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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-10
Small, Strange, Old

Getting back to the toy shop,
this is how Mrs. Jacobs de-
scribed it in THE Toy Shop
Mystery:
"The shop was very small
and very strange and looked
very old. 1t was more like a
little stall or booth at a fair
than like a store. 1t had a roof
and a counter and a side door,
and a carved wooden lady who
was obviously the shopkeeper.
In the shop was merchandise
all over-on shelves, on the
counter, hanging from tiny
nails. And it was the most cur.
ious merchandise anyone could
imagine"
Yes, the merchandise did look
curious to me. There were mu-
steal instruments, mandolins
and curving horns; teeny check
erboards, little muskets, whips,
drums, tenpins, all made of
wood; tiny baskets of fruit and
pots of flowers and other gaily
painted objects made of plas-
ter. Best of all was the figure
of a boy, dressed in old-fash-
Toned long trousers. He was
riding a hobbyhorse.
Fond of Jersey House
Another favorite upon which
she has lavished much care in
its restoration, is the South
Jersey house, a most elaborate
specimen believed to be the
model of an 1850 home. She
gives quite detailed account
in her historical book on how
she acquired it out of an old
barn after it had been there for
eight years, a description of
both inside and outside, and
how its restoration was COM
pleted by r. K. Helphenstine,
jr., who is now living in Rock
vile.
Before the restoration, she
and her husband called it "the
haunted house" To replace the
candle-burning chandeliers, her
husband gave her for a birth
day-Christmas present, an Or
molu chandelier with six Bris-
tol globes. Mr.. Jacobs is an at
torney with the Department of
Justice.
Annie, the cat, likes the Jer-
sey house best of all, too. For
this reason the house cannot
be left open because she has
knocked some of the furniture
down. For the time being a
paper clip holds the front door
firm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-10
Husbands Welcome

Husbands will make their
first and only appearance of
the club season when the Sub
urban Woman's Club meets at
8 o'clock this evening at st.
Johns Episcopal Church parish
hall. Club members will present
a one-act farce, "If the Shoe
Pinches."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-10
Club Prepares
Festive Favors

The Northwood Woman's
Club is preparing Thanksgiving
favors for patients in Mont
gomery County General Hospi-
tai.
Under the direction of Mrs.
r ger Pasquale, community
affairs chairman, the club aims
to provide favors for the
patients on all holidays.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-10
Republican Women
Plan Party. Election

Founders of the 10-year.old
club are Mrs. Sterling Book.
oven, Mrs. Robert E. Buckley,
Mrs. Frederick ]. Cullen, Mrs.
Harold Dudley, Mrs. L. E. Hut.
Crimson, Mrs. Lothrop Luttrell,
Mrs. Persifer Spillsbury, Mrs.
A. Burks Summer, Mrs. Ed
ward c. Sweeney and Mrs. Lee
roy Tuerke.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-10
Luncheon Hostess

Mrs. Garald G. Parker of Tar
rytown rd., Chevy Chase, acted
as hostess at the bi-monthly in
formal luncheon meeting of the
Wives of the U. S. Geological
Survey held at Evans Farm Inn
on Wednesday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-10

CARROLL ID. KEARNS,
wife of the Pennsylvania
Congressman, will speak on
"Obscenity in the us. Mail"
at a luncheon meeting of the
Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase on November 16. Mrs.
Kearns is a special consultant
to the Postmaster General
assisting in the drive to stop
the sale and distribution of
obscene material directed at
corrupting the morals of
youth.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-10

