davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-08-06

include Rex Ingram, de Lawd" OF
Green Pastures; Dorothy Manor,
colored star Of the Hampton Institute
Singers; Patti Chaplin and Jack
Arthur, radio vocalists. and East and
Dumke, radios droll Sisters OF the
Skillet"
Robert Young and Ann Sothern OF
screen fame, and Ernest Hutcheson.
concert pianist, will contribute to the
Music Hall" program on WRC at 9.
Evening star., 1936-08-06
prisoners headed from Leavenworth tt
Alcatraz.

Karpis fiattened his nose against q
window. then arose, grinning at curious
railroad men.
How are you?" one asked.
The kidnaper revealed he was hand
cuffed. He smiled broadly.
A guard strolled up.
Hes there, all right" the guard
said. Acts like he's going on q
picnic"
The guard was asked II Thomas
Robinson, jr, sentenced Tor the Ken
lucky kidnapping OF Mrs. Berry v
StoIl. also was aboard.
''Never heard of him." he replied.
Evening star., 1936-08-06

THE District Commissioners ap-
pointed a new poundmaster the
other day and that gave Shannon
Allen, program maestro Of N. B. C's
Washington studios. new idea. As
result there will be a broadcast
from a dog catcher's wagon as it
Evening star., 1936-08-06
Debts Silence Church Bells.

To save Is cents a week, the bells
Of one Of London's most historic
churches. St. Bartholomew the Great,
dating back to 1923. will not be rung
because the church is in debt.
Evening star., 1936-08-06
Girl to Practice Law.

Miss Ellice Aylmer Hearn. daugh.
ter Of the archdeacon of Cork, Irish
Free State. has been admitted to the
practice Of law.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
SHORE CHURCHES TO
GET NEW PASTORS

The Rev. Lester E. Windsor, native
of Paramount, omerset Co., for the
past ten years pastor of st. Johns
Methodist Episcopal Church in Sea-
ford. Del, has rendered his resigna-
ton to the official board of the church
to take effect at the next session of
the Wilmington Conference, which will
convene in the Delmar M. E. Church
late in March.
Rev. Ralph L. Mincker, pastor of
Emmanuel M. E. Church, at Crisfield,
has resigned to take effect when con.
ference meets next month. Rev. Min
cker has accepted the Superintendency
of the Ferris Industrial School for
Boys, near Wilmington, and has al
ready taken over the position, still
serving the Crisfield church on Sun
days.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
BURNS FATAL TO
GAS SATION OPERATOR

Burns inflicted upon his body Sum
day when a stove in his filling sta
ton exploded were fatal Monday to
Eldridge P. Simms. He died Monday
morning at Peninsula General Hos
pital.
Simm's wife was also painfully
burned about the body and is in a
critical condition but she is expected
to recover.
Confusing reports were circulated
on the cause of the explosion. All
of these, however, indicate that Simms
had endeavored to rekindle a fire in
the stove by use Of a liquid from a
can, which he apparently believed was
kerosene. The cans contents is be-
l1eved to have been either an anti
freeze solution or gasoline.
The explosion sent a shower of
flaming liquid over the Simms' cloth
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
EVANS WHARF SWEPT
BY FIRE THURSDAY

The canning factory of the old Bay
Canning Co., the old steam boat wharf
at Evans Wharf, on Pungoteague
Creek, and the steamer Chippewa"
used to furnish power and lights for
the canning factory were found in a
mass of ruins Thursday morning last
when the residents of that section
arose for the day. The first report
of the fire was made by Mr.. Wood,
who was remodeling and rebuilding
the Chippewa" to make it suit the
needs of the canning factory for the
coming season. The cause of the fire
and the time it occurred are unknown
according to the best information OBJ
tainable.
The factory was built the past year
and had been operated one season for
canning tomatoes. The loss is placed
at from $4,000 to 100000. The
Waterman was asleep in a nearby
house and was unaware of the fire
until he awoke Thursday morning.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
FORMER SALISBURY
EDITOR DIES

