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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
Civic Calendar

Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss,
District Engineer Commission
er. will be guest speaker at the
Georgetown Citizens Associa-
ton meeting at 8 pm. tomor-
row at st. Johns Parish Hall.
Potomac and o streets NV.
The only other District civic
meeting this week is as follows:
Tomorrow.
Mid-City - Thomson School,
Twelfth and L streets NV, 8
pm.
The following meetings. be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26

Three Minerals Controlled
Portugal now lists beryllium,
tantalite and zircon as radioac-
tive minerals subject to control
of the Portuguese Nuclear
Energy Board, Lisbon reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
Sculptors Possible BUYERS
Martha DOrf

NEW YORK.-A tip to indus
trial statesmen who are running
out of potential new customers
is given by Industrial Distribu-
ton magazine. 1t suggests that
they tackle ultramodern sculp-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
Heather Anne Clover

tors, who weld, rivet, screw.
hammer, grind and bend their
work into shape.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26

GOLDEN WEDDING - MIR.
and Mrs. E. J. Olmquist of
1909 Otis street NE. recently
observed their 5Oth wedding
anniversary. The couple have
a son, three daughters and
eight grandchildren. MIR.
Olmquist is a retired Army
ordnance supervisor.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
Court Control Ended
For Rita's Children
Rx fhe A,,oeintad pre,,

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Dec.
25.-Westchester County Chill
dren's Court yesterday formally
relinquished control over Actress
Rita Hayworth's two daugh-
ters, Yasmin Khan, 5, and
Rebecca Welles, 9.
With attorneys for all sides.
Judge George w. Smyth signed
an order closing out the case OF
alleged neglect that began last
April 23.
The complaint was filed by
the Westchester Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty for Chill
dren when Miss Hayworth left
the girls with a governess while
she and her fourth husband,
Dick Haynes. went OF on q
Florida vacation.
The court returned the chill
dren to Miss Hayworth on her
return and then permitted
them to leave the State, but re-
tanned technical custody.
"A series Of legal wrangles
ensued. They ended when the
actress and her third husband;
wealthy Moslem Prince Ally
Khan, reached agreement In
Nevada last month over Yasmin.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
Christmas Spirit Shines Across u. S.

leukemia. Last fall physicians
warned she might die within a
year.
At q hospital, Beverly devel-
oped another blood infection
In itself enough to kill her. But
she recovered from that infec-
tion land q hospital official told
her parents the infection may
have killed the leukenaia.
At Kewanee, Ill.,. yesterday Q
kerosene stove explosion COM
pletely ruined the modest home
Of Jack Crane, his wife. and
their seven children. Even the
Christmas gifts were destroyed.
Radio Appeal Brings Aid.
Then radio station WKEI went
to work. A one-hour air appeal
brought more than $4,000 worth
Of food, clothing. furniture and
cash. An anonymous benefactor
had the Cranes moved into a
new home. where they are today,
celebrating Christmas. Someone
even furnished a gaily decorated
tree.
At Tacoma, Wash, 50-year-
old Melvin Ellison. an ex-convict,
terms today ''the finest Christ
mas ever" because Gov. Arthur
B. Langlie has fully restored his
civil rights -including the right
to vote.
In jail OF and on since he
was Is. q chronic drunkard and
sometimes forger. Ellison violat-
ed parole nine years back. But
o year ago, recovering from 3
Evening star., 1954-12-25

heart attack, he meditated on
his misspent years. Accompanied
by his pastor. Ellison gave him
self up last year. Parole ofiicials
gave him a chance to prove he
was q changed man--and he
made good.
Ellison, rejoicing that he'll be
able to vote for the first time in
his life; said: "I take no credit
for this myself. I give God the
credit"
Caroling Resumed.
At Long Beach, Calf, the
neighbors Of Clayton Boyer are
enjoying his holiday melodies
over a loudspeaker. Mr.. Boyer,
his wife Dorothy and son Rob-
ert, sang and played Yuletide
tunes from their home. Two
nights ago police got a complaint
and asked the Boyers to stop.
But then a flock of neighbors
said they liked the music and
caroling.
Yesterday police said there
was only one complaint and that
the person was "out of earShot. !"
So, with the green light from
authorities, the Boyers are back
at their concerts.
At Louisville. KY. Donald Ray
Thompson, 10, is home for
Christmas for the first time In
three years. Donald was stricken
with polio and he still must be
In an iron lung.
But, surveying the gay tree and
gifts, Donald said haltingly:
ITS sure good to be home
for Christmas.
At Pennington, w. Va, is
coal miners still lay entombed
In a mine shaft sealed by mighty
explosions six weeks ago.
The families Of the victims are
getting special attention today,
with volunteer workers dis
tributing gifts from donors, not
only from the neighborhood. but
from far and wide.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
Fletcher Knebel
Potomac Fever

