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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06
SCHOOLS HERE
TO TRAIN FOR
DEFENSE JOBS
Vocational Classes To Be Set Up
First At Kitzmiller and Oak
land; HarpOld COOrdinatOr

Statewide expansion of the voca-
tional training program for national
defense has started in Maryland and
actual training will be on Garrett
county's list of opportunities within
month, it was announced this morn
ing by F. E. Rathbun, County Super
intendent of Schools.
Eugene Harpold, instructor of in
dustrial arts in Kitzmiller High
school, has been named coordinator
for this county to get the organiza-
ton under way and an actual program
started. At present it is planned to
set up training centers at Oakland
and Kitzmiller by April LIST, with
others being added later as demands
warrant.
All schools are planned to train the
youths and older men for jobs in de-
Tense industries; to provide refresh
er" courses for men who are not now
engaged in defense industries, and to
instruct men now gainfully employed
in such industries for better posi-
tons.
instruction may be given in ma
chine shop practice, electric and acety
lene welding and comprehensive
courses in electrical trades, includ-
ing motor winding, radio assembly,
coil winding, motor generators, etc.,
and in related technical subjects. The
courses in this county will necessar-
lily be limited at first. Instructors are
to be selected from citizens living in
Garrett county.
Young men or adults from other
counties or states are equally
privileged to attend these classes for
training.
The school at Kitzmiller will be
held in the elementary school build
ing, while in Oakland the school will
be held in the building on High street,
formerly the James Maroney dwelling,
now being used as a cafeteria. The
cafeteria will continue to operate for
the time being OF until the program
gets under way, Mr.. Rathbun said.
The money for these training CEN
tiers is being provided by the Federal
Government, plus local appropria-
tions. The Garrett County Commits
sioners appropriated $1,000 for ma
tional defense training courses, this
amount being one of the items in the
budget of the Board of Education.
This will provide for rent, purchase of
certain kinds of machinery and other
expenses.
Mr., Harpold expects to be in Oak
land frequently until the program
gets under way. Any person desiring
full information about the setup may
get in touch with Mr.. Rathbun at the
School Board office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06
$4,000 Received And
Spent By City In 1910
Financial Statement of Town of
Oakland Released For Pub
LEGATION Tuesday

The annual financial statement of
the town of Oakland was released for
publication following the final meet
ing OF the present council on Tuesday
evening and shows receipts during the
year of $37062.38 and expenditures of
S37,657.42, record year both for re-
ceipts and expenditures. The cash on
hand at the beginning of the fiscal
year made it possible to end the year
with surplus of $169.19.
The expenditures however included
repayment to two Oakland banks the
sum of $7,40O, $4,000 of which had
been borrowed in previous years.
The report which appears on an
other page of this newspaper shows
that the largest source of income was
from direct taxation, $14,096.09 hav-
ing been collected. The water depart
ment brought in $10,755.79 while re-
ceipts from all other sources totaled
$12,210.50.
The water department showed a
profit, expanding $10,486O6, and the
golf course came close to making ex-
penses this year, having taken in
$1,741.10, with expenditures of ST.
862.48. Receipts there have shown an
increase each year and indicate that
before long the course may be making
a profit for the town.
The town now owes nothing except
its bonded Indebtedness, amounting to
$4,000, for water and sewerage, cleo
trio, reservoir and community build
ing bonds.
The Council passed a resolution
recommending to the state Legislature
the passage of the fireworks bill.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06

CHARGE HLAID
TO WPA WORKER
Albert Dawson, of Bloomington,
Bound Over to Federal Grand
Jury Following Hearing

