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U. S. Expects Chinese
To Free % Promptly

lens Of trade. Fornosa, Korea.
the United Nations and the like.
These negotiations. it is un-
derstood here. viii proceed only
IL the Chinese make good on
their pledge to release the Amer
leans. Ofncials said this Gov
|ernment certainly would not
move toward agreement on any
other matter so long as United
States citizens remain in danger
of being held hostage.
Mr.. Suydam was at pains Il
establish several points In his
talk with newsmen about the
Geneva announcement including
the following:
/. United States willingness to
let any Chinese go to Red China
who wishes to do so does moi
represent q new American policy
or concession. Mr.. Suydam In
sisted the United States has con-
sistently recognized this prin-
ciple.
2. The Geneva accord does not
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solution of Frances North Afri-
can problem.
II my Monday there is no sign
of weakening by Ben Arafa most
observers on the spot predict
trouble. II that trouble gets out
of hand. all the present agree
ments and bright promises may
be blown sky high and prospects
for peace in North Africa win be
DINNER than ever.
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other countries that now with
hold diplomatic relations.
The United States is obviously
moving toward some adjustment
of its policies regarding recogni-
ton and United Nations MEM
bership for Red China. This gov
eminent now recognizes the ma
tionalist regime Of Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek and upholds
Gen. Chiang's right to speak for
China in the q. N.
Great Britain and many Of
this country's other allies. how
ever, recognize the Red Peiping
government and Washington Of
ficials say privately this issue
win have to be faced squarely
In the now practicable future.
The Reds at Geneva presuma-
bly, viii now seek to proceed to
negotiations over "other mat
tiers" in which they are inter-
ested. These might include prob
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also attended the School Of ORR
entail Language and Culture 10
IPeiping before beginning his
ministry at Tsingtao.
Robert Ezra Mccain Of Alta
dena, Calf. was . businessman
lin China for more than % years.
He was In the automobile busi-
mess when the Reds jailed him
in June, 1851.
During World War II Mr.. Nc
Cam was arrested by the Japa-
nese and imprisoned briefly. A
graduate Of Pomona College, he
has a wife. Flora, who now lives
In Altadena. He also has o son
and two married daughters.
The Rev. Charles J. Mccarthy
43, was teaching theology In
China when the Reds arrested
him.
Little has been heard about
him. but q French bishop re-
leased last year said he hat
seen Father Mccarthy In Shapg.
hats Ward Road Jail and thai
he seemed to be Gin fair health.
Born In Modesto, Calf, he at.
tended st. Ignatius High Schoo
in San Francisco before entering
seminary,
Miss Harriet Mills, IS, o pris-
oner since July 1851. was reared
in China where her parents were
Presbyterian missionaries. She
graduated from wellesley Col
llege and took her masters degree
lat Columbia in Chinese studies
She returned to China In 1947
to pursue her doctorate al
Peiping University.
Her parents are Mr.. and Mrs
wv. Plunner Mills of New York
Her father Is retired, but hel
mother still works for the Pres.
lbyterian Foreign Missions Board
in New York City.
The Rev. Joseph Mccormack
So. Is q Roman Catholic mission.
larry who was born in Ireland and
has spent most Of his mission
life in China. He Is one Of the
Maryknoll Fathers who have
headquarters near Ossining, N. Y
Jailed by the Japanese II
Manchuria In 194l. Father Nc.
Cormack was repatriated to his
adopted country, the Unitet
States. He was sent to Chile bu
returned to Asia after the war
He went to South China wher
the Communists took over Man.
churia in 1913 and was arrested
in Shanghai on espionag,
charges in June, 1858.
Father McCormack's relative.
include q brother. Edward, Of
Detroit. and q sister-in law, Mrs
William Mccormack, New Yorl
City.
The Rev. Thomas Phillips, 81
q Jesuit priest from San Fran.
cisco. was arrested on SPY
charges in 1851 and sentenced tt
life imprisonment.
Born In Butte, Mont, he went
to China in 1928 and served \.
rector Of st. Ignatius College ir
Shanghai.
Bishop Ambrose Pinger, So
had been a Roman Catholic
missionary in China for more
than 20 years when the Com.
munists arrested him. repeatedly
In Tsingtao in 1851.
For q while he was kept under
house arrest then later he was
repeatedly sent to prison.
His family in Lindsay, Nebr.
said they have received only one
letter from him since his i'm
prisonment.
The Rev. Armand Proulx. 80
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. Jesuit priest Of Lowell. Mass.
was arrested In june. 1853. while
serving In the zikawei Jesuit
House Of Studies In Shanghai.
Born In Lawrence, Mass. he
studied for the priesthood at
Sherbrooke. Quebec, and Paray
lie Monial. France.
Prior to his ordination, he
studied languages In China. For
O while he was stationed In the
Jesuit Province Of Lower Canada,
with headquarters In Montreal.
Hugh Francis Redmond, IT,,
IS, was working for the New
York export firm Of Henningsen
Brothers when he was arrested
In Shanghai on spy charges In
April. 1851.
After being held prisoner more
than three years he was tried and
convicted in September, 1854.
and sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
Mr.. Redmond was born in
Yonkers and served In the para
troops during World War II.
He took part In the invasion Of
Normandy and won the Silver
Star for gallantry.
The Rev. John Paul Wagner,
40. q Catholic priest. disappeared
presumably jailed by the Reds
early in 1858.
A Franciscan with headquar-
tiers in st. Augustine Friary.
Chicago. his church name Is
Father Cyril"
HIS family in Pittsburgh has
received one letter from him
since his detention.
A veteran Catholic missionary
in China, he was repatriated on
the Gripsholm in World War II.
The Rev. Marcellus White, 46.
of Waltham. Mass, was serving
as q Passionist missionary In
Yaung Shung when he was
Jailed in February, 1852.
Letters to his family have been
optimistic in recent months. In
one sent last May he said his
ordeal twas not so bad" and
that he chad not been sick q day
in prison"
Father White studied at the
|Passionist Seminary In Dunkirk.
N. Y, and was ordained In 1894.
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List of Americans Held
.By Communist Chinese

