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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
THREE KILLED, TEN HURT IN
FOUR.WAY CRASH

Three men were killed, ten others
we're injured and six automobiles and
trucks were smashed or damaged in
a four-way crash early Tuesday which
scattered wreckage and the bodies of
victims on the Bel Air road just
north of the Gunpowder river bridge.
BY the Pickering light of roadway
flares, State police and volunteer
workers labored for half an hour to
remove the bodies of the dead and
injured from the smashed machines.
The dead are: James B. Rollison,
thirty-nine, 900 block North Colling-
ton ave. Baltimore, truck driver.
James Urban Bursick, twenty-four,
1000 block Robb street. Edward T..
Romans, nineteen, 1900 block East
Lafayette ave.
State police, who launched an i'm
mediate investigation of the series OF
accidents, said there were at least
four separate crashes.
The series began, Corporal John c.
Gates said, when Truck Driver Young
operating a van loaded principally
with whiskey, attempted to pass two
other trucks on the hill to the north
of the Gunpowder river bridge.
The three trucks were moving
northward. In passing the two slow
ly moving trucks, Young's truck side
swiped both of them, Corporal Gates
said, hurting the rear of Young's
truck across the road.
A truck driven by Rollison was
moving southbound. Before Rolli-
son could jam on the brakes, his van
struck the rear of Young's truck
Rollison's van was hurled from the
road. It overturned on the soft
shoulder of the highway, ripping of
the cab and the vans roof and pin
ming Rollison in the wreckage.
A few moments later an auto con-
tanning six Negroes, driven by Walter
Searnders, Negro, 100 block Rut-
land ave., crashed into the truck
wreckage. All of the Negroes were
cut and bruised, but none required
hospital treatment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
WILLIAM. ID. BRATTON

William D. Bratton, 68 years old
for 80 years editor of the Ceci!
County News, and member of ohf
of the most prominent families OF
this county, died at his home on East
Main street, Elkton, early Saturday
morning from a heart attack follow
ing brief illness.
Mr.. Bratton's family has been
identified with the social and civic
life of Cecil County since Revolution
airy War times. At one time his an
cestors occupied the Hermitage,
where officers of George Washing
tons army tarried during the Revo-
lutionary War campaign in this Sec
ton.
Mr.. Bratton succeeded his broth
er, the late Daniel Bratton, as editor
Of the Cecil County News after hay
ing graduated from Princeton and
spending some time in the civil en-
cheering department of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company.
Always active in educational, civic,
and religious affairs, he has served as
superintendent of Cecil County
Schools, as a member of the Cecil
County Board of Election Supervis-
ors and as an elder in the Elkton
Presbyterian Church.
He was a member Of the Maryland
Press Association and the Delmarva
Press Association.
He Is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Bertha Wilson, two
sons, William D. Bratton, Jr., q
teacher at Glen Burnie, Md, and
Francis Barton, a student at Wash
ington College. and two sisters, Mrs.
William H. Booth and Miss Polly
Bratton.
Funeral services were held at $3.50
P. NJ. Monday at the Bratton home
stead, The Hermitage, on East Main
street. Interment was made in the
Clktop Presbyterian Cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
WILLIAM T. SCOTT

William T. Scott, an aged resident
of this section, who lived alone in a
small house just west of town, near
Brookview cemetery, was found dead
in bed on the afternoon of Christmas
day. Mr.. Scott was to have taken
dinner on Christmas with the family
of Samuel ]. Terry, and as he did
not make his appearance at the din
ner hour, Mrs. Terry and son War
rem, went to investigate and found
him lying in bed dead.
DR.. J. B. Slicer was called and
stated Mr.. Scott had apparently been
dead for twenty-four hours. His
nephew, Harry Keilholtz, visited him
daily, assisting him with his house
hold chores, and was the last person
to have seen him alive, about four
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon. That
death came peacefully there was little
doubt, as there was no evidence of
any struggle.
The deceased was S3 years of age.
He was a son of the late Amos and
Amanda Greer Scott, and was born
at Hickory Hill. For years he made
his home with Reuben and Maria
Reynolds, on their farm on Walnut
Lane, west of town. He followed
farming and was moulder by trade,
working for years at the nearby
Stone Run foundry, an industry long
since passed, with nothing but crump-
ling foundation walls to mark the
site of a once fourishing business.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs.
May Shelter, of Frenchtown, this
county, and one son, Lewis Scott,
whose whereabouts are not known,
as he is rover.
Services were held at the Tyson
Funeral Home, in this town, Monday
afternoon at 200 o'clock. and inter-
ment made in West Nottingham
Friends burying ground near Harris
vile.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
SECURITY BOARD ESTIMATES
NUMBER ELIGIBLE UNDER
NEW LAW

