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Evening star., 1953-07-26

F., ourselves "The Purged Pigeons.
But it took too much time ex,
planning that.
The last and final name we
played under was Joe Com
mode and His Four Flushers."
Foreigners never could figure
that one out. And they didn't
want to ask. It saved an awful
lot Of trouble.
The bands personnel changed
from year to year. But not the
drummer boy. He just got bald
er and fatter. And it looked as
If he were not only the best
American drummer in all Rus
sia. but a permanent one.
I believe that band saved me
That and Tamara. And the sure
knowledge that in Russia any
thing can happen and frequently
does.
The Lightning Strikes.
Then one day the lightning
struck. With Stain dead, the
new Soviet regime decided to let
us go, along with some others
similarly situated.
I know now what it means
when the warden comes in and
says: "Get your things ready
son."
To let us go was no great and
original act of charity. It was
something that Should have been
done a long time ago. But we
are thankful anyway. And pinch
ing ourselves.
I've wanted a camera for
years, but it would have been
rather dangerous for an Amefi-
can correspondent to have one
in Moscow. This month I was
in Sweden watching people snap
cameras all around me.
MY God" I said to myself
one morning, "why don't I go out
and buy one?"
It simply hadn't occurred to
me that could.
How truly superb it is to go
where you want to, say what you
want to, live the way you want
to and, in my business-to write
without censorship?
Evening star., 1953-07-26
Swimming Team
Which Survived
43 Sinking Meets
By the Assoeiated Press

by the ASSoelofoo PreSS
CHICAGO, July as. - The
"1943" Kula Gulf Swimming
Team" is holding its first re-
union in Chicago.
The group is made up Of 200
survivors of the light cruiser
Helena, sunk by japanese tor
pedoes 10 years ago in the
Solomon Islands.
It's correct name is the q. S. S.
Helena Club, but because many
members floated in the Kula
Gulf for hours and days before
rescue, they jokingly called
t h e m selves the swimming
team"
Chick Morris, of Lexington,
Mass, radio officer Of the Hell
ena, said "she was a gallant
ship with a gallant tradition.
She was the first ship to fire
back at the Japanese at Pearl
Harbor. She sank there, but
they raised her and she went
out to revenge herself"
Evening star., 1953-07-26
Eddy Gilmore Tells His Own Story Prisoner of the Cold War

equality of the sexes. These peo.
pie, are not filled with false mod.
eSty as are we of the Western
world. There's one such room
shared by men and women alike
and why shouldn't it be this
way?"
"All right" I said, but where
Is it?"
He told me. I discovered ]
was the only person there. Then
I heard the voices of several
women. ! listened hard for a
male voice.
l stayed there for quite a while
Just listening. Not only did
these women not go away, more
came. I felt I'd better 60. So.
gathering my courage, put my
hand against a door and reso-
lutely showed it open. It hit a
baby. But it was too late to
stop now.
I found myself in a huddle
OF shouting women and one
screaming child. I beat a hasty
retreat up the corridor to the
room where I left the Russian
expert and the others. In about
three minutes Col. HulIs, his
face grave, summoned me into
the corridor.
Gilmore" he said, what have
you been doing in the ladies'
room. The management has had
a strong complaint.
From that day on I've never
placed much faith in experts
on Russia.
No Money Wanted.
Full Of self pity, we Thought
this trip was the worst in the
world. 1t was bitterly cold. Sew
eral windows in our car had
oeen blown out by German
bombs. They were replaced by
cardboard. We left Archangel
with food for six days and that
had gone. We had a little money
but the peasants at the wayside
weren't interested in money
they wanted soap, salt and
clothes.
Everything except my razor.
a bar OF soap, some money and
the clothes I stood in had been
stolen on the train. The same
thing had happened to Larry
Lesueur Of the Columbia Broad
casting System. Col. Hulls had
slipped on the ice while forag-
ing for food at wayside sta
ton and broken his arm. I'd
lost about IA pounds. We looked
and felt a collective mess in this
land Of COLLECTIVELY.
KuibyShev. on the high east
bank of the frozen Volga, seemed
a lovely chunk of paradise as
we arrived in a snowstorm. We
had expected a great welcome.
A single Greek chauffeur from
the British Embassy made up
the welcoming committee. But
pretty soon, John Russell, a Sec
retary at the British Embassy,
showed up and helped us find
our way to the Grand Hotel
which, until this day, has made
me wary of hotels by that name.
A few days later, sitting in
a room Of the building to which
the American Embassy had
been evacuated from Moscow,
we heard about Pearl Harbor,
and then we listened to Hitler,
over the shortwave radio, de-
clare war on the United States.
We were 800 miles from one
OF the greatest stories in the
world. And couldn't get there
and couldn't get any one inter-
Evening star., 1953-07-26

