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Evening star., 1936-04-16
WOMAN AS PRESIDENT
PREDICTED BY M'SWAIN
Continuance of Self Education
Will Lead to High Offices,
Soroptimists Told.

Representative McSwain of North
Carolina told the Washington Soropti-
mist Club at its luncheon meeting yes
terday that some day there would be
a woman President in the White
House.
Speaking on equality for women in
the business and professional world,
he expressed the opinion that, through
continuance of self education after
the period of formal instruction in
college had ceased, women might be
expected to hold many of the high
positions in the country.
Guests attending the luncheon in
cluded Mrs. McSwain, Mrs. Grace
Warner Gulesian, past president of
the Boston branch of the American
Pen Women; Moses H. Gulesian, COM
poser of the music for Mrs. Isabel
Anderson's opera librettos; Miss Lily
Hunt of the Washington branch of
American Pen Women, and Mrs.
Helena Reed, past president Of the
Soroptimists.
Evening star., 1936-04-16

arm e d colored
bandits who had
XII d n aped and
robbed him.
w ii ! / a m S
jumped from his
cab while it was
rocketing owe n
S arg mt road,
driven by one OF
his assailants.
The other man
fired at him, but
missed. His cloth
ing ripped TO
shreds, williams
was t ak e n TO
Coe,,oISvy uacTlifo1
Evening star., 1936-04-16
Orders Cows. Gets Bison.

URBANA, Ohio OP.-Bart Saxbe
wondered today if the stories he'd
heard about the extinction of the
buffalo were true.
He found two bison heifers in a
carload of cattle he purchased in
Kansas City.
Evening star., 1936-04-16
18 HOUSES BURNED
North Carolina Families Made

North Carolina Families MADE
Homeless by $4,000 Fire.
LENOIR, N. c., April 16 tP)-Racing
before a high wind, fire yesterday
destroyed 18 wooden houses in VAL
mead, manufacturing community on
the edge of town, and damaged eight
others before it was checked.
A preliminary estimate of the dam
age was $4,000. Red Cross officials
made hasty preparations to take care
of the 18 homeless families for the
night.
Beeler Bolick, a cotton mill worker,
was struck on the forehead by an ak
which slipped from its handle while
being welded by another volunteer fire
fighter, but was not seriously hurt.
Evening star., 1936-04-16
SPEEDING
CAB TO SAVE LIFE
Driver Leaps After CoIored
Bandits Threaten to
Kill Him.

A leap from a car speeding IS miles
an hour early today saved Frederick
G. Williams, SO, taxicab driver, from
possible death at the hands Of two
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
Tuesday
April %, 1896

to enable them to vote at the Primary
Election to be held on the 4th day of
May, 1886.
The hours of registration are be-
tween o'clock A. M. and o'clock
p. M.
The places wherein said registra-
ton will be held in the respective dis
tricts and precincts are as follows:
DISTRICT No. 1, Coston's, Precinct
No. 1. In the County Voting House
at corner of Clarke Avenue and &C.
dar Street, Pocomoke City.
DISTRICT NO. 1, Coston's, Precinct
No. 2. In the storehouse building of
F. M. Wilson, on Clarke Avenue, Po-
comoke City, opposite the residence of
James B. Townsend.
DISTRICT NO. 2, Snow Hill. In
the County Voting House in Snow
Hill.
DISTRICT NO. 3-In the County
Voting House in Berlin.
DISTRICT NO. A, Newark. In the
Firemen's Hall in Newark.
DISTRICT NO. s, St. Martins. In
the building of H. R. Ringler, in Bish-
cpville.
DISTRICT NO. 6, Colbourne. In
the County Voting House in said dis
trict.
DISTRICT NO. z, Atkinson's. In
the County Voting House in said dis
trict.
DISTRICT NO. 8, Stockton, Pre-
cinct No. 1. In the barber shop of
Roland Bowen, in Stockton.
DISTRICT NO. 8, Stockton, Pre-
cinct No. 2. In the building next to
Scarborough, Onley & Co.'S Store, in
Girdletree.
DISTRICT NO. 9, West Berlin. In
the County Voting House in Berlin.
DISTRICT NO. 10. In the Fire En-
CINE House at Ocean City.
Published by order of the Board of
Election Supervisors of Worcester
County.
r. N. stage, President,
MONTGOMERY stage,
G. CARLTON POWELL,
Supervisors.
WILLIAM A. HARRIS, Clerk.
April 17-2t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
CREDIT TO COUNTRY PRESS