Of things about Christmas that win
whole year before youn be this broke again.
i
Christmas the time should take back any fun you
have poked at statesmen Of both send
it to Potomac Fever.
and Secretary Of State Dulles concern
French Assembly vote against reang Germany Some think
America ought aone-whle there still
left to 60 it alone without
Frenchman explains why his Assembly drinking
Premier Mendes France rearng Germany It logic
Monsieur hands Of mlkand orders
me to toast q bunch Of beer drinkers!"
Republican Senator Wiley Of Wisconsin ndorses IKE for
reelection Wisconsin has two we'll Senator's OF
whom IS best known for his Efforts to keep from being confused
with the other
Agriculture Secretary Benson sticks to firing
Wolf Ladejinsky Benson figured the health
Every time Benson pronounced his name he sneezed.
4
Moscow executes four neutenants Of Police
Bea Russia boasts the perfect political system for the
loser-and your cares ended forever
Evening star., 1954-12-25
Thomos [. Stokes
A Season for Foith and Hope
The Atomic Age Has Suspended Us Between the Past
And Future-PerhoPs 1t Will Sove Us From War

For the first Christmas in
many q long year there's peace
all over the world, even II
troubled.
Nowhere is there what
might be called organized
shooting, except for the fitful
guerrilla raids back and forth
by the Reds and the National
lists among the islands along
the coast of China, that an
cient hive Of humanity where
somebody has been shooting
at somebody else for one or
another reason almost contin-
ually since the discovery of
gunpowder.
China now. however. is in
the consciousness of all Of us.
Especially is that so for US
here in the United States be-
cause Of our American aviators
who are spending another
Christmas In Chinese jails. We
all send up q prayer for the
one-man mission for their
relief, Dag Hammerskjold,
Secretary General of the United
Nations. He carries no gun,
but is armed only with the
moral force Of many millions
of people of AZ nations repre-
sented in the u. N.
His journey to Peiping at
Christmastide could have real
meaning. 1t is q test. as point
ed out here before, perhaps
the most important in our
time. A test as to whether
peaceful pressure by the U. N.
can achieve justice and wheth-
er we thus might begin a new
era among humankind, or
whether we lapse back to the
law Of the jungle in the atomic
age. and cover like cavemen
before q display Of lightning,
waiting for the rain Of de-
struction that will leave our
vaunted civilization q wilder
ness Of ruins.
We do. for this moment.
have peace, II q troubled one.
We are. in fact. suspended
between the past and the fu-
ture in this moment. We are
thus happily situated, for this
moment, because our scientists
finally have produced weapons
of such destructive power that
we do not believe that any ma
ton. which means any group
In which power is concen-
trated, dares risk their use.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
constontine Brown
a Few Interesting Questions
Whenever You Think of PeocefI Co-edstence Just Ask
Yourself Whut About the Nations AIreody Coptured2

The seeming preoccupation
OF our own and British leaders
with the sllinmering promise
Of peaceful co-existenceS
raises some interesting ques-
tions indeed. And one Of the
most interesting Of all Is that
Of the implications inherent IN
our adopting that alluring slo-
gan as oficiaI policy. Chief
among such implications. with
out doubt. Is the apparent
acquiescence of the free world
in the status Of the captured
nations behind the Iron Cur
tain.
Peaceful co-existence.n Of
course. means q sort Of mutual
leave-each-otner-alo please
arrangement, like that between
hostile but close-by neighbors.
No love Is to be lost between
the parties. nor tender senti-
ment exchanged. but both will
comply with the amenities Of
society and win refrain from
any violence more damaging
than rock throwing. or an oc-
casional stinky bomb. Yet, In
the co-existence envisaged be-
tween the free world and Mos
COW, one OF the neighbors has.
50 to speak, moved into GER
tain parts Of the others back
yard. and is using his garage
for manufacturing explosives.
Co-existence with Com
munist Imperialism means, on
the face Of 1t, acceptance at
least In practice Of the Red
conquest of Eastern and Gem
trail Europe and Of huge areas
Of Asia. And any such accept
ance. on the part Of the United
States particularly. means an
about-face on fundamental
policy vitality affecting our ul-
innate hopes for security.
Even though we do not In
any way formally acquiesce in
the Soviet rapacity. our action
in striking q truce bargain
with the Kremlin conspirators
means only q bitter abandon
Evening star., 1954-12-25

