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Evening star., 1949-07-12
Alexandria Pageant Re-enocts Rich Past Owner Of Boat
By George Kennedy

Wnen a community WIN DacK-
ground like Alexandria's devotes
itself to re-enacting its history,
something very interesting is likely
to happen. That likelihood was
fully realized last night when, as
the crowning event of its bicen-
tennial year. the city presented a
pageant with a cast of more
than 200.
Entitled Alexandria, Thy Sons.
it brought renewed realization of
what a wealth of history Alexan-
dria has and what sonS-George
Washington. George Mason and
Robert E. Lee.
1t will not be known until 6
pm. whether tonights perform
ance will be postponed because of
inclement weather. Information
after that hour may be obtained
by telephoning Alexandria 1922.
This number may be dialed from
Washington.
It is a better pageant than "The
Common Glory" which is in its
third year of playing to big
audiences in Williamsburg. 1t has
more action and pageantry.
Take the battle of Gen. Edward
Braddock and his British regulars
against the French and Indians
on the bank of the Monongahela
as enacted last night by soldiers
from Fort Belvoir.
Some one issued the soldiers
plenty of ammunition and they
fought the battle out in a patch
OF bush to the left of the huge
stage Spectators saw. how a
British line can hold but the car
mage and the drum fire of the
rifles terrified children in the
audience and they began to
scream.
200 Years Old.
1t was 200 years ago tomorrow
at a point near the foot of King
street that the lots for the city to
be-named not after the great
Greek center of learning but for
Scot named Alexander who
owned the land-were auctioned
off. That was the start of a city
that was created by drawing a
map just as Washington was,
city much more successful than
the Capital in its early years.
Last night. just five blocks away
on the river on sloping play
ground that made a natural am
pitheater between the big elec-
trio power plant and the Navy
torpedo factory, with an coca
sional excursion steamer silently
passing by and an occasional plane
noisily passing overhead, Alexan-
dria's story was played.
The actors, all volunteers, eX-
cept the narrator, scorned the dis
torting use of amplif1ers and
pitched their voices right back to
the rearmost seats.
Told in Brief Episodes.
The story is told in b.ief epi-
sodes. 1t is not the usual story
that T. Beverly Campbell and
Howard Southgate, the authors,
tell in their pageant. One of the
first episodes is Washington's nu-
initiating surrender to the French
in fl754 in the unclaimed reaches
OF Western Pennsylvania. s. bor-
der incident in an undeclared war.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

COlloCl uCUSu dlllplllGllcdCSl III
!, Alexandria.-Star Staff Photo.
his son use toys to re-enact his
fathers great Southern raids that
helped end the Revolutionary War.
Ended With Ballet.
The pageant ended with a mod
ern ballet including jitterbugging
and some chamber of commerce
Dragging that brought one back
to today as rudely as the epilogue
in ShaW's Joan of Arc. There were
many empty seats at the initial
performance because Alexandria
Thy Sons" lacks an organized SELL
ing effort.
The cast was all good. Outstand-
ing were Erie WeatherWax as Gen.
Braddock. Richard Barton as
George Mason, Stanley King as
George Washington. Joseph Or
rendorf as Patrick Henry, Wayne
Sheehan as Lafayette. Edward
Poole as Gov. Dinwiddie, Helen
Todd as Mary Hill Carter Lee
and Catherin Mifflin as Mary
Gusts.
1t took four actors to play the
various ages of Robert E. Lee and
they were all good. They we're
Timmy Casey as Lee at 3, Wayne
Walker as Lee at 6, John Watson,
jr.. as Lee at II and Edward Poole
as Col. Robert E. Lee,
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Prince GeorgesC. ofC.
Votes 10 Back Central
Post Office for County

