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Scottsboro Fugitive
Tells His Story
SCOTTSBORO BOY

BY Haywood Patterson and Earl
Conrad. doubleday; s3J
The scottsboro case dates back
to 1881, when nine Negro youths
were taken from freight train at
Paint Rock. Ala. and charged with
the rape of two white girls on the
trip from Chattanooga. The first
trial. at Scottsboro, resulted in
conviction and the death penalty
for seven Of the defendants. The
United States Supreme Court re-
versed the verdict on the ground
that the boys did not have an ade-
quate defense. At the second trial,
held in Decatur. Ala, Haywood
Patterson, tried separately, again
was found guilty, but the evidence
was so fiimSy and contradictory
that the trial Judge set aside the
verdict and granted a new trial.
Eventually, after later trials, four
defendants were sentenced to life
or long prison terms. Patterson,
after serving II years in various
Alabama prisons. escaped from
Kilby in the summer of 1948. He
now Is a fugitive in the North.
This is Patterson's story, written
with the help of a professional
writer. The ghost writer has wise
ly let Patterson talk in his own
idiom. 1t is vivid story of prison
horrors to which we have become
too accustomed. Few impartial
observers have doubted the in
justice Of the Scottsboro convic-
tions. Unfortunately Communist
dominated organizations took over
the defense. confusing the issue.
as they always do. But at least
leaders in the defense movement
had sense enough to retain Sam
uel S. Leibowitz, the New York
criminal lawyer. now a judge. He
conducted a brilliant defense at
Patterson's trial in Decatur and
brought from one of the two COM
planning witnesses a reputation of
her earlier testimony and a state
ment that the defendants were in
nocent.
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FictionuI Priest
Becomes Involved
With Mankind
THE ENCOUNTER

lie ENCOUNIEH
BY Crawford Power. William
Sloane Associates, $3J
This is the story Of a cold,
proud Catholic priest who wor-
ships God with a fearful zeal that
leaves him barely tolerant OF man
kind. Mindful of his lack of char
ity. Father Cawder carries out his
duties toward his parishioners
with a joyless scrupulosity, and
in his cell-like room practices
medieval austerities. -
His curate is concerned with
mans inhumanity to man; but
Father Cawder. infinitely out
ragged by mans inhumanity to
God. has little patience for Faith
er Moran's grandiose schemes for
social justice. His leading parish
ioner. Southern aristocrat,
whose religious fervor vies un-
equally with her love Of comfort,
tries in vain to introduce a sof-
tening social note. seeing him
like God, unpleasantly demo-
cratic"
Impelled by a dream to seek
out circus diver. whom he en-
visions as a possible means of
grace, he betakes himself to a
local carnival. His first meeting
with the seedy, sly Diamond seems
pointless. When Diamonds mis-
tress comes to the rectory to ask
his help in placing her child in
an orphanage, he deals with her
brusquely and she fiounces of.
Tormented by the idea that it
is spiritual pride that motivates
him. he swallows his human pride
and goes off in search of the pair.
His experiment in becoming in
volved with mankind brings him
into contact with a squalid, seamy
world which shocks and repels
him. But what it accomplishes
beyond deepening his sense of iso-
lation in his void of belief is not
quite clear.
Crawford Power. yielding not
one whit to the current vogue of
making fictional prelates jolly or
superabundantly human, tells his
story in the unyielding terms of
Father Cawder, following precise
ly the subtle turns of his arid
soul-searching. But Father Caw-
der is an uncompromising person,
utterly lacking in any qualities
that would make his dilemma
moving to the ordinary mortal,
and Mr.. Power has keyed his
story to such a low pitch that
only the most acutely attuned ear
could catch its full meaning. He
is an excellent writer and his
book comes alive through its
minor characters.
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q Adams. This New York firm
published, almost all the thin,
orange paper backed books which
were known to all Americans in
the precomic book, pretelevision
age. The heroes were Buffalo Bill,
Kit Carson and Daniel Boone or
f1ctional two-gun men. All villains
were black-souled. The heroines
were just pure and innocent.
Everything was simple in the world
Of the dime novel.
Millions Bought Them.
And millions bought these
driven-snow tales. The publishers
made sure they wouldn't corrupt
anybody by making some hard and
fast rules for their authors: In
clude nothing offensive, avoid any
immoral taint, do your best work.
and pay attention to grace and
precision of narrative. The for
mula was successful. The pub
fishers could advertise truthfully
that they had books for the mil
lions and that they were offering
a dollar book for a dime.
The men who ran this business
Git lasted throughout the last so
years of the 10th century, were
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Novel Recalls
Vivid Scenes
In jap Prison
Reviewed by Mary MeGrory

