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Evening star., 1950-12-25
Lip-Reoding Glasses
To Begin at Bethesda

Hard of hearing adults will re-
ceive lip-reading instruction at
Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School beginning at 7::30 pm,
January 4.
The classes, to be held each
Thursday from 7:30 to $50 pm,
will include beginning as we'll as
advanced courses. They are part
of the adult education program of
Montgomery County. Mrs. G.. M
Appel will be instructor.
Evening star., 1950-12-25
Former Sheriff Charged
In Woundinq of Wife
BY the Associated Press

GRUNDY, Va, Dec. 25.-A 60
year-old former sheriff of Bu-
chanan County was being helc
today on a charge of felonious
wounding following the pistol
shooting of his wife, Mrs. Mary
Golf.
The condition of Mrs. Golf, 81
was reported fair after a .38-cali-
ber bullet was removed from hel
hip. Witnesses said A. H. Gof1
had been drinking heavily before
the shooting.
Evening star., 1950-12-25

Ours is a tripartite form of
government with its balance of
power among the legislative, the
judiciary and the executive. The
Capitol and the Supreme Court
are visited by the millions who
come to Washington, but the
mecca Of the tourist, the must
on every itinerary, is the White
House, where one man often has
the power and responsibility of
decision.
This has not always been un-
derstood by the legislators. sew
eral of whom suggested that a
new house be built for the Presi-
dent and that the old White
House be preserved merely as a
museum. They did not under
stand that without President in
residence the thrill that comes
Ito every American when he first
sees it would be gone.
i. Shocked by Cost.
The legislators were under
standably shocked by the cost of
the reconstruction they were asked
to authorize. They were told by
the estimators. whose frankness
was commendable. that it would
cost much less to duplicate the
building than to rebuild it from
within. In the end the appro-
priation went through.
The crowd last night. even the
musicians and invited guests al
lowed within the fence, got hard
ly an inkling of the size of the
job going on in rebuilding the
structure.
This reporter went through the
White House last week and his
report could be summed up by
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saying. Its amazing what you
can do with SIS million"
He saw excavations so deep
that it made him dizzy to look
down in them. The interior of
the White House today has the
appearance of a factory. Every
where men are cutting pipe or
shaping sheet metal or stringing
wires. The complexity of the
installations is almost dismaying.
Many of the lines and pipes are
run in the channels of the great
steel beams used as supporting
pillars. Then the steel is incased
lin concrete forming a column
about two feet square.
One thinks: Wouldn't it be
awful if some one forgot to in
sert one of the wires or pipes
before the concrete is poured"
The floors have been poured.
floors so heavy that they add to
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Walls Go Down 28 Feet.
The White House walls and Gel
lar never had any great depth.
Now the walls go down % feet
and there are Easements, mez-
canine Easements. cellars and sub
cellars.
Steel markers were put in place
|all around the outside of the
White House at height of about
Is feet. Government men meas
ure their height above sea level
every few days with instruments
that split the inch into 10,000ths.
The engineers of John McShain,
Inc, the contractor, are proud
to report that SO far there has
been no sagging.
Much of the work has been in
Evening star., 1950-12-25
WoIser Heads Board
On Engineer LISTING

Daniel c. Walser was named
chairman of the ve-member
Board of Registration for Pro-
fessional Engineers in elections
here last week.
Leo H. Cleary was elected sec
retary-treasurer of the board
which is appointed by the District
Commissioners. The board is pre-
pairing an information circular on
the regulation of the practice in
the District.
Evening star., 1950-12-25
The White House the Center of the Entire Nations Negborood
By George Kennedy

