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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Mrs. ]. William Gibson

Mrs. Annie Eliza Gibson, 80, died
Saturday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Raymond H. Link,
Spencerville. Mrs. Gibson, widow of
j. William Gibson, was born and
lived her life in the Spencerville
community.
Besides Mrs. Link she is survived
by two other daughters, Mrs. E. C.
Weeks, Silver Spring; Mrs. A. D.
Oursler, Spencerville; four sons,
Henry C. and John A. Gibson,
Spencerville; P. Clayton Gibson,
Washington and William A. Gibson
Alexandria. Eight grandchildren
and nine great grandchildren also
survive.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday at the Link residence by
Elder Benjamin Seekford, pastor of
the Columbia Baptist Church, Bur-
louisville, of which Mrs. Gibson was
member for forty years. Burial
was in Burtonsville cemetery.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Sherwood School Has
Completed Service Edition

The staff of the Blue and Gray
the Sherwood newspaper, has put
out one service issue already. AL
though this issue was dedicated to
the graduates of the class '43 who
are in the service and 10 Mr.. Welsh,
who was principal of Sherwood
last year, it was sent to all COM
munity boys in the service.
From the letters of thanks re-
ceived those who had a part in the
work feel that the effort was worth
while.
The staff is now planning to pub
fish community paper as we'll as
another service issue. It will con-
tain information about the com.
munity to acquaint the newcomers
with Sandy Spring.
The idea was suggested by the
Sherwood P.-T.A.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Rockville Teen-Age
Canteen To Open In
WOlfsOn Bldg, March 81

With Friday, March 31st set as
the opening date of the Teen-Age
Canteen, students attending the
general meeting held at the High
School library last Tuesday noon
realize the amount of work that
needs to be done before Opening
date.
At this meeting, jeanne Rice,
acting chairman, outlined the ac-
complishments so far. Wolfson's
Shoe Store on East Montgomery
has been selected as the location,
the lease has been prepared, the
present occupants of the store
have signed an agreement to va
cate by March 9th, and. the lum-
Der from the shelves which line
the front part of the store has
been removed to the High School
Shop. This much has been ac-
complished by the executive COM
mittee chosen by the students
when the Canteen was first organ
lied. However, the time has come
for more students to be included
in the organization and plans of
thes Canteen. At Tuesdays meet
ing representatives from each
home room were selected. These
representatives will keep each
home room informed about the pro-
gress of the Canteen. Election of
permanent officers and committee
chairmen will take place this week.
A group of enthusiastic young
people volunteered for the first
clean up job on Wednesday, after
school. More adult volunteers
are needed for remodeling and
repairing the interior. Those in
terested should call Rockville S9-R
and state what hours they can
work.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Perpetual Memorial
For Clapper Proposed

A perpetual memorial for Ray
mond Clapper, columnist and re-
porter killed last month in the
Pacific is to be set up by his
friends and colleagues, to be
awarded annually to the news
paper writer "most closely approx
mating the ideals of fair report
ing characteristic of Raymond
Clapper".
The award will be set up as a
continued inspiration for the type
of reporting which won him the
respect of millions of readers.
Funds for the memorial will be
obtained through contributions
from newspapers, newspapermen
and those of his readers who
would like to participate.
Alexander F. Jones, managing
editor of the Washington Post, is
chairman Of the finance commit
tee. The organizing committee of
the association was composed OF
the heads of the various news
paper organizations in Washing
ton.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Towers Hobbs

Miss Ruth Hobbs. youngest
daughter of Judge and Mrs. Lewis
Hobbs and Pfc. Joseph Franklin
Towers, of Detroit, Mich, were
quietly married at GAINESVILLE, Md.
on Friday, Feb. 18, at 8 P. NJ, by
the Rev. Michael Egan. Miss Der.
neal Grimes of Colesville was maid
of honor. Mr.. Paul Boerum, broth.
er-in-law of the bride was besl
man.
The bride wore Navy blue street
length gown, with blue and white
accessories and corsage of white
gardenias. Her going away cos.
tune was suit of red coat anC
grey skirt, with black accessories
They spent few days in Detroi,
with his relatives, coming back te
Colesville where the brides parents
gave a reception at their home fol
about fifty relatives and friends or
Wednesday March /.
The groom left the next day foi
Camp Pendleton, Calf. He has seer
active duty for fourteen months il.
the Pacific theater of war, where
he was wounded and has been ir
the Hospital for several months ir
Calf, but is well now and expects
to be moved. Mrs. Towers will re.
main with her parents for the
present.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
B. PeytOn Whalen

