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Mystery Set Here Spices Short Story “BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR 1947." Edited David C. Cooke. New York. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., $2.50. "DEATH OF A BILLIONAIRE." A. B. Cunningham. New York.' EP. Dutton & Co., $2.50. "DEATH IN: THE WRONG ROOM." Anthony Gilbert.

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"THE FIRST READER . . ..By Harry Hansen 3 New Book on Lewis, Clark - Unfolds Mystery, Romance;

Historical Novel Too Brutal

"LEWIS AND CLARK: PARTNERS IN DISCOVERY." By John Bake. less. New York, Morrow, $5. |

"UNCONQUERED." A novel. By Neil H. Swanson. New York, Doubleday, $3. WHILE THE Secretary of State, George Marshall, 8 labors in London to make the future safe for the United States, novelists and historians back home are digging into phases of the American past. The ever-recurring blank | pages in the stories of famous hen and events have to be *° filled. The latest attempt is John Bakeless’ effort, in his bio, hy. “Lewis and Clark: —"mmms| grap 4 Disc " world wars, Mr, Bakeless served as # Partners In iscovery,” to colonel with the southern European i make sure just how the great branch of G-2 and as military atexplorer of the western plains, tache in recent years. Meriwether Lewis, died in a lonely vo | roadside inn on the Tennessee River, SOON AFTER READING John § near the present Muscle 8hoals, On pakeless’' book about Lewis and Clark

By DONNA MIKELS LUXURY—Morning scene E a Pullman. car washroom in 1877 HERE ARE three solutions 0 pn... {or Frank Leslie's Hustrated Newspaper, it is one of many

oa contemporary pictures reproduced in Stewart H. Holbrook's new

Christmas “pn ter whodunit have. HEL chi ons book, "The Story of American Railroads” (New York, Crown,

pose the kind of mystery-shrouded $4.50). question marks that will delight

wens nce wots iow |' Growth Regulators’ Offers anthology is the title itself—it in- ° ° 0 ° deca ontans some ot we ver. 6 Vj qy] Hints in Gardening

tective stories of this year. Of particular interest to Indian- "GROWTH REGULATORS." By John W. Mitchell and Paul C, apolis readers will be one short| \f,cth Chicago, University of Chicago Press, $2.50.

story “Of Mice and Men,” by C. William Harrison. Its locale is In- * By MARGUERITE SMITH dianapolis and the author appar- PROBABLY only the most avid gardener would curl up for an eve.

3 Oct. 11, 1809. I turned to Neil H. Swanson's novel, ¥ Are the mysteries of 138 years “Unconquered,” just to see what all! ently is familiar enough with the ning with “Growth Regulators” which the authors call “a practical f ago exciting enough to stir the the hullaballoo city ‘to ‘quote directions and ad- handbook.” But it's an excellent book for the garden reference shelf, dresses authentically, It puts a Its appeal is to those who like to dabble with the new chemicals

was about, There had been such hair-raising pu b-

interest of Americans whose eyes are glued to television? John Bakeless thinks so. Certainly the mystery of whether Lewls, then governor of Louisiana Territory, shot himself while demented or was shot in the back and robbed started Mr. Bakeless toward the old Natchez Trace in Tennessee. There tiie countryside was- still repeating ru-| mors, Says the author: “The murder

little added spice to the reading. that do everything from helping you root difficult cuttings and kill » : . : s » = the weeds in your bluegrass to keeping your tomato blossoms firme licity about novel N nv Buia ® : ‘ i : y ‘ THE BOOK also includes tales|ly hitched on the plant in spite of aha movie that 1 ATIVITY—This fine example of medieval manuscript decoration is from an Ital- |by A. A. Milne, Philip MacDonald, damp cool weather and discourag-| RACE RELATIONS— Joel Townsley Rogers, Matt Taylor,|ing sprouts on your stored winter)

wanted to see just ian antiphonal dated. 1440, It is a miniature painted in gold and colors on vellum. Q how history was With other medieval manuscripts, it has been loaned by Otto F. Ege of Cleveland to Ea Re ot Roa olan, ell aod Mz. Marth ..Negro Novel

treated in fiction r . 3 } R Frankly, 1 dont Herron Art Museum, where it will be displayed during the holidays through Jan. |. (william Macharg, Stuart Palmer,ion the staff of the United States (CT 4 R di believe Mr. Bake- ——— : eat ——r———— reeset - will F. Jenkins, Fredric Brown and plant industry station at Belts-| 00 ea Ing less and Mr. Swan- G B | k P d B Jerome and Harold Prince. ville, Md. There they have worked question is still so ticklish in 20th son are writing ermany S eq ness ortraye as ree er “Death of a Billlonaire” is con-|on synthetic plant hormones for eoD 3 FOR Vue FOLKS." novel. By Will Thomas. New

