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Evening star., 1952-09-19
'Snuffy' Smith Denies
He Had Met Woman
Before Rescue al WV

A Congressional Medal of Honor
winner denied fatty in Municipal
Court yesterday that he had ever
met a 21-year-old mother before
the rescue she says she helped him
plan.
Maynard H. (Snuffy) Smith, Al,
an Air Force hero, and Roland M.
Bennett. 26, of 1888 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV, are standing
trial on two counts each of caus-
ing a false report to be made in
the rescue of the woman from a
sixth-floor ledge at the YWCA.
Mrs. Ernestine Lucille Whomble,
Of 4002 D street Sc. has testified
she helped the two plan the affair.
During the second day Of trial
yesterday, Smith, who lives at 416
Leonard drive, Falls Church, said !:
II had never seen this person
before in my life"
Contradicts Woman's Sister.
His testimony contradicted
sharply that of Mrs. Whomble's S
sister. Norma Lee Kearns. II, of
1924 Kenilworth avenue NE. She
backed Mrs. Whomble's statement
that Smith had visited the Whom
BILE home with Bennett on July
29. two days before the rescue
took place.
Miss Kearns, who said she was
visiting her sister at the time.
told Judge Frank H. Myers that
Bennett came to the Whomble
apartment with Smith and asked
her sister:
do you want to be famous?"
When her sister asked Bennett
how. Miss Kearns continued, he
introduced Smith as Medal of
Honor man, instead of answering
the question. Miss Kearns said
the rest of the conversation was
conducted in the kitchen out of
her earShot.
Mrs. Whomble's husband, Dali
las D. Whomble, told the court
Bennett came to see him at home
the day following the event and
gave him Mrs. Whomble's cos
meticS kit.
Reason Explained. He Says.
When he learned that Mr..
Whomble knew what had hap
pened, Bennett explained the rea-
son for the hoax. Mr.. Whomble
testified. Bennett told him the
rescue was planned to get pub
licity for the war hero because he
wanted to run for the governor
ship of Virginia and that Ben
nett's role was to be that of "the
man behind the man." Mr..
Whomble added.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Clark F. King asked Smith, when
he took the stand. if he had any
political aspirations. Smith said
he had none.
isn't it a fact that you at
tended national political con-
vention?" Mr.. King asked. Smith
admitted that he had done so at
the invitation of Tex McCrary and
Jinx Falkenberg. Then he added,
as a sort of afterthought:
"I am interested to see the
Democratic Party removed as q
whole"
Evening star., 1952-09-19

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"AFTER A HARD STRUGGLE
WE GOT TO SEA"

