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Evening star., 1946-03-03

land and vice president of the Wom-
ans Democratic Club of the county
Mr.. Stadler 10 In charge of ration
ing in the county and has been a
member of the County Board OF
Education for the last II years
A builder and developer of several
of Silver Springs subdivisions, Mr.
Stadler, who lives at 919 Highland
drive, Silver Spring, has been active
in Democratic politics since he
moved to the county "a years ago
He is former County assessor and
served as precinct chairman for a
number of years.
Committees Named.
Committees appointed Included a
program and publicity group, headed
by James w. Gill, Albert E. Brault
and County Commissioner Alfred d.
Noyes, and Campaign and Organ
ization Committee. of which Lacy
Shaw, member of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission, is
chairman.
Other members of the Program
and Publicity Committee are:
Joseph A. Cantrel, a candidate for
State Senator; j. Bond Smith, 10
v. Morgan, 1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee,
Mrs. Wells, States Attorney Joseph
B. Simpson, jr., Charles w. Pretty
man. a candidate to succeed Mr..
Simpson: Joseph D.. Buscher, Blair
Lee III and Mr.. ShAre.
Meetings Arranged.
Members of the Campaign and
Organization Committee are Mrs.
Edith P. Allnutt, F. Byrne Austin,
Charles B. .Buscher, Richard F.
Green, F. Murray Hamilton, Charles
Jamison. Col. Lee, Albert w. Walker
and j. Forest Walker. Both COM
mittees are authorized to name ad-
ditional members. They will meet
each Friday beginning this week at
the Liquor Dispensary Building,
Silver Spring.
Those attending the first meeting
of the County Congress this month
will elect congess and caucus COM
mittee chairman to succeed Senator
Hampton, who resigned two months
ago in break with Col. Lee.
Nominations for Endorsement in
the Democratic primary June "a also
will be made at this meeting. A
second meeting will be held to vote
on those nominated for indorse-
ment.
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Clinic Schedule Announced

The Maryland tuberculosis Asso-
citation yesterday announced its
March clinic schedule: Hyattsville,
10 am. March and 15,. County
Service Building; La Plata, 10 am.
March IA, health office; Prince
Frederick, 10 am. March 20, CAL
vert County Hospital; Laurel, I pm.
March 20, Police Court Building
and Leonardtown, 10 am. March IS,
health Office.
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Races Off
To Lively Start in
Prince Georges


than four months off, activity Is
becoming lively in Prince Georges
County political circles.
Mayor William A. Duvall of Col
lege Park, chairman of the County
COP State Central Committee, said
the party this year is going to make
every effort to put "A-1 candidates
before the voters all down the line"
with the Central Committee meet
ing the second and fourth Wednes-
day nights of each month in its
headquarters in the Professional
Building, Hyattsville.
However, there is considerable
dissension among the Republicans
in the county While there is not
100 per cent harmony among the
Democrats, there appears to be no
serious trouble in the latter's ranks
and with their heavy registration
1t is felt by observers they should go
on to another victory in November.
O'Conor Seen as Favorite.
Indications now are that Gov.
O'Conor has the advantage over
Senator George L. Radcliffe in the
county for the Democratic nomina-
ton for Senator, based on a poll
made among leaders in a, number
of sections of the county.
Speaker of the House of Delegates
John S. White of Colmar Manor.
former majority leader of the House,
and member of the State Legis-
lative Council, is a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for At
torney General, and 1t Col. Ralph
w. Powers of Largo, who recently
returned from overseas service, also
is understood to be eyeing this nom
ination. Lawrence Fenneman of
Baltimore, active in young Demo-
cratic circles, is another aspirant
for the nomination.
There apparently will be three va
cancies to be filled in the House
OF Delegates from this county, which
has six seats. Speaker White is out
of the picture, it is understood, Mrs.
Noah Joffe of Bowie, named to fill
out the term of her late husband,
Will not run again, and DR.. N. B.
Steward of Laurel is said not to be
enthusiastic about another term.
Perry o. Wilkinson of Hyattsville; :.
LIE Roy Pumphrey, Largo, and Sam
uel H. Harvey, College Park, are ex-
pected to be candidates to succeed
themselves.
Soth0ron Announces.
State Senator l.. Harold Sothoron,
University Park, has announced his
candidacy for denomination and will
not, 1t is thought, be opposed with
in his party.
States Attorney A. Gwynn Bowie.
Democrat, is expected to be candi-
date for denomination. All the Coun-
ty Commissioners, who now legally
can succeed themselves, and all three
judges of the Orphans Court are
expected to run again.
Circuit Court Clerk Brice Bowie
Riverdale, is formally in the field for
denomination on the Democratic
ticket and is not believed likely to
be opposed in the primaries. Regis
ter of Wills William E. Clifton, Dem
ocrat, is understood to be interested
in the party's nomination for sheriff
to succeed Sheriff r. Earle Sheriff
Landover, who says his political
plans are uncertain. John c. Duvall,
of Naylor, has filed for this nomina-
tion. T. Ward Martin, Democrat,
of Croome, present deputy to the
sheriff, also is said to have an eye on
nomination for sheriff. The sheriff
cannot succeed himself. Nor can the
county treasurer: Who will be the
Democratic nominee to succeed
Treasurer r. Ernest Smith is un-
certain.
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Pre-SchooI Association
To Meet in ARLINGTON

