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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-08
vITAMIN C FOR TEETH, GUMS

Vitamin G plays an important
part in regulating body processes,
and prevents the dread disease of
scurvy. A lack of this essential vi
tamin results in profound changes
in the structure of the teeth and
gums, may be responsible for
hemOrrhages occurring anywhere
in the body, and for the degenera-
ton of muscle fibers generally.
Vitamin C is most abundant in
succulent fresh green leaves, such
as green cabbage. 1t is also found
in onions, potatoes, oranges, to-
matoes, green peppers, bananas
and Strawberries. In most foods,
it is easily destroyed by heat
that is why it is SO important to
include some fresh raw foods in
the diet daily.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-08

NEW YORK.-Big beefy, hand
~ some Joseph Buerckel, forty
years old, with hard fists and
whip-lash tongue, is Hitler's grand
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-08

green leaves and yellow fruits and
vegetables such as carrots, sweet
potatoes, apricots and bananas.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-08

ANTI-STERILITY vITAMIN E
Vitamin E comes in for less dis
cussion than the others, because
it's significance to nutrition has not
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-08
APPETITE AND vITAMIN b

Vitamin B promotes appetite,
aids digestion, prevents a serious
nerve disorder. 1t is essential to
the maintenance of good diges-
ton, which is vitality important if
the body is to obtain full benefit
from the food consumed. This
vitamin is closely related to the
energy metabolism, and the re-
quirement increases with the rate
of growth and with increased en-
ergy expenditure, so that growing
children and working men and
women should receive very gen.
erOus amounts.
Vitamin B is found in yeast,
whole wheat cereals, oatmeal,
milk, fresh and dried peas and
beans, spinach, cabbage and other
greens, egg yolk and liver.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-08

been fully determined. It does,
however, appear to be necessary
for successful reproduction and is
found especially in wheat germ
and lettuce.
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tion of the country can be made In
emergency at any future time, the
War Department explained.
WHEN tactical units Of the wings
w have completed their concentra-
ton, and when the temporary bases
have been installed and equipped to
permit of continuous and uninter-
rupted air operations, the first phase Of
the maneuvers will have been COM
pleted. Then the second phase, of
actual combat tactics, will begin with
the issuance by the War Department
of additional and most recent in
formation of the enemy and friendly
forces,' to govern the first tactical
phases, from May 8.
The tactical exercises and flight
problems will continue until about May
20, when units will begin return flights
to home stations. Motor trains and
air-base personnel will break camp
and begin return journeys to peace
time stations. All units are expected
to be at home garrisons by May 80.
The largest single concentration of
aircraft Is expected ut Mitchell Field,
Long Island, May II, when more than
200 tactical planes will be engaged
there in . special problem.
Tho War 0opaxtnnont Pointed o.
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and to the budget, however, more time
is being allowed for the setting up of
temporary camps at new airdromes,
installation of signal communications,
establishment Of field messes and
similar activities than would be pos
sible in case Of emergency of the type
contemplated in the maneuver direc-
tive.
On account of lack of an adequate
number of Army transport airplanes,
1t will be necessary for the transport
squadrons to make several trips in
some cases to move up men and sup
plies. even though "a Douglas Bib
bombardment airplanes will be pressed
into service as temporary transports.
Another fact which should provoke
some good hard thinking on the part
of those concerned with matters of
national defense is that, although all
three wings of the air force are being
summoned, there will be only about
200 actual fighting airplanes of
modern types actually available in the
zone of operations.
There are many details to be worked
out, during the preliminary eight-day
period allowed for ground organization
before the movement of the fighting
squadrons begins to insure that .
movenAnt o4 The aas9osce to any 80.
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EARLY GEORGETOWN HISTORY
Peter Family Was Closely Associated With Commercial and
Professional Life, With First President and Dunlop
and Laird Activities.