| ested in our getting there. Tele.
grams took two days to get tt
New York from Kuibyshev. Th'
world looked dark indeed.
Nazis Stopped at the Gates.
And then the Russians put ur
that defense at Moscow's gates
German patrols were actually IA
miles from the city at one point
Marshal Georgi Zhukov flung
the Germans back from Moscow
And our luck changed. too. We
were hurried up to Moscow. I say
hurried, it too six days by train.
Red Square had always meant
Moscow to me and, arriving there
in the 'blackout, I deposited my
belongings american Embassy
friends in Kuibyshev had given
me some clothes) and set out
from the Metropole Hotel to walk
in Red Square.
There 1t was-juSt as big as
I'd imagined and just as mysteri-
GUS looking. It was full moonlight
and I truly felt in another world
as I looked up at the onion
shaped and many y-colored domes
Of st. Basil's Cathedral. At that
block Of marble that was Lenin's
tomb and where / was later to
see them lay the body Of Joseph
Stain. And the Kremlin. The
ancient Kremlin of Ivan the
Terrible, Peter the Great, the
Alexanders and Lenin and Stain.
In due course. I was able to
take up residence at the Metro
pole Hotel. All, Mother Metro
pole. And Mother Metropolis
great dining room-now used
for an occasional dance-where
I first met Tamara, the brown
eyed Russian girl who was to
become my wife. And, If you'll
pardon me a little sentiment,
the person who has made me
feel that if life ended tomorrow,
life wouldn't owe me a thing.
She was a dancer in the Mos
COW ballet, and we were mar
ried in 1943 with the late Wen
dell Willkie playing the role of
intermediary and benefactor.
Visited U. S. ON Vacation.
Just after the war, in the
summer Of 1916, Tamara and I
visited the United States. We
took along our elder daughter
Vicki. then 2, and returned to
Moscow after a three-month va
cation. fairly sure that if we got
out once we'd get out again.
The Office said I was the man
for the job-and Russia was q
fascinating place.
It was in September, 1946,
that I went back to resume the
job of reporting Russia. Then
the roof began to fall in. It was
about the time Of the Truman
Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
When the Kremlin-and this
Stalin-began to realize
that there was a growing num-
ber of people in the world who
didn't look on him exactly as
benign old Uncle Joe.
The Russian government ruled
that Russian girls who had mar
ried foreigners-and there were
many otherS-could not leave
the country. AS an American
citizen, I could leave any time,
but not with my wife and two
girls.
1t was a case Of sticking with
them in Moscow or abandoning
them. The latter was too mon
Strous to even think about. 1
stuck with them. And Tamara
stuck with me in times when IL,
Evening star., 1953-07-26
India Buns Newspoper

India has banned the entry of
Mlllat. a Gujrati-language
newspaper published in Karachi
Pakistan, New Delhi reports.
Evening star., 1953-07-26
BY Eddy Gilmore
ssoeiated Press Foreign Correspondent

ASSoCtoISo TtUSS IOtSiSh SSi'NSFS"
PARIS, July 25.-Getting into
Russia can sometimes be more
difficult than getting out OF
Russia. Both were difficult in
my case.
Russia was far from my
thoughts that June morning in
bomb blasted Chelsea, London,
where was living in 1941. The
telephone beside the bed began
that English double-ring and 1t
was the Russian voice Of an
amigre Russian girl that told me
of the German invasion of the
Soviet Union.
"Hitler's soobmorineS, she said
in that curious, melodious voice
Evening star., 1953-07-26

