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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
Honor Utica Scout
II Camp Agawam

UTICA - ROLAND Chapoton,
Of Utica. will receive his Eagle
Scout badge Saturday night at
Camp Agawam, summer camp
of the Clinton Valley Council
Boy Scouts of America. ROLAND
is the seventh Eagle Scout Of
Troop 80, Utica, and the third
Eagle Scout son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. F. Chapoton of Utica. He IS
sixteen years old and is COM
missary clerk at Camp Agawam
this summer, according to Ex-
ecutive II. N. Watson.
Forty-five scouts of Macomb
District are in camp this period.
Seventy-five have been there
during the summer, the largest
attendance of any year. Troop
"a of Mount Clemens has had
Is in attendance and Troop 49,
10. New Baltimore Troop 81
sent II to camp, and Utica
Troop 80, Is. Other troops were
represented by smaller numbers.
A few scouts spent several per-
iods in camp
The season will end Saturday
night
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
Comermon of Detroit Scene
Dies in Action in Normandy
Greet Photographer Always Wanted to Be Where
Best News Pictures Were; Asked War Assignment

was the pressure of the assign
ment that the hotel became
their home for the greater part
of three months.
Irwin received a baptism OF
fire when violence first flared
on Flint's Chevrolet street, and
from that time he was in the
thick of il. Michigan reporters
and cameramen who first snub-
bed him as a newcomer soon
were following him around; for
where Irwin was, there the next
phase of the story was very
likely to break
He worked most of the strike
story in Flint single-handed,
with his wife pitching in to help
handle Photographic plates in a
darkroom they improvised in
their hotel quarters. lndefati-
gable, he kept on his feet liter
ally for days on end as long as
the story required it, snatching
sleep an hour or two at time
at any hour of the day or night.
When the last of the long Sc
ries of General Motors, Chrys-
Ter and Hudson strike settle
ment conferences was over, lr-
vim settled down" in Detroit
for a news photographers field
day. Wirephoto was in its in
fancy, and other A. P. photo
graphic services were making
tremendous strides in step with
wirephoto.
Much of the material that
made up these services came
from Detroit, for Michigan was
making many top headlines.
The 1910 Armistice Day storm
on the Great Lakes, exciting
Tiger pennant races and World
Series, the hockey triumphs of
the Detroit Redwings, Michi-
gan's return TO place in the
Big Ten football sun, Tom Har-
mons exploits, Michigan States
upsurge of football fortune,
Johnny Pingel's grid achieve
ments, the Ford strike, Frank
Murphy, Frank D. Fitzgerald,
Luren Dickinson, Murray Van
Wagner and Harry Kelly in
the governors office; all of
these scenes passed before 1r-
wins camera lens and many of
his pictures found their way in
to the Hall of Fame" for A. p.
photographers, the New York
home office where the best and
most significant pictures han
died by A. P. are hung.
When the war caused the
Michigan news scene to fade,
Irwin went to the front just as
fast as he could arrange it with
the powers-that-be. He would
mt have been satisfied until he
had a piece of that story, too.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

DETROIT, July 27-There S
a Gold Star today in the Detroit
Bureau of the Associated Press
and sadness in the hearts OF
those who knew Bede Irwin, CA)
War photographer who was
killed this week in action IN
Normandy.
It wasn't many months ago
that Irwin was rushing around
Detroit and throughout Michi-
gan in his big red Packard on
major picture assignments -
strikes, fires, disasters and a
multitude of other things that
make big news in peacetime.
At Briggs stadium or Michi-
san's vast football stadium or
at ringside at Olympia, Irwin
was a familiar figure. Most
everyone called him "Bede", al
though some never got over the
idea that it should be Pete"
Irwin always got around.
Besides taking consistently
good pictures, Irwin was a pains
takingly accurate reporter.
When he came in with a pic
ture, he knew all its why's and
whens. He was the kind of a
guy who derived great salts
faction from his work.
Irwin was transferred to De-
troit in January, 1887, just in
time to cover the General Mot
ors sitdown strikes and the
wave of labor troubles in the
automotive industry that fol-
loWed-and not moment too
soon for the beginning Of the
assignment.
COVERED STRIKE
In fact he and his wife, as
strikingly brunei as he, didn't
stop long enough to unpack
their bags or find a boarding
kennel for their aged pet chow,
let alone hunt quarters for
Instead, they tossed some Of
the heavier luggage into a cor
ner of the A. P.'s Detroit wire
photo room and pushed on to
Flint and the strike front. They
first set up housekeeping in
Flint's Durant Hotel, and such
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13
Kathryn Mcbride
Become Bride OF
Capt. Alexander
Popular Lumberton Coup ! e
Married Yesterday At
Presbyterian Church

