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Milford chronicle., 1925-10-09
TAX OFFICE CHECKS
UP ON DELINQUENTS
List Being Made OF Those Who
Made No State Returns

Announcement was made this
week that the Federal list of tax
payers is being checked with the
Delaware list, in an effort to deter
mine the number of taxpayers in the
state, who are making Federal re-
turn and not making a state return.
Recent figures show that there
has been a difference of about 1000
taxpayers who have filed Federal re-
turns and have not filed Delaware
returns. A list of these taxpayers is
being prepared and will be used in
the work of the State Tax Depart
ment.
This checking up is being made
under the direction of P. S. du Pont,
recently named State Tax Commits
sioner to succeed NJ. Howard Jester,
working with Mr.. Jester
No date has been set for the con-
ference of the State Tax Commission
with Governor Robinson, at which
the policy of the office under Mr.. du
Pont will be outlined.
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-09
MILFORD MASONIC LODGE
OPENS FOR SEASON TONIGHT
After Summer Recess New Officers
Will Be In Charge Fer Years Work

After the usual summer recess,
Temple Lodge, No. 8, Ancient Free
and Accepted MasOns, of Milford,
will resume their fall work tonight,
with the regular Stated Communica-
tion. AS usual the lodge will open at
1880 O'Clock.
When the lodge opens this even
ing the new officers will be in the
chairs. They are Robert D. Pretty
man, Worshipful Master; Charles e.
Banning, Senior Warden; Jesse F.
Legar, Junior Warden; Edwin P.
Messick, Senior Deacon; George A.
Swain, Junior Deacon; J. Edward
Murphy and John C. Darby, Stew
ards, and George E. Davis, Tyler.
The present indications are for
very successful lodge year.
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-09
DELAWARE AUTO TAGS
WILL Be BLUE AND GOLD
State COlOrs Will Be Used On Motor
Cars For 1925

Blue and Gold, the State colors,
Ihave been selected for the 1926 au-
tomobile tags for Delaware cars.
The background of the tags will be
deep blue, With the numerals in
gold.
"Safe<drivers' tags" issued by
the Safe Drivers Club of the Della
ware Safety Council, will follow the
same color scheme. The official mag
azine of the club will be published
next week, under the name STEER
ing Wheel" Charles H Cant, secre-
tary of the Board of Harbor Com
missioners, is its editor
The first issue will have for its
feature article "The Relation of the
Individual to the Traffic Problem"
by Henry P. Scott. Jr., acting presi-
dent of the Board Of Police Com
missioners of Wilmington.
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-09
SURPRISE PARTY

A very pleasant surprise party
was given S. Roland Wilson, at his
home on East Front street on Sep
tember 28, it being the anniversary
of his 90 birthday. The party was
largely attended. Cake and ice cream
were served in abundance and the
guests departed at a late hour wish
ing Mr.. Wilson many more happy
birthdays.
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-09
UNITED STATES WEATHER HEAD
SAYS CLIMATE in DELAWARE
IS BEST in ENTIRE COUNTRY
High Lights Of Mr.. Spencer's
Talk Before Rotary Club

Il would pay not the slight
est attention to the long
range weather forecasts that
are being featured by some
newspapers and magazines"
mo one knows what the
weather is going to be next
summer"
Delaware and Maryland
have the best climate in the
Eastern part of the United
States"
This year is driest to date
in history of weather bureau"
Delaware is out of tornado
path and has light winds"
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-09
SUNSHINE SOCIETY

The Alden Branch of the Sunshine
Society Of Milford will meet with
Mrs. G. Fisher Pierce on South Wal
nut street, Friday, October 9th at 8
D. m,
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-09

OUR PRINTING PLANT
~ THE LARGEST ON
THe PENINSULA. LET
W. QUOTE ON YOUR
NEXT PRINTING ORDER
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-09

