Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1949 — Page 8
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i ; Henry von Rhau Pens Full Description =| Of Big’ Racketeering
"FRATERNALLY YOURS." A novel. By Henry von Rhau. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, $2.75. “ROOSEVELT AND THE RUSSIANS: THE YALTA CONFERENCE." By Edward Stettinius. New York, Doubleday, $4. ; “GLOBAL MISSION." By Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold. New York, Harper, $5. By EMERSON PRICE, Book Editor, The Cleveland Press
emphasis on labor unions, in New York City. Title of the book is “FRATERNALLY YOURS.” : This is a work that will please the not too discriminating reader who likes to be seated in.comfort and security while reading about murder, : | , and sharing the aublood, lust, mayhem, extor SME irre oid ..
tion and sex practices that| “... The Western nations could fous _{not now follow their present polare conducted ig feros oir licy toward the Soviet Union uncumstances. It also has what), they h th the may pass for humor here and|'®®® they had behind them
there. But the author's witty sal record of President Roosevelt and
{Prime Minister Churchill in their es a amy) Jolt effort to deal with Russian Hat tev Seti 0 me something’ , pe manner at Yalta.” Moreover, I detect in von Rhau’s ® »¥ = APT to present a picture of| H. H. (HAP) ARNOLD, general American mobdom some element of the Air Force, writes the story closely resembling cynicism, an/of his life and. inevitably, the element not infrequently misun-|story of the growth of American derstood to be wisdom. air power in “Global Mission.” . 0» _..| And from this volume one obtains THE STORY is that of Big Spl a striking impression of how Wexler, and of his underworld rapid that growth has been. rise under direction of the undis-| In the span of Gen. Arnold's puted gangland czar, one Gilkie. adult life the airplane has been Sol's province in this kingdom of (transformed from a. rickety
on the other hand, is in the pro-imotored bomber and jet craft Between them which outstrips the speed of they prosper beyond the mostigo,n4 Arnold had a prominent lavish dreams of big financiers. (role in most phases of aircraft In this gangland world we find development and, as a climax to characters th such names as his career, led the United States Maybe Epstein, Rocco Progato,'Ajr Forces in the war, when airLawyer Shapiro (expert mouth-icraft hecame the most deadly of lace aot [Tang Siatistica) Geutryctive nstruments. * ’ mong e more interestin names, which, Hough not in vary sections of the biography Sse, indies ational Srigite Cur. (those dealing with Billy Mitchell, ae ic a po posistent who exposed his career to ruin fold. is in attempting to elevate air power
wish to indicate that this ito the position it finally achieved, either accident or design, fori ., , 0 dealing with the part
there are other names: Edd _jof the military plane in World Baker and Soldier Harris, for in War II. Arnold points out that : _{even had Mitchell emerged triumao ne NN pede Sin. phant in his dispute with the miligle venture into matrimony, tary brass, the airplane was not ends on the rocks, is taken with|then far enough along to take full the ridiculous Rose Pearlman, advantage of his victory. daughter of the honest, but| One emerges from this book equally ridiculous Meyer Pearl- with the feeling that its author man, keeper of a kosher delica-ably accomplished a most diftessen store, cult task in the second World « 8» ‘War by reconciling the conflicting
| girls, shows the background of iwhom -dogs | Heroine Wendy Hiller's summer |}; pn « naturally
A NEW novel by Henry von Rhau contains a full de-| scription—the author's own—of big-time racketeering, with
| rill's books for junior readers cue and spiked | ($2.50). lorange juice with
{leaders in an honest and honor-
violence is the labor union. Gilkie,imotor-driven kite to the multi-|
Mexican Scene Fields Spikes Drawing of Campfire Scene
Baby's Juice, Steals Scene
| B 3 "W. C. FIELDS: His Follies and 4 Fértunes.” By Robert Lewis Tay- J lor. New York, Doubleday, $3.50." + By STERLING NORTH | AND NOW, my little chickadee,| 'a true-life success story as lived ‘by W. C. Fields: A Mexican scene in one of | Child vagrant and thief ‘at the!