Directors of the Prince Georges
Chamber of Commerce went on
record last night as favoring es-
tablishment of central post Of
flee in the metropolitan area of
the county.
They also voted to oppose fur
ther extension of WASHINGTON
postal facilities into the county.
Nicholas Orem. jr., chamber
president. named Harry A. L.
Barker. former Mayor of River
dale, as chairman of a committee
to seek the central Office. He will
be aided by Harry A. Boswell, jr.:
Joseph c. Longridge. and others
to be named later.
Mr.. Barker said it was appar-
ent that unless a central office is
established in metropolitan Prince
Georges County postal service IN
the area would be taken over by
Washington. He declared postal
authorities had let it be known
they had received many COM
plants regarding present service
and would have to make changes
in the present setup.
Plans Campaign.
Mr.. Barker proposes to appear
before governing bodies in incor-
porated areas and other groups to
crystaliZe sentiment for the CEN
trail office.
1t was voted by the directors to
work with T. Raymond Burch,
member of the Legislature, in his
campaign to extend Rhode Island
avenue from Hyatsville to Belts
vile.
Mr.. Boswell was designated to
push the project for extension of
Hamilton street to Edmonston
avenue and Annapolis road. This
extension would be vic Forty first
place and Dewey street in Hyatts-
vile. It would go under the B. &
o. tracks in Hyattsville and pro-
ceed south-easterly across the
Observation-Disclosures boulevard.
Cast to Head Flood Committee.
Former Cheverly Mayor Fred w.
Cast was renamed chairman of
the chambers Flood Control Com
mittee.
A joint meeting of the chamber
directors and the chambers board
of trade will be held at 8 pm.
8 in the Washington Gas
Light Co. Office in West Hyatts-
vile.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

pageant, alexandria, Thy So
night this week in the special
the 500 block of South Lee stree
There is the conference Of the
royal governors of Virginia. Mary
land, Pennsylvania, New York and
Massachusetts Bay and Gen. Brad
dock in Carlyle house next year
attended by Benjamin Franklin
as postmaster OF Pennsylvania.
There is the story of what hap
pened in 1773 to one of the first
Baptist preachers to cross the
Potomac. He was thrown right in
the clink. There is George Mason
writing the Virginia Bill of Rights
And there is the ball Alexandria
gave to honor George Washing
tons 67th birthday on February
%. l799-he died later that year
when the citizens talked in awe
and wonder of the events that
happened in the lifetime of their
new city.
AS an Alexandria pageant starring
Washington would be only half
the story, the second part of the
show opens in 1910 with the
arrival from Stratford of 3-year-
old Robert E. Lee in the arms of
his mother. There is poignance in
the scene Of bankrupt Lighthouse
Harry Lee. his father. just out of
debtors prison. and about to sail
to the Bahamas to die, watching
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Man Badly Hurt in Crash
Near Hurrisonburq
Special Dispoich 10 The Ste

HARRISONBURG. Va, July IL
james A. Garland, 1928 South
Utah street, Arlington. was seri-
ously injured near here last night
when his car skidded across the
highway and collided with a trac-
tor-hay baler.
Marvin r. Perry of Harrison
burg. operator of the tractor, was
thrown clear and not injured
State police said.
Mr.. Garland was taken to Rock
ingham Memorial Hospital.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

Schmltt for
mer Superin-
t n d Mt of
schools at Day.
e n p o rt. Iowa,
will take Office
Saturday.
A native of
L a kota. Iowa
Mr.. S C h m lit
was graduated
from Coe Col
lege and the
U n iversity of
Iowa. He was
head of a num-
her of schools
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Irwin H. SchmiH Heads
Falls Church Schools;
Former U. ). Official

The Falls Church School Board
today announced appointment of
Irwin H. Schmitt as superintend-
ent of schools for the city. Mr..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Get Cool Reception
In County Lookup

Three persons brought to the
county Jail last night to serve
sentences of 60 days each on charges
of having deer meat in their posses
sion out of season, found a cool re-
ception awaiting them.
There had been no quests" there
for the past two weeks, according to
Sheriff j. S. Teats, except for one
man who stayed there two days, and
the painters had all the windows out.
With q degree temperatures outside
the prisoners objected. Sheriff Teats
promised a warmer reception tonight.
The three brought to the Jail were
Elmer Hoover, Albert Hoover and
Everett Wilburn, of the Jennings
section, who were arrested by game
warden Theodore Theorig in the Cove
area. They were tried before Magis-
trate Norval Speelman in Friends
vile. The Jail sentence was taken in
lieu of fines of 500 and costs each.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Golf Winners Are
Honored at Banquet

Appropriate awards to winners in
the various golf tournament cham
pionships of the Oakland Country
club were awarded at the annual golf
banquet last night at the William
James hotel. About 100 persons at
tended.
Winners and runners-up in the
events were Robert Bosley and Leo
Treacy, first flight; Harley Dixon,
Piedmont, and George Deacon, Mt.
Lake Park, second flight; Robert See
field and Robert Bittle, third flight;
Kenneth Malcolm, Barton, and Fred
Garcia, Luke, fourth flight.
Winners in the women's tourna-
ment were Mrs. r. w. Lohr and Mrs.
William Glotfelty, with Mrs. NJ. Mel
lor, Piedmont, and Mrs. Kate Fred
lock, Piedmont, being the winner and
runner up in the ladies' handicap
tournament.
Principal speaker was Neil c. Fra
ley, with Ira J. Bosley, club manager,
in charge of the program.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Hi9h6I49 The Path {.

