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The Miami times., 1950-09-23

Mrs. Martha Wilkerson is conva-
lescing at her residence, 907 Emma
st. from her recent illness. Family
and friends wish her a speedy re-
covery.
On the sick list this week: Mrs.
Malvina Role, Mrs. Eleanor Storr,
Mr.. Erskine Sands. Friends wish
them well again soon.
Funeral services for the late Mr..
Frank Pinder Sr., aged resident Of
Key West was held Sunday, Sep
tember II from Newman's Method
ist church, Rev. Leroy Dell, pastor,
officiating.
The occasion was witnessed by
large attendance of relatives and
friends of Key West and Miami.
A program was rendered in be-
half of Brother Frank Pinder as
follows:
Mistress of ceremonies, Mrs.
Alice Lyle.
Professional - Nearer my God to
Thee.
Invocation Bro. Mcbride
Selection by Congregation,
Jerusalem The Golden"
Scripture Reading - Rev. B. J.
Stafford.
Remarks in behalf of Bro. Frank
Pinder, Mr.. A. L. Gabriel.
Selection by Choir, Father
] Stretch my Hands to Thee"
A letter Of coincidence Mrs.
Alice Edwards in behalf of Elks'
lodge.
Expression of thanks for cards,
letters, kilograms, florals sprays
and use of cars - Mrs. Alice Lyle.
Presentation of floral spray from
choir Mrs. Agnes Albert.
Solo - 1T is Well" - Miss
Frances Demps.
Obituary Mrs. Lorraine Saun.
ders.
Selection abide With Me-
Choir.
Eulogy Rev. Leroy Dell.
Viewing of body.
Recessional Hymn, There is
a Land Of Pure Delight"
Funeral service viii be held on
The Miami times., 1950-09-23
NOTICE

All members Of Improved PAIL
bearers Lodge No. are requested
to meet on Thursday evening, Sep
tember 2S, 7:S0 pm. at New Hope
Baptist church, 18th st. and LIST
place. Business Of Importance.
Crispin Romero. president
M. l.. Timmons, secretary
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

The American Legion meeting OF
last week was quite a meeting, en-
jdyed by everyone present. Com
mander Allen asked all Of the Leg
ionaires to try and bring in some
new members. We are having q
drive for membership. The election
of officers for the next term is
scheduled for next month.
Also meeting last week was the
Honor Guard. Their meeting was
an interesting one, also with rifle
practice by Lit. Wallace. Captain
Major said in the future there viii
be lot of rifle practice and drilling.
The Guard also gave a dance Fri
day with the VFW Coolies, a new
former unit of the VFW. Com
rades Castillo pam and Lowery
(Squeaky) wanted everyone to
know they enjoyed themselves to
the highest two weeks ago at an
affair sponsored by the Honor
Guard at the Vterans Hall. There
will be a meeting next week for
the American Legion and the
Guard of Honor.
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

Mr., Thomas FerEuSon died Sat.
uriSy niSht. Sept, ls at his resi-.
denee after short illness, Funeral
rites viii De held sunday, Sept, "a.
The deceasea leaves q wife. three
daughters two sons and a host of
Sorrowlny friends,
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

Airs, Wilhemenia Sands was fun.
eraliEed ON Friday evening. Sept.
is, from Newman's Methodist
church,
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

Sunday, Sept "a at Bethel AME
church for Mr.. Samuel Roberts at
4 pm. Rev. Johnson. pastor. offci-
ating,
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

Carver High School is progress
ing rapidly under the supervision of
Prof. Anthony Holiday. The curri-
culum has been enlarged, and we
are now in the process of having a
band director and the addition of
ten more class rooms. The Carver
Eagles are now preparing them
selves to meet their rivals on the
football field.
The Miami times., 1950-09-23
Key West Neus
BY MRS. FRANCES BRIGGS

Give to the world the best you
have and the best will come back
to you.
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

Mr.. George Wilfred Mingo, son
of Mrs. Lurlean Mingo, left the
city September 16 to enter camp in
North Carolina to receive his basic
training for military service in the
u. s. Army.
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

Miss Maud Ashe left the city re-
Gently for New York.
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

Congratulations to my friend
Mrs. Pauline Higgs Smith Of Mi
ami on receiving her Masters De.
gree from Columbia University.
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

Mr.. Harry Willis Storr left Sun
day night, September II for Texas
for an extended course in his mill
tary training for the army.
The Miami times., 1950-09-23
Delray Beach News

