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TREASURY CONDITION

G.N.SO Treasury balance as
of June 30, $2,215,917,913; miscel.
laneous internal revenue, $18,079,.
1929; customs receipts, $21,95O,.
468.44: receipts, $6,241, ,661, ,226;
expenditures, $7,766, 6,374,277.
The Washington times., 1938-07-02
China Troops Mass
To Defend H1nkOU

SHANGHAI, July 2 d.N.S0.
Heavy Chinese reinforcements
rushed to the Matang area of the
The Washington times., 1938-07-02
Suzanne Lenglen
Is Sinking Fast

PARIS, July 2 (I.N.S.).
Suffering from perniciOuS
anemia, Suzanne Lenglen,
former French tennis star
and one of the most cOIOrfuI
figures ever to appear upon
the courts, was given a Sec
Ond emergency blood trans
fusion today.
Physicians reported she
was Sinking fast" despite ef-
forts to save her life.
The Washington times., 1938-07-02
YOUNGER VETS
MARCH IN FETE
FOR BLUE, GRAY
Gettysburg Heroes
Hold Stage
By w. A. S. DOUGLAS

GETTYSBURG, Pa. July 2.
Today, in the seventy-fifth ami
Versary of the battle of Gettys-
burg, was younger Veterans
Day" for those unborn when the
guns roared here, who paraded
in gaudy uniforms to martial mu-
sic and noise. But they remained
a minor part of the show.
The $500 old men who have
had the spotlight since the ami
versary began retained it. though
the blare of trumpets and roll Of
drums sought to divert it else
where. Troops Of every branch Of
the Regular Army, carrying with
them, riding upon, or hauling in
struments of death, pushed their
way through the narrow streets
on which the blood of many
fathers and grandfathers was
spilled on that long. past July 2
of 1853,
Salute of Guns
But the throngS on the streets
turned always from the pageant
to bend ears to the observations
of those old men who were sturdy
enough to stand and watch. Some
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Yangtze River valley today to at.
tempt to halt the Japanese ad.
vance against Hankow.
Bitter fighting was reported
and the Japanese claimed they
dominated all the Matang fortifi.
cations surrounding the southern
end Of the boom thrown across
the river to impede their war
ships.
Previously, it was reported Nip
poneSe forces had penetrated
the boom at Matang, and that re-
treating Chinese troops had con-
structed another a few miles up
the river.
The Washington times., 1938-07-02
Troop Ship Sunk

Meanwhile, from Hankow, came
frequent Chinese claims that nu-
merous Japanese warships have
been sunk in the last 48 hours
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the HERALD AND TIMES

Is the only newspaper or.
ganiZatiOn in the Nations
Capital which offers 4 COM
plete 24-hOur arOund.the-
clock cOverage Of news, pic.
lures and features.
The Washington times., 1938-07-02

Uncle Mack's Funny Family
will take the air tomorrow
morning over Station VOL.
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Salute of Guns

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-05-05

johnson gave up his iron furnace in
Frederick county and moved on the
Johnson farm.
Thomas j. Johnson, Sr., owned a
large hotel on the Johnson farm, To-
Gated on the site of the present frame
dwelling. The History Of Allegany
county says:
Thomas Beall kept tavern at the
foot of Little Savage Mountain in
1880. He was succeeded by Thomas j.
Johnson, who entertained his guests
by playing a fiddle, and he had Ne
gro man who danced to the music for
their further delectation."
The Johnson property here was well
timbered with white pine, hemlock
and other trees, and in 1858, when
Joshua died, there were two saw mills
on the estate which then contained
14,175 acres.
Joshua Johnson was bachelor until
late in life, and had no children. His
property was inherited by his brother,
Thomas j., who died at the farm in
1875.
Thomas J. Johnson, Jr., who was
born in 1S47, resided on the Johnson
Farm until 1886, when it was sold out
of the family. Mr.. Johnson, now in his
91st year, resides at Grantsville, the
only surviving grandchild of Mary
lands famous first Governor.
Mr.. Johnson has always been identi-
fed with the Democratic organization
in Garrett county and as a member
of that party he was honored in 1889
by being elected a member of the
Board of County Commissioners. In
1916 he became a member of the
Garrett County Board of Education
and since his term in that office ex-
pired he has been a member almost
continuously of the Board of Registra-
ton in his home district. Mr.. Johnson
also served during the World War as
a member of the draft board.
CHARLES E. HOVE.
Oakland, May 4, 1888.
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SOME OF The EARLY LAND
SPECTATORS In GARRETT
GOVERNOR THOMAS JOHNSON

