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Evening star., 1951-01-18
China Slams the Door

Red China's rejection Of the latest U. N.
cease-fire proposal rescues this Government
from what might have been an exceedingly
embarrassing dilemma. At the same time, 1t
leaves us to face the question of what our policy
should be If our associates in the U. N. choose
to swallow this new affront and prove unwilling
to take the minimum action required by China's
lawlesS conduct
This Government in The Stars opinion,
took large and foolish risk when 1t indorsed
the cease-fre proposal Had the Chinese ac-
cepted it, we would have found ourselves obliged
to sit down with them and discuss" the future
of Formosa and the question of Communist
China's admission to the u. N There has been
great deal of devious talk about this matter.
Senator Connally has been told by officials of
the State Department that our agreement to
discuss these questions did not mean that we
were prepared to turn Formosa over to Red
China or to bring the Communist regime into
the U. N.
What, then, did the agreement to discuss
these matters mean?
If we were acting in good faith, as the
State Department says was the case, and If
Red China had carried out its obligations under
the cease-f1re how did We propose to discuss"
the questions of Formosa and Chinese admission
to the u N without yielding on either or both
points? In The Stars belief this is nothing but
diplomatic double-talk Our aim, 1t is said, was
to maintain unity within the U. N. But how
much unity would have been left If the Chinese
had accepted the U. N. proposal, and If we had
then taken the position that we would discuss
the quid pro quo but would not yield on either
Chinese demand? That would have been an
act of bad faith, and would have been seen as
such around the world.
China's rejection of the proposal however,
presents an entirely different matter for deci-
sion. The next move clearly is up to the U. NJ,
and our future relations with this international
what 1t decides to do.
If the u N. now will take its courage in
hand and brand Red China as an aggressor we
can then consider what further measures II
any, can be taken through the U. N. to give
force and effect to this condemnation.
If the u N will not do this, If 1t lacks the
moral integrity to denounce big aggression as
we'll as little aggression, it seems to The Star
that it's usefulness as an agency for the mainte-
nance of peace will be at an end. 1t will, In
truth. have become the kind Of trap" to which
Senator Taft has alluded, and we will be obliged
to consider how best we may disengage ourselves
from that trap.
The United States and its armed forces have
borne the major burden of the historic decision
to fight aggression in Korea. If that decision is
to be compromised and its moral force vitiated
because u N members either fear China's mill
tary power or are unwilling to endanger their
own economic interests, then it would seem
necessary for us to pursue an Independent course
to safeguard our own vital interests. We have
given every support to the U. N. But If that
agency now is to default on It's most solemn
obligations, we cannot permit that lack OF in
tegrty to tie our hands and coerce our decisions.
Evening star., 1951-01-18
Bishop Dun's Brightness"

wish to commend Bishop Angus Dun
for his courageous and progressive step
toward church brotherhood. I refer
particularly to his invitation to denomi-
nations other than Episcopal to partake
of the Holy Communion.
It seems to me that Christian behavior
is the whole point and hope that every
churchman will come to the aid of
Bishop Dun in proclaiming the rightness
of his action.
An Episcopalian.
Evening star., 1951-01-18
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer -
any question of fact by either writing The
Evening Star Information Bureau, 1900 I street
NV: Washington s. D. c.. and inclosing 8 cents
return postage, or by telephoninK ST. 5000.
Evening star., 1951-01-18
InterrociuI Religion

