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VOL. l16 MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1860 NO. 2o
LEGISLATIVE RECORD
Continued from Saturday.
A H. RISE, INC.
Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, u. S.A.
April s, 1860 Hi.
Honorable Walter i. M. Hodge, President liz
Legislature of the Virgin Islands ~
Charlotte Amalie l#iN-1
st. Thomas, Virgin Islands, u. S. A. ~
Dear Mr.. President:
In connection with your consideration of the proposal
Of Howard undgren and Associates to establish a hotel on
Hassel Island, we want you to know that we are actively
working with this group and are negotiating for the sale of
a suitable site on HaSSel Island for the hotel. We expect to
conclude such negotiations in the event the Legislature
favorable acts upon the proposal.
Sincerely yours,
(sgd) Ralph Paiewonsky
a.lsff Ralph PaieWonsky.
~ sf sgd Isidor PaiewonskY
" Isidor PaieWonsky.
ISLAND DIARIES
Christiansted. st. Croix
May 10, 80
Senator Walter Hodge
President Legislature
Virgin Islands
st. Thomas
Dear Senator Hodge, !.
Following my conversation with you last week voicing
the objection of the farmers of ST. Croix engaged in the
milk business to a reconstruction plant being set up in the
Virgin Islands, I enclose a copy Of a letter from the De
partment Of Health, Education and Welfare in Wash
ington.
The letter, addressed to the Milk Industry Founda-S
ton in Washington, is self explanatory and is in answer to
a request from me for information.on the regulations !!
knew existed prohibiting the setting up IN the United
States Of these reconstruction plants.
The Virgin Islands has outside Of sugar and beef cat
tie one agricultural product, namely milk and dairy pro
ducts made therefrom. If representative States such as
Maryland, Virginia and New York see fit to prohibit recon-
~stituting plants as being harmful to their dairy industry is
there any reason why the Virgin Islands should permit
such an industry in direct competition with one Of its
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Bradbury Wants You
To Know He's Good

He wants you to notice him
every minute, how fright
fully clever he is, how know
ing, how superior.
This would not matter so
much if there were a SEM
blance of story amid all this
oblique and self-conscious
attitudinizing. But Mr.. Brad
bury's plot line is ever so frail
and ne does little to nourish
it. First it appears to be a
story about a repulsive Amer
lean student; it shifts to a
concern with Emma Fielding,
a nice girl who is writing a
thesis about the fish imagery
in Shakespeare's tragedies
and who keeps attracting un-
attractive men. Finally she
has an affair with Professor
Treece, the head of the Eng
lish department, who even
tually comes down with ulcers.
The dialogue is good. al
though nobody has anything
particular to say. The title
comes from a popular song.
Mr.. Bradbury has his mo-
ments-a lecture by a beat
mix poet is truly satiric-but
they do not crowd upon one
another in this rather aim
less exercise.
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
AN INDIAN FRONTIER NOVEL
New Light on Southwest
In Post-CiviI War Era

the story might carry and di-
lutes to thinness the impact
of its drama.
Paul Horgan knows the
Southwest intimately and can
describe it luminously, but
here there is too much of
everything. Once even a top
ographical report of Fort
Delivery is Transcribed ver-
batim.
1t is to be wondered wheth-
er the way the Army treated
Sergt. White Horn. an Apache
scout regularly enlisted, is
based on history. 1t seems in
credible that the Army or the
War Department could have
done something so outrageous.
even in those days when
many felt that the only good
Indian was a dead one. White
Horn. we are told, risked his
life to help 1t. Hazard persu-
ade Chief Rainbow Son to
surrender, and then, as a re-
ward, the Indian sergeant was
thrown into captivity along
with the chief and his band.
This was too much even for
such a career officer as Haz-
ARD, and he quit the Army
and refused his decoration in
protest.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Concentration
Camp Boss Tells
Own Horror Story
COMMANDANT OF AUS
CHWITZ. BY Rudolf Hoess.
(World; $4.50.)