The Overlee Preschool Associa-
ton tomorrow will hear DR.. H. L..
Brooks, Arlington dentist, in a dis
cussions of Care of Children's
Teeth"
The association fsta cooperative
parents group, organized to provide
nursery and kindergarten opportu-
mites for Arlington County chill
dren. Glasses are held in the Res
direction Lutheran CDQrch, North
Washington boulevard and Pow
hatan street.
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Foirfox Tax Sales
Scheduled March II

County Treasurer Lewis M. Cow
ner announces that he will offer for
sale at noon, March II, in front of
the courthouse at Fairfax. 321 par
GELS OF property on which taxes are
delinquent for 1943.
In the magisterial districts, Mount
vernon has the largest list, with 81
parcels, and Lee the lowest with 18.
In the towns, Falls Church tons
with ~ parcels, and Clifton, with
one offered for sale, is the lowest.
Inc amount of delinquent taxes
ranges from 81 cents on a lot in
Mount Vernon district, to 1921 03 on
a farm IN Centerville district.
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Bethesda to Buy Fire Ladder

The Bethesda Fire Department
plans to purchase a 75-foot ladder
truck for use in aerial fire-fighting
service, Donald Gray, vice president
OF the Fire Board and chairman
OF the Housing and Equipment
Committee, announced at meeting
last night. Alterations to the fire.
house are planned in order to pro-
vide space for the new piece.
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Citizens Group to Meet

Harry R. Hall, chief engineer OF
the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission, and Charles v. Joyce.
engineer in charge of refuse and
disposal, will address a special meet
ing of the Citizens Association of
Section 8, Chevy Chase, at g. pm.
Tuesday in the Leland Junior High
School Auditorium.
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Dr.. Jormon to Address
Woodrow Wilson PTA

DR.. B. H. Jarman, former direc-
tor of instruction of Arlington
schools, will speak on Social Forces
That Influence the Politics and Sub
Ject Offering of Our Schools" at the
March meeting of the Woodrow
wilson Parent-Teache Association
at pm. Tuesday at the school.
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Labor and Civil
Service Reform
Committees dur
ing the l945 ses-
sion of the State
Legislature.
Since 1913, she
has served as
deputy clerk to
t h e Cou n t y
Co m m ! ssioner
for the Eastern
Suburban Dis
trict. S h e Is
vice chairman of
the United Dem
ocartic Women's
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ton for county
and State Offices
and two COM
mittees h av e
been appointed
to support these
and future can
didates similar
ly Endorsed, it
was announced
yesterday.
The a tion
marked the be-
ginning of an
intensive cam
paign by the
County Demo-
cratic organiza-
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Church Groups to Entertain

The Woman's Guild and Ladies
Auxiliary of Grace Episcopal Church,
Silver Spring, will entertain the
members of the Women's Society of
Christian Service of the Woodside
Methodist Church at luncheon at
l pm. Tuesday at Grace Church
Parish Hall.
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Seven in Foirfux Inducted

The Fairfax County Selective
Service Board inducted seven men
last week: Joseph L. Holbrook,
James G. Crook, Charles w. Pear
son, Douglas w. Pearson, Bergie G..
Jewel, Foxhall P. Thornton and
Lawrence r. Stevens.
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Mrs. Johnston to Speak

Mrs. Olin D. Johnston, wife of the
Senator from South Carolina, will
speak at meeting of the Women's
Democratic Club of Bethesda at
70 pm. tomorrow in the Bethesda
County Building. l.
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Democrats Back
Six Candidates
In Montgomery
Committees Named
To RoIIy Support
For Party Slate