THERE ARE 1900 RU.
RAJ WEEKLY NEWS
PAPERS IN THE UNI
TED S T ATE S. THE
CHRONICLE S T A N o s
FOURTH IN THIS LIST
IN CIRCULATION.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
j. s. MAY SMASH
ALUMINIUM
TRUST"
Company Owned by Mellon
Guilty Of Unfair Practices,
Charges Stone

An antitrust suit against ALUMNI
mum Company Of America, most OF
the stock In which is owned by the
Mellon family, appeared probable
here today. Secretary OF the Treas
ury Mellon formerly was connected
with it, and his family still retain
control Of it.
The company, according to Attor-
ney General Stone, has been guilty
of unfair practices and sitting COM
petition.
''some Of the practices complained
Of" said Stone, in a letter to the
Federal Trade Commission. "were
so frequent and long continued that
the fair inference is that the COM
pany either was Indifferent to the
provision Of the decree (dissolution)
or knowingly intended that it's pro-
visions should be disregarded with
a view to suppressing competition
in the aluminium industry"
Secretary Mellon defended the
corporation during the campaign,
when it was alleged by John w.
Davis, Democratic candidate for
Congress, that tariff rates had been
so raised as to give the company
a monopoly and enormous profits.
The Department of Justice, Stone
said, is investigating several other
businesses allied with household
utensils out Of which may come
Government suits.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
& INJURED IN
D. {. AUTO
N|SHAPS
May Atkins, James Parsons
and Dorothy Bats Hurt
by Motorcars

Eight persons, including three
children, were injured in automobile
accidents yesterday and last night,
making total OF seven children in
jured in two days.
Walter Mortimer, 241 Eighth
street northeast. was arrested and
charged with driving while drunk
and colliding, following a collision
between his car and another last
night, in which Mortimer was
slightly injured.
Andrew Bowman, seventeen, 1f14
-Four and q Half street southwest,
was hit by an auto while riding q
bicycle at Sixth and K streets
southwest. The car demolished the
wheel and passed over both OF
Bowman's legs, but the boy refused
hospital treatment.
Dorothy Bats, co1o-ed, twelve,
800 Florida avenue northwest, was
hit by an auto while skating near
her home. She was treated at
home.
May Atkins, five, 111s Fouth
street northeast, was injured when
hit by an auto In front OF Jl15
Fourth street northeast. She was
treated at Casualty hospital.
James r. Parsons, five, 2642
Twelfth street northeast, was in
jured by flying glass when the car
In which he was riding cOllided
with another parked in front OF
1910 Rhode Island avenue northeast
He was not badly hurt.
Paul Iverson, 1112 X street south
east, and Abbie Endell, 436 III street
northwest, were others hurt slight
ly during the day.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
MCLEAN SUES FOR SO, 1000
DAMAGE TO RACE HORSE

The American Express Company
has been named defendant in a
suit filed in the District Supreme
Court by Edward B. Mclean, pub
Usher of The Washington Post, for
So, 900 damages sustained by one OF
his race horses while in transit
from Saratoga Springs, N. Y, to
Auburn, Va.
The defendant company was en-
trusted with the custody of five
horses by Mr.. Mclean September
4, last, and the plaintiff, represent
ed by Attorneys Wilton j. Lambert
and Rudolph III. Yeatman, alleges
that the company did not use
car equipped for the transfer OF
valuable live stock. resulting in one
of the horses sustaining an injury
to one of it's legs.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
RUM LEAK QUIZ
INVOLVES j. 5.
MARSHAL
Chicago Office Under Probe
by Justice Department
Officials

