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Evening star., 1945-09-09
BY Frank I. Weller,
Associated Press star Writer.

Dean Acheson, the new Undersecre-
tary of State, is cutup-on his own
time.
He eats baked beans mixed with raw
chopped cabbage and mayonnaise to
make his kids giggle and his guests
shudder. He slickers his wife into
thinking it's fun to tug on cross-cut
saw. He knows how to talk section
hand slang. He plays poker and yodels
But In official character he is all
business. Washington and the world
know only a dignified, cultured and
gracious Dean Acheson. Regarded
for his vast knowledge, keen intellect
and powerful persuasion in international
councils.
He headed the American delegation
to the first UNRRA Conference at
Atlantic City in 1943 and to the second
at Montreal in 1914. He backstopped
former Secretary of the Treasury Nor
eenthau at the Breton Woods monetary
conference in 1914.
Best Known in a Nations
His UNRRA leadership made him
perhaps the one American best known
personally in the chancelleries of A ma
tions. He set an international prece-
dent when he won the delegates to an
agreement that no nation should favor
one political party over another in ham
ding relief and rehabilitation.
His international horizon will be tre-
mendously. enlarged as Undersecretary
of State He will head the department
whenever Secretary Byrnes is absent.
Naturally he must keep in almost as
close touch as his chief with world
capitals.
Acheson, who already had made his
fortune in law, first hit the national
spotlight in 1888 as President Roosevelt S
first Undersecretary of the Treasury.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Dean Acheson-A Hard Hitter in Diplomacy

"Shame on me, but I drag my poor
wife out there and tell her WORK OH
cross-cut saw is good for a woman.
He doesn't have much time for POKER
any more, but he says he was plseoi
when a student at Yale and at mar
ward Law School. He says he can't slng'
to which we all agree but the boys say
he hollers along in time and It's pretty
good.
He is 6-feet-1 and weighs tennis
tough 1853. He can step farther tnan
MANY men his age (62) can Jump. And
that hand-raised reddish mustacne. -
Acheson says he is not q diplomat
not an economist-just lawyer. But
he's brilliant on psychology. After let
ting me cool my heels for two weeks ne
welcomed me into his office as II ne
were an uncle about to leave me
fortune.
"Just open that door," he said OTIS
only guarded by 10 cops) land walk IN
any time"
Tough in Debate
"neu hCIlSSOll Icdlly uoNo Aiio ooNN~ --
debate he is just about as subtle as
bungstarter:
"If totalitarian aggression is TO
be kept out of the United States, it must
be kept out of this hemisphere.
THE Breton Woods proposals were
designed to bring order to the jungle
growth of international financial trans
action"
In 1912 he said lease lend primarily
was gift" TO the Allies to hold the
line while America had time to prepare
for the final battle.
Acheson was born Republican, but
cast his first vote for Wilson, voted for
F. D. r. four times and said in 1910:
I'm this time of crisis I believe that
the safety of our country and all it
stands for can best be assured by re-
election of the President"
Evening star., 1945-09-09

sanitarium." The bride path extended
about miles, almost entirely on the
Silver Spring property.
During the life of the senior Mr.. Blair
there were many prominent persons
who enjoyed the hospitality of Silver
Spring and these included among
others. Presidents Polk, Buchanan and
Van Buren, Senator Thomas H. Benton,
Secretary Seward, Thomas Ritchie,
John c. Rives, Allen of Ohio, Andrews
of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Jefferson
Davis Senator Charles Sumner con-
valesced here after being brutally as
saulted in the Senate by Preston S.
Brooks And We are also told that when
President Lincoln wished to relax from
his exacting and arduous duties, he
often found quiet and rest at the Blair
country home, where he sometimes
played town-ball with the boys, and as
one of the participants has related, he
never forgot seeing the Presidents long
legs and arms reaching for distance
while he ran about the bases, his long
coat-tail flying behind like flag.
Montgomery Blair, son of Francis
Preston Blair, and who was Lincoln's
Postmaster General, was given No. 1851
Pennsylvania avenue, by his father, is
now being used for White House dis
tinguished guests. During the summer
months and at other times he resided
at Silver Spring, and it was his suburb
an home that was destroyed by Gen.
Early at the time of the Confederate in
vasion on July II and II, 1864. He was
lay reader in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and gave what time he could
spare to Grace Church, not far north
from the center of Silver Spring, which
he helped establish in 1858.
The late Maj. Gist Blair, son OF
Montgomery Blair, decided in his young
er days to reside in st. Louis, but in
1897, returned to Silver Spring, then, as
he states, "a crossroads without in
habitants. A toll-gate existed about
half mile north of the station on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, charging
tolls to those who lived south of 1t
for obtaining their mail. Rural free de-
livery did not then exist, SO circulated
a petition for post Office for the
district south of the toll gate and the
office of Silver Spring was named and
established near the station on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and was
made postmaster May S, 1899.
"The Office was kept in existence only
by constant fighting, because 1t inter-
fered seriously with Sligo, quarter o1
mile away, and just north Of the toll
gate, the receipts for that office ther
depending on the number of letters
y mailed and Cancelled there. In 1900 the
postmaster at Sligo succeeded in having
the Silver Spring Office discontinued but
secured further hearing, and had the
" order discontinuing it 'rescinded.'
remained postmaster until February 81
1906, and established the money ordel
system and the rural free delivery there
with three carriers. The Office requir.
ing more time than I could give it,
resigned, and Mr. Frank L. Hewitt, my
assistant, succeeded me and remainee
postmaster until removed by Demo.
cratic administration"
Evening star., 1945-09-09
By Quentin r. Mott

