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Evening star., 1944-11-02

from which there may 90 forth
faithful messengers of the Gospel" p"
Beginning promptly at 80 o'clock
the procession Of singing men and
boys, girls from the National Cathe-
dral School, diocesan clergy, men,
bers of the Cathedral Chapter and
Council and other participants
marched from the crypt through the
north porch to the Great Choir after
the Jerusalem Cross, held high by a
young crucifer, ana the American
flag and the Cathedral banner, like
wise carried aloft.
Corcoran Thorn read the pres
entation sentences and c. F. R.
Ogilby the certificate of election.
Dean Suter was vested with a tip
pet bearing the seal of the Cathe-
dral by Canon Theodore w. Wedel
and Canon C. w. F. Smith. The ar
rangements for the service were in
charge of Canon w. Curtis Draper,
jr., as master of ceremonies. James
P. Berkeley, head verger, was mar
shal, and Canon Albert H. Lucas
headmaster Of st. Adams School
for Boys, acted as Bishop Dun S
chaplain. carrying his staff
Music for the service included r
Vaughan Williams For All the
Saints" A. G. Ouseley's II Was
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Death of Youth Laid to Rabies
Contracted Over a Year Aoo

dogs death was attributed to strang-
ulation, and since the youth had not
been bitten no further examination
OF the dog was made after its death.
DR.. Byers said the youth had
played daily with the dog, and it is
believed the dogs saliva may have
entered cut or abrasion on the
youths body.
Commenting On the length of the
incubation period, DR.. Byers said
the case bore out assertions by med
ical authorities that rabies may oc-
cur as much as Il year or more after
contact with rabid animal.
The youths death is the third at
tributed to rabies in the Washing
ton area during last IL months. A
soldier who had contracted the dis
ease at the War College died in I943,
and an Arlington woman died in
March from rabies contracted when
she was attacked by a rabid dog here
in 1943.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Church, Garden Club Give
$500 10 Suburban HOSPITAL

Two 500 donations to the SUBJ
urban Hospital, Bethesda, Md, from
the Bethesda Community Garden
Club and Bethesda First Baptist
Church were revealed today.
The Garden Club funds will help
pay for the newly planted Court
Garden at the hospital. Charles
Merryman, owner of the Bethesda
Floral Gardens and the Wethered
Oak Farm, contributed the shrubs
and planting plan.
The church donation will start a
fund for paging system equipment.
During the month of October. 234
persons, including l27 emergency
cases, were admitted to the hospi-
tai. The clinic cared for 1855 persons.
and AZ babies were born there.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Elisha Hanson Backs
Charter; Two Other
Residents Oppose Il
Charles H. Merrymon
And Frederick StohImon
To Vote Against Change

Elisha Hanson. counsel for the
American Newspaper Publishers
Association and a trustee and coun-
sci for the National Geographic
Society. today announced his sup
port of the proposed Montgomery
County Charter.
Mr.. Hanson, a resident of Alta
Vista, said:
Il believe 1t (the charter to be
move in the direction of sound
government in the county and that
is why I am going to vote for it.''
Added to the list of those oppos-
ing the charter were Charles H.
Merryman, landscape architect of
the Bradley boulevard section, and
Frederick Stohlman, Chevy Chase,
a Washington attorney.
Mr.. Merryman, Republican, said
he Is believer in the two-party
system, which he believes the char
ter would abolish After consid-
cradle study of the charter" he said,
I am convinced that it is, at best,
most unusual. costly and danger
Gus experiment"
Mr.. Stohlman said he has OBJ
served the growth of the county
under its present form of govern
ment for the last Is years and does
not feel the county should change
that form for the proposed charter,
which is so radically different, rela-
lively untried and whose very cost
is unknown"
The issue is not charter VS.. politi-
cal boss rule Mr.. Stohlman said,
but is whether, in the critical days
OF postwar development that lie
ahead, we should sweep aside our
established institutions and form of
government under which the county
has been developed at reasonable
costs and adopt the charter system. "
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Upper Marlboro PTA
Launches Drive for
New! High School
Delegation to Lay Needs
Of System Before
Prince Georges Boord

