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Evening star., 1949-09-18
Truman Sees Football Game
As Alexandra Festival Ends

The 36-inch long stainless
steel cylinder which was lowered
in the ground yesterday, later
was removed from its concrete
crypt and sent to the Bureau of
Standards to be tested to deter
mine whether 1t can withstand
moisture and other underground
conditions.
When it is reburied and sealed,
marker will be placed above
the crypt with instructions to
reopen the cylinder in 2049.
Packed away in the cylinder,
which was made by the Naval
Ordnance Plant at Alexandria,
are current newspapers published
in this area. a telephone book,
the Alexandria, city directory,
membership lists of civic and
fraternal organizations. products
manufactured in Alexandria and
maps of the city.
Speakers at the ceremonies in
cluded State Senator Andrew w.
Clarke of Alexandria, Armistead
L. Boothe, a member of the Vir-
ginia House of Delegates from
Alexandria and chairman of the
Bicentennial Committee; Vice
Mayor Albert A. Smoot and Ralph
H. Boyle. president Of the Alex
andria Chamber Of Commerce.
T The capsule" was lowered into
the ground by Miss Mary Ken
nedy. who was chosen Miss
Alexandra" earlier this year, to
reign over all bicentennial fes-
tivities.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Richard D. WeigIe Appointed
St. Johns College President
Stote Department
Far East Executive
Only 81 Years Old

Richard D. Weigle, 81, executive
officer in the State Departments
Office of Far Eastern Affairs, yes
terday was named president of
st. Johns College at Annapolis,
the 253-year-old Great Books"
school.
Mr.. Weigle, who lives at 6306
Maple avenue, Chevy Chase, Md,
has been q resident Of the Wash
ington area since he joined the
State Department in 1945 after
serving with the Army Air Forces
in the China na-Burma-India Thea
ter during the war.
He is the youngest St. Johns
president since DR.. Thomas Fell
began his 37-year tenure in 1886.
Shortly after Mr.. Weigle's Sc
lection was announced by Richard
F. Cleveland. Baltimore attorney
and head of the Board of Visit
ors and Governors, the new presi-
dent made an appointment Of his
own, the Associated Press report
ed from Annapolis.
He dropped acting" from the
title Of Jacob Klein, veteran fac
ulty member, and made him full
time dean of the college.
Mr.. Klein has been serving as
acting dean since an administra-
tive shakeup last winter which
was climaxed by the resignation
of four officers. One was John S.
fKieffer, president for two years,
whose place Mr.. Weigle takes.
Mr.. Kieffer and the others. in
cluding former Dean Raymond
Wilburn, still are on the faculty.
Kieffer was given a years sab
batical leave.
Slender, blue-eyed and brown
haired, Mr.. Weigle could be mis-
taken for an undergraduate.
He received a doctor of philos-
ophy degree at Yale 10 years ago.
but will be just "Mr." at st. Johns,
where professors drop their aca-
demic furbelows and are called
tutors.
Undergraduates pursue q nom
elective four-year course founded
on the most important books OF
Western civilization. Texts range
from Plato's Republic" to such
modern classics as "Moby Dick"
Mr.. Weigle conceded he wasn't
too familiar with the inner work
ings Of st. Johns until last spring,
when he was approached about
the presidency.
Don't ask me how many OF the
great books I have read" he said.
"I like the idea of standardized
curriculum for all< students. "As
an undergraduate I was a little
at sea and wish some one had
taken me in hand and exposed
me to the great thinking OF the
past"
He believes the st. Johns sys--..
tenn makes graduates better able
to meet world problems. II
Contemporary crises had their
Evening star., 1949-09-18
QUANTICO MARINES DEFEAT
v. P. I. by a score of 33 to IA.
(Story in Sports Section.)

NS<A4N AS0 0A1AAeA&NAS O41A La
v. P. I. by a score of 33 to IA.
(Story in Sports Section.)
The lowering into the ground
Of a time capsule" featured cere-
monies ending Alexandria, bicen-
tennial celebration yesterday at
George Washington High School
stadium where President Truman
arrived a few minutes later to at
tend a football game.
The ceremonies marked dedi-
cation Of a 3,600-seat stand at
the stadium. A group of anon
ymous citizens raised $4,000
for the seats.
The President was greeted by
loud applause from approximately
10 900 persons who saw the Guam
tico Marines defeat Virginia Poly
technic Institute, 1914. He was
accompanied by his military aide
Mai. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, and
other high-ranking military Off
GERS.
Mr.. Truman stayed to watch
the game and drank soda pop In
the near-80- degree weather. Al
the half, Mr.. Truman patted the
Marines bulldog mascot, Jiggs
on the head.
After the game Mr.. Truman ano
his party Of eight motored to the
Naval Gun Factory and embarked
on the yacht Williamsburg fol
an overnight cruise. He planned
to sail back up the Potomac K
watch the final races in the Presi-
dent Cup Regatta today.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Montgomery Blair PTA
To Meet Tuesday

