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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-06-27
County Beauty
Contest June 20
At Gaithersburg
Fire Department Sponsors
Beauty Pageant. Talent
Contest Scheduled

Selections of "Miss Montgomery
County" to represent this county
at the State Beauty Event will be
the feature event of the junior and
senior beauy pageant, talent con-
test and klddy parade to be held in
tile high school auditorium Satur-
day, June 20 at 8 o'clock, under
the sponsorship of the Gathers
burg Washington Grove Fire
Department.
The program is being directed
by Miss Elizabeth Mel Cord, agent
of the National Talent and Beauty
Scouting Corporation of Ehrhardt,
S. C.
Children between the ages of
two and ten years will take part
in the kiddy parade, which is the
opening event on the program.
These tots are being sponsored by
children ten to fourteen, who are
securing penny votes for the little
folks. The child receiving the
largest number of votes will be
presented with a loving cup.
The talent contest is open to all
ages and all talent. A number of
gifted prodigies have been enrolled
and the winner will compete in the
State finals.
The winner of the junior beauty
pageant will have the opportunity
of attending the State finals for
junior misses at Bay Shore, July
1927. The winner of the State
finals contest will be awarded a
free trip to the New York Worlds
Fair.
The concluding feature will ex-
hibit the young ladies of Mont
gomery county over eighteen years
of age, from which will be chosen
the loveliest young woman to be
designated as "Miss Montgomery
County. She will be privileged to
attend the State contest to select
"Miss Maryland" who annually at
tends the Atlantic City National
Beauty Pageant.
All beauty pageant entrants are
sponsored by business firms of the
city. The winners of the queens
contest will be selected by out of
town judges.
Entrants in the senior beauty
Contest include Pomona Dove and
Dora Thompson, while junior
beauty contestants to date are,
Grace Darby, Dorothy Chiswell,
Dorothy Ayres, Ann Ramsdell,
Fredia Carnesale, Betty Lee White,
Jean Edwards, Ann Jacobs, Dot
Plummer, Mary Jean O'Leary,
Evelyn Elliott, Betty Lee Watkins,
Barbara Walker, Doris Bohrer ard
Marion Water.
Already entered in the Riddles
pageant are Reda O'Leary, Janet
Miller, Roddie White, Jr., and
Frances Fowler.
William Waters, fire department
president, heads the committee on
general arrangements; assisted by
Robert S. Billhimer, Fire Chief
Kenneth Miller and Hebb Free
man.
T. w. Troxwell, former principal
of the Gaithersburg High School
will be master Of ceremonies.
Judges will be William K.
Brecht, Bethesda, former Holly
wood film star, and Wilton T.
Allen, past president Of the Beth
esda Lions Club.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-06-27
Mrs. Howard Bryan
HOpOred At Party

Mr.. and Mrs. William Thompson
gave surprise birthday dinner at
their home on Sunday in honor Of
Mrs. Thompson's mother, Mrs.
Howard Bryan of Burtonsville.
Those attending were Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Bryan and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Elgar Bryan and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Linwood
Bestpitch of Wheaton, Mr.. George
Bryan, Mrs. Jennie Margerum, Mr..
and Mrs. William Bryan and Mrs.
Edward Rich.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-06-27
Mrs. Margaret F. Young

Funeral services for Mrs. Mar
garet F. Young, ", widow of
William Young, who died sud
denly at the home of her niece,
Mrs. George H. Johnson, were
held Monday from st. Johns
Episcopal Church, Olney. The
Rev. Thomas r. Opie, rector Of
the Church, and the Rev. d. G.
Sturgis, pastor of Mt. Carmel
Methodist Church, officiated, and
burial was in the cemetery ad-
joining Mount Carmel church.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-06-27
Civil Service
Jobs Open

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations for a
number of positions to be filed
during June and July. For fur
Their information, anyone inter
ested may see Lowry Riggs at the
Rockville post Office.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-06-27
Fathers Day At Boyds

Fathers Day will be observed
in the Boyds Presbyterian Church
on Sunday, June 30. Service by
the pastor win begin at II a. m.
and music will be furnished by the
Suday School Choir. There is
also to be a program at 10 a. m.
in the Sunday School. A service,
play, recitations, readings and
music will be given at 8 p. m.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-06-27

