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Evening star., 1952-08-17
.FBI Captures Slayer
OF Maryland Man;
Hunted Since 1850
BY the Asseeioted Press

DETROIT. Aug. 16.-FBI agents
slipped quietly into an unlocked
rooming house in adjoining Ham,
tramck at dawn today and sur
rounded the bed Of sleeping. 49-
year-old junkyard hand.
John Thomas Hill, a short.
heavy set Negro, looked up and
blinked sleepily.
you've got the right fellow" he
told them.
That was how James A. Robey,
Detroit FBI chief, described the
capture of one Of the 10 most
wanted fugitives in the country, a
man described in police records
and FBI circulars as "ferocious.
evil and extremely dangerous.
Mr.. Robey himself led the agents.
Hill, who has been living an
apparently blameless life here
under the name of James Smith, :"
readily admitted to Mr.. Robey
that he was a member of the
group that beat 70-year-old store
keeper Winchester Smith to death
with an axe near Willoughby, Md,
on March 10. 1850.
Others Arrested.
Five other Negroes were arrested
in that killing and later convicted.
Hill escaped and a short time later
was accused by his estranged wife
of stabbing her five times in the
head and chest with an icepick.
Mr.. Robey said Hill admitted
having some difficulty" with his
wife.
The FBI circular also noted
that Hill is accused of holding
another woman's head under
water and nearly drowning her
and throwing still another per-
son out of speeding automobile.
He was arrested on a Federal
charge of flight to avoid prose-
cution. a charge brought against
him in May of 1850 when he was
placed on the most wanted list.
His trail was picked up in the
Detroit area only recently.
Told of Clean Life.
On the way to Wayne County
Jail here, where he'll await Fed
eral arraignment. Hill told Mr..
Robey of living for a time in New
York State. then heading west.
He said he stopped to get some
money to go on to California.
II decided to lead a clean life. y
Hill told the FBI chief, because
/ knew if I didn't I would be
picked up"
Evidently he was doing so, Mr.
Robey said. He had worked in
the Hamtramck junkyard three
months. and was living alone at
the rooming house. No weapons
were found in his room.
Hill was born in Chester, Md.
and left school after the third
grade. He was employed as an
oyster dredger, farmer and truck
driver before turning to crime.
He is wanted on a. murder
charge In Maryland and for felon-
ious assault in Virginia. Mr..
Robey said 1t will be determined
after the Federal arraignment
which State will get him.
Evening star., 1952-08-17
Representative Harrison Defends Price DeconfroI

was the passage by Congress of
the Harrison amendment to the
Defense Production Act. which de-
controlled processed fruit and veg
etableS.
ANY contention that my decon-
troll amendment will cause prices
of these canned products to rise
above 1850 levels Is rank fraud" /"
Mr.. Harrison declared.
Evening star., 1952-08-17
Birth Control Is Must
In India, Food Chief Says
By the Associated Press

EAST LANSING. Mich, Aug.
16.-Reforms in agriculture and a
program of birth control educa-
ton were cited today as the only
ways to solve the critical food
shortage in India.
Speaker before the Eighth In
ternational Conference of Agricul-
tural Economists at Michigan
State College was DR.. S. R. Sen.
economic advisor to the Indian
Ministry Of Food and Agricul-
ture.
India's food problem, DR.. Sen
said, stems from the fact that the
population has increased more
than 109 million in the past 80
years while the productivity per
acre of land has remained the
same.
The worst Is yet to come, he
said, since the population is ex-
pected to increase about ID per
cent during the next five years
DR.. Sen said India has great
hopes for q new five-year plan
for agriculture which went into
effect In 1851.
Main aims Of the plan, he said,
are to improve and expand irri-
CATION, build soil fertility and
bring in modern machinery with
which to till the soil.
I'm spite Of all this" DR.. Sen
said, india will not be able to
solve her problems Of popula-
ton and food supply unless she
Is able to curb her increasing
population.
Family planning Is therefore
q vital step In economic and social
planning. India needs to push q
program Of birth control educa-
tiava -
Evening star., 1952-08-17
SPeeiol Dispoteh to Thu Stor


MARTINSBURG, w. ", Aug
16. - Representative Harrison
Democrat. of Virginia yesterday
denounced as unfair the handling
of price controls by President Tru-
man and the Office of Price Sta
bilization.
He spoke at the annual picnic OF
the National Fruit Product Co. of
Winchester. Va. Some 1890 en-
ployes Of the company were pres
ent.
Mr.. Harrison said the price of
processed fruits and vegetables
had been placed by the OPS at
25 per cent below 1850 levels. He
said that If something hadn't
been done. it would have resulted
in widespread unemployment and
shortages OF canned goods.
What was done, he explained,
Evening star., 1952-08-17
Dr.. Henry Kohmon, Scientist

