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A flua HOC Moma. Banday 3Jo Bubjcrljiilosi in Remlttaacn Bbcuid 07 Order, Cheet or Reguttred Monday Afternoon, February 17, 1941 ARMY WORK FOR WOMEN It seems iike a dream that there is an old poem on war having as Its theme, "men may fight and women may weep." Those are not the exact wortis, but at least was the author's Intention t.c express the thought that during wartime the women, although not, in the army with the men, hud to carry the burden at home and with saddened hearts they wept for their men at the front. Even today it is the lot of most women to remain at home and work--in- cidentally to weep--while the men are with the colors, but there is likewise need for women at the front and medical officers of the Third Army Corps at Baltimore are now attempting to publicize that fact. There Ja urgent need that trained nurses up for army duty to keep pace with the rapidly expanding armed forces now going into training, it has been announced. By July 1 there will be vacancies with the Third Army Corps alone for from 700 to 800 nurses, and to date only IM have been assigned.

Miss Altec D. Agnew, chief of nurses who has the military rank of captain, complains that most nurses do not consider the defense program as an emerg- ency. She says that many young women who are qualified for this work have indicated that they would be willing to volunteer their serv- ices should the United States enter the war, but they cio not consider it Important to sign up now. According to Capt. Agnew.

that 13 not the proper attitude. Nurses are badly needed at every army post within the Third Corps Area. At Fort George Meade 120 nurses are wanted. Capt. Agnew urges that all nurses who can pos- sibly do so and who up to the qual- ifications necessary for army duty should sign up now.

take their physical examinations and be in 'readiness for assignment. Only registered nurses will be considered and their first step should be to join the Red Cross Nursing Society, which is a reserve army unit. Perhaps there are several such nurses here In Cumberland. hope of getting something for nothing. The two men who this fraud posed as real estate operators.

They approached their aged victims, whose savings or pensions were just about sufficient to keep them a point or ao above the poverty line, with a roseate pic- ture of how a investment with them could be made to yield a return of at least 13 percent. Virtually everybody knows that real estate in- vestment? today are not what they were before 1929. There was a time in Chicago when real estate bonds Issued by reliable houses, were just about as good securities as anyone could want and they yielded 6 percent. Now those same bonds, the property they represent beJng in receiverships or tied up lu bond holders pro- tectivd committees, are worth little more than the paper on which they are printed. In fact, it was discovered when the depression brought a lot of truth to light, that much of the property bulit in Chicago during the' post-war boom period had been greatly over-bonded.

That, doubt, Is true in many American cities. With real estate Investments in Chicago what they are, these men had the eftrontery to claim they could get three times the return on money thus invested that it was possible to get when the realty market was at its peak. They might just as well have gone out with the proverbial gold brick wrapped in a piece of However, they found victims in plenty. They found men and women'wiJling and anxious to dig down into their little savings and en- trust them to these swindlers. Why? Simply because of the lure of what they no doubt con- sidered riches.

It Is strange that men of edu- cation like clergymen, men who must have read time and again of the preposterous confidence games that have so often separated the unwary from their hard earned cash, would fail for a racket of this kind. But there is only one answer. They could not pa.ss up the chance to get something for nothing. The confidence man, no matter what his scheme may be, will always get away with it just as long as human nature permits its craving for gold to override common sense. AT THE CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY FIVE POINTS OF THE WORLD Coincidentally with the news report that the British fear the Japanese will soon attempt to seize Singapore, with German thrusts at Suez and Glbralter, The Evening Times has received a communication from Col.

C. Browning Smith, a retired officer of the United States Army in which he makes it plain that there are five points from which the ocean borne commerce of the world can be dominated and whatever powers control these points can hold the world in the hollow of the hand commercially, strategically and militarily. The points mentioned by Col. Smith are Singapore, the Panama Canal, Dakar, the Straits of Qibralter and the Suez Canal. One reason why the United States has pros- pered and grown great is that these points have been held by Great Britain, France and our- selves.

These natiohs have been more interested in the development of their economic welfare than in war. Today all this Is changed. For the United States, It Is a matter of life and death iooal land for tramp At Evltt'e reek, Death in New York ol Charles T. Eppler, formerly of Piedmont, W. Va.

