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Evening star., 1953-06-20
Announcement

Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Charuhas
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Maria, to Mr..
Nicholas BourniaS, son Of Mr..
Frank Bournias of Frenchtown,
N. ]. An early fall wedding is
planned.
Evening star., 1953-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Feagin of
Orangeburg, S. c., announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Barbara Ann, to DR.. Lee H. Car
ter, son of DR.. and Mrs. Floyd J.
Carter of Chevy Chase, Md.
The wedding will take place
July Is at. the First Baptist
Church in Orangeburg. The
couple will live in this city,
where the bridegroom-elect is in
practice with his father.
Evening star., 1953-06-20


MRS. CLAYTON d. GRIFFITE
The former
Miss Barbara Ann Reynolds.
The marriage of Miss Bar
bara Ann Reynolds. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Gilbert
HAZEL, to Mr.. Clayton David
Griffith, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. Clayton Griffith, took place
June 19 at 8 o'clock in the
evening. The Rev. Ernest A.
Otto officiated in the Wilson
Memorial Methodist Church.
After a trip to Pennsylvania,
the couple will make their
home here.
Evening star., 1953-06-20

MRS. THOMAS Nj. POWELL
The former
Miss Gladys Nj. StrOSter.
Miss Gladys Marie Stroster
daughter of Mrs. John Bernard
Stoner Of Altoona, Pa, became
the bride on June 6. Of Mr.
Thomas M. Powell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Grover Powell of Beth
esda, Md. The ceremony took
place in the Church Of st. Thom-
as the Apostle, Father Kessler
officiating. A reception followed
the service
Evening star., 1953-06-20

Miss Alice M. Bartlett, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Leon F. r. Bartlett
of Wakefield, Mass, and the
late Mr.. Bartlett, became the
bride on June 6, of Mr.. John
Hathaway Margeson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank r. Margeson of
East Norwalk, Conn. The we'd
ding took place at the Church of
the Epiphany. the Rev. Harry
L. Mayf1eld ofiiciating. A re-
ception at the Endion Club fol-
lowed the ceremony.
Evening star., 1953-12-25

against their rulers on the
basis of their present social
and economic enSlavement.
But the day will come inevi-
tably when they will rise
against their atheistic rulers.
The great bond between the
Russian peasants and the
autocratic Czars for hundreds
of years was the belief in and
fear of God by both the ruler
and the ruled. No such bond
now holds the 180 million
Christians and Mohammedans
in Russia today.
The Kremlin is admittedly
having serious trouble in East
ern Germany and Poland,
where farmers and workers are
attempting to rid themselves
of the Red tyranny with bare
hands. The Red Satraps have
gone out of their way to i'm
prove economic conditions in
these two satellite countries.
But they have made no i'm
preston on the millions of
Poles and Germans because
they cannot accept either ag-
nosticislm or atheism. Priests
and ministers have been or
dained by the Muscovites for
them in the last few years.
These, however, place their
Kremlin masters ahead of the
Almighty and have not been
able to deceive their flocks.
We are living in tragic days.
with fear of another mass
slaughter continually over our
heads. But neither innumer-
able divisions, tanks nor planes
can win in the end for the
materialists who place them
selves ahead of God.
Despite its unbelievable
trials and tribulations, Ger
many is today on the way to
recovery far ahead of any
other European country. Ger
many has actually, and not
merely figuratively. arisen from
ashes.
Throughout their darkest
Evening star., 1953-12-25
A Gross Insult to Santa Claus
British Decide to Disregard Wishes Of u S. Congress
And Go Aheod and Ship Stroteqc Goods to Chino
Dovid Lowrence-

The prize insult Of the year
to Santa Claus has just been
handed to the Congress Of the
United States by the British
government.
Although the law of the land
proclaimS that no American
financial or economic aid shall
go to any country which trades
in strategic materials with
countries guilty Of aggression
as denounced by the United
Nations, the British govern
ment has decided to go ahead
in total disregard Of the wishes
Of the American Congress and
furnish such materials to Red
China.
AS long as the Soviets and
Red Chinese rely on the Brit
ish government to break the
solid front Of the allies by send
ing strategic materials to Com
munist countries, the chances
Of soon bringing American boys
back from Korea or obtaining
the release Of several hundred
American prisoners held by the
Reds in Manchuria are di-
minished. It means that be-
cause of the failure to exert
economic pressure by the
allies, America will have to
maintain for several years to
come an army Of $50, 900 men
in Korea and the draft will
have to continue to cali from
10000 to 10000 American boys
every month to replace those
stationed there now.
The Congress Of the United
States by an overwhelming
vote Of both parties expressed
itself in the Mutual Assistance
Control Act of 1851 that any
nation which receives Ameri-
can financial or economic or
military aid must not ship
strategic materials to. Commu-
nistlcountries.
On November "a, Senator
Mccarthy Of Wisconsin in a
radio-television speech called
for the enforcement Of that
law. and the Department Of
State on December l, backed
up by President Eisenhower.
sought to rebuke him for his
statement. This may have en-
Evening star., 1953-12-25

