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EVENING HEKALD, SHENANDOAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1955. PAGE ELEVEN myrtle; Right Around Home By Dudey Fisher Book Briefs AMERICAN WOMAN, BY MISREADING STARS, LOOK I FOUND A NICKEL AND A A If IN My POCKET vnu'D RPTTco. -J I tuWt or- aj I DIME ON OUR WALK II MEND IT BIGHT AWA SUSIE. 11. Pockets too vml.

I rW If A LED HITLER ONTO ROAD THAT BROUGHT RUIN By CHARLES FERLIN Central Press Correspondent SAN FKANCISCO How an American woman, passionately 0. VI till BLONDIE By Chic Young loyal to her native land, though married to a German nobleman and Uving in Hitlerite Germany, contributed to the doom of the Fuehrer, was revealed here by retired realtor George A. Hensley, her friend for many years. The sensational Hesley revelations concern the Baroness Carita von Horst, onetime president of the Astrological Society of Europe. The beautiful and talented native Chicagoan and descendant of the wealthy and cultured Partello family, counted her compatriot.

Hens-ley, among her large circle of European and American social leaders whose activities made frontpage news during the Kaiser and Weimer regimes. By UNITED PRESS Anne Chamberlain in 'The Tall Dark Man" (Bobbs-Merrill) has written an electric thriller that will strike home to anyone who recalls childhood fears and insecurities. The story is about Sarah Lou Gross, 13 and lonely, driven to fantasy and wild tale-telling to win the notice her unhealthy personality denies her. Tortured by trying to recall her real father, confused about her mother and her new father, Sarah likes to stare daydreaming from the high school study class window. It is while rapt in a hazy imaginary world that her eyes record a shocking murder on a hillside opposite the Because Sarah has told so many tales before, particularly one horrid slander- against a well-liked man, her babbling efforts to call attention to the murder earn her dnly greater scorn.

Then Sarah, with the wisdom of the young, perceives that the tall slayer she watched also saw her and will be, waiting for her when school is out Sarah's terror-ridden efforts- to hide from hei1 fears become panicky. All the while the tall man, who could be anybody's inner fear, waits to claim her. Mfes Chamberlain Writes with dramatic intensity, a pleasurable economy of words and a ear for the dialogue of the young. Sarah's terror becomes the reader's own and the psychological overtones add power to a superlative achievement in story telling. BLONDifc--iMiATfc fur rii i i i dont CARE how late I iiuuiiumMimmiwm MV BUS -HAVE THE fr YOU ARE-VOU'RE NOT (Hr UuulTvXTu FRONT DOOR OPEN --J VGOING TO GET OUT bX A.mlSS",- 7S r-! 1 tJO vwwm Prior to World War Carita (came to Germany with her father, I a United States consular officer Baronial home of the Von Horsts at' Coburg, tn Bavaria.

It was here that the patriotic American-born baroness devised the misleading horoscopes that trapped the Fuehrer. HENRY By Carl Anderson i 'I jl j.f There can hardly have been a better cloak-and-dagger story since the war than "Top Secret Misison" by Madelaine Duke. (Criterion). Madelaine Duke is a pen name for the author and heroine of this story of a struggle between the Allied and Russian secret services for possession of a top-level German atomic scientist who went into hiding after the war. The author is a British science doctor, we are told.

She got herself a job with the Allied mission in Austria, in order to seek her brother who disappeared during the war after living for some years in Germany. She found the brother, and also found herself caught in a web of conspiracy in which she became the chief hope of finding German Prof. "Hans Her adventures build up to a dramatic climax when she finds him in disguise on an Adriatic island. All names in "Top Secret Mission" are fictitious. A letter from a British War Office official, which the publishers distribute, refuses to give "Dr.

Duke" permission to use real names. proved uncannily correct, were brought to Hitler's attention. Carita von Horst made a profound impression upon Hitler. He began consulting her at Coburg; often sent for her when brooding up at the Eagle's nest at Berchtes-gaden or in the Wilhelmstrasse chancellory in He sought her advice "when weighing world-shaking decisions on the eve of important military adventures. 1 So convincing were the Baroness" arguments, predictions and astrological interpretations that the superstitious Hitler believed pored over them and moves in the main military in character which were destined to prove disastrous in the affairs of, the Reich.

