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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-08

The report or Borougn Cloyk Charles ?. DAly for the five months of the fiscal year ending August Sl was accepted at the borough board session last night. lt was incomplete as figures for the welfare depart. ment for August were not yet ready as this department has to wait . number of days after the first of the month to receive bills, before compiling It's report.
 Expehses of the various depart lnents except the welfare as follows: general administration, 4i00, ,el0.TT appropriated, es7,2ia.e0 spent; ESQ., 3o5.li balance: public safety eOe,-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-08
LOCAL SCHOOLS
 REOPEN TODAY
Classes Arranged, Sup. plies Given Out; G. O. P.
 Caucus Tonight
BEACON FALLS
V0rrPsWNnde0 Wm. BaGteI
 Phone NSugatuck S94S

Beacon Falls, Sept. g. Local schools opened today with a good registration being reported. The sessions today was short with pu. pills being arranged and given sup plies.
 Miss Jane Sheinman who has been teaching in Rock Rimmon schoo today started her new duties at Gen. ter school. Two teachers employed last year, Miss Celia Burns anc Miss Stella Wisniewski, are or leaves of absence, both studying al Columbia university.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-08

Christian Heiss, third selectman, will again be the party's choice for first selectman and Austin Ford may be the candidate for second select man. The caucus is expected to be an interesting one.
 The local Democrats will hold their caucus Saturday night at 8 o'clock in the town hall. A meeting of the Democratic town committee is scheduled to be held Friday night,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-08

Republican Caucus Tonight
 The political ball will start roll- ing tonight when the Republican party will hold Its caucus at the town hall ct 8 o'clock. It Is expected
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-08

Naugatuck, Sept. s-(Special)-An appeal that the Ramblers football team be given the right to use Recreation field on Sunday after moons during the football season was made by local citizen in a letter addressed to The Democrat. The citizen reveals his name but wishes it to be held in confidence and signs the letter Sports Fan"
 The question of whether the field should go to the Ramblers or to a group described as being semi-pros or professionals, was discussed at
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
MARYLAND ROAD WORK TO
BE CURTAILED NOVEMBER l
About 200 Will Lose Jobs; Re-
mainder To Be On Shay Week

Nearly one-fourth of the State
TE1ads Commissions S71 laborers will
lose their jobs November l, and those
remaining will be paid mo more and
no less" than thirty-five cents an hour,
DR.. Homer E. Tabler, commission
chairman, announced last Friday.
The lay-off, DIR. Tabler said, will be
necessary because Of budget restric-
tions ordered by the last (Democratic)
Legislature. Efforts are being made,
he added, to shift many of the
discharged employees into the county
roads systems.
Will Earn S14 Weekly
DR.. Tabler's statement on wages
and hours for laborers differed from
the announcement issued by Governor
Harry w. Nice, late in September.
The governor said the commissions
common labor would be paid min
imum" of thirty-five cents an hour and
would work fifty hours week.
Tables said Friday thirty five cents
was both the maximum and the min
imum pay" and that laborers would
work no more than 'five-day, forty
hour" week except in seasonal emer-
gencies.
The chief difficulty involved in es-
tablishing the wage scale, DR.. Tabler
asserted, has been failure on the part
of the various boards of county COM
missioners to set up coordinated
wage for laborers on county roads
systems.
Seeks Uniform Scale
In an effort to "iron out" what he
said was the obvious inequality of
having county and state man work
ing side by side on the same job at a
different rate of pay" the roads COM
mission this week began a tour thru
the State to confer with the county
commissioners.
The conferences, DR.. Tabler said,
will settle questions involving farm
to-market roads, debt service, alloca-
lions to incorporated towns, each
county's wishes in regards to surface
treatment of roads, widening and
grading work, and new construction
projects, as we'll as wage rates.
The members of the commission will
be in Oakland on Friday tomorrow.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
HUNTERS READY TO CHASE
RABBITS AND OTHER GAME
Open Season On Wild Turkey,
Partridges, ETC., Begins Monday

