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Evening star., 1951-11-25
Report From Korea Shows FrontLiners Still Can Louqh

become soft and muddy, such usually
being the case after a rain in Korea.
In this connection the enemy will be
further harassed, not having had
time to set up any mobile laundry
units.
Mountains continue to be a domi-
nant physical factor in Korea, there
having been no appreciable changes
IN either sizes or number during the
period. Further, no great changes
are expected within the next "a
hours"
The No. l heading, General
Situation" is covered quickly and
concisely. THE enemy activity
showed signs of continuing during
the period" the report begins. North
of -. he continued to harass
friendly units by avoiding contact.
To the southeast. in the - area,
sporadic smallAarms fire from nerv-
Gus friendly forces was the only sig
nif1cant action reported during the
period"
Two different corps reported "an
unknown number of unidentified
forces approaching friendly elements
Evening star., 1951-11-25

OF obscurity into world prominence
when he undertook fast to prepare
himself for his crusade.
On the eve of the ordeal he de-
clared: Life has become intolerable
for any self-respecting person The
governments Apartheid policy is
creeping like flend in every walk of
life. The only course I have to
choose, if / want to live as self
respecting person, is to fight against
this state of affairs"
In the fortnight of his fast, Gandhi
lost 20 pounds, but gained resolution
for his crusade.
II have no power to work a miracle
that would bring an end to all the
sufferings of the oppressed people in
Herculean task before us and it re-
quires Herculean effort to perform
it,"
Gandhi began the new phase of
his campaign against injustice and
oppression" in mid September. Since
then he has broken segregation
regulations numerous times. The
authorities so far have ignored his
activities.
Born in India, he was brought to
South Africa as child and grew up
on an 80-acre "back-to-nature" set
tlement founded by his father. To-
day he lives there with his wife, son
and two daughters. He edits Indian
Opinion, weekly founded by his
father in 1908. 1t is devoted to the
principles of life and conduct ex-
pounded by Mahatna Gandhi.
Evening star., 1951-11-25
General Woshington's Adopted Children

working upon your passions, en-
couIaged. perhaps, by bad examples.
the propensity to which will increase
in proportion to the practice of it
and your Weddings. This admonition
proceeds from the purest affection
for you, but I do not mean by it
that you are to become a stole, or to
deprive yourself in the intervals Of
study Of any recreation or manly ex-
ercises which reason approves.
1T is we'll to be on good terms
with all your fellow students, and I
am pleased to hear that you are so:
but while courteous behavior is due
to all, select the most deserving only
Tor your friendship, and before this
becomes intimate weigh their DISPOSE
tons and characters well. True
friendship is plan of slow growth;
to be sincere there must be a con-
geniality of temper and pursuits. Vir-
tue and vice cannot be allied, nor can
industry and idleness, of course. II
you resolve to adhere to the two for
mer of these extremes, as intimacy
With those who incline to the latter
OF them would be extremely embar-
RAISING to you: it would be a STUN.
bling block in your way and act like
a mlllstone hung to your neck, for it
Is the nature of idleness and vice to
obtain as many Votaries as they can.
Il would guard you, too, against
mblblng hasty and unfavorable i'm
pressionS of any one; let your judg-
ment always balance we'll before you
decide, and even then, where there is
no occasion for expressing an opin-
ION. it is best to be silent, for there
Is nothing more certain that it is at
all time more easy to make enemies
than make friends Besides, to speak
evil OF any one, unless there is un-
equlVocal proofs of their deserving
1t, is an injury for which there is no
unequlvocal proofs of their deserving
1t, as an injury for which there is no
adequate reparation. Keep another
thing also in mind. that scarcely any
change would be agreeable to you at
first, from the suddent transition, and
from never having been accustomed
w oAAAAVo oA w AOOS1l II, d4lOJ IAOlCOFcIs
that if you meet with collegiate fare
1t will be unmanly to complain. My
paper reminds me that it is time to
conclude, which I do by subscribing
myself affectionately, your sincere
friend, ~
&C. WASHINGTON.
ITO Mr.. Geo. Washington Parke
CuStis."
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fore the - Detachment found time
for questioning, the prisoner was use
fully employed in the processing Of
classified documents.
Upon Interrogation. the prisoner
stated substantially as follows:
Prior to the end of World War II,
prisoner did not actively oppose the
japanese regime. preferring to take
middle -of-the-road attitude. After
the liberation of Korea by the Allies
and. subsequent to the Russian oc-
cupation of North Korea, the prisoner
continued his life much the same as
before. with the exception that he
at this time enrolled in school, pre-
ferring to do it now and get it over
with
Lee Sung Hwol was born on May
Day of 1943," the report added.
He noted that the Russian occu-
patton Of North Korea was neither
much better nor worse than that of
the japanese. with the exception that
the Russian troops wore different
uniforms and not many of them
spoke japanese.
(Evaluation: This has been con-
firmed by other sources)"
Evening star., 1951-11-25

