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Evening star., 1950-06-25
Liberation Found
Frenchmen at Each
Others Throots
THE BARKEEP OF BLEMONT

THE BARkEEP OF BELMONT
BY Marcel Ayme. (Hdrper; $3.J
When France was liberated, the
French were free to turn on one
another. Such at least is the i'm
preston you get from this novel
of q bomb-wrecked provincial
town shortly after the close of
the war. The picture probably is
not overdrawn. There were the
people who had helped the re-
sistance, those who had collabo-
rated with the Nazis in various
degrees and those who merely had
remained passive. These elements
were at each others throats, with
denunciations, open and covert,
daily occurrences. But the Com
munists were the most influential
and the most feared faction in
this fictitious-but probably typi-
cal-town. It was who got to whom
first, and nobody expected any,
thing as remote and abstract as
justice from the frightened au-
thorities. Mr.. Ayme is an able
journalist and a skillful novelist,
and he has given an ironical and
sinister account of disunity and
corruption. His writing is de-
tached-so much so that the
reader may wonder where he
stands. He has one of his least
unSympathetic characters, Ar
chambaud, feel about a notorious
collaboration: "He had no SYM
pathy for the mans views, and
condemned him for having seen
in collaboration a means of SUBJ
DUNG France, whereas to him
Archambaud, it had been a means
of defending her" Whatever Ar
chambaud had in mind, Mr.. Ayme
does not explain.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
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By Florence S. Berrymon

By Florence S. Berrymon
Baltimore last year. and is a loan
from the Maryland Federation of
Women's Clubs.
Well known for his nocturnes,
Mr.. Darlington shows such effec-
tive interpretations as Night Is
a Poem" and "Harpers Ferry
Nocturne" (both new to me) as
we'll as Church at Midnight" "
He has also added marines and
daytime landscapes. the majority
semiabstract.
Since he graduated from the
University of Maryland, and fin
ished his art training at the Cor
coran School of Art and the
Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts. he has been instructor
of painting and drawing at the
Corcoran, of watercolor at Cath
olic University, and of fine arts at
the National Art School. He ex-
hibits extensively here and else
where, has received many awards
and is represented in a number of
permanent collections.
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New Books
FICTION

~ 401N.
CUP OF SKY. By Donald Culgross
Peattie and Noel Peattie. Houghton
Mifflin Co. A father and son coll
alteration for nature lovers. $3.50.
FOLLOW SdH5 ME DOWN. By Shelby roote.
Dial Press. The story Of q crime Of
passion. its aftermath and its origins.
ONE BIG Ssnf FANNY. By Garth Hale
Dutton; Three generations Of one
family living under one roof attempt
SAWDUST AND SIXGuNS. By Evan
so MANY Doors. BY Oakley Hail.
Random House. novel of passion
snnda snd y death; So; July a.
ard Bissell. Atlantic, Little Brown.
Life On the Mississippi mid-twentieth
rWo 'Ss xDoLEscENTs. soLssssccE BY ALB Alberto TO- Mo-
rayia. Farrar d Straus. The story Of
youths love for his mother by tn
author of THE Woman of Rome
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itors Of Newsweek. Funk a. Wagnalls
CO. COVERING the events Of 194e.
So. June 81.
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Walsh at Library

Jessie Rowdybush Walsh is
having a solo exhibition at the
central Public Library through
next Friday. Now an art instruc-
tor at Dunbarton College, D. c.,
she has in past years taught art
in high schools in Rockville and
Bladensburg, Md. and for several
years was teacher and art super
visor in Dade County, Fla.
Born in Washington, Mrs.
Evening star., 1950-06-25