A total of 100000 employees in
Maryland will be eligible to aid un-
der the Maryland Unemployment In.
surance Act, according to a Social
Security Board estimate.
The Maryland law, the boards
statement said, was one of five ap.
proved at Washington this month
bringing 100000 more employees
under unemployment insurance pro-
lection. Twenty-eight States with
100000 eligible employees now
participate in the program.
OF the five States in the December
group, Maryland was second in num-
Der of employees covered although
fourth in population. Maryland
sos, 900 employees covered represent
nineteen per cent of its 1890 popu'
lation of 1,631,526.
Unemployment insurance laws COW
er only employees of industrial and
commercial concerns.
Maryland put administration un
der the Board of Public Works, Ten
nessee put it under the State Depart
ment of Labor, West Virginia created
a department of unemployment com
pensation, and Arizona and Ohio es-
tablished unemployment compensa
ton commissions
Tax rates and benefit payments
were approximately the same in al
five States.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
MISS RACHEL A. KIRK

Miss Rachel Anna Kirk, aged "a
years, died Sunday, Dec. 20, In the
Coatesville, Pa, Hospital, the re-
suit of a broken hip, received in a
fall about one week previous.
She was a native of Cecil county,
daughter of Reuben and Hannah
Brown Kirk. She had been living
alone in oxford for some years; a
sister dying several years ago. One
brother, Charles, of Philadelphia,
survives, at the age of "a years.
The funeral was held Wednesday
at 1880, from her late home in Ok
ford, with interment in the Friends
burying ground, Calvert.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
WEST NOTTINGHAM
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
REV. A. H. HIBsHMAN. Ph.D.. Pastor

Maryland farmers are urged-to ex-
ercise care in selecting alfalfa and
clover for use in 1887 by Forrest s.
Holmes. in charge Of the State seed
laboratory at the University of Mary
land. He states that supplies of
these seeds for the entire country are
about two-thirds of normal and about
three-fourths as large az last year.
according to reports from the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics Of the u.
.. Department Of AGRICULTURE.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
IRWIN RALPH MCDOWELL

Irwin Ralph Mcdowell, of Calvert
died Dec. 10 in Union Hospital, Elk
ton, aged 3S years. The deceased
followed landscape gardening. He
is survived by his wife, Margaret
Churchman Mcdowell, and his moth
er, also one brother of Ardmore, Pa
Funeral services were held on Tues
day afternoon with interment In
Rosebank cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
COLORA
With best wishes for Happy and