Evelyn Copelman's illustrations age of 11, strictly a teetotaler| f Te vw F " Bernice {until the age of 12, in and out of o ancy Pres, IC® jails all over the :
Bryant's new book for teen-age_worid, a man
|swans, bears and
of study and teen romance in (distrusted, an ac : ' itor who once “* Mexico. Mrs. Bryant's novel is a brained Ed Wynn
recent addition to Bobbs-Mer. with a billiard Baby LeRoy’s
gn to steal a next spring.
SATURDAY, OCT. 8, 1849 |
Douglas Book Set
Justice William O. Douglas has|
“tentatively scheduled for release|Philisophical
‘est. Unfortunately, if a Hollywood cowboy could show his face in he'd either be laughed out of town or shot dead Rotors Dreakiast depending on Woy" rhere To be pubmed ing at the time. The West had little time or need for fakery. . Readers of Duncan Emrich's “It's An Old Wild West Custom” : ; iy will ind a rich lode of fraudless | This campfire scene is one af Bruce Adams’ line drawings for folklore which stands forth- "°F foress;
“Jeff White: Young Woodsman," by Lew Dietz, a story for boys of adventure in the Maine woods. (Little, Brown, $2.50)
'The Way to God’
Vivid Story Of Old West
“IT'S. AN OLD WILD . CUSTOM." By Duncan Emrich, ROW lives in Virginia City, Nev,
WEST West from border to border and core of the Wild West and scene
Vanguard, $3. ASE SHELDON of many of its historic events.
IF THE perennial popularity of tening work is a valuable adwestern movies and geetar- ghia to A “ _iplunking cowboy crooners is any, » series. {eriterion, the average American an avid lover of the Wild
| Signs Book Contract
Whittlesey House has signed a contract with Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy for a book of memoirs he has just completed, entitled “I
next spring, the book presents the first account of Adm. Leahy’s efforts, while ambassador .to France, to stiffen Marshal Pe<. tain's resistance to Nazi occupa~
{rightly on its own two feet withlout benefit of Technicolor and a ‘Army of Israel {moth-eaten horse opry script
J » " | HEROES OF the Wild West— prospectors, cattlemen, hardrock . “The Way to God™ is the title miners, gamblers. town women of Israel” an historical study ~~ Jcontracted with Harper to publish of a new book by Rabbi Maxwellland bad men—are brought vivhis book, “Men and Mountains,” Silver to be published by the idly to life by a writer who, as Library of Newchief of the Library of Congress’ 'folklore division, has covered the December.
Lt. Col. Moshe Pearlman, pub-lic-relations chief of the army of Israel, has written “The Army which will be published with
sophical Library of New York in
cene — how did Books Tell this sinful rascal W..C.’ Flelds
succeed in our moral and wellPi T ordered society? Excellently, my - ioneer a e little turtle dove, excellently} 3 He ended life earning $125,000 ‘ THE ROYAL HIGHWAY." By 4 picture, a national hero beloved Edwin Corle. Indianapolis by all and sundry. Bobhs-Merrill $4. Did he win friends and influence "EABULOUS BOULEVARD." By people by the time-tested Dale
rnegie method of back-sl in Ralph Hancock. New York, Carnegie me! : ppg Funk & Wagnalls, $3.50. | He did not, my pretty glow- ” worm. He quarreled and snarled . BOOKS ABOUT American! nd sulked, bellowed nasal insults rivers, lakes and regions have, ,.oqucers and directors, and given many readers a greater'was harder to handle than John |senae of the history of our nation Barrymore. ra {than all the textbooks they read : 5 lin school. The story of America’s] WAS HE generous with te |important highways furnishes an poor and kindly toward children’ {equally excellent device for mak- He was tighter than a pawn shop {ing our past dynamic. proprietor and said he liked chil- { Two books which supplement ; parboiled. What, in that {each other in this category are “The Royal Highway” (El Ca- case, was the secret of his sucmino Real) by Edwin Corle and cess? “Fabulous Boulevard” by Ralph] He was a comic genius. He was Hancock. {simply the funniest man America The Royal Highway, now U. 8./ever produced. Although he drank 101, extends from Lower Califor- two quarts of gin a day while nia up the coast to San Francisco. working, fired