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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
SOUTH AFRICAN
 RESERVES CALLED
Follows Protest of Nazi Government on Immi=
 grafton Restriction

Pretoria, South Africa, March 18 -(UP)-Urgent orders have been issued mobilizing all South African police reserves, including Europeans, Asiatics and Africans, 1t was learn ed today.
 The South African government was believed to have taken its ac- tion in connection with German protest against restriction of Ger man immigration in southwest Afri- ca, mandated territory which was German before the World War.
 Gen. J. B. M. Herzog, prime min- ister of South Africa, disclosed be- fore the assembly at Cape Town yesterday that the German govern ment had made representations asking a more sympathetic" ad- ministration of immigration laws under the alien act. Germany aI- legged that the act was being ap- piled to southwest Africa in detri- ment to German Nationals.
 Herzog said that he would not re- ply to the representations until further details, which he had re- quested, were provided.
 J. H. Hofmeyr, who resigned as minister of education in September said in @ luncheon speech yesterday that the dictator states of Europe regarded South Africa as within the orbit of their activities.
 Recently there have been peo- pie in South Africa who flirted with Nazism," he said. T hope that the fact that the leaders of Czechoslovakia, who sought friend ship with Nazi Germany, fared as badly as did those who opposed Germany will now lessen the num- Der of flirters in South Africa.
 South Africa must play her part in resisting the onslaught of the Authoritarian states"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
Senate Will Debate Merits of Changing Assessment
 Methods in Waterbury
TWO DIFFERENT VIEWS
 HELD ON PROPOSAL
If Repassed Bill Would Cause City to Recall
 Bills Since Jan. 1
BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK Democrat Legislative Reporter)

BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK
 Democrat Legislative Reporter)
 State Capitol, Hartford, March IS. = The hotly-dis- puted Waterbury sew e r assessment bill will be taken up for the second time by the state senate on Tuesday, with considerable support be- ing lined up for a move to have the measure sent back to the cities and boroughS committee for further study. Mean time, though the issue is local one, considerable opposition to the bill is developing in the lower house, so that the bill, even if the senate should refuse to reconsider its fav- orable vote of Thursday, still faces battle.
 House Majority Leader Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr., and Minority Leader T.. Ernmet Clarie today received letters from Controller Sherwood Rowland, expressing strong opposition to the bill. Similar letters were received yesterday by Senators Anthony Rich and Joseph Downes, Republican and Democratic leaders of the senate.
 Two Different Views =
 As the senate prepares to take up reconsideration of the bill, there are two definitely opposed schools of thought. Controller Rowland, the Waterbury Board of Finance declare that passage of the bill will mean that hundreds of men now on WPA sewer projects in Waterbury will have to be laid of, with the city unable to pay its sponsors share for the WPA work if money does not come into the revolving sewer fund for year. Senator George T. Gull hane, sponsor of the bill, ayers that this contention is false, saying that no WPA men will have to be laid off.
 The bill itself not only gives prop erty owners a moratorium on sewer assessments but also provides that the assessments shall be reduced by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
ADMITS
 MURDER IN N. H.
John Henry Rowland Is Finally Caught-Cousin
 Found With Him

Boston, March IS. CUP) = Seized in Texas after six-week, nationwide search, John Henry Rowland confessed today, G-Men said, to the murder of an elderly New Hampshire Spinster whom he robbed of about $25 and an automo- bile.
 Rowland, a 25-year- -old ex-sailor, was trapped by G-Men in Corpus Christi freight yard late yesterday after he had fought with 'wo men over attentions paid to his com panion. his 15-year-old cousin, Miss Aida Butler.
 Both Rowland and the girl van- ished soon after Miss Maude Horne, 61, retired school teacher, was beaten to death in her Milton, N. H., home February 3. apparently with a flashlight which Rowland had bor- rowed from the towns police chief.
 G-Men here indicated that How land and Miss Butler would be re- turned to New England by airplane. with Rowland scheduled to stand trial for his life on a charge of first-degree murder. Miss Butler, who collapsed and became hysterical after her arrest, had been sought merely for questioning.
 Authorities said that after the murder Rowland and the girl mo- tored to Pittsburgh, Pa, where the victims car was sold for $75. They went by bus to Tennessee and then began hitch-hiking. At McAllen. Texas, they were arrested as va grants, but were ire when How land said they wer, man and wife. Twice during their flight they crossed the border into Mexico, au- thorities believed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
US. CHALLENGES
 NAz| POLICIES
Protest Stops 'Short of War;; Czech Provinces
 on Trade Black List
BY HOBART c. MONTEE United Press Staff Correspondent

