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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16

Miss Moore. Mrs. Winfrey arrived
on Saturday.
Miss Elsie Brooke Stabler of
Washington is visiting Mrs. Reu-
ben Brigham.
Miss Jeane Marie Warfield,
granddaughter of Mrs. Charles
Warfield was married on Saturday
in Gainesville to William ]. DON
nelly.
The American Legion met on
Tuesday at the Anchorage. At the
business meeting a steering come
mittee made up to the officers
of the Legion was created to meet
every third Monday to discuss pro-
blems on membership, finances and
the possibility of a regular meet
ing place for the Legion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Road Marking Committee
Submits It's Conclusions

The Committee, composed of,
residents of all parts of the area,
for several months has endeavored
to study all available information
relative to the subject. Much in
formation was gathered from the
older residents which, together
with studies made of old maps and
the County records, has enabled
the Committee to reach its conclu-
sions as indicated on the map. The
Committee states:
"This has not always been. easy
as in at least two cases the efforts
of the Committee stirred up live
ly controversy. In one case, which
involves the road leading north
from Glen to the Old Frederick
Road (Route 28), so far it has not
been possible to select a name
agreeable to the residents of the
road and of that particular neigh
borhood.
can error in describing a prop
erty line in deed is responsible
for the confusion and difficulties
over the Piney Meeting House
Road. This road acquired its name
during Colonial days. Old Piney
Meeting House was a church and
community meeting house and ap-
parently was the center of the
community social life during the
early days. Its location is verified
by County Land Records. The road
which bears this name begins at
Hunting Hill on the Old Frederick
Road (Route 28), passes the Old
Meeting House site as well as the
site Of two old grist mills and leads
to the ford over the Potomac at
the mouth of Mill Greek or Muddy
Branch. At one time it was the i'm
portant or "key" route through
this part of the County to the
canal and the river.
an 1927 deed was made con-
corning tract of land lying along
public road then shown on vari-
Gus maps as "Newcut" road. In
copying the description of the land
from an earlier deed made in 1886,
the word road was left out caus-
ing the new deed to read 8. i. the
public road leading from the Piney
Meeting House to the Canal in
stead of :. the public road lead
ing from the Piney Meeting House
Road to the Canal Later deeds
referred to points in the center of
Piney Meeting House Road etc,
etc. The present owner Of this
property observed the name 'Piney
Meeting House Road prominently
noted in the survey of his property
and caused signs bearing this name
to be erected on the former New
cut road. This occurred some eight
or nine years ago and has been the
subject of much discussion in the
community.
THE Committee feels that, his
torically, certainly the name be-
longs to the road on which it origl-
mated and since standard maps and
records carry the road under that
name. Continued use of the name
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
House Blows Up

Salt Lake City. = A family of
five narrowly escaped death when
they smelled what they thought
was gas in their house ana refused
to enter the building. A few
minutes later, the house blew up,
scattering glass throughout the
neighborhood, demolishing all
four walls of the house and blow
ing pieces of furniture into near
by trees.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Blown Out of Home

Syracuse, N. Y.-An explosion,
attributed to a defective stove,
blew Donald Bowker, 81, and his
wife, Olive, out of their home. The
blast splintered the front wall Of
their two-story, four-room home,
shook the other walls from the
foundations and scattered furni-
ture about the yard. The Bowkers
were badly injured.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Sandy Spring Neiehborhood

read excerpts from the Journal of
Mrs. Elizabeth Ellicott of Ellicott
Mills, now Ellicott City, written in
1919. Mrs. Ellicott, travelling with
her daughter, writes of her trip
to Ohio by stagecoach-SO0 miles
in seven weeks. Mrs. Howard Ra-
ney, Miss Betsy Raney, Mr.. and
Mrs. Derek Simmonds, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Stabler, Mrs. VIM.
S. Sheets and Mrs. Francis Thomas
were guests at the meeting. Mrs. G.
H. Winfrey of Richmond will
spend the rest of this month with
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Fall From Tractor Fatal

Frederick Md. - While pulling
wagon loaded with baled hay,
Charles Leighton Fritz, 81 fell
from the tractor he was driving
into the path of the wagon. The
wheels of the heavily loaded vehic-
lie rolled over him. fracturing his
skull, fatally injuring him.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
u Ih the West Mqatmay
Too Slow

South Bend, Ind. = Emerson
A. Reese, SO, was charged with
reckless driving and his drivers
license suspended for 90 days be-
cause Reese was driving five to
eight miles an hour on a street,
causing a long string of cars to
pile up behind him.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Some Vehicle!