Tomorrow 81 10th anniversary of Edi
sons invention of the electric light The electric lamp
place today marked the beginning of the electric Today
nearly 40 million the United States wired Almost all
people have radios The majority have electric regerato
irons washing machines and other aboravng convenences Ac
corng the records rural identification started about 1929
just 20 and companies had brought
service farms Today ninenth of all farms have
service available and 80 percent using it. Electricity takes
less than percent Of the average family budget.
brings for electricity to make
living and enjoyable Free enterprise to large
the electric industry 1t is owned by three million
has physical assets worth about twenty million
dollars How long it will remain free enterprise depends on how
much interest citizens display in government.
Monongahea News termed Edison prophet well
inventor twenty years Edison declared There far
danger public monopoly than there private monopoly
the into business it always shift
taxpayers The really in
makes ends meet 1t just mixes little
with lot of politics and gets chance to
find what is actually going on.
what seeing growing trend to put the
business and lot of other businesses
Edison also Any large extension of the Government IN
TO business affa-no what the pretense and matter
abeledw be bound to promote waste
and put a curb prosperity and progress
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
HUNDRED PRIZES
FOR Halloween
PARADE OBTAINED
Celebration Sponsored by Oak
land Fire Department and Band
To be Held Next Thursday

A hundred or more prizes have
been obtained by members of the
Oakland Fire Department and band
who are sponsoring the Halloween
parade and celebration next Thurs
day evening in Oakland.
The prizes, donated by individuals
and places of business, will be given
away for many different kinds of
costumes seen in the parade which
is scheduled to get under way at z
o'clock
Some of the prizes:
Decorated bicycle, bicycle trailer;
policeman, flashlight; Uncle Sam, in
ner tube; Scotchman, 25 pounds
buckwheat flour; shortest man, gal
Ion Prestone; hunter, leather cap;
best dressed woman, IS permanent
wave; gypsy woman, lip kit; End, nut
dish; clown, anti-freezc, pipe and to-
bacco, can cleaning wax; satan, gall
Ion oil, hair tonic; shortest woman, 2
plastic zero bags, tramp, fiashlight,
box candy; drunk impersonator, 50;
tallest couple, sack flour; simple
Simon, gallon paint and paint brush;
Indian couple, set fender lights; old
fashioned girl, tea pot; latest man,
pair soles and heels; woman with
largest hustle, purse; boy hunter,
fiashlight; Chinaman, bottle hair
tonic, flashlight; homely woman,
towels.
Fattest couple, garbage can; witch,
flower pot; colored man, billfold;
ladies' Spanish costume, Toni set;
comic woman, blanket; Indian, sack
flour; convict, 5-lb. roast; bathing
beauty, table lamp, beauty kit; gypsy
girl, 2 tea towels; cowboy, carton
cigarets; deliberately dressed man,
set sidelights; miner, oil change;
skeleton costume, quarts oil.
1t was also announced there would
be cash prizes for groups, and at
least so other prizes to be awarded.
All will be on display in the window
of the West Maryland Power COM
pany.
Judges will be stationed along the
line of parade and prizes will be
awarded Immediately after the pro-
cession ends.
There will be square dancing on
Second street, and the area will be
roped off for the occasion. A cake
walk also is being planned with
prizes for the winners.
Proceeds for the celebration will be
used to maintain the band throughout
the year, it was stated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Local Legion Names
Committee Chairrnen

Legion committee chairmen were
appointed by Post Commander Har-
old J. Barnes at a meeting of the
Post Executive committee on Mon
day.
Plans were also discussed for the
annual membership drive which will
conclude with the annual pig roast
December LIST.
Committee chairmen include Porter
f. Dewitt, membership; Joseph NJ.
Gender, rehabilitation; Mrs. Esther
NJ. Browning, child welfare; Paul w.
Hoye, Americanism; Robert W. Lohr,
athletics; Guy William Hinebaugn
finance; John 7. Treacy, community
service; Harold Barnes, junior base
ball; Neil c. Fraley, Legislative; Earl
Soldiers, grave registration; Edward
P. Kahl, veterans employment;
Thomas Currie, safety; Edward c.
Lawrence, housing
The pig roast committee included
Paul A. Turney, George d. yelling
Paul w. Hoye, Porter E. Dewitt
Irwin R. Rudy, Jr, and William E.
Naylor.
The executive committee author
lied a $3.50 donation to the Oakland
band for the Halloween celebration.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Attend Teachers Meeting

