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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
Mrs. Lawson LOar Has Made
Possible Identification OF
Grafton Cemetery

A news item in the Grafton Weekly
Sentinel of last Thursday reveals that
through the generosity of Mrs. Law
son Loar, of Clarksburg, West Va,
whose late husbands philanthropy
made possible earlier Identification
projects at Bluemont cemetery at
Grafton, a $4,000 WPA project for
further Improvements to the burial
ground will be made possible at an
early date.
The Mayor Of Grafton, P. F. ellis
pie, announced Mrs. Loar had agreed
to pay the city's sponsoring share of
the big project which would amount to
several thousand dollars. The project
includes improvements to the ceme-
terry and the construction of a $5,400
caretaker's residence. The Govern
ment's allotment is $7,189.
Mrs. Loar offered to pay the city's
share of the expense as memorial
to her late husband, who started his
business career in Grafton and who
during his lifetime was intensely in
terested in the improvement of the
city cemetery.
Mr.. Loar was a brother of Misses
Lottie M. Loar and Miss Grace Loar,
Messrs. Harry Loar, George Loar and
Judson Loar, Of Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
QUESTIONABLE SENT
TO STATE HUNTERS
Game Warden LeCOmpte Seeks
Data For Census" on Wild
fowl Season

Baltimore, Jan. State Game
Warden E. Lee LeCompte said today
$500 cards had been mailed Maryland
hunters asking them to report the
number of wildfowl killed during the
last season so the state could "fortify
our fight with the federal govern
ment in 1871 against curtailing sea-
sons, bag limits, ETC."
Maryland's wildfowl and upland
game hunting seasons close tonight
and Harold Kolmer, executive direc-
tor of the Game Commission, said
preliminary reports indicated "less
ducks than ever before" were shot,
although they were more numerous
than in the last decade.
Kolmer said LeCompte's question
naire to hunters was mot a check
against their bag, but a census" of
the wildfowl season that opened No
vember 2. Warm weather has kept
duck and geese in open water, rela-
lively safe from hunters.
The upland game season, which
opened November Is in all but two
counties for rabbits, quail, pheasant
and turkey, was "fairly good" Kol-
mer said.
In Garrett and Allegany counties
there was one open season during the
entire month of November only.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
Food Stamp Plan Not
Available in County
Welfare Director Announces Re-
lection Due To Lack OF
State Funds

Lack of state funds has prohibited
the extension of the federal govern
ment's food stamp program into Gar
rett, Washington, Allegany and Fred
erick counties, it was announced last
Thursday by j. Milton Patterson, di-
rector of the State Department of
Public Welfare.
Patterson said the Board declined to
approve an expenditure of $4,000 to
defray administrative costs of the
plan in the four counties.
At the present time the State De-
partment of Welfare, through the
county welfare boards, is distributing
Federal surplus commodities to West
ern Maryland counties.
The food stamp plan under which
surplus commodities are purchased
through local grocery stores, is more
expensive to administer, and the
$4,000 would have represented the
increased cost in shifting to the
stamp plan, for the remainder of the
fiscal year ending September 30, 1911.
Apparently there has been no urg-
ing of the adoption of the plan in this
county by merchants or business
groups, but there has in Allegany
county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
December Perfect Attendance
Roll Loeb Lynn School

ROOM 1, Miss Durham, Teacher
Jackie Bittinger, Philip Fancher, Dale
Mahaffey, Roy Moore, Burl Paugh,
Charles Taylor, Donald Weeks, Burl
Whitmer, Wilma Johnson, Helen
Morgan, Joan Weeks, Galen Beck
man, Clifford Friend, Carl Gosnald,
Walter Moon, Freda Baker, Betty
johnson.
ROOM 2, Mrs. Merat, Teacher
Max Liller, Leroy Paugh, Oliver Shat
fer, Ralph Shaffer, Everett Steyer,
John Steyer, Dennis Stottlemeyer,
Ralph Taylor, Bobby Tichnell, Robert
Whitmer, Billy White, Neva DeCost,
Geneva Goss, Dorothy Hardesty, Mary
Hardesty, Maxine Harris, Charlene
King, Elaine Orndorff, Nina Paugh,
Alberta Sims, Katherine Sukow, Dor
othy Tichnell, Henrietta Weeks, De-
lores Wilson.
ROOM 3, Miss O'Donnell-Wini-
fred Freeland, Margaret Lee, Marian
Lee, Lucinda Liller, Mabel White,
Gloria Michael, Betty Moon, Eloise
Cook, Mary Ellen Glotfelty, Mildred
Ours, Ernestine Rowan, Betty Lou
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
Engagement Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Taylor, Mason
town, West Va, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Eva
line, to Thornton o. Deffinbaugh, of
Oakland. The marriage will occur in
the spring.
Mr.. Deffinbaugh's father, the late
Charles A. Deffinbaugh, was for a
number of years owner and publisher
of the Mountain Democrat, where the
son is employed and which is now
published by members of the family.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
MARRIED

