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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-04-21
Hobart Dewitt Is
Given 15-Year
Term In Pen
Three Also Sentenced For
Larceny Of Automobile

Hobart William Dewitt was
sentenced yesterday by Associate
Judge Neil c. Fraley to serve fiji
teen years in the Maryland peni-
Tertiary, for the murder of his
three-months-old daughter
Dewitt was convicted of second
degree murder by an all-male jury
on April 10, following a three-day
trial
Dewitt heard the sentence with
out any display of emotion, and
Sheriff Paul w. Fisher said he ex-
pected to take him down today
In pronouncing sentence Judge
Fraley told the man that he hadn't
been able to find anything in the
testimony that put him in a favor
able light and he termed it cruel
and inhuman" to snuff out the life
of a three-months-old infant. such
as he had been found guilty of do
ing.
The former Garrett county tim
Der cutter was arrested at his home
in Virginia and brought here for
trial after he had been indicted by
the grand jury The childs body
was found in a shallow grave last
February near the family's former
home at Sang Run. Death of the
child was set at October by De-
Witt who led officers to the grave
and told them he buried the child
after she had died suddenly He
had claimed the family could not
afford funeral expenses.
The state contended Dewitt had
confessed to the murder of the
child, stating he had smothered it
one night after he came home
drunk
Others Sentenced
Clinton Wilson, 19, Thomas Doyle
Stewart, 20, and Raymond Earl
Prince, Is, we're found guilty of
larceny of automobiles yesterday
afternoon when tried before the
Court.
The three pleaded guilty to a
charge of unauthorized use of an
automobile, but pleaded not guilty
to the larceny charge. They claimed
thew were merely on a Joy ride"
Judge Fralcy sentenced Wilson
and Stewart to serve not more than
three years in the Maryland Re-
formatory for Males, and sentenced
Prince to serve not more than two
years in the same institution. He
told the traverSers they might con-
slider it joy riding" in Baltimore,
but that in Garrett county they had
another name for it,
The trio we're charged with hav-
ing stolen a car in Baltimore driven
it to HagerstoWn where it was
abandoned Another car was taken
there and the trio continued west
until reaching Oakland That car
also was abandoned on Pennington
street, in Oakland, and another one
taken on Liberty street for a re-
turn trip to Baltimore. They we're
apprehended in Cumberland by
city police The police testified
against the trio at the trial
The court did not learn where the
dynamite caps, dynamite and the
automatic pistol, found in the
stolen car, had been obtained The
three maintained they had been in
the automobile when it was taken.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-04-21
Plans For PIT. A.
Workshop Complete

Plans for the workshop and din
ner meeting of the Garrett county
Council of Parents and Teachers
have been completed, it was an
nounced this week by Mrs. Kermit
Glotfelty, president.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-04-21

TN III1I0IJI1It1 D INI14NINLDI
ginia jurisdiction. Mr. Newberry
will be principal speaker at the
banquet on Friday evening, while
Dr. Kennedy, speaker at the bust
ness sessions, also will present a
flag and lagpole to the Oakland
Elementary school as a special fea-
ture of the convention.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28

which the courts now do in Alas ka, but which judgs have ex- pressed a desire to escape, accord ing to the bills sponsors.
 The board would be composed of three territorial officers-the auditor, treasurer and attorney general They could name sub advisory boards to handle the job, under their supervision, in the other parts of the territory.
 The lengthy bill includes a complete wrap-up of all existing liquor laws into one overall liqu- or regulations act, and it includes some other changes from the present law.
 One would make minors jointly responsible with bar operators if they lie about their ages or pre- sent false documents to indicate they are over 21. The bill would provide for the bar operators to have affidavits which they could call upon a young person to sign if they suspect his or her age. Then the affidavit would be evil dence of illegal entry to the estab-
 Continued on Page Two
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Seattle Tuna Boat With 600 Pounds Salmon
 Founders in Caribbean

PANAMA, R-A us. Navy patrol boat sped through choppy Caribbean seas Saturday and rescued a crew of 10 men after their tuna boat, the Tony B" of Seattle, foundered earlier in the day.
 The tuna clipper was owned by Nick Beg, well-known Seattle fish packer, and piloted by one of his sons, John Beg.
 A dinghy carrying the 10 sur vivorS was sighted by a US. Air Force rescue amphibian 48 miles northwest of the San Bias Islands off Panama's northeast coast.
 The Irony B." a converted Navy tug, was on the way from Seattle to Ponce, in Puerto Rico, with 500 tons of tuna.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Array of New Bills in Territorial Legislature, With Spotlight on
 Revised Appointments Measure