Clarence White, SO, who left the
old Courier at Salisbury, to become
editor of a Philadelphia newspaper,
died in that city last Monday.
The body was brought to Salisbury
last Wednesday and funeral services
were conducted at the grave, Parsons
Cemetery, at 2 p. M, by Rev. Albert
H. Frost, rector of St. Peters Church.
He is survived by widow, the for
mer Miss Daisy Ellegood, of Sails
bury and two daughters, Mrs. Law
renee Ward and Mrs. John Hose, of
Philadelphia.
A staunch Republican, White took a
part in that party's affairs in that
county and the state during his edi-
torship of the Courier. From that
position he went to Philadelphia to
become night editor of the old Press.
In a merger of that paper with the
Public Ledger, he continued with the
latter and was connected with it I'M
til his death.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
NEAR TRAGEDY AVERTED
BY CHESTERTOWN MAN

Quick thinking on the part of the
rescuer and the rescued prevented a
tragedy on the Chester River at Ches-
tertown last week. Henry Pyle, Ches-
tertown resident, skated into hole
under the Chester River bridge and
went down in twenty-five feet Of
water. Carl N. Bordley, Chestertown
merchant, working on his ice boat near
the spot, heard the splash. Bordley
grabbed a length Of rope from his
tool kit and rushed to Pyle. Pyle, bad
ly cut about the face from the ice
as he fell, had risen to the surface
and had dragged himself partly out Of
the water into the ice. Bordley toss
ed him the rope and pulled him out.
Pyle said that his face had been cut
in the accident because he had thought
to fall forward as he went under so
that he wouldn't come up under the
foot-thick ice which covers the river
at this spot. The hole into which
he plunged was made by the seepage
from the bridge pilings as the tide
rises and falls. Other than the lacera-
ton, Pyle is suffering no ill-effects
from his experience.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
between Baltimore and Love Point
several days ago.

between Baltimore and Love Point
several days ago.
Last Thursday the assistant keeper
of the light, who was at the station
alone, displayed distress signals
There was no way Of reaching him by
boat. Frederick M. Kipp, Jr., harbor
engineer, ordered the icebreaker, Lat
robe to stop at the light Friday when
it attempted to make a path for the
Pittsburgh to Love Point.
Baltimore lighthouse authorities at
the Lazaretto Point Lighthouse De-
pot learned the keeper was i'll and
should be removed at once. They COM
municated with the Eastern Shore.
There were no boats available to
break lane through the ice for any
possible rescue craft.
Finally the Kent Island men con-
verted a sailboat into an iceboat and
manning it, SKINNED before a light
breeze over the miles Of frozen ice to
the light. The keeper then was taken
from the light.
Officials at the Lazaretto Light
house Depot said that when the keep
er was brought ashore it was learned
he was suffering from an intestinal
disorder. Two men usually are sta
toned at the light.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
CHINCOTEAGUE MAN RES
CUED FROM LIGHTHOUSE

Going to the aid of a sick keeper of
the Love Point lighthouse, three Love-
Point men early last Thursday took
the man, Wallace Sturgis, ashore and
sent him to his home at Chincoteague.
The group used a sailboat converted
into an ice boat to reach the keeper
According to some of the oldest wat
ermen in the vicinity, it was the first
time an iceboat was used to take a
sick person from a Chesapeake Bay
lighthouse.
The lighthouse stands three miles
from the shore. 1t is located in the
center of the entrance to the Chester
river and off the northernmost end of
Kent Island.
Since the cold wave set in, January
Is, freezing over large expanse of
the bay and it's tributaries, ice has
been piliHg up around the steel "legs"
on which the lighthouse stands. So
heavy has the ice become in this vic
Unity that the Pennsylvania Railroad
ferry Pittsburgh discontinued it's trips
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
BERLIN-OCEAN CITY
LIONS SEEK TALENT

Eastern Shore singers, instrument
talists, dancers and other entertainers
with marked talent have an opportun-
ity to contest for prizes ranging from
$4,000 to $500 at the Amateur Night
being organized by the Berlin-Ocean
City Lions Club for the latter part OF
February.
The Club, which has sponsored
many successful entertainments in
the last several years, is planning a
show on larger scale than ever be-
fore and is anxious to have in it's the
very best talent available, no matter
from what part of the Delmarva Pen
insula it is drawn.
Amateur artists from distant local
tiles will be given the same considera-
ton in selecting the talent as artists
from the immediate vicinity of Berlin
and Ocean City.
The prizes offered are: For the best
act, $4,000; second best, $500; third
$500, fourth and fifth, SIS each.
Applications for additions, which
will precede the selections of the cast,
should be made Immediately to DR.
Roy A. Buhrman, President of the
Berlin-Ocean City Lions Club, Berlin
Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
FARM BUREAU TO FIGHT
INCREASE PROPERTY ASST

