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Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
FIRE DESTROYS FIVE
MILLVILLE DWELLINGS
An Investigation Is Being Made
As To Cause OF Last Satur-
days Blaze. ~

An investigation into the origin of
the fire, which on Saturday after
noon swept over the business dis
trict of Millville, destroying proper
ty valued at from $4,000 to $4,000,
is being conducted privately, Harry
H. Dukes, business man states.
Mr.. Dukes was the owner of the
group of five buildings burned. He
says an investigation he is carrying
on has revealed that a pile of rub
bish had ignited in the rear of his
store, shortly before the building
caught fire.
Mr.. Dukes says none of his en-
ployees set the rubbish on fire and
the manner in which the rubbish
was ignited, causing the fire to
spread to his store is the principal
object of the investigation. Insur-
ance officials are aiding in the in
vestigation.
The places burned in the fire Sat
urday were: General store, a three
story frame building, a warehouse,
garage building, building where the
Millville fire apparatus was stored
and a warehouse where grain was
stored. The loss is partly covered by
insurance.
The fire was discovered about 1870
o'clock Saturday afternoon in the
rear of the Dukes store. Famed by a
strong northwest wind, the flames
rapidly enveloped the store building
spreading to the other buildings all
close together. An alarm was turned
in to the Selbyville Fire Company
and this was followed with similar
calls for aid to Millsboro, George
town and Berlin, Md. All of the COM
panies responded.
Homes in the vicinity of the burn
ed area, as we'll as the Methodist
Protestant Church and Masonic Hall
were for time threatened by the
blaze. Prompt action of the visiting
firemen prevented larger property
loss.
Light and power lines Of the Eas-
tern Shore Public Service Company
which extend through Millville, were
damaged by the flames. A few hours
following the blaze the line had been
restored.
Lack of sufficient water hampered
the visiting firemen considerably.
The Dukes store was the Oldest
mercantile establishment in Mill
vile. Mr.. Dukes said he was plan
ming to rebuilt the store following
settlement of insurance carried on
the burned buildings.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
KENT COUNTY RECEIPTS
WERE $37l,5O2.7OFO FOR
YEAR JUST CLOSED
The County Had A Balance 10
In Treasury Of $36,S1S When
The Year Closed.
AUDITORS PRAISE PARADEE
Say That His Books Were Kept
In A Splendid Manner And
Well Arranged.

County Auditors, Walter o. Hof-
fecker and John C. Hopkins, appoint
ed by Judge w. w. Harrington tC
audit the books of Kent County
Comptroller William c. Paradee
having completed and submitted
their report to Judge Harrington
which covers the period from De-
cember 1, 1928, to December 1, 1929
Following is a summary of the re-
port:
Receipts, general fund, balance OF
1928 report, $63,266.23; received
from county officers $42, 2,34O.29; from
State Treasurer for Mothers Pen
sion, for dirt roads and for insur-
ance for fire companies in the State
$18,5S6.O6; from work of prisoners
interest on deposits, materials sold
rent, equipment, ETC., $1,819.26; tax
penalties from receiver of taxes
1927, 1928 and 1929, a total of $780,
1856; loan from Farmers Bank
$35,OO0; refund on equipment, fur
niture and fixtures, ETC., $S5,112. To
tai receipts, $371,502.7O.
Expenditures: Salaries of county
officers, new indicies system, apprO-
priation to towns, ETC., $65,696.S2
Board of prisoners, Kent county
$3,11O; board of prisoners at New
Castle County Workhouse, $1O,416.-
60; bridge tenders, bridge repairs
constables' fees, coroner's fees, coro-
ner's inquest, ETC., $17,562.S7; fur
niture and fixtures, county building
supplies and expenses, light, heat
water, ETC., $7,119.84; Delaware in
dustrial School for Girls, Industrial
School for Colored Girls, Ferris In
dustrial School, INDECENT sick, fire
companies for insurance received
from State, ETC., ,226.36; Farmers
Bank loan, $4,000; court costs and
legal expenses, insane examination
and transportation, interest on Kent
county debt, ETC., $5,445.26; grand
petit and special juries, Jail supplies
and justice of peace fees, $6,4O6.95
appropriations to Kent County Aim
house, mothers pensions, ETC., $685.
1898; printing and stationery, road
equipment refund of taxes, etc, $l1,-
1914; State Board of Health, sher-
iff, telephones, travelling expenses
$1,138.54; witnesses before court and
justices of peace, $S59.2S; miscellan-
eous payments, $529.96 injury to en-
ployes, 1920; compensation insur-
ance, $281.38; new indises system
$1,170; wharf at Little Creek, $54O;
transferred according to law tc
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Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
STATE FEDERATION
TO MEET MAY IS
Three Days Convention Of WOmen's
Clubs VIII Convene In Wilmington