was being sent by Soviet Russia
to Red China.
Now the British government
no longer seeks to conceal the
facts about its trade with the
Communist countries. Trade is
to increase even though a state
Of war still exists between Red
China and the q. N. armies in
Korea.
Since there has been no
time or place set as yet for the
negotiating Of q peace treaty
in Korea, why should the
Communists be In any hurry
if they can get all they want
without such q conference?
Certainly the lifting of the
trade embargo before a peace
treaty has been signed is a
f1agrant violation of both the
spirit and the letter Of the
United Nations resolution pro-
hibiting trade with aggresSor
countries. What can the aver
age citizen do about it? He
can write to the President
and the Secretary Of State
in protest. And he can pray
that there shall arise in Amer
lea at least 49 men with the
courage of q Mccarthy in the
Senate and 218 men In the
House of Representatives who
will vote to strengthen the ex-
isting law so that there will
be no loopholes and so that
not a single American dollar
shall go to a government which
permits its citizens to aid the
enemy.
If material damage to Brit
ish interests should result from
the prohibition of such trade,
certainly enough money can be
appropriated by Congress to
compensate the British pro-
ducers and to give them the
materials they need to import.
It would take only a fraction
Of the billions given away
abroad now by the American
Santa Claus. This is much
better than permitting the
Communists to build up their
war machine for a sudden at
tack on American boys sta
toned in Korea.
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Evening star., 1953-12-25
Constantine Brown

The tragedy of our world
today stems not from its di-
vision into free and totalitar-
ian countries, but from division
into God-fearing and atheistic
governments. The former have
remained theological: the
latter have adopted stark ma
terialism with no hope what
soever in the hereafter.
There is not a single athe-
iStic or agnostic nation in the
world-and there has never
been. But there are govern
ments which have adopted this
philosophy, far worse than
paganism. to serve their in
dividual goals. And their ruth
less rulers are compelling the
people to conform to that
philosophy.
The men in the Kremlin are
the main protagonists of athe-
istic views which must inevi-
tably lead them to destruction,
more than the weapons Of the
God-fearing countries.
The Russian people them
selves are deeply religious.
Helpless pawns in the hands of
their government, they are ac-
cepting on the surface the
dictates from Moscow to place
their rulers above God and
religion, which the Soviet
rulers call "the opiate of cap
italiSrn."
When the U.S.S.R. stood in
danger of destruction by the
Germans headed by the agnos-
tic Adolf Hitler it received un-
expected support from the
Christian West. AS a sop to its
future victims, a state religion,
resembling orthodox Christi
anity in its outward form, was
permitted in the U.S.S.R. But
it soon became obvious that it
was only intended as a political
football in the hands of the
Red dictators.
It will not be easy to arouse
the lethargic Russian people
Evening star., 1953-12-25
Dorothy Thompson !
ARevo|ution for Peace Is UrQed
Only TooI Disarmament of All Instruments of War
MLIl Insure Us Aounst Horrors of Armed Conflict

whose potentialities fill every
one with horror. But hideous
wars were fought before the
atom bomb, the airplane, the
tank or modern heavy artil.
lery were invented. The
Thirty Years War in the 17th
century killed more people, in
proportion to the numbers en-
gagged. than either World War.
So did the American Civil War.
In the last war, guerrillas
operating behind the enemy
lines and armed with primi-
tive weapons were more feared
by the German armies than
Russian tanks.
The way to abolish the hor-
rors that are inflicted upon
peoples is by abolishing war
and all instruments of war;
General staffs: armies, profess
sional or conscripted; tanks,
armed planes and armed ships;
all exorbitantly large armed
police forces. The disarma-
ment that would be advanta-
geous to all, and not, in itself,
a means by which one side
seeks its own advantage,
would be a proposal for total,
universal and simultaneous
disarmament. to be carried out
over a period of. say, 10 years,
by everybody.
If this be a revolutionary
proposal. we live in q revolu-
tionary age, which, If it is to
usher in a new golden era, re-
quires radically revolutionary
measures for civilization and
peace.
Evening star., 1953-12-25

