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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-15
NOTICE To CREDITORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN. that the
Subscriber of Montgomery County. has
obtained from the Orphans Court of
Montgomery County. in Maryland. Letters
Of Administration on the personal Estate
of
SARA H. CADMUS.
late Of Montgomery County. deceased. All
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same, with vouchers thereof. legally au-
thenticated to the subscriber on or before
the seth day of August next: they may
otherwise BY law be excluded from all
benefit AZ said Estate. All persons in
debted 10 said Estate are requested TO
make Immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 18th day of
February In the year Of our Lord one
thonsand nine hundred Rfty-one.
RUTH CADMUS GALLOWAY,
AdInrx.
sa04 : 10th Street.
Silver Spring, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-15

Roger Ratcliff and James T. Clark.
Attorneys.
Washington Bldg,
Washington, ID. c.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN. that the
Subscriber of Montgomery County. has OBJ
tained from tn, Orphans Court of Mont
gomery County. in Maryland Letters OF
Administration on the personal Estate of
WILLIAM LAKE CLARK. aka
WILLIAM l.. CLARK and w. l.. CLARK.
late of Montgomery County. deceased. All
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same, with vouchers thereof, legally au-
thenticated to the subscriber on or before
the 23rd day of August next: they may
otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said Estate. All persons in
debted to said Estate are requested to
make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this goth day of
February in the year of our Lord, one
thousand nine hundred fifty-one.
WILLIAM BERT CLARK,
Administrator.
li0S Edmonston Drive,
Rockville, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-15
John F. Lillard, Attorney,
Hyattsville, Maryland
Order Nisi-

In the Matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM C. DUDROW, an in
competent;
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-03-15

William v. Bouic,
Attorney at Law
Rockville, Md.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Subscriber of Montgomery County, has OBJ
tanned from the Orphans Court of
Montgomery County, in Maryland. Letters
4 Parliamentary on the personal Estate of
BARBARA U. BURROUGHS.
late of Montgomery County, deceased All
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same, with vouchers thereof. legally au-
thenticated to the subscriber on or before
the 23rd day of August next: they may
otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said Estate. All persons in
debted to SAID Estate are requested to
make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this goth day of
February in the year of our Lord, one
thousand nine hundred fifty one.
GEORGE ALBERT BURROUGHS,
Brookville. Maryland.
Executor.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
Tocnu-Aricu Feud

I have read with interest the article
entitled Chance Remark Revives Old
Tacna AFRICA Feud," which appeared IN
The Sunday Star of April %.
I think that the best way to explain
to your readers the origin Of this old
international problem of seaport for
Bolivia would be by publishing two maps.
one of the frontiers of Chile, Bolivia
and Peru before the 1879 war and the
other of the frontiers Of Chile, Bolivia
and Peru after the 1879 war-that is to
say, of the actual frontiers.
Thus your readers would be able to
see clearly the part Of the Bolivian and
Peruvian territory which was taken over
by Chile by that act of aggression. They
would be able to see that the Chileans
not only took away from Bolivia the
enormously rich copper fields Of Anto-
fagasta and its only seaport on the
west coast of South America, but they
also took away from Peru the enor-
mously rich nitrate fields of Tarapaca
and the port of africa, although before
1879 Chile had no frontiers with Peru.
There is only one solution to this
problem: That Chile return to Bolivia
what was Bolivian and to Peru what
was Peruvian, thus eliminating what
sooner or later may be the cause OF
another war in South America.
Reynaldo Gubbins.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
Pen-nanaes may be used If letters carry
writers' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Letters to The Star

