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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
The Nays Worst
Peocetime Disaster

TRAGEDY AT HONDA, by
Vice Admiral Charles A.
Lockwood. USN, retired,
and Col. Hans Christian
Adamson. USAF. retired.
tChilton Co.; S4.95J
This is the story Of the
worst peacetime disaster ever
to befall the American Navy
the grounding of nine de-
Stroyers Of the Pacific Fleet
on the rocks Of Devils Jaw"
of Honda, Calf, on the night
of September 8, 1928.
1t is the tragic story Of
how the traditional destroyer
doctrine Of follow the leader
"a doctrine which imposes
supreme faith and response
bility on the squadron COM
mander-led most Of Desron
II. Battle Fleet. blindly to
destruction or damage that
Hateful. foggy night. Mirac-
ulously. only % men of the
800 in the crews of the
stricken four-StackerS were
lost. Seven destroyers were
sunk or hopelessly impaled
on the jagged jaws Of Honda;
two managed to back OF
without serious injury.
Vice Admiral Lockwood
and Col. Adamson have re-
counted the details OF the
disaster, ship by ship. Quot
ing records and interviews,
they have told how the
squadron commander, Capt.
Edward H. Watson, ignored
as unreliable" a radio
bearing showing him to be
north instead of south, of
Point Honda; how he ordered
his lead destroyer to change
course eastward into what he
thought was Santa Barbara
Channel; how the mistake
sent his ship, the Delphy, into
the rocks at a speed Of 20
knots, and how the Destroy
ers in line followed their lead
er to similar pileups.
Especially interesting and
enlightening, if somewhat
confusing. are the chapters on
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now fulfilling a second term
as consultant in poetry at
the Library Of Congress.
A Varied Background
But the institutional strait
jacket, that has betrayed
several Of his confreres into
the paralysis of maximum
security. is hardly likely to
restrain a man who could
sweat his way around the
world on a tramp steamer. or
serve the wartime Navy as an
aircraft gunnery instructor.
or succeed as vice president
Of q large industrial concern.
In scope and dynamic in
tensity Mr.. Eberhart's poetry
manifests this enormous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
Just Think Of Being
Drowned in Fudoe!

sation Of being drowned in
fudge.
The heroine, Alexandra, is
q dear little orphan with
wide-set eyes and q cleft
chin. She is q secret poetry
writer. We are not privileged
to read her illusions; we do
know that one of them is
entitled 20, Paradise!"
Under the urging Of Kate,
her crusty tongued old
family retainer. Alexandra, is
considering the proposal of
her worthy sutton. Harry. But
at q critical moment, he
turns out to be coarse
minded. When Alexandra
begins to conflde her clam
destine rendezvous with the
Muse. gross Harry concludes
she is about to confess her
Past. With the concurrence
Of eavesdropping Katie, our
heroine sends him packing.
What then, for our orphan?
Should it be the companion
Of her picnics. But no. She
tremblingly dispatches her
little arrow into the air, and
her manuscripts strike the
heart Of q friend in q pub
fishing house. From there,
every phrase, every turn of
plot Is as practicable as O
campaign speech.
II you care. the title de-
rives from a toy nightingale
which sings with unearthly
beauty and is the symbol of
romance.
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
PROHIBITION AFTERMATH
Dry Era Crime
Still Lives On

to get them to trial and spare
the lives Of witnesses. It would
have been a neat trick. had 1t
worked. But, he reports, 90
per cent Of the other city and
county judges were either un-
sympathetic or actively OPP
posed to what he was doing.
Some Of the judges, he al
leges. had allowed themselves
to become obligated to the
gangs. So. when he set the
bonds. the gang mouth
pieces" simply went into an
other court and got the bonds
reduced. Frequent result:
Murder.
OfRclal Honesty
a more successful legal de-
vice was Judge Lyle's use of
an old vagrancy statute: The
mobsters were put in the po-
sition of either going to Jail
for lack Of a visible means of
support or getting into more
trouble by admitting they had
money through illegal means.
Even Capone fed Chicago
during that drive.
Judge Lyle demonstrates
repeatedly that an honest po-
lice force. honest officials who
resist gangster financial sup
port and an aroused citizenry
can clean UP q city. a State
or a country. Most of his
book focuses on what hap
pens when that combination
Is not in effect.
He resists preaching. In
stead, he draws back the cur
tain on organized crime as it
really was and is. Across his
pages stalk the murderers and
their victims. but his book is
so readable that you feel as
II you're sitting in his living
room listening to the remi-
niscences. And you expect any
moment that the doorbell will
ring to herald the whispered
condolences Of an honest po-
liceman or a frightened VIC
tim.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
HISTORY AND
BIOGRAPHY

