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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
MINOR LEAGUE
BASE BALL IS
BEINCDISCUSSED
Old Eastern Shore League Said
To Be Slated For A
Revival
POCOMOKE MENTIONED
FOR CIRCUIT POSITION

Accompanying the general upward
trend of minor league baseball
throughout the country is concert
ed move for the revival of the East
ern Shore League, once compact
little circuit which did it's part in pol
ishing up stars who were to shine in
higher company.
Joe F. Carr, of Columbus, O., pro-
motional director for the National As
ISOLATION of Professional Baseball
Leagues, reports live and encourag-
ing interest in the territory covered
by the proposed league and he hopes
to have the wheels in motion for the
1885 season.
Interested cities include Salisbury,
Cambridge, Crisfield, Easton and Po-
comoke City in Maryland, Dover in
Delaware and Cape Charles and Parks
ley in Virginia. From this group a
substantial six or eight-club league is
proposed.
Mickey Cochrane, aggressive man
ager of the champion Detroit Tigers
of the American League, got his start
with Dover in the old Eastern Shore,
which, likewise, gave Jimmy Foxx of
the AS to the game, Jimmy begin
ming at Easton.
Leroy Parmalee and Paul Richards
of the Giants, Charley Ruffing of the
Yankees, Clint Brown of the Cleve-
land Indians, Charles Fischer of De-
troit, Jimmy Jordan Of Brooklyn and
Jake Flowers of Toronto are some
of the better known figures Of base
ball who came out of the Eastern
Shore.
Economical methods of operation
which are now in vogue have done
much to bring about the general re-
vival of the minor leagues. This has
enabled the franchise to become self
sustaining. Magnates learned their
lessons during the period of depress-
ion and have profited by the exper-
fence.
The National Association, the gov
erning body of The minors, has been
reorganized on stable and systematic
basis and it's leagues are being run on
business plane.
Membership affords the franchise
holders protection of their territory
and their players, enabling them to
develop young performers to meet the
demand in the higher classification.
Add to this the clean and wholesome
outdoor recreation brought to the
citizens of the communities and it is
easy to justify the formation of lea
CUES in Organized Baseball.
Director Carr is sold on the East
ern Shore plans and intends to push
them through to capitalization this
year.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
EASTERN SHORE PRODUCE
co. MOVES into GARAGE

The Pocomoke City branch of the
Eastern Shore Produce Exchange, w.
C. Cullen, manager, has moved his
place of business from the Galloway
building on Willow Street to the large
room in Gladding's garage, formerly
used as a pool and bowling parlor.
This large and spacious apartment
was originally intended for exhibiting
and storing automobiles, but another
part of the building is now used for
that purpose. It presents an ideal room
for the business to be transacted. It's
location next the Pocomoke River,
makes freighting convenient, and there
is ample room to make approach
easy. With Mr.. Cullen's wide exper-
fence in the produce business, the ac-
QUESTION of this location should be a
great aid to future success.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
UNITED STATES CIVIL
SERVICE EXAMINATIONS

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open COM
petitive examinations as follows:
Assistant statistical clerk, 81 $50 a
year, departmental service, Washing
ton, D. c.
Chief dietitian, $4,000 to $4,000 a
year, head dietitian, $4,000 to So, 500
year, staff dietitian, $1,000 to $2,160
a year, Public Health Service and
Veterans Administration.
All States except Utah, Iowa, Yer
mont, Virginia, Maryland and District
of Columbia have received less than
their quota of appointments in the ap-
portioned departmental service in
Washington, D. C. The dietitian posi-
tons are not affected by the State
law.
Full information may be obtained
from Roger F. Vincent, Secretary of
the United States Civil Service Board
of Examiners, at the post office in
this city.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
NINETEEN BILLS
INTRODUCED
FOR WORCESTER
Senator Veasey Has A Bill To
Close At Midnight Places
Selling Beer, Wine
DELEGATE ROBERTSON'S
PERTAINS TO PLUMBING

