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The Nome nugget., 1961-04-19
Actor Gary Cooper Reported Gravely HI

HOLLYWOOD R - Actor Gary Cooper is gravely ill, a spokes- man said today. But he declined to disclose the nature of the ail- ment.
 The spokesman, publicist War ren Cowan said, Cooper is con- fined to his home in traction be- cause of a pinched nerve in the back of his neck.
 Cooper has said the nerve was injured during a movie fight scene in London last winter.
 At last Monday nights Aca- demy Awards ceremony, actor James Stewart emotionally pre- sented a special Oscar to Cooper - in absentia = for his long contribution to the movie indus try.
 Since then, the world has won dered what was wrong with the tall, taciturn film hero-Holly- woods most durable leading man.
 There have been Hollywood rumors Cooper is suffering from cancer.
 Last April, Cooper underwent prostrate gland surgery and the following month he was operated on for an intestinal disorder.
The Nome nugget., 1961-04-19
Senate Hands Kennedy Major Victory on Wage Bill

WASHINGTON tR - The Sen ate handed President Kennedy a major victory of his minimum wage bill today by killing an amendment of Sen. Mike Mon roney, O-Okla), to whittle down the new coverage.
 The roll call vote was 56-39.
 Democratic Sens. Bartlett and Gruening of Alaska opposed the amendment.
 The Oklahoman proposed to strike from the bill provisions covering about 1,600,000 of the 4,086,000 workers it would bring under the Wages and Hours Act.
 Last August Kennedy led the fight against the same amend ment as a senator and succeeded in beating it 50-48. However, Congress did not in the end enact that bill.
The Nome nugget., 1961-04-19
Nome to Apply
 For Sanitation Aid With C.F. Agency

Members of the City Council and representatives of other or ganizations met last night with Paul Emmert of the Community Facilities Agency to discuss the need and possibility of financing a sewer and water system for Nome.
 The fact that all other build ing development, both home and business, is dependent upon this n e d e d modernization was brought out as well as the fact that the preliminary planning and feasibility study has been done for some time.
 The method of procuring the funds from the Community Fa- cilities were explained by MT. Emmert who also brought up the fact that President Kennedy has asked that the program be set up to aid communities such as ours. A study was also recom- mended to find out if according to certain formulas Nome might be considered labor surplus area due to seasonal unemployment and benefit under another act of Congress as well.
 Application forms were given to the Council and explained by MT. Emmert who stated that un- der ordinary conditions they could be processed within six weeks after their presentation.
 Council members stressed the importance of getting the project rolling so that equipment and SUD- plies could be brought in on the last boat this fall.
The Nome nugget., 1961-04-19
Guantanamo Naval Base On ROund-the-Clock Alert

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba B The big US. naval base on the eastern tip of Cuba is on a watch ful, round-the-clock alert, but for the most part the fighting going on beyond the fence might as we'll be on another continent.
 All is quiet in the immediate vicinity. The usual peace of the base is marred only by a slight increast in tension because of the stepped-up precautions and the lack of news of the invasion by anti-Castro rebels.
 Rear Adm. E. J. O'Donnel, base commander, said that his opera tions office is operating around the clock that constant radar watch is being maintained and that fighters on the runways are ready to scramble skyward in less than five minutes.
 O'Donnell said he also has on call 10 or II destroyers that can pump five-inch shells at the rate of one second from twin mounts.
 "We have an enormous amount of firepower here," the admiral said.
 There have been reports that the Cuban air force has at least seven Soviet-built jet fighters. If there are any Migs around, O'Donnell said, they have not flown over the eastern end of the island.
The Nome nugget., 1961-04-19
Kennedy W arms KhrusElchey:
 Hands Off Cuba
By Lewis Gulick

