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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
Man Is Found Dead
At "Hemlock Hollow"
Deputy State Medical Examiner
Declared w. II. Chambers DieG
of Heart Attack

William Henry Chambers, aged So,
craetaker for "Hemlock Hollow" two
miles east Of Gortner, was found dead
at his home on Sunday afternoon by
John Shaffer. neighbor. who wen:
to his home to make an investigation
when Chambers failed to come for his
mail last Friday and Saturday.
| The man was discovered lying on
the floor and DR.. E. l. Baumgartner,
deputy state medical examiner, who
said the man had died of natural
causes. also declared the man had
been dead for over twenty-four hours
when found.
Mr.. Shaffer reached telephone at
the home of Grover Lee and notified
the sheriff's office, States Attorney
Walter w. Dawson, Deputy Sheriff
Paul W. Fisher, and Emroy Bolden,
undertaken, were compelled to go by
sled to the Chambers home where the
two former made their investigation.
The body was examined later by Dr..
Baumgaltncr.
Mr.. Chambers was subject to heart
attacks. the last previous one having
occurred in September.
He was born October IS, 1878. in
Oakland, a son of the late Lloyd and
Louise Jankcy Chambers.
Surviving are ore daughter, Mrs.
Louise Fcrlagatti, Jackson Heights,
n. y; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Brown,
New Mexico; and Mrs. Estellc Ship
by, Of Connellsville, Pa; and three
brothers. Robert Chambers, Pitts
burgh; Harry Chambers, Washington
d. c.; and Charles Chambers, Con
hellsville.
Funeral services were conducted
On Tuesday afternoon at 1870 o'cock
from the Bolden Funeral Home with
Rev. Austin f. Schildwachter,, Episco-
pal minister, officiating. Interment
was in Oakland cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
Around Forty Try Neqv Ski Trails At
Sand Flat Over Holiday Weekend

No less than forty skicrs displayed
their varied adeptness in riding the
"sticl>s" at the newly established
Deep Greek Ski Trails on Hooppole
Ridge last Sunday. Local talent as
we'll as some members of the Wash
ington Ski club and a few Pennsyl-
vanians tested the slope which the
snowfall on Friday made disable for
the first time.
Howard d. Naylor, who leased the
hill and cleared it Of rocks and
stumps last July, has divided the
slope INTO three trails which con-
verge near the foot of the ski tow
The slalom trail in the center of the
hill has drop Of about ITO feet and
is 400 feet in length For those who
prefer jumping, a wooden platform
will be erected at the extreme right
in the near future The beginners
trail starts Approximately a third of
the way from the bottom
A 1,009 foot tow, consisting of one
inch manila rope and powered by an
army surplus truck, extends almost
to the foot of the hill. 1t can accommo-
date eight persons at one time and
can return them to the top in little
less than three minutes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01

Mr. Naylor indicated that if the
tow is successful this year, warm
ing hut, wind breaks, and additional
sodding will be added to the project.
Hours Of operation, with weather
permitting, are set for Saturday and
Sunday, opening at 1000 a, M until
1900 p. m. All holidays will open at
this time as well. The tow will also
run on Thursday afternoons and
nights, and at any time a party of
ten or more make reservation.
If the weather is suitable, about
forty members of the Washington
Ski Club will use the slope ON the
weekend of January 10, according to
Mr.. Naylor. Mr. and Mrs. Jack David
son and Miss Dorothy Reyes of the
Club tested the hill during the Christ
mas holidays.
A limited number of skis and
poles can be rented at the tow shack
and beginners can receive instruction
upon request, Mr.. Naylor said. Rates
for the use of the tow are $100 for
persons over fourteen years and fifty
cents for those of fourteen and under.
There was also skiing over the
weekend at Guntertown, Happy
Hills Farm, and at the State Forest
at New Germany.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
To Speak Here on
''March of Dimes

DR.. Mildred Otaneseck, professor
of political science, Trinity College,
Washington, d. c.. will be in Oak
land for the next dinner meeting of
the Mt. Top Chamber of Commerce,
scheduled for the Wiliam-James hotel
on Tuesday, January Is, at $50.
She will be accompanied by Cath
crime c. Gaule, administrative direc-
tor to the state chairman for the Ma
t;onal Foundation for Infantile Par
alysis.
Both women will speak particularly
about the coming March of Dimes
campaign
Tickets for this dinner meeting are
being distributed by w. 0. Davis,
secretary of the organization and a
corps of workers, at $1.50 per plate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
Service Clubs Are
Sponsoring ''Go To
Church" Movement
Committee Urges Church At
tendance Of All People Of Com
munity, Especially During
January

