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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
SEEKS REPAIRS TO
CEDAR CREEK BRIDGE
Present Structure Must Be Replaced
Because Of It's Bad Condition

Permission within a few days
will be asked from the Government,
by the Levy Court Commissioners
and County Highway Department
for making repairs to the bridge
spanning Cedar Greek, a tidewatec
stream at Fort Salisbury. Recent
inspection showed that the bridge IS
getting in dilapidated condition
because of the heavy traffic that has
been passing over it within the past
few months.
The bridge for many years mas
served as a connecting link between
the mainland and Cedar Beach. AT
the time of construction of Fort
Salisbury it became necessary for
the County Highway Department to
remove the bridge so that materials
and the large guns of the fort could
be floated up Cedar Creek.
When the work of building the
fort was about completed, a new
bridge was placed in position, at a
cost of many hundreds of dollars.
Heavy traffic within the past few
years, however. has put it into such
shape that extensive repairs are
needed.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
DELAWARE BOYS
VISITED WASHINGTON
Future Farmers Club OF Caesar
Rodney School Visited Many Places

Y Members of the Saddle and Crate
Club, the Caesar Rodney High
School chapter of The Future Far
mers of America, went on their an
nual camping trip on August 1873
20. This year the members of the
club were accompanied by William
B. Simpson, agricultural instructor,
on their trip to Washington, D. c.
In Washington the group pitched
their tent in the National Tourist
Camp and cooked their own meals.
While in Washington they visited
the capitol, Mount Vernon, Airing
ton Cemetery, the National Museum,
the Geological Gardens, the Wash
ington Monument, and the Congress
sional Library. Part of the boys saw
a big league base ball game on
Wednesday afternoon; while the re-
mainder of the group visited the
University of Maryland Experiment
Sta ION at College Park before re-
tuT hing home.
The members of the club making
the trip were Glen Cool and Carl
ton Webber of Wyoming; Leroy
Gray of Magnolia; James Conley of
Viola, and Paul Chambers of Pc
tersburgh.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
DELAWARE STANDS
HIGH In TAX LIST
Internal Revenue Report Shows
State Paid Government $4O,145,S21

An increase of 80 per cent in the
payments of internal revenue tax
by Delawareans for the fiscal year
1880 is shown in statistics announ-
ced this week by the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, Treasury De-
partment.
Total internal tax payments from
the Delaware district for the past
fiscal year amounted to $4O,145,-
321.90 as compared with $3O,3O9,-
52S.O7 during the fiscal year 1929.
Delaware ranks high among the
states of the country in the amount
of revenues paid into the Federal
Treasury in proportion to its pop
ulation.
Manufacturers of cigars in the
State paid into the government
total of $40, 0,104.14 taxes on tobacco
and snuff amounted to $456,708. .66.
Payments of corporation taxes
from Delaware during the fiscal
year 1880 totaled $25, ,9S1,O14 and in
dividual taxes $13, ,433, making a
total of these two classes of taxa
tion of $39,103, ,447.39.
Total corporation taxes collected
by the government from all of the
States and District of Columbia,
last fiscal year amounted to ST.
26S,414,460, and individual income
tax totaled $1,146,844,76S, making a
total from these two classes of So
410,259,233.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
OPEN FOR VISITORS
Board Of Education Extend Invita-
tiOns To All To View Building

The new high school building on
Lake View avenue, in Milford, will
be open for visitors desiring TO see
the handsome structure provided
for educating the children Of not
only Milford, but for children for
miles about the town in both Kent
and Sussex counties.
While the finishing in some of the
details is rot yet complete, tie pub
lie is invited to visit it on either
Wednesday or Thursday next, Sep
tember and 4. Guides will be
there to conduct and explain the
plans and purposes of the building.
The children in the seventh,
eighth and ninth grades will be
grouped in what will be the Junior
High School, while the tenth, eiev-
enth and twelfth grades will consti-
tute the high school from which
students may graduate.
The auditorium and gysnamius
have not received the furnishings
and some work remains to be finish
ed. before the entire building Will
be called complete; but that will
not prevent the opening of the
school on Friday, September 5, and
beginning the work for the school
year of 193O-1931.
A visitors book will be found IN
the superintendent's Office, which is
at the left of the main entrance aud
visitors are requested to register
before departing.
There is also the grammar school
(the old schooD on North street,
which has been changed to meet
requirements under the new condi-
tions and purposes for which it
must serve for several years, and
an invitation is extended to all citi-
zens interested, to visit and inspect
that structure; your children are
deeply interested in this organlza-
tion, so see for yourself.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
RUSS HANGED;
PROTESTS HIS
INNOCENCE
Condemned Negro From
ScaffOld Laid His Trouble
To Desire For Liquor
PLANNED SUICIDE
Package Sent To Him By
His Wife Contained
Poison 1t Is Said
PLANNED SUICIDE

