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Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
DELMAR GIRL dies
FROM ACCIDENT INJURIES
Matte Hastings Succumbs At Beebe
Hospital After Auto Crash

Matte Hastings, aged 16 years, of
Delnnar, died in the Beebe Hospital
Monday morning from injuries re-
ceived in an automobile accident
early Friday night. She sustained
a fractured skull in the accident and
had been unconscious from the time
she arrived at the hospital until her
death this morning.
Virginia Lowe, 16, of Delmar, VINO
was injured in the same accident IS
still in the Beebe Hospital but her
condition is considerably improved.
Two other boys and two girls VINO
were also in the wreck were lnJur-
ed but were able to go to their
homes.
Richard Wilson, driver OF the car
in which the young people injured
were riding was held under bail TO
await the result of the injuries 10
Miss Hastings and Miss Lowe, and
was also fined $3.50 for reckless
driving.
The automobile driven by young
Wilson run into a car driven by
A F. Evans, of Frankford, at the
intersection of the DUPONT highway
and the Laurel-GeorgetOwn road.
Wilson claimed he went to George
town from Delmar after medicine
for Miss Matte Hudson who was Ill
and was hurrying back with the
medicine when the crash occurred
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
CONFERENCE TREASURER IS
EXHONORATED In REPORT
No Shortage In Accounts OF Rev. w.
Z. Hills Says Committee

A committee appointed by the Will
mington Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church to in
vestigate the shortage in the ac-
counts of the conference treasurer,
the Rev. Vinal E. Hills, Of Mt. Pleas
ant Church, completed its work and
handed to the newspaper Tuesday
afternoon for publication its report,
thus complying with the instructions
Of conference that they give to the
press their findings in the inVestiga-
ton.
The committee has withheld moth
ing, the most important mention be-
ing made that of the Rev. H. W. Gal
lion, an assistant treasurer, pastor
of the Nanticoke NJ. E. Church, and
his handling of checks for $S25,
which it is claimed by the committee
were found to be fraudulent. This
amount has been made good. There
is still a shortage of $176 in cash.
but the committee expects to
straighten it out Soon
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
LOCAL GAMER ON
TOMATO OUTLOOK
Demand For Canned Goods In
creases This Week And Out
look Is Good.

In last Sundays issue of the Star
of Wilmington there appeared an
article dealing with the tomato SIT
uatiOn in Delaware and quoting q
prominent State official as saying
that the tomato growers in the
State are perplexed because the
Gamers refuse to contract for the
vegetable. This article lead a rep
resentative of the Chronicle to in
terview one of the large tomato
Gamers of Milford and to learn as
near as possible just how the toma-
to crop situation in the vicinity or
Milford stands. This Gamer ap-
peared very optimistic as to the fu-
ture of the tomato crop, and eX-
pressed the opinion that this years
crop and contracts, in Milford at
least, will be satisfactory. He said
that his company has already con-
tracted for One-third of the acreage
necessary for their plants. The
price being offered is $1,000 per ton.
In the very near future, he said,
his company will offer contracts
for the remaining twO-thirds of the
acreage necessary to operate the
factories, which will be operated at
full capacity.
In discussing the situation as he
sees it, he said that the demand
this week has grown rapidly. He
has stopped selling his canned
goods until he can ascertain just
how he stands in the matter OF
stock for delivery. Last year, he
stated, approximately 100000
cases of tomatoes were packed in
the United States. The normal
consumption is approximately 49,
100000 cases. While to the person
unfamiliar with the tomato market
this would indicate a surplus, he
said that last seasons pack came
on the market at time that the
supply was small and that the mar
kets were almost bare. Il requires
about 100000 cases OF tomatoes tc
stock the shelves of the stores IL
the country.
Working on the theory and be
lief that the demand will be norma
the local Gamer interviewed in
tends to operate at full capacity
He did state that one Of the rea
sons for the small demand early il
the season was the fact that thu
western states have gone into th'
canning game to a large extent
Tomatoes are bought under contrac
in those states for 5000 per ton
which places the Delmarva PENN
sula Gamers at a disadvantage, ht
said. 1t was following the misun
derstanding between the farmers
and Gamers in 1920, at which tim
the farmers refused to sell at tn
prices offered, that the western far
mers went into the tomat
growing business; thereby cuttini
into the demand for the produce o
Delaware and Maryland.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
START FIGHT TO
COMBAT RAVAGES
OF COOLING MOTH
State EntOmOlOgist And County
Agent Wilson Will War On
Apple Pest.
KENT GROWERS WILL HELP
Large Orchardists Assist In Ex-
periments Now Being Conduct
ed On Extensive Basis.

