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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
No Business Yet in 1o41
 For Dan Cupid

With the new year already six days old, U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray is still waiting, little im- patiently. fer the first smiling pair of marriage license applicants 0. l941.
 There have already been births, deaths and divcrcss in the new year, put since December 31 the marriage market has been in an unaccustom- ed lull in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
STRANGE MI5HAp
 TAXES LIFE OF
 TRANSPLANT VICTIM
Not 8 Murder Pinned by Building as High Tide
 Drowns 1rdpper

Not murder but an accident was the death of 70-year-old Edward A. Schneider at Cape Fanshaw a week age, according to Federal authorities who returned late Saturday night after Investigating the case.
 pr. Lawrence w. Brown of the Coast Guard Haida examined the body today and signed death cer- tificate stating Schneider came to his death from drowning after acci- dently being pinned beneath a fall- ing building. A bruise on the head. broken nose and several scratches were examined and determined not to be causes of death, the doctor reported.
 Schneider was dis1 .antling an old gable roof on the beach when one side fell, pinning him beneath it. Shingle nails sticking through the timbers held his clothing and flesh so he was unable to move. Fatal Tide
 The old trapper was held thus, face down in the sand, when a 19 foot tide came in, covering his body by about two feet. An ordinary tide would not have reached him, but the accident occurred during the monthly period Of exceptionally high tides.
 Frank Wadman, at whose home Schneider lived and worked, found the old man several hours after wards, called help, lifted the roof and dragged the body out. Thinking authorities would probably want to visit the scene, Wadman left the body by the building, fastening it with a rope around one leg, so that the tides would not carry it away,
 Message Misinterpreted
 Because of stormy weather, Cape Fanshaw residents could not get word of the tragedy to Five Finger light until New Years Eve, when a tender from the light came to the Cape for mail and supplies. The light then sent word to Ket- chikan that Schneider had been killed" By the time it reached Juneau, the report was that Schnei- der had been murdered Those who visited the Cape to investigate were Deputy Marshal Walter Hellan, U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray, FBI Agent Thomas Naughten and Assistant U. s. At torlley Lynn J. Gemmin.
 They started from Aux Bay on Ralph Reischl's Treva c and were met near Marmion Island by the Haida, which had previously de- cllned to make the trip due to illness in the crew. The Haida reached Fanshaw at 1:3O Saturday morning. The investigators went ashore at daybreak and were home in Juneau by 9:3O o'clock that night.
 runeTdi ltmCrrCW
 Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Charles w. Carter Chapel. The Rev. John L. Caub1e will conduct the last rites and burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
 Schneider was born in Warsaw, H., July 6, 1870, and came to AL aska in 1907, living in the Fair banks area until 1919 when he came to Southeast Alaska where n had lived, trapping and pros pecting until his death.
 So far as it known he has no elatives except niece, Mrs. T. B. Lakin of Harrington, Wash.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
FORESTER LEAVES
 ON ISLAND RUN

District Ranger w. A. Chipper- field left today on the vessel For ester for Angoon, Sitka, Hconah, Tenakee and Chichagof.
 Mrs. Vera B. Harmon, Social Well fare Supervisor for the Office of Indian Affairs, is passenger on the Forester for the island villages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
Marshes Honored
 Al Informal Party

Fos MT. and Mrs. George s. Marsh of Marshall and a number of their friends, Mir. and Mrs. Keith Wildes entertained informally with a small party Saturday evening. The group enjoyed dancing in the re- creation room of the Wildes' new home
 MT. and Mrs. Marsh will leave on the Baranof for Seattle enroute to Palm Springs where they have a winter home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
Woman FIier
 Drowned in
 TharnesJu i

LONDON, jan. 6. - British au- horities expressed fear tonight that Amy Johnson Millison. Britain's $ utstanding women fliers, was Irowned yesterday in the Thames Estuary after bailing out of her lane.
 The divorced wife of James Molli- cn, transatlantic flier, was ferry ng a plane for the Air Transport Auxiliary.
 An unsuccessful search was made T her after she was seen to bail out.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
KAGERTY CALLED
 TO WASHINGTON
 FOR CONTRIB RENCE

