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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18
Stockton News

Miss Ellen Hancock of Western
Maryland College, Westminster, Md,
is spending the mid-year vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. d. H.
Hancock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Martin and
little daughter of Pocomoke, visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Mariner Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Pilchard spent
Sunday with relatives at Lewes, Del
Miss Wilma Tull, of Wilmington,
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Tull.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Sharpley were
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Small
at Salisbury, Sunday.
Miss Maud Payne of Pocomoke Wis
tied friends here Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Moore, of
Salisbury, were weekend guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Timmons.
Miss Mary Jones of Drexel Hill and
Miss FANNIE watson OF Phlladelphla,
were weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cassius Jones.
Mrs. Preston Pussy entertained the
Christian Endeavor Society of the M.
P. Church, Friday evening.
Miss Kathryn Pruitt of Wilmington
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Pruitt.
Mrs. Florence Guthrie is spending
some time with her son, Mr.. Roy Guth
RE and Mrs. Guthrie at Fruitland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Paradee visited
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

s. A LII that glitters is not gold"
n was never spoken of the
golden banana, that puts glitter
into everyday menus and proves 1t.
self no gay deceiver. Not only the
youngsters but everybody likes the
benevolent banana kind to your
pocketbook. your time. your taste!
Do you know your groceries"
when 1t comes to bananas-how to
buy. store. eat them? Buy them by
the hand" or cluster, the experts
say, in whatever stage of ripeness
you find them in the store. Then
do not put them in the refrigerator
Let them brighten your home in
the fruit bowl, and ripen naturally.
at room temperature. Cut them off
the cluster as you need them-and
suit the use to the color
Call Your Color Signals
When a banana is green-tipped
it's partially ripe, and just right
to cook and serve as Il vegetable
(try it for a brand new flavor.)
When the green has entirely dis.
appeared from the tip. the all
yellow banana is ready to eat or
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18
OLDEST EMPLOY
OF PENN. R. R
NOW RETIRED
Thomas Duffin, Former Engine.
man Rounded Out SO Years
Of His Life

The oldest retired employee of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, Thomas Duff
fin, former engineman on the Cleve-
land Division, rounded out on Feb
ruary 6, SO years of life. His birth
day will be the occasion for a notable
gathering of railroad veterans at his
home, 1920 E. 18th Street, Cleve-
land. Included among them will be a
brother, William Duffin, aged 90, re-
tired engineman of the New York
Central Railroad, John Duffin, a son,
who has been an engineman on the
Pennsylvania Cleveland Division for
S6 years, officers of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and representatives of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Mr.. Duffin started with the Pennsyl
vania Railroad in 1870 as a fireman
m the Cleveland yards, when many
locomotives still burned wood. He
became an engineman in 1880 and re-
tired in 1910.
Having in his lifetime personally
witnessed and taken part in almost
the entire development of railroad
transportation, Mr.. Duffin continues
to take an interest in its further pro-
gress. He confidently expects to pass
the hundredth milestone. If so, he
will be the fourth centenarian record
ed among Pennsylvania Railroad Sys-
tenn employees, the previous ones hav-
ing been Thomas Gallagher, foreman
on the Long Island Lines, who died
July 81, 1880, aged 1902; Kirby C.
Jackson, Fort Wayne Division engine
nam, who died December "a, 1888
aged nearly 102; and Joseph r. Jones.
Philadelphia Division supervisor of
signals, whose death occurred Febru-
airy IA, 1887, at the age of 1O1.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18
BAY SHIPPING
AGAIN WATCHING
SMOKEY JOE

