davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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will produce from two to three bushels Of
oysters for every one buShel planted.
On extensive holdings, the oyster farmer
obviously has to hire farm hands to work
his beds and contenders for the change Of
policy argue that tongers hired at regular
wages will earn a better living than they
possibly can at present.
Since oyster b2ds naturally are found in
waters ranging from a few inches to so or 60
feet deep, the equipment used in harvesting
private beds is varied In the shallow areas
along shore the required implements are
simple-a pair of tongs and light boat. In the
deeper waters, the gear would necessarily be
of the heavier types, including large dredges,
power winches and sturdy vessels.
This natural division lends itself to various
proposals for the development of oyster culture
or farming as a major industry. Divide the
public ground into small plots. some of the
proponents urge: leave the shallow water areas
in one. two or five-acre sections to the little
fellows and the plots cut in deep water to
operators with more money to invest Thus,
these advocates point out. the present tongers
could become independent oyster planters with
more equipment than they already possess.
Other proponents of the farming idea urge
the leasing of the public bottoms to big cap
ital" Let them go in there and develop it
Continued on Thirteenth Page,
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of Proper Legislation, the Oyytermem
NJ Daw-GoMm Age of the Rivalve
Hope in the Future Maryland and
Conservation and Planning:

vately operated beds, and that years crop was
actually an increase Of 269,89l bushels over
the 1880 crop
And it that students of oyster culture.
alarmed by the picture which these and ir-
Vulnerable other statistics present, make their
recommendations. Virtually all of them agree
that the present policies of Maryland and Vir-
ginia. under which large areas of the best oyster
grounds in the United States are maintained
as public beds in the face of decline should be
abandoned, and that new policy calling for
the leasing of these rich underwater lands 20
private enterprise for oyster farming be adopted.
Lir. Fairbanks and Mr. Hamill contend. fol-
lowing a survey of the operations in other
States, that " it would be reasonable to assume
that the oyster industry of the future will be
maintained primarily by the production of phi
vate beds"
DR.. Truitt, the Maryland marine biologist,
says: Should Maryland have adopted pro-
gressive leasing policy four decades ago, it is
felt by those who have made special study of
the problem, that rather than an annual yield
of 100000 bushels or even the once natural
production of $4,000 900 bushels year the
present yield in millions Of bushels would have
been in the twenties. Considering the great de-
mands that increasingly have been made upon
the beds, it is remarkable that the oyster in
dustry has survived at all
Herbert F. Prytherch, aquatic biologist of the
United States Bureau of Fisheries, who made
official study of Virginia's oyster situation.
recommends the leasing of every acre of public
oyster ground to private enterprise "as the only
policy for the rehabilitation of the oyster IN
dustry in Virginia"
The Commission of Fisheries Of the State of
Virginia has formally recommended the passage
of statutes authorizing it to lease the areas
within the public bed boundaries which close
examination shows to have become incapable
of Decentralization to private planters 'on
such terms the commission may deem best
for the interests of the State and the promo
tiOn of the oyster industry
Lewis Radcliffe. until very recently deputy
commissioner in the United States Bureau Of
Fisheries executive secretary of the new
Association of Oyster Growers and Dealers OF
North American Inc, advocates 1.-The abolition
of all public grounds and the establishment of
policy of private planting in each State TO
save the Chesapeake Bay oyster industry
The operation CT private beds, which is
stoutly recommended, means 'oyster farming"
The mechanics of this underwater agriculture
vary but little and quite simple. Surveys
made of the bottoms to be leased by the
State and the whole is divided into po S.
These plots in turn are leased to the oyster
farmers at moderate sums. Under the terms
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2 Miller Girl Friends
Ready for Prison Terms

CHICAGO, Nov. 30 G.N.s0.
Two young women who pleaded
guilty to charges of harboring
the late Verne Miller, renegade
sheriff and desperate, when he
was in hiding here, were ready
today to begin serving sentences
of a year and day each in Fed
eral prison. They had helped
him escape a Federal trap here
November /, it was charged.
At approximately the same
hour that Miller's body was
found near Detroit, Bobby Moore
and Vivian Gibson pleaded
guilty before Federal Judge
James Wilkerson and were SEN
fenced for providing sanctuary
for the fugitive.
Authorities charged that the
Gibson woman was with Miller
when Federal agents surrounded
a Sheridan Road apartment hotel
November /. Miller ran to an
automobile driven by Miss Moore
and escaped as the Federal men
opened fire with submachine
guns.
Miller is believed to have taken
part in the downtown mail rob-
berry here September % in which
a policeman was shot to death.
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Movie Men Use
Wrong Skunk;
Set Ruined

