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Evening star., 1937-02-14

The farm tenant. to whose better
ment President Roosevelt is devoting
this week end in framing a message
to Congress on the need for tenancy
elimination, is already the object Of a
major program of the Resettlement
Administration.
For two months r. A. has been or
ganizing in 10 Southern States demon
stration projects to assist 1000 Sc
lected tenants to become independent
home owners, at q land cost OF about
$4,000 per tenant.
On the basis Of this cost. re-estab-
lishment Of the country's 5000 900
tenants as tillers Of their own farms
would amount to $4,000, 900, 900,
which is about Is times As much as
the highest estimate put forward by
any Government official so far.
Rapid progress is being made in
the farm tenant program" according
to resettlement report. Project
areas have been selected in each of
these 10 Southern States and project
managers have been appointed.
Completion Due June 80.
"It has taken time to set the ma
chinery in motion, but the work
Evening star., 1937-02-14

rate Of interest, making from $500 to
$1,000 q year. will feel that he is in .
position to establish his independence"
Average Farm Value $3.50.
The value Of the average farm in
the United States Is $3.50. r. A. has
computed that the value Of the average
fully equipped tenant-project farm at
$500, which is scaled down to IS, ass
when community enterprises and GER
tain services are eliminated
After the $4,000 worth Of land has
been bought, the largest single item Of
expense is the house. which averages
81 800 to $4,000, including the costs of
water supply. inside toilets. baths.
washstands and central heating.
Utility costs are low. Furniture Is
included as a cost item because most
of the tenants possess very little Of It.
r. AS Special Skills Division is de-
signing special furniture for farm
homes.
Livestock and operating equipment
are included in the total cost figures,
and the cost Of management is in
cluded as part Of the purchase price
Of the farm.
Resettlement argues that the taxa
tion needs Of local governmental units
will be reduced by the tenant program
because roads now required in the poor
areas inhabited by the tenants will be
eliminated To make possible taxation
Of the land bought by the Government,
r. A. will pass title to local corpora
tons.
Realty Values to be Raised.
The program will raise local real
estate values and benefit labor. di.
rectly through employment for the
construction of buildings and the de-
velopment of farmsteads. and indi-
rectly through the use Of materials
the production Of which supplies
work, the r. A. declares in its annual
report. 1t also had this to say Of the
virtues Of the program:
THE increased income which these
resettlement families will have will
directly increase their buying power,
and will give them more security. The
better living conditions, the greater
supply of diversified products for con.
sumption. including preserved products
for Winter use, and the provision for
local health service will materially
improve the stability and morale Of
resettlement families. In general, the
opportunities offered will engender
hope and provide relative security as
q basis for the future"
The Resettlement Administration
would manage the tenancy program
suggested by the committee Of 40
whose report the President has before
him as he writes his message.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
RACKETEERS' INF0RMER
is new YORK. POLICEMAN
Prosecutor Says Officer Had Been
Giving Wrong Data for
Several Months.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 13.-Special
Rackets Prosecutor Thomas e. Dewey
disclosed today q police offlcer act
ing as informer to suspects in the al
legged $4,000, ,000-a-year restaurant
shakedown ring had been supplied de.
hberately with false information by
the Dewey ONCE.
The existence Of such . spy was
testified to yesterday by Max Engler,
operator Of several cafeterias and .
hotel, during the trial Of eight &C.
cused restaurant racketeers.
Engler said one of the eight de-
PENDANTS, Attorney Abraham Cohen,
had asserted he had somebody" sur
reptitiously piping out information
from Deyey's Office.
The prosecution said today he had
for several months been aware of
the conduct cf the officer involved" ("
and that the matter was placed in
the hands Of the police commissioner
and will be dealt with by hi after
the conclusion Of the pending trial" I"
The case was In recess today.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
r. 4. Assisting Tenant Farmers
Earning Capacity
Demonstration Projects Organised in
10 States Sho0 1000 Selected Sub.
iects HOlu to Be Independent.