Albert Dawson, 33, Bloomington
WPA worker, was ordered held for
action of a federal jury on counter
feiting charges last Friday after a
preliminary hearing before United
States Commissioner James Alfred
Avirett, in Cumberland. He was COM
mitted to jail in default of $1,000
bond.
Similar charges against Robert
Kerns, of near Bloomington, were dis
missed because of insufficient evil
dence.
Makes Spirited Defense
Dawson pleaded not guilty and put
up spirited defense at the hearing
but testimony of five prosecution wit
nesses and discrepancies between his
admitted statements to officers on
Thursday and his testimony last Fri
day resulted in his being held
The man, employed on the Savage
River dam project, is accused of man.
ufacturing and passing a quantity of
spurious 50-cent coins.
Deputy United States Marshal
Loughrie told of finding ten of the
coins in Dawson's house, together
with crude equipment allegedly used
in their manufacture.
Corporal Doud, State police, and
Sheriff j. w. Owens testified that
when they went to the dam to arrest
Dawson at Loughrie's request, he
sought to flee from them but his at
tempt to escape over the mountains
was futile.
Says He Found Coins
Dawson at first denied any knowl-
edge of the counterfeit coins or their
manufacture but later said he "found"
them in the house and that they had
been made by Kerns, officers said. On
the stand he repudiated his statement
about Kerns. A bartender at Potomac
Inn testified one of the coins was
passed there Sunday night and iden-
titled Dawson as a member of the
party but could not swear as to who
laid the coin on the table in payment
for some beer.
Dawson maintained his innocence,
suggesting that some one had a
"grudge against him" and had
planted" the coins on his property.
The defendant explained his at
tempted flight from officers as due to
fear that they were going to arrest
him for "bootlegging." He said he
had half-pint of moonshine whiskey
given to him by "kind neighbors" for
medicinal purposes" Dawson is mar
ried and has two small children.
Dawson was taken to Baltimore
Tuesday to appear before the federal
grand jury and was indicted on the
charge of "counterfeiting fifty-cent
coins and passing quantity of them"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06
Names of 81 Draftees
Are Announced Today
Will Be Called For Induction
Into Army For Year on
March 20

The names of thirty-four draftees,
who have been called for induction
into training for one year, were re-
leased this morning by Harland L.
Jones, clerk to the local draft board,
and show that fourteen of those called
were volunteers.
The young men listed will be called
for service on Thursday, March 20.
This is the fourth call for the county
and will make total of Sd men who
have been ordered to the army for a
years training.
Those who are volunteers include
James Franklin Kisner and Orval Jor-
dan Kisner, Crellin; George Henry
Lewis and Donald Howard Hinebaugh,
Oakland; James Quinter Shger,
Friendsville; Lewis James Walter and
Robert Thomas Rice, Oakland; Joseph
Roy Wilson, Bloomington; Marshall
Leo Lands, Grantsville; Edward L.
Sebold, Oscar Arthur Kisner, Deer
Fark; Willard Artell Moon, Stanley
Leighton Calhoun, Oakland, and Harry
Carol Davis, Kitzmiller.
Others being called to the service
are Harvey Henry Grove, Avilton;
Harland Milton Paugh, Mountain
Lake Park; Woodrow Wilson Hum
bertson, of Markleysburg, Pa;
Charles Fike, Selbysport; Orval T.
Butler, Friendsville; George Per-
shing Wolfe, Bloomington; Charles
Elwood Lewis, Oakland; David Odel
Michael, Avilton; David Devlin Brann,
Oakland; John Paul Vauken, Jr.,
Kitzmiller; Robert Mason Alderman,
Deer Park; Joseph Vincent Vodopivec,
Kitzmiller; Lloyd Norman Shilling
burg, Steyer; Oren Dale Hoff, Friends
vile; Clyde Lester Hetrick, Grants
vile; Leonard Thomas Rounds, Swan
ton; Herbert Howard Stark, Vindex;
Tedford A. Males, Deer Park; STAN
Gle E. Bowers, Deer Park; Michael
Francis Kamenec, Smock, Pa. Kane
nee is CCC enrollee in this county.
Governor O'Conor has announced
that Maryland's second draft quota
for March will be 938 men, by far the
largest number called from this State.
Probably none of this number will be
taken from Garrett county. The first
March call, which includes those from
this county, was 1872 men.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06
Charles Hoye Named
President of County
Historical Society
Constitution Adopted - Divides
Garrett County Into Six Old
Settlements"

