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Evening star., 1953-11-05
Population in Como

ANTWERP. - The Belgian
Congo has an area of l million
square miles and a population in
excess of IA million.
Evening star., 1953-11-05
Mccarthy Assai|s
Canada in Spy Case
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Senator
Mccarthy said today it was
"inconceivable" that Canada
would refuse to let congress
sional committee question a for
mer Russian spy in its hunt for
Communist conspiracy in the
United States.
Senator McCarthy's comment
came after Canada Informally
rejected a request by the State
Department to interview Igor
Gouzenko, former code clerk in
the Russian Embassy in Ottawa
who revealed existence of a huge
spy network in 1916. Gouzenko
is now living in Canada.
1T is inconceivable that any
friendly government would turn
down a request for a United
States congressional committee
to hear testimony of men who
might give information that
would help crack Communist
conspiracy in the United States"
Senator Mccarthy said.
Senator Mccarthy said he was
not familiar with details of the
request which was made last
week to the State Department
jointly by Roy M. Cohn, chief
counsel for Senator McCarthy's
Senate Investigations subcom-
mittee, and Robert Morris, who
holds the same job with the Sem
ate Internal Security subcommit-
tee headed by Senator Jenner.
Republican, of Indiana.
Gouzenko had been quoted
earlier as saying a talk with
either of the subcommitteeS
would be worthwhile.
Canadian officials said they
saw no point in arranging an
interview because Gouzenko had
told everything he knew to the
Canadian government which had
passed it's information to the
FBI.
Evening star., 1953-11-05

lines system and about 800
workers would be involved in the
walkout.
The strikers are represented by
the AFL Brotherhood of Railway
and Steamship Clerks, aviation
division.
Thomas Dooner, chairman of
the Union Protective Committee,
said contract negotiations under
way since January / broke down
after the company offered a SIS
cents-and-hour increase when
the minimum acceptable to the
union was 10 cents.
A Northwest spokesman said
"two On three" clerical employees
failed to show up for work on
the day trick in Washington this
morning, and their duties we've
assumed by supervisory employees
There was no change in Sched-
uleS or picketing at National
Airport as result of the strike.
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Marcantonio Quits
Labor Party After
New York DebacIe
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Vito
Marcantonio has quit the Amer
lean Labor Party (ALP). of
which he was New York State
and county (Manhattan) chair
man.
The left-wing former Con-
gresham said in resigning yes
terday that because of an in
ternal fight the ALP "is and will
continue to be nothing else but
a pressure group"
The party, which has been los
ing strength for several years,
delivered only 54,372 votes
about 2.5 per cent of the total of
more than million-for it's
candidates for Mayor at Tues
days election, Clifford T. Nc
Avoy.
Calls Program Hopeless.
Mr.. Marcantonio, seven times
a Congressman in 1934-50 and
once a potent political figure in
East Harlem, said in his parting
statement:
II believe in independent po-
litical action and I sincerely be-
lieve that efforts for independent
political action are impossible
and hopeless today through the
ALP"
The 50-year-old lawyer said
a faction in the left-wing party
f1irted dith Democratic and Lib
eral Party candidates in the
election instead of concentrating
on support of Mr.. McAvoy. He
added:
I'VE asserted . that the ALP
would cease to exist as an effec-
tive political party unless it re-
cejved a minimum of 100000
votes for McAvoy. The fact that
McAvoy received 54,372 votes
proves that we could have re-
ceived 100000 votes if we had
had a united campaign.
"House Still Divided"
"The law requires that the
ALP must receive $4,000 votes for
Governor in 1854 to remain on
the ballot. This cannot be
achieved, for the minority still
insists, the debate still con-
tinues, the house is still divided"
Mr.. Marcantonio, a political
ally of the late Mayor Fiorello
H. La Guardia in the days be-
for the ALP went far to the left,
lost his Congress seat in 1850
when a Democratic Republican
Liberal Party coalition was
formed against him.
The ALP was the New York
State arm Of the Progressive
Party in the 1948 election when
Henry A. Wallace was the Pro-
81 essive candidate for President.
Evening star., 1953-11-05
BY the Assoeiosed Pres.

