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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-14
McEENRY

Edward and Earl Glotfelty, Jacob
Knox and Louis Held made trip
to Winchester to attend the Apple
Blossom Festival.
Miss Grace Glotfelty visited Miss
Helen Glotfelty on Thursday evening.
Lester Glotfelty, who has been seri-
ously ill, is quite improved at this
time.
The farmers of this community are
planting potatoes and sowing oats.
Edmund Harvey has purchased a
new automobile.
James Glotfelty and family visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Glotfelty on Sun
day.
Mildred Glotfelty, who has been at
tending school in Oakland, visited her
parents here over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mahlon Brenneman
and Mrs. Emma Specht visited Mr..
and Mrs. Beason Glotfelty on Sun
day.
Effie Glotfelty and Fred Glotfelty
visited their parents over the week
end.
Miss Grace Glotfelty has been ill
for the past few days.
Homer and Edward Glotfelty Wis
tied Elmer Bernard Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Bernard, Miss
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-14
BI1'TINGER

Ebert Buckle, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oliver G. Buckle, of this village, re-
turned last Sunday evening from Col
lege Park, Md, where he participated
in Statewide vocational agricultural
speaking contest, and brought back
a happy smile as we'll as ten dollar
gold piece, the first prize, given in
the contest. The youth is a student
in the Accident high school. We feel
that we voice the sentiment of the
community when we congratulate him
upon this commendable achievement.
Miss Ruth Emory returned home
last Sunday evening from Elmira, N.
Y, where she had been visiting for
the past month.
Herman Englehart, of Oakland, was
Saturday afternoon.
Messrs. Joseph and Samuel Clos
terman, of Red Hill, near Frostburg,
were callers here last Saturday af-
ternoon.
Constable Andrew Shartzer, of Oak
land, was in this community on bust
ness last Saturday.
William Winterberg, of Grantsville,
motored to this village last Friday
evening on business.
Miss Fern Buckle, Of the Grants
vile high school, spent the weekend
with her parents here.
Mrs. E. S. Brenneman returned to
her home from Cumberland last Sat-
urday evening, accompanied by her
little son, Melvin, who had been in
one of the city hospitals for treatment
for the past ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa ]. Orendorf mo-
tored to Meyersdale, Pa, last Sun
day morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Buckle and
little daughter Jean and Mrs. ]. B.
Emory spent last Sunday afternoon
with relatives in Grantsville.
C. E. Ellithorp made a business
trip to Oakland one day last week.
Columbus Oester spent last Sunday
with his family at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. William Brenneman, in the
Meadow Mountain settlement.
DIR. N. R. Davis, of Grantsville,
made a professional visit to this sec
ton few days ago.
William Stephens, Of Homecoming,
and B. Stephens, of near New Ger
many, were Sunday afternoon cal
lers in this village.
Mrs. Jonas Bittinger motored to
Frostburg one day last week to visit
her granddaughter, who is an inmate
of the Miners Hospital in that city.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-14
GORTNER

Mr.. Daniel Spade, of Eglon, filled
the Brethren appointment here Sun
day morning, using for his Mothers
Day theme "a virtuous woman" A
special offering was taken for the
motherless children in the Eglon or
phanage.
Miss Ida Martin entertained the
sewing circle recently. Those present
were Mrs. Jacob Swartzentruber, Mrs.
Harry Beeghly, Mrs. Hervey Roth,
Mrs. Charles Soldiers, Mrs. D. ].
Swartzentruber, Mrs. George Martin,
Mrs. Daisy Lohr, Mrs. Charles New
man, Mrs. Albert Sisk, Mrs. Paul
WEIGH; Misses Grace Mason, Mary
Jane Kahl, Lena Slabach and Minnie
Shaffer. The circle will meet the first
Tuesday afternoon in June at the res
idence of Miss Minnie Shaffer.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Lee, on
the 9th inst, a daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Swartzentruber
had as their guests on Sunday Noah
Schrock and family, Henry Hostetler
and family and Henry Yoder and fam
lily.
Mrs. Albert Sisk was a guest at
the home of Mrs. Charles Newman on
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Frazee, of Sunnyside, was a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Swart-
Zentruber on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beecher Morris, of
Oakland, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mac Ridder recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonas Lichty and
daughters, of Salisbury, Pa, spent
Sunday with Mr.. Lichty's home folks
in this community.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Burress, of
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PAGE SEVEN

