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Evening star., 1952-08-28
Leoyens-Decker Team
Wins Upset in Doubles

Don Leavens and Charlotte
Decker are the upset winners OF
the Middle Atlantic mixed doubles
tennis championship.
They turned back favored Jim
Thackara and Ann Gray, 6-1
6-3, yesterday in the final at
Edgemoor Tennis Club.
Evening star., 1952-08-28
Tops in Texas Leuque

DALLAS, Aug. % R. Bill
Hunter. Fort Worth shortsop, and
Hal Erickson. Dallas pitcher, have
been named player and pitcher
of the year respectively in the
Texas League.
Evening star., 1952-08-28
AS Call Up Right-Honde'
From Caroline League
BY the Assoeiofed Press

PHILADELPHIA, Aug %
Leonard Matarazzo. %. right
handed pitcher who won 81 and
lost eight for Fayetteville in the
Carolina League this year. will
report to the Athletics Septem-
ber /.
Matarazzo of New Castle, Pa,
is a 6-foot-3lz hurler who Joined
the AS farm system in 1948.
Evening star., 1952-08-28

Ten years ago-The Chicago
Bears whipped the Collegiate
All-Stars, 21-0, in Chicago's
Soldier Field before 101 200.
Evening star., 1952-06-01
the cool, crisp comfort of our
Atkinson WHITE SHIRTS 2.95

Mems furnishings buyers Of important stores throughout the country
poIed Whot the woned features quality white brood
cloth would sell for 295? The shirt that evolved from
ponsokine research ovoob The Mems Store The only
Washington with the Atkinson shirt It's carefully toored
finest broodcohs Although Sonfoized @ than
shinoge) ocuoIy little ore allow for %.
Stitching with 20 y stitches inch os STANDARD bonds
only 8). holes have 81 stitches and
special threaded with IS stitches These only few many
Atkinson shirt lectures Surprise Dad by giving him for Fothes
Doy in fused collar model with bore cuffs
W6L-The Mems Store Second Floor BethesdoChey Chase
Evening star., 1952-09-12
THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c. Alb
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I2.

car by two policemen who saw the
auto speed down a hilly road in
North Baltimore and overturn.
Her death was ruled homicide
after the officers found a pebble
jamming the accelerator down
and the medical examiner ruled
the severe blows on her head
could not have been caused by
the crash.
The defense attorney, Anthony
S. Federico, indicated he may ask
that the trial be held outside
Baltimore City. Under the law, a
case of murder indictment is en-
titled to one removal.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
ST. Louis Bishop 10 Head
Methodist Pension Board
BY the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO. Sept. 12.-The new
president Of the Meth odist
Church's Board of Pensions is
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of st. Louis.
Bishop Holt was elected yester-
day as II church agencies ended a
four-day organizing session in
Chicago.
The Pension Board, which ad-
ministers more than $50 million,
has two divisions, one headquar-
tered in Chicago and one in St.
Louis.
The church's Council of Secre-
taries elected the Rev. Charles F.
Boss. jr., Chicago, as president.
Also elected for one-year terms
were two vice presidents. D. Stew
art Patterson of Washington, D.
c., and Miss Henrietta Gibson,
New York City.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
IVA Halls Inspections
|0f 5000 Homes Here
Pending New Survey

Final inspections Of area hous-
ing for veterans have been stopped
temporarily by the Veterans Ad.
ministration Office here pending 9
survey of noncompliance with
construction requirements.
The second and third inspec.
tions will be delayed indefinitely
on housing to be sold under the
CT Bill Of Rights home-loan guar.
lanty under an order issued earlier
this week, a VA spokesman said.
100 Projects Involved.
The spokesman said there wal
no dependable estimate of how
many veterans will be temporarily
unable to close loans and complete
purchase of homes. He reported
however, that about 100 projects
are involved and about 5000
homes.
The final inspections wer.
halted in a further effort to bring
about compliance by builders with
the VAS minimum construction
requirements, he said.
The second inspection comes
when the building is under roof
the plumbing roughed in and tn.
walls still exposed. The third l!
the completion inspection. Ths
first inspection is made when thu
footings Of the building are in
stalled.
Described ~ Follow-Up.
The spokesman described thu
order as a follow-up Of previou.
steps taken to crack down on vio'
lations of the construction code
A year ago. the VA regional Office
called builders together and in.
formed them that full compliance
with minimum construction re.
quirements was expected.
Improvement was noted. but no
enough to satisfy VA ofhcials wht
want full compliance with ever,
house built in the area, according
to the spokesman.
The VAS handling Of the HON,
loan guaranty program was de-
nounced more than a week ago
however, by the league Selec1
Committee Of the House. It de-
scribed the compliance inspection
system as largely ineffective.
House Group Comments.
The committee declared that w
should refuse to appraise and guar.
antee loans on new housing no
constructed in accordance with thu
minimum construction standards
Under the survey of projects nov
to be conducted by the VA, builder
will be advised Of code violation,
before the second and third in
spection.
What we're interested in par.
|ticularly," said the spokesman, ii
obtaining compliance before con
struction and not afterward. Un.
der the law. We must have com
iplete compliance"
Evening star., 1952-09-12
New Lemons Adorn Forkos' Coi
As DC. Voids Law, Drops Case