sense OF history and a great sense
of his own place in it." says Mr.
Pringle. He was most receptive
to the suggestion of a committee
led by Archibald MacLeish, which
visited him in 1912 to suggest
that America, as other nations
had always done. should record
the war as it unfolded. The crea-
tion of the Army Historical Sec
ton was a result of that meeting
The President himself insisted on
a more informal account.
Mr.. Pringle, New York news
paper and magazine writer, Pu-
liter winning biographer OF
Theodore Roosevelt, who was then
with owl. was chosen for the
job. In 1914, the same year he
married the former Katherine
Douglas, an alumnae of Fortune
Time and Life, they signed a con-
tract with Alfred A. Knopf to
write a history which they hoped
could be kept down to two vol
umes, to be delivered six months
after the peace.
Still No Peace.
Legally, if not morally, we are
still within terms of the contract,
says Mr.. Pringle with a grin.
After his departure from Owl
Mr.. Pringle made several half
hearted attempts to see the Presi-
dent about the book. But when
brushed off by White House aides
he took it in good, if not approx
ing spirit, knowing the burdens
the Chief Executive was then car
rying.
| The news of the Presidents IS
death came to him while he was
doing a survey for the Air Force
in the European and Mediterra-
mean theaters. Now the Pringles
depending on secondary sources
con newspapers and books cover
ing the war years. Beyond re-
questing specific document now
and then, they bypass the tons OF
material at the Pentagon from
which the Army Historical Sec
ton is grinding slowly and ex-
ceeding small. its 99-volume his
tory.
i Gets Out Unaided.
/ Mr.. Pringle does know his way
around the Pentagon very we'll
can even get out unassisted. He
spent time there, working for the
Army Service Forces during the
war, and wrote a magazine piece
called My so Days at the Penta-
gon," in which he recounted that
Gen. Marshall and a young second
lieutenant spent a half an hour
trying to find an exit, an episode
which military censors shipped
out. He also worked for eight
months on a war production re-
port for Secretary of War Patter-
son. which was finally not pub
lished ''in the interests of inter.
service amity."
In the preparation Of America
at War;" which will link home
and battle fronts, and get behind
the press agents concept Of the
war;" the Pringles, working al
their pleasant Georgetown home
divide the research, with Mr.. Prin.
igle writing the first draft.
Then Katherine takes it," hi
reports, land says its wordy, un.
grammatical. and Miss George
Cher college English teacher)
. would never let me do that. She
does the polishing"
They hope to deliver the manu-.
script next spring. Meanwhile
they co-author magazine pieces
mostly for the Saturday Evening
Post, on such subjects as the Ar.
llington school system and the
Library Of Congress.
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q e I e r e nee TO
write a book
about America.
He has instead,
presented this
account of what
he calls "a spir-
itual ou rney
through Ameri-
can writings" !"
W e a wing ex-
C rp is from
the utteranceS
of our most
thoughtful citi-
zens with com.
R ~:
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Student Exhibitions

The Abbott Art School opened
the middle Of the month. its an
nual exhibition of students work
in many classes and media. to
remain through next Friday. 1t
is open to the public daily from
10 to 5.
The National Art Sch Dol Is also
holding an exhibition Of students
work, open to the public.
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to life. But there is more than
color and atmosphere. Something
of the philosophy Of the place and
the time-what stirred men, gave
meaning to their lives and caused
them to take sides In the bitter
issues their politicians magnifled
and simplifled-is woven into the
narrative.
The book is absorbing despite a
prolixity which has stretched it to
great and unnecessary length. Mr..
Warren is such a skillful story
teller that his drama seldom lagS.
His characters are vivid and per-
suasive, however strange some Of
them are and however many
things they do that we can assure
ourselves smugly we'd never have
done.
Famous Murder Case.
The novel is based on a famous
murder case of the period, the trial
of Jeroboam o. Beauchamp for
the murder of Col. Solomon P.
Sharp in Frankfort in 1926. Sew
eral factual and fictional. accounts
of the case appeared in the middle
years of the last century. Though
Mr.. Warren calls his defendant
jeremiah Beaumont and the vic
tim Col. Cassius Fort, and has
used the general outline of the
historic trial, the author has made
the story entirely his own and
changed the facts to suit his pur-
pose.
Mr.. Warren's jeremiah is an
able. courageous young man, edu-
Gated in the classics, singularly
naive and plagued with romantic
notions which should have been
but were not exploded by Ger
vantes. He is charged with the
murder of his former benefactol
and mentor in the law, Col. Fort.
There are two possible motives,
one personal, the other political.
jeremiah had married Rachel
Jordan, whom Fort had, in the
phrase of the day, betrayed. Fort
also had turned against the
cause jeremiah had espoused,
which was called Relief, a COM
plex issue involving a plan to
gain Kentucky farmers and small
merchants time to save their
homes and businesses from fore
closures brought on by a none
tary panic. Such an issue then,
even as today, stirred Kentuckians
to vehemence and violence. Fists
swung and knives flashed in every
county seat.
Taut Suspense.
But 344 of the 512 large pages
are taken up with events before
the trial. When it opens we
know the background of each par
ticipant and what involved him or
her in some phase of the case.
This insight into the cast is de-
veloped subtly through Jeremiah'S
life story. The trial and the ex-
citing events afterward move at
an accelerated pace which gives
Evening star., 1950-06-25
Reviewed by Fletcher F. lsbeII

