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Evening star., 1951-12-07
First Baptist Pastor
Honored at Church on
Fifteenth Anniversary

DR.. Edward Hughes Pruden was
honored last night by members
and friends on his 18th anniver-|
sary as pastor Of First Baptist
Church, Sixteenth and o streets
N. w.
More than 800 persons crowding
the church's basement at a dinner
heard DR.. William S. Abernethy, :,
pastor emeritus Of Calvary Bap-
tist Church. pay tribute to DR..
Pruden as a true leader Of his
congregation.
The spiritual levels in church
never rise higher than the spiri-
tual levels in the heart and life of
its preacher" DR.. Abernethy de-
clared. There has been real
growth in First Baptist Church
during the Is years DR.. Pruden
has been pastor. The church has
been able to grow marvelously be-
cause the congregation has lead
err"
Model of Church Shown.
In his response DR.. Pruden said
DR.. Abernethy. pastor of Calvary
Church from 1921-41. was his
pastor" when he first came to
Washington.
II appreciate more than can
possibly express all that has been
said tonight regarding the Is years
it has been my privilege to serve
you," DR.. Pruden told the gather
ing.
During the affair, a model of
the proposed new $1.2 million
church, to be built on the same
site as the present structure. was
brought into the room. 1t was
made by Mrs. Robert w. Hays, a
member. of 237 North George Ma
son drive, Arlington, Va, from
cardboard boxes. The stained VIM
dows were made of cellophane.
and the church steeple of gold
Christmas wrapping paper. Mrs.
Mays. an artist, painted the model
as the church is planned to appear
when completed.
Start Work Next Year.
This model must be an inspira-
tion to us as we look to the fu-
ture." DR.. Pruden declared. He
said the plans were to start work
on the new structure in 1852.
sesquicentennial year of the
founding of First Baptist Church.
James A. Davis. chairman of the
church's board of deacons, reported
that more than $500 has been
given or pledged for a living
memorial to DR.. Pruden in the
church. Earlier he said this prob
ably will take the form of a room
bearing the pastors name
Messages from Interior Secretary
and Mrs. Chapman, Senator Green
Of Rhode Island and Senator Kerr
of Oklahoma were among those
sent to DR.. P1'rden.
Truman Worships There.
President Truman worships fire.
uuently at First Church when he is
In Washington.
John Shouse. chairman Of the
church's sesquicentennial commit
tee. was toastmaster of the dinner.
A native of Chase City. Va, DR..
Pruden is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Richmond and of South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He came to his present charge in
1888 from teaching post at the
University of Shanghai. China. He
Is the immediate past president of
the American Baptist Convention
and has served as president of the
District Baptist Convention and of
the Washington Federation Of
Churches.
DR.. and Mrs. Pruden have three
children. They live at 1929 Ordway
street NV,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Business Briefs

Hartford Rayon Corp. directors
approved a plan for the acquisi-
ton of the company by Bigelow-
Sanford Carpet Co.
Stewart Warner Corp. informed
distributors it will be ready to
supply equipment for color tele-
vision reception as soon as broad
casting begins.
New England Telephone g. Tele-
phone in year ended June 80
earned $17,512,831 or $11.26 a
share VS.. $l5,578,521 or $10.O1 in
1850.
Southwestern Bell Telephone in
6 months ended June 80 earned
SIG. 10000 VS.. $11,931 1888 in 1850
period.
Pennsylvania Bell Telephone in
6 months ended June 80 earned
$11. 150,421 VS.. $12,368, 766 in 1850
period.
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line in
year ended June 80 earned So
800, 1923 OF $2.86 a share VS.. $685.
asa or $258 in 1850.
People Gas Light s. Coke Co. in
year ended June 80 earned S.
OH, 400 or $3.50 a share VS.. So
.877. 500 or 1881 in 1850.
Safeway Stores in "a weeks
ended lime 20 earned 337.674
or $1.33 a share VS.. $5,727,532 or
$1.87 in 1850 period.
Amerada Petroleum Corp. in 3
months ended June 80 earned
$3,837837 or $1.22 a share VS.. S.
400, 1904 or $1.08 in 1850 period.
Anaconda Wire g. Gable Co. in
6 months ended June 80 earned
$3,120,776 or 1910 a share VS.. ST.
927 ,049 or 1928 in 1850 period.
White Sewing Machine in year
ended June 80 earned $2,57s,376 or
$3.46 a share VS.. $4,480,096 or $6.17
in 1850.
New Jersey Power g. Light Co.
in year ended June 80 earned
ST, 281,159 or $25.62 on the pre-
ferred shares VS.. $l,418,108 or
1886 in 1850.
LamSon & Sessions Co. in 6
ended June 30 earned ST.
191 ,671 or 1925 a share VS.. 1923, 082
or 1925 in 1850 period.
Easy Washing Machine Corp. in
6 months ended June 80 earned
$563,417 or $l.1 ga share VS.. ST.
OIL ,632 or $2.02 in 1850 period.
Allan B. DuMOnt Laboratories in
"a weeks ended June II earned
or two cents a share VS..
81, 1877, 900 or $1.16 in 1850 period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Mutual Funds

