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Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
DEMOCRATS CONDEMN
COP ADMINISTRATIONS
Platform Adopted At Dover APP
proves Smith For President

Following is the platform unani-
mously adopted at the Democratic
State Convention at Dover Tuesday
afternoon:
81. The Democratic Party of
Delaware in convention assembled
this fourth day of September, 1928,
again pledges its faith to the great
principles in governmental affairs
set forth by Thomas Jefferson and
our other great party leaders.
"2. We, the delegates here con-
vened both for ourselves and all
other Democrats in the State of
Delaware, approve and ratify the
platform adopted by our party at it's
national convention at Houston.
"3. We approve and ratify the
choice by our national convention
of Alfred E. Smith of New York, for
President, and Joseph T. Robinson,
of Arkansas, for Vice-President, and
on behalf of the Democracy of Della
ware promise them its loyal sup
port.
"a. We condemn the last two
Republican administrations for their
failure to translate their platform
promises into either remedial legis-
lation or beneficial administration.
IS. Nearly forty per cent of our
national population is rural and
upon them for the most part we de-
pend for our necessary food pro-
ducts; yet today at the end of al
most eight years the farmers of our
country are not only still awaiting
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Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
GOOD ATTENDANCE AS
SCHOOLS REOPEN
S37 Pupils Present Themselves On
First Day-Expect More Later

The Milford public schools re-
opened on Tuesday with an enroll
ment of 220 pupils in the high
school and 476 in the grammar
school. In No. colored school
there are 141 pupils. After the
work season is over about so more
pupils will probably enter.
Only one grade is off the school
property this year, the fifth grade of
three sections in the Masonic build
ing. The manual training class is
this year in the small building on
the school ground next to the Bap-
tist church. There are As pupils en-
rolled in this class. Seventy are
enrolled in the Commercial depart
ment. In the home economics de-
partment there are 50 enrolled in
the first class and % in the second.
There are 115 freshmen, As sopho-
mores, 35 juniors and rs seniors.
There are two sections to almost
every class in the grammar school.
Following are the teachers with the
number of pupils enrolled in each
class: First grade, Miss Lulu M.
Ross, OF Milford, SO pupils; second
grade, Miss Lauretta E. Whitehead.
"a; second grade, Miss Edith John
CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
DELAWARE SPENT
$8,694,427.95 DURING
LAST FISCAL YEAR
$3,l63,423 OF Total Expenditures
By State Government Was For
Highway Work.
SCHOOL COST WAS HEAVY
School Current Fund Amounted
To $2,5OS, ,49S SO During Period
Of Report.

Total expenditures by the Della
ware State government for all pur-
poses during the fiscal year ending
June 80, of this year were $S,694,-
427.95, according to the annual re-
port of Edward Baker, State auditor.
There remained in all funds at
the beginning of this fiscal year,
July 1, $6,724,447.7O, surplus avail
able for use which will be increased
by several millions of receipts dur
ing the year.
The three large expenditures
were from the general fund $2,469,-
556.5O; school current fund, $2,50S,-
49S.99 and the State highway depart
ment $3,163,423.43.
The report shows that up to July
1, of the school building fund $146,-
S19.52 had been spent in rural Della
ware and $S9,155.95, in Wilmington.
The total expenditures from the
various funds and the surplus in
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Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
LARGE CROWDS
ATTEND CARNIVAL
Annual Affair Has Banner Attend
ance Aud Larger Revenue Than
Any Ever Held Before.

The carnival now being held by
the Carlisle Fire Company on the
baseball park in Milford promises to
be the most successful ever held by
the company, both from the financial
standpoint and the matter of attend
ance. The carnival opened last Fri
day evening at which time a fine
first-night crowd visited the affair.
On Saturday evening the carnival
grounds were packed and the reve-
nues were large. Monday evening
one of the largest Monday night
carnival crowds ever seen in Mil
ford assembled at the grounds. The
scheduled parachute jump for that
evening was postponed because the
airplane from which the jump is
made was forced down in a storm
near Easton, Maryland, and was I'M
able to get here. A jump will be
made this evening at $50 o'clock,
weather permitting. On Tuesday
evening the civic parade drew thou
sands to Milford, and the grounds
were again packed.
The carnival layout this year is
One of the best ever made by the
iremen. The booths are well To-
Gated for the convenience of the
patrons, and excellent articles are ]
IN display in each booth. One of
he pleasing features of the carnival
S the gift of a $25.OO prize at the
close of the carnival each night. On |
Friday evening Earl Worthington,
If Milford, was given the prize. On |
Saturday evening James Wright, of |
laurel, was the lucky man. Monday |
light Everett Manlove, of Milford, |
'eceived the prize. Tuesday evening
Burton P. Short, of Miami, Florida,
vas the winner.
The carnival will be open tonight
md tomorrow evening, which will I!
'e the last event day of the affair.
Rain made it impossible to hold
he carnival Wednesday evening.
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
WILL HOLD DAHLIA
SHOW IN WILMINGTON
Sixth Annual Exhibit VIII Be Held
September % And 80

