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Milford chronicle., 1927-08-12
FAMILY REUNION
AFTER 20 YEARS
Home Of Mr.. And Mrs. Roy
Cannon Scene OF Two Day
Gathering.

At the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Cannon on West Second Street,
North Milford, family reunion was
held last Friday and Saturday. 1t
had been over 20 years since all
the members of Mrs. Cannon's i'm
mediate family had been together.
Her mother is spending the summer
with her, and very Unexpectedly
one day last week the youngest bro
ther, G.. P. Reynolds, of Chino, Calf
ornia, arrived in Milford to visit
his mother whom he had not seen
for 10 years. Immediately Mrs.
Cannon began to make plans for the
reunion. On Friday guests began to
arrive for this happy occasion, bro
theirs and sisters, grandchildren and
great grandchildren. Sunday was
a red letter day for these happy
people. A proud mother sat at the
head of the large table in the din
ing room and listened to her child
rem talk about childhood days and
on up to the present time. Prayers
of thanksgiving were offered to the
Heavenly Father who had made it
possible for the members of this
family to meet again. Old fashion
ed hymns that were learned during
childhood days were once more sung
with a joyousness that made the
halls ring and until the small hours
of the morning, laughter and joy
mingled with tiny baby's cries made
the Reynolds family forget they
ever had any cares, after two days
of loving fellowship together.
Good-byes were said to most of
them with the exception of final
farewells to be said later in Phila-
delphia, when those who live so far
away, go home. Among those pre-
sent were: Gilbert P. Reynolds,
wife and son, Billy, from Chino,
Cal, Mr. and Mrs. ]. H. Reynolds
Sr., and Mr.. and Mrs. J. HI. Reynolds
Jr., and daughter Pearl, from Eliza
beth, N. Y, Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph
Bischoff and baby Audrey, Mr.. lWiI-
liam ]. Reynolds and George E.
Reynolds from Elizabeth, N. Y, Mr..
and Mrs. William G. Reynolds from
Chester, Pa, Mrs. Clara M. Harris
and Joseph A. Martocello from
Philadelphia, and Mrs. Sallie E.
Morgan from Ridgley Park, Pa.
Milford chronicle., 1927-08-12
DELAWARE MILITIA
CAMP PLEASING TO
GENERAL HAMILTON
Commanding General OF Second
District Says Camp Compares
Favorable To Others.
REVIEW The REGIMENT
Enlire Personnel OF Unit Inspect
ed On. Wednesday Afternoon.
Another Yesterday.

The Delaware National Guard
Camp, 19Sth Anti Aircraft, Coast
Artillery, underwent a rigid inspect
ion by Brigadier General Alison
Hamilton, on Wednesday and was
not found wanting.
General Hamilton is command
ing general of the Second Coast
Artillery District, with headquarters
at Fort Totten, New York. He has
under his command all coast artil-
Iery units of the regular army.
natlonal guards and R. o. T. C,
This was his first visit to the Della
ware National Guard while in en-
campment.
After inspecting the Battery
streets, the gun ranges and other
departments in the camp, General
Hamilton declared that Camp Rusb
was one of the best encampments of
the National Guard he had ever
visited, that the site was ideal. and
that every aspect of the camp was
IN excellent condition.
lie was accompanied on his tour
OF inspection by his aide, Lieuten-
ant j. Foxhall Sturman, Adiutant
General, J. Austin Ellison, Colonel
John f. LeFevre, commander of the
camp; Lieutenant-C Colonel GEORGE
j. Schulz, Lieutenant-CoIoneI Rob
ert M. Carswell and Major Robert
r. Gassburn, U. S. A., senior in
structor in the camp.
when General Hamilton arrived
IN camp, he first inspected the *
nm anti-aircraft guns. And
throughout the entire Inspection he
asked numerous questions and was
oUnoinuaily oono referring to his expert
ence with similar weapons dnrino
the late World War.
lie requested notes to be mada
ana sent to him concerning defects
III Cne guns. From the anti-air-
craIt guns he went into the paraeo
ana showed interest in the large
army trucks and caterpillar tract
orS' lie was also interested in the
CONTINUED on page fourl
Milford chronicle., 1927-08-12
HARRINGTON TRIMS LOCAL
BOYS In WELL PLAYED GAME
Game At Harrington Last Saturday
Was Fine-DOver Here Tomorrow