interrocIul Religion
We were happy to learn Of the inter-
racial action taken by the Lutheran
Ministerial Association. This is splen-
did step towards the achievement Of
genuine democracy in the Nations Capt.
tai. The decision of the association will
make it easier to bring about long over
due reforms and to hasten the day of
a completely integrated social pattern,
not only in the field of religion, but
in every other field of human activity.
Particularly interesting was the as
sociation's resolution calling for CEN
trally located interracial church with
an interracial staff
1t is a matter Of very great regret
that there is only one Catholic Negro
priest in the Archdiocese of Washing
ton. In the course OF recent motor
trip through the South, however, we
visited st. Augustine's seminary at Bay
st. Louis. Miss, where no less than SO
young Negroes are preparing for the
priesthood In addition, great many
Catholic religious orders Sare welcoming
and training qualified Negro applicants
for the priesthood and lay brotherhood
Thus far, to my knowledge there has
UCCl O1lly OIiC SdGllO1lC NGSTO UlSllOp III
the United States. He was a brother
OF former president of Georgetown
University and was well beloved in his
diocese of Portland, Me. But it seems
certain that before the end of the pres
ent century this country will have at
least one Catholic Negro bishop and the
American Catholic hierarchy will then
become interracial
Perhaps other Protestant church
groups in Washington will adopt an
interracial policy and add their con-
siderable influence to a movement that
seeks to translate Christian principles
into the daily lives of all our people.
DR.. John ]. O'Connor,
President, Catholic Interracial Council.
Evening star., 1951-01-18

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Evening star., 1951-01-18
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Which is the most poisonous snake?
T. E. E.
A. Two species are believed to have
the most concentrated venom, the tiger
snake of Australia and the island viper
found on an island of the coast Of Brazil.
The tiger snake is type Of cobra while
the island snake is a relative of the fer
defiance. Some sea snakes also possess
a very powerful venom.
@. How does yeast increase its bulk?-
r. C. E.
A. Yeast reproduces by budding. A
small bud appears on the side Of q yeast
cell and continues to enlarge until It
has almost attained the size Of the orig
inal, then the two split apart and there
are two cells. This reproduction goes
on at an astonishing rate
@. Was Robert G. mgerson q min
ister's son?-R. OH.
A. He was the son of Presbyterian
minister of Scottish descent. Although
IngersoI became a confirmed non-be-
lever in religious doctrine as youth,
he did not begin his public lectures until
after his fathers death in 1859.
Evening star., 1951-01-18

force at the heartland Of Russia within
hours after the outbreak Of hostilities
and a weak. cumbersome. balanced"
military power dependent on surface
transport which would take years of
warfare even to approach the borders of
Russia. 1t could be the difference be-
tween losing and retaining our way of
NE. Hugh b. Freeman.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Gary f. Powell, 10,
Retired Liqhtkeeper

Gary E. Powell, 10, retired
Coast Guard lighthouse keeper
died yesterday at Mount Alto
Hospital after a Today illness
He lived at 3ol South Carolina
avenue Sc.
Mr.. Powell was born in Colum-
bus, Ohio. During the Spanish
American War he was a buglar
and trumpeter in Co. K, 18th In
fantry and served in the Philip
pines.
He was lighthouse keeper for
% years at various Eastern Shore
stations and Cedar Point and
Fort Washington. Md. He re-
tired in 1927 and came to Wash
ington to live.
Mr.. Powell was district secretary
and director and past president
Of the Retired Light House Service
Employees Association. He was q
past commander of Eurell Camp
Spanish War Veterans and q
member of Myron M. Parker Ma
sonic Lodge No. 81.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs
Anna H. Powell; a daughter. Mrs
Louise Mouton, Harris Hotel: two
sons, Gary o. Powell. Oxon Hill
Md; Carl D. Powell, % Fifth
street NE, and a sister, Mrs. Pear
Staubley of Washington.
Funeral services will be held al
1890 pm. tomorrow at Simmons
funeral home, 2007 Nicholas ave-
nue. Sc Burial will be in Ar
llngton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Man, Wanted Here,
Seized in Lynchburg

