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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-11-02
Burn Mortgage
On Church of God
Home For Women

BURN MORTGAGE ON -
DETROIT (ANP)-A five-year
dream became a reality last week
with the burning of the mortage
on the Lillian Brooks Coffey
Home, Inc.
Mrs. Lillian Coffey, national
supervisor Of the women's depart
ment of the Church Of God in
Christ and founder of the rest
home, accepted the deed to the
property as board members and
friends looked on.
The three-story stone structure
at 154 Arden Park, formerly a
millionaire's fabulous mansion, was
purchased in 1914 for $35, 1000.
Newly decorated, the building in
cludes a library, dining room, sun
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-11-02

FOR RENT 2 furnished single
rooms. Single person preferred.
Me-5687 TIA
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-11-02

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms for
couples and single men. Kitchen
privileges. He-5468 after 4 pm.
t-216
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-11-02

WANTED Girl to share apart
ment. Call Me-6398. t-215
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-11-02

FOR RENT Furnished room for
couple or 2 single men. Me
1898. t-216
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-11-02

FOR RENT Furnished room for
couple. Privileges Mi-287O.
t-216
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-11-02

FOR SALE Complete Beauty
Salon outfit Cheap. Progressive
Finance Co. Ad-8225. See Mr..
Longworth. t-215
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06

Travelling In Greece with Mr..
Osbert Lancaster, political cartoon
list Of the London Daily Express, is
q delightful, If demanding, expert
ence. His disclaimer that he is
merely IAN Anglican graduate Of
oxford with a taste for architecture
turned cartoonist, approaching mid
die age and living in Kensington, "
is to be discounted. Mr.. Lam
caster Is q thorough-going and full
f1edged character, bristling with
prejudice and commanding a prose
that is Churchillian in its rolling
periods. His derision of Oxford
dons, undergraduates in tow, and
female water colorists reverently
picking their way through the ruins
of ancient Greece is fierce and oft
stated. While he investigates every
cornice, crevice and arch of the
architectural monuments which dot
Greece and its necklace of islands,
he always calls spade a spade,
and when it belongs to an archeol-
ogist, he heaps it with scorn.
This upsetting Of so many APPLE
carts cherished by professional
traveloguists gives the book its
bracing favor, but its great worth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06

his time to establish the innocence
Of men wrongfully accused. And
he used the deductive method of the
man he once regretted having Gre
ated-Holmes. This technique, In
fact, has influenced not only de-
tective stories ever since, but police
investigation, as Mr.. Carr brings
out. The cream of the jest was
that Holmes actually was Doyle, a
secret the author never divulged
Sir Arthur became, long before his
death at the age of II in 1880, not
only one of the best-known Eng
lishmen, but a man famous all over
the world.
Mr.. Carr has not attempted to
write @ critical estimate of Conan
Doyle either as a writer or as q
man, but his book Is none the less
exciting. There was so much about
Sir Arthur that was generous, big
and lovable, that 1t would be hard
for a biographer not to be capti-
waited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06

is in its vigorous presentation OF
life in the troubled peninsula today
Scattered through his astringent
descriptions of "nymphless. glade
less Arcadia" and of Sparta, whose
early inhabitants remind him OF
Nazis, are searching comments on
the fear of the future" which grips
the contemporary inhabitants OF
this history Laden land, a fear
whose bitter taste ds) unsoftened
by the comforting sauces Of hope
and illusion"
Mr.. Lancaster's gustily humorous
and erudite text Is enlivened by
such hilarious passages as a COM
parison between the Olympic games
of the ancients and the sporting
events Of today. His analysis OF
the Greek character is as witty and
perceptive a summation of a ma
tional personality as has probably
ever been done in brief space.
The authors own drawings, Of a
brilliant, slightly exaggerated ma
ture, illustrate the book admirably,
He proves for all time that what the
traveller in Greece needs more than
a sense of the past Is sense Of the
present. M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06
Anne WinsIow's
Quiet Voice
Is Beinq Heard