The business Of reporters is TO tell
whot happens to other people, not
themselves. But occasionally the re-
porters themselves get into the news
and the STORY Behind the Story
becomes Of interest. In this article
Eddie Gilmore tells his own personoI
story,
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-10-15

RUAIMAGE sale. Sunday 1 to 8, and
Monday. 10 to 3. at 15020 Aspinwau
by Temple Emanu El.
RUNfMAGE sale sponsored by Temple
Emanu FL Sisterhood. l5020 Aspin-
wall ave.. Monday afternoon and
evening. and Tuesday morning, Oc-
tober 1920, unclaimed dry cleaning
and laundry. including mems shirts,
baby bathinette and miscellaneous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

trends in cars even more, Mercury offers you the
greatest array of optional power features in the
popular-price field. Drop around for our special
extra allowance on your present car. You couldn't
pick a better-or easier-time to buy a Mercury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
D.. {. Man Named Director
Of Auto Old Timers

A Washington man who has
been in the automobile business
almost as long as the automobile,
has been elected a national di-
rector of the Automobile Old
Timers, Inc.
Henry M. T. Cunningham,
Washington district sales man
ager for Lincoln-M Mercury and a
veteran of 40 years in the bust
ness, was named to the board Of
the pioneer organization at its
14th annual meeting in New
York.
He has long been active in
civic affairs; is currently chair
man of the business units Soli-
citation committee Of the Com
munity Chest drive and has been
with the Ford organization 80
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
By DonoId B. HodIey

The management Of District
National Securities Corp. is adj
vising stockholders to hang on
to their Class A and B preferred
shares in the face an offer Of
Sis for each unit Of one Class
A and one Glass B share, it was
learned today.
The offer is around So a unit
greater than the announced bid
of $113 on the over the counter
market here and contrasts
strongly with a price Of $24 only
a few years back.
A subsidiary Of the closed
District National Bank, the cor
poration was a child of the de-
preston, but q steady reduction
in its Indebtedness and the long
advance in real estate values
here has greatly enhanced the
earning power and liquidating
value of the eight apartment
houses it owns and operates.
The beSt-known property of
the company is South Cathedral
Mansions. Others include: 1922
Nineteenth street NV, 1881 S
street NV, 200 Massachusetts,
avenue NV, 6645 Georgia ave-
nue. NV, 1407 w street NV,
1878 Park road NV. and 1920
N street NV.
Doubled in VuIue
South Cathedral Mansions is
a good example Of what the rise
in real estate values and build
ing costs from depression lows
has done for company proper
ties. The big apartment house
was acquired by the corporation
for about $500, 900. It's replace
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

corporate accounting field. His
subject will be 1.-The Accountant
of Tomorrow"
Sees Reudjustment Ahead
There are no signs that the
Nation will face any early de-
preston. but a readjustment sim
liar to 1949 is in prospect, de-
clared E. Sherman Adams, dep
uty manager of the monetary
policy department of the Amer
lean Bankers Association, said
here last night. 70
Addressing the fall meeting ofe
the District Bankers Association.
Mr.. Adams said such an adjust
ment could be expected to bring
a drop in the demand for banl
loans, but that this would hes
offset by a need for increased
Government financing.
All boomS must end sooner or
later, Mr.. Adams reminded his
audience. However. he said ris-
ing population and other long,
term growth factors would sup
port the economy at high levels.
Robert c. Baker, executive vice
president Of the American Se-
curity g. Trust Co. and president
of the association, presided at
the fall meeting.
Post President Honored
George A. Didden, jr.. imme-
date past president of the Ma
tional Capital Bank, received a
resolution of appreciation from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

streets october 8. He was killed
instantly.
The charge was reduced from
manslaughter to speeding on rec
ommendation of Assistant Com
monWealth's Attorney Neville
Hail.. jr., and young. Myers
pleaded guilty. Police said the
truck was travelling about 80
miles an hour in a Is -mile-an-
hour zone.
Mr.. Hall said the charge was
reduced because there was no
evidence of gross negligence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Youth Fined SIS
In Fatal Auto Accident