Plans for the coming year will
be discussed at the first fall meet
ing of the Montgomery Blair High
School PTA at the school gym
nasium at 8 pm. Tuesday. Par
ents and teachers will meet In q
"get-acquainted" session, and an
overall program for the year will
be adopted.
The Blair PTA, largest in Mary
land. this year will represent a
student body Of more than 1,15C
and a faculty of 81 teachers.
Dana B. Johannes, Silver Spring
architect, is president of the
organization.
Evening star., 1949-09-18

counterparts in the Greek and
Roman empires, he added. And
"the idea of an association of ma
tions, regarded as an achievement
of modern civilization, was seen
in China around the time of Con-
fucius and in the Greek city
states"
OF Communism: 1--WE are to in
clined to be negative. defensive.
We must evolve measures to sell
our way of life and ideals in a
positive way"
Mr.. Weigle got his bachelors
degree at Yale when he was only
10. He taught at the Yale-in-
China school in Changsha for a
few years. After earning his doc
torate, he returned to his home
town of Northfield, Mimi, to
teach at Carleton College.
His father, DR.. Luther A.
Weigle, retired last June as dean
of the Yale Divinity School.
After serving in the China
Burma India Theater, Mr.. Weigle
became secretary to the general
staff of the Chinese combat COM
mand, liaison headquarters with
Nationalist ground forces.
In China, he tutored Gen. Ho
Ying Chin in English. Gen. Ho
was then ground forces chief. He
later became premier of the Ma
tionalist government.
st. Johns now concentrates on
Western civilization. but Mr..
Weigle hopes, perhaps through
lectures, to introduce some of the
Oriental culture valuable not only
here but to every one.
Mrs. Weigle, slim and blond.
accompanied him from Chevy
Chase for the board meeting.
They have two daughters.
Mr.. Weigle's first function will
be to officiate at the convocation
which opens the 253d year at st.
Johns on September Is. He will
be the 18th president since the
college, formerly King Williams
School, was chartered in 1785 and
the third since Stringfellow Barr
inaugurated the Great Books plan
In 1887.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Montgomery County,
Baltimore Veterans
Hold Both Reunion

Veterans of a World War I in
fantry company recruited in
Montgomery County and Balti-
more were urged yesterday to sup
port the doctrine Of military pre-
paredness whenever and wherever
they get the chance.
The plea was made by Gov.
Lane. Senator Tydings. Demo-
crat. of Maryland and Mai. Gen.
Milton A. Rockford at the 30th
reunion of Company X, 115th In
fantry Regiment. 10th Division,
AEF. All three speakers are for
mer members Of the regiment.
Gen. Rockford, who commanded
the regiment during World War !,
told the veterans that although
Russians and Americans have a
hard time understanding each
other, the one word the Russians
do understand is strength. Gen.
Rockford served as Army provost
general in Germany for two years
at the close of World War II.
Held at Jesup Blair Park In Sill
yer Spring, the reunion was at
tended by 125 members Of Com
pany K. They answered the COM
pany roll call. 1t. Mark Patterson
responded for the men killed in
action and Sergt. Frank Busch
man for those who have died
since. - 81
Maj. Joseph c. Cissel, who was
a platoon sergeant in the first
war, presented the company to its
wartime commander, Capt. (now
1t. COLI E. Brooke Lee, who then
presented it to Gov. Lane, former
regimental adjutant. The Cover
nor climaxed the ceremony by pre-
senting the formation to Brig
Gen. Frank B. Watson, u. 8. A..
retired, who was the 115th's colo
mel while 1t was training at Camp
Mcclellan, Ala.
Other speakers were Circuit
Court Judge Stedman Prescott
Col. Neil D. Franklin, and James
M. Stevens Of Silver Spring. who
recently was elected national COM
mander Of the 10Th Division AS
sociation.
The only surprise in the program
was the presentation of a plaque
to Col. Lee by Gov. Lane on behalf
of the men in the company. The
plaque hailed the former COM
pany commander as a leader In
war and In peace"
Following a drill by the 29th Di-
vision Associations Drum and
Bugle Corps, dinner was served.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Schools at Frederick
Set Record of 9, ,8O7 PUPILS
Special Dispoteh 10 The Sto,

