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Evening star., 1954-11-28
From Inside Chino
BY WiIliom Stevenson
Copyright, 1854,

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The Toronto Star Newspaper Service.)
SHANGHAI.-We were pass
ing the old Shanghai race course
and ! said casually: Wasn't
this where those sort of peoples
courts used to be held" knew
perfectly well it had been the
scene of frenzied accusations by
a reused mob and that one of
the targets Of Communist hatred
had been a Canadian missionary
from Kincardine, Ontario,
named Margaret Brown.
''No," said the Chinese bank
er's son woodenly.
He was a high school kid full
Of Marxist Technology and once
Evening star., 1954-11-28

in a while his fanatical loathing
for Americans would spill into
view. ! was never clear about
his official status, but he talked
mechanically and always for the
record. His seniors were veteran
guerrilla fighters and were sport
ing enough to at least listen to
my views. There was all the
difference in the world between
them and this career Commu-
mist.
"I said thought he was
wrong. "They weren't exactly
courts" I added to encourage
him.
II have been away from
Shanghai a long time" he said.
Tells Of His Friend.
A savage desire seized me to
tell him all about Mary Lieu, a
Chinese girl with no legs and
stumps for arms who had worked
with Margaret Brown in her
Shanghai Office. For months she
was under ceaseless pressure to
lead accusations against the
elderly Canadian. When she fled
she left her adopted daughter
behind. That was how intoler-
able the Communist demands
had become and it was the
measure Of her loyalty to for
eigner.
But all I said to my human
watchdog was II had a friend
who appeared there once accused
of murder and other things. !"
and I left it at that.
In my pocket, however, was an
old report published by the
Shanghai branch of the Com
munist Party on the procedure
for denouncing enemies of the
new regime. Handy hints, for
instance, were offered by the
Chinese Christian Movement
Against American Imperialism"
on how to persuade Christians to
bear false witness against their
own church by taking them to
outside accusation meetings of
the kind that used to end in ex-
ecutions.
Instructions did not suggest
there might be no evidence on
which to base charges. They
simply showed how Chinese
should accuse foreigners and
their alleged agents of using the
church in aggression against
China and for duping Christians.
Today these orders are of his
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Boy Shoots Brother, 10,
+. In Back While Hunting
By the Associated Press

!: HAGERSTOWN, Md, Nov. 81
:-Twelve-year-old Ralph j. Cur
ry. jr., accidentally shot his
brother, Ronald, 10, in the back
today while the two boys were
on their first hunting expedition
with their father.
= Ronald was in fair condition in
+ q hospital with q 22-caliber
bullet wound.
State Trooper Clyde B. Tucker
said the gun Ralph was carrying
was accidentally discharged while
. the two youngsters were emerg-
ing from a patch of brush on a
farm north of Sharpsburg.
Evening star., 1954-11-28

