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Evening star., 1937-04-16
119 PATIENTS FLEE
FIRE IN HOSPITAL
Toledo State Institution for In
sane Is Scene of Wild
Confusion.

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, April ia group OF 119
patients was driven out of two-story
brick dormitory building at Toledo
State Hospital for the Insane by fire
today. No one was hurt. The damage
to the building was slight.
Nurses had to battle with the pa
tients to get them out of danger. They
locked themselves in lavatories and
concealed themselves in various parts
of the building. Screams of the pa
tients added to the confusion of the
hospital grounds.
Firemen said the fire apparently
started from defective wiring in the
basement.
Evening star., 1937-04-16
UNION REPORTED
READY TO ADVISE
c. NJ. STRIKE END
May Advise Canadian Work.
ers to Return to Jobs
Pending Accord.
EMPLOYEES CALLED
TO HEAR PROPOSALS
Officials of Oshawa Local Talk
With Martin-Mass Meet
ing to Follow.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Claiming pictory in their strikes
at the General Motors factories in
the United States, labor union
leaders haze halted Work at the
company's plant in Oshawd,
Canada
Employees and union officials,
imperDious to threats of Premier
Mitchell Hepburn, ,Dho has ragged
against the c. I. O., after nine days
hare been unable to reach agree
ment NTH company officials.
BY the Associated Press.
OSHAWA, Ontario, April 16-The
Canadian Press said today it had
learned on good authority that auto
mobile union officials, conferring here
on the strike of 3,7OO General Motors
of Canada workers, would advise the
men to return to work Monday pend
ing an agreement with the company.
Officials of the Oshawa local union
of the United Automobile Workers of
America met with Homer Martin,
president of the International Union,
snd with Hugh Thompson, union or
fanizer. Martin came here today
from Detroit.
A mass meeting was to follow, at
which proposals were to be placed be-
fore the strikers. If the strikers
agreed to the proposals, the Canadian
Press said, they would return to work
Monday and efforts to reach an agree
n1ent between the union and the COM
pany would continue.
Requests to Be Made.
The Canadian Press said these re-
guests then would be placed before
She company:
/. Any agreement to be made to be
with all plants involving General Mo-
rors in Canada (OshaWa, Windsor,
where a stoppage of production has
forced 500 men out Of work, and Nc
Kinnon Industries. Ltd, General Mo-
tors subsidiary at st. Catharines.
2. Recognition Of the local union,
No. 222, U. A. w. A., by the company
here.
3. Seniority rights for workers.
4. Establishment of Grievance
Committee by the company.
Martin took personal charge OF
union moves to settle a strike of 3,700
General Motors of Canada workers.
ignoring, apparently, Ontarios c. I, o.
opposing premier.
Martins arrival apparently put an
end to Premier Mitchell Hepburn's
plans to settle the strike by an agree
ment between representatives of the
strikers and General Motors of Can
ada, Ltd, without the interference" of
international union representatives.
Statement of Martin.
Martin said he had no intention Of
talking with Hepburn while the pre-
mier, in Toronto, said he would not
meet Martin or ANY other John L.
Lewis hirelings."
The strike started eight days ago
with the union demanding an agree
nent between General Motors OF Can
ada, Ltd, and the United Automobile
Workers, to cover Canadian employees.
The Canadian company was willing
to make an agreement with local
union committee, but not with the in
ternational union.
WOULD BAR MARTIN.
Evening star., 1937-04-16
PRESIDENT TO FISH

Roosevelt to Leave April 20 for
Gulf Trip.
President Roosevelt said today he
had definitely decided to leave April
20 for New Orleans to embark on his
tarpon fishing trip in the Gulf Of
Mexico.
He will leave Washington by train
shortly after midnight and will be gone
about two weeks. No other details of
the trip were announced.
Evening star., 1937-04-16
Explosion Kills Eleven.

HARB1N, Manchukuo, April Is P).
Eleven persons were known to have
been killed and many others injured
today in terrific dynamite explosion
at the Ttaho shaft, belonging to the
Manchuria Coal Mining Co., near
MulinR.
Evening star., 1937-04-16
WOMAN WINS IN FIGHT
TO ADMINISTER ESTATE
Court Upholds Contention She
Lived II Years as Secret
Wife of Jersey Man.

