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ETA DEWITT SPIK Err

ETA DeWIlI SIlk Elk
Eta Dewitt Spiker died at
of her daughter, Mrs. Mary
5, route /, Oakland, on Sun
gust %, following an illness
al months.
sed was born a daughter of
Archibald and Ellen Cham
Witt and was born at Hoyes
"A, 1867. She was aged 81.
vas a retired school teacher,
member of the Rocky Dream
cle near Swallow Falls.
first husband, Arch Spiker,
lumber of years ago, while her
husband, Israel Spiker, died
NO years ago. Surviving are a
her first husband, Chambers
Oakland; two daughters by
ond husband, Mrs. Mary F.
ear Oakland; and Mrs. Maude
an, Mt. Savage. Also surviv-
10 grandchildren, three great
ildren; two sisters, Mrs. Ida
Ter, New York City; and Mrs.
C. Nine, Deer Park; one
Edward F. Dewitt, Cleve-
al services were conducted
day afternoon at 2 o'clock
Rocky Dream tabernacle with
Mt in the Bray cemetery near
Falls.
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1arriage Licenses
tied During Week

g the week ending Monday,
%, fifty marriage licenses
ranted through the license
of the office of the Clerk Of
euit Court. Six of the certif-
ere marked Don't Publish"
two of the one hundred per-
ID been married before with
N and five women divorced
men and six women widowed.
OF the surrounding territoi '
re granted licenses appear be-
bold face type.
r Harland Sisler, 21, miner,
dence, w. Va, and Agnes
arr, Is, Kingwood, w. Va.
Milton Huffman, 81, me-
Mt. Pleasant, Pa, and Violet
easley, 81, jeanette, Pa.
1T Junior Duivall, 81, ticket
nd Evelyn Lillian Pickens. "a,
Buckhannon, w. Va.
an Marvin Kinsey, As, tailor,
ry Burl Henderson, 25, botn
-on, w. Va.
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DIED
rs. ADA F. STEMPLE

rs. ADA F. STEMPLE
Ada F. Stemple, n, of Au-
Va, died August 25 at
linic, Philippi, w. Va, after
,een a patient there since Au-
Stemple was a daughter of
Cass and Katherine Wilt
and was born near Aurora,
IL 8, 1871. She had lived i'll
her entire lifetime.
as married in 1900 to Luther
de, who died in 1884. She was
ar of the Lutheran church at
and of the Ladies' Aid.
ing are the following chill
ed and Brooke Stemple, Au-
)ss Stemple, Parkersburg, w.
RI Stemple, Sherman, Tex ;
ma Webster and Miss Vera
Aurora; Mrs. Martha Cope
ruceton, w. Va; also two
and one brother, Mrs. w. C.
Mrs. Earl C. Stemple, Amos
all of Aurora; ~ grand
al services will be conducted
Lutheran church at Aurora
p. M, on Friday, with Rev.
Zimmerman in charge. In
will be in the church ceme-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-08-26
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE. That the sub
scriber has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Garrett County. Maryland Letters
Testamentary the estate of
EMMA RIDDER
late of Garrett County Maryland deceased.
All persons having claims against the deceased
are hereby warned to exhibit the same with
the vouchers thereof duly authenticated. to
February, 1919 they may otherwise by law be
excluded from all benefit of said estate. All
persons knowing themselves indebted to said
estate are requested TO make immediate pay
ment.
Given under my hand this oath day of
August. 194S
GARRY d. RIDDER, Executor.
kitzmller. Maryland
ADV 2G-2t
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wv GERMANY

nnual Trinity Reformed Sun
DOL picnic will be held Sep
9Th at the Recreational Area.
ng a Sunday when there are
services, it is hoped that as
possible will plan to attend.
Discussion Group No. 3 met
nesday evening at the home
md Mrs. S. l.. Otto.
nd Mrs. Gus Gabel and chill
Akron, Ohio, are visiting
here.
ida Lidie and son Wesley, of
e, are spending their vaca-
he home of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Martin,
Baltimore, spent the weekend
lartin residence.
I'd Mrs. George Hummel spent
k-end as the guests Of Mr..
5. Clarence Stephen in Bit
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of the brides father, Rev. Ezra
Fike, Eglon. They left Wednesday
for their home at McGaheysville, Va.
Mrs. Homer Miller, of near Al
bright, is visiting her son-in-law and
daughter and family, near Eglon.
Mr., and Mrs. Arthur Alternately and
children had their annual get-to-
gether on Sunday, also celebrating
the 5th birthday anniversary of their
granddaughter, Carolyn Shaffer. At
tending were Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Sell
and daughters, Sandra and Shirley,
Pierce, w. Va; Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Culrance, Parsons, w. Va; and Mrs.
Ruth Shaffer and children, Eglon;
and Mr.. and Mrs. Alternately. Guests
were Master David and Kay Frances
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AURORA-EGLON
Hobo Supper

