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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-19
SERVICES AT ST. PAUL'S
METHODIST CHURCH

Sunday services at St PauPs
Methodist Church, North Potomac
Street, will be held at HOO am. and
7:3O pm.
At the morning service, the min
lister, Rev. Norman L. Trott, will
speak on the subject: Christian
Helps in Conquering Worry"
Laymen's Day will be observed at
the evening worship hour, with a
group of laymen conducting the ser
vice.
At the close of the evening ser
vice at $3.50 o'clock, there will be a
showing Tin the ChapeD of the re-
ligious motion picture, Beyond Our
Own"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-19
Church NeUs
MORNING DEVOTTONS TO
BE HEARD OVER WEI

The following ministers will con-
duct the Morning Devotions for the
erisuing week, heard over the radio
station WEI every weekday morn
ing at 1915. o'clock.
Friday, Rev. Frederick D. Eyster,
Christ's Reformed Church; Satur-
day, a reader from the First Church
of Christ. Scientist; Monday, Rev.
H.C. Gonso, First Church of God;
Tuesday, Rev. DR.. G. l. Rider, Grace
Ev. United Brethren Church; We'd
nesday, Rev Paul M. Robinson,
Church of the Brethren; Thursday,
Rev. DR.. f. Berry Plummer, st.
Paul's Ev. United Brethren Church.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-19
FRIENDSHIP UNION CHURCH

Mr.. Lewis Dittos Sunday School
Glass of Christ Evangelical and Re-
formed Church, will have charge of
the Community Service tomorrow
(F'riday) evening at 7:30 pm.
Mr.. Ditto was in India during the
war and will illustrate his talk with
souvenirs brought from India. 1t
will be an interesting and informa-
tive address, and the public is cor
daily invited.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-19

An ounce of apology will dissolve
a peck of trouble.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-19
Names Make News

David c. Diehl, hospital appren-
tice, second class, USN, son of DIR.
and Mrs. Crown o. Diehl, of 1926
The Terrace, has been graduated
from Hospital Corps School at the
Naval Training Center, Great Lakes,
Ill.
Mrs. John c. Pangborn is spending
the week at the Sulgrave Club, in
Washington, d. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Daniels left
on Tuesday for combined business
and pleasure trip to Georgia.
Mrs. Foster Falkenstine and son
Jimmy, Washington, D. c., are Wis
iting Mrs. Falkenstine's mother,
Mrs. o. P. Bohman.
Thomas w. Pangborn and Mr. and
Mrs. John c. Pangborn will attend
the installation of Archbishop-desig-
nate Francis P. Keough as Admin
istrator of the Archdiocese of Bal
timore, which will be held during
the Pontifical Mass at Baltimore
Cathedral on Tuesday, February "a.
Mrs. Norman Bentz entertained
the duplicate bridge club on. We'd
nesday at her home on Oak Hill
Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy M. Schoen and
Mr.. and Mrs. William c. Hamilton
will entertain at buffet supper
tomorrow (Friday) night, in honor
of Miss Judy Boward and Mr.. James
Koliopulos, whose wedding will take
place on Saturday, February 81.
Mrs. Clayton N. Triplett, of Bal
timore, is spending the week with
her mother, Mrs. William Post Du-
vail, at Springfield Farm on the Will
Transport Pike
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Minford Humric-
house have returned to their home
in Philadelphia, after spending sew
eral weeks at Springfield Farm.
Mrs. Winifred Dillon and Miss
Virginia Carmichael spent the week
end in Culpepper, Va, as the guests
of DR.. Thomas w. Hooper and Miss
Elizabeth Hooper.
Miss Mary Castleman attended
the Republican dinner in Baltimore
recently.
Lois Margaret Young, daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. G. Aubrey Young,
entertained at birthday party last
Saturday at their home on Mealey
Parkway.
Mrs. George Roulette, of Norfolk,
is the guest of her daughter, Mrs.
Fred Wright, Jr.
Boss: "You are positively the laz-
lest boy 1 know. Isn't there any
thing you are quick at?"
Office boy:<'T get tired awfully
fast"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-19
Smithsburg News

