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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-05-03
WOMAN FOUND CHOKED
TO DEATH IN VIRGINIA

The spectacle of a Negro woman
choked to death confronted James
Massey, farmer of near Stewards
Wharf, Va, Saturday, April 20, as
he went to the home of the colored
woman who had been doing the laun-
dry for the Massey family for some
time. The woman was kneeling be-
side the bed with bruises on her face
and neck, where finger nail prints
were found, but with no other injur-
les to the body. The negro woman
was Rosie Collins, about IS years of
age.
According to a story related by
Sheriff George Turner, the murder
likely occurred late Friday night of
that week on the farm tenanted by
Mr.. Massey, and David Baily, broth
er of Dorsey Bailey, common-law hus-
band of Rosie Collins is being held
for the murder.
Trouble, it was reported, started
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-05-03
MOTOR TOURING
IS EXPECTED TO
REACH MAXIMUM

Motor touring in this state is ex-
pected to reach a new high this year,
which has been proclaimed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Gravel America
Year." Paul E. L. Burgoyne, local
manager of the ESQ Marketers, pre-
dicted in announcing the plans of the
Esso Touring Service for facilitating
motor travel throughout the coming
automobile touring season. Mr.. Bur-
goyne said that through some $4,000
ESQ dealer stations road maps,
routes, touring information and other
aids to the motor traveller will be
available. In addition, the ESQ Mar
keters will publish monthly ESQ Road
News, a tabloid-size publication con-
tanning detour map, calendar OF
coming events and pictures and ar
ticles of interest to motor tourists
and those planning motor trips. For
the first time ESQ Road News will
be published in colors.
''Last year more than 238,000 re-
quests for touring information of
various kinds were handled through
the ESQ Touring Service" Mr.. Bur-
goyne pointed out. "This was an in
crease over 1888 of approximately 15
per cent. From present indications
inquiries will be even heavier this.
year. All indications point to 1910
breaking all records for motor travel.
The Worlds Fair at New York, the
San Francisco Exposition and the i'm
petus lent to travel in this country by
the war in Europe will boost motor
touring here. Good roads, many new
cars and promotional activities of re-
sorts, automobile clubs and travel
groups will also spur motor travel.
President Roosevelt's formal action
in proclaiming 1910 Travel America
Year and urging our own citizens and
friends from other lands to join in
a great travel movement has already
stimulated public interest in travel.
GAS in previous years motorists in
this section can obtain touring re-
quest cards at any ESQ dealers sta
ton. They have only to fill these
out and drop them in mail box to
receive maps, routes and any other
requested touring information they
require"
Mr.. Burgoyne said that the ESQ
Touring Service, now in its fourteenth
year, has offices in New York, Wash
ington, and New Orleans. It's own
corps of field men travel continually
to keep it's information up to date
and are aided by states, counties,
cities, chambers of commerce and in
dividuals throughout the country.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-05-03
ORCESTER DEMOCRAT, POCOMOKE CITY. MARYLA

home on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock, interment in Bates Memorial
Methodist cemetery. The pallbearers
were: Messrs. George H. Corddry, ST.,
]. Herman Perdue, ST., Sidney Bur-
roughs, Frank Truitt, J. o. Byrd and
Walter w. Price.
Mrs. D. Frank Fooks, Mrs. William
F. Johnson will attend bridge sup
per given by Miss Alice Young and
Miss Nettie Barnes at Pocomoke
Hotel, in Pocomoke, this Friday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Sturgis, of Will
mington, spent the weekend with
Mrs. Bessie Sturgis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Cherrix, Mr..
and Mrs. Victor Dickerson and daugh-
ter, and Mrs. Elton Sirman spent Sun
day at Chestertown and Betterton,
Md.
Miss Marjorie Godfrey spent the
weekend with. her aunt, Mrs. Cora
Godfrey in Indiantown.
Miss Adele Dixon of University
of Maryland, College Park, spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Ards.
Mr.. Clarence Vincent is in PENN
sula General Hospital, Salisbury, for
treatment.
Mrs. Walter T. Onley entertained
at bridge supper on Tuesday evening.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-05-03
Snow Hill News

