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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-16

Cavalry Regiment, Private Sines was
one Of the troopers in the parade and
ceremonies held at Elverson Field,
Tokyo.
The 1st Cavalry Division has occu-
pied the Tokyo Y okohama area of
Japan since the end of the war, Sep
TENDER, 1915.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-16

1880; Lambs, 2$1O 24oo;
the 10000: He 24OO Horses 160 to 26O ewt
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-16
Farmers Stock Yards, Accident, Md.
Savage Bros, Owners

Heavy Broilers, 28c. to 46c.; Leg
horn Hens, 23c. to 2812c.; heavy
Hens, 34c to soc; heavy Pullets Al 12c.
to 4212c.; Turkeys, 54c to SOC;
White Rocks, 4Oc.; Bantams, 29c.,
Ducks, 28c. to 33c.
Pigs, 2.75 to 14.25; Hogs, 1900 to
22.00; Sows, 1880 to 20.40; Bears,
14.75 cwt.; Stays, 1910 cwt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01
DELPHI LESTER TEETS

Delpha Lester Teets, aged SO years
and three weeks, of Friendsville, was
born May 27, 1889, and died June 81,
1913, death occurring suddenly be-
meath a pile of falling lumber.
He was a son of Harrison and Vir-
ginia Teets, of Hazelton, w. Va, who
preceded him in death. He was mar
ried April, 1909, to Katherine Savage
who died sixteen years ago. To this
union were born seven children, and
all but one survive: Reid and Oliver,
of Friendsville; Thelma, Uniontown,
Pa; Vesta Riley, Grace Thomas and
Stella Friend, also Friendsville. Leslie
Earl died in infancy. Also surviving
are thirteen grandchildren and the
following brothers and sisters: Bert
Teets, May Casteel, Blanche Uphold
Hazelton, W. Va; William Teets, of
Morgantown, w. Va; Effie Uphold,
Friendsville; Minnie Schroyer, Jean
nette, Pa; Daisy Schultz, Ault, Colo
rado; bessie Cheney, Holyoke, Colo
RADIO; and Nellie Liggett, of Sterling,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01
Killed By Falling
Tree at Terra Alta

Forester White, 81, Of Terra Alta,
w. Va, was killed instantly last
Thursday by falling tree that pinned
him in a tractor while he was work
ing in a logging operation.
Investigating authorities said the
tall tree was either struck by bolt
of lightning or blown over by high
winds that accompanied a rainstorm
in the area.
White was the father-in-law of Mrs.
Clifford White, formerly Margaret
Jane Mason, of Oakland. He was a
native of Tucker county, w. Va, and
was born January 81, 1886. He had
lived at Terra Alta for several years.
Surviving are his widow, Catherine
Dumire White, one daughter, Mrs.
Eilene Russell, Fairmont; two sons,
Adair, Cumberland; and Clifford, at
home; two brothers, Earl and Morris,
both of Aurora; and six sisters, Mrs.
Virginia Bowon, Terra Alta; Mrs.
Dorothy White, St. George; Mrs.
Louise Evans, Brookfield, Md; Mrs.
Maud Key, Lapeer, Mich; Mrs. Anna
Gilmore, Elkins; and Mrs. Dave Sell,
also Lapeer, Mich.
Funeral services were conducted on
Monday at Terra Alta.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01

