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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-05-05
Miss Mullinix Engaged
To Wed Mr.. Morris

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold w. Mullin-
tx of Mt. Airy, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Eliza
beth May, to S. Barrineau Morris,
son of Samuel G. Morris of Con-
way, South Carolina.
Miss Mullinix is a graduate of
the College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia, and for
the past year has been a member
of the Sherwood High School
faculty at Sandy Spring.
Mr.. Morris is a graduate of
Duke University and for the last
two years has been associated with
the Army Air Force Institute in
Tokyo, Japan.
The wedding will take place the
latter part of June.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-05-05
Miss Barbara Adamson
Engaged To Mr.. White

Mr.. and Mrs. Leonidas w.
Adamson of Rockville announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Barbara Lee to Mr.. Nathan S.
White, III, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nathan S. White of Gaithersburg.
Miss Adamson attended the Uni
versity of Maryland where she was
a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sor-
GRITTY. She is now employed at the
National Institute of Health in
Bethesda.
Mr.. White served with the
United States Marines in China
and is now attending the Univer-
sity of Maryland where he is in
his junior year.
The wedding will take place in
the early Fall.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-05-05
May Country Gent
Has COrbett Story

The May issue of the Country
Gentleman carries very fine
agricultural article, Recipe for
Coop Success" by DR.. Roger B.
Corbett. This article was written
while DR.. Corbett was still Assoc
ciate Dean of Agriculture at the
University of Maryland. He is now
Agricultural Counsel for the Ma
tional Association of Food Chains.
This article presents the market
ing experiences of two groups of
farmers telling how one prospered,
and the other failed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-05-05

The Annual Luncheon of the
Montgomery County Public Health
Lay Council will be held Tuesday,
May 10, at 1900 noon in the Par
ish Hall of St. Johns Episcopal
Church in Bethesda.
Following the luncheon and an
nual reports, the merits of pending
health and social legislation will be
debated by Dr.. Herbert Ramsey,
member of the American Medical
Association House of Delegates
and Committee of So" and Miss
Margaret Stein, Legislative Rep
resentative Of the Committee for
the Nations Health.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-05-05
Must Be

Through use of the radar-tele-
scope, kissing sounds coming from
the Milky Way have been detected.
1t must be that current world con-
ditiohs smell to high heaven. =
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-05-05
Apparently

A doctor was called to treat
man who had been talking inces-
sanity for Is days. The object was
to have him conserve his strength
for the 1850 campaign. = Tolado
Blade.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-05-05
Problem

Today's economic problem is how
to prevent our elastic currency
from becoming stretch of the
Observation-Disclosures.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-05-05
Sure Shot

Revised classic: Hush, little ash
dump, don't you cry-youll be a
golf course by and by. = Virginia
Post.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Miner College Professor
Protests Non-Promotion

The Board of Education has be-
fore it a complaint filed by DR..
Paul Cooke, English instructor at
Miner Teachers College, that it
failed to conform to its established
policy by failing to give him a
promotion recently.
DR.. Cooke is head of Local q,
American Federation of Teachers,
and has been an outspoken oppo-
nent of the segregated school sys-
tenn in Washington. He also is
active in the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
The school board recently ap-
pointed Charles W.. Thomas of the
Dunbar High School faculty to
an assistant professorship at the
college for which DR.. Cooke had
applied.
Supporters of DIR. Cooke have
written letters to the school board
accusing it of ignoring DR.. Cooke
because he was active in union and
Negro affairs.
The complaint has been given te
the boards Complaints and Ap-
peals Committee and DR.. Cooke
will be granted a public hearing.
Evening star., 1949-09-23

riouS problem in his area.
Capt. Thompson said today
most Of the delinquency involves
vandalism by boys between the
ages of Sand 13. resulting in the
loss Of thousands of dollars an
nually to property owners.
According to Judge Noyes. con-
ditions in the Bethesda-C Chevy
Chase area are not duplicated in
other suburban sections Of the
county. 49,
Asks Parent Supervision.
AS the first point in his pro-
gram, he called for stricter par
entail supervision.
He agreed with Capt. Thomp-
son that parents should know
where their children are going
and what they are doing outside
their homes.
In many cases, Judge Noyes
said, both parents work, leaving
the children without any super
vision during after-school hours,
He urged that where the ia
ther earns an adequate income
the mother remain at home.
He also proposed establishment
of a mental hygiene service for
children and their parents as well
as specially-trained teachers to
care for children whose intelli-
'gence is below average.
A large number Of the juvenile
offenses committed in the county
each year could have been pre-
vented by early investigation and
Evening star., 1949-09-23
7 Polio Cases Raise
D. {. Area Total 10 1853

