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Cherries Winter. Acct.
Expert. Arrives TO
Direct New System

Charles Winter expert from
the Accounting Department
in Washington, arrived in St.
Croix for his first visit since
his arrival in the Virgin Is
lands on July IS. He was ac-
companed by Finance Com.
missioner Louis Shutter
brandt.
Mr.. Winter is employed by
the Government to install the.
new accounting system and ali
so train personnel for the
Municipality. He is hereon a
long term basis; his appoint-
ment is for two years.
Mr.. Winter made the trip at
this time to implement anr en-
force he new hospital fee bill,
Mr.. Shulterbrandt said.
Mrs. Winter and two Of their
three children have taken up
residence with Mr., Winter in
the Virgin Islands, Page is is;
a daughter, Joan, is IS. An old
er son, Eric, is at the Univer-
sity of Maryland. During vaca
tions he travels around the
world entertaining at the U.
S. Airforce bases as a profess
sional juggler.
, 1953-09-03
Irfnnt Playground
Oficidllv Opened;
Benjumin il. is King

The Infant Playground was
officially opened at the Health
Center in Christiansted yes
terday afternoon with appro-
PIRATE ceremonies. The vim
ner, little Heartsille Benjamin
junior, was crowned king
BENJAMIN Of 1853" by DR.. D.
c. Canegata. Runner-up in the
contest was little Linda Encar
nscion.
Among the special guests
speakers were; DR.. Melvin
Fuans. Dr. calaada and DR..
Warren Smith. Special guests
from ST. Thomas included
Miss Ianthe Blyden and Mrs.
GWendolyn Knight.
Mrs. Dorothy Watts, Direc-
tor, thanked everyone for
their aid in making the pro-
gram a success. She apologize
ed for possibly overlooking
the names of many who help
, 1953-09-03

industrial loan department for
get all equipment installed g
small business.
Nh. Crawford also points
out that the Bank will finance
Bills Of Lading and warehouse
receipts, accept commercial
drafts on all parts Of the
world; and deal in foreign and
domestic exchange.
The Bank will make avail
able safety deposit boxes in a
modern and up-to-date vault
and will provide facilities for
safe-keeping Of iewelry, secur-
tiles and family treasures.
Mr.. Crawford also states
that the Bank will act as es-
crowee, and as trustees, exc
cutor and administrator for es
tates; and offer Confidential
counsel and sduice on al
kinds of investments by per-
Continued on page 4
, 1953-09-03
Fred [. Crawford Elected President Of
New West Indies Bank & Trust Company
TO BE ESTABLISHED IN ccsTED 3 FssTED

At a Board of Directors meeting of the West Indies Bank
& Trust Company, Fred 7. Crawford, formerly member Of
the United States House Of Representatives and ranking mem
Der Of the House Insular Affairs Committee, was elected
President Of the Bank. Ralph Paiewonsky was elected Vice
President and Joseph Alexander, Secretary-Ireasurer. Har-
~ Lewis Of Seattle was elected Chairman Of the<Board and
, 1953-09-03

ed in one way Or another.
The ward was filed to capa-
cit-, with mothers and their
little ones. Cocoput fronds, in
stalled by the inmates of the
Continued on Page ~
, 1953-09-03
Hurricane Dunger 10
Virgin Is. Posses
Weother Bureau SuYs