b. the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., April 10
Mrs. Elsie Gemill Mitchell, who
claimed she lived secretly as the wife
of L. Arthur Richards for II years
while he posed as bachelor in the
fashionable circles of better neighbor-
hoods, won in Orphans Court today
the right to administer his 100000
estate.
After Richards died last October.
Mrs. Mitchell charged that since 1919
she and their son lived In one section
OF town, while he played bridge in
fashionable homes and kept secret
their alleged marriage ceremony.
She testified he was at home with
her Monday, Wednesday and Friday
nights, but his relatives testified he
never said or did anything to indicate
he was married. County Judge Robert
l.. Warke upheld her contention.
Evening star., 1937-04-16
FREIGHTER QUITS WAR
Motomar Sister Ship of Vessel
CAPTURED bv Rebels.
By the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, April 16 (P.-The
Spanish government freighter Moto-
mar, sister ship of the Inflated Mar
Cantabrico, apparently has abandon
ed. at least temporarily, an attempt to
run q cargo of foodstuffs and NUM-
tions for the Valencia government to
Spain.
Instead the Motomar will carry a
scientific expedition to Central Amer
lea reports from Vera Cruz said today.
The munition-laden Mar Cantabrico
was captured by the insurgents
March g.
Evening star., 1937-04-16

ploUleIllS dIlu pOllCleS Vi llTSb I12SIllIu
To try to bring them into proper
and understandable perspective at this
close date is difficult. To do so it is
necessary to discard ones personal
feelings and effectively study the vari-
GUS factors which so swiftly swung
into activity when, like thunder
clap out of clear sky, came the shock
of the news that my husband, Cen
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek, had been
captured in a mutiny at Sian, the
capital Of ShenSi Province.
That news was broken to me by
DR.. H. H. Kung, minister of finance,
who came full Of anxiety to my
Shanghai home.
Evening star., 1937-04-16
BY MAYLING sOONG CHANG


in
SHANGHA-Far from
comic visualizd
battle-ground struggle, of
hinged of
What happened beginning
last rebellion
1t had special significant
In involved explosive elements
Evening star., 1937-04-16
There has been a mutiny, and

There has been mutiny, and
there's no news Of the generalissimo."
These words, falling from the lips
Of DR.. Kung, sounded ominous, even
to one who has been long accustomed
to peril and dangerous situations. Nor
did any news come for many hours,
all telegraph and radio communica-
tions with Sian having been dislo-
Gated. But those who wanted news
were not baffled. Rumors, ridiculous
and startling, quickly supplied the
Continued on Page 4, Column 2.)
Evening star., 1937-04-16
VAN ICELAND COMING
Belgium's 8 Premier to Receive Uni
versity Degree in June.

President Roosevelt may have chat
with Premier Paul van iceland OF
Belgium.
He said today the premier was COM
ing to the United States in June to
receive university degree. Mr.. Roose-
velt added at his press conference he
naturally expected to see the premier
6Hring the visit.
Evening star., 1937-04-16
WOULD BAR MARTIN.
Hepburn Refuses to Confer With
Lewis Hirelings.

TORONTO, Ontario, April 16 (P).-
Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario
today served notice that neither Homer
Martin, president of the United Auto
mobile Workers, nor any other hire
ling of John L. Lewis" would be ad-
mitted to proposed General Motors
strike peace conference in his office.
Hepburn, blunt spoken foe of Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organization
made this statement to newspaper
1See STRIKE Page Ash
Evening star., 1937-04-16
Summary of Today's Star

Chairman King considering demand
for milk price inquiry. Page B-1
House gets bill to provide 6-day work
week in D. G. Page Dill
Evening star., 1937-04-16
Mrs. Roosevelt in Charleston.

CHARLESTON, S. c., April l6 CR.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt fingered
in Charleston today on her leisurely
motor trip through the Southeast, her
plans and further itinerary undecided.
Evening star., 1937-04-16
BACKGROUND

0AS4A 1AkSC NA~
Borrowing the sit-dospn technique
from, European ,porkers, American
labor, principally in the automo-
bile industry, has met ,oith udrying
success in an epidemic of strikes.
Roundly assailed as illegal tres
pass, the sit-down, nevertheless.
has fourished. Recently Congress
approved resolution attacking the
occupying OF plants by strikers.
The resolution also criticized COM
pany unions and labor espionage.
Evening star., 1937-04-16

