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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-03-31
HARVEY is freed
OF MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE BY JURY
Not Held Liable for Death of
Dewey H. Whitacre in Truck
Accident last February

Carl Preston Harvey, 80, of Kitz-
miller, indicted by the March Grand
Jury on a charge of manslaughter by
automobile was found not guilty by
a jury when tried in the Circuit court
here on Monday Stuart F. Hamill,
Jr., was the attorney for the defend
ant.
Harvey was arrested shortly after
Dewey Harrison Whitacre, 81, Kitz-
miller miner, was pronounced dead as
the result of an automobile accident
on the NindeX road, west of Kitzmil-
Ter, on February 81.
Harvey was arrested as he slept in
a wreck-damaged truck about a mile
from the scene where Whitacre was
found dead in his jeep, according to
the State Police. Police said the ac-
cident occurred during a heavy fog
making visibility difficult.
Harvey will be given a hearing
later, before Magistrate II. A. Lora-
ditch, Oakland, on a hit and run driv-
ing charge, according to States At
torney Slower.
Other Cases Disposed OF
Other cases disposed of by the
court on Monday included the follow
ing:
State VS.. Richard P. Stroup, charged
with hunting on posted property Of
Mrs. Mildred Ryland; tried before the
court, verdict guilty, ordered to pay
$40 and costs.
William Payton, charged with per-
hitting beer drinking in his place of
business on Sunday; case dismissed
by order of the States Attorney.
Owen Harvey, charged with non
support; ordered dismissed by states
attorney.
Earl Speicher, charged with sale
and possession of alcoholic beverages;
plea Of guilty entered as to first count
OF Indictment; fined 500 and costs.
Clarence Edward McRobie and Faye
McRobie, charged with larceny and
receiving stolen goods, entered pleas
Of guilty; were sentenced to Mary
land House Of Correction for two
years, sentence suspended upon good
behavior for two years, and ordered
to make restitution to McNitt Coal
company within three months in
amount of $1,000 for goods stolen.
Calvin C. White, charged with
bastardy; he petitioned for a blood
test in the matter and the case was
ordered continued.
Samuel Storey and Clark Railey
charged with hunting deer in closed
season, September 30, 1913, near Nc
Henry, verdict of not guilty rendered
Marshall Jones and James Merr-
back, charged with hunting raccoon
during closed season; tried before the
court, verdict Of not guilty rendered
A number of other cases held over
from previous terms of court were
either continued or ordered "stet" by
states attorney. One against Herbert
Wilson, Jr., for assault with force and
arms upon Walter Younkin, was dis
missed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-03-31
Temperature Spreads
From q to y Degrees

With the advent of spring the
temperatures have revealed that the
season really did arrive, if possibly
for only brief period.
A high of 72 degrees was recorded
at the Weber station on both the 29th
and Both, while a low of % degrees
was also recorded on the 29th.
Rainfall has been .05 inch on the
26th, .06 on the 9th, and O3 on the
31st.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-03-31
Hundred Expected
At Chamber Dinner

Around 100 persons are expected to
attend the dinner meeting of the Mt
Top Chamber of Commerce tonight at
the William-James hotel, Oakland, to
hear Francis Blake, chief training adj
wiser to the Atomic Energy commits
sion, discuss "Your Atomic Energy
Enterprise"
Plans for the dinner are complete,
Charles L. Briner, president, an
nounced this morning.
The musical entertainment will be
furnished by the Elks quartet of Cum
berland, with novelty numbers by
Mrs. Jack Moore.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-03-31
Initial Report of
Red Cross Is Made

The initial report of receipts from
the Red Cross roll call was made this
week by Mrs. Paul B. Naylor, chair
man, and shows "A total of $229.45.
Among the contributions were the
following: Oakland High School, $73-
O3; Grantsville, $45; The Half Price
Stores, $50; Cumberland and ALE
gheny Gas company, SIS; VindeX,
Mrs. Phyllis Williams, solicitor, $945;
c. and P. Telephone company, SOS;
SIS each from the following, Mr.. and
Mrs. Cecil Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward NJ. Weeks, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
B. NayIor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-03-31
Cancer Campaign Starts

"Help Conquer Cancer That is the
keynote of Cancer Control Month,
which begins tomorrow. The Ameri-
can Cancer society likewise launches
its 1949 campaign for fun to be
used in a three-way thrust against
cancer, through education, service
and research.
Maryland's quota in the national
campaign is $23O,o00. Garrett coun-
tvs quota is $61O. Harry c. Codding-
ton, Oakland, is the county chairman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-03-31
Oakland Hi Packed
For Style Revue

