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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
B. WARNER
DIED LAST THURSDAY

James B. Warner, Jr., aged "A, of
Wilmington, died Thursday after
noon of last week after an illness OF
several days. For the past five years,
his health had been failing, but not
until Sunday night had his condition
become serious.
Mr.. Warner was born and edu-
Gated at Hagerstown, Md. In his
early life he was connected with
the Bell Telephone Company and
for a time was manager of the Do
yer District of the Diamond State
Telephone Company. Later he resid-
ed in Milford where he had a host of
friends. After leaving Milford he be-
came manager of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society in Wilmington
and worked in that capacity at the
time of his death. He was member
of the Masonic Order.
Mr.. Warner was we'll known to
many people on the Peninsula. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nellie
Warner, who before her marriage
was Miss Nellie Evans, of Milford.
Funeral services were held Satur-
day afternoon and interment was
made at Odd Fellows cemetery in
Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
GRANGE MASTER
AT NEWARK MEET
National Master Taber
Sees No Advantage In
Chain Stores

National Grange Master Louis j.
Taber, of Columbus, Ohio, was the
principal speaker Tuesday at the
opening of the four-day meeting Of
the Middle Atlantic Grange Lectur-
ers' Conference which was held in
Mitchell Hall at the University of
Delaware under the auspices of the
New Castle County Pomona Grange
and the University of Delaware.
Mr.. Taber discussed Lecturers of
Tomorrow" He declared that all Of
the great modern changes in the
world are bound to affect agricul-
ture. lie regretted the big advance
being made by chain stores and
chain banks and said that while they
appear to be beneficial, the benefits
are more apparent than real.
He referred to the great work OF
the oranges during the past 81 years
and said that the agriculturist must
be in harmony with the rest of the
world.
Organization was stressed by Mr..
Taber who said the granger must be
awake to the governmental progress
in order to keep up with the times.
The marketing program, he declar-
ed, is also important and program
of marketing is needed to insure the
grower receiving a larger share of
the consumers dollar. The oranges,
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
TO REDREDGE SIX
FOOT CHANNEL
IN THE MISPILLION
Waterway Also To Be 80
Feet Wide Between
It's Jetties
OPEN BIDS AUGUST Z

1t. Col. R. P. Howell, U. S. Engi-
neer for the Wilmington District,
has issued specifications for furnish
ing labor and materials and per-
forming all work for dredging about
$500 cubic yards of material from
the Mispillion River which empties
into the Delaware Bay about 10
miles above Cape Henlopen.
The project of improvement eX-
tends from the Delaware Bay to Mil
ford, the head of navigation, about
IL miles above the mouth.
Bids were opened at two o'clock,
standard time, yesterday.
The work to be done is to re-
dredge a channel six feet deep at
low tide and 80 feet wide between
the jetties, a distance of 5000 feet
and to restore the channel within
the river to six feet at low tide and
60 feet wide with additional width at
the sharp bends to Milford, by re-
moving a shoal 200 feet long about
1000 feet above the fish factory at
the mouth and then by almost con-
tinuous dredging upstream from a
point about two miles below Milford
to the upstream end of the Milford
Light and Water Commissions
wharf, a total length of about 13,2OO
feet.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
PENINSULA POTATO
YIELD LOWER

With the 1880 early potato season
virtually over for the Eastern Shore
of Virginia, approximate estimates
indicate that the farmer will receive
S9,OO0,000 for the crop.
Probably no potato season in re-
cent years witnessed such juggling
of conditions. Following an unfav-
orable season in 1928, when pota-
toes fell to 81 a barrel and the far
mer suffered losses, last year there
was a cut in acreage, with the e.
suit that prices averaged $S.40 per
barrel.
Farm leaders this year sought to
keep the acreage down but, ignoring
advice, farmers planted heavily.
Eighty-eight per cent of all the
cleared land in Northampton county
was planted in white potatoes, and
65 per cent of the acreage of Ac-
comac county was planted. However,
early in the season an extended
drought hindered growth, with the
result that the yield was very low
this year.
Despite the small yield, 800 car
loads were shipped from the Shore.
Had there been normal yield, It is
probable prices would have reached
the low mark of 1928. However, a
fair price was maintained until the
last few weeks of the season.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
ARE NOW TESTING
POULTRY FLOCKS