Thomas Johnson is of interest to us.
not only because of his extensive land
holdings in Garrett county, but also
because of his long and valuable ser
vices to the State during and after the
Revolutionary War.
Thomas Johnson occupied the posi-
ton as the first Governor of Maryland
his election coming following the Rev
olution when the Maryland Colonists
became free of the British yoke.
The Johnson ancestry traces to
James Johnson, one of the two bailiffs
of Yarmouth, England, in the year
1890. His son, Thomas johnson l, in
1925, was a member of the famous
Short Parliament of England.
Thomas Johnson II was a captain
in the Parliamentary Army during the
rebellion against King Charles I, but
after the execution of the King, Cap
tain Johnson went over to the ROYAL
lists.
Thomas Johnson III married Mary
Baker, then a ward in chancery, with
out the consent of the Lord High
Chancellor.
"Inasmuch as abduction and marry
ing Of maids in Chancery constituted a
high misprison, punishable by heavy
fine and Imprisonment as contempt
of Court, Johnson decided to flee with
his bride from England"
So they came to Maryland in 1890
and settled in Calvert county. In
Maryland, Johnson soon became in
volved in Colonial politics, espousing
the cause of King James against Will
liam of Orange. He was arrested,
brought before the Colonial Council
and required to give bail. He appears
to have broken bail and to have fled
to the Indians, with whom he lived and
traded for some years. Finally John
son sailed for England with a cargo
Of furs, but the vessel was captured
by Spaniards and those on board were
robbed and imprisoned.
Thomas Johnson finally escaped and
landed in Canada in a destitute condi-
ton. He walked all the way to Mary
land only to find his cabin burned by
Indians, his wife dead from anxiety
and grief, Wrecked by exposure and
exhaustion, he, too, soon died.
Thomas johnson ", only son of the
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immigrant, was born in 1902, and was
left an orphan at the age of twelve.
He was cared for by friends and was
well educated. At the age of twenty
three he married Dorothy Sedgwick,
and soon after was sent to the Colonial
Assembly as a Delegate from Cecil
county. He was reelected from year
to year until about the time of the
birth of his distinguished son and
namesake-
Thomas Johnson V. He was born in
Calvert county, November 4, 1882, the
year his friend, George Washington,
was born in nearby Virginia.
Thomas was the fifth of twelve chill
dren. At an early age he was sent to
Annapolis and was given employment
in Lord Baltimore's Land office, where
he doubtless developed his first inter
est in the lands of Western Maryland.
Soon he began the study of law and
was in due time admitted to the bar.
At the age of twenty-nine Thomas
Johnson V took his seat as a Dele
gate from Anne Arundel county in the
Provincial Assembly, thus beginning a
career in public life which covered a
period Of thirty-nine years-a career
which, for length, versatility and i'm
portance Of services-is unparalleled
in the annals of the State.
Space does not permit us to list all
his public services. Suffice it to note
that he was a leading revolutionist,
and, as member of Congress, nomi-
mated Colonel Washington for Com
mander of the Revolutionary Army.
In 1777, Colonel johnson commanded
the famous Maryland "Flying Camp
and in the same year he was chosen
first Governor of his State, serving
three years.
After the Revolutionary War, Gov
ernor Johnson made his home in Fred
erick county, where he continued ac-
tive in public and private life. He was
interested in the development of the
navigation of the Potomac and in 1889
succeeded Washington as president of
the Potomac Company.
Thomas Johnson married Ann Jen-
nings, of Annapolis. They were the
parents of seven children, two of
whom-Thomas J. and Joshua-set-
tied in what is still known as the John
son District Of Garrett county.
"The aged patriot" writes a histor-
ian, FINALLY slept way at Rose Hill
Mansion in the 87th year of his age,
on Tuesday morning, October &c,
1919"
His remains now rest in Mt. Olivet
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Cemetery, Frederick.
The Johnson Lands