Declaring that the building hous-
ing the combined elementary and
high schools in Upper Marlboro is
overcrowded and does not afford
adequate educational opportunities
for pupils in the area. the Upper
Marlboro Parent Teacher Associa-
tion has launched drive for a new
high school.
Mrs, George B. Merrick, president
of the association. said a delegation
will present its demands at the next
meeting of the Prince Georges
County Board of Education No.
vember %. -.
She said the board will be urged
to select a site for the proposed new
school and draw up plans so that
construction can start as soon as
materials are available.
The present setup, under which
the elementary and high schools are
crowded into two sections of the
same building, docs not make for
good education" according to Wilbur
A. Jones, principal.
AsAA. cOAiCS lCCdllcu tlldJ W1lcn Lle
old part of the school was built %
years ago, the enrolment totaled
241. Although playground and other
recreational facilities have not been
increased since, the enrolment has
grown to $50 while the capacity is
440. There are 800 elementary school
and 220 high school students.
Mr.. Jones said the old section
OF the building constitutes a fire
hazard.
The Parent-Teacher Association
proposes that the old building be de-
moilshed and that the new section
become six-year elementary school.
The proposed new building would be
used as a six-year high school, Mrs.
Merrick said.
Mr.. Jones explained that the shop,
home economics and commercial
rooms in the new section of the
present building would be converted
into ordinary classrooms.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
ST. Thomas More's Church
Plans School Building Fund

Inauguration of a campaign TO,
SIC. 900. to enable continuance of the
school building program of st
Thomas More's Catholic parish
Arlington, was announced today by
the Rev. Arthur j. Taylor, pastor
who said names of donors would be
inscribed on Home Front Roll OF
Honor"
Names of contributors to the funo
will be placed on a special plaque
In the church sanctuary opposits
one listing the names Of parishion.
ers who are serving in the armed
forces.
The campaign is designed to pro.
vide means for the erection of six
additional classrooms and other
equipment for the unfinished parish
school which opened in September
Father Taylor said the projected
two-story school was only part OF
an eventual expansion of parish
facilities necessitated by the growth
OF st. Thomas More's parish in. six
years from IS to approximately
5000.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Anti-Churter

The drafters of the charter
planned to kill the two party system
as far as the jurisdiction of this
pending charter allows. The charter
requires that candidates for County
Council appear on the ballot in
alphabetical order and without
party designation. The continuation
of this requirement in the other
counties, cities and States of the
Nation would eleminate the two
party system.
But consider for a moment where
these candidates for County Council
will appear in the actual voting. Re-
member that they are the only in
dividuals connected with the char
ter government, should the charter
win, the Montgomery County voters
will be allowed to vote for in the
future. The candidates for County
Council will appear on the voting
machine in the gubernatorial elec-
ton every fourth year along with
the party candidates for is State
and county constitutional Offices
from Governor through county sur
veyor, plus the party candidates for
Congress.
This arrangement for the election
of councilmen by the terms of the
charter itself certainly does not re-
move them very far from the scene
Of elections held under the party
system, but even at that the charter
does do its level best to end the
two-party system in county elec-
tions.
Under the present plan of county
government every four years all
candidates for county Office are
nominated in direct county primary
elections participated in by the
duly registered voters of the party
in question. Any voter may file as
a candidate TOR any county nomina-
ton for filing fee of $25. All
county officials are elected in the
general election by the majority
county wide vote. These officials
may be elected on the party ticket
or may run as fusion ticket or as
an independent ticket or as inde-
pendent candidates. In 1884 a fu-
sion ticket ran and won in Mont
gomery County.
These regular Quadrenniel pri-
mary and general elections give the
people of Montgomery County q
total chance to change each and
every county official or to rS-elect
any county official whose record
they support. These elections offer
a complete opportunity to destroy
the leadership of any political party,
faction or individual in Montgomery
County.
The Brookings report said about
Montgomery County elections:
Honest and efficient elections are
of vital Importance. Fortunately
this survey has found no evidences
of corruption.
The Brookings report also recon-
mended the continued use by the
county of voting machines, which
has been done. Montgomery Coun-
ty is the only Maryland county in
which voting machines are in use.
The charter plan Of holding 'elec-
tions apparently distrusts the indi-
vidual voter and so removes from
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Maryland County Schools
Report 107,768 Enrolment
Py the Associated Press

Ey the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. "A total
enrolment of 107,768 in the county
public schools of the State, an in
crease of 1,766 over last year, was
reported yesterday by Thomas G..
Pullen, jr., State superintendent of
schools. ~,
The greatest increase occurred in
Baltimore County, where elementary
pupil enrolment rose from 1855 to
l9, ,432, Mr. Pullen said.
Other counties showing an in
creased elementary enrolment were
Allegany, Anne Arundel, Calvert,
Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Garrett,
Kent, Prince Georges, Queen Anne,
Washington and Worcester.
A loss of 1913 pupils from schools
in Montgomery county was attrib-
uted to the polio epidemic which
frightened parents into keeping the
children from school, Mr.. Pullen
said.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
from YESTERDAYS Last Edition.)

