The Daily Times from Salisbury, Maryland • 1

TH SALISBURY MES The Weather Rain ending thia afternoon; somewhat ol.lr early tonight. (Details on Editorial Par.) VOL. XIX NO. 100 tntrd at xcond clata mall mailer at Iht poalolfic at taliabury, MS. SALISBURY, MARYLAND, TUESDAY EVENING.

MARCH 31. 1912 An Aiaocialtd Prttt Newspaper Pubhahaa Daily Kacapt Sunday PRICE THREE CENTS. JVl Temperatures Today: 44 at 7 a. 48 at 1 p. m.

24-hour ret-ord to 6 p.m. yesterday: max. f.2. mill. 29.

l.owe-t Ust niKl, Year ago: max. 42, min. 24. FOE ADVANCES Sees New Civilization WATER SUPPLY Shoremen Are Safe After Freighter Sinks In Bay Baltimore, March 31 (AP) A 212-ton freighter laden with pulp-wood rammed a sunken oil barge near Turkey Point lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay early today and was abandoned by its crew of seven Baltimore, skipper of the freighter, 1 CITY BUDGET FOR 1941-42 IS $200,117 $140,160 For General Fund Is Increase Over Last Year A budget of $200,117.78 was approved by the Mayor and Council Just night for the fiscal year beginning on October 1. State law requires the budget and levy to Htruck not later than March 31 and the levy was previously at $1.00.

The largest item in the budget is the sinking fund, retirement of the bonded debt. For this purpose 35 cents per $100 of taxable, basis was levied, raising $58,902.45. The sinking fund is increased an additional $1,055.05 by collection of rents on by-pass properties. The general fund levy is 65 cents, raising $109,340.28 in taxes for the roneral nnprntinn nf t.hp ft I Amos W. W.

Woodcock pictured a near civilization after the sacrifices of World War II in his address here Sunday at the dedication of the Wicomico County 'Service Men's Center in the old Jackson mansion on Camden Avenue. A crowd of jammed the hall and adjoining rooms and saw Rev. Eugene T. Stout, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, present key to Mis.

R. T. Pillsbury, chairman of the Center committee. She turned it over to Robert Dunn, Ocean City Coast Guardsman. General Woodcock is shown at rostrum.

U. S. Bombers Shot Down 50 Planes, Hit 62 Jap Ships United States Army headquarters in Australia, March 31 (AP) Col. Eugene L. Eubank, head of the U.

S. Bomber Command in the Philippines and the Netherlands East Indies, smashed Japanese claims to superior flying ability with a report today that his men shot down 50 enemy pursuit planes in action and sank or seriously damaged PROTECTION IS ORDERED HERE City To Drive Three New Wells For Use In Emergency City Council last night authorized the driving of three emergency wells at certain locations to insure the city against a water shortage in the event of damage to the main pumping station. The plan is the outgrowth of City Engineer Clarke Gardner's recommendation to contruct underground pumping stations which could be pressed into service in an emergency. Decision on the new wells was reached after weeks of discussion in which Gardner, F. A.

Grier, Ci vilian Defense fire chief, and Wal ter B. Disharoon, Salisbury Fire Department Chief, had urged mea sures to safeguard the water supply. Total Cost $3,300 Total cost of the project will be approximately $3,300. One well to be permanently mcorporater into the city's water system, will be of gravel pack construction. It will cost $1,950.

The other two wells will be of eight-inch steel casing and used for emergencies only. Their cost will be $1,350, which, officials pointed out, represents the actual Civilan Defense cost for water protection. The wells, to be 60 feet deep, will be located at confidential points in the Connected to the city's water system they will supply 1,500 gallons per minute as requested by Grier, who with Disharoon and Gardner had studied tBe "anticipated needs in an emergency. The underground pumping station plan as submitted by the city engineer several weeks ago was publicized this month in Waterworks Engineering, one of the oldest engineering publications in America. The full plan, whereby used auto engines would supply pumping power, was carried in a full page feature layout, together with Gardner's picture.