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 16 P.-
DR.. Henry A. Kohman. II. scien-
tist at the Mellon Institute, died
today at his home. DR.. Kohman,
native of Hope, Kans., had been
a member of the Mellon Institute
since 1911. He was a noted author
ity on yeast, baking and bread.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
William Faulkner: A Critical Study
BY Irving Howe Random House. s3J

Americas latest Nobel Prize
winner is not an easy subject
for critical analysis. His novels
are intricate, sometimes laby-
rinthine works of art which have
been espoused and attacked
with equal violence. Mr.. Howe
dissects these complex creations
with admirable clarity. His
book should stimulate readers
to a more careful study Of
Faulkner. .
The critic contends that ''it
is quite clear that Faulkner is
not primarily an observer of
Mississippi folkways. Though
his fiction rests on an intimate
knowledge of local attitudes and
local things, it engages us for
reasons that have little to do
with either"
Mr.. Howe sees the Yoknapa-
tawpha community, the prevail
ing scene Of Faulkner novels, as
o microcosm specifically ex-
pressing the Southern myth"
and concerned with the South's
post-Civil War tensions. but ac-
tually reaching into the world
at large with its moral and
economic crises. He regards
"The Sound and the Fury" as
Faulkner'S masterpiece. It is,
he says, In some basic sense
about modern humanity In
New York-and apparently
Paris-to the extent that 1t is
about modern humanity In
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Crime and Suspense
By Mirium Gutenberg

pears and the young Morgans
show up at the Shady Dell
Trailer Camp. Mrs. Morgan
doesn't look much like an heir
ess but you never can tell. One
trailer inhabitant is pretty sure
she's on the way to the reward
for locating the heiress. Muir
der intervenes. Actually, there's
not much mystery here but the
characters are SO credible and
life q Ia trailer so vividly por-
trayed that the absence Of de-
tective gymnastics is hardly
noticed.
The Corpse That Refused to Stay
Dead. BY Hampton Stone.
(Simon g. Schuster: $2.50.)
Inner SGnctum.
A bunch of Bohemians in q
New York apartment find one
of their number dead-obvi-
ously by accident or suicide. AS
usual, Assistant District Attor-
ney jeremiah x. Gibson wants
to make it tough for himself.
He alone pays attention to the
poverty stricken old lady who
insists the girl was murdered
because she shared in the old
lady's will. Gibson tries out
various theories for size-some
of them solving the murder
more novelty than the solution
he finally gets via the confess
sion route.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Journey to the Far Poetic
BY Thomas E. Dewey. Doubleday. 81 Z

Gov. Dewey reports on his re-
cent visit to II countries Of
Asia-republics. kingdoms. ter
ritories and colonies.
He feels that, while Western
Europe is stronger against COM
munism than ever, thanks to the
labors and "the shining leader
ship" of Gen. Eisenhower. a Far
Eastern survey yields no such
optimism.
"The outstanding fact" says
the Republican presidential can
didate Of "A and '48. sis that,
whenever we have undertaken
treaties assuring collective ac-
ton in advance, there is no war.
Peace has thus been preserved
by strength. In the Pacific, we
have done only patchwork jobs.
and that area is racked by five
wars"
1t must be clear. the Gov
ernor adds, "that, for the sake
of our own freedom, we should
take action in the Pacific SINH
lar to that which we have taken
in the Americas and in Western
Europe"
He interviewed Chang Kali
shek on Formosa and found the
generalissimo indignant over
the way our Government has
treated him. Chang spoke of
years of insult by our Govern
ment and what he believes to be
our abandonment of China after
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Miss Abby Fitch-Mortin
BY Kataryn Loughlin. (Coward- Mccain; $3

The children Zone Of them IS
the author) were constantly re-
minded of their stained" herit-
age, reviled before the villagers,
deprived of meals for the slight
est infraction, questioned like
criminals, dressed like outcasts
and begrudged food. clothing
and shelter. When the author
mischievously cut the tail Of her
aunt's horse, she had her head
shaven for punishment. AL the
while she was prosecuting the
two little girls Abby represented
herself as q long suffering
Christian woman taking UP the
burden Of caring for unwanted
children.
Just why Mrs. Loughlin should
have wanted to detail her aunt's
cruelty, miserliness and utter
inhumanty is never made plain.
The story has the fascination
of the case history Of q psyche
path. Since Aunt Abby's whole
life was twisted into q crusade
for vengeance, perhaps this Is
vengeance on the avenger. Or
perhaps not. The jacket tells us
that the author has named her
own daughter Abby.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-07-13