1A~(bhA7 OS viz AAOlAAG Va
Mrs. Ardie w. Winters on Febru-
airy IL at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. John P.
Pound presided, and a fine program
was rendered under the leadership
of Mrs. June Bachtell. Delicious
refreshments were served to the
eighteen members present.
The Boonsboro High School Var
sity Teams recently played the
Smithsburg High School Teams in
the Smithsburg High School, the
score being Boonsboro Girls, 80;
Smithsburg Girls, Is; Boonsboro
Boys, 81; Smithsburg Boys, 81.
Mrs. John H. Martin has return
ed after being under observation at
Johns Hopkins Hospital for twelve
days. Her son, John Richard, stay
ed with his aunt and uncle, Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel OFT, while his mother
was in the hospital.
The Mems Bible Glass of Cave
town Evangelical and Reformed
Church recently held their monthly
meeting at the home of R. Kenneth
Frey. A fine program was render
ed and delicious refreshments were
served to the thirteen members
who attended.
Mrs. Margaret Steffey, Cavetown,
observed her Goth birthday Febru-
airy II. She is spending the winter
with Mrs. Hetty Bachtell, Edgmont.
Miss Violet Boswell is recuperat-
ing at her home in Ringgold after
a long illness. Previous to her ill
ness she was employed by the state
in the office at Smithsburg High
School
Mrs. D. o. Pound and Mrs. Hoy
d. Newman are confined to their
homes by illness.
Mrs. Meredith Ridenour is con-
fined to her home after a fall which
injured her back.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Clark Fraver and
Mr. and Mrs. J. Hugh Warrenfeltz
and daughter Sara Louise, attended
the Sportsman's Show in Baltimore
recently
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Winders and
Billy and Marlene, were dinner
guests Sunday at the home of Mr.
A. w. Winters and Mr.. and Mrs.
r. S. Winders.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19

Germany once again becomes an in
dependent power with the signing of
a peace treaty.
France and the low countries, in
particular, remember how Hitler
marched into the Rhineland and Sc
cretly built up German armies in vio-
lation of the Versailles Treaty after
World War l.
EaSt-West Deadlock
Russia and nations in the Soviet
sphere also want hand in control of
the Ruhr. Its output is as vital to east
ern economy as to the western.
But the deadlock over unifcation of
Germany has split the occupied coun-
try in two. Berlin, the four-power
capital, is in the eastern zone; the
Ruhr is in the western zone. The
western Allies are proceeding with
establishment of a west German gov
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19

Saao, Kina-Size


This is a story that could happen
only on the vast King Ranch which
sprawls over a million acres between
Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande
in Texas.
Twelve years ago, Palfrey Richter
and a companion went fishing. They
parked their car, a 1892 convertible,
beside a clump of brush near the
stream and headed off. When they
were through fishing they couldn't
find the car. They hunted and hunted,
finally gave up.
For IL years cOwhands worked that
brush on cattle and hog roundups
twice year. The live oak thicket
kept growing. It was 10 feet high last
week when a bulldozer clearing the
brush nosed into it.
The convertible was a sight. It's
chassis was resting on the ground.
The. wheels were hub-deep in sand.
The cloth top and its wooden struts
were rotted and gone. So was the up
holstery. But the tires still had air
and the chromium was shining.
Richter had reported the car lost
years ago and the insurance company
had paid off. Last week he reported
to insurance men the long lost had
been found.
"They told me I could have it,"
Richter said. "And Pm going after it.
I'm driving another model of the
same car and some of those old parts
still are usable."
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
TAXES: The Ides Of March

concentrate on checking other returns
from the suspect group.
This sampling system of finding
what groups to concentrate upon for
investigation will supplement, but not
supersede, traditional checking meth
DDS.
The old system checked when
particular return seemed suspicious,
but did not look for a group pattern.
Under the new system, there's a
bigger chance that any taxpayer-nO
matter how honest his return looks
may be asked by tax agent to exc
plain how he figured his tax.
There are some SIS million federal
income tax returns these days. Only
one in 1000 may get an initial "sam-
pie" checking, but follow-ups will
bring calls by agents on larger scale.
The bureau says its only interest is
in seeing that all taxes due are col-
lected. A high Treasury official esti-
mated earlier this year that tax eva
sion costs the government about a
billion dollars a year.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
STOCKS: Market Precautions