Washington, D. c., were guests of
Miss Minnie Shaffer on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Noah Slabach enter
tanned on Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Slabach and son and Mrs. Finley and
children, of Uniontown; Miss Grace
Filler, of Frostburg, and Messrs. Carl
Swiers and Roy Lichty.
S. W. Slabach and Miss Lena SIa-
bach and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Sisk
attended revival services at Springs,
Pa, on Sunday evening. They were
accompanied by Misses Grace Filler
and Vera Swain.
Mr.. Peter Breuninger, of Sunnyside,
spent Monday evening at Mr.. S. w.
Slabach's.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-14

France. After thorough tests of diff
ferent types Of gas masks we adopted
the box respirator used by the British,
and preliminary purchase of 100000
was made to meet immediate demands
for training.
With the development of trench
weapons and special tactical methods
Of defense, never had the offensive
been more costly in human life than
in this war. The ingenuity of the allies
was put to the test to devise new en-
gines Of war that would make the at
tack possible without excessive losses.
While the tank, which was simply an
armored caterpillar traction motor car,
was favored by many officers as an aid
to advancing infantry, this opinion was
by no means unanimous. Our investi-
cations, however, led to the conclu-
sions that we should accept allied ex-
perience and also adopt the tank as
a weapon.
Ito be continued next week.)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-14

Amy Friend and Miss Lena Helfrich
visited at the home of Mrs. Edmund
Harvey on Sunday.
Hubert Bowman made business
trip to Brownsville recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Kamp, of Kan
sas, and Mrs. Louis Kamp, of New
Germany were here as guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Beason Glotfelty recently.
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provements in gas masks. To save
tonnage and avoid the dangers of ex-
plosion in transit, it was decided,
after consultation with the allied serv-
ices, to request the shipment from the
States of the basic elements and man.
ufacture the chemical products in
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cialiSts and limit training to the mar
row field of trench warfare. Therefore,
in large measure, the fundamentals so
thoroughly taught at West Point for
century were more or less neglected.
The responsibility for the failure of
the War department to take positive
action on my recommendations in such
matters must fall upon the military
head of the department, which was the
general staff.
There were other causes, as we shall
see later, that led to confusion and ir-
regularity in training to such an ex-
tent that we often were compelled DUR
ing the last stages of the war to send
men into battle with little knowledge
of warfare and often with no rifle
practice at all.
Military Police Provided.
The maintenance of good order
among our troops under the peculiar
conditions of service in France was
most important, and for this purpose
military police was essential. Such
a force, under the control of provost
marshal general, correspondent to the
police department in well-organized
city. except that its jurisdiction in
cluded only those in the military serv-
Ice. The British, whose situation was
similar to our own, gave us helpful
information regarding their system,
which, with slight modification, was
adopted for our armies.
In our previous wars, the provost
guard, so called, usually consisted of
troops of the line detailed for the pur-
pose, but without any special training
for such duty.
Col. Hanson Ely was selected to
organize the police corps and made a
good beginning In laying the founda-
tion, but, at his own request, he was
shortly relieved and sent to regimental
duty. His successor, Col. w. Fl. AL
laire, became provost marshal general
until the following July, when he was
relieved by Col. ]. G. Groome.
Brig. Gen. Fl. H. Bandholtz, on &C.
SOuhI VI his cpCNiui hILCSS 1OA ouSH
work from his experience as chief Of
constabulary in the Philippine islands,
became the permanent head of the
corps in September, 1918.
Due credit must be given to each of
these officers, but particularly to Band
holtz, for the smart appearance and
the high efficiency of this force.
The military police were indispens-
able in directing and handling traffic
during combat activities, in preventing
struggling and in maintaining order
among scattered groups of our armies
both before and after the armistice.
The organization November 1, 1918,
numbered 1853 officers and 1892 men,
spread over the whole of France.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-14
CHAPTER XIV

