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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-15

spent the weekend here and at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Gibbs. His wife and son, David,
returned to Braddock with him on
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. A, j. Wotring has returned to
her home here from Morgantown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hull, Thomas,
w. Va, announce the birth of a son,
Robert Henry, in Davis Memorial
hospital, Elkins, on Wednesday. The
mother is the former Miss Betty Lou
McTall, Of Kempton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Fox, of Chill
licothe, Ohio, visited the formers
father, Martin Fox.
Wilbert Ridder has returned from
Boston, and a fishing trip in Maine
Miss Burnetta Arnold was a week.
end guest of friends here and at
Thomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles King of
Lewistown, Pa, and Mrs Mary Scott
of Pierce, were recent guests of Nh
and Mrs. Aubrey Bowers.
William Povish, ST., who is pa
tient in a Pittsburgh hospital, is
somewhat improved.
Adam Repetsky has returned from
a trip to Chicago. He visited his
brothers.
Andrew Kronik, of the Marines,
is spending some time here with his
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-15
Selective Service
Act Is Summarized

The Selective Service Act is sum-
married. in the following paragraphs:
Authorized active duty strength,
Army $4,000 plus 10000 trainees;
Navy, including Marines, 666,S82 plus
10000 trainees; air force 100000 plus
$4,000 trainees; total 2,O05,882 and
1G1,O0 trainees.
Registration to include all male
citizens and male resident aliens aged
Is through 25, all male citizens 10
through 25 liable for service, unless
exempted on deferred Men drafted
must serve q consecutive months.
Veterans with at least 80 days
service between December 7, 1871 and
September ,, 1915, are exempted.
Also exempt are members of the
National Guard or organized units of
the reserve components on effective
date of act are exempt from service
so long as they remain members and
satisfactorily participate in scheduled
drills and training as prescribed by
the secretary of defense but not from
registration unless on active duty.
Presidential defermcnt on basis of
individual status, is authorized for
men with dependents, and those en-
gagged in agriculture, industry, gov
eminent, study, research and scientif-
ic, medical or other cndeavors neces-
sary in the public interest. High
school students are deferred until
graduation or until age 20
College students, while satisfacto-
rily pursuing d full-timc course of in
struction, will be deferred until the
end of the academic year.
The system corresponds generally
to the system of local boards used
during World War ii.
The act becomes effective in Sep
TENDER.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-15

July 6, at her home in the Cove, after
an illness of about an hour. She had
prepared her breakfast that morning
and seemed about as usual until her
illness about 9 o'clock.
She was the wife of John J. Weber,
whom she married November II, 1887.
She was born May %, 1864, at Acct
dent, a daughter of Henry }. and
Anna Elizabeth Kolb. She joined the
| Lutheran church at Accident when a
young girl and following her mar
riage transferred her membership to
the Lutheran church at Cove where
she remained a faithful member.
Her husband preceded her in death
June Is, 1885, and one daughter
Clara, passed away in 1907.
Surviving are the following chill
dren: Mrs. Jacob (Anna) Collier, of
Brownsville, Pa; Mrs Henry (Kath-
Iyn) Frazce, Uniontown, Ohio; Mrs.
Lucian (Emma) Mchaels, Akron, o.;
Mrs Mckinley (Rose) Joiner, Bar
berton, o.; Mrs. william Uena)
Hanft and Mrs. Roy (Cora) Hartman,
both of Cove; Henry Weber, Canton,
o.; Oswald Weber, Greentown, Ohio;
also Is grandchildren and s great
grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted on
Friday afternoon, July 9, from her
home and the Lutheran church in
Cove, with her pastor, Rev. NJ, E.
FRANKIE, officiating. Interment was in
the church cemetery, her six sons-in-
law serving as pallbearers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-15
McHENRY

Mr.. and Mrs Glenn Miller and son.
Akron, Ohio. are spending a short
vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Savage.
MIR. and Mrs. Morris Gochringcr
and son, Clarksburg. Pa. spent the
weekend with the latters mother.
Mrs Daisy Savage.
Miss Norma Jean Carr, Clarks-
burg, Pa, is visiting her grand
mother. Mrs. Daisy Savage.
Mrs. \. J. Thomas and Mrs. J. p.
Thomas visited their uncle Flova
Riley and family near Deer Park.
last Thursday.
Miss Pearl Robinson. Conuellsvillc.
Pa, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Rhodes.
Mrs. Clifford Enlow and son Gene.
returned to their home in Akron, O.,
Sunday after visiting relatives here
for a week.
Betty and Sonny Simpson. Raw
lings, visited their grandmother. Mrs.
Emma Deal, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cole. Richev-
vile, Pa. and Mr.. and Mrs Edward
Cole and family. Cleveland, O.. Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Bowman.
Sunday.
Mr.. Hubert Bowman made a bust
ness trip to Cadillac, Michigan, last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Griffith. Con
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-15

