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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Two Hundred Attend
Woodmen Celebration

w. 0. w. Camp No. II, Crellin, with
more than two hundred in attendance
from Deer Park, Mt. Lake Park, Nc
Henry, Friendsville and Terra Alta,
celebrated their 50th anniversary last
Thursday evening, June 6, at 7:45, in
the Crellin Hall.
Sovereign Spencer Graham, field
representative, was in charge of the
program. Those present listened to a
radio address by national president
Dee E. Bradshaw, after which the
group with the Degree Team, led by
Capt. James C. Forman, pledged their
allegiance to the flag.
Rev. Frank Hockenberry, Corinth,
w. Va, delivered the address. The
names of members in the local and
visiting camps written during the
present campaign were read and
greeted with camp honors. Closing
remarks regarding local camps and
their fellowship with others, were
given by Sovereign Homer Shaffer,
of the Crellin camp.
Rev. c. w. Fraker, McHenry, who
was to have had a prominent part in
the program, was unable to attend on
account Of illness. Refreshments We're
served by the Ladies Aid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Brothers Found Guilty
Of Setting Woods Fires

Two Bloomington brothers found
guilty Of setting forest fires on Back
bone mountain received six months
suspended sentences, H. C. Bucking-
ham, district forester, announced last
Friday.
The two men, Arnie and Adam
Rhodes, were tried before Magistrate
Charles F. White in Oakland, and were
prosecuted by States Attorney Neil
C. Fraley.
According to Buckingham, Adam
Rhodes was arrested by Patrolman
George Wilt, of Kitzmiller, after a
long chase. Arnie Rhodes was appre-
hended later by George Browning, fire
patrol warden of Garrett county, and
Carl Lohr, superintendent of the Po-
tomac Forest.
The court strenuously admonished
the two defendants in passing SEN
tence. Both men pleaded not guilty.
Buckingham said a number of fires
have been started in the vicinity of
Backbone mountain this year, but none
since the arrest of the Rhodes brothers
late in May, he said.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Sportsmen To Discuss
Legislative Program
Delegates from Organizations to
Gather At Cumberland Sunday

Authorized delegates from sports
mems clubs in the three Western
Maryland counties will gather at a
meeting of the Western Maryland Out
door Life Federation at the Central
Y. M. c. A., Cumberland, on Sunday,
June 16, at 200 o'clock to hear the
legislation program that has been
proposed and formulated from recon-
mendations of various organizations,
discussed.
For the past four months individual
clubs have submitted recommends
lions in connection with the Develop
ment of legislative program for the
ensuing year. The Maryland General
Assembly will meet in January, 1941,
and it is planned to have sound pro-
gram of proposed fish and game legis-
lated with united backing.
The Federation is composed of APP
proXimately forty-fve sportsmen's or
CARNATIONS. There are no dues, fee;
or assessments, and j. Wesley Kelley.
executive secretary, emphasized that
it was non-profit cooperative group.
A number of Garrett county clubs
are planning to send delegates to the
meeting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
County Game Wardens
Perfect Organization

The non-salaried game wardens of
Garrett county met at the Railey
Stone Tavern, at Deep Creek Lake,
for the purpose of organizing. Officers
elected were: Wiley yelling, Mt. Lake
Park, president; Raymond Houck, of
Oakland, president; Daniel w.
Hershberger, Grantsville, secretary.
Following the election of officers, the
group decided to adopt the bylaws of
the Allegany County Game Warden's
Association. The purpose of the or
ganization is to furnish adequate pro-
lection to fish and game in accordance
with the conservation laws of Mary
land and to instill the idea of more
protection in the minds of all citizens.
The wardens of Allegany county,
who organized some time ago, were
the originators of the idea and the
plan was found to be so successful
that several other counties in the
state have since followed with
similar organization.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
State Income Tax Law
Held Constitutional
Maryland Court of Appeals Up
held Law Yesterday at
Annapolis