TEN of transportation in the
world and with abundant crops
of every description we have
still had people starving in one
section of the country while
farmers were turning under or
burning crops and calling on the
government for assistance. We
will have to find ways and
means of encouraging farmers
to produce in abundance while
at the same time making those
abundant crops available to
those far from the sources. By
a system of assured employment
we will develop our own markets
to a point where we can absorb
within our own borders most OF
the goods produced. All this
can be done and MUST BE
DONE if we are to prove to the
world and to ourselves that we
can enjoy all the liberties and
freedom Of democracy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-06-27
Post Office To
Get New Door

A photo-electric cell door will
soon be installed at the Rockville
post Office. In keeping with the
times, this addition will completely
modernize the post Office and will
tend to facilitate the work. DR..
George L. Edmonds, Postmaster,
says it will greatly improve the
present system of handling the
mail
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
CRACIE ALLEN IS
 ASKED TO EXPLAIN

Omaha. Neb.. May l6-(UP)-The Yale University record demanded today that Oracle Allen, who draft ed herself for the surprise" party presidential nomination. explain her campaign statement that there are plenty of things I've got which Venus DiMilo hasn't"
 The record said it had 8,26l sub Scribers under It's thumb" and could swing them to any candidate. The editors demanded the explain ation, they said. because they had established Venus ss the standard of feminine beauty and symmetry for those potential votes.
 Grace replied:
 "I don't think there should be two lady candidates and suggest Miss Venus withdraw. She'd look funny shaking hands and passing out cigars with her shoulders =.
 Whats the matter with the job she has nowa Do want to bc Venusa Does Venus want to be Oracle Allene"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
BOARD OF FINANCE
 TO PROVIDE FUND
City to Pay $7,5OO as Share of Sanitary
 Sewer Project

The Board of Finance this after noon was expected to vote Q $7,500 appropriation from the revolving sewer fund to pay the city's share of the WPA sanitary sewer project next month. The vote would be subject to approval by the Board of Works.
 Mayor Vincent A. Scully said he did not expect that the proposed plan for laying a number of water mains would come up officially to- day. The project will be probably officially taken up first by the board of works, though the neces- sary funds will have to found by the finance board The mains would be laid as WPA projects.
 Controller Thomas M. Conlon was to inform the board that the $i,- 250,000 tax anticipation loan of last December has been paid in full. The payment was made with money secured from heavy tax collections.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
Assistant U. s. Attorney Howard
 Corcoran Plays Phillips, Merwin
Stock Buying Public "Miked" of Their Funds; Scheme to Deiraud Through the Mails;
 $2l,0OO,OOO Imitation of Company Assets
BY JOSEPH T. ST. LOUIS (DemOcrat Stan ReaDUfter)

New York, May 16.-(Special to the Democrat) 1.-The federal govern ment in the $2l ,000, 900 McKesson and Robbins conspiracy case in fed- eral district court here today placed the blame for the stock-buying pulp lie being "milked" of the funds men, toned mostly on the shoulders of Rowley w. Phillips, Waterbury brok- CT, and Horace F. Merwin, Bridge- port banker.
 The name of John H. McGloon, former McKesson comptroller, who is accused with Phillips and Merwin of the conspiracy, had not been mentioned up to noontime in the government summation which be- gan with Assistant U. s. Attorney Howard Corcoran, a brother of the famous "Tommy the Cork" Corcoran confidential adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. delivering the arguments.
 At the outset the prosecutor point cd out that the trial had been & long and difficult one for all concerned and that he knew everyone was tired. He urged the jury to forget It's emo- tions in considering the real issues and said he hoped the members could walk through & smoke screen for & heavy one had been laid down, he claimed. He described this smoke screen as oratory, appeal to emo- tons. insinuations, and attacks on the government and Its representa- tiveS.
 Gamut of Emotions
 You have been forced to run a gamut of emotions" said Corcoran. Rich and poor. high and lowly come to court on an equal footing. Justice must be unaffected by hu- man sympathy. We have toured the globe since this case started. We have been to Japan, Asia, and all over the United States. It's now time to get back to New York and face the facts. The real issue in this case is the indictment"
 Corcoran pointed out two features of the indictment. One, he said. was q scheme to defraud by use of the United States mails to obtain money through false pretenses. The other he mentioned was the $2l 100000 in- fiation of assets alleged.
 The prosecutor claimed that it was not necessary for all of the defend- ants to be connected with all of the alleged facts in the indictment to be found guilty.
 Indictment Charges
 He said the indictment charges that the defendants organized the Canadian. Ltd. branch of McKes- sons and issued false statements. He said that the imitation of assets was admitted and must be clear to members of the jury and all who
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
Three Fresh German Mechanical
 Divisions Thrown In--Maginot Line Defenses Are Battered Mercilessly
Frenzied Attacks of German Forces Are Most Serious Threat-Nazis May
 Drive Wedge Into Allied Forces
SEVERAL MILLION MEN IN
 BLOODIEST BATTLE OF ALL
ny JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Edltor)