The second annual style show and
merchandise mart, sponsored by the
Business and Professional Womens
club of Oakland drew crowd esti-
mated at around seven hundred per-
sons, last Friday evening at the Oak
land High school The auditorium
seats, balcony, aisles, and all avail
able standing room were jammed.
Fifty-two ladies and misses styles
were shown, in addition to a raincoat
review, and several mother-daughter
and mother-son fashions, all material
from the Half Price Stores, Rudys,
Treacys, Harveys, Youthland, and
the Princess Shop in Oakland.
The exhibits of fifteen business
places of town, located in three class
rooms and the lower hallway at
tracted much interest, with one of the
main attractions being the first pub
lie television display by the Oakland
Electric and Radio Service.
A rendition of april Showers,
sung by Charles L. Briner, and ac-
companied by William Gibson at the
piano, opened the entertainment,
which was followed by the raincoat re-
view by Mrs. Arthur Naylor, Jr., Mrs.
Frederick Thayer Mrs E. l. Baum
gartner, Mrs Robert Stanton, Mrs
Howard Rathbun, Miss Betsey Phil
lips, Ann Lee Lohr and Willard Ann
Glotfelty.
Mother daughter fashions were
shown by Mrs. R. J. Hesen and daugh-
ter Christiane Mrs. Robert Nethken
and daughter Betty Ann. Mrs. Rob
ert Stanton and son "Smokey", Mrs.
Wilbur Close and son David, paraded
in MCPHERSON fashions. Most Of the
adults in these groups also took part
in the styling of dresses later.
Others also taking part were Bar
bara Stickel, Gretchen Briner, Carol
Crowthers, Mrs. w. w. Grant, Mrs.
Joseph Sollals, Emily Martin, Mrs.
F. r. Shaffer, Meredith Elliott, Sara
Smart, Janet Spence, Mary Naylor
Bennett, Willard Ann and Barbara
Lou Glotfelty, Buzzie Langan, Mary
Jane Browning, Shirley Stockman,
Mrs. James Helbig, Joan McRobie,
Jackie Browning, Kitty Waincr and
Ann Smart.
A variety of entertainment was
interspersed, with ballet numbers by
Sandra Orr and Carolyn Leighton, a
minuct by Nancy Pollock and Sherry
Hardesty, 100 years in the future by
Stcvie Wainer and Lynn Warfield;
quartet numbers by Jay Bell, Wayne
Hamilton, Jack Treacy and Frank
Snively, accompanied by Jane Hum
bertson; reading by Mrs. B. Beeson
Snyder; reading by Joseph Sollars;
and singing Of the Easter Parade by
Mr.. Briner The latter also sang
"Heartbroken, written by Emeric
Dusic of Oakland and Paul Monda of
Thomas, which was introduced over
the radio recently.
The style show was brought to a
close by an array Of feminine styles
modelled by Emeric Dusic, Robert
Hoffman and Grover C. Stemple.
Fifteen prizes were awarded during
the show, contributed by various bust
ness men, Handling tie announcement
Of the feature numbers and the styl-
ing were Mrs. Arthur Humbertson
and Mrs. Robert Ruckert. Arrange
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-03-31

ments were in charge of Miss Susy
Smith. Mrs. Humbertson announced
that the Women's club would clear
around $1,000 from the affair.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-29

wonder. The wassail bowl goes
round at New Years time, filled
with savory liquid and nostalgia
memories.
Traditiona1ly, the wassail bowl
itself should be an ornament OF
graceful design; its contents should
be warm and spicy-with sweetened
wine, ale, sugar, and nutmeg.
Custom dictates that at the stroke
of IL on New Years Eve, the head
of the household should sip the mix
ture and then pass it among those
present. A favorite custom OF the
Scots has been to pile into wagons
or sleighs carrying kettles full OF
the wassail, cheese and buns. The
party stops at various houses in
the community and the refresh
ments 60 round at each stop with
out paying much attention TO the
approaching dawn.
"Open House" on New Years
Day was quite the vogue In the
United States around the turn OF
the 10th century. Newspapers car
ried columns of at home notices
announcing the hours during which
visitors would be received. And
having duly received, hosts and
hostesses closed their receptions
and joined the procession OF callers
at other open houses
Human nature being what It Is,
receptions were often crashed by
strangers prompted by the acces-
sibiIity of free punch, and success
sion of several open houses some
times resulted in the most welcome
guests arriving in excessively
boisterous or mellow moods and
contributed to the abandonment OF
the publicly announced 'op e n
house. But intimates still toast
each other around private was
sail bowl and drink a cup OF Kind
ness yet for Aud Lang Syne."
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-29
Romans Began Custom
Of Gifts at New Year