FREDERICK. Md, Sept. T.
Total enrolment in Frederick city
and county public schools has
reached an all-time high of 9,807
students, School Supt. Eugene w.
Pruitt has announced.
The greatest increase is in high
schools. where the change-over
to a 12-year system of education
has held 593 pupils from last
semester to form the 1949-50 sem
ior class. The total gain for all
classes is 594 more than last years
9.213, with slight declines in reg
istration for junior high and COL
ored elementary schools.
Evening star., 1949-09-18

The Georgian house. planned by
the English architect. William
Buckland. originally had nine
small bedrooms on the second
floor for George Mason's children.
but Mr.. Hertle combined some Of
these rooms. Otherwise. the, house
was restored as much like the
original as possible.
The estate has been open to
sightseers during many Of the
annual Garden Weeks held each
spring.
In deciding the property to the
State, Mr.. Hertle said 1t was in
tended "as a perpetual memorial
to the memeory of George Mason
and in honor of the principles Of
just government and civic right
eousness exemplified in his life
and in his work =. Mason was
the author of the Virginia Bill
|of Rights, forerunner Of the Bill
|of Rights in the Federal Consti-
tuition, was a leading proponent of
religious freedom.
Members Of the Board Of Re-
gents are to be appointed by the
Governor of Virginia on nomina-
ton Of the National Society Of Co
lonial Danes.
Mr.. Hertle is survived by a niece,
Mrs. Freda H. Holbrook. Des
Moines. Iowa, and a nephew, Rob-
ert G. Winckler, 8602 Milford ave-
nue.. Silver Spring. Md. He had
no children.
Funeral services will beAheld at
4 pm. tomorrow at historic Po-
|hick Church not far from the mani
sion. where both Washington and
Mason were vestrymen. |, Burial
win be ID Chicago.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Clinic for We'll Babies
Approved in Alexandra

The Alexandria Medical Society
has approved the plan to estab-
lish a well baby clinic" by the
Alexandria Health Department.
AS explained by Alexandria
Health Officer Thomas F. Nc
Cough. the clinic is not intended
to take care of sick children, but
rather to keep babies well.
DR.. McGough said the initial
schedule calls for sessions of the
clinic on the second and fourth
Wednesday of each month from
1870 pm. to $3.50 pm, beginning
on october 26. The clinic will be
at the health department and will
be operated on an appointment
basis, he added.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Chest in Prince GEORGES
Names Area Chainmen

The Prince Georges County
Community Chest has appointed
James E. Peake of Bladensburg,
chairman Of Area 4 in the Chest
campaign. The area includes
Bladensburg and vicinity.
Mrs. j. Guy Bell OF Bowie will
serve as residential director and
Mrs. George Babcock of High
bridge will be business director
IN Area S of the Chest campaign.
Brice Duckett is chairman of
Area S which includes the Bowie
section.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
500 Turn Out.
4-HDaiirySh
Youthful Farmers
Enter $50 Animals
From 9 Counties
(Picture on Page All
By james BirchfieId