Prospective hunters are preparing
70 enter the woods Monday in search
of rabbits which are reported to be
much more plentiful this year than
last. twenty-five or more citizens of
the county apply each day at the office
of the clerk of the Circuit Court, and
pay SIPS for the privilege of license
to hunt.
More than 1925 licenses have been
issued thus far this season, and a
majority of them appear TO be Opt
mistic about the quantity of rabbits.
In Allegany and Garrett counties
the open season on woodcock, male
English ring-neck, Monaghan or Me-
lanistic mutant pheasant, rabbit Or
hare, wild turkey and partridge, be-
gins on Monday, November !, and con-
tinues until November 80. 1t is I'M
lawful at any time to hunt OF kill the
female pheasant.
State laws place the bag limits as
follows: woodcock, 4; rabbit OF hare,
6; partridge or quail, 6; pheasant, 2;
and not over six per season; wild
turkey, /, and not over four per
season.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
SET OF CHIMES is GIFT
TO ST. MARKS LUTHERAN
DOner Is Mrs. S. E. Wicker,
Daughter Of Mrs. M. M. Ashby

st. Marks Lutheran church, Oak
land, was the recipient of a gift of a
set of chimes at congregational
meeting last Sunday morning. The
donor is Mrs. Samuel E. Wicker, of
Wilmington, Del, wife of DR.. S. E.
Wicker, former pastor here, and a
daughter of Mrs. M. M. Ashby, of
Oakland.
The chimes consist of 81 tubular
bells which are to be placed inside
of the organ swell box and attached
to the keyboard so that they will be
played from the organ keyboard.
The musical effect will be similar
to tower chimes, but much softer and
will be heard only throughout the
church interior The tone is pro-
duced by hammers striking the bells,
and the hammers in turn operated by
special mechanism adapted to the
organ.
The chimes will be installed by NJ.
P. Moller, Inc, of Hagerstown, Md,
manufacturer of st. Marks organ, in
November and will be formally dedi-
Gated on Sunday morning, November
%. The presentation of the chimes
by Mrs. Wicker was in honor of her
mother.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
FLOOD MAY RESULT FROM
CONTINUED RAINS HERE
Water From Little YOughiOgh-
eny River Spreading Over
LOwlands

Water from the Little Youghiogh-
eny river was spreading over the
lowlands around Oakland, as rain
continued to fall this morning with
scarcely let-up. Since yesterday
evening 2.45 inches has fallen, making
1926 inches since Wednesday morning.
At the Sines powerhouse on the
Big Youghiogheny river, near Friends
vile, 2.38 inches of rain had fallen
since Tuesday midnight, and the
river was foot lower than the high
water mark this spring, but still ris-
ing. Two more feet would put water
in, Friendsville.
At Kitzmiller, on the Potomac
river, water had surrounded the
school building and no classes were
being held. Water had entered several
houses in the lowlands, but the bridge
across the Potomac into Blaine, w.
Va, was still open. The water was
near the floor, however.
Wilson Creek, in Oakland, is being
watched closely. A damming of de-
bris would soon flood the Oakland
Bakery, F. A. Smouse's store, and
Glotfelty's restaurant, and possibly
Hinebaugh's restaurant.
Thus far during October 1856 inches
of rain has fallen. A normal month
is from to 3 inches.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
CCC Camps In This Area Are
At Full Strength

For the first time in two years all
CCC camps in Western Maryland are
at full strength, from transfers or
requirements who entered the camps
during September. There are four
camps open, three in Garrett county,
and one in Allegany county. Some OF
the camps opened four years ago have
been closed. Each company has
strength of approximately 200 men,
the enrollees being under "a years of
age.
A large group of men who served
two years in the camps have been dis
charged and the Forestry Department
is informed that many of them have
employment.
In addition to forestry work all en-
rollees receive Sob training in any
line of work they prefer to do, in the
use of tools in trades, besides having
an opportunity to attend school with
classes in the evening, supervised by
an educational instructor. Most of the
standard trades, masonry, smlthlng,
carpentry, pipe-fitting, engine repair,
welding, electrical installation, tree
study, numbering, surveying, mapping
and even clerical work and estimating
are taken up.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR
OAKLAND Hi PLAYGROUND

The home property of Mrs. Oscar
Notes on Green street, near the Oak
land High school building has been
purchased by the County Commission
ers for the use of the high school as
a playground. The property is ada
cent to the present playground which
has proved inadequate for present
day needs. The price paid for the
house and lot was $1,000.
The owner of the property has been
living in Washington, D. c., with her
daughter since the death Of her hus-
band few years ago.
With this additional plot Of ground
the entire space available for play
ground activities will be 1872 feet by
1907 feet. 1t is not yet large enough
for regulation playing field for Soc
Ger and other games.
A petition was circulated recently
which was signed by large number
of citizens requesting the Commits
sioners to purchase additional space
for the playground as funds per-
mitted.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
BOGUS COLLECTORS ARE
TO FACE PROSECUTION
Social Security Board Has No
Financial Agents