He had worked In Panama as a boiler inspector. STAMP NEWS SPECIAL U. S. 3-ccnt com-. Rogers, cowboy-humorist, tops the list proposed 1941 issues under consideration by postal officials.

Two designs have been suggested: the Rogers memorial at Clare- mont, and a portrait of the movie actor. Rogers was killed with Flyer Wiley' Post in an airplane crash at Point Barrow, Alaska, Aug. 15, 1935. Both Point Barrow and Clarernont are bidding for first- iftay sales. was honored by Nica- ragua with an issue of five air- that these flve bastions do not fall into stamps commemorating his Ing "Haven't the cops picked you up yet?" When he ascertained that his were in earnest, he hur- ried away to the police station to find out the trouble.

It seemed that just as he -dropped his fares at Amsterdam avenue two men had held up corner store and escaped. An eye-witness to the robbery had noted that a green Packard cab at that moment had turned around and driven away. jotted down the cab's number. A few moments later the bandits held up another store further up- town, and escaped again, and about ah hour later held up still an- other store an EUROPE'S GREAT RACKETEER Although we may take pride In the fact that Cumberland, is a law abiding and peaceful city where the gangsters who have terrorized other places have made no inroads, we are fairly conversant with the methods gentry of this strips have used elsewhere, particularly in the larger places. They approach a man who is trying to get along in some perfectly legitimate business and tell him that a gang of ruffians will break his windows and otherwise sabotage rils store unless he has protection.

This protec- tion can be had at so much a week. Naturally the store owner knows it is a racket. He knows that if he cloe.s not pay the amount demanded his store will be sabotaged by the very men who promise protection. That game is not aa pre- valent in the American cities as it was a lew years ago, but the racket has not been entirely stamped out even yet. Over in Europe the world's greatest racketeer is closely following the example of the petty racketeers of New York and Chicago.

His name la Adolf Hitler and through his strong arm methods he is placing whole nations at his mercy. Like smaller gasigstcrs than himself, he too, offers protection. He makes it plain enough that unless his protection Is accepted--and the price he asks Is the very life of the country Itself--dire consequences will result. The small countries of Europe may need protection, but they should be protected from the avarlous and power-mad Hitler. His entire plan of a "new order" in Europe Is based on his gangland tactics.

He will protect the nations, which means a he will ukc them over, he will own them, he will squeeze them dry. Rapidly the Balkan countries, Intimidated by Hitler, are bowing to his demands. Yugoslavia Is the Intcst on this list. These countries are at a dlsadviwtiiRC. They arc virtually ringed around with Nazi troops.

They know that if they stand up for their rights, if they make a move to joir. hands i Britain, they will be annihilated in short order. When we realize what the war i of Germany did in France when face to face with strong armies of French. English and BelRlsina, it easy to what would happen If a i country like Yugoslavia attempted to defend it-spir. Hitler may think he is fooling thp.

world, (or men of hLt mentality are prone to overestimate their own smartness. He may think that lie is adding of respect- ibllity to his a i by setting himself up as a protector, but all thn world know.i it for banditry the aaiiu-. i tloes Tiul need a mask to mark him us an expert stick-up man. Thn way he uses a blackjack proves he Is well trained sloiig thai friendly hands. It Is a matter ot life and death for the entire Western Hemisphere.

It is not sufficient that we defend the Panama Canal alone. It could not be held should the others fall. It, with the entire Western Hemisphere, would be held In a nut cracker to be crushed at will. Great anxiety has been shown in this country as to the English navy, should Britain be de- feated. Even were this navy transferred to us work in Managua's 1931- Expansion of new highway postoffice service is expected to follow inauguration of the first service on the Washington, D.

Harrisonburg, route Feb. 10. At least two new routes are sched- uled to begin service soon and others may follow. Large trucks, this time but the in- ference was obvious. It took our driver a lot of ex- plaining to convince the police that he was innocent, but they finally released htm.

"Not only that," monntd tho dri- ver, lost. "but think of all the time I That hit-and-run driver and those sttck-up cost me five iiavy transierrca to 5 1 irucKS, intact. Col. Smith holds, its'possession would ui to handle, sort and dis- easj. only postpone the day of final reckoning unless! postoffices and postaf Intended to use it with our own fleet and previously served by star Routes! armies to take possession of at least Singapore The new" highway service routes' arid-Dakar, with other bases neareY home as a second line of defense.