A Washington ex-convict, still
sought for violation of good
behavior time, was arrested at
gunpoint last night at Lynchburg,
Va, in what police there say was
an attempt to enter a grocery.
The man held, and charged
with housebreaking, was identified
as Samuel Leroy Saylor, 40, whose
police record carries several Wash
ington addresses.
He was arrested by Lynchburg
Patrolman Hubert Nash, 1t. c. E.
Tomlinson and Patrolman l.. w.
Tucker after a resident of the
building reported some one was
attempting to force his way into
the store.
The policemen said they found
a brace and bit, steel punch, a
f1ashlight and a 6-inch, SWITCH
bladed knife on him.
Police here say Saylor has
served at least four times at Lor-
ton and has been identified in
several cases of HOUSEKEEPING.
After his last release from Lorton,
with time off for good behavior.
he failed to make a weekly re-
port to the parole board and a
wanted notice was issued by
r. E. L. Smith, chief of the parole
office.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Sinclair Lewis Body
Is Ordered Cremated
BY the Assoeio4ed Press

ROME, Jan. American
author and Nobel Prize winner
Sinclair Lewis, who died here
yesterday, left instructions that
his body be cremated and the
ashes placed in his fathers family
burial plot, an embassy spokes-
man said today.
The instructions. received by
cable at the embassy from MI
Lewis attorney and executor OF
his estate. directed that the ashes
be sent to a surviving brother,
Claude B. Lewis, of st. Cloud
MINI.
The spokesman said funeral
arrangements would be made as
soon as technicalities connected
with Italian law were cleared.
The embassy said Mr.. Lewis
lawyer and executor from whom
the instructions were received is
Melville H. Cane Of New York
City.
Alexander Manson, who was
Mr.. Lewis secretary here, last
night talked by long distance
telephone with Dorothy Thomp-
son, newspaper columnist and
writer and divorced wife of the
late author, and with Michael
Lewis, his son.
Mr.. Lewis, Americas first Nobel
Prize winner in literature, sue
cumbed to a heart attack at dawn
Tuesday at a Roman clinic.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Mrs. Sarah E. Snider, "a,
Resided Here II Years

Mrs. Sarah E. Snider, 81. a
Washington resident for q years
died yesterday in Providence Hos
pital.
Mrs. Snider. who lived at 1910
Cornin place NE. had been a pa
tient in the hospital since New
Years Day, when she fell and
broke her hip in her bedroom.
She wa1 born in Frederick, Md
She lived there until 1923, when
she came here to reside at the Cor
bin place address with a daugh-
ter, Mrs, Annie Killian. Her hus-
band, ira C. Snider, who formerly
worked fer the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad in Frederick, died in 1926
Mrs. Snider was a member OF
the Keller Memorial Lutheran
Church, 907 Maryland avenue NE
Besides her daughter, she leaves
a grandson, William C. Killian
1878 Alabama avenue Sc, an ord
nanace engineer at the Naval Gun
Factory. and two great-grand-
daughters, Carol N. and Mary Lou
Killian.
Funeral services will be held al
IL am. tomorrow in the Lee fun
eral home, Fourth street and
Massachusetts avenue NE. Burial
will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery
Frederic1
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Jacob Watson, Motorman
81 Years With Transit Co.

Jacob Watson. S3, retired
Capital Transit motorman, died
yesterday at his home. 1866 G
street Sc. He had been i'll for
about seven years.
Mr.. Watson was retired in 1884
after 81 years with the Transit
Co. In the early days of his
career he drove horse-drawn cars
through Washington streets in
weather so cold that his beard
froze. His family said Mr.. Watson
often recalled how he wrapped his
feet in burlap to protect him from
the cold. In those DAYS the driver
sat on an outdoor platform.
Mr.. Watson lived his entire life
in Washington. His wife. Mrs.
Jessie May Conner Watson, died
about "a years ago.
Survivors are his son, William
Lewis Watson of North Carolina,
and three daughters, Mrs. Elsa L.
Love, Silver Spring; Mrs. Goldie
L. Henry, 5315 Second street NV,
and Mrs. M. Evelyn Belt of the
G street address.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at the Mattingly
funeral home, 121 Eleventh street
S.W. Purial viii be in Congress
sional letery.
Evening star., 1951-01-11