When John Parke Gusts died Of
swamp fever at Ethan, November 5,
1871. following the surrender of York
town. he left four children besides
his widow. Eleanor tCalverO Custis.
They were Elizabeth Pafke, Martha
Parke. Eleanor Parke and George
Washington Parke. each carrying the
middle name OF their father.
Elizabeth Parke Custis, as is we'll
known married Thomas Law. and
had by him one daughter, Eliza. who
married Lloyd N. Rogers of Baltimore
and had as issue: Edmund, Eliza and
Eleanor.
Martha Parke Gusts married
Thomas Peter and for years lived on
Tudor place in Georgetown.
George Washington Parke Gusts
married Mary Lee Fitzhugh and built
and resided in Arlington House until
his death there in 1857. Both he and
Mrs. Custis are buried on the estate.
now known as Arlington National
Cemetery. They had but one child
who lived to maturity, Mary. and she
became the wife of the noted Con-
federate leader, Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Eleanor Parke Gusts. the youngest
Gusts. and from whom the Lewis
collection was inherited, was born in
Abingdon, near Alexandria, Va, on
March 81, 1779, and upon her mar
rlage became the mistress of Wood
lawn. Lawrence Lewis, her husband,
was the nephew of Gen. George
Washington. being the son of his
sister Betty and Col. Fielding Lewis.
Arrived Too Lote
The death of John Parke Curtis
right after the climax of the Amer
lean Revolution brought intense
grief to Gen. and Mrs. Washington.
Washington hardly waited for the
surrender until he was off for Elt-
ham. 35 miles from Yorktown, hop
ing to arrive here in time to see the
only remaining child of Mrs. Wash
ington before he passed away. But
time and tide waits for no man."
as it has truthfully been said, and
Washington arrived a little too late,
for death had already sealed forever
the lips of his beloved stepson.
Upon his arrival at Ethan the
sad news was impaired to him by Dr..
Craik and it is said that the grief
of the Father Of His Country knew
no bounds" and that he "wept like
child" Upon being conducted into
the death chamber he found Mrs.
Evening star., 1951-11-25
Singupore:

-Four young Americans came to a
temporary haven in this tropical port
with tales of the troubled East Indies
The quartet of California war vet
erans stopped here on a slow and
easy journey around the world that
won't end for another year and a
half
Their 72-foot schooner California"
has carried them to adventures that
included:
Internment by Indonesian officials
on Banda Island, north of Australia.
A naval convoy through waters
newly cleared of pirates"
witnessing of preparations for an
1ndonesian republican army invasion
Of the island of Ceram.
Being forced at gun point in
Surabaya to pay a rickshaw driver an
extra half rupiah fare-the equiva-
lent OF three American cents.
Seeing man shot dead in front
of night club they were visiting.
(The body was left to block the en-
trance for more than half an hour.)
They started for Panama from
Wilmington. Calf. and then cruised
along the South American shoreline
and on to the Galapagos Islands.
From there they went into the South
Pacific, spending three pleasant
months in Tahiti before going on to
Rabaul. Australia and Indonesia.
In Surabaya. Java. they repulsed
= an attempted boarding of their ship
by robbers. In town they almost got
mobbed when one of them caught a
pickpocket.
The four were happy to reach the
calm of Singapore. Next they go to
Bangkok and Rangoon.
Hal McCann. of Long Beach, who
Is 25, says there's nothing romantic
about our life. It's mostly just hard
work."
Evening star., 1951-11-25
By John Cloeett Proctor

