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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-10-19
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub
scriber hath obtained from the Orphans Court
Of Garrett County. Maryland, Letters of Adj
mnistratun on the estate of
LANINIA NJ. KELLER,
late of Cares County, Maryland, deceased.
All persons having claims against the deceased
are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with
the vouchers thereof duly authenticated to the
ubscriber before the 18th day of
April. 1915, they may otherwise by law be
secluded from all benefit of said estate. All
persons knowing themselves indebted to said
state are requested to make immediate pay
nent.
Given under my hand this 10th day of Octo-
per, 1914. MILDRED KELLER,
Administrators,
Kitzmiler Maryland.
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the advertisements, or 1ih;irir,nu ~,
amendments L. the Constitution. and ia
pr"Hid- Tor tAr submission ut said
amehdm"rt to Che qualified VOTERS OF In-
STATE OF Maryland lar adoption or re-
Jrctton.
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Assembly Of Marylaud Ohr,.,.- nm. ,,I al
the mcmhyts OF each OF tn, NO lin,,.n.
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become Section ! of Article II of lin. DON.
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'IRATE TREASURES FROM
NEW ENGLAND'S SANDS

Many years ago a pirate galleon
AIDED with stolen treasure was COM
etely wrecked off the cast Of New
ngland. How some Cape Codders are
DE to live comfortably without work
e by digging treasures from the
md is revealed in a fascanting arti-
@ in the October 29th issue Of
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1914

tPRoCIAMATI0N ~! THE GOVERNOR
lUf MAINLAND DIRECTING THE ptH.
LICAIloN ~ BILLS PROP0SI\C
ANiNHNENT~ TO THE CGNSFIYI TtnE
Of TIN STATE
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-Advel tisement 34-3t.
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Mountain Lake Park. Md.
ASA \. CALLS, Auctioneer.
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ny ~ 10 NTWTWaN an NWCNWWNNt TO SET
ton Of Artici" = OF the Constitution G
the State of Maryland, title "Attorucl
General and States Ntorueys", relatin
to the salary OF States Attorneys. and
provide for the submission of sal.
amendment to the qualified voters Of IL
state of Maryland for adoption or re
lection.
Assembly of Maryland tthryc-tifths of
the members of each Of the Two IIuuS,
concurringl, That the following be and TN
same is hereby proposed as an amendurn
to Section Of Article J of the Constiiu
ton Of the State of Maryland, title AT
torney- General and states Attorneys, til,
same if adopted by the legally Uualtc,
voters Of the state, as herein provided, I,
become Section Of Article of the Con
stitutou Of the State Of Maryland
Evening star., 1944-02-20

Imagine! =. these royon and cotton dresses are all
SOAP NJ WATER Fabrics they Won't fade :.
won't shrink more than % :. won't lose their orig
ino| fresh color otter many tubbings and ironings
Even the seams, threads and trimmings are guoron-
teed woshobe
Evening star., 1944-02-20

Look for them in the latest issues of Vogue-Chorm
-ModemoseIIe-ond other leading fashion mog-
ozines :. Then come see them at Lonsburgh's!
Lovobe, Iivobe frocks in the brightest, most tempt
ing colors imaginable! Just think-no more Clean
able to do top notch job Of Tubing her own Crown
Soap NJ Water Frock!
REG. U. S Pot.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10

something that her daughter or husbands could not
contro-and when we displeased her she whipped
our backs and shoulders with the buckle end Of
that same wide belt.
She'll never hit your faces, girls" Aunte's
third husband, Sir Green, whispered TO us one
day 1.-THE public will not be so glad TO pay to
look at little Siamese twins with Scared faces
Our awareness became accumulated. We were
very knowing and we developed opinions although
we were treated like animals, living in cage. We
were kept in one room regularly whipped, scolded
and trained We were never permitted to play
with other children, and when looked over the
sill of our window and little girls walking
alone we felt quite sorry for them because they
were not were.
We were always being looked at-on stages, in
large and small theatres. 1t frequent &C.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10

currence 10 awaken and find row Of doctors and
SCIENTISTS surrounding bed.
How we oathed the sight of hospital and the
Very bedside tone of medical mans voice, We
were punched and pinched and probed until we
were almost craZy-and we always screamed and
scratched and kicked.
When the doctors and scientists left Auntie
would often whip US with the belt and call us
ungrateful brats.
THEN we came to wonder-what If Auntie
] offered some fabulous price By the doctors and
scientists? Would she stop showing the
stages and let the doctors have us-to punch and
pinch and take pictures of always?
We would lie awake, crying silently holding
hands, wondering.
that they cut us apart" l. Daisy, whispered TO
Il never want to be away from YOU" I, Violet,
whispered back. 1--WE hold our breaths until
we die"
We didn't hold our breaths, however. But our
little pact and promises gave us a peculiar KIND
of confidence.
Then one morning, pretended to be sleep
ing, we overheard Auntie talking with doctor.
THE cartilage, muscles and bone could be sew
cred" he said 1T will be worthwhile and inter-
esting experiment to separate the nerves OF the
spinal coiumn-you see, there has never been
set of Siamese twins operated on while they were
living and science is deeply interested in making
the experiment"
We lay there listening, straning to hear what
Auntie would reply-and our hearts turned over.
In next weeks instaIment Daisy and Violet Hill
ton will tell what they encountered when they
were taken to Europe to be taught ballet dancing
elOcutiOn, piano and violin to make their debut at
the greatest theatre i'm Berlin at the age of three
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY II
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10