He was born Mr. nroushtoh.
in Brodhead, Wis, the son of Rus
sell and Julie A. (Smiley) Brough-
ton. He earned his bachelor of
philosophy degree at the Univer-
sity of Chicago and his law de-
gree at the Columbian University
now George Washington Univer-
sity. in 1900.
Joined Treasury in 1898.
Mr.. Broughton entered the
Treasury in 1898. From 1909 to
1913, he acted as personal secre-
tary to Franklin MacVeagh, Sec
retary OF the Treasury during the
Taft administration.
Shortly after the establish
ment of the Public Debt Service,
created in 1919 to handle the
Indebtedness incurred in World
War I, Mr.. Broughton was ap-
pointed commissioner in charge of
the agency. When it became the
Bureau of the Public Debt in 1899,
he remained as commissioner
until his retirement.
During his long Treasury career
Mr.. Broughton was granted a
leave of absence in 1908 and 1909,
when he served as fleet pay clerk
on the Navy battleship cruise
around the world. In 1910 he
again was given leave to supervise
the census for the District.
Services Tomorrow.
Mr.. Broughton was a member
of Delta Kappa Epsilon and the
Phi Delta Phi fraternities, the
University Club. the Sulgrave
Club and the Chevy Chase Club
His only survivor is a sister in
law. Mrs. James r. Broughton of
Los Angeles.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. tomorrow in Gawler's
Chapel, 1855 Pennsylvania avenue
NV. Burial rites will be private
in Brodhead.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Mrs. Francis {. Flanagan;
Resident Here 80 Years

Mrs. Francis C. Flanagan, 81
a Washington resident for the
last 80 years. died today at her
home. 1701 Irving street NV.
Mrs. Flanagan was born in
Clarksburg. w. Va. the former
Mary DolaR- After the death OF
her husband, Francis c. Flanagan
Mrs. Flanagan left Clarksburg and
came to Washington to live.
She is survived by two sons
Frank c. Flanagan of the Irving
street address and DR.. John J.
Flanagan, Newark, N. j.; three
daughters. Miss Catherine Flana-
gan and Mrs. Thomas B. Walsh
both of the Irving street address
and Mrs. James Ring, 1884 Sev-
entcenth street NV, and six
grandchildren.
Requiem mass will be held at II
am. Saturday at the Church OF
the Immaculate Conception. Burial
will be in Holy Cross Cemetery
Clarksburg.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
V Cameras Wait,
But Queens Ghost
Fails to Walk
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE British
Broadcasting Co. was all primed
last night to televise the ghost of
Catherine Howard, but the un-
happy shade of King Henry Wits
beheaded wife failed to ma
terialize.
After loud heraldings from it's
publicity staff. BIC set up tele-
vision cameras in the gallery of
Hampton Court, historic palace on
the Thames. where egend says
the ghost of Catherine watts up
and down at night.
The BIC commentator made a
touching speech about the pure
little ghost of Catherine Howard, !"
then every one waited. Nothing
happened.
AS one television engineer ex-
planned it:
Ghosts don't like these high
frequency jerks in our current"
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Father John Jepson,
Theological College
Vice Rector al Gu