THE SPRINGS
BY Anne Goodwin Winslow. (Al-
fred A. Knopt;; $780,
Anne Goodwin Winslow, a South
erner who writes of a tradition
largely ignored by other present-day
chroniclers of the region, has quiet
voice which is being listened to more
attentively with each passing year.
Author of several books that have
been marked by fastidious artistry
and delicate perception, she ex-
amines lives that are outwardly I'M
eventful but rich in psychological
subtleties.
This present story (Which Is hardly
novel length) Is a reverie Of youth,
a gentle, pastel-colored study Of the
Towering of a sheltered, adolescent
girl. It's framework Is the musings
of a happily married woman who
tries to tell her nephew in Medi-
terranean garden what life was like
in the small Southern town where
she spent her girlhood. The hero
inc is Alice Mcgowan whose whole
understanding Of life was derived
from books until the building Of a
small summer hotel in the town
brought her into contact with the
scandals and morals of an alien
world. How these happenings re-
vertebrate in Alice's innocent soul
is shown through her attitude to
the courtship of several young men
who are smitten by her beauty. OF
these, the most charming Is an i'm
poverished plantation owner who
wooes her without hope. Several
other personalities, all effortlessly
drawn in Mrs. Winslow's light, dry
prose, Just family laced with irony
enter into the story. But its main
interest is in the delightful, rather
formal dialogue which Alice, 1.-THE
enchanted princess" and her suitors
exchange, and in the pervasive at
mosphere of calm affection in the
Mcgowan household.
Mrs. Winslow's book is exciting
only insofar as a sure, limited art is
exciting. But for her fast-growing
circle Of readers that will be enough
M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06

era. Never one for your fishy-eyed
objectivity, she writes feelingly Of
her own rivalry with another girl
on the A. P. bureau and Of the more
publiciZed feud of Alice Longworth
and Dolly Gam.
With the advent of the New Deal,
during those first dizzying days when
an A. P. deskman stood over a ticker
and said, I am waiting for a flash
that the world has come to an end
Mrs. Roosevelt takes over the book.
Mrs. RS" peregrinations and prof.
ects we're Miss Furman's life for the
next five years, until the reporter
stepped off the merry-go-round long
enough to produce her twins.
Wartime service with owl gave
her first-hand knowledge of Govern
ment power fights, which she de-
scribes fairly but amusingly, and
free-lance Government fact-finding
helped complete her transition from
pert reporter to expert reporter"
In 1914 she joined the Washington
staff of the New York Times and Is
still going strong.
A Personal Record.
Miss Furman's book refreshingly
free of the cynicism that mars many
Capitol chronicle is q sprightly
personal record of a newspaper
woman who has had more than her
share Of beats and exclusives while
keeping her word and her friends
1t is stuffed with readable anecdotes
about her ruses and mishaps. One
Of her best stories involves hel
sneaking into a Hoover White House
Christmas party disguised as a Cir
Scout; another concerns her being
bitten by Mrs. Roosevelt's dog. But
besides its lively sketches Of
people and events which have
shaped the last 20 years In Wash
ington, it offers q good guide fol-
the reporter newly come.
viii the Furman-Armstrong news
paper tradition be carried on by the
twins who are now II? Miss Fur
man hopes at least by half. While
her son is mechanical, her daughter
Ruth Eleanor writes q sparkling
diary.
Its full Of exclamation points,
reported her mother proudly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06

Gen. Marshall Gin his capacity
as Chief Of Staff and later mediator
in the Chinese civil war; to tho
incompetent scrubs in the State
Department" who make Far East
ern policy, escapes the bitter pen
Of Gen. Chennault. I'M
In foreword written only IN
January of this year after the
Chinese Communist successes Cher
nault attempts to set forth his
ideas of how and why the United
States has lost the Pacific War.
China is the key and we have
muffed it. The generals thesis
makes certain amount of sense If
you assume, as he apparently does,
the inevitability of a shooting war
with Russia. But you can't help
wishing that Gen. Chennault and
lots of other good patriotic Ameri-
cans, too, would read q little more
history and especially would look
up letter written by Theodore
Roosevelt in 1910 to President Taft
who had requested some advice on
American Far Eastern policy. MIR.
Roosevelt said, with regard to
possible military alliance with
China against Japan, Alliance with
China, in view of China's absolute
military helplessness, means, Of
course, not an additional strength to
us, but an additional obligation
which we assume: I" . e." Moscow
papers please copy.)
But whether you agree or not
with what the general says you will
agree that 1t all makes q most In
'teresting book with which to sit
before the fireplace these icy eve
uingS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06
MockinIoy Kontor
UnIoods q Wild
Western Thriller
WICKED WATER
BY Mackinlay Kantor. (Randt
HoNSe. 3275J