progresses and the objective Of secur-
ing the 1000 units will be completed
by June 80, in 50 far as the land
acquisition phase is concerned"
One anti-tenant aid argument which
the r. A. feels 1t has answered is the
contention that most tenants are by
nature shiftless and unsuited to
operate their own farms.
The problem Of shiftlessness is q
problem of health, DR.. Will w.
Alexander. resettlement administrator,
holds, and he has instituted wide
spread health program. LaZiness Is
durable. he says. because the hookworm
and pellagra which cause laziness are
durable. The tenant rid Of his ailment
becomes hard-working person, the
agency has discovered.
r. A. is choosing farm tenants of
good reputation for integrity and
farming ability, and selecting good,
economical family-size farms on
which to place them. preferably the
very farm they are working. provided
it meets resettlement standards
White and colored tenants are chosen
on the basis Of the local proportion
Of those two classes.
Plan for Farm and Client.
"A farm-management plan is worked
out for the farm and the client" the
administration reports, taking into
consideration crop rotation and soil
conservation. Farms are being selected
which show that the average normal
rental customarily paid by the tenant
to the landowner will pay for the farm
over q period of 40 years or less, to-
gether with an interest charge Of 3
per cent.
THE plan Is to lease the farm to
the client with the privilege Of enter
ing into purchase contract when the
client is in q position to make a cash
payment Of IS per cent toward the
purchase Of the farm. Every farm unit
Is carefully considered, and plans are
made for adding such improvements
as may be needed to meet the stand
ard set for other rural resettlement
farms"
Cost. Of course, is the great problem.
BY keeping the interest rate down to
3 per cent, r. A. feels that the farm
eys it is aiding can carry q greater
capital investment. With low interest
another necessity is governmental
supervision Of the farmer, r. A. sug-
gests. explaining:
"Supervision does not mean dis
couragement Of individualism or of
initiative. On the contrary, it will
have developed more initiative and
more individualism than exists at the
present time. A farmer who has $500
to $400 q year gross return does not
have much independence. He Is sub
servient to landlords and to merchant
creditors. The same man under super
vision, on q good farm with q low
Evening star., 1937-02-14
DOCTOR IS FOUND
NEAR ROAD
Body Of Unity Practitioner
Discovered by Man Whose
Home He Visited.
6recial Dispatch to TIE Star.

UNITY, Nd, February 13.-Dr.
Harry Gilmore Spurrier, 10. for 48
years q general practitioner Of medi-
cine in this vicinity. was found dead
alongside the Etchison-Unity road,
o short distance from hs home here,
about 10 o'clock this morning.
The discovery was made by Percy
Price, a farmer Of this neighborhood,
whose home DR.. Spurrier visited pro-
fessionally late yesterday afternoon.
He was last seen alive when he left
the Price home, about 6 o'clock in the
evening to walk to his home, a mile
away. His death may have been due to
heart attack.
DR.. Spurrier was son Of the late
Joseph Spurrier Of Frederick County.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Frances Grifilth Spurrier; a daughter,
Mrs. Vestus ]. Wilcox Of Unity, and
three sisters. Mrs. Gertrude Norwood
Of Mount Airy, Md: Mrs Walter C.
Cutcheon Of Baltimore. and Mrs w.
w. Wallace of Washington.
The funeral will be held at the
home at II o'clock Monday morning,
burial 10 be in the family burying
ground on the Spurrier farm near
here.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

b CLARICE LASSITER,
IL, q bride at II and q lDidoUed
mother at 13, 1Uho declared
yesterday at Houston, Ter,
that she 1Dould "do it again."
She defended marriages for
mature" youngsters. Her
husband 1Das killed accident
ally eights months after their
marriage. Cl1rice Is q ,Ddit.
TeSS.
-Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Leghorn Hen Hobo.

LOS ANGELES P).-Hobo Mary is
1ust white Leghorn hen with a
penchant for travel. j. H. Harris
saw Mary roosting on the trucks of a
Pullman car as the train left New
Orleans. She was still safely perched
there at the next stoR Pools were
made up among the passengers as to
how many miles Mary would ride.
Fffty-f1ve hours and zoos miles out
OF New Orleans, Mary fitted down
safely in Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
$1,000 THEFT CHARGED

