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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-05-12

rolets. And in acceleration runs from a
standing start against all corners,
the Motoramic Chevrolet beat all other
low-priced cars-and every hlgh-priced
car except one!
What's behind this blazing perform
ance? A compact honey OF V8 that
only the worlds leading producer Of
valve-in-head engines can build. Chew
rolet's new '"Turbo-Fire VS".
II puts new kind Of Jun in your
drr,ng life. You're IN charge Of I62
hlgh-sputted horsepower - OF n you're
looking for epen more ercttement. he new
Super 1mbo-Fue vs." (opt,onat at
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-05-12
Opens AAA office

Congressman Dewitt S. Hyde
of Maryland will dedicate the
new American Automobile Asso-
citation offices in Silver Spring,
Saturday, May II at II a. m. The
Three-A offices are located at
Ill Fiddler Lane.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-05-12
Chevrolet "TurbO Fire vs.!

This is the engine that's writing
whole new chapter in the book of
automobile performance records. This
is the engine that has stock car timers
doing a double take" at their stop
watches wherever experts gather to
compare the abilities OF the 1855 cars.
For example, in therecent NASCAR'
stock car competition at Daytona
Beach, Florida, Chevrolet literally ran
away from every other car in its class
and raft OF others besides. In the
one-mile straightaway run for low
priced cars, the first two places and
SIX OF the first ten-went TO Chey-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-05-12
Hold Piano Recital

Members of the PTA-sponsor-
ed group piano classes will give
a recital May 16 at 3:45 p. m.
in the all-purpose room of the
Lone Oak school. All interested
parents are invited to attend the
recital which will be under the
direction of Mrs. Donald Hunt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23

tanned that. on many cruises. he
did not even take the yawl with
him.
John Ferguson, jr., Is, of
Bloomfield. N. j., whose father
died in the sinking. confirmed
the shippers story in part but
said the yawl had been used for
propulsion from oxford to Cam
bridge.
The youth said that early Fri
day morning. water was found
in the dining room and that
later it came in the portfolios.
He and his father tried to close
the portfolios but were unable
to find wingnuts to lock all of
them. he said.
Under questioning, Mr.. Meek
ling conceded that some persons
who read his advertisement of
Chesapeake windjammer cruises,
refused to board the ship when
they saw her.
Capt. Kabernagel introduced
in evidence a letter from a New
York attorney dated last Novem-
Der. complaining of the ship as
being unsafe. unseaworthy and
in q most unsanitary condition. ="
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
FILA Suit Attacks
Area Apartments
BY the Associated Press

A District Heights MD apart
Iment development was one of
six throughout the Nation on
which the Federal Housing Ad-
. inistration yesterday announced
elton to take over in a stepped
up drive to recover alleged
"windfall" profits.
The local project was listed as
the District Heights Apartments.
The FILA listed DR.. s. Dewey
Gottlieb as its president.
FILA General Counsel Frank
j. Meistrell said the Government
will use these and similar actions
already instituted as pilot cases
in court to test the legality of
methods used to distribute cor
Iporate funds from FHA-backed
rental projects.
Mr.. Merstrell said the first test
probably will be in Federal Dis
trict Court in Alexandra on Sep
TENDER % when injunction suits
against FILA by Beverly Manor
and Shirley-Duke Apartments
are heard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Russian Woman, at 100,
Joins Daughter Here

A l00-year-old Russian wom-
an has arrived on the shores Of
Lake Bancroft, Fairfax County,
Va. to play with her great
grandson And visit her grand
daughter.
Born in Petrograd. now Lenin-
grad, Mrs. Laguretta Petrou
says she remembers when the
United States paid her country
$7.2 million in 1867 for piece Of
Arctic waste called Alaska.
She left Russia at the time Of
the revolution, and travelled
through most Of Central Europe,
Greece and Turkey.
With her daughter. Mrs,
Alexandra Konstantinoff, she
was living in Turkey when 1t
was decided they would cross the
ocean to see her granddaughter,
Mrs. Dana Adams Schmidt, COL
|Lakeyiew drive, Falls Church.
Mrs. Schmidt, wife Of a. New
York Times reporter. said the
family had feared Mrs. Petrou
would not be able to ny. "But
she loved it." Mrs. Schmidt
said.
Leaving Istanbul by plane. the
two women few TO Rome, where
Mrs. Petrou was hailed as the
Oldest woman ever to fly
there. A stewardess decided she
deserved a cake, and baked her
one. Mrs. Petrou ate her share
Iof it.
Saturday the two arrived in
New York. Mr.. Schmidt was on
hand to meet them, and fly the
last leg Of the trip to Wash
ington,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Monroe Appointee
|PTA President
AT RoIIinqwood

