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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-07-12
In AROUND GAITHERsBURG
Mrs. James Schroeder Gathersburg 442
Gaithersburg 442

NeWell, VISITED 1flenQS mere on
| Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Vance of
Hagerstown and Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
iel Baker Of Funkstown were din
ner guests on Sunday of the Fred
Grimms.
Miss FRITZ Edwards, daughter
of Mrs. Phillip Edwards, has just
returned to her home in Washing
ton Grove from trip to New York
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Frey's son,
Butch, has returned to his home to
recuperate after an appendectomy.
The William Allen of Washing
ton Grove expect to move shortly
to Rockville.
After spending a week in Indi-
ana, the James Hundley family
have returned to the Grove.
Linwood pap" Howard was
given surprise birthday party
for his 18th birthday anniversary
on Saturday evening at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. William E.
Baker. Forty-four guests attended
the party.
Pfc. George P. Fraley, jr., son
of Mrs. Grace N. Fraley of Der
wood, has been transferred from
Fort Hood, Texas to Germany. His
address is us. 52050544, Co. d;
57th Medium Tank Bn. APO. No.
AZ, New York, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Riffet had
as dinner guests on Monday eve
ming, Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Barnabo
of Phoenix, Ariz., and j. F. Riffet
OF Boyds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norbert Norris are
announcing the birth of son,
James Mulry, at Suburban Hos
pital on July 6. ..,-.... ...
Mrs. Elsie Bisset of the Gath
ersburg High School faculty is at
tending Barnard College this sum-
mer. Her address is 4O8 Brooks
Hall at 116th and Broadway, New
York City.
Cpl. Henry Earle King of Will
mington, Del, and his bride, the
former Miss Carolyn Ann Woerner
of New Castle, Del, are visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Earle
will also visit his brother-in-law
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Donald E.
Schwartzbeck of Clarksburg.
On Tuesday evening, Mrs. Don
aid SchwartzBeck of Clarksburg
and Miss Virginia Smith motored
to Baltimore and spent the night
with Mr.. and Mrs. George Krixer,
then Wednesday visited Mrs.
SchwartzBeck's brother, Jimmie
King, who is in the Navy and sta
tionedat cambridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Nicholson
and girls, Miss Hilda Burgess, Mr..
and Mrs. F. 7. Ward and Mrs.
Charles Burgess were guests of
MIR. and Mrs. Earle Nicholson on
the fourth.
Miss Barbara Boland, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Boland, is
spending the week at Camp Ma
wavi, the Camp Fire Girls camp.
Mrs. Wilson Clagett entertained
on Tuesday for her son, Lambert,
who was six on that day. His
guests were Mary and Barbara Lee
Hershey, c h arlotte Schroeder,
Becky Clagget, Donald Hershey of
Rockville, David Neide and George
and James Bulls.
Mrs. Paul o. Farmer has return
ed to her home in Houston, Texas,
after a visit with her sister, Mrs.
Wilson Clagget in Gaithersburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Nicholson
of Boyd had Miss Hilda Burgess
of Rockville as their guest for the
past two weeks.
Mrs. Harold L. Hershey of Rock
vile entertained at her home re-
Gently for Miss Doris Gonso, who
will be married in a few weeks to
John Hershey. Those attending
the buffet supper and crystal show
er were members of the Gonso and
Hershey families.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Washington News
|CoIored Servant
Leaves $3.50 to
Church, Charity
BY the Associated Press

ROANOKE, Va, Mar. 31.--
Three organizations are $3.50
richer because of bequests by q
kindly servant who died last April
it was disclosed here today.
Daisy Peasants was just what
her name implied during the 40
years she worked for the Robert
M. Thomas family.
BY the time she died, she had
accumulated a little more than
1000, part of which went to pay
hospital expenses during her last
illness.
Attorney Jesse Meadows and
the Thomas family today dis
closed that the $3.50 which re-
manned was bequeathed as fol-
lows:
One fourth, or $1,387.50 each
to the American Red Cross and
the Southern Baptist Missionary
Board for work in Africa: and
half-$2,875-to the Mount Zion
Baptist Church at Hewlette, Va,
which she attended as a child.
But there was string attached.
Mr.. Meadows said Daisy told him !:
MY people don't like to work
unless they have to. You fix it
so they get it if they raise as
much as I give"
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Teachers Rap Fowler
On Pay-Rise Hostility

