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

Avis started down the stairs but
stopped midway when she saw
Steve Ross smiling up at her from
the hall below.
He said, 'T'm not a ghost, Avis!
Merry Christmas, and-well, aren't
you glad to see me?" He looked I'M
certain.
Avis moved down the stairs. ''But
l didn't know you knew Barbara"
Steve reached for her hands.
"Our dads were acquaintance
away back" he said. "Was it quite
fair for you to skip town, Avis, and
not say word about where you
were going?"
Il didn't think you'd miss me-"
Avis stammered.
"Miss your" He pressed her
hands. "Avis, what's that old say
ing about absence makes the heart
grow fonder? Anyway, I've had
terrible time tracking you down,
until I though Of Barbara"
Barbara never said a word"
Avis said, still amazed.
Steve chuckled. "She's a regular
cupid. She told me to come tonight
and explain more fully about the
runaway girl l was trying to find.
Then after I got here she told me
to wait in the hall, there'd be a
Christmas gift appear on the
stairs. l suspected then, of course. -
Avis laughed, and her eyes
glowed as they lifted to meet
sreve's. Christmas gift indeed"
she said.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23

AVIS, Barbara said My guests
have not all arrived Would you
like to go up to your room first
and
"Take the shine from my nose!
Yes, thanks so much" Avis re-
sponded eagerly, knowing that she
needed a few repairing touches
after the long trip out to the Carron
home by bus.
AS she assembled the stairs she
thought, how right Barbara had
been when she'd told her the other
day, after inviting her to her home
for the weekend and a Christmas
party, you can't stay in your
apartment alone on Christmas. You
can't become a recluse just be-
cause some fellow preferred an
other girl to you. You should start
all over again."
Barbara was like that At times
Avis couldn't help envying Bar,
bara's carefree. unstable attitude
toward men Barbara would never
know the sting of loneliness, the
bitter yearning for someone who
had become the purpose of life it.
self.
Avis hadn't told Barbara, nor
anyone, everything about her ac-
quaintance with Steve Ross. She
hadn't even told Barbara his name.
There was no point in going into
detail and revealing: 81 crossed
three states Just 10 get away from
the sight of him constantly with the
new blonde who came to town"
Avis could hear Barbara's re-
Spouse to such a revelation, EMO
battle was ever won by an army of
cowards!'
But Avis wasn't built that way.
She had pride, and from observa-
ton she'd learned that one-sided
marriages never PANIED cut.
AS she ran comb through her
short dark hair she thought of
Steve. 1t had been two months
since she left the little town of
Allen Glen. He and Ann were mar
ried now of course. They'd spend
their first Christmas together.
Her eyes filmed, but she quickly
brushed aside the threat of tears
and hurried from the room to Join
Barbara and her guests below. She
was glad she'd come. She wouldn't
have chance to think of Steve.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
Have Tree Base
Stand In Water

Christmas trees, like flowers, will
respond to being kept with the base
in the water. Here are two simple
things to Go if you want your tree
to stay green and fresh
Buy tree which has been cut as
recently as possible.
Cut off the end of the trunk dag
onally, at least one inch above the
original cut. This viii expose a
moist surface which will absorb wa
ter. Stand the trunk of the tree in
water at once, and, if it is not to be
taken into the house for several
days, keep it in cool place.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
SAND SPRING CHURCH OF GOD
Walter |. Martin. Minister.

Sunday School at 10 a. m, Wilbur
limbaugh, superintendent.
The evening service will be in the
form of special Christmas program
which will be presented by the young
people of the church at 1870.
Keller Glade
There will be no Sunday school dur
ing the winter months. Divine wor-
ship at II a. M, with the pastor
bringing a New Years message on
the topic: Followers of That Which
is Good"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23

BY PATRICIA SINCLAIR

a Wis stood inside the spacious
II hall of the Carron home with
her small overn oht bag at her
feet and greeted the slim girl APP
preaching her. Merry Christmas,
Barbara! Ch-h, it's showing beau
tifully outside!" She looked down
at the snow on the toes of her small
white boots. Il hate to track it in,
she said
Don't worry about that. I'm SO
happy you came" Barbara smiled
and helped Avis remove her snow
covered garments.
ooh, wouldn't have missed COM
ing for all the world Avis said,
and meant it, now that she was act
ually there. Her dark eyes swept
the attractive, decorated home,
and the inviting fire that reared
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
Santa Claus School
Trains Jolly Gents

In a colonial farmhouse at Albion,
N. Y, there's a Santa Claus school
and it's the only educational insti-
tuition of its kind in the world.
Graduates wear white wig and
whiskers, red suit trimmed in white
fur, wide white belt, and black
leather boots.
A course at the school prepares
the prospective Santa Claus to prop
erly shake when ne laughs like a
bowl full of jelly, remain calm when
a child glares and yells there amt
no Santa Claus and maintain prop
er diplomatic relations with a parent
who thinks Santa has given her tot
the brushoff.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
EV. UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH
Mountain Lake Park. Md.
D. Eno...l. w Sirnrnnr, r1nrtnr

Worship and Sermon, 10
a. M; Sunday Church School, II a.
m; Young Peoples Service, Tuesday,
7;45 p. m.
Loeb Sunday Church school,
10 a. M; Jr. C. E., $3.50 p. M; Adult
C. f., 7:15 p. M; Worship and Ser
mon, IL a. M; Prayer and Bible
Study, Thursday, 1880 p. M.
4 Underwood Sunday Church school
200 p. M; Worship and Sermon, 300
p. m.
4 Sunday Church school, 10
a. M; Adult C. E., 7:15 p. M; Wor-
ship and sermon, 7:45 p. M; Prayer
service, Wednesday, 1880 p. m.
d Paradise Sunday Church School,
/ a. M; Young Peoples service, 7:45
p. m.
McHenry-Sunday Church school,
10 a. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
ST. PAUL'S METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Denver c. Pickens. DID. Pastor

$3.50 a. M, Church Sunday School.
E. Ray Jones, general superintendent,
n charge. Glasses for every member
Of the family from the youngest to
the oldest.
10:45 a. m, Morning Worship.
Student Recognition Day" with a
special program by students who are
home for the Christmas vacation.
$50 p. M, Youth Fellowship meet
ing. This will be a joint meeting of
both Junior and Senior Youth Fellow
ships with a special program pre-
scented by Circle No. 4 Of the WSCS,
of which Mrs. Fulcher p. Smith is
leader.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
Tuesday and Saturday, 1880 p. m.
Tuesday. Prayer meeting, 1880 p. m.
SAINT MARKS EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN Oh CRCH
Rev. Luther Lee Hare. Pastor

$3.50, Church School. Classes for all
age groups.
1O:45, Worship service. Sermon:
Goods Greatest Gift Infant bap-
tisms. Visitors are welcomed to wor-
ship with us.
$50, Luther League.
Christmas Eve special service at II
o'clock. Carols, special music by choir,
and candlelighting by the congrega
ton. The community is invited to
Join us is this service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
MEADOW MT. LUTHERAN

At the Meadow Mountain Lutheran
church on Saturday evening at 1880
o'clock there will be a Christmas
candlelight service. Rev. Curt II.
Rune is the pastor
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
BITTINGEK LUTHERAN PARISH
Curt *. Rune. Pastor

Christmas program and candlelight
service: Jennings, Friday at 8; Mead
ow Mountain, Saturday at 1880; Bit
finger. Sunday at 1870.
Worship: Bittinger, Saturday al
II; Jennings, Sunday at 9:45.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-23
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Formerly Union Holiness Tabernacle
Rev. Robert Fowler. Pastor

Saturday service over public adj
dress system, 1880 p. m. Prayer and
Praise service, 500 p. m.
Sunday, Sunday School at 200 p. m.
Preaching, 300 and 1880 p. m.
Young Peoples service, Sunday,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-08-01

years hasn't changed enough to be
noticed.
If one were to mine ore and found
over go percent of the ore was going
to be byproduct would he economi-
cally ship it 1900 miles to a blast
furnace for processing? If he did he
wouldn't stay in business long. How
ever, the system of marketing wool
for the past 100 years or has
been to ship grease wool from the
west to the east and process the by
products and dirt out there. Sounds
rather silly to ship 100 pounds of
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-08-01

dirty wool to the east from the
Rocky mountain region when you
know full well that 60 pounds of
that 100 pounds is going to be
washed out in the form of dirt and
b~y-product, does it not2
BY-products Valuable
The ~by-products that are washed
out of the grease wool today find a
ready and profitable market. Lano-
lin, the most valuable of the by
products, is used in several indus
tries, such as in cosmetics, soap
making and others. If the by-prod-
ucts are such a nuisance and SO
worthless to the eastern professor,
why not process the wool out here?
We have plenty of to throw
the waste products if that is what
they are. I find though, that lanolin
and the other by-products which
come from the securing of the wool
generally find a market and become
just n nor profitable side indus
try which has been talked down for
many years. The grower pays for
the freight on these but gets nothing
for them in the end because he is
paid on a clean wool basis.
The campaign to bring wool proc
essing to the west is a common
sense nov to make for a better in
dustry and to help it survive and
again become one of the great in
dustries of the world. In excess of
300, 600, 900 pounds of wool was used
in the United States last year and
only 100000, 900 of the raw product
was grown in our own country. We
propose to increase this domestic
yield and to improve on the quality
of it rather than to allow it to be-
come decadent and finally die for
want of proper care.
Wool Council Formed
The Rocky mountain states realize
the value of this great industry OF
this region, and it is with this IN
please turn to page 48)
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-08-01