Organized farmers of Maryland
will demand that any additional reve-
nue. required for old age pensions, re-
lief, or other needs of the state shall
come from taxes other than increases
the time-worn property tax, C. E.
Wise. Jr., treasurer of the
Maryland Farm Bureau Federation
has announced. The first considera-
ton, he believes, should be a state
income tax.
"The property tax has been the
favorite form of taxation since the
first tax program was created in this
country" says Mr.. Wise. cit was
probably fair tax in the days when
more than ninety percent of the
wealth of the nation was physical
property. The tax is neither fair nor
adequate under present conditions
when a large share of the ability to
pay taxes is represented by income
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14

from sources other than land and
buildings"
Mr.. Wise called attention to the
fact that the recently issued report
of the joint taxation committee OF
state grange and farm bureau urged
the income tax for first consideration
in the raising of any new revenues
necessary.
Farmers will favor a state income
tax with low exemptions" Mr.. Wise
believes. "They urge it because it
taxes all persons on their relative
abilities to pay. 1t taxes all incomes
and does not measure taxes on the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14


1t than
nhu fb
oni
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
FATHER AND SON
UNDERGO OPERATIONS

Charles Gibbons and his 12-yea1
old son were recuperating in PENN
sula General Hospital Saturday from
appendicitis operations performed on
each the same day.
The youth, Charles Gibbons, Jr..
was stricken early in the week. He
underwent an operation Tuesday
morning, while his father stood by
The elder Gibbons returned to his
home, was stricken Tuesday after
noon, and rushed to the hospital for
an emergency operation.
Both operations were a success and
father and son are convalescing to-
gether.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
ONANCOCK BOY HELPS
IN THRILLING RESCUE

A thrilling account of the rescue
of three fishermen from the icy seas
off Barnegat City, N. j., participated
in by an Onancock boy, Grayson J.
Mears, motor-machinist mate, second
class of the Barnegat City Coast
Guard Station, and son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oscar Mears, near Onancock, ap-
pered in the Beach Haven Times,
Beach Haven, N. j., on Tuesday, jan
uary 28th.
The Coast Guardsmen were COMPEL
ed to cut through ice fifteen inches
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14

ing, so suddenly as to render them
helpless. Both were rushed to the
hospital. Later reports at that insti-
tuition said the station operators
burns were fatal.
Fruitland and Salisbury fire de-
partments answered the alarm tho
the fire had been so spontaneous that
the building could not be saved.
The Simms' had living quarters in
the rear of the service station, near
Moore's Corner:
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14

basis Of the necessity Of spending as
does a sales tax. It reaches many wAo
are not otherwise directly taxed IL
is a tax which is not easily evadea
and, so far as farmers are concerned
gives consideration to the differences
in productiveness of land and mar
agement ability"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14

the frozen layer, stick down their
tongs and haul up the oysters.
1t is reliably reported that the men
have been getting from 80 to 40
bushels daily in this manner. With
the rising price, their ingenuity nets
good days wage.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14

thick and after four hours search in
the stormy waters of Monday, jan
uary 9th sighted and rescued the
missing craft. The three fishermen
were found suffering from the effects
Of exposure.
The article was complimentary to
this former Onancock boy.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-14
sOYSTERMEN BREAK ICE
TO GET BIVALVES

Rock Hall oystermen are using
their ingenuity to best Natures clamp
down on the bivalve industry. Pre-
vented from going to the oyster beds
in their boats, the watermen are walk
ing out on a foot-thick sheet of ice
to the bars. They then cut hole in
Evening star., 1936-12-27
SECURITY PROBLEM
ACTION IS FAVORED
Labor Legislation Group
Meets Next Week in
Chicago.
3 the ASsnciatad pxaa

