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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-09-28
Potomac Basin
Problems Under
Discussion By
Area Committee
Continued from Page Onc)


finished.
The meeting broke up at the Her
rngton Manor forest area, on Satur-
day, shortly after luncheon, by the
Forestry Department, and left in cars
for an inspection Of the Savage River
dam area. Members of the Maryland
Legislative council accompanied the
river basin commission on the inspcc-
ton. Legislative council members re-
manned in Allegany county for meet
ings on Monday. Garrett County COM
miSsioners and other officials also at
tended Mondays meeting
The Potomac River Basin commits
sion was represented Friday and
Saturday by l.. Harold Sothoron,
State Senator from Prince Georges
county, and George f. Lakewood,
Cumberland; Raymond V. Long, Viz
ginia; Harold A. Kemp and James
W. Laudcrdalc, District of Columbia;
DR.. J. f. Offncr and George H. Will
liams, West Virginia; Capt Ralph f.
Tarbett, of the L. S. Public Health
service, and Clarence c. Burger, Jr.,
representing the federal government
Chairman and discussion leader was
+. r. Cotton, ENTHUSIASTICALLY of
the commission with headquarters in
Washington.
Official guests included Mayor Tho
mas S. Post, Cumberland; Lit. Col
Byron Bird; DR.. Robert II. Riley,
state director of health; Kenneth l..
Coltrin, Virginia; W. W. Hodge, West
Virginia University; members of the
Maryland Legislative Council; and
Senator Bernard |. Gender, Oakland.
Legislative council members attend
ing were Senators Joseph r. ByrncS
CD-Balto); Wilmer c. Carter, ID
Balto); Robert Kimblc. (R-Allegany) !;
Delegates j. Milton Dick, (R-Allc-
ganyD John G. Lubor, ID Balto) :;
James b. Monroe, CharIcS); Leo
NJ. Moore, (D-lIarfordD; Milton Tollc,
BaIto); John S. White, (D-Annc
ArundcD; and DR.. Horace f. FIack,
council secretary.
1t was the first trip to Garrett
county for most Of the Council and
several said they were very much
impressed with the scenery here.
Some were apprehcnsivc of the tenn
pcraturc which lowered in the fortics
and fifticS.
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ACCIDENT
Church Services on Sunday

In St. Paul's Lutheran church the
rite Of Holy Communion will be ad-
ministed with a sermon by the Rev,
George Birk, pastor of St. Marks
church in Oakland.
At the Church of the Brethren:
Sunday school at $3.50 A. NJ; divine
worship at 1920. O. P. Fike, pastor.
Births
Mr.. and Mrs. John P Speicher, of
Hyattsville. Md, announce the birth
of a son, John William Hammond, on
September % Mrs. Speicher was the
former Miss Mildred Hammond, of
Baltimore, and Mr.. Speichcr is the
son of Mrs. w. A. Speicher, of Acct
dent.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gcorg have an
nounccd the birth of son on Septcm-
Der 9Th
School Notes
The faculty of the local school has
been unchanged except as follows:
Charley B. Miller, teacher of vo-
cational agriculture.
Mrs. Lillian Harvey Sincs is teach
ing music in place of Mrs. Betty
Scrogum.
Miss Margaret Seesc succeeds Miss
Margaret Rudy as teacher of Home
Economics. Miss Seese is a daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. Norman Scese, re-
turned missionaries from China. She
is graduate of Caroline High school
at Denton, Md, and also graduate
Of Brdgewater College, Bridgewater
Va. She laugh Home Economics las
year at Preston, Md. Her parents re.
side at Junior, West Va, near Elkins
James Spitznas, High school super
visor, visited the school on Tuesday.
The school has designated each
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consequent problem for industrial
users was raised by Western Mary
land representatives, but Cotton said
completion of the Savage river dam
would alleviate but not solve the
problem.
Sessions were held in the state ca
bins with firepIaces as the only source
Of heat and only lamplight for illu-
mination.
Heavy business was shclvcd tenn
porarily Friday evening when the
Forestry department officials pre-
pared a barbecue and served all at
tending the conference and about
twenty additional invited guests
from Garrett and Allegany counties,
Joseph f. kaylor, state forester, de-
livercd a brief address which is
printed elsewhere in this issue.
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grandchildren were dinner guests of
Mr., and Mrs Isaac Beckman on Sun
day
Misses Anna Beachy and Lucy Yo-
der, of Arthur, H., are visiting their
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. D. j.
Swartzentruber, and other relatives.
Sam and Lena Slabach and Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Sisk were entertained at
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-09-28