Plans are about complete for the
sixth annual Dahlia Exhibition of
the Delaware State Dahlia Associa-
tion, to be held in the show room of
the Wilmington Auto Co., 10th and
Tatnall streets, Wilmington, on Sep
tember 2S and 20. Growers and
dealers from all over the country
have donated bulbs and other mer-
chandise to be used as prizes. The
prize list is now in the hands of the
printer, and anyone can secure a
copy of it as soon as it is printed by
application to Frank Shilling. sec
retary of the Association, 206 West
goth street, Wilmington.
Anyone interested in the growing
of dahlias is entitled to membership
in the association by paying $1.00
for application and S1.00 for one
years dues, and upon being approx
ed by the executive committee.
No one can exhibita unless they
are a member. The executive COM
mittee in charge of the show are:
DR.. S. c. Rumford, Warren G. Hank,
Norman Swift, Harry E. Reed and
Leroy W.. Beatty.
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
5 DELAWARE TOWNS
READY TO BUILD new
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Organize Commissions And Ac-
cept Offer For Suitable Plans
For Various Buildings.
WILL COST 100000
New Castle, Milford, Georgetown,
Harrington And Leipsic Are
In Line.

School commissions, elected to
build school houses, met at Dover
last Friday and organized for the
work which has been assigned them.
Under the law the State Superin-
tendent of Public instruction is the
secretary of each commission and
therefore Superintendent H. V. HOl-
loway was elected secretary of the
commissions which organized Fri
day.
The chairmen of commissions
elected were: New Castle, Newlin T..
Booth; Georgetown, James M. Tun-
nell; Harrington, Warren T. Moore;
Milford, Colonel Theodore Town
send; Leipsic, AlonzO Jones.
Following the organization of
the commission the members met
with the members of the State Board
of Education. Joseph Betelle, of
Guilbert and Betelle, the school ar
chitects, and Alexander ]. Taylor,
president of the Delaware School
were present and sub
mitted tentative plans for the var
ious buildings.
The School Foundation submitted
an offer to pay for the plans and
the engineering supervision of the
construction, if the school commits
sion accepted the offer. AS this
means the saving of several thOus-
and dollars in case of a school of
size, the offer was ac-
cepted.
The new buildings which will be
erected by the commission which
Friday will cost probably
of which amount the State
pays the greater portion. All the
districts named have authorized
bond issues for the work and are
ready to proceed with the construc-
ton of the buildings.
The schools at New Castle,
Georgetown and Milford are all
large schools. with high school de-
Dartments. Harrington will build a
arge addition to the comparatively
new school building at that place,
which has become too small for the
attendance. Leipsic will
erect a modern two-room school
louse, which is sufficient to serve
is needs at present.
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
BUCK FAVORS DOUBLE
ROAD TO ST. GEORGES
Highway Commission Will Con-
slider Two Plans For Widening
Road.

