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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-12-20

O'Brien while my mother works and
my daddy is in the Army in Germany.
| have been trying to be good boy
this year and | am hoping you will
bring me something nice for Christ
mas.
Please bring me Christmas tree
with lights on it. | would also like
to have sled, new pair Of shoes and
boots, teddy bear and some new
clothes.
Santa Claus, please don't forget my
Grandma and Grandpa King, and
hope my Daddy Claude will get to
come home very soon.
Your little friend,
DALE LEON KING.
SWanton, Dec. II, 1915.
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sentative of the Cumberland recruit
ing station, will be in Oakland to-
day, December 20, to interview ap-
plicants. Any man desiring to enlist
.1ay fill out application papers and
leave at any time. Men II years Of
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age must have parents consent. Men
II to 30 are eligible for enlistment
for either ,, 3, /. or years.
The representative will be at the
rostoffice building. Any veteran seek
ing information is invited to call.
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Letters To Santa Claus

Dear Santa: | am a very busy little
girl, three years old. | want a doll
baby, some clay. books with pretty
pictures, a pair of mittens, oranges
and Christmas tree. | am anxious
for you to come, so please hurry.
Your friend,
DOLORES FORD.
Mt. Lake Park, Dec II.
Dear Santa Claus: am a little girl
six years old and | go to- school.
want you to bring me a doll. I will
try to take better care Of it this time.
would like to have a set of dishes,
a book satchel, some books, mittens
and snow pants. If this is too much
for you to bring me | will be salts
fed with what | get.
Your little friend,
JEAN FORD.
Mt. Lake Park, Dec II.
Dear Santa: Please may | have a
doll and a big set of toy dishes and
a toy jeep, a toy airplane and car
and jar of candy.
JENNIFER TARRING.
Oakland, Nd.
Dear Santa: VIII you please send
me set Of plastic airplanes and a
helicopter, toy garage with four
cars in it. And will you please send
me toy pistol and a fountain pen.
BILLIE TARRING.
Oakland, Md.
Dear Santa Claus: l would like to
have a flower doll and l would like a
set Of dishes. | would like a black
board, and | would like a box of
paints and a child's plaque.
Love and Merry Christmas.
NANCY POLLOCK.
Oakland, Md.
Dear Santa Claus: I am a good lit
tie girl, five years old, and | listen to
my mommy and daddy, so will you
please bring me sled, a doll baby
and buggy for my doll, and also
little telephone and a nice set Of
dishes. And | would also like to have
some candy and nuts and oranges
SO please do not forget my little sis
ters-Betty, years old and Mario
RE, IA months old.
Your little friend,
BARBARA BROADWATER.
1928 East Ave, Dundalk, Nd.
Dear Santa Claus: I am a good lit
tie girl, 3 years old, and l listen to
my Mommy and Daddy, so please
bring me wagon, doll baby, a
bunny and a set of dishes, aud some
other little toys, if you have some
And please don't forget my little sis
ter Marjorie.
Your little friend,
BETTY BROADWATER.
1928 East Ave, DundalIi, Nd.
Dear Santa Claus
am little boy three years old. I
live with my Grandma and Grandpa
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Dear Santa: Please may | have {
doll and big set Of toy dishes anC
a toy jeep, a toy airplane and can
and jar of candy.
JENNIFER TARRING.
Oakland, Md
The messenger., 1945-04-01
IN APPRECIATION

The members of the Editorial Board of The Messenger take this means of expressing their deep appreciation of the assistance given them by the Harry B. John son Post, American Legion, and Auxiliary and the Lions Club for sponsoring the recent subscription drive and events through which was raised the funds necessary for the continuance of our publ1ca> tion.
 The subscription campaign, cul- minating in one of the best attend ed card parties within the memory of local residents, was we'll organ ized and happily conducted and produced more than $500 for The Messengers benefit.
 The benefit basket ball game, staged by the Lions and the Center Fire Department-was good fun and also productive of a good sum of money.
 The net proceeds of the several enterprises conducted in behalf of The M es seng CT approxlmated S1,OOO. This sizeable sum of money was raised, of course, only through the liberal support of the towns people and so to them also we gratefully acknowledge our thanks and appreciation.
The messenger., 1945-04-01
"OKEY" SEES BIG GAME