Mississippi: Either true for both
or false for both"
Mr.. Howe concludes that
Faulkner ''in point Of inven-
tiveness is at least the equal of
the Goth century European mas
ters." The Mississippian tis the
most impressive living Ameri-
can novelist, certainly the best
since Dresser and perhaps since
James," And yet, in Mr.. Howe's
opinion, Faulkner lacks the
greatness" of vision found in
such writer's of our time as
Joyce. Proust, Kafka and Law
renee.
The critic discusses the Faulk-
ner style incidentally in con-
sidering the various books and
stories. He does not come to
grips with 1t in q special chap
ter, as might seem indicated.
Faulkner's twisted, indirect
prose undoubtedly has scared
away many readers who would
have found much to reward
them II they had persisted. Mr..
Howe speaks Of "the agonized
rhetoricY Of "Absalom. Absa-
lom!" as "the sign Of q strained
viii confronted with its own in
tolerably actute awareness." And
he says Of q recent novel. "In-
truder In the Dust" that Faulk-
ner "has become the prisoner Of
his own STYLE" &C. B. J.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
--sisnal corps Photo.

the war;" The exclusion Of free
China from the Japanese peace
treaty he took to be a fresh
humiliation for the Nationalist
government. II couldn't refute
the generalissimo's argument, :"
Mr.. Dewey adds. because so
much of it was true" He did
point out that Red China also
was excluded from the treaty,
despite the British.
Even if Nationalist China
were as bad as its enemies paint
it, Gov. Dewey contends, II
would favor supporting it as one
of the forces necessary to keep
the Communists from overrun-
ming the whole Pacific"
He gives an interesting ac-
count of his visits to Japan.
Korea, the Philippines, Hong
Kong, Indo- China, Malaga and
Indonesia. It cannot be said
that his conclusions are star
Ting. Our intervention in Ko-
rea, he holds. has preserved
American influence in the Pa
cific and stopped Communist ex-
pansion, at least for the time
being. 1.-THE Chinese and North
Korean Reds have suffered ter
rible casualties and Stain knows
that the free world can fight"
The author has no criticism for
the type of defensive war We
have fought in Korea.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1952-07-13

The Key Man. BY Clarence
Buddington Kelland. (Harper
dE Bros; $2.75)
The Tod Arundel company Of
radio-television folk was one
happy family until . sultry col
oratura got in the act. Every
inch q femme fatale, she had an
obvious hold over Maestro
Arundel. His producer director
and q cute comic cope with
coloratura, blackmail and q
missing Stradivarius in this
slick whodunit behind the
scenes Of television.
The Missing Heiress. BY Ber-
nice Carey. Doubleday &
Co.: $2.50.)
Crime Club.
A 17-year-old heiress disap-
Evening star., 1952-07-13

mains q virgin. The story skipS
to 1881. finally to 1947.
Carrie, who has one leg Grip
pied from polio, seems to me the
most interesting Of the four de-
voted friends. At least she has
the most pungent things to say.
Angela is supposed to be the
most intelligent. but there is
some question Of that. Hope,
the transplanted New Englander,
the first to marry, turns into q
lush. Ellen Terra, the most
sexy. becomes promiscuous and
remains unmarried. Their par
ents, all prominent in the affairs
Of the town and the church, are
well developed and actually more
distinctive than their daugh-
terS, with their interminable
discussions Of trivialities. Ellen
Terra's mother, Clementine
Rook, engages in q terrific row
with the new rector, an older
man with a wife. The young
men who squire the girls are
country-club types. Angela's Bill
Bloodgood is the only one who
takes on much reality, and he
is the traditional wild, we'll
muscled young Southerner.
1t is not giving away too much
OF the story. since it is forecast
all along. to mention Angela's
eventual marriage to Bill. Why
did they wait 20 years? That is
never sufficiently explained.
Perhaps it is unfair to COM
pare this novel with the two
recent books about Southern
gentry. Lament for Four Vir-
gins" is on the light, satirical
side: they are serious, ambitious
studies. Charles Mills "The
Alexandrians," which scruti-
nized a Southern town over a
period of a century, is the best
novel I've read this year. Worth
Tuttle Heddon's Love Is a
Wound" whose central figure is
q Methodist preacher assigned
to small towns, is first rate.
But all three novels are
focused on a phase of the South
almost forgotten in fiction since
the sword-and-jasmine school
OF romanticism languished about
the time of the First World War,
1t is a relief to find Southern
novelistS discovering people who
can add up to 100 and even have
heard of Brahms and Van Gogh.
Lael Tucker, who makes her
literary bow with this novel, is
the wife of Charles Werten.
baker, the novelist.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Indian Summer

