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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
PAGEANT AT LoNGwooD IN


RIP Van Wrinkle" is the theme
of the eighth annual Kennett Square
American Legion Pageant, with Elec-
trio Fountains and Waterfall display,
to be held at Longwood Gardens, on
the evenings of June 16 to 10, inclu-
sive.
An important innovation this year
is the reservation of the entire ca
pacity of 1900 seats in the charming
open-air theatre on the P. s. dupont
estate. To insure admittance, tick
cts must be ordered in advance. For
reservations, or a descriptive folder,
address: Legion Pageant, kennett
Square, Pa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
Woman Named For Cecil
School Board

Republican State Central Committee
Recommends Mrs. Williams
The Republican State Central Com
mittee for Cecil county has recon-
mended the appointment of Mrs.
Wallace Williams as County School
Commissioner.
The recommendation was forward
ed to Gov. Harry w. Nice, who will
appoint a commissioner to succeed
Fred Lewis, Democratic incumbent
whose term expires this month.
There were four nominees to be
considered by the committee. They
were: Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Joshua
Clayton, Mrs. Helen Reed and Mrs.
Sidney Dixon. After six ballots, the
committee voted unanimously to rec
ommend Mrs. Williams.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
Youth Conference At
Perryville
County Council OF Christian Educa-
ton To Meet Saturday

County Council OF Christian Educa-
ton To Meet Saturday
The Cecil county youth and youth
leaders convention of the County
Council of Christian Education will
be held at Perryville M. E. Church
on Saturday, May s, from $3.50 a. m.
to p m.
A very interesting program has
been planned, consisting of address
ses, discussion groups and special
features. Among the speakers and
discussion group leaders are Rev.
Oliver Collins, pastor of St. PauPs
M. E. Church, Wilmington; Rev.
Frank White. pastor of Rising Sun
M. E. Church, Rising Sun; Rev. A.
E. Thomas, minister of Presbyterian
Church, Elkton; George Clifford,
principal Calvert High School, Cal
vert, and DR.. w. e. Gunby, Wilm-
ington district superintendent, Will
mington.
The program committee also ex-
poets many other outstanding youth
leaders to be present on this date.
A large banquet has been planned.
Every young person in the county Is
cordially invited to attend.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
Rumsey Is Hailed AS
Steamboat Inventor
Throng Witnesses dwelling
OF Marker At Birthplace
At Warwick

With high Maryland and Delaware
personages attending, marker com
memorating the birthplace of James
Rumsey and describing him as in
ventor CT the steamboat was unveiled
at Warwick, Cecil county, on Satur-
day.
School history books to the con-
trary, the marker declares;
James Rumsey, the inventor
of the steamboat, was born 1743
two miles north of this point in
Middle Neck. George Washing
ton showed much interest in
Rumsey's experiments and made
him superintendent of the Po-
tomac Company.
Rumsey's boat, records show, was
successfully demonstrated December
l3, 1887, on the Potomac river neal
Shepherdstown w. Va. Robert Full
tons trial run with the famed Cler-
mont on the Hudson occurred TWEEN
ty-three years later.
With Lieut.. Gov. Edward Cooch
of Delaware, looking on, Mrs. Anita
Buchanan Spear, of Shepherdstown
w. Va, a descendent of Rumsey, un-
yelled the marker. Thirty other de-
scendants CT the steamboat expert
menter attended
Joshua Clayton, president of the
Cecil County (Md.) Historical Soci-
ETY., presided at the exercises. j
Alexis Shriver, director of historical
markers for Maryland, addressed the
gathering. Among the throng at
tending were interested persons from
PENNSYLVANIA, Delaware, West Vir,
ginia and Maryland.
After the unwilling exercises many
of those who attended went in cav
alcade of seventy-five automobiles tc
the birthplace of Rumsey at Rum
sey's Mill They also visited histor-
ic old St. Francis Xavier and st. Au-
gustine's churches and old Bohemia
Manor, the latter place now the
home of former Senator Thomas F
Byron, of Delaware. 1t was near the
latter house where Rumsey was born
James Rumsey was born on 3D.
hemia Manor in 1743. He publicly
demonstrated workable steamboat
on the Potomac at Shepherdstown
w. Va, according to records, on De
cember IS, 1887.
George Washington is said to have
indicated recognition of Rumsey's
feat a year before John Fitch made
a similar experiment,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
CHESAPEAKE CITY APPROVES
BOND ISSUE

