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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

Saturday night found Congress
sional Country Club literally "bul-
ging at the seams" when hundreds
of Montgomery Countians gathered
to dance at the sixth annual invita-
ton March of Dimes Ball, spon-
sored by the Montgomery County
Council of the American Legion.
Mrs. Samuel f. Bogley of Glen
Road, chairman of the Ball, greeted
the guests as they arrived and Jack
Morton's Orchestra furnished the
tunes.
Mrs. Bogley was ably assisted
in arranging the ball by Mrs. Rob
ert Maddox, Mrs. Joseph P. Kree-
ger, Mrs. Frederick Harding, Mrs.
Emory H. Bogley, Mrs. David
Stauffer, Mrs. William Carroll,
Mrs. King Mularkey, Mrs. Jasper
Moore, Mrs. Frank Ebaugh, Mrs.
Brockett Muir, Mrs. Alvin |. Kay,
and Mrs. Robert Best.
Several parties were held pre-
ceding the ball. DR.. and Mrs. AL
vim |. Kay of River Road were
hosts to a group of friends and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Maddox of
South Van Buren, Street enter
tanned group of fifty guests from
Rockville.
Among the many, many guests
seen enjoying the delightful ball
and there were far too many to
mention-were Mr.. and Mrs. Irving
G. McNayr and Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old L. Packard.
Friday, February 2, has been
designated as march of Dimes
Day in Montgomery County" at
Normandy Farm. Ten percent Of
the dining places total intake for
the day will be donated to infantile
paralysis relief in Montgomery
County. A number of parties have
been planned for the day, with both
Washington and Montgomery
County residents well represented.
1t will be like coming ''home" to
the Edgar Reeds when they return
to Rockville. The Reeds have pur-
chased the Allison Chapins' home
on South Van Buren, Street and
plan to move in around March
first.
The Chapins are planning to
build another home in the near
future, and during the interim will
reside in their former home on
West Montgomery Avenue.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

Rockville. While the cubs will not
attend the meetings, exhibits of
their work will be shown. Will
Stackhouse, Fulton Smith, and Don
Meid are in the charge of the Cub
Scout part of the meeting at The
Rockville Elementary School, and
Carl Binker, Walter Wise, and
Ralph Williams will conduct this
part of the meeting at the East
Rockville Elementary School.
The Fellowship Hall of the Rock
vile Methodist Church was the
scene of reception on Sunday aft
ernoon from three to five when
the Official Board of the Church
were hosts in compliment to the
new members who were received
into the church during the past
year.
Shrove Tuesday, February 6, is
the date of the annual Tea and
Bake Sale of the Altar Guild of
Christ Church. The sale will be
held at the home of Mrs. Stephen
c. Cromwell, POS w. Montgomery
Avenue from 2:30 to $3.50 p. m.
The proceeds will be used to help
defray the many expenses of the
Altar Guild.
Rockville's Civilian Defense Di-
rector, Col. Justice NJ. Chambers, is
due to arrive home this week from
Anchorage, Alaska, where he has
been for several weeks on business.
While there, Colonel Chambers was
confined to the hospital with in
fiuenza. He was scheduled to be
released Monday and fly home,
weather permitting.
A committee of the Rockville
Garden Club met at the Officers
Club, Navy Medical Center, Be-
thesda, last Thursday afternoon to
make plans for a flower mart to
be held in Rockville early in the
spring. Members of the committee
present were Mrs. Gilbert Hartley
president of the club, Mrs. Jenn-
ings Bailey, Mrs. w. Irving Cleve-
land, Mrs. Francis w. Van der
Veer, and Mrs. Carl Frankenfield
Paul c. Bennett of Frederick
Pike will leave the end of the week
for stay in Jacksonville and Day.
tona Beach, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Heidel of
st. Adams, N. Y. are guests this
week of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Myers. Miss Kathleen Heidel, who
graduated on January 20 from The
Mary Lewis Academy in Jamaica
Estates, will enter the University
of Maryland for the mid-winteI
term.
Word has reached us that Master
Sergeant Joseph Cobey of the Medi.
cal Corps, who lives on Agnew
Drive, is now in Yokohama en-
route to his new mission.
Vivian Lesher, niece of Master
Sergeant and Mrs. Joseph Cobey
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LAYTONSVULE
Mrs. J. Thomas HOwes
Gaithersburg 335-J-6

