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New Britain herald., 1927-05-05
NEGRO LYNCHED
 BY ANGRY CROWD
Arkansas Mob MetS Out Pun.
 iShment to Attackers

Little Rock. Ark, May R-The sight of militiamen standing guard on important street corners with fixed bayonets greeted residents of Little Rock today following a night of disorder. during which a negro was lynched, his body dragged through the business section and burned upon a funeral pyre while several thousand persons looked on.
 Fear of additional serious racial trouble caused Governor Matineau to order out National Guard com pany for all-night patrol duty. He hurried here on a special train from Van Buren, where yesterday he at- tended a strawberry festival.
 By midnight, after hundreds of armed men had paraded the streets in automobiles, firing volley after volley of shots into the air, the Ma tional Guard had virtually cleared the streets and gained control of the situation.
 The governor acted when informed that local authorities were standing by helplessly while angry men in- vaded a negro quarter and gen. eral outbreak of violence was threat ened.
 The negro lynched was John Car ter, 3S. He was said to have ad- mitted that he attacked two white women early yesterday.
 One of the women. Miss Glennie Stewart, identified him and saw him killed. Her mother, Mrs. B. F. Stewart was in hospital suffering
New Britain herald., 1927-05-05
,GIRLS STRANDED OVER IN CHINA
American Chorus Members
 Caught in Crisis

Shanghai, May 5.-UP)-Shang- ask Tess Gordon, or any other mem- Der of the revue that came out to China three months ago to play in a night club in Shanghai and whose act has been grabbed by 8 lot of things.
 Chief among these grievances is the war and on par, they say. with the conflict is the attitude Of the cafe manager who gave them nothing but notice they were through. .=--.
 Stay home, girls" is the advice Tess and Barnie and Rena have to give. If you insist on coming to see the Big World, get it in writing and c.i.t.-cash in fist. No foolin'.
 we got contract when we left San Francisco. but 1t don't mean a thing. It isn't signed. That's just a habit they got out here-they don't sign these contracts unless you make them.
 "So we're stranded. We're trying to get the price of a ticket to the good old U. s. A. out of the wreck but it looks like forlorn hope. Our lawyer says he probably can settle it out Of court. but he don't know that manager like we do."
 The girls. six of them. are all from San Francisco. They came to China to act and the war broke up the show.
 The stranded actresses include Theresa Gordon, who formerly play
New Britain herald., 1927-05-05
ALBANY BANDIT IS
 GUILTY OF MURDER
Convicted of Killing Man
 During Holdup
Man

Albany, N. Y. May 5.--lPl- Charles J, Doran. youthful Albany bandit, sat in the shadow of the electric chair today.
 Doran was convicted last night of the murder Of Raymond E. Jack son World war veteran, during a hold-up in his new Scotland ave- nue store. His Co., o-defendant, Theo- dore Harrington. was acquitted, but immediately was rearrested on . robbery charge.
 As the jury announced the yer- dict. Lucille Davis, former state college for teachers student, col lapsed. She was revived by Doran. to whom she is engaged. The girl who appeared at the trial as a wit ness, attempted to set Up an alibi for the youth.
 Colonel Ransome H. Gillette. counsel for Doran, announced that he would prepare an appeal at once. He said Harrington's acquittal pro- vided a reasonable doubt of Doran's guilt.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-05

from injuries inflicted by the negro with an iron bar. Carter had at- tackled them after accosting them as they rode along the road near the city in wagon.
 The mob, together with posses oi officers. pursued Carter into a for est and captured him. The mob, numbering several hundred persons, then took charge of the negro. hanged him from a telephone pole, riddled the body with bullets, cut it down and tied 1t behind an auto mobile which dragged 1t through the principal business thoroughfares.
 It later was saturated with gas- oline and burned in a street border ing on the negro section.
 Another negro. Arn Christian. was found armed in a crowd in the negro district and was attacked. He was finally rescued and removed to a hospital.
 Robert Love. a white youth, was struck by one of the many bullets fired at random by the mob. His injury was Slight.
 Governor Martineau expressed the belief that no further outbreaks would result.
 The lynching of Carter followed three days of intense feeling aroused over the murder of 12-year-old Floella McDonald by a 16-year- old negro, Onnie Dixon. Efforts were made both Sunday and Monday nights by mob to find Dixon but he had been spirited out of the city The angry men searched several jails and the state penitentiary be- fore abandoning the hunt.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-05
Publisher of Times Is
 Given Honor Medal