American cities, especially in
this century. have given much
thought and planning to their
community centers. Some CEN
trail square is usually considered
the heart of the city and great
Importance is placed on its ap-
pearance.
Washington, which is different
in so many respects, varies also
in this. 1t was planned from
the start that the Capitol should
be its center but the city long
ago grew away from it. The citi-
zens of the modern city have al
ways felt something is lacking.
Probably that is the reason that
movements from time to time get
under way to build a stadium
something that Washington can
call its own.
II this city of magnificent dis
tances has center, it is not the
Capitol but another famous build
ing which is just about on the
middle of the original 10-mile
square set aside for the Federal
city. That building is the White
House.
1t has always been the heart
of Washington and still is. Last
night, despite the cold. More than
5000 persons stood outside the
fence in the rear of the White
House and sang Christmas carols
after President Truman, by re-
mote control, from his home in
Independence, Mo-, lighted Wash
ington's community Christmas
tree.
Moving Experience.
1t was a moving experience
There in the background was the
White House surmounted by al
great timber tower from which
concrete is being poured to make
the Executive Mansion as bomb
proof as an old building can be
made to be.
The singers really put their
heart in it when they came to
the familiar verses in 20 Little
Town Of Bethlehem:
"Yet In thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the
gears
Are met in thee tonight"
1t recalled the same Christmas
ceremony of only nine years ago
at the White House-the Christ
mas of 1941, less than three weeks
after Pearl Harbor. On that
Christmas eve President Roosevelt
and England's Prime Minister
Churchill took part in the Christ
mas tree lighting ceremony by
speaking from the balcony to
huge crowd gathered in the
garden.
Wake Island had just fallen.
The British forces in Hong Kong
had surrendered. The Japanese
were advancing on Manila and
on Singapore. Hitler's armies
were advancing on Moscow.
ChurchiITs Remarks.
Mr.. Churchill said:
This is a strange Christmas
eve. Almost the whole world is
locked in deadly struggle. Armed
with the most terrible weapons
which science has devised, the
nations advance upon each other"
Mr.. Roosevelt said many peo-
pie were asking:
How can we light our trees?
How can we give our gifts? How
can we meet and worship with
love and with uplifted hearts in
a world at war, world of fight
ing and suffering and death?"
He continued:
Even as we ask these ques-
tions, we know the answer. There
is another preparation demanded
of the nations beyond and beside
the preparation Of weapons and
materials of war. There is de-
manded of us also the prepara-
ton of our hearts. And when
we make ready our hearts for
the labor and the suffering and
the ultimate victory which lie
ahead, then we observe Christ
mas Day-with all its memories
Evening star., 1950-12-25
-Churchgoers
Hear Christmas
Pleas for Peace
Area CIereymen Stress
Right Spirit, Good Will
In Special Services

Thousa lands Of Washington
churchgoers today heard calls for
good will and peace as they at
tended special Christmas Day
services in many of the District
area churches.
At the annual community
Christmas Day service today in
National City Christian Church,
the Rev. DR.. Carl Kopf, minister
of First Congregational Church,
said 'if Christmas could mean
real peace on earth. the whole
tide of history would be turned
for the better just as it was in
Bethlehem so long ago.
Conflict Is "Ironic."
at is ironic that today in
Bethlehem there is tragic conflict
between Arabs and Jews, so seri-
Gus that for Christmas they have
declared an arfnistice on the road
to Bethlehem so that pilgrims
might visit the shrine. I wish
this Christmas truce could con-
tinue through the year and that 1t
could be a symbol of a truce in
Korea and throughout the world"
The speaker also called for a
Christmas that could mean a
right spirit in America where
everybody is anxious that some
body else do the sacrificing on
prices and wages.
1--WE face a real danger of each
group looking after itself and
very few groups seeing the coun-
try as a whole he warned. "It
takes a big man or big move
ment to see other people as well
as their own"
1,500 Attend St. Matthews.
More than 1900 persons at
tended the midnight mass at St.
Matthews Cathedral last night.
They heard the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
j. K. Cartwright, rector, speak.
A capacity crowd attended the
midnight mass at Immaculate
Conception Catholic Church and
other Catholic churches through
out the city.
The Rev. Warren Mace, assist
ant minister at the Episcopal
Church of the Epiphany, declared
today that it sometimes takes
crises to bring men to Christian
truths"
"The coming of Christ brought
positive values into life and one
of these is courage" the speaker
asserted. 'We do not know how
much will be required before we
can again reach an even plane
of living, but we do know it will
require some"
Other Services Mark Day.
Other services held today in
cluded those at Trinity Lutheran
Church, Mount Rainier, Md. and
Landover Hills, (Md.), Trinity
Lutheran Church. Holy commun-
ion was held this morning at
Nativity and Resurrection Epis-
copal Church, 800 Seventeenth
street NV.
Canon Richard Williams preached
this morning at the morning
prayer service in Washington
Cathedral. Earlier holy COM
munion was celebrated in Beth
lehem Chapel with the Very Rev.
John w. Suter, dean of the
Cathedral, as the celebrant.
Many churches throughout the
area held Christmas eve services
last night. Most Protestant serv-
ices began at II o'clock and con-
tinued until midnight. Catholic
worshipers thronged churches for
midnight mass.
At Washington Cathedral a
candlelight service was held, with
countless candles on the altars,
chandeliers and columns lighting
up the spacious interior.
Evening star., 1950-12-25
WI Glass Reunion

