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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
FARM BOARD HITS
HUGE GRAIN BUYS
Successive Purchase Of
Surpluses Seen AS De-
feating Sterilization

Opposing the request of Senator
Arthur Capper, Republican, Kansas
that it buy and remove from the
market 1OO,0O0,000 bushels of wheat
of the 1880 crop, the farm board
backs up on the agricultural market
ing act for support.
The laws says that any stabiliza-
tion corporation receiving loans un-
der the subdivision for surplus con-
troll operations, shall exert every
reasonable effort to avoid losses and
secure profits.
"The construction upon that,
suppose" says Sam R. McKelvie,
member representing grain, "is that
a stabiIization operation should not
be undertaken merely for the pur-
post of taking a surplus off the mar
ket with the prospect that the gov
ernment will sustain a loss in doing
it.
"This must be a reasonable Oper-
alton in which the removal of the
surplus for a temporary period is
designed to stabilize the price and
prevent undue fluctuations.
ITO go into the market and buy
an arbitrary amount, especially if
it be a very large amount, without
regard to the future would not be in
harmony with the purpose of the
law. It is conceivable that the gov
ernment might buy any amount of a
commodity and hereby enhance the
price unduly and also thereby en-
courage over production and defeat
the very purpose of the act"
McKelvie said stabilizatiOn in 1929
was based on such an Interpretation
of the law and that the government,
thus far, had not lost in the venture.
The board member was Joined by
Secretary Hyde, who declared that
no governmental agency could con-
tinue to absorb successive surpluses.
Successive purchases of surpluses,
he said, would provide no means or
time or place of disposition for the
wheat held.
Stabilizing theorists, McKelvie
said, have the idea that all the gov
ernment has to do is announce that
it is going to buy wheat and whether
it takes it or not, the price will go
up.
I'VE can give the theorists lot
of information on that" he said. eve
did raise the price in 1929, but we
also got lot of wheat"
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
MILFORD'S BUSINESS
CENTRE, WHITE WAY
New Lighting System Was Turned
On Last Thursday Night

Milford's new lighting system on
Walnut street and the business sec
ton was turned on for the first time
on Thursday night of last week. The
new lights added much to the attrac-
tiveness of the central section of the
town and gave a pleasing reception
to visiting motorists as they drove
through the town. The work of in
stalling the lights had been in pro-
cess about two weeks, and is in line
of the policy of Mayor Windsor to
make Milford a better town in which
to live. The majority of the prop
erty owners on Walnut street have
removed their unsightly awnings
and have replaced them with modern
canvas sunshades. Those who have
not yet completed the work are ex-
pected to do so in the near future.
The town authorities have also TAX
en- up the matter of better regulat-
ing parking. In their effort to avoid
congestion the police authorities
have this week placed parking signs
at proper distances from street in
tersections which prohibit parking
within the restricted area. This will
work to the advantage of motorists
and will aid much in relieving con-
gestion because of parked automo-
biles.
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
FARMERS DAY WILL BE
HELD TUESDAY, AUG. S
Annual Affair At University OF Del
aware Expected To Draw Crowds

Farmers Day will be held at the
University Farm at Newark on Tues
day, August 5, it was announced to-
day by Dean C. A. McCue. r. w:
Dunlap, assistant secretary of agri-
culture will be the principal speak
er. Dean McCue and the members of
the Experiment Station staff are
rapidly completing all arrangements
for the day.
The morning hours will be spent
by the visitors inspecting the vari-
GUS experiments underway at the
farm. The soil fertility and crop ex-
perimental plots, the orchard fertil-
ity plots, the dairy and swine herds
will be visited with competent
guides.
The poultry plant will undoubted-
ly be a place of unusual interest to
the visitors and it is hopeful that a
large number of poultry men will
avail themselves of the opportunity
to discuss with the poultry staff the
many experiments in feeding and
management of poultry now under
way.
The visitors will picnic on the
Manor House lawn at luncheon time,
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
DEL-MAR-VA FARMERS
VISIT NEW YORK CITY
Are Shown How Produce And Food
Are Handled At Terminals

Last week the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company conducted a tour of
Del-Mar-Va farmers to the market
terminals of New York through the
arrangements of the Cooperative Ex-
tension Departments of Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia. Fifty-nine
men, representing fourteen counties
on the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula, COM
posed the party.
The following men represented
Delaware on the tour: Horace Den
nison and Joseph Pierson, Hockes-
sin; Edward Willim, New Castle
county agent, Newark; Arthur Wal
ker, Woodside; G. A. Swanson and
Frank B. Austin, Milford; Russell E.
Wilson, Kent county agent, Dover;
Byron Pepper, Georgetown; Harley
G. Hastings, Bethel; ]. Edwin Dut-
ton, Seaford; c. R. Snyder, Sