed
sincerely in his country. and yet ne
was not a fanatic and he earnestly
wanted peace. Jimmy himself. not
a far-fetched sort Of newspaperman,
seems too obsessed with fear OF an
other war, too constantly concerned
with what will happen to Manhat-
tan when the bombers arrive. to be
quite sane. Even the neurosls with
which too much combat experience
had left him could hardly account
for this perpetual worry: it was
more like a psychosis. No wonder
Derry picked up and left him for a
while
Mr.. Kelly's vivid, staccato style Is
admirably suited to the swift mar
rative. &C. B. J.
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All the Answers
INFORMATION PLEASE

AUTHORIZATION PLEASE
ALMANAC 1a13
Edited by John Kieran. Prepared
by Dan Golenpaul Associates
fFarrar, StrduS; $780,
The new Information Please Al
manac' is hot off the presses and
promises to be even more useful
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An up-to-date listing of facts and
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book and is just as interesting for
general reading. The section en-
titled How Man Lives Under Capt.
talist Socialist Communist Govern
ments" is a new addition.-C. M. P
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09

began to wonder. And he was COM
pletely demoralized when he went
on a mission to Paris to round up
2.500,000 displaced Soviets, many of
whom did not want to be repatriated
He managed to appear missing in a
plane crash and came here Not the
least interesting portions of his story
deal with his adventures in America,
his bewildering reaction to plenty
and personal freedom, his meeting
with the progressive American
girl" militantly pro-Russian, who
loves the Soviet system. but cares
nothing at all how much the Rus
sian people must Suffer'-M Meg