~
Hurricane warnings have
been ordered lowered in Qua
deloupe, Antigua and several
other islands in the Caribbean,
a midday report says. The
Weather Bureau also advises
that neither the Virgin Is
lands. Puerto Rico or the East
ern Caribbean islands are en-
dangered.
Reports from reconnaissance
aircraft this morning show
that the course Of the hurri-
cane Carroll, during the past
"a hours is more Northwestern
" than previously indicated.
AT IL noon, Atlantic Standard
time, the center was located
st approximately 1877 degrees
North Latitude and $50 de-
grees west Longitude or 24O
miles northeast of Antigua. It
is moving northward at q
speed of II miles per hour.
Highest winds are estimated
to be 1876 miles per hour, just
north of the center. Hurricane
winds probably extend out
ward so miles to the north q
80 to 40 miles to the south
and west Of the center.
The hurricane is expected
to continue n~orthwestward
during the next "A hours, but
at a slightly slower speed. It
will continue to increase in
size and intensity.
Hurricane Carroll" whose
center is now about 500 miles
east northeast of San Juan,
Puerto Rico, is no longer in
any danger to the Virgin Is
lands, Puerto Rico or any is
land in the eastern Caribbean,
the Weather Bureau advises.
It's center is expected to pass
about 200 miles north north
east of Avocado early Friday
morning and will reach $50
miles north of San Juan at
noon Friday.
, 1953-09-03

NAAO OAAASNN 0SOsSN0 AOO t
Der Of the House Insular Aft
President of the Bank. Ralph
President and Joseph Alexano
~ Lewis Of Seattle was electe
Irwin Silverman, formerly
Chief Counsel Of the Office Of
Territories was elected Gem
eral Counsel.
The West Indies Bank &
Trust Company was recently
authorized BY the Virgin Is
hands Banking Board to en-
gage in a general commercial
banking and trust business.
Since that time Mr.. Craw
ford reports all of the furni-
ture, accounting machinery
and banking room equipment
and supplies have been pur-.
chased; and shipments are
now in transit to ST. Thomas
The premises where the Bank
is to be located, the former
US.O. Building opposite the
Post Office in st. Thomas, is
now being made ready for the
bank to do business in St.
Thomas within 4 few weeks.
Plans are under way for
branches to be opened in both
Christfansted and Frederik
gted as soon as possible.
The hank will carry on a
general banking and trust
business, Mr.. Crawford re-
rorts and points out that the
Bank will engage in all bank
ing services to assist the peo-
pie Of the Virgin Islands in
fheir financial matters. The
Pank will make real estate,
personal property, and secur-
itv loans and also FILA. in
sured loans. The Rank will, of
course make commercial loans
on Bills of Lading and Ware
h-uee ReeeintS. It is the opin-
- IF Mr.. Crawford that the
Fenk con render a service to-
80 reoI neople of the Virgin
LANDS through setting up an
Evening star., 1953-09-27

seems to hang suspended
among the trees of Arlington
Cemetery, will be interested
in this story Of it's mistress
Mary Custis Lee, the wife of
Robert E. Lee.
In a deeply convincing rem
dering of history into fiction,
Kane succeeds into bringing
to life the warm-hearted,
motherly Mary Custis Lee, as
well as the sometimes austere
Robert E. Lee. Mary Gusts,
descendant of Martha Wash
ington and heiresS of the Ar
lington estate on the Potomac
River, had faith in Robert
Lee even as a young man,
when her family believed he
had no future or prospects
and tried to discourage the
match.
Although all her life she
fought a serious rheumatic
condition that kept her almost
Evening star., 1953-09-27

ground intimately, has writ
ten the complete and objec-
tive biography which has been
awaited. The book is we'll or
ganized, deeply interesting and
infused with sound critical
judgments.
Beeon as Schoolgirl -
Miss Mansfield, born Kath-
leen Beauchamp, began writing
as schoolgirl, but her early
stories lacked the originality
she later developed. We fol-
low her New Zealand child
hood, her college days in Lon
don and her return to England
later Ito experience life" Her
youthful years in a London lit
erary environment were, to
put it discreetly, unconven-
tional. Her first husband,
George Bowden, whom she
married on some sort of un-
explained impulse, and left at
once, Is allowed his day in
court. He explains his ap-
parently innocent part in the
marital fiasco. And for the
first time Mr.. Alpers describes
fully the many years of de-
voted friendship between Miss
Mansfield and Miss Ida Baker,
the 81. NJ" of the writer's
journal and letters.
&C. B. ].
Evening star., 1953-09-27


