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Smyrna times., 1930-06-18
GASOLINE FROM PETROLEUM
Petroleum Used Long Before the
Beginning of the Christian Era

Beginning of the Christian Era
People who think that petrol
cum is a relatively new discovery
will be surprised to learn that it
was used by the ancients long be-
fore the beginning of the Christian
era" Mr.. Robert Weir, Jr., local
branch manager of the Sun Oil
Company, recently stated. In
fact" went on Mr.. Weir, the word
petroleum comes from two an
cient words, 'petros' which is
Greek for rock and 'oleum' the
Latin word for oil which, when
combined mean rock oil. In this
connection, students of the Bible
will recall in the Book of Job
statement that the rock poured
me out rivers of oil and further in
in Deuteronomy is a description of
oil from out the fiinty rock. If
had time I could give many other
ancient references to oil. But of
course, this does not mean that
the ancients were able to split up
petroleum into all the by-products
we get out of it today. One way
of making high quality motor
fuel is by taking ordinary gasoline
and mixing it with some outside
ingredient But instead of follow
ing this plan, our Company was
able to develop an exclusive meth
cd of refining which produces such
high quality motor fuel that it
needs no outside mixtures to make
it high powered and knockless.
We have named this motor fuel
Blue Sunoco and by carefully
watching every step in its produc-
ton, we are able to sell it at regu-
lar gas price although in perform
ance it is really premium motor
fuel"
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18

Purnal ]. Lynch of st. Georges
Hundred is nominated for Sheriff
and Joseph Warnall of New Castle
is nominated for Coroner.
The Rehoboth Camp meeting
will commence July 9th and con-
tinue four weeks. Two story
tents, $40 for two weeks, SIS for
the whole time One story tents.
S6 for two weeks; $40 for the
whole time. Apply to Rev. G. w.
Prettyman, Lewes, Sussex County,
Delaware.
A colt belonging to Mr. Jones,
hitched in front of the store of w.
H. Moore & Company of Kenton
on Saturday became restless, broke
its halter, harness and both shafts
of the carriage 1t was caught be-
fore doing any serious damage.
Marriages. -Ritchie-C Council. In
FELTON, on the 1st instant by Rev.
J. S. Willis, Charles Ritchie and
Miss Sarah NJ. Council all of Kent
County, Del.
Deaths Stevens.-In this town
on the 18th instant Fannie B.Stev-
ems, aged 20 years.
Wiley Near this town on the
18th inst, Mrs. Priscilla Wiley,
aged rs years.
Roe.-On the 18th instant at
Shorts Landing, Bertha, daughter
of Robert J.and Matilda Roe, aged
years.
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18

New Castle County. He was
formerly employed at a hotel in
Harrington and has a bad charac-
! ter.
Rev. T. K. Peterson of Philadel-
phia, visited this town on Satur-
day remaining until Monday. He
was the guest of Rev. ]. A. Brin-
die, preaching for him at Bethel
and Severson's on Sunday morn
| ing and afternoon and for the Rev.
Mr.. Haynes at night. Mr.. Peter
son is a son of the late John Pet
erson for many years one of the
proprietors of the tannery here.
Mr.. Peterson has been a success
full business man in the city but is
more widely known there as a To-
cal preacher ready to help and
ready to give wherever he can be
of service to others. He is now in
charge of a Mission at Penkin-
town in the suburbs of the city
which he serves without compen-
sation, and contributes the larger
part to all their enterprises. He
has thus been the means of origin
ating commencing with Taber
nacle Church, perhaps dozen
congregations that have grown up
to be strongly established church
es, helping each of them to the
amount of thousands of dollars.
Children's Day. Sunday last
was properly observed as Chill
dren's Day" at the M. E. Church
in this town. The church was
very tastefully decorated with
vines and flowers, the rose pre-
dominating. In front of the pull
pit was a stand of most beautiful
pot flowers, the chancel rails and
gallery supports were entwined
with ivy, honeysuckle, etc, and
from each lamp bracket was sus-
I pended a rustic hanging basket;
the whole presenting a pleasing
\ aspect, and throwing out a rich
h fragrance from the flowers en-
blematic of youth, love, beauty
and the resurrection. The choir
led off in a voluntary Wake the
songs of Jubilee" which was beau
tifully rendered. Rev. Mr.. Haines
Y selected for his discourse the sub
ject of music" taking for his text
the passage containing the narra-
tive of the singing of the angels
at the Annunciation. The Sunday
\ School in the afternoon, shortly
after assembling ascended to the
upper room and were entertained
with a very pleasant exercises of
speaking and singing. They were
/ first, however, after the opening
/ prayer by Mr.. A. p. Griffith, re-
viewed on the lesson of the day by
\ the Superintendent James @. Las
sell. Rev. ]. v. Smith was the
\ first speaker and was followed by
Miss Mary v. Spearman, a select
reading by Mr.. o. 3. Voshell, the
Eagle Rock, and the closing adj
dress by Mr.. Herman Roe. These
exercises were interspersed with
singing under the direction of
Walter o. Hoffecker and that of
l the Infant School under Miss Elva
\ G. Carrow. The addresses and
readings elected close attention
and altogether it was a pleasant
occasion.
The Delaware College COM
mencement exercises are being
held to-day and largely attended.
The Democratic nomination for
candidates for Sheriff and Coroner
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18