LUMBERTON, May u. - The
marriage of Miss Kathryn Jean
McBryde of Lumberton to Captain
Edwin Harold Alexander, U. S. Ar
my, of Bay Springs, Miss, and
Lumberton, was solemnized at )
o'clock this afternoon in the First
Presbyterian church, with the pas
tor, the Rev. Ben F. Moore, Of
ficiating.
Miss Allie Byrd McKinnon, or
ganist, and Miss Betty Kerr OF
Kerr and Flora Macdonald col
lege, soloist, presented a program
of wedding music.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father, wore a wedding gown
fashioned with a sweetheart neck
line, long, pointed sleeves, net
skirt ending in a train and bodice
and peplum of Chantilly lace
adorned with an orange blossom
clip. Her veil of bridal illusion
edged with Chantilly lace fell from
coronet of orange blossoms. Ths
brides arm bouquet was of bride:
roses centered with a white orchid
Attending the bride were her sis
tiers, Ensign Alma H. McBryde o
Camden, N. j., maid-of-honor, ant
Mrs. Alex M. Patterson, matron
Mrs. Patterson was dressed in
pink taffeta frock with TERED Skin
and three-quarter length sleeves
Ensign McBryde wore a full-lengtl
dress of blue net with shirred bod
ice. Both carried arm bouqueSt O
mixed flowers.
The bridegroom's best man wa
Capt. A. T. Mclean, Jr., of Lum
berton and Fort Bragg. Usher'
were Furman K. Biggs, Jr., Bill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13
Mrs. Murphy singletary'
Recent Bride, Honored

RosEtIILL. May u. - Mrs
Murphy Singletary, the former
Miss Ruth, Mallard RUSSELL was
honored at a tea and shower on
thursday afternoon by Mrs. Beau
Fort Longest and Mrs. Rooes" 30
AZ at the home Of Mrs. Longest.
Mrs G. l.. Faircloth, Jr., greeted
The guests at the front door and
those receiving in the living room
were: Mrs. Longest, the mother OF
Mrs. Oscar Frisseli; Mrs. Gran
vile Sheffield, sister of the hon
oree; Mrs. I. c. Scott and Mrs
c. L. Fairclo,h, ST., Mrs. c. ".
Surratt, Jr., presided at the regis
ter In the dining room, white
spring flowers were used and Mrs
John Foley, Mrs. Robert Boaz ane
Mrs. E. L. Lanier served punch
party sandwiches, lady fingers
nuts and minis. Mrs. Earl Fus'
sell received in tn gift room
Lovely corsages were presented t.
the honoree and to all those VIII
assisted in receiving.
Mrs. Leila Scott, who recent,
underwent an operation at JAIME
Walker Memorial in Wilmington
is spending some time with he
son, Lucian Scott and Mrs. Scot
1t. Durwood Rouse visited hi
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. l. Rous
last week.
/ Mrs. ]. L. Bradshaw and Lucia
Scott attended funeral services TO
James Harrell, a former Rosehi
. resident in Washington, D. c., la:
week.
Mrs. William H. Russell an
; daughter, Marsha Whitfield, hav
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13
St. Johns Junior
Choir To Sing Sunday

The junior choir of St. Johns
Episcopal church will sing at the
II o'clock service Sunday morning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13
Commencement Program
For Flora Macdonald
Begins Saturday, May p

RED SPRINGS, May IL. - The
1914 commencement program at
Flora Macdonald will begin on
Saturday, May 81, when the alum
nae will hold their regular bust
ness meeting, reunions and lunch
con. Miss Natalie Moffatt of Farm
vile, Virginia, professor of Bale
at FMC, will be the luncheon
speaker.
Senior Class day exercises will
be held in the auditorium in the
evening, followed by the Gaping
ceremony and other class activi-
ties on the campus.
= Rev. T. R. Redd, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Flor
ence, S. c. will preach the bac-
.calaureate sermon Sunday morn
ing, Presidet Emeritus C. G..
Vardell will hold his customary
vesper service at $50 and Rev.
John H. McKinnon of the Maxton
Presbyterian church will speak to
the Christian Association at
O'clock in the evening.
The annual commencement con-
cert will be given in the auditori-
I'm Monday evening, and on Tues
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13

they were women. They were urg-
ed to go easy on the pocketbooks OF
service men-perhaps even paying
their own way into movies, etc.
GONE TOO FAR
Then hotels in crowded cities
came along with the suggestion
that men need not take off their
hats in elevators because their hats
took up less room on their heads.
Women riding on trains were ask
ed to let service men have first
chance at getting seats. When rid
ing on cross-country buses women
were asked to stand aside until
all the service men were on.
Well, it looks as though maybe
women have gone too far in re-
lieving men of the necessity for
being chivalrous.
In Chicago the other day young
woman was knocked down and
badly injured when four men at
empted to get on the street car
ahead of her.
Maybe we women had better
quit being gentlemen and go back
to being ladies-before it is too
late. Though maybe it is too late
already.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13
business Woman S
Club Hears Talk
BY Corp. Leary

