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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26

the local femme who reInarked: II don't approve of what you write, but suppose you have to make pin money some way" (More detailed criticism would be appre- ciated.)
 Hitler invited criticism. He ordered the Hun radio to accept all short cables from the U. s. A. and to pay the tariff thereon. Lots of outsiders got in: some fancy shots at AdOlph. Jewish gentry frOthed as they tried to boil down their thoughts into 25 words or less; churchfolk sought passages from Scripture to shoot at Hitler. But our own United Americans grabbed the spotlight with a gem in prose that must have sort of made AdOlph's peO- pie wrinkle their brOws.
 George Holmes runs the United Americans, so we suppose 1t was George that figured it all out. The cable requested: "On-the- scene broadcasts of Royal Air Force bombings of Germany most welcome to Americans, especial ly of the chancellory, Berchtes- gaden, (Hitler's retreat), and BraunhauSe."
 If that doesn't set 'em back on their launches, we'll get some of our local women to work up a message and send that to the Ber- lin radio. We understand that Smoky JenSOn has that radio about ready over in Skeleton H0i- low, and that he will soon be able to scatter thoughts by air almost anywhere in the world. Maybe Judge Otto will help us get off message to Berlin through the JensOn Circuit? He will know how to phrase it without laying ourselves open to libel or any thing.
 Mentioning the judge reminds us of things legal, and otherwise. When a Southbury woman looped into tree and scattered 8 new automobile over 3 large portion of the Woodbury landscape, the Woodbury constabulary arrived to investigate. All early morning travellers were stopped by John Law and their journeyings in- quired into. This happened on U. s. 6, a federal highway. It's getting so a man cannot travel on the main road without a pom- pouS officer asking him how-come he has to start for work about milking time.
 Knowing the hazards of motor ing through our neighbOring township, we are wondering if it wouldn't be a good plan to divert all traffic via SOuthford and thus to Middlebury? WOOdbury mer- chants would lose quite 8 bit of trade, if that were accomplished.
 Panama, Guantanamo. Plum Island, Longview, New Rochelle, and all other outpostS where this column is read. Y. Attention to Ordersl We want your immediate criticism of our way of handling the newsI If Hitler can stand criticism, so can we.
 Did you ever stop to think of the difference in warfare today? Have y0u ever seen 6 modern GIT pilot unfuFI his parachute and safely Heat to earth from . cFips pIeA ship? It didn't used Co be that way. In World War One, men rode 'em down. and how.
 Thore was Prank Luke, the Aits sonA kid who has on ak field named for him in Hawai-. one evening, Prank Swooped low over my battery and dropped . nias. sage, "check balloons for me. Luko". Wo did, IIo shot down tliroo, net to mention Q couple Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26

like it, tell us or the Editor. America has grown great be- cause people e e X p r e s s e d t h e m s e l v e s freely and then had the cour-
 age to stand up and fight for what they believed to be right. That's why we got a great lift from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26
CANADIAN LEGION
 MEETING TONIGHT

The Canadian Legion win hold II1 regular meeting tonight in Cnnadi1n Legion HaIl instsad of tomcrrOV e is the organizations practlce. An members are requested to attend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26
AMATEUR

Barney Oldfeld, famous race driver, never drove an automobile until a few hours before his first race, yet he beat the worlds cham pion by half @ mile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26
BY BILL GARRIGUS

This column invites criticism. If you like what you read here, tell your neighbors; if you don't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26

Uruguay IS shipping thFoe-fourtiM of its iDl0-li wool clip to tho United states.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26

In the hope of shipping more tO the United States Cuba is increasing the acreage planted to peppers, pc tatoes and cticumbers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26
Daily Statistics
 On Auto Accidents

General Traffic Accident Data
 Total number of traf1c accidents reported for last year as of this dase .................. SVSS
 Estimated number of traffic ac- cidents caused 90 Ear this year as of this date .................... 31S6
 Total number Of personal injuries caused last year as of this date 1904
 Estimated number of personal in- juries caused so far this year as of this date ...................... 1851
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26

the difficult job of making our training school success (NOw, if they'd only display the Flag up there, maybe things would be much better all arOund.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26