fFrom YeSterd1yS Last Edttf0n.)
A 16-year-old Mount Rainier
Md) youth died at George WASH
ington University Hospital October
10 from rabies contracted 13 months
earlier from a pet dog, DR.. John M.
Byers, Prince Georges County health
officer, revealed today.
DR.. Byers said the youth became
sick October 13 and was taken to the
hospital, where he was first thought
to be suffering from encephslitis,
known as sleeping sickness" to lay
men. Post-mortem examination of
brain tissue, however, revealed that
he had rabies, DR.. Byers said.
According to the youths parents,
DR.. Byers said, he had never been
bitten by a dog. They reported that
on Labor Day, 1943. the boys pet had
been taken to a Washington vet
erinarian hospital, where it had died.
The parents told Dr.. Byers the
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Arlington Traffic Toll
Falls Sharply in October

Arlington County Police Chief
Harry L. woodward today reported
406 arrests during October-262 for
traffic offenses and IA miscellane-
Gus.
There were Is traffic accidents
during the month, the report said,
with 18 injuries and no deaths re-
sulting. This was in sharp contrast
to September, when three highway
fatalities occurred. There have been
seven so far this year.
The report also listed $4,731 in
stolen property reported. with 1858
worth recovered, In addition to s34O
Of out.of- town property recovered.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Dr. Suter Becomes Washington Cathedral Dean
In Rites Stressing House of PRAYER for AIR
Bishop Dun Strikes
Theme of Church,
Open and Free
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

Washington Cathedral as never
before is to be "a House of Prayer
for All People"
This was the theme of the i'm
pressive service of installation yes
terday for the Very Rev. John WAL
lace Suter as fourth dean of the
Cathedral.
At his induction, the new admin
istrative head of all the enterprises
of religion, education and charity
centered at Mount st. Albans de-
clared he desired church forever
open and free, welcoming all who
enter its doors to worship in spirit
and in truth"
Standing in the middle of the
sanctuary of the installation cere-
mony, DR.. Suter said: II will seek
to make this Cathedral a witness to
our common life in Christ, a place
where all may receive the faithful
administration Of Gods Holy Word
and Sacraments. I will diligently
seek to promote truth, unity and
concord, as in this city and Nation,
SO also in the whole Christian
church throughout the world
Bishop Dun Speaks.
A similar note characterized the
sermon preached by the Right Rev.
Angus Dun, Bishop of Washington,
in which he explained:
"A cathedral represents a larger,
more inclusive human grouping. - :
1t is In a position to strike the
universal note in way hardly pos
sible for local church. In the
purpose of God, however brokenly
realized by men, a cathedral Is
meant to be house of prayer where
the needs and sins and hopes and
fears and sorrows of all Gods peo-
pie could be brought before
God and seen In His light. 1t is
meant to be a place where there
will be among us a continual birth
of new freedom under God.
Here, In measure not possible
in the smaller churches, all the hu-
man arts may be brought into the
service of what Francis Thompson
called the primal beauty, the music
of voice and organ and strings; the
glory Of colored glass; the richness
of sculptured stone and the majesty
OF great architecture. Here we can
bring before God the great common
concerns of our larger life, labor
and commerce and the difficult task
Of government. 1t is our hope
that this increasingly will be place
where the most prophetic voices,
speaking for God and for the living
Christ out of many traditions, may
be heard"
Bishop Dun specifically insisted
that the Cathedral is to be "a place
where. whatever the stubborn. tragic
difficulties of particular localities,
there shall never be any segregation
or any exclusion for those who would
come before the one God who is
above all and in all and through ALL"
Same Theme in Prayer.
The new dean returned to the
same theme in the prayer at the end
of the service, appealing for divine
help to make the Cathedral . center
Evening star., 1944-11-02

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2.-Babies
A, B, G and D, born here yesterday
to the 30-year -old parents who met,
married, and lived in Washington
until two years ago, were reported
doing well' in their incubators at
Lying-In Hospital today. Theirs is
the first Caesarean operation quad
ruple delivery in medical history.
The babies, three girls and a boy,
have been designated A, B, c and D
until their mother. Mrs. Kathleen
Hatcher Cirminello, decides on
names. Joseph Cirminello, the
father. said last night he would
leave the names up to his wife be-
cause she went through the or
deal"
Mrs. Cirminello left her job as
secretary to Securities and Ex-
change Commissioner Robert K. Nc
Connaughey to enter Lying-In Hos
pital in September, to await the
Evening star., 1944-11-02
What Charter Will DESTROY.

