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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16

A complete slate of candidates
seeking Democratic nominations
for national, State and county
Offices was endorsed by the Con-
gress of the United Democratic
Organizations of Montgomery
County at Rockville on Tuesday
night of this week.
Meeting in the gymnasium of
the old high school the several
hundred members of the Congress
unanimously approved the candi-
dates for reelection of Governor
Herbert r. O'Conor, State Comp
troller Willard E. Tawes and At
torney General William C. Walsh,
then accepted by reclamation the
candidacy of Lieut.-Col. E. Brooke
Lee for the party nomination for
U. S. Representative from the
Sixth Maryland District.
Just before Col. Lees name was
placed before the Congress, Mrs.
James Nicholson, of Chevy Chase,
who several months ago announced
her intention 10 oppose the incum-
bent, Mrs. Katherine Byron, in the
race for the Democratic Congress
sional nomination, declared that
she was withdrawing from the pri-
mary fight in favor of Colonel Lee.
Explaining that she originally en-
tered the race chiefly to make GER
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
Sen. Willis To Speak
At Potomac Church

United States Senator Raymond
E. Willis Of Indiana will be guest
speaker at the IL o'clock service
this Sunday morning at the Meth
odist Church in Potomac. The Rev.
E. C. Soper, pastor of the Church,
will introduce Senator Willis, who
has been extremely active in In
diana church affairs.
Another guest speaker at the
church this Sunday will be Judge
Thompson, formerly of Eldbrooke
Methodist Church, Washington,
who will address joint session Of
the ladies' and mems Bible classes
at 9:45.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
Falkland Church Guild
Plans Lawn Party Aug. 6

The annual lawn party of the
Guild of st. Marks Church, Fair
land, viii be held at the parish
house of the church on Thursday,
August 6, from 5 to 8 P. M. A
fried chicken and ham supper will
be served.
At the July meeting of the Guild
at the home Of Mrs. Roy Snyder,
Burtonsville, the group decided
that as many church activities as
possible should be carried on dur
ing the current emergency as an
aid to home defense.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
Charter Committee Opens
New Office In Bethesda

The Montgomery County Chart
err Committee this week opened an
office at 7649 Georgetown road,
Bethesda. Mrs. John r. Werner,
acting executive secretary, has
been placed in charge of the Office.
According to Mrs. Werner, the
new office will serve chiefly as as
an information center from which
will be distributed literature pre-
pared by the Charter Committee.
Allen H. Gardner of Silver Spring
is chairman of the Charter Com
mittee.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
County Congress Endorses
Democratic Primary Slate
Backs OConor, Tawes And Walsh For Re
Election; Several Hundred Delegates Hail
Lieut.-Col. Lee AS Man For Hour In Congress
siOnal Race; Hampton Named For State Senate

tain that Montgomery County
would have a Congressional candi-
date, she expressed complete APP
proval of Col. Lees candidacy and
pledged him her support in the
coming primary campaign.
The motion for endorsement of
Col. Lees candidacy was offered
by J. Bond Smith Of Takoma Park
and seconded by Joseph A. Can
trel, Park Commissioner Lacy
Shaw, Miss Ruth Shoemaker,
Eugene J. Casey, County Commits
sioner T. Earle Hampton, James
B. Fitzgerald, Royal Carlock, Al
bert Walker, William L. Aud and
Andrew M. Newman. All these
speakers hailed the veteran coun-
ty leader as "the man for the
hour pointing to his service with
the A.E.F. in the first World War
and his knowledge of wartime
and postwar conditions.
In brief talk, Col. Lee express
ed his gratitude, both for the en-
dorsement of the Congress and for
what he termed the complete UNI
ity within the Democratic party
for the first time in many years."
The Congress also endorsed the
candidacy of w. Clinton .McSherry
of Frederick for the Democratic
nomination for chief judge of the
Sixth judicial Circuit on the motion
Of State Senator Robert Peter, Jr.
Miss Ruth Shoemaker, retiring
member of the House of Dele
gates, placed the name of Thomas
Earle Hampton, president of the
Board of County Commissioners,
in nomination as candidate for
State senator. The Congress also
approved as candidates for the
House of Delegates, James w. Gill,
Stanton Peelle, Jr., Benjamin C.
Wilkinson, Jr., Royal Carlock, Mrs.
Ralph A. Wells and Ulysses Grit
fifth, 4th. Other county candidates
approved were:
County Commissioners: Richard
H. Lansdale, First District; W.
Lawson King, Second District;
Harvey J. White, Third District;
William H. Prescott, Fourth Dis
trict, and Lacy Shaw, Fifth Dis
trict.
County treasurer, John B.
Diamond (incumbent). Sheriff, r.
Watt Farmer. Clerk of Circuit
Court, Clayton X. Watkins Tin
cumbent). States attorney, Joseph
B. Simpson, Jr., Register of Wills,
Hanson G. Cashell (incumbent)..
Judges Of Orphans Court, Chief
Judge Carey e. Quinn and Associ-
ate Judges Lewis Hobbs and Einar
B. Christensen (incumbents).
County surveyor, Robert X. Mad
dox (incumbent).
State Central Committee, Lacy
Shaw, ]. Forest Walker, A. A.
Moxley, Roger Shaw, Alfred D.
Noyes and Mrs. Edith p. Allnutt.
Delegates to State convention,
Joseph A. Cantrel, James B. Fitz-
gerald, Mrs. A. e. Merritt, New
ton Brewer, George A. Davis,
Louis A. Yost, Jr., and Luke J.
Bennett, Jr.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
Commuters Group Makes
Survey Of Rockville
Areas Motorists

