davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
DUCK TRAPS DESTROYED
ON SMITHS ISLAND

Officers of four law enforcement
agencies, backed by six armed boats,
visited Smiths Island Wednesday last
and destroyed twenty-three duck traps.
No arrests were made.
The raiding party travelled in the
Biological Survey Boat "Loon," while
four other survey boats patrolled the
marshes around the island. The
Coast Guard cutter Calypso stood by
during the raid.
James Silver, regional director for
the survey, said the extra boats were
sent to the island because State and
Federal officers met with some arm
ed resistance from trappers on the
island recently.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
MURDER SUSPECT IN
CRISFIELD QUESTIONED

County and state officers questioned
a suspect last week in their investiga-
ton of the murder of Thomas Whit
tington, 65-year-old negro who was
found dead on the porch of his home
at Crisfield on December 27.
No charge has been placed against
the man, whom officers identified as
Isaac Fields, Crisfield negro.
Whittington's body was found ly-
ing on the porch of his home, the
head battered and cut, and a blood
stained piece of wood and hatchet lay
nearby. His wallet, empty, lay under
the porch.
Officers hold the theory he was
murdered for insurance money he had
collected upon the death of his wife
a week ago.
The murder is believed to have oc-
Cured on Christmas day night.
Sheriff William H. Dryden is con-
Quoting the investigation, with the
aid of Crisfield officers and State
police.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
WALKERS CONTINUE THEIR
WALK In VALUATION

Determined to keep on walking, re-
gardless of wherever it may be, thir-
ty-seven contestants in a walkathon
contest near Salisbury, walked into
Peoples Court Tuesday last, were
fined SIS and costs each for working
(walking) on Sunday, noted appeals
to the Circuit Court and continued
their walking.
The contestants, who began walk
ing December Is, were loaded into two
moving vans for the trip to court
They continued shuffling in the vans
and during court and in the vans on
their return trip to the walkathon
hall.
George L. Ruty, operator of the
contest will appear to answer a charge
he permitted the walkers to work on
Sunday in violation of the statewide
Sunday blue laws.
The Salisbury Ministerial Associa-
tion protested operation of the con-
test on Sunday.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
STATE PRISONERS WILL
WORK ROADS IN SPRING

State prisoners will not go to work
on Maryland's roads until spring, un-
der present plans of the Board of We'll
fare and the Safe Roads Commission
Although the 100000 ALLEGATION for
the roads gang program became a.
vailable October 1st, under an act OF
the 1887 Legislature, officials deem
ed it unwise to set up the prison
camps in the late fall and winter
weather.
Harold E. Donnell, Superintendent
of State Prisons, said the program
would be directed by DR.. Homer E.
Tabler, chairman of the Roads Com
mission. The Board of Welfare will
furnish prisoners chiefly from the
House of Correction, he said.
DR.. Tabler said the commission had
completed no plans for the use of the
gangs, but planned to confer with Mr..
Donnell and Mr.. Charles ]. Butler,
Welfare Board chairman, in the near
future.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
PRINCESS ANNE FARMER
DAMAGES THE JAIL

Howard Galloway, well-knoWn East
Princess Anne farmer, was charged
with using abusive language Christ
mas Eve and lodged in the Somerset
county Jail.
Galloway felt that the season of
peace and good cheer on Earth was
no time for such a visit in the Jail and
in resentment for his incarceration pro
ceeded to break everything breakable
within his reach, which included the
window panes, the stove and stove
pipe and the furniture.
The following Monday afternoon at
a hearing before Magistrate R. Mark
White Galloway said he regretted his
action and his anger against the in
offensive property of Jailer VIM. Hol-
land and that he would be glad to pay
for the repair of it.
Accepting deposit of $50 on the
bill of repairs, Magistrate White re-
leased the prisoner.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07

over in a few weeks. But in the an
nouncement of General Motors it was
made clear that officials of the cor
poration did not look for improve
ment before Spring or possibly at an
even later date.
Motors shutdown was the announce
A striking feature of the General
ment that no reduction has been made
in Canadian plants of the company, be
cause business is normal there"
In Canada, it will be remembered,
labor difficulties which ran into law
lessness and violence were promptly
suppressed by the authorities.
Labor difficulties in Cambridge last
year are now costing Cambridge la
bor and Cambridge business men
thousands of dollars a week. And so
far there are no indications concern
ing when either normal or part-time
activities will be resumed.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
THOUSANDS OF WORKMEN
AFFECTED BY LAYIOFF