Alva Lee Foltz, aged 81, of Cor
mania, w. Va, died last Thursday
about noon in the office of DR.. A. E.
Nance, where he had gone for medical
assistance after having become i'll at
work.
He was woods foreman for Fred
Glotfelty, and after becoming i'll at
work was taken to his home at Cor
mania. Later his brother-in-law
rushed him to the physicians office
where he died while undergoing an
examination.
Deceased was a son Of the late
James and Ella Hottie Foltz, natives
of Virginia, and was born May IL,
1897, at Columbia Furnace, Va.
He was member of the Methodist
church at Gormania and was form
er member of the American Legion
post at Oakland. He was also vice
president of the Gormania volunteer
fire department.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lor-
eta Foltz, and two sons, Charles
F'oltz, Baltimore; Carl Foltz, Cor
mania; two brothers, Tucker Foltz,
Edenburg, Va; Loren Foltz, Wood
stock, Va. two sisters, Mrs. Rebecca
Vann and Mrs. Edna George, Eden
burg.
Funeral services were conducted on
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
the Methodist church in Gormania,
with Rev. j. E. Hodges officiating.
Interment was in the Pope cemetery
in this county, with members of the
local American Legion post having
charge of final military rites at the
grave. He was a veteran of World
War l.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01
DIED
MRS. JENNIE SCHULTZ

Mrs. Jennie Schultz, aged rs, died
last Friday morning in the Prince
Georges hospital near Hyattsville,
after having been a patient there for
only a short time. She had been at
the home of her son, Paul A. Schultz,
in Hyattsville, since December 81,
1947.
Deceased was born March 80, 1870,
near Oakland, daughter of the late
William and Mary Guthrie Browning.
She was a member of st. Marks
Lutheran church at Oakland.
Surviving are two sons, Otto w.
Schultz, Oakland; Paul A. Schultz, a
member of the White House police
force; two grandchildren; three sis
tiers, Mrs. Ida Coddington and Mrs.
w. D. Whitehill, Salem, o.; and Miss
Gertrude Browning, Oakland.
Funeral services were conducted on
Monday afternoon at 2:3O from the
Bolden Funeral home, with Rev. A.
K. Jones Of Red House officiating in
the absence of the pastor, Rev. Luther
L. Hare. Interment was in Oakland
cemetery. Pallbearers were William r.
Browning, Richard Browning, George
Browning, Sherman White, Henry
Campbell and Blair Simmons.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01
MRS. MARTHA A. CASTEEL

Mrs. Martha A. Casteel, 80, widow
of jeremiah Casteel and daughter of
the late Lewis and Lydia Martin
Smith, died last Friday at the home
of a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alice Cas-
teel, Mount Morris, Pa, where she
had made her home for II years.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Bes-
sic Lowdermilk, Terra Alta; three
sons, Charles Casteel, of Keyser, w.
Va; Ray Casteel, Lake Lynn, Pa;
and Okey Casteel, Friendsville; three
sisters, Mrs. Anna Teets and Mrs. Ida
Martin, Valley Point, w. Va; and
Mrs. Lucy Erwin, Albright, w. Va;
two brothers, Isaac Smith, Mason
town, w. Va, and William Smith, of
Valley Point, and 81 grandchildren.
Services at the Casteel residence in
Mount Morris on Monday afternoon
were followed by rites at Blooming
Rose church, near Friendsville, with
Rev. Walter C. Long officiating.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01
MRS. NANCY H. ROCKHOLD

Mrs. Nancy H. Rockhold, former
resident of this county, died in Fair
mont, w. Va, last Friday, June 25.
She was the widow of Hal B. Rock
hold.
She was a daughter of the late Rev.
Archibald C. and Ruth Wilson Hamill
and was born in this county October
8, 1876. She was aged II years.
Deceased had made her home for
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01

the past three years with her sister,
Mrs. Howard Smouse, Fairmont. A
brother, John S. Hamill, Mill Greek,
w. Va, also survives.
Funeral services were conducted on
Sunday in Fairmont, and interment
was in the Hamill cemetery at Kitz-
miller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01

end of 1947, according to figures re-
Gently released by the Social Security
Administration. OF this number,
about 100000 claims were being paid
to aged persons who had acquired an
insured status in employment covered
by the Social Security Act.
1t was pointed out, however, by
William w. Wood, manager of the
Cumberland field office, that there is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01

