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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-15
Junior College Students
Study Board In Action
(COntinued from Paqe ID

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inabality to spend the money due
to construction difficulties.
Arthur Hilland, Bethesda at
torney, appeared to asked that the
Bethesda Woman's Club be ex-
empted from taxation on grounds
that it is non-profit organization
and devotes much time to charity
and civic work. The board decided
to grant the exemption from the
$18,420 assessment. Later Wilton
7. Allan, Supervisor of Assess
ments, told the commissioners he
would carry the case to the State
Tax Commission. A recent court
ruling in Baltimore had upheld
such an appeal. Mr.. Allen thinks
that certain non-profit schools
also should be Investigated and has
been authorized by the board to
carry on such an investigation.
Upon motion by Commissioner
Youngblood, the board proclaimed
the week of April 1926 as "Clean-
Up, Paint-Up Week."
Taken into consideration was the
report from. Suburban Hospital
that beginning January /, 1913
the daily cost of treating welfare
permit patients at the hospital had
arisen to $14.16. Arthur G. Lam
bert, president of the board of
directors will be asked to explain
how the figure is arrived at before
action is taken. 1t was learned that
much of last year the hospital re-
ceived only 81 a day for such pa
tients-this was later raised to
Sc day. To keep the institution
from having to close its doors
early in the winter it was granted
$50, from the county, the cost
per day was then figured at $11.8o
day. Commissioner Wesley l.
Sauter is a member of the board of
directors of the hospital.
Hatton Brown, an up-county
farmer, appeared to appeal the de-
cision of Commissioners Jamison
and Esworthy not to pay damages
from the dog fund for sow which
he thought had been chased and
worried to death by dogs. The in
vestigating policeman had reported
the sow had apparently died from
natural causes. The board upheld
the decision.
The resignation from the county
police force of Donald E. Gibson,
Takoma Park, was accepted. Mr..
Gibson is moving to Rhode Island.
A petition presented by Russell
Watkins and signed by 81 county
residents and about dozen resi-
dents of Howard County, asked
improvement of the Mullinix Mill
Road from the Damascus-Etchison
road to Howard County. This was
taken under consideration.
Offers of $50 each for lots in
Washington Grove by Wallace
Muir and David Norvell were ac-
cepted by the board.
The Friendship Heights Citizens
Committee asked the commission
ers to end operations of a carnival
on Wisconsin Avenue near their
entrance. This was referred to Mr..
Sauter.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-15
Gaithersburg
All Club News

The first April meeting was held
in the Home Arts Cottage of the
High School on Wednesday with
Marjorie Burdette presiding. Plans
were made for a dance. The demon
stration was Cream Puffs, which
was given by Betty Sue Harding
and Mary Jane Davies.
The next meeting will be held
Thursday evening, April % at 1880
at the home of Betty Sue and Kay
Harding. The demonstration will
be on table decorating by Pat
Smith.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-15
Engagement Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles W. Darnell
Of Gaithersburg announce the en-
gagement of their daughter,
Gladys Marie (Pat) to ]. Harold
Amos, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
P. Amos of Washington. The we'd
ding will take place in May.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Our Chain of Latin American Bases Is Rustng Away
States and Nsds n H
Danorae to the Pn of HhgI o

