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Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
SUSSEX GIRL OUTWITS
FEDERAL DRY AGENTS
Warns BOOtIeggers Of Approach
Of Officers--All Make Their
Escape.

A girl of the backwoods of Sussex
county Outwitted Federal agents,
connected with the office of George
A. Hill, prohibition director of Della
ware. Not only did she Out-run the
agents when they were securing the
county last week for moonshiners,
but she warned a group of moon
sinners in time.
All the agents got was a copper
35-gallon still and laugh and scorn
from the girl just before she disap-
peared in the thick woods.
Neither Mr.. Hill nor his agents
will give the location of the camp as
they are still looking for the girl
and the mOonshiners.
The agents, three of them, mad
parked their car on the du POnt
boulevard, in the central part of the
county and commenced tracking "a
cross open country toward patch
of woods. Information from spies
had acquainted them with the rem
devious of the moonshiners, but the
spies failed to acquaint them with
the fact that the moonshiners had a
sharp-eyed girl as lookout.
When the agents were several
hundred feet from the woods, they
suddenly saw a girl, about II years
old, jump up from the underbrush.
She watched them for moment and
then screamed:
BEAT it! The officers are here!"
With that she fled. The dry a
gents pursued her, always about 100
feet behind. If their chase, the
agents caught glimpses of the moon
sinners fleeing. They wore blue
shirts and SLOUGH hats.
"My men can't run fast enough, 1
guess" said Mr.. Hill when he told
the story. 1.-THE moonshiners outran
them. We did capture the still and
large quantity of mash. Also, we
are on the lookout for group of
men with blue shirts Funny as
that may seem, we expect to arrest
several of the gang shortly"
But the agents agreed that the
girl was the heroine of the day as
far as the moonshiners were con-
cerned. The Federal men said it
was fascinating sight to see the
girl. She was barefooted and had
great speed. Her long blond naIr
streamed in the wind and she SEEM
ed sure of her ground, avoiding fall
en- trees and stumps and sharp
stones.
The raid the agents made then
was one of a series they have been
carrying during the past week on
moonshiners' camps throughout
Sussex and Kent counties. Within
the past week, they captured four
stills, scores of gallons of infer
mented liquor and mash. One of
the stills was an old fashioned
wooden receptacle.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
WORKHOUSE INMATES
MURDER STORY
IS DISCREDITED
Officers Take Him To PeunsyI-
vania In FruitIess Search For
Winter Bennett.
CLAIMED MAN KILLED
Had Told Story Of Having Seen
Woman Murder Former Mil
ford Man.

Police officials of Delaware and
Pennsylvania, following a new clue
into the disappearance in Coates
vile one year ago of Winter C. Ben
nett, a produce dealer who formerly
resided in Milford concluded that
they had been made the victim of a
hoax.
Frank Hunt, who is serving two
and One-half years in the New Cas-
tie County Workhouse for larceny,
led Is police official to a farm
three-miles west of Coatesville,
where he declared he had seen Ben
nett shot and killed by woman.
For several hours he took the group
about the farm searching the body.
Then they took Hunt to the home of
the woman he had named as the
slayer. Hunt repeated the charges,
but the woman was emphatic in her
story and declared she never had
seen Bennett.
The investigation was revived af-
ter Hunt had written two letters to
Mrs. Bennett telling her he could
assist her in clearing up the my
stery. To guard against any effort
Hunt might make to escape while
on the trip he was guarded by II
armed men. He was returned to
the workhouse Saturday night.
About week ago Hunt wrote two
letters to Mrs. Bennett offering to
aid her ard the authorities in solV-
ing the mystery. In his letters, adj
dressed to Mrs. Bennett, Hunt said
he held information that would help
her in the search for the remains of
her missing husband who vanquish-
ed from the streets of Coatesville,
on October 6, 1926.
After receiving the two. letters,
Mrs. Bennett communicated with
Detective George B. Campbell, of
Phoenixville, who was retained by
the widow Immediately after her
husband disappeared. Detective
Campbell, in company with Mrs.
Bennett went to the workhouse
where they interviewed Hunt. They
learned from him that he was will
ing to aid in the solving of the
crime and he made the bold state
ment that he heard the shots fired
that killed Bennett on that bleak
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Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
STATE CHRISTIAN
ENDEAVOR MEETING
LARGELY ATTENDED
Thirty-Sixth Annual Gathering
Most Successful In History
OF Union.
MISS KRAUSS PRESIDENT
Wilmington Woman Re. elected
Head Of EndeavOrers For
Another Year.

