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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26

The Agricultural and Music Depart
ments of the Temperanceville High
School will present a 3-act play en-
titled "Big Brother" in the Auditor
ium of the School on Friday, Feb
ruary End.
Mr.. and Mr.. A. G. Parsons of this
city, formerly of Accomac, Va, an
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Miss Dorothy Gertrude Parsons,
of Norfolk, to Mr.. Franklin Drum
mond Parks, also of Norfolk. The
marriage will take place in February.
Union Sunday evening services will
be observed this Sunday in Bethany
Methodist Church at 1880 o'clock. Rev.
r. B. Stewart, pastor of Pitts Creek
Presbyterian Church, will deliver the
sermon. The public is cordially in
vited to attend these services which
will cover a period of eight weeks.
Miss Grace Dryden is a patient in
the Peninsula General Hospital in
Salisbury, where she underwent an
operation for appendicitis on Tuesday.
Friends here will be glad to know she
is recovering nicely and hopes to- be
able to leave the hospital and return
to her home here at an early date.
At a regular communication OF
Crescent Lodge No. 178 A. F. & A.
M. held Tuesday, January 18th, the
following elective officers were duly
installed: Worshipful Master, D. w.
Shaw, Jr.; Senior Warden, Everett
James: Junior Warden, Orville j.
Mason; Secretary, William H. Dry
den; Treasurer, James r. Tilghman.
Mrs. Victor Rawlins has been ap-
pointed Production chairman of the
Pocomoke Branch, American Red
Cross. Her committee is now engag-
ed in knitting sweaters and making
dresses for Polish refugees. The a.
mount required by Washington so far
is small; the quota for Pocomoke be-
ing five sweaters and four dresses.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Ingersol en-
tertained over the weekend: Mr.. and
Mrs. Bob Ingersoll and daughter,
Gloria Anne, of Salisbury; Miss Har-
riet CLARION of Philadelphia and Mr.
Pratt Ingersoll, of Coatesville. The
latter has resigned his position with
the Woolworth Company in Coates
vile and is spending two weeks with
his parents in this city.
Due to weather conditions the oys-
ter supper, sponsored by the Junior
Aid of Bethany Methodist Church
scheduled to be held in the Social
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26
COWCER-ROSS NUPTIALS
SOLEMNIZED JANUARY II

Miss Geneva Cowger and Mr.. Stew
art Ross were united in the holy bonds
of matrimony, January II, 1910, at
Snow Hill, Md. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Edgar C. Mabe,
pastor of the Snow Hill Christian
Church.
The bride was attended by Miss
Virginia Butler. Mrs. Ross is the
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Cowger, of Princess Anne
and Mr.. Ross is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Zadok Ross, of near Pocomoke
City. Mr.. and Mrs. Ross are residing
in this city.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26

day, January 18th aboard the Steamer
Gov. Harrington at Pocomoke City,
Md.
Mr.. w. H. Holloway of Newark,
Md, gave a interesting talk on "Ex-
tension Service in Worcester County,"
Music was furnished by the "Cut-
Threats" of Maryland, and was en-
joyed alike by members and visitors.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Harley A. Selby and Audrey F. Sell
by, his wife, from Chester H. Rich
arus and wife, real estate containing
IL acres, more or less in the 9Th Elec.
Dist, and on the South side of the
County Road leading from Bishop
vile, Md, to the white Farm" Con-
sideration $40 &c.
Chas C. Richards from Francis
Richards and wife, real estate con-
tanning $40 acre, more or less, in the
9Th Elec. Dist, and on the North side
of the county road leading from the
State Stone Road to Line Hotel. Con-
liberation $40 &c.
VIM. w. McCabe from VIM. H. Nc
Cabe and other, an undivided 2-3 in
terest in real estate on the Westerly
side of Atlantic Ave., in Ocean City,
in the 10th Elec. Dist, and 2 tracts
comomnly called the "Julia Henry
Farm" and the christian lot" con-
tanning respectively 418 90 acres
and 80 acres, more or less, in said
Dist. Consideration $40 &c.
VIM. H. McCabe from VIM. w. Nc
Cabe and others, an undivided 2-3 in
terest in real estate on the Westerly
side of Atlantic Ave., in Ocean City
in the 10th Elec. Dist. Consideration
$40 &c.
Tilghman McCabe from VIM. w. Nc
Cabe and another, real estate on the
Westerly side of Atlantic Ave., in
Ocean City in the 10th Elec. Dist.
Consideration $40 &C.
Chester D. Holland and Evelyn T..
Holland, his wife, from w. Elton
Jones and another, the whitehall
Farm" containing 235 IA acres, more
or less, in the 9th Elec. Dist, and
another on the County Road leading
from Pocomoke City to Little Mills.
Consideration $40 &c.
Lloyd T. McCabe from Levin A. Con
ner, real etatc in Newark, in the 4th
Elec. Dist, at the intersection of Que
ponce Road and Jones Ave. Consid-
GRAFTON $40 &c.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26
UNION MEETINGS IN
BETHANY METH. CHURCH