Guest speaker of the Business
and Professional Woman's club at
the last regular meeting was Cpl.
Louise Leary, WAC recruiter tor
Wilmington, who spoke to the club
on recruiting young women for the
WAC who are not at present work.
ing in other war work or those
without small children. Cpl. LearJ
explained the purpose and plans
for the present WAC recruiting
drive.
Mrs. Louise Polyogt, president,
presided over the meeting and n
troduced Cpl. Leary.
During the business session mat.
tiers of importance were discussed
and the topic for discussion Tor
the evening was plans for Bosses
Night, the date was set for wed
nesday evening, June 7, with place
of entertainment to be announced
The following delegates from toe
local club will attend the state con
vention to be held in Ashevllie
June 1925: Miss Alice Behrends
Mrs. Louise Polvogt, Mrs. Lells
Corbin, Miss Catherine Meier, MRS
Leona Hooker, Mrs. Aida Jorder
and Mrs. Jean Joyce.
The following officers and com
mittee chairmen for the year were
installed: Mrs. Louise Polvogt, pre-
sident; Miss Alice Behrends, vice
president; Mrs. Leila Corbin. re
cording secretary Miss Ruth Hum
phrey, corresponding secretary
Mrs. Leona Hooker, treasurer
Committees: Mrs. Ida B. Kellman
education Miss Catherine Orrell
finance: MS. Cliff Morris, Health
Miss Virginia Ward, internationa
relations; Mrs. Jean Joyce, legis
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13

For summing sister and brother
nothing could surpass these sum
suits - hobby-horse for brother,
duck for sister. Cost little to
make.
Tots favorite. Pattern 7089 con-
tains a transfer pattern of 2 bibs;
necessary pattern pieces for sizes
1, 2. 8, or 4 Gall in one pattera).
This pattern, together with a
needlework pattern Of useful and
decorative motifs for linens and
garments, FIFTEEN CENTS.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins
for these patterns to Wilmington
Star News Household Arts
Dept, 259 W. 18th ST., New
York II N. Y. Write plainly
NAME. ADDRESS and PATTERN
NUMBER.
Our new 32-page Needlework
Book is yours for Fifteen Cents
more 100 illustrations of de.
signs for embroidery, home
decoration, toys, knitting, crochet,
quilts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13
Rainbow Girls
To Give Dance
AtUS0 Today

The Rainbow Girls of Whining
ton Assembly No. IL will sponsor
a tea dance at the Fourth and Ann
u. S. O. Club Saturday afternoon,
May 10, from 4 to- Z. This dance is
to honor all members of the armed
forces in this vicinity, and they
are cordially invited to attend.
The music will be furnished by
a band from Camp Davis, and re-
freshmente will be served during
the afternoon. The hall is to be
decorated with the seven colo-s of
the rainbow, with Miss Louise
Davis chairman of the decoration
committee.
Misses Frances Thompson and
Alma Warters are co-chairmen OF
the refreshment committee. Miss
Frances Heidi is chairman of the
table committee; Miss Margaret
Jordan of the serving committee
Miss Ray Bennett Of publicity for
the dance. All committees are I'M
der the general direction OF Miss
Thetis Jones, general chairman OF
the dance.
ALL Rainbow Girls, the members
of the Hostess Corps, and girls in
the Defense Dance Groups are in
vited.
The mothers of the Rainbow
Girls who will be patronesses are:
Mrs. F. D. Flick, Mother Advisor:
Mrs. C. F. Jones, Mrs. E. E. Jor-
dan; Mrs. John Leeuwenburg;
Mrs. ]. c. Heidi; Mrs. W. T. Mar
able.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13