The seth Annual Convention of
the Delaware State Christian En-
deavor Union came to close on
Sunday. This convention in Milford
was unanimously declared to be the
best one and the most successful
ever held in this state. Three hun
dred and seventy five persons re-
gistered, and a great many non
members of any society also attend
ed the session each day and evening.
The largest attendance during the
convention was on Saturday even
ing. when the Methodist Protestant
church was filled, over 700 persons
being present.
The delegates started to arrive at
five O'Clock Thursday Afternoon, and
were met by the Reception Com
mittee who also assisted the Enter
tainment Committee in escorting the
delegates to the various homes IN
Milford which were so generously
thrown open for the entertainment
of these visitors.
The Methodist Protestant Church.
headquarters for the convention, was
beautifully decorated. Each room
in the church was adorned with req
and white crepe paper, Chrlstlah
Endeavor Flags, American Flags
remnants and dahlias of many shades
to carry out the color-scheme OF req
and white. a..
The Literature Desk during the
entire time of the convention was
busv one. Miss Edna Baker, CHAIR
man of the Literature Committee
with her assistant, Miss Elizabeth
Stidham, Mrs. Mamie Mason anu
Mrs. Charles Carter, took charge OIL
their work in a very efficient man
ner. and were successful in selling
a great majority of the literature
and iewlery on display.
Young girls, members OF the sun
dav Schools of the Methodist Epls-
conal. Baptist, Presbyterian church,
DC were the ushers. The girls
dresses were all light colored, ana
with their red badges, much was au-
ded to the attractiveness OF tne
main auditorium.
The Lunch Department was IN
charge of John R. Wilkins, teacheI
If the Sunshine Sunday School
Class of the SIS young women OF the
Mp church; and this class togetn-
or with a little outside help made
IN the committee. Luncheon was
served in the basement Of the M. T.
Church on Friday and Saturday
Moons: likewise, dinner, on FRIDAY
and Saturday evenings. The society
wells. Jokes, songs, and stories
which were given at these meals
we're greatly enjoyed and made the
meal-time pass very quickly ana
happily. Cow
DR.. Adam Geibel, the world-tam-
ous. blind composer, song-wrlter,,
organist, and director of music leu
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Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
STATE AVERAGES
z DRUNKEN AUTO
DRIVERS DAILY
1t Appears Hard To Get Second
Conviction Of Operators, Off
cial Says.
ISSUING LICENSE TAGS
Motorists May Now Secure Their
1928 Tags And Avoid Last
Minute Confusion.

William Ball, in charge of the
automobile titling department of the
Secretary of States office, is already
issuing automobile license tags for
1928. Up to this time there has not
been a great rush and those apply
ing have been persons who wanted
to obtain the same tag number
again. The rush for license tags is
not expected before December.
Mr.. Ball has emphasized the fact
that those who wanted the same
license number for the next year
should apply to his office before
December 1 of this year. Those
who accompany their application
with the money for the license tag
fee will have their wishes complied
with. All mail that does not arrive
in the Secretary of States office by
midnight on November 80 from per-
sons who desire to obtain their pre-
sent numbers will not be complied
with.
According to Mr.. Ball the number
of drunken drivers shows no signs
of falling off. Some days there are
DIS many DIS live ISpOA leu anu IAOA
licenses revoked. Other days it drops
down to one, but a conservative
average is about two a day. This
would mean about between six and
seven hundred drunken drivers a
year.
"The biggest handicap we have"
said Mr.. Ball, "is in obtaining a sec
ond conviction on a charge of oper-
ating a car while intoxicated. The
second conviction on drunken
driver charge means not only a fine
but Jail sentence"
at is not always the magistrates
fault, continued Mr.. Ball. when
the defendant appears before a mag
istrate he asks him the question If
he has ever been convicted on sim
liar charge. The reply is usually
and practically 100 per cent in the
negative. If the defendant should
admit that this was his second off
ense in operating a car while in
toxicated the magistrate would, II
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Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
some DRINKING
WATER POLLUTED
Of 1O2 Samples Taken, Health
Officials Find 3S Contaminated.
Survey Oyster Beds.