Private funeral services will be
held today Thursday for B.
Peyton Whalen, 81, Civil Service
Commissioner and chairman of the
Trial Board for Montgomery Coun-
ty, in the chapel at Oak Hill Gene
terry.
A lifelong resident of Mont
gomery county, Mr.. Whalen died
Tuesday night at his home on Old
Georgetown road, Bethesda. He
was active in democratic politics
and civic affairs and director of
the Bank of Bethesda.
Born on the old Whalen- Haney
homestead in Potomac, he moved to
Bethesda about twelve years ago
but pnaintained his old farm on
Seven Locks Rd. He was a member
of West Washington Baptist
Church. His wife, Edith Whalen,
well-known clubwoman, heads the
women's activities of Montgomery
County O.C.D.
Besides Mrs. Whalen, he is sur
vived by a son, Lieut.. Col. Horace
Whalen, U.S.A.; a brother, Joseph
Whalen of Washington, and a sis
ter, Mrs. A. M. Green of Friend
ship Heights.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Mrs. Harry POss

Funeral services will be held
to-day, Thursday at 2 P. M. for
Mrs. Harry G. Poss, wife of the
late Harry G. Poss, who died Mon
day at her home in Rockville. Ser
vices will be conducted by the Rev.
H. X. Pasma, pastor of the Pres
byterian Church, assisted by the
Rev. William Waters, with burial
in Union Cemetery.
Surviving are: two sisters, Flor
ence and Jay DeMuth and two
brothers, R. E. DeMuth of Trapp,
Pa, and Emory DeMuth of Glen
Allen, Va.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
R A tt O N
REMINDER

GASOLINE-A-9 good through
May 8.
TIRE INSPECTION - DeadIine
for A coupon-holders is March
81.
SUGAR = Stamp No. 80 good
through March 81. Stamp 40 in
Book Four good for 5 pounds for
canning through Feb. %, 1915.
MEATS, FATS brown stamps
Y and z are good through March
20. Red 10-point stamps A8, BIS
CO, DE-, E8, F8 in Book Four are
good through May 20. Waste
kitchen fats are redeemed at two
ration points, plus four cents q
pound.
PROGRESSED FOODS Green
stamps X, L and M are good
through March 20. Blue 10-point
stamp AS, B8, CO. DE- and E8 in
Book Four are good through May
20.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Legislative Session
One OF The Best,
observers Declare
Absentee Voting, Teachers
And Employees Pay Bills
! Uphold O'COnOr Views

The special session of the Gen
eral Assembly Of Maryland just
concluded, which was called by
Governor Herbert R. O'Conor pri-
MARTY to consider absentee. voting
and teacher, State employee bonus
legislation, will go down on record
as zone of the best-planned ana
conducted sessions in the history
Of the State" veteran Legislative
observers declared.
The absentee voting bill adopted,
they pointed out, reflected the
months of interest in and study of
the subject by Governor O'Conor
as member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Governors Confer
ence, and by Attorney General
Walsh, who was called in by Gov
ernor O'Conor to help draft uni
form legislation for submission by
the Council of State Governments
to all the States.
With regard to the teachers
bonus, the Legislature gave APP
prevail to Governor O'Conor's pro-
position that it was a matter fol-
joint County City-State action, thus
preserving the Maryland policy OF
local responsibility in educational
matters.
The success of the Governors eff
forts to limit the session to strictly
emergency matters met with
hearty cooperation from the mem
bers of the Assembly, who were
highly praised by the Governor for
heir steadfastness in adhering to
the purposes for which the session
was called.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Hobbs : Overton