BY Mrs. Frances Balm Adderly
On Sunday. September "a the Sun
day following st. Matthew'S Day
there will be the celebration Of our
Patronal Festival. Festal services
have been arranged for the entire
day.
Church school at $50 am, Solemn
Sung Mass and Sermon at HOO a.
m, the guest preacher for this SER
vice will be the Rev. II. E. S.
Reeves, assistant at st. Agnes Epis-
copal Church, Miami. Dinner will
be served in the Parish Hall free
of charge Immediately following
mass. A special program will be
rendered at 500 pm. in the Parish
Hall with Mrs. George Mckay in
charge. Solemn Evensong and Bene-
diction of the Blessed Sacrament
at 1880 pm. AT this service Mrs.
Ora Wake, a noted opera singer,
will be the guest soloist.
To all of these services you are
cordially invited.
On Sunday, Sept. II, Father
Elisha S. Clarke, Jr., united in
Holy Matrinmony Mr.. Cedric B.
Bowleg and Miss Ethel Mae Do
bard at the brides home, NV 9Th
ave. at 3 pm. Matron of honor,
Mrs. Hester Stronge, best man, Mr..
John Brady. The bride was given
in marriage by her father, Mr.. Sam
Dobard.
The Miami times., 1950-09-23

r. A. Smith, juvenile class of the
Evening star., 1950-08-20
New Books
FICTION.

FICTION.
BUGLES IN THE NIGHT. BY Arthur Her
bert. Rinehart. A rough and ready
aye adventure Ire sa and love story OF the old
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST. By Nathan
ael West. New Directions. A story Of
Hollywood republished with an essay on
the authors life and work by Richard
B. Gehman. S1,50.
THE FAMILY TAKES A. WIFE. BY Ethel
Hueston. obbs-Merrill. What happens
when an ex-GTs German wife is
brought into his family's home S2.75.
HERE TODAY. By John Coates. Macmil-
IAN. A very, very funny story about a
an asylum to become involved in the
BILE. S275. Sept. II. ~
THE JUDGE RODE A SORREL HORSE.
By Robbins Hunter. Dutton. The story
in the town Of iS Sewarf' se5f Ohio onG s5 uS'''e'
MEN IN BpCKSKIN. By Herbert E. sto-
yer. Dodd, Mead A heroic episode of
the American Revolution. So.
NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP. By Winston
Graham. Doubleday. The story OF a
man, half blinded by the war. whose
mysterious background plunged him into
year Of violence and murder in the
south Of France. So.
NON-F1CTION.
BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. BY
Frances Bruce Strain. Appleton Gen.
sury-Crofts sar aad;s: dramatic series of teen
COMMITTEES AND CONFERENCES. sy
William E. .gtterback, Rinehart 4
leaders and public figures. s3s5.
DRUMS BEHIND THE HILL. By Ursula
Graham Bower. Morrow The author 5
of Northeast India S4
Evening star., 1950-08-20
The Tale of a Man
Whose Future
Was His Past
THE MAN WHO LIVED
BACKWARD

THE MAN WHO LIVED
BACKWARD
BY Malcolm Ross. (Farrar,
StrauS; $780,
Suppose you lived today out In
a normal way, but when tomor-
row came. it would be yesterday,
and when that day ended, the next
day would be day before yester-
day? Mr.. Ross has conjured up
a man who lived backward in
time. Mark Selby was born in
1910 and died in 1865. He could
remember the future and knew
the past from reading and the
recollections of others, though he
never knew what was to happen
to him personally in his future,
which was everyone else's past.
The author has managed adroit-
ly to make his mans receding life
seem almost plausible. If you
think about the method too hard,
you'll probably feel dizzy, and it
won't stand too many practical
tests. Accepted as a fantasy. a
tour of the imagination, the story
has a curious fascination. Though
Mr.. Ross writes very well, his
strange novel probably would have
been more effective at less length.
1t is cluttered with discussions of
beliefs and problems of different
periods, PHILOSOPHERS and histori-
cal personages. Mr.. Ross, who
wrote Death Of a Yale Man"
and several other books, is re-
membered in Washington as
chairman of the late Fair EN-
ployment Practice Commission.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1950-08-20

