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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06
MONUMENTS DRAW
MANY THOUSANDS
National Park Service Report
Shows Virginia Heaviest
for Visitors.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The report of the director Of the Ma
tional Park Service for the fiscal year
1882, made public yesterday, showed
that more than the total increase in
number Of visitors to national monu-
ments and parks during the fiscal year
was accounted for by visitors to newly
opened Virginia monuments.
While travel to all national parks and
monuments during the year showed an
increase of only 209,740 persons. the
Colonial National Monument, with no
travel listed the previous year, had
100000 visitors, 225,000 of whom at
tended the four-day celebration at
Yorktown in october, 1881.
Increased numbers of visitors were
also reported for the George Washing
ton Birthplace National Monument at
Wakefield, and the Great Smoky Noun
tainS National Park.
Decreases Are Slight.
eliminating the travel increase in
these areas" the report said, there is
a decrease in both national park and
national monument travel. These de-
creaSeS are amazingly slight, however,
when examined in the light of eco
nomic conditions, and the drop in
tourist travel generally. The fact that
the parks and monuments last year en-
tertained 3754, 500 persons shows that
these areas serve very definite and
useful purpose in our national life, and
are as important in periods of depres-
sion as in times of prosperity"
Extension of area of the Colonial and
George Washington Birthplace National
Monuments contributed, the report said,
to the increase in total area included
in the national park system from
12,119,57964 acres to 12,592,316.21
acres.
The report also referred to efforts
now under way in the State Of Virginia
to secure the minimum acreage Of
Ice, 900 set for establishment of the
Shenandoah National Park, which the
State hopes to turn over to the United
States for park purposes within the
current fiscal year. >
Settlement Of Land.
1.-THE wave of settlement and diStri-
button of land had reached the West
ern mountains before the conception
of the national parks" the report said.
Thus, just in time, our Government
was able to carve out of the available
public lands, without direct expendi-
ture, these great Western national
parks, which are the glory of the Ma
ton. The idea of the national park
having gotten into our general think
ing, 1t became evident that certain
beautiful areas in the East had been
passed over.
I'm the past four years we have
brought into the national park system
a series of great Eastern projects. Some
of them remain incomplete, awaiting
the acquisition of lands or the avail
ability of money, but the policy of &C
quiring them has been established here
and has been fixed by legislation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06

When Pat" CawWe, one time notorious
outlaw and banA was linked up with
the kidnapping of the Cudahy child In
Omaha, Nebr, back in 1900, he came
to know Isaac r. Hit, then a young
lawyer handling affairs of the Cudahy
family.
Yesterday, about 81 years later, Judge
Isaac R. Hit faced Patrick Crowe-now
So years old-acroSs the bar at Police
Court. The one-time enemy of society,""
now known as a reformer and lecturer,
was brought before the magistrate along
with another man on a charge of drink
ing in public.
Its been long time since I've seen
you" said Judge Hit, by way of re-
newing the acquaintance Not since
I was out in Omaha"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06
PLAN
HELD NEEDING AID
DR.. EIWood Mead Says Policy
Faces End Unless Money
Is Forthcoming.
BY the Associated Press.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah; December
Ga warning that the Federal recla-
nation policy faces an end unless
financial aid Is extended by the next
Congress was voiced by DR.. Elwood
Mead, Federal commissioner of reclama-
ton, before representatives Of IL West
ern States here yesterday.
Decreased receipts from Western oil
leases, land sales and repayments of
reclamation projects have reduced the
income of the reclamation fund until
it will be exhausted by the end of the
fiscal year, next June 80, the commits
sioner said.
What if they refuse an appropria-
ton he asked at would mean whole
communities would lose hope. No more
disastrous thing could happen to the
most worthy section of the West, or a
worse thing for the economic welfare
of the whole country.
Shutting down the reclamation pro-
gram would violate every sound social
and economic principle. 1t would turn
thousands of men out of work 1t
would drive many people from their
farms and homes. It would break
banks.
UNLESS we're going to say that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06

Western third Of the country shall be
ignored as to its most vital problem,
we've got to go on"
DR.. Mead told how unfinished prof.
ects. where residents were waiting for
water to insure crop, had been con-
tinued under the difficulties Of decreased
receipts. A moratorium on repayments
by settlers for a year and a half will
have to be extended, he said, cutting
receipts Of the reclamation fund In half.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06
GROVE, REFORMED BANDIT, MEETS
HIT FIRST TIME IN 3 YEARS
Acquaintance With Judge Formed in Omaha Renewed
Across Bar at Police Court.

