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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18
FOR
OPENING THE
BIG BRIDGE
The Million Dollar Structure
Will Be Thrown Open To
Public, Oct. 26

With the selection of official COM
mittees definitely completed, plans
are now being rapidly formulated for
an elaborate and colorfal celebration
in Cambridge ON Saturday, Octber 26,
to mark the opening of the million
and-a-half dollar Choptank River steel
bridge, connecting the North banks OF
Talbot with the South shore of Dor
chester.
Those designated to supervise the
various activities of the day are:
General Chairznan:-Howard w
Simmons.
Reception Comnittee:-CSl. -Alban-
us Phillips, Chairman; Capt. Levi b
Phillips, W.. Grason WiRterbottom
Mayor Charles E. BrohaMn, Senator
Olin r. Higgins Emerson C. Harring-
ton. Jr, Earle W.. Orem.
Finance Cammittee:-Russell s.
Davis, Chairman; P. Watson Webb
]. Howard Phillips, Robert II. Mat
thews-
Entertainment Committee: - w
EnOs Valiant, Chairman; Alhanus
Phillips, Jr., Robert E. Tuhman, Cal
vim Harrington, Jr., C. Hyland Jones
DIR. James p Swing, Guy d. Lowry
W. Julian James.
Decoration and Amplification Com
mittee George d. Holder, Chairman
Dorsey Davis, John J.. Barth.
Traffic and Parking Committee
W. d. Gould, III, Chairman; Arthur
D. Jones, DIR. J. Walter Hastings,
George N. Jones, Grayson Price.
Water Pageant:-Dr. p p. Payne
Chairman; Charles ]. Koch.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18
CIRCUIT court
CONVENED ON
MONDAY LAST
Judges Crockett And Insley On
The Bench. DOckets Are
Not OvercrOWded

The Circuit Court convened in
Snow Hill on Monday last, with Judges
Crockett and Insley on the Bench.
Judge Crockett took occasion to urge
an investigation on the part of the
Grand Jury of conditions at Ocean
City, Maryland's only seaside resort,
in connection with violations of gamb-
ling laws. He referred more particu-
larry to the open display of slot mach
ines, and stated that there was esti-
mated to be machine for every TWEEN
ty-five feet of boardwalk.
He also called special attention to
the operation of Sunday movies ir
Ocean City during the past summer
The following were chosen as mem
bers of the Grand Jury.
Asher C. Moore, Bishopville, fore
man; Samuel C. Tubbs, Charles B
Bethards, John William CULLEN, Step
hen j. CULLEN, Sewell A. Warren
Walton Pilchard, Harold M. Brit.
tingham, Nathaniel T. Donaway, Thos
Groton, Dewitt B. Merrill, Levin w
Wyatt, William J. Hastings, Herman
L. Burbage, C. Wilbur Keas, William
B. West, Frank B. Carmean, Clar-
ence Bromley, Colmore E. Byrd, Law
renee Bauman, T. billiard Riley, Sid
ney L. Chopper, and Elijah R. Brad
ford.
The civil docket contains little OF
local interest. The case of George H
Groton against Ralph Birmingham, the
plaintiff suing for damages growing
cut of an auto accident, was settled
in favor of the plaintiff to the amount
of $105.00.
Mrs. Iona Truitt is suing the es-
tate of Mrs. Susan Hall for services
rendered as nurse. This case was be-
ing tried at the time of going to press.
Criminal cases will be tried next
week. These are mostly appeal cases,
and of no considerable interest.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18
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from the
Democrats Fen

Well Sir, 1 went to see game OIL
football on Saturday; that u.s. II was
advertised to be such a contest. Pete
Walters took me. He made the round
trip in one day from Pocomoke City
to the Baltimore Stadium where the
a1leoed game was scheduled to happen.
Pete said the fracas was between
his Alma Mater, Maryland University,
and a team from "North" Carolina;
but I talked with one of the Maryland
bovs after the game and he said ne
was under the impression that the
Tar Heelers came at the Old Liners
from North, East, South and West
Thew had air planes, submarines, bar
ages, tear gas, poison gas, and all
other munitions of deadly pigskin war
fare. They had battleships, light
cruisers, machine guns, and heavy ar
tillery. I said "ships" because OF the
way those Dixie boys sailed into the
Free Staters. They rammed 'em, jam
med 'em, and battered 'em, till the
Terrapins didn't have strength enough
to pull themselves back into their
shells. It was a slaughter. Some
body, writing in one of the big dallles,
said something about the Carolina
boys being considered for the Rose
Bowl game. Now I don't know wheth-
er they are roses or not, but can
testify to their being daisies" all
right, and then some.
What's that somebody said these
Carolina boys had on their heels!
Tar! want to go on record as say
ing there was no sticky stuff on these
bows shoe soles. Their football shoes
were dressed up like the sandals OF
the Mercury of old Grecian and Roman
mythology; they had wings to EN-
and they flew over the ground like an
army plane navigates the ethereal
dome. And those chaps are going to
fly some distance this season, because
the Maryland University warriors
said they would; and they should
know.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18
MRS. ROBERT c. HURLEY
GIVEN BIRTHDAY PARTY