Five firemen were injured fighting
two large Baltimore fires.
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MRS. PRUDENCE J. NOGLE

Mrs. Prudence Jane Nogle, SO,
widow of William T. Noglc, died Sat
urday morning at the home Of Mrs.
Sarah J. Butts, German, Md, where
she became i'll the previous Saturday
while attending the funeral of her
uncle, Denton J. Butts.
Born December 5, 1864, at Cherry
Run, Morgan county, w. Va, she was
daughter of the late Hiram and
Mary Elizabeth Butts Robe. She was
resident of Kitzmllcr for As years
and was member of the Methodist
church.
Surviving are two daughters and
three sons: Mrs. Walter Yocum, route
3, Keyser; Mrs. Rose Jones, Davis, W.
Va; John f. Nogle, Kitzmiller; Walt
er +. Nogle, Washington, d. c.; and
Hiram S. Noglc, Piedmont, w. Va;
four brothers, August Robe, FRANKIE
Robe, Howard E. Robe, all of Kcyser,
W. Va; Joseph J. Robe. Cherry Run,
W. Va; 32 grandchildren, % great
grandchildren and three great great
grandchildren.
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DIED
CPL. f. NJ. WILEY

Rites for Cpl. Elwood Milton Wiley,
20, son Of Dewey and Lulu NJ. Wiley,
of near Grantsville, who was drowned
July near Plattsmouth, Neb., were
held last Thursday afternoon from
the Grantsville Lutheran church,
Rev. George f. BowersoX, pastor,
officiated, and burial was in Grants
vile cemetery. Pallbearers were Rob
ert Bender, Kenneth Edwards, James
Edwards, Darrell Stahl, Fay Miller,
Ray Butler and William Miller, mem
bers of Grantsville Post No. 214,
American Legion.
Attached to Squadron B, 131 Az
Blu. unit at Fort Crook, Neb., Cpl
Wiley had been swimming with sever
al companions at a rest camp when
the drowning occurred. The body was
recovered after two hours and a res
cue squads efforts to revive him
proved futile.
Born at Lamberton, Pa, Cpl. Wiley
entered the Army Air Force March
IS, 1916, at Chanute Field, ILL., Prior
to enlisting he worked at the Carnegie
Steel Mills at Clarion, Pa, where he
was member of Trinity Lutheran
church.
Surviving besides his parents are
two sisters, Mrs. John G. Lohr and
Mrs. James L. Hall; two brothers,
Dale J. Wiley, Charlton, and Donald
L. Wiley, at home; and his grand
mother, Mrs. NJ. w. Kinsinger, of
GrantSVillp.
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Join Church Sunday

On last Sunday, July 18th, the St,
Paul's Methodist Church received in
to their membership the following
persons: Mr.. and Mrs. R. Bowen
Hardesty, Mrs Olive p Walls, Mrs.
William Spiller, Mrs. Peggy Thomp-
son, Mrs. Earl Zepp by transfer of
membership. And from Preparatory
Membership Olivia Phelps Naylor,
Ona Geraldine Davis, Jacqueline Sue
Browning, David Anderson Mace,
John Samuel Moore and William
Morgan Moore.
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Four Enlist in Army

Four enlisted this week through
the local army recruiting station, ac-
cording to S-Sgt. Blair Robinette.
They were Gerald D. Kerns, Kemp
ton, three years in field artillery, far
east command; Robert L. Fox, Kemp
ton, same; James R. Lucas, Kitzmil-
Ter, years in Bird armored division,
Fort Knox, KY; and Gail P. Stewart
Vindex, years in the 9th infantry
division, Fort Dix, N. J.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-07-15
INFANT DEATH