vince Peppone that this is not
as it should be. They go on like
this for some 20 chapters, each
one scoring alternately. in folk
tale fashion. And when Don
|Camillo's bishop sends him into
exile for his overenthuSiastic
defense of the truth, Peppone goes
to the bishop to have his worthy
rival reinstated.
1t will come as no surprise to
any one that Don Camille and
Peppone come to entire agreement
on moral principles. Don Camille
was a cinch to win, for he has
steadily the councils of the Lord,
who speaks to him from the
crucif1x, in very direct. colloquial
terms. Mr.. Guareschi explains
in his introduction that Christ is
the voice of his conscience. Still,
it is a device that may startle
Jess inhibited members Of his
faith.
"The Little World Of Don
Camille" makes the deadlock be-
tween Christianity and commu-
nism look more like a bear hug.
It is actually a kind of continued
cartoon. bold and gay.
MARY McdRORY.
Evening star., 1950-08-20

fighters; the constant dangers OF
and mechanical failures;
the list of missing that always con-
fronted survivors. The author, of
course. could not have written so
expertly Of all this unless he had
gone through it.
Mr.. Falstein's protagonist. Sergt.
Ben Issacs. grew up. like the au-
thor, in the Ukraine, a Jew ex-
posed to pogroms. 1t is to MI.
Falstein's credit that he does not
overdo the motif of anti-semitism
in the American Army, as other
authors have. 1t is mentioned
only here and there. Ben felt
that he had a powerful motive
for hating Hitler and wanting to
fight and he was surprised to find
so many soldiers who did not
seem to know why they were
there, who fought because they
had to or because it was the
thing to do.
Face of a Hero" is a realistic
novel. There is. rough talk, but
not so much as in Norman Mail
er's The Naked and the Dead"
And Mr.. Falstein's novel is more
concise, better organized. more
sharply written. Foul words often
are suggested by a letter and a
dash, but that is mere survival
of Victorianism-they might as
well have been written out. Some
episodes, like the sordid sex af-
fair at the rest resort. could have
been left out; they add nothing
to the story. On the whole,
though, this is a fiercely honest.
challenging book. which does
to glamorize or excuse
war.
Evening star., 1950-08-20
Art Book Reviews
LMPREssIONIsTs AND

1MPRESSlONlS1 AND
SYMBOLISTS
BY Lionello Ventura. (Scribner's:
$5.)
| Although the II painters con-
sidered here. beginning with
Manet, ending with Toulouse
Lautrec. have been the subjects
of many previous critiques, BIZ
ographies and other publications.
Prof. Ventura, an internation-
ally known art scholar and his
! torian estimates them so shrewdly
and writes of them so freshly that
readers who considered them
selves we'll acquainted with these
10th century landmarks in French
painting will nevertheless enjoy
his compact appraisals. Students
and others not familiar will need
no further introduction.
A gallery of 217 halftone illus
trations of more than 20 works
by each artist enables the reader
to study Prof. Venturi's an.
alyses of individual paintings. He
also analyzes each artists life and
personality and relation to his
own era. The reader may not
agree with all of the authors
viewpoints (e.g., "Lautrec created
the perfect form of a type of vice,
thus gave it an ideal value,D but
will concede that he makes him.
self clear.
While ''Impressionists and SYM
bolists' is complete per Sc, it is
also a continuation (Volume III Of
Modern Painters" published q
few years ago, which was a COM
panion to Painting and Painters. 4"
Evening star., 1950-08-20

was carried away to a Soviet
slave labor camp, Miss Utley is
now an American citizen. She
lives quietly at TIT Twentieth
street with her 16-year- -old son
Jon and Shetland collie pup. A
sturdy, middle-aged woman who
wears thick horn-rimmed glasses
and hearing aid. she still
has a slight Bohemian air. A
in-smoker, she speaks rapidly
in husky voice. A onetime
member of the British Commu-
mist Party, she no longer believes,
as she did in her youth, that the
economic form of a government
is everything" She belongs to no
political party here. Her recent
trip to the Hill to give testimony
against Owen baltimore, whom
she knew when she was a cores
pondent in the Far East, to the
Tydings committee was her only
appearance before a congressional
committee. She firmly believes
that the Government should have
the advice of experts in COM
munism."
Miss Utley's previous books,
"Japan's Feet of Clay" China
at War;" Last Chance in China, ;"
and "The High Cost of Ven
geance" "a highly critical study of
German occupation policies) have
not been great financial successes.
Il have been in the doghouse a
long time she says with the air
of one who is about to be liber-
ated. Her lecture bookings have
recently been stepped up.
AS for the criticism directed at
recanting Communists, Miss Utley
said. "One becomes philosophical.
1t is a question of vintage among
anti-Communists. Some years are
better than Others"
Forthcoming this month: "Ber-
nard Barucb." by w. l.. White:
Young Shelley" Kenneth Neill
Cameron's prize winning biogra-
ply of the genesis of a radical:
"All Honorable Men," by James
Stewart Martin, about United
States policy in Germany; Gen
Grafton on Trial." British CORE
spondent Alistair Cookies account
OF the ~. S. A. VS.. Alger Hiss"
Evening star., 1950-08-20
Ceramic Competition

