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PAGE SIXTEEN
Gl Railroader
Travels Behind
Iron Curfain
. By RICHARD K. O'MAILEY
AP Newsfeatures
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP)-
The portly man handed his travel
orders to the major and asked
anxiously: “There won't be any
shooting, will there?”
Maj. Charles Woreple smiled
and motioned the man aboard the
Berliner, waiting on the track for
the highball toward the Iron
Curtain.
“Nothing to worry about,” he
said. “It's just another train
Tide.”
As the man swung aboard,
Woreple’s smile broadened to a
grin. “We get ’em like that some
times,” he said. “They think a
trip to Berlin is like traveling
through the paws of death.”
Unusual Train
Maj. Woreple runs one of thdg
most unusual trains in the world.
Its passengers must have orders
written in Russian to ride it
under American protection through
the East German countryside.
Maj. Woerple is a pretty old
hand at traveling himself. He went
through World War II in the 32nd
Division, where he won the Sil
wver Star, Bronze Star, and a couple
of Purple Hearts in the South
Pacific, Later he came to Europe
and became rail transport officer.
Now he’s deputy chief on the rail
transport section here, and sees
that military trains are run by the
book.
The Berliner gives him his
oddest job.
Since it traverses 100 miles of
the Russian Zone of Germany,
the Russians take a proprietary
interest in it. They keef) a close
check on the passenger lists.
Amercian Check Too
The American keep their own
close eheck, too. From the time
the Berliner leaves either end of
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its run the train is sealed. Two
military policemen, a baggage
guard, and a train commander
keep things under control.
Military personnel, their de
pendents, high commission em
ployes and some tourists with
good connections, can obtain
orders to ride the Berliner.
The Berliner’s big stop is at
Helmstedt-Marienborn, where the
Russian Zone begins. There the
train commander drops off with an
interpreter and hands over a copy
of the passenger list to a stolid
Russian officer,
Lt. Ronald D. Smith of Lako
tah, N. D., is one train commander
who can give and take with the
Russians. At Helmstedt the
Communist loudspeakers often
play American Jazz records,
heavily larded with anti-American
propaganda speeches.
“T just stroll down the platform
and listen,” Lt Smith says.
“This always makes the Russians
nervous. They figure I ought to
get mad at speeches calling us
war mongers. I pretend I like the
music and it really throws those
guys.”
Icy Politeness
The Russians treat the Ameri
can military crew with icy po
liteness and for more than a
year have not made any trouble.
Sometimes Russian military po
lice talk to their U. 8. opposite
numbers,
Most annoyances riding the
Berliner come from inside the
train. Maj. Woerple and his men
sometime have trouble with the
Saturday night funster who sneaks
a bottle aboard. Drinkin% on the
Berliner is prohibit. here is
also the railroad romantic who
finds the rules of sex segregation
obnoxious. He is dealt with sum
marily.
If You Haven't
Mel Weegee Yel,
You Will Soon
By IRVING DESFOR
AP Newsfeatures
HAVE YOU EVER met Weegee?
There’s no need to stop and think.
If you ever met him it’s not likely
that you’ll ever forget him. He's
a photo character best known,
till now, for his book “Naked
City.” This is a colleetion of
his shooting days in New ~York
City when he covered the mid
night to dawn medley of murders,
fires and assorted news.
In a few months you'll be seeing
“Naked Hollywood,” a weird
assortment of photo impressions
of that land of fantasv.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
I first met Weegee over 25 years
ago when we both worked for a
news feature syndicate. He was
a darkroom printer. .... and a
character .... then. With stubby
cigar clutched in yellowed teeth,
he wag dressed in one suit that
seemed well lived-and-slept in.
He always looked in need of a
shave and a haircut.
He looked disarmingly simple
like a country hick eager to buy
a gold brick of the Brooklyn
bridge. But he was an expert
darkroom man and, in emergen=-
cies, when no régular photograp
her was available, he was sent out
on news assignments. After 15
yvears in the darkroom he was
convinced he could take better
pictures than the negatives he had
to process and print continually.
He quit and became a free lance
photographer.