hugh we talked before other children our age.
There a speech repeated TO us daily, over
lain like photograph record. 1t was spoken by
big curly haired woman who bathed, dressed
ID fed us. She never petted or kissed us, or even
billed. She just talked
Your mother gave you TO me. You are not my
tldren. Your mother gave you TO me" The
3eech grew longer as we grew older: I'm not your
bthzn Your mother was afraid when you were
n - gave you to me when you were two weeks
You must always do just as say"
! HIS woman was Mrs Mary Williams, the midwife
who attended our coming into the world. She
lot us clean and fed and taught us TO rely on
Fin other. We taught to call her Aunte,
! each OF her five husbands was Sir
Auntie had a daughter, big girl, named Edith,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10

ipest and then 10 build
uses always with the
i ne disastrous results. One
us would have TO be- al
Ned TO build her house
Sne while the other re-
Ained motionleSs. Which
P? Why, the one who
Inted more To build.
The thought did not take
3ch clear form until later
hrs, but we soon stopped
|eping because we had TO
re in now and then or
be up. Our physical bond
S not going 10 be our
bss-we both decided on
t-our decision was aided
the realization that ii
S nice never 10 be alone
b lonesome. There was
Nays a playmate there.
Walking came easy. We
anced each other. We
rned 10 listen early. We
rnpd 10 saw little. al
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10

but we were unable ever 10
learn from tn e m much
about our parents. Mother,
they said, was named Kate.
She was young and pretty
and she married a Captain
Hilton. He married mother
in Texas. She ran away
from him after we were
born. We were unable even
TO learn our fathers first
name, Auntie and Edith
couldn't remember. How
ever, Auntie remembered 10
tell us in 1916 that our father
had died in action during
World War I.
Auntie was a tall woman
with a pretty, oval face,
framed with well tended
hair. About her waist was
always a wide leather belt,
fastened with a large metal
buckle. And it took only a
little jerk to release the
buckle. Her temper was
Evening star., 1944-10-21

but Geraldine were in school. We
ran out"
"The sky was all afire," inter-
rupted Geraldine, 4.
Tearfully, Mrs. OFT continued: IT
took such good care of everything
My dog Tootsie, my three cats, my
chickens, all gone"
Mrs. Josephine Mivsel, a neigh
Dor, sat nearby with two children
She sadly remarked that she did not
know where her other two young
sters were.
"All my cash, my bonds, my
money, everything burned up" she
said.
II was going to plug in my
sweeper" said Mrs. Charles Flick
niger. Suddenly it seems like the
walls turned all red. I looked at
the windows and the shades were on
fire. The house filled with smoke
thought the furnace had blown up
then I saw the fire all around"
Mrs. Thomas Komar and her 2
year-old daughter Judy were the
only customers in a grocery store
when the first explosion shook the
building.
All I can remember are the tele-
phone poles smoking and bending
IN the street." she said.
Il thought my shoes would melt
right of my feet" declared Mrs.
Julia Torok. adding that 'the FIRE
was right above us about as high
as three -story house"
Force of the initial explosion
knocked pedestrians to the pave
nent Is far Is two blocks from the
Evening star., 1944-10-21
Federal Government
Petitions for Larger
Cut in Pepco Rates

