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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09
Vo-Ag Boys Eligible
For 500 Scholarships

Members of the Future Farmers of
America in Virginia, Maryland, Della
ware, and West Virginia who are COM
pleting their high school courses in
vocational agriculture are eligible for
consideration for the four 500 col
lege scholarships to be awarded by
Southern States Cooperative to an
outstanding FLA member in each
state concerned, W. G. Wysor, Rich
mond, Va, general manager of the
cooperative, announced.
Winners will be selected on the basis
Of their student performance records
during their entire high school ca
reers, and the gift money will be used
by the recipients in pursuing studies
at their state agricultural colleges.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09
Faces Bad Check Charge

Elmer Fabcr, Uniontown, Pa, was
committed to the county jail on Tues
day in default of $1,000 bond and
ordered held for the grand jury on
testimony presented by Officer &. S.
Dunlap, Of the State police.
Fabcr is charged with passing bad
check in a business establishment at
Grantsville.
Dunlap said Fabcr had previously
been arrested and convicted in magis-
tratcs' court on motor vehicle viola
tions. He was arrested February 5
for operating an automobile without a
license and paid fine of $40. On
February 10 he was again arrested or
the same charge and fined $25
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09

Miss Helen Schlossnagle and
mother, Mrs. Edith Schlossnagle
motorcd to Cumberland on Friday, the
former going to Sunbury, Pa, where
She spent few days, and Mrs Sch
lossnaglc visited relatives in Cumbcr-
land. Returning home on Monday they
were accompanied by Mrs. John AuIt,
who had spent several months in
Cumberland with her daughters, and
by her sister, Mrs Charles NJ. Reid,
of Los Angeles, California.
Rev. Charles X. Stevens returned to
his home in York Springs, Pa on
Monday after having pplicd yer suy
Monday after having acccptably sup
piled the Lutheran pulpit for several
weeks during the illness and absence
of the pastor, DR. A. b. Learner, who
has returned to Oakland and hopes to
take up his work as the pastor Of the
local church His return To Oakland
is j source Of qualification no. only
to member Of his own church but to
his many friends who are members q
other churches Of the community.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09
Miss Durham Named
Historical Society Secretary

Owing to other duties and absence
from Oakland, S. H. Jackson has re-
signed as Secretary of the Garrett
County Historical Society Miss Orley
V. Durham, of Oakland, was appointed
his successor, effective April End
New members Of the Historical
Society include Mrs. Blanche Michaels
Hoyes, Baltimore; J. Alexis Shriver,
Bel Air; Guy B. Gilmore, Uniontown,
Pa; Miss Mae Evelyn Wass, Somer-
field Pa; Miss Ruth McRobic, Wash
ington. d. c.; Miss Mary Brown, St.
Louis, Mo-; Joshua c. Breuninger, De-
troit Mich; John NJ. Browning, Phil
adelphia, Pa; Benjamin F. Knepp,
Red House; Walter L. Hull, Oakland;
Richard S. Browning, Deer Park, and
Miss Mariana Lee Long, Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09
DEER PARK

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Lohr and
family have moved to Mountain Lake
Park.
Rev, u. f. IIinzman, Methodist
church, will begin a series Of meet
ings here April 20. Rcv. J. G. Foster
will assist him. w. +. Moon will assist
with singing, All arc cordially invited
to these meetings.
A Clothing Construction School is
scheduled to be held at the Hall, April
10, to be in charge of Miss Marianne.
Lee Long, H. d. A. All interested
are invited to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs f. G. Clattcrbuck and
children spent the past weekend with
Mrs Cl3ttcrbuck's mother, Mrs. +. v
Rafferty,.
Members of the Tn ilu. lntermedl-
ate Junior Girl and Primary boy
and girls, and teachers Ct the Meth
odist church had ar egg rolling ard
egg hunt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09

Mrs. Lucy Strachan and the late
Thomas Strachan, of Blaine, W. Va.
The wedding took place at the home
of the brides parents on February %,
at $50 p. m. The ring ceremony was
used by Rev. J. Edgar Barrick. Miss
Gay Hamill and Mrs. Barrick were
the only attendants besides the brides
parents.
The date of the marriage was also
the 29th wedding anniversary of the
brides parents. Mr.. Strachan is en-
ployed by the Western Maryland Rail
way company.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09

