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Evening star., 1939-09-08
Sweeping German Advance
Stalls as Poles Resist
Nczi's Coins for Day Are Smallest
Since Opening of UndecIored War

Poles when they claimed to have
begun drawing German reinforce
ments into the northern flank OF
the joint French-German border.
The only real hope Of British
French assistance to Poland in the
immediate future, military authori-
ties here feel, is in just this process
of making things so hot along the
Western front that Reichsfuehrer
Hitler will find it necessary to with
draw troops from Poland to bolster
his western defenses.
Meeting Main Battle Line.
If the German eastern army can
be weakened by transfers to the
western front while the Poles man
their shortened main defense lines
behind rivers swollen by the an
nual fall rains, there is growing
hope that the Nazi drive may be
brought to a standstill, enabling
the Polish army to dig in for the
winter. Herein, it is held, lies the
chief hope today for saving the
Polish nation, reborn in 1918 under
terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
There is little doubt that the
Germans now are coming into con-
tact with Polish battle lines in front
of their main lines of resistance,
according to the information re-
ceived here. These main lines are
behind the Vistula River, running
generally southeast from Warsaw.
with the San River, tributary OF
the Vistula, forming the southern
flank and the Bug River, running
into the Vistula near Warsaw from
the northeast, as the northern flank.
The German advance from East
Prussia was held almost stationary
during the last 36 hours on a line
parallel with the Bug River and
about 20 miles to the north, or
more than 80 miles north of War
saw. The Germans likewise have
been held to only small gains along
their 150-mile front from the old
Czecho- -Slovakian border northward
Evening star., 1939-09-08

fenses, however, is believed the
reason for the deliberate action Of
the Polish army in Withdrawing to
previously prepared positions be-
hind the Vistula, which forms the
first real natural defense line.
Hopes of the Poles for holding
the industrial heart of the nation
in the southwest corner around
Krakow were dealt a death blow
when the Nazis overran Slovakia
and gained for themselves gateWays
through the passes of the Car
pathians to the Polish f1anks in
that area.
Evening star., 1939-09-08
Internment Is Asked
For Nozis in Costu Ricu

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Sept. B.
The German colony presented q
petition to the government yester-
day asking that about $50 members
OF crews and passengers of German
steamships anchored at Punta
Arenas be allowed internment in
Costa Rica.
Among the German passengers af-
fected by the tieup of German ships
at Punta Arenas are a number of
Jewish refugees. These would be
excluded from Costa Rica under a
decree limiting immigration of
refugees.
Evening star., 1939-09-08
Youth Rides as Lady Godivo

Because no girl applied for the
job of playing Lady Godiva in the
carnival procession in Sheffield, Eng
land, this year, Dick Lee, a young
tradesman, was decked out in yards
of the usual finery and a mass of
beautiful curls and played the part.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19
TURBINE LOCOMOTIVE

1t is big news when a steam turbine
engine, with an electric drive, like
those in the most modern ocean steam
ships is mounted in a railway locomo-
tive. Here is the most impressive step
so far in the moderinzation of Ameri-
can railroads.
The engine built in Erie, Pa, and
recently given its first trial, is de-
scribed as shaped like a giant pro-
iectile." 1t develops 5000 horsepower,
can go 1875 miles an hour, and can haul
passenger train from coast to coast
"on a bathtub full of water" 1t need
only stop briefly every 700 miles or so
for filling of fuel oil, and could carry
all the fuel needed for a 3,000-mile trip
if it were worth while to haul the ex-
ira weight. In such a case, that in
credible steed might literally run from
New York to San Francisco without a
stop.
The turbine type of power plant
avoids vibration, has few moving parts
and saves much weight in metal. 1t
needs little water because it can use
the same water over and over. The
power from the steam turbine is
turned into electric energy and ap-
piled directly to motors geared to the
driving wheels. Efficiency is said to be
so great that it uses only half as much
fuel as an ordinary modern locomotive.
1t looks like the Locomotive of the
Future, and the biggest competitor Of
the automobile that has yet appeared.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19
RAILROADS.&C.. l
TAXPAYER

