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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-03
BY Kathleen Leary
WOnan's Editor

Area residents said goodbye
last week end to the Jay II
Bottoms who left Broadwood
Manor to take up residence in
TT. Worth, Tex.
Mr.. Bolton was sworn in EARL.
er this month as Regional Di'
rector for the Federal Supply
Service there. For IL years he
served as Division Director for
the Central Office in Washing
ton, d. c.
The couples two children,
.Wendy, 9, and Jay Michael, 5,
both students at Lone Oak Ele'
mentary School, accompanied
their parents to Harrisburg, Pa.
for Thanksgiving, remaining
with their grandparents while
Mr.. and Mrs. Bolton returned
here for the week end move and
\ final farewell Saturday eve
ming when they were honor
guests at a dinner party given
by Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Daily
of Bethesda.
Women friends of Mrs. Boil
tons gathered at a party ar,
ranged by Mrs. Donald Bokel
man and Mrs. Victor Hornbostel
on Tuesday evening Of last
week at Parklawn Mansion and
Mrs. Bolton went home with a
handsome sterling silver steak
carving set to remember the
occasion.
A mother-daughter send-ofi
took place when the Brownie
Troop Mrs. Bolton organized
two years ago got together with
their mothers one afternoon al
the home of Mrs. Robert Wells
to present Mrs. Bolton with q
milk glass cake dish. Co-host
sess at the affair was Mrs. Don
aid Bokelman.
Another farewell fete for the
pair was hosted at the Bethesda
Officers Club by the Naval Re
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-03
Proud Porent Department

Esther and Jack Coopersmith
are cooling over new born son,
Jeffrey Heskel. The 10-pound
infant arrived November 81 at
Columbia Hospital.
The Coopersmiths, who live
at 3219 Park View rd., Chevy
Chase, have another son, iona
than Charles, 4, and a daughter,
Connie Rachel, 2.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-03

John Francis McDevitt, first
son of 1t. and Mrs. Ronald F.
McDevitt, USN, will be christ
ened at pm. next Sunday in
the U. S. Naval Base Church,
Charleston, S. c. Born Novem-
Der 8, the baby weighed 6 lbs,
5A OF.
1t. McDevitt, a submarine Of
ficer on the USS Senett, is the
son of Betty Ruth McDevitt, col
umnist for The Maryland News,
and Comdr. E. Francis McDevitt
of Arlington, Va. The baby's
maternal grandparents, are Mr..
and Mrs. John J. Nolan of New
Rochelle, N. Y.
The couple has two daughters,
Ann Marie, nearly three years
old and Maureen Joan, who
marked her first birthday the
day her brother was born.
Christening ceremonies were
held November % for George
Joseph Cannon jr., infant son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Gan.
non, 1914 N. Springwood dr.,
Silver Spring. The Rev. James
Cooney officiated at st. Mich
aefs Catholic Church with Mr..
Gannon's brother-in-law and sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. John Gallag-
her of Alexandria, Va, serving
as Godparents.
The couples first child ar
rived October a weighing 5
pounds. He Is the maternal
grandson of Mrs. Mary Koup,
who makes her home with her
son-in-law and daughter, and
the late Earl Koup. The pater-
nal grandparents are Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph G. Cannon of Alex
andria, Va.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-03

Mr.. Candy graduated from the
University of Maryland, served
three years in the U. S. Navy
lit. JG) and is now editing the
Suburban Record Newspaper.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-03

and matron of honor in the
wedding party.
Also week ending with the
bride-elect was Senorita Inge
Barthell of New York City, a
childhood friend of the bride
groom whose home is also in
Bogota. On Saturday evening
the women were entertained at
dinner by DR.. and Mrs. Ander-
son prior to a theater party at
Arena Stage.
Open House
Peggy and Jack Mercer in
vited friends and neighbors to
an 8 to 10 pm. "open house" on
Thanksgiving. Nearly 80 guests
gathered to help them celebrate
the first anniversary in their
home at 608 Philadelphia ave-,
Takoma Park.
The harvest theme was car
ried out with a pumpkin and
corn display at the front door,
arrangements of chrysanthe-
NUNS throughout the house
and an array of gourds on the
refreshment table where cham
payne punch was poured from
a new silver bowl by Mrs. Ray
Hartig and Mrs. Sterling Rad
cliffe. Also serving were Miss
Lorraine Davis and Miss Nancy
Radcliffe.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-03
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Parties Honor Departees, Bride to-Be