U. S. Steel, General Motors and
Du Pont.
Among the buyers was the special
ist. He purchased thousands of shares
of various stocks with the main idea
of maintaining price stability and an
orderly market-even though in the
process a strictly "free" market was
suspended temporarily.
Eventually the specialist sells most
or all of any issue in which he trades.
His usual practice is to keep a small
inventory.
The specialist is not an official of
the Exchange. He is usually member
of a Stock Exchange firm and must
have available a large supply of capi-
tai to perform his function.
The specialist not only cushions a
plunging market but also helps to
curb a market that tends to soar.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
Pensions
Porodise Lost

Paradise Lost
Red-faced Oregonians have found
out-too late-they voted themselves
inc1 a financial dungeon.
Oregonians gave a rousing approval
at the polls to a $50 monthly old-age
pensions plan-to be paid regardless
of the recipients need.
at once bond companies withdrew
bids on bond issues. "The state is a
poor risk. It's darned near insolvent," +"
one investment expert said.
Startled residents learned their
pension plan might cost as much as
nine million dollars mOnthly-three
times what the state now spends on
all activities. No provision had been
made to finance the pensions.
Even the Townsend Club, sponsor
Of the pension plan, is contrite.
1T wasn't what we intended. We
don't want to bankrupt the state" a
Townsend spokesman said. I'VE will
ask the next legislature to change the
law"
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
The SpecioIist

The New York Stock Exchange
took drastic action last week to main
tain an orderly" market during the
pOst-election nosedive
A key figure in the procedure was
man the average investor never
heard of. He is a member of the ex-
change called the specialist"
On Wednesday even before the ex-
change opened, orders to sell flooded
the market. In many cases orders to
buy, if they existed at all, were far
below the previous closing price. The
seller of a stock might have taken a
severe loss if his order had been exc
cuted when the exchange opened.
This is what happened:
The specialist in a given stock, act
ing with a governor of the Stock Ex-
change, decided to delay opening, say,
the stock of XYZ Corp, which had
closed on Monday at 100. The only
bid that appeared on Wednesday was
for 80. Opening of a key stock at a
2O-pOint loss could have a demOraliz-
ing effect on the entire market.
Brokers got busy trying to find peo-
pie who were willing to buy above
80. Finally enough buyers were found
to purchase a block of $4,000 shares
at 97-nOt too bad a decline in view
of the heavy general selling. Actual
issues which opened late included
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
White House
A Firetrop?

A Firetrup?
There will be no sightseeing or So
cial' events at the White House until
further notice. The 132-year-old man
sion of the Presidents has been closed
for REPAIRS 4
The historic building has been ex-
amined by engineers and architects
during the past few months under au-
thority of the last session of Congress.
They found that extensive repairs
must be made to assure the safety of
the building"
The White House, which has been
labeled a "iretrap," is to remain
closed until further notice.
The architects and engineers pro-
posed that, with the consent of Con-
gress, repairs be started at the earliest
possible date.
White House architect Lorenzo
WinslOw has announced plans to reno
vate the entire second floor at an esti-
mated cost of from $75O,OOO to ST.
25O,OOO.
Temporary repairs already have
been made in the East Room, scene of
big formal receptions, where the orna-
mental ceiling was on the verge of
falling. In one place it sagged about
six inches,
Last January, during a formal re-
ception in the Blue Room, the Presi-
dent noticed chandelier vibrating.
He called the White House usher and
the Commissioner of Public Buildings
and, after a study, a $4,000 appro-
priation was granted by Congress for
a survey.
Officials said the survey showed not
only structural weaknesses but q
terrible fire hazard" on the second
floor where timbers have been cut
repeatedly for wire and conduit in.
stallatiOns. The timbers were placed
in the White House before it was
wired for electricity and experts sale
they were dry as tinder."
The grand staircase, which begin:
in the basement and rises to the sec.
Ond floor, has been found to neeC
stronger supports. It is this staircase
which is used l.y hundreds of guest.
at formal receptions.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
Navy
Up or Out