Maryland cash farm receipts in
Guiding government payments, showed
a gain of $543, 900 for first six months
of this year over S72,O79,O0 total Of
first half of 1913
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the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Queer at Pleasant Valley on Monday
evening.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
SPURGIN TAKES OVER

CAMP DAVIS, Jan. 23.-LP-Lt
Col. William F. Spurgin, Wrights-
vile Beach, has taken over the
duties of department head of the
general subjects department al
the anti-aircraft artillery schoo.
here, replacing 1t. Col. Ernest L.
Osborne.
After graduating from West
Point in 1882, Col. Spurgin served
two years in Panama and two ir
Hawaii, among other posts, before
the war. Last year he attended
the British staff college in England
attached to the air support. Prior
to this assignment, he was pro
vost marshal and commanding Of
f;cer of the military police detach.
ment at Camp Davis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
NEW YORK SEEKS
FASHION CENTER

NEW YORK, Jan. 23-lR-Con-
struction Of world fashion cen
ter, complete with underground
parking spaces, helicopter ter
minal and convention facilities
was recommended to Mayor F. H.
LaGuardia today by committee
of So business, civic and labor
leaders.
In a 250-page report, the COM
mittee,' headed by Grover Whalen,
who was president of the last
New York Worlds Fair, said that
'Los Angeles, Chicago and St.
Louis are fostering the growth OF
their home industries with aggres-
sive plans for immediate expan-
sion," and added:
ut is an incongruous position
for the worlds largest city to
be without a municipal auditor
ium-exposition center when there
are a great number of smaller
communities throughout the coun-
try which can offer such facili-
ties"
The committee proposed 10 pos
sible sites for the center, all in
Manhattan between 22nd and And
Streets, near the garment district.
In some of the proposed sites,
fashion center buildings, none high
er than 81 stories, and most un-
der IL stories, would line both
sides of Fifth Avenue.
The proposed sites cover six to
IL city blocks and would cost be-
tween $88, 100000 and $126, 1888, 900,
it was said.
The committee recommended
that the state legislature create
municipal authority to construct
and operate the center, and pro-
posed that a municipal auditorium,
municipal opera building and mu-
sic and industrial arts school be
built as memorial to the city's
war dead.
The purpose of the center as out
lined by the committee is ''to serve
as focus for the creation, pre-
sentation and promotion of fashion,
and for buying and selling opera
tons"
The committee, which said that
apparel arts and industries were
the city's largest businesses, en-
ploying 40 per cent of it's industrial
workers, includes former Cover
nor Alfred E. Smith, now presi-
dent of the Empire State Building;
Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, editor
Of Vogue Magazine, and heads OF
banks and department stores.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
Burgarians Are Urged
To Desert Hitler And
Join Ranks OF Allies

MOSCOW, Jan. 23-lRAA Pan
Slav committee called on Bulgar-
ians today to desert Hitler and
join the ranks of the United Ma
tons because IAN ominous cloud
hangs over your country and The
flames of war approach your bor-
ders.'
Printed in Pravda, organ Of the
Communist party, the message de-
clared freedom-loving people of
the world look on Bulgaria with
shame because of her alliance with
Hitler.
The committee accused the Bull
gars of allowing the Germans to
use their ports and railways for
the transportation of munitions used
against the Soviet Union and SCOT
fed that Hitler's lackeys in Bull
garia were afriad to send an army
against Russian but dispatched
them against Yugoslav guerrillas
instead.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
Pope's Summer Home
Hit By Allied Bombers,
Nazi Radio Declares
By The Associated Press

Berlin radio declared in Rome
dispatch Sunday that Allied bonn.
bers had hit Castel Gandolfo, II
miles south of Rome, the summer
residence of Pope Plus XII. and
caused extensive damage in the
town."
Allied headquarters in Algiers
announced that Flying Fortresses
had bombed rail junction north
west of Fracati, IL miles below
Rome, but Castel Gandolfo lies
five miles southwest of Frascati.
Allied dive-bombers on Friday
were reported to have destroyed
German frontline air corps head
quarters at Frascati, established
in what had been considered "neu-
traP' territory because of the
nearness to the Pope's home. AL
lied pilots declared the Pope's res
idence and nearby areas of Castel
Gandalfo never felt a thing" in
the blow at the air headquarters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
GREEK REFUGEES
TELL OF TORTURE

