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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-09-29
CRISFIELD LANE TO BE
ADDED TO MAIN LINE

Messrs. Walter G. McCready, Pres
ident and Fred H. Waters and Chas.
M. Fontaine, as members Of the Board
of Somerset County Commissioners,
took up the consideration Of adding
the private road, west of the Princess
Anne Town outskirts, known as Girls
field Lane, to the road system Of the
county, at their meeting in the Court
House last week.
Crisfield Lane connects the Mt. Yer
non and Deals Island State highways
and has become widely used, although
it has always remained private road
since it was laid out in 1870, by Mr..
John w. Crisfield through his ex-
tensive estate.
Because travel in winter would deep
ly rut the road it has been the custom
Of the owners to bar it from general
traffic during the wet months Of the
year.
Last week, at the request Of the
owners, the County Commissioners a.
greed to take over the lane, which is
more than a mile long, if the rights
of way could be decided to the county
free of charge.
The present residents on the lane
are Messrs. Omar J. Jones, Norman
Dryden, Ralph Raush, and William H.
Dashiell.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-09-29
YOUNG MAN CHARGED
WITH EXTORTION CRIME

Charles Emory Stewart, aged %
years, of Laurel, hosiery plant worker
of that town, who is alleged to have
mailed to former Magistrate James K.
Phillips and his father, Alexander
Stewart, both Of Seaford, letter on
August %, demanding that $4,000
in cash be left at the Seaford post
office under threats Of bodily harm"
and who was arrested the same day
by State Detective Charles Elwood
Wilkins Of Georgetown, was given a
hearing before Magistrate w. Elwood
Wright, of Georgetown on Monday
and held in $1,000 bail for the Oc-
tober term Of Court Of General Ses-
sions. Howard Lane, Of Seaford, be-
came surety. The letter to his father
and former Magistrate Phillips was
mailed at Laurel and at once authori-
ties at Georgetown are said to have
been notified, which resulted in Stew
art being apprhended.
Stewart, who was married on July
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-09-29
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
GOLD RING FOUND
IN HEART OF TREE

A new book called Famous Trees"
has been issued, and as there is much
discussion of 1.-THE Wye Oak recently,
the book is interesting for it describes
the Wye Oak and also the Starr-beech
tree.
There is a picture of the Wye Oak
and it's dimensions are well known.
Of the Starrbeech it says it has a
10 1-2 foot circumference with height
of S5 feet and spread of 81 feet as
measured by the State Forester in
1928.
The book describes another tree at
Willoughby on the Talbot side which
has a gold ring in its heart. While
workmen were cutting railroad ties
near Willoughby, they discovered a
gold ring in the heart of the tree.
It is supposed that the ring had been
lost in the woods many years be-
fore it was found in its strange hid
ing place and that the tree was the
sprout of an acorn the ring became
encircled around it.
It is one of the strangest things
that ever happened to tree, the
book says, and it has seldom been
known before.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-09-29
fredericksburg SEAFORD
ROAD PETITIONED FOR

A Caroline County delegation head
ed by State Senator Wilmer Fell Da-
Wis on Tuesday Of last week asked the
State Roads Commission to build "a
miles of new road from fredericksburg
to the Delaware State line. The road
would link with a Delaware road lead
ing to Seaford.
Ezra B. Whitman, chairman Of the
commission said he told the delegation
the commission had only a limited
amount Of money for new construction
but would build the road if any money
were left over this year.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-09-29

A, according to officers, lived at Lau-
rel with his mother-in-law, Mrs. An
ME Matthews.
So far as can be learned, it is not
known what kind Of a charge will be
placed against him when the grand
jury meets on October 2.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-09-29

Lumpy or wrinkled ironing board
covers will mark silks, woolens and
artificial fabrics.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-09-29

A fruit salad is easy to eat and re-
freshing after large meal.
Evening star., 1939-06-03
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,