THE JOURNALS AND MIS-
CELLANEOUS NOTE
BOOKS OF RALPH
WALDO EMERSON. (The
Belknap Press of the Har-
ward University Press; 500
The journals and note
books of Emerson have never
been published in their en-
tirety. This is the first of a
projected 16-volums edition
which will include everything.
In a preface to this volume
the editors hint at many frank
and earthly comments which
previous editors have sup
pressed as unworthy of mfr.
Emerson" This volume,
ending when the writer was
only 10, shows excisions of a
schoolboy nature. The best
is to come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
The Passionate Spectator:
Richord Eberhort's Poetry
COLLECTED POEMS. II

COLLECTED POEMS, 1885,
1860. BY Richard Eber-
hart. (Oxford University
Press; So
The publication between
covers Of Richard Eberhart's
most estimable work Of the
last 80 years is q momentous
occasion in American letters.
Only recently he has been
ACCIDENTALLY celebrated and
has otherwise been accorded
an impressive array of in
stitutional honors. The prizes
awarded him during the last
10 years, and steadily grow
ing transatlantic critical
acclaim, further attest to his
status as a poet. The present
collection is more, than a
retrospective tribute, how
ever. for the 50-odd new
poems included demonstrate
Mr.. Eberhart, at the height
Of his powers, to be vital.
vivid, and emulous Of his
past attainmentS. This vol
ume will commend him to
. still wider public, for
the seven earlier books are
inaccessible.
There Is nothing in Mr..
Eberhart's verse suggestive
Of the academy, although
after taking degrees from
Dartmouth, st. Johns Col
lege, Cambridge. and study
ing at Harvard, he tutored
the Prince Of Siam, taught
at st. Marks School, and
since has served az lecturer
In several colleges. He is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
When Lottery Betting
Was Legal in the u. S.

FORTUNES MERRY
WHEEL. BY John Samuel
Ezell. Harvard Univer-
sity Press; $6.75O
George Washington once
bought 20 lottery tickets at
s shillings apiece to help
Alexandria pave its streets.
Lotteries were legal and COM
monplace in the Colonial era.
The Continental Army was
partly financed by such
means.
John Samuel EzelI relates
these incidents in Fortunes
Merry Wheel" describing the
rise and fall of this type of
legalized betting. When from
tier conditions, existed, money
was scarce.
Thus the lottery became
the accepted means for rails
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
THE DRY AND LAWLEsS

THE DRY AND LAWLESS
YEARS. BY Judge John H.
Lyle. prentice Hall. Inc;
$3.50
Exactly So minutes after the
Eighteenth Amendment went
: into effect on the morning Of
January II, 1920, six masked
bandits looted two freight
cars and hauled away a load
Of whisky. It was the first
overt act of Prohibitions IA
bloody years. And it hap
pened in Chicago.
Thus, Judge Lyle of Chi
cago sets the stage for the
almost unbelievable-but true
saga of crime mixing with
politics and police corruption
in Chicago through the 2O's.
CapOne School Graduates
On the bench during the
years when murder was COM
monplace and no gangsters
went to- Jail. Judge Lyle
fought the mobs with every
tool at his command. This,
however. is not solely a story
OF those years because Judge
Lyle emphasizes repeatedly
that crime gains of the
bootleg era have been per.
mitted to carry over to the
present" and "a nation Of 100
million people has allowed a
handful Of rufiians four de-
cadeS Of freedom to loot the
national cash register" He
points out that a graduate of
the Capone school now reigns
as boss Of the Chicago under
world. that as recently as last
February a vigorous foe Of
racketeering in the Aim oper-
ators union was stabbed 10
death. that the sons Of Ca
pone mobsters are now syndi-
cate gambling bosses.
In his one-man war on
crime and corruption. Judge
Lyle began with setting
100000 bonds to keep gang
sters behind bars long enough
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23