Harrington defeated Milford at
Harrington, Saturday, by the score
of seven to three. After battling on
even terms for half the game, Har-
rington scored three in the fifth,
which proved to be enough to win.
Ryan pitched a good game, keeping
Milford's ten hits well scattered,
while Harrington used their hits to
the best advantage. Murray was the
hitting star with homer and a
double. He was responsible for, four
of Harrington's runs. Warren kept
up his batting streak with two more
hits. He has hit safely in every game,
having an average of .583. Milford
has now won seven of the ten games
played. Dover plays here Saturday at
three o'clock.
The box score:
Milford chronicle., 1927-08-12
WINGATE TAKES OATH
AS REHOB0TH MAYOR
Town Commission Organizes, And
Standing Committee Named

Ralph M. Wingate, young progress
sive and anxious to keep Rehoboth
going constantly forward not only
as a town, but as Delaware's only
ocean resort, was sworn in as may
or of the seaside colony Saturday
afternoon in the town hall at a
meeting of the town commissioners.
At that meeting, also, Ralph Poyn-
ter was elected secretary of the
board of commissioners. The Sus-
sex Trust Company, at Lewes, was
named as treasurer. John M.
Richardson, of Georgetown, was
chosen attorney. William M. Down
ing was named chief of police.
The new mayor started his term
of office by naming the following
standing committee:
Streets-Ralph Poynter, chairman
William Virden and Daniel Conant.
Lights-William Virden, chair
man; William Sipple, Jr., Ralph
Wingate.
Town Buildings and Real Estate
Ralph Poynter, chairman; Fred A.
ROSS ana william S1pple Jr.
Finance Committee-Fred Ross,
chairman; William Virden and J.
Hall Anderson.
Parks-William Sipple Jr., chair
man; Daniel Conant, Ralph Poynter.
Board of Health-William r. Mes
sick, DR.. Walter P. Robinson, DR.
Charles M. Almond.
All of these officers and COM
mittees will serve for one year.
Mr.. Virden, who has been mayor
resumed his duties as commissioner
and DAME Conant, a new commits.
sioner, took his chair at this meet.
ing. In addition to these two the
Town Board now comprises Messrs
Wingate, Poynter, Anderson, Sipplt
and Ross.
Milford chronicle., 1927-08-12
GIRL SAYS THAT CAB
DRIVER ATTACKED Her
Miss Ruth Thomas Of Frederick
Has Wilmington Driver Held
On Assault Charge.

Charged with attempted assault
George Long, 80 years old, of 2116
Reedland Street, Philadelphia, en-
ployed as a taxi-cab driver in Will
mington, was held in $1,000 bail by
Magistrate Gluckman of Wilmington
on Wednesday, for the grand jury
Long waived hearing.
Charges against Long were pre-
ferred by Miss Ruth Thomas, an Is
year-old brunette from Frederica
who was staying at hotel on
French Street above Eighth.
The arrest of Long was made
Saturday by Detectives Elliot and
Pierce, as Miss Thomas had first
appealed to the city police. When
it was subsequently learned that
the alleged attack occurred outside
of the city limits, the case was taken
before Magistrate Gluckman.
Miss Thomas said she was on her
way to the Fourth Street wharf
Wednesday, planning to go tie Ches-
ter to seek employment. Long saw
her and offered to take her to
Marcus Hook by automobile and she
accepted, she said.
When their car reached Shellpot,
Miss Thomas testified, Long turned
off the Philadelphia pike, and when
a lonely place was reached along
the side road, he attempted to as
sault her. She beat him off, she
said, and left the car, but he offer
ed to return with her to Whining
ton. When she re-entered the car
he renewed the attack, she said
According to detectives, Miss Tho
mas. received bruises and scratches
as a result of her encounter.
Upon returning to Wilmington
the young woman complained to
the police. Long was located and
identified by Miss Thomas. He is
married and the father of several
children.
Milford chronicle., 1927-08-12
July Automobile Receipts
In State Totals $29,776.71