After listening to Groves explana-
ton that he and John Cooper were
celebrating their arrival in town by
taking a few "nips" on Pennsylvania
avenue near John Marshal place Sat-
urday, Judge Hit took the mems per-
sonal bond. Cooper, who is alleged to
have thrown the bottle of liquor to the
sidewalk when Policeman w. G.. Faw
cett approached, was fined SIS for
breaking glass in the street. Both spent
the week end at No. / precinct.
Leaving the courtroom, Grove, with
his characteristic broad smile, asked
Judge Hit, When you going back to
Omaha?" The judge apparently did
not hear. ''Take care of yourself, Pat"
he said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06
MISS HELEN BURNS,
LAWYER, SUCCUMBS
Was Assistant Secretary of Union
Labor Life Insurance
Company.

Miss Helen Marie Burns, assistant
secretary of the Union Labor Life In
surance Co. here and a member of
the District of Columbia bar, died Sun
day morning at the home of her
brother, John T. Burns, 423 Oneida
place.
Funeral services will be held at 9
am. tomorrow at st. Aloysius Church.
Miss Burns brother, Rev. Walter Burns,
S. j., of New Orleans, will be the cele-
brant of the mass.
Miss Burns, a native of Washington,
graduated from Notre Dame Academy
and from the Washington College of
Law. She was member of the legal
fraternity Phi Delta Delta.
After finishing school, Miss Burns
entered the Treasury Department and
went to the War Risk Insurance
Bureau at the time 1t was created
helping to delevop the Federal insur-
ance system. She resigned from the
service in order to enter the insurance
field.
In addition to John and Walter
Burns, Miss Burns is survived by an
other brother, Harry Burns, of Orange.
N. j.; her father, John j. Burns. and
sister. Sister M. Fernando, of the
Holy Cross Order, Los Angeles, Calf.
Shipyards in Belfast, Ireland, are re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06

Germany has a better highway pro-
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06
HELD TO GRAND JURY
Colored Man Charged With Hold
I'D of Max Withspoon.

Alleged to have held up and robbed
Max Withspoon, 900 block K street,
of S32 Saturday morning, Choice Henry,
colored, was held on bond of $1,000
for grand jury action when arraigned
in Police Court yesterday before Judge
Ralph Given.
Henry was captured by Policeman
S. F. Smith after three-block chase.
The officer, standing across the street
from the scene of the alleged hold-up,
at Eleventh street and New York ave-
nue., said he witnessed the robbery.
When taken into custody, however, no
money could be found on his person,
Smith said. A round-handled paint
brush, said to have been jabbed into
from him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06

Shipyards in Belfast, Ireland, are re-
Stunning operations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06
Seek to Keep Plant Open.

CLEVELAND, December 6 P.-
City Council passed a resolution last
night for the appointment of a COM
mittee to urge the American Steel g.
Wire Co., subsidiary Of the United
States Steel Corp, to keep its Newburg
steel plant in operation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-06
FIREMEN DON MASKS
Blaze Is Located in Closet of Nc
Kendree N. E. Church.

Firemen had to don gas masks in the
McKendree M. E. Church, in the 900
block of Massachusetts avenue, yester-
day afternoon, to locate blaze in a
closet on the main floor. The fire was
confined to this room and was quickly
extinguIshed The church, however,
was damaged from smoke and from
chemicals, firemen said.
The origin of the fire is believed to
have been spontaneous combustion
among oil mops in the closet.
At Kirby Stephen, England, recently.
sheep were sold for cents each and
pediQreed rams for $50
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
Attempting to Eliminate Disease
From Certified Seed Potatoes

In an attempt to produce seed pota-
toes as free from diseases as it is pos
sible to do, an experiment is being
carried out with Garrett county certi-
fled seed potatoes, to determine
whether potatoes can be tuber indexed
in Maryland without the facilities of
a green house, according to John H.
Carter, county agent.
John w. Hughberger, of the plant
pathology department of the Uni
versity of Maryland was here on Mon
day and Thursday taking 200 samples
of tubers from certified seed, obtained
two years ago from Canada and plan
ted last year in this county.
The samples from the tubers will
be planted this week on the Eastern
shore, and will have grown enough by
the time potatoes are ready to be
planted in Garrett county, to tell
whether or not they are diseased. If
any one of the samples are found
diseased, the balance of the potato,
from which the sample was taken,
which is left in the county, will not
be planted.
In this way, it is hoped to get rid
of any existing disease in certified
seed potatoes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
Snow of Recent Storm Is Fast
Disappearing

Snow, which has covered Garrett
county and the adjacent sections OF
Pennsylvania and West Virginia for
the past ten days or more, is fast dis
appearing on account of the rain and
warm weather which have prevailed
since Tuesday.
Although the Government weather
bureau at Weber's shows that only
about 8 inches of snow fell, the high
winds caused it to drift in many places
to depts of eight to ten feet, and in
consequence there was much incon-
venience and hard work in keeping the
State highways clear and open
The thermometer registered around
the zero mark on several mornings
during the week, and the cold winds
continued until Tuesday afternoon,
when they subsidized.
The first real snow of the winter is
fast disappearing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
Allegany High Paper Wins First
HOnOrs Among School
Publications