returned to their home after snend
ing several weeks in Burgaw
Captain and Mrs. John E. Foler
have returned to Texas, after visit.
ing her mother, Mrs. I. c. Scott
Mrs. L. W. Williams, It. 7, w
Williams, Jr., and Miss Eunics
Margaret Williams ATTENDED
wedding in Goldsboro on Thu
day. 1t. Williams was menbsr
of the wedding party.
Norwood Scott AOMT, and Mr.,
Scott OF Lake City, Fla, Mrs. MAJ.
vim Sloan and Miss Mary Scott .,
Winston-Salem, spent last weel,
with Mrs. Annie Scott. N
Mrs. Parker of Bowden snon.
last weekend with her daugbter
Miss Ann Nell Parker.
Mrs. R. H. Rouse is spendir,
some time with her son and daugb'
ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. T r
Rouse.
; Pvt. w. H. Russell of Fort
Bragg, spent last weekend hers
/, with Mrs. Russell.
Miss Beula Rochelle of Burgaw.
} is spending this week with Mrs
W. H. Russell. d
Charlton Carr left Monday for
Washington, D. c.. where he will
> spend several days with his moth
err, Mrs. R. L. Carr and his sister
!. Miss Stella Carr.
A number of Rosehill young Ia.
e dies attended dance held for tbe
soldiers of the Wallace communit,,
n in tn Wallace community build
!, ing Wednesday night, May g. MRS
IL E. P. Blanchard and MS. Hugb
u S. johnson chaperoned for III,
Rosehill girls.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13

expect a man
who had been
working h a r d
in a war plant
to offer his seat
on a crowded
bus or street
car to a woman.
A Il d t h e y
were told when
they took over
mems jobs that
t h e y mustn't
expect any spe-
c j a ! attention
or considera-
ton because
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13
Gentlemen,
Please
By RUTH MILLETT

Remember at the start of the
war how women were urged to
be gentlemen and not to expect
this or that courtesy in a War-torn
world?
They were told they shouldn't
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13
PERSONALS

day morning, graduating exercises
will be held, with DR.. Price H.
Gywnn, of the education depart
ment at Davidson college az speak
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13

lation: Miss Catherine Meier, mem
bership; Mrs. Elizabeth Williams,
program coordinator; Mrs. Lucy
Peschau, public affairs: Miss MAZE
Grant, publications; and Mrs. Jean
Joyce, news service and publlca-
tionn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-13
VFW Auxiliary
Names Delegates
To State Session

The auxiliary to the Veterans
Foreign wars, James Manley post,
2573, held the regular meeting this
week in the assembly rooms, with
the new president, Mrs. Emma
Hansley presiding.
Reports of committees were
heard and the following delegates
were named for the state encamp-
ment which is to be held in Ashe-
vile, June 3-4, Mrs. Ada Waters.
Mrs. L. Edwards, alternates, Mrs.
E. Blanchard, Mrs. H. Mason. The
reha Utilization chairman was Auth
orized to purchase cushions to be
sent to the Veterans hospital at
Fayetteville to be used in the rec
reation rooms.
A program was arranged for the
entertainment of the service men
and friends to take place on Moth
ers day at the Woodrow Wilson
hut from 7 until 8 o'clock.
PERSONALS
Bill Mcleod, who has been with
his aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rinaldo B. Page. Since graduating
from Georgia Military Academy,
April %, left Saturday morning for
Paris Island, S. c. where he has
joined the Marine Corps.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-11-30
OAkLAND'S FIRST DOCTOR
WAS MURDER VICTIM

Dr. Samuel A. Blocher born about
three miles south of Grantsvilc
studied under Dr., Bcvans and gradu-
atcd from a medical college in Balti-
more in 1887. He then began practi-
cling at Barton.
DR.. f, H. Glotfelty was born at
Grantsville in 1847. Graduating from
the University of Maryland he began
his medical career at Accident in 1870
According to the late Jacob Brown
in his Miscellaneous Writings" Dr.
GALLEY 3. CARL'S SCRAPbook
Conn was the first doctor in Oakland
No historian that | have seen gives
the first name of DR.. Conn, who was
mysteriously shot dead while stand
ing in his office door from a window
of a house on the opposite side Of the
street
Cornelius Johnson was tried for the
homicide in 1854, and acquitted for
insufficient testimony. A woman in
the case was the wife of Johnson.
Later Oakland doctors were Dr. }
Lee McComas and Dr. f. H. Bartlett
Away back, Bloomington had two
doctors of prominencc-Dr f. H.
Parsons, who later went to Piedmont
and Dr. Howard NJ. Kemp.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-11-30
DR.. DAVID j. WELFLEI
DR.. NJ. 4. Il. F. CARR

