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Milford chronicle., 1951-07-13
NASSAU
BY Rev. w. w. Hamilton
Phone LeWes 1891

One evening last week we came
home to find our dog lying dead
in the yard a little girl had picked
him uD and placed him there. He
had been killed, so our friends
said, by a car travelling at a rapid
rate Of speed. True, he was only
o dog; he had no right on the
highway; we had forgotten to tie
him when we left and there are
plenty ct dogs But suppose it
would have been a child who ran
across the road the result would
have been the same.
I would like this letter to be an
open letter to you who drive
through Nassau and similar places.
utterly disregarding the laws Of the
Highway that are clearly marked
Milford chronicle., 1951-07-13
Desert Memorial
Ceremony

TRIPOLI -(P)- Three offioou.
and 10 men from the British M. FiTss
IaIantry Division are back home
s SILer a 5000 mile trek into the
travelling in ieeps and accom-
panied by a recovery vehicle and
Two three-ton trucks, the partv
visited the French Foreign Legion
stationed in the remote Fezzan
area. The combined party held .
memorial ceremony at Murzuk in
the Fezzan, honoring French Colo-
mel dOTnana and New Zealand SER
geant HewsOn who were killed in
a raid on Murzuk in January, 1851
rms was the first operation of the
Free French from Lake Chad.
Milford chronicle., 1951-07-13
The men
behind the
namepIate

= These are the men who direct
the management Of our state.
vide bank. Each is noted for his
outstanding leadership and busi-
ness ability. Together they are
dedicated to making this bank
more effective in operation and
more helpful 10 its users
large and small.
Milford chronicle., 1951-07-13

Pontiac is distinctiveJy 1eO0tifuI
land its reputation fov gOOGuess
is second to none.
And dOn't forget that Pontiac is
very low priced-and we can
promise you a deal that VIII
quickly convince you that you'Il
be wise indeed to stop wishing
and order one. Drop in today.
Milford chronicle., 1951-07-13
MOST MILES PER GALLON

Official surveys show that Blue Sunoco
has higher specific gravity (weighs
more) than practically all premium
priced gasolines. AS automotive engi-
neers know, this extra weight means ex-
fra energy ...n more mileage. Careful road
tests showed that due to this extra
weight and energy, the mileage from
Blue Sunoco was unsurpassed by any
pTemium-priced gaseilnes.
Milford chronicle., 1951-07-13
Russian Jeep Aids Marines

WITH THE FIRST MARINE
DIVISION IN KOREA - (P) -
Marine Corps Jeep No. OOOO1b"
was made in Russia. Three Ma
rines found the jeep in a rice pad
dy and decided to fix it up.
Under the dilapidated hood thew
found a motor almost identical to
that of Model A FOrd-a cinch TO
fix for anybody who knew anv-
thing about cars. A foot wider
than CT jeeps, the Red model is
a little difficult to maneuver on mar
row Korean roads.
Classified Ads get results
Milford chronicle., 1951-07-13
q SAVING PER GALLON

High-test Blue Sunoco sells at regular
gas price, which is usually 2 cents a gal
lon below pfemium-priced gasolines. IN
spite Of It's low price, in many ways Blue
Sunoco gives you more value because Of
its outstanding balance Of such qualities
as antitrust, quick-starting, anti-stalling
clean burning, long mileage and high.
test action.
Milford chronicle., 1951-07-13

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ooo You'll make wise Es1uy!
WILLIAM K. PATTON
DOVER

IT'S EASY TO SEE why almost
4 everybody admires a new Pom
tiac and so many thousands wish
they owned one:
Pontiac is a thoroughly good car,
built to give you years of depend
able, enjoyable service, and it's a
sweetheart on the rOed-ea6er,
smooth and tireless.
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Morris Opus More
Than Just Another
Book on New York

