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Evening star., 1959-12-09
Bill to Curb Obscenity
In Virginia Is Drofted

Arlington Delegate Harrison
Mann will propose legislation
next month to suppress produc-
ton and distribution Of obscene
material in Virginia.
Mr.. Mann said today his
General Assembly bill will at
tempt to define obscenity in a
manner acceptable to the courts
and at the same time try to
close legal escapes used by cir
culators of pornography.
1t will consider any material
whose dominant appeal to pru-
rient interest.
Evening star., 1959-12-09

The propose legislation
would make any composition,
distribution. or exhibition Of
obscenitv misdemeanor.
1t also would apply to lewd
recordings and to those who
rent space for display of OBJ
scenity.
Evening star., 1959-12-09
F Foirfox Asks Loudoun
For Joint Sewer Talks

Fairfax County today asked
Loudoun County for a joint
meeting to solve their mutual
sewer problems over the Dulles
International Airport at Chan
tilly, Va.
Supervisor William H. Moss
suggested that Fairfax and
Loudoun weld" their indi-
yidual sewer plans to "solve
all our problems" Supervisor
Anne wilkins suggested that
the meeting be held as soon
as possible.
$50 Million Plan
Fairfax County last week
recommended a $40 million
sewer plan to serve a large
area of Fairfax County and
part of Loudoun and dump the
effluence into Belmont Bay
far below the Districts water
supply intake.
Loudoun on Monday received
q consultant's report recon-
mending temporary sewage
treatment plans on six tribu-
taries of the Potomac. Fairfax
for some time has hoped fol
q plan that would avoid dump
Evening star., 1959-12-09
Language Study Urged
During School Hours

The foreign language program in Montgomery County
elementary schools has attracted favorable
than other but 500 parents have written letters requesting
that classes be held during rather than after school hours
Mrs Rose c. Kramer president of the Board of Education
said her large pile Of eoespondence FILES nearly
Evening star., 1959-12-09
Felony Clause Weighed

In Virginia, a misdemeanor is
punishable by maximum term
Of one year and a $1,000 fine
Mr.. Mann said he is also con-
sidering suggesting a clause
which would make a second
offense against the obscenity
law a felony.
I'VE must walk a tightrope
between constitutional guaran-
tees of free speech and effec-
tive suppression of filth" Mr.
Mann said.
Evening star., 1959-12-09
Five Flee as Predown Fire Hits
Store and Residence in Southeast

sleeping in a firSt-floor room Of
the residence when she smelled
smoke. She told flremen there
was a muff1ed explosion and
flames flared in her face when
she tried to find the source OF
the fire. The explosion was be-
lieved to have come from a can
of paint cleaner.
Navy Chief Petty Ofhcer Bob
Brown, IS, who occupied a
second-floor apartment over
the G street wing of the house,
smelled the smoke and made
his escape by climbing out a
window to a roof and then
dropping to the ground. In
another apartment, Mrs. Jo-
seph Handley, 46, walked out TO
safety after a fireman kicked
in the door.
StreetcarS Delayed
Mr.. Gritz, Miss Smith and
Ray Albright, so, who occupies
a basement apartment, all
walked to safety out a back
door. Miss Smith ran a block
and a half to Engine Company
18 to report the fire, she said,
but firemen were already on
the way when she got there.
Scores Of streetcars in the
barn at Eighth and M streets
Sc. were delayed about an
hour by the complex of hoses
on their tracks.
Evening star., 1959-12-09

The blaze broke out about
.6:20 am. f1remen said, appar-
emily in the uniform and cloth
ing store operated at Eighth
and G streets Sc. for Al years
by Louis Gritz. A second alarm
was turned in 10 minutes later.
Evening star., 1959-12-09
Part Of Law Invalidated

The Virginia Supreme Court
has invalidated part of the ex-
listing State obscenity law be-
cause it defined lascivious ma
terial as that which would be
injurious to youth.
Evening star., 1959-12-09
Mumed Explosion

Great clouds of smoke swept
from the store to the rear of
the L-shaped building. Miss
Brenda Sue Smith, %, was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
American Women 7 ell
Of Russian Visit