The Union meeting of the churches
of Pocomoke City will be held in Beth
any Methodist Church Sunday even
ing, January %, with Rev. r. B.
Stewart speaking.
Rev. Lester, the pastor of Bethany
will be the guest speaker at the Pres
byterian Church on Wednesday even
ing at the Union prayer meeting.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26
Local and Rural News

Mrs. ]. Harry Young was hostess
Tuesday to the afternoon bridge club.
Mrs. Garland D. Bull has returned
from a visit with relatives in Nor
folk.
Mrs. A. II. Stevens was hostess to
her bridge club on Friday Of last
week.
Miss Jennie Sooy, of Cape Charles,
has been guest of friends in POGO
1aoke.
Quite a number Of Pocomoke peo-
vle are housed with grippe and severe
colds.
Mrs. Fred Henderson entertained
her bridge club on Thursday evening
hast.
Mrs. Anna G. Mcclure suffered a
sprained wrist in fall on icy pave
nents recently.
Mrs. Lonnie Birmingham is confin-
ed to her home near town with bron-
chial pneumonia.
Mrs. Doris Powell and son have
been guests of Mr.. and Mrs. II. d.
Paradee in Mona.
Mrs. E. J.. Clarke has returned from
a visit with her sister, Mrs. E. B.
Freeman, in Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. H. D. Renninger has returned
from a visit with friends and rela-
tives in Delmar, Del.
Mr.. Jerome Parsons spent several
days this week with Mr.. William Bun
dick in Accomac, Va.
The Senior Aid of Salem Methodist
Church will meet Tuesday evening
January Both, at the home of Mrs
Hattie M. Barnes, Second Street
Members are requested to bring theil
birthday cards to this meeting.
Mr.. Paul Merrill left Wednesday
for Chicago, Illinois, for two weeks
IN the laboratories of the DeFores'
Training Incorporation of Radio
Television and Sound picture work
Of which school he is a graduate.
Local telephone operators were OF
the job Wednesday and were kept
busy answering calls which were
handled with speed and efficiency
There was an unusually heavy load
Of both local and toll calls and COM
munication was established with all
nearby towns with the exception of
Chincoteague, Eastville and Cape
Charles in Virginia.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26
CLINICS
HELD DURING FEBRUARY