On Saturday, Frederick Priebe,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Priebe
of Unity, and Josephine Strozzi of
Binghampton, N. Y, will be mar
ried in Binghampton. Both are en-
plOyed in the government and af-
ter their marriage they will reside
in Unity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hill and
son Buddy were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. HilPs parents, Mr..
and MrSnWAA. Hill, of Baltimore.
Edwa2 Riordan is on the sick
list this week. Also on the sick
list, but improving after her re-
cent illness is Mrs. Frank Dwyer.
Tuesday luncheon guests of Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Howes was their
daughter, Mrs. Wilton Stevens and
son Jim of Arlington.
The Vestry of st. Bartholomew
Church met after the morning serv-
ices on Sunday and accepted the
resignation of Mrs. Samuel Riggs
as church treasurer. Her son.
Samuel Riggs, ", was elected to
fill her place.
Weekend guests at the Bell home
with Mrs. Ethel B. Taylor and
Mrs. Mary Allnutt were their
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gordon Bell of Alexandria.
Reverend Honeywell preached
his farewell sermon on Sunday at
st. PauPs Church. He came as a
supply preacher for several Sun
days, but remained here for eight
cen Sundays.
One of our oldest residents, Mrs.
Mary Blunt, died at her home.
"Woodburn" on Sunday morning.
She was eighty-three years old.
A second daughter was born on
Saturday, January 20, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Wiley Griffith. The bundle
of joy weighed in at 9 ID. l OF.
when she arrived at Montgomery
County General Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Small III
are enjoying a vacation in Arizona.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darlington Riggs
and infant daughter, Louisa Crit
nth, returned to their home in
Damascus on Saturday after
spending a month with their par
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01
!: POOLESVILLE :
Mrs. w. A. Daniel
Phone PoOLesuille els

Nell Painter whose marriage to
Douglas Dayhoff will take place
on March "a was honored at a
SHOWER" at the home of Mrs.
Cecile Schpster in Bethesda, Sat
urday a0Apon.
The Nfm Bureau Discussion
Group of GAINESVILLE was enter.
tanned at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. j. Chisolm, ii, Wednesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Gutheim
who live at the foot of Sugar Loaf
left by plane on Monday morning
for a months trip to Southern
California.
Fletcher Bernsdorf had a party
on Sunday afternoon to celebrate
his fifth birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield Scott
Marshall of Malta Bend, Mo. are
the happy parents of young SON
Winfield Scott, Jr., born on last
Wednesday. Mrs. Marshall, the
former Carolyn Gray, is the daugh-
ter OF Mrs. u. *. Gray.
The Fellowship Circle met Fri.
day night at the home of Mrs. Ton
Brown with twenty members pre-
sent. Officers of the circle are Mrs.
r. N. hewitt, president; Mrs. Mat
thew Kohlhoss, Secretary Treas.
urer, and Mrs. G.. +. Painter, Cor
responding Secretary. Mrs. Arthur
Elgin will be hostess for the mex
meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Runkles ant
Mrs. Carl White are leaving Sat
urday for a motor trip to Florids
to be gone a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fritts cele
brated their twenty-fifth wedding
anniversary with an elaborate re
ception at their home on Sunday
evening.
Edward Winfield, generally
known as sonny" celebrated his
eighteenth birthday in Washington
on Saturday with an aunt whose
birthday is the same as his.
Jim Quynn of Lynchburg, Va
was u weekend guest of Roger
Williams and family.
Tom Brown was taken to Subur-
ban Hospital on Saturday where
he underwent an appendectomy,
but we are glad to report he is
doing fine and will soon be home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pararas of
Washington and Mrs. C. M. Upton
Of Olney visited at Inverness on
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