With the approach of the national presidential
pagn the Importance of the small
cevng everncreasng attention the national capital
the campaign strategy is being mapped out.
But the capital not the only place where the weekly and
small daily receives its deserved credit
OF public opinion for millions of citizens all the nation
Word has been received Country Magazine
that the second annual contest find the champion country
correspondent of the United States getting
Prizes total $4,000 and the also will get trip
New York and Washington.
The first contest last year. by Mary Elizabeth
Mankey of Oasis Missouri She received the title of Ace
try Correspondent of 193435 and regular
The Country Home Magazine which the
the country well continuing her writing for the Forsyth
Missouri Republican.
In announcing this years contest MI Wheeler McNlen,
editor of The Magazine said that Americas open raises
after talents that should go
We know that thousands of communities through
country men and women doing far better reporting and writ
than city writer's do The quality the
ed in the first contest remarkable that
to make the award annually the Pulitzer Prize
year for distinguished work city papers,
Entries for the 1885 awards should be the
by June 18TH The contest
of newspapers cities of 10000 population may
be submitted to Country Home Magazine in New by
the writer's themselves readers the will
be made by committee of distinguished journalists.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the sub
scriber has obtained from the Or
phans' Court for Worcester County.
Maryland, letters of Administration
on the personal estate of Mary Ellen
Crockett, late of Worcester County,
deceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to ex-
hibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on or before
the goth day of October, 1886. They
may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefits of the said estate.
All persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make immediate pay
ment. Given under my hand this 9th
day of April, 1886.
JAMES nj. CROCKETT,
Administrator.
Test: Paul Jones, Register of Wills.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
ORDER OF publication

The object of this suit is to procure
decree for a divorce a vinculo mat
rimonii by the plaintiff, Rebecca
Moore, from the defendant, Alvin
, Moore.
The Bill recites that the parties
here to were married on March 10Th,
1927. That the plaintiff has been
resident of Worcester County, Mary
land, for more than two years last
passed, while the defendant is nom
resident of the County and State and
when last heard of was a resident
of Lexington, Kentucky. That though
the conduct of your oratrix toward
her husband has always been kind,
affectionate and above reproach, he
without just cause or reason aban-
doned and deserted her, and has de-
clare his intention to live with her no
longer. and that such abandonment has
continued uninterruptedly for more
than three years, and is deliberate and
final, and the separation is beyond
any reasonable hope of a reconcilia-
ton. That there are no children as
issue of said marriage.
1t is. thereupon, by the Circuit
Court for Worcester County, Mary
land, ORDERED this 9th day of April
1896, that the plaintiff, Rebecca
Moore, by causing copy of this order
to be inserted in some weekly news
paper in Worcester County once in
each of four successive weeks before
the 18th day of May, 1886, give notice
to the said absent defendant, Alvin
Moore, of the object and substance of
this Bill, warning him to be and ap-
pear in this Court in person or by
solicitor on or before the 18th day of
May 1886, to show cause, if any he
has, why decree should not be pass
ed as prayed.
BESSIE BOWEN, Clerk.
True Copy Test: Bessie Bowen, Clerk.
April 10-4t
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
Godfrey Child, Atty
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the sub
scribers have obtained from the Or
phans' Court for Worcester County,
Maryland, letters of Administration
c. t. a. on the personal estate of
Lloyd F. Trader late of Worcester
County, deceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on or be-
fore the 3rd day of November, 1886.
They may otherwise by law be exclud-
ed from all benefits of the said es-
tate. All persons indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immediate
payment. Given under my hand this
23rd day of April, 1886.
GODFREY CHILD,
JOSEPH C.. STEVENSON,
Administrators, C. t. a
Test: Paul Jones, Register Of Wills
April 24-3t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
Farmers Of Somerset
Co. Study Soils
Continued from Page 1