/ the QlSCuSSlOI UCC8uSC ike mOSt
Westerners. I have a guilt COM
plex about our past actions In
countries like China. But 1t SO
happened ! had heard this
story three times with the locale
a different one on each occasion
and had read it In a government
text book. It was another
example of a legend planted Sc
firmly in Chinese minds that II
had become just as true as IL
they themselves saw it.
This is the really terrifying
thing about Chinese communism
that it has sown just about the
same set of thoughts in millions
| Of minds. How successful the
technique can be, discovered In
conversation with an Anglo
Saxon who a few years ago was
an outstanding war correspond
ent with some of the Common
wealth's most reputable journals
He was trained observer whose
colleagues remembered out
standing examples of eyewitness
reporting from him.
! After some time in China, he
published a book and here is q
typical passage: Accused were
tried and executed as despots
while the Western press shed
crocodile tears for them-one
group appeared in the Shanghai
Canidrome. One had killed about
1000 people and attacked several
hundred women. , He made a
speciality of eating the liver and
hearts of his victims"
This formerly well-known Jour-
nalist devoted a chapter to meth
ods of denouncing such alleged
criminals and described with evl-
dent approval the mass trials
which ended in execution The
cries OF shoot the dog" and
death to the despot" being
roared from the hysterical crowds
are all there in his book.
Was Kind to Dean.
I asked him why he talked and
wrote in the same deadly phrase
ology of the Marxist theoritician.
This man who during World
War II was seriously injured
covering one battle and who had
punched out some of the most
telling prose while still under
fire. this trained observed shook
his head sadly and said: "I've
forgotten how to write any other
way"
You can at least understand
the motives of the old-fashioned
traitor. but what happens to a
man you know still has a deep
fund of human sympathy? He
showed such kindness to Gen.
Dean, taken prisoner in Korea,
that the American in the course
of recounting his bitter Jail ex-
periences still publicly thanked
him.
Part of the mental change
results from constant repetition
and the art of the so-called dis
cussion group. It's impossible
to keep any thoughts to yourself,
even as a f1eeting visitor, in
China. Somebody is always there,
chipping away patiently at your
mind. On a train journey, the
interpreters insist on opening
serious conversations and sue
ceed against your will.
For a man who some years ago
out of decent concern for fellow
humans adopted communism as
the only visible means Of recti-
flying wrongs, this process is far
more dangerous because he must
begin by agreeing with the COM
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Lecturer 10 Recount Flight
OF Asian Tribes From Reds

The little-known story of how
some 1000 Central Asia tribal
families fed communism will be
described at $3.50 pm. Tuesday
in a lecture at the Middle East
Institute, 1761 N street NV.
/. Only $50 Of the Kazak tribes
men finally made their way
5000 miles to the Vale of Kas-
mir. where they found temporary
refuge. Since then they have
been given a new asylum in
Turkey.
The lecturer will be Milton j.
Clark. 2025 Coker place, Falls
Church, Va. A former field re-
search fellow Of the Middle East
Institute, he lived among the
tribesmen for q year. "..
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Uruguayan 10 Speak
AT Unwilling Of Sc Stamp

DR.. Jose A. Mora, president
Of the Council of the Organiza-
tion of American States and
Ambassador Of Uruguay to this
country, will speak In Freder-
icksburg, Va. Thursday to mark
the issuance Of a new scent
postage stamp.
The date commentaries the
131st anniversary Of the enunci-
alton of the Monroe Doctrine
by President James Monroe,
whose likeness appears on the
stamp.
Evening star., 1954-11-28
From Inside China III
Red Orders Lead People
To Denounce Old Friends

torical interest only. The
i churches stand empty or continue
services under the strict eye
of the states faithful servants.
China's rulers have achieved
their objective in a far shorter
time than any one would have
thought possible and Shanghai,
its society once geared to May
fair more than the Manchus, and
the first mi-colonial city to slip
from Western fingers into COM
munism has turned its face in
land from the sea.
American commercial infiu-
ences were easily ended when
trade stopped but much more
penetrating were the Christian
organizations whose activities
touched so many Chinese lives,
No minded person can
blame leaders of a revolution
who feel their domestic enemies
are getting support from foreign
institutions. All I was concerned
about as we drove past closed
churches or newly built "com-
bination churches" run by
Peiping. was that pleasant people
had been led to violent denuncia-
tions against their old friends
and that techniques were devel-
oped which resulted in a kind of
mass self Hypnosis.
Here for instance is a Com
munist's evidence against Catho-
lie nuns of Canadian convent
in Canton who ran the Mission
Of the Immaculate Conception:
I'VE found only about so
orphans, sickly remnants of
those who had passed before
them to the grave dirty
shreds Of army blankets served
as bedding. Some children were
kept in locked rooms. The food
was rotten and stank. A self
respecting farmer would not
have fed it to his beasts"
1000 Child Deaths Reported.
1t describes beatings, claims
three death pits were uncovered
and that 1000 babies died under
Canadian care in two years. A
grave-digger states he buried
600 children in one pit. A girl
orphan says she was terrorized
by the Canadian nuns who ap-
peared at nights pretending to
be devils and forced her to
drink soup made from stewed
shoes.
1t is too fantastic a story for
serious consideration yet there
it is, official.
I questioned one of my in
terpreters who lived in Shanghai
during the period when Com
munist history now says United
States troops behaved like mad
dogs.
He had seen for himself the
reality but yet he believed the
new fiction and said obstinately
that detailed accounts of Ameri-
can brutalities were quite true.
Why" he said. ''even the
park in the French quarter car
ried a sign warning that dogs
and Chinese were not permitted
entry"
Legend Planted Firmly.
At other times I would have
been too ashamed to continue
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Life in the u. S.
Rifle Misses,
Mans Rocks
Kill Bobcdt
BY the Assoeio.ed Press