New York Novelette: The band came I'D the hard way-struggling through a tedious diet of one nighters before it clicked in New York It is a cooperative crew Shortly after they hit the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26

There was Prank Luke, the Ait. sona kid who has an aF field named for him in Hawaii. one evening, Prank Ewo0ped low over my battery and dropped . fIisss sage, "check balloons for nio. LAko". WO did, IIo shot down
 tliroo, net 10 mention Q couple Of Hun fighting khlps. pays later.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26
Motorized A "Thunderbird"

ervation from Texas by a crew
of. Government workers whose
job IL was to help the Indians
save their crops from a plague of
crickets That had reached alarm
ing proportions.
The modern Thunderbird was
loaded with poisonous dust and
IL flew over the Indians farms
scattering stuff on the crickets
like a cloud. Three or four times
an hour the plane would land,
take on another load of insecti-
eide and go aloft again. In one
day it could attack the crickets
over an area of 5000 acres.
Perhaps the main reason that
the Indians thought they had seen
a motorized Thhnderbird is be-
cause the work Of fighting the
critkets was previously done by
crews on the ground who could
not do one-tenth the work OF the
plane.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

A LTHOUGH the Indians
IA who live on the Oregon
Y V Warm Springs Reserva-
ton have adopted most Of the
ways of the White Mans ciYiliza-
ton, many of them still believe
in the old Indian legends includ-
ing the existence Of the Thunder
bird.
To the Redmen. the Thunder
bird is the huge and winged
equivalent Of the White Mans
God. The creature is, supposedly,
so big that every rainstorm was
merely the splitting of water from
a depression in the feathers of its
back.
Not long ago the Oregon In
dams stared in pop-eyed amaze
ment at a man-made Thunder
bird" with wings like a windmill
and a powerful motor as it's driv-
ing force. This bird was an auto
giro which was flown 10 the res
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

the house, is in darkness. The
whisker remover carries its own
light which throws a small circle
OF illumination on the face right
where the blade is doing its work.
Another of the pictures on this
page shows that the girls have
not been forgotten during these
days when thousands of people
have to live a sort of twilight ex-
istence at night. This photo
graph shows an ultra-modern lip
stick which. like the razor, car
ries its own electric light. In the
pitch dark the owner of such
paraphernalia can get her lip
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26
Razors. Lipstieks and Pen.
ellis That Light Up Make II
Possible for People to Live More
Or Less Normal Lives Even
During a BIitz

for them to shoot" people and
scenes and to get sharp pictures
without any light whatever.
There are reports that German
inventors-since the British
bombers have been making it a
regular habit to LAY eggs" on
Berlin, Hamburg and other Nazi
cities-are working on many gad-
gets TO beat the blackout, too,
and that they have turned out
a small handlamp that makes it
possible to read the latest COM
muniques in a very small but
bright beam of light.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

might be called a
"blackout" pencil, a de-
vice that makes it possible to
write reports or letters without
the slightest danger of showing
so much as a flicker Of light to
an enemy airman.
Just as interesting as these
contraptions are various kinds of
fluorescent fabrics which glow
under their own power. Some
time ago an ingenious American
manufacturer turned out carpets
for movie theatres which are so
made that they give off enough
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

light to guide people safely up
and down the aisles and in and
out of their seats.
1t is said that a great deal of
experimenting is being done with
such material for possible home
use in the event that Americans
should ever have to accustom
themselves TO the inconvenience
of the blackout.
The English people adapted
themselves so well to hS'ng in
the dark that their news photog-
raphers were supplied with spe-
cial film which made it possible
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

One of the
Most Practical
Of Blackout
Gadgets Is a
Pencil
Equipped
and Battery
Which Throws
.a Small Circle
Of Light Onto
the Paper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

