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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-07
District Uses Biddino
To Slash Its Drug Costs
Saves S25o,ooo Since HoIting Buying
Throug GSA-Neeotioted Contracts
BY CHARLES d. PIERCE
Star Stan Writer

sweeping change in the procedure used by the District
to buy drugs has resulted in spectacular savings
which will climb this month to total of more than
quarter of million dollars
Rexford G. VESSELS District procurement officer said
the city has been able to sharply reduced prices
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-07
Paris Begins
AFgiers-Probe,
Purge Likely
Three Ministers
And Security Chief
Arrive on Scene

ALGIERS, Feb. 8 (AP).-
Three French ministers and
the nations chief Of security
today opened an investigation
Of right-wing plotting in the
army. police and administra-
ton Of Algeria.
The arrival Of the four ON
cials in rain-drenched Algiers
Poris TenseIy kwoits New Steps on
AIeerio. Poss A-3
Picture on Poss AS
probably presaged a sweeping
purge affecting high and low
alike in the army, police and
government.
The four are Justice Minis
ter Edmond Michelet. Interior
Minister Pierre Chatenet, Army
Minister Pierre Messmer and
Jean Verdier, director of ma
tional security. They were met
at Maison Blanche Military
Base by so grim-faced officials.
Heading the waiting group
were Paul Delouvrier, the gov
ernment's delegate-general, and
Gen. Maurice Challe, supreme
commander in Algeria.
New Prosecutor Waiting
Robert Schmelck. assigned
as Algiers new prosecutor, was
also waiting. He has been in
vestigating the abortive jan
uary "a uprising Of French set
tiers in opposition to President
Charles de Gaulle's policy of
self-determination for Algeria.
Civilian authorities remain
tightlipped. But an army
source said, the four will spend
many days in Algiers and each
will concern himself with de-
partments which are under his
ministry"
More than a score of rightist
leaders already have been
rounded up. Some of them
were released under police sur
veillance and some were sent
to the infantry officers school
camp in Cherchell, go miles
west Of here.
Thus far only one. DR..
Bernard Lefevre, has been for
mally charged with attack on
the security of the state. He
is in thick-walled Barberousse
Prison where most Moslem ter
rorists are held.
Publisher Under Guard
Authorities formally denied
reports that Alain de Serigny,
publisher Of the daily Echo
d'Alger, has been transferred
to Cherchell. He remains in
his Algiers apartment, guarded
by two policemen.
The purge will also affect
some of the crack paratroop
regiments accused of sympa-
thizing with the insurgents, as
we'll as the police. Col. Yves
Godart, Algeria chief of secur-
ity, already has been removed
from his post.
Army sources confirmed re-
ports that Paratroop Col. Mar
Gel Bigeard, frequently referred
to as 1.-The first paratrooper of
France" has been summoned
to Paris from his command at
Ain-Sefra in Western Algeria. !
Col. Bigeard is said to have
sent a message of encourage
ment to the insurgents.
Met With De Gaulle
The four officials were be-
lieved to have arrived with
fresh instructions. Just be-
fore they left Paris, they met
with Gen. de Gaulle and Pre-
mier Michel Debre.
Me- nwhile, police teams
searched the Offices of three
Algiers morning dailies and
the French News Agency.
A government spokesman de-
scribed the action as, judicial
procedure" part of the investi-
cation of right-wing activities
IN Algiers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-07
SPECIAL TODAY:
Farley Proposes Role
For EX-Presidents
SPECIAL TODAY:

PUT ExPREsDENTs IN SENATE proposes jones A. Farley For
the why pcon the shift from White
House o CoptoI, Poqe Of This Week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-07
Stiff TV> Radio Laws
Asked byHouseUnit
False Ads,
Poyolo and
Rigging Hit
BY ROBERT E. CLARK
Star Stan Writer