The Maryland tuberculosis Assoc
iation, Inc, will hold the following
clinics during the month of February:
February IL, Berlin, Health De-
partment Office, at 10 o'clock in the
morning.
February 10, Crisfield, Health Cen
ter Building at 10 A. M.
February 16, Salisbury, Health De-
|partment Office, Court House, at
o'clock in the morning.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26
COMMANDER S. E.
TROMLEY TO VETERANS
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duty, then to the widows and infant
hildren of such members. The Com
mission is also authorized, for the
purpose of providing higher education
for War Orphans of Maryland Vete-
ans, to expend from the funds under
its control, an amount not to exceed
$4,000 annually for each war orphan
of Maryland, after reaching the age
of Is years.
Commander Tromley stated that he
had observed from a statement of
laims and disbursements of the funds
referred to, for the past three years,
hat during the fiscal year 1898,
thirty-one claims from Worcester
County Veterans, yielded $4,000;
during the fiscal year 1938-39, four
teen claims filed, yielded $4,000 to
veterans of this county; and thus far
in the fiscal year 1939-40, with two
claims filed, $4,000 has been received
by the veterans here. He questions
the possibility of determining from
hese figures alone, whether this sit
uation is the result of better financial
onditions in this county, or the result
f lack of knowledge of our veterans
as to their rights to participate in the
benefits of this annual emergency ap-
preparation.
According to the opinion of an Of
icial of the Commission, he also stat
ed that the veterans of this county
hould be receiving from this fund,
about 100000 annually, under normal
circumstances and conditions; and
hat by failure of Worcester County
veterans to claim this relief, other
ounties are receiving abnormal al
lowances that have run as high as 3d.
10000 in a single year.
The Maryland Veterans Commits
ion has appointed Mr.. Winfield B
Harvard as State Service Officer and
Executive to administer the disbursal
of these direct Relief Funds, to the
nd that no Maryland veterans OF
heir dependents may be neglected;
and the office of the Commission is
located at 2O2 Guilford Avenue, in the
City of Baltimore, where Mr.. Har-
ward is in charge. With a view to
rendering assistance to needy vet
Grams, widows or children Of such vet
Grams Of this county, Commando,
Tromley desires to offer the services
of Worcester Post No. SO, the Ameri-
can Legion, in connection with the
filing of claims for benefits under
this annual State appropriation; and
to this end, applications for this re-
lief will be received by Legionnaires
John I. Timmons, Snow Hill; Fitz'
gerald Crockett, Pocomoke City
Charles C. Collins, Stockton; William
H. Holloway, Newark; and D. Henry
Gordon, Ocean City, for submission
to the Maryland Veterans Commits
sion.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26
SON BORN TO GUERRY'S

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Guerry, Of
Philadelphia, Pa, announce the birth
Of son, Peter Jay, on January 10.
Mrs. Query will be remembered as
the former Miss Estelle Churn.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26

Hall the night of the 18th has been
postponed a week later and will be
held Thursday night, February list.
The public is asked to note the change
in date and to come out and enjoy
an excellent meal.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26

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high class printing.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-01-26
STOCKTON PURITAN
CLUB MET The 18TH

The regular monthly meeting of the
Stockton Ruritan Club was held Tues
Evening star., 1940-05-15

Plan ON Spending the Whole Morning
Here. Use Our Modern Parking
Building. Nominal Charge. lOc for
the first hour. Sc for each additional
half hour or fraction thereafter.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Frfnged HObnail Candle
wick Bed Spreads

One Of the most popular Of all sum.
mer spreads and just 200 to sell
At this price. Covered with hundreds
Of 'powder.puff" tuftints and finished
with knotted fringe. Single and double
sizes in solid colors or off.white.
tepresds, Fifth Floor. The Hecht CO..
Evening star., 1940-05-15
$2.49 Bed Pillows

Biz puffy, cut size 2lxz7.inch pill.
lows filled with 90M surled duck
feathers and 1920 down. Covered in
Guaranteed fsather.proof blus-aad.
white striped cotton tickinls. @
0llova fifth Floor. Ths. Hseht CO.,
Evening star., 1940-12-31