JUNEAU, R)-An array of news bills continued to arrive in the Alaska legislature as the law makers appeared headed for a new record in bill introductions.
 The spotlight was on the intro duction by House Democrats of revision of the controversial ap- pointments bill which brought veto last Monday from Governor Heintzleman.
 The new version drops the ve toed bills provision for the legis lature to take over the job of selecting appointees after twice rejecting names sent down by the governor for position. There is no provision in the new bill to give the legislature any appoin tive role. It makes concessions on several points which drew special criticism from the governor in his veto message on the original.
 Another major bill tossed in Saturday would remove the dis trict courts from carrying the re- sponsibility of issuing and revok- ing liquor licenses.
 It would create a liquor and beverage license advisory board to supervise the license policing
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Two Young Brothers Die As Big Snow Wall Falls

SITKA, LR-A 50O-foot wall of snow crashed down into the ski bowl high on Harbor Mountain yesterday and two young brothers were buried and were dead when dug out.
 The two were Bruce, l3, and Hans, 8, sons of pr. and Mrs. Phillip M Moore, of Mt. Edge cumbe.
 Bruce Blake, US. Park Service ranger, was also covered but was alive when rescuers reached him. He was brought down the noun tainside for medical treatment.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Premier U Nu Says
 Chou En-lai Willing for Talks With US. Mission

ABINGDON, Burma, R-Bur- mese Premier U Nu announced today that Communist Premier Chou En-lai is willing to receive an unofficial US. mission to dis cuss the case of imprisoned Am erican airmen and tensions be- tween the US. and Peiping.
 Nu told newsmen he had con- veyed Chou's approval of such a conference to US. Secretary of State Dulles. The Burmese Pre- mier declined to discuss Dulles reaction.
 Dulles stopped off in Rangoon Saturday for a 36-hour visit after attending the Manila Pact confer ence in Bangkok He left yester- day for Laos and was due in Sai- gon later today, enroute to Manila.
 The idea for the conference be- tween Chou and an unofficial US. group apparently was ad- vanced by U Nu, who has pro posed recently the five neutral" Colombo powers serve as media tors between the Chinese Reds and the Western powers
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Brainwashed Americans Released
 From Red China Prison Consider
 Communism Best Possible System

HONG KONG, R-Two Amer jeans expelled from Red China as spies repeated today that they consider Communism the best possible way of life and believe the whole world will some day adopt it.
 The pair, Malcolm Bersohn, 29, of New York City, and Mrs. Adele Austin Pickett, 35, formerly of Seattle, arrived by train from Peiping yesterday after 3 and a half years in jail under close de tention.
 They astonished newsmen and US. consulate officials by pro claiming they had spied for the United States, deserved their punishment, and got wonderful treatment" from their captors in Peiping.
 The women said her husband,
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Sens. MonrOney, Malone To Give Statehood Views As Hearing Nears End
By FRANK w. vAILLE

WASHINGTON, R-The Sen ate Territories Subcommittee to- day hopes to wind up it's hearing on statehood for Alaska and Ha- waii.
 Today's session was called to get the views of Sens. Monroney D-Okla) and Malone R-Nev). Both are opposed to statehood for either territory. Each has intro duced alternative legislation.
 Monroney would give the two territories commonwealth status and exemption from federal taxa ton similar to that of Puerto Rico Malone would permit them to elect their own governors.
 Subcommittee Chairman Jack son D-Wash), referring to the commonwealth proposal, has said he always considered such status to be the last step before granting complete independence" '"
 To grant such status to Alaska he said, would embellish Russian domestic propaganda claims to ownership of the territory.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28

Walter A. Pickett, is still in a Peiping prison. The couple went to China in 1948 as Fulbright scholars. Bersohn, a graduate of Harvard University who also studied at the University of Chi cago, had been a medical student at the Peiping Union Medical College.
 There was no immediate off cial comment from Washington on their remarks. But newsmen in Hong Kong, the pairs families back in America and some US. officials credited the Red Chinese with having done a thorough job of brainwashing
 Interviewed today at the Hong Kong YWCA, both Bersohn and Mrs. Rickett replied to most ques- tions with party-line answers.
 Both said they have not the honor" to be Communists. Mrs. Rickett explained: "Only the best people can join I am not worthy I have committed a crime"
 Bersohn described the Peiping regime as democratic because it represents the people and is inter ested in peace"
 Both he and the woman said they were going home to "be upright and honest and because peace is endangered by the war mongers of Wall Street and Wash ington."
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Air Force to Start Additional Air
 Service to Alaska