Curtis standing beside the death bed
of her husband. weeping bitterly.
Washington tenderly clasped her in
his arms and when he had recovered
his composure, said to her:
Il adopt his two younger children
as my own from this hour" and
shortly afterward George Washington
Parke Curtis and his sister Eleanor
the future Mrs. Lawrence Lewis
we're taken TO Mount Vernon and
placed in the care of Mrs. Lund
Washington, whose husband was
managing the generals property at
that place" Here they were reared
and educated with the greatest care
and both throughout their lives re-
Elected credit upon their foster par
entS.
Woshineton's Letter - .
'The general wrote to his foster
son. under date of November %,
1896, as follows:
Dear Washington:
In a few hasty lines covering
your sisters letter on Saturday last
I promised to write more fully to
you by the post of this day. I am
now in the act of performing that
promise.
The assurances you give me Of
applying diligently to your studies
and fulfilling those obligations which
are enjoined by your Creator and
due to His creatures are highly pleas
ing and satisfactory to me. / re-
joice in it on two accounts: First, as
it is the sure means of laying the
foundation of your own happiness
and rendering you, if it should please
God to spare your life, a useful
member of society hereafter; and,
secondly, that I may. if I live to en-
JOY the pleasure, reflect that have
been in some degree instrumental in
effecting these purposes.
You are now entering into the
stage of life when good or bad habits
are formed-when the mind will be
turned to things useful and praise
worthy or to dissipation and vice.
Fix in whichever it may, it will stick
by you; for you know it has been
said, and truly. that as the twig is
bent, so will it grow This in
strong point of view shows the pro-
priety of letting your inexperiences
be directed by maturer advice and
in placing guards upon the avenues
that lead to idleness and vice. The
latter will approach like a thief,
Evening star., 1951-11-25

told her those vivid red italian to-
matoeS, so important in continental
cooking, couldn't be grown here.
In 1884, when Congress jumped
the tariff on Italian tomatoes by so
per cent, Tillie decided to test her
theory that they could be grown in
California. That was when luck en-
tered the project-although she says
now it just made short cut. While
on an Italian vacation, she met an
importer of pear-shaped tomatoes
and interested him in her idea. The
importer. Florindo Del Gaizo, and
Mrs. Lewis returned from italy with
pear-shaped tomato seeds and formed
the Flotill concern-its name syn
thesized from theirs.
Tillie won her point: Pear shaped
tomatoes could be grown in Cali
fornia. Mr.. Del Gaizo added $4,000
to $4,000 he already had put up and
they built plant and stated it with
personnel from Italy. That was In
1885.
At the 1880 census, Flotill's home
county. San Joaquin, wasn't listed
among the so big tomato producing
counties of the Nation. 1t has topped
the list since 1910. AS for Tillie, she
has 4.500 employees in three huge
plants. One of the employes-the
general managers Meyer Lewis.
her husband He spells her as boss
in the afternoon when she goes home
to do the cooking.
Meyer thinks she's the worlds
greatest cook.
Il use tomatoes in just about
everything" she explains.
Evening star., 1951-11-25
Berlin Precedent Gives Scont Hope for Unified Reich