BY Stewart H. Holbrook. Mac
mtllan;; $5.)
Reviewed by Fletcher F. IsbeII
The impact on the rest of the
country of New England migra-
ton since the late eighteenth
century has been examined by
Mr.. Holbrook in a work that is
thorough, detailed, level-headed
and readable. It is the story of
the energetic people who could
form a Vegetarian Emigrating
Society and head for Kansas: in
vent the normal school. tin calf
weaners, slippery elm lozenges and
the dollar watch, all the while
promoting salvation by works. u
More than 1000 individuals are
mentioned In Mr.. Holbrook's ex-
tensive research, although he does
recount the works of Samuel A.
Worcester. missionary to the Cher
okee, and misses Cyrus Byington,
the same to the Choctaw. The
whole story, told with vigor, hu-
NOR and detachment. fills quite a
gap in the record of American
migrations.
Evening star., 1950-06-25
At Library of Congress

Amajor exhibition at the Library
of Congress is that commemorating
the 150th anniversary of the Fed
eral Government in Washington.
1t is installed in the south gallery,
second floor. main building, to
remain throughout this year.
Selected almost entirely from
the Library's own collections, the
show traces and illustrates the
origin and history of Washington
from the early exploration of the
Potomac region. through the es-
tablishment of the Federal City,
its growth. buildings and life until
1900. This development is shown
through hundreds of manuscripts,
books, broadsides, newspapers,
maps, plats. surveys, architectural
plans and drawings and a large
number of watercolors, old prints
and photographs.
The story is told in two principal
sections. the first largely through
original items, tracing the history
to 1850: the second section reviews
life and changes from the emer-
gence of photography to 1900.
George Washingtons close con-
nection with the Federal City is
emphasized in many items, one of
the most interesting being an
engraving Of the well-known Saw
age portrait. showing the first
President holding a copy of Len
fant's plan (not in the original
portrait). Thomas Jefferson had
great enthusiasm for building a
beautiful city and delighted in
laying out walks and gardens and
planning buildings. Among other
items, he made a rough sketch for
the city. including sites for the
Capitol and a Presidents House
and a later pictorial plan shows
the Jefferson Poplars" lining the
Avenue between the two buildings.
Watercolors, sepia and pen
drawings by artists whose names
are unfamiliar today, show Wash
ington as a country village, with
cows in pasture. farmhouses and
other rural features. The first ro-
mantle view was done in 1895 by
George ISham Parkyns. A picture
of the Capitol (north wing) in
1900 (ink and watercolor) by Will
liam Russell Birch is a charming
rustic scene. Others depict George
town. the Potomac, the wharves
and Tiber Creek. An amusing one
shows COWS frightened by an 1889
railroad train. A series of water
color sketches was done in that
year by an artist named August
Kollner.
Many old Autographs and en-
cravings in colors. black and
white. show Washington's pastoral
beauty in the early 10Th century.
Some were done by artists from
England to illustrate books about
the new Nation. The most ex-
tensive series in the exhibition
deal with the Capitol and the
White House.
The Photographic section In
cludes reproductions of old prints,
among them three contemporary
British engravings of the burning
of Washington in 1914; woodcuts
from Leslie's Illustrated News
paper and from Harper's Weekly,
Of famous events and people.
One of the latest "old" photo
graphs is an unidentified one of a
fire at The Evening Star News
paper Building, about 1892.
The show repays leisurely study.
I thought I was well informed
about local history: but this Ses-
quicentennial exhibition offers
data which is new to me, and will
doubtless be new to many other
visitors.
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Corrineton's Lotest

Omar Darlington is having a
one-man show at the Dupont
Theater Art Gallery through July
8. Among Is paintings In oil,
casein and watercolor. is the
large still life which fetched an
award in the Maryland show in
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Eleanor of Acquitoine, Lovely Stroteeist.
Comes Back Into Her Own at Lono Last
ELEANOR OF eCOIJTTATNE