The official announcement of April
stated that "the first United Nations
stamps are expected to be issued by
summer or early fall of this year.
It is difficult to see where The Stars
Stamp Column got such completely con-
trary information, particularly that
representing several high officials OF
the Post office and State Departments
as holding views quite contrary to
those formally expressed by their
qualified spokesmen. It is the more
surprising, too, in that the above details
were fully printed in the same column
in previous issues Of The Star.
It would be hoped that normal
initiative, such as the establishment of
this postal administration, would be
received with sympathy and good will.
particularly by those in it's particular
field. But entirely apart from any
narrow professional interest, the cardi-
nal fact is that the United Nations is
UNIVERSAL worldwide body, with its
mail going to every corner of the earth.
Not only has it the right, but it is a
matter of political significance. as
Ambassador Austin intimated, to have
that mail carried under its own stamps,
rather than under the stamps OF any
individual member government.
Arthur Sweetser,
Director, United Nations Information
Center.
Washington.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
By Charles E. TroceweN

the great cat family were exterminated
long ago.
Cats can and do live with birds.
Scientists declare that even those
cats abandoned at summer places, cats
which revert to the wild, only take the
places of predators slowly killed out.
This is natures way.
Now, natures way also includes the
pigeon, the common sparrow, and many
others.
This does not mean that we cannot
try to outwit them. We should not
be cruel to them but attempting to
outwit them is fun.
A wire trash burner, inverted over a
small feeding station on the ground,
viii give the pigeons something to
think about, too.
AS for squirrels, those smart ones
are more difficult to outwit. They not
only are born comedians, but also
thinkers They are vastly more intelli-
gent than pigeons. although the latter
usually have enough brains for their
ordinary everyday purposes Of living.
Squirrels do not give up easily. To
construct station to keep them out
requires both brains and patience, and
then it may not work!
Pigeons, of course. are far greater
nuisances than squirrels, primarily
because they tend to grow in numbers.
Most persons would not mind one or
two. but as soon as the word gets
around, the flock grows from 2 to 10
to 20, etc. This means a big increase
in the cost of bird feeding. to say
nothing Of the nuisance involved.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
This and That

few minutes the disturbing news of
the world today"
Pigeons as unlimited guests at
bird feeding station occupy the same
position unlimited guests anywhere do.
One feels sorry for them, but at the
same time wishes they would go
elsewhere.
Certainly these big fellows add
nothing to the picture one paints in
the yard.
A few, now and then, but that is
where the trouble comes in.
Pigeons, like some humans, never
know where to draw the line.
Give them an inch, as the old say
ing had it, and they will take an ell.
Let a camel, says another. old saw,
get his nose under the tent, well, then
he comes under, himself.
The unwelcome guest is the pigeon,
and the squirrel, at many bird feed
ing stations.
Unfortunately, some bird feeders add
to this the English sparrow, the star
ling, the cat. the dog, or almost any
species they happen to dislike.
IneTe are some peTSOIlS III tASSS
United States who call themselves
friends of BIRDS" but whose sole
activity is as enemies of cats.
The truth, self evident, Is that
nature, in which we all exist, has said
from the beginning that all must exist
side by side. -
II nature had a mind similar to
these persons, she would have seen to
it that all the beautiful members Of
Evening star., 1951-05-02

under Every one knew Kief didn't want
to retire But the law is the law. Only
an order from the President himself
can extend the employment of a civil
servant past the 10 mark, and those
orders are few and far between.
Jim McInerney. head of the Criminal
Division, gave little account Of Kief's
career. He was born on farm near
Hershey, Pa, in April, 1881, of Pennsyl-
vania Dutch stock. (That first name.
Mahlon, is not family name It's from
the Book of RUTH. He learned to make
shorthand pothooks at Browns Business
School in Brooklyn. He was appointed
a copyist in the department at 5000
year in 1904. In all the years of ratings,
his was never other than excellent.
It was hard to believe that there could
be anything embarrassing in record
like that. But there was. and it came
out Kief had past. He is man whose
culture includes a knowledge of how the
perfect Martini cocktail should be made
CHell send them back if the vermouth
content is more than 20 per cent?. It
Evening star., 1951-05-02

