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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-06-03
BRIEF Outline Of the Settlement of the
Drane Family at Accident, Md
BY T. GETTY BROWNING,
Nav 27, 1913.
May 27, 1913.


dent with his family about the year
1901, and it is difficult to understand
why people of their type would
undertake to establish themselves in
what was then but a little more than
IA wilderness. They were gentle folk
and had been used to all the comforts
land social activities of the thickly
,settlcd area surrounding Upper MARI
horo in Pl ince Georges county; but
fired with the ambition that influenced
SO many carly Americans, they gave
up their comfortable surroundings,
and bringing their slaves and such
stock as they had, cast their lot with
. the small group Of pioneers who were
then settling the far western frontier
of Maryland. At the time OF his COM
ing to Accident there We're but few
settlers within any reasonable
Decentralization Hoye at Crabtree
Bottom, Col. Lynn at Cherry Tree
! Meadows. the McHemy family at
Buffalo Marsh, and a handful Of
others at Blooming Rose, probably
comprised their entire circle of
acquaintance in that locality.
. Meshach Browning, who was then
quite a young man. moved to Bear
Creek Glades near McIIenry in the
year 1901, and he refers to the Drane
family in very complimentary langu-
lage i'm his famous book Forty four
, Years Of the Life Of a Hunter" As
the years went on it turned out that
! Mcshach BroWnmg's children, together
with the Hoyes and the Dranes at
/ tended the same school, which must
have been the So-called Academy at
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-06-03

for Grand Rapids, Mich, where she
will visit friends.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Physician Held for Jury
On Illegal Surgery Charge

DR.. Edward Comstock Wilson, So,
of 127 B street Sc. was held for
grand jury action in Municipal Court
today on charge of performing an
illegal operation on young married
woman.
The defendant is awaiting court
action on another charge involving
a Government employe. This case
has been continued until next We'd
nesday to permit the girl to testify
at the preliminary hearing. DR.. Will
son has pleaded not guilty to both
charges before Judge George D.
Nelson. He is free under $500
bond.
According to police, the married
woman said she paid the doctor $50
to perform the operation last No.
vember. Shortly afterward she be-
came i'll and has been hospitalized
since that time, police said.
The other case involves a 21-year-
old girl. who, police said, told them
she paid the doctor $25 to perform
the operation. She was admitted to
Gallinger Hospital on May IS, police
said.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Charles |. WiIkerson,
Retired Fireman, Dies

Charles L. Wilkerson, As, retired
District fireman and veteran of the
World War, died Wednesday at his
home, 1891 Fourth street NV, after
long illness.
Born in Colonial Beach, Va, he
was employed in the District Fire
Department for II years until his
retirement in September, 1886, be-
cause of poor health. He was a
member of the Fireman's and Po-
liceman's Post of the American
Legion.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Eva Louise Richter Wilkerson; three
children, Fireman Third Glass
Charles L. Wilkerson, jr., U. S. NJ;
Mrs. Dorothy Kibler and Miss Bar
bara Ann Wilkerson his mother,
Mrs. G. B. Wilkerson of Arlington;
a brother, George 3. Wilkerson of
Indian Head, Md, and a sister Mrs.
Rose CARRIERS of Arlington.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Yugos|av Guerri||as
Repu|se Axis Forces
Capture 200 Square
Miles of Territory
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, June Axis troops
attempting to wipe out Gen. Draja
Mihailovich's Yugoslav guerillas
have been driven back toward Cro-
alta and Slovenia and forced to yield
1900 square miles of territory and
81 railway stations, the Yugoslav
government-in-ex said today.
News of the latest Yugoslav sue
cesses followed a Tass report yes
terday that Hitler had sent Field
Marshal Gen. Siegmund Wilhelm
List back to the Balkans in an ap-
parent effort to clean out resist
ance and prepare the defense there
against invasion.
Croat units were reported by the
Yugoslavs to have captured and
held nine miles of railway line near
Zagreb.
The Yugoslav patriots were said
to have captured $500 rifles and
much war material in addition to
the Southern Croatian towns of
Gracac (Grachats), Otacac (Oto-
chats and 10 others in the 1900
square-mlle area.
Although many Serbian units are
believed to have retreated into the
mountains, the guerillas operating
along the railway lines from Bel
grade to Mis- and Sarajevo and in
the Axis southern defense areas of
Greece were reported recently to
have beaten German punitive
force OF 5000, killing the German
commander and other officers.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Prof. {. N. Baker Dies;
Former D. T.. Resident

