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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23

Pastor and Mrs. Wesley Harvey
favored the congregation last Satur-
day evening with the picture of the
Life of Christ.
Mir. and Mrs. W. f. spoerlein were
calling on their son before leaving
on a vacation to Florida, Friday
morning. They were accompanied
by Their daughter, Mrs. Wakeman.
who recently came from Lakeland on
account Of the illness Of her father,
Mr.. Spoerlein.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Harsh were
Sunday dinner guests at the home Of
S. w. Siabach.
Mrs. Lewis Swartzentruber left
Monday to spend the holidays viii
home folks in Dover, Delaware
Mrs. Diehl and Mr. and Mrs. Simof
Opel, of Glade, visited their mother
Mrs. Ellen Ash, at the home OF Dar
Byler.
Charles Wills of Virginia and Wad,
Beeghley Of Oakland, were visiting
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23

friends here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Sisk spent
Monday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Sisk at Loeb Lynn.
Mr. Harold White and family were
guests at the family Christmas party,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Harsh were in
Clarksburg, one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Spoerlein and
daughter plan to spend the holidays
in Virginia, with Mrs. Spoerlein's
! mother.
i The marriage of Miss Lena Stoltz-
j fus and Carl Stuckey, of West Lib
erty, Ohio, has been announced. Miss
Stoltzfus was one of Gortners sum-
mer vacation bible school teachers.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Sisk, and Ruth
and Ralph Lichty were calling on
ms. Fannie Stutzman and Mary and
Ross Lichty, on Thursday evening.
Mrs. George Grove entertained the
Glade View class party on Friday
evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
Announce Engagement

Announcement is being made Of
the engagement Of Miss Elizabeth
Locke to Byron Besse, Jr., on Christ
mas day. December %. The wedding
will occur next summer.
Both are residents Of Haverford,
Pa. Miss Locke will be graduated
next year from Wellesley, and Mr.
Besse has another year at jefferson
Medical college in Philadelphia. The
Besse family formerly resided III
Oakland, Mrs. Besse being the former
Miss Mildred Dixon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
7. JEFFERSON sCHROYER

Thomas jefferson Schroyer died
suddenly at his home near Blooming
Rose last Friday morning, December
II, at 10 o'clock. He was aged 70
years, 3 months and q days.
He was a son of Adam and Lucinda
Schroyer, Friendsville, and leaves his
widow, Mrs. Minnie NJ. Schroyer, and
six children, Earl, Lakin, and Orville
Schroyer, Friendsville; Mrs. Melrose
Uphold, Morgantown; Marie Schroy-
er, Mt. Lake Park; Mrs. Ruth Quinn,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23

20. %SE
He is survived by his wife, the
former Katherine Leary, their son,
M-Sgt. Carney Hartley, Jr., at Mon
terey, California; a daughter, Mrs.
gorge F. Sawyer, San Antonio, Tex;
also Neil Carney Hartley, son by an
earlier marriage, of Denver; four
grandchildren; brother, f. f. Hart
ley, of Fairmont.
Burial will take place Friday, De-
cember "A, in Denver.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
j. RUNNELL FRIEND

Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon from the Hoyes Methods
church for J. Bunnell Friend, who
passed away early Saturday even
ing at his home. Mr. Friend broke his
hip and had been belfast since. Sur
wing are ? daughters, Mrs. Art
WEIGH, of Mt. Lake Park and Mis-
Icie Friend, at home. Burial was in
Addison, Pa, cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23

Washington, D. c.; also 18 grand
children, two great grandchildren;
and a sister, Mrs. Mary Wakefield,
Friendsville.
He had been a resident of Bloom
ing Rose for the past % years and
was member of the Blooming Rose
Methodist church. Funeral services
were conducted from there on Mon
day afternoon with Rev. Lincoln
Pyle, Markleysburg, Pa, officiating.
Interment was in Blooming Rose
cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
PFC. ROBERT R. BRoADwATER

The body of Pfc Robert R. Broad
water, rs, husband of Mrs. Hazel
Hunt Broadwater, Cumberland, who
was killed in Germany March l, 1915,
was reburied Sunday morning at 10:-
30 from the New Germany Methodist
church.
Rev. D. J. Combs, pastor, offici-
ated. Military honors were accorded
at the grave in the church cemetery.
He was born in Garrett county and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
CARNEY HARTLEY