On Wednesday evening Of last week
Mrs. Robert c. Hurley was guest Of
honor at a surprise birthday party
given by other members of the family.
She was invited out for the day and
upon returning to her home at 8
o'clock found the guests assembled
and the party in full swing. A color
scheme of pink and white was carried
cut in the decorations and lighted
candles. There was also a birthday
cake with the requisite number of
candles. Mrs. Hurley received num-
Der Of beautiful and useful gifts.
The invited guests were: Mr.. and
Mrs. J. D. East, Mr.. and Mrs. J. @.
East. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward East, Mr..
and Mrs. Leroy East and son, Mr.. and
Mrs. Burley Payne and children, Mr..
and Mrs. James Vincent, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. j. Ards, Mr.. and Mrs. Loire Den
ston, Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Merrill, Mr..
and Mrs. Dewitt Merrill, Mr.. Gran
vile Merrill, Misses Julia and Laura
Handy Merrill, Marcia Ards, Margar-
ct Grissett, Edna Henderson, Ruth
Perdue, Ruth Hurley, Louise East and
Burris Merrill.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
MISS LILLIAN RILEY

Funeral services were held Tuesday
October eighth for Miss Lillian c.
Riley, daughter of the late Henry ",
and Sallie Cannon Riley, who died at
the home of her brother in Dorsey,
Md, at the age of rs years. Inter-
ment was made in the Louden Park
cemetery in Baltimore.
Miss Riley had many friends in Po-
comoke and was we'll known in this
city and throughout the Shore. She
is a sister to Magistrate John T. Riley
of Clarke Avenue. Besides Judge
Riley she is survived by two other
brothers, William H., and V. Russell
Riley, both of Baltimore.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18
COOPERATING MARKETING
IS GROWING in MARYLAND

"Cooperative marketing is exper-
fencing a healthy growth and Mary
land farmers are doing much toward
lettering market conditions" said Of
ficials of the Maryland Farm Bureau
in a statement made at Baltimore on
Monday. .r;.:'
"Many benefits of cooperative mar
keting have been disclosed in the last
several years." said the Farm Bureau
officials. "a very striking example
is the increase in the sale of lambs
by the livestock cooperative. The
Eastern Livestock Cooperative Market
ing Association has doubled the vol
ume of lambs sold during the first
eight months of 1885. This organiza-
ton operates on the Baltimore, Mary
land, Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Jer-
sey City, New Jersey markets. 1t
serves Virginia, West Virginia, Ten
nessee, Pennsylvania, as we'll as
Maryland.
"This trend is significant" said
Farm Bureau officials" as it. clearly
demonstrates that farmers realize
they must help themselves and no
depend entirely on government pro
grams. Those programs give tempo
rary assistance but any longtime bet
torment must come from improved
marketing and distribution practices.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18

An old timer stopped me on the
street recently and asked: whats
this I read in the papers about the
English, French, and others in Europe
talking about Sanctions in connection
with the war between Italy and Ethio-
pia? .B'gash! 1 thought those people
were .agin' the war and now see they
are 'sanctioning' it, or something IKE
that? Is that what the League OF
Nations is for? To prepare sanctions
for war? BY heck! Pm all mixed
up about this thing"
Well, now, you know that old chap
had me, sorta. Seems to me they
could have used some other word be-
side sanctions" in referring to meth
DDS adopted by the nations to put
stop to war. .How-some-ever, just at
this time, so far as outward signs
and signals are concerned, the sane
lions" are working in all the common
ly acceptated interpretation of the
term. The war is going on very, very
merrily. and just how "sanctioning
it, is going to bring about cessation
of the fighting, will be plain, maybe,
when the powers that be give US an
other name for that sanction stuff.
If that sanction" idea is strong
enough to stop national warfare, may
be the Pocomoke City Council might
take a lesson in it, and get out some
Sanctions" against these ownerless
dogs that carouse around, day and
night, specially night. If the "sanc-
lions" can muzzle the dogs OF war,
seems to me they could handle these
pups of peace all right Anyhow, I'll
give my sanction" to any move made
in that direction, indeed they can have
my whole stock of sanctions"
Seriously, tho, Let US hope that
something may stop what appears to
be such unequal warfare in Africa,
and that Italy may be influenced in
some way to settle in peaceful ways.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18
Services At St. Marys
Next Sunday Evening

