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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-05-14
F. {. RATHBUN
NAMED COUNTY
SUPERINTENDENT
Will Serve Until July 81, 1916;
Board ReOrganizes With
W. w. Dawson Again
President

Franklin f. Rathhun, who ON Au-
gust will have served as County
Superintendent of Schools for Gar
rett county for 30 years, was unanl-
mouSly reappolnted to that position
and as secretary-treasurer Of the
Board Of Education at meeting Of
the Board on Tuesday. HIS new term
Will expire on July 81, 1916, which
Will complete thirty-four years Of
service for him IN that position in this
county,
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school with the Accident elementary
school, transportation to be provided
by facilities already IN operation
without additional costs.
J Nh. Rathbun said this action APP
/ peafed mandatory upon the part Of
the board due to the small enrolment
OF only six pupils in that school. Mrs.
Blanche ForSythc Matthews, the
teacher, was transferred as teacher in
the Friendsville elementary school,
taking the place OF Mrs. Helen Statler
/ Evans, Ath and 9th grades, who re
signed on May l, Mrs. Matthews now
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-05-14

A message was received by relatives
residing in this county last Satur-
day conveying the news of the death
Of Frank Swindlcr, a former resident
of Hutton. Mr., Swindlcr died in a
hospital at or near Endicott, n. y
where he has been residing for
number Of years.
Evening star., 1942-05-04

ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May A. President
Roosevelt suggested to conferees at
the shipbuilding stabilization con-
ference in session here that they
work out agreements which would
preserve wage standards against
the infiationary rise in the cost Of
living"
Paul r. Porter, conference chair
man, said he was authorized today
by the White House to release the
telegram sent by the President Sat-
urday.
The President said he recognized
that under certain Of the contracts
the shipyard workers were entitled
to an increase in wages, but that
since the contracts were negotiated
the Nation had been plunged into
war and the Government had had
to formulate national economic
policy to keep the cost of living
down.
The telegram added:
There is no surer way to under
mine the standards achieved by la
Dor than to fail in our common ef-
fort to control the cost of living.
Wage earners must do their part,
by agreement, to stabilize wages,
or else the very standards for which
we have striven so long will be
eaten away by increased costs of
living.
The shipbuilding industry is one
OF the most important, if not the
most important, of war industries,
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Ship Wage Rise 1rreconciIobIe'
With Policy, Roosevelt Asserts

and the earnings of workers in that
industry are already among the
highest in the country. The situa-
ton that now confrontS you Is that
the full percentage wage increase
for which your contracts call and
to which, by the letter of the law,
you are entitled, is irreconcilable
with the national policy to control
the cost of living. Moreover, un-
derstand that the literal application
of the contract would result in un-
justifiable regional inequalities in
wages in the shipbuilding industry.
Under these circumstances ]
suggest to the sterilization confer
ence that you put your heads TO-
gether and try to work out a plan
by which this conflict may be re-
solved, so that wage standards of
the workers in the shipbuildins in
dustry and in other industries, and
the living standards of all persons
of modest income may be preserved
against the inflationary rise in the
cost of living ."
Chairman Porter's only comment
was, Il am confident that the
representatives attending the ma
tional shipbuilding conference will
earnestly cooperate with the Presi-
dent in his program to prevent in
f1ation"
The conferees, representing ship
building management and labor, the
Navy Department and Maritime
Commission, have been holding
executive sessions for week to
work out a renewal of agreements.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Ways and Means UniI
Holds Capital Stock
Tax al Present Rate
Declarations of Value
To Be Annual; Levy
Boost Seen 21z Billions
b. tho Associated Press.