Members of the State Federation
of Women's Clubs, during their
quarterly meeting at Dover on Tues
day, selected May Is as the opening
date of their 3-day annual conven-
ton, which will be held in the New
Century Club, Wilmington.
Governor C. Douglass Buck and
Mrs. John Sippel, president OF the
General Federation Of Women's
Clubs, have accepted invitations to
attend the opening session, it was
announced. They will be among the
guests of honor at dinner to be
held in the du Pont Biltmore.
Mrs. E. T. Negendank, president
of the Wilmington New Century Club,
which organization will act as host
at the convention, announced that
plans are progressing for the three
day session.
The following delegates were
elected to attend the convention OF
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, which opens in Denver in
June: Mrs. William A. Mode, Cor
don Heights; DR.. Delema Draper,
Milford; Miss Mabel Talley, of Will
mingtOn; Mrs. A. Waller, Delmar.
A motion was adopted to send a
letter of coincidence to Mrs. James
N. Ginns on the death of her broth
er, Louis Topkis, who died on Sun
day. Mrs. Ginns is custodian of the
Student Loan Fund.
The Junior Section of the Wash
ington Heights Century Club and the
Junior Section of the Women's Club,
of Claymont, were unanimously
elected to membership in the Fed
Grafton.
A resolution was adopted to re-
quest clubs to use their influence in
creating public opinion in regard to
the restriction of bill boards to COM
mercial districts.
Mrs. William H. Beacon, president
of the Federation, presided at both
the morning and afternoon sessions.
The Dover New Century Club act
ed as host at luncheon between
the sessions.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
HUSBAND IS HELD
In WIFE'S DEATH
Henry C. Belts, Of Milford, In Sus'
sex Jail In Default Of $1,000 Bail

Henry C. Belts, of Milford, is being
held in the Sussex county jail at
Georgetown. in default of $4,000 bail
on a charge of involuntary man.
slaughter, growing out OF an automo-
bile accident which occurred on FEB.
Z. on the du Pont Highway, in which
his wife, Lulu E. Belts, 26 years old,
was instantly killed.
Since the accident Belts, who also
was injured, has been undergoing
treatment in the Milford Emergency
Hospital. Officials have been wait
ing for his discharge from the hos
Dital in order that charges could be
nreferred against him. 1t was al
legged that Belts was under the infiu-
ence of liquor at the time of the
accident.
Mr.. and Mrs. Belts were on their
way south, on the du Pont Highway
trailing another machine. Just as a
truck owned by the Kitchens Milling
Company, of Milford, and driven by
ii Smith, going north, attempted
to mass the machine preceding Belts,
the voung man, evidently without
lacking to see if another car was ap-
proaching, suddenly swerved his ma
chine. which collided with the truck
of the Kitchens Milling Company.
The Belts machine was almost
completely demolished and Mrs.
Retts thrown to the concrete high
way, her throat being cut by DroK-
en- glass in the windshield. Her SKULL
it is said, was also crushed and her
neck broken. Death resulted almost
instantly. The young man sustained
a broken arm and several lacera-
tions. as we'll as suffering from
shock. He was taken to the hospital
for treatment.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
BRIDEVILLE MAN
MAY BE. CANDIDATE
W. B. Truitt Is Mentioned As En-
trant in Democratic Race

The name of William B. Truitt, OF
Bridgeville, is the latest to be men
toned as a probable candidate for
the Democratic nomination of Con-
gressman from Delaware.
Mr.. Truitt, who is a buyer and
shipper of fruits and produce, is well
known not only in Sussex county,
but throughout the State.
The Democratic Congressional
nominee will, most likely, come from
Sussex county, with the Senatorial
candidate from New Castle county.
Present indications point to the
nomination of Josiah Marvel, VIII
mington attorney, for United States
Senator.
A June convention for the Demo-
Gratis is practically assured since
favorable comment is heard through
out the State on this idea. The
Democratic State Committee will Sc
lect the date of the convention ana
the party primaries.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
MAIL ORCHARD SPRAY
NOTES TO GROWERS
Kent County Agent Wilson Advises
On Progress Of Work