The season of the year is at hand
when the apple growers throughout
the state are particularly concerned
about the most practical and effec-
tive measures for controlling the
codling moth, and in view OF this
situation extensive studies of the
life history and control measures for
this insect are being conducted in
Kent county this spring by DR.. II. L.
Dozier, entomologist of the Univer-
sity of Delaware Agricultural Exper-
iment Station, and County Agent
Russell E. Wilson.
These observation studies of the
codling moth are of special interest
to the orchardists in Kent county
where it has been estimated that ap-
proximately seventy-tive per cent OF
the Gull apples each season are IN
tested with this insect. Fruit growers
in general throughout the county are
of the opinion that this insect IS the
most destructive and troublesome
pest with which they have to con-
tend during the entire growing per
iod, and it is therefore of greatest
Importance that every possible
means be employed toward formulat-
ing a successful control program for
this area.
For the past four years work On
the codling moth has been carried
on in the apple producing areas OF
Kent county by County Agent Rus
sell e. Wilson, and this year these
life history studies and control prob
lens will be in charge of DR.. H. l..
Dozier with the assistance OF Mr..
Wilson, during which time the pro-
iect will be conducted on a more eX-
tensive basis in an effort to learn
more about the life habits OF TINS
particular insect.
In each of the previous years
County Agent Wilson placed small
wire cages in a few of the represen-
tative commercial orchards in Kenl
county for the purpose of studying
the time of the maximum emergence
of the first brood When this emer-
gence was observed in these wire
cages notices were mailed to all the
fruit growers advising them of the
proper time to apply the arsemca
spravs for the control of the codling
moth. These small observation cages
this spring have been placed in the
apple orchards of Frank W. Rich
ardson. near Rising Sun; R. Burto1
Raughley, southeast of Dover; J
Leonard Soper, near Magnolia; H. E
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Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
THOUSANDS OF VOTERS
70 OPPOSE DRY LAWS
Delaware Division of Association
Against Prohibition in Quiet Drive

Though little publicity has been
given to it there is a vigorous cam
paign under way throughout Dela-
ware to have all men and women
opposed to the prevailing condition
under prohibition join the Delaware
Division of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment.
It is said that already thousands
of voters have Joined. The Division
has an Office in the DUPONT Building
in Wilmington with George w. Abb
berger in charge, and it is to this
office that applications for member
ship are sent A surprising rum
ber of women are among the appli-
cants for membership.
The first aim Of the Delaware III
vision is to work for the repeal of
the Klair law so that prescriptions
for alcoholic beverages can be filled
in this State. Modest advertise
ments for members have been print
ed in the newspapers of the State.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
BISHOP COOK LAUDS GOOD
WORK OF P. E. CLERGY
Addressing Annual Convention He
Reports Progress Within Diocese

The one hundred and fortieth con-
vention of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese of Delaware assembled in
All Saints Chapel at Rehoboth en-
Tuesday and heard the annual ad-
dress of Bishop Cook. Bishop Cook
first reported upon progress within
the diocese, then expressed his
views upon the general conditions of
country and church. He began by
lauding the clergy, saying: 81 wish
to bear witness to their faithfulness
and loyalty, to their patience and fl
delity-sometimes under trying and
discouraging conditions" He pointed
out that "this diocese has enjoyed a
new and unique experience for the
past year in that every station has
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Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
STATE LEGION WILL
MEET AT REHOB0TH
Annual Convention viii Be Held At
Resort On July 1G And II

It was announced on Wednesday
by Earl Sylvester, department com
mander of the American Legion of
Delaware, that T. Carlisle Collins, of
Milford, had been appointed chair
man of the department convention
committee. The other members Of
the committee are Wallace S. Wret-
en-, S43 Tatnall street, Wilmington;
William R. Rees, Seaford; Hughett
K. Mcdaniel, Dover, and S. Leroy
Layton, Frankford.
The seventh annual convention of
the Department of Delaware will be
held at Rehoboth Friday and Sat
urday, July 16 and II, at which time
officers for 1926-1927 will be elected
and installed. At the same time del
egates to the national convention to
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Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
MILFORD CITIZENS
ASKED TO CLEAN. UP
TOWN NEXT WEEK
CITY Council And Rotary Club
Cooperate In Asking Cleaning
OF Premises.
PLEASING APPEARANCE
Proper Cleaning Up Will Give
Visitors Better Impression Of
Milford.