A total of nineteen bills, introduced
since January by Worcester County
members of the State Legislature, are
slowly winding their way through the
Legislative Mill at Annapolis.
Sixteen of the bills have been in
troduced in the State Senate by Sem
ator Milton L. Veasey, and two of
the sixteen bills have been passed by
both the Senate and House Of Dele
gates.
Delegate Ralph R. Dennis has in
troduced two bills and Delegate Clar-
ence E. Robertson presented one this
week. Another bill prepared for pres
entation by Delegate Samuel E. Brim-
er was discarded in favor of a similar
Senate measure.
Delegate Clarence E. Robertson, Of
Pocomoke City, introduced bill be-
fore the General Assembly of the
Lower House regulating membership
on the State Board of Plumbing Com
missioners and opposing any increase
in fees payable to said Board for the
issuance of certificates to Master or
Journeyman Plumbers of Maryland.
Under Delegate Robertson's bill,
the State Plumbing Board would be
comprised of even members-four
from Baltimore, and one each from
Western, Southern and Eastern Shore
of Maryland.
A Plumbing Bill, now in the Senate,
introduced on February %, by Senator
Callan, of Baltimore City, seeks a
State Board of five members from
Baltimore City together with an in
crease in fees.
A bill seeking to close restaurants
selling beer or light wines in Ocean
City at midnight and refusing refunds
on beer licenses, which Ocean City
officials requested State Senator Yeas
ey to introduce in the Legislature, is
being delayed pending further study.
Senator Veasey was reported to
have introduced the bill last week !;
however, a busy Senate Session pre-
vented such a course, and the measure
still remains to be introduced at a
later date.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
JUDGE CROCKETT
DRAWS PANEL
FOR INCH. COURT
Session Will Convene On Fourth
:. MoAlcs' In March, The
TWenty-Fifth

Associate Judge James M. Crock
EFT on Wednesday,, drew the follow
ing Jurors to serve at the March Term
Of Court which will convene in Snow
Hill on Monday, March 25th:
District No. 1 (Costen): William T.
Lewis, Allen D. Merrill, Arville J.
Duncan, Augustus A. Mason, r. Har-
Ian Robertson, John w. Burton, T.
Pratt McAllen, Herbert H. Bounds,
James R. Tilghman, w. Bates Han
cock, LeKies Powell.
District No. 2 (Snow Hil): John L.
Beauchamp, Harry C. Bradford, Geo.
Clayville, j. Glen Evans, Luther Shock
ley, Edward Harris, Robert H. Cuff,
Elijah A. Perdue.
District No. 8 East Berlin): Alon-
20 E. Christopher, Harry E. Palmer
William Beauchamp, Daniel J. Birch
Alexander r. France.
District No. a (Newark): George T.
Richardson, John Scott.
District No. (St. Martins): Hor-
ace Hickman, Herman Campbell, JOS
iah Timmons.
District No. 6 (Coulbourne): Err
nest L. Shockley, Edgar S. Carmean.
District No. z (Atkinson): Peter
F. Brown, J. Robley McGrath.
District No. 8 (Stockton): Elton J.
Reid, George T. Waters, Garland D.
Jones, G. Arthur Jones, Preston S.
Jones.
District No. 9 West Berlin): Will
lard S. Bailey, Alfred J. Pruitt, G.
Hale Harrison, Harry Warren, Clar-
ence J. Purnell, Howard Dill.
District No. 10 Ocean City,: Tur-
ner Chopper, George w. Rounds, Geo.
H. Clarke, Ernest M. Byrd.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
PROSPECTIVE BRIDE IS
GIVEN MANY SHOWERS

A series of showers have been Civ
en- this week for Miss Mary Eliza
beth Hayman, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred C. Hayman, whose en-
gagement to Mr.. J. Garland Overman
of Baltimore, has recently been an
nounced.
On Monday night Mrs. George Bunt-
ing entertained at her home on Front
St., the nature of the affair being
a shower and bridge party. Tuesday
night the Sunday School class of Mrs.
Grady E. Powell gave a shower at
the home of Miss Grace Cowger near
town. The guests were entertained
with a program. Other affairs will
follow before the wedding which will
take place some time this month.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
QUILTING INDUSTRY GOES
TO new HEADQUARTERS

The small industry which has been
giving a number of women occupation
making bed covering, has been remov-
ed from the municipal building to the
old sewing room corner Clarke Ave
nue. and Walnut Street, a part of
which is occupied by the Morgan Sec
ond hand furniture emporium.
1t was found that the sewing oper-
atives interfered somewhat with the
activities of the Fire Department and
with the Ladies' Auxiliary, hence the
removal. It is gratifying that an
other place has been found for the
workers as the income from this labor
has been great help to those who
performed it.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
MR.. H. CORDDRY
IS Welded TO
MISS STEVENSON
Home Wedding Of Bride Scene
OF Beautifully Appoint
ed Ceremony
GROOM YOUNG BUSINESS
MAN OF SNOW HILL