WIFI ILLS IdSClIldIlOn, Sne Was
touched by the collecting bug
that spurred her on to collect
IS houses and furnishings. Ev-
eryone asks, "Where do you
keep them?" It's ingenious but
they fit into her full-sca.e house
almost as though an architect
had planned it that way, due
entirely to her own cleverness.
Circa 176O-191O
''It's like a drug, once you
start it's hard to give it up"
she remarked with a wave of
her hand as she took me on
. tour of her home on Thornapple
st. in Chevy Chase. The doll
houses range in period from
1760 to 1910 and are from the
u. S., England and the CONT
nent, most of them mid-Victor-
ian.
A majority of the collection
(22) is placed in the basement,
which has been recently reno
waited according to Mrs. Jacobs
own tasteful design. On one
side of the room, she has
formed replica of a mid-Vic-
torian street with houses in
varying sizes, a miniature Vic
COMING TO POOLESVILLE
Mrs. Flora Gill Jacobs, sub
ject of this weeks STATUS:
Housewife" column, will show
colored slides of her fabulous
doll house collection before an
assembly of children and par
ents at Poolesville Elementary
School on Wednesday, Novem-
Der 16.
torian school room, Victorian
grocery store, three stables, one
fire house, one green house,
streetlights and all the toy ac-
cessories. 1t bears a striking
resemblance to our present day
working model.
Toy Shop Inspires Book
Mrs. Jacobs may not mean
to do this, I'm sure, but she
plays favorites with her collec-
ton just as she does with her
Siamese cat, Annie. When we
got to the living room, she d.
rected me straightaway to a
small lighted cabinet that con-
tains a very quaint toy shop
made in Zurich 100 years ago.
Fondly, she picked up the wood
en- and plaster pieces that repre-
sent different toys. The little
boy on the hobby horse was
the main inspiration of a re-
cent book she wrote called 1.-THE
Toy Shop Mystery" with Annie
as heroine. This is a sequel to
another mystery aimed at the
Clio age level which she called
'The Doll House Mystery"
Author of the only history of
the subject "A History of Doll
Houses" she has written a de-
tailed description of the most re.
nowned European and Ameri-
can doll houses of the past four
centuries. And the clue to what
makes collectors collect an
tiques, is in the introduction of
her book. This book hopes to
tell all that it possibly can about
doll houses of innumerable
places and eras. And its theory
is that in so doing, it will dis
cover a great deal about arts,
architecture. furnishings, Gus
toms, and, perhaps, the way of
life, of many of the people who
lived in those places during
those eras."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-10
Status: Housewife
Doll House Collection
Leads to Book Wri+inq
By Agnes vaghi

Flora Gill Jacobs interest in antique doll houses be-
gan when she thirteen. much travelled Army family
moved next door with tremendous doll house furnish
ed by the father when he stationed in Germany.
Young Flora spent hours just gazing at all the little
things from Nuremberg toy center) like the stove the
pots of copper, pans of pewter and jugs of crockery
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-10
individual telephone lines
NOW AVAILABLE!

Telephone customers with two CT four party hne
service will be interested to learn that single line
service is now available. Single line service pro-
vides a telephone line which is not shared with
Others 1t is especially suitable for families who
use their phones frequently for incoming as wen
outgoing calls. Installation can be made inn
mediately. Orders can be placed at the Telephone
Business Office. in person or by telephone
Evening star., 1960-09-18

Enioy YOUR fine furniture free of worry from spills accidents
or tiny feet These ceor vy pcoVes custom made to
fit your individual furniture pieces They're cut ana Pntteo
rioht in YOUR home . with imPreenobIe seams coll
todov to see how little Nc charge obligation
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Stennis Scores
Limited Pucts on
NucIeur Weapons

CHARLOTTES VILE. Va,
April % P).-Senator STEM
mis-, Democrat of Mississippi,
said tonight, I'VE labor in vain
for effective nuclear disarma-
ment" if it applies only to ma
tions now having nuclear
weapons.
Such agreements must be
universal in their applications. Z"
he told a banquet ending a two
day University of Virginia Law
Day celebration.
This is so, he said in a pre-
pared address because "it is
almost certain that Red China
can and will have these (nu-
clear weapons in the course
Of a few more years.
THE same could be true of
Italy, Spain, Japan, the Scan
dinavian countries and, through
a combined effort of nations
of the Middle East, the Ara
bian group could we'll develop
such a weapon"
Our leaders are not inform
ing our people of these dire
facts of life - the possibility
that other nations may develop
the A-bomb and the H-bomb,"
Senator Stennis said.
Evening star., 1960-04-24

Remarkable voIues! Every one Of them
is Internationally euoronteed for the
regular 9o-doy period. Here's your
opportunity to own the beautiful hi
fidelity stereo set thot you've olwoys
wonted OF sovines of hundreds of
dollars.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Two Ministers
Linked to Drive
Against Kennedy

