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Evening star., 1951-06-22
Ordnance Officials
.0usied ending Probe.
OF s. Million Contract.
By The Associated Pres.

/ BIRMINGHAM, Ala. June %
Two Birmingham ordnance dis
ltrict investigators have been sus-
pended pending investigation oil
l$3 million worth Of contracts
awarded q Mississippi firm.
Col. c. Wingate Reed. deputy
chief of the ordnance district
said Frank Legar and j. F
Mitchell were suspended yesterday
on orders Of Secretary of the Army
Pace.
A special subcommittee of the
House Armed Services Committee
recommended that two contracts
for tank covers held by the Elval,
Corp. of Natchez. Miss. be can
celled.
The subcommittee, headed by
Representative Hebert, Democrat
of Louisiana. criticized the Bir-
Imingham ordnance district as
the most haphazard, naive and
negligent that could be imagined. y
Col. Reed in defending Mr..
Legar and Mr.. Mitchell said the
men did the best job that they
could in investigating the Elvair
contracts"
He said the investigation showed
the Elvair Corp. had leased ade-
|quate space and that practically
all machinery and supplies were
available for the projects.
Representative Hebert's subcom-
mittee said that at a time when
Elyair was awarded a $2.9 mil
lion contract it had only $179.68
on hand. The report added that
the firm expected a profit of
$129.000. but that it probably
would have been much more
than that"
Evening star., 1951-06-22
EceIes, Opponent
OF Truman Financial
Policies, Resigns

Mariner S. Eccles, foe of Tru-
man administration financial pol
icies, is resigning from the Fed
eral Reserve Board on July IA
some six and one-half years be-
fore the expiration of the term
to which President Roosevelt
named him in 1914.
Announcement or the retire
ment of the 61-year-old Utah
banker and industrialist, was
made at the White House late
yesterday in an exchange of let
ters, polite but coldly formal.
After II years of service in
Washington, he advised President
Truman, he felt it necessary to
return to his private interests, and
suggested he would like to be re-
lieved July Is. Mr.. Truman said
the resignation could be effective
as of the close of business, Satur-
day, July II.
Thanks" Omitted From Letter.
MIR. Truman, whose policies
have been sharply criticized by.
Mr.. Eccles as having been COM
pletely inadequate" to check in
f1ation, omitted the customary
thanks for your services" in ac-
cepting the resignation of the
official whom he denoted from the
Craftsmanship of the Board of
Governors in 1948.
Because of the considerations
which you urge in your letter." he
wrote. II feel that I have no re-
course but to acquiesce in your
wishes. May I wish you happi-
ness and continued success as YOU
return to your home and private
business affairs"
Mr.. Eccles will make his head
quarters In Salt Lake City. butt
because of a prohibition in the
law. cannot return to the bank
ing business until two years after
ne leaves the Government.
Stage Set by Memoirs.
Eccles actually had set the
stage for the resignation in his
memoirs. published Monday under
under the title: ''Beckoning From
tiers" In this, he:
l. Charged that MIR. Truman
denoted him from the Reserve
Board Craftsmanship under "greatl
political pressure" from the Clan
mini banking interests of Cali
fornia: implied that Secretary oil
the Treasury Snyder helped in-I
f1uence that presidential action.
2. Challenged once more thei
accuracy of a letter by Mr.. Tru-I
man purporting to show Federal
Reserve officials had given him al
pledge to support certain Treasury
policies. MIR. Eccles released al
board memorandum contradict
ing Mr.. Truman's account, which,
soft-peddled a fight between Mr.
Eccles and Treasury Secretary
Snyder over interest rates on Gov
eminent securities.
8. Revived earlier criticism of
administration economic and for
eign policy, recalling testimony he
gave a congressional committee
that the President had more of
a political program than an eco
nonic one.'
Mr.. Eccles entered Government
service in 1884. starting as all
Treasury official after providing |,
Congress with a recovery-from-
depression program of his own /
which later was embodied in large
part in the New Deal. II
President Roosevelt sent him to |
Evening star., 1951-06-22