ELEANOR OF KCQU1TA1NE
BY Curtis Howe Walker University North Carolina
ELEANOR OF ACQU1TAINE AND THE FOUR KINGS
BY Amy Kelly fHaruard University Press; $5J
After only sighting
oubados Eleanor of Acquitaine
Any inclined to think of womans political influence
development well ponder the
this duchess who the richest marriage prize medieval
Europe and content with helpmeet
Evening star., 1950-06-25

CUlHpdCC LUIl-NlIIICdTy dCCUUlIC Ue
written by an outsider; he pledged
his complete support and CO.
operation to the author. But he
died before the Pringles ever got
the chance to sit down with him
and discuss the background Of the
weighty and historic decisions he
made during those years.
"The President had a great
Evening star., 1950-06-25
Reading and Writing
Third Man Team Broken Up, the PrineIes
Garry On Their 6-Yeur Writing Task Here
By Mary MeGrory

Severely handicapped by the absence Of the who was to
have been their chief colaboratr the husband and wife writing
and Katherine D. Prngle pushing forward
slowly their sixth toll their unofficial history of World
War H.
The late President Roosevelt not only suggested that such
Evening star., 1950-06-25

Walsh attended Central High.
graduated from Syracuse Univer-
sity, N. Y. then returned to study
at the Corcoran and Abbott
Schools and took an MA. in ed
ucation at George Washington
University.
During the war she did a lot
Of USO work. both as q volun-
teer and as a paid worker. here.
in Florida and Virginia.
Evening star., 1950-06-25
Lin Yutong Takes
A Journey Through
American WRITINGS

ON THE WISDOM OF AMERICA
BY Lin Yutang. (The John Day
Co.; $5.)
The distinguished Chinese phi
losopher, who has made his home
in Manhattan for the past 10
years. has declined, with oriental
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Mr. Warrens novel historical of rare dstinc
dramatic worthy his
"An the Kings Men, which awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
1916 and made into highly praised movie.
World Enough and Time" than it is possible
couple Of descriptive adectves Kentucky the 82Os
Evening star., 1950-06-25
Books In Review
Robert Penn Wurren's New Novel Is Worthy
Successor to His Pulitzer Prize Winner
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones

WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME
BY Robert Penn Warren. Random House; $780,
Evening star., 1950-06-25
American Migration

THE YANKEE EXODUS
BY Stewart H. Holbrook. (Mdc-
milan: So
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Mediation Session Called
In Wor|d-TeIegram Strike
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 28.-Federal
mediators have scheduled new
meeting today between the New
York d-Telegram and Sun
and the CIO-American News
paper Guild in another effort to
end a 16-day-old strike.
1t was the first joint negotia-
tion meeting since last week.
The big evening paper has been
closed down since the walkout on
June 13. when the Guild struck
for more pay. 9-out-of = 10
Guild shop, and a stronger job
security clause.
AFL mechanical unions forced
the shutdown by honoring the
Guilds picket lines.
With its own news columns cut
off, the World-Telegram and Sun
bought advertising space in the
four New York morning papers
today to publish it's survey of
health conditions at the major
New York bathing beaches, an an
nual feature.
The paper said It was making
its 1850 report in this fashion "as
public service"
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Congress in Brief
Az the A,,oeiated Press

Senate:
Meets at noon. with vote or
draft extension bill scheduled for
2 pm, followed by resumption OF
debate on foreign arms program
Banking Committee hears Sen
ators Lucas, Democrat. OF Illinois,
and O'Mahoney. Democrat. OF
Wyoming, on bills to aid small
business.
Special committee to investigate
organized crime interviews Treas
ury Department investigative OIL
cialS
Commerce Committee considers
nomination of Maj. Gen. Philip B.
Fleming to be Undersecretary OF
Commerce for transportation.
Republican Policy Committee
meets at 4 pm.
House:
Continues debate on tax bill.
Lobby Investigating Committee
continues questioning Of Edward
A. Rumely of Committee for Con-
stitutional Government.
Monopoly subcommittee probes
newSprint situation.
Evening star., 1950-06-28
DR.. Sanders License
To Practice Restored
BY the Associoted Press

