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Departments Stand

The Defense Department told
the Supreme Court:
I'm view of the conflict in
the decisions of the lower
courts, it is now impossible to
determine under what system
of justice these persons are
to be held accountable for any
misdeeds they may commit"
There are several theoretical
alternatives to military trial of
the civilians but all have
serious drawbacks. Offenders
can be turned over to au-
thorities in the countries where
their crimes are committed,
but this may deprive them Of
such traditional American
rights as a jury trial. 1t can
also. in some areas of the
world where American bases
are located, involve cruel and
inhuman forms of justice and
incarceration in prisons far
below American standards.
Bringing the civilians back
to the United States for trial
would in most cases require
negotiation of special agree
ments with the countries in
volved, a job so delicate as to
be impractical in view of the
controversy over United States
Status of Forces agreements
with nations where American
servicemen are stationed. Ar
ranging for witnesses to testify
here would add to the compli-
cations.
Back to Revolution
Arguing that civilian en-
ployes of the armed forces have
always been subject to military
justice where American courts
are not available, the Defense
Department went back to Rev.
dictionary days yesterday to
support its point.
The Articles of War adopted
by the Continental Congress in
TITS provided that "gunners,
mattresses, drivers or any other
persons whatsoever receiving
pay or hire, in the service of
the Continental Artillery should
be subject to courts-martial."
Justice Frankfurter provided
one droll moment in yesterdays
hearing with a new definition
of the act committed by a wife
who kills her huSband-"self-
inflicted widowhood."
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Baptist Donation Tea

The annual donation day tea
and open house at the Baptist
Home for children will be held
from 2 to 6 pm. Saturday at
the home in Bethesda.
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THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Better Job Chances
Urged for Women
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
star stan Writer

Civil Service Commissioner Barbara Gunderson says she will
devote her time the problem obtaining better pro-
moona opportunities for the Governments employees
The first csc commissioner in number of years
Mrs Qunderson says she convinced that many
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lowing points subtract times indicated
from the above.
Annapolis. 2 hours; Bloody Point
Light 3 hours; Colonial Beach. 594
hours; Deale 8 hours: Solomons Is
and. 5 hours: Point Lookout, hours
The Sun and Moon
49, Rises a Sets
s Sun, t tof,Srrov 7$$ ts ss sS D
Moon, today 1914 pm. 1925 am.
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Cloudy with rain tonight pos
sibly ending tomorrow. Visibil-
ity 2-5 miles dropping to / mile
or less in fog. Tides will be 2
to 3 feet above normal in the
lower Bay. Small craft warn
ings displayed.
River Report
Potomac River. clear at Harpers
Ferry and slightly muddy at Great
Falls. Shenandoah clear at Harpers
Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
Midnight 49, SO Noon ---- 55
4 am. 49, 81 4p.m. ----- So
Record Temperatures This Year
Highest 100 on June 20 and 30.
Lowest. IL on January 6 and II
High and Low Of Last "a Hours
High, SO. at 1:20 pm.
Low, 81, at 1880 am.
Tide Tables
Furnished by the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Today Tomorrow
High ------ 1921 am. 100 am.
High -------- 12:45 pm. los pm.
Low -------- I'll pm. 1850 pm.
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an Army wife convicted of ad-
ministering fatal beatings to
her infant son and two other
cases concerning civilian EN-
ployes.
Government attorneys testi-
fled yesterday that the number
of overseas courts-martial of
American civilians dropped
from 121 to 1856 to "a in 1858.
There has been no decline in
offenses = the drop simply
means, they said, that there
is so much confusion over what
the 1857 Supreme Court deci-
sion really means that the
armed services have let many
offenders go unpublished rather
than risk trying them in mill
tary courts.
There are 455,000 military
dependents at American bases
around the world and $4,000
civilians serving overseas with
the armed forces.
BY act of Congress, in the
Uniform Code Of Military JUS
tice, they were all. subject to
trial by courts-martial for Of
lenses committed outside the
United Estates. But the Su-
preme Courts 1857 decision
knocked out at least part of
this law and in the eyes Of
some courts all of it.
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Occasional rain is forecast tonight for the Southern Middle Atlantic
States Pacific Showers expected the
Lakes region Northern Ohio Valley Northern Central
Rockies with higher elevations of that Rain
driZZe Gulf
area.-AP WTephOtO Map.
Evening star., 1959-11-29