twas not on an Air Force mission
lat the time.
| However, the Peiping Radio
claimed Mr.. Downey and Mr.. Fec
lteau were aboard an Air Force
BIC shot down while dropping
supplies to American espionage
agents in Northeast China MAN
churia) November 20. 1882" The
Chinese Communists seized and
imprisoned the two civilians and
II American airmen they claimed
were on the same plane. ALI
we're sentenced to varying terms
on espionage charges November
23. 1854, but the airmen have
been released. Mr.. Downey was
sentenced to life and Mr.. Fecteau
to 20 years. The Communists
claimed they got confessions out
of the Americans.
The Rev. Justin Carney, 40,
was sent to China in 1916 by the
Roman Catholic Passionist Order,
Iof Union City. N. j., to serve as
missionary.
He was arrested in December,
1851, and was last heard from In
February. 1865, when he wrote
from q prison cell somewhere
lin China"
His home is in Union City. N. j.
The Rev. Fulgence Gross, 81,
OF Omaha, had served as q Cath
Ollie missionary in China about 20
years when the Reds picked him
up in Tsingtao in 1851.
He has written his family sew
eral times, but his letters do not
specify where he is being held
or under what conditions.
Father Gross was repatriated
from China on the Gripsholm In
World War II and went back
there about six years ago.
/ He was unofflcial chaplain for
the Marine Corps station in
Tsingtao before the Communists
moved in.
The Rev. John A. Houle, 40, q
Jesuit priest Of San Francisco
and Glendale. Calf. was pro-
curator Of Christ the King
Church in Shanghai when the
Reds picked him up in June,
1858. He had served in China
since 1947.
Last May his parents in Glen
dale received a letter from him
saying he had been imprisoned
because II violated the laws of
the Peoples Government" He
said I'm getting along fine"
| A released French prelate who
saw him in a Shanghai Jail said
he appeared to be in fair
health.
/
The Rev. Paul J. Mackensen,
80. was serving as q Lutheran
missionary in Tsingtao when the
Communists arrested him on spy
charges in March, 1852. He had
served in China since l949. A
native Of Pittsburgh, his father
De I'm, M okar ~ a. Dazzle Tee y,
'Igelical Lutheran Church in Bal
timore.
Mr.. Mackensen received his
} Bachelor Of Divinity degree from
;Ithe Lutheran Theological Semi
nary at Philadelphia in 1947. He
.Ispent q year studying Chinese
J, lat Yale University in prepare
ton for his missionary work. He
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igive Hany degree" Of American
recognition TO Red China or
change United States policy on
the recognition issue.
3. The agreement covers only
civilians and therefore does not
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By the Associated Pres.