CONCORD, N. H, June 28.-Dr.
Hermann N. Sander was sent back
to minister to his patients today
by the State Board of Registration
in Medicine.
The board restored his license to
practice, which it had suspended
after he was acquitted March 9 OF
murder charge in the death of a
dying cancer patient, Mrs. Abbie
Borroto, SO.
At his trial, which failed to be-
come a test case for euthanasia
(mercy DEATH as expected, the
prosecution contended DR.. Sander
administered a deadly quantity of
air into Mrs. Borroto's veins. The
defense satisfied jury the woman
already was dead before the in
lection.
A long file of defense witnesses
also testified that the slight physi-
clan never failed to respond to a
call. regardless of the hour; that
payment for his services never was
a. considerations that even a
broken leg failed to interrupt his
rounds.
DR.. Sanders right to resume
practice is effective Immediately.
Evening star., 1950-06-28

completed our mobilization plans, y
a top defense official said. We've
been working on them for some
time. And we want to be ready for
any eyentuality."
The plan calls for the Govern
ment'S conversion to war-Servlce
employment system, similar to the
one adopted during the last war.
But it is said to be speedier and
more effective in getting necessary
personnel.
Permanent status requirements
would be laid aside, and military
and security agencies, as well as
all Federal bureaus linked to the
defense or war effort. would be
given free reign in hiring neceS-
sary employees. The Civil Service
Commission would be given overall
authority in directing the recruit
ing program, but the agencies
would have a free hand in making
the placements.
Before the war ended in August.
1945, Federal employment reached
a total of more than 35 million
Government workers. Actually,
S million persons worked for the
Government during the war pc
riod, counting the large turnover
of personnel.
While the last civilian defense
effort was largely successful one,
the Defense Policy Boards new
Federal civilian mobilization is
aimed at filling necessary Govern
ment jobs at an even faster rate
if the need arises.
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT -
The tense international situation
may also have a strong effect on
the current economy move in Con-
gress regarding Federal employ
ment.
Some members of Congress are
predicting the drive to reduce
Government jobs will be hampered
considerably by the Korean situa-
ton. They say the defense and
security agencies especially need
all the civilian employees they now
have.
AS for the other Federal agen-
cies, many of them are directly or
indirectly connected with the de-
lfense effort. So, there's strong
possibility the final result will be
that Government employment will
not take the sharp cut that seemed
imminent only a couple Of weeks
ago.
And. should the International
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night. Not much change in tenn
perature.
Virginia-Some cloudiness to-
night. Rather cloudy tomorrow
followed by a few scattered showers
in the interior and on the coast at
night. Little change in tempera-
ture.
Wind velocity, 8 miles per hour;
direction, north-northwest.
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Coast Guard Begins
Inquiry Into Collision
OF Ships at New York

The Coast Guard today began
an investigation into the collision
in New York harbor yesterday of
a freighter and cruise ship which
had six Washington residents
among ia passengers.
The collision, in which all crew
members and passengers escaped
injury. occurred in broad daylight.
The general opinion was that a
miXup in whistle signals led to
the crash of a Danish freighter
entering the harbor and the out
bound American liner Excalibur.
Both ships were badly damaged.
Judge Mcclure Aboard.
A 10.000-mile cruise to the
Mediterranean ended 35 minutes
after it began for the Excalibur
passengers. Among them were
the following Washingtonians, &C
cording to the steamship line:
Judge Matthew F. MCGUIRE of
District Court. and Mrs. MCGUIRE,
2701 Connecticut avenue NV;
Eugene j. Butler, assistant direc-
tor of the legal department of
the National Catholic Welfare
Conference, and Mrs. Butler, of
8 East, Melrose street, Chevy
Chase. Md: DR.. M. Virginia
O'Neil. supervisor of student
teaching. Wilson Teachers Col
Ilege. 1882 Eighteenth. street NV,
and Miss Leah Kaplan, 1872 Fort
Stephens drive NV.
The passengers are pondering
the next step in vacation plans
with the announcement by the
steamship line that it could not
take them on another ship because
all others are booked up. II it
can't charter new space, the line
said. it would refund. the passage
money.
Beached in Brooklyn.
Possible loss of life was averted
when Capt. S. N. Groves of the
Excalibur beached the ship on the
Brooklyn mud flats to avoid her
sinking. A 30-foot section of the
10,000-ton ships bow was ripped
open by the crash.
Fire broke out on the freighter,
but was quickly brought under
control.
The EXcalibur's passengers
were shaken, but there was no
panic. They donned their life
jackets as a precaution. Capt
Groves said the freighrer blew