Two new polio cases in the
Washington area were reported
today, bringing the years total to
1853.
One Of the victims is a 23-year-
old woman living in the 2200 block
of Massachusetts, avenue NV.
She was admitted to Gallinger
Hospital Tuesday.
The other is a 25-year-old man
living in the 2700 block of Arvin
street, Wheaton Hills. Md. The
Montgomery County health de-
partment said the man has been
i'll since August Is and his illness
was diagnosed as polio yesterday.
They said he is being treated at
home.
The total number of cases in
the District is now SO as compared
with 81 at this date last year.
Twenty new polio cases have
been reported in Maryland in the
last seven days. It was an increase
of IL over the preceding week and
brought the years total to lot.
Last year there were "a cases in
Maryland up to this time.
Health Department officials said
the increase is not alarming, even
though it runs counter to the
current Nationwide trend. They
pointed out that the polio season
is nearing its end and there will
be a sharp drop as the weather
gets cooler.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Z Groups See luck 10 Back
Aspiranfs for Judgeship
By the Associoted Press

RICHMOND. Va, Sept. 23.-
Delegations visited Gov. Tuck
yesterday in behalf of two aspir-
ants for the judgeship of the 25th
circuit to succeed the late Judge
W. v. Ford of Luray.
One group of about so persons
supported Robert w. Keyser, Luz
ray attorney, for the interim ap-
pointment until the General As
sembly meets in January. The
other delegation advocated Ham.
ilton Hass, Harrisonburg attorney.
1t numbered about IS people.
After listening to the qualifica-
tions of the two men, Gov. Tuck
promised to give the matter care
full consideration and indicated he
hoped to have a decision within
a week. I
The vacancy in the circuit
judgeship has been certified to
the Governor by the Virginia SD
preme Court of Appeals. The
Governor will make the interim
appointment and then it will be
up to the Legislature to affirm
his choice or select some one else
to finish out the term of Judge
Ford, which expires in 1855. The
circuit includes Page and Rock
ingham Counties.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Man Tries to Get
Into Arundel JAIL.
Lands in Another
By the Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS. Sept. %. - He
tried to break into the county iail
and landed in the House Of Cor.
rection instead.
Edgar Theodore Stewart, 80,
colored, was arrested Sunday night
on the wall of the Anne Arundel
County jail here.
Police said he had q pair Of wire
cutters and barbed wire on the
wall had been cut. After some
thought they filed a charge OF
destruction of property.
Stewart was sentenced yester-
day by Trial Magistrate Samuel
U. Macaluso to one year in the
Maryland House Of Correction at
JesSups.
Why did he want to break into
the jail? Stewart declined to ex.
plain.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Prince Georges Adds
$4,000 for Schools

Sufficient funds are available
in Prince Georges County to pro.
vide $4,000 Immediately to meet
emergency school needs, Linden
Briscoe, clerk to the county com.
missioners. reported today.
Mr.. Briscoe said check for that
amount was turned over to the
county's Board of Education yes.
terday.
The additional allotment was
authorized Tuesday by the COM
missioners' after School Supt. G.
Gardner Shugart said there was
an emergency need for 9.545 due
to this years heavy enrolment.
The remaining $49,245 will come
from State sources, according to
Mr.. Shugart.
The money will be used towards
the hiring of Is additional teach
ers. three new school buses, minor
alterations to six buildings, and
for the purchase of 500 pupil and
six teacher desks and for textbooks
and other instruction material for
500 pupils.
Mr.. Shugart said this years
enrolment was 500 more than
anticipated when $4,000, 900
operating budget was approved
last May.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Maryland tobacco Crop
Three e-Quarters Harvested