At meeting of the Garrett County
Historical Society at the high school
last Thursday night, Charles E. Hoye
was elected president; Marshall G.
Brown, first vice president; Miss
Viola Broadwater, Grantsville, second
vice-president; and Miss Crystal Ell
lott, secretary. Following the meet
ing Joseph E. Harmed was made
treasurer.
A constitution which was drawn up
by committee was also adopted. The
constitution divides the county into
old settlements" and each settle
ment is given the right to organize
and hold meetings from time to time
in order to further the ends of the
society. Adjoining districts in West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland
may affiliate and work with the near
est settlement.
These settlements are classified as
follows:
Sandy Creek-Selbysport, Friends
vile, district 2.
Little Crossings = Grantsville, dis
tricts 3, 8, Is.
Savage River, Bloomington, districts
A, II.
Accident, Accident, Bittinger, dis
tricts 5, IL.
Sanging Ground, Sang Run, district
Great Glades, Oakland, Mt. Lake
Park, Swanton, Deer Park, Crellin
districts 1, 7, 10, IA, 16.
Ryan's Glade, Red House, German,
Kempton, district s.
Potomac River, Kitzmiller, Vindex
Shallmar, district 10.
Meetings of the county society will
be held only quarterly and another
unique feature of the organization
Mr.. Hoye stated, is that there are no
dues. A membership fee of one dollar
is to be paid by member upon en-
rollment, but all other contributions
will be voluntary. Persons or organ
izations making gifts of money or
material to the value of not less than
ten dollars may be made life mem
bers.
Mr.. Hoye, who was selected presi-
dent, has been engaged in historical
research in this county for quite a
number of years and has written nu-
merous articles upon historical events,
and histories of families, many of
which have appeared in former issues
of The Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06
Here's How Byron's
Successor Will
Be Selected

A successor to Rep. William D.
Byron of the Sixth district, killed
in plane crash near Atlanta,
must be chosen at special dis
trict election, on a date set by
Governor O'Conor.
Election laws require that the
entire Republican and Democratic
State Central committees nomi-
nate candidates for the special
election, although it is customary
for the committees to accept cam
didates proposed by committee
men from the district involved.
No time for such committee
meetings is specified in the law,
but the governor is required to
set the date of the special election
within twenty days after the
committees have met and made
their nominations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06
Vindex Miner Seriously
Injured By Fall of Rock

A 20-year-old Vindex miner was
severely injured yesterday while al
work in the mine of the Manor Coal
Company.
The young man, James Sweitzer
was struck by falling rock and suf-
fered back injury and a fracture of
the right leg between the knee and
ankle. The leg bone was splintered.
His injuries were treated at Me-
mortal hospital, Cumberland, where
he was admitted as a patient. His con-
dition was described as fair.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06
Union Lenten Services Will
Continue Next Wednesday

Union Lenten services will continue
next Wednesday evening with meet
ing in the Episcopal church when Rev.
Minor Sprague, pastor of the Meth
odist church, will speak on the sub
ject, "Hindrances to Unity"
Last night, Dr. A. B. Learner, Luth-
eran pastor, spoke on Being Many,
We Are Yet One" in the Methodist
church, in the second of the series of
union meetings.
The weekly meetings continue each
Wednesday evening at 7:45 through
Lent and the first part of Holy Week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06
Named to State Police

Jack Browning, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Frank Browning, of Sang Run, has
been placed on the Maryland State
Police Force.
Browning has been in Washington,
D. c., for some time and last fall took
the examination for the position. He
has been active now for about four
weeks at the Benson patrol station
near Belair.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06
Named Draft Board Secretary

Harland L. Jones, who has been
teller in the First National Bank for
the past several years, has accepted
the position as clerk to the Garrett
County Selective Service Board.
The vacancy was caused by the res
ignation of Howard P. Stuck.
The resignation took effect the mid
die of last week and Mr.. Jones as
sumed his new duties last Wednesday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06

Mrs. Leah King has returned to her
home in Oakland following visit
with her daughters in Cleveland, O..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-03-06

Mrs. Owen Treacy is visiting in
Baltimore this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-12
Logan-Thomas Circle
Citizens Oppose D. {.
Rent Commission
Enough Apartments and
Rooms Here for All,
Association Asserts

The Logan Thomas Circle Citi-
zens' Association last night opposed
establishment of a rent commits
sion in the District of Columbia as
entirely unnecessary"
Meeting at 1920 Rhode Island
avenue NV, the group agreed with
NJ. A. Marques, who made the mo-
ton, that there are enough rooms
and apartments for rent here tc
meet the pocketbooks of every per-
son living in the city"
A resolution by Horace Fulton
commended the Overton-H Hunter
plan for determining the Federal
share in District expenses. Under
the plan the Government would pay
according to the ratio of Federally
owned land in the District to the
taxable real estate.
The Governments interest here
is increasing" l.. M. Thompson de-
clared, land it should be willing to
pay its share, relieving the citizens
of part of the tax burden"
The group approved a resolution
turning park roads into park ways
and building overhead highways for
heavy vehicular traffic. On motions
by K. C.. Robbins donations of SIS
each were contributed to Opportun-
ity House and the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club.
The association celebrated its Goth
anniversary with a supper at the
home of its president, Mrs. L. M.
Thompson, 1120 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NV, before the meeting. Mrs.
Thompson. who has been president
of the group for Is years, was hon.
ored with a corsage by Mrs. F. Haig.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-12
Girl School Teacher
Wins Air Scholarship