E. H. of Charming street NE. says
she has seen letters here from readers
who have made inquiries on how to
build a bird feeding station that Will
keep out pigeons and still permit other
birds to enter.
Through the following arrangement,
she writes, my husband has succeeded
in outwitting these clever birds so
that they no longer attempt to gain
entrance to his station and are content
to feed only on the few seeds dropped
by the other birds.
"Across the front opening OF the
feeder he has suspended from the
roof overhang a series OF wire loops
that extend down to / inch from the
perch that leads into the station.
ssThese loops are made of heavy
clothes line wire and are placed the
same distance apart.
"To prevent the pigeons from prylng
them apart, they are braced with
small wire running through them from
each side of the feeder.
s'The roof of this feeder lifts up in
order to place the grain into SELF
feeding bin and for that reason loops
were used rather than bars that could
be fastened at the bottom ofaany other
type of station.
1.-THE birds have no fear Of this
arrangement and enter and leave the
station with no difficulty at all.
.'Mr. T., we enjoy your column so
much. It is a,real pleasure to turn to
it each evening and thus forget for a
Evening star., 1951-05-02
By George Kennedy

MOST PEOPLE found it hard to
1V1 believe. Some wouldn't believe 1t
until they heard it from several sources.
The word was that Kief was being re-
tired from the Department of Justice
because he had reached the age limit.
Kief 10? Mahlon D. Kiefer. head of
the Liquor Narcotics Customs Unit in
the Criminal Division, seemed just an
other one of the boys-that is, another
of the middle-aged men who came here
as, youngsters in the New Deal.
The women in the department were
surprised too, because Kief had that
glance, combining gallantry with chal-
lenge-the combination they so much
approve in a man.
Kief had the boyish figure. Five feet
six, 130 pounds, quick of motion, he
wore his checked suits with the swagger
OF a chap just arriving in New Haven
from Lawrenceville.
But hard as 1t was to believe. records
are records. They preserve the facts.
Kief came to work for Justice in 1904
as "copyist" (stenographer) when the
department was contained in two ad-
joining houses on the south side of
K street. near Fifteenth NV.
And just to give you an idea of the
changes that have occurred since then,
it might be well to put in right here
that Kief does not remember any women
Stenographers working in the depart
ment at that time-only men. There
might have been some women, but he
doesn't remember them. And he thinks
II there had been, he would have remem-
bered.
He went to law school nights, and at
length was admitted to the District
Bar and the Supreme Court. The latter
had significance in his case, for he served
as law clerk for Justice Van Devanter
for nine years.
Kief was the indefatigable legal re-
searcher. That was something he tried
to instill in the younger men: Never be
satisfied with precedent decision, ap-
plicable and pat as its language may be.
Be sure you have run them all down, or
you may be faced unexpectedly with
conflicting one that will set you back on
your heels.
On Monday. some 100 or so of Kief's
colleagues and friends in the department
gathered in the Attorney Generals Office
for another one Of those ceremonies.
On the walls were portraits of four of
the 16 Attorneys General Kief had served
Evening star., 1951-05-02
Cortisone for Everybody

The announcement that science Is on the
threshold of major achievement the synthetic
production of the wonder drug, cortisone, is news
of tremendous Importance to mankind. Cortisone
has proved to have miraculous curative powers
in such dread diseases as rheumatoid arthritis
and rheumatic fever and in certain ills causing
blindness and other disabling effects. But the
natural source of supply OF the drug has been
distressingly restricted. Countless sufferers who
need treatment have been deprived of an ade-
quate allotment by rationing of the supply and
by high cost of production. Synthesis OF the
drug would mean plentiful stockpile at prices
within the reach of all.
Cortisone now is derived from fraction Of
the bile of slaughtered animals. The amount
from each animal is so small that the bile frac-
ton of 40 cattle is required to provide one days
dose for a single patient. No feasible way of
increasing production of the vital drug was
known until group of chemists began their
experiments at Harvard University with syn
thesis of the elements which form the drug. Un-
der leadership of Professor Robert Burns Wood
ward the group tackled the incredibly difficult
task of building from common materials an
atomic structure which would duplicate that OF
the substance, known as steroid, from which
cortisone is made. Atom was added to atom
by a series of complicated reactions until the
ture was achieved The production of this syn
thetic steroid furnished the key which the chem
lists say should open the way for mass produc-
ton of cortisone in the near future. Completion
of the process of converting the steroid into
cortisone is expected within few months.
Newspapers and magazines have told of the
remarkable results obtained by administering
cortisone to horribly crippled victims OF rheuma-
told arthritis. Further tests with the drug have
shown 1t to be of value in many kinds of all
ments and even in severe burn cases. The de-
mand for the medicine has far exceeded the
available supply The accomplishments of DR..
Woodward and his associates will stir new hopes
in the tortured minds of thousands OF sufferers
who have been unable to secure the drug as
needed-hopes that have good chance OF being
fulfilled In the not far distant future.
One stroke OF wallpaper cleaner across a
wall, and the die is cast. Like fighting in Korea
one must 60 on and on.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
How to Lose an Education