Motorist In Fatal Crash Fined $65 Sol Sondak, 20-year-old Ker- honkson, New York steel worker was fined a total of $65 and cost in Peoples Court today on charges brought by City Police following a fatal accident on February' 20. Sondak was the driver of the car involved in an accident at the intersection of Priscilla and East Church in which Raymond A. Parker, route 2, Salisbury, was fatally injured. In the collision according to the testimony of Chief of Police William J. Chatham, Parker was thrown from his automobile as it rolled over and Sondak's car veer ed into a nearby yard after the collision.

Parker died in Peninsula Gen eral Hospital on February 22 from a fractured skull. Witnesses were summonsed before the recent grand jury to de termine if sufficient evidence was available to find a manslaughter indictment against Sondak. No presentment was returned. Sondak paid the maximum fines of $50 and cost for failing to give right of way at an intersection and $15 and costs for failing to stop at a stop sign. In the accident Parker's 11- year-old son was uninjured, police said but Mr.

and Mrs. V. Kenneth Cyr of Brooklyn, N. passengers in the Sondak car were slightly injured. State Treasury Has $28,333,236 Balance Annapolis, March 31 (AP) The State Treasury bulged today with a cash balance of 553,236 greatest in Maryland's history and a steady flow of new Income tax revenue is helping boost the figure daily.

State Comptroller J. Millard Tawes said that although the first income tax installment is not due until April 15, collections to date total $2,567,015, more than double the amount taken at this time in 1941. Tawes estimated 1942 income tax collections would be about $8 compared with i4i re ceipts of more than $7,600,000, Cash balance on hand consists of general and special state funds and federal allocations. NEAR BRITISH DEFENSE LINE Chinese Flank Menaced By Second Enemy Drive To India Gateway By Th Atmciated Prtt Japan's drive toward the oil fields of northwest Burma and the gateway to India took a menacing turn today as British headquarters acknowledged that Japanese troops supported by traitorous Burmese natives had advanced within 10 miles of Prome. Prome is the British-held anchor on the right wing of the Al- lied defense line in Central Burma.

The city is strategically important as a barrier to the rich Yen-angyuang oil fields, and also guards the Irrawaddy River rout to Mandalay. A British communique said the Japanese penetrated to Shwed-aung, 10 miles below Prome, in heavy fighting in which imperial Indian frontier troops inflicted 300 casualties and captured 70 prisoners. Equally dark news came from the Chinese-held left flank, on the Toungoo front, where a communique said Chinese troops had "joined with other forces to the north and east of Toungoo and readjusted their positiona in that area." This indicated that the Chinese forces, under the command of Joseph W. Stilwetl, U.S.A., apparently had withdrawn from Toungoo. Reported Holdint Out Later Chinese dispatches, however, said Chinese reinforcements moving south to aid Gen.

Stilwell's hard-pressed forces had occupied railroad station 10 miles north of Toungoo and had mode contact with Chinese troops still holding1 out in the' eastern part of Toungoo. Axis -reports said the Japanese had carried out heavy aerial raids on Mandalay and attacked other key points on the Toungoo-Mandalay road, evidently seeking to block the sending of reinforcements. In India, British negotiations to mobilize India's 390,000,000 as a fighting force on the side of the Allies met serious new difficulties. Dispatches from New Delhi said it appeared that the dominant Indian party might reject the British plan for self rule. The Rome radio quoted Imperial Tokyo headquarters as saying a Japanese submarine operating Ip the Indian Ocean attacked a Brit ish convoy east of Ceylon.