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mary
D. Helbig, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward w. Helbig, South Third street,
became the bride of Mr. Edwin E.
Michael, son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Michael, Seventh street, at a cere-
mony performed Christmas afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock in the rectory of St.
Peters Catholic church, Oakland.
The officiating priest was the Rev.
Fir. Gregory Donahue, of near Balti-
more, in the presence of a few friends
and relatives. Attendants were Miss
nellie B. Helbig, cousin of the bride,
and Mr.. George Kerins, Jr.
The bride was gowned in a travelling
outfit with corsage of yellow rose
buds. She is a graduate of Oakland
High school and of Mercy Hospital
School of Nursing, Baltimore.
The groom is also a graduate Of
Oakland High school and at present
is employed at the Sharps Motor
Company shops and is a student of
aviation.
The couple Immediately after the
ceremony left for trip to Eastern
cities. They will reside in an apart
ment in Mrs. Archibald Moore's resi-
dence on Oak street.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
Sunday Services In Community
Churches
ST. MARKS EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Rev. A. B. Learner, d. d., Pastor

$3.50 A. M. The Church School.
Study, "Jesus and Human Afliction."
10:45 A. NJ. The Service of the
Church. The pastor will speak on
"The Story of Rachel"
6:30 P. M. The Luther League. The
Young Peoples Hour. Discussion per-
iod, "Why We Have a Church"
1880 P. NJ, Wednesday. The annual
meeting of the Congregation of St.
Marks. The election Of officers. Re
ports of the pastor, officers of the
Congregation and leaders of the Or
ganized groups of the Church. A
social hour.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02

ever since - reached the Island, his
parents, nd Mrs. Charles Jack
son, of t asant Valley commun-
ity, south kland, have been in
formed. sailing for Hawaii
a needle foot, which caused
an infect great toe, and as
a result lergone three opera
L.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
Card OF Thanks

l wish in this manner to express my
thanks to my friends for their kind
ness to me in the sudden death of my
wife, Mrs. Eda Kisner.
l also wish to thank those who sent
floral tributes and donated the use
of their cars for the funeral
OSCAR A. KISNER~
Deer Park, Md.
Advertisement IT.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02

Shockey, Mary Mae Weeks, Marjorie
Weeks, Mae Steyer, Mary Lohr, Helen
Moon, Doris Ours, Virginia Ours, Flor
ence Sisk, Halle White, James Ford,
James Weeks, Glenn Whitmer, RRas-
sell Beckman, Edwin Perrine, Her.
bert Pope, Lester Moon, Wayde Shat
fer, Donald Friend, Leo Stottlemeyer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
UNION HOLINESS TABERNACLE
Third Street. Oakland

Service Saturday evening at 7
o'clock, public address system; prayer
and praise meeting at 7:30.
Sunday: Sunday school at 2 o'clock,
preaching at and 1880 by Rev. j. f,
johnson.
Prayer meeting Tuesday evening at
7.3O.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02