SAN FRANCISCO. February IS (P).
Charles Harris. 40, cashier OF the
Eastman Kodak Co. branch here. was
arrested today on complaint charg-
ing grand theft Of $4,000 company
funds.
A. w. Pye, company manager. said
Harris admitted the peculations over
four years.
An employe Of the company II
years, Harris talked freely in Jail to
reporters, saying he needed the money
to pose as . big shot" in the city's
night life.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
LAND0N TARRIES AFTER
SPEECH IN NEW YORK
Plans to See Friends in Jersey
Before Leaving for Home
in Topeka.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 13.-Former
Gov. Alfred M. Landon Of Kansa5
planned TO spend tonight with friend
in New Jersey and to return here TO-
morrow before leaving Monday after
noon for his home in Topeka.
Mrs. Landon, it was said at the Lam
don Hotel suite. had accepted an in
vitation to attend the theater with
friends. Landon spoke here last night
before the National Republican Club.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
THREE OUT OF FOUR
TOUCHED BY CRIME |
Law VioIators Now Insist
on Moving in Best
Circles.

Editors note: Only one person
out of every four has chance to
escape the effects OF a major crime,
says Courtney Ryley Cooper, author
and criminologist, in the tollotoing
article Mr.. Cooper has been torit-
ING and lecturing on criminal sub
5ects for Sererdl years.
BY COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER.
SEBRING Fla, February IS P).-
Crime has moved in next door to us.
It will continue to live there until
we, as old-time residents, throw it
out. That, I believe. is the biggest
fact which America has to learn
about the present status Of law infrac-
ton, which now, incidentally, is
furnishing living in greater or lesser
degree to fully 100000 persons.
This makes crime our biggest indus
try and one in which there are no
sit-down strikes.
The professionals of the lawbreak-
ing business no longer are contented
with hideouts or with a sinking exist
ence in alleys.
They want the best neighborhoods,
the best clubs. the best hotels and
the best shows. If you moved about
at night, you may have rubbed elbows
with Tommy Robinson, the kidnaper-
he spent the money obtained by
snatching Mrs. Grace Stoll on night
life in the biggest clubs of America.
And Charlie lucky Luciano lived at
one of New YoIkS finest hotels, while
the head of tremendous fur racket
lived at an equally snooty one in
another part of town. and while a
man who had committed at least 100
murders was entertained by other
crimesters in portion of New York
usually reserved for the elite.
Likewise, Dillinger wanted only the
best, while Baby Face" Nelson once
subleased the home of a millionaire
and Alvin Karpis spent thousands Of
dollars on q Summer place Just to
make his gun mol" happy.
incidentally the gun mol" these
days travels by airplane or in a draw
ing room-she feels she amounts to
something. The big-time gangster has
a right to support her in style, for he
learns" from $4,000 to 100000 a
year from his profession" a situa-
ton usually brought about through
his ability to bribe certain law-en-
forcement agents.
Count Lustig Miller, the counter
feiter, rolled up profits of at least a
million dollars before he was sent to
Alcatraz Prison. He insists that he
diI this because che was able to buy
his way out of prosecution on at least
90 occasions"
Evening star., 1937-02-14
offering full rides for half fare to
passengers who bestir themselves
YACHT.

YACHT.
PortuoGPs last royal yacht, orici.
ndlly built for an American mil
ltondire and later used by King
Manuel IN his flight from his copn-
try When it was proclaimed a re-
public, has been consigned to the
breakers.
After King Manuel returned the
yacht it tDds used as q ounbodt and
later as Uessel for hydroordphic
studies.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Trivial Things
That Make
n World
Items of Interest Gath
cred From Europe
and Asia.

N e VERY careful when you talk
X about somebody's red nose.
- The advice comes via the
Associated Press from Vienna
doctors vino have studied the matter.
One of their conclusions Is that .
red nose may indicate unbalanced
hormones and may have nothing to
do with drinking.
There may be other causes-poor
changes in temperature,
Evening star., 1937-02-14
HYPNOTIC STATUE.
rAT.FoOrEp LEARNING.

To support the contention that ed
ucation hurts the feet" Debrecen
(Hungary) University professors point
out that 1875 Of 265 students developed
fiat feet during their first year there.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Camphor Is Produced.