CEDAR CITY, Utah, Nov. q
When Daryl Shumway spotted
a bobcat West of Cedar City. he
stopped his truck and reached
for the rifle he always carries.
Mr.. Shumway fired at the cat
four times-and missed. Then
out of ammunition and patience,
he picked up rock and threw it
at the animal.
The rock caught the cat be-
tween the eyes, and Mr.. Shum-
way said he finished it off with a
second rock.
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Salvation Army Plea
For Christmas Funds
Celebrates 18Th Year

Tomorrow, the 18th anniver-
sary Of the Salvation Army, will
mark the opening of Salvation
Army Week by presidential
proclamation.
Throughout the city the tradi-
tional bonnet-clad ladies Of the
Army have opened their annual
Christmas drive with their
Christmas kettles to receive con-
tributions.
Although Salvation Army Week
will be observed throughout the
country, the beginning Of the
Christmas drive will be practi-
) cally the sole means of celebra-
tion.
Seventy-five years ago eight
Englishmen landed In New York
with the flag Of the Salvation
Army. Within a few years it's
operations reached across the
country. In 1886, President
Cleveland gave his personal and
official ndorse ent of the
Army's work to a visiting dele
cation. Since then every presi-
dent has expressed the same
sentiments.
Record Is Outlined.
From that small beginning,
Brigadier William L. Range, di-
visional commander, says, the
Army has come a long way. Last
year it provided 9,431,550 meals
and 1,914.638 lodgings for the
cold and hungry.
The Salvation Army has grown
to an organization of 1893 out
posts with more than 5000 off,
GERS and 5000 employees.
mo one," Brigadier Range
says, "can face the future
bravely when he is cold and
hungry"
In ia youth centers this year.
2,520,035 boys and girls were
provided with spiritual guidance
and healthful recreational ac-
tivities. During the summer ST.
826 children spent time in Sal
vation Army summer camps.
In the Mems Social Service
Centers where material is SAL
vaged, 43,778 men took their
first steps back to their normal
places in society through finding
their self respect.
& Unwed Mothers Aided.
At The Army's Booth Memorial
Hospital. 1896 unwed mothers
{ found care and help. Women of
the Leagues of Mercy visited g.
043, ,253 patients at bedsides in
veterans and city hospitals. and
homes for the aged.
Service men and women visited
16 special Salvation Army clubs
across the country, with 1880, 900
entertained in off-duty hours.
Over 1,408 persons were found
by missing persons bureaus
through the network of Saliva
1tion Army centers throughout
the country last year. The Army
visited prisons to give spiritual
comfort to 129,888 convicts last
year.
Salvation Army officers and
soldiers conducted 92,368 out
door religious services and, it
reports, indoor services were at
tended by 8.785.637 persons.
The Army says its meetings
influenced $4,000 persons to reli-
gious decision and confession of |
faith.
All Of this. says the Army, Is
what you help when you help
the Army observe It's 18th ami
versary by dropping some money
into the Christmas kettles. 7
Evening star., 1954-11-28