Democratic workers in the Wheat
on and Colesville election districts
In Montgomery County have in
dorsed six candidates for nomina-
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REPLACES IL MENMarie Whirley 18, Laytonsvile Nd is
seated the picking machine by the Seneca
Ayr Farm at the twoday farm labor saving show which ended
yesterday at GaitherSburg High School,
machine husk of normally the
men working by hand. The machine
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
CALL FOR METAL SALVAGE

Maryland farmers are asked by Mr..
Jos. H. Blandford to turn in for scrap
every bit of metal and discarded iron
and steel parts of farm machinery to
speed TIE making of new farm equip
ment and tin cans for preserving the
nations food crops.
Scrap iron makes up about SO per
cent of the metal in new farm ma
chinery and SO per cent of the sheet
steel that goes into tin cans, he re-
ported, and the inventories of scrap
iron at steel mills are extremely low.
While farm machinery production is
still far behind demand, the produc-
ton has increased considerably since
spring, he pointed out, and the sal
wage of scrap metal will speed the
production of the badly needed farm
equipment. Scrap iron can be quickly
melted down and purified, so that it
speeds the production of new metal
parts for farm equipment
In the Nations salvage program,
saving of used fats is still vital to in
ceasred soap supplies, Mr.. ,Blandford,
added, pointing out that one pound
of used fat turned in for salvage is
enough for a large box of faxed
laundry soap-several weeks supply
for family. 1t is also equivalent to
five bars of toilet soap, which is
about five weeks supply.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
BOrneO Rubber

In the 10-year period 1932-1941
Borneo's rubber output had its ups
and downs along with the rest of the
worlds producing areas, but the gen.
eral trend was upward. In the
period indicated the worlds rubber
yield, including Borneo's contribu-
ton, climbed from 100000 tons to
100000 tons. Top producers were
the states of British Malaga and the
islands of the Netherlands Indies.
mainly Java and Sumatra. Togeth-
er, these British and Netherlands
sources managed to supply more
than three-fourths of the worlds an
nual demand for rubber. Most of
the remaining need was satisfied by
Thailand, Indochina, Ceylon and
Borneo. Brazil, once the worlds
largest source of crude rubber, de-
clined in Importance after the devel-
opment of large-scale plantation Gull
ture in the East, and was producing
less than per cent of the worlds
total before the outbreak of war.
Biggest buyer was the United States,
usually in the market for about half
the worlds million-ton crops.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
BELLCORD'S ORIGIN ON
RAILWAY TRAINS

1t is said that the plan of connect
ign rope to the bell of an engine
drawing train of cars, so that the
conductor might communicate with
the engineer, was an idea of John
Wolf, noted conductor in the early
days of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton & Baltimore Railroad.
1t seems that he had cord rum
ming through the cars and made fast
to log of wood in the cab of the
locomotive, which gave notice to the
engineer when to stop or go ahead.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
PAY WHEAT INSURANCE CLAIMS

Five hundred Maryland farmers or
10 percent of those who seeded
wheat, have already reported serious
losses of wheat yield in 1916 to the
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation,
bearing out the fact that even in a
year of bumper production, some
farmers always suffer serious crop
damage according to the report made
to State PIMA Chairman Joseph II.
Blandford by Anthony Madden of the
FCIC.
OF these 500 claims, 375 have al
ready been processed, Mr.. Madden $
report declared, with principal losses
about 60 per cent due to rain and 20
percent due to winterkill. Some farm
ers suffered severe losses from Hess
ian fly injury, scab disease, fire frost,
and feeding by wild geese. In Mary
land, 400 farmers had insured 120,-
900 acres of wheat, or nearly 80 per
wheat.
One out of every five wheat pro-
ducers in several Eastern Shore
counties lost wheat this season due to
natural hazards including Dorches-
ter, Kent, Queen Annes and Talbot
counties. Additional adjusters were
brought into this area to handle the
insurance claims. Though many
wheat growers carried insurance on
the crop, many uninsured farmers
also reported yields of only to 10
bushels an acre. Heavy losses to some
farmers have also been reported from
Frederick and Carroll counties i'll
western Maryland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
CONSERVATION ROLL
LENGTHENS