Portland, Ore. While one
teen-ager drove an automobile,
which had no license plates, no
headlights, no brakes, no top and
no gas line, another sat on a
fender and poured gasoline into
the carburetor through a hose. 1t
worked, too, until they ran into a
parked car and cops stepped in.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Now, Now!

Ruth rode on my cycle car,
Directly back of me,
hit a bump at sixty-five,
And rode on ruth-less-ly.
Montreal Daily Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
NkU Gusts Stack,
.left-Wing Leader
by the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-The GIG
National Maritime Union has or.
dered the expulsion of Joseph Stack
one-time vice president Of the union
and leader Of its leftwing faction.
The Stack custer was ordered o.
an NMU membership meeting last
night which also upheld the ex-
pulsion of two women members and
one-year suspensions melted out te
four seamen.
BY an announced 1,172-to-66i
vote, NMU members backed the re-
port of a trial committee which
had found Mr. Stack guilty of dis
ruption and anti-union activity
A demand by the deposed union
leader that he be given vote re-
count was ignored in the turbulent
session. Mr.. Stack called the action
highway robbery"
Joseph Curran. NMU president,
right-wing opponent of Mr.. Stack,
said he had asked the membership
to take such action land they
did it."
The two ousted women-accused
OF participating in an illegal MEM
bership meeting last month-are
Ann Conroy and Rose Shovel, ships
steWardeSSeS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
James Kearns Rites
TO Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for James B
Kearns, "a, of 5013 Edmonston ave.
nue., Hyattsville, who died early
Christmas morning after a heart
attack, will be held at 2 pm. tomor-
row at the chapel of Fort Lincoln
Cemetery. The Rev. Elmer Reno
pastor of the Tuxedo Methodist
Church, will of1ciate.
Mr.. Kearns was the father of Pvt
James P. Kearns of the Prince
Georges County police force. He
was striker only a few hours after
returning to his home from Pvt
Kearns' residence in Bladensburg.
Mr.. Kearns had lived in Hyatts-
vile A years. He would have re-
tired next June after IS years serv-
ice with the Potomac Electric Power
Co. at its Benning plant.
He was born in Arlington, Va.
After his marriage to Miss Lou
Bertha Trammell of Arlington he
moved to Prince Georges County
He was active in the Bladensburg
District Democratic Club.
Surviving MI. Kearns beside his
widow and Pvt. Kearns, are six other
sons and daughters: Mrs. Katherine
Oakley, Rogers Heights, Md: Sidney
Kearns, Hyattsville; Mrs. Elizabeth
Taliaferro, Bladensburg: Curtis r.
Kearns, Portsmouth, Va, and Mrs.
Gladys Paschini and Frank L.
Kearns. both of San Francisco.
He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Myrtle
Dreher Of New York City, and Is
grandchildren and great-grand-
children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
Thomas K. Banks, Sc, Dies;
Store Enqineer Here

Thomas Knox Banks, Sc, an engi-
neer with Woodward & Lothrop,
died Unexpectedly Yesterday at his
home in Hyattsville, 1890 jefferson
street
Mr.. Banks, who held a chief engi-
neer's license, was a native of Eng
land. He attended Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
He had been a resident of Hyatts-
vile for eight years and had been
with the department stores North
Building for about two years.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Isabel E. Banks of Hyattsville, and
a daughter, Mrs. Daniel Cook, Bur-
lington, N. c. Mr.. Banks was a
Mason and a member of the Wash
ington Engineers Club.
Funeral services will be held at
Chambers funeral home in River
dale tomorrow at 2 pm. Burial will
be in Tonawanda, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28

8 p.m:--Fort McNair. New Years Eve
6arceS.
s p.":.-Fort Myer North Post, New Years
g. I ice.
SO p.n.-chriS. Gid sutt,emcnt House.
=. Mas acj.uSettS avenue NE. New
Years Eve dance and entertainment
9 p.m-Fort Belyoir, New Years Eve
8 p.r,.-YWCA. Seventeenth and K streets
NV. New Years Eve formal dance for
young adults
9 pm.-Phyiiis Wheatley YwcA. eO1
Rhode Island avenue NV, New Years
Eve dance.
1915 Twelfth street NV. open house
ment programs until pm.
$3.50 m.-Christmas pageant enacted
for parents by children Of Christ ChlId
Farm Earn fer convalescent Children Rock
$40 pm-Friendship House, 619 D
street Sc, square dance for adults and
teen-aeers.
Monday.
80 p.m.-St. ElizabetnS Hospital. Cha.
nukah Festival with entertainment and
gifts for patients provided by National
Hebrew Sisters Aid Circle.
Larval fishes drifting on the outer
edge of the Gulf Stream have been
carried north every year for tens
of thousands of years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
Hawaii Anti-Riot Act
Held Unconstitutional
BY the Assoeioted Press

