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MAIL SHIP
SAILINGS

The following table shows the
names of ships, the lines Oper-
ating them. their time Of sail
ing from New York, and when
their regular and supplementary
mails close. Time shown is
daylight saving time. Dates
after names Of ports indicate
scheduled dates Of arrival. ~
Indicates mails must be eSpe-
cially addressed by this steamer.
(+) Indicates supplementary
mails will be accepted on pier
up to 10 minutes before sailing
time.
TOMORROW
Transatlantic
HAM RIG (Hamburg-American),
Cherbourg and Southampton August Is.
Bremen and Hamburg Is (seaposD !;
pier Sc, N. R. (West Forty-sixth St0.
cepted at Morgan annex up to 1o:4S
p. m.); sails midnight. Mails for
Germany.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ~. 8.
Lines). Cobb August IA. Plymouth and
Havre is, and Hamburg IT (Seapost) !;
Pier 60, N. R. (West Nineteenth St }:
a. M: sails noon. Mails for Europe.
Africa and West Asia Except Alden,
British India, Ceylon, and Irakl, ICY
prus, Egypt, Norway and Palestine
parcel post for Austria, Czechoslovakia.
France, Germany, Great Britain. Hun
gary, Irish Free State, Northern Ire
land. Switzerland, U. s. g. R.
Latin America
LARA Cred d.. San Juan August 49,,
La Guaira Is, Puerto Cabello II. etc. !;
Pier II. Brooklyn thurman ST. mails
D. m.) sails 4 p. m. Mails for Aruba
Curacao Venezuela Except Caripito
and Ciudad Bolivar) and "Puerto Rico;
THURSDAY
Transatlantic
CITY OF FAIRBURY Moore and Nc
Cormack), Gothenburg August 20, Copen-
and Helsinki. 26-Pier D, Jersey City
Mails close $3.50 p. m. Parcel post for
Denmark, Finland. Poland. and Sweden
INDIAN PRINCE (Furness Withy),
Cape Town, September 5: Lourenco
Marques, 10, and Beira, 1S-Pier 4, Bush
Docks, Brooklyn (45th ST.. Mails close
2 p. m. Parcel post for Bechuanaland
Protectorate. Northern Rhodesia. Portu-
guese East Africa, Southern Rhodesia.
Southwest Africa, and Union Of South
Africa.
MAJESTIC (Cunard White starr. Cher
bourg and Southampton. August ID
Pier 81, N. r. West 14th ST.. Mails
close 8 p. m. (supp. mails accepted at
Morgan annex ur to 1o:45 p. m:); sails
midnight. Mails for Europe, Africa. and
West Asia Except Norway.
Latin America, West Indies, Canada
ACADIA Eastern s. 81, Yarmouth
August 9-Pier IS. N. r. Murray ST..
Mails close 1880 a. M: sails 1890 a. m.
Mails for Nova Scotia except registered
maiD; parcel post.
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TAX BILL FIGHT.
N0WG0EST0
SENATE
international News Service


The battle over President Roose'
velt's new tax bill moved into the
Senate today, with New Deal lead
ers calling for speedy action look
ing to early adjournment.
Passed by the House, 282 to SO.
and with only 10 Democrats vot-
ing no, the measure faced opposi.
ton in the Senate. Nevertheless,
it appeared destined to pass with.
out much change.
New inheritance and gift taxes,
personal income taxes SlaShlng
deeply into incomes of $4,000 and
over, high excess profits taxes,
and graduated corporation levieS,
were provided in the bill passed
by the House. Experts estimated
the bill would yield about $50 mil.
lion dollars yearly.
Charity Exemption Opposed
Hottest fighting among the
heavy majority forces in the
Senate generally favoring the bill
will center about the House provi.
sion exempting five per cent Of
taxable corporation incomes when
contributed to charity. President
Roosevelt opposed this vigorously,
but the House wrote it in.
The Presidents tax chieftain in
the Senate, Senator Harrison Of
Mississippi, will fight to kill this
amendment. 1t reduced the eSti-
mated yield of the bill by 20 mil
lion dollars.
Senate consideration of the bill
on the floor probably will not be-
gin until Monday. The Senate's
Finance Committee plans hearings
today and tomorrow and then will
begin working on the measure in
secret. Senator Harrison, chair
man of the committee, predicted
that bill would be brought into
the Senate late in the week.
The Senate'S Democratic leader,
Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
predicted the bill could be passed
within a week after it was brought
up in the Senate.
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By HARRY E. GABBETT