In response to my request to Wash
ington for an experienced man to take
charge of rail transportation, w. W..
Atterbury, general manager of the
Pennsylvania railroad, arrived in
France and reported to me Septem-
Der 1, 1917.
At Atterbury's suggestion a cable
was sent requesting certain men to fill
important positions in the organiza-
ton. The list included j. A. McRae,
general manager of the Long Island
railroad, for general manager, with e.
NJ. Bunting as business manager, Fl. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
WHOLESALE GASOLINE
PRICES IN DECLINE
Uncertainty of Crude Oil Supply
Causes Recession in
Market Values.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

special DlSpatCn 10 Inc star.
TULSA, Okla. September 5.-A slight
decline In quotations for gasoline in the
wholesale market Is accompanying the
uncertainty Of crude oil supply from
wells which have been shut In for the
last few weeks
It is chiefly the intent of the opera
tors Of a few refineries to liquidate at
advantage which the present market
affords that Is causing the reaction
for motor fuel, which had doubled in
price within the last so days
Generally speaking, the liquidation of
inventories on the present market can
not be effected except at loss. How
ever. there are a few small operators
who had accumulated during the de-
cline stocks which have been impossible
to move at prices approximating those
that have prevailed during the last two
weeks. at any other time since last No
vember. The quantity Of this material
is small but because Of the lapse Of
frenzied buying 1t is more in evidence.
Gasoline quotations for the United
States motor fuel oil are generally ruling
at Az to 5 cents a gallon, as compared
with fiat cents price a week ago.
Then, too. refineries are anxious to
consume their cracking stocks in the
production Of gasoline. in view OF the
shortage Of current crude oil produc-
ton
Buyers are also more inclined to be
conservative in their purchases of gaso-
line at this time of the year due to the
apprc aching contraction in the demand
Of the retail field. 1t is generally recog-
nized that the peak demand will occur
on Monday.
It is estimated that Withdrawals of
crude oil from storage in the Midconti-
nent field exceed $4,000 barrels a day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
OUTPUT OF LUMBER
AGAIN BELOW SALES
New Business Exceeds Production
for Third Successive Week
at U. S. Mills.