To attend a conference in Wash ington on matters relating to the h. dian reorganization acts workings in Alaska, Senior Organization Field Agent Donald w. Hagerty will leave fer the States on the steamer Bar ancf tomorrow Hagerty will be away fer five CT six weeks.
 General Superintendent Claude M Hirst, already in Washington will also take part in the conference
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
RANGER K BASED
 NOW AT KETCHIkAN

The launch Ranger TX, long sta- ticned here with the Forest Service, has been transferred permanently 10 Ketchikan. The larger vessel. the Forester. has taken on the full load of Forest Service launch duty here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
HARRISON IS CHOSEN 70
 HIGH HONOR
Elected President Pro Tenn of Senate e-RepubIi-
 cans Are Defeated

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. The Senate has elected Senator Pat Har- risen of Mississippi to be President pro tenn, defeating the Republican attempt to name Senator Arthur H, Vandenberg.
 The vote was 55 to 21.
 Senator Harrison succeeds the late Senator Key Pittman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
WELL KNOWN HERE

Judge Lyons was one of the real pioneers of Juneau. He was orig inal trustee for townsite entries oi land when the patent for Juneau was issued in 1898, and was one o1 the most active citizens of the com munity when this town was turning the century.
 According to H. L. Faulkner, the only known immediate relative sur viving Judge Lyons is a sister, Mrs Frank Shaw, in Seattle. Funeral rites will be held Tuesday, accord ing to advices from Lyons law firm of Lyons and Orton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
GEORGE PARKS RETURNING

District Cadastral Engineer George 4. Parks, former Governor, is ex'
 ,ected to return to Juneau on the steamer leaving Seattle Saturday. Ie has been in Washington on of ficial business and to Denver to visit his mother over the holidays.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
1 l {
 CANCELLED l

A PA Electra which left Fair banks this morning for Juneau and was scheduled to arrive here this afternoon, has cancelled out.
 After running into thick weather, he ship turned around and return cd to Fairbanks. It will come down .omorrcw, weather permitting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM NOME ARRIVES
 EN ROUTE TO SEATTLE

MT and Mrs. Charles Clasby Of { Nome are arriving this afternoon on the PAA Electra enroute to Seattle for a visit with relatives. Clasby is District Attorney for the Second Division.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
Chdpe|ddies Meet
 Tomorrow Eveninq

The Chapeladies will hold their frst regular meeting of the New Year tomorrow evening at the Loop Road home of Mrs. Fred Camper. Mrs. Stanley Jekill will be hostess to the club
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
Russian Chrisimas
 To Be Observed in
 N. Nicholas Church

Russian Christmas will be obsery- d by msinbers of the Russian Orth- 2dox Church with services begin ming tonight at o'clock in St. Nick olas Church with the Rev. A. J. Zolotoysky officiating.
 Services tomorrow will be held at II o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
PIONEER DIES IN
 SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Jan. 0.-Judge Thomas R. Lyons, "A, widely known in Pa cific Northwest and Alaska legal circles, died Saturday afternoon ir Providence Hospital after foul months of illness.
 Lyons, Republican, was Assist ant United States District Attorney in Juneau, Alaska, from 1900 tc 1903, and Federal Judge from 1906 to 1913
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
Luncheon Honors
 Mrs. Chris WyI|er

Outgoing officers of the Order of Eastern Star honored the retiring Worthy Matron, Mrs. Chris Wyller with luncheon at 12:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the Blue Room of the Scottish Rite Temple Covers were laid for sixteen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
THE WEATHER
(By the U S. " eather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT CON MERGE, WEATHER BUREAU and hepinn 4

for beginning Jan G.: Partly tonight Tuesday, colder tonight;
  moderate northeastery winds Southeast Partly with possibly light showers Tuesday tonight; variable northerly Canal and Chatham Straits Forecast of Gulf 
 
 
 mode easerly Hnhinbrook partly moderate northely noheasterly winds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
NOMINATED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-Presi- dent Roosevelt today nominated the following:
 Guy SWope former Pennsylvania Congressman, to be Governor oi Puerto Rico.
 Charles HarWood, former Panama Canal Zone Judge, to be Governor of the Virgin Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
JOINS M(LEAN
 IN INSURANCE

Jack Wilson has joined the cf- fices of the Hector Mclean Insur- ance Agency.
 Wilson, well known Juneaui5e, will represent the firm in the Mu- tual Benefit Health and Accident Association and United Benefit Life Insurance lines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
TERM OF COURT
 OPENS WITH 100
 CASES ON DOCKET