Along about the year 1872, Blu
ford Corbin and his family settled
down to wrest a living from be-
tween two of the State Of Vir.
ginia's bluest ridges.
No one living can tell you where
he came from, but Corbin Hollow,
about six wild miles off the new
Skyland Drive, at Skyland, Va,
boasts today population of
nearly 200 who will tell you that
he stayed.
He stayed despite the Cubbages,
who came after; despite the Mich
olsonS and the DodSons, and he
made quite sure his strain would
long survive his passing.
Drove Them Out
You'll find today three family
names in Corbin Hollow-Coroin,
Nicholson and Dodson. The Cub
bages long ago were ouSted.
The Nicholsons grew apace and
drove them out. The existence of
Cubbage Hollow, eight miles to the
north, shows you how far they
drove them.
Corbin Hollow is in Madison
county, about 80 miles from the
Nations Capital. It may be
reached via the Lee Highway to
Panorama and thence some 10
miles up the Skyland Drive to
Skyland, a summer resort town
of about 500 population. From
there it is every man for himself.
The trail winding down into
the Hollow twists, turns and
slaps the traveller in the face as
though resentful Of his pass.
ing.
It presents. perhaps, Bluford
Corbin'S only reason for having
stayed in Corbin Hollow. Hav.
ing arrived there he couldn't get
out.
Fantastic Stories
In the past twenty years,
many persons have braved the
mean entrance to see for them
selves if the tales Seeping out
Of these mountain gullies were
true. They came to verify fan,
taStic word-of-mouth pictures OF
the tribes inhabiting Corbin Hol'
low.
They came away with stories
more fantastic than those they
sought to prove.
From time to time, the "Hol-
low folk" have broken into print.
According to some reports,
state of out-and-out barbarism
prevailed amongst them. Accord
ing to others, eerie practices pre-
vailed. Books were written and
their highly colored themes &C.
cepted as gospel truth. Accord
ing to Eddie Nicholson:
"They made sport Of we"
That is why we didn't get
Eddie'S picture.
Measured by the scale OF life
as we are living it. these people
are uncivilized. Generations OF
seclusion, a century and a half
of intermarriage and unbroken
years of effort to wiring from
their wilds the necessities of life
have left a stamp OF primitive
ness.
They do not live as we do-ex-
cept that they breathe the same
air and live in houses built OF the
same wood. But they are not bar
barouS, and they do not sleep in
trees.
Works for Nothing
Three years ago Miss Ruby
RuebuSh, a public school teacher
from Charlottesville, Va, came to
Corbin Hollow and succeeded in
having a one-room school house
built. Today she teaches the rud1-
ments of learning to about II
children and as many more
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Corbin Hollow, or secluded stills.
the clearings and therein grow
corn, beans, cabbage and potatoes.
Here a stalk of corn and there a
head Of cabbage. side by side.
Odd Graveyard
Nor can anyone account for the
existence of their religion. These
people call themselves the Ply
mouth Brethren. Their form of
worship appears to be of Baptist
origin. Legend has it that a lone
preacher penetrated their hide.
away and did a fair job Of con-
verting the entire Hollow. With
his passing, his ministerial office
was handed down and assumed
the characteristics of the person
on whom it fell.
The last minister" Of whom
anything can be learned went
berserk under the impression he
was God. He is buried in Corbin
Hollow Cemetery.
Nor will the outside world
ever obtain a picture of Corbin
Hollow Cemetery. No headStones
mark the graves, no path leads to
it's site.
There used to be trail, the ma
lives say, but no one has died
in Corbin Hollow in eight years,
so the underbrush has blotted out
it's presence and briers form an
effectual barrier to a spot not I'm.
like any other spot in Corbin Hol-
low in appearance.
Burials were made without fan.
fare and death was accepted as
q necessary evil. Nothing much
was done about it.
Fennell Corbin is the 73-year-old
patriarch of his tribe. Old and ex-
ceedingly feeble he is now, but
time was when he could weave a
basket from white oak strips and
rive piece of timber for the floor.
ing of his home.
The writer saw some samples Of
his handiwork. There was diff.
ference between his board and
those the mills turn out. His I'm.
polished piece seemed stronger.
Superstition? Yes
Superstition in Corbin Hollow?
No more so than in other sections
of the country. Eleven-year-old
Pearl Nicholson cannot return to
her home in her wet dress. Cleav.
ing to her body in the downpour,
it must be shed and thrown away.
No one could be found who could
tell what would happen if it
wasn't. Something awful. accord
ing to Pearl.
But you can't light three on
match and you can't put an UNI
brella over your head in the house.
Something's bound to happen, and
you know it!
Time BY the Sun
They looked at the sun and
told him it was half past four
when his wrist watch said 4:21.
It was probably nine minutes
slow.
They know their country as
you know yours, and they're pa
tient in the explanation of their
ways. They don't grow discour.
aged upon your inability to I'M
derStand them. They seem
pleased to think you're not angry
because they can't understand
you. They're nice folks.
Their poverty is relative. 1t is
abject to the outsider. It is
immaterial to them. They have
known no other scale of living.
If one mans traps ensnare three
wild rabbits in a day and his
neighbor captures two. the for
mer is the richer. He's the tops
for a day.
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COrbinS There to STAY
IN COrbin Hollow

