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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-04-25
]. DANIEL BROWNING

Funeral services for ]. Daniel
Browning, SO, for fourteen years as
SCISSOR of Preston county, West Va,
and native of Garrett county, having
been born in the GAINESVILLE commun-
ity, were held Monday afternoon from
the Methodist Episcopal church in
Kingwood, Rev. P. E. Chamberlain,
pastor, officiating. Interment was in
the Kingwood cemetery with the rites
of the Knights of Pythias.
Mr.. Browning was a son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Motley Browning and
was we'll known in Garrett county
where a large circle of relatives and
friends reside. He was staunch Re-
publican and had served as Sheriff of
Preston county at one time.
He is survived by his wife, three
sons and a daughter. The cause of his
death was pneumonia, which he con-
tracted week prior to his demise.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-04-25
HOYES

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Custer, Mrs
Asa Friend, and Mrs. R. B. Friend
were shopping in Uniontown, Pa,
last Saturday.
Miss Elizabeth Dewitt, a teacher
at Romney, W. Va, spent the Easter
holidays with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Arthur Dewitt, returning
Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Coddington and
children recently spent a day with
friends at Addison, Pa.
Mrs. Horace Dewitt, who was SER
iously injured from a fall several
weeks ago, is only slightly improved
at this time. Her granddaughter,
Miss Irene Bond, Baltimore, is nurs-
ing her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milburn Mann and
two sons, Oakland, were dinner guests
and spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
aubrey Brenneman.
Farley Savage and Orville Schroy-
er left here Monday for Cumberland
where they will take an examination
for entrance into a CCC camp.
The Hornemakers club, which met
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-04-25
DIED
MRS. IDA BROADWATER

Mrs. Ida Broadwater, "a, wife of
Harry Broadwater, of Jennings, Gar
rett county, died Saturday in Memoir
ial Hospital, Cumberland, where she
had been a patient since Friday.
Her body was removed to her home
and services held in the Jennings M.
E. church on Monday morning by her
pastor, Rev. J. E. Allender, with inter-
ment in the Grantsville cemetery.
Surviving are her husband; a
daughter, Lola; three brothers, Simon,
Harry and Frederick burst, and sis
ter, Mrs. Catherine Broadwater, all of
Jennings. She was daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Henry burst, of
Jennings.
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to Texas, stopped over the Easter per-
iod with his sister, Miss Minnie Shat
fer.
Elwood Beckman was in Keyser on
Sunday with his brother, John Henry
Beckman, who is in a precarious con-
dition in hospital there following a
powder explosion in a mine at Vim
deX last Friday.
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Notice is hereby given that I will
not be responsible for any debts other
than those contracted by myself.
Neither will | endorse any notes.
MRS. GRACE KIDD.
Deer Park, Md, April %, 1885.
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Evening star., 1935-11-24

pillows or read surreptitiously in the
haymows.
1t was one Of the most popular
serials for boys, which ran for months
in the now vanished Boys of New
York." one of the most lurid of peri
odicals for American boys, which
Volta Parma, custodian of the rare
book division of the Library Of Con-
gress, is rescuing from the verge Of
complete oblivion.
In their day these magazines were
considered of little account. Dis
traught mothers and fathers threw
them into the fire whenever they
found them. Clergymen condemned
them. Teachers punished boys they
found reading them. But now. more
than a half century later. they are
among the vanished treasures of
American literature. They were close
to the hearts of the boys. What was
close to the heart of boyhood was
close to the spirit of the time. It was
upon them that the builders OF Amer
ica's great industrial civilization of the
twentieth century were nourished.
Most of the copies were deposited
in the Library of Congress for copy
right. There they have lain unno-
ticed until Mr. Parma undertook the
job Of salvaging them, and thus pre-
serving an important segment of
American literature from complete de-
struction. He already has the most
complete collection of boys magazines
in the country. Many Of the copies
are unique.
The illustrations especially reveal
the utterly naive. but adventurous
spirit Of the time. In these magazines
Evening star., 1935-11-24

Powerful Radio Equipment and Planes
With Speeds as High as 2l5 M. P. H,
Are Vital Factors in Tightening Net
Upon Runners Goods and Aliens Banned
by Uncle Sam.
Bv James Nevin Miller.