Germany threw three fresh mechanized divisions into drive against the Magno Line defenses in the Sedan sector today after Premier Paul Reyn aud of France had warned that the Allies might be forced to "change men and methods' to stem the Nazi advance.
 45,0Oo FRESH NAZl TROOPS
 The German divisions (presumably about 45, ,000 fresh troops) appeared to be making frenzied ef- fort to crumple the French lines after having crossed the Mouse river and gained foothod in the Maginot Line defense system. French tanks, supported by fleets of French and British planes, were said in French advces to be engaged in "plunging battle' in attempt to break the Nazi drive.
 Most Serious of Threats
 The German break-through between Namur and Dnan appeared to be regarded the most serious threat of the day. It reported to have been accomplished when heavy German tanks succeeded in forcing the Mouse light mechanical units and oW-flyng airpanes making quick effort to widen the breech and attack the positions of the Allied lines extending along the River Dye through Louvan - also subject to heavy attack-to Antwerp.
 Battle Raging Furously
 On the basis of French advices the battle front fuouSy active from the north border of Belgium at Ant Werp, down the Dye River before Brussels to Namur and on the Mouse The Allied forces appeared to be holding firmly before Antwerp Louvan and Brussels but south of Namur German cars were reported to have broken through between Namur and Dnant in flanking opera tion that threatened the Dyle defense line.
 Fight To The Death
 Several million men, using the most modern equip ment, will fight the battle of the Dye "The Battle for Belgium finish within the next few days The News Agency predicted,
 In northern France where the Germans pierced the Magnot Line near Sedan, the high command said that Nazis fought off French counter attacks and held their foot hold in the Magnot defenses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
NEGRO STATUS TO
 BE GIVEN STUDY
John J. DriscOll Named as One of Committee
 By Governor

Hartford, Conn.,. May l6-(UP)-- Gov. Baldwin today appointed a special commission to study the negro employment situation.
 The group will conduct it's survey without an appropriation and will report directly to the governor when Its is completed.
 Three ex-officio members will be State Education Commissioner Alon- 70 G. Garce: State Unemployment Commissioner Carl A. Gray. and State Employment Service Director Leonard J. MalOney.
 Active members are Mrs. Leila T.. Alexander and John J. Driscoll, Waterbury: the Rev. pr. r. ". Ja- cobs. Bridgeport: pr. Carter L. Mar. chall, Harold L. Blakeslee, and William H. Brown. New Haven; Dr. T. A. Langlie, Norwalk: Howard Drew. Hartford. and pr. Chase G. Woodhouse Of Connecticut College. New London.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
NAZIS POUNDING
 AGAINST BELGIUM
Plans Made to EncircIe LOuvain, Brussels, An-
 twerp Defenders
BY FREDERICK C. OECHSNER HJnited Prcss GiaTY norrcsnoutIenl {

NpHttuu HEesS oNhu GUTTCspUIucutN
 Berlin, May l6 (U.PD -- The German high command reported to- day that Nazi armies were hammer ing forward through southern Bel gium in a drive designed to en- circle the Allied defenders before Louvain, Brussels and Antwerp.
 The German armies that smash cd across the River Mouse in France near Sedan were reported in the high command communique to have beaten of powerful counter-attacks In the Maginot line defenses, where the biggest French tanks were thrown into battle in an attempt to break the German foothold.
 While the Germans clung to their positions in the Sedan sector, how ever, the Nazi drive across the Mouse river south of the Belgian town of Namur and thence west ward continued, the high command said.
 Extend Successes
 Our divisions extended their sllc- cesses on the western bank of the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
BRITISH ROYAL
 PLANES STRIKE
Big Offensive Carried Out East of Rhine-Near to
 Krupp Works
By WALLACE CARROL