District Court opened it's regular January 1941 term at 2 o'clock this afternoon, with Judge George F. Alexander presiding.
 A docket listing 100 cases faces tie Court. An additional Is cases which rave been filed here are not yet at ssue, but probably will come be- ere the Court during this term.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06
MISS GODFREY ILL

Miss Sybil Godfrey, of the En- pire's reportorial staff, ill for sev- eral days, is improving at her home in the 2Oth Century Apartments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-06

The Archbishop Usher, passing his calculation on Biblical records, set the creation of the world at 4004 B. c.
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PRESIDENT SAYS NATION
 FACES PERIL
Chief Executive Demands Swift Drive to Increase
 Our Armaments

Continued from -sse One,
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-03

utely to defend themselves.

olutely to defend themselves.
There can be no complacency even
now. We do not yet know what kind
of blow the Nazis will strike at Brit
ain. We do not know that Russia will
stand up at all against the Axis
There is evidence that so far the
countries from which Germany is now
able to draw supplies have furnished
her more than America has furnished
Britain-even in planes. One part Of
the lend-lease plan will take effect
quickly by the transfer Of mosquito
boats and other things which can be
most Immediately useful to the United
States on the front line. But the ma
jor benefit will depend on speeded
production, which should now be ia
cilitated by coordination.
Now that they have decided Nazi-
ism must be defeated, the American
people should devote the same intel
ligence and determination to making
their decision effective.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-03
MRS. BARBARA HARE

Mrs. Barbara Hare, 81, widow of
Samuel Hare, former Grantsville res
ident, died Monday, March 81, at the
home of her son, Ralph Hare, at Do
nora, Pa, following a stroke of par
alysis about a week ago.
She was born near Grantsville and
lived in that community until recent
ly. She was a daughter of George and
Elizabeth Witzgall Yommer, natives
of Germany.
Eight children survive, Mrs. Asa
House, New Germany; Sherman Hare,
Grantsville; Gus Hare, Ohio; Mrs.
Webster Hoover, Accident; Miss Lii
liam Hare, Finzel; Mrs. William
Moras and Ralph and Lester Hare,
Donora, Pa; also three brothers,
John, Crist and Daniel Yommer, and
one sister, Mrs. Lee Meyers, all of
jennings
Funeral services We're conducted
Wednesday afternoon from the
Grantsville Lutheran church by Rev.
Samuel D. Sigler, with Rev. A. C.
Curran, pastor of the Bittinger and
Jennings Lutheran churches. Six
nephews served as pallbearers. Inter
ment was in the Grantsville cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-03
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science Monitor)
On Saturday in Washington the
Axis sustained a smashing defeat
possibly the most serious since the
failure to take Britain in September
It was a blow felt sharply in Axis
capitals, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo. Else
where it was a victory, heartenin2
every country which defends itself
against aggressive totalitarianism. TIC
London, Athens, Chungking, Ottawa
Canberra, Cape Town, Wellington, ii
brought new assurance. And to all
those regions where once free peoples
hope for freedom again. Finally
wherever diplomacy teeters in the bal
ance, Senate approval of the lend
lease bill threw Americas weight
definitely into the scales.
In London they are saying that this
shifts the world balance of power and
assures defeat for Hitlerism. The re-
ception in Axis capitals indicates that
they much prefer not to talk about it
Senate approval, insuring enactment
Of the bill since the House has only to
reconsider a few amendments, is nc
less a blow for having been expected
And the two-to-one vote is more than
a rejection of isolationism Indeed, it
signals a clear-cut determination to
insure defeat of the Axis in Europe
and Asia if necessary. 1t algns
America with Britain more effectively
than the September pact aligned ia
pan with Germany.
Some are saying that it insures a
long war. But unless one believes
that an Axis victory could have
brought peace, this American victory
should shorten the war. For all who
have felt that a temporary totalitar-
ian triumph would only lead inevi-
tably to new efforts of the human
spirit to break the bonds imposed, it
promises a quicker, surer peace I'm
less the Nazis could capture the Brit
ish Isles this year, there was no like
lihood of such truce. Now America S
decision should hasten a result which
we believe would only have been de-
layed had the United States been
slower to grasp the fundamental is
sue.
In one sense the greatest victory
for democracy is this proof of ability
to perceive essentials-and to act
Despite all the beclouding side-issues,
despite distrust of the powers be-
slowed on the President, despite the
difficulty Of Judging the shape of
things to come, the American people
and their representatives have
thought through, talked through, and
voted through to the most imperative
decision. Like the British, they have
proved that a free people can act res
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-03
MISS MARTHA FOLK

