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Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
MANY ATTEND STATE
GRANGE DRAMATIC
CONTEST AT CAMDEN
Capital Grange OF Dover Awarded
First Prize; COOIspring Given
Second.
FORTY MILES AN HOUR"
Was The Title Of The Winning
Play.--"BefOre The War;" And
''Betty And Me" Other Titles.

Ihe Delaware State Grange dra-
matte contest held in the auditorium
OF Caesar Rodney School at Camden
wyoming Tuesday evening was at
Tended by large number of Crane
ers from all parts of the State.
Inc three plays were given bv the
successful winners in the several
county contests held some weeks
ago, including Center Grange of Nan,
castle county; Capital Grange. Do
Ver' Kent county, and Coolspring
Grange, Sussex county.
The first play at the contest was
Dy Coolspring Grange, Sussex conn
ty, entitled, Before the War" Do
plotting scenes in the South with
son disappearing and later return
ing home for the parental BLESSING
ana the killing of the fatted calf,
Ihere were eleven characters in the
play. '-0
The second play was by Capita1
Grange, Dover entitled Forty Miles
an Hour" with seven characters tbo
main feature being the speed frenzy
Oh the present day by motorists in
winch a young girl had been arrest
ed for speeding and fined by a Judge
The third play was by Cenfer
Grange, New Castle county entitled
Betty and Me-" in which a gronn
OF women frightened at a supposed
proWler around their homes. were
wishing for the presence of a man
about the house the prowIer being
none other than the brother of a new
family which had moved into tbe
nelghborhood and who was LOOKING
Tor the new home of his relatives.
The judges of the contest included
Mrs. Hare of New Castle countv.
Professor Henry of Kent county and
Professor R. A. Shields of Sussex
county.
Former Governor Robert P. Rob-
nson, master of the State Grange,
made the presentations to the snc-
,essful winners as follows: First
80, Capital Grange, Dover; second.
Joolspring Grange, Sussex county,
40; third, Center Grange. New
5astle county, $40.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
METHODISTS FIRM in
FIGHT FOR DRY LAW
Conference District Superinten-
dents Say ''NO Compromise
On Prohibition.

The Methodist Episcopal Church
rewards voluntary total abstinence
from all intoxicants as the obliga
ton of the citizen and the complete
legal prohibition Of the traffic il
alcoholic drinks as the duty of the
government, and will not retreat one
iota from this position, said COM
bined report of the four district SUI
perintendents of the Wilmington M
E. Conference, presented to confer
ence at it's session in Wilmington.
The combined report was prepar-
ed by the Rev. Disston W. Jacobs, of
the Wilmington district; the Rev.
John L. Johnson, of the Middletown
district; the Rev. W. e. Habbart, of
the Dover district and the Rev.
Leonard White, of the Salisbury dis
trict. It is the first time the district
superintendent submitted a consol-
idated report, the procedure in past
years having been for each district
superintendent to read his own re-
port. The action on the part of the
superintendents was a time-saving
innovation.
That part of the combined report
devoted to the discussion of the pro-
hibition question declared that 1--WE
are just now confronted with the
best organized, most efficiently led,
heavily financed and unscrupulOus
assault upon the Eighteenth Amend
ment that has ever been made since
prohibition became the policy of
this Government, in dealing with the
traffic in Intoxicating liquors"
There is no agreement among the
'wets' save in the desire to get rid
of the restraints of prohibition" the
report adds. There can be no COM
promise, and we have a further con-
viction than when the final victor is
determined it will not be the liquor
traffic. We are greatly heartened by
the attitude of the National Admin
istration toward this crucial prob
lem."
The report expresses the belief
that DR.. Doran should be retained as
Commissioner.
"Nor would we fail to speak a
word of commendation Of Deputy
George A. Hill and his small band
If enforcement agents" the report
states. "These men are doing a great
work under tremendous handicaps
Ind doing it far better than we have
my right to expect. Let us encour-
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Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
FIND WILL 247 YEARS
OLD IN SUSSEX COUNTY
Oldest Recorded Will In County Had
Strange BeQuests