James H. Monroe, former
treasurer of the Rollingwood
Elementary School PTA. last
might was named by the groups
executive board to I'LL the unex-
pired 1856 term as president.
The post was vacated by Robert
T.. Thompson. who resigned Au-
gust s in an indignation dispute.
Also named to office by the
|newly-constituted executive
board were Mrs. Jay Mount, for
|mer membership COMMITTEES
chairman. secretary. and Paul D.
Yeager. treasurer.
Mr.. Thompson was Joined by
eight members Of the executive
board when he submitted his
resignation August 6 after 49,
I55 vote by the PTA repudiated
1.-THE executive boards position
approving the transfer Of 80 Ne
Igro pupils from the Lyttonsville
area, two school districts away
The regular election Of officers
lis scheduled for May. 1855.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Suspect Held on Six Counts
In Robbery of Two Men

An Arlington man was ar
rested on six charges ranging
from armed robbery to . sex
offense after he was arrested
in connection with the robbine
of two men in a i5-hour period
yesterday.
Held in Fairfax County Jail
lis John B. johnson, %. whose
address is listed in the 500 block
of North Oakland street, Ar
lington.
Fairfax County police have
charged him with the armed
robbery of a Fort Belvoir SOL
dier about / am. yesterday.
He also is charged in Fairfax
with felonious assault and a sex
offense in connection with the
second case. which occurred be-
tween $3.50 and 6:45 pm.
Arlington police have charged
johnson with felonious assault
and robbery in connection with
the second incident.
Johnson was accused of rob-
bing Pvt. Raymond c. Brauer
10. after he had given the soldier
a ride from Washington. Ac-
cording to police. johnson drove
the soldier to a gravel pit Oh
Shirley highway at Edsall road
handcuffed him and robbed him
of SIS and a bag of clothing.
Pvt. Brauer quoted the bandit.
who brandished a .45-caliber
automatic. as saying he had q
brain operation two weeks ago.
Patches which he told the sol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23

Idier covered the operation were
fake, police said.
According TO police the second
incident began about 3 80 when
johnson picked up Thomas A.
j. Stramer. 81. Of the 1900 block
Fifteenth place, Chillunl. at a
drugstore on Giebe road In Ar
llington.
Mr.. Stramer told police john
son took him to the Oakland
street address on the pretext Of
showing him some plants. He
told Fairfax police that johnson
forced him into the house at
gunpoint and handcuffed him to
a pole.
| Mr.. Stramer said he was later
taken out Of the house at gun
point and driven to the woods
of Shirley highway in Fairfax
County. He said he was hand
cuffed again. He said that he
managed to get loose about
is pm. and ran to nearby
house.
Fairfax Police Pvts. Anton
Croft and Thomas Brooks
spotted johnson driving Mr.
Stramer's car on Shirley high
way about 10 minutes after po-
lice received a report Of the
1 incident. They and Detectives
Herbert Marcy, who also was
called to the scene, forced john
son OF the road at Duke street
and Shirley highway.
Arlington police said johnson
took q billfold from his second
victim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Radio Operative

Miss Madden said under ques-
tioning that the radio on the
ship was operative and that she
had heard Capt. Meckling put
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Herman 7 ellis Judge
$500 900 Is Gone

RICHMOND, Aug. % R.-
Percy William Herman, con-
victed a little more than a year
ago of making of with more
than $500, 900 in cash and jewels
belonging to his former wife, is
broke.
He made this admission to
Federal Judge Sterling Hutche-
son in letter in which he said
he has no more money to finance
"a fight to have his 8-year prison
sentence set aside.
Herman. in prison at Leaven-
worth, Kans.. is appealing his
conviction for a second time to
the United States Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals. Judge Hutche-
son today granted him the right
to file the appeal without expense
Ito himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Major increase
In Pupils Seen
For Alexandra

