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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-11-29
HoWardsville

Nov. % Mrs. c. A. Whitfield
spent the week end with her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Tommy Burruss, and
their family. Mrs. White d's
mother, Mrs. w. L. Gardner. ac-
companied her to Charlottesville
and will spend some time with
the Burruss family.
Eric w. Snoddy will enter
Martha jefferson Hospital in
Charlottesville Dec l and will
undergo an operation Dec. 2.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Snoddy
visited his uncle. Waverly Snod-
dy, at Dickenson's Convalescent
Home. Palmyra, on Thursday
and report he is better after BE-
ing seriously i'll.
David H. Steger, of Richmond,
is spending some time with Mn
and Mrs. Allen Roberts and en-
toying hunting. He. with the
Roberts. visited their cousin,
Hugh c. Baber, at Blue Ridge
Sanatorium, Charlottesville. on
Sunday.
Miss Norma Snoddy spent Fri
day night and Saturday with
Miss Judy Held, Of Esmont.
Mrs. S. R. Boyce had with
Ter for q visit Sunday Mr.. and
Mrs. William Heath and Mr.. and
Mrs. Leonard Spencer, of Es-
mont.
Leslie Gardner. Of Goochland.
has moved to his farm near
ton and Bennie Lee visited Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Childress in
Amelia Sunday afternoon.
Bonnie Lee Barton celebrated
his first birthday on Monday,
Nov. Is. He is the son of Mr. "a
Nov. Is. He is the son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Bonnie Barton.
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Nov % There was very
large attendance, Saturday aft
ernoon, at Guinea Church. for
the funeral service Of Mrs. Har-
~ S. Noblin and also for the IN
teinent. at Trinity Memorial
Gardens Heartfelt sympathy IS
extended to the family
The Rev. and Mrs. LLOYD judy
and their nephew. Bud Long. of
Cumberland. were visitors in
this nelghborhood. Friday after
noon.
Mrs. w B. Walker III. who
made a business trip to Penn
sylVanla. returncd home. on
Wednesday night
MI and Mrs. Donald Calcutt
of Norfolk. were Monday after
noon luncheon and dinner guests
OF Mrs David j N1atson
w P. Hazleerove and son.
Billy Hazlegrove. Of Roanoke.
spent the week end at their
country home. Little North
field"
Nh and Mrs. Ebert Womack.
Of Falnvillc. were Sunday
luncheon guests al his home
"Woodvllle .
On Monday. H. q. For4uson
went TO Richmond, where he en-
tered hospital
Mrs. Charles Simpson and
daughter. Geraldine. attended
the funeral Of Lester Cashlon
on Nov. Is at Troutman N. c.
Mrs. George Bailey and son.
Bill, of Charlottesville. were re-
cent guests Of her mother, Mrs
B B Walker The tho attended
service at Centenary Church.
Sunday
The Rev LLOYD Judy. the pas
tor. brought splendid Thanks
giving message to the congre-
cation at Centenary Church on
SUNDAY.
On Monday evening at the
church. there WAS an Official
board meeting. at which the
pastor presided
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-11-29
.Ashly.

Nov. 28 ~ Mr.. and Mrs. w r.
Sanderson Mrs. E. B. Nuckols
and John Sanderson enjoyed a
day IN Weldon, N. c., wit h
their aunt, Mrs. G. r. Chitten-
don.
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Teaching Deof Children

In 1947 he was returned to Ger
many and he became interested in
the teaching Of deaf children. He
has since become an international
figure in this growing science.
In his school in Heidelberg, the
teaching of deaf children begins
almost at birth. When a baby is a
month old. if it is deaf, it can be
taught Immediately, for its eyes
are gates to its brain. I went to
the school and this German
teacher. who had been a prisoner
in America. said to me, "a baby's
eyes are lively with curiosity; we
must use this as the first way of
teaching" Then he led me from
class to class, and I watched the
children, at their lessons. A hum
bling experience.
That is really the end of my
story of tracing Am erican in
fluences during my two months in
Germany. A prison cellar turned
into shrine for intellectual jazz"
and a German prisoner of war,
moving from Texas. to Oklahoma,
to Arizona, Oregon and California,
in 1943. and quietly deciding.
when he was returned to Germa-
ny, to devote his life to teaching
deaf children.
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marked to Averell Hartman last
summer that he could do, he
stepped on President Kennedy's
corns."
This alone would not imperil
the 1868 detente. 1t is, perhaps,
just a bargaining tactic on Mr..
Khrushchev's part. The West also
is bargaining hard; the MILF steps
on some of Mr.. Khrushchev's ten
dereSt cornS, and refusal to thin
out American troops in Germany
by agreement-when the Pentagon
is seriously considering thinning
them out in any event after mid
1965-is not exactly camaraderie.
Taken all together, however, de-
velopments of recent weeks add
up to considerable under the =
surface tension. The detente is
still in process, but is reaching q
critical juncture. If it is going to
fizzle out, the world will soon know
il
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Great Detente Sputters Over Berlin Central Europe