to the law:
"Section THAT the Secretary
of the Treasury is hereby direct
ed to cause to he prepared medals
of honor, with suitable devices, to
be distinguished as lifesaving
medals of the first and second
class, which shall be bestowed
upon any persons who shall here
after endanger their own lives in
saving, or endeavoring to save
lives from the perils of the sea-"
Highest Honor
Afterward the statute was
amended at various times. 1t was,
to be sure, the highest honor that
could be paid by the Government
of the United States, except in
times of actual war and there
were many who coveted it, for
themselves or for their constitu-
ents. The basis of award was
broadened until it dwindled in pub
lie esteem, to include people who
might pull other people out of re-
mote inland ponds where they
might be drowning. Under these
''liberalized" conditions it was
awarded 1864 times but essenti-
ally it has remained and is now
esteemed as a prerogative of the
U. S. Coast Guard.
But in the decade after it was
established it was still sparingly
bestowed and highly esteemed and
it's awarding held in the reverence
that the award of Congressional
Medal for Valor now holds. And
that comes back to the mid-80's
when the life-saving station on
Cape Hatteras was but newly
established. The first entry on
the Property Book is dated June
IL, 1888, and records the issue of
the Log and the Property Books
on the first line. Line reads:
Zone lead pencil"
Captain Daley was appointed
keeper and he had a crew of eight
men, plus a hired cook. His month
ly wage was $40 and his surfmen
numbered according to rank, drew
$50. 1t is not recorded in the book
when the Station acquired a surf
boat but two weeks after the Sta
! ton was commissioned Captain
Daley set down acknowledgment
of custody of Marine Glass, ira
ditionally the property of the Life
saving or allied services since the
War of 1912.
This phase of the narrative may
as we'll begin with the glass. The
log shows that at 2:3O p. m. De-
cember 81, 1884. No. 4 Surfman
John Howard Midget was on look
out in the tower. Dimly through
the mist and spume above the In
ner Diamonds he saw the outlines
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Daley, for instance, was descend
ed from an English schoolmaster
shipwrecked here a century and a
half ago. He himself, as his grave
stone shows with his medal) was
born in 1874, and was just 40
years old when he denied the sea
it's own off Big Kinnakeet in 1884.
They are all descended from peo-
pie who were cast ashore here
and stayed here.
Since the award was instituted
by the Congress 70 years ago it
has been bestowed, for the rescue
of men imperiled by shipwreck,
a total of 40 times in North Caro-
lima, every instance occurring
within the area swept by the beam
of the Great Light on Cape Hat
teras. Ranging from Chicamicom-
leo on the north to Ocracoke on
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of a sailing ship, above seven
miles away. This he saw with his
naked eye. He trained the five-foot
glass on the ship. 1t was-and
still is-a very powerful glass and
at a distance of seven miles, in
clear weather, it could tell whether
man had shaved that morning.
Mostly seafaring men as well as
surfmen wore whiskers in that
day.
Study Ship
Number Four called the Keeper
and they took turns studying the
ship. At first glance she seemed
to be scudding before the wind,
which was southeast and blowing
at As miles. Neither in his log nor
in his formal report does Captain
Daley go into detail about the
weather, but his grandson, B. B.
Daley, veteran observer at Hat
teras Weather Station, has dug
back into the records, and weather
details mentioned hereafter are
from his findings for the three
days involved.
Closer examination disclosed
that the ship was in trouble. She
had an anchor out, but she was
dragging through the Outer Slew,
which is a passage of sorts be-
tween the Inner and Outer Dia-
monds. Later Captain Daley learn
ed that the ship met trouble two
nights before Is miles south east,
and by the time she got to the
Graveyard she was doomed. Dark
ness fell but the wind held and
Daley could only wonder what was
happening to the distressed boat.
Nothing could be done about an
offshore rescue in darkness, since
the object was still moving. So
Daley did the only other thing
he could. He assembled his crew,
got out thir equipment and moved
over to the beach, about half mile
eastward from the Static n.
Throughout the night they patrol
led the beach, peering into the
darkness, listening for any SOUND
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the southwest. Two awards were
made to surviving crewmen of the
ill-starred Huron and silver med
ais were awarded for drowning
rescues by individuals in Curri-
tuck Sound in 1877 and twice on
boathock, insignia of the older
Mays Head beaches since the late
war.
Capt. Baxter Miller, who died
four years ago, was the only man
to win both the Gold and Silver
awards and in the case of the late
Surfman Baxter Jennett, was the
only time when both father and
son achieved the distinction. He
was a son of the Isaac Jennett
who won the Gold medal along
with Captain Daley. Geography
had nothing to do with the awards
but a great deal to do with the oc-
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from distressed lnen at sea.
Sea ROugher