ment that orders had been issued for
closing all the bars and drinking
houses for twenty-four hours.
The day opens beautifully; the east
ern sky upon which the doomed man
has an outlook from his cell Window
is gilded with all the colorS of the
rainbow; the air is deliciouSly soft and
balmy; and all nature, to anyone less
hard and stony than the prisoner,
has an inviting aspect, to make part
ing from earth more than usually
bitter.
E. Half a dozen men were placing
the frame work yellow pine) of the
gallowS together. E. IAN artist took
sketches of the gallowS and then all
back to good cornbread and tough
beef-Steak at Carter's.
Later in the morning, Brown, at
his request, was taken to the cells of
(two) of his comrades With the
air of command as If yet leader, he
bade them acquit themselves bravely
to the end, and not betray their
friends. In bidding them goodbye, he
gave them each a quarter d. saying
that he had no further occasion for
money. They shook hands with him,
but said nothing. E.
(Another) said Good bye, Captain;
1 know you are going to a better
land"
Brown answered IN a tone of deep
conviction, Il know I am" To
him he also gave a quarter.
Shortly before II o'clock, Brown was
led forth from the jail He emerged
with firm step, assembled to the cart
Evening star., 1959-11-29
John Browns Last DaYs


dcton mo- them"
to o
dornnobIe
H. IS59nder hode WASHINGTON NESAD GOSSIP The
ndcotor
Brown Thot ioI undoubtedly
of the controlling the Republican Por
previously history
Union
the will be settled the oHeeihe by dissolution
Of the q revolution of the North
IS59-The Republican Washington while
believes should be restricted present limits by Congressional
interfere"
oroduoI
October 26. IS5octent before Judge Riord Poer
charging
with Negroes the Virginia
ondmu
Evening star., 1959-11-29

EROM The Evening Star, Friday,
Il December 2, 1859; Page 2, Column 1:
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
THE EXECUTION OF BROWN
Our assistant, Crosby s. Noyes, Esq,
left Washington yesterday morning
for CharleStown, Va, to post The
Stars readers promptly and fully
with reference to everything of inter
est that may transpire there today.
:. In tomorrow'S issue we will doubt
less have, from his pen, perhaps the
very best and fullest account of every
thing occurring today in Charles
town, Va, published anywhere in the
United States so soon afterwards. .
Scarcely sir DeeIs before, John BToIOn
and a remnant of his band of raiders had
been captured in HGrpers Ferry. Ten had
been killed In the fighting, including ttOo
OF BToIDn'S sons. In all, SeUen of the
raiders had been, or tDere soon to be,
sentenced to hang. This mould satisfy
the ends of juStice-or vengeance. depend
ing on the sectional Uies0poiHt-0t the
Commonwealth of Virginia, tOhoSe soil had
been inUGded. 1t tDdS not until more than
three years IGteT-JuHe TO- IS63-thGt this
section of Virginia became part of a netO
Stdte-WeSt Virginia.
Prom The Evening Star, Friday. December 3,
1859, Page 2, Column 3:
Execution of Brown at CharIeStOwn
FULL PARTICULARS
CLOSING SCENES AND INCIDENTS
Editorial Correspondence OF the Starl
CHARLESTOWN, Dec. 2, 1859.
Room No. Is, Carter's Hotel, was
the caravanSea on the night preceding
Evening star., 1959-11-29

the execution of all the newspaper
folks, artists, and other vagrant Bo-
hemianS there under military durance
SUNDAY THE STAR MAGAZINE WA
Evening star., 1959-11-29

till daylight. -.
In the morning the utmost conster-
nation was created by the announce
INGroN, D. c., NOVEMBER 2s 1859
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22
Letters To Editor
Commission To
Protect Health