WICKED WATER
BY Mackinlay Kantor. Random
House; $2.75.)
In 1899, Pearl City, in the cattle
country, was considerably quieter
than 1t had been 20 years before,
when Indians still roamed and white
men reached for guns when their
tempers f1ared. Still cattlemen
often wore guns, and a brawl WASH
unknown. So when the stranger
came into the Glad Hand Saloon
and, after q few drinks and an argu-
ment with q native, shot out the
eyes Of the deer mounted high on
the opposite wall, no one was too
surprised. But when he boosted that
he was Bus Crow and had killed 81
men, they did shrink back, recog-
nizing the name of a notorious killer.
And nobody said word.
Yet some Of the big cattlemen had
o use for Bus. They wanted to get
rid of the small homesteaders, some
Of them rustlers, and so Bus was
hired and given carte blanche. What
came Of his campaign of terror
forms the theme Of this Western
thriller. Mr.. Kantor pays out his
story with tight suspense. What a
movie 1t should make! &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06

The generals hard = hitting &C
count of the development Of the
American Volunteer Group in
China, its record against the Japa-
nese before Pearl Harbor, its shabby
treatment when indicted into the
United States Army and its sub
sequent history as part of the 18th
Air Force makes a thrilling tale.
When you read the play-by-pl
account Of the mistakes and stupid
tiles of the high brass and the
difficulties put in the way of Chen
nault's airmen you will wonder how
we ever won the war. But the
general suffers from fault COM
mon to most fortnight, honest
zealots trying to do particular job
under adverse conditions. His sense
of proportion is all out Of killer.
He is confused and tends to identify
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06

his successes and Illustrations
with those OF the whole global war.
About China he is frankly q senti-
mentalist. He thinks the Chinese
are swell folks getting a rotten
break. So do most people who have
had the privilege of living and
working with them. 1t Is obvious
also that the general still believes
the old saying that if the Chinese
coolies would only add one inch to
their shirttails it would keep the
spinning mills of America and Lam
cashire busy for the rest Of time
and bring prosperity to all. Added
to all this was the fact that Gen.
Chennault didn't agree with Gen.
Stilwell or his other superiors
about how the war should be
fought. This book tells how and
why in no uncertain terms. II your
dish is castigation and abuse, this
is the book for you. No one from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06


best-liked press women.
Small, shrewd, friendly Miss Fur
man, was on the unaccustomed end
of an interview the other day. II
was in a hotel lobby during brief
interval before luncheon which she
was covering for the New York
Times. She explained that she had
written her memories of 20 years of
meeting headlines in the news center
of the world to help spare young
reporters starting out here the grow
ing pains which afflicted her in her
first months in Washington &c
years ago.
ut was an awful job. too" she
said. 1T meant giving up week ends
and vacations for whole year, and
spending hours checking facts in the
Library of Congress. But feel that
there needn't be all the confusion
that there IS here, and I thought q
book describing my own experiences
and bewilderment might help"
Career Woman.
A career woman with twins, Miss
Furman has managed the work
versus home problem with consid-
cradle grace. Her mother and sis
ter live with her and her husband
Robert Armstrong, has always I'm.
derstood, being newspaperman
himself. He is a correspondent fol
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. They
work in the same building, have the
same hours and are able to drive tc
and from their home in TAFT Court
(Maryland) together.
"Of course, it hasn't always beer
easy" she added. I've always hac
this bent, and with me it's stronger
than the domestic bent, as it is with
some women. When I was out Of
the newspaper business for while
I felt as though had had an arm
or q leg amputated. I wish public
opinion would change toward the
working of married women. She still
Is made to feel guilty and carry
around q feeling Of guilt that she
hadn't ought to have to bother
with"
Entirely Satisfying.
Still enthusiastic after 80 years ir
the business, Miss Furman, wht
might be called a newspaperman':
|newspaperwoman-being the com.
petent kind who asks intelligent
questions at press conferences anc
never seeks favors because of hel
sex-has found covering woman's
activities In Washington entirely
satisfying.
Here it doesn't mean Just food o.
fashions. They can't keep you away
from politics." she said. And shs
made a firm friendship with Eleanor
Roosevelt when that indefatigabls
lady was leading the whole womeni
press corps on never-ending trai
that finally forced Miss Furman int<
low heels for the first time In hel
life.
On the Spot.
Politics has always been q great
thing with her. A color story on A
Smiths campaign speech printed ir
the Omaha Bee-News won her g
prize and eventually a Job with the
Washington bureau Of the Associ.
ated Press. She arrived here with
the intention of popping the
parentheses off the A. p" and from
the samples of copy included in hel
book, she did just that. Her re.
Election on things past and still
going on is full Of bubbles nd-gingel
and give the reader sense Of being
on the spot at congressional hear
ings, campaigns and conventions.
She describes her arrival during
the Hoover administration, when the
closing of banks and the bonu.
marchers signalized the end of ar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06
Back to theFurm
MACS CROFT

