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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-09-16


Mr.. William L. Bennett motored to
/ Baltimore on Wednesday.
Miss Betty Coffman, of Catonsville,
has been a visitor in Pocomoke.
Mrs. J. Scott Porter spent a part
of the week in Baltimore.
Mrs. Anna G. Mcclure spent the
early part of the week at Ocean City.
Mrs. R. 1. Givens was hostess We'd
nesday to the luncheon bridge club.
Mrs. Harry Appleton has been
housed this week with an attack of
grippe.
Mrs. Lynwood Duncan and Miss
Rosa Duncan spent Wednesday in
Baltimore.
Miss Cynthia Blaine is visiting her
sister, Mrs. John R. Lydon, in Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Emerson w. Polk left Wednes-
day for brief visit in Middletown,
Delaware.
Mrs. John T. Hickman has returned
from a weeks visit with relatives in
Baltimore and Wilmington, Del.
Mrs. Arintha Powell and Mr.. John
Powell spent last week in Atlantic
City and Ocean City, New Jersey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Humphreys
and son, John Lee, will spend next
week in Belle Haven, Va.
Miss Cecilia Shaw will leave Mon
day for Frederick, Md, where she will
enroll in Hood College.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Ruark, of Fruit
land, are spending the week with Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer Long.
Miss Alma Ford has returned to her
duties at the Springfield Hospital af-
ter a visit with her parents in this
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Sturgis have
from Baltimore where Mr.. Sturgis re-
ceived treatment at the John Hopkins
Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. j. Young, of
Charles Town, W. Va, are visiting
Mrs. Young's mother, Mrs. I. T. Cos
ten and family.
Mrs. Harry C. Mears has returned
from Baltimore where she underwent
an opeation in one of the city hos
pitals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hudson motor
ed to Baltimore Wednesday where
Mrs. Hudson will undergo treatment
and a possible operation.
Mrs. John Devereaux expects to
leave next week for Irvington, N. j.,
where she will spend the winter with
relatives.
Rev. J. P. George and daughter,
Miss Virginia, have been recent visi-
tors at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. ].
R. Ford on Cedar st.
Mr.. William Merrill, of Baltimore.
arrived Tuesday for visit with his
mother, Mrs. Wm H. Merrill of Laur-
el st.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Powell and
Mr.. and Mrs. Carson Ward enjoyed a
motor trip through the Valley of Vir-
ginia via the Skyline Drive.
Mrs. Edward L. Kelly is in the Nc
Cready Memorial Hospital in Crisfiel6
where she will undergo treatment and
an operation.
Mrs. Tom Bundick has returned
from Bloxom, Va, where she spent
two weeks with her sister, Mrs. Rem.
ME Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mcdonald anG
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Frateni, of Phil.
adelphia, have been guests of Mr.. anG
Mrs. James R. Tilghman.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Ditlow are
receiving congratulations on the birtl
of fine son, born Monday, Septem
ber 18th.
DR.. and Mrs. Shelly and Mr.. ant
Mrs Lester Shelly of Harrisburg, Pa.
were visitors Wednesday at the hom.
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Ford.
Mr.. Jno. A. Bullard and family, o1
Bridgeport, Conn, spent the past tvs
weeks at Ocean City and with Mrs
Ru1lard's parents. Senator and Mrs
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-09-16

Between Romancoke and Claiborne
Leave ROmancOke: $4,000, 11:OO,
A. NJ, 200, 400, $4,000, 500 P. M.
Leave Claiborne: 500, $4,000 A. NJ,
100, 300, 500, $4,000 P. M.
~ Denotes pedestrians will be trans
ported by motor coach between Mata-
peake and ROmancOke and Roman
coke and Matapeake on these trips
only.
The Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry Co.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-09-16
ANNAPOLIS - MATAPEAKE
ROMANCOKE - CLAIBORNE
FALL & WINTER SCHEDIIL f 193