CHWITZ. BY Rudolf Hoess.
World; $4.50.)
On the twentieth of last
March, after a lapse of near
ly twenty years, there gath
cred in a Bronx hotel a
dwindling group of battle
Scared former inmates Of
Auschwits-Buna, largest and
one of the most terrible of
World War II German con-
centration camps.
In this group we're victims
of torturers like Rudolf Hoess
who tells hi own story and
confeSSes his own crimes
in "COMMANDANT OF
AUSCHWITZ." This incred-
ible autobiography reveals
how Hoess helped carry out
the hideous and atrocious
maSS-murder command Of the
Third Reich, an order which
resulted in the determination
of more than two million
Jews. Some of the murdered
were relatives of the surviving
victims of the Bronx reunion.
The procedure for killing
prisoners, as described by
Hoess, will reawaken many
to the nightmariSh scenes of
women and children being
gassed, the cremations and
mass graves, and the filth
in which the spared" held
on to life.
Sir John Russell, NJ. c.,
writes in his introduction:
"Hoess admits that the ex-
termination of the Jews was
fundamentally wrong but
that he should have refused
to carry out such criminal
orders never, for a moment,
crossed his mind. Therein
lies the warning which his
story gives US. That a little
bureaucrat like Hoess could,
as he himself has written,
have become a cog in the
wheel of the great exter-
minatlon machines created by
the Third Reich 1t should
be a reminder, never to be
forgotten. of the appalling
and disastrous effect of totali-
tarianism on mems minds"
-JERI MANWEILER.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
EATING PEOPLE is


WRONG. BY Malcolm
Bra dbury. tAlfred A.
Knopf, Inc; $4D
Young Mr., Bradbury has
been eXtravagantly praised
in his native England for his
first novel, which is a story
of futility in a bleak provin-
cial university. Allowing for
the sea-change, it seems an
unusually precious and pos
turing piece of fiction in
which the author comes
ludicrously close to the very
thing he appears to be satir-
izing.
Mr.. Bradbury is not one
of your angries. In fact
there is no emotion stronger
than self-pity in his entire
work. What he wants appar-
emily is not to create in
terest and sympathy in his
characters but to strike you
dumb with the felicity. of his
writing. He is, as a matter
of fact. an excellent writer.
1t is just that he can never
let you forget it, even for
a sentence. He compares
everything to something else;
he is a great hand with puns.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
A DISTANT TRUMPET. By

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Paul Horgan. Farrar,
Straus 6 Cudahy; $5.75.)
The author of "The Fault
Of Angels" and many other
books. fiction and history,
most of them about the
Southwest. now offers a saga
of that region which is epic
at least in length.
This is a novel of the old
Army. in the 1880s, with
f1ashbacks to the Civil War
and earlier.
1t is, in its main theme.
the story Of an Apache chief
named Rainbow Son who
harassed the settlers in New
Mexico and Arizona in the
middle '80s and finally was
induced to surrender by the
adroit plans of a major gen.
eral whom the author calls
Alexander Upton Quait.
Guerrilla War
For Rainbow Son, you can,
If you like. substitute Geron-
imo. for this is essentially
the story of the guerrilla war
which detaehments of cav
airy carried on for years
against Geronimo. 1t was
Gen. Nelson A. Miles who
finally ended the menace of
Geronimo after several other
leaders had made inconclu-
sive attempts to deal with
him.
The Apache chief died in
captivity, of a sort-at least
interment - in Oklahoma
after the turn of the century.
The author. while preserv-
ing much that is historical,
has changed details around
to suit purposes of his novel,
which is perfectly legitimate
in such an enterprise.
The hero of "A Distant
Trumpet" is a young lieu
tenant named Matthews Haz-
ard, who was graduated from
West Point in the early
1905 and promptly assigned
to the cavalry at Fort Deliv-
cry, Ariz.
At Fort "Deliver-Us"
The youth is engaged to
the daughter of a domes-
tically harasSed colonel. The
girls rich, dominating mother
disapproves of Laura's mar
rage to a nobody from a
small town in Indiana, who
managed somehow to get
into the Military Academy.
But she is won over with a
Evening star., 1960-04-17
SurreuIist Dreams
Brought to Life
In ChoeoII Soeo