HIS TENEMENT ROOM was on
New York’s lower east side next
to police headquarters. With his
his radio tuned to police calls
he specialized in Manhattan’s
wee-hour picture news. He was
the first photographer, says Wee
gee, to get permission to install
a police radio in his car and often
arrived at the scene of a story
before the police themselves.
In the next 10 years his fame
as a photographer, and ag a car
acter, mounted. It led to his first
book. “Naked City,” which re
ceived wide acclaim. He was be
sieged with requests from would
be photographers to study his
methodis and technique.
“I became a Svengali.” Weegee
confided. “I chose as one of my
puplis a young society girl. It
must have been a funny sight to
see her arrive at my tenenment
daily in a chauffered limousine.”
He received magazine assighe
ments too, sometimes for pic
tures he had already taken. Since
he never kept a file of his nega
tives, he gave the prospective
customer a choice.
“Wait one day and I'li give you
a fresh fire or a new murder.
There’ll surely be something hap
pening tonight.” he- recalls he
told them. “But if you can’t wait,
you can go through my barrel of
extra prints. You‘ll probably find
something you can use there.” .
I RECALL meeting him on the
street at that period and we
stopped to have a cup of coffee.
“You know, of course,” he re
marked casually, but seriously,
“that I'm a genius. A movie
studio brought my book. “Naked
City’ and I'm going to Holly
wood,”
In Hollywood, Weegee had a
brief fling as as actor. He played
himself. Photographically he de
cided that a normal camera
couldn’t do justice to its strange
ways and people. After two years’
work he came up with a distorting
lens which fits over any and all
cameras and was able to put
Hollywood in better prespective.
These are the pictures he
brought east with him and which
soon found a publisher. But Wee
lgeekconl'essed he was glad to be
ack.
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Church News
FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH
Cor. Hull and Strong Streets
Rev. J. Roy Moore, Pastor
Sunday School—lo a, m, Mrs.
M. L. Diggs, superintendent.
Morning Worship—ll:3o a. m.
This afternoon at 4 p. m. the
Usher Union will celebrate its
first anniversary. The founder
and Organizer of this group will
be guest speaker, Rev. R. H. Mar
tin. Dinner will be served after
the program. You are invited.
Evening Worship—B p. m.
EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH
Case At Reese Street
Rev. C. J. Gresham, Pastor
Sunday School—lo a. m,
Morning Worship—ll:3o a. m.
B. T. U—s p. m.
Evening Worship—6 p. m.
You are invited to worship with
us.
ST. JOHN'S HOLINESS
CHURCH
Rockspring and Reese Streets
Rev. C. H. Lattimore, Pastor
Sunday School—10:30 a. m.
Worship Services—ll:3o a. m.
Evangelistic Service—B p. m.
Junior Church meets each
Tuesday evening at 8 p. m.
Prayer meeting is held at the
church on Wednesday and Friday
nights of each week at 8 p. m.
Come and worship with us.
HILLS FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
Reese and Pope Streets
Rev. R. B. Hawk, Pastor
Sunday School—lo a. m.
Morning Worship (Men's Day
Activities)—ll:3o a. m.
Evening Worship—6:3o p. m. -
A cordial welcome awaits you
at our Church.
GREATER BETHEL A. M. E.
CHURCH
Billups At Broad Street
Rev. T. R. Morgan, Pastor
Sunday School—9:4s a. m. Mrs.
Myra Wilburn, superintendent.’
Morning Worship—ll:ls a. m.
Evening Worship—7:ls p. m
Sunday School Teachers meet
ing is held each Wednesday eve
ning at 8 p. m. ’
You are welcome at all times to
all of our services. ;
HILLS CHAPEL BAPTIST
CHURCH
Cor. Harris and Broad Street
Rev. Mitchel Tate, Pastor
Sunday School—lo a. m.
Morning Worship—ll:3o a. m.
B. T. U—6 p. m.
Evening Worship—7 p. m.
Our doors stand open to you,
FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST
CHURCH
Arch Street
Rev. J. H. Geer, Pastor
Sunday School—9:4s a. m.
Morning Worship—ll:ls a. m.
B. TH. U—6 p. m.
Evening Worship—7 p. m.
