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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
COP CONVENTION
MONDAY, june "a
Republican Committee Has
Chosen That Date to
Nominate for President

Washington, February is. -
(UP) - The Republican National
Committee today set the 1910
Republican nomination convention
for Monday, June "a. The COM
mittee fixed the date before de-
Gliding ON q convention site. The
action ended maneuvering be-
tween Republicans and Democrats
for last convention position. POST
master General James A. Farley
has authority to fix the date Of
the. Democratic convention.
The first motion to set the con-
ventioM was offered by Walter 8.
Mailman, West Virginia. He pro-
posed . June rs meeting, but ac-
cepted an, amendment changing IL
10 june "a.
Ascend motion, calling for com
'vention beginning Jnlyra, was Of
fered by G. Mason Owlett Of Penn
sylvania.
He subsequently accepted an
amendment by Cyrus Mccormick,
New Mexico, to make the date
July /.
The final issue, thus, was be-
tween the dates Of June "A and
July 1. BY . voice vote the COM
mittee approved the June "a date.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
RUSSIAN STEAM
ROLLER GOES ON
Soviet Leaders Claim They
Are Nearing Second City
of Finland Nation

Moscow, Feb. 16 - U.P) - Rus
sia's Red Army on the 18th day OF
a steam roller offensive against the
Finnish Mennerheim line, are APP
preaching Kamara Railroad station
only - 10 miles fro mviipuri, Fin
lands second city, communi-
quie asserted today.
Finnish troops were reported in
retreat, abandoing arms and war
material and suffering heavy losses.
The army communique, issued
through the official Tass News
Agency, said Russian troops occu-
pied So Finnish defensive fortif1ca-
lions yesterday, including 81 iron
and concrete artillery forts.
Kamara Railroad Station, which
according to the communicate the
Russian troops were approaching, Is
on the main Leningrad- Wiipuri
railroad and hence vital point. BY
advancing along the railroad the
Russians would ensure themselves a
direct line for supplies from the
great Leningrad base, and would be
able to pour men and materials into
the front positions.
First Gains Reported
Today's communique, reporting
yesterdays operations, was the
first in many weeks to report Rus
SLAMS gaining specific territory in
the vitality important Karehan 18TH
mus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
Finland, Russia Both
Claiming Victories
films BATTLE
ALL 0FFENS|vES
Hold Back Red Army in
18th Day of Fiercest
Kind of Warfare

Helsinki, Finland, Feb. 16-(UP)-
Fighting grinly in trench, tree and
shell hole, the Firms held back the
Russian red army today in the 18th
day Of its offensive against the Man
nerheim line.
1t was admitted that the Films
had withdrawn from their most adj
vanced positions but 1t was asserted
that the Mannerheim line remained
intact and that the determined men
in 1t would hold it to the death.
The position explained in dis
patches from the front was that the
Firms had abandoned, before the
constant hammering of constantly
reinforced Russian shock troops, the
most advanced outposts of their
line.
These outposts, 1t was said, were
not part of the Mannerheim line
proper bput were extra-line defenses
constructed late last fall when war
doomed daily as more unavoidable.
They are not considered part Of the
Mannerheim line proper, it was as
serted, and in abandoning them the
Firms have retired only to the
stronger points Immediately behind
them.
No Contact with Line
An official army spokesman con-
hrmed this situation to the United
Press and said that at no point had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
Hamilton Would Like
Roosevelt AS Nominee
G. 0. P. Chairman Says 1t Would Give Republican
Party Chance to Finish Roosevelt" "Third
Term Bogey,' Ills New Deal'
BIZ LYLE G. WILSON

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent)
z Washington, Feb. 16.-(Up)-
Chairman John d. M. Hamilton Of
the Republican National Committee
hoped today that President Roose.
welt would be a third term candi-
date so the Republican party. in a
showdown next November on the
New Deal, the President and tho
third term. gould finish off all
three.
Opening the committees meeting
which will select a time and place
for the G. o. P. nominating con.
vention, Hamilton denounced seven
years of "New Deal debt. demagogu-
cry and defeatism". He charged
that MIR. Roosevelt's administration
had disregarded the constitution
attempted to sabotage the judicial
system and encouraged subversive
elements seeking the downfall Of
our American system"
He accused New Dealers Of seek
ing to transplant here from abroad
the doctrine Of relationships by
booming the President for another
term. He chided Democrats Tor
what the said their own words con-
fess-'their lack Of candidates"-
asserting that the Republicans have
available "half-a-dozen or more
able men" for President.
Has Lost Its Power
Hamilton pointed to the democra-
tic refusal to fixe the date OF Its
nominating convention until after
the Republicans have decided on
theirs, as evidence that the party
in power has "lost the power to
make decisions without our help"
Referring to the third term boom
as, an attempt to torpedo another
American tradition" he said: .
1--WE do not know who the can
didate Of the opposition will be.
We can't select him, and their con-
/$sa.a&;,a,,aJ m Do0a AZ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16