Rev. DR.. r. B. Mathews, rector Of
st. Mary's Episcopal Church, this
city, will hold services here consisting
of evening prayer and sermon, at 1870
O'Clock, next Sunday, October 20. Pub
lie is cordially invited to attend.
Church School at the usual hour in the
morning.
After the evening services, there
will be a congregational meeting at
which it is most desirable as many as
possible be present. An important
church matter will be brought up for
discussion.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18
FORMER CHIEF OF POLICE
ATTENDSSISTERS FUNERAL

Mr.. William A. Stroud was called
to Philadelphia last week by the death
of his sister, Mrs. Anna Francis Seltz-
err, wife Of the late Joseph H. Settler,
who died Tuesday, October eighth.
Funeral services were held Friday,
at 1880 p. M, from the residence of
her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Hoffman,
3342 Fox Street. Interment was made
in the Greenmount Cemetery in Phila-
delphia.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18

Mrs. Garland D. Bull spent the past
week with friends in Baltimore.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-18
CO. GROWERS
WILL VOTE in
PROGRAMME
To Vote As Part OF National
Referendum On The Corn
Hog Question
SOMERSET GROWERS TO
PARTICIPATE ALSO

Corn-hog growers of Worcester
County will vote rs a part of a Ma
tional Referendum on whether they
favor a corn-hog program to follow
the 1885 program expiring November
Both, it is announced by r. T. Grant,
County Agent. The date for balloting
throughout the County is Saturday,
October 26th.
Every corn-hog grower, whether or
not he signed 1884 or 1885 contract
is eligible to vote. All corn-hog
growers who have not signed contracts
will have an opportunity to vote at
the County Agents office at Snow
Hill, Saturday, October -26th, between
the hours of 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Sign
Sers of contracts will be sent ballots
by mail and these VOTES will be re-
turned and counted by the County AL
.lotment Committee, consisting of C.
C. Pilchard, Stockton, Preston Jones,
Newark and Grover C. johnson, Po-
rcomoke. The returns will be tabulated
and sent to Washington, d. G.
According to A. A. A. officials the
feed supplies, livestock numbers and
the market outlook are now such that
the next three years may see great
er increase in hog production than has
ever taken place in any similar per-
iod. Some increase from the present
low level of production is desirable,
they state, but there is real danger
that expansion will become excessive
unless another adjustment program is
inaugurated. They assert that ten
production cycles occurring since 1890
have created periodic gluts and short
ages and that these excessive swings
in production have been harmful to
both consumer and producer.
Farmers in Somerset will decide
whether or not there is enough inter-
est in and demand for corn-hog pro-
gram to justify the AAA in offering
such a program, according to word
which c. z. Keller, county agent for
Somerset, received from the chief of
the corn-hog section Of AAA.
He points out that an adjustment
program might be urgent in view of
corn and hog prices and the outlook
for future production, and yet if
enough farmers did not vote in favor
of such a program, indicating the nee
essary support and participation, the
Administration would not be justified
in offering program. Such pro-
grams are not simply set up in Wash
ington, he states, but are the result
Of an orderly and in part statutory
procedure.
The referendum to be held October
26 is merely one of the steps. Pub
lie hearings have been held at which
consumers, professors, farmers and
other interests have had a chance to
be heard.
Farmers should remember, it is en-
phasized, that in the referendum they
are not voting on a specific contract,
but on whether or not they favor a
corn-hog adjustment program to fol-
low the program which expires on No
vember 80 Of this year.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
Long Cohort TO
Be Tried On Tax
Evasion Charge

