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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03

entry. Ihrougn the
last year this man
tie had foated to
the shoulders of
Ben Hogan from
the plains of Texas.
Snead in one sea-
son picked up over
$40, 900 in pr z e
m o n e y. H O 6 a n
hasn't yet reached
that mark, but his
general average
through the last IL
poopthc has been
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03

have today and
t h a t in r a in y
weather a soldier
had to live like a
mud turtle. He
says he didn't see
no wooden floors
from the time he
left home Until
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE
PURKEY
Dear Ma :


I wish you wud stop worrying
about me as am all right accept
for fallen arches, flu, chilblains, "a
limp in both legs and indigestion.
But feel a lot less like squawking
since talked to an old timer up
here who was in the last war and
from what he says I CESS we have
all modern improvements up here
now. He says in the last war the
draft army just had tents like they
wuz camping out with no wooden
floors and no electric lights and he
says every time you was not in bed
you was standing in wet grass or
in mud puddle.
He says tents did not have win
doWS and screen doors like we
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
Man About Town:

The Front Pages: Raymond Clap
per columns thought that disturbs
you. The fear hysteria whipped up by
Senators during the Lend-Lease de-
bate is a handy weapon for the to-
talitarians, he points out. Japan is
just waiting till the peace-at-any-
price feeling is strong enough, Clap
per warns, to ransack our ice box
Where was F. P. A. when the
H. r. 1776 Bill was splitting an in
finitive? The opening sentence is:
"A bill to further promote ="
Tsk, tsk The Nazi propa-
gandists have stuck themselves with
a typical Nazi contradiction. One
minute they yell that aid from the
U. S. won't help Britain in time.
The next minute they lanbast
America for giving aid. If it is not
going to help Britain-what are the
Nazis worried about?
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
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Washington, ID. C,
DONOVAN HAS GLOOMY
RFpnRT

Col. "Wild Bill" Donovan, semi
official observer who has been tour
ing the Near East, brought a de-
cidedly gloomy report back to Wash
ington.
Donovan told Secretary of the
Navy Knox and Secretary Of War
Stimson, the two Republican: mem
bers of the cabinet who were large
ly responsible for sending him, that
British chances were anything but
rosy in the Balkans. The Greeks,
he found, were riding the crest of.
the wave but were successful more
because of their superhuman
bravery and the weaknesses of the
Italians than because of their real
military strength. Against strong,
well-equipped foe, such as the Ger
mans, it would be different story.
The Turkish army, Donovan also
reported, is poorly equipped when it
comes to modern weapons of war
and is worried over Russia.
In North Africa he found that Gen.
eral Weygand was not disposed to
act independently of Vichy, and the
French in general seemed despond-
ent, laundering in their policy and
completely lacking in leadership.
DEFENSE PRICE POLICEMAN
With the OPM rushing production
and the 11-man mediation board
handling labor problems, Roosevelt
wants a third unit to ride herd on
prices.
Head of the new agency will be
Leon Henderson, New Deal veteran
whose experience as a hard-boiled
price policeman dates to NRA days.
Also, as price controller of the old
defense commission, Henderson
knows the defense picture thorough
ly, already has several big scalps to
his credit. 1t was his forceful
crack-downing that tumbled the
soaring prices of lumber and scrap;
also put a lid on secondhand ma
chinery price furries.
Roosevelt said nothing about it
publicly; but privately he did a lot
of talking about the new price con-
troll unit before he departed on his
vacation cruise. The gradual up
ward price trend, as a result of the
expanding priority list, has worried
him considerably, and the last thing
he wants is living
problem.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03

CT. PETERSBURG, FLA.-A year
- or so ago Sammy Snead, the ex-
hillbilly from the uplands of West
Virginia, was COLTS most famous
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
Making Fish Lines That
Will Hold the BIG Ones

Imported silk and flax fiber Important materials used j"
manu- of quality of of the
Redwood Empire Of northern California and
southern Oregon These photos take through OF the plants
Petallma California.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
MERRY-GO-ROUND