Superintendent Herbert Scott-Smith
of the Street Department had
made no additions to his force since
the storm started. Piles of snow In
downtown streets we're being rapidly
removed, with virtually the entire
force concentrated there, but scores
of streets in residential sections have
not even been plowed. Hundreds
had to leave their cars at home, UNI
able to get the vehicles through the
drifts to main streets where path
ways had been cleared.
May Take Two Weeks
A Street Department spokesman
said that unless there is q sudden
thaw it will take at least two weeks
to remove Wednesdays snow from
the streets. Any snow falling In the
meantime will delay the clearing
process further.
Hartford had a crew Of 1,100 men
digging the city out from the snow.
Bridgeport, though snow removal
funds are exhausted there, had
more than 800 men at work. New
Haven added 200 more men yester-
day to fighting crew which
had already consisted Of more than
400. New London had 200 extra
laborers at work, and New Britain
had so. Meriden, with a population
far less than that Of Waterbury;
ffloSat}ni1ed nm pare a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
ROBERT WILLIAM
WIENER GUILTY

New York, Feb. 16-(UP)-Welwel
Warszower, who under the name
Robert william Weiner Is treasurer
of the Communist party in the
United States, remained free under
$40, 900 bond today awaiting sentence
next Tuesday for making o false
statement in. a passport application.
He faces q possible maximum SEN
tence Of five years imprisonment and
a $4,000 fine.
A federal court jury found him
guilty in 80 minutes, IS minutes less
than 1t took q jury to convict Earl
Browder. secretary Of the Communist
party In the United States, on sim
liar charges January ~.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
BY WEBB MILLER
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent /.

\OAASCW AACSS OSSAA OVAACSPWAASAAV =
London, February 16.
(UP) - Russia's capture OF
advanced positions before the
Finnish Mannerheim Line
constitutes the Firms most
serious reverse of the war.
But in my judgment, based,
on two months with the Fin
nish army and many visits to
the ISthmus Front, the Rus
sian advance does not foreshadow
the collapse Of Finnish resistance or
Finnish debacle.
So long as both ends Of the Man.
nerheim Line remain firmly an
chored by big gun batteries at Koi-
visto Island on the Finnish right
flank and the Lake Ladoga batteries
on the Taipale RIVER on the left, the
Russians cannot exploit their cap
tIre Of forward Mannerhein pesi--
tions.
These. heavy Finnish thanking
guns are still able to hurl heavy
cross fire into the Soviet positions.
Moreover, on large part of the CO.
mile Mannerheim Front, the Firms
still maintain their original posi-
tions, which have been punctured on
comparatively narrow sectors.
Firms Had Prepared
From personal observation I can
knaAlfvy kxvyA vSaApakIag tho
Firms had been preparing for this
eventuality.
To paraphrase the late Gen. Ferd-
inand Foch, Allied World war COM
mander in chief, the Firms have
been getting ready to fight in front
Of the Mannerheim line, on the
Mannerheim line and behind the
Mannerheim line.
AT one point alone, in the course
of a few miles, counted eight aux
iliary lines Of tank barriers behind
the Mannerheim front. Even far
behind Viipuri, the Russian objec-
tive, many additional lines have
been prepared during the last few
weeks.
Even If the Mannerheim line on
the Isthmus is eventually completely
broken the Firms have plenty Of po-
sitions in which to continue the
struggle. Aside from the possible
effect on army morale, the most SER
ious feature Of smash through the
Mannerheim line would be that the
Firms frontage would Immediately
be greatly increased, and thus re-
quire more men-men the Firms
have not got.
Greatest Fight I'm Europe
The point at which the Russians
are now hammering in the greatest
battle in Europe since the World
War is the most favorable anywhere
on the whole front for utilization OF
the Soviet's huge mechanical super
iority because there are more open
interested spaces than anywhere else.
Also it is the most favorable point
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
France Continues To
Execute German Spies
All Appeals From Everywhere Are Rejected Many
French Accomplices Sent to Prison German
Baroness Is Now Sought
BY RALPH HEINZEN
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