State Motor Vehicle Admin
istrator William Ball has COM
pleted his report for the month
of July of receipts from the
different sources of his depart
ment as follows:
Titling department, titles,
$2,139; duplicate titles, S45.5O;
corrected titles, $10S; notary
public, $103; liens, $39S; salts
factions, $155.50; specials,
Preference money! $145; to-
tai, $3,094.
Automobile Department,
pleasure cars, $14,944; COM
mercial cars, $5,695; motor
cycles, SOL; tractors, $49S;
dealers, 500; operators, $4,957;
trailers, $11S; total, $26,393. =
Specials, preference money!
S121.7O; sale auto books, $40;
lost tags, $50; postage, 81
cents; duplicate cards, $107.5O
total, $2S9.71; grand total of
receipts for the month, $685.
776.71.
Milford chronicle., 1927-08-12
SALISBURY NEWSPAPERS
HAVE CHANGED OWNERSHIP
Morning And Evening Times And
Weekly News Sold This Week

Sale of The News Publishing
Company, publishers of The Sails
bury Times, daily and The Wicom-
leo News, weekly, to Alfred T. Truitt
and Charles ]. Truitt, manager and
editor, respectively, of the two
newspapers, was announced on
Monday.
Included in the purchase are the
Adkins Building on Main street
which is occupied by the company
and several other concerns, both
Continued on page eight
Milford chronicle., 1927-08-12

THERE ARE 1900 RU-
RAJ WEEKLY NEWS
PAPERS IN THE UNI
TED ST AT e S. T n e
CHRONICLE ST A N D 8
THIRD IN THE LIST IN
CIRCULATION.
The Washington times., 1927-12-07
Connie Talinadge
Now With United
Artists

Constance Talmadge became a
United Artist this week.
Joseph NJ. Schenck. producer of
Miss Talmadge's films. which have
been released hitherto through
First National. announced signing
OF q long term contract between
himself and Constance TaImadge
for future release Of her produc-
tions through United Artists.
East of the Setting Sun"
George Barr McCutcheon's novel.
viii be Miss Talmadge's first
United Artists vehicle. Mr.. Schenck
said. The film win be made at
United Artists Studio. where Miss
Talmadge made her last two pic
lures. No director or leading man
has as vet been signed. according
to Schenck.
Constance Talmadge follows her
sister, Norma. into United Artists.
The Dove to be released in
January, win be Norma Tai.
madge's first United Artists Pic
ture, and "A Woman DISPUTED" TO
90 into production Christmas
week under direction Of Henry
King. will be Norma Talmadge's
second United Artists Picture.
Constance Talmacge will make
two pictures year for United
Artists. Her new contract places
her in the picture gallery with
Mary Pickford. Norma Taimadge,
Gloria Swanson. Corinne Griffith,
Wilma Banky, Gilda Gray. and
Dolores del Rio-female stars
whose productions are released
through United Artists.
The Washington times., 1927-12-07
Actor Fund FrOlic
Friday at the
National

One of the interesting special
features of the Actors Fund Bene.
fit Show to be staged at the Ma
tional Theater, Friday afternoon.
is called "The jury" written by
H. 1. Phillips of the New York
Sun. Walter Hartwig, personal
representative of Daniel Frohman,
who is in charge of the Benefit
Show, is rehearsing the act, but
refuses to give out any details.
1t is also understood that a
strictly local act, written by a
local man, will be one of the
surprises Of the show.
Mr.. Frohman, with coterie of
New York talent. will arrive in
Washington Thursday night, in
preparation for the benefit per.
formance, which 1t is claimed
will bring to the stage Of the
National, more theatrical stars
then have ever been seen on that
stage In one performance.
All the stars of all the shows
engaged at the local theaters this
week will be in the cast. and in
addition to this ensemble there
will be a number of others who
will come by rail and motor from
Baltimore. Philadelphia and New
York.
Society is expected to turn out
en- masse for this performance, in.
asmuch as Mrs. Coolidge heads
the list of patronnesses.
The curtain will rise promptly
at 2:15 p. m.
The Washington times., 1927-12-07
Marion Talley to
Sing at Polls
Friday