CAIRO, Jan. 23.-R-Tales Of
Nazi torture were told today by
nearly a score of Greek refugees
who escaped from Europe IN q
small boat during violent starm
All except one of the prisons If
Athens have been taken over by
the Gestapo, the refugees said, and
filled WITH political prisoners anc
German troops accused of a de-
featist spirit.
One declared the shot egg treat
ment" was mandatory for prison
ers reluctant to talk.
''They put hot hard boiled egg
under your armpits," he said. 81
that doesn't work they tear ou
your fingernails."
Another Gestapo trick was sale
to be application of metal heae
bands. These arrest blood circula.
ton, bring on extreme pain ant
induce madness. Flogging also wa
said to be used.
The treatment is so harsh tina
many prisoners die, the refugee!
declared. The refugees said l!
German deserters recently were
executed in a single day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
Robson County Works
To Pass War Bond Goal

LUMBERTON, Jan. 23.-Lum-
berton committees named by Ro-
beson Chairman M. F. Cobb of the
War Finance Committee, are
working to attain the county goal
of $1,713,000 in the Fourth War
Loan Drive.
County Farm Agent w. D. Rey-
holds, chairman of the Robson
Rural Solicitation committee, has
appointed committees in 26 Sec
tons of the county, and Lumber
tons chairman, R. H. Kuy, has
named SO business men to help
meet the city's quota of $500, 1000.
Captured German equipment and
other equipment from Camp Davis
were on display in Lumberton
last Tuesday afternoon and night
at public meeting at which the
Lumberton High School band play
ed, and a talk was given by Henry
A. McKinnon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
Picture of Wilmington
Man On State MAGAZINE

The picture of the late Lieuten-
ant Robert Rhodes Hatch, recipient
of the Distinguished Flying Cross
and the Oak Leaf Cluster, who
was killed in a take-off crash of
B-26 somewhere in New Guinea,
On January 10, 1913, provides the
cover for the January issue of
the State College News" pub
lished by North Carolina State
College. 1t. Fatch was the son
of Mrs. James j. Hatch of lis
South Third stree, and nephew of
the late Miss Ethel Hatch of the
same address.
The career of this North Caro-
lima hero is described in detail
in the curret issue of the News"
He was one of the first State Col
lege students to receive his private
pilots license in the CAA, and he
was one of ten College students
selected for advanced training at
the Raleigh airport in 1889. He
completed his training at Kelly
Field, Texas, before his twenty
first birthday, and in August, 1941,
was sent to Langley Field, Va.
After Pearl Harbor, says the
News" he went to Hawaii as a
bomber pilot and on March %,
1912, he was in Australia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
Sawmill Worker Killed
In Fire Saturday Night

WHITEVILLE, Jan. 23.-san
Jones, 81 year old Negro sawmil
worker was burned to death Sat
urday night at about 1870 p. m
in fire which destroyed his home
at Brunswick, three miles south
east Of Whiteville.
The man was alone at the house
at the time. When the fire wa!
discovered, flames had completely
enveloped the building.
Firemen battling the flames dis
covered the mans badly charrec
body against the door, which hac
been locked with chain from the
inside. It was supposed that he
was overcome by the smoke anc
flames as he tried to get out o.
the building.
Coroner Hugh Nance Of Cerro
gordo was called to the scene bu
no inquest seemed necessary,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
ALLIED LANDINGS
SURPRISED NAILS
By WILLIAM SLOVENIAN
Chicago Daily News Correspondent
Distributed By The Associated

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY
SOUTH OF ROME, Jan. 22-De-
layed)-Crack American troops
slipped into this harbor south of
Rome just after two o'clock this
morning and after only nominal
opposition which dumbfounded
everyone seized the deserted wa
tering place for the Allies.
Somebody let off a rocket at us
as we came in but otherwise the
operation went off without hitch.
The Germans had Withdrawn
most of their forces last Tuesday
night and had depended for de-
tense of the harbor on field OF
mines which did not hinder us at
all.
We found the town badly shat
tered by our bombing, but far less
devastated than most places we
have, taken. Many handsome viii
lage public buildings were COM
pletely intact.
This morning the calm sea is
covered with Allied shipping, sup
porting and supplying landings in
the neighborhood.
We can hear occasional machine
gun fire and our ships fire a few
rounds now and then, but so far
the customary German counterat-
tack has failed to develop.
Our fighters are constantly over
head and we are so close to our
airdromes that we can depend on
air supremacy.
The landing operations proceed
ed in complete silence until just
before the landing craft touched
shore. Then the night was rent
by barrage from the sea.
Complete surprise was achiev-
ed. The few Germans we found
were cut down by machineguns
before they knew what was hap
pening.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24