Marine Corpl. Frank Farkas has
painted q brand-new batch OF
bright yellow lemons on his 194s
sedan and plans to drive it until
the wheels drop off.
The Marine pulled out his paint
brush shortly after he heard that
the District Commissioners had
repealed the lemon law yesterday
That was the law that said you
couldn't publicly ridicule your own
automobile.
Before large and appreciative
audience at Quantico, Va. where
he is stationed, Corpl. Farkas put
the lemons back on his car. The
first time he had painted them
on, the Washington law closed ir
on him.
Case Ordered Dropped.
| The repeal of the law came
after his case was publicized wide
Ily. The Commissioners not only
revoked the law but ordered Cor
poration Counsel Vernon E. West
to drop the case against Corpl
Farkas, due to come up Wednes-
day in Municipal Court.
II feel wonderful" Corpl. Farkas
said.
| He said he had several offers
from the Ford people to repair
the car but that he turned them
down.
II plan to drive it around a
Bit" he added. Il didn't like
their attitude about the whole
thing"
Bought It Second Hand.
He bought the secondhand au-
tomobile from q dealer in Flush
ing, N. Y, for 81, ,495.
! I've had eight or nine Fords
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Atom PIunt to Have
lotion Sufety Punes

CHARLESTON, S. C.-Workers
at the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion's Savannah River plant will
be protected from high-level gam
ma radiation by windows weigh
ing more than 10 tons apiece. Nu-
cleonics magazine reports that
about $4,000 square feet of glass
will be used, costing about 81 mill
liAy,
Evening star., 1952-09-12

and I liked them all-until I got
this one," Corpl. Farkas said.
Corpl. Farkas. after his arrest
for painting his car with lemons,
had to get a lawyer. He was
convicted in Municipal Court but
was granted a new trial, after
his attorneys said they wanted to
test the constitutionality of the
law.
The law, revived in 1850, pro-
Ihibited the driving or parking OF
any vehicle painted or otherwise
adorned "in such a manner as to
cast reflection, scornful derisior
or ridicule upon any make or type
of vehicle"
Evening star., 1952-09-12
no exta cost :!

Independent laboratories regularly test
Lacerne. They regularly test al leading
homoeenized miks IN the District Month
after month, these tests show Lucesne to be
RICHEST q them an-xichest IN cream.
Yoa can test thin yourself = by testing
LuceEne. In every mp you'll note the extra
richness that lifts Lucene above the ranks
Il esdnau n1lkA
Evening star., 1952-09-12
|6rammer 70 Be Arraigned
On Murder Charge tuesday
BY the Associofsd Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. IL. -
George Edward Grammer. 35-
|year-old New York manager fol
q metals firm, will be arraigned
at 10 am. Tuesday on a charge
Of numbering his 33-year-old
wife.
At the arraignment, he will be
given q chance to plead again and
to choose between a trial by jury
or trial by judge alone.
Grammer's wife, Dorothy May
Grammer, was found dead in her
Evening star., 1952-09-12

Test the extra uuase, 100. With aA din
extra richness, Lucerne costs no more than
ordinary nnilks. Lucesne costs less, for ex-
ample, than home-delivesed milk. Nuceene
Vitamm d Milk gives you the same extra
richness pl.s 400 added units Of vitamin D
and costs you only one cent more than
regular LuceFne.) So get yourself fiche
milk
Evening star., 1952-03-09