l. l.lUnlLen- 1rfSS. AIalI- -COrrcSpOnuent) Washington, March 18.-CUP)- The United States today moved vig- orously but short of war" to chal- lenge Nazi aggression.
 Plans which had been formulated to return United States Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson to his post in Ber- lin were set aside.
 The three Czecho- Slovakian prov inces over-run by Nazi troops, went on the United States trade "black list" at 12:01 a. m.
 Mail service to what was Czecho- Slovakia was suspended to permit letter writers to retrieve communi- cations they might not want sub mitted to the examination of Nazi police.
 Relations were further strained between Washington and Berlin but there was no threat from either side to rupture diplomatic relations. That would be close to the extreme of peaceful protest suggested by Presi- dent Roosevelt in his annual mes sage to congress on January 4.
 "War is not the only means of commanding a dec cnt respect for the opinions of mankind," he said then. There are many methods, short of war, but stronger and more effective than mere words, of bring ing home to aggressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our people"
 One of those methods was recall of Ambassador Wilson last Novem- Der after an outbreak of Jewish persecution in Germany. Germany later agreed to accept an interna- tional committees refugee plan. A high state department official told the United Press that this accept ance has persuaded the administra- ton that Wilson might profitably
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18


 Judge Inglis will also rule Tues day on the attempt of Special Prose- cutor Alcorn to enter as evidence the probate inventory of the estate of the late Francis Fruin, late head of the Connecticut Supply Company. It is claimed that the estate shows assets of $26,O00, as compared by Special Prosecutor Alcorn to the $290,000 received by the Connecti- cut Supply Company during the two and one half years prior to the death of Fruin in 1887.
 Deceptive" Statements
 Attorney James D. c. Murray, counsel for Mayor Hayes charged that Special Prosecutor Alcorn was giving deceptive statements flor tho benefits of the press" yesterday, when the prosecutor alleged that he could show an association between Santalucia and Hayes, in connection with listings of personal property. The following transcript contains Attorney Murray's attack on Special Prosecutors statements:
 
 Atty Murray: If your honor please, MT. Alcorn has made a statement to the effect that Frank Santalucia s personal property list was referred to MT. Hayes address on East Main : street. Is that true?
 Alcorn: don tknow- Murray: That's what you said. You know that this is the real estate on which Mrs. Hayes owns the mor- tgage?
 Alcorn: If your
 Murray: want to state to the court now whether he stated that MT. Santalucia's personal tax list was signed to MT. Hayes address?
 Doesn't Know About It Alcorn: don't know anything about it.
 Murray: You made a statement for the record and obviously for the press.
 Alcorn: My memorandum shows that the 193O list is Frank Santa
 (CAv,ffnr,aJ ~, no~o
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
Acting GoUernor
 Is Daddy Again

Middletown, Conn.,, March IS -(UP)-Acting Coy. Charles J. Arrigoni, Durham, today cele- brated the birth of his third child, a girl, who was born last night. She was named Patricia. Sen. Arrigoni was governor in the absence of Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin and Lieut. Gov. James L. McConaughy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
MICHAEL LA PORTA
 HELD BY POLICE

(UP)-Michael LaPorta, A, was held by police today on technical charge of idleness for questioning in the staying of New York gum man who attempted to hold up g dice game here March 5.
 A warrant for LaPorta's arrest was issued earlier in the week by Assistant City Attorney John A Maresca, who said the man was wanted for questioning in connec- ton with reports he visited the gambling house the night the gum man, Angelo Squellante, 28, was shot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
BY WEBB MILLER