Two hundred and forty-seven
years ago, the first will ever execu-
ted in Sussex county was recorded
and can be found in Will Book AL
in the Office of Register of Wills G,
v. Messick. The will was made by
Edward E. Booth on December z,
1852, when the "Three lower cOun-
ties on the Delaware" were then a
part of Pennsylvania. In making the
will Booth refers to the county as
Deal and prefaces it with the fol-
lowing: "In the name of God, I,
Edward A. Booth, of Deal county,
being sick and week yeti of sound &
perfect memory and in hopes of the
Resurrecting to life Eternal in and
through Jesus Christ have herein
this my last will & Testament given
and bequeathed my soul to God and
my body to ye ground and my world
ly estate, etc."
John KiphavCn and Jacob Depree
were bequeathed his plantations, to
continue from heirs to heirs for
ever. The household effects were al
so given to Kiphaven. Other be-
uueaths, which were quaint, follows
To Elizabeth Whitman, two young
hens and a coop; to John Whitman,
one old SOW called Sib; to Martha
Kiphaven, one young sow which
came of the old SOW. Three hundred
pounds of tobacco were ordered paid
to William Avery for surveying the
land out of the 399 pounds owed
him by John Oakley. One grizzled
SOW was willed to William Emmatt,
which Booth had purchased from
John Hackester. He ordered that his
great hog be killed at his funeral,
but did not set forth why he wished
it to be done. He ordered to be paid
to Matthias Everson fifty pounds of
tobacco which he owed him and stip-
ulated that Kiphaven and Depree
"pay partly something toward main
tanning the widows and fatherless
children of the country" and also
for the patent Of his lands.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
REVISE BASEBALL
CARD FOR D. |. A. A.
State High School Season VIII Get
Under Way April

Following is the revised baseball
schedule for the season of 1880 or
the high schools of Delaware under
the jurisdiction of the D. I. A. A.:
Division A-(Delaware City, du
Pont, Midletown, Newark, New Cas-
tlc). April 4, du Pont at Newark;
New Castle at Delaware City; April
IL, New Castle at u dPOnt; Delaware
City at Middletown; April II, New
ark at Delaware City, Middletown at
New Castle; April 25, du POnt at
Delaware City; Newark at Middle
town, May 1, Middletown at du Pont;
New Castle at Newark; May IA, du
Pont at New Castle; Middletown at
Delaware City; May %, Delaware
City at Newark; New Castle at Mid
dletown; May 30, semi-f1nals Divi-
sion A VS.. Division B. June Z, finals
at Dover.
Division B-(Caesar Rodney, Eel
ton, Harrington, Smyrna). April 4,
Caesar Rodney at Smyrna; April IL,
Smyrna at Harrington; April IT,,
Harrington at Caesar Rodney; Eel
ton at Smyrna; April 25, Harrington
at FELTON,; May 1, FELTON, at Caesar
Rodney; May 8, Smyrna at Caesar
Rodney; May Is, Harrington at
SMYRNA; May %, Caesar Rodney at
Harrington, Smyrna at FELTON,. May
30. semi-fnals, Division A VS.. Di-
vision B. Finals at Dover.
Division C-(Georgetown, Lewes,
Milton, Rehoboth). April 4, George
town at Lewes, Rehoboth at Milton;
April II, Georgetown at Rehoboth,
Lewes at Milton; April II, Milton at
Georgetown, Rehoboth at LeWes;
April 25, Lewes at Georgetown, Mil
ton at Rehoboth. May 8, winner OF
northern section at winner of south
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Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
ROTARY OFFICERS WILL
FLY OVER MILFORD
Invitation To Local Club To Attend
Convention Will Be Issued

Prominent district officials of the
Rotary Club will fly over Milford
next Tuesday morning, April 8, at
11:96 a. NJ, and drop a parachute
carving an invitation to the 5Oth
District Conference to be held in
Philadelphia, on April q, 2S and 29.
Members of the Milford Club will
assemble outside the Windsor Hotel
which is their weekly meeting place
and salute their district officers as
the plane swoops low over their
gathering. DR.. Charles A. Half, dis
trict governor, will release the par
achute containing the invitation. He
will be accompanied by Gilbert j.
Palen. Norman Smith will pilot the
ship.
The plane is making a three-day
tour, starting Tuesday, to visit each
of 20 towns and cities located within
the 5Oth District. Landing places
will include Atlantic City, Allentown
and Reading.
officers of the Milford Club expect
Aau the members to attend the uni
lue notification meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
GOV. BUCK AIDS SCOUT
PLAN FOR DOWN STATE
Heads Campaign To Raise Fund To
Insure Organizing Troops