serve division Mr.. Bolton COM
mands.
Jay and Mile Bolton are va
eating a community niche that
will be hard to fill. Mr.. Bolton
is former church council men,
Der of Crusader Lutheran
Church and she served as circle
leader, guild secretary and on
many committees. Both the va
cation bible school and the
Brownie troop met in the play
room of the Bolton home at
1886 Veirs Mill I'd.
In addition, Mr.. Bolton be-
longed to the Rockville Lions
Club and his wife helped to
found the Broodwood Manor
Homemakers Club and collected
funds for UGF and Heart Fund
campaigns. They also worked
together for the Citizens for
Good Government and on the
Twinbrook Swimming Pool
committee.
Pre-NUpfioI Porfy
A dinner-dance Friday night
at Columbia Country Club will
honor Miss Sandra Jane Ander-
son and Senior Bernardo Torres
Restrepo. who are to be mar
ried the next day at Little
Flower Church in Massachu-
sets Avenue Hills. DR.. and
Mrs. Otis Leon Anderson of Be-
thesda, parents of the bride-to-
be, have invited 100 guests to
the pre-nuptial party, including
the bridegroom's parents, DR..
Bernardo Torres Barreto and
Sonora Paulina Restipo de Tor
res Of Bogota, Colombia. The
affair will take place in the ball
room with music by Sidney.
Women friends of the bride
and her mother gathered for
a luncheon shower on Novem-
Der 81 at the Army-Navy Club.
The hostess was Mrs. James
Lowe Of Norfolk, a week end
house guest of the Andersons
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22
Fighting in Court
Guilty Verdict in Rape
Case Touches Off Melee

Smith, 20, of Gaithersburg sud.
denly turned and fled from the
courtroom, only to be tripped
and captured by Assistant
States Attorney James S. Nc
Auliffe, jr. He was charged
with assault on an officer and
placed in the fourth floor Jail in
lieu of bail.
Another brother, Carroll C.
Scott, "a, was charged with
causing a disturbance when he
stood in the hall outside the
courtroom shouting obscenities.
He was released. later.
About Is on-and-off-duty
county and state police respond
ed to the all cars riot call. A
guard was later posted at the
home of the attack victim and
the nurse who was with her
when the attack occurred.
The attack on the victim at
the drug store occurred before
police were able to locate her.
She had slipped out after the
melee before an escort was pro-
vided.
The jury returned the verdict
less than 45 minutes after re-
firing at 1857 pm. Their verdict
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22

Gordon Lee Contee, o.
year-old convicted knit E.
point rapist of a Chestnut
Lodge patient, went berserk
moments after a jury of 10
men and two women brought
in a guilty verdict with a rec
ommendation for mercy.
He broke away from two
deputies shouting Sentence me
now! Kill me now! Sentence me
now" A detective and court
attaches began wrestling with
him as he tried to break towards
the rear of the courtroom.
His wife, Myrtle, was taken
from the court after sentence
was pronounced shrieking, mo
no . no." She was later
stopped by two unidentified girl
friends as she ran up the stairs
to the third floor courtroom
shouting LET me near him!
Please let me near him."
About an hour later she rec
ognized the victim in Peoples
Drug Store and began slapping
her. "He didn't rape you. He
didn't rape yOu," she shouted
over and over before friends es-
cOrted her from the store.
At the height of the court
room melee, a brother of Con.
tee valuted the railing and
dashed out at the crowd wrest-
ling with his brother. One
punch landed high on the cheek
of Det. Sgt. Frank Griggs who
held Contee in a choke hold.
The brother, William M.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22
Ste Declares
4Oc Dividend