Next week, Monday, May 18th to
Saturday, May 22nd, inclusive, have
been designated by Milford Town
Council as Cleanup Week" and
the citizens of the town have been
asked to cooperate in making the
movement a success. The members
Of Council are working with the
Milford Rotary Club to put across
the successful cleanup plans. The
citizens of Milford are asked to
cleanup and dig out the old rub
bish and dirt and have it hauled
away. There are several unslghtly
approaches to the town, and the
owners will be asked to aid in bet-
tering the conditions. At the public
dunn near Silver Lake travellers
on the railroad are given a very
bad impression of the town because
of the unsightly view now present.
ed to them. The owners of the
land have not levelled off the piled
an rubbish with the result that the
dirt banks are several feet higher
than the roadway at this point.
This is one of the bad approaches
that needs immediate attention, and
which it is hoped the owners will
have remedied next week during
the Cleanup drive. At the eastern
approach of Milford, on the Milford
Rehoboth highway, the view at
Marshal's Mill Pond is unsightly.
The application of a little cleaning
process and aid in cleaning up the
dump piles there will add much to
the approach at that point.
One of the .ost unsightly views
is presented at the entrance Of Mil
ford via Church street, IN North
Milford. Here Orkin Brothers
iron dealers, have piled small
mountain of scrap iron along the
street and over the curb line into
the road. The iron dealers have a
large tract of land Immediately in
the rear of their property and this
iron could be unlOaded there just
as well as where it is at present
placed. If this is not changed, Mil
ford Council can at least make
them remove the junk from the
pavement line and street.
The Cleanup plans call for the
active cooperation of every citizeI
of Milford. By united effort ever!
yard and the land around ever!
home in Milford can be cleaned VI
next week, and town will take on
slick and span appearance. At th'
regular meeting of Council on Tue
day night the members approved
the Cleanup Week plans and IL
circulars are urging the citizens tt
do their part in cleaning up th'
town.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
BAY FISHERMEN MAKE
LARGE CATCHES OF FISH
At Slaughter Beach The Fish Sold
For s1.OO A Bushel Last Saturday

Fishermen working their selns
along the Delaware Bay last FRIDAY
and Saturday made unusually large
hauls and caught big quantities Oh
fish. At Slaughter Beach as hlgn
as two hundred bushels were caught
in one haul. The fishermen found
the supply larger than the demand
with the result that the price drop
ped as low as one dollar bushel
to farmers and fish peddlers VINO
came to the beach to buy. Notwlth-
standing the low price paid for tne
fish at the seines, the peddlers
managed to hold the price up ana
the ultimate consumer in the towns
throughout the State paid almost
as much for the trout as they did
when the fish were scarce. Every
year the trout fishermen have one
period of the fishing season IN
which they make unusually large
hauls. This seemed to have been
the case last f fiday and Saturday
at the beaches near Milford at any
rate.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
Cleanup Week In
Milford Next Week

Milford Town Council has
set next week, May II to %.
inclusive, as Cleanup Week"
in Milford.
All citizens are asked to CO.
operate by cleaning up their
premises and making the town
more attractive.
A little effort, properly ap-
piled, will go a long way to-
ward making Milford a better
place in which to live.
Let's make "Clean-Up Week"
a big success.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14

OUR PRINTING PLANT
Is THE LARGEST ON
THE PENINSULA. LET
Us QUOTE ON YOUR
NEXT PRINTING ORDER
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14

THERE ARE 1900 Ru-
RAJ WEEKLY NEWS
PAPERS IN THE UNI.
TED ST AT e S. THE
CHRONICLE S IT A N . 3
FOURTH IN THIS LteT
IN CIRCULATION.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17
NEGRO SHOOTS
UP TRAIN; ON Z.
TWO HURT
lEr Dispatch A. P. Wirel

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, July 10
"A barrage of bullets from a pistol
welded by a negro in a passenger
coach on the Rock Island railway to-
day killed one and MANNED two before
the slayer himself fell with a self-in-
flicted wound that may cause his
death.
William Johnson, the negro, believed
to be form Seattle or oklahoma City,
suddenly drew the pistol, clutched it
with two hands and fired.
The result:
j. f. Anderson, SO. switchman of
Council Bluffs, is dead.
A. II. Rohweder, train conductor Oh
Rock Island, H., shot through the
jaw
F. G. Knopp of Council Bluffs, shot
in the face.
The negro turned the weapon on
several other passengers, but his aim
was poor. Then the slayer sent a
bullet into his head. His condition is
critical.
Both Rohweder and Knopp have a
fair chance for recovery, although
their faces may be disfigured for life
Only three passengers were in the car.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17
JUAQUIN RUIZ,
OF PIRTLEVILLE.,
IS FOUND DEAD