Whether the State Highway Com
mission will widen the du Pont
Boulevard from State Road to ST..
Georges, to make it a four course
way as from Wilmington to State
Road. or will build separate road
about fifty feet east of the boulevard,
is a question that members of the
commission are seriously consider
ing as a major activity in 1929.
If the latter proposition is decid-
ed upon as being the most feasible
in the light of increasing automobile
traffic, then it will mean acquiring
that much more right of way. If
such a road is built, it would mean
that persons travelling south would
use the present highway from State
Road to st. Georges and those go
ing north would use the new paral-
lei highway.
C. D. Buck, chief engineer of the
Highway Commission, believes that
the plan of two highways would
solve the problem and prevent many
accidents, particularly at night. He
points out one salient argument
that it would eliminate, very large
ly, accidents due to persons becom-
ing blinded by glaring head lights.
If the commission decides to con-
tinue the four course highway from
State Road to st. Georges, then it
would mean the acquisition of addi-
tional right of way from 80 feet to
possibly 120 feet. No matter which |
course is decided upon, it is the
opinion of Mr.. Buck that, because of |
such heavy travel down the State,
the widening process will become |
In any event, in addition to the |
right of way along the highway, it |
would mean obtaining additional |
ground through the town of st.
Georges and some building would /
have to be razed.
The drive made by the state po-
lice on reckless truck drivers is
bearing its fruit. Many have been
and fined and the word has
gone abroad to "be careful while
irving through Delaware"
The temporary wooden bridge ov-
9r Garrison's Lake, it is expected,
will be completed sometime this
week. This will be good news for
persons who use the highway every
lay between Cheswold and Smyrna.
t will eliminate the tedious detour
# eleven miles from Cheswold to
smyrna.
1t is understood that the dam of
and which was responsible for the
amage to the highway in the re-
ent storm, has been rebuilt of sand
nd is again menace to the high
way whenever such a severe rain
torn as damaged it a few weeks
go, comes.
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
HARVEST MOON COMES
SEPT. 29 this YEAR
Rise In Early Evening Gives
Many Chance To Scan Celestial
Scenery.

The harvest moon comes this year
on September 20. 1t is always the
full moon nearest the time of the
autumnal equinox, when the sun is
crossing the equator going south.
This event occurs in 1928 on Sep
tember %, at 1906 A. NJ, Central
standard time.
The pecularity that distinguishes
the harvest moon from other full
moons is the small delay in the time
of it's rising. Moonrise on the aver
age is so minutes later from night to
night. But for few nights at the
end of September the delay is less
than a half hour in this latitude.
Thus we have moonlight in the early
evening for a greater number of
evenings than usual.
Farther north the effect is much
more noticeable. In Southern Alaska
the time of moonrise is only about
five minutes later from night to
night for nearly a week.
The moon has two conspicuous
movements in the sky. With the rest
of the celestial scenery it rises and
sets daily, progressing steadily
westward. In addition, it is always
backward, toward the east,
among the consultations because of
its monthly revolution around the
earth. This motion displaces the
moon its own diameter in an hour.
If we had use for a moon day, it
would for this reason be longer than
the day by the sun. averaging so
minutes more.
How much the length of any par
ticular moon day departs from the
average depends on the angle be-
tween the moons path among the
stars and the eastern horizon. This
angle varies. The most favorable
arrangement for an unusually short
delay in the time of moonrise from
night to night is the smallest pos
sible angle between the two. This
occurs when the September full
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Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
TO ERECT FIRST STEEL
FRAME BUILDING HERE
Pierce Hdrdware'S New Home Con-
Strdcted Along Lines Skyscrapers

The Pierce Hardware Company
has started work preliminary to
the erection of their new store
building which will be located on
the site of their present building.
The contract for the work has been
awarded to the Johnson-Pepper
Construction Company. The work
of demolishing the old building was
started this week, and before the
end of the week it is hoped that the
site will be cleared. The new build
ing will be three stories in height,
and will be erected throughout with
steel framing construction. The
walls will be filled in with brick.
The type of construction is the
same as that used in erecting the
larger buildings in the cities. This
will be the first building of the
steel and brick type to be erected
in Milford.
In looking up old records at the
county building in Georgetown, the
Pierce Hardware Company has
learned that the building now be-
ing razed was erected about $50
years ago. Much of the framing in
the structure was found to be very
well preserved. The building was
an exceedingly large one for the
period in which it was built. When
the new home of the hardware firm
is completed, it will be one of the
most modern in Delaware. The
store now occupied by Joseph Ad-
ans, which adjoins the hardware
property, will be torn down and the
new structure will cover the land
now occupied by the latter store.
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
TRAPPE, MARYLAND
DELUGED BY FROGS
Millions Fall From Skies On Street
There At Noon Sunday

The little town of Trappe, Md,
the birthplace of "Home-run Baker" i"
nine miles from Easton, made an
other bid for fame Sunday at noon,
when millions of small frogs fell
from the heavens with a rain that
lasted fifteen minutes. They covered
the streets and highways that led
out of the town so quickly that mo-
torists and pedestrians were pre-
vented from navigating until they
could be cleaned away.
Scientists explain the phenomenon
by saying that the frogs, as mere
atoms, are drawn into the clouds by
the sun, and that when they grow to
certain weight they descend with
the rain.
Tourists from many large cities,
including Philadelphia, Washington,
Baltimore and Wilmington, visited
the scene, and many of the frogs
were placed in containers and taken
to Easton for display.
The frogs ranged in size from a
half an inch to an inch and a quar-
ter.
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
NINE KENT PRISONERS
ENTER GUILTY PLEAS
Jail Sentences Given Offenders By
Judge Harrington