NEW YORK. June 3-Obser-
vation ward: The Erie (Pa.) ball
orchard is only a block away from
Raspberry street. The Oklahoma
Golf Association has hung out
the mo crapshooting" sign at all
tournaments. Ernie Kish, Ohio
u, outtielder, has turned down
three offers to play major league
ball. Joe Di Maggie says he is
ready to go, but another Joe INC
Carthy) hates to break up a win
ming combination to get a guy
like Di Mag in there. Connie
Mack, jr.. who may succeed his
dad some day, is pitching for a
Philadelphia soft ball team.
Irons and irony: Out at the
Goodall golf Tournament a photog-
rapher was caught showing Hor-
ton Smith how to hold a club in
posing for a picture. Ouch!
Sock market: Why don't they
throw Bob Pastor in there VS.. Joe
Louis in September if Lou Nova
decides on another year of
schooling? Is that hate between
the rival managers still on? An
other 1910 white hope is young
Billy Conn. He's just had his
tonsils removed and the docs tell
him he'll pick up 20 pounds and
be full ll-f1edged heavy before he
knows it. OF course, the we'll
known Mr.. Galento can gum
Evening star., 1939-06-03
A BLEEDING Face in Your Living Room

We wouldn't know what the reaction of the general public will be to
the evion the radio but the possibilities OBJ
unlimited The BaerNova fight instance might
the juvenile provided busters what
called
from might we'll become the lullaby for the kdd
AS indicated by the public Baer Nova two of the
npt important heavyweight fight but the
time of the bloodest battles of the modern The
badly mulated like smack
living the kddes could be singular The
sterho between of and sprobab will change whisky
bed. that kind sight.
When and televon for keepsas the gadget wont
should boxing When he through selling the rights
fellow like Mr. Jacobs hold fights hotel still
customers.
Evening star., 1939-06-03
GeIbert's Spirit, Punch Pushing
Travis Out of Job With Mats;
Appleton on Slippery Path

dribbled away from him and Bejma
was safe. In the dressing room after
the game Colbert surveyed his dam
aged arm and said. simply, That
guy came in aWfully high on me-
I'll have to remember that" So, it
seems, Bejma is ticketed to be
touched up trif1e.
Appleton Losing Caste.
Less heartening, however, have
been the recent performances of
Pete Appleton. relief pitcher whose
inefective,labor has made him drift
precariously close to being clipped
from the Mats. One more exhibi-
ton similar to that he hurled
here yesterday and Pete may be nib
bling at blue plate dinners.
Manager Bucky Harris was one
degree below the boiling point fol-
lowing that short service of Apple
tons. Pete relieved the youthful Joe
Haynes In the eighth with the score
tied at SIS, Luke Appling perched
on second, Mike Kreevich on first
and nobody out.
Pete scooped up Marvin Owens
attempted sacrifice and whipped it
to Buddy Lewis at third base to
force Appling. Then Pinch hitter
Henry Steinbacher drilled into a
force play at second. That was very
excellent, but what followed was
slightly less than that in the esti-
nation of Harris.
For Appleton walked Pitcher
Thornton Lee and then pitched a
single to Bejma, scoring Kreevich
and Steinbacher with what repre-
sented the winning margin.
Alexandra Carrasquel was slated to
hurl the series finale here today
The Mats will play a double-header
tomorrow at St. Louis.
Otto and Ossie Together.
Nat notes:
Otto Bluege, brother of the Mats
Ossie, worked out with Washington
yesterday. Formerly with the Gin
cinnati Reds, Otto currently is out
OF baseball due to strained shoulder
muscles and plans to rest and at
tempt comeback next spring.
Buddy Lewis went So games with
the Mats this year without collecting
a home run. He smashed one
Thursday and again yesterday, how
ever, and both were mighty clouts.
Travis and Taft Wright will rep
resent the Mats at Cooperstown,
N. Y, June IL, when major league
players will choose up sides and play
few innings as part of baseball's S
centennial celebration.
Elmer Gedeon, the University of
Michigan first baseman and crack
hurdler, was signed. by the Mats at
the suggestion of Bottle Cox, Wash
ington umpire, who saw him play
against Maryland.
Evening star., 1939-06-03
GIuttonous Whitehead
Traded 10 Browns
For Marcum
By the Associated Press.

by t!le associated HreSS.
CHICAGO, June 3.-John White
head finally ate his way off the
payroll of the Chicago White Sox.
The Sox traded the bulky right
handler to the St. Louis Browns last
night for John Marcum. another
rignt-hander whose in-and-out big
league record somewhat parallels
Whitehead's.
Whitehead came up from Dallas
of the Texas League in 1885 and
has been with the White Sox since,
winning Al games and losing As
This season he had won none and
lost three.
Marcum broke in with the Phila-
delphia Athletics in 1888. He won
II and lost IL. his best record, in
1885. The next three years he
played with Boston before being
traded to the Browns last winter
His six-year record is 60 won, SIS
lost. Both are % years old.
Whitehead has been know as a
heavy eater ever since he joined
the Sox. many observers agreeing
he would be fine pitcher if he
kept his weight down.
Evening star., 1939-06-03
Memorial Dedication
AT Notre Dame Vast
Tribute 10 Rockne
Grid Teammates of Lote
Coach in Ceremony at
Field House Today
BY the Associated Press.