who was the finalist in an amateur
talent contest sponsored by a Bal.
timore television station last Sat
urday night. Vivian is planning
to appear on Ted Mack's amateur
contest program in New York in
the near future.
Thomas c. Graft of Hensel, Pa,
is a house guest of his sister, Mrs.
Mary Cronice of Crawford Drive
this week.
Friends of Mrs. Hank" Giauque
gathered at the home of Mrs. Ralph
Beall Tuesday evening to shower
her with gifts for new twig on
the Giauque tree. The guest of
honor received many lovely gifts.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

NEWSPAPERS, Magazines,
junk cars and trucks; scrap steel
and cast iron; auto batteries; house
rags; copper, lead, brass and
aluminium. We pay top dollar. Our
yard located at R.R. Overpass on
E, Middle Lane, rear Rockville
Fuel & Feed Co., Montgomery Iron
e. Metal Co. Phone Rock vile 2055.
N377O
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01
SERVICES -

~FOR HOME LOVERS - A
free Planning Service, to help you
choose Heating Equipment and
Plumbing Fixtures. We sell and
install the complete line of "Ameri-
can-Standard" Equipment. Com
plete service and repairs to Oil
Burners, furnaces, smokepipe,
Suckers, Water Pumps, Roofing,
Cpouting, Sheet Metal Fabrication,
Water Heaters, Dust Filters,
Humidfers, Chimney and Fur
mace cleaning. Easy terms. For
satisfaction, health and comfort
call to-day, Tel. Gaithersburg SOS
or mail postcard to Crockett Broth
ars, Gaithersburg. Md. 1872
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01
REAL ESTATE -

<LOT 75x150 corner Grove
Road and Brown Street, Washing
ton Grove, Md. Also a summer
cottage for sale. See Mayor
McCathran, Ill Maple Avenue,
Washington Grove, Md. Phone
Gaithersburg 29-W. APT
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

EVETERANS SHEETMETAL
Co;-Guttering, flashing, heating
and general repair work. Free esti-
mates: Tel. Rockville 1896 or Oil
YER 2118. 162Q
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- 300 to 400 LOCUST POSTS
wanted for barb wire fence, can
either be round or split; would
like 10 have delivery between now
and April l. w. R. Winslow, Nor
beck, Md. Tel: Rockville 2408;
National 1910. 276
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

- PIANOS! Do you want to
be happy? Then become a close
friend to good piano. will sup
pl" YOUR choice of man. stand.
ard makes" in latest styles. Prices
and service excells all competition.
Fred T. Cunningham, Rockville,
Md. Phone 1918. 257a
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LOST
MISCELLANEOUS

~NOTICE-I will not be respon-
sible for any debts made by any
one else but myself. Fowler w.
Stevens, 22S Great Falls Road,
Rockville, Md. TRlz. Rockville
4l77. - 431
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

~CIDER by Darrell or gallon;
all cider made in new barrels. Sci
bel Orchard, Spencerville, Md. Tel.
Ashton 6543 or Ashton 2118. 144
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

EGENERAL HAULING =
Special rates on car load lots.
Phone Howard Violette, Rockville
2412. 2735
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- WANTED -

FWANT TO BUY small hog
house. Phone Gaithersburg 655-
J-3. 456
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~ WANTED TO BUY - Hor-
ses, Mules and Colts of all kind.
w. o. Dosh, Gaithersburg, Md.
Tel. 40. 1928
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

~RE RIGERA TOR and
WASHING MACHINES - Good
used ones. Wire & Lanier. Tel.
Rockville 1904. 322
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- SERVICES -

wROOFING, GUTTERING &
SCOUTING, any type metal work.
Heating and Air Conditioning SER
vice. Call Wodlawn Refining Co.,
Rockville 3717. 2249
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