For the third successive week lumber
production trailed new business received
by the mills during the week ended Au-
gust 20, it is indicated in reports from
$40 leading hardwood and softwood
mills to the National Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association. These reported Or
ders per cent in excess of their COM
bined cut Of 6436,000 feet. Their
shipments were IL per cent above this
figure. A week earlier 1872 mills re-
ported orders IS per cent above and
shipments IL per cent above a cut of
1871, 296 900 feet Comparison by tden-
tical mill figures Of the latest week with
the equivalent week year ago shows
for softwoods 449 mills. production II
per cent less, shipments 19 per cent less
and orders 81 per cent less than for the
week in 1880: for hardwoods, 241 mills,
production 40 per cent less, shipments
per cent less and orders approximately
the same as the volume for the week a
year ago.
Lumber orders reported for the week
ended August %. 1881, by 565 softwood
mills totaled 86347, 900 feet. or 3 per
cent above the production of the same
sare week were l96.424.000 feet. or 8
per cent above production. Production
was 100 903 900 feet.
Reports from 294 harwood mills give
new business as 2l636.000 feet. or SO
per cent above production. Shipments
as reported for the same week were
22,7l9,000 feet, or As per cent above
production. Production was 1888 900
feet.
Reports from 378 softwood mills give
untitled orders Of 562.z18,000 feet, on
August 30. 1881. or the equivalent of
IL days production. This is based upon
production of latest calendar year
300-day year-and may be compared
with untitled orders of sol softwood
mills on August 80, 1880. or 748, 104 900
feet, the equivalent Of Is days produc-
ton.
The Alb identical softwood mills re-
port untitled orders as 547.772 900 feet
on August 90, or the equivalent Of IL
days production, as compared with
682,59l 900 feet, or the equivalent of
Is days production. for the same week
year ago. Last weeks production OF
449 identical mills (softwood) was
169,633,00 feet, and year ago 1t was
23l, 567, 900 feet; shipments were, re-
spectively 1882 900 feet and 27,643,-
900: and orders recei'-ed ITS Asa. 900 feet
and 222, 1875 900. In the case of hard
woods, PAL identical mills reported pro-
duction last week and year ago IA
10000 feet and 23,374 900: shipments
20,2l3,000 feet and 2l,810,000. ana or
ders 19,46l 900 feet and 19,430,0o0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, September (P).-Cattle.
800 head: compared week ago, weighty
fed steers. 25 to so higher: comparable
grade yearlings and light steers, IS to
so lower: extreme top yearlings, 1915
early; best light kinds closing around
e.75, while heavy steers advanced to
1910: best steers, both native and
Westerns, 25 lower to killers and feed
dealers; grass heifers mostly so cents
lower; very little change in grass cows
Westerns bringing premium over ma
tives; bulls. Is higher; feeders. so
higher: best Western grass steers to
killers, 765; packers, 700; selected
vealers sold to HOO: about $500
Northwestern grassers in run.
Sheep-4,000 head; todays receipts
practically all direct: for week, 241
ton. 14.500 direct: fat lambs. so to rs
lower. shorts considered; early top
range and native lambs, 800: late top
native. 1885; rangers, 1861 bulk fat ma
tive lambs. 625a7.5O; ranger, 6.50a7 so;
native throughout, 4.00a450; range
throughout to killers, 55oa6.00; to
feeder dealers, 525a5.75; fat ewes.
10Oa2.00; fat yearlings, 5.00a600; fat
wethers. 4.50a5.00.
rect: lightweight and packing sows
steady; other weights to Is lower: best
compound average, 645; 10000 pound,
6.25a6.45: pigs, 5.0oa550: packing
sows, 42Oa4.75; best. $40; compared
with week ago, market steady to Is
lower; shippers took 1900: hold over
1000 Light lights. good and choice,
140-l6o pounds. 3.75a635; light weight,
10000 pounds, 6.10a665; medium
weight 200-250 pounds. 640a6 IS: heavy
weight 250-350 pounds. 535a650;
packing sows. medium and good. 275-
500 pounds, 410a5 40: slaughter pigs,
good and choice, 1O0-l3o pounds, Asa
s rs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
CANADIAN OUTLOOK
GREATLY IMPROVED.
Dominion Has No Special
Financial Difficulties
to Solve.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SPECIAL DlSpatCn 10 Inc sur.
TORONTO, September 5.-Not for
three months have prospects appeared
so encouraging in the Dominion. But
the cause is chiefly the improvement in
Great Britain's affairs. For, with the
exception of the partial failure Of the
wheat crop on the prairies, Canada has
no special financial difficulties of her
own, the problems in the Dominion
being due to world conditions.
Consequently, the assurance that
England will now cease the excessively
socialistic program which was proving
that country's ruinatiOn promises an
improvement in the Dominion's ex-
ternal trade. 1t Is inconceivable that
Great Britain's new national govern
ment should permit continuance OF
the Russian dumping that has ruined
the markets of the world, dealing
wheat, lumber and asbestos. More
ever, it is improbable that Britain
will continue her splendid gesture of
leaving her markets freely open to all
the countries that have erected high
tariff walls against British goods.
Whether or not any plans for inter
empire trade should materialize. any
safeguarding measures 1Or the DeneHb
Of Great Britain would react favor
ably upon Canadian export trade, since
a richer England would naturally prove
a better customer for Canadian goods.
With the consequent hope of def
mite halt in the price decline. other
favorable trends take on a new value.
For instance. the fact that trade fail
ures in the Dominion for the first half
of the current year were 8 per cent
fewer than in the corresponding six
months of last year. with liabilities
1872 per cent less. now justifies the
expectation of further reduction in
business mortality for the second half
of 1881
Actual encouragement can now be
tken in the increased exports this year
of gold, nickel ainc. petroleum and
feldspar and in the shipsments of cat
tie to Great Britain, which up to
:ne present date are double the total
for the whole of 1890 The favorable
balances shown from the total external
trade of June and July may now be
regarded as significant of a better
trend in foreign commerce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
BUSINESS FAILURES FEWER.
BY the Associated Pres

by IIlt A5SOClHteQ Press.
Business failures, as measured by the
Commerce Department, declined during
the week ended August 20, as compared
with the previous week and with the
comparable period of last year. In the
totals that follow the index is given for
comparable weeks. based on represent
ing the 1880 level as 100:
week endeo august 20. ........ lot.
PREVIOUS week. ................. 109. /
Same week last year ......... 1857
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
BETTER SENTIMENT
Is HELD JUSTIFIED
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BOSTON, September Sat this time
when business is rounding the bottom
Of the cycle. STATES the United Business
Service, optimism is an important con-
tribution in speeding recovery. 1t is
unfortunate that during the last year
many prominent enthusiasts have given
the country an overdose of optimism
This has caused the postponement OF
economies which should have been
effected. However. at the present time
the outlook justifies better sentiment
which will do much to increase buying
and to stimulate business activity ir
general
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
BETTER SUGAR PRICES
SEEN BY CHADBOURNE
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, September 5.-Thomas
L. Chadbourne, attorney and sponsor
OF the world sugar production quota
plan which bears his name, said today
before sailing for Havana he has been
able to detect signs pointing to salts
factory advance in sugar price.
Chadbourne was a passenger on the
Moro Castle. He did not discuss the
favorable signs of which he spoke ex-
cept TO say there would be a large de-
crease in sugar planting next Spring.
He did observe, however, that not only
Cuba, but the United States would
benefit greatly by customs union be-
tween the two nations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06