name, and he was residing in WASH
ington County and must have been
comfortably situated. since he woned
more slaves than did his new son-in-
law.
Some one has inferred that Robert
Peter leaned toward the Tory side in
the Revolution, but this inference is
not justified by the facts. and in JUS
tice to his memory the following quo
tation is taken from The District Of
Columbia in the American Revolu-
tion," by Selden Marvin Ely, In which
the author says:
Robert Peter, the first prominent
merchant and the first Mayor of
Georgetown, died November is, 1906,
aged 80 years. Taggart, by letters and
committee reports, shows that he was a
civil patriot. His signature. as a loyal
magistrate or justice of peace in Lower
Potomac Hundred. Frederick County,
Md, August %, 1776, is reproduced in
Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolu-
tionary, County and Church. Brum-
baugh, vol. l, p. 179. His enumera-
ton in George Town Hundred as so
in the census of ITS appears on page
1874 of the same work The oaths. of
fidelity of Robert Peter. sr.. and Rob-
ert Peter, jr., are published in the
National Genealogical Society Quar-
terly, April, 1917, pp 80. These facts
disprove Scharf's reference to Robert
Peter as a possible Tory"
THE perfect willingness of Mr.. Peter
to impound shipment of tea as
signed him in the summer of 1774
shows that his conduct was uniformly
patriotic. In this instance. according
to Hugh T. Taggard, in "Old George
town." it seems that "at a meeting of
the freemen of Frederick County, held
at Charles Hungerford's tavern (Rock-
ville) on June II, l774, it was resolved
that the town of Boston was suffer-
ing in the common cause of America,
and that the most effective means for
securing American freedom and the
repeal OF the obnoxious acts of Par
lament relating to the Colonies was to
break off communication with Great
Britain. A non-importation agreement
was generally signed, which was en-
forced relentlessly.
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MANEUvERS

country, and the Bell multi-seater
fighter. popularity known as the "Air-
acuda," two-engine pusher- propeller
monoplane carrying a crew of five
and mounting aerial cannon.
MANY Of the new airplanes recent
A ly procured in quantity by the
Air Corps and delivered to tactical
units during the past few months will
be operated under field conditions
for the first time by the squadrons
participating in the maneuvers.
Among them will be the flying fort
resses, the Boeing Bit bombers, the
P-35 Seversky single-seater fighter, a
complete squadron of which will be
available for localized interceptor
problems and attacks Of the flying
fortresses, and large number of the
Douglas Bib bombers. which will be
seen for the first time in large-scale
maneuvers as standard equipment
THE @. H. @. maneuvers will sim
ulate, in all details, wartime con-
ditions." 1t was explained at the War
Department. "of1cers and men will
be in full field equipment; all airplane
accessories, bomb racks, machine guns,
navigation instruments and radio in
stallations will be carried exactly as
though the air uuits were On their
yov . The 6onA
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By John Clagett Proctor.