A teachers union yesterday
criticized District Budget Officer
Walter Fowler for opposing a
House bill that would give Dis
trict teachers a fiat $1,100 annual
salary increase.
In a letter sent to the House
and Senate District Committees
Local 81, American Federation OF
Teachers, AFL, declared:
'The cost of living in the Dis
trict has so increased since 1898
that the increase in compensa-
ton that teachers have received
during the last several years has
become insignificant and has
never equalled the rise in the
consumers price index"
Mr.. Fowler, in commenting re-
Gently on the bill introduced by
Representative Klein, Democrat
New York, said he opposed it be-
cause it singled out one group ot
District employees.
Local 27 said policemen are
getting in effect 20 per cent
increase in salary. through beine
assigned sixth days work" al
extra pay. It added that Mr.
Fowler "has no substance" in hi
objection to the bill on the basis
OF singing out the teachers as 9
group.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Hospitals Treat
g Persons Here
For Home Mishops

A 48-year-old woman put her
arm through a window this week
when she lost her balance as a
child fell against her, the District
Red Cross Home Accident Survey
reported yesterday.
A young woman tripped over a
pencil and fell, striking her elbow
against a coffee table.
Two elderly women suffered
fatal falls and three brothers died
as a result of burns when a kero-
sene stove set their home on fire
A total of 83 persons were
treated at local hospitals for home
mishaps which included 80 falls
10 burns, four accidental poison
1ngs, 10 foreign bodies, 13 cuts and
IA miscellaneous injuries.
Falls resulted in eight fractures
OF the wrist, arm. hand, skull. heel
and toe.
Children ate and drank m
known quantities of drugs. roach
tablets, kerosene and rubbing
compound. One two-year-oId in
serted a pussy willow in his nostril.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Symphony to Present Work
Of District Piunist-C Composer

The fifth annual series of Neigh
borhood Concerts by the National
Symphony Orchestra will close
tomorrow night with a concert at
g pm. in Woodrow Wilson High
School.
The concert, the tenth this sea-
son and forty ninth of the series,
will be conducted by Howard
Mitchell, and one of its features
will be the premier performance
by an orchestra of a work by a
native Washingtonian.
Invocation" by LaSalle Spier,
Washington pianist, composer and
teacher, has never been played
before in its orchestrated version.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Harvest Show Meeting
Scheduled for Tuesday

A meeting of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase Harvest Show Com
mittee, headed by Emmanuel
Perry. will be held Tuesday at
pm. in the Chevy Chase Woman's
Club. Mrs. Frederic w. Lang
chairman of the Garden Section
Of the Woman's Club, is vice.
chairman Of the Harvest Show
Committee.
The Harvest Show Is scheduled
for September Is and Is. The
Bethesda Kiwanis Club will under
write the show this year. Richard
II. Twombly will serve as chair
man for the Kiwanis Club on the
Harvest Show Committee.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Increased Cab Fares
Take Effect Today,
Few Riders Protest

Taxi fares went up 10 cents a
ride in the District today.
First increase in the rates here
since 1912, the boost applies both
to single passengers and group
riders.
Unless signs are deceiving, this
is one higher cost the public isn't
making much fuss about.
An official of the Public Util-
tiles Commission, which authorized
the higher fares March 81, re-
ported an astonishing absence oi
complaints about the boost.
The new fares for the eight
zones range from 40 cents to
$1.80 for single passengers, and
from 80 cents to 81 for group
riders.
Also effective today are a num-
Der of zone boundary changes
which put an additional increase
on some trips.
In the Northeast section, 9
boundary is moved in from the
District line TO South Dakota ave-
nue.. creating a fourth zone in
that area.
Another boundary move from
Kingman Lake to Nineteenth
street puts the Armory. and the
circus grounds in an additional
zone from downtown.
Other changes ordered by the
P. U. c. include. an increase in
the charge for a taxi hired by
the hour from $3.50 for the first
hour or fraction to $3.50. and
from 60 cents for each additional
Is minutes or fraction to 80 cents
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Alexandra Corporal
In Parallel Crossinq