Carney Hartley, formerly of Fair
mont, w. Va, died at his home in
Denver, Cal, on Monday, December
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
Student Council to
Make Improvements
For This School Year

Getting the year off to a good start,
the Student Council organization of
Obs. has accomplished many of the
most important functions. The organ
ization, under the guidance Of Miss
Ruth Field, has already b en- making
improvements in the school. 1t hes
already worked out fre-drill system,
and posters have been posted in each
home room. This was done by an APP
pointed committee with Della Biggs
Of Alb the chairman.
New Schedules Made
Among the different committees
appointed, another very important
one has been made. The job of this
committee was to attain definite
monitor program for the entire year.
This committee was headed by Mil
ton Arnold Of 4C. Any student of
Oakland High could volunteer, which
many have done. Schedules have been
made and distributed to each home
room, telling the date and the per-
sons name and location for time Of
lunch duty, These duties are to keen
order in the building during lunch
hour
Changes Being Made
In progress now is the revision of
the point system for scholastic and
athletic O's. Amendments to the Con
stitution were made last year but
these have not been recorded. Eacn
homeroom is asked to bring back to
the council the opinion of the changes
made. From these votes the council
members vote for the majority, and
then these changes will become effec-
tive.
Oakland High Acorn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23

worked at the Kelly Springfield Tire
company plant in Cumberland prior
to service in the Army.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
GORTNER

Come to church Sunday evening,
Pastor Cecil Dunson will preach.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
Townsmen Turn Out
To Plug Chuek-HoIes

ALEXANDRIA, IND. - Three
preachers, two bankers, the mayor
and nearly 500 fellow townsmen
rolled up their sleeves and put Alex
andria's streets back in shape.
They answered an appeal by the
Alexandria better business associa-
ton for volunteer labor to fill what
Mayor Guy C. Lewis estimated was
thousands Of chuck-holes.
Men, women and children, led by
the shirt-sleeved mayor himself
grabbed brooms, shovels and rakes.
They spent day pouring asphalt
and smoothing it out.
The street repair problem was the
result of conferences between the
association and the city admins
tration.
The streets were in such bad shape
that they were hardly passable.
But the town fathers said they
couldn't afford to furnish the ma
terials and all the labor needed to
get the job done quickly.
They agreed to buy the materials
if the townspeople WOULD furnish the
labor.
All the stores closed except the
restaurants and drug stores. Fac
tories continued to operate but dis
missed their executives to help with
the work.
Among the sweating volunteers
were the Reverends H. R. Carson,
Robert Nixon and S. E. Mugridge.
Bank Presidents Dane Hoover and
Harry Adams pitched in.
Everybody was happy except the
police department. 1t said nobody
had been arrested for speeding for
months because Of the chuck-holeS.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
Suroyun Wunts to Sell Furm-
And Make q Good Profit

SAN FRANCISCO. William
Saroyan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright, is trying to sell his 30
acre ranch on the banks Of the San
Joaquin river near his home OF
Fresno-in his own way, Of course.
mo lies in this ad," reads the
heading of the authors classified
ad in the San Francisco Examiner.
This property could be described
another way but this is the honest
way to describe it,
A hilltop on the place is "all
hard-pan" and river bottom "all
gravel and rocks"
mo garage, no barn, small pump
downhill, probably ought to be re-
placed, 5O0-gallon water tank in
basement probably ought to be
cleaned"
The heating apparatus is "out Of
order" Saroyan wrote. There are
so young olive trees along a road,
''but no practical way of watering
them. >"
Owner only paid $4,000 for
property. He is keeping six or
seven acres for himself as monu-
ment to his real estate sharpness.
Will sell balance for $35, 1000.
IF interested" concludes the ad,
''have head examined or telephone
Fresno 8-8574 and ask for owners s
cousin, Ross"
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
Embrace, Pity,
Then Endure