RUSSIAN DUET by Willie
Snow Ethridge (Simon and
Schuster; $685. is the breezy,
entertaining story Of a
months visit in the Soviet
Union by two middle-aged
American women last year.
One, the author, is the wife
Of the Mark Ethridge, pub
Usher Of the Louisville Cour-
Ter Journal and Times. The
other, Mia Magidoff, is the
RuSsian-born and bred wife
OF Robert Magidoff, an
American newsman (AP-
NBC), who was accused by
the Stalinists as a spy in 1948
and given 48 hours to quit the
Soviet Union.
The reason for the ladies'
journey, which began when
they boarded the notorious
Polish liner Batory in Mont
real, was to find Nila's moth
er, sister and niece. Mia
had been afraid even to write
them since her husbands ex-
pulsion, but with the Khru-
shchev easement she was en-
couraged to take the bold
approach. Mrs. Ethridge, an
old friend, agreed to go along.
along.
Beyond the Mission
Let the reader put his
mind at ease. The author
does not dwell overly long on
the grim mission which, I'M
fortunately, ends disappoint-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27

U-boat commands later de-
feat was due to some .ortu-
nate shortsightedness on the
part Of Hitler. Goering and
other German leaders. de-
scribed here in detail.
This also is an exasperat-
ing book. Admiral Doenitz
liked Hitler's policies and
worried during the war only
about his tactics in some Of
Germany's aggressions. The
admiral bitterly details what
he believes were allies trans
gressions against interna-
tional law, but he has no
word of criticism for his own
country's policies-until after
the war.
Nazi Atrocities
Then, to his amazement.
he discovered the Nazis
had been committing some
atrocities"
What would he have done
II he had known? He makes
1t quite clear he would have
fought for Germany and
Hitler in exactly the same
way.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
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A NopoIeon Biography
Of Exceptional Merit

visitors who had come a
long way to visit him. He was
always kind to the children
living on the island and en-
joyed playing with them.
When Sir Hudson Lowe,
Governor of st. Helena-cor-
daily detested by Napoleon
heard that some British
soldiers, seeing him suddenly
for the first time as he rode
by on horseback. instinctively
fell into line and stood at
attention, the British official
ordered that thereafter any
soldier who saluted Napoleon
should be flogged.
Modern medical opinion.
as Mr.. Korngold points out,
does not incline to the theory
accepted at the time that
Napoleon died of cancer, but
thinks that a perforated
ulcer killed him.
Mr.. Korngold'S story is
vivid and divertingly cpl
sodic. &C. B. j.
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Rights Of the Innocent

member to be listed as re-
porter photographer. In
telling his own story, he puts
aside his camera and proves
again he is a fine picture
taker with words as well.
Mr.. Phillips believes in be-
ing different, which got him
his job with Life. The maya
zine asked him to photograph
the first land LAST opening
of Parliament by Edward
VIII, so he took pictures only
of the backs Of spectators,
getting every variety :.
from the stiff ramrod Of
army types to the painful
stoop of old age" He became
a Life regular" at once.
Fresh Views
Because he looks for the
different approach. his
readers are treated to some
fresh views of some old head
liners, from Egypt's Farouk
to Russians Khrushchev,
whom Mr.. Phillips remem-
bers most wildly being car
ried, feet swinging. by aides
from a party in Yugoslavia
where vodka was served.
"A. L. SINGLETON.
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TweIve-Mon Tribute
To Walter Lippmonn

the years, of course, despite
his beautifully simple style
and the responsiveness of his
logic, events have frequently
demolished his arguments.
Indeed, as James Reston
writes in the concluding
chapter. there are more than
a few people - especially
those who must endure the
din and dust of the arena
in graphing directly with
the problems Of our time
who complain that Mr.. Lipp-
mann is just a bit too
Olympian and "often clearer
than the truth" Even so,
to quote Mr.. Reston again,
he has given the present
generation Of mature news
papermen a wider vision Of
their duty. He has shown
them "how to put the event
of the day in its proper re-
lationship to the history Of
yesterday and the dream of
tomorrow"
This constitutes a contri-
button Of more than a little
importance, and the book
edited by Mr.. Reston and
Marquis Childs is a fitting
recognition Of it. More than
that. 1t is a book interesting
enough, and at times even
fascinating enough, to ap-
peal to the general reader as
well as to members of the
newspaper fraternity, which
has been enriched by Mr..
Lippmann's presence in it.
WILLIAM H. HARRISON
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WALTER LIPPMANN AND

