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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
RED CROSS IN
NEED OF FUNDS
FOR WAR WORK
President Has Issued A Pro-
clamatiOn Supporting Another
Appeal For Money

Again the American Red Cross is
called upon to serve the Nation in
war. Both nationally and locally vast
and definite responsibilities are to be
faced for service to u. S. armed for
ces and for relief to distressed civil
ians. To provide essential funds Red
Cross today is launching campaign
for war fund of minimum of Fifty
Million Dollars. The President has
issued Proclamation sup
porting this appeal. Your Worcester
Chapter quota is $4,000 Dollars. Chap
tiers may retain fifteen percent of
their collections for local war relief
expenditures. Chapters should at
once devote full efforts to raising
their quotas in shortest possible time.
No solicitations will be made in Po-
comoke City. The money will have to
be raised by voluntary contributions
but Pocomoke has never yet failed
to do its part in any worthwhile pro-
ject so it is confidently expected that
people will respond to this emergency
just as they have met similar emer-
gencies in the past. The quota for Po-
comoke is $1,000.
Those wishing to contribute may
leave their contributions with Mr..
Willard J. Stevenson, cashier of the
Pocomoke City National Bank or with
Mr.. Joseph C. Stevenson, cashier of
the Citizens National Bank.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
CITIZENS TURN
OUT TO DISCUSS
DEFENSE PLANS
Large, Interested, Attendance
Last Week At The Meeting Held
In The New Fire House

The large community room OF the
new fire house was filled with men
and women on Friday night of last
week, met to consider ways and
means of defense should coming e.
vents call for service such as can be
given by those who are not capable of
carrying arms.
1t was a serious and interested as
sembly Their presence meant that
they were ready to do their bit, and,
all seemed to sense the seriousness
of the situation, and there was an
evidence of grim determination that
if the worst came to sell the country's
liberty at the cost of life itself.
Mr.. Earl Tromley, of Snow Hill,
was the main speaker of the evening.
A very inclusive organization for de-
Tense has been effected at the county
seat-an organization which has re-
ceived much favorable comment. He
very cleverly outlined this and show
ed that the methods at Snow Hill
could be followed at great advan-
tage.
Much discussion was entered into
and the main, concrete result was the
formation of an Advisory Council of
which the Mayor, E. W. Ross, is pres
ident. This will soon work out fur
Their details of the definite defense
movements.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
HOME DEFENSE
IS ORGANIZED
in THE COUNTY
Maurice COsten, Of POcOmOke,
Is Chairman OF The Set-Up
For County War Protection
THE LOCAL DIRECTOR is
CAPT. GODFREY CHILD

Organization of Home Defense
Corps in Snow Hill, Pocomoke City,
Berlin and Ocean City are now COM
plete in every detail, the Worcester
County Council of Defense announced
today Thursday.
Superceding the various county
Home Defense Corps, now in opera
ton, is the Worcester County Council
of Defense, whose members were ap-
proved this week by the Board of
Worcester County Commissioners.
The complete defense setup in Wor-
cester County-separate and distinct
from the county aircraft warning SER
vice posts-is as follows:
Chairman-Maurice Costen of Po-
comoke City.
Executive Directors. Earl from
ley of Snow Hill.
Executive Secretary-Miss Lena H.
Riggin, Snow Hill.
Honary Chairman-Charles L. Ma
son of Pocomoke City.
Chief Air Raid Warden-John l.
Timmons of Snow Hill.
Chief of Public Utilities Service
r. Harlan Robertson of Pocomoke
City.
Chief of Public Information-Jack
Culver.
Chief of Emergency Service-G.
Hale Harrison of Berlin.
Chief of Police Service-J. William
Hall of Berlin.
Chief of Fire Professionalism
Continued on Page 12)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
POCOMOKE'S BLACK-OUT
SUCCESSFULLY ARRANGED

If it is correct to say so, the black
out on Wednesday evening from $50
to 1000 o'clock was entirely success
full. The city snuffed out at a signal
from the fire department and stayed
out until another signal at 1000 o.
clock, when it resumed it's normal
lighted condition.
There were several glimmers, how
ever. One seemed to be at the power
House, to those who took the trouble
to climb to the roof to view the land
scape over. Red lights on the bridge
were cleaning, and one or two ciga-
rette glows appeared-so the boys
said.
Guards were placed at all in-com-
ing roads and as a car approached, it
was ordered to "douse its glare"
Congestion did not occur to the ex-
tent expected. Eleven cars were
halted at the bridge; while 81 were
stopped coming in from the Virginia
Road.
One or two more practice nights,
and Hitler and the Japs will find it
hard to locate anybody in this burg.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
COMMUNITY TREE TO BE
ERECTED AS FORMERLY