A model man, according to a cyni-
cal definition. is a, small imitation
OF the real thing. Hence the re-
portedly model election in Berlin
five years ago may raise only mild
hopes for genuinely free elections in
all Of Germany now.
1t nevertheless offers a precedent,
however small-scale, for the present
proposal by the United States, France
and Great Britain that United
Nations special commission deter
mine the possibility of such elections
throughout partitioned Germany.
The precedent serves both as re-
minder and a warning. 1t is re-
minder that more than 2 million
Berlin citizens cast ballots without
violence in an election supervised by
four-power occupation committee.
In other words, 1t has happened
before.
The precedent, on the other hand,
is warning that the result of a
free election in Germany-if indeed
one could be held at this time
might be sabotaged and nullified by
Soviet refusal to abide by the out
come. For that, too happened before.
Fair Election
In the October, 1946. Berlin elec-
ton, the campaigning, voting and
tabulating turned out to be the most
democratic and representative that
the city had experienced since pre-
Hitler years. The quadri-partite SUI
pervision worked reasonably well and
the Russians seemed fairly CO.
operative with their American, Brit
ish and French associates.
But when the Russians lost, dis
turbances began to break out to
plague and eventually thwart the
newly-chosen municipal governing
bodies. Communist interference.
spontaneous popular demonstra-
tions." and similar tactics finally
broke up the city-wide government.
On the surface the seething situa-
ton seemed to boil down to un-
willingness or inability on the part
OF the Russians to understand and
interpret such terms as democratic"
and representative the same way
that the British, French and Amer
leans did.
II Underneath. in the opinion Of
Americans who had almost daily coff-
- tact for three years with the Rus
sian occupation groups in Berlin. the
Russians were determined to resort
Evening star., 1951-11-25
South Africo:

In a remote cottage on South
Africa's Natal coast. the son of Ma
hatma Gandhi is using his fathers
chief weapon - violence - in
battle against South Africa's racial
segregation policies.
To Manilal Gandhi, SO, segregation
Is immortality. To the Nationalist
government of DR.. D. F. Malan,
"apartheid" is the chief safeguard of
Western civilization.
Dominating the room in which the
deeply religious Manilal and his fam
lily gather for frequent prayers is
picture of the Mahatma. whose
dreams of freedom for his people and
country were nurtured in these very
surroundings half a century ago. =
The resemblance between father
and son Is striking. Like his father,
Manilal is a gentle individual-a
strict vegetarian, non-smoker and
teetotaler.
Manilal Gandhi was catapulted out
Evening star., 1951-11-25

from the south" AS an afterthought,
this parenthetical remark followed:
POSSIBLY these are American re-
placements en- route from the Re-
placement Depot in Pusan.)"
r
With a mouthful of mirth, the
authors inject a note of interservice
rivalry. In determining the aggre-
gate number of enemy killed in ac-
tion and wounded in action. the -
Air Force submits the following:
Ground mechanics total the num-
ber of rounds fired. add this figure
to the total gallons of gasoline con-
sumed; divide this by the number Of
guns per plane and add the pilots
estimate of killed and wounded. Two
per cent is then subtracted to allow
for possible misjudgment, which
leaves the estimated number of
enemy casualties"
n X =
In "Counterintelligence Com
ments" is this notation:
During the screening of refugees.
Lee Sung Hwol was apprehended and
turned over for Interrogation. Dur
ing the week or so which elapsed be-
Evening star., 1951-11-25

1907" he related, "You could buy lots
OF candy for penny. didn't have
no pennies. Tears come out from
my eyes.
Il started to peddle newspapers
and I made nickels and dimes. I
said, AS soon as get big boy I get
dollars, and the children will come
first"
Sam married early and had two
children, but both died in childhood.
His wife died in 1921.
Since then, Sam has devoted liter
ally every spare penny to making
children happy. He goes to hospitals.
children's homes, schools, Fairgrounds
to distribute his gifts-and turns
down contributions from outside.
II wear shoes, $3.50 or So. See my
suit? I'm no gigolo. I only keep
what I need to get along" That's
his explanation of how he can afford
his crusade.
Sam has literature printed for dis
tribution to any one who will read it.
He cannot read or write, so IF I'm
driving my truck and an idea comes
to me, I stop any one, any stranger.
and say, Please write this down for
me-"
These "ideas" he has printed just
as he dictated them.
ITS got to be the way I speak,"
Sam says. Rough language, noth-
ing fancy"
One card entitled, Parents! Please
open your eyes" asks why jails and
juvenile courts are crowded. 1t
reads:
Let me tell you the truth. We
must teach our children respect, as
they have no respect for their elders.
-. Make the children good, law-abid-
ing citizenS-teach them right from
wrong. If Catholic boy wants to
marry Jewish girl don't be in their
way but let them alone as I do. With
me there is no discrimination. ! al
ways mind my own. business and my
business is bags.
Instead of building more jails,
more courthouses and more additions
to juvenile jails, let us build more
and better schools and Fairgrounds
for the children When a child
is born it is harmless creature.
Please teach the child the right way
instead of the wrong way In
God Trust. Sam the Penny Man."
Evening star., 1951-11-25
BY Robert K. Walsh