WALTER LIPPMANN AND
HIS TIMES. Edited by
Marquis Childs and James
Reston (Harcourt. Brace:
1885,.
Here we have a sort Of H.
man birthday salute-under-
standably admiring but not
uncritical-to one Of the
giants Of American journal
ism. Just turned 10. Walter
Lippmann has long since
achieved the status of an in
stitution in that sense.
Wholly apart from his work
decades ago on the New Re-
public and the old New York
World, and wholly apart
from his impressive BOOKS on
political philosophy. he is
celebrated primarily for his
widely syndicated newspaper
column, which he now writes
only twice a week and which
he regards simply as "a
signed editorial"
The words and phrases
most often used by the IL
authors Of this tribute in
clude urbane, lucidity. de-
tachment, grace Of language
and discipline of mind. These
we'll become the man, for he
has been singularly temper
ate in drearily Incorporate
times, and the clarity he has
brought to bear on great and
complicated issues has con-
tributed UNNECESSARILY to
public enlightenment. Over
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
KARL DoENITZ'S OWN STORY
HitIer's Successor
Writes His Memoirs

MEMOIRS: TEN YEARS
AND TWENTY DAYS. BY
Admiral Karl Doenitz.
(World Publishing: $6)
During World War" II. Ad-
miral Doenitz' submarines
sank 2.759 allied merchant
ships and seriously threat
ened to bring Britain to her
knees. Later. when the al
lies did in fact bring Ger
many to her knees, it was
Admiral Doenitz who took
over from the dead Hitler
and. as head Of the govern
ment. surrendered to the
allies.
There are few wartime
leaders in as good a position
as Admiral Doenitz to write
q valuable and interesting
volume Of memoirs. This Is
exactly what he has done.
Submarine Warfare
The story OF his tiny band
Of submariners fighting
against the great British
Navy is well told. Much Of
the early success depended
upon the admiral's innova-
tons In tactics. Much of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
PAPER BACKS

AND SAVE THEM FOR
PALLBEARERS. BY James
Garrett. (Bantam: 50c.) A
bawdy war novel based on
the World II allied inva-
sion Of Europe. First pub
lished in 1858.
AROUND THE WORLD
WITH AUNTIE NAME.
BY Patrick Dennis. (Sig-
net; 50c.) The second
novel about the aunt who
has the mostest, even in
Paris.
THE BLUE ANGEL. BY
Heinrich Mann. (Signet;
&c., About a high school
teacher who falls victim to
the charms Of a cabaret
singer.
ENTRY E. BY Richard Frede.
(Signet; 35cJ What hap
pens during a college foot
ball week end among 1.-The
Indifferent generation"
First published by Ran
dom House in 1858.
FRESH WATER FISHING.
BY Arthur H. Carhart.
Dell; 35c.) A basic book
for every angler. Illustrated.
THE 9Th DAY OF THE
WEEK. BY Marek Hlasko.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

ming was not so sure his
wife believed him.
Finally, after another
tragedy overwhelmed the
Channings, the charge was
withdrawn and Mark re-
turned to his laboratory. But
he couldn't stay long. The
town had become impossible
for him and for his attractive
young wife.
There are many other
characters, but these are the
most important.
Undeserved Misery
The young clergyman's in
volvement with the Chan
nings in their transition
from a delight in life to un-
deserved misery was inevita-
BILE. So was he enmashed in
jealousies and hatreds which
motivated other members Of
his parish and sometimes
affected the Channings.
There were people who
hate Charming because he
was a scientist, because he
was suspected of consorting
with Negroes, because, re-
ports said, his wife was once
a radical. Some of the town
would never believe the SCI
enlist was innocent Of that
charge. The young clergy
man. because of his close
friendship with the couple.
also was suspect in some
quarters.
The racists and bigots al
ways are in the background.
but they are touched with
subtlety, felt rather than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
ONE HOUR. BY Lilliar

ONE HOUR. BY Lillian
Smith. (Harcourt, Brace;
So
This. Lillian Smiths first
book of fiction since Strange
Fruit" is a novel Of strange
and haunting power.
1t achieves its effects de-
spite its great length, which
often dilutes its inner dramas
with wordineSS.
1t was all the more diff
cult for Miss Smith to sus-
tain her mood, as she has
done, since it is a first-per-
son story, thus confined to
a single point of view. The
narrator is David Landrum,
young rector Of an Episcopal
church in a Southern city.
He is looking back on a series
Of fateful events which &C.
CURED two years before.
Became a Priest
The Rev. Dave Landrum
was a college football star,
already. though, looking to-
ward the ministry. In the
war he lost a leg. He COM
pleted his studies for the
priesthood, warped by his en-
forced inactivity but trying
to reconcile his dreams with
his handicap.
Father Landrum, to his
parishners, still Dave TO his
intimates, he was magnetic.
informal, broadminded. His
closest friends were Grace
and Mark Claiming. The
husband was a research SCI
enlist. hard at work on
cancer.
One day the rector learned
that Susan, 9-year = old
daughter of another vestry-
man, had accused DR.. Chan
ming of confronting her in a
vacant building and molest-
ing her. Susan's parents, the
Newells, after fumbling
around some days, swore out
a warrant for Charming.
Father Dave" was so sure
Claiming was innocent that
he tried earnestly to get the
child's father to withdraw
the charge. But Claiming.
after first denying that he
was in the building, finally
admitted to his wife and
to Dave that he was. The
scientist still denied he had
frightened the little girl or
bothered her in any way. His
pastor believed him and some
how we feel from the first
that he was innocent. Chan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27