The Very Rev. John J. Jepson,
S. S., 68. vice rector of the Theo-
logical College at Catholic Uni
versity since 1885, died yesterday
at Georgetown Hospital. He had
been i'll six months,
Father JepsOn also had been
president of the Basselin Founda-
ton, a preparatory school for
priests at Catholic University,
since 1893.
Born in Wheeling.
Born in Wheeling, w. Va, he
ended st. Vincent's Select
School there and received degrees
from st. Charles College and ST.
Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. He
was ordained in 1906 at Wheeling
by the Most Rev. Patrick j. Dona-
hue, Bishop of Wheeling. Later
he received his doctorate at Cath
clio University.
Father Jepson taught Latin and
Greek at st. Charles and at st.
Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park,
Calf. He was procurator of Di-
vinity College at Catholic Uni
versity from 1911 to 1915. Father
Jepson was president of St. Jo-
seph's College, Mountain View
Calf, from 1924 to 1882.
Survivors Listed.
Survivors are a brother. Edwin
C. Jepson, and four sisters. Mrs
Margaret Buchanan and Sister
Mary Camillus, all of Wheeling
Mrs. Stanley Floyd, Martinsburg
w. Va, and Miss Angela Jepson
Palo Alto, Calf.
His body will lie in state in the
chapel of the Seminary of the
Sulpician Fathers, 401 Michigan
avenue NE. from pm. today
until 10 am. Saturday. when q
pontifical mass of requiem will
be held at the Shrine of the I'm
maculate Conception at Catholic
University. The Most Rev. Pa.
trick A. O'Boyle, Archbishop oi
Washington. will oficiate: and the
Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton, Bishop
of Richmond, who studied for the
priesthood with Father Jepson
will deliver the sermon. Burial
will be in st. Charles College
Cemetery, Catonsville, Md.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
School Construction
.Stoppage Seen Unless
Material Is AIIocated

School construction will stop al
most Immediately if ALLEGATION to
the schools of critical building ma
terials is not made by Federal con-
trolls agencies, a bi-State group
agreed last night,
This was the consensus Of the
Maryland Virginia Citizens Com
mittee for the Public Schools.
which met at the Somerset School.
Two types of help are needed, it
was asserted. They are spot as
sistance to complete jobs under
way. and a decision from central
authorities insuring availability Of
materials. thus encouraging con-
tractors to submit firm bids.
Bids Are Few.
Richard E. Carpenter, assistant
superintendent in charge Of con-
struction for Montgomery County
schools, told the group: "We are
not getting many bids and those
we do get are not reasonable"
He said the county has the
prospect of losing we'll over 81
million on the $7.5 million school
construction program authorized
last year by the School Board. He
cited the cases of identical schools
where bids were let to the same
contractor a month apart. The
first cost $222,000 and the second
S234,O00.
Big Contractors Uninterested.
Big contractors don't want
school work these days because
of the uncertainty of getting ma
terials, it was said. In his county,
he said, recent Federal Gov
ernment building job brought SO
bidders. A school job of about
the same cost brought three bids.
William r. Turner, executive
secretary of the Citizens Com
mittee for Good Government in
Prince Georges County, suggested
that the Boards of Education Of
nearby Maryland and Virginia
counties set up their own con-
struction system. Representatives
of several boards said they may be
forced into taking such action.
B. Alden Lilywhite of the Fed
eral Security Agency, explained
how school construction money is
being allocated by his agency to
communities hard hit by an in
crease of Federal workers. The SAC
million authorized for this year is
only drop in the bucket" he
said.
Reed K. Pond of Arlington,
chairman of the Maryland-Vir-
ginia school group, presided.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
CookSoughtin Staying
OF Real Estate Man
Arrested in Scranton