Congressional investigators
yesterday prescribed a stiff dose
Of new laws to rid television
and radio of payola, false adj
vertising and rugged shows.
In formal report, the House
committee which lifted the lid
on the quiz show scandals last
fall proposed to make it a GRIM
inal offense to proffer or &C.
cept payola or to rig or FIX" q
radio-TV program.
But it agreed with Attorney
General Rogers that the Fed.
eral Communication Commits
sion and the Federal Trade
Commission already have most
of the authority they need to
end deceptive and corrupt
practices.
Deploring the failure Of the
two regulatory agencies to ex-
ercise these powers, the report
said:
Where a public evil is al
lowed to grow unchecked while
administrators sit idly by and
deplore in silence, the Congress
must exercise it's duty of legis-
lative oversight to restore
lost public confidence"
Hearings Open Tomorrow
Explaining the report at a
news conference, Chairman
Harris, Democrat of Arkansas,
of the Legislative Oversight
Subcommittee said:
What we are trying to do
here is to help bring into the
homes of the American people
clean and acceptable television
programs"
The Harris committee will
open hearings tomorrow on
payola, the practice of paying
push money to plug records
and other unsponsored prod
ucts on radio-TV.
The recommendations Of the
House investigators included
most of the measures suggested
by Mr.. Rogers in a December
80 report to the President. but
generally put more stress on
the need for new laws instead
of reliance on powers already
possessed by the FEC and ETC.
The Attorney General would
leave it to the FEC to require
broadcasting stations to guar
antee the honesty of quiz shows.
He also recommended making
payola a Federal crime, how
ever.
Other Committee Proposals
The committees other pro-
posals included:
l. Licensing of radio and tel
evision networks. with tighter
reins to safeguard the public
interest" in programming. Only
stations are now
2. Aiming the FEC with the
power to suspend licenses tenn
porarily. The FEC can only i'm
pose permanent suspensions
now. a death sentence" so
drastic it has not been used in
Is years.
3. Prohibiting "payoffs"
among competing applicants
for new channels. 1t is common
practice for one applicant to
drop out of the competition
See PAYOLA, Page Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-07
rur IIyrArIIrn Full Report
lite WCAI TEN. on Pese Al

District and vicinity-Mostly sunny. con-
tinued windy and not as warm today,
highest temperature around so degrees.
Fair tonight lowest temperature about "a
degrees. Fair with not much change in
temperature tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-07

He's Man to Trip Nixon. Humphrey
Insists. Pose AS
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25
~ paid their bar bins with good
sound Confederate money.

~ paid their bar bins with good
sound Confederate money.
The Southern army which
marched so bravely through
Rockville did not capture Wash.
ington, in fact, it did not even
try. Its leader Jubal Early, was
appalled, by his own temerity in
venturing so far from home,
and his commanders, some said,
were anything but appalled, by
vast quantities of good bourbon
which were discovered at a
small crossroads community
later known as Silver Spring.
Whatever the reason, the Con-
federates retreated from their
positions before Washington on
the night of July II. McCaus.
land did not return to Rockville,
but retired towards the Poto-
mac down River I'd, His place
was taken by a cavalry brigade
under Bradley Johnson, who
had fought the Yankees in
Prince Georges County on July
IL with moderate success. His
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25

expected influx of up-coun.
ty farmers seriously impeded
the church-golng efforts of the
local citizens. Wagons piled
high with household furniture
and squalling children poured
into town along the Gathers
burg road. Beside each wagon
anxious farm folk prodded
cattle and other livestock into
ever greater activity. These
were refugees fleeing from a
Confederate army under Jubal
Early, which was driving down
on Washington after defeating
a Union force at the Monocacy
crossings near Frederick. Rebel
sympathizers in the village
were jubilant at the news, and
FASTENED to their homes to pre-
pare refreshments for the on
coming invaders. Union sym.
pathizers, fewer and more pru.
dent speedily join ed the
refugees if they had any live
stock to lose.
But it was not the Confed-
crates who rode into Rockville
in the dusty morning sunshine.
Instead, it was a bedraggled
troop of Union cavalry which
had been completely cut off
from the rest of the Northern
army at the Monocacy disaster.
Now it was trying to rejoin
that army at Baltimore, and
finding Confederates across its
path at every turn. Sick and
fatigued, the Union troopers
rested briefly in Rockville, then
prepared to ride cross-county
toward Laurel and Baltimore.
But before they could remount
a cloud OF dust appeared down
the Georgetown pike, the
wagons of the refugees turned
off into the fields as if by
magic, and down Montgomery
ave. CHATTER ed one of the
strangest cavalry brig d e S
known to history.
COnglOmerate Group
Twenty-four hours earlier no
such brigade had existed. Its
privates and non-coms, recover
ling from various sicknesses
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25