ANY MAN VINO 5a n lu
Insists on Keep 51|
ing His Face Neat sl' &
TN Spite of the Dan 1f 4; Fl
gers and DiscomfOrts
of War Can DO So With \3
the Help Of an Ultra ~
Modern Razor That Carries '
Its Own Light.
- HE people of the British Isles
don't live in the dark quite
! as much as they used to in
the early days of the Nazi blitz-
krieg on their islands. but they
still have TO be careful not 10
show too much light to help sky
raiders locate their targets on the
ground.
Proving again the familiar
adage that necessity is the
mother of invention, the British
people have learned TO use many
a gadget devised by up-and-com-
ing inventors who have devoted
their time and talents to beating
the blackout.
The photographs on this page
show only three of many such
implements. One is safety razor
with which a man can get
proper shave even though the
bathroom, and all the rest Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

cresw hight instantly of money refunded. Send NO
honfv--lust youf name, address and shos size. Pay
wrapped package cor usS msnsy sss sai save poit-
sNi. hirt-AbpfH, bex 752, Dept. A, ssstsn, hsii.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

The Girls, Too,
Can Rouge
Their Lips
without
Showing So
Much as q
Pin-Point of
Light to
Enemy Filters
With the New
Self
Illuminating
Lipstick.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26
HEl:!lli;1
AZ onss or Money Back

\ Don't bt tmbafftssfd mn
b. shortness. lis easy
10 appear INCHES Pr
TALLER - INSTANTLY With
u our improved insention--wssr In
your SHOES like an insole. Trans.
fsrabls from one pair 10 another.
No one knows what you wear
Comfortable Ind posture improving
mo stretching or exercises. Wear
What ilol5vood movie stars wear
In their shoes Formerly sold no
20 $500 pair. NOW 500 A PAis.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-03
Returns From WOOdmen
Circle Convention

Mrs. T. E. Bishoff, state president
of the Woodmen Circle, and recently
elected district president also, has re-
turned from Omaha, Nebraska, where
the Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
held its 50th anniversary meeting.
More than $500 members attended
the four-day conclave which began
June %.
The group has 1872 thousand men,
bers and was founded in Denver
Colo, January IL, 1891. The group be-
gan as "The Mystic Circle" but
changed its name in January, 1892
According to statistics this organiza-
ton has assets of more than 35 mil
lion dollars, ranks tenth in size among
all fraternal groups and is third
among societies managed by women
1t has paid benefits to it's members
and beneficiaries totaling $43 1888, 500
since it was organized so years ago.
Quite few women of Garrett
county are members of this group. A
district meeting was held in Oakland
about three weeks ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-03

often lose sight of the original significance of ho
days Too many people think of December 25 Christmas
time gifts and for the little the time for Santa Claus
They fail recognize that is the birthday anniversary
of Christ, the Saviour of the World.
Likewise too many people think of July day to celebrate
with ecrackes and other loud nosemag and stop
the birthday anniversary of the declaration of
independence
When jefferson and his colleagues the Deca-
ton independence they set forth for all time the basic n
cpes true democracy They just true today they
when adopted on July 4, 1776.
eve hold these truths to be sefeVdenthat all men
ated equal they endowed by their Creator with certain
inaenab rights that these life liberty and the pur
suit happiness That these rights governments
instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the
sent of the governed"
eve who were freedom cannot imagine world with
out it, writes Peggy der Goz in This Week Magazine THAT
Bunker Hill and Valley Forge has been het
age of strength and courage through the years"
Today America the only stronghold of freedom in the world
This Fourth of July and everywhere should for
short time just realize what the day stands for and to de-
termne citizens today will pledge less than the people Of
1776, to preserve if necessary, independence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-03
Referendum Likely
On Garrett Measure
Second Group of Signatures on
Petition Have Been Sent

The Garrett county bill dealing with
election of County Commissioners will
be kept off statute books pending a
referendum at the November, 1912,
election, if the attorney general finds
that a referendum petition filed with
Secretary of State Miles T. Tull, is in
proper legal form.
The measure, signed by Governor
O'Conor, several weeks ago, would
provide for the election of three coun-
ty commissioners every four years, as
formerly, but would divide the coun-
ty into three county commissioner dis
tricts for the election.
The story of the petition appeared
in the Republican in it's June issue,
and at that time petitions with 581
names had been sent to the secretary
of state. The referendum law permits
petitioners to submit signatures in
two installments and the second
group of signatures was received.
Employees at the governors office
said sufficient number of sigma
lures had been obtained and that if
the attorney general approved the pc
tition a referendum would be ordered.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-03
Marriage Licenses
Reach All ime High
With 336 for June