NEW YORK. Aug. 4 dP,-National As
Sociation Securities Dealers. Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Tobacco Markets

UPPER MARLBORO. Md, Aug. up
CUSDA) Generally steady to lower aver
age prices were paid for most grades OF
tobacco auctioned on the Southern, Mary
the tSe0 Fed St1 ' Market News Service
net auction sales for the week totaled
$3.50. 616 pounds and averaged $46.34 per
hundred This average was the lowest
since opening week and a drop Of 81 AZ
from last week when nearly So million
pounds were auctioned. Sales for the
season through August 3 reached 22.442'-
Average prices for better quality grades
continued about steady. Most medium
and lower quality offerings declined. Losses
were generally from ST. to So hundred
pounds. few grades showed gains OF
The general quality of marketings was
lower as the percentage OF talT ana gooq
offerings increased to their, largest proper
ton of the season. Principal marketlngS
were on and fair heavy crop seconds and
tips, low to good thin crop and monde
Around 221a per cent of net auction
sales were delivered to the Maryland To-
bacco Cooperative under the Government
for the season amount to about 1512 per
Net receipts of the Baltimore hoFshead
market for the season were reported as
around 2,770,000 pounds. This combined
with net auctioned sales totals approx
mately 1922 million pounds.
Only 10 more sales days remain for the
uled to close. after sales of August II.
Auction bid averages per hundred POUNDS
on q limited number of representative
United States grades were as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO, Aug. up (USDA -Salable
hogs. $500; total loo (estimated); com
pared week ago, barrows and gifts steady
to 20 higher; advance on weights over $40
pounds, weights over 300 pounds scarce,
these and sows 80 higher; prices on butch
er hogs huctuated very little throughout
the week; outside demand was lighter,
which slowed the trade in lighter weights.
but demand was good for all weights of
%. So top equaled the highest price since
February; choice 10000 pound weights
6rought the top; at the close choice 1S0-
25O-2SO pound weights, % .5O-23.25; 800
$50 pounds at 20 .50-22 90; sows weighing
400 pounds and less closed at 10 .00-21 90,
a few 21.25 and 81 80; most 40Q-500
pounds at 17.25-1S.25.
Salable cattle. 500 (estimatedl; total
not given; compared week ago, receipts
but around 20 per cent smaller than CORE
spending week year ago; fed steers and
yearlings predominated, good to prime
and heifers steady to so higher; best &C
ton on kinds grading good and better.
cows mostly % higher; bulls steady to SO
up; yeaierS and Stoekers and feeders
pounds and above 1885 and 1913 pounds
3S go moderate supply prime steers
LIS pounds and above. 3S,60-38.75,
long yearlings, 3675-3850, including
load choice 1920 pounds; beeves 1880,
pulk good and choice steers and yearl-
ings. 81. 50-36.50, including choice 1,799
pounds; beeveS and choice to low-prime
S14 pounds steer yearlings, 1926, few
loads commercial to low-good steers
% .00-3200, light utility kinds down to
$500: few loads prime heifers 921-1, 1876
pounds, 37.75-3S.25 most good to prime
heifers and mixed yearlings, 81. 00-37. 90
commercial heifers, 2S. 00-31.00, utility
grades down to "a 90 or less; commercial
cows, 27.00-30O0. scattered lots good
fed cows to 81 90. bulk Gamer to util-
ity cows, 19.O0-25.00, bulk utility to good
bulls, 26,50-30.50, odd head 81 90; most
good to prime vealers, 80. 00-37. 90, few
prime $500, culls to commercial Largely
"a. 00-34. 90; several loads good to choice
stock steer calves and light yearling stock
steers IS .00-39. 90: mostly choice 760-77C
pounds feeder steers 35.0035.25, COM
parable SS5-1 ,096 pounds feeders "a %:
pounds feeders 2s.5o-3I 80, few load,
common stockers 26.75-2S. 90.
Salable sheep 800 (estimatedl; tota
not given; compared week ago; all classe!
strong to 80 higher; receipts measurablH
larger; old crop lambs and yearlings pre-
dominated; good to prime native springer:
bulked at 81 .00-32. 90, top $3.50 paic
rather freely by local small killers; Gull!
"a OOPS. 90; Indiana fed No. ] skin fec
lambs and yearlings reached 1878
clipped No. ana no. = spring Iamb
80. so; closely sorted grained slaughte1
ewes reached 1900 but little above 1900
bulk Gull to good mixedweight ewe
III. OO-14.O0; full mouther 135 pounds
breeding ewes 1880 per Numbered weight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Stocks Gain Steadily
In Week, but Fail TO
Establish New Highs
By Roder Wineet
Associated Press Financial Writer

