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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-05-28
new SCHEDULE
CHESAPEAKE
BAY FERRIES
The Claiborne Annapolis Com
pany Purchases A New Ferry
boat For The Service
TWENTY ROUND-TRIPS
DAILY ON THE SCHEDULE

Elsewhere in this. issue will be
found the new Summer schedule of
the orne-Annapolis- Matapeake
Ferries which will become effective on
May 2Sth., showing twenty round
trips daily across the Chesapeake Bay.
They will operate an hourly schedule
between Annapolis and Matapeake,
every hour on the hour starting at
TOO A. NJ, and running to and in
Guiding 1900 midnight.
The Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry Co.,
has purchased a ferryboat which is
now being rebuilt for service between
Claiborne and Second Kent Point in
Eastern Bay. This boat will be used
to transport vehicles and passengers
from Claiborne to Kent Island SO
that a direct connection can be made
from Matapeake to Annapolis without
the necessity of driving to Matapeake.
This route will save patrons to and
from Claiborne AZ miles of driving
and will eliminate the long water
route from Claiborne to Annapolis
around Bloody Point. The new ter
minal for this service on Kent Island
will be completed and ready for use
this summer. Until this boat and ter
minal are completely, the Company
will operate two round trips daily
between Annapolis and Claiborne with
three round trips scheduled for Sun
day only.
With this increased service across
Chesapeake Bay, the Ferry Company
feels that ample facilities are offered
for travelling patrons between the
Eastern. and Western Shore of Md
In addition to the hourly schedule
plans and specifications have been
drawn for the construction of new
large ferryboat similar to the "John
M. Dennis" which they proposed to
use between Annapolis and Matapeake
to still further augment the service
across Chesapeake Bay, for the year
1888. Another feature of the i'm
provement of service is the selling of
tickets to patrons in their automo-
biles, which they propose to do this
summer. A new, modern, waiting
room is now being built at Annapolis
Terminal with facilities for the COM
fort of their patrons. On April 18th,
1897, rates on trucks were reduced ap-
proximately 60 per cent.
The Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry
Company is going ahead with very
progressive program of improved IA
cilities, which, when completed, will
offer more service than ever attempt
ed across Chesapeake Bay. The pro-
gran contemplated will necessitate the
expenditure of approximately $780,
10000, and the modern ferryboats
piers and service offered, will be Sec
ond to none in this country.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-05-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Tilghman
spent the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Tilghman, ST., at Exmore, Sun
day.
We are glad to report that Mrs
Cynthia Willoughby is much better at
this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Trader and
daughter, were callers at Cape Char
les, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Paradee, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Mason, Mr.. and Mrs. H
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-05-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl J. Jones and
son, Carl, of Nassawadox spent the
past weekend with Mrs. Jones' par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John /. Burford.
Mrs. Ben T. Gunter has returned
from a visit with relatives in East
vile.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-05-28

E. Mason, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Trad
er and daughter and Mrs. Laura Red
den visited with Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
burlington, Saturday evening.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
RUTLAND STARTS
PURER AIR DRIVE
Threatens Prosecutions OF
Shows and Halls Under
1897 Law.

District statutes 40 years old and
the most modern scientific facilities
will be employed by Health Oficer
George c. Rutland in drive to force
proper ventilation of District theaters
and other public halls.
Aroused over many complaints
against impure air in public halls and
theaters, DR.. Ruhland directed his
inspectors to start a campaign this
week for compliance with terms Of
health standards on ventilation. heat
ing and lighting as stated in laws
enacted in 1897.
He revealed he has now on his staff
sanitary engineer, c. F. Browning.
formerly attached to the United States
Public Health Service. who has been
provided with modern equipment for
air testing DR.. Rutland has directed
Browning to take samples of air in
various public halls and theaters.
I'VE will appeal first for co-opera-
ton" said the health officer. "but II
we fail to obtain desired results we
will prosecute under the 1897 statutes.
I'VE have had many complaints
about impure air in theaters and other
halls. These have been directed
against some of the finest halls In the
city, as well as against those in more
obsolete buildings.
II believe that especially when an
admittance fee is charged the public
should be assured all the protection
to health that present laws AFFORD.
To the limit of our ability, granting
that we have an adequate number OF
inspectors, this will be done"
Evening star., 1937-02-28