August 7, 1872" says the arti.
Gle, ''he was the leader of forma.
ton of six planes. Forced down he
bad weather, he made a crash
landing. He and his crew were lost
for % days in the jungles of New
Guinea. They walked $50 miles te
an American base. On January 10,
1943. he was killed. :"
ION April 6, 1912, he distinguish.
ed himself while on an aerial flight
over Rabaul, Jew Britain, which
won for him the Distinguished
Flying Cross.
The Saturday Evening Post
Of November IA, 1912, carried his
picture and story by John Lard.
ner, who rode in Bobby's plane
during the aerial flight over Lac
New Guinea, April 30, 1912, fol-
which he received the Oak Leak
Cluster.
I'm a brief ceremony in the
Lutheran Church in Goldsboro, On
Sunday morning, August 20, 1913
the Distinguished Flying Cross and
the Oak Leaf Cluster were pre-.
scented to Mrs. James j. Hatch,
mother of the young bomber pilot.
whose cool bravery and daring
won national attention." says he
article.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
Lloyd Stratton Honored
With Dinner In India

NEW DELHI, Jan. 23-RELlovd
Stratton, president of Associe ed
Press, Limited, was the guest Of
honor last night at dinner given
by U. N. Sen, director of the AS
ISOLATED Press of India.
The dinner was attended by a
large number of representatives OF
the government and newspaper
colleagues.
Stratton previously was the
luncheon guest of Admiral Lord
Louis Mountbatten, commander in
chief, Maj. Gen. Albert c. Wede-
meyer, deputy chief Of staff, and
ranking officers of the Southeast
Asia command at the admiral S
residence.
Stratton has just completed 8
business visit to Karachi, Bombay
Bangalore, Agra and Delhi anc
will return to India after trip tt
Chungking.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
WILMINGTON MAN
GIVEN CLUSTER

WASHINGTON, Jan. % Up -
The War Department announced
today awards to men serving with
the 18th Air Support Command
in Northwest Africa which INCLUDE
ed the following North Carolin-
ians:
Eighth Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster
to Air Medal: Maj. William M.
Houston, 240 Kenmore Ave,
Charlotte.
Fourth Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster
to Air Medal: LIST 1t. James A.
Benzing, 7th Garden Terrace, Ashe-
vile.
Third Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster
to Air Medal: 1st 1t. Henry S. Can't
rell, Route 8, Wilmington; LIST 1t.
Ray W. Crook, Route 6, Lexins.
ton; LIST 1t. James B. Lampley.
Hendersonville Flight Officer
James H. Montgomery, Jr., Farm
ington; Tech. Sgt. Charles F.
Franklin, Jr., 20 Westwood Place.
West AsheVille,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
New Navy Recruiting
Plan For 17-Year Odds

cred in the examination given to
applicants is mathematics, physics,
radio, and general practice, and
number of North Carolina boys
nave already made application to
receive training at one of the
Nays schools in the application
Of principles used by the Navy.
The plans available to 17-year-
olds are as follows: U Any IT.
year-o1d who is a senior in high
school may take the examination,
and if qualified in all other res
poets, will be deferred until he
graduates if that date is approx
mately June l, 1914. After gradua-
ton he will be transferred to a
Navy Training school for a number
of months training in electronics.
(2) Any 17-year-old boy, who is
qualified in all other respects, but
is not enrolled in high school may
take the special test and if he pass
es he will be transferred to Nav
al Training station to begin in
struction Immediately.
Helms announced that all sue.
cessful applicants will be enlisted
at the rating of seaman, first class,
which affords a pay of sos month
plus all dependency allowances,
and food, lodging and clothing.
Men accepted will be enlisted in
the Naval Reserve for the dura-
ton of the emergency and six
months.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
Home Demonstration
Agent Gives Schedule

Miss Anne Mason, Home Demon
stration agent for New Hanover
county, announces her schedule for
the following week, January 1929
Monday-Office.
Tuesday 2:30 p.m.-Gordon Road
Club.
Wednesday morning - Winter
Park All club and Wrightsborc
All club; 2:30 pm. - Audubon
Home Demonstration club.
Thursday 2:30 pm. - Middle
Sound Home Demonstration club
Friday morning office; 2:30 pm
Winter Park club.
Saturday morning-Food Preser
walton school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24

