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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-22
Minnesota Jurist Dies
International News service Wire

MILWAUKEE,, Wis. Sept. %
Democratic circles today mourned
the death Of John =. Dcvaney. So,
former chief Justice of the Mime
sofa Supreme Court, who recently
announce hls candidacy for
United States senator in 1912.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-22
Wage Ceiling
Urged by Bdrulh
Hits Opposition
BY GRIFFING BANCROFT
Init News Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22-Rep.
Henry B. Steagall Cd Of Ala
bama,' chairman of the House
banking and currency committee,
today predicted that no wage con-
troll provision would be written
into the pending price-fixing bill
In his first public Statement on
the matter, given In an interview
ISteagall took issue with Bernard
M. Baruch, economic car OF the
last war who urged far-reaching
bill TO set ceilings on all prices,
rents and wages.
While. terming the proposal 10
fix wages impossible" Steagall
said his committee faces two bit
ter showdown fights before the
bill can be reported out. These are
over whether price control should
be administered by one man or by
a board, and whether agricultural
prices should be fixed at partly or
at 10 per cent above parity.
CAN'T BE DONE
"Wage ceilings Just can't be
imposed without taking away all
labOr's rights 20 negotiate and
neither Congress nor the courts
would let us do that even n We
wanted to-" the Alabaman said.
ANY one who really studied
that matter through would
realize that, and I think Mr..
Baruch realizes IL, for while he
urged a wage ceiling he indi-
Gated he didn't believe we could
do much more to control wages
than we are doing now"
Steagall refused 10 commit
himself on whether he favored one
man control or board administra.
ton. saying only that that will
have TO be thrashed out in the
committee. He urged, however
that farm price fixing be limited
TO 40 per cent of parity rather
than at parity, as advocated BY
Baruch.
I'VE have been fighting for
years to get the farmers a fair
deal, and we're Just now getting
it," he said. 81 don't see how
any one who believes I'm parity
for agriculture could object to
the 10 per cent clause"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-22
Owosso Attorney Dead

OWOSSO, Sept. %. - Van r
Pond. 81. classmate Of Charles
Evans Hughes i1-the law school al
Columbia University, is dead 10
day. He was city attorney oi
Owosso for the past % years.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-22

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-22

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-22

FIRST BAsEMENr-FARMER-sEcrIoN q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-22

Warn of
Big Strike

NEW YORK. Sept. 22.-Sea-
farers' international Union (AFL)
today warned the United States
Maritime Commission that il IL
manned any more strike-bound
ships the STU would call a general
strike of it's 10000 members on %
American steamship lines
Officials of the union, which
already has tied up 10 vessels in
six ports in a dispute over the
payment OF war-risk bonuses. an
nounced that machinery for the
general walkout has been put in
motion.
Capt Granville Conway district
manager OF the commission, i'm
mediately accepted the union 5
challenge by asserting:
rhpSe ships arr not going tn
lie here idle, you can bet your
life on that"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
Maryland Alumni Form
County Organization

Members of the Alumni of the Uni
versity of Maryland, College Park,
organized a county group at a meet
ing last Friday night in the William
James hotel, and elected DR.. E. l.
Baumgartner as chairman.
Other officers were Thur Tower,
vice-chairman and Mrs. Leo Helbig,
secretary. The executive committee
consists of these three and Wayne
Hamilton, E. R. Jones and Mary Vir-
ginia Bolden.
1t is the plan of the group to con-
tact other alumni of the university
in other parts of the county and to
call another meeting in the fall.
Assisting in the organization were
DR.. Reuben Steinmeyer, department
of political economy, University of
Maryland; Harlan Randall, head of
the music department there, and
George F. Pollock, alumni secretary
The organization meeting followed a
regular meeting of the Oakland Ro-
tary club at which the University of
Maryland graduates were guests.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
English Madrigal
Singers At Park
Sunday Afternoon