Miss Leila Overton of Quantico.
Md, and Mr.. Franklin Hobbs, only
son of Judge & Mrs. Lewis Hobbs,
were married on Saturday, March
4th at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leroy Overton, of Salisbury, Md.
The bride was given away by her
brother, Leroy Overton. Her gown
was of dusty blue, with access
cries to match and carried a
shower bouquet of white sweet
peas and roses.
Mrs. Leroy Overton, sister-in-
law of the bride, was matron of
honor and wore old rose with hat
to match and carried pink and
white roses. Mr.. Paul Boerum,
brother-in-law of the bride groom
was best man. After short trip
to New York Mr.. and Mrs. Hobbs
are making their home at Sails
bury, Md, where he is employed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16

NOTICE: A number of service
mems subscriptions have expired
or are about to expire. To avoid
having them miss the paper will
those who, sent it as a gift to a
service man notify the Sentinel
Office whether or not they wish the
paper continued?
X
Eli Alper, antique dealer of
Rockville, has had letters recently
from both of his sons in the serv-
ice, William in station hospital in
Florida, is recovering from an ac-
cident; Sam in England, waiting
for the final day to come"
William thanks his father for
money he sent and says he has
small use for it as everything is
provided him. He speaks of "a book
in the Library that has about a
thousand Currier and Ives prints in
it. A collection that must be worth
at least one hundred thousand dol
lars"
Sam writes that he could use
some cash; he has some good pieces
lined up that could be shipped home
if he had the money. (Sons of the
old man, huh? with always an eye
to business!)
X
Now somewhere in the South
West Pacific is 1t. John H. Waters,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Bowie F.
Waters. He is navigator on a
Liberator bomber which his crew
have named Long Distance, and
which he navigated when recently
the crew flew to their new destina-
ton somewhere over the Pacific. He
would be glad to hear from any of
his friends. His address is 1t.
John H. Waters 0-8011O7, 18th
Bomb Squadron CHI APO. 1858,
c/o Postmaster, San Francisco,
Calf.
\
Pvt. Earl Beacraft has recently
been transferred and would like to
near from friends. Send mail to No.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
OBITUARY
Mrs. Helen Miller

Mrs. Helen Miller, 38, wife of
burg, died Monday at the Fred
erick City Hospital.
Besides her husband, who is
overseer on the dairy farm of Mrs.
William o. Dosh near Gathers
burg, she is survived by a daugh-
ter, Miss Marguerite Mae Miller,
two sons, Milard Eugene and
Charles Melvin Miller, all of
Gaithersburg; her father, Charles
William Everts, Oakland, Md, and
a sister, Mrs. Daisy Schell, Oak
land. The funeral and interment
will be in Oakland.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Merrick Will Is
Filed In Rockville

The will of Miss Margaret Mer-
rick was admitted to probate in the
Orphans Court at Rockville last
week. Jewelry and other personal
effects are bequeathed to various
relatives and others, and her sis
tiers, Miss Mildred Merrick and
Mrs. Katherine Ramsay. Her god
daughter, Katherine Ramsa y
Brown, and the Christ Child So
ciety each receives $500, and an
other sister, Miss Mary v. Merrick,
is left the interest of the tesla
trix in a farm in Howard county
near Ellicott City. The residue
goes to Miss Mary v. Merrick.
Henry r. Cover and Miss Mary
V. Merrick are named executors.
The will was executed January Is,
1893.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
NelUs Of Service Men & Women