The blood testing and culling of
poultry flocks for the elimination of
Pullorum Disease (Bacillary White
Diarrhea) by the Poultry Depart
ment of the State Board of Agricul-
ture is being started this week. Ac-
cordin gto H. R. Baker, pathOlogist
of the Poultry Disease Control Lab
oratory, there are applications for
10000 blood tests this season. Sam
pies of blood are taken from
small cut in a vein of each hens
wing by properly qualified inspec-
tor and sent to the laboratory at
Dover for testing. The inspectors are
instructed to handle the birds with
care so that the birds egg produc-
tion will not be interrupted and the
hens will not~be frightened. Last
year there were no deaths due to eX-
cessive bleeding during the testing
season as the few drops of blood
taken from each hen does not hurt
them in any way.
Records kept in the Delaware
"Grow Healthy Chicks" campaign
showed that out of $1,000 chicks
Matched from blood tested stock only
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
ABOVE NORMAL
JULY RAIN FALL
IN MILFORD
Milford Weather Record
er Says That Almost
Double Average Fell
FARMERS HIT HARD

Notwithstanding tn e drought
which is burning up vegetation all
over the nation, Milford and imme-
diate vicinity have not suffered from
lack of rain fall. This statement is
made upon the authority of Charles
J. Holzmueller, official government
weather recorder for Milford. In
July a total of 720 inches of rain
fell in Milford. The average rain
fall for July in this town is four
inches. 1t will be seen by these fig
ures that almost double the normal
amount of rain fell during July.
other sections of the State are suf-
fering badly for want of rain, and in
many places the drought has so SER
iously damaged crops that the farm
ers will have practically nothing for
their seasons labors. In lower Sus-
sex county fields are parched and in
some sections the dairy cattle have
been fed on cantaloupes and cucum-
bers because of lack of feed. In the
vicinity of Milford the corn fields
look good, but the farmers say that
another good rain is needed to in
sure a good crop of grain.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
GIVE PERMISSION
TO ERECT POLES

The Levy Court Commissioners of
Sussex county have granted, by a
resolution, permission to the Eas-
tern Shore Public Service Company
to erect poles and string wires along
the highways of the county. Notice
of the intention of the company to
erect poles must be given to the
county engineer who will have SUI
pervision over the work, and FUR
nish the boundary lines.
For the past 80 years it has been
necessary for all telephone, tele-
graph and electric lighting concerns
to petition the Levy Court Commits"
sioners for permission, thus proving
an annoyance to them and at the
same time holding up the work. 1t
is conceded that this should have
been the work of the County High
way Department, under whose juris-
diction and supervision the high
ways have been for many years.
There was a time when no action
could be taken for improving the
roads without the consent Of the
Levy Court.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
SWIM CLASSES
WELL ATTENDED
Successful Campaign Was
Reported At Milford By
Arthur M. Potter

With an average daily attendance
of So at the morning swimming class
at Haven Lake, and the beginners
class having as high as 56 at one
time, Arthur M. Potter, swimming
instructor of the Y. NJ. c. A., reports
a successful swimming and life saw
ing campaign in the vicinity of Mil
ford, sponsored by the Delaware
Chapter of the American Red Cross.
The campaign throughout the
State is supervised by the swimming
committee of the Wilmington chap
ter of which DR.. M. Burton Myer is
chairman.
Mr.. Potter conducted classes at
Haven Lake, Milford, and Slaughter
Beach, nine miles from this town
two weeks ago. The afternoon ses-
ssons at Slaughter Beach proved
popular with the women. An added
attraction was the calisthenic drill
which was given each afternoon and
attended by as many as 35 each day
for drill between ages of "a and St
years.
The evening group at Haven Lake
averaged Is, mostly life saving ap-
plicants.
At Haven Lake and Slaughter
Beach the report shows the follow
ing numbers who entered the class
es and received certificates: Taught
to swim, 80; beginners tests, lis;
swimmers test, &c. junior life saw
ing, 8; senior life saving, 8.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
SUSSEX COUNTY
CAMPS ARE OPEN
James, Sound And Heb
ron Are In Session For
Usual Season

