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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-12-18
In Tacoma
q New Years Eve Dance
. BY YASUKO HASHIMOTO

q New Years Eve Dance
The annual New Years Eve
{ nee sponsored by the Tacoma
YEA will be held December 81 in
the Tacoma Buddhist Church.
Dancing hours will be from pm
It, l am. Chairman Mary Nomu-
ra urges everyone to come and
greet the New Year Refreshments
will be served and a nominal fee
Will be assessed
Prior to the dance an installa-
ton service will be held for the
YBA Service will begin rom 7.30
pm Cabinet members being in
stalled will be as follows:
President-Janet Yoshioka
Vice president and religion
chairman-Jane Otsuka
Treasurer-Eleanor Yoshioka
Secretary-Y uki OSada
Social chairman-Minnie Otsuka
Athletics chairman-Stogie Ka-
wabata
. Jr. YBA Elect So Officers
AT a general meeting held Dec
ember II the Jr YBA elected the
following officers for the coming
year:
President-Sachi Takehara
Vice President-June Shirozu
Secretary-Darlene Shigeno
Treasurer-June Shigeno
Social and religion chairman
Linda Yoshioka
AdviSers-Mrs. Shigeno and Mrs
Installation service will be on
January 8, 1865
. Tacoma Somewhat Election
AT a general meeting on Deem
Der 10. the Sonenkai elected the
following officers for 1855:
President-Y Mayeda
Vice president-George Tanbara
cTacoma. Yosh Fujita (Fife) Ted
Masumoto (Sumner)
Recording secretary-Mrs Hiro-
Shi Fujita
Corresponding secretary Mrs
Leo KaWasaki
Treasurer-Hank Shigeo
Social chairman Mr.. and Mrs.
Nobu YoShida
Religion chairman-K. Kondo
Social welfare-Mrs Tad Horike
and Mrs. Tom Osaka
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-12-18
Duplex 14th and Yesler

Duplex 14th and Yesler
Distress sale 81 300 equity for
only So 900. Balance only SO 300.
Appliances and most furniture in
cluded This property is business
zoned A new roof just put on at
500 cost.
Beacon Hill Near vets Hospital
Berdooms and den r m n
brick E n tr ance hall fireplace.
Comb living and dining ell Kit
chen has eating space with extra
cupboards. Finished bedroom in
basement Auto. oil heat basement
garage Level lot in lawn q shrubs.
On quiet street 10 years old Some
furnishings available SIS 900
Beacon Hill
Unexcelled view of Lake Wash
and Cascades 18 year old brick 3
bedrm.. den double plumbing plus
one-half plumbing in basement
Greenhouse attached to house with
heat duct from furnace Detached
garage paved street FILA apprais-
ed price $18 600
1923 18th Ave South
Newly redecorated inside and
out. Immediate possession Bed
rm., tile floors, tile bath Bendix
washer included. Total closing cost
including down payment only $500.
Payments s55 per mo, FILA ap-
praisal price So 900
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-12-18
SpC Student Set
For III. Farley

Eddie Yoshida a Junior at Seat
tie Pacific College. has been chos-
en- to be one of four delegates
from that school to attend the
Tri-Annual Intervarsity Christian
Missionary Conference from Dec
ember 26 to 81 at the University of
Illinois in Urbana.
Yoshida. son of Mrs. K. Yoshi-
da. Ais 18th NE, expects to
leave Christmas Day for the con-
ference.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-12-18
Obituary
Q BUDDY UNo4l DIES

George K. Uno Jr.. Al. popular
ly known by his friends on the
West Coast as Buddy Uno passed
away December 10 in Kobe Jap
an. according to a cable received
by his father George K. Uno Sr
of Los Angeles. Funeral service
was held December II at the Ko-
nan Christian Church in Kobe
The Nisei WIS survived by his
wife. Tomoko; two sons, George
Jr. and Eddy. and a daughter E.
mike
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PAGE THREE
MUSINGS by arlene.

BY what measuring stick does
Some who the as usuc-
teSsu rank high his family Even
though he be able family an oveabun-
dance of naerial things provide and companion
ship to his children that will
ing them convertibes allowances
know standpoint might not be cas
sed successful bargain always will
lower the misfortunes arise he
visit he
always fishing job which
o be
The the community speak always
friends respect
another n II
or enjoying of
financially good bargains
friendship speak slight
would you the successful?
your homecoming?
antcpaton willing
gudanceP you
successful
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-12-18
Japan-Bound

Called home by the illness of his
father. the Rev T Ichikawa of
the Seattle Buddhist Church will
leave at l pm Sunday by plane
for Nagano-ken. Japan
The Rev Ichikawa. Issei pastor
of the local Betsuin plans to re-
main in Japan for about a month.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-12-18

Omega Glrard Perrogaux
Langines Hamilton and EiEin
watches. Trifari and kre-
mentz iewelry RCA radios
televisions and ranges Sun
beam General Electric and Univ
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ersal appliances Silverwars
, Toys. Parker and shsaf-
fer pen and pencil ., Teiechron
and General Electric clocks
Billfolds and handbags.
Diamond rings from $50 to Sc o8a
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S. R Office
Machine 60.