The Federal investigation OF the
office of United States marshal in
Chicago has been started by the
Department Of Justice following the
disappearance OF a large quantity
Of liquor from a Government ware
house in that city, it was learned
here today.
The responsibility for the liquor
theft was placed on Federal ware
house guards by investigators, who
reported that 1t was an ''inside
job" A thorough probe will be
aimed at determining individual re-
sponsibility for disappearance of
liquor and the conduct of assistants
Of United States Marshal Robert r.
Levy, officials said.
The liquor was involved in court
actions and in custody of Levy, who
is in Washington comforting with
Attorney General Stone and Az
sistant Attorney General Holland.
Senator Mckinley Rep) OF Iii
nois, saw Attorney General Stone
today. No statement was forthcon-
ing, but it was understood that the
general situation in the United
States marshars office was con-
sidered
OILlClalS SS%lu LAaL inc preHInlHAIy
investigation had showed that the
difficulties in the marshars office
are apparently the faults OF depu'
ties, instead of Levy personally.
The investigation resulted from
complaints filed with the Depart
ment of Justice by prohibition adj
vocates in Chicago, alleging that
Levy had been lax in his custody OF
liquor confiscated by Government
authorities.
An agent Of the department will
be sent to Chicago to check over
the details of reports that have
been submitted to the Attorney
General. No action has been taken
so far and none is anticipated until
the probe progresses further.
Levy desires to resign, it was
understood. He presented a similar
request to the Department Of Jus.
tice last September but was asked
to remain, according to officials.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
OUTSIDER SEEN
IN STUDENT
POISONING
Police Seek. Person Said to
Have Been Seen in Ohio
College Pharmacy

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Feb. Tn
formation indicating that some
outsider person not connected
with the college of pharmacy
was seen in the dispensary, on the
Ohio State University campus, a
short time before one of the phar-
macy students, in filling prescrip-
tiOns for colds, issued capsuled
quinine and aspirin which might
have included strycnfnine, was be-
ing followed up today by the police
officials who are probing the mys-
terry surrounding the deaths re-
Gently OF two university students
and serious illness of at last three
others, all attributed to strychnine
poisoning.
The Investigating officials, it was
stated, are endeavoring to identity
this stranger who snay possibly
the deadly poison among the uni
versity students. Al number Of
students during questioning by
the investigators, 1t was said, re-
called having seen the outsider"
obtain capsules Erom a quinine
bottle.
When the examination OF the stu
dents IN the pharmacy class Is com
pleted, q stiff grilling at police head.
quarters awaits a small group Of
students whose stories thus far have
not satisfied the probers, unless
their stories can be made later to
harmonize with known facts, Ches-
ter said today.
Nelson Rosenberg, son Of Doctor
Emmanuel Rosenberg, Cleveland, is
to be permitted to make HIS state
ment today to the probers, permits
sion for which he requested Friday.
UnnerVed BY Cameras.
Rosenberg was to have been ques-
toned further by the prObers late
Friday afternoon. When he ap-
peared walking across the campus
toward the pharmacy building where
the inquiry il being conducted, after.
u long walk in the country to quiet
his nerves, Rosenberg was faced by
q battery of newspaper cameras.
Unnerved, he turned and fled cross
the campus and disappeared.
1t was revealed today that still
another angle had been pursued by
Prosecutor Chester in his question
Ing Of students when it was learned
that some of those examined had
been asked whether they were mem.
bers of the Ku Klux Khan. All but
one Of the young men affected by the
poison capsules were Catholics, and
he was a Jew.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
TREND UPWARD NOTED
FOR BUILDING MATERIAL

With regard to the building
material situation, S. w. Straus
and Company say:
THE new year started with
upward tendencies in the gen.
eral material situation. Material
nrices in December showed
trend toward higher levels, ex-
cent on Portland cement. Sew
eral grades of lumber were quoted
10 per cent above November
prices, Steel. at the mill, was a
bit firmer in December, but ware
house prices remained practically
unchanged. In New York city,
prices Of starting materials were
somewhat higher. In other cities
most starting materials remained
at November levels"
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
7 EA SHORTAGE.
THREATENS !.
WORLD
Price Increase Justified by
Increased Consumption,
Expert Here Says

