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Evening star., 1941-05-02
Vast Crowd Lines Street to See
Shenandoah Blossom Queen
CoorfuI Parade CIimoxes 2-Doy Fete;
English Phase of Pageant Recalls War

fair queen of the apple BIOS
sons"
Reluctantly admitting that even
a queen needs sleep, the Festival
Committee kept the morning free
of royal engagements. Benny
Goodman's orchestra kept her
royal highness up late last night.
Queen Mollie took time out Of
her crowded schedule yesterday to
stage a near faint. thereby keep
ing Gov. Price of Virginia wait
ing in the city post Office with a
corsage Of lilies of the valley rap
idly whiting in the gubernatorial
fist.
1t was just a touch of the sun,
the Festival Committee hastened
to explain, striking while her maj
esty was practising for the cor
onation. Presentation to the queen
of the first Defense bond purchased
in Virginia. the point of the post
Office rendezvous. finally took place,
and the queen went on to the cor
onation on the white steps of Hand
ley High School.
Audience of Thousands Rises.
AS the high school band played
"Pomp and Circumstance, prin-
cesses of the queens court, carrying
red carnations, filed down the steps
on the arms of cadets from Massa-
nutten Military Academy.
Parading behind them came Z
year-old Ann Arthur, bearing the
crown on a white satin pillow Then
the thousands filling the natural
amphitheater before the high school
rose in tribute as the queen slowly
descended to her golden throne.
With old English ceremony, the
princesses hailed their queen and
Queen Mollie. told of all the duties
of her high estate, responded in
a sweet contralto:
'All this I promise to do"
The crown was placed on her dark
hair by Edward r. StettiniuS, jr.,
chairman of the Defense Priorities
Board, who left Immediately after
the coronation to attend a confer
ence in Washington.
The pageant, joint effort of more
than a thousand school children,
told OF springtime and the good
earth, the joys of childhood and the
spirit of America.
Trees" in Fireworks.
Visiting flremen from Is out-of-
town departments and Mummers
with grotesque faces paraded down
the main thoroughfares last night,
led by local and State motorcycle
police. Effective in the torchlight
parade were 80 boys and girls from
Bluef1eld, w. Va, who wore illumi-
mated miners caps Climaxing the
parade was a fireworks extrava-
ganza in the Handley High School
Boyl, with all eyes turned upward
to See bursts of lights shaping them
selves into blooming apple trees.
Downtown revelry was centered
in the old-time square dance in
the City Hall Pavilion while Queen
Mollie, escorted by a local young
man, Joe Thomas. led the dancing
in the Winchester Armory. Al
though the tall, dark Mr.. Thomas
is her majesty's escort, she was
escorted to tea dance in the after
noon by Harry Byrd. jr., son of the
former Governor of Virginia. At
the ball tonight Joe Scrath, also
local talent, will be the queens
companion.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Virginia Students
Meet in Alexandra
By a Staff Correspondent Of The Sta

By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May o.
Representatives of more than 100
Virginia high school student gov
eminent organizations will meet
today and tomorrow at the annual
convention of the Virginia State
Student Government Association at
the George Washington High School
here.
The theme of the convention is to
be Education and National De-
fense" and the principal speaker
will be Representative Howard w.
Smith.
Commissioner John Rogers of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
Is also scheduled TO address the
students.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Federal Aid Urged
For Prince Georges
Schools by Citizens
Nearly 1900 Children
Of Defense Workers
Held Too Heavy q Load

Nearly 1000 children of newly
arrived defense workers are putting
far too heavy a load on Prince
Georges County educational facih-
ties and the Federal Government
should supply funds to provide new
schools and teachers, the Prince
Georges County Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations declared last
night.
Meeting in the Bladensburg Fire
Hall, the association voiced full
support Of the County Board of
Education's effort to get Federal
funds to supplement the county
educational budget.
Further occupying themselves with
conditions arising in the county from
the defense program, the association
requested that box houses" being
hastily erected by private corpo-
rations be termed "substandard"
housing rather than "low-cost"
housing.
1t is possible to get adequate IA
cilities for homes at low cost, as in
the units being erected by the Gov
eminent, it was pointed out. Some
of the houses being built privately
are not adequately equipped and
should be termed "substandard" in
stead, it was claimed
Members of the association also
heard a report of the progress of a
special committee which has been
working with county Chamber of
Commerce committee to study the
application to Prince Georges
County of the Brookings Institu-
tion report on Montgomery County.
w G. Copley, vice president, pre-
sided.
Evening star., 1941-05-02