BY Wendy Wood. (Dutton;; 49,
To all those harassed and weary
people who are toying with the
idea of going to commune with
mother nature, let this book be
guide and an inspiration.
Wendy Wood and her husband
Mac had always planned to end up
on the land. They made good on
their resolve, when, in middle age,
they went to live on a rundown and
barren little farm in a lonely glen
in the Western Highlands Of Scot
land.
Some good photographs and clsv-
er drawings help to demonstrate Q
way Of life all too easily passed by In
the mad swirl OF 10th century living.
IN. p.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06
Reviewing I he New Books
John Gunther's
Book Is Fine
Memorial to Son

DEATH, BE NOT PROUD
BY John Gunther. (Harper &
Bros; $780,
This book must have been a
difficult to write as it Is painful
to read. It Is an account Of the
last illness of Johnny Gunther
son of the world-famous re-
porter, who died of a brain tumol
in 1947 at the age of II. He was
youth of glorious promise, combining
a marked intellectual flair with q
great radiance Of disposition. Mr.
Gunther wrote the story of the boys
suffering and death in the hope that
diseased children and their parents
may derive some modisum of succo1
from the unfiinching fortitude and
detachment with which Johnny
rode through his ordeal to the end.
Mr.. Gunther has brought his
greatest skill to bear In evokine
the personality of his dead son. He
stresses the child's unfailing con-
sideration for those around him, his
humor and his mature acceptance
of his desperate situation. Success
sive operations, various therapies
including diet were tried. The finest
surgeons in the world attempted to
save him. But Johnny's parents dis
covered that there are tragic limits
to modern medical knowledge. Mr.
Gunther has evidently still not re-
signed himself to the terrible irony
that Johnny should be afflicted in
that part of him that was best, the
BRAIN"
His Moment Of Triumph.
The most amazing and heartbreak-
ing aspect Of Johnny's hopeless
struggle was his gallant and per-
sistent efforts to pursue his studies,
to discipline his poor, battered brain
to cope with examinations that
would have admitted him to Harvard
the fall following his death. While
the dread lump on his head grew
larger, he continued his beloved
chemistry experiments, and specu-
lated on the mysteries Of atomic
science. The triumph of his life
came when, during brief mo-
ment of respite and hope, he walked
unaided, among his cheering class
mates to receive his diploma from
Deerfield Academy.
Mr.. Gunther describes in layman's
language the nature and progress of
Johnny's tumor and its treatment
Johnny himself, with his passion
for science, took an enormous and
cheerful interest in the details of
his illness, as he did in everything
which concerned him or his parents
Frances, John Gunther's divorced
wife and Johnny's mother, adds a
word at the end, which is in many
ways the most affecting and consol-
ing part, since she stresses the in
tetsity Of her enjoyment and love
for Johnny during those Is months
when every day might have been
his last.
This fine tribute, which is neither
sentimental nor morbid, will bring
no profits to author or publisher
who have made donations to cancer
research for children. M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06
Sweden's Continued
And Successful
Fight for Peace
SWEDEN: CHAMPION
OF PEACE
BY David Hinshaw. (Putnac7's;;
| Sd
Reviewed by
CRESTON B. MULLINS,


