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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
CITY COUNCIL CONTRACTS
FOR ADDITIONAL WELLS
Water Supply Has Not Kept
Pace With Demand, 1t Is
Stated BY Officials
MAY ADD 1 OR 2 WELLS

Sensing the need for an additional
water supply for the city's use, the
Mayor and Council met in special ses.
sion at the council chamber Monday
night and approved a plan for the
drilling of one or two additional wells
on the water farm at the northwest
edge of Oakland.
1t was pointed out at the meeting
that demands on the water supply
were increasing and that the supply
had not been increased since 1885
when deep we'll was drilled on the
property belonging to the town.
At that time an emergency arose
when the Mount Airy Canning Com
pany at Mountain Lake Park sunk q
deep we'll and evidently struck the
stream feeding one of the wells on
the local water farm, which failed sew
eral days after the canning company
began operations at its plant.
Aubrey Brenneman, local well dfl'
Ter will drill the additional one or two
wells and will start the work upor
completion of a contract he has at the
Swallow Falls CCC camp.
The only other business to come
before the special session was an ap-
plication for a permit to build two
story brick veneer residence on Sec
ond street. The application was made
by Frank A. Smouse and the permit
was granted.
Robert Lohr, formerly with a tea
company as a salesman, has resigned
his position with the firm and taker
a position with the Mayor and Town
Council and is associated with James
Compton in the water department O.
Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
SUE ROADS COMMISSION
Case Is DOcketed For Return
Of Public Roads Maintenance
To County Authorities
SECTION OF LAW is CITED

Through their attorneys, Horace P.
Whitworth and Walter c. Capper, Of
Allegany county, the three County
Commissioners have filed bill of
complaint and entered suit against the
State Roads Commission of Maryland,
for the return of the roads system of
the county to the County Commission
ers for repair and maintenance.
The bill of complaint stated in part
that a request for the return vf the
roads had been made to the State
Roads Commission and such request
having been refused, the Court is
asked to command the presence of the
Commission members or their attor-
neys, to appear and abide by the de-
crees that may be passed in the mat
ter.
The County Commissioners are
seeking the return of the roads for
maintenance through the correct in
depreciation of Chapter 766 of the
Acts of the Maryland Legislature,
session of 1899, and which they claim
has been incorrectly interpreted by the
State Roads Commission in Balti-
more. Section D of Chapter 1865, upon
which the Commissioners base their
contention in part, reads as follows;
eff any county desires to maintain
its own county road system in the
manner provided in subsection o.
hereof, it is permitted to do so, and If
such county desires so to do, it shall
be entitled to 500 of the funds allO
Gated to such county under the pro-
visions Of this section, the other fifty
per cent thereof to be expended by the
State Roads Commission for construc-
ton and/Or reconstruction of lateral
and farm-to-market roads q. .
The State Roads Commission has
fifteen days from the date the bill of
@e'aplaint was filed in which to an
swer, after which time the Court will
set the time Of hearing the matter.
G. Blaine Giessman, Cheston H.
Browning and Paul NJ. Friend COM
pose the Board Of County Commits
sioners, and Ezra B. Whitman, P.
Watson Webb and W. Frank Thomas
constitute the State Roads Commits
sion Of Maryland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
Farewell Party rendered DR.. and
Mrs. Patterson BY Methodists

DR.. and Mrs. Winfield S. Patterson,
who will leave Oakland on Friday
morning for Moundsville, W. Va.
where DR.. Patterson has been APP
pointed pastor Of the Methodist
church, were rendered a farewell re.
ception in the recreation room of the
local church on Monday evening, by
the various women's organizations OF
St. PauPs. A large number of mem
bers and friends of the church were
present to express regret at the de-
parture of Dr. and Mrs. Patterson
after their seven years residence here,
and to wish them success in their new
and larger field of effort.
The principal entertainment of the
evening consisted in school game
which took both adults and children
through the intricacies of kindergar-
ten paper-folding and on to advanced
drawing, with somewhat remarkable
results. A spelling bee and Singing
games" were included, and refresh
ments were served.
At the close of the evening Mrs
Charles F. White, on behalf of the
ladies of the church, presented Mrs,
Patterson with a crocheted bedspread
and F. A. Thayer, as spokesman for
the men, gave DR.. Patterson a loung-
ing-robe. Mrs. White and Mr.. Thaye1
in their remarks commented on the
fact that DR.. Patterson's transfer had
come as an unwelcome surprise to the
local church, but that the congregation
reioiced in the notable promotion Dr.
Patterson had received. They summed
up the achievements of his pastorate
here, notably the building of new
church and parsonage, and the estab-
lishment of a sound financial basis
and spoke of the unusually happy re-
lations which have existed between
pastor and people.
In responding, both Dr. and Mrs
Patterson said that they had come
to look upon Oakland and st. PauPs
as home, and were leaving, at the
direction of the Conference, with great
regret. DR.. Patterson then gave
printed copies of a portion of his
final sermon preached here to those
present.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
THEFT OF SEVERAL CARS
MAY BE SHORTLY SOLVED
CCC Youth Jailed For Vaca-
ti0ning In Borrowed Motors