Gus cartoon in bronze. its SYM
bolism obvious: and to Joseph
Dach's "One-man Parade" an
abstraction In twisted wire. I
liked Shirley Lichtman's alb
stract Madonna" Russell Hous-
tons Deacon" and Rowland
Lyons "Pleistocene Mastodon."
There are many pleasing and
well-executed paintings. speak
ing q language which every one
can understand. Among them
are still life by Margaret Appich,
Harry Eisenberg and Esther
Lyme; landscapes by Mignon
AtchiSon, Frances Foote. Eu-
gene Galasso. Lois NJ. Jones,
Theodore Kane, Andrea Zerega,
Martin Dietz and Dean Stam-
baugf; urban scenes by Caro-
line van H. Bean, Jack Boul,
James Cupoli. Roger Rittase,
John Chapman Lewis, Mary
Driven and Mary Jane Swanin-
ger: flowers by Jean Gernand,
Edith Lehman and Josef Pie
lage; portraits by Marcella
Comes and Kenneth Stubbs
and interiors by Alfred NC
Adams and James Porter.
Design Is stressed in Helen
Niles Black Tray" Jack PERL
mutter,s Clothes Lines" Ben
jamin. Abramowitz' "Irouble in
q Boat" Margaret KeSlishlan S
"The Sisters" (cornets and
ships and Caroline .McMaster's
mo. Is" white on white).
Evening star., 1952-03-09
Books in Review
Pat Frank Writes One Of the First
Novels to Come Out Of Korean War
HOLD BACK THE NIGHT
BY Pat Frank. (Lippincott;; $3.I
Reviewed BY Carter Brooke Jones

Mr.. Frank has dramatized
effectively In this novel the
fighting withdrawal Of the
scourged Marine division from
the Changjin Reservoir In Korea
IN the dreadful winter Of 1850.
This Is one of the earliest
novels, II not the first, to come
out Of the Korean war, and the
author has made q swift, vivid
story out Of 1t.
Mr.. Frank has taken q single
Marine. company and traced its
tortuous progress from the
northern borders Of Korea to
the port where its remnants
were evacuated. When the
order to withdraw came Capt.
Mackenzie's Dog" company
already had been reduced by
casualties to 126. It was
charged with protecting its reg
iment's northern flank. Its
ranks were thinned steadily as
the Red army kept nibbling at
It with attacks from every side,
even ct times from the rear,
but the men kept retiring in
steady order. fighting viciouSly
as they went.
Only Ia Left.
When, at last, the cut-to-
pieces DOG" company reached
the port, there were IL men
left, In command of Sergt.
Ekland. To the officer who
waved them down. the sergeant
denied Indignantly that these
were stragglers. "This." he
said, els q company"
Mackenzie is the chief. char
acter. though Sergt. Ekland
vies for the spot. Both are well
developed. Mackenzie is the
tough but thoughtful company
commander who never forgets
his men and feels that extra
dry socks are as important in
that Siberian cold as adequate
ammunition. And there is his
bottle Of Scotch. which his girl
(now his wife) gave him when
he left for the big war. He
carried 1t all through the South
Pacific. saving it for some ex-
treme ordeal which never quite
came. Now, as he drives through
the frozen hills with o handful
of men. with death on every
side and in the very weather,
he decides the time has come
to open the bottle and divide
1t among the 16 survivors. But
Evening star., 1952-03-09

this will be after they've
reachedS . certain objective.
Ekland Is q technician. who
left a good radio Job to rejoin
the Marines. The skipper has
recommended this sergeant for
. battlefield commission and q
decoration, for Ekland is the
most dependable and resource
full man In the company, but.
this recognition lags in confu-
sion and redtape.
No Propaganda.
At one point in the story it
looked as II Mr.. Frank could
not withstand an obvious temp
tation to interject an overbal-
ancing weight Of propaganda
an effort through the talk Of
characters to justify the admin
istration's policy and the stale
mate in Korea. But, fortunately.
he was too interested, In his
narrative to tarry long, and
these conversations hardly halt
the suspense.
Mr.. Frank. q former WASH
ington newspaperman and war
correspondent. wrote "Mr.
ADAM" a satire on the atomic
age, and "An Affair Of State"
Hold Back the Night" is an
exciting. if not profound, COM
mentary on a full-scale war that
has never been called a war
at least not officially. The
authors third novel is q Lit
erary Guild selection.
Evening star., 1952-03-09
Farrdr. Strdus 4