The Federal Government late yes
terday filed its own petition Of
appeal in District Court in its effort
to bring about greater reduction
in Potomac Electric Power Co. elec-
trio light rates than was ordered
by the Public Utilities Commission
for the rate year beginning last
March l.
The petition Was filed at almost
the same time that Justice David A.
Pine of District Court ruled the
Government had a right to inter-
vene in the current appeal filed by
Pepco against the PUG, in which
Pepco seeks to have the PUG re-
duction order vacated on claims that
the reduction ordered is too drastic.
S1,037,189 Reduction Ordered.
The PUG order calls for a reduc-
ton of $1,037 ,189. The Government
in its petition yesterday said that as
a result of alleged errors" by the
PUG in arriving at its reduction
order that users o. electricity in the
District will be required to pay in
1914 approximately $2,540,0OO in ex-
cess of the just and reasonable re-
turn to Pepco.' The Government
also claims that the PUG under the
code lis obligated to establish" rates
which would prevent the alleged
excess cost.
While the right to intervene gives
the Government a chance to contest
the case in court, its own appeal
gives it chance to bring up addf-
tional issues which it could not do
merely as an intervenor.
Government Largest Customer.
The Federal Governments appeal
was filed, the petition said, as
Pepco's largest customer, the Gov
ernment paying approximately $6,-
900, year for electricity. The
petition was filed through attorneys
OF the Justice Department and
United States Attorney Edward M.
Curran.
Representing the Government
from the Department of Justice were
Assistant Attorney General Francis
M. Shea, Special Assistant to the
Attorney General Arnold Levy and
Attorney Marvin Q .1aylor.
Evening star., 1944-10-21
Cleveland Fire
Continued From First Page

thousands of homeless slept in
gymnasiums and recreation halls or
wandered from one center to an
other, seeking missing relatives and
friends.
Critically burned, Mrs. Adolph
Schwebs, 1011 East Sixty-first street,
walked unaided into Glenville hos
pital during the conflagration. Her
clothing had peen burned almost
completely from her body, disclosing
horribly scared flesh. She died
shortly before midnight.
Physicians said she was unable to
relate how far she had walked de-
spite her tragic burns. They offered
only this explanation: Extreme
shock impaired sufficient strength
to trudge on.
Homeless men, women and chill
dren, about 425 of them, slept fit
fully last night on Army cots in
classrooms, corridors and the GYM
nasium of Wilson junior High
School, on East Fifty-fifth street,
converted into disaster headquarters
by the Red Cross. Most fled the
fiame-engulfed area with only the
clothes they wore.
Mrs. Bertha OFT. her four chill
dren grouped about her, related she
heard the first blast and "out of my
window I saw everything all red"
when / opened the door the
gress was burning. AL the children
Evening star., 1944-10-21

scene. J. Alvin Phebus said II was
walking about two blocks from the
blast when it happened. At first I
felt warmth on my neck like the
sun had come out, and then I felt
the blast. 1t knocked me about 4
yards and made me feel like I was
in a vacuum" ....
Asa Swiger was working in the
nearby Steel Improvement Co. plant
when he heard the first blast. 1T
shook us all up." he said, land about
20 Of us ran into the street. Then
we saw sheets of fame headed to-
ward us and we tried to run. An
other blast knocked me down, and
I was burned on the back of the
head"
"A small puff of smoke, followed
by the biggest blast I have ever
seen," said Herbert Mott, 81. Il
was standing at Fifty-fifth and St.
Clair streets and happened to be
looking toward the lake when I
saw it. Immediately fire covered
the whole neighborhood"
Mr.. and Mrs. James Leach of
Sixty-first street said they were
wearing the only clothes we have
left" Mr.. Leach said both were out
OF the house when the blast spread
flaming embers over their home.
by the time we could get to our
house, we didn't have a chance to
save thing" he added.
Evening star., 1944-10-21
Cleveland Disaster Is Second
Major Fire in u. S. This Year

in Chicago's Iroquois Theater fire
December 80, 1908.
Known dead in the Coconut Grove
Night Club fire in Boston, Novem-
ber %, 1912, totaled 498.
Cleveland itself has suffered two
other tragic fires in the past "A
years. On March 4, 1908, the Lake
View School fire caused 174 deaths.
On May Is. 1929, 124 persons per-
ished in the Orile Clinic Hospital
fire.
Others with their tolls:
Hoboken docks and ships fire
June 30, 19O0-145.
Coal mine fire at Monongah
w. Va, December 6, 1907-36l.
Rhodes Theater fire, Boyerstown,
Pa, January 4, 1908-169.
Triangle Shirt Waist Co. fire, New
York City, March "a, 1911-145.
Ohio State Penitentiary fire, Co.
lumbus, April 81, 1930-320.
MORO Castle fire, off Asbury Park,
N. j., September 8. 1934-134.
New London (Tex.) School ex-
plosion and fire, March 18, 1924
Evening star., 1944-10-21
Covers Blasted From MonhoIes
As Fire Backs Up Gas in Mains