SOUTH BEND. Ind. June 3-To
set aside memorial of action to a
man whose restless spirit still per-
vades the University of Notre Dame,
graduates and friends gathered to-
Gay for the formal dedication of
the Rockne Memorial Field House.
The dedication of the 100000 me-
mortal to the late Knute K. Rockne,
Notre Dame athletic director and
football coach, is one of the high
lights Of the university's 95th an
nual commencement. Rockne was
killed in plane crash in 1881.
The 182-by-2l0-foot Gothic struc-
ture was designed to provide a place
for inter-hall athletics. in which
Rockne, as athletic director, was
intensely interested.
Field House Fully Equipped.
1t contains a 75-foot swimming
pool and l4-foot beginners pool;
II courts for handball and squash;
two regulation basketball courts;
sun lamp room; general exercise
rooms with apparatus for correction
gymnastics: quarters for boxing and
wrestling: badminton, tennis and
volley ball courts, locker rooms and
golf facilities.
In the immense foyer is space for
Notre Danes athletic trophies and
a place for the Book of Memory"
which will contain the names of all
who contributed to the memorial.
Rockne's teammates when he
played football as an undergraduate
will be special guests of the uni
versity at the dedication.
Mrs. Bonnie Skiles Rockne. widow
OF the coach, and Rockne's two sons
will be on the speakers platform.
Speakers List Crowded.
Speakers viii Include Arch Ward,
sports editor of the Chicago Tribune:
the Rev. John F. OHara. president
OF Notre Dame: Maj. John L. Grif-
lth. Big Ten commissioner: Charles
E. tGus) Dorais, University of De-
troit athletic director, who will pre-
sent Rockne's teammates: Frank E.
Herring. first official Notre Dame
coach. and now university trustee,
and Elmer F. Layden. the present
athletic director.
The dedicatory ceremonies will be
broadcast over the Mutual Broad
casting System.
Evening star., 1939-06-03
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

CHICAGO, June Sit may not
be cricket to boot a guy while he's
down, but Charley Colbert. the Mats
spiffy and spectacular shortstop. is
in the process of kicking Cecil Travis.
the fellow who previously patroled
that territory, out of job.
Charley, at least. hasn't stymied
any ideas Prexy Clark Griffith has
harbored concerning the trading of
Travis. For with each succeeding
appearance Charley seems to offer
convincing evidence the Mats need
not culver in contemplating a deal
which would strip them of Cecils
services.
The gentlemanly Colbert, beneath
whose sartorial splendor and mild
manners hides the heart of a cham
pion, has been clicking at every op-
portunity. A more polished fielder
than Travis, he has been hitting at a
clip which currently is 1868 and
showing no signs of diminishing.
Meanwhile Travis, hit hard by
sieges of flu and grippe. has been off
stride His fielding has been erratic
and his hitting less than sensational.
With an average of .285, Cecil is
smacking some 40 or so points below
what the Mats have come to expect
of him.
Colbert, though. has been more
brilliant than Griffith had hoped for
in his widest dreams when he
plucked him from Toledo in the
minor league draft. At present he
is playing with charley horse. In
the past two days he has been hit
hard by pitched ball and spiked
on the left arm. but he isn't COM
planning. He relishes the chance of
snatching regular job.
Tasted Champagne and Dregs.
Charley's comeback has some
thing of a Cinderella slant, but
there is no indication the clock is
due to strike midnight on his ca
reer any time soon. That clock did
get around to 11:59 pm. when
Charley nearly lost his left leg in a
hunting accident, but the guys
gameness has pulled him back.
There isn't an ounce of cynicism
in Gelbert's trim frame. but, by the
same token, he isn't overly senti-
mental. He's been to the top as a
World Series hero and gradually he
has fought his way back to major
league competition from the minor
league depths on what amounts to
leg and a half Chronic COM
planners are learning to steer clear
of him.
In spring training with the Mats
all he asked was a chance. He's
getting it and even his most severe
critic, if he has one, will admit he's
making good. A line-drive hitter,
Charley currently is swatting SO
points better than Travis, and there
isn't a player on the club with more
spirit.
1t was a bit ironical that Colbert
was charged with an error here yes
terday as the White Sox trimmed
the Mats, Us. Charley made a
diving catch of Catcher Rick Fer
rell's throw and threw himself into
the .>path of Ollie Bejma, stealing
second in the seventh.
Umpire MCGOWAN waved out Bel
ma, but Ollie's left foot collidec
with Charley's left arm and the bal
Evening star., 1939-06-03
Win, Lose or Draw
Photo Finish for BOXING
By FRANCIS {. STAN,
Star Staff Correspondent.