to any means to tighten their poll
tical grip and push their theological
designs on that city.
The Reds apparently had hoped
for popular uprising of the type
that gave them control of Prague.
When. to their surprise, they were
trounced, they tried to make tools of
the elected officials. Failing in that
attempt and unwilling to risk further
setbackS in prospective elections in
1948, they made use of mobs to drive
the city assembly from the city hall,
which was in the Soviet sector.
Four-Power Group
Col. Louis Chaser, now Office of
Defense Mobilization staff assistant
to the National Security Council, was
the United States member of the
four-power committee which super
vised the Berlin election.
A Washington native, he was chief
of the United States political affairs
branch in Berlin from July /. 1945.
to the end of October, 1948. He re-
calls that early moves toward an
election in Berlin met with apprehen-
sion and opposition. Yet. irrespective
of what occurred later, the historic
fact is than an honest election was
held under severe strain only few
months after the war.
They Found Out
Col Glaser believes the Russians
agreed to the election mainly to see
how the SED Socialist Unity Party),
a renamed and camouflaged Commu-
mist Party, would make out.
That Berlin vote was no simple
thing to organize. The constitution,
completed by the local government
committee of the Allied Kommanda-
tura in July, 1946, and approved by
the allied control body, provided for
a 130-member city assembly almost
as big as its name, "Stadtverordnet-
enyersammlung.
This assembly 'was to be elected
by proportional representation. In
turn, it was to elect the Magistrat,
a group of professionally qualified
officials. to exercise administrative
authority.
This set-up. would haye created
electoral and administrative difficult
ties even in a normal time and place.
Yet the election, while not without
incident, brought no acute troubles
Evening star., 1951-11-25

highway and the ability TO climb
steep hills from a dead stop.
The last feature has been a big
selling point south of the border. A
Mexico City dealer requested car
for tests in the mountainous areas
there. Last month he reported that
the King Midget performed "amaz-
ingly well" at attitudes of II 900 feet.
Putting his money alongside his
mouth, the dealer placed big order.
Meanwhile. in Hawaii, former air.
lines official signed up as a distribu-
tor after having run tests on the
Midget.
Mr.. Dry, 43. is former Linotype
operator -machinist with the Athens
Messenger. Mr., Orcutt. 80, also is
a machinist. Their total investment
is a trade secret which they have
Evening star., 1951-11-25
Chicogo:

A Chicago truck driver. beloved by
thousands of children, plans to take
his campaign against juvenile delin-
quency abroad.
Sam Horowitz, illiterate dealer in
bags and burlap, says he has his pass
port and visas for most of Europe
and Japan. but he's still awaiting per-
mission from Russia to visit his moth
er's grave in the Ukraine:
Sam is known to youngsters
throughout the Nation as Sam the
Penny Man" He started giving pen
MES to children in 1914.
when I went to school in Chica-
60 (first grade only in 1906 and
Evening star., 1951-11-25

and Dale Orcutt to boost production
Of their pint-sized two-seater 800
per cent. What with material and
manpower shortages. it's a tough
job, but the two machinists are Civ
ing it try.
Earlier this year they completed a
plant for their 81 employees from
which they turned out 80 cars a
month. But only few months later,
demand had. exceeded the plants
capacity.
Only 812 feet long, the car is easy
to park and easy on gas. It has
chain drive and is powered by one
cylinder, 23-cubic- inch air cooled en-
gine rated at 7l2 horsepower at 1000
rpm. An automatic two-speed
transmission gives it top speed of
more than 40 miles an hour on. the