Harry Yamashita, Representative
903 E Republican st MI. 1928
SALES & SERVICE
402 Broadway N. EA ALA
Typewriters, Adding Machines
Check Protectors
Evening star., 1954-05-24

on two straight-backed chairs.
"Are you alone?" ] asked.
Eyes. I am alone" he said.
''But my wife viii be home any
moment now"
Could Have Killed Easily.
One half Of me was in tu-
multi. the other half coldly meas
uring the Incredible technical
success the mission could have
been. I sat in an empty nat q
few feet from the man I was or
dered to kill. No one had seen
me arrive; no one would have
heard the slight click Of . si-
fenced weapon. In o minute or
less could have been out in the
street again. Ahead Of me would
have been decorations. U new
nat in Moscow, money. leave and
a long rest. Instead I sat there
without q gun. without even q
penknife, and without, after all
the preparation for this moment.
a clear idea of what I was going
to say next.
IT don't know how to begin.
The fact is that I have been
sent here to kill you. First let
me say that ! can't do 1t. That
is fiat. I have come here to warn
you. We know your car registra-
ton number; we know the ap-
proaches to your house; we know
when the guards are changed;
we know. as you have seen. how
to get in. Now you must be on
your guard"
He was silent only for q mo-
ment, and then he said:
Eyes. such things. happen"
I realized then what kind Of
a man it was I had been sent
to kill, and knew why it had
been thought so important to
kill him that Ambassador
Alexander Semenovich Pany-
ushkin himself had briefed me.
But that was not the only
reason ! came here. Georgi
Sergeyevich," I went on. MY
wife and child are still in Mos
COW. # my mission is not ac-
complished. you know what viii
Evening star., 1954-05-24


Iiicity s possible e quickly e.
| possible. II her story were COM
Ipletely unknown it would cost
the Russian authorities nothing
| 10 throw her into 4 coxlcentra-
tion camp. r the story broke
before the MVD we're ready. they
could not quietly liquidate her !,
even II ! could not get her out
of the country. Above AL we
Ihad to move fast; It was 3 race
nov between frankfurt and
Moscow. It was these consider
ations which flxed the date Of
the press conference.
Ny wife and my child are stfll
lin. Russia: my mother Is still
there. tMy father. who joined
the Bolsheviks in 1917. died In
action IN q penal battalion in
Second World War.) They are
Russians who love their country
As ] love it.
NY wife is . deeply religious
woman: q Byelo-R Russian by
birth. she was brought up as
IUniate. and despite the risks she
insisted on having our only child
christend IN church. She insisted
too that 7 should 60 with her
from time to time TO church. For
an MVD 0ficer, that entails Q
considerable risk and it was q
risk which my wife willingly and
gladly shared. Throughout much
Of my life for / knew her first
at school Yarina has been the
only strong moral force ! knew.
Now we are separated. If the
Soviet government really believe
in peace and friendship they viii
let her go. For me now the life
of my wife and baby is the only
part Of the story which matters,
but still through our whole story
there runs q single thread. We
are not alone. There will be
others who will choose honor and
freedom even II 1t means leaving
their own country forever.
In Russia there are others by i
the thousand, and the tens of
thousands, like my wife who
every day in obscurity and with
out leadership rise to heights of
heroism. They are the people
who are unwilling to sacrifice
their conscienceS and their
beliefs. who refuse to abandon
the testament Of God.
These people know now what
has happened to me and to my
family, and they are waiting for
an answer. Each word Of
sympathy and understanding
from the West. even though it
may be for my wife and child
Evening star., 1954-05-24
By NikoIoi KhokhIov
Nerih AmsrIean Newspaper Alliance.