The marriage of Miss Emily Eliza
beth Stevenson, daughter of Mrs. Ril-
ey Polk Stevenson and the late Mr..
Stevenson of Pocomoke, to Mr.. Harris
Stage Corddry, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Corddry of Snow Hill, was
solemnized Saturday, at p. m, at
the brides home on Second St.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Sidney johnson Venable, D. D.,
before an altar former by wall of
native laurel with two inches in which
stood white columns filled with madon-
ma lilies, snap dragons, and ophelia
roses. The same decorations were
throughout the house. Only the i'm
mediate members of the two families
and few intimate friends were pres
emit.
Mrs. A. A. Parker played the same
wedding march which she played at
the wedding of the brides mother.
The bride was escorted to the altar
by her brother, Riley Polk Stevenson.
She wore a Princess gown of ivory
satin with Anne Elizabethan collar
of Duchesse lace, long fitted sleeves,
and a circular train. A coronet of
Duchesse lace held by orange BIOS
som leaves took the place of the veil.
Her bouquet was gardenias, lilies of
the valley and pink orchids tied with
satin ribbon and family Duchesse
CONTINUED on Page 10)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08

Referees: Nunvar, of Delmar; Lud-
vigson, of Pocomoke.
The second game between the Del
mar Hornets" and the quint from
the Tawes' Baking Company, Crisfield
was even more closely contested than
the one which preceded it.
At the close of the first half, the
Crisfield boys, with a lead of nine
points, looked sure winners, the game
at that stage showing score of Fl
to IL in favor of Crisfield. But when
the whistle blew for the close of the
game, the Hornets had added IA points
to their score, while the Bakers had
managed to increase theirs by only
five.
This, however, tied the game up
and an extra period of minutes was
started. During this, the Hornets"
were able to add four points to their
Continued on Page 81
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
BASKET BALL
TOURNAMENT
IS SUCCESSFUL
POcOmOke City and Delaware
Win From Salisbury And
TaWeS' Bakers
CRISFIELD GUARDS AND
S. TEACHERS OPPONENTS

Two very close and exciting games
of basket ball marked the opening
on Wednesday evening of the three
day tournament staged by the local
National Guard unit.
The first set-to was between the
Headquarters Company, Pocomoke and
the Salisbury "Aces." In a recent
game the "Aces" had handed out a
decent drubbing to the local quint;
and, smarting under that defeat, the
soldiers were out for revenge. From
start to finish it was a neck-and-neck
drive, every player putting forth his
best to win.
At half time the score was Is to IL
in favor of Pocomoke. The game see
sawed throughout the second half, tie
after tie appearing on the score board,
but near the close Pocomoke was able
to drop in double-header which land
ed the victory by the small margin Of
two points.
Wimbrough, of Salisbury, was high
point scorer in the game, he account
ing for 10 markers. Spence, also for
the "Aces," was close up with and
B. Hayman, for Pocomoke Tailed the
same number. In the eagerness to
score, some ragged basket ball was
played by both teams; notably, the eff
forts at long-range shooting, even
when the games were still young. And
there was also much looseness in leav-
ing goals unprotected. Still, the con-
tests were rich in what makes them
interesting: spirit and tight scores.
The tabulated score was as follows:
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08

reckon all you people have read
where those midgets of the Orient
the Japs-have cornered all the scrap
iron in the world. Now, it looks to
me like the main thing they are do
ing is looking for scrap, in order
that they may acquire another scrap
of territory. If they don't look out,
the rest of the nations of the Earth
will get them into corner and make
scrap meat out of 'em.
But, do you know, if being made
scrap meat could result in a real pleas
ure to any humans on earth, it would
be to those same Japs. If dying is
a real enjoyable adventure to any peo-
pie, it is to those yellow boys. "There's
but to do and die" with them, and
they'll pour out their blood like water
for their country, while the great
rank and file know not the cause of
the rumpus.
But sometime or other, they're 60
ing to apprehend more than they
can comprehend; they're going to
take hold or more than they
can grasp; and if they don't look out
"the goblins'll git 'em." The rest of
the world will combine to drive them
into the sea, and I'm afraid no Japa-
nese god will ever be powerful enough
to part the waves for them even as
was done when the Israelites passed
dry shod through the waters of the
Red Sea.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08