Century Tennessee that a Hickman cerned with the murder of eccentric|many years. To the informed ex-|

i . : bsolutel | Neil Swanson #bout the same : y y antiquarian absolutely re- country. afre S at a eq fo not er War old Clancy Devoe, one of the last perimental gardener this means de-| York, Creative Age Press, $3, y surviving pioneer cattlemen of the pendability plus the latest word’on| THE RACE relations theme cone

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fused even to meet the writer to dis-' yn .v Mr, Swanson writes and cuss Xb 10 Peifumy, Jal whats ¢ WAY. he writes it seis my teeth “IN DARKEST GERMANY." By Victor Gollancz. Introduction by|self-evident. The first is that noth- West. Sleuth in the story is slow- their subject. : | tinues important in post-war fiction, pews In Hickman County $0da But |°® edge. If the public that takes Rohe M, Hutchins. Hinsdale, Ill., Henry Regnery Co., $3.50. |ing can save the world but a general Moving, fast-thinking Sheriff Jess ss =.» {“God Is for White Folks,” a first ews in-Hickman y ¥. Buliyiolence and brutality with its tea : act of repentance in place of the Roden, famous Kentucky man-| mHgE AUTHORS carefully point novel by- Will Thomas, presents the Mr. Bakeless did not solve the mys- i, yireq of gangsterism, it can turn : : By HENRY BUTLER : |oresents self-righteous insistence on hunter. out failures as well as successes in theme in unusual terms, tery. The evidence was too thin, |, “Unconquered” and flagellate nd HAVE THE victors In war any moral responsibility for the van- |i... wickedness of others: for we s =» this experimental field. Their book| Hero of the novel is Beau Beau- . = lami 4 \ shed? | ’ y — spirits with the most lurid romantic, 8 : |have all sinned, and continue to | THIS IS ONE book which will is well illustrated and the many champ who, though of t-Negro ' THE LEWIS AND CLARK “9%! to spit Mr Swanson; spat _is not merely a rhetorical question'd A great. deal more than ost horribly. sf satisfy both the sagebrush and|g.iailed tables it includes will be descent, is able to pass le in pedition of 1803-4, undertaken at whose “The Judas Tree” was a ret most of us realize depends upon the kind of answer—not just in words “The second 1s that good treat- homicide fans, with murder set in helpful to the experimenting gar-'a southern community. When Beau i ie order of Tg Tomas [ty good sample of the historical ve Bive the Juestion. . . ment and not bad treatment makes/® Wild West background. dener. falls in love with a girl of similar eflerson, penetrate he Western speed-up, likes to tell a tale in which ouls Fischer, author of “Gandhi and Stalin” (Harper), raises the| on good. “Death in the Wrong Room” 15| yt is claimed that the chemicals heritage, he experiences the crip-

plasms 10 he Basile by Yay 3 te colonial heroines are threatened, polit in R Tieihonal Sige to the late John G. Winant in the Dec. 6| "u.,ny the third is—to drop into PY ‘the successful mystery writer, | qescribed “have proved non-toxic pling, superstition-bred disabilities I bas Jef Kable | Bh body and soul, by lecherous villains Saturday eview of terature. . "ithe hideous collective language Anthony Gilbert, whose popularity|to animals and humans and thus of mixed blood. t has left many remarkable legeoas| 104 ot too Idealistically by! Mr. Fischer, writing under the Mr. Gollancz is a British Soclalist| "= © 0 much the mude— 18s grown with the popularity of are safe for use in pastures” and| For Elisse, believing Beau to be his leading character, Arthur Crook. gre valuable for farmers and horti-| white, at first shuns him. And when

ir American‘ history, all of which : ’ title, “The Essence of Gandhiism,”'and pamphlet-publisher, whose] valiant young men who go through ’ . p p 3 : r wre described in scholarly. fashion jlo): {hem quotes the late (“Brown Book of the Hitler Terror” | that unless you treat a man welll “pp "oone "of those “old Eng- culturalists as well as amateur gar- Beau explains matters to her and lish” castle mysteries with the|geners. | later wishes .to marry her, his se-

by Mr. Bakeless. ..n ambassador as appeared in the year following te [¥HeD 1 has Sealed you mi To i The imaginati res to think saying: , | s you give fure agination loves to nk saying I have Nazi coup d'etat, ther impetus to evil and head | Tany-roomed home of a staid old| whether continued applications cret of ancestry becomes known ‘straight for human annihilation,” |(amily turned into a Grand Central|of chemicals over a long period of throughout the community.