couraged the British to 60
ahead with their plans to defy
the American Congress. Here
is the news item as 1t has Just
come over the wires from
London:
British trade with Red
China is nearly three times as
great this year as last, and
British businessmen said today
they hope to increase it even
more during the year to come.
1.-THE Board Of Trade (the
British governments depart
ment Of commerce) reported
that the value of the trade
with the Communists in China
- including imports. exports
and re-exportS-totalled $780,
300,544 during the first 10
months Of 1858, compared to
$13.727.170 in the same period
last year.
"A spokesman for q group of
British businessmen said ne
gotiations for increased ship
ments through the bamboo
curtain will start soon after
January l..
"The businessmen hone to
ship about $40 million worth
Of goods to the Reds during
1854, including $14 million
worth of strategic materials
for which the Board of Trade
has refused so far to grant ex-
port licenses.
"The board gradually has
been relaxing its ban on
strategic shipments. the
spokesman said, and further
relaxation is expected next
year."
It is important to recall that
Spokesmen for the British EN-
bassy here and the government
in London have hitherto in
sisted in public speeches and
statements that no strategic
materials" have been going to
Red China. But it never has
been denied that rubber, for
instance strategic item
has been going to Soviet Rus
sia and, of course. Andrei
Vishinsky publicly admitted to
the United Nations Assembly
a year ago that military aid
Evening star., 1953-12-25
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

gives the White staff copies of his painting Of
Abraham Democrats hope the picture
valuable in future painting Of the first Republican
President by the last
Coty, President Of France. rides in triumph
through head Of for
takes him that long to get to head
Ike goes to Georgia the Christmas holidays
doing the White House these days anyway-just
the usual routine of a travel agency.
execution of Soviet Police Beria and
aides makes wonder whether the free world exemnae
communism before the Communists do.
United States gives Oshma Islands Japan
present reftes the false
can't do anything foreign affairs except give away
money
Britain its trade with Red China is three times greater
than last No wonder it the British who first used
the Curtain-they supplied the iron.
Evening star., 1953-12-25
Millions of Dollars in Britain
Stored for Outdoted Charities

dated, the courts alone have the
power to make a change. Even
then the money must go for a
purpose as near as possible to
the original.
The Barbary pirate trust, for
instance, has been out of Gate
since the French drove the
pirates from the Algerian coast
in 1880. When Henry Smith,
rich London merchant, left his
money for the redemption of
pirate captiyes, King Charles II
was on the throne of England,
and traders to the Mediterra-
mean were being sold into slavery
by the hundreds each year.
Support of Hospitals.
The last time the trust was
used for its original purpose was
in 1927. The trustees got per-
mission to devote the money to
supporting hospitals until Brit
aims medical services we're ma
tionalized five years ago.
They applied then to have the
income given to impoverished
clergymen, but the wheel turned
full circle when the court di-
rected that proportion of the
money be given to organizations
fighting slavery in parts of Africa
and Arabia.
To sort out the tangle of these
trusts the former labor govern
ment set up royal commission
three years ago.
For many months the commits
sioners tackled the confusion. It
recently reported there isn't
much that can be done.
Evening star., 1953-12-25
: No Other Gods Before Me-
Neither Divisions Nor Tanks Nor Planes Can Win Ultimately
For Moterioists Who Would Stand Above the Almighty

days which might have in
duced them to despair, the
German people never gave up
their faith in God which un-
der Hitler had become almost
as "verboten" as now in the
Soviet empire. They recog-
nized in their defeat the
wrath of God. Young and old,
men and women, swarmed to
their churches and found SOL
ace and strength in prayers.
Bricklayers, masons and car
penters gave time free for
reconstruction of temples Of
worship. Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer and his political
opponent, the labor leader
Ollenhauer. are deeply reli-
glouS.
Germany has emerged today
only eight years after the war
set off by the atheistic Hitler
as Europe's most orderly and
most productive country, in
glaring contrast to neighbor-
ing France where the agnos-
tics are gaining the upper
hand under the influence Of
the Communists. "Je mem
foutism" II don't care a tink-
er's DANNY is replacing Chris
tianity in that country. When
this reporter was in Paris last
month he was told by political
forecasters that Premier Jo-
seph Laniel had little chance
of being elected President Of
the republic, because he was
too devout a churchman."
Even portions of Frances
clergy, strange as it may seem.
have begun to embrace the
materialistic philosophy.
The history of the world re-
cords more tragedies than
pleasant developments. But at
no time has it recorded a vic
tory of unbelievers against
true believers.
Evening star., 1953-12-25

