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Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-11-30
GIRLS CLUB NEWS
ROCKVILLE

The Rockville All Club met with
their local leader, Mrs. Walter
Pack with ten members present.
Plans were made for the Banquet
and the Christmas party which
will be held for the girls mothers
on Friday evening, December %
at eight o'clock. They also dis
cussed their project Of studying
house furnishing and in 50 doing
the actual fixing Of miniature
house.
DARNESTOWN
On Saturday morning at ten
o'clock the Darnestown All Club
met at the schoolhouse with their
local leader, Mrs. Madeline Young.
Ten girls were present. They re-
ceived their awards for achieve
ment day. Each made a lapel pin
and started making stocking dolls
which they will finish at the next
meeting, December 8 at the home
Of their local leader. Many Of the
girls brought in aprons which they
had finished at home.
LAYTONSVILLE
The Laytonsville group met at
the home Of Dorothy and Mary
Benson. Both local leaders, Mrs.
Edwin Fry and Mrs. Thomas Bai-
ley were present. The new presi-
dent, Patricia Bailey, presided.
Mrs. Margaret Smith, former
All girl of Iowa, and now gov
ernment employee, was visitor.
She told Of All work in her homeI
state. Marjory Fry the club
new secretary, read very compile
minutes. The girls made plans
take a hike next Saturday in q1
to gather berries to make v
dish gardens. On Sunday, ID
Der 3, they will meet at Mrs.
home to help make the pros
for the 4-H County Banque
committee of Betty Jean
chairman; Dorothy White,
Fry and Mary Benson W
pointed to plan for a caI
to be held in January.
ceeds will be used to sen
Club Week at College
is resumed. Dottie VIII
group in two interested
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-11-30
GAITHERSBURG
SCHOOL NEWS
9Th War Loan Rally

A bond rally will be held. in the
Gaithersburg Gym on December
IL. "To CT Joe With Love-, a
musical, will be presented for the
first time by a Rockville group.
Mrs. Dorothy Troth Muir is in
charge Of the program.
Basketball Team Organized
The girls basketball team is be-
ing organized. Besides regular
Tuesday and Thursday afternoon
practices, special night practices
will be called. So far no definite
members of the squad have been
chosen as everyone is having equal
chance to try out.
The teachers and seniors will
have tuberculosis patch tests at
the beginning of the year. 1t is
planned that under classmen will
have the tests when they become
seniors.
Junior Dance Successful
The junior dance, held on Tues
day, November 81, was quite sue
cessful. Over $500 was made,
giving the juniors more than $100
to be used for the junior-senior
prom.
Bundle Day
A collection Of old, usable cloth
ing for Allied refugees and for
the needy of this country has been
made throughout the school.
The project, suggested by Mrs.
Dean Wilkinson Of Gaithersburg
and sponsored by the Principals
Cabinet was a success. Members
of the Student Council were re-
sponsible for collecting, packing
and sending the clothing to New
York where it will be distributed.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-11-30

1--WE kept the price Of cleo
tricity low, in spite Of war, and
you can be sure i'll stay low
in peace
The sooner we win the war
the sooner we can all enjoy the
comforts Of electric living. |
Let's do that first.
.Hssr NELSON EDDY every Wednesday,
10 fhs new nssisai show. The nse-
trie Hour" wifi Robert Armbrpsssr's 7
orehssfrs. Ioi5o Pm. EwT. cas-.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-11-30