E Copyright, l939 Byz4Jnited PrcSS)
 London, March 18-(UP)-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech last night on Adolf Hitler and Hitler's dissection of the Cze- choslovak republic marks the most important reorientation of British foreign and domestic policy since the World War, it was generally be- lieved today.
 Chamberlain's speech marked the complete abandonment of his policy of "appeasement," insofar as it con- cerned Germany, and the com mencement Of a new chapter of Anglo German relations which ominously resembled the status of relations in the few years before the World War.
 As one commentator put it:
 Chamberlain has hung up his umbrella and shouldered gum"
 Incidentally, he did not take his famous 'appeasement" umbrella with him to Birmingham.
 In his speech, the most bitter re- breaches that any British prime minister in peace time memory had addressed to the head of foreign state, Chamberlain tacitly admitted that his policy of appeasement had collapsed in ruins.
 Chamberlain's injection of the question whether Czechoslovakia $ annexation was a step in the direc- tion of world domination by force constitutes another parallel with the state of Anglo o-German rela- tions in the period preceding the World War.
 One immediate effect of Hitler's tearing up of the Munich agreement by the invasion of Czechoslovakia is likely to be an even closer British rapprochement with France, com mencing with the state visit of President Albert Lebrun to London Tuesday, and a closer Anglo-French military tie-up tantamount to a de- finite military alliance.
 The speed up of arrangements for the constitution of a British expedi-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
France Due to Follow Eng land By Recalling Her
 Ambassador BRITISH CABINET IN
 EMERGENCY SESSION Soviet Union Being Drawn Into Pact With Peace
 Loving" Nations
BY FREDERICK KUH Tinted press Staff Corresnonde

(Unlted FreSS Stair CorreSpOndent)
 London, March 18.- UP) - Great Britain and France, united in an urgent "stop Hitler" drive, instructed their ambassadors at Berlin today to protest against Adolf Hit ler's annexation of CZecho- slovakia and announce that they refused to recognize it's legality. It was reported in diplomatic quarters that Great Britain, the United States, France and Russia were in agreement, without having made any formal commitments, to pursue parallel policy of non-recognition of the German conquest.
 France was expected immediately to follow Great Britain's lead and recall her ambassador to Paris.
 Emergency Session Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain summoned an emergency meet% ing of the cabinet for p. m. (noon EST) and left Birmingham, where he made a history speech last night denouncing Hitler,s methods, to pre- side at the meeting.
 Joseph P. Kennedy, American am- bassador to Great Britain. paid his second visit in 24 hours to Wis., count Halifax, foreign secretary, to discuss the Czechoslovaka situation, as Great Britain and France an- nounced their protests.
 In Washington, the state depart ment had advised Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., that it acknowledged "de facto" German administration of Czecho- slovak areas but refused to concede the legality of Nazi rule.
 Viscount Halifax was visited today by Herbert von Dircksen, German
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
s5O,oOO FIRE DAMAGE

Thompson, Conn.,. March l8--(UP, Damage was estimated today at more than $50000 in a fire which destroyed the Haddam woolen mill late yesterday, leaving 100 persons without employment. Two homes near the mill also were destroyed by the flames.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
HEARING ON DISMISSAL

Dracut, Mass, March 1a- tUP)- A public hearing will be held Mon- day night on the dismissal of Spen- cer F. Sullivan as high school ath- letics coach, which resulted in pro. test strike of the schools 325 stu dents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
Judge To Rule On Admission Of Two Important Exhibits
Entry of Fruin Estate Inventory, Sought By Prose. cutor Acorn, Also to Be Decided When Court
 Opens Tuesday-Murray Protests Move
BY JOSEPH F. DONAHUE Democrat Staff Reporter)

Rulings the admissabity of two important exhibits in the Waterbury conspiracy trial promised Tuesday by Judge Ernest A. Ings The 18th week of the trial concluded yesterday afternoon following the ton of decision by Judge Ings the admission of tax lists showing the personal properties isting of Frank Burns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-18
CHAMbERLA|N'S
 SPEECH DRASTIC
Prime Minister Drops Um= brella for Gun; England's
 Policy Switches

Editors Note: Webb Miller, famous United Press foreign cor respondent and United Press gen. eral European manager, analyzes the new European situation in the light of Adolf Hitler's action against Czech0slOvakia and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new stand against Germany in the following dispatch.)
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27
Group OF st. Peters COngrega.
ton Making. Some Needed
improvements

In Oakland, S. P. C. A. stands for
Saint Peters Cooperative Association,
according to Rev. FIR. William +.
Sauer, pastor of the local Catholic
church. The men of the congregation
give one hundred per cent cooperation
when it comes to parish improvements,
he stated.
The group has started to construct
a new concrete pavements and steps
fronting the church on Fourth street
under the direction of James Garrett
and Edward O'Donnell. The improve
ment is much needed and the donated
services are saving the parish a nice
sum. Following the completion of the
steps and pavement the men will paint
the rectory adjoining. This latter piece
of work will be under the direction Of
Joseph Helbig, ST., and his brother,
George Helbig, both members of the
congregation and experienced painters
Of years standing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27
STUDENTS OF o. H. S. WISH
TO ENTER TRACK MEET
Mr.. Hamill States That Field
Will Be Available