FALL e WINTER SCHEDULE-IJo0
Effective September 20, 1888
DAILY AND SUNDAY
Eastern Standard Time
Leave Annapolis: 7:25, $500, 900,
10 100, II 100 A. NJ, 1900 Noon, 100,
9 200, 300, 400, $500, 500, 700,
500 p. M.
Leave Matapeake: 1925, 500, 900,
1000, *11:OO A. NJ, IL Noon, 100.
200, q 800, 400, 500, 600, 700,
*8 100 p. M.
Denotes bus connections via Mata-
peake, ROmancOke and Claiborne.
g Denotes bus connections via Mata-
peake only.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-14

Paints 5 to 7 times
faster than by hand !
q Gu. ft. capacity, 25
#. hose, 2 nozzle all
purpose spray gun.
Complete with / H.
P. motor. Invest in
one now save.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-14
Save up to 400 on This
Electric De Luxe Cleaner
This Type Usually
Sells From S69 up
4 : q 95
N And Your
Old
D~ ~ Vacuum
& anuxnn Easy
And Your
Old
Vacuum

You've always wanted
just such a complete
home cleaning ensemble
and now, h a n ks to
Sears SIND Anniversary,
you can buy it-not for
S89, not for S69-but
for only $39.95. Come
in and see how easy it
is to clean under low
furniture, drapes, COR
ners and other hard-to-
reach places. Anniver-
sary Only Act Now!
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
ReScuers Foil
Death Grip
of Floods

MT. CLEMENS. Mich, Feb. IA
UN.S0.-Tales of heroism and
dramatic rescues were told today
after Mt. Clemens police and vol.
unteers rescued more than 100
families from their homes in the
floods that inundated the Huron.
Clinton Valley.
An 11-year-old girl, i'll with a
temperature Of 104 degrees, clung
to the branches Of a tree above the
icy flood waters for half an hour,
screaming for help.
The girl, Margaret Card, was
thrown into the water with her
parents and neighbor boy, Cor
don Woolly, IA, when the rowboat
in which they were leaving their
home capsized.
Margaret clung to the tree
branches while a neighbor, George
Weaver, attempted to rescue the
four. Weaver said he was forced
to turn back when he found the
water neck high.
He awakened another neighbor,
George Arnold, by firing a shot at
the roof of his house.
Arnold rescued the girl and the
three others in his rowboat.
In another rescue, four members
Of the family of Charles Maracle,
all i'll with mumps, we're rescued
in rowboats after the water rose
six inches in the first floor of their
home.
Mrs. Bert Eakins, unable to
walk, was carried to safety by a
deputy sheriff who rowed against
the heavy current for a mile and
a half to reach her home.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
U. S. LIFE SEEN
HARD ON LIVER

Tempo of life in America pro,
vides an almost perfect introduc-
tion to liver trouble, according to
DR.. Maurice E. Binet, world re
nowned specialist on liver dis,
orders.
DR.. Binet, who will lecture to
night at 8 p. m. before the Dis
trict Medical Society, has simple
prescription for avoiding liver
troubles. It is:
Live moderately. sleep regu-
larly, avoid fatty foods and not
drink to excess.
DIR. Binet, who spends most OF
his time at Vichy, France, likes
Americans but he says they burn
up their lives" because they live
at too fast a pace.
Moderate use Of wines should
not harm anyone's liver, he said,
confessing that he himself drinks
some vintage every day. But he
added he did not think much OF
some Of the hard liquors.
DR.. Binet is q guest Of DR.. r.
L. Sexton.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
u. S. CRUISERS
SEE SINGAPORE
OPEN DRY DOCK
SaIvo Marks Start of
New Naval Race