The English Madrigal Singers
under the direction of Clarence C.
Arms, Clarksburg, w. Va, will give
a program this Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock in the Amphitheatre at Mt.
Lake Park.
Maryland Chautauqua has pre-
sented unusually fine and interesting
programs in its first season this sum-
mer. The English Madrigal Singers
will rank equally in merit with any
program of the current season, ac-
cording to Rev. Felix Robinson, di-
rector. 1t is the only organization of
its kind in the United States. The
ensemble is composed of eleven
mixed voices distinguished for su-
perior tone production, and flawless
technique. 1t has made a speciality of
Elizabethean Lyrics and Madrigals.
1t has just returned with new-won
laurels from Los Angeles, Calf,
where it sang at the last session of
the Convention of the National Fed
GRAFTON of Music Clubs. 1t was pro-
nounced by the National Federation
of Music as a top-ranking organiza-
ton.
The ensemble makes an attractive
appearance, both men and women
being dressed in Elizabethean CO.'S
tune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
Canning Of Peas Is
Concluded At Mt. Lake
Southern Packing Company
Gets $4,000 Cases from
600 Acres

The Southern Packing Company
concluded its canning of the Garrett
county pea crop last Friday at its
plant at Loeb Lynn Heights, with the
total reaching $4,000 cases. Of this
number 10000 cases were the Alaska
variety while about 10000 were the
sweets, according to Joseph WEIGH,
local plant manager.
According to plant officials the
yield was considered good. There were
600 acres of peas planted by numerous
farmers of the county which yielded
more than ton per acre. In the
Grantsville section 315 tons of peas
were harvested from 282 acres.
The cannery was in operation for
over four weeks with 125 people en-
plOyed in the work. The viners in the
county are being cleaned up, the ma
chinery stored, etc, and the company
also is expecting to paint the buildings
before closing them for the season.
The packing company will also
handle corn this year but the crop will
not be harvested until August 20. The
company has $50 acres of corn in the
field.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
TAX SALE TUMBLE
MAY JEOPARDIZE
MUCH PROPERTY
Numerous Parcels Obtained by
Commissioners Through Tax
Sales and ResOld Have
Defective Titles

A custom in disposition of tax
sales, used by county officials for
around forty years, and now in effect
invalidated by a decision of Judge
Sloan handed down last fall, may
jeopardize the properties of hun
dreds of Garrett county citizens, and
may even cause expense amounting
to thousands of dollars before the
matter is properly adjusted and
everything done according to law.
Although such a situation has
been vaguely known by a few for the
past several months, it is becoming
more and more evident to interested
taxpayers and will officially come to
some sort of head in October.
In understandable words, all this
means that people who purchased
properties from the County Commits
sioners, after having been turned
over to the latter when there were
no individual bids at tax sales, do not
have clear titles to their properties,
as in nine-tenths of the cases there
was never any order nisi published
and never any ratification of the
sale made when the county treas
urer at the time turned over the
properties to the Commissioners.
Wherever this procedure was not
carried out the Commissioners never
received a clear title from the for
mer owner and therefore could not
legally resell the property. What this
will mean to the hundreds of people
who purchased such properties, have
taken timber or coal therefrom or
who have put hundreds, perhaps
thousands of dollars of improvements
upon them, is a real tangle that may
take years to iron out.
The County Commissioners have
about 200 such properties on their
hands at present which have never
been resold to individuals, and to
clear up the title to these properties
they hired Horace Whitworth, Jr, a
Westernport attorney, about six
months ago.
Mr.. Whitworth said that former
owners of all these properties have
been sent tax bills, and that if they
appear before the first of October
and pay four years of back taxes
they will be legally entitled to their
property. Otherwise they will be re-
sold at tax sale shortly after that
and if bid in again by the Commits
sioners this time a clear title will be
given in the legal and approved
manner.
Mr.. Whitworth also pointed out
that it was the responsibility of the
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
PLANS ARE SHAPING FOR
ANNUAL TENNIS TOURNEY
Receipt of Number of Entry
Blanks Indicates 22nd Annual
Event Will Be Up to Standard