A special plan whereby 17-year-
olds qualified in radio and electro
mics may be enlisted as seaman,
first class in the Navy and defer
red until they graduate from high
school this June, was announced
here by Jesse Helms, petty officer
in charge Of Navy Recruiting for
Wilmington. In addition, 17-year-
olds who are not high school grad
yates are eligible to take the qua
lifying examination.
The Navy at the present time
needs large group of men to re-
ceive training in advanced electro
MICS, new and fascinating phase
of radio, which will revolutionize
civilian life and comforts when
victory is won. The material COW
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
Greater Use OF V-Mail
Being Urged By Navy

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. - up -
The Navy cautioned today that un-
less greater use is made of "
mail to servicemen and women sit
may become necessary to discon-
tinue carrying other personal mail
overseas by air.
Citing a warning to this effect
from the chief of naval operations,
the Navy declared that overseas
operations are taxing air trans
portation facilities severely.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
YOUNGER GENERATION
SURE is STURDY

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -P)- At
torney John W. Green, who is
pushing s., dropped into down.
town law office. Lawyer James A.
Fowler, who soon will be 81,
passed through. Later each man
commented that the other had nc
business out of doors on such a
raw day.
Across the street, standing in
the rain, was Attorney HUI Bar.
ton Lindsay, SO, who marveled that
his aged contemporaries could
brave the elements of winter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
g. q; RI # ;; !:!!:

"Peace is continuous process;
it must not be thought Of as some
thing to be achieved at a confer
ence, something to be won,' says
Bishop G. Bromley Oman, of Bos-
ton, Mass, leader of the Meth
odist Church's Crusade for a
New World Order.'' Just as in
ternational action to Danish dis
ease and to preserve health calls
for international health agencies
continuously at work fighting
plague here, struggling against ty-
plus there, and all the while pur-
suing measures in research and
preventive medicine-so, too, inter-
national action must be constant
in dealing with such questions as
stable currency, access to raw ma
terials, transportation n d COM
munication, and labor standards.
Subject peoples come of age and
declare, Good government is no
substitute for self-government'. No
one knows the hour when decision
must be made. Upon solution of
problems peace depends. And So
luton calls for agencies continu-
ously at work.
Declaring that 100000 Negroes
in the United States h we no
church affiliation whatever, n d
that there is a lack of Negro Chris
| tan leaders, both men and wom-
en-, DR.. Harold L. Trigg, Negro
leader and president of the Eliz-
abeth City IN. c. State Teachers
college, has appealed to the
churches for a forward program
of work among the Negroes. es-
pecially in the South. He urges
an increase in the home mission
airy service among Negroes in
rural areas where Negro youth is
yearning for an enlightened and
consistent spiritual leadership; in
the South where the majority OF
Negroes live; and in all regions
of this great country where men
are thirsting for guidance into the
| llle Ol happy dllu POS1tASS SAAOA''
Americans will find new song,
a new opportunity, says Vice
President Henry A. Wallace" In
her world relations she will dem
onstrate the practically of Chris
tianity-that in serving the world
she serves herself. The l y
hardest-headed are those who see
farthest. Christ was the hardest
headed man of historic d.
Christian precepts and C o m m
sense will save the common peace.
The common man, well-informed,
working with goodwill, is the great.
est force in producing the world
we want
The Rev. Carl Erik Wenngren,
a former chaplain Of the Swedish
army and a worker of the
l Y.M.C.A among Polish refugees
in Sweden, is now in the United
. States at the request of the World
Council of Churches, to serve as
!; a representative of neutral ma
ton among the German prisoners
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
REDS HAIL LANDINGS

MOSCOW, Jan. 23.-R-Sovlet
press accounts of the new Allied
landings on the Italian coast below
Rome were read with great inter-
est by the Russian people today,
who generally hailed the new Of
fensive as the prelude to west
ern invasion of Europe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-24
WHEAT IN NORTH AFRICA

LONDON, Jan. 23.-(R)-A Mo-
1870 broadcast today said ship
.''eilt OF 10000 tons of wheat had
1 1,.Io Casablanca from the
olnVed States as the first of Sc
~ ~ 10 build up the food reserves
OF North Africa.