United Press Stan COrrespondentl
 London, May l6-(UP) Royal Air Force planes attacKed German road and railroad communications east of the Rhine today in their biggest of- fensive in the 8h months of the war
 Fires were started and big explo- sions were caused by the many tons" of bombs which the British planes loosed in trying to disorgan- ize the communication by which Germany is feeding men and muni- tions to it's hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the Franco Belgian front.
 The biggest British air attack of the war was annuonced in one paragraph air ministry communique carried out eas tof the Rhine a big
 '"rhe Royal Air Force last night offensive against the enemy's road and rail communications which are supporting its forces in their inva- sion Of the low countries at Luxcm- bourg. The attacks lasted through out the night. Many tons of bombs were released. Road and rail com munlcations were .tacked at many points. Fires broke out and heavy explosions were caused. This was the
 SContinued on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
LOUvAIN AGAIN
 IS MARTYR CITY
Vortex of Hurricane Battle Raging From Sedan to
 MaginOt Line
BY M. $. HANDLER Limited Press Stan Correspondent

Paris, May l6-(UP)--A spearhead of German armored columns bat tered Allied lines outside Louvain martyr city of the World war, today in thrust for Brussels and Ant Werp.
 Louvain was described here as the vortex of hurricane battle that ragged from Sedan on the Maginot Line to the paStion of Antwerp where tho Allied left flank is anchored,
 French advices asserted that the Germans were striving to repeat the techniques of their Polish campaign by hiirliiig armored columns Slirougii the Allied defense lines for lightning blows against rearward communica- tons.
 These efforts, 1t was said, are con- centrated at the lines defending Louvain, again battered and bombed % years after 1t was devastated in the German sweep through Belgium in 1914.
 The Louvain lines are held by the British as are the bulk of the posi- tions from Louvain north to Ant werp. They are aided by Belgian troops and by some remnants of the Dutch army which managed to reach the Allied lines,
 Great Battle Raging
 The Paris Soir reported that d great battle was raging between Antwerp and Namur and that Brus- sels was the immediate German ob- jective. The Germans were under stood to be using little artillery eX- cept for the comparatively small guns carried by the armored troops and the cannon equipped heavy tanks.
 British air bombing opera tions were directed at break ing the force of the German attack in this area. Their operations last night behind the German lines along the railroads and highways leading from the Rhineland to the battle field were called the greatest raid of the war.
 A great stream of refugees was pouring west from the war areas and Paris authorities were improv-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
POLICEMAN SHOT
 DEAD BY BANDIT
Three Bullets From Pistol of Brother Officer Lays
 Bandit Out

Milton, Mass, May 16. - (UP) - An alleged bandit shot and killed Patrolman Edward F. Lee. 57, and immediately was felled with three bullets by the slain mans fellow officer early today. The staying occurred in front of Milton police headquarters at 3 a. m. as Lee and Officer stephen Slack arrived with three men seized on suspicion of armed robbery and auto theft after a one-m.ie chase of a stolen car The slayer, who gave his name as Joseph Brooks, %, of New York City was hospitalized in critical condi- ton.
 His companions. booked as Ge rge zukanskis. 2l. of South Boston I.nd Armand Papineau, g, of Boston, made no move. They were held for questioning in connection with $60 robbery of garage attendant in Bostons west end last night. The getaway car. stolen from the same garage. purportedly bore the same license plates as the machine in which the trio were captured.
 As Lee and Slack started 10 walk the trio into headquarters, one sus- pect drew . pistol and said; stick 'em up" Lee reached for his re- volvcr and the prisoner shot him in the abdomen. Slack fired thrice. The suspect fell. the bullets in his back. Lee, . patrolman for a years, dicd few minutes later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
Roosevelt Appeals To Mussolini To Stay Out
Result-Ihousands of Americans In Italy Are Seeking Passage For Home
By HOBART c. MONTEE United Press Staif Correspondent

