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A 24-year-old Ukrainian displaced (person, who is a conscientious objector to bearing arms, was arraigned before Judge Alfred D. Barksdale in U. S, District Court, - Lynchburg, Monday on charges of evading the draft and was released on bond of $2,500 pending ' his appearance in court next Monday, June 16. vA -■Vasyl Sereda, now living in Newark, N. }. came from Polish Ukraine to a farm in Rappahan-— nock county two years ago/ He registered with the county draft board, Local Board No. 102, and— Mrs. Paul Miller was in Lynchburg < Monday to present the local board records for inspection. .At;.,the tinje, of hb registration, Sereda signed a certificate saying he was a conscientious objector, and the draft board classified him as such. He did not report for hb induction March 18. 1 r Sereda waived prosecution by indictment and agreed to proceed by information charging him with draft evasion. The young man appeared in court Monday with hb . father and young sister. It was a difficult hearing for . all concerned, according to a court reporter in Lynchburg. The youth spoke halting Englbh, the father only Polish. Neither was familiar with the American system of jurisprudence. .They appeared without - —counsel and finally Judge Barks " ; dale talked them inlo letting him v appoint an attorney to represent them. Garter Glass III was named. The faher dominated the son's case. Every move had to be in- : terpreted by the son to the father. Each question took from ten to * ;' 20 minutes for an "answer, as the — boy would explain to hb father, _ and then the father would make —decbions and tell the boy what to answer. The father’s Polish answers were understood by no one in the courtroom. The youth, bred on the long-ingrained European notion of one member of the family being in trouble the entire family was,v,was concerned, should be be conivcted, lest hb father and sister be required to go to jail. '- -* * ■ ~ - - - ■Since the time when the Ukranisn lad’ came to Rappahannock county, the draft law was chang^ed, making all permanent residents subject to the draft. Sereda moved to Newark, joining a colony of Ukranians after the death of the Rappahannock farmer for whom be had winked. ~~ The draft board notified him. of . bis impending induction but Sereda refused to report, claiming exemption because he was a con-* ■ scientious objector and had complied with the law. Judge Barksdale has ordered the federal government to provide an v interpreter for the trial Monday, June 16, at 9:30 a.m., Lynchburg. MISSIONJARY MEETING
Tuesday afternoon, June 8, Mrs. J. Frank Jones presided at the / . regular meeting of Washington y Baptist church missionary society. Mrs. John A. Keyser, program ■ / chairman, and several other members gave interesting talks and readings on Alaska.
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