Before Judge W. W. Harrington
on Saturday in Plead Guilty Court
at Dover there were nine prisoners
who pleaded guilty to the Offenses
charged against them.
Henry Williams, alias Spot Will
liams, and Minnie Gibbs, both color
ed, charged with illegal possession
of liquors, were sentenced to pay a
fine of $50 each and serve two
months.
James Swiggett, negro, carrying
concealed deadly weapon, 20 days
in Jail. Howard Carr, unlawful
transportation of liquors, fined $50
and imprisoned for 10 days.
Amos Simmons, uttering a worth
less check, three months imprison-
ment in the New Castle County
Workhouse.
Charles Brown Greist, alias Henry
Williams, charged with desertion
and non-support, sentenced to one
year in the New Castle County
Workhouse.
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
HEARST FOR HOOVER;
RAPS TAMMANY
Declares Hall Machine Has Al
ways Worked With Liquor
Interests.

William Randolph Heart, newspa-
per publisher, in a cable from Paris
has declared for Herbert Hoover, of
his home State of California, for
President.
Hearst's pronouncement was in
reply to a cabled query from The
Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
Whom will you support for Pres
ident and what issues will deter
mine the election"
In eight hundred words Hearst
stated his opposition to the prohibi-
ton stand of Governor Smith, whom
he labelled as a Tammany candi-
date.
Apparently the Democratic party
is endeavoring to make it's opposi-
ton to prohibition the dominant is
sue of the campaign" he asserted,
adding that in his opinion it was a
false ISSUE"
If the people do want a. change in
prohibition, Hearst said, he thought
it would be in the direction of "gen-
uine temperance" "That means they
will not want it modified by Tam
many Hall which, as everybody
knows, has always been hand in
glove with the liquor interests and
has always in the past supported
the saloon and been supported by
the salOon," he cabled.
The real issue, he declared, is the
peoples wealth and welfare. Their
and spiritual benefits"
which, as for Tammany, he asserted,
''the history of Tammany under
Tweed and Crocker and Murphy and
in fact THE Tammany scandals in
New York today established the fact
beyond contradiction that the peo-
pie of the United States do not want !
Tammany in control of the nation. |
1t is bad enough to have Tammany
in control of New York, it would be
a calamity to have it in control of |
the United States"
He referred to DR.. Nicholas Muir |
ray Butler as zone erstwhile" presi-
1ential candidate who "has aligned |
himself with Tammany Hall and the
liquor interests because he does not
like Mr.. Hoover's attitude on the
liquor question"
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
LABOR DAY TRAFFIC
EXCEEDINGLY HEAVY
Police Count Showed 1882 Cars
Travelling North In II Hours

Labor Day, marking the end OF
the vacation season, witnessed a
steady stream of motorists headed
for home on the State roads on Mon
day. There was a general exodus
from both nearby and distant sum-
mer resorts, and Delaware caught
large share of the influx of traf-
fic.
AS it marked the last day upon
which traffic on the State roads is
expected to be heavy, a check was
kept by members of the State High
way Police at Station No. 2 on the
number of cars using the DUPONT
Boulevard and the Glasgow Road,
travelling in a nOrtherly direction,
between noon and midnight. A to-
tai of 1882 machines was reported
for the twelve hours, making an
average of 1850 an hour. The bus
lest hours were between and s
o'clock.
The figures kept by the State
Highway police were as follows:
Noon to 1 o'clock, 372 on the du-
Pont Boulevard, and 33S on the
Glasgow road; 1 to 2 o'clock, 470
on the dupont Boulevard, and 418
on the Glasgow road; 2 to 8 o'clock,
$50 on the DUPONT Boulevard, and
448 on the Glasgow road; to 4
o'clock, $50 on the dupont Boule-
ward, and 525 on the Glasgow road;
4 to 5 o'clock, $40 on the dupont
Tln1T1nxyo ord ho
road; to o'clock, 966 on the du-
POnt Boulevard, and 644 on the
Glasgow road; 6 to z o'clock, 1903
on the DUPONT Boulevard, and 700
on the Glasgow road; z to 8, 958 on
the DUPONT Boulevard, and 1872 on
the Glasgow road; to 9, 701 on the
DUPONT Boulevard, and 500 on the
Glasgow road; to 10, 746 on the
DUPONT Boulevard, and 452 on the
road; 10 to II o'clock, 555
on the DUPONT Boulevard, and 29O on
the Glasgow road; II to midnight,
AT on the DUPONT Boulevard, and
ITO on the Glasgow road. A total
Of 1882, with an average of 1850
an hour.
Automobiles that more closely re-
sembled caravans, loaded down with
camping equipment and bearing
sun-tanned occupants, were numer-
Ous upon the roads, all happy with
the memories of a pleasant vaca-
tiOn.
Hikers tramping back home on
foot after weeks spent on the open
roads, were not uncommon.
Despite the heavy traffic the State
roads were practically clear of ac-
;idents. Only one man was injured
N the two accidents reported by the
State Highway Police.
Only one arrest was made by the
police, and that took place when |
Ross Blackiston, Negro, of Balti-
more, was taken into custody by |
Private Jewell on charges of oper- |
lting an unregistered car and using |
switched tags. When arraigned be-
ore Magistrate Vining, of New Cas-
lie, he was fined $40 and costs on
zach charge.
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
LOSES MONEY SEWED in
MATTRESS FOR SAFETY
Fire At Houston Home Burned
Money Placed In "Safe Place"