Editor Farmville Herald:
l here make some comments on
the Virginia Milk commission.
think there should be a milk
commission vested with authority
to require that certain conditions
must be met before a dairyman
can sell milk to a distributor or to
the public.
They should have the right to
require that all cows producing
milk for public consumption, should
be regularly tested for T. B. and
Bangs disc ase by licensed
veterinarian. They should have the
right to require that milk sold for
public consumption should contain
specified per cent Of butter fat
and that 1t did not show high
bacterial count They should have
inspectors to inspect all places
where milk is produced or sold and
to see to it that these places were
clean and sanitary
Then when dalryman or milk
distributor has fully complied with
all of these requirements, the Milk
Commission should license him to
sell milk in the state Of Virginia
whether he sold it in town or a
county
AS 1t is now. the Milk Commits
sion does require these things and
| then they take it upon them
selves to give monopoly to some
one man or firm to sell milk to
the public in given territory. This
is what I strongly take exceptions
| to and if there is now any law or
I the statue books of Virginia which
empowers them to do this, then
| think that this law should be amend
ed or changed.
| MY fellow citizens if you are in
agreement with me, | strongly urge
you to write to our representatives
and request them to put forth thell
best efforts to get rid of this in
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22
Double Check

Wishing to wish you a very
MERRY CHRISTMAS 4. the last
one in SO and begging you to look
ahead +. its no use looking behind.
THANKING each of you for your
very kind remembrance of cards
and sew-forth They were appreci-
ated, every one of them, and laid
away among my most precious
memories. In the words of our trav-
cling President, II love you .. !
love you love you.'' and
must assure with definately more
meaning and expressed with much
deeper thought.
Even Satellite Vanguard III no
longer sends signals. . /. must have
gotten into an argument with Mos
cows tin bellied buzzards. Other
repercussions trailing the great
Peace hunt will be in the news
should be labeled Don't read until
after Christmas.
We should want to enjoy this
Christmas. It's been the longest, let
nothing mar this one Il. even Gran
berries are OK. now
Getting Nations and families to-
gether is the real Christmas spirit
but who wants to see a big
fight at this time Of the year? They
don't stop at arguments these days.
Again wish you a very merry and
delightful CHRISTMAS and
most grateful to THE FARMVILLE
HERALD for bringing it to you
and Thanks for Reading.
Yours,
) Marvin Brown
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22
John Temple Graves
Progress Through Cooperation

matter. temporal and eternal.
Credit the religion. the total pow
erty. the long centuries = there is
a life Of the soul in India, ema-
mating not from the hordes, not
from the untouchables or the touch
ables. but from poets and philoso-
piers there. singers and makers of
songs, story-tellers, dreamers, low
ers, rrayer-sayers:
Below my feet the still ba-
zaai- is laid,
Far, far below the weary
camels lie.
The can,els and the captives Of
thy raid
Come back to me, beloved, or
l die"
THREE VAST LANDS are trying
to skip from medieval to modern
Russia, China and India. But only
India takes its soul along. A n d
only India looks to America. ma
ton which believes in liberty and
soul alike as neither is dreamed of
III Russia's or China s philosophy
There Is menace to this soul and
this liberty in America now from
socialists. cynics and materialists.
1t may be that there can be aid
from India as well as to
ROGER BABSON'S GRAVITY
Research Foundation goes conf
IDENTIFY on with its hope Of controlling
that force somehow. Perhaps India
knows the secret and uses It with
that trick Of throwing a rope in the
air and climbing it! If the power
in gravitys pull ever is available
for uses Of man, atomic power will
be beggared in comparison How
the thing may possibly be done is
suggested in the subjects for tins
years prize essay contest: I'd dis
covery Of some partial insulator, re-
felctor or absorber of gravity: ~
discovery Of some alloy. or other
substance, the atoms Of which can
be agitated or rearranged by
gravity to throw off heat; or (31
some other reasonable method of
Harvesting. controlling or neutralN-
ing gravity
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22

I'm the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22
THE RIGHT DOCTOR

He was dug out Of the wreck Of
his automobile and carried to the
nearest doctors office.
II cart Dc anything fer this
man said the doctor s'I'rn d vet
Urinary surgeon
You're the right man. doc" said
the amateur inotorist. Il was q
,jackass to think ! could run that
machine"
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THB FARMv1ILE tva) HERALD TUESDAY DECEMBER = 1853
HOPE

hope that we may live to see
When our whole earth from war is free.
When wars and hote and strife shall cease
And men on earth shall dwell in peace.
When all mems hearts With love are filled
And talk Of war on earth is sted
When what Christ taught becomes port
And wipes our greed from evy heart.
When men, the golden rule obey
And live by it from day to day.
When heIIish bombs have ceased to be
And nations live IN omity.
~ hope we'll hail the season
BY gifted minds foretoId,
When men shall rule by reason
And not alone for gold.
When man to man united
The whole world will be lighted
As Eden was Of DID,"
Note
As the quotation is from memory,
may not quote it correctly.
-. D. WHITAKER
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22
SMALL OVERSIGHT

did you cancel all my engage
ments, as / told you, Parker?"
Yes sir, but L d y Millicent
didn't take it very we'll. She said
you were to marry her next Mon
day"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22