ingly. In fact, the two ladies
have one helluva gay time.
They dance with more
strange men than you can
shake a stick at, from Lenin-
grad to Yalta, and while
Nila's background produces
some frights, the delights
far and away outnumber
them.
For the many maidens, old
and young, in Washington
land elsewhere, Mrs. Eth
ridge has this encouraging
report:
Really. Russia is the fin
est country I've ever been in
to get acquainted with
strange men. ! can't see
one good reason why all old
maids who want to get mar
ried, widows and other lonely
hearts don't put it at the very
top Of their where-to-travel
list"
Interesting Comparisons
Russian Duet" happily,
does not engage in heavy po-
litical debate, like so many
books on the USSR. 1t records
observations, both devastating
and delicious, on the Rus
SLAMS, their customs. the way
they live, eat. work and play.
Mia contributes some inter-
eSting comparisons between
the Stain days of 1948 and
the Khrushchev era.
Il. EDGAR PRINA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
Novel by Author Of Strange Fruit
Has Stronge and Haunting Power

seen until the dramatic final
chapter,
The characters all come to
life. Some are brought back
into the story after a long
interval with merely a first
name, which may confuse
some readers-I wasn't al
ways certain Of their identity.
From the Past
The Rev. Dave, probing
mercileSsly into the years
just past, dredges UP an cpl
sode in which he was more
man than priest. But still,
I think. you feel sympathetic
for him in his failings.
There are many long pass
ages in which he explores his
mental state at various times
with Dostoevskian thorough
ness. The dramatic effects, I
think, would have been
heightened if these cerebral
wanderings had been short
ened.
Nevertheless the novelist
succeeded in her primary
purpose, to create a memoir
able character in the young
rector and to depict vividly
those others who affected his
life profoundly or lightly. all
in some degree.
Since Strange Fruit"
came out more than two dec
AIDES ago Miss Smith has
published a number Of nom
fiction books. notably KILLERS
Of the Dream" her summary
of the South today, and THE
Journey"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
Howard Fast
Novel Proves
ATruIy'F Fast Job
THE WINSTON AFFAIR. BY
Howard Fast. Grown Pub.
fishers; $3.50.)

IHE WlNSTON AFFAIR. BY
Howard Fast. Grown Pub.
fishers; $500
Howard Fast, the darling
Of the Communist Party lit
erati until he broke with them
a couple years ago. is a skilled
and successful writer. Though
not a novelist of the first
order, he is rated a good one.
His latest effort, THE
WINSTON AFFAIR, does
little to enhance his literary
reputation. The book con-
Germs an American Army
court-martial in the China
Burma India theater during
World War II. An American
lieutenant murders a British
sergeant and admits it. Re-
lations between the allies, all
ready strained by lesser Incl
dents, worsen.
Obvious Outcome
What might have been a
dramatic courtroom battle
becomes ho-hum because the
outcome is so obvious, so soon.
The reader is assured early in
the game that the lieutenant
is completely off his rocker, q
psychotic paranoiac who
could hardly be held legally
responsible for his brutal out
burst.
Mr.. Fast seems to have been
in a tremendous hurry with
THE Winston Affair" With
the exception of Captain
Adams, the characters are in
adequately drawn. The book
is scarcely 200 small un-
crowded pages long and
would have been even shorter
if the author did not initiate
it with the clumsy introduce
ton of a love affair between
Hero Barney and an Army
nurse. Il. E. P.
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AttentiOn-Getter
FICTION