Madrid. 1t might as well be
the Madrid of today, although
the story (if it could be called
a story actually occurs 10
years ago. It is during the
World War, when Spain was
more or less neutral and the
pro-German sentiment of the
government was reflected in
comments of the unthinking
conformists.
Not Concerned With War
But the people Celia depicts
are not much concerned with
the war. Most of them are
desperately concerned with
trying to gather in enough
pesetas to pay their bills or
even to get one more meal.
THE Hive" is a series of
vignetteS. flashing from one
place to another. from one
character to another. in the
great average, bourgeois seq
ment of Madrid. Dena Rosa's
cafe is a sort of central rem
devious where many of the
persons under dissection come
from time to time, some of
them barely able to afford a
coffee. Dona Rosa is middle
aged and mean. The walters
hate her.
Many of the characters keep
appearing. If there is a "hero,"
it is Martin Marco, a young
man, something Of an intel
lectual. He is hungry most Of
the time, has no job and no
money except what he can
cage from his sister when the
brother-in-law he despises is
not around or from any friend.
Vivid and Urgent
The cast includes a poet. a
musician, a printer, several
prostitutes, bootblack and an
assortment of small business
men and housewives. The en-
tire narrative is told in the
present tense except for fash
backs. The writing is vivid and
urgent, often highly colloquial.
Some of the incidents are
static, mere conversations or
passing glimpses; others are
developed-there is even a
murder. There is much that
is Sordid in the way these peo-
pie live and the outlook on life
that has been forced on them.
Much of this is economic.
the struggle to exist.
1t is hard to keep track of so
many characters, appearing
from time to time so briefly.
And yet the net impression Of
the forlorn panorama is de-
pressingly clear.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Katherine Mansfield: A Biography
By Antony Alpers. (Knopt; $5J

by A11tOA1y AAPCAo' NAA"NFJ'
AS Mr.. Alpers points out,
when Katherine Mansf1eld's
first mature book of short
stories appeared in England in
1920, the short story had
virtually no status as literary
form in English writing" Saki
was prematurely dead, Kip
ling's creative fires had faded,
Somerset Vaughan was still
writing only novels and plays.
There existed no English
writer Of any stature who used
the form as a principal means
Of expression"
The Beginners Medium
It had been a form Of enter
tainment, Mr.. Alpers adds,
made literature sometimes by
unconscious art. "Or, like wa
ter-color painting, it was mis-
takenly regarded as the begin
ner's medium" In the sense
the Russians and Maupassant
had developed 1t, it was un-
known in English letters. In
the 35 years she was allowed
before tuberculosis ended her
life, Miss Mansfield did much
to advance the art of the short
story. She was one of it's
finest modern practitioners.
A number of biographical
and critical studies have been
published since her death. Her
husband, John Middleton
Murry, the editor and critic,
has done much to increase in
terest in her work with the
publication of posthumous
stories, Miss Manfleld's journal
and letters and his own auto
biography, Between Two
Worlds" But Mr.. Alpers, a
fellow New Zealander, who
knows Miss Manfield's back
Evening star., 1953-09-27

The American way of life
is clearly the best way of life
and it's about time the lesser
nations conceded that fact
and followed our examples.
Mr.. Menen, however, tells us
in his small, witty book why
the world is paying no atten-
ton: The lesser nations all
are too busy contemplating
their own virtues and offering
their own way of life to the
barbaric foreigners.
Mr.. Menen'S thesis is this:
Each national group believes
its own particular standards
and customs. which flow from
its superior national spirit, are
the best in the world-are, in
fact, the only reasonable
standards and customs.
This, of course, goes a long
way in explaining why the
United Nations can't get past
first base.
Mr.. Menen writes from a
singularly advantageous point
of view. His father was an
Indian, from India, that is.
and a member of a caste so
exclusive that ordinary In
Evening star., 1953-09-27