Tea drinking is increasing so rap
idly in popularity throughout the
world that there is a danger of a
shortage of tea.
This sidelight on the price OF
popularity of a product comes from
william H. Walsh, of Boston, adj
vertising manager Of the Salada Tea
Company, who Is in Washington to-
day on a tour of the country.
The English speaking countries
use the greatest amount of tea, ac-
cordfng to MIR. Walsh With them
tea drinking is such an established
institution that in Australia they
use nine pounds per capita; in Great
Britain. nine pounds; in Canada,
five pounds, and in the United
States, one pound.
Justifies Price Boost.
"The question of a possibility OF
a tea shortage is causing concern
among tea merchants and tea buy
ers the world over" Mr.. Walsh de-
clared. ''There has been phe-
nomenal rise in the market already.
40 that 1t was found necessary to
raise the prices to the retailer and
consuming public.
This is not at all due to the
high cost Of living, but is fully JUS
tiled by the fact Of an increase IN
the world consumption Of tea, which
Is only slightly below the produc'
tion."
New Russian Menace.
The greatest menace to the tea
sI,puIy is Russia, this time not
menace of red" doctrines, but OF q
Teturn of the inhabitants of that
large area to tea drinking. Imme-
diately after the war. according to
Mr.. Walsh. Russia was consuming
little tea. The consumption there
has increased to approximately
twenty-eight or thirty million
pounds.
"If conditions should increase at
the same ratio" Mr.. Walsh pointed
ont eft will not be long before 1t
will create an absolute shortage In
fha world market"
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
PASTOR READY
FOR TRIPLE
WEDDING
Or. WencheI's Plans for One
Ceremony to Unite Three
Couples Complete

A triple wedding will be per-
formed tonight at o'clock by the
Reverend John Frederic Wenchel
in the Christ Evangelical English
Lutheran Church, New Jersey
avenue and Morgan street north
west.
Reverend Wenchel plans only
one ceremony to unite the three
couples. They will line up before
him and he will read the mar
rage service. They all will have
to answer individually when the
st dos" and 81 Wills" are neces-
sary.
Those who will be married are:
Harry E. Williams. twenty-Qne
years old of 1406 North Capitol
street, son of Harry Williams, who
will marry Mildred r. Kadleck,
eighteen years old, of 1927 Twenty
Of Frank Kadleck.
Flournoy G. Roberts, twenty-one
years old Of SO @ street northeast,
son Of Gloster Roberts, who will
marry Elsie r. Mattingly, nineteen
years old, of 413 Fourth street
northwest, daughter of Walter
Mattingly.
Charles II. Baumbach, nineteen
years old, Of II N street northeast,
son of Andrew Baumbach, who
will marry Erma l.. Nicely, seven
teen years old, of 1905 Potomac
street northwest, apartment s,
daughter of Mrs. Walter Crack.
Following the ceremonies, the
sextet will start out on an auto
mobile tour together, stopping at
The same hotels and returning to-
gether.
The friendships between the six
young people were formed about
a year ago.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
SW|ND[|NGFOUR
POSE AS j. s:
SAILORS
Quartet Claims to Have
Brought Goods From Eng
land by Smuggling

A warning to housewives and
business men against four men who
are going about the city selling
materials for suits, which they
claim to have smuggled from Eng
land, but which is in reality moth
ing but cheap cloth, has been
issued by the police.
The men, who, according to
police, are nothing but swindlers,
have sold their goods to several
business men within the past few
days. They claim to have gotten
the goods into this country cheap
~ by smuggling.
The latest victim is James
Strauss, 1882 Fourteenth street
northwest, who paid out $3.50 for
some Of the goods yesterday.
The men say they are sailors on
an American merchant marine yes
sci. Two Of them dress as sailors
and g. third, who claims to be their
director, is nattily dressed. A
fourth man carries the goods to
the purchasers.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
COPELAND DOUBTS BUS
RIGHTS OF CAR LINES

