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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-25
|. 0. 0. RALLY
AT SALISBURY
NOVEMBER Fl
All Lodges In The Four Lower
Eastern Shore Counties
To Assemble
RALLY EXPECTED TO
BE LARGEST SINCE '21

A rally Of all lodges of the I. O..
o. F. in the four lower Eastern Shore
counties will be held in the First Regi
ment Armory Saturday, November 81.
Three degrees will be conferred up
on approximately 800 candidates by
the Eden degree team of Whining
ton.
Plans for the rally were made at
a recent meeting in the Newton Lodge
rooms, attended by representatives of
all lodges in Wicomico, Worcester,
Somerset and Dorchester counties.
The rally is expected to be the
largest held by the Odd Fellows since
the dedication of the temple in Sails
bury in 1921, when degrees were
conferred upon 600 candidates before
approximately 1000 Odd Fellows.
Charles w. Bennett, Grand Chap
lain of the Grand Lodge of Mary
land, is chairman of the committee
on arrangements for the rally. He
will be assisted by c. M. Caddell,
Noble Grand of Newton Lodge; How
eth Bramble, Harvey Campbell and
C. C. Cooper, all of Salisbury.
Grand Master T. Earl Ewing, of
Easton, attended the meeting at
which plans were made for the No
vember rally and addressed the dele
frnY1o ho
The Eden degree team is recognized
as national champion in the order.
1t has conferred all degrees before
the Sovereign Grand Lodge several
times with a SO per cent record.
Prior to the rally here, the Eden
team will confer degrees on 1000 can
didates at a rally at Camden, N. j.,
on November z. The Eden team con-
sists of 80 men, and carries it's own
orchestra.
A detailed program for the rally
is being prepared by the committee on
arrangements.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-25
DEAD BODIES
THROWN UP BY
SEA AT RESORT
Victims OF FOundered Vessel
Lewes, Del, Are Discover
ed At Ocean City
THIRTY-FOUR OF THE
CREW WERE SAVED

Gruesome reminders of the storm
of last week appeared in the. bodies
Of two men washed upon the beach
near Ocean City on Tuesday of this
week.
These bodies were believed to be
those of members of the crew of the
fishing steamer Long Island, which
foundered Friday off Lewes, Del, dur
ing the height of the storm.
One was that of l.. j. Conklin, Of
Kilmarnock, Va, second engineer and
the only white man on the vessel not
accounted for. It had the initials
81. j. c." tatooed on the right arm.
The other was that of Negro who
was wearing a life jacket from the
Long Island.
Ewing Easter resident of New
Jersey, saw the body Of the white
man while he was fishing for drum
in the surf, two and quarter miles
south of the North Beach Coast Guard
station.
Easter dropped his fishing tackle
and ran to the Coast Guard Station
to notify John M. Sterling, who was
in charge. The Coast Guardsmen re-
covered this body and took it to the.
station.
Easter hardly had resumed his fish
ing at point a quarter of a mile
south of the station when the waves
piled the other body up on the beach
in front of him. He hurried to notify
the Coast Guardsmen, who recovered
it and notified the district commander
In the pocket of the white man was
found SIS, one So bill and three 81 bills.
The Negro had only 10 cents in his
pockets.
All thirty-nine members of the
Long Islands crew at first were be-
lieved to have persisted in the storm,
but a barge picked up thirty-four of
them and took them to safety.
Of the five others, Capt. Romney
George, of Foxville, Va, master of
the vessel, was known to have drown
ed.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-25

Mrs. B. T. Dryden has returned
from Pennsylvania where she spent
the past two weeks with her mother.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-25
TEN MILLION
BALLOTSMAILED
in DIGEST POLL
MarvIand's Return In This Poll
Will Be Tailed AS
A Unit
SMALL MARGIN OF
ERROR IN THESE POLLS

