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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
COlOred Republicans To
Meet On Thursday, Oct. S

Colored Republican Clubs of
Montgomery County are propar-
ing themselves for the coming
elections. Their president, Fer
mon Plummer of Darnestown, has
called a meeting of all precinct
chairmen, at the home of Nathan
Duvall, past president, in Gath
ersburg, for the evening of
Thursday, October 9Th. The needs
of the various communities will
be discussed, and plans laid for
assisting colored people who are
eligible to vote but have not yet
declared their intentions in ac-
cordance with the law.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
Eddie" Clemens
Honored By C. & p.

Edgar F. Clemens, an employee
in the Rockville office of the Ches-
apeake and Potomac Telephone
Company of Baltimore City, re-
ceived during September, a two
star emblem in recognition of ten
years of service with the company,
according to an announcement
made by Charles E. Crawford,
manager.
During September 81 employees
Of the c. & p. Telephone Company
in Maryland were awarded en-
blems. They had an aggregate Of
900 years Of service.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
f. F. A. Boys At
Milk Judging Contest

David Martin, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. o. G. Martin, Oakdale, rep
resented the F. F.. A. Chapter of
the Sherwood High School re-
Gently at a milk judging contest
at Springfield, Mass, this past
week.
George Byrd, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Byrd, Jacksonville,
represented the Poolesville F. F.
A. on the same team. Accom-
panying the boys as coach was
Sydney T. Lawler, Professor of
Agriculture, Sherwood High
School.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
Ladies' Aid Elects
Mrs. Minerva HORNE

The Ladies Aid Society of the
Christian Church were entertained
at the home of Mrs. l.. M. Stone
on Thursday. The following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing
year: President, Mrs. Minerva
HORNE; vice president, Mrs. Lii
liam NJ. Stone; financial secretary,
Mrs. E. d. Burdette; recording
secretary, Mrs. o. C. Barnes;
treasurer, Miss Cappie Price.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
Registration Dates
Are Announced

According to Ward w. Cad
dington, Supervisor of Elections,
at the following places and dates
persons may declare their inten-
tons to register at the same
time, between the hours of 1880
P. M. and 1880 r. M.
October Bird and 10th Takoma
Park; October 4th and 18th :
Bethesda; October 9Th and 18th :
Chevy Chase; October 9Th and
18th Silver Spring.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
Roxboro, A New
Addition To Rockville

Now that the running of water
mains and sewer lines to new
areas is nearing completion, Mr..
and Mrs. Porter Butt, on the Falls
Road, expect to open the first
home of their subdivision of Rox-
boro, on West Montgomery ave-
nue., Sunday, October LIST. They
expect to build moderately priced
homes that win be within the
means of those Of lower salaries.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
Mite Society
To Hold Supper

Sponsored by the Mite Society
Of Emory M. e. Church, Oakdale,
chicken supper will be held at
the Sandy Spring Firemen's Hall,
Thursday, October 8, 5-8 p. M.
Mrs. Maude A. Stonestreet Nor
beck, win be general chairman,
assisted by Mrs. Margaret Bready,
Oakdale and Mrs. Merrill Main,
Glenmont.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
Sherwood p. T. A.
To Meet October 3

With a view of enabling mem
bers and non-members to more
completely understand the educa.
tional system in Montgomery
County, the p. T. A. of the Sher-
wood High School, Sandy Spring,
will hold an open meeting, Tues
day, October 8, at the high
school.
DR.. Edwin H. Broome is SEIZED
uled to speak on Progress OF
Education in Montgomery County
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
County Singing
Conventions
Still Being Held
Upper County Churches
Take Turns In Entertain
ing Group. The Rev. r. H.
Brown, Leader