roof blown off on Saturday, but
was unsuccessful. Up to yester-
day they had nothing to protect
them from the heavy rains and
the house and furniture was all
being badly damaged.
William Walker did yesterday
what might be considered a good
days work. He went with his two
dogs to a stable of the Messrs.
Tygert, infested with rats, and
when he had finished 157 slain vic
Tins lay at his feet. The dogs be-
came so fatigued that in the after
noon two or three other dogs were
called in to help them. The dead
rats filled two peach baskets.
Colonel George w. Cummins,
whose pear orchard last year was
so blighted by the SLUG" has met
the little enemy very successfully
this year by throwing dirt or dust
over the leaves. He has found it
necessary to do this three times
and hence his trees have been in
the main preserved, and look fresh
and green. Anything that adheres
to the slug will destroy it.
This week and next mark the
closing season of the academies,
seminaries and colleges. Those in
our own State, Delaware College,
Wesleyan Female College, the
Conference Academy and Smyrna
Seminary all close this week. Free
from care with liberty to roam
around at their own sweet will,
there is scarcely any spot bright
er in the life of the student than
the weeks of his school vacation.
Rev. William G. Robinson, a
former pastor of the NJ. E. Church
here, now of Chester, Pa spend
ing the day in our town and has
had numerous warm greetings. He
is on his return home from Dover,
wither he had been appointed Con-
ference visitor to the Academy.
Mr.. Robinson is noted for his gen
ial address and rare faculty of
identity 1t has been % years
since he was stationed here and
yet ne rarely missed recognizing
the face or calling the name Of a
former acquaintance.
During the thunder storm OF
Saturday afternoon last the
lightning struck and killed two
mules in the stable of William
Reynolds residing near Blackbird
camp meeting woods. They had
just been taken to the stable by
the men who had been working
with them in the field. A strang-
er drove up to find shelter from
the storm just a moment before
the fall of the fatal thunder bolt,
and the men stepped out of the
stable to assist him, or they too
might have been killed
THETA negro man named
Charles Bradley, whom Mr. Horace
Spruance had engaged to work for
him a few days before, on Satur-
day night while his other fellow
laborers were asleep, stole from
them money to the amount of be-
tween $50 and SIS and clothes to
the value Of $50, and decamped.
A writ was served out before Es-
quire Budd for his arrest, and
Constable B. V. Weldon when to
Wilmington to put the officers
there in search of him. Nothing
was learned of him, however, but
he is supposed to be somewhere in
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18

is 1882 compared with 31.o23 IN
1920, and Sussex countys popJIa-
ton is 45,441 compared with IA
741 in 1920. After giving out H.
figures Thursday, Mr.. Denney saja
they were only preliminary fe7Ias
and that the official ones, affe- j
recheck and examination. viii H.
announced from Washington.
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18

Mr.. Eliason of Middletown, in
the interest of the National Hotel
came down here yesterday in
quest Of a large tent canvass to
take the place temporarily of the
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18

run from Copenhagen-tO-P PaFl+''''
hagen, three gold medals in tns'''
ranking in the durability test 's
tortuous Amancaes road in Peru %
place in the 1880 reliability run ''''
by the Royal Automobile Club Of ' :.
This contest was an exceptions
we're test of endurance and ''a'
struction because it was helu LII '
winter and covered 600 miles
running over snow-covered e0'''
and mountainous bills.
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18

other reinements include for seat,
mahogany finished earnlsh moudinss the windows
and beneath the windshield flexible robe rail- and hard
in attractive pattern.
The front seat is adjustable within range of four
inches to suit the convenience and comfort
IT is moved quickly and easily by small nconspcuous
handle in the front center of the
The De Luxe Sedan, like other body types, can
be obtained In any Of several color combinations
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18