James Camp located in Broad
Creek District, eight miles from
Georgetown, opened on Saturday
for ten days. The camp is in charge
of the Rev. ]. w. Sutton, pastor of
the Epworth M. E. Circuit. He has
had as his assistants during the
week Rev. and Mrs. Robert Caskie,
singing evangelists, of Baltimore.
This is one of the most popular
cap.ps in lower Delaware and is
largely attended by residents of Del
mar, Laurel, Seaford, Millsboro,
Dagsboro and Frankfort.
Sound Camp, second largest on
the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula, located
in Baltimore District, between Ocean
View and Williamsville also opened
Saturday for ten days. This famous
tented spot is one of the Oldest en-
the Peninsula and is annually at
tended by thousands of people from
all parts of Sussex County and Wor-
cester and Wicomico Counties. in
Maryland. 1t is only located a short
distance from the Delaware-Mary-
land state line. Both James and
Sound Camps are noted for a dis
play of religious fervor. One comes
as near witnessing display of the
old time Wesley Methodism as any
place in the county at the lower
Delaware camps, especially Sound.
James and Careys, the latter some
times called Mudford.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08

CONVENTION
SEPTEMBER 9
Party Primaries Will Be
Held On Saturday, Sep
tember Sixth
COMMITTEE TO MEET

The Republican State Convention
will be held at Dover on Tuesday
September 8. The primaries to elect
delegates to the convention will be
held throughout the State on Satur-
day, September 6. A call for the
convention and primaries will be is
sued this week by Secretary of State
Grantland, who is Secretary of the
Republican State Committee.
Members of the Republican State
Committee have replied to query
from Mr.. Grantland, favoring the
waving of a meeting of the State
Committee and approving the date
of September 8 for the convention in
Dover.
The State Committee will meet on
the night before the convention in
the Hotel Richardson, at Dover. The
draft of platform will be presented
by the platform committee for ap-
proval. It it expected that U. S. Sen
ator Daniel o. Hastings will be
chairman of the platform commit
tee.
During the absence of J. Warren
Marshall, chairman of the Republi-
can State Committee, many of his
friends are boosting him for the Re-
publican Congressional nomination.
Candidates for the State offices,
for Congress and United States SEN
ator will be named at the conven-
ton.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
DAGSBORO BREAKS
MILFORD'S STREAK

Milford's winning streak was bro
ken at Dagsboro last Saturday in a
hard-fought game. Dagsboro took an
early lead with four runs in the first
three innings. Milford kept plugging
and nearly tied the score i'll the
sixth when Short, Lynch and Hit
chens hit safely but the rally fell
short by one run.
In the ninth, trailing s to 8, Hoyt
doubled to center and Grier reached
first on an error with two out. Vim
yard singled to left to score both
runners. Draper followed with a
long double to left center, but Camp
bells perfect relay to the plate pin
ched Vinyard with the tying run.
Ryan pitched much better game
than the score shows. Ten of Days
boro's fourteen hits were pop-tiies
that fell just out of reach of the Mil
ford fielders.
Tomorrow Milford's old rival, Eel
ton, comes here to continue the SER
les. FELTON, has won five straight
games. but the Milford team is on
edge to avenge the two defeats suf-
fered earlier in the season.
The local team has been improv-
ing with every game, and tomor-
rows game promises to be the best
and hottest of the season. The game
starts at three o'clock.
The box score:
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
Long Term Prisoners Cut
Through Roof AS Picture
Show Is Being Held
MEN CONSIDERED
VERY DESPERATE
Authorities Believe That
Those In Jail Break
Would Fight 1t Out

Six long term prisoners escaped
from the New Castle County Work
house Saturday night while motion
pictures were being viewed by the
majority of the inmates, and are still
at large, despite the efforts OF VIII
mington and State police and the
authorities of surrounding states
One of those escaping was Francis
Mckinney, of Richardson Park, VINO
was serving a sentence OF 20 years
for highway robbery.
Three of the other five were serV-
ing long sentences for the Lart they
had in the attempted robbery OF the
Glover Dairy Company plant IN VIII
mington four years ago.
The other two were serving long
terms for the robbery of the pawn
shop of Sol Harris, of Wilmington.
The men made their escape by
saving through a paddock on trap
door leading to the attic above the
cell tiers and then by means of a Dit
and auger broke through the roof OF
the building and gained access to
the roof of the recreation hall, a
one-story addition to the main build
ing.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
REHOBOTH BEACH
CUT OFF NOW OPEN.
Highway Department AL
lowed Automobiles To
Use Short Cut Saturday