from distressed lner at sea.
Sea ROugher
By dawn the core of the gale
had moved out to sea. The wind
veered but, as generally happens,
the sea was even rougher after
the storm than during the actual
blow. Mountainous seas piled up
on the beach and the rains fell.
inspectors afterward calculated
that on the Beaufort Scale there
was a No. Z sea running which is
the equivilant of 70-mile wind,
roughly. No. 8 is about as high
sea as, the books approve for
launching a surfboat).
The winds moved around, clock
wise, moderating. The temperature
dropped to the low 30's and climb
ed. At the time the boat was
launched, it was up to SO degrees.
By dawn's light the crew sighted
the bark, still dragging, now fly
ing distress signals five miles off
shore. Captain Daley secured
three horses and hitched them to
the boat wagon" Thus they went
north until at 10 o'clock the crew,
with boat, was abreast Big Kinna-
keet station "a mile south of the
present village of AVON and
abreast the wreck.
But let Captain Daley, in his
terse fashion, tell his own story
for a couple of paragraphs:
"Top tide, sea running high, it
seemed impossible to get to sea.
But seeing no one else making any
effort to save crew (this was, it
is as we'll to remember, in the
territory of the next station to the
north whose crew was also pres
ent. Ed After waiting 80 min
utes l ordered my boat off the
carriage. l told the men to strip
themselves for the sea. My No. l
man came to me and said his wife
was dying at home and wanted him
to come home. l asked Capt. P. H.
Etheridge, keeper of Creed's Hill
station if he would go with me.
He said yes.
Got to Sea
II put the boat in after a hard
struggle. We got to sea. We board
ed or at least went near the bark
after some time of hard work we
got the crew off in our boat. We
made for the shore. After coming
through a heavy sea, we landed
all right"
There they are - fifty-three
words--and the story. But now a
paragraph from the hundreds of
paragraphs set down in the off
cial report entered in the annals
of the Lifesaving Service:
Between the vessel and the
shore ragged the heaviest and most
dangerous surf that had rolled
upon this shore for many a year.
The Station crew crossed the inner
breaker, immense in itself, without
mishap. Then came the far more
hazardous undertaking, the pas
sage of the outer breaker .
Keeper Daley held his boat and
when the breaker suddenly tun1b-
led his crew gave way with a
strong pull and the boat gained,
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the open sea The inside of the
boat could be seen many times
from the shore while making its
way to the wrecked bark The
survivors, who were wet, cold and
hungry were then conducted to the
station where they were provided
with food and dry clothing"
Meticulous Captain Daley re-
cords on the expenditures" side of
his Property Book for that day
two quarts rye whiskey," and
Mrs. John Howard Midget, now in
her Goth year, widow of the man
who first sighted the distressed
vessel writes, in letter, that her
then young husbands hands were
so blistered that he was unable to
feed himself for a week, and his
buttocks so blistered that he was
unable to sit for an even longer
period.
During June of the following
year the medals, all of them of the
first (gold) class, were awarded
by the Secretary of the Treasury,
with the approval of Congress.
Not one of them, insofar as l have
been able to determine, is extant
today in possession of its rightful
descendants. Of the Daley award
no trace has been found definitely,
but it may be in possession of
some wide-scattered unit of his
family.
They Say You Go
The awards to Capt. P. H. Eth
eridge Che was the one who said,
later "the regulations don't say a
damned word about coming back
they say you go.") was stolen
by an itererent fisherman who
sought shelter at his station. ANA
lex Thomas Gray's medal was lost
insofar as can be determined. Mid
gett's medal was stolen at the
same time the fisherman got the
Etheridge award, and the Charles
Fulcher award is lost.
But though the medals are miss
ing, every one of the recipients
has grandsons, great-grandsons
and great-great grandsons in the
service. Dailey's great-grandsons
number five in the service. Gray
has two great-garndsons, one an
instructor and one a student at
Groton. Jennett has a great-grand-
son at Cape Hatteras and another
at Little Kinnakeet. Fulcher's
grandson is about to become the
youngest chief petty officer in the
Coast Guard. Midgett's grandson
is Officer in Charge at Cape Look
out.
For these and the generations
before them the sea is a sort of
mother, and is their heritage also.
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| Here, arranged chronologlcally
is the complete roster of the proud
company of men who thought, not
of their own safety, but of the
danger of their fellow men:
The Gold Medal
For the rescue of the nine mem
bers of the bark Ephraim Will
liams five miles offshore at Big
Kinnakeet station on December %,
1884:
BENZ. B. Daley, keeper, Cape
Hatteras.
Pat H. Etheridge, keeper,
Creed's Hill.
Isaac L. Jennette, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
Amalek T. Gray, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
John H. Midget, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
Jabez B. Jennett ,surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
Charles E. Fulcner, surfman,
Cape Hatteras.
For the rescue of nine members
of the crew of the schooner Pris-
ellie breaking up miles south of
Gull Shoals Station, the recipient
being alone on horseback and the
time urgent, riding his mount
through the surf 10 times, bring
ing back a man under his arm
each time, August Is, 1889:
Rasmus L. Midget, surfman,
Gull Shoals.
For the rescue Of seven members
of the crew of the schooner Sarah
j. D. Dawson southeast of Ocra-
coke Inlet on February 8, 1905,
an operation of great hazard that
kept the rescue crew at sea for
% hours:
w. H. Gaskill, keeper, lookout
Shoals. .....
Kilby Guthrie, surfman.
Walter M. Yoemans, surfman.
Tyre Moore, surfman.
Joseph L. Lewis, surfman.
John A. Guthrie, surfman.
James w. Fulcher, surfman.
John E. Kirkman, surfman.
Calput 7. Jarvis, surfman.
For the rescue of the entire
crew of IS men from the German
steamer Brewster, foundered on
the Outer Diamonds off Cape Hat
teras November %, 1909. (Silver
medals were awarded as noted be-
low and medals and grants of
money were made the entire crew
by the Imperial German govern
ment.)
E. H. Peele, keeper, Creed's Hill.
Baxter B. Miller, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
For the rescue of the crew of
the British tanker Mirlo off Chi
camicomico August 16, 1913;
John Allen Midget, bos'n (L),
Chicamicomico.
Zion S. Midget, BM1c (L), Chi
icamicomico.
Arthur V. Midget, surfman,
Chicamicomico.
Prochorus L. O'Neal, surfman,
Chicamicomico.
Leroy S. Midget, surfman, Chi
camicomico.
Clarence E. Midget ,surfman,
Chicamicomico.
The Silver Medal
For their participation in the
rescue of the crew of the Brew
ster (see above), silver medals
were awarded to:
H. S. Miller, surfman, Cape Hat
teras.
D. E .Fulcher, surfman, Creed's
Hill.
o. o. Midget, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
l. L. Jennett, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
U. o. Gaskins, surfman, Creed's
Hill.
E. j. Midget, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
U. B. Williams, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
w. L. Barnett, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
W. H. Austin, surfman, Creed's
Hill.
For the rescue of John H. Dali
ley (son or Captain B. B. Dailey)
when swept overheard during
heavy weather June Is, 1911:
Baxter B Miller, surfman, Cape
Hatteras.
For the rescue of the five mem
bers of the crew of the trawler
Anna May sunk on Diamond Shoals
December 9, 1881:
B. B. Balance, hos'n (L), Cape
Hatteras.
John B. Austin, bos'n (L), Big
Kinnakeet.
Monroe Gilliken, BMC (L),
Creed's Hill.
James M. Ketcham, BMC (L),
Cape Hatteras.
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-10-15
Bodley Bull PAGES Prices
At Great Falls Sale