"Y LAND, sea and air Uncle
* Sam is Tightening up his bor-
der patrol. Spectacular new
1 equipment for radio and air
planes, the fastest fleet of flying boats
and revenue cutters ever known, rad
ical expansion of the 12-mile ocean
limit, and drastic laws affecting bor-
der smuggling are being brought into
play to make the United States vir-
tually entry-proof against contraband
goods.
Radio leads the way. Plans are
being blue-printed for the construc-
ton, at St. Adams, VT, of a super
powerful broadcasting and receiving
station, for the Customs Bureau. This
station, similar in every essential re-
spect to the one Just placed in opera
ton in Washington by the G-men,
will be utilized for the dissemination
of information regarding goods being
smuggled hourly across the Canadian
border and will tie in with minute by
minute personnel assignments. Within
a few seconds time every customs pa
troll station in the vast Federal net
work will be contacted by a sensa-
tional radio telephone system previous
ly unknown to this and every other
nation.
Congressional legislation today calls
for the establishment of a 50-mile
limit at sea for the control of liquor
smuggling. 1t also demands the i'm
mediate seizure of all contact boats
within the new zone and, further
more, places directly upon the master
of contraband vessels the burden Of
proof that he is not smuggler.
The old 12-mile limit, according to
Evening star., 1935-11-24

many Of the foremost inventions Of the
next generation were forecast. The
airplane. the submarine and the radio
were first born in the imaginations of
nameless attic scribblers, who wrote
for these magazines at q quarter of
a cent word.
The Demon of the Deep" for ex-
ample, forecasts the submarine, In al
most the form in which it first ap-
peared. Always the formula for these
stories was the same-a poor but hon
est youth, who overcomes all manner
of villainy, to rise to fame and for
tune by courage and honesty and the
help Of some miraculous mechanical
device which falls into his hands.
AS MIGHT perhaps be surmised,
- since the scene takes place in the
first chapter, the hero of the Demon
of the Deep" does not hang on his
villainous foster-father's false charge
of murder. He is found guilty and
sentenced to serve for life In "the fine
new prison at Sing Sing"
He escapes through a sewer pipe.
While guards are combing the coun-
tryside for him, he is picked up by q
river boat, which proceeds into the At
lantic and is wrecked. Bob and one
other boy escape on a raft. They
land on a lonely island. where they
find dying hermit. With his last
gasps, this hermit tells them that he
has built q boat which will run under
water, In order to secure the treasure
of the wrecked Spanish ship Esmer-
aida. just on the verge Of success, he
has been seized and his bones crushed
by devilflsh. He warns the boys:
"Ah. It's q terrible, ghastly thing,
Evening star., 1935-11-24

a hangar, machine shop, barracks,
store room, garage, radio station and
heating plant. The average personnel
at each station consists of five COM
missioned flying officers, two enlisted
pilots and IL enlisted men, most Of
them mechanics. Ordinarily five or
six planes per station are utilized.
AL are equipped with finest radio ap-
paratus that can shift Immediately
from code to voice and back again,
and radio direction finder.
Fastest flying boat of them all is the
new Northrop transport, capable of a
top speed of 213 m.p.h., has cruising
radius of 900 miles and ordinarily
carries crew of three-officer-p pilot,
radio operator and mechanic. How
ever, there's room for four passengers.
ONLY one Northrop Is In actual
service today. But there are nine
Grumman amphibians with a top
speed of 174 miles per hour. They
use the same kind of engine and have
similar crew and passenger capacity.
However. their cruising ability is only
half as great.
One-fourth of the Coast Guard
planes-10 all told-are the new
Douglas amphibians, with top speed
of lat miles per hour. Each utilizes
two Pratt g. Whitney Wasp engines.
has a cruising range of $50 miles and
carries three crew members with room
for four additional passengers.
The other patrol planes are: Three
older Douglas ships-'31. 80 and '33
Evening star., 1935-11-24