A new army of unemployed of
staggering proportions is rapidly be-
ing mobilized as industry goes into
an enforced shutdown brought about
bv endless strikes and labor problems
during 1937-with the attendant dis
ruption to business and business pros
poets.
Latest industrial news tells OF the
lay-off of 10000 employees by Gen
eral Motors and 2O5,OOO other en-
ployees put on half-time basis, effec-
tive January 1st.
The industrial picture throughout
the countries is a reasonably faithful
reflection of conditions exactly as
they exist in Cambridge, Maryland
when industry has been compelled to
close down because of unfavorable
business conditions brought about by
labor difficulties during the last
months.
Year end business reports show con-
clusively that BUSINESS cannot salts
factorily or safely operate on nor
NAL basis in the face of abnormal
handicaps such as have prevailed dur
ing 1887.
In the early days of the present busi
ness recession many business mer
were hopeful that the slump would be
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07

aged 6; his sister, Miss Clara Con-
nors, 40; Roy Hunter, ~, and Mrs.
A. Battz, all of New York City.
The party were on their way down
the Delmarva peninsula to spend the
holidays. All the occupants escaped
with cuts and bruises, except Hunter,
who received a severe injury to his
back. They were taken to the Emer-
gency Hospital, Milford, for treat
ment. State Police investigating the
accident held Connors, the driver, un-
der bond for a hearing.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07

were released last week by Magistrate
Angel, of Towson, on 5000 bail each,
pending action by the Grand Jury. The
three men are: Marvel c. Heaps, Stew
artstown, Pa; Harry K. Ober, White
Hall and William V. Heaps, 20, White
Hall.
In all there were eight trees stolen.
They were taken from the place of
Emory ]. Brown, White Hall. Brown
said that the men had climbed the
trunks of his best trees and cut the
tops off, thereby running the entire
tree. He valued the eight trees at
$40.
Ober and the two Heaps were ar
rested by Officer Martin L. Chenoweth
as they were selling the trees in Gov
ans. According to the district in which
the trees were stolen, the men should
have had a hearing before Magistrate
Allen at Cockeysville, but Officer
Chenoweth obtained a letter from
Judge Allen to Judge Angel Towson,
allowing the hearing to be held in that
locality. The three were charged with
stealing the trees, and William Heaps
was also charged with trespassing.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
FORMER CONGRESSMAN
DIES IN CAMBRIDGE

Former Congressman William N
Andrews, aged 81 years, of he First
Congressional District of Maryland
died in Cambridge hospital, on Mon
day last, following an illness of about
ten days. The deceased was quite
well-known in Cecil county, being a
cousin of former Clerk of the Court
S. Ralph Andrews, of Elkton.
The deceased was District Attorney
rof Dorchester county for two terms
and was elected to the House of Dele
gaes in 1914.
Served as a State Senator in 1918
and in that year was elected to Con-
gress. He was defeated for re-elec-
tion and retired from Congress in
1921.
Andrews is survived by four chill
dren: William N, Jr., of Brooklyn,
N. Y; Mrs. Virginia Rhodes, of AL
toona- Pa; Mrs. Elizabeth Herpst, of
Baltimore, and Walworth Andrews, of
-Hurlock, and two sisters and two
brothers.
He was married a second time in
1919 to Miss Helene Phillips, of Cam
bridge, who had made her stage debut
in New York a short time before.
The funeral was held last Wednes-
day with interment at Hurlock, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
POPULAR TEACHER WEDS
MISS CATHERINE STERLING