A friendly handshake awaits
visitors.
SPRINGFIELD BAPTIST
CHURCH
Fourth Street
" Rev. W. H. Cardwell, Pastor
Sunday School—10:30 a. m.
Deacon Willie Brydie, superin
tendent.
Morning Worship—ll:4s a. m.
B. T. U-—6:45 p. m.
Evening Worship—7:3o p. m.
Regular meeting days are sec
ond and fourth Sundays.
Prayer services at the church
each Wednesday evening at 8:30
p. m. Everyone is invited.
MT. PLEASANT BAPTIST
CHURCH
Brooklyn
Rev. W. C. Smith, Pastor
Sunday School—lo a. m.
Morning Worship—ll:3o a. m
B. T. U—s p. m.
Evening Worship—7:3o p. m.
Sam H. McCormick, General
Manager of Hialeah race track, is
the new president of the Orange
Bowl Committee which sponsors
Florida’s New Year’s pageant and
football game.
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Washington’s Corps Of Party-ites
Gives Approval Of Jap Peace Treaty
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —lt’s
really official now.
And the new Japanese Ambas
sador Eikichi Araki is one of the
most relieved men in town, al
though he had a couple of nervous
hours the other afternoon.
Japan is back in the old inter
national fold.
As is generally recognized in
this world capital, the Senate can
ratify a dozen treaties and the
diplomats can scratch their signa
tures on two leagues of good bond
paper. But unless Washington so
ciety rules that a country’s liguor
is fittin’® for drinkin’® the other
formalities don’t count.
That’'s what had Ambassador
Araki so worried when he sent
out invitations for the first party
in the Japanese embassy since
some time hefore what is now
known as Pearl Harbor Day.
The Japanese embassy was in
the news last when a smart pho
tographer caught the staff burn
ing some papers outside of it on
December 7, 1941. The Swiss took
care of the luxurious building
overlooking picturesque Rock
Creek Park during the war. And
lthe Far East Commission has had
it since then.
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~ The new ambassador, who went
to college in the U, S. before the
war and who is an important
banker in his own country, had
to sweat out the whole affair
practically by himself.
He is a widower, and his daugh~
‘ter, Tomiko, who is only 21, is
considered too young by Japanese
standards to have any part in such
parties. The wife of one of the
staff members acts as his official
hostess.
Had Araki been briefed on the
standard Washington cocktail par
ty routine, his pre-party ordeal
wouldn’t have been so trying. As
it was, some time about an hour
after the shindig was to have
gotten under way, the first guests
arrived. That’s actually normal.
Even the arrival of the first
batch of thirsty guests didn’t allay
all of his fears. Very first to ar~
rive were Mr. and Mrs. John
Steelman. He is- the Assistant
President and more or less has to
go to such affairs. Following him
was the official State Department
cocktail party battalion who have
to go, with no more or less about
it.
Then, however, things started to
look up. The dean of the diplo
matic corps, Ambassador Munthe
de Morgenstierne of Norway ar-
SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1952
rived. After that Araki kne he
was a social £hoo-in. The Penerilg
admirals, Supreme Court Justiceg
cabinet members, dowagers and
just plain crashers showed
With high good humer the
way things were suddenly ROing
Araki wandered among these.
tive guests, explaining tha the
reason native Japanese i
weren't being served wag because
of the weather. Too perishut
the heat, :
He invited everybody th. o
another party, late in the 1a)
which he promises the re) thing
including hot saki and at e,
seven different kinds of raw fig,
During the long gay eve.ing
person was tactless enough i
bring up the recent armed ..
understanding which tempora, |y
put Japan out of the social (|
No Russian representatives </, .
ed up, but then nobody scermc |,
miss them, either,
On the whole, the party wic ,
tremendous cuccess. The last ¢cq
staggered out some time aroung
midnight, which is the rey) test
here for a party that is suppocq
to be over at seven.
T wre the consensus of the
guests that the liquor, food .y
sesality all” measured p 1
Washington standards and 1j
any time Araki wants to 1, y
again, they’re willing to do Ihey
part, -
ad bygones are officialiy ;.
gones,