Early receipt of a number of entry
blanks for entrance in the Mt. Lake
Park Tennis tournament, to be held on
the Park tournament courts August
II to Is, indicates that the 22nd an
nual event will be up to standard and
may even surpass former tournaments
in number of entries.
Announcement that she had already
received quite a number of entries was
made by Mrs. w. N. Skyles, chairman
Of the finance committee. Frank Rob
erts, Baltimore, secretary of the Mid
die Atlantic Association, has written
| that he expects to bring a group of
young tennis players with him from
the Baltimore area which will furnish
stiff opposition to the group from
Pittsburgh and that area. Alex Kettles,
Baltimore, has already stated he will
attend. He was runner-up for the
mems singles event one year. Thus far
it is not known whether Arlo Klinetob,
1910 winner, will return to seek an
other leg on the cup, but Mrs. Skyles
announced that Miss Joy Hartman,
Pittsburgh, who won the womens
singles event in 1888 and 1889, will re-
turn to attempt to win permanent pos
session of the challenge pitcher She
lost out in the finals last year to Mrs
Marta Andraide, of Florida. The latter
is not expecting to compete this year.
Col. Hugh Miller, Washington, D. c.,
husband of the former Mrs. Izetta
Jewell Brown, of Kingwood and Hon.
Jennings Randolph, West Virginia
congressman, will enter the doubles
event.
Mems singles begin August II at 10
a. NJ, the women's singles the follow
ing day, and finals events are sched-
uled for Saturday, August 16.
The tournament is sponsored by the
/ Woman's Civic club of Mt Lake Park,
and is sanctioned by the United States
Lawn Tennis Association. The Tennis
| committee is arranging for benefit
card party on Tuesday, August 5, at
the Mt. Lake Hotel, with Mrs. w. d.
Grimes in charge. Admission will be
rs cents and reservations may be made
by calling 249-W.
The Tennis committee is composed
Of R. E. Weber, chairman, Oakland;
w. j, Clardy, Clarence A. Hartman,
John R. Brown, Miss Dolly Harris,
Pittsburgh; Mrs. Evelyn Claybrook
Bowie, Cumberland; Will Weber and
Raymond Rapp, Clarksburg, W. Va;
Wright Hugus, Wheeling, W. Va;
Elmer Rudy, Denwood Kelly, Frank G.
Roberts, Baltimore; Mrs. Naomi
! Thompson, Washington, Pa; Miss
Katharine McLain and Miss Frances
Grimes, Mt. Lake Park.
The social committee is planning for
reception the first night of the tour
nament and a dance during the week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
TAXPAYERS FORM
ORGANIZATION AT
MEETINCTUESDAY
Harvey GOrtner, Grantsyille, is
President - Executive Com
mittee and Directors Are
Named

Organization of a Garrett County
Taxpayers Association was effected
Tuesday evening with the election of
officers, and the naming of the exec
utive committee and board of di-
rectors.
The meeting was held in the di-
rectors' room in the Garrett National
Bank building, with about twenty-five
men from various sections of the
county attending.
Harvey Gortner, Grantsville, was
named president; R. O. Mccullough,
Friendsville, vice-president; Lester
Yutzy, Crellin, secretary; and Adam
Richter, Accident, treasurer. The
executive committee includes James
P. Treacy, Oakland; j. E. Helbig,
Deer Park; Quincy A, Murphy
Fricndsville; Dempsey Fleming, Mt
Lake Park; Virgil 7. Steyer, Steyer
and Messrs. Yutzy and Gortner as
eX-officio members.
Twenty-Five men were named to
the board of directors: James P
Treacy, DR.. w. w. Grant, George
Loar, Arthur Naylor, Truman Bit
finger, Clarence Murphy, BENZ. H.
Sincell, E. A. Shaffer, w. R. Brown
ing, Russell Smith, Oakland; Demp-
sey r. Fleming, John Ream, Mt Lake
Park; j. Edward Helbig, Deer Park;
Benz. F. Knepp, Red House; Virgil
Steyer, Steyer; Lester Yutzy, Crellin;
Sanford Moon, w. R. Pendergast
Hutton; Ray Mccullough, Quincy
Murphy, Friendsville; Harvey Gort-
ner, w. E. Stanton, Grantsville; F. E.
Spoerlein, William Lohr and Adam
Richter, Accident The organization
has the power to name other mem
bers to the board,
The organization adopted bylaws
one Of them specifically excluding
from voting in the association any
person holding an elective or APP
pointive salaried office. This is to
prevent any individual using the or
ganization as political stepping
stone.
Membership dues were placed at
$1OO year, or $500 per year for
those who felt able and willing to be
listed as sustaining members. A
membership campaign will be con-
Quoted, to begin after Labor Day
September 1, which will include a
series of meetings around the county
The Executive committee will work
out definite program between now
and the opening of the membership
campaign, according to those in
charge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
Lots Sold Saturday
Fire Damages the William Welch
Farm Home At GOrtner