Icessfully pursued the delaying
tactics followed on the other
side of Rockville. AS evening
drew on the Confederate al
vance pushed Fry back within
two miles of the Washington
forts guarding the Georgetown
pike, but the main body of Nc
Causland's cavalry chatting at
the delay, was hardly three
miles from Rockville.
Back in that village, as the
stencil of dead cavalry horses
began to faint the warm eve
ming air, the Confederate Gen
eral McCausland dined with his
staff at the Montgomery House
in all the majesty and dignity
of his q years. Outside, the
band of the 14th Virginia
Cavalry played music martial
and romantic, while young
ladies' whose Southern SYM
pathies went somewhat beyond
the usual cheers for Jeff Davis
strolled arm-in-arm with gaunt
young Rebel cavalrymen, and
tried not to smile when they
were told that a whole Confed-
crate army would enter Rock
vile in the morning.
Objective: Washington
At dawn on July IL the last
of McCausland's cavalry trotted
off down the Georgetown pike.
From off to the north there
came to Rockville the far sound
of drums and bugles, and as
in credulius twonspeople
poured from their homes the
Confederate infantry marched
in on their way, so they said,
to capture Washington, Abe
Lincoln, and all the gold of the
Federal Treasury. With their
bands playing Dixie" and THE
Bonnie Blue Flag" and their
battle flags slanting in the
morning sun, regiment after
regiment marched down Mont
gomery ave. to turn left on the
Norbeck I'd. There was artil.
lery, too, at least 40 field
pieces, brisk and businesS-like
and dangerous. Watchers whose
hearts were with the South
cheered themselves hoarse at
this martial display and piled
the passing troops with food
and potables. Northern sympa-
thizers looked glumly on, and
wondered where President Lin
coin would find the men to hold
off this mighty host. A strange
procession brought up the rear
OF the Southern army; four hun
dred Union prisoners captured
on the Monocacy battlefield
came in under guard. These
cleaned up the debris of the
previous days encounter, and
were briefly RECALLED with re-
freshments by sympathetic
lovers of the Union, then they
too were marched off toward
Washington, and the town re-
sumed its accustomed quiet,
broken only by the laughter of
Southern officers at the Mont
gomery House, who scrupulous-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25

most notable accomplishments
had been the capture of a herd
of mules at Beltsville, the de.
feat of Union force at College
Park, and the emplacement of
an artillery piece at Bladens-
burg, which did no damage
whatsoever.
McCausland's retreat down
River I'd. left the road to Rock
vile open for an enterprising
Union cavalry regiment, the
End Massachusetts,, Col. Lowell
commanding. Despite its desig.
nation, this regiment was com.
posed almost wholly of Cali
fornians who felt that they
could out-ride any cavalryman
in either army.
Jubal Early Arrives
In the early morning hours
of July 10 the retreating Con.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25
TdkOmn Park Historian Details
Rockville s CiuiI War Actiuity

encounter, while the outnum-
bered Federals prepared for a
fighting withdrawal towards
Rockville.
Cavalry tactics of the day
called for units hard-pressed in
retreat to leave small parties at
advantageous spots to delay the
enemy's advance, and cause
them to deploy for attack,
whereupon the retiring cavalry
would gallop away and pass
through the next delaying force.
Fry pursued these tactics with
considerable success, and with
little loss to his men or the
Confederates, but his hastily or
ganized command fell into some
confusion as a result. To re-
gain control Fry halted his men
along Montgomery ave., leaving
a stronger force than usual to
delay the Southerners outside
the village. Learning of this
situation from Rebel sympa-
timers who slipped around the
Union holding force the irri-
tated Confederates threw eau
ton to the winds, and attacked
in column without attempting
to deploy. The NORTH r n
cavalrymen got off a ragged
and despairing volley, then
turned and fled into Rockville
with the charging Southerners
hot on their heels. For a few
minutes, while its terrified in
habitants took refuge In cellars
and attics, the village resound-
ed with the roar of battle, and
bullets embedded themselves in
the walls of peaceful homes.
There were casualties on both
sides, and the horrid screams
of injured horses persisted long
after the fighting had moved
off down the Georgetown pike.
Fry Deploys Troops
On the wooded hill which
rises today above mushrooming
subdivisions about a mile from
Rockville on the Georgetown
rd., Fry deployed his entire
command for a firm stand
against the triumphant Confed-
crates. The position was a
strong one, with open fields in
front, and protective woods to
shelter the horses in the rear.
Despite repeated attacks the
Confederates could make no
Roadway until a small artillery
piece was brought up to shell
the Union line. Against this
Fry had no answer. His men
withdrew into the woods,
mounted and rode away down
the pike. For the rest of the
afternoon the Union cavalry, on
every hill between Rockville
and what is now Bethesda sue.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25