Senator e15 John c. Tow
q Delaware, was D,w'. ~,
senate Banking Ipvs,t.
mute last week. The j,
marks the beginning !
quiry into the bapEi,, !
with particular refers7..
+ ederal Reserve faciIir,,
speculations as orjarg
Senate recently. SEM,
Virginia, was mads c,,i
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18
Prizes During

c.. PIlzes are to be ,,,,]
Georgetown Fire ca,. aSal4|
pest decorated 5psioa. sraa'1
homes during the S's. ~ /
Convention which I Ss,'
July 9 and 10. T5s ! tao. i |
8 "ill be given: Bs,+ .s
tore $50 in gold. ~ 81.
dlsplay in bushes, ~. ~,
Slo in gold; best / s.aa.l ',.s,I
$40 in gold. II j, l,',I r5,'il'
erris Giles, Wilma 11e'lI
Tor will be engaged !.
amount Of street 5.,,.l y
ne occasion. -'''''
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18
Ford De Luxe Sedan

THE De Luxe Sedan, recently added to the Ford Ine
is designed for those who desire dstnctveness and
unusual comfort In automobile. The interior Is in
viting and roory with wide doors to both compart-
nents. Absence Of quarter windows gives
striking individuality and affords privacy to the oc-
cupants.
Interior trimmings and appointments luxurious
Upholstery is either in brown r,ohar tan Bed
ford patterned that used In haprIced cars
Smyrna times., 1930-06-18
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
NO GANCSTER CONTROL. LAW
 IS PROPOSED
President Makes Denial to Rumors That Are Be-
 ing Circulated

WASHINGTON, D. O., Nov. 25.- President Hoover said today the re- ports he would propose to Con- gress new laws to control gangster activity are untrue.
 At the same time the President said the Treasury rule regarding barring convict labor made goods is not directed at Russia.
 The Treasury has ruled that the burden of proof is placed on the shipper in showing the goods are not made by convict labor and the Government did not have to prove contention.
 In regard to gangsters, the Presi- dent said what was needed is en- forcement of the present laws and not enactment of new ones.
 Every State has sufficient laws to control the activities, he said.
 The President said there was no satisfaction in reports giving the impression that the only way to convict gangsters was through their failure to pay their income taxes on criminal activities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
FARMS WASHED
 OUT BY FLOODS

LONDON, Nov. 25.-Floods have washed out farms and whirled through populous. cities in Eng land, IT eland, Belgium, France Germany and Holland, spreading damage and destruction.
 Gales that lashed Western Flu rope yesterday have died down but 10 wering barometers threatened more deaths which are now esti- mated at 45.
 Paris is still endangered by a rise of the Seine River which is up 20 inches. Low sections are flooded but the main section of Paris is safe unless the river rises to 70 inches.
 The Belgian lowlands are not cov- lered but the Scheldt area contin- ued to remain in the grip of a flood
 Holland suffered losses when dikes broke although the seawalls held at high tide.
 The Rhine and Moselle areas in Germany are still threatened.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
STEEL PRICES ARE 10 SOON
 RE: ADVANCED
Simply Got to Come Says Statement Industry
 Not Making Money

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 25.-An increase in the prices of steel pro- ducts has simply got to come, " said E. J. Kulas today. He is President of the Otis Steel Com pany and Midland Steel Products Company. He said he would not predict how soon or how great the increase would be.
 The statement of Kulas followed published reports that steel inter- ests would shortly announce mod crate increases as way of revival of general business.
 ''The steel companies are. not making any money and have .agreed not to cut wages" the report said. Ore, limestone and ether necessi- ties in manufacture as well as tax es, are not coming down so the only thing to do is to raise prices"
 It is said that many steel pro ducts are as much as twenty per cent lower in 1880 as in 1929.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
GAINS M ADE BY
 EVERY TOWN IN
 RED CROSS ROLL
Hirst Chichagof 100 Per Cent-Others Places
 Co Over the Top

