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'Abraham Lincoln'
To Be Presented
At Georgetown
Play Unanimous Choice
For Sesquicentennial
Celebration
Memories of a President’s wartime
visits to Georgetown University will
be recalled Friday evening when the
university’s Mask and Bauble Club
presents John Drlnkwater’s histori
cal drama, “Abraham Lincoln,” be
fore an audience in Gaston Hall.
It will be the club’s contribution to
Georgetown’s sesquicentennial an
niversary celebration.
History records several visits of
President Lincoln to the little college
on the outskirts of Georgetown dur
ing the years of the Civil War. The
first time was when he came to re
view the famous 69th (Irish) Regi
ment of New York on May 10, 1861,
before its engagement at Bull Run.
The Jrish regiment was the first
of a long series of regiments to be
quartered on the campus until 1865.
Its 1,500 men occupied all the space
in the Maguire Building and the
Mulledy Building and tented also on
the campus. Lincoln visited them
in the company of Secretary of
State Seward and other officials.
The New York men were soon fol
lowed by the 79th Regiment, also
from New York. During the war
some of the college buildings were
used as hospitals and on several
occasions the sorrow-burdened Lin
coln walked between the rows of
cots. On one of these visits to
Georgetown he lingered to see a
new painting, the “Calling of Mat
thew,” which had been presented to
the college by Gen. Meade.
Georgetowns colors, blue and
gray, were chosen as a symbol of the
reconciliation of the North and
South. To the Southern cause the
school offered two young men who
became nationally known. One was
Edward Douglas White, a Louisiana
boy who later became United States
Senator and Chief Justice of the
United States. Another was a young
poet, James Ryder Randall, whose
“Maryland, My Maryland" became
one of the great war songs of the
South.
With Georgetown steeped in the
tradition of the Civil War and with
its alumni fighting just as hard for
the preservation of the Union as
some others did for Southern inde
pendence, Drinkwater's "Abraham
Lincoln" was the unanimous choice
for the sesquicentennial play.
There will be 54 students in the
cast, with Carl W. Watson, jr., as
Lincoln and William J. Driscoll, jr.,
as Mrs. Lincoln. The latter is presi
dent of the dramatic club.
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Poiomac Man Acquitted
In Fire Negligence Case
By • Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md„ Dec. 3 —A Cir
cuit Court jury yesterday returned
a not guilty verdict in the trial of
Robert M. Pier of Potomac, on a
charge of allowing a fire ot spread
and burn down a $10,000 house and
several outbuildings on an adjoining
property.
It was the only not guilty verdict
to date in a criminal case during the
November term, which included 72
indictments and 51 criminal appeals
from the Police Court.
Defendants in 39 of the indict
ments have pleaded or been found
guilty, and in 31 of the 51 criminal
appeals cases guilty verdicts have
been returned. Twenty of the ap
peal cases have been nolled prossed
by State's Attorney James H. Pugh,
and did not go to trial in the Circuit
Court.
Mr. Pier was convicted of the same
charge in Police Court and given a
six months’ sentence by Judge Har
old C. Smith. It was on an appeal
from that verdict that the jury yes
terday found him not guilty.
Testimony showed that he had set
a trash fire near his home last
March 8, which later spread to a field
and whipped by a high wind jumped
across a 30-foot road to the property
of J. B. Duley. Their home and sev
eral outbuildings were burned to the
ground. Mr. Pier testified he had
taken every precaution to prevent
the fire from spreading.
Sends Son to Jail
PITTSBURGH, Pa„ Dec. 3 (A*).—
Farmer John Stoyko kept his word,
sending son Mike to jail for four
months. He told a Federal court
jury he had pleaded with the boy
to remove an illicit whisky still from
an abandoned mine on the farm
property.
“If they raid the still, I'll tell
them you own it,” he said he warned
the son.
A guilty verdict wasVetumed in
15 minutes.
Boy, 12, Catches Eagle
UNION, Wash., Dec. 3 OP).—Ernie
Ahrens, 12, heard a commotion in
his pen of geese, and found the in
vader was a golden eagle, 6 feet from
tip to tip of wings. With the tech
nique he’d used in catching geese,
Ernie grabbed the eagle by the neck
with one hand, and caught both
the bird’s feet with the other. The
eagle was caged; the boy was un
scathed. f
31000-Volt Shock
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BLUEFIELD, W. Va„ Dec. 3.—
E. J. Hager, 30, Appalachian
Electric Power Co. line foreman
of Princeton, W. Va., was
shdcked by 33,000 volts of elec
tricity, but lived to tell about it
today at Bluefleld Sanitarium.
The accident occurred late
Thursday in a remote area of
the Cumberland Mountains
near Jackson, Ky. Mr. Hager
did not reach the hospital here
until today, but doctors said he
would recover from second-de
gree bums of the arm and back.
Mr. Hager told of being
hoisted off a mountain by fellow
workers using hand lines. He
was propped on a horse to make
four more miles to Jackson and
medical aid. He was brought
here by ambulance.
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END OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES—Georgetown stu
dents re-enact the scene of the surrender of Lee to Grant as part
of their production of “Abraham Lincoln.” Thomas F. Mullahey,
Jr., is shown as Gen. Grant; Grover A. Whalen, jr., son of the gen
eral manager of the 1939 New York Worlds Fair, as Gen. Meade,
and John F. Bolton, Jr., as Gen. Lee. —Star Stall Photo.
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Ex-Blacksmith,
90, Is Ardent
Rabbit Hunter
By tht Associated Preu.
BRIDGETOWN, Md., Dec. 3.—At
an age when most men are content
to remain close nIo the hearth. Jacob
B. Gibson, 90, has dispensed with
spectacles and is going hunting.
The retired village blacksmith,
still with the powerful physique he
acquired in shaping horseshoes, dis
carded his eye-glasses because of
"second sight,” he says, and has gone
rabbit hunting every day since the
season opened except for squally
weather days.
Mr. Gibson's one regret was that
on his birthday anniversary, No
vember 19, the weather was "not
fit.”
He brought home four rabbits this
fall and neighbors found three more
which they said had fallen before
his marksmanship.
A friend recently took him to a
symphony concert but Mr. Gibson
decided he "preferred the music of
a pack of foxhounds.”
True to his trade, Mr. Gibson has
never owned an automobile and dis
likes them.
He and Mrs. Gibson remember
when Bridgetown was a slave trad
ing center.
Students Protest Liquor Ban
NEWARK, Del., Dec. 3 OP).—“Are
we men or are we minors?” indig
nant University of Delaware stu
dents were asking themselves today.
Students and liquor dealers have
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Hunting Story
DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 3 OP).—ThU
story Is Lloyd C. Da the’* of the Bar*
num (Minn.) Herald, and he says
he’s coins to stick to it:
Lester Munter, a hunter, shot a
4-year-c'.d doe. It had, he told Mr.
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Silver, and filled its cavities as it
ate. No one has advanced an alter
native possibility.
Engineers Elect
STILLWATER, Oltla., Dec. 3 OP).—*
J. V. Martlnus, University of Minne
sota, was re-elected national presi
dent of Pi Tau Sigma, honorary
mechanical engineering fraternity,
here today and Georgia Tech was
named host for next year's conclave.
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