Evening star., 1938-11-11
Election Brings Many
Changes in Office
In Nearby Areas
Montgomery Chooses IS
New Jobholders and
Prince Georges II
BY JACK ALLEN.

Prince Georges IL
BY JACK ALLEN.
The official families of Prince
Georges and Montgomery Counties
will be revamped on a large scale
as the result of the elections this
week.
When present terms expire Is
new Office holders will be seated in
Montgomery, and IL are to take
Office in Prince Georges, the largest
number of changes made in either
county in recent years.
Both communities are to have en-
tirely different Boards of County
Commissioners, as we'll as new
county treasurers, State senators,
States attorneys, sheriffs and a
new judge on the bench of their
Orphans Courts. Changes are to
be made, too, in other positions.
The changes, most OF which will
be made at the start of the calen-
dar year, are due to a combination
of things but are mainly the out
come of the Democratic factions in
both counties offering tickets that
differed in many respects to those
that were entered in the elections
four years ago.
johnson Lone G. o. P. Victor.
Walter Johnson, former baseball
star, now a Germantown farmer, is
the only new Republican official in
either county. He helped to revise
completely the personnel of the
Board of Montgomery County Com
missioners by winning the I'd dis
trict conlmissionership from Clay
Plummer, Democratic incumbent.
With Mr.. johnson on the board
will be Robert w. Farmer, John E.
Oxley, Thomas Earle Hampton and
Odorion w. Roby, all Democrats
and all new members, although Mr..
Roby served in the same capacity
some years ago.
In Prince Georges the board will
be made up of John H. Beau, now
an Orphans Court judge; DR.. Harry
M. Bowen, former commissioner;
William A. Carson, Daniel Leonard
Dyer and Thomas B. Siehler.
Montgomery will have new State
senator, former States Attorney
Robert Peter of Rockville, and four
new members in the House-Joseph
D. Buscher, James w. Gill, Charles
G. Jones and Stanton c. Peelle, jr.
Charles c. Marbury, former chair
man of the Prince Georges County
group in the House of Delegates,
will move to the State Senate in
January, replacing former Senate
President Lansdale G. Sasscer, who
surrendered his seat to run for
Governor.
Prince Georges Changes.
In the House will be two new
Prince Georges delegates, Robert
Forrest and Thomas Elmo Jones,
who are to replace Mr.. Marbury
and Kent r. Mullikin, former Dem
ocratic floor leader, who was not a
candidate for reelection.
Senator Stedman Prescott of Mont
gomery County will switch from the
legislative branch Of the State gov
ernment to the judiciary, taking
the new place on the bench of the
sixth Maryland circuit that was
created through a Statewide ref
erendum in 1885,
In other court changes Charles
M. Irelan, jr., becomes an Orphans
Court judge in Montgomery, and
Vincent A. Osterman is to take Mr..
Beall's place in the same court in
Prince Georges
Harry w. McNamee, member OF
the Prince Georges County COM
missioners now, is that community's
treasurer ELECT, while John B. Dia-
mond, a former Montgomery Coun-
ty commissioner, will go in as
treasurer at Rockville. Mr.. Nc
Nance takes the place OF R. Ernest
Smith, who cannot succeed himself
under county law.
Prince Georges new States at
torney will be H. Winship Wheat
ley, jr., replacing Alan Bowie, and
Montgomerys is to be Ben G.. Will
klnson, jr., who succeeds James H.
Pugh.
The new sheriffs are William E.
Clifton for Prince Georges and H.
Leslie Carlin for Montgomery. Mr..
Carlln succeeds H. Ellington Bell,
who under county laws could not
run to succeed himself.
Hold-over officials in Prince
Georges include Lansdale G. Clag-
EFT, Ralph w. Powers, L. Harold
Sothoron and John S. White, men,
bers of the House of Delegates;
Brice Bowie, clerk to the Circuit
Court; Judge William Maverell Lo-
ker and Judge Joseph c. Mattingly
Of the Circuit Court, Thomas E.
Latimer, surveyor; William T. Da-
Wis, register of wills, and Millard
Thorne and Philip G. Miller, Or
phans' Court judges.
Those who will continue in office
in Montgomery are Clayton K. Wat
kins, clerk to the Circuit Court;
Judges Lewis F. Hobbs and WASH
ington Waters of the Orphans
Court, Hanson G. Cashell, register
of wills; Charles J. Maddox, sur
veyor, and Miss Ruth E. Shoemaker
Of the House of Delegates.
Montgomery's other Circuit Court
Judge, Charles w. Woodward, was
not up for reelection this year.
He was elected to the bench in 1884
and his term, like that of other
Circ11jt Court iJ1dpes iS to r-,,,, for