view of market conditions and one
of the better ones this year, was
well below the $1,000 average on 81
bulls at the associations 1852 spring
sale and the $9O7 average on AZ bulls
at the same sale last fall.
Broesder followed his purchase Of
the grand champion bull by buying
BHR Princeps "a. from Becker
Hereford Ranch, Wilsall, at $1,250.
Becker Herefords, with a 81, 100 av-
erage on two bulls, recorded the
second-high average of the sale.
Bodley topped the consignors with
a SLABS average on two. Behind
these two breeders came Savik &
Larson, $1,000 on two bulls; E. w.
Thompson, S925 on two: Nick
Vlinker, Choteau, $s17 on two, and
Roy L. Milxkelsen, Eden, $915 on
two.
Other top sales included a bull
from Vlinker to William ]. Boadle,
Stockett, at $1,01O; one from Savik
& Larson to George c. Reed, Lloyd,
at $1,000; one from Mikkelsen to
Cyril Konesky, Stockett, at $1,000;
one from Becker Hereford Ranch to
Staunton Ranch Co., Cascade, at
$3.50, and one from Ray c. Ramberg,
Chinook, to Bob Gordon, Great Falls,
at 5000. Gordon, the Staunton
ranch and Colby Sheep CO., Great
Falls, each purchased four or more
bulls at the sale.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-10-15

BEAU HELM seth, a WHR
Helmsman 42nd-sired bull from the
herd of E. H. Bodley. Hobson, topped
the 29th sale sponsored by the North
Montana Hereford Breeders associa-
ton in Great Falls Oct 9, selling at
$1,575. Henry Broesder, Conrad,
bought the young bull which had
been named show champion by
Judge Taylor McNiven, Livingston,
the day before.
Another Bodley- bred bull, B. Dom
Lad CA, maintained Bodley's high
average at this sale by selling at
1,275, second high of the day. He
was purchased by j. l. Bair, White
Sulphur Springs, who also took
home the shows reserve champion,
Actor Domino 23rd, consigned by
E. w. Thompson, Cascade, at 1880.
Bair added a bull from Savil &
Larson, Bynum, at $1,000 and the
lone Sim & Schock. Highwood, entry
at $985 to rank as the sales top
buyer
In all, eight of the AS bulls sold by
Auctioneer H B. Sager hit or
bettered the 81 1,0OO-mark as the sale
crossed $29, $40 for its "a consignors.
The S665 average, respectable in
Evening star., 1952-03-03
Postgraduate Denial Clinic
Expected 10 Draw 1000