their associates are not con-
tent to take what is handed
them-they are bold oppor-
tunists. Simon becomes a rich
man. Augie tries a little of
everything, including a robbery
or two He slides out of his
Scrapes and stays mainly hon.
est, not because it matters to
him much but because he
doesn't want to go to prison.
Between adventures he gains
an education of a sort. We
follow his escapades and love
affairs into Mexico. through
the merchant marine and to
Europe.
Somehow the story hangs to-
gether, though it is always
threatening to collapse under
the weight of its heavy rhet-
oric. The method Is not real
Evening star., 1953-09-27

in short-which the British
people hold as ideals.
An authorized" biography
is a difficult task. Mr.. Nichol-
son presents a pleasing pic
ture of the King without be-
ing sycophantic. Any devi-
alton from the norm of the
previous decade the King re-
garded as affectation. Yet he
was not hostile to new ideas.
When his ministers took ad-
vantage of him, as they some
times did, he harbored no
grudge. When the Labor
Party first took Office he was
friendly and sympathetic to
Ramsay Macdonald. Mac
Donald became Prime Minister
on the 23d anniversary of
the death of Queen Victoria
Dear Grandmamma," in the
Kings diary. II wonder" he
wrote. what she would have
thought of a Labor govern
ment."
He recorded that the speech
with which he opened Parlia-
ment in 1924 was long, last
ing 20 minutes. "The crown
gave me an awful headache"
he wrote. II could not have
stood it much longer"
One wonders how the
youthful Elizabeth's head will
support that same crown.
Evening star., 1953-09-27

Spain's writer's seem to have
had little to say since the war.
This cannot be ascribed alto
gether to the Franco censor
ship, since many of these
authors are Self-exiled in
countries where they are not
inhibited. Perhaps this very
fact-that they have been out
of touch with Spain for years
has made them hesitate to
try to describe from hearsay
their country as it is today.
One of these emigre writer's,
Arturo Barea, who contributes
an Illuminating introduction to
this novel, did bring out re-
Gently from his refuge in Eng
land a vividly written novel of
contemporary Spain, based on
his knowledge of Spanish life
and the best information he
could get on conditions now.
It is remarkable evidence of
Barea's broad-minded love Of
literature that he, an anti
Franco refugee, pays glowing
tribute to Camilo Jose Celia,
who fought on the winning side
in the Spanish civil war and
lives in Spain.
ITO the best of my belief"
Barea writes, ''he (Cela) is
the only eminent writer to
emerge within Spain after the
civil war, and this book, The
Hive is the most important
novel, both as a work of art
and as a social document. so
far written behind the invisible
wall that still insulates the
country"
Could Not Be Published
Barea adds that written is
the exact word, since The
Hive" could not be published
in Spain. Cela himself eX-
plains on the dust jacket of the
Argentine edition: MY novel
sets out to be no more-yet no
less either-than a slice of life
told step by step. without reti-
cences, without external trage-
dies, without charity, exactly
as life itself rambles on"
Since The Hive" is not a
political novel and it does not
contain, except by occasional
implication, any criticism of
the ruling government, why
was it suppressed, or at least
not published, in Spain? e.
an attentive reader will soon
realize why" Barea comments.
Apparently it is because the
novel adds up to a devastating
picture of Illustration, futility
and loss of human dignity in
Evening star., 1953-09-27
King George, His Life and Reign
BY Harold Nicholson. Doubleday; $780,
Reviewed by Francis P DouqIos