New York, May R-Adolph &. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times. declared last night he be- lieved his efforts in journalism have been worth while" if he has helped in some measure to destroy the superstition that newspapers must be sensational. vulgar and in- sane" to be successful.
 MT. Ochs was one of four recipi- ents of gold medals for notable pub lie service presented by the National Institute of Social Service at its an-
New Britain herald., 1927-05-05

nual dinner last night. He was in. troduced by Frank B. Moves, pub- fisher of the Washington Star and president of the Asspciated Press, as "one who typifies the best in Ameri- can journalism" and who has ''erect- ed a monument to himself and the self-respecting press of the country"
 Other recipients of the gold medals were Walter Damrosch, retired conductor of the New York Sym- phony orchestral: Dr. Harry Elmer. son Fosdick. pastor of the First Presbyterian church. and Professor George Pierce Baker, director of the University theater at Yale university.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-05
CRITICISM WAVES
 DOWN IN BRAZIL
Less Adverse Comment on U. s.
 Foreign Policy

Rio De Janeiro. May 5.-UP)- The recent wave of criticism against the United States, brought on by the landing of marines in Nicaragua and the American Mexican situ- ation has now completely subsided in Brazil. as was expected by Amer ican residents here.
 Attacks on the foreign policy of the United States are periodical in south America. They accompany al most any move made by the state department which may be construed as manifestation of the much heralded Yankee Imperialism" l attn American writers are bitter in their attacks on Uncle Sam during lacks are short lived,
 During the two weeks Of the lat est Nicaraguan episode, the verbal bombardment of the United States occupied most the time of Brazilian editorial writers. Ot the same time. the United Press carried dispatches from the United States showing that influential members of the North American press were almost as hostile to the Coolidge Kellogg Latin American policy. Liberal ex- tracts from the attacks made on Kellogg in the senate and house of representatives in Washington were printed here. The local press then added praise for those In North America who opposed the policies of the state department, and contin- ucd the bombardment until appar- ently all the ammunition was ex- hausted.
 The date of the next barrage is indefinite, but 1t will begin as soon as Uncle Sam becomes prominently identified in the affairs of any Latin American republic.
 The proposal made in the congress of the United States to limit South American emigration to North America did not create the slightest ripple in Brazil. The notice received only ordinary attention from telegraph editors and there was no editorial discussion. Brazilian emigration to the United States is so small anyway that a quota limitation would be of no importance.
 Brazilian cartoonists and joke smiths derive great pleasure from a play on the world "dolor." mean ing pain in Portuguese. which they work into the American dollar"
New Britain herald., 1927-05-05

ed with Al Jolson in "Sinbad" and "Bambo": Nita Jewell. Barnie Cole. Rcna Shade. wife of Billy Shade. a boxer: Trixie Leach and Louise Francis. They used to play in the Carlton Mite Revue but they don't any more because the revue is over three months ahead of time.
 We thought we'd at least get passage out of it," Tess related her tale dolefully. But tho manager says nothing doing. So I guess we'll have to shift for ourselves. could wire home for money-and may have to do 1t yet.
 We asked the American Consul ate about 1t and they said they could do nothing about us. If we. go abso- lutely broke. I suppose they'll have to do something. But I guess we won't do that"
 Tess thinks she may go on down to Manila. where things are not 50 turbulent. Barnie and Nita, have friends in Shanghai and they are sailing for home before long If the manager doesn't fix 1t. up. So they are all right. The others are in a bad way for the moment.
 Something will turn up. guess. D Tess added. "Barnie and Rita are all fixed up. But all I know is poor newspapermen." Tho laughter was general. ......-
 There may be other American show girls in Shanghai but Tess doesn't know them. She came out years ago and was stranded--and she. well, Tess says. she never got back. She drifted too long ... t.. +. missed too many boats.
 Tell them to stay home" Tess concluded. And If they insist on coming, get & round trip ticket. No foolin'."
New Britain herald., 1927-05-05