We'll, Joe, you better be get ting back here with some of your pals because lot of the old boys in town are trying to be young again and play what I call basket ball and if it keeps up for long there's gonna be some demlsess from heart attack or somethln and besides that their fat dummies, which bulge over their drawers, ain't no sight for sore eyes.
 Like I bin telling you, all the people here have gone gaga over our big news sheet named 1.-The Messenger" and been doing every thing but selling the erasers which won't stick on the new pencils to out-do the guy next door in raising a few pennies to pay the printer.
 We'll, the last stunt was thought up by some local old timers, who call themselves "Lions"' since they got your post cards from Africa and they about outdone them selves in outdoing some of Bloom fields best fire eaters which IS
The messenger., 1945-04-01
WOULD STILL BOSS DAD

Wat Burnham has possibly dis covered that his youngest scion evidently had no intention of let ting his trick in the Navy inter- fere with his Supervision" of the family's local garage business, when he previously worked and earned the feigned title of Man ager" because of his bossiness. Ad- dressing his father from Sampson, New York young Dwight admon- ishes his dad ito keep the garage cleaned up" and his old associates are now wondering who was kid ding whom.
The messenger., 1945-04-01
REVEREND B. |. TYLER KILLED ON LUZON

The Reverend Barrett L. Tyler, Curate at Trinity Epis copal Church, Hartford and in charge of St. Andrews Parish from 1888 until he entered the Army Chap lain Corps, was killed on Luzon on March 5. Captain Tyler went overseas with the 43rd Division in 1941 and has been in the South Pacific ever since. x jhtsssI.'
The messenger., 1945-04-01

and Hubbard decide to SlC out a dance and "Bobcat" Moulton and "Fox" French take their places. l think that's smart at first because them two should be we'll acquainted with this school floor, says I, but I don't count on their excitement over being allowed to play inside the lines with firemen and I guess the red flannel shirts the chemical troops is wearing begin to itch maybe because they get going with a rush like they do in the first block out of the Fire House and before I can ask the blonde to move to the other bunion they get ahead of their animal crackers op- ponents and "Stiff" Washington, a Lion rooter who is custodian of the clock, looks worried.
 I won't bore you with details, Joe, and besides the strategy is plain. While "Bowlegs" Ellsworth and "Siren" Betters are having fun putting two Lily Lions down at a time with some fancy Half Nelsons their speedy pal, "Nozzle" Snyder, takes to the air and with the nets stretched from the prev ious over-use he finds it pretty easy to bag whatever he attempts and goes on scoring spree. When he missed, "Laddie" Hayes and "Flatfoot" Serginess gain by end runs and line bucks. It looked as if everyone on their team believed the rumor the fire that afternoon was some kind of sabotage, set on purpose to tire them out.
 We'll, by the time everybody had hedged their bets because they think now the firemen will win, Rooster" and "Wolfy" are back from the water tank as I call all pumps and are persuaded to risk their reputation by getting back in the game again. It's now the fourth quarter and maybe the hook and ladder gang had spread their fire as far as they could as some say they always do and maybe Dunn and Hubbard are as good as they look. Anyway, they clicked which is my way of saying that they must have played this game before or mooched time off from their boss's business to practice for at the final bell the Lions don't mind the Jumping their tails got in all those two point landings and Washington is breathing easy again with my score card showing Lilies 45-Celts 38-The Mes senger $143.5O.
 Yours truly,
 "OKEY"
 P.S. The blondes husband was there so I went straight home.
The messenger., 1945-04-01
Subscription $1 per year
INDUCTEES

The following registrants from Bloomfield have been inducted by the local Board since our last accounting in February: Navy
 Paul Armando Regini Army
 George Edward Butch, Jr.
 Royce w. Majors
 Henry Jerry Wilson
 Peter Zawalich
The messenger., 1945-04-01

game their growls have turned to groans because of the lickin they took in winning you know humOr.
 The contest had been advertised by the ticket sellers as Lions Lilies vs. Central Fire Department Celtics Or vice versa which was confusin because there never was a lily growth in a lions den and 1 saw no strange tall blondes from a race of central and western Eur opean people as the dictionary de- scribes Celts on the firemen's outfit. The only blonde I noted was a girl from Tunxis Avenue who stood on my corns as there was no place to sit down because most of the several generations of the players descendants were there.
 Nearly everybody thot they wuz in the wrong pew when the house wreckers came on the floor in rubber coats, hats, and boots carrying their ladders, and other familiar paraphernalia and started rushing around after the ball in unaccustomed speed for firemen. And we were pretty sure we'd got up the wrong alley and some mebbe left when the growlers team entered attired in dairy farm clothes and looking like poor milk CTS at that and a lot of women got up on their chairs when Chet Looma of the good old B.H.S. came on the scene with what looked like real lion with paralysis in the hind parts but the blonde just stood.
 Soon someone rang bell and the actors must have thought 1t was the curfew because they all began to undress like they were goin to bed or stage strip tease and that's when I saw what should never happen on no court cept we'll built fellow called Rooster" Dunn wearing black beauty patches on his knees. But a half-plnt master of ceremonies in high silk hat, claw hammer coat, catcher's mask, protector and shin guards surpried them and everybody else by saying they was going to play basketball. Guess that's why they had underwear on.
 The bucket brigade, as I some times call 'em, don't seem to understand at first and this hand some Rooster" guy and import from the AA.F. of Italy, known around Cottage Grove as "Wolfy" Hubbard, hired to work for the Lilies, made lot of fancy drop kicks or somethin what counted 2 points at time to total IS to2 before Blondie said she thought the umpire who was the two>by-four guy called Doyle, what wore the silk hat, should let the roof de- stroyers use their ladders to get the ball up to the crows nest be- cause they had practiced that way.
 I was thinking so too when my expert eye caught "Porky" Will liamson of the Town Hall and UC4,,J,, XT;l1o,,rbhxy of +bo ,oi1L
The messenger., 1945-04-01