Word was received at the Capitol
today OF the death in New York
Wednesday Of Prof. E. M. Baker, so.
Of Ann Arbor, Mich, noted chenG cal
engineer and former president of the
American Chemical Society.
Prof. Baker spent most of his
youth in Washington and was grad
uated from Mckinley High School
in 1912. He has two sisters living in
Silver Spring, Md, and was we'll
known to majority Of the members
OF Congress through his war work
Prof. Baker had been a faculty
member in the chemical engineering
department of the University Of
Michigan since 1918, and was also
consulting engineer for the Houdaille
Hershey Co. He was rated as an
expert in electroplating, and was a
member and director of many pro-
fessional societies.
The two surviving sisters are Mrs
Florence A. Lincoln, whose husband
is in charge of the Capitol branch
of the Library of Congress, and Mrs.
Edith M. Gray. He is also survived
by his widow, who lives in Tona-
wanda, N. Y. They were married in
1920. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow in Ann Arbor.
A LITTLE want ad" in The Star
brings LOT Of results. MA. 5000.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Sales Of Short Ends
OF Movie Film Curbed

BY the Associated Press.
Candid camera fans who "roL
their own" 35-mm. film were shut
out today from buying short ends OF
motion picture film by a War Pro-
duction Board order prohibiting
sales of less than 100 feet without
specific authorization.
Although WPB officials said the
order was not aimed at amateur
users. who frequently buy rs, so or
100 foot lengths of movie film for
loading into their still cameras, it
will bar them from obtaining such
film unless their suppliers can get
WPB authorization.
Short ends represent only about
one-thousandth of the amount of
film used in the industry, WPB said,
but the, order is necessary to get
film for Red Cross appeals, short
announcements and trailer use.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
IS Motorists Lined Uu
For Gas Pay 81 Each
For Impeding Traffic
Rush-hour Violation Of
standing Restrictions
Charged in 10th Precinct

Motorists found violating stand
ing" restrictions on busy thorough
fares during the morning rush hour
while waiting in line to get gasoline
will face court action, police said
today.
Yesterday 18 motorists forfeited
81 collateral each in Municipal Court
on charges of otstructing traffic
while standing in a block long line
OF cars on Sherman avenue above
Girard street NV Tuesday morning
The motorists were waiting to get
gasoline from a corner filling station.
Police Capt. Clarence Lutz of No.
10 precinct said his men issued
charges after receiving complaints
from downtown bound motorists that
the cars were blocking the street.
1t was pointed out that bus line
runs on Sherman avenue.
Some of the cars in the back of
the line were fairly near the curb,
but the cars near the intersection of
Girard street were from 3 to S feet
OH the curb as they swung around
to enter the station" Capt. Lutz
said.
Stating that he had no objection
to motorists waiting in line on the
streets not on the main artery down.
town, Capt. Lutz stated his men
would have taken no action had the
cars lined up on Girard street. where
there is no bus or streetcar line.
Our men are aiding drivers on
streets where standing parking is
permitted" Capt. Lutz stated. How
ever. we will continue to take action
against those motorists obstructing
trafnc on main thoroughfares in our
precinct" he said.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Rites for Mrs. {. 6. 0strow
Will Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Cecilia
q. Ostrow, ~, long active In Jewish
societies, who died Wednesday after
. long illness, At her home, 1712
Allison street NV. will be held at
IL am. tomorrow at the Danzansky
chapel, 35Ol Fourteenth street NV.
She Is survived by her husband,
Maxwell Ostrow, an attorney with
ofnces In the Munsey Building, and
a son, Stanley Morton Ostrow,
U. s. A., who Is stationed at Camp
Richie.
Born in New York. Mrs. Ostrow
was married here on October a.
1920. She was an active member OF
Bnai Birth Ladies' Auxiliary. Adas
Israel Sisterhood. the Hadassah
Hebrew Home for the Aged, the
Jewish Consumptive Relief Society
and was at one time president Of the
D. c. Hebrew Beneficial Association.
Rabbi Solomon H. Metz and Can
tor Louis Novick will ondciate At the
funeral services. Burial will be In
the family plot In Adas Israel Con-
gregation Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
District Residents
Urged 10 Support
Walter Delegate Bill.
Prettymon Opens Drive
To Obtain Democracy
For Washington

