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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21
Cumberland News Soeial Events
Several Cumberland Families Expect
Christmas Guest For The HOliduus
& soeiel Event.

viii spend part Of the holidays
with friends and relatives in War
denaville. w. Va.
J. P. Thomas, Cumberland soil
conservationist. is spending the holt
days with his family at Meadows of
Dan.
Mrs. Lille P Woodson and B. B.
Woodson had as their guests Sunday
Miss Louise Savage and Walter
Walker, of Charlottesville.
| M. H. Maxey. Jr., has returned
to Mcclure Hospital in Richmond
after spending the past week here
with hi, family.
CaIra Attracts Visitors
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin A. Flippen
and Mrs. Charles S. Miner visited
Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Dowdy and
w. J. Ayers at CaIra Sunday.
A Christmas program was pre-
sen.ed Sunday evening by the Cum
berland Youth Fellowship younger
group at the Trent's Mill home of
Mr.. and Mrs Morris Keller.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. J. Bishop and
thei" daughters. Sheila and Terry.
have returned to their home in
Petersburg following a visit here
with Mrs. Bishops parents, Mr. and
Mrs c. " Couch.
Karen Crute. daughter of Mr.. and
MIS- David Crute, of Farmville.
spent few days here this week
with her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. B. Dandy.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Townsend,
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21
Dear Sc nta Claus,

Dear Santa Claus,
l am nine year old girl and
have tried to be good this year
I would like to have dancing
doll that does ballet, reels for my
sterescope. a strapless purse that
doesn't zip, bedroom slippers. size
2B, long socks and other school
clothes. l would like some books on
horses. a doll house, pen for
school and do not forget the poor
boys and girls and everybody in the
world. l will be at my grandparents
home in Darlington Heights this
Christmas Eve l will leave you
cookies and milk. Love.
Patti Fox
Alexandria, Va.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21
Dear Good Old Santa,

I have planned to write you but
stay very busy with my school work
l have seen you on television and
would like to see you in person
I would like for you to bring me
a punching bag. some games and
lots Of good things to eat. II I am
not asking for too much I would
like a wrist watch. Be sure to
bring my sister Barbara and my
brother Lawrence something. Thank
you very much. Your little friend
Linwood Newton
Dillwyn. Va.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21

a RATHER and something to play
with
\ Be good to all the other boys and
girls this Christmas.
Love, Eddie Campbell
Prospect, Va
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21

Alcoholic beverage taxes pro-
diced $842 .949 SOS for the 48 states
and the District of Columbia during
1855. This was a net increase Of
$40. 286 1855 over the previous year.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21
Letters To Santa
Dear Santa Claus,

Dear Santa Claus,
l am a little boy years old and
l GO to Buckingham Elementary
School have tried to be a real
good little boy all the year 1 would
like for you to bring me a drink
truck with bottles and cases to go
with it, slinky dog. a pair of
gloves, a wagon. a knife. some
clothes and lots of goodies and can
dies. Don't forget my teacher and
all Of the other little boys and girls
that &C to school with me. / will
leave some hot coffee on the table
for you.
Jimmy Spencer
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me set of drums
and bring my brother an army
truck for Christmas. Also candy for
us.
We have been good little boys this
year Love,
Al and Ricky Costellani
Cumberland, Va.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21
Dear Santa Claus,

l am little boy four years old
l would like for you to bring me
Dear Santa Claus,
a guitar, a cash register and a
truck to haul farm equipment on.
would also like to have some candy,
fruits and nuts.
Please remember my little baby
brother, Watt. who was born this
month would like for him to have
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21

shot. some pictures for my View
master. Also some candy, nuts and
fruit. Your little boy.
Wayne Cook
Andersonyille. Va.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21

Dear Santa Claus,
| love you very much.
l want walking doll and cook
ing set and a water set and box
OF candy and cash register.
Bobby Gay
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-12-21
Dear Santa Claus,

l am years old and in the third
grade l would like for you to bring
me a bow and arrow, some B B
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Communists, Violating Another Truce,
Will Permit No Vote on Identification