The houses leading aviation en-
thusiast, World war flyer Mel Mas
of Minnesota, likes to have aero
nautical atmosphere around him
while he works. In his office are 81
model planes of various types and a
score of flying pictures.
When Senators Tom Connally and
Morris Sheppard of Texas get to-
gether to gossip about old times,
they talk about their joint school
days at Texas university. Sheppard
was a Kappa Alpha and Connally
still wears his Phi Delta Theta pin.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
A certain newspaperman was try

A certain newspaperman was try
ing to make the best of being paired
off with one of those dumb debs.
You know-Deb from the neck up!
When the conversation turned
to the war and 9Th Columnists, he
asked her: edo you approve of
Quisling?" She put on her best
blank expression and replied: 81
dunno. How do you Quisl?"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03

Even after all these years and all
their success the editors at Life find
an old bugaboo arising. Only last
week the N. Y. office reed a note
from their Australian man, who told
of arranging date with big Govt
official for photos, only to have the
biggie query: "How can my picture
fit in with all those jokes and car
toons?" Why doesn't FDR call
his Fireside Chats "Firebell" Chats
since they actually wake up Amer
ica?- Your Girl Friday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
Typewriter Ribbons: Keith Nor

Typewriter Ribbons: Keith Nor
gan's: The French Admiral has be-
come the Nazis' Darlan C. E.
Montague's: War hath no fury like
a non-combatant Rebecca
Vests: They had been sandpaper-
ing each others temperaments with
"a few words 80. Gelett Bur-
CESS: A secret as fascinating as a
loose tooth Austin O'Malley's:
Sorrow may be good for woman S
heart, but it is poor cosmetic for
her face A. Woollcott's: The
Summer people had all departed,
leaving the natives with no one to
despise but each other Julia
Hotchkiss': An isolationist is one
who looks through the wrong end of
a telescope Olin Miller's: It's
astounding how much fog can settle
on a narrow mind.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03

In Washington they hear that a
large motor car Chat drives up to
the Chateau prison in France, where
Paul Reynaud and George Mandel
are awaiting triaD brings big pack
age for Mandel every day. 1t con-
tains food and is from the beautiful
blonde star, Beatrice Bretty, of the
Coincide Franchise 300 copies
of Adolf's book are being sold here
per week, and the royalties are sent
to Hitler's British agent But they
are being confiscated by the British
Govt and used for relief work.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
ALUMINIUM SHORTAGE

The housewives pots and pans
aren't the only items hit by the
shortage in aluminum-a shortage
which certain defense officials de-
MED for months, but finally admit
ted when the OPM put the metal on
the priority list. The deficiency is
creating some other serious indus
trial problems. Here is one illus
tration:
A big bus manufacturer working
on an order for. some 4Q-passenger
vehicles suddenly found himself uh-
able to get the sheet aluminium he
needed. He complained to the OPM
and was advised to use steel as a
substitute. But this, he found, would
so increase the weight of his buses
as to bar them from the roads of
several states. ~
Therefore he must either reduce
the size of his buses or prevail on
the states to raise their highway
load limits to permit heavier
vehicles.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
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MemOs of a Girl Friday

MemOS of a Girl Friday
Dear Mr.. W.: The new Sylvia
Porter novel, eff War Comes to the
American Home" is the most real
istic reading to hit the bookstalls
this year. 1t is sensational stuff and
makes you feel as though you'd
already received your ration card
A financial reporter on an eve
ming newspaper was practically
thrown out of the Morgan offices
for being too inquisitive.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03
WIDOW FOR CONGRESS

A very beautiful widow, plus
tragic airplane accident near Allan
ia, Ga, is causing political trouble
in Maryland which may have roper
cussions in the axis capitals of Ber-
lin, Tokyo and Rome.
The situation results from the
death of young Congressman Will
liam Byron, Democrat, in the recent
Atlanta airplane crash, which mean
an early by-election to fill his Mary
land seat in the house of represent
tatives.
Mrs. Byron aspires to take the
road Of many another congressional
widow and go to congress-. How
ever, this section of Maryland is
normally Republican, and Mrs. By
ron, beautiful as she is, would have
a hard time defeating a fortnight
Republican. j.,
Therefore, Democratic leaders. are
doing their best to persuade her. to
bow out of the congressional race
in favor of the much stronger Pres
ton Lane, Democratic National Com
mitteeman from Maryland They
know that the first election contest
occurring after passage of the lease
lend bill will be watched throughout
the world as sign of Roosevelt S
popular. strength and whether the
country is with him on foreign pol
icy.
The fact that Maryland, a rela-
lively conservative state, doesn't
care for women in high political
places, would cut no ice in the prop
uganda factories of Rome, Tokyo
and Berlin.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-04-03