Colorado.
On June 3 he was united in mar
riage to Mrs Martha Uphold, who al
so survives.
Funeral services were conducted
from the White Rock Church of God,
southeast of Friendsville, on Wednes-
day afternoon, June %, at 2:30 o.
clock, with the pastor, Rev. Thelma
Pyle, officiating.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-01
Two Million Have Received
Old-Age Insurance Benefits

Approximately two million persons
were receiving Federal Old-Age and
survivors Insurance benefits at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-03
Subsidy for Youthful
Marriages Proposed
To Raise Birth Rate

Substituting young people is pro-
posed, as a possible remedy for de-
clining marriage and birth rates, by
Ray H. Everett, executive secretary
Of the District Social Hygiene So
ciety.
Mr.. Everett explained the subsi-
dies could be private ones, such as
dowries. On the other hand, he
suggested they could take the
grants. He was a speaker yesterday
at the Annual Social Hygiene Day
luncheon in the Y. w. G. A., Seven
teenth and K streets NV, mark
ing the society's 30th anniversary
of service.
"If we had young people marry
early and just let nature take Its
course" Mr.. Everett continued" we
wouldn't need to substitute mother
hood as Russia and some other
countries are doing"
Even now, he went on, ION their
slim Government payments, the Gil
student birth rate is so great that
you'll see far more diapers than
varsity remnants flying on the cam
pus breeze"
Imitation Blamed.
Mr.. Everett blamed initiation as a
major factor in 1.-The tremendous
and growing social problem" OF de-
clining marriage and birth rates.
He said in Washington marriage
licenses during the first II months
of 1947 decreased 1853 per cent as
compared with the similar period IN
1886, and in the country as whole,
from Is OF IA per cent.
Another speaker, DR.. William P.
Herbst, president of the society,
urged public support of efforts to
obtain legislation requiring pre-na-
tai blood tests as means OF cutting
down congenital syphilis. He de-
clared the local venereal disease
situation is still a formidable one"
DR.. S. Ross Taggart, head OF the
District Health Departments Bu-
reau of Venereal Diseases, said the
death rate from syphilis is higher
in the District than in any State.
He explained that an Increased
number of congenital syphilis cases
has been reported for 1947 and there
has been a marked increase in gon-
orrhea. Syphilis death rates here,
as complied by the United States
Public Health Service, have declined
steadily from 1919 per 100000 in
1887 to 1877 in 1947, he said, but
during the same period the national
death rate from syphilis has de-
clined from 1911 to 9.3 cases.
Penicillin Advantages Cited.
He cited the advantages OF treat
ment with penicillin, which he said
has resulted in very favorable
change in the number of patients
completing treatment. Favoraole
advances also have been made IN
the use of antibiotic drugs, he said.
Capt. Rhode Milliken, head OF the
Police Wonxn's Bureau, was award
ed a scroll from the Committee on
Awards of the American Social Hy-
eiene Association, citing her for
distinguished service in the field OF
social protection"
DR.. Winfred Overholser, superln-
tendent of st. Elizabeth's Hospital,
pointed out considerable progress
has been made in the last year to-
ward getting legislation providing
for indeterminate commitment to
mental hospitals of sex offenders.
Hearings on legislation to curb this
type of offenders in the District are
expected to begin later this month
before a House District Subcom-
mittee.
1t is estimated that ice on the
North American continent reached
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-03

1t is estimated that ice on the
North American continent reached
a thickness of 10000 feet during the
ice ages.
Evening star., 1948-10-03