The annual community Christmas
program will be presented around the
community tree Saturday afternoon,
December 9th at 4.45 o'clock.
The tree will be erected in the usual
place, in the vacant lot between Coff-
mani Fishers and the A q p Store.
The program this year will feature
a special Christmas message and car
OILS. The public is invited to partici-
pate i'm this entertainment.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
SUNDAY, DECEMBER Z. 1941
"a date that will live in infamy"-
Franklin DelanO Roosevelt

We are at wari
At long last we fight!
In a death struggle
Against thugs and ruffians,
Against liars and gangsters,
Against nations who know, not the
meaning
OF honor and decency,
Against tyranny and slavery,
We fight for liberty and life.
Appeasers with blind and senseless
idiOcy
Have gabbled and babbled
That the seas are wide,
That America is safe,
That there's really no cause for
alarm.
And even while they gabbled.
Impeding and thwarting our defense,
The ruffians struck their treacherOus
blow,
Stabbing in the back
As is their custom,
Even while pretending
They were seeking a way to peace.
And the blood of our sons is shed,
And our planes and ships
Lie hopeless and helpless wrecks
Upon the seas and sands.
******
There was once time,
Before Hitler and his Nazis
Conceived their diabOlical plot
To conquer and enslave the earth
And destroy human liberty
Wherever liberty could be found
There was once a time
When even wars were waged
Under code of honor and decency.
****#*
Now the law of the jungle,
Of the beast and rattlesnake,
Is made the order of the day
BY the criminal gangsters
Who make their plans and plot their
ends
In hellish maze Of treachery and de-
ceit,
And like ravenOus vampires
Rcek and weller in the blood
OF their innocent victims
Who did not suspect or dream
That nations or human beings
Could be so utterly vile.
**#***
This war is all one piece
And all one pattern.
The yellow thug, or the Nazi fiend,-
1t matt .rs not!
Both must be destroyed
The stencil, the pollution, the peril
Must be erased forever
From earth's fair face,
If decent men and women
And innocent children
Are ever to breathe free air once
more.
If life for lovers of liberty
Is ever again
To be worth the living.
This truth must be known and faced
by ALL
The planes and the bombs
Were flown and hurled q
BY the treacherOus Jap;
But the pattern of the plot
Was conceived and perfected
In the brain of AdOlph Hitler,
That foul abortion of blood and
treachery
And by the accursed Nazis
Who do his diabOlical will.
**##**
The blood of our sons
Calls out to us today
From the far reaches of the earth
And bids us see to it
That they shall not have died in vain.
To us from fallipg bands they throw
Be ours 70 hold Il Ugh
IN W ffsa.~l.n rrn,.&~s~~
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
Democrat To Be
Published Tuesday

Owing to the Christmas holi-
days the Democrat will be pub
lished next week in time for pa
irons to receive it on Tuesday
afternoon and Wednesday morn
ing. All correspondents must
have their news reach this Of
flee not later than Monday aft
fernoOn.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
COUNTY MEN STUDY ~,
AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS

Four Worcester County men left
Wednesday for Bel Air, Md, where
they are spending one week taking a
course of study on air raid precau-
tions, being taught by British Army
officer.
The four men, selected for the class
of study by the Board of Worcester
County Commissioners, are as fol-
lows:
John II. Farlow of Berlin; Charles
Jackson of Ocean City; Rev. John A.
Ditto and Verlin C. Krabill of POGO
moke City.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
TWICG-BAILEY NUPTIALS
CONSUMMATED FRIDAY

A quiet but very pretty wedding
was solemnized in the home Of Rev.
Elmer HI Pryor Friday evening at 8
o'clock when Miss Louise Al. Twigg,
daughter Of Mrs. H. @. Twigg, Of
Oak Hall, Va became the bride Of
Mr.. E. Roscoe Bailey, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. 1. w. Bailey Of Pocomoke City.
Mr.. and AIRS. Bailey will take I'D
their residence on Market Street, this
city.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
FOURTH BATTALION IS
CALLED into SERVICE