Mrs. Mary c. Stanton returned to
her home this week after having
undergone an operation at Meyers
clinic in Philippi, w. Va.
The rank of Knight will be con-
ferred at the regular meeting Of the
Knights of Pythias lodge at Castle
Hall, Oakland, on Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hafer and daugh-
ter Margaret, Happy Hills Farm, and
Mrs. Olin F. burst, Cumberland, were
visitors in Oakland yesterday for an
hour or more.
State road workmcn were engaged
the latter part of last week in erect
ing highway signs on route 38, from
Sand Flat to kitzmiller, and route Al
from Mt Lake Park to Deer Park
Mr.. and Mrs Franklin E. Rathbun
returned to their home here Tuesday
night following a vacation of about
four weeks, the couple having been in
Florida most of the time and in Gin
cinnati, Ohio, few days.
Max Nordeck, who enlisted several
months ago in the U. S Naval Re
serve expects to leave Tuesday from
Terra Alta, West Va, for South Bend,
Indiana, where he has been called for
schooling in connection with his naval
training.
Mr. and Mrs c. F. Sharps and sons
Fred and William, the latter Of CIarks-
burg, West Va, left here this morning
for a motor trip to the South, where
they will visit John Sharps, who is
stationed at Moultre, Ga, attached to
the L. 5. Army Air corps
Easter holiday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. c. Hostetlcr, near town, were
Misses Ruth and June Hostetler,
Washington, d. c.; Mrs. Fred Co
lightly and daughter, Davis. W. Va;
Mrs. Fred Landon and family, Mt.
Lake Park; Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Boyer and sons, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Kaufman, Mr. Randell, and Ernest
Hostetler, of Johnstown, Pa.
Among the college students who
were at their homes over the Easter
holidays were Nancy and DeCoursey
Boldcn, Arthur and Lewis NayIor,
Robert and James Hesen, Loretta
Ashby, Edward Smouse, James Bell,
University of Maryland; John Grant,
Johns Hopkins university; Stanley
Stahl, Frances Nine and Sue Sweitzer,
Frostburg State Teachers College,
William Stemple, West Virginia Yves
leyan college.
Rev. Minor Sprague and Mark Moon
leave Oakland this evening for Rom
ney, West Va, where they will attend
the District Conference OF the Moore
field District Of the Methodist church,
They will hear Bishop Edwin Holt
Hughes tonight. The sessions tomor-
row will have to do with the business
matters of the churches of the Dis
trict. Rev. Sprague is chairman Of the
District finance committee and a
member of the committee on the eX-
animation of persons who are candi-
dates for license to preach or to con-
tinue to preach. The session will end
Friday evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09

Jimmie Kelley, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Virgil B. Kelley, is able to be out again
after having been confined to his home
for several days on account of an at
tack of influenza.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09

KNOX-STRACHAN-Mr. and Mrs.
f. NJ. Knox, Deer Park, announce the
marriage of their daughter Ila Fern
Knox, to Mr. Frank Strachan, son Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09

EAS T-SCHUSTER - Announce
mcnt has been made of the marriage
of Miss Anne Schuster to William f.
East The ceremony was performed
March IA, in st. Johns Lutheran
church, Pittsburgh
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
John Schuster, Pittsburgh, and the
bridegroom is the son Of Mrs. Irene
East Snyder, Washington, D. c., for
merly of Friendsville.
He was graduated from Oakland
High school and Western Maryland
college, Westminster, and later taught
school in Oakland high school At
present he is stationed with the U. S,
army at Camp Walters, Texas Mrs,
East is employed in Pittsburgh, and
will remain at her home for the pres
cnt. The couple spent brief honey
moon in Washington. u. c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09

ME Gage, Friendsville; and an
adopted daughter, Mrs. Harold
Wharf,, Erie, Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-09
MARRIED
JACKSON IDDER