Out from the shores of fogbound
Toyko Bay, little boat bobbed its way
toward the flagship of a United States
Navy feet of seven men of war. 1t con-
tanned an inconSpicuous japanese, laden
with several volumes of papers which
he was about to deliver to a Chinese
gentleman, whose name is unfortunately
lost. The latter was clerk to the feet
Interpreter, S. D. Williams. The time
was 1854 and the occasion was Com
modore Matthew c. Perry's final visit to
the island which resulted in the opening
of Japan to international trade.
The japanese, known as Ping-san-
heen- -urh- lang, had struck up acquain-
tance when it appeared that both men
were handy with the brush and ink
and had mutual desires for the cultiva-
ton of literary knowledge. The Chinese
said he was man OF IAN ingenious
nature and great learning" Ping was
returning two essays the Chinese gen.
tleman had written deplofing the then
felt constrained to comment thereon
and did so in a lengthy letter to the
Chinese gentleman, in which he be-
came quite garrulous about the success
full management in Japan and laid down
his ideas for perfect peace.
This story might end there except for
the fact that the Chinese, still anony
nous. had a fair for reporting and
turned in his journal of the entire trip
to the Overland Register and Price Cur
rent of Hong Kong, which ran an Eng
lish translation of it in September, 1845.
He thus preserved some observations
which, in the light of recent events. ap-
pear to have been prophetic as we'll as
descriptive.
Awed by Power
Ping and his fellow citizens gazing
at the 12-pounders which the smoke
belching steamships of Commodore
Perrys fleet casually aimed from their
decks and then at their own ancient
cannon and muskets, had been awed by
power and had become eager to nego-
tiate. Pings descendants, three genera
tions later, were to become awed by the
power of atomic bombs which wiped out
cities in a twinkling and were to be-
come eager to negotiate surrender and
peace, after beholding their inflated
might dwindle under the combined at
Evening star., 1945-09-09

He once was a mess sergeant in the
National Guard :. and made up that
awful beans and cabbage thing which he
insists used to sustain his men for days
on end and do them good, too. He says
it still is his favorite dish and that he
eats is every summer night when he's
home.
You naturally associate the be-tWeed-
ed, spotless Acheson with pavilions,
champagne and caviar. But as fast as
ne can get there he's on his nearby
Maryland farm. where he shucks his
diplomatic duds for overalls and cuts
wood He says:
Evening star., 1945-09-09

radiate from it in all directions, and it
is crossed by the two street railway
lines, affording greater facilities for the
influx and efflux of passengers and
freight than any other within our
knowledge. The idea of locating the
station on the suburbs of the city has
been suggested, but meets with no favor
so far as we know, except from hack
drivers and spectators in suburban
lots"
Urged by Lincoln
In this connection 1t might be said
that the reviving of the idea of building
the road was certainly caused to large
extent by President Lincoln, who in
January, 1863, sent message to Con-
gress calling attention to the project as
a military measure, and this resulted in
the granting of new charter by Con-
gress, dated July l, 1864. But another
controversy had still to be overcome by
the local government, which hesitated
to grant the right to use the streets Of
the city without the payment of tax,
which the railroad refused to do. And
when this condition was withdrawn, it
paved the way for the city ordinance of
January IT, 1867, which allowed the route
as tentatively agreed upon by the COM
pany.
AS to the placing of the station on
its present site at Silver Spring, there
could seem but little doubt but that
Francis Preston Blair and other mem
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Those Were the Happy Days BY Dick Mansfield

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-15
Cooperative Group
To Hold Conference

a number of the employees of the
Southern States Cooperative in this
section will hold Regional Feed con-
ference at the William-James hotel
in Oakland, on Monday evening, Feb
ruary 10, at 7 o'clock
Speakers will be DR.. C. d. Caskcy
Baltimore, director of Southern
States Research, and District Man
ager P. f. MulliniX, Clarksburg. They
will discuss nutrition for farm ami
mails and give some of the latest scien-
tific findings on this subject This in
struction is being given so that en-
ployees will be in position to aid
members of the organization in plan
ming adequate diets for their livestock.
The feed, seed, and fertilizer situa-
ton in the East will be reviewed by
Mr.. Mullinix.
An open forum is scheduled, this to
be followed by a social program in
which prizes will be presented the
contest winners.
Communities to be represented will
include Davis, Eglon, Bruccton Mills,
Gormania, Valley Point, Brandonvillc,
Aurora, Mooreficld, and Keyscr, W.
Va, Oakland, Grantsvillc, Accident,
Friendsville, this county; and Mid
land, Allegany county
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Bloomington Fire Co.
Acquires Fog Nozzle
Fire Siren Control Installed In
Home OF Charles PattiSOn

A mystery fog nozzle for use in
fighting indoor fires and oil and gas
fires was received yesterday by the
Bloomington fire company and has
been added to their fire fighting
equipment, Charles Pattison, chief
announces.
When attached to the regular fire
hose nozzle, the new nozzle can be
made to throw a cOnc-shaped spray
about twelve feet in diameter or it
may be adjusted to throw a straight
concentrated stream. The use of the
spray in interior fires is for the pur-
pose of eXtinguishing a fire that has
spread over a wide area without the
damage to the building that often
results from high pressure stream
and an excessive use of water.
i more prompt response to fire
alarms at night is expected by the
Bloomington firemen with the recent
installation of an electric control of
the fire siren in the home of Chief
Pattison Heretofore it was necessary
for him to 90 from his home to the
fire house in order to sound the
alarm. With the new contro switch
IN his home he can operate the siren
as soon as he is notified Of the fire
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-15

The World Day of Prayer will be
observed in the Methodist church Fri
day, February Is. Mrs. John Holman
will be in charge of the program. A
covered dish luncheon will be served.
The meeting will begin at ten o'clock
m
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-15
Holds Open Supply
Route in Italy

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN
ITALY-Sgt. Harvey NJ. Shuttle
worth, mechanic, is member of the
Both Engineer Combat Regiment, the
unit currently holding open Route IS
main supply route to the Fifth Army
front in Italy.
Besides building bridges and repair
ing roads, the Both has three amphi-
bious operations to its credit and has
often functioned as infantry
It's 1st Battalion landed on D-Day
at Celia, Sicily, with Ranger units and
was soon aftcrward joined by the rest
of the regiment The LIST Battalion
again went ashore with spearhead
units that established the beachhead
in Italy at Salcrno The cnire engi-
necr regiment was employed as in
fantry on the Anzio beachhead. where
it was landed January "a, 1914, two
days after D-Day. and held the right
flank, along the MuSSOlini Canal, I'M
til relieved by Special Service forces.
The Both has, in Italy alone, built
1875 bridges, II by-passes. 1913 cul-
verts, "a major roadblocks, seven air
strips and a floating foOtbrdge.
The engineers built 81 by-passes
and shoveled rubble in seven cities
during the 38-day Sicilian campaign.
Men of the 39th piloted assault
boats across the Volturno River in
Italy as the Bird "Marne" Infantry
Division established bridgchcads over
the river and built one of the first
treadway bridges to span the Voltur-
no.
They strung 90 miles of conccrtina
wire and planted 10000 mines on the
Anzio beachhcad under German she'll
fire and assembled an S0-foot Bailey
bridge across a canal in seven hours,
as enemy shells and small arms fire
covered the area.
The Both built an S0OO-yard road
through a valley to Highway to ex-
peditc the breakthrough from the
beachhcad, then moved north from
Rome along Highway |. Among the
first troops in Piombino, they had the
port in operation four days after their
entry and themselves operated it for
30 days. They set up 410-foot Bal
ley bridge across the Arno river at
Florence in five days
1t required less than a day for them
to reopen Highway IS, connecting
Florence and Bologna, when the traf-
fic artery was washed out in five To-
calities.
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ACCIDENT
Church Services

NhuiSh pSi VICES
Services at St. Paul's Lutheran, Ac-
cidcnt, will be as follows on Sunday:
Sunday School, 10 A. NJ; Divine wor-
ship, II A. NJ, with the Rev. Robert
Johns, of Hopwood, Pa, delivering the
sermon.
School Notes
Miss Kate Bannatyne, supervisor of
the elementary schools, visited the
Accident school on Monday.
Accidents boys and girls basket
ball teams played the teams at
Grantsvillc on Thursday evening. The
girls score was 1927 for Accident.
and the boys score was 1921 in favor
of Grantsvillc
The music pupils, under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Anna Rossitcr. gave a
very nice assembly program on Fri
day.
Personals
Mr.. and Mrs. George Weitzell were
in Frostburg one day last week
Mrs John Spear is a patient at
hospital in Mcyersdale, Pa, where she
underwent a major operation one day
last week.
Foster Yost recently purchased the
farm formerly owned by Henry NJ.
Specher.
Ross Speicher attended a meeting
of Farm Bureau agents at Hagers-
town last Friday.
Miss Lena Miller, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Jesse Aiken,
Tacoma Park, has returned home.
They also visited the lattcr's husband,
who is stationed at South Carolina.
Mrs. Bruce Miller spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs 10y Miller. Jen-
nings.
Mrs. Vernie Smousc and son, Oak
land, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Frazcc, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs Howard Skidmore.
Friendsville, spent Friday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Kesncr.
Miss Rose Miller is visiting rcla-
tives at Fort Wayne, Indiana, for sew
eral weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orus King and family,
of Evans City, Pa, spent the week
end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. j. Richie, and Mr. and Mrs. D. A.
King.
Mr. and Mrs Ross Speicher and
daughter were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs Walter Younkin, of
Grantsvillc.
Sgt. Charles Wilt, of the Army Air
base, Newark, N. J., spent the week
end with his wife and son. Mrs. Wilt
and son accompanied him back to
Newark.
Seaman PC William Bickford, who
has been in the Southwest Pacific for
about four months, has returned to
the states and is now a patient at the
United States Naval hospital, New
River North Carolina.
Mr.. B. O. Aiken and Donald Fratz
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Youth Group To Meet

The Garrett County Older Youth
group will meet on Friday evening,
February 16, at 8 o'clock, in the as
sembly room of the Methodist church
in Oakland
This is to be local talent program
with each group having portion of
the entertainment. There will also be
games and refreshments. Leaders are
urging all members to attend and
bring a guest.
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baugh visited Miss Ruth Riley on
Sunday, the latter is now recovering
from an appendectomy at Memorial
{ Hospital.
Pvt. Carl Dixon has returned to
! Camp McCook. Neb., after having
visited his family here on brief fur
Tough.
! Cpl and Mrs Eugene Sines, of Fort
Jackson, S. c., are here for two weeks
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
Sines and Mr. and Mrs. Vitez.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Casteel, Chester,
Pa, are spending a week here with
Mrs. Laura Casteel and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross Friend
Mrs. Merrill Shultz, Addison, spent
Friday here with her mother, Mrs
H. l.. Shoemaker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clerk Wicklow and
children, Terra Alta, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Wicklow Sat
Crday night and Sunday.
Mr., and Mrs. Charles VanSickle, of
Reading, Pa, spent the week end here
with relatives.
Mrs. Walter Haenftling and Mrs.
Earl Haenftling, Of Accident, visited
relatives here Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adair Daley left here
Monday for Baltimore following an
extended visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
Lloyd Warthen
Mrs. Kathryn Rumbaugh, Hagers-
town, is visiting her children at the
home of her mother, Mrs. Benjamin
Frantz.
Misses Janice Friend and Geral-
dine Glenn returned to State Teach
ers' College, Frostburg, from week
end visit with their parents.
Mrs. Minnie Thomas was recently
advised that her son, Pfc Ralph C.
Thomas, was slightly wounded in ac-
ton in Luxembourg
Mr.. and Mrs. John Haenftling and
Henry Haenftling, Accident, visited
relatives here, Monday
Mr.. and Mrs Rolie Friend have re-
ceived word from their son, Sgt. Clar-
ence Friend, that he was near the roar
of big guns and that he had been ad-
vised that he was father of baby
girl. Sgt. Friends wife resides in
Chicago with her parents.
Earl Hinebaugh, Akron, spent the
weekend here with his wife and child.
They were Saturday evening dinner
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hinc-
baugh. Mr., and Mrs. Bliss Fikc and
children, Betty, David and Helen, of
Aurora, W. Va, were Sunday after
noon guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Hine-
baugh.
f. S. Thomas is visiting relatives in
Confluence this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Friend and
family, were Uniontown shoppers on
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Savage and fam
lily, of White Rock, were guests on
Sunday of Mr. and Mrs Klett Ringer.
Mrs. Virginia Bowscr and Mrs.
Pearl Suder spent Monday in Oak
land
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bowser and
family, Confluence, were guests on
Sunday Of Mrs. Osclanc Fisher.
Mrs. P. j. Kahl and daughter and
Miss Viola Kelly visited Mrs. Clyde
VanSickle on Sunday.
Mrs. L, H, VanSicklc, Uniontown,
Pa, spent the weekend with her
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Red House School Plans Radio
Entertainment