The "ScIvicc Clubs" Of Oakland +
the Business and Professional Wom-
ems Club, the Lions Club, and the
Rotary Club are jointly sponsoring a
Go-to-Church movement for Oakland
and vicinity during the month of Jan
Uary, using as their slogan, Begin
the New Year Right-Go to Church" y
Such movement was sponsored by
tie three service clubs last year with
such success that it is being under
taken again this year with much en-
thusiam by these groups, according
t. a member of the committee.
The officers of the respective clubs,
as well as the members of the special
committees appointed for this project,
are not only urging their own MEM
bers to attend church, but they are
entering upon a campaign Of publicity
through which they are calling upon
the people of the community to at
tend church services regularly, es-
recially during the month Of January.
The clubs are not planning to at
tend any particular church in a body
during the period set aside for the
campaign but are reminding their
members and the public at large that
they should attend the services in
their own churches Of which they are
members and to which they owe their
loyalty.
Window cards and hand bills arc
being printed for display in the bust
ness places and distribution to the
homes of the city. Other items of
publicity are being prepared by the
members Of the joint committee in
charge of the project.
The committee members are: for
the Business and Professional Wom-
ems Club, Mrs. Walter E. Dawson,
President, Mrs. A. II. Humbcrtson
and Mrs. f. r. Shaffer for the Lions
Club, Herbert c. Leighton, President,
Lewis r. Jones and Robert Ruckert;
and for the Rotary Club, Mason Glot-
fclty, n. A. Coplin and William NJ.
Ellinghaus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
WALTER W. DAWSON RESIGNS AS
STATES ATTORNEY; SLOWER NAMED
Latter Recommended by Bar
Association and Approved by
Court Judges, Effective Jan
uary |

Walter w. Dawson, states attorney
for Garrett county, has resigned his
position, effective January /, 1913,
and the vacancy has been filled by the
appointment Of W. Dwight Slower to
fill the uneXpircd term.
The announcement of Dawsons
resignation came as a surprise to
most court officials He was elected
in November, 1916, for four-year
term. after having previously served
as states attorney from 1880 to 1884.
In rendering his resignation to the
judges Of the Circuit Court Mr.. Daw-
son stated: at is with sincere regret
that | feel that should take this
action and have done 50 only after
careful consideration. 1t is my desire
to give my undivided time and at
tcntion to my private practice
Upon order Of the Circuit Court on
December %, Mr Slower was APP
pointed for the uneXpired term. The
order was signed by William A.
Hustler, chief Judge; Joseph ID. Mish
and George Henderson associate
judges.
is Native Of This County
Mr. Slower, who is q years Of age,
was born and reared in this county.
attended elementary schools here and
was graduated from Oakland High
school in 1896. He attended Eastern
University in Baltimore and was adj
mitted to the Maryland Bar on April
7, 1912.
On April 10, 1912, he enlisted in
the United States Army and served
until April 4, 1916 When released to
inactive duty he held the rank of
captain. During his service he was
with the 791st military police bat
talon. Since his release from service
he has retained his captains com
mission in the Officers Reserve Corps.
Mr. Slower was recommended by
the Garrett County Bar association.
He expects to go to Cumberland on
Friday to take oath of office before
Chief Judge Hustler.
He is a son of Mr., and Mrs. Russell
w. Slower, formerly of this county,
now residing in Terra Alta.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
Wallace Will Run
For President

Henry Wallace announced he would
be an Independent candidate for
President of the United States on a
platform advocating peace and pros
perity"
The former vicc-prcsident and crst-
while cabinet member, declared the
menace to peace was greater than
ever before
TO get his name ON the Maryland
ballot in the 1913 election Henry
Wallace must;
]. File petition with the Sccrc-
tary of State at Annapolis contain
ing the signatures of at least 1000
registered Maryland voters who
must signify they will cast their
ballot for him
,. Pay $270 filing fec.
If the petition is not filed write
in" ballots must cast for him at the
polls.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
Oakland High Quint To
Play FelIowSville Team