IMPAIRMENT WANTED =
Large two-bedroom apartment with
utilities. Prefer 1st floor. Vicinity
Gaithersburg or Washington
Grove. Tel. Gaithersburg 377-M.
45S
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

ESWEET CIDER, APPLES
Varieties as they ripen. Honey and
apple butter. All products sold
direct from our orchard. Open
daily and Sunday. Plainfield Or
chard, W. w. Moore, Sandy Spring,
Md. Tel. Ashton 2471. 294l
til 8. 3349
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

EPUBLIC ACCOUNTANT will
prepare your income tax returns,
keep your books part time, for
reasonable cost to you. Tel. Cal
thersburg 683-J-4. 3O5
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

~TWO ROOM HOUSE on Ira
vilah Road, miles North of Rock
vile, y acre of ground; well and
electricity. Room to build. $1,400.
or best offer. Call Olympic 1878.
41S
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SELL 1T
. FOR SALE -

~SADDLERY - English riding
equipment. Leather repairs. Our
representative Mrs. Alice C. Berry
will be glad to advise. Complete
stock carried. Rockville Supply
Co., Inc, and Potomac Supply Co.
Phone Rockville 1929 Rockville
4116. 400
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

~WANT TO BUY-Stationary
corn shucker shredder. Must be
in good working condition. Write
model, year, number, make and
price to Lemuel Shovel, Brooke
vile, Md. 435
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~LET US DO YOUR RUG
Cleaning, Repairing and Storage
(Oriental and Domestic). Pickup
and delivery service. Free esti-
mates. Call Rockville 4528. 2435
UNDERSTANDING, Alterations.
ladies' or mems wear. ALP Grove
avenue, Washington Grove, Md.
Mrs. F. l.. Wilkerson, Gathers
'urp IS3-R. ASP
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~REFRIGERATOR For Sale,
old but efficient, new enamel,
$4,000. Tel. Gaithersburg 683-J-4.
432
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. SERVICES -

~WASHING AND IRONING.
Can pick up and deliver. Write
Joseph Geesaman, Gaithersburg
Md. 453
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-02-01

EVE PAY THE HIGHEST
prices for junk, iron metals, rags,
auto batteries, furs and hides, etc.
Sell it while it is up. If you can't
deliver it let us pick it up. Write
or phone McGrew's Junk Co., Hunt
ing Hill, tel. Rockville 1924.
1888
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-12-20
FRIEND STOCK YARD
Accident, Maryland

Medium run, prices steady on all
grades
Horses: 300 cwt
Steers good to choice, $500 to
$500 cwt.; medium to good, 3l.00
to 1920 cwt.; fair to medium, 2S.30
to 30l5 cwt.
Heifers: commercial to good beef,
5000 to 1920 cwt.; common to utility,
2100 to 28.25 cwt.
Bulls: commercial bolognas, $500
to 1880 cwt.; common to utility bo-
lognas, 2100 to 2780 cwt.
Cows low cutters and cutters, 20.50
to 24.00 cwt.; Gamers, 100 to POPS
cwt.
Stock calves: 225.OO head.
Veals: no good to choice vealers
available; medium weights, $500 to
5000 cwt.; light weights, $500 to 31.50
cwt.; common, 1875 to 24.50 cwt.
Hogs: good to choice, 1870 to 220
lbs, 1850 to 20.05 cwt.; 140 to ITS
lbs, 1880 to 1900 cwt.; 275 TO 300
lbs. 1850 to 1900 cwt.
Sows: good to choice, 300 lbs. to
400 lbs, $50 to 1875 cwt.
Turkeys: heavyweights, SOC TO 40c
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-12-20
]. w. Ovens, ST., Dies