Collective farms Of South Rhodesia
are reported to have produced from
l8 to 20 tons Of camphor last year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Training School For
Church Workers

The Cecil County Training School
for Church Workers being held each
Monday evening in Rising Sun M. E.
Church, is going over fine" to quote
Dean Jefferson. Over a hundred and
fifty enjoyed the Fellowship Supper
in the church basement on Monday,
Nov. 8th. A splendid group of teach
ers are giving very helpful courses
to the 143 registered pupils. Killips
class on What Alcohol Is, What 1t
does, is proving popular as minis
tiers, teachers and young people are
realizing that Alcohol is one of the
greatest, if not the greatest, enemy
of the Church and true Chrsstian
living. On Monday night, Nov. %,
the Moving picture, ''The Beneficent
Reprobate" will be shown and there
is still some room for more to come
as visitors that night and see this
picture beside the regular evening
program.
B. BALDERSTON.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Three Lose Lives In
Auto Crash
Head-On Collision Results
Fatally In Accident On
Glasgow Road

Three persons were killed on Sum
in a traffic crash near Elkton, bring
ing the fatality toll to ATS for the
State since the first of the year.
Those who lost their lives were
John P. Mearns, Of Norris Road, Ard
more, Pa; Mrs. John P. Mearns, his
wife; Edward s. Ham, Of Mechanics
Valley, this county.
Mearns was killed instantly when
the automobile in which he and his
wife were riding collided head+on
with another machine on the Elkton-
Glasgow road, about three miles east
of Elkton. His wife died in Union
Hospital, Elkton.
Ham, who was passenger in an
automobile driven by his son-in-law,
Herbert Smalley, Of Bridgeton, N. j.,
died on the way to the hospital.
Smalley was taken to Union Hospital,
suffering from injuries to the head,
face and body.
Physicians said all three who were
injured fatally had suffered skull
fractures
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Milk Producers Coopera.
tive Director

A meeting of the Cecil County
milk delegates of Local No 10, was
held at Elkton, November 5, for the
purpose of electing a director to the
Inter State Milk Producers Cooper
alive.
Meeting was called to order by
Perry Gibson, temporary chairman,
and organized by electing H. r.
Brown chairman; Alexander Wilson
vice-chairman, and John X. Clifford
Secretary and Treasurer.
Rising Sun Local was represented
by Perry A. Gibson, John Lippincott,
G. H. GRAPHICAL, H. r. Brown; Bay
View, John X. Clifford; Providence,
Leroy Spence, Stanley Smith; Elk
ton, R. H. Baker; Cecilton, Alexan-
der Wilson.
BY unanimous vote Mr.. Ralph E.
Bowers, Chesapeake City, was elect
ed director for term of three years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
TRANSFERS IN TAX AUDITING
DEPARTMENT

Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Guy T. Helvering announced today
that as of November / the auditing
of tax returns under Title VIII of
the Social Security Act will be trans
ferred from the Bureau of Internal
Revenue in Washington to collectors
Offices throughout the country.
This transfer will cause the grad
ual dispersal Of approximately one
half of tht force of $40 employees
in the Social Security Tax Unit of
the Bureau. Accompanying the re-
lease of these employees in the
Washington Office there will be a
gradual increase In the number of
employees in the collectors offices.
The additional employees engaged
by the field offices will be assigned
to work on social Security informa-
ton returns and the general work
of the field Offices, which has been
increased.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Illegal Pin-Ball Machines

Complaints are being lodged with
the various States Attorneys in this
State, in regard to proprietors of
various business places allowing the
operation of illegal pin-ball machines
in their Establishments. Under the
recent act of the legislature, it is en-
tirely legal to operate a pin-ball
machine, if licensed requiring any
degree of skill, yet it has become
known that purely mechanical gam
bling machines are being operated.
Notice has been served on the public
that such machines are illegal and
the proprietors in whose establish
ments they are located will be sub
jected to the full penalty of the law.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Conductor Dies Suddenly
On Train

John S. Quinn, sc years old, we'll
known freight conductor on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, died sudden
ly as he stepped onto his train near
Port Deposit, Wednesday morning
last, about $3.50 o'clock. Mr.. Quinn
had tagged his train and when the
track was clear ran short distance
and climbed onto the train, falling
unconscious to the floor. He was
Immediately taken to Perryville and
DR.. Charles J. Foley and the ambu-
lance called from the Hartford Mem
orial Hospital, but the man had died
of heart attack. The body was
taken to his home in Wilmington.
DEL, where the funeral was held
Friday night.
Mr.. Quinn was a widower, and is
survived by several children. He
lived for many years near Columbia,
Pa, and was reported to have said
that he was retiring very shortly, as
his health had not been good.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
ORPHANS, COURT