INCREDIBLE NEW YORK
BY Lloyd Morris. Random
House; So
Reviewed by William Hines
No matter how old Or young
you may be-short of 101 years
of age-if you have ever been
to New York there will be some
thing of nostalgia interest here
for you.
The story of Little Old New
York has been done more times
than strict necessity might have
dictated. but rarely with more
care and consideration for the
casual reader than this one.
Incredible New York" is a kind
of chronological Baedeker of the
Big Town. fully as interesting as
Asbury's Gangs of New York"
and more balanced: In dealing
with the seamy side in ertenso,
Mr.. Morris does not neglect the
other aspects of the worlds
greatest city.
Mr.. Morris takes his arm
chair traveller through Gotham
from the days when Washing
ton Square was uptown until
the present. Cooks Tour, in
the words of the subtitle of
High Life and Low Life of the
Last Hundred Years"
On the 362-page trip, one
meets many old friends and
many new ones, as well as old
ones in new surroundings. 1t
came as a surprise to this re-
viewer, for example, to find the
ineffable Anthony Comstock
deep IN his antl-vlce cruSaoe as
early as 1878.
Illustrations appropriate to
the various periods are scat
tered throughout the book, and
a detailed index of names and
subjects helps the casual skim
mer to choose and locate his
favorite vice or virtue, as the
case may be, and the practi-
TONERS thereof,
1t won't help you find your
way through New York's subway
maze, but Incredible New York"
will guide you safely through an
amazing and amusing century.
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Noted Author Writes Of What Man
Needs to Keep Going Another Day
THE HOUR
Houghton -Mif7in;; $2.)

BY Bernard De Voto. thought
The historian. critic and nov
elist here writes a mellow dis
sertation on the cocktail hour
and what the civilized man
should drink at that crucial
moment of WEAKNESS and baf-
fled wonder when the workday
is merging into evening.
1t is not the cocktail party
with which Mr.. De Voto is con-
cerned-you can see that he
considers any large gathering
of imbibers an abomination-
but what and how a man of
good will should swallow at
home, at his club or at his IA
vorite bar. The author has no
objection to whisky, though he
has decided views about it.
Scotch is all right for those
who can stand it, but bourbon
and rye are our distinctive dis
tillations and will be ordered
by all Americans of discern
ment. Unlike most Westerners,
he prefers rye. But he con-
siders the martini cocktail
Americas gift to an migrate
full world = the one perfect
drink. Provided it is made
right. and he tells you how. He
does not even admit that the
manhattan is a cocktail.
AS for sweet drinks or drinks
mixed with fruit juices, eggs,
milk or anything except water,
soda or dry vermouth-well,
garroting is too good for the
guilty host or hostess. Don't"
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Poet DepIores Our
NEGATIVE Attitude

FREEDOM is THE RIGHT
TO CHOOSE .-.
BY Archibald MacLeish. (Bed-
con Press; $780,
The poet, who has been Lii
brarian of Congress and an As
SiStant Secretary Of State, pro-
tests in these essays against the
fading of a positive American
ism and the substitution Of a
negative attitude concerned only
with opposing everything the
Communists favor.
THE dogma of the inevita-
bility of war between the United
States and Russia" he writes.
''is Communist dogma. It's
origins are Marxist."
Commenting on Mccarthy
ISM" Mr.. MacLeish says: only
people who found themselves,
a few years after their greatest
triumph, contemplating the pos
sibility of disaster and unable
to account for the deterioration
of their fortunes, would give a
moments thought to reckless
and irresponsible accusations
made without evidence and Of
fered without proof"
He regrets that we have cho-
sen the policy Of the contain
ment of Russia rather. than the
policy Of the realization of the
American dream" He adds:
1--WE turned our backs on those
who talked about decent living
standards for the peoples of
Asia and Africa and committed
ourselves instead to the men
who proposed to encircle COM
munism with a ring Of steel. We
elected a destiny of permanent
negation in place of the destiny
of endless affirmation which had
created our Nation and our his
tory as a people"
A mans freedom to believe,
Mr.. MacLeish insists, "does not
depend on what he believes . .
does not depend on his being
right as others see the right,
no matter how numerous they
may be or how well intrenched
or how powerful"
Throughout his argument,
Mr.. MacLeish urges freedom for
the individual, calling it the
fruition of a movement that be-
gan in the Middle Ages. But he
does not explain how it may be
maintained without increasingly
heavy defense against Soviet
encroachment, which he recog-
nizes fully, or even against the
more subtle tyranny of the well
fare state, which he apparently
favors.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Books in Review
New Dos Possos Novel Brings In
Theme and Cast Typical of America
CHOSEN COUNTRY
BY John Dos Passos (Houghton, Mi6lin: s4J
Reviewed BY Carter Brooke Jones
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones
CHOSEN COUNTRY
BY John Dos PaSSoS.