the noncom were quite sue
cessful. and their reports
brought high praise in Lon
don.
Eventually, Cousin faced
what he had dreaded all his
life. the ultimate test Of o
mans courage. The hideout
from which he and the cor
poral directed operations was
raided by the Gestapo.
He Tells All
First the French corporal
was put to torture a white
hot poker applied to his feet
and Cousin, in the next
room. was terrified by the
mans screams. But the cor
poral refused to talk. hold
ing out until he tainted from
pain. Then the Germans
approached Cousin with the
poker. The moment he saw
it, Cousin agreed to tell
everything. and he did.
But later, Cousin, un-
Marked unhurt. managed to
escape, alone. Word trickled
back to England that the corr
poral had been killed-pre-
Sumably by the GeStapo.
Cousins ''heroism" was rec
ognized, though the astute
DR.. Fog had his doubts. The
strange part was b that
Cousins had persuaded him
self that 1t was he who had
stood up to the Gestapo.
When he was sent back to
France, with the corporal's
sister as his aide 49,.
Story Wins Praise
But 1t would be q literary
sacrilege to reveal more Of q
thrilling story. I've OUT
lined only q small part Of
Cousins adventures. He
could, it turned out. show
courage. but only when his
own reputation was at stake,
not when his words might
send hundreds Of his coun-
trymen to death or concen-
tration camp.
I heartily commend "A
Noble Profession" Pierre
Boulle is an aStute assessor
of character-and one Of the
best story-tellers alive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
The RISE AND FALL on

HE I6Ao6 fAkNU + fAAA vi
THE THIRD REICH: A
History Of Nazi Germany,
by william L. Shirer. ISL
mon and Schuster; 500
It was Goethe who said: II
have often felt q bitter sor-
row at the thought Of the
German people. which is so
estimable in the individual
and so wretched in the gen.
crafty"
So often, in reading this
excellent record Of Hitler's
IL years in power, the WON
der recurs, not that the Ger
man people turned to Hitler
in the early sos, but that
they continued to support
him even after his most mon
strous plans became evident.
Evil Genius
With the Weimar republic
collapsing, in the wake Of
wild imitation and economic
chaos, the people probably
would have turned to any
new leader who promised to
restore Germany to power
and glory. But as the decade
waned and a new war doomed
and the ruthlessness Of Hit
ler's enforcement squads be-
came obvious, there could
have been a revolt. But there
never was.
Mr.. Shirer who was a
correspondent in Germany
during most of Hitler's reign
and whose Berlin Diary" is
well remembered, was famil-
lar flrst-hand with most Of
the events. But as he ex-
plains, he could not have
written this 1,200-page his
tory without the immense
store of Nazi documents
which fell into Allied hands
when their armies thrust
into Germany in the spring
Of 1945. Nazi officials fed so
fast they didn't have time
to destroy these papers.
Mr.. Shirer does not hest
tate to call Hitler a genius,
If one Of the most evil
geniuses in all history.
Hitler's Obscure Beginning
The writer has recon-
structed all the story Of
Hitler's early life that could
Nbe dredged up. Never was a
man destined for colossal
power so obscure as was the
youth who, after failing in
high school. wandered about
Vienna for four years, work.
ing at odd jobs, living in
fiophouses, often eating at
soup kitchens. He wanted to
be an artist, but he was re-
fused admittance to the
Vienna Academy of Fine Arts
because his drawings were
too crude. He was never. as
legend has 1t, a house painter.
He did read, voraciously,
as a young man, but along
the special lines his warped
mind was following. especi-
ally German history and
mythology and anti Semitic
books. When the senile Hin
denburg made Hitler chan
cellor. the soon-to-be Fuehrer
already had resolved to
hound the Jews---a determi-
nation that resulted eventu-
ally in the ghastly attempt to
: "liQuidate" the Jews Of Eu-
rope. Adolf Hitler" Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
PoIitickino.
Down South
A STEP IN THE RIVER, by
Francis Irby Gwaltney.
CRandom House; $3.50

Random House; $3.50
Politics in an unnamed
Southern State much like
the authors home, Arkansas,
is the theme of this stirring
novel.
Mr.. Gwaltney, who has
proved his skill in four
previous novels, one Of them
an effective drama Of fight
ing in the Pacific, again ex-
amines the fast-changing
scene in the Deep South. The
new narrative is concerned
with three cousins, all in
volved in farming. cattle
raising and processing plants
on a large scale.
Governor Is Under Cloud
Calvin Hall, the narrator,
manages the immense farm
which his cousin, David
Wintersmith, owns. David
is rich from State contracts
which he has obtained by
owning" the three-time
Governor, a shady character
who is unopposed for the
Senate. The third cousin,
John Frank Miller, is. rum
ming for the vacant COVER
norship.
Calvin is a bystander po-
litically; his only contribu-
ton to John Franks cam
paign is to fly him all over
the State, John Frank Is
an adroit. cynical politician,
and the people of the cities
are more sophisticated these
days. less susceptible to racial
bigotry and Dixie-first APP
peals.
But the people of the hill
country remain much as they
were 100 years ago. One Of
them, Preacher Clutts, q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23