Gov. O'Conor named Arthur H.
Brice, Kent County Democrat and
State Senate president, to fill the
associate membership vacated by
Mr.. Purcell.
The third member of the commits
sion is Edmund Budnitz. The COM
miSsionerS serve siX-year terms.
Mr.. Purcell has manifested un-
doubted ability as an associate mem
ber of the commission and I feel
he richly merits elevation to the
chairmanship," Gov. O'Conor said.
Mr.. Purcell, born in Ireland and
brought to Maryland by his par
entS at the age of three, is civil
engineering graduate of Cornell. He
served as chief engineer of Balti-
more City before he was appointed
to the Public Service Commission
by the late Gov. Ritchie.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Club Votes $500 Aid
For Mrs. Byron's Race

An appropriation of 5000 toward
the campaign expenses of Mrs.
Katherine E. Byron, who is seeking
the 6th Maryland congressional seat
in Congress, was voted by the Ex-
ecutive Board of the Woman's Fed
Grated Democratic Clubs of Mont
gomery County, Md, last night.
Presidents of the nine affiliated
clubs reported on campaign activ-
tiles for Mrs. Byron and plans were
discussed for activities by the fed
Grated group.
1t also was announced that the
group will sponsor a Bundles for
Britain" tea and garden party, from
4 to pm, Sunday at the home of
Or. and Mrs. z. A. Merritt, 1912 Ken
sington road, Chevy Chase, Md, to
which the general public is invited,
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Tongier Channel in Bill

The House Rivers and Harbors
Committee has approved for inclu-
sion in general river and harbor
authorization legislation for plan
for providing an improved channel
from deep water in Tangier Sound
to the town of Tangier on Tangier
Island, in Chesapeake Bay. The
channel, the only Virginia item in
cluded, was estimated to cost $40, 100
with annual maintenance of $3.50.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG,
Star STAFF CnrreSnondent

WINCHESTER, Va, May O.
Loyal subjects of Queen Shenan-
doah XVIII hung from the win
dows and lined the streets of this
heart of the apple kingdom today
to do homage to an l8-year -old de-
scendant of the Lees of Virginia.
Hours before Queen Mollie Foulkes
Lee was to ride by, the thousands
who have overf1owed the town for
the two day Shenandoah Apple
Blossom Festival had staked out
their claims to every foot of space
along the emile parade route.
State police estimated there were
approximately $4,000 visitors, at
trated by the repeat performance OF
the pageant in the morning and the
grand parade in the afternoon.
Highways Crowded.
They came on chartered busses
and excursion trains. The seven
highways converging on the town
were filled with slowly moving cars.
Bands, jugglers and dance acts in
steady succession kept another
crowd entertained at the city hall
pavilion. Drums and bugles echoed
through the town as the bands
marched to and from the pavilion.
Drum majorettes wandered up and
down the crowded streets. Small
boys sold balloons, birds on sticks
and other holiday equipment.
The red, white and blue float
bearing the queen to the reviewing
stand near Handley High School
was to be the first of 81 floats in
the parade, varying from the ar
tistic TO the frankly commercial.
Scheduled to follow the queen on
her mobile throne were two floats
of princesses. Entered by civic
groups and business firms, the floats
took two months to plan, 10 days to
build.
The float bearing the queen to
the reviewing stand was to be the
first of a score of floats inter-
spersed with bands from all over
Virginia and from neighboring
States.
Queens Ball Tonight.
The grand parade climaxes the
festival, although a tea dance late
in the afternoon and the queens
ball tonight are still in store for
the girl who YESTERDAY was hailed
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Virginidn Killed
Investigating
Auto Crash
Son Sees Father Hit
Crossing Rood
Near Fort BeIvoir

