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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15
AMONG THE
HOMEMAKERS

Mrs. A. C. Wilkins, chairman
+ Peace Program for Potomac
alley Club led very fine dis
ussion on the need to plan fol
'eace. Editorials, weekly news
and magazine articles were the
basis for the discussion. Mrs
E. P. Fenton and Mrs. A. p
Booth were hostesses. Mrs
Bortz had given the soy bean
-four demonstration so Miss Tur.
Liner talked on the need for ade-
quate proteins at this meeting
The nursery sponsored by several
club members of this area was
reported to be a success and now
self-supporting.
Mrs. c. w. Xander was hostess
to the new club of Glenmont :
Layhill. IL members are carry
ing the nutrition project.
q
In Laytonsville the April meet
ing was held at the home of
Mrs. Eugeen Kengla with the
president, Mrs. Samuel Riggs pre-
siding. Mrs. Ethel Taylor spoke
on the peace of peoples of 81
nations and their form of gov
eminent. Mrs. Edwin Fry was
appointed chairman of a COM
mittee to arrange for a card
party to raise funds for the re-
pairing of the Red Cross sewing
machines. Mrs. Fry reported her
Al girls had turned in IA books
for servicemen. She also gave
the demonstration on the use Of
soya -four, and passed out sam
pies. Mrs. William Langdon
spoke for the Women's Land
Army.
Mrs. Walter Pack of Rockville
went to Browningsville with Miss
Turner and Mrs. Beall last
Thursday to help finish up final
details in the upholstering school
held at the home of Mrs. Frank
Gladhill, All the workers en-
joyed Mrs. Gladhill's fine ,vege-
table soup, salad and lime pie.
On the way home the group
stopped at the home of Mrs. ]. B.
Diamond where the Gaithersburg
Woman's Club was meeting. Miss
Turner talked to the club about
rationing and an adequate diet.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15

Well, we spent the weekend
along the banks of the Potomac
in the Mount Vernon--Fort Bel
voir vicinity-not really, you
know-but through the pages of
Dorothy Troth Muirs' book, "Po-
tomac Interlude," which just came
from the publisher this month
Having received a copy in Satur-
days late mail we sat up until
we finished reading it, in the wee
hours of Sunday morn.
Mrs. Muir, now a resident of
Washington Grove, has written
what is really sequel to the
stories usually heard of this his
toric area. Her book is an an
swer to "and then what hap
pened?" It tells what became of
Washington's estate after it was
divided.
Very few people know that
after the day of George Wash
ington, the Mt. Vernon neighbor-
hood became a Quaker Colony
covering $4,000 acres. First to
come were Chalkley Gillingham
and Jacob Troth, seeking timber
for ship building on the Della
ware River. They bought the
GUSTS -Woodlawn-in 1876
and in the next few years about
40 other Quaker families came
down and Joined them.
Some of the leading families of
Evesham Township, a Quaker
town in New Jersey, had descend
ants in the group that moved to
Virginia-the Ballingers, Bortons,
Collins, Evans, Engles, Ewes, Gar
diners, Garwoods, Haines, Hew-
lings, Lippincotts, Matlacks,
Moores, Pricketts, Sharps, Troths,
and Wills-many of them related
directly or by marriage, as it was
still against the discipline of
the Friends to marry out of
meeting"
For about fifty years these
Quakers on the Potomac and
those in other colonies in Mary
land, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania visited back and forth, and
when not visiting they wrote let
tiers, many of which are still in
existence. Some of these were
written like journals and had
gone the rounds of the family in
the old custom.
From these letters, from "mem-
DRY books" and from her grand
fathers recollections Mrs. Muir
has compiled her book. There
is bit of the days of Washington
in it-how he rode hounds with
the Chichester family-how Ben
jamin Hallowell came from his
Boys School in Alexandria to
visit with the Washingtons at
Mt. Vernon.
Around Civil War days two of
the Troth girls went to school at
Fair Hill, at Olney = now the
property of Lieut.. Brockett Muir,
brother-in-law of the writer. One
of them-Maria-had written in
her memory book of the night the
girls at "Fair Hill" passed notes
out the window to boys from the
school at "Stanmore"l"I think it
is scandalous," she wrote. Maria
also wrote of the quarrels be-
tween the girls of the North and
the South at this time-and how
the Southern girls cried so hard
when they hard of Stonewall
Jackson's death that they were
unable to eat their dinners.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15

the meeting. Responses to roll
call were excerpts from old maya
zines and current events. Mrs.
John Wade was named to repre-
sent the club at the Baltimore
meeting. The next meeting will
be at the home Of Mrs. Walter
Mobley, at which time officers
will be elected.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15