HONOLULU. Dec. 28.-Two CEN
tury-old Hawaiian statutes cover
ing unlawful assembly, riot and
conspiracy were held unconstitu-
tional yesterday by a three Judge
Federal Court.
The opinion, in case going bac1
to two bitter Clio strikes. said:
THE record seems to indicate
beyond peradventure = that the
unlawful assembly and Riot Act
has been employed as club to
beat labor and that the conspiracy
statute is an apt instrument 10 the
same end
United States Circuit Judge John
Biggs, jr., wrote the opinion. Dis
trict Judges George B. Harris of
San Francisco and Delbert E. Metz
ger Of Honolulu concurred.
The act defined unlawful as
sembly as where three or more
persons are assembled together with
disturbance, tumult and violence
1t provided that intent of tumult
and violence was in violation. The
court said the maximum sentence
under the act was raised from 5
to 20 years in 1929 as a direct re-
suit of Filipino workers strike
on Kauai
The International Longshore-
mems and Warehousemens Union
(CIO) challenged mass indictments
brought against members during the
sugar strike of 1916 and the pine
apple strike of 1947. The case has
been In the courts since the in
dictments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
|Prokofieff Under Red Fire Again
For Journalism in New Work

posers' union has finished hearing
this and other new works by Soviet
composers.
Khrennikov said Prokofieff was
out of tune with the vast majority
of Soviet music writers, who have
entered onto new path" He said
there were still journalist vestiges in
the works of several artists, but this
clinging to Journalism was most
clearly illustrated in Prokofieff' s
The Tale of Atae."
The secretary commended new
works by Dmitri Shostakovich and
Aram Khachaturian, composers who
were included in the party's Febru-
airy criticism. Shostakovich is COM
poser of the opera Lady Macbeth
of Mzensk" and several widely played
symphonies. Khachaturian is best
known for The Saber Dance"
The four others have achieved sue
cess in various degrees, but are orr
enting their work slowly, he said.
These are Nicolai Miaskovsky, Wis
sarion Shebalin, Iraky (Vano Mu-
radeli and Gabriel Popov.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
Man Who Often Donated
Rare-Type Blood Dies
BY the Associoted Press

TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 28.-James
r. Clegg. &c. who gave 81 blood
tranfusions to victims of strepto-
coccus infection, died Sunday night
of heart disease.
Mr.. Clegg had Moss Type w blood
as a result of recovery in 1885 from
streptococcus verdians.
He travelled thousands of miles in
the United States and Canada tc
give as many transfusions as his
time and health permitted. More
than a pint of blood was needed fol
each TRANSMISSION. Physicians esti-
mated the ratio of recoveries from
the disease was l to 100.
Mr. Clegg. an undertaken, accepted
no money for his transufusions anC
often paid his own travel expenses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28

town Girls Club and GEORGETOWN Bran
of the Boys Club of Washington in
formal oance CELEBRATION 2, $. Johns
Church. 800 . street NV
$50 p.m.-Confederate Memorial Hall
1922 Vermont avenue NV, Christmas
party by Robert E. Lee Che pier No. ga
United Daughters CT the Confeoeracy.
Thursday.
10 a.m.-St Elizabeths Hospital party for
Occupational Therapy department. Also
4:45-Mount Alto Hospital, Chanukah
service, auspices Veterans Administra-
ton, Chaplain Morris Sandhaus oftic.at-
ing. Gifts doNated by Deborah Re-
bekah Lodge. No. II. Odd Fellows. in
co-operation with National Jewish We'll
fare Board
7 pm.-Friendship House. 619 d street
Sc. Camp Fire Girls Join "Civine It's
ySung wo 70 ems club, for party with ex-
100 p.m.-st.. Elizabeths Hospital. carol
singing by Cheverly Community Church
Choir.
80 p;m.--walter Reed Hospital, pre-New
9 p.m.-catholic Students Mission CRU
SADIE: Christmas dance, Shoreham
Friday.
p.m.-Andrews Air Force Base, New
Years Eve dance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28