With all of the large towns, ex- cept Juneau, in the district unre- ported, almost 800 memberships have been listed in the Red Cross An nual Roll Call canvass, it was an- nounced today by Wellman Hol- brook, General Chairman. Every town so far heard from has ex- eeeded any figure in recent years and the indications are that the 1900 quota set for the Juneau Chapter will be reached if not passed.
 Juneau, incomplete, reports sub fscriptions aggregating $573.4o and .is. expected to4sreaeh $7oo easily. Thane, the only other Gastineau Channel community reported. had g subscriptions, an increase of 16 over last year.
 Hirst- -Chichagof has set 8. record for the entire Chapter to shoot at. With a population of 30, it return led 30 memberships. Chichagof re- ported subscriptions aggregating $421o, as compared to no mem berships last year Scow Bay, re- porting for the first time, sent in eight memberships.
 Juneau's subscriptions to date were S673.40, with some yet to be received, as compared to S611 last year.
 Among the towns still to be heard from are: Douglas. Skag- way, Haines, Chilkoot Barracks, Sitka, Tenakce, AngoonI Rake, Yakutat and Petersburg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
MAN IS SHOT THROUGH NECK
Harvey Langlois in Fair banks Hospital-Jo
 Armstead Suicides
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 25. Harvey Langlois died last night as the result of a wound received in the neck.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 25.- Harvey Langlois is in serious con- dition in the Fairbanks Hospital with a bullet wound through the neck.
 John Armstead, aged 50 years shot Langlois last Saturday night and later committed suicide.
 The shooting took place in a lonely cabin in the woods twenty miles south of here.
 Armstead is believed to have gone insane.
 Langlois stayed in the cabin all night and Sunday walked and crawled to neighbor's cabin hait mile away.
 At the outbreak of the World War, Armstead enlisted in Vancou- yer, Washington, and was sent tc Alaska. He came to Fairbanks from Seward two months ago. He had lived in Seward for two years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
QUEER MAMMAL C0UCHED UP BY
 LOCAL GLACIER
Cordova Reports Strange Find Scientists Pre-
 pare to Investigate

The reported discovery of a pre- historic amphibian mammal at Co., lumbia Glacier was today attract ing wide note from scientists all over the country, and an investiga- tion of the matter has been ord cred by Regional Forester Charles H. Flory, who has instructed W. J. Mcdonald, Supervisor of the Chug- ach National Forest, to proceed from Cordova to Glacier Island without delay.
 If he finds the story is correct he was directed to take charge of the mammal and make all neces- sary arrangements for preservation probably taking it to Seward to put in cold storage pending full scientific inquiry.
 Is Fully Described
 An Associated Press dispatch iron, Cordova said the creature "resem- bles a lizard. Its body is 20 feet long and the tail is 16 feet in length. It is covered with fur ir perfect condition and blood rec in color"
 The dispatch said the body was perfectly preserved. It was be- ueved at Cordova that it was en- tombed centuries ago in the upper reaches of Columbia Glacier ano gradually worked down to the sea encased in the glacier ice. It was washed ashore on Glacier Islano which is occupied by fox-farmer
 Supervisor Mcdonald reported the matter to local United States For est Service headquarters here to- day. He was at once instructed to proceed on the Forestry boa Chugach to Glacier Island sne make a thorough investigation, ane to take charge of the creature, i found to be prehistoric, and us' every precaution for it's perfec' preservation.
 Museum Wires Bunnell
 The Associated Press, in a New York dispatch, said Bernard Brown Curator of the American Museum of Natural History had telegraphee pr. c. E. Bunnell, President O the Alaska Agricultural College ane School of Mines, requesting him tt investigate the carcass of th' strange creature The Museum wa informed ten days ago of the find
 50 far we know of no prehis toric creature of the dimension given in the Alaska dispatch saie Curator Brown. If the creature was incased in ice it must hav' lived when the ice formed.
 prehistoric animals in Alasks which are known were the mann moth. buffalo and many smal creatures, none of which reach th' dimensions of the lizard-like ani maj. The description suggests reptile similar to the dinosaur bu they died millions of years befor' the ice formed The only othe possibility is of it to be creatur like the whale"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
BURKE AND PARTY BELIEVED ALIVE; PLANE IS FOUND
BRISTOL LOCKERS
 POOL DOLES WITH
 PART TIME WORK