Elsie Arbutus Likins, infant daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Earl Likins,
of Vindex, who died at birth Friday
night in Potomac Valley hospital,
Keyser, w. Va, was buried Sunday
in the Right cemetery at New Creek,
w. Va.
Besides her parents she is survived
by two brothers, Loyal and William
Likins, and three sisters, Betty, Eva,
and Mary Lee Likins, all at home.
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parents.
Mrs. Oscar Roth, of Gnegy Church,
was taken to Myers Clinic at Philip
pi for treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Jackson and
children and Miss Pauline Arnold
were visitors to Seneca Caverns, on
Sunday.
Miss Aleese Harris, of North Caro-
lima, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Oliver
Miller.
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from the Right Funeral home in
Cumberland, by Rev. Allen B. l..
Fisher, pastor of Grace Methodist
church there. Burial will be in Oak
land cemetery at 2:30 p. m. today.
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MRS. JOHN J. WEBER

Mrs. Henrietta Caroline Weber,
aged 81 years, month and Is days,
passed away on Tuesday morning,
Evening star., 1948-03-13

similarity to the Boeing superfortress. He
sent clippings of the Aim to Boeing engi-
neers. They identified more than a score
of parts of the Russian plane as being
exact duplicates of their ha1ldiwork.
The fuselage of the transport is larger,
but the overall appearance is that of
a B-29
The Boeing findings provide additional
evidence that Russia has made the most
of the Superforts which came into her
possession during the war. It may be that
several of the planes which our observers
took for B-29s at the Moscow air show
were really the TU-70 transport versions
of the American bomber At any rate,
there can be no doubt that Russia today
has long range planes of the B-29 type,
ready for any contingency. Whether they
measure up to the high standards of
efficiency which our own Superforts have
been shown to possess is question to
which the Russians alone have the answer.
But it is now obvious that our military
authorities must assume that in any war
with Russia, planes, of our own design
might be used against us, because of
trick of fate in 1914
Evening star., 1948-03-13
The Whole Heart

The inspiring service at Washington
Cathedral Thursday evening reached it's
natural apogee when the Right Reverend
Angus Dun, Bishop of Washington, asked:
Shall we be half-hearted in the rebuilding
of our broken world?" An audience brought
together by the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ and the Washington
Federation of Churches in behalf of the
European Recovery Program heard that
challenge spoken. Still larger numbers
of people undoubtedly will hear the echo
of the words. The moment has come when,
If civilization is to be saved and to be
made worth saving, whole communities
must put enthusiasm and zeal into the
task. Our problems cannot solve them
selves. Neither can the compelling issues
of the times be met by intelligence alone.
A burning emotional drive is needed, and
the impact of events at last appears to be
calling it into being.
History shows that all the vast construc-
tive movements of mankind have been
similarly motivated. Christianity is not
merely philosophical. Its Founders one
commandment was not that His brothers
should tolerate each other but that they
should love one another" The Scriptures
contain hundreds of instances of the power
of such an ideal of fellowship. So, too,
the supposedly "profane" writings of Plato
and his peers, Virgil and Dante, Shake
speare and thousand of their followers
down to the present age testify to the
dynamic force of the aroused zeal of self
less men and women. Materialism, the
narrow theories of economic determin-
ism" which have desolated the earth in
our epoch, the notion that nations or
classes or organized partisan groups can
isolate themselves from the rest of the
human race and prosperously survive in
their inSularity-these delusions are fruit
full of nothing but misery and suffering
even among those who blindly accept them
Bishop Dun's question, on the other
hand, plumbs to the depths of human con-
sciouSness. The world is broken, It must
be rebuilt and the work cannot be done
with half-hearts. Those elements which
have wrecked civilization-and now seem
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Sealed Fountain

oh do not think, because you see this dried,
Leaf matted basin, hear no crystal song
OF Uater, that the lovely sprite has died
Who danced beneath the moon all
summer longl
Under the earth, under your feet, her
bright
Laughter is hidden; she is sleeping there,
Close-robed in silence, s1,rouded In q tDhite
Garment of dreams, bound up her fotoing
hair.
But ,Dait little, until Uarmer days
Haze set her free, loosened from tointer's
bars
She uiu once more dance like moon
1ohite blaze,
Flinging up showers OF crystal to the
stars.
You ,uiu once more thrill to that JOYOUS
sound,
Her music. noU enchanted underground.
BEATRICE RAW.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Dr.. Kinder Comes THROUGH