how do you feel about not being
asked to come out and campaign
for the fourth term?", we asked
the once famous Democratic dom
key now growing fat on the Smith
Purdum farm near Darnestown.
Without lifting her voice, Queenie
made it plain to us that she cared
as little about the fourth term as
her former owner, Mr.. James Far
ley. We had heard that the little
donkey had been restless all sum-
mer and had frequently broken out
of the field in which she is confined
to wander around the neighbor-
hood-but evidently it was just
the Gypsy in her and not an in
terest in the way the Darnestown
folks were going to vote that caus-
ed the wandering.
Time was when no Democratic
rally was complete without Queenie
remember pictures of her rid
ing around in taxicabs-going in
to The Mayfower and other big
hotels for meetings-being shipped
around the country in a crate?
Like many another belle, her day
is oversize is letting her figure
go and enjoying her food--one can
not imagine her in a cab now. We
really should not shame her by
telling the rest of this story but
we promised to tell you what Mr..
Dallas McAtee and his niece Vir-
ginia, showed us when we visited
them several weeks ago.
One has to go through the Nc
Atee farm to reach Mr.. Purdum's
place, and as Mr.. Purdum was in
Washington, We asked Mr.. McAtee
if we could go see Queenie. "Yes,
you can--but l surely hate to let
you see what she has on herr, re-
piled Mr.. McAtee. "Good graci-
Gus, you have not painted Dewey"
on the Democratic mule, have
your, we exclaimed. "No, but
we had to put a yoke on herr, he
replied.
We all drove out on the hillside
and down in the deep meadow, the
little donkey was grazing. She
came up readily at Virginia's call,
and S. M. H. went to meet her with
outstretched hand-when she saw
that his hand held no tidbit, Miss
Queenie whirled around and only
quick pulling in Of his rear saw
ed him from a swift kick. Later,
however, an apple left from our
lunch saved the situation and she
let him feed it to her bit by bit
and became quite friendly.
Mr.. McAtee explained that he
put yoke on her to keep her from
crawling between wires of the
fence, but being an educated dom
key, she just lay down and rolled
under the fence, yoke and all-so
then he put on cross bar and
poor old Queenie is the most yoked
up donkey one can imagine. She
is cute thing-we sort of hated
to leave her hanging over the fence
watching US drive away. But she
certainly made it clear to US that
she did not give a darn who was
in the White House.
%Aa
On the day after Thanksgiving,
headlines in morning papers ran
"GI's Around The World Feast on
Turkey-Perhaps". The majority
Of the home folks did not have tur-
key. In upper Montgomery sew
eral hundred people dined at the
Poolesville Community turkey din
ner or at Woodfeld, where boun-
tiful turkey dinner was also serv-
ed. 1t was nice way to solve
both the food and the "help" prob
Chow Chase Oh antar
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-11-30

A man can easily save twenty
years of his life by studying the
experience Of others.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-11-30

Fear of failure will help you
fail just as surely as faith in sue
cess will help you to succeed.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-11-30

There is a wide difference be-
tween seeing through a thing and
seeing a thing through.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-11-30
WILL you THROW THIS
NEWSPAPER AWAYP

Many man does not discover it
was anything more than a mere
filtration until she has married
him.
Evening star., 1944-11-30

"Yes, son, I bought while you
fought" Hasten we" day with
one extra War Bond.
Evening star., 1944-11-30
u. 5. Diplomatic Ties
with Vatican Opposed
|By Church Council
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 80. ! The
Federal Council of the Churches OF
Christ in America yesterday adopted
a statement opposing establishment
OF diplomatic relations between the
United States and the Vatican.
The statement said such action
would confer on one church a spe-
cial preferential status In relation
to the American Government" and
would be contrary to the spirit of
our American tradition
I'm Washington, a State De-
partment spokesman said no dip
lomatic relations now exist be-
tween this country and the Vati-
can and that none, as far as he
knew. were contemplated.
(He said that while Myron c.
Taylor Is at present stationed at
the Vatican as President Roose-
velt's special representative, the
State Department does not inter-
pret this as establishment of dip
lomatic relations0
The Federal Council, which in
cludes 26 of the largest Protestant
denominations in the United States,
represents about 26,000,000 church
members, officials said. About 300
delegates were attending the bien-
nial session and approved the reso-
luton.
The council said: "A continuing
oficial connection between our Gov
Evening star., 1944-11-30
Admiral pickens
Veteran Of 43 Years,
|ln Navy, Dies al 81