~ 'io hocOClhteQ fren.
CHICAGO, December 2e-The
American Association for Labor Lsxis-
lation called today for prompt solu-
ton OF the administrative problems
OF the social security laws.
A special program Of the associs.
tons thirtieth annual meeting here
next week was set aside for discusston
OF administrative organization, ratifi-
cation Of labor treaties and FEDERAL
and State cooperation 10 make the
legislation successful.
Pressure Of events IL making imrne-
diate consideration of this subject
(national labor 1egislation) impera-
tive" the announcement Of the three.
day meeting said.
Despite traditional beliefs national
labor legislation has arrived Con-
stitutional questions still arise, but in
some directions the way Is clearly
open for immediate action ."
Convening Monday, the association
will hold some Of its meetings jointly
with the American Statistical, Amer
ican Economic and American Political
Science Associations and the Amer
ican Sociological Society.
Urgent administrative problems aris-
ing under recently adopted unemploy-
ment insurance, cld-age pension and
other social security laws will be
debated by economists and prominent
State and Federal Government OH
cials.
Speakers on the topic Of national
labor legislation will include Joseph
P. Chamberlain of Columbia Univer-
sity, Leifur Magnusson Of the Inter-
national Labor ONCE, Tracy Copp Of
the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation
Service and Murray w. Latimer. chair
man Of the Railroad Retirement
Board.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
SAILORS
ACCUSE POLICE
Charges Filed Against Seven
After Fight on Houston
Water Front.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated. Press.
HOUSTON, Tex. December 26.-
More than 100 striking seamen, some
with bandased heads, filed charges OF
aggravated assault against seven
Houston policemen today in connec-
ton with . Christmas eve water front
disturbance.
Police officials are investigat ting the
fight which sent 20 sailors to hos
pitals.
Among those charged was Lieut.. J.
Z. Murray, in charge Of the water
front detail since the strike was called
two months ago. Night Chief r. T.
Hones, who became acting police chief
today, removed Murray from the post.
Justice Of the Peace Tom Macs re-
leased the policemen on their own
recognisance, pending . hearing Nom
day.
Arthur J. Mandell, attorney for the
seamen, said he was ready to file on
as many other policemen as the court
will take" and strike headquarters
announced . grand jury investisa-
ton would be sought.
After about $50 strikers pickets
were driven from their posts three
times and seamen were elected from
waterfront cafes and beer parlors by
police, Honea granted them permis.
sion to resume peaceful picketing.
Murray said the raids resulted from
the strikers refusal to comply with
his order against picketing.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Fight Ouer Hiring. Halls
Has Been Raging so Years
Union Seamen Haze Sought Control
of Halls and Elimination of Dis
charge Book Since the 8Os.

almost drove the International Long
shoremen's Union out of existence.
During q strike in 1919 . group Of
foremen Of longshoremen gangs
formed the International Longshore-
mems Association of San Francisco,
which was Immediately recognized by
the Water Front Employers Associa-
ton. For IS years. the blue book
which 1t issued was q requisite to
getting a job and the longshoremen's
union membership dropped almost to
the vanishing point on the West
Coast. Not until 1884, under the N.
r. A., did the blue book pass out Of
water front life In San Francisco as
the longshoremen turned again to the
I. L. U.
During the blue book era the hir-
ing halls were the saloons and board
ing houses along the water front. The
longshoremen felt that their wages,
which were 20 low, according to the
Department Of Labor, that - very
conservative estimate would probably
place more than 50 per cent Of all
the longshoremen on the relief rolls, +"
were due to the method Of hiring as
well as unemployment conditions.
which provided an abundant supply
of longshore labor. In . study Of
these conditions, . department report
stated:
"A longshoreman can get work only
for the period ship remains in port
for the purpose Of discharging or
loading cargo. Ships may arrive
and leave port every day, some after
. stay Of only . day or two. others
after Q week or 10 days. Sometimes
they straggle in one by one and some
times they come In numbers. In ad-
dition to this irregularity In the ar
rival and departure Of ships, the ship
ping industry as Q whole is seriously
affected by cyclical trends. by sea-
sonal fluctuations, by changes in the
tariff regulations, by the weather and
Evening star., 1936-12-27

foreman in the earnings Of the long
shoreman - payment for the job"
Thus the hiring hall and continuo,u
discharge book are issues efYectins
their bread and butter, the union men
claim. Ship owners declare they must
have control Of hiring the men t:saey
pay: union ofdcials point to other
industries where employers hire men
through the union and claim union
control 10 necessary to rotate employ
ment and eliminate catering u
employment foremen. The ship own.
ers and the Department Of Commerce
declare . continuous reczrd book Il
necessary to insure hiring Of capable
men; the unions claim they can b
used to blacklist" union members.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
hv the vasaries Of the individu
shipping companies.
Many Work - 70 80 Hours.~