FOR nearly ten years people
from all over Montgomery County
and surrounding communities have
visited the Montgomery County
Singing Convention, an inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL group of people
who meet monthly from various
churches, to sing the great evan
gelistic hymns of Christian faith.
Twelve times a year, generally
on the second Sunday of each
month, some two hundred and
fifty or more gather Sunday after
noon at two-thirty o'clock in some
stated church in upper Montgom-
cry County and for two and one
half hours listen to vocal and
instrumental solos, choir selections,
duets and quartettes, and sing in
congregational fashion hymns or
negro spirituals.
Those who have participated in
the "sings" recognize the value of
group singing and folk young and
old join in singing with a fervor
indispensable in congregational
singing.
Under the leadership of the
Rev. Mr.. Hall, Fred r. Barnes,
and Mr.. Ivan T. Lawson, the
singing convention got well under
way the first year, visiting vari-
Gus churches in the upper part
of the county. So popular was
its appeal that invitations from
churches throughout the county
have requested meetings in their
respective churches.
Among some of the churches
taking a vital interest in the life
of the "sings" are the Damascus
Methodist, Boyd's Presbyterian,
Salem Methodist, Bethesda Meth
odist, Hyattstown Methodist and
Christian Churches, Clarksburg
Methodist and formerly Methodist
South, Montgomery Methodist,
Laytonsville Methodist, Mt. Tabor
Methodist at Etchison, Laytons-
vile Methodist, Kemptown Meth
odist, Upper Seneca Baptist,
Neelsville Presbyterian, Emory
Methodist at Olney, Bethesda Bap-
fist at Bethesda, Grace Methodist
and Epworth Methodist at Gath
ersburg, Woodfield Methodist,
Jamestown Presbyterian and other
churches throughout the county.
What seems to add to the pop
ularity and winsomeness of these
gatherings is the spontaneous
singing of the various groups and
individuals, and the congrega-
tional participation that char
acterizes these informal gather
ings. Here songs that people love
to sing are heard and tried, some
time for the first time. Among
the favorite is of course, songs OF
salvation, with the evangelistic
note.
Visitors have come from Wash
linton, Frederick, Baltimore, and
other places and The Washington
Evening Star recently, in its Sun
day edition, gave a whole page
of its pictorial section to "snap-
shots" of the "sings" and to the
officers.
At the last convention, held at
the Hyattstown Christian Church,
the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: Rev. James
P. Kerr, president; Rev. Stephen
Galley, vice-president; Julian P.
King, secretary; Ivan T. Lawson,
pianist; Jonathan Ifert, librarian
Rev. Raymond Hunter Brown,
leader, and J. Ernest Hawkins,
assistant leader.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
L. F. SchOtt Named
Chairman OF Seal Sale

According to Mrs. William Dahl,
Silver Spring, chairman of the
Forthcoming seal sale, Loren F..
Schott, principal of the Richard
Montgomery High School, Rock
Vile, has been named publicity
chairman of the seal sale drive,
which begins November z.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
Vacancies To Be Filled

Capt. Ward H. Caddington, an
nounces that there will be a num-
Der of vacancies in the Service
Company, LIST Infantry, Maryland
National Guard, Silver Spring, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
Montgomery Dog At
TimOnium Dog Show

Echo Boy of Adlee, wire haired
fox terrier, belonging to Mrs. Her
man A. Albers, Clor rs, will be
entered at the TT. Inn. Dog
Show, October z.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28

And then we read of a letter
nom Mrs. Marshall Munce Of Lon
don, whom we knew as the lovely
Louisa Griffith of Laytonsville,
Standing in line for hours, gas
mask ready to get a permit to
save. Glueing oil cloth over
windows, taking shelter when
sirens blow.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
Mr.. Baker Superintendent

The Baptist Church at Rockville
recently elected Mr.. Thomas r.
Baker as general superintendent.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28

Poolesville district, rich in his
|pry, old homes, old names, with
hatural boundaries on three sides,
|Ormed on the East by Seneca
Greek, on the South and West, and
Indeed partly on the North, by the
|Finding Potomac.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28

The war in Europe seems nearer
when we read of Gather Warfield
N Warsaw it seems so short a
lime since he was boy running
around Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28

Beallsville cemetery, where the
pames on the old stones remind US
bow thinly the Potomac divided
The North and the South, during
The Civil War.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-09-28
MONTGOMERY
|Nl SIDELICHTS