"HERE was time when WASH
ington was looked upon as the
rear door of Georgetown, but
that MOS nnlu for q eLnrt
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Peter, the pioneer, built house each
for his six sons, on K street north
west. They were built in three groups
of two houses each, two at Twenty
fourth street, two numbered 2506 and
2508 and two at 2618 and 1920. The
two at Twenty-fourth street were de-
stroyed by fire before they were COM
pleted, and those in the $500 block
were removed some years ago, leaving
only 2618 and 1920 standing today, and
incidentally they are the only historic
ones out of six. for 2618, accord
ing to Grace Dunlop Ecker mrs Wal
ter G. Peter) was the one occupied by
Thomas Peter and Mrs Peter, who was
the granddaughter of Mrs. Washing
ton, and here Gen. Washington fire.
quently visited and sometimes stayed
for days. and occasionally Mrs. Wash
inton accompanied him.
IN HIS diary for 1898 and 1899 the
first President refers several times
to this residence. February Z. 1898, he
says: Went to meeting of the Poto-
mac Company in Georgetown. Dined
at Fitzgerald's and lodged at Mr.. T.
Peters" Under date of May 49, same
year: About 8 o'clock in the fore
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expedient that the tea in question
should not be landed in America, but
that it should be sent back in the
same ship
"Mr. Peter readily acquiesced in
the judgment Of the committee and
promised to prevent a delivery If 1t
had not already been made. He in
timated a desire that in the latter
event it should be stored by any gen.
tleman appointed by the committee,
who thereupon resolved. that if the
tea had been landed it should be de-
livered to Messrs. Thomas Johns,
William Deakins and Bernard O'Neale.
Mr.. Peter assented and, according to
the chronicle, 'pawned his honor for
the faithful performance of his en-
gagement' He was then dismissed
with the thanks of the committee for
his candid and dlsinterested behav-
ior"
r OBERT PETER took conspicu-
y Gus part in bringing the Nations
Capital to its present location and
was one of its most extensive land
owners at the time the Residence Act
became law and Is therefore known
as one of the original proprietors. The
main part of his city property bor-
dered the eastern side of Rock Creek
and extended from about Florida
avenue and o street on the north to
the Potomac River on the south and
in some places extended as far east as
Twentieth street. This tract was
known as Mexico and Newbottle, but
this property seems to include what
had formerly been Vineyard, Addition
to Vineyard, Little Prevention and
Orme's Luck.
When Georgetown was incorporated
in 1889. Robert Peter became its first
Mayor He died November Is, 1906,
and was first buried in the Presbyte-
rian Cemetery in Georgetown but his
remains now lie in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The children of Robert Peter in
clude: Thomas. who married Martha
Parke Gusts: Alexander Scott, unmar-
ried; Elizabeth, who married James
Dunlop: Robert, unmarried: Margaret,
married Thomas Dick; David, married
Sarah Johns; George COR Maj. George I,
who was thrice married, and James,
unmarried.
Shortly after the District site for the
Capital had been decided upon. Robert
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Coalition of Oriental and
European Foes Held
Basis of Problems.

These exercises will include the
play of problems and the trial of new
tactical methods and doctrines devised
as result of the latest air expert
ences in the most recent air battles
the world over. There will be defen-
sive problems against enemy aircraft,
involving civil air raid precautions,
warning nets, blackout of ground illu-
mination and combined air and anti
,, aircraft defense cooperation. Camou-
flaged airplanes will be used frequently
in these tests, which will be the first
employment of this protective device
on large scale in this country.
These maneuvers will be the most
realistic air exercises ever played by
air forces of the Army of the United
States"
THE plans call for transfer by air
Of more than 1900 men of the
Army Air Corps from normal home
stations and for the active participa-
tion OF total of SIT Air Corps
officers and 1858 enlisted men.
The 1st Wing. G. H. @. Air Force,
commanded by Brig. Gen. Delos c.
Emmons, will transfer 1,091 men from
the Pacific Coast in combat airplanes
and in transport squadron consisting
of 18 Douglas Bib bombers converted
temporarily to transport use.
The I'd Wing. with headquarters
at Langley Field. Hampton, Va, will
transport 900 men by air in tactical
bombardment aircraft supplemented
by a transport squadron also equipped
with Bib bombers. Brig. Gen. Arnold
N. Krogstad is commander of the
wing.
The Sd Wing, commanded by Brig.
Gen. F. L. Martin, will transport 625
men from the Gulf States in the
planes of the I'd Attack Group, aug
mented by two transport squadrons,
one equipped with IL C-33 transport
airplanes and the other with eight
BIB converted transports.
In addition, Alb motor vehicles will
be organized into combat trains to
supplement air transport in the local
movement Of supplies. and provisions.
The supply planes so far approved
indicate the magnitude of the ma
neuvers, since the airplanes engaged
will consume more than 100000 GAL
Ions of gasoline, and more than
100000 pounds of freight and sup
plies, including fuel and lubricants,
will be transferred by air. The air
planes involved will fly total of more
than 100000 miles, 1t is estimated.
The great task of supervising the
maneuvers will be handled by Gen.
Andrews and his G. H. @. Air Force
staff. composed of Col. w. H. Frank,
chief of staff; 1t. Col. Ralph Cousins,
G-1 (personneD; Maj. James Y.
Hodges. CO. Gntelligence); Col. w.
G. Kilner, G-3 tplans and training),
and 1t. Col. Joseph T. McNarney,
Ga Supply.
During the period Of the maneuvers
the lst Wing headquarters will be
established at New Haven, Conn:
I'd Wing headquarters at Middletown,
Pa, and Sd Wing headquarters at
Mitchell Field, N. Y. The I'd Wing
headquarters, originally scheduled to
move to Seagirt. N. T., were ordered
established at the Pennsylvania Air
Corps depot instead, because of un-
satisfactory dying conditions ct Sea.
GR
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that special items of new equipment