The historic Lee Penny, in pos. session of family in England, once was supposed to cure every i'll. In 1865 it was hired by plague. stricken town in exchange for SC. curities valued at 25.000 pounds.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-05

The piano was invented about 1710 by Bartholomeo di Francesca Cristofori, an Italian.
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21

of Milford High School,th float show
ing an airplane in action and entitled
"Non Stop Flight to Success" second
to the Eighth grade of the school for
''The Spirit of Milford" a float which
also showed an airplane.
First for county float, Home Eco
nomics Glass of the Milford High
School, depicting a scene in the life
of Florence Nightingale.
First for best farm float, showing
farm products, Mrs. A. B. Peet; sec
ond to Raymond Wilkins.
First for float in boys brigade, Her
man johnson; second, Samuel l..
Evans, and third to a group of boys
who had decorated float depicting a
hospital scene and entitled 'sMilford
Emergency Hospital
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21
SMYRNA FIREMEN WIN SECOND
HONORS HAVING BAND IN LINE
BIG PARADE AT MILFORD WITH
21 FIRE COMPANIES IN LINE
Home Coming Takes $4,000 to Milford
Dover, Cranston Heights and Five
Points Take Off Most Honors

Five Points Fire Company won the
prizes and the Cranston Heights Com
pany one prize in the firemen's parade
held Thursday night in connection
with the carnival and the Home Com
ing week program. The Women's
Auxiliary of the Cranston Heights
Company attracted much favorable
attention and was applauded all along
the line but no prizes were offered
for auxiliaries. No sooner had the
firemen arrived on the carnival
grounds than an oil stove in one of
the booths exploded and there was a
rush for chemicals, but the flames
were extinguished by some Of the To-
cal firemen. Soon after this fire was
extinguished an alarm came from
Harrington and number of the fire
companies got into action and were
going to rush to the fire but were
asked to allow the Harrington com
pany to respond to the alarm and
avoid danger to the crowd by too
many companies going out at one
time. The fire amounted to nothing
and the Harrington men returned.
The parade was one Of the largest and
best ever seen in Milford. It was
one and one-half miles long and more
than 800 firemen with their apparatus
were in line in addition to the wom-
ems auxiliaries which accompanied
some of the companies. The crowd of
spectators was also the largest of the
Home Coming celebration and it is es-
timated that $4,000 were there. All
records for receipts at the carnival
would probably have been broken had
not rain storm come up just after
the parade and scattered the crowd.
The rain only lasted about twenty
minutes and a number of people re
turned but many went home when
rain began to fall. One of the fea-
lures of the parade was the music.
There We're q fire companies in line
and the fremen were accompanied by
seven bands. Most of the fremen
carried red fire torches and this added
to the color of the splendid parade.
Prizes were awarded as follows: Sill
yer trumpet for best equipment to
Robbins Hose Company of Dover. Sill
yer trumpet for company making the
best appearance to the Cranston
Heights Fire Company. Silver trum-
pets for coming the longest distance
to Five Points Fire Company Fifty
dollars in gold for the best band in
line to Five Points Fire Company.
Thirty dollars in gold for second best
band in line, to the Smyrna Fire
Company. Milford had been prettily
decorated for more than a week in
honor of the home coming, but there
was a number of special decorations
and illuminations in honor of the fire
men.
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21
CIVIC PARADE AT MILFORD
Large Crowds Attend Home Coming
Last Week-Prizes Are Awarded