A 17-year-old Alexandria boy
yesterday was fined $25 on a
speeding charge in connection
with a traffic accident that caused
the death of his best friend.
The fine was imposed on Dale
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Maryland 10 Issue
SO Million Bonds
By the Associated Pres,

BALTIMORE. Oct. 20.-Is-
suance of nearly $40 million in
State bonds-about half for
school construction-was au-
thorized yesterday by the Board
of Public Works.
The total boosts Maryland's
bonded Indebtedness to $780,
SAL 900.
Bond bids are to be opened
November 8 and the bonds is
sued as Of December /.
Still unissued is about $51
million worth of bonds author
lied by the General Assembly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

III e III erS OF
t h e associa-
tons Friday
! u n c h e o n
group for his
leadership in
the last year.
w i liam S.
French, jr.. of
the American
S ecurity &
Trust Co.,
who is chair
man of the f.
duciarieS Sec
ton of the
nfinn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
BEST TIME EVER TO BUY A

Don't miss the big teIsvision hh, TOAST OF THE TOWN. with Ed
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ADVERTISEMENT.
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ion in the Mr.. Stone.
orate accounting field. His
ect will be 1.-The Accountant
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and A. Stanley Wolfe of Riggs
National, chairman of the safe
deposit section. received their
insignia of office. Eugene E.
Case of the National Bank, who
is chairman of the auditors Sec
ton, was unable to attend and
will receive his insignia later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

T. Myers Of 1l8 North Royal
street.
Originally. he was charged with
manslaughter in the traffic death
Of Everett C. Caldwell, 10, of 125
North Washington street. Young
Caldwell was riding in a truck
driven by the Myers youth when
it was involved in a collision with
a car at Wilkes and Columbus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

w q S ngtOn
Chapter, Ma
tional ASSo-
citation of Cost
A c c o u ntantS
at a dinner
meeting at the
Willard Hotel
t o m o r W
night.
Mr.. Stone,
who has been
with Southern.
Bell since 1912,
has g ain e d
national rec
ignition in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

Independent market reports prove it. Mercury
consistently leads its class for trade-in value.
And, Mercurys with Merc-O-Matic Drive bring
the top price of all.
That's why it's even more important for you to
get the finest in no-shift drivingwhen you buyanew
car-to protect future trade-in value. Cars with
conventional gear shifts, and even partially auto
matte transmissions, are becoming old-fashioned
-. will be less in demand in the years ahead.
Fully automatic Merc-O-Matic Drive has been
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
District National Securities
Advises Holders Not to Sell

ment value now is estimated at
double this figure. Listed assets /.
of $1,254.987 at the end of 1882
do not take this into account.
In a 1912 reorganization Of
the company, when the old z per .
cent preferred stock was con-
verted into Glass A and B pre-
ferred shares, the corporations
Indebtedness was $630,684. BY
the end of 1851 this had been
cut to $506.107 and at the close
of 1852 it totaled $475, 140.
Moreover, the end of rent con-
trolls has permitted the corpora
ton to increase rents to meet
higher operating costs. Net in
come is expected to benefit SUBJ
stantially. 4.
Advised to Hold On
President Stephen H. Quigley,
in a recent letter to Stockhold-
ers, advised that those who are
not obliged to sell at the figure
now being offered may expect
a higher value for their stock
later on" y
Mr.. Quigley today expressed
a belief that the offer represents
an effort to gain control of a
corporation with a temptingly
large liquidating value. 1t is un-
derstood that two individual
stockholders are circulating the
offer.
He also pointed out that one
class A share is attached to
each class B share and they must
be traded as a unit. Each class
A share has a par value of 500 a.,
share and the class B share is
callable at $84.
The corporation has around
$50 stockholders. 1t pays So Of
dividends on class B stock and
81 on class A stock.
Cost Accountants Speaker
Harry V. Stone, vice president
and controller of the Southern
Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.
of Atlanta, Ca, will address
Evening star., 1953-09-25
Edmonston Road Plan
Is Given Top Priority
In Prince Georges