JACkSON-RIDDER - Miss Ruth
Florence Ridder, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest R. Ridder, of near Oak
land, became the bride of First Lieu
tenant j. Haig jackson, of Oakland,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Jackson,
Homecoming, at a ceremony performed
on Easter Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock in st. Johns Lutheran church
at Red House. Rev. A. X. Jones, pas
tor, officiated.
The bride was attired in a rose col
ored street length dress with navy
blue accessories and wore an orchid
shoulder corsage She had as her maid
of honor her sister, Miss Eileen Rid
der, who was attired in light green
dress with tan accessories and wore
corsage of pink roses. John Marshall,
Washington, was the groom's best
man.
Mrs. jackson was graduated from
Oakland high school in 1897 and in
recent months has been a junior
stenographer in the U. S, Department
of Engineers, stationed at Norfolk,
Va. Prior to that she was employed
as bookkeeper at the Ralph Pritts
garage on Liberty street for three or
more years.
Lieut.. Jackson is now stationed at
Fort Belvoir, Va, as an instructor in
the U. S. Engineers. He was former
local manager of the j. w. Jackson
store here prior to his entrance into
the U. S. army. He is a graduate of
West Virginia university where he
took advanced military training and
received his commission as a member
Of the Officers Reserve Corps.
Lieut.. and Mrs, Jackson will reside
in Alexandria, Va. Among those who
attended the ceremony Sunday after
noon were Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Jack
son, Miss Margaret Hohing, and
Lieut.. Jackson's young daughter
Janet Jackson, of Homecoming; DR.,
and Mrs. A. f. Nance, Mr.. and Mrs
Ernest r. Ridder, Wilbcrt Ridder, Ray
Ridder, Misses Lucille and Ethel Rid
der, Mr.. and Mrs Harland Ridder
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Pritts, Misses
Mary Louise Helbig, Nell Hclbig,
Stella Leighton, Mrs David Hardesty
and Fred Helbig.
FELKER- THAYER-Mr. and Mrs
Guy Thayer have announced the mar
riagc Of their daughter, Mary Louise
to Fred NJ Felker, of East Mauch
Chunk, Pa, which took place in the
parsonage Of st. Paul's Methodist
church on Monday evening. Rev.
Minor Sprague, pastor, officiated.
The bride has been in the Oakland
telephone office for the past three
years. Mr. Felker, who had been in
the Swallow Falls CCC camp in a
clerical capacity, will enter the serv-
ice of his country about April %,
from his home at East Mauch Skunk.
CAREY -KITZMILLER - Mr.. and
Mrs. G. S. KitzmilIer, Bloomington,
have announced the marriage of their
daughter, Muriel, of Beaverton, Mich,
to Lloyd Carey, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Carey, Hope, Mich.
The ceremony was performed March
26, in St. Johns Episcopal church,
Beaverton.
The bride wore floor length gown
of white net over satin, her finger tip
veil of white was fastened to tiara
of seed pearls. She carried a bouquet
of red roses and sweet peas.
The bride is graduate Of Bruce
high school, Westernport.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24
Three Hurt in2
Auto Accidents
In Imperial Co.

Three persons were injured in
two automobile accidents in I'M
perial county late Thursday, one of
them involving a county road dis
trict truck upon which several chain
gang prisoners were riding.
John Casey was taken to a hos
pital with minor injuries when a
car in which he was riding, driven
by Horace j. White, 25, Imperial,
crashed into the rear OF Road
District No. 2 truck, driven by
Samuel j. Clark, on Highway 80 two
miles west of Seeley Thursday af-
ternoon.
White told California Highway
Patrol officers he miSjudged the
distance between his car and the
truck when he approached from
the rear, with the result that his
car struck the rear of the truck.
Thomas Moore, 25, and Mary Ell
lis Moore, six years old, suffered
minor injuries i'll another accident
on Highway 80 mile west OF the
Highline canal, a highway patrol
report said. They were riding in a
car driven by Kenneth l.. Gibersen,
u, San Diego sailor, when Giber-
sen went to sleep at the wheel. The
car left the highway, travelled 100
feet and struck a tree.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24
Years Fire Loss
Is Second Lowest

saving of $1,7O0 per fire. OF the
1913 calls So were general alarms,
II were still alarms and fire were
false alarms. Last year the num-
ber of generals was the same-52-
while there were only 65 stills
Altogether the total loss from fire
was $16,067.6l while the total in
volvement was $225, ,l25.
Reeds report showed that most
fires broke out between 6 pm. and
II m, when 40 calls were answer
ed. Between II noon and 6 pm.
throughout the year 35 calls were
answered. From am. to II noon
there were % calls and from II m.
to 6 am. there were 20 calls.
Within the city there are n
miles of overhead wiring which
together with the Al alarm boxes
comprise the fire warning system.
The report listed 2,373 inspec-
tions made by firemen during the
year, checking the available home
apparatus for fire fighting use and
making note of fire hazards
Concluding his report, Reed said
that he hoped to be able to hold
all of his men but one, who Is
leaving for a higher paying job. He
asked for replacement OF ONE OF the
fire trucks, 1919 model pumper
and reiterated plea for new
fire station.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24