BY the Associated Press.
Workers and employers alike specu-
lated today on the possibility Of the
sit-down technique being replaced by
the Showdown"
In the Ternstedt Manufacturing Co.
plant at Detroit, . General Motors
subsidiary, employees used the new pro-
test method, resembling slow-motion
movie or stalling in q basket BALI
game, 1t was disclosed yesterday. ThG
Evening star., 1937-04-16
Neutrality Patrol to Force
Captains to Show Papers
After Monday Night.
BASQUES KEEP PEAK
IN BLOODY BATTLE
Objective Changes Hands Several
Times as Mola Prepares for
Attack Upon Bilbao.
BACKGROUND-

hoUeUer, haze been equally tena-
cious and had enough reserpe
strength to launch an offensive that
forced the rebels back. Interest
centers also on the Bilbao front,
nhere Rebel Mola and tnsurqent
blockade by sea threaten 100000
1Dith slo,D starvation.
By the Associated Press.
Merchant ships flying the United
States nag will be forced to submit to
examination in Spanish waters, off,
cials of the Neutrality Committee dis
closed today.
American ships will have to prove
their papers are in order, but they
will not be searched. The inspection
VIII guard against ships of other ma
tlons masquerading under the Stars
and Stripes to slip past the interna-
tional blockade with contraband car
goes.
The blockade, to enforce the hands
off-Spain' committees embargo
against further foreign arms and men,
has been ordered to start at midnight
Monday. 1t will be composed of Brit
ish, French, German and Italian war
vessels
Merchant shipping destined for
Spanish ports under flags of the q
nations on the committee will be SUBJ
iected to rigid controls. Rules for
United States shipping will apply to
all non-member nations.
Stop at Control Points.
Ships of non-intervention nations
carrying cargoes to Spain will be in
structed to stop at various control
ports to take committee observers
aboard as assurance that their goods
have been properly declared and that
they will deliver no other cargo.
When such merchantmen leave
the control ports for their designations
they will hoist a special neutrality
flag-two black balls on white back
ground-as Identification Naval pa
troll ships in coastal waters where the
inspected merchantmen are to pass
will be advised of their presence as a
double-check against contraband
slipping through the Gordon
The international Patrol Fleet will
fly the North Sea Fisheries Convention
flag and will remain outside the Span
ish three emile limit. Ships engaged
in coastal trade between Spanish ports
will not be molested.
The civil war front shifted back to
the Bay of Biscay. where insurgent
forces under Gen. Emilio Mola moved
(See SPAIN Page A-Ql
Evening star., 1937-04-16
Story of Daring and Intrigue
ToldbyM Nine. Chang of Fight
To Free Kidnapped Husband

TBS is the frst Of nine daily installnents Of the remark
abe account OF the kidnapping OF Chang KaShek 1rt
ten by Nine. Chang and the Chinese lord
Evening star., 1937-04-16

(See STALL Page A-12A
Evening star., 1937-04-16

(See STRIKE, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-04-16

(See STREET CAR, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1937-04-16

(see PLAN Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-04-16

~. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair, probably light frost; lowest tenn
perature about 38 degrees tonight; tomor-
row increasing cloudiness and slightly
warmer. observation-disclosures, SO, at
$3.50 pm. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 4:3o
am. today. Full report on page Bill.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-07-09
TEA GIVEN ON SATURDAY
FOR PROSPECTIVE BRIDE

Mrs. William S. Schoolfield enter
tanned very delightfully."- at a tea Sat
urday last in honor of her daughter,
Miss Marjorie Schoolfield whose en-
gagement to Mr.. Earl Cutler, of Cam
bridge was recently announced.
At the tea the "cat was let out of
the bag" and the date of the wedding,
August 18th, was very cleverly an
nounced by the arrival of a cat in a
bag which when released was found
to be wearing a red, white and blue
ribbon around its neck. Attached to
this was card bearing the names
and date of the approaching mar
riage.
The novel idea was also carried out
in the favors which were china cats
each bearing miniature cards tied with
colors suggestive of the patriotic hol-
iday. About forty guests were pres
ent.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-07-09
MISS EARHART
SOMEWHERE IN
PACIFIC OCEAN
Daring Aviatrix, With Her Pilot,
NOOnan, Missing For Over
Seven Days
SIGNALS FOR HELP
NOW NO LONGER HEARD

1t seems that one more tragedy is
to be written into the history of the
air. Amelia Earhart, as she chooses
to be known, tho really Mrs. George
Palmer Putnam, is lost somewhere in
the Pacific Ocean or marooned on
some one of its many tiny islands in
the region traversed by Earhart's
plane as she and her pilot, Frederick
J. Noonan, sought to circumnavigate
the Globe.
For over a week, the two have been
missing. 1t is, of course, absolutely
sure their plane has been forced to
alight, either on the water or on some
coral island. If the latter, there may
be hopes of rescue; if on the former,
the chances are greatly reduced, and
never a trace of the lost people and
plane may come to light.
The air ship with the two left Flor
ida for a trip around the World-her
'fun trip, as Miss Earhart called it.
1t had been arranged to land on the
small island of Lac, in the Pacific.
a distance of 1900 miles from San
Francisco, on the way back. Either
this dot on the universe was over-shot
or missed or short-sighted, is not
known. Signals calling for aid came
from the Inflated plane for some time
Continued on Page
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-07-09
TOMATO PRICES
DISAPPOINTING
TO THE GROWERS
Take A Drop To Thirty Cents
From An Early Quotation
OF SOC To Coo Basket