Before his third party'S conven-
tion in Philadelphia. Henry Wallace
repeated several times the assertion
that he was not a Communist, that
he didn't want Communist support,
in fact, that he wished they'd get
out of his party For this, as some
observers pointed out. Wallace was
mildly spanked by the Daily Work.
er. mouthpiece of Muskovite COM
munism in America.
It seems to me that Wallace is
following one of Alexander Pope's
quatrains in reverse. Remember
Pope said:
"Vice is a monster Of so fright
full mien
AS to be hated needs but to be
seen,
Yet seen too oft, familiar with
her face,
We first endure. then pity, then
embrace"
Having embraced the Reds, Wal
lace seems to be beginning to back
up. through pity. and now is finding
that he has to endure them, whether
he likes them or not.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
Smurt Dog Proves Thut He
Has d Mind of His Own

SANFORD, N. c. - Marvin
Johnson has an awfully smart
dog.
When the deadline for getting
dogs vaccinated rolled around, he
said he asked his wife in the dogs
presence to remind him to have
it vaccinated. Both forgot about
it.
Later, Johnson's telephone rang
and the veterinarian said the dog
was waiting to go home and had
been vaccinated.
"Who brought him?" Johnson
asked, somewhat startled.
mo one," said the doctor. He
just dropped by"
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
PERSHINC:
TABS Sounds

Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Perish
ing, who led American troops to
victory in World War l., is dead at
the age of 81.
The aged former chief of staff
had been i'll since February, 1888,
when he was stricken at Tucson,
Ariz., by a form of rheumatism
which affected his heart muscles.
He came close to dying at that
time, but rallied with a display Of
fighting spirit which amazed his
physicians. Since then he had lived
at Walter Reed hospital in Wash
ington, D. G.
Death was caused by a blood clot
which reached his lung. At Perish
ing's bedside when death came
were his son, Warren; his sister.
Miss May Pershing, and his long
time physician, Maj. Gen. Shelley
Marietta.
Long the idol of grateful nation,
Pershing held the rank of general
of the armies, title conferred on
only four other American soldiers,
Washington, Grant, Sherman, and
Sheridan. He outranked such con-
temporary fve-star generals as
George c. Marshall, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, and Douglas Mac
Arthur. Their title is general of
the army.
Pershing won his greatest fame
as commander-in-chie of the
American expeditionary force in
World War 1. Appointed to that
post in 1917, he took personal
command of the American troops
sent to France. He almost imme-
diately became involved in a dis
pute with other Allied commanders
who wanted to break up the
American army and use it to rein
force the French and British
armies wherever necessary. Perish
ing fatty refused to let his troops
lose their identity.
Born Sept. 13. 1860. in the from
tier town of Laclede, Mo-, Perish
ing was graduated from West Point
when he was e. He became a Sec
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
Robber Confesses Hold-Up;
Gets TroUsseuU for Bride

NEW YORK. - Nello Piccin has
an offer of a job and free trous-
seau for his fiancee because his
conscience bothered him.
Piccin got $65 in robbery with
a wooden gun. He wanted the
money for his fiancee's trousseau.
But his conscience began to bother
him. He confessed to his fiancee
and they went together to a priest.
The priest advised Piccin to give
himself up.
Later a grand jury refused to in
dict him for the robbery, an elec-
trical company offered him a job
and a department store volunteered
to give his bride-to-be complete
trouSSeau.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30

ond lieutenant in the sixth U. S.
cavalry and launched a career in
soldering to which he devoted
his entire life. He fought Indians
in the American west, Spaniards
in Cuba, Moro tribesmen in the
Philippines, Mexican bandits un-
der Pancho Villa on the U. S.
Mexican border and Germans in
France.
Throughout World War II, Perish
ing received full report twice a
month from General Marshall. his
aide Of 1917. Although old and
feeble, the general followed daily
developments closely from his hos
pital room, paying particular at
tention to "my boys" who included
Generals Marshall, Eisenhower,
and George S. Patton Jr.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
Cocker Spaniel Gives Birth
To Litter of Six on Train

KINGSTON, N. Y. - A cocker
spaniel named "Queepie" started
across country alone and arrived
here with a family Of six. They
all travelled on her ticket.
"Queenie," owned by Mr.. and
Mrs. Arnold Slade, started her
cross-country trip in the baggage
car of a New York Central train
at Tacoma, Wash. In Chicago she
gave birth to six puppies.
At Albany a baggageman said
there was a ticket around Queen
les neck stating there would be
no extra fare for the pups. Also
scrawled on the ticket, he said, was
the notation 'see that they have
everything they need"
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
Employment Gains