The proposal to authorize the town
commissioners of Chesapeake City to
.ssue 100000 in bonds for water
and sewer system was overwhelm-
ingly approved at referendum held
n that town.
Out of registration electorate of
512 persons, 445 cast ballots, SS2
favoring the plan under which a
granted $4,000 to $4,000 would
be obtained from the Public Works
Administration, and 11S voting
against it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
Illicit Whiskey Plant
Wrecked By Officers
Find Still In Observation-Disclosures
$50 Gallons OF Liquor And
Buick Car

While Sheriff Eugene Racine's
force of deputies and two Internal
Revenue officers were searching for
illicit whiskey-making plants in
Whitaker Barrens, scene of many
illicit still operations during prohi-
bition, on Wednesday, they discover
ed large still which apparently had
been in operation within the last
hour.
The raiders found 20-horse pow
erboiler, with fire still alive in the
fire box, $50 gallons of recently dis
titled liquor and 1400 gallons Of
mash, ready for distilling, and a
Buick car, with no license tags on it.
The operators of the plant had fed
before the officers arrived. The en-
tire plant was destroyed with dyna-
mite and the car was taken to the
county Jail
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
FATALLY INJURED BY FIRE
WORK EXPLOSION

Anthony Casino, 10 year old son
of Mr.. Albert Casino, of Havre de
Grace, died at the Hartford Memoir
ial Hospital, early Thursday morn
ing. The young man was fatally
burned on Wednesday of the week
previous when some fireworks he
was making at the Commercial Nov
city Company, exploded, setting his
clothing afire, and throwing him a
few feet from the small building in
which he was working alone. The
building was completely wrecked.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
RURAL woMEN's SHORT COURSE

The fifteenth annual Rural Wom-
ems Short Course will be held at the
University of Maryland, College
Park, this year from June IA to 10.
The large number of women who
have taken advantage of this oppor-
tunity has so increased that it has
been necessary to limit the number
to 700. The program during the
week includes lectures and demon
strations on household subjects, mus
ic, dramatics, recreation, poultry and
gardening. The week ends with a
sight seeing trip in Washington.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07

The second annual dog show of the
Cecil County Foxhunters Association
will be held Thursday evening, May
q. at McKinney's Garage. in Elkton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
AWARDED CONTRACT TO CARRY
MAIL

Fred Burkins, of Colora, has been
awarded the contract by the govern
ment to carry the mail from Perry
vile to Rising Sun, arriving at this
Office at 1880 a. m, and from Rising
Sun to Port Deposit in the evening,
leaving this Office at 1850 o'clock.
The contract is for four year term.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
MISUNDERSTANDING

of Court in Elkton.
REYNOLDS-CAP
Miss Marcella M. Caponic, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Caponic,
of Havre de Grace, and Edward G.
Reynolds, son of Mr.. and Mrs Melvin
reynolds, of North East, were mar
ried on Saturday evening, April "a,
at the parsonage of the Methodist
episcopal Church in North East, by
the pastor, Rev. c. A. Campbell. The
only attendants we're William Tom
linson, of North East, and Miss Eliz-
abeth Burns, of Havre de Grace.
MOULTON-GAINE
Miss Edith B. Gaines, of Principle
Furnace, and Mr.. Charles Curtis
Moulton, of Chapel Road, near Wes-
leyan Chapel, Hartford county, were
quietly married at the Methodist
episcopal parsonage in Bel Air at
$3.50 o'colck ON Thursday afternoon.
The ceremony was performed by the
pastor, the Rev. D. B. Groves.
The bride wore a gray travelling
suit with matching accessories and
corsage of sweet peas and was at
tended by Miss Emma Sutor Reasin
of Cecil county and Miss Rowena
Gilbert of near Wesleyan Chapel, a
cousin of the groom.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moulton left imme-
diately after the ceremony by motor
for a trip north and upon their re-
turn will reside in Aberdeen.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07

The man who wants to be mean
never wants for an opportunity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
WEDDINGS
DOWING-WILLIAMS

Miss Jennie Williams, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Williams, and
Mr.. George G. Downing, of Elkton,
were quietly married at the Episco-
pal rectory, Saturday morning, April
"A, by Rev. J. Warren Atkinson OF
Trinity p. u. Church. The bride for
several years past has been one of
the deputies in the Office of the Clerk
of Court in Elkton.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
RIDING
WITH MAN
NIGHT OF
DEATH
Friends Give Tip on
Charlie in Sprouse
Murder Case