With best wishes Tor Happy ana
Prosperous New Year to all
Mrs. Carroll Cameron, Rising Sun,
will entertain the January meeting of
The Ladies Missionary Society Of
West Nottingh a m Presbyterian
Church.
The Westminster Guild of West
Nottingham will meet at the home
of Mrs. Edna Clifford nea- Farming
ton, Saturday afternoon, January
the 9th. Devotional leader, Mrs.
Elsie Kennard; Mission Study leader,
Miss Bertha M. Tyson.
Cclora Women's Club will meet
Tuesday afternoon, January 9Th.
DR.. A. H. Hibshman is i'll of pneu-
monia at his home West Nottingham
Manse Miss Barr; trained nurse
is with him.
Mrs. Harry Plummer, of Rising
Sun, had the pleasure on Christmas
Day, of having telephone chat with
her sister Mrs. ]. Harvey Gray and
family, who reside in Chattanooga,
Tenn, the distance being one thous-
and miles The phone call was an
swered by Mrs. Plummers little niece
Priscilla Gray, who was also observ-
ing her 9Th birthday ON Christmas
day. Both parties heard their con-
servation very plainly for such
long distance and it was one of the
best joys of the season to them Mr.
Gray and family moved from Colora
to Tennessee two years ago. They
expect to return for visit next sum-
mer.
The railroad station here looks
badly wrecked since the freight
house has been torn down.
Mrs. Carrie Ennis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Ennis and Howard Mullison,
Concord, N. c.; Miss Edna Whitlowe
and Miss Willie Caldwell, of Cornell
ius, N c., spent Christmas with B.
F. Caldwell and family this town.
Mrs Elwood Wilson and Miss
Hazel Kennard called on Mrs. M.
Agnes Reese Monday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Dowland were
guests of Mrs S. T. Kennard and
daughter Mt. Pleasant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Chambers, of
Wrightsdale, Pa, were callers here.
The Lawson S. Loves had as their
Christmas Day guest Mrs. Lillian
Hornberger, of Perryville.
Miss Hanna M. Boyle ate Christ
mas dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. H. o.
Klair.
j. c. Emrey and family are enjoy
ing a visit in Florida.
Miss Mary Riley, Of Wilmington,
called on the Coulson family at West
Nottingham, Sunday.
Charles Ewing and family, of Up
per Principle; Mrs. William Burdett
and family, of Boothwyn, Pa, were
holiday visitors of the Samuel E.
Ewings.
Earl Ennis has returned to his
home in Concord, N. c., after spend
ing the past four months with rela-
ltives here.
Mrs. w. N. Wilson enjoyed Christ
mas with her daughter Mrs. Helen
Bennett and family, Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawson S. Love and
Alfred Love, this town, Mrs. T. N.
Hite and daughter, of Woodlawn,
spent Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Yocum.
Mrs. r. F. Pierce spent the glad
Christmas with the S. w. Fitzger-
AIDS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Muldoon were
with their daughter Miss Edna in
Wilmington for Xmas.
Chester Love Christmased with
friends in Morgantown. w. Va.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
MRS. MARY O. sTIvELY

Mrs. Mary o. Stively, wife of the
late Jacob E. Stively, died at her
home in Darlington, Dec. 10, of pneu-
monia. She was a daughter of the
late Lory and Anna Suffer, Perry
vile, and was II.
She is survived by two children:
Edward J. Stively, Liberty Grove,
and Mrs. Walter Selfe, Darlington;
also by a brother, John P. Suffer,
Darlington, and a sister, Mrs. J.
Frank McMichael, Lancaster. Burial
was made in Quarryville cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
NEGRO HEALTH WEEK AWARDS

DR.. R. H. Riley, Director of the
State Department of Health, has been
notified of the award by the National
Negro Health Week Committee of the
United States Public Health Service
of certificates of merit, all in Glass
"A", for negro health activities, dur
ing 1886, in Maryland, as follows:
The State Department of Health; the
Baltimore City Department of
Health; the Negro Health Week
Committee, and the Marathon Com
mittee of Baltimore City; and to the
County Departments of Health of
Cecil, Kent, Montgomery, Prince
Georges and Wicomico Counties.
A Glass "a" certificate was also
awarded to the Health Club of Wet
ipquin, Wicomico county. The color
ed high school at Salisbury, paired
with a school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in
one of the health poster awards.
In referring to the awards, DR..
Riley said There is widespread in
terest in all of the counties in Mary
land, with large colored populations,
in the negro health week activities,
all of which are arranged with spec
ial reference to their influence in
stimulating the year-round health
program.
"The activities in connection with
this years observance of Negro
Health Week-which was the 22nd
annual, nationwide celebration Of
the Health Week-included public
meetings, with schools, churches and
all representative groups participant
ing, child health conferences, prenat-
al clinics, the medical examination
of school children; the immunization
of both preschool and school children
against diphtheria, and vaccination
against smallpox; chest clinics with
special reference to tuberculosis, for
all age groups; venereal disease elm
les; clinics for protection against
typhoid, health education exercises
in the schools, and community clean
up and sanitation campaigns.
1.-THE influence of the emphasis
laid year by year on these important
phases of the health program, and Of
the community participation in the
exercises, has been reflected in a
marked improvement in personal and
neighborhood standards of health in
many of the colored communities.
The Nation Wide Negro Health
Week activities are conducted under
the auspices of the National Negro
Health Week Committee, United
States Public Health Service. DR.,
Roscoe C. Brown of the United States
Public Health Service is chairman of
the committee. DR.. Browns report
shows that thirty States, and over g.
500 communities, representing every
section of the country from Maine to
Texas and from Maryland. to Cali
fornia, participated in the 1896
health week activities. Over $1,000
schools, households or communities
took part in the cleanup campaigns;
over $4,000 in the insect and rat
control projects; more than 5000
sanitory toilets were installed; and
over 10000 plant and flower projects
were carried on. There were 264
radio talks given, and the education
n exercises were attended by over
$4,000 persona
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