The Civic Parade held Tuesday
night of last week in connection with
Home Coming Week attracted large
crowd to Milford. The parade was
one Of the best ever held there and
took twenty minutes to pass a given
point. There were so many automo-
biles in town that it was difficult to
find place to park them without in
terfering with the parade.
The parade was what might be call
ed a mounted parade Floats, auto
mobiles, teams, bicycles, ponies and
horses were in line and the floats
numbered forty. Some of the ideas
were decidedly clever and the judges
had difficulty in making the selections
for prizes. The parade started at the
railroad station and proceeded to the
carnival grounds. In all cases the
prizes awarded were SIS in gold for
the first and $40 in gold for the sec
ond prizes. The prize winners were:
First for business floats-Petty-
johns Pharmacy; second, Wharton
and Bernard.
First, for best decorated automobile
Edward Evans; second, William Webb
First, for best school float. seniors
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21
GAS OF FUTURE TO BE BETTER
Fuel Suitable for Increasing Compress
sion in Engines Being Produced
Both Engines and Gas Improved

"By 1880 we shall no longer be de-
pendent upon natural raw gasoline
which was the only thing of its kind
in existence twenty-seven years ago,
and gasoline of the future will be
far superior article to the original
natural fluid which made possible the
automobile" asserts A. Ludlow Clay
den, research engineer of the Sun Oil
Company, in the Journal of the So
ciety of Automotive Engineers for
September. "More than one-half of
our gasoline is produced at present by
distillation from crude oil, followed
by chemical or mechanical treatment
for removal of small quantities of
materials having bad odors or color.
"A rapidly increasing proportion,
which probably will soon be at least
one-half, is produced by subjecting
the crude oil to very high tempera-
lures, thereby converting into gaso-
line portions of the crude which nor
mally would be obtained as lubricants.
''These cracking processes are capable
Of control SO the final product is rich
er in non-detonating or anti-lnock
constituents. eve are only at the be
ginning Of the development Of this
phase of the cracking process. AT
present most cracking plants are be
ing run to produce the highest pos
sible yields of gasoline conforming to
government specification, but, while
we are finding out how to vary the
treatment to improve the anti-knock
quality, we are also discovering that
fuels more volatile than those of gov
ernment specification can be produced
at an insignificant increase in cost.
"Almost every new cracking plant
embodies some notifications tending
toward both more economical opera
tion and an improved product, so there
is every reason to feel satisfied that
for many years to come the tendency
of gasoline will be toward fuel suit
able for steadily increasing compress
sion in engines and toward slightly
improving volatility. 'The question
often is asked: How are automobile
manufactures to increase compression
until the distribution Of suitable fuel
is nationwide? The refner asks, in
turn: Why should we trouble to pro-
duce non-detonating fuel until there
is real need for it "The answer,
Of course, is that the two develop
ments must 60 together, and point
which is often lost sight of is that
the anti-knock fuel is of distinct ad-
vantage in existing engines"
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21
$4,000 LOSS BY MILL FIRE
Heat From Burning Structure at Lin
coin City Damages Other Buildings

~-~~~s NOAAA OsA dNSAAC a. ANAA1-
coin City Damages Other Buildings
Fire caused by an exploding torch
Wednesday afternoon burned to the
ground the large wheat and grain mill
owned and operated by George W..
Clendaniel, at Lincoln City, three
miles south of Milford. At the time
of the fire the mill contained about
1000 bushels of wheat and the wheat
together with the machinery was to-
tai loss. The loss of the building and
contents is estimated to be about S12,-
600, on which there was $4,000 insur-
ance. Just before the fire Mr.. Glen
daniel was in the mill repairing a
bearing of the machinery with torch.
The torch exploded, gasoline flying all
over the floor of the mill and Mr..
Clendaniel's clothes. The dry timber
and dust in the mill Immediately
caught fire and the building in a flash
was enveloped in flames. Mr.. Glen
daniels clothes caught fire, but he
managed to put it out with bags by
wrapping them around his body. The
mill was three-story frame structure
heavily built, located in the heart of
Lincoln City. The heat from the fire
was terrific and scorched several near
by buildings. Separated from the mill
by few feet was large warehouse
belonging to Frank Clendaniel, and in
the rear was a garage the property
of Robert Southland, and also the Lin
coin Cannery. These buildings were
charred from the heat, the garage for
time was on fire. The Milford Fire
Company responded to the alarm and
saved the surrounding structures. OPP
posite the mill was the Pennsylvania
railroad station. When the building
had nearly been consumed two cats
ran from the cellar of the mill badly
scorched, making break for freedom
when the fire had died down sufficient
ly to find an outlet. A slight fire oc-
Cured at the Glendale Canning Com
pany's plant in Glendale Wednesday
morning. The roof of the fire room
caught on fire from the smoke stack.
The Milford Fire Company was sum-
moned, but before they got under way
were notified that the flames had been
extinguished.
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21
Apply for Same Auto Numbers