The name of David Peter Wcltley
shone high in the local medical world
until his death, Dec. 10, 1886. He was
native of Salisbury, Pa, Just north
of Grantsvillc, his father, Peter Wei
fey, having been a potter and school
teacher. He was first located in Acct
dent, then his native village, subsc-
qucntly in Grantsvillc and then If
Ccntcrville, Pa, coming here in 1873
Dr.. Mortimorc Amclius Richaro
Francis Carr and DR.. Wclhcy married
sisters, daughters of Richard Fairall
DR.. Carr died here in 1898. DR.. Carr
practiccd first at Salisbury, Pa, anC
! then at Grantsvillc, where he sue
ceeded Dr.. John H. Patterson, who
practiced at several places in Wash
ington and Allcgany counties. He
moved from Frostburg to GrantsvilIC
| in 1912. when the town was just be-
ginning to grow. DR.. Carr was locatcc
at Grantsvillc for six years. He was
school examiner and treasurer in 1865
and 1869.
A short time after the death of DR.
Patterson at Grantsvillc, DR.. Her
mann made his appearance from
Homecoming and remained year OF
more. He was the father of Bingcl
| Hermann, for some years Il Rcpub
lican leader on the Pacific coast, wht
served in Congress from Oregon. He
was fine speaker and once made al
address in Cumberland.
DR.. William II. Mccormick went t'
Grantsvllc in 1854, from Faycttc
county, Pennsylvania, where he re
NAMED nine years, acquiring a com
pctcncc. IN 1868 he moved to CumbCr
land. He had two brothers also physi
clans. DR.. Mccormick resided here TO
more than half a century and was ;
leader in his profession.
DR.. Fundenbcrg was rated one o
the foremost surgeons Of his day. II
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-11-30
LEE CARL'S SCRAPBOOK
Garrett County Doctors of Early
Days; One OF Whom Became
A Murder Victim
BY FRANK LEE CARL


A Series of Articles Prepared by staff
Writer On the Cumberland Sunday Times
In leafing through the Scrapbook,
scores of times a popular subject is
ggested-the family doctor or the
country doctor know of no one who
can more charmingly arouse memory.
When | was a youth he was to me
the greatest man in the world. This
is not to be an essay or eulogium
on the sacrifices of the country doc
tor. The story of each one chiseled
on his tomb in few words would be
an incffaceablc cpitaph.
A reviewer of "The Horse and
Buggy Doctor" says the fundamental
virtues for which the country doctor
was noted have survived into the
scientific present. Spiritual satisfac-
ton was the real gain then and the
tribute paid by the really touching
faith of rural patients more than com
pensated for any sacrifice
Dcfinitencss as to the real early
history of medicine in Cumberland
seems lacking. Dr.. Murray first
name unknown), settled in Cumber-
land before the town was laid out in
1884. He came from Annapolis and
was probably related to James Muir
ray who practiced in Annapolis in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-11-30
TWO SAMUEL SMITHS
EARLY PRACTITIONERS

There is record of two DR.. Smiths
here in the early lS00's. Dr.. Samuel
P. Smith located here February 20,
1920. He was born at Upper Bennett,
Hunts Place, Maryland, December 21,
1875. He was a member of the Viz
ginia Militia at the battle of North
Point in 1914. He also served in the
Mexican war. Cumberland had only
100 inhabitants when Drs. Smith,
Reid and Laurence were the only
physicians here in 1922.
The first native to become q physi-
clan in Cumberland was DR.. James
NJ. Smith, who was born here October
25, 1903. He was a son of Samuel
Smith, postmaster here in 1909 He
studied medicine with Dr. Laurence
and his service covered sixty years.
He and Dr. Laurence overcamc the
obstacles of pioneer practice when
their calls extended half way to
UniontoWn and Winchester and to
Hancock east and Oakland west.
There were no roads and some times
"a hours were Travelled by horseback
to reach a patient, At times the
weather forbid even responding to
calls by horseback.
Grantsvillc boasts of having sent
here some of the most successful
doctors. They included DR.. George
c. Fundenbcrg, Dr. William H. Nc
Cormick, Dr.. Mortimer Amelius Rich
ard Francis Carr and Dr. David P.
Welfcy More recently there is Dr..
c. Bowen with a Grantsvillc connec-
ton.
DR.. John ]. Bruce, who died here
September Is, 1884, aged 55 years,
was a Garrett county native, having
been born one mile south of the
Little Meadows.' son of George
Bruce and Rachel Tomlinson Bruce.
Graduating at the University of
Maryland, he located at Grantsvillc
near his old home, but came to Cum
bcrland in 1851, where he remained
until his death. He never liked his
profession and his dislike became so
pronounced that he abandoned it for
other business. He was scholarly but
modest and ditfident.