BRISTOL, ENGLAND, Nov. 25.-- Dock workers of this seaport have almost solved their own unenpov- ment problem.
 Worked out by men grown grey on the wharves, the scheme provides for the pooling of both working time and also Of the dole" re- ceived by the men from the gov ernment.
 Through sharing in the combined pool each man saves she other from living entireiy upon the money gwen by the government They take turns, working in yhfee t,;ty
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25

shifts, turn aoout, so each worker gets sonc wage,
 Thus ,ley take part Of the fi- ,.sEc.al drain off the government and instead of geo men drawing full government dole, 400 men work half time and draw only casual insurance dole" This, contained with their wages, gives eayh man a chance.
 Government officials are watch ing the experiment closely, but de- clire to say whether they plan to work out a similar arrangement throughout the country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
PRICE
 HAS RESIGNED

BERKELEY, Cal, Nov. 25.-C. M. "Nibs" Price has resigned as head football and basketball coach of the University of California.
 The Student Executive Commit tee has accepted the resignation with regrets.
 Price explained: Tt is the only way to prevent dissension which is bound to follow the present unsuc- cessful football season.
 The Committee voted to pay Price his next years salary, the last year of his contract.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
MOVIE PICTURE CONCERNS HELD
 ID BE GUILTY
Two Cases Are Decided by United States Su-
 preme Court

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.- Ten of the largest motion picture distributors and thirty-tWo Film Boards of Trade which distribute ninety eight percent of the coun- try's films are held by the United States Supreme Court to be guilty of violation of the Sherman Anti Trust Laws
 Tn two cases attacking the uni form contract and credit system enforced by them, the Court said they were corporations which should be competitors.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
STARTED AT BOTTOM

Charles Henry Markham as pres ident of the Illinois Central Rail road, became leader in the rail- road fraternity, electrified the roads Chicago terminals, and in fifteen years doubled the assets of the system.
 Beginning at the proveroial bot tom" of the business he devoted his life to it, with the exception of six years spent in the oil industry.
 First substantial recognition of his organizing abilities came in 1911, when he gained the presi- dency and nine years later he inaugurated radical changes in operation and policy which marked his vision.
 At a time when most railroads were retrenching in the wake of the postwar deflation, he sponsored the appropriation of one hundred million dollars to electrify the H. linois Central's Chicago terminals.
 This doubled the speed of trains within city limits, rid the city of it's principal emoke nuisance and began a movement for electrifica- tion of other terminals there.
 The system has physical assets of $500, 100000 on his ascendency and the doubling of this sum show ed the profits accruing from a sys- tematic campaign of taking the public into confidence of utility op- eration His plans crystallized in 1920 when he said:
 "The public is going to run the railroads from now on. It is run ming the Illinois Central now"
 Inaugurated Advertising
 He inaugurated the first consec- utive series of advertisements ever run in newspapers by railroads, is suing a monthly bulletin to aid his employees in keeping the communi- ties served by the road in touch with it's affairs, and solicited let 1 ters from the public. These received his careful attention.
 This railroad executive, who trav- elled up and down the Mississippi Valley acquainting the people with the facts of railroading and win ming their confidence was the same man whose highest ambition 20 years earlier had been to become a station agent in some quiet Cali fornia town where he might raise | chickens.
 Born in Clarksville, Tenn, on May 9. 1861, and schooled briefly at Addison, N. Y., to which his parents moved when he was boy Markham entered railroading on a handcar.
 At twenty he was a section hand in Kansas on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. At forty, however he gave up the assistant traffic managership of the Southern Pa cific to become vice president ot -the Houston and Texas Central road, and although in the next de- cade he spent six years in the oil business, he came back in 1911 to his first love, as president of the Illinois Central.
 The most notable of the many improvements he carried Gut as president of the road was the elec- trification of the Chicago terminal Ninety million dollars were expend ed in substituting electric engines for steam; in creating new freight classification yard; in construction of new passenger and suburban terminals; in elimination of every grade crossing within the limits of Chicago and it's suburbs, and in preparation fo eventual electrifi- cation of all freight handling at the terminal and for the extension of the road northward.
 1 The Illinois Central was the first
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-25
Beauty Contest to
 Be Staged for Eskimo Flappers

WINNIPEG, Nov. 25.-A frOz- en shiny-faced blackhaired Es- kimo girl is going to be crown ed Miss Northwest Territories" sometime during the winter.
 Andrew Brown, of Baker Lake, an isolated Chesterfield Trading post, plans to stage a beauty contest among the "ladies" of the neighboring tribes.
 Brown says the Eskimo flap pers pay more attention to their personal adornment since the white man entered the territory. Many of the Eskimo women even wear skirts now.