NEW YORK, 3.-They laughed
threatened
Of the bosous They laughed aWmaker
himself
Jacobs if
the Baer-Lou
have Boxing drawing
He limited 100000 the
Nova
publicity AS
night of the baseball
Chicago Cubs and drew a
Dodgers Cubs fail fight
Evening star., 1939-06-03
Oklahoma Golf Association Puts Ban on Cropshooting
Mrs. Boer Asks Max Quit for Keeps Both es School Come

box score showed: Ball game,
32574 fans; fight, 1926 addicts.
Heard and seen: Earl Averill
is the hard-hitting outfielder the
Dodgers tried to get-but didn't
out of the American League.
Mrs. Max Baer has asked Max to
hang 'em up for keeps this time.
The Miami area will send %
players TOO miles to Atlanta for
the Southern tennis champion
ships which is one way to take
sock at that California monopoly.
With Joe Gordon a fixture, the
Yanks may let the Indians have
Gerry Priddy, starring at second
base for Kansas City.
One for the book: If this isn't
old, it's the best baseball story
of the year. The Lee High and
Grandville ball teams of Grand
Rapids, Mich. played a double no
hitter. Lee High won, FL. All
the runs were scored on walks
and sacrifices. If scouts are in
terested, the pitchers were Siet-
sema for Lee High and Verberg
and Austin for Grandville.
Evening star., 1939-06-03
Tunney Mentor
Refutes Nova
Comparison
Lou Is Several Years
From Genes Class,
Says Bronson
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, June 3-Jimmie
Bronson, the man who discovered
Gene Tunney when the future
champion was upholding the honor
of the Marines in the prize rings
of postwar France, regrets the
tendency to compare Lou Nova with
his former protege.
Jimmie, one of the rare gentle
men of the fight game, watched Lou
carefully as he jabbed and ripped
his way to bloody victory over
Max Baer Thursday night. He
said he liked the young Californian
very much, but couldn't see any
resemblance between him and the
Tunney who beat Jack Dempsey
at Philadelphia and Chicago.
What people keep on forgetting
about Tunney,' said Bronson, lis
that he was one of the greatest
defensive fighters who ever lived
Baer wouldn't have hit him in a
month with the right hand he was
bouncing off Nova's jaw
Synthetic Like Gene.
"Nova has this much in COM
mon with Tunney: He is a syn
thetic, or made" fighter, and he
has that same belief in his destiny
that Gene had. But he is several
years away from being the fighter
Gene was at his peak, and I doubt
that he ever can achieve Tunneys
defensive skill.
They kidded Tunney, but he was
exceptionally smart. He could make
the other man fight his kind of
fight every time, and he was devil
ishly hard to hit. You must re-
member. too, that it was 1919
when he was fighting in France
and 1926 when he won the title
from Dempsey.
compared to Nova at his present
stage, Gene was a veteran when
he reached the top. All those years
he lived cleanly like Nova is doing
i now and worked constantly to i'm
prove his boxing. That's the same
road Nova should travel. BY no
means should he be put in the ring
with a man like Joe Louis this year
Nova Proves He's Game.
Certainly he shook off Baer's
rights and came back fighting He
is game Perhaps Louis can hit him
no harder than Max did. But Max
hurt him and then let him get
away. When Louis hits and hurts
a man there is no getting away.
Joe finishes him off"
Bronson's opinion of the newest
white hope" is given at length be-
cause it happens to reflect the
consensus of local fight characters,
of whom Jimmie is by long odds
the most intelligent and least likely
to give man a wrong steer.
1t may be noted that Bronson.
like practically all the experts,
| seems to take it for granted that
Louis will knock the wadding out of
Galento later this month. This is
very disgusting to Joe Jacobs, man.
ager and shrill spokesman for the
challenger.
They better quit worrying about
what this Louis is going to do to
anybody after June 28," said Joe,
and start wondering bow they're
going to dodge Tony. I'm telling
you Tony is going to belt that guy
right out of the ring"
He refused to promise he was
telling us that for the last time.
Evening star., 1939-06-03
Louis -GoIento Doesn't Figure to Drow