installed a fighter strip and coastal
defenses.
Today only handful of soldiers
remain, clustered around Coolidge
Field-a spot Of glaring coral beauty
but, as military base, defenseless.
Moving westward, we come to the
American-owned Virgin Islands, in
cluding the three principal islands,
st. Thomas, st. Croix and st. John.
The latter was never adapted to
military purposes. st. Croix con-
tained small air strip, suitable for
fighters and light bombers, but
even during the war was considered
unimportant.
st. Thomas, however, was one of
the strongest wartime bases in the
Caribbean, ranking only behind
Puerto Rico and perhaps Trinidad.
Charlotte Amalie, the island cap
ital, was and is a tourists mecca.
But during the war. all four services
concentrated men, ships, planes and
supplies around Charlotte Amalie
in great numbers.
Although stripped Of most de-
fenses today, st. Thomas still could
put up a powerful defense against
attack. War-constructed gun en-
placements ring the island and the
airfield is excellent. st. Thomas is
equipped to handle submarines,
major fleet units as well as squad
rons of aircraft. The island has,
however, no natural water supply
and her wells are salt. All drinking
water on st. Thomas is rainwater
caught in huge concrete basins.
The island could readily be con-
verted into strong base once again.
Situation Is Frightening
Puerto Rico, once the strongest
American base in the West Indies.
is in desperate defensive shape.
Located there are the Army's large
Ramey formerlyi called Borinquen)
Airbase, Fort Buchanan, Camp
O'Reilly and the Navy's Isla Grande
Air Station at San Juan and the
huge drydock at Roosevelt Roads
near Fajardo.
Literally thousands Of American
and Puerto Rican soldiers and sailors
made the island an impregnable
bastion during the war. Today the
situation is frightening. Less than
thousand soldiers-all Air Force
men and technicians-hold Borin-
quen, once the Nations largest air.
base in the Caribbean. No infantry
men or artillerymen are there to
defend the base from sea or air
attack. There are no fighter planes
at Borinquen. The Army does
maintain a troop carrier squadron
of transport planes and an air-sea
rescue squadron of Bits and Phys.
There are no bombers based there.
The San Juan Naval Base, during
World War II was manned by nearly
5000 sailors, Marines, Coast Guards
men and naval airmen. Big am
phibious planes ranged thousands of
miles from the base in search of
German submarines. Submarines,
cruisers, battlewagons and transport
(See q. S. BASES, Page ca
Evening star., 1948-04-18
7U S. S. R., Mystery Giant Behind European Crisis
Production Statistics
Add Little to Doto
on Vast Empire
By Robert N. Cool

Last month Soviet authorities told
the United Nations that Russian in
dustrial production was % per cent
higher in 1947 than 1t had been dur
ing the preceding year.
This information didn't help very
much, however, because no figures
for 1916 had been given. The world
learned that Soviet steel production
was 9 per cent higher and that farm
output had climbed 80 per cent in
the year-but from what?
Dead-ends like this help account
for the fact that the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics-covering one
sixth of the earth's surface, and the
homeland of Red revolution-is al
most as mysterious to the average
outsider as Southeast Africa.
Such ignorance, in time OF
world tension, can be dangerous.
For the Soviet Union is neither
small nor weak, and its influence is
felt throughout all of troubled
Europe and Asia.
The U. S. S. r. Is so large that
when Russians in Siberia are going
to bed others in Leningrad are
waking up for their days work. 1t
is twice as far from the Soviet Pa
cif1c coast to the Baltic as from
New York to San Francisco; and If
all the inhabitants Of the 16 Soviet
republics were to line up, hand in
hand, at Moscow, they would stretch
around the world.
Though approximately half OF the
Russians are farmers dn contrast
to three-fourths before the 1917
revolution), the U. S. S. R. now has
at least 80 cities with more than
100000 population. Moscow, the
capital and hub, is rapidly ap-
preaching 50OO,0O0-a limit beyond
which it will not be allowed to grow.
These statistics come from a new
geography, Soviet Land" recently
published in London and distributed
in the United States by the Mac
milan Co. It's author, G. D. B.
Gray, is a well-known British geog-
rapher. who asserts that now 1.-The
U. S. S. r. is one large country, a
nation made up Of many peoples,
Evening star., 1948-04-18