Individual ballots have been mail
ed to voters of Pocomoke City and
nearby communities in new Literary
Digest poll of over 100000 persons
to ascertain who will be the next
President of the United States. The
votes should be distributed by the
Post Office locally within few days,
according to advice received from the
magazines publishers.
Maryland's returns in this 1886
referendum will be tailed as a unit
so they may be compared with the
voting in other states, it is anoun-
ced.
The voting of the postcard ballots
is secret as no signature or other
Identification is required and the re-
turn postage is paid by magazine.
To guard against tampering and coun-
terfeiting a specially manufactured
cardboard is used for printing the
ballot, according to the sponsors OF the
poll, and all spurious votes can be de-
detected Immediately and destroyed.
The ballots asks the voters choice
of the seven officially nominated can
didates and for whom he or she voted
in the 1882 election to reveal the
general drift from one party to an
other.
This is announced as the fourth
ouadrennial national Presidential poll
conducted by The Literary Digest.
The three previous polls have fore
cast the Presidential winner with ''un-
canny accuracy"
Ballots are reported being mailed
from the magazines headquarters in
New York at the rate of over 100000
per day and will continue until every
section of the country has been sent
it's proportionate share of the total
being mailed. Publication of the
early returns has already started.
The Forthcoming balloting will be
the twelfth national multi-million vote
poll conducted by The Literary Digest
besides several localized referendums
which included the 1888 Mayoralty
contest in New York City and the
1884 Gubarnatorial election in Cali
fornia.
Seven of the twelve polls were held
in advance of elections and each of
the seven forecasts the official out
come with small margin Of error,
the magazine reports.
The Literary Digest states that just
prior to the 1882 election it predicted
Roosevelt would get 1896 per cent of
the popular vote in his campaign a.
gainst Hoover. The official returns
showed that the President received
1914 per cent of the Roosevelt
Hoover vote, revealing an error Of
0.72 per cent in the magazines fore
cast.
A staff of more than 1000 addition
al employees is reported to have been
engaged by The Literary Digest for
the mailing of the ballots and the
tallying of the returns in the forth
coming Presidential poll.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-25
MORNING PRAYER And
SERMON AT ST. MARY'S

Services in St. Mary's Episcopal
Church, this city on Sunday Septem-
Der 20, at II o'clock, A. M. Morning
Prayer and Sermon by the Rector,
Rev. R. B. Mathews, D. D., Church
School at 10 A. M.
Evening star., 1936-12-03
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, December 3.-Recov-
cry lights f1ickered in today's stock
market and a wide assortment of
heavy industry leaders climbed back
fractions to around 4 points at the
best.
The upward reversal, however, failed
to pick up much speed and selling
in the final hour reduced extreme ad-
vances in many instances. Transfers
approximated 100000 shares.
Brokers generally attributed the bet
ter action Of the list to a revival o.
business optimism based on the con-
tinued flow of dividends, bright earn
ings statements, wage increases and
bonuses.
At the same time skeptics were still
plentiful in the financial sector as the
thought persisted with some that the
long string of good economic news
may have been discounted, at least 10
a certain extent.
There was also an abundance of for
eign complications for which the
majority of Wall Streeters declined TO
offer solution.
Outstanding on the upturn were
shares Of American Locomotive. Gen
eral Railway Signal, Westinghouse
Airbrake. Lima Locomotive. Pullman.
Poor 6S Co.. American Car & Foundry
and Pressed Steel Car. Baldwin Loco
motive was an exception to the equip
ments, dropping about a point.
Others well ahead we're Armour.
Swift, Wilson & Co. u S. Steel. Beth
lehem, Republic. U. S. Pipe & Foundry.
Interlake Iron, American Rolling Mill,
American Telephone, International
Paper & Power preferred, Anaconda.
International Nickel, Woolworth,
Montgomery Ward, Boeing, Goodrich,
Du Pont, Westinghouse. Wilcox Oil,
Superior Oil, Santa Fe. N. Y. Central.
Allegheny Corp. preferred, New Haven
preferred, Loew's and Paramount.
National Distillers voted an extra
disbursement to shareholders, but this
and other liquor issues did little.
Evening star., 1936-12-03
New Orleans Prices