An 18-year old CCC enrollee/ VIII
allegedly uses his leaves Of absence
from camp to swipe automobiles was
apprehended Tuesday by Constable
Harry limbaugh and brought to the
county jail here.
limbaugh nabbed the youth on the
Bittinger-Grantsville highway shortly
after he had wrecked his latest 'steal'
and said the youths name was Ralph
Cole, of Coraopolis, Pa, member OF
the Meadow Mountain CCC camp in
the Bittinger section.
According to the constable, Cole
has admitted the theft of at least
three cars from this section, and it is
believed that car stolen from the
Leighton Brothers garage early in
September last year was one Of them
The car was found near Uniontown
where it had been driven without
any water in the radiator and where
it had been abandoned after it be-
came so overheated that the motor
was ruined.
Cole is said to have admitted the
theft of another car in Uniontown on
September 10, last year, possibly on
his return trip to the camp at Meadow
Mountain after the Leighton theft.
and is said to have left the car in
the woods near the camp.
The youth, said to have spent II
months in the Pennsylvania Training
school for boys for larceny, will be
held for federal authorities for pos
sible prosecution under the Dyer ma
tional motor vehicle theft act, it was
stated
The youth was taken from the Oak
land jail Tuesday evening by Trooper
Storm and transferred to Cumberland,
but according to local authorities will
probably be returned to answer
charges of gasoline thefts committed
in the Bittinger section.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
SERIOUS ACCIDENT BEFALS
J. FRANK BROWNING
Precipitated From Loft and
Fracture of Vertebrae Results

Yesterday afternoon about $3.50, J.
Frank Browning, whose home is on
the east edge of Oakland, fell a dis
lance of about eight feet when he trod
upon the end of a loose board in loft
overhead. In falling Mr.. Browning ev-
identity struck upon his head, as upon
examination under an X-ray it was
found that the third servical vertebrae
in his neck had been fractured.
Mr.. Browning was Immediately
taken to hospital in Cumberland af-
ter the extent of his injuries had been
determined by DR.. N. l. Broadwater
and DR.. Eugene Baumgartner.
Mrs. Browning, accompanied by
Miss Zaidee Browning and Rev. FIR.
Sauer motored to Cumberland this
morning. The injured mans condition
is considered extremely serious, but
there is reasonable hope and assurance
Of his recovery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
PAGEANT AT BLACKW ATER
ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Community Affair Will be Staged
Following POstpOnement

The Community Pageant of Tucker
county, West Va, and the adjacent
territory, which was postponed last
Sunday on account Of threatening
weather conditions, will occur on Sun
day afternoon, September "a, at Black
water Canyon, according to announce
ment by Miss Sara B. Huff, who has
charge of the entertainment, which
will depict many historical happenings
in years gone by.
That part of the program in which
Garrett county people will be most
interested in will be staged by resi-
dents Of Kempton in the planting OF
the Fairfax Stone, the location of the
ancient marker being within sight Of
Kempton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
STATE HEALTH HEADS
WIFE is ACCIDENT VICTIM
DR.. Robert H. Riley was EnrOute
To Oakland From Cleveland

Mrs. Willie Harrie Riley, wife of Dr.
Robert H. Riley, director of the State
Department of Health, was killed in
an automobile collision on a Baltimore
street Friday.
Mrs. Riley and two other persons,
injured in the crash, were pulled from
the wreckage by police, spectators and
an ambulance crew. Mrs. Riley was
pronounced dead upon arrival at q
hospital.
Mrs. Frances Smalley, with whom
Mrs. Riley was riding, and Edward
Crookes, 10, driver of the other car
both suffered injuries about the head
and body.
The cars collided shortly before noon
at Aldorado and Groveland avenues
Inteflocking, the machines overturned
rolled across a sidewalk and smashed
into a tree.
DR.. Riley, driving on Route 40 from
Cleveland, o., where he had attended
a national convention of medical men
and who was on his way to Oakland
was advised of the accident before he
entered on Route PIG at Keyser Ridge
and he continued on to his home at Ca
louisville. DR.. Riley was scheduled t.
address a meeting Of teachers in Oak
land Friday afternoon.
In addition to her husband, Mrs
Riley is survived by two children
Robert, Jr., and Barbara.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
Harvest Home Service