MY LIFE. BY Marc Chagall.
With 20 illustrations by
the author. (Orion Press,
So
Marc Chagall is the artist
whose figures float across his
canvas in surrealist dreams.
He wrote his autobiography
in Russian in 1922 when he
was 35 years old. 1t was trans
lated first into French
some years later and now into
English by Elizabeth Abbott.
He turns out to be something
of a surrealist with words
too. His opening thought,
for instance, is: II was born
dead" How he got to life is a
detail not fully explored.
Mr.. Chagall spent his early
life in a dismal Czarist Rus
sian village and from it he
drew his best paintings. He
went to Paris as a young
man, returned after the Rev.
olution but went back into
exile in Paris again. Since
these facts of his life are we'll
known, one looks to his own
version of it for sympathetic
light. But one looks in vain.
He mas chosen to tell these
biographical fragments in a
strange, ridiculous style.
Much of it is simply awk-
ward: Their father fed on
grapes as mine did on onions;
and fowl which, at our house,
was sacrificed only once a
year on the eve of The Atone
ment, was never absent from
their table" Some is so over
simplified in its page after
page OF paragraphs consisting
of only three or four words
that it seems a parody of
what Sherwood Anderson
used to write and call poetry.
But there is one big differ
ence: Mr.. Anderson had the
power of some original think
ing back of his verbal &C.
centriclties. Mr.. Chagall
doesn't.
EDWIN TRIBBLE.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
NORMs FOR THE NOVEL.

= AA0 ANS v ANAle
BY Garold C. Gardiner, S.
j. Doubleday; $2.95D
Father Gardiner, who is
literary editor of the Jesuit
magazine America and a
widely known critic, presents
what might be called a
liberal lin the wider, not
policial meaning enlightened
Catholic view of current
literature.
He comments on "the
curious lack of a moral fiber
in Hemingway's characters"
resulting from an absence of
true conflict"
Father Gardiner touches on
what seems to him "the prime
objection to the claim of such
a writer as Hemingway to be
a truly great novelist" And
the critic comedies: He
Hemingway has many of
the gifts of a great novelist.
He is, in addition, as almost
every critic has pointed out,
a crusader. He is always for
the underdog. He, too, would
want fair play in the world
but he wants it for no ulti-
mate moral reason that I
Evening star., 1960-04-17
PAPERBACKS

VENDANTA. BY Christopher
sherwood. CViking, $1.75.
A group of English, Amer
lean and Indian writers dis
cuss the truths that have
shaped their spiritual
world.
THE KILLING OF THE
PEACE. BY Alan Cranston.
Viking, $1.45). Reprint of
the chronicle of how the
will of the people was
thwarted after one world
war.
THE CROWD. BY Gustave
LIE Bon. (Viking, $1.25).
Reprint of a classic of So
ciology with a new intro
duction by Robert K. Mer-
ton.
THE HUMAN PROBLEMS
OF AN INDUSTRIAL CIV
ILIZATION. BY Elton
Mayo. Viking, $1.25). Re-
print.
THE TRIUMPH OF THE
TREE. BY John Stewart
Coils. CViking, s1.25). Re-
print. A history of trees,
from the silent fern forest
of millions of years ago to
the present.
THE LIFE OF A BURMA
SURGEON. BY Gordon S.
Seagrave. (Ballantine:
50c0 A compendium of
material from DR.. Sea-
graves Burma Surgeon"
and Burma Surgeon Re-
turns"
Evening star., 1960-04-17
A Reowokening Orient
And Its Effect on Us