More than 300 captains will be on
the hot seat next week while Navy
selection board in Washington makes
up its mind on % new admirals. It is
the fateful second sitting of the pro-
motion list.
Twice at bat is the limit in the
Navy. If you aren't tapped for promo
ton after two boards look at your
record, you're on the way out.
More than 200 captains, most in
their mid-ffties, were on the promo
ton list last year. The board gave II
of them rear admirals' stars, picked
IL other captains from farther down
the seniority ladder.
theoretically the 2OO-odd stand just
as good a chance on the second time,
but 100 more officers have been added
to this years list. If the board again
dips down for younger Outstanding"
officers for half of its % new admirals,
there will be only II or Il berths for
the 300 captains.
So for most of the 800, next weeks
selection toreshadOWS the end of a
long naval career.
Normally, the Navy does not shove
such a batch of four-stripers over
board, but a backlog was built up
during the war when no selection
boards met.
It's getting tougher to become ar
admiral, anyway. Before the new pro.
motion law was passed, all promotions
were strictly within zone limits. Now
the Navy is stressing younger mer
for its top jobs.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
In Short

Asked: BY the Israel government,
the United Nations truce committee to
investigate reports that the British
are sending troops to Arabs in Pales-
tine.
Returned: By Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco, the Falange (totalitarian
state party) to his cabinet, after an
absence of three years.
Decided: By the U-N. Security Coun-
Gil, to end its Paris conferences not
later than December Is.
Agreed: By the Supreme Court, to
test constitutionality of the anti-Com-
munist section of the Taft Hartley
Law by hearing the appeal of Ger
hard Eisler, convicted of contempt Of
Congress for refusing to testify be-
fore the House Unamerican Affairs
Committee.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
Dividends
From Aid

ME Economic Cooperation Ads
i miniStration credits Americas
577 million dollar investment in
interim aid last spring with maxi
ing possible production gains in
three Of EQrope's worst problem"
countrieS-AuStria, France and italy.
The interim aid was the second Of
two major foreign aid steps taken
while the Marshall Plan was being set
up. The first was for $50 million dol.
lars in emergency relief
Although interim aid was intended
primarily to keep the three nations
going until the European Recovery
Program could get in full swing, ECA
found that all three countries actu-
ally made economic gains with the
shot in the arm provided by American
coal, grains, fertilizer and other sup
plies.
The ECA report, transmitted to
Congress by the White House, covers
aid shipments up to June 80, when
ERP went into effect.
Indispensable in France
It is generally accepted by both the
French leaders and the French .peo-
pie that interim aid was indispensable
in holding the French economy intact.
the report says.
With it, France maintained produc-
ton at rate Is pei. cent over 1888.
the last prewar year. Coal shipments
to Austria helped bring about a
marked uptrend in production. It
helped boost steel and pig iron output
almost so per cent higher than mid
1947.
In Italy, the report says, interim aid
assured a regular flow of essential
supplies during one of the most cru
cial periods in Italian history, helped
achieve monetary stabilization and
prepared the country for a program
of economic recovery"
Grain Saved Italy
Grain shipments, ECA says, prob
ably saved Italy from a form of eco
nOmic bondage"
Of the $577, 100000 appropriation,
buying had been started or completed
on all but $7,OOO,OOO of the authorized
funds by June, the survey showed.
The United States and its territories
supplied more than 90 per cent of all
the goods shipped.
Austria received interim supplies
valued at $67883,814, France $321,-
1O2,7OS and Italy $181,Sl4,028.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
Oops, Be Careful!

Don't look now but there may be an
income tax agent poring over your
shoulder next year. It won't neces-
sarily mean you're a chiseler but it
may mean that people in your income
or Occupational group are especially
prone to be careless.
The Internal Revenue Bureau is
putting in poll-type procedure-de-
spite that election fubar-to check up
on persons who try to cheat on taxes.
1t works something like this:
Tax agents will pick at random a
limited number of returns from each
group of returns according to the tax
payers occupation, locality and in
come bracket. They will examine each
one. Even if it looks perfect, they will
demand that the taxpayer substan-
tiate its accuracy.
If the process shows a tendency by
particular groups-aCcOrding to occu.
patton, location or income bracket-to
file bad" returns, the bureau will
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19

ernment in which the Ruhr will have
a place.
Set Up Controls First
France insists that the internal con-
troll body for the Ruhr be functioning
before the western German govern
ment is established. With this in mind,
technical experts of the six powers
will try to complete the framework
of the control machinery at the Lon
don conference sometime this month.
Under agreements already reached,
the United States, Britain, France and
Germany will each have three votes
on the authority. Holland, Belgium
and Luxembourg will each have one.
Enforcement of the authority's de-
cisions will not be a problem as long
as Allied occupation lasts. The real
test will come when a treaty is signed
and occupation troops are withdrawn.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
Barter
Individual Enterprise