About 1000 dentists and dental
Itechnicians are expected to at
tend the District Dental Society's
annual postgraduate clinic, which
begins a four-day session at the
Hotel Shoreham hext Sunday.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
director Of Selective service, will
be guest speaker at an opening
breakfast at $3.50 am. Sunday. A
party for children of attending
dentists will be held at 2::30 pm,
followed at 3 pm. by a reception
given by DR.. John A. O'Keefe,
president of the District society.
Former Gov. Harold G. Hoffman
Of New Jersey will speak at a
luncheon at 1890 pm. Monday.
The main scientific sessions of
the meeting will begin Monday
afternoon.
During the meeting there will
be 10 table clinics and seven lee
lures by outstanding men in den-
Itistry.
DR.. ]. Garrett Riley is general
chairman of the clinic. He will be
assisted by Drs. 2. Bernard Lloyd,
Bruno G. Floria and Paul I. Bau-
man.
Evening star., 1952-03-03
Senators 10 Discuss
Irederal Integrity on
Philadelphia Forum
BY the Assoeioied Press

PHILADELPHIA. Mar. 3.-A
panel discussion among Senator
Kefauver, Democrat, of Tennessee,
presidential aspirant, two Republi-
can Senators and a Democratic
senator will highlight tonight's
opening session Of the two-day
sixth annual Philadelphia Bulletin
forum.
Almost so speakers from all
walks of life will participate in
three sessions hinged on the gen.
eral theme "Year Of Decision. !"
Parts Of the forum will be broad
cast and televised nationally to-
night and tomorrow afternoon and
evening.
Participating with Senator Ke-
fauver viii be Senator Margaret
Chase Smith, Republican, of
Maine, Senator Moody, Democrat,
Of Michigan, and Senator Cain,
Republican, Of Washington. The
topic is: How Can We Get In
tegrity in Government"
Moderator will be Dwight Cooke,
public affairs analyst and chair
man Of discussion broadcasts for
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn.
After a welcome address by
Robert Mclean, president Of the
Bulletin Co., publishers Of the
and Sunday Bulletin, JUS
tice Douglas Of the Supreme Court
will deliver the keynote address.
Other nationally known figures
20 appear at forum sessions in
clude Charles E. Wilson, director
Of defense mobilization: 1t. Gen.
Lauris Norstad, commander in
chief, United States Air Forces in
Europe; w. Averell Hartman, di-
rector Of mutual security; Asa
S. Bushnell, commissioner Of the
Eastern College Athletic Confer
ence; Actor Robert Montgomery:
Paul G. Hoffman. Ford Founda-
ton director; Thomas L. Stokes
and Marquis w. Childs. syndicated
Washington columnists. and Sena-
tors Bridges, Republican. Of New
Hampshire; O,Mahoney. Demo-
crat. Of Wyoming. and Duff, Re-
of PENNSYLVANIA.
Evening star., 1952-03-03
Woodmont to Heur Hous

c. Glenn Haas, assistant super
|intendent Of Arlington County
schools. will address the Wood
mont Elementary School Parent
Teacher Association at 8 o'clock
tonight atxtlle school, 2422 North
Fillmore street.
Evening star., 1952-03-03
General Electric Shows
Improved TVTubes
By the Assoeiatsd Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 3.-The Gen
eral Electric Co. today displayed
two new tubes designed for ultra
|high-frequency television.
One-a receiving tube-~is known
as a radio frequency amplifier.
which the company says will OPP
crate both in present frequencies
and the new ultra high frequen-
cieS.
The other--a 1-kilowatt trans
mitting tube-employs a. forced
air cooling system. Previous tubes
developed for ultra high frequency
transmission have used water
cooling systems.
The tubes were exhibited at the
national convention of the InSti-
tute of Radio Engineers.