Criminal prosecution by the depart
ment of justice of bogus collectors of
funds in connection with the Social
Security Acts old-age insurance pro-
gram, has been requested by the So
cial Security Board, Macon G. Will
liams, manager of the Cumberland
field office of the Social Security
Board, announced Tuesday.
The Board, Williams said, has adj
vised the department of justice that
it has received information of sew
eral instances where money has been
collected through such misrepresenta-
ton and requested the department to
investigate them and institute crimi-
nal proceedings.
In statement sent Williams, an
nouncing it's action, the board said:
"The Social Security Board has no
'old-age benefit collectors 'old-age in
surance collectors or any other kind
of collectors or financial agents. 1t has
authorized no one to collect any fees
from participants in the old-age insur-
ance program. We wish to caution
everyone against making any pay
ments whatever to persons represent
ing themselves as agents of the board
and who guarantee the payment of
old-age insurance"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
Relief Problem May Be Serious
Again This Winter

A survey of relief conditions thru
out the state has included Garrett
county in list of seven counties that
will be faced with serious relief prob
lens this winter as result of the ex-
haustion of their general public as
sistance allotments.
There will be no further distribu-
ton of State money until after March
18th.
While in most counties aid to those
classified under general public assist
ance was being distributed by welfare
boards, in Garrett county it has been
done since this spring by the County
Commissioners, who have been doing
out only very small sums of relief
money. This work is under the direc-
ton of Mrs. E. z. Tower. About 80
cases were being carried by the Wei
fare Board before the Commissioners
decided to do this part of the relief
work themselves.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
Fall Reception For Episcopals
To Be Held Early In November

The Fall Parish Reception for MEM
mers and friends of St. Matthews
Episcopal parish, will be held early
in November, Rev. D. c. Trimble, rec
tor, announced. The date will be set
soon.
Several outside guest speakers will
be on the program and reports will
be given by various organizations of
the church.
st. Matthew's church choir will
again be directed by Miss nellie Meth
ken and Mrs. Russell Brown. Rev.
Trimble said the congregation of st.
Johns chapel, Deer Park, is gratified
with the music its choir is now render
ing. During the summer regular
practices were held with the result
that the choir is learning to sing the
full evening prayer service and por-
lions of the Holy Communion service.
The choir has been fully vested for
some time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
ART EXHIBITION WILL BE
CONDUCTED NOVEMBER IL
Exhibits Will Be In Episcopal
Parish House During Entire
Week

The Art Exhibition for Garrett
county will be held during National
Art week, November l to Z, at the
Episcopal Parish house, Center and
Second streets.
Quite a few artists have entered
their names and the names of their
work they wish to exhibit. Those in
charge stated there was still time to
enter if anyone cared to do so. Entries
are to be brought to the Parish House
on Monday, November 1, between 10
a. M, and p. m.
There will be a reception for the
artists and their friends on Tuesday,
November 2, at 8 p. M, at the Par
ish House. Miss Catherine Baker,
art instructor in the Oakland schools,
will talk. The public is invited.
Artists are entering exhibits in
water color, crayon, paper batik, oil,
pen and ink, stencil, leather, wood
craft, and sketches.
Entries include Margaret Casteei
Kathryn Butt, Ruth Shipley, Betsy
Weber, Betsy Downer, Clara Beck
man, Mary Frances Rowan, Julia Con-
der, Roberta Bailey, Harold Teagar-
den, Dale Bittinger, June Queer, Glen
dine Bowman, Merle Shuttlcsworth,
Marguerite Carskadon, CHARLES But
Ter, Forrest yelling, Emory Adams,
Daniel Wonderly, Gordon Kemp, Ar
lie Breedlove, Helen Peck, James OAR
by, Eleanor Sincell, Margaret Nc
Comas, John Grant, Isolde Booming,
Maurice Davis, Lawrence Riley, Cath
crime Baker, Mrs. Walter Hamill, Mrs.
T. c.. Hinebaugh, Mrs. B. H. Sincell,
Miss Adeline Sincell, Mrs. Duncan
Patton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
Eastern Conference of Lutherans
Meets Here On Tuesday