hell for them

" THE LATE? {f these heroines is about the help given by Sacagawesn,| THE LATEST o " often thought that In the present

the Indian squaw of a Frenca Abby Hale, who is 17, beautiful, a I Re ET Yr ded Be dtton CODYICE transported {rom England | if after the last vo ume he is con- | “In Darkest Germany” is a book | Station of murder and near wmur- time, especially when used in large yu part of the way. She was with(10 the frontier as an indentured|war two thousand [Carved win pec all of us should ponder before we der: Good for raising hair. quantities as weed killers, is harm-| A LONG-STANDING FEUD be- , 4 Servant, practically a slave. Wejof us out of the 4 " {make this year's decision’ Between ful to soil bacteria or otherwise tween Beau and an igno ! vo! high in the A a passes Meet her at Port Pitt in the days two million who jirines, t4¢ vhoto roast Toate tom ries ut beet i injurious to soil might be ques- white man DY 5h Jeuceant: evel of the Rockies she encountersd the|°f the conspiracy of Pontiac. The fought in France levabhs a Po tenderloin and fried deep scal- tioned. shooting Gaynor in self-defense. In hero is Capt. Christopher Holden, had volunteered grap gpicuing |lops, to quote a sample Christmas 2 = = jail afterwards, Beau is the target

THE CHAPTER on “Ripening for a klan-conducted lynching, but . |Pruit,” mentioning among later|through the sheriff's kind help, developments the use of ethylene escapes in ku-klux design. An ingas to “yellow” citrus fruit which nocent Negro boy is chosen instead is “mature but still green” may|for butchering by the frustrated # [leave readers feeling thankful that mob. “no practical use has been made These and other sequences are

the unbelievable misery of postwar Germany aye stronger than

Shoshones from whom she had been stolen when a girl What followed belongs in gran

{who feuds over her with Martin ts help the child Garth, who buys Abby and turns gren of Germany

% | menu I have here on my desk. opera, and it is surprising that it her over to as vile a set of Indians we might have Louis Fischer THE NAVY'S STORY — has never reached there. While ®8 history affords avoided this war, because peace

| translating for the Indian chief, TO tell in detall what happens needs a personal care as well as id DFAtOLY. Jey Vietor Gollanes Book Detailed Sacagawea recognized him as to Abby and her associates would collective action.” Show cn icren iia | I ner fed (those leg and body sores do not |

brother, and the emotional up- exhaust the list of brutalities short Elsewhere in his admirable ar- heal): fll-clothed (the shoes that] og ; hi i feall upheaval that resulted was “a most ®f sudden death. Abby has her ticle, Mr. Fischer observes: are nothing but-seraps of leather | ut xciting | RE als = = nig a a Jane clothes torn off, Is suspended by| “Governments can only negotiate } i ; , : ations 4 the novels. artistic Improving fruit-set with hor- merit. Yet the basic lesson is clearly

mones, the spraying of Christmas/stated and vitally important: The greens to make them last longer, basis of race feeling is fear, fear ¢ lincreasing the size of blackberries, born of ignorance. When that fear hastening germination of seed, and becomes acute, it seeks violent outmany other ways of using chem-|let. icals on garden and farm will] “God Is for White Folks” deserv doubtless leave a better taste/Wide reading. : (literally) in the reader’s mouth.

This handbook would make an New Titles Added

: un-Indianlike proceeding,” says and fabric str q : i ’ Cr eb tar aia Se ung “together); {ll-/ Mr. Bakeless. Is then turned out Mer Wrists, beaten, singed and truces between wars. Peace is bullt coq (the rat-infested, cave-like| “THE BATTLE OF JHE ATLANTIC, "1939-1943." By Samuel

1 that Sacagawea had been betrothed Pranded. She and Christopher by peoples,” and he cites the Brit-| i as a child to a Shoshone warrior ®¥ade the Indians, bash in their|ish and American Quakers who won iy FOUIRE of Dombi butlds | Eliot Mori Boston, Atlanti twice her age and he had claims canoes and speed down a roaring the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize without | "&%’* Littl Bon, sion, ann on her. But when he learned that/Tiver to a waterfall with bateaux having had anything whatever to Air photos show vast areas of ittle, Brown, $6. she already had borne the Frencn.|n Pursuit, drawing nearer every do with conferences or treaties. skeleton buildings, as in the ruins| IT APPEARS that Samuel Eliot mina cid Te deciared himself moment to a terrible death on the : ow of Hamburg. In all the frightful Morison has found just the right satisfied with the two wives he rocks below. And yet ... - | WHAT THE QUAKERS did was desolation, cold, grime and disrase way to present to the average fad on clothe the naked and feed the hun- stalk innocent young victims, the reader—that's you and me—tne in SY following literally the Scrip- survivors of whom will have to pro- complex story of how the U. S.