SINGAPORE, Feb. IA GN.S).
One gun, marking the start Of a
great naval sprint and a theoreT-
ical shot across the bows Of jap
ans naval building program, today
signalized the opening Of a $1o,-
900, 900 dry dock.
While this latest unit in the
worlds greatest naval base was
dedicated, three American cruisers
lay at anchor off Singapore.
"At dress" they showed only in
their bright. fluttering pennons
that the United States was thus
giving seeming approval to
strengthening Of British defenses
in the Orient.
The cruisers, which came here
from a goodwill trip to Australia,
were the Milwaukee, Memphis.
and Trenton.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
PIT. A. Backing
Board Control

Charging that one Of the riders
to the District appropriation bill
for 1938-39 will create a dual sys-
tenn Of control in the public
schools, the Buchanan Parent
Teachers Association has gone on
record as favoring that the Board
Of Education be permitted to con-
tinue control over schools.
A resolution adopted at the asso-
ciation'S founders day meeting
also urged that Board of Education
control be interpreted to include
the school buildings and play
grounds for recreational purposes.
It also asked that school librarians
be left in the salary group ere.
ated by the organic act Of 1906.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
STABLE PRICES
seen ON FARMS

The year 1888 has started off
with prospects for stabilizatioll
Of farm prices and income after
the sharp recession Of the later
months Of 1887, the Department
Of Agriculture disclosed yester-
day.
Prices Of products continue
downward, but the recession is
much less apparent than last fall
and there is every indication to
expect prices to stabilize around
100 in the farm index, the report
stated.
Wheat has been holding an
average of IS cents nationally
and cotton has held to 8 cents.
two good averages for the predic'
tions Of better prices to come. AL
though live stock prices have
broken sharply, the department
looks for sweeping upswing in
the spring.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
723 Millions
Security, Retirement
Funds Collected

Tax receipts from the Social Sc
curity and the railroad retirement
acts have yielded $723, $4,000 tc
January 81, the Treasury reported
yesterday. This represented $3.50,
28O, 900 in old age benefit pay
ments, $50, ,765 900 in taxes on EN-
ployers of eight or more, and $93,
493, 900 collected from railroads
and their workers.
OF this money, $400, ,000, 900 has
been spent for administration
grants to States, public health
work and other measures called for
in the program.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14

There are no white lambs
among the black sheep marooned
here, cut off from the world. Only
tncorrigibles take the underground
trip a hush-hush voyage, screened
from the eyes of men, that ends
up on the rock of despair,
WARDEN SITS ON LID
Alcatraz made news last week.
al Capone went crazy there. Not
stir crazy as mary Of them go,
but a victim Of paresis. The man
who sat on the story was Warden
James "A. Johnston.
Rumor after rumor came sitting
across the ink-churned bay, a
storm Of gossip as wild as the hun
dred-mile hurricane that whipped
The Washington times., 1938-02-14

kaGood afternoon, warden. There
is some one here to see you by
appointment. :"
the character out Of Charles
Dickens comes over still smiling,
| his bright blue eyes friendly be-
hind the lenses Of his glasses and
shakes hands warmly.
You have now met James A.
Johnston, ruler Of Alcatraz.
This Is the man to whom Al
Capone, Machine Gun Kelly,
Touhy and others are not big
shots, but merely unimportant
blanks, paying back to society
what the law has ruled they owe.
WAS LAWYER-FINANCIER
He is no policeman. He never
was q policeman. He was born
in New York city. He was
educated, trained and admitted to
the bar. His career up to the
time he-somehow-to his own
surprise, as he admits-drifted
into prison work, was that OF a
lawyer, business man and vice
president Of q bank and trust
company.
Up to the time some IS years
ago when he became warden, first
Of red hot, seething, troublesome
Folsom Prison, and then San
Quentin, his time had been given
over to practicing law and serv-
ing in the banking business of
San Francisco, the city to which
he moved soon after he was born
and where he spent his entire life.
is A GRANDFATHER
He has three married daughters.
He is a grandfather.
His home, a pleasant house,
where he lives with his wife, is on
Alcatraz Island in sight of the
prison. A stones throw from the
tiger cage.
He takes you into an inside Of
flee, removes hat and coat. The
bland smile vanishes. For the first
bAA1C JOu 4CCA WAAeSe 44CS UG%A4A4O Ik4C
DickenSian exterior, hear again
the impersonal voice that came
over the telephone from Alcatraz
He explains to you the lines
that the interview can not take.
He is sorry. It is the policy of the
government.
WILLING TO TALK OF SELF
Nothing about Alcatraz. Moth
ing about any of the men incar-
cerated there. Nothing about
prison rule, or prison happenings.
About yourself warden?"
Anything that I am able to
tell you I shall be glad to-"
Editors Note: In tomorrotD'S
concluding article, the personal
ity, the hobbies, the life GndroU.
tine, and the story behind the
man WIto rules the rock OF deS.
pGtr.)
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
Oops!
Brakeman Steps Into
Water IL Feet DeeD