Every dollar you put into War Bonds will
bring you dollar plus interest.
So the more Bonds you buy the better
for you. Americans - Get Tough - with
yourselves - for your country.
There ore different types Of D. s. Government sseurfies
Choose ihe ones best suited for you:
United States Var Savings Bonds---Series e. The
perfect investment for individual and family saw
ings. Gives you back "a for every 50 when the
Bond natures. Designed especially for the
smaller investor. Dated LIST day Of month In which
payment 10 received. Interests 1900 a year IL
held to maturity. Denominations, S25, $50, 800,
$500, $1,000. Redemption, any time 90 DAYS
after issue date Price, 1870 of maturity value
2129o TreGsury Bonds Of I964-I060. Readily
marketable, acceptable bank collateral, these
Bonds are ideal investments for trust funds, es-
tates and individuals. A special feature provides
that they may be redeemed at par and accrued
interest for the purpose of satisfying Federal
estate taxes. Dated April Is, 1913; due June Is,
1869. Denominations: $500, $1,000, $4,000. So.
600, 100000 and Sl,OOO,OOO. Redemption,
Not caIlabIe till June IS, 1864; thereafter at par
and accrued interest any interest date at
months notice. Price, par and accrued interest.
Other Securities; Series "C'' Tax Notes, No5
Certificates of Indebtedness, goo Treasury Bonds
of I95O-l952; United States Savings Bonds Sc
ries United States Savings Bonds Series &C."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15

Men who give up jobs in civil
ian life to fight at $50 a month
find it difficult to understand the
wrangling in this country over
higher pay and increased prices.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15

president Of the Student Council.
His other activities include CO.
captainship of the basketball
team, membership in the Glee
Club and Trigonometry Club.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15
WOMEN'S CLUB
ACTIVITIES

The United Nations was the
theme of the 44th annual meeting
of the Maryland Federation of
Women's Clubs held this week
in the Lord Baltimore Hotel in
Baltimore.
Speakers at the dinner on
Wednesday included Capt. Cotton
Minchin of the British Embassy I;
Col. Richard O'Connell of Balti-
more; Sonora Carmen Vial de
Senoret, of the Chilean Embassy,
and Mrs. Hester Beall Provenson,
OF the University of Maryland.
Greetings were brought by the
Minister of Luxembourg, Hughes
de Calais, and by the second sec
rotary of the Chinese Embassy,
Kien-wen-Yu.
Most of the 10 clubs of the
Montgomery County Federation
sent delegates to the meeting,
headed by their president, Mrs.
Vestus Wilcox, with Mrs. S.
Merhle Haines, fifth district edi-
tor in charge of registration in
the absence of Mrs. Gibson, Gre
dentials chairman.
$50
Miss Edythe Turner was the
guest speaker at a meeting of
the Gaithersburg Woman's Club
held Thursday at the home of
Mrs. ]. B. Diamond. Miss Tur-
ner had for her subject, war
time Nutrition"
In the absence of the presi-
dent, the second vice-president,
Mrs. Samuel Riggs, conducted
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15

One way to fight imitation is
to increase your contribution to
the support of your church; let
it have an opportunity to find a
good way to spend surplus cash.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15