LONDON. May 24.-On the
evening Of February 10. I stood
In front Of Q door to Frankfurt,
In the American zone Of Ger
many, an MvD agent with an
Austrian passport In my pocket
but no gun. This was, perhaps.
the moment Of crisis.
Every agent Is at least two
men, and as I stretched toward
the bell. one half of me was still
with the files Of the case, the
four fat volumes ! had studied
In Moscow. So far the planning
had been superb: every move
worked out to the last trium.
phant detail. ] rang the bell.
The door opened. There was the
man whosG death meant so much
to Moscow. He looked, suddenly,
90 ordinary, and 50 unlike the
photographs ! had worked on
with such care. He stared at
me in surprise.
George Sergeyevich?" I asked.
"Yes." he answered. "Who am
] speaking to?"
Perhaps ! can come in?" I
asked.
He hesitated a moment before
he beckoned me into the fiat.
81 don't know who you are, "
he began.
II know you very WELL" was all
I could think Of for q reply. We
went inside into q small room,
and sat down facing each other
Evening star., 1954-05-24


would have % believe my whole
strange story from the very be-
ginning: but on that Sunday
afternoon ! felt that I was d lost
soul. that ! could 60 neither
forward nor backward and that
the best / could hope for was
to be left to wander from one
country of the West 10 another,
pleading with any organization
that would listen to try 10 save
my wife and child.
II was i lone time before the
authorities began to believe my
story. but slowly the evidence
which could produce began "a
pile up. 7 met the two Germans
and persuaded them to come
over to the West. and, from the
left-luggage ONCE ii Frankfurt.
] retrieved the murder weapons.
which had been delivered there
by my special courier who had
brought them from the Soviet
zone Of Austria hidden IN the
battery Of his car. But all this
took time: and still we were no
nearer TO saving my wife and
child. Only one thing was on our
side: Moscow still did not know
what had happened.
Then came the catastrophe.
We suddenly received evidence
which even now Is 50 secret that
] am unable to disclose it-that
Moscow was Just about to learn
that I had refused to 90 through
with my mission. In q day or
less the Kremlin' might know the
whole story. Then came the sec
ond blow confirming all our
fears. A message in my own
cipher was received at the pre-
arranged accommodation address
In Frankfurt telling me to send
one Of the Germans to Vienna
to report progress. We no longer
had any time to plan the rescue
Of my family. who now were in
the greatest danger.
Wanted to Beg for Trial.
My first reaction was to beg
the Western authorities to ar
rest me, to try me quickly and
imprisoh me. I know how simply
such a trial could be arranged
in Russia, and I found it hard
to understand why the courts
could not be manipulated Just as
easily in the West. When the
proposal for q press conference
was flrst put to me ] had turned
it down nat. But gradually I
began to realize that the only
solution was, strangely enough.
to give my wife as much pub
Evening star., 1954-05-24

win be addressed as well to them.
The tragedy Of my wife and my
little son may not be resolved
but the sacarif1ce win surely be
redeemed by the access OF
strength which win come to IN
the brave simple people Of
Russia who put love and honor
before hatred and materialis,n.
Evening star., 1954-05-24
Could Not Kill for Russia
MVD Agent Tells Of His Plea
To Man He Was to Murder

When NikolGi Khokhlou en-
coWMtered the Russian eaisigre
he iDGs under orders from the
RusstGn MVD to murder. He
made q f1ntasttc plea that the
Utctim help him bring his Uife
and son from MoscosD. His de-
lection to the West and later
revelations came only as q
desperation measure. Here In
the last Of a tfDo-pGTt series.
the former RRSSiGn secret po-
lice agent tells HON he over-
came the doubts Of Western
intelligence agents.
Evening star., 1954-05-24

d r .t s
my dear. this q : mani
still do not know his name ewho
has been sent from Russia to
kill me. DO you think you could
make Us some coffeea"
I left Okolovich late that night
after making arrangements to
meet him two days later. / had
asked him to say nothing, for
the time being. about my two
German accomplices: ! wanted
to give both OF them the oppor-
tunity Of deciding for themselves
whether It was not better for
them to 60 over to the West
rather than to 60 ahead with
their part Of the mission.
Beats Alternatives Together.
For the next 4s hours I did
nothing but beat one alternative
against the other. Should I 90
home-to get q revolver bullet
in the back Of my neck. and
make certain that my family
would end In q camp--or should
! put my hopes in the West?
On February 20 ! met the
representatives Of the American
and British authorities. ! told
them that ! realized I was now
completely In their hands but
that I counted on the promises
which Okolovich had relayed to
me that ! would be fairly treated.
The meeting did not take long
and at the end I was allowed to
go home with Okolovich. The
next day was Q Sunday: It was
spent in further Interrogation. I
had decided to tell the whole
story except where it concerned
my family.
Suddenly sOkolovich and his
friend were called from the
room. and q moment later every
one left. except one man. whom
! had never seen before. Very
quietly, but firmly. he told me
that they did not believe me:
that I must now tell the truth.
He said that they did not even
believe that ! was q captain in
Russian intelligence. that my
family was still in Moscow, or
that I had been entrusted with
an assassination.
True Story Questioned.
This was a line Of questioning
for which I had made no real
preparation. My cover story had
been perfect: now the final irony
was to, be that my true story
would not stand up to interroga-
ton. Looking back omit now I
see that I was almost incredibly
naive to think that everyone
Evening star., 1954-05-24