When France so abjectly
surrendered o-China to the
Communists, the Geneva truce
agreement provided for a
plebiscite on reunification of
the divided nation. The date
for that ballot has passed, and
there has been no plebiscite,
nor are there plans for one.
This fact, of course, is sur
prising to no one but the feeble
minded and the heads-in-the-
clouds ,wishful thinkers. No
agreement made with the
Communists is going to be
kept if it involves a certain
Red defeat. An election in
Indo-China, or in Korea, or in
Germany, or in any of the sat-
elites would soundly thrash
the Kremlin'S stooges. There
fore, there will be no election.
Meanwhile, the Communists
under Ho Chi-minh continue
to tyrannize northern Wet
Nam. and continue to threaten
the peace and order of South
Wet Nam. now becoming sta
bilized under a democratic
regime. That this situation
will continue for the indefinite
future is a foregone conclusion,
unless the Reds are able to
destroy South Wet Nam by
guns or guile.
Elsewhere in the Far East
the situation is equally dan
gerouS. Communist troops
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
SWIM STAR FLEES
TO POOLS DEPTHS
WHEN SUIT SLIPS

LONDON up. American
swimming star Esther Will
liams has ordered a new
and tighter fitting bathing
suit because the one she was
wearing slipped of.
Performing her act at
nearby Wembley Pool Miss
Williams donned a special
rhinestone bathing suit for
her first entrance. Earlier
the shoulder strap had been
refined to prevent it rubbing
her neck. But no allowance
was made for stretch.
Esther dived in, felt the
strap pop and then TO her
horror. felt the suit slip of.
She went to the bottom Of
the pool. hitched it UP and
tied 1t on with a necklace,
while other performers ca
vorted above TO divert atten-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
Bombay Rioters
Again Fired On

BOMBAY. India. Aug. II (P)
Police fired on language rioters
for the fourth straight day to-
day as demonstrations continued
lat Ahmedabad in Northern
Bombay state.
The number Of casualties in
the new incident was not i'm
|mediately learned. Earlier
rioting left at least is dead and
more than 200 injured in the
violence that began Wednesday
over a government plan to
merge Marathi and Gujerati
speaking areas into an enlarged
Bombay state.
The Gujeratis would be in a
minority under the scheme,
which was approved by the lower
house of Parliament.
In the new outbursts rioters
stoned police who first retaliated
with tear gas and then with
Igunf1re, reports said.
The demonstrators later were
reported telling telegraph poles
and dismantling municipal in
IstallationS. The number of ar
rested persons in the city rose
to $50.
Troops were called in to guard
vital installations.
The unrest was reported
spreading throughout the state
In Poona 10000 students went
on strike. Stone throwing was
reported in Kolhapur City
School children stoned shops il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
Toll Risesto IS
In Casbah Blast

ALGIERS. Algeria, Aug. IL
P)-The death toll in an explo-
sion which crumbled five build
ings last night in the heart OF
the Casbah mounted to Is today
as rescue workers still dug into
the ruins. Fifteen persons have
been found injured in wreckage
The explosion demolished five
houses and badly damaged -four
Others in the crowded native
quarter.
Investigators believe the origin
of the blast might have been ex-
plosives being handled by a Sc
cret nationalist extremist group
French raids in the teeminp
Casbah have turned up stocks OF
munitions and explosives in the
homes Of nationalist there.
Elsewhere in Algeria, nation.
alist rebels appeared to have
shifted the emphasis of their
hit-and-run attacks from the
Kabylie Mountain region east OF
Algiers to the area south and
west Of the city.
Two Senegalese soldiers were
kid ped from a bus held ur
by formed rebels near Blida
Val.ods isolated attacks and
criminal fires we're reported near
orleansville. between Algiers anc
Oran.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
Shigemitsu Ready to Sign
Soviet Pact Without Isles