The persons who escaped the
FRANKS Of the April first jokers
should be on guard lest an auto
mobile runs over them. You can't
be lucky always.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-04-15

q MERICA Let's be frank about it i.
"a SO far, many of us back home have
"a been fighting this war from an easy
chair. Many of us have bought War Bonds
out of extra cash, out of money we didn't
miss too much. We haven't been really
tough with ourselves.
But this war is hard, down-toreality
war. And many of our boys are dying in it.
We've got 70 buy MORE
So your government asks you to buy
Bonds and more Bonds--to get really tough
with yourself. We're asking you to give up
the frills and "extras.''
We know how human it is not to make
sacrifices until the crisis drives us to it. In
England they felt the same way until the
bombs started falling.
Bombs are such persuasive things. But
just as persuasive ought to be the spirit of
our brothers, sons, husbands.
II you could see
Look at it this way-suppose you had a
magic carpet that could take you to Africa
and New Guinea. Suppose you could hear
the grOan of American boys wounded, and
American boys dying. -. Say now, how
many Bonds would you buy?
Thof kind Of war
THEY %. are dying. And they will keep ON
dying until we drown the enemy in an over
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
The MoscoU Conference

Washington correspondents for the
press associations and some of the
country's metropolitan dailies as
well as the network broadcasters
lived on needles and pins for more
than a day and a half before the
news of the agreements reached at
Moscow were released.
There have been many bad leak
ages in advance of important inter-
national events recently. The state
department, the Office of War In
formation and the Office of Censor
ship have done their best to protect
American newspapers and radio
against these violations of prema-
ture release of important stories
involving foreign countries. The
leaks usually have come through
foreign officials who whisper
few hints to some of their news
men friends. They also sometimes
occur when news dispatches, radioed
in advance for later release, are
picked up by the enemy or are di-
vulged in neutral countries.
Every effort was made to prevent
such leaks in connection with the
Moscow conference. The question
of safety of the lives of British and
American negotiators was involved.
1t was feared that if the fact that
the conference was over was pub
licly revealed, the enemy might be
on the watch to shoot down the
planes carrying Secretary of State
Hull and British Foreign Minister
Eden and their parties.
Some of us who were affected,
learned on the Saturday before the
Monday of their official release that
copies of the agreements had
reached the state department earli-
er. We had guessed as much since
the President commented on the
success of the agreement the day
before in his press and radio con-
ference. We were told we would
receive copies as far in advance as
possible which meant that someone
representing the various news agen-
cies and networks had to be on duty
day and night. Finally, the word
came Monday morning that the mes
sages were available and they were
given out at ten o'clock for release
at one o'clock. We, therefore, had
three hours in which to digest the
five separate documents.
Fortunately for me, the one
O'Clock release made it possible for
me to report the story minute and
10 seconds after it was given out on
my one o'clock network broadcast.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
RUSSIA:
attack Last Railroad

Russia's last north-south railway
came under the attack of Red troops
as they pressed forward on a TO-
mile front west of recaptured Kiev.
AS the Russians drove against the
railroad, other forces of their army
continued attacks on Newell, less
than so miles from the Latvian
border in the north, and on Krivoi
Rog in the south.
At Krivoi Rog, the Germans con-
tinued to hold open an escape cor
rider for the last columns of Nazi
forces pulling out of the huge bend
of the Dnieper river, where early
Russian attacks had threatened
them with enlightenment.
Crossing into the eastern Crimea
from the Caucasus, strong Russian
forces drew up for a major attack
on the $4,000 German troops report
edly massed in the huge peninsula,
guarding the Black sea. The Nazis
held their ground at the north en-
trance to the Crimea.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
TIRES:
Continued Shortage

Although production of synthetic
rubber is expected to total $4,000
tons in 1914 compared with 233, 1000
tons this year, only about 80 million
tires will be manufactured to meet
needs of essential users of cars, light
delivery trucks, taxis and farm We
hicles. Ordinarily, so million tires
are made year.
Tightness in the civilian tire sup
ply will prevail because of military
requirements, scarcity of manpower
to operate fabricating equipment,
reduction in the peace time inven-
tory of tires, shortage of rayon cord
for heavy duty tires, and the cut in
crude rubber imports.
To obtain maximum use of pres
ent tires, the rubber Manufacturers
committee counseled drivers to pre-
serve their tire carcasses, or bodies,
for recapping by protecting the walls
and not running down treads. Fur
Their, the committee advised low
speeds, adequate air for tubes, and
proper alignment for wheels and
axleS.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
Government Needs Reports
On u. 5. Holdings Abroad
Form TFR-500 Supplies Valuable Information
Concerning American Stake in Foreign
Lands, Aids Reconstruction.
By BAUKHAGE
Ne,Us Analyst and Commentator.