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, March
3.-A mysterious Charlie" was
hunted by police today as detec-
tives sought to piece together the
tangled evidence in the cf1loroform
murder of the pretty 18-year-old
high school girl whose body was
found yesterday propped against a
cemetery wall.
A girl friend Of the slain auburn
haired Cleo Sprouse gave police
the information that started the
search for the mystery figure. She
and another girl, helping investi-
gators trace the movements of the
girl from the time she left her
home Monday afternoon until her
murder some time late Monday
night, told how the girl had been
stood up" by a man known only
as Charlie" how she had been
seen in an automobile with a man
Monday night, and about her visit
to dentists office Monday after
noon.
Nearer Solution
These developments, regarded
BY Sheriff j. Mason Smith and
his chief deputy, H. j. Haney, as
the most important brought to
light since the girls body was
found, with cotton stuffed in her
noStrilS and mouth and a can of
chloroform held in place over her
face with a newly-purchaSed hand
towel, brought the mystery of her
death nearer a solution, in the
opinion Of the investigators.
To Deputy Sheriff Haney,
Marguerite Hamilton, one of the
girls, told a story of having talked
with Cleo in a downtown dentists
office after school Monday after.
noon. AS they sat talking in the
anteroom. the Hamilton girl said,
she asked Cleo what she was do
ing that night. To this the high
school sophomore replied:
'I'm not doing anything. I
haven't got date. / had a date
to inset Charlie after school, but
he didn't show up"
Miss Hamilton declared she did
not know Charlie" by any other
name, and although she and Cleo
were friendly, they had only been
out together once. She could not
give the exact time of this con.
versation, but thought it was after
3 o'clock.
Deputy Sheriff Haney then
talked with Ethel Sealock, who
Continued on Page 3, Col. y
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
QUIZ TEAGEE
ON BOND MOVE
international News Service

International News Service
Walter Teagle, president Of the
vast oil empire controlled by
Standard Oil of New Jersey, today
vigorously denied knowledge of
any attempt to corner outstanding
bonds of the Republic of Colon
bia.
Teagle was called for testimony
before the Securities Exchange
Commission which is trying to
ascertain whether Standard Oil
interests sought to control such
outstanding bond issues because
of the company's huge holdings
in the Latin American country.
The Commission is investigating
q registration statement filed by
the bondholders' committee for the
Republic of Columbia dollar bonds
which seeks to issue certificates of
deposit to bondholders. This action
would enable the committee to
represent the bondholders in any
negotiations with the Colombian
government designed to effect a
settlement of $152, ,000, 900 princi-
pal and interest now in default.
Commission Counsel C. Forrest
Tancer, first developed that three
members OF the committee had
some associations with Standard
Oil. These were James H. Hayt >,
who represented the company in
numerous legal matters and who
appeared at today's inquiry as at
torney for the committee; F. H.
Bedford, a company director, and
Harrison McCann, member of the
advertising agency that handles
the Standard Oil advertising &C
count.
The committee at present Is
headed by former Senator Robert
Owen Of Oklahoma, one of the
trainers Of the Federal reserve act.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
Bloc Drives for 5-Blion-DoNaf Loan Moratorium
Attacked
Girl, l,4,He
Admits

NEW YORK, March 3 QN.S0.
Hardened policemen WINGED today
when they heard what was
termed the most depraved confes-
sion in the recent annals Of crime
the admission Of a man that he
had subjected 4-year-old Joan
Morvan to a criminal assault
which resulted in her death.
Howard Magnussen, 26, of
Huntington Station, L. l., who is
a brother Of Mrs. Norma Cato,
housekeeper for the child's father,
will face homicide charges in
Huntington, where the assault is
said to have occurred.
Mrs. Cato and the child's
father, George Morvan, were ar
rested on charges Of felonious as
sault. They are accused Of having
beaten the child from time to
time with their hands, Q hair
brush and with q stick.
The child's body when brought
to the morgue was covered with
bruises and scrapeS. The autopsy
disclosed that the child had died
Monday of peritonitiS following a
criminal assault which took place
earlier than last Friday.
Police learned that Morvan,
Mrs. Cato, Joan and Morvan'S
other child, George, jr., two years
old, had visited Mrs. Gatto's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mag
nuSSen.
The latter's son, Howard, was
questioned yesterday, but did not
confess until today.
The child's death at her Jamaica
home was reported Monday. Cato
telephoned Morvan. at his work as
a painter. He told police he found
the child dead upon his return
home. He and Mrs. Cato then
drove out to Huntington Station,
he told police, and conferred with
his parents, who also live there.
Police were notified later.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
$4,000 WILL
SET ASIDE