An AMERICAN girl back from an English
IA vacation was asked if she had seen West
minister Abbey. Let me see, what is that?"
she asked. Reminded that it s the place where
kings and geniuses are buried and have their
statues she frightened. oh, of course. Only
they don't call it Westminster Abbey any
more. It's Madame Tussaud's now"
The English may like this story as an ex-
ample of American ignorance. But the truth
is that among themselves as among their visi-
tors the venerated Abbey is second in popu-
larity to the plain red brick building in the
West End where the famous and the infa-
nous" are immortalized in uncannly lifelike
wax. In the century and half of its existence
more than hundred million persons have
passed in review Tussaud's weird wax collec-
ton of the illustrious and the damned Cur
rent attendance averages 5000 day. On
holidays queues four deep stretch out
side its doors fog a quarter of a mile, sun,
rain, or smog. In blitz and out, profits
have averaged 900, 900 year.
Outwardly, Nine Tussaud's is an unin-
spired three-story building. You enter a
lofty, cream tiled lobby. mount the stairs, and
take catalogue from the hand of smiling
receptionist. No use thanking her "a good
third of the visitors do - for she is wax
Evening star., 1948-10-03

Tussaud's has sense of humor. There's
no place like it for studying the double-take
Five hundred life size images sit, stand, or
recline in the various galleries. and the only
way you can tell flesh from wax is if it moves.
You may feel sure figure in exotic costume
is phony, only to have it stalk off - some Wis
iting potentate.
To oomplicate matters the guards on duty
like to adopt waxlike posture. When, to
make sure, sight-seer pokes one, it startles
him by saying sternly. without turning its
head. ma, then, no more O that please!' An
English schoolgirl once jabbed Mark Twain.
As he turned on her the frightened girl stam-
mered, 'Oh, Mr.. C-Clemens, b-but you're
alive!'
Fxishtened Nenlksy
Even a monkey was once fooled 1t had es-
capped from the nearby ZOO and climbed into
Tussaud's through back window. Catching
sight of the wax monkey in the lap of one of
Henry the Eighth's queens, it tried to attract
its attention by chattering at it. Ignored, it
ran up, paved the wax monkey - and leaped
back, terrified. When the keeper arrived he
found a runaway only too happy to 60 home
In the course of century and half the
feeling has grown that to be wanfied in Nine
Evening star., 1948-10-03

you were there last year" protested the social
worker. Eyes, but Uncle wasn't in the Cham
Der of Horrors then
Do what the management may, the rmor
persists that Tussaud's has standing offer
of a fat reward to anyone who can stay the
night IN the Chamber without strong drink.
There have been thousands of applications
and many attempts at slowing away. But the
only person who ever succeeded in spending
the night there was policeman who got
locked up by mistake. Luckily, he had a
flask of gin.
In spite of the galaxy of glamour girls and
queens ON the floors above, the wax First
Lady of the galleries is little old gentle
woman in a musty cape and bonnet-stooped,
wizened, bespectacled. She is Madame
Marie Grosholtz Tussaud, and she turned out
Continued on page rs
Evening star., 1948-10-03

Tussaud's is the final accolade of fame or
notoriety. 1t is news around the world.when
one figure is melted down to make room for
another Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hep
burn have just been junked for Greer Carson
and Danny Kaye Dempsey and Tunney
were retired in the same cleanup. and their
wax is now Nehru, Jmnah, and Laurence
Olivier. Kings Leopold of Belgium and Peter
of Yugoslavia are now completely ex.
The United States is well represented.
Many Of our presidents are there, dominated
by Washington on pedestal, besides such
non-presidential Americans as William Penn
Evening star., 1948-10-03

Madame Tussaud's Wax Works i'm London is doing
a rushing business Its feature attraction is the
Chamber of Horrors place so gruesome that
American tourist would dream of missing it!
by Lawrence and Sylvia Martin
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Home Of me wax works

rors, among the "a criminals, are two more
Americans - Guiteau, who assassinated Pres
ident Garfield, and Kemmler. the first man
to suffer death by elecIocution in the United
States"
Harry Truman is the latest addition among
American statesmen, and if Tom Dewey
makes good in November he win move into
Tussaud's sooner than into the White House.
The wannan who has made the most trou-
bic at Tussaud's is Hitler. As early as 1896
Communists daubed him with red paint, and
paid $l6O damages for their fun. After the
Dieppe raid Canadian soldiers, under the in
f1uence of something stronger than ale, drew
their guns and threatened to pump Der
Fuehrer full of lead, They were gently dis
suaded. Our CTS kept walking off with the
Iron Cross on Hitler's tunic. The museum
finally had to sacrifice realism to expediency,
Evening star., 1948-10-03

