Evening star., 1946-11-11

part of his sermon around a news
paper society page picture depicting
Vice Admiral and Mrs. w. H. P.
Blandy about to cut the odd
shaped piece of pastry, with Rear
Admiral F. J.. Lowry looking on, Mr..
Powell called the picture itself "ut-
terly loathsome."
Waving the printed page aloft. Mr..
Davies told his congregation, If I
had the authority of priest OF the
Middle Ages, I would call down the
wrath of God upon such an obscen-
ity. I would damn to hell these
people of callous conscience, these
traitors to humanity who could par
ticipate in such a monstrous betrayal
of everything for which the broken
hearted of the world are waiting"
Fears Effect in Russia.
Noting that the caption said the
cake was made of Tiny angel food
puffs," the minister added, II hope
to God the picture isn't reprinted in
Russia-to confirm everything the
Soviet government has been telling
the Russian people about how Amer
ican degenerates are able to treat
with levity the most cruel, pitiless.
revolving instrument of death ever
invented by man."
Mr.. Davies views were Endorsed
by the Rev. Clarence w. Crawford,
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church
and president of the Washington
Ministerial Union. II think it is
the kind of thing that should be
said," he said. 81 he very fact that
we have the strategic advantage in
having the bomb means we ought
to lean over backward not to fiont
it in other peoples faces. We may
not always have that advantage and
then it will be mportant whether
we made friends of other nations or
whether we have caused them to
fear us more. America needs to be
careful lest it lose the moral leader
ship of the world to another ma
ton"
Takes Opposite View.
On the other hand, the Rev. Peter
Marshall, pastor of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, said
he found nothing obscene about the
picture and Il don't see anything
loathsome about it at all"
The Rev. j. Warren Hastings,
pastor of the National City Chris
tian Church, observed 'if we can
only learn to go no further with
the atomic bomb than to making the
likeness of its explosion into a cake,
we shall be all right"
Admiral Blandy today said Mr..
Davies remarks were "too ridicu-
lous to deserve comment" The ad-
miral headed the Army-Navy task
force which conducted the Bikini
A-bomb tests last summer.
The other naval officer in the
picture, Admiral Lowry, declared II
just can't understand how any man
could get such point of view" He
pointed out the cake, made by
bakers in st. Louis and shipped by
motor here for a reception held last
Thursday at the Officers Club of
the Army War College, was a "re-
production of the picture which has
been published in every magazine
and newspaper ever since the sec
ond atom bomb test. The cake was
given by the bakers, he added, to
show their appreciation to the
Army, Navy and Air Corps for their
efforts to find out what the atom
bomb could do and toward the end
that we might have peace and cer-
tainly not to encourage war.
None Wants War.
"It's quite evident" he continued,
that none of us in the armed sery-
ices want war, but it's also certain
that we don't want peace at just
any price" Z
Eugene Kuehn, the East st. Louis,
ILL.,, baker who designed the cake
with the aid of L. K. Stephens, a
bakery supply salesman, described
the cake as strictly a business re-
quest" He said it had been ordered
by 1t. O.. g. John T: Holloway Of
st. Louis, a member of Admiral
Blandy's staff.
1t. Stephens at his Bloomington
(Ill.) home termed the sermon silly
adding, "We intended the cake as
something to eat"
A native of England, Mr.. Davies
came to the United States in 1928
and shortly afterward became .