shine shoes all night. A friend of
mine saw a German officer going
down the street with a crowd fol-
lowing him. laughing. The officer
was puzzled and so stuck out his
chest some more. My pal looked
again and saw that somebody had
hooked sign on the Germans back
reading, "Vive de Gaulle."
I have been up in the country
several times visiting some friends
who have two German officers and
their orderlies quartered in the
chateau. The regiment is spread
out, a few men on each farm. and
as there is a pretty servant, several
of the boys drop in at the kitchen
every night They have taught the
girl to speak German and all make
her presents of perfume, silk stock
ings, cigarettes and canned goods
from their sur plies. One night she
said, practicilg her new German,
that Goebbels was a pig Then they
all went white and were going to
report her to the officer.
Three things have been drummed
into every German-to believe their
leaders can do no wrong; that the
Jews are the ruin of the civilized
world, that England's only aim is to
crush Germany. I do not think they
realize that all these conquered
countries hate them. They have a
sincere conviction that the world
will be better for everybody if it is
run in German way. Neither do
they feel that they are stealing, be-
cause they always pay for what they
want and often higher price.
Years of propaganda and censor
ship in Germany have built up a pc
culiar mass mind. They are most
artful in studying the foreign news
papers and picking on a single
pharSe and turning it to their ad-
vantage. I remember the following
extract from recent article in one
OF the German-controlled Paris
newspapers: Even the New York
Times, which is opposed to us, ad-
mitS that -"
A German sailor told me quite
seriously in cafe that these new
food cards were fine thing, as the
poor people would now be sure of
having as much to eat as the rich.
couldn't help answering that before
the Germans had carried off every
thing, everybody in France had been
fairly lucky at getting three square
meals day.
Evening star., 1940-12-31

America can be mechanical to pro-
duce 1900 a day. 1t all depends on
which kind of plane the War and
Navy Departments want. Up to now
they have not standardized on any
design, so it is futile to talk about
500 a day or any other large num-
ber.
Another propaganda that is cur
rent is directed at Ford and the
Bethlehem Steel Co., both of which
companies have been engaged in
disputes with the C. I. o. If the
national policy of America today
is compulsory unionization and if
industry is going to be asked to put
itself into the control of workers
committees as In Russia, 1t is not
to be wondered at that there is
little enthusiasm for plant expan-
sion. If profiteering of all kinds
is to be eliminated and no group
is going to be permitted to exploit
the war for it's own interests,
whether it be capital or labor, then
America will move on to efficient
production. But the President has
not helped to remove the distrust
that exists on this question and,
until he does, the fight will go on.
Nobody will be able to say that any
foreign government inspires such a
controversy. but it can be said that
this kind of a row which slows up
production is exactly what the axis
dictatOrs will wish to see happen.
(Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1940-12-31
Fechner Is EuIogized
In Ceremony at Grove

The first anniversary of the death
of Robert Fechner, first chief of the
Civilian Conservation Corps, was
commemorated at a brief ceremony
at his grave in Arlington National
Cemetery yesterday by his time
associates in the C. C. C.
Representatives of the War, In
terror and Agriculture Departments
and the Veterans Administration
watched as James J. McEntee, pres
ent director of the c. C. c., laid a
wreath on Mr.. Fechner's grave and
paid verbal tribute to the late di-
rector.
Mr.. McEntee said in part:
"Of him President Roosevelt said
that he brought to the public service
not only fine administrative ability,
but great vision and sincerity. The
example he set should act as a guide
to all of US who are carrying on this
work"
Evening star., 1940-12-31
Churchill Model for John Bull,
Embodies All Britoin's Hopes
Prime Minister, Once Called Eccentric
Ounce, Now Acclaimed as Genius