and Hitler was left without his most precious
decoration.
Few of our CTS in England failed to visit
the galleries Their favorite was the Chamber
of Horrors, where they cuddled their girls in
dark corners until Tussaud's organized an
anti-love patrol.
A large and dismal dungeon, the Chamber
is crowded with "a cuttMoats, poisoners,
executioners and victims, all meeting or ad-
ministering violent death among assorted in
struments of torture Some of these exhibits
are enclosed in cells of their own, reserved
for adults only" The only hostile criti-
Evening star., 1948-10-03

cism leveled at Tussauds has
been over this Horror Hall"
But the crooks draw the crowds
as heavily as the illustrious.
"Ha1o's Unele"
AMONG the extra-interested are
relatives and descendants of exc
cuted and victims. A girl on the
dole was asked by a social worker
where she would like to go for a
treat. Madame Tussaud's,"
she answered promptly. But
Evening star., 1948-10-03

and Benjamin Franklin. Frank
lin, done by the original Nine.
Tussaud in 1888, il the Oldest
of them all.
1t is in the Stage and Screen
section that the u. S. makes its
strongest showing with Chaplin,
Mae West, Bette Davis, Mickey
Rooney and Norma Shearer, be-
sides the new Carson and Kaye.
The sports gallery has Joe Louis,
Don Bulge, Helen Wills Moody.
Down in the Chamber of Hor-
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-31
TIED UP IN DEBATE

Nearly everybody who has given serious thought to the pos
sbiity of establishing permanent peace in the world understands
the necessity of having an effective international police force
General Joseph T. McNarney, American representative to
the United Nations, declares that "there just isn't going to be
an international security force" until certain basic differences
between Russia and the Western nations can be solved.
The general says that the United States insists that each
country should furnish armed forces according to its ability but
that Russians insist that each power should make available
equal forces.
This, he declared, would be a fraud on the smaller nations"
and prevent the nations that are able and willing to supply the
units needed from making the international security force high
ly mobile and able to function.
In addition, the Russians and the Western powers are in
disagreements as to the right of the international force to use
bases and to fly across territory of United Nations members
and also upon the location of the forces when they are not
in use.
From all the best information we can get the only real at
tempt that has been made to curb initiation is by words and
phrases and earlier experience has taught most of us that that
is a poor substitute for real action.
Before an autOiSt should blame a tree or telephone pole for
an accident, it would be we'll to remember that neither one ever
lost an automobile accident case in court.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-31

A picture and news item in last
weeks Laurel Outlook was of more
than usual interest to one Laurel
resident, Miss Mabel Solum who
came from Sarasota, Fla, last jan
uary to assist her girlhood friend,
Mrs. Carl M. Brenden of Laurel.
during an illness in the latter's fam
lily. Before coming here Miss Solum
had been spending the winter in
Florida as the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Damoo Dhotre.
Dhotre is considered the worlds
leading cat trainer. He was born
in Poona, India, and Joined his
uncle's circus at the age of II. He
played in China, France, Germany,
England and Russia. The leopard
draped around his shoulders in the
picture is named Champion and is
one of his favorites, but perhaps
his greatest favorite is a female cat
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-31
Laurel Woman Recognizes Famous Trainer and
Leopard Appearing In Laurel Outlook Picture

Dhotres placed their beloved pet in
Texas that he was adopting a baby
leopard that had just been born.
The mother leopards usually kill
their young in captivity, crushing
them to death in their protective
zeal. Few have ever been reared.
There then began for Mrs. Dhotre
a year as hectic and sleepless as
comes to any mother with a delicate,
collicky baby to care for. The form
ulaeus were of necessity experiment
al as no pediatrician has ever ana
lyzed a leopard's milk. For weeks
Mrs. Dhotre would get up every
two hours at night to give Sparkle
his bottle. He thrived and grew
and at length celebrated his first
birthday. He became so large that
neighbors were apprehensive, so the
a private animal zoo.
Miss Solum went with her friend,
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-31
Soldier Lacks Two Cents
But Gers Wedding License