Is now done by radio. Often the
finder is the only possible method to
use, as when there's no sky, no stars.
or there's a bad fog or an exceedingly
black night.
On the West Coast the hey-dey of
the smuggler is over now, so far as the
air method is concerned. For years
the planes of the smugglers scared
over the Mexico Texas California bor-
ders, their frightened aliens staring
wild-eyed from cabin windows. or with
their stores of narcotics safe from
the prowling. earth-bound border pa
troll down below.
RUT now the new Douglas planes,
armed to the teeth, far more
powerful than those of the smugglers,
have entered the picture A familiar
scene from now on will be something
like this: Above the border line a
Douglas flying boat zooms through the
air, her brace of engines above her
wings droning high in the heavens.
Down below customs patrol car darts
along the ground as it picks up the
radioed message of the aerial OBJ
server and streaks toward the snug
Cling party sighted by the airplane.
Yes, today for the first time in
history on the West Coast. the Coast
Guard is taking to the air for the
border patrol. Coast Guard pilots are
now winging their way between San
Diego and Calexico, and on to FL PaSo,
reporting ground maneuvers of SNUG
lers to customs radio cars and Coast
Guard cutters, thanks to the new
found efficiency of the radio-telephone.
An efficient border patrol to deal
with the smugglers by air spotting
has long been the dream OF the Gus
toms Bureau. To this end they en-
deavored for two years to utilize planes
confiscated from the smugglers them
selves. But the ships were too old
and unairworthy. Now the new air
patrol ins.igated by the customs serv-
ice has been taken over by the Coast
Guard, the conhscated ships scrapped
and displaced by new. faster and far
more efficient sky cruisers.
The major West Coast base Of the
air patrol will be at San Diego. But
landing fields probably will be located
at Jacuma, settlement on the bor-
der some IS miles inland, and at
Calexico. The patrol will extend 800
miles inland to Ell Paso, where an
other airplane detachment can be
contacted from its main base at San
Antonio.
Practical experimentation on the
West Coast air patrol for border use
has been conducted during the past
few months by Lieut.. Luke Christopher
of the Coast Guard, aided only by
one land plane and four men, tenn
porarily stationed at Lindbergh Field,
near San Diego. Christopher's main
handicap has been the fact that he
cannot fly over the ocean to spot
smuggling airplanes cruising several
miles out over the water after leaving
the Mexican coast many miles away,
and flying circle to land on any of
the half a hundred airports in South
ern California. Christopher's test
plane is designed for land service only.
Already the new aerial section has
proved its efficiency. AS one Coast
Guard Official recently pointed out:
I'VE are so equipped today that we
are not only able to pursue smuggling
Evening star., 1935-11-24
Too Many Beans.
THE famous New England satu

THE famous New England Saturday
night dinner apparently has fallen
somewhat in popularity, or perhaps 1t
has failed to keep pace with the trend
in farming. Whatever the cause, there
is large oversupply of dried beans
and agricultural officials believe that
there should be a reduction Of about
Is per cent in next years paintings
It Is estimated that this years croo
will total around 13,000,o 900 bags. with
consumption normally at 100000
bags.
There Is possibility, however. that
high prices for meats may bring a
greater interest in beans. With pork
prices also high the question as to who
shall find the piece of pork with baked
beans on his plate takes on a new
interest.
Evening star., 1935-11-24

planes and land near them without
their being aware Of the fact, but
we are now in a position to pull up
alongside the smuggler in the air and
If necessary. command him to halt.
A T ALL times the ground field force
Of the Customs Service works hand
in hand with the Coast Guard patrol
planes. For instance, in July four
customs agents co-operAted along the
Texas Mexican border in apprehend~
ing notorious band of smugglers who
used plane to bring in a large
amount of Mexican alcohol.
The Federal agents had received an
inside tip from the flyers that a new
carload of whisky was scheduled to
land at a certain time at Camp Kear-
ney Mesa. Upon arrival there they
saw a plane taking of, and in a
secluded spot a couple of hundred
yards away they located two autos
parked in small canyon. Three men
were loading liquor into one of the
cars. Some rs gallons had already
been loaded and 80 gallons of CONTRA
band were on the ground nearby about
to be loaded.
The men were arrested and tried in
Federal court. The trial lasted a day
and a half. The defendants were
found guilty of violation of the tariff
act and given substantial fines. Later,
as result of this seizure, other men,
bers of the notorious gang of snug
glers were apprehended.
1t is generally supposed that there
is lot of alien smuggling going on,
particularly Chinese and South Ameri.
cans. However, the official files of the
Customs Bureau in Washington tell a
different story. Indeed, there are only
two cases of this sort on record, Fed
eral executives claim. In the one
instance a Yankee flyer tried to land
Chinese in the State of Washington
from Canada. and in the other case
pilot actually did land two Chinese
in the State of Washington. In both
instances the pilots received stiff pen-
alties because they failed to posses
permits for the aliens and had neg
lected to get manifests for the pas
Sengers' merchandise.
And so the new rivets are being
placed, one by one, into Uncle Sans
new anti-smuggling armor. Now he Is
ready on land, on sea and in the sir.
Evening star., 1935-11-24