Thirtieth OF series written under q
Red promise Of no censorship.
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Wet Nam Police and Army
Battle in Heart Of Saigon

post as army chief d stan this
week.
The clash occurred near the
center Of suburban Cholon,
Within d few yards Of several
thousand frightened refugees
from Communist dominated
North Wet Nam. s
Gen. Lai Van Sang national
police chief. said that during
the shooting, some soldiers dis
played banners reading Long
Live TIo Chi Mini, the Mos
COW trained leader of the north,
and Down with the Puppet
Government.
81 Gen. Sang said the fighting
started when police attempted
to stop the soldiers from taking
goods without paying. The troops
;fetreated behind the walls of
the military comp ound next 10
a refugee camp, which they
were assigned to protect.
A full-Scale battle developed
as police mobile units blasted
holes in the conn pound walls with
bazookas and sprayed the area
with raachinegun flre
The police chief refused to ac-
cept the soldiers surrender for
several hours until they raised q
white flag over their barracks.
They marched out, leaving their
arms behind them. and were
turned over to army leaders for
disciplining. !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-01
By M Assoeiaisd Press

SAIGON. Wet Nam, Dec,
Wet Natnese police and . COM
pary Of National ARMY troops
fought An hour S pitched battle
IA the heart of saigon's crowded
Chinese section early today,
Four policemen and two soldiers
were killed before the troops
surrendered to fire from police
bazookas and nachineguns
The fray repeatedly started
when soldiers refused to pay Tor
items they took from sidewalk
vendors. It apparently had no
direct connection with the long
Efeud between Premier Ngo piiah
Diem and Gen Nguyen Van
Hirh. who was fired from his
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Eisenhower 10 Ask
Funds 10 Increase
Aid for Free Asia
Nv he 4 ssoeiusea Press


The Eisenhower adininistra-
ton will ask Congress for money
to back big new economic de-
velopment program Iii free Asia
as the next step In its cold war
policy, diplomatic officials re
ported today.
They said President Eisenhower
would speak out about the need
for such a program IN his state
OF the Union message to Con-
gress in January.
The amount OF money Con-
gress will be asked to provide
has not yet been determined by
Government officials who are
drafting the program.
More Money Earmarked.
But lntornants said the ad-
iainistration definitely plans to
pump more money into the Far
East area in the next fiscal year
than it did In the 12-month
perod beginning July /. Com
RresS set aside Sl.478. O0O. 900 for
military and economic aid to this.
region, with more than half
going for arms assistance.
The main emphasis in the new
development program. they said,
will be on economic rather than
military aid. The White House.
State and Treasury Departments
all have agreed. they said, on the
need for this new approach to
build up Communist threatened
nations.
Asiatic countries, stretching
In great arc from Pakistan
through Korea and. Japan, are
expected to take the initiative In
requesting the new assistance,
just as Western European ma
tons did in 1948 after former
Secretary of State George G.
Marshall announced American
readiness to help out.
Counts on European Aid.
The United States would also
expect. it was said, that Western
European nations, particularly
those whose economies had been
helped by American Marshall
Plan money, would join in the
stepped up Far East development
program.
Some American military and
economic help would continue
to go forward to Western Euro
pean countries under the new
aid program. It would be less.
however, than the $697 million
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-01

Congress provided for this pun !
pose in the present budget.
Diplomatic officials who dis
closed the administration
views declined to say whether
any new aid program for Latin
America was being considered
This decision, they said, must
await the return of Secretary
OF the Treasury Humphrey. who
is in Rio de Janeiro heading an
American delegation to the In
ter American Economic Confer
sIce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-29
Recital by Maria Stoder
Reveals Sparkling Facets

listened to with downtown stand
ards in mind. Tonal fiexibility
was virtually absent last night,
and phrases were cut of with
a metronomic regularity that
made subtlety and drama i'm
possible.
Mr.. Steiner exacted "a good
deal of energy from his players,
sometimes to the detriment Of
the musical style. This was par
ticularly true In the Beethoven
slow movement. And with energy
misused there, the strong and
furious finale seemed anticli-
mactic.
Sibelius' suite Of incidental
music to "Pelleas and Melisande"
has not improved with age: nor
did Mr.. Steiner's performance Of
it do anything to lessen the
music's weaknesses or tighten up
it's loose structure.
The case was different with
Dello Joio's New York Proflles. "
Here is music that continues to
please, that reflects the talent Of
an important young composer,
And here was a performance that
brought out the best sin the So
odd players Of the orchestra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-29
Marine Symphony
Raises Question
By Gordon N. Smith