WASHINGTON LR - President Kennedy has fired a straight from the shoulder warning to Soviet Premier Khrushchev to keep hands off Cuba.
 Kennedy made it clear in a message to the Soviet leader last night that the United States will take immediate steps to counter any military intervention by out side force in the Cuban fighting.
 The President declared moral support for the Cuban patriots in their struggle for freedom" and said again that the United States intends no military inter Vention.
 AS Kremlin reaction to Ken nedy's message was awaited, of ficials here reported no evidence of any military folloW-up by Khrushchev to his threat to sup ply "all necessary assistance" to Cuba's pro-Communist Fidel Cas- l trO regime.
 Khrushchev's threat to aid Cas- tro came early yesterday in a message to the White House.
 In a tit-for-tat on Moscow's publishing Khrushchev's note be- fore it reached Kennedy, the White House made public Ken nedy's answer at the same time last night that Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave it to Soviet Am bassador Menshikov.
 Authoritative sources said Ken nedy personnaly devoted much time to wording his reply and conferring with advisers.
 The result was a comparatively short message sheared of usual diplomatic verbiage and using stronger terms than the restrain ed language Kennedy has used so far in his effort to get along with the Soviets.
 What your government be- ieves in is it's own business" Ken nedy said. What it does in the world is the worlds business"
The Nome nugget., 1961-04-19
Nuclear Power Plant Kit
 Would be Used in Arctic Reuion

BALTIMORE R - The Martin Co. demonstrated yesterday a nu- clear power kit destined for use by Air Force units in the Arctic.
 Engineers said the uranium generator has power equivalent to Is million gallons of diesel oil it will replace as a power supply for radar stations. a
 The new equipment - built in Is pieces - can be transported to remote areas by air and then assembled as power plant with in 90 days.
The Nome nugget., 1961-04-19
Six Naval Reservists Killed Tn Transport Plane Takeoff

FAILON, Nev. R Six Naval reservists were killed and 12 in- jured when a Navy transport plane crashed on takeoff from Fallon Naval Air Auxiliary Sta ton yesterday.
 All of the dead and most of the injured were Michigan men, on two-week training flight.
 The two-engine aircraft was en- route to the Alameda Naval Air Station in California from Crosse He Field near Detroit.
 A Navy spokesman said the plane suddenly nosed .'eun and crashed moments af ceoff.
The Nome nugget., 1961-04-19
Castro Regime Accused Of Executing Two U. s. Citizens Without Fair Trial

WASHINGTON LR - The State Department today accused the Castro government of executing two U. s. citizens without fair trial, in violation of elementary standards of justice practiced by civilized nations over the world"
 The department also sought new assurances of safety for U. s. citizens in Cuba, but reported a communications blackout had cut the normal diplomatic chan nels to Havana.
 It noted press reports of arrests of a number of Americans, in- cluding news correspondents.
 The two Americans whom the pro-Communist Castro govern ment announced today it had ex- ecuted had been arrested before the current outbreak of fighting. They were charged with anti Castro activity. They were An gus McNair of Miami and How ard Anderson of Yakima, Wash. Both had been in business in Ha- Vana.
Evening star., 1961-05-28

religion and their culture,
but they possess universal
interest.
Her central figure is Rabbi
Leo Norberg, fat, fiftyish, but
still smashingly eligible and
much pursued by pushy ma
mas of marriageable daugh-
terS in suburban Manor
Green. Leo is anxious to
marry-aS he remarks, THE
Jewish religion is not one
which encourages monas-
ticism"-but he inevitably
blunders towards some lovely
uncomprehending creature
who is taken aback by his
clumsy ardor and his for
midable learning.
Leo finds a soulmate in
Sarah Gabriel, the gentle
"onlooker with the seeing
eye" whose fervor and in
tegrity match his own. Sarah
is brilliantly drawn. So are
her two sisters-Essy escapes
the tyranny of their vain.
bigoted father through ro-
Evening star., 1961-05-28