AS a continuance of the orchard
spray service, which was established
in this state four years ago under
the direction of DR.. ]. F. Adams,
Plant PatholOgist of the University
of Delaware, and the State Board OF
Agriculture, three editions of the
orchard spray notes for the 1880
season have been mailed from the
office of Kent county agent, Russell
r. Wilson, to the fruit growers in
Kent county within the past month.
The spray notes which were sent
to the orchardists few days ago
included the recommendations con-
cerning the use of the delayed dor
mant spray on apple trees for the
purpose of checking the initial scab
infection and controlling the rosy
aphis and the red mite. For this
spray the growers are being ADVISED
to use the commercial lime sulphur,
which tests 80 degrees Baume, di-
luted at the rate of 10 gallons to
each 100 gallons of spray material.
Where the rosy aphis are trouble
some. however, nicotine sulphate
should be added at the rate OF one
mint to each 100 gallons of spray
solution, and in the event red mite
eggs are to be controlled the lubri-
eating oil emulsion e per cent oil
content) or commercial oil sprays
should be used with a fungicide ac-
cording to the recommendations OF
the manufacture.
The warm weather which occurred
around March 18 caused a sudden
growth response with the result that
the early blooming varieties of ap-
ples are in a full delayed dormant
stage. The Early Ripe, Hero, Grimes
and Stark varieties show some sepa-
ration in blossom buds, while the
Stayman and Jonathan varieties
show typical green tips, and the late
blooming varieties such as the Rome
Beauty and Williams EARLY Red
promise to be a week or ten days
later.
In discussing the insect and dis
ease situation, DR.. Adams states that
the red mite eggs show less prevail
ence than last season at this time,
and the infestation Of aphis is also
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Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
STATE DRY LEADER
GOES TO CONNECTICUT
Rev. E. c. Prettyman Of Della
ware Will Be Succeeded By
New EngIaDder.

The Rev. E. C. Prettyman, super
intendent of the Peninsula District
of the Maryland-Delaware Anti-Sa-
loon League, has been appointed su-
perintendent of the Connecticut dis
trict of the league with headquart-
ers at New Haven, effective April L.
He will be succeeded in Delaware
by the Rev. Roscoe w. Vining, now
superintendent of the Connecticut
district.
The Rev. Mr.. Vining was in Will
mington last week and conferred
with Anti-Saloon officials and work
ers. He announced he would move
to that city and take up his new
work on April 1st. The Rev. Mr..
Prettyman will go to New Haven the
latter part of this week, but his
family will remain in Wilmington
for the present.
The transfer has been under con-
sideration by the National leaders of
the Anti-Saloon League for several
weeks. At a meeting in Baltimore a
few days ago, attended by both men,
the Rev. F. Scott Mcbride, superin-
LGuuGuI Ol Tic NdL4OAclA E1hbA- -OoAOOAA
League, announced the transfer.
The Rev. Mr.. Vining is well known
in Anti-Saloon League work, not
only in Connecticut, but also in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
where he has held posts.
The transfer of the Rev. Mr..
Prettyman to the Connecticut dis
trict carries with it a very substan-
tial increase in salary. He has been
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League of Delaware for the past nj
teen years, and by his success in
legislative work has won an en-
viable reputation among temperance
workers, When he began the work
here the open saloon was in opera
ton. During his term in office all
the prohibition laws have been en-
acted, in cluded the Kair law, which
is Delaware's State enforcement law.
The Rev. Mr.. Prettyman said the
transfer had been made because II
was the opinion Of the leaders tnat
more effective work can be done by
new men in each of the districts.
The Klair law in Delaware VIII
not be repealed" said Mr.. Pretty
man, "if the drys work in the COM
ing months as they have in the past
and Think they will.
Delaware has been combined IN
the past with Maryland, but IS TO
become a district to itself hereafter.
A meeting will be held early in April
in Dover to effect organization, and
the drys are planning an aggressive
fight for the next campaign in Della
ware" he said.
The Rev. Mr.. Prettyman also an
nounced that he will continue as a
member of the Wilmington Annual
Conference of the M. E. church.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
In. E. CONFERENCE
In ANNUAL SESSION
NOW AT WILMINGTON
Bishop Frederick D. Leete Is
Presiding At The SiIverbrOOk
Church.
HONOR FORMER PASTORS
Services On Opening Day For
Those Who Have Died During
Conference Year.