R. c. Beckett, sanitary engineer of
the State Board of Health, has COM
pleted the collection of sample of
water from all wells and drinking
fountains along the main highways
of the state that might be used by
all travellers.
Mr.. Beckett collected 102 samples
of water, which were analysed at
the State Laboratory. OF these "a
were found satisfactory, but SO I'M
satisfactory. On each of the I'M
satisfactory wells, which a subse-
quent survey may show are still
contaminated, will be placed the Of
fetal sign of the State Board of
Health reading, do not drink this
water"
When Mr.. Beckett discovered that
certain sources of water supply were
contaminated he at once visited the
proprietors and told them how to
remedy conditions. The major trou-
BILE was with dug wells. 1t was
found that there were many crevices
and cracks through which surface
drainage seeped into the wells, pol
luting the water. Most of the trou-
BILE was found in wells in New Sas-
tie County. AS a rule driven or ar
tesian wells were found to be free
of contamination.
Agents of the United States Public
Health Service are this week collect
ing samples Of the waters in the
four creeks in Delaware where oy-
sters grow. This group of experts
with a laboratory set up on boat
visited the Delaware creeks a few
weeks ago and collected samples
which upon analysis in the majority
of cases showed the water to be con-
taminated with intestinal organisms
the result of the creek water being
polluted by sewage from land. The
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Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
STATE DEATH RATE
INCREASED LAST YEAR
Figures Are 14S6 To 100000 POpul-
alton Government Bureau Reports

Mortality statistics for Delaware
announced by the Department of
Commerce, Washington, showed a
death rate of 1,436 per 100000 DO
pulation for the year 1926 as COM
pared with the death rate of 1909
per 100000 population for the year
1925, and increase of 125 for each
100000 of population. The in
crease is largely accounted for by
increases in the deaths from pneu-
monia, influenza, measles, heart
disease, nephritis, tuberculosis and
railroad accidents. Fewer deaths
from typhoid fever, paratyphoid
fever and diphtheria were reported
for 1926.
The fewest number of deaths
were due to the following cases:
smallpox, none; malaria, 1; men,
ingococcus meningitis, 1; machinery
TCOHtinHed on tage n
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28

A meeting of the W. C. T. U. will
be held at the home of Mrs. Sallie
Hammond, Tuesday afternoon, Nov
ember LIST, at 2.30 o'clock. A full at
tendance is desired as reports from
the State Convention will be given.
Text word Truth.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28

GAS necessary as my break
fast" said a business man,
when asked how he liked the
Milford Chronicle.
, 1927-04-23
NO MORE MOTH HOLE
If YOU USE
LarV2X

You have heard .of waterproodog; And
freproohng; Now comes moihpro0tCg
with Larvex, This is what this great
preparation does-actuaIly m~othproofs
the cloth itself so that no moth-worm
will take ever a single bite. When Lar
vex is sprayed on any wooden fabric, it
penetrates the fabric and becomes part
of the wool fibre. The fabric then be-
comes safe from moth-damage for an en-
tire season or unless worn or washed.
0gowTOV
, 1927-04-23

IT is hereby brought to public no
l tice that The Murine Eye Remedy
Company Of Chicago, illinois, a cor
poration organized under the laws
Of the State Of Illinois, whose
Trademark No. 1888, which was
registered in the United States Pa
tent Office, Washington, D. g., on
February 20, 1906, and renewed as
of February 20, 1926, was regis
tered in the Office Of the Govern
ment Secretary Of the Virgin Is
lands Of the United States on Octo-
Der 3, 1922, and renewed on Janu-
ary II, 1926, has changed its name
to The Murine Company, Inc, by
due process of law, such change of
name being duly recorded in the
United States Patent Office on Oc-
t0ber %, 1926 and that the said
change has this date been recorded
in the Office of the Government Sec
rotary of the Virgin Islands of
the Omitted States, at Saint Tho
mas, in accordance with the pro-
visions in the regulations gov
erning the registration of Patents
and Trademarks in the Virgin Is
lands, approved 80 June 1920.
Government of
the Virgin Islands of the United States,
Saint Thomas,
April 8, 1927.
E. H. VAN PATTEN,
Government Secretary.
, 1927-04-23
In The District Court Of The Viz
gin Islands Of The United States.
Sub judicial District Of ChriStianStGd.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
CAROLINE BERGSOE, DECEASED.

hOTICE is hereby given that the I'M
III dersigned has been appointed execu-
tor of the Estate of Caroline Berg
soc, deceased.
All persons having claims against the
said estate are hereby notified to present
same with the necessary proofs within
6 months from the date of this notice to
the undersigned or his attorney A. E.
STAKEMANN, at the %Iatter's office No.
7I8 Kings Street, Christiansted.
Parties indebted to the said estate are
requested to make payment to the I'M
dersigned.
Christiansr5d, ST. Croix, Virgin Is
lands of the United States. this 18th day
Of April 1927.
GUSTAVE LANCE,
Executor.
, 1927-08-24