Mr.. and Mrs. j. Herman Allender,
Of Westminster, Md, spent the week
end with Mr.. Allender's sister, Mrs.
Charles w. Corddry and Mr.. Corddry.
Mrs. Allender remained for a longer
visit.
Mrs. Thomas F. Johnson is visiting
Judge and Mrs. William F.. Johnson
this week after visiting relatives and
friends in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Senator and Mrs. johnson expect to
open their home at South Point Farm
in the near future.
Miss Ann Jones, of Salisbury spent
the weekend with her mother, Mrs
Lucille Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Shockley and
son, Lester D., visited friends in
Stockton, on Sunday.
Mrs. Paul Jones, Mrs. Thomas
Nears, Miss Sarah Moore Hayward
Miss Rebecca Bennett, Miss Anna
Jones, Miss Margaret Wilson, Miss
Elma Shockley and Miss Virginia
Ward attended the dedication of the
Governor Richie highway in Balti-
more on Saturday.
Miss Evelyn Shockley entertained a
few relatives at dinner party or
Wednesday at Stevens Restaurant in
honor of her birthday.
Several teachers from Snow Hill
High School attended the annual ban
gut Of the Worcester County Teach
ers Association at the Atlantic Hotel
in Berlin, on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwyn Cooper, OF
Cape Charles spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Cooper.
Mrs. William H. Price is spending
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-05-03

after Rosie had sold some liquor, and
had not turned the money over to Da-
vid. There were some words at
Rosie's home and as the party dis
banded only David Bailey and the wo-
man were left at the house. Others
in the party earlier that night besides
Rosie, her husband and his brother,
were Dorsey Cutler and Donbella
Lewis.
Mr.. Massey, Saturday morning not
flied county officials and Deputy
Sheriff John Womble and State Troop
er Odds were assigned to the case and
in the meantime DR.. Joseph Gladstone
was summoned, pronouncing the wo-
man dead from violent choking. The
officers rounded up those in the party
and about eleven o'clock all had been
arrested and the hearing was held
before Judge Williams, Monday morn
ing at Eastville.
Dorsey Bailey was tried on plea of
guilty and given $4,000 and six
months in Jail for possession of still
and equipment, for in a search in the
community for the three men and
women, a still was found in the neigh
borhood of the Bailey home, by the
officers.
David Bailey, charged with choking
to death Rosa Collins, is being held in
the Eastville Jail for the grand jury
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-05-03

Whatcoat Methodist Church entertain
ed at covered dish supper on We'd
nesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Sweeten of Will
mington, spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Ohio w. Wilson.
Several from here attended the last
Cotillion Dance of the season at Pub
lie Landing on Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Minnie Courtney, of Sails
bury is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Otho
Wilson, this week.
Miss Hattie Williams and Mr.. Wal
ter Williams spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. George Toppin in Rehoboth
Del.
Miss Mary Francis Ballard of Ex-
more, Va, and Mr.. William Sherkey
of Washington, spent the weekend
with Mrs. William Sherkey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Buhr, of New
York spent the weekend with Mrs.
Buhr's mother, Mrs. Charles E. Thigh
man.
Miss Esther Wilson, of Wilmington
will come this Saturday to stay until
her wedding on May 18th to Mr.. Paul
Habbert, of Wilmington, with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ohio Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughn Godfrey and
children, of Nassawango, Mr.. and
Mrs. Maurice Godfrey and Miss Elma
Bradford, of Newark spent Sunday
with Mrs. Cora Godfrey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Collins enter
tanned at a dinner party on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Carmean and
daughter, Mary, of Norristown, Pa,
spent the weekend with relatives
here.
Mrs. Charles Anderson returned to
her home in Springfield, Mass, on
Sunday after visiting Miss Rose Por-
ter.
Miss Eta Jones of Philadelphia
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ludlum, of
Ocean City, visited Mrs. William H
Jones, on Sunday.
Mr.. William L. Purnell, &c years
of age, died at his home in Snow Hill
at two o'clock, Monday morning, af-
ter a short illness. He was stricken
with stroke of paralysis on Wednes-
day from which he never rallied. The
deceased is the son of the late Steph.
en- L. and Sallie A. Purnell of Snow
Hill. He is survived by his widow
who was Miss Nora Lewis, before he,
marriage and two sons, Mr.. Randall
Purnell, of Snow Hill and Mr.. Ralph
Purnell, of Wilmington, and three
daughters, Mrs. Thomas M. Dell, Of
Annapolis, Mrs. Henry Muller, Of Will
mington and Mrs. Gorden Fullingtor
of Salisbury. He is also survived by
one brother, Mr.. George Purnell, Of
Laurel, Del, and two sisters, Mrs
Ernest Purnll and Miss Annie Purnel
of Laurel, Del. Funeral services con
Quoted by Rev. Elmer Shields at the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-05-03