NEW ORLEANS, December 2 lP.-
Lower Liverpool cables brought an easier
tone to cotton prices today.
Losses ranging from 6 TO points were
marked up against options at the start
Of trading. DEALINGS were not as active
as in recent sessions when the market
was on the upgrade
Liverpool reported that the constitu-
tional crisis over the English Kings plans
stocks
Trade buying that has supported the
New Orleans market so far this week was
again in evidence. but prices we're al
lowed to slip of around 25 cents q bale
in the early dealings. There was little
speculative activity.
Cottonseed oil futures opened steady.
December. lO.03b; January. a.96b; March.
1905; May. l0.l5b; July. 10.31b, Bid.
Evening star., 1936-12-03
new YORK COTTON
By the Associated Press.

~ t11e 111SONIuNtu EItbbs
NEW YORK, December 3.-Early
losses of to IA points in cotton today
under December liquidation. realizing
and easier Liverpool cables encoun-
tered increased trade buying and
prices recovered by midafternoon.
Outside buying developed on the
decline, owing partly TO firmness Of
the stock market, and March rallied
from l194 to 1904.
In late trading it was selling at
1908 and prices generally were net
unchanged to points lower.
Evening star., 1936-12-03
CHICAGO GRAIN
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 3.-Late up
turns lifted Chicago wheat prices to
more than 2 cents a bushel above
early bottom levels.
Offerings of wheat and rye became
scarce after early selling was absorbed.
December wheat and rye reached new
top price records for the season. Esti-
mates of the wheat needs of importing
countries this season were placed at
so, ,000, 900 bushels more than last sea-
son,
Evening star., 1936-12-03

CONTINUED on Twenty-third Pase.)
Evening star., 1936-12-03
Cottonseed Oil.

Spot steady; middlins. 1o.t
Evening star., 1936-12-03

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat, No. /, hard. 1904;
corn. No. 3, mixed, 1.04: No. 2, yellow,
Ito; old, 1.1224; No. 3. yellow. 10534a
o6ls; No. 4 yellow. 1.01 1aao534; No. 3,
white, 1.08; No. 4. white. 1.06a061a:
oats. No. l. white, 481aa49; No. 2,
white. 47a48: No. white, 46a461zs
rye, No. 2, l.0Sh04h; soy beans, No.
2, yellow. 1.36a361a: No. 3, yellow.
1.341aa36h; No. 4, yellow, 1.35; bar
ley, feed. 60a8s, nominal; mailing, 100
a40, nominal; timothy seed, 5.s5a6.l0
hundredweight; new, 5.65a85 hun
dredweight; clover seed, 2400a3l 90
hundredweight.
Baltimore Quotations.
~, BALTIMORE, December 3 0o.-wheat.
No. 2, red Winter, garlicky, SPOT domestic,
1.2eA; December, 1.2sA.
Evening star., 1936-12-03

Cottonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed steady. December, 1O.55b; jan
uary. 10.56b; March, 1857; May,
l080b; July, 10.87b. Sales, 2l7 con-
tracts. including four switches.
Bid.
Evening star., 1936-12-03

