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The Washington times., 1935-12-04
Rudy VaIIee Will Broadcast
From WRC While in D. c.;
Importance of Voice
BY ANDREW R. KELLEY

Wednesday roundup of loose items: Rudy Valee broad
cast while he is heard here in Washington with George
Whites Scandals will be sent from WRC with his guest
artists coming down from New York Billy Gaxton of
Anything Goes was going to pull Monday night stunt
at Anything Goes with j. Edgar Hoover the other end
of the fun But believe it not the National couldn't get
front seat for the Gman So no stunt. Jimmy Sui-
definition of simon pure amateur would be the guy
Major Bowes hour and confessed he used the
other kind coffee Do you remember that blonde Olga
Baclanova the Russian of Paramount pctueS Well she s
now night club singer and warbng in Bill Levy's "Top
Hat after dark spot which bringing Broadway Broad
Street Richmond
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
ICOVer Hollywood

'they used one hundred tons Q
underground to make it look au
thentic.
Enough sympathy cannot be d!
rected in Edwina Booths direc
ton. We all know that the trop
ical malady she contracted while
making Trader Horn" has KEEP
her in bed for five years now but
what you possibly don't know is
that it is more than just a bed OF
paints a bed of agony. The
malady. which took all the mois
ture out of her skin, brought the
nerves right next to the surface
and if you so much as touch her
with the lightest piece of material
she will faint in pain.
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
BattIe-Scarred Star

Herbert Marshall. currently CO.
starring with Ann Harding in
THE Indestructible Mrs. Talbot"
served throughout the world War
with the British army, was severe
ly wounded in action.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10
GASOLINE TAX BRINGS
GOOD APRIL REVENUE

The cent per gallon gasoline tax
brought $63O,224.73 into the state
treasury during April, according to
the records of State Comptroller's
office.
This was increase of $105,014.32
over the $525,21O.41 received during
April 1884.
A few returns from the 1 per cent
gross receipts tax were received at
the office with the deadline May 10th
1t was pointed out that it would be
impossible to get an accurate idea of
the total April gross receipts tax un-
til late this month, because of several
extensions that have been granted.
Chain stores and some oil COM
panies were given until May 20 to
make their April report because of
the volume of bookkeeping required.
In future months it is expected that
these groups will have their records
in shape to make the returns by the
regular time set by law.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10
FISH DEALERS DEPRIVED
OF BLUE EAGLE EMBLEM

Seven fish dealers in Baltimore
have been deprived of the right to use
the Blue Eagle because they violated
the contributions provision of the
Code of fair Competition for the Fresh
oyster Division of the Fishery Indus
try according to Arthur E. Hunger
ford, N. RIA. Compliance Director of
Maryland.
Each firm has been notified by tele-
graph by the MIRA Compliance Divi-
sion in Washington that it must i'm
mediately surrender it's NRA insignia
In addition, each firm was told that
the action of the Compliance Divi-
sion was being reported to other Fed
eral Agencies.
The firms are: o. E. Wentworth
and Company, McGee-Drum, J. J.
Lansburg Company, Chas. Neubert &
Company, R. E. Roberts, J. ]. Scog-
gins & Co., VIM. R. Guide & Co.
One of the results of the Com
pliance Divisions action, Mr.. Hun
gerford said, is to make the seven fish
establishments, ineligible for Govern
ment business.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10

who came last week to attend the
funeral of her father, Mr.. G. G. Dukes
have returned home.
Mrs. Nolan Pilchard left this week
to accompany her sister Mrs. Chas.
Neale and husband of New Britain,
Conn.,, on a two weeks vacation in
Florida and other southern states.
Mr., and Mrs. Charles Dukes spent
Sunday with relatives in Cape Char
les, Va.
Miss Catherine Truitt of Snow Hill
was a weekend guest of Miss Fran
; ces Scarborough.
Mrs. Thomas Mason and daughter,
Caraleigh, of Crisfield, Nd, are Wis
iting relatives here.
DIR. John Savage and wife of Balti-
more were weekend guests of Mrs
Savage's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w
S. Hammond.
Mrs. Harold Kellam who has been
visiting her mother has returned to
her home in Camden, N. ].
Mrs. VIM. Dukes has returned from
a weeks visit to relatives in Crisfield
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10
Herbert Somers and family.