and neWSpapermaYl. Returning
to Europe. he took up Journal
ism in Paris, where he watched
bemusedly the passions aroused
by the Dreyfus affair. This
served to confirm his supicion
that "the tendency of human
judgment in social and political
matters Qs) to be utterly dis
torted, warped and twisted"
The "Great Illusion"
It was from that thesis that
he wrote THE Great Illusion" !"
which in 1908 created q tre-
mendous furor. Translated
into virtually every known Ian
guage and dialect, it caused
riots. discussions and a lasting
revision Of peoples ideas of the
cause Of war. Previously, cap
italistS had been the scape-
goats. It was SO controversial
that Sir Norman was refused a
passport to America during
World War /. Through it all.
and his later experience as a
Labor member of Parliament,
he saw the irony of political
behavior. "The little daily dis
ciplines are normally so much
more difficult to maintain than
the occasional heroic sacrifices.
Men will die gladly on the bar
ricadeS to get the vote, but hav-
ing got it will stay home on
election day and fail to use it
It it happens to be raining"
Sir Norman's account of the
twists and turns of British pol
icy cit came full circle in the
sos. with the pacificts wanting
action and the conservatives for
appeaSement) will be Of most
interest to historians. For the
general reader he is over-metic-
ulous in his detailing of long
forgotten crises. Only rarely
does he make an interesting
generalization in dry stretches
OF ancient history. AS an auto
biographer, In short, he is still
too much the pamphleteer. It
is too bad, too, for the opening
section, which describes his sub.
stantial childhood, shows much
insight. Once the obsession
comes. he is a man with only
one idea and the personality is
submerged in the work. It has
been worthy work. to be sure.
and has not gone unrewarded.
The author won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1888.
Evening star., 1952-03-09
A Texas Legend
THE DEVIL IN THE DESERT

THE DEVIL, IN THE DESERT
BY Paul Iorgan. fLongmans,
Green; $780,
With spare. simple prose that
marches like poetry. the novelist
has told the story Of q legend Of
the Rio Grande country around
Brownsville, Tex, a century ago.
This concerns the last Journey Of
an old French priest on horseback
into the desert to visit parishion-
ers miles apart and take them the
sacraments and comforts of the
church. It was q hard. hot.
thirsty ride he had been taking
once q year for many years. but
now that he was old he did not
sit the saddle so firmly and he felt
the sun and the dust and the
WEAKNESS more. Then, as he
rested in the shade Of some bushes,
he met the devil In the form Of q
rattlesnake.
Mr.. Horgan's understanding in
depreciation makes the story as
appealing and affecting as John
Steinbeck's memorable Mexican
legend, "The Pearl"
.t5-CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1952-03-09
Crime
By Miriom ottenbere
ReclininE FIGURE. By Marco

Reclining Figure, by Marco
Page. (Random House: $z.5O.)
Wnen the eccentric Lucas
Edgerron decided to sen part OF
his fabulous collection of
French paintings, Art Dealer
Ellis Blaise was called in to ar
range the sale. That gesture
precipitated murder and ex-
poSeo apparent thefts from the
collection and some superb for
geries. Painrers. rival art deal
ers. an art critic. q luscious
model and assorted members of
the Edgerton menage compli-
cate Blaise's problems as this
worthy successorst to the authors
earlier "F'ast Company, races
to q surprise denouement.
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Epitabh for . Spy, by Eric
Amber. (Alfred A. Knopf:
$3.)
Vadassy. stateless language
teacher and amateur pnoto-
grapner. knew he had made
only light and shadow studies
Of lizards but the police found
pictures of furtificationS on the
film. Facing prison or deporta-
ton. the hapless Vadassy agrees
to find out who in the little
French hotel switched cameras.
Vadassy NJ weak, glamorless,
timid doesn't inspire the read
er interest necessary to build
suspense but some Of the lesser
characters do. Amber wrote
this one In 1887 and it lacks the
sure touch Of "A Cofin for
DimitrioS" and Cause for
Alarm" It Is being published
for the first time in this coun-
try.
Murder Comes Home, by An
thony Gilbert. (Random House;
$2.50.)
A red-wigged old harpy goes
to her reward under odd circum-
stances. For one thing. her last
act appears to have been the
making of q viii to benefit the
sister she despises. Enter Arthur
Crook, "the criminals hope" to
unmask q masquerade. harass q
highly placed gentleman and
pluck . murderer from among
the more or less interested par
ties. The inimitable Crook never
fails-fo all his unorthodox
methods - because. as he ex-
plains here. murder Is an anna
teur's crime"
MAO'S CHINA: PARTY RE-
FORM DOCUMENTS,
1924
Translation and Introduction
by Boyd Compton. (Unipersity
OF Washington Press; $4.5O,l
Key speeches and articles set
ting the orthodox line for
Chinese Communists.
BELMoNr FARMs.
Evening star., 1952-03-09
Sir Mormon Angel, Fighting Pocifist,
Tells His Life Story Of d Lost Cause
AFTER ALL
The autobiography Of Sir Norman ANGEL Farar sau; 4
young; $450J
Reviewed b. Mory McGrnr
Reviewed By Mary McGror,

Sir Norman Angel has de-
voted a lifetime to a lost cause,
the prevention of war. A fight
ing pacifiSt, he has battled for
so years against the political
irratiopalism which sets nations
at each others throats. Since
1908 he has preached collective
security and has lived to see
such measures as NATO and the
Marshall Plan come into being.
He has been prosecuted, ma
ligned and misunderstood, as
often happens to men of peace.
Sir Norman was practically
born an agitator. At II, after
much thought. he decided that
"the folly Of the world was in
corrigible and beyond his power
to correct" Leaving his comfor-
table. solid Victorian existence,
he headed for the frontiers of
California, where he was a cow
boy, homesteader. prospector
Evening star., 1952-03-09
The Love Story
Of Prize Heel
NAKED TO MINE ENEMIES

NAKED 10 MINE ENEMIES
BY Susan Yorke. (Harcourt,
Brace & Co.; $3.)
Miss Yorke is the author Of
"The Widow" a first novel
which caused considerable
furry. This reviewer did not
read it. but from the evidence
Of this second book is hard put
to imagine what all the shout
ing was about.
The hero of this story is q
heel, Peter Frame, who is
viewed in turn by three women
who loved him: His sister, his
mistress and his wife. A small
town boy. whose psyche is APP
parently warped because he had
to sleep in the dining room
when his mother took In board
ers. Peter. upon coming into
some money, kicks up his heels,
throws over his young fiancee
and takes of for South Ameri-
ca where he cuts a wide swath
among the discontended wives
Of his business associates.
For some reason never made
quite clear in the text, Peter
is irresistible to the ladies. Also
very. very greedy. His mistress.
who keeps protesting her ex-
excellent English upbringing--
it does her no good when the
chips are down--swallows the
most incredible CUFF from him.
She quite rightly calls him to
count when she discovers he is
keeping another in their love
nest. Says Peter: Are you
going to tell me that a woman
is only part Of a mans life
but a man is the whole Of a
woman's life?"
Besides obviously never hav-
ing read Byron. Peter is dull
In other ways. Nobody seems
ever to find out what was the
matter with him. and It's hard
to think that any body viii
care.
MARY Mc0RoRY.
Evening star., 1952-03-09
Arlington Opening

A one-man show by Howard
E. Chapman will be opened
next, Friday evening at $3.50 at
the Arlington Jewish Center,
1920 Lee boulevard. to remain
for one month. The program Of
fered to the public without
charge will feature a lecture
by George T. Hamilton on
What the Artist Would Have
Us See in the Modern World"
Evening star., 1952-03-09
Britoin's 5 SEQ Rule.
w ent Down With
Wo Great Ships.
MAIN FLEET To SINGAPORE
BY Capt. Russell crenfell /. M
fllGclfslld'' ss.75.
Reviewed " Rex Collier


Reviewed by Rex Collier
British seapower. once d0mi-
nant on all oceans, suffered &
disaster on December 10, l041,
from which It has never re-
covered. on that fateful. foggy
morning, of the eastern coast
Of Malaga, the Royal Navy,s
battleships Prince 81 wales and
Repulse were sent to the bot
tom of the South China Sea by
Japanese torpedo planes.
Capt. Russell Grenfell. whose
story of the chase and destruc-
ton Of the Bismarck, German
superbattleship. gave . brighter
picture Of the Royal Navy,
INDUCES Id sarcasm in titling
his latest book. Singapore,
he points out, was built
on the promise to Australia and
New zealand that 1t would be-
q base for Britain's main fleet
In event of war in the Far.
East. It never served that.
avowed purpose. When war
came to the Pacific on Decem-
Der 2. l94l. Singapore was i'll
prepared to do its job. Although
the Japanese had started their
invasion of Indo- China and
were threatening Y to drive
straight down the Malayan
Peninsula, the Royal Navy
could spare only 4 scrap Of. its
main fieetp to meet the threat.
The old Repulse and the new
Prince Of Wales. with several
cruisers and destroyers, but no
aircraft carriers, sailed into
Singapore Harbor just i've days
before Pearl Harbor.
No Fighter Planes.
They had no sooner anchored
than word came Of alarming
Japanese advances down the
peninsula, A leapfrog landing
at Kuantan forced q decision
to act. without waiting for car
rier support. Admiral Tom Phil
lips asked for land biased
fighters to cover his attack, but
the fighters never appeared be-
cause their field had been over
run.
Capt. Grenfell is understand
ably bitter in his analysis Of
the causes of the fall Of Sing
apore and the loss of the. Re-
pulse and Prince of Wales. He
does not spare Winston Church.
Ill Of criticism for failure to
appreciate the gravity Of the
Japanese threat in the Pacific.