Marion Talley. famous soprano
of the Metropolitan Opera, whose
debut was one of the most re-
ma.rkable demonstrations in Amer
lean music. will be heard in con-
cert at Polls Friday afternoon az
4:S0 o'clock as the first attraction
in Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Artists
Course.
Miss Talley will be assisted by
John Corigliano, violinist, and
Stewart Wills. pianist. Her pro-
gram will include: "Ah! Non
Credea Minarti" from La Son.
nambula" and "Je suis Titania"
from "Mignon." as we'll as Frank
La Forge's arrangement of Jo-
hann Strauss Beautiful Blue
Danube: Lithauisches Lied (Cho-
pin). "Vergebliches Standchen"
folk song of the lower Rhinel
(Brahms), Sheep and Lambs"
(Homer) "Trees" Rasbach), 20
Dear! What Can the Matter Be?"
Carr. by Bax): THE Virgins Slum.
ber Song" (Rogerl. Pretty Mock.
ing Bird" Bishop. LaF Forge).
Seats are on sale at Mrs.
Wilson-Greene's Concert Bureau
In Droop's, 1900 G st. N. W.
The Washington times., 1927-12-07
Who's Who On
Hollywood
Lots

OWN you tell me the age of
Dione Ellis. Also the color of her
hair and eyes. What was her
very first picture and what is her
latest? Also, her address.
A.-She Is only IL and has
blonde hair and blue eyes. She
first played in Cradle SnatChers."
Now playing in Love Is Blonde"
q Q.-Tell me the age of Leila
Hyams, some of her first pictures
and the color Of her hair and
eyes.
A.-She is 22 and has golden
hair and gray eyes. Started ON
the screen playing bits in "a
social Celebrity" "Dancin &
Mothers" then was given .
featured role in Summer Bache.
lOrs." Her latest pictures are
"The Brute" "The Bush Lacquer
"One Round Hogan"
Q.-Who played the part Of
Bruce Armstrong in Wings He
also played in Rolled Stockings"
with Louise Brooks and James
Hall. taking the part of the lat
ters' brothers. Also the addresses
of the following: James Hal,
Louise Brooks, Clara Bow, Charles
Rogers.
A.-Richard ArIen played In
Wings and Rolled Stockings"
Write to James Hall. care OF
william Fox Studio, Hollywood,
Calf; Louise Brooks. Clara Bow,
and Charles Rogers care Of Famous
DHaNrnvS- SfapAsa IInn1uSunOl rmlaf
Q.-State the nationality of
Renee Adoree; also the color Of her
eyes and hair; If she is married:
her age and height.
A.-She Is French and has
brown hair and blue eyes. Mar.
ried to william s. Gill, Los
Angeles business man. She Is
rs, and is feet 8 inches.
Copyright, 1927. by Famous Features
Syndicate IncN
The Washington times., 1927-12-07

Over six hun
dred s a t / sfied
customers have
h e e d e d t h g
S l o & an after
you've tried the
rest, try t h e
b e s t. of the
Triangle Battery
s e r vice 43
Florida Avenue,
Northeast, which
w I'LL a m L.
Curles, native of
Waterlilly, North
arc lin a has
r g C e n t ly ac-
q u | re d, a n d
under w h o s e
capable manage
r,,a-k fkn ta,,ri
The Washington times., 1927-12-07

the cost of transporting printing
presses was too altruistic a ges-
ture for the mere sake of art
and realism.
~ 4
This column might just as
well be dedicated today to
Celebrity" as to any other
good cause. Thus we conclude
with the following contribution
from the press agent Of that
show:
"Gavin Gordon (who plays
the pug) halls from Mobile,
Ala, and is the great-great-
grandnephew of Robert E. Lee.
This is a statement that bears
much more significance in the
South than in our irreverent
territory"
The Washington times., 1927-12-07
Broadway Notes on
the Plays and
Players