A recently completed census
by the Alexandria school adj
ministration indicates that the
city faces big increase in high
school enrolment in the next
few years.
School Supt. T. c. Williams
said that, Of an estimated popu-
iation Of $4,000, the census listed
6.lS8 In the 1-to-1s-year-old
group. or about 81 per cent Of
the total population.
He said the census showed
about 10000 more youngsters
than had been expected by
school officials. The 26,188 fig-
ure was s,247 above the last
school census. taken i've years
ago,
4~bOsO NEOUR
The census showed 1880 in
the 1-to-6 year age group.
Mr.. Williams said this figure does
not indicate the school system
will have much trouble absorb
ing these prospective students
because the 7-to-12-year-old
group. which the 1-to-6ryear-
Iolds will replace. showed about
the same number-9,845.
The 13-to-19-year-old group
totaled 5.S13. He said the 1000
difference between the 7-to-
|12-year and 13-to-l9-year
groups indicates an increased en-
rollment in high school. The
city now has about 1900 high
school students.
Now Building School
The city, however, Is building
la new l.500-pupil high school.
which is expected to be ready
by September, 1856.
The census also showed that
81 per cent Of those between Z
and 10 attended public schools.
private schools or college. Around
80 per cent Of these attend pub
lie schools. OF the remaining
Is per cent,nearly all were 10
lor 10 years old and out of school.
The compulsory school attend
ance law runs to age 16.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23


Mr.. Schmidt met Mrs. Petrou's
granddaughter. Tatiana. In Is
tanbul in 1910 while assigned to
the area as a correspondent.
They were married In Greece.
The whole family went sight
seeing Sunday, with Mrs. Petrou
especially interested In the White
House. Mrs. Konstantinof was
more fascinated by supermarkets.
Finally. Mrs. Schmidt called a
halt to the expedition. She was
exhausted.
Mrs. Petrou. updaunted, went
back to the house to play on the
floor with her great-grandson
Dana A. Schmidt, IT., IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23

out a MAY Day" distress call
but never heard any acknowl-
|edgement Of it.
She said that she had become
tangled in the. ships sails as
the boat capsized and that Capt
Meckling freed her and then
helped her and three others hold
together as they we're swept to-
ward shore.
Miss Madden added that wher
they reached the duck blind from
which they were rescued. the
skipper had lifted each Of the
group into the blind.
IT don't know how he did it.
she said after describing several
hours in the water as the grour
Of five held hands.
The attractive young woman
said that. although there was
confusion on the ship just before
it capsized. she did not hear any.
one yell for help.
Mr.. Meckling. 38-year-olt
captain and part-owner of the
ship. yesterday repeatedly pro.
claimed the sesworthiness of hi!
vessel. The captain told of put.
ting her in dry dock for com.
plete repairs in July. 1854. short.
ly after he purchased the boat
Il can't SWIM" the captain. 6
former Coast Guardsman. said
He added he would never have
shipped on the vessel If he hac
not believed she was safe.
Admits Use Of Yawl
Mr.. Meckling yesterday said
his passengers we're taken aboard
and then paid their fare and be-
gan the actual voyage after the
vessel had been pushed from
dock by the power boat. This re-
lieved the Marvel Of inspection
he said he believed.
He conceded, however, that, or
its last cruise. he used the mo-
torized yawl to leave Annapolis
at Cambridge to brake his ap.
proach to the dock, and on Au.
gust IL, the day the boat went
down.
II used 1t because I thought II
was for the welfare Of the vesse.
and passengers" he said.
The skipper. who said he hac
been sailing since 1886, main.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
negro Student
Transfers Sef
For Discussion