The entire Fourth Battalion of the
Maryland State Guard, located on the
lower Eastern Shore, were called to
active duty last Thursday and on Sat
urday armed soldiers were placed on
duty in Pocomoke City, Snow Hill and
Berlin.
Strategic utilities plants in all three
towns were under constant guard by
patrols until this Thursday morn
ing, when all military units were re-
placed by civilian patrols.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
CANDLE-LIGHT SERVICE
AT The POCOMOKE HI

The public is invited to the Christ
mas candle-light pageant and carol
service which will be presented by the
music students of the Pocomoke High
School Monday evening, December
%, at 8 o'clock in the High School
auditorium.
The pageant will be presented in
two parts, featuring solos, duets and
choruses.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
Regarding Santa
Claus Letters

The Worcester Democrat is
not publishing Santa Claus let
tiers this year but we have writ
ten Santa a personal letter ask
ing him to remember all good
little boys and girls.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
CHRISTMAS DANCE an
NOUNCES CANCELLATION

Due to the fact that the Armory,
is not available, the Christmas Dance,
sponsored by the American Legion,
scheduled to be held Christmas night,
has been cancelled.
Please note that the DANCE WILL
NOT BE HELD DECEMBER 25th
AS ADVERTISED. The cancellation
is made in the interest of National
Defense.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19

City, the son of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
James U. Barnes. Mr.. Barnes is a
lawyer in Baltimore.
All three of these "boys" were ed
ucated in state colleges and else
where; the first two named being
graduates of Washington College; the
third, of Western Maryland. They
have all "made good" and are a credit
not only to their present localities,
but also to the good old Eastern
Shore.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19

at one time lawyer of Pocomoke
City and also was engaged for some
years in the newspaper business. Mr..
Paul Wilkinson is a lawyer in Balti-
more.
Mr.. Thomas Corddry is the son of
Mr.. w. D. Corddry and the late Mrs.
Corddry, and was born in Snow Hill.
He is, at present, living in Baltimore
and is Treasurer of the
Morgan Mill Work Company.
Mr.. Barnes is native of Pocomoke
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19

The above cuts picture these native
Worcester sons who have been recent
" honored by the Eastern Shore So
ciety of Baltimore City. Two are ma
tive Pocomokians and one native
of Snow Hill.
Paul j. Wilkinson, native of Po-
comoke, was elected president and is
the son of Mrs. Jennie Wilkinson and
the late Lloyd Wilkinson, who was
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
THE PRESIDENT
RECOGNIZES The
SCOUT SERVICE
Chief Executive Sends Greet
ings To The Nations 1,470,316
Scouts, Cubs, And Leaders

In his annual Christmas message to
the Boy Scouts of America of which
he is honorary President, and in
which he himself was active for more
than seventeen years, President Roos-
evelt paid high tribute to the Boy
Scouts, expressing "the appreciation
Continued on Page 12)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19

Mr.. and Mrs. J. Scott Porter spent
> part Of the week in Baltimore.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11

concern establishment of the new
European order"
The latest statesman to answer
the Nazi call was Gen. Ion Anton
escu, Rumanian dictator, who ar
rived at Munich for round OF
conferences and dinners with the
Nazi foreign minister Joachim Won
Ribbentrop.
1t is presumed the Balkan states
are being advised of the part which
has been assigned them in the pro-
posed European order.
Antonescus trip follows confer
ences held by Adolf Hitler with
Ante Pavelic, chief of the new Croat
state, and with King Boris of Bull
garia. Both the Croats and the Bull
garians are territorial gamers as
a result of the axis successes in
Jugoslavia and Greece.
Parallel discussions have been held
in Rome by Premier Benito Mus
solini and Dr.. Ladislaus de Bard
ossy, Hungarian premier, BardosSy's
visit has been followed by con-
ference of Italian and Hungarian
military chiefs. .
French claimed their lines de-
Tending Damascus and Beirut were
holding we'll. An Exchange Tele-
graph agency report from Jerusa-
lem said French warships off the
Lebanon coast had attacked British
artillery positions on land until
Continued on Page 8; Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11
Missing Cavalry
Officers Found in
Camp Below Border
Alibis Unsatisfactory,
Declares COmmandant;
Court Martial Hinted