The Red House school is sponsoring
WMMN radio act, which includes
Smiles, Tommy, Joe, Ray and Crazy
Elmer of Station WMMN, on Friday
evening, February 10.
The show will begin about eight
o'clock, and admission is 25 cents for
children and 30 cents for adults. The
proceeds are for the benefit Of the
school. The public is cordially invited
to attend
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were in Washington, b. C., Saturday
on business.
Mrs. Earl Ault and daughter, Ruth,
and Ethel Gail Kesner spent Sunday
afternoon with Mrs. Edna Glotfelty,
McHenry.
Mrs. Walter Bowman and son, of
McHenry, visited Mrs. Harold Kahl
on Sunday.
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daughters-in-law, Mrs. Ray VanSicklc
and Mrs. Clyde NanSickle.
Mrs. Bcryl NanSickle, who is en-
ploycd at the glass factory in Con-
ncllsville, Pa, spent the week end
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old Friend.
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V
kEMPTON


George Terrant Buried In Belgium
Mrs. Rosalc Telrant has been mott
fled by the War Department that her
husband, Pvt. George Tcrrant, who
was killed in action in Western Ger
many, December 10, 1914, had been
buried in an American cemetery in
Belgium with a Catholic chaplain Of
floating with full military honors be-
ing observed. Last week Mrs. Tcrrant
received the Purple Heart which was
posthumously awarded her husband,
Elected a Delegate
+. X. Knots was elected recently at
Cumberland as one of the delegates to
a convention of District l6, United
Mine Workers of America. to be held
in Washington, d. c., at the Shore
ham Hotel beginning February 2G,
with series Of meetings to follow at
later dates.
PIT. 4. Meets
The kcmpton PIT A. met Thurs
day evening for their regular monthly
session with Miss Vida Smith presid-
ing.
A series of activities resulting from
reading and music were presented.
Several letters from scrvicemen, in
response to letters from the associa-
ton, were read.
The association went Oh record as
petitioning for the adoption Of Gov.
O'Conor's educational program.
Hostcsscs were Mrs. Peter Scrip,
Mrs. Boyd Wise and Mrs. Otto Sow
ors. The next meeting will be held
March with Miss Burnctta Arnold in
charge.
Personals
Mrs. Marie Tichncll and Mrs. Hazel
James have gone to Detroit where
they will be employed.
Charles Miller was visitor in Par
sons, w. Va. last week.
Mr., and Mrs. George L. Sewers and
son, jerry Lee, visited relatives in
Bayard on Sunday
Mrs. Pearl Miller, Berkeley Springs.
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ernest
Foglepole
Dolores Gibbs, Red Oak, spent the
weekend with her sister, Mrs. Harry
Buckley.
Miss Vida J. Smith was guest of
friends in Crellin over the weekend.
Albert Taskcr, who has been i'll Of
pneumonia is improving
Mrs. Elsie Lewis visited her hus-
band, Michael Lewis, patient at City
Hospital, Elkins, Saturday.
Claude Corbin and Homer Evans
visited Bernard Broll, a patient in the
Elkins Hospital, Sunday.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-10
Loretta Cronin Wed

LORETTA SUZANN Ne
CRONIN daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. h,An Leon Cronln OF
Victoria avenue. Windsor i.
and L. 6. Marine 1t Nerlynne
Vincent Violin son Of DR.
and Mrs Henri Porter Violin Of
Lennon. s. d were married
this morning IN 81.
AlphonsuS Church Windsor.
The Rev Fr. Francis X. White
performed the ceremony and
William Smith Of Birmingham
the brides cousin was
an altar boy
The lovely bridal gown e.
wsS made OF ivory duchess satin
Nsnd II had corded satin
hodicA tight sleeves a
full skiyj and a train
The double illusion veil g.. q.
fell from\a coronet Of rose
pointe lace v which had been
worn by thN brides grand
mother. the lane Mrs George
Bsder by the byide's mother
and by all her aVnts
White orchids and stephanotis
com posed the bridal
bouquet.