Ilc pan, ItOoCliStO IoOiii6 i6uSZ eAAAa
Angel Gomez, will be sentenced
next Tuesday morning.
TRIAL ENDS
Trial of the duo, which ended
Wednesday, represented the first
instance in which Imperial county
poppy fields said to be established
in the central Mexican highlands
by group of Orientals.
The opium gum produced from
the poppy fields is SO crude and
impure, authorities said, that when
injected under the skin-in the prac-
tice of addicts-it causes painful
infections and other disorders.
Rodriguez and Gomez were ar
rested by narcotics agents who, it
was testified during the trial here,
purchased 1000 grams of the raw
gum opium from the two Mexicans.
The men were described as run
ners" for a large syndicate operat-
ing out of Mexico. Their product,
agents said, customarily sells for a
dollar a grain.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24
Valley Sheriff
Warns Merchants
On Taking Checks
FOrgers and Bad Check
Passers Will Always
Try Again, Ware Says
Paper hangers are chronic +;

Paper hangers are chronic !;
no matter how many times
the law bounces them, they'll
always take another chance
on a bounching check.
That was the gist of Sheriff Rob-
ert w. Wares warning to the busi-
ness men of Imperial county Friday,
through the medium of the Holt
vile Rotary club.
One way to assure a minimum
loss from bad checks is that prac-
ticed by one FL Centro merchant,
Ware told the Holtville RotarianS.
The Ell Centran never casheS an
out-of town check
The sheriff revealed bad check
passing as one of the big businesses
of crime when he quoted state
statistics that 1857 bad check pass
ers were fingerprinted in California
alone during the last fiscal year
This number Cf persons passed 54l0
checks with face value OF 5000, SIS 7,
he said.
Bad check passing becomes chron-
ic, the sheriff said, citing one man
arrested here who had five prior
penitentiary records.
Wartime brings more bad checks
the speaker said. During and after
the last war, forgeries increased 6E
per cent over the preceding period
Sheriff Ware warned merchant:
particularly to keep the firms check.
locked up, since many checks witt
firm names printed on them arr
stolen, filled out and easily passed
Some criminals, he added even hav,
fictitious firm checks printed. HI
cited several examples of operation
OF such racket in Imperial county
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24
Council Rejects
Property Offer

A discussion of when the war
now raging will be officially over
played a part in the refusal OF Ell
Centro's city council to sell par
Gel of tax delinquent property We'd
nesday night
T. d. Keller offered to buy SO
feet of land owned b. the city on
Eighth street between Main ana
Broadway for $3.50 He agreed to a
proposal pu. forward that he be-
gin work on a building to cost
at least $4,000 within II months
afte5 the war" is over and to have
it completed within four months
partly because it was estimated
that the strip of land was worth
more than $3.50 and because the
proposed improvements would not
be high enough.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24
Hero Of Western
Song and Story
Ruled Incompetent
One of Few Remaining
Gunmen of Roaring
Camps Sent to Patton

Ghost voices from border
badlands began the last stan
"a of the Willie Jackson song
Friday.
For William Andrew Jack
son, gunman, desperate and hero
of a cowboy camp song of the old
west, was committed Friday to the
state asylum at Patton as a mental
incompetent.
SO ended 40 years of retirement"
for the old timer who chose CaleXico
as the place he wanted to live out
his life after an earlier 40 or so
years spent roaring through the
camps and dives of the border from
Ell Paso to San Diego. Even his re-
tirement was not unmarried by
gunplay; one more notch was added
to the butt of his legendary six
gun while he lived in the valley.
KEPT GUN HANDY
Settled down to a life of calm
at CaleXico, Jackson nevertheless
could not break the habit of years.
He kept his gun by him as he slept.
One night, in 1922, a Mexican mar
auder crept stealthily through Jack
sons window.
Jackson drilled hole above the
Mexicans left eyebrow.
After he had time to survey his
work, he apologized profusely to
investigators.
Il must be losing my eyesight,"
he said. Il aimed between his eyes.
His shot was an inch off.
MILLIONAIRE BROTHER
Before coming here, Jackson had
established more or less temporary
residences at one time and another
at Tombstone, Ariz., and in the
Pecos Valley. His only known rela-
tive, a brother, died several years
ago at Ell Paso, leaving an estate
of a million dollars or more.
Willie JACKSON was left no share
in the big estate. Friends specu-
lated that some incident in his
past life had disqualified him, in
his brothers eyes. AT any rate, he
spent his own life'S savings at
tempting to obtain share of his
brothers.. He failed.
The last chapter in the saga of
Willie Jackson began several days
ago, when solicitous friends reported
that the old man, bedridden and
with his memory gone, was no long
er able to take care of himself
Friday the state had assumed
the burden.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24