THE GULLIBLE Adolf fell for the blandishments of the shrewd Carita, and when failure stared him in the face, the double-dealing American horoscope artist exerted such hypnotic power over him that he returned time and again to her, though she had deliberately bamboozled him in the interests of her native America. Hitler's most disastrous military venture the Invasion of Russia had been suggested to as a master stroke of military strategy. Even Napoleon's debacle on the frozen steppes of Russia failed to deter him from risking his armies, as strongly urged by the baroness, according to her charts. When her counsel resulted in disaster for Hitler and his legions, Baroness von Horst seemed able to convince him that he had acted BEETLE BAILEY stationed at Duesseldorf. He sent his daughter to the University of where she became an Intimate friend of the four daughters of the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia Victoria, Marie, Beatrice and Melita.

Victoria became the Duchess of Hohenlohe; Marie, queen of Romania; Beatrice, favorite niece of King Edward VT1 of Great Britain, married Antonio, half-brother of King Alfonso XIH of Spain. Melita was betrothed to the Grand Duke Cyril of Russia, THE THEN Grand Duchess Marie's estate was at Rosenau, near Coburg, In Bavaria. To its palatial precinct were bid the royalty and nobility of Europe. Carita had become a talented musician and composer. The great Leipsic Symphony honored her with solo appearances.

At Rosenau, she often accompanied Russian Grand Duke Cyril in piano duets. This is the way Hensley describes how Carita Partello eventual became the Baroness Carita von Horst: On a buying trip to Coburg, Louis Horst, of German birth but living in America, met Carita. Marriage followed a whirlwind courtship, and Louis bought a beautiful estate at No. 5 Festung strasse, Coburg, not far- from Rosenau. Later he was raised to a baronetcy and his bride became the Baroness Carita von Horst.

i World War 1 wrought havoc with the Rosenau prowd. Louis von Horst had gone to England, where he was interned as an emis- sary of the imperial German government. After bis death, his, widow remained at Coburg, where she lived quietly under the Weimar republic, composed operatic music and devoted much time to the i study of astrology. Then came Adolf Hitler, and a new exciting era dawned in the life of the trans- By Mori Walker wsexTme. YES.

I THAT'S WASN'T I LUCKY TO MEET baby; well, LETS GO AROUND Cj- vou I HE SAID THE MOST ACCEPTED A jL HE'D KAEET EXPENSIVE I mtc i-ru tuat 1 Nl KAP hT Tut: I I Dl Arc IM II A 6UY WHO KNOWS HIS WW AROUND? STRANGE VJ FLAMINGO I i cm eo7 if- 1 "ui club, a Peggy Mann's first novel, "A Room in Paris (Doubleday), is the story of Stanley Kagen, a bearded, cynical young American "studying" art in Paris on the GI Bill, who spends most of his time talking instead of painting Janet Welles, blonde, prettj. is from New York and works for EGA as a secretary. They meet in a Left Bank cafe and fall in love, hesitatingly, grudgingly and almost fearfully. But from the welter of their individual confusion, doubts and suffering, they come to realize that their love is real and worth the sacrifices each must make to nourish it. "A Room in Paris" says nothing that is new, but it treats the eternal and delicate problems of love with skill and understanding.

The action moves along briskly, the dialogue rings true and the characters are real. ETTA KETT By Paul Robinson Baroness Carita van Horst who served her country by bamboozling Hitler. planted American woman from Chicago. Carita von Horst was still the 'grande dame at Coburg. Her fame as an operatic composer and leading astrologist had spread beyond the borders of Germany.

Came the day when her astrological predictions which, more often than hot, a w7 contrary to her forecasts. How she survived his wrath, concentration camp torture or banishment from Germany baffled an entire continent. Hensley last heard from the Baroness von Horst' in 1947 evidence that she survived the collapse of the Third Reich. I rVOUIZ FATHEE SAVS He WAS SO ITS DAD 'GUESS acemTYou a little r-v crn TTZI CDUOMF mnriKcn 1AUCM mjp LIMFWASMTl lvUO HE WAS HAVING I iLL r- i m-ism. P'l i 1 RI1SV.

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The author quickly acknowledges what any G.I. would certainly know that a person named Sack ought not be in the army. Although he works hard to keep serious thoughts out of this account of army life, he succeeds in giving informative, entertaining accounts of several events that were not essentially funny. Sack was a reporter for Stars Stripes in Korea. He is at his best when describing the troublesome Chinese Communist prisoners' of war, a field artillery outpost, the Reds at Panmunjom, and a misanthropic public information officer.

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