Necessity for a return to the "old
time religion" and more attention
to prayer meetings, love for feasts
and communion services were stress
ed by Bishop Frederick d. Leete,
who presided at the opening session
of the Wilmington M. e. Conference
in Silverbrook church in Whining
ton, Wednesday morning.
TOO many Christians are ashamed
to be seen walking down the street
with a Bible under their arms" said
the bishop. He urged a better OBJ
servance of the Christian faith and
said that it should start in the par
sonage.
Bishop Leete said that instead of
trying to change our religion to suit
modern times, we should change our
manner of living to conform to our
religious beliefs.
81 was born in a Methodist par
sonage," said Bishop Leete, raised
in a Methodist parsonage, and can
not forget the religious belief in
stilled in me at that time. A Meth
odist parsonage is a good place to
be brought up in.
''In my early life preachers moved
every two years. Most Of the time
we moved once year."
Bishop Leete urged that every
Methodist parsonage should be a
centre from which radiates deeper
spiritual grace and to accomplish
this every minister should live closer
to God, conducting himself so that
his life shall lead men to Christ.
The service of the day began with
singing, followed by prayer by for
mer Congressman Walter o. Hof-
fecker, of Smyrna.
At the beginning Of the commun-
ion service, in which he was assist
ed by the district superintendent,
Bishop Leete explained the meaning
of the service and urged that all
should participate, thus acknowledg-
ing their belief in God and the
church.
The Rev. Disston W. Jacobs, su-
perintendent of Wilmington district,
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Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
JOHN P. HOLLAND DIED
SUDDENLY THURSDAY
Resident Of California Was In
Milford Settling His Fathers
Estate.

John Prettyman Holland, son of
the late Joseph E. Holland, died sud
denly Thursday morning following
an heart attack. Mr.. Holland suffer-
ed sharp pain in his chest soon
after arising Thursday morning, but
was apparently much relieved after
his uncle, DR.. John Prettyman, had
attended him. While the physician
was at drug store getting addition
al medicine for Mr.. Holland, he ex-
pired.
Mr.. Hollands father died few
weeks ago and he was in Milford
looking after the details of settling
the estate. For several years he
had been resident of California
where he was interested in the real
estate business. He also had busi-
ness interests in Florida. He is sur
vived by a widow and one son, John
P. Holland, Jr.
No plans for the funeral had been
made as the Chronicle goes to press.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
ELECTION DISTRICTS
THROUGHOUT STATE
in SERIOUS MIXUP
Six Districts Divided By Last
Legislature Who Provided No
Registration Machinery.
SOUTH MILFORD AFFECTED
Attorney General Will Be Asked
To Rule On Possibility Of Gen
eral Registration.

A serious mixup in the registration
books of six election districts in the
State is being predicted due to a
split-up of the districts by the 1929
Legislature, unless a general regis
tration is permitted this summer in
the affected districts.
The last Legislature split the
Third election district of Brandy
wine hundred into the Third and
Seventh election districts and split
the Fourth election district into the
Fourth and Eighth election districts.
These districts are in New Castle
county.
The Legislature also split the
First election district of the First
Representative district of Sussex
county (Milford) into the First and
Third election districts.
Secretary of State Charles H.
Grantland said that on behalf of
Governor Buck he will ask Attorney
General Reuben Satterthwaite, Jr.,
for an opinion as to the possibility
of having a general registration in
all these districts.
II Is u6C1dIGu JLdI IL q SCACA "a
registration is not possible the vot-
ers now living in what are now
known as the Seventh and Eighth
election districts of Brandywine
hundred will have to be transferred
from the old Third and Fourth dis
tricts, respectively, and the voters
living in the new Third election dis
trict at Milford will have to be trans
ferred from the old First district.
Such transfers would create Sc
rious muddle in the registration
books, it is contended.
The Legislature in splitting up the
districts and defeating the proposed
new registration bill, made no pro-
vision for the registration of the vot-
ers in the new districts, it is stated.
Those in close touch with the sit
uation declare that general regis
tration is ethbest remedy.
Attorney General Satterthwaite
few days ago gave an opinion hold
ing that the Legislatures spl1t-up
OF the Sixth election wistrict OF the
Seventh Representative district
(Christians hundred) in New Castle
county, was unconstitutional in that
the split-up left about rs persons
without a vote.
Because of Mr.. Satterthwaite's s
opinion the Sixth election district
will remain as it was before the Leg
islature's action, Mr.. Grantland SAID.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
CENSUS ENUMERATORS
FOR SUSSEX COUNTY
Named Last Week By Ex-Governor
Denney-WOman For Many Places