sheeting-to prove that most of the
automobile deaths are preventable.
Railroads did the same thing years
ago." Van Duzer recalls. They had
fences along the right of way. No
one would think Of crawling over or
under these fences to get in t e way
Of a train. Yet, a locomotive cannot
hit you much harder than an auto
mobile. PeC<le are constantly STEP
ping in front of them. Knowing full
well that automobiles are deadly
weapons"
To back up his contention that most
automobile accidents can be avoided
on city streets. and by the very simple
method of obeying traffic laws-sig-
nals-Van Duzer cites the record:
More than half the persons killed
in Washington since January were
not at crosswalks; Is, to be exact.
Four were crossing against the red
lights. In each case the driver of
the automobile was exonerated. In
the cases of four others killed at
| crosswalks all the drivers were held
on charges of negligent homicide.
That proves something" Van Duzer
states. "Juries exonerating the drivers
place the blame on pedestrians. Only
in the four cases of persons hurt at
crosswalks were drivers held. One
death resulted from coasting-a boy
on a sled. riding down the most dan
gerous hill in Washington. Another
person was killed when an automobile
hit bicycle.
IF you look at the record you note
that very few passengers in automo-
biles were killed-two, with one very
] seriously injured and expected to die
Evening star., 1937-02-28
DANIEL J. NEE DIES
FOLLOWING STROKE
Real Estate Dealer, so, Was
Nephew of Furniture Com
pany's Founder.

Daniel j. Nee. so. of 316 Buchanan
street. for a number of years in the
real estate business here, died yester-
day in Casualty Hospital from a
cerebral hemorrhage with which he
was stricken Friday night in knights
of Columbus Hall
Mr.. Nee was a nephew of the late
P. j. Nee. ST., founder of the furniture
company bearing the latter name. For
many years Mr.. Nee worked as auditor
and cashier for the furniture firm
until 1927, when he left to enter the
real estate business.
Active in several organizations, Mr..
Nee belonged to Carroll Council, No.
377, of the knights of Columbus; the
General Assembly of the Fourth De-
gree knights of Columbus and of Al
cantara Caravan. No. IL, Order Of Al
hambra.
He is survived by brother, Michael
Nee of New York; his mother and sis
ter, Miss Julia Nee. both of Irelatd.
He also leaves five first cousins. Mss
Agnes Nee, Miss Evelyn Nee. DerAot
Nee, Peter j. Nee, jr., and Maurice L.
Nee. all of this city.
Funeral services will be held at 9t30
am. Tuesday in st. Gabriel's Ca th-
olic Church, following services at the
residence. Burial will be in Motnt
Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-02-28

Again, that shows that the pedestrian
list furnishes the dead"
Van Duzer, who has figures at his
finger tips, produces some interesting
data to show why so many persons are
killed in Washington each year-and
why. eventually, the downtown sector
may be fenced off.
For instance, about per cent of
the downtown shoppers cross streets
midway in the blocks-and they &C
count for most Of the accidents. A
recent check-up shows that 938 per
cent of people cross at regular cross
ings-and have little trouble there.
Just to give an idea Of how many
people use busy crosswalk Mr. Van
Duzer and his aides clocked the crowds
at Washington's busiest corner-Thir-
teenth and F streets At the peak
hour, $4,000 people use that intersec-
ton. In 12-hour day. from morning
100000 persons cross and Thirteenth
streets.
! At Washington's busiest circle-Du-
pont-53,000 vehicles go half way
round every "a hours. That distance
is one-tenth of mile. They average
| 100000 miles around the circle. Yet
to date only three accidents have oc-
Cured there. This means one in each
| 100 900 miles. According to Mr.. Van
| Duzer's reckoning the average driver
goes that distance in II years-and
it means only one accident in II
years of driving. So again the aver
age driver gets credit for being a
pretty careful citizen-and the pedes-
trian is put on the spot. Hence the
| idea of fences along highways.
Evening star., 1937-02-28

The average adult American eats
more than five slices Of bread each day
in the year. To supply this demand
80 900 bakeries produce 1000 0.000, 600
loaves of bread a month, Harry r.
Daniel said In the weekly Commerce
Department broadcast yesterday aft
ernoon over the Columbia Broadcast
ing System.
To make it possible for each Amer
ican to have his five slices of bread
day, 100000 wage earners are en-
ployed and they earn approximately
$3.50 ,0O0, 900 a year.
Cakes and cookies nodded in the
form of animals are a relic Of ancient
days when living sacrifices were made
upon the affairs of the temples, Daniel
said. It is believed that some high
pressure salesman among the bakers
Of antiquity convinced his customers
that bread nodded in the shape Of
the living animals would be acceptable
to the gods. /
Evening star., 1937-02-28
SPECIAL COURSES
|. FATE IN CONGRESS
D. c. Schools May CurtaiI
Curriculum if Teacher
Funds Are Limited.