Continuing the postwar upward
trend in civilian employment. is
million more persons were EN-.
ployed in civilian occupations last
April than in April. 1947. it is re-
vealed in figures compiled by the
tional Industrial Conference
board.
Accompanying this increased en-
ployment was a decline of more
than 200, 900 in unemployment over
the years period.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
CROPS:
Record Output

Barring a major crop disaster,
the nation will harvest another
bumper crop this year. with indi-
cations pointing to a general crop
production which may surpass that
of the outstanding year of 1912 and
the record set in 1916.
Acreage in crops is among the
largest in recent years and yield
prospects are good for most crops,
agriculture department spokesmen
said, on the basis Of July condi-
tons.
An all-time record corn crop Of
1928. 1862, 900 bushels was forecast
although corn. the largest feed
crop, still faces such hazards as a
dry. hot August or an early frost.
Previous record was 3.287. .927. 900
bushels in 1916.
The wheat crop prospect of 1,241,-
Isl 1000 bushels represents a gain Of
per cent from earlier forecasts.
If that amount is harvested. it
will rank as the second largest
crop in history.
Rice will set new acreage rec
ord and nearly equal last years
record output. Oats and barley will
be well above average crops.
Bumper crop prospects are not
expected to mean any immediate
increase in meat supplies or any
noticeable decrease in meat prices
but the record harvest should mean
larger meat supplies in the future.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
Was 1!!sZ:{5Siy Il! l{1:2{5y
Alas, Poor Yorick, Capital
Has Seen Its Last Theoter
By BAUKHAGE
Ne,Us analyst and Commentator.

WASHINGTON-As Washington hurries through summer,
forced commute to Philadelphia for it's major distraction
is faced with painful prospect of less diversion fall
This city which once boasted of almost dozen legitimate
theaers (hen had much smaller popuation) is about
have the last that fingered alone turned into movie
house.
which
collapsed about legitimate
Democratic
Equity which belong
Negroes ar permitted in the audience
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30

place, facing Lid
fayette square, may
be recond dition e d
and leased to a
mana cement which
will lift the racial
discrimination prac-
tice (the BelaSco
is currently gov
ernment property
and is used as a
storehouse). If the
Belasco is not re-
opened, Washing
ton will be theater-
less.
w a S hin gton' S
fhootrino1 Aro GitinY0
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
American Cities Are increasing in Size

The rush to keep up with urban
expansion marked a Is per cent
increase over 1916, when 259 cities
annexed new territory. Most cities
seek to annex suburban land to
solve their population problems.
''Cities want outlying territory
to equalize local tax. rates and to
provide uniform public services"
according to the association.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30
NO LIMITS

Los Angeles. brunt of many
Jokes for it's ever-expanding city
limits, is not the only American
city which is increasing in size.
In fact, American cities are get
ting bigger all the time, with 29S
communities extending their boun-
daries in 1947 for new all-tlme
record, according to the Interna-
tional City Managers association.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30