bitter conflict whose scars re-
manned for years.
In the early summer of 1863
Jeb Stuart, the valiant and
colorful Confederate cavalry
leader, crossed the Potomac at
Seneca, and rode into Rockville
with his brigades on the way
to Pennsylvania. Squarely
across his path on the road
from Washington to Frederick
was Union wagon train,
which was captured in the
twinkling of an eye, although
a portion managed to escape by
fleeing down the Georgetown
I'd. The captured wagons de-
layed Stuart's northward prog
ress so greatly that the South
ern cavalry reached Gettysburg
too late to be of help to Cen
eral Lee, and there are his
torians who steadfastly main
tain that this great battle was
lost to the South by the action
In the streets of Rockville. Con-
troversy on this point has kept
the memory of this incident
alive. Completely forgotten,
however, are the engagements
which took place on the same
ground little more than a year
after Stuart had ridden through.
Population Was 600
Rockville in 1864 was a pros.
porous village of some 600 in
habitants, many of whom were
strongly inclined towards the
Southern cause. The railroad
had not yet been built, but the
roads which radiated in all di-
rections. from the town are
readily recognizable today. Its
most prominent hosiery was
the Montgomery House, known
to all who Travelled Braddock's
route toward the western noun.
tains. There was little com
munication between the village
and Washington, which con.
sidered Rockville so remote that
regular newspaper correspon-
dents were stationed there.
Such was the state of affairs
on the bright morning of Sun.
day, July 10, 1864, which was
noteworthy only because an un.
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federates began passing once
more through Rockville. No
bands played, no banners flew,
there were no onlookers in the
streets or any bright-eyed maid
ems to cheer the passing col
umn. Citizens who came out
from their homes in the early
dawn saw only groups of tired
men struggling along in a most
unmilitary manner. Those who
remained in bed found little
sleep as shouting sergeants
tried vainly to control confis-
Gated livestock which did not
take kindly to military disci-
pine. At 8 o'clock weary and
dispirited Jubal Early rode into
the village and paused briefly
at the Montgomery House,
where for a time he studied a
Continued on Page A.
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and fevers, had been in a con-
valescent camp near Washing
tor without arms or horses. Its
commander was a Major of
Pennsylvania cavalry in Wash
ington for some obscure reason.
Its squadrons were command.
ed by lieutenants, most of them
mere boys, who had never seen
their troops. their comrades,
their horses or their command
ing officer until the night be-
fore. The whole brigade, 500
strong, had been put together in
a few frenzied hours when
word of the Monocacy disaster
had reached Washington at
dusk the previous evening. Its
orders were simple ride out
into the Maryland countryside
and make contact with the beat
en- Union army, so that the de-
tenders of Washington could
learn what was going on.
Quite possibly the brigade's
leader, Major John Fry,
thought that he could report
mission accomplished" when
he saw the Union cavalry pre-
pairing to ride from Rockville,
but if so he was soon disil-
lusioned. Ahead on the Fred
erick rd., said the WORKOUT
Federal troopers, was not the
defeated Northern General Wal
lace remembered today as the
author of "Ben-Hur"), but the
Confederate General McCaus-
land with over 1900 cavalry and
artillery to boot. Heaven only
knew what was behind McCaus-
land. General Early's army,
certainly, and possibly Robert
E. Lee himself with $4,000 more
Confederates.
Advance Guards Clash
To Major Fry's everlasting
credit, he saw what had to be
done, and despite overwhelming
odds, he lost no time in doing
it. McCausland, and all those
who were behind him, had TO be
delayed at any price to give
General Grant time to rush
troops to the defense of Wash.
ington. The Union brigade,
joined now by the unhappy
company which had been try
ing to get to Baltimore, moved
cautiously out of Rockville on
the road to Gaithersburg. Near
the present intersection of old
Route 240 and Route 688 the ad-
vance guards of North and
South collided with a burst of
carbine fire. Riding forward,
Fry saw an entire Confederate
brigade of 1900 or more com.
ing toward him along the road.
A courier was hastily dispatch
led to Washington to tell of the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25

EDITORS Note: Frank S. Howell member of the
TakOma Historical Society, has devoted much of the
past three to extensive research into Civil War
activity in the Rockville certified public
countan with the Air Force whose hobby is history he
the interesting results of his endeavOr in the
following article)
Seng Rockville is today makes it hard to realize
that Montgomery the of battle on three
occasions during the Civil War; and that the town itself
once fell into Confederate hands, Two of the engage
ments in its streets quickly over the third
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25

COngIOinerAte Group
Twenty-four hours earlier no
such brigade had existed. Its
privates and non-coms, recover
ing from various sicknesses
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