Allies Renew Blowa New aerial hammer blowa on the Japanese invasion base of Lae, New Guinea, were announced today as reports told again of Allied airmen clearly stamping their superiority over the enemy. United States Flying Fortresses over New Guinea have been beating; off the Japanese fighter planes In combat five miles high with the tail gunner proving especially deadly against air attacks, advices from Townsville, Queensland said. Russia's armies, pressing a relentless spring offensive amid the thawing snows of winter, were reported battering heavily at key German bases along the entire front today while the Nail high command claimed aerial successes and the destruction of 183 Soviet tanks between March 23 and March 30. German field headquarters acknowledged severe Russian pressure in the Ukraine, on the central (Moscow) front, and in the far north, but asserted that Nazi dive-bombers had "frustrated" a tank-led Soviet attack in the critical battle around Lake Ilmen, A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's headquarters said German bombers again attacked the Soviet Are-tic supply port of Murmansk, and claimed three British bombers were shot down "in an attempt to fly by night into occupied Norwegian territory." Other dispatches indicated a growing battle along the United Nations' far north supply rout to Russia. The German high command said U-boats continued attacks against a convoy carrying supplies to Russia via the far north route, sinking two "heavily laden transport totalling 11,000 tons at the entrance to Kola On the North African front, stormy weather limited action to patrol sorties.

before it sank by the stern. Capt. W. W. of E.

Madison Hall, and his crew of six reached a cove in Elk River in a lifeboat and reported the crash to Mrs. Fannie Salter, Turkey Point lighthouse keeper. In the crew were Leon Webster of Dames Quarter; Woodrow Aaron of Cambridge; II. F. Rich ards of Salisbury; Leonard Turner of West Point, James L.

Bloodsworth of Laurel, and Lester Gatton of Morehead City, C. They said there was no light on the sunken barge. A large hole was stove in the freighter's prow, its engine room was flooded and it sank stern first in 22 feet of water, with only the bow, hanging to the barge, remained above the water. FIRE DESTROYS FRAME BUILDING Firemen Fight Blaze For Almost 2 Hours Fire early today burned out a one-story frame building on Lake street, housing a restaurant, a barber shop and a confectionery. Firemen from the downtown fire company battled the flames almost two hours and prevented spreading to a larger building next door.

According to Fire Chief Waltei B. Disharoon the fire was believed to have started in the restaurant owned by Joe Baranco and quickly spread to the barber shop and confectionery of James Dashiell Building Total Loss The building, owned by Peter Linnett, West Main street merchant, was described a total loss by Chief Disharoon, who estimated the value of the structure at $3,000. Nineteen men fought the flames from 2:15 a. m. until four o'clock in a steady downpour of rain.

The blaze was reported by an unknown person passing by the building, who ran into an all-night taxi company adjoining the burned building and summoned the fire department. Tercentenary Program Is Near Completion Chestertown, March 31 (AP) A tentative program for the Eastern Shore's tercentenary celebration has been completed, Dr. Esther M. Dole, general chairman, has announced. The program, embracing "seven points, will be submitted to the rhairmen of the nine Eastern Shore counties.

The celebration, sponsored by the Kent County Historical Society, is scheduled to be held August 1, at Washington College. Dr. Dole, Washington College faculty member, said cancellation of the celebration had been considered at the outbreak of the war but the committee decided to go ahead with a curtailed program. Speakers will include Governor O'Conor, some British official, and county representatives. Also planned are art and flower exhibits, dedication of the Revolutionary War Memorial, a dinner and a ball.

'Work Or Fight' Is Urged In Talbot Easton, March 31 (AP) A "work or fight" campaign similar to those in Queen Anne's and Worcester counties was urged upon State's Attorney William Reddie and Talbot county police by the Easton Rotary Club. By invoking the 1917 "work or fight'Uaw, Queen Anne's and Worcester authorities succeeded in forcing jobless idlers to obtain work under threat of vagrancy charges. Chicago To Ban April Fool Calls Chicago The April Fool's day joke routine of leaving a telephone number for a friend to call may fall flat in Chicago this year. Telephone company officials said that to keep lines from being tied up too long, their operutors would intercept all calls to the morgue, dog pound and the zoo and explain to any unsuspecting victims whom they are calling. ity.