An appeal for public support Of
the Walter delegate bill, as the OPEN
ing of a new campaign to win De-
mocracy of Washington was mad.
today by E. Barrett Prettyman,
chairman of the District Delegate
Committee.
The residents OF Washington
have an opportunity to remove the
shackles of political impotence and
gain some of the rights that resi-
dents of other cities now enjoy" Mr..
Prettyman said. For too long have
the citizens of the Nations Capital
been without any kind OF representa-
ton in Congress. The bill intro
duced by Representative Francis E..
Walter of Pennsylvania provides for
the election of a delegate to Con-
gress to give the District of Columbia
the same type of representation that
Alaska and Hawaii enjoy"
Among the members of the COM
mittee, according to the announce
ment, are DR.. Cloyd H. Marvin,
president Of George Washington
University; Merlo J. Pusey. Renah
F. Camalier. DR.. Meyer Jacobstein of
Brookings Institution, Frank r. Jel-
left, Wilbur La Roe, jr.; Harry S.
Wender, president of the Federation
of Citizens Associations; Mrs. Helen
D. Hoffman, executive secretary of
the Washington Housing Associ-
alton; Eugene F. Dufheld, chairman
of the Suffrage Committee OF the
League of Women Voters; Mrs.
Louis Gutenberg, president of the
District Legislative Council; S. Will
bur Finch, president of the District
Suffrage Association; Richmond
Keech, former corporation counsel: i:
Sidney Katz of the CIO, Robert J.
Watt of the AFL, Alfred M. Lilien-
thai, Arthur J. Sundlun, former
president of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association; Milton
w. King and Mrs Tflman Parks.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
More Hearings Slated
On Measure 10 Extend
Powers ofD T.. Heads
Hebert Says Opportunity
To Be Given Interested
Parties to State Views

Hearings on the bill to extend
the powers of the Commissioners
will be resumed early next week,
Representative Hebert, Democrat, of
Louisiana, author OF the bill, said
today.
Mr.. Hebert, chairman of House
subcommittee holding hearings on
the measure. which opened yester-
day In the old House Office Build
ing. said he hoped the next public
hearing could be neld Monday. He
emphasized that he wanted inter-
ested parties to have full oppor-
tunity to express their views.
Chairman Hebert also said that
the bill would be amended to re-
quire licenses for electricians in the
District. AS the bill is now written,
the Commissioners would be granted
authority to require filing of bonds
for performance of work in accord
ance with District regulations in
the case Of plumbing, gas fitting,
heating, ventilation, condition
ing or wiring.
Favors Protection Of Public.
Mr.. Hebert commented that 1t
was essential that individuals be
protected" and that Electricians
should be licensed.
Il know of no reason why they
shouldn't be-" replied Richmond B.
Keech, corporation counsel.
The gist Of Mr.. Hebert,s remarks
throughout the hearings and AFTER
wards was that the Commissioners
should be vested with powers to
operate the local government with
out having constantly to consult
Congress. After a witness for the
master plumbers had objected to
what he termed the lengthy proce-
dure for obtaining a permit, Mr..
Hebert posed the question OF wheth-
er Congress or the Commissioners
should eliminate any unnecessary
steps.
The Commissioners" replied Mr..
keech.
Chairman Hebert and Commits
sioner Young, who indorsed the
measure in principle, both con-
tended that the arguments over
details of municipal government
were an indication that the bill
was needed.
Bates Attends.
AS for the background of the bill.
Mr.. Keech said that it's intent was
to vest the Commissioners with
normal powers of a municipality.
Mr.. Hebert told Representative
Bates, Republican, of Massachu-
setts, the only other member of
the subcommittee to attend the
hearing, that he assumed full
responsibility for the bill.
Mr.. Hebert said another change
in the bill, which had been sug-
eested at the hearing by Mr.. Bates,
would limit for three years any
lease made under a provision per-
mitting the Commissioners to rent
any building or land belonging to
the District in the event that it is
not needed for the purpose for
which it was acquired.
Chairman Hebert also indicated
that Mr.. Bates suggestion that the
clause with cause" be added to the
section giving the Commissioners
power to suspend employees would be
incorporated in the final text of the
bill. According to Mr.. Keech, the
Commissioners have the right of
dismissal and have assumed the
right of suspension already as
lesser power.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Naval Officers Wife
PIunges 10 Death
BY the Associated Press,