Joseph William Owens, 81, Of Kitz-
miller and former sheriff of this
county, died la.' thursday night in
Memorial hospital. cum bcrlau d,
where hr underwent an emergency
operation shortly aftcr admittance
the previous Saturday.
MI. Owens, county political figure
and barber i'm kItzmlIIcr, was born
May rs, 1892 at Shaw, W Va, a
SON oil the Iai' Joseph Lindsay ana
EI'zah''' Adams owens ne moved
/" hIlzh'IIef as " chIId ana opened
pafo'T Sh'P th'i' ~ I"-o'
In 1884 he moved to Oakland, scrv-
ing as deputy sheriff. Later he was
elected sheriff ON the Democratic
ticket and served for three years.
In 1871 Mr.. Owens resigned and
went to Baltimore to work in the ship
yards during World War H. He re-
turned to kitzmillcr in l945 and re-
opened his barber business, remaining
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-12-20
Named Health Nurse

Mrs. Helen Vogel, Clarysville, has
been appointed health nurse for the
northern area Of Garrett County with
GIautsvillc as the health center.
She assumed her duties December
10, and will be at the Grantsville
health center every Wednesday morn
ing.
Mrs Nogel is graduate of the AL
lcgauy Hospital School Of Nursing,
Cumberland, and also attended Johns
Hopkins University Nursing school
and the University.
She has worked as a supervisor in
Yuha City hospital, California, and
recently served as obstetrical super
visor at Allcgany hospital
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-12-20
EDW ARD BEACHY

Funeral services tor EuWard j.
Bcachy, -, who died last Saturday,
December 3, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs John kcister, near Grantsville,
were conducted Monday afternoon
from the Winterberg Funeral home,
with Rev Roy Kinsinger officiating.
Burial was in the Folk cemeterN.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-12-20

Kate Beachy and Mrs. Mary Oren-
dorf, Grantsville and number of
niccc- and nepheWs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-12-20

had resided at the Keister residence
the past four years.
Surviving are two sisters, Miss
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-12-20

with Rev. William Trowbridge, pas
tor, officiating. Interment was in
Philos cemetery, Westernport.
Evening star., 1951-05-17
6O-NiIe Winds Reported
In Storm Off Florida
By the Associoted prest

MIAMI, Fla, May ia small
ocean storm containing winds up
to so miles an hour and 30-foot
waves caused warnings to go up
between Fort Pierce, Fla, and
Savannah, Ga, today.
Two steamships reported the
disturbance, and a hurricane
hunter plane left Miami to scout
it.
Grady Norton, chief storm
forecaster at Miami, said there
can be no doubt that a storm has
developed east of Cape Canaveral.
The steamship r. B. Smith first
reported it, and another vessel,
the Fort Mercer, confirmed it"
Mr.. Norton said the disturbance
lis not a tropical storm, but, prob
ably developed out of a frontal
condition which moved out to
sea several days ago.
The storm came month in
advance of the official June 16
opening of the hurricane sea
son."
Evening star., 1951-05-17
Charities Fund Needs
Detailed by 0'Boy|e

The II agencies affiliated with
Catholic Charities here need ad-
ditional funds to meet an increas-
ing need. the Most Rev. Patrick
A. O'Boyle, Archbishop of Wash
Iington, declared last night.
Archbishop O'Boyle spoke at
Carroll Hall at a meeting to en-
phasize the Importance of the
1851 Archbishop's Charity Appeal
this Sunday in all Catholic
churches in the Washington
Archdiocese.
He said the work Of Catholic
Charities was growing steadily.
This has resulted in an increased
financial burden on each agency
which the appeal will help to
remedy. he added.
The Rev. Leo J. Coady, director
of Catholic Charities, said that
the Catholic Charities spends
more than $750,000 year aiding
distressed families here.
Agencies to be helped by the
appeal are Catholic Charities of
Washington, Catholic Charities Of
Prince Georges County. st. AIMS
Infant Home, Catholic Home for
Aged Ladies, House of the Good
Shepherd. Fides Neighborhood
House. Christ Child Settlement
House. Christ Child Farm for
Convalescent Children, st. Jo-
seph's Home and School, st. Vim
cents Home and School, st. Mar
garet Mary House for Aged Ladies
and the st. Vincent de Paul
Summer Camps.
Evening star., 1951-05-17
Tie-Breoker to Act
Lose Zoning Fight

