The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-08-12
With Our Men
In the Service
PARENTS HONOR ROLL
Cor 3 or More in Service)

Cor 3 or More in Service)
Five-Mrs. Mary Jordan, Oakland
Howard Miller, Bloomington.
Four-Nr and Mrs Arthur Lawton
Oakland; Mrs May Lewis, near Oak.
land; Mr.. and Mrs. George Ray, Kitz-
miller; Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Wolfe
near Oakland; Mrs. Simon Orendorf
Grantsville; V. L. BIocher, Grants
vile, sons and 1 daughter); Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Ross, jennings; Mrs
Jennie Ryan, Kempton; Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Miller, Kempton; Mr.. and
Robert C. Burton, Kitzmiller; Mr.. and
Mrs. John H. Friend, near Swanton;
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Beachy, Bit
finger; Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Skipper
Deer Park; Mr.. and Mrs. A. C, Lewis,
of Lake Ford, near GAINESVILLE; Mr..
and Mrs. Bruce Yommer Jennings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Tranum, Kitz-
miller.
Three-Mr. and Mrs. William Lohr,
Accident; Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Weber,
Oakland Mr. and Mrs Guy w. Hine-
baugh, Oakland; Rev. and Mrs. H. o.
Teagarden, Mt. Lake Park; Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Lewis, Crellin; Mrs.
Georgia Faherty, Crellin; N. G. Meth
ken, Oakland; Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Miller, McHenry; Mr.. and Mrs. Earle
Coddington, Friendsville; Mrs. Myrtle
Wilson, Kitzmiller; Mr.. and Mrs.
Luther Canaan, Crellin; Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Dewitt, Crellin; Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl F. Teets, Lake Ford; Mr.. and
Mrs j. C. Shaffer, Red House; Mr..
and Mrs. J. S. Shuttlesworth, Red
House; Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest r. Rid
der, Red House; Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus
Wolfe, Red House e sons and
daughter); Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Yom-
mer, Jennings; Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Lahtz, Kempton; Mr.. and Mrs. Ira
Cassidy, Kempton; Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Coddington, near Friendsville; Mr..
and Mrs. William Rice, Oakland; Mr..
and Mrs. w. Humberson, Friendsville;
Mrs. J. d. Darby, Oakland; Albert
and Mrs. Ruth Kahl Oakland;
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip NJ. Smith, Acct
dent; John w. Polling. Oakland
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown Cooper, of
GOrmania
Mr. and Mrs James W. Arbogast,
OF Steyer.
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Honor Student
Ready now for aerial combat duty,
honor student Ebert Otis Riley, avi-
alton radioman, third class, of Oak
land, received his diploma and COM
mendation Of his commanding officer
at graduation exercises for his class
in aerial gunnery at the Naval Air
Gunners School, at jacksonville, Fla
He is one of ten men selected from
his class for special honors.
Riley, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert O. Riley, Route 2, Oakland, grad
uated from Oakland High school in
1889. He received his earlier Navy
training at the Great Lakes, H.,
Naval Training Station and attended
the Naval Radio School at Auburn,
Ala, and the Naval Air Technical
Training Center in Memphis, Tenn.
The course just completed has made
the 21-year-old blue jacket an expert
with all Navy small arms, including
the big so caliber machine guns,
bombs, fuses, and signal flares. His
ability to assemble, repair and shoot
with accuracy any of the Navy weap-
ons is attcsted by his high honor
grades. He is now qualified to fight
as machine gunner in any of the
Nays patrol, scout, torpedo or bomb
ing planes.
Edwin w. Darby, son Of Mrs. John
d, Darby, Oakland, is one of thirty
seven cadets from Maryland now en-
rolled in the prefight school at the
San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center,
San Antonio, Texas He is now under
going rigorous course designed to
fit him for the controls of Americas
war planes. After completion of his
studies there he will be sent on for
more training in flying schools and
finally will be awarded the silver
wings of a pilot in the Army Air
Force.
Charles Cosncr, paratrooper from
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is here
on furlough extending over ten days
which he is spending with friends in
Oakland and his parents at Bayard,
West Va
Sgt Charles H. Dewitt, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Whitfield Dewitt, of the
Hoycs community, has recently COM
pleted an cight-week's course in an
Advanced Armament school at Lowry
Field, Colorado He has since been
transferred to a bomb squadron at
Barksdale Field, Louisiana. Sgt. De-
Witt received his basic training at
Tyndall Field, Florida, where he also
received his rating and WinpS