School officials at the Franklin
School yesterday revealed the posi-
bility of reduction in the schedule
of special courses in District schools
if Congress should fail to make ade-
quate teacher provision in the 1889 ap-
preparation bill
The retrenchment, if necessary,
would be in courses such as music,
art. manual training. printing, me-
chanical drawing and machine shops
rather than in such extra -curricula
activities such as dramatics, cadet
corps, athletics or publications
The retrenchment, it was harmed,
would probably follow the policy used
previously-not filling teaching posts
made vacant in those courses through
resignation, death or other causes
The money formerly used to pay those
teachers would then be allocated to
getting teachers in the three RS in
order to reduce the pupil load per
teacher. The policy does not con-
template laying of any teachers, it
was pointed out.
Supt. Frank w. Ballou has explained
that based on the teacher-pupil ratio
Of 1927, District schools should have
600 additional teachers During the
period 1881 to 1885, while enrolment
increased by l1,083, Congress allowed
for only 185 new teachers or nearly go
pupils per teacher. In 1935-1936 the
board asked for lab teachers to keep
pace with the enrolment and got IS.
In l936-1937 they got SIS after asking
for 234. In preparing the current
budget 232 were thought necessary,
only 90 of which were acceptable to
the Bureau of the Budget. The school
officials were hopeful that this number
at least would be approved by the
legislature
After recent inspection of several
schools by the Board of Trade Com
mittee on Public Schools, some of the
members were bit dubious as to the
importance of some of the extra curric-
ula activities in their relation to the
overcrowded conditions at the schools
and to the possible increase in cost to
the taxpayer should new buildings be
absolutely necessary. School officials
pointed out that it was not the extra
curricular activities that were respon-
sible. but the special courses on the
regular curriculum. The extra curri-
cula activities took place after school,
they said.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
Billion LOaues of Bread Baked
Monthly to Meet u. S. Demand

The hot-cross bun is another symbol
Of ancient tradition, he said. House,
wives Of the Middle Ages marked the
sign Of the cross on the loaf to keep
away the evil spirits which might
cause the loaf to fall. The crescent
shaped roll had its origin in the siege
of Vienna by the Turks. Cheesecake
is a gift of ancient Greece. Vienna
and French bread, Daniel said, gained
their start in this country in bakery
in the basement of the United States
Capitol which produced 10000 loaves
of bread q day during the Civil War.
Crackers were originated In 1850
to supply the gold seekers who were
crossing the continent to California
and they were used in large quantities
during the Civil War and SO became
popular, the speaker said. Pie, dough-
nuts, Boston brown bread. raisin bread
and Parker House rolls are also dis
ttnctly American product, Dania SAID.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
BY JOHN JAY DAILY.

BY JOHN JAY DAILY.
ENCES along the curbing of
r. busy streets.
/ Fences to keep pedestrians
from walking in front OF fast
moving autos.
Fences along sidewalks from one
corner to another with only street
intersections open to walkers.
Fences to herd people into lanes, to
make them cross on green lights.
This is the prediction of w. A. Van
Duzer, director Of vehicles and traffc,
who looks at the record of 27 fatalities
February ga total of IL more than
the number killed in the same period
last year.
Figures in the traffic directors office
tend to prove that pedestrians, by
crossing against red lights, by jay
walking or crossing streets in the mid
die of blocks, bring death and disaster
upon themselves. In other words, if
they were fenced in. made to remain
on the sidewalks. where they belong,
Washington would not be on the way
toward a new record in automobile
casualties.
That the fencing in of the public,
barriers to prevent pedestrians from
stepping of curbings into the high
ways, may be the final solution of a
dreadful problem Is evidenced by an
experiment now being conducted in
London. In the English capital. ac-
cording to Van Duzer, a mile of street
way has been fenced off-by q steel
Evening star., 1937-02-28
BALD EAGLE HILL
CAMP SOON READY
Retreat for tuberculosis Patients
Will Be Completed by
June Is.

