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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31
Mrs. ]. V. Bennett
Named To Head
Women Voters

Mrs. James v. Bennett of Chevy
Chase was elected president of the
Montgomery County League of
Women Voters at the annual
luncheon meeting held last Friday
at the Junior Order United Ameri-
can Mechanics Hall in Cabin John.
She succeeds Mrs. J. Rene Heming-
way fer a two-year term.
Mrs. Bennett has been chairman
of the Chevy Chase Forum for the
past eight years and has served as
vice president of the Chevy Chase
Woman's Club and president of the
Pembroke College Alumni Associa-
ton. She was director of housing
in Maryland for President Tru-
mans inaugural committee.
Other officers elected were Mrs.
C. M. Derryberry of Silver Spring,
first vice president; Mrs. Louis
Regeimbal, Silver Spring, cores
ponding secretary; Mrs. Harold
Kramer, Silver Spring, and Mrs.
Gordon Street, Chevy Chase, dir
ectors; ana Mrs. Irwin Wensink,
Bethesda, chairman of the nomi-
mating committee for 1850.
In other business, the annual
budget was adopted. Due to lack
of time, the meeting was recessed
until April % for discussion and
adoption of the program for 1919
so. i'r
The luncheon was served by the
Board of Directors with Mrs.
George Reiber in charge of ar
rangements. She was assisted by
Mrs. j. L. Taylor's committee of
the Glen Echo-C Cabin John area.
Following luncheon a chorus of
League members present. d
Through Our Looking Glass" a
musical report on county League
activities. Verses written to popu-
lar tunes by Mrs. Howard NJ. Kline
and Mrs. Lewis Sims delighted the
audience with their wit and apt
ness of description of the life Of
active League workers and Of
ficers. Members of the chorus were
Mrs. Carroll Meigs, Mrs. J. Emory
Cook, Mrs. John Lane, Mrs. J.
Rene Hemingway. Mrs. Lewis
Sims and Mrs. M. Kline.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31
Short Course
For Motor Fleet
Supervisors 1928

The University of Maryland has
announced that the Second Annual
Short Course for Motor Vehicle
Fleet Supervisors will be held at
College Park, Maryland from April
25 to 20 inclusive.
This 40 hour, one week course
is being held in cooperation with
national and State organizations
interested in conservation and
safety. 1t will be open to fleet
owners and operators, safety and
personnel directors, fleet supervi-
sors and safety engineers.
Instructors for the course will
include nationally recognized au-
thories, Maryland experts in the
various phases of safety practice,
and faculty members of the Uni
versity.
Coordination of the program is
under the direction of Mr.. Amos
E. Neyhart, Director of the Insti-
tute of Public Safety, Pennsyl-
vania State College.
Dean S. S. Steinberg, College of
Engineering, University of Mary
land, will be the course director.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31

County. Altogether, seven
teen different areas will be
visited, and some of them con-
tain buildings and gardens
dating back over 800 years of
the states history.
The announcement is made here
with by Mrs. William T. Hamilton,
president of the Federated Garden
Clubs of Maryland, founders and
sponsors of the Pilgrimage.
Two-thirds of all net proceeds
from admission fees, as in previous
years, will go toward maintenance
of one among Maryland's great
examples of late colonial architec-
ture, the Hammond HARDWOOD
House at Annapolis; and the re-
naming one-third of the proceeds
will be allocated to support of
similar projects conducted by
Maryland's various county garden
clubs.
AS in previous years since 1886,
except during the World War gas
rationing period when no Pilgrim
ages were held, thousands of those
interested in antiquities, history,
gardens, and colonial houses, will
come to the Old Line State from
many other parts of the nation.
Some visitors, too, are expected
from foreign countries, including
Great Britain, Canada, Mexico,
and Cuba. Advance reservations
of hotel rooms and travel facilities
indicate much greater attendance
than last spring. Maryland Pill
grimage officials already are study
ing ways to provide lodgings for
an even greater influx when the
1850 Pilgrimage is held.
Attendance by Baltimoreans is
expected to be large, this year,
partly because the Thursday, May
5, Pilgrimage to homes and gar
dens of the Guilford section, can
be covered entirely by means Of
streetcars and buses. For that
reason, Pilgrimage officials fire.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31
Annual Garden Tour To
Be Held April 30 Mayo