MOSCOW. Aug. II (P).-Jap-
anese Foreign Minister Mamoru
Shigemitsu said today he will
sign the Soviet-Japanese peace
treaty next week IF it is COM
pleted."
Mr.. ShigemitSu made the re-
mark dejectedly to reporter as
he limped up the steps of the
skyscraper Soviet Foreign Min
istry to start working out face
saving formula to end the Soviet
Japanese peace conference = on
Soviet terms.
In a statement yesterday, Mr.,
Shigemitsu indicated he had
abandoned further discussions OF
japanese claims on the southern
most Kurile Islands of Kunashiri
and Etorofu. These claims have
deadlocked Soviet-Japanese ne
gotiations since they resumed in
Moscow July 81.
Mr.. Shigemitsu went over the
head of Soviet Foreign Minister
Dmitri Shepilov yesterday with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11

have invaded northern Burma.
and appear to be digging in
for a long stay. Besides the
Chinese Red troops, Burma, so
foolishly neutral in the cold
war. is crawling with Red
agents. They have infiltrated
the government and the polit-
ical parties to an alarming ex-
tent; one informed Western
diplomat who knows the stu
alton thoroughly says pri-
vately that the Reds can take
over Rangoon any time they
wish, without firing a shot.
In Laos the Reds have ma
neuvered the government into
a curious peace" agreement
that seems certain to mean a
coalition government in the
near future. And any coali-
ton with the Reds is like the
old alliance of the wolf and
the lamb.
Malaga is still sorely beset
with a jungle seething with
Communicated guerrillas. The
British battle to stem the Red
tide is costing millions of dol
lars and thousands of lives
each year, yet the menace Of
the Communist insurgents is
as great as ever. Communist
influence wrecked the recent
political talks in London be-
tween the Malayan leaders and
the Eden government. The
Reds, determined to take over
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
Laos Red Party
Gains Reported

HONG KONG, Aug. IL R.-
The Communicated Pathet Lao
rebels have won a place in the
government of the Indo-Chinese
Kingdom of Laos through nego-
tiations, the Red China radio
reports.
The broadcast also quoted
Prince Souvanna Phouma. Prime
Minister of the agricultural state
as saying Laos had adopted a
policy of co-existence with the
Communist government of neigh
boring China.
The United States has been
supplying economic and military
aid to Laos, a constitutional
monarchy.
Prince Souvanna Phouma was
quoted as saying relations be-
tween Laos and Red China were
on good footing.
Ten days of negotiations be-
tween the Prime Minister and his
rebel half brother. Prince Sou
wanna Wong, ended yesterday in
the Laotian capital of Vientiane
Peiping said their agreement
called for nationwide elections
and a coalition government fol
Laos.
Earlier the Red Chinese radio
reported the Laotian government
had agreed to recognize the
Pathet Lao as a free political
party, giving it legal status.
The negotiations between the
feuding brothers halted three
years of sporadic fighting in the
northern provinces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER. KNEBEL

Democratic platform writers working far into the
night at Chicago-ying fix the blame
Hoover depression.
Harry Truman steals the show Democratic convention
In tune with the scientific arrived Chicago with
set of portable windmillS.
When the pessimist the world going the dogs
the optimist out and buys kennel
The spirit of moderation sweeps Democratic convention
When Democrats start talking about moderation taxpayer
says he feels He's it's kind of ambush
Gov Harrmans campaign staff in Chicago takes polio
shoconing the suspicion of the Stevenson that the
thought of Hartman drives people the needle.
Truth Something you're quite sure what it u.s.
except that you always tell it from a le
Ike calls emergency conference the Canal
idea to take the initiative away from COL Egypt
and the headlines away from the Democrats Chicago
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
Restrictions Eused
On Vaccine Exports
BY the Associated Press