Theodore Russ, 25-year-old negro
went to his death on the galloWs IN
the yard of the New Castle County
Workhouse about an hour before
noon last Friday, protesting his in
nocence and blaming his predica-
ment on his love for liquor.
Russ mounted the scaffold at
11:12 O'Clock, advanced time and
was pronounced dead at 11:24 o.
clock by DR.. P. A. NJ. Rovitti, county
physician.
After Russ was pronounced dead
it was revealed that recently his
wife who lives at Viola, near Do
yer, had attempted to smuggle into
her husbands cell sufficient guam
tity of arsenic to assure his death
if he ate it.
Although Warden Elmer j. Leach
of the workhouse would make no
comment it was learned from other
sources that shortly after visiting
her husband who was convicted of
criminal assault on Mrs. Mary Reed,
21 years old, of near Woodside, be-
low Dover, Mrs. Russ sent her hus-
band a box of writing paper and
envelopes.
Warden Leach in closely eXamin-
ing the box of paper found one en-
velope near the bottom was sealed.
Opening the enevelope he found it
contained a powder which DR.. Har-
old E. Tiffany, State chemist, said
was arsenic.
It was later learned that both
Russ and his wife had decided that
if all appeals for Communication of
sentence or a new trial failed, Russ
would commit suicide rather than
face the hanging ordeal.
In view of the circumstances sur
rounding the alleged conspiracy the
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
SPRAY CONTROL NOW
FOR JAP BEETLE PEST
Millions For Quarantine No Longer
Necessary, Jersey Official Says

Spending of millions of dollars
annually for enforcement of the
Japanese beetle quarantine is no
longer necessary with the recent
development of methods of control
ling the insects depredations, Will
liam B. Duryee, State Secretary of
Agriculture, said this week.
Several sprays which completely
protect crops for the insect recently
were developed at the Japanese Bee
tie Laboratory at Morristown, oper-
ated jointly by the United States
and New Jersey Departments OF
Agriculture.
"The principal value of any quar-
antine is to hold back the spread OF
insect pests until means of control
can be developed through research" "
Duryee said, nevertheless, costly
quarantine measures against the
Japanese beetle still are being en-
forced in spite of the availability of
fairly efficient control processes.
They are costing the public and in
dividuals of the country millions of
dollars annually"
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
AYRSHIRE BREEDERS
TOUR PENINSULA
Many Cattlemen Inspected Modern
Diaries On Peninsula

Ayrshire cattle breeders and their
frienGs from all sections of the Pen
insula, and from Baltimore and
Hartford counties in Maryland, were
in attendance on the tour which
was conducted last Friday through
Delaware and the Eastern Shore of
Maryland under the auspices Of the
Del-Mar-Va Ayrshire Association in
cooperation with the agricultural
extension departments of these two
states.
The members of the tour met at
10 o'clock in the morning Mt the
farm of Ed. Ratledge, one-half mile
southwest of Townsend, and after
inspecting this herd Of Ayrshires
the tour proceeded to the DelWoCd
Farms, near Woodside, where an in
spection was made of the fine herd
of Ayrshire cattle owned by l.. D.
Caulk and Sons who are the leading
Ayrshire breeders in this sectiOr, of
Delaware. Mr.. Caulk IS secretary
and treasurer of the Del-Mar-Va
Ayrshire Association, and is also an
active local leader in the Woodside
Boys Dairy Club, and likewise takes
much interest in the dairy club
work in connection with the Kent
and Sussex Fair each year.
The next stop on this tour was
made at the farm of John l.. Smith
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
MRS. P. s. DUPONT
TELLSDEMOCRATS
TO ELECT BAYARD
Sends Letter To WOmen'S
Organization Against
Prohibition
ADDRESSES PARTIES
Says Ex-senator Is Alter
native If Republican Can
didates Do Not Satisfy