THE OIL PATCH. BY Peggy
Simson Curry. (McGraw-
Hill; $4.750 Portrait Of a
desolate Western oil town,
by the author of Fire in
the Water"
THE WITCH DOOR. BY
Elizabeth Ogilvie. INC
Graw-Hill; $4.500 A long
lost husband suddenly re-
turns to his Maine coast
home. BY the author Of
my World Is an Island"
HISTORY 6 BIOGRAPHY
DAVID LLOYD: COLONIAL
LAWMAKER. BY Roy N.
Lokken. university Of
Washington; So An early
18th century Pennsylvania
provincial leader who OPP
posed the William Penn
proprietary regime.
LAST OF THE FORTY
RISE DRIVERS. BY
Jake PoSey. vantage;
$2.95.) The world cham
pion 40-horse team driver.
tells his own story of the
glorious years of the cir
Gus and Buffalo Bills Wild
West Show.
MAKE THE WAY KNOWN.
BY Katherine Burton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27

THE LAST YEARS OF Ma
POLEON, by Ralph Korngold
(Harcourt, Brace; $6.75
seems, to one who does not
pretend to be an expert on
Napoleonic photography, the
most complete account of the
great soldiers last days yet
published.
Despite the immense
amount written about Napo-
leon, including records Of his
final captivity on st. Hell
ena. Mr.. Korngold appears
to have extended his research
to include every pertinent
fact about this coda to an
amazing life.
In the large outdoor prison
In which he had considerable
freedom but knew he could
never escape. Napoleon was
much as he had always been
gracious, amusing, ill-tem-
pered, capricious. As the
mood held him. He often re-
fused to see distinguished
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
What Become of
Southern Leaders
After the War
SOUTH OF APPOMATTOX

OOOAh Vt AETOMA 1OA
by Nash K. Burger and
John K. Bettersworth.
(Harcourt. Brace; $5.750
When the guns fell silent
at Appomattox that drizzly
Sunday morning in 1865, q
great army dispersed in the
gloom of defeat. Only a few
days later the fleeing REM
nants Of the Confederate
government, already a ghost
without a closet, disinte-
grated despite the insistence
Of President Jefferson Davis
that somehow all was not yet
lost.
What became Of the leaders
Of the great rebellion whose
cause was lost? How did they
live out their lives under the
Government they had tried
so hard to destroy? Were
they embittered, resentful,
irreconcilable? Or did they
accept the verdict of history
and lend their prestige and
leadership in the South
toward restoring the Union?
In South of Appomat.
OK" two Mississippi = born
writer's recount the postwar
careers of Davis, Robert E.
Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Alexander Stephens. Wade
Hampton, Joseph E. john
stone, Lucius q. C. Lamar,
Matthew Maury, James Long,
street and John C. Brecken-
ridge. The paths Of these
Confederate political and mil.
itary leaders varied widely in
deed in their readjustment to
life under the flag they had
challenged.
Not surprisingly. the
authors treat their subjects
as great Southern Americans
who needed to be UNDER
stood, and who were mott.
waited by the Hottest of patri-
otism in waging war against
the Union. But the treatment
is not uncritical, and reveals
much insight into character
and personality against the
turbulent background of re-
construction and the shaping
of a new South.
FRED THEROUX
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Stan Writer

No one. we venture to say.
has made the transition from
stage to page more grace
fully than Peter UStinov.
The outrageously gifted &C
tor playwright producer
proves in ADD A DASH OF
PITY atlantic Little
Brown; $3.75) to be a first
class short story writer.
In this era Of Specialize
ton. we tend to forget that
one art can feed another.
Now Mr.. Ustinov shows to
us that the tricks Of the
theater serve a man wonder
fully well at the writing
table. For you're not much
good at either unless you
have a good ear. a gift for
mimicry and a fair for
catching attitudes.
Master Of Words
To write as well, of course.
you need to be able to use
words. Mr.. Ustinov, I am
happy to report. is a master.
He is a Story-teller in the
classic style. That is to say,
he doesn't believe a story
should be a wisp Of life but
rather a chunk of it. He in
cludes lots Of people. covers
whole lifetimes and ranges
from the frozen steppes Of
Russia in wartime to a grub
by little apartment in the
Czech colony in New York.
He is basically irreverent to-
wards institutions which
command the respect of the
less liberated: The govern
ment. the police, the bullflght.
Hollywood and history.
Mr.. Ustinov gets of to a
slow start with a somewhat
static study Of q hack Hun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-27
Assignment to Moscow
Leads to Revelations

Mif1in; $500, the writer tells
where the Mansfield assign
ment led him.
He was in the South Of
France when he got a sudden
notion to go to Moscow for a
big celebration the Soviet was
having. He managed to get
there Gust as a tourist) and
to interview Khrushchev,
among other things.
At the moment, Khru-
shchev's words seem a thrice
told tale to US, and yet John
Cooley, as he sign himself
Cor Lord Kilbracken), is a ra-
contour who is always inter-
esting. &C. B. j.