dOu1GOs O11C AAAuoU I'M 44C1 WA N
because she's doing it for nothing.
Miss Ruebush has had much to
contend with. She had to start
not only from the beginning, but
from about 80 years in back of
that. She had to teach the men
to wash their faces and their
wives to see that they did it every
day. Except for a few recalci-
trants. she has done nobly in this
respect.
A little over a decade ago med
ical care as most people know it
was unknown in Corbin Hollow.
The folks were taken sick and
they either died or recovered. Al
most every weed that grows on
the mountain has some medical
significance to these people.
Broken bones are mended with
stiff draught of tea brewed from
a certain plant and the qualms
of appendicitis are stilled in the
same way.
They buried their dead and
they reared their young.
Theirs was a simple philosophy
Have Own Dialect
When Bluford Corbin arrived in
this last outpost of nowhere, he
spoke, in all probability, the Ian.
guage your own progenitors spoke
In some inexplicable way, his
means of making his wants known
orally went aWry.
The "ancients" in Corbin Hol,
low are not understandable. They
converse in the dialect of another
land than ours, with now and then
the insertion of an ineligible
phrase, to remind the listener he
is still in America.
But they have no difficulty in
understanding themselves, and
since until recently no one else
was there. no need existed for
brushing the language up.
1t has taken Miss Ruby Rue
bush three years to realize she'll
never be able to understand them
Her pupils serve her well as inter
prefers.
Some years ago, a group of stu
dent mixers from Shenandoah
Academy, at New Market,
Seventh Day Adventist school
discovered" these strange people
and since then the Adventists
have looked upon them as their
own. They have introduced beds
and stoves and clothing. They
have shod those who would be
shod and dressed those who would
be dressed. They have rendered
medical assistance to those in
direst need of it and have made
themselves generally popular.
Taught Farming
A natural sense of resentment
met their initial attempts to veer
the course of their charges lives,
Though overcome to some extent,
this objection to intrusion may
still be noted in the sullen mein
of the older folks who seek only
to be left alone.
Corbin Hollow lies within the
boundaries of Virginia's new and
beautiful Shenandoah National
Park. Official efforts to trans
plant these people have been
made and in some instances have
succeeded.
About 20 families have been
moved to nearby farms and are
being taught the rudimentS OF
modern farming. The nucleus
that remains seems determined to
stay. On this point, sentiment in
the Hollow is divided.
It is impossible to describe how
these folks lived before their
plight" became known, because
there is no way of divining what
went on behind the dense green
faStness of their bailiwick prior
to the keeping Of records.
| Today. scattered gardens DOT
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DICIE CORBIN

Herewith is the solution to yes
terday's puzzle.
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New York Wool

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 GN.S):-Wool
Rirms domestic fleece, unwashed, ONO
and Pennsylvania, 23@32; domestic
pulled, secured basis. $500: DOMESTIC
Texas, clean basis. 5S@75c: domestic
ferritorv clean basis, 81 OFT.
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Washington Stocks
SALES