Larry Kitchen. missing Wash
ington restaurant cook sought in
the Staying of a 71-year-old for
mer real estate man last Monday,
was arrested in Scranton. Pa, this
morning, homicide detectives an
nounced.
He is to be returned here to-
night or tomorrow
The cook was identified as en-
ployed recently at the Splendid
Restaurant, 1118 Thirteenth street
NV.
At an inquest yesterday, the
coroners jury ordered that Kitchen
face grand jury action in the death
of Leo v. Hysan, II. one-time
Washington real estate man, whose
body was found Monday face
down on the floor of a room in the
Hotel Edison Annex, in the same
block as the restaurant.
Died Of Strangulation.
Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald reported Mr. Hysan died
as a result of strangulation.
Russell Tyree. Edison Hotel
clerk, told the jury Kitchen was
registered as the occupant of the
room in which Mr.. Hysan was
found. Mr.. Tyree said Kitchen
had not checked out and he had
not seen him since 5 pm. Sun
day.
Other witnesses testified Kitch-
en- was seen Sunday night follow
ing Mr.. Hysan out of the res
taurant where Kitchen worked
after drinking beer at the same
table with him.
Ali M. Zanjabil, the restaurant
proprietor, told the jury that
Kitchen, whom he knew only as
Larry" returned later and asked
for his pay. asserting some one
had given him a BLACK eye" and
adding:
II don't want to go to jail"
Seen by Another Cook.
Ernest Berry, colored. 1908 N
street NV, another cook at the
restaurant, said he saw Kitchen
| at 1:30 am. that same night al
the Greyhound Terminal carry
ing paper bag containing cloth
ing. He testified Kitchen told
him he had a fight with a fel-
low and was going to STAN
ford"
Mr.. Tyree testified Mr.. Hysan
was discovered in Kitchens room
by a maid at about 1:30 pm
Monday. Investigating. he found
the man breathing hard" but
left him alone until $3.50 in the
belief he was passed out from
drink" Subsequently he called
police, and Mr.. Hysan later was
pronounced dead.
Mr.. Hysan lived at the Oxford
Hotel. 1914 Fourteenth street NV
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Mrs. Mabel {. Macdonald;
ARLINGTON Resident 5 Years

Mrs. Mabel c.. Macdonald, IS,
died Tuesday of a stroke at the
home of her son. Angus Mac
Donald, at 1857 South Twenty
eighth street, Arlington.
Mrs. Macdonald was born in
Buffalo. N. Y. She had lived in
Arlington since the death five
years ago of her husband. Norman
A. Macdonald, a Buffalo and New
York City banker. A daughter,
Mrs. Janet M. Mitchell, lives at
1889 South Twenty-eighth street,
Arlington. Two ether sons, an
other daughter, brother and II
grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held
at 5 pm. tomorrow in the Glebe
Baptist Church, 3012 South Clebe
road, Arlington. Burial will be
in New York City.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Had Varied Career.

Had Varied Career.
Mr.. Lawrence had a varied
career as a soldier, inventor. bust
nessman. playwright and Govern
ment official. He served as a
major in World War I and was
retired because Of severe wounds.
During World War II he served
in the planning division Of the
War Production Board.
Born near Arcadia. N. Y, Mr..
Lawrence was the son of the late
Capt. William j. and Josephine
Bernard Lawrence.
After World War I, Mr.. Law
renee invented a tear-gas system
for banks and organized chemi-
cal company in Pittsburgh. In
1881, he served on the George
Washington Bicentennial Commits
sion and won a national prize for
one of IS plays he wrote about
Washington's life.
Painstaking Artist.
Mr.. Lawrence was a lover OF
horses and once said it was under
standable to him why other horse
lovers were more particular about
pictures Of their steeds than they
would be about their own portraits.
He was so painstaking that it took
him a month to complete a pic
ture.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Jean Sellars Lawrence, and
two daughters by a previous mar
riage. Funeral arrangements had
not been completed. but Mrs.
Lawrence said cremation was
planned.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
rrof. Edward Bennett, IA

MADISON. Wis, Jan. II P.-
Prof. Edward Bennett. "a. emer-
titus professor of electrical en-
gineering at the University of Wis
consin, died yesterday after an
illness of several months. He
Joined the Wisconsin faculty in
1909 and was head of the elec-
trical engineering department
from 1918 to 1910.
Evening star., 1951-01-11
Emil Frey, Cheesemoker

VAN VERT, Ohio, Jan. IL up.
Emil Frey. 83-year-old discov-
erer Of Liederkranz cheese, died
today at Van Vert County Hos
pital after a long illness. He
developed the cheese by accident
while working on a domestic ver-
sion of a popular imported cheese.
He named the new product in
honor of the singing society to
which his boss belonged.