H. H. Bennett, chief of the Soil
Conservation Service, and long time
advocate of soil and water conserva-
ton, says he gets "a great deal of
pleasure each month in reading the
reports of how farmers are organic
ing new soil conservation districts.
He emphasizes that the whole soil
conservation district development
has been matter of less than 10
years-since 1887.
During the two month period
from April Is to June Is this year,
95 new soil conservation districts
were added to the rapidly lengthen-
ing list" Bennett commented recent
ly. s'That is more than one and one
half districts formed by the people
themselves every single day. These
new districts and additions to old
ones take in more than A million
acres and nearly $4,000 farms
nearly three-Quarter million acres a
day for two-month period"
AS of July Is, the U. S. Depart
ment OF Agriculture reported that the
total of districts had climbed above
the 1900 mark. These take in nearly
SS4 million acres. and nearly A mill
lion farms, or almost two-thirds of
all farms in the country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23

Progress in finding a liquid mo-
tor fuel that can be made from
farm wastes is reported in Indus
trial and Engineering Chemistry. "
A three-year investigation under an
original appropriation of $41O, 1000 is
proceeding at the Northern Region
al Research Laboratory, Peoria, Ill.
The government chemists have been
able to obtain 80 to IS gallons of
liquid fuel from one ton of waste.
and the work is being enlarged to
semicommercial scale. The product
is mostly ethyl alcohol, obtained
through standardization and fer.
mentation of wastes such as corn.
cobs and cottonseed hulls. The prod
uct is now about so per cent ethyl
alcohol and the rest butanols, ace
tone and other fiammables. No con-
sideration is given to the utilization
of possible process by-products such
as plastics, sugar, etc. The prob
lem is to see what kind of motor
fuel can be made without consid-
Grafton of cost.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
STEEL MILLS ARE SAFER THAN
FARMS

The steel industry has a better
,afety record than farming, accord
ng to study of the statistics of the
National Safety Council made by the
american Iron and Steel Institute
The steel industry, which, during
he past ten years, has stood consis-
emily near the top of the list among
safe industries, moved up from fifth
20 fourth place in 1945 among forty
major industries on tie bhasis of fire.
luency of accidents.
Owing to the lack of information
about farm workers exposure and
accidents, no accurate basis exists for
comparison of accident frequency
.etween farming and steel making.
However, reliable statistics place the
number of accidental deaths among
farm workers at So per 100000 in
1915. The average for manufacturing
industries, including iron and steel,
was 10 per 100000 workers in 1915.
On that basis, 1900 lives would have
been saved if the fatality rate among
farm workers were as low as the av-
erage for all manufacturing.
Today, industrial accidents occur
less than half as often for each 1OO,-
900 workers as they did in 1880. In
tensive safety programs and better
working conditions have paid off in
many fewer accidents and have help
ed make steel one of the safest of all
induStriac
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
WANToN AND VICIOUS

Branding as "wanton and vicious
the motorist who deliberately endan-
gers fellow-drivers by refusing to use
the lower headlight beam when ap-
preaching oncoming traffic, keystone
Automobile Club urges uniform COM
pliance with the lower-beam require
ment of motor vehicle law as po-
tent means of reducing night accl-
dents.
Under the best of conditions,
said William J. Merrell, Manager OF
the Club in Maryland, "night driving
is hazardous. But when this hazard IS
increased through what must be re-
garded as wanton disregard for the
rights of others, it is time to enter
vigorous protest. The shooting OF
stabbing rays of light into the eyes
of oncoming motorists is a vicious
and deadly practice.
Mr.. Merrell said the country's
night-accident total is 10 per cent
greater than the day total, although
admittedly fewer cars are in opera
ton in hours of darkness. Headlight
glare must bear a major part OF the
blame for this appalling record, he
asserted.
In further emphasis of the danger,
he pionted out that night accidents
usually are more serious than those
which occur in daylight, citing hg-
ures compiled in New Jersey which
show that deaths in traffic accidents
were $50 per cent greater between
the hours of p. m. and midnight
than in the hours of 10 a. m. to 8
p. m.
''Use of the lower beam upon ap-
proach of other cars obviously won
eliminate night accidents" he con
tinued, "but just as obviously it will
help to reduce the toll by creating
more favorable driving conditions.
"While most states have regulations
requiring the lower beam under the
conditions described there has been
little enforcement. But in this as IN
other matters vitality affecting the
motorist, we believe common sense
and a spirit of fair play should die
tate compliance without the aid OF a
policemans whistle"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
Homesteads For Veterans.