Acting to reach all automobile
commuters in a drive to make car
pooling a success in the Rockville
area, the Rockville Commuters
Association conducted a highway
survey last Friday, July 10. Work
ing in conjunction with Montgom-
cry County Police, all automobile
travelling toward Washington on
the Rockville Pike or the Viers
Mill Road were stopped by police
and presented postcards to be
mailed to police headquarters in
Rockville.
Information gathered by this
highway survey will be presented
the Montgomery County War
Price and Rationing Board for use
in allotting supplementary gas ra-
tions to motorists using their cars
for driving to work. To this infor-
nation will be added data gathered
in a previous survey made by the
Commuters Association. The entire
community will have been covered,
it was felt.
While the peak OF the commuter
travel ran between GAS and 1880
A. NJ, volunteers worked with the
police between the hours of 600
A. M. and 9: 90 A. M. in order to
reach the maximum number of
committing drivers.
Leroy Sherman, president of the
Commuters Association, stated "It
is a patriotic service to cooperate
with the ration board and the
police in obtaining the maximum
use of private transportation fac
ilities. This survey will make avail
able to the War Price and Ration
Board information that will help
them apportion our limited gas
supply in the most effective fash
ion. We are cooperating fully with
the board as a patriotic service"
The postcard distributed to
drivers asks for pertinent informa-
ton regarding the travel habits of
the driver, and also contains the
following statement: "This trans
portation survey is being conduct
ed by the Rockville Commuters
Association for the guidance of the
Montgomery County War Price
and Rationing Board in conjunc-
ton with the Montgomery County
Police. Your cooperation is earn
estly requested. Please mail this
card today. Remember pooling
your car effects your new gas ra-
ton"
Emphasis was placed on the
need for returning the cards
promptly in order that information
might be in the hands Of the ra-
ton board as soon as possible.
Members of the executive commit
tee sponsoring this survey are:
Leroy Sherman, L. M. Able, Mrs.
R. F. Erb, E. Ashley Bayne, Cap
tain, David Belts, D. F. Prince, and
Mrs. Gordon Beam, all of Rock
vile.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
Wins Science Honor

Word has been received here
that Commander w. Frank Grimes
II. S.N., has been awarded the hon
orary degree of Master of Science
at recent exercises of the Univers-
ity of Southern California for dis
tinguished achievement in the field
of science. Commander Grimes, a
resident of San Marine, Calf, is
nephew of Mrs. Julian F. Wal
tiers of Rockville and has been a
frequent visitor to Montgomery
County.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
Local Delegates Report
On Baptist Assembly

Eleven delegates represented the
Rockville Baptist Church at the
summer assembly held at Brad
dock Heights, Nd, July $40.
Members Of this group reported to
the Baptist Training Union ON the
assembly, and others will report at
the Sunday School session this
Sunday morning.
The delegates included the
Misses Evangeline Carlisle, Isa-
belle Dick, Goldie M. Foster, Mary
e. Howes, Mary L. Mullican and
Marie Coffey, and the Messrs.
Arthur Fleming, Charles L. Lowe,
Phillip Gates, Bobby Mills and
Billy Mills.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
Minister Returns
To Rockville From
War Prison Camps
Rev. Gather p. Warfield
Visits Father Here After
Months In Poland; Was
Prisoner OF Russians And
Nazis