processing to the west.
For SO years, wool processing in
the west has cropped up as an occa-
sional conversational topic, and once
in a while a few OF the more inter
ested and energetic westerners
would get an idea and decide to see
what could be done about the mat
ter. They would pool some money
and HE themselves east to get ex-
pert advice on the subject and on
some occasions ever went so far as
to secure the services of an eastern
expert" to advise whether or not
the project of bringing a wool proc
esSing plant to the west was feasible.
They could just as well have
saved their money because the
swers were always the same and the
high. The were always
mo" with sufficient evidence of
various kinds to prove the point.
Then the matter would subside and
the wool buyers would again de-
scend on the sheep men and buy
their wool at the prices set down
by Boston as a fair price for that
year.
An Old Story
1t is perfectly natural for the east
ern expert to advise against the
project of bringing a wool process
ing plant to the west. England
fought the expectation of sheep to
the colonies in the early days of our
history just as Boston and the New
England states are fighting the NOV
ing of a part of the processing in
dustry westward today. I doubt if
they, the New England states, will
be able to take such drastic meas
ures today as did England in 1860
when a bill was passed forbid
ding the expectation of a single head
of sheep to the colonies.
Merely to protect "home industry"
And in a nutshell that is just exact
ly why the New England states to-
day are fighting so ~valiantly to keep
the west from moving some of the
industry out here.
protect home industry" But what
of the national wool industry as a
whole? To move that part of the
industry which is known as the
processing end of the business to
the west would have telling effects
On the economic security of the en-
tire wool industry. The wool indus
try in the United States is a sick
industry, and any expert will say
that. 1t isn't the men who are il
the business but the antiquated sys
tenn that is to blame for the dep1or
able state in which the wool indus
try finds itself today.
Sheep flocks have declined il
numbers to an appalling figure with
ing the past two to three years. Il
Wyoming alone, the wool clip fo
1948 was almost 2,000,0 900 pound
short of the 1947 clip. This is tru
not only of Wyoming but of all tn
other states that raise wool.
Time 70 Change System
What is the cause of all this de
cline in the sheep population? Muc
of it can be laid at the door of "mis
manaqement If an ind~1strYn &
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-08-01
Process WOOL in the West!

It's a Necessary Step to SAGE the Industry
By COL. HOWARD c.. ANDERSON, Secretary-Manager,
Wyoming Commerce and Industry Commission and Public
Relations Executive, Rocky Mountain Wool Council
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-08-01
Wool Council Formed
BY-products Valuable

The Rocky mountain states realize
the value of this great industry of
this region, and it is with this in
please turn to page 48)
Evening star., 1948-08-08

tectS in the supervising archl-
tect's Office, Public Buildings Ad-
ministration.
Worked Out Soap Models.
Before the architects Office was
transferred from the Treasury De-
partment in the late sos, Mr.. Non
had held similar position there for
many years.
His children recall that when
plans for the new Internal Revenue
building were being perfected in the
early 30s, Mr.. Noll used to work
out soap models of parts of the pro-
posed structure on the dining room
table of his home at 3437 Fourteenth
street NV.
When he retired, Mr.. Noll had
been an employe of the Government
almost 40 years since coming here
when he was 81 from his native
Philadelphia. He was graduate
of the Drexel Institute of Tech
nology there.
Mr.. Noll was a member of the
Association of Federal Architects.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Irene Dickson Noll, to whom he was
married in 1909, and two daughters,
the Misses Frances E. and Irene E.
Noll, all of Washington.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Sister Of Garry Davis 10 Try
To Get Him 10 Return 10 U.S..
Rv The A<soeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. THE sis
ter of a wartime flyer who sur
rendered his United States citizen
ship to work for world peace was
on her way to France today to try
to persuade him to at least come
back to his native America.
Miss Virginia Davis, daughter of
Band Leader Meyer Davis, sailed
at dawn from here aboard a Greek
coal ship. She said she hoped she
can convince her brother, Garry,
that he "can do as much good here
as anywhere else"
The 26-year-old Garry gave up
his citizenship in Paris last April.
He felt he could do more toward
helping world peace as citizen
of the world.
Miss Davis, soprano who sang
the opening and closing songs of
the recent Republican convention,
said Garry felt that something
drastic had to be done to focus
light on the world-government
idea.
After returning to America from
wartime flying in Europe, Garry
was a broadway actor. His Older
brother was killed on a destroyer
in the war and Garry crash-land-
ed in Germany.
Miss Davis said she first will talk
to Garry in Paris. Il don't expect
T ron 0ot him RI foEo bocE 1,ie nit =
izenship," she said, but she hoped
she could convince him to return
home.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Thurmond Disappointed
AT Exfradition Refusal
BY the Associoisd Press

COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug. Gov
Strom Thurmond expressed disap.
pointment today that the Governor
of New Jersey has refused to extra
dite John Collier, Negro who
escaped from a Greenwood County
chain gang.
ut is of course not up to me
as Governor to pass upon the merits
of this case. Rather, that duty
devolves upon the courts of the
State of South Carolina" Gov
Thurmond said.
II am, therefore, naturally dis
appointed that the Governor of
New Jersey has seen fit to deny
the courts of our State an oppor-
tunity to administer justice in a
case which is legally and properly
within their jurisdiction.
Gov. Driscoll refused to return
Collier to what the latter's attornev
said would be living death" on
the gang, where the fugitive
claimed he had been subjected to
cruel and inhuman treatment.
Golfer escaped II years ago after
serving nine months of 19-month
sentence for SIS theft. At the
time of Gov. DriscolPs action he
had been held in Newark 27 months
on a fugitive warrant
Evening star., 1948-08-08
GIs Shun Caviar
|ForPeonuts;Army
| Sells 1t to Jops

TOKYO, Japan. Aug. Z. (CDN)-
Keep your caviar -. Sailed pea
nuts are good enough for us.
That, in effect, is what American
CTS have told the American Army.
which today released $4,000 jars of
black caviar, Product of U. S. S. r.
to the japanese because the stuff
just wouldn't 60 at the PIX.
Even when the PIX reduced the
price from $3.50 to rs cents a jar,
CTS preferred their salted goobers.
In desperation the PIX authorities
turned its stocks over to the Jap
government.
Today caviar could be bought in
Jap shops on the Gina, Tokyo's
Broadway, for 100 yen, Or TO cents
at the official exchange rate.
PIX officials say the caviar was
ordered in the early months of the
occupation by an officer long since
departed from Japan. Growled a
colonel:
Anybody who'd buy that much
caviar ought to have his head
examined"
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Father Lissner, Founder
OF Catholic Order, Dies
By the Associoied Press

TENAFLY, N. j., Aug. THE
Very Rev. Ignatius Lissner, S. M. A..
81, French-born Catholic priest who
founded an order OF Negro sisters
and more than a dozen missions.
died today at ST. Anthony's Negro
Mission, which he founded in 1922,
and to which he retired in 1946.
He founded the order of Negro
sisters, the Handmaids of the Most
Pure Heart of Mary, in 1916.
A native of Wolxsheim, Alsace,
he came to this country in 1897.
He was a British Army chaplain
in Egypt for some years. but re-
turned to this country in 1906 and in
the next 80 years founded 13 Negro
missions, seven of them in Georgia.
Still active in 1941, he founded the
American Provence of the African
Missionary Society.
The missions were in Los Angeles,
Silver Spring, Md, Tuscon, Ariz.,
and Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta
and Macon, Ga.
Services will be held Tuesday at
Mt. Carmel Church, with burie' in
the church cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Rites Tuesday
For J. 5. Drury, Former
Coal Firm Executive

REQUIEM mass for John S. Drury,
SO, former sales manager of the j..
P. Agnew Coal Co. here, will be
celebrated at $3.50 am. Tuesday in
St. AIMS Church, Wisconsin avenue
and Albemarle street NV. Burial
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Drury died Friday at his
home, 24l1 Thirty ninth street NV,
after an illness of four years.
Before his 10-year association
with the Agnew firm, until his re-
tirement in 1945, Mr.. Drury was
employed for Is years with the J.
Maury Dove Coal Co. and its sue
cessor, the American Ice Co., 1915
F. street NE. He was a salesman
and sales manager with both firms,
as he. was with the Agnew Coal Co.
A native of Georgetown, Mr..
Drury attended public schools in
the neighborhood. He went to work
in his teens as an Office boy and
usher with the old Chase Theater,
which later became Polls Theater.
He was married to the former
Ella e. Donegan here in 1912. Be-
fore moving to their present home
10 years ago, the couple lived at
3809 Warren street NV. for many
years.
In addition to his widow, Mr..
Drury is survived by son, John
Dury, jr, of District Heights, Nd;
his mother, Mrs. Alice Mason Drury,
1921 Monroe street NV; two
brothers, Walter c. and Louis M.
Drury, and two sisters, Mrs. Louis
Cassidy and Mrs. Marie Avery, also
of washington,
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Mississippi Legislators
P|edgeSupport Of Thurml'ond
By the Associoted Press