A regular quarterly dividend
of 40 cents per share and an
extra dividend of an additional
40 cents per share have b e e n
adopted by the Board of Direc-
tors of Suburban Trust Co. on
the recommendation of Chair.
man T. Howard Duckett and
President ]. Robert Sherwood.
The total declaration is
valued at $4,000, and the
extra dividend represents an in
crease of 100 per cent. The
regular dividend will be payable
December 81, and the extra divi.
dend January Z.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22
Marshall Walker Is Dead

tended funeral services Satur-
day at the Gartner Funeral
Home. Burial was in the Forest
Oak, Cemetery, Gaithersburg.
Mr.. Walker is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Minnie Briggs Walk
er, his two sons Milton is a
City Councilman), a daughter,
Mrs. Frank Hoadley of Bing-
hampton, N. Y. A sister, Mrs.
Carrie Hoskinson, resides in st.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22

which he is held by fellow
physicians.
DR.. Sewell was described as
an excellent physician and a
human, compassionate man"
by most of the II doctors sum-
moned as character witnesses
by defense attorney Welsh.
Also, DR.. Robert Gibson, a
psychiatrist who examined DR..
Sewell on behalf of Welsh, said
he would be led to believe that
the physician would not in the
future commit such an offense.
DR.. Sewells age, his inability
to earn living by other means
if unlicensed, and personal
morality would deter him, Dr.
Gibson testified.
Each of the physicians sum-
moned estimated that DR.. Sewell
had larger than average
practice and would be most diff
ficult to replace at anytime
particularly since there was
said to be only one other Negro
doctor practicing in Montgom-
cry County.
DIR. Nj. McKendree Boyer, of
Damascus, president of the
Montgomery County Medical
Society committee appointed to
investigate the charge against
DIR. Sewell-like several of the
other doctors - recommended
in his report to the Society that
DIR. Sewell be allowed to con-
tinue his practice under prOba-
ton to the Court.
He made this recommends
ton, he said, with the full reali-
cation that DR.. Sewell was
charged with committing an
abortion in 1871. No verdict was
ever made in the case which
still remains on the Courts
pending calendar.
Perhaps the most effective
support of DR.. Seweil was given
by DR.. Edward C. Mazique,
president of the National Medi-
cal Association, equivalent of
the American Medical Associa-
ton, limited largely to Negro
doctors. He testified that as a
waiter at Olney Inn in the late
1905, he even then heard of
the high personal and profess
sional regard in which DR..
Sewell was held by the white,
as well as Negro community in
Montgomery County.
DR.. Boyer also pointed out
that the Montgomery Medical
Society accepted DR.. Sewell as
a member 10 years ago, even
though it meant the Society
could no longer have monthly
meetings at the Manor Country
Club, which barre. Negroes.
Meetings are held now at the
Norbeck Country Club.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22

of guilty on the first count of
rape made no recommendation
for mercy. The maximum pen
atty could bring death in the
gas chamber; the minimum, IS
months in the state prison.
In his summation to the jury,
States Attorney Leonard r.
Hardy directed them to forget
the other two counts OF assault
with intent to rape and assault
if they couldn't bring in a guilty
verdict on the first count. Judge
Lawlor reminded the jury that
these charges had been dropped
by the state in her charge to the
jury.
1t was just after sentence
was deferred by Judges Kath-
ryn Lawlor and James H. Pub
that Contee went berserk. His
lawyer, James Davis, indicated
later in the week that an appeal
would be filed within the alot-
ted 30-day period.
The state had charged Con-
tee with forcing the 25.year-old
Chestnut Lodge patient to sub
nit to him at knife-point while
the lodge nurse who was with
her sat at the head of the sofa.
The victim had been an out
patient of the lodge for the first
time since entering in July,
1858. The attack took place
early on the morning of June
20.
The victim testified she was
visiting a friend for the week
end when she began suffering
from severe abdominal pains.
The nurse was called, and after
the owner of the apartment
left, she and the nurse sat and
talked or listened to records.
Contee based his defense on
his assertions that he had been
intimate with the victim with
her consent as he had in the
past when she would sneak out
of the lodge to meet him. He
had been invited to the lodge by
the victim, he stated.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22

Marshall M. Walker, Gath.
ersburg grocer familiar to al
most everybody in Gathers
burg during his more than so
years in business, died Thurs
day at Montgomery General
Hospital. He was 70.
He owned the store with his
two sons, Murray L. and Milton
M. Walker, at 224 East Dia-
mond ave. Mr.. Walker started
out in the grocery business
many years ago in Washington
Grove.
A modest. family man, Mr..
Walker devoted most of his time
to his family, the store and the
church. He was practically a
lifelong member OF Grace
Methodist Church, at the corner
of Frederick and Walker ayes.
The latter avenue is believed to
be named for his early rela-
tives.
At his death, Mr.. Walker was
steward of Grace Methodist
Church. Scores of parishioners,
city officials, and friends at
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22
Mercy Of Court Asked
By Connected Doctor