Robert E. Hall of Haviland Road on Saturday, March 31, celebrated the completion of twenty-five years service. with the Aetna Life and Affiliated Companies of which he is associate counsel. ae
The messenger., 1945-04-01
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 Army and had been overseas since last November. Following his in- duction in August, 1943, he re- ceived his training at Camp Banding, Florida, Camp Robinson, Arkansas and Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi. He was graduate of the Bloomfield High School and an outstanding player on the school soccer team. Besides his father, he leaves a brother, J. Stanley Tavener of ospect Street and three sisters-Mrs. Arthur Ahlquist of New Bruns> wick, New Jersey, Mrs. Alfred c. Willoughby of Woodland Avenue, and Miss K. Ernestine Tavener of the home address. A memorial service conducted by the Reverend Thomas Foxall was held for Tav- ener at the Federated Church immediately following the regular morning services on Sund ay, March 25.
 Private Hoffman entered serv- ice July 16, 1943 and received basic training at Camp Kaninin, Texas. He went overseas in Jan uary, 1914 with an infantry unit. At the time he was killed he was serving as a flame thrower.
 He was born in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., November 29, 1913. Besides his parents, he leaves his wife; four brothers, Walter of Hoosick Falls, Ralph of East Meredith, N.Y., George in the Marines and Milo Hoffman of the Navy, both in the Pacific areas; five sisters, Mrs. Mildred Olden of Granby, Mrs. Carolyn Sheldon of Ashbury, N.J., Mrs. Dorothy Sargent, Mrs. Gertrude Brooks and Pauline Hof- fman, all of Bloomfield.
 Politis was a member of a tank destroyer unit attached to the Third Army. He entered service February 2, 1943 and received his training at Camp Bowie, Texas; Camp Hood, Texas; and Fort Jackson, South Carolina and en- parked for overseas duty on Dec ember 10, 1914. Politis, son of MT. and Mrs. Charles Politis of Prospect Street, was one of many in the service who attended the Bloomfield High School.
 The details of Sergeant Merlo's injuries have not been disclosed. The War Departments message merely stated he is seriously wounded. Merlo is the husband of the former Mildred Cellucci of Dudley Street. He received his training at Camp Edwards, Mas sachusetts, Camp Pickett and Camp Butner, North Carolina, be- fore going overseas last Septem- Der.
 Mrs. Merlo and their fifteen months old daughter make their home with the formers parents,
The messenger., 1945-04-01
Yours truly,

"OKEY" P.S. The blondes husband was there so I went straight home.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Edward J. Liston, IA,
District Native, Dies

Edward j. Liston, IA, of 638 I
street S.W., native of Washington
and a bricklayer here for 55 years,
died Thursday at Sibley Hospital.
He will be buried in Mount Olivet
Cemetery following requiem mass
at $50 am. Monday in st. DOM
mics Church.
Mr.. Liston, who was a member of
st. Dominic's, worked on many of
the Government buildings here.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Annie A. Liston; five sons, Eugene
James, Edward and William, all of
Washington. and Mailman Second
Class Raymond Liston, stationed
with the Navy in New Orleans, and
two daughters, Mrs. Anna Lynch of
Washington and Mrs, Madeleine
Pritchard Of Honolulu.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
|Dr. A. H. Upham Dies;
Miami u. President
BY theAssociated Press.