Revenue from other sources raise the general fund to Last year it was Increases Made Increases in the budget were made in the city yards fund, an addition of $1,000 to provide for possible disposal of the Mill Street jird and concentration of all operations at the Willow Street yard, and in the dog catching department. An additional $1,000 was added for dog catching expenses, including truck operation, food for dogs, execution costs, and moving of the pound to Willow Street. One new item in the budget is Civilian Defense for which $1,000 has been allocated. Also new are items of $2,000 for sewer and water extensions and $2,000 for sewer and water connections. These items are in the general funds budget for the first time.

Until interpretation of acts governing water and sewer fork such operaionS had been financed by the Water Department. A change in the legislative act is contemplated to return those charges to that department. Elections Out Elimination of elections next year, through the change to a four year tenure of office, will save $800 and that item is removed from the budget. The reassessment, however, makes a $1,000 addition. Budgeted expenses, by departments, follow: Legislative 2.400 Finance Department 8,125 Legal 1,400 Miscellaneous 2,375 Fire Department 15,510.25 Poliee Department 22,085.75 Street Lighting 15,000 Building Inspector 2,674 Health Department 600 Engineering Department 6,399 Rivers, Harbors 375 Street Cleaning 3,815 Street Maintenance 24,655 Garbage Department 8,865 Municipal Park 3,650 Flood and Storm 1,020 City Hall Building 1,348 City Yards 3,470 Public Improvements 12,171.18 JVPA Sewing Room 330 Police Car 700 Miscellaneous 3,234.10 Police Department increases in eluded $780 additional to regular officers for a total of $9,750, $286 for extra police, for a total of 14, and $250 to the chief of police, bringing his pay to $2,330.

Fire Department increases in. eluded an $1,000 addition to the Convention Fund, making it J4. 000, increase of custodians' pay from $6,370 to $7,150, and purchase of hose at $1,500. The City has financed its share of the airport Bite purchase by borrowing on open note and has provided a reduction of $2,741.18 in the budget. Parking meter revenue is esti mated at $10,000, a decrease of $2,500, and parking fines are esti- All City Voters Must Re-Register If you fail to register in the city's re-registration you can't vote in the city's primary election April It.

In the' first of the three-day registration, a total of 736 Salisburians put their names on the new city books yesterday. The registration by districts: Salisbury, 195. Camden, 240. Parsons, 301. Registration booths are open today from 7 a.

m. to 7 p. m. They will be open the same hours next Monday, the last day of the re-registration. Registration places are located at the Armory, Salisbury district: Fire House No.

2, Parsons district; 316 Hazel Avenue, Camden district. VOTE ON SCHOOL BOARD VACANCY Successor To Col. M. A. Humphreys Proposed Selection of a county man to succeed the late Marion A.

Humphreys as a member of the Wicomico County Board of Education was unanimously voted yesterday afternoon by the Republican State Central Committee. Writ. "chair-mah, said that the committee believed that, with two members of the Board of Education residing in Salisbury, the third member should represent the rural interests of the county. Col. Humphreys, who at the time of his death was president of the Board of Education, lived at Tony Tank.

The three-member Board of Education is required to have a minority party member. Wilbur M. Rounds and Henry W. Roberts, present members of the board, are Democrats. The recommendation of the Republican State Central Committee is being forwarded to Governor Herbert R.

O'Conor who makes the appointment. Aid Injured Soldier, Freed From Guardhouse Fort George G. Meade, March 31 (AP) Three Baltimore soldiers of the 175th Infantry, serving time in the guard house for being A.W.O.L., were free today because they refused an oportunity to escape after their guard had been injured. Lieut. Col.