Secretary Of State Charles H.Grant-
land has announced that owners of
automobiles desiring the same license
number for 1928 that they now have,
may get them by applying in Novem-
Der and sending a check for the fee.
After November the same license
numbers will be granted on request
provided that the number has not been
taken. The secretary also makes it
plain that motorists must sign their
own applications for licenses. Some
people have been securing licenses for
them and getting so cents for their
trouble.
Another important announcement
is that all city and county vehicles
must pay licenses. The only cars
which will be granted licenses free
are State cars.
The State Department is also keep
ing close watch on those whose Ii
censes have been revoked for driving
while drunk. Recently three cars
were stopped by the police because
the owners had been convicted, but in
each case wives Of the men were driv-
ing the cars and they laughed at the
officers.
Thursday while Mr.. Grantland was
driving to Dover he saw Maryland
man violating the laws by bucking
traffic and had him arrested. 1t was
found that he had cut around the car
of c. c. Reynolds, superintendent of
ctatc Highway Pclice.
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21
SURVEY OF STATE OYSTERS
Officials Will Begin Work to Ascertain
Whether Oysters Are Proper for Food

A government launch equipped with
a laboratory arrived in Delaware on
Monday to make a Federal survey of
Delaware oysters and Delaware oyster
beds. Samples of the oysters and
samples of the water in which they
grow will be taken and analyzed on
the spot. In this way there will be
no delay, and if the beds and the
water covering them or the bivalves
are found to be polluted or contami-
mated the government officials Of the
United States Public Health Service
will at once notify the oyster packers
they cannot ship the oysters out Of
the State.
The Delaware State Board of Health
will also be notified of any defections
found. Last year the State Board Of
Health made survey for the govern
ment. but this year Uncle Sans
health officials are attending to the
matter themselves.
r. @. Beckett, State sanitary engi-
neer, is making a survey of the beds
for State records 1t is claimed that
some oystermen are now dredging for
oysters in the creeks Of the State. If
this IS the case, it is stated they are
exceeding their authority and violat-
ing the law. According to a statute
now on the State books they cannot
dredge for oysters from the creeks
until October.
"We propose to maintain a careful
watch over the oyster beds throughout
the winter" said DR.. Arthur I. Davis,
executive secretary of the State Board
of Health, in discussing the protection
Of Delaware oysters.
eve shall from time to time collect
from these samples accumulate a rec
ord that will be at the service Of the
State at any time"
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21
Elkton Gets New Fire Engine

The new Hale fire engine of the
Singerly Fire Company, of Elkton,
Nd, which arrived recently, was given
thorough test last Wednesday, meet
ing all requirements of the contract.
and was accepted by the company.
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21
Beats Swimming Record n

Swimming with the COM,
youth, Emma Callipan SOufsgs
broke the women's record, b.I3 S'oa,
sister. Laura Louise, is, fo nso 'gb
the Chesapeake Bay from " $; G'o'a
to Bay Shore, after 4 bov loeiep =
quit in midday. She swan ~ sSl'at NJ
miles in nine hours and eial1 i. we nj
forty minutes faster tban =. nlag d,
made the distance last sumner ms' i
eclipsed the record Of Lila.
first woman to make tba "a
more than an hour S%ln
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21

Baltimore Surgeon Locates
DIR. H. V. P. Wilson. ,,,,, y
merly of Baltimore and cor.seol sseol
Johns Hopkins Hospital
has located in Dover. VA !
Smyrna times., 1927-09-21
Speed.

Speed.
Judge-Where wuz you when she
threw the lamp-speak upI say.
where wuz you7
Witness-Soy, Judge, how do All
know where All wuz when All wus
goln'f-Life