The annual Harvest Home service
Of the Meadow Mountain church will
be held next Sunday, September "a
An all-day service has been planned
for the day.
The usual Sunday school hour will
be observed, beginning promptly at
1000 o'clock, followed by sermon to
be delivered by the pastor. Dinner will
be spread and served at the church.
The afternoon program will be
composed of songs, recitations and
drill, Bringing in the Sheaves," all
of which will be suitable to the autumn
festival.
The public is invited to come, bring
ing their dinner and spend the day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
Appointed Trustee In Bankrupt
cy Proceedings

Ernest Ray Jones, Oakland attor-
ney, has been appointed trustee in the
bankruptcy proceedings by the United
States Court for the District of Mary
land to take over and administer the
stock of goods, composed mainly of
women's wear in the Princess Shoppe,
located in the Mc1ntire building and
until application was made to the
Court for the appointment Of a trustee
by the owner, was operated by Ber-
nard Frank Sipes. Mr.. Jones has taken
possession of the goods and will prob
ably make sale Of the same within a
short time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21

John Ault has returned home from
Cumberland where he had visited his
daughters several days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18
TWO AUTO DEATHS
OVER WEEKEND
That Was Toll in This
Statesmen Died in
New England
BY United Pressl

Automobile accidents took the live.
OF two Connecticut residents ovel
the weekend.
Fourteen-year -old Daniel J. Deyer
Bridgeport. was killed by q hit-rur
car near his home.
Ruth Bardoza, 81; Waterbury, wa.
killed when the car In which she
and two persons were riding struck
pole at Bethany.
An epidemic OF automobile acct.
dents at Hartford last night filled
the emergency room at Hartford
hospital to capacity, and forced
authorities to place patients on cots
In the corridor.
Twenty accident victims were
brought In for treatment within the
space Of five hours, taking facilities
Relatives Of the injured causced
further congestion.
Deaths In New England
Boston, Dec. 1S- (UP)--Seven
highway fatalities increased New
highlands weekend toll Of violent
deaths to 10.
Martin Burns, 80, and his brother
Arthur, %, both Of Maiden, were
killed and two other men injured
critically when skid on wet Chelsea
Bridge caused two cars TO collide
Continued on Page a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18
Several City Boards to
Have Their Last Session
This Week
VALEDICTORTES FOR
MANY OF MEMBERS
Six Members OF Present
Board Of Education Will
Not Be Back

Final meetings this week
Of several city boards will
mark the retirement from
public life, at least tempo
ralily, Of a number Of
members, some Of whom
have been members Of the
various boards for many
years. The changes will af-
feet appointive as well as
elective boards, since Mayor
elect Vincent A. Scully Is
expected to make sweeping changes
In the personnel Of boards whose
members he can appoint.
CINE or two boards will delay their
final adjournment until late In the
year. These win include the board
OF aldermen and board Of finance,
who must authorize necessary last
minute transfers OF funds before
the year ends. Both boards will
probably hold their final meetings
late next week.
Education Board Changes
The board OF education, whose
nine members are elected, meets for
the last time during the biennium
this afternoon. It will be the last
meeting for Chairman John J..
Walsh, member for the past 20
years, Commissioners Patrick 8.
Bergin, Martin Tehan, Louis Il.
Bria, Nathan Freedman and Harry
@. Post. Present members who will
remain on the board are Mrs.
Emma Lowell and John J. Kearney,
Republicans and Raymond Stone.
Democrat.
New Police, Fire Boards
Police and fire boards will hold
their last meetings Wednesday aft
ernoon. Few OF the present mem.
bers are expected TO be reappointed
and there Is O strong possibility
that al present commissioners but
one will be dropped.
Police board members are Patrick
Cronan. Michael J. Noonan, Maurice
Sweeney, Wendell Cross, Edward
Downs, Frank varanelli, and w. X.
Simpson.
Fire board members are Attorney
Frank Healey, who may be named
for another term, Alderman Burton
Walker. Patrick Sullivan, w. @.
CONTINUED on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18