Oakland High school basketball
team will meet Fellowsville High
school in game Friday evening, Jan
uary >, in the local school auditorium.
"B" teams of both schools will
have the preliminary game which be-
gins at 7 o'clock. The main attraction
will get underway about o'clock.
Coach o. A. Watson said Fellows
vile had an unusually strong team
this year and an interesting game was
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
Stock Sale Prices
May Indicate Trend

Mondays sale at the Farmers Stock
Yards, Accident, brought unusually
high prices and may indicate a trend,
it was announced by company Of
ficials.
The following sale prices prevailed:
Cows, S12.l0 to $18.O5 per cwt.;
Hcifers, $14.6O to $3.50 per cwt.;
Steers. $3.50 per cwt.; Bulls, $2O.6O
per cwt.
Veal 600 lbs and over) $3.50 to
$34.20 per cwt.; Veal (under 100 lbs)
1925 to S24.75 per cwt.
Pigs, $3.50 to $3.50 each; Shoats,
$3.50 to $1,000 each; Fat Hogs,
$3.50 to S3l.30 per cwt.
Lambs, $500 to S23.25 per cwt.
Leghorn Hens, 1512c to zoe per lb;
Heavy Hens, 3O12c to 40c per lb;
Heavy Brothers, SOC to 40c per ID.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
County To Receive
$500 From Racing

Garrett county will receive $15,790
from revenue paid by race track
bettcrs, according to James j. Lacy,
state comptroller. The money now
being distributed covers the six
months period ending December 81.
Total distribution to Baltimore
City and all counties amounts to
$l,30S.3
Under the law each county must
proportion its particular share to
municipalities based upon popu-
lation basis. County commissioners
must make the distribution with the
best population figures available "in
the opinion of the county commits
sioners."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
To Assist in Filing Returns

For the purpose of assisting tax
payers in filing amended estimated
income tax returns and farmers in
filing estimated income tax returns
for the calendar year 1947, a deputy
collector of internal revenue will be
at the postoffice in Oakland on Janu-
AIRY and 6.
Other places to be visited: Acct
dent, Spoerlein's Garage, January 7;
Grantsville, postotfice, January 8.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
Picture of TripIets

Since printing the story Of the
Ashby triplets along with the picture
of them taken a number of years ago,
on another page of this newspaper,
it was discovered that the photo APP
peared in the issue Of December 26,
1885, and was taken upon the oc-
casion of their 21st birthday ami
versary.
Actually they are, reading from
left to right: George Glenn, Lee Lig-
gctt, and Burton Baxter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
Lutheran Minister
Begins His Passionate
Arrived in Oakland Tuesday
Will Hold Communion Service
on Sunday

Rev. and Mrs. Luther Lee Hare and
family arrived in Oakland on Tuesday
where the former is to begin his
pastorate in st. Marks Lutheran
church Rev. Hare, formerly of Clear
Spring, succeeds Rev. George ID. Birk,
who accepted a call to a Lutheran
church in Williamsport, Pa, about
two months ago.
His first service on Sunday morn
ing. January 1, will be a communion
service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
Diplomat to Stop Friday

The castbound Diplomat will stop
in Oakland on Friday morning, Jan
uary ,, to accommodate the New Year
passengers desiring to return to their
homes, or to visit in Eastern cities.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01

The Maryland tuberculosis associ-
alton has received $4,000 up to De-
cember %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Kay Francis in Hospital;
Stage Manager Arrested

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Jan. 23.-Kay
Francis, the actress. became serious
ly Ill under mysterious circum-
stances today and her stage man
ager, Howard Graham, 81, was
booked at police headquarters for
investigation of assault to kill. -
Miss Francis and Graham are
here with the stage production,
state of the Union" "7'''
Miss Francis was removed early
today from her hotelAto White Cross
Hospital. which described her Con
dition as lust fair" She still was
unconscious several hours after her
arrival there.
Police said Graham, taken inte
custody at the hospital, asserted
Miss Francis summoned him to hel
hotel room and said she had taker
some sleeping tablets. She had beer
severely burned, he added, when shs
fell against radiator.
Detective Karl Hanna and Police
Sergt. Carl Clifton said they founc
evidence of a wild party" in The
hotel room.
DR.. M. Russoff, specialist in in.
ternal medicine, who attended the
43-year-old stage and screen star
refused to identify the nature Of
her illness.
Sergt. Clifton said Graham re.
fused to submit to medical test tc
determine whether he had beer
drinking.
You can conduct your own inves-
tigation,' he quoted Graham as say
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Detroit Bandits Take
$4,000 in Mink Furs
BY the Associosed Press