firm and ratify the partition of
Germany; the West refused.
This time, many observers have
considered the prospects brighter.
The Sino-Soviet rift produced a
significant shift in the world
balance of power, and this shift,
it has been hoped and believed,
makes a reasonably satisfactory
reversal of alliances.
Things have not, however, been
working out that way. Without
any single, dramatic incident to
cause blowup-no Budapest, no
explosive Paris summit conference
the detente of 1868 has seemed
to falter and lose momentum.
Relatively simple hurdles like
the test ban have been cleared.
But the effort to tackle basic
issues has produced nothing but
deadlock-and new tensions along
the Berlin corridor.
In q sense, this is perfectly
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weak that plotting against the
state entailed the risk of no great
penalties.
Today, the Putsch remains q
lively specter in German political
life. All the more so because the
Putsch 40th anniversary comedies
with the first change in the Bonn
government since the war. Ger
mans capacity for democracy still
has a question mark: the IA years
OF Konrad Adenauer's rules estab-
shed-definitely-only that the
Germans still respond to author
ity (supported by the presence Of
Allied troops.
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Wet Foreign Minister Gromyko's
dour assessment - only partially
disavowed-of the state of East
West negotiations. Things could
not be worse" he said of East
West disarmament talks.
Both of these events can change
fundamentally the terms of ref
erence of the East West dialogue.
A Chinese capitulation to Russia
would tip the world balance of
power deciSively back in RuSSia's
direction. Western agreement on
an MILF" might frighten and
outrage Moscow on a scale SINH
lar to that of the U-2 flights.
There has, of course, been no
Chinese capitulation. Far from it.
But there has been a striking
change in the tone and content
of Picking propaganda.
Around October /, Picking began
denying the inevitability of atomic
war, string the Importance of
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normal. No important negotiation
is likely to go smoothly from the
outset.
But there are two facts which
tend to give the current Sputter-
ings and engine coughing an
ominous sound:
Q Russia is beginning to win her
diplomatic and theological struggle
with Red China; Peking is giving
way, apparently fearing expulsion
from the world Communist move
ment early next month.
. The West is pushing ahead
with project Russia profoundly
fears and resents: the NATO
multilateral nuclear force. Moscow
sees this as step toward atomic
arms for Germany.
Together, these two develop
ments could we'll explain the re-
cent interference with American
and British traffic on the Berlin
autobahn. They could explain So
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the Sino-Soviet alliance, and talk
ing Sympathetically of peaceful
coeXiStence Peking's Albanian
champion here at the UN went
out of his way to disavow, on her
behalf, the inevitability thesis.
This Chinese peace offensive"
as some have dubbed it, may be no
more than a minor modification
of tactics. But there would be no
need to change tactics if Peking
were gaining the upper hand in
the struggle for control of world
communism.
Peking-isolated politically by
the test ban, weakened economi-
cally by crop failures, discredited
morally by her talk of a beautiful
future" after atomic holocaust
is clearly losing that struggle.
This fact significantly strength
ems Moscow against the West.
Even the distant prospect of a
victory over China eases the
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Unbending Soldiers