Twenty ministers and laymen at
tended the annual convention of the
Eastern Conference, Lutheran Synod
of West Virginia, in st. Marks church,
Oakland, on Tuesday.
There was discussion on the five
year plan of the U. L. c., and tithing.
Principal addresses were made by Rev.
w. M. Erhard, Clarksburg; Rev. H. L.
Ham, Fairmont; Rev. C. K. Spiggle,
Keyser; Rev. Roy Hashinger, Morgan
town. The evening sermon was given
by Rev. E. F. X. Roof, Grafton, retir-
ing president.
Rev. A. X. Jones, Red House, was
chosen president; Rev. George Kunkle,
Accident, president; Rev. Donald
R. Brown, Aurora, secretary-treas-
urer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
Injured In Car Collision

Rev. William B. Orndorff, of Loeb
Lynn, and Harry McRobie, of near
Oakland, were injured last Saturday
morning when the automobile in
which they were riding collided with
another driven by D. w. Derham,
colored, of Rochester, N. Y, just east
of Frederick, at road intersection.
Rev. Orndorff was unable to see
clearly on account Of storm and did
not observe the car until he was al
most upon it. Rev. Orndorff received
a cash on his left hand and a bruise
on his face. McRobie received cash
over his eye. George M. Brown and
William Enlow, other occupants OF the
car, were not injured.
The automobile was practically de-
molished and there was no insurance.
The four men were enroute home
from Baltimore where they had been
attending the annual association OF
the Maryland Baptist union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
PRIZE LIST COMPLETE FOR
HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION
More Than $100 In Cash and so
Other Prizes Will Be Given To
Masqueraders Friday Night
PARADE STARTS AT SEVEN

With list of more than fifty arti-
cles and more than 500 in cash to be
distributed tomorrow evening during
the annual Halloween celebration in
Oakland, everything seems to be in
readiness for mammoth Halloween
parade and the merrymaking on the
main streets of the town, which will
follow the parade.
Merchants and other business and
professional men again cooperated
with members of the Oakland Fire
Department in continuing the custom
of the past eight or nine years in hav-
ing an attractive prize list for those
participating in the mummers' pro-
cession and attending the masquerade
dance later.
The parade is scheduled to begin at
seven o'clock, and those taking part
are to assemble on Oak street, Alder
street, east of Fourth street, and in
termediate sections of Fourth and
Fifth streets, around $3.50 o'clock. The
line of march will include the down.
town section as in former years. The
awards, except those listed for the
dance, will be made Immediately after
the parade.
All festivities will take place on
Second street, between Green street
and the railroad crossing. which will
be roped off for the occasion. There
will be concessions and amusements.
A dance with Reed Raines furnishing
the music will be held in the Manhat-
tan Hotel and tea room.
Oakland's Halloween celebration
usually attracts five hundred or more
to take part in the parade and many
Continued on Page Four)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
Girl Scout Week To Be CeIebrat-
ed October 31-NOvember 6

National Girl Scout Week will be
observed throughout the country dur
ing the week of October 81 to Novem-
Der 6. There are definite detectives
for each day of the week.
Sunday is for attendance at church.
Troop No. will attend services in the
Episcopal church to hear Rev. D. C.
Trimble.
Detectives for other days include
housekeeping on Monday; handicraft
on Tuesday; thrift on Wednesday;
community service on Thursday; hos
tess training on Friday and health on
Saturday.
Oakland Troop, No. 1, will prepare
baskets of food for needy families on
Thursday and will go on hike Sat-
urday. During the past week Marga-
ret Williams passed her second class
thrift and Barbara Meisenbach passed
her five points in health.
Members of Oakland troop No.
will also celebrate girl scout week, OBJ
serving the seven detectives. They
will hike on Saturday and donate
books to the library on community
service day.
The monthly meeting of their court
of honor was held last Saturday at
the home of Mrs. Harry Stemple. At
their regular scout meeting Nell
Broadwater, Jeanne Williams, Vir-
GINA Lawton, Mary Ann Fazzalari,
Evelyn Fraley, Ann Lawrence, Donna
Littman, Villa Browning and Many
Dawson passed their first aid tests.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
Broadening Of Scouting Pro-
gram Here Is Planned