Miss Martha Folk, A, died Monday
afternoon, March 81, at the home of
her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Hollada, near Grants
vile, after an illness of many months.
Miss Folk was born in the Peck
settlement, a daughter of the late
Abraham and Sara Fletcher Folk, and
was the Youngest of eleven children.
She had made her home with her sis
ter since the death of her mother last
December 26. She had been a member
of the Maple Glen Church Of the
Brethren since early childhood.
Surviving besides Mrs. Hollada are
three half-sisters. Mrs. John Miner
Fort Hill, Pa; Mrs. Cora Maust, of
Grantsville, and Mrs. Adam Bittner
Connellsville, Pa; and two half
brothers, William Folk, Grantsville
and Simon Folk, Fort Hill.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-03

William Waller Hoye resided in the
county, while the father was a resi-
dent of Washington county. His de-
scendants still possess some of the
finest farms in the county.
The first iron furnace in Western
Maryland was built nearly a century
ago on Bear Greek near Friendsville,
by Colonel Oliphant of Uniontown,
Pa, for many years producing first
class charcoal iron.
We could recall many other impor-
tant historical events which would be
we'll worth writing up, but we are
confident older and better informed
men are among US who should record
their recollections and aid in compil-
ing history.
Jacob Brown, Esq, the venerable
dean of the Allegany Bar, has utilized
much of this material in his Book Of
"reminiscences, a most valuable and
entertaining record. 1t is to be hoped
he will long continue to contribute
his vast and varied recollections of
the early history of Garrett county.
Great, indeed, is Garrett.
Baltimore, Nd, December Is, 1902.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-03

The Johnstown steel strike was
voted off after run of two days. The
Harvester strike in Chicago ended
The Allis Chalmers work was con.
tinuing in it's plants despite strike
Secretary of War Stimson urged
States to expedite organization of
home guard units.
Deportation action was begun
against Jan Valtin, really Richard
Krebs, author of "Out of the Night, -
for illegal entry into the U. S.
American vegetable oils and fats
were placed under export license con-
troll. These are used in defense indus
tries.
The Gallup poll shows a decline Of
peoples sympathy with unions.
In an attempt to get better radio
reception S02 of the nations 500
broadcast stations changed their wave
lengths.
Work in the major soft coal mines
stopped March 81, at midnight, af-
fecting 100000 workers.
Four were killed at Harlan, Ky, as
result of soft coal strike.
Ford's biggest plant was closed by
walkout. The company blames COM
munists.
A woman who once wrote 1913 rea-
sons why | hate men" is now the
mother of a seven-pound girl. She
eloped with her husband, who she
says after a courtship proved he was
not like other men,"
Four billion dollars more for army
and navy, for bombers, ships, ord
nance, munitions, new defenses and
preparations to equip ultimately a
land and air force of four million men,
were approved by 1910 vote of the
House of Representatives.
The Pope is planning to substitute
quiet Easter mass in his private
chapel for the usual elaborate cere-
nony in St. Peters, in the Vatican
City.
Earl Browder, Communist leader
convicted of fraud in obtaining pass
port, began serving a four-year prison
term.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-03
COURAGEOUS COLUMNIsT-

Westbrook Pegler, courageous and
fortnight newspaper columnist, has
been thorn in the flesh of William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, and other high
labor magnates for long while, ow-
ing TO his exposures and denuncia-
tions Of criminals, crooks, eX-convicts
and labor racketeers high in the
councils of organized labor.
Pegler mentions the unsavory cul-
prits whom he eXcoriates by name and
cites facts and figures from police
and criminal court records, showing
how they have been permitted to prey
and fatten on dues-paying working
men without let OF hindrance.
Pegler's sensational a e m S
about the crimes committed in the
name Of organized labor, if untrue,
would make him liable for heavy dam
ages and could send him to jail for
criminal libel for the rest of his life.
But thus far he has been immune
from prosecution for civil or criminal
libel. The inference, therefore, is that
his allegations are we'll founded
Testifying before the House Judi
ciary Committee in Washington last
week, Pegler declared that the pres
ent labor union policy of the govern
ment "is to force unwilling workers
to join labor unions which may and
do abuse them in many ways"
He declared that the government
had refused to take any steps to pro-
tect' the unwilling members" of la
Dor unions.
Elections Tin unions) are crooked
and farcial," Pegler continued. "Ac-
counts are juggled and known GRIM
inals and other crooks who never have
been convicted are maintained in Of
flee by manipulation and terrorism"
The holding up of worlingmen ap-
plying for jobs on national defense
contracts, by eXacting from them fees
ranging from fifty to several hundred
dollars, and forcing them to join a
union before being permitted to work,
and the continual calling Of strikes in
industries engaged in the manufac-
ture of ornaments and munitions of
war in the present world crisis, when
our young men are being drafted for
military training and service, is re-
proach both to organized labor and
our government.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-03
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1941,
At the hour of ten o'clock A. M,