Hurt? Why. I saw one manhole
cover land right on a guys head He
never knew what hit him"
Heat from the constantly spread
ing flames, plus the warnings of new
explosions, kept us at least two
blocks from the spot of the first
blast. But from that distance there
is nothing to be seen but a furnace
several blocks long and at least two
blocks wide.
In one parking lot three blocks
from the East Ohio's main storage
tanks, I counted 26 burned auto
mobiles.
Nearby child's playboard still
had evidence of swing and a tee
ter-totter, but the house where the
child lived, was fat wreckage.
Panic stricken residents, most of
them wearing the only clothes they
now possess, wandered the streets.
Evening star., 1944-10-21
British Units Pierce
German Rearguards
In Adriatic Sector
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Oct. 21.-Eighth Army
units burst through the rear
guards of German parachute
troops on the Adriatic sector to-
day and occupied the coastal
town of Cesenatico, 13 miles
above Rimini and 18 miles from
Ravenna, their next coastal OBJ
jective.
New Zealand and Canadian troops
northeast of the fortress town and
highway center of Cessna made sim
liar swift advances. Cessna was occu-
pied and Allied troops were clearing
one last enemy pocket on the west
ern outskirts of the town, which is
IL miles southeast of Forli, boyhood
home of, Mussolini on the Rimini-
Bologna road.
(The British Broadcasting Corp.
quoted Gen. Sir Harold Alex
ander, Allied commander in Italy,
as saying in broadcast to Ital-
ian patriots in Bologna that the
liberation of the city is immi-
nent.'o
considerable progress has been
made by troops of the 9th Army in
the Pc Valley, north of the Rimini-
Bologna road" the Allied commu-
nique said.
While successes on the Adriatic
sector do not mean a breakthrough
of the German line, the fact that
New Zealand armor has been able
to thrust little farther into the
Pc Valley raised the hope that the
9th Army might yet be able to bring
it's superior armored forces to bear
in the wide plain stretching ahead
There are many river barriers in the
area, however, and uncertain wealth
er makes them formidable.
The 5th Army, which is driving
north toward Bologna, Captured
several high spots, but still was en-
gagged in heavy fighting, particularly
In the area north and northeast of
recently captured Livergnano. There
the Germans increased their artil-
lery fire and were backing up their
troops with tanks and self propelled
guns.
On both sides of Highway 65 (the
Florence Bologna highway British
American and South African troops
nevertheless managed to capture
more high ground.
Evening star., 1944-10-21
Weather Outlook Here
Bright for Few Days

The Districts weather prospects
for the next few days appears mod
erately bright. with clearing skies
and no rain forecast for the week
end.
The forecast was made following
a wind and rain lashing this area
received when it was caught in the
outer fringes of tropical hurricane
that left death and destruction from
the Caribbean to the foothills. of
North Carolina.
The mercury here was expected to
reach a maximum today of 60 de-
grees and to descend tonight to
around 40 degrees. Tomorrow's pre-
| dlctlon was clear. with moderate
winds and a high of Sc degrees.
The storm was moving northeast
ward today. with the main center
expected to strike south of Nam
tucket late this afternoon.
Evening star., 1944-10-21
Careful Tax PLANNING
After War Is Urged

Full employment after the wal
can be established by a Government
policy providing an incentive to
keep the money rolling" by careful
tax planning, but need not be main
tained by keeping wages high
through Government control, the
last meeting of the social sciences
conference at Howard University
was told last night.
DR.. Frank D. Graham, professor
OF economics at Princeton Uni
versity, told the group that the Gov
eminent tax policy will be an essen
tlal factor in maintaining full en-
ployment, and advocated taxation
for destruction of monopolies, con-
troll OF public utilities, the cutting OF
prices for maintenance of output
and the extension of inheritance
taxes.
Emerson P. Schmidt, director OF
economic research for the United
States Chamber of Commerce. de.
clared that the postwar problem is
not to provide artificial purchasing
power through the maintenance OF
high wages, but to provide enter
prise with incentives to put men on
the payroll" Wages should be low
cred after the war when taxes drop
ne said. Talk of increased pur-
chasing power is made to suggest
the necessity for increased govern
mental control" he said.
The group also heard DR.. Herbert
Northrup OF New York University
discuss the policies of the NLRB and
the WLB. He complimented both
agencies for their work in remedy
Ing discrimination problems. He also
urged establishment of a permanent
FEPC.
Evening star., 1944-10-21
BY the Associated Press,

The Cleveland fire, with its &C
companying devastation and death
swells the list of fire disasters which
the United States has suffered.
Most recent fire disaster occurred
at Hartford, Conn, when the Ring
ling Bros, Barnum g. Bailey Circus
tent went down in flames July 6 OF
this year; 166 persons perished.
Other major fires Of the century
include:
The great Baltimore fire February
7 and 8, 1904, swept the business
district of the city with destruction
of an estimated IS blocks, more than
l40 acres, inf1icting property loss
estimated as high as SIPS, 100000.
On June Is, 1904, the steamship
General Slocum took fire while pass
ing through He'll Gate, East River,
New York, and 1,021 lives were lost,
heaviest death toll from fire in the
country's history.
Approximately 500 died in the San
Francisco earthquake and fire of
1906 and 602 were burned to death