that special items of new equipment
will be tried out at various points in
connection with the maneuvers, which
will give an opportunity for the first
time to experiment with many Of them
under full field conditions. Among the
experimental items will be q portable
Photographic laboratory, sealed-in-air
food containers, full feathering pro-
pellers, photo-flash bombs for night
photography, field wrecking truck,
portable runway lighting equipment,
portable engine-servicing equipment
portable lifting jacks for heavy
bombers, field bomb loading equip
ment, stabilized drift meters and nav
igation equipment, portable field serv-
icing and repair unit.
It is planned also to fly several OF the
Army's new experimental airplanes
from Wright Field, Ohio, to the tempo
rary airdomes Of the maneuver tao
tical units, to give Air Corps personnel
an opportunity to inspect the new
equipment. Among these airplanes are
the XC-35 Lockheed substratosphere
plane, the giant XB-15 Boeing bonn
bardment airplane. half again as
large as the now famous four -engined
flying fortress" type. which made the
rscsnt Buenos Aires dight. and ths
Aflegs Land pa1ne Ut blsalt = 0al
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revenue act to screen him from CEN
sure and to justify his procedure; at
the same time he submitted to the
sentiment of the committee and de-
clared an entire willingness to abide
by their determination.
THE committee unanimously re-
solved that the importation of any
commodity from Great Britain liable
for the payment of duty imposed by
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an act of Parliament, however sane
toned by the practice of a part or
even the whole Of the trading part Of
the community, is in a high degree
dangerous to our liberties. as it i'm
plies full assent to the claim as
serted by the British Parliament of a
right to impose taxes for the purpose
Of raising a revenue in America
Therefore, in order to discourage the
pernicious practice they Judged it
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Most Realistic Action for
Training in History of
Service Begun.
By Joseph S. Edgerton.

~ ARKENED cities. the high,
thin snarl of night-raiding
combat airplanes at altitude,
- the probing Of anti-aircraft
searchlights and the swinging of the
slender, black muzzles of the archie"
batteries controlled by robot ears
these things which for some years
have been features of the training Of
European and Asiatic military forces
and civil populations-are come to
America.
Seeking the critical testing of de-
fensive powers of the General Head
quarters Air Force, the War Depart
ment has concentrated its aerial fight
ing forces in the Northeastern United
States for series of the most realistic
peace time maneuverS in which the
civilian population of any part of the
United States ever has taken part.
In view of current troubled world af-
fairs, the problem which the War De-
partment has proposed to the officers
and men of the G. H. @. Air Force,
spearhead of the Nations air defenses,
is enlightening as to the state of the
official mind and should be thought
provoking for the layman. For it
calls, for the first time in large-scale
maneuvers within the United States,
for a defense against the simulated
attack of a coalition of Oriental and
European powers.
ed @,,o ,,,;11 I,, ,,{1 ~
to the commander in chief of the
G. H. @. Air Force, Maj Gen. Frank
M. Andrews, is that the United States
Fleet, with its aviation, is engaged
in the Pacific against an attack from
the Orient. and that there is no naval
force, aside from the normal coastal
patrol, in the Atlantic. Canada and
Mexico remain neutral The fleet of
the European enemy is escorting troop
transports; information is that this
force intends to attack in the New
England area, a situation which OBJ
viously makes the G. H. @. Air Force
the first line of defense of the Ma
tion's Northeastern nerve centers.
Based upon this situation, Gen. An
drews has ordered concentration of
the three wings of the G. H. @. Air
Force in the Northeastern United
States, in an area extending from
Aberdeen. Md, to Schenectady, N. Y,
and from the coast to the Pennsyl-
vania mountains.
|OPERATING under war conditions,
the air force is moving men and
supplies by air from all parts of the
United States into the threatened
area Field camps are being set up
at 81 ai-dromes designated as the
temporary bases for the combat squad
rons, groups and wings. The air force
is going about the maneuver the hard
way" setting up all manner of OBJ
stacles and difficulties to provide a
thoroughgoing test of officers, men,
| organizations, airplanes and equip
ment.
Moreover, actual concentration Of
the fighting units themselves must be
completed within q period between
SO and AZ hours, at the end Of which
they must be at temporary bases. with
all ground units f,lnctioning and the
tactical squadrons ready for action.
] In defeFenee 70 the civil population
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erick County. that committee imme-
diately met to deliberate what meas
ures should be adopted on the alarm
ing OCCASION as it was called.
Mr.. Peter, who had been requested
to attend, acknowledged that the tea
was shipped in consequence of orders
given by him the previous December; /;
that he had relied on the custom which
had constantly prevailed in the Prov
ince since. the partial repeal of the
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THE brigantine Mary and Jane,
Capt. John Chapman, master, arrived
III The Potomac in August, 1774, and,
having made landing in the Wi
comico, it was ascertained that she had
on board several chests of tea, con-
signed to Robert Peter and others in
the Province; information Of this hav-
ing been communicated to the Com
mittee of Correspondence for Fred
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p OBERT PETER was native Scots
man and, after all, must have
concluded that two could live as cheap
ly as one. At any rate, when he arrived
at about the age of 40 he took unto
himself a wife, who, before her mar
riage was Miss Elizabeth Scott, whose
father, George Scott, is said to have
been of Prince Georges County, Md.
However, the census of Maryland for
1890 records only one person of that
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-24
BY r.. w. MCFARLAND.
Henderson Sales Supervisor.