In bars and cafes, where Ameri-
can soldiers come to drink and
eat, with Immaculate behaviour
that would please their mothers
back home. they remained aloof: I
felt as much alienated from them,
as the Germs ans. Which was
strange, for I know America bet
ter than most Americans. These
erect. scrubbed soldiers did not
unbend. I had to wait until I came
to Regensburg, the scene of Lud-
wig B m e I'm s novel, Blue
Danube" before I could make an
American speak to me.
BY accident went with a
friend to a weinstube that turned
out to be q meeting place for SOL
diers and jezebelS. I am much too
old and respectable for such
abandon, so we hurried out again.
At the door of the weinStube was
an American police car, with a
driver, and a corporal who was
keeping his eye on his countrymen
inside. They stood beside the car,
erect with authority.
I asked, Can you suggest
pleasant place where we can drink
wine; not like this one?"
The corporal said, TRY the Cafe
Lang, across the river"
asked, Where do you come
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threat of an active, two-front cold
war. Moscow can, in effect, pull
back some of her troops to the
western front.
Those troops" have been show
ing up in the Kremlin's attitude
toward negotiations with the West.
Two severe conditions disengage-
ment and Characterization in CEN
trail Europe-were attached to a
control posts" agreement, that is,
an agreement on the stationing
of observers at fixed control posts
to watch for surprise attack.
On Berlin, old formulas were re-
vived. On nondiSsemination of nu-
clear weapons, Russia made agree
ment contingent on, or synony-
nous with, abandonment of the
projected multilateral force.
When the West held out against
such solutions" the Berlin access
routes suddenly became perilouS.
AS Soviet Premier Khrushchev re-
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At the time of the Putsch, Lud-
wig Erhard, Adenauer's successor,
also a Bsvarian, was attending a
school of business administration
at Nuremberg. Then rs, Erhard,
like Hitler, was a severely wounded
war veteran. At the Buerger-
brauekeller, Hitler had ranted, Il
want now to fulfill the vow !
made to myself five vars ago
when I was a blind cripple in the
military hospital: to know no rest
nor peace until the November
criminals IA reference to the 1918
Armistice) had been overthrown.
Erhard, an artilleryman in a
Bavarian regiment, had part of
his left arm shot away and suf-
fered leg wounds from shrapnel.
Today, his left arm is shorter and
he wears orthopedic shoes. But
Erhard, who was near death from
his wounds, harbored no resent
ments. While Hitelr was plotting
the Putsch, Erhard was planning
to get married, which he did Ito
Luise Lotter, a classmate, with
whom he is still married) while
Hitler was in Landsberg.
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give in. Then Hitler led them back
to the platform, where they made
brief speeches pledging loyalty to
the new regime.
The meeting broke up, and.
amid the confusion. all of the Ba-
varian government leaders slipped
out of the hall. Kahr moved the
Bavarian government at once to
Regensburg, renounced his pledge
of loyalty to Hitler and ordered
dissolution of the Nazi Party. Hit
ler's courage ebbed and he wav-
cred.
Ludendorff then proposed a
plan. He and Hitler would march
with their followers to the center
of Munich and take over. Not only
would the police and the army, Lu-
dendorff was certain, not dare to
oppose the great military hero;
they would join him and fight I'M
der his orders.
Preparations for the march went
on through the night and morning
of November 9. Around IL on the
morning of November 9, the ami
versary of the proclamation of the
German republic, Hitler and Lu-
dendorff led a column of 5000
Storm Troopers out of the gardens
Of the Buergerbraeukeller and
headed for the center of Munich.
beside them in the front rank
marched Goering, Scheubner-
Richter, Rosenberg, Ulrich Graf,
Hitler's bodyguard, and other Nazi
leaders. Behind them came a truck
with mounted machine guns
manned by Etorm Troopers. The
Storm Troopers marched behind
the truck carrying carbines. Hit
Ter had a revolver.
The column crossed the Ludwil
Bridge, leading over the Isar River
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-27
By WILLIAM r. FRYE
Star Special Writer