affected by the war. Also there is
the question of claims for damage
to American property.
There are more than 100 people in
the state department alone who are
now working on postwar plans. One
OF the most important phases of this
work is the reopening of trade with
the war areas as well as the rest of
the world. Of course, the terms I'M
der which the trade is reopened may
depend on the industrial possibilities
OF the various areas; and how soon
the controls of foreign exchange can
be dropped will depend, in a large
part. on the extent of the u S. and
other foreign holdings of the obliga-
tons of the country in question. All
this will affect our exporters here
as well as American interests in
foreign countries.
The treasury department, as you
know, has drawn up the White plan
for international sterilization; the
British government has the Keynes
plan.
None of these projects, treasury
officials said to me, which vitality af-
feet the postwar movements of trade
and capital, can be intelligibly
planned and certainly cannot be put
into effect without adequate knowl-
edge of the value and type of United
States interests and the number and
character of the persons having
those interests.
Many other important business
negotiations such as private loans
to foreign countries, direct invest
ments by American corporations,
furthering the good neighbor policy,
will be affected by the informa-
ton in the governments hands. For
instance, if the government can say
definitely that in a certain area there
is very little capital invested in a
certain type of enterprise and it is
known such an enterprise might be
enlarged there, the government
might be able to encourage COM
panies with foreign experience to
develop such an enterprise.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
At Japs' Rear

Pursuing his policy of pinching off
Japanese strongholds in the South
west Pacific by cutting off their COM
munications, Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thur has established U. S. forces to
the rear of the enemy's important
forward base of BUN on Bougain-
vile island in the Solomons.
With U. S. marines and dough-
boys standing astride the Japs' COM
munication lines leading to BUN,
they were in position to strike
against the enemy supplies, and his
main body from the rear.
Bougainville is the Japs' last i'm
portant holding in the Solomons, and
apparently they were determined to
take advantage of the wild nature of
the humid, tropical isle for another
long, delaying action.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
Transfer No. Z95S5.

pANHOLDER styles to please
everyone. There is pair of
plump, pink "porkers," flower be-
decked, to protect your hands from
hot pans; coy peach is wooed by
a boy pear for another gay duo.
The round-eyed twin babies would
surely call your attention to the
pan that was boiling dry. Plate,
sugar and dreamer panholders
duplicate your best china. The fifth
set of panholders is for you to
piece from your prettiest prints.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions. slightly more
time is required in filling orders for a
few of the most popular pattern numbers.
These five sets are included in Transfer
No. Z9585. The price is Is cents. Send
your order to:
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26

U. S.-will furnish nearly 9k million
tons, Great Britain 81 million tons,
Europe 20 million tons, and other
regions million tons. Congress will
appropriate the funds for American
participation.
Slated for appointment as direc-
tor general of the relief and rehabili-
tation administration was former
Governor Herbert Lehman of New
York. Purpose of the administration
is to tide over distressed people of
reconquered areas until they can put
their factories and land back into
production.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
u. S. CASUALTIES:
Total I2O.067

U. S. casualties totaled 100, 967 for
almost two years of war, with the
army reporting 9,648, and the navy
31,317.
Of the army casualties, 1884
were killed, 30,263 wounded, 1882
missing and 22,592 prisoners. Since
the landing at Salerno, September 9,
the U. S. suffered 1856 casualties in
Italy, with 1925 killed, 4,764 wound
ed and 2,497 missing.
Of the navy casualties, l2,548 are
dead, 5,542 wounded, 5000 missing,
and 4,228 prisoners.
Of the nearly 1900, 900 men in the
army, about 2,500,O00 men will be
serving abroad by the end of the
year.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
CHILD DELINQUENCY:
Supervision Needed