A young girl school teacher yes
terday was one of IL persons to win
a flight training scholarship at
Columbus University and today was
off for Beacon Airport to get in her
flying before school.
She is Helen M. Herfurth, of
1922 Garfield street NV, teacher
at Anacostia Junior Senior High
School, and says she is really
serious in this"
Il have always been interested in
flying" she said, II want to go as
far as can in aviation"
The course is sponsored by the
Civil Aeronautics Authority and the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Miss Herfurth is graduate of
Western High School and Wilson
Teachers College.
Jaqueline r. Lake of Glen Burnie,
Md, an employe of the Washington
Offices of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation. was announced as win
ner of a similar flight scholarship in
Baltimore.
Other winners at Columbus are:
Herbert D. Smith, 1919 Kearny
street NE; Glenn WILDER Wright,
1918 F street NV; Ralph Leindorf,
$40 E street NE; Everett M.
Murphy, jr., 1741 Lyman place NE;
Clarence L. Woodland, jr., 314 Mary
land avenue NE: Richard L. Locke,
1928 H street NV; George H. De
Lorme, jr., 1449 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NV; Leslie c. Brissette, 2813
Fifth street NE, and Thomas E.
Boyle, 1922 Wisconsin avenue NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-12
Rites for Mrs. 0Iiphant
To Be Held Tomorrow

Mrs. Henrietta Margaret Drum
Hunt Oliphant, 70, who died Sunday
at her home in the Ontario Apart
ment, will be buried in private cere-
monies tomorrow, following services
at 2 pm. at Gawler's chapel, 1855
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Born in San Francisco. Mrs. Oil
plant was the daughter of the late
Gen. Richard c. Drum, U. S. A., and
the late Lavinia Morgan Drum. She
spent her girlhood in Washington
and was first married to Lit. Henry
jackson Hunt, U. S. N.
After the death of 1t. Hunt she
was married to Hughes Ohphant,
son of Samuel Duncan Oliphant,
Trenton, N. j., owner of the Belmont
Pottery Co. They made their home
in Trenton until 1907 when Mr..
Oliphant retired and came to WASH
ington. Mr.. Oiphant died in 1926.
A member of the Ladies' Guild of
the Washington Cathedral and &C
lively interested in Cathedral work,
she was also a member of the Co.
lonial Danes, the Army and Navy
Chapter, D. A r.; the Chevy Chase
Club, and the Notwithstanding
Union.
She leaves by her first marriage
a son, Henry Jackson Hunt, and by
her second marriage, a son and
daughter. Col. Thomas Gibbs Nor
gan Oliphant. Field Artillery. U. S.
A, now stationed at Camp Living
ston, La, and Mrs. Margaret Oil
plant McGraw of Washington. A
stepson, Orville Duncan Oliphsnt
also survives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-12
D. {. Police Commended
For Vice Control Record

Washington, lin a number of re-
SpectS," is a profitable location for
prostitution, Ray H. Everett, execu-
tive secretary of the Social Hygiene
Society of the District of Columbia,
declared today in behalf of a bill
which would make prostitution or its
facilitation in the vicinity of Army
and Navy establishments a Federal
offense.
Mr.. Everett filed a statement with
the House Military Affairs Commit
tee in which he explained:
Here there are large numbers of
unattached males, here there is
comparative prosperity. and here
the police force has insufficient
personnel for the continuous in
tensive pressure needed to eliminate
commercial prostitution.
Commencing the Police Depart
ment for achieving what he said
was one of the best records in the
country in normal times" with re-
spect to commercialized vice, Mr..
Everett warned that:
With the great recent increases
in the city's population. however, and
the large number of service men
spending their leave time here, it be-
comes increasingly difficult to main
tain all routine policing efforts at
peak efficiency with limited per-
sonnet"
Supt. of Police Ernest w. Brown,
as well as civic, religious, business
and social groups, have expressed
approval of the bill sponsored by
Chairman May, the witness said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-12
Seven See Man Shoot Self
In Ninth Street Gallery