Lesson for December ~, 1869

A T SUNSET, not q ray Of hope.
4 > Alone, behind high walls,
guarded by four squads Of soldiers
under special orders, his friends
not knowing whether he was alive
or dead But by midnight! the
man was free. talking with his
friends. Naturally, hunted by the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22

-. D. WHITAKER
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22

police but
they never found
him. What was
the explanation
Of it? Nobody
has ever quite
succeeded in ex-
planning it. The
man himself said
an angel did it;
but an angel is
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22
UhrtHtmaa, A mrnnrtal

UhrtHtntaa, a MPttturtal
Christmas W
Famvile Church
"A ND brought wrapped
ding clothes laid n
for them in the inn Luke
1t difficult Chrshd
advertising which calling us to buy the many
gadgets that There things morng
attention and thereby closing spiritual
the Chrchd Our hearts bondage other oyaes other
to Jesus the SAVIOUR of the world This
missing the true meaning of
Christmas many things foremost should be mem
orial and Christmas day
In the first place, Christmas the providence
God 1t not by chance that Caesar
particular time history God Heather
Chrschd to be born Bethlehem according promise
versal language the time Jesus pro
the time
that religious conditions
Saviour This too in the Providence Of God God above history
and rules history using His will and Thus
time 4)
point history highways political, economic
religious history
Second, promises Of God God
promised Adam and Eve that would
The fulfmen this realized in Jesus Christ Also
promised Abraham that through world would be blessed Jesus
Christ fumnt this the world
promises through the prophets for them
the place the type Of BIRTH and the
promises the past can be
depended keep them in the
The Christmas Season should simplicity
Christian faith Faith faiths sake not Christian faith
Christian
Christian faith many rituals reality
the Prince Peace Christmas reminds religion
which meets deepest needs found form creed
book ritual law but personal faith Cod
vealed Christ religion necessary expressing
religion permit
God in Christ
Christmas should Us that are children Of Cod
with
changed ceneed Chriscentered becomes
Christ and thereby child children
this world which live Fathers world
Fathers world live lives the confidence that
and that should treat feowmn The realization
the Fherhod God through Christ
burdens Of belonging and
victory
Finally Christmas memorial to higher values The
Christmas should change values
spiritual temporal selfcentered
conferred
Jesus born a palace with many attendants but
stable There flash the the world
been the
Shepherds The world did hostile
to Him. He did not palace but owly home remote
the world He taught university and
did halls Gods
open He owned speak On He
His He
He fishers platform eternal
truths He borrowed chamber institute the Memorial Supper
He also buried borrowed tomb His only when He died
the robe and he and the He bore
After nineteen He the central figure the human
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22

We said that God had more for
Simon Peter to do. This midnight
miracle was the last Of its kind in
Peters life so far as we know. He
lived for years after this. hard
working missionary, no doubt often
In danger, but kept and strength
ened by what we absurdly call the
Ordinary Providence Of God.
Then came day when Roman
guards came for him once more,
and this time there wss no angel
to help him. So be was crucifed-
Had God forsaken him a. last?
No; his work was done. If you are,
as he was. a. worker together with
God" you may be sure that until
your work is done you are immor-
tai.
We are at the gate of New
Year. What will It bring? Great
dangers, great distress, great re-
sponsibilities Whatever it may be,
God knows what he is doing. We
may see no angels, but with the eye
of faith we can see the good hand
Of God guiding us, protecting us,
giving US the help we need, uShen
We need It.
tBsSs4 % ogtltnes espvsighAsd ~
The DiY1Si0n .of 0lnistlsn TdueAttoH,
Eaficn1l C0u1nQ a. the Churches ~
Chriat y. TIE o. s. =. 1saasSsd By
ConIhuAitv Ftess sayvinAl
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nard 70 explain, -
too. The real explanation, every
one felt. was in one single word:
GOD. The mans friends had been
praying to God, and God sent the
angel. God had much more for
Simon Peter to do.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22