The cedar tree is seldom attacked
by the Japanese beetle according to
authorities of the University Of Mary
land department of entomology.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

The thirty-ninth annual meeting
of the Maryland State Horticultural
Society will be held from January s
to z in Hagerstown at the Alexander
Hotel, it is announced by c. e. Bry-
an, of Havre de Grace, President of
the society.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

About s715,OOO,OOO is spent an
nually in the United States for drugs,
including home remedies and patent
medicines.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

Distinction of the water supplies
of American cities with chlorine has
reduced the annual death rate from
typhoid fever from rs to four per
100000 population.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

kissing is taboo in Tibet. Perhaps
that is best because few Tibetans
wash from the day they are born to
the day they die.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

Americans spend between $3,000,-
900, 900 and $8, 900, 900 annually
in foreign and domestic lotteries.
numbers gamess etc.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
FOUND AT LAST

. Q-623-Relief for muscular
aches and pains when due to
, rheumatic disorders, lumbago,
: etc. Prescription Q-623 has |
. helped thousands of people
, when many other remedies
have failed. Try a bottle to-
: day. Price $1.00. We sug-
: gest you try Q-Tabs while u.s.
) ing Q-623. Ask your drug
: gist.
ASHBY'S PHARMACY
. Rising Sun Maryland
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

Ninety per cent Of the people in
the United States live in one-family
houses.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

The annual meeting Of the men,
bers of The Farmers & Mechanics
Mutual Insurance Association of
Cecil County Incorporated, will be
held in the Session Building of the
Presbyterian Church, Zion, Md, on
SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 1887
at 200 p. m.
In addition to the regular business
the question of building a new office
will be voted on.
LEONARD C. WILSON, Sec.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 1893
RISING SUN Nj. e. CHURCH
REV. FRANK WHITE. Pastor

Sunday School 9:45 A. M.
Morning Worship 1900 O'Clock.
Evening Worship 1880 O'Clock.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

No man was ever big enough to
do all the thinking Ter . business.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

Home-the place where we grum-
BILE NEST and are trsaksd best.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

A parsec astronomical unit Of dis
tanes l. 10 billion miles long,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
The End
of The Year

is the logical time for you to
make certain your insurance
program is in order that 1t
includes the various forms of
protection you need and in the
proper amounts. Only by
thorough analysis can you be
certain you are properly and
adequately protected.
We shall be glad to discuss
your insurance program with
you in detail. No obligation, of
course. Come in, write or tele-
phone for appointment.
CHAS. s. PYLE
Insurance
RISING SUN, MARYLAND
Telephone: 1 or SO
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
COMING

COMING -
The Devil Is A Sissy
The General Died At Dawn
Libeled Lady
Rainbow on the River
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-05

reaching an estimated $1,000, 900
families. Among those listed as
unemployed or partly unemployed
are persons working for the WPA,
NYA, CCC and other govern
mental agencies, except for
officials on salaries. Workers for
PWA, however, are not included,
John D. BiggerS, administrator OF
the census, explaining that they
were not considered as on an
emergency" status.
BiggerS, in statement accom-
panying the report cards, said:
THE card should be filled out
by every person, of either sex,
who regards himself as unem-
ployed or partly unemployed,
even though the information he
supplies does not bear out his
opinion. Persons who return
cards will not be counted in the
totals unless their answers sup
port their opinion that they are
unemployed or partly unem-
ployed."
An immediate program of "edu-
cation" on the census will be
launched under Biggers' direction.
It will include newsreels, radio,
addresses and statements by ma
tional leaders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-05
PLAN CONVENTION

Preparations are being made for
the 1888 convention of the Inter
national Association of Display
Men at the Wardman Park Hotel
next summer. Officers of the local
group are Arthur Gray, of Lans-
burgh and Brothers, president;
Lewis A. Banks, of the Hecht Com
pany, vice president; w. L. War
drip, of William Hahn and Com
pany, treasurer, and John L. King.
Of S. Kann Sons Company, sec
retarY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-05
Referendum Backs
Potato Crop Pacts