Announcement is made of the we'd
ding of Miss Catherine Sterling,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Raydie j..
Sterling of Lawsonia, to Mr.. Geo. F..
Darlington, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Darlington, of Waterbury, Conn. The
wedding was performed by Rev. Faith
er Daugherty in Salisbury.
After the ceremony the happy
couple left for wedding trip to New
York City, and the bridegroom's for
mer home.
The bride is one of Crisfield's most
accomplished young ladies. She is a
graduate of Crisfield High School, a
member of one of the most prominent
families there, one of the city's finest
vocalists, and has wide circle of
friends and acquaintances throughout
the Eastern Shore.
Mr.. Darlington, native of Water
bury, came to Maryland to enter
Washington College, Chestertown, in
1924. At Washington, he was the
outstanding athlete, and won several
medals for his outstanding athletic
and scholastic ability. He has since
completed his graduate work at the
University of Maryland.
Since the fall of 1928, the bride
groom has been a member of the Girls
field high school faculty, being in
structor in history, and director Of
athletics. His success is one of thu
most glorious pages in high schoo
athletics in Maryland's history of the
past decade.
Upon their return to Crisfield, they
will reside on Chesapeake avenue.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
NEW YORK PEOPLE
INJURED IN ACCIDENT

Five New York people were injured
on the State highway at Greenwood,
when a car driven by Lloyd A. Con-
nors, 35, left the road and turned
over, wrecking it. In the car with
Connors were his daughter, Catherine,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07

When you have something to sell.
rent or trade run an ad in our Class
flied Columns.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-07
CHRISTMAS TREE THEFT
PUNISHED IN TOWSON

Three men charged with stealing
white pine trees for Christmas sales,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-25
MISBRANDED FEEDS
TAKEN. OFF MARKET

Raleigh, May 25-More than a
dozen misbranded feeds have been
taken off the market by the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture
during the past two weeks "in the
/ interest of protection for the live
stock men of the State"
"A Stricter enforcement Of the
States feeding-stuffs law has been
made possible by an increased per-
sonnel and the addition of up-to-date
equipment" D. S. Coltrane, assistant
to Commissioner of Agriculture w.
Kerr Scott, said.
I'm most cases, violation of the feed
law has been unintentional, but manu-,
facturers have been warned and fu;
ture violations will bring about furl
ther cancellations of brands and pro!
secutions if necessary" he added The
Department has ordered feed manu-
facturers to cease selling feeding
stuffs that contain ingredients with
little or no feeding value''
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-25
CHAPTER Is

ELLEN AND'BI parted when
they had crossed the international
line and were in Nogales, Ariz.
They: had some difficulty explain
ing their situation to the United
States border patrol, but the i'm
migration officers soon recognized
Ellen, Dale of the movies, and
when Bill had made private talk
with the patrol inspector, he was
cleared.
TIL find out about train and
plane schedules" Bill told Ellen,
land call you at the hotel. I have
some telephoning to do, myself"
Il shouldn't wonder, Bill. We've
been gone forever. Your people
will be sick from worry"
"And won't yours" He smiled
down at her.
mo. I have people. Some
distant relatives, but" ~
Instantly he was contrite. 'tTn1
sorry, Ellen! I knew about that.
But I mean, won't your friends be
worrying? The people in Cali
Ifnrhia %'arNi -u:.tAff
7 shall telephone them at
once. >sx II 81 . u. ~ s;s' ~ & , ss
She put in a call for Sid Brom-
t'ergs in Hollywood from her hotel
'r'osll, but could only get the pro-
dueer's priVateysecretary. Sid was
out Of his office for an hour,
Ellen disnaissed her maid-the
ihotfl had sent. her an efficient
servant dressed in Mexican. cos
'lrne-and lay back on her bed to
'elax. 1t was luxury to rest in
The United States again, to feel at
ease and think back on the past
weeks excitement.
The adventures scarcely seemed
real now. How unpredictable the
future is. she thought! A week
ago, all of her life seemed cut out
for her. She would fly to Holly
wood, make pictures for as long
as her popularity lasted, then re-
tire SomeWhere:N She was a city
girl. ggrooved in city business and
social routine. And then to be
dumped out of an airplane by
Thunderstorm an adventure
stranger than any she had por-
trayed on the screen! And most
exciting of all was the fact that
the past week had done something
inside her . All of the handsome
polished men of the moving pic
turea capital had not stirred her,
but sone big drawing Texan, whom
she didn't really know a thing
about, had completely upset her
reasoning.
'de said he did not love me, he
said it coming down that awful
:rail!" Ellen Whispered to herself
on the bed. staring at the ceiling
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-25
ONCE UPON MAY 25th