ALBANY. N. Y, Nov. 5.-The
FBI said today that % civilian
employees had been accused of
"share the : wealth" thefts of
$7,803 worth of Government
property from the United States
Army depot at Schenectady and
sub-debot at Voorheesville.
Twenty-seven were. arrested
today, the FBI said, but the 28th
was not taken into custody be-
cause he is confined to a hos
pital in Schenectady. He will
be arrested later, the FBI added.
All % were accused of theft
of Government property.
D. K. Brown, special agent in
charge of the Albany FBI Office,
said the investigation revealed a
share -the-wealth plan. AS he
outlined it, employees with access
to tools, wearing apparel or
other desirable items would set
them aside and tell their friends
where the property was. Then
Evening star., 1953-11-05
-Four Seat Pleasant
Firemen Temporarily
Freed in Blaze Series

Four former Seat Pleasant
(Md.) volunteer firemen, one q
youth whose name had not
previously been brought out. are
temporarily free Of charges link
ing them with a $4,000 series
Of blazes in Prince Georges
County.
Arson indictments against
three Of the youths were quashed
yesterday after arguments on a
motion filed in Upper Marlboro
Circuit Court.
Judge Charles c. Marbury up
held a contention of former
States Attorney A. Gwynn Bowie,
counsel for one of the defend
ants, that the language Of two
true bills did not describe the
allegations with sufficient par
ticularity."
Indictments Dismissed.
States Attorney Carlyle ].
Lancaster dismissed indictments
naming Mr.. Bowie's client Will
liam K. Roberts, 10. former as
sistant chief of the Seat Pleasant
unit; Edward H. Dulaney, %.
son Of a Seat Pleasant police
man, and Jerry Dix, 18.
Charges of turning false
alarms filed against the fourth
youth, Clarence w. Sprouse, 1S,
we're set aside when he testified
for the prosecution at a pre-
liminary hearing.
Dix has never been arrested.
Seat Pleasant fireman said he
entered Navy service shortly be-
fore the other accused youths
were rounded up last June. Dix
was charged with setting fire to
a Fairmont Heights dwelling
house.
Mr.. Lancaster said yesterday
he will present evidence against
Roberts, Dulaney and Dix to the
county grand jury when it re-
convenes on December IA. He
added that he will ask the Navy
to send Dix to Upper Marlboro
for trial. If he is re-indicted.
Dozen Blazes Charged.
Police said the four ex-flremen
sarted more than a dozen blazes
in scattered sections during an
18-month period to enjoy the
thrill Of shrieking rides and sub
sequent hose and ak battles. One
OF the largest, they said, was
the F. L. Watkins Lumberyard
fire in Seat Pleasant, which
caused damages totaling more
than $4,000.
Authorities said Oscar T.
Poore, Capitol Heighs Fire Board
dispatcher, recognized Sprouse's
voice when a call came in last
June IL reporting a barn fire
and giving telephone number.
A check disclosed, police said,
that the call came from another
phone several miles away. Mr..
Poore notified police. Sprouse,
Roberts and Dulaney were ar
rested a week later.
Evening star., 1953-11-05
Workers Start Strike
On Northwest AirIines
BY the Associuied Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Ticket
agents and other clerical work.
ers of Northwest Airlines struck
today for higher pay. The lines
airplanes continued in service on
domestic and trans-Paciflc
routes.
Strike leaders here said the
strike applied throughout the
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Alpha Gamma

Alpha Gamma
The Alpha Gamma club will meet
June &c with Grace Geary, hostess.
The program-The Backyard Views
of Life, by Irene Smucker.
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PARADE
Continued from Page II

tIOnLIuuGu lTOHl L age -
sleep and then putting her feet on it.
AS one of the boys said, All night
long it was "do you mind if put my
feet here?" plunk!
"At one time during the night one
of the little boys hunting for his
own legs commented scarcastically,
There are exactly six people resting
on me. Tell me are you all quite
comfortable Then there were all
our bags and baggages to see to. In
the middle of the night you would
feel the need of an apple and go
groping for your trusty bag in the
dark and not finding it you would set
up howl. Sooner or later it would
be discovered that somebody's Grand
mother was sitting on it and when it
was retrieved the hard boiled eggs
were hardly recognizable. l haven't
been called Esther so much since I
came to England. Everybody seemed
to get kick out of me, an American,
sitting there all night. The street
cleaners had chosen our gutter as a
sort of depot for trash and so we
periodically had a pile of it sitting
before US. | really felt like a
peasant, believe me.
"The great day dawned at last.
First the boobies spaced themselves
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Recent Bride Honored