and once within the embrace of the
monster death is certain, for should
he not drag you down to a watery
grave you must die because Of the
terrible crushing internally his ten
tacles inflict. I did not see him until
there was a wild swoop of one of his
limbs and found myself struggling
within his folds"
THEY took the submarine in search
of the treasure and, naturally
enough, were both caught in the
tentacles of the devilfsh that guarded
it. The hearts of many thousands of
American youngsters, now gray-head
grandfathers and great-grandfathers,
rose in their throats at the story of
that experience:
Down, down went the two boys,
still in the terrible embrace.
Down until Bob's ears began to
sing. Down until tons seemed to rest
upon his breast. Down until a
cloud seemed settling on their brains,
shutting out the light of life and
reason.
Then, at almost the last moment,
the monster, pierced through the eye
with Bob's knife, died"
RUT of all the treasures in the line
~ of periodical literature for boys
which Mr.. Parma has been able to
rescue from oblivion probably the
choicest, for its extreme naiveness. is
a magazine of 1S56-Gleason's Line Of
Battleships-which was issued at
Boston.
Evening star., 1935-11-24
Former Ouawed Tales Boys Become Library Treasures
Attic Room Readers Had
Regular Literature of
Crude Thrills.

It combined news, humor and fic-
ton. 1t was about this time that the
Boston police force was first put into
uniform, and the enterprising editor
produced a charming woodcut for the
benefit of his boy readers. Strange to
say, it appears that some of the police
men objected to wearing this fancy
array.
Says the editor:
"If any of the members of that
highly respectable body are too proud,
or too shy, to like to be known as
policemen, the sooner they resign the
better. The dress will always be re-
garded as being quite as respectable
as that of the Army and Navy, so long
as the reputation of the corps who
wears it is in good repute among the
people.
"The uniform of a captain of police
is a blue dress coat with the police
button. black pants, buff merino vest
with the same buttons, black hat with
gold star in rosette on the hat. The
deputy chiefs uniform is blue frock
coat with police buttons, blue or black
pants with light buff vest, black hat
with gold star, an enameled feather
on the hat. This dress to be dispensed
with when he is on detective duty.
THE captains wear blue dress coat,
buff Marseille vest, with police
buttons on each; black pants, black
silk hat, all in corresponding style;
neck stock and dark blue overcoat in
the usual fashion, all to be cut and
made in uniformity.
1.-THE lieutenantS and patrolmen to
wear dark blue frock coats, double
breasted; dark blue pants, black silk or
satin vests in Spring and Autumn,
black cloth vests, single breasted, in
Winter, made to button up to the top,
except a loop across the top under the
chin, and black silk or satin neck
stock. The buttons on the frock
coat to be put on in the usual style
and the usual number, but to be fas-
tened with ring through the eye so
that the buttons may be taken OF
and their place supplied with other
buttons when the officer Is permitted
to leave of his uniform, or if he leaves
the department. Patrolmen shall wear
blue cloth caps of uniform style and
shade with glazed cover; lieutenants
to wear black silk hats of correspond
ing style, but the cap may be worn
by them during the night patrol. The
coats and vests are furnished with
the police buttons.
"All the patrolmen are furnished
with dark blue overcoats. The over
coat has q portable cape Of good
fitting style fastened on under the
collar. sufficiently full in front to
fasten If necessary. to be worn in
Winter"
Evening star., 1935-11-24
Library of Congress Will
Assemble Specimens
From the Past.
By Thomas r. Henry.