If these bases guard the life line of the British Empire, it can be said with truth that they are equally vital to us. They constitute our life line if we would preserve our i way of life. Postscripts There are going to be a lot more complaints like this one, so we might as well get ready for them. At Camp Shelby, Mississippi, some of the cantonment buildings thrown together in so great a hurry are beginning to show defects even before the construction crews have left the scene. Window frames are shrinking, tent floors buckling, appear.

gaps and cracks are beginning to It is the Inevitable result of being In a hurry. Green, unseasoned lumber was used when it was not possible to get lumber conforming to strict army specifications. Well, suppose they had waited until Just the right kind of lumber was nvallable? There would then have been a great hue and cry about delay. Quick building is dear building-, and it is pretty apt to be shoddy building. It is all part of the price we pay for our unwillingness to look ahead three or four years ago.

Back in the days before the World War, there was a song which began, "When You Wore a TuHp, a Sweet Yellow Tulip Well, that's all over. They're drinking tulips now In Holland, and perhaps in Germany, too. A private letter from a great Dutch tulip-grower recently revealed that nearly three million bulbs 1S39 crop are now being treated for use as a coffee substitute. Whether the Germans are taking the colfee from the Dutch and leaving them their own tulip-bulbs to drink Is not made clear. Possibly all central Europe Is now drinking tulip-bulbs and acorns as their first Installment of the great new era promised by their con- querors.

In any case, one irreparable injury has al- ready been done to Holland. The tulip-bulb center of the world ha.s shifted to the United States, and nothing the Nazis can ever do is will be established only in those areas which have no railroad serv- ice. New issues: France, five semi- postals, jour "National one for victims of war; Germany, three stamps commemorating the' first anniversary of establishment of "General Gouvernement" in occupied Poland, Man About Manhattan in 'i -By George Tucker- New York--If you think every- thing happens to you, consider the plight of the poor taxi driver I en- countered today. Twice In two days he has been overwhelmed by events that were none of his choosing. He was just an innocent bystander.

Last Thursday night ho was parked on Fifth Ave. at 49th street waiting for a A roadster tore past and as he followed it, with his gaze he was horrified to see two bodies tumble Irom it. "It happened so last," he ex- plained, "that for a moment I thought a of drunks had top- pled out of the rumble seat. But they weren't drunks. They weren't even in the car.

They were pedes- trians and that hit-and-run roadster had knocked them down." The cabby went on to say his first impulse had been to rush them to a hospital. But In New York, a very big city, picking up bodies has complications. It might be difficult to prove that YOU -weren't the one who knocked them down. Fortunately, however, another cabby ran up and said, "I saw that guy. I'll be a witness." The victims therefore were speedily taken 'to a big mlrt-town hospital.

But this hos- pital had no emergency entrance, and the driver was he would have to go up to the third floor to likely to restore to Holland a pre-eminence she se bo Caving the patients re- hart u-nn hv wived. Angrrcd, he rushed around SO THEY SAY I am here to challenge you to a higher fate than compromise, nega- tion, and Wlllkie. There Is simply no other address today for the truly great designers than Hollywood and New Margaret Case, magazine editor, on Vienna as a style; center. The Republican Party is coramit- Ing hari-kari with.the sharp knlTe of a political inconsistency, tween a free economic system and Isolationism, Clare Booth, play- wright. After all, love is a mild form of insanity, and it doesn't last over 30 Senator A.

E. Ed- wsrds, Washington, on a proposed new marriage law. Ten Ti cars Ago Poison liquor Skills seven people in Chestertown. Miss Minnie L. Johnson makes initial solo flight Sn her Challenger biplane from Mexico Farms field Conrad' Zimmerman, Baltimore avenue, celebrates his 91st birthday War in Europe A Year Ago today By United Press Finland reported two Russian di- visions, 4th and 33d, were believed to have been broken on the Central Eastern front.

Dispatches claimed 6,000 Red troops killed and 20,000 wounded on Eastern Front. Sumner Welles, U. S. undersec- retary of state, sailed on Italian liner Bex to make study of war situation in Europe. British destroyer Cossack attack- ed Altmark, German prison ship and rescued 326 British seamen Four Germans were killed.