Months spent in Russian and
German concentration camps be-
hind him, the Rev. Gather P. War
field, Methodist missionary to Po-
land, returned b his native Rock
vile on Monday afternoon of this
week to visit his father, DR.. R. c.
Warfeld. With him were his
Polish-born wife and their adopted
daughter, seven-year-old Monica.
The visit was Mr.. Warfield's
first to his former hometown
since 1888. Returning in that
year to Warsaw, where he was
superintendent of Methodist mis-
sions in Poland, he soon found
himself in the middle of the Russo
German war. After being inn
prisoned first by the Russians,
then by the Nazis, he finally won
his freedom a month ago through
arrangements by the neutral Swiss
government. He and his family
arrived in the United States last
week aboard the diplomatic ex-
change ship Drottningholm.
When bombs began raining on
Warsaw in September, 1889, Mr..
Warfield left the doomed city on a
bicycle. Before he was able to
reach haven of safety he met the
advancing Russian army and by
mistake was imprisoned with sew
eral thousand Polish captives.
Food was extremely scarce in the
Russian prison camps md Mr..
Warfield nearly starved before he
was released about six weeks later,
having kept alive during that time
on a ration of black bread.
Undaunted, he returned to War
saw and, after recovering from
the worst ravages of malnutrition,
resumed his mission work. He con-
tinued at these duties until the
bombing of Pearl Harbor brought
the United States into the war.
He then was arrested by the Nazis
spent month in Warsaw politi-
cal prison and from there was TAX
en- to an internment camp in Ger
many.
Of his treatment at the hands of
the Germans, Mr.. Warfield had
little to say, admitting that he
feared that the Gestapo might
make reprisals upon relatives still
in Poland if he "talked too much"
The diet at the German camp,
however, proved a little more sub
stantial than that he had received
from the Russians, ne said. The
Nazis provided ration composed
chiefly of thin soup, potatoes,
black bread and peppermint tea,
with an occasional allotment of
meat, oleomargarine and MARINA
lade.
Mr.. Warield and his family now
are staying at the home of his
brother, Robert L. Warfeld, near
Frederick, Md. He has no plans
for che immediate future, he said,
but plans to rest for few months.
Meanwhile, his young daughter,
who speaks and understands only
Polish, is becoming acquainted
with such American delicacies as
ice cream.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
League Board To Meet

Members of the board of the
Montgomery County League of
Women Voters will hold their
monthly meeting tomorrow (Fri-
day. at the home of the president,
Mrs. Dean Dinwoodey, 63O6 Beech
wood drive, Chevy Chase. The
session will open at 10 A. M.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16
Thought Of The Week

"All service is the same with Cod"
Robert Browning.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16

Not every citizen who returns
from the battlefront knows what
occurred in the battle areas.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-16

position. Woe to
the leaders, how
ever, who fail to
properly interpret
the public's atti-
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Green Calls 70! Rebels
To Return 10 'Labor's S House
a, tn, A.sociated presx

B! the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June l8.-William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, today renewed
his invitation to ''all those who left
us in 1885 to come back home and
take their place in the house Of
labor"
Referring to the dispute between
Phillip Murray, president of the
CIO and John L. Lewis, president
of the United Mine Workers of
America, Mr.. Green said "the rebel
movement is now in the name-call-
ings stage" while the AFL was at
tempting to bring about solidarity
in labor"
Speaking before a cheering con-
vention of the Pattern Makers
League Of North America, Mr. Green
predicted that the C1O unions would
come back to the AFL.
They are at each others throat
and we are happy family" he said.
Il trust and hope we will never pre-
sent such a picture to the American
people as the rebel movement has
presented"
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Willis Declares New Deal
Is Issue Of Fall CAMPAIGN
s. tie Associated Press.