FOND DU LAC, Wis, Feb. IA.
Ernest F. Kelly, a 500 Line brake
man, took q long step and landed
in IL feet of water. His freight
train stopped on the Rock River
at Theresa Bridge and Kelly, not
realizing where he was, dropped
off one of the cars to throw a
switch. Almost drowned, he was
pulled from the river by the train
crew.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
HUNDREDS FLEE
AS RIVERS FLOOD
MICHIGAN HOMES
Many Cities Inundated
After Wild Storm

DETROIT, Feb. IA GN.SJ.
Lashed by its fourth consecutive
Sunday storm" Michigan today
began the work Of repairing thou
sands Of dollars damage of the
flood that forced more than 400
families to flee their homes,
stopped traffic on major highways
of lower Michigan and brought
heavy damage to roads and
bridges.
Clinton River waters, 20 feet
above their normal level, con.
ttnued to rise during the early
morning hours, spreading a five.
mile Swath through the 25-mile
path between the river headwaters
at Orchard Lake, near Pontiac
to the river mouth at Lake ST.
Clair.
FLINT DAM UNDERMINED
Ninety families left their homes
in Flint, where the dam at the
end of Thread Lake was under
mined and menaced by a growing
ice jam. Emergency crews OF
workmen sandbagged the dam yes,
terday and the gates were opened
to ease the pressure of the mount.
ing water.
Other communities hard hit
were Pontiac, where IS families
fled their homes; Grand Rapids
where SIS families were rescued
Lansing, where 100 families
abandoned their homes, Ionia
Rochester and Utica.
The flood, which followed an
other flood and two bhzZards that
have hit Michigan in the last
three week-ends. came after an
unreasonable electrical storm
brought torrential rains Saturday
night.
RELIEF IN PROSPECT
Weather Bureau officials re-
ported 3.51 inches Of rain fell in
Pontiac within IL hours, 2.3s
inches in Grand Rapids and 2.63
at Ionia.
Colder weather promised for to.
day gave hopes for relief to the
floodstricken communities.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
d. C. SYMPHONY
NEEDS S1O3,OOO

A sustaining fund Of at least
$103, 900 must be raised between
February % and March 6, if the
National symphony Orchestra is
to carry on for the 1938-39 season,
L. Corrin Strong, chairman of the
orchestra association, stated yes
terday.
If, Mr.. Strong said. the sum is
not raised. all contributions will
be returned, pledges cancelled
and the orchestra association dis
banded.
The budget for next season has
been set at $172,000 of which $50
900 is raised through the sale OF
tickets and $4,000 through con.
certs given outside of Washington,
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
Barrier Planned
In Cattle Plague

NAIROBI, Kenya, British East
Africa, Feb. 14.-All African gov
ernments south of the Equator
are combining to fight a rinder
pest cattle plague that is sweep
ing southwark and threatening tc
destroy millions Of cattle and tc
leave a trail of famine in its wake
as similar plague did in the
ninetieS.
It is proposed to erect a barrier
40 miles long in Tanganyika where
cattle would be trapped and vacci
mated.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
Mrs. Karl Riedel
Charges Infidelity