HODO supper
Hobo Supper will be held at the
Maple Spring church, Saturday, Au-
gust %, beginning at p. m. The
supper is sponsored by the Youth De-
partment of the church, and the pro-
ceeds will go toward the budget for
the year.
The party will consist of songs, fur
and fellowship around a campfire,
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Currance, of Parsons. Mrs. Kirk Co.'S
ner, Akron, another daughter Of Mr..
Evening star., 1948-02-15

ten through and been put to good
use.
In time the network came to
question the much-vaunted eff
cheney of the Gestapo. Remy speaks
almost negligently of the enemy
But his contempt and hatred for
the bourgeois mentality" which
sought refuge in the naturalization
that Petain was playing a double
game for France is firm and out
spoken. He speaks with moving
humility of those to whom he owes
his own life and the lives of his
wife and children In the long and
bewildering roll-call of silent heroes
the name of La Bourdonnie, father
of eight children. with his rabelai-
sian account of his detention by the
Nazis. stand out.
AS the Gestapo with its endless
technical facilities began to close in
and members of the network were
picked off one by one, Remy was
forced to flee France, this time with
his family, but not before he and his
friends had furnished intelligence
that was to prove of incalculable ai6
in the invasion.
Remy's story, with its constant
questioning of his motives and cour-
age and its implicit proof of his
transcendent valor. patriotism ano
faith in his fellow man, is clearly
marked, despite its undistinguisheo
style, for immortality in resistance
literature. It is. truly inspiring
record of a good man serving a
worthy cause. M. Meg. y
Evening star., 1948-02-15

the only one of their heritage in a
little town, belonged to the Meth
odist Church. The university presi-
dent is an anti-Semite. Although
Kitner is one of the most popular
teachers on the campus, the presi-
dent contrives to get rid of him on
a trumped-up charge.
Miss Ward wrote THE Snake Pit, I"
a best-selling novel about insanity.
Here she writes scorchingly of the
administrative phony on the campus
and the go-getting teacher. These
characters are persuasive. Unfortu-
nately, what they do is not. There
are, no doubt, college presidents as
bigoted as Norton. But it seems
likely that he would have been too
adroit a politician to have tried to
have Kitner elected publicly from
an exclusive club and to have
framed" the professor on a charge
of moral turpitude. 1t appears still
less probable that Norton would
cynically have admitted to Kitner
that he was being fired because he
was a "pushy" Jew.
Evening star., 1948-02-15

On Such = Night, by Anthony
Quayle. Gittle, Brown g. Co., $1,000
One afternoon in July, 1912, the
general sent to command the tin.
island Of Palleria had to make
decision. Word had come that a
ranking British minister, pausing
overnight on the island, was in fact
a traitor on his way to make a deal
with the Germans. How could the
minister, Lord Sterndale. be stopped
without causing disruption of the
war effort at home? To Maj
Freddie Simms fell the job of coping
with Lord Sterndale-Simms, whose
secret visions of smashing spy rings
up to now had materialized in
nothing more dramatic than writing
unread reports on petty sabotage.
Simms' great moment is only one
thread of the drama on this Malta
like bastion. There's romance pro-
vided by Sterndale's mistress, bit
of dreaming by young poet and a
continually frustrated chaplain and
the commanding generals finish
fight with his soul. Here's an ad-
venture story, touched with fantasy
and criss-crossed with an ironic
humor.
The Blowtop, by Alvin Schwartz.
dial Press, $4,000
Standing in the is Bar, debating
whether to get down to his writing
Job. Archie is tapped on the shoulder
by a hophead named Phil White.
As he turns. the marihuana peddler
crumples at his feet, murdered.
Archie, an eccentric type, recalls the
% pistol he and his roommate keep
in their apartment. He recalls. too,
that the artist Giordano had visited
the apartment and expressed some
irritation at Phil Whites failure to
deliver his regular supply OF mari
huana. For leasons best known to
the author, Archie and his room
mate are both consumed with dread.
Both become prize suspects just
because they are afraid to admit
possession of pistol. Presumably,
the man ultimately arrested by the
police is the guilty party but the
whole performance is thoroughly
clouded by psychological overtones
and surrealism. This dreary busi-
ness is laid in Greenwich Village.
Il y X
Minute for Murder, by Nicholas
Blake. Harper &; Bros. $2.50)
In the fictitious Ministry of Nor
ale, that redoubtable sleuth Nigel
Strangeways gets in on the ground
floor of a murder. The lethal instru-
ment is a capsule of cyanide. 1t
seems that Charles Remington
was showing a cyanide capsule at
the ministry when Nita Prince-also
known as "Our Blond"-up and died
Remington, Nita's former f1ance,
isn't above suspicion. Neither is
Nita's boss and erstwhile lover nor
the boss wife, nor Brian Ingle, a
caption writer never at loss for
the wrong word nor Merrion
Evening star., 1948-02-15