Jeanne Eagels Ii denying in
all New York papers that she
has signed film contract. She
did do one picture. Man, Woman
and sin," partly filmed here.
with John Gilbert, but now she
is back in the stage version of
"Her Cardboard Lover" which
she finds greatly to her liking.
"show Boat" opened in Phila-
delphia last night. Next week In
New York at the Lyric. where it
will replace "The Ladder" the
only free-admission show in New
York's history. 1.-The Ladder"
moves to another theater and the
free list will be suspended, ad-
mission being charged again.
Charles Ray, film actor, is
doing a weeks tryout in "A
Mans Man" after which he will
have a stage play of his own.
Two Eugene O'Neil plays are
now in rehearsal by the Theater
Guild. They are Marco Millions"
and Strange Interlude."
Thanksgiving week hit the
Broadway theaters amidships.
Recuperauon, however, has been
prompt. The following are re-
ported as sell.outs, or nearly
that. within the past week:
Funny Face Manhattan Mary"
Hit the Deck, Escape, Good
News "The Merry Malones,
'"The Five o'clock Girl, "The
Doctors Dilemma, Golden
Dawn, "The Command to Love-.
"Coquette", THE Trial OF Mary
Dugan', "Ziegfeld Follies", Bur
lesque". "Porgy". "A Connecticut
Yankee, Take the Air., Artists
and Models. "Rio Rita
The Washington times., 1927-12-07
THE GATE-POST
By Harold Phillips;

Mr. Willard Kee author Celebrity" gifted yro the
playwright game Also he is newspaper and
fedgng of Is years apprenticeship veteran make bold
to object his illusions
concerned Down his heart he probably objects
it, It's hard for who things
nifty merely to repute if the repue of his
The Washington times., 1927-12-07


ness is making steady progress.
The Triangle Battery Service has
developed plan whereby it can
sell batteries at very low price
by taking old batteries in exchange.
The Triangle Battery Service also
has in its employ an expert battery
nan who, previous to his connection
with the company was employed by
one of the best known battery
manufacturers in the country.
Such factors enable the company
to give an unqualified guarantee
on all repair work.
Mr.. Curles before coming to
Washington six months ago was
employed for several years in New
England by one of the large
electrical manufacturers in that
section.
See the announcement Of the
Triangle Battery Service In tI,s
who's Who" columns on PAGE Is
Of tOday's Times and Herald.
The Washington times., 1927-12-07
City Club Recital

Washington composers will come
INTO their own tonight when the
city Club music committee presents
in recital at the club rooms a mum.
Ter of District Of Columbia musical
artists. performing and writing. as
a tribute to the Washington Com
posers Club. organized last year to
promote promising District COM
posers.
Many Of ths compositions 10 he
heard tonight will be sung or PLAYED
Tor the first time 20 an audiences.
The Washington times., 1927-12-07
Lido Tonight

Blanche Lehman and Peggy
Little. pert little singers and
dancers from the home town, will
top the Club Lido entertainment
bill for the Theatrical Mite"
soiree tonight. The girls are
going over with bang at Loew's
Palace Theater this week.
Stage stars. of course, will
again be much in evidence. ca
vorting informally with the
crowd as guests of honor. Music
by Emory Daugherty's Lido Band,
which has taken on even hotter
aspects with the advent of
Johnny Slaughter, the violin vir-
tuoso from the south.
The Washington times., 1927-12-07

Jewelry makes an ideal Christmas
gift let the Jeweler whose service
Il advertised In who's Wh0'' assist y0u
n the selection Of ideal Christmas
The Washington times., 1927-12-07