The Maryland Court of Appeals
unanimously upheld the constitution
ality of the State Income Tax law
yesterday at Annapolis.
Although one minor section of the
1889 law was ruled invalid the Appel
late court sustained the bulk of the
act passed by the last legislature to
raise approximately $8,000,000 and
balance the budget.
The invalidated section-223C-
provides that no taxes under the pro-
visions of ground rent lease shall be
collected from the lessee by the lessor.
Judge Walter 7. Mitchell wrote the
opinion holding that this section vio-
lated Article l, section 10 of the Fed
eral constitution because it impairs
the obligation of contract between
lessee and lessor.
Regardless of the unconstitutional
section, the levy on ground rents must
be paid.
The decision removed all barriers
to the collection of the tax, which has
evoked protests from taxpayers. Gov
ernor O'Conor has announced he
would ask the Legislature to amend
the levy to reduce the burden on per-
sons in the lower income brackets.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Mrs. ]. Haig Jackson
Dies This Morning

Mrs. Gwendolyn Mae Hardman
Jackson, 26, wife of John Haig Jack
son, of Oakland, died at 4 O'Clock
this morning in Memorial hospital,
Cumberland, as the result of double
pneumonia and blood poisoning. She
had been patient there since Satur-
day, June l.
The deceased was a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. R. Hartman, of
Spencer, W. Va. She married Haig
Jackson, manager of his fathers store
in Oakland, on September l, 1888,
and had resided in Oakland since May,
1889.
She is survived by hey husband and
an infant daughter, Janet Haig, her
parents, and also two sisters and one
brother, Anna N. Hartman, Helen
Hartman and Charles Hartman. all
of Spencer.
The remains will be taken this even
ing to the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
W. Jackson, in Homecoming, and a
short service will be held there Friday
at II o'clock noon, with Rev. David
G. Trimble, rector of St. Matthew's
Episcopal church, Oakland, in charge.
Funeral services will be held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock in Spencer,
with interment in the cemetery there.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
FRIENDSVILLE
RECOGNIZED AT
RAIL HEARING
Examiner Says Matter Of Rail
Abandonment Apparently Major
Importance To Public Service
HEARING HELDY YESTERDAY

A committee from Friendsville de-
scended yesterday upon the Interstate
Commerce Commission in Washington
to protest strong against proposed
abandonment of its railroad branch
line.
Two moves have been taken to cut
away the railroad connection. First
the army engineers have proposed
flood control dam on the headwaters
of the Youghiogheny river which
would flood a large part of the exist
ing line. Second, the Baltimore and
Ohio has proposed abandonment of
the line as Improbable.
Through petitions signed by most
of the towns 565 residents, through
resolutions of the town council and
the Garrett county commissioners,
Friendsville protested.
Their objections won recognition
yesterday in comment by the examin-
ers, who at the end of the hearing re-
marked that the matter was apparent
ly of major Importance to public SER
vice and asked whether any alterna-
tive could be offered to rejection of
B. and O's application or orders for
construction of a new line relocated
above the high water mark of the
proposed reservoir.
"No sir, there is none that we can
see" replied counsel for the McCul-
Tough Coal Company, principal pro-
testant against abandonment.
Other testimony was to the effect
that the Mccullough Company had
unmined coal reserves which at its
current rate of production-40000
tons annually-would not be eXhaus-
ted for more than $50 years.
"This mine is dead completely if it
loses its rail connections, declared
William Emory, engineer, who testi-
fled to the resources of the mine.
The B. and 0. LlQneh runs from
Confluence, Pa, to Kendall In adj
dition to the protests received by the
Commission, Governor O'Conor of
Maryland has likewise received
numerous protests. The Mayor and
Council of Friendsville sent Clifford
Friend, Q. A. Murphy, and Merle
Frantz as representatives The First
National Bank, Friendsville, sent W.
j. Glenn, one of its directors, to pre-
sent its case.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Injunction Issued On
On Fireworks Ban

Judge Eugene ODunne, on applica-
ton of two wholesale fireworks com
panies, signed an order Tuesday in
Baltimore temporarily enjoining en-
forcement of bans and regulations on
fireworks issued by State Insurane
Commissioner John B. Centrum
O'Dunne set Thursday for hear
ing. Compliments were the Baltimore
Fireworks, and Speciality Company,
Inc, and Harry P. Kann and Brothers
Company.
They asked not only temporary
injunction, but also requested the
court to declare invalid the 1885 act
giving the fire commissioner special
powers, and to issue an injunction
against enforcement of regulations
made under the statute.
The suits said the pyrotechnics COM
panies had sought to agree with Con
trum on "a mutually satisfactory set
of regulations"
But, it added a tentative agree
ment reached with him was disregard
cd and the commissioner promulgated
certain other and different rules and
regulations xxx attempting to ban
and prohibit the sale of certain types
of fireworks and to restrict and limit
the sale and use of other types of fire.
works."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Flag Day To Be Observed Friday
(TOmOrrOW)