Nice Guy, Though: Bill Stern, the
top sports announcer, whose sartori-
al taste runs to sports jackets, was
happy to hear that his home town
was thinking of erecting a statue of
him.
"That'll be the first statue" said
heckler, with belt in the back"
Form of Criticism: Lawrence
Langner of the Theatre Guild says
it came from pal in Glasgow. It's
about the anti-Fas in Italy who
was sentenced to death but was CIV
en- his choice of execution. He
elected to be shot by an Italian anti
aircraft battalion And so he was
hoisted to high pole and shot at.
When a fortnight had elapsed he
was taken down-having died of
pneumonia.
Why Fans Are Dizzy: Lefty Co.
mez, the Yankee pitcher, tested his
arm the other day. Obituaried the
Post: 'He has lost his fast ball"
Reported the Telly: Gomez shows
speed"
If the batters are as easily bewil-
dered as the press box, Gomez has
nothing to worry about.
What! No Oil Wells? Max Me-
foofsky and a friend stopped in front
of l4th Street theater where two
headliners were advertised (Molly
Picon and the Mills Brothers), be-
sides line of 16 chorus girls, a
name band, double feature movies
and screeno-all for Is cents.
Lets 60 in" said his pal.
mot so fast" hesitated Max, II
like Molly and the Mills boys. I am
crazy for stage shows and pretty
girls. Swing is for me, and I would
ulzo enjoy two movies. But I new
er win!"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
More Sleeping Comfort In Store for County
People as Mattress Pro jects Near Completion

A number Of these mattresses are
going into homes where before there
were no mattresses, only straw ticks,
Miss Barton said. In some of the
other homes there may already have
been one or two mattresses and
sometimes the families are large, she
pointed out.
The mattresses, when completed are
said to be worth arounde $500 and
with good care will last 20 to 25
years.
In four communities the projects
are completed, Accident people hav-
ing made A, Sang Rum people, 49,;
Mill Run people, 18, and Red Oak
people, 10. Other projects and the
number Of mattresses being made are
as follows: Glendale, 10; Kitzmiller,
81; Friendsville, 10; White Rock, TO-;
Meadow Mountain, %; Swanton, 16;
Deer Park, 81; Bittinger, 81; Avilton,
%; Sunnyside, 100; Cove, 20. An or
ganization meeting was held at Kitz-
miller on Tuesday and the first work
meeting will be held Friday. Other
centers have been working on the
project for some time All mattresses
must be completed by the end Of the
month.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
Registration Meeting To Be
Held For National Defense
Training Classes

A meeting will be held in the Com
mercial Department of the Oakland
High school, Tuesday, September 16,
at 700 p. M, to determine the num-
Der of students interested in either
electric and acetylene welding OF auto
mechanics for national defense train
ing.
These classes are sponsored by the
County Board of Education and the
Board of County Commissioners, and
will be given free Of charge to any
one interested.
All parties, no difference of what
age, who would like to take training
along these lines of electric and acety-
lene welding or auto mechanics are
requested to appear at the CONNER
cial Department of the Oakland High
school, in the old Maffett building, at
700 p. M, next Tuesday evening, Sep
TENDER Is, in order to secure informa-
ton as to when and where classes
will next meet for formal instruction.
If there is not a sufficient number of
applicants, no class will be started.
Eugene Harpold is the coordinator
for national defense training in Gar
rett county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
Business at Minimum
At Council Session

Business was at minimum at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Mayor and Town Council on Monday
evening. There were citizens before
the council in regard to completing
Green street between Sixth and
Seventh streets, and in regard to
fiving Bankers Lane, so that water
would not drain into adjoining prop
critics.
Dan Honick was granted permits
sion to construct a residence on
Dixon street, between Second and
Third, north of Crook; and Mako
Nance was given permission to con-
struct a residence on Third street,
next to the home of Wade Mason.
The clerk-collector's report showed
receipts of $6,068 for the month, in
Guiding water rent of $40 As; and
taxes of $5,518.S9. This made total
receipts since February % of $780,
75276, with expenses of 19,930.72,
leaving balance of $6,82204. Au-
gust bills amounted to $5,392.67,
leaving balance in the treasury
September 1 of $1,429.37. Included in
the August bills was payment Of
$2,800.00 on bank loans, and council
salaries amounting to $275.00. There
is a $1,000 bank loan still remaining
to be paid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11