Mississippi's seven Representa-
tives yesterday pledged support OF
Gov. Thurmond of South Carolina
for President in event the presi-
Dental election is thrown into the
House of Representatives next fall.
The Constitution provides that if
no candidate receives a majority
of the total electoral vote, the
House of Representatives shall
choose the President from the three
highest. In such an election each
state has one vote.
Gov. Thurmond was nominated
for President. and Gov. Wright OF
Mississippi for Vice President at
the Birmingham convention of
Southern Democrats.
The seven Mississippi Represent
atives said yesterday they support
the Thurmond- Wright ticket 'in
compliance with the instructions
of the Mississippi State conven-
tion," and will, of course, con-
tinue to give our support to them
in the House of Representatives in
the event the election should be
thrown into that body"
Signing the statement were Rep
resentatives Abernethy, Colmer,
Rankin, Whitten. Wilmington,
Williams and Winstead.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
William ". Tracy, SO,
Exc. .0.P. Leader, Dies

PITTSFIELD, Mass, Aug. T.
William Warren Tracy, 88, a Spring.
field Gll) estate executive, died to-
day at House of Mercy Hospital.
He had been Ill for a month after
being stricken at his summer home
IN Williamstown.
His body will be sent to SPRING
field for burial.
At the time Of his death, Mr..
Tracy was counselor for the Copley
Press, which operates newspapers
in Illinois and California. A gradu-
ate of Williams College, he was for
many years president of the First
National Bank of Springfield.
He was president of the National
Republican League of the United
States in the McKinley-Bryan cam
paign of 1896,
Evening star., 1948-08-08

WlUOW, w ) .. LIZ OAhasher'
Betty Smith Gallagher, and son,
Ronnie, live in Warsaw, Va.
1t. Gallagher had been an in
structor with the Air Force in Ger
many since 1916, his relatives said.
During the war, 1t. Gallagher
served as an instructor in this coun-
try. Before entering the Air Force
in 1941, he was employed by the
Rosslyn Gas Co.
1t. Gallagher was native of
Warsaw and graduate of Warsaw
High School.
Other survivors include three
brothers, Warren, Joseph and NAL
colin Gallagher of Warsaw, and a
sister, Mrs. L. r. Obier of Rich
mond.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
West Coast longshoremen
Face Strike Ban CHARGE
By the Associated Press


SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 7.-Cro
Longshoremen refused to cross
picket lines set up by CIO pier
guards today and the Waterfront
Employers Association Immediately
accused the longshoremen of vio-
lating Federal anti-strike injunc-
ton.
Three ships-the President Pierce,
President Grant and President
Wilson-are tied up as a result of
the longshoremen's action, the EN-.
ployers association charged.
A telegram sent last night to the
United States Attorney General by
the employers said the longshore-
men have attempted to "fout" the
injunction since it was issued June
Is. The telegram asked the At
torney General to institute pro-
ceedings against the longshoremen.
The pier guards are striking over
a contract dispute with the Pinker.
ton patrol agency.
Evening star., 1948-08-08
Third Infantry Drill Team
To Perform in New York

The Third Infantry, "Old Guard"
Washington regiment, will send its
crack drill team with the United
States Army band to perform in
Yankee Stadium, New York, Tues
day night. -...-.
The occasion is the Army and Air
Force Recruiting Night program
to be presented before the New
York Yankees-Boston Red sox
game. 1t. Samuel r. Laboda will
conduct the band and 1t. William
D. McNaughton will head the drill
team.
Evening star., 1948-08-08

DuuQlng n e e.,
are tentatively
set for Tuesday
at the Hines
funeral h o m e,
2901 Fourteenth
street NV, with
burial in Rock
Greek Cemetery.
Mr.. Noll died
Friday in Gar
fl e ! d Hospital
after an illness
of four years. At
the time of his
retirement in
1912, he was
chief of archi.