DR.. Webster Sewell, Nor
beck physician charged with
causing an abortion in a 81
year-old white barmaid of
Hyattsville, was found guilty
Friday in Montgomery County
Circuit Court.
Judge Thomas M. Anderson
deferred sentencing until $3.50
am. January 10, in order to al
low time for a pre-sentence in
vestigation.
The 58-year-old physician en-
tered a plea of nOlO cOntendere,
or, in a literal sense, mo de-
fense." Such a plea throws an
accused upon the mercy of the
court.
At the same time, DR.. Sewell's
attorney, Barnard T. Welsh,
coupled his plea with a request
for probation without a sem
tence. If he had to, Welsh said,
his client would agree to stop
practicing medicine so long as
the court did not cause him to
lose his medical license.
The non-jury trial started at
1875 am. and ended at 3 pm.
with only a normal lunch break.
The courtroom contained many
loyal patients of the Negro
physician and many physicians
supporting him.
Through it all, DIR. Sewell re-
fused to admit he performed an
abortion, claiming instead that
he treated the woman for a con.
dition possibly, but not neces-
sarily, resulting from preg-
nancy.
At the same time, he freely
admitted having performed two
abortions six years ago. This
point was not pressed by the
State, represented by assistant
States Attorney James S. Nc
Auliffe jr.
DR.. Sewell remained free
under $500 bond.
The woman upon whom DR..
Sewen was accused of perform
ing the illegal act is a mother
of three children and is sepa-
rated from her husband. She
works as a barmaid in a Prince
Georges county tavern.
She testified that she became
pregnant by her employer while
not living with her husband.
She said her employer inquired
and learned DR.. Sewell might
be able to help out with an abor-
ton.
Accordingly, the man testified
later, he made an appointment
with DR.. Sewell in March; that
the physician examined the
woman, and that a later appoint
ment was made for the abor-
ton. y 4t&-v
He and another woman took
the woman to DR.. Sewell, March
30, he testified, and they
watched television for two
hours at DR.. Sewell's home
while the physician and the
woman were together. The man
said he paid DR.. Sewell $3.50.
The woman testified she
awakened with high fever the
following day and was admitted
to a Prince Georges County
hospital, where it was learned
an illegal abortion attempt had
been made. The woman lost
the baby and the incident was
reported to police.
Welsh relied mainly on the
great need for DR.. Sewell's serv-
ices in the Negro community
and for the high esteem in
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22

Petersburg, Fla. Five grand.
children and one great.grand-
child also survive.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-22

Read the Sentinel for the
most authoritative and detailed
coverage of county society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-01

come up for debate in the 81
nation committee. The COM
mittee starts work some time
next week.
The Russians repeatedly are
making a strong bid TO head
the agenda with Premier Khru-
shchev's proposal for total dis
armament within four years.
They are running into OPP
position from a large segment
Of the Asian-African bloc which
wants priority for Morocco's
demand that France cancel
plans for testing an atomic
bomb in the Sahara Desert.
Also on the committees
agenda are an Irish appeal to
restrict nuclear weapons to the
nations that now have them
Britain, the United States and
Russia; an Indian call for a
permanent ban on all nuclear
tests and Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold's report on
the current international eff
forts at disarmament.
Britain also has preached a
three-stage disarmament plan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-01

that will go before the 10
nation East-West committee
slated to start arms talks in
Geneva early next year. The
British have not asked that
their proposal be put on the
Assembly agenda. They are
understood to feel 1t should be
part Of the general disarma-
ment report rather than a
separate topic.
AS a result Of Mr.. Khru-
shchev's personal appearance
before the assembly. the Soviet
total disarmament plan is get
ting the most attention so far.
1t calls on all states to disband
their armies and scrap their
arms over q four-year period
so that no one in the world
have any means Of waging war.
Observers feel sure the plan
will get a thorough examina-
ton before the u. N. but
predict it is in for some rough
going.
U. N. disarmament experts
describe 1t as q pie-in-the-sky
project which the Russians can
hardly expect the Western
powers to accept. Western
delegates have promised to
look the plan over carefully
But it is felt they will turn it
down as. a dream that has little
chance of realization at this
stage of East-West relations.
Many delegates have ex-
pressed disappointment that
Mr.. Khrushchev proposed little
new and was vague about the
question of controls, which the
Vast considers the key to dis
armament.
But Secretary of State Herter
is reported to feel Mr.. Khru-
shchev sincerely desires dis
armament so he can switch
manpower and capital to civil
ian production and go down in
history as the man who boosted
the output of Soviet consumer
goods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-01
French inU N.
Ask Hands Off
Algerian Issue