The State Highway Department
opened the Rehoboth Cutoff, east OF
Milford to traffic last Saturday. The
road was again closed on Monday so
that work on the shoulders could be
completed without interruption from
the traffic. The new road leaves
North Walnut street at the Levi
cemetery and connects up with the
Milford -Rehoboth Highway near
Marshalls Pond. 1t greatly shortens
the distance from that required
when the traffic comes through Mil
ford, but the scenery through which
the travellers pass is not of the best.
For much of it's distance the road
was built through marshy land and
a great amount of filling was nee
essary before proper foundations for
the road were had. The highway de-
partment followed the practice OF
washing C.=e dirt as it was filled in
so that the concrete could be laid
at once. 1t has been the custom in
the past to allow the land to settle
several years before concrete was
laid over new fills, in the meantime
temporary road beds have been built.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
SAY JULY WAS
HOTTEST MONTH
EVER RECORDED
Warm Spell Worst Ever
Experienced In The
Southern States
AUGUST NOT so HOT

July, 1880, passed into history
with preliminary figures at the Wea-
ther Bureau at Washington indicat-
ing it was the hottest month ever
recorded.
While reports from all of the
weather stations have not been an
alyzed. a compilation of tempera-
lures registered at the larger sta
ton shows it was hotter for long
er time and over a larger area than
in any previous period since temper
ature records were established.
From July 4 to July 30 not
single day passed without temper
ature of 100 or hotter being ef1clal-
ly registered at some place in the
country. This was exclusive, Wea-
ther Bureau officials said, Of such
points as Phoenix and Yuma, Ari-
zona, where 100 is a summer COM
monplace.
The coming of August brought no
sign of relief from the crOp-devas-
tating and water supply menaclng
drought in many sections of the ma
ton which also has set record tor
duration and extent of territory af-
fected.
The July hot spell was the worst
the South ever experienced. Fort
Smith. Arkansas, with seventeen
DAYS of temperatures of 100 or high
er, set the pace for the nation
Shreveport, Louisiana, with twelve
days of century marks, was second
and Little Rock, Arkansas, and Lin
coin, Nebraska, tied for third, with
eleven days each.
In July, 1901, the previous month
for torridity in the United States
Fort Smith had 13 days of 100 or
higher and Shreveport had only
three. Last month Memphis had
eight days in the 100 class and only
three in July, 1901. Huron, South
Dakota, had nine this. July ard six
in 1901, while Nashville scored niue
and five respectively.
Displaying the traditional cnnSer-
vafism OF the Weather Bureau, J. q.
Kincer, chief agricultural meteorp-
logist, said predictions Of amateur
weather sharks" that August VIII
be another scorcher are "a hit pre-
mature"
august usually averages il shade
cooler than July" he said. Il will
say that the prospects OF there being
another spell like the recent one are
very unlikely and there is some
consolation in that"
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
DEMOCRATS FIX
SEPTEMBER 16
FOR CONVENTION
Spirited Tilt Between
Marvel And Bayard Fol
lowers For Delegates
WOMEN BY DISTRICTS

The Democratic State Central
Committee has selected September
l6 as the date for the State conven-
ton to be held in Dover, at which
candidates for the U. S. Senate, Rep
resentative in Congress and for
places on the State ticket will be
nominated.
The committee fixed September 13
for the Statewide primary to elect
delegates to the State convention.
It was suggested that in electlng
delegates to the convention district
leaders should make every effort to
see that women voters are properly
represented by having members OF
their own sex there. This matter
was left up to the various districts.
With the announcement that for
mer Senator Thomas F. Bayard Will
seek nomination as a candidate Tor
the Senate, interest in the Demo-
cratic convention has been redoub-
led. Josiah Marvel, attorney of Will
nington, is also a candidate for that
office and announced himself as such
many months ago.
A two-cornered fight is to result
when the Democratic delegates con-
vene to select their candidates, with
the senatorial nominations as the
principal bone of contention.
The Democratic campaign prom
ised to be an unusually tame affair
until Mr.. Bayard announced himself
a candidate last week. In his state
ment he placed himself as squarely
opposed to the eighteenth amend
ment and favors its repeal, leaving
prohibition legislation up to the
States.
AS yet Mr.. Marvel has not given
a statement as to how he stands on
the wet and dry question. At any
rate, leaders of the party predict
bitter fight between the Marvel and
Bayard followers for delegates to
the convention.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
COMPLETE THREE
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Milford New High School
Among Those Completed
By Contractors