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Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Scarborough
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Pruitt at
Greenbackville, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and
daughter, Reeves of Georgetown, Del,
were dinner guests Sunday Of Mrs.
Matthews brother, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E.
Blades.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Petit and chill
dren, of Snow Hill, visited her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Riley Sunday
Mrs. Thos. Smith and Mr.. Jerry
Smith of Harrington, Del, have been
house guests for the past two weeks
of the formers daughter, Mrs. Aza
Pollitt and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Merrill of POGO
moke, were guests Sunday of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Pruitt.
Miss Lula jackson and her guests
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Jackson, of East.
vile, Va, spent Sunday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Jones al
Stockton.
Mrs. job and husband of Baltimore
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10
BIG FOREST FIRE
SWEEPS SUSSEX COUNTY

About 200 acres of Woodland were
swept by fire in five different sections
of Sussex county causing damage to
thousands of dollars worth of young
and old timber and keeping so men,
bers of the CCC camp at Redden, local
firemen and farmers stepping" all
day. A farmer who left ditch grass
fire to go to his dinner was fined $25
for causing the largest of the blazes
which swept through los acres of for
est near Laurel. This fire was fin
ally checked early Thursday night of
last week.
Due to the fact that most of the
woodsland over which the flames swept
was of young timber the actual loss
would be hard to estimate, according
to State Forester w. S. Taber, of Dow
er, who took personal charge of the
situation in this section. g.
The most serious of the fires
got away from William Whaley on his
farm between Camp Redden and Laur-
ell while he was burning grass in
ditch. 1t swept over 10 acres of his
timberland and jumped to the woods
OF Charles Kitchens where it burned
over so acres and to Roy Johnson's
property where 40 acres were dam
aged. After eating into about five
acres of the forest of Philip w. Boyce
it was checked.
State Forester w. S. Taber, of Dow
er was notified and later swore out a
warrant for tn arrest of Whaley who
was charged with setting fire and
permitting it's spread to a neighbours
land. It was charged that he left the
ditch fire he was burning to go to
dinner and that the sparks set fire to
his woods. Whaley was arrested be-
fore Magistrate Phillips and fined $25
and $3.50 costs which he paid.
When the fire was first discovered
farmers in the vicinity attempted to
beat it out when their efforts proved
futile additional aid was summoned.
Help was also sent by forest wardens
who discovered the fire from a fire
tower. Foresters and so men in five
trucks from the CCC camp at George
town responded and with back-firing
ditching and wet bags quenched the
blaze about $3.50 o'clock Thursday
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10
CirdIetree News

Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Stanford and
son, Robert, have returned from a
weeks visit to relatives and friends
in Wilmington, Baltimore and Wash
ington.
Rev. VIM. Savage Of Ridley Park,
Pa. is visiting relatives in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Richardson of
Salisbury, were guests Sunday Of Mrs
Richardson's sister, Mrs. Sila Han
cock and husband.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steward Mears and
daughter, Jane of Oxford, Md, were
weekend guests Of his sister, Mrs
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10
CAMBRIDGE MAN is
HONORED BY TALL CEDARS

With Russell E. Crawford, of Nor
ristown, Pa, Supreme Tall Cedar, of
the United States in attendance, the
District Ceremonial of the Chesapeake
Forest of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon,
was held recently at the Cambridge
Armory. Tall Cedars from several
states and large delegation from
Baltimore participated in the initia-
ton and meeting.
Three hundred Tall Cedars came
from Baltimore on a specially char
tered boat and reached Cambridge
about o'clock. They were met at
the Long Wharf by members of the
local Forest and the Drum and Bugle
Corps of the Dorchester Post Ameri-
can Legion.
Headed by the Drum and Bugle
Corps which acted as a special escort
to the Supreme Tall Cedar, the parade
proceeded from the Long Wharf thru
the business section of Cambridge, to
the local Armory, where the ceremon-
ial was held.
Outstanding among the candidates
for initiation was Col. Albanus Phil
lips, president of Phillips Packing
Company, and it's affiliated companies
who received the degree of Tall Ced-
ar at Sight. Col. Phillips is only the
third rorcor IN ho ca boDorod bx, orx,
Tall Cedar Forest on the Eastern
Shore. During his administration as
president of the United States, War
rem c. Harding was initiated at sight
by the Milford Forest and the Hon
orable T. Alan Goldsborough, Con-
gresham form this district, was ini-
tiated at sight by the Eastern Sho'
Forest.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10
NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL
CAPTURED IN SALISBURY

Alfred Birmingham, 80, notorious
criminal who escaped from the State
Penal Farm, near Hagerstown, last
March 18th, was captured last week
on West Isabella street, Salisbury,
Nd, by city policemen Carl Wilson
and Talbot Larmore, while the Off
GERS were cruising in a police car.
He was carried to the State Peni-
tertiary on Tuesday by Sheriff Chas.
H. Truitt and Chief of Police N. H.
Holland.
Birmingham, when his escape was
effected, was serving a 9 year term
on four larceny counts, having en-
tered the penitentiary March ii, 1929
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10