An estate valued at $4,000 was
given to q granddaughter Of DR..
Ernest Georg Fischer, Washington
scientist. by jury in United
States District Court today. The
jury found that the scientists last
will was a product of undue in
fluence and coercion" and there
fore invalid.
DR.. Fischer, according to the
jury's findings, was not of sound
mind when he made the invali-
dated will. leaving his estate to
Henry ]. Watkins, jr., a friend.
The jury found that Watkins "and
some other person or persons" had
exercised coercion on the 83-year-
old inventor and former head Of
the instruments division Of the
Coast and Geodetic Survey.
DR.. Fisher was awarded the
Howard M. Potts gold medal by
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
for, his scientific achievements,
including the invention of a ma.
chine which predicts the tides,
now IN Use by the Coast and
Geodetic Survey. He retired from
Government service in 1922. Death
came in 1885.
Jerome Barnard and Ernest
Henry represented George C..
BouriS, of Baltimore, the grand
nephew by marriage.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
MRS. TRADER
DIE.SAFTER
OPERATION
WeaIthyWomanFaced
Trial in Death Of
Estranged Mate
picture on Page d

SALISBURY, Md. March 3.
Death closed the hectic history of
Mrs. Jeanette B. Trader today,
following an operation for an in
testinal disorder in the PENN
sula General Hospital, to which
she was taken from her cell in the
Salisbury Jail where she awaited
trial for the murder Of her eS'
tranged husband.
Mrs. Trader, wealthy and beau
tiful in the maturity Of her 81
years, was brought here from
Snow Hill, where she had been
confined since her arrest q few
days after her husband, Clarence
j. Trader, owner Of the Stockton
power plant on the Eastern Shore,
was found dead in her house with
a bullet through his body.
Kin Brought Food
At Snow Hill members Of her
family had brought bananas, pea
nuts and fried pork chops to her
cell. She had eaten these in addi-
ton to the heavy meals provided
by the jail matron, wife Of Sheriff
Ernest West. When acute indigeS-
tion developed. she was ordered
brought to Salisbury, where she
became the first woman prisoner
to be confined in the new Jail, and
was completely isolated from the
outside world.
A hunger strike followed Us she
refused all nouriShment, and
physicians reported her in "an ex-
tremely weakened condition when
she was removed to the hos
pital for an emergency operation.
Her death came at a time when
members of the family of Harry
Samuel Massey, shot and killed
four years ago, were demanding a
fresh investigation by Governor
Nice to determine whether he had
been killed by Trader, by whose
company Massey was employed as
a collector.
Old Death PrObed
Massey was shot with a %
caliber rifle. It has been pointed
out since that Trader took posses
sion of the rifle at the time, and
that there were mysterious
circumstances in connection with
the death which pointed to q
cause other than suicide.
A divorce action was pending
when Trader, who was 43, was
killed on the night of January IA,
after he had gone to the home of
the woman he sought to- divorce.
When Trader was buried local
residents from around Snow Hill
said it was about the biggest
funeral we ever had" Mrs.
Trader. wearing black. showed no
emotion as the services were read.
She had told authorities her
husband killed himself.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
SIT STRIKES
HALT JOBS
10000
1OOWomen in Factory
Ready to Die Before
Yielding to Police

sARNIA, Ont. March 3
N.N.SJ.-RiOting broke out to-
day as nOn-strikers crashed
their way into the plant of the
Holmes Foundry Company and
engaged 78 sit-dOwn strikers il
a pitched battle. The strikers
resisting efforts to eject them
were aided by l0ngshOremen
from Point Edward who were
ON strike, themselves, last fall.
At least five were injured.
NEW YORK, March 8 (1.N.S.J
The stock market swept forward
today on strength Of labor agree
ments signed by the C. /. o. and
Carnegie Illinois Steel i'm the
wake Of . general wage boost
and 4O-hOur week for the steel
industry. Steel shares again pre-
dominated, sending the high
speed ticker 4 minutes behind
from the start and bringing
gains running to 3 points in the
general list. Youngstown Spurted
more than ! points.
DETROIT. March 3 GN.sO,
The strike situation here drew
tense today, with q new wave OF
labor disputes sending the total
number Of sit-down strikes here tc
approximately 80. More than
1000 were idle.
Large crowds milled around
some of the Strike-bound industrial
plants, but police managed to keep
them under control. Possible VIC
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
UnsuupuIouS Copper
Of This Wafer Wagon
Gives Cops Headache