The students of Oakland High have
expressed their desire to participate
in the annual Track and Field Meet by
voting overwhelmingly in favor of en-
tering. The ballot was held by the
Student Council on April 49,
The Council took this action after
receiving a letter from Mr.. Stuart F.
Hamill, owner of the field which the
school wants to use as a practice field.
Mr.. Bittle stated that though unoffi-
cial, it is reported that the deed will
be signed in the near future giving the
Board of Education title to the
property. The purchase was made pos
sible by the County Commissioners.
Oakland High school did not enter the
track meet last year because students
had no adequate place where they
could practice for the events.
Up to this time it had appeared as
though the school would not enter the
meet. However Mr.. Hamill's letter and
the vote cast by the students dispeIled
that thought.
The athletic directors and F. D.
Bittle, principal, went to work on the
many problems which have arisen
since 0. H. S. is to enter the meet.
Practices are now being held daily.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27
RESTORATION OF c. AND O.
CANAL IS NOW UNDER WAY
Project Will Be Completed By
1913 If 400 CCC Youths Stick
To Their Present Schedule
PLAN FULL RESTORATION

The historic Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, $15,OOO,OOO project built more
than a century ago and in use until
fifteen years ago, will be restored by
1913 if 400 Civilian Conservation
Corps youths stick to a present work
project.
But if restoration is completed
pleasure boats and picnickers will ply
the ancient waterway in relaxed con-
trast to the busy commercial traffic
the canal carried in it's heyday.
Work Already Started
Civilian Conservation camp enrol
lees already have started on the pro-
ject, clearing away brush and whack-
ing down small trees from the canal
bed between Little Falls and Seneca.
The canal, designed as an outlet for
commerce from the Alleghenies to
Washington, was opened to traffic by
1880, and was completed to Cumber-
land, in Western Maryland, by 1850.
Purchased last year by the Govern
ment, it is being restored by the IN
terror Department as a park project.
The purchase included a right of
way of about 12O to 16O feet wide for
the length of the 186-mile canal, which
is being developed as an historical and
recreational park site.
Full Restoration Planned
Complete restoration, including the
rebuilding of gates, sidewalks and
ducts between Washington and Seneca
and rebuilding the dam at Seneca
Creek, is contemplated. The water
way will be restored the entire length
to Cumberland.
Work on the canal has been started
by members of two CCC camps in
Montgomery county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27


ENHERE are lot of things about
M this Buick any wide awake
to-value buyer ought to know, but
there's one important point that's
worth making especially clear.
That's this: Many an item you'll
pay extra for elsewhere is included
in Bucks eye-opening prices!
Indeed, so many extras" are
standard on Buick that when you
count them in, this beauty costs
actually less than more than one
car with losOer advertised prices!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27

FOR RENT-Adequate pasture e..
about 40 head Of cattle. See Ciaron aOr
A. Lee, Mountain Lake Park-AdIvloCas
tisement 9-2t* ''e''
CABIN LOGS-Can supply coh;u
Logs or Long Timber to order All
dress Box 1872, R. F. D. l, OAKLAND rJ'
Md-Advertisement 7-4t.
FOR RENT-Four rooms with ola,
trio, water; garden; on Route DO
21a miles from Red House, known -,
P. A. Sisler farm. See Ben H. DeW;t ~
Route 2, Oakland, Md.-Advertisasr
ment 8-3t* ''
acknowledgement canab1,
girl desires general housework, Ref
erences can be given. information ~
this office, or write Rout l. Box 2
Aurora, w. Va. Catherine Kooken -
Advertisement 8-3t*
FOR SALE - ACCOMMODATIONS,
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Grader and Niagara Duster-12 n W9.
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BABY CHICKS-Blood-tested Hen
Breeders; White Leghorn and Rhode
Island Reds. Free circular. Breeders
new and used. Phone 1851, ParkvieW
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vertisement 6-tf.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27
PAID LOCAL NOTICES