him the right to elect any county
Official coming under the Jurisdiction
OF this charter other than the un-
paid members of the County Council.
The charter plan apparently dis
trusts the political parties made up
OF individual voters by banning them
from future councilmanic elections.
Since the present plan of voting
in Montgomery County follows the
established American two-party sys-
tenn under which the American Ma
ton, its communities, the individual
citizens and minority groups have
prospered and retained their free
doms, why change to the new plan
OF elections contained In this
charter?
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Maryland Experts Asked
To Aid Garden PROGRAM

Two members of the University
OF Maryland Extension Service staff
have been invited to participate in
the national conference to plan the
1945 Victory garden program to be
held in Washington November %
and 29
In announcing the invitations to-
day, DR.. T. B. Symons, State Exten-
sion Service director, said H. w.
Hochbaum, Federal Extension Serv-
ice official, has asked w. R. Ballard.
Maryland horticulturist and garden
specialist, and G. w. Sample, uni
verslty agricultural editor, to take
part in the conference.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Liberals Nominated
At Woshington-Lee Hiqh

Bill Ward and Gordon Pigg have
been named candidates for presi-
dent and vice president, respectively
OF the Liberal party at Washington
Lee High School, Arlington.
The two candidates were nomi-
mated Monday at a party conven-
ton, patterned on the conventions
OF the Democratic and Republican
parties. and held under the direc-
ton OF Miss Sally Loving, civics
teacher, In order to teach politics by
actual practice.
Evening star., 1944-11-02

birth of what she believed would be
twins. She was the only one in
volved who did not know of the ex-
pected quadruplets until they ar
rived. The doctor had told Mr..
Cirminello of the number of babies
expected after an X-ray
The father, now an SEC analyst,
told the Associated Press, I've lost
IL pounds worrying" He now weighs
143, is 5 feet Z inches tall.
Our prayers have been answered
fourfold," he said.
The only other child born to the
couple, also in a Caesarean opera
ton, died at birth.
At least Is milk companies con-
tacted Mr.. Cirminello and the hos
pital early today in an effort to have
the quads drink their milk, but no
commitments were made, the Asso-
ciated Press reported.
No one in either of the parents
families had ever had even twins
before. Mr.. Cirminello said.
The babies, weighing 3 to 81.
pounds each, were born between
HIP and 11:14 am. DR.. John C.
Ullery, chief obstetrician, said press
releases would be issued each morn
ing on the condition of the babies.
Babies in Good Condition"
Today's bulletin said: THE babies
all appear to be in good condition
this morning. No physical defects
have been found. Their swallowing
process is normal The boy had a
little difficulty breathing yesterday,
but his lungs are now fully ex-
panded, and he is all right as far
as his breathing is concerned.
None of the girls had any diff
Guilty IN this respect. Today the
quadruplets 90 on two-hour feelings
on milk from our milk bank. They
will receive two teaspoons each for
a time. and this quantity will be in
creased as they NE able to retain it.
They will be fed by a dropper tube
for the first few days in order to
conserve their energy.
The mother is fine. She reacted
normally in every respect from the
operation. Her temperature and
pulse are win the normal limits to be
expected after such an operation.
She is very happy at the whole
thing. Her spirits are very good"
The mother will not see her chill
dren, the hospital reported, until she
is able to walk to the nursery. That
will be about IL days.
Mr.. Cirminellos met Mrs. Cirmi-
nello when he was a messenger fol-
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission, and she an SEC stenog-
rapher. A native of Brooklyn, he
came to Washington to work for
the SEC in 1896. His 5-foot-2, 118-
pound wife, native of Oknulgee
Okla, came a year later. They
were married in 1888, and lived at
1858 Colonial terrace, Arlington, Va,
until they moved, with the SEC, to
Philadelphia in the spring of 1912
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Fairfax County Lists
Is Precinct Polls