ington. his wife Mickey and a
Puerto Rican sergeant are all that
remain of the 1,0O0-strong garrison
Of Rochambeau Field.
Slowly Deteriorating
The French thus far have resist
ed all inducements that they buy
several hundred trucks and vehicles
left behind when the American
Army pulled out Of the colony.
Capt. Burgess and his sergeant are
doing their best to keep the build
ings and runways from succumbing
to the tropics. But the base is
slowly deteriorating.
About 200 Army Air Force and
engineer troops still remain at once
bustling Atkinson Field. But the
base has so few planes that some
of the pilots stationed there must
get in their minimum four hours a
month flying time in small training
aircraft. In addition, none of them
is checked out to fly any thing
more up-to-date than B-25 bomb
er or a C-54 transport plane.
Hundreds of planes month used
Atkinsons fine concrete runways
during the war and thousands of
pilots stopped off there while shut
ting planes back and forth to the
war zone. Now two planes a week
is the average traffic.
The married officers and men
have their wives and children with
them. A large nutriculture or hy-
droponics garden (soilless culture)
supplies not only Atkinson Field
but other Caribbean bases as far
away as Panama, with fresh veg
etables. Hunting parties go into the
jungle daily in search Of tapir, jag
uar and bush turkey. But, left to
itself, the base could not defend
itself today against, say. the army
of the Dominican Republic.
Trinidad, lying of the coast of
Venezuela and to the east of Aruba
and Curacao. once contained no less
Evening star., 1948-04-18

than three land plane bases, large
naval operating base, the Navy sea-
plane base at Chagaramas and
strong garrison forces of Marines
and soldiers.
All that remain today are Waller
Field-an Army airbase with few
personnel and fewer planes-and
the Chagaramas Naval Station, op-
Grating like everything else in the
Caribbean-on a shoestring. The
Trinidad rain forest has reclaimed
vast areas once occupied by bar
racks and plane parkings and the
few hundred Americans remaining
are hamstrung by their own lack of
numbers and materiel.
Trinidad's capital Porto f-spain,
a busy seaport, no longer harbors
units of the American Fleet as 1t
did during the war. Indeed, even
American merchant ships are fairly
rare in Trinidad waters today.
Some Jets in Canal Zone
Dakota and Hato Fields at Aruba
and Curacao in the Netherlands
West Indies also are bare of Amer
ican troops and planes. Aruba,
with its extensive oil refineries, and
Curacao would be of primary i'm
portance to the United States if the
Russians moved on Arabia and the
Middle East. Today they are en-
tirely unprotected.
The Isthmus of Panama also has
been virtually denuded of protec-
ton, with all American forces with
drawn from territory of the re-
public, as has been thoroughly re-
ported in daily newspapers.
The Army still maintains skeleton
forces at Albrook Field and Fort
Amador and the Navy has greatly
curtailed bases at Balboa on the
Pacific side of the Canal and at
Coco Solo on the Atlantic terminal.
Coco Solo is one of the Nations
major submarine bases.
Ecuador's Galapagos Islands,
Evening star., 1948-04-18

dustries and the entire economic
fabric when there Is no visible
military power anywhere In the west
to protect them against the ruth
lessness of the Soviet armies.
We have failed to realize that
people like the Italians, who were
invaded once before in World War
I and twice during World War II,
are more interested in preventing
another invasion by the Asiatics
than in economic reconstruction.
And if they cap avert such ca
lan1ity by accepting Communist
domination, they prefer 1t to the
risks of a civil war. which would
be followed by full-f1edged inva-
sion from Yugoslavia.
So long as there were some
American and British troops IN
Italy prior to December IS the
morale of the Italian people re-
(See ITALY'S FUTURE, page CD.
Evening star., 1948-04-18

who live in the most varied sur
roundings and occupy the northern
part of the greatest continental
land mass, Eurasia."
This vast region runs from frozen
Arctic wastes, through temperate
plains and timberlands to semitrop-
ical deserts. 1t includes many OF
the worlds broadest rivers, its
deepest lake (more than a mile j,
the most dismal swamps and the
greatest expanse of black fertile
soil. Miles of plain are studded with
prehistoric monuments and have
not yet known the plow. Northern
Siberia has a belt of permanently
frozen earth which is slowly re-
Evening star., 1948-04-18