(UMlGe0 EEcSS StaI1 VOEKeSpOnUc1ltj
Paris, Feb. 16.-UP)-France
shot one spy today and rejected
clemency appeals Of two sentenced
to death and two, including a wo-
man, sentenced to prison terms as
part of an intensified drive against
espionage.
Hans Kuhn, a Luxembourg sub
ject, was executed by firing squad
at Chalons -Sur-Marne. He was ar
rested last July, before the Eu-
ropean war started, as he tried to
cross the frontier with plans Of
French ornaments including tanks.
Sentenced to death, his appeals to
the court Of cessation and to Presi-
dent Albert Lebrun for clemency
were rejected. So were the APP
peals Of two French accomplices.
sentenced to 20 years each at hard
labor.
Appeals Of four German spies
were rejected by the court. They
are Friedrich Klein and Hans Baron,
condemned to death last month
Robert Dorfman, sentenced to ten
years at hard labor, and Catharina
Muller, sentenced to five years at
hard labor.
German Baroness Sought
The government was expected
soon to order military trial OF a
woman a suspected espionage agent
who is not only blonde, beautiful
and titled in the best spy tradition,
but is also safe across the frontier
in Germany. a..
Baroness Won Einem, who fits
the usual mystery story description
of a woman spy, was a fomous pre-
war figure in the salons Of Paris.
Now the French are reported to
have decided to proceed with her
trial, in absentia, as well as the
trials of three persons indicted as
her alleged accomplices.
They are Alloys Aubin, former
CITY editor of LIE Temps; Castor
Amourelle, stenographer of The SEN
ate army committee, and Leon
Hirch, an Austrian. Aubin and
Hirch can be sentenced If convicted
to ten years in prison and Amou-
relle, charged with delivering secret
military reports of the committee
to the baroness, may face five 70
20 years In the French penal COL
ony or life imprisonment in a fort
resS.
The baroness, living up to her
reputation, may face the death PEN
alty If she is convicted-and caught.
High I'm Journalism
Aubin held one of the high news
executive posts Of Paris Journalism.
He and julien Poirier Of the busi-
ness staff Of the newspaper Figaro,
were arrested In July after the
French counter-espionage service
identified the Baroness as q Key
figure in q vast spy ring ana de-
cided to round up others who were
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
THREE DEATHS In
CONN. BLIZZARD
State Is Slowly Digging
Out OF Trouble-7O
Deaths in Whole East

Hartford, Conn.,, Feb. 16-(UP)-
Connecticut counted its blizzard
dead at three today as the state
slowly dug its way back to normally
on highways and city streets.
All state roads. including the Mer-
rift parkway, were reopened for
trafflc after State Highway depart
ment crews, numbering 1900 men,
worked night and day to clear them
Of drifts piled 10 feet high in some
instances.
Trains and buses were resuming
normal schedules, and local trolley
services operated close to schedule.
The dead: AZ
Robert B. Alien, IS, factory super
intendent, died on a Newtown street
from overexertion.
Joseph Thomas, go, Goodyear, died
from similar causes.
Edward Kelley, go, died Of q heart
attack on Norwalk street during
the height Of the storm.
Three motor vehicles were demol-
ished by trains at railroad crossings
following the storm. A snow pillow
was struck at North Grosvenordale
q bus at Waterbury. and an auto
mobile at New Britain. s
The drivers in the snow pillow mis-
hap had gone for help when their
machine was struck, while the two
operators In the other accidents
leaped to safety a few moments be-
fore the trains crashed into their
machines.
The weather turned clear and
cold following the storm, causing
the snow to harden and hampering
clearing activities In some cases.
WPA workers In the states larger
communities were put to work as
sisting regular city workers In SHOW
cling snow.
10 Lives Lost
New York, Feb. --(UP)-The st.
Valentines day blizzard was esti-
mated today to have taken almost
70 lives and to have caused several
million dollars Of damage.
Highways throughout most Of the
northeastern seaboard region we're
still blocked by snowdrifts that In
some places were IS feet deep. Small
boats and cottages along the Long
Island, New Jersey and New Eng
land coasts were destroyed.
In Metropolitan New York, five
persons had died from oyer-exertion
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16