The twelfth of Maryand's House and Garden Pilgrims
annual sprngtme affairs which have enjoyed rapidly
growing public interest and attendance will be held this
from Friday, April &c. through Monday, May g. beginning
with simultaneous tours of historic old Howard County
and Batmores environs the opening day. and ending
with tour of equally historic and picturesque Carroll
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31
Acacia Mutual Opens
Branch Office In
Silver Spring Friday

Designed to serve Montgomery
and neighboring counties, an
nouncement is made of the opening
of a branch office of the Acacia
Mutual Life Insurance Company
in Silver Spring. Rockville, Car
thersburg, Potomac, Bethesda,
Chevy Chase and the entire county
will be served by the new branch
office, located at 1915 Georgia
Avenue, is the Scrimgeour Build
ing. \.
Members Of the Silver Spring
Branch are Walter C. Hughes, Jr.,
John l.. SculIy, Jr., Vincent +.
Fansler, Henry Murphy and CASH
Ter Myrtle Lawson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31

Women Voters of the United
States; visits and conferences in
such departments as Agriculture,
Labor, and Federal Security; and
a field trip to the Agricultural Ex-
perimental Station at Beltsville.
In Montgomery County, the
women will be driven by League
members to Rockville to attend a
regular meeting of the County
Council and talk with Mrs. Ralph
Himstead, the first woman ever
elected to county Office in the
State of Maryland. They will also
visit the Office of the County Home
Demonstration Agent where Miss
Edythe Turner, director, will tell
them about the United States and
University of Maryland Extension
Service program as carried on
here.
Luncheon will be served the
visitors in the cafeteria at Richard
Montgomery High School so they
may see the practical application
of the Federal School Lunch pro-
gram described to them by Federal
officials the preceding day. Miss
Julia Watkins, director Of school
cafeterias, will act as the official
hostess. The visitors will also meet
at luncheon the woman members
of the Board of Education, Mrs.
Durward Sandifer and Mrs. Her.
man Wilson, former officers of the
Montgomery County League of
Women Voters.
The afternoon will be devoted to
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31
People, Spots InThe News

CLEAR VIEW scenic splendors railroads
cation Standard manufacturing
has just built this skyop" lounge Milwaukee crack
Olympian HiaWatha Glass is triple
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31
TB Program
To Be Discussed
At Dinner Meet

The Annual Meeting of the
Montgomery County tuberculosis
Association will be held on We'd
nesday, April 6, at the Presbyter-
ian Church in Rockville. Dinner
will be served, for which reserva-
tions may be made through the
office of the Association, Oliver
6718.
All members of the Association
persons who purchase 81 or more
of Christmas Seals), as we'll as the
public, are invited to attend.
The program will be devoted to a
discussion of the Past, Present
and Future of tuberculosis Con-
troll"
DIR. Leon H. Hetherington, Chief,
Division of tuberculosis Services
of the Maryland State Health De-
partment, will discuss what is en-
visioned for the future in Mary
land. DR.. j. W. Bird, of Sandy
Spring, will discuss the past in
terms of the activities of the As
ISOLATION, while DR.. William w.
Welsh, of Rockville, will talk on
the Associations present activities.
DR.. ]. Winthrop Peabody, Past
President, American College of
Chest Physicians, and present
Chairman of the Council on Post
Graduate Medical Education of the
American College of Chest Ply
sicians, will act as Moderator.
Election of board members will
be held, and a report of the AS
sociation's activities during the
past year will be presented.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31
Fashion Show
At Sandy Spring
Friday, April %

On April 20, 1919 at 8 P. M. the
Home Economies Department of
Sherwood High School, Sandy
Spring, will hold Fashion Show
sponsored by Gloria's Shop and
with cooperation of Charles Kope-
land of Silver Spring.
The models will be Mary Jean
Moorish, Catherine Tolson, Lois
Cooley, jeanne Johns, Dolores
Beall, Betty Bryan, Gayle Owens,
Ann Pawley, Lynn Snyder, Grace
Johnson nd Dorothy Lechlider.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31
Religious Freedom
Anniversary To Be
Observed In State