Chesapeake Bay shipping is again
watching old "Smoky JOe's" smoke
again. She's back in Baltimore from
New York re-entering the Baltimore
Love Point run ("Her" is right The
nickname is Smoky Josephine" really
It's short for the Pennsylvania Rail
roads ferry "Philadelphia.w
In her past operation on the bay
"Smoky Joe" made a reputation as a
steady customer and rescue vessel
The worst weather never-well, hard
ly ever-stopped her. And on hall
a dozen occasions, when trimmer craft
that might have snooted her under
other circumstances we're flying the
distress flag, "Smoky Joe" was right
. there ready and willing to do the
hero's-the heroine's work and wear
the heroine's laurels. She always
wore them little rakishly.
She made her bow to Baltimore in
1881; on the occasion, too, she came
down from New York. All the bay
traffic soon got to know her as she
piled back and forth between Light
Street Wharf and Love Point. One
of her proudest moments was in July
1882 when she rescued the passengers
of the liner getty of Baltimore" of the
Baltimore Mail Steamship Company,
bound out for Europe, as we'll as thos
of the oil tanker Beacon" Over an
improvised gangplank flung from bow
to bow, the liners passengers trans
ferred to the tanker's decks. But the
tanker was having her own troubles.
And then Smoky Joe" to the res
cue. Up she flirted, red paint, smoky
plumes and all, took the passengers
off the Beacon" and brought them
safely back to Baltimore. On many
another OCCASION she shuffled into port
with one or another distressed launch
or power boat wallowing at the end
of her towing cable.
During the record-breaking bay
freeze of 1884 ocean-going vessels
went in and out of Baltimore with
!, conveys of ice breakers butting patti
through the ice for them. Lesser craft
were frozen fast to their piers. They
didn't go in or out at all. But
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

nounced last week. The campaign of
American Meat Paskers to create
greater interest in the present attrac-
tive prices of all meats.
"This campaign" Mr.. Schluderberg
said, "has been undertaken primarily
to aid the live stock producer, who,
at the current live stock prices is fac
ing severe losses in many cases. Some
cattle feeders, for example, are sus-
tanning losses estimated as high as $40
per head. Lamb feeders say they are
not receiving the cost of production,
and hog prices have declined drasti-
cally since September.
with the harvesting of bumper
crops of live stock feed last fall, the
production of meat has expanded sub
stantially. Live stock producers have
been rapidly converting this feed into
live stock of improved quality, and
sending them to market, with the re-
suit that there is now available to the
consumer a plentiful supply of quail
ity meat at attractive prices.
"The meat trade has undertaken,
under the leadership of the Institute
of American Meat Packers, fully to &C
quaint the public with this situation.
"Meat is a delicious, nutritious,
wholesome food. 1t is the food a.
round which the American meal is
planned. 1t is rich in most of the
elements needed in the diet for grow
ing children, and is most valuable in
supplying health sustaining elements
needed by persons of all ages. Doc
tors will tell you that meat is among
the most easily and thoroughly digest
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Conway at Cir
dletree, Sunday.
Misses Mary Hyland, Mabel Jones
and Helen Tull spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hall at Hall
wood.
Mrs. Florence Webb is visiting her
sister, Mrs. J. w. Payne at Pocomoke.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Dryden enter
tanned at dinner Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. E. Brimer, Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Hud-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. G. R. Bromley and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. John Bun
dick.
Mrs. Belle Porter left Sunday to
spend some time with her daughter,
Mrs. Harvey Farwell in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. S. Petit of Oman
cock and Mr.. and Mrs. John Edgar
Doughty of Snow Hill were visitors
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Owen
Pilchard, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dalton Fleming and
little son, were guests of her mother,
Mrs. Jennie Milligan, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Hancock and
family, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Redden at Girdletree, Sunday.
Mrs. R. I. Givens of Pocomoke Wis
tied her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bundick, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Watson and
little daughter of Berlin spent Sunday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. F.
Taylor.
We are sorry to report little Jean
Hancock i'll with the mumps.
Mr.. Cecil Powell of Cape Charles,
spent Monday night with DR.. W. A.
and Miss Sue Taylor.
Mrs. Milton Barnes and little daugh
ter, of Girdletree, spent Wednesday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. A.
Sharpley.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

cook, excellent for pies. cakes. pud-
dings. waffies, mullins. bread. When
little "freckles" or brown flecks APP
pear on the bananas skin, the fruit
is fully ripe-sweet, mellow. diges-
tible even for the baby. and perfect
for fruit cups. salads, desserts and
drinks.
You can slice. flute. dice. mash
or whip a banana and any way you
cut it, it's the same delicious fruit.
Here's the children's favorite soda
fountain treat"-to make at home:
Slice one fully ripe banana into
a bowl and beat with rotary egg
beater or electric mixer until
creamy Or, press banana through
medium mesh wire strainer with
spoon. Add a cup of cold milk. mix
thoroughly Serve cold, (This
amount makes two medium-sized
drinks.) For frosted" shake. add
dash OF your favorite ice cream.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