Yorker The other Is hotly dis
cusseo piece about a priest who
disillusions a girl about her first and
pleasant experience with sex, an
gered because she has come to con-
fession in conflding rather than re-
pentant spirit
That fanaticism, repression, stu
pidity, Illustration and narrowness
can be fashioned into such superb
and funny stories will be no wonder
to those who have read Mr.. O'Con-
nor's previous collection "Crahapple
Jelly" which depended on as little
promising subjects. He possesses in
a superlative degree the gift of re-
vealing character through dialogue.
He reproduces every shading of the
f1avorsome Irish speech and at the
same time makes it indicative of the
slightest shading of personality. In
addition, he has in common with
other Irish writers a sense OF torn
which is spare and lovely. In their
depth and fidelity they reveal an
art OF the first order.
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Fronk O'Connor's Superb Short Stories
Trace Warning Strains in Irish Nature
THE COMMON CHORD
BY Frank OConnor. fAlfred A. Knopt. s275J
Reviewed by MARY MccRORY

The fierce conflict between the ro-
mantle and the puritan strains in
the Irish nature has been unspar-
ingly chronicled, in all its hilarious
and tragic implications, in these
twelve tales by Frank O'Connor,
one. of present-day Ireland's finest
shortstory writer's.
K Although the common chord of
the stories is sex. Mr.. OConnor,
knowing his countrymen for the
ascetics they are. does not daily at
all with details of physical love. It
is the Irish attitude toward the
subject which fascinates hin-as it
does all the world-and with his
great artistry he presents this at
titude precisely as it is expressed in
pious reticence, roundabout refer
ences, flashes of wild humor and
elaborate intrigue. Their refusal
to come to terms with one of life's
basic problems is material made to
order for Mr.. O'Connor, whose un-
derstanding of his fellow man is un-
blurred by any sentimentality and
whose realism does not admit of
any vulgarity.
The story which best exemplifies
his contention that the simple peo-
pie he is writing about combine "a
strong grasp of religious truths
with a vague understanding of the
facts of life" is THE Holy Door" a !
description of miserable marriage
in which piety stiles passion. The
bride is simple girl whose igno-
rance about married life is matched
only by her shock of discovery Her
husband, romantic fellow who had
served gallantly in the Troubles,
looks on wretchedly while she at
tempts to pray herself into resigna-
ton of Gods inscrutable wisdom in
creating the world in two sexes"
A number of curious and importu-
nate advisers hover around their
dilemma, which Is as painful as 1t
is absurd, and whose solution Is |
the only happy one in the entire lot. !
In general the women, who are
cold wives and possessive mothers,
cali forth Mr.. O'Connor's deepest
irony; but he is perhaps equally ir-
reverent about the priests who guide
them. Some spirited and relatively
uninhibited young girls frisk through
a few of the stories but they come
quickly to grief when confronted by
their stern elders. His tenderness is
reserved for the two illegitimate
children of THE Babes in the
Woods" one of the two stories
which has appeared in the New
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Casting q Spotlight
Back of the Scenes
lin Publishing
THE GILDED HEARSE