NEW YORK, Feb. IA G.NS),
Karl Riedel, Metropolitan opera
maestro, today stood accused by
his wife of intimacies with Vir'
ginia Burbank, a girl in the en-
semble, in Los Angeles.
His wife, Mrs. Stefanie Riedel
made the charge in a complaint
filed in supreme court here. Ask
ing $50 a week alimony and 1900
counsel fees, she is suing for q
Senarati0n.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
Light Quake Felt
At Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Feb. IA G.N.S0.
A slight earthquake shook Los
Angeles at 6:26 a. m. today. No
damage was reported.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
ROYALTY ON GRAIN

An Indian art student has en-,
graved portraits of King George
v and Queen Mary on a grain OF
rice one-eighth of an inch long.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14

WAhOGN JO0N01 ON
the swift waters. around Alcatraz.
And over the telephone, the war
den was a hard, colorleSs, uncom.
promising voice:
mo comment" IT refuse to
answer that" IT do not discuss
the cases of individual prisoners.
That Is against the policy as
you know" Sorry, no state
ment. It will have to come from
Washington"
COOL, NIPERSONAL
The warden was a cool, imper-
sonal voice. The warden was the
rock! The rock gives up no
secrets. The warden was the
keeper of the beast-men who were
too tough for the prisons of the
country, the men whose hatred OF
society was venom more deadly
than the poison sacS OF the cobra
and the kraft.
What kind of man is this who is
his brothers keeper? And whose
brother Is deadly and unre-
generate?
This is a story about Warden
James A. Johnston, guardian OF
the rock of despair, the man
charged with the responsibility OF
keeping and living with the
hardest men this country breeds,
and what he is like.
INTERVIEW ARRANGED
You are waiting in an office in
the post-office building in this
great, fantastic metropolis which,
like Rome, sprawls over the seven
hills.
It is the outer office of the pro,
baton officer of the district. An
electric clock over the door reg
tsters 2 o'clock. A girl secretary
sits at a desk and types. There
are some magazines on a small
table.
"No, Warden Johnston isn't
here yet. I am sure he will be
here any moment ."
What will he be like, this man
entrusted with the wardenship OF
the human tigers who prey on so
ciety?
At five minutes past two, the
outer door from the lobby is
opened gently, and you look up
quickly from your magazine to
catch your first glimpse Of this
tough man, and then move mpa'
tiently in your seat.
COUNTENANCE BENIGN
The man who pokes his pink
face in through the door, a face
adorned by a bland, innocent
smile, is not the one for whom
you are looking. No, this is a
character right out of Dickens, a
kindly, white-haired old gentle
man who probably haunts the cor
ridors of the Federal offices on
benevolent missions of his own
You see them around.
It isn't the man you are wait
Ing Tor, DuC you study MIN never
theleSs, the fresh. pink, young
face, the white hair under the
crushed slouch hat, the blue eyes
and the steel trimmed Spectacles,
the loose gray overcoat, the UNI
brella tucked under one arm.
The smile comes in through the
door first and then the face that
wears it, followed by the body Of
the owner.
'NICE LOOKING OLD DUCK"
A body of middle size, not pow.
erful, not too broad-shouldere.
Nice looking old duck. You turn
back to your magazine.
The secretary looks up from
her typing and suddenly speaks.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
ACTORS "sTAY YOUNG"

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. IA Q.N.S0. i.
Edward G. Robinson says "for
some reason, actors stay young
longer than most people, but don't
ask me why"
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
By PAUL CALICO

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb "A (INSJ.-Alcatra5 Prison,
the abandoned Army fortress which lies In the sparkling bay
ofshore here surrounded by rip tides and currents the
toughest in the United States.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14
A1CatraZ Guardian
Benign in Private;
Iced Steel on Job
Warden of Rock of Despair, Once LGUOyer
Lines TnO Sep0r0te Lives

Editors Note-Ths is the first of tOo articles on Warde'.
james A. Johnston of AlcCtrGz Island Americas rock OF
despair.
The Washington times., 1938-02-14