During the last year, delinquency
among girls has increased SO per
cent and among boys II per cent,
Katherine Lenroot, chief of the chill
dren's bureau of the department of
labor, declared.
With 515 million women with chill
dren under IA years of age work.
ing, and many fathers in service or
sleeping days, general weakening
in home supervision is a contribut-
ing cause for the delinquency, Miss
Lenroot said. More than one million
more women will be needed in in
dustry this year, she reported.
Other factors of delinquency, Miss
Lenroot asserted, are lack of school
facilities in war-expanded conmu-
mites, and the increase in child Ia
Dor to five million this year.
"There would be little juvenile de-
linquency today if children we're
treated as as much of an emergency
as armament production" Miss
Lenroot concluded.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26

RAISE: With the new increase
allowed by the War Labor board
test pilot inspectors will earn about
$40 a month. A 81 an hour bonus
was allowed for this extremely haz-
ardous work. -. ~.
DIAMOND: A $50 carat diamond,
probably the eighth largest ever
found" has been dug up in Sierre
Leone, British colony on the west
coast Of Africa.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26

Five hundred Cuban youths are
fighting in the armies of the United
Nations, according to General Benz
tee Valdes, special Cuban delegate
to Mexico. Ten thousand Mexicans
are fighting in the U. S. army.
Fourteen and 15-year-old school
boys are being used to man anti
aircraft defenses in Germany, it is
said.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
b K E. f S by Baukhage

More than 100000 servicemen
per year visit USO clubs in this
hemisphere outside continental Unit
ed States.
According to the Swiss newspaper
Journal de Geneve, cigarette butts
are at premium in Berlin and an
increasing number Of persons may
be seen collecting them on the
street
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
CROPS:
Weather HELPS

Profting from favorable weather,
the 1943 corn crop was estimated at
3 billion, IS million bushels by the
department of agriculture on the ba-
sis of conditions November l. This
compared with last years record
crop of 3 billion, ITS million BUSH
els.
With October weather good and
without widespread frosts, the large
acreage of late corn reached ma
turity in Iowa, Missouri, northwest
ern Ohio, and parts of Michigan
and Indiana. Checking summer
drouths, rains perked up late corn
in the South Central states. Record
yields were in prospect for the
Northwest.
Other crop estimates for 1913:
Wheat, 1886, $1,000 bushels; oats, l.
148,692 1000; barley, 330,2l2,OOO; rye,
33,314,000; flaxseed, ST ,486, 900; soy
beans, 2O6,017 900; rice, 69,O19, 900;
potatoes, 1859, 092, 900; sugar beets, T.
239, 900 tons, and peanuts, 1881 1885,
900 pounds-record highs for rice,
potatoes and peanuts.
Hogs Cro,Ud Markets
Chicago's sprawling stockyards
teemed with over $4,000 live hogs
after a high three-day shipment of
$500 head, which compared with
1852 for the previous week and &c.
Alb for the same period of 1912.
AS a result, packers paid the
floor" of $13.75 for only the heavier
weights out of the 200 to 275 pound
range on which the government has
pledged price support. Packers OBJ
tanned many bargains in classes for
which no floor" has been con-
structed.
So called floor" prices were high
on the flooded market, equalling the
lowest tops since last December.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
Homemade Penicillin
One of medicines most precious
cures, magical penicillin, is being

produced at five
cents a plateful" by
DR.. julius A. Vogel
in the kitchen of his
Pittsburgh, Pa, res
idence. Properly
equipped, any doctor
can grow his own
supply, DR.. V0gel
says.
Plant physician for
the Jones and Laugh
lin CkHn1
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26

IL Oill III OiiltSo Ava
tons signed an
agreement for the
relief and rehabili-
tation of Europe,
with each country
providing supplies
to the limit of its
capacity.
Of the 46 million
tons of food, seed,
fuel, clothing, raw
materials, machin-
cry and Il medical
supplies that will be
needed for D Euro
pean r relief during
the six months fol-
lowing the war, the
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26

Vogel has used his penicillin to
treat external infections, with
complete cures effected in more
than a score of cases.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-11-26
ExiIeS' Contribution

The nine governments-in-exile in
London have so far contributed to
the Allied nations approximately
100000 soldiers, $1,000 aviators,
$4,000 seamen, 240 naval vessels
and about 1900 merchant ships.