Based upon the belief that there
are approximately 5000 boys in the
lower part of Delaware eligible for
scouting and anxious to have the op-
portun1ty to join troops, a group of
enthusiastic citizens and Boy Scout
workers, headed by Governor C.
Douglas Buck, met at Dover Monday
night and voted to inaugurate a
campaign to raise $13,5OO with which
to organize the necessary troops.
The meeting, attended by 55 men
from all parts of Delaware, was held
at the Hotel Richardson. Governor
Buck is the honorary president of the
Wilmington Council, Boy Scouts Of
America.
Speakers at the meeting, includ-
ing the Governor, Judge Charles M.
Curtis, Wilmington; Harry L. Can
non, Bridgeville; and others, point
ed out the need for a scout execu-
tive for the lower part of Delaware,
namely in the territory below the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
The organization and troop serv-
ice work of the Wilmington Council,
Boy Scouts of America, headed by
Amos R. Shields, was highly praised
by the Governor and others. 1t was
pointed out that the rapid growth of
scouting and the number of troops
in Wilmington and vicinity keep the
present staff of the council busy.
1t was finally voted to raise a
sum of $4,000 a year for a term of
three years, to employ Scout ex-
cutive for the lower part of the
State. The hope was expressed that
it would be possible to enroll ap-
proximately 1,500 boys during the
next two years, in addition to the
Scouts already organized in various
sections.
The duties of the Scout executive
would also be to further the work
of the troops already organized.
Mr.. Cannon was appointed chair
man of a general committee to raise
the necessary funds. c. E. Wood,
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Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
MANY CHANGES ARE
MADE AT ANNUAL
N. E. CONFERENCE
Eighty-One Pastors Are Assigned
To New Churches In The
Conference.
REV. HERSON RETURNED
Milford Pastor Will Serve Another
Year At Avenue Church-.-Meet
At Crisfield In 1881.

Eighty-one changes were made in
pastoral assignment at the close OF
the annual session of the Whining
ton NJ. E. Conference in Wilmington
on Monday. The number is higher
than usual.
The four district superintendent
were re-appOinted. Seven pastoral
changes were made in Wilmington
Churches. The Rev. H. S. Dulaney
is assigned to Asbury to succeed the
Rev. DR.. w. K. Stephenson, retired.
Mr.. Dulaney was pastor at Asbury
many years ago. In recent years he
has been pastor of Grace Church,
Salisbury, Md. The Rev. Ralph l..
Minker goes to Silverbrook. He is
a former Wilmingtonian and the
past year has been pastor at Con-
cord, N. H. The Rev. Ralph c. Jones
goes from Silverbrook to Lewes.
The Rev. c. w. Strickland goes from
Tangier, Va, to EpwOrth Church,
and the Rev. E. NJ. ShOckley from
North East, Nd, to Brandywine
Church. The Rev. J. L. Sparklin goes
from Newport to Madeley; the Rev.
C. C. Harris from Sharptown, Nd, to
Eastlake; the Rev. C. H. Hudson
from Seaford to Trinity, and the
Rev. Ivanhoe Willis from Delaware
City to KingswOod.
The Rev. Frank White is moved
from Snow Hill, Md, to Richardson
Park, succeeding the Rev. L. B. Nor
gan, who is assigned to Elkton. The
Rev. H. R. McDade, formerly of Kent
Island, becomes pastor at Newport.
The Rev. NJ. E. Wheatley, formerly
of Denton, Md, goes to Middletown.
The Rev. P. w. Spence becomes pas
tor at Delaware City, and the Rev.
E. w. Mcdowell goes to Claymont,
while the Rev. o. J. Collins goes to
MarshaIlton. Rev. Frank Herson is
returned to Milford.
The Rev. E. c. Hallman, formerly
of Brandywine goes to Denton, Md.
The Rev. w. G. Harris is transfer
red from El1ton to Georgetown. The
Rev. T. F. .Beauchamp is sent to
Snow Hill, from Georgetown. The
Rev. H. B. Kelso, formerly of Clay
mont, goes to Tangier, Va. The Rev.
o. H. Connolly goes from Epworth |
to Dagsboro, and the Rev. Leolan
Jackson from Madeley to Kent Is
land.
Wilmington district and Salisbury
district has considerably more
changes than the middletown and
Dover districts.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
$243,762 FROM U. S.
FOR STATE HIGHWAYS
DOwelI Bill Increasing ApprOpria-
tiOns Sent To White House