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-The stock
market made major attempt to
establish a new bull market high
this week, but it fell short of the
mark.
There were too many hurdles in
the upward path-the tagging per-
Torrance of the railroads. profit
taking as the week end ap-
preached, adverse earnings reports
showing the deep inroads on prof
its by Federal taxes, and ten
dency on the part of traders to
pause and take a deep breath
after sprinting ahead for such a
long time.
The market has advanced for
five straight weeks as measured
by the Associated press average
Of so stocks. That's the longest
stretch since the t0-week forward
movement that stopped in the
week ended February 10.
Inc current rise started from
the lowest point of this year June
% when the APP average was
$500. Yesterday the average
stood at $96.70, just $1.1O away
from the high of the year. Exactly
that amount-$110-waS gained
this week.
There was one major disap-
pointment to the bullish contin-
gent in Wall Street.-The railroads
didn't respond. That disappoint-
ment was evident Friday when the
market was mixed with railroads
down.
The rail component of the APP
average advanced only 10 cents
while the industrial component
Jumped ahead 1920.
Volume amounted to 8,538,000
shares on the week, the biggest
since the 8.724,0O0 shares of the
week ended June 90 when the
market bumped bottom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
SUMMARY NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANG Speakers
Speakers Announced
For Annual Meeting
OF ABA in Chicago
By Nelson M. Shepard

Speakers at the 77th annual
of the American Bank
ers' Association in Chicago. Sep
TENDER 80 to october 3, announced
include leaders in vari-
Gus fields. They will discuss the
vital domestic, economic and in
ternational issues that make this
meeting one of the most impor-
tant in ABA annals.
Solomon A. Smith, president OF
the Northern Trust Co. is chair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

man OF Jne
General Com
mittee repre-
Senting mem
Der banks of
the CHI ic a g o
Clearing House
which will be
host to the Ma
tons bankers.
Aside from
t n e h mote
address of Pres
ident James E.
Shelton, W h o
heads the Sc
cllritv-FirSt Ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

Textron, Inc, announced plans
to build q large new work-clotheS
fabrics mill at Meridian. Miss.
The plant will cost $6.6 million.
including machinery, and will be
financed by q bond issue Of the
City of Meridian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
y Zonlte lug

fUnit Of trading 10 shares. sln bankruptcy or re-
or being reorganzed under the Bankruptcy
Act, securities assumed by such companies Rates
p dividends In the fSreFoing table are annual dis.
declaration Unless otherwise noted special or extra
dividends are not included. cid Called. Ex divi-
dend. II Tx rights. Also extra or extras. Plus
stock dividend. d Cash or stock. Paid last year
Payable in stock. estimated cash value on ex divi-
dend date. Declared paid far this year, De.
cIared paid after stock dividend Or split De
dividends In arrears. Paid this year dividend omit
ted. deferred or no action taken at last dividend
, Ilquidating dividend. Payable in stock. exact
cash value Undetermined On declaration date.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Novel Deals With
.AustruIiun SIuns
12b PLYMOUTH STREET

1917 PLYMOUTH STREET
BY Ruth Park. (Houghton-M -MiHin
Co.,: S3.)
Ruth Park, a young Australian
author of much heart and facility,
writes with fiercely partisan af-
fection of the Sydney slum-
dwellers. She does not ask
readers pity for them. She points
out. with exultant pride. their love
for one another, their abiding
faith in God and the church. Do
not think, she seems to be saying.
that because the Darcys' home is
squalid their family life is the
same. And although she is un-
sparing in her descriptions of the
filth of their surroundings she
blames their somewhat passive re-
sistance to these forces to their
penurious landlords. Her novel
presents the case for low-cost
housing in highly dramatic form.
Miss Parks heroine, Dolour.
with her pimply face and her
pure heart. represents a triumph
of the human spirit over environ
ment-something in the manner
of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -
And Mumma, whose Irish spirit
bravely meets her husbands S
drunkenness. infidelity and gen.
eral recPlessness. is a character
| to love.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Personal Worries
OF Men in Battle
POINT OF HONOR