Smoky Joe" puffed a little more
smoke than usual from her twin fun
nels and did her own fighting. What's
more, when she went out to fight the
ice, she went without escort. And
throughout the entire freeze she miss
ed only two trips. How did she dc
it? young man." said her skipper
"you come along and see. You car
lump over the side of this boat and
run ahead of her on the ice. But We'll
come sliding up to you"
Anyhow she's back, ready for more
rescues and ice-breaking.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

Percy M. Burke, Branch Manager of
the Automobile Club of Maryland and
A. A. A. declared. Reporting on in
come tax deductions allowed motorists
by reason of car operation, he contin-
ued:
every penney paid to the State in
the form of registration and other
special fees may be deducted by Mary
land motorists. Also, they may de-
duct amounts paid out in state gaso-
line taxes when travelling through
most of the other states as the Blu
reau of Internal Revenue now allows
full deductions for all but 10 states:
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

Alabama, California, Georgia, Miss
issippi, Nebraska, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, and Ohio
where Sc of the &c tax is deductible.
However, it is important to re-
member that amounts paid out in Fed
eral gasoline and other excise taxes
are strictly not deuctible.
"Other deductible items include in
terest on money borrowed for pur-
chase of car, and loss sustained from
damage when not covered by insurance
Fines or forfeited collateral are not
deductible.'
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18
MEAT TRADE OF
MARYLAND BEGINS
BIG CAMPAIGN

With current meat prices suhstan-
TALLY below peak levels of last fall.
quality greatly improved, and meat
production definitely expanding, the
entire meat trade OF Maryland has
launched an intensive campaign To
arouse consumer interest in meat, W.
F. Schluderberg, Regional Chairman
of the Institute of American Meat
Packers, and President of The VIM.
Schluderberg- J. Hurdle Co., an
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18
GASOLINE TAX MAY BE
TAKEN FROM INCOME TAX

When making out Federal and State
income tax returns, Maryland motor
lists may deduct money paid out dur
ing 1887 as result of the States
gasoline tax rate of &c per gallon,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

ed of all foods and it gives full nu-
tritive value with each delicious NOR
sell"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

II you want q bite of this young
lady's favorIte fruit, better hurry!
She doesn't know how good It Is
for her, only how grand It tastes!
Next to ripe bananas right from
their sleek, clean skins, the kids
vote goes to banana milk shake.
shown In inset.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Influx of Needy
Reported by
| Winchester
the Associated Press,

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 30.-The
State Department of Public We'll
fare studied today the State wide
potentialities of report from the
city of Winchester that numerous
needy aged persons had moved into
the city from rural areas in the
hope of obtaining more liberal re-
lief allowances.
Commissioner w. H. Stauffer said
the report fully justified an inves-
tigation and told Winchester City
Manager Arthur M. Fields in let
ter that mo community with a pro-
gressive welfare policy ought to be
penalized by virtue of an influx
from areas which are remiss in
adequate handling of the relief
problem
Old age pension figures released
by the department for the State
for November showed that the aver
age payment made to city cases was
substantially higher than the 1920
average for the State as a whole.
DR.. Stauffer said the department
could not accept as factual the
~"""@'-'nn indicated in Marager
Fields repol. until after a first
hand study of the reported influx
was made.
Winchester was the only city that
reported such a condition of I'M
migration, he added.
Evening star., 1938-12-30