sons here for the past year. Marvin
E. Fowler, 3737 Van Ness street NV,
was elected to succeed Col. Bettel-
helm as deputy grand master.
A native of New York, Col Bethel
helm came to the District following
World War I. He attended high
school and Columbia University in
New York, and later attended George
Washington University here. He is
a veteran of both World Wars, hav-
ing completed more than IS years
of Army service last July. He is
now in the Reserves.
A member of the District Bar As
ISOLATION and the Board of Trade,
Col. Bethlehem is now serving as
chairman of the Committee on Ar
rangements for the inaugural parade
He is past master of Sojourners
Masonic Lodge, past illustrious mas
ter of Adoniram Council, Royal and
Select Masters, and past president
Of the Advisory Board of Masonic
Clubs.
He also is a member of all York
and Scottish Rite bodies of Masonry
and is junior warden of Columbia
Commandery, Knights Templar. He
is a Shriner. ..,.
Other officers named were David
S. Dawson, senior grand warden:
Renah F. Camalier, junior grand
warden; Aubrey H. Clayton, grand
secretary; Charles E. Baldwin, grand
treasurer; Edgar E. Bageant. grand
lecturer; the Rev. John C. Palmer,
grand chaplain; Roy D. Borden,
senior grand deacon; Fred B. Black
burn, junior grand deacon; Gregor
Macpherson, senior grand steward;
L. Whiting Estes, grand marshal:
Orville E. Megby, grand sword
bearer; Kenneth r. Harries, grand
pursuivant, and Sydney J. Mayer,
grand tiler.
Samuel w. Mcintosh, 1913 Blu
chanan street NV, Washington
attorney, was newly elected to the
post of junior grand steward. He is
a past master of the Mount Pleas
ant Lodge and has been secretary
there since 1884. He is Royal Arch
Mason, a Knights Templar and
Cbriper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
| Headache Proves
Costly to Man
In Sailors Suit

John N. Savage, SO, picked the
wrong time to develop a headache
and go to buy some aspirin.
AS he explained yesterday to
Judge George D. Nelson in Munich
pal Court. sailor friend showed up
in his home in the 17OO block of
New Jersey avenue NV. on Christ
mas Day. and asked to borrow some
civilian clothes.
He liked the suit I had on and
offered to let me wear his sailor
uniform for the rest of the day, so
said okay," Savage, who is colored
explained.
He added that later he got a
headache and decided to get aspirin
from the corner drug store.
I'd hardly got onto the street
when the Shore Patrol cruised by
ana asked me questions, Savage
asserted.
For illegal wearing of a uniform
he5was sentenced to pay a $50 fine
or serve 80 days in jail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
Senate 6. 0. p. Chiefs
Offer Po|icy-Naking
Role TO Insurgents
BY the kssocjoted Press