b. tho Associated Press.
The House Ways and Means
Committee decided today to re-
tain the present capital stock tax
for corporations, but voted for
annual declarations of capital
stock value instead of the pres
ent three-year statements.
At the same time Chairman
Doughton announced the committee
had voted to raise the present per
cent surtaX on corporations with
income of not more than s25, 1000 to
10 per cent.
The members last Friday agreed
on a Is per cent surtaX rate on cor
porate net incomes of $4,000 or
more.
Treasury statisticians said that
the committees action to date,
which includes "a per cent excess
profits fiat tax, would yield an esti-
mated $2.490, 100000 additional
revenue.
Chairman Doughton said that the
committee did not change present
rates on the capital stock and its
related declared value excess profits
taxes. The former is at the rate of
S1.25 on each $1,000 of declared
value. The latter is not applied
until earnings exceed 10 per cent of
the stocks declared value, then i'm
poses &c per cent rate on earnings
between 10 per cent and Is per cent,
and 1872 per cent rate above Is
per cent.
The present net yield of the two
taxes is about S140000,000, Repre-
sentative Cooper, Democrat, of Ten
nessee, said. and Treasury experts
said the change to the annual dec
laration of value would produce
about S75,000,0 900.
They estimated that the commit
tees actions thus far would produce
these results in corporation tax
yield: Excess profits tax, s2.715 ,200,-
900 increase; surtax, $63l, TOO 900 in
crease; normal tax. $746,500 900 de-
crease; declared value tax, $50, 8,700,-
900 decrease; capital stock tax, s51,-
100000 decrease; net increase, 81
400 400 ,0O0
Evening star., 1942-05-04
President Requests
Fund Of 102 Million
For n. Y. A., {. &C.
Would Require Oath
Of Allegiance, Ban Work
If Available Privately
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt submitted
to Congress this afternoon a re-
quest for S102.150,00O for the Ma
tional Youth Administration and
the Civilian Conservation Corps
for the 1943 fiscal year.
The estimate outlined a number
of proposed restrictions on the
spending of NJ Y. A. funds, including
requirement that employees and
clients take an oath of allegiance
to the Constitution and a prohibi-
ton of N. Y. A. employment to
those refusing private employment
at prevailing wages.
IN my budget message to the
Congress in January of this year,
the President said, II estimated
s100 100000 for these two agencies
in the inSuing fiscal year, exclusive
of $50,000,000 for defense training
but indicated that the total amount
might not be needed
1T will be noted that the total
of these two estimates is S102, ,14O,-
600, including approximately s50,-
100000 for defense training"
The defense training, to be han
died under the N. Y. A. program, was
intended to prepare approximately
100000 youths for war industry.
Included in the estimates were
S49, ,101 900 for the c. c. c. to pro-
vide program of camps totaling
300 in July and dropping to $50 in
August, 200 in September and $50
the remainder of the year.
The N. Y. A. request included
$40, ,729 900 for employment of youth
on projects approved by the war
manpower commission and S3,275 900
for salaries and other expenses.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Mrs. Harry P. Whitney Leaves
$2,5OO,OOO to Art Museum

which Mrs. Whitney said in her will
that she almost always wore was
left to her niece, Gloria Vanderbilt,
now Mrs. Pat Di Cicco. In addition,
Mrs. Di Cicco received a collection
of trophies and other mementoes
of her father, the late Reginald
Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Whitney left $4,000 cash
bequest to the Newport Hospital,
Newport, r. l.. for the maintenance
of the Vanderbilt ward A bequest
Of similar amount was left to Ju-
Llama Force, described in the will as
a friend. Marie Pfitzer, former
maid, received $4,000, and Fred
Stone. a chauffeur, $4,000 An ad-
ditional $4,000 in cash was left
for distribution among other loyal
servants
Practically all of her real estate
was left to her three children, in
cluding her homes or estates at
Fifth avenue, New York City; in
Nassau and Hamilton Counties, NY.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
| Stark Foresees
| u. S. Drive When
IOdds Warrant
2y he Associated Press.


LONDON, May 4.-Admiral Har-
old R. Stark, commander of United
States naval forces in European wa
ters declared today that we are
looking forward to the time when
We have the strength to take the
offensive and keep going but that
mere recklessness just for the sake
OF fighting against overwheling odds
can bring only defeat"
Admiral Stark made the state
ment to the press on the 25th ami
versary of the arrival of United
States warships at the Irish port of
QueenstoWn-now called Goblin
the last war.
He called the sinkings of Allied
ships of the American coasts in
the last two months bad" but
added that in the last war when
the curve of new construction of
ships crossed the curve of sinkings
we felt the war had been won and
the same must be done again"
Evening star., 1942-05-04
1v n. Associated Press.