Mrs. Robert Lee, the former Miss
Miriam Basinger of Bluffton, was
honored with a miscellaneous show
er Tuesday evening, June 8, at the
home of Mrs. Alfred Basinger. Mrs.
Wallace L. Keller and Mrs. Alfred
Basinger were hostesses.
The gifts were placed under we'd
ding bells suspended from streamers
of crepe paper in color scheme of
lavendar, green and white.
After the honored guest opened
her gifts, refreshments were served
to the following: Mrs. Robert Lee,
Miss Mary A. Basinger, Mrs. Marden
Basinger, Mrs. Alice Settlage, Miss
Mary E. Settlage, Miss Matilda Muel-
Ter, Mrs. Albert Kohler, Mrs. Jack
Mccullough, Mrs. Alice Fisher, Mrs
Forrest Basinger, Mrs. Clayton Ba-
singer, Mrs. Wilmer Basinger, Misses
jeanne, Joyce and Marjorie Basinger
Miss Olive DeKamp, Mrs. Garvin Lee
Miss Anne Lee, Mrs. julius Bixel
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out in front of us at regular intervals.
We got nice polly one who was full
of snappy comebacks. When asked
where he had got the medal he was
wearing he replied that it was off
Lana Turner's nightdress. Next we
got row of New Zealand sailors to
stand guard along the Mall. The one
just opposite us got a fit of the gig
giles just before the procession started
and couldn't stop.
"As the procession went by the
half mad woman kept murmuring
things that weren't so in one of the
little boys ear about the people in the
procession and the little boy would be
very polite and interested but | could
see he had strong desire to gag her.
The crowd cheered particularly loudly
for the Asians and Africans / am
pleased to report. think it was the
novelty of their dress, perhaps just
inherent British courtesy. They gave
Nehru a real welcome. Then finally
the Queen arrived in her fairy tale
coach and everyone pinched them
selves to be sure they were really
there and it was really true and may
be she did too.
"The Abbey service was broadcast
on the route for which | shall forever
be grateful and I felt it was deeply
moving.
"Then two of the little boys, Gilly
and Dicky and | made a tent and set
tied down to wait the return and lis
ten to the cozy patter of the rain. 1t
was fairly warm inside, the only dis
advantages being that Dicky and l
had our feet in a puddle. Gilly was
nearly asphyxiated because of no
room and all the rain from the join
between the two raincoat collars was
dripping on Dicky. When the old
veteran sidewalk sitter of Plymouth
informed US that the returning pro-
cession was almost upon us it took
about ten minutes for us to COM
prehend what she was talking about.
"We valiantly rose to our feet and
discovered the Polish woman standing
on Dicky's kit bag. | suggested very
gently, You're standing on some
body's kit bag 'Oh | don't mind,
was the reply. Dicky glared speech
lessly. It's not very good for kit
bags to stand on them when they
have breakable things inside l said.
oh he lets me stand on it, said the
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Society and Clubs

Mrs. Howard Reddick, Mrs. Robert
Which, Miss Shirley Hauenstein, Miss
Carol ]. Frantz, Mrs. Norma thinner
ly and Mrs. Ralph Garrett.
Messinger-Stover Wedding Saturday
The wedding of Miss Janet Stover,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd
Slower of Bluffton Route 2, and
James Messenger, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Aaron Messenger of Route 2, Bluffton,
will be an event of Saturday evening,
June 81, in the Ebenezer Mennonite
church at 7:30 o'clock. The Rev.
Howard Landes will officiate, and the
custom of open church will be OBJ
served.
Miss Slower and Mr.. Messenger are
both employed at the Triplett Electric
Instrument company. Both are
graduates of Bluffton high school.
Women's Garden Club
The DR.. ]. S. Schultz lawn was
the setting last Saturday for meet
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Anna HOchstettLer
Takes NeI, Post

Miss Anna Hochstettler, formerly
of Bluffton, will join the extension
staff of the University of Kentucky
next fall as home demonstration
agent for an Eastern Kentucky
county.
During the summer, Miss Hoch-
stettler is attneding a summer ses-
sion of the University, at Lexington.
Last school year she taught home
economics at Ezel, KY.
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e. e r. Sunday School
Holds Annual Picnic

The season of organizational pic
MICS and basket lunches was ushered
in last Sunday evening when the
Sunday school of st. Johns Evan
gelical and Reformed church enjoyed
it's annual picnic and fellowship at
Harmon field. The evening was
spent in playing games and sing
ing. Mrs. F. A. Lauriat, Sunday
school superintendent, was in charge
of the committee arrangements.
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woman cheerfully. We did manage
to rescue it later just before the
procession arrived.
"The procession came and went and
most unforgettable day was over.
We all congratulated one another on
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First Grass Fire