Here are thumbnail sketches
of some of the American
civilians known to be held inside
Red China In addition to the
10 whose prospective release was
announced in Geneva:
DIR. Homer Bradshaw, Sc. and
his wife Vida, 65, long time
medical missionaries in China
for the Presbyterian Church,
were taken prisoner in March.
1851. Their American l1eadquar-
tiers address was listed as 156
Fifth avenue, New York City
Mr.. Bradshaw, born in Brock
wayville, Pa. March 8, 1899. Is
q member Of the Third Presby-
terrain Church of Pittsburgh. He
was appointed q missionary In
China in 1928. He headed the
medical staff at the Van Norden
Memorial Hospital for men and
Brooks Memorial Hospital for
women at Lihsien. Kwantung
Province. Later he taught
surgery in Hackett Medical Col
lege. Canton.
Returning to the United
States on furlough in 1871. he
became a surgeon in the United
States Air Force. After the war
he went back to Kwantung
where he was arrested with his
wife.
Mrs. Bradshaw. the former
Vida Hockenberry, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Hockenberry
of Slippery Rock, Pa, was born
at West Sudbury. Butler County,
Pa, and graduated from Penn
sylvania State College in 1925.
The BradShaws were married
in 1928 just before sailing for
China.
The Rev. John w. Clifford, SO
a Roman Catholic priest from
San Francisco, has not beer
heard from since his imprison-
ment, but q returning French
prisoner said he saw him m q
Shanghai jail and he appeared
In fair health.
Born in San Francisco, he was
project of boards at Santa Clara
University near that city from
1913 to 1916. He was ordained
In Shanghai by a Chinese bishop
John Thomas Downey, "a, a
cousin of singer Morton Downey,
a civilian employe Of the United
States Army. disappeared with
another civilian Army worker,
Richard Henry Fecteau. ~. In
November. 1852, when a plane in
which the Air Force said they
were en- route from Seoul, South
Korea, to Japan was shot down
Mr.. Downey's mother, Mrs
Mary B. Downey. is a school
teacher who lives at New Britain
Conn. Mr.. Fecteau's home ad-
dress is Lynn, Mass. Mr.. Fecteau
formerly played football at Bos.
ton University, from which hi
graduated in 1851. His wife
jeanne Fecteau, died in a fire
September Is, 1858, after he hae
disappeared.
The Air Force said the two
men were authorized passenger
on the Korea Japan flight ant
that the plane in which they wer'
flying was not owned by tn,
Government but leased to 1t ans
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cover any prisoners Of war who
may still be held secretly BY the
Chinese Communists from the
conflict In Korea. Hundreds Of
American soldiers are still listed
as missing.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24
SCHOOL BOARD HAGGLING

That the Montgomery County School Board suffering
from bad of fussbudgetts has not been reflected in
the Sentinels news columns for the simple that
good part of the discussion board meetings doesn't rate
much column space.
For example, at the last allday meeting board mem
bers became involved tmewastng discourse of perma-
nent versus temporary seeding around school,
lhey went INTO the merits OF permanent temporary
seeding oddng various types seeds best time for
planting etc. This was brought by routine changeorder
recommended by the contractor the Board of Education
staff.
Another perennial time-waster is the naming of new
schools which up for discussion at almost every meet
ing An attempt to solve this by appointing subcommittee
came to nothing when the committee of three brought in
majority and minority report suggestions for
These two instances point up two remedies that we would
like to offer the school board for its chronic disease The first
is that they accept the recommendations their professional
staff without so much hagging over detail.
AS executives of big business and nothing in the
county is bigger than mumion dollar school indus
try = the board must learn to delegate some responsibilities
We don't believe it's lack of trust that makes the members
question the safs recommendations so often but if it is
why not get people they trust?
Our second suggestion is that the school board dig into
some of the unmned manpower in the county to help with
the big policy decisions hanging its head the moment
such as budget salary schedules and school construction
specifications.
step in this direction made at the November
meeting when Lahrop Smith put on the table for consdera
uon resolution creating special committee school sites
which would use the planning experts in the county
Before voting this the school board might explore
the experience of Rocves Mayor Council in this dec
ton The City of Rockville in the last year has made
OF the brans energies and experience of 6S citizens through
IL advisory committees ranging from city planning zonng
appeals finance and recreation to the programs for special
memorial days
Through these committees the city has benefited from
some 1000 manhours of work which cost not red cent
AT the time the lawyers DOCTORS engineers housewives
businessmen and numerous experts from the Federal Gov
eminent who made up these committees acquired active
and educated interest in the government of the city,
We hope the school board will accept this method of
relief from of the detail of its responsibilities But
must warn the members that they will still have to watch
their tendency to dot every 81" and every and
but which are symptoms of ''fussbudgettis".
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24