The director for taking the U. S.
census in Delaware, w. D. Denney,
announced the following appoint
ments last Friday for performing
the work in Sussex county: Mrs.
Elenor F. Jacobs, Lincoln City; Bes-
sic w. Shaw, Milford; Harry w. Jes-
ter, Jr., Ellendale; Mrs. Cecil M.
Morgan, Bridgeville; H. E. Kinder,
Greenwood; Elwood Anderson,
Bridgeville, Virgil Isaacs, Edith
Krahe and Theodore R. Fleetwood,
Seaford; Roland c. Wright, Charles
Conoway, w. L. Nelson, Howard l..
Culver, D. Lee Short, Charlotte
Short, John T. Tomlinson, Delmar;
Eugene T. Hayden, Rehoboth; Jo-
seph R. Lingo, Milton; Erdman G.
Jones, Flora P. Wolfe, ]. Frank
Johnson, Harry McKenty Taylor,
Frankford; F. S. Daisy, Frankford;
Walter w. Gray, Frankford; Louisa
Daisy, George H. Townsend, A. A.
Wilgus, John N. Perry, E. Holson,
Hiram r. Smith, Georgetown.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-28
.GALVANO HANGED THIS
MORNING FOR MURDER
VIII Pay With His Life For Cline
Murder Christmas Eve

Louis Galvano, 2O-year-old slayer
of Private Arthur c. Cline, will not
be granted a reprieve by Governor
c. Douglass Buck.
This was officially announced on
Wednesday by Governor Buck, fol-
lowing receipt of reports from psy-
chiatrists who examined the con-
demned man.
Sometime after receiving the re-
port from DR.. M. A. Tarnumianz, DR..
T. H. Davies, and DR.. E. A. Strecker,
the latter associated with the Jeffer-
son Medical College, Philadelphia,
Governor Buck issued the following
statement:
"Psychiatrists agree that Galvano
is morally abnormal, but legally
sane. A reprieve will not be granted
the prisoner"
Galvano is sentenced to die today
between 10 a. m. and'2 p. m. Work
on the erection of the gallOws on
which the former Fort DUPONT sol
dier will pay for his crime, was COM
pleted yesterday.
Twelve hundred parishioners and
large unseen audience of all faiths
were asked to kneel and say pray
er for Galvano, by the Rev. J. Fran
els Tucker, pastor of st. Anthony's
r. C. church, of Wilmington, during
radio message Tuesday evening. II
was the Lords Prayer.
The final examination of GalVano
was made Tuesday evening by DR.
M. A. TarumianZ, State psyhiatrist
and criminologist, and DR.. 7. H
Davies, together with DR.. Edward A
Strecker, professor of nervous and
mental diseases at Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia; Chief of Serv-
ice and Consultant to the Institute
for Mental Hygiene at the Pennsyl-
vania Hospital, Philadelphia; Criti-
cal Professor of Mental Hygiene fol
Yale University; neurologist to the
Philadelphia, Germantown an
Pennsylvania Hospitals in Philadel-
phia, and Consultant to Bryn Mawl
College.
DR.. Strecker spent four hours yes
terday in going over the X-ray pho
tographs and other data secured by
Drs. Tarumianz and Davies, and il
examining the prisoner personally
He made a complete check on al
that had been done in addition tC
making a personal examination oi
the condemned man.
The murder of Cline was one ot
the most cold-blooded ever to be
committed in Delaware.