guests, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Herman AL
lender of Westminster.
Mrs. Charles E. Hill entertained
the All Hallows Guild on Monday
evening.
Mrs. Charles Bowen and daughter,
Charlotte, of Salisbury, spent the
weekend with Mrs. Fred Hales.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mackall have re-
turned to Mclean, Va, after visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Harris S. Corddry.
Edward Corddry is improving after
a weeks illness.
The Young Peoples Aid Society, of
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-05-03
and Dorsey Cutler and Donzella Lew
is were released.

A dripping faucet needs washer;
moderate force on the handle of a
faucet in good repair should always
be sufficient to shut off the flow.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-05-03

This smary outdoors indoors! AT
Salisbury Maryland you will find a the comforts of home" for
your porch garden Comfortable waterrepeent elders
chairs chair sets will add hours happiness
ing the hot summer months.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-26
Our New Electric Portable

Mississippi has now substituted the electric
chair for hanging on the gallows. Instead of
buying a chair and installing it permanently
at the state prison, however, we had a spe-
cial portable chair made so that it could be
carried around from county to county where
ever it happened to be needed.
Not content with this ridiculous provision
for its use we see by the papers where it has
been on display on the capitol lawn in jack
son for some time and school children and
babes in arms are brought to see it.
Undoubtedly the officials responsible for
such an outrageous distasteful appeal to the
baser senses of our people would be glad to
let the public sit in the chair to 'see how
it feels"
The state of Mississippi should never have
bought a portable chair in the first place.
But since we have one it does seem that the
only decent thing to do would be to put it a
way as quietly as possible until it has to be
used.
Certainly an electric chair in which men
lose their lives is not a toy to be examined by
a curious public. The whole thing is re-
voting. 81.
Since writing the above it has come to our
attention that the persons delivering the cleo
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-26
"BEHIND THE SCENES IN
AMERICAN BUSINESS"
By John Croddock

New York, Sept. 23-Business-I seems to be
pretty definite now that business has moved into
what might be ter med the unanimous phase" Every
index is going up. Steel operations went up another
point, to 3d. per cent of capacity; automobile out
put increased last week by "a, 200 cars-proof that
the motor-makers are boosting production into high
gear despite the delay of the Change over" period
of new models. Improvement in the general situation
is well illustrated by the steady expansion of car
loadings in the miscellaneous class; that is, man.
ufactured and semi-manufactured goods, as dis
tinguished from raw materials. Last week such load
ings reached = new high since last November. From
now on, the greater risks for business will be on the
side Of over-cautiousness and understanding, rather
than the opposite. For as the defense program picks
up, there will be delays and shortages in both men
and materials. Thus low inventories are a greater
hazard than high ones, because as prices rise, re-
placement costs advance-and this applies also in the
matter of skilled labor.
Washington-The Wages and Hours division is
stepping up the tempo of its enforcement drive with
some new techniques, among them a plain for en-
rolling the aid of bankers in obtaining compliance, by
their customers Banks are warned by regional in
spectors to inquire into a customers status under
the Fair Labor Standards act before extending credit.
The idea is that a manufacturer having trouble with
that law may have to shell out several thousand dollars
in back pay; that would make him not-so-good a
risk.
At the same time comes warning that the final
phase of the Fair Labor Standards act goes into effect
on next October "a. That is, starting then, overtime
begins after 40 hours a week, instead of the present
42-hour ceiling, or the 44-hour limit imposed when
the law first became effective. This comes just at
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-26
Wall Street Smiles On South