, Mrs. Pierre S. DUPONT, secretary
of the Delaware Branch of the Wo-
mems Organization for National
Prohibition Reform, on Monday
sent out letters to the members Of
the organization urging them to
register and vote at the party pri-
maries to be held shortly and urg-
ing the members to take deter
mined stand on the matter of pro-
hibition reform. The letter follows:
ITO members: The executive COM
mittee proposes the following plan
of activity in the coming primary
election campaigns in Delaware:
"That every member make sure
she is registered and therefore quail
flied to vote at the primary election
of delegates to the State convention
of her party. (The convention nomi-
mates the candidates for U. S. Sena-
tor and Congressman, and at rhe
later popular primary for candi-
dates to the State Legislature.
Saturday, August 80, is the last
registration day before the primar-
les. be sure yOul heuAO 10 OA 'A-N
books of your present district.
Democratic members of this or
ganization have a real opportunity
to serve the cause of Prohibition
Reform by helping to elect dele
gates for the denomination of for
mer U. S. Senator Thomas F. Bay
ard. Senator Bayard's excellent
record for his previous service in
the Senate and his Straightforward
stand for repeal of the 18th Amend
ment and against the saloon, en-
titles him to your support. The Bay
ard headquarters for WilminSton
and New Castle county, 921 Market
street, telephone 3-2912, can tell
you how to help. Mr.. Charles Hard
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
VOTERS TO HAVE
A BUSY MONTH
Filing, Primaries, COnven-
tiOns And Registrations
Keep Workers Busy

September promises to be a busy
month for persons throughout Del
aware who are interested in politi-
cal activities. Between filing dates
primaries, conventions and regis
tration dates, political workers
have busy period confronting them
from now until election day.
The following dates are of impor-
tance to all the voters of Delaware:
August 3O-Last registration be-
fore primaries.
September Filling of DemOcra-
tic candidates for county offices and
delegates ends at 10, daylight saw
ing time.
September 6-Republican dele
gate primary.
September S-Filing of Republi-
can candidates for county offices
ends at p. m, daylight saving
time.
September 8 - Republican State
Convention at Dover.
September 13-Democratic dele
gate and county primary
September 16-Democratic State
Convention at Dover.
September 2O-Republican County
Primary.
October 1S - Final Registration
Day.
November 4-Election Day.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
MARK NATAL DAY
OF WASHINGTON
Committee Named To Ar
range For 2OOth Ami
versary Celebration

Preliminary plans for Delaware's
observance of the two hundredth
anniversary of the birth of George
Washington, will be made at a
meeting of the observance commits
sion, called for September II at 1870
o'clock at the State House at Dow
er.
The meeting was called by form
er Governor Robert P. Robinson,
who was Governor when the 1927
legislature authorized appointment
of the commission and made en- ap-
preparation for the States obser-
vance of the bi-centennial of Wash
ington's birth, on February %, 1882.
The commission will organize by
selecting a chairman and other Of
ficials.
The bi-centennial of the first
Presidents birth will be observed
throughout the country. Congress
made a large appropriation for the
national observance and other
States have also selected commits
sions to arrange for large-scale cell
ebrations.
The Delaware commission is to
serve until year has elapsed after
the anniversary.
Under the legislative resolution
the President Protein of the SEN
ate, w. F. Allen, of Seaford; the
Speaker of the House, William Win
trup, of Wilmington, and Governor
Robinson were named members Of
the commission, and each was au-
thorized to appoint four members.
Those appointed by Mr.. Allen are:
Leroy Kramer and ]. G. Highfield,
of Wilmington; Hervey P. Hall, of
Smyrna, and Joseph H. Cox, of Sea-
ford.
Those appointed by Mr.. Wintrup
are: William E. Virden, of Whining
ton; James w. Carrow, of Dover;
w. o. Cubbage, of Wyoming, and
Thomas c. Curry, of Greenwood.
Those appointed by former Gov
ernor Robinson are: Secretary OF
State Charles H. Grantland and W.
A. Speakman, of Wilmington; M. D.
Wilson and Herman c. Taylor, OF
Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
STATE FACING NO
LACK OF TEACHERS
All Positions Are Filled In Schools
OF Delaware, DIR. Holloway Says

There will be no teacher shortage
in Delaware when the new school
term opens early next month, ac-
cording to DR.. H. V. Holloway,
State superintendent of public in
struction, who said that all posi-
tions are filled and some of them
have been filled fol a long time.
The situation this year is i'll con-
trast to that of several years ago
when there was always last min
ute rush to get teachers for some of
the schools.
DR.. Holloway attributed this
changed condition to several factors.
The conditions surrounding the
teaching profession during the past
few years have greatly changed and
made the profession more attrac-
tive.
In addition to the teacher train
ing department at the University OF
Delaware, a number of teachers are
also procured from the State Tea
chers' College at Salisbury, Md,
while a large force of high school
teachers is usually recruited trohl
the graduates of Washington Col
lege at Chestertown, Md.
In an effort to raise the grade OF
teachers AMI increase the teaching
efficiency, the State Board of Edu-
cation, has made a number Of
changes in the regulations govern
ing the grading of teachers. Under
these new regulations it will be ne
cessary for a high school graduate
to have at least one year of profess
sional training before certificate
will be issued. Examinations for
second and third grade teaching
certificates have been discontinued.
The Delaware school will for the
most part open on Tuesday, Sep
tember 2. In some districts, due to
local conditions, the opening cate
has been changed to a week later.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
EfILFORD TRIMS
MILTON TEAM
visitors Came With Fine Aggrega-
tiOn But Failed TO Score