A good tobacco crop is about
three-quarters harvested, but po-
tatoes have showed some rot
damage, the latest Maryland crop
and weather report shows.
The report, issued by the Wealth
er Bureau. the Department of Agri-
culture and the University of
Maryland. said last weeks weather
proved uniformly favorable for
Just about every agricultural ac-
tivity.
Conditions favored preparation
Of the ground for fall planting and
for growth Of earlier crops.
The potato rot damage occurred
in some western Maryland fields.
Marketing of snap beans increased
rapidly towards the end of the
week.
Evening star., 1949-09-23

pSychiatric treatment OF the chill
dren and their parents, he de-
clared.
Hits Emphasis on Crime"
AS his third proposal, Judge
Noyes appealed for community
action to eliminate the "un-
healthy emphasis on crime" in
motion pictures and comic books
and on the radio. .
This unwholesome emphasis
on crime" he explained, has a
bad effect on children who have
a tendency to be emotionally un-
stable"
And fourth, he suggested a
well trained three-man police
squad attached to the Juvenile
Court. At present, he said, the
court has only one policeman
assigned to it who must work
around the clock.
He added that the courts IA
cilities are now adequate to
make thorough investigation of
all cases coming before it. To
remedy this, he said two addi-
tional probation officers and a
supervisor of social work will be
appointed soon. At present, there
Is only one probation officer.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
3 10 Face Grand Jury
On Lottery Charges;
7 Cases Dropped

Nine men today are awaiting
grand jury action on lottery
charges, following appearance
before United States Commits
sioner Cyril S. Lawrence yester-
day.
Two other gambling cases were
dropped by the District Attorneys
Office in Municipal Court yester-
day because of insufficient evi-
dence.
Five Of those facing the grand
jury we're seized in police raids in
the first block of H street NE. last
week. They are: Jerome King,
81. Of the 400 block of I street
NV: Floyd Banks, ~. of the first
block Of I street NV: Steve G.
Valltos. %. of the 1900 block Of
|P street NE; Albert G. Brown,
80. colored. first block Of Defrees
street NV. each under $500
bond, and Edwin D. Welch. 81, of
the 600 block Of D street Sc,
under $500 bond.
The others held are: John
Lewis, 43. colored, 2100 block of
Tenth street NV, arrested Sep
tember 8 in the 1900 block of
Fourteenth street NV; Frank
Bleicher. 81. Of the 1700 block of
Cody drive. Silver Spring. Md,
and Eugene Swindler, ~. colored,
100 block of Morse street NE,
both arrested September IA in the
3700 block of Georgia avenue
NV, and Clayroy A. Seward. 47.
of the 1000 block of Marlboro
pike. Prince Georges County. ar
rested September l in the $500
block of Alabama avenue Sc.
AL are under $500 bond.
The two who were freed by Or
der of Assistant United States
Attorney j. Warren Wilson were
Otis T. Dhue. 80, of the 600 block
of A street Sc, and James L.
Williams, SO, of the 200 block of
D street NV. They were arrested
Wednesday in a restaurant in the
400 block Of Ninth street NV. by
two Vice Squad detectives, who
charged Dhue, a bartender, with
accepting two horse race bets
from Williams. No money was
seen being passed, and the only
evidence was a slip bearing the
names Of two horses in the days
races at Marlboro, Mr.. Wilson
said. The horses, Flicka Foot and
Gay Peggy, won second and first
places respectively, he added.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Fagelson Heads Alexandra
Democratic Committee

Bernard M. Fagelson, Alex
andria attorney, has been elected
chairman of the Alexandria
Democratic Committee.
Other officers are George
Boeteler, vice chairman, and Miss
Camille de Lane. secretary
treasurer. Mrs. Edith Warne,
Patrick Hayes and Mrs. Audrey
Walz are members of the public
relations committee.
The new committee chairman
said it is planned to set up party
committees in each of the city's
six wards. The Democratic COM
mittee is composed Of two men,
bers from each ward.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Judges Recall
Grand Jurors
In ST. .Marys
Charge Of Gambling
Rumored After Report
Is Held Unacceptable
Speeiol Dispoieh 10 The Star

LEONARDTOWN. Nd, Sept. 2S.
st. Mary's County grand jurors
who thought they had finished
their work were back on the job
today after the court refused to
accept their report.
Unconf1rmed reports in the
courthouse we're that the jury
charged there is big-time gam
bling in the county.
The jurors filed into the court.
room late yesterday after return.
ing more than 20 true bills during
four-day session and handed
in their findings through Fore
man Kenneth B. Duke of Leonard
town.
Confer for Half Hour.
Judges Charles c. Marbury and
John Dudley Diggs scanned the
papers and then called States
Attorney John H. T. Briscoe to
the bench.
A1ter conference lasting
nearly half hour. Judge Marbury
turned toward the jury and said:
"The court has read the
tentative draft of the grand jury's
report and finds that it contains
in one paragraph a presentation
that makes 1t necessary to call
you back again tomorrow. This
court cannot accept the report In
its present form"
sFive in Gang" Indicted.
Judge Marbury gave no hint Of
the paragraphs content and the
report was put under lock and
key for the night.
Among those indicted were fivs
members Of the -Wicklin
gang'-John P. Byars, Edward
Wicklin, Martin Free d m a n
Charles G. Bafford and his wife,
Louise.
The five were trapped at road
block at Newmarket shortly after
midnight July 10. They were
charged with removing a safe
containing $4,000 in cash and
checks from the Garner Bros.
store at Tall Timbers. A trial date
has not been set.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Seven Garden Groups
To Sponsor Flower Show