T. H. Alexander in his excellent column in
the Commercial Appeal says the banking and
financial interests of New York are quite
willing now to finance the mills to manufac-
ture newsprint from southern slash pine. This
is an about face from the attitude they held
in the lifetime of DR.. Charles Herty, who
developed the process in the face of over
whelming odds.
The reason Eastern industrialists nave not
been interested in the establishment of mills
in the south is because they have over four
hundred dollars invested in Canadian paper
mills. The United States has long bought it's
newsprint from Canada. In fact that country
has set the price on the commodity for many
years having a monopoly on it.
The war, definitely starting a trend to-
ward self-sufficiency for countries, is given
as the chief reason for Wall Streets increas-
ing interest in the south.
Manufacturing newsprint is a huge in
dustry particularly adapted to this section
of the country. 1t will mean millions of dol
lars invested in the south and millions of
dollars annually in wages paid out to work
erS.
Of course Wall Street will probably take
three dollars GU of the south for every dol
lars it puts in. But that is the price we have
to pay for not having money to develop. our
own resources.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-26
Dam Possibilities

Those of our readers who have not been
privileged to see the Sardis Dam probably
do not have any conception of just how big
it is. This apt description of the project, to-
gether with an intelligent comment on how
the dam can be used in our national defense
program was carried last week on the edi-
torial page of the Mississippi Sun at Charles
ton, edited by our beloved friend, Walter
Scott Meriwether.
The dam is 1850 feet long, not including
width of the spillway at the north end, and
its base is 1900 feet in width.
There is confined behind the dam a drain
age area of 1916 square miles. The length,
on airline, from the dam to head waters is
55 miles, and the maximum width of the re-
servoir basin is As miles.
At flood control stage" the water would
extend SO feet above the base of the dam.
The water would cover $500 acres, with a
storage capacity of 1,500, 900 acre feet and
the outlet capacity at the lock would be
10000 cubic feet per secnd-or twice as
much water as has ever yet come down the
river.
During a 'super-flood," the pool area
would extend over 100000 acres, and store
more than 100000 acre feet of water. The
outlet capacity would be $4,000 cubic feet
per second. A "super-flood" would carry the
water level to within 8.4 feet of the top of
the dam and necesitate utilization of the
huge spillway at the north end of the dam.
This spillway, closed during the time Of our
visit, is Of reinforced concrete and steel con-
struction, is 400 feet wide and has an output
capacity of $4,000 cubic feet per second.
1t is a shame for that much power to go
to waste when the government is pouring
millions OF, dollars into charging IVA at
Knoxville. 1t does look like our Mississippi
congressman and senators could see some
thing done about it. Surely some of our in
dustries born for the defense program could
be located here successfully,
Decentralization of vital industries is inn
portant in a defense program as has been
clearly demonstrated in France and England.
Certainly Mississippi with it's less than
500 aliens among two millions population
offers an ideal setup for national defense in
dustries from every standpoint.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-26
Free Textbooks; Schools Task

For the first time in the history of our state
free Schoolbooks were distributed.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry now has no
excuse for not having his lessons.
Contrary to expectations expressed by var
ious political candidates last summer our
school have not been over-run with boys
and girls, black and white, clamoring for
free textbooks. Only normal increases in en-
rollment are reported from various schools
over the state which also report every pros
pect for a splendid years program.
That prediction has been made for the
work here in Holmes county by every Of
fetal we have contacted.
We definitely do not belong to that school
IF thought which would have the govern
ment watch over us from the time we are
born until we die. But we do heartily endorse
free textbooks and believe we will have them
from now on.
More than anything else we need our peo-
pie to be trained and educated to do some
useful work so that they may be self-sup-
porting and self-respecting. This is vitality
necessary if we are to have a high type of
c~itizenry necessary to maintain a Demo-
cracy.
While the schools now do not give very
much practical training in how to earn a
living with your brains or hands at the same
time they are slowly making progress until
eventually they will give something practical
besides a general cultural foundation.
Idle hands and idle brains or the worst
enemies of Democracies, not Fifth Column
lists. When we have all our citizens earning
a honest living and retanng their personal
feeling of freedom and independence W.
have the strongest defense possible to main
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-26