MIAMI. Fla, May 4-Survivors
OF a medium sized British freighter,
sunk on her maiden voyage by an
Axis submarine prowling in the At
lantic, have landed at widely sepa-
rated points with United States
naval planes playing an important
part in the rescue.
Twenty-four of the "A men were
picked up by naval aircraft which
landed eight at Bermuda and is
at the Banana River naval air base
in Florida. A passing ship took
eight TO Cuba, from where they
came to Miami en- route to New
York. The remaining IL we're re-
ported at Charleston, S. c.
One of the men was described as
"a passenger who is a servant of
the British government" No lives
were lost and no one was injured
in the sinking, which 7th Naval Dis
trict headquarters announced today.
The safe arrival of all the men
in United States ports confirmed
the confidence of Capt. Harold Rich
ardson of Scarborough. Yorkshire,
that they would make it all right"
only he and seven others were
definitely accounted for at the time
he made the statement.
Two torpedoes struck the freighter
during darkness. An S. o. S. was
sounded before the ship was aban-
doned. The submarine was not
seen, but its exhaust was heard as
it circled once and departed. With
daylight a Navy plane appeared
circled and alighted on the sea. II
took aboard the eight crewmen In
one lifeboat captained by Third Off,
Ger r. Greenl of Stewesley, Eng.
end sped them to Bermuda.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Larry Allen of A. P. Awarded
Pulitzer Prize for War Stories
Los Angeles Times
Wins Medal for
Free Press Drive
Ey the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 4.-Larry
Allen, Associated Press war cor
respondent, this afternoon was
named winner of a Pulitzer Prize
for Ibis stories of the British
Mediterranean fleet, as an &C
credited correspondent attached
to the fleet"
The Los Angeles (Calif) Times
was awarded the $500 gold medal
for its successful campaign which
resulted in the clarification and the
confirmation ''for all American
newspapers of the right of free press
as guaranteed under the Constitu-
ton"
The award to Mr.. Allen, born
Laurence Edmund Allen. was worth
$500 in cash for a distinguished ex-
ample of telegraphic reporting Of
international affairs published in
daily newspapers in the United
States.
Godfrey Parsons of the New York
Herald Tribune was awarded $500
for "his distinguished editorial
writing during the year"
A $500 award for the most dis
Evening star., 1942-05-04
President Spurs Program
OF Parents Congress
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, May A.
President Roosevelt, terming the
schools ''the bedrock of democ-
racy," gave impetus today to the
wartime program of the National
Congress of Parents and Teachers.
In a telegraphed message to the
annual convention. the President
said the Congress past achieve
ments point the way to still greater
achievements.
To-day, when the whole world Is
in turmoil and when democracy is
being assailed, you have greater
opportunities than ever before to
render service.
Il am certain that you will in
crease your efforts to help improve
the schools, the bedrock of de-
mocracy, and to help surround the
children of America with every pos
sible safeguard"
The urgency of the war effort
must not be used as an excuse to
lower existing standards for child
labor, the Congress was told by Its
President.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Burma Reverse
Also Increases
Danger 10 India
Enemy Advancing
To Within 30 Miles
OF Yunnon Frontier
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)

carrier Story on Page ALI
By the Associated Press.
The Japanese campaign in
Burma developed swiftly today
into a stark invasion threat to
China from the south and India
from the east as the enemy
pushed China's expeditionary
army to within 80 miles of the
Yunnan frontier and forced the
battered British troops back to
less than $50 miles from the
Bengal border.
A Chinese communique said fight
ing ragged 600 miles north OF Lashio
with the Japanese driving fiercely
toward Chinese positions near Kut-
kai, last main station on the Burma
road short of China.
Another attack in which the Jap
anese attempted to flank the Chinese
position was reported repulsed.
Fighting continued in the Monywa
area of the Chindwin River Valley,
where the Japanese were driving
toward India.
An r. A, F. communique from
New Delhi announced a smashing
attack by British Blenheim bombers
was made on a concentration of
Japanese barges moving up the
Chindwin, and direct hits were made
on the boats.
Chinese forces were slowly falling
back along the Irrawaddy River
north of Mandalay, the Chinese
said.
The flre-blackened ruins of Man.
dalay in the center of a Japanese
wedge up the broad Irrawaddy VAL
ley separated the Allied defense
forces.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
japanese Are Landing
On North Mindanao
From 4 Transports
u. S. Loses Gunboot
In Bombing Attacks
On Corregidor
Earlier Story on Page AID

japanese troops were landing
from four transports today on
the northern shore of Mindanao,
a late War Department COM
munique reported, as enemy
heavy artillery and air forces
continued an inceSsant bonn
bardment of the beleaguered
garrisons in the island forts
of Manila Bay.
Meanwhile the Navy announced
that the U. S. s. Mindanao, a river
gunboat, has been sunk by enemy
bombing attacks in the vicinity of
Corregidor.
There were no casualties to per-
sonnel, the Navy said in a three
line communique that reported that
the bombing attacks had extended
during the past few days"
The Mindanao is the thirty second
naval craft. exclusive of PIT boats,
to be sunk since late in the fall
of 1941. She was authorized in 1924
and her engines were built at the
New York Navy Yard.
Landings Being Resisted.
The new japanese landings on
Mindanao we're made near Tago-
loan in Macajalar Bay and were
being stubbornly resisted by Ameri-
can-Filipino forces in that area.
Corregidor and the other three
Manila Bay forts were subjected to
13 separate air attacks today, max
ing total of 80 aerial lombard
ments in the last three consecutive
days, the communique reported.
Japanese batteries from the
southern shore of Bataan and
across the bay at Cavite kept up
continuous shelling Of the forts.
Nine-inch guns concentrated their
fire on Corregidor.
Casualties Not Mentioned.
In the almost continuous air at
tacks, it was reported that the JAP
aneSe used both light and heavy
bombers. 1t. Gen Gnathan M.
Wainwright, in his late report to the
War Department, made no mention
OF damage or casualties.
From the reported landings on the
north coast of Mindanao it was ap-
parent that the japanese were seek
ing to occupy all strategic parts of
this southernmost island of the
archipelago.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
AZ Rescued as U-Boot Sinks
British Ship on Maiden Voyage