Work will begin next year to
make Edmonston road a dual
highway between Defense high
way in Bladensburg and Green
belt road. AZ miles north.
The plan received top priority
today at a conference to decide
which secondary road jobs in
Prince Georges County should be
started first in Maryland's H.
year road program.
County Commissioners and
State Roads Commission officials
decided the order of work in a
meeting at Upper Marlboro.
Some 81 miles of road projects
are included in the first four
year schedule.
The State Roads men empha-
sized that no decision had been
reached on where to put the
inter-belt highway. They said
the bypass around Washington
won't get any further in the first
four years than having it's loca-
ton decided and rights of way
acquired.
The conferees studied second
ary roads before discussing what
primary road jobs will be done.
Evening star., 1953-09-25
Typhoon Fatal to II,
Bears Down on Tokyo

TOKYO, Sept. 25 (P).-Fierce
winds and rain of the seasons
18th typhoon bore down on
Tokyo tonight after claiming IL
dead, % missing and 49 injured,
and snarling communications in
southwestern Japan, the news
paper ASahi reported.
Four ships about 800 miles
Southwest of Tokyo sent distress
calls and property damage was
reported running to millions of
dollars.
Kyodo News Agency reported
10 persons missing and possibly
buried in debris at Osaka, where
some 5000 homes were said to be
flooded.
ASahi, Japan's largest news
paper. said five persons died at
Osaka. five at Nara, one at Kobe
and one at Miye. all about 800
miles southeast of Tokyo.
A 20-ton japanese minesweep-
er. perhaps laden with salvaged
explosives, radioed it was
aground near Yokosuka, and
three cargo ships farther south
sent distress calls.
Although the center of the ty-
phoon was expected to pass Off
shore, the United States Air
Force weather bureau said Tokyo
was in for a battering by COTS
m.p.h. winds early tomorrow.
Evening star., 1953-09-25
New York Planning
Biggest Building
BY the Asseeroted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Plans
repeatedly are under way for
building a 20-story, 500 million
merchandise mart which will
span two city blocks now occu-
pied by the Pennsylvania rail-
road.
The proposed structure would
cover the area between Ninth
and Tenth avenues and Thirty
first and Thirty third streets, it
was learned yesterday. In terms
of total floor area, it would be
the largest building in the world.
Rail and truck accommoda-
tions within the building are
planned. The fiat roof could
be used for helicopter landings.
Evening star., 1953-09-25
IndO-China TYphoon
Kills Hundreds and
Routs Thousands
BY the Assoeioted Press

SAIGON, 1ndo-China Sept.
25.-Several hundred Indo-C Chi
nese were believed dead and sew
eral hundred thousand homeless
in a typhoon today which struck
a 90-mile stretch of the Central
1ndo-China coast.
The destruction was centered
on the ancient Annamite capi-
tai Of Hue. 325 miles north of
Saigon. The American economic
mission estimated that 80 per
cent Of the population of Hue,
a town of $4,000, and the sur
rounding area were homeless.
U. S. Aids Victims.
The typhoon repeatedly hit an
area of the South China seacoast
between the big French air and
naval base of Tourane and the
village of Quang Tri on the
north. French and American Of
f1cials rushed aid to the stricken
section
A typhoon in the same area
last year caused 5000 deaths
and left 100000 persons home
less.
Admiral James Shoemaker,
chief of the American medical
mission for North Wet Nam, pre-
pared to fly from Saigon to the
Hue area in a United States
plane with three tons of medical
supplies and food. French war
ships were engaged in rescue and
supply operations along the
coast.
Fear TyphuS Outbreak.
American and French medical
authorities said the biggest dan
ger was of typhus outbreak.
Torrential rains continued to
pour on the area. Rescue op-
erations in the Hue area were
hampered by the flooding Of
the airport. Medicine and other
supplies had to be landed at
Tourane and taken to Hue. so
miles to the northwest, in boats
or helicopterS.
Evening star., 1953-09-25
Democratic RuIIy

BERKELEY SPRINGS, w.
Va, Sept. 25 (SpeciaD Senator
Kilgore, Democrat, of West Vir-
ginia; Representative Staggers,
also Democrat, Of West Virginia,
and State Senator Clarence e.
Martin, jr., will be principal
speakers at a Democratic rally
to be held at suburban Cacapon
Park tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1953-09-25
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