While his son stood nearby, a To-
year-old Fredericksburg VaO man
was instantly killed early today
when he stopped to investigate an
other accident on Highway No. /,
half mile north of the entrance to
Fort Belvoir.
The victim was William H. Clore,
who was returning home in the car
of his son, Floyd N. Clore, also Of
Fredericksburg, and stopped at
Dogue Run. where the other ma
chine had run off the road and
plunged into the creek
Mr. Clore walked across the high
way to Investigate and was struck
by machine occupied by several
soldiers. also going south. His body
was taken to Mr. Halls undertaking
establishment IN Occoquan.
State Policeman J. w. Burrow,
who investigated the accident, listed
Sergt Gordon F.. Colman, %, of
Headquarters, Sd Battalion, E. R. c.,
as the driver of the car which struck
Mr.. Clore. No charge was placed
against him Immediately.
The Other Accident Is Investigated.
What happened to the occupants
of the machine which ran off the
road into the creek also was being
investigated by the State police.
Policeman Burrow believed the
occupants of the auto found in the
creek had been soldiers from Fort
| BeIvoir, because of letters and mill
tary equipment found inside. Fort
Belvoir authorities, however, said
none of their men had reported
being in an accident
The car was about half submerged
and apparently one or more persons
had been injured, as blood was
found in several places on the ma
chine, according to Mr.. Hall, but
no one was in or near the car at
| the time of the accident in which
Mr.. Clore was killed.
DR.. T. B. McCord, Fairfax County
coroner. was to hold an inquest at
the Hall funeral home this after
! noon.
Two Hurt in District.
Two persons were injured in acci-
dents in the District.
A conclusion and possible skull
fracture was inf1iced on Raymond
Mooney, 6, colored, as he played in
the street on scooter, police re-
ported late yesterday. An auto
mobile struck him near his home,
812 Twenty-fifth street NV, and the
boy was removed to Emergency Hos
pital
Riding his bicycle at Fifteenth and
Harvard streets NV, Joseph Sene-
cal, 10, of the $500 block of Four
teenth street NV, suffered broken
right shin when he collided with an
auto. He was treated at Emergency.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Hodges Quits as Dean
OfW. and M. Division
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WILLIAMSBURG. Va, May a.
Dean w. T. Hodges of the Norfolk
division of the College of William
and Mary resigned yesterday in a
letter to President John Stewart
Bryan in which he expressed will
ingneSs to continue with the college
''in such work as seems to you best
for it's welfare"
The resignation was accepted to
become effective June 80, but Mr..
Bryan in his letter of reply told DR.
Hodges that it was his purpose TO
arrange your duties so that the Nor
folk division may continue to have
the benefit of your energy and in.
terest."
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Benefit Fair Date Chunoed

The date for the country fair to
be held at Langley Park, the estate
of Mr. and Mrs. Leander Nc
Cormick- -Goodhart, for the benefit
of British War Relief and Bundles
for Britain has been changed to
June IA, instead of June 7 as
originally scheduled, it was an
nounced today by Mrs. E. Brooke
Lee, chairman of the Montgomery
County Branch of Bundles for
Britain, Inc. Mrs. Lee said the date
was changed because graduation ex-
ercises at the University of Mary
land will be held June 7.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Will Is Probuted

ROCKVILLE, Md. May (Spe-
ciaD Under the will of Mrs. Got
thielde C. Barthel Schrader of Chevy
Chase. admitted to probate in
Orphans Court, her mother, Mrs.
Lillian C. Bartel, receives all life
insurance money, household fur
niture and other personal belong
ings, and the residue is left in trust
for specified time for the benefit
of Albert Lee Schrader, husband Of
the testatrix, and her children. On
discontinuance Of the trust, Mr..
Schrader is to receive one-third and
the children two-thirds of the re-
manning estate.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Asks Absolute Divorce

ROCKVILLE, Md, May 2 (Spe-
ciaD Vernon Joseph Schaub of
Montgomery County has filed suit in
Circuit Court for an absolute divorce
from Margaret Dolores Schaub of
Washington, asking custody of their
only child.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Airport TO Be Completed

Aides of Senator Tydings, Demo-
crat, of Maryland said today funds
had been made available to the
United States district engineers Of
flee to complete the Army construc-
ton program at the Frederick Md
airport. A total of $432, 900 was set
aside for the field last winter, but
actually only s126,632 was n1ade
available for construction Of the
hangar.
Evening star., 1941-05-02