southwest OF the Big Ditch, once
housed many American troops and
planes. Only a handful OF Amer
leans remain there in custodial ca
pacity.
One consoling feature of the Pan
anna situation is the presence in the
Canal Zone of one of America S
handful of jet fighter plane squad
rons. 1t is the only American air
group in the Caribbean capable of
striking a blow against any enemy
today.
A dismal picture is apparent in
the Lesser Antilles-those small is
lands owned by the British. French
and Dutch lying in string that
curves from east of Puerto Rico to
Barbados.
At peak strength during the last
war, our soldiers, pilots. sailors,
Marines and coast guardsmen were
established at many points. On st.
Lucia, 20 miles from Frances Mar
Unique, both Army and Navy once
maintained air stations. The Navy
has pulled out and only so soldiers
are stationed at Beane Field, near
Port Castries, st. Lucia. They serv-
ice the occasional transport planes
that land briefly on the hot little
coral island. Airmen refer to St.
Lucia as the New Devils Island" +"
1t Is universally considered the
worst place to be stationed in the
entire Atlantic.
Handful of Soldiers Left
Further north lies the British
island of Antigua, eastern most is
land in the chain extending through
Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands. Antigua was oc-
cupied by the Americans in 194l
when the over-age destroyers-for-
bases deal was made with the
British. The Navy and Marines set
up a naval airbase and the Army
Evening star., 1948-04-18

(The ,miter spent 10 months in
the West Indies during 1912 and
1943 as a Marine Corps sergeant
correspondent When our Cdrib-
bean defenseS 1Dere at top
strength. Last meek, fue years
loter and not quite three years
after the end OF the 1Dar, he re-
turned from a t1Do-1Deek tour OF
most OF Americas Caribbean and
South Atlantic bases
Evening star., 1948-04-18
By Jerry O'Leory, Jr.

Postwar demobilization and econ
omy slashes in military appropria-
tions have reduced the strength Of
American armed forces In the Ca
ribbean area so drastically that some
bases have been abandoned entirely
and those remaining are practically
incapable of defensive or offensive
operations.
Military men stationed In. the
West Indies say unofficially that our
forces in that area would be less
able to combat an invader now than
MacArthur's men were in the Philip
pines in December, 1941.
They feel their area should be
returned to operating strength i'm
mediately in view Of the interna-
tional situation for two reasons:
First, there is no force in the
Middle East which could prevent the
Russians from seizing the vital Mid
die East oil fields-if the Reds so
decided-in a matter Of weeks. If
this happened, Americas only re-
naming major source OF petroleum
would be Venezuela and the Dutch
West Indies islands Of Aruba and
Curacao.
Once a Busy Plane Route
Second, in event of Russian
attack on Europe and the Middle
East, the United States would have
desperate need of the World War II
air route to Africa and the Middle
East via Puerto Rico, Trinidad,
British Guiana, Brazil and Ascension
Island in the South Atlantic.
AscenSion's Wideawake Airbase
has been abandoned and the rocky
island once more has become a
virtually uninhabited dot midway
between the bulges of South Ameri-
ca and Africa
In World War II Americas global
airmen used Ascension as refueling
point on the route to the African
and European war fronts. Only the
birds soar over Ascension today.
Belem and Natal, in Brazil-also
vital wartime stepping stones to
Africa-still are used by an average
Of one or two American military
planes a week. But for actual mill
tary purposes both bases are inoper-
ative. The maintenance crews and
facilities are gone, the barracks are
vacant, the revetments are over
grown and the storehouses and fuel
tanks are empty.
Further north on the route lie the
Guianas, British, French and Dutch
During World War II, reading from
east to west, the United States
set up strong Army airbases at
Rochambeau Field, near Cayenne
in the French colony; at Zandery
Field, near Paramaribo, Dutch
Guiana, and at Atkinson Field
near Georgetown, British Guiana
In addition, small naval air.
base was maintained 70-miles ur
the Essequibo River at Bartica
British Guiana.
Now only Atkinson Field is op.
erative. The Navy and Marines
withdrew from the Essequibo bast
in 1945 and sold the entire site tt
British Guiana dealers in lumber
Zandery Field was evacuated ano
its facilities turned over to the
Dutch. An American Army officer
Capt. william r. Burgess Of Wash
Evening star., 1948-04-18

