i rE ci kir C A AAV BUT NOT
ALWAYS
By ADELAIDE KERR
(AP NewsfeEturea Writer)
Love may have laughed at locksmiths once, but it is stymied
behind international barriers today.
Government edicts, red tape and refusals to grant exit visas are
bigger blocks to love than prison bars.
Take the Soviet government's refusal to grant exist visas to
Soviet wivesof foreigners. After
the war, hundreds of Russian i volving Soviet girls snagged in
girls married American GIs,
British Tommies, attaches to
a similar way that a storm of
protests arose.
The U.S. State Department
sent a note to Russia. British
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin
discussed the matter directly
with Stalin but was told that a
1947 Russian law forbidding
marriage with foreigners could
not be broken.
Chile took the argument to
the United Nations whose Gen-
ing officers and sergeants.
Unofficial comment was that
a lot of German girls were sus
pected of marrying Americans
for n home in the United States
rather than for love. But a lot
of GIs who believed their girls
loved them truly set up a howl
of protest.
Other Americans who were
free to wed foreign girls, mar
ried them, and now are stuck in
a snarl of international red tape.
Last summer John Wolfard,
38, an associate professor of eco
nomics at the University of
Utah, went to England for a va
cation and research. There he
met dark-eyed Mary Yeates,
member of the British Commun
ist party. They fell in love and
planned to marry. But the State
Department denied Mary a visa
to go to America under the GI
brides law.
So last winter Wolfard re
signed his university job and
returned to England for a New
Year's wedding. Since then he
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When the husbands' govern
ments called them home, they
left, expecting their wives to
follow. But few did.
A curtain of silence fell be
tween the absent GI and the
girl he left behind. Often he
never heard from her again,
though he poured out a flood of
anxious letters to her.
Michael Shabon of New Ha
ven, Conn., who had served as
sergeant with the U.S. military
mission, was such a one.
He had been at home months
without word from his wife and
most of his letter sto her had
come back marked "address un
. known." Then came a cable
from a newspaper friend in
Moscow saying his wife was in
the hospital and wanted to know
why she had never heard from
himl
A few weeks later he opened
his newspaper and learned that
his wife had filed suit for di
vorce. So many other marriages in-
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eral Assembly adopted a resolu
tion holding that the refusal of
the Soviet Union to allow Rus
sian wives to join their hus
bands abroad was a violation of
the United Nations charter, and
requesting the U.S.S.R. to with
draw the measure. The assem
bly has power to recommend,
but its resolutions are not bind
ing upon member governments.
Over in Germany the blue
eyes and flaxen braids of Ger
man frauleins caught the eyes
of lonely GIs and a lot of wed
dings took place. But they were
'too short last January, when the
U.S. Army withdrew all permits
for such marriages of German
girls and Gis, though not affect-
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challenged the right of the state
department to deny a visa to his
British communist bride, and
said that, if he could not take
her back, he would become an
expatriate.
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Then there is the story of
Harold Brandt, 21-year-old Chi
cagoan, who was a civilian em
ploye of the U.S. Army in Vi-
There he met and fell In love
with Dora Kratoschka, 25.
Brandt served a 90-day sentence
for cigaret smuggling and knew
that he faced deportation under
a regulation which says Army
employes are returned to the
United States after serving any
prison term. So while he was in
prison, he renounced his Amer
ican citizenship in order to re
main with Dora. Then his father
protested. So Harold renounced
his renunciation.
When he was free, he mar
ried Dora and defied the Army
to send him home without her.
Eventually the Army ordered
him home without his bride.
One of the most tangled tales
is Edward Lada's.
Several months ago the young
paratrooper hitch-hiked into
Germany and through the Sovi
et blockade into Berlin to find
the girl he left behind him. But
watchers' eyes were sharp, and
before long he was under arrest.
He won sympathy, though,
when he said he had come to see
his sweetheart, Ruth Riecki, 23,
whom he wooed when with the
U.S. Army in Germany. He said
Ruth's two-year-old daughter
was his and that he had come
"to do the right thing" by them
both.
A little later he said the real
truth was he had come to marry
a different girl blonde actress
Ursula Schmidt. After a lot of
talk about who loved whom,
Miss Schmidt bowed out.
Come Christmas time Lada
escaped from the Army stock
ade. But a few days later he was
caught in the apartment of
friends of Ruth.
Recently a United States Mil
itary court sentenced him to
seven months in prison and a
$70 fine.
Boy Drowns
Portland, June 28 VP) A 14-year-old
boy, Harry John Good,
was drowned in the Tualatin
river southwest of here yester
day. He fell from a rowboat.
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"Know your safety-circle!"
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Lebanon, June 28 VP) There
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Bowman's Bible school class.
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the number that usually fin
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On 0. C. Watershed
Oregon City, June 28 () A
second survey of the Clackamas
river watershed was made to
day to investigate charges that
the Oregon City water supply
was endangered by logging
there.
The charges came from John
Borden, Clackamas county sani
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of land management for the log
ging on the South Fork of the
river.
Daniel L. Goldy, regional ad
ministrator of the bureau of
land management, asserted the
charges were groundless. He
said logging there was proceed
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