Nearly 1000 American and Ca
madam ceramists have received
circulars about the 18th annual
ceramic exhibition to be held al
the Syracuse Museum, October
20 through December 3. This
open competition, offering more
than $1.700 in prizes, is sponsored
jointly by the Syracuse Museum
and the Onandaga Pottery Co.,
and includes pottery, ceramic
sculpture and enamels. Washing
ton ceramists who have not re-
ceived circulars. can obtain entry
blanks and full information by
writing to the 18th Ceramic Ma
tional, Syracuse Museum of Fine
Arts, Syracuse 8. N. Y. Entries
are due September IA and Is.
The Institute of Contemporary
Arts, Washington, will show Sc
Evening star., 1950-08-20
Reading and Writing
United States Book Exchange Is Swapping
Books With All Countries Except Russia
BY Mary McGroy

The United States Book Ex-
change, two years old on Septem-
ber /. stands in the middle Of a
gigantic swapping operation which
involves the sending of 1000 pub
lications a week to $50 libraries in
every country in the world except
Russia.
An outgrowth of the American
Book Center for War-Devastated
Libraries, financed by Rockefeller
Foundation grants and housed in
the Library of Congress cellar,
USBE is now firmly established on
a give-and-take basis. Six hun
dred foreign libraries, their credit
established through dispatch of
their own publications, can re-
quest any title they want from
the almost 2 million books, PAM
phlets, leaflets and periodicals
which crowd the 21-member staff
in their warehouselike domain.
This lively two-way traffic,
which has lifted the program from
the realm of charity onto the more
satisfying level of real exchange,
is very heartening, according to
Alice Dulany Ball. it's executive
director. Libraries too poor or
too devastated still receive gift
publications, and will as far as
possible until they are on a SOL
vent basis.
Far and away the most requests
from foreign countries are for
publications in the medical field.
USBE handles only fiction of a
classical nature, and does thriv-
ing business in periodicals, with
Libraries everywhere attempting
to rebuild war-broken files.
Japan and Italy are the most
avid foreign participants in the
program. Satellite countries like
CZechoslovakia, Poland, Romania
and Hungary show a lively interest
in political science, general litera-
ture and history. American cities
with large foreign popula-
tions make frequent requests for
popular and semipopular material
in foreign languages.
The countries least heard from
are Irau and Iran. But point
four may change all that.
Evening star., 1950-08-20

made it possible. He has kept the
scene in Georgia, but placed it in
an imaginary town called HaineS-
vile. The massacre already is a
year past when the story opens.
A colored boy who had testified
before the Federal grand jury had
been beaten terribly. Three men
among the lynchers, naturally
were tried in Federal court for
intimidating a witness. OF course
they were acquitted, though they
we're obviously guilty.
Mr.. Gordon has imagined that
one OF the mob victims, Lydia, had
a husband who lived in Harlem
and was teacher. Lydia had been
visiting relatives in Hainesville.
When the witness-beaters were
acquitted, the husband, Nathan.
realized not only that he could
get no justice through the law. but
that the identity of at least three
lynchers had been disclosed. He
went to Georgia to exact his own
justice.
There are some interesting char
acters. among them Bubber Ay-
cock, the huge. depraved farmer
who led the lynching; Lester. the
alcoholic. tinid editor; Melady,
the courageous and tactless news
magazine reporter from New York;
Yancey, the colored undertaken.
Others, like Shep Townsend, the
handsome playboy and seducer,
are stock figures.
Shifting the scene constantly
from one character to another, the
author has told his story tightly
and tensely. 1t is an unusual book
for the Literary Guild to send it's
members, and the selection of such
an honest chronicle is to be COM
mended. Georgians will not ap-
prove Of "Reprisal" except for a
few like Lillian Smith who prefer
justice to local pride. At least it
can't be said that the author is a
Yankee who does not understand
the people. Mr.. Gordon was born in
Georgia. of a family Southern for
generations.
Evening star., 1950-08-20