tolerable condition that now exists.
Respectfully yours,
L. D. Whitaker, Farmvllle
Dec. IS, 1859
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-22

too. The real explanation, every
one felt. was in one single word:
GOD. The mans friends had been
praying to God, and God sent the
angel. God had much more for
Simon Peter to do.
In Great Crisis
Did God help people in Bible
times" only and not since then BY
no means. God himself cannot be
seem. remember; 50 it is always
possible for some one to doubt
to say. We'll. I didn't see God
there" Nevertheless all through
history there have been special oc-
casions, crises as they may be call
ed. when believers have been quite
sure that God must have been spe-
cially interested and active.
For instance. in World War III.
on D-Day. innumerable slips oc-
CURED during that great invasion
Of the Normandy coast. One writer
who was there said that every
thing that could go wrong went
wrong, and some things that
couldn't. But in spite Of it all, the
Allies got their foothold in the
enemys land. What accounts for
that? Or take the German guided
missiles. If they had been Just a
few weeks farther ahead with pro-
duction, England might have been
, completely smashed and the war
would have had q different ending.
What held the Germans up? Hitler,
Of course; but what made Hitler
Ordinarily a shrewd mani so
stupid?
"0ut Of Weakness"
For some people it may be easier
to believe that God takes care of
nations and Of great events, than
that God takes care of me. Let US
not deny his presence In the great
crises. Last June q stream1iner
with 100 passengers on board ran
over a suitcase filled with enough
dynamite TO blow the train in .two
and the fuse was lighted! But
the fuse went out, and tho train
was not hurt When the passengers
learned about It, isn't It likely that
most Of they said, Thank God"
Some Of them said it (perhaps)
who hadn't thanked God for any
thing in years. Yet God can be in
simple ordinary lives, giving help
to the weak and the unimportant,
just as truly as he helps a Saint
Peter or the British Empire. An
immigrant woman abandoned by
her CT husband, with three hungry
children on her hands, said once:
Sometimes I 60 to bed and I don't
think can get up again. But God,
he wakes me up with song In my
throat and I begin again" Some
times the only way we discover God
is to reach a point Of weakness
where we know that without him
we are done for.
-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-19

The District Association for
Mental Health yesterday an
nounced two new pilot projects
in the field of mental health.
The group committed itself
to an $500 grant to set up
an experimental program de-
signed to aid maladjusted first
graders.
The second project is the
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citation. said a team Of psychia-
trists is now being lined UP to
participate in the program. He
said the association is attempt
ing to gain the support Of the
medical schools so that the
program could also be used to
train medical students who
might accompany the psychia-
trist on his trip to a home.
The Health Departments
Adult Mental Health Clinic,
3246 p street NV, would be
used as the clearing house for
calls.
Each psychiatrist would be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-19
2New Service Projects
Slated in Mental Health

establishment of an emergency
psychiatric home care program
in cooperation with the Dis
trict Health Departments Bu-
reau Of Mental Health.
An experimental group of 100
first graders. selected by ram
dom sample, viii be used in the
first project. These children
are those considered poor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-19

! paid $50 to handle each PSYCHE
atric emergency.
The associations grants are
made possible by THE Bal de
Paris" which holds a dance
each April. donating the entire
proceeds to the mental health
group.
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praisal. study and attendance
These tests. she said, indicate
that almost twice as many Dis
trict students are classed In
the poor risk" category as
compared with the national
sample.
The home care program is
aimed at insuring proper ex-
animation and prompt hospi-
talization II other means OF
treatment are more suitable.
Teams Lining Up
DR.. w. Beaver Kehne. psy-
chiatrist and member OF the
District Mental Health Asso-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-19
Dense Population

LONDON. - Europe Is the
most densely populated of all
the continents with an aver
age Of more than 1870 inhabit-
ants to each square mile Of
area.
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risks. who failed their first
year.
Social workers. q psychologist
and in some cases q psychia-
trist will work with the chill
dren In an attempt to help
them become adjusted.
Poor Rating In Tests
The $500 grant will be used
to overcome the poor showing
of District first graders in ma
tional readiness tests for school
aptitudes, according to DR..
irene c. Hypps. assistant SUPER
intendent of schools In charge
Of the department of public APP