There is more sleeping comfort in
store for at least $50 people in Gar
rett county this providing
that the people who were eligible to
receive free cotton and ticking and
to make their own mattresses don't
pile too many in one bed. This would
make for total discomfort on either
a store or a hand made affair, ac-
cording to most any lover of sleep.
The mattress project, which has
been conducted in this county for
about two years, will be concluded by
October /, according to Miss Mildred
Barton, home demonstration agent
who has instructed leaders and super
vised the construction during the
two-year period.
The cotton was made available to
people of low-income groups by the
Surplus Marketing Administration,
this organization furnishing so
pounds of cotton and 10 yards of
ticking to each person who qualified.
Members of the ga committee
passed on the qualifications of par
Elephants. About 275 families are
oating in the project and
v. uded, those taking part will
have made over 1882 mattresses.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
WOmen's Club Meets With Key
ser Group At Mt. Storm

Members of the Business and Pro-
fessional Women's club of Garrett
county were entertained by the Key
ser club at a dinner meeting at Mt.
Storm lodge, Mt. Storm, West Va,
on Tuesday evening.
The chief feature Of the gathering
was an interesting talk by Miss Myra
Nefen, principal of the Cresaptown
elementary school and a member of
the Cumberland club, on her recent
tour of Mexico. She exhibited many
curios and wares which she had col
lected during her travels, explaining
their significance with relation to the
customs, religion and trades of the
Mexican people.
Those present at the dinner from
Oakland were Mrs. Kathryn Helbig,
Mrs. Jeanette Statler, Mrs. Ethel
Nee. Helbig, Mrs. VERNE Smouse,
Miss Crystal Elliott, Miss Jane Legge,
Miss Edith Bolden, Miss Palma Lu-
ccnte, Miss Susy Smith, Miss Mary
Louise Helbig and Mss Helen Miller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
Meetings Are Planned
For Dairy Producers
DR.. c. W. England, State Dairy
Inspector, to Attend Gatherings

Because of rapid expanding of the
dairy industry in Garrett county,
John H. Carter, county agent, has
arranged for two meetings for the
purpose of explaining what part the
state regulatory service has respon-
sibilities for in the supervising of all
parties in Maryland handling milk or
cream as outlined in the Dairy In
spection Law of Maryland, as passed
at the last legislature session.
A meeting is scheduled at Sunny
side Grange Hall on Friday, Septem-
Der II, at p. M, and another meet
ing has been arranged at Accident
high school on Saturday, September
10, at 8 p. m.
DR.. C. w. England, in charge of
dairy inspection in Maryland, will
attend the meeting and discuss and
explain the State procedure in super
vising the dairy industry in the state.
Dr.. England will also have sugges-
tons for producers and will give de
tailed information on why cream tests
vary. These meetings are for produc-
ers only, Mr. Carter pointed out.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
Jaycee Dinner To
Be Held Monday
September 22nd

The dinner meeting sponsored by
the Junior Chamber of Commerce, at
which Governor Herbert r. O'Conor
will speak, will be held on Monday,
September %, instead of Tuesday, the
23rd, it was announced this morning
by Charles L. Briner, president.
Governor O'Conor is scheduled to
attend a national defense meeting on
the 23rd, and would have been unable
to be in Oakland on that evening.
At meeting of the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce last night, plans
were discussed for the governors en-
tertainment on Monday afternoon,
preceding the dinner. A tour of near
by points is being arranged.
Clyde Dahlgren and Carl Everly
compose the committee on the din
ner, which will be in the Manhattan
hotel, at Z o'clock.
The club last night also discussed
plans for a Halloween parade and
celebration here with prizes for
various costumes. Details of this are
to be announced later.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
Back 10 School