THE GILDED HEARSE
BY Charles o. Gorham. (Creatiue
Age Press; $2.75.)
My dear, you simply wouldn't be-
lieve it. What goes on in the pub
fishing business, I mean. You re-
member The Hucksters"? Well,
this is just a thousand times worse.
There's only one nice man in the
whole book, an honest editor at a
place called Hutchinson's, but the
others say he's on the way out.
Everything happens in just one day,
but what day. With Munich and
everything coming, this bunch of
editors and advertising men just
go on back-biting and tearing each
other to pieces.
Well, anyway, the hero-I guess
you'd call him that's the publicity
man for this firm, and he starts
getting drunk after this catty edi-
torial conference. He has to go to
an autographing party to catch up
with the man who wrote Time Out
for Cod" who's even drunker.
That's part of his job, you see, keep
ing authors out of trouble. Then
he is invited to drink with snob
from the office Che himself is from
the wrong side of the tracks, So
cially). After that he goes to a
literary cocktail party given by a
very queer man he works with called
Gerald Fatt. His wife is there, and
she's probably not much better than
she should be, but honestly, you
should hear the way he talks to her
such language, really! He knocks
her out cold in barroom after he's
made a dreadful scene at the party.
Yes, it's a little like THE Lost
Weekend" in a way Then, if you
can believe it, he goes on to seduce
an upper-class girl he thought he
loved, but frankly I think 1t was
her pedigree all the time. His wife
is very understanding, though. and,
Just as Chamberlain announces
about peace with honor" you re-
member, she takes him home and
says he can't go to the Office the
next day. I don't wonder.
Mind you, that's just one day. I
don't see how they stand it. Of
course, the man who wrote the book
knows all about it because he was
on the inside for long time. He
certainly doesn't think much of
them, and I can't say I blame him.
They, do sound awfully neurotic to
me and so commercial. Honestly, If
this keeps up, just won't have any
illusions left. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1948-02-15


Smith Floyd NJ Rdd wh the o into aw depicted excellent
howth i
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Three Novels That Explore the Problems
Arisinq From Mans Inhumonity to Man
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

o,
THE PATH OF THUNDER
BY Peter Abrahams. fHarper; $275J
THE PROFESSORS UMBRELLA
BY Mary Jane Ward (Random House; S3J
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
knsp despite complete differences
approach Each concerned with the nuces
that grow out religious intolerance This
than since the clouds
of war lifted a world seething confusion
the Beloved Country Ihe Path Of
Evening star., 1948-02-15
AMoIodjusted Wife
Sets Her Course
DISCOVERY
BY Virginia Chase. (Macmilla1
Co., $780,

BY Virginia Chase. macmillan
Co., $780,
Discovery deals with the prob
lem of middle-aged housewife,
Laurie Drummond, who realizes,
when her children leave for college,
that her life lacks challenge.
The thin plot consists of Laurie's
rather hysterical efforts to find
something that will give her a
sense of usefulness. She runs the
gamut from womens clubs to hos
pital work, and at the end of her
frantic search is more despondent
and maladjusted than ever. After
a painful series of emotional crises,
she discovers that what she really
wants is an office and desk of her
own.
The problem is perfectly legiti-
mate one. Laurie Drummond, how
ever. is neither as attractive nor
as intelligent as the author would
have one believe. and for this rea-
son it is somewhat tedious to fol-
low q story continuously focused
on her complicated mental and
emotional meanderings.
M. B. S.
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Can We Count
On Hemisphere
Solidarity?
BATTLE FOR THE
HEMISPHERE
BY Edward Tomlinson. (Ch1rleS
Scribner's Sons; $3.50.)
Reviewed by
HARRY LEVER.

HARRY LEVER.
We Wooed and won the Latir
American republics as Allies in two
world wars and-as our civil anc
military leaders freely acknowl.
eoged-their raw materials, base!
and manpower played a decisive
part in giving us victory. But !:
there should ever be a third worlc
war, totalitarian influences may
make it difficult, if not impossible
for us to range the Latin American
countries at our side once more
That, in it's essence. is the thesis
which Edward Tomlinson crisply
concisely and forcefully develops ir
Battle for the Hemisphere Mr.
Tomlinson speaks with the author
ity of a trained observer who has
been visiting Latin America severa.
times year for the past Is years
His latest book is a journalists view
of the forces which make for dis.
unity, dissension and dictatorship ir
the Americas. These forces, te
simplify exposition, he breaks down
irto three main categorieS.
First come the swashbuckling
colorful, individualistic dictators OF
the Richard Harding Davis and o
Henry school, like Gomez of Ven.
ezuela, Somoza of Nicaragua ano
Trujillo of the Dominican Repub.
lie, to mention but a few. These
men seized power to crafty their
personal greed or ambition.
Yet, dangerous as they are to the
cause of freedom, they symbolic nc
political or social theology as such
The gravest danger to the peace
and security of the Americas, and
to the United States in time of
emergency, lies in the burgeoning
of communistic and International
istic movements on our southern
threshold.
That Mr.. Tomlinson has not
overestimated the Communist threat
is shown by the action recently
taken by Brazil, Chile and other
American republics to curb COM
munism within their borders.
Paralleling communism in Latin
America is the extreme neo-Hitle-
rian nationalism, which has been
transplanted on American soil by
the advisers and henchmen-some
of them with very unsavory records
of service to the Axis during the
war-of Juan Domingo Peron in
Argentina.
The only formula which we car
follow, the author advises, is to
strengthen our democratic friends
in the Americas in every way pos
sible. He traces such an approach
for encouraging our Allies and dis
couraging the rightist and leftist
enemies of free democracy in Latin
America.
Evening star., 1948-02-15
The Japanese World
FALLEN SUN