DOoGOu OSuAPlIOllS.
If Mr.. Guareschi, a prominent
political gadf1y, editor and author
in his native country, must be
compared with an Anglo-Saxon
writer, it would better be Bruce
Marshall. who is every bit as
whimsical, and who also writes
about priests. Mr.. Guareschi is
clearly on the side of the angels,
and nobody but curmudgeon or
a Communist would take exception
to his sunny report on the cold
war as it is fought in the Po
Valley.
Life in the little world of Don
Camille is full Of contradictions.
Don Camille. the village priest and
a muscular Christian if ever there
was one. fights communism tooth
and nail, but he is actually very
fond of Peppone, the Communist
leader. who is also the Mayor. On
his side, Peppone, who is vehe-
mently anti-clerical, still goes to
church and likes the priest, even
If for business reasons he calls
him "a black -robed reactionary."
The see-saw battle between
these fierce friends begins when
Peppone insists on having his
baby christened Lenin. Don Ca
milo has to depend on his fists
instead of Christian logic to con-
Evening star., 1950-08-20
Fredu UtIey to Tell How
We've Bundled Into Wor

Freda Utley, one of the earliest
and most prominent ex-Com-
munist authors, who was telling
people it was later than they
thought long before it was fash
ionable, has hopes that her next
book may find her for once in
step.
It will be called "Bungled Into
War: From Yalta to Korea" and
will show how Americas pur-
suit of self defeating policies has
created a real menace to our Sc
curity and dragged us to the
brink Of the third world war"
Miss Utley feels that Senator
McCarthy's charges. which have
won real grass-roots support" !"
have created an atmosphere re-
ceptive at last, to "the pleasant
untruths"' which she has been
telling ever since she published
her disillusioned memoirs of
Soviet Russia, "The Dream We
Lost" in 1910, on the eve Of the
Stain buildup In America"
Daughter of an English Social
list. and widow of q Russian who
Evening star., 1950-08-20
By Florence 5. Berrymon

resented with only two or three
works. the little groups do not
give consistent reports of the
respective talents in every in
stance. Anne Baum's trio looks
as If she had fallen under the
spell Of different influences. Her
semiabstract, Studio" in a cool
color scheme impressed me as
her best. Edward Beitzels Figure
With Fireworks" has the unfin-
ished appearance Of a study for
a mural. Sellen Keats shows three
paintings, two of them primitive
in character, the third, Zoo" :"
an imaginative rather slight little
tapestry that suggests ones men,
ory Of a visit to the birds and
animals.
Ray Atherton prefers archi-
tectural subjects which he deals
with in a abstract manner.
emphasizing straight lines and
angles. His technique is as clean
cut as his subject matter. People
are the major interest of Silvia
Wolf, whose study of an old wo-
man with a cup of tea is close to
caricature. yet includes sympathy.
The artists interior with figure
entitled Leisure" with it's fresh
colors and slight distortion. con-
veys the theme. Dorothy Gold
berg's poetic little distractions
have intellectual springboards.
Josephine Blacks two still-life
paintings are in emphatically
grayed colors, reveal careful at
tention to arrangements and close
harmonies. Jean Evans still life
and figure paintings are express
sionistic. their compositions ap-
pearing to be the results of i'm
pulse rather than deliberation.
Evening star., 1950-08-20

the story or 1eW creWmen, Mr..
Falstein seems to have told the
story of them all-at least in
typical substance. If these men
were individuals. differing from
thousands in other crews, that
does not invalidate the univer-
salty, the binding technics and
peculiarities of air fighting. There
is, you feel, a kinship, a shared
life that follows these crews of
officers and enlisted men into
their uneasy waits between mis-
sions. even into their leaves.
The sergeant who tells the
story, a tail gunner working out
of bomber base in Italy, de-
scribes himself and his comrades
in such a way that each is 6.
distinct person. And about them
is woven the whole perilous, help
less atmosphere in which they
lived month after month, with
fate Cor luck) almost a palpable
presence to be courted in hope
and fear.
Naturally some Of Mr.. Fall
STEMS detail could have happened
to soldiers anywhere, and the
scenes describing the degradation
of destitute Italian civilians have
been done rather fully. But he
has pointed up experiences pc
culiar to the crews of Liberators
and other types of bombers-the
hazards other branches of the
fighting forces did not know. You
learn of the fear that haunted
every mission, no matter how
many one had flown; the helpless
ness in the face Of fax which
sometimes hurtled upward like
lava from q volcano; the uncer-
tainty Of ever seeing an escort Of