The Government has eased
export restrictions on Salk polio
vaccine-now in good supply in
the United States-to permit
shipment of l million doses
abroad by October /.
Announcing this yesterday,
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
said that only 23,481 doses havS
been licensed for shipment out
of the country since the vaccine
was approved for license Is
months ago.
He said export licenses will be
issued only when the Ministry
of Health of the country con-
cerned Endorses the request.
An official said first shipments
probably will go to Latin Ameri-
can countries. He said efforts
will be made to channel them to
areas where there are epidemics
or threats of outbreaks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
No Election in Red Indo-Chino

the internal police system, re-
fused to permit the left-wing
coalition to agree to anything
less than that. And the talks
failed, the government was
weakened, and the Communists
alone stand to gain.
The Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization was set up to
protect the still-free parts of
Asia from further Communist
encroachment. But it can pro-
tect only against overt acts. In
the face of the stealthy pene-
tration, the double talk mach
nations, the subtle destruction
by the Communists, SEATO is
powerless. The Moscow con-
Spirators are not going to risk
war anywhere, when they can
so easily achieve their ends and
goals by treachery and guile.
While the eyes of the world
are on Suez, where another in
ternational crisis bids fair to
result in another major gain
for communism, and while Red
China's Premier Chou En-lai
continues to pirate of peaceful
coexistence while he plots new
assaults on the free world, the
Communists carry on in their
dedicated way the ceaseless in
trigues aimed to destroy free
dom everywhere.
The Red pattern of world
domination has not changed by
as much as a comma or a pc
Rod. The relentless assault on
decency and freedom goes on
as before; only the tactics have
changed. The facts are plain
for all to see that the smiles
and jokes, the smooth talk and
trade delegations, the mean
ingless "cuts" in Communist
armed forces have not altered
the Red strategy one bit. But
they seem to have speeded the
timetable considerably
When are the still-free peo-
Piles of the world going to come
alive to the extent of the great
est threat to progress the world
has ever known?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11

MARCINELLE, Belgium, Aug
II (P.-Rescue workers struck a
fresh obstacle today in their
efforts to reach some of the 26O
miners trapped since Wednesday
in the Bots du Cazier pit.
Intense heat drove them back
from a corridor at the 3,0O0-foot
level through which they hoped
to reach a gallery where 13O
men were working when the
mine caught fire.
Work will now concentrate on
fighting the fire in the corridor
but it will be a lengthy process
The first step is to reinforce the
mine shaft SO equipment can be
taken down to the 3,00O-foot
level. This may last until well
into the afternoon.
The director of the Belgian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
THOMAS l. STOKES
Truman Enjoys the Suspense

punches and takes nothing
back.
He was for a strong civil
rights plank in the platform
and written in plain words that
all could understand.
After sketching the history
of the Fourteenth Amendment
adopted in reconstruction days
and showing how it never had
been enforced, he said that all
the Supreme Court had done
in its public school indignation
decision was to say that it is
time to enforce the Constitu-
ton.
He held up before the res
olutions committee the famous
report of the Civil Rights
Commission he had appointed
as President, embodied in a
document entitled ITO Secure
These Rights" On it was
based his own recommended
tions to Congress for civil
rights legislation that so en-
FILTERED many in the South
against him.
He advised committee mem
bers to read this report. He
also used it to support his
argument that it was Demo-
Gratis who really initiated the
civil rights program which, he
said, Republicans are now
taking credit for.
He drew a laugh when he
explained that the chairman
of the Civil Rights Commits
sion was Electric Charlie"
Wilson with General Electric
Corp to distinguish him from
General Motors Charlie Will
son, who now is Secretary of
Defense in the Eisenhower adj
miniStration.
Once again. as the ex-
President spoke, one could hear
echoes of the 1948 campaign
and a preview of Truman 1856
campaign speeches in his
charge that the Eisenhower
administration had turned our
finances and our natural re-
sources over to 1.-THE special
interests" And there was some
OF the same in his slogan for
the party this year: Restore
the Government of the United
States to the people of the
United States. where it be-
longs"
And in all this he was easy
and relaxed. for he is never SO
relaxed as when giving the Re-
publicanS the what-for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11