DETROIT, Jan. GA widespread
police search was pressed today
after two discriminating .s gunner
held up a pair of New York fur
statesmen at a hotel card game last
night and made off with 5000
worth of mink garments.
Held for Questioning was man
who Detective 1t. Charles O'Brien
said was found lettering near Room
1929 of the Statler Hotel where an
alligator bag containing part of the
loot-$18,000 in mink coats and
wraps-was abandoned.
The victims, Henry Rosen and
William Lewis, told police they were
playing a game of gin rummy about
7 pm. last evening when two I'M
masked bandits entered their room
on the 14th floor.
Turn around and keep quiet"
they quoted one of the gunner as
saying.
They reported the pair then
marched them into the bathroom,
bound their hands with neckties and
tapped their mouths. Then the
bandits packed number of mink
furs into large packing boxes in
the room, ignoring IS less valuable
beaver and Persian lamb coats, and
left.
Shortly after 7 hotel elevator
operator said a short man who
seemed to be in hurry got into
the elevator at the 18th floor
carrying a large packing box.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Emidio Auriti Dies at Al,
Washington Shoemaker

Emidio Auriti, ~, Washington
shoemaker, died Unexpectedly yes
teqlay in his home, 1926 N street
He was born in Italy and came
to Washington when he was IS. He
was an APPRENTICE in the shoemaking
business before he opened his own
shop rs years ago at 1852 Twentieth
street NV.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Antoinette Auriti: three daughters,
Misses Lena, Amelia and Antoinette
Aurita, all of the N street address;
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony
Auriti; a brother. Sam Auriti, all
three of sat Maryland avenue S.W.,
and two sisters, Mrs Edith Zanger.
726 Quackenbos street NV, and
Mrs. Balbina Prestopina, 621 H
street NV.
Requiem mass will be offered at
10 am. Monday in st. Matthew's
Cathedral. Burial will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Canada Bars Russians
From Military Visits

OTTAWA, Jan. 23.-The Cana
dian Defense and External Affairs
Departments announced last night
that Russian military representa-
tives here have been forbidden to
visit Canadian military installations
because similar privileges have been
denied Canada's military attache in
Moscow.
A joint statement outlined a pro-
posed visit by foreign military at
taches to an artillery camp in Shilo,
Manitoba, next week and said Rus
STA would not be represented in the
11-man party. The statement said
Canada would restore the privilege
when the U. s. S. r. did likewise.
Included in the group which will
leave for Shilo are representatives
of China, Czechoslovakia, France,
Norway, Switzerland, Great Britain,
Turkey and the United States
There are two Russian military
representatives in Ottawa-Lt. Col
Nikolai N. Serov, acting military at
tache, and 1t. Col. Ivan N. Paw
shoukov, assistant military attache.
Efforts to reach them for comment
were unavailing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Foley Approves Bill
To Permit transfer Of
|Dormiiories 10 Howard

Raymond M. Foley. administrator
OF the Housing and Home Finance
Agency, today recommended to Con-
gress a bill that would authorize
transfer to Howard University OF
two residence halls here owned by
the Defense Homes Corp.
The two buildings are Lucy Diggs
Slowe Hall, 29s-unit building at
Third and u streets NV, and
George Washington Carver Hall
177-unit building at Second and Elm
streets NV.
Mr.. Foley,s recommendation was
transmitted to the Senate and
House after approval of the proposal
by President Truman and the DIG
Board of Directors.
It became known several months
ago that Howard University had re-
quested the transfer in order to meet
needs for student dormitory facil-
tiles
President Truman, in a letter to
Mr.. Foley, said, Il feel that the
Government, In disposing of these
facilities, should insure that they
continue to serve the same basic
purpose, and I believe that this can
best be accomplished by transferring
the facilities in question to Howard
University. I therefore give my
hearty approval to this proposal"
During the war the dormitories
were available to colored residents
of Washington. Many now are oc-
cupied by Howard University stu
dents,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
III. S. Wife of Briton Executed
On Jap Sub, Toio's Court Told

omcer that she had been in Japan
before the war.
THE senior officer said to me
in Japanese that she would have
to be shot. I did not tell her.
could not look her in the face. She
told me she knew what was going
to happen.
1.-The senior officer told me to ask
her If she wanted to be blindfolded
and her hands tied. She said she
did not. Just before she left, she
said, 'Sayonara-the 'sayonara' was
address to all the crew."
1t. w. Salter of the British naval
reserve, who has been investigating
the case, said survivor of the
Dutch ship not taken aboard the
submarine had reported she was the
only woman captured.
Nakahara said the submarine
commander informed him naval
headquarters had ordered the execu-
ton OF all survivors OF ship sink
ings. Admiral Shigetaro Shimada,
of the Japanese general staff and a
defendant, has denied issuing such
orders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Wrecking Operations
Start on Negro Church
On Fifteenth Street