to No. 2. Two years later he was
promoted to lieutenant
His promotion to captain came on
January 16, 1922, when he was put
in charge of the 4th precinct. He
served there three years and at No.
3 again for three years before being
sent. in 1923, to the 10th precinct,
where he had been since.
Many CommendatiOns.
During the early days of prohi-
bition Capt. SheetZ was in charge
of the vice squad for a time. Numer-
GUS commentators for arresting
criminals of all types appear on his
record, and more than 10 years ago
citizen was SO impressed with his
services that he presented him with
stickpin.
Capt. Sheetz resided in Cabin John
Md, with his wife, Elizabeth, who
survives him. He is also survived
by two sons, Charles E. Sheetz, 1902
Van Buren, street NV, in the real
estate business here, and Norman
w. Sheetz of Cabin John Park, a
Capital Transit Co. employe; four
grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs.
Catherine SWartz and Mrs. Virginia
Wolfe, both of Woodstock, Va.
Funeral arrangements were not
completed Immediately, but mem
bers of the family said services
probably would be held from the
home Sunday or Monday, with in
terment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Veteran Freed for New Year
Must Leave MONTGOMERY
BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY stan correspondent OF The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. 30
Thomas M. OHara, SO, World War
veteran who spent THANKSGIVING
Day and Christmas in the county
jail through a clerical error in his
commitment papers, will celebrate
New Year in the outside world, but
not in Montgomery County.
Judge Charles w. Woodward
ordered O'Hara released at a habeas
corpus hearing in Circuit, Court to-
day, after Attorney Joseph B. Simp-
son, jr., pointed out that the peace
bond of $500, in default of which
OHara was being held, should have
been returned the first day of the
present term of court, namely, last
November 7. Through a clerical err
ror, the commitment papers read
until bond of $500 is furnished"
AS OHara left the judges cham
bers, however, he was served with
another warrant, demanding that
the neace bond in effect, be con-
tlnued. sworn to by a neighbor of
O'Hara, Merthen L. Dutrow of Pur-
dunn. At hearing a few minutes
later before Judge Harold c. Smith
In Police Court Mr.. Dutrow testified
that O'Hara had threatened to cut
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Autopsy to Be Held
In Auto FutuIity

An autopsy was to be performed
today on the body of Mrs. Izetta
Mitchell, AZ, of 1414 Girard street
NV, who died in Washington San
itarium last night. She received
injuries in an automobile accident
last Saturday.
Robert L. Fitzgerald, %, Of 7O19
Georgia avenue NV, in whose car
Mrs. Mitchell was a passenger, has
been free on $500 bond since the
accident, which occurred on the
Coleville pike between White Oak
and Burnt Mills, in Montgomery
County, Md. Mr.. Fitzgerald told
police he lost control of the car
while rounding a curve, and it
crashed into a culvert. He escaped
serious injuries and was charged
with reckless driving pending the
outcome of Mrs. Mitchells injuries.
Mrs. Mitchell suffered internal
injuries, broken jaw and cuts on
head and legs.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Man, 80, Is Sent
To JoiIfor 86th
Time Since 1905

Eighty year old Emanuel Amos
Miller has succeeded, after some
difficulty, in being sent to Jail for
the 86th time since 1905.
Miller entered No. 9 precinct sta
ton yesterday and claimed he was
drunk. He said he wanted to 60 to
jail for a year. Officers could find
no evidence of intoxication, how
ever, and refused to lock him up.
Miller said he was going out and
spend his last 40 cents on pint of
whisky. He did, and returned. This
time he was successful.
Pvt. j. F. Ryan told Police Court
Judge John P. Mcmahon about it
today, and showed the court Mil
ler's lengthy record.
Judge Mcmahon sentenced him to
serve, 80 days.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Sherman P. Allen,
Former Federal
Official, Dies
Served os Secretary
To President Tuft
And in Treasury

Sherman Page Allen, former As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury.
died yesterday at his home, 2126
Connecticut avenue NV, after an
illness of several weeks.
Mr.. Allen. who had held a num-
ber Of other of1icial positions here,
was engaged in the banking busi-
ness in New York from shortly
after the World War until retiring
in 1929, when he returned to Wash
ington. He served as private Sec
retary to President Taft in 1910 and
1911. From the latter year to 1918
he was Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
He was assistant secretary and
fiscal agent of the Federal Reserve
Board from September. 1914, to May,
1918. Next, he served as treasurer
Of the War Finance Corp. until
February. 1919. He was treasurer
and a member of the board of
trustees for the Endowment Fund,
American National Red Cross, 1912
1918.
Born in Vermont, Mr.. Allen early
in his career engaged in the news
paper business in that State. He
was secretary to former Representa-
tive David j. Foster of Vermont
from 1901 to 1905 and from the
latter year to 1907 he was private
secretary and chief clerk to the
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy.
From 1907 to 1910 he was with the
Washington Bureau of the New York
Herald.
Mr.. Allen was a member of the
Metropolitan Club here. Surviving
are his widow, Mrs Margaret Robin
son Allen, and nephew, Maurice R.
Allen, this city; a brother, James
H, Allen of Vermont, and sister, Mrs.
Mabel Bailey, wife of Guy w. Bailey,
president of the University of Yer
mont.
Funeral arrangements were to be
announced later.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
DC. Woman SUFFERING
Rare Blood Disease
Seeks Donor
One-in-Hundred Chance
For Mrs. DiehI Seen
If Person Is Found