The Hunting Creek Garden
Club and six other garden and
flower organizations will sponsor
q flower show from 2::30 to Z 10
pm. tomorrow in the Alexandria
Recreation Center. Cameron and
Harvard streets.
The show, which the groups
hope to make. an annual event, is
principally for amateur gardeners
and flower arrangers. 1t also will
include exhibits by professional
, growers and flower distributors. =
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Mrs. Chanel Withdraws
From Falls Church Race

Mrs. Merrill Lee Chanel today
withdrew as q candidate for Falls
Church commissioner of revenue.
Mrs. Chanel, a former member
of the City Council, said she was
withdrawing for personal reasons.
Still in the race for the $500
a-year position In the November
8 election are La Rue Van Meter,
incumbent, who also is city attor-
ney. and A. Burke Hertz, an at
torney.
In a statement announcing her
decision, Mrs. Chanel said she will
support Mr.. Hertz for the Office.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Bonnett Named to Head
Fuirfux Boy Scouts

Harold A. Bennett Of Fairfax
has been appointed Fairfax dis
trict commissioner of the Boy
Scouts of America, it was an
nounced today.
In another announcement re-
garding Fairfax area Boy Scout
activities, Joseph H. Freehill.
chairman of the district commit
tee. said plans have been made for
a combination Boy Scout-Cub
Scout show in December. Plans
also are underway for Cub Scout
den mother training course to be-
gin October II.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
; in Prince Georges
Are Fined $3.50 on
Gambling Charges

Three more men arrested in
Prince Georges County for viola
tions of gambling laws were con-
victed yesterday in Hyattsville
Police Court and fined a total Of
$2,25o.
Their penalties were imposed
just one week after a county
grand jury reported that gam
bling in Prince Georges had
reached "an almost irreducible
minimum"
Last week also nine men were
convicted in the same Police Court
on gambling charges and were
fined total of $1,000. A woman,
also convicted, received a sus-
pended fine of $500.
Magistrate Alan Bowie, who
heard the cases yesterday as we'll
as those the week before, also
passed out some suspended jail
sentences. He fixed the terms at
six months in the Maryland House
Of Corrections unless the offend
ers maintain exemplary behavior
More Jailings Urged.
The grand jury recommended in
its report to Circuit Judge Charles
c. Marbury that courts send more
gamblers to jail, to cut violations
further.
Magistrate Bowie yesterday i'm
posed the heaviest possible fine,
81 900, on Harry Yudelevit. 40, for
charges resulting from a Septem-
Der 9 raid on a house he occupied
in the 400 block of Silver Hill
road. Suitland. Joseph M. Deskin,
40, of the 1000 block of B street
NE, was fined $3.50 as an out
growth of the same raid. Both
were charged with promoting a
lottery.
A third defendant. David Fine,
36, of the 4400 block of Twenty
eighth place. Mount Rainier, was
fined $500 for possessing two num-
bers slips. He was arrested in his
Haywood Gardens bakery May S.
He said he accepted money in a
numbers game solely as an &C
commodation to a customer.
Seen as Dupe.
To that statement, Magistrate
Bowie replied:
you legitimate businessmen
who do this sort of thing and don't
get any money for it are just
playing into the hands of big
shots. In the eyes Of the law you
are just as guilty"
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Democrat Unit Adopts
3 Policy Changes in
Montgomery County