The Orphans Court of Cecil Coun-
ty, in regular session at Elkton, ap-
proved bonds and passed account as
follows:
Bond of Barclay r. Pierce, execu-
tor of Samuel P. Pierce; bond Of
John H. Jordan, administrator OF
Rebecca B. Nicoll; bond Of G. Reyn-
olds Ash, ancillary administrator of
Myra S. Urban; bond of Maude e.
Williams, administrative of Margaret
Norris; first and final account of
Paul M. Cameron and Helen ]. Lyle;
first and final account of Harry e.
Fisher, executor of Sallie E. Fisher;
first and final account of Grace w.
Donovan, Administrative ct. of Jesse
B. Minker; first account of G. Arnold
Pfaffenbach, executor of Mary II.
Gardner; first and final account of
Harriet C. Owens, executrix Of T.
Morgan Owens.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
tuberculosis Mortal
tiles Show Increace
Economic Depression Produc-
ing Slight Increase In
State And Nation

The recent years of economic de-
preston are apparently producing a
slight increase in tuberculosis NOR
tally in Maryland and the United
to that after the Would War when
people had also been living in state
of nervous tension, hysteria and
hardships, all of which have mark
ed influence on public health.
THE increase in Maryland did not
commence until last year., said Will
liam B. Matthews, managing director
of the Maryland tuberculosis Asso-
citation.
THE death rate was steadily de-
creased through 1885 when the
death rate was 100 per hundred
thousand population. During 1886
the death rate increased to S1.9 per
hundred thousand This is not an
alarming increase as it has been ex-
pected, but it does indicate serious
situation if the fight to reduce the
disease is not continued with inten-
sity."
The increase was not limited to
Maryland, but was general over the
entire country. Doctor Kendall En-
erson, managing director Of the Ma
tional Association, reported that
twenty-four states and the District of
Columbia had increased rates for
1886 over 1885. These increases,
he said, ranged from OF percent in
New Jersey to 22.7 percent in Okla
homa.
with the improvement in our
technic for handling tuberculosis, it
should be possible to prevent any
material rise in tuberculosis Doc
tor Emerson said. An aroused and
intelligent public interest is the
greatest aid in organized prevention
of disease, is Doctor Emersons be-
lief, and "a people alert to threat
ened danger will cooperate to avert
it,, he said.
tuberculosis Christmas Seals furn-
ish the means of carrying ON the
fight to prevent tuberculosis. On
Thanksgiving Day these seals will be
sent to the people Of Maryland in the
hope that they will cooperate to avert
this threatened danger.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Maryland Farm Bureau

Some fifty farm leaders of Mary
land are expected to attend the an
nual meeting of the American Farm
Bureau Federation which will be
held this year at Chicago, Deem
Der 10, IA, and Is. Attendance from
the State is expected to be consider
ably higher than it was a year ago
when the meeting was held ON the
West Coast, according to C. E. Wise,
Jr., secretary of the Maryland Farm
Bureau who is in charge of arrange
ments for the Maryland party.
Reports from Chicago headquar-
tiers indicate one of the largest meet
ings ever held by the farm group.
Membership has increased during the
past year. and the addition of Texas
brings the list of State Farm Bureau
Federations which will be officially
represented up to 80, according to
these reports.
Representing the largest group of
organized farmers in the world, ac-
tions of the delegates at Chicago
are expected to attract wide atten-
ton. Heading the list of subjects
on which the convention is expected
to take action is the permanent pro-
gram for agriculture on which the
Congress is expected to be debating
in special session at Washington at
the time of the meeting. Delegates
are also expected to outline the pro-
gram of the organization for the
coming year touching many other
subjects of Importance to farm dwell
ers throughout the country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
FAREWELL APPEARANCE OF
RADIO ARTISTS

A talented group of radio favorites
will make their farewell appearance
In Fireman's Hall, Rising Sun, Md,
on Thursday evening, Nov. Is. These
popular entertainers are Happy
Johnnie, Vonnie. Bashful Glenn,
Lefty and Bonnie the Tramp. They
are to be heard twice daily over
W o r K, but you will want to see
them in person, and hear them, and
this is your opportunity. The adj
mission Is rs cents for adults and
Is cents for children.