the Uruguayan time limit and used
also the phrase fragrant violation.
1t was understood that the Uru.
guayan government planned TO hold
the four German seamen 50 that
they could testify In O thorough
investigation OF the whole incident,
The seamen, according TO reports,
were In o launch near the Admiral
Graf Spec when II blew up and were
charged with having detonated the
explosives which sank the ship. OF
Is understood that the .detonation
had been effected from the launch,
presumably by electricity.
Black smoke still rose In pillows
from the flame twisted wreckage OF
the Admiral Graf Spec off Monte.
video this morning. more than ~
hours after the ship was blown up
at 1850 p. rip $3.50 p. m. EST yes.
terday.
Thousands remained at the water
front watching the superstructure,
which showed above the water,
shrouded In the smoke. The ship was
settling down into the mud on which
II rested ct the river bottom.
A Uruguayan official tug and two
small Argentine boats were anchor.
ed a mile away. To approach closer
would have been 10 risk disaster be-
cause Of the intermittent explosions
(Continued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18
Local Woman Is Dead,
14Hurt Over Weekend
Ruth Barboza, 20 Of 8lz North Main Street Killed
Last Night in Bethany Accident-Auto
Crashes Injure Many Others

A young woman Is dead and IL
persons are suffering from injuries
as O result OF week end automobile
accidents and Vicinity
Dead: Ruth Barboza, 20, OF 8i2
North Main street, killed last night
In o Bethany accident.
Injured: Miss Carrie Ellis, 10, OF
lat North Elm street, and Adolph
Clark, "a, Of 46 Orange street, also
In Bethany accident.
Valentino Fiorio, 40, OF 10 Bank
street. struck on Southmayd road,
Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Ruth LaVallee, OF 80 Alma
street, injured In an accident on
Meriden road Friday night.
Charles Parks, OF Barker terrace,
Wolcott, and Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert
Parks, and their sons, Lloyd and
Roger, all Of the same address,, In
jured In q crash on the Waterbury,
Bristol road yesterday.
DR.. Rene w. Messier, Of 94 Alma
street, and Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
DeZinno, OF 1918 West Main street,
injured yesterday In a skid on Route
IL, west Of Lake Quassapaug.
Miss Barboza was killed last night
when the automobile In which she
was riding struck two telephone
poles alongside the Litchfield turn
pike on route SO In Bethany. Miss
Continued on Page %
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18
BRITISH U-BOAT
SINKS CRUISER
Six German DestrOyers
Guard Vessel; Nazis Sink
Four British Ships
BY HENRY T. GORRELL
Hf..lAaA n.Aa- GAAm NA~-aa-A.sd

London, Dec. 1e-(UP)-Britons
rejoicing at the death OF the Ger
man pocket battleship Admiral Graf
Spec, were informed officially to-
day that o British submarine had
sunk one Of Germanys six cruisers.
A laconic admiralty announce
ment indicated that the submarine,
the Little Ursula, had attacked q
6,000-ton German cruiser despite
Its protective Gordon Of six German
destroyers, and torpedoed 1t.
1t had been announced last
Thursday that a British submarine,
after sighting the German liner
Bremen, had sunk German sub
marine and torpedoed another Ger
man cruiser.
Together the announcements
meant that Germany had lost not
only one Of its three pocket battle
ships but had lost one, and suffered
material damage to at least an
other, of its six cruisers believed to
be in actual service. Nine other
cruisers are building.
Aside from these, Germanys only
large ships are the 5000 tons bat
tleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
Brief Communique
A brief admiralty communique
said today, as Londoners were read
ing the dispatches Of the Graf
Specs scuttling off Montevideo:
THE secretary of the admiralty
announces that his majesty's SUBJ
marine Ursula reports she sank one
of the Koln class cruisers at the
mouth Of the Elbe Thursday the
l4th of December. The cruiser was
screened by six German destroyers."
Soon afterward 1t was made
known that the German steamship
Antiochia, 3.106 tons. had been scut-
tued by its crew in the North Attain
tic last month while being pursued
by q British warship. It had left st.
Michael's, Azores Islands, Nov. II.
such ships as this had served as
supply ships to the Admiral Graf
Spec and other German raiders.
Cruisers OF the Koln or Koenigs-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18
JAPAN MOVESTO
PLACATE U. 5.