When Lord Baltimore opened his
lands westward of Fort Cumber-
land" in 1774, Thomas Johnson, Jr.,
Cater Governor), became one of the
early spectators in these lands.
He surveyed and patented Thomas
and Ann" 1000 acres, so named for
himself and wife, Ann Jennings. He
also patented 'The Promised Land"
1900 acres. These tracts are located
northwest of Oakland on or near the
old Mccullough Pack Horse Path.
When General Washington passed
this way in 1884, he wrote in his Jour
nal:
"Part of these glades IS the property
of Govr. Johnson of Maryland, who
has settled two or three families of
Palatines (Germans) upon them"
Johnson also surveyed and patented
peace and Plenty" 1900 acres, near
Deer Park.
A younger brother, Baker Johnson,
at the same time (1774) surveyed
"Covent Garden" 224O acres, and Mt.
Pleasant" 1000 acres, in the southern
end of the county, and Kindness"
2072 acres, at Hutton. None of these
lands were patented until after the
War, in 1885,
Governor Johnson continued to ac-
quire land in what is now Garrett
county. In tn eroll of 1898 he was as
sessed with over $4,000 acres, and
Baker Johnson was assessed with over
5000 acres.
One of the big land deals in the
early history of our county was the
transfer in 1914, for $4,000, from a
group of Philadelphia merchants to
Thomas Johnson, of 14,800 acres, in
Guiding Spruce Spring" and 296 Mil
itary Lots-land in the northeast sec
ton of the county, the Johnson Dis
trict. This large tract had been decided
by Thomas Johns to the Philadelphia
people in 1895. Robert Morris, who
helped to finance the Revolution, was
interested in this land deal.
The JohnsOns In Garrett County
Joshua Johnson, son of the Govern
or, inherited from his father extensive
tracts Of land, and in 1886 he moved
from Frederick county to what is
known as the Johnson Farm on the
National Road, in Johnson District. He
borrowed $4,000 from his brother,
Thomas ]. Johnson, to build a house
and begin farming; but Joshua John
son was Gland poor" and failed to pay
the debt, so about 1910 Thomas J.
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500 p. M, worship service and SER

o:OO p. M, worship service and SER
mon.
Personals and Minor News
Members of the B. Y. P. D. spent
Sunday afternoon at their new Camp
Lakewood close to Terra Alta, w. Va.
Mrs. j. D. Lenhart and daughter
Della and Mrs. Florence Schlossnagle
were guests Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hetrick.
Robert Alexander and family mo-
tored to Cumberland Sunday to visit
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Zinkan spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Luther
Keller.
Walter HENDERSON and son, of
Friendsville, spent Monday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry HENDERSON.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Englehart and
Mrs. Minnie Speicher are spending
several days visiting Mr.. and Mrs. j.
L. Englehart.
Misses nellie George and Helen Glot-
felty, Fred Glotfelty and B. Wilburn
spent Sunday in Cumberland
Allen Ault, youngest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. H. Ault, has been suffering
with a severe case of intestinal infu-
enza.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shoemaker and
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ACCIDENT

Church Of the Brethren, Rev. A. D.
Scrogum, Pastor-9:30 a. M, Sunday
school; 1920, worship service.
English Lutheran Parish, Rev. G.
NJ. Kunkle, Pastor-Accident, $50,
worship service and sermon; 10:45 a.
M, Sunday school; 1880 p. NJ, Luther
League. Cove, $3.50, Sunday school;
1915, worship service and sermon.
Friendsville, 10 a. M, Sunday school;
500 p. M, worship and sermon.
Zion Lutheran Church, Rev. C. F.
Dauphin, Pastor-9:3O, Sunday school;
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son Bobby visited relatives at Guard
recently.
H. J. Speicher spent Monday and
Tuesday in Elkins, West Va, on bus
mess.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-20
F1artle Murder Case AT
Winston Given To Jury
Grocer Charged With 'Un-
written Law" Staying Of
Barber In His Home

Winston-Salem, Jan. 20-(AP)-A
iurv of farmers and business men to-
dav deliberated the fate of 63year-old
John Hartle, ihespectacled groceryman
charged with the "unwritten law
murder of Walter V. Smith.
The case went to the jury at 1:19 p.
M. today at the conclusion Of Judge
Donald Phillips charge.
Demanding "the supreme penalty
for the Staying of Smith, Forsyth SUI
perior Court Solicitor Earl McMichael
continued his argument to the jury
when court converted today. The pro-
secutor said the defense attorneys
had "argued everything -Mosiac law,
unwritten law, even the Bible"
"But you have taken an oath to ap-
ply the law justly and impartlaliy'
he told the jury.
Smith was fatally shot November
26 when he was found in darkeneo
room of the groceryman's home al
legedly with Mrs. Hartle. ;,
Hartle, pleading "unwrltten law ;
commended on the witness stand ne
shot Smith because he thought the
barber was going to attack him.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-20
Chairman of National Asso-
citation Testifies to Sem
ate Unemployment
Committee
u. S. CHAMBER ASKS
MORE TAX REVISION
Representative of Organiza-
ton Tells House Commit
tee Program Has Not Gone
Far Enough, and Urges
Profits Repeal; Reed Is
Approved .s