A young Negro corporal from
Alexandria manned the guns o1
"a tank in an armored column
which stabbed yesterday into
North Korea. 1t was the first
American force to recross the 38th
parallel.
The gunner is Corpl. Walter
George, 10. whose home is 51s
North Columbus street. He en-
listed about six months ago, ac-
Icording to his mother, Mrs. Lola
Adams, of the same address.
Mrs. Adams said she got a let.
ter from her son about a week
ago. In it Corpl. George warned
he did not know when she woulo
hear from him again because he
was in a tight spot" his mother
said.
An Associated Press battlefront
dispatch reported that Corpl
George was in a command tank
which went OF on a one mile
Isortie with two other tanks. This
small force encountered the big.
gest fight of the day.
AS the three tanks swung into
a streambed beneath an over
hanging cliff, Chinese Reds opened
up with an anti-tank gun, hanC
grenades and mortar fire. One
tank accounted for one Chinese
while Corpl. George caught three
Chinese with his machine gun
The tanks with the aid of jet
Istrafers beat off the opposition
All told, the whole column spent
three and a half hours north o1
the parallel.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Truck on Tracks
Tongles Traffic,
Tries 7 empers

Randall v. Lindburg stalled
downtown rush hour traffic yes
terday by accidentally locking
himself out of his Railway Express
Agency truck.
Police said he double-parked his
truck on the car tracks on G street
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets NV, during the lunch
hour, left the keys in the cab and
swung the automatic door shut as
he left.
Eastbound streetcar and auto
traffic stopped cold, and stayed
that way for Is minutes until re-
pair men jimmied the lock. Two
Istreetcars pulled up close to the
truck but when they backed away,
didn't allow space for autos to
squeeze through. Cars were stalled
las far as Ninth street.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Housing Group 10 Hear
OF Low-Income Needs

The Washington Housing AS
Isociation will hear two views on
housing for low income families
at public luncheon at noon to-
morrow in the YWCA, Seven
teenth and K streets NV.
James A. Cobb, an association
director, will speak on the need
for such housing here revealed by
preliminary 1850 Census figures
John Ihlder, executive director oil
the National Capital Housing Au-
thority, will discuss what the
Government is doing about the
situation.
A series of slides, "Rebirth OF
la Neighborhood," depict the pro.
gram conducted by a Memphi.
builder in clearing a slum and re.
placing it with low-rent homes fol
l Negro families.
Evening star., 1951-04-01

the Valley Forge Distributing Co.
Iof Maryland, heatedly denied
charges by supporters of the beer
monopoly that he put pressure on
Mr.. Tawes to try to change the
system.
II don't owe Mr.. Tawes anything
and he owes me nothing" he said.
I'm fact, don't even know wheth-
er I would go into business in
Montgomery County if the monop-
oily is abolished. My opposition to
the present system is based on the
county going into private busi-
ness"
He also disputed Mr.. Ervin's
statement about beer prices
in Washington and Montgomery
County.
Il am interested in this matter
as a taxpayer, with about half a
million dollars worth of CONNER
cial property in the Silver Spring
area" he said. II would be foolish
to do anything that would lose
revenue for the county and result
in a tax increase for me-
Issue Seen State Wide.
Mr.. Coffman said the issue was
Statewide. adding that Mont
gomery is the only county in
Maryland as we'll as in the entire
country to have monopoly over
the wholesaling of beer.
! "Why should the % other
counties in Maryland be penal
lied because they are paying the
State a normal revenue from its
beer tax and we are not? I don't
favor any law that permits a
county to secede from the State
or to compete with private bus
mess"
From Mr.. Dietle came the
charge that the present system
is "un-American" and curbs COM
petition and free enterprise. He
said he believed retailers would
be charged less for their beer il
the county is thrown open to pri.
vate wholesalers.
/ He also complained the Liquor
Board carries only half of the
40 brands of beer which he sale
are sold in Maryland.
Finally, Mr.. Dietle said that i
the monopoly is abolished, pri.
vate wholesalers would buils
warehouses in the county ant
bring additional employees VIII,
would buy homes. thus giving tn
county added tax revenue.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Delegates Vote 10 End
Beer MonoIopy in
Montgomery County
BY J. l. MiehoeI
Stor Staff Correspondent