bs 'Lt hSeUCldtSu rTcSs.
INDIANAPOLIS June l8.-Sen-
ator Willis, Republican, of Indiana
keynoted the Indiana Republican
Convention today with an assertion
that the only real issue" of this
years political campaign is the New
Deal itself.
New Deal groups" the Senator
said. have sworn to defeat men of
both parties who have actually voted
for every so-called defense measure
asked for by the President. Why,
then, are these marked men?
They are listed for political as
sassination in the fall elections be-
cause they dared to oppose-not de-
fense measures, not war measures
but New Deal social reform legisla-
ton.
Thus. the New Dealers have in
advertently recognized that the real
issue of this campaign is not the
war. Instead, the issue is the New
Deal itself"
James E. Watson. 77-year-old
former Senator, predicted general
sales tax would be enacted by Con-
gress. Four years ago the veteran
Watson strobe angrily from the
same coliseum after the State con-
vention stopped his attempted po-
litical comeback. Mr.. Watson sought
the senatorial nomination in that
convention, but Mr.. Willis was the
choice.
Only State ofice nominations were
at issue in todays convention.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Court Ruling Clears Way
For New Jersey Racing
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TRENTON, N. j., June 18.-The
New Jersey Supreme Court, deny
ing an application for review of a
horse racing law, removed today the
final bar to the States first running
races with legalized betting since the
1905.
The law permits pari-mutuel bet
ting and under it the Garden State
Racing Association has obtained a
license for a race meeting near
Camden July l8 to September IL
The only parti-mutuels since the
gambling was legalized in 1899 have
been at trottting events and steeple-
chase events.
The court turned down an ap-
plication by four Delaware Town
ship property owners for a review
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Mexican Planes Hunt
Prow|ing Axis Craft;
Anxious for Action
Bomb-Louded Petrol Ships
Ordered to Attack
And Sink on Sight
By the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, June 18.-Loaded
with bombs, patrol planes of the
Mexican air force are securing the
waters of the Pacific and Gulf OF
Mexico under orders to attack and
sink on sight" all prowling U-boats
and other craft belonging to Ger
many, Italy and Japan against
whom Mexico declared war less than
three weeks ago.
Gen. Roberto Fierro, chief of mil
itary aviation. also reported yester-
day that there was constant eX-
change of information and complete
collaboration on both coasts" be-
tween the air commands of Mexico
and the United States to combat
enemy raids on Allied shipping.
From bases scattered along our
shorelines,' Gen. Fierro said. our
pilots are winging far out to sea.
searching for the enemy everywhere
We have no news of any encounters
yet. but our flyers hope it will not
OC lOllS OpDol
tunity to fire their machine guns
and loose their bombs against an
enemy"
Mexico's anti-AXis vigilance will
become steadily more effective. Gen.
Fierro stated. as more medium
bomber and scout planes arrive from
the United States to strengthen this
Nations air force and fill certain
gaps in the present' 'patrol system.
In recent days IL modern patrol
planes have landed here to be i'm
mediately assigned to duty on both
coasts.
Gen Fierro said Mexico is pre-
pared to develop two or three thou
sand pilots who could render VAL
liable service to the cause of the
United Nations" but that war de-
mands had made it difficult for the
lime being to obtain sufficient planes
from the United States.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Macarthur Takes
Greatest Pride
In Fotherhood
re Associated Press.

EN lfe hSSONldlto FTeSs.
NEW YORK, June l8.-Gen.
Douglas Macarthur cabled the Ma
tional Fathers Day Committee
today that while he was proud to
be soldier, Il am prouder, infinitely
prouder, to be father"
Chosen by the committee as out
standing American father of 1912"
Gen. Macarthur replied:
Nothing has touched me more
deeply than the act of the National
Fathers Day Committee. BY pro-
fession l am soldier and take pride
in that fact, but I am prouder,
infinitely prouder, TO be a father.
A soldier destroys in order to build.
The father only builds, never de-
stroys. The one has the potential-
ties of death, the other embodies
creation and life. And while the
hordes of death are mighty, the
battles Of life are mightier still. NV
hope is that my son, when l am
gone. will remember me not from
the battle but in the home repeating
with him our simply daily PRAYER,
Our Father who art in heaven
Signed,
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR"
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Arnold Calls Fear of Slump
Boil and Chain on War Output

preston to come after the war is
ended
"A nation that fears production,
that regards it as a step toward q
new depression which should be
tolerated only during an emergency.
ert,-; the race f'r product'o1 drag
ging a ball and chain"
Mr.. Arnold said business or labor
organizations cannot bring to pro-
duction the enthusiasm required by
the war effort If they spend half
their time "devising ways to control
and restrict future production" and
added:
Each powerful organization in
our economy is busy laying down its
own selfish strategy to protect it.
self against the postwar depres-
sion that is supposed to come from
full production. 1t Is In essence an
attack on capitalism as = way Of
economic life"
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Synthetic Tires Seen
By Gillette in 8 Months
After Plants Are Built
Bill Is Introduced
In Senote to Increase
Artificial Supplies
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
ire Associated Press.