4 Voters of 223 municipalities located
"a IS States during the month of No
Nember approved municipal bond Is
aies aggregating $109, ITO. .355, as COM
1ared with $7,749,3 ,325 bonds approved
during October. according to the Daily
1ond Buyer. The total for November,
183S. was $11s.s09. .7l9. compared with
116s, ,325, $50 In November. 1884, and
o22z, ,586, ,032 In 1888.
Evening star., 1936-12-25

tionate pet. In fact, the tanned tapirs
may be seen walking about the streets
or property close TO their home forest
and apparently not caring to Join their
relatives.
All members Of the tribe are thick
set and ungainly. The legs are short
and sturdy, the ears erect, the skin
thick and smooth, with a very scanty
coat of hair of uniform color, and the
tail too short to mention, axcept to let
you know 1t was not left out Of the
general description.
Who knows but you may be in the
creatures own country some day and
wish to identify 1t to your own salts
faction. In the Malayan Peninsula
and northward toward Tenasserim, or
in the island Of Sumatra and maybe
in Borneo, you may find yourself with
q research party. You may at first
see footprints in the mud or dust.
Knowing that the four toes on the
forefeet are unusual in that the three
main toes correspond to our three
middle fingers and that the small out
side one represents our little finger,
you have your clue. II the mud or
dust Is not deep. there will be no rec
ord left by the outside toe, or finger.
When the tapir becomes aware of
your presence. he takes at once to the
thorny brush or water. His hide Is so
tough he can go through blade-like
leaves unharmed, and he is clever
enough to avail himself of this avenue
Of escape.
Dogs annoy them greatly. They can
outwit most of them, however. But
the dogs have been trained by those
who are very anxious to capture the
tapir. for to the natives they are very
valuable for their flesh and their hide
as well. and the trained animals know
how to chase the tapirs toward their
doom, which is deep water or out into
the open.
The tapirs are not overly sociable
Evening star., 1936-12-25
By the Way
Beth Blaine

THE given at the attractive North
by Mr. and Mrs Arthur
White daughter Bettna Belmont The
quests came aounda through the hunting country from New
washington
belonged to hunt clubs
in their hunt colors
attractive place for pdy-he
holly wreaths close
they decoration mammoth horseshoe
of Warrenton the
beautiful Betina
and looked loveer The
biscuit velvet with deeper
sb cluster OF the
Near the receiving line sat Bcnas
kindly black
beamng with JOY
Among Countess
white good
looking Runanan williams and Mrs
Wornson with lovely daughter and
son Ralph Margaret wh always
Audrey Campbell
Martha Blair becoming with trimming
Mr. and Mrs Jock Whitney present
a Mr. and Mrs Bill Doelar-Lou"
siue cloth Mrs. George Sloane-'Kay"
Helen Hinckeyhe Jack Hnckleys
house at last finished
1t goriosly party
will be OF
come!
woodland drive
friends Sunday night Tor
beautiful yacht which belongs the
the Winter sounds
and delightful!
Evening star., 1936-12-25

and Frances T. sentell. 30. 1117 goth
st, Hey. u: NJ. p Jones;
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Brown &. oambrell. so. 2oes 18th st.. and
Florence Owens. A. 20l" 14th ST.: Rev.
Theodore r. o.de, 81. 4s2s Hun. pl. me-.
and Margaret Robinson. "A. 915 9th ST.;
Lott p Rolines, 80 1913 R st. and Lucille
Claiborne. 2e. 2os D st. s.w.; Rev. W.
Abraham j.. Himelfard. %. and Anne Sam
uel, rs. both Of Baltimore; Rev. J. +.
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ne: Rev. J. NJ. Gillum.
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ton. Va: Rev. FIeeley Rohrer.
Ralph Smith. r.. 28 and Annie M. Alcott.
28. both Of Richmond: Rev. J. c. Ball,
Samuel p. Allen 4s. Long Island. N. Y,
and Arabella Hipson. 4S. Ventnor, N. j.:
Rev. O. Z. schnabel.
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walter J. HAWKINS. 80. sso St. and Mer-
cedes L. Mayheld. 20. New Orleans La: {:
Rev. J. p. Hamilton.
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28. both Of 1910 s ST.; Rev. Augustus
Moses Garter %. e774 Sheriff I'd. ne.
and Daisy I. Wallace %. 1913 Meade
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Jacob b. Williams. ss. 1133 9Th st. ne. and
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Evening star., 1936-12-25
Cadet, Midshipmen
Ball Tonight