How to Lose on Educutlon
would like the public to know of
little hocus-pocus by which some of us
we got involved in this Korean show.
I'll cite my own particular case. but
there are plenty of others.
served in the Navy for nearly four
years in World War II. I didn't ask
for or look for any reward for this, but
they told me that, among other things
could have nearly four years worth
of CT bill education. That looked good
to me, and in 1916 took it up. In No
vember. 1947, the Navy asked me to
come to Washington to do some special
writing for them. SO dropped my edu-
cation for a while and went. was still
engaged in this work when a call for
volunteers went out last summer for
the Korean affair. knew that the CT
education deadline was July Of this year
and had intended to resume my studies
in the fall of last year. I certainly
never anticipated, however, that volun :,
teering as requested would deprive me
definitely and finally of my remaining
educational rights. So volunteered.
Now the Veterans Administration po-
litely informs we that. regardless Of the
fact that I have been on active duty
with the Navy since last August, my
education rights still run out in July Of
this year. They have a bunch Of
smooth technicalities to back thei-
stand, but to me the essence of the stu
alton is this: The fact that was
fool enough to answer this call for vol
unteers. besides cutting my income
about two-thirds. reducing my wife and
me to the status of church mice. max
ing life pretty tough for both of us, and
making it possible for her to be a widow
most any time-besides all this. this
fact alone has trimmed me completely
out of the over two years of education
rights I would still have if had kept
my nose out of the service.
My father was in the Navy Q904)
and his favorite advice to me was, "Son,
never volunteer for anything!" How
right the old man was!
Edmund A. Gibson,
BMI, U. S. NJ, Fleet Training Center.
San Diego, Calf.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
Either Player

Her fingers pluck the strings cGress-
itgly,
Her eyes are fTed upon her music, yet
In spirit she traperses land and sea
To reach the country she cannot
forget.
She sees the snop p-crowned mountain
peak and lake,
cottage clingiHg to sheltered slope,
While recollection makes her senses ache,
And binds her past and present, like
rope.
To rhythnas priBaitiue and toeirdly iDtld
As ancient tales from Grimm or
Andersen
Enjoyed on tDinter eDenings, sDE,en child.
Dividing years fnH from her one By one.
No longer three score ten, she flashes
dolpn
A crystal ski run near an Alpine totDH.
Louise cFenshaw Roy
Evening star., 1951-05-02
Hazards of Closed Hearings

If one likes to indulge in beguiling assump-
tions, there is merit or the appearance of merit
in closing the Macarthur hearings which begin
tomorrow.
The argument is that open hearings would
put in jeopardy our national security and the
security of our troops in Korea. Senator Russell,
who will preside at the hearings, argues this
proposition forcefully and with conviction.
There are at least two considerations, how
ever, which tend to support the Republican
demand for open hearings.
The first is that the public has become an
interested and proper party in this case With
administration consent, if not approval, General
Macarthur has taken his complaint to the people,
and therefore it will be necessary to satisfy not
only committee of Congress, but the people as
well, that he has had a fair opportunity to
present his views and that their acceptance or
rejection is based solely on their merits. This
may not be easy to do if the people are to receive
only censored version of what the general
says to the committee. Many people, certainly
look with suspicion on the administrations
candor in such matters. They see that the
Wedemeyer report on Korea, report that has
been vindicated by events in all important
respects, was suppressed on security grounds for
more than three years. And yet, now that the
report finally has been made public, it is very
difficult to see how legitimate security considera-
tionS justified its suppression.
The second point has to do with the feasi-
bility of closed hearings. This is case in which
convictions are strong and politics is rampant.
Opinions will differ as to what is and what is not
security matter. So it is going to be very
difficult if not impossible to prevent "leaks"-
leaks which will give the nrh'ic ~--''-' md
distorted version of what the actual testimony
was.
If this is going to happen, 1t would be much
better to let General Macarthur testify publicly,
and to close the hearings only when there can
be agreement that some security matter is at
stake.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
U. N. Stomp Issues