Milton came to Milford Saturday
loaded for bear, but the bears were
too tough.
Three Susquehanna League play
ers, George Winters, pitcher, Nc
Daniels, catcher, and Baldwin, cen
terfielder (the fastest outfielder in
the Susquehanna League) playing
under different names, added
strength to the Milton line up. Ben
nett, formerly with the Boston Am
ericans, started in left field and i'm
ished in the box when Winters was
driven to the showers in the sixth.
Pinder, of Wilmington, batted for
Belts in the ninth.
The game was full of thrills and
was one of the most exciting games
played here this season.
Ryan pitched great ball for Mil
ford, the first seventeen batters for
Milton being retired.
Both teams were retired in order
in the first inning. In the second,
Short was hit in the ribs and was
forced by Lynch, who in turn was
forced by Legar. Warren singled off
Winters shins but Hoyt went out,
Reed to Winters. Both clubs went
out in order in the third.
Lingo made the first Milton hit
when he doubled with one out in
the fourth. Bennett hit a scorcher
to Grier, and Lingo was run down,
Grier to Draper to Legar. Bennett
was caught stealing, Short to Legar.
Milford scored the first run in
their turn. Draper singled to center
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
FORMER PREACHER
HELD FOR LARCENY
Paul Prettyman Truitt And Woman
Arrested In Salisbury

Paul Prettyman Truitt, 46 years
old, a former member of the Will
mington M. e. Conference, who vas
deposed by that body, and Mrs.
Ruth Hastings West, Il wears old,
were taken to Georgetown on Tues
day afternoon from Salisbury, Nd
by Sheriff Bud Coy and State High
way Police Sergeant Charles B..
Knox, to answer a charge of lar
ceny. They were taken before JUS
tice of the Peace w. J. Mustard OF
Georgetown and held under $1,000
bail each for the next term of court
They were arrested in Salisbury on
a Delaware warrant issued by Mrs.
Eta LaFrance and her mother,
Mrs. Pauline L. Jeavons, of Owens
Station.
The Salisbury authorities claim
that the former minister denied the
charges but the girl confessed and
involved Truitt.
Mrs. Jeavons, who is rs years Old
claims that the pair came to Eer
home in an automobile ON Sunday
nlR0L. lIulIIb Div NLeA- e9(o5
her stand against the wall on a low
er floor while he went through the
house. Truitt went upstairs, she
saws. and made a search and the
couple went away With three coats
two dresses, a bracelet, nine dOz-
en- eggs, several pillow cases, slips
and toilet articles. The Delaware Of
rnanunVad most nj
these articles in Salisbury where
the woman lives. Mrs. Jeavons said
the pair had been at the house be-
fore. Her daughter, Mrs. LaFrance,
identified them.
After the alleged robbery on sun
day night Sergeant Knox was notl-
fed and made a search for the pair
and Sheriff Coy had also been on
the watch. On Monday they were no
titled that the couple had neen cap
tured in Salisbury, went there ana
brought them back.
Truitt was tried at the 1928 ses-
sion of the Wilmington NJ. E. Con-
ference on a charge of re-marrying
after he had been divorced which
was against a newly adopted rule OF
the church.
Truitt was first married in Green
field, Ind, on October q, 1909, and
divorced October q, 1924. He mar
ried Maud Byrd Cropper, of Ocean
City, Nd, in 1926. At the last se5-
sion of the Wilmington M. E. Con-
ference an effort was made to re-
instate Truitt in the conference but
no action was taken.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
Bush INSPECTION
OF AUTOMOBILES
Time For Complying With
Rule Will Expire At
End Of Month