NO TIME TO LOOK BACK
BY Leslie Greener. THE Viking
Press; So
Leslie Greener lived through the
japanese prison camp scenes
which he describes so vividly in
this first of his novels to be i'm
ported to America. A native Of
South Africa, with a remarkable.
varied background of art. arche-
ology and journalism. he was cap
tured at Singapore while serving
with the Australian Army.
He has such a dead-level under
standing of the ''pitiless refining
cauldron" of life behind the
barbed- wire and its effect on the
spirit of men. some Of whom it
makes better than they could ever
be. that it is a pity he did not put
into non fiction his "reminiscences
of those years.
When he is dealing with the men
themselves and their makeshifts
for endurance. he is completely
convincing. His dialogue is first
rate. His characterizations of the
wistful, westernized interpreter.
Sato. and of the popular Padre
Choyce. the priest with the mod
ern approach. are absorbing and
suspenseful. But he has not been
content with showing the abrasive
effects of confinement, hunger and
cruelty on men whose hope of es-
cape are tempered by the merci-
less jungles and savage reprisals
which await them. He boldly in
PRODUCES an unknown soldier of
unearthly beauty and unrevealed
origins who to the CONSERVATION
of the camps British authorities
begins to preach the "Subversive"
doctrine of love thine enemy"
Soldiers Can't Be Tender.
Loving and reasonable SOL
diers are q hindrance to the sue
cessful prosecution of the war"
growls the British commanding Of
f1cer. and banishes the disturbing
Andres to a work camp. Padre
Choyce follows this Christ-like
figure into ostracism, and through
him is recalled to the essential
loneliness of his calling. Andros
performs several miracles" on his
captors and goes as silently and
mysteriously as he has come.
While Mr.. Greener never sue
ceeds in welding the natural and
supernatural elements in his
story, it cannot be dismissed as a
brave attempt at a difficult theme.
1t is a novel highly worth your
while.
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granted to himself and George
Beall, and the latter subsequently
accepted the same terms under
protest, in which he said:
IF I must part with. my prop
erty by force I had better save a
little than be totally demolished.
Rather than have none. I accept
these lots-Nos. 70 and 79-said to
be Mr.. Henderson's and MIR, Ed
monston's."
Tenney's Tribute
On Washington's birthday, back
in 1881, Georgetown" was the
topic OF the grafton given by Will
liam H. Tenney, himself a men,
ber and a native of West WASH
ington. Speaking Of the early
Importance of Georgetown. Mr
Tenney said in part:
Washington bellies did all their
shopping there. The old Union
(now the West End Hotel was
the great hotel of the District. II
was thronged with members of
Congress and other guests. It's
stables were filled with the best
horses. for in those primitive days
equestrianiSm was the rule and
vehicles the exception.
The great Kentucky statesman
rode on horseback to Washington,
Henry Clay. who would rather be
right than President, was among
the distinguished guests who
boarded at the Union. Even in
my boyhood I remember that not
a watermelon or sweet potato
or an oyster, a shad or a herring
was landed at Washington, but
our harbor was crowded with
pungies and oyster boats from
whence Washington was supplied
The wholesale grocers of George
town supplied nearly all the re-
tail grocers of Washington, bu.
this has changed and the reverse
is the case. Georgetown has hel
history. She was created a town
in 1751 and chartered as a city
in l789-the same year that
George Washington was inaugu-
rated our first President. George
town had large commerce coast
wise, and also traded with the
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bered the unfriendly ones. This
is partly reflection of the late
Presidents popularity, which may
or may not have diminished in
the thin perspective of five years,
but it is more especially due to
the fact that so many of his
associates have published their
recollections of his long regime.
Mr.. Gunther is a world travelled
Journalists good reporter who
writes with skill and perception.
His Inside" studies of Europe,
Asia. Latin America and the
United States have brought him
an imposing number of readers.
He says he has not undertaken
a biography of Mr.. Roosevelt lin
the orthodox manner" but rather
IAN estimate, survey, an ap-
praisal-moreover an appraisal
from a personal as we'll as a po-
litical point of view"
Personal and Official.
The author presents a mass of
material, not much of it new. He
has marshaled it into various
categories. personal and official.
In appraising this factual accu-
mutation. Mr.. Gunther has not
offered a critical study. but at
least he has tried to be discrim-
mating. He assumes-not un-
reasonably-Mr. Roosevelt's great
ness as q leader in war and peace
Mr.. Gunther also takes it for
granted, as most liberals do, that
the merit of the Presidents long
range programs cannot be ques-
toned. however many mistakes he
may have made in advancing
them. He contends that the New
Deal reforms probably preserved
our Reppblic from more radical
change. He apparently sees
nothing revolutionary in setting
a limit on personal income by
means Of taxation, nor does he
once consider the danger inherent
in any all-powerful government,
Of whatever complexion.
"Of course" he remarks naively,
"the Nation had had what is now
called 'statism' before. What are
public schools and public roads If
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A Murder Is Announced. by
Agatha Christie. (Dodd, Mead
& Co.; $2.50.)
Red Badge.
The villagers thought it was a
joke-at most an invitation to a
murder game-when they read In
the local gazette: "A murder has
been announced and will take
place on Friday, October 20, at
Little Paddocks at $50. Friends
please accept this. the only init
nation" They found 1t was no
joke. Thus. Agatha Christie
starts her 50th novel. We could
wish that our favorite sleuth, Her.
cule Poirot, was the star of her
anniversary whodunit. but her
alternate detective, Miss Marple,
performs admirably for the queen
of mystery fiction.
The Case Of the Musical Cow, BY
Erie Stanley Gardner. william
Morrow & Co.; $2.50.)
A tour through scenic Switzer-
land involves Rob Trenton with
the lovely. if mysterious, Linda
Carroll. It's hard to believe Linda
planted cache of dope in the car
she asked him to drive from the
dock. but there it was and where
was Linda? Instead of featuring
Perry Mason, Gardner leaves the
brainwork to q pathologist, whose
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I1G nSaI1AL 4f11NNlNJ OF I'll
BY Leon Stein. Philosophical L
Wagner was almost as prolific
at writing words as he was at
composing music. He published
volumes of criticism, observations
and philosophy as heavy as his
music. He offered his autobiog-
raphy and printed many of his
letters. He never was one to be
deferred by reticence or modesty.
His literary works have been COL
lected.
Wagner's outspoken belief in the
superiority of the Germans and
his hatred of Jews furnished SO
years after his death endless ma
terial for Goebbels. DR.. Stein.
who is director of the graduate
division of the De Paul University
School of Music and a composer
Of note, has performed a service
in collating these ideas and ex-
planning their influence. He points
out that "Wagner's racial thinking
eliminates and reaches It's apogee
In Hitler. Goebbels. Rosenberg and
the Third Reich" The author
adds: Under no circumstances
Is 1t suggested that Hitler and
Nazi Germany owe their existence
to Wagner. But only in Fascist
Germany and not until then do
the racial tenets of Wagner finally
achieve their logical destination
and conclusion"
His "PseudO- O-PhilosOphy,"
Wagner's views took the prac-
ticsl form Of venomous attacks on
such composers of Jewish blood
as Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer.
But DR.. Stein is too fair to read
these prejudices and hatreds into
Wagner's scores. pointing out that
music is so completely apart from
other forms Of expression that cit
Is impossible to understand the
essence Of music through reason
alone. :" There was, however,
the preponderance Of Nordic
myths. leading to legends of the
superman and Teutonic SUI
periority. in the background of
Wagnernian music dramas. And
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NotabIes Of Old Georgetown
By John CIoeett Proctor