Washington, Jan. 20.-(AP)-A bus
mess leader told Congress today that
two-thirds of the country's manufac-
turers expect a business rise some
time in 1888.
The informant was Colby Chester,
chairman of the National Association
IF Manufacturers, who testified at
the Senate unemployment inquiry. He,
based his statement on a cross-section
survey of 40 manufacturers.
A representative of another large
group of business men, the United
States Chamber of Commerce, ex-
pressed the opinion to House Ways
and Means Committee that it's tax re-
vision program did not Ego far
enough He said the undistrifuted
profits tax should be repealed at
once.
The filibuster against the anti
lynching bill was resumed meanwhile,
in the Senate, and the House con-
tinued debate on the 1888, 00O,O 900 naval
appropriation bill.
Reed Approved.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee
approved unanimously the nomina-
ton of Stanley Reed to the Supreme
Court The nomination will be report
ed to the full committee Monday,
with Senate confirmation expected
early next week.
The subcommittee vote was taken
Immediately after the committee con-
Guided a brief hearing on Reeds
qualifications. Senator Logan, Demo-
crat, Kentucky said there was no dis
cussion of Reeds qualifications by
the committee members.
The brief hearing was attended ty
Reed. now solicitor general, and At
torney General Cummings. The latter
praised Reeds legal ability and said
the nomination of the 55-year-old
Kentuckian was a great personal
satisfaction"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-20
Los Angeles
Fairfield In
Wre-Tappiing

Los Angeles, Cal.,, Jan. 2O.-(AP)-
The captain and an officer of a spe-
cial police intelligence squad were
ordered held today on suspicion of
overlapping at the home Of Vice-In-
vestigator Harry Raymond, victim of
a bomb explosion last Friday.
Wire-tapping is felony in Califor-
:lia.
District Attorney Buron Fits issued
the order to arrest Earl Kynette, act
ing captain of detectives, and one of
his aides, Dan Draper.
Five other members of Kynette' s
squad, Fits said may be arrested if
they refuse to answer questions in
the inquiry Fits claimed he had de-
finitely linked Kynette with a n1ys-
FERROUS 9O-day surveillance of Ray
mond. Kynette and his men, Fits
said he was informed, rented and oc-
cupied a house 100 yards from Ray
mond home and secretly watched his
movements.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-20
Santee Dam
Plan Fought
By 3 Firms

Charlotte. Jan. 20.-(AF0-Attor-
news for three power companies ask
ed the fourth u. S. District Court OF
Appeals today to reverse a district
court decree denying them a perma-
nent Injunction against the proposed
s37 100000 Santee-Cooper power and
navigation project in South Carolina
to be built with Federal funds.
The firms, the Carolina Power Com
pany. of Raleigh; the South Caro-
lima Power Company, of Charleston,
S. c.. and the South Carolina Elec-
trio g. Gas Company, of Columbia, 5.
c.. commended the project would de-
stroy the navigability of 81 miles OF
the Santee river, that the license Is
sued by the Federal Power Commits
sion was invalid, and that the COM
panies had a right to sue to protect
their permits to operate, which they
termed franchises, and, therefore,
property.
Counsel for the South Carolina Pub
lie Service Authority, sponsor OF the
project; the Power Commission ana
the Public Works and Works Progress
Administrations, argued that Con-
gress had expressly approved the
Continued on Page Four.l
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-20
Rebel Warships Take Anne.
rican Oil Ship Into Tow
In Vicinity of
Barcelona
ADMIRAL LACKEY, OF
u. S. FORCE, ADVISED
American and French Au-
thorities Seek Further In
formation About Seized
Vessel, Flying u. S. Flag
and With Full Crew of
Americans

paris. Jan. P)-Informatior
IF the seizure of the American tan
ker Nantucket Chief by two Spanish
insurgent warships off Barcelona was
forwarded from the United States En-
bassv today to Rear Admiral Henry
Tackev. commanding American naval
forces in European waters.
At the office of the embassy's naval
attache. however, it was said Admiral
1.ackev had not been asked to take
any action. He is aboard the cruiser
Raleigh at Genoa.
An official report on the seizure
also was forwarded to Washington.
American and French naval au-
thorities sought further information
about the Nantucket Chief. News
her plight reached Paris in a mes
sage from the French destroyer Van
ouelin, which reported seeing her be-
inc escorted toward Palma, Mallorca,
by two insurgent warships Tuesday.
The French navy minister and the
American Embassy said it was not de-
termined whether the tanker was
taken in Spanish territorial waters.
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-20
Fairbanks Tells Sheriff
He Is Ready To Pay Debt
And Quicker The Better
Axe-Slayer Refuses Lawyer for His Hearing Here To-
morrow; Admits Facts urned Up at State Prison;
Thinks His Parents Were Divorced