barely hterate demagogue. is
running against Cousin John
Frank and threatens to upset
him. Preacher Clutts,. who
has been bought into with
drawing from previous cam
paigns. does not even pre-
tend around the cousins to
be anything but the secretly
drinking, wenching fraud
he Is.
The story is over-seasoned
with sex and dominated by
sly, Shiny characters calvin
and the newspaper girl he
loves are about the only de-
cent ones), and yet 1t rings
true and is continually alb
sorbing. &C. B. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
STIRRING NEW NOVEL
Top StoryteIIer
Does q Thriller
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic

NOBLE PROFESSION, by Pierre BouIe translated from
the French by Kan Fielding Vanguard: $3.50
The author Of 1.-THE Bridge Over the River Kwai"
spectacular success as novel and play, offers
q psychological thriller.
While "A Noble Profession Is taut and swift any
mystery so-labeed story Of suspense added d.
menson novels of these categores lack presents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
THE NIGHTINGALE By

Agnes Sigh Turnbull
(Houghton-Miflin; $3.50.
Agnes Sigh TurnbulI is a
novelist who finds great
favor with the masses. THE
Bishops Mantle" and other
works have gone looming UP
the best-seller lists. A read
ing Of her current effort gives
no clues as to why this should
be so.
"The Nightingale" is GER
tainly wholesome entertain
ment and can be unreserv-
edly recommended for the
whole family, provided they
have q high tolerance for
greeting-card prose and no
particular aversion to q sem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
GENERAL

SPEND AND SURVIVE. BY
David Demarest Lloyd.
(Bobbs- Merrill. $500 A
= panorama of the activities
Of Federal. State and local
governments in modern
American life.
STANLE Y'S WAY. BY
Thomas Sterling. (Athe-
neum. 81 A sentimental
journey through Central
Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23

CIA1l VLtAls CAld1 dCLCI IoJlCd1ly
in conformation Of both phys
ical fact and emotive expe-
rience. Mr.. Eberhart has said,
IT am a dichotomous SOUL"
an insight amply documented
in the subjects, themes and
proSody Of these poems. But
he also has q center. His
speculative imagination is the
synthesizing agent, the
shaping spirit" It resolves
the apparent contradictions
and paradoxeS implicit in his
Apollonian -Dionysian dual
ity. But the realm of his
imagination, unlike that of
Wallace Stevens. is not an
empyrean playpen. It is a
mortal domain. expressive of
the warmth of humanity"
as Dame Edith Sitwell OBJ
served. one inhabited by 1.-THE
Brotherhood Of Men,:
And ! have eaSed reality
and fiction
Into q kind Of intellec.
tual fruition
Strength in solitude, life
in death,
Compassion by suffering.
love In strife.
Thus a frenzied vision or
a sensuouS excursion buckles
under
The hard intellectual light
That kills all delight
And brings the solemn,
inward pain
OF truth into the heart
again.
Blakean mystical fervor
for 1.-The light beyond COM
pare" and an impulse to-
ward wild Chaos!" are
always checked by the man
who imagined imagination"
Mr.. Eberhart's tiger is real
and immanent; his lamb in
the daisies" is putrid crow
bait.
View Of the Mortal Lot
The Grand Guignol horrors
Of the war. where Heads
swelled like cabbageS before
the soft death-rattle," at one
human remove dissolve, and
ack-ack tracerS arch, foliate
balls Of light the sailors
Of the gentlest parabolas."
Under the same speculative
impulse, revulsion on a
chance encounter with a
maggoty grounding eventu-
ally gives rise to a quiet,
acquiescent view Of the NOR
tai lot. Nevertheless, pre-
dominantly throughout the
volume runs the fiber Of
Affirmation:
Beyond hope, we are de-
stroyed to create
Anew. paeons In the killing
sky.
In language, prosody and
structure the poems further
reveal the "dichotomous soul"
Of a ceaselessly experimental
artif1cer. Again the over
riding imaginative drive
shapes inevitAbility from
idiosyncraSy. Mr.. Eberhart
makes a splendid personal
voice Of many tongues and
devices. Soaring diction of the
High Romantics is fused with
philosophical multisyllables,
neologisms and colloquial
talk. Lyric sonorities are
ruthlessly smashed in the
clangor of hard. fiat tones.
The verse spumes, spins,
sticks; riots, races, rides;
hammers. hens, halts-de-
flying scansion, but eloquent
beyond the measure of pale
propriety. Outrageous puns,
occasionally atrocious allit-
Grafton, and craggy inyer-
sionS abound. Prodigious?
Yes, but somehow it works.
And you amt heard
nothin' yet. To hear the
author read his work, as he
will at the Library Of Con-
gress at $3.50 tomorrow
night. is really to participate
in the gusto Of a unique poet
speaking of our time to
us all.
The publication, now in
the offing, of Mr.. Eberhart's
verse plays should line out
another dimension and raise
further questions. In the
meantime our answer, from
a man who is always a
questioner, is the Collected
Poems"
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Better Than New" Sparkling, spocous brick split level
home. twinsize bedrooms, boths. center holI fomiN
size Kitchen loroe Iibrory and powder room ground
level. But-n oorooe Attractive lot. we'll Iondscoped
and fenced. Priced in low 3os for immediate SOLE Owner
transferred (Oher than open hours coll Mrs. MocGuineos,
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rood Road. left TO house.
Evening star., 1960-01-16
Realty Revue Of the Week