SALES
Anacostia and Potomac Rail
road SIS, $1,0o0@93h; $1,000
e3h.
Potomac Electric IS pfd., SO
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Potomac Electric. 51as pfd., 5
OLA; SOFIA.
Riggs Bank Common. 1923.
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Mergenthaler Linotype, 10@29.
AFTER CALL
Mergenthaler Linotype, 20
28R.
Anacostia and Potomac Rail
road SIS, $1,000@931a.
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from prosecution, but to take
them forthwith before a mag
istrate and have them held for
trial and other penalties.
$50 energetically are the
police carrying out those or
ders from Superintendent
Reynolds that during the last
three-day weekend, eight
drivers accused of drunken
ness were arrested.
That circumstance has led
to another repressive order by
the superintendent. It is that
until further orders the police
shall patrol the Delaware
highways from 10 p. m. to 4
a. m. on a special mission of
apprehending drunken drivers
and bringing them to judg-
superintendent Reynolds
has taken a wise step. Moth
ing less than arrest and Sc
we're punishment will put an
end in our state to the drunk
en- driver menace"
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CORRESPONDENTS
CONTINUED From Page Eight

had a well-filled larder.
Mrs. Elizabeth Collins has re-
turned from a visit with her sister,
Mrs. Marie o. Feddeman, in Bati-
more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry King, of
Townsend, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Nat r. Baker last week.
Mrs. John Stoddard of Whining
ton, was a recent guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. James d. Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Everett of
Church Hill, visited his parents,
Mrs. Samuel T. Everett, of near
town last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Rolph, of
Betterton, were recent guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar J. King.
James L. Voshell, who has been
quite sick at his home near town,
is better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Bailey of near
Earleville, were recent visitors of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Connor.
Mr.. and Mrs Alfred Robinson
and son, visited Mr.. and Mrs. No
land Robinson last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Holden
announce the birth of a son, April
13, William Albert, Jr.
John Hilyard, manager Of the
American Stores here, has been
succeeded by c. Bernard Moore of
Centreville.
Mrs. John H. Ahern has returned
home from Florida where she has
spent the winter.
Miss Frances Bramble, who has
been i'll two weeks with pneumonia
is now improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ross, of Will
mington, spent Monday with her
sister, Miss Marie Vansant.
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FINDS GERMS
TRAVEL HIGH
Col. Lindbergh, In His Flight
in Arctic Region, Makes
a Discovery
MAY CROSS CONTINENTS

Washington. - Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh. by his flights across Arc
tic regions in 1888 has enabled the
Department Of Agriculture to DEM
onstrate conclusively that the spores
of plant disease can be borne on re-
mote air currents.
With a spore trap of his own
devising, which he called 1.-The sky
hook" Colonel Lindbergh obtained
specimens which confirmed the pre-
yious theories of government ex-
perts that plant diseases may be-
carried across continents by air
currents.
That was announced by Fred C..
Meier, the department expert who
interested Colonel Lindbergh In the
work.
Wife Helps in Work.
Colonel Lindbergh obtained the
specimens while he and Mrs. Lind
bergh were flying back and forth
from Denmark to the North Ameri-
can mainland during the summer
of 1888 in an effort to chart a north
ern transatlantic route for regu-
lar air commerce.
Colonel Lindbergh devised his
"the skyhoOk," light, strong con-
trivance easy to operate and well
adapted to protecting sterile glass
slides from contamination except
for the time they were exposed. Mr..
Meier prepared the slides and has
examined and photographed them.
He credits Colonel Lindbergh with
careful work.
The Lindberghs exposed 26 slides
and returned them with field notes
and free-hand maps indicating ex-
actly where and for how long and
under what conditions each slide
had been exposed. Mr.. Meier has
taken care of the preservation of
the slides and has examined and
photographed representative sec
tions. He has been able TO identi-
fy the genus and in some cases the
species of many of the objects
trapped in the petroleum Jelly which
covered the slides
Await Further Identification.
More complete identifications will
in many cases have to await the
assistance of botanists familiar
with the characteristics which iden-
tiby various kinds of pollen. and
of. scientific workers who are spe-
cialists in different groups of fungi,
mosses, lichens.
On one slide exposed far north
of the Arctic circle, Mr.. Meier was
able to discover under the micro
scope more than 40 different types
of objects In space five centime-
tiers square. This was on a slide
exposed 5000 feet above sea level
along the northeastern coast Of
Greenland.
"This Lindbergh collection" says
Meier, lis the first of it's kind to
give concrete evidence of the part
played by air currents In the dis
tribution of fungi between north
ern lands"
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Drunken Drivers on Highway