pistols not too playThis path of explorers, priests, fully at his butler, hid his money rancheros, American soldiers, gold in over seven hundred banks’ seekers, stage coaches and high- (mostly under assumed mames), waymen, over which tourists now paid off obligations by promising speed by hundreds of thousands. to put people in his will, occasion: is sufficiently romantic without ally broke contracts and raised what the jacket calls “the unfor-|inferno generally, the public gettable chapter on the notorious couldn't get along without him. bandit, Joaquin Murrieta.” | In fact, Charles Dickens never How much of this legend is created a character as erratic, pure fantasy can be learned by irascible and eccentric as the reading Joseph Henry Jackson's bulbous-nosed comedian who scholarly “Bad Company.” | brought down the house as star » = = of the Follies and Vanities, EQUALLY AFFECTED by the Wowed film audiences in such > California exuberance is the story| Pictures as “If 1 Had a Million, of Wilshire Bivd., Fifth Ave. -of| international House -Mrs the West, as told by Ralph Han-| Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, cock In “Fabulous Boulevard.”| Mississippi” and “Man on the
Admittedly it is a bit hard to over-| F1YIng Trapeze.” and reached do this main street of 11 com-| Something like immortality in his
NOW, the hero of this tale— opinions and demands of leaders h
though not its protago man with the good old Anglo- bombing.
Be wos wm Author R mo! n to smas mob. Rowley is an altogether urnor ; ags hensat man. And why is he "IN D : While the author leaves to the! ew ea
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nist-—is a with his own concept of strategic|
jit-trom blowinig up, the streets of | Gene Fowler, But Fields would
munities which has evolved from role as Micawber in “David Copan Indian trail and cattle road to Perfield. e's a commercial street on which , tens of millions have been made FIELDS DID have a more in property speculation alone. A'/amiable side. and he really was i
street from beneath which .oillloved as well as admired by such must be pumped regularly to keep| gid cronies as Will Rogers and
the movie stars. and Western, : capitalists, named ironically turn upon even his best friends
Bays agent, he source of "POLITICS HAS NO MORALS."
sition, he makes it clear that the| By Norman Beasley. New York, official has a sufficient private in-| Scribner, $3. come to fortify honest instincts. By. HOWARD SHELDON |
The suggestion that the American dotlar may be.| NORMAN BEASLEY presents
come a source of morality when ample evidence that he never re-| combined with a good American | covered from Herbeft Hoover's]
up-bringing. diselection in : “POLITICS HAS
Well, w INO MORALS. { smash a? Rey re Bnally In polemical fashion, he con-| arrested is Maybe Epstein, about! tends that the ‘irresponsibility whom the district attorney is dis- \n Sovernment” introduced by posed toward leniency. Maybe Franklin Roosevelt has cost us not only squealed, but was tool ™M2nY liberties and will cost us
dim-witted to be the rest uniess President Tru-| member of ay. responsible} an is defeated in 1952. i
Mr. Beasley apparently feels that pre-Rooseveltian politics and politicians were quite moral. special as- mpage of us who remember or
Since Maybe's brother (known as Brother Epstein), an honest young lawyer and
gang, 1 had hoped the Epstein! family might be redeemed" '™® pont. through him. But no, Brother, {HOWEVER, Mr. Beasley does
“By the way, sir , . . I was fault on the schools (infiltrated wondering if you'd reconsider by communist teachings and atyour. decision on Maybe. Since titudes), thé churches (which
my mother. And with Wexler men (who didn't treat workers Bone, there'll be no one to take! fairly), labor unions (which we care of Maybe. If you could]
four years, it would save me a| Since the author ignores the considerable amount of money.” impact of economic forces, world This is the final characteriza- politics and atomic energy on tion, among many, of those modern society, we must assume whose names are sometimes these are of no consequence.