The Senate's Republican lead.
erShip gave a little ground today
to party rebels with an offer tt
cut them in on policy making ir
the new Congress.
But defeated Senator Ball OF
Minnesota cautioned against any
move to "liberalize" the COP. Such
step, he told a reporter. might
ALLEVIATE the middle class millions
who make up the great bulk" of the
party's steady supporters.
All the evidence, meanwhile, is
that both Senators Taft of Ohio and
Wherry of Nebraska intend to press
their efforts to keep their top jobs
despite the demands of self-styled
liberals for shakeup in the party S
leadership.
Wherry Claims New Support.
Senator Taft appears entrenched
in his position as chairman of the
Senate Republican Policy Commit
tee. Senator Wherry told a re-
porter he is gaining new support
daily in his drive to be named as
Republican floor leader, a post he
holds on an acting basis in the
Eightieth Congress.
Insurgents who have been gun
ming for Senators Taft and Wherry
got a peace bid yesterday in a pro-
posal by Senators Brewster of Maine
Bricker OF Ohio, and Butler of Ne
braska, to enlarge the nine-member
policy committee to II.
The three Senators-all friendly
to Senator Taft-also proposed that
the chairman of the committee. as
well as the head and secretary of the
party caucus and the floor leader.
be elected by the conference of all
Republican Senators.
These four automatically would
become members of the policy-mak-
ing group. The conference chair
mana post which has been filled
by Senator Millikin of Colorado
would appoint the other seven
members. subject to conference
approval.
Morse Offers Plan.
Senator Morse of Oregon, who
said he and others represent the
liberal wing of the Republican
Party" countered this with a plan
that all members of the policy
group be elected by secret ballot
after they had been nominated by
a committee on committees.
Senator Morse's proposal is ex-
pected to be taken up by the in
surgents when they meet, probably
Thursday. in advance of Monday
full conference session.
Senator Ball didn't refer specifi-
cauy to the Morse plan or to the
peace bid. But he said political
logic demands that the party reject
its would-be leaders" who, he said,
nave tried to turn the COP Into a
pale replica OF the New Deal party"
Can Be Vital Force.
"The Republican Party" he con-
tinued, can become a vital and
effective force in national politics
only If its leadership reflects the
views Of the great bulk of its steady
supporters, its hard core of lasting
strength.
These middleclaSs millions op-
pose the collectivism and so-called
welfare state for which the Demo-
cratic Party now stands. Their at
titude is generally conservative. be-
lieving in a free system and indi-
vidual responsibility"
Senator Ball, who was defeated
by Democrat Hubert Humphrey.
Mayor of Minneapolis, said there
is no assurance of victory in his
proposal.
But it would keep the party alive
as a vital and honest force" he
said, and give voters a real choice
in future elections"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
William Baker, Ia, Dies;
MARYLAND Banker
kx thu Axxoeiutad Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 28-William
G. Baker, jr., IA, investment banker
and a member Of the New York
Stock Exchange, died yesterday at
his home in Dulany Valley, Balti-
more County.
He had been in Ill health for sew
eral years.
Mr.. Baker was born in Frederick
County. After receiving his law
degree from the University of Mary
land in 1899, he joined the late
Sewell S. Watts a year later in
founding the banking firm of Baker
Watts g. Co. He retired in 1912
but remained limited partner.
Birds have been seen taking baths
when the temperature was only 10
to 20 degrees above zero.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
Value Of Labor Farley
Doubted by Thomas,
Committee Head
BY the Associated Press

Senator Thomas, Democrat, Of
Utah, who will head the Senate
Labor Committee in the new
Congress, today tossed cold water
on the idea OF a labor-manage-
ment conference to fix a fair
wage" standard for collective
bargaining.
So did a bushes spokesman.
But Senator Morse. Republican
of Oregan said he is all for it and
thinks the scope of such a confer
ence should be even broader. He
would like it to produce recon-
mendations for new labor legisla-
ton to replace the Taft-Hartley Law
So would the CLIO, except that the
labor organization still insists that
repeal-and re-enactment of the
Wagner Act-must come first
Guide for Settlements.
The Presidents Council of Eco
nornic Advisers suggested over the
week end that new national labor
management conference might come
upSWith a nonbinding wage stand
ard to serve as guide for voluntary
settlement of pay disputes.
Senator Thomas told a reporter
he is skeptical about the value of
q wage yardstick on the basis the
Economic Council viewed it.
The tendency always is for such
nonbinding agreements to become
binding in practice and thus cause
trouble" Senator Thomas said.
AS for Senator Morse's suggestion
that any new labor-management
conference recommend provisions
of new labor law, Senator Thomas
said that would be passing the buck.
That decision is up to Congress,
after proper public hearings" Sena-
tor Thomas declared.
But a CLIO spokesman, comment
ing privately on the councils sug-
geStion, said he thinks a conference
would be fine place to draft rec
concentrations on such things as:
(A) What to do about jurisdictional
disputes, (B) how to eliminate sec
ondary boycotts and Co how to
handle national emergency" strikes
At the same time, a Chamber of
Commerce oficial-also talking with
the understanding he would not be
named-said he thinks the average
management representative doubts
that any good could come of a new
conference.
This Official added, however, that
the chambers labor relations COM
mittee will meet here January IL
and probably will discuss the
councils suggestion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-28
By Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent

MOSCOW, Dec. 28.-Sergei Pro-
kofeff, who was among seven Soviet
composers censured by the Commu-
mist Party Central Committee last
winter, is under critical fire again.
The charge, now as then. is
Journalism"
The critic now is Tikhon Khren-
nikov, general secretary of the Soviet
Composers Union.
The party committee last Febru-
airy described Journalism" as trend
against the people and blasted at
"survivals of bourgeois theology nur-
tured by the influence of the mod
ern decadent music of Western Eu-
rope and of America"
Prokofieff, whose works include
Peter and the Wolf" thanked the
committee for helping him correct
his musical mistakes and resumed
work. He wrote a new opera, The
Tale of Atae, Real Person"
The governing board of the COM