NEW ORLEANS, La, Mar. 26.
(UP). Trial of Abe Shushan,
president of the Orleans levee
hoard and close political friend
Of Senator Huey Long, on charg-
DC of evading income taxes, was
set Yesterday for May 6:
Defense Attorney st. Clair
Adams had demanded that the
trial be postponed until fall, and
shouted: "Politics is behind this
indictments. Politics! Politics
If that is not true. why is the
court forcing trial in the heat of
the summer"
Judge Wayne G. Borah also
overruled two pleas for Shushan's
freedom. One plea said certain
points in the two indictments
against Shushan were identical,
and constituted double jeopardy,
in violation of the constitution.
The other said the alleged Of
lenses were outlawed by the
statute of limitations.
Adams also objected to the title
of the Indictment: "The United
States versus Abraham Shushan,
alias A. l.. Shushan."
Gan alias, in the public mind,
implies some connection with the
underworld" the lawyer argued.
at is insulting, indecent and un-
fair" He said Shushan had never
been connected with the under
world: in fact, had never been
arrested.
Judge Borah upheld the Ian
guage of the Indictment.
Shushan will be the second of
Longs friends to face trial on in
come tax charges. State repre-
sentative, Joe Fisher, is due for
trial April /.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
MARY HILLYER SEES
civil, WAR AHEAD

NEW ORLEANS. La N"'c"
26-U-P)-Bloody civil war Is
imminent in Northeastern AT
kansas. Mary w. Hjllyer: heId
secretary of the league Tor IN
dustrial democracy. sad.
Local authorities have declared
themselves helpless, she said the
state has shown no inclination 10
do ANYTHING. and only vague as
surances have come from WASH
ington. -oao
The war is between 5000
sharecroppers, members OF the
Southern Tenant Farmers union
and the uncountable but large
and heavily armed forces OF the
plantation owners, more PASSIVE
" supported BY local authorities
Miss Hillyer said.
1.-The issue is the SharecropperS
demand for their right to organ
iZe; for the share in the AAA
money that has been withheld
from them. and for correction of
abuses in the distribution of re-
lief" she said.
A mob of men interrupted a
tenant farmers union meeting at
Marked Tree. Ark, last Satur-
day. when Miss Hillyer was
speaking, and she was warned
to leave town and never return,
she reported.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
NELSON'S PAL
WILL GET LIFE
x-Bootlegger Escapes
Gallows by Jury's
Recommendation

CHICAGO, March 26. (UP)-
John Paul Chase, former Califor-
MIA bootlegger, who Joined with
George (Baby Face) Nelson in
the Dillinger bandits last stand
against the law, escaped death on
the gallows last night when a
federal jury convicted him of
numbering Samuel P. Cowley. JUS
tlce department ace, but recon-
mended mercy.
The mercy recommendation
made sentence of life imprison-
ment mandatory. Without it he
would have been condemned to
death by hanging son government
property"
Cowley and Herman E. Hollis
another federal agent, were slain
at Darlington November 27 when
they caught up with Nelson, Chase
and Nelson's wife, Mrs. Helen
ellis, now in a federal reforma.
tory. Before they died the III
men brought down Nelson.
The jury deliberated three
hours and As minutes.
The trial was the first under a
recent law which provides that the
Staying of a federal agent IN the
performance of his duty must be
tried in federal courts.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
LITHUANIANS ARE 40
DEPRESSING GERMANS

Continued from page one ettical
sistance pacts were mp tnal as
ed that the projected nu. are de-
for Germany, since they , a of
nendent on the establlstnil,ttttack
an "aggressor" and an h S'' feels
nation"EA definition ne iva
n l,f,lnD is difficult to apply; 70 ac-
Germany also is opPG inding her
cepting the clauses blfluf oreign
to permit passage OF terri
TROOPS across the ReichS
tory. =, .roatv is one of
british are intensely ~,
Others on their program 70
First. Germany's adnei ;a4erfe W
f trestv pledging non-lnter1er-
ence in Austria. o,5 Polish
Second, German anu and
membership in a Centlai n "
Eastern European security d pal,
which the Russians and french
i Mnis mist provide for mutual
insist i nSsistance against an ag-
greSsor. I;ro;t;no arma.
'''I Fourth, Germany's return to
the League of Nations. .
Conclusion of the arms treaty
# was emphasized in diplomatic
quarters, automatically would re-
lease Germany from military re-
strictions in the Versailles treaty.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
STROKE is FATAL TO
FAMED WAR NURSE