The new Bald Eagle Hill Camp for
tuberculosis children, now being con-
structed on the high ground beyond
Anacostia, will be completed and
ready for occupancy June Is. Ross
Haworth, w. p. A. administrative as
sistant, announced last night after an
inspection tour of the project.
ccompanying Haworth on lie trip
were M. j. Cohan, director Of opera
tions; o J. Case, deputy adminStra-
tive director, and Mrs. Ernest r.
Grant, managing director Of the Tu-
berculosis Association.
The association has made provi-
sion for operation OF the project as
O Summer camp, but funds for equip
ping II. still remain to be raised.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
HOUSE BODY ACTS
ON EMPL0YE LAW
Repeal of married Work.
ers' Clause" Will Be Studied
by Subcommittee.

Repeal OF the married workers
clause" will be studied by subcom-
mittee Of the House Committee on
Expenditures in the executive de-
partments. which has clashed with the
Civil Service Committee on the ques-
tion, it was learned yesterday.
Formation of the subcommittee was
announced by Chairman Cochran OF
the expenditures group. He said he
did not appoint the subcommittee
which was chosen by the committee
in executive session.
1t will hold hearings on the Millard
bill which would repeal the provision.
The Civil Service Committee already
has favorably reported the Celler bill,
as amended, which provides that a
wife whose husband works for the
Government may not be employed II
their combined salaries would be $4,000
or more.
Cochran was the author Of the
married workers clause" in the econ
omy act and has been jealous against
all efforts to repeal it. Acting under
instructions from his committee. he
is compiling data bearing on the
question from all Government agen-
cies. He has been directed to be es-
pecially diligent in obtaining informa-
ton regarding cases of husbands and
wives receiving high-bracket salaries.
Until the compilation of this inform
alton is substantially complete, hear
ings of the subcommittee will not be
begun. Members Of the group are
Representatives Griswold, Indiana;
Quinn, Pennsylvania; Gingery, Penn
sylvania; Wene, New Jersey, and
Bates, Massachusetts,. The last-named
Representative is the only Repub-
lican member.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
AGE Benefit TAX
DEADLINE MONDAY
January Levy Due Today Can Be
Paid Tomorrow Without
ANY Penalty.

The first tax payable under the old
age benefit section of the social secur-
ity act may be paid tomorrow without
incurring any penalty, Charles T..
Russell, acting commissioner of inter-
nal revenue. said in an address over
the National Broadcasting System last
night.
This is the tax for January, and
amounts to l per cent of all employe
earnings, and l per cent of employer
pay roll for that month. It actually
was due today-the last day of the
month-but the additional time was
allowed because the pay date falls on
Sunday.
Russell also emphasized that this
tax is due from all persons with one
or more employees. explaining that
some confusion had arisen because
of the unemployment compensation
tax which covers only those establish
ments with eight or more workers.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
Prisoner Petitions
To Stay Longer
To Finish Course
Le,uisburg Inmate Learn
ing to Be X-ray Tech.
nician WILDE Helped.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An inmate at Northeastern peni-
tentiary at Lewisburg Pa, asked the
Prison Bureau yesterday to disregard
the time of he has coming for good
behavior and let him serve a full
f1ve-year term.
He said he was learning to be an
X-ray technician and would not finish
his course if freed next June. when
with 4so days off for good behavior
he would complete his sentence for
stealing letters from a mail box.
The bureau advised there we're
legal complications to prevent this
procedure, but said it would try to
speed the prisoners training The in
mates name was not disclosed.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
HOUSE TO TAKE UP
D. c. LEGISLATION
Will Devote Major Portion Of
Time Tomorrow to Cap.
ital Measures.

The House tomorrow will devote the
major portion of its time to Dis
trict legislation on the calendar to
make up for the District day lost
last week because of the death of
Representative Buchanan, Democrat,
of Texas.
A bill to modernize Juvenile Court
procedure will be the first measure
called up, and Chairman Norton Of
the District Committee predicts its
passage. There are now eight other
minor measures on the calendar, some
of which may be acted on before ad-
journnent. :
Evening star., 1937-02-28
LAWYER TO SPEAK HERE

Edward s. Rogers, lawyer Of Chi
cago and New York. and chairman of
the committee of the American Bar
Association on trade marks and unfair
competition, will address members of
the Patent Lawyers Club on Tuesday
at o'clock in the club room Of the
Parrot Tea Room.
His subject is Proposed Amend
ments and Development of the Federal
Trade Mark Act
Evening star., 1937-02-28
VASTPOWERC GIVEN
PRESIDENT IN BILL
Reorganization Measure to
Be Considered Tomorrow
by Joint Committee.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