Washington, May l6.-- tUP)--Ad- ministration offices sought today to maintain diplomatic conversations between President and Premier Benito Mussolini, hoping thus to keep the war from spreading to Italy and southeastern Europe.
 It was revealed that the president sent new peace plea to Mussolini "Wednesday morning. It was pre- Scnted to him by Ambassador Will liam Phillips.
 The message itself was not pub lishcd but it was underStod 10 be another of the messages MT. Roose- welt and MuGsolini have exchanged at intervals during the past year. So far there has been no sign Of an Italian desire to break off the exchanges.
 The appeal was made only a few hours before the state department advised all Americans remaining in Europe 10 return home immediately and to avoid Italy in doing so.
 Message Not Discussed
 Neither the state department nor the White House would discuss the message but White House Secretary stephen r. Early said that whatever had occurred during the last 24 hours represented merely a con- tinuation of exchanges begun early in the war.
 The new plea to Mussolini, 1t was understood. was drafted at an ex- traordinary meeting of high state department officials which lasted until early Wednesday morning. MT. .ooSevelt himself was up until 2 a. m. the White House announced yesterday, working on his message to congress on national defense.
 While praying for confinement of the war to the countries now in- volved, state department officials proceeded with plans to evacuate all Americans remaining in Europe
 Mediterranean Unsafe
 Knowing that if Italy enters the war the Mediterranean will be un- safe for commercial shipping, Amer lcan QIplOinatlc ana consular Oifl- cials throughout southern and southeastern Europe renewed their suggestions to Americans to return to the United States while transport tation still is available. Americans in Great Britain. France and Swift zerland were advised to concentrate in Bordeaux, France. and T Spanish and Portuguese ports and there await the transportation home state department officials hoped to ar range. Heretofore chief ports for Americans leaving Europe have been Italian ones.
 ft would require special arrange mcnts for American ships to call at
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
LESTER BARLOW
 IS MIGHTY ANGRY
Calls Off Tes Is of His Liquid Oxygen - Then
 He Gives Promise
BY SANDOR s. KLEIN United Press staff Correspondent)


 Army Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Md, May i6.-(UP)-Lester P. Bar low today angrily called off the tests Of his liquid oxygen explosive, charg- ing that delays caused by army ord- nance officers had diminished the potency of his bomb. Under con- gressional pressure, Barlow finally agreed to demonstrate the bomb on May %.
 Barlow staked off the field where 252 goats had been staked out at varying intervals to test the de- tonating effect of the explosive which Barlow claimed was more powerful than any U. s. defense weapon now in use,
 q am not going to be made the goat before all the world" Barlow said over his shoulder as Col. B.. o. Lewis. proving ground chief, tried to restrain his departure.
 In Honor or Employer
 The inventor, who named his ex-' plosive Glmite in honor of his em- ployer, Glenn L. Martin, asserted that the force of his bomb had been reduced more than one-third be- cause Col. Lewis required him to hoist the 1000 pound bag of explos- ives more than 30 minutes before house and senate military affairs committee officials arrived to witt ness the test.
 AS Barlow drove along the road from the proving ground toward Aberdeen, he met chairman Morris Sheppard of the senate military affairs committee who finally per- suaded Barlow to go through with the test week from Saturday Barlow stipulated. however. that he would not begin the experiment signal.
 Barlow told Sheppard that Lewis instructions to hoist the explosive
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16

The progress of this thrust was uncertain, but Berlin reported new successes in the region southwest of Namur and the semi official French radio agency said that Ger man units in that sector were try ing 10 win a foothold behind the Allied lines. In Paris, Premier Paul
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
INSURANCE MAN DIES

West Hartford. Conn. May i6.- (UP) --Funcfal services will be held Friday for Robert A. Wadsworih, 7D. former head of the sceADlnt- ing division of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. who died late yesterday after q long Illness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, May 1G--(UP)-Gov- crnment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through May 1 llth. compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $S,27G,575, ,t70.O7 S7,93G,27f. .0S5.33
 Receipts $5. i.72G. .SO6G5 SI.919,3si.577.O5 .O5
 Gross Deficit 27I,sis,273,42 s3.O16.S79,5OS,2s
 Net Deficit $s.19l, ,O43,27s,42 $2,9sO. .Os3. BOSSES
 Cash Balance s2.25s, ,93e, ,sOi.SS S3,O55.esO94I.46
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
THE WORLD WAR 25 YEARS OLD,
 MAY l6, 1915
tBy United prcssI

Russians began c0unteF Of fcnslye In Gallcln at ha tie of the San.
 Entente Allies offered kavala to Bulgaria,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16

Take summer in your stride ln
 dashing white Red Cross shoes. sG.50 pr. at !. Seio C0., Grand St.--Adv.