WASHINGTON, Mar. &c. (UP).
Miss Lucy Minnegerode, Cd, SUI
perintendent of nurses of the L.
S. public health service, died yes
terday at her home in Alexan-
dria, Va, from a stroke of apo
pleXy.
During the World war, she was
one of the first American Red
Cross nurses to volunteer for
overseas service and spent 1914
and 1915 at Ties, Russia. She
was decorated by the car with
the Russian Red Cross of st.
Anne. In 1925, she received the
Red Cross international Florence
Nightingale.
When the U. S. public health
service was caring for the peak
load of returned war veterans.
she had 100 nurses under her
supervision.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
Clipper Will Fly
To West Coast In
2 Stage Voyage
Experimental Flights Over
the Pacific Scheduled
To Be Made

MIAMI, Fla, March 26. tUP)
The Pan-Americar clipper was
scheduled to leave at 6 a. m. to-
day for San Francisco to begin
experimental flights over the Pa
cific, Pan-American Always.
The plane, holder of the worlds
record for long-range seaplane
flights, will fly today nonstop to
Acapulco in the state of Guerro
on the west coast of Mexico, a
distance of 1900 miles.
The following day it will pro-
coed to San Francisco, 1888
miles up the Pacific coast from
Acapulco.
The clipper will carry a crew
of SIX under command of Captain
Edwin Musick, Fan-American Air.
ways chief pilot in the Caribbean
division.
Col. Clarence NJ. Young, for
mer aeronautical director of the
of commerce, is in
San Francisco where he will Su-
perviSe Pacific operations.
Less than 100 miles Of the
flight is over land. The ship will
fly over the Gulf of Mexico and
the Gulf of Campeche in southern
Mexico, cutting across the MeXi-
can mainland south of Vera
Cruz.
Within a few hours after arri-
val in San Francisco, the plane
will begin experimental flights
between the Pacific coast and Ha-
vail, preparatory to the planned
opening of a commercial airline
rom California to the Orient.
Last week the clipper establish
ID a new worlds record for non
top seaplane flights. Flying cir
,ular course from Miami to the
Virgin Islands and return, it COW
cred 1884 miles in II hours and
I6 minutes and returned to the
airport here with
1913 gallons of gasoline, enough
% keep it aloft and cruising at
I6O miles an hour for $50 miles.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
TORNADO STRIKES -.
ILLINOIS SECTION
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
damage expected to run to more
than 100000.
The injured included Adam
Hicks and Paul Leek, farmers,
hurt seriously when trees fell on
them in different parts of the
county; Mrs. Olga Dougherty,
Mrs. A. P. RAIDER and Paul Wood,
who suffered cuts and bruises
when hit by flying timber as their
homes collapsed.
Norris, Coal Greek and other
towns were without electric lights
last night. Coal Greek was flood
ed by water two feet deep in the
streets, forcing residents and
merchants to vacate their proper
ty.
Highway traffic to Norris, the
town growing out of construction
of Norris Dam by the Tennessee
Valley Authority, was crippled.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
LEAGUE COUNCIL
SESSION PROPOSED
Continued from page one)

mittee by the Democratic victory
in 1882. still speaks with a voice
that is needed in Europe's chan
cellories. -,
He chose yesterday-when the
British and the Germans sat
down at the same table in Berlin
in an attempt to keep the peace
of Europe-to say that ne saw no
immediate prospect of war across
the Atlantic. The best thing that
could happen, he said, would be
for the United States to keep
clear of the whole business,
For once Borah seemed to be
in accord with the administration:
Nothing but silence came out of
offices in the weather-stained
pile of stone on Pennsylvania ave
nue. where America conducts its
diplomacy.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
THINK SWITZES
WILL Be FREED
Prosecutor Will Recon-
mend Liberty in Espion-
age Case

PARIS, March 26.-(UP)-
Robert Gordon Swift and his
wife Marjorie, on trial in the
greatest spy case in modern
French annals are to be freed,
il was indicated in court here to-
day. -, o
Robert Murphy, United States
consul, was assured by Prosecu-
tor Hamel that he will recommend
that the court free the young
Americans on the ground that
their confession led to the other
arrests.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-26
'0UINS' UNDER lsI
TO PREVENT NyV|

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he and Mrs. DiOnne at:ta
move into the model
where the babies are grown
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der the watchful care Of sell
The Dionnes are known to-
that they should he allOwei
"cash in" on the fame Of
five little daughters. Welisrs
ficials have been unable Z
press them with the danger
chilfren's life should they b
from the sterile precincts ..
hospital and exhibited be!cT
gcrm-laden public.
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to science likewise has fsl
impress the backwOOds couI.