ANNAPOLIS. Mar. 3l.-Mont-
gomery County's all-Republican
delegation tonight lost another
round in its fight with State Con-
troller j. Miller Tawes over the
beer monopoly system.
BY vote of 10 to 80, the Mary
land House of Delegates passed a
bill backed by Mr.. Tawes which
would end the eounty's beer mo-
|nopoly system. The measure was
sent to the Senate where an iden-
tical bill was tabled earlier in the
week by a Is to IA tally.
Omnibus Tax Bill.
A few minutes later the House
approved the so-called omnibus
tax bill for Montgomery. Under it
the County Council would have
the power to levy county taxes on
income and most other items now
taxed only by the State.
Senator Dewitt S. Hyde Of
Montgomery said he feels that he
can kill the Tawes beer bill if 1t
comes on the floor of the upper
chamber.
Measures Death Predicted.
Some experienced State House
observers predicted that the
House sponsored measure will die
in a Senate committee before the
90-day session ends at midnight
Monday.
A bill to give Maryland school
teachers a $300-a-year across-the-
board pay raise also passed the
House of Delegates and was sent
to the Senate.
The pay boost would be financed
by advancing the income tax on
corporations from 4 per cent to
to S per cent.
Gov. McKeldin has said he will
veto any measure that would III
GREG GO taxes
Evening star., 1951-04-01

Mr.. Spier wrote the Invocation
for piano and flute in 1885 as the
opening section of a suite which
he has not yet completed.
Also on the program of the con-
cert, which is sponsored by The
Star, are "Toccata" by Frescobald
and Kinder. Romeo and Juliet
by Tschaikovsky, selections from
"Porgy and Bess" by Gershwin ano
Bennett, and Perpetual Motion
by Johann Strauss. The "Stars ano
Stripes Forever" march by Sousa
will close the program.
The concert will be broadcast
by WMAL and WMAL-FM, The
Evening Star stations.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Case Proposes
Elected Council
For Washington
Seen as Substitute
For Broader Measure
On D. c. Home Rule
By Don S. Worren

A Senate advocate of national
representation for the District
yesterday proposed an elected city
council with few and limited
powers as a small first step to-
ward the ultimate goal of city
participation in its lawmaking
body.
Senator Case, Republican, of
South Dakota, ranking minority
member of the Senate District
Committee, announced he would
offer such a bill tomorrow as a
substitute for the broader Ke-
fauver-Taft home rule bill.
Action may come this week. The
Home Rule Subcommittee of the
Senate District Committee is
scheduled to meet Tuesday morn
ing. A favorable report there
seems sure for the Kefauver- Taft
bill, probably with some relatively
minor changes which have been
proposed by Committee Counsel
Gerhard van Arkel in response
to criticisms voiced at the recent
public hearings.
Situation Uncertain.
The situation in the full Dis
trict Committee seems a little lln-
certain since there is this year
an entirely new bank of Repub-
lican members, most of them new
comers to the Senate. Prospects
are, however, for sending the
Kefauver- Taft bill to the Senate
for action, though Senator Case
was prepared to argue for further
study.
While the argument goes on in
the Senate, however, the situation
in the House has not changed. A
majority of the House District
Committee, which last year killed
the Senate-passed Kefauver bill,
is still opposed to any form of an
elected city government here.
Mr.. Case is sponsoring a
measure to allow District residents
to vote in Presidential elections.
He also is backing move to give
the District elected representation
in Congress but since this in
wolves an amendment to the
Constitution. which would re-
quire time" he has dropped a
measure for election of a nom
voting District delegate in the
House.
Top Executive Body.
The Case bill for an elected city
council would continue the ap-
pointed board Of commissioners
of three members as the top
executive body for the city gov
ernment.
Under the Case bill, a city
council of 81 members would be
elected, to serve as watchdog
over the appointed board of Dis
trict Commissioners. Under the
Case plan members of the council
would be paid $1,000 year and
the chairman would be paid
$4,000 a year.
One of the duties of the city
council under the Case plan
would be to review the pending
District budget. Recommendations
of the council would have to be
forwarded to the Budget Bureau,
and then to Congressional COM
mittees for their consideration.
Evening star., 1951-04-01