William Stemple entertained eight
couples at dance at his home on
Tuesday night.
Mrs. Ruth Kercheval and son Ralph,
of Kingwood, W. Va, We're visiting
friends in Oakland on Wednesday.
Miss BERTHE Cleveland has returned
from Terra Alta, W. Va, after visit
ing her sister there for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold H. Harmed
entertained with four tables of five
hundred at their home on New Years
Eve.
Mrs. Carrie Dewitt, Morgantown,
West Va, is here visiting her brother
in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Thayer.
Quite large number of couples
watched the New Year arrive at a
dance at Chimney Corner on Tuesday
evening.
Miss Grace Jones has returned from
Wheeling, W. Va, where she visited
her aunt, DR.. Harriet B. Jones, for
several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur HENDERSON
and family, Detroit, are visiting Mrs.
Humberson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. v Harvey.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Hardesty were
called to Terra Alta yesterday on ac-
count of the extreme illness of Mrs.
Almedia Wilhelm.
Guy Simmons ("Casey JonesO is
confined to his home as the result of a
mishap on New Years Eve when he
fell and broke his leg.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Thayer were
recent dinner guests Of their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
Thayer, Liberty street.
Ernest Ray Jones was in Grantsville
yesterday where he attended the an
rual meeting Of the board of directors
of The First State Bank.
Miss Nell Broadwater entertained
few couples at a tea dance on New
Years afternoon, at the home of her
mother, Mrs. N. |. Broadwater.
Mrs. Alexander Cow and three chill
dren, of Frederick, are here for a
visit with Mrs. Cows parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas E. Bishoff, Third
street.
Miss Helen Sollars visited in Bal
timore for several days.
Frederick C. Alexander, of near
Accident, was in Oakland on business
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harland H. Hardesty,
Pittsburgh, were visiting the for
mer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Hardesty, Pennington street, over the
weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Kahl, Miss Mar
garet Kahl and Wellington Yutzy at
tended New Years ball at the Fair
mont Hotel in Fairmont, West Va,
New Years Eve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald R. Sincell,
Mrs. Cliff P. Berger and Mrs. B. II.
Sincell went to McKeesport, Pa, yes
terday morning where they were
guests during the day of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Haulenbeek, the party return
ing to Oakland yesterday evening.
Miss Mary Virginia Bolden left for
Baltimore on Sunday to be a guest of
Miss Virginia Hodson before return
ing to her studies at the University of
Maryland. Returning to Baltimore
also were Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Stem
pie and Irving Broadwater, who had
been at TIL 'es Of their parents for
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02

FISK-BAKEK-Miss Clara Grace
Baker, daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. AL
bert Baker, Swanton, and Mr.. Ray
mond Fisk, Of Boonton, New Jersey,
were quietly married by the Rev. G.
W. Burkhart at his parsonage in Deer
Park, on December 26.~Those witness
ing the ceremony were Mrs. Burkhart,
the brides parents and her brother
and sister, James and Gladys Baker.
Mr.. Fisk is a student in Eastern Bible
Institute, Green Lane, Pa, where he
is to be graduated in the spring.
Immediately after the ceremony the
couple left for the groom's home in
New Jersey.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-19
CLIPPER SHIP SPEED
Nevada State JournaD


Clipper ships of yore sometimes if not
usually required months to cross the At
lantic. There was no means of communi-
eating with land and those at home
could only wait and hope. Modern clip
per ships-of the air-are not always so
fast. either The other day the Atlantic
Clipper between New York and Lisbon
came into LaGuardia field, completing
a round-trip which took % days, prob
able record for slow motion on the route.
The plane brought 80 passengers and
$500 pounds of mail.
A fairly fast tramp steamer could have
beaten the clippers time for the round
trip. On its flight from New York 1t was
delayed six days at Bermuda by bad
weather. Next day it reached Lisbon,
waited another week for the weather.
and started back. 1t had engine trouble
at Horta and stopped some time TO take
on mail at Bermuda.
But the leisurely crossing and return
are good omen for transatlantic avia-
ton. Bucking the weather to keep fixed
schedules might soon spoil remarkable
record of safe operation.
1t is pleasant to hark back to the early
days-the age of innocence-of aviation.
The bombing plane was only an unpleas-
ant possibility not horrifylng TACT
There We're public excitement and enthus-
asm over a transatlantic flight, and
there were no warnings that our big cities
are only a few hours flying distance
from Europe. Endurance flights were
watched with more interest than they de-
served and thousands turned out to see
stunt flying which would be put to shame
by any dog fight over England today.
Air meets of those distant times were
ILL ri
tance flights took weeks of preparation.
An arplane, in those days, was ma
chine which travelled at startling speed
while going somewhere but spent a great
deal of time getting started.
Aviation has made remarkable progress
in short time Only the weather re-
mains unimproved.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-19
by Bruce Cation =.
The Inside Track in Washington