Edgar Fell, 175th executive officer, said guard Albert Snyder suffered a fractured skull when he fell from a truck. Insted of fleeing, privates Ed ward J. Glass, Jack J. Finazzo, and Purnell Tolson carried the badly injured guard to a first aid station and turned his loaded rifle over to regimental authorities. Search For Manila Scrap Is Started Baltimore, March 31 (AP) A thorough search for manila rope scrap in this area was asked today.

James F. Solley, Maryland representative of the Industrial Conservation Bureau, War Production Board, said there was an acute need for manila scrap. He urged steamship companies. tug and ferry lines, ship chandlers. freight companies, yacht clubs and others to collect any rope scrap and dispose of it through regular salvage channels.

Fire Damages Auto Plant At Chestertown Chestertown, March 31 (AP) A $5,000 fire of undetcr mined origin early today destroyed the Eliason Body and Fender Works and ruined two cars, a new tractor, tools and equipment. The building, partially covered by insurance, was owned by George Baldwin. The equipment was owned by the Eliason Motor Corporation. Chestertown volunteer firemen saved residences and filling sta tions near the burning building. ft 0 HOSPITAL IN BATAAN HIT Number Of Casualties In Attack Reported Washington, March 31 (AP) The War Department reported today that a base hospital in Ba-taan was bombed by the Japanese at noon yesterday, causing a number of casualties.

Plainly marked, the hospital had been avoided carefully by enemy bombers until yesterday, the department said. Heavy aerial bombardment of the Manila Buy harbor defenses, accompanied by fire from enemy shore batteries, continued day and night, a communique said, but little damage has been inflicted, and a buttery firing from Fort Hughes hit and destroyed an enemy launch in Manila Bay. Locomotive Explodes, Three Are Killed Redkey, Ind Mrch 31 (AP) The engineer, fireman and brake- man of a west-bound Nickel Plate railroad freight train were killed today by the explosion of the comotive boiler east of here. The dead, all from Lima, were identified by coroner Donald Spahr as E. L.

Benner, engineer; fireman Herschberger whose first name was not available; and J. E. Schletter, the brakeman. The coroner said he had reports the water level in the boiler was low. The engineer was blown 100 feet from the locomotive.

The fireman's body was found in the locomotive cab and the brakeman's body was found four cars back of the engine. Takes Wheel It Had Tire So Man Goes To Jail Seaford, March 31 Reese Pur- nen, scaioru, employed in a machine shop on Front Street, was committed to Georgetown jail for the April term of Circuit Court after conviction on a charge of stealing a wheel, tire and tube from a truck in the repair shop where he worked. Purnell at his arraignment be fore Magistrate Albert J. Lank here pleaded guilty and testified he sold the tire to Granville Hill of Broad Creek Hundred. The wheel was from a truck owned by Clarence C.

Allen, Sea-ford chicken dealer. State Police Officers John W. Blizzard and Joseph J. Shannon brought the charges against Purnell who was held' in default of $500 bail. CANCER DRIVE OPENED HERE Workers Attend Dinner At College About 200 workers and others interested in the annual campaign of the Women's Field Army for the control of cancer last night at the Teachers College heard renewed plans for spreading knowledge that saves the lives of early cancer victims and boosting funds for cancer prevention and cure.

Wicomico County leaders' were presented materials by Mrs. Avery Hall, county captain, in readiness for the April drive which will be gin tomorrow. "Cancer deaths will not ston be cause there is a war," Mrs. John M. Carmarck of Rhode Island, said, "and the four-point program ft the Women's Field Army must be continued, else valuable ground once gained shall be lost." Commander Introduced Representing the national field army as regional deputy com mander, Mrs, Carmarck whs introduced by, Mrs.

T. J. Caruthers, retiring commander of Maryland, who presided. Dr. L.

A. Rade-maker, president of the Wicomico County Medical Association, was toastmaster. H. D. Fish, New York, assistant managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, gave the workers a backgmu-nd of cancer education which they will pass on to county residents.