tEaFucr StOfv on rage h-I.b
B. IRE Associated Press.
Production of tires within eight
months after construction of syn
thetic rubber manufacturing plants
is authorized was predicted today
by Senator Gillette. Democrat. Of
Idaho as legislation was introduced
designed to create an agency to in
crease supplies Of artificial elastic.
The measure. conceived by the
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee OF
which Senator Gillette is chairman.
would establish rubber supplies
agency with sole authority over pro-
duction of synthetic rubber derived
from alcohol obtained from farm or
forest products.
Rubber from farm crops can be
produced at reasonable costs, needs
less precious materials for plant
construction and most vitally i'm
portant." Senator Gillette said. We
can produce tires in eight months
from the time plant construction is
authorized.
TT is shameful to have this pro-
gram stalled bv anv one thinking OF
post war competition in the rubber
and alcohol industries. Lost time
means loss of lives, prolonging the
war and tremendous loss to our en-
tire city and farm people In every
walk of life"
Meanwhile. Senator Thomas. DEM
ocrat. of Oklahoma, member OF
the subcommittee, told the Senate
that -four major rubber companies
we're trying to get control of the en-
tire synthetic program so that they
might stand to gain when the war
is over" He named "the big four
as Goodrich. Firestone, Goodyear
and another" and said they supplied
dollar-a-year men and technicians
to war production agencies, alleging
they thus controlled decisions as to
ALLEGATION of funds and plants for
the program.
The plan to create rubber sup
plies agency" was the first congress
sional threat to Donald M. Nelson S
overall control of war production.
Senators who participated in draft
ing the proposed legislation said 1t
would coordinate activities now
directed by separate WPB units
under Mr Nelson.
Evening star., 1942-06-18


bows of 10 should be taken before
men more than 30 years of age
with families Senator Taft told
his colleagues. I'VE should also de-
eide whether volunteering should
longer be allowed
He said he thought it unlikely that
married men over 80 years old with
families ever would be needed for
active service, adding that he
thought it wise for selective service
to make a definite ruling on the
status of these men.
Maybank Cites Illiteracy.
Senator Maybank, Democrat. of
South Carolina interrupted Senator
Taft to note that a large number
of illiterates" in his State were
anxious to serve in the armed forces,
but had been deferred under present
selective service regulations.
Senator Maybank suggested that
some married men could be deferred
if some way were found to educate
those illiterates, many of whom were
unmarried
Senator Taft said he understood
this now was being handled by reg
ulationS under selective service.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican
of Michigan asked if Senator Taft's
proposal for deferring men would
be retroactive so that family men
already called to duty might be
returned.
Senator Taft said this would be
very difficult because family men
already drafted we're scattered all
over the world"
Senator Vandenberg said it would
injure morale if married men who
had been drafted knew those at
home we're being deferred Senator
Taft agreed, but said these men
already faced this situation.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Planners
Continued From First Page

been completed as a result of con-
demnation awards which the Com
mission approved today. The total
area acquired embraces four and
a half acres.
Other minor land acquisitions
were approved in the Fort Reno
recreation area in the northwest
section, in the Watts Branch Sec
ton in the northeast, in Fort Du-
pont Park in the southeast. and
IN AnacoStia Park back of St. Eliza
beth's Hospital. southeast.
Anacostia Acre Acquired.
About one acre was acquired fcr
AnacoStia Park, on which the i'm
mediate erection of four family fats
was threatened. The land is located
at East Capitol street and Anacostia
avenue.
The Commission studied prelimi
nary estimates from the Bureau o.
Public Roads for the proposed park.
way from the South Capitol stree
bridge to Suitland, Md, designed u
serve new Federal buildings being
erected there. 1t involves the con.
struction of under and over passes
Since the project is in such pre-
]iminary stage, no publicity wa
gwen to estimated costs.