He escaped from the farm two days
after being transferred there. He is
an old offender, specializing in auto
thefts and regarded by authorities as
dangerous criminal.
Recognizing Birmingham the Off
GERS covered him and handcuffed him
before he could offer a struggle. He
was unarmed at the time. At first he
gave a fictitious name.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
LAWYERS DISAGREE AS TO
CHESAPEAKE BRIDGE

Former Senator J. H. c. Legg,
prominent Queen Anne's Countian
and a member of the Centreville bar,
and w. Harrison Vickers, of Kent
county, a former Conservation Com
missioner of the State of Maryland,
staged a heated verbal battle in Ches-
tertown at the semi-annual meeting OF
the Eastern Shore County Commits
sioners Association on the Bay Bridge
question.
Senator Legg took the floor shortly
after the meeting convened to attack
the bill. He threatened that, if the
measure is signed by Governor Nice,
1--WE may even go to Washington and
file a protest with Federal authorities
against the erection of the bridge at
the proposed point"
Approximately thirty-five commits
sioners from nine Eastern Shore coun-
ties, together with their attorneys and
roads engineers, heard Mr.. Legg voice
his protest. Walter E. Buck, president
of the association, acted as chairman
of the meeting.
"There is one thing don't want
Kent county to get, and that is the
bay BRIDGE" Mr.. Legg said. "But
would not be surprised if you get that,
too. However, the Governor hasn't
signed the bill yet, and there is
great deal of opposition to the pro-
posed span all along the Eastern
Shore"
Mr.. Legg's remarks precipitated
quick and unexpected debate, Harri-
son C. Vickers, former State Censerva-
ton Commissioner, attorney to the
Kent County Board of Commissioners,
took up the gauntlet with the asser-
ton:
Senator Legg's remarks should not
go unchallanged. Kent county is for
the bridge, and believes it would be
not only a monument to the States
progress, but would do more for the
Eastern Shore than any other one pro-
ject ever proposed.
"The fact is the site has been defin-
itely fixed upon; the Federal Govern
ment is ready to hand out the money.
The State of Maryland will never ap-
propriate the money to build the
bridge either at the point decided upon
or at any other place.
eve are faced with the question of
whether the bridge will be built now
and at the place selected-or never"
Vickers said he "did not believe any
of you are going to be as selfish" as to
oppose "a progressive step like this
for no good reason"
Wheat, lambs and farm produce, he
asserted, at present go to Philadelphia
and Wilmington.
"The majority of trading done by
your families is done in those cities"
he declared, "and not in Baltimore.
The Eastern Shore is drawing away
from the Maryland metropolis and 60
ing to Northern cities.
"Why not take advantage of the op-
portunity to link the western and east
ern shores once and for all with a
permanent link?"
Mr.. Legg stepped back into the fight
with the comment that he had "heard
rumors" that Kent county was di-
vided on the bridge question, and more
rumors that additional objection had
been registered farther down the
Shore.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-05-10

night. Fire companies from Seaford
and Blades assisted in fighting the
fire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
Next Big Fair

"Sesquicentennial' is short and ugly word for hundred-and-fftieth anniver- sary, and we'll have to get used to it whether we like it or not. For it is to be the name of the worlds fair that New York plans to open in 1889, celebrating century and half of national progress since the United States government was established. In time it may be shortened to "sesqui."
 This will probably be the biggest expo sition ever. It should be no less. The most wealthy and powerful city in the world sponsors it. It will be backed by the most wealthy and powerful of nations. And there is every reason to expect that the new prosperity wave now starting will be at it's climax by the time the fair opens.
 It may cost the metropolis $4O,0OO, 900, nearly twice as much as the Chicago fair. But the metropolis can stand it, and will doubtless get it's money back with profit, direct and indirect. Fairs, anyway, are coming up. We grow steadily more gre- garious, more given to going places and doing things and showing things. That huge show just across the East River from Manhattan Island will provide a lot of things to see four years hence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15

and vet it is a point that needs to be made over and over again, if we are to understand the real nature of the prob lem that faces us.
 With our productive plant, our natural resources, our inventiveness, and our skilled energy, we could make this nation of ours incomparably, the richest ever dreamed of; richest in the sense that the ordinary, undistinguished man could have more comforts, more luxuries, and more safeguards in his daily life than even the kings of the earth had few generations ago. To do this, however, we cannot stop where we are. We do not, as of to-day, possess enough wealth for it. We possess the means of producing that wealth-but the wealth itself we have not got.
 What the Brookings report amounts to is simply plain reminder that the way to make ourselves rich is to set our pro- ductive machinery to work at top speed. More goods and lower prices-there is an avenue down which we can progress to- ward that nationally desired goal, more abundant life. Trying to "share our wealth" to-day is putting the cart in front of the horse. It would seem to be more sensible to set to work to increase our wealth so that the shares would be big enough to be worth asking for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15

ready under way everywhere throughout the country to defeat President Roosevelt in 1886. Noth- ing I have seen or heard since has strengthened rather than weakened my conviction. I doubt if ever in our day we will see a Republican vote of such size as the voting machines totted up election night. Greater efforts were made than ever before, money which has been lacking in other campaigns poured into the city at the last minute, old people who had not cast a ballot in ages were dragged out of their wheel chairs and brought to the polls. No local issue however hot could create such extraordinary Repub- ncan energy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
Reading the Record