Tokyo, Dec. 18.-Up).-Japan
moved today TO placate American
official and private opinion that the
Yangtze river In China would be
reopened to international trade. It
was regarded as part Of an effort
to forestall expiration Of the AM
erican-Japanese commercial accord
next month.
During a 90 minute conference
with United States Ambassador
Joseph G. Grew Foreign Miniser Ad-
miral Kichisaburo Nomura promised
to reopen the main trade artery Of
China. a step long demanded by the
United States.
The conference, Nomura's third
with Grew since he returned from
consultations In Washington, was
described as most conciliatory."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18

Commander Just Escaped
It was understood that Captain
Hans Langsdorff, commander OF the
Graf Spec, himself missed arrest
only narrowly. The Uruguayan Of
fetal tug Huracan intercepted an
Argentine tug on which he was leav-
ing the scene for Buenos Aires, and
permitted the launch 10 proceed only
after exchanging radio messages
with marine headquarters. Head
quarters said that Langsdorff should
e parmltted "a 80 agheEe he liked
Terse Reply 10 Uruguay
UruguQy's action In arresting the
four Admiral Graf Spec seamen
came like O tacit reply 10 an Of
fetal German protest that the ship
had not been given sufficient time
to make necessary repairs. German
Minister Otto Langmann. II was
learned, had handed Foreign Minis
ter Albert GUAM O note last night
In which he said: II protest TO the
Uruguayan government against O
fragrant violation Of international
law and useage In the denial to
q damaged battleship the time EVIL
IDENTIFY necessary In such circuin-
condition"
Held Men TO Testify
Capt. Langsdorff, the Admiral
Graf Specs commander, In q long
letter to Langmann, had protested
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18
OFFICE HOLDER
DIES YESTERDAY

Cochituate, Mass. Dec. Is =
(UP)-Funeral services will be held
tomorrow for former District kttor-
ney General Warren L. Bishop. 49,
Of Middlesex county who died at
his home yesterday Of q stomach
cancer.
Services will be at the Cochituate
Methodist Episcopal church with
the Rev. Albert 3. Anderson otficiat-
ing.
Bishop, q World War veteran, had
held public once for a years. serv-
Ing IS town clerk. moderator and
selectman Of Wayland and later as
assistant district attorney for eight
years and Is district attorney xor
eight years. s..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18
GERMANY MAKES
BITTER PROTEST
Uruguay Did Not Give Nazi
Battleship Time to Make
All Repairs
by FREDERICK c. oECHsNER

by FREDERICK G. .OECHsNER
UNITED Press staff Correspondent
Berlin, Dec. 1s-(UP)-Germany
has protested TO Uruguay that In
sufficient time was permitted to
make the pocket battleship Admiral
Graf Spec seaworthy, the official
news agency announced today.
The protest, made by German
minister Otto Langmann at Monte
video, was made public In the form
Of dispatch from Montevideo.
Soon after the Graf Spec was
blown UP last night, the German
legation at Montevideo had made
public a protesting letter which
Capt. Hans Langsdorff, OF the Graf
Spec, had sent to the German Min
lister before he boarded his ship for
Its final six mile cruise down the
Montevideo channel to the river
plate estuary.
It had been made known officially
that Adolf Hitler himself had Or
dered the Admiral Graf Spec scut-
CONTINUED on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-18
SOVIETS STRIKE
HARD in NORTH
Furious Attacks With Ar.
tillery, Planes, Infantry,
Break Finnish Lines

Svanvik, Norwegian Finnish Bor-
der, Dec. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. opened
a furious attack with airplanes, ar
tillery and infantry in the far north
today and broke through the Finnish
lines opposite the Norwegian town
Of Bofoss at noon, 1t was reported.
The fighting could be seen from
the border here. The Russians were
still blasting their way through the
important Finnish Paskamo line
The or twelve Russian airplanes
could be seen over the battlefield
Artillery was tearing UP the earth
The scene was too far from the Nor
wegian border for watchers to tell
the exact status Of the battle, but II
was the most violent to date In this
region.
one border report said the Rus
slams were already at Hyanjarvi
nine miles from the southernmost
Norwegian point on this fingerlike
frontier projection.
Norway Keeps Vigil
Norwegian watchers, keeping 9
constant vigil. could see some Of the
devastation. Saturday they saw 9
min field explod while Russians were
passing q tiny settlement en- route to
salmijaervi. The explosion could b
heard here and watchrs said they hac
seen the bodies Of Russians blown
into the air. After few minutes
they said, the Russian commander
barked orders and the march contin.
ued through the shambles.
Another such incident was report
Cd from Petsano. II was said thai
when che Russians reentered the