definitely put the Republican party
as far as congress is concerned
in the position of being the party
of the isolaticnists. The New Deal
is operating on the theory that a
large majority of Americans sup
port the aid-the- -democraGies idea,
and during the last campaign re-
peatedly charged that the Republi-
cans are on the other side of that
particuia" fence.
Lastly. getting the Republicans
thus on record might kill the po-
litical future of Mr. Wendell Will
kie. Republican support for this bill
could hardly have been sought
without swinging a beam OF two
from the spotlight on Mr.. Willkie
Putting the party on the opposite
side would pretty well end his
claims to party leadership.
VORYS CALLS IT
A SHOWDOWN
The fight in congress will be bit
ter. and there will be strong eff
forts to amend the bill. But Con-
gresham Vorys of Ohio, who sue
cessfully led the fight to amend
the bill which revised the neutral
ity act, doesn't think amending the
present bill would help much.
This is the showdown" he says
This is the one time congress gets
to pass on the whole policy of aid
for Great Britain-with all of it,
implications. There's little point to
amendments. It's the basic policy
and the things that are likely tC
come from following it that mat
ters. Here's where we decide or
the whole business-and no con-
gressman will be able to say, after
ward. that he didn't know it was
loaded"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-19
AMERICA MUST
MAKE SACRIFICES
palm Beach. Fla, PoSt)

(PaIm Beacn, fla., foSl)
Secretary of War Stimson is not one
of those who believe the United States
can complete its great rearmament effort
on schedule without sacrifices by the Am
erican people.
He made that clear in an address to the
American Federation of Labor conven-
ton that deserves the widest hearing.
To-day, our production, hopeful as 1t
has been thus far, is yet very far from
adequate" he said. Sacrifices will un-
doubtedly be called for from labor, as
they will be called for from the other
citizens of the Republic, but such sacri-
fices believe will be willingly contribut-
ed and not compelled 1t would be
poor tribute to the patriotism of our peo--
pie or to the intelligence of the men and
women who produce the goods for our
defense to promise that under such ter
rifle effort as that upon which we are
engaged we can assume an attitude of
business as usual No responsible man
would give any such assurance
Secretary Stimson gave the assurance
that neither labor nor any other group
would be called upon for unnecessary
or disproportionate sacrifices and with
this the country will agree. But If an
emergency actually exists, then this is
no time to be talking about business as
usual" The most important business in
the United States today is that of pre-
pairing ourselves sufficiently to keep out
OF war.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-19
GOOD = BUT NOT
GOOD ENOUGH

Delay has been the curse of Imperial
Valley in recent years.
Delay in completion of the All Ameri-
can canal, and with it delay in opera
tion of hydro-electric plants on the cam
al. Delay in litigation, and with it delay
in refunding and drainage. Delay in
opening the Eastside Mesa to agricul-
ture, and with it delay in full develop
ment for Imperial Valley.
1t is 20 wonder valley people have
reached the place where the very word,
delay, is storm signal.
1t is significant that practically every
major delay we have suffered has been
met in the musty channels of federal
agencies Perhaps this fact alone has
made us too suspicious of federal agen-
cies and their promises, real or implied.
We must admit that we have come to
look for the threat of delay in places
where, normally, the thought would
never enter our heads. That is only be-
cause we have been subjected to delay
from sources in which we had expected
only utmost speed.
In this light, it is understandable why
our welcome is tinged with disappoint-
ment when Governor A. G.. Black of the
Federal Farm Credit Administration
promises through study of the val
ley's credit picture-but says it will be
made after refunding is completed.
There is the probability of more de-
lay in that. promise
1t would be too much to expect the
Federal Land Bank to open up its credit
to the valley before refunding is an ac-
complished fact. But in the light of
Federal Judge Ralph E. Jenney's numer-
Gus pronouncements in favor OF the re-
funding program, indicating that it has
virtually certain prospect OF compile
tion, it does not seem too much to ask
that the credit Investigations be made
Immediately Then the stage would be
set, and the curtain could go up i'm
mediately on farm credit, as soon as re-
funding was put into permanent oper-
alton. If even the Investigations are not
made until refunding has been com
pleted," then there will be delay. OF
months in bringing to the valley the fed
era credit which many Of us believe 1t
should have had months ago.
So, while we deeply appreciate Cover
nor Blacks friendly interest, we can
not help urging upon him and his CO.
officials that the preliminary steps be
taken now, to avoid the sort of delay we
have come to dread
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-19
DANGEROUS ENEMY

After fashion, the turmoil raging IN
congress over President Roosevelts ar
senal for democracy bill is like two
brothers fighting over who's going to use
the family car, when the car won't run,
anyway.
While the lawmakers fight over the
method we'll use to extend maximum AID
to Great Britain, there is right under
their noses a condition which makes 1t
palpably impossible for this country to
extend maximum aid even to itself, let
alone to Great Britain. The condition
involves strikes and threats OF strikes
touching thousands of men in scores of
national defense factories.
If congress is going to make it pos
sible for the United States to help any
body, then congress will have to find
way to force settlement of industrial
disputes in defense factories without
permitting strikes.
AS long as strikes are permitted indis-
criminately, Without regulation and with
out any satisfactory machinery for settle
ment, industry will offer an ideal target
for the worst kind of sabotage-the kind
that makes the whole of America help
less to defend itself.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-19
by Willis Thornton
What Kind Of a World Do We Want?