The Presidents new reorganization
bill. which will be considered in exec
utive session by the Joint Committee
on Organization of the Government
tomorrow. gives the President the
most extraordinary powers ever grant,
ed a Chief Executive.
In its first section it requests au-
tllority to "reorganize the agencies of
the Government comparable to that
given to him in the economy act" Of
June 30, 1882. But that act limited
the President to two years. while the
present bill is unlimited in time The
economy act gave Congress so days in
which to stop the Executives pro-
posals. Under the present proposal
Congress is empowered only to pass
an act setting aside the Presidents
reorganization decisions, and passing
it by two-thirds vote over his veto.
The economy act required the Presi-
dent to report specifically to Congress
with his reasons. while the pres
ent bill allows him TO act after his
own investigations, and he reports to
no one.
Those who have studied the admin
istration measure contend it would
abolish the Budget Bureau, in effect.
because it would set aside the purpose
of appropriations by Congress by per-
mitting the Executive to transfer ap-
preparations in the same way that 1t
allows him to transfer the functions
of the General Accounting Office.
Use of Unexpended Balances.
The bill provides that such por-
tions of the unexpended balances of
appropriations, or other funds available
for each transferred or abolished
agency, are transferred to the desig-
mated receiving agency Gncluding the
National Resources Board) as the
President shall deem necessary. Un-
expended balances of appropriations
or other funds available for trans
ferred or abolished agency, not so
transferred pursuant to the Presidents
determination, under the act shall be
impounded and returned to the Treas
ury."
The measure sent to the Joint Com
mittee by the President is an unprece-
dented document. The original ad-
ministration bill asked authority to
reorganize the executive agencies" :"
The new measure eliminates the word
executive" and provides for ''the re-
organization of the agencies of the
Government"
In section 2, under powers of the
President" it proposes that, When
ever the President, after investiga-
tion shall find and declare that any
transfer, retranSfer, regrouping, CO.
ordination, consolidation, reorganiza-
ton. segregation or abolition of the
whole or any part of any agency or
the functions thereof is necessary. to
accomplish any of the purposes of
this title Investigation Of agencies
and determination of where they are
to be regroupeO, he may. by executive
order, transfer or retranSfer the whole
or any part of any agency. or the func-
tions thereof, to the jurisdiction of any
other agency" Thus he is given au-
thority to abolish the whole or any
part of any agency or the functions
thereof.
Possible Effects Studied.
While the bill is in executive ses-
sion and the 88 members of the Joint
Committee are pledged to secrecy re-
garding the text of the Presidents
Evening star., 1937-02-28
MAI. MILLER ASSIGNED

Mai. Harvey L. Miller, United States
Marine Corps Reserve. commanding
officer of the 5th Battalion. Fleet
Marine Corps Reserve, has been as
signed duty as Marine Corps aide to
the District Commissioners, an an
nouncement said yesterday.
This was done by Marine Corps
headquarters at the request Of the
Commissioners. The majors duties
will be similar 10 those performed by
military or naval aides to State Gov
eruors.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
Democrats to Hear Cartwright.

Representative Cartwright of Okla
homa will address a meeting of the
Oklahoma League Of Young Demo-
Gratis at pm. Tuesday at lilo p
street.
La gaceta., 1937-01-18
APROBADA LA LEY QUE
PROHIBE Ell PASO DE
FRANCE
SEES A ESPANA

Paris, enero 18.--La semana
pasada aprob6 Ell parlamentc
una ley que prohibe pasen a Els
paha vo~luntarios franceses.
Patrocin6 la aprobaci6n de la
ley ell primer ministro Leon
Blum, cumpliendo asi una pro-
mesa que habia hecho a Anto-
MO Eden, ministro de negocios
extranjeros de Inglaterra.
Contestando a pregunta sque
varios diputados lie hicieron, M
Ivon Defbos, ministro de relacio
mes exteriores, DECLARE que la
inqrietu1 del gobierno sobre los
voluntarios tenia mas relaci6n
con ell caracter que con Ell MI
nero.
lEl acuerdo frances es tan cla-
70 v definido como ell ingles Y
representa- algo que todavia no
han hecho Alemania e Italia.