heart of Europe to the Yellow
Sea. The armies of this land
mass can march at will in any
direction without encounter
ing serious natural obstacles.
They are on the borders of
most of the worlds peninsulas
Western Europe, Korea, In
dia.
The world outside this vast
centrally located territory oc-
cupies mostly peninsu1as and
islands, of which latter the
Americas are the greatest. It's
defense, therefore, rests pri-
marily on sea and air power,
and the possibility, through
these means, to infiict enor-
nous damage as reprisal upon
land armies attempting con-
quest of their neighbors. II,
with such hazards as impeded
the landing Of ground troops
in Fortress Europe" in World
War II, they succeed in land
ing them, they must always
make up their deficiency in
manpower and the disadvan-
tages of geographical position
by enormous superiority in
mechanical power.
One can put it thus: # arms
were confined to those q man
can carry on his shoulder, a
centrally located land power,
commanding enormous supe-
riority of numbers, could over
run the entire Eastern Hemi-
Sphere-which is most Of the
earth-with impunity and thus
become master of the globe.
1t is good propaganda to
urge the abolition of weapons
Evening star., 1953-12-25
By the ASsoeidted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-What
were the roads that led % Amer
leans to refuse to leave a Com
munist POW camp in Korea?
What turned these GIs, who
for the most part joined the
Army voluntarily, to a way of
life their countrymen spurn?
What. on this Christmas Day,
keeps them from those who long
for their return?
Some may be without friends
or family. But not Corpl. Otho
G. Bell, %.
The daughter Corpl. Bell has
never seen, Paula, 8, weeps for
him in Olympia. Wash. She wants
her daddy to bring her a tricycle.
and wagon for Christmas.
Friends and kinfolk are be-
wildered by the prisoners de-
cision. Was it forced on them?
Mrs. Bell and others think there
Is dureSS involved.
Unless some OF the 20 return
and speak, the answer may never
be known.
But something of who they
are. how they lived and what
they sought from life can be
learned from those who knew
them.
Most Are Young.
AS a group they are young.
Some are still not old enough
to vote. others turned voting age
while in captivity. Generally
they shouldered little RESPONSE
bility. None was af1uent.
Some came from homes broken
by divorce or death. One or two
had minor records as juvenile
delinquents.
Most had at least gone to high
school, many had graduated.
Apparently none got to college.
Many were regarded by their
neighbors as active church
goers.
Hardly any, by testimony of
their friends. showed any In
terest in politics before capture
by the enemy in Korea.
Hear what those who knew
them have to say.
Mrs. Herbert e. Slaughter, ma
Evening star., 1953-12-25
Dorothy Thompson

The Soviet statement accept
ing President Eisenhower's in
vitation for a confidential con-
ference on the use Of atomic
energy contains pitfalls for the
United States. The SovietS
propose an international agree
ment forbidding the use of all
categories of atomic weapons,
and instruments of mass de-
struction, together with a con-
siderable reduction in all
other types of ornaments.
They thus suggest that the
United States entirely abolish
the type of ornaments in
which they have superiority,
while offering only a proper
tionate reduction Of the
weapons in which the Soviet
bloc has superiority.
Something similar always
happens when disarmament
conferences are not devoted to
abolishing the possibility of
war by any means whatso-
ever.
The Soviet Union, with a
population of over 200 million
occupies an internal strategic
position on the Eurasian main
land. It is allied in the East
with the Chinese Peoples Re-
public. whose manpower is
practically inexhaustible, and
in the West with East Euro
pean states, the bloc COM
manding altogether popula-
tions numbering a third of
the population Of the globe.
This bloc occupies a con-
tiguouS land mass from the
Evening star., 1953-12-25
By the Assoeiosed Pres.

LONDON, Dec. 25.-TheRes a
million dollar ness egg available
here in Britain to ransom any
body captured by Barbary Coast
pirates.
And there's a $4,000 fund to
build a pest house and grave
yard in the heart of London
in case plague breaks out.
The Barbary Coast pirates
went out of business more than
100 years ago and there hasn't
been a plague outbreak in Lon
don for 200 years. but the money
is still there waiting to be used
together with an estimated
$500 million locked up in Ito, 200
charities set up by tender
hearted Britons throughout the
centuries.
Many Are 100 Years Old.
At least a quarter of these
charities are more than 10C
years old. Approximately 5000
of them have annual incomes
of less than $40. Nobody knows
how many of their purposes are
outdated now.
There are. funds to provide
red flannel underclothes for poor
old women and waistcoats for
poor old men. There's free coal,
bread and cheese to be had for
the asking. There are cash grants
for out-of-luck tailors. weavers
and felt workers.
There's even a fund in the
little Leicestershire village of
Bitteswell dating back to the
time Of the Spnaish Armade in
1888 which provides $50 a year
to furnish an armed soldier in
time of war.
Each trust-big or small-is
hedged with legal safeguards to
make sure it is properly ad-
ministered.
Under British law if the ORR
ginal purpose of a trust is out
Evening star., 1953-12-25