BALTIMORE. May 2.-Leo Wein-
berg. attorney, said today Delegate
Charles S. Houck, jr, Frederick
County Democrat. would challenge
perjury charge brought by the
Baltimore grand jury on grounds his
constitutional rights had been in
Vaded.
At the same time. the presentment
against Mr.. Houck' was made public
by Judge Samuel x. Dennis. 1t
charged him with unlawfully,
wilfully, falsely and corruptly max
ing oath to two contradictory state
ments before the grand jury" of
Baltimore City.
Just before leaving Frederick to
accompany Mr.. Houck to the
Sheriff's Office here, Mr.. Weinberg
made this statement:
'"In, the first place, Mr.. Houck
maintains his innocence of the
charge against him.
Questions Jurisdiction.
Second, I question the jurisdic-
ton of the grand jury, as part of
one branch of the government, to
investigate his actions as a member
of a separate and equal branch of
the government.
And then we shall insist that the
States attorney had no right to in
duce him to waive his constitutional
immunity and appear before the
grand jury unless, in the present day.
all our constitutional guarantees
have become the equivalent of Hitler
treaties-scraps of worthless paper"
Mr. Weinberg said the capias sent
by the sheriff of Baltimore to the
sheriff OF Frederick County yester-
day laid charge of perjury against
Mr. Houck, and specified that bail
for his release should be set at 81 ,000
The bail requirement was foregone,
however, after Mr.. Houck was
notified of the charge by Frederick
officers.
Warrant Was Read.
Mr.. Weinberg said Mr.. Houck has
never been arrested He has never
been in actual or technical custody"
but was notified to appear at the
sheriff's Office in Frederick and the
warrant was read to him there.
He added he had asked Thomas
Biddison, an assistant of the States
attorney for Baltimore City, for "a
copy of the indictment, which had
not been attached to the capias, as
it should have been. He said I
could get it upon coming to Balti-
more"
Notified of Presentment.
Mr. Houck was notified yesterday
that he had been accused in a spe-
cial presentment by the Baltimore
grand jury. which has been inveS-
tigating alleged "shakedown" at
tempts in connection with certain
legislation at the recent General
Assembly session.
Mr.. Houck appeared twice before
the grand jury in the course of its
inquiry into reports an offer was
made to drug store chain to
'kill' bill limiting such stores to
a single liquor license The chains
officers said they did not comply
with the $500 demand
Mr.. Houch, AZ, a resident of
Walkersville, has been a member of
the House of Delegates since 1887
A World War veteran, he is a past
commander of the Maryland De-
partment, American Legion.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Post to Have Dance

Cissel-Saxon Post No. Al, Amer
ican Legion, of Silver Spring, Md,
and it's auxiliary, will hold a dance
tomorrow night at the Indian
Spring Country Club. Proceeds will
be used for the benefit of the boys
summer camp fund. Walter S. Davis
is chairman of the Dance Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1941-05-02

jurisdiction over
utilities in Mary
land.
Mr.. Weller'S
term eXpir e S
M day and
@ ov. O'Conor
announced yes
terday he was
elevating M r .
Purcell from as
sociate member
S hip to tn e
chairman S h ip .
Mr.. Weller, a
Republican, was
appointed by the
late Gov. Nice
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Purcell Appointed
Chairman Of Maryland
itiesCommission
WeIIer's Term Expires
Monday; Briee Named
To Vacant Membership
By the Associated Press.


ANNAPOLIS, Md. May 2.-Steu-
art Purcell, member of the Public
Service Commission since 1927, will
succeed Ovington E. Weller as chair
man of the agency that exercises
Evening star., 1941-05-02


High School Cadet celebrated its 1A Left right Representative
a
in
wer honor
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Houck 10 Claim
Jury Invaded
His Rights
Plans to Challenge
Perjury Accusation
In Baltimore
BULLETIN.

BALTIMORE, Md, May 2 (Pl.
Delegate Charles S. Houck, jr.,
charged by the Baltimore grand
jury with perjury. today sur
rendered himself to the sheriff
here and posted $1,000 bond.
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Queens Ball Tonight.