ing or soil building crops.
These crops are the annual winter
legumes as vetch, crimson clover and
lespedeza, the annual grasses as su-
dan and millet when turned under,
the perennial grasses as bluegrass and
red top and the winter cover crops as
rye, barley and oats if turned under
as green manure.
Other crops that can be seeded are
the biennial legumes, clovers as
sweet, red, alsike, mammoth and the
perennial legumes of alfalfa, erica les
pedeza and the summer legumes OF
soybeans and cowpeas when turned
under as a green manure crop.
If any of these crops are. seeded
and grown during 1886, will entitle
the farmer to the benefit payment,
according to the number of acres re-
duced in the soil depicting crops, the
maximum payment being the Is per
cent reduction of the soil depicting
crops.
In addition to the above payment
there is a second payment of $1.OO an
acre for the total acreage of soil con-
serving crops on the farm this year.
This payment can be used for cer-
tain soil building practices as the seed
ing of legumes for hay or pastures,
the use of green manure crops as soy
beans or cowpeas to be turned under
and the use of lime or fertilizer on
hay and pasture.
Farmers desiring additional details
on the program should get in touch
with the County Agent.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
CARE TO BE- USED
TO PREVENT THE
FUTURE FLOODS

When they gave Maj.-Gen. Lyle
Brown the job of seeing that the dis
astrous lower Mississippi floods Of
1927 were not repeated he said:
"The law allows us 10 years to put
the Mississippi under control. We
don't need 10 years. The job will be
done sooner"
Ten years from 1928, when the
start was made to put the Jadwin
plan for river control in effect, would
be 1888.
And today, spring of 1886, it looks
as though General Browns state
ment was no idle boast. The army
engineers aren't given to idle boasts.
Through night and day patrols stalk
anxiously along the levee below Cairo,
and although some bottom-lands have
already been flooded, it seems certain
that large-scale flood disasters will
be avoided.
1t has cost 100000 thus far to
achieve this. Before the Jadwin plan
is entirely completed, $325,OOO,OOO
will have been spent.
But the money loss of the 1927
floods alone mounted up to $27O, OOO,-
600, not to speak Of hundreds of lives
lost. If the lower Mississippi protec-
ton system is as effective as it now
appears to be, it will be money well
spent.
Tinkering with the Mississippi has
been going on for so years. But it
was only in 1927 when great breach
es were mashed in the existing levees
and 10000 square miles Of territory
were flooded, that a really big plan
was adopted. Gen. Edgar Jadwin,
chief of army engineers, designed the
plan and General Brown has been in
charge of most of the work, now 80
per cent completed.
The job is so tremendous that few
realize what it means. For one thing,
twice as much dirt was moved as was
scooped out for the Panama Canal.
The present levee system, about 1000
miles long, all constructed to uniform
! standards of strength is longer than
, the Great Wall of China and in some
places it is rs times as thick.
In addition to the levees, IL "bends'
, in the river have been Strengthened
out. That allows the water to rur
more swiftly, and tends to prevent il
from "flattening out" over the coun.
try.
In several places floodways have
been built. These are supplementary
channels or basins into which the riv.
CT water can be diverted whenever
the pressure gets so great that il
seems likely to break the levee. This
involves some flooding, but the areas
are chosen from among those which
are swampy anyway, or which have
few farmers living on them.
New Orleans is believed to be al
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
NOTICE
OF THE
Registration
OF Voters
OF WORCESTER COUNTY
FOR 1886

All persons eligible for registration
and all persons in Worcester County
who will be 81 years of age by this
Presidential Election, on November 3,
1886, and all persons who have re-
moved to Worcester County from an
otder county in the State of Mary
land, or from Baltimore City in the
State of Maryland, since the general
registration of voters in Worcester
County in 1880, and are otherwise
qualified for registration, are hereby
notified that there will be registra-
ton of voters throughout Worcester
County on
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24