Flag Day will be observed through
out the United States on Friday, June
IA, and all those having flags are be-
ing urged by Legionaires and othet
patriotic organizations to display
them upon that day.
On June IA, 1777, Congress, in the
midst of a series of Naval resolutions,
passed the following:
"Resolved: That the Flag of the
thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white; that
the Union be thirteen stars, white OH
a blue field, representing a new cor
stellation." This made cold Glory
our official flag.
We observe Flag Day to commemo-
rate this event 1t is the official birth
day of the Flag of the United States
Special stress upon the observance
of this day is being urged at this time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Fifty Miles Of Roads
Being Oiled-Screened

Repairs to highways of the county
are being made by the State Roads
Commission, which consist mainly of
oiling and resurfacing. The program
includes a total of about fifty miles
of State and county highways in Gar
rett county.
The State highways listed for oil
ing and resurfacing totals about TWEEN
ty-four miles, divided as follows:
Grantsville-Bittinger, 2.6 miles; Route
219, Accident to Keyser's Ridge, Z
miles; Oakland-Red House, Ga miles,
Standardization, 1.8 miles; Route az,
Blooming Rose, 3.15 miles; Route so,
IL miles.
Some twenty-six miles of county
highways are included in the WPA oil
ing program, work on some of which
has already been started. The list in
cludes Grantsville-N New Germany, /
mile; Bittinger- Lodge, 2 miles;
Fearer, IL miles; Frazee Ridge,
mile; McHenry-Rock Lodge, mile;
Bayard, 2.55 miles; Grantsville- Bit
finger, A miles; Crellin- Underwood,
6 mile; Thayerville- Meadow Noun
tain, IT miles; Kitzmiller-NorthH Hill,
l u miles; Table Rock-Kempton,
mile; Bayard-Corunna, Y mile; Gort-
ner-Loch Lynn, rs miles; Oakland
Hutton, 2 miles; Bloomington-Swan-
ton, miles; Oakland streets, Y mile
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
o. III. S. Alumni Association Is
Planning Dance For June Is

That the Oakland High alumni asso-
citation would hold it's annual dance
was announced this week by julius C.
Renninger, president. The dance will
be held Friday, June %, at the Man
haitian hotel, Oakland. Music is to be
furnished by the Society Ramblers,
of Cumberland, and admission will be
$1.25 per couple This will be the 18th
annual affair, the first one having
been held in 1927.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
COMMISSIONERS
BRING CHARGES
AGAINST OFFICIAL
Warrant Issued Last Thursday
Says Treasurer Obtained Sum
Of Money Fraudulently
ASHBY DENIES ALLEGATION

A warrant was issued last Thursday
charging Jesse j. Ashby, Jr, treasurer
of Garrett county, with on or about
June 2, 1886, having fraudulently OBJ
tanned from the County Commission.
ers of Garrett county the sum of
$6,099.11, funds belonging to the
county.
The warrant was issued through the
office of Trial Magistrate Charles F.
White upon the oath and information
of G. Blaine Giessman, Cheston II
Browning and Paul NJ. Friend, County
Commissioners. Following his deten-
ton by Sheriff Owens, Mr.. Ashby
furnished bond in the sum of $1,000
for his appearance at the September
term of the Circuit Court.
Wooden and Benson, certified public
accountants of Baltimore, have been
engaged for several months in audit
ing the accounts of the county and the
information furnished the Commits
sioners by the auditors was the basis
upon which they proceeded. Mr.. Ashby
vchemently denies the charge that
he has defrauded the county.
On April II the Commissioners re.
leased to the public a statement of the
auditors made February rs wherein
they said they had reached a point in
the completion Of the audit where we
need an explanation Of certain items
and transactions"
One Of the items was that of double
credit for discount on taxes collected.
levy 1884, $3,12O,22; levy 1885, $2,968,-
80, a total Of $6,09911, and upon this
item action was taken.
Mr.. Ashby was first elected treas
urer in 1880. He served four years and
when another treasurer was elected
who failed to qualify he was APP
pointed by the Commissioners at that
time to fill the office. In 1888 he was
again elected treasurer, and thus has
served in that capacity for the past
ten years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY
All Sessions To Be Held In The
Methodist Church With Rev.
Minor Sprague AS Director
CLASSES FOR ALL GROUPS