Every American citizen has direct
financial stake in the railroad industry
because of the tremendous taxes it
pays-taxes that would have to be
made up by heavier levies on all other
businesses and individuals, if the rail
roads were socialized.
In 1897, all the revenue received dur
ing 20 average operating days went to
the tax collector-as against p days
in 1927.
For every dollar the railroads paid
their owners in dividends in 1887, they
paid S194 in taxes-as against Ct
cents in 1917.
For every employee in 1887, they paid
$292.16 in taxes, as against $123.45
in 1917.
The taxes paid by the railroads
amount to more than the Federal in
come taxes paid by the residents OF
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and all the
states West of the Mississippi River.
The insolvency of number of rail
roads and the economic dangers facing
the industry as a whole, have justly
worried many local units of govern
ment. Many a county literally lives
almoste entirely on the tax revenue re-
ceived from a railroad. And the rail-
roads are among the chief supporters
of school districts. Their school taxes
alone come to more than S100,OOO,O00
year-enough to educate 100000
children. Destroy the railroads, or
make them tax-eXempt as they would
be under government ownership, and
our educational system would receive
terrific financial blow.
Taxes paid constitute just one of the
tremendous economic contributions
made to all America by this essential
industry! It's no wonder that econo-
mists, the press, government officials
and other thinking people are urging
that legislation to help the rails regain
their economic feet, be framed imme-
diately by Congress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19
IN DAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

Cornelius Johnson, residing between
Oakland and Sang Run, brought to
Oakland the skin of a tremendous
wildcat, which he had trapped. The
animal was caught by the feet.
Fifty-four subscribers were added
to The Republican list in one day.
A donation of groceries, provisions,
etc, along with an overcoat for the
pastor and an onyx table for his wife,
was rendered to Rev. R. B. Ward at
the Methodist church. A large number
of his parishioners were present.
Voters in the western end of Ale
gany county were Directing to the new
boundary line by which they were
moved into Garrett county. In Ale
gany county the difference in the tax
rates stirred some of the residents
to the point of taking the matter into
court. The voters, they said, wanted
to remain Alleganians. This statement
was disputed by one who helped lay
the line, saying only one taxpayer had
become displeased
Tax receipts in the State were
$2,095, 314.22. The tax basis of the
State was 5000 ,326096.
A story from the Parsons Advocate
said J. Ed. Kildow, editor of the Bev-
erly Enterprise, and also a preacher,
made a proposition to marry any COLI
pie for three pounds of ginseng. He
had several calls. Wanting some gro
ceries, he hied himself to the nearest
groceryman. Upon examination of his
deposit" he found out it was poke
root. The preacher-editor then fell
back on the old reliable coon skin.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Nearly one thousand hunting licen-
ses were issued during the year 1918,
according to report of the Conserva-
ton Commission.
Seven states completed ratification
of the prohibition constitutional
amendment, bringing the number TAX
ing such action to 80. The number nee
essary for ratification was Sc.
The coal market was overstocked
consumption falling off since the close
of the war and many mines in this sec
ton ceased operations or were run
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19

Who would be under the tree to get
the appointment plums of Democratic
Governor O'Conor, if the present
County Commissioners could be dis
credited and forced from office? Per-
haps W. R. Browning and William
Miller, who opened up the barrage at
the public meeting in December.
Misrepresentation No. 3, which real
ly isn't so important, except that it
shows that they misrepresented when
they could have told the truth just
as easily.
The Democrat said the Commission
ers were to "give the Committee an
answer as to further action they pro
posed to take in the matter on Friday"
Actually the Committee wanted them
to agree to Friday, but the Commits
sioners wanted time to ponder the
question and according to their own
statements they did not promise to
give their decision Friday, but on
Monday, at a regular meeting of the
Board at which time they did.
Just to prove our own point, The
Republican submitted the story that
appeared last week, to both the Com
missioners and member of the tax
payers committee, to see that the
statements made at the meeting were
correctly stated and based on actual
facts. Both sides agreed that the
facts were correctly stated.
So, up to the present, those are the
facts. There are number of opinions,
but one mans opinion is as good as
another's.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19