SEATTLE, R,-A Seattle avi- ation editor, William Schulze of the Post Intelligencer, said in his column today that the Air Force has found transportation to Alas ka "so vital" that it will launch additional service within the next few days.
 That contrasts, Schulze contin- ued, with the reported plans of the Civil Aeronautics Board to order the elimination of one or two of the four commercial sched- uled airline services between Se- attle and Alaska cities.
 While at Ladd Air Force Base at Fairbanks a week ago, Schulze wrote, he was tipped off, that the Military Air Transport Ser vice will begin daily freight-only flights soon from the McChord Air Force Base.
 Tt was indicated to me that the Air Force finds this new air freight service necessary, in addi- tion to that provided by the four scheduled airlines," Schulze said.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Jordon King Engages SchOOlteacher Cousin

AMMAN, Jordon, R-Jordon society buzzed happily today over the engagement of popular young King Hussein to his pretty school teacher cousin, Dina. The match has been in the making for nearly two years.
 The royal cabinet broadcast the announcement last night four hours after 19-year-old Hussein returned from Cairo. Black-eyed Princess Dina Abdul Hamid, the monarch's third cousin, teaches at the city university there.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Near Hurricane Breaks Communications on
 Pacific Northwest Coast

SEATTLE, R-Howling winds pounded the Oregon Washington coast and interior points today, disrupting communications over a wide area, and at one point a gust of wind came within one mile an hour of hurricane force in Seattle.
 It was a rough, cold preview of March coming in like a lion from Vancouver, B.C., in the north, where faSt-moving Pacific storm dumped five inches of snow, to points in southwestern Oregon.
 g In Seattle, the windstorm felled utility poles, wires and trees and at SOS am. gusted at "A miles an hour. A 75-mile-an-hOur blow is hurricane force. Tn the Portland area, gusts up to 69 miles an hour were recorded.
 The storm originated in the Alaskan panhandle Saturday.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Edna Ferber Visits Nome

Edna Ferber, famous for her novels ince 1911 and writer of the Pulitzer Prize winning book "So Big" in 1924, arrived here today from Kotzebue.
 Miss Ferber came to Alaska early last fall but got only as far as Fairbanks. She is now seeing Alaska in the winter.
 In addition to 21 novel she has written several plays.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Maj. Gen. O'Connell
 Named Signal Corps Head

WASHINGTON, R-President Eisenhower today nominated Maj. Gen. James D. O'Connell to be chief of the Army Signal Corps.
 The President asked the Senate to promote O'Connell to the per manent rank of major general. His present permanent grade is brigadier general.
 O'Connell would succeed Maj Gen. George I. Back, whose term as Signal Corps chief expires on April 30.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
Lyng Memorial Asks
 For SavOOnga Airport

JUNEAU, R-The Senate ap- proved a memorial Saturday ask ing the Aeronautics Commission to take steps to assure construc- ton of an airport at the isolated St. Lawrence village of Savoonga during 1855. The memorial, by Sen. Howard Lyng D-Nome), said steel mating was readily avail able.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
ELIZABETH TAYLOR HAS
 End SON ON 23rd BIRTHDAY

SANTA MONICA, Calif., R- It's another boy for film actress Elizabeth Taylor, wife of actor Michael Wilding.
 The dark-haired actress cele- brated her 23rd birthday yester- day by giving birth by Caesarean section to pound, 12 ounce boy.
The Nome nugget., 1955-02-28
House-Senate Deadlock Likely on
 Jobless Program as Unemployment
 Commission Officials Subpoenaed
By JIM HUTCHINSON