With the time limit of the Della
ware automobile inspection cam
paign under auspices of the Secre-
tary of State, in cooperation with
the Delaware Safety Council, expir-
ing Sunday at midnight, 20,O17 cars
yet remain to pass inspection and
receive the official red windshield
sticker it was reported early this
week.
At the same time, it was reported
that a total of 10,194 more automo-
biles had been passed during the
fifth week of the safety drive, with
1920 of this number being cars
owned by residents of New Castle
county, 1920 in Kent county and
2137 in Sussex county. 1t was shown
in the report that grand total of
1866 machines had been inspected
and passed since the opening of the
campaign, with 1887 of this num-
Der being reported for New Castle
county, 5057 for Kent and 1879 for
Sussex.
During the fifth week, it was
brought out, 1874 cars passed the
inspection without the necessity of
making any adjustments. Brakes
were found to be defective on % per
cent of the machines inspected;
headlights were discovered to be
out of line, or otherwise faulty, on
so per cent; while the steering gear
needed adjustment on per cent.
All necessary adjustments were
made before these cars were pass
ed.
Brakes of 1851 cars were declar-
ed to be in good condition, 1885
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
TELLS DANGER OF
TYPHOID CARRIERS
Sporadic Cases OF Disease Make
Appearance In State, DIR. JOst States

DR.. A. C. Jost, executive secre-
tary of the State Board of Health IN
further comment on the epidemic
of typhoid fever which prevails at
Salisbury, Md, not far from the
Delaware line, calls attention to the
unpleasantness of the outbreak ana
that it is unfortunately the case
that the unpleasant effects may not
be limited to the present time, the
immediate future or the community
first involved in the attack.
The outbreak in question was
brought about in the first instance
by a carrier, either an individual
himself ill or who had been ill and
recovered. Any chronic carrier,
whose condition dates from the time
of this outbreak may be the means
of bringing about the occurrence of
more cases, in the same community
or in any community in which he
may thereafter be, and this for
many years to come.
Sporadic cases of the disease have
been showing themselves as is us
ual in a number of places in Della
ware during the past few weeks,
states DR.. Jost. In each and every
instance some carrier is responsible
in some way. To some such individ-
ual, were all the facts known, the
disease can be traced.
1t is a matter of more than minor
importance if the number of car
riers in the community or in the
vicinity is greatly increased, since
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
DELAWARE STATE
OF OLDER PEOPLE
Says Immigration OF Young Keep
ing Down Population

The rate of increase of population
in Delaware during the last decade
has suffered from two causes, pre-
ponderance of older persons in the
State and the emigration of young
people away from the State, az cord
ing to DR.. Arthur C. Jost, exc, utive
secretary of the State Board of
Health.
DR.. Jost declares that the pre-
ponderance of persons of advanced
age is very noticeable in Delaware.
From the age of As, he says, there
were more than 10 per cent more
persons per million residents in
Delaware than there were in the
United States as a whole. Between
1920 and 1880, he says, the export
ing movement seems to have been
renewed. Had the natural increase,
he says (the difference between the
births and the deaths) been retain
ed the population of the State
would now be more than 100000.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
STATE AUDITOR
SURPLUS
OF $l2,621,O26.99
This Sum Is. $2,574,46O.68
Gain Over Past Fiscal
Year, Figures Reveal
$IO,735,6II WAS SPENT
Sinking Fund Shows De-
crease Because Of Reduc-
ton of Outstanding Bonds

The State of Delaware, valued at
$55, 5,02O,901.48 on June 80, had on
that date closed a successful busi-
ness year, with sizeable cash sur
plus balances remaining in the
State treasury far in excess of the
balances which remained at the
close of the last fiscal year.
Some interesting figures are re-
vealed in the annual report of State
Auditor Edward Baker, which con-
tains a statistical summary of all
incomes and expenditures of the
State during the fiscal year ending
June 80.
According to the consolidated in
come and expenditure statement OF
the report, which includes the gen
eral fund, the school current fund.-
and the State highway fun, but eX-
cludes the sinking fund, an avail
able cash surplus amounting 10
S12.621, ,026.99 remained to the cred
it of the State on June so.
This represents a gain of $2,574,-
46O.6S during the year from incomes
after all expenditures had been
made. Tracing this gain the state
ment lists an available cash bal
ance of $40, ,566.S1 on July l.
1929, at the start of the fiscal yeal
lust completed; total income during
the year, 1O,O72.4O, bringing the
total of the available cash surplus
to S23.S56, ,69S.71. The total expendi-
lures for the period, according to
the statement, amounted to $1O,7S5'-
61172.
Analytical income and expendi-
ture statements of the three princl-
pal funds which make UP the avail
able cash surplus, all show gains
during the year.
The general fund, which includes
revenue from taxes, licenses, fees
permits, Federal college grants
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