Senator Royal s. Copeland OF
New York, has introduced a
resolution calling upon the Public
Utilities Commission to inform
the Senate by what authority they
give street railway companies the
authority to operate bus lines in
connection with their own lines.
Senator Copeland is firm in the
belief that buses in Washington,
will provide healthy competition to
the street railway lines and 1t Is
believed that he is calling for this
information to protect the interests
of Washingtonians who have found
the buses more convenient than
the street cars.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
N D Mt GONE ny
SPENDS most
ON PUPILS
Report Of State Board Shows
County Leads St. Mary's
Lowest

-
ROCKVILLE, Nd. Feb. 7.-Ac-
cording to statement issued BY
the State board Of education.
Montgomery county stood highest
last year among the counties Of
the State in expenditures per pupil
In the elementary schools, with
$50. st. Mary's county was lowest
with sac.
A combination chemical hose and
ladder truck have been added 70
the equipment OF the Rockville
Volunteer Fire Department. With
two up-to-date pumping engines
and other paraphernaiia, the
equipment is now believed TO be
all that win be needed for several
years.
Licenses have been issued bg
the clerk OF the circuit court here
for tn marriage OF Joseph e. Hill
fwenty-one and Miss Edna @.
Glenn, eighteen, both Of Richmond
Va: Joshua w. Cooper, twenty
five, Of New York City, and 1Eiaf
Margaret RI. Anderson, tWenty-four
OF Mountain Lake Park, Nd: Brad
ley M. Stump. twenty-three, ank
Miss Ruth =. Ennond, twenty-One
both Of Takoma Park. Nd; Harrs
r. Klamath, thirtysone. Of Fort
Myer, Va, and Miss Shphia Drawn.
eighteen, OF Brockton, Mass, and
John 4. SiIvins, twenty-five, and
Miss Emma Whalen, eighteen, both
of Derwood. Nd.
The Henderson Smith Edwards
Post, American Legion, Of Rock
Vile, Is planning to inaugurate
8. membership drive. The organf-
zatiOn now has sixty-eight mem
bers and it IS believed that the
number can be more than dOu-
bIed. TO further the movement.
d special meeting OF the post viii
be held In SecO Hall, here next
Wednesday evening.
Governor Richie has been urged
to pardon william Beahm, DarneS
town district farmer, who WAS
convicted at the November term
of the circuit court here Of selling
Intoxicating LIQUOR and sentenced
TO the house OF correction Tor 81.
months. The governor has liked
February 3 as the date until pro.
tests against the granting OF q
pardon win be received.
on an original investment ol
Sc 200 and covering b period ol
oTllv Few weeks, five well.known
citizens of the vicinity Of Diclxin!
SON. this county, are understood
to have Cleaned up over $4,000
IN the sensational rise in the price
Of wheat.
The lucky quintet are Lewis E
Allnutt, John Al. Jones, Lloyd y.
Jones, j. Carlson White. and James
b. HunkeIs.
At the annual election of officers
of the Burden Bearer Circle Of
Kings Daughters, of Rockville,
held at the home Of Mrs. Ohio
n w. Talbot, these officers were
chosen: President, Mrs. Ohio II.
W. Talbot; first vice president,
Mrs. Edward G.. Peter; second vice
president, Mrs. George p Lewis;
recording secretary, Mrs. James =.
Allen; corresponding secretary, Mrs,
Alexander Garrett; treasurer. Miss
Jackie Mcdonald.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
James n. Holmes Returns

James H. Holmes, sales manager
of Morris Cafritz Company. Inc,
and Mrs. Holmes have just returned
to the city from a months auto
tour through Florida and Cuba.
Just prior to the trip with his
wife, Mr.. Holmes spent ten days
with K. NJ Grimm. loan manager
of the Cafritz Company, at Curri-
tuck Sound, N. c., on a duck hunt,
Holmes and Grimm together bagged
eighty-five ducks ana twenty-five
geese on the trip
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
NIPS
PLOT To ROB
HOTEL
Alleged Marine Deserter Tries
to Get Boy to Help Him.
Detectives Called