First settlers of what is now
Georgetown were Col. Ninian
Beall and George Gordon. with
any advantages there may be 60
ing to the former. who obtained q
patent for the Rock Of Dunbar
ton" in 1903 and pitched his tent,
so we are informed. in the wilder
ness about at a point where Is
now the northeast corner Of N and
Thirtieth streets. Prior to the
adoption of the present system Of
naming streets. these were known
as Gay and Washington.
George Gordon, the other early
settler, probably first made his
appearance in or around George
town about 1874, the year he be-
came the owner Of q part Of
"Knave's Disappointment" tract
of about 800 acres. originally
patented to James Smith, and
which after that date went by
the name Of George Gordon's
Rock Creek Plantation"
BY 175l there evidently was
quite a number Of persons living
west of Rock Creek. In that year
we find those settled there petit
tioning the Legislature of Mary
land to establish a town In this
vicinity. the request being granted.
according to provincial act. on
May Is, 1851. Henry Wright
Crabb. John Needham, John
Clagett. James Perry and David
Lynn, commissioners, were author
lied to lay out and erect a town
on the Potomac River, above the
mouth of Rock Greek, in Fred
erick County, Md. specifying the
land to be used for this purpose
as that belonging to George Cor
don and George Beall, where it
shall appear to them"-the COM
missioners-"to be most convent
ent-and to survey the same into
80 lots. to be erected into a
town, and to be called George
town"
Jury Fixed Claim
To start with. Alexander Beal.
was appointed as clerk and sur
veyor and Josiah Beall coroner
But, so far as we know, the only
disagreement that took place at
that time was the refusal of
Messrs. Beall and Gordon to sell
the part of their property taken
for the town for the 280 pounds
awarded by the commissioners.
and in consequence the coroner
was directed to summon a jury to
assess the value of the property
to be taken. which was accord
ingly done by William Pritchett,
Ninian Magruder. Nicholas Baker
James Beall, Nathaniel Magruder,
Charles Clagett, Thomas Clagett,
James Holman, Charles Jones.
zachariah Magruder. James WAL
lace, Basil Beall, William Will
liams. Alexander Magruder, Will
liam Wallace and John Magruder.
son of Alexander.
George Gordon finally agreed to
accept the terms and selected for
MS own lots 48 and 50. a privilege
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THE PARADOX OF OSCAR,
WILDE