Rear Admiral Andrew Calhoun
Pickens, u. S. N. retired, S., veteran
OF 43 years naval service, died yes
terday at the Bethesda Naval Hos
|pital after a short illness.
Before his retirement in January
1943, Admiral Pickens was president
Of the Naval Examining Board and
later member of the Navy Board
of Awards. He was assistant chief
Navy Bureau of Ordnance, from
1927 until 1880.
During the World War he served
on the Edward Lukenbach and later
as navigator Of the Wyoming. He
then was attached to the Bureau
of Ordnance here from 1918 until
1922, and naval inspector Of ord
nance in charge Naval Proving
Ground, Dahlgren, Va, and Of the
Naval Powder Factory, Indianhead
Nd, from 1928 until 1925. He Is
credited with having designed and
dropped the first bomb from a plane
in this country.
Born at Mobile, Ala, son of the
late Andrew Calhoun and Ella Pol
lard Pickens, Admiral Pickens grad
uated in 1904 from the Naval Acad-
emy. Ships he has commanded in
clude the Childs, the Nitro, the
Detroit and the Omaha. He was
detached from duty as chief Of staff
to the commander in chief, United
States Fleet, in 1887 to become a
member of the Navy General Board
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Har-
riet Fowle Taylor Pickens, and a
sister, Mrs. Benjamin Mcmillan, Mo-
bile, Ala.
Funeral services will be held al
his late home, I'll Prince street
Alexandria, at $3.50 pm. tomorrow
Burial will be private In Ivy Hill
Cemetery, Alexandria.
Evening star., 1944-11-30
A-18sssTHE EVENING STAR, Washington, q. c.
THURSDAY, NovEMlER 80

told Of simultaneous attacks on Shi-
zuoka Prefecture below Tokyo.
The Sunyen district embraces
Suruga, Shizuoka and Hamamatsu
in Shizuoka Prefecture, on the coast
centered roughly Is miles southwest
Of Tokyo.
Gen. Arnold, who has been assured
by Gen. Macarthur that the Tokyo
raids have diverted japanese atten-
ton from the Philippines campaign,
said In his address ~ Kansas City
First with our B-2es, then, as we
get bases closer to Japan, with our
Fortresses and Liberators, we're
going to destroy the heart and the
nerve centers Of Japan's war ma
chine.
Japan will have little industry
left when our Army and Navy Air
Forces complete their tasks OF de-
struction. They've asked for 1t
and they're going TO get it,"
The Tokyo radio asserted the
bombings were "indiscriminate" and
caused little damage to important
establishments" but an Air Force
spokesman at Washington en-
phasized indiScrimInate bombing was
not in the American plans.
Evening star., 1944-11-30
John |. Laskey 10 0uil
District 0PA Office
For Private Practice

John l.. Laskey, chief enforce
lnent attorney for the District Of
flee of Price Administration, has
resigned, effective January /. in Or
der to return to the private practice
Of law with his father, it was dis
closed today by District OPA Di-
rector Robert K. Thompson.
Mr.. Laskey, former assistant
United States attorney here. has
been with the OPA since April,
1s43, during which time he has di-
rected drives against black markets
In gasoline, meat, poultry and other
rationed commodities.
Mr.. Laskey's latest campaign, an
nounced Sunday, is a drive against
black market operations in ciga-
rettes here.
He, will return with his father,
John E. Laskey, who has offices in
the Albee Building. His father was
United States attorney here during
the Wilson administration. Mr..
Laskey is a native of Washington
and graduate of Georgetown Uni
versity Law School.
Mr.. Thompson said he had &C
cepted the resignation with regret.
No successor has been selected.
Since April, 1943, Mr.. Laskey's
division has collected $295,710 in
civil settlements and $26, $50 in GRIM
inal fines, the OPA reported. The
largest single civil settlement was
for 100000, collected from Milton S.
Kronheim g. Sons, Inc, liquor whole
salers, for ceiling violations, the
agency recalled.
Also during this period, his staff
has filed 278 civil cases in the local
courts and another 100 cases have
been referred to the District attor-
news office for action
Evening star., 1944-11-30