last absolutely safe from flood. The
completion of the magnificent Bonnet
Care spillway makes it possible to
divert the Mississippi waters into
Lake Pontchartrain if the flood crests
gets too high for the levee. The At
chafalay cutoff west of New Orleans
has also been completed.
This deepening of channels into
which the Mississippi overflows at
flood should also carry off high water,
and between the two, New Orleans
breathes easily for the first time.
There will be no repetition of 1927
when the levee below the city was de-
liberately blasted open, flooding broad
areas to relieve pressure upstream
and save the city.
New Madrid, Mo-, which was COM
pletely submerged in the disaster of
1927, is safe today, engineers agree.
The floodway, or parallel emergency
channels which can be opened in case
of danger, are ready, extending from
Birds Point to New Madrid. And
the "back levees" or second line of
defense, are also ready.
Though the Jadwin plan is not COM
plete the levees emergency channels
and other works which run from Rock
Island, ILL.,, down past Cairo, Memphis,
and on to the Gulf of Mexico, are near
enough to completion to give protec-
ton this spring. Flood crests from
the Ohio, entering the great river at
Cairo, have not endangered the works.
/ Except for small areas in little-set-
tied places, it is believed that the
Father of Waters is safe in all of
the 1000 miles he takes to travel the
600 miles a crow flies from Cairo to
| New Orleans.
The appropriation for the present
year is $15,OOO,OOO, about half of
which is being spent on maintaining
the navigable channel, and half for
finishing up small levees around New
Orleans and cave-ins along the bank.
Revetments-or BLANKETS" of con-
crete, wire or willow matting-have
been laid at many points to protect
the levee bottoms from river scour.
AS a result of all this labor, the
Mississippi can now carry about two
million cubic feet of water per second
Heavy rains in all the tributary val
legs simultaneously could put three
million feet into the channel south of
the Arkansas river, which is where
most of the uncompleted portion of
the work lies.
The Overton bill now before Con-
gress would provide another 100000
900 to be spent during the next six
years on floodways in Arkansas and
Louisiana. That is over and above
the original Jadwin plan, which may
easily be carried out complete within
three years, and under the original
estimated cost.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
DEMOCRATIC
Primary
Election
NOTICE

To the Judges and Clerks of the Elec-
ton and Voters of Worcester
County:
Notice is hereby given to the Judges
and Clerks of Election, and the quail
flied voters of Worcester County, that
a Primary Election will be held for
the purpose of nominating a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for President of the United States or
for an uninstructed delegation to the
Democratic State Convention, on
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
ACUTE EUROPEAN SITUATION

ACUTE EUROPEAN SITUATION
The tangled European situation steadily acute
a@ pn neen Which,
got precisely nowhere They simply served show how econ
cabe the differences between the opposed European inter-
~ short time the Locano include Pract
Germany voator of the Locao Pact The powers presented
%d1d and ma Ra % would 5 by it G
not take mioy action The proposed called for
cupaton of strip frontier by soldiers
while negotiations being carried adjudication by the
World Court of the problems involved and finally information
al conference to European peace.
Hes this politely automatically phras
But after the Verbage Sfted
definite No In return the Reaeader submitted peace
be abtraed by the World Court
national body Nor would it call for international
France and Belgium would send troops to the Dor
create pac with France and Belgium Whereby each country
would demtarze equal distance back from the from
with these Countries addition she would debae
with Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lthuania and Austria
French to this the Germanys
the Locarno Powers offer-a firm "No"
The upsho that informed
coming and coming And this country the great ques
ton when breaks out in Europe what will be the stand
of the United States Government"
The has attempted perfect Of 100
the country However is easier to want
to neutral than to be neutral American trade rights
matter declare embargoe of wabut what of
modities such wool steel cotton which essential
of peace Such questions these many
in the State Department keeping Secretary Hull his
aides awake nights.
Very recently Mr. Hull said that is his
concerted international action designed protect rights
neurals in time He did not disclose any definite
for doing this said that has been approach
ed 1t interesting speculation whether ap-
proach each power individually call world conference.
nsrv addition Hull said he to
ons be desticed to time normal proportions There
for much trouble this-a nation looking
might buy tremendous quantities of beforehand
then claim that these peacetme purchases
cred normal
At rate the u S. Government going find
raly of it's most important and difficult problems
time to While Europe talks
and gets ready to fight American craftsmanship faces of it's
most severe tests in trying keep at of foreign
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
CARD OF THANKS

To our many friends who so will
ingly rendered their aid and boats in
dragging for the body of Frank Dry
den, to the Coast Guardsmen from
Assateague and Wallops Beach Sta
ton, to Captain Elmer Anderton and
his crew, who found and brought in
his body, to all those who gave flow
ers, and offered expressions of sym-
pathy, we wish to voice our most
heartfelt thanks and sincere apprecia-
ton.
Wife, Daughter, Mother, Sis
ter and Brothers.
April 24-1t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
WORCESTER COUNTY BAR
ASSOCIATIONS MEETING

ton held it's annual meeting Friday
night April 18th at the Hotel Purnell
in Snow Hill, Md. Those who attend
ed were Attorneys William Price,
Godfrey Child, John Sanford, William
Kerbin, Thomas Johnson, Leroy
Smith, Franklin Upshur and William
Miller. Officers elected were VIM.
Price, Pres, Godfrey Child, Vice Pres.
and John Sanford, Sec. and Treas.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
Public Auction