There are great agricultural sec
tons that suffer with us.
Mountains have always been the
abode of pastoral people.
They have also always been the
citadola Of liberty.
Those were a mountain peonle
the Scottish Highlanders, who left
their black-faced sheep on the
heathered hills, and at Floodep
Field rushed with bare bosom on
the English spears and swung their
broadswords with both hands.
And it was another shepherd.
from the top of the high Swiss
Alps. who at the battle of Sem
pach gathered a cluster of Aus
trian spear to his breast opened
his pathway to liberty, and died.
MAKE way for liberty he cried,
Made way for liberty. and died"
If we do not accomplish this
thing in our lifetime the next gen.
GRAFTON will and 1t will be to our
credit that we took the first steps
toward this most certain end.
We may know in our weakness
that which will be raised in power:
and we may sow in our dishonor
that which others will reap in glory.
1t is not in mortals to command
success; but we can do a nobIer
and a finer thing than to win
successive a deserve it.
, 1927-08-24

The wealth of New England or
iginated In her water-power. Every
little stream has its mill that has
made its million. regardless of scenic
beauties or polluted water. New
York has even harnessed Niagara
Falls to drive machinery and manu-
facture cereal foods. 49,.
All that the New Highlander can
leave to posterity is some money
and really hat is all that posterity
wishes us to leave. Amy son pre-
fers that father leave him some
of this tainted4money rather than
one of these u~npUlluted streams.
Posterity is not afraid of a little
contamination.
1t does not look now as though
posterity was really going to need
very much drinking water.
Such is the envirous condition OF
our eastern sisters that If we should
seek to utilize a single power site
within our state the cry of wanda.
ism would be raised and the nation
become historical with fear.
There are some of weak heart
who will say that the forces array.
ed against us r too great; that the
grip of the bureaus on the West
cannot be broken without a revo-
luton.
But we are to find many friends
in the Middle West and in the
South.
, 1927-08-24
THE CODY ENTERPRISE

And why is the livestock indus
try of the West selected as the M
solitary victim to be slaughtered on
this forest altar?
Why not say to the retail grocers
that no man shall carry a stock of
goods beyond $4,000, and limit the
territory wherein he can sell?
Why not say how many patients
each doctor can have, and how
many times he can cut on them?
Your government has no right
to limit what may be attained by
your capabilities and your indus
try.
The plan to force all livestock
owners to an equality of numbers
is socialism. pure and simple. The
idea of a minimum income, handed
out by the government. with which
every man must be- content, forms
the basic principle of Socialism. 1t
is eminently Socialistic to suggest
that you and I be regulated, mum
bered and fed out of governments
hand. like an agency Indian.
1 have always liked a story l
once read about a Quaker. You
all know that in the days of VIII
liam Penn Quakers in England were
much ridiculed and prosecuted. Still
they went quietly about their busi-
ness. like sheep men, clad in their
garb of gray n wearing their
broad-rimmed hats.
One day a Quaker and some OF
his worldly friends were bathing
in the Themes below London. This
was in the days before bathing
suits or bathing beauties.
You simply took off your clothes
and wen in. A river boatmen
passing by, leaned over the side
of his scow and shouted, "Oh. you
you drown!" The mans friends
said: !" Now, how in the world doe.
that fellow know that you are g
Quaker when you have your clothes
Off"
The Quaker said: He knows II
because I am swimming against
the tide"
The Western sheepman has al.
ways had to swim against a tide;
against a tide of adverse national
sentiment. artificially created.
We lot only contend with the
official SANDER of Washington, but
nth the scholastic SANDER of ouI
great universities, each of which
has a School of Forestry under the
tutelage of the Forest Service and
the American Forestry Assn.
Young men come out OF these
universities possessed of the mos
u-nwarranted and ridiculous prejud.
ices against the sheep as destroyers
of what they are pleased to call
their heritages in these western
states.
Their geography should teach them
that sheep and goats r inseparable
from a mountain country. No mat
ter to what mountain region they
go on this green earth. there they
will find sheep and goats.
Go and ask your banker il the
sheep. nan is dreaded and despised;
ask your merchant II he breads the
sheep-man's coming; ask the coun-
ty treasurer If the sheepman is
either dreaded or delinquent.
The East with her present domin-
alton of politics. her concentration
of the nations wealth. her pose as
landlord and tutor to the West,
with her crafty hirelings in the
field of journalism sneering al the
farmer and abusing the one indus
try indigenous and sustaining to
these mountain states-shivvers at
the suggestion of sectionalism.
Evening star., 1927-09-16
POWER INCREASED
FOR RADIO STATIONS
Three Big Broadcasters Located in
Schenectady, Pittsburgh and Chi
cago Favored by Commission.