Some authorities claim that the
invading Roman legions introduced
the custom of gift-giving at New
Years time into England by com
Wandering, a la Caesar, gifts and
sums of money from the populace.
Medieval royalty, who were not
as wealthy as they were reported
to be, revived the custom as a
means Of replenishing the royal
wardrobcs, treasures and even
larders. Queen Elizabeth relied on
the custom for new petticoats,
mantles, silk stockings, bracelets,
necklaces, precious jewels, etc.
Peers, bishops, clerics, ladies'
in-Waitins. physicians, cook S,
everybody contributed.
Oliver CromWell's Puritan gov
ernment outlaWed the custom, but
it was re-revived when the Stuarts
were restored to the throne. Indi-
vidual circumstances governed the
gift-giving among ordinary citi-
zens and, since common pins were
expensive in those days, middle
class gentlemen usually gave their
wives and daughters pins or pin
money
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-29

New Years Day, aside from its
festive connection, may not seem
very momentous to the average
citizen, but in the past it figured
prominently in the making of his
tory.
1t saw the unfurling of the first
American flag by George Washing
ton, and the emancipation of Negro
slaves.
Here is a list of important events
that have occurred on New Years
day throughout the ages:
January /
38 B. c. The era of the Caesars
began.
1349 A. D. Edward III, king of
England, defeated the French be-
fore Calais with great slaughter.
1885 Paul Revere bern.
1757 Calcutta, India, captured
by the British.
l776 First Union flag of 13 stripes
unfurled by George Washington.
1892 Kentucky admitted to the
Union.
1901 Union of Ireland wi t h
Britain.
1914 American ragoons at
tackled the British who had seized
Buffalo, N. Y.
1915 General Jackson repelled
British when they attacked New
Orleans.
1925 Great Britain acknowledged
independence of South American re-
publics.
1868 Emancipation OF Negro
slaves became effective by procla-
nation of President Abraham
Lincoln.
1907 U. S. pure food law put into
effect.
1918 Parcel post system inaug-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-29

dramatically, pin money. has
survived the days of the expensive
pin, while the custom of gift-giving
at New Years time has deterior
ated into obsolescence in England
and the United States.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-29
New Year Resolutions Silly
ca cnu Psuchintrists

opinion of the nations leading psychiatrists
the practice of making New Year resolutions is SILLY.
They believe that around making resolutions
informing all sundry of his decision something of
exhbtionist and, addition, being childish.
experts add that these probably
out the resolutions anyway.
New resolutions have little value They
resolutions aren't the best of cubng difficulties
self They that instead the best
thought to what trouble ration
ally to correct these faults.
Children especially should
making resolutions They contend chId should be
all his diff
all
by superhuman effort that is almost fail"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21
SEQ Unions Win
Cargo Demands

Washington (LPA) - Maritime
unions won one of their biggest
legislative battles last week when
the Senate provided in its foreign
aid appropriations that 500 of all
ECA cargo must be shipped in
American bottoms and none can go
in ships flying Panamanian or
Honduran flags.
American ship owners have been
registering their ships in Panama
as a means of avoiding US wage
rates and safety and health re-
quirements. There are over 500 Of
these ships, most of them carrying
ECA cargo and underpaying their
crews, while American seamen are
out of work.
A boycott of ships flying these
phony flags is being mapped by
the Init Federation of Transport
Workers and conference setting
final plans is scheduled for April
29 in London. US unions partici-
pating include the Int'l Longshore-
mems Association-AFL and Sea-
farer's Int'l n-AFL. CIO
unions intellectually endorse the
action.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21
Hotel Management
Reject Mediation