Thirty teachers in the Oakland
schools have gone to Baltimore to at
tend the annual state teachers
meeting.
They include Joseph P. Sollars,
principals; Miss Josie Iden, Miss
Betty Schaeffer, Mrs. Alta Duling,
Mrs. Kaye Hoye, Miss Helen CHS
holm, Mrs. Ruth Brown, Albert
Ringer and Charles L. Blubaugh, ele-
mentary school; Grayson S. Burrier,
principals; Mrs. F. d. Bittle, Mrs.
Adrienne Garter, Miss Emma Caulk,
Miss Roberta Cogley, Ray NJ. Crow
theirs, Miss Ann Dilgard, Carl Ever
ly, Miss Dorothy Fletcher, Miss
Gypsy Fraley, 0. T. eraser, Miss
Lannie Harmon, Mrs. j. B. Littman,
Charles P. Martin, Mrs. Virginia Nc
MANS, Miss Frances Patterson, Miss
Marion Schmidt, Erwin S. Smith,
Ernest Spoerlein, Mrs. Betty Tooth
man, Kyle. w. Wilson, of the high
school.
Others from this area who planned
to attend included Mrs. Mabel Sol
lars, Mrs. Elizabeth Updyke, Miss
Elena Pendergast, Mrs. Eva Ream
Bruce Jenkins, Mason Calls, Edwin
Elias and Miss Leona Menke.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Attending Conference

Rev. Luther Hare, Oakland, pastor
of St Marks Lutheran Church, is at
tending a two day conference for
United Lutheran pastors and laymcn
at Springfield, Ohio, October 20-21.
More than 300 churchmen from
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky.
Tennessee and West Virginia are at
tending.
The purpose of the meeting is to
prepare the men with instructions
and inspiration for the Christian
Higher Education Year appeal which
will eliminate in one week cam
paign the end of April 1850 to raise
$4,000, 900. Funds will strengthen the
"a United Lutheran Colleges and
Summaries in the United States and
Canada.
Pastor Hare is the West Virginia
Synod director of the Appeal. Also
attending is Dr. A. X. Jones, Red
House.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Future HomemakerS of
Obs Attend Meeting

The Oakland High school chapter
of the Senior Future Homemakers,
at meeting in Annapolis last Sat
urday, was awarded blue star for
having been an honor chapter for
seven years.
-Four officers of the club and Mrs.
Adrienne Carter, adviser, attended
the meeting. They were Isabel John
son, president; Martha Beckman,
vice-president; Freda Baker, secre-
tary; and Sue Harvey, historian.
The meeting was held in the State
House of Delegates room. At the
close of the session the entire dele
cation was conducted on a tour of
the State House and government
house.
Also attending the sessions were
Mrs. Gibson and five representatives
from Friendsville school; Miss Mar
garet Seese and two representatives
from Accident school.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Pythian Lodge
Hall Redecorated

The newly redecorated lodge rooms
of the Knight of Pythias in Oakland
will be officially opened on Friday
evening, October q, at which time
the rank of page will be conferred
upon a class Of eleven candidates.
The meeting will begin at 1880
o'clock.
The new candidates will compose a
class to be known as the A. G. Gort-
ner class in honor of the past Grand
Chancellor of Maryland.
The lodge rooms have been elabor-
ately redecorated and all officers
stations and seats have been re-
furnished in mahogany.
There will be refreshments and all
members are being urged to attend.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
On Guard With
Company c
121st Engineer Co Battalion
MD. NATIONAL GUARD
BY Company Reporter

by COMPANY ANCPOA VI
The Globe Improvement Company
has completed its contract to construct
the National Guard Armory. The
heating equipment is in transit to
Oakland and it should not be long I'M
til it is installed and in operation. A
plumbing contract has been let to a
local contractor to install all the
plumbing. Additional partitions for
storage and office space will be con-
structed by members of Company c.
The new armory is now in sight.
The building now nearing compile
ton will be used to accommodate all
the activities of Company c until the
main portion of the armory is built.
AS things now stand, the main armo-
ny will be constructed at later date,
at which time the part now built will
be used exclusively for storage and
the housing of vehicles and equipment.
Cpl. George E. O'Brien, Ret. Ernest
r. Porter, Ret. James F. Moore, Ret.
Samuel R. Moon and Ret. Willard V.
Schroyer have been issued discharges,
all honorable. Gerald D. Friend and
Harry G. Friend, Jr., of Friendsville,
and Thomas Charmley, of Oakland,
have all enlisted for three year terms.
1t Horace J. Cugle, Jr., adjutant
of the 121st Battalion, and M-Sgt. B.
S. Dever, a regular army instructor,
were both in Oakland last evening and
were present at our drill session.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Annual Farm Bureau
Meeting Is Scheduled
To Be Held at GrantsviIle On
Thursday, November 3