At the hour of ten o'clock A. NJ,
in front of the postoffice in the town
of Kitzmiller, Garrett County, Mary
land, l will offer and sell to the high
est bidder the following property, sit
uate, lying and being in Garrett Coun-
ty, Maryland, as follows, to-wit:
All those three lots, pieces or par
GELS of land situate, lying and being
in the town of Kitzmiller and which
on the Plat of Rafter's Addition to
said Town of Kitzmiller are known and
designated as Lots Nos. II, SO and 81,
the first Lot, No. II, being the same
which was conveyed unto the said
Lucy 0. Pool by deed from E. j. HAM
Ill and wife bearing date July /, 1910,
and recorded in Liber E. 2. T., No. 81,
folio 375, one of the Land Records of
Garrett County, Maryland; the last
two mentioned lots, Nos. Sc and 81,
being the same which were conveyed
to the said Lucy 0. Pool by deed from
Victoria E. Rafter bearing date June
z, 1910, and recorded in Liber E. 2. T.,
No. 81, folio 374, one of the Land Rec
ords of Garrett County, Maryland.
The above property is improved by
a five-room dwelling and necessary
outbuildings, in fair state of repair,
and is situate on the South side of
Church street in said town of Kitz-
miller.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash on day of
sale, as provided by said mortgage.
WALTER w. DAWSON, Assignee,
For the Purpose of Foreclosure.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-03
Who Discovered
Garrett County?

The ancient Mound Builders were
probably first to follow the buffalo
traces into our Glades Country. After
them came various Indian tribes who
left graves, arrow points and other
stone implements where they hunted
and camped.
The first white men to come were
doubtless French or English traders
and hunters, but they left no written
records of their travels through our
mountains.
Two early Virginia surveying par
ties left some notes on what is now
Garrett County. In 1856 Major Will
liam Mayo's party surveyed the Poto-
mac River for Lord Fairfax, proprie-
tor of the Northern Neck; reaching
what they supposed to be "the head
spring" of the river, they marked the
trees and returned to Virginia. They
named the streams flowing into the
Potomac, including Savage River, for
John Savage, a surveyor Of the party.
Ten years later Virginia and Fair
fax sent surveyors, under Thomas
Lewis, to locate the western boundary
of his grant. They found the head
spring marked by Mayo and planted
there the Fairfax Stone" Some of
this party crossed the Great Backbone
Mountain and explored the Great
Glades beyond.
But the first account of real ex-
ploration of the Glades Country was
written by Christopher Gist in his
journal. In 1851 the Ohio Company
sent Gist to find "the nearest and
most convenient road from the
Company's Store at Wills Creek
(Cumberland) to a landing on the
Monongahela." Gist's party set out on
horseback from the Company's Store
on November 4th. They found the old
Indian trail Every full Of trees and
stones" Next day they stopped at a
point about three miles west of where
Frostburg is now located. On Novem-
Der 9Th Gist camped at the Little
Meadows two miles east of Grants
vile. He wrote there:
owe hunted all the ground for 10
m. or more and killed several Der G.
Bears and one large Elk. The Bottoms
upon the branches are but narrow
with some Indian Fields. x s. We
were employed in searching the Lands
and discovering the Branches, Creeks,
&C."
November 2O-21 the explorers
passed on, cutting their way through
some great laurel thickets" to Tur-
keyfoot Confluence, Pa, where they
found small hunting town of the
Delawares," from whom Gist bought
some corn.
Can you now answer the question?