hand as shown by the fact that
the United States fought only as
an associated" never an "alileo
rower, and that it never dlo sign
the versailles Treaty, but mace
separate peace with Germany later
(Treatv of Berlin, 1920. MOST ol
the suggestions we made in 1917
were rejected and even those
which were adopted did not work
very we'll
Yet when Senator Wheeler issued
his recent prescription for Europe
his l94l version of a Wilsonlan
Fourteen Points, what did he pro-
pose? Nothing better than another
cf those interminable reshuf1llngs,
re-carvings, of the European map.
It seems doubtful if anything
like that will do this time. No mat
ter who wins. the defeated people
will remain q fact, and a stubborn
fact. Germany was beaten, ana
thoroughly beaten, in 1918, but the
German people renamed Iact.
The French people were beaten this
time, and terribly beaten, but they
remain q fact, as Herr Hitler Is al
ready beginning to discover. Franco
already knows that, despite the
shootings and executions, that the
large republican element in his
People remains fact. And the
Norwegian people are facts, and
the Dutch, and the Belgian, and
the Polish and Czech. Military vic
tory does not eliminate peoples.
They remain.
No possible Encouragement OF
Europe into another set CT nation
alistic closets. walled off from the
rest by tariff barriers and artificial
restrictions, can be much better
than the one devised in 1914 re-
arrangement, by the way, that en-
bodied considerable amount OF
scientific study, and was by no
means entirely victor's caprices.
Europe must federate or die. Not
as the Caesars federated it, or as
Napoleon tried to federate it. under
a single master working the other
people as SlaveS-such a federation
leaves safe no country in the world.
Europe requires continental
economy, allowing national politi-
cal and cultural institutions, yet
allowing continental freedom of
shipping and intercourse and trade
The United States can certainly
impose no such order in Europe,
nor would it be so foolish as to
try. Yet Europe itself has produced
almost no leadership with such a
vision
We can only hope that some
where, in the trenches or bomb
shelters, it is being born.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-19
by Paul Harrison :.
HOLLYWOOD Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

obliged to produce in England one
picture costing at least 50,OO0
pounds. Kane said 20th-Fox sends
ever about $4,000 feet of its best
Hollywood product, and so has TO
make four pictures at Shepherds
Bush. BY SPECIAL arrangement, the
same outfit also turns out M-G-M S
quota. Other Hollywood companies,
especially Paramount and War
ners, maintain regular production
staffS and expect to keep right on
make four films a year each.
Kane handed me a letter from
his former secretary, who said eV-
erything was going along fine. she
mentioned her own apartment had
been damaged by a bomb and wa
ter but that it needed redecorat-
ing anyway. She also said Kane's
successor, her new boss, had gone
out with Lord Somebody-Or-Other
that AFTERNOON to play golf
PROPAGANDA
FILMS OUT
There was list of all the pic
lures being made in England, ana
remarked that none OF them
sounded like an out-and-out pro-
paganda film, such as Korda' S
The Lion Has Wings" The pro-
Queer said no, that the British
still wanted entertainment, and a
majority of the features being
made there have nothing at all TO
do with the war.
When the history of England
sWastika -shadowed movie industry
is written. I'll bet therell be stories
of gallantry to equal anything IN
the scripts. Thus far, only one
bomb seems to have caused any
casualties on a sound stage, but
the staggering thing is the way the
few available actors and actresses
over there must be working.
A glance at the cast lists proves
the players are rushing steadily
from one studio TO another, chang
ing costumes. switching roles. strug-
Cling with fatigue and worry to
keep unwanted reality from their
believe world. They're giving
new meaning TO the old dramatic
tradition that the show must go
on.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-19

Neither Germany nor Britain has
stated with any directness, its war
aims-the kind of Europe and the
kind of world they would like to
see emerge from the war.
AS long as both are locked in
death grips, it isn't likely that Ell
ther will. Once at war, the only OBJ
lect is to win. Remolding the world
comes afterward.
There can be 10 harm, therefore,
and perhaps some good, in specu-
lation about these things in the
United States.
We had a hand once in rearrang-
Ing Europe. 1t was a reluctant