A reunion of the Glass of AZ.
WaShington-Lee High School.
Arlington, will be held at 8 pm.
Friday. at Bauserman's Hall,
Columbia pike and Glebe road.
Evening star., 1950-07-05
By q. n. 2. Kino
Associated Pres. Foreign Correspondent

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
AN ADVANCE AMERICAN
COMMAND HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTH KOREA. July 5.-Here is
a picture Of wars desolation:
Thousands of South Korean
Army troops in retreat--some call
1T a rout.
More thousands of bewildered
civilian refugees. some trudging in
one direction, others going the OPP
posite way. All are laden with pitt
fully small bundles.
War planes have passed this
way. their guns spewing the road.
The dead still lay along the
roadway. and the wounded cry for
aid and are. ignored.
Scores OF abandoned vehicles are
along this highway I have just
travelled 180 miles through the
nightmare area. Some had been
strafted and burned, others had
been run OF the road and still
others were left because of me-
chanical or fuel difficulties.
Refugees jam Roads.
(Amid this scene Of refugee
turmoil, Gen. MacArthur's head
quarters communique warned
that numbers of North Korean
troops in civilian clothes were
Evening star., 1950-07-05

plan to collect from corporations
a withholding tax on dividends to
stockholders. but he sharply criti-
cized failure of the House to get
rid of depletion allowances grant
ed to oil producers and mining
companies.
Questioned by Senator Taft,
Republican. Of Ohio Mr.. Snyder
said the Government finished the
fiscal year last week with a deficit
of, only $3.l billion instead of
earlier estimates Of $5.4 billion,
mainly because the military estab-
lishment put of starting programs
amounting to about 81 billion.
He said ECA also spent $500 mil
lion less than had been expected
within the last fiscal year.
Senator Taft said he wanted to
know before the hearings end
whether this merely means post
lponing expenditures which will
increase the deficit in the fiscal
year ending next June.
Evening star., 1950-07-05
Bell Head Of Manila
Mission, Sees Truman

Daniel w. Bell. president of the
American Security & Trust Co.
who is heading an economic mis-
sion to the Philippines, said after
a White House call today that he
expected to leave Friday.
MIR. Bell, who will share re-
sponsibility for the program with
Maj. Gen. Richard C. Marshall.
head OF v. M. l., will have a staff
OF 20 or rs members. Gen. Mar
Shall also will leave this week end.
Mr.. Bell said he had called on
Mr.. Truman only to tell him good
bye.
The mission was appointed in
response to request from Philip
pine President Elpidio Quirino
who wants the potentialities of his
country surveyed so a plan can be
laid out for its development.
Evening star., 1950-07-05

of Leavenworth, Kans., the first
American general we have seen
in the field. He is far ahead of
advance command headquarters.
With him was Col. Henry Bar
bert of General Headquarters En-
gineers. Col Barbert's wife is at
San Mateo, Calf, awaiting trans
portation to Japan where she had
expected to meet her husband.
The American engineers had
instructed the South Korean
troops how to blow up bridges to
hinder the Communist North Ko-
rean columns. Three bridges had
been destroyed during the after
noon and a fourth was slated for
destruction at night.
Bombs Drop on City.
We saw bombs drop on 'front.'
line city and black columns of
smoke arise.
Four North Korean Yak fighter
planes dived at target near us.
We were lucky we escaped un-
hurt.
Sometimes the planes overhead
were friendly. American planes of
several types.
We picked up one abandoned
vehicle and succeeded in making
it go for a short distance. But
1t conked out and we towed it
most Of the way.
A wounded man lay moaning
by the road. his OK and cart not
far away in rice paddy. Mo-
body paid any attention to him
until we stopped He had wounds
in the head. back, shoulder and
body.
We stopped Korean Red
Cross ambulance in the line of
retreating traffic and put the man
aboard. Then we released his OK
from the cart to give it a chance
for freedom and food.
Planes Blow Up Train.
At one point was the ruins of
a railroad station where planes
had strafed an ammunition train,
blowing it to bits.
Among the men who escaped
injury when pieces of the train
fell at their feet was United States
Army Pvt. Bruce France, son of
a dairy farmer at Soldiers Grove,
Wis.
France said his mother did not
worry about him as she did when
he was an infantryman in World
War II. Now he's in the artillery
and far to the rear-theoretically
Another man who escaped in
Evening star., 1950-07-05
Boy, 7, Killed By Ball
Bafted By His Father
BY the Assoeioted Press