Fire RepuIses Rescuers
Seeking 260 in Mine

Coal Mine Administration, An
Dire Van Den Heuval, told news
conference this morning: The
3,000-foot level was the only ac-
cess to make research possible
in the area where there might
be survivors.
THE men who went down
there found the heat untenable. -
I'VE now have to fight the
fire and the heat with the most
powerful possible means"
Nine bodies and six survivors
were taken out of the mine
Wednesday afternoon. 1t was
believed that at least 100 men
were dead in upper levels of the
mine. The others were trapped
below 5000 feet.
A mass funeral and a national
day of mourning was set for
Monday. Services will be held
in the town square behind the
18th century church of Marci-
nellie. Miners from all ovel
Belgium will participate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11

an appeal to Premier Bulganin
and Party Chief Khrushchev, but
without success.
The main subject of Mr.. Shig-
en1itsu'S private discussions with
Mr.. Shepilov today probably will
be the wording of the territorial
clause in the draft treaty. The
Russian wording is expected to
emerge substantially unchanged
The Soviet draft cedes the Habo-
mails and Shikotan Islands of
Hokkaido to Japan but makes no
mention of KunaShiri and Etc.
rofu.
A drafting subcommittee
agreed in short order yesterday
on fisheries and trade clauses of
the treaty. A fisheries treaty
signed last May goes into ef-
feet automatically with signing
of the peace treaty. The trade
clause establishes a legal inter-
national basis for Soviet-Japa-
nese trade and in effect merely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11

Paphos district of West Cyprus
four masked gunner shot and
killed a Greek Cypriot and seri-
ously wounded another.
At a village near Dheftera
eight miles south of Nicosia. five
men wearing black moods entered
a coffee shop near midnight and
ordered two customers to stand
against a wall.
Shop Owner Slain
The coffee shop owner. a Greek
Cypriot. tried to run. They shot
him to death. A Turkish Cypriot
policeman who spotted the five
men fleeing suffered slight
wound.
A Greek Cypriot was shot tc
death and two others wounded
by unknown assailants at a viii
lage near Limassol in South
Cyprus.
In a shooting at Kythrea, eight
miles northeast Of Nicosia. q
Greek Cypriot was shot foul
times and seriously wounded in
an attack by several masked
men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
Reds Give Wrights
Credit for AirpIune

MOSCOW, Aug. IL (P).-The
authoritative magazine "Ques-
tons of History says claims
made during the Stain era that
Ia Russian invented the airplane
were false.
In a roundabout way it gave
credit to the American Wright
Brothers. praising their inven-
tons and those of other West
Iern pioneers. The Wrights gen.
orally are conceded to have made
the first flight in a heavier
than-air machine in 1908.
AS for past Russian claims
Mozhaisky invented the air.
plane and first flew it back in
1882. the magazine said there
was a bad storm that day and
mo plane could have flown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-11
But When Ex-President Tips His Hand
It's Expected to Point to Stevenson

longer a problem or a worry.
For events extending over
many months had settled that
for him in the showing of pre-
ponderant sentiment. among
the public in primaries and
polls and among delegates, for
Stevenson's denomination. And
this was confirmed by The par
ty leaders with whom Truman
talked.
AS a party leader bent on
victory for which he regards
a united party as a prerequi-
site, he is not inclined to risk
this in an attempt to buck
the obvious will of the ma
jority and lead a fight for
Hartman, as much as he ad-
mires and respects his long
time friend.
1t was plain by the time the
ex-President made his survey
that this would be a hopeless
fight. Hartman could not
possibly emerge as the win
ner and such a contest also
could eliminate Stevenson who,
as does Hartman. represents
the RooSevelt-Truman New
Deal-Fair Deal wing of the
party. The results could be
a compromise candidate I'M
satisfactory to Truman.
There was nothing for him
to do but to go along with the
tide. which forecast an an
nouncement for Stevenson
when it comes.
This would do the trick and
clinch the nomination of the
1852 candidate before the con-
vention opened. And for this
Harry Truman would get full
credit and keep his standing as
a party leader of prestige and
influence.
That explains why Truman
is relaxed as we'll as happy.
His buoyancy, bounce and
pertness are reminiscent of the
man of the 1948 give 'em
hell" campaign. These charac-
teristicS were infectious, as
was his confident prediction of
a Democratic victory in No
vember, when he appeared
before the resolutions COM
mittee to discuss the platform.
Here, as in his press confer
ence, he was the plain-spoken,
fortnight leader who pulls no