DV L HOWNS H. II i" Vs
LI~ OBJ HARRIS mounted the
- stairs and paused as he
heard voices in the vile
IL attic room he called home.
Don't do it Pat, don't do it. Re-
member our own little babe that
died when we took Bob Remember
him and be merciful,' pleaded the
poor woman.
"'No, Bob must die. Ha, ha, old
woman. but he will make beautiful
corpse
1.-THE gin-bloated villain laughed in
a coarse. brutal way.
HE shall not die. You shall not
poison him
Long years had passed since she
had crossed him, either by word or
deed. For an instant he was dunn
founded by the event. Then his anger
rose.
"sBy the eternal, dare you contra
dict me?'
DOB heard him stride across the
floor. He opened the door and
bounded into the room to see sight
we'll calculated to make his blood run
cold. Lying on the floor, with cash
across her forehead from which blood
was flowing, lay Mary, while bending
over her, with his fist raised for Sec
ond blow, was her brute of a husband.
Hold cried Bob, don't you dare
hit her again
"A blow landed him on the floor.
He picked himself up just in time to
see the brute kick his wife. With eyes
ablaze Bob snatched a revolver from
his pocket and his voice, husky with
anger, said:
"'Touch either Of us again and I'll
send a bullet through your rascally
carcass
There was struggle for the gun.
At last, with a quick jerk, the elder
man wrested it from the younger's
grasp, but not without fatal results,
for Bobs finger caught in the ham
mer and as his hand was wrenched
loose there was sharp report. Then
followed shrill scream. With a wild
shrek the woman threw up her arms.
"My God, I'm shot, she cried, as
she sank to the floor.
Bob realized the truth. She had
ceased to breathe. She was dead. He
felt himself seized rudely by the shoul-
ders and heard the words hissed In
his ear:
"'Now you're of for the gallows.
You shot your mother, you inhuman
dog, and must suffer for it,
"'You lie,' shrieked Bob"
THUS began the weird adventures
of the impeccable hero of the
Demon of the Deep'-which the
young America of 1875 hid under its
Evening star., 1935-11-24

States simultaneously, and distances
of more than 1000 miles have been
worked overland when employing but
half power and fixed antenna on the
aircraft. The total weight of the
transmitter, exclusive of alternater, is
only 81 pounds.
The new radio direction finder de-
veloped by Coast Guard technicians,
is arranged for reception of nom
continuous. or modulated, continuous
waves. The frequency range of 1000
to $500 and 200 to 750 kilocycles are
covered by means of a double loop
Evening star., 1935-11-24

models; six vought Corsair landplanes
about 5 years old; two Vought sea-
planes Of about the same age; five
flying lifeboatS purchased in 1882;
one Consolidated landplane used for
training purposes, one Stinson land
plane and two Standard landplanes.
Tests just completed with the new
Douglas amphibians have proved con-
clusively the effectiveness of the new
radio equipment. During recent trans
continental ferrying trips Coast Guard
planes have been able to work sta
tions on both coasts of the United
Evening star., 1935-11-24

Closing his and borders smugglers has sent
Uncle Sam in quest of the most powerful radio equip.
and speediest aircraft Q) coast patrol spots
smusger. (2) One of the stations from which the
highpowered patrol operates. (3) Coast Guard plane
of its mercy roles rescuing the crew of
burning boat "a Inspection of baggage from plane in
international passenger service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-08-22

and tide that foamed through the
channel, they were standing in the
Homestead kitchen.
1t was a room boasting space enough
for an old-fashioned brick oven; an
oil stove; two sand-scrubbed tables,
snoWWhite and smooth as satin; a
high backed rocker cushioned in red
calico; braided rugs and shelves for
plants A regal Kitchen truly-one
that bespoke both comfort and hospi-
tality.
Before the fire. stretched upon his
side, lay Prince Hal, his body relaxed
his eyes drowsy with sleep; while from
her vantage-g ground on the rocking
chair above, the tiger kitten, Winkie-
Wee, gazed watchfully down upon his
slumbers.
1t was Sylvia, however, who, in a
smock of Powered chintz, lent the
room it's supreme touch of color. She
looked as if all the blossoms in all the
world had suddenly burst into bloom
and twined themselves about her slen-
der body.
With her coming, new world had
opened to Marcia. To see Sylvia
jauntily sweep aside old conventions;