Hartford, Conn, Feb. 16-(UP)-
Gov. Baldwin today invited editors
Of Connecticut daily newspapers to
be his guests Monday night at the
Hartford club when he will ask their
cooperation in outlining a highway
safety campaign to reduce motor
vehicle deaths.
Tins dinner conference win fol-
low q meeting to be held during the
day by the governor with the chair
men Of highway safety committees
Of the states le9 cities and towns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
Street Dept. Has
Engaged No Extra
Help In Emergency
Work Confined Mostly to Downtown Streets Some
Residential Sections Not Even Plowed Out;
Other Cities Engage Big Crews

regular Street Department crew Of 80 men, without
extra help today began the task of removing drifts of snow
left the wake of Wednesdays blizzard the most
storm in six years. Not single extra employee hired for
the emergency and only IL extra trucks were in service
The city did not take advantage of the offer Of free aid
from the WPA While other cities and towns about the
state pressed hundreds of extra aborers into action
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Feb. 16-(UP)
eminent expenses and receipts Tor
the current fiscal year through Feb.
IA, compared with year ago:
This Year Expenses Last Yenr
$5,S11, 68S, 065.82 $5,6O1 ,752, 743.OS
Receipts
$3,351,947, 600.42 $3.533, 944,764.69
Gross Deficit
$2,459,74O,465.4O $2,067, 1907, 1888
PASS. 52s, 4s5.4o s.o42.117.sss.ss
Cash Balance
S2,A39.444,327.5l $3,142,666,579.76
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
THE WORLD WAR
Is YEARS AGO,
FEB. Is, 1915

(By United Press)
Germany. in mote % United
States, refused to abandon SUBJ
marine warfare.
British planes Ha11ea Ostend,
GhisteIles and zeebruggc.
Austrlans rccaptureo Kolomea
from Russians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16
Webb Miller, Famous War
Correspondent, Does Not
Prophesize Red Victory
FINN RESISTANCE IS
NOT COLLAPSNG
Big Gun Batteries of Fin.
land Control Both Ends
of Mannerheim Line

Editors Note: Finland has suf-
fered its most serious reverse Of
the war, but IL is not beaten and
it had anticipated the present Of
fensive, Webb Miller, veteran
United Press war correspondent,
writes today. Nor, he forecasts,
can the Russians break the Man
nerheim Line in this offensive.
Miller filed his dispatch from Lon-
don, on his arrival from Finland,
where he covered the war - the
latest Of many he has covered In
~ years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16

II yen want . good job, register now
at Pest Junior College. "a Centred
Ava Day and Night-Adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16

Pierpont's, R59 Bank St., offer anax-
ing values ON Elgin Watches-ls
jewels reg. S3s.5ss now $2A.5b-Adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-16

| A miracle repeated--Ised Cross Shoes
are still only $3.50 pair At ! Sole
Co, l00 Grand Sts--AdY.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-07-11
THOMAS P. WITT

Thomas P. Wilt, husband of Eliza
beth Platter Wilt, died at his home
near the Savage River dam on Satur-
day. He was aged 70 years and had
been caretaker of the Westernport
dam for twenty-four years. He was a
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George
7. Wilt and was born and reared in
the section in which he died.
Besides his widow he is survived by
nine children, Mrs. C. d. Wilt, Mrs
Joseph Wilt, Mrs. John r. Jones and
Mrs. William Coffman, Westernport;
Erwin Wilt, Meyersdale, Pa; Merval
Wilt, CCC camp, Swallow Falls; Jesse
and Robert Wilt at home; also by four
brothers, Charles, Trenum and Nelson
Wilt, Jennings, and Jesse Wilt, near
Swanton; sixteen grandchildren and
ten great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted on
Tuesday afternoon by Rev. j. f. Walls
pastor of the Maple Grove Church of
the Brethren. Burial was in the Frank
vile cemetery.
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STOLEN-An Egyptian Jar from
the property of a Mountain Lake Park
resident. Unless returned at once, an
arrest will Observation-Disclosures 1t
REWARD-Will be paid for the re-
turn of two mems black sweaters,
bearing letter III" lost near Garrett
National Bank Building last Saturday.
James A. Merriken, Oakland, Md
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-07-11
OUR SILVER ANNIVERSARY