Congressional action was COM
pleted ON Tuesday upon the Dowell
bill to increase the annual appro-
priations for federal road aid from
75,OOO,OOO to $125,0O0,0OO for the
next three years. The Senate adopt
ed the conference report on the
measure and sent the legislation to
the White House. Delaware is to
get $243,762.
The American Automobile Asso-
citation said in statement Tues
day night that the measure would
speed up highway construction work
in the country by $100,000,O0O a
year, since the $5O,OOO,OOO addition
carried in the bill must be matched
by the states.
Under the new legislation, the
present limitation of $4,000 a mile
may be raised to $25,OOO a mile in
states constructing high type roads.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
To Be On Time Is A Habit
Well Worth CHltiVating

The very smallness of the
matter of being five minutes
late makes it less excusable.
Hurry is the child of unpunc-
tuality, procrastination and ir-
ritability. To pay a fine for
the five or ten minutes late
would not be a compensation
to a dozen other men kept
waiting with other engage
ments to fulfill. We haven't
any right to throw things out
of gear. No one should be con-
sidered eligible for a place on
a committee or a board who
is a chronic behind-timer.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04
STANDS ALONG ROADS
TO BE SANITARY
Board OF Health Also To See That
Canneries Comply With Law

Plans are being made by DR.. Ar
thur C. Jost, executive secretary of
the State Board of Health to begin
the work of assembling data con-
cerning the reporting Of diseases
throughout the State to determine
whether Delaware is entitled to be
registered in the morbidity area of
the United States Public Health
Service.
County nurses will visit each sec
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Milford chronicle., 1930-04-04

"As necessary as my break
fast" said a business man,
when asked how he liked the
Milford Chronicle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17

same number Of stations and I'm. .
der the same conditions. I"
Such il their right under the
equal opportunity" clause of the
radio act of 1927. AS matter of
fact, the radio law applies directly
to candidates and makes no mem
ton of what they say. It reads,
IF any ncenSee shall permit any =
person who is a legally qualified
candidate for any public Office to
use a broadcasting station, he
shall AFFORD equal opportunities
to all other such candidates for
that ed1ce in the use Of such
broadcaStfag station"
+ X
60 confident are the sponsors Of,
Amos N Andy of their con-
tinued popularity that they have
signed the blackface pair for a.,
new five-year contract calling for !,
Sliding-scale increase every six
months over the 100000 q year
now paid them. 1t was a year ago
August 10 that Charles j. Corren
and Freeman Gosden were gradr-...
ated from WMAQ, Chicago, to the
national network. 81,
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RADIO IS DENIED
DROUGHT CAUSE
Electrical Effect on Ether
Held Barely Detachable
Near Stations.
BY MARTIN CoDEL.