WOOD, Nov. 80
0N.S0.-Maybe the skunk
thought he was to be a Thanks
giving Day victim, but unlike
today's turkey, he turned the
tables at a motion picture stu
dio here.
A property man, Ray Hunt,
had obtained three "denatured"
skunks for a scene in a movie.
When Miss Eleanor Hunt mo
relation of the property mani
shot a hole in the ceiling Of a
hunting lodge, the skunks were
to come tumbling down and all
the guests were to simulate eX-
IRENE nauSeation.
Miss Hunt fired. The skunkS
came tumbling down, but alas
and alack-someone had made
a mistake in one of the skunks.
AS, a result Of an attack by
one Of the animals, Miss Hunt
suffered a Sprained ankle max.
ing a hasty exit from the sound
stage. Property man Hunt was
completely overcome.
The studio estimated the cost
Of the skunkly mistake at SIS, 900,
a half-day's work by a large
cast, and a $500 ermine coat.
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z WOMEN SEEK
COLLEGEPOST

BALTIMORE, Nov. 80. - Sup
port for the candidacy of Miss
Lavinia Engle and Mrs. o. H.
Williamson for the vacancy on
the board Of regents of the Uni
verslty of Maryland has been an
nounced by several women groups
in the State.
The latest Endorsement of these
two women for the post comes
from the Maryland League of
Women Voters, whose president,
Mrs. Charles Elliott, said that the
names of both are included in a
list Of candidates her organiza-
ton has sent to the governor.
The two women also have the
Endorsement of the College Club
of Baltimore, and the Federation
Of Women's Clubs, which recon-
mended several other candidates.
Two of the latter clubs officers
said they have written personally
indorsing Miss Engle and Mrs.
Williamson.
Swarthmore, Smith, Randolph
Macon and Vassar College groups
in Baltimore have sent letters
recommending these two women.
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Canadian Leader
In World War Dies

MONTREAL, Nov. 80. G.N.S0-
Gen. Sir Arthur William Currie,
So, for the past ten years principal
and vice chancellor of McGill I'm
iversity and principal of Mcdonald
college, died here early today from
a complication of diseases. Gen
eral Currie, who commanded the
Canadian Corps of the British
forces during the latter years of
the great war, was admitted to a
hospital three weeks ago suffering
from blockage of blood vessel in
the midbrain,
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CONNERY RAPS
JOHNSON

! Representative William T. Con-
merry 3D. of Massachusetts, is
heading a campaign against the
NRA and Gen. Tugh S. johnson,
and has demanded Johnson's re-
moval in telegram to President
Roosevelt.
Abolition of the NRA, with the
substitution of some other form
of industrial control, or complete
reorganization, will be sought by
Connery in the next Congress. He
lis chairman Of the House Labor
Committee and helped draft the
National Industrial Recovery Act.
He charges johnson is admin
astering the acts labor provisions
In a ruthless, illegal and high
handed fashion," and believes
Congress will enact 30-hour week
law to replace the Mr. unless
labor gets a better deal under the
present system,
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FOURTH KILLING
IN 5 DAYS IS
EYED BY j. 8.
Detroit Victim Long Sought
As Suspect in Kansas City
Station massacre"

DETROIT, Nov. 80 G.N.S0-
Federal Government stepped into
Detroit today as Verne Miller, 81,
desperate wanted in connection
with the Kansas City Union Sta
ton massacre" became victim
No 4, in the local gangster death
list of the last five days.
Miller's nude body, his head a
mass of savage wounds, was dis
covered late yesterday in a ditch
in thinly populated area Of
northwest Detroit.
A new closeline had been wound
tightly around Miller's neck and
then bound to his hands and
knees. Miller had been stabbed
nearly a dozen times. Apparently
an ice pick and a hunting knife
were used.
Police believe Miller was stabbed
as he lay sleeping in hideout in
the residential district.
Chief of Detectives Fred Frahm
said there was a link of Miller's
death to those of Eddie Fletcher
and Abe Axler, Purple Gangsters,
on Sunday.
RepriSals Seen
He said the Purple pair were in
the Stork Club June Is, 1882
shortly before Milford Jones, st
Louis-Detroit gunman, was killed
Miller was a friend Of Jones
and there is a possibility, Franz
said, of a reprisal connection IL
the three Sayings.
Meantime, William Larson, De
partment Of Justice head in De
troit, said he would cooperate "tc
the fullest extent" with loca
police in probing the Miller slay
ing.
Sought BY U. S.
Larson said his office was in
formed October % that Miller wa'
coming to Detroit but that hi
agents had been unable to fine
him. He added:
eve were unable to find him
here but our agents learned
that he spent two days in Lima,
Ohio. We barely missed him
there and the next day he was
enrOute to Chicago"
He escaped the officers in Chi
cago also.
The coroner's office said Mil
ler's body had lain in the ditcl
from 10 to "a hours before it wa
found. The front Of the heac
had been struck with some SHARP
instrument. The body was tiec
into a jack-knife position to MAKE
transportation easy, the coroner!
office said.
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FRANCE FACING
COLD CRISIS