"Best insurance against he disease," he said, "is to get people to go early to a good surgeon who is known for his special ability to diagnose successfully and treat cancer. Knowledge of the "danger sig nals" that may mean cancer slniold be stressed, he said, as well as the value of period physicial examinations. The well known danger signals carried on the back of the enlistment cards presented to those who support the annual drive were pointed out as follows: 1. Any persistent lump of thickening, especialy of. the breast; 2.

Any irregular bleeding or dis-charge from any part of the body openings; 3. Any sore that does not heal, particularly about the tongue, mouth or lips; 4. Persistent indigestion, especially when accompanied by distaste for meat; 5. Sudden changes in the form of rate of growth of a or wart. "Pain is a lute symplon, do not wait for it." Dr.

J. N. -Stewart gave the invocation. An instrumental trio consisting of Miss Bettie Harcnm, violinist, Mrs. Richard N.

Current, cellist, and Mrs. Thomas J. Frutchey, pianist, furnished music during the ilinner. Son Of Late Judge Treasurer Candidate Easton, March 31 (AP) Phillip George Shehan has announced his candidacy for treasurer of Talbot county, becoming the first to declare formally for a county office in the September primaries. He is the son of the late Judge William Mason Shehan.

46 transports and 16 warships up to March 1. The officer gave the first detailed report of bombing operations from the start of the war in the I Pacific until the fall of Java, bearing out the previous assertion of Lieut. Gen. George H. Brett, commander of Allied air- forces in the Pacific, that the Americans had shot down more than three planes to one.

Col. Eubank, of Port Arthur, Texas, and "Albuquerque, N. said the Japanese losses he listed did not include numerous planes destroyed on the ground. "Our losses in action were extremely low, especially considering the long range of action," he said at a press conference. "We lost only two planes through pilot error, mistakes in landing, etc.

This Is a marvelous record and puts the Japanese flying to shame." He described the heroic work of the bomber command in the Philippines and the Netherlands East Indies, praising officers and enlisted men alike. The officer did not refer to his own achievements but his name is on the list of many bomber command members mentioned for various awards. Col. Eubank said the Philippines were not caught unawares by the war. They had been on war alert and ready for enemy operations.

A number of missions were carried out Dec. 8 when Clark Field, in the Philippines, was bombed. He commended the heroic work on that day by Maj. David Gibbs, of Albuquerque; Lieut. Chaplain Joseph Lafleur, of Opelousas, Maj.

Luther Heidiger, of Richport, and Sgt. Anthony Holub, of Coronado, Culif. Capts. Ray Cox, of Riverside, and Fred Crimmins, of Fort Worth, Texas, went into the burning hangars, started planes and removed many to safety. College Head Denies Any Political Aims Chestertown, March 31 Dr.

Gilbert Wilcox Mead, president of Washington College, has issued a statement denying that he will seek any ofTice in the coming elections. He said, "Washington College not in politics, and while I am connected with It I shall do what I can to keep it so. My job is Washington College every day, and 12 months in the year. If I had political ambitions, which I do not. the college would not be served by such activity on my part." RED FACE, TOO San Diego, Calif.

Firemen, answering an alarm, found the up-holstery'of a red automobile burning fiercely. It was Batallion Chief Edward McLarney's car. I rnated at $2,000, a drop of $700. The fund, which is not reflected in the budget proper, is used to 1 finance traffic control and ex- I penses, includes salaries of the de partment, meter purchase and repair, street signs, street markings, police radio, and other similar items. Salaries of $9,724, an increase of $520, is the largest item in the parking meter budget.

Electric traffic lights and current, at $1,243, is next largest. WITH REGRETS Chicago Bushman, the Lincoln Park zoo's giant gorilla, will do his hit for national defense 'on his 14th birthday anniversary. His keeper said Bushman would foreiro h'P usual 20-pound birthday cake to conserve food..