Drunken drivers are in for
q hard time Of it on the Della
ware highways, comments the
Journal-Every Evening.
Superintendent Reynolds,
of the State Highway Police
Department, has given imper-
ative instructions to his sub
ordinates to watch out for and
arrest every drunken driver
they see on the dupont Boule-
ward or any other thorough
fare.
"They also have been in
structed not to entertain any
pleas which such drunken
drivers may make with the
idea of gaining immunity
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rendered by the pastor and her as
sistant Miss Haines. The message
was selected from Matt 25: 1-13,
subject, The Happenings at the
Rapture of the Saints" Expecting
the year 1886 to be a year of
victory. Sunday School, 9.45;
morning service, IL; evening ser
vice begins with song and praise
service. Business meeting April
25, after prayer meeting which be-
gins at 7.3O at the church. Cottage
prayer meeting Tuesday eevning at
home Of Mrs. John Cox. The pub
lie is invited to all services.
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ADVERTISEMENTS Smyrna Times
Is the business medium not only for the
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district Of which it is the center, em-
k.acing the towns of Clayton. Kenton.
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On application. For Sale. For Rent.
Lost and Found advertisements occupy
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Issue
THE SMYRNA TIMES is an Independent
paper devoted to the welfare of the town
Il represents and the State of which 1t
is part. 1t also gives the items of
Importance of the Eastern Shore OF
Maryland.
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CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Rev. Matte A. Mayer Announces
Services For the Week

Easter Sunday was celebrated in
the Nazarene Church by nicely
rendered program in the morning
by the Junior Sunday School chill
dren. Easter candies were given
the children. The pastor read the
Easter Lesson from Matt. %: lilo.
Special numbers in song were rend-
cred. The evening service was an
other interesting feature of the
day. After prayer and song SER
vice Mrs. George Gardner, dele
gate to the District Assembly at
Bloomsbury, Pa, gave a report Of
the assembly which was enjoyed by
the church. A special number
"Have You Counted the Cost" was
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That DOver-MagnOlia Bypass

That DOver-Magnolia Bypass
Dover is the latest Delaware
town to get off the DUPONT
Boulevard, says the Journal
Every Evening, and to relieve
it's thoroughfares, especially
State street, from the through
traffic which now congests
them.
Like many of the other
towns which have resorted to
like expedient, it doubtless
will derive much benefit, fin
ancial and otherwise, there
from. If present-day esti-
mates be correct, within six
weeks the new section of the
dupont Boulevard carrying
through traffic to the east of
our state capital will be open
and in full operation.
'"The long and short of it is
that with the new sections
completed and hoked up from
the state police station north
of Dover down to the present
highway south of Magnolia,
the heavy seashore and other
traffic bound for or coming
from the eastern sides of
Kent and Sussex counties, in
cluding Rehoboth, Dewey
Beach, Bethany Beach and
Ocean City will not have to
enter Dover at all but will de-
tour around its east side be-
tween north of Dover and
south Of Magnolia, a distance
of several miles. At the same
time the heart of Dover will
be easily accessible to all tour
lists who wish to pass through
it.
ITO those who know the
road system down in that sec
tion Of Kent county it must be
clearly apparent that this new
arrangement will relieve Do
yer Of congestion and street
upkeep expenses and also
make possible higher speeds
from north Of Dover to south
Of Magnolia in the neighbor-
hod Of the two little settle
ments known as Little Heaven
and Little He'll, not far to the
west of Bowers Beach.
'It will be a fine through
traffic arrangement which
may be available to tourists
on or before Memorial Day."
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Published Every Thursday Morning, By
r. d. HOFFECKER. Proprietor.
Founded by Robert d. Hoffecker. July s.
1854. Editor and Proprietor until Feb
ruary 10. 1907.
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Subscription price. s1.5o per year. strictly
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COAL

Our summer time prices should
appeal to your sense of saving
money now. Fill your bin with
Famous Reading Anthracite. This
coal gives you comfort and is de-
pendable for the coolest Winter
weather
Our REDUCTION on Coal April
1st is S1.25 per ton net on Stove,
Egg, Nut and Pea Coal. Get your
order in on this low price.
Our ROOF PAINT and ROOF
CEMENT is of the finest quality
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aware Street.
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