4k&
To be honest, / got stomach
laugh out of Crane Wilbur's
observation that the reporters
coming to interview "the champ"
would be full of bad booze any
way" and that the champ, or
chump, could be himself.
In years of going to mass
interviews with celebrities of
one order or another, mostly
film, l have always expected,
and found, the ingredients at
the meeting place. The only
exception to this order was Tom
Mix. who substituted tales of
his pinto pony for White Horse.
Any reporter. however bright,
caught spending HIS money for
a preinterview libation would be
considered non compos mcntis.
Again, the contender for the
championship has just "slaugh-
tered" a Mr.. Brennan and has
disappeared. "A mob of report
ers is downstairs" his manager
tells the audience. Such mob
as will require a special suite.
It's that big! The first requi-
site is to rush watts of Scotch
to the special suite to calm the
surging throng and to return
later for what the better drunk
ards call "the troops from Fort
Dodge"
At the expense Of seeming a
very experienced young man,
/ again enter objection. have
never seen a covey of five re-
porters or more where there
wasn't one who didn't have his
nose so hard on the scent that
he could be swerved from his
purpose with a kings ransom
in Scotch. Yet, "the mob" is
pacified and not one bright boy
with disheveled hair, a terrible
looking hat and a mad determi-
nation manages to make the
floor above for "the big story"
Again-and I'm finished-the
reportorial types selected by
Philip Goodman, the director,
are bogus. There are three of
them and only one is honest;
that because she is homely and
quiet. The tall travesty on F.
P. A. is taciturn to a degree
that would have got him thrown
out of tall buildings long before
he reached the stage where
editors would trust him with
celebrities; the garrulous and
affected lady is more indigo
nous to women's clubs and back
steps than to the city room.
Otherwise Mr.. Keefe has q
good play and I'm not hot under
the collar about any Of it.
Authors are notoriously inept
in depicting a true reportorial
type on the stage. Inevitably
the pencil and scratch-pad must
appear. A stage scribe without
a pad would be as a stage de-
tective without a bowler hat or
shoes that look like a nursery
dream of something sailing to
far-off shores.
True enough, your reporter
who pays taxes and tries to
evade the rent, and is otherwise
a citizen, does use pencil and
some scratch paper in en1ergen-
cies. He is never ostentatious
about it, though. Rather he is
furtive. For inconseuuentiaI
yarns he doesn't need to take
notes. For important ones, he
should, and does. And for the
important ones, he is careful
(as his city editor has warned
him) not to disconcert his SUBJ
Ject by a constant exhibition Of
his implements Of trade.
It the reporter hasn't a note
book on the stage, then he is
spurious in the matter of type,
as Mr.! Keefe's Tor Mr.. Good
man's) reporters are.
The only authentic reporters,
l can remember seeing on the
stage were in '"'The Racket"
Years ago, some Is. there were
real reporters in a play called
"The Fourth Estate" The by
ways never saw them because
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-27

ANOTHER Cd o LINDBERGH-COlOnel
Charles A. Lndbergh's collection of medals is growing.
Here's the latest, on the right. It was presented the
air hero by the president of the Mexican congress in
recognition Of the completion of his flight between the
two CAPITALS.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-27

MOTHER roo. AN AIR is Mrs.
Evangeine Lindbergh, snapped at the Ford airport.
Detroit. just before hopping off on her fight to Mexico
City to join her son, Colonel Charles A. L~indbergh, for
the Christmas holidays. Left to right in the photo are.
Henry Ford. present to bid bon voyage to the party.
Mrs. Lindbergh. Harry Brooks. pilot of the plane, and
Mr.. and Mrs. w B. Stout. accompanying the air hero's
mother on the flight south.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-27

PASSENGER GOES ABOARD-This somewhat unconven-
tional sight of a huge and very much alive elephant dangling
high in the air startled passersby at the docks in Los Angeles,
Cal. He was merely a passenger boarding a ship. Booked for
Hawaii, no gangplank could be found to accommodate him.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-27

DOWN WITH SHIP-Frank
Snizek, -, was q torpedorhan
on the Inflated submarine S.
sunk of Provincetown, Mass.
after a collision with the de-
stroyer Paulding. He had been
married only . month and ex-
pected to visit his homo. Ridge
field Park. ". j., for Christmas.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-27

ANSWERED NAVY
CALL-Edward Els
berg, former lieutenant
commander in the U. S.
navy, and an expert in
submarine raising, was
rushed TO Province
town., Mass, to aid in
the raising Of the S-4
after the undersea boat
was rammed and sunk
BY the destroyer Pauld-
ing. He's seen here,
left, demonstrating his
underwater torch, a
high-speed cutter that
works dry under water.