Maryland Will observe the 3OOth
Anniversary of the Act of Reli-
gious liberation in numerous and
varied statewide ceremonies during
the week of April II to %. The
Hon. George l.. Radcliffe is chair
man of the anniversary committee.
President Truman has been in
vited to. speak in Baltimore on
April 81. Invitations have also
been extended to the diplomatic
corps, judges of the Supreme
Court, Governors of every State,
members of Congress and the
Mayors of every Maryland Com
munity. -
A ceremony Is to be held at St.
Mary's, near the historic spot
where, for the first time, assembled
freemen approved law granting
any degree of religious liberation.
Churchmen and State officials will
reaffirm the long established
American principle of religious
freedom.
A brochure on the federation
Act is being prepared by DR..
Gerald w. Johnson well known
Baltimore author, and the Enoch
Pratt Free Library and the Mary
land Historical Society are COM
piling a reading list of books on
the subject.
A radio play depicting events
leading to the passage of the Act
will be broadcast in Baltimore
during the week.
Postoffice officials have been
asked to issue commemorative
stamp.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-03-31

quently refer to it as THE trolley
car tour" The famed Sherwood
Gardens, as in previous years, will
be included. aAv
A tour of the Worthington Val
ley, where the Grand National and
Maryland Hunt Cup races are held,
will take place on the same day as
the Guilford Pilgrimage. Thurs
day, May 5. The romantic fox
hunting country of My Lady's
Manor, and the Green Spring Val
ley, will he visited on Wednesday,
May 4, and Friday, May 6, respec-
lively.
Lunch or light refreshments will
be served during most of the Pill
grimage tours, though preliminary
arrangements should be made a
week in advance. In Howard Coun-
ty, on the opening day of the 1949
Pilgrimage, sandwiches, coffee, and
cake will be served by the Women's
Auxiliary of St. Johns Church, at
Burleigh Manor, from IL A. M. to
2 P. M.
The Montgomery County Tour
will be held on Monday May 2.
Mrs. William A. Rogers, of Chevy
Chase is chairman with Mrs. A.. d.
Farquhar, Sandy Spring co-chair-
man. Houses will open from 10 to
six on all tours.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Morton to Curb
IJunket-Minded
Members
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

Travel-minded House membef.
may run into difficulty this year
getting money to finance theil
junkets.
The "go-slow" sign was hoisted
today by Representative Mary T
Norton, Democrat, Of New Jersey
chairman Of the House Admins
tration Committee, which handles
miscellaneous House financing.
COMMITTEES wanting money for
their expenses will have to justify
them" she told a reporter. and
added II have never considered
q junket justified.
That doesn't mean. Mrs. Norton
said, that thumbs will be turned
down on every travel proposal
that comes before her committee.
But it's going to be q tough job
proving that there's a good reason
for the trip.
Quite q few House members
already are quietly contemplating
trips to foreign climes after Con-
gress adjourns. Europe, Asia.
Alaska and the islands of the
Pacific are on tentative itineraries,
with Hawaii likely to retain its
position as the main magnet for
world-conscious Congressmen.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Truck Driver Forfeits
$50 for Striking House

A driver who "snooZed" at the
wheel of his light truck at 4 am.
yesterday forfeited $50 collateral
on . charge Of failing to give full
attenetion to driving after he
plowed across four lawns and
struck a home in the first blick
Of Franklin street NE.
Robert Lee Brown. 80. Of the
TOO block of Upshur street NV,
told police he nodded at the wheel.
The next thing he knew. his truck
had leaped the curb, rolled across
the lawn at IS Franklin street,
then on down the shrubbery to
Mrs. Margaret Aliens home at
No. 81, amid 50 and into a shower
Of bricks. The truck finally
stopped on the lawn at 40 Frank
lin street,
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Two District Youths Arrested
After Picnic Shooting Hoax

Two Washington youths were
arrested and charged with dis
orderly conduct Saturday night
in connection with q shooting
hoax they repeatedly perpetrated
while picknicking in Fort Foote
Md, on the Potomac River In
Prince Georges County.
The two are Donald Kern. 20,
Of 454 Newcomb street Sc, and
Louis Hazelrigg, 81. Of 45o0 Third
street Sc.
They became the object of q
search by District, Park and Prince
Georges police after authorities
reported Hazelrigg faxed a fight
with his girl companion. then ap-
parently fell to the ground as q
shot sounded. Kern and his girl
friend. who earlier had been with
the other couple. drove UP after
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Home Town Turns 0ui
To Honor Les Biff|e
By the Assoeiofsd Prsas