ming half time.
Herman Creutzburg advertised for
sale his entire stock of general mer-
chandise and also his real estate on
Alder street. Mr.. Creutzburg planned
to retire from business on account Of
failing health.
Ice was being harvested from the
lake at Mountain Lake Park, and also
from Helbig's lake, near town. The
ice was from five to eight inches in
thickness.
A movement for memorial to sol
diers gathered force as a meeting of
delegates from every district in the
county was called. Letters by the hun
bred had been received favoring the
memorial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19
BACK TO SANITY AND
COMMON SENSE

Jack Houston, recently reelected to
Congress from the Wichita, Kansas,
district by the small majority of but
467, in Topeka State Journal inter-
view, says:
81 believe l know just what the
voters were driving at and | intend to
give heed to their mandate. They are
against the New Deal. They are
against borrowing and spending and
they are against court packing and the
agricultural adjustment act and the
wage-hour bill, the federal labor board
and all the other things that have
groups of interests. No one thing did
it. AS interpret the vote, they were
registering a protest against the New
Deal generally"
If the truth was known there are a
great many reelected Democrats by
reduced majorities, formerly New
Dealers and rubber stamp men, who
secretly entertain the same views as
Houston and when the time comes will
give heed to the peoples mandate. Fed
up on New Deal nonsense and pre-
tense, such Democrats will now begin
to study their party's platform instead
of falling for fireside chats and chas-
ing rainbows. They will see the sol
emn pledge to "reduce the cost of gov
eminent Is per cent" and vote against
the profigate waste and expenditures
of the peoples tax moneys.
The New Deal is on the skids and
they know it. In 1910 they will be
running as rapidly away from it as
they ran for it in 1886.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19
Birthday Congratulations To-

Miss Beatrice Hauser, Oakland,
Friday, January 10.
Mrs. Carl w. Frazee, Oakland, We'd
nesday, January 25.
Charles I. Wright, McHenry, We'd
nesday, January rs. rs
Mrs. Carl Clark, Homewood, Pa,
Thursday, January 26.
Miss Katie Peck, near Deer Park,
Thursday, January &c.
William Chisholm, Deer Park, Tues
day, January "a.
Miss Lydia Peck, near Deer Park,
Tuesday, January II.
Earl Lee burst, Oakland, Tuesday,
January II.
Harry Deal, McHenry, Saturday
January 21.
Irwin Field, Oakland, Saturday
January Ia.
Miss Bridget Maroney, Oakland
Friday, January 6.
Miss Grace Falkenstein, Oakland
Wednesday, January rs.
Miss BERTHE Cleveland, Oakland
Monday, January Is.
Phillis Johnson, Oakland, Tuesday,
January II.
Joan Helbig, Richmond, Va, Tues
day, January II.
Martha Whorton, Oakland, Tuesday,
January II. ... 70
Walter Hardesty, Oakland, Thurs
day, January 10. 49,. n
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19