A bell boys presence Of mind
after being asked to take part in
the hold-up and robbery of q hotel
here last night, led to the arrest
of Charles DeGalleford, Of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, on charges Of rob-
berry and concealed weapons.
Yesterday morning DeGalleford,
rooming at the Continental Hotel,
called for ice water. Raymond
simmons, colored, the bell hop. took
the water to his room. When the
boy entered, the roomer asked him
II he wanted to buy gun. Sim
mons said he didn't have any
money. DeGalIeford is then alleged
to have said, We'll. give me what
you have. anyway. The boy
handed over SIS cents.
The visitor kept Simmons in the
room for about a half hour. Finally
the bell hop was allowed to go on
the promise that he would re
appear at 1870 o'clock and help
hold up the hotel.
But Simmons got in touch wit
the police. Weber, Fowler aI1i
Flaherty lay in wait for the mar
who had meanwhile gone out. Abou
1880 last night DeGalleford returne
and was arrested. In his possession
according to detectives, was a heav
lily loaded revolver. He adn4tte
most Of the plot, they say, and said
it was because he was broke. He
only had one penny and a Canadian
dollar bill. He had used the So
cents taken from Simmons for a
shave and breakfast, he said.
DeGalleford admitted, police say,
that he deserted the marines a;
Paris Island in 1921. Recently he
has been employed as a seaman.
working on steamers out OF BaIti
more. He came to Washington, he
told police, with the intention OF
holding snI1nA nnA I'D
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
FALLING ICICLE CRUSHES
BOYS SKULL IN DESCENT

ELLENBURG, Pa, Feb. boys
throwing stones at giant icicles that
hung from a water tank of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Barnes
boro cost the life of Frank Gosch,
aged thirteen, son Of John Gosch,
of that place, who was caught un-
der one of the icicles as it dropped
to the ground.
The heavy mass of ice struck
the boys head, fracturing his skull.
He died half an hour after the ac'
cjdsnt.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
BRICKLAYER CRUSHED
BY WORK ELEVATOR

Frank Thompson, jr., of Ball
ston, Va, a bricklayer working on
the annex of the Willard Hotel,
1414 F street northwest, was crush
ed seriously yesterday when he was
caught between an elevator and a
cross beam about six feet from
the ground. while his father was
standing just a few feet away
When the elevator was raised. re.
leasing him, Thompson fell to the
ground. below. He was treated at
Emergency Hospital for serious in
juries to the chest and back, but
is expected to live.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07

toward accomplishment, there viii
be many things to discuss"
Prince Caetani. il is believed will
enter Italian public life SHORTLY after
his return to Italy. He is general.
ly credited in Washington with
having been spectacularly success
full in representing the necessities
Of the Mussolini regime to the
American Government. His success
sor. Signor De MARITIME. will. it is
hoped in Washington. be able to
bring forward some plan for some
future funding of the Italian deb:
to the United States out of the i'm
proved and increased economic re-
sources which the Italian fascist
revolution has produced In italy.
Copyright 1880
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
Young Mr.. DUNCAN Here

Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. DUNCAN
are receiving congratulations upon
the arrival of their third baby, a
bouncing boy weighing eight pounds
and six ounces. 1t was born on
January 20. The two other chill
|dren are; Walter A., jr., age four,
and Kathrine Patricia, two years.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
TNoIi Club Dance

The Tivoli Pastime Club viii give
q dance for the benefit OF register
office Treasury Department naseDali
team tonight in the private Dali
room at the Arcade.
The Washington times., 1925-02-07
DOdges Debt Query.

when VIII you pay the debt?
IT cannot discuss that point with
you. I would rather draw your
attention to the fact tina We are
struggling with some success at
this moment to build up in Italy
situation in which our government
has become solvent and in which
eur private business life will have
the capital 1t needs. When that
task is accomplished. and we be-
lieve that 1t is firmly on it's way