Losses in sea warfare: British steamship Baron Allsa, Norwegian freighter Kvernaas, and German tanker Baldur, scuttled by own crew. Annual Profit or Loss of the Republic Steel Corporation Nef of Republic Steel Corp. TJL. Your Federal Income Tax No. 23 DEDUCTION FOB INTEREST Amounts paid.

or accrued -within he taxable year, 1B10 as interest on ndebtedness are deductible, with exceptions, from gross in- come In determining net income. Deductible items; include: borrowed money defray onal expenses, and on money: bor? for, the purchase of real or ersonal property. If a person owes money; on a He a or mortgage note on his'home, the amount or the in- erest may be deducted. Indebted- ness, need not be evi- denced by or mort- to interest on it deductible. Frequently indebtedness Is evidenced only-Jjy a note.

Interest pair! on Indebtedness in- curred in the purchase of obliga- sions (other than obligations of the States issued after Septem- ber 24, 1917, and originally sub- scribed for by the taxpayer), the interest upon which is wholly ex- empt from Federal income tax, is not deductible, Interest paid on behalf of an- other where there is no legal ob- ligation on the part of the payor Is not deductible by the payor. In such cases the amount is the as a 'gift: As interest paid is' deductible, so nterest received is taxable (except nteresfc'on obligations 'of a State-, Territory, or any political -sub- division thereof, or the District of Columbia; or obligations of a cor- poration organized under -act of Congress; -if such corporation is an instrumentality of United States or its possessions to the ex. provided in the acts authoriz- ing the issue thereof). All such amounts, including interest recelv. ed on bank snd savings deposits; must be included In the taxpayer's return of gross income.

NEWIA'WEDS 70 AND Prarikford, Feb. 17 Newlyweds have set up housekeep- ing on Hickory Hill. The bride is Mrs. Kate Hudson, 10 years old. The groom--Heiuy M.

Hudbou, tit). Ixun in the first year of the Civil War. STEIHWAY PIANOS and the EVERETT ORGATRON DUFFiELD MUSIC HOUSE "Feck" Blilfs, 715 Fijtiio Cumberland HISTORY From Times Files Twenty Ycara Ago Enrico Caruso, star tenor of grand opera, seriously ill. Death of Mrs. Hester Ann Miller, 67, of Locust Grove.

Death of Mrs. Sophronla Bren- nan, OflUtt street. Thirty Years Ago TJIj-sses Hanna reappointed post- master at Frostburg. B. O.

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a father and son, were sentenced by (ho federal court In Chicago tho other day on rhsirges of a i number of aged pcf-rms, most of them clergymen or widows. The Illicit profits of these swindlers Is said to have been In the neighborhood of $248,000. This Is ft common enough story of crime that would a a more than pa.wlns mention in any newspaper outside the city In which it, happened, and we refer to It here- not bccaiisn of niiy a features at- -achltiK to it. but mcrsly to point to the gullibil- ity of a a when It inspired bv the had won by her own Faster, faster l.s the tempo, and the de- stroyer Edison Is launched a bare 10 months and 12 days after the laying of her keel. This kind of construction was done in nine months during the war, but the destroyers of that time were only two-thirds the size of the Erflson, and far less complicated.

Twenty-flve more of the Edison class are on the way, nnd the record made on that ship will probably be bettered. There Is no reason to fear that America has lost the know-how. Our ships will be good ships. Our planes will be good planes. Our men are good men.

Time Is the only thins the supply of which cannot, be Increased. But the use of it can be improved. And In the navy shipyards they seem to be doing just that. Homing Pigeon Loves Home' Bast Lansing, Mich, (ll.fi)--Divorce, it seems, doesn't exist for the hom- ing pigeon. Authorities attending a national pigeon conference at Michigan State College said that had less red tape.

But his troubles were only be- ginning. He then had to hurry to the police station and report the accident. The police received his report with skepticism, despite the accompanying driver's corrobora- tlon. Fortunately the roadster's brocket mirror had been knocked olf, snd after detective checked to sec that the cnbby'a mirror was Intoct, he wna released. Thnt was Thursday night.

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