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A veteran Army sergeant told Colo
RADIO Springs police how he parlayed
1900 cartons of cigaretS into a small
fortune in Austrian jewels, furniture
and paintings.
Police Chief I. B. Bruce identified
him as MSgt. Wiley c. Walters, 40.
The sergeant and his wife, Marian,
were held for investigation after pO-
lice found in their home a collection
of rings, pendants, a diamond-studded
watch, brooches, a Fiat car, a grand
piano, antiques and oil paintings.
Police value the jewels at $4,000
and the other items "at least $4,000
more"
"He has a good Army record and
has violated no state laws" the police
chief said. But we've notified the
Treasury Department to see if any
law was broken in bringing the items
into the country"
The police chief told this story:
After serving in the Pacific and
winning three Presidential citations,
Sgt. Walters was sent to Vienna in
February, 1916. His wife followed in
October. Walters obtained from the
United States 1900 cartons of cigarets
which he traded. They returned to
this country in August, 1948, and with
them came the articles listed as house
hold possessions.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
RUHR: Vital Keyto Peace orWar

THE Ruhr is Europe's "Pitts-
i burgh." Within this area,
smaller than the state of Della
ware but populated by five mil
lion, are the mightiest coal, coke
and steel concentrations on the
continent.
It's potential for good or evil is tre-
mendous. Within the 10th century, its
steel sinews have powered two Ger
man drives for world domination. If
it had not been for the lifeline across
the Atlantic, each effort probably
would have succeeded.
Yet without this industrial colossus
at full strength, postwar reconstruc-
ton has to be rationed. Ruhr steel can
build as wide a bridge to Europe's
peaceful prosperity as it ever did to
war.
Twin Goals
In London this week, technical ex-
perts of six western Allied nations
are comforting on how their countries
may eat this industrial cake and keep
it too. Their aim is to revive Ruhr
heavy industry and at the same time
make it impossible for Germany to
rearm.
The broad principles of this plan all
ready have been laid down. Last
spring the United States, Britain,
France, Belgium, the Netherlands and
Luxembourg agreed on a system of
international control.
Under the agreement, the Ruhr will
remain part of Gerpany and will be
governed by any German government
that may be set up. But an interna-
tional commission will have the last
word on distribution of all coal, coke
and steel.
The big problem is to devise ways
and means to guarantee absolute au-
thOrity to the commission even after
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
SideIights

. King George vi has decided to dis
pense with the presence of a Cabinet
minister at the birth of Princess Eliz-
abeth's baby. He calls it an archaic
custom with no legal requirement.
. In Tokyo, sweet potatoes are so
plentiful that the black market price
is about half the official price. Black
market operators make money by
loading up with potatoes, then allow
ing themselves to be caught. The gov
ernment has been buying their pota-
toes at the official price.
. In Boring, Ore, 62-year-old lum-
Der mill worker, whose arm was cut
off at the shoulder by a planer, stag
gered one mile to town for aid after
being unable to drive the distance in
his car.
. Cecil Wright, who learned his law
in Alcatraz prison, was freed on a
writ he obtained himself. He was con-
victed of stealing 1924 in stamps from
the Strasburg, Ill, postoffice in 1880.
. In Pittsburgh, Ralph Gaber, 33,
paid for the plane passage of his 49,
year-old German sweetheart. On ar
rival, she was kissed by Ralph's
younger brother, Karl, 25, decided she
wanted to marry him instead.
. In INVERSION, Eng, Fred Pilking-
ton solved tough problem by sitting
down. An orchestra leader and also a
lay preacher, he refused to play for a
can-can dance in a musical comedy.
When the chorus danced out, skirts
akimbo, he laid down his baton, went
on sit-dOwn strike until they danced
off. Now it's a regular part of the act.