The annual Daily Vacation Bible
School of the Oakland Protestant
churches will begin on Monday, June
II, it has been announced by Rev.
Minor Sprague, director.
All sessions are to be held in the
Methodist church, Oak street, from
$3.50 to 11:30 each morning for two
weeks, except Sundays. Rev. Sprague
will be assisted by DR.. A. B. Learner,
pastor of St. Marks Lutheran church,
Rev. David C. Trimble, rector of st.
Matthews Episcopal church, and a
staff of sixteen teachers and helpers
from the three churches.
Children will be grouped for in
struction according to school grading,
Rev. Sprague stated, the Bible School
this year being limited to children
who were in the elementary school in
the year just closing. There will be,
of course, a kindergarten class for
pre-school children, ages four and five.
Pre-enrollment cards are to be
sent home with the pupils from he
respective Sunday schools this Sunday
to facilitate enrolment the following
day. There will be no enrolment fee,
for offerings were given at the Union
Lenten services to defray the cost Of
the school,
The teachers include Miss Helen
Sollars and Mrs. Minor Sprague, be-
ginners' department; Mrs. John Khare
and Mrs. William McRobie, primary
classes; Mrs. Herbert Leighton, pri-
mary worship; Miss Mary Lyle Glot-
felty, Miss Ruth Field, Mrs. Willard
Elliott, junior classes; Miss Helen
Schlossnagle, intermediate class. They
will be assisted by Mrs. Joe J. Davis,
Misses Frances Nine, Virginia Law
ton, Kathleen Field and Mildred Wen
sell
The curriculum includes worship,
religious instruction, play and express
sion. The latter will, in all cases,
grow out of the teaching of the les
sons, Rev. Sprague pointed out, and
will include dramatizations, notebook
and other handwork and service
projects.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Aged Lady Suffers Broken Hip
And Dies In Hospital

Miss Mary Mosser, aged IS years,
of near Kempton, an aunt of Mrs. Will
liam Bennett, died Wednesday morn
ing as the result of a fall from a
chair upon which she was sitting last
Friday at the Bennett home. The aged
woman suffered fracture of her right
hip by the fall. She was taken imme-
diately in an ambulance to the City
Hospital in Elkins, West Va, where
death occurred
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Suffers Fractured Vertebrae
And Leg Injury

Harry w. Hinebaugh is in Allegany
Hospital, Cumberland, suffering as the
result of injuries he received while en-
gagged in a numbering operation nea
White Church on Monday. Mr. Hine-
baugh's injuries, so far as can be as
certained, consist of fractured ver-
tebrae and an injured leg.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Thunder Storms Numerous In
Recent Days

Garrett county has been subjected to
a number of rather violent thunder
and rain storms within the past week
some of the disturbances striking Sc
verely in the Accident and Red House
communities.
The amount of rainfall in the past
week has reached Isl inches, accord
ing to records at the government sta
ton at Weber's. Last Friday was the
warmest day of the week, the mer-
curry reaching sc degrees.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
HOnOred With American Legion
Citation

Wesley Abrams, District Vice. Com
mander, and Mr.. Kelley, Grave Regis
trar for the Mountain District, Amer
lean Legion, were in Oakland yester-
day when they presented Francis R
Shaffer, Commander of the local Post,
two citations from National Head
quarters for membership distinction
among posts of the nation.
Presentation to the Post of these
citations will be made at the next reg
ular meeting of the organization.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Fined for Fishing in Deep Greek
Lake Without License

-Four men were arrested last Satur-
day by Elmer Haulenbeek, game war
den, on a charge of fishing in Deep
Creek Lake without a license. All
pleaded guilty before Charles F.
White, Oakland magistrate, and were
each fined $40. The fines were paid
The accused were fishing in the
Cherry Greek section Of the lake, Mr.
Haulenbeek said.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Home Burns Near Deer Park