Although the average American boy who returns to school
after the holiday not consider himself lucky he is
of the most fortunate youngsters in this troubled world today
The truth that there not many countries left where
folks have opportunity acquire unbiased information free
from censorship and ensavng propaganda There not
countries left where they freedom and prepare them
selves for the kind of work they want to do
Yet such freedoms but part of the liberty that has been
traditional with Americansso TRADITIONAL indeed that
tend to casually familiar clothes To appreciate
its real value need only of life with that in
many countries The want the misery the degradation of human
beings that characrzes them alien the languages
they speak
AS children return to school need to remember
that and be grateful for it. Although not back to
classes with them canand shOudrefec the value of
freedom and consider how best from de-
structiOn
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
To Draw Plans For
North Glade School

S. Russ Minter, Cumberland archi-
tect, has been advised by Franklin E.
Rathbun, county superintendent of
schools, to proceed with plans imme-
diately for the new public school,
which is to be erected at North
Glade in the Swanton section.
Construction of schools at Nc
Henry and North Glade were auth
orized by the legislature in 1889 by
special act. Chapter 356 provided for
levying the sum of $4,000 for con-
structing and equipping public
school buildings at North Glade and
McHenry, each to be two-room build
ings, the cost of the one at North
Glade not to exceed $4,000 and the
cost of the one at McHenry not to
exceed $4,000 The act provided that
the levy for such buildings was to be
made in 1911.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
DR.. Shropp to Have
Charge of Public
Health Work Here
Appointment Is Temporary,
Pending Search for Perma-
nent Health Officer

The announcement early this week
that a new health officer had already
been appointed to Garrett county,
was counteracted by further infor-
nation yesterday that the appointed
person would not arrive.
DR.. C. E. Waller, of Charleston,
w. Va, and formerly connected with
the U. S. Department of Health, had
been appointed and he was to have
begun his duties this week.
Dr. 7. R. Shropp, health officer for
Allegany county, informed the Gar
rett county office yesterday, however,
'lat he was not coming. DR.. Shropp
wil continue to devote one OF two
days each week to the work in this
county, until permanent appoint
ment is made.
Dr. R. c. Edison, of Hopemont
Sanitarium, was in charge of the
chest clinic yesterda at the health
office. The next chest clinic will be
on October 8.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
Deep Creek Association Elects

Thur W. Tower was elected presi-
dent of the Deep Greek Lake Associa-
ton at a meeting held last Sunday af-
ternoon in the Deep Creek Lake Bap-
fist church. Miss Beryldine Fulk, of
Oakland was made secretary and Ell
mer Haulenbeek, Rainbow Inn, the
treasurer. R. R. Throp, Wheeling, w
Va, was made vice-president.
A comparatively small percentage
of property owners along the lake at
tended the meeting, about thirty being
present. 1t was felt by number of
those in attendance that a meeting
called earlier in the season would
have created more interest.
An executive committee is to be
appointed to remain active through
the winter months, and another meet
ing will be called in June of next
year
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-09-11
Meeting to Conclude
Business Mems Tour
DIR. H. c. Byrd to Address Group
and Rotary Club at William
James Hotel This Evening

The tour of members of the Upper
Monongahela Valley Association,
after travelling $50 miles throughout
West Virginia, Maryland and Penn
sylvania, will conclude here this eve
ming with a dinner meeting at the
William-James hotel, in conjunction
with members of the Oakland Rotary
club. Over thirty are on the tour.
DR.. H. c. Byrd, president of the
University of Maryland, will address
the meeting, it has been announced.
The touring party assembled at
Red House Tuesday at 9:30 and pro
ceeded to Keyser where they visited
the railroad car foundry, and thence
to Cumberland where they had
luncheon with the Rotary club there.
After inspection of the New Cumber-
land airport, the Fort Hill High
school and Constitution Park the
motorcade proceeded through Hagers-
town to Antietam battlefield before
returning to that city for the night.
From Hagerstown the party went to
points in Pennsylvania and spent the
second night in Pittsburgh, leaving
there Thursday morning after a visit
to the Mellon Institute and the Heinz
plant. The afternoon was spent in
UniontOWn.
The tour is under direction of DR..
George Beerbower, Kingwood, w. Va,
and Sutton Critchfield, Fairmont,
w. Va.