JOAQUIN Ruiz, PirtleVille storekeep-
er, was found dead in his home Fri
day after his failure to appear at his
store for the past two days had
aroused the suspicion of neighbors,
who notified the officers.
Percy Bowden, chief of police; Sam
Hayhurst, deputy sheriff, and O. A.
Ash, constable, investigated and found
Ruiz living dead across his bed, APP
parently the victim of heart at
tack He had been dead two or three
days.
Ruiz, about 40 years of age, had
lived alone for many years and is not
known to have any relatives
At the inquest held shortly after
the body was discovered, the coronor's
Jury returned a verdict of death
from causes. unknown to the jury"
No evidence of foul play was found
and the man is believed to have died
as the result of d heart attack.
Disposition of the deceased's ef-
fects will be made in accordance with
a letter found at his bedside. The
letter. written in Spanish and dated
June 90, 1925, read, in part: I'm case
T die, I want all my property given
to Norbarto Marina, as he once loan
ed me $780, and I want my friends
Costulo Montana, Ramon Peralta and
Pedro Ruiz to take part in my flu
neral"
The extent of Ruiz's estate is not
lyet known.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17
COLO. LAWYERS
ENTERTAIN F OR
.2,1O9 CUES T S.
tpy Dispatch A. P. wire)

DENVER, July 16.-The members of
the Colorado and Denver Bar associa-
tions tonight paid tribute to their .
1O9 guests in attendance at the 49th
annual convention of the American Bar
association which ended it's sessions
here today with banquet at the mu~
nicipal auditorium. The large struc-
ture was gaily decorated with Amerl-
can flags and palms and the visiting
hosts paid tribute to the hospitality
of the two bar associations and the
citizens of Denver generally.
Retiring President Chester l. Long
of Wichita Kans., presided as toast
master and introduced his successor,
former Governor Charles S. Whitman
of New York who, at the closing ses-
sion of the convention today, was
chosen as the 50th presl-
dent of the organization. Whitman
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17
N. Y. GOVERNOR
VISITS SUMMER
WHITE HOU Sc
(By Dispatch A. Z. wirel

PAUL SMITHS, n. Y, July 16.-
With the formality attending cere-
monies of state, Governor Alfred p.
Smith of New York and Mrs Smith
were received at White Pine camp,
the summer White House today, to
pay their respects and extend to
the president and Mrs. Coolidge, an
invitation on behalf of the state to
visit the Adirondacks.
Escorted to the summer White
House in the automobile of Presi-
dent Coolidge from Paul Smiths
hotel, four miles away, by Captain
Wilson Brown, Jr., naval aide to the
president, in dress uniform, they
We're saluted at the entrance to the
camp by the detachment of marines
guarding the president which was
drawn up with guns at present.
The president and Mrs. Coolidge
awaited them within the main cabin
of the camp, the Governor and Mrs.
Smith entering and being presented
by Captain Brown. Then the four
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17
USE S.
OF LEAD MANY,
S AY S M'GRATH
(By Dispatch A. p. wirel

BISBEE July 16.-Bullets are made
Of lead, but the destructive uses Of
that metal arei insignificant when
compared with it's manifold and
growing adaptations in the interests
of peace and progress, was the asser-
tion of Il. o. McGrath, manager of the
Shattuck Dem Mining corporation,
during a talk on lead mining by, his
anG other companies before a civic
organization here today.
Romance long ago wrapped its arms
around lead and the associations OF
these twain down through the annals
of time are recorded for the past 81
600 years, the speaker declared in
pointing out that this VAS particular
Significance to Arizona, which he said
is situated near the greatest lead belt
in the world extending from Canada
across the United States and into
Mexico.
Recounting the historical pathways
trod by lead and romance in Phoenicia,
Babylonia Egypt, Greece and the Ro-
man empire, down to the Spanish con-
ouest of the new world McGrath said
the two lead concentrahors in this
district are unlike any others, that
the United States produces 81 per cent
of the worlds supply of lead, and that
the North American continent has an
output twice as large As that of Eu-
rope.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17