Early in the reign of King
George v wagS enjoyed repeat
ing line about King George
the Fifth and Queen Mary
the Four-fifths. It was for
gotten at the time of his
death after a reign of 26 years,
and justly so.
The reader will probably
have recently crowned Queen
Elizabeth II in mind much of
the time while going through
this book about her grand
father. He will be reminded
that George v traced his de-
scent from Egbert, who as
cended the throne of Wes-
sex in 300. The monarcy is
the most ancient of British
institutions, older than the law
courts and Parliament.
Left Throne Secure
King George v may have
seemed a colorless figure after
the glitter of Edward VII.
But when he died he left the
monarcy more secure than it
had ever, been, and that in a
troubled time whien saw the
end of other thrones of
Europe. The King, as Mr..
Nicholson points out, exempli-
fed those qualities of devotion
to duty, common sense. honor,
courage, tolerance-decency,
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Reading and Writing
What the British Reader Thinks
Of Some Of Our Current Books
Ry Marx McGrory

darling in English literary cir
cies. Upon reading a derisive
review of "The Echoing Grove"
Poet Stephen Spender, CO.
founder of a new magazine,
Encounter. is supposed to
have said. what! Rude to
ROE. what's the world coming
to?"
On one matter, at least, the
British press from extreme
right to extreme left, is in ac-
cord, and that is the menace of
Mccarthy. I was told he is a
symbol of everything that
Europe dislikes about America.
Some Englishmen will go on to
tell you withsa self-righteous
air calculated to nettle the
Senator's Severest critics, that
his like could never be in Brit
ain. OF all the British intelli-
gentsia. Rebecca West has
stood virtually alone in refus-
ing to cry havoc over McCar-
thy.
Grohom Green Debote
Another controversial British
author, Graham Greene, au-
thor of The Heart of the Mat
ter" and other soaring studies
OF adultery, guilt and suicide,
has gone off to Kenya, leaving
Londoners to debate far into
the night the meaning of his
new play. "The Living Room"
is a drama of illicit love against
a Catholic background, with
two old ladies of Arsenic and
Old Lace" tradition lending an
eerie note to the grim but very
gripping proceedings.
London'S most discussed au-
thor this year has been one
whom London rarely sees. She
is H. F. M. Prescott, whose
"The Man on a Donkey" en-
joyed a critical and popular
acclaim rarely accorded so
long a novel on so difficult
theme as the Reformation.
Publication of the book, a mar
velously rich and varied tapes
try of Tudor England, was re-
garded as a daring venture,
since due to it's length, it had
to be published in two volumes,
at an unprecedentedly high cost
of $3.75 for the pair. At least
a dozen London publishers had
turned it down, when Frank
Morley, brother of Christopher
and editor of Eyre and Spottis-
wood. decided to take a chance.
The first printing of $500
sold out almost Immediately
last year. In order to play
fair with those who had paid
so high price for the novel
(about $3.50 is the top for
f1cation in England, the pub
fishers held off for a year with
a popular-priced one-volume
edition, which has recently
come off the presses and is
selling at a rate of 400 copies
a week. Every one seems de-
lighted that virtue in both
authorship and publishing has
been so we'll rewarded.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
The Adventures of Augie March

istic or naturalistic. which Is
a relief. On the other hand,
much of the story is not plau-
,S1ble. Probably it is the obvious
gusto with which Mr.. Below
wrote it that makes 1t readable.
There is no plan or purpose
In Augie's life.
He is always falling in and
out of love and he attracts
women. He shows a streak of
nobility now and then. At
other times he is completely
selfish. 1t is hard to get a
clear picture of this young
man despite all the words he
writes about himself.
Most of the characters are
Jewish, sons and daughters
of immigrants from Poland or
Russia. But anti-Semitism is
ignored. The people Mr.. Bel
low depicts are tough and
reSolute, never swerved to
anger or self-pity by such
bigotry. The minor charac-
ters are described at such
length that the main narra-
tive often comes to a stop.
Resembling phrases stir on
nearly every page; there are
few quiet passages. It's
as if whole symphony were
written fortissimo.
"The Adventures of Augie
March" has had quite a build
up and some critics are going
overheard with their praise.
The book, with it's rabelaisan
comic touches. is enjoyable, to
an extent. but it is, in my
opinion, far from a MASTER
piece. C. B. ].