The Prince Georges County
School Board, in a closed ses-
sion last night. agreed to meet
next Tuesday to discuss transfer
applications received from Me-
gro students.
Twenty-one Of the requests
have been submitted to the
board. with the deadline set
for Friday.
Thirteen of the applications
came from Negro students in the
Prince Georges section Of Ia
koma Park who formerly at
tended a recently abandoned
colored elementary school In
Montgomery County. Oficials
did not specify which schools
the Takoma Park pupils want
to attend this fall. but there are
no Negro elementary schools In
that section Of Prince Georges
County.
Four other Negro students re-
quested transfer to Glenn Dale
Elementary School. two to Belts
vile Elementary and two to High
Point High School.
The board. in announcing ar
integration policy earlier this
month. said Negro parents
could write the education office
in Upper Marlboro requesting
transfer Of their children te
other schools. Requests would be
granted unless oyercrowding OF
other legitimate reasons pro-
hibited them, the board said.
School Supt. William s
Schmidt, in answering q question
from Board Chairman Jane,
Harrison, said school tuition fol
students outside the county thi.
year will be $35 for elementary
pupils and $50 for those in high
schools.
Mr.. Harrison said severa
parents told him some out-count,
children had not paid for pas
schooling in Prince Georges be.
fore and were fearful Of having
to do SO this year.
II Just want to know what Law
we're going under" Mr.. Harri.
son said.
We've had the same law fol
"a number Of years." Mr.. Schmidt
replied. This year the STATE
Board OF Education raised ths
rates. and we have to comply.
Il think it's a very reasonable
rate. considering it takes more
than 5000 year to educate .
child" noted Mrs. Louise Yuill
"a board member.
well, I told those parents tt
go ahead and send their chill.
dren to school and, If they're
asked to pay and don't. I DOM
think they'll be thrown out" Mr.
Harrison answered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
BY CHARLES L. HOFFMAN
Star stan Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Aug. 23.-The
shipyard manager where the
schooner Levin j. Marvel was
drydocked for caulking and re-
pairs last summer. today said
that he would not have wanted
to risk a trip on her.
he testimony was given before
o Coast Guard Marine Board Of
Inquiry delving into the sinking
of the vessel on August IL. which
claimed the lives Of IA Of the
% passengers aboard.
Il don't believe would have
cared to have gone out in her,
Elias Bartholow, jr.. shipyard
manager for the Booz Bros. yard
here said.
In fair weather she would
have been fine. I wouldn't like
to be out on the bay aboard her
in bad weather." Mr.. Bartholow
said.
Temporary Job
The shipyard manager said
that the $500 worth Of repairs
on the vessel was considered by
him to have been a temporary
job that could have gotten the
ship through the remainder Of
the 1854 season. Under oues-
tioring he added that the ship
should have been drydocked in
1855. Previous testimony has
indicated she has not been taken
out Of the water this year.
Mr.. Bartholow said the gen.
eraI condition Of the underwater
body of the vessel wasn't too
good but it wasn't beyond
repair" He added the frames
were pretty sound although some
of the planking was eaten away
from the inside.
Mr.. Bartholomew said that the
Marvel, q wooden hull vessel,
would never have been passed
by Insurance inspectors to carry
heavy freight cargo but added
under questioning from counsel
for the ships skipper, John H.
Meekling. that she could be
passed for passenger service.
1t. Comdr. B. H. Harris, 4700
Massachusetts avenue NV, as
signed to the Coast Guard Safety
Division in Washington. said
that he and another officer made
q visual unofficial inspection OF
the ship last September S in
Annapolis.
Badly in Need Of Repair
He said his impression at the
time was that "she was badly In
need Of repairs in an I'M
kempt condition looked like
she was in a deteriorated condi-
ton throughout"
Il personally would never have
sailed on her as a passenger,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Schooner: Needed Repair.
Two Testify at Inquiry

Comdr. Harris said. He added
that If he had had to pass on
her for passenger service. he
would have rejected the ship.
After sharp cross examination
by William J.. McWilliams, Mr..
Meckling's attorney. as to how
the commander could determine
the soundness of a piece of wood
by visual inspection. Capt. H. c,
Moore, USCG, chairman Of the
inquiry board, noted that the
commanders testimony would be
taken only for what 1t is worth
which as a matter of fact is
very little" since he had not
made an official inspection.
Charles j. Savoy, 29-year-old
colored steward aboard the cruise
ship, told the board the schooner
was short three crewmen on its
last trip. It usually had fouI
deckhands, he said, but only one
was on board at the time Of the
disaster.
Miss Nancy Madden. 20, Of
1900 Connecticut avenue NV
testified that the 64-year-old
vessel was propelled consider
ably" during the five-day cruise
by a motorized yawl.
Power Is Issue
The big question today re-
manned whether the three-mas-
ter was actually a sailing vessel
or depended on the yawl for lis
major source of power. That
appeared the issue despite an as
|sertion from Capt. E. II. Ihiele,
'USCG. a member Of the board
that it was not.
Capt. Thiel's implication came
after William j. McWiiliams, at
torney for John II. Afeckliug
the skipper of the vessel, asked
that there be inserted in the
record part of a letter sent tc
he marine inspection officer n
Baltimore last October IL.
The letter to Capt. A. w
KabeInagel from his 81 periors
directed that MFR. Meckling be
advised that as lfng as the Jaw
was not used as major source
of power and was used primaril,
for docking and unlocking, The
ship would be considered a sail
ing yessel and not subject II
| Coast Guard inspection.
! Nevertheless the board Of in.
quiry continued to cite the USE
of the yawl and heard Mis-.
Madden say that 1t was usec
on the trip from Poplar Island tt
oxford, from oxford to Cam
bridge, and on other days during
the cruise.
Radio Operative
Miss Madden said under ques-
tioning that the radio on the
ship was operative and that she
had heard Capt. Meckling put
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Virginia Draft Quote