I was sorry to see what seems to
me to be a complete misunderstand-
ing as to the new United Nations
Postal Administration in The Stars
Stamp Column" on April Is. This
stated that the plan never may be
carried into effect: that the projected
stamp issues may be abandoned; that
"leaders within the General Assembly
have hinted that nothing will be done
about the projected stamps while the
present world crisis prevails" and. most
serious of all. that objection in the
philatelic public sis shared by high Of
ficia1s of the Post Office Department
and the State Department"
In actual fact. it was just little
over two weeks before that the special
United Nations United States Postal
Agreement was signed for the United
Nations by Secretary General Trygve
Lie and, for the United States, by
Ambassador Warren r. Austin. Chief
United States Representative to the
United Nations, and Jesse Donaldson,
United States Postmaster General.
Ambassador Austin declared that the
signing represented further step in
the growth of the United Nations, and
was another evidence of its permanency.
Mr. Donaldson described the action as
another link in the universal chain OF
postal establishments. and assured the
Secretary General that the United
States Post Office Department would
continue to give unfaltering support and
cooperation to it.
A week later. the Secretary General
announced the appointment of a four
member committee to consider and give
final approval to the designs OF the
stamps. The committee included
Bernard Davis, founder and director OF
the National Philatelic Museum in
Philadelphia, as a member, and Robert
E. Fellers, assistant executive director.
Bureau Of Finance. U. S. Post Office
Department-withB Benjamin Cohen and
Byron Price, assistant secretaries gen
eral OF the United Nations, as advisers.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
Thot Word 'Appeosement'

I am writing in regard to the letter
you published recently, signed Pax, dis
cussing appeasement.
Appeasement in diplomacy. where one
side truly wants peace and the other
knows only violence and oppression. is
a most damnable and degrading word.
Would you give in to a blackmailer?
That is appeasing. It is encouraging
him to sin some more. It is also SHINING
for you to encourage him. If your child
wanted to throw lighted matches into
the open gasoline tank of your car,
would you say "Yes"? r.. v. B.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
The Department Says Good-by to Kief

came out that. for several years, Kief
had been helping Mabel Walker WILLIE
brandt try to enforce prohibition.
Every one laughed, and Kief turned
around and faced the corner for a mo-
ment like schoolboy.
Kief wishes something had been said
at the ceremony about the most con-
structive work he ever did in the de-
partment. That was his handling Of
the legal problems involved in prohi-
bition repeal When it became evident
that the seth State was going to approve
the repeal amendment in 1888, President
Roosevelt sent Attorney General Homer
Cummings a list Of 80 questions, drawn
up by an interdepartmental committee.
The answers to the questions would
determine the Governments course once
the 18th Amendment was off the books.
The Attorney General sent the questions
to Kief to be answered.
These included one as to what was
to be done about bootleggers awaiting
trial. Let them go, answered Kief
Would the Volstead law still apply in
the District Of Columbia (where Con-
gress needed no constitutional amend
ment to pass a police regulation like
prohibition in the first place)? Yes,
answered Kief. The entire collection
of 80 answers to the 80 questions stood
up in the courts. Mr.. Cummings used
to call it ''Kiefer's Bible"
MIR. McInerney, who had spoken Of
retirement as "a day we all look for
ward to with mixed feelings" turned
the ceremony over to Attorney General
Howard McGrath, who was born only
a few months before Kief entered the
department.
There's very little your fellow en-
ployes can do for you on this day" he
said, except to let you know that there
is place in their hearts for you"
He then presented Kief with framed
certificate "for As years of distinguished
Government service" and got out the
inevitable going-away present-matched
luggage.
Kief was touched, but he was game.
He responded that he wondered how
the Government was going to get along
without both Gen. Macarthur and
myself"
I've seen quite a few of these cere-
MONIES" he said. "And of late years,
I've wondered what I would say when
I was the victim" (Here he really
began to cry) "All I can say is that
I thank you from the bottom of my
heart"