Residents of the Muirkirk md
area lost their fight yesterday tt
block industrial reZoning of prop.
erty there to permit the Minera
Pigments Corp. to build ware.
houses on it.
The Prince Georges County
commissioners granted the appli.
cation, despite claims by the resi-
dents that fumes from the plant
are health menace. N. D. Scowe
company president, said the com.
pany wants to expand its facili.
ties on the land in question tt
remedy any health menace au.
thorities might find.
Evening star., 1951-05-17
District Panel Begins
De|iberating Fate Of
Caldwell in Jury-Fix

A District Court jury began de-
liberating at 12:45 pm. toda,
in the jury-tampering trial o1
Bennie c. Caldwell. 81. owner o.
the now closed Club Bali.
Assistant United States Attor.
neys William Hitz and Joseph A
Sommer presented final argu
jments for the Government. At
torney Henry Lincoln Johnson, jr.
argued for the defense before
Judge Richmond B. Keech.
Trial of Caldwell, who is colored
began last week. He is accused
lin two counts of jury tampering
in connection the gambling trial
Iof William (Snags) Lewis and two
Others last January.
Caldwell has denied the accuse
tionS and said he remembers hi.
whereabouts on the nights the
prosecution charges he went tt
the home of trial juror and te
the home of a member of the jury
panel to offer money.
He was supported in his testi.
tmony by various witnesses, in.
cluding officials of the Nationa
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and officials o.
the Twelfth Street Branch Of tn,
YWCA.
The most damaging prosecution
testimony was that of Robert C
Fraction. who was a member O.
Ethe Lewis Jury panel but was mo-
ION the trial jury. He identified
Caldwell as the man who hac
come to his home and offered
1000 to him to get Information
from the trial jury.
Evening star., 1951-05-17
doctors Seek Cause
|0f Sickness Of 400
AT 7 Military Posts

Army and Air Force medical
authorities today still sought the
cause of sudden illness which
felled more than 400 servicemen
at Fort Meade and Arlington
Farms here yesterday.
Apparently, the source of the
mass stomach ache was food
poisoning, but there was no con-
'nection between the two. Each Is
under separate command and
neither had the same breakfast
menus.
IL Stricken on Train.
Fort Meade's reception center
mess hall had 384 cases of upset
Istomach-95 of them hospitalized.
In addition, a dozen recruits who
had left Meade after breakfast
yesterday morning enroute by
train to Indiantown Gap, Pa,
were stricken. One had to be re-
moved from the train at Philadel-
phia.
At the Air Force installation
in Arlington Farms there were 81
cases, and disqualification was or
dered for about so.
Most of the victims probably
will return to duty today, and
none appeared in serious condi-
ton, authorities said.
Hash for Breakfast.
At Meade the morning meal
consisted of Drowned beef and
potato hash. toast, milk and cof-
Ifee-served cafeterial style in a
combined mess hall able to serve
several thousand men an hour.
Almost 5000 men were fed yes
Iterday's breakfast.
At Arlington Farms in nearby
Virginia. where the Air Force
quarters most of it's Pentagon en-
listed men, the menu consisted Of
dry and hot cereals, fried eggs.
Igrilled ham which had been
canned, toast and butter, grape
fruit segments. rolls and milk.
Evening star., 1951-05-17
Patients Clue Is Checked
In GaI|inqer Fire Alarm

Police today were investigating
Ia report from a Gallinger Hos
lpital patient that a man dressed
like an orderly was "monkeying
around" with a fire box on the
fifth floor yesterday before a false
alarm was turned in.
Battalion Fire Chief Joel r.
Best asked police to make the
investigation.
Chief Best said the patient. a
woman, told him she didn't realize
what the man was doing until the
alarm sounded. At first, the false
alarm was thought to have been
caused by a short circuit, he
added.
Last year there was an epidemic
of false alarms at Gallinger, Chief
Best said. However, the epidemic
died down and yesterdays false
alarm was the first one Ia more
than two months.