The Interior Department at Wash
ington announces opening to home
stead entry of 1927 acres of public
land in the Klamath California, irri-
cation projects. The applications may
be sent TO the Bureau of Reclamation
at klamath Falls, Oregon, or to the
regional director of the Bureau at
Sacramento, California, or direct to
the Department at Washingto d. G..
The land will be open to honorably
discharged veterans with 80 days
service or more in the armed forces.
There will be other similar open
ings of projects through the West in
Arizona, Nevada, Idaho. Oregon,
Washington and Wyoming. "This is
only the beginning" of the Govern
ment settlement program for opening
one-third of a millio acnres of public
land to veterans during the next five
years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION
PROGRAM

Farmers in all Maryland counties
who participate in the 1916 Agricul-
tural Conservation Program can ex-
pect to receive substantial part if
not all of the credit value of all prac-
tees they carry out irrespective of
the allowance. The so-called allow
ance' (cropland, pasture land and
orchard land times 65c) should not
be construed as limit or maximum
that the farm can earn. This allow
ance is really guaranteed minimum
but not a maximum as in past years.
Farmers are assured of receiving
same credit on all additional prac-
tees carried out and certainly this is
the time for farmers to take advan-
tage of the program to improve their
land; build up the soil and reduce
costs of operation. In the past when
farmers met their allowance, they
could not earn payment on additional
practices-tlley had done all that
could be done under the program.
But this year some credit will be
given for all practices carried out
(including lime and fertilizer mater
ials) over their guaranteed allow
ance
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
FIRE GAINS ON THE NATION

The National Board of Fire Under
writer's reports an alarming increase
in fire losses. During June, for eX-
ample, the nations loss totalled more
than $44, 100000, an increase of 20
per cent over June, 1915. And the to-
tai for the first six months of this
year reached the record breaking fig
ure of $297,3O6,OO0. That is greater
than the aggegrate fire loss for any
single full year from 1914 through
1910.
Another indication of the trend is
that, normally, fire losses show sub
stantial decline during the summer
months. This June the seasonal de-
cline was extremely small, the loss
being only 4 per cent under that OF
May.
The responsibility for controlling
fire rests upon everyone who owns or
rents property, everyone who oper-
ates or works in a business. For fire
prevention, so far as the average in
dividual is concerned, consists OF
easy, simple things. The renewal of a
worn electric cord may prevent dis
aster that would destroy a home.
Proper storage of infiammable mater
ials may prevent confiagration that
would destroy factory. A simple re-
pair to heating plant may prevent a
blaze that would destroy lives.
The figures the National Board has
issued should be of concern to us all
To put them in words, they mean
that we are losing the war against
fire. They mean that valuable mater
ials, many of them virtually fireplace
able at this time, are being needlessly
destroyed. They mean ruin and death
and desolation. All our efforts are
needed to reverse this ominous trend.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
TEST FOG MACHINE TO KILL
MOSQUITOES WITH DOT MIST

A smoke screen apparatus of
World War II, adapted to peacetime
use, was used to lay a fog of DOT
throughout the streets of Cambridge,
Md, on the afternoon of Monday,
August 10, in the test aimed at the
control of salt water mosquitoes, in
comprehensive insect control pro-
gram to be witnessed by town and
county officials, county agricultural
agents and farmers from all parts of
Maryland.
The fog machine, which is reputed
to be able to lay down a screen of
DOT while travelling at the rate of
10 miles an hour, is one of the new
machines being tested for insect con-
trol in the Cambridge test area. City
commissioners of Cambridge, County
commissioners of Dorchester county,
entomologists of the University of
Maryland, County Agent Harry
Beggs and many farmers of the coun-
ty have been cooperating this sum-
mer in a program aimed to kill Jap
anese beetles, flies and mosquitoes,
N unified fight against insect pests.
Ordinary power sprayers, as well
IS other methods of fighting these
.hree prevalent types of insects, are
being used in most counties of the
tate, Assistant County Agent r. S.
sutton pointed out. The test program
Cambridge is being used to find
lew and more thorough methods for
.ombatlng these insects on city
vide and county wide seal
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-23
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

EMind' will be the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of
Christ, Scientist, on Sunday Aug. rs.
The Golden Text will be from
Isaiah 14:26-"The Lord of hosts
hath sworn, saying, Surely as / have
though, so shall it come to pass; and
as have purposed, so shall it stand. :"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible-Isaiah 40:10
-"Bekold, the Lord will come with
strong hand, and his arm shall rule
for him; behold, his reward is with
him, and his work before him."