Atlantic City, N. j. QLNS).-
The Federal Mediation and Concil-
iation Service offered to mediate
the strike of 1000 employees at 10
beachfront hotels, but was turned
down by management represent
ative.
When Mediator Peter j. Manno
intervening in "the interests of the
public welfare" asked negotiators
for both sides to meet with him,
his offer was accepted Immediately
by Irving Gould, president of the
local union of the Hotel and Rest
aurant Employees Union. However.
Alan M. Graft, chairman of the
Atlantic City Hotel Association,
rejected it on the ground that the
dispute was strictly local. in
character.
I'VE have been advised by coun-
sci for the association that this is
not a matter coming under Federal
jurisdiction" Graft said
The strikers demanded 81 daily
wage increase.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21
Highest Court
0kays State
Anti-Picket Law

Washington LPA) = Further
impetus to labor's interest in state
Legislation came last week with the
Supreme Courts decision uphold
ing a Missouri anti-picketing sta
tute.
The Missouri law forbids any
Combination to restrain trade
within the state" A state court,
acting under this proviso, issued
an injunction to prevent local of
the Int'l Brotherhood of Teamsters-
AFL from picketing a Kansas City
ice company that was selling ice to
non union truckers.
In a decision written by Justice
Hugo Black, regarded as one of
the most pro-union of the Supreme
Court justices, the court unanim-
ously said that:
Missouri has by statute regu-
lated trade one way. The union
members adopted a program to
regulate it another way.
Eve hold that the states power
to govern in this field is para
mount, and that nothing in the
constitutional guarantees of speech
or press compels a state to apply
or not to apply its anti-trade re-
straint law to groups of workers,
businessmen or others"
Black added, however, that this
doesn't mean the court considers
the Missouri law a wise one.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21
OBITUARIES
EMMETT d. NEWMAN

Emmett ID. Newman, 610 Sixth
street, Chester, died April 13 in
City Hospital, following q weeks
illness. He had been in failing
health for nearly a year. He was
65.
Mr.. Newman was born in East
Liverpool and spent his lifetime in
this district. He was a caster and
was employed by the Hall China
Co. for 28 years before retiring
last May because of failing health.
Mr.. Newman was member of
Local Union a., National Brother
hood of Operative Potters and the
Chester Christian Church.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Anna
Aumiller Newman; daughter,
Mrs. Margaret Kell of Chester;
two sons, Maj. Paul A. Newman
with the Air Force in Detroit, and
David Newman, student at Ohio
State University, and two grand
children.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21
Brewery Workers
Demand Settlement
of Basic Issues

New York (LPA)-New York's
striking locals of the Brewery
Workers Union last week rejected
an employers attempt to end their
two-week- strike with So
weekly wage increase. Altho this
advance from the Brewers Board
of Trades previous offer admitted
the success of the strike, BWU
members aren't kidding when they
say safety regulations and better
working conditions are their prin-
cipal detectives.
Two principal complaints of the
NY brewery workers are that the
companies speed-up has reduced
their presume $40 weekly pay to
about $55, and has forced them to
wrestle beer kegs and cases so
rapidly that the normal hazards of
the trade are greatly increased.
They're demanding 35-hour
work week and two men on each
beer truck, as well as a wage in
crease and union participation in
the administration of the indus
try's welfare fund.
Despite the efforts of US and
NY mediators the Brewers Board
of Trade, which speaks for the big
shots in the trade, have refused to
negotiate on these issues.
AFL and Int'l Association of
Machinists contracts for craftsmen
in the breweries expire this week
end, and the employers are threat
ened with a withdrawal of all
maintenance crews.
Continuing demands from NY
beer distributors-as well as the
patrons themselves = have finally
resulted in the big New Jersey
brewers, Ballantine's and Krueg-
er's, sending beer into parched
Gotham. For a week they refused
to do so, despite guarantees of un-
molested deliveries by BWU, in
what looked very much like an in
dustry-wide attempt to defeat the
NY BWU strike.
Meanwhile, In Buffalo, BWU
members are sticking to their
strike too. Wages are the principal
issue in this one.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21

ILGWU has over 100000 members,
has multiplied the earnings of the
garment workers time after time,
and has regained its status as one
of the leading progressive unions
in the US.
Under the leadership of Dublin
sky, former Socialist, the ILGWU
has pioneered in labor political
action. Like its president the union
has been a stalwart supporter of
Roosevelt's New Deal and Tru-
mans Fair Deal. The ILGWU has
played a big role in making the
whole of organized labor aware of
the Importance of foreign affairs,
as we'll as in developing new col
lective bargaining, research and
educational techniques.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21
Ask High Court To
Reconsider Ruling