The "Alcohi Mirror" publication
of the Allegany High School, Cumber-
land, won first place award in the
national competition for scholastic
publications, held in conjunction with
the Columbia Press Associations
eighth annual conference at Columbia
University, New York, last week.
The Cumberland school paper was
entered in the class for news publ
cations of schools with an enrolment
of from 301 to 800 students. Eight
hundred and sixty student magazines
and newspapers were entered in the
competition, among them being pub
locations from Canada and Alaska.
The "Alcohi Mirror" has been COM
posed and printed in the office of The
Republican, Oakland, for the past
four years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
Oakland Relief Committee Re-
ports on Card Party and
Donations Received

Snow and severe cold did not deter
enthusiastic citizens from attending
the benefit card party held last Thurs
day evening in the Knights of Pyth-
las Hall, Oakland, to raise funds for
the local relief committee. Over 80
persons attended and the total receipts
amounted to $3.50. This sum in
cludes the income derived from ticket
sales as we'll as the generous individ-
ual contributions made to the party.
The use of the Knights of Pythias
Hall, the food served and the prizes
were generously donated.
Recently numbers of gifts of cash
and clothes have been received by the
committee from the following sources:
Clothing, Mrs. Falkenstein, Mrs. Hart,
Mrs. Grover Stemple. Cash, Miss Eva
Falkenstein, Mrs. Loraditch's Sunday
school class of the Lutheran church,
Mrs. D. E. Offutt, Mr.. F. A. Thayer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
Drops Dead on Oakland Street
Returning Home From Sis
ter's Funeral at Midland

Delbert B. Knight, of West Union,
West Va, returning from Midland,
where he had attended the funeral
services of his sister, Mrs. Hugh
Brenager, dropped dead in front of
the Central Hoel, Third street, Oak
land last Thursday evening about 5
o'clock.
The man, in company with men,
bers of his family, were driving an
automobile and at point along the
highway north of Oakland something
went wrong with the machine and it
is thought that overexertion in cor
recting the trouble, coupled with the
intense cold, contributed largely to
his sudden death. Arriving here Mr..
Knight took his car to a garage and
spent an hour or more there while
repairs were being made and then re-
paired to the hotel where he was in
the act of opening the door to the
restaurant when he was stricken.
The body was taken to West Union
where funeral services were held.
Contracts Are Awarded
That the McCabe Construction COM
pany of Salisbury, Pa, and Sam Fail
inc, of Fairmont, W. Va, contractor,
had been awarded the two road con-
tracts open in Garrett county, was I'M
officially announced in Oakland this
morning.
No official word has come yet from
the State Roads commission. The
McCabe Construction company will
get the Swanton road contract, while
the Fairmont contractor gets the
Gorman-Loch Lynn stretch.
Work will begin in the near future,
in all probability.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
Dates for Training SchOO1 Set at
Meeting of Mountain Top
Minister'S Association

The dates for the Standard Teacher
Training School for religious workers
were set at the regular meeting of the
Mountain Top Ministers Association
held Monday morning in Oakland.
The sessions of the school will begin
on June 26 and continue until July 1,
and all pastors, Sunday school officers,
present and prospective teachers are
= ing urged to make arrangements
10 be present and participate in the
school work.
Rev. /. S. Middaugh, director of the
Mountain Lake Institute, and Miss
Sara Huff, music leader, were present
at the meeting and outlined the ten
tative summer program for the
county.
Rev. Walter B. Brock presided at
the meeting, and Rev. w. E. Way
bright, secretary, rendered his resig-
nation, as he is leaving to assume a
new pastorate in the State of Penn
.sylvania on April first.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
Central Relief Committee Urges
Planting of Gardens

The Central Relief committee, fol-
lowing it's regular meeting last night,
urges that every citizen of Garrett
county plant garden this spring. If
in the habit of planting a garden, the
one this year should be a bigger and
better one. By planting an extra row,
it will be possible to help out next
year in case of demand for relief.
The Central committee will pro-
vide seed to people who are unable
to purchase them. The committee
cannot be in sympathy with people
who have an opportunity to plant gar
dens and fail to do it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
HIGHEST IN ATTENDANCE
Garrett Places First Among the
Counties for Month of January