The expedition of Lewis and Clark! OTHERS ARE EQUALLY tural hmotiong . & i \ , never Si Toll th i et "| jeopardy. One of the best acts is put (tUral injunctions some modern vide Germany's leaders tomorrow. Navy fought the war. His “story excellent Christmas gift to the . ' ls a great American story. Mr. On by Jeremy, who gets hit on the cynics may regard as fantastic. Those of us who have been con- will cover 13 volumes. He could WATERFRONT STORY — confirmed gardener. To Children * Books Bakeless 1s careful to-keep the nar- head with an ax and thrown into a As if to lend force to Mr. Fischer's tent to enjoy complacently the lift- make it dull, for the Naval .files| \wi0 0 Martin C th ee Simon & Schuster have added 1 o rative within the bounds set by his Well; he grabs the bucket and hangs P 4: 41 American edition of Victor ing of wartime restrictions, while we bulge with statistics. But he has | i) BP, SUITOR ‘Movie Ma Re M de new titles to their Big Golden Bouks documents and to avoid impression- On until his rescuers bring him up Calan s “In Darkest Germany" indifferently leave to the govern- found the knack of making :t both ecturer and newspaperman, | Y, a for children. istic writing and unaccountable con-|bY Windlass. And there is the in- oS been brought out by the Henry ment or the Army all responsibility detailed and exciting. whose ; San Francisco: Port. of Of Gunther's Book The new additions to the $1 so ics clusions. Consequently his narra- evitable misrepresentation of the Regnery Co. over in Hinsdale, Ill. for the conquered peoples, will doi One work was published carlier Gold is an informal, illustrated | John Gunther's “Inside U. 8. A.” are: “The Big Brown Bear,” by tive moves in tempo moderato, hero by the conspiring villains—the irst published in England last Jan- well to read Mr. Gollancz. (this year; the present, ‘hough history of the Golden Gate | (Harper), may yet appear in a | Georges Duplaix, with illustrations where Bernard DeVoto's “Across the false charge of desertion, the im- uary, the book 1s a record of a visit) s published second, will be Vol. 1 of} city's waterfront (Doubleday, |screen version, according to Paul | bY Gustaf Tenggren, and “Walt

n ” (he author made in ‘October and| I WANT TO QUOTE from his the series. It is “The Battle >f the, $5), S. Nathan's “Books Into Films” Disney's Bongo,” adapted from tne

Wide Missouri” speeds forward in minence of death. Nok . : 1 allegretto. His research is sound| Records of frontier warfare, es- November, 1946, to the British Oc-! foreword: | Atlantic, 1939-1943.” There is a fore- | | lain in last Saturday's Publish- | Disney film, “Fun and Fancy Free,” and dependable. A veteran of two Pecially in the Pennsylvania wilder- Wphilan wone ' “To me three propositions seem Word by James V. Forrestal and ‘Ch f-th M h' ore Weekly. [wile Midsitalione yy BHW Sn, psa, Sushi ii ness, probably will give many de. : -|an introduction on the Navy be- eese-of-the-Mont Mr. Nathan writes: “Composer | —tmmmm— “Penn. Mark's the SPOT to Find | tails as gory as these. Mr. Swanson Y [yeas the wars by Com. Dudley Hands Editor a Poser |Arthur Schwartz andga raft of Writes New Novel i BOOKS Satisfying Heart & Mind” has merely met the demand of } Yight Ros, USN; “Th 1 » writers are whipping’ up a stage 1 “Wi modern readers for swifter-paced Fe Xu C a : Plates OF sing; musical based on the John Jit Gore Tidal, suber of Wiliwawe | Penn-Mark Book Shop | neve cai yon ir pace | THIS 18 THE ecard of the con COU INNS Pe | bok, and at east on picture coms vitten & new novel, “The City and 2124 W. Michigan St. ly incidents. Oddly enough he voys, when the German submarines ,",o.on( one follows: pany is hoping to play ‘angel’ andthe Pillar,” which Dutton will pub- a Indianapolis 22, Indiana achieves an air of unreality, prob- were doing heavy damage to trans-| urpere is now, we learn fr tie up the film rights.” lish Jan. 9 FRanklin 7854 ably because the love story is sc ports. The way the Navy Kept| iar recently received Chon A : sree, ‘ theatrical and artificial ahead of the Germans in inventing] ’ y oa oe th eal al. {of-the-Month’ Club. When the n

apparatus for detection is a re- .4ii0r of these ‘Pleasures’ announced

markable story. Co-operation with | " : ; this fact to his wife, she inquired Sidi

y : # | Flowers . » airplanes and develo; a pment of axrall . Telegraphed “5 it with flowers antisubmarine boats helped mighiil DO ae was nominated thE Tra to defeat the subs, but for 18 : 4 a | Tg meas Any nd Newer TT No such candid chronicle tought: for control of antisubmarine Sinclair Lewis Gets THI

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