NEW YORK-A Red Cross worker
paid for a marriage license so a
Decatur, ILL.,, soldier could wed an
Italian war widow.
When Pvt. Harold Sims, %, and
Mrs. Renata Lenardo, 80, appeared
at the marriage license bureau he
discovered he had only S1.98 instead
of the necessary 50 fee. A Red Cross
worker accompanying them paid the
amount and told Sims to keep his
change.
Earlier Sims said he had tried to
buy a ring in a five and ten cent
store but the store did not carry
wedding bands.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-31

Mrs. Dhotre, quite often to visit
him. He would come bounding to
the bars, uttering a grooming cry OF
welcome-beside himself with de-
light at seeing the only mother he
had ever known. Mrs. Dhotre would
stretch her arm through the bars
and Sparkle would take it in his
paws and fondle and caress it af-
f~ectionately. He quickly came to
identify Miss Solum with the
Dhotres and would caress her arm
in the same way.
In the April issue of Holiday
magazine there is a feature article
about Dhotre and Sparkle.
Mrs. Dhotre and Miss Solum are
friends of long standing. Both re-
sided in Chicago and Washington,
D. c., prior to the formers mar
rage to the famous leopard trainer.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-31

named Sonya with whom he stages
a dance act, with the huge, grace
full feline as his partner.
At the time Miss Solum was in
Sarasota the circus was in winter
quarters and the trainers were
spending their time teaching the
animals new acts and also eradicat-
ing the bad habits the animals con-
tract while on the road on tour.
None are punished for misdmean-
Crs while on tour and some of the
wilier ones, like bad children, sense
that fact and commit breaches of
conduct which they would never at
in winter quarters. The big
cats require infinite patience and
gentleness as well as a firm hand
in their training.
Two years ago while Dhotre was
tour he wired his wife from
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-31
Tiny Atom Bomb Viewed
As Aid in Disease Battle

BERKELEY, CALIF.-Possibility
of planting and exploding tiny atom
bombs within living human bodies to
wipe out localized concentrations of
disease has been raised by expert
ments of that kind on animals.
Feasibility of this idea, which was
suggested by DR.. c. A. Tobias, as
sistant professor medical physics at
University of California, depends
upon whether scientists can develop
ways of controlling the power of the
explosions and whether they can de-
wise methods of planting explosive
atoms in the right places within the
body.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-31
Deere Mister Edyter:

Deere Mister Edyter:
Down South the flies Is a-blowin,
an drums is a-beatin', an ever
boldly is singin' "Dixiel" Orators is
tellin' about Robert E. Lee an Stone
Walls Jackson. The Richmond Horse
is out drillin'. an the boys is gittin'
down the Of muzzel suffers from
the fire places. One Teller sed he
seen a trainload of gray cloth headin'
for Georgia-but this may just be a
idel roomer. Fort Sumpter might be
fired on any day now. Sody Crick
Smith, our neighbor, jest taken a
trip back to Mississippi. his home
range. In his home town, he e lei a
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-31
Fleeing Parents Abundon
Children in LonelY SWump

CAMBRIDGE, GA.-Abandoned
by her fleeing parents, a seven
month-old girl was found dead. Her
brother, 3, found with her in a desc
late swamp, was near death from
exposure.
Sheriff r. A. Stephens said that
E. C. Cook and his brother, Eugene,
had been charged with robbing and
shooting a Negro taxi driver. The
two men, Mrs. E. c. Cook and her
children fled in a boat.
After the boat capsized, the adults
abandoned the children, the sheriff
said.