WARRENTON. Va, Sept. IT,
More than 500 persons turned
out today for the first Northern
Virginia All Dairy Show.
Coming from Culpeper, LOU
doun. Fairfax. Madison, Fauquier
Orange. Green. Prince William
and Spotsylvania Counties, the
boys and girls exhibited more
than IS Holsteins. 80 Jerseys and
Is Guernseys. There also were a
half dozen Milking Shorthorns,
four Brown Swiss and one Ayr
shire.
Judging followed the modified
Danish system, in which all ami
mails in a class warranting first
place were given blue ribbons. Top
animals in each blue ribbon group
then competed for Junior, senior
and grand champion ribbons. :,
Fairfax Wins Guernsey Honors.
In the Guernsey division, senior
and grand champion went to Fair
fax County. with Loudoun stand
ing in as junior champion. Chan
ming Smith, All member from
Floris. took the senior and grand
champion ribbons. Frank Cron-
well. Loudoun All member, took
the junior championship.
Young Smith also received hon.
ors for the best fitted animal in
the Guernsey division.
In one Of the largest classes of
Holsteins ever shown in Virginia,
Jean Sprague. from Loudoun, took
the grand champion ribbon after
capturing the Junior champion
honors. Miss Sprague is the only
girl member of the Loudoun
County dairy Judging team which
won first place in the Virginia
contest recently.
Fauquier Boy Wins Division.
Harry Miller of Prince William
County took the senior champion
award with his mature Holstein
COW. but lost to Miss Sprague for
top honors in the Holstein classes.
In the Jersey division, Bill Rus
sell Of Fauquier County took jun
Tor and grand champion honors,
with Billy Martin of Orange Coun-
ty exhibiting the senior champion
COW.
In the Brown Swiss and Milk
ing Shorthorn classes, grand
champion ribbons went to the fol-
lowing:
Philip Miller, Fauquier, grand
champions elld James Mitchell,
Fairfax, juror champion. Brown
SwiSS
4,. One Ayrshire Shown.
Eleanor Grohs, Fauquier, grand
champion in the Shorthorns.
Only 'one' Ayrshire was shown.
1t was given a blue ribbon.
In the COW and daughter pair
winners were as follows:
Nancy and Barbara Graham,
Loudoun, Guernsey; Miss Sprague,
Holstein, and Patsy James, Madi-
son, Jersey.
Loudoun was judged the best
county with Guernsey herds, with
Fairfax second. Fairfax also had
the best Holstein County herd.
Best Jersey herd rating went to
Fauquier.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Louis HertIe, Who Spent Years
Restoring Gunston Hall Dies
Home Of George Mason
Goes to Virginia to
Be Kept as Memorial

Louis Hertle. retired Chicago
merchant who bought historic
Gunston Hall in 1912 and made
it one Of the Colonial showplaces
Of Virginia, died yesterday after
a long illness. He was 80.
Mr.. Hertle died at the hall,
where he had lived alone, ex-
cept for a few servants since the
death Of his wife 20 years ago.
BY his direction, the estate
now passes to the State of Virginia
for preservation as a memorial
to George Mason, its original own
er and author of the Virginia Bill
of Rights.
The mansion, on the Potomac
River, five miles south of Mount
Vernon. was built by Mason in
1858. Mr.. Hertle and his wife.
the former Eleanor Daughaday
of st. Louis. devoted many years
to its restoration.
The house and its 555-acre es-
tate were decided by Mr.. Hertle
to Virginia in 1882, but he re-
served life tenancy for himself.
The deed provides the estate will
be opened to the public under
the management of a board of re-
gents including the State presi-
dent OF. the Society of the Colonial
Danes of America.
Was Marshall Field Official.
A native of Cincinnati, Mr.. Her
tie was an official of Marshall
Field g. Co. in Chicago for many
years. He entered the hardware
business when only a boy of 13,
and one of his jobs with Marshall
Field was the establishment of
its wholesale hardware depart
ment.
He purchased Gunston Hall
soon after the death of his first
wife. His second marriage was
in 1914, and he and his wife were
visited by many Presidents and
other notables at the estate dur
ing the years while restoration
was under way. Mr.. Hertle num-
bered the late Chief Justice Har-
Ian Fiske Stone and the late Sen
ator Oscar w. Underwood of Ala
bama, owner Of nearby Wood
lawn, among his close friends.
The estates English box hedges,
notable among its features, were
still intact in 1912, but the house
itself was in poor repair and little
remained of the original gardens.
Mr.. Hertle himself was RESPONSE
BILE for laying out the present
gardens.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
.1,500 al Sandy Spring
See Firemen's S Parade
In County Convention