Venezuela set q new high for
crude oil output at 1,672,613
barrels a day.
Evening star., 1951-06-22
THE EVENING STAR, Washington. D. c. A
FRIDAY JUNE 2e -.

assays as high as 70 per cent
iron or about 81 per cent higher
than the current Lake Superior
ore average. Republic is a major
shareholder in the Liberia COM
pany.
To Use New Dock.
On arrival in Baltimore. the
Reed will be nudged up to the
Baltimore 81 Ohio's new SIS million
ore dock, which can unload the
cargo and transfer it to hopper
cars at the rate of 1000 tons an
hour.
From here. the ore will 60 by
rail to Republic plants at Cleve-
land, Warren. Youngstown, Can
ton and Massillon in Ohio Buff
falo, N. Y, Chicago and Gadsen,
Ala.
Evening star., 1951-06-22
Maryland 10 Get $4,000
For DAMAGE 10 Oysters

The Senate passed and sent to
the White House yesterday bill
to pay Maryland $4,000 for dam
age to State-owned oyster beds in
the Severn and Patuxent Rivers.
The State filed a claim for $122,-
992 against the Navy. contending
dredging operations caused an
immediate loss and a natural re-
source loss to the State.
After negotiations. the State
agreed to settle for $4,000.
Evening star., 1951-06-22
Rough Air Shakes Up
Plane Riders; 3 Hurt
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

KANSAS CITY. June 22.-A
|Trans-World Airlines plane hit
trough air over Peoria, ILL.,, last
might, injuring three passengers.
The four-engined plane made
Ian unscheduled landing here and
the three passengers were taken
Ito hospital for examination.
TWA said the plane left Chicago
lat $3.50 and leveled of at $500
feet. Over Peoria the plane was
pitched and tossed by winds and
passengers were shaken up. There
were 81 persons aboard the nom
stop Chicago-to-Los Angeles fight.
Evening star., 1951-06-22
Jupun, Reich in UNESCC

PARIS. June 81 (Pl.-The sixth
general conference of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization voted yes
terday to admit to membership
Western Germany, Japan and the
three Indo-C Chinese states of Wet
Nam, Laos and Cambodia.
Evening star., 1951-06-22

scrap were cut back by the Cow
ernment yesterday to levels below
the price of the pure metal.
The once Of Price Sterilization
said the rollbacks will be effective
June 26.
Evening star., 1951-06-22
Tokyo Police Roid Reds

TOKYO, June % R.-Police
today raided a shop which printed
pro- Communist literature and ar
rested four persons. They said
confiscated leaflets urged with
of American forces from
Japan, no peace treaty without
Russia and an end to fighting in
Korea.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Seeks Civil Defense
Clearing Station

John S. Elliott, director of civil
defense for Garrett county, said he
had asked the Board of County Com
missioners in a letter dated Novcm-
Der 7, that it make its payment of
$500 to the State Civil Defense
authorities for one casualty clearing
station to be set up in this area.
Mr.. Elliott said the county money
was voted in June and was on the
basis of matching state and federal
funds. The money is to be sent to l..
w. Upton, deputy director for finance
and supplies of the State Civil De-
Tense organization at Pikesville.
Mr. Elliott also announced that J.
F. Gallagher, superintendent of the
Garrett County Memorial hospital,
who had been designated as custodian
been sent letter listing the supplies
been sent letter listing thge supplies
which will be sent to Oakland in the
near future.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Sabotage of l4ee@ons =. q.

being relieved his of the
Far East armies General Macarthur has been free to give his
personal opinions about the lack of wisdom in the nations capital
particularly regard those high national administration
circles
His latest speech at Seattle Washington, to the
of this nations troubles He declared creeping sabotage
freedom by the federal threatens iron
curtain America and wreck its living standards
He charged the administration coverty and by devious
means strangng traditional American freedoms and that
evermonng taxation mpered the whole structure of the
public He warned that the RECKLESS policies of government
continue unchecked the direct confscaon of capital almost
inevitable
He the possibility of the federal government be-
coming the sole taxing thus making states and cities sub
servient to federal direction.
These policies and the information backout ordered
Gently by President Truman he felt causing the possibility
that an iron curtain may be descending upon our land
He termed it all drift toward socialism, destroying the
fiber which is the creation of freedom and breeding
device which produces toaltarian rule.
We accept that speech coming from Amer
and with political ambitions in view 1t
belief that Macarthur is wise to have such aspirations
speaks with the authority of who has lived through
presidential campaigns and who knows world conditions
such other in this country
America would do well to heed his warnings
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
County Man Held
On Theft Charge