 deadlock now appears inevitable, legislative observers said today, because of sharply conflicting views on solution of the pressing Alaska unemployment benefits program.
 Their forecast is that neither branch's proposed legislation will be satisfactory to the other. As a result, they said, a conference committee may have to write the final version of the proposed law in the sessions dying days.
 Meanwhile, as both House and Senate entered the sixth week of their deliberations, each one called for a look-see at Employ ment Security Commission rec ords and minutes.
 Both A. B. Phillips, director, and Arthur Hedges, his assistant, were under House subpoena to ap- pear at a 2 pm. session and bring minutes of their last three meet ings with them. Each has been under fire from Democratic and labor spOkeSmen.
 The constitutional convention bill, including clause on where one might be held, will emerge from the House Statehood Com mittee shortly.
 Similarly, two other major bills introduced only Saturday may hit the House floor, leaders said. One would put heavy new taxes on big salmon catches, largely on fishtrap operations, and the other is new version of the appoint ments bill which Gov. Heintzle- man vetoed week ago It is writ ten to meet some of his objec- tions.
 The House unemployment ben efits bill would liberalize pay ments in some ways, tighten them in others and would aim at Re plenishing the depleted fund
 It would assess workers one per cent of their earnings up to $4,800 a year-which would make a maximum levy of S48 against a Worker-and would increase the payment by an employer from the present $3,00O salary limit to $4,800 That would mean the 3 percent tax against the employer would amount to $144 on each employe who earns $4, 300 or more a year, instead of the present $90 payment
 Both bills would eliminate de- pendency allowances. The Senate bill would increase unemploy- ment benefits from the present S35 week top to $70 a week, but it would restrict 50 sharply the number of those who could draw benefits that a federal employ ment security official testified re- gently it might raise a question of whether it would conform to fed eral government standards as an insurance program.
 Rural Development Board
 A new bill to be introduced in the Senate today proposes the creation of an Alaska rural devel- opment board to survey the needs of rural areas and villages and take steps to help solve them.
 Its purpose is defined in these words: "The purpose and intent of this act is to coordinate exist ing programs of the territorial government and to plan, inaugu- rate and operate additional pro- grams for the purpose of promot- ing the improvement of the health, welfare, security and eco homie well-being of Alaskans re-
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Evening star., 1955-06-19
CheckForger
Nets 100000
Declare

OMAHA, June 10 (R.-A 35-
State ck-forging spree that q
Cleveland man Dragged to police
had netted him 100000 was
ended by q suspicious grocery
clerk.
Held for police questioning
without charge today were Rich
ard e. Ovens, 30, and his wife,
Clara. AZ.
Detective Capt. Ted Pike said
Ovens calmly estimated that he
has passed around 100000
worth Of forged checks" in his
life-$30, 900 In 10 months.
While detectives listened,
Capt. Pike said Ovens Dragged
Of the ease with which he and
his bride of 18 months duped
merchants.
His formula.
when you reach a town, go
through the phone book and pick
a name, address and telephone
number Get a new drivers IL
cense, steal some checks and
start passing"
The merchants, Ovens con-
tinued. seldom ask for identif1-
cation" If they are cautious, he
explained, "give the telephone
number. When they check and
find it jibes with the information
you gave them, you're in"
Harold Rivedall, assistant
manager of a chain store, be-
came suspicious after cashing
Ovens payroll check for $S1 80.
He called the company on which
1t was drawn, then chased Ovens
down the street, collared him
and called police.
Police picked up Mrs. Ovens
getting into the couples expen-
sive 1855 car. Officers said 1t con-
tanned stationery from the best
hotels, bogus Identification and
q check protector.
Evening star., 1955-06-19
Five-Notion Group
Will Be Installed

A permanent executive COM
mittee Of the Inter-American
Travel Congress will be installed
at a special session Of the Inter-
American Economic and Social
Council of the Organization of
American States at 1890 am
tomorrow at the Pan American
Union.
The five nation committee
created under an organization
plan approved by the OAS, will
have its permanent headquarters
at the Pan American Union.
Committee members are Enri-
que Olmedo and Roberto Cam
pos, Argentina; Fritz A. Leer
and Rudolfo Ulloa, Costa Rica:
Gustavo Ortiz. director of Mexi-
can tourism; Eduardo Dibos.
president Of the Peruvian Tour
ing and Automobile Club. and
H. H. Kelly and Charles p. Mo-
land from the United States.
Secretary Of Commerce SIN
clair Weeks and Ambassador
Jose A. Mora Of Uruguay Will
be among the speakers.
Evening star., 1955-06-19
High-Wire Performer
Survives 55-Foot Fall