WANTED-White Spruce timber.
Write Box 1872, R. F. D., /, Oakland,
Md.-Advertisement TAT.
WANTED TO BUY-Pair of Elk or
Deer horns; must be large and cheap.
Communicate with Postoffice Box Sol,
Observation-Disclosures 8-2t*
ROOMS FOR RENT-Garden and
conveniences; also some land for farm
ing on shares. Apply 1874 Fourth street
or phone observation-disclosures 8-4*
STARTED WHITE LEGHORN
CHICKS for sale; also day-old pullet
chicks and straight run; all blood
tested. Grantsville Hatchery, Grants
vile, Md.-Advertisement 6-4t.
FOR SALE-Big egg strain White
Leghorn Baby Chicks. Boyd Paugh,
Route 2, Deer Park, Md.-Advertise-
ment SGT.
FOR RENT-Four room apart
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eph limbaugh, Hinebaugh Garage,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 7-tf.
CABIN LOTS FOR SALE-Free
access to safe swimming pool near
Swallow Falls. See and make your
choice. Write Box 1872, R. F. D., Oak
land, Md.-Advertisement Tat.
VALENCIA ORANGES-The best
of all when ripened on the trees. Prices
for April and May, S1.O0 per bushel of
so pounds oranges. Burt Wilson, Lees
burg, Observation-Disclosures 6-tf
FOR SALE-Filling Station, Store,
Dance Floor, Garages, l acre of Land,
8-room dwelling, on Rute AZ, in Elk
Garden, w. Va. See l. D. Junkins, on
the Observation-Disclosures 9-3t*
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27
Recreational Meeting Held BY
County Youth Club Friday

A recreational meeting was held by
the Garrett County Youth Club at the
camp site near Bittinger last Friday
evening, April 81. Dancing and table
games featured during the evening.
Ray burst, Oakland; Earl Guard,
Friendsville, were selected from the
group to represent them in the Gar
rett County Sportsmen's Association.
The next monthly meeting will also
be held at the camp site near Bittinger
when plans will be made for a three
day trip to Niagara Falls, June %, "a
and 25,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27
Garrett Baptist Field
Rev. William B. Orndorff, Paste

Rev. William B. Urndorff, Pastor
Ferndale, Route 219-Sunday school
at 1000 a. m. H. C. Hostetler, super
intendent. Divine worship and sermon
by the pastor, HOO a. m. Prayer SER
vice and Bible study, Wednesday even
ing.
Deep Greek Lake-Sunday school at
1000 a. m. Prayer service and Bible
study, Thursday evening. The Pastors
Aid will meet with Miss Irene Thayer
Thursday afternoon at 200 o'clock.
Loeb Lynn Heights-Sunday school
at 1000 a. m. Divine worship and SER
mon by the pastor, 1880 p. m. Prayer
service and Bible study, Tuesday even
ing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27
Birthday Congratulations To-

Mrs. Mary Busselle, Mountain Lake
Park, who is celebrating her ninety
third birthday anniversary today.
Miss Mary Louise Helbig, Oakland,
Monday, April "a.
Miss Margaret Rowan, Oakland,
Monday, May l.
w. A. Hauser, Oakland, Tuesday.
April 25.
D. L. Swartzentruber, Oakland, Fri
day, April %.
Noah S. Lichty, Oakland, Tuesday,
April 25
Mrs. W. E. Spoerlein, Gortner, Tues
day, April %.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27
Forest Wardens And CCC Men
FIGHT Fires On Bic Savage

Forest wardens, CCC men and other
men of the community battled forest
fires in the vicinity of Finzel, on Big
Savage Mountain in this county, on
Monday night when the blaze swept
over hundred acres of forest land.
The first was brought under control
the following morning.
Another fire along Piney Run on
Little Savage Mountain, burned over
seventy-five acres of timberland near
Frostburg's water supply dam. Three
other fires were reported burning in
Allegany county on Monday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-27
A second fire on Big Savage Tues
day burned over fifty acres.
Sunday Services In Community
Churches
Red House Lutheran Parish
Rev. A. K. Jones, Pastor

Miss Helen Nader, Cumberland, will
speak in St. Johns church next Sum
day morning at the church service.
Miss Nader is native of the Holy
Land and has received special training
in Christian education at Davis Me-
mortal Bible School, Binghampton, N.
Y, of which she is a graduate
Since next Sunday is the fifth Sun
day in the month, there will be 40
church services at the other churches
of the parish. Sunday schools and the
young folks meeting as usual.