The baby beeves averaged
500 per nundredWeight, WnIIe
the SWINE averaged SI7.27 per
hundredWelght and the lamb sales
averaged $26.36 per hundred
weight.
There was a total of 278 baby
steers, 1888 market hogs and "a
fat lambs entered in the club
show. Some of the placings are
as follows: Middlewelght Angus,
Cookie Stewart, Olney, seventh;
Edward Davis, Germantown, elev-
enth; heavyweight Angus, The
resa Heck, Potomac, 18th; light
weight Herefords, Tom KING,
Woodfield, 10th, John King, Wood
field, 18th; heavyweight Hereford,
Kenneth Pruitt, Unity, 10th; light
weight Shorthorn, Jean Leth-
bridge, Ashton, ninth; middle
weight Shorthorns, Robert Stab
Ter, BrookesvIlle, second; Donald
Hobbs, Jr., Sandy Spring, 18th;
heavyweight Shorthorns, Lea Gil
pin, Sandy Spring, second,
Charles Lethbridge, Ashton,
fourth, Ralph Greene, Jr., Lay
hill, seventh, Patricia Treadway,
Ashton, ninth.
The County group of club
steers exhibited by five different
club members placed sixth and
18th, IA groups participating.
Lancaster County was first.
Tho IUinporc in tho i,,d;,y;5,,o1
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24
The Letter Box

Editor:
On November IA the Board of
Education of Montgomery Coun-
ty held a hearing of various
groups who had asked for time
to make statements regarding pol
icy on hiring Negro teachers in
the Montgomery County School
System.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing charges were made or sup
ported by representatives of the
Maryland Petition Committee, the
Farm Bureau, and other individ-
uals, that the statements present
ed, including a statement by the
League of Women Voters of Mont
gomery County, represented an
unfair attack on DR.. Forbes Nor
ris, Superintendent of Schools.
This would appear to be an at
tempt to becloud the questions
which were under discussion.
The Leagues statement was
made exclusively in connection
with questions originally raised
by the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie regarding the hiring policy.
1t pointed out that the reply from
the board to the N.A.A.CP. in.
volved broad criteria for employ
ment of teachers, which is a mat
ter of policy, and under the law,
a responsibility of the Board of
Education alone; responsibility
which can neither rightfully nor
legally be shifted by the board
to the superintendent of schools
or to any other official or body.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24
County Teeners Win
Livestock Show Prizes

Nancy Lechilder of Laytons-
Vile, a member of the Montgon-
cry County Ali Beef Club, won a
4UJ-pound polIed Hereford steer
at the Eastern National Livestock
Show held at Timonium last week.
Miss Lechilder's name for the
steer Blue Ribbon King" was
Judged the best in the contest
along with her 25-Word answer to
why l want to feed a polled
Hereford steer" The calf was
provided by the Maryland Here
lord Polleu Breeders Association
and came from Bushy Park
Farm, Woodblne.
Tom KING OF Woodfield placed
first with his middleWeight Here
lord in the Esskay memorial
classes at the show, while Bob
otabIer of Brookesville and Lea
Gilpin of Sandy Springs gained
blue ribbons for their middle
weight and heavyweight Short
horns.
Drew Stabler took first place
with his heavyweight trio of
Yorkshire Duroc Crosses.
All in all, So County All and
Future Farmers of America club
members exhibited 166 animals at
the annual show. A breakdown
shows 81 baby beeves, of which
81 were Angus, IS Hereford and
II Shorthorns; 103 market hogs
and II fat lambs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24
WE MISS YOU, MRS. NELLY