country was helping with the
Western exploitation of China
during the "Open Door" era.
The revolution that
brought Chang Kai-shek. the
revolution that brought Mao
Tse-tung. the japanese in
vasions of China and her ul-
innate fight 10 win a Far
East empire all were asso-
ciated with American mis-
takes, Mr.. NORM says.
Unanswered Questions
His critique raises more
questions than it answers in
this readers mind. In brief,
Mr.. Norm suggests that
Uncle Sam had no business
interfering in Far Eastern
affairs during the prewar
period. We had no real stake
there. he said, yet we med
died, moralized and finally
muddled into a war.
Without saying so fatty.
he seems to suggest that we
should have done nothing
about the japanese aggres-
sions. But what kind of a
world would it be if Japan
had gone her own brutal
way, unchecked? Couldn't
this country have changed
its methods without changing
its goal Of stopping aggres-
sion?
One wishes that Mr.. NORM
would write another book,
applying his thesis that i'm
potent interference is worse
than inaction to Americas
present policy of fretting
about every sparrow that
falls in this restless world.
1t would be worth while for
a man of Mr.. Morin's expert
ence and ability to examine
his get-effective- -get-out
theory in more detail.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1960-04-17

he could accept and men he
could admire on the conserv-
ative side. Vice President
Nixon, in a foreword, describes
the authors journey as a
swing from a Popular Front
psychology in the thirties to
a non-conformist conserv-
atism in the fifties."
Facing Facts
One of Mr.. Toledano's prin-
cipal grievances is the inabil-
ity or reluctance of decent
people to face the facts as
far as communism or Soviet
Russia are concerned. That
is why, he maintains, SO
many Americans chung to the
belief that Alger Hiss was
unjustly convicted.
Hiss was so deeply involved
with the Communist appara-
Evening star., 1960-04-17

tuS that he never faltered
in his role of injured in
nocence. yet even in the
days of his disgrace, he re-
mained safely encompassed
by the compulsive security of
his Communist determine
tlon," Mr.. Toledano writes.
But the man who emerged
from this controversy a mag
nificent figure in the authors
eyes was Whitaker Cham
bers. Besides being an articu-
late witness, Mr.. Chambers
is depicted as a man of vast
intellectual depth. a stead
fast friend. an able farmer
and a kindly father.
The late Senator Mccarthy
also possessed undeniable
charm, but the author con-
cedes regretfully. many as
poets of the Senator's drive
against subversion were un-
fortunate. Il realized" said
Mr.. Toledano, after my first
talk with him I had forgotten
more about communism and
the minutiae of subversion
than he would ever know"
But Mccarthy was carried
away with the tumult stirred
up by his fight on the Red
conspiracy. and left too much,
responsibility for the opera
tion of his committee to Roy
Cohn. The result was chaos.
Mr.. Toledano also pays
homage to his friend Mr..
Nixon, whom he likens in
many respects to Benjamin
DiSraeli. Having chosen pol
itics as his profession. he was
immersed in it as a great
doctor immerses himself IN
medicine" the author says
with an instructive sense
OF the physics and psychology
of politics, of the stresses and
strains which resolve them
selves into action or frustra-
tion, and the intellectual re-
sources to translate instinct
into articulate thought"
JOSEPH O'KEEFE
Evening star., 1960-04-17
By CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

compromise-she exacts. a
promise that they wait a
year. This they do and are
duly married. and the girl
goes with her young officer
to the post which another
officers wife appropriately
named Fort Deliver-US."
But 1t. Hazard is too much
the predestined hero to be
very interesting. He strays
only once, when he is tempted
by a fellow oficer's wife, and
this happens during the year
he must wait to marry. 1t is
Hazard who goes into Mex
leo, at the order of Gen.
Quait, accompanied only by
an Indian scout, to persuade
Rainbow Son to surrender.
The most unusual charac-
ter is this Gen. Quait. He
commanded a brigade in the
Civil War; and is an able SOL
dier, and is a man of cul-
ture and learning who car
ries about editions of Latin
poets in the original and lives
between the worlds of clas-
sical times and the hard prac-
ticality of thwarting Apache
ambushes. 1t is he, in the
authors story, who invents a
desert signal system, by which
glasses flashed in the sun can
send messages 40 or so miles.
But there are many char
acterS, mcst of them explored
in great detail, half a dozen
romances in addition to the
one that drew together Mat
thew and Laura.
1t is this surfeit of detail,
amassed for 629 large pages,
that. defeats any unity which
Evening star., 1960-04-17