GAVE MURDER BRIEFING-
Alexander Panyushkin, for
mer Russian ambassador to
Washington, personally gave
final instructions to Nik0lai
Khokhlov for the murder
which was never committed.
ZAP Wireph0to.
happen to them. Either you can
help me to save them and !
shall remain. or you cannot and
/ shall have to 60 back. In the
MVD we know that your organ
izations. the NTS. is active in
Russia and I myself believe that
you may be able to save my
family. I am asking you now.
in Gods name, to help u.s."
Offers Political Asylum.
Okolovich thought for a mo-
ment and then he said:
II don't see how 1t is going
to be done. but at least can
see that you yourself are given
political asylum"
Then. noting that I was shak-
ing my head. he went on:
"I quite understand that that
Is not what you want-or what
you think you want. But ] be-
lieve it is the only course. The
foreign authorities may be able
to help. If you agree. / will ask
them. ] see no other step we can
take" a
It was. perhaps worthwhile to
ask the foreigners. They might
be able to help We were deep
in this conversation when Okolo-
vich's wife returned. He looked
up just long enough to say in
an almost nat voice:
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1954-04-17

completes with coal; gas with
diesel fuel; cotton with wool
and wool with artificial fbers;
paper with glass and cloth; the
bus with the auto and the rail-
road; radio with the newspaper;
TV with the movies; the trailer
with the house and apartment.
Change in conditions increase
forms of competition. AS an
example of this: in the earlier
days of the auto, there was
little or no competition in the
industry between the new and
the used car. Now, the pros
pective buyer has the choice of
buying a new car or a good
used one. What is true of the
auto is generally true of all
other durable goods, such as
TV, radios, vacuum cleaners
and other appliances. Most peo-
pie already possess an earlier
model which serves the essen
tial purpose and they have no
immediate desire to part with
them until they have gone bad
Continued on next page
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ganization has increased COM
petition. The mail-order selling
business has brought vigorous
competition into thousands of
isolated communities. T o d ay,
they can purchase from wearing
apparel to insurance and pre-
fabricated houses through the
mails. the Chain Stores and
Super-Markets have moved on
the scene with the discovery
that by cutting traditional mark
ups, they can get faster turn
overs of their stock and there
by make good profits. In ad-
dition, they have added tobacco,
hosiery and some of the drugs
you would normally seek in a
drugstore. -. -. -. $3.50
The Motel has arisen to COM
pete with the hotel; the book
club with the retail book store
and numerous other enterprises
to numerous to mention.
The increased number of SER
vices, products and processes
are in direct competition with
each other. For example, Oil
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1954-04-17
EDITORIAL COMMENT

0NE of the most serious mis-
~ conceptions of our Ameri-
can Economy is the belief pro-
duced by the growth of large
companies that competition is
gradually being supplanted by
Monopoly. No other belief has
done more to undermine the
confidence in the future and to
predict inevitable Socialism than
this.
Because of the fact that the
business establishments in the
village are so scattered is proof
enough to tell me that Compe-
tition is not dead, but it is
feared. Conditions which have
limited competition are rapidly
disappearing. When population
was sparse and transportation
announcement and expensive, most
communities were cut off from
other places. Now the popula-
ton is increasing and the auto
has made it possible for the
buyer to switch from one seller
to the other and take advantage
of the buying opportunities pre-
scented there. Improved trans
portation has exposed produc-
ers to rigid competition from
new and distant sources of sup
ply. Refrigeration in vessels,
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1954-04-17

cars and trucks has put the
winter fruits and vegetables of
the South in direct competition
with the canned fruits and veg
etables of the North; coal from
West Virginia and Pennsylva-
MIA must compete with gas in
the East, piped all the way a.
cross the continent from Okla
homa and Texas.
The rise of new business
methods and new types of Or
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THE ROBBINS EAGLE
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Published Weekly