hv the vasaries Of the individual
shipping companies.
Many Work - to 80 Hours.~
"Ships arrive and leave port ct any
hour Of the day and night, and the
work Of loading and discharging cargo
also begins and ends at any hour of
the day or night Certain union
restrictions, such as limiting the
hours, penalty rates for night and
Sunday work, extra pay for waiting
time have tended somewhat to i'm
prove these conditions Because
Of the difficulty Of getting . Job and
the uncertainty of its duration. the
individual longshoreman prefers to re-
main at work as long as his endur-
ance will last or the foreman will
permit him to remain. Stretches
Of 20 to 80 hours of uninterrupted
work, except for short meal stoppages.
are not uncommon in the ports of
New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more. Even longer stretches Of work
may be found in New Orleans. GAL
weston and Houston in the peak Of
the cotton season"
Even in normal times, the depart
ment bulletin states, "only . small part
Of this supply (of labor) Is earning
what may be considered q decent
wage. Probably Q larger proportion is
earning . subsistence wage, i.e, just
about enough to make ends meet on .
comparatively low standard Of living.
The balance Is always on the brink Of
starvation and depends largely on out
side support, chiefly charity"
Foreman Makes Choice.
Concerning the hiring system in
effect prior to 1884, Bureau of Labor
Statistics bulletin has this to say:
1T Is obvious that the hiring FORE
man occupies a position Of the great
est importance on the waterfront. It
Is largely left to him to decide who
shall be employed and who shall be
left behind. He Is seldom hampered
in his choice, especially in regard to
the more casual men. He can take
them or reject them. He can call
them today and ignore them tomor-
row. 1t would indeed be strange If
such concentration Of autocratic power
in the hands Of . single person con-
trolling the jobs Of 20 many men did
not result in some cases Of abuse Of
this power. This may be as mild as
acceptance of an occasional drink or
. cigar, or it may 60 30 far as to
amount to q systematic sharing by the
Evening star., 1936-12-27
ONE DEAD, ONE HURT
IN SHIP EXPLOSION
Coast Guard Asked to Send Plane
for Injured Man on Steamer
Dillwyn.
he Associated Press,

~ tAic AsSOClateQ SlebS.
MOBILE, Ala, December 26.-Coast
Guard headquarters reported an ex-
plosion aboard the steamer Dillwyn
left one man dead and another seri-
ously injured today.
Radio messages said the blast oc-
curred 1872 miles southeast of the
South Pass to the Mississippi River,
The steamer Jarva Arrow was stand
ing by the Dillwyn.
The Coast Guard was asked to send
. plane to take the injured man
ashore. Headquarters said q seaplane
would be dispatched from the Biloxi
base as soon as it could be determined
whether sea conditions would permit
. landing alongside the Dillwyn.
The brief message did not give
names Of the victims, extent of the
damage to the ship or cause Of the
explosion.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Wife Is "OMce
Congressman for
Pierce of Oregon
Secretaryship Ascarded
according to Promise,
He Says.
~ the Associated Pres.

~ the Associated Prsss.
Unoficially Mrs., as well as q
mr." viii represent the second
Oregon district in the forthcoming
Congress.
She will be Mrs. Walter Marcus
Pierce. wife Of Representative Pierce,
Democrat.
The former Oregon Governor an
nounced that his mate would be the
districts "ofice congressman" and
that he would be the House and
committee Congressman"
During the campaign I told the
voters I would make my wife my
secretary" he said. "They apparently
approved, for I was reelected by the
largest majority I ever received for
Congress"
Evening star., 1936-12-27
HULL SAILS FOR U.S.,
GRATIFIED BY WORK
Tree Planted With Ceremony in
Garden Of Embassy in
Buenos Aires.
p the Associated Press.

6y tne Absocleteo FIess'
BUENOs AIRES, December 26.-
United States Secretary Of State Cor
dell Hull sailed for New York today
aboard the steamship Southern Cross.
expressing his satisfaction with ac-
complishments toward peace Of the
nter-American Conference.
He was recovered completely from
the slight cold which kept him from
delivering personally his farewell ad-
dress to the conference Wednesday.
The peace parley. he said, "is an
illustration Of what great things can
be accomplished when IL good neigh
bors animated by mutual understand
ing and real friendship sit around the
conference table"
Before sailing, Secretary Hull plant
ed a tree in q ceremony in the garden
Of the United States Embassy.