Oakland had the biggest month it
has ever had in regard to issuance of
marriage licenses at the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court, a total of
1876 having been issued during June.
The revenue from the applications
($100 EACH and the licenses $500
cach) amounted to more than $1,000.
This brought the total for the first
six months of the year to 1904, and
the number of applications to 1247,
of a total of SO, 655.00 in revenue.
Before the days of any marriage
restriction laws in other states and
before there was any need of appli-
cations, 1900 was a large figure for
the entire year. Then when Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia made a few
restrictions the number increased to
around $500 annually until Mary
land placed 48-hour waiting law on
the statute books. The annual num-
Der decreased for a short time but
with further restrictions and require
ments of other states, Maryland has
again become a mecca for prospective
couples.
Tho total b,, ,,oo,o+I fo1, tbe firef civ
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-03
4 Boys Are Held On
Charges of Larceny

At hearing before Magistrate H.
A. Loraditch yesterday, four young
boys, Lawrence Welch, John Baker,
Jr., Elmer Roy Nair, and Kenneth
Tasker, were held for action of the
September Grand Jury on charges of
larceny of a quantity of brass valves,
copper, gasoline, and other material
from the States Harrington Manor
property, several miles west of Oak
land
George NJ. Browning, forest war
den, said the property stolen was
valued around $4,000 Bond was set at
$500 each and the amount was fur
nished for WEIGH and Baker, and they
were released. The two others remain
in the county Jail,
Sheriff j. W. Owens is Investigate
ing the theft Of two tires, two wheels,
headlights, horn and other acces-
sories, taken about o'clock this
morning from car and truck Of the
NuWay Laundry which were parked
near the laundry building.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-03
State Tax Commission
Reviews Assessment
E. r. Jones Makes Appeal from
Assessment of $50 Acres
OF Land

f, Ray Jones, Oakland, former sec
rotary of State in the Governor Nice
administration, yesterday appealed to
the state tax commission in Balti-
more from an assessment by the Gar
rett county commissioners against
$50 acres of land near Kitzmiller.
Jones told the commission that the
county last year sought to raise the
assessment on the land from $4,000
to $5,598, basing the increase on GER
tain coal deposits which had not been
assessed for more than ten years.
Jones said the commissioners
assessed him for 483 acres of coal de-
posits but contended that the actual
minable coal did not exceed ten or
fifteen acres.
He said the plot was bought in by
the county commissioners for de-
linquent taxes in 1880 and that three
years later he bought it for fifty
cents an acre. He said the site had
been abandoned by the Garrett Coun-
ty Coal and Mining Company about
1928, and that his only interest in the
property was as timber raising
project.
In 1886, Jones told the commission,
he granted permission to a private
operator to take off what coal could
be mined from the abandoned work
ings. 1t did not exceed more than
about ten acres, Jones said.
Cheston H. Browning, member of
the Garrett County Board of Com
missioners and Horace P. Whitworth,
Westernport, representing the board
said it was the custom in Garrett
county to assess all coal property on
the basis of total holdings, regardless
of the actual amount of coal in the
ground
Whitworth said approximately o.
600 tons of coal had been taken from
the property in the past five years,
indicating that it had some COM
mercial value.
The county sought to reassess
Jones holdings for three years prev
ious to 1910, the year in question: but
the tax commission ruled that action
illegal on the grounds that Jones had
not been properly notified.
The commission took the 1910
assessment under advisement.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-03
ia 2l-YEAR- OLDS SIGN
UP IN End REGISTRATION
Youths to Be Given Numbers
Following Meeting on Wednes
day, July 8, Board Announces