PIGGOTT, Ark, July lies
BifIle. who left here 40 years ago
to take clerical job in Washing
ton and who is now secretary OF
the United States Senate, was
honored at his old home yester-
day.
He was given a reception, bat
the climax will come today when
Vice President Barkley. an old
Senate friend. unveils . bronze
bust Of Mr.. Biff1e.
The bust. executed by Felix
Deweldon.. ,Washingtop sculptor.
will be placed In the post Office
here.
The reception was held in the
home Of Carl Pfeiffer, Piggott cot
ton dealer. The -shirt-sleeved Mr..
Biff1e shook hands with several
hundred persons who called be-
tween 3 and 6 pm.
Frances Greer, Metropolitan
Opera soprano. who is a native
Of Piggott, sang.
Gov. Sid McMath and Arkansas
Education Commissioner A. e.
Bonds, jr.. flew here from Little
Rock and were Joined later by
Senators Fulbright and Mcclellan
of Arkansas who arrived by plane
from Washington.
The Vice President will arrive
this morning by plane. He will
be accompanied by Presidential
Assistant John r. Steelman, At
torney General Clark, Federal
Education Commissioner Earl Nc
Grath and Representative Gath
ings Of Arkansas.
Evening star., 1949-07-04

the shot, loaded Hazelrigg into q
car with the help OF two other
picknickers, and drove OF.
Charles 0assett, 1915 Wheeler
road Sc. one Of the two helpers,
apparently was convinced there
had been q shooting although he
saw no blood. He called Park
police.
The car. with all four occupants
alive and sound, was found later
parked In Anacostia Park by Pvt,
j. v. Fitzpatrick Of the Park police.
All four were taken before JUS
tice Of the Peace J. p. Cox In Oxon
Hill. The girls were released and
Kern forfeited collateral. Hazel
rigg had insufficient money and
was sent to the Marlboro jail, but
later was released under 500
bond.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Italian Seamen's Strike
Ends After II DAYS
BY the Associafsd Press

ROME, July 4.-The 17-day
seamen's strike ended today. The
walkout had tied up Italy's pas
senger-carrying merchant marine
at the height of the tourist
season.
Shipowners and union officials
signed an agreement this morning
calling for a 200 per cent increase
In pensions, a $5-a-month un-
employment bonus. and a definite
hiring schedule. Sailors returned
to work Immediately.
The strike started in Genoa
June II when seamen refused tc
man the 2o.000-ton luxury liner
Saturnia scheduled to sail that
day for New York. Spreading
rapidly through Italy's majo,
ports. the strike immobilized most
Of Italy's ocean-going passenger
deet.
Shipowners estimate the walk
out cost approximately $4,000, 900
Evening star., 1949-07-04
By the Associetsd Press

VIENNA. Austria. July 4.-Pfc.
Edward Touhey, the one-man
gang who fattened eight Russian
officers recently, has been given a
suspended sentence of six months
at hard labor. A United States
Army board of review has recon-
mended that he be discharged for
the convenience OF the Govern
ment."
Tourney. bugler in the 350th
Infantry Drum and Bugle Corps,
took part in the Independence Day
parade in Camp McCauley today.
He told a reporter, II want to stay
in the Army"
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Derby Guide

The event-A coaster race
for boys IL to Is, in which
contestants drive cars Of their
own building.
Place-Pennsylvania avenue
between Branch and Alabama
avenues Sc.
Time-9 am. Saturday. A
parade of contestants will
precede the racing. which will
continue throughout the day.
The final heat, pitting the
Glass "A" champion with the
Glass "B" winner, will be
about 4 pm.
SpOnsors-The Star and the
District Department of the
American Legion. in associa-
ton with Chevrolet.
Bus Transportation - The
Hillcrest bus, route C-6, Of the
Capital Transit Co., leaving
Seventeenth street and Penn
| sylvania avenue Sc. which
point can be reached by street.
cars on routes 80 and 30, and
B-2 buses. Washington. Marl-
boro and Annapolis buses.
laeving from 403 Pennsylvania
avenue NV, also pass the
course.
Broadcasts - On-the spot
broadcasts from the finish line
can be heard on WMAL, The
Evening Star station, from
time to time throughout the
day. The exact schedule will
be announced shortly. 'tG
Seating --- As provided by
spectators.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
American Singer Rules
Dunish Town for Duy
BY the Asseeiofsd PFsss