Our Poolesville correspondent
rs come in for much good natured
whiting about the decorations used
one of the social events Of
Which she wrote us.
Of course "raged robins" does
|pund like angry birds but really
|hey are ragged robins, the
|ummer flower of varied hue.
We remember how blank we felt
Ehen a party which We had de-
ribbed as a ''lovely party, came
|lt u print as ',lively party.
Evening star., 1939-10-09
Edward A. DEM, D. C.. Surveyor,
Promoted to Tax Assessor
Has Been EmpIoye
Of City for Post
II Years

Edward A. Dent, who became
District surveyor when Melvin C.
Hazen was named Commissioner SIX
years ago. today was appointed tax
assessor for the District to succeed
Fred D. Allen, who died suddenly
last week.
Mr.. Dent, 48 years old, is the sec
ond man to step from the post OF
surveyor to assessor. William P
Richards was surveyor for many
years until his appointment as tax
assessor in 1908
A native of Washington, Mr.. Dent
has been an employe of the District
government for q years. He started
out in 1912 as rod man in the sur
veyor's ONCE, and progressed
through the ranks to become Mr..
Hazen's assistant. He held the latter
post for eight years before becoming
chief surveyor.
elementary schools and at Mckinley
High School. For a year and a half
before he began his District service,
he was connected with a Govern
ment survey in the West.
During his term as surveyor Mr..
Dent also has served as a member
Of the District Land Purchasing
Committee. special treasurer of the
Alley Dwelling Authority and as a
member of the Co-ordinating Com
mittee OF the National CAPITAL Park
and Planning Commission.
Evening star., 1939-10-09
Building Is Tied Up
As Steel Workers
Go on Strike
Settlement Believed
Neor; Drivers DeIoy
Their WuIkout

Strike-ridden building construc-
ton in the city received another
serious setback today when more
than ITS steel workers failed to
report for work because of 4 wage
dispute with contractors.
Representatives of the Steel
Workers Union and members of the
Contractors Committee were to
meet jointly at $3.50 pm. today in
an effort to settle the dispute.
With this strike virtually hating
most Of the concrete work, Team
sters' Union truck drivers held up
temporarily their threatened walk
out over a jurisdictional dispute
within the American Federation Of
Labor local family circle.
Members of the Reinforced Steel
Workers Union, Local No. 201, who
set rods for concrete foundation
work, went on strike after weekend
negotiations with a contractors
committee failed to settle differences
over a wage clause in a proposed
new union contract.
Union leaders and contractors
alike agreed that the point of differ
ence is slight and that some solution
should be forthcoming within a
relatively short time"
Agreement Near.
Howard T. Colvin, Labor Depart
ment conciliator, met with the fac
tions Saturday and indicated today
that an agreement was almost
reached"
The walkout of the steel workers,
afhliated with the International As
sociation Of Bridge Structural and
Ornamental Workers, aRlrbed efforts
to speed work three times normal
rate on the new Federal Once
Building, which builders are at
tempting to rush to completion by
(See STRIKE. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-10-09
French Bullets Rip
Don't Fire. Sign
On Nozi Line =
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Oct. 9.-French troops
reported today that Germans
raised a huge sign over block
houses on the Rhine, near the
town of Neue Breisach, which
read: French comrades, don't
f1re on your German friends"
The report added that the
sign suffered greatly from
French bullets"
Evening star., 1939-10-09
Chandler Named 10 Senate
After Resigning State Post
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRANKFORT, KY, Oct. s.-Gov.
A. B. Happy" Chandler resianed
today and was succeeded by 1t. Gov.
Keen johnson, who Immediately ap-
pointed Mr. Chandler to the United
States Senate, succeeding the late
M. M. Logan.
In brief ceremonies in the Gov
ernor's private Office, Mr.. Chandler,
whose gubernatorial term would
have expired December IL, signed
his resignation.
A few minutes later Gov. johnson.
who is the Democratic nominee for
Governor In the November general
election, was sworn in as Governor
by Chief Justice Alex Ratliff of the
Kentucky Court of Appeals.
Mr.. Chandler was appointed to
the Senate vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Logan last Tues
day.
The new. junior Senator from
Kentucky plans to leave Frankfort
tonight for Washington and prob
ably will present himself to the
Senate tomorrow.
Evening star., 1939-10-09