what we We're gong to that not be
dip its finger the all The
naturally Obviously
less for Nova The
wealth all blown
a
On this schedule between
The June 28 will
boxing history the
Gaeno necessarily
the odds heavily favor of the thing
We claims
the the
The
climbed the Around the they hawking
of Gento so In this contribution
determination. he many
have died past the
Evening star., 1939-06-03
Tony, 1t Seemed, Wanted to Be AmiobIe

We predicting that Tony will make
OF his life But while Galeno standing
called Louis the Negro climbed through
to shake their hands Tony extended hand
him full of life cold
pugist
champion
slipper.
his Louis handed him another
handshake
ma a we hada
a
heavily The Jersey
priced
matching Ton
the Trylon will fall
crush the big round ball like empty egghe And doesn't
O Perisphere?
Evening star., 1939-06-03
Londos-GoIden Terror
Bout on Top Tonight

Twice postponed because Of rain,
the Londos-Golden Terror wrestling
match will be staged tongiht at
Griffith Stadium, weather permit
ting, with the entire supporting card
held over. Because of brisk ad-
vance sale Promoter Joe Turner
vetoed a plan to bring the pachy-
derms indoors. The first bout is
scheduled for 8 80 o'clock with Clara
Mortenson engaging Betty Bowman.
Evening star., 1939-06-03
East Takes Command
In Major Batting
For First Time
Dickey, Yonks; Arnovich.
PhiIs, Now Showing Way
To Bietime Hitters
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 3.-For the
first time this season the major
league batting leadership came to
rest during the week with the East
ern clubs as Bill Dickey of the New
York Yankees inflated his average
II points to take over the American
League pace and Moe Arnovich of
the Phillies moved into the National
League lead.
Both players were close to the
leaders all spring, but couldn't
match the early rush of ST. Louis,
Cincinnati and Chicago hitters.
Including games up to and includ-
ing Friday, Dickey had percentage
of 372 compared with the 1855 which
landed him in sixth place a week
ago.
Arnovich also jumped, but hadn t
so far to CO. He was in second place
last week with .374 and now has a
377 mark.
Fall From First.
Mel Mazzero of the Browns, an
early hitting leader, slumped out of
the first 10 American I,eaguers al
together along with Ken Keltner OF
Cleveland and Dee Miles of the
Philadelphia Athletics.
Four changes in the National
League saw Joe Medwick of the
Cardinals, Augie Galan of the Chi
cago Cubs, Lee Handley of Pitts
burgh and Joe Demaree of the New
York Giants fade from the select
group.
The first 10 in each lea ol1e.
Evening star., 1939-06-03
TeIevision to Help the Boxing Business

But momenmagnarV otherWlSels of
uity could
he making battle.
radio telecast
although Jacobs
have beenou O 3-mi lim n
From all able gather first fight eevison
licking radio,
Around telecast of the Baer
realize
shell
a
Michael will
the boxing
they
nostrl
Evening star., 1939-06-03
Blasting Way Toward National League Pennnt With Time Bombs
Sturs Yesterday
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Ollie Bejma, White Sox-His
single with bases loaded in
eighth provided winning margin
over Senators.
Frank Mccormick and Ernie
lombard, Reds-former singled
in one run and latter homered
with two on base in 18th inning
for 40 victory over Bees.
Burgess Whitehead, Giants
Batted in two runs with single
and sacrifice besides fielding nihe
chances perfectly in helping beat
Cardinals.
Tommy Heinrich. Yankees
Hit home run and three singles
to bat in four runs against In
dians.
Tommy Bridges, Tigers-Went
to mound when Red Sox threat
ened in ninth and saved a 8-5 VIC
tory for Detroit.