Charges of assault with intent to
rob were filed against 20year-old
Garrett county man yesterday in
Westminster in connection with the
beating, stabbing and robbery of an
eXpectant mother.
Charges were filed against Rich
ard Wright. His accuser is Mrs. Ar
thur f. Walsh, who resides on farm
near Hampstead.
Mrs. Walsh, %, was struck down
from behind with piece of firewood
and slashed about the head with a g.
inch hunting knife, according to State
Police. Before her assailant fled, he
is charged with having taken $40
from a money box in a sccond-floor
bedroom in the Walsh home.
Wright is a former inmate of the
State Reformatory for Males, at
Breathedsville. He was arrested in a
field about four miles from the Walsh
farm. The man was released from the
rcformatoly about month ago and
had been convicted in 1949 of taking
$500 in 500 bills from the same money
box. The prisoner had been working
for the Washes as farmland at
that time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Girl Scouts Complete
Training Program

Senior Girl Scouts of Oakland COM
pleted hospital aide training course
this week, conducted by Mrs. Joseph
Sollars, superintendent of nurses at
the Oakland hospital.
Hospital aide duties will begin next
week with hours from 4:30 to 9 o.
clock p. m., including Saturday and
Sunday, with additional hours from
10 to on Saturday and Sunday.
Following a fly-up ceremony for
IA scouts from the intermediate
group, the senior scouts now total
81, who will be eligible to assist in
the hospital work.
The new members are Barbara
Biser, Mary Jane Browning, Geraldine
Davis, Inez Davis, Carolyn Dusic, Jo-
ann Echard, Patricia Gortrer, Olivia
Naylor, Nancy Pollock, Linda Pritts,
Barbara Stickel, Rebecca White, Ann
Forshey, and Phyllis Lee, the latter
a transfer from the Crellin troop.
Mrs. H. T. Oursler is leader of the
Senior troop.
The Scouts will plan to again pro-
vide Christmas trees for the three
floors in the hospital and will also
decorate them, it was stated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Out Of County Also
Aids Pantry Shower

Showers of canned goods are not
being confined to the limits of Oak
land, or even of Garrett county, it
was reported this week by the hos
pital auxiliary unit, which is spon-
soring the event.
The women reported this week ten
cases of creamed corn had been con-
tributed by the residents of Horse
Shoe Run, and that a good response
was made in Gormania. Two girls in
the hospital office, Miss Betty Jean
Roth and Miss Lois Bachtel, made the
contacts in these two places.
1t was also reported that the citi-
zcns of Terra Alta were contributing
several cases. Within the county the
Grantsvillc Rotary club reported a
collection of two cases of canned
goods by the club and two cases from
its members. Likewise the Rotary club
of Friendsville had contributed two
cases of salmon.
At Monday nights meeting of the
Oallland-Mt. Lake Park Lions club,
the members contributed six cases of
canned food.
The actual collection will be made
in Oakland on the 23rd, oath and Goth
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Inspects Local Guard

Battalion commander, Lieut.. Col.
f. NJ Hewitt, of the Maryland
National Guard, was in Oakland last
week, accompanied by Capt. Horace
J. Cugle, at which time a prc-federal
inspection was held The actual fed
eral inspection will be held Decem-
Der 5.
State battalion maintenance man,
NJ Sgt. Aehert checked on the COM
panys trucks.
The local guard has given five car
tons of cigarets to those active in
a recruiting contest Final prizes are
to be given at the first drill night in
December
At the meeting week ago. Lieut..
Col. Allen B. Rochfort gave trophies
won at the summer encampmen+. Sgt.
Marshall Bittinger was the best shot
in the Battalion and the company re-
ceived cup for this, the second time
that Oakland has Won Bttinger HIM
self wo nthe Miles trophy for the best
shot in the company. Several other
medals were awarded for winners at
the summer encampment track meet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Basketball League
To Be Organized
By Oakland Teams