United states Marine Band SYM
ghOny orehestrs II Col st william n,Is
william, Pfeueii. soioist: Commerce.
''Sleepers Wake" Bach; Euterpe
Overture. George w. Chadwick: Bal
let advertisement from Henry VII.
Saint -SaenS; Suite for viola and or
chestra, Ernest Bloch; Capriccio Es-
pagnole Rimsky. KoYsakoY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-29
II in Virginia Pass
Realty Examinations

RICHMOND, Jan. 29.-Sev-
enty -one persons passed recent
State examinations for real
estate brokers and statesmen, the
Virginia Real Estate Commits
sion announced yesterday.
The group included Polk J At
kinson, Falls Church: Robert l..
Brunt. Alexandria; Charles A. L.
Dwyer, Charlottesville; Claudius
s. Evans, Alexandria; Marshall
A. Fire b q u g h, Harrisonburg;
Burns N. Gibson, jr., Falls
Church. and Elizabeth z. Good
win. Arlington.
Also, Anthony p. Giuseppe.
Alexandria; Dorothy M. Harms,
Arlington; Julian w. Hayden
Arlington: william T. Jernigan.
Alexandria: Anthony Liggio, AL
exandria: Baldwin r. Myers. VII
emma: Garland B. Page, Fairfax;
Leonard H. Price. Arlington, and
Henry s. Ramsey, Falls Church
Also. Robert H. Riner. Alexan-
dria: Charles w. Simpson. Fair
fax: Frederick H. Sigh, Airing
ton. and Carlyle z. Stanley,
Fairfax.
Also. Robert D. Strick. Alex
andria: Velpeau Tapley Alexan-
dria; Elias @. Triphon Airing
ton, and Josephine Zehmer. Ar
linRtnn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-29
News Of Music
By Doy Thorpe

Maria st y. .a soprano ,s and hI;e Leo
b. dol paS so 81. " vss Sss Fl!
dente ID calma. Les oiseaux. Allsluja.
Nachruf, pas bescheidens Wunehletp.
Ing. Pastorella. bu hst die Rub. Nyr
Wer die Sehnsucht kermit. Seligkeit,
Die Forelle. Schubert; rs weiss und
IL: Is w SGSS hsan'F 'h
Like a cut diamond of no
great variety but Of numberless
sparkling facets, the program of
Maria Stader last night at the
Legation Of Switzerland was en-
tertainment Of the most refined
artistry and sensitivity.
The diminutive Swiss soprano
has q true, well-controlled. small
and slightly nasal voice. She sang
her program Of lyric lieder with
great feeling for the niceties Of
style in each piece. and her s',c-
cess in Salzburg is evidence that
the dramatic repertoire is also
within her province. slthough
last night she limited herself to
more intimate and interpretive
music.
Miss Stader has that rare
sense of vocal line associated in
my mind with the best European
singers-the feeling that each
note follows the last precisely
and exactly, that a melodic line
is not like a roller coaster trellis
in an amusement park. Vocally
and Unexpectedly, "Das Veil
chen" truly Mozart's shortest
opera, was a delight. as were
init einem gemalten Band" by
the little-known contemporary
Swiss composer Schoeck. and
Schubert'S I'm Fruhling." The
climaxes of "Du bist die Rub"
and 'Nur wer die Sehsucht
kermit" seemed a trifle forced.
Miss Stader was presented
here prior to her New York
recital by the Minister Of Swift
zerland and Mrs. Bruggmann.