There's absolutely nothing to any
claim that radio Is responsible foI
drought. That is the answer of men
VINO ought to know to the suggestions
that broadcaSting and other radio
services ought to be shut down as q
measure of relief for drought-stricken
areas.
Electric waves dry up the air and
prevent rainfall" say the self
anointed weather Sages, who crop UP
whenever q drought descends.
Nothing to It," reply the meteorolog-
ical and radio scientists.
It's an old story, as recurring as
droughtS themselves. Broadcasting sta
tons, newspapers and the United States
Weather Bureau inevitably get letters
Containing suggestions, If not demands,
permit the rain to fall. This years
drought, because of its scope, has
brought its proportionate quota of such
letters. While sympathizing with the
motives OF the writer's, scientific OBJ
servers say their theories are all wrong.
Says r. H. Weightman, forecaster OF
the Weather Bureau here:
by no stretch of the imagination
can we presume that radio affects the
weather. They have no relation what
ever that way. Oddly enough, some OF
the letters we receive at other times
blame radio when 1t rains too much. u
Says DIR. A. Hoyt Taylor, radio chief
of the United States Naval Research
Laboratory and an eminent research
scholar In radio:
1.-THE weather affects radio, we know
but you may rest assured that radio
has no effect on weather. doubt
whether the electrical influence of a
radio station affects the atmosphere
beyond SO or 100 yards from the sta
ton. It's an old idea. I remember
the 1910 droughts in the DakotaS, when
they tried to blame the old spark sets. y
Such an inflnitesimal amount OF
electrical power travels through the
ether, which pervades atmosphere and
solids alike, that the heating or drying
effect Is regarded as nil. 1t is axiom
attic in radio that the power that &C
tuateS a receiving set, even when trans
mitted by superpower broadcaStine
station, Is measurable only in Empower
even few blocks away from the trans
mitter. Some one has estimated that
a fly walking UP q window pane con-
sumes more energy than 1t takes to
tune In radio program.
This seasons crop of radio weather
advisers of the Weather Bureau in.
cludes q man who offers to contro
rainfall by setting up broadcastine
apparatus to operate on the extreme
short waves. It is a well known fact
that high power on the high frequen-
cies of radio can set up q heat area
within O. few feet Of the transmitter
making 1t possible for medical men tc
induce fevers into patients for certain
purposes. But beyond q few feet tht
heating effects become nil-the power
however great, has been dissipated in
that magical thing called the ether.
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out the static received on the
other, but still some Of IL creeps
in. Yet 1t is entirely possible ia
build a static eliminator, but the
trouble Is the desired signal also
is eliminated.
WRC and a network Of other
National Broadcasting Co.
stations will begin tomorrow a Sc
rieS OF political discussions, in
which special emphasis will be
placed upon questions before the
voters in the coming Fall cleo
tionS. These programs will be
under the auspices of the Repub-
lican and Democratic National
Committees. They will 60 on che
air during the regular period, "a
Half Hour in the Nations Capt.
tai"
The first talk In the series will
be made by Jouett ShouSe, chair
man OF the executive committee
OF the Democratic National Com
mlttee. Senator Simeon =. Tess.
just selected as chairman of the
Republican National Committee
will make the initial radio talk
for the Republicans August IS.
During succeeding weeks the pro-
grams will alternate between the
Democrats and Republicans.
Invitations have been issued to
prominent leaders in both parties
to take part in these discussions.
and responses already received
show that the radio audience will
be treated to interesting talks by
the foremost representatives in
American political life.
4 y 4 X
HAYWOOD BROUN, one of Co
lunbia's lie a ding drawing
cards for fan mail, runs into COM
plications in his career as radio
columnist" as result of his can
didacy for Congress from his New
York district.
His nightly talks over the Co
lumbia system may be construed
by his political opponents as be-
ing in behalf of his candidacy, es-
pecially since leading New York
station is one of his outlets. If
it is so construed, his opponents
are in a position to demand that
they be accorded an equal oppor-
tunity to speak as often over the
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TENOR TO return
!. TO RADIO TONIGHT
James Melton, Recovered
From Illness, to Give Rom
! berg Compositions.

Recovered from the illness that pre-.
vented him from singing in the concer
Of Sigmund Romberg music last Sun
day, James Melton, tenor, will be the
soloist tonight In the Atwater KEN
half hour over WRC and other Nationa
Broadcasting Co. stations.
Melton will sing Zone Alone" from
the Desert Song" and other favorite'
Of Romberg composition, assisted b.
Josef PsSternak and his orchestra. The
orchestral specialties will be Your Land
and My Land" from MY Maryland,
and When Hearts Are Young"
Waldo Mayor, violtniSt, and his in
etrumental ensemble will feature the
Capitol Theater program. There also
will be solo numbers by Louise Bave
soprano; Westell Gordon, tenor, and
Hannah Klein, pianist.
Duet to Be Feature.
Memory" by the Italian composer
Giro Pinsuti will be sung as a soprano
and tenor duet as the high light Of the
program called In the Time of Roses.
A women's octet and orchestra also will
be heard in this program.
Lee Lockhart, supervisor of instru-
mental music in the Pittsburgh high
schools, will direct the National High
School Orchestra in its concert tonight
during the Majestic Theater hour over
WMAL and network of other Column
bia Broadcasting System stations. The
program opens with Guilds March OF
the ulint," and contains several clas-
steal numbers such as the Second Hun
garian Rhapsody" of Liszt and the Tn
PRODUCTION to the Third Act" of Wag-
ner's "Lohengrin."
One of the novel features Of the
of the start of the women's air derby
cago and carried over the Columbia net
work to Long Beach, Calf, where the
entrants will hear it over battery OF
loud speakers.
Commissioner 10 Speak.
The speaker in the series known as
"The Worlds Business" will be George
r. Putnam, commissioner of lighthouses
His topic is How Science Helps the
Mariner"
1.-The Ride of the Valkyries," from
Wagner's Die Walkllre." will be the
principal selection in the concert by
Mayhem Lake and his band. The band
also will play opal Moon a fantasy
on Mighty Lax Rose" and two
SouSa marches.
Pollards Sacred Singers, Roland
Wheeler, tenor, and Myra Marshall, So
prano, viii contribute to the program
tonight Of WJSV. VOLS abbreviated
Sunday broadcast includes a musical
program and the morning service of the
Church of the Epiphany.