vate conversation and gives the
impression of thinking aloud as he
talks ramblingly, interjecting wise
crack now and then with just
twinkle in his blue eyes.
Never Muffs Punch Line.
Mr.. Churchill never laughs at his
own quips, but his orators sense of
timing is acutely trained and he
never muffs punch line. Often he
uses a short, bald Anglo-Saxon
term or American slang-seemingl
speaking his mind without second
thought-and then corrects himself
by translation into diplomatic Ian
guage.
Once he used the word rating;
then said, II should have said fail
ing to live up to commitments
Shortly after Germany's Goering
was made a field marshal, Mr..
Churchill referred to him in Com
mons as general" Then, with
elaborate sarcasm, he said, Beg par
don-Field Marshal Gen. Goering
His humor currently is of the po-
litical, crushing club variety. rather
than the rapier thrust of wit. In
report to Commons December 10,
he said he didn't like to compare
Adolf Hitler with Napoleon because
Il don't like to insult the dead"
At the time he was whipped by
the two suffragetteS, the women
chained themselves in Downing
street and said they would stay
there until women were given
vote. He snorted:
"A man nigh as well chain him
self to the railings of st. Thomas
Hospital and say he won't leave
until he has a baby"
Backed Many Lost Causes.
But he has backed many a lost
cause. AS he likes to say of Brit
ain, he often seemed to "lose every
battle save the last"
He has been in and out of Office.
in and out of parties, in and out
of public favor, but always the CEN
ter Of turmoil and attention. Brit
1sh politicians of the past regarded
him as an enfant terrible and dis
liked his propensity for jumping
flat-footed into the middle of con-
troversies.
Many times the political wise
acres have predicted the end of his
meteoric career, as when he vainly
supported King Edward VIII
against Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin's successful plans for his
abdication.
But always Mr.. Churchill came
back bigger than ever, until today
he is the empires leader and in
Spiration, popular to the point of
adulation.
He might add a final word of his
own. On one occasion, in response
to fulsome praise by a lady ad-
mirer for his accomplishments he
said:
But you have forgotten my most
brilliant achievement-my ability to
persuade my wife to marry me-"
Evening star., 1940-12-31

side roads, as the main roads were
reserved for troop movements. AL
ready the roads were lined with signs
in German and it was only a week
after they had entered Paris.
I got back to Paris around June %
The blackout was on and also the
curfew, which put everybody to bed
at IL o'clock That meant cafes
closed around 10. Strict orders
seemed to have been given for the
NaI troops to do all in their power
to make friends with the French
During the first two months I did
NOT see a single soldier in uniform
drunk in public. About the same
crowd came in every night for their
evening beer at my cafe and when
they found out that I was American
and spoke German, they all tried to
talk to me.
There was no boaStful spirit
which you would normally expect
from an army that had run over
France in three weeks. They
seemed sort of ashamed of them
selves, like the kid that has been
caught stealing cookies, and sort of
apologetic for having messed up our
lives.
A few weeks later crowd of
workmen in civilian clothes, with
only armbands on to show that they
belonged to the German army, hit
town. They were quartered in one
of the finest houses in Paris and ap-
parently stopped in every pub on
the way home and got drunk
aplenty. For about week, until
they got settled down, you used to
see them holding up every tree along
the avenue.
City Full of Agents.
The discipline in the German
army is strict. On the streets the
soldiers stand straight, are well
shaved, keep their coats buttoned up
and salute their officers and even
on-commissioned officers. They
salute even when the officer is on the
other side of the street. They never
walk down the street with cigarettes
in their mouths.
Incidents are bound to crop up
AS food gets scarcer and life more
dreary, the French and foreigners
living in Paris are getting a chip on
their shoulders. The restaurants
are full of Gestapo agents in civilian
clothes who speak perfect French
and are listening in. They seem to
make practice of going first TO one
restaurant and then another
They get you into a conversation
and urge you on to abuse the Ger
mans and then crack down on you
I was speaking English with my
family in a restaurant recently and
got in an argument with crowd of
them on the way out. When they
found out I was an American, one
of the older ones told the rest to
pipe down.
Punishment for SassinesS.
The NaZi cars drive recklessly
through the streets and cut the
corners so close that they nearly
take the buttons off your vest This
and flying ,ots of big planes very
low back and forth over Paris seem
to be part of their act to impress
you with the might of the German
Army. They parade artillery across
town from time to time.
Punishment for getting sassy to
the Germans is for the women to
peel potatoes and for the men to