Continuing its policy of granting
increased power to big broadcasters
the Federal Radio Commission yes
terday permitted three of the big
stations of the country to enlarge
their use Of power. Stations WG1 or
Schenectady and KDkA, Pittsburgh,
were authorized to raise their power
from 10000 to $4,000 watts and KYW,
Chicago. was increased from $500 to
5000 after 10 pm.
To clear up a troubled situation at
Fort Wayne, Ind, the commission or
dered Station WOWO to increase its
power on October l from 1000 to
5000 watts between am. and 6 pm.
and to use $500 watts after the lat
ter hour. Station WOWK was d.
rected to reduce its power from 500
to $50 watts and to use 1,40O fire.
Quencies.
Station KICK, Atlantic, Iowa. was
changed from $50 to $50 kilocycles
and given 100-watt power. 1t was
ordered to share time with WAS of
Burlington, Iowa, effective ,Septem-
ber 49,
WNAX, Yankton, S. Oak, was
given an increase in power to 500
watts from am. to pm.
Station WORD, Batavia, Ill. here
after will operate on no kilocycies
instead Of 1910.
Stations woo, Davenport, Iowa.
and WWJ. Detroit, We're given until
October / to exchange frequencles,
the former from 500 to $50 and the
latter from $50 to 500 kilocycles.
Evening star., 1927-09-16
FRENCH ARE BLAMED
IN RUSS WAR SCARE
Soviet Official Says Paris Wishes
to Break Off Debt
Negotiation.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, September 16,-The Rus
sian war scare has been appreciably
deepened by the French outburst
against Ambassador Rakovsky in con-
nection with his recent signature of
a Communist circular calling upon the
workers to rise, Maximum Litvinof.
assistant foreign minister. told the
newspaper men in an interview pub
lished today.
"Today's events in France" he said.
"only make graver the present war
scare in Russia. Only naive people
could believe that today's anti-Soviet
campaign in France is directed against
Rakovsky alone because he signed the
oppositionist program.
"The Rakovsky incident Is only
pretext for the reactionary circles in
France, whose aim is to break the
pending negotiations with the Soviets
regarding settlement Of the (Russian)
debts"
Evening star., 1927-09-16
CANCER INCREASING
SCIENTIST HOLDS
New York Surgeon Says One
Out of Every 10 Persons
viii Die of Disease.
By the Associated Press.

ASHEVILLE, N. c., September Is.
Cancer still remains the great
enigma of the world of disease, and
II is on the increase. One out of
every five women between the ages
of 45 and 65 years now alive, will die
Of the disease and of all the human
beings alive one out of every ten will
succumb to it's mysterious inroads.
These statements were made yes
terday by pr. William Patrick Healy
of New York City before the fortieth
annual meeting of the American AS
sociation of Ohstetricians, Gynecolo'
gists and Abdominal surgeons in the
course OF an address made by nm on
EARLY Diagnosis of Cancer, Paftlcu-
larlv from Gross Characteristics"
Or. Healy is one of the outstanding
authorities in America on cancer, and
his talk evoked the most spirited dis
cussion of today's sessions.
Though the medical world is pretty
we'll yerSed now in how cancer acts,
and has learned from experience that
certain conditions are likely to lend to
its development, in the main he ad-
mitted that cancer still remains as
much of q fundamental mystery TO
man as IL did to the ancients. who
knew Of its fatal inroads only too
we'll.
DR.. John Harvey Kellogg Of Battle
Creek, Mich. who is a guest OF the
association, discussed his old teacher
and friend, Lawson Tait-and His
Contributions to Abdominal Surgery"
in an address tonight.
Evening star., 1927-09-16
BARREL EXPLOSION
INJURIES 5 PERSONS
Two Men Dying After Whisky
Cask Blows Up in Steam
ing Process.


BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, September 10
Two men were in dying condition.
and two women and another man
were suffering from burns today as
result of whisky barrel explosion
last night at a residence here. Jeff B.
Robertson, jr., 27, and John D. Fulton,
81. were so badly burned that they
were not expected to live. Clarence
Griner, 25, occupant of the house in
which the explosion occurred. was
burned on the arms and neck trying
to save Robertson. Mrs. Vernia
Griner, 25, his wife, was burned on
the legs and arms, and Miss Helen
Ashcraft suffered minor burns
Griner said that he and Robertson
were steaming a whisky barrel so that
they could use it for wine. Robertson
poured cold water into the barrel while
it was sitting over a gas stove. The
explosion followed.