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-Is
the great detente" of 1863 going
to end-not with q bang, but a
whimper?
Twice before in the last decade,
embryo detentes have gone out
with a bang. What seemed to be
promising improvements in the
East-w climate have disinte-
grated soon after they were at
tempted.
In 1856. the Spirit of Geneva"
faded quickly and then diSap-
peared in the smoke of Hungary
and Suez. In 1958-60, the U-2
incident blew up a somewhat
longer and more serious East =
West filtration.
In each case, the real reason
for the breakdown was inability
to agree on the future of Central
Europe. Russia wanted to con-
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list, unified Reich. He decided to
act.
In the side room off stage at
the Buergerbraeukeller, Hitler's
conference with Kahr, Won Los
SOW, and Col. Hans Won Scissor,
head Of the state police, was TAX
ing place at gunpoint. mo one
leaves this room alive without my
permission" Hitler told them.
Suicide Threot
The C a ptives at first refused
even to speak to Hitler. He de-
manded that each must join him
in proclaiming the revolution. No
answer. Their continued silence
unnerved Hitler. He waved his
gun at them. Pointing the weapon
to his forehead, he cried, "If I am
not victorious by tomorrow after
noon, I shall be a dead mani"
Still Hitler got nowhere.
Acting on impulse, he dashed
back into the hall, mounted the
platform, and assured the crowd
that the government leaders in
the next room had joined him in
forming a new national govern
ment.
Meantime, Hitler had sent Max
Erwin Won Scheubner- Richter, a
fellow refugee of Alfred Rosenberg
from the Russian Baltic provinces,
to fetch Field Marshal Erich Won
Ludendorff from his home at
Ludwigshoehe. Ludendorff, q Nazi
sympathizer. knew nothing Of the
beer hall conspiracy.
dorff's timely arrival
saved Hitler. The war hero ad-
vised the Bavarian leaders to CO.
operate. Awed, they appeared to
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from?" and he answered. "U. S. A."
said Il know that. have been
in every State of the U. S. A., ex-
cept Florida" Then l asked,
Which State?"
Boston, Mass" he answered.
And you?" asked the driver.
Springfield, Illinois"
II have been in BOTH" I said,
which is true.
The Ice melted; the corporal
said, Jump in. Well take you to
the Cafe Lang"
Some Are Home Sick
We drove across Ludwig Bemel-
mans Blue Danube in peace. The
two Americans confessed that
they were h ON esick. There are
about 1900 of them in Regens-
burg, plucked mostly from small
towns all over America. And, as
the corporal said, they feel a bit
lost"
We stopped outside the cafe and
as we left the car the corporal
said, Have a good time. Enjoy
yourselves"
Our next breakthrough was in
Fulda. We were dining with a Sc
rious young German student who
explained to us that the scooter
and the motor car are now the
status symbols among the young.
He said, I'm the old days you at
tracted a girl by giving her a good
dinner in a fashionable restau-
rant. But now you take her for a
drive in shining car" Then he
asked, Would you like to hear
some jazz? 1t is in the prison cells
below the restaurant"
This called for explanation. The
restaurant was once the guard
room for the palace in the town,
and the prisoners were kept
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then to Oklahoma, Arizona, Oregon
and California. He had no sense
of vocation up to then, but, quiet
ly, with the kind pattern of Amer
lean life about him, he realized
that he was by nature a teacher.
He was chosen to teach his fellow
prisoners and, out of this expert
ence. came a deeper sense of died.
ication.
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By OATER ANDERSON

AN~AsA N-Aa1AA~AA ~ 7k@NNA NAAsANS
MUNICH-It was Q quarter to
nine on the evening Of November
8. 1s23-40 years ago-that Adolf
Hitler mounted his beer hall
PutSch.
The scene: The Buergerbraeu-
keller, q beer hall half Q mile up
the Rosenheimer Strasse from the
center Of Munich, with q better
class clientele. Some 5000 burgh-
ers. seated at rough-hewn ia
bles quaffing beer out of stone
mugs. had been listening for half
an hour to Gustav Won Kahr, just
appointed by the Bavarian cabi-
net. in a proclamation of a state
Of emergency. as state commits
sioner" with dictatorial powers.
Kahr. a right-wing monarchiSt,
had declared, g.. and a new Ger
man national army will arise from
the ruins of that great army
which collapsed exactly five years
before, to the very day." when the
swinging doors at the back of the
great hall burst open. Enter Hitler,
waving a pistol, closely followed
by Hermann Goering and Rudolf
Hess.
Hitler pushed toward the plat
form. A police officer tried to stop
him, but Hitler pointed his pistol
at him and brushed past. En- route
to the platform. Hitler jumped up
on a table and fired a shot at the
ceiling. Kahr stopped his speech
and looked pale and confused"
according to one eyewitness. He
stepped back from the platform
and Hitler took his place.
Procloiminq Revolution
The National Revolution has
begun!" Hitler shouted. While
some of his men were mounting
machine gun in the entrance,
Hitler continued. This building is
occupied by 900 heavily armed
men. No one may leave the hall.
Unless there is immediate quiet
shall have a machine gun posted
in the gallery. The Bavarian and
Geich governments have been re-
moved and a provisional national
government formed. The barracks
of the Reichwehr and police are
occupied. The army and the police
are marching on the city under
the swastika banner"
Hitler's pistol was real. The
Storm Troopers with their rifles
and machine guns were real. But
the rest was bluff. But in the con-
fusion nobody could be sure. Kahr
and the other Bavarian govern
ment lea ders with him stood
dumbfounded as Hitler ordere d
them to follow him to q nearby
private room off-stage. Prodded
by Storm Troopers, they did as
ordered, the crowd watching in
amazement.
With Hitler in the Beurger-
braeukeller that night 40 years
ago was DR.. Ernst F. Sedgwick
CPutzD Hanfstaengl, Harvard,
class Of '09. foreign press chief of
the Nazi Party and court Jester to
Hitler. Today, Putzi still lives in
Munich. still occupies the same
villa where Hitler, Goering and
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Putzi Sells Art