In his new novel Mr.. Dos Pas
SOS has distilled impressions of
many characters, who add up to
three generations, into a sort Of
essence that seems typical of
, America.
The story Of the girl, Lulie
Harrington, and the boy. Jay
Pignatelli, who turn out to be
the chief players in this drama,
is preceded and f1anked by a
series of elaborate prologues.
These chapters contain bio
graphical sketches of the par
ents and grandparents, the
whole background of the young
persons. Characters who are to
touch Lulie or Jay at crucial
points also are explained in con-
siderable detail.
This unusual process of un-
folding story is accompanied
by glimpses of the march of
events and OF changing mores
between the Civil War and the
l920s. It is a method which Mr..
Dos Passos has made pecu-
liarly his own, though there are
departures in narration from
his previous novels.
The passing of this crowded,
sometimes confused panorama
OF people and of changing
scenes, leaves you tingling with
scores of conflicting echoes
social and economic theories at
war, personal attractions and
animositieS, the ways of i'm
migrants and natives, with
their different customs; the raw
and the cultured. the primitive
and the urbane. What could
be more typical of America?
Style Distinctive.
1t is more this net impression
with which the book has left me
than the romance around which
it is written. The author wanted
In showing the inevitable. in
eScapable attraction which
drew together a youth and a
girl of completely divergent
backgrounds and cultures to
touch on the generations back
of them. the tendencies and
fates behind their lives. The
result is long book, often ex-
hilarating, but uneven in in
terest. written in Mr.. Dos Pas
sos distinctive style. a prose
with sweep and beauty.
Jay was the illegitimate son
of James Pignateni, a colorful
lawyer and international finan-
cier known to his friends as
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Murder, Inc,
Described in
Startling Book

MURDER, INC: THE STORY
OF THE SYNDICATE"
BY Burton B. Turkus and Sid
FEEDER. (Fdrrar, Straus G.
Young; $4.50.)
In 1910, while Mr.. Turkus was
an assistant district attorney
in Brooklyn. some of the killers
and accomplices of Murder,
Inc, started to "sing." Among
these stoolpigeons - the one
whose revelations proved the
most lethal for his old COL
leagues-was Abe tKid Twist)
Relies. Nearly a decade later
Relies was in the headlines
again-this time because the
Senate Crime Investigating
Committee found his plunge
from the Half Moon Hotel one
of the more peculiar aspects of
the William O'Dwyer regime.
Mr.. Turkus and Mr.. FEEDER, a
veteran newspaperman and
magazine writer, lean heavily
on the Relies testimony in COM
piling their 498-page volume on
the syndicate which they con-
tend now dominates the under
world across the Nation. They
are occasionally testy - and
more than that-with the Ke-
fauver committee for exposing
as new stuff a decade-old story
and for failing to ask certain
witnesses some ong-unansWered
questions. They fatty disagree
with the Kefauver committee
on several scores. For instance,
they contend that Mafia-pic-
tured by the committee as a
currently active band of kill
ers-was actually purged in the
early '30s by the savage Unione
Siciliano. They further contend
that national crime is ruled by
a board of directors with no
single czar, that Murder, Inc.
was and is national syndicate
and that this cartel is so well
organized it can swing elec-
tions in many places, regardless
of party.
Contrary to general belief,
the authors say. the criminal
mob sprang from the wars be-
tween labor and management
just before and after World
War I and not from prohibition,
but the syndicate was born be-
cause the crime overlords de-
cided indiscriminate killing was
bad for business.
Because of its grisly detail,
this volume Is more of a shocker
than the staid reports of the
crime committee or Senator
Kefauver'S own Crime in
America" 1t could be objected
that much Of it is a told
tale and at some points facts
give way to assumptions. but
the panoramic effect carries an
impact that should provoke
some indignation from right
thinking citizens.
..... MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1951-12-02