Twenty years ago today, there was
direct railway service between Pales-
tine and Egypt, between Jerusalem
and Cairo, for the first time. When
the World War broke out there were
no trains between the Suez canal and
the Jaffra-Jerusalem railway, a dis
tance of 200 miles, mainly desert. Pro
moters had been unable to raise
money for construction of a rail link
because operation of trains across
the desert had been deemed impos-
sible.
War accepts no excuses, counts no
expense.
AS British troops went into the des-
ert after Turks, to protect Suez. they
laid tracks for transportation of sup
plies. They crossed the desert, and
the railway was completed.
This was but one phase of warfare
in the Near East that was producing g
heroes likely to be remembered long
after the names of generals on the
Western Front are forgotten. At that
same hour Col T. E. Lawrence and
his Arabs were aiming the blow that
was to crush the Turks.
Lawrence energies from his own
books and the biographies of Lowell
Thomas and D. H. Liddell Hart as one
of the greatest adventures and SOL
diers of all time. But his biograph-
ers have made him appear a self-cen-
tered aesthetic without interest in
women. AS matter of fact, he was
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-25
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

Rev. DR.. John r. Mott of New
York, famed Y. M. c. A. leader, born
at Livingston Manor N. Y, 73 years
ago.
Mgr. John A. Ryan of the Catholic
University, Washington, D. c., head
of the Department of Social Ethics
born in Dakota Co., Mimi, SO years
ago.
DR.. J.sMcKeen Cattell of New York
famed psychologist, born at Easton
Pa, 78 years ago.
Carl E. Schultze (Bunny) cartoonist
creator of Foxy Grandpa" born al
Lexington, KY, - years ago
Gene Tunney, onetime champion
pugilist, born in New York City, 4(
years ago.
Col. Henry Breckenridge Of New
York, noted lawyer, born in Chicago
So years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-25
A f. = q Z, Z ~
R< OREN ARNOLD

She knew he was joking with
her. Or was he?
When things of the heart are
affected, ones discernment is never
very dependable. Emotions get iI
the way Of logic, and the slightest
things can have profound import
Pamela Montoya had kissed him
too. Pamela was-well, pretty
even if she was also 8 tr1f1e toe
obvious, too sexy or something
Ellen knew. Men are blind some
times. Panola's mouth, Panola's
dark eyes and black hair, Panola's s
|-phooey, Pamela was nothing but
a fiirt!
Ellen succeeded in making her
self quite miserable during that
half hour, and the reverie was in
terrupted by telephone call, long
distance. It was from Sid Brom.
berg.
Hello, baby!" he shouted it
Where on earth have you been
We expected you a week ago."
II was delayed. But I'm safe
now, in Nogales."
"Safe? Have you been in dan
ger? Tell mel"
Ellen realized they hadn't known
a thing about her exploit. But
somehow she didn't want to tell
Sid about it.
II mean 7 am feeling fine. ]
have been resting. I was on a
ranch in Mexico"
Great goodness, baby, don't
run off like that! Papa's coming
after you right now. I'll order the
plane. I'll leave for Nogales at
p. M"
"Never mind, I can get home" !"
"Not without me, baby! I'm
coming. I'm going to marry you,
then bring you home. I been tell
ing you all along. I'm coming" !"
Jaw, blah, Sid Bromberg!" She
hung up in her ear, clicking spite
fully.
Bromberg was a good picture
man. He could whip a cast into
doing the impossible, often taking
the directors job himself. But he
was too fat and self-assured to
command much Of her admiration
otherwise. Evidently he thought
himself in love with Ellen. He
often said he was, sometimes en-
barrassed her by telling it to the
world.
Ellen wished she had parents,
a family, anyone close now. But
Hollywood was her home, her life,
all that she knew except the New
York 1O-cent store where she had
worked so long. Sid Bromberg
seemed to personify Hollywood
and her life there; money, and
front, and the heigh-ho-de-ho
swingtime existence which she had
once thought so grand. She sup
posed she belonged in it, was an
integral part. She sighed, though,
at the very thought Of it now.
She had four more long distance
calls in Is minutes, and within an
hour two kilograms came. She re-
fused the calls, accepted the tele-
grams. One was not from Sid; it
was from competitive producer
wanting to hire her if she was
free. The radio speaker in her
hotel room presently announced,
through a national chain hook-up,
that "the lovely Ellen Dale star
of 'Swingtime Sweetheare and
other currently popular cinema
releases, has just returned to the
U. S. A. after a brief vacation on
a haciedna in old Mexico, where
she was the reigning senorita at
several elaborate social fu-,~'
staged in her honor a.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-25