HOUSTON. July 5.-Playing ball
with his father, a 7-year-old boy
was killed Monday when a batted
ball struck him over the heart.
Lawrence Bulanek and several
of his pals were playing in the
Bulanek back yard. Lawrence's
dad. Antoine Bulanek. 80. was hit
ting the ball to the boys.
It was getting late. time to go
in. announced the father. but Law
renee pleaded for one more pitch.
He tossed the ball, his dad hit
it. and the ball struck the boy in
the region of the heart. Lawrence
fell to the ground. He was pro-
nounced dead on arrival at a hos
pital.
Evening star., 1950-07-05

slipping south on missions Of
sabotage and espionage.
(The flight Of civilians also
was occurring north of the
front. in areas already seized by
the invaders. American flyers
returning to bases in Japan said
they saw the highways east of
Red-conquered Seoul jammed
with thousands of refugees.
Whether they were trying to
escape the Reds and the new
terror of the Peoples Courts"
or feared United States air raids
was uncertain.
GA city which had swollen to
nearly 2 million in the last five
years-twice It's previous popu-
lation-Seoul is largely OF inse-
cure wood, plaster and straw
construction.)
Meet General In Field.
With me on the trip far for.
ward Of American advance head.
quarters were Charles P. CORY
Associated Press photographer
Sydney Smith, London Daily Elk,
press correspondent: Charles Ros.
encranz. International News Pho.
tos; Ken Inouye, international
Telenews. and Sergt. Ray Turn.
bull and Corpl. Wallace Fosnaught
United States Army Signal Corps
We saw Brig. Gen. q. B. Bartl
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uxes
Continued From First Page.)

tIOIltlnucQ from FlTSt Fage.)
be altered by developments in
Korea"
'"The House bill makes an i'm
portant contribution toward the
Presidents program" Mr.. Snyder
continued. However. it does not
go far enough and should be i'm
proved. I earnestly urge you tn
consider the changes which would
bring the bill more in accord with
our present requirements"
Mr.. Snyder said that since jan
uary. when the tax message was
written. it has become increas-
ingly apparent that 1850 will be
one Of the most productive busi-
ness years in this country's history
and that steps to improve the Gov
ernment's fiscal condition should
be taken while business IS good.
Mr.. Snyder indorsed the House
Evening star., 1950-07-05

Jury when the train blew UP was
Eugene Tanner, son of w. II.
Tanner, of Somerset, KY.
In a Korean village I saw q can
of vegetable soup. apparently part
of a gift package from America,
for it had this label:
"Jeanettee Kazaal, first grade
Immaculate Heart Academy, Tue
son. Ariz."
Soldiers Scrounge for Food.
We came across CTS scroung-
ing for food.
Corpl. Bob Simpson. 81, son Of
Mrs. Mary Rogers. of Princeton,
KY, said he had captured is pigs.
A half dozen chickens were
brought in by Pfc. Donald
Fritsch, who is 81 today, and Pfc.
James H. Kobayashi, 27. Pvt.
Fritsch's father. j. B. Fritsch,
lives in Woodlawn, Ohio, and
Kobayashi is the brother of Mrs.
T. Ozaki of Philadelphia.
We saw several battalions Of
completely uniformed South Ko-
rean troop trainees all carrying
rifles that used to belong to the
Japanese Army. But the rifles all
were minus their bolts.
Nearly every type of Korean
vehicle was on the road. camou-
flaged with green boughs and yet
clearly and proudly displaying the
South Korean republic flag.
Wounded Korean ricked Up.
| Sometimes trains on a nearby
track stopped to pick up military
stragglers and refugees, then pro-
ceeded slowly south, their roof
tops crowded with civilians, and
soldiers packed within the cars.
We picked up one wounded Ko-
rean and brought him back with
us. He was 1t. Song Chang 500.
81, of the infantry. He said he
had lived near the 38th parallel.
the line that separated South Ko-
rea from the North Korean Com
munists before the Reds invaded
the South June Is.
The young lieutenant said his
parents had been killed. He ex-
pected to receive hospital treat
ment and then return to the front.
We bucked a tide of military
vehicles driven by frantic South
Korean reserve troops.
No matter what their retreat Is
called officially, military men
would call it a rout.
Evening star., 1950-07-05
{. N. Spofford Nominated
Formally 10 Atlantic Unit