Germany was reported launch
ing a movement TODAY for the
return to the Reich of more than
2,0O0, 600 German-bloo residents
of seven Eastern European
countries in accordance with a
statement by Chancellor Hitler in
his Reichstag speech last Fri
day. More than 100000 per-
sons were involved in the pro-
spective transfer from three Bal
kan countries and more than
10000 from three Baltic coun-
tries. Germans in Soviet Rus
sia might also be affected.
page AID
Prime Minister Chamberlain
today deferred statement of
Britain's war aims in the House
of Commons, replying to a ques-
ton that Britain and France
continued to stand together and
that any specific statement of
objectives would be evolved by
the two governments in con-
sultation. page A-1.l
It was announced in Paris that
Premier Daladier would reply to
Chancellor Hitler's peace pro-
posals in a radio talk tomorrow.
1t was reported in the French
capital that German forces on
the western front were taking
the offensive, with the purpose,
it was believed, of capturing
prisoners from whom to obtain
information about French troop
movements. rage AID
Evening star., 1939-10-09
The War Situation

Soviet Russia threw its weight
behind Chancellor Hitler's peace
offensive. An editorial in Izvestia,
government newspaper, accused
Great Britain and France of re
turning to the Middle Ages" for
waging war to exterminate Hit
lerism. Germany and Russia last
night reached speedy decision
to stimulate their mutual trade.
Moscow awaited the arrival to-
night or tomorrow of a Finnish
delegation for discussion of po-
litical and economic problems.
page A-4)
In spite of denials by Finnish
government officials that Russia
had made any demands upon the
Finnish government, many Firms
were becoming uneasy. The
head of Finland's delegation to
Moscow was DR.. Juhu Passikivi,
who in 1920 helped fix the boun-
daries of the Finnish state as
chief delegate to the Russo Fin
nish conference at Dorpet. page
A-3D
From Rome the report was re-
ceived that w. r. Davis, Amer
ican oil operator, had just COM
pleted q secret visit to Berlin,
where, it was said, he had COM
pleted a new deal for sale Of ex-
propriated Mexican oil to Nazi
Germany. Mr.. Davis was said to
have left Germany and gone to
Lisbon, Portugal, by way Of Rome.
page A-2)
Evening star., 1939-10-09
Naval Vessels Reach
Liner Iroquois al Sea
By the Associated Press.

hS tpe Associated Press.
Naval vessels have reached the
American liner Iroquois, returning
from Ireland with 584. passengers,
and are escorting her home.
This was disclosed yesterday by
the Navy, which declined further
information. The German admiralty
notified the White House last Thurs
day that the Iroquois, due in New
York Wednesday, would be sunk
through repetition of circum-
stances which marked the loss of the
steamship Athena"
German officials have denied that
q Nazi submarine torpedoed the
Athena, a British ship, on the first
day Of the.war. They declare that
the British had it sunk and then
tried to blame the Reich for
propaganda reasons.
Evening star., 1939-10-09
Foreign Submarine
And Two Tankers
Seen Off Florida
White House Announces
Sighting Of Croft in
Gulf of Mexico