Around five hundred members of
the Garrett County Farm Bureau are
planning to attend the annual dinner
and business meeting, to be held at
Grantsville Thursday evening, No
vember 8. Final plans for the annual
meeting were made by the Board of
Directors at a meeting last week.
Dinner will be served at three
churches in Grantsville. the Lutheran,
Reformed and Methodist, which will
be followed by a general assembly in
the auditorium of Grantsville High
school.
Foster Yost, president, said the
speaker for the meeting will be an
nounced later. He said any farmer
may become a member of the Farm
Bureau by payment of $40 annual
dues which entities him to two ban
quet tickets.
During the business session presi-
dent and two board members will be
elected.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Two State Troopers
Get Concentrations

Two Maryland Troopers, assigned
to the LaVale barracks, who spend
much of their time in Garrett County,
received Communications from Govern
or William Preston Lane, Jr., Tues
day for the part they played IN the
capture of four youths who escaped
from the Oakland jail December 81,
1916.
Trooper Glen D. Folk, Of the
Grantsville outpost, and Trooper Mil
ton G. Hart of the Westernport out
post, were among so state troopers
receiving Communications during grad
uation exercises for % new recruits
at the Pikesville armory.
According to Trooper Hart, the
youths, Everett Rulings, Oakland;
Clarence f. Lewis, Carl Jamison and
William Lewis, Oakland, had been
Jailed on charges of breaking and
entering.
The four escaped, stole a truck,
broke into the Oakland Hardware and
Furniture to obtain guns and am
munition, took food from Harve's
market and holed up in hunting
lodge on Hoover's Flat, Backbone
Mountain.
The alarm went out in the morning
and roads were blocked. The discarded
truck was found in Bloomington and
mud on the tires indicated to Trooper
Hart the whereabouts of the youths.
The citation said that the two
walked four miles across mountains
to find the hunting lodge. Trooper
Hart request Folk to go to the back
of the dwelling and the two rushed
the lodge The youths surrendered.
Rulings, William Lewis and Jami-
son received siX-year terms in the
Maryland Reformatory for males, and
Clarence E Lewis was committed to
the Maryland Training School for
boys until reaching the age of 2l, the
citation continued.
Trooper Folk has been member Of
the force since 1913. Trooper Hart
has been in service since 1871.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Gas From New Well
To Be Piped Into
Company's Main Line

Gas from the new we'll in the Sort
ner section will be piped into the lines
of the c. and A. Gas company, it was
announced this week.
The capacity of the well is con-
sidered good enough to warrant the
expense of laying 3-mile pipe line
to connect to the nearest line of the
company. Officials estimated the cost
would be about $4,000 a mile.
1t was declared that gas pressure
in the Oakland area should be ade-
quate during the winter regardless of
the amount used.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Schools Close for
State Teacher Meet

Garrett county's public schools dis
missed classes yesterday for the re-
mainder of the week, as the majority
of teachers prepared to join close to
10000 state educators in Baltimore
for the annual Maryland State Teach
ers' association meeting.
Three general sessions with out
standing speakers are scheduled for
the three-day session which gets
underway at . p. m. today. 1t will be
the groups SIND gathering.
The two days vacation for the
students will not change the date of
closing exercises next June, according
to officials. Schools are required to
be in session 1874 days. The present
schedule calls for 1888 days, not count
ing the various regular holidays and
teachers meeting, which allows four
days in case of bad weather.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-10-20
Strikes Cause Factory
At Jennings to Close

The plant of the Union Fire Brick
company at Jennings has been closed
down for two weeks due to the COM
bined effects of the coal and steel
walkouts, according to C. |. Young,
Grantsville, company official.
The plant employs about 80 men.
All have been furloughed indefinitely
pending settlement of the coal and
steel disputes, Young said.
Established about 1945 the plant
has normal production of about a
million and half fire bricks month
ly. They are shipped to all parts of
the country.