BY George Woodcock. (The Mac
milan Co., NeD York; $780,
A critical study of Wilde In
which he is represented as a seri-
Gus. sincere writer with definite
positive standards. Mr.. Wood
cock sets forth the theory that
through his hedonistic philosophy
Wilde was really seeking for the
deeper mysteries of life. Interest
ing but hardly convincing.-E. T.
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West Indies, Europe and East
Indies. All this has ceased. except
the coaStwise trade. which is now
quite extensive. its principal ex-
ports being coal. flour and grain.
Among its merchants were
Elisha RigeS. since Of New York.
now deceased. and George, Pea
body. since of London. also de-
ceased, who left his memorial, the
Peabody Library; Edward NJ. In
thicum. one of her prominent
merchants. left his memorial. the
Linthicum Institute. Among our
citizens was the author OF The
Star Spangled Banner afterwRrd
district attorney. Among those
born in Georgetown were George
w. Riggs. w. w. Corcoran. now
of Washington, and Robert Ould.
now of Richmond. Va. Washing
ton increased; Georgetown re-
mained stationary for 30 years.
The trade from Washington, which
helped to enrich GEORGETOWN. al
most entirely ceased. During
these changes there was jealousy
between the two sisters. and the
youngest triumphed over the
elder no uncommon thing in.
these days. and every daughter
has not a Laban for her father.
Georgetown has been cele-
brated for her beautiful heights
and her more beautiful women.
The Count Bodisco, Minister from
Russia, took from among her fair
est daughters his bride
Four Time Mayor
-.
GEORGETOWN has much to It's
credit in the way OF diStin2 uiShed
men and women who either were
born there or for time made IT
their home. One was our most
noted philanthropist. william w.
Corcoran, whose father. Thomas
Corcoran, came TO GEORGETOWN
from the County Clare. in the west
of Ireland. and with nothing to-
depend upon but the "probity Of
his character and amity OF his
feelings" so succeeded in business
and endeared himself that he was
four times elected Mayor Of
Georgetown. from 1905 to 1906,
1903 to 1911. 1912 to 1913 and 1873
to 1919.
Another man Of the same type
was the noted benefactor. Georra.
Peabody, who. though born In
Danvers. Mass. in 1895. began his
fortunate career In Georgetown,
And, indeed. 1t was here that he
gave the first evidences of his !.
great business talent. :.
Elisha Riggs. father Of Elisha.
Riggs Of the banking house Of
Corcoran & Riggs-its successor
now being the Riggs National.
Bank-first entered into business
for himself in Georgetown, where
he resided for several years. and IL.
was during this period that George
Peabody. then under age, was
taken into partnership and tbs
firm name changed to Riggs, Pea.
body & Co. /.
A few other names of notable
men Of Georgetown would certain
ly include Benjamin Stoddert, who
became the first Secretary Of the
United States Navy and who COM :
sequently was the first one to hold
this portfolio and to sit in Presi
dent John Adams cabinet.
Benjamin Stoddert was not onlY
cabinet officer and a successful
merchant. but he also was a SOL
dier in the. War of Independence.
joining the Continental Army in
1776. In January, 1777. he becams
captain and was severely wound
ed at the Battle Of Brandywine the :
following September. necessitating
his resigning his command less
than two years later. However. he
was keenly interested in the
cause, and. in 1871 accepted the
position of secretary of the Board
of War.
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ibrary; $4.75J
some Of Wagner's ideas find ex-
preston in words and plots. The
very prestige of his music keeps
alive his "pseudo-philosophy." DR..
Stein feels. The writer calls it
"One of the great tragedies of our
civilization that great creative
genius such as Wagner's was
lodged in mind and spirit such
as he had"
Evening star., 1950-06-04
Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Gutenberg