ent wholesale beer monopoly was
passed.
| The current argument over the
beer monopoly started last Janu-
airy %. when Roger Laynor, chief
of the Alcoholic Beverage Tax Di-
vision of the State controllers Of
flee, urged the county's delegation
in Annapolis to sponsor a bill to
! eliminate it.
Such a measure was introduced
February % by Montgomery Sen
ator Dewitt S. Hyde. 1t also
would have authorized the County
Council to impose a tax on all
alcoholic beverages sold in the
county.
| Asks Measure Be Killed.
On March 9, however, Senator
Hyde announced he had asked
THE Senate Judiciary Committee
to kill the measure, in response
to a wave Of opposition from
county civic groups. His action
came a day before a public hear
ing was scheduled in Bethesda.
Five days later, identical bills
sponsored by Mr.. Tawes to elimi-
nate the county'S wholesale beer
monopoly were dropped in the
House and Senate hoppers.
/ Mr.. Erwin, who strongly defends
the present system, said the
boards beer division carries about
'I23 domestic and four foreign
brands.
I'VE even have brands that can
not be bought in Prince Georges
County" he said.
i He explained the board places
the same percentage of markup on
.Ievery brand it sells to retailers,
but it's profit varies with the
brewery price.
] Even Cites Survey.
/ Mr.. Erwin said board survey
of 80 retail outlets in Washington
early this year revealed the price
from the wholesaler to the retailer
on such beers as Schlitz, Pabst
and Blatz averaged 10 to Is cent.
per case higher than the board!
price to county retailers.
On such beers as Gunther ane
Senate, the wholesale price to tn,
retailer was about the same in tht
district as it is in Montgomery
County, he added.
J, And on the retail level, tn,
, price in Montgomery to con.
!. sumers was found to be on pal
with Washington.
4 Opponents of the Montgomery
/ beer monopoly claim many county
/ residents buy their beer in Wash.
; ington because it is cheaper. Mr.
Erwin, however. insisted price j,
. not factor.
: eve feel such a practice exist.
because they work in the Distric
$ and it is more convenient for then
> to buy there" Mr.. Erwin de-
lclared. But, even so, our bust
: ness is increasing"
He maintained that the onl!
way beer consumption could bt
, increased in the county would bt
to increase sharply the number
, OF retail license holders.
I Charges Are Denied.
u On the other side of the fence
-lMr. Raney. who is president O
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Montgomery Parties
Unified on Beer Issue
By J. B. Zotmon

The explosive question whether
Montgomery County shall con-
tinue it's beer monopoly has united
county Democratic and Republic
can leaders against move to
repeal the 10-year-old law.
In addition. the repeal propos-
al of Democratic State Controller
J. Millard Tawes probably has
created more discussion in the
county since the voters scrapped
their commissioner setup in favor
of a charter form of government
three years ago.
Lined up in favor of keeping
the wholesaling of beer under the
Liquor Control Board are the Re-
|publican-controlled County Coun-
|cil, the Democratic State Central
Committee. county Civic Fedora
|tion, Allied Civic Group of Silver
Spring, the Silver Spring Board
of Trade and the county's all
Republican legislative delegation
No Official G. O. P. Stand.
While the Republican State
Central Committee has taken NO
official stand, it's members have
indicated they favor continuation
of the present system, according
Ito Chairman Walter w. Dawson
Monopoly supporters argue Cd
the county would lose an esti-
mated $150,000 annually in beer
profits if private interests take
over, and ~ such a move would
open the way for racketeering.
Those for Mr.. Tawes' plan in
clude the County License Bever-
age Association, comprising about
so of the approximately 15C
holders of retail beer licenses;
Eugene j. c. Raney, former Mont
gomery beer wholesaler who does
a thriving wholesale beer business
in Prince Georges County ano
Roy Coffman, Silver Spring real
estate man who manages Mr.
Raney's properties in Montgomery
County.
Private Enterprise Cited.
They denounce the monopoly
as interfering with private enter
prise and accuse the Liquor
Board of padding its beer profits
lby charging most of its expenses
against the liquor division.
Also, they agree with Mr.
Tawes that elimination of the
monopoly would increase beer
sales and add about $50.000 a veal
to State revenues. Mr.. Tawes says
this would enable the county te
get back more under the Sherbow
lplan of distributing State funds
to the counties than Montgomery
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Myers Succeeds Smith
On Loudoun School Board
snseiul pisnutch TO The stnr

LEESBURG, Va, Mar. 31.-W
T. Smith, chairman of the Lou
doun County School Board for "a
years, has resigned. Douglass
Myers. trustee from the Jefferson
district, has been elected by the
board to succeed Mr.. Smith.
Mr.. Smiths resignation, sub.
mitted in a letter to Supt. o. L
Limerick, was accepted by the
board Thursday. Mr.. Smith gave
no reason.