Clarence Fairbanks, 23-year-old con-
fessed axe-slayer of Steve Good
itinerant Snowman, here last Sunday
night, this afternoon told Sheriff J.
E. Hamlet in Granville county Jail
in Oxford, where he is being held, that
he did not desire lawyer for his pre-
liminary hearing before Recorder r.
E. Clements in county court here to-
morrow morning, that he had made
his debt and was ready to pay it, and
the sooner the bette r.
Fairbanks admitted the facts turn
ed up by fingerprint comparisons at
State Prison about serving a term
there for robbery, and for the first
time expressed regret for the Staying
of Good and critically wounding Mrs.
Good at their truck-trailer which he
drove for them as they went about
over the country giving their minia-
ture circus in schools with dogs, mon
keys and birds. Previously he said he
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-20
MANY SENATORS IN
WEST ARE BARRED
Shifting of Office From
One County to Another
to Keep Many Out
Daily Dispatch Bureaus
In the Sir Walter HOteI.

Raleigh, Jan. O.-Approximatel,
half the State Senators from the west
will not be candidates 20 succeed
themselves in the 1899 General AS
sembly, practically all of them be-
cause of rotation agreements within
their districts.
The same situation prevails in the
east, making it certain that the next
legislature will have a lot of faces not
seen in the 1887 gathering.
Of the senators who have written
this, bureau of their intentions re
garding 1885 only one, John Sprun
Hill, of Durham, has said he will not
run because he has had enough Of
the legislature. The others who will
not he candidates are barred by gen
tlemen's agreements.
The veteran lawmaker from Dur
ham wrote:
During the past twenty years
have devoted about two-thirds of my
time to service of the State in one
capacity or another and now, at the
age of sixty-nine, it does seem that il
is time for the old man to take il
easy. In all probability, therefore,
will not he a candidate for the 1895
Senate"
He adds a clause however, which
makes it seem likely that he vii
yield to the fascination of Legislative
service just as the veteran ball play
ers always yields to the springtim.
crack of bat against horsehide.
"Of course, it is always possible
that some unforeseen circumstance
will arise which will force me t.
chance my mind
The other sixteenth district senator
e. T. (Curly) Sanders, of Alamance
informs this bureau he will not be z
candidate as by custom the place goe.
this year to Orange county, wher
Owen Robertson is said to be preen
ing his wings preparatory to fligh
into the political sky.
In the seventeenth. T. J. Gold, High
Point, has announced he will stand fol
reelection. The other member, ]. Ben
Continued on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-20
Boy King OF
Egypt Takes
Bride Of rs

Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 2O.--(AP)-
Egypt's boy King Farouk took dark
eyed-16-year-old Farida as his wife
and queen today in an orthodox Mos
lem ceremony, which the bride did not
attend.
R,lt Farida, daughter of an Egyp-
tan high court judge, excluded from
the ceremony by Moslem custom,
watched it through a lattice work
partition from an adjoining room in
the ancient palace.
The marriage contract was signed
at II a. m. a a. m. eastern standard
time) and guns of the ancient citadel
and others throughout the country
crashed in royal salute to tell joyous
Egyptians their king was wed.
Faridas father and the bridegroom
signed the Moslem contract which
made her the wife of the 17-year-old
ruler of Egypt's 100000 people.
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was not sorry It was in an argu-
ment over one of the birds that Fair
banks attacked the Goods with an
axe.
The youth said he was hitch-hiking
from Florida to New York in 1888
when he stopped in Lexington, brok
the pane and grasocd u quantity of
food from a restaurant. He admitted
serving % months in the North Car
DINA State Prison when he was
caught for the act. He said his own
name and his fathers was Clarence
Fairbanks, that his father lives in
Baltimore, and he understood his
mother, shown by prison records as
Mrs. d. R. Hoyle, of Philadelphia, had
been divorced and remarked. He said
he had seen his parents once follow
ing his discharge from prison.
Fairbanks also declared his love for
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