WITH THE
LOBBYISTS
Annapolis, January IS, 1889


With the Inauguration of Governor
Herbert R. O'Connor on Wednesday
and the converting of the new legisla-
ture, your columnist once more dons
his dark glasses and puts on the long
white beard and becomes the shadow
of the legislators from all parts of
the state. AS special feature of The
Republican we shall dwell this year
with the Garrett County delegation in
particular and generalize on the i'm
portant issues which will come before
the House and the Senate. We shall
attempt to give previews of coming
legislation and our opinions will at
all times be unbiased.
Organization and the appointment
of committees took up all the time of
the lawmakers during the first session
and as usual the Garrett County dele
cation played little part in the pro-
ceedings. All of the county represen-
tatives have been placed on commit
tees and these appointments will ap-
pear next week.
Although Governor OConnor has
warned against the usual dilly-dally
ing at the State House it is hard to
believe that the boys will not revert
to the bi-annual beating around the
mulberry bush for the first several
weeks of the session. The new Cover
nor apparently means business but he
must remember that down through the
ages Governors of the Free State have
grown grey trying to whip the play
boys of the legislature into great
deliberative body. Perhaps he will
leave this important and difficult task
to his able and experienced advisers,
Curran and Bruce-at any rate it's
a headache for someone.
Sweeping reorganization of State
government, including the abolition
of ten major state departments was
advocated recently in the report of
the commission headed by DR.. Isiah
Bowman. DR.. Bowman is president of
Johns Hopkins University.
Unlike the findings of most COM
missions, the recommendations Of the
Bowman report are now being drafted
into bills which will in due time be
presented to the legislature for ap-
prevail. Governor O'Connor has ex-
pressed his unqualified approval of the
report.
Other important measures will be
discussed with the presentation of the
new budget which will call for an in
crease of perhaps ten million dollars
/ in the state expenditures. New taxes
will naturally be necessary and the
most prominent increase will be in
the income tax which is almost GER
tain to be doubled.
! The matter of jury service for wo-
men is being urged by womens' or
CARNATIONS all over the state and
when the bill is presented by Miss
Doub of Allegany county it is our
guess that it will be passed without
serious opposition.
Of particular interest to Garrett
county is the question of county roads.
At this point it is difficult to determine
the trend but we shall endeavor to
keep the readers of The Republican
informed on this and other problems
which are of definite Importance to
the county and the state.
Until next weeks deadline your
columnist returns to the scene of bat
tie to keep his eyes and ears open
and to keep you informed as to the
trend at Annapolis.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19
tire Yom er1v Mxnxw n
FORD CAR
wfI/ ...
HYDRAULIC
BRAKES?

NO? Then climb into any 1889 model slip that satin
smooth 8cylinder engine into high and head for a
traffic light You've got real thrill coming!
OK green :. amber RED! Just touch the
pedal. 1t goes down evenly, easily-under full con-
troll all the way. You stop smoothly, swiftly, surely
from any speed in straight line, without swerve
sideslip
Those things you feel underfoot. Just as i'm
portant the things you seldom see-the husky
construction of the hydraulic systematic big brake
drums and the large lining areas that contribute so
much to fast stops and long life.
Grand new brakes are only one reason why all
Americas cheering the 1889 Ford cars Some of the
others listed below. Read them there and prove
them for yourself the open road Seeing is believ-
ing-and lot of fun!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19
TOP VALUE FORD FEATUREs

Style leadership - The luxury
car in the low-price field.
V-fYPe s-eYIinder engines CYL
inders give smoothness. Small
cylinders give economy.
TripIe-eushioned comforf-New
flexible roll edge seat cush-
ions, soft transverse springs,
double-acting hydraulic shock
absorbers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19

Hydraulic brakes - Easy-acting
quick, straight stops.
Stabilized ehGssis-No front-end
bobbing or dipping. Level
starts, level stops, level ride.
Scientific soundproofing-
Noises hushed for quiet ride.
Low prices - Advertised prices
include many items of desir-
able equipment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-19

Entered at the Postoffice at Oakland,
Md, as second-class mail matter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-11
Prominent Mine
 Operator Visits