Washington (LPA)-The NLRB
last week asked the Supreme Court
to reconsider its recent decision
upholding the Wisconsin Employ
ment Relations Boards ruling
against the United Auto Workers
AFL.
So far as the board is concerned
the big issue is the Wisconsin labor
relations agency's stepping into it's
own jurisdiction.
The boards point is that by up
holding the state body in a case
that the NLRB was itself consider
ering the Supreme Court opened
the way for AZ different interpre-
tations of law in a field which Con-
gress has said must be nationally
regulated.
While the UAW-AFL was filing
complaints against Briggs q STRAIT
tan Corp. with the NLRB the COM
pany successfully prosecuted its
case against the union in the state
board. BY endorsing the state
board S findings the Supreme
Court, in effect, barred the NLRB
from considering the unions case,
altho it falls with the provisions of
federal labor relations statutes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21
Dubinsky's 20 Years Leadership
Of nGWU Celebrated By LID

New York (LPA) - President
David Dubinsky of the Intl Ladies
Garment Workers Union-AFL will
be the guest of honor at luncheon
given by the League for Industrial
Democracy this Saturday. Out
standing leaders of both AFL and
CIO will join American, British
and Canadian progressives in pay
ing tribute to the man who for 20
years has guided the ILGWU in its
fight to rebuild the union and bring
decent standard of living to the
once sweated garment workers.
Guest speakers include iva
Chairman Gordon Clapp, Prime
Minister Thomas C. Douglas Of
Saskatchewan, Canada, and Francis
Williams, former public relations
officer for Great Britain's Prime
Minister Clement Attlee and auth
or of Socialist Britain"
The luncheon will be broadcast
over station WQXR in New York,
and later retransmitted by the
ILGWU's own radio station.
In 1929 Dubinsky, for seven
years an ILGWU vice-president,
was chosen secretary-treas of
the battered union. A joint attack
by anti-union employers and the
Communist party several years be-
fore had reduced the young but
flourishing garment workers union
to a mere $4,000.
Dubinsky succeeded Joseph Sch
lesinger as president of t h e
ILGWU three years later. Both be-
fore and after his election as sec
retary the former garment cutter
had been acting president during
Schlesinger's illnesses.
When he assumed the leadership
of the union Dubinsky was con-
graduated on having been elected
"a n r a k r." But today the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21
Radio Men Fear
Socialism, Ask
Right To Edit

Chicago (LPA)-The right to
editorialize "to the end that radios
voice. shall become an increasing
factor in community thinking and
action" was demanded by Natl
Association of Broadcasters in a
resolution passed at their conven-
tion last week.
Because there are limited num-
ber of broadcasting channels the
Federal Communications Commits
sion has ruled that broadcasters
must operate their station in the
public interest. The radio men,
however, want to be free to toot
their horns for whatever private
interests they wish. e
The 1900 delegates to the NAB
conclave also voted to ask the FEC
not to license any federally owned
or operated radio station to oper-
ate commercially. The radio men
were in a stew about little 10,-
COO watt government-owner station
in Puerto Rico which the FEC
granted license. NAB wants the
license revoked, declaring that
such things could lead to social
ISM"
The broadcasters reelected their
president, Justin Miller, for a five
year term at a salary of $4,000 a
year plus a $4,000 yearly expense
account.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21

all the principles of American dem
ocracy."
The labor officials, along with
DR.. Charming rockingham, chair
man of Committee for the Nations
Health, took to Truman 24page
document disclosing that special
laws instigated by medical societ-
les have been enacted in 22 states,
in effect preventing the establish
ment of voluntary health insurance
plans unless these are controlled
by organized medicine.
Estates and local medical societ-
les use restrictive state legislation,
boycotts and other professional
pressures," according to the Com
mittee for the Nations Health re-
port, 'to block the growth of
health insurance plans providing
comprehensive medical services and
sponsored by industries, unions, CO.
operatives, farmers and other con-
sumner groups.
The spanking administered to
the ANA was closed with a warn
ing from Sen. Morse that "if it is
a political fight the American
Medical Association wants, it GER
tainly can have it." He also said
that "the ANA apparently must
learn that there are men in the
Congress in increasing numbers
who are willing to make a fight
for better health service for all the
American people, in the very face
of ANA opposition, if necessary,
and even take a political licking
doing it, rather than bend a knee
to such unconscionabIe political
activity as the ANA is about to
inaugurate.