Coach Kyle Wilson of the Oakland
High School faculty, interested in
organizing an industrial basketball
league in Oakland this winter, has
called a meeting of interested per-
sons for Friday evening, November
16, at 1870 o'clock, in the high school
auditorium.
Mr.. Wilson urged that any organiza-
ton interested in entering team i'll
the league to have a representative at
the meeting or to contact him prior
to that time if it was not possible
to have representative here.
He said that five groups had al
ready announced intentions of having
teams. They are the Telephone COM
pany, the Armory, the Lions club, the
teachers, and the alumni.
Games will be played one evening
each week.
A municipal league has been carried
on here successfully in previous years,
and Coach Wilson was of the opinion
that such program would provide
needed recreation in Oakland during
the winter months.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Wall Street Beats
A Path To Garrett
County's Gas Field

Wall Street of New York came to
Garrett County last Sunday, probably
for the first time.
Officers of Teller and Company,
of AZ Broadway, New York City, and
about twenty-five representatives of
the company took a two-day jaunt by
special chartered bus, to inspect the
holdings of the Loeb Lynn Gas com
pany.
According to a circular mailed to
a number of residents of the area,
Teller and Company is offering L.
84S shares of common stock in this
corporation at 500 per share. The
company was organized September %,
in the State of Delaware, and has
purchased a one-half of the 7i8th
working interest in and to certain
leases including one known as the
Nellie Lee where well is presently
being drilled.
Other wells are planned, according
to Walter Teller, company presi-
dent. The circular declares wells in
the area have produced initially from
100000 to over million cubic feet
of gas per day, and when interviewed
Sunday Lewis P. Stillman, member
of the company, told reporter he had
been informed that several of the wells
were producing fourteen million a
day. The reporter produced figures
to the effect that no we'll was prOduc-
ing over four million and some of
these so-called fourteen million wells
were producing as low as $4,000.
The Wall Street officials said, how
ever, they felt this was good area
for speculation. The company has is
sued 1877 shares to the Seaboard De-
velopment corporation in payment for
leases owned by it and the Nellie Lee
well. The Seaboard development cor
poration was operated by Arden May,
Harry May and others.
The corcular states that the Teller
company will receive $50 per share
on each of the 1,848 shares sold or
$4,000 in commissions. The company
will get $147,S40 for use in complet-
ing the Nellie Lee Well, spending an
estimated $4,000 on a White we'll
lease in Loeb Lynn, and $S1, 300 for
additional drilling.
The group spent Saturday night
and Sunday nights at Cumberland, and
while in this area had dinner in Oak
land. They inspected number of pro-
ducing wells and sites where wells are
being drilled.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Council FavOrs
Veto
OF Teacher Pay

BY vote of II to the Legislative
Council yesterday recommended that
the General Assembly override Cover
nor McKeldin's veto of the teacher
pay raise bill.
The bill, passed by the 1851 AS
sembly, calls for $500 pay boost to
school teachers. A clause in the act
provides for financing through a one
percent increase in a tax on corpora
tions.
The vetoed bill is open to action by
the legislature when it convenes next
February. Much of the objection to
the bill stemmed from the financing
clause.
The report approved by the group
also calls for annual pay raises of
5000 over an eight-year period in
stead of the present 500 boosts over
16-year period until top scale is
reached.
The proposal also calls for appoint
ment of a commission to study the
entire problem of public education,
including buildings, methods of in
struction and finances.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Welfare Meetings
Scheduled Next Week

Four workers in the County Wei
fare Board office plan to go to Ha-
gerstown next Monday for meet
ing of the Maryland State confer
ence of social welfare.
They are Miss Ruth Keller, Miss
Helen Weisenborn, Mrs. Robert j.
Hesen and Miss Betty Lou Glotfelty.
This conference was inaugurated in
1904 to bring together social workers,
lay and volunteer, to discuss cOndi-
tions peculiar to Maryland. They will
discuss and study social welfare prob
lens.
A statewide meeting of directors
of county welfare boards and chair
men of these boards is also scheduled
in Baltimore for next Monday and
Tuesday. Robert w. Stemple, eXecu-
tive director of the local board, will
attend the latter meeting, and also
either Mrs. Robert T. Hoffman, board
chairman, or another member Of the
local group.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
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Red Cross Seeking
Blood Donor Pledges