The Agricultural Adjustment
Administration announced yester-
day that preliminary referendum
returns indicated that more than
three-fourths of the potato pro-
ducers in three commercial late
potato producing areas favor
marketing agreements and orders
to regulate the handling of the
crop. Producers in the fourth
area rejected the proposals.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-05
Stress $500 Pay

Extension Of the merit system
has dropped to third place on the
new legislative program of the
A. F. G. E., a minimum salary Of
$500 being named as the most
important item to be asked Of Con-
gress this winter. Summarized,
the platform follows:
Minimum $500 yearly wage.
2-Five-day week, IS hours, no pay
decrease. 3-Merit system extern
sion. -ClaSsification extension
to field. 5-Optional retirement
after 80 years; contributions up
to 10 per cent for increased an.
nuity. 6-CompenSated overtime.
might shift differentials. g.
Prevailing wage to craft employees
not protected by wage boards. g.
Promotion of qualified incumbents
before establishment of eligible
registers. 10-Civil Service ap-
pealS board. 11-Optional QSL.
12-Shorter hours, better pay in
Veterans Administration Facili-
ties. 13-Higher pay for custodial
workers. including charwomen. IA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-05
|. 7. U. WALK0UT
AT
ALL. CONCLAVE
HoWard's Credentials
Are Questioned

DENVER, Col, Oct. S GN.S0.
A new C. I. o. row boiled beneath
the surface today as the American
Federation Of Labor swung into its
second business session The up.
shot may be a walkout Of the pow.
erful Typographical Union, with
it's 755 votes.
At the same time, delegates in
terest centered in the speech of
Chairman ]. Warren Madden of
the National Labor Relations
Board. due this morning. The
labor board is under fire, charged
with proc. I. o. sympathies.
L. T. U. IN UPROAR
Typographical Union delegates
were in furore, because the Gre
Dental committee Topped off the
list Of eligible delegates the name
of their president, Charles P. How
ard, and was prepared to deny him
a seat in the convention. The
Carpenters Union protested How.
ards credentials because he is sec.
rotary of John L. Lewis C. I. O.
Howard said he didn't like to
walk much" probably not enough
to go before the credentials COM
mittee, and added he was leaving
here anyway next weekend for
Atlantic City to attend the C. I.
o. conclave, which opens there
just as the A. F. of L. meeting
reaches the halfway mark.
HOWARD'S FRIENDS MAD
It was Towards typographical
colleagues who appeared most in
censed. They announced fatty
that, if Towards credentials are
rejected, they will fight the issue
to finish on the convention floor.
If they lose, they said they may
walk out.
The American Federation of
Labor cannot offer such an af-
front to our president without
insulting the Typographical
Union" said Delegate w. R.
Trotter. They can slap us once
too often, you know. The A.
F. Of L. needs the Typographical
Union. If we have to We'll leave
the convention"
Trotter pointed out the I. r. U.
was older than the A. F. of L.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-05
"Chomber of Horrors"

In Ruth Lamb, Food and Drug
Administration, Uncle Sam has a
real author. Her book, "The Ameri-
can Chamber Of Horrors, which
deals with foods and medicines Of
questionable content that are sold
to the public under spurious
labels, is highly interesting and
dispensed by leading bookstores.
Miss Lamb, who joined Food and
Drug in '33, began life as news
paper woman Worked on staff
Of Poughkeepsie Star while at
tending Vassar and was upstate"
correspondent and feature writer
for old New York World Also
with New York Tribune Later
wrote advertising in New York
city and Rochester . Now is edu-
cational officer Of Food and Drug.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-05
WPA TO TEACH

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-A mental
hygiene training course, to teach
abSent-minded persons how to col
lect their wits, is offered to the
public by the board of educa
tion's adult education program,
Works Progress Administration
project, Gustav A. Stumpf, ad'
ministrator, ounced. The
course, entitled Personality and
Behavior Problems" and is free
will be taught at Schiff Center,
the Bronx.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-05
California Water
Hearing Set Nov. 4

The Federal Power Commission
announced yesterday a hearing
will be held here November 4 on
the controversy between the San
Joaquin Light and Power Corpora
ton, Fresno, Calf, and the South
ern Edison Company, Of Los An
geles. The commission ordered
the companies to jointly compute
amounts to be paid by the San
joaquin company to Southern
California Edison for headwater
benefits.