The Carlisle Fire Company of Mil
ford was summoned on last Satur-
day afternoon to the home of Will
liam Ward at Houston, to extinguish
a fire which originated in the kitch-
en-, apparently from an oil stove.
Mrs. Ward and neighbor were sit
ting on the front porch when they
smelled smoke, and running to the
kitchen, found it in flames. Although
the fire companies from Milford,
Houston and Harrington responded
promptly, the kitchen was burned
and part of the main building, as
we'll as even a storage house, before
they could reach the place.
They ran a line of hose from the
tank of the Stetson-Ellison Packing
Company to extinguish the fire.
Part of the furniture was ruined,
and 5000 sewed in a mattress was
lost. The place was partly insured.
Milford chronicle., 1928-09-07
ALFRED P. SLOAN,
MOTORS HEAD, TO
SUPPORT HOOVER
Endorses Him 'As Individual, He
Explains 10 Statement Made
Monday.
ADVOCATES DRY LAW
Man To Whom RaskOb And P.
S. du POnt Offered Resignation
Lauds G. o. P. Nominee.

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president Oi
the General Motors Corporation, to
whom John J. Raskob and Pierre S
dupont offered their designations
because of Governor Smith and the
anti-prohObition movement, issued a
statement on Monday endorsing Her
bert Hoover for President.
I'm making that statement" he
said, 81 want to emphasize that it is
my position as an individual and has
nothing to do with any business en-
terprise in which 1 may be connect
ed"
Raskob, who is listed in who's
Who" as a Republican, but who has
never been formally affiliated before
with any party, resigned as chair
man of the finance committee of
General Motors after accepting the
Craftsmanship of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, lest there be any
appearance that the corporation was
taking sides" in politics. His resig-
nation was accepted, but he was
told that he would be welcomed
back after the election.
DUPONT, normally Republican,
just before endorsing the candidacy
of Governor Smith, offered his res
ignation to save the company pos
sible embarrassment through his ac-
tivities in the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment, in
which both he and Raskob had been
prominent since its founding. His
resignation was declined, but he
was granted a leave of absence.
Sloan, a Republican, and an ad-
vocate of prohibition, endorsed
Hoover on the ground that he was
best fitted to carry forward the pol
icies responsible for present pros
perity, and because he thought him
most able to handle the prohibition
problem.
Having been intimately connect
ed with industrial problems for |
many years, I am thoroughly con- |
vinced that our national efficiency |
has added to the purchasing power |
of the people and given us an advan-
tage in our competition for foreign
trade" his statement read.
cat the same time I recognize |
that conditions respecting the obser-
vance of the law are far from salts |
factory, and time may prove the ne
cessity for some adjustments.
eff so, I am for having those ad- |
justments brought about by an ex-
ecutive in sympathy with the eco
nomic benefits that the closest pos
sible adherence to the prohibition
idea is sure to bring about.
at seems to be, therefore, that
we should ask ourselves whether
this or any other problem is likely
to be any more constructively hand
led under change in administra-
tion. I see nothing to justify any
change, therefore I am for Mr.. Hoo
yer, and always have been"