Until 1915 Sweden's reputation in
the world was one of unending con-
fict and struggle with its neighbors.
Since 1915 Sweden has been involved
In no wars, has devoted itself strict
ly to peace. It is the story of this
struggle for peace which David Hin
shaw presents here.
Sweden's effort for peace has been
successful through two world wars,
but the question for her now-and
the current negotiations for the
North Atlantic alliance bring it
into sharp focus-is whether she
can stay at peace In q third world
war.
Those who desire to bring Sweden
into close affiliation with the West
ern democracies argue that in the
coming struggle there can be no
neutralS, and that Sweden will have
to choose one way or the other. The
Swedes are not so convinced of this
fact, and feel that there Is always
the chance that, by accommod dating
themselves to reality, while remain
ing aloof from actual conflict, they
can be spared the tragedy of war.
Remaining Neutral
On their side, Of course, as Mr..
Hinshaw points out, is their expert
ence in World War II, in the course
Of which they remained as nearly
neutral as possible-although it was
far from complete neutrality-and
succeeded in staving of actual in
vasion. This is what they hope they
can do again, although among the
Swedes there is not complete I'M
awareness of the all-encompassing
character of the possible future con-
fict.
Sweden, it appears, is striving to
achieve that degree of acceptance
as the supreme neutral which Swift
zerland enjoys, and one facet Of this
endeavor is the humanitarian &C.
tivity of Swedes, high and low.
Count Folke Bernadotte Is just one
of the many members of this Scan
dinavian nation whom the world
knows for humanitarian and peace
full work. Alongside him are to be
counted the many, In official and
unofficial capacities, whose work has
softened wars harsh treatment Of
the young, the old, the infirm.
Socialism in Sweden is simply a
phase of the effort to achieve by
evolution what has been achieved in
exaggerated form elsewhere by rev.
olution. But in the the growth Of
statism itself, Mr.. Hinshaw points
out, lie the seeds of Sweden's pos
sible ultimate inability to remain
wholly at peace in a world which is
dividing up into two camps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
WORLD HISTORY

Compiled and Edited by William
L. LANCER. (Schoken Books;
$2.75.)
This Is a revised edition of a most
valuable chronology of world history.
It Is arranged by countries, periods
and sometimes general subjects, so
that dates of events and eras are
not hard to find. The new material
includes the war of 1939-1945, and
development in the world after the
fighting stopped. There is topical
table of contents and an index OF
individual names. &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06
Reading and Writing
Reading and Writing
Bess Furmon Recalls q Few Memories
Back of Her Washington By-Line'
By Mary McGrory

it
hopes publication
written Washington dateine
Washington Line" Knop $3.50 period in the
continuing the Capitals durable kowledgeabe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06
Dorothy Disney's
Latest Thriller

Another local writer Of consider
able enterprise is Dorothy Cameron
Disney, the towns most mystifying
writer. On a tour through the
South last spring to do research for
her newest thriller, 1.-The Hanging
Tree" with Mrs. Beverly Smith, wife
Of the Saturday Evening Posts
Washington editor, Miss Disney
stopped of in Raleigh, N. c., at the
same time that group Of prize
winning high school essayists were
being presented to the Governor
Never one to pass up an official occa-
sion, Miss Disney, with Mrs. Smith,
joined the line and passed herself
off as one of the shepherding school
teachers. She says that the Gov
ernor was very cordial and she en-
joyed meeting him. "The Hanging
Tree" which will be published to-
morrow, has an authenticated South
Carolina setting.
Merle Colby, a veteran of Govern
ment service, now with the Arthur
Newmyer Associates, has hit the
Literary Guild with a new novel
called "The Big Secret" To be
published in May, 1t promises to
be a kind of "Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington" with atomic overtones.
Merlo j. Pussy, associate editor
Of the washington Post. will write
a biography Of former Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes, thus helping
to keep the spotlight on the Su-
preme Court, which has been the
subject of several books lately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-02-06
John Dickson Carr Writes
Biography Of Conan Doyle
lie LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
, oh piclxso., e. 50

THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
BY John Dickson Carr. (Harper; $780,
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
top-ght detective story writer written sympathetic
absorbing biography of the who created the
detective in all fiction.
Mr. Carr not only has marshaled the pertinent facts of life
astonishing in and diversity interests
down with all the guso he might have swept