One of these rivers, the Yenisei, can
be navigated for 5000 miles. In
places it is 20 miles wide.
Last January the Soviets an
nounced that the current f1ve-year
plan had boosted industrial and
agricultural output to prewar levels,
despite terrific war damage.
Most Soviet industry is building
production goods. such as tractors,
designed to strengthen the nation
in both peace and war. But grain
and timber are increasingly being
exported-not only to Eastern Eu-
rope, but also to Britain, France
and Egypt.
distributed by the Associated Press)
Evening star., 1948-04-18

Russians long have depended heavily
on water transport. Since 1918 the
mileage of inland waterways has
been doubled, while road-making,
railway building and air routes also
progressed.
The Baltic White Sea Canal was
completed in 1888 and was reopened
in 1e46 after having been wrecked
by the Germans. 1t is $50 miles long
and connects Leningrad with the
Arctic Ocean. There, the Soviets
have opened sea route-usable only
in summer-which is tapping the
wilderness by means of great rivers
that flow toward the North Pole.
Evening star., 1948-04-18

treating northward 1t is a relic
OF the last ice age, and the bodies of
long g-extinct mammoths have been
found in it, their flesh so well pre-
served, say scientists, that 1t could
be eaten-although thousands of
years old.
In recent years the Soviets have
pushed the settlement of their huge
eastern wilderness. 1t has been
found to be rich in minerals and
waterpower. Chief Soviet atomic
energy installations are reported to
be in the Lake Baikal area of Siberia
where new industrial region is
taking form.
Slow in railroad development, the
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Departure of U. S. Troops
Imperiled Future Of, Italy
Many Italians Swung Over to Communist Side
for Their Own Safety After the Token
Allied Force Was Withdrawn
By Constantine Brown

the balance since the
and particularly since American and British
token forces withdrawn December Is, 1947.
which held today tomorrow from the Alps
to the regarded with by the
powers and with hopefuness by Russia satellites
Evening star., 1948-04-18

(See ITALY'S FUTURE, Page ca
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-08
Delaware Herds On
National Honor Roll
GeOntinusa from nrst page1

gram. The state butterfat average
for all herds under test was $50
pounds.
, Owners of herds receiving nation
al hOnOrs and the average butterfat
production per COW are:
New Castle COunty-Levis Phipps,
Wilmington, 491 lbs; Irwin Arm
strong, MiddletOwn, 44O Tbs; Mitch
ell & Woodward, HOckessin, 413
lbs; Mitchell Bros, Hockessin, 391
lbs; H. Wallace Cook, ElktOn, Md,
4O8 lbs; Henry Mitchell, HOckessin,
S9S lbs; Berkely Farms, Newark,
SS8 lbs; Fred R. Stafford, Middle
town, 965 lbs; Fred Martenis, New
ark, 361 lbs; Albert Bryant, War
wick, Md, 361 lbs; King Farms,
Inc, Delaware City, 358 lbs; Pusey
PassmOre, TalleyVille, 354 bs.; DON
aid K. FarQuhar, Wilmington, 353
lbs; and Steve Barczewski, Newark,
352 lbs.
Kent COunty-Maurice Adams,
Harrington, 439 lbs; Purnal +.
Friedel, Viola, 967 lbs; Elwood
Cruel, FELTON,, 367 lbs; and Harry
Neece, Wyoming, 361.
Sussex COunty-Tull Brothers,
SeafOrd, 48S lbs; Lloyd E. David
son, HarbesOn, AIS lbs; B. B. Brins-
field & Sons, Vienna, Md, 1856 lbs;
L, Robin Webb, Milford, 378 lbs;
Arthur c. Tatman, Greenwood, 375
lbs.l J. Dudley Walker, Milton, 800
lbs; and Claude Ellis, Seaford, 353
lbs.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-08