deductions are based on scientific
fact. It's a pleasant change.
Night at the Mocking Widow, by
Carter Dickson. (William Nor
row & Co.; $2.50.)
Anonymous letters started the
terror in once peaceful Stoke
Druid and the vicar didn't help
much by reading one of the letters
in church. Who was the wielder
Of the poison pen, who the author
Of the viciousness that brought
suicide and murder in it's wake?
Sir Henry Merrivale finds out, of
course. but not till he has engaged
in a classic bit of hi-jinks involv-
ing a mud-ball battle with a
bishop.
Blues for the Prince. by Bart
Spicer. Dodd, Mead & Co.;
$2.5O.)
Red Badge.
The prince was dead. The man
whose music was worshiped by the
hot trumpeters had been shot.
and the police had evidence to in
dicate he hadn't written the music
that made him famous. A private
investigator, hired to prove the
evidence wrong, comes up with a
startling explanation for the mur-
der itself. The authors interest
in hot jazz and living characters
lift this one out of the routine.
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No doubt the historian Of the future discover what
Franklin D. Roosevelt thought him. will
pulsed he dips into like
wood written apart
Charles A. Beard and John T..
To date beyond question the laudaoy volumes have
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The Story of Our Dime-NoveI Literature
In q Two-VoIume Treasury of Americana

THE HOUSE OF BEADLE & ADAMS AND ITS DIME AND
NICKEL NOVELS: THE STORY OF A VANISHED LITERATURE
BY Albert Johannsen University Oklahoma Press
q uolumes; $2OJ
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Reviewed by Edwin TribbIe

This is Of the important
Prof oannen Of the University
the compilation of this monumental story of the dime
hard job Frequently
titles sometimes the book
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Mr.. Budenz Gives the Communist Plan
o Destroy us Some Dime-NoyeI Twists
he COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY
arper's;: $500

MEN WITHOUT FACES: THE COMMUNIST
IN THE u. S. A.
BY Louis Francis Budenz. (Harpers; $500
Reviewed by Cecil Holland
Evening star., 1950-06-04
Books In Review
John Gunther, on Inside Man, Writes
His Appraisal Of FronkIin D. Roosevelt
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jon.

ROOSEVELT IN RETROSPECT: PROFILE IN HIST,
BY John Gunther. Harper; $375J
Evening star., 1950-06-04
Wogner's Venomous Racial Thinking
Evidenced in Study of His Writings

THE RACIAL THINKING OF RICHARD WAGNER
BY Leon Stein. Philosophical Library; $4.75J
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1950-11-15
Huge Catch
Made Saturday
At Garden City

Mrs. Mae Young and Bill
Young again had a big day fish,
ing at Garden City last Saturday
when they caught four lard
stands full, estimating a total
number of at least 800. The catch
was composed of spots, blues
Writings and trout.
Mrs. Young said this week that
they started fishing at about
7:3O and fished until about 800
in the afternoon. Despite the cold
weather, the fish were biting as
we'll as at any time this season.
1t was not an unusual occurance
to catch three or four fish at a
time, Mrs. Young having rugged
up her equipment with a string
of hooks.