| is rumOred she became engaged to
a young ranchero who is intimate
with the president of Mexico him
SELF"
Ellen groaned a trifle; Sid's pub
licity staff had been working fast.
She clicked off the radio, went into
her bathroom and steamed for 10
minutes under a shower. There
she had a sudden shocking real
ization; this was the first bath she
had had since leaving San
Antonio! But then, she had hard
ly been living normally.
She did lot of thinking while
she dressed. She had had to ordes
fresh clothing from a Nogales
store, and some of it did not fit her
any too well. But when she was
done, she was satisfied. Ellen had
never been too clOthes-conscious
girls who are genuinely pretty,
who have inherent beauty of face
and form, seldom are.
She gave a lot Of thought to
Hollywood during that half hour.
To Bronberg, and the studio, and
the apartment where she lived, and
the dream home she had en-
visiOned.
Her dream home! She had dis
cussed building one in Arizona,
with Bill; and had been inter
ruptsd by a strange adventure.
California had people, and gaiety,
and riches. and rushing madness
day in and day out if you were
caught in it's social maelstrom.
The ranch people were isolated
from many conveniences and from
towns, but they had the incom-
parable lift Of scenic grandeur
the outdoors of which poets sing.
mo other living is like this" Bill
had said to her. Nevertheless,
she was an urban girl, Manhattan
reared and projected to fame via
Hollywood. She was very con-
fused, and still trying to think her
way clear when knock came at
her door.
The hotel boy extended a small
package and hastened away;
someone else had tipped him, ob-
viously.
"That Sid" Ellen muttered,
opening the parcel with scant ~
terest. It would be expensive pe-.
fume, or a f1ashy, costly gold ring.
It was jewelry; but it wasn't
fashy and it wasn't costly and l.
wasn't from Sid Bromberg.
"O-o-O-Oh!" breathed Ellen. ad.
miring. She lifted a silver brace
let, hand hammered, with many
indian designs; a three-pronged
bracelet edged in silver raindrop
balls, topped with three of the
most perfectly matched spider-web
turquoise settings she had ever
seen, an exquisite bit of Navajo
Indian craftsmanship.
Gould you wear it to dinner
with me 2" said a note with II
Ellen Dale's heart leaped. She
nad never seen that handwriting
before, and it was not signed, but
she knew whose it was. She
clasped the bracelet to her breast
Tor a second like an ecstatic girl.
then ran to her telephone. When
the long distance connection was
through. she did practically all the
talking.
\ Sid? Don't bother to come for
1.ae. No, tell you, do not come,
! won't wait for you, 1 won't be
heres won't marry you, Sid.
never said I would. I am going to
marry somebody else!"
Ssse clicked her receiver and
'-vs7ssa away hun1ming.
no Be [cnfinuedl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-25
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page

1. Yes.
2 The Standard Time difference is
six hours.
3. Damascus
4. A device for suppressing the sound
of discharge of firearms, invented
by Hiram Maxim.
5. No.
6. Ralph Guldahl.
z. Euxine.
8. Omega.
g. Dominion of Canada.
10. monument or tablet to the mem
ory of person whose body is bur-
led elsewhere.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-25
READ THIS FIRST;

!.EAD THIS FIRST;
Bill Baron. a footloose Texan, has
just been rescued from a band of
Yaqui Indians. holding him for ran
som, through a bold move on the part
of Ellen Dals, Hollywood screen star.
Ellen and Bill, had been staying at
the wealthy Montoya ranch across the
Mexican bordder II where. they found
themselves after "a lucky parachute
storm. Ellen enchanted by the atmos-
phere of old Mexico, finds herself
growing much interested in Bill. Also
rescued with Bill was Pamela Montoya,
the ranch owners daughter whose. in
capture by the Yaqui. AS they return
to the ranch, Bill and Ellen find Don
Julio, their host, and his son, Felix.
hot pursuit of the Yaqui. Ellen begs
them. to desist. Bill drives Ellen to
Nogeles after they say goodby to the
Montoyas., both promising to return
later for fiesta. qs,. re n4l n
a" NOW GO. ON WITH THE STORY: :.