Gen. A. D. McRae, prominent mine operator well known through the North, arrived on the steamer Prince George last night on his way to the Interior.
 Gen. McRae will fly to Fairbanks with Pacific Alaska Airways tomor- row and make hurried trip to his dredge operations at Cold Creek and Woodchopper Creek in the upper Yukon river country.
 He will also visit a quartz prop erty in the Goodpaster area out of Fairbanks that he is developing. Ex- tent of the new quartz development, Gen. McRae said he could not say, with development work in it's early stages, bulldozer now being used to strip overburden preparatory to drilling.
 A guest at the Gastineau Hotel Gen. McRae will visit his many Ju- neau friends until the plane leaves tomorrow. He will not return through J u n u, planning to fly south to Vancouver. from Dawson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-11

few of the popular about Alaska cleared up in another brief preliminary section, before Colby gets down to some excellent writing in chapter en- titled Alaska Comes of Age" This chapter should prove most interesting to residents of the Territory Here samples:
 Tn Alaska, north of time, two utterly dissimilar eras dwell together at the moment. world of streamlned industrial techniques exists side by side with ancient cultures in country so old as to be brand new, where the physical process of creation is still going Many times day scenes illustrate this double time-world plane circles down and comes to rest beside skin kayak its design unchanged for thousand years A Thlnget Indian carves his family tree" with adze on a forty-foot totem pole but works "on the line" in a cannery buzzng with the best of modern automatic machinery. Along the benchands near Fairbanks great gold dredges nuzze into the gravel and disturb the bones of dinosaurs trapped and buried here millions of years ago-mon- sters strikingly resembling the dredges in size and shape.
 Every honest person, who penetrates Glacier Bay, or looks up at the face of Columbia Glacier gazes into the heart of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes or wonders at the wreathed summit of Smoking Moses or sees for the first time the double silver summit of Mt Mckinley still sunlt at ten-thirty at night, periences fear That fear is something more than at size It is the of two worlds of time coexistent-the knowledge that five thousand years of civilization are day in the life of such land this. It is the sudden realization that while Jere- miahs howl in the streets of capitals lamenting the imminent fall of western civilization here the Great Land, not hundred hours travelling time from great cities it is the morning and the evening of the first day"
 In the preparation of this volume, information was solicited from every town village and post office in Alaska, and than 100 excellent photographs for the book gathered from Alaska governmental and private agencies. Much was made of official government sources and the guide read, in script and proof by interested government officials Thus, in sense, this book is an official guide But there is nothing official" in the way is written it is full of racy comment tall tales and brand of humor that is peculiarly Alaskas own.
 You'll want to read it. and you'll enjoy it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-11
STAR MINES TO
 PLAY BALLGAME
 ON ISLAND LOT
Battle for Blood Is Sthed- uIed in Douglas To-
 morrow Night

It may be a bloody contest (play- CTS say it wilD, but it will certainly be an All-Star aggregation when an Alaska Juneau surface crew base ball team meets Juneau pickup squad tomorrow evening in Doug- las.
 Claude Erskine, Douglas hurler issued challenge, then rallied about him, Alaska Juneau surface work CTS Grant, Snow. Schmitz, Peterson Manning, Koshak, Roller, Andrews and a few others unknown.
 Answering the challenge, Bud Eos ter, Elks hot corner man and relief pitcher, summoned some of the best that remained; Kimball, Hautala Haglund, Marquardt, Waldron, Ad- dleman, Turner, Bell, Blake, Jensen Gribble, McCay, and possibly more
 The game will start at o'clock tomorrow evening with beer bust to be paid for by the losers, and in the fifth inning, the pitcher that is behind, will don dark glasses pick up a cane, and with a tin cur make the rounds of spectators for the admissions.
 Bob Kimball will hurl for the pick ups, and Erskine will toss for the Alaska Juneau challengers.
 The umpires will carry cutlasses and six guns.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-11
Initiation Tonight;
 Moose Candidates

G. E. Almquist, Dictator of Juneau Lodge LOOM, announced today that at the regular meeting of the order to be held tonight at O. clock at the LOOP. Hall, at Second and Franklin, large class of can didates will be initiated into the order. This will be the next to the last class to be initiated during the current membership drive. The fi- nal initiation will be held August 18 It is expected that well over a hun dred new members will have been acquired by the end of the member ship campaign.
 Final plans for the picnic to be held at Douglas next Sunday will be announced by the picnic committee headed by Ed Giovanetti.
 After the regular meeting ban quet and special entertainment has