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn,
April % (AP1.-Two Protestant
ministers plan a cross-country
series of rallies directed against
the Catholic religion of Sena-
tor Kennedy, Democrat of
Massachusetts,. the, Chatta-
nooga News-Free Press said
today.
The first rally has been
scheduled May 9 at Chatta-
noogas memorial auditorium.
The preachers were identified
as DR.. Harvey Springer. pastor
of the Baptist Tabernacle. En-
glewood. Colo, and editor of
the religious publication West
ern Voice, and DR.. Fred Gar
land, evangelist and author
from Roanoke, Va.
Baptist sources in Nashville
said neither man is listed in
the Southern Baptist Conven-
ton annual and that the con-
vention was not affiliated in
any way with the program.
In the announcement, the
two ministers were quoted as
saying they were almost as
greatly concerned over possible
Republican nomination of a
Catholic vice president as they
were over Senator Kennedy's
candidacy for the Democratic
presidential nomination. No
Republican was mentioned by
name.
Evening star., 1960-04-24

sonality kept the children
smiling and the hospital off,
cials jubilant.
She went through the lobby
receiving line headed by James
H. Lemon, first vice president
Of the hospital, and Mrs. Ed
ward w. Russell, president of
the Board of Lady Visitors.
Speaks No English
Children's Hospital is used
to the fanfare surrounding
celebrities. 1t has become al
most protocol that the wives-of
visiting foreign leaders tour
the hospital.
They have included queen
Elizabeth of England, the wives
OF the presidents of the Philip
pines and Mexico, the wife of
a Prime Minister of Italy.
But the children there? Some
OF them don't really know
what the fan fares for, except
that it's a thrill to see the
Evening star., 1960-04-24
De GAULLE
General Asks Aid
ForUndeveIopedAreo

The de Gaulle news confer
ence was televised nationwide.
The French President con-
ceded it is not possible or
desirable" to forbid to any of
the Big Four the right to deal
with any problem, including
Berlin. Premier Khrushchev
has repeatedly threatened to
turn over to Communist East
Germany the control of West
ern access routes to Berlin if
the West did not sign a peace
treaty with the puppet Red
regime.
To continue these threats
would not contribute to a
detente, he said. So the four
leaders at the summit should
seek some beginning which
would justify seeing each other
again later"
Expanding President Eisen-
hower's June call on Premier
Khrushchev in Moscow in a
second nit conference
would be much too soon after
the first one," he said.
Asks More Meetings
Further meetings should be
held, however, in his view. IF
we do not wish to wage war
obviously we must make peace. "
he said. Therefore we must
negotiate. Therefore we must
get together"
The gradual approach to
world problems, which Presi-
dent de Gaulle can be assumed
to have advocated in his private
talks with Mr.. Khrushchev, en-
tails "above all" need to grap-
pie with the problem of improv-
ing East-West relations, he
said.
IF we make some progress in
this problem there will be a
simultaneous change in the
atmosphere, and gradually solu-
tions which divide the world
will begin to appear-solutions
no one would have thought of
posing under present circum-
stances"
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Kentucky 6. o. P.
Supports Nixon

LOUISVILLE, KY, April %
CAP).-Kentucky's Republicans
gave Vice President Nixon their
26 votes for the presidential
nomination today but were
unable to draft Senator Thrus-
ton Morton as their choice for
his running mate.
Senator Morton declined
such an Endorsement because
lit would be a source of great
embarrassment, coming from
my home State and because
of the position I hold" He is
the party's national chairman.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Continued From First Page

u a. u q > =
their 2 billion needy people, by
certain countries with eco
nomic means" including the
Soviet Union, the United States
and France.
The French President showed
every intention of pressing for
Soviet Western cooperation in
economic aid despite the cool
reception his plan has received
both in Washington and in
Moscow.
1t is essential" for all ad-
vanced nations to help. he said.
Il strongly believe there will
be no lasting peace without a
development of economic prog
reSS" among the underdeveloped
and underfed.
He suggested a Nile River
development program and a
cooperative program for fight
ing tuberculosis in Asia as start
ing points.
Visits Gettysburg
Today President de Gaulle
travels to Gettysburg for a day
of further private talks with
President Eisenhower. This eve
ming he is to be host at a recep-
ton for the French community
in Washington. Last night he
met the chiefs of Washington
diplomatic missions and the
rest of the Capital City leaders
before going to dinner with
Vice President Nixon at the
Mayflower.
Yesterday morning President
Eisenhower made the unusual
gesture of accompanying Pres
ident de Gaulle in a walk from
the White House to Lafayette
Square for a wreath-laying
ceremony at a statue of young
Gen. Lafayette, who led French
forces who fought with Amer
ican revolutionaries in the 18th
century.
President de Gaulle seized an
opportunity to proclaim his
confidence in West Germany's
government when a newsman
asked if he still thought Russia
and France were natural
allies" That was the case
during the two world wars, he
explained. when Germany
threatened them both.
Carried on TV
Today, however, the French
President said, Germany does
not threaten anybody. France
does not feel threatened by the
Germany of Chancellor Aden-
auer nor is Russia threat
ened by Germany"
Evening star., 1960-04-24