Representatives of more than
rs Maryland fire departments con-
verged on Sandy Spring yester-
day for the annual convention of
the MONTGOMERY County Volun-
teer Firemen's Association.
About 1900 persons watched a
parade Of So pieces of fire apparatus
and is floats and then gathered at
the athletic field Of the Sherwood
High School for convention con-
tests.
The one-day affair was con-
cluded last night with a banquet
and the conventions only busi-
ness session.
In late balloting. Marbury Gates,
Rockville. was elected president,
succeeding Leslie B. Thompson,
Chevy Chase. Others named were
Leo Bender. Silver Spring, treas
urer. and Robert Cuff, Ashton,
secretary.
In q beauty contest, Miss Betty
10 Phelps, 10, of Kensington, was
picked as Miss Fire Fighter. Run
ners-up were Miss Jenny Latona,
II. OF Gaithersburg, and Miss An
ME Latlief. Is, of Sandy Springs.
Parade winners were as follows:
Best appearing piece of apparatus
from Montgomery County-Glen
Echo; best from outside county
Riverdale; coming longest dis
tance-Arcadia; oldest piece of
equipment-Kensington; best uni
formed men In line Silver
Spring: disappearing company
|-Sykesville; disappearing am
bulance-Glenn Dale; best ap-
pearing band-Greenbelt Commu-
nifty Band, first, and Brownings-
Vile Band, second; disappearing
ladies' auxiliary-Damascus; best
commercial float, Norris Bros.
Products Of Rockville, and best
appearing non-commercial float
Olney Homemakers' Club.
/ Winners in contest competition
included:
Standing hookup from county
Gaithersburg- Washington Grove,
~ seconds; standing hookup from
outside county-Riverdale Heights,
I21.5 seconds: winner Of playoh
for top honors between these two
l-Riverdale Heights, 20 seconds;
tug-of-war among county units
Gaithersburg- Washington Grove;
from out-of-county - Riverdale
Heights. and winner in playof be-
tween botfr- Gaithersburg WASH
ington Grove.
Judges were ]. M. Stabler, chief
tof the Kennett Square tPa.) Fire
Department. and E. r. Green,
president Of the Chester County
Pa.) Fire Association.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Indiun Head PTA to Meet

INDIAN HEAD, Md, Sept. II
Especially The Indian Head Par
ent-Teacher Association will hold
its first meeting of the new term
IN the auditorium of Lackey High
School at 1880 pm. Tuesday,
when a reception will be given for
the teachers.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Goithersbure PTA to Meet

The Gaithersburg High School
nt-Teacher Association will
hold its first fan meeting at 8
pm. tomorrow In the school gym
nasium. Sterling Bowman is the
new president.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Fairfax Court Bars
Two Foreclosures in
Wood|awn Manor

Circuit Judge Paul D. Brown
OF Fairfax yesterday prevented
the foreclosure of two Woodlawn
Manor houses, whose builder
faces a charge of larceny by en-
bezzlement. .
He granted a temporary in
junction against the First Nation
al Bank of Alexandria. which had
advertised the property for sale.
The restraining order, effective
until October %, forbids the bank
to foreclose any other property
in the subdivision between Mount
Vernon and Route !.
Richard s. Lusk, head Of the
Woodlawn Manor developing firm.
the Veterans Housing Corp. is
under $4,000 bond to appear
Wednesday in Fairfax trial JUS
tice court on a charge of larceny
by embezzlement. He was ar
rested Friday night on complaint
OF Charming L. Pace, 3100 South
Hill street, Arlington.
Mr.. Pace said he had deposited
$4,000 toward purchase of q
$13,4oo dwelling which Lusk con-
tracted to complete more than two
years ago. His attorney, Andrew
Clarke Of Alexandria said the
house still is not more than one
third completed.
MrePace joined with two Wood
lawn Manor residents to get the
Injunction from Judge Brown. The
others, whose property was to be
foreclosed, are Gustav Lindstrom
and George M. Gohn. jr. Both
said Lusk never has completed
work on their houses, although
they moved in.
Evening star., 1949-09-18

Oxon Hill Alumni to Meet
The Oxon Hill High School
Alumni Association will meet at
8:15 pm. Tuesday in the new
high school.
Evening star., 1949-09-18

FIREEN SELECT QUEENThe Montgomery County Volunteer
Fremen Association yesterday chose Miss Betty Phelps
49, (center) of Kenngon Miss Fire Fighter She
will the county group year the State
tion in Ocean City She Miss Jerry Iaona IT,
Gaithersburg Qeft and Miss Annie Latlef 1e, Sandy
Spring
Laurel outlook., 1949-11-23
STRIKE ENDS:
Steel CostIiest

Americas costliest steel strike
ended, appropriately enough on
Armistice day, with the CLIO steel
workers winning demands for an
industry-financed insurance-pen-
sion formula.
THE CAPTTULATION of U. S.
steel, bellwether of the industry
as regards labor relations, brought
an end to the Gripping strike.
Four smaller firms settled on the
same terms the same day, terms
which followed the pattern &C.
copied by Bethlehem steel, first
big company to sign with the
union.
According to a CLIO spokesman.
the union-company agreement en-
bodied such terms as a minimum
500 monthly pension to workers
aged IS with Is years service,
with the employer paying all the
cost, and an insurance program,
costing five cents an hour per
man, with the company and work
er sharing the cost.