Garrett county elementary and two
teacher schools placed first among the
other counties of the State in percent
age of attendance for the month of
January, according to a bulletin from
the State Department of Education
just received at the office of the local
education board. Elementary schools
had a percentage of 1913, while the
two-teacher schools had a percentage
of 95.5.
This was the first time during the
present year for the two-teacher
schools of the county to attain first
place, but the second consecutive time
the elementary schools had led the
other counties of the State.
Graded schools of the county which
have been first for the last three
months were second compared to
other counties of Maryland with per-
centage of 93.8. One-teacher schools
were third with 93.3, having dropped
from second place last month.
High schools were eighteenth
among the counties, with "a percent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
HEALTH OFFICER REPORTS
ON SCARLET FEVER CASES
Erroneous Reports Circulated
About Grantsville, He Says

There have been great many err
roneous reports regarding the number
of scarlet fever cases in and around
Grantsville, according to George E.
Clarke, health officer. From February
l to March Is there were only 81
cases reported. In school of 1926
pupils this is not an alarming number.
Of these 81 cases only IA were of
school age. Two were in adults and
five in preschool children. There
were only Is families quarantined,
which means that in some families
more than one had the disease because
the first case was not sufficiently iso-
lated from the rest of the family. In
the daily inspection of the school any
child who had sore throat was ex-
cluded from school for seven days
and watched for other symptoms of
scarlet fever. If none appeared they
were allowed to return to school.
They were not carried as scarlet fever
cass.
No new cases of scarlet fever from
the Grantsville school have been
found since March 6. The health Off
Ger is continuing his inspection of the
school to make sure that no mild cas-
es are allowed to return and expose
the other pupils. Some children were
kept out of school to avoid contact
with the other pupils. 1t is very
likely that when these children return
to school there will be more new cases
reported, because they did not have
the benefit of frequent inspection and
some mild cases may have been
missed at home.
Many children over the county have
had hard, dry coughs which in great
many cases caused vomiting and re-
sembled whooping cough. I do not
feel that these cases are any more
than a hard cold contracted as re-
suit of our rather sudden changes in
temperature. These children should
be watched carefully by the family
physician in order to avoid the COM
plications of pneumonia.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
RELIEF COMMITTEE AIDED
BY ROTARIAN SUGGESTION
Approximately SIS Worth of
Food and Clothing Collected

Following a suggestion made by a
member of the Rotary Club at its
meeting held at the William-James
Hotel last Friday night, containers
for the reception of food and other
merchandise needed by the Relief
Committee were placed in the stores
of Oakland on Saturday morning and
on Monday the material contributed
by the general public was collected
and delivered at the relief depot, the
approximate value of the goods thus
collected being seventy-five dollars,
and consisting of canned goods, flour,
meats, coffee, corn meal, dried vegeta-
bles, etc., and a considerable quantity
of clothing. After emptying the con-
tainers Monday they were left in the
stores and at this time many of them
are being filled. A second collection
of goods will be made tomorrow (Fri-
day. by the committee in charge of
this branch of Rotary work.
Stores where the containers may be
found with the placard bearing the
inscription, SHARE A MEAL" are
Lauer's Bakery, F. A. Smouse, Fra
ley's Market, ]. P. Treacy, Daniel
Smouse, Browns, A. & p, Owen
Treacy, Warwick & Broadwater, Gort-
ner's, Coffman & Fishers, H. L. Mil
ler's, Oakland; Stanley Supply Co.,
at Crellin, and C. P. Martin & Sons,
Mountain Lake Park. Other stores
in the community will be outtitted
with placards yet this week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-17
PAT HELBIG AND OTHERS
CAUGHT in LIQUOR RAIDS
Eight Are Gathered In by Pro-
hibitiOn Officers Yesterday and
Last Night, Harry Stahl One
TWO ARE OUT ON BOND

A series of raids yesterday and last
night by Federal Prohibition Officers
Harvey and Ford, working out of the
Cumberland headquarters, resulted in
the arrest of eight people, six of
whom are still in the Garrett County
Jail in default of bond for their APP
pearance. Two of them are women.
Harry Stahl, of Oakland, who oper-
ates a bus line between Oakland and
Kitzmiller, and also maintains taxi
station here, was one of those ar
rested. At his taxi Office on Green
street the officers found several kegs
and bottles filled with intoxicants, the
raid being made unexpectedly Melted
about forty gallons. This was de-
stroyed and Stahl placed under arrest.
He has given bond for his appear
ance when wanted in court.
Pat Helbig, of near Deer Park, was
picked up on the highway by the Off
GERS, charged with possession and
transportation of intoxicants. His
car in which was found the liquor, was
confscated and is being held at the
Kerins garage under Government seal.
Helbig also furnished bond for his ap-
pearance.
Others arrested on manufacture and
possession charges include Harry
Griffith, of near Red House; Andy
Miller, of near Gortner; Harry Den
mis- and son Alvey, of near Bayard;
Mrs. Laura Leach, Shallmar, and Eliz-
abeth Aronhalt, of German.