An orchestra conductor invites criticism
every time he mounts the podium. Every
thing he does or fails to do is exposed to
public view He furnishes the theme for
the professionals whose job 1t is to write
about how we'll or how poorly he does his
stuff: his mannerisms, his temperament,
his programming, his interpretations
they all provoke tongue-wagging, eye
brow-raising, shoulder-shrugging, rapture,
distress and other manifestations of au-
dience emotion. That is one reason they
have orchestra conductors.
It is not surprising that in seventeen
years as conductor and musical director OF
the National Symphony Orchestra Hans
Kinder has made some critics and some
enemies in Washington. He is something
of q Snowman, else he could not conducV
an orchestra He is pretty brash in his
comments, else the color which distin-
gliishes his personality would be lacking.
He is a man of opinions and he shows
little hesitancy in expressing them. He Is
an artist in his own right, which gives him
q certain license in the display of personal
eccentricities All such things make for
criticism.
The really surprising thing is that he
has not accumulated more critics in the
uniquely critical atmosphere of the Ma
tional Capital. That was the interesting
showing of last nights unusual public meet
ing in the Department of Commerce audi
torium The critics had their opportunity
to say what they wanted to say and few
of them were inhibited. What they did
say seemed to boil down to the generality
that they thought he had been here long
enough and it was time for change. In
such forum, where the emphasis was on
criticism rather than adulation, the vote
of confidence in DR.. Kinder was more
significant than the actual ballot count
would indicate.
Those in charge of the orchestra asso-
ciation and responsible for this meeting
are to be congratulated, not merely on the
outcome of the votes but on their decision
to have the meeting. They are very unset
fish people They have worked hard for
seventeen years to develop under continued
difficulty fine symphony orchestra. They
have succeeded. They know something
of DR.. Kindler's own contribution, his sac
rifice of more attractive and less eXacting
opportunities in favor of something that
he wants to do because he believes in it,
Being human they would be understood
If they asked for public applause rather
than public criticism.
They got both. They should take pride
in the applause and some comfort from
the criticism. For the latter was indicative
of nothing more alarming than the God
given right of Americans to seize an oppor-
tunity to blow off and say what is on their
minds. What they said in general reflected
no bitterness and was expressed good
naturedly. Perhaps the meeting should be
an annual affair. We want our orchestra
to continue to grow and prosper and, like
other sound organizations, it will thrive
but never wilt under frank public criticism.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Russiu and Our B-29s

New light on what the Russians did
with three of our B-29s which made
forced landings in Siberia has come from
an unofficial but reliable source, the
Boeing Magazine for February. The whole
story of the missing Superforts has been
guarded as a military secret, although
snatches of the mystery have found their
way into the press since wartime security
rules were lifted. The Boeing Company
held the story in confidence until an Eng
lish magazine, The Aeroplane Spotter,
recently published latest Developments
Actually there were four B-29S which
accidentally landed on Russian territory in
1914. The first took off from a Chinese
base to bomb targets in Manchuria. Re
turning from the mission the pilot of the
big craft found his gas supply running
low. He headed for Vladisvostok. AS he
approached the Russian city he ran into
antiaircraft fire. Then several Soviet
fighter planes surrounded him and "es-
corted" him to a safe landing. Several
weeks later second Superfort, the "Gen-
eral Arnold Special" made safe landing
there under similar circumstances. Ten
days after this a third B-29 landed in
tact. A fourth plane crashed after its
crew parachuted. The crews were in
termed in a camp at Tashkent, Siberia.
The American flyers, after lengthy ne
gotiations, were returned to the United
States, but their planes remained in
Russia. Efforts to secure return of the
ships proved unavailing. They just dis
appeared. A hint as to what happened to
them was obtained by American observers
of an Aviation Day demonstration at
Moscow last year. They reported seeing
in fight number of bombers Of the
B-29 type-more than the three or four
which Russia may have obtained as a
result of the forced landings on Russian
soil during the war.
The first official suggestion that Russia
has been building B-29s came from Gen.
eral Carl Spaatz, Air Force Chief of staff,
in testimony before the Presidents Air
Policy Commission. He disclosed that
Russia had tried, unsuccessfully, to place
an order in this country for tires, wheels
and brake assemblies of the type used
exclusively on B-29s But the latest and
most interesting revelation has come as
result of the alertness of writer for the
British air journal. Viewing a Russian
| newsreel showing the new Soviet TU-70
transport plane, he was struck BY it,
Evening star., 1948-03-13

determined to pulverize the ruins before
any attempt at salvage can sicceed-will
not permit fractional measures on our
part. The churches do well to help in
the creation of an effective defense of
freedom and order. In the prevailing
emergency, religion and the democratic
state should be allies. Thus will the crisis
best be met, the future best served. The
European Recovery Program is an agency
which deserves not simply the approval OF
Congress and the augmentation OF the
government but specifically the whole
hearted support of every citizen.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Letters to The Star
Lecture on Japan Reviewed