With estimated sales today of 100.
600 pounds and prices in line witc
those of the past week, our silver
tongued auctioneers commenced this
morning their "swan songs" for tha
diving season, as after Friday of this
week the activities of this fine mar
ket will close in so far as the selling
at auction the crop of tobacco grown
in 1887 is concerned. The market suc-
cess of the Henderson market this
season should, and doubtlessly wils'
act as a stimulus to still greater Ell
forts the coming season.
Official figures reveal the fact that
our sales through last Friday were
1882 ,632 pounds, which sold for 30
Sg8.363.13, an average ,or the whole
of S25.56. Today's sales, together with
the sales for this week, will be small.
but sufficient to Jring the season. >
sales up to 23,4OO.OOO pounds; and,
using the average of the past week as
a criterion, it will make the season )
average $25.37 and the money pai
out for tobacco for the whole season
TO within $4,000 of six million dol
lars.
AS we glance back over our recorI
Of sales. we ascertain that during the
month of our greatest activities, one
day the market paid out $192.9l99h,
and on many other days sums OF
money ranging from $149,0OO to $lS!,-
600.
That our telling days numbered q
in ALL and that a general average
each day fer the whole II OF them'
was $77,922.
{ With the low prices prevailing dur
ing the wear 1897 on certain products
of the farm, totacco became a verli-
able money king of them all and not
only benefited the producers. but
every man, woman and child in this
thriving little city of 1873 souls.
+ Beset by "blue mold, bugs and in
sects of every description and fre
tIuently torrential rains, from the time
of the sowing of the plant beds un-
Til the crop was harvested, the far
mers made the gamest fight of theic
lives. but, overcoming all obstacle5'
produced by their skill and efficiency
q type of smoking tobacco unexceiled
in quality the world over.
This tobacco readily found upon the
Henderson market, buyers, Doth fore
ign and domestic, who knew it for
what it was IN desirability, and paid
for it stop prices" They found upon
the Henderson market type OF ware
housemen Of unusually high Ideals,
surrounded by associates in every de
partment, regardless of the position
they occupied, trained and taught by
their employers to respect the wishes
of the sellers and do everything with
in their power to make every one who
sold upon the Henderson market fell
at home, and that when selling here
regardless Of whence they came or at
what house they sold, they were n
the hands of friends.
During the main selling season, we
felt very kecnly the need Of an ad
ditional set of buyers for the market