FO1N Or f1ONOh
BY R. M. Kadish. (Random
House; So
This is another war novel con-
cerned with single unit, a bat
terry of heavy artillery. The scene
is Italy. There are three leading
characters-a sergeant, lieuten-
ant and a lieutenant colonel-and
the spotlight swings on each in
turn, back and forth, Illuminating
incidentally good many other
soldiers.
For some reason, there nave
been more novels about the Italian
campaign than about any other
front. The formula of using a
company, platoon or battery and
looking through the eyes of va
rious men, successfully, has be-
come pretty we'll worn. What
gives this novel a certain distinc-
ton is that it is centered on the
relationship of the men to one
another, their likes and dislikes,
their feuds, jealousies and mis-
understandings. The war is some
thing almost remote, which seems
to have gone on alWays-of con-
suming Importance and yet some
how hardly touching their real
lives. The story moves swiftly.
The dialogue is effective and clut-
tered with the usual obscenities
which pass for realism these days.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Mill Town Comes
ToLfe in Novel

QOOHOM
BY Phyllis Bentley. (The Mac
milan Co.; S3.J
Working with the material she
has made particularly her own
the life of an English textile mill
toWn-Miss Bentley has fashioned
an absorbing novel of the lives of
a set of widely varied characters
who are brought together for a
committee meeting. The principal
figure, Thomas Armitage, is a
member of the responsible, privi-
legged group fast being elboWed off
the English scene by the Socialist
government. Old Thos, considered
radica. in his youth for his re-
forms of working conditions at his
mill, is old hat to the trade
union leader and the young Com
munist who serve with him on the
committee But with his integrity
his insistence on individual human
rights, his old-fashioned dignity, he
is able to prevail over the meeting
and to give each of the troubled
or malevolent or simply confused
people on the committee some
lesson or direction to carry away
with them. All of the characters
from the Wanton Elizabeth to the
impulsive Capt. Bairstow, are
shreWdly drawn, and through
judicious use of fashbacks Mis-.
Bentley has given her work more
liveliness and depth than any
/ of her recent novels.
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Reviewed by L. Edeor Primo

This is the story of a small
force of Chinese GIs. their lives
and deaths, while they fought
World War II a year before that
catacysm broke over Europe.
The author, a 36-year- -old for
mer newspaperman and infantry
officer, tells, in this his first novel,
of a disorganized and rag-tag
Chinese contingent which is hold
ing the line against the Jap in
vader. The pitifully inept Chinese
commander is persuaded to at
tack the superior enemy by prom
ises of luXuries and fame held out
by a cowardly Soviet military OBJ
server whose stock has been skid
ding at the Kremlin.
When the attack is crushed, the
Chinese commander seeks scape-
goat. He finds one in the hero
Capt. Liang, an idealist, Christian
and an outstanding officer.
Mr.. Appel, who shows a keen
understanding of human nature
has drawn a sharp picture of the
soldier who was the backbone Of
Chang Kai-shek's armies. 1t i.
as though he knew his character.
personally and merely changed
their names to such colorful one:
as "Sweetfoot," 'Porkhead" anc
Little Chicken" Perhaps he did
He served with the Chinese Com.
bat Command in World War II.
Evening star., 1951-01-28

off a play without stopping for
food or rest. Charts. the island
girl with literary sophistication,
strange mixture of innocence
and wisdom. is hard to believe in.
Nobody could be as Indifferent to
the Establishments of the island,
feminine and otherwise, as Nc
Ginty-at least no young fellow.
Even Filipino, the houseboy, de-
spite the authors effort to show
him as good-hearted primitive
emerging into sharp trader,
seems synthetic.
Perhaps none Of this matters.
If you can accept the story as a
romantic fantasy, you need not
demand realistic characters. Miss
Golden writes with her own
special charm. There are indi-
cations that she had not taken
her fable too seriously. Neither
need we. There is more than a
touch of humor in the engaging
drama. And there is one universal
truth: Whenever people living IN
utopian isolation encounter the
big world outside, they. get the
worst of it.
"A Breath of Air" is Book
of-the- e-Month Club selection.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Poets Corner
By Edwin 1ribbIe