Lecture on Japan Reviewed
To the Editor of The Star:
recently attended lecture dealing with
Japan, delivered by one supposedly in posi-
tion to know what he was talking about. Yet
some of his statements amazed me. These
statements were what the general semanticist
calls "allness" statements, admitting of no quail
ifications and seemingly to be believed as ap-
plying at all times, under all conditions, with
absolutely no quality Of time-place orientation.
There is no middle class in Japan" Ac-
cording to this speaker, Japan is composed
entirely of war criminals and coolies. These
we have endowed with universal adult suffrage
and turned loose to govern themselves (when
we leave). Self-government they know abso-
lutely nothing about They belong to one or
the other of two classes of deologies extant
since all time: The authoritarians and the
democrats. AS authoritarians, they were told
what to think and thought it, told what to
teach and taught it, told how to live and lived
that way. Now I'VE have turned this COM
pletely upside down. Instead Of those who now
are war criminals dormerly the ruling class)
telling them what to think, policies are formu-
lated for their government by q star chamber
group known as the Far Eastern Commission
which meets and acts in camera. Their teachers
ing class of japanese, but by text books which
carefully are revised by the occupation author
tiles and they teach it as best they can, without
supervision. AS for their living, they were de-
flcient in food for their 10000, 900 people before
the war; they still are deficient. Before the
war they sold manufactured goods and i'm
ported foodstuffs to make up the deficiency
from countries like Siam Burma and Indo-
China. Now, deprived of their former colonies
and possessions, they depend upon their con-
querors for 1900 calories of gift food day each.
Whether their manufactured goods will be al
lowed to enter the markets that either barred
them completely or allowed them only grudg-
ingly to enter before the war, deponent sayeth
not THAT is something we shall hear great
deal about in the near future" We have des-
troyed their army, navy air force, arsenals,
ammunition plants, secret police. when we
leave them thus quite unprotected, what will
Russian policy be-" was innocently asked 1.-THE
same as it has been since Ivan the Terrible"
we were told. Russia always has coveted
Japan, and still covets Japan"
So 1t seems to me that our occupation has
accomplished three things:
ID The ruling power has been transferred
from the former ruling class of highly placed
Japanese to the occupation authorities who
carry out policies 1ormuated py group IN
the same white tower Of isolation from public
opinion and assuredly with the same disas-
trous results. This is called demonstration"
(O The pressing economic questions which
drove japan to war have not been solved and
no solution of them is in sight.
90 Japan, formerly bastion against Soviet
aggression in the Far East, has been entirely
emasculated and is to be left on the very door,
stem of the bip had PolitblIro when we get tired
of feeding her. REALIST.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Music for the Red Army

According to its official newspaper, Red
Star, the Soviet Army needs more and
better marching songs because it has too
many now that are "lyrically peaceful,
passive and sometimes vulgarly PhiliStine." !"
What is wanted, apparently is stuff that
growls, thunders and roars, with enough
drumbeats and tuba grumphs to make
every Ivan infantryman stamp the ground
as If he owned it, no matter where.
Presumably, too, the idea is to make the
Soviet Unions martial music sound so
ferocious that any non-Russian hearing 1t
will be inclined to tremble and yield
ground. At any rate, the peaceful, passive
and Philistine numbers will have to go;
Army; what it needs to march with now
and just where. incidentally, does it pro-
pose to march?-is something with fast
tempo and plenty of blood -curdling noise,
with here and there little bleating notes to
signify the cries of people being stepped
on literally and hguratively. That would
be quite fitting.
OF course, when it comes to spine-chilling
music, we are no slouches ourselves. This
may not hold true for our armed forces,
but our civilian 1--WE bands have long led
the world in the somewhat gruesome art
of making peoples hair stand on end with
orchestrations almost fiendish enough to
make the sky itself quake. Then, too, we
have among us characters like Spike Jones.
Whether it knows it or not, the Red Army
will have tough time frightening us with
their prospective new marching songs. We
have been hardened to such stuff right
here at home by our own compatriots.