A grass fire, sure sign of drought
season in Bluffton, provided a short
workout for municipal firemen early
Saturday evening along the A. c.
& Y. railroad, just east of the Dix
lie highway.
Firemen extinguished the blaze in
a hurry, with no damage reported.
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SOLDIERS ADDRESS

Pvt. David Basinger, U. S. 52173346
S118th Sig. Supply,
APO TIC c/o P. M.
San Francisco, Calf.
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IN MEMORY

as7azszsssa'' IN MEMORY
In loving memory of Justin H.
Basinger who died three years ago,
June 25.
There's an open gate,
At the end of the road
Through which each must go alone,
And there in light we cannot see
Our Father claims His own.
Beyond that gate our loved one
Finds happiness and rest,
And there is comfort in the thought
That a loving God knows best.
Missed by his family,
Elsie, Roberta and David
II f Rasiager
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ing of the Bluffton Women's Garden
club at which Mrs. Schultz, Mrs. A.
B. Murray, Mrs. E. S. Lape, Mrs.
Cal Steiner and Mrs. Cyrus Schu-
macher were hostesses.
The blue ribbon award for the
prettiest corsage made and worn to
the meeting went to Mrs. Harry
Gratz. Mrs. A. T. Worthington, Co
lumbus, and Mrs. Russell Oyer, Sug-
ar Creek, were guests at the meeting.
Klassy Klipper Klub
The sixth meeting of the klassy
Klipper Al Klub was held at Raw
son Park. We made trays and de-
signs on huck toweling. While trays
were drying the All meeting was
held with devotions by Velma Moser,
followed by the Amen chorus. Roll
call was answered by IL members.
The Klub made S35.23 on their chick
en- sandwich sale at Mt. Cory.
Mothers Night Out
The Mothers Night Out club will
have their Fathers Day picnic for
their families Sunday evening, June
%, at 600 p. m. at Pandora park.
Each family will bring one dish,
sandwiches and their own service.
Olive Branch Ladies Aid
Olive Branch Ladies Aid will meet
next Wednesday afternoon, July l, at
200 D. m. at the home of Mrs. E. M.
Buckland.
Orange Twp. Farm Women's Club
Orange Township Farm Women's
club will meet July 2 with Alma Non
namaker, hostess. Program as fol-
lows: Song; Devotionals, Berdella
Marshall; Roll Call, Name State
Capital; Reading of Minutes; Busi-
ness; Our Nations Birthday, Mar
guerite Neff; The Patriot, Edith Pow
ell; The Christian Flag, Myrle War
rem; Three Needs, Maude Thompson;
Thinking Out Loud, Edith Swank.
Alpha Gamma
The Alpha Gamma club will meet
June 26 with Grace Geary, hostess.
The program-The Backyard Views
of Life, by Irene Smucker.
Gold Star All
The Gold Star All club met Mon
day evening, June Is, at the Orange
Twp. Community house. 20 members
answered roll call. Group singing
was led by Rosemary Montgomery.
The meeting was centered around
safety with Joyce Benroth in charge.
She gave a short talk on safety. The
girls taking the Salads, Sandwiches
and Summer Drinks project served
following the meeting.
A scrap paper drive will be held June
26 and a bake sale June 27 at Swank
Brothers Meat Market.
n x
Builders Class
The members of the Builders class
of the Methodist church and families
will have a picnic Thursday evening,
June 25, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. E. Augsburger at $50 prompt.
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our great loyalty and courage and
then set off for our respective hot
baths and beds, very tired but happy
and all quite sure we'd do it again if
we had it to do over"
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Gold Star All
Builders Class

Builders Glass
The members Of the Builders class
of the Methodist church and families
will have a picnic Thursday evening,
June 25, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. E. Augsburger at $50 prompt.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Three US. College Editors
End 14-DaY Soviet Visit
BY the Assoclated Press

MOSCOW, Oct. 3.-Three in
quisitive American college ed
itors returned here yesterday
from a visit to Kiev and the Uk-
rainian countryside, thus wind
ing up 14-day visit to the Soviet
Union. They ventured two con-
clusions:
"The Soviet people appear
united and nothing could be
more foolish in American or
Western power policy than to
think there could be a revolt
here against the government.
Secondly, we feel that in our
discussions we made at least a
small dent in the popular propa-
ganda belief that all Americans
are starving, that they are the
children of capitalists, and that
the United States is a land of
discrimination against the Negro
and other minoritieS.
The three-Zander Hollander,
former feature editor of the
Michigan Daily at Ann Arbor;
Daniel Berger of Great Neck,
N. Y, editor of the Oberlin Col
lege Review, and Mark Edmond,
editor of the University of Colo-
RADIO Daily-are leaving Sunday.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
u. S. Undercover Agent Buys
Valuable Stolen Paintings