Ell Centro's per capita loss of ST. 46
from fires during the fiscal year
just completed was the second low
est since records have been kept,
Fire Chief Corn Reeds annual re-
port to the city council revealed
Friday.
Last year the average loss to
citizens based on conservative
estimate of LOCO population was
sl.37, lowest of the IL years that a
check has been maintained.
Average loss from blazes during
the year ending July l, 1912, was
Sl3O while the average involve
ment - property that could have
been destroyed by flame-was $3.50.
The prompt action of, Reeds men
in responding to the 1913 fire calls
recorded brought about an average
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24

ration of one in 46l cases. He added
that there has been a change in
the form of yellow fever vaccine
now used which the surgeon gen.
eral thinks will eliminate the whole
trouble"
The surgeon general reports
diminishing incidence is indicated
by information from group of
large hospitals Stimson said
He said the peak apparently was
reached during the week ended
June 20, with 1897 hospital cases
were reported, compared with 2,575
cases for the week ended July 4.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24
Glasgow Named to
Warren Committee

Attorney General Earl Warren's
campaign for governor will be fur
thered in Imperial county by j. W..
Glasgow, El Centro, and S. d. Ca
rey, Brawley
Raymond L. Haight, Warren's
southern California campaign di-
rector, announced that Glasgow
will head the Warren for Governor
Nonpartisan committee in the SOU
thern part of Imperial county, and
Carey will chairman the committee
in the north-end
The men will coordinate the ac-
tivities of nonpartisan supporters
of the attorney general.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24
One Man Pays Two
Fines in Court

Three fines against two violators
was Ell Centro's police court record
Friday morning.
j. w. Mclaughlin, 46-year-old
ice man, paid two seven dollar fines
after being picked up and booked
twice on drunkenness charges and
Ramon Cisneros, 81, paid SO on
a similar charge. Mclaughlin was
arrested early Thursday evening and
later released to a friend on $40
bail on the condition that he be
taken home and put to bed. He
was arrested again several hours
later in front of an FL Centre cafe,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24

The bill was passed, l34 to l9,
but only after a small group of
southern representatives fought it
SO vigorously that supporters charg-
ed they were carrying on fill
buster"
Rep. John Jennings, r., Tenn,
bluntly charged that the real pur-
pose of the opposition is to con-
tinue to draw the bar sinister across
the brow of the Negro citizen"
MUST BE QUALIFIED
The bill assures soldiers, marines
and sailors in the United States
and Alaska an opportunity to vote
in the congressional elections If
they are qualified as voters in their
states. To get an official war bal
lot," however, they must swear that
they are qualified"
Rep. John E. Rankin, D., Miss,
led the opposition group OF south
erners and charged that the bill
violated the rights of the states to
control elections. He said it was
not "legitimately" reported by COM
mittee and that arguments in its
favor were "demagoguery.'
Rankin and the other opposition
lists forced SO many time-consuming
quorum calls and roll calls that Rep.
John M. Vorys, r., O., furiously
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24

The secretary said 24057 of the
cases occurred at home and 4.52s
abroad
Stimson explaine dthere appar-
emily was a long period OF incuba-
ton before jaundice developed
Thus 1t was considerable time after
the first inoculations before the
source of the malady BECAME evil
dent The change In the serum was
made some time ago but cases OF
jaundice continued to develop from
the old inoculations
Otherwise, Stimson reported, the
health of the Army Is exGeIlenf
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-24
Officers Search
Desert for Man

Deputy Sheriffs were searching
the desert near Midway Wells Fri
day for a man believed lost in the
100 to 125 degree temperature that
prevails there.
An attendant at Aliens Store
Glamis, reported that the man,
name unknown here, left there
Tuesday morning VIII a quart bot
tie of water to prospect for man
ganese. He intended to be back
within short time, the report said,
but failed TO return.