0y the ASSOCl1teo PFeSS.
CHICAGO, June "A woman
whom police identified as Mrs. Cath
crime M. jackson, SO. wife of q lieu
tenant commander In the Navy,
plunged to her death yesterday from
the eighth floor of a Loop hotel.
Her body was found on a setback
at the third-floor level.
Papers indicated that she was en-
ployed in the aviation supply di-
vision Of the Philadelphia Navy Yard
and that her husband is 1t. Comdr.
Delbert Glenn Jackson.
On1cers found in her room a car
bon copy of letter indicating she
had been i'll.
A marriage license listed her
maiden name as Catherine Wilson
Meeker and indicated she was mar
ried to 1t. Comdr. Jackson at New
ark, N. j., in 1927.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
South African Court
Bombed by Birds

Thousand-bomber raids have
tossed Klerksdorp. South Africa,
court into sad confusion, and coun-
bombing has begun on the enemy
airf1eld. The raiders are kestrel
birds In a gum-drop tree nearby.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Baltimore Shipyard
Workers End Strike
By the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, June 4.-Approxi-
mately 500 electrical workers and
riggers at the Bethlehem Steel Co. 8
Key Highway Shipyard voted last
night to return to work this morn
ing after a two-day strike in dis
pute over activities of several FORE
men and adjustment of wage rates
for several riggers.
The members reaffirmed the no.
strike, no-stoppage, no-walkout
pledge" at the meeting, Milton Self,
business agent for the CIO Indus
trial Union of Marine and Ship
building Workers of America, said.
Mr.. Self added that the union had
named committee to meet with
company officials on grievances
which the company refused to
settle"
Evening star., 1943-06-04
300 Italians Reported
Killed by Greek Patriots
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANKARA, June (delayed -
Greek patriots have captured the
Italian-held village of Mouzaki in
the Pindus Mountain region of the
Albanian-Greek border, killing 800
Italians and taking so prisoners, in
formation from Greece said today.
The restless activity Of Greek
guerrillas was confirmed in 4 Ger
man Telegraph Agency report
reaching fstanbul recounting at
tempts by the irregulars to take
these three Bulgarian occupied
towns.
The German report said the guer-
rillas first attacked the villages of
Belitza and Pistritca, but were re-
PEELED. They then turned on
third village called Lerin and were
driven away after a pitched battle.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Arthur Raymond Dies;
Formerly Of Wushinoton

Arthur B. Raymond of Washing
ton died Tuesday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Gordon E. Adams of
New York City. it was learned here.
Mr.. Raymond, born in Providence,
R. l., served as chief electrician
at the White House from 1899
to 1909. During the World War he
was stationed at the Military Acad-
emy at West Point, serving until he
retired.
He is survived only by his daugh-
ter,
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Australian Warships Back
On Mediterranean Duty
By the Associated Press,

6y the Associated Press.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June A.
Warships of the Royal Australian
Navy again are operating IN the
Mediterranean, it was disclosed to-
day, after q period in which they
have concentrated operations in the
Pacific following Japan's entry into
the war.
The warships were not identified.
but the crews were described as
among the most experienced in the
Australian Navy. with service at
Singapore, the Netherlands Indies
and other parts Of the Pacific.
United States, Greek, Dutch and
indian naval units also are operat-
ing with the Royal Navy in the Med
iterranean and the French SQUAD
ron ut Alexandria only recently
joined the Allied cause.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Gets New Pair of Pants
For Fair Catch of Boby
By the Associated press