Indian Summer
BY Robert Sylvester. IRAN
dom House: $3.J
Mr.. Sylvester has told his
story Of second love with q suit
able Broadway accent-awfully
hep and awfully torchy. that is.
Mr.. Sylvester lets you know he
knows his way around the night
clubs and the model agencies.
but he aims for the lyric touch;
too, when he tells Of q mortal
passion between q mogul Of cafe
society In his late 40s and q
model In her early 20s. It
doesn't exactly come of, but
Indian Summer" swings along
readably.
"Abe" Linken. owner and
operator of the chi-chi Campus
Club. Is minding his own busi-
ness one night when in walks q
girl named Mollie Burch, who's
just so gorgeous and alive he
just has to ask her out to din
ner. Abe loves his wife well
enough, but she hasn't been the
same since their little boy died.
so before he knows It he is really
involved with the breath-taking
Mollie. He decides to make this
autumnal bid for happiness but
his wife's psychiatrist, always an
important character in a novel
of Manhattan. fetcheS him
home.
Mollie and Abe speak to each
other strictly in words of one
syllable, and don't add any
thing very memorable to the
fiction Of forbidden love. Read
ers should enjoy the tour Of
cafe society, about which Mr..
Sylvester writes with great
seriousness. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Lands Beyond
Lands Beyond
BY L. spragus de Camp and willy Ley (Rsnehart; $l75J
Reviewed by WIliom Hines

Some years ago, Willy Ley,
the eminent rocketeer and
commentator on the fantastic,
published . book called 1.-THE
Lunghsh. the Dodo and the
Unicorn" which was billed as
"an excursion into romantic
zoology" Now, with the equally
renowned fantasist Sprague de
Camp, he has embarked on
what might be called IAN ex-
cursion into romantic geog-
raphy."
Here are the stories Of At
lantis and Mu, Of Prester Johns
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Art Teachers Show

An exhibition Of paintings BY
18 art instructors Of 6 WASH
ington art schools and Univer-
sity art departments which will
remain on view at the Dupont
Theater gallery through Au-
gust 10 would seem to have ct
least two facets. The visitor
can regard 1t a. . group show
Of work by prominent local art
lists who happen to be also
teachers Of art, which is doubt
less the viewpoint with which
the Dupont offers 1t.
At the same time, the show Is.
by its makeup, q demonstra-
tion for prospective students. If
one Of the latter visits the show
with the idea Of joining an art
class next autumn he will prob
ably derive the impression from
this exhibition that he can
take his choice Of traditional or
modern approaches at the Cor
coran School (which also con.
ducts classes for George Wash.
ington University. the YWCA
and Howard University: and
that If he attends American
University or the Washington
Workshop, he will be taught to
express himself In some mod
ern idiom.
However, any impression q
student may derive from this
particular show, assuming he is
not otherwise acquainted with
these artist-teachers' works, will
be superficial. Each Of the 18
artists has only one painting, all
that the gallery space would
permit. A few have sent works
which are good, or representa-
tive or both; the majority.
rather Indifferent examples.
Those which impressed me a
both" include Bruno Beran's
figure painting, Early Maternal
Feelings" (YWCA faculty..
Peter Blanc's might Hawk" and
Sarah Bakers THE Clock
Evening star., 1952-07-13

planted to Upper New York
State. Furious because her be-
loved father married again,
Abby bides her time until she is
able to wreak vengeance on the
heirs of the second marriage.
These happen to be two little
orphan girls who are subjected
to physical and psychological
cruelties which make Dotheboys
Hall sound like an annex OF
Glen Echo.
Evening star., 1952-07-13

Abby Fitch
Martin. it was
written by q
n lie c e W h o
suffered ago
nies at the
W o m a n , 8
hands.
A b b y was
the last des-
Sicated off,
shoot Of an
ancestor-wor-
ShipinR New
England clan
W hich had
haan franS.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Books in Review
Loci Tucker Novel Points to New Trend
In Literature About the South
Lament for Four Virgins
BY Lae Tucker Random House; $500
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones
Lament for Four Virgins
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones

Three novels may not make
q trend. but they can indicate
one on the way. This is the
third novel about the South
within a few months to deal
with literate persons of the up
per middle class rather than
with poor whites or submerged
Negroes.
We've had enough Of the
other kind, as portrayed by
Erskine Caldwell. Carson Nc
Cullers and others, even by
Faulkner to a limited extent,
though he has his educated
characters. It is refreshing to
find Southerners in fiction who
go to college, belong to country
clubs. drive good cars and never
eat corn pone and side meat.
They also, it seems, have prob
lens Of interest, just as share
cropperS have.
In Lament for Four Virgins"
Lael Tucker has written an
amusing novel-a rarer achieve
ment than it may sound. It is,
indeed. the humor that trickles
frequently and naturally out of
the narrative which saves it
from being an overlong and per-
haps tedious account of a set of
characters not particularly in
teresting in themselves. The
story may be considered a satire
on the leading families of a
small city in Georgia the au-
thor calls Andalusia. Since she
does not take her characters
too seriously and never fails to
wiring a laugh out of their
peculiaritieS, we need not bother
that few Of them have any
claim to distinction.
Centers Around Church
Much Of the story centers
around st. James Episcopal
Church. to which the towns
best" families belong. At the
start. in 1927, there is a rector.
a stunning young man, who en-
frances the four virgins of the
title. The girls are openly, un-
ashamedly in love with him. The
young man, an eligible bachelor
as well as a gifted preacher,
wishes for the moment that he
belonged to an older faith whose
clergy are celibate. He hur-
riedly accepts a call to a mis-
sion parish in Montana. And
the girls mend their broken
hearts as best they can. One
marries soon, but none long re-
Evening star., 1952-07-13

kingdom and sindbad's sea, Of
Ulysses and the Lost Tribes Of
Israel. Of Fl Dorado and Sir
John de Mandeville's headless
men. Some Of the authors con-
clusions are based on fact. and
some are speculative. Virtually
all are persuasive.
In every fancy, the authors
hold, there is O grain Of fact.
This Is readable book that
proves nothing, perhaps. as
much as the old saw that
human nature doesn't change.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Italian Novel
Traces YOUNG
Priests Life
Heaven and Eorth

He0Neu uHu 6OFIH
BY Carlo Coccioli. fPrentice-
Hall: $780,
Reviewed by Mary McGrory
The hero Of this italian novel
is q meek yet fanatical" priest,
who sees the world In the grip
Of Satan because people do not
take the word Of God literally.
IF we priests were only to think
Of what we are. We should be
mad with glory and fear" says
the young Don Ardito. I'VE
should crawl like worms upon
the earth or else take flight like
angels"
His first pastor, taken aback
by Don Ardito's fulminations
against tepidity. tells him finally,
"On this earth we must be more
Catholic than we are Chris
tians." The old man warns the
zealot: "The man who takes too
much thought for his soul risks
losing it altogether"
Still deaf to the counsels Of
temperance. Don Ardito pursues
his quest for the absolute in his
first post. a miserable little
mountain village. He turns out
the former priests housekeeper,
he refuses the sacraments to q
local aristocrat who is living in
sin. He pleads with the poor
to love their poverty. The VII
layers are awed by his intransi-
geance. but in seven years never
learn to love him. Racked by
Self-reproach and doubts, Don
Ardito refuses to take comfort
from their coldness, feeling him
self unworthy Of suffering for
Christ.
A Bitter Lesson
When one Of his parishioners.
q simple mountain girl, has a
vision. DON Ardito prays for q
miracle and assists at miracu-
lous cure. But at the moment
when he is acclaimed by even
the most hostile of his flock, q
young homosexual whom he has
brought to an awareness of sin
shoots himself. So Don Ardito
learns that ito destroy what ap-
pears to be evil in man is to
destroy man in his entirety"
ForSaking his apostolate among
the poor, Don Ardito applies
himself to the quest Of pure
knowledge. AS director of a
fashionable study club. he be-
comes a great intellectual leader
OF wartorn Italy. Here again.
however, he fails to help a hui
man being In trouble. Ulti-
mately, with the knowledge that
I'VE can only hope to be en-.
lightened and our enlighten-
ment comes only through love-"
he goes to the martyrdom he
has always sought.
The theme Of the priest who
loves God but who cannot love
his neighbor as himself has be-
come q relatively familiar figure
in literature. Paul VincentC Car
rolls Shadow and Substance"
dealt with him, as did Craw-
ford Powers "The Encounter"
Mr.. Coccioli is most successful
In dramatizing the plight of the
aScetic in the chapters describ-
mig Don Ardito among his poof
parishioners.
The priests inner struggles
are somewhat more difficult to
follow. Like all extremists, Don
Ardito seems at times absurd
and willful and always, Of
course. completely humorless.
Mr.. Coccioli, who Is regarded
very highly In his native Italy
and elsewhere In Europe, has
failed to make the minor char
acters vivid enough to throw the
arresting character Of Don
Ardito into high relief.