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. June
Is GA high-wire performer
survived a 55-foot fall from a
swaying pole and is reported in
good condition in Atlantic City
Hospital today.
hirty-eight-year-old Robert
Atterbury of Minneapolis, Mimi.
toppled to the stage last night
while performing at the first
water circus of the summer at
Steel Pier. Three thousand spec
tators watched in horror as Mr..
Atterbury lost his balance while
climbing to the top Of the 65-
foot pole on which he was per-
forming with his wife, Lauren,
Is. and sister-in-law, Shirley
Peterson, 81.
He suffered q fractured pelvis
and heel and bruised ribs.
Evening star., 1955-06-19
BANDIT BEMOANS
WOEFUL WORLD,
TAKES SI1,7OO

CEDAR RAPIDS. Iowa
GA gunman who COM
planned about "the shape
the worlds in" held up the
Mount Auburn Savings Bank
today and fed by car with
SLIT
Cashier Robert w. Hadley
was alone when the holdup
occurred. When the bandit
tied Mr.. Hadley wit hwire,
he remarked:
''I hate to do q thing like
this, but the shape the
worlds In these days Q man
can't make a living"
The gunman, about IS,
wore a dark business suit
and horn trimmed glasses.
Evening star., 1955-06-19
School of Nursino
To Graduate II

The Lucy Webb Hayes School
Of Nursing will hold it's COM
mencement ceremonies at 8
O'Clock tonight at the Metropol-
itan Methodist Church, Nebras-
ka and New Mexico avenues
NV, with DR.. John M. Orem,
president of the Sibley Memo
rial Hospital, presiding.
DR.. Hurst r. Anderson, presi-
dent of American University,
will talk to the II graduates of
the school. The invocation will
be presented by the Rev. Ed
ward G. Latch.
Baccalaureate services will be
held at II am. today at HAM
line Methodist Church, Six
teenth and Allison streets NV,
with the Rev. j. A. Leathermaf1
conducting the program.
The graduates are:
Bridges. Jean M, YnRlis. Patricia n
Campbell. Mary A. Monoghan' Edith
GIider: Mary Ellen parneii,. Betty Betty Lee M
RLrassen' Joan c. Riley. Margaret H.
rrLaaer' MaTilyn Merchant, Winona
Goooe porothy M. Sneden, Karlene
Helm. Nancy Jane Ulshafer. Ada L.
Hershey, Phyllis E.
Evening star., 1955-06-19

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Evening star., 1955-05-06
Stur Stuff Member
To Attend Seminar

Sidney Epstein. assistant city
editor Of The Star. will be among
~ city editors from across the
country participating in a semi
mar Of the American Press In
stitute at Columbia University
from Monday through May 20.
I. William Hill, assistant man.
aging editor Of The Star, and
II other experts will address the
group during the session.
The seminar is the last of
eight held at the university this
year.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-04-20

Mss Tina rfae -'dcriice n,
haio'Gh spent the weekend with
MI. and Mrs. Herman Elderdice
MISS Ruth Long Of WhiteviI,e
p"ht III" weekend with her par
ms MIR. and Mrs. Lacy Long.
MI and Mrs. Willie Fasion
anu children Bill and Mitchell
~ Raleigh spent The weekend
WIN Mir. and Mrs. Wallace
rlDh and son Jerry.
MIR. and Mrs. Jimmy Saryis n,
T" hicviilc spent the weekend
Ni'h their parents MIR. and Mrs.
}. Lester Gore. and Mr.. and
"'rN. HaNmon Sarvis of Longs,
). G.
Key. J. a. Smith of Frccland
lieo mis- regular appointment a,
me River Side Baptist Church
sunday night OF last week.
PFC. and Mrs. J. G. Buck of
S"mp Lcjcunc spent the week
md with his father A. c. Buck
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Gore of
Longs. s. {. spent the weekend
WIN Mr.. and Mrs. J. Lester
Gore.
Mrs. Mandy Rhodes returned
nome after spending some time
with her daughter and son in
law Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Fasion
and children OF Raleigh. n. {.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Benton.
Mr.. and Mrs. ). r. Benton. and
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Settle
mNr" OF Acme spent the week.
md with their parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Jessie Benton and Lee
Cdnady.
Mrs. John Floyd MURRAY of
Wilmington spent the weekend
with MIR. and Mrs. Garlic Elder
dice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Jacobs of
Wilmington spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Willie ia
CobS.