PARIS, Nov. 80 G.N.S).-The
French governmental crisis and
the unbalanced budget have
caused a flight of 100000 1000
francs in gold approximately
$92,7O0,000 at current rate) dur
ing the past week, the weekly
statement of the Bank Of France
showed today.
This heavy withdrawal Of gold
from France puts the Treasury
in a precarious position. TIL e
amount was expected to be high,
but was greater by half than had
been anticipated in banking
circles, where the statement had
been expected to show a loss Of
about one billion francs in gold.
The statement served to aggra-
vate the French political situa-
ton, generally regarded, along
with its economic phases, as the
worst since the World War.
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Two Girls Taken For Ride
Found In Crude Grave

DOWNTNGTOWN, Pa, Nov.
80 Observation-Disclosures bodies
of two young women found in a
crude grave in a cornfield near
here today were identified as
those of two Philadelphia gang
sters' sweethearts who disap-
peared last November /, the
night their boy friends were
put on the spot" in Camden.
John Zukorsky, who survived
the hail of leaden slugs that
snuffed out the life Of his COM
panion-Edward Cowboy Wal
lace-made the identification TO-
day when he was taken to a
Gainesville morgue to view the
bodies.
The girls were Ethel Marshall,
also known as Ethel Greentree,
shot once through the head, and
Florence Miller, who was shot at
least seven times through the
head and body. Judging from
the nature of the wounds, police
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OHND,ANX|OUS
To CD SOUTH

TARRYToWN. N. Y, Nov. 30
G.N.SO.-Showing decided i'm
provement, although still suffer
ing from an attack of "old
fashioned" grippe, John D. Rookie
Teller, ST., today looked forward
eagerly to a Thanksgiving re-
union with members Of his
family.
A spokesman for the family
said the aged millionaire would
probably have as visitors his son,
John D. Rockefeller, jr., and the
latter's wife and their children,
John D. 3rd, Nelson, David and
Winthrop Rockefeller and Mrs.
David Milton.
The elder Rockefeller, however,
was not expected to attend the
Thanksgiving dinner at the home
of his son.
Physicians advised that he re-
main in his home at Pocantico
Hills and spend the day quietly.
Although still annoyed by a
racking cough which accom-
panied his illness, Rockefeller was
said to be hopeful of making his
annual trip to his Florida winter
home despite the fear of attend
ing physicians that the trip
would be unwise in his present
condition.
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FL|ER HITS CAR;
WORKER HURT

One workman was injured by
flying debris last night when the
National Limited, crack Balti-
more and Ohio passenger train
bound from New York to Wash
ington, crashed into a track
grinding car near Brentwood,
Md.
The train was delayed almost
an hour following the accident.
Workmen were repairing the
tarck when the limited ap-
preached, and were unable to
remove the grinding car in time.
AS the men jumped to safety,
piece of flying wood struck
Joseph B. Harris. colored. Of
Brentwood, injuring him slightly.
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ESCAPES
GRAND JURY'S
INDICTMENT
Speedy Arrangement and Early
!. Hearing Due Physician;
r II Counts Charged