Up to Thursday Of this week hopes
of rise in prices on green tomatoes
had not materialized. Starting last
week at price range of fifty to sixty
cents they took a drop after the hoi-
day and on Wednesday were bringing
only twenty-five and thirty cents, the
former price probably due to an infer
ior grade of fruit. Good, solid toma-
toes were sold at thirty cents and in
some sections as high as 321a.
Packing plants are kept busy as the
yield is large and the fruit in most
cases of excellent quality. While the
outlook at present is not very encour-
aging to growers yet there is good
demand and possibility of higher
prices soon.
The tomato crop is now one of the
most important agricultural crops of
the county. Centrally located canning
factories encourage large acreage
and the late crops of ripe tomatoes are
disposed of exclusively to these fac
tories.
The early crop, however, is picked
green and handled through packing
plants. Prices usually range at the
start of the season Coo to 75c pei
basket and as high as 81. Prices last
year held up throughout the season
and the demand was great for both
green and ripe tomatoes.
The wheat crop, which in past
years, has been one of the staple
crops fell short this year due probab-
ly to weather conditions in the win
ter and early spring. In former years
an average of 1900 acres has been
planted annually producing yields
ranging from fifteen to forty bush
els per acre. The acreage planted
this year is very much below this
mark.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-07-09
PROPOSALS ARE ASKED
FOR THE new OFFICE

By reference to the advertising col
umns of today's issue of the "Demo-
crat" it can be seen that proposals for
the erection of a post office in POGO
moke will be opened in Washington,
D. c., at 1 o'clock p. M, August 3,
1887. Full instructions are given in
the advertisement.
The building will be erected on the
now vacant lot adjoining the Meth
odist Protestant Church, and known
as the I. H. Merrill residence site. The
old Merrill house has been torn down
to make room for the new building.
Just what the style of architecture
to be selected is not known, but the
Government usually adhere to a CO.
lonial type. There has been approp-
rated the sum of $4,000 for the Of
flee, and Judging from what has been
done in other cities with this amount,
Pocomoke is due to have most at
tractive house.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-07-09
P. M. BRENNER
IS Welded TO
MISS |. BISHOP
Ceremony Performed In Balti-
more On Thursday, June
The Twenty-FOurth

Announcement has been made OF
the marriage of Miss Lois Marie Bish-
op, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
James Bishop, of near town, to Mr.
Paul M. Bremen of Dayton, Ohio.
The ceremony was performed in
Baltimore, Maryland, on Thursday
June twenty-fourth at 1880 o'clock by
the Rev. Paul M. Huffman, cousin of
the groom. It was witnessed only by
immediate members of the brides
family and few friends of both the
bride and the groom.
The bride was attired in blue gown
with white accessories and carried a
bouquet of brides roses and baby's
breath. The matron-of-honor, Mrs.
James Bishop, Jr., wore pink and car
ried pink rosebuds and fern. The
only other attendant was Mr.. James
Bishop who was the groom's best man.
Immediately following the cere-
mony a reception was rendered the
happy couple after which Mr.. and
Mrs. Bremen left by motor for Day
ton, Ohio, to visit the groom's par
ents. They will also come to POGO
moke for a short stay before return
ing to Annapolis where the groom is
a musician in the Naval Academy
Band.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-07-09
JOHN !. SHORT
MIDDLETOWN, PA.
BURIED THURSDAY
Was Own Cousin To Rev. J. w
WOOtten, Pastor of Salem
Methodist Church