most Of whom will live a few
years yet before they realize
who she was.
She stopped in the physical
therapy department and saw
little David Skinner, of BITS
North Seventeenth street, Ar
lington, in the Hubbard tank.
Waves Through Glass
She waved and smiled
through the observation win
dows on the second floor to chill
dren recovering from opera
tionS. She looked in on the liv-
lng-in rooms and heard the
internationally known DR.
Reginald S. Lourie, director of
the psychiatry department, ex-
plain, I'VE can minimize the
upset of disqualification on the
Evening star., 1960-04-24

patient by not separating the
mother and child"
Gail Miller. the hospitals
Youngest polio victim, smiled at
the French nations First Lady
when she left a toy obtained
at the institutions snack bar
Gail, a ward of the Alexandria
Welfare Department, is eight
months old. She was admitted
with paralytic polio when she
was only 4 weeks old.
Nine. de Gaulle does not
speak English, but her per-
Evening star., 1960-04-24
,Notre Dame Dinner

John A. Johnson, general
counsel of the National Aero
InauticS and Space Administra-
tion. and the Rev. John H.
Wilson, director of the Notre
Dame Foundation, will address
the 38th annual University Of
Notre Dame dinner, 7 o'clock
tomorrow night, at the Shera-
ton Carlton Hotel.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Morse Hits
Eisenhower
On Secrecy
BALTIMORE. April % (AP).

BALTIMORE, April % (AP) i.
Senator Morse, Democrat of
Oregon, casting himself in the
role of a political educator in
the presidential campaign, ac-
cused the Eisenhower admins
tration tonight of government
by secrecy and power politics.
The Senator, campaigning in
Maryland's May II presidential
preference primary, repeatedly
criticized President Eisenhower
in a speech here before about
100 labor leaders and their
wives.
By contrast, he praised Dem
ocrat Adlai Stevenson as the
man whom-next to Senator
Morse himself-he'd most like
to see in the White House.
There is no substitute for
brains in politics, and Mr..
Stevenson is a great mind" he
told an applauding audience.
Meets of Requirements
He said Mr.. Stevenson, the
unsuccessful Democratic nomi-
nee in 1852 and 1856, also fills
the bill on two other require
mentS for Senator Morse's idea
of a good President-integrity
and dedication to "a sound
liberal program"
Senator Morse acknowledge
to newSmen earlier that he does
not expect to beat Senator
Kennedy of Massachusetts, in
the Maryland primary. He
added that he would not want
Senator Kennedy as vice presi-
I don't think Kennedy is a
liberal"
But he said he would cam
paign for Senator Kennedy, if
the Massachusetts, Senator wins
the nomination, because the
Democrats couldn't nominate
anybody worse than Nixon"
In his speech Senator Morse
said he hoped his campaign
would dramatize two issues on
which he believes the Eisen-
hover administration has been
found inadequate - disarma-
ment and human rights.
He said the summit-confer-
ence to be held in Paris next
month will be "a black page
in history" because it will not
be under the canopy of the
United Nations"
"POwer Politics" Game
Its the old game of power
politics and government by Sc
crecy." he declared.
Senator Morse criticized the
President on civil rights by
saying Mr.. Eisenhower has
never publicly stated he agrees
with the Supreme Court rul-
ing on school desegregation.
He has betrayed the trust
of his Office by following that
course of action he said.
The Oregon Senator ex-I
planned that he is campaign
Evening star., 1960-04-24

ing for the presidential nomi-
nation as "a political educator"
who hopes that some of his
liberal views at least will be
included in the Democratic
platform.
Evening star., 1960-04-24

corridors lined with policemen
and very special people walk
ing through.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Nine. de GouIIe Brings
Hospital Children Joy
By CHARLES G. BROOKS
Star Stan Writer