bers of the court, over which ha
presided so fairly and ably"
United States Attorney Edward
M. Curran said:
Chief Justice Eicher's death
came as a great shock to all Of us
He was q fair. and impartial jurist
and the District Court and the
community have suffered q great
loss.
Praised BY Mason.
Speaking for the Board OF District
Commissioners, Commissioner Guy
Mason, a personal friend OF Justice
Eicher, declared:
THE community has lost a very
fine man. He served with distinc-
ton in Congress and on the bench. y
Chief Justice Eicher was chair
man Of the Securities and Exchange
Commission when he was appointed
to District Court December 80, 1941,
to succeed the late Chief Justice
Alfred A. Wheat. Earlier he had
been a member Of Congress from
Iowa.
The jurist was born in Noble,
Iowa, December 16, 1878, and after
study 1t the University of Chicago,
was admitted to the Iowa bar
in 1906.
He was assistant registrar at the
University of Chicago from 1907 to
1909, and then for nine years served
on the legal staff Of the Burlington
Railroad.
Came to Congress in 1888.
From 1918 to 1898, ne practiced
law in Washington, Iowa. He was
elected to Congress In the Roose-
welt landslide and took his seat from
the first Iowa district in 1888.
He resigned from the House in
December, 1888, to accept a place on
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission, and was appointed chair
man in April, 1941, when Chairman
Jerome Frank was named to Fed
eral judgeship.
Justice Eicher was appointed to
the bench here after an earlier
proposal to name him to the Eighth
Circuit Court Of Appeals had been
blocked by the reported opposition
OF Senator Gillette, Democrat, OF
Iowa, whom Justice Eicher had op-
posed in the bitter campaign OF
1898, when the Roosevelt admins
tration sought to purge" Senator
Gillette. The Senator was defeated
for reelection this year.
Chief Justice Eicher was a men,
Der of the National Lawyers Guild
and Of the Mennonite faith. His
widow and a daughter, Elizabeth
Culligan. survive
Evening star., 1944-11-30
Publicity
Continued From First Page }

Supreme headquarters had sale
okay, subject to request from the
committee.
ITS their party explained Q
spokesman.
For the Representatives-keenly
conscious about publicity, but coy
about making a play for it-this
provoked q minor crisis.
We'll have to have committee
meet" they said.
So, into executive session went the
committee-all except Mrs. Luce
Her travelling companion, a WAC
lieutenant colonel, explained she
was tired out"
The meeting lasted an hour, dur.
ing which-take it on the strength
Of the usual reliable congressiona
Authority" - there was plenty O.
storm about the publicity issue.
The committee turned the decision
back to the Army with this resolu.
ton:
1T is the purpose of this commit.
tee that we are present in the ETC
European theater Of operations) fol
the purpose of visiting and inspect.
ing the military establishments, sta.
tions and fronts to secure informa.
ton useful to the Congress of tht
United States, further, that We ar,
perfectly willing to have any person
or persons, accompany the commit.
tee who are acceptable to and desig
mated by the theater commander"
The situation, as the committe,
left today for France, was left thus
The committee will take along a
correspondent if supreme headquar
ters insists upon 1t, GRAND suprem,
headquarters will approve a cor.
respondent accompanying the groul
III the committee insists upon it.
Evening star., 1944-11-30
Eiicher
Continued From First Page.)

G. Magee, curate Of the church, will
omciate. Burial will be at WASH
ington, Iowa, former home of the
jurist.
The turbulent sedition trial, still
far from completed, opened with
80 defendants, and at present has
rs. In the months since the pro-
ceedings started, one defendant
died, and three won severance.
The rs defendants are accused
of conspiring to undermine the
loyalty of American armed forces,
and to set up Nazi form of gov
ernment in this country.
All Branches Of Court Adjourn.
Shortly after word of Justice
Eicher's death was received a general
term meeting of the District Court
judges was held and all branches
were ordered adjourned. No def
mite date for the courts to reconvene
was set, but it was stated authori-
tatively that the courts undoubtedly
would remain adjourned until after
Justice Eicher's funeral.
On every side were heard express
sions OF shock and grief over Justice
Eichers death.
Justice Jesse c. Adkins said:
. ''The sudden death of the chief
justice was great shock to us all.
We had all grown to love and ad-
mire him. From the beginning I
was impressed with his eminent fair
ness and his judicial temperament.
He was an able Judge and in his
death the District has suffered a
real blow" .S
Justice David A. Pine said: ys.s
IT am shocked and grieved to
hear Of the death of our beloved
chief justice I have known him
since he came to Washington as q
member of Congress and my ac-
quaintance with him has been in
innate since he became chief justice
of this court. The bench, the bar
and the community have sustained a
grievous loss. I know that all his
brethren on the bench will feel a
deep sense Of personal loss. He
adorned the bench with great dis
tinction He was a patient. courte-
GUS and gentle man. Uniformly
loved and respected by all with
whom he came in contact"
Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue
said:
The sudden death of Chief Jus
tice Eicher is Q great loss to men,
Evening star., 1944-11-30
NeIsot,n,, Rockefeller. 8.
Returning From Tour
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Nov. 30.-Nelson Rookie
feller, co-ordinator of inter -Ameri-
can affairs, left here last night for
Washington after a tour of four
good-neighbor nations he never had
visited before-Venezuela, the Do
minican Republic, Haiti and Cuba.
He said that in his opinion CO.
operation between Latin America
and the United States would con-
tinue into peacetime.
The need for hemisphere unity
and solidarity will be- greater than
ever after the war" he declared.
Evening star., 1944-11-30
Super Fortresses
CONTINUED From First Page)