Dandy" born in this country
in 1848 of emigrating Italians.
Jay was not the result of any
casual alliance, but of an abid-
ing love between his father and
widowed Kathryn Jay, daughter
of aristocratic Kentuckians.
James could not bring himself
to divorce his invalid wife, and
so he and Kathryn met when
they could. in this country and
Europe, and Jay grew up mostly
in Europe, adept in languages
and Old World culture, but
strangely lost after his mothers
early death. He and Lulie met
one summer at a lake north of
Chicago when his roommate at
college took him on a house.
party. But Lulie found Jay a
confused and diffident youth,
whom she called Don Modesto.
and it was years before either
realized what they meant to
each other. Jay, meanwhile,
went to Harvard law school
his father saw to that and
served as an ambulance driver
in the first World War.
Back to First War.
Mr.. Dos Passos has brought
in much about that war, which
has been close to him ever since
he wrote his memorable early
novel. Three Soldiers" 1t was
inevitable that Jay, deeply con-
scious Of his birth and his tenu-
GUS hold on society, should fall
in with the radicals of that day,
most of them hymning praise
Of the new Russia. When he
became lawyer in Chicago, the
young man defended some Ital-
ians charged with setting off a
bomb during a strike. But, like
Mr.. Dos Passos. Jay was disil-
luSioned. He saw that the Red
front organizations which
backed the defense were not
interested in the acquittal of
the defendants, but in making
the trial a cause celebre and
listing some new martyrs for
labor"
Lulie. the daughter of a schol-
ar, who lost her mother in child
hood. is as well developed as
Jay. but less interesting.
The earlier chapters seem to
me the most fascinating. Some
thing of the contrasting color
OF Europe and America gets into
them, with a sense of the chang
ing years that swept in the new
century. The story bogs down
to an extent in the long chap
ter showing Lulie as a young
woman working for an adver-
tising agency. The adventures
of Lulie, Jay and their friends
take them into the '20s. That
period is almost contemporary
and yet. contrasted with today.
1t is historical. a way of life
vanished. a.
The drama which Mr.. Dos
Passos directs is played on an
immense stage. crowded with
characters. and yet most of them
are seen clearly and their lines
are coherent. Chosen Coun-
try is novel of the America
he has observed closely and
loves. q
Evening star., 1951-12-02

ographer conspicuously lacks:
That is, vigor.
With Mr.. James, he is some
what more successful; for Mr..
James antiquities and nuances
can stand an infinite amount of
analysis and speculation without
being the least bit lessened
thereby. Neither writer could or
would read the other; and it Is
perfectly easy to see why.
Yet both men. in their mark
edly different ways. were writ
ing about American "Innocents."
The Innocent was the shreWd,
warmhearted, nfident
American, who was also unso-
phiscated. uncorrupted in faith
In humanity. in hope and in
charity, though tough enough in
other respects"
Mr.. Candy, a scholar at heart,
Is on very familiar ground, but
he assumes both too much and
too little knowledge on the part
OF his readers. His conclusions
are not striking, nor are they
incisively stated. He drags in
modern parallels by the heels,
from SO far off they seem pre-
posterous. And his volume is
totally lacking in humor, the
commodity Mark Twain peddled
and which Henry James some
times unconsciously provided his
contemporaries.
MARY McGRORY,
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Red Propaganda Is
CeoseIess inChino
BRAIN WASHING IN RED

BRAIN WASHING IN RED
CHINA
BY Edward Hunter. wan
guard; $780,
Ideologically speaking, every
day is washday in China. What
is going through the wringer is
mems minds. Edward Hunter
describes the nightmarish proc
ess that is relentless and un-
ceasing, a terrible blend of per-
verted evangelism and quack
psychiatry. Through slogans
and catch-phrases, through
comic books and textbooks,
through diaries and 19S4-ish
self-criticism sessions, with the
help of able party workers and
MISREPRESENTATION workers"
the brain is harried and dinned
until supposedly all "imperialist
poisons" disappear.
Some men crack, and some
run away. Mr.. Hunter, a COR
respondent of 20 years expert
ence in the Far East, talked to
scores of refugees in 1850 and
1851. and his enlightening book
Is based on their stories. He
describes the virulent anti
American propaganda, the
praise Of all things Soviet. Both
in its broad outlines and its de-
tails. the book gives scant hope
to those who envision a Titoist
regime emerging from the COM
munization Of China.
MARY McGRoRY,
Evening star., 1951-12-02