tried to be agreeable, for he
really liked his ex-wife.
The other stories range
from developed narratives to
sketchier pieces like Jim the
Man." an recount of a
cracked idealist, whose mind
finally shattered under the
provocation of a shabby,
phony crusade which he en-
listed in.
Herbert Gold is a sharp
observer of the strivings and
the follies about us. Some
times he goes a little modern
iStic and is hard to follow,
but usually he is clearer,
more coherent than most
contributors to the campus
reviews and avant-garde an
thologies. &C. B. J.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
EAST WIND RISING: A
Long View of the Pacific

Crisis. BY Relman NORM.
(Alfred A. Knopf; So
Relman NORM is one of
the newspaper worlds finest
writer's and best reporters.
His two Pulitzer Prizes. for
his Associated Press stories
from Korea and Little Rock,
are two testimonials to his
ability. This book is another.
1t is in part a personal
story. Mr.. NORM was a stu
dent and reporter in China
and Japan before the war.
and he watched the East
wind rising" and took part
in many of the gusty events
himself.
1t is also a history of an
era that Americans now know
was too much ignored when
it was current news.
American Policy
And the book is a criticque
American policy during the
'20s, '30s and first two years
of the fateful '40s.
Mr.. Morin's ability to paint
a living picture makes this
book worth reading even by
people who may not care
how the Orient affects the
American tax bill. Mr.. NORM
started writing his personal
narrative in journal form
when he went to the Far
East as a boy. The journal
helped him recreate effec-
lively the bull sessions with
restless young Chinese who
are now making or trying
to unmake a Red revolution
and his contacts with the
poor, crafty and stubborn
Chinese masses.
The theme of his history
is that this country asked
for a lot of its trouble in
the Far East. 1t started ask
ing when it insulted sensitive
Orientals by an unnecessarily
brutal Exclusion Act after
World War I and when it
accused hardworking Japa-
nese farmers of mass espio-
mage in California.
At the same time, this
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Love in All Its Phases
Given Full Treatment
LOVE AND LIKE. BY Her

LOVE AND LIKE. BY Her.
bert Gold. dial; $685.
This is a book of short
stories by a young writer who
already has published four
novels.
The title story, also re-
printed in the current o.
Henry prize collection, is the
wry account of a broken
up marriage which the es-
tranged husband makes a
gesture toward patching up
between visits to the girl
friend he has acquired. The
result is a worse battle than
usual, and the husband re-
treats wondering why he
made the effort. But he
hadn't really, he'd merely
Evening star., 1960-04-17
St. Anthony Lives
In His Sermons
ST. ANTHONY AND HIS
TIMES. BY Mary Purcell.
1uono1,ar Eotrca. eo 06l

TIMES. BY Mary Purcell.
Hanover House; $685.
This latest biographer of
st. Anthony of Padua is obvi-
ously beset by the difficulty
other writer's have in recount
ing the lives of the earlier
saints. a lack of reliable date.
But Miss Purcell has given us
a conception of st. Anthony
by focusing attention on and
analyzing his sermons. She
has also re-created an in
tensely fascinating period of
history for the reader. Dev-
otees of st. Anthony will
welcome this new biography
of the saint whose popularity
and appeal is universal and
timeless.
VINCENT BOWES.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
A Catholics Appraisal
Of Current Literature

have ever been able to dis
cover. His characters do
not will, they make no
choice; the same unreasoned
reasons that impelled Jordan
Gin For Whom the Bell
TollS") to fight for the
Spanish Loyalists might just
as we'll have hustled him
over into the camp of the
FaciSts.'"
Father GARDENERS opinions
OF other writers of the day
are equally interesting.
&C. B. j..
Evening star., 1960-04-17
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT =
Communist Defector
Walks q Lonely Path
LAMENT FOR A GENERATION. !