his life, wouldn't think of letting him
sit anywhere but in a box where he
is separated from the crowd. This,
on the other hand, makes him con-
spicuous. One guard outside the door
to Lincoln'S box in the Ford thea
ter could have prevented the as
sassination.
The fact that there was no pro-
vision for protection by the govern
ment in the Temple of Music in Buff
falo cost the nation its President
William Mckinley.
Since then, the chief execu-
tive has had bodyguard wheth-
er he likes it or not, and a body
guard can't hide it's light under
busheI. Entrance and exit from
a public building become little
bit of a pageant, no matter how
they are effected.
Woodrow Wilson loved the theater.
He liked vaudeville and was a fire.
AOSLb N4oACOA at 4AC4L14 O-l4OW O11O
of our big movie houses. Edmund
Startling, head of the secret service
under several presidents, often
talked to me about how much Wilson
loved the theater. Startling enjoyed
it, enjoyed it, and perhaps togeth-
er. we exaggerated Wilson's affec-
tion for the footlights. But Startling
used to say that Wilson got more
recreation from that source than any
other. In his book, Starting of the
White House," he says Wilson pre-
ferred musical comedy and vaude-
vile to serious drama. That was
the general impression among the
newspapermen, ! know.
Both the Roosevelts, Theodore and
Franklin, were great theatergoers.
Neither of them was a blushing vi
olet as far as receiving adulation Of
the crowds was concerned. but for
number of reasons, largely the
hectic times of the late Roosevelt's
regime, the former made his at
tendance anywhere more of show.
Although an assassin's bullet did lay
low a man in Franklin Roosevelt's
entourage-Mayor Anton Cermak of
Chicago when both were visiting
Miami - Theodore Roosevelt was
himself actually shot and badly
wounded on one occasion. However,
this was after he left the White
House and while he was making
political speech in Milwaukee.
It was the movie which drove
out the later Washington Iegiti-
mate theaters, but this death
blow to the present-day National
theater arises out of the grow
ing demand to end segregation
a demand which made itself felt
after World War /. and which in
creased in World War III. The
frequent, weIl-publicized con-
troversies over lifting of the seq
regatiOn ban in Constitution
hall, property of the Daughters
of the American Revolution and
one of the few available concert
halls in the city, have spotlight
ed WashingtOn's segregation
habits-they aren't laws.
The manager of the National thea
ter is not closing the theater for
social reasons. He simply can't book
shows if he continues race discrim-
ination and he thinks that if he
raises the ban, he can't sell tickets
to enough white people to make it
pay
To southerners it probably seems
absurd that such a question should
arise, and northerners probably will
be just as surprised for the opposite
reason. Washington was once a
southern city, now it is a mixture
Of North and South and typical of
neither.
Arizona sun., 1948-07-30

ing senator from Paducah, KY, for
the vice presidency.
The Presidents call for special
session provided a dramatic and
startling climax to the 30th conven-
tion, which had been marked by
bitter debate over ferocious family
differences.
The party had been ripped by in
fighting between northern progress
sives and southern conservatives
over the issue of equal civil rights
for Negroes. One-half of the Ala
bama delegation-13 of the 26
votes-and the entire Mississippi
delegation of % had stormed out
of the convention amid boos, cheers
and great pushing and showing.
This was the high point of the
widely-heralded southern revolt. al
though a rump convention was
called to meet in Birmingham,
Ala.
DiscOrd Flares
Discord prevailed long before
the 1896 delegates from the 48
states and territories gathered in
sitting, steaming Philadelphia for
the quadrennial convention.
Dissident factions of the party
rallied behind a concerted drive to
draft Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
as the party's standard bearer.
Ike" however. removed himself
from the race with his third and
final insistence that he would not
accept the nomination"
The day after the Eisenhower
boom collapsed, the New Deal ef-
forts to oppose Mr.. Truman with
Supreme Court Justice William o.
Douglas also blew up. Douglas,
whom the President had wanted
for his running mate, fatty refused
to be considered and also knocked
himself out of the vice presidential
running.
After Douglas declined to enter
the presidential race, Senator
Pepper of Florida announced his
candidacy with the backing of the
New Deal wing, but his bid was
not considered very seriously.
CiUil Rights
After seven days of wranglfng, a
platform pledging the Democratic
party more specifically than ever
before to work for basic constitu-
tional civil rights was adopted after
a floor fight which proved rather
tame in view of the anticipated
knock-down, drag-out battle.
The platform calls on congress
to support guarantees of:
The right Of full and equal po-
litical participation meaning
anti-poll tax legislation.
'"The right to equal opportunity
of employment another way of
promising fair employment prac-
tices act.
''The right of security of person"
meaning a federal anti-lynch
law.
1.-The right of equal treatment in
the service and defense of our ma
tion"-meaning the end Of segrega-
tion in the armed forces.
The long-heralded southern re-
volt. however. failed to develop
into the Dixie-wide proportions
predicted. Only Mississippi's %
delegates and 13 of Alabama's 26
stalked out of the convention in
protest against President Truman's s
nomination and adoption of the
strong civil rights plank.
However. 263 remaining southern
delegates registered that areas
protest by voting for the presiden-
tial nomination of Sen. Richard B.
Russell of Georgia. Size Of the pro-
test vote indicated the Democratic
party still has a problem on its
hands in the South.