trio chair stopped for lunch in Durant and
proudly displayed their toy to all interested
~bystanders.
We understand from an eye witness that
the chair is taken into the cell where the
prisoner is to executed but the electric wir-
ing, motor, etc. that does the dirty work stays
on the truck all the time, built into it, in
buy a big fine truck to haul its hanging
machine around in.
Another sinful waste of the taxpayers
money. But who cares? Mississippi has its
electric portable electricution machine some
thing no other state in the Union can boast
and a hired killer who "can hardly wait
for his first job"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-26

tain our Democratic form of government and
its institutions.
The longer we have the WPA and what it
implies the more danger we see for Democra-
cy in this country. The WPA means nothing
short of a direct line toward a totalitarian
state.
Only when our citizens are educated,
trained to do a task well, will there be jobs
for them.
Our public school system is the very be-
ginning of that training. It's responsibility of
developing the citizens of tomorrow is Sec
ond in influence only to our homes.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-26
Dairy Farm Interest

1t is evident that a few people In this
territory are beginning to get a glimpse OF the
possibilities of dairying in this section. Dairy
ing can be as profitable here as it is in Wis
consin and Missouri. This point has been fully
borne out by a group of 10 dairymen from
the Kosciusko and Philadelphia territories
who made a tour through these sections and
brought back first-hand information on con-
ditions in these sections. We are now con-
fronted with practically the same problem
that Wisconsin was confronted with in 1860.
Up until 1860, Wisconsin was recognized
as one of the leading wheat producing states
in the Union. Up until that era wheat con-
stituted their principal cash crop. 1t was
about this time that the Middle Northwestern
section began opening up and with Wisconsin
soils having already been depleted, could no
longer compete in grain growing with the
sections in Kansas, Oklahoma, and other
states in that territory. The Wisconsin far
nners went through a period Of uncertainty
and decentralization, but gradually worked
their way into a dairying program which
has helped to put that State out in front as
one of the wealthiest farming states in the
Union.
Today practically all the crops grown in
Wisconsin are marketed through dairy cattle
and sold in the form of milk. One trip through
that section is proof of what dairying has
meant to Wisconsin. There is evidence OF
an accumulation of wealth on the farms as is
llluSlI dtcu Ny CHc OB IHAC PoHlcCu hohHSo,
huge barns. The farms in general have neat
appearances and indications point toward a
big turnover of money.
Reports from the above group who made
the tour through these sections are to the ef-
feet that prices paid for milk here in Gen.
trail Mississippi are about the same as prices
paid by similar plants in Missouri and Wis
consin. This group is also confident that if
the farmers in Central Mississippi would put
the same efforts behind the dairy program
that the farmers in Wisconsin and Missouri
are putting into theris, the Central Mississippi
farmers, because Of their natural advantages,
should be able to produce milk cheaper than
the Missouri and Wisconsin farmers.
This newspaper is sponsoring a meeting of
farmers in Holmes and Attala counties in Du-
rant on Tuesday night, October 8, at the
City Hall at 1880 o'clock. Anyone interested,
whether business or professional man, far
mer, man or woman, is invited and urged
to attend. Those farmers who made the trip
to the dairying section of Wisconsin and
Missouri, are going to be present and discuss
with you the possibilities of dairying to in
crease your income.
We have known for a long time that even
tually we must find something to supplment
the income of our farm families. Cotton no
longer gives us an adequate living. The sooner
we start seeking an answer the quicker we
will get results.
We believe that dairy farming is the ans
wer to this question and would like for every
one of you to become acquainted with its
possibilities now.
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