The home of John Bowman, of near
Deer Park, was destroyed by fire on
Monday nigh tabout nine o'clock.
Mr.. Bowman was in Oakland to in
form State and county authorities of
the occurrence on Tuesday morning.
He said that the fire had been set by
some unknown party who had come
to the house and reused him from his
oed, saying some cattle were in his
field and to get up and investigate.
While he was investigating he said
his home started to burn.
Nothing was saved from the build
ing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
Census Shows Increase
In Six County Towns
Preliminary Figures Released By
District Supervisor of Census

Census figures on the population in
six towns in Garrett county were re-
leased last Friday by Hugh M,
Frampton, district supervisor of the
census, Of Hagerstown, all six show
ing increases since the previous CEN
sus ten years ago. There was an in
crease of 435 in populations of Loeb
Lynn, Grantsville, Friendsville, Deer
Park, Bloomington and Kitzmiller.
Oakland figures were not released. All
figures are subject to possible cor
rection.
The figures released were as fol-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13

MI and Mrs. Z. E. Barton and two
children, Taylors, S. c., and Mr.. and
MRS w. Morris Barton, Greer, S. c.,
were guests of their sister, Miss Mil
ofed Barton on Tuesday and Wednos-
day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13

DR.. and Mrs. Logan Carr arrived
yesterday in Mountain Lake Park
after having spent the winter in Bal
timore and Orlando, Florida.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13

Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Davis have re-
turned from Baltimore where they
spent a few days.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-09
SUBMARINE LOST

SUBMARINE LOST
LONDON, Sept. 9. (UP)- The
admiralty said today that the SUBJ
marine Phoenix was overdue and
must be considered lost. The Phoe-
nix was of the Parthian class, built
in 1929. She carried a normal COM
plement of SO men.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-09

BERLIN, Sept. 9. (UP)-British
planes bombed the great German
port of Hamburg and the surround
ing district during the night and
dropped bombs on thickly popu-
lated residential quarters" news
papers said today.
The high command said that
British airmen last night directed
attacks against residential sections
of Hamburg, damaging several
houses and injuring several civil
ians.
The total damage caused was on
ly Slight" the communique said.
1t was asserted that the planes
tried to force their way on to Ber-
lin but that "all these attempts
were shattered on the very mas
sive German defenses, particularly
anti-aircraft artillery"
Earlier Nazi informants had adj
mitted that British planes had
bombed western and northern Ger
many during the night.
The same informants said Ger
man planes after raiding London
mercilessly all night had returned
to the attack today but that during
the morning hours their operations
were on a small scale, partly be-
cause of cloudy weather, and thai
they busted themselves largely with
reconnaissance work.
It was indicated, however, tina
the German attack was still de-
veloping.
The newspaper B. z. AM. Mittag
like others closely under propaganda
control, said editorially:
Evidently the night pirates hav,
not had enough. That is proved b.
their new attempts at attack. Fur
Their actions of the German air fore,
will finally teach Churchill's Eng
land that the Fuehrer's words littl
by little will be translated int
deeds that will finally be effec
tive
The official news agency, in
word-picture dispatch of raids OF
London said:
1.-THE raids made by our bonnie
units against London were carrie'
out last night with such violenc
and force that the city had tn
longest air alarm thus far - 1
hours.
"Wave after wave roared over
guided by the fiery glow of blaze
visible from a distance, which con
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-09
Boy Scales High
Building as Girl
Spurns His Love

COHOES, N. Y, Sept. 9. UP)-
Unrequited love has driven men to
the jungles, the foreign legion, the
four corners of the earth. In some
instances it has driven them to sui
eide.
In the case of II year old Law
renee Perry, it drove him straight
up the side of II story building.
Just what Perry had in mind was
not clear. In Cohoes hospital today
he was suffering too intensely from
nervous shock and exhaustion to
explain his act.
But note in his pocket said that
a girl named Mary had spurned his
attentions and that he loved her
too much to go on without her"
AT nine O'Clock last night Perry
started climbing the raised brick
work at the corner of a factory
building.
While crowd gathered and
watched tensely, he inched his way
upward for 60 nerve wracking min
utes.
Between the ninth and 10th floors
the strain began to tell. Perry drag
ged himself on to a ledge, every
muscle quivering. and police grasp
ed his arm and dragged him to safe
ty.
For a moment he stood trembling.
then he collapsed.