Of Ashland, Pa, is a naturalized
American. Born in Belgium, he
came to the United States when
he was 10. got his citizenship
Strengthened out and enlisted in
the Army.
Sergt. Belhomme's mother.
Mrs. Marcella Seifert, has said: /:
I'm all his letters he indicated
he was anxious to get out with
Nom and Dad again for some
good times"
Several prisoners. like Sergt.
Lawrence v. Sullivan, %, of
Santa Barbara, Calf, are Me-
groes. With six other children
he was reared by his grand
mother, Mrs. Mary B. Frost, who
says: I'VE were as poor as Jobs
turkey"
Seems Well Won Over.
Sergt. Sullivan, who enlisted,
Is one who seems to have been
won over strongly to the Com
munist point of view. In his last
letter to Mrs. Frost 13 months
ago. he said:
Il have come to realize that
the war is not being fought for
the common people like you and
I. but for a handful of Wall
Streets (sic). It really came as
a surprise to me when I looked
at my country from the outside. .
Pfc. Lowell Skinner, %, lived
In q sparsely settled outskirt of
Akron. Ohio. He left high school
at 18 to join the Army. hoping
to get into the cavalry like his
father. Brady. who was a World
War cavalryman.
His mother thinks he must
be "doped or mentally ILL.," Last
year he wrote asking her to
send $50 he had in a bank to
two Communist newspapers. She
didn't.
Sergt. Richard G. Corden's
teachers don't remember him UP
in East Providence, r. I.
Orphaned 18 years ago, Sergt.
Corden and his younger sister
were raised by grandparents.
He was q quiet boy with q bent
for reading. classical music and
church-going.
But several times between
1912 and 1945, young Corden
was sent to q State correctional
school.
In September. 1852, Sergt.
Evening star., 1953-12-25
POWs F0tefuI Pro-Red Stand
Puzzles Parents and Friends

ternal grandmother of Pvt. Sam
uel D. Hawkins, Oklahoma City: +:
This boy was raised q Chris
tian. He couldn't really turn to
anything such as Communism.
He has experienced God. I know
the Lord will straighten it out"
Mother is Preacher.
Pvt. Hawkins, 81, has been a
POW three years. His mother,
Mrs. Carley Jones, a preacher,
has been divorced twice. Says
Mrs. Jones:
HE may have turned to that
Communist doctrine, but I know
he doesn't believe it in his heart.
An older man would have been
able to reason more, but I think
David wants to come home nev-
ertheless."
Sometimes 1t was hard to find
people who knew, or would talk,
about a prisoner. Such was the
case with Corpl. Andrew For
tuna. q. Of Lincoln Park, Mich.
| Corpl. Fortuna's family was
almost always on relief. Once he
stayed home from school for 81
days for lack Of shoes. His father
is dead; neighbors haven't any
idea where his mother is.
Corpl. Fortuna quit school to
enlist near the end of World War
II. He re-enliSted for the Ko-
rean war.
Corpl. John r. Dunn, Is, of
Baltimore, Is the son of an en-
ployment manager of an indus
trial firm. He worked as a whole
sale grocery salesman before be-
ing drafted.
Worked in Sunday School.
He was assistant Sunday
School superintendent Of the
Episcopal Church Of the Resur-
rection. whose rector, the Rev.
Elmer p. Baker. says: "He is one
Of the finest boys I know. Most
Of his life centered in the church.
I wish I had 20 more like him. ''
Corpl. Dunn was graduated
from high school in 1948. His
class yearbook listed his ambi-
ton: ITO be happy"
] Sergt. Albert G. Belhomme, a..
Evening star., 1953-12-25

says his sister. Mrs. Helen SEQ
limos, of Gardena, but he showed
no left-wing thinking.
Sergt. Howard G. Adams, %,
is an Army reservist who volun-
teered for infantry duty shortly
after the Reds invaded South
Korea in 1850.
The other day his graying
mother, Mrs. j. H. Adams, trav-
eled from Corsicana, Tex, to q
Dallas radio station to make a
record, hoping that somehow the
message might reach her son.
She said: ''It is going to be q
very sad Christmas for us unless
you decide to come home. You
have always had courage to do
the right thing, so please have
that courage now. Il love
yOu,"