CHICAGO, Nov. 80 Q.N.S0.-
DR.. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop will
go on trial alone early in January,
it was indicated today, for the
puzzling murder of her daughter
in-law, Rheta Wynekoop, on an
operating table in the physicians
basement.
Indicted by the Grand Jury
before Chief Justice Philip L.
Sullivan in criminal court, DR..
Wynekoop faces a speedy arraign-
ment and trial on twelve counts
charging murder.
Arrangement Monday
The woman physician will be
arraigned Monday to enter a plea
to the indictment and hear the
case assigned to trial judge.
That the 62-year-old doctor will
go on trial alone was indicated
when the grand jury took no
action in the case Of her son
Earle, husband Of the slain
woman. Earle Is being held in
the county jail with his mother
on a warrant charging him with
being an accessory before the fact
OF murder.
All twelve counts in the indict-
ment charged murder and were
based on the weird confession"
in which DR.. Wynekoop held that
Rheta had succumbed to an over
dose Of chloroform while under
going an examination. Seeing
that the girl was dead, DR..
.Wynekoop declared. she shot her
in the back to give the appear
ance that a robber had killed her.
All Angles Covered
The various counts blanketed
every possible method by which
the estranged wife of Earle Wyne-
koop might have been killed, in
GLIDING by bullet wound alone, as
the State contends, by chloroform
alone, or by combination Of both
causes.
DR.. Wynekoop's signed state
ment explaining Rheta's strange
death now has the prisoners en-
dorsement, although she had pre-
viously repudiated it. In expIana-
ton Of her reversal, the noted doc
tor and civic leader intimated she
might die soon and said from her
hospital bed in the county jail:
81 realize that I may face the
highest court Of all. So ! have
told the truth"
DR.. Wynekoop is seriously i'll,
Jail physicians say.
Seven witnesses Heard
Seven witnesses appeared before
the grand jury after the signed
confession of DR.. Wynekoop was
read. One Of these was Mrs. Vera
Duncan, neighbor of the Wyne-
koops, who is believed to be the
last person 70 have seen Rheta
alive.
Another witness was DR.. Harry
Hoffman, pSychiatrist, who testi-
fled that DR.. Wynekoop is legally
and mentally sane. DR.. Thomas
Dwyer said the young wife was
killed by a gunshot wound and the
resultant shock and loss of blood
rather than by chloroform.
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.M|SSOURIPLANS
To SEIZE MOB !
LEADERS
State to Act II County Officers
Fail; Sheriff Praised for
Withholding Gunfire

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Nov. 80.
GN.S0.-Determined to bring
leaders Of the mob to justice,
william o. Sawyer, Assistant At
torney General, today opened a
State investigation into the
lynching of a 19-year-old Negro
here Tuesday night.
A mob Of 1000 persons bat
tered down the Buchanan County
Jail doors, forced Sheriff Otto
Theisen to surrender the prisoner,
Lloyd Warner, and hanged him
to a tree while gasoline thrown
over him was set ablaze. Warner
had confessed to a criminal as
sault on a 21-year-old white
woman.
The State investigation was
ordered by Governor. Guy B.
Park.
Sawyer offered his assistance to
the prosecuting attorneys office
in any action local authorities de-
eide to take in fixing responsibility
for the lynching. The State itself
will seek out leaders Of the mob
if the sheriff and prosecuting at
torney fail, the assistant attorney
general said.
The regular county grand jury
will be summoned next week.
It was the consensus among OF"
ficials here that st. Joseph gener-
ally is apathetic toward the pros
pect Of prosecuting instigators OF
the unofficial execution.
Sheriff Theisen was praised for
his decision to surrender the negro
to the mob rather than resort to
gunfire to protect the prisoner.
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Rockville Principal
Addresses Parents

L. Fletcher Schott, principal Of
Rockville High School, addressed
the members Of the Rockville
rent-Teacher Association yester-
day.
Schott also added that it was
the parent-teacher association
which provided ga common
ground wherein the teacher and
parent may get together and dis
cuss problems to the benefit Of
the child"
At the meeting a budget was
drawn up in which the purchase
of milk for all needy children in
the primary grades was the prin-
cipal item.
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Judge J. A. LOWelPs
Condition Is Craze

BROOKLINE, Mass, Nov. 30
G.N.SO .-Condition of Federal
Judge James A. Lowell was re-
ported grave" today at his Chess
nut Hill home. He is suffering
from erysipelas and became worse
during the night. Judge Lowell's
recent issuance of a writ Of
habeas corpus to a colored man
wanted in Virginia for murder on
the grounds that negroes were
not permitted to serve on juries
brought a storm of protest and
demands for his impeachment.
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said the girls were shot as they
sat on the rear seat of an auto
mobile, facing their executioners.
The bodies were found about
two and a half miles from the
spot where the bullet-torn car OF
the Marshall girl was found the
day after zukorsky and Wallace
were gangster targets on a lonely
New Jersey road. At that time
zukorsky, in what he believed was
a death-bed confession, told
police he was certain the girls
were slain to seal their lips.
roIice are seeking Anthony
Cugino and Salvatore Serpa,
minor Philadelphia gangsters, who
were indicted for Wallace's STAY
ing. Zukorsky said he and Wal
lace were marked for extinction
because they were accused of
"squealing" on Cugino and Serpa,
with whom they participated in
a payroll holdup in Philadelphia
in which a policeman was slain.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-30
Cement Road to Link
South America Cities

Motor traffic between Monte
Video and Buenos Aires is expected
to take big jump when the new
motor road from Montevideo to
Colonia, just across the River
Plate from Buenos Aires, is com
pletei next April and rapid ferries
are installed across the stream.
At present traffic between the
two cities Is largely by steamship.
and $4,000 persons are carried an
nually. Motor bus service already
iS in operation to Colonia, but the
ferries are not running yet and
only So of the 100 miles Of road
are completed,
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Held in Girls Death,
He Seeks NeU Trial

PONTIAC, ILL.,, Nov. 80 Q.N.SO T..
New trial was in prospect today
for Asher Bentley, 38, found
guilty by a jury Of manslaughter
in connection with the death Of
Miss Aldine Younger, 2O-year-old
heiress, following drinking
party. Attorneys for Bentley,
married son of a former mayor
of Pontiac. said they would ap-
peal the verdict, which carries
a penalty of from one to ii years
in the penitentiary.
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Illinois Legislators
Delay Liquor Lalv

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Nov. 80
G.N.SO.-Failure of the legisla.
ture to agree on problems of regu-
lation at it's special session thus
far made it almost certain today
that Illinois will have no liquor
control law with the advent of re.
peal, December 6. With agree.
ment on even a skeleton bill still
remote, the legislature adjourned
for the holiday without acting. The
senate will reconvene Tuesday and
the house on Monday.
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DR. WNNEKOOP FACES TRIAL ALONE IN SLAYNG OF RETA
DR.. Wynekoop Expects Death
To Block Trial AS Killer

CHICAGO, Nov. 80 QN.S0.
DR.. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop will
not answer to the bar of justice
set up by men.
This she offered today as an
explanation for the so-called con-
fession she signed last week in
the operating-table murder Of her
daughter-in-law, Rheta Gardner
Wynekoop.
Lying wan and broken, DR..
Wynekoop believes she will pass
into eternity where Rheta went.
That she is correct in her belief is
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indicated by DR.. Francis w. NC
Namara, Jail physician.
DR.. Wynekoop, he said, Is suffer-
ing from arterio scleroSis.
Weary of it all, DR.. Wynekoop
lies eager to talk; eager, she says,
to tell the truth. She declared:
"Our family is no stranger
than any other family. Our
love life was no different than
that Of any other family. l
wanted my son and 1 needed
him, but / wanted him above all
to retain his own self-reSpect."
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SIS, 900 in NeuU York
Receive PWA Pay

NEW YORK, Nov. 80 G.N.s0.
Fifty-five thousand New Workers
had a real cause for giving thanks
today with distribution of the
first pay checks for workers on
Federal public works projects
who were transferred from city
relief rolls. Approximately $4,000
checks will be distributed by
Saturday, officials in charge of
the projects said.
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No Trunk TOter, Mrs.
MeniOU Gets Divorce

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 80 d.N.SO.
Fran Menjou, actress, today had
divorced Henry A. Menjou, stock
broker and brother of Adolphe
Menjou, film star. Mrs. Menjou
testified that on June l, 1882, her
husband had asked her to carry
six trunks upstairs. Menjou said
he merely had asked her to help
unpack them.
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JEAN KEPT ON JOB

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 80 d.N.sJ.
Jean Harlow, platinum blonde
film star, said today that work in
pictures would prevent her from
attending the funeral in Wichita,
Kan, Of her grandmother, Mrs.
Diana Carpenter.
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Times Story Erred
On Mrs. CARPENTER

Mrs. Halle Carpenter, 4S-year-
old seamstress, of the 14OO block
Chaplin st. N. W., who collapsed
yesterday in a workroom at the
Clothes Conservation Committee,
Pennsylvania Avenue and John
Marshall Place Northwest, was
enormously described as being
colored. The Washington Times
regrets the error.