HoliilS pldCeS LOT the 20 precincts
in Fairfax County have been desig-
mated by the County Electoral Board
as follows:
Centerville district-Centerville precinct
MRS. @; r. Turberville's residence: Clifton
preclnct Masonic Hall: Fender precinct,
x. r Goodings residence: Swetnam's pre-
cinct, Clarence Kru5es' residence: Wells,
precinct Mrs. Daisv B. Wells residence
Dranesville district-Dranesville pre-.
cMct' Dranesyille Tavern; Forestville pre-
clnct, Great Falls Grange Hall: Herndon
precinct Herndon drehouse: Pleasant
valley precinct. Rector's store: Thompson
precinct, Peter Doves store; Thornton's
precinct Wheeler's Mill
FAILS Church district-Annandale pre-
cinet, Annardaie firehouse: Falls Church
precinct, Town Hall next to State Theater:
west End: J. N. Cockrel's store
Lee district-Burke precinct J, T.
Staubs residence, Lorton precinct, old
Lorton school building; Woodyard's pre-
clnct, old store building
Mount Vernon oistrct-Accotink pre-.
' cinct' 4 s Lynn's store: Franconia pre-
precinct: Reeds store: Pulmars precinct.
graph road.
Providence district-Fairfax precinct.
Fa,rfax Courthouse; Langley precinct, Nc.
Lean hrehouse: the Lick precinct, j. r,
LLlewellyn's store: Vienna precinct Vienna
All polls will be open under virrinis
law from sunrise to sunset
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Political Rally Set TONIGHT

Former Mayor Howard w. Jack
son of Baltimore will speak on
Dangers of Fourth Term" at a
mass meeting sponsored by the Anti
Fourth Term Club of Prince Georges
County at 8 o'clock tonight in the
Masonic Hall, Hyattsville. Attorney
S. Marvin Peach also will speak.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Pro Charter

Charter provides for listing candi-
dates for the county council alpha
betically without party designation.
Through it voters will consider abil-
ity rather than party afflliation, just
as in 1912 when Charter Committee
candidates for the Charter Board
defeated the machine candidates
nearly 2 to l. Montgomery's delega-
ton to Annapolis and all other can
didates in State and national elec-
tions will continue to run under the
two-party system.
Nonpartisan elections are en-
ployed in various counties and
municipalities of more than 20
States. They have not destroyed the
two-party system. Charles P. Taft
a leader in Cincinnati's charter
movement which broke a powerful
machine and made the city gov
ernment efflcient-says that nom
partisan elections strengthened the
State and national effectiveness of
the two-party system in Cincin-
natl.
Machine and Party,
Taft's point is illustrated now in
Montgomery. The machine of the
political party in power in Mont
gomery is scarcely lifting a finger
Tor that party's national candidates
IN the present election. Because the
machine is spending its energy and
large campaign chest to defeat
charter, an independent group has
had to work for that party's ma
tlonal candidates in Montgomery.
The machine does not perform the
true functions of a political party.
1t wants spoils-jobs and contracts.
1t induces colored man on the
payroll to sign a letter to innocent
colored voters. That letter falsely
tells them that charter is a white
mans scheme to take away their
vote.
What Charter Will Destroy.
The machine fears charter and
nonpartisan elections in which the
nonpohtical type of citizen, includ-
ing large numbers of Federal en-
ployes now barred from active par
tcipation in county elections by the
Hatch Act. may take an aggressive
and wholesome part.
Charter will destroy the machine,
headed by Brooke Lee and Roger
Whiteford, his attorney for many
years, but there is a vast difference
between destroying . machine and
destroying the two-party system.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Loymen to Hear DR.. Byrd

DR.. H. C. Byrd, president of the
University of Maryland, will speak
at meeting of the Laymen's Asso-
clation of the Churches of Rockville
IN the Rockville Christian Church
Sunday evening.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Montgomery Charter Debate.

This IS the NTH OF series OF r articles presenting state
entS by both sides raised by the debate
posed Montgomery County charter The
made by the Charter Committee the negative
Committee to Defeat Charter. The question is.
Would charter kill the two-pary system county?
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Turkey Supper PIonned

A turkey supper will be served
from 4 to 8 pm. Saturday at the
Damascus (Md) Methodist Church
by the ch,Irch's Womens Society.
Evening star., 1944-11-02

PHILADELPHIA. - QUADS PARENTS Joseph Cirminello
rgh 3o-year-od financial analyst Securities and
Exchange Commission pictured with DR.. John Uley
stercan after Mrs Cmineo Gnse yesterday gave birth
to quadruples within the space minutes through
Caesarean operation. The parents Washing
ton in 1888 when they both employees of the SEC
"A. P Wirephoto