BY theAssociated Press.
OXFORD, Ohio, Feb. 17.-Dr.
Alfred H. Upham, 81, president Of
Miami University here since 1923,
died early today a few hours after
he had suffered heart attack at
his home.
DR.. Upham was alone when he was
stricken. His wife was in Chicago
with their daughter, Mrs. Howard
A. Offers, to whom daughter had
been born early this month.
DR. Upham's death occurred on
the 136th anniversary of the found
ing of Miami University.
DR.. Upham was president of the
University of Idaho from 1910 to
1928, resigning to return to his
Alma Mater.
DR.. Upham was professor of Eng
lish at the Agricultural College of
Utah from 1902 to 1905 and then
served four years here as professor
Of English. From 1910 to 1918 he
was associate professor of English
literature at Bryn Mawr College.
DR.. Upham was former president
of the National Association of State
Universities and had held Office in
various other national educational
organizations.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Mrs. Sarah Macleod, II,
Minister'S Wife, Dies

Mrs. Sarah Macleod, II, of 2l0
Kentucky avenue Sc, wife of the
Rev. Thomas H. Macleod, retired
Presbyterian minister, died yester-
day at her home
A native of Ontario, Mrs. Mac
Leod came to Washington with her
husband in 1919. She was a men,
Der Of the Metropolitan Presby-
terian Church, where Mr.. Macleod
was pastor for a time.
Surviving also are four daughters,
Mrs. s. G. Stambaugh, Mrs. Violet
M. Martin and Mrs. Arthur w
Reid, Washington, and Mrs. NJ. L.
Erlenmeyer. Harrisburg. Pa: four
grandchildren and two great-grand-
children.
Funeral services will be held at
1:30 pm. Monday at the Zurhorst
funeral home. Burial will be in
Cedar Hill Cemetery. Both serv-
ices will be private.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
j. w. Kennedy, SO, Dies
In Mount Alto HospitoI

James William Kennedy. So, of
829 North Capitol street, Spanish
American War veteran, died yester-
day in Mount Alto Hospital after
long illness.
A native of Waynesboro, Va, Mr.
Kennedy had lived in Washington
about 25 years. For a number of
years he was a motorman for the
Capital Transit Co. He was a men,
Der of the Richard j. Harden Camp,
Spanish-American War Veterans.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Eleanor Kennedy; daughter, Mrs.
Olive Russell; three sisters, Mrs.
Willie Lynn and Mrs. Fannie Martin
Of Washington and Mrs. Lewis
Drumheller, Chambersburg, Pa, and
brother, Frank Kennedy. of Balti-
more.
Funeral services and burial will
be at 1:30 pm. Monday in Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
james O. Mellon Rites
VIII Be Held Thursday

James Owen Mellon, 81, of IL East
Nelson avenue, Alexandria, South
ern Railway conductor who died
Thursday in Alexandria Hospital
will be buried in Ivy Hill Cemetery
after funeral services at 1890 am.
Monday at his home.
A native of Nokesville, Va, Mr..
Mellon was a first cousin of J. Owen
Lynch, Alexandria postmaster who
died Monday. He was member of
the Odd Fellows and Fraternal
Order of Eagles. He served with the
railway for 40 years.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Eileen B. Mellon; son, Sergt. John
Louis Mellon, stationed at Camp
Johnston, Fla; daughter, Miss
Margaret Mellon of Alexandria, and
five brothers.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
William J. Cooper Rites
SET Today in ARLINGTON

William j. Cooper, SIS, of 4125 Gar
rison street NV, who died Wednes-
day at Mount Alto Hospital, will be
buried in Arlington Cemetery fol-
lowing funeral services in Fort Myer
Chapel at pm. today.
Mr.. Cooper, native of Philadel-
phia, had been i'll much of the time
since the last war, when he was
gassed in the Meuse-Argonne often
sive He was a Mason and member
of Knights Templar.
A bachelor, Mr.. Cooper is survived
by his mother, Mrs. Annie Cooper
of Washington; a brother, Samuel
F. Cooper, also of Washington, and
three sisters, Mrs. Mary Jones of
Matamoras, Pa, and Mrs. Esther
Hosier and Mrs. Clara Bordner of
Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Funeral Services Are Held
For Clarence D. Nourse

Clarence d. Nourse, "a, civil
engineer, died of a heart attack
Thursday at his home, 8 West
Walnut street, Alexandria.
Mr.. Nourse, who had lived in
Alexandria most Of his life, was the
son Of the late Rev. James M.
Nourse, the last active pastor of the
old First Presbyterian Church in
Alexandria.
He was a civil engineer with the
Pennsylvania Railroad for a number
of years and later was connected
with the Virginia Highway Com
mission before he went into private
business.
Mr.. Nourse was member of the
Alexandria Washington Lodge, No.
%, A. F. 81 A. M; the Mount Vernon
Royal Arch Chapter, Old Dominion
Commandery and Acca Temple
Shrine of Richmond.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs
Lillian Jones Nourse; one brother
and two sisters.
Funeral services were to be held at
the Wheatley funeral home, Alex
andria, this morning. Burial with
Masonic rites will be at Front
Royal. Va.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Russia
Continued From First Page.)