listened to him raptly just bs-
cause he is . good speaker.
Once On City Council.
Mr.. McNamar. q sales execu-
tive, didn't manage to get
through high school, although
he has taken extension courses
through the University Of Mich
igan. His political experience Is
even more scant than his formal
education. He once was elected
to the Detroit City Council, but
he resigned in disgust within q
few months. The papers said that
as he left. he referred to his
Council colleagues as those
jerks"
Mr.. Mcnamara, q Catholic.
was born So years ago In Wey-
mouth. Mass, and came to De-
troit in 1920 as q construction
foreman. For 90. years he has
been the unpaid president Of
Pipefitters' Local 636. He likes
to point out that the local has
been involved in no strikes during
his tenure. He will stay on In the
job. at the unions insistence.
Mr. Mcnamara is sales man.
ager and vice president Of a De-
troit mechanical contracting
company. and will take q hefty
cut In salary when he becomes
q United States Senator.
The McNamaras. who live in q
modest home In q middle income
Detroit neighborhood. have two
children, a son and q daughter.
and eight grandchildren.
Tomorrow: Representation
elect IrtDin d. Davidson, DEM
ocrGt, OF NetO York;
Evening star., 1954-12-25
Church for Children
Began on Poor Boy !
Visit 10 Bible School
sy NE Assoeiosed prsss

: OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 25s
Five years ago they were Okla
hona City's forgotten children.
Today they are leading better
lives because q ragged urchin.
many years ago. was dragged to
Sunday school BY = friend.
The children are the congre-
cation of the llon-denomina-
tional Children's Church Of
America, founded by the former
ragged urcnin. the Rev. L. M.
Stevenson. bicycle preacher. :
They laughed when he first
pedaled through the streets.
coaxing youngsters to Sunday
school and riding them there on
the handle bars. He cut q ri
diculouS figure. he admits, but
there's nothing funny about the
change he has made In young
lives.
Goes After Members.
More than 100 children come
from o section known to police
as q spawning bed for juvenile
delinquents and criminals. '.The
Reverend" has graduated from
his bicycle. For q time he used
taxicabs, then q station wagon.
Now he Is buying q bus. He goes
out after the members.
Mr.. Stevenson at first was dis
concerted that many children
who promised On Saturday to be
In church Sunday weren't there.
More often than not he
says. they were in jail"
He set out to get them out of
jail and into church, When juve-
nile officers give up on q child
in trouble. the minister takes
them into his home II they have
no other place to GO.
His project Is backed by the
terdenominational Wesleyan
Youth, Inc, organized by Mr..
Stevenson and supported by
more than . thousand business
men.
"Tough Guy" Now Teaches.
One Of his "incorrigibles'' at
16 had q criminal record that
shocked even q hard bitten
Judge. On Sundays you can find
this erstwhile tough guy at the
Children's Church teaching Sum
day school.
Such cases have drawn Nation
wide attention. District judges
here swear by him and jurists
elsewhere have written to learn
his formula.
ST lay claim to no magic for
mula," he says. '.But I do not
deal with juvenile delinquents. /
have never met any juvenile de-
linquents - only kids who need
help"
His charges range from tots
| to l8-year-olds.
Evening star., 1954-12-25

The words of his mouth were
smoother than butter. but war
was in his heart.
In the same speech Gen.
Eisenhower observed as to the
captive nations: " the free
world cannot permit their
burial. TO do this would not
merely seal Soviet domination
In Europe: it would signify
the free worlds abdication Of
It's own conscience"
Both Gen. Eisenhower and
Secretary Of State Dulles have.
time after time. uneuuivocally
stated Americas uncompromis-
ing position In the matter Of
the captive peoples behind the
Iron Curtain. And both have
plainly set forth, time after
time, the warnings against
Moscow d0uble-taIk and
double ea1ing. Certainly noth-
ing has happened since 1852
to justify any change in their
estimates of Red trustWorth-
mess, or their anxiety about
Red intentions.
Yet. today, we hear that
deceitful slogan peaceful CO.
existence" on every side. And
our leaders. still talking
strength and stalwart opposi-
ton to Red tyranny, appear at
the same time to be willing,
even eager. to scratch about
amid the ashes of the postwar
worlds hopes for peace in
search Of vet one more intact
vestige Of excuse for trusting
the Unsuitable firebugs Of the
Kremlin.
The lamb can lie down with
the wolf, perhaps. when the
wolf is gorged with the flesh
Of other lambs devoured and
not yet digested. But the wolf
win in due time awake. and
he win again be hungry. And
the nourishment Of the lambs
previously eaten win give him
added strength, the better to
fall upon the surviving lamb
who sought. in folly and sim
plicity, to co-exist.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
Large Circle Of Friends Would
Fit NiceIyin This Round House