The mystery of the missing
lieutenants was solved We'd
nesday.
An intensive search for
Lieutenants Robert E. Max
we'll and Howard D. Wetherell,
missing since they left Moreno dam
for Camp Seeley Sunday, ended
early Wednesday when the officers
were found at a tourist fishing
camp 10 miles south of Ensenada,
Their explanations were "unsat-
isfactory" Major Thomas Harold,
commander of the second squadron
ct Camp Lockett, was quoted as
saying before he whisked the rowing
lieutenants from the sheriff's office
in San Diego into & station wagon
and headed for camp. Further queS-
tioning will be necessary, he said,
to decide whether they were to be
Continued on Page 8; Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11
MaChinist Strike
Supporters Probed
On Draft Status
Relief Standing of S. F.
UniOnists Also Sought
By Federal Agents

WASHINGTON, June IL.
(UP)-Sen. Tom Connally,
D., Tex, acting chairman of
the senate committee investi-
eating national defense, an
nounced today names of striking
machinists who have held up ship
building in San Francisco have been
turned over to selective service offic-
ials to determine whether any Of
them had been granted draft defer
me-.
Any strikers who had been de-
ferred because of the Importance
of their jobs in the Shipyards would
be subject to reclaSsification under
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11
TOPS IN Dive BOMBERS
New u. S. Plane Best in World, Claim

carries a bomb load of 1000 pounds
against German Stuka'S 500
pounds.
The ship is powered with Wright
Cyclone motor which turns up close
to 1000 horsepower. 1t is armed
with a power-operated machine gun
turret sweeping full circle.
The ships top speed never has
been reached but it probably can
dive in excess of 500 miles an hour
and safely withstand the. pull-out.
l rode the gunner's cockpit OF
the bomber in dive from 1000 feet
to 5000 feet yesterday. The pilot
was Lloyd Child, Curtiss- Wright
chief test pilot who once dove at
SIS miles an hour.
After strapping on a parachute
and signing release in case of acci-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11
Officials Consider
Valley Publicity
Through Pictures

A plan for interesting middle
western and eastern farmers in
Imperial Valley through pictures
was before the Imperial Irrigation
district board Wednesday as we'll
as the county board of supervisors.
Tuesday afternoon a delegation
made up of Board of Trade men,
hers as well as representative prop
crty owners and rancherS appear
ed before the district directors,
suggesting cooperation in funo
to show valley motion picture in
other sections.
Members of the delegation were
Walter Havekorst, Harold Hunt,
Earl Cavanah, Eugene Lott, Robert
WhltelaW and John Davis.
The committee suggested raising
$1,000, partly through the district
and partly through the county
beard, for financing a picture to be
shown through the midwest and
east at county fairs and farm
gatherings, pointing the valleys at.
tractive features.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11

THE strike is over" Colonel Bran
shaw said.
Machines in the sprawling avia-
ton plant started whirling early
today after brief uprising" of
approximately 600 workers threat
ened to upset the decision to return
to work-reached yesterday. The
mass meeting was called to protest
the fact that seven strike leaders
were suspended by army officials
when they reported for work.
Other leaders of the CIO United
Automobile Workers union, whose
local committee called the strike.
urged the men to return "With their
heads up" and the workers finally
decided to do so.
Seven men have been suspended
and two more will be suspended If
they try to enter the plant" Col
onel Branshaw said. The action
was taken because the steps of these
men were prejudicial to the best in
terests of the American people,
Colonel BranshaW said check
OF the plant after the men had
filed in this morning showed 100
per cent efficiency and 100 per cent
personnel. He said, however, that
due to lags and delays caused by
the strike it would be two days be-
fore 100 per cent production was
accomplished.
"Our inspection showed that $3.50
persons are working" Colonel Bran
shaw reported. This is normal"
Colonel Branshaw said 1925 troops
remained in and around the North
American property, while 600 more.
delegated to strike duty, were quar-
tered at Ft. Macarthur, some 40
miles south in San Pedro.
HOMES PATROLLEE
Twelve scout automobiles have
been assigned to strike duty for
patrol in residential districts" This
was presumed to mean that the
army will continue to patrol dis
tricts in which workers reside to
guard against so-called "goon
squad" acts of intimidation.
Colonel Branshaws report that
"all was normal" ended a strike
Continued on Page 8; Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11
BY DAN ROGERS