The Democratic State Central
Committee for Montgomery County
last night adopted plans to put
into effect three changes in policy
designed to obtain more wide
spread support of the party in
preparation for the 1850 election
campaign.
The changes. one of which pro-
vides for election, rather than
appointment, of precinct leaders,
were adopted unanimously at a
committee meeting in Rockville.
Other changes call for public
meetings of the State Central
Committee and establishment of a
publicity and speakers bureau.
Women to Be C0-chairmen.
All three were recommended at
a meeting last week of about $50
Democrats.
In approving the precinct elec-
ton recommendation, the State
Central Committee decided to set
UP the post of co-chairman in
each precinct to which a woman
would be elected.
Committee Chairman j. Bond
Smith said the move is in recog-
milton of the tremendous" part
women play in political cam
paignS.
The committee also voted to
hold public meetings every Fri
day next month in Potomac,
Gaithersburg, Bethesda and Da-
mascus. The hour and place of
each meeting will be announced
later.
Plan for Harmony Meeting
In addition, plans were made
to attend a harmony meeting
Of Democrats in the 9Th congress
sional district Wednesday in
Hagerstown. Gov. Lane and
Maryland Senators Tydings and
O'Conor, Democrats. are expected
to attend.
Mr.. Smith said those attending
last nights meeting were "en-
thusiastic" over the prospect of
strengthening the party as a result
Of the changes in policy.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Falls Church to Start Repairs
At Rickety Jefferson School

Emergency repairs will be started
Immediately to increase the safety
at rickety jefferson Elementary
School, Falls Church, it was re-
ported today.
First on the list of improve
ments at the sombre. 79-year-old
structure on North Cherry street
is the substitution of an outside
wooden staircase for a steep and
rusting fire escape at the rear of
the building.
City School Supt. Irwin H.
Schmitt today instructed an archi-
tect to draft plans for the stair
case, which will be four feet wide
and not nearly so steep as the
escape.
Other repairs will follow, off,
|cials said. The architect. John
Graham, jr.. was requested to
make a preliminary estimate of
emergency needs and those less
urgent but desirable.
The city's school problem ap-
pears, in some respects, to be
more complicated than that of
neighboring communities.
4 School Buildings in City.
There are four school buildings
within the corporate limits. Under
a Circuit Court ruling, however,
Fairfax County retains title to
two. These, incidentally, are the
most modern. The others belong
to Falls Church. the court ruled.
They are Madison Elementary
School, on Lee highway, and JET
ferson. which is operated in con-
junction with Madison.
Some children who live in the
city attend the county owned
Falls Church High School and the
Oak Street Elementary School.
On the other hand, some county
pupils attend the city-owned
Madison and Jefferson Schools.
There is cross-payment of
tuitions. All buildings are crowd
ed.
Lacking any high school facili-
ties, the School Board is study
ing the city's requirements and
expects to receive recommended
tions soon on school sites. Mrs.
Mark Regan, chairman, said it Is
estimated that 100000 will be
needed to finance new construc-
ton. She said the board will
Evening star., 1949-09-23

propose a referendum on raising
this money.
Board members acknowledge
the building program is a sizable
task for a group so recently Or
ganized. Its members took Office
only last July l. when the city's
separate school system was es-
tablished.
Pending the new construction,
the board is concerned with i'm
provements at Jefferson and
Madison.
Steps Rotting Away.
The Jefferson building cannot
be compared to modern schools.
Some of its outside steps are
rotting away. All floors are wood
en-. Most inside walls are mere
partitions OF beaverboard and
wood. In some places the beaver
board is ripped, exposing air
spaces which would help spread
flames in event of fire.
Glasses are taught in the base
ment and on two upper floors.
Stairs between floors are so steep
that many of the little children
have trouble ascending them.
They are instructed to hold onto
hand rails when going in either
direction. But, at least one of the
rails has a faulty wall bracket at
the lower level and provides ques-
tionable support.
Jefferson has an intricate sys-
tenn of short passageways which
have abrupt dead-ends. The ex-
listing fire escape is not easily
reached from some rooms.
Mr.. Graham told the School
Board that while the old escape
might take the weight load in an
emergency, it is not properly an
chored. Furthermore, he pointed
out, it is much too steep. He said
the new outside steps would be
much more practical.
Mrs. Blanche Wheat, principal
at Madison and Jefferson, said
the total enrolment this fall is
just short of 1000. She said there
are q teachers for Is classrooms
and that four more teachers are
being added to the faculty. Be-
cause Of serious overcrowding, she
said, it will be necessary to have
some halliday sessions in the low
est grades,
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Wharf Permit SOUGHT

BALTIMORE. Sept. % (R.-
The Chesapeake Bay Institute at
Johns Hopkins University has ap-
piled for permission to build a
wharf near st. Margaret's in
Anne Arundel County for use in
scientific studies Of Chesapeake
Bay. The application was an
nounced yesterday by the .Army's
district engineer.