Chidren's Hospital host to number Of celebrities over
the past few yesterday out to welcome the wife
of French President de Gaule
Nine de Gaulle led through 40-mnute tour of the
pediarc institution gladdened hearts of sick children
Evening star., 1960-04-07

overseas for imports, foreign
aid, travel and investment than
we are getting back from ex-
ports. profits on overseas in
vestmentS, and foreign tourist
spending here.
AS other lands pile up these
surplus dollars they put them
either into high yielding Amer
ican securities or into gold
purchased from the Treasury.
If this goes on it will do the
American dollar no good. Presi-
dent Eisenhower wants to end
the deficit. And Fairs can be
tool.
The Commerce Department
so far has stated its role only
in general terms. Trade fair
participation of the govern
ment will be progressively in
creased and more trade mis-
sions sent out to spread the
word Of what we can sell. 1t
adds there will be additional
emphasis on follow-up efforts
to assure exploitation of trade
leads generated by trade fairs
and trade missions"
Evening star., 1960-04-07

during the next recession for
improved education. rebuilding
cities. the like.
We have not reformed our
basic income tax structure.
though We are aware that re-
forms could be vital incentives
to imperative growth.
The best time to think about
anti-recesSion policies is not
when the economy is faltering.
but when it is strong, as at
present." said Arthur F. Burns,
president of the National Bu-
reau of Economic Research and
President Eisenhower's chief
economic adviser during the
recession of 1953-54, in a speech
in Los Angeles a few days ago.
DR.. Burns then submitted a
little list of his own-which
particularly stressed immediate
reform of the unemployment
insurance system and a policy
on tax reduction.
But the voices of such men
as DR.. Burns seem to fall into
a vacuum. The G. o. P. Admin
istrative and the Democratic
controlled Congress have had
two long, prosperous years in
which to improve our recession
defenses. Score card: zero.
Distributed 1860 by The Hall
Syndicate. Inc. All Rights Reserved
Evening star., 1960-04-07
BY SAM DAWSON
Associated Press Financial Writer

NEW YORK, April THE
United States is putting new
stress this year on one of the
Oldest commercial gimmicks-
the world trade fair. It's part
of a drive to halt the flow of
dollars and gold overseas.
Products from at least half
of the States will be displayed
abroad. And the Government is
going to put more push into
trying to turn foreign admira-
ton of the displays into solid
orders. President Eisenhower
has given his blessing to the
drive.
Fairs are blossoming as never
before. And increasingly they
have overtones Of international
politics and propaganda.
Exhibitors may be interested
chiefly in the display and sales
Evening star., 1960-04-07
rode Fairs Stressed.
To Stem Dollar Flow

of what they make. But their
governments watch over the
competitive national status as
zealouSly as suburban neigh
borS check up on the newest
car or power lawnmower down
the street.
The commerce department
scheduled entries in IS fairs
abroad this year. One already
has been held in India. There
will be three in April - in
Osaka, Japan; Milan, Italy;
and CaSablanca, Morocco.
In May, other lands will dis
play their wares at the United
States World Trade Fair in
New York'S Coliseum.
The administrations stepped
up interest in fairs grows out
of concern over the balance of
payments deficit. That's a re-
sounding phrase meaning that
we are sending more dollars
Evening star., 1960-04-07
rperAppointed
To Stuff of Bunk
Of Bethesda

H. Fleet Harper, former
Washington banker. has been
named to the staff of the Bank
of Bethesda in an executive
capacity, it was announced to-
day.
From 1949 until his recent
association with the Bethesda
institution, Mr.. Harper has
been vice president and prop
erty manager of Samuel E.
Bogley, Inc.
He formerly was associated
with the old District National
Bank and also was with the
trust department of the Riggs
National Bank. During World
War II he served as a lieuten-
ant commander in the Office Of
Naval Intelligence.
He Is a graduate of George
Washington University Law
School and a member of the
District Bar Association. He is
a member of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase Rotary Club. the
Montgomery County Real
Estate Board, the Institute of
Real Estate Management. the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Cham
ber of Commerce and Kenwood
Counry Club.
Evening star., 1960-04-07
WSSC Awards
Two Contracts

Canova Bros, Inc, of College
Park has been awarded two
construction. contracts by the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission.
One is a S118,279 contract to
build a sewer to serve the old
Congressional Airport property
near Rockville. 1t provides for
installation of a mIle-long
stretch of sewer pipe from the
existing trunk sewer in Cabin
John Greek to MontroSe road.
The other was a S9O,850 con-
Evening star., 1960-04-07
Model Plane Awards

Winners Of the eighth an
nual District Recreation De-
partment Airplane Contest will
receive awards at 10 am.
Saturday in the lobby of the
Commerce Department, Four
teenth street between E street
and Constitution avenue. Mod
els entered in the contest are
on display in the lobby this
week.
Evening star., 1960-04-07

tract for a 9.OOO-foot extension
of the commissions 16-mch
water main along Allentown
road from a point Just south Of
Palmer'S Corner to Old Fort
road, Friendly.