Fifty years ago today the writer
celebrated his twenty-frst birthday
anniversary and at the same Tina
July II, 1890 issued his first number
of The Republican, having taken the
paper over from the late Capt. James
A. Hayden, who had established it in
the year 1877.
Today the editor of fifty years ago
is still on the job, not exhibiting the
same vim, the same outlook upon life
as he did on that day half. a century
ago, but he retains the friendship of
many who have been patrons Of the
paper and increasingly the confidence
of the public. for which we are eX-
oeedingly grateful.
This morning we have been APP
preached by numerous friends who
have extended their congratulations
and best wishes, for which we are
happy.
What of the future? We shall not
be here another fifty years, but some
one will be here when $50" is sounded
who will take over where we have
left off.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-07-11
THOBURN L. SIMPLIFY

Thoburn L. Shipley, proprietor OF
the East End Service Station in Oak
land, died at Allegany Hospital, Cum
berland, on Friday, July 5, following
an illness of four weeks.
Mr. Shipley was born in Baltimore
on June 6, 1893, and was aged AZ
years. He was a painter and glaziet
by trade, but for the past two years
had been engaged in operating the ser
vice station. He was a son of Mrs
Mary c. Shipley, Baltimore, and the
late Hyer L. Shipley.
He was a former World War vet
eran, enlisting in 1917 with the Mary
land National Guard and later was at,
tached to the Twenty Ninth Division
Co. X, at Anderson, Alabama, where
he was discharged twenty-five months
later. He was member of the Loyal
Order of Moose, at Terra Alta, West
Va.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Mary
c. Shipley, Baltimore; his wife, who
was Miss Wilma Dewitt, an adopted
daughter, Patricia; three sisters anc
one brother, Mrs. Carey Jameson, Mrs
Viola Witzke, Mrs. Stella Hopkins, al
of Baltimore, and Clyde Shipley, OF
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o'clock on Monday night. She became
ill at her home about three days pre-
vious.
She was born at Corinth, w. Va,
August 81, 1921. She was graduated
from Oakland High school in 1882
Surviving are her parents, seven
brothers and sisters, Mrs. o. B. 70
cum, Mrs. L. A. Warner, Mrs. James
Murphy, Washington, D. c.. Miss
Georgia Hardesty, Baltimore; Harry,
Wilma, and Betty Lou, at home; also
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Hardesty, COrinth; and Mrs.
Thomas Roy, of Turner-Douglas,
Funeral services are being conduc-
ted this afternoon at 2 o'clock from
the home in Mt. Lake Park with Rev.
II. o. Teagarden in charge. Inter
ment will be in Oakland cemetery.
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UNDERWOOD

We are now having good harvest
weather and the farmers are taking
advantage Of it.
Mrs. Sophronia Peaslee, of Los An
geles, Calf, arrived here a short time
ago to visit her old home and many
friends and relatives, who are many
She is a sister Of Mrs. Daniel Come
way, of Oakland; Helen Graham, OF
Crellin, and others of the county
Mrs. Peaslee expects to spend the
summer months here before returning
to the west.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mazer and
daughter, of Sand Patch, Pa, spent
the 4th with Mrs. Mazer's relatives at
Crellin and Oakland, returning to her
home on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Post Wright, Balti-
more, with her two daughters, are
visiting Mrs. Wright's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. c. A. Barkman, having ar
rived for a vacation visit on the 4th
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Smith, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edmund Hoover and daughter
Fairchance, Pa, spent some time re-
Gently with the Nicholson family.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Graham is i'll.
Mrs. Daisy Myers and Ebert Nine
have been visiting at the L. C. Nine
home.
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MRS. LUTHER JORDAN

Mrs. Stella Jordan, wife Of Luther
Jordan, of Crellin, died at her home
on Wednesday night, July 3, following
q heart attack. She had resided in
Crellin for six years, and was born in
Cumberland on October %, 1884, be-
ing So years of age.
Surviving are her husband, her
mother, Mrs. Minnie Miller, of Cum
berland; seven sisters and one brother,
Mrs. Ida Wilkens, Live Trenton, Mich.
Mrs. Anna Jones, Kingwood, w. Va;
Mrs. Mary Carr, Rainelle, w. Va;
Mrs Lena Oester, Accident; Mrs. Bea-
trice Zimmerman, Mountain Lake
Park; Mrs. Lillian Lanhan, Cumber-
land; Mrs. Mile Carr, Elk, w. Va,
and David Miller, Albert, w. Va.
Funeral services were conducted on
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at
the Crellin church, with Rev. E. A.
Critics, Mountain Lake Park, officiat-
ing. lnterment was in the Terra Alta
cemetery.