Cadets, midshipmen, commissioned
officers Of the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps, with their families and friends,
as well as diplomats and officials, will
attend the ninth annual ball for
cadets and midshipmen. The party
tonight will be held in the ball room
of the Mayflower, which is decorated
with flags and Christmas greens.
Receiving at the ball will be Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. Frederick w. Boschen,
Gen. and Mrs. Frederick w. Coleman,
Admiral and Mrs. George T. Pettengill,
Col. and Mrs. Alexander D. SurIes,
Lieut.. and Mrs. Merrill K. Clement
son, Mrs. John w. Joyes, Mrs. Allan
Chantry and Mrs. John Clay Goodloe.
Col. Joseph j. Staley, U. S. M. c., will
introduce the guests, as he has done
for the past eight years.
Supper will be served in the presi-
dental dining room, where the tables
will be gayly decorated with holly and
red tapers The ball has been spon-
sored by Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner since
its inception nine years ago.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Miss Taylor Bride of
Mr.. Henry Hawkins

The marriage Of Miss Lillian Eliza
beth Taylor, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
Ivar Taylor of Beltsville. Nd, to Mr..
Henry Ford Hawkins, son of Mrs.
May Hawkins Of Washington, took
place this morning at II O'Clock. In
the residence of the brides parents at
Beltsville, Nd, the Rev. Charles L.
Felty, pastor. Odenton- -Jessup Circuit,
M. E. Church South oficiating. The
house was decorated with pink roses
and palms.
The bride was given in marriage by
her father, and she wore q gown OF
white taffeta, fashioned with long
sleeves, a cluster Of orange blossoms in
her hair and carried brides roses.
Miss Ellen Farley of Hollywood, Nd,
was the maid Of honor, wearing a green
taffeta gown and carrying pink roses.
Two little sisters Of the bride. were
flower girls. Mr.. Jack Hutchison was
the best man.
A small reception followed the cere-
mony. Mr.. Hawkins and his bride will
be at home at 634 Ninth street north
east.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Natures Children
MALAY TAPIR (Tapirus Indicus).

among themselves and the males are
very determined to be alone. There
Is one baby . year. 1t Is usually vel
vety black, with streaks of brownish
yellow along the sides, and white un-
derneath. About six months old, the
youngster has shed his birthday colors
and resembles his parents. When fully
grown he will be about 3la feet at
the withers and slightly higher in the
back. From the tip Of his snout to the
root Of his abbreviated tail he will be
8 feet long.
1t Is said by the natives that the
flesh Is tender, with beef flavor. The
skin Is very thick and strong. It is
cut into thongs, treated with fat and
rounded to be used for reins and
brides. The hair, hoofs and certain
parts are made into medicine and you
may even see the hoofs worn as
charms.
The only form Of communication is
by shrill whistle which is used at all
times and often gives the tapir's hid
ing place to the hunter.
tCopyrisht. 1850
Evening star., 1936-12-25
By J. 4. Parker.