Fire, starting from a kerosene
lamp, or lightning, partially de-
stroyed the farm home of William
WEIGH, at Gortner, about $50 o'clock
yesterday morning.
A bedroom on the second floor of
the dwelling and the roof of the struc-
ture were badly damaged by the fire
and water and fire damaged other
rooms before being brought under
control.
The Oakland fire department re-
sponded to the call and was on the
scene in about ten minutes, although
the distance from Oakland to Gort-
ner is five miles. With plenty of water
available the department, assisted by
neighbors of the Welchs soon had the
fire eXtinguished.
Those living near the WEIGH place
assisted in clearing the house of fur
niture and other articles from the
first floor Of the house and the base
ment.
The family was eating breakfast at
the time the fire was discovered. An
investigation later showed a hole in
the bedroom floor just above where
two electric wires run and it was
thought lightning had entered the
building during the early morning
and that sparks had smouldered be-
tween the partition, finally breaking
through. The damage was covered by
insurance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
Savage Dam Worker Dies of
Injuries Suffered June q

John Austin Thomas, 26, of Iona
coming, died yesterday morning in
Reeves clinic, Westernport, where he
had been patient for the past month.
Thomas was one of three men in
jured in an explosion at the Savage
River dam June "a. The other two men
have recovered but Thomas had been
confined to the clinic since the acct
dent. The accident occurred when
Thomas was drilling a hole for a
charge and struck dynamite which had
not discharged in previous shooting.
He was hurled through the air and
struck the ground 40 feet from the
scene of the blast.
Surviving are his mother and four
sisters.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
10 Listed in Draft
Call for August 9Th

The list of sixteen men who have
been ordered into the service under
call No. 16, has been released by the
county draft board. These men will
be indicted on August 8. The list
includes:
Jesse Raymond Shuttleworth, Oak
land; John Henry Skipper, Deer
Park; Russell Ami Rodeheaver, Oak
land; Clayford Dennis DERRICK, Bit
finger; Albert N. McCrobie, Swanton
Edward S. Lee, Altamont; Cecil Will
liam Stanton, Grantsville; Daniel
Webster Baker, Swanton; John Paul
Burzenski, Grantsville; Joe Milavee,
Shallmar; Lawrence Canada burst,
Grantsville, and William Knauer
Glotfelty, Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
Income Tax Percentage to
Be Distributed to Counties

State Comptroller J. Millard Tawes
announced that $974,319 was being dis
tributed among Baltimore city and
the counties as their first share of
State income taxes.
Under income tax law each county
and Baltimore city receives twenty
five percent of taxes paid by it's resi-
dent individuals. County funds 60 to
the county commissioners and incorpo-
rated towns. Other distributions will
be made after the second and third
installments on income tax are paid,
the last due September Is. Baltimore
will receive $554,159
Garrett county will get 81, 1858 of
the total amount.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
Potato Growers Plan
Field Day August 8
Producers of Preston and Gar
rett Counties to Take
Field Trip

Potato growers in Garrett county,
Md, and Preston county, w. Va,
have decided to hold a joint potato
Field Day on August 8. This will be
the first one of its kind in these
counties and has aroused much inter-
est among growers.
Plans at present call for the group
to tour some of the more outstanding
potato fields in Preston county in the
morning, including experimental
work in potatoes conducted by the
University, at Reedsville, and a visit
to Fred Stemple's farm at Aurora.
The group will be at Reedsville at
$50. Mr., Stemple is president of the
Preston County Potato Growers AS
ISOLATION and of the West Virginia
Potato Growers Association. Tenta-
tive plans call for a picnic lunch at
Mr.. Stemple's farm.
In the afternoon the group will
tour two or more of CARROTS out
standing potato farms including that
of William DeBerry, at Oakland, at
whose farm the University of Mary
land is conducting variety and fertil-
izer trials. The group will reach the
DeBerry farm at about 1870.
Leading authorities on potato pro-
duction and marketing will be present
from both the University of Mary
land and West Virginia University.
DR.. Kyle C. Westover, research in
vegetables; DR.. j. G. Leach, head of
the plant pathology department, A.
L. Keller, vegetable gardens, of
West Virginia University; and DR..
R. A. Jehle, plant pathologist, DR..
R. P. Thomas, soils, and DR.. C. Ora
ham, assistant instructor in the en-
tymology department, University of
Maryland, will be present.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
Rain Helps Crops,
Lightning Causes
Damage III County
Several Homes and One Church
Damaged By Lightning;
Temperature Reaches 81
On Sunday