SONNETS AND LYRICS !
BY Marcella Miller du Pont. fThe
Spiral Press; So
This slender volume contains
poems in the best lyric tradition.
The author, who now lives in
Washington, has been writing over
a period of years. but her output
has been small. She has pub
lished before only anonymous
ly or under pseudonyms. But
with this book (there are only Sc
pages she emerges as poet OF
distinction.
The medium Mrs. du Pont has
chosen is a carefully restricted
one. She writes of the conflicts
and harmonies of the human
heart. The form is TRADITIONAL;
she is at her best in the most dim
cult medium, the sonnet. She is in
tense yet restrained. Every word
is chosen carefully and falls into
it's place effortlessly. The result
is beauty in form and subtlety IN
meaning. It's music, and it's
Mozart.
Readers will be reminded inev-
itably of Emily Dickinson
Many haze learned hoD little 1t
requires
OF 1Diu to set aside and null,ty
The sWeetest OF our habits or
desires
When the great purpose OF
life slips BY.
and the comparison will be IA
vorable.
In other poems she speaks in
accents equally true.
TOMORROW is HERE
BY Helen Bayley Davis. (The
Dierkes Press; S2.)
This is the fourth book of verse
by Mrs. Davis, who is poet laure-
ate of the Maryland Federation of
Womens Clubs. Some of the
poems have appeared in The Star
and those who remember them
will find pleasure in rereading.
In addition there are good many
more. Mrs. Davis is poet Of
everyday occurrences and she
brings to them insight and tech
nical ability. Her poems are in
the straight lyric tradition and
are concerned with things she
knows intimately. One of her
best, Theme for a Symphony"
describes the rolling green hills of
Maryland.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Faith Triumphs in
Story of Many Woes

THE FAITH OF MRS. KELLEEN
BY Katherine Mary Flanagan.
(Coward-McCann, Inc; s3J
The heroine of Mrs. Mike"
great fiction favorite of several
years back. is here telling a true
story of the faith that moves
mountains which she had from
her mother and from her mothers
mother. Completely artless, it
makes the appeal of Mother
Machree" and is aimed at
those who don't mind shedding an
honest tear over a good woman's
plight and who can accept the
idea of "the little people" of Ire
land.
Mrs. Kelleen is simple woman
but woman of steel when she sees
injustice being done to her only
son, Rory, unfairly accused of
another mans murder and con-
victed on what must be some of
the flimsiest evidence in judicial
history. The wispy little widow
perseveres through incredible mis-
fortunes and even beyond the
grave to win the vindication of
her son.
In her ordeal, Mrs. Kelleen runs
the full gamut of woe. She is dis
possessed by a heartless landlord
(who gets his when the village
boycotts him); she goes blind, she
is parted from the faithful Irish
sester which was her guide. she is
seat to the poorhouse, abused by
q cruel matron. Any one not un-
done by the text will surely be
by the illustrations.
You don't have to believe in
1eprechauns to believe in Mrs.
Kelleen's final victory. Some
times an uneasy conscience or a
stout heart can do their work
The poor widow is helped by some
big people as well as the little
people.
Mrs. Flanagan feels strongly
about the troubles of Mrs. Kelleen
who was her great-aunt. He1
convictions carry the story
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star., 1951-01-28

mas acknowledged llllS. LII dllIlOSt
every case when he is making a
point he rounds off the presenta-
ton with quotation from his
subject to clinch the argument.
Even his central thesis about
Fitzgerald-that there was in him
a spoiled priest, giving in for
the brash young sophisticate he
appeared to be-iS derived from
the plot outline for Tender Is the
Night" Wrote Fitzgerald: SHOW
a man who is a natural idealist
a spoiled priest. giving in for
various causes TO the haute bour-
geoise (sic), and in his rise to the
top of the social world losing his
idealism, his talent and turning
to drink and dissipation" An ad-
mirable thum mail sketch of the
darling of the '20s, as he himself
well knew.
Fitzgerald, after Princeton, gave
up his Catholic faith, but never
his ideas of morality. Just how
and why the break occurred and
its lasting. effects, Mr. Mizener
does not develop speciflcally-nor
did Fitzgerald apparently in any
of his writings. But the biog-
rapher sees this factor as central
point in Fitzgerald's life. A friend
remarked that when Scott ceased
to go to mass, he began to drink
Mr.. MiZener's study is rich in such
anecdotes. bespeaking careful re-
search and interviews with Fitz-
geralds contemporaries.
Painful though many Of its de-
tails must be, Mr.. Mizener's book
shows sympathy, economy and
taste. He does rot judge Fitz-
gerald (as Budd Schulbere
did in The Disenchanted")
he only seeks to understand
him and the terrible COM
pulsions that forced him to wreck
the beautiful promise that life
seemed to hold when Scott mar
ried Zelda Sayre and they were
both young, handsome and full o1
gifts.
Fitzgerald's marriage. which
brought him his greatest joy anc