The regular monthly tuberculosis
clinic will be held in the Court Room
of the County Court House in Snow
Hill, Monday, March 18th, at 10 a. m,
conducted by DR.. Steenken of the
Eastern Shore Sanitorium.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
SERVICES AT ST. MARY'S

Rev. r. B. Mathews will preach in
st. Mary's Episcopal church, this
city, on next Sunday morning at II
o'clock. The Holy Communion will
be celebrated at this service. All are
invited. Sunday School at 10 a. m.
The Weekly Lenten service has
been changed from Wednesday even
ings to Friday evenings.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
~
from the
Democrats Pen

Well, Sir, some of the good women
who read "Chirps" last week, accused
me of manufacturing that fearfully
and wonderfully made recipe which
appeared in this column.
Now, you know, couldn't have done
that even had I desired; l am not
"chef" enough; and, further-some-
more I certainly would not set forth
any sort of concoction for others to
eat that I would hesitate to partake
of myself. I am perfectly willing
for everybody to enjoy the few years
allotted mankind here on earth; want
them to have a full share of health
and happiness, and I know anybody
who swallowed that composition would
have to have a copper-lined stomach
to protect him from the ravages OF
honest-to-goodness indigestion. And
there amt any sun in the skies; there
amt any aroma to the rose; there
amt any love in your heart for the
nissus; there amt cent in your
pocket; there amt any music in the
air; there amt any pumpkin in the
pie: prohibition has returned; the de-
preston has extended to Mars and all
the other orbs of the Universe; every
body is dead and gone; you are the
only mortal left on earth, because the
fortunes of hell are insignificant when
compared to the clawing, biting, goug-
ing thing, called Indigestion; so Satan
decided to yield to superior power
and let you stay where you are. All
these are your heritage when you try
that recipe.
And yet, curiosity is an ingredient
of ones mental and moral constitution,
which is quite prominent in all the
products of ones brain; so, there's
more than one who'd like to know
lust how that mixture would taste.
When one good soul-woman's soul
said she was going to try that, I told
her to make enough to give me a
piece. You see, was willing to face
the dangers with her and even die for
sciences sake.
And yet, on the other hand, another
good soul said she'd bet that was nice.
Looked like to me she was going to
try it and, furthermore, was going to
eat it and plenty of it. I didn't do
a thing but send Vernon Stevenson
her name and address. We business
men have to be neighborly and when
we can throw job in one another's
way, we very frequently do it. Please
notice closely the column of the DEM
ocrat for further obituaries. And, in
dropping this subject, I want to warn
all you good people that I didn't pub
lish that recipe to put any of your
lives in danger, and hereby and here
with disclaim any responsibility for
human rashness and misjudgment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-28
ScOttsbOrO
Appeal Made
In France

PARIS, France, Jan. az. - Two
petitions for the freedom of Hay
wood Patterson and Clarence
Norris, the two Scottsboro boys
whose cases are now before the
U. s. Supreme Court, have been
circulated here by the Committee
to Save the Scottsboro Boys and
signed by many nationally known
figures.
The Committee announces that
it is asking Sinclair Lewis, famous
American writer, to take one of
these appeals in person to President
Roosevelt.
Included in the list are the names
of G. Monerville, depty from
Guiana; Gustave Charpentier,
member of the French Institute;
Henry Torres, deputy from the
Maritime Alps; Victor Basch, Hon
orary Professor at the Sorbonne
and president of the League for
Human Rights; Hadamard, mem
Der of the French Institute and
professor at the College of France;
Guignebert, professor at the Sor-
bonnie, and the writer's Romano
ROLAND and Andre Glide.
A second petition, which has been
transmitted to the U. S. authorities
by the French Scottsboro Commit
tee, is signed by Leon Jouhaux,
general secretary of the Federation
of Labor; Gabriel Cudenet, pres
ident of the Radical Socialist Party
Camille Pelletan," Albert Regal,
secretary of the National Union of
Cooperative Groups; r. Goehring-
er, general secretary of the Re-
publican Youth; Emile Farinet, fed
eral secretary of the Seine FEEDER
alton of the Socialist Party; JAG
ques Duclos, secretary of the Com
munist Party of France; Raymond
Guyot, secretary of the Young Com
munist League; Fred Zeller, federal
secretary of the Seine Federation
of the Young Socialists; Bernard
Lecache, president of the League
Against A i-Semitism; Imache,
editor of the North African Star; "
Cordier, secretary of the French
International Labor Defense; j..
Barnes, secretary of the Teachers
Union; Semard, secretary of the
Federation of Railway Workers;
Mansouri, president of the League
for the Defense of Algerian Musel-
mans; Dadot, secretary of the
Union of Civil Service Employees,
and many others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-28
ateAssenbly
OF Ohio to Get
Workers Bill
DAILY Worker Ohio Bureau,