A young Washington woman, suf- :
fering from rare blood disease.
today had only a slim chance Of
Hving-a chance depending on a
blood TRANSMISSION from some one of
her blood type who has had the
disease.
The victim is Mrs. Edna Diehl. 26.
daughter of Benjamin Leoffler, vet
eran Capital Transit Co. employe, of
the 600 block of Maine avenue S.W.
The disease is streptococcus viridans
septicemia, comparatively rare
form of blood poisoning for which
there is no known cure.
Her physician, DR.. Oscar Hunter,
said a blood TRANSMISSION from some
one who has recovered from the
disease would give her a chance in
a hundred of getting well. The
person must have her same type of
blood, No. 4 Moss type.
Mrs. Diehl, stricken six weeks ago,
has received six transfusions al
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Captain Ira Sheetz, Veteran
Police Officer, Dies at So
Most Beloved Man
In Department.
Superiors Say

Capt. Ira Sheetz, veteran police
officer, died at 6 am. today in
Emergency Hospital, where he had
lain critically Ill for more than two
weeks. He was So years old.
Death followed an operation for
a brain infection. Ill for nearly
two months. he was taken to the
hospital December a. Little hope
had been held for his recovery for
several days.
Capt. Sheetz, who was appointed
to the local police force July 3, 1901,
had been in charge of the 10th pre-
cinct since April Is, 1928.
Loss to Department."
1t. Floyd Truscott is high man on
the eligible list of the Police De-
partment now for promotion to
captain and probably will be ap-
pointed early next year to the
vacancy created by Capt. Sheetz's
death. 1t. Truscott recently was
transferred from the 11th to the 9th
precinct, but now is assigned to
headquarters for special duty.
Declaring Capt. Sheetz was the
most beloved man in the whole de-
partment, Inspector L. I. H. Ed
wards, executive personnel officer
for several years, said there never
had been any complaints about
Capt. Sheetz from either the men
under him or the citizens in his
territory.
very efficient and courteous, he
was one of the finest men in the
department" said Maj. Ernest w.
Brown, superintendent of police.
His death is distinct loss to the
Police Department"
Maj. Brown ordered flags on police
buildings flown at half-staff.
Capt. Sheetz was born on March
3, 1880, at Calvary. near Woodstock.
Va. He came to the Capital shortly
before the turn Of the century and
worked while for dairy. Then he
became policeman in 1901, first
being assigned to the third precinct,
where he served for seven years.
Transferred in 1907 to the ninth
precinct, he served there less than
a year before being sent back to
No. 3. where he remained until july
10, 1917. On that day he was pro-
NOTED to sergeant and transferred
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Y. F.W,'s Annual Ball
Slated Tomorrow

The 10Th annual New Year Eve
ball. sponsored by the National
Capital Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will be held tomorrow night
at the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Club, 1015 L street NV, starting at
8 o'clock.
All veterans, their families and
guests, and friends of the organiza-
ton have been invited to attend by
James F. Bird, member of the Enter
tainment Committee. Officials of
the group, headed by William P.
Cavanaugh, post commander, and
Phillip R. Belt, department COM
mander, will attend.
Music will be furnished by the
V. F. w. Departmental Orchestra,
directed by Sergt. Lyman Clements.
John L. De Mayo is chairman of the
Entertainment Committee, which
also includes Mr.. Bird and Mr..
Cavanaugh.