BUFFALO, N. Y, June II. (UP)-
The United States has a dive bomb
er that can out-perform any air
plane in the world, including the
famed German Stuka, according to
experts here.
Built by Curtiss-Wright Aero
nautical Corp, the bomber doesn't
have a name yet. 1t has only eX-
perimental number XSB2C-1 for
the navy acceptance tests next
week. Lieut.. Hugh r. Neiman, jr.,
chief navy inspector at the Curtiss-
Wright plant, said the bomber had
surpassed the navy's hopes.
The plane is said to have a top
speed 100 miles an hour faster than
existing types, and the ability TO
fly twice as far and remain in the
air four and half hours longer
than any present dive bombers. 1t
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11
German Warships
Targets Of Raj

LONDON, June II (UP)--British
planes heavily raided docks and
anchorages at Brcst, on the French
invasion coast. during the night
il: an attempt to do further dam
age to the German 26,000-ton bat
tleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
and to cripple a German cruiser
of the Admiral Hipper class which
was believed to be refuging there,
1t was reported in navy quarters
the cruiser was the new Prin2
Eugen, 10000 tons, which escaped
the British fleet when the German
battleShip Bismarck was sunk some
400 miles off Brest May 81.
The air ministry had revealed
that Brest, the great French At
lantic base, had been raided during
the night.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11
final |NCLEW00D STRIKE UPRISING FAILS
SHIP SURVIVORS LAND

any of the survivors None would
acknowledge personal radio mess
ages sent to the Osorio, indicating
they may have been advised not
TO relate details of the sinking until
full report had been sent to the
state department.
Gn Washington. the White House
asked the Americans reserve judg-
ment until the facts were known
The survivors had drifted in ar
open boat under the hot tropical
sun almost three weeks before they
were rescued, and were suffering
from exposure.
"All the survivors were extremely
weak when we found them. due tc
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11

PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, June II
CUP)-Eleven survivors of the sunk
en- American steamer Robin Moor
arrive tonight with first details of
the ships loss almost 1000 miles out
in the south Atlantic.
Thirty-five others from the ship
28 crew members and seven pass
engers, including three women ant
a child-still were missing and were
feared lost. Several Brazilian ships
were searching for the Robin Moor's
lifeboats in the vicinity OF where
the Lloyd Brasileiro steamer Osorio
rescued the IL survivors it was
bringing here.
Two United States diplomatic
representatives, Phillip P. Williams,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11
Storms
Abote
34Lives Lostin
Midwest Gales;
Damage Great
It's a privilege TO live in
Imperial Valley
BY UNITED PRESS

Rainfall, dumped from an
CRY skies for four days,
slackened in the middle west
Wednesday with the storm
toll showing at least "a deaths anG
uncounted millions OF dollars in
property damage.
The U. S. weather bureau fore
cast continued thunderstorms over
the Mississippi river basin and the
southwest but predicted they would
be more scattered and less severe
Swollen styeamS climbed over
their banks in Texas, Oklahoma
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska ano
Iowa, and nineteen persons drown
ed. Tornadoes killed IA others and
lightning killed one.
Twelve victims were recovered
from debris in Albany, Texas, where
the Lake Diller dam collapsed after
an eight-inch rain and released q
20-foot wall of water into reSiden-
tial streets.
More than 1000 persons were driv-
en- from their homes IN Marysville
Kansas, before flood waters began
to recede.
The ripening wheat crop in Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Nebraska suf-
fered severe damage. Kansas, with
its richest wheat crop in years
appeared the heaviest loser as rain
battered the wheat into the ground
and flood waters covered it with
silt. Large areas in northeastern
Kansas were covered with water
and more rain was predicted.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-11

vice consul at Pho de Janeiro, and
Walter j. Linthicum, consul here,
awaited the arrival of the Osorio
to interview the survivors and re-
lay their accounts to the state de-
partment.
The state departments only wore
of the sinking was the report of
Jefferson Caffery, ambassador 10
Brazil, that the Robin Moor was
sunk" on May 81. Capt. Waldemar
Iucio Pereira of the Osorio Wire
lessed the United Press, however,
that the Robin Moor had been tor
pedoed and that he had rescued II
perSons-10 crew members and one
passenger-last Sunday night.
There was no direct word from