LAMENT FOR A GENERATION. BY Ralph de Toledano
Parrar, StrauS and Cudahy; $3.50 r..
Ralph de Toledano former editor of Newsweek Travelled
the familiar circuit from left right pausng dscontentedy
with the liberals and with other shades eftist
opinion student editor Columbia University he had
been member of the Young Communist League but learned
that defector from communism walks lonely some
times risky path
Lament for Generation" he tells of finding values
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Other Books in Brief
FICTION

LIKE A BIG BRAVE MAN.
BY Celso AL. Carunungan.
CFarrar, Straus, Cudahy;
$3.95.) The story of a
young Filipino boys search
for the meaning of life and
love.
TIPPY LOCKLIN. BY Joseph
w. Meagher. Little,
Brown: $4.75) Recreation
of a Brooklyn boyhood in
the 1920s.
GENERAL
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
HANDBOOK. Edited by
j. K. LASER. (McGraw-
Hill; S8.50.) Successful
methods of the Nations
outstanding businessmen.
HELPING YOUR GIFTED
CHILD. BY Ruth Strang.
Dutton; $4.50) How to
recognize and help a gifted
child.
SOCIAL SCIENCE RE-
SEARCH ON BUSINESS:
PRODUCT AND POTEN-
TIAL. BY Robert A. Dahl,
Mason Naire and Paul F.
Lazersfeld. columbia; So
Examines industrial psy-
chology and motivation
research.
THINK INTELLIGENTLY:
SING CONVINCINGLY. BY
Florence Macdonald.
Vantage; S2.50D Art of
teaching students to de-
velop their talents.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Provocative Spice
ADOLPHE AND THE RED

ADULT HE AND The RED
NOTEBOOK. BY Benjamin
Constant. (Bobbs- Merrill;
81
Like many other books of
its ilk this Frenchman's story
OF his affairs and his hopeless
bondage" to an older woman
is spicy, but provocative only
for what is omitted. 1t is a
so-called classic, the events
taking place in the last part
of the 18th century.
H. A. LYON.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
IN SUSPENSE
By BETTY MILES
Star Stah Writer

Like a favorite child, a
preposterous but exciting
story is easier to forgive than
a dovetailing dull one.
BLINDFOLD by Lucille
Fletcher Random House,
Inc, $2.95), asks us to believe
that it would be necessary
for a famous psychiatrist to
treat a demented scientist
who is extremely valuable to
the Government without
knowing his name, without
seeing him-interviews take
place through a screen-and
without being told the loca-
ton of the house where the
treatment takes place. Yet
her exciting plot evolves from
this improbable premise, as
the doctor later urgently and
ingeniously tracks down both
his patient and the secret
headquarters. The author of
Sorry, Wrong Number" has
created a fine hero and an
excellent supporting cast for
a story with warmth and
suspense. Realists may rebel,
but romantics should con-
sent.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
DEATH OF AN ASSASSIN

DEATH OF AN ASSASSIN
by John Greasy (Charles
Scribner'S Sons, $2.95).
Scotland Yards admirable
Inspector West performs on a
larger stage this time, when,
vacationing in Milan, he
runs into an attempted as
sination of a Middle Eastern
country'S prince. ASir is de-
termined to go on to London
and West goes home to pre-
vent still another try by a
dwarf who looks like a child
The complex plot of many
ironies is absorbing. But with
mysteries related to the Mid
die East common fare these
days, the abSenSe of the tri-
umphantly unexotic English
atmosphere West has made
MS own is especially missed.
T X Il
DEATH ON A BACK BENCH
by Francis Hobson (Harper
& Bros, $2.95).
A blithe tale of a political
correspondent and his spouse
who are plunged into series
of Hitchcock-like adventures
when a member of Parlia-
ment dies shortly after talk
ing to the reporter. The M.
P.'s briefcase with its price
less papers turns up missing,
and police and crooks alike
pursue the bewildered Gibbs,
convinced he has them. The
Prime Minister, Scotland
Yard. one and all are kidded
in this merry chase.
Evening star., 1960-04-17

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