and excitement Of their
stories. Philosophy was a poor
and mean thing to French
writer's if not presented as
art.
It is astounding how high
a level Of interest almost all
these men maintained. No
one knows how much Voltaire
and Diderot, for example, ac-
tually wrote, for much Of
their output was necessarily
anonymous and has been lost,
but the published work Of
each runs to fifty or sixty
volumes, and the problem Of
the editors Of the present an
thologieS was not what to
print but how to justify ex-
clusions. Diderot is for me
scarcely less exhilarating than
Voltaire-"Le Neveu de Ram
eau" and Jacques lie Fatal
iste" (too long for inclusion)
are among the best novels
OF an age Of great fiction.
In the Torrey collection you
can open to Diderot at ran
dom and be entranced:
Our dinner was very gay.
M. LIE Roy told me of an
unfortunate love affair of
his. Just one?'-'That is ALL
He slept on it his is hours
and got noticeably fatter. But
an unfortunate lover should
be undone. .'-'Or appear to be
so, and I couldn't do it.
That's what undid me- He
rested because of the pain
he had suffered, and when
he had rested, he couldn't
suffer any more because of
the rest he had had. Other
wise you couldn't have stood
it.'-'That's true; but from
evening to morning I was all
fresh to suffer again. But If
you sleep your fifteen hours
when you are unfortunate in
love, how long do you sleep
when you are lucky?'-'Al-
most not at all.'-'Good for
tune tires you little. MOT in
the least, and besides I pick
up again quickly"
Diderot remarks: "You will
understand how all that
sounds at table among
twelve or fifteen people, with
champagne, gayety, wit, and
all the freedom Of country
living" Yes, you will indeed.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
100 YEARS OF NEGRO

100 YEARS OF NEGRO
FREEDOM. BY Arna Bon
temps. Dodd, Mead & Co.;
$500
In a day Of angry epithets,
bombings and beatings, Arna
Bontemps enters the lists
with a calm, diSpassionate
account Of the Negro's
struggle for equality.
He tells this story in
terms of the men and women
who have contributed so
much to Negro progress in
the last century. The result
is a delightfully."- written
book, sympathetic, literate
and timely. One Of the ad-
mirable things about this
book is the way in which
the author succeeds in
sketching the diverse paths
which Negro leaders have
taken, without resorting to
polemics.
Mr.. Bontemps begins with
a description Of the scene
inside fremont TIE pl e
across from the Boston
Common on New Years Day,
1868.
For hours the Negroes
gathered inside had waited
for the news. Finally it came.
Doors banged. A messen-
ger who had suddenly be-
come a babbling idiot leaped
into the aisle and raced to-
ward the platform. It's COM
ing! It's on the wires
Stunned silence followed,
Evening star., 1961-05-28

illusioned, but during the
three months the fugitive re-
mains in hiding in his home,
the colonel, struggling against
the turmoil of his own soul,
sees, from day to day, the
Sickening evidence Of the
imposture of war. Nothing
has been gained, everything
is still cruelty, brutality, self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, deception,
death.
M. Conchon is not a
partisan; the war for Juan
has been no less degrad-
ing. The Reds and the
FaScistS are the Same-dis-
tinguished only by different
banners. In fact the war, i'm
portant as it is in the book,
brilliantly as its taste and
smell and feel are created, is
really only background. The
authors true objective is the
development of the two
brothers, their interaction,
and the Towering Of their
personalities, whose roots are
deep in the tradition of their
country. Trini, the maid, is
a character just as broadly
and vividly drawn, and there
are a score of incisive minor
roles-the group of aristo-
cratic officers impotent in
its attempt to halt Franco,
the deadly and quite ma
chine like Falangist COM
mand, old friends scared by
war, urchin bootblackS i'm
pervious to change.
The book, furthermore, is
a novel Of locale. The great
white city Of Madrid is al
ways before the eyes Of the
reader, painted with a sure
touch for detail and a power
full cumulative effect. Con-
chon, drawing on a talent
which many Frenchmen have
enjoyed, mirrors Spain as sue
cessfully as Debussy or Mer-
imee.
THE Measure of Victory" is
not only a psychological
novel; it is a tale of suspense.
The reader waits to the final
page-the last half Of the
final page-for the ironic
resolution.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Struggle for RocioI
Equality in America

but a moment later a roar
came across Boston Com
mon, and the air exploded
inside fremont Temple.
Presently a second messen-
ger, wilder than the first,
slammed the door and raced
down the aisle waving a tele-
gram. At the sight Of him
the crowd went crazy"
Frederick Douglass, his
dark eyes and light skin
framed by the familiar white
beard and long hair, took
the platform to lead the
song, Blow ye the trumpet,
blow"
The great day had come;
Lincoln had signed tn e
Emancipation Proclamation
freeing the slaves,
1t was not long before
Negroes discovered freedom
to be a mixed blessing.
Mr.. Bontemps. a Negro
author and head librarian
at Fisk University, writes of
Booker T. Washington, P. B.
S. Pinchback, w. E. B. Du
Bois, Paul Laurence Dun
bar, Charles S. johnson and
others who charted the paths
which Negroes followed for
many years. They are fol-
lowed by Ralph Bunche,
Thurgood Marshall and
other contemporary leaders.
If there is a new mood
Of militancy and confidence
among Negroes, this book
helps to explain it.
HAYNES JOHNSON.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Stamp of BonoIity SpoiIs
Impact of Italian Novel