Pedro Salvador Rosello, 80, lay
near death in Emergency Hospital
today with 22-caliber bullet in his
skull while police we're interviewing
seven persons who said they saw
Rosello turn a pistol on himself in
Ninth street shooting gallery last
night.
The witnesses, one of them a
woman, said Rosello walked into the
shooting gallery at 406 Ninth street
NV, grabbed a target revolver,
fired one shot at a target and then
pressed the muZZle to his head and
pulled the trigger. He fell to the
floor. the bullet embedded above
his right ear.
George H. Webster, 1015 C street
S.W, gallery attendant, said he
thought Rosello was joking. Be
fore I knew it he had pulled the
trigger and he went down." Webster
related
Police were told the man had been
employed as a chauffeur and that
he made his home at 1913 Eight
zenith street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-12
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE.

Hitler's great spring offensive
against the British Isles, by sea
and by air, and Americas lease
lend bill, which is calculated to
help the Anglo-AllieS evade dis
aSter in this mighty effort and then
go on to win the war. would seem to
have gone into action simultane-
ously.
There has been a sharp increase
in German bombing and U-boat
activity. and Britain believes the
battle of the Atlantic is under way.
Over at the other end of Europe
the Balkans are hanging half over
the precipice of war.
Coincident with all this there is a
gathering of the axis clan on the
move. Japanese Foreign Minister
Matsuoka is coming to Europe TO
confer with his German and Italian
allies and see for himself how the
war goes.
That is likely to be a momentous
conference. The attitude of the triple
alliance toward the United States
will be a big item for considera-
ton. There is bound to come up
the question of whether Japan shall
enter the war on the side of the
axis in an effort to make a quick
killing in the near future.
Supreme Danger May Be Near.
Indications are that MatSouka
will be governed by what he finds
from examination on the ground.
Since some of the japanese press
takes the attitude that Nippon is
playing an opportunist game, there
seems no reason why We should
blink the question.
On that basis it may be assumed
that if the japanese believe Hitler
has the war in his pocket they will
play his game. Otherwise they will
avoid a clash with either or Britain.
Taking it all in all, it looks as
though the moment of Britain's
supreme danger was approaching
rapidly. The axis is going to put
everything it has into an effort to
achieve a knockout.
1t is moment of danger for the
United States as well. Quite apart
from other considerations, there is
always the possibility that the axis
will decide to drag us into the war.
1t is wise to recognize that, so the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-12
Baldwin Halls Victory
As Proof Of US. Unity


NEW YORK, March 12-Joseph
Clark Baldwin, new member of the
House from Manhattan's 18th silk
stocking district, stepped into the
late Kenneth F. Simpsons post to-
day, hailing his victory as proof
of American unity on aid to ma
tons fighting aggression.
A Republican, as was his predeces-
sor, the former city councilman
polled 23,252 votes in yesterdays spe-
cial election. His Democratic rival,
Dean A. Alfange, whose candidacy
had been championed by President
Roosevelt, received 1880.
Eugene P. Connolly, American La
Dor candidate and only one of the
three to campaign in opposition to
the British-aid and defense pro-
grams, trailed with 1886.
81 am gratified and proud" said
Mr.. Baldwin, 44-year-old former
newspaperman, "gratif1ed that the
district has expressed its con-
tinued confidence in me, and proud
and pleased that we can face our
enemies abroad with further proof
l-of the unity that exists in this
democracy on its foreign policy to
aid all other democracies in their
struggle against aggression"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-12

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, March 12.-Dr.
Bessie r. Burchett, 62-year old high
school Latin teacher, announced her
retirement yesterday after being re-
moved from classes on charges of
posting an insult to President Roose-
welt on bulletin board.
Her action halted announced
plans of School Supt. Alexander J.
Stoddard to ask her dismissal for
calling the President "a liar and a
murderer" in the bulletin board
letter.
A meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton at which Mr.. Stoddard was to
present his charges received instead
the teachers request for retirement
1t was accepted by unanimous vote
Mr.. Stoddard said Dr. Burchett last
January became eligible for a pen
sion of $1,000 a year.
Mr.. StOddard made public a pho
tostatic copy of a letter from DR.
Burchett which said in part that
Mr.. Roosevelt is a liar and muir
derer," because ''he befuddled the
people in regard to the draft bill
saying that it involved only a year
of military training and that our
men would not be sent abroad and
that there is no place in deepest
hell black enough for such as he"