The Sentinel misses Mrs Nicely. We miss her weekly
visit her friendly gossip spced with giggs, her German
town column and not the least her handouts of Mrs Neeys
own baked beans.
Let's face it = Tuesday around this office is not the
without the pause that reeshe which Mrs Nicely gave
our day-before- going -to-press.
But the Sentinels loss is Montgomery County General
Hospitals gain Mrs Neey doctor reports that she taking
her stay there in her stride and that she spends
time cheering the other patients That's Mrs Nicely
alright; smiling full of cheerful chatter and not word
about what she puts in those famous baked beans,
Whatever it is neither baked beans the paper have
much flavor Mrs Nicely. We just thought you'd like to
know
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24

Editor:
am sure that l represent the
members of the congregation of
the Rockville Baptist Church of
Rockville, when l say that we
deeply appreciate the splendid
coverage your paper has given
us during the fund raising cam
paign that has just been conclud-
ed at our church.
For the past three weeks you
have been kind enough to give
us headline articles at the top
of the page where they were
easily seen. We believe this has
indeed been news to the people
of Rockville.
Under the leadership of the
present pastor, Rev. Jacob H.
Gamble, the Rockville Baptist
Church has grown from having
a Sunday school of less than 200
to one of over 1000. The mem
bership of the church is growing
very fast and the spiritual life of
its members are being blessed by
his leadership.
We started out in this campaign
to raise 100000 but closed the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24
G'Burg RezOnes

Without public opposition the
Gaithersburg Mayor and Council
rezoned from residential.A to re-
sidential-C Is lots on Summit Ave
nue. last Friday night. The re
classification will allow the cree.
ton of apartment buildings.
No one spoke either for or
against the rezoning at the pub.
lie hearing. Three spectators,
Lawrence Luhn, Dean Price, and
Ira Darby were present. Mr..
Luhn is the only property owner
on the strip who asked for a re-
classification.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24

Hence, it was to the board, and
not to DR.. Norris, that the League
directed its comments. The
Leagues statement, which is
available for examination, will
bear out this fact.
The position expressed by the
League of Women Voters neither
attacked nor supported DR.. Nor
ris, for clearly DR.. Norris was
not the issue. Statements, such
as the one made by the League,
should not be subject to such in
discriminate accusations, which
served to mislead the press and
divert public attention from the
real issues involved.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rohr,
President,
League of Women Voters
of Montgomery County
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24

campaign with actual pledges of
S128,750 and the follow-up COM
mittee will possibly obtain several
thousand dollars more. We hope
to start on our new educational
building in the very near future
Thanks again for your splendid
cooperation in getting our news
before the people of Rockville and
Montgomery County.
Sincerely,
w. L. Edwards, Chairman
Board of Deacons
Rockville Baptist Church
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Page MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL
Wednesday, November 23 1855

fourth, Drew Stabler, Brookeville,
fifth and ninth, Cookie Stewart,
sixth, Robert Stabler, tenth;
heavyweight, Nancy Lechilder,
Laytonsville, fourth, Sandra
Wightman, fifth, Drew Stabler,
sixth and ninth, James Wight
man, seventh.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-24
Notice of
Ordinance Abortion

Notice is hereby given that the
County Council for Montgomery
County Maryland, adopted Ordi-
nance No. 3.72, Licensing and
Regulating Electrical Contrac.
tors. The Ordinance shall become
effective on January /, 1856. Cop.
les of the Ordinance may be OBJ.
tanned in Room els, County OF.
flee Building, Rockville, Mary
land.
WILLIAM b. MCKINNEY,
Clerk County Council for
Montgomery County, Md.
695
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swine classes are as follows:
lightweight, Cookie Stewart, sec
Stewart, second and fifth, Rob-
ond and fifth, Robert Stabler,
sixth, Charles Lethbridge, third,
Sandra Wightman, Gaithersburg
seventh; middleweight, George
Geisbert, Laytonsville, second
James Wightman, Gaithersburg,