writing, the hum-drum tread
of short, commonplace SEN
tences, are an attempt to
create a feeling of inevitable
Illustration in the existence
Of a man oppressed by his
duty to humanity at large
and torn by his devotion to
his child. But Silone's char
acters are not convincing and
the episode construction Of
his narrative alienates the
readers interest. What should
seem universal too often only
bears the stamp of banality.
There is scarcely a page
unmarried by cliches Of idiom,
nor a chapter not disfigured
by conventional situations
and unimaginative plotting.
We do not believe in Daniele
and the others as individuals,
and we are not interested in
them as symbols.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Teddy Roosevelt Study
A Political History

iShes after the first four
chapters and reappears only
when his terms in the White
House end and he takes
himself to Africa, leaving
Taft, his chosen successor. to
play a hand for himself.
Those middle chapters
trace RooSevelt's accomplish
mentS as President. To give
them the conference and clar-
ity Of good history, Mr.. Har-
baugh abandons overall
chronology and traces the de-
velopment Of major policies
in divi dually; conservation,
for example, gets a chapter
to itself. The effect some
times startles the reader, If
1t does not confuse him.
After ten chapters on TR's
administration, the NewlandS
bill is discussed as "the first
important enactment Of his
presidency"
fundamentally, Mr.. Har-
baugh seeks to understand
how Roosevelt came to es-
pouSe progressive ideas and
how he managed to carry
the Nation with him as much
as he did. In dealing with
his central theme-Roose-
velt's seizure Of power and
his responsibility in using it
he rejects the notion that
the extension Of Federal
power during this time was
a reflection Of Roosevelt'S
lust for personal power"
He convincingly demonstrates
RooSevelt's fear that unless
Government acted. I'VE
should not only have a revo-
luton. but it would be alb
solutely necessary to have a
revolution. because the con-
dition Of the worker would
become intolerable." In un-
tangling the complex STRAIT
egy with which TR man.
aged congressional coalitions,
Mr.. Harbaugh duly stresses
the colonel's friendship with
Senator Lodge.
Mr.. Harbaugh does not
shirk the task Of assessing
Roosevelt as rancher, writer,
Governor, or literary critic.
He corrects many stereotypes
on the evidence of his own
and others research. But in
the last analysis he can no
more resolve the contradic-
tionS of his subject than
others have been able to. We
must all stand perplexed be-
fore those dissertations Of
the human spirit that will
forever bar him (Roosevelt)
from attaining the immor-
tality of jefferson, Lincoln
and Wilson"
Mr.. Harbaugh measures
his man by the standard Of
today's liberalism. Like his
subject, he insists that not
even the founding fathers
could govern America today
without departing from a
strict construction Of the
Constitution. Those who have
been reading Senator Gold
water with enthusiasm will
find this an irritating book.
They should read 1t, none
theless, for many Of the ideas
the Senator battles had their
beginning in the days of the
colonel.
ARTHUR COLLINS.
Evening star., 1961-05-28

nance with a goyim, a blue
eyed Englishman. Fagy SIM
ply escapes by leaving. Sarah
is left to cope with the in
transigeant patriarch. Re-
bellion is not her line.
Miss Charles does ample
justice to these powerful
emotions. All shades of Jew
ish thought are represented.
She records the resentment
of ESsy, who regards the
residents of Manor Green as
"a good-natured, madden
ingly prestige-ridden lumpen-
bourgeoiSie," the stiff
necked but cringing products
of the ghettoes of Europe,
the insecurities and the GER
tainties. Rabbi Norberg calls
Judaism "the great nub, the
crossing point between the
world and God"
Her story is sad but not de-
pressing. 1t is a vivid, affec-
tionate study of that world.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
THE FOX AND THE CAMEL,-