results of the closely co-ordinated
aerial lambasting dealt Cottbus
Thursday by a force of American
bombers.
Similar American and RAF aerial
mass attacks on Dresden have paved
the way for the onslaught of Mar
shall Konev's southern prong slash
ing at the threshold of Saxony and
last reported within As miles of
Dresden.
(The German-controlled Scan
dinavian Telegraph Bureau said
today that 10000 persons had
been killed in this weeks Allied
bombings of Dresden.
(The city has been cut off from
all communication with the rest
Of Germany as result of de-
struction of the telegraph sta
ton, post Office, railroad stations
and high command headquarters,
the report said)
Capture of Cities Announced.
The Russian communique an
nounced the capture of Rusdorf, IL
miles southeast of Crossen and
Deutsch Sagar, "a miles to the
southeast at the confluence of the
Bober and Odor Rivers.
Crossen is 20 miles southeast of
Fuerstenberg, Berlin outer defense
fortress now under siege by Marshal
Zhukov's troops.
The Russian communique also an
nounced capture OF Rothenburg,r on
the southern bank of the Oder 13
miles east of Crossen, indicating that
Marshals Zhukov and Konev now
had joined their flanks solidly for
the drive toward Berlin.
(The London radio said early
today in broadcast recorded by
CHS in New York that the Soviet
pilots making routine daily flights
over Berlin reported that the
German capital looked like zone
vast central of cars, trucks and
civilians fleeing from the Russian
advance'D
Mani Pocket Cleaned Out.
The Russians captured so locali-
ties yesterday in cleaning out big
enemy pocket between the Bober
and Oder Rivers, hurting the enemy
into a marshy stretch between Cros-
sen and capturing Rothenburg.
which is 6 miles northwest of
Gutenberg, seized Thursday.
An additional 200 localities were
seized in completing the ring around
Breslau.
Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky's I'd
White Russian Army captured seven
villages in gains up to 6 miles yes
terday in the drive up through the
Polish Corridor between Pomerania
and the Vistula River on a 30-mile
front.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Move to Attach Eurninqs
Of SulIy Rand FuiIs
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES Feb. 17.-Efforts
to attach the earnings of Sally
Rand failed yesterday when the
dancer testified her salary from
a local theater already was as
signed on another debt.
Miss Rand said that while ill
and unemployed during the past
year she borrowed 5000 from Rob-
ert Wix, Key West (Fla.) business
man.
She said she had instructed the
theater to apply her pay on the
note held by MI. Wix, before Mrs
Oliver I. Kephart, endeavored to OBJ
tain Miss Rand's theater earnings
to satisfy an old judgment for
$4,234.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Four Army Flyers Hurt
In Tuke-off Collision
By the Associated Press.

FTFSS,
BOCA RATION, Fla, Feb. IT.
Four Army officers were hurt, one
seriously, in take-off collision yes
terday between two heavy bombers.
Twelve men escaped injury.
1t. Ralph H. Mallory, "a, of Sesser.
ILL.,, suffered fractured skull. 9th
ers hurt were 1t. Charles Cleaton,
%, Lakewood, Ohio: 1t. E. S. Las
zewski, %, Depue, ILL.,, and Capt. J.
F. Risher, jr., %, Bamburg, S. C.
Announcement of the crash was
made by Brig. Gen. r. E. ONeill,
commanding general of Boca Ration
Army Air Field. technical school of
the AAF Training Command.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Arthur H. Marble Dies;
Headed Western Banks
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SANTA MONICA, Calf, Feb. IL
Arthur H. Marble, IA, of Cheyenne,
Wyo., prominent in Western and
Midwestern banking circles, died
here yesterday.
Mr.. Marble was president of the
Stock Growers National Bank in
Cheyenne for so years. He also
headed the Montana National Bank
at Billings and the banking depart
ment of John Clay & Co.. Chicago.
He entered banking at Deadwood,
S. Oak, in 1889.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Bert Pormenter Dies;
Barnett Case Figure

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. l7-Bert
NJ. Parmenter, pioneer Oklahoma
attorney and Assistant Attorney
General during the Coolidge admin
istration, died yesterday after a
brief Illness
AS Assistant Attorney General
Mr.. Parmenter filed court action to
determine whether the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs had the
right to dispose of funds owned
by Jackson Barnett, wealthy Okla
homa Indian.