BY Noel F. Busch. (Appleton,
Century, CroftS, Inc.;' $780,
An explanation of why the Japa-
nese are what they are is not the
least interesting half of this report
on Japan" by a senior editor of
Life. Mr.. Busch clearly evaluates
the conflicts of theology and prop
erly credits Gen. Macarthur for the
blitz success of the occupation. He
takes a sharp look at the role
Americans are playing in Japan and
considers Gen. MacArthur's qualifi-
cations for the presidency.
Mr.. Busch says that the mature
Japanese lives and thinks in a
never-never world of childish fam
cies, chiefly because childhood is
the least inhibited and hence the
most satisfactory time of life. Gel
shas continue to spoil him after his
parents leave off. His art, politics
and business are mere projections
of childhood contentment. H. L.
Evening star., 1948-02-15

a devOut Catholic to W1Om the Ell =
fective operations of the network
were vir1dication of its system of
mutual confidence and clear evil
dence of its spiritual strength.
Throughout his account which is
replete with hairbreadth escapes,
changed identities, invisible writing
and instances of coolest nerve, he
reiterates his consciousness of his
debt to divine protection and to the
comrades who died rather than be-
tray him.
When Remy arrived in England in
1910, his decision to volunteer as a
secret agent in Occupied France
was motivated largely, he says, with
typical candor, by the deep home
sickness he felt for his beloved wife
and his four children. Although his
knowledge of espionage had derived
only from the movies (he had been
banker and film producer. his
offer was accepted by Gaullist lead
ers in those disorganized days. So
with a rather shaky command of
codes and a vague idea of the kind
of intelligence he could and should
provide, he set out for Spain. There
he established contact with loyal
Frenchmen who expedited his pas
sage across the line into the occu-
pied zone. Almost casually. the Or
ganization which he was to name
the Confraternity of Notre Dame,
took shape. He was passed from
hand to hand and recruited men for
his desperate work with a trust that
seems foolhardy in view of the sure
perils entailed in a wrong judgment.
Among the er-growing company
and Remy scrupulously tries to men
ton them all-heroism became SO
commonplace as to be expected.
Few men spoke even under the most
horrible torture. The women did
not even cry out.
Getting the Information.
The priceless detailed information
about German ship movements and
defenses which he passed on to
London at first by dispatches and
later by transmitters parachuted
into France by the British, could
be obtained, he found, just for the
asking of the right man. One oper-
ative named Hilarion walked into
the German naval Offices at Brest
during the lunch hour and calmly
copied out the plans of the anti
submarine net in the harbor An
ex-pilot who had gained the conf
dence of the German harbor master
at Bordeaux by docking the Bremen
implemented the destruction of
scores of Nazi vessels. The one re-,
ward they all sought was the assur-
ance that the information had got
Evening star., 1948-02-15

The Sunday Star has arranged ,Dtth some OF
the leading booksellers OF Washington ana
suburban areas to report each week the books
uhtch sell best as guide to iDhdt Washing
ton Is reading
This report is for the week ending February 13
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Noble and Stirring Record of Frenchmen
Who Silently Fought Their Nozi Coptors
MEMOIRS OF A SECRET AGE
MT OF FREE FRANCE

MEMOIRS OF A SECRET AGENT OF FREE FRANCE
Vol /. The Silent Company.
BY Remy (WhittleSey House; 81
French intelligence network
quality of its leader Col G. Renau
Roule many mgvngs fed France in June 1910 and
returned organize efficient of amateur spies
Remy as he came which he
describes memoirs sensitive intellectual
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Ottenbera

Squires, the unofficial flying bomb
spotter.
Strangeways' old friend Blou1t of
Scotland Yard is in again but Nigel
gets his real help from an ,unex-
pected quarter. It's puzzler in the
best tradition, written with a
straight face not quite concealing
the tongue in cheek.