The Ralph L. McKinneys long
ago ceased looking for prosperity
"just around the corner" They
live in q circular house at 1901
Irving street NE, the only fully
round house in Washington.
How the house came into being
about 40 years ago, Is not thor
oughly substantiated, but Mr..
Mckinney and his wife Etheldra.
who are colored, understand that
it came about this way:
A builder, probably q frustrated
Frank Lloyd Wright. came to q
DR.. M. ]. Holmes. and said in
effect:
Look, I've devised o plan for
d round house. If you'n take 1t
over. I'll build it as cheap as !
carl-iust to see what 1t win look
like when it's finished" !"
That came about, and some
five years ago, Mr.. Mckinney,
who has q flower shop at Sol
Florida avenue NV, his wife.
and child, Karlyn, II, moved in.
the third occupants.
The exterior construction i
Of cypress shingles. The dia-
meter Is some l6 feet.
The rooms, all six Of them, are
unusually large. Oddly enough.
even for . round house, there
are q few corners.
Once described In Ripley's
Believe It or Not column. the
house has been decorated by the
McKinneys. with all the furniture
made TO order. It seeIas others
had i chance to buy 1t. but
lacking III ingenuity and innagin-
alton when It came to decoration.
sl1ied away.
Downstairs there are q living
room, 8 dining room and
modernized kitchen. the latter
done ir1 blue and white. The
other rooms are in yellow and
white.
Upstairs are sleeping rooms,
and an attic. From the base
ment To tbs attic. winding stair
ways provide access.
4 hishlisht d the Living room
Evening star., 1954-12-25

For that means their ineyi-
table use also on the nation
which starts an atomic war.
In short, mutual suicide.
There's nothing humane
tartan about all this. just the
primitive instinct of saving
ones own skin and the bank
where the money is kept and
the roof over ones head which
still may not be paid for but
which keeps out the wind and
the rain and the snow and is
better than. a hole in the
ground.
This attitude about atomic
war which is expressed often
these days was boiled down by
one whom we, might consider
an expert, Sir John Slessor.
Air Marshal Of the British
Royal Air Force, thus-wise:
There,n Never be Another
World war!"
That was the hopeful title
of an article he wrote for
Coronet magazine.
But there are, as we know.
experts and experts. They'll
never let us be hopeful very
long. We find a pessimist in
the equally famed Maj. Alex
ander de Seversky. He comes
along now to say tosh and
pish-posh to our hopes and to
Marshal SCISSORS theory and
argue that a nation can
defend itself from atomic at
tack and survive. We had bet
ter get ourselves an effective
defense, he warns, His article,
also in Coronet, has the cold
blooded title world War III
and How to Win It." Just
like that.
Much" he says, cas- I hate
to take public issue with q
fellow airman and q good
friend, I have no choice but
to speak up when the security
Of our Nation is at stake. World
War III is In the cards"
Later he says: Through the
centuries. each discovery of
q new method Of destruction
has had its heralds of universal
doom. Slessor, the contempo-
rary herald. is bound to prove
as sl1ort-sighted as his prede-
ceSsors."
So much for Marshal Sles-
sor and the rest of us OPP
timiStS.
But, no thank you. Mai. de
Seversky. This layman is go
Evening star., 1954-12-25

is q giant fireplace.
Atop the roof. Of asphalt
shingle. there is q point" over
the center of the house. Near 1t
and running right through the
depth Of the structure Is a pole
which forms q side base for the
stairway.
One Of the prettiest things Of
all, however. is the porch. which,
in q sense, reminds one Of the
deck of q ship.
The windows facing out on
the porch mean that every room
has outside exposure.
There isn't q bit Of wasted
space In the house. Even the
closets are recessed.
Evening star., 1954-12-25