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 27.-In-
PRODUCTION of the Workers Bill (HR
282D in the Ohio State Assembly
at the latter part of this week or
first part of next week is promised
by William M. Boyd, State Repre-
sentative, in a communication re-
ceived last Friday by the Cleveland
Action Committee for the Workers
Bill.
The letter, addressed by Mr.. Boyd
to Frank Rogers, secretary of the
Cleveland Action Committee, con-
tains the information that the Bill
is already in the Legislative Bureau
Growing support for the Workers
Bill is expressed in the numerous
meetings arranged for popularizing
the Washington Congress
A conference of all local unions
of the A. F. of L. fraternal and So
cial organizations, unemployment
groups and workers clubs is being
called for Wednesday, Feb. 6, at
7'30 pm. in Painters Hall, 2030 Euc-
lid Avenue, to map out further plans
for the campaign in behalf of the
Workers Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-28
tspeciaI q the pally Morkerl

OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 27-1n
the face of threats and intimida-
tons from the city officials, dele
gates today began arriving here to
open the State Congress for unem-
ployment insurance. The mayor OF
Olympia has threatened to mobilize
500 vigilantes to prevent the Con-
gress from converting.
The Unemployment Insurance
Congress will open its sessions at
the old State Capitol building which
is now the State Office Building
and was the scene of the historic
first hunger march. 1t was rented
by Representative Michael Smith
for the arrangements committee
after wide protests from Commu-
nists, Socialists and liberals and
members of the American Fedora
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-28

against wage cuts, to lead them in
struggle for wage increases, to fight
for the amalgamation of craft
unions into industrial unions"
Hutchinson considers it a crime to
support the Daily Worker, even
punishable by expulsion. But it is
no crime, as far as Hutchinson is
concerned, to split the Building
Trades Department, to increase
iurisdictional disputes among the
craft Internationals, to establish
two departments, and to cater to
the best interests e. the employers.
The Kiplinger letter dated Jan, 5,
1885. says
"Schlsm within A. F. of L. is
genuinely serious threat to soli-
darity of labor movement. Dissa-
tisfied elements of building trades
split off, and there is some pos
sibility that number of indepen-
dent unions, not now affiliated
with A. F. of l.. will be drawn into
this new sphere of organized
labor. Especially this might ap-
ply to vertical or industrial unions
which have not felt comfortable
within A. F. of L., whose internal
politics are dominated by craft
unions. There's also chance that
other dissatisfied groups now
within A. F. of L. will be drawn
into the new alignment.
Comment by authorities who
are essentially sympathetic with
cause of organized labor runs
like this: A. F. of L. needs new
blood, young leaders, new concep-
tiOns. If this row shocks the
Federation into reorganization,
good! If it doesn't, if the same
old group of labor politicians keep
control, then two or more rival
labor crganizstins will develop.
and this would be unfortunate
for labor"
Employers Welcome Split
Do the employers welcome this
fight in the Building Trades De-
partment? Not only do they well
come the split and the inner dis
putes, but it has all the earmarks
of having been unanswered by the
employers. Millions of dollars were
spent to create such a condition in
the Building Trades Department
and the willing tools are always on
the job to play their part.
Right after the split in the Build
ing Trades Department become
known, President Roosevelt an
nounced that the construction jobs
financed by the government must
be paid at wages below the pre-
vailing scale, that the government
cannot afford to compete with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-28
Especial to the Daily wcrker)

CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 27.-Desper-
alton in their struggle against hope
less poverty caused William Arden
and his mother to kill four persons
connected with the relief station
at So Chicago Avenue and end their
own lives.
The complete and abject poverty
of the family was revealed yester-
day after an investigation by the
Daily Worker bureau here. Miss
Thompson, secretary of the relief
supervisor, stated that the family
received $4,000 relief in December,
and only six hours work amounting
to $5.45 in January. Neighbors
stated that during the recent zero
weather the family was without
coal.
On Jan. "a, the family was prom
ised relief in a last desperate effort
to get enough food to keep alive
The supervisor stated that they had
received too much relief in August