delicate of Anglo-Saxon and Ger- — Seam t——— manic ears. But perhaps this is 1 not 4he whole story . of ble ae Write} About Reds land, since the author fails to| Vladimir Petrov, who served explore the possibility that in time in Siberia as a slave laborer the last 50 years we have forced 2nd is now on the faculty of Yale
the law in the execution 6f theft; Farrar, Straus Oct. 24, bit 3 it the " simple, untutored — min stinction between legalized theft and outright ue Tel Is E ceny may be purely academic in| nature. | » - » WHILE IT has become good sport among certain groups to! accuse the late Franklin D. Roosevelt of “having been too friendly with the Russians.” and! having “made secret commit-| ments at Yalta,” it is curious to! note this declaration of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. in “Roosevelt and the Russians: ‘The Yalta! Conference.” 3 “The high degree of co-opera-tion attained by the three leaders ~ at Yalta began to break down § shortly after Yalta. It was the opinion of some of the State De-
xperiences
ing made too many conces-| Eileen J. Garrett writes of her to the two capitalistic na-| experiences in clairvoyance, predogmatic) .oonition, telepathy and other eyes, never: be really psychic phenomena in *'Advenabout it an ele-| ures in the Supernormal: A Per. g authority. You sonal Memoir," just published
sistant district attorney, aided'pave read a » about men and events mightily in rounding up the pirore FDR may want to differ roscai Tuttle Hedden; “Stranger, |
lin Paris.” by W. Somerset Mau-' Work on Egypt
has been deprived of charitable qt j0ad the entire blame on the| — : instincts. He suggests to Rowley. Now Deal. He liberally sprinkles Biography Scheduled Egypt’ is the title of a major il-
my ‘brother Moe disappeared, 1| : ) {Franck will be published by the Nov. 21 by the Philosophical Lihave heen the sole ——. of | suBeient iid met Ue en Philosophical Library of New brary of New York, the book repsue {York Nov. 28. The author is the resents many years’ archeologi-|
need but not the Kind we have)! | ~Q C\A/ - iITne — oe gend him up for say three or and taxes (which are too high). | CROSSWORD PUZZLE
held offensive to the more P. 8. Mr. Beasley writes well.
into our national character the University, tells of conditions in, odd notion that it is not evil the Siberian gold mines. His book, | to steal so long as one circles ‘Soviet Gold,” will be released by|
enough for the health fad addict, in moments of pique. He was billboard owner and Socialist, H.| excessively sensitive about his’ Gaylord Wilshire, who didn't let|talent, his billing, his salary and his politics keep him from squeez-| his nose. And there were certain! ing several million dollars from| other subjects his friends usually, his many enterprises.—8.N. avoided. f Robert . Lewis Taylor is not . . alone in his conclusion that) Head Reprint List ! Fields’ comic genius sprang in A compilation made by Ban- part from the revenge he sought tam Books shows that the fol-| upon society. For instance, he lowing Bantam 25c¢ reprints are! hated dentists and one of his selling to the public at the rate! movie roles gave him a perfect of more than 100,000 copies a opportunity fo make dentists look month: “1 Escaped From Devil's incredibly ridiculous. He always Island," by Rene Belbenoit; was funniest when working off "“Kingsblood Royal,” by Sinclair some ancient grudge: Against Lewis; “The Stranger.” by Lil-| bankers, ‘against road hogs, lian Bos Ross¢ “My Sister, My! against storekeepers, even Bride,” by Merriam Modell; “My against children. Flag Is Down,” by James Ma-, But through some magic his resca; “The Other Room,” by, rages were thus transmuted!
gham; “Nevada,” by Zane Grey. | tetera meme—— “The Splendor That Was
lustrated volume by Margaret A. The first English language bi- | Murray, of the University Colography of the composer Cesar|lé8e. London. To be published
|young composer Norman Demuth. cal work in Egypt. .
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