ShOckley and William r. Warren
all of Lincoln, Donald /. Mills, Dam
iel R. Pearson, Edward w. Wiley,
and Carl G. Swanson, all of Mil
ford, Robert E. Krewatch of Del
mar, Dale Alvin Boyce, George ].
Collins, David H. Elliott, Donald
T. Ralph, Robert A. Records, LLOYD
Gaines, and Bradford Gaines all of
Laurel, Perry Hudson, Wallace
Truitt and Jerry Weiser of Frank
ford, William B. Evans of Ocean.
View, Willard S. Ellingsworth Of
Milton, William P. Needs of Bear,
Wallace Ryan and Jesse TrOtta Of
Pennington and Bill Hallett of
Greenwood, and William P. Bow.
man, John G. COffman, Jackie M.
Davis, Marvin J. Davis, Gilbert H.
Emory, Frederick c. Michel, Leon
Slaughter, Albert J. Stokes and
Lester w. Warner, of Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-08

P"ckot Veto is the torn commonly
7npl'Nd tn the action Of the President
IN w'thhold'nC aNnroval of hill for
ton d"vs when Congress adiourns be-
fore that time.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-08
Christian Workers
Schools Established
(cOnunuea from nrst pags1

member of the faculty of Wesley
Junior College; Music in Chris
tian Education" Mrs. John Park
er, Wyoming; 1.-THE Work of
Young Adults" Everett Meredith,
MiddletOwn; Understanding Chill
dren," Mrs. Margaret Kilby, regis
trar, Wesley Junior College; /;
Friendship and Marriage" Miss
Emma 1. Madciff, Wesley Junior
College; Christian Belief" the
Rev. Robert Hastings, POcOmOke
City.
Dover, "The Meaning of Church
Membership" the Rev. William O..
Hackett; "The Life of Jesus" the
Rev. Howell wilkins; christian
Education in the Church." Mr..
Green; "The Work of the Adult
Division" the Rev. r. Jervis Cooke;
Music and Christian Education" :"
Mrs. John Parker; "The Teachings
of the Prophets" DR.. Reuning;
ways of Teaching" the Rev. Otis
P. Jefferson; Americas Geo.
graphical Frontiers" Mrs. William
Sharp.
EastOn district, christian Edu-
cation in the Church." Mr.. Green;
Teachings of the Prophets" DR..
Reuning; "Music in Christian Edu-
cation" Mrs. Parker; Americas
Geographical Frontiers" DR.. Ida
Belle Thomas, Maryland State
Teachers College; "Dramatics in
Christian Education" Lewis Wells,
Wesley Junior College; "Under-
standing Children" Mrs. Kilby;
christian Beliefs" Prof. John Syl-
vester Smith, Washington College;
Friendship and Marriage" Miss
Madciff.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-08
Safety Council Notes

Don't dazzle 'em f. DIM 'em!'
Motorists are thus urged to use
their dinners for safety's sake on
the highways and on city streets, in
the traffic safety program of the
Delaware Safety Council.
Binding an OncOming driver
with your headlights is one Of the
most foolish and unnecessary things
a mOtOrist can do" Mr. w. w. Har-
ris, Vice President of Public Safe,y,
of the Delaware Safety Council
said. "YOu are threatening your own
life when you fail to lower your
headlights for an approaching car.
Only a. few seconds of light blind
ness can result in tragedy.
It's not only good manners to
dim your lights when meeting an
other car. It's often a matter of self
preservation. And it's safer and
more courteous, too, to use the low
er beam when Overtaking cars.
Lights glaring into a drivers eyes
from the rear-view mirror can daz-
zle almost as readily as when they
are head-On."
Here are some points Mr.. Harris
gave for safer use of headlights and
DINNERS:
/. Dim lights we'll ahead when
meeting a car on a level road.
2. Dim before a car coming over a
rise or around a bend in the road
catches full force of your bright
lights.
8. Dim when Overtaking to avoid
binding the driver through the re-
Election in his rear-view mirror.
4. Use city beam (dimmers) on
heavily travelled twO-lane highways
and IN lighted areas of settled com
munities.
5. Check the level and aim of
your headlights frequently and see
that they are correctly beamed at
all times.