A special meeting of the State
Board of Education was held at Do
yer on Monday to hear reports from
some of the school building commits
sions. including those of Harrington,
Milford and Georgetown, where the
buildings are completed. The build
ings were accepted and final pay
ments authorized.
The building commission OF
Frankford-D -Dagsboro met and organ
lied by electing Harry w. Bunting
president, George S. Williams, vice
president; DR.. H. V. Holloway. sec
retary, and G.. M. Donaway, of Days
boro, acting secretary. Tentative
plans were submitted.
The Lincoln school commission
met and organized by the selection
of w. D. Kibler, president; George
S. Williams, vice president; DR.. II.
V. Holloway, secretary, and H. Z.
Southland, acting secretary. Tenta-
tive plans for new building were
submitted.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
i. s. POPULATION
NOW l22,72S,S73
Montana, With Loss Of
1870, Only State To
Show Decrease

The population of continental Uni
ted States on the basis Of official
preliminary census figures is l22,-
72S,879.
This figure was compiled from Of
fetal announcements given AssUcia-
ted Press bureaus by census super
visors in the various states after
completing the enumeration which
began April 2.
Only one district in the United
States-in Clearf1eld County, Penn
incomplete but pre-
liminary estimate by the census su-
pervisor placed it's population at
1919.
The total figure for the United
States population is, however, sub
ject to revision in the census bur
eau's official announcement which is
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
MURDERKILL TO
BE- DREDGED BY
j. S. GOVERNMENT
River Channel To Be Sew
en- Feet Deep At
Low Tide
OPEN BIDS AUGUST Is

Another river improvement pro-
ject for this State was announced
this week by 1t. Col. R. P. Howell,
U. S. Engineer for the Wilmington
District.
Colonel Howell issued specifca-
tions and asked bids for improve
ments to the entrance channel of the
Murderkill River, at Bowers.
The project for improvement ex-
tends from the Delaware Bay to
Frederick, the head of navigation,
about eight miles above the mouth.
Bids will be received and opened
in Colonel Howells office at Sixth
and King streets, in Wilmington, at
2 o'clock, standard time, on the af-
ternoon of August 10.
The work to be done under the
Murkerkill River specifications is to
redredge a channel seven feet deep
at low tide and sixty feet wide on
the bottom, between the seven-foot
curve in Delaware Bay and the sew
en-foot curve in the mouth, a dis
tance of about 1900 feet and the re-
moval of Ghoals within the river, to
the same dimensions, from Coles
Shoal to Frederick, aggregating
27OO feet, widening to so feet where
necessary at sharp bends and oppo-
site wharves at Frederick.
It is estimated that the improve
ment will necessitate the removal of
approximately 10000 cubic yards of
material from the river.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-08
AIM TO CONTROL
FARM ACREAGE
Next Congress Expected
To Debate Between De-
benture and Equalization

Whether the debenture, the equal
ization fee or the agricultural mar
keting act, every effort at farm re-
lief has contemplated acreage con-
troll at some point.
The similarity of purpose crops
UP significantly as certain congress
sional leaders, expressing Gissatls-
faction with the Farm Boards wheat
policy, predict a new fight for the
fee or the debenture.
Senator Capper, Republican, Kan
sas, said after a conference with
President Hoover that agitation for
one of the two plans Undoubtedly"
would occupy the attention Of the
next Congress.
The equalization fee plan took
cognizance of ultimate necessity for
acreage control when it proposed 10
increase the fee as the eXportable
surplus of a commodity piled up.
A more arbitrary procedure was
espoused in the export debenture. IL
provided that when production in
creased 20 per cent but less than 4O
per cent, the amount of the deben-
ture be decreased 20 per cent.
All along the line the amount OF
the debenture decreased as produc-
tion increased, until a 80 per cent
increase in production automatical-
ly nullified the debenture.
Whereas under the agricultural
marketing act a 10 per cent reduc-
ton in wheat acreage is believed
necessary, the export debenture plan
would countenance any increase up
to 20 per cent before debenture
values automatically declined.