Published Weekly
1896 Spau1dng Avenue Telephone: Fulton S. 1923
Published in Robbins for the citizens of Robbins
and help them in the beterment of community stimulate
civic pride and cultivate negbory interest in the welfare
wel-being of every citizen of this village.
Our Platform
buy and spend where help community.
1.-THE Employment of Coored people in Public utilities
3An uptodate sanitary system, street lights gas sidewalks
better and drainage.
A we'll planned village
5-A public park or playground for children.
7.-Beer business enterprises
6-Modern equipment and facilities for our iremen.
"a more modern and more spacious village hail.
The Robbins Eagle Staff
Frank Blocker Publisher
Albert Johnson Reporter
Leslie Stevens Business Manager
William George Staff Photographer
Advertising Rates upon Request
Subscription Rates ST. per year
Make All Checks Payable The Robbins Eagle
Volume II. Saturday, April II, 1854 End Year-No IL
Evening star., 1954-04-25
To Print Collection

Autographs, engraved por-
traits and japanese prints.
Future biographers, rejecting
on his personal tastes, may
observe that he was an
admirer of Durer and Rem
brandt, of Seymour Hayden,
Samuel Palmer and. William
Hogarth. He seems to have
been especially fond of Japa-
nese prints. Among his large
collection of these is a series
of spirited scenes of the Sino-
Japanese War, published in
Tokyo.
For the SleuthS who track
down history clues, there is
another new addition to the
Prints and Photographs Divi-
sion, this one more mystery
than illumination.
It's an aquatint, View of
the Suburbs of the City of
Washington" made in 1895 by
Evening star., 1954-04-25

the English artist, George
Isham Parkyns. The unsolved
mystery is: Which view" of
what suburbs" is it?
No one knows for certain.
The print, which the Library
purchased recently, is the only
one known to exist. The
aquatint engraver, who also
did an often-copied view of
Mount Vernon, left no writ
ten account of it. And only
indirectly, through scattered
references, is anything known
about ParkynS himself.
Librarians opinion is that
he was depicting an area
along the Potomac from a
point near the present Key
Bridge. But there is no con-
elusive proof. Until some
turns up,the locale of Parkyn's
Suburbs" is anybody's guess.
DIX.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

ZSA ZSA CABOR is one of the many
Hollywood stars who depend on
Ayds to keep from getting over
weight. Ayds is a specially made
low calorie candy fortified with
health-giving vitamins and miner
ais. With the Ayds Plan you lose
weight the way Nature intended
you to, without dieting or hunger.
Taken as directed, Ayds curbs your
appetite. You automatically eat
less-lose weight naturally, safely,
quickly. "Ayds helps you to re-
duce," says Zsa Zsa Gabor. II
know because it happened to me-"
You, too, must lose pounds with
the very first box ($2.98) or your
money back. At drug or depart
ment stores.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-22
On the Air

Somebody around the Ameri-
can Broadcasting Co. is acting
like a wild-eyed revolutionary.
Somebody with authority. at
that. 1t probably is Vice Presi-
dent Robert M. Weitman, who
learned his show business in
theaters and on Times Square
and not in radio and on the
Madison avenue Agency Row.
What ABC is doing is stepping
out boldly and acting counter to
one of the three great fallacies
of broadcasting. The fallacy is
the belief, almost universally
held in the trade. that the en-
tire potential audience for any
TV program is reached during
one half-hour or hour out Of the
1913 hours in a week. That ap-
parently isn't gospel around
ABC-TV any more.
Having already junked an
other of the three great fallacies
the theory that it is best to
buck show with one as like it
as poSsible) by installing a high
priced melodrama opposite
Comedy Hour" and Toast of
the Town." ABC is going a step
further. The melodrama, THE
Mask" is to be given the triple
exposure" treatment.
If this isn't revolutionary,
nothing is. 1.-The Mask" will con-
tinue live" on ABC-TV on
Sundays at 8 pm. and also.
starting the week of February
%, will be seen by way of film
recordings on Tuesday and
Wednesday nights at Q.
The Tuesday and Wednesday
shows will be film repeats Of
earlier melodramas. not of the
one done the previous Sunday.
Eventually. too. the Tuesday
and Wednesday programs will
differ. so that there will be three
different Mask" shows each
week. Two of them still will be
repeats of past performances.
The placement of the repeat
shows is another example of Mr..
Weitman's belief in opposition
programming." The Mask"
will be competing for an audi
ence with Milton Berle and
Bishop Fulton Sheen on one
night and with Arthur Godfrey
on the other.
Why this hasn't been tried be-
fore is a question only a sponsor
could answer. The answer, you
can bet. would be fairly mysteri-
Gus, too. 1t is obvious to an in
nocent bystander that a TV pro-
gram with an audience Of 40
million. which means a top