The American Red Cross is seek
ing contributions of blood for civilian
as we'll as military use, and this week
is asking the people of Garrett coun-
ty and nearby areas to pledge them
selves as blood donors.
This method is being used, accord
ing to Mrs. f. z. Tower, county
chairman, because right now there is
no mobile unit in this area and even
if person wanted to give right now,
it would not be possible on a large
scale.
At present the nearest center for
mobile unit is Johnstown, hundred
miles away.
The blood donor marathon begins
today under the Red Cross, and the
Department of Defense. There will be
spot broadcasts all through the day
Mrs. Tower said that when there
were $50 blood donors registered that
steps would then be taken to get a
mobile unit into this area, and for
that reason it was urgent that people
promise that pint of blood now.
Persons desiring to do this may
call Oakland "a, or the County Health
Department. Mrs. Tower said ar
rangements q been made there to
accept the names.
The blood donor program is a gi-
gantic effort to persuade the civilian
population to contribute more blood
to the armed forces and to collect
more blood from service personnel
and civilian employees on military
bases in the United States. The
armed forces use 100000 pints of
blood a month and at present the
civilian population is offering 10000
pints a month. Part of this failure is
due to lack of enough mobile units.
There are now plans to remedy this.
A goal of 100000 pints of whole
blood by July 1852 is announced. If
blood is available 81 out of every 100
casualties on the battle front are
saved, army officials declare.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
Christmas Savings
Checks This Year
Will Total $4,000

Christmas Savings checks from the
two Oakland banks will total around
SD, 900 this year, it was announced
this week Both banks will mail out
these savings on December 1.
The money will be sent to around
800 depositors of The First National
Bank and the Garrett National Bank
in Oakland.
Both banks are planning Christmas
clubs for next year as soon as checks
for the past year have been mailed.
First payments are due the first
week in December. Depositors may
make as little as 25-cent payments
each week.
Throughout the nation 952 million
dollars will be distributed to about
ten million eight hundred seventy-five
thousand Christmas club members by
around 5000 banking and savings in
stitutions.
The total distribution is 3.4 percent
ahead of last year and represents an
all-time high for the Al years of the
operation. The average per member
distribution is about $3.50 for the
entire country.
A recent cross section survey in
dictates the estimated funds will be
used by the recipients approximately
as follows: permanent savings, 27 per-
cent; insurance premiums, 7 percent;
mortgage payments, percent; year
end bills, y percent; taxes, percent;
Christmas purchases, SO percent; edu-
cation, percent; miscellaneous, 5
percent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-11-15
LEGAL TANGLE
DEVELOPING IN
LOCAL GAS FIELDS
Some Property Owners Sn-
formed They Do Not Have
Mineral Rights

A legal tangle in the Mt. Lake Park
natural gas field that may have ex-
tensive developments was learned to-
day, but just how extensive is yet
to be determined.
This was brought to light when
some of the property owners at the
Park received letters a few days ago
from the Nollem Gas company stat
ing that the owners did not hold the
mineral rights which they had leased
to the company.
The rights, the company declared,
were held by Emory w. Adams, real
estate broker, who had previously as
sumed them unknowingly when he
took over the Mt. Lake Park Associa-
ton holdings through tax sale,
about nine years ago.
Attorneys are now at work at
tempting to straighten out the i'm
pending tangle. Mr.. Adams asserts
he was not aware of the retention of
mineral rights by the Association,
and in fact some investigation already
has brought out the fact that several
of the lots sold by the association had
conveyed mineral rights.
The property that he has sold since
assuming the remaining properties of
the Association, Mr.. Adams said, had
been sold in fee simple, until gas was
discovered in this area.
The records of all transactions, in
Guiding those of the Association, are
on file at the Court House, and the
only question involved is how many
might be affected by the discovery.