President Truman today for
mally nominated Charles M. Spof-
ford, a New York lawyer, to be
the United States deputy repre-
sentative on the North Atlantic
Council. He will have the rank
OF Ambassador.
The Presidents intention to ap-
point Mr.. Spofford was disclosed
several days ago.
The President also nominated
hooker PA. Doolittle, a foreign
service officer, to represent the
united States on the United Ma
tions Commission on Indonesia.
Evening star., 1950-07-05
District Guard MPs
off 10 Prepare Camp

A detachment of the 171st Mill
tary Police Battalion. District Ma
tional Guard, left here today for
Indiantown Gap, Pa, to make
camp preparations for the main
body of that unit and the 7l5th
Transportation Truck Company.
Both units will leave Saturday for
two weeks Of training.
1t. Col. Sylvester Blackwell,
commander Of the MP unit, will
head both groups. made up of
colored troops of the local Guard.
The cooks and bakers of the
Army troops of the white organi-
cations left for Fort Miles, Del,
today to attend a pre-camp mess
school in advance of the arrival of
the main body Sunday afternoon.
Another advance group for the
Fort Miles Camp is scheduled to
leave tomorrow morning under
command of Mai. George j. Morey,
a member OF the staff of Brig.
Gen. William H. Abendroth, COM
mander of the guard, who also
will command the field training
activities this year. He will make
his headquarters at Fort Miles.
although the gun battalions of the
260th Anti-Aircraft Artillery will
be stationed during the two-weeks
period at Bethany Beach, Del.
about 20 miles away from the
main camp. The gun units will
do their firing at plane-towed
targets.
The military police and truck
company advance details were
tiown to Indiantown Gap today by
the District Air Guard. The other
units went by motor transporta-
ton.
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Planes
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Continued From First Page.)
Admiral Arthur D. Struble, COM
mander of the United States 7th
Fleet, to which the Valley Forge is
attached.
The naval fighter planes heavily
damaged the building and hangar
area at the east end of Pyongyang
airfield. reported to be the base
for most of the north's air opera
tionS.
Earlier today Gen. MacArthur's
headquarters announced that sew
len North Korean planes have been
destroyed and four damaged in
Air Force strikes.
The carrier planes bombed and
machine-gunned the main rail-
road bridge crossing the Taedong
River near Pyongyang, the COM
munique said, and added:
Tuesday the planes roared back
again over Pyongyang and also
struck Sariwon, a railroad juno
ton 40 miles to the south.
Three full air strikes and four
sweeps by jet fighters were made
on these areas.
Twelve locomotives were de-
Stroyed and one was damaged.
A tank car was left flaming.
Pilots said they watched the
collapse of one of two rail bridges
they attacked.
Railroad Bridge Hit.
They reported direct bomb hits
on the Northern span of the Tae-
dong River railroad bridge and its
north and south approaches.
The Navy flyers found one troop
train which they strafed and
rocketed.
Chinnampo, Pyongyang's port,
so miles southwest, came under
Large fires were started there
said Gen. MacArthur's commu-
nique.
Rolling stock and installations
at the rail marshalling yards
north of Pyongyang suffered
moderate to heavy bomb and
rocket damage" Two gunboats on
the Taedong River were strafed.
Anti-aircraft fire damaged two
American planes, but they re-
turned to their carrier.
Gen. Macarthur earlier COM
munique on air strikes reported
these Red losses:
Seven planes destroyed and four
damaged.
Seven armored cars captured
and one destroyed.
One hundred nineteen trucks,
% locomotives. 10 boxcars and
seven tanks destroyed.
Additionally, the communique
reported:
Warships of the naval blockade
have sunk six Red trawlers and
five motor torpedo boats, and
damaged two other vessels.
Air Power Building Up.
A vast array of American air
power is building up for the
Korean war. More B-29s were
dispatched from the United States
last night.
The American escort carrier,
Sicily, its decks loaded with war;
planes, sailed from San Diego yes
terday for an undisclosed destina-
tion-presumably the war theater,
however. The Navy refused any
information.
The fact that the Sicily sailed
on holiday, while naval guns
nearby were firing a July 4 salute,
indicated its mission was urgent.
The big carriers Philippine Sea
and Boxer were being readied at
San Diego, They were expected
to depart soon.
The Sicily is equipped especially
for anti-submarine warfare. It
normally carries three squadrons
outf1tted with electronic devices
to detect undersea craft.
Evening star., 1950-07-05

Kim II Sung, premier of North
Korea, has been named COM
mander in chief of the peoples
armed forces" The radio added
1900 bombs have been dropped
on Pyongyang by American
planes.