He received a telephone call
from Chicago April l while he
was in New York. The caller
said he had picture and
wanted to do business"
Mr.. Laftte, in the guise of Man
letti, flew to Chicago and met
Kretoke and another man. Kret-
ske mentioned that he had
paintings to sell. Mr.. Lafitte
asked if there was "any blood on
them" He quoted Kretske as re-
plying:
mo. My boy did the job in a
safe way so that nobody would
be hurt"
The next day he looked at the
canvaSes in home he said was
De Pietro's. A price of $4,000
was fixed.
Kretske and Mr.. Laf1tte were
seized by FBI agents in a car
April 3 in parking lot. The
FBI said four paintings were
found in the trunk of the car.
The paintings and the artists
to whom they are attributed are
THE Growing of the Blessed
Virgin" Murillo (1617-1682);
"The Playing of st. Bartholo-
mew," Rubens 0577-164O):
THE Descent of the Holy
Ghost, - Van Eyck G385-1441),
and one called Immaculate
Conception"
Evening star., 1953-10-03

"a, 1861 when he tried to make
Confederate patriot take down
the Stars and Bars.
Other Forts.
Mr.. Cahill got the planning
commission interested in the old
forts. He said they were brought
to his attention by 1t. Comdr
Moreau B. c. Chambers, a mem
Der of the Washington Civil War
Round Table.
Other Union forts built in Al
eXandria during the War Be-
tween the States included Fort
Worth, now on an estate owned
by DR.. Fred Moss behind the
Shirley Duke apartment project;
Fort Williams, near Quaker lane
and Duke street, and Battery
Garesche, on the property now
occupied by darlington.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
3 Stripteosers Avoid Hearing
Before Critical Woman Judge
Indecent Exposure
Cases Transferred
To HyottsviIIe Court

Streamlined Margo Martinez
and two other 1.-the stripteasers
arrested in a Prince Georges
County sheriff's raid, have wrig-
gled out of hearings before q
! woman judge.
They won removal of theil
cases to Hyattsville yesterday
just before the docket was called
in Upper Marlboro Police Court
On the bench at the time was
Judge Nita S. Hinman Crane
who has publicly announced she
will hand out jail terms to dane
ers convicted of taking off toe
much.
Contentious that such perfor-
mances represent art carry
little weight with Judge Crane.
Artists, my eye," said the
judge, they shake the county
with vulgarity."
The strippers involved are Miss
Martinez. 26; 10 Ann Palmer, %
and Faye Lamar, "a. They will
appear before Judge Theodore L
Miazga at a date to be set later
The three were arrested on
September 27 by the county's 30
member force of undercovel
deputies, acting under orders
from Sheriff Carlton G. Beall tC
clean up indecent performances
Miss Martinez appeared at the
Crossroads Restaurant in Bla-
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Soviet President Missing
From Public Affairs
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Oct. 3.-British in
formants said yesterday Marshal
Klementy Voroshilov, President
of the Soviet Union, has not
appeared in public for more
than five weeks.
Voroshilov, 72. was last re-
ported at a public ceremony
on August %. when he attended
a banquet given in honor of a
visiting delegation from East
Germany.
VoroShilov is believed to be
the last surviving member of
Stains old guard. When Georgi
N. Malenkov took over as Pre-
mier, Voroshilov was moved to
the figuerhead post of President
of the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet or Parliament. AS nomi-
nal head of the State Voroshilov
usually receives the credentials
Of new ambassadors.
In the past few weeks ENJOYS
from Egypt and Albania have
been received by Deputy Presi-
dent Arasov.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Estate Of 100000
Left by Judge Proctor

Judge James M. Proctor of the
U. S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia, who died
September II of a heart attack
in the Kennedy Warren Apart
ments, left an estate valued at
100000.
This was disclosed yesterday
in a petition for probate of his
will, filed in the Register of Wills
office in the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia.
The bulk of the estate is to be
divided int three parts, with his
widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett
Proctor, to receive one part: a
son, Edward A. Proctor of Bir-
mingham, Mich, to receive a
third and four grandchildren,
who are the children of a de-
ceased son, the late James M.
Proctor, jr., to receive one third
between them.