field, Joseph G. Weeda, cam
paign director, announced re-
Gently.
The Arlington County Rec
reation Department has an
nounced another series of
real estate lectures to be held
one night per week at vari-
Gus Arlington locations.
The 10 lectures consist of
such subjects as "The Mar
ket Today" Financing"
"SaleSmanship," Legal AS
poets of Real Estate" "Ad-
vertising" and Building To-
day"
Further details on the lee
lures may be obtained by
calling the Arlington Recre-
alton Department.
4 + + 4
Kenneth w. Lyon, former
vice president of the Ralph
P. Ripley Co., Inc, in Silver
Spring and John ]. Terpstra,
former Colesville branch
manager Of the same firm,
have announced the opening
OF a new real estate Office
Evening star., 1960-01-16

elected president of the
Montgomery Hills Business
mems Association, which or
ganization she has served as
treasurer for the past two
years.
4 y
The Mortgage Bankers AS
sociation of Metropolitan
Washington will hold its an
nual installation of officers,
dinner and dance at 6::30p.m.
Friday at the Columbia Coun-
try Club.
y \
John r. SearleS, jr., direc-
tor of the District Redevel-
opment Land Agency, will
speak on urban Renewal
Progress" during a luncheon
meeting of the Building Own
erS and Managers Association
of Metropolitan Washington
at 12:15 pm. Wednesday in
the Burlington Hotel.
80
The American Institute Of
Real Estate Appraisers has
announced that its textbook,
THE Appraisal of Real ES-
tate" has been revised and
expanded.
The new edition represents
the first revision of the text
since it was originally pub
lished by the institute in
1851. Copies are available at
SO each through the Ameri-
can Institute of Real Estate
Appraisers, 36 South Wabash
avenue, Chicago 3.
*&*
william CalOmiris, Wash
ington real estate man and a
vice chairman of the Wash
ington Board Of Trade. has
been named to head the
March of Dimes fund-raising
campaign in the real estate
Evening star., 1960-01-16

under the name of Greater
Maryland Properties, Inc.
The new firm will have Of
fees in the Perpetual Build
ing in Silver Spring.
ROuth Robbins, president
of Routh Robbins Real Es-
tate Corp, has reported the
firm handled $19,068,718 in
sales during 1859. The figure
is a gain of $6,268.0O0 over
the 1858 total.
At the same time, Mrs.
Robbins announced that
John b. Gallo has been pro-
NOTED to assistant sales
manager; Len Whitecar has
joined the firm as vice presi-
dent and loan processing Of
ficer, and Frank DOnahue
and Richard p. Ross, jr., has
been promoted to supervisory
positions on the sales staff.
4
Howard Bernstein, execu-
tive vice president of Realty
Title Insurance Co., has an
nounced that settlements
handled by the firm during
Evening star., 1960-01-16

Large Colonial home Frst-oor den and powder room.
Poneed recreation 2-cor eorooe Location ideoI
for doctors res ence and office One block from Chevy
Chase Circle 1000
Directions Cheuy Circle Circle.
and West on Western Ave. to house.