THE FOX AND THE CAMEL
LAS. BY Ignazio Silone.
Translated from the Italian
by Eric Mosbacher. (Harper
& Brothers; $3.50.)
The italian novelist Ignazio
Silone has attempted in "The
Fox and the Camellias" a
realistic portrait of a revolu-
zionist whose life is centered
on his underground activities
against FaScism. Daniele's
family, living on his farm
across the border in Swtzer-
land, knows nothing of the
driving patriotism of the
man. The catastrophe of the
novel is the discovery by the
fiance of Daniele's daughter,
an Italian secret agent, that
the headquarters he is seek
ing is the home of his future
father-in-law.
The ostentatiously colorless
Evening star., 1961-05-28
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

Ross Macdonald, a fine
writer, disappoints with an
unconvincing story in THE
WYCHERLY WOMAN CAL
fred A. Kopf, $3.50. Investi-
gator Lew Archer disobeys
Homer Wycherly's injunction
to bypass his despiSed, di-
vorced wife when searching
for the very rich Californian's
college-girl daughter, and
soon is deep in family in
trigue. Mr.. Macdonald's gift
for stinging surprise and
shocking finale founders
here.
MAIGRET RENTS A ROOM.
BY George Simenon. Dou-
bleday g. Co.; $2.95)
When Maigret's aide, jan
vier, is shot while patrolling
a Paris street before a robbery
suspects boarding house,
Maigret moves into Madame
Clements himself to track
the culprit down. Maigret is
the usual efficient instrument
Of justice, wracked with pity
for some Of his victims. Top
grade.
BLOODSTAIN. BY David
Alexander. Gippincott;
$2.95.)
Broadway mouthpiece Mar
ty Land becomes a sleuth, too,
after the League for Legal
Evening star., 1961-05-28


well the award, for M. Con
chon's story of two brothers
in Madrid at the conclusion
of the Spanish Civil War
combines the psychological
development Of two men at a
crucial moment of their lives
with an intensely dramatic
narrative.
Juan and Luis Santisteban
are members Of a patrician
Spanish family; the former
has fought the war with the
Reds, while his elder brother
is now a colonel in the army
of Franco, with an important
position in the new govern
ment. Juan is a hunted man
trapped in Spain. He cannot
take advantage Of the doubt
full amnesty afforded to Reds
without blood on their
hands," and he decides that
his only move Is the bold one
of attempting to find refuge
In his old home in Madrid,
lived in now only by his
brother and Trinidad, an eld-
erly family servant. He man
ages to get home, and is re-
ceived by his brother with
hostility tinctured with ha-
tired, for the political di-
visions Of the nationalistic
Spaniards cut deep. The du-
ties Of patriotism are a tan
gled imperative at that time
in Spain; the question is has
war destroyed the bonds Of
consanguinity and tradition?
At first both brothers try
to believe, or perhaps really
believe, that it has. Luis Or
ders Juan out of the house
to certain death, Juan coun-
ters by saying that he will
implicate his brother in har-
boring q war criminal. Luis
thinks he can bring himself
to engage a killer to murder
his brother, but he is in a
nightmare from which he can
neither awake nor free him
self in sleep. He is an ideal
iSt who still dreams that the
war that has torn his coun-
try apart will bring a peace
that will re establish the
grandeur of Spain. When
Juan appears Luis is not dis
Evening star., 1961-05-28
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Evening star., 1961-05-28
CRIME AND MYSTERY
Suspense Runs Deep
In Family Intrigue

Justice engages him to defend
a Hungarian refugee accused
Of murder in a small South
ern town. A nice, smooth job,
with a barely-believable de-
nouement.
THE BROKEN JIGSAW. BY
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A smooth as cream story
Of a conniving young woman
who marries money and takes
the first chance that comes
along to keep the money and
scuttle the marriage for good.
A most effective portrait of
two cold-blooded killers who
thoroughly enjoy their ILL
gotten gains, and worried
only that they still might get
caught.
I WAS GOING AWAY. BY
Robert SwitZer. (The Mac
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A splendid. sad, Sinewy tale
Of a Toronto sports writer
whose engagement to the
right girl at last is threat
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his past moves in. Anything
but a mystery. though billed
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teller's yarn about the pur-
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