Numerous thunder storms during
the past week have caused extensive
damage in the county, while only
partially serving their purpose of
breaking the heat wave that has en-
quilted the entire eastern section of
the United States. The rain itself was
a needed relief from the dry spell.
While people sweltered in near 100
degree heat off the mountain top
however, Garrett countians and sum
mer visitors here were enjoying the
90-degree temperature that prevailed
for several days and were thankful
for the comparatively cool nights.
Thunder showers have been pretty
general throughout the county with
lightning at extremely close quarters.
Friday evening lightning struck
the chimney on the Jesse J. Ashby
home, Pennington street, also tearing
up portion of the roof around the
chimney and playing peculiar tricks
inside the house, not the least of
which was filling the living room
with SCOT. The same shock caused a
mirror in the Smouse home nearby
to fall, and Arthur Naylor, another
neighbor, in the bathtub, was knocked
flat but apparently not shocked or
otherwise injured. The fire depart
mont O,,II hut
sued.
During another storm the follow
ing evening lightning struck the roofs
of the Robert Hazlett and Funden-
berg homes on Crook Crest, damag-
ing them slightly. That evening at
Accident the spire on the Zion Luth-
eran church at Accident was struck,
tearing a hole in the roof and knock
ing off bits of weather boarding from
the spire. 1t also struck the home of
Joe Collier, at the Cove, causing a
fire in the kitchen which was brought
under control after some damage.
An electric storm ragged in the Nc
Henry section on Monday evening
and there a quantity of hail fell.
Gardens were washed and damaged
Another violent electric storm
swept over Oakland, Sand Flat and
the Lake section on Tuesday evening
and yesterday morning. Lightning
struck a tree yesterday morning near
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Umstot, just south of the Little
Yough bridge on Third street, and
tore a hole in the ground The house,
however, escaped damage 1t was
thought the fire at the William Welch
home at Gortner yesterday morning
might also have been the result of
! lightning.
Sunday was the hottest day of the
week, the temperature reaching 81
degrees. 1t was 80 on both Monday
and Tuesday and slightly cooler on
Wednesday, although the sun beat
down with intensity. A cool breeze
kept the temperature down in the
sos.
The storms of Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning continued to
cause damage to gardens but proba-
bly, helped crops more than they were
damaged as the ground had been dry
and in need of moisture.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
Moose Lodge to Meet

Announcement has been made for a
special meeting of the Moose lodge
at the Manhattan hotel on Friday
evening at o'clock.
This will be an open meeting and
all interested people are invited to
attend, Frank Shriver, governor of
Frostburg lodge, will be there. Of
ficers will be appointed and other
business matters discussed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
u. S. o. Drive
Sheriff Searching for
''Trusty" Who Scrammed

The sheriff is searching for a
"trusty" that apparently wasn't to be
trusted.
Frank Curry, who was sentenced to
60 days in Jail for a violation of the
automobile regulations, walked out
of the office on Monday morning and
must be trusting to luck" to remain
at large.
"'I'll bring him back" Sheriff j. w.
Owens said this morning. Curry is
from Friendsville where he is en-
ployed as an automobile mechanic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31

c. H. O'Brien had his right eye re
moved last Thursday at the Reeves
clinic, Westernport. He had been in
the hospital for three weeks receiv-
ing treatment in the hope of saving
his sight, but without success.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-31
No Report Yet on
Aluminium Drive;
USODrive to Begin

Collection of the aluminium into one
central place, following the gather
ing of pots, pans, etc, in various
communities last week, was begun
this week by the County Commission
ers. Thus far over six hundred
pounds of aluminium have been
weighed but there are several COM
munities yet to contact.
The offer of the Imperial Ice
Cream company is having a lot of
success. One dealer reported he had
received 100 pieces yesterday. Each
dealer is authorized to give away
free a chocolate imp or popsicle to
any person bringing in a piece of
aluminium during yesterday and to-
day. After all aluminium is collected
and weighed it will be trucked to
Baltimore.
U. S. o. Drive
Mayor L. M. Fraley, chairman of
the United Service Organization
drive, stated this morning that after
the aluminium drive was completed
that an effort would be made to OBJ
tain donations for the U. S. O. and
that the campaign would officially
begin next Wednesday, August 6.
Committee chairmen are to be named
in each community and it is planned
to place receptacles in number of
business establishments where peo-
pie may contribute.