On the face of it. a double
biography of Mark Twain and
Henry James, in the manner of
Plutarch, is an excellent idea.
The wise-cracking frontiersman
and the elegant expatriate offer
obvious contrasts in personality
and achievement that tempt the
critic. Unfortunately. however,
Mr.. Candy. is. as he says of Mr..
James. the victim of his own
intricacies," and much of the
effect is dissipated in wordiness
and repetition.
"One of the reasons they are
so valuable. in American litera-
ture," says Mr.. Candy of the
dissimilar pair. lis that they
come from two very different
Americas that are contempo-
rary." Mark Twain, growing up
in Hannibal, Mo-, knew the
freedom of the river and forest,
and the pressure of an economic
insecurity that made him forever
the bait of get-rich-quick
schemes. Henry James lived in
an atmosphere of intellectual
hveliness. emotional warmth and
fairly steady dividends. Mark
TWain'S was the simpler art; but
Henry James was the simpler
soul.
Both sought out the Old
World: Henry James in search
of the density" he found lack
ing in America; Mark Twain,
at first adventure-bound. and
later in flight from celebrity at
home. Henry" says Mr.. Candy.
"ripened in Europe: Mark took
his own neuroticism with him"
Mr.. Candy gives an artistic
biography of each. This is far
less effective in the case of Mark
Twain. who lends himself very
poorly to the elaborate psyche
splitting favored by the author
"a labored and unrewarding
activity which leads to such
? graceless phrases as "Tomish
Mark. !" In general, Mr.. Candy
is less at home with Mark Twain
than with Henry James, for
Mark Twain had one virtue as
a writer which his present BIZ
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Reading and
Writing
Taft Is Quick to Leorn
How Author Promotes Book
By Mary McGrory

His publishers, Doubleday &
Co., are delighted to discover
that one of their new authors,
Senator Robert A. Taft, has a
natural talent for book promo
ton that can just about cut
their work in half. On a tele-
vision debate held in advance
of publication, the Senator held
up prominently to the camera
a copy of "A Foreign Policy for
Americans" identified it care
fully, gave publication date and
read few lines therefrom.
Appearance of the Senator's
volume has led to some very
dramatic book reviews, a form
Of journalism generally rele-
gated to the back pages of the
paper. On the very day of pub
lication Senator Brien Nc
Mahon Of Connecticut reviewed
it scathingly for the Democratic
National Committee, in a cri-
tique which is said to be des-
tined for use as a campaign
document.
In Boston criticism proved
even more telling. 1t led to the
resignation of Boston Herald
Editor John H. Crider Oong-
time New York Times Washing
ton correspondent. Mr.. Crider,
an Eisenhower man, said what
he thought about the Senator's
book and the Herald refused to
print it, whereupon he up and
left the paper. Word from
New York says he is author of
a book about the general.
And book-reviewing promises
to become more hazardous yet.
Editor of a leading New York
publishing house, interviewed on
the subject of Capital manu-
scripts, said there was only one
that would interest him. That
would be a book from Miss
Margaret Truman. He says she
can write about anything she
likes: Her life In the White
House, her trip to Europe, her
career as singer. Now there's
a volume that would probably
produce a rash of unsigned
reviews.
Then. there is, of course, the
Forthcoming manuscript already
half completed from the usually
Well-paid pen of Senator Nc
Carthy. whose maiden effort in
the field of literature-a we'll
publicized pamphlet on housing
for the Lustron folks - netted
him cool $4,000 That's such
a commanding figure for a first
book that the Senator wouldn't
have to say that critics who
didn't like his books were Com
munists. He could say they were
just jealous.
-
Publication of her sixth and
newest mystery, Death in a
Million Living Rooms" finds
Washington's Pat McGerr about
midway in the writing of her
first serious" novel. The story
OF a woman who gets along
without her husband for IL
years and then must decide
whether or mot to take him
back, it is entitled THE Missing
Years"
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Mark Twain and Henry James Are
Controsted in Double Biography

TURN WEST, TURN EAST; MARK TWAIN AND HENRY JAMES
BY Henry seidel Candy. (Houghton Mi67in Co.; $780,