A telegram from Middletown, Pa.
to Mrs. Caroline Short of Greenback-
vile, Va, read: "John died $3.50 Sun
day Evening; will be buried Thursday
afternoon $780,"
John Isaac Short was the son of the
late DR.. James Warren Short and
Caroline Wootten Short, of near
Greenbackville, Va.
This forty-nine year old son had
been employed at the Middeltown
Aviation Field since the World War.
He was we'll known all over the East
ern Shore having lived at Gumboro.
Laurel, (DeD, Cape Charles, New
Church where his father practiced
medicine before moving to the big
farm on the Chincoteague Bay over
thirty years ago.
Mr.. Short was married to Miss Reba
Booker, of Harrisburg, about ter
years ago and was very happy in his
new home, Middletown, until his death
In addition to his mother and his
widow, he. leaves to. mourn his loss
one brother, Stanley; three sisters:
Mrs. Dan Hancock, of Stockton, Md.
Mrs. Harry Greene, of Miami, Fla.
and Mrs. Elmer Littleton, of Bloxom
Va.
Mr.. Short was an own cousin to Rev
j. w. Wootten, of Pocomoke City
Mrs. Short being a sister to Jacob E.
Wootten, the father of Parson Jack
and long established in the mercantile
business at Gumboro, Delaware.
The deceased was a member of the
A. F. and A. M, joined at Chinco-
league, Va, and was given the Shrin-
ers Degree at Middletown, Pa.
His many friends of this part OF
the Shore have suffered greatly be-
cause of this death, for all who knew
him recognized him as man of good
qualities and of big heart, loved by
all who knew him.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-07-09
SIX INJURED
in A PLEASURE
YACHT BLAST
Harry Butler, Former Police
Captain One OF The Num-
Der Blown Into The Bay
EXPLOSION COMES AFTER
FILLING GASOLINE TANK

Prominent Eastern Shore people had
some narrowing experience in a yacht
which exploded off Crisfield.
Clayton Mitchell, one of five per-
sons painfully injured described from
his hospital cot in Crisfield the sud-
den blast which blew him and his
four companions overheard.
A sixth passenger aboard the craft,
which exploded at dock off Weems,
Va, fifty miles from Crisfield, receiv-
ed minor injuries.
The injured, all from Centreville,
were Mitchell and his wife, Miss Dora
Patrick, Harry Butler, former State
police captain and James Bright.
Bright, the most seriously injured,
was blown. nearly one hundred feet
from the yacht, Mitchell said and land
ed on shore.
Mitchell, relating the story Of the
near-tragedy in painful gasps, was
burned on the head, face, legs and
body. He was barely able to spaek
above whisper.
eve were on a cruise down the
Chesapeake Bay" he said. eve had
tied up at wharf at Weems and had
just finished filling the gas tanks with
fuel. Harry Butler was at the helm
and we were about to cast off.
"The others in the party were seated
on the after deck. Suddenly, terrific
explosion occurred amidships. The i'm
pact blew all of US into the air and
overheard into the water.
'The boat burst into flames. Butler,
severely injured, climbed back aboard
and grabbed the fire extinguisher--try--
ing to put out the fire. But, the flames
had gained such Roadway and Butler
was so weak he was forced to jump
back into the water.
"People who saw it from the dock
said our bodies were blown here and
there in the air. That's what it felt
like, too. The people took axes and
cut around the fire into the bottom
of the boat, half sinking it and putting.
out the flames.
Bright was blown nearly one hum
dred feet from the boat and landed on
shore. He was crying, Help, help,
can't move
Edwin Valiant, who was sitting in
the stern of the yacht, got off with
CONTINUED on Page ~
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-07-09
POCOMOKEBALL
CLUB DROPS TO
FIFTH POSITION
Pitching Has Not Been Up To
Standard And Team Suf-
fers By Changes
BEATS CAMBRIDGE IN
GAME WEDNESDAY NIGHT

The local base ball team doesn't
seem to. be clicking as it was when
it reeled off seven games in a row.
This streak was halted by Dover and
since then they have lost to Federals-
burg, Crisfield and Cambridge, but
in the mean time were credited with
four victories against Dover, Easton,
and Cambridge.
AS happens to all clubs, changes are
some times thought advisable, and fire.
quently these do not accomplish the
end sought. Denenberg was allowed
to go, but the position he filled does
not appear to be strengthened by the
move. Rock was compelled to go home
by reason of illness in his family, and
Schelberg does not seem to have the
stuff necessary for Class d ball. So,
the team has been in a state of shut
file and this always operates against
team work.
However, no game yet played has
been a rout, and, in general the teams
standing in the race has been much
improved. At this writing they lead
the second division, with only few
points outside the first section.
Next Monday night, the postponed
game with Crisfield will be played off
in Pocomoke. Manager Keen is look
ing for new material, and the fans
can rest assured everything will De
done to furnish good base ball.
The Clubs of the League are close
ly punched. Pocomoke occupying fifth
position is only 27s games behind Eas-
ton, the leaders.
The locals improved their position
by a victory over Cambridge Wednes-
day night. Keen pitched the entire
game and while allowing eleven hits,
was elective when hits meants runs.
Pocomoke has a new second sacker,
Jones, who played a very good class
of ball in his initial game.
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