A meeting which had for it's objec-
tive the ultimate formation of dis
trict scout committee for this county,
was held Monday night in the Masonic
clubroom.
Raymond C. Lalor, scout executive
of the Cumberland Council, which
embraces this territory, outlined the
plan to representatives from Friends
vile, Kitzmiller, Deer Park, Mt. Lake
Park, and Oakland. Both Oakland
troops were represented. The district
committee would be under the Cum
berland Council, but would be respon-
sible for the advancement of the
scouting program in this area.
Those present included J. Timothy
Moon, Mason Calls, John L. Fitz-
water, Mt. Lake Park; Foste, o. Spell
cher, Friendsville; Bryan Shockley,
Deer Park; LaMark Moore, o. P.
Jones and Robert Sprague, Kitzmil-
Ter; DR.. w. w. Grant, Harry Luman,
Rev. D. c. Trimble, Foster D. Bittle,
Henry W. McComas, Jr., Rev. George
Packard, George H. Hanst, and H. A.
Loraditch, all of Oakland, and Mr..
Lalor.
George Hanst, former scoutmaster
of Oakland Troop No. 1, and chairman
of the local troop committee, was
named temporary district chairman
until permanent organization was eff
fected. The district committee will
begin to function this winter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
DEADLY ELIXIR Is BEING
HUNTED; SOME FOUND HERE
Maryland Health Director Re-
ports Samples Found In Oak
land, WesternpOrt, Salisbury
HAS KILLED 40 IN U. S.

The State Department of Health
during the week has been conducting
a Statewide campaign to seize all
stocks of new elixir of sulfanilamide,
a drug which has caused more than
forty deaths in the nation recently.
DR.. Robert H. Riley, State Health
Director, said samples had been re-
covered in Oakland and Westernport
and at Salisbury, on the Eastern
Shore. DIR. Robert L. Swain, also of
the State Health Department, report
ed that all known specimens of the
dangerous elixir in Maryland had
been collected. He said five pint bottles
were found in the State.
The American Medical Association
reported the forty deaths due to the
elixir which contained diethylene gly-
col. Johns Hopkins Hospital physi
clans said this was the cause of the
deaths.
Throughout the nation more than
700 bottles, mostly pints, had been
distributed. Every agent of the U. S.
Food and Drug Administration is
securing the country to recover them.
Nothing like the present situation
has happened in American medicine
in many years, DIR. Morris Fishbein,
spokesman of the American Medical
Association, stated. "It has never
happened before in such magnitude.
The trouble is that the lethal bottles
are a form of the most sensational
and valuable new medicine discovered
in many years. In other forms this
medicine has performed near miracles
in treatment of streptococcj diseases
and gonorrhea."
The elixir" alone has brought re-
ported deaths. One ounce of it killed
a baby, and there are sixteen ounces
in each pint. How many adults pint
can kill is unknown. An adult who
took six ounces recovered.
The medicine stops the kidneys. At
medical association headquarters its
effects were said to be like those Of
bichloride of mercury. No antidote is
known yet. The "eliXir" is made of
sulphanilamide and diethylene glycol,
a near relative of auto anti-freeze
fluid.
Cures Meningities
One hundred percent recovery of
eleven persons with streptococcus
meningitis, who took the new remedy,
sulfanilamide, was reported Tuesday
to the American College of Surgeons
at Chicago. Streptococcus meningitis
has been one of the death sentence"
diseases and is the most deadly form
of meningitis. The eleven cases were
all complicated with mastoiditis.
Sulfanilamide is the remedy made
from a red dye discovered in Germany
and used in mixture which has been
causing deaths over a large part of
the United States. The report of the
recovery of the eleven brings the other
side of the picture of this new medi
cine explaining why physicians all
over the United States have been
eager to test it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
Garrett County Man With BrOk-
en- Neck In Critical Condition

Arthur Clark, &c, of Finzel, Gar
rett county, who was injured Satur-
day, October 16, in an auto mishap
when the car in which he was riding
failed to make a turn on the Mount
Savage road and overturned, is in a
critical condition in Miners Hospital
at Frostburg, where he was received
following the accident. He is suffering
with a broken neck. Two other occu-
pants of the car were injured only
slightly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-28
Earl C. Savage, Accident, Third
In Cattle Judging

Earl C. Savage, member of the Ac-
cident High school F. F. A, won third
place in the State in the dairy cattle
Judging contest, held recently in con-
nection with the annual fair in Fred
erick.
Young Savage won first place
among those competing from this
county. The entire team from Acct
dent, however, fell to twelfth place in
the State. Savage will receive an
award for his ability along the line of
dairy cattle judging. He was coached
by M. G. Calls, Accident High school
instructor in vocational agriculture.