day mission was Col. Samuel r
Harris of Winston-Salem, N. c., who
was commander Of the B-29 which
returned on two of its four engines
most of the way from Tokyo after
the initial raid.
The Tokyo radio at first reported
the Super Fortresses made two sep
arate attacks, but today's imperial
headquarters communique said 20 OF
the big raiders attacked in several
waves" from about midnight to 4:30
am. Admitting that fires had been
left, the communique said the fires
that continued to rage in part of the
areas affected were put under
control by $50 am"
Tokyo is getting a foretaste of a
campaign Ito destroy the heart and
the nerve centers of Japans war
machine" Gen Henry H. Arnold
commanding general of the Army
Air Forces, said last night at Kan
sas City.
Incensed Tokyo radio announcers
fumed that any Yank flyer who par
achuted after "blindly" bombing
Tokyo would be killed on the spot
by the angry japanese people"
Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso held
q cabinet meeting yesterday because
to quote the Tokyo radio-''in due
course various botttlenecks are ex-
pected to appear with many unex-
pected resulting effects"
In whipsaw action along the
bombing road to Tokyo, Liberators
from Saipan bombed the VOLCANO
Island, airfelds-which the enemy
has been using to send fighters ir
rains on the Super Fortress bases al
saipansS ]
Today's Japanese communique
broadcast from Tokyo and recorded
in the United States by the Federal
Communications Commission, made
no claim of any B-29 being shot
down, recalling last Fridays attack
from which ali the Super Fortresses
got back to Saipan.
Incendiary bombs, dropped in the
new raid from great heights from
above the clouds" touched off fires
in several places" but most OF
them" were put out Immediately
The attacks were spread over 1.-The
metropolitan area and its vicinity
also a part of the Sunyen district.
A domestic broadcast previously had
Evening star., 1944-11-30
Prisoners
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prisoners the standards OF
treatment prescribed" by the con-
vention. --
However, the committee added, the
Germans have adopted less lib
eral Interpretation of some portions
Of the convention than has our Gov
ernment," the probable reasons be.
ing the exigencies of the situation
in Germany"
Large Red Cross Supplies.
While the primary example OF
unliberal Interpretation of the treaty
by the Germans is in connection
with the food rations," the commit
tee said, the German government
permits large supplies of food to be
sent to prisoners through the Red
Cross and other agencies. Prisoners
of Germany receive good medical
care, the committee added.
Although Japan did not ratify the
Geneva convention, the committee
said, 1T has undertaken to apply,
with some notifications, the pro-
visions Of the convention" to war
prisoners and American civilian in
ternees insofar as its provisions are
adaptable"
The japanese government, 1t re-
ported, has but partially imple-
mented the terms of the convention
and has not provided conditions of
life on an occidental standard"
Outsiders Kept Away.
Camps under Jap control in met
ropolitan Japan, Manchuria, For
mosa and Shanghai were described
as accessible to representatives of
the Red Cross and the Swiss gov
ernment, although outsiders are not
permitted to inspect conditions in
the Philippines. the Dutch East In
dies, Malaga, Bofneo, Thailand,
French Indo- China, Burma and the
Hong Kong area.
"On the whole" the report said,
the camps in Japan, China and
Manchuria, in which an estimated
6,296 Americans are held, seem to
be more humanely administered"
than those in distant Japanese
occupied territories in which there
are approximately 1856 Americans
The committee said Swiss repre-
sentatives confirmed reports that
the food given prisoners in Japanese
camps is superior to that available
to japanese civilians.
Evening star., 1944-11-30

ernment and the Vatican would also
have the unfortunate effect of en-.
couraging the un-American policy
OF a union OF church and state. The
Roman Catholic Church has always
advocated such union; 1t regards
itself, in fact, as both a church and
a state"
The council specifically disavowed
any intention Of speaking against
Roman Catholicism as form Of
Christian faith and worship, and
hailed the Catholic Church as "one
OF the great branches of historic.
Christianity ),