A foreign submarine and two for
eign tankers were observed yester-
day in the Gulf of Mexico about 20
miles west of Key West by the Amer
lean neutrality patrol, Stephen
Early, White House secretary, an
nounced today. It was not disclosed
whether the tankers and the sub
marine were of the same nationality.
The administration thinks it has
positive identification of the tank
ers, Mr.. Early said, but the infor-
nation still is being checked. The
submarine was said to have been
comparatively small. It may be that
it was the same submarine observed
Saturday off Miami, Fla.
The diplomatic aspect of the op-
Grafton of non-American submarines
and tankers in American waters is
becoming more pressing in the light
Of the recent Declaration of Panama,
establishing the safety zone around
North and South America south of
Canada.
Mr.. Early said also that so far
as he knew the Government had
received no information other than
that carried in the press concern
ing hints that Adolf Hitler would
like to see President Roosevelt
propose an armistice in the Euro
pean war.
No Official Information.
Asked whether this country would
be unlikely to take any action until
some approach on the subject of
truce was made through diplo-
matte channels, Mr.. Early asserted
that none Of the press reports "have
told us yet where they got their
information"
Certainly nothing oficial has
come in, he added, so far as he
knew.
Pressed for further details, Mr..
Early added:
I'm going to ignore it all, II
you'll let me-"
Meanwhile, belief that "a peace
bid" by President Roosevelt would
put an immediate end to the Eu-
ropean war was expressed today by
Representative LudloW, Democrat,
of Indiana.
Mr.. Ludlow said in a statement
he hoped the President would offer
his services to the warning nations
"as q medium for bringing peace
to distraught world"
"A peace bid by him at, this
time" Mr.. Ludlow added, would
be . timely and sound action and
the world would applaud"
II the submarine sighted Oh Key
West was not the same one seen
! Gee ROOsEvNT, Page AID
Evening star., 1939-10-09
| Hottest Oct. 9
Ever Recorded
In Washington

This is the hottest October 9 in
Washington's recorded weather his
tory.
The mercury reached a high of 80
degrees at pm. today, breaking the
record, of 81 for the day, established
in 1879. The heat record for the
month of October is 80 degrees and
only six times since the Weather Bu-
reau began keeping records in 1871
has it been this hot.
The prediction for tomorrow is
continued fair, with about the
same temperatures.
At 6 am, the mercury reached
low for the day of 68 degrees.
Yesterday, the high was "a degrees,
reached At 1 pm.
Evening star., 1939-10-09
BY JAMES E. CHINN,

An admitted Communist told the
House Committee on Un-American
activities today that two national
board secretaries" of the Young
Women's Christian Association were
members Of the Young Communist
League and had attended the ma
tional training school Of the Com
munist party.
The witness, Kenneth Goff of
Delavan, Wis, testified he was a
member Of the National Committee
OF the league and also a party
member. but, he added, he had pre-
pared a letter of resignation to be
submitted to the party as soon as
he completed his testimony.
Meanwhile, Representative Voor-
his, Democrat, of California an
nounced at the outset of today's
hearing that he had "unmistakable
evidence that the two locals" of
school teachers referred to in a re-
port seized in a recent raid on local
Communist headquarters were not
composed of District public school
teachers.
Demanded Probe in 1885.
AS matter of fact, Mr.. Voorhis
said, the teachers unions here,
which are afiliated with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, have been
active in combating Communism.
He declared that these unions at
the A. F. of L. convention in 1885
introduced resolutions demanding
an investigation of the infiltration
OF Communists into the ranks of
organized labor.
The committee went into executive
session Immediately after Repre-
sentative Voorhis made his statement
to question in private an official of
the Metropolitan Police Department.
who has been active in investigating
Communist activities in the District.
The committee also intends to
question in secret session a Govern
ment employe who is said to have
attended meetings of Communist
factions in the Federal service. This
witness, it was said, did not want his
identity disclosed for fear of re-
prisalS.
Mr.. Golf told the committee his
association with the Communist
movement was the greatest mis-
take" in his life and now he is ready
to take his stand with those who
are fighting for real Americanism
and democracy"
Resignation Letter Read.
He prepared his letter of resiena.
ton from the Communist party be-
fore he took the witness stand. It
was read to the committee by its
chief counsel, Rhea Whitley.
Addressed to both the Young
Communist League and the Com
munist party, the letter of resigna-
ton said:
Three years ago, like many other
young Americans, I entered your
party and movement, believing that
your aims were for the bettering of
America, both economically and So
cially, and that you were the true
defenders of democracy.
After three years work in your
movement, I have come to the con-
clusion that joining your party was
the greatest mistake of my life. You
have proven to me by your teachings
and actions that your aims are not
the bettering of America, but are
(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-5.)