By the Associated Press
PENNINGTON GAP, Va.-Fred
Akers. strolling past a residence,
suddenly looked skyward. He saw
an 18-month old child hurtling from
second-story roof-porch toward
the earth and concrete. Akers caught
the child in his arms. The grand
father called Akers into the John
Gibson store and gave him a pair
Of pants.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Pittsburgh Steel Mills
Face Cur1ai|ment as
Coal Supplies Run Out
Some Furnaces to Be
Banked by Monday;
AIoboma Plant Closes
py the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, June THE
production Of five huge mills of
the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp.
will have to be curtailed mate
rally" next Monday due to a
fuel shortage, officials said today
as the coal strike moved into its
fourth day.
A survey of 18 coal-producing
States showed the shutdown is caus-
ing a loss Of approximately 2,000, 900
tons daily in output. and that the
effect on the Nations great indus
tries would become serious" by the
end of a second week Of idleness In
the mines.
The first blast furnace to be closed
was one of the Republic Steel Corp.
at Birmingham, Ala, where officials
notified the Government the cause
was an inadequate coal supply. They
said second one would have to be
banked in another day or two"
These furnaces turn out more than
1000 tons of pig iron daily.
Stockpfle Running Low.
Officials of the Carnegie Illinois
Corp. said their stockpile at the
great by-products plant at Clarion,
20 miles south of Pittsburgh, has
fallen below the safety line of 100000
tons and that production of coke
would have to be tapered OF within
three days.
Coke from these plants goes di-
rectly to blast furnaces. and an
official estimated that a week after
the banking process starts steel out
put will be cut 25 per cent. Within
two weeks it would be down Is per
cent, he said.
The mo contract, no work" slogan
of the United Mine Workers kept
virtually every mine in the Nation
closed down tight today.
There were very few "back-to-
work" movements reported. One
was at the Lindley mine of the Pitts
burgh Coal Co., near Pittsburgh,
where seven men headed by Gabor
kish, 27. pledged themselves to re-
turn, 'pickets or no pickets."
Await Orders From Lewis.
The mine normally employs more
than 200. Mr.. Kish said the UNIV
local president. Charles Spitka, had
refused to entertain petition
signed by IA asking that special
meeting be called to consider a
motion to return to work.
The rank and file of miners gen.
orally were keeping a close eye on
Washington. hoping to hear some
word from UNIV President John L.
Lewis and the unions Policy Com
mittee.
Kentucky reported about $4,000
miners, mostly non-union, were
working. and Illinois estimated TO-
800 men, mostly members of the
AFL Progressive Miners, were turn
ing out coal
About 500 of West Virginia's $780,
900 coal diggers were working on
strip operations. A picket line yes
terday closed small strip mine in
Harrison County.
Pickets also forced the closing for
an hour Of strip operation near
Pittsburgh operated by the Sunny
hill Coal Co. With the appearance
Of State police guard, however, the
work was resumed. The mine pro-
duces about 1900 tons of coal daily
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Duck Prefers Auto Ride
To Swimming in Lake
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASSoclAted Press.
PUEBLO. Colo.-Alex, a duck
owned by Miss Winifred Wood, was
Matched by hen who dropped dead
soon after. Then Alex got 50 large
Miss Wood decided he should be in
the city park lake. She launched him
and he padded toward the other
ducks. Miss Wood started for her
car, . haH-block away, and as she
opened the car door Alex new in
an settled himself on the seat. It
seems that Alex is q peculiar duck
he didn't like the water.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Count Szechenyi Dies

LONDON, June 1 R.-A Rome
broadcast. recorded by the Asso-
ciated Press. reported from Budapest
yesterday that Count Bartholomew
Ssechenyi, n, president Of the Hum
varian Senate, died,
Evening star., 1943-06-04
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Evening star., 1943-06-04

A LITTLE want I'D" in The Star
brings = LOT Of results. MA. 5000,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-08
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING. Jan. Control OF
the important Senate liquor com
mittee fell into the hands OF
"drys' today, an indication that
stricter laws will come out of the
siXty-second legislature.
1t. Gov Eugene {. Reyes an
nounced the election of Senator
Murl II. Defoe tR) of Charlotte
10 head the committee. Defoe was
a member Of Governor Dickinson s
liquor control commission
Four of the seven members art
outspoken opponents of hard
liquor. They are, besides Defoe
Senators Don. Vanderwerp, Harry
r. Hittle and NJ. Harold Saur
|Others are Senators Carl DeLanO
Ben Carpenter ana II d. Trip.
DEAL REVEALED
II was revealed earlier tha'
Keyes had made deal with Mrs
Dora Whitney president of tho
IWCTU, 10 help name the commit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-08
Detroiter Fills
New State Job

LANSING, Jan Creation Of
a now post to give J. Dean STAN
ley an official of Detroit's Down
town Republican Club, a job was
announced today by State Treas
urer D. Hale Brake
Stanley will receive $1,000 per
year as municipal bond super
visor" under the public debt COM
mission Brake said Stanley had
IS years experience in the bond
business and would advise NUM-
cipalities how 10 get out Of fiscal
trouble
Brake was named chairman Of
both the public debt commission
and the state loan board. Cover
nor Kelly has recommended con-
SoAdauon of the two. the mem
berShip being identical. Lottie
Many was retained as secretary.
To give Stanley the job. the
public debt commission was desig-
mated a separate department from
the treasury.