Razing operations are under way
on st. Augustine's Catholic Church
which was helped at its founding
by Abraham Lincoln.
First funds for the church, stu
ated at 1890 Fifteenth street
NV, were raised in 1865 at a party
on the White House lawn. President
Lincoln granted permission for the
party to Gabriel Coakley, one of
the founders of the Negro church.
The church was opened in 1874.
The wrecking was begun Wednes-
day by the Ace Wrecking and
Building Material Co., which is raz-
ing four other structures adjacent
to the church. According to Daniel
j. Goodman of the company the
work is being done for the Federal
Parking Co. Mr.. Goodman said that
razing of the church, which is con-
structed of red brick, will require
more than so days to complete,
with a crew averaging 20 men.
The steep roof, he commented,
will be difficult and dangerous to
remove.
st. Augustine's parish began con-
struction Of a new church on Fiji
teenth street. between r and S
streets, in the late 1920s A buyer
for the old church could not be
found then and services were held
in both churches during the 1930s.
The old church was finally sold
early in 1916 for 100000 to two
Washington attorneys. Spencer
Gordon and Fontaine G. Bradley,
Union Trust Building. The old
building was vacated last January
and the marble affairs, pulpit and
rail, as we'll as the pews and statu-
airy, were moved to the new church,
of which only the basement audito-
rum exists. o..
Pastor of st. Augustine's Church
is Father Alonzo j.. Odds, who came
to the parish in 1904.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Compensation Backed
In Unjust Suspensions

Civil Service Commission and
Army Department officials today in
dorsed legislation to compensate
Government employees for time lost
as a result of unjustified suspension
from their jobs.
They were joined before House
Civil Service subcommittee by off,
Gals of Government employees I'M
ions and veterans organizations in
urging the bills passage.
Among those testifying today were
John Overholt, chief of the commits
sion's efficiency rating section, and
A. H. Onthank, the Army Depart
ment's director of personnel.
The union and veterans officials
urged that the bill be made retro
active at least to 1914. The subcom-
mittee, headed by Representative
Sadlak, Republican, of Connecticut,
said it would take that request I'M
der consideration.
Nnder present procedure, en-
ployes found to have been unjustly
removed from their jobs can only
recover the pay lost by having
private relief bills introduced for
them in Congress. The Senate last
week passed a bill similar to that
considered today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
by the Associated Press

TOKYO, Jan. 23.-Testimony that
the American wife of British fly
ing officer bravely met death on
japanese submarine with a CHEEKY
''sayonara"- gcodbye-to the enemy
crew has ended a four year search
for her.
Jiro Nakahara, %, Hawaiian born
Japanese member of the sub crew,
told this story today as a surprise re-
buttal witness at the war crimes
trial of former Premier TOTO and
"a others:
Mrs. Verna Gordon Britain, for
mer American Red Cross worker,
was ell route to join her husband in
Calcutta when the Dutch ship
Tjsalak was sunk In the Indian
Ocean in March, 1914.
Nakahara was called to the subs
coming tower to order survivors to
come aboard, one by one. They
were led below deck, questioned. re-
turned to the deck and shot to
death, one by one.
Mrs. Britain told the subs senior
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

that employees morale at the Civil
Aeronautics Board lis at a very low
ebb" have been made by Represent
alive Blackwell, Republican, of Mis-
souri,. Mr.. Blackwell asserted the
agency was in a state of ineffi-
cheney and disintegration" and was
two years behind in its docket. .. i.
Government officials are very cool
(no pun intendeO TO the idea of
converting fuel-heated Federal
buildings to coal basis. In letter
to the White House, Assistant Fed
eral Works Administrator J. w.
Follin said most Government build
ings already are heated by coal and
that the cost of converting the
others would be very considerable"
additional ne,Ds OF Gopern-
ment affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast Dersion of the Federal Spot
light, regular feature at 3:15
pm. each Sunday on WMAL,
The Star station.