A tropical wind and rainstorm sep
arated the remaining three life
boats. A passing ship picked up
Capt. Richardson and seven others
in his boat. taking them to Cuba
Later the others were rescued as
they made their way toward land,
The 16 brought to the Banana
River naval air base were in their
lifeboat for l112 days, during which
they were rationed by Second Off,
Ger J. Burgess to six 2-ounce glasses
Of water. nine biscuits and q small
amount Of chocolate and milk daily.
Ensign Keith r. Peachee of At
lanta located them on air patrol,
and two large Navy seaplanes
brought them to shore. Their food
supply still was not exhausted.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
President Asked 10 Back
Raise for Postal EMPLOYEES

The American Federation of Labor
petitioned President Roosevelt this
afternoon to support legislative ef-
forts to increase the compensation
of Government postal employees.
The petition was submitted to the
White House by William Green, A.
F. L. president, and officials of the
postal unions affiliated with the Fed
Grafton.
Citing the great increase in postal
services and large increases in pay
scales in private industry, the pc
tition asserted that postal salaries
are based on 1925 living costs and
that their upward revision lis die
tated by simple justice and fairness. ="
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Erie Ball, Rut Coffey
Qualify at Burning Tree

Erie Ball of Charlottesville, Va,
and Rut Coffey of Hagerstown, Md,
won two of the three places in Sec
tional qualifying rounds today over
the Burning Tree Club course for
the national professional golf cham
pionship. Ball scored 6s-70-139,
5 under par. Coffey scored TOTO
140, under par
Three players tied at 143 were to
stage a nine-hole playoff for the
remaining place. They are Chan
dler Harper, Portsmouth, Va, IL
72-143; Lewis E. Worsham, jr.,
Burning Tree, 71-72-143, and
Andy Gibson Of Baltimore, 72-71
-l43.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
b the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, May 4.-Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney, the late sculptreSs
and one of the Nations wealthiest
women, left a cash bequest of ST.
500, 900 to the Whitney Museum of
Art which she founded in 1881. Her
will was filed for probate today in
Surrogate's Court.
The will stated that the entire
residue of the estate had been left
for charity in a trust to be admin
istered by her three children, Maj
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney,
board chairman of Pan American
Airways, and Mrs Barklie Mckee
Henry of New York and Mrs. G..
MacCulloch Miller of New York and
Aiken, S. c.
Upon her husbands death in 1880,
Mrs. Whitney and the three chill
dren inherited an estimated $780,
100000.
One of the two pearl necklaces
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Boby Blown 300 Feet

WELLSVILLE, N. Y, MAY A
WlndStorm Whisked Carol Denning.
l, and the mattress on which she
was lying 300 feet today, leaving
the child unhurt except for bruises.
The roof and wall of her home were
blown away and her mother, Mrs.
Richard Denning, "a, suffered
bruises and shock.
Evening star., 1942-05-04


A high Allied military author
ity said today that for all intents
and purposes, China is isolated
from sources of supply as a re-
suit of the Japanese success in
Burma.
He said. however. that China has
material enough to keep on fighting
for another year.
He disclosed that prospects of
opening a supply road from Assam,
Northern India, to a junction point
with the Burma Road in China are
slim, because the best present road
is mule track that could not be
developed for motor transportation
for several months.
Allied military authorities have
concluded that they could not use
this road anyway until the Japanese
were driven out of Northern Burma
Jap Planes a Danger.
Some supplies can be flown to
China by plane, but japanese occu-
patton of strategic airdromes would
easily interrupt even the present
meager use of this avenue of supply.
Only scanty supplies now enter
China from Russia.
1t is pointed out here that China S
Burma road imports have for the
most part been raw materials. This
is considered advantageous because
Chinas factories have been making
the processed goods of war used by
the armies of Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek.
The road which the Allies intend
to develop if thep can push the
Japs out of north Burma starts at
Impao in Assam and runs over to
Lungling in China.
Lack Air and Sea Forces.
The Allied defeat in Burma Is
ascribed to the United Nations be-
ing forced to oppose combined
army, air and naval attack with
only ground forces.
The United Nations strategists
today have grounds for grave anx-
iety. it was said authoritatively,
about heavy Japanese attack on
India-which might be the next
japanese move.
The authoritative belief is that
Japan would thrust at India by a
landing at Calcutta and thus take
full advantage of the presumptive
Japanese control of the Bay of Ben
gal.
Allied authorities see five other
possibilities about the next Japanese
move:
l. Attack on Ceylon.
2. Attack on Australia.
May Attempt Island Coup.
3. Seizure of Southwest Pacific
islands from New Guinea to New
Zealand in order to interfere with