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. % Up
State Selective Service head
quarters announced yesterday
Virginia has been assigned its
lowest military draft quota for
October since it drafted l4l men
in April. The october quota Is
ll49.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Swiss Dairy Exports

BERN.-Switzerland's 1854 ex-
port trade in dairy products in
creased is per cent over the year
before: import trade dropped SO
per cent.
Arizona sun., 1955-06-03
BLUEFTELD STATE COLLEGE,
Bluefield, w. Va:

Dean G. w. Whiting, in an
nouncing the summer courses for
this season, emphasized that
courses offered had been selected
by the persons who have indicated
the need of them" By means of a
QUESTIONABLE to many in-service
teachers of the area, the regular
session students and persons who
see personal Improvement, the col
lege was better able to select the
more desirable areas for the sum-
mer curriculum. The session will
begin June 13 and will last nine
weeks
Included in the schedule is a
workshop on Testing in the Public
Schools, which will deal with the
selection, administration and inter-
probation of results of tests in the
schools. Another workshop which
promises to be very popular is the
Parent-Teacher Workshop which
will be offered for one week, July
Arizona sun., 1955-06-03
Education
Notes
VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE,
Petersburg, Virginia:

Il OVCASuuA 81 VII bhih"'
Virginia State College this week
announced its Choral and Instru-
mental Workshop, scheduled for
July 5 through August II, for
adults, with it's Music Institute for
High School Students set for July
10 through August II.
The Workshop is designed to
help teachers, through demonsta-
ton of techniques in instrumental
and vocal instruction; and to as
sist the performer through indivi-
dual instruction. The Institute for
High School Students is a "pre-
paratory experience for students
who plan to major in music on the
college level. It also offers oppor-
tunity for an enriched musical
experience for students who enjoy
music as an avocation.
Arizona sun., 1955-06-03
Share Your Wisdom
BY DIR. THOMAS II. GAINES

NEW YORK, (GlobaD .-Secur-
ity is never found in fearsomeness
or worry. Such activities waste
your most precious asset, time, and
delay your entrance upward into
the consciousness of security. Time
is life's gift to you. Cosmic wisdom
should be your gift to yourself.
Wisdom-spent hours, day in and
day out, are certain to react in the
glory Of a protected, secure life.
The most intelligence you intro
duce into your operation of daily
living, the more inspiring and re-
warding your life becomes.
Arizona sun., 1955-06-03
CHARM
BY LOU LuTOUR

NEW YORK (GobaD-Plan your
time, always allowing ample meas
ure to do all the things you must
take care of in the morning. If
you do not wake up easily, use an
alarm clock. Give yourself enough
margin for arising slowly, cat
like, and for meditation and pray
er. This gives the proper mind and
heart set for the day ahead. A
week or two of this kind of plan
ming will be sufficient to prove its
Arizona sun., 1955-06-03

1928. The college plans to us
outstanding authorities in the area
of parent-teacher work to coordi-
nate this unit. The Driver Educa-
ten Course, July 25-August 5, will
be offered to teachers of driver
education courses as a refresher
course.
Arizona sun., 1955-06-03

Wondering how to remove that
blank, uninteresting, stare from
your fence or patio screen? A
little niche like this set into the
fence the depth Of board,
makes a charming display shelf
for pOtted plants and garden
sculpture. Flowers and shrubs
are particularly enhanced by a
fence background or natural or
stained western red cedar or
Douglas fir, and even inexpen-
sive grades of these woods resist
weather admirably and blend
beautifully with your landscap-
ing.
Arizona sun., 1955-06-03

August 19. The Summer Session is
an integral part of the college pro-
gram and is administered by regu-
lar faculty members and visiting
professors who offer courses and
workshops designed primarily to
meet the needs and interests Of
students and inservice teachers.
The courses provided in the
Summer Session are equivalent in.
quality and content to those given
during the regular school year, and
the credit earned and the time
spent in them may be applied to-.
ward meeting requirements for.
graduation. ).
The Pre- College Summer Session.
is six-week program which places
emphasis upon solving the fresh
mans problems as he seeks to.
make the adjustment from High.
School to college,.
A Demonstration School, includ-
ing elementary grades 1-6, will be
operated each morning, Monday
through Friday, during the six,
week term in order to provide
prospective and in-service elemer--
tary school teachers with an op-
portunity for observation and prac-
tice teaching.