Policemen generally have no
quarrel with anyone who climbs
aboard the water wagon. Today,
however, they were on the look
out for someone who not only
climbed aboard the well-known
vehicle but drove off with it.
This particular water wagon is
no figure of speech. According to
Norman T. Meyer of Arlington, Va,
foreman of the District Sewer Dc
Ipartment, the missing wagon is
painted a suitable gray and is Of
the two-wheeled variety, making
lit even more difficult to stay on
than water wagons Of other types.
The wagon is the property Of
the District Sewer Department,
Meyer told police, and is worth
lS25.
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
ON NAVY
BILL STARTS
BY WILLIAM S. NEAL
International News Service

Little Navy" advocates banded
together today in an effort TO
slash the 1926, 100000 annual
naval supply bill already cut be-
low last years figure and below
Navy requests by the House ap-
preparations committee.
Amendments designed to slow
rapid expansion of the Navy to
world power strength were planned
by the House group on the claim
national defense expenditures are
rising too high.
Representative Luckey CD, of
Nebraska, pointing out that the
1882 Democratic national platform
called for a survey so national de-
tense costs could be reduced, as
Continued on Page 4, Col. y
The Washington times., 1937-03-03

the Commissioners issued an order
to heads of all municipal depart
ments calling upon them to see
that employees rigidly obey traf-
fic rules. The proclamation read:
whereas, we, the Commission.
ers Of the District of Columbia,
believe the time has arrived when
the residents of the municipality
should have their attention Spe-
ciaHy drawn to the hazards to
life and limb that are natural
consequences of a disregard Of
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
CIRCULATES
PETITION
INH0USE
Lemke Says He's Sure
218Members Needed
Will Sign
BY ROBERT HUMPHREYS
International News Service

In the first major counter-Ad-
ministration move by House mem
bers this year, a coalition of farm
urban blocS today maneuvered to
force action on measures letting
down the bars on Government re-
financing Of private Indebtedness,
including q bill declaring a two
year force losure moratorium on
more than 5000 million dollars in
Home owners Loars Corporation
and Farm Credit Administration
loans.
Invoking the petition rule, coali-
ton members, headed by Repre-
sentative Lemke (R0 Of North Da-
kota, laid upon the Speakers desk
discharge petitions seeking House
action on the Frazier-Lemke agri-
cultural refinancing bill and q
measure providing for refinancing
HOLC loans at Ia per cent in
tereSt.
Six Billions New Money
The two measures combine to
make possible 5000 million dollars
in initiation through the issuance
of new money secured only by
farm and home mortgages should
the low interest bonds not be
taken up by private investors.
In addition to these measures,
the group has launched a move
ment making possible the invoca-
tion of the petition rule later this
week on a bill providing for re-
financing Farm Credit Admins
tration loans of farms through a
similar program.
Confident that he could muster,
as he did last year, the 21S sigma
lures to a petition necessary to
bring the Frazier-Lemke bill to the
House floor.
Stiff Fight Seen
Lemke said:
This is not going to make
the Administration happy. The
Continued on Page 2, Col. II
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
I'D. e.. Traffic ViOlatOrS
Given New Warming

Sanctioning vigorous" hand
ling of the small group of de-
liberate and willful violators of
traffic safety measures" by the
police and the courts, the District
Commissioner issued a proclama-
ton today calling upon all resi-
dents of the District to obey traf-
fic regulations and to discard
unsafe practices.
The proclamation was in line
with Commissioner Melvin C. Ha-
7en's appeal to the citizenry to
make March a month without .
traffic killing" At the same time
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
FARNSW0RTH
0FFTOPRISON

John S. Farnsworth, former
Navy lieutenant commander, who
pleaded guilty two weeks ago to a
charge Of conspiring with two
Japanese naval officers to sell i'm
portant defense information. was
whisked away last night to Atlanta
where he will serve his 4 to 12-year
Rison term.
Under conditions Of similar Sec
recy Charles R. Rags" Warning,
notorious gangSter. and five Of his
henchmen, including trigger,man
Joseph S. Bond, who were con-
CONTINUED on Page 4, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
Griffs Set to Show
Stuff to Jimmy

Jimmy is a guest at the home of
Howard Rowtan, State adjutant
of the American Legion, who
drove to Deland yesterday to meet
Si Trumbo, adjutant Of the Or
lando post. Young Brady had been
placed in Mr.. Trumbo's care by the
Orlando police.
It was not until he arrived with
Mr.. Rowtan in Deland that the
seriousness of his escapade dawn
ed upon Jimmy. He became wor.
CONTINUED on Page 4, Col. a
The Washington times., 1937-03-03
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair with lowest temperature about IS de-
grees tonight tomorrow mostly cloudy and
slightly warmer; light variable winds, becon-
ing gentle to moderate southeFly tomorrow.
1Weather Details on Page 81