baper men and police had traced along
the Mexican border in the BELIEF that
Mrs. Mcpherson HAD Travelled in IT
prior to her arrival att Douglas from
points south in the Me<ican desert
June %.
Thesaffidavit Immediately became 500
object of scrutiny and attack by news
paper Investigators who had been on
the blue sedan" trail. They said the
machine was not of the same make as
the car which they had been seeking,
that its license number did not tally
with that of the blue sedan" sought,
and that it's movements, as reported by
Mrs. Umphrey did not correspond with
the movements of the car which had
excited suspicion along the interna-
tional boundary.
Kenneth Ormiston. Mrs. McPhersons
former radio operator and friend
whose name has been linked intermit-
tently with the evangeiist's disap-
pearance, still remained INDICATED to-
day. He was reported to be in NORTH
carolina. but p. d. Hallenbeck, an
other of Mrs. McPherson's friends ana
her former building upeslntendent'
said that Ormiston was mot far away
and could be produced in time Tor re-
sumption of the grand jury inquiry
next Tuesday
superior Judge Arthur Keetch re-
iterated his declaration that the granu
iury could make no report on us III
vestigation unless 1t indicted the al
legged kidnapers Of the evangells''
This was the declaration that drew the
recent charge from Rev. r. F. Shuler
that the grand jury was being muz-
zled
In one respect today was no ex-
ception to the So others which have
come and gone since Mrs. Mcpherson
disappeared in the Santa Monica
surf.
It was filled with rumors about
the mystery from which there emerg-
ed here and there near-concrete
fact that would stand a few moments
scutiny.
A woman, said to answer the de-
scription of Aimee Semple Mcpherson,
accompanied by two men, appeared at
a mountain retreat near the Mexican
border a few days after the Angelus
temple evangelist had vanished at
Santa Monica, officials were inform
ed tonight. 1t was reported that
Chief Of Detectives Cline and Deputy
District Attorney Joe Ryan were pre-
pairing to leave for the mountain re-
sort to investigate the report.
While neither of the officials would
comment on the new development IN
the Mcpherson case, it was reported
that the trip south would be two
fold, as the investigators would stop
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17
F OR E S T FIRES.
m NORTHWEST I
DAMAGING
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)

SEATTLE, Wash, July 16.-Begin-
ming the second week of forest fires
caused by lightning and heat wave
over the Pacific northwest, the sit
uation was much improved tonight IN
western washington and British Co
lumbia, while conditions in north
eastern Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana were steadily growing worse.
Fire in the Kaniksu and Pend Oreille
forests was blown out of control yes
terday. The Blackfeet forest, Mon
tana, blaze was spreading. Unless
rain comes soon, one-fourth Of the
entire area of the Kaniksu national
forest will have been swept, forest
officials said. Fires in Oregon are
offering stubborn resistance and con-
ditions there. are unchanged.
Victoria reported only two fires
burning on Vancouver island out OF
control these burning over logged
off land Weather conditions had i'm
proved in British Columbia.
The garrison at Fort Missoula,
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17
was legal.

Angelus Temple, the evangelists
Headquarters, opened the day with the
announcement that despite the hulla7
balloo and controversy over their
leaders kidnapping narrative, there
had been more than 5000 persons at
the Mcpherson revival meeting last
night and that 1856 converts haa
Welded to the ALTAR call"
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother OF
Mrs. Mcpherson, commented crypt
cally and Biblically on the adverse
grand jury testimony of yesterday
with the remark: THE fires of hell
are burning and they must burn them
selves out, but we are not afraid"
This was the temples only state
ment concerning yesterdays evidence
that Mrs. Mcpherson had been seen IN
two places after she nae been report
ed drowned and before she turned up
at Aqua Prieta, Mexico, with the tale
that she was kidnapped and imprisoned
The second, and legal, barrage came
from Arthur Veitch, attorney for the
evangelist, who produced an affidavlt
made by Mrs. G. r. Umphrey that hers
was the ''blue sedan which news
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17
DESERTER
FROM LEGION,
GETS 5 YE AR S
(By Dispatch A. P. Wire)

DAMASCUS, Syria, July l6.-Eight
years at hard labor was the sentence
pronounced by a court martial today
on Bennett J. Doty of Memphis, Tenn
after he was convicted of abandon
ing his post before armed rebels"
Doty, who was serving with the
French Foreign Legion against the re-
bellious Syrian tribesmen, having en-
listed under the name of Gllpert
Glare, admitted after he was arrested
that he was absent without leave
but explained he left his post WhHe
in a homesick mood.
The prosecuting officer demanded
that Doty be given the extreme pen
atty of death, but the deefnse counsel
Lieutenant Gallifer, made an elouent
plea for the American, called atteh-
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