Editors Note: In tomorrow'S S
concluding article, the personal
ity, the hobbies, the life GndroU.
tine, and the story behind the
man Who rules the rock OF deS.
DGtr,)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-06-17
Ousted Union Men Win
Unemployment Benefits

Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)-The Unem-
ployment Insurance Appeal Board has
ruled that workers discharged for
union activities need only wait the
normal period of three weeks before
qualifying for benefits.
The ruling came on the rights of z
workers in an automobile parts fac
tory who were discharged because of
taking part in the organization of a
union. The NLRB found for them,
and when the employing company
failed to obey, has applied to the cir
cult court of appeals, for writ COM
pelling appliance. Meanwhile, the
workers applied for insurance.
They were at first confronted with
the section of the law that employees
out of work through industrial con-
troversies" must wait 10 weeks. The
insurance board has ruled that the
mere formation Of a union is not an
industrial controversy; and that these
workers may draw benefits after the
usual weeks.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-06-17
State Labor Policy

Columbus (OLNS)-The Columbus
Building Trades Council last week de-
cided that no members of any union
affiliated with that organization
would be removed from any slum
clearance project when a jurisdic-
tional question is involved.
The council also agreed that there
will be no change in wage rates dur
ing the time required to complete a
contract on local slum elimination
projects, providing there was nc
change in the original contract.
The statement of policy was made
on recommendation of the building
trades department of the American
Federation of Labor as means OF
being helpful in promoting slum elm
nation projects.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-06-17
Strike Investigation Next
Job of Civil Liberties Com.

Washington, D. G. (ILNSl The
senate civil liberties committee, head
ed by Senator La Toilette, will begin
hearings by June Is on civil liberties
violations in Canton and Youngstown
during the Little Steel strike last
summer.
Robert Wohlforth, committee sec
retary, said the inquiry would include
investigation of alleged strikebreak-
ing activities and the use of citizens
committees and claw and order"
league" by the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Company and the Republic
Steel Corporation to break the labor
walkout conducted by the Go. The
committee has already gathered most
of its material, Wohlforth said, and is
co-ordinating it for public hearings.
Wohlforth indicated that, IN view
of the $4,000 supplemental appro-
priation recently granted by the sem
ate, the committee would probably
investigate violations of civil liberty
in Jersey City.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-06-17
PUBLICITY LIGHT
Hits Laundry Wage ChiseI-
erS

Albany, N. Y. CLNS) -Sixty-two
laundries in three boroughs of New
York city are listed in a legal notice
published in the newspapers as fail
ing to comply with the laundry wage
order, which was issued under the
new minimum wage law on March
Z of this year.
IN publishing the names of non
complying laundries Industrial Com
missioner Andrews announced he was
acting in accordance with Section $50
Of the minimum wage act. This
section provides as penalty for non
observance of a directory wage order
publication Of the names of non-com-
pliers II one on more newspapers and
through various other channels, such
as radio announcements, club jour
nals, etc.
The 81 laundries owe 836 women
and male minors in their employ So
5604G. This sum represents the diff
ference between the legally estab-
lished minimum wage rate of $14 for
i 40-hour week and the substandard
wages they were found to be paying
between March IA, when the Laundry
wage order went into effect, and the
time they were Inspected.
These laundries,' Commissioner
Andrews pointed out, constitute
chiseling minority | am glad to say
that 392 laundries in these same three
boroughs have been found TO be pay
ING the minimum wage OF more.
Seventeen Of these laundries came
into compliance following the private
hearing on May % at which time the
non-conlpliors III Bronx, Queens, and
Richmond were required to show
cause why their names should not be
published as having failed to observe
The laundry wage order.
Consumer organizations have been
asking for lists Of non-compliers for
some time" the commissioner stated.
and now that they are available ii
is expected that public opinion will
exert a compelling influence on such
laundries as continue their refusal to
pay the legally established minimum
wage"