AALBORG, Denmark, July A.
anish-American Singer Carl
Brisson became mayor Of Aalbora
today-for "a hours.
The singer was handed The
golden key Of the city by Mayor
Marius Anderson at a lunch given
by the town council and attended
by Prime Minister Hans Hedtoft
and number Of Danish Ameri-
cans here on vacation trip.
The ceremony Is . July ( ira
dition here. The honorary mayor
ality of this city Of $1,000 is be-
slowed each year on well-known
Danish-American. Last year the
recipient was actor Jean Hersholt.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
|Wounded Youth, Girl
HE Saved From Bandit
Are Wed in Hospital
BY the Assoeicisd Press

LOS ANGELES, July IA
wounded youth and the girl he
saved from a bandits attack are
man and wife today.
1t was a far cry from the church
wedding the young sweethears had
planned. Instead, Alwyn tSonny)
Ivers, 10, his face swathed in
bandages. was married to little
Betty Bowen in a solemn bedside
ceremony at General Hospital.
Tears glistened on the blond 16-
year -old girls cheeks as she
breathed the words II do" Son.
ny, his bullet-shattered jaw bound
in wires, nodded his head and
managed husky whisper.
The rites were conducted less
than 40 hours after Sonny had
fought and killed a masked lovers
lane bandit who threatened his
girl. The Rev. Walter Pegg of
the First Baptist Church in near
by Huntington Park read a SIM
pie ScflpCural service.
The brides mother Mrs. Sybil
Drake, and her sister and maid
of honor. Norma Lagatha Bowen,
IA. stood beside her. Mrs. Edna
Ruth Ivers flew here from Okla
homa City to be at her sons
side. She had forbidden the cer-
emony in the interest of young
Ivers' condition until late yes
terday afternoon.
Lifting one bandaged arm. the
bridegroom accepted delicate
platinum wedding band from his
best man and lifelong chum.
Arthur Cranfield, II. He slipped
it gently on Betty's tiny finger.
Now kiss the BRIDE" Mr.. Peggs
said. And Betty. her cheeks
moist, bent and kissed Sonny's
bandaged face. From under the
sheets Ivers' arm came and cir
cled her and pressed her to him.
Sonny was shot by the holdup
man, later identified as William
E. Brock, l8, as he and Betty were
parked on a hill Friday night.
Betty told sheriff's officers Brock
took Sonny's wallet at gunpoint
and then said he'd do what he
wanted with me-" She said Sonny
leaped at the holdup man and.
though shot In the scufile, grap-
pied with Brock. Betty said she
got Brooks gun when 1t dropped
and handed it to Sonny. who shot
the youth four times.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
SiciIion Bandits Sought
In Sloyine 4 Policemen
BY The Assoeiotsd Press

ROME, July 4.-Heavily-armed
police and carabinieri today
combed the mountain areas near
Palermo, Sicily, in search Of ban
bits who shot and killed four
policemen and wounded four 9TH
ers Saturday night.
A number Of suspects already
have been arrested, newspaper
dispatches from the Sicilian capi-
tai said.
Rome newspapers tied the
bloody machinegun and bomb at
tack to members Of Bandit King"
Salvatore Giuliano's Sicilian out.
| law gang,
Evening star., 1949-07-04
|Adventists Hear Plea
For Local Option as
To-Day Session Ends

A plea for local option rather
than material prohibition was
made yesterday by Elder Charles
S. Longacre, Seventh-day Ad-
ventist minister and associate
secretary of the American Tenn
perance Society.
He disclosed prohibition on a
national scale will never be tried
again because 1t is impossible for
wet officials to enforce dry laws. "
Elder Longacre spoke to 1000
persons at the closing session OF
the Today camp meeting of the
Seventh-day Adventists' Potomac
Conference at Sligo Church, Ia
koma Park.
He said local option "is making
prohibition effective where 1t is
judicially, consistently and per-
sistently applied. The drys, as a
rule, sprofited by their past mis-
takes and are making stepping
stones out Of past defeats"
Citing that this country's $780,
900 chronic alcoholics are incur
able" he said the Johns Hopkins
Hospital alcoholic clinic has re-
ported the greater percentage Of
its cases were the 18-to-21-year-
old class.
He advocated the spiritual re-
birth of the drinker himself as the
ultimate solution Of the liquor
problem.
Elder Francis D. Nichol, editor
Of the Review and Herald, Ad-
ventist church paper. also spoke
at the closing session.
The Potomac Conference, spon-
sor Of the meeting, includes Ad-
ventist churches in Washington.
Maryland and Virginia.