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Oct. l (AP).-France declared
yesterday 1t is now UP to the
Algerians themselves to choose
their own political destiny and
the United Nations should keep
hands of.
Maurice Couve de Murville,
the French Foreign Minister,
told the 82-nation General AS
sembly the Algerians had al
ready demonstrated they were
placing their trust for the fu-
ture in Gen. Charles de Gaulie.
But outside the Assembly
Asian and African diplomats
expressed disappointment that
the French Foreign Minister
made no mention of negotia-
tons with representatives Of
the Algerian rebel government.
The Asian-African group was
expected to press for q U. N.
resolution urging France to
enter such negotiations. The
provisional Algerian govern
ment based in Tunis has Of
fered to hold talks on the basis
of Gen. de Gaulle's recent pro-
posals. 4
The Algerian issue Is before
the assembly for the nth sue
cessive year. Detailed debate
will take place later in the
assembly's political committee.
In what appeared to be a
slap at the Algerian rebel
government Mr.. Couve de Muir
vile declared:
1--WE say no one has the right
to impose on Algeria the regime
that is to be its own. This
regime can result only from
the will, freely expressed, of the
Algerians themselves. Combat,
violence and terror are not the
means Of reaching a solution. "
He said the Algerians' par
ticipation in a constitutional
referendum on September 20.
1858, constituted evidence that
they intended their future to
be made with France, and
why not say so-that to this
end. they were placing their
trust in Gen. de Gaulle."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-01

called. he got in an argument
with his wife. zonie.
John settled the argument by
smuggling his wife on the jaw,
Police and court officials sepa-
rated the two and then held
John on a more serious charge
Of aggravated assault.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-01
OVER 20 TONS OF DIRT
FALLS PER 50. MILE
IN YOUR AREA

Engineers tell us between
20 and 200 tons of dust falls
per so. mile in any resi-
Dental area. This dust gets
into your home, carrying
disc ase and discoloring
walls and furniture. Ordi-
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But new, amazing cleo
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-01
Mon Has Fist Fight
With Wife in Court

FLAGSTAFF. Ariz. (AP).-
Charles T. John. 40. Just didn't
know when he was well of.
John was in court to face a
charge Of disturbing the peace.
While waiting for his case to be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-01
z Disarmament Plans
Vie for Priority in U.N.

UNITED NATIONS. ~ Y, Oct AP).-Disarmament
priority when the United Nations Assembs main
political committee gets down to business storm is
blowing up which proposal will get top billing.
two groups with rival plans are reported maneu-
vering to the list when the five disarmament items
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10
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, 1959-12-30
Several Hundred
Persons at Festival
Village in F'sted

Several hundred persons
from over the Island filed
the Frederiksted Festival vii
lage last night and enjoyed
4 program Of calypsos, which
kept them laughing and in
general good spirits.
The booths did a brisk bust
ness selling assorted drinks,
, 1959-12-30
Stonehenge Hos
Telephone in
Every Bathroom

Stonehenge, the country inn
in Ridgefeld, Conn, recently
announced a "frst-a tele-
phone in every bathroom.
With the completion of in
stallation by the Southern
New England Telephone Com
pany technicians, Skinker
Victor Gilbert's tradition
stepped lodge now offers its
guests the convenience Of
bathroom telephones in addi-
ton to having phones in their
bedrooms. All the instru-
ments are in color, compatible
with the room interiors.
Bathroom phone commune
Continued Of page A.
, 1959-12-30
Unknown Person
Breuks Into Pump
on Par. Ground

The pump house located
on the Parade Ground in
Christiansted was broken into
by some unknown person.
The hasp was forced from the
door.
Police are investigating but
have found nothing missing,
thus far.