The contents of the Davis Store
Building, at the corner of Second and
Willow Streets, Pocomoke City, Mary
land, will be sold at public auction for
cash on Monday, April 27, 1886. be-
ginning at the hour of ten o'clock A.
M. The stock consists of furniture
rugs, lamps, groceries, dishes, cook
ing utensils, notions, etc.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
STATES RIGHTS

The poor are always with Even political Washington,
which qualres about everything concludes that the and
hungry of the county must be fed and cared for Upon this
point all But the wastefu methods bu-
reaucrats which that this be better
cation of authority in Washington will become
of the campaign
The compromise of methods point toward re-
sumption of local government with established
which the National government may help making
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
Monday, May 4, 1886

Election Districts of said county.
All persons whose surnames begin
with the letters from A to ] both in
elusive, will vote at the places desig-
mated below. Likewise, where their
surnames begin with the letters X to
T., both inclusive, separate voting
house will be provided as below:
FIRST DISTRICT, Precinct No. l
"A to inclusive. In the County Vot-
ing House at the south corner of &C.
dar Street and Clarke Avenue, POGO
moke City.
FIRST DISTRICT, Precinct No. 1
X to z, inclusive. In the storehouse
of C. w. Bunting on Clarke Avenue.
FIRST DISTRICT, Precinct No.
A to ] inclusive. In the storehouse
building of F. M. Wilson, on Clarke
Avenue opposite the residence of Jas.
s. Townsend.
FIRST DISTRICT, Precinct No. q
K to z, inclusive. In the same place
as A to J, storehouse building of F.
M. Wilson.
SECOND DISTRICT-A to J, inclu-
sive. In the County Voting House,
back of the Court House in Snow Hill.
SECOND DISTRICT-K to z, in
elusive. In the County Voting House
in Snow Hill.
THIRD DISTRICT-A to J, inclu-
sive. County Voting House in Berlin.
THIRD DISTRICT-K to z, inclu-
sive. In the new Municipal Building
in Berlin.
FOURTH DISTRICT-In the Fire
mems Building in Newark.
FIFTH DISTRICT-In the house of
H. r. Ringler, in Bishopville.
SIXTH DISTRICT-In the County
Voting House in said District
SEVENTH DISTRICT-In the
County Voting House in said District.
EIGHTH DISTRICT, Precinct No.
In the barber shop of Roland Bow
en-, Stockton.
EIGHTH DISTRICT, Precinct No.
Pin the building next to Scarbor-
ough's Store in Girdletree.
NINTH DISTRICT, A to J, inclu-
sive. In the County Voting House in
Berlin.
NINTH DISTRICT, K to z, inclu-
sive. In Mrs. John Rayne's barber
shop.
TENTH DISTRICT-In the Fire
Engine House in Ocean City.
The polls will be open at Z o'clock
A. M. and close at o'clock P. M. in
/ all Election Districts and Precincts of
I the County.
Published by order of the Board of
Election Supervisors of Worcester
County.
R. N. stage, Pres,
MONTGOMERY stage,
G. CARLTON POWELL,
Supervisors.
WILLIAM A. HARRIS, JR.,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
WORK FOR JUNGLE SAM

WORK FOR JUNGLE SAM
Start sos to SITS month. Pleasant
work. Men women. Try next Po-
comoke City examinations. Common
education usually sufficient. Exper-
fence unnecessary. Full particulars,
list jobs and sample coaching
Write today sure. Franklin Institute,
Dept. 1872 N, Rochester, N. Y.
April 3-5tp.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our apprecia-
ton to the Pocomoke Fire Co., also
other friends for the assistance given
us during the night our home was
destroyed by fire.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Landlord.
April 24-1t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-04-24

Try LarrO Chick Builder this year
for complete feeding satisfaction. A
new combined starting and growing
mash for the first twelve weeks. Let
your chicks tell you how good it is.
Use Perfection Laying Mash for more
eggs at less cost. Westover Mills.
April 3-tf