In Oklahoma and Kansas and North
Texas Withdrawals are running at the
rate Of approximately $4,000 barrels,
while West Texas Is furnishing ap-
proximately $4,000 barrels from tanks
In East Texas the runs for the last 10
days have averaged 100000 barrels
daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
HIGHER PRICES SEEN.

Detailed study of the present price
structure. says the United Business
Service of Boston in its current report,
indicates that flrmer prices for raw ma
teials are at hand. Declines in the
prices of finished products are expected
this Fall, however.
Evening star., 1931-12-06

gency equipment, was able to carry out
direct daily communication schedules
with the u S. S. Wright anchored in
Hampton Roads. Another recent in
stance occurred during the flight Of two
patrol sQuadrons from Newport to Nor
folk. Forced down on Barnegat Bay by
fog, the units maintained perfect COM
munications with points Of departure
and destination"
A most important problem, that of
suitable radio for single-seater fighters,
which has been stumbling block for
10 years, has been virtually solved
fighter outfits available and expects
soon to begin a definite procurement
program.
Direction finding and "homing" by
radio has been a matter of great con-
Germ to all who have had to do with
naval aviation. The crying need for
such equipment was alarmingly revealed
last Spring when two fighter squadrons
lost their carrier ship in the Caribbean
Sea and narrowly escaped destruction
Radio would have guided them to the
mother ship, no matter how many times
she changed course while the squadrons
were away.
Radio direction finding equipment, as
supplied to the patrol planes, which can
carry large radio installations, has been
quite effective. The homing loops car
ried by the observation and scouting
planes also have served to head con-
fused pilots in the proper direction.
During the coming year, it is
anticipated there will be complete re-
placement by engine-driven dynamos
and batteries or the old wind-driven
generators of electrical current for
planes in the active operating units. The
problem Of supplying current for radio
operation has been linked with that of
supplying energy for electrical engine
starters and navigating and cockpit
lights. Merging of the two systems will
permit decrease in weight without loss
Of efficiency.
Evening star., 1931-12-06
Army.

hIuy.
Steps are being taken by War Depart
ment authorities to initiate a study of
the mess equipment furnished the
Regular Army, and q board of officers
has been appointed to make a thor
ough study Of the entire mess equip
ment situation. Practically no effort
has been made during the past 20 years
to keep pace with the radical improve
ments in cooking utensils that are now
used by hotels and restaurants. Al
though every modern hotel ard restau-
rant Is equipped with a steam cable, the
only steam tables in use in Army kitch-
ems, except those of Army hospitals
where they have been procured by the
Medical Department, have been pur-
chased from organization funds.
In view of the fact that the Army IS
using mess equipment Of the vintage Of
the sos, it is believed that no further
time should be lost in modernizing Army
mess facilities. Although funds are not
available at the present time for the
purchase of new mess equipment, studies
and experiments to be made by the
board will determine standard designs
and types which can be placed in pro-
AuCIIOll ollOlI
Under a new policy that will be inau-
gurated by the War Department, each
enlisted man of the military establish
ment will be furnished well fitting uni
forms. This new uniform policy des-
| tined to result in tremendous savings
and at the same time enhance the ap-
pearance of the enlisted personnel of
the Regular Army, will consist Of a set
of try-on uniforms which will be fur
nished to every Army garrison
This set of try-on uniforms will be
designed to fit practically men of all
dimensions in the Army. Under the
new system that will be established,
when men require clothing they will be
fitted at their post from the set of
try-on uniforms, and from this set of
uniforms there will be ordered from the
PHILADELPHIA depot Of the Quartermaster
h. t,af~ -f,.