The grand parade climaxes the
festival, although a tea dance late
in the afternoon and the queens
ball tonight are still in store for
the girl who yesterday was hailed
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
Open Forum
COLUMN
FOR THE VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE

Crumpler, N. G.
MIR. Ed M. Anderson,
Editor of Skyland Post
West Jefferson, N. c.
Dear Sir:
To you as president of the
North Carolina Press Association
has been handed very vital de-
tense job by the United States
Nays In fact it is one of the big
gest and most important defense
undertakings requested of any
North Carolina citizen during the
present emergency.
understand that you have been
requested to line up the entire
press of our state for the purpose
of educating our people in re-
gard to the advantages to be
gained by young men through
enlisting in the navy.
We know we are going to en-
gage in the biggest war in history
in the very near future. We know
that in any war and at all times
our navy is our first line of de-
tense. We must have a great fleet
in each of the bordering oceans.
We must have sailors to man our
ships. Our ships are the greatest
and most complex machines ever
conceived by the mind of man.
Our sailors must be strong both
Intellectually and physically. Only
men trained to the highest de-
gree of skill can successfully ap-
preciate a modern ship of war.
Only twenty percent of the men
applying for enlistment can be
accepted as students in our great
floating university.
Ed, know you and your asso-
ciates will be able to help our
people to realize the simple truth
in regard to the navy and to SER
vice in it. I believe that if all men
of military age in the Old North
State knew the facts, that one
hundred percent of them would
apply for immediate enlistment
for the duration of the present
period of danger. Many of those
who would be accepted would fall
in love with life on the sea and
would choose it as a career.
wish you success in your very
important service to our country.
Anything that I can do to help
fill our fleet with the right kind
of men will be a pleasure.
Respectfully,
UPTON BLEVINS
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02

merely slaves to the state. Their very lives
and all the property that they possess can
be taken away without moments warn
ing by the state.
Thank God, we do not live in such lands.
But look what has happened to free people
in several countries of Europe-due to lack
of vision and leadership, these nations were
crushed almost overnight and are now suf-
fering under the heels of Hitler, with all
of their former freedom gone.
Yes, we are awake and are preparing
to defend our precious way of life and are
giving all possible assistance to those ma
tions that are waging such courageous
fight to survive, but isn't there danger
that in our effort to save Democracy, we
may lose it?
There is minority group in the nation
today who would limit the right of the
press to report events and official gov
eminent actions The United States is the
only large country on the globe which
still has free press, one that prints the
truth without censorship
"A Tree press is Lne very SOUL OF DemOcra-
cy because Democracy is dependent upon
an enlightened public. The destruction of
free press would mean the destruction of
free speech, freedom of worship and free
dom of assembly, the three other pillars
of Democracy. More than any other agency,
the newspaper lights the way to freedom.
In addition to performing that essential
function, a newspaper in this state and ma
ton promotes progress and all worthwhile
activities that are for the betterment of all
of the people. A newspaper is the voice,
eyes and ears of the community it serves
Today the press of North Carolina and
America is promoting national defense by
developing national unity, boosting the
sale of defense bonds and stamps, aiding in
the building up of the army and navy.
Our newspapers are our first line of de-
Tense for the Democratic system of gov
eminent. Let's keep them free, informative,
critical and aggressive! Let's keep them
Fighting the way.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
Raises In Pay
Planned For
WPA Workers

Washington. Pay raises were
projected last week for over l.
100000 WPA workers, and at the
same time Howard o. Hunter,
works projects commissioner, said
rolls of that agency would be IN
creased in the winter to take care
of thousands made jobless by ope-
ration of defense priorities.
Hunter did not announce how
much the pay increases would be,
but told reporters 10 per cent
would be a "good guess" He pre-
dicted some wage action within 30
days.
sThe idea," Hunter said, els to
bring earnings nearer into line
with the increased cost of liv-
ing" He said the present WPA
wage schedules had been in eff
feet for two years, and in that
time industrial wages had in
creased 80 per cent and food pri-
ces IS per cent.
The WPA monthly wage sche-
dule now runs from $500 to $751;
80 in the South, 500 to $94.70 in
Northern states, and $44.20 to
$94.90 in the West.
Hunter pointed to predictions
by some sources that 100000 to
100000 persons would lose their
jobs this winter as defense priori-
ties close down large segments of
non-defense industries.
He told his press conference, 81
think we will have to ask con-
gress for more money"