One hundred twenty-four twenty
one-year-old men presented them
selves in Garrett county on Tuesday
to register for the nations second
class of conscripts and to replenish
the lists from which are being drafted
the manpower for the greatest armed
force in the history of the country.
The youths were registered at the
office of the local draft board, as
there was only one place designated
for that purpose. In Allegany county
there was total of 597 from four
draft boards, with Frostburg topping
the list with total of 1879.
A few of those registering at the
local office in Oakland were out of
county registrants and their cards
will be forwarded to the proper adj
dress. Any from this county who may
have registered at other places, will
be forwarded here prior to number
ing the men.
The Garrett county draft board will
meet on Wednesday, July 8, at which
time the cards of the various regis
trants will be shuffled and numbered,
and names and numbers will be ready
for publication on Thursday, July 10.
In the first draft registration last
October 16, a total of 242,330 men
registered in Maryland, including
around 2,400 from this county Tues
days registrants are expected to
raise this pool of manpower for the
state to more than 254,000.
Already more than 10000 Mary
land men have been indicted into
service and are now in training in
army camps throughout the country.
The Maryland selective service sys-
tenn on Tuesday enrolled approx
mately $4,000 new eligibles but lost
about $4,000 potential selectees
through the new national ruling Civ
ing a thirty-day deferment to men
who have reached the age of %.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-03
FIREMEN READY
FOR MAMMOTH
PARADE FRIDAY
To Climax Sixth Annual Cele-
bratiOn-9 Bands, 2 Drum
Corps, 26 Fire Companies
On List

The Firemen's sixth annual cele-
bration will be climaxed tomorrow
with one of the largest parades ever
held here, providing those who have
planned to participate arrive on
schedule.
Robert Stanton, of the parade COM
mittee announced this morning that
twenty-siX fire companies, nine bands
and two drum corps had answered
their invitation to attend, saying that
they would be here tomorrow. Stan
ton said that there were also several
others expected.
Those expecting to be here include
fire companies of the following towns,
Midland, Potomac of Westernport,
Frostburg, Friendsville, Barton,
Bloomington, Grantsville, Maryland;
Piedmont, Tunnelton, Sabraton, Graf
ton, Kingwood, Westover, Mason
town, Parsons, Terra Alta, Rowles-
burg, Thomas, Davis, Keyser, Rom
ney, Hopemont and Newburg, w. Va;
Fairchance, Confluence, and Meyers
dale, Pa.
Bands are expected from Meyers
dale, Terra Alta, Parsons, Grants
vile, Masontown, Westover, Loeb
Lynn, Oakland and Rowlesburg, while
the drum corps are from Piedmont
and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, of
Cumberland. There will also be sew
eral floats, The Oakland Boy Scouts
and perhaps other organizations in
the procession.
The parade will form on Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth streets, between Oak
and Alder streets, and facing Oak.
The parade will move west on Oak to
Third, on Third to Crook, Crook to
Second, Second to Alder, and around
the square to the Carnival grounds.
The fire companies, bands and drum
corps will compete for prizes totaling
$4,000 with first prize in each class
amounting to $4,000 and second prize,
$4,000.
Amusement, shows and rides are
being provided by the World of Fun
Shows. They will remain here the en-
tire week. The carnival grounds are
located on the old Glades hotel lot.
A scheduled feature of the celebra-
ton will be the selection of Miss
Oakland by a popularity contest.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-03
Storm Damages Crops
In Gortner Vicinity
Lightning Knocks Man UncOn-
sciOus at Red House Yesterday
Afternoon

A downpour of rain yesterday
brought relief from the heat wave
which struck the county this week,
but the rain reached cloudburst pro-
portions in the Gortner section, caus-
ing widespread damage to crops and
injuring one person by lightning.
Clayton Mosser, %, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Mosser, was paralyzed for
a time when lightning struck in the
vicinity of Ben Knepp's barn at Red
House. Mosser was standing in a
doorway and was reaching up to close
the door when the lightning struck
He was unconscious for time and
unable to use his right arm and left
leg, but he was reported much i'm
proved this morning. He is one of the
draftees called for July IA.
The heavy rain caused the small
streams in the Gortner community to
rise rapidly, flooding bottomlands and
damaging crops. The State road in
several places was covered with water
and the electrical storm was also
severe in the Oakland area, tree be-
ing struck on the Delbert Davis prop
erty, Seventh and Green streets. At
the home of Mrs. Knox, Sixth street,
lightning entered the house and de-
molished mirror on a dresser in a
bedroom.
Yesterdays storm was the second
in week, heavy rain falling Satur-
day afternoon which for time threat
ened to flood the business section of
Oakland.
On Tuesday the mercury reached
80 at the official station at Weber's,
and was almost as hot yesterday af-
ternoon prior to the storm. A steady
rain is falling today and cloudiness is
predicted for tomorrow, July 4.