Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1931, Page 45

NETTLES PREVENT HERRING FISHING, Shad Catch Also Falls Below | Normal Throughout Chesapeake Area. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKHALL, Md., April 18.—With sea nettles infesting the waters of | Chesapeake Bay, not only at this fish- | ing center but all along the line from Betterton to Tilghmans Island in the upper Bay areas, watermen have begun to despair of taking anything like the | usual catch of herring and shad from Maryland’s inland sea this season. | Nettles have not only interfered with | the normal movement of schools of fish | during the last seven weeks, but have | hampered watermen generally and torn | nets at all hing towns in this vi- cinity. Thirty cents a pound is being asked for rhad and one fisherman asked this week $2.50 for a roe shad. Storms Hurt Fishing. Northeast storms have also played | havoc with the indust ince fish will no: bite or go into nets on a northeast or east wind, though some shad and herring were being caught off Talbot County prior to the storms. George Harrison, manager of the Havre d2 Grace plant of the Tilghman Packing Co., has opened his branch house, though the run of fish should have been at its height by this time, while only a few hundred are being caught daily. Factories Cut Seasons. It is believed soveral large packing factories will not start this season on the Eastern Shore, especially since there is considerable canned fish and roe on hand from last yvear. Prices have, dropped in some Eastern Shore centers | in spite of the small catch, though some herring have sold at encouraging prices. Robert S. Harrison, manager of the Sherwood Packing Co., is planning a four-week season and the Tilghman Packing Co. is pickling fish and ship- them in barrels to New York. The crab season will start at the close of the fishing season, May 1. LEWIS OPPOSES RUM AS CAMPAIGN ISSUE Tllinois’ Democrat Senator-Elect Will Fight Raskob’s Proposal of Anti-Dry Law Campaign. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, I, April 18. — United States Senator-elect James Hamilton Lewis declared today he was opposed to any attempt to make prohi- bition the lading issue in the. next presidential campaign. Illinois' Democratic Senator-elect, conferring with V. Y. Dallman, editor of the Illinois State Register, on Chalr- man John J. Raskob’s plans for the Democratic campaign, said, “if what is stated as to the position of Chairman Raskob before the Democratic National Committee be correct, I am opposed to it. I shall fight it before the people and in the convention. “While the national prohibition law must be superseded by home rule in the States to secure temperance and per- eonal prohibition, the Democratic party 2- a people’s party must not ignore the c2!' of the milli"ns of -poonle out of rent, the Lundreds of thousands e~ homel 1 bt cf thr a m distress, ner i of the merchant and the depression of all business. 3 “It is n&ore wlx:;porum l‘t” ';e:d the ungry and restore prosperity than pro- vide drink either as an expression of liberty or to satisfy luxury.” Commissions Issued. issions in the Reserve Corps of the y have been issued by the War Department to James O'D. Moran, 1532 Sixteenth street, as a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps and to En- T 1216 Jefferson place, t in the military Crild 5 1o CGnVCY‘.thn The approaching fort, h_ennual meeting of the Necdlework Guild of America is attracting much interest both within and without the member- ship. The conference will have its head- quarters at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadeiphia, and the meetings will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 30, May 1, 2. The election of national officers to e for the ensuing two years will April 30. The will b: divided- se take place on Thursday. for increasing he work lumbia Branch of social agencics and worthy cases. Under the leadership of i fon P. Hass during 1930, made inspiring and ‘efficient nt, Mrs. Ache- trict Branch, s, having freely to t itself bu he plea of the for workess to ts to be sent to drought-stricken are att preside the vice Dunlop trude J It i president, Mrs r-quested that, any rict of Columbia attend the confer- h either l Toll House Tavern Colesville Pike s Ol friends menii. but a fe binations of excellent food. Fried Chick- Steaks. Cheps es, Cakes and She MEMPHIS’ COMMANDER ORDERED TO DUTY HERE Capt. G. J. Meyers, Now in Nica- ragua, to Arrive in Capital May 15. Capt. George J. Meyers, U. 8. Navy, now commanding the light cruiser Us 8. 8. Memphis, which is at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, to assist Americans in the troubled republic, will come to "Washington about May 15 on duty in the office of naval operations, Navy De- partment. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D C. APRIL 1IN 1931—PART TIIREE. at Capt. Joseph Vance Ogan is being letached from command of the U. S. 8. Oglala, the minesweeper, and will re- lieve Capt. Meyers in command of the Memphis. Capt. Ogan served in the Bureau of Navigation here in 1927 and the year following he was appointed naval attache at the American embassy at Tokio, Japan. The Memphis has a complement of 38 officers and 437 enlisted men, and no Marines are included. To raise the marriage rate in Ger- many, prospective couples are supplied with trousseau for bride and groom, wedding feast, horse-drawn wedding coach and honeymoon expenses, all to The deparlment announced today | be paid for on the installment plan. MISSIONS IN FAR EAST WILL BE INVESTIGATED| | R — | Twelve Americans Will Go Next| October for 9-Month Study of Accomplishments. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 18.—Twelve Amer- icans eminent in religion, education and | medicine will go to the Far East next | October to spend nine months in an investigation to find out what Amerigan | missions are accomplishing. The inquiry is sponsored by a joint executive commit of layman repre-| sentatives of the Northern Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Method- ist, Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian and United Presbyterian Churches. Albert L. Scott, chairman of the com- mittee and representative of the North- ern Baptists, who made public the plans for the investigation today, said John D. Rockefeller, jr., is taking active in- terest in the project and will be fur- nished with a copy of the investigators’ final report. ‘The honorary degrees bestowed by Ursinus College upon Dr. Markley and Mrs. James Starr, presi- dent of Woman's Medical College, Phil- adelphia, mark the first time in the history of the college that the award has been conferred upon women. Mary E.| MOB HANGS PRISONER IN COURT HOUSE YARD |Large Crowd Lcoks on as Suspect in Attempted Attack Is | Lynched. By the Associated Press. UNION CITY, Tenn., April 18—A crowd of men stormed the county jail here this afternoon, removed George Smith, colored, and hanged him from a tree in the court house yard. Smith was held as the man who en- |tered a L-ne here last night and at- ismpted to attack a young woman, whose screams aroused her father and caused the intruder to flee. Sheriff J. D. Hubbs said “a great big crowd” of people gathered in front of | the jail at midafternoon, smashed the lock on the door, seized the prisone: carried him to the court house yard | and hanged him. 1 County Registrar Edwards sald a crowd, packing the court house yard, witnessed the lynching. The sherifl had taken no action half an hour later. Edwards said the body was still hang- ing in the square. As far back as 1910 It is on record that committees wore formed in va- rious women's clubs of Pennsylvania to | visit forelgn-born motners and assist | them in many practical ways. . i1 COLLECTS ON ERIN RACE Buffalo Man Gets $886,810 Prizq in Grand National. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, April 18 (P).—Second piize in the Grand Nae tional Sweepstakes, amounting to £177.« 362 (about $886,810), was paid yester= lay to Clayton Woods of Buffalo, N. Y. 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