The ghosts of the Putsch still
populate the Germany Erhard
governs. Putzi is semi-retired art
dealer in Munich, where Edda
Goering. who is completing law
studies, lives with her mother,
Emmy. Mrs. Hess runs q small inn
outside Munich. Ludendorff's wild
ow, Mathilde, now in her eos,
lives in a village near Munich and
leads q small neo-Nazi splinter
party; Frau Ludendorff Is the
most violently aggressive Of West
Germany's neo-Nazi leaders.
Ironically, one Of the problems
Erhard will inherit is the red
sandstone war crimes prison at
Spandau, in the British sector of
West Berlin. Here Rudolf Hess is
still incarcerated, now q mental
case and long overdue for trans
fer to a hospital.
Finally, Erhard's government
will have the m acabre task Of
trying the last 1000 Nazi war Grim
inals and completing restitution
payments totaling around 81 billion
to individual Hitler persecutees.
Of the 100000 inmates Of Hit
ler's concentration camps, only
100000 survive today. But they
represent q heavy charge on the
German conscience, q charge
which Erhard must assume.
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against provision of the Versailles
treaty. especially the payment of
reparations, had moved the Ger
man Reich to the brink of eco
nomic disaster.
This was the crisis that the
right-and also the Communists
we're moving to exploit when
Stresemann declared martial law
throughout the land on September
81.
Only in Bavaria could the Nazis
muster more than a corporal's
guard. But their strength was
magnified out of all proportion
because the Bayarian government
was as bitterly opposed as Hitler
to Stresemann's policy of cooper
alton with the allies. Gen. Otto Won
Lossow. commanding the Bavari-
an military district, supported Ba-
varian leaders against the central
government in Berlin. Finally,
Gen. Hans Won Seeckt, the Reichs-
wehr's commander in chief, Or
dered Gen. Won Lossow to hand
over his command to Gen. Kress
Won KresSenstein. Won Lossow re-
fused to obey the order.
Goering. speaking as "one old
soldier to another" negotiated
with Won LosSow and Kahr to join
the Nazis in a Putsch against the
Stresemann government. M e n
while, on November 8, a report
reached Hitler and Goering that
Won Lossow actually was planning
to detach Bavaria from the Reich
without the Nazis. Kahr, it was an
nounced. would address meeting
at the Buergerbraeukeller tn a I
evening. This report agitated Hit
Ter tremendously, with his fanati-
cal ideas about a strong national
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downstairs. The German added:
I'VE have turned the cellars into a
jazz club. Some A orleans are
playing there now"
We went down the flight of
narrow stairs, into a dim cellar,
with small doors behind which the
prisoners were once kept, in
chains. It was mouldy joint at
first sight, but the prancing music
of the three American Negro SOL
diers soon made 1t seem alive. We
sat down and listened, slowly real
izing that the jazz was exceptional;
but also. that the audience of boys
and girls had very solemn faces.
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the other conspirators met to
hatch the beer hall Putsch.
Hanfstaengl rem mbers the
scene, after Hitler vanished into
the side room with Kahr and the
other Bavarian government lead
ers:
I'm the main hall, the S. A.
(Storm Troopers) was in complete
command. All the police had dis
appeared. Goerring jumped onto
the platform and, with his match
less lack of tact. informed the au-
dience that the leaders had now
gone into conference and that
everybody else was to remain
where they were.
Uneasy Laughter
"Ruhe! Ruhe! (quiet)' he
shouted. They're forming a new
government next door-that's ALL
He looked around the hall and
smiled broadly. Anyway he add
ed. what have you got to worry
about? You've got your beer,
haven't you?'
AT that there was a burst of
laughter and several people or
dered UP fresh stems"
Hitler's Putsch was hastily con-
trived to exploit the chaos envel-
oping the fall of the Cuno govern
ment in Berlin and Gustav
StreSemann's assumption of the
CHARACTERISTIC, pledged to collab-
crate with the French occupa-
ton Of the Ruhr. German nation
alists, Of whom Hitler's Bavarian
Nazis were the shrilleSt, threatened
to assassinate and Chancellor who
compromised with the French.
Efforts at passive resistance
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The y. S. in Germany: Waves of the Future and Past

AS I drove through Dudenhofer,
six miles from the River Main, we
passed q colored American soldier,
Sprightly In his uniform. The
German who was driving our car
said, DO you realize that we now
have many, many half-colored
Germans? Some Of the boys are
already old enough to work in the
fields"