wac w w ~ 1SSSA4oSN
| Into the arena attendants carried
a huge tin box and placed it directly
in the center of the middle ring. Bar.
ney watched as bale after bale of straw
was opened and stuffed into the Gu
bicle and sprayed literally with gas.
line. From the dressing tent strode {
curious figure clad in queer asbesto!
suit and helmet, whom the ringmastel
loudly introduced as "The Human
Torch"
TAUNTILY waving his gloved hand
y the performer stepped into the tir
box. Impressively, the ringmastel
locked the door and set the gasoline
soaked straw aflre. It was horrible
sight as the box f1ared up and the thin
metal sides took or an incandescent
glow. Even from his seat Barney
could feel that fierce heat. Surely nc
man could survive it!
The blaze died out, and when the
door was unlocked the Human
Torch" stepped out, perfectly intact!
Hastily Barney made his way to the
dressing tent and sought out this mar
vel. As he went, already the plan for
a knockout act was crystalizing. Bar
ney found that Buzz Grimes was will
ing to listen. Startling as was his
performance it still lacked that GER
tain something. So he and Barney
put their heads together.
Moe Abrams openly scoffed when
Barney told him about the new aci
he and Buzz had. But when he had
seen Buzz do his stuff and Barney hac
supplied his part, which consisted OF
setting up oil-soaked clothing over
his fireproofed tights ablaze, and then
doing triple trapeze change before
dropping 40 feet into large tank OF
water, Moe was enthusiastic. He saw
great possibilities for the team.
THE agents most sanguine expecta.
tions were exceeded by the sue
cess of Buzz and Barney. Fairs, ex-
| hibitions, carnivals clamored for the
act, and things looked very good in.
deed for the Human Torch" and hi.
high flying partner.
Barney worked hard to do his share
Of the work. Before long he had &C.
customed himself to the heat, which
beat with fiery hands at his body
during his flight from platform t.
tank. And his Joy was unconfined
when the astute Moe waneled fol
them a contract which promised NOR,
money than Barney had ever made
even in his flush days.
In gay mood Barney considered 4
high time to celebrate. He was on tor
of the world once again! All cares
left behind, the old trouper went te
the beach to relax. The blisterine
sands soothed his tired body. He fell
asleep.
Three days later he passed out ir
the hospital-from q severe case o,
sunburn!
(Copyright. 1936.)
Evening star., 1936-12-25

who in his itinerant life had but one
desire-to divert his public to their
expense and his own satisfaction.
For many years, until his eyes had
grown weary of the familiar sight,
Barney Braxton had been reading the
handwriting on the wall, and still from
force of habit he persisted in his mega
ton of the fact that he, along with his
beloved vocation, was positively and ir-
revocably on the skids.
Even when his booking agent began
billing his solo aerial act to split
weeks and long jumps from tank
town to whistle stop in the sticks,
Barney couldn't believe that he was
nearly through. Barney still lived
in the era represented by the yellow
ing scrapbooks bulging with press no.
tices and clippings, most Of them with
glowing accounts of Ethel and Bar
ney, "The Flying Braxtons."
Then Moe Abrams, his agent in
Brooklyn, gently explained: Il know
your act is good. Barney. You're one
of the best aerialists in the profession.
But it won't click any more, outside
OF maybe a circus. You know how
it Is, Barney. The moving pictures
have got the business licked. What
you've got to do is pep up the act or
find something else more spectacular.
The public is tired Of just plain
trapeze acts" Then Barney began to
realize the horrid truth. Moe was
right.
TT IS doubtless a hard and painful
thing for man who was once
topnotcher in the business, who could
look back to the time when he had
laid nonchalant claim to having oc-
cupied the next to closing spot at the
Coliseum, to face the bald fact that
he is, finally, what he had never
thought Of being-a has-been.
Traditionally, once trouper, al
ways a trouped. Instead of being
crushed by the realization that the
whole and sum result of a lifetime
OF work was as Dead Sea fruit, Barney
tutted out his chin and went into a
huddle with himself If the public
demanded something new, something
spectacular, Barney was the man to
give 1t to them!
For weeks, while he was technically
"at liberty" because Moe could find no
exhibitor optimistic enough to hire
an outmoded vaudeville act, Barney
bent his every effort to the problem
of discovering something fresh, rou-
tine that would knock the tickle pub
lie f1guratively out of their seats
Every day that passed left as heri-
tage fresh ashes of despair. Barney
began to admit, even to himself, that
the problem was too much for him
The total result Of unceasing attend
ance at nearby fairs and exhibitions,
searching for the germ of an idea,
was q headache.
\ X X X
A ND then one day Barney stumbled
almost by accident, upon some