33S42521, Co. L, 377 Infantry, A.P.
o. 95, Indian Town Gap, Mil.Res.
Pennsylvania.
X
Soon to complete his training at
the army air base, Sioux City,
Iowa is Cpl. d. E. Haight, son of
Mrs. M. w. Haight, who is a gun
ner on heavy bomber crew.
X
Edward H. Deets, Jr. S 2/c US.
Mr.. of Clarksburg has completed
two semesters in the Viz Naval
training program at Duke Univers-
ity, Durham, N. c., and reported
on March 6 to the Tarmac School,
u. S. Naval Air Service at Bunker
Hill, Indiana for his first assign
ment in the VS. training program
for Naval Air Pilots.
He graduated from R.M.H.S. at
Rockville in June, 1913 and report
ed at Duke University on July l,
He recently spent ten days at home
between assignments.
X
George A. Wilson, 20, son of Mr..
George A. Wilson of Rockville, won
his Navy "Wings of Gold" and was
commissioned an Ensign in tne
Naval Reserve this week following
completion of the prescribed flight
training course at the Naval Air
Training Station, Pensacola, Fla.
Ensign Wilson will go on active
duty at one of the Navy's air OPP
irrational training centers before
being assigned to a combat zone.
X
Pvt. William E. Oden who has
recently been in the Hospital for
ptomaine poison is well. His pres
ent address is, 273rd ON. Bakery
Co. APO. No. 964, c/o Postmaster,
San Francisco, Calf.
X
Edwin Elmer Collins, 81, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer C. Collins of
Gaithersburg has volunteered for
| induction as Metalsmith in the
Navy.
X
Lieutenant Gilbert E .Raynor, %,
son of Mrs. Lena Raynor, 142 Fred
erick St., Kensington, Md, has ar
rived at the Army Air Forces
Training Command station, Perrin
Field, Texas, for assignment as a
basic pilot instructor. Receiving his
wings and commission month ago
at Ellington Field, Tex, 1t. Raynor
came to Perrin from Liberal, Kans.,
where he was in transition train
ing, flying a B-24 bomber.
X
Corporal E. Darby Peddicord,
an" Btry 4Bn. Ia Marines 4th
Marine Division, c/o Postmaster
Fleet Marine Force, San Francisco,
California sends word home that he
has been in the Marshall Islands
and would like to hear from his
friends. Corporal Peddicord is a
graduate of Richard Montgomery
High School Class 1910.
X
Now somewhere in Italy is Pvt
Vincent M. Beall who in his let
tiers to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest w. Beall, of Gaithersburg,
sends his love 10 all his friends
and neighbors and would like to
hear from them. His address is
Pvt. Vincent M. Beall, 33204773,
1054th N.P.Co. (Avn), APO. No.
$50, c/o Postmaster, New York, N.
Y.
V-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Orphans Court Open
Four Days Next Week

The Orphans Court for Mont
gomery County will be in session
for four days next week beginning,
on Tuesday, March 81 through Fri
day, March "a, according to an
nouncement by Odorion w. Roby''
Register of Wills.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Do You Know

Gall peace officers and the
Maryland State police shall have
authority to summon witnesses
to give testimony under oath
upon any charge preferred un-
der Article 66h."
Sec. 1872.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
In The Churches

Mt. Zion Cedar Grove
Baptist
8 A. M. Broadcast W.W.D.C.
10 A. NJ, Worship, Mt. Zion.
11:3O A. NJ, Worship, Cedar
Grove.
300 P. M, Worship, Travilah.
The minister, the Rev. C. A. Bru-
baker will preach at all services.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16

1t is getting to the point where
intolerance consists of treating
minorities like everybody else.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
Christ Church
Rockville

There will be a weekly Lenten
Service Thursday evenings at 8
o'clock in Christ Church, Rockville.
All are welcome to these services,
where one may come for quiet med
itation and prayer.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16

You can't smoke a pipe of peace
with an enemy that is likely to
shoot you if you take a puff.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16

The Germans boast that Ger
many has never been invaded but
you can't fool a bomber pilot.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16

Those who seek to arouse hatred
against our allies are a menace to
the future peace Of the nation.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-16
st. Luke's Lutheran

Redland
1000 A. NJ, Sunday School.
HOO A. NJ, Sermon, "Christ and
Simon Zeiotes: The Flame of Fire"
Wednesday at 8, "Christ and
Testas: The Unrepentant Thief.
Friday at Z, Boy Scout 247.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
A World Oil Policy

The Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey has issued booklet on a future
world oil policy which merits particular
study. We are fighting a war, it states
for survival which requires the eXpendl-
ture of billions of barrels of oil. We
want not only to survive but also to
thrive. Oil turns the wheels of peaceful
prosperity as we'll as those of military
machinery. Our need for oil, conse-
Sequently, will continue to grow
The pre-war world consumed nearly
2,00O,000,000 barrels of oil year, or al
most barrel per person. This oil floated
the worlds merchant marine, drove our
motors and made the cheap transporta-
ton and productive labor possible which
gave the American people the highest
standard of living ever attained. Now
our leaders speak of freedom from want
and fear We expect the standard OF
living of more people to rise. We hope
to travel swifter, safer and more luXurl-
ouSly, and encounter less human misery,
in the postwar world. This means that
there must be further increases in the
productivity of human labor, which OIL
can make possible.
The worlds proved oil reserves would
be used up within 10 years, however, if
the whole worlds standard OF living,
along with the consumption of oil per
person, were to be raised tomorrw TO
level only half as high as our own. In
the world which we now envision, sew
eral times 2000,000,000 barrels of oil
year will be needed. We must, therefore,
find more oil and permit no waste.
We can do both. We have scientific
evidence that there is plenty OF oil some
where beneath the earth's surface. We
have learned how to find it and how to
conserve it. But comprehensive and
enlightened world oil policy is needed to
assure the discovery and efficient use
of this vital resource
Our oil policy, therefore, must be COM
prehensive and enlightened. 1t must
provide for the distribution as we'll as
the production and conservation OF oil.
The Atlantic Charter proclaimed the
United Nations intention of furthering
"the enjoyment by all states, great or
small, victor or vanquiShed, of access on
equal terms, to the trade and to the raw
materials of the world which are
needed for their common prosperity" Oil
is foremost among those raw materials,
and the steps to make good this pledge
to the world must be taken soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
Future Along the Open Road

Better highways, and more of 'em, are
included in the programs for postwar
years. The Federal and State govern
ments are we'll agreed that long-range
highway construction will provide hum
dredS Of thousands of jobs for workers
and returning soldiers, while at the same
time serving to catch-up with the needs
of the country for highway tranSporta-
ton. After all, the open roads and the
rivers were our first arteries of tranSpor-
tation. Horses, horSes-and-buggieS, row.
boats, sailboats, steamboats,, and rail-
roads blazed transportation trails. Now
we have airplaneS.
Under the existing system for highway
construction the Federal and State gov
ernments split the costs $3.50. After all,
there were about 81 IL million passenger
cars in the United States when automo-
bile production changed to war produc-
ton. The industry ranked number one
in Importance in the U. S.
Life along the open roads will probably
be Just about the same as it used to be,
in the years ahead. The hot dog stand
and the tourist camps and hotels will be
back on the foundation" the way they
were before the war. The railroad trains
viii. continue to make regular schedules;
the skies will hum with planes; the ships
will be found in the same old oceans. Al
ter all, private industry will resume oper-
atoms on land, air and water; and what
ever sentiment there exists in favor OF
government competition and manage
ment must be overcome.
No Thoughtful person can fail to under
stand that the American system has been
the best in the World and it cannot be
substituted by socialiStic and other un-
democratic methods 1t is up to all of us
to take off the brakes and put the wheels
of progress back in their old and steady
gears
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
New Life in the G. of G.

Eric A. Johnston has been elected to a
third term as president of the Chamber
of Commerce. of the United States. The
conservative old Chamber took Johnston
on as an experiment in the first place
But, inasmuch as he made success in
getting along with conservatives and
radicals, and has made a pleasing i'm
preston on President Roosevelt, the
young wizard from the West is given full
credit for putting life in the old
Chamber"
Johnston insists that private business
is capable of providing ways and means
for postwar employment He thinks that
some public controls will be necessary
for temporary period after the war to
check temporary mutations in goods. Like
many other men outside the domain of
active politics he advocates return of
State rights to their old independence.
He recommends an independent" Con-
gresS and is optimistic concerning an
"independent" public. He is of the opin-
ion that the National Administration
should be held in better control.