ment Of the captive peoples
under the Red heel. It means
an abject surrender Of the high
moral stand we have taken in
the past. It means we do not
really believe III the sanctity Of
treaties and covenants. that
we pay only Hp-service TO the
rights Of man and to self-de-
termination, and that our
pledges in the cause Of freedom
are not TO be taken seriously
when expediency dictates an
other course.
It is difficult to see how the
outcome Of any experiment
with this Soviet-sponsored
peaceful co-existence" can be.
anything else than disaster.
Not too many years ago We
were, in effect. urging Chang
Kai-shek, then ruler Of China,
to .'co-exist" with the Commu-
mist rebels who were fero-
ciously destroying Chiang's
government. The outcome of
that particular co-existence is
long since tragic history. and
the end Is not yet.
President Eisenhower, when
he was q candidate for the
highest office in the land. took
a strong and uncompromising
position on the Communist
threat to freedom. At New
York on August 26, 1852. Gen.
Eisenhower told the American
Legion: The American con-
science can never know peace
until these people tof the cap
tive nations) are restored
again to being masters Of their
own fate"
Again In New York. at the
Alfred e. Smith Memorial
Foundation dinner. on October
II, 1852, Gen. Eisenhower
warned of Soviet unreliability,
and quoted Lenin's written
teachings to illustrate the dam
gers In trusting Red ruses.
Gen. Eisenhower used the an
cient words Of the Old Testa-
ment to illustrate his point:
Evening star., 1954-12-25
Four Tvs Given School
By Artist-Writer Unit

Four television receivers have
been presented to the Industrial
Home School by the Creative
Graphic Services Association Of
Washington. an organization Of
art. writing, design and photo
graphic concerns.
The receivers were presented
by Reed Harris. president; M.
Jack Hirose, Christmas Commit
tee chairman, and Wade Beech.
treasurer Of the association.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
BY The Assoeio,ed Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Stories
rejecting the Christmas spirit
abound today.
They tell about the man who
sees again, the ex-convict who
regained his right to vote, the
little girl who apparently, has re-
covered from leukemia, and q
one-hour appeal that restored
hearth and Yuletide to q fire-
stricken family of nine.
OF course. 1t often takes spe-
cial days to bring the ever-burn-
ing light Of our goodwill
toward-men out from under a
bushel of cares.
But these stories--of life, of
death, Of rebound faith, of joy
tinged with sorrow-mirror glad
tidings for Christmas Day. 1854.
Eyesight Restored.
At Oakland. Calf, Tony Russo
rejoices in his restored eyesight.
Tony. 33, unable to see out of
one eye since he was IA. had
been totally blind for the past
year. Corneal transplants gave
him back his sight in both eyes
in time for Christmas. Said
Tony:
I'm happy to death. I'm q big
boy, but I've got q few tears"
At Waco, Tex, three-year-old
Beverly Duvall Is q miracle to
her own doctors. She's home for
Christmas. apparently recovered
from the dread blood disease.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
School Expenditures
Double Since 1916

INDIANAPOLIS.-Not includ-
ing new construction, the Ma
tion's 66,216 public school dis
tricts spent about So billion in
1858 on equipment, maintenance,
teachers salaries, and other
items, compared with some three
billion for like expenditures in
1916.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
u. S. Uses One Fourth
OF Worlds Tobacco

NEW YORK More tobacco is
manufactured and consumed In
the United States than In any
other country. both in total
quantity and per capita.
The United States. with only
8 per cent Of the worlds popu-
lation, uses nearly one-fourth Of
the worlds tobacco.
Evening star., 1954-12-25

ing to ride with Marshal Sles-
sor.
At least until after this
Christmas season. The mar
shal could be right. He ought
to be right. This Is a season
Of faith and hope.
Maybe after the New Year
once. again the deluge Of
cynicism. of distrust and hy-
drogen bombs.
We Of the human race could
be that stupid.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
New Paint HoIts Rot
In Bununu Stems

CLEVELAND--A chemical that
Is safe to paint on banana stems
after punches are cut from the
stalk has been found effective
in preventing stem rot in the
fruit during shipment.
Developed by q Cleveland firm,
q fungicidal paint that contains
polyethylene polysulf1de prevents
the rot.
Evening star., 1954-12-25
Angel Accepts Fines

B-Trafic violators paying
routine fines yesterday got q
shock when an angel accepted
their money. It seems there was
q Christmas play and Miss Joyce
Davis. an angel In the produc-
tion. showed up for work at the
traffic ticket counter in her cos
tune.