The Republican newspapers are either in complete ignorance of the contributing causes of Demo- cratic defeat or reduction in Democratic majorities, or they dismiss them deliberately. They see what they want to see. They print what they want to print. We see the defeat of Bristols Democratic mayor, who served I do not know how many terms, announced as a return of Bristol to Republican normalcy. We hear nothing of the election of Dem- ocratic mayor in Norwalk which is normally 8 Republican city. We learn that the Democratic candi- date for mayor of Torrington is defeated because Torrington wants a Republican in the White House. We are kept in ignorance of the fact that the Democrats boiled the biggest vote in that city's history and that the defeat of Senator Hogan is admitted by Republicans to be the aftermath of bitter primary fight. Every Republican town in the state which went Democratic once in its life and has now returned to the Republican fold is held up as an example of the resentment of the voters against the Presidents national welfare projects. Noth- ing makes the intelligent observer so irritated as this last piece of nonsense.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
First Provide Wealth

The bullet that let the life out of Huey Long also defiated the most promising Cor menacing, if you prefer) of the po- ntical movements based on the simple discontent of the man whose pockets are empty. Since people of this kind have been numerous of late, and their discon- tent has been great, Senator Long was able to ride long way and looked like riding farther
 But although he is gone and the move ment he led is in a state of profound confusion, the urge to share the wealth. to cut slices off the cake on the rich mans table and pass them around to those who have no cake-still exists, and needs to be reckoned with One of the sanest ways of reckoning with it is pro- vided in the recently released report of the Brookings Institution, which has just finished a three-year study of the way wealth and distribution of income are re- lated to economic progress or the lack of it.
 If the masses are to be enriched this report says, it must be done through in- creased production and lowered prices rather than through a division of the wealth already existing. The productive capacity of America to-day, continues the report, is not in excess of our require 1t is behind them.
 If we divide the wealth now, we shall be freezing our economic level at point too low to satisfy us. Before we talk of dividing it, we ought to get busy and irl- crease tt. This, to be sure, is nothing more fhan elementary common sense;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
Better Times In Waterbury

The September survey of the local Chamber of Commerce is the most en- couraging report issued since the depres- sion set in. An interpretation of it in its entirety shows that better times, if not fully normal, are here again.
 While increases in utilities consump- tion have been gradually noticed from month to month over period of year or more, the outstanding increase for the month of September was the matter of employment. Some eighteen hundred or more people found work in gainful occu- pations.
 Again looking into this angle of the report it is highly interesting and more over encouraging to find that out of this eighteen hundred additional employees, twelve hundred of them were put to work in our local factories That is the real acid test of business improvement in a community like Waterbury, where manufacturing is the backbone of it's Occupational sustenance.
 That this fine showing of the Septem- Der Chamber of Commerce survey will be reflected soon in increased mercantile activity cannot be doubted. Waterbury merchants should in short reap the ben eft of the increases in employment And The Democrat can only caution, as the pendulum of prosperity swings back, give the local merchants a break They, too, have taken it on the chin these past five years. Help them by trading in Water bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
Here's The Answer

A few months back Connecticut was intent upon the matter of "drive safe" campaign. That it is uppermost yet III the minds of most careful drivers IS presupposed.
 Yet over the weekend we read of three fatal accidents and one fatality resulting from an accident last week. Minor and less serious accidents figured prominent ly in the weekend report
 Simultaneously with that report yes terday came an analysis from the Travellers Insurance Company showing that last year Connecticut's death rate per 100000 was 2 per cent greater than the average for the entire country.
 Throughout the United States last year there were 36,099 persons killed in auto- mobile accidents Had Connecticut's death rate per hundred thousand pre- vailed the figure would have been 36,82O.
 That does not reflect too well upon Connecticut, although there were only twenty-seven states with better records than our own. So it can readily be seen that there was sufficient cause for the concerted effort upon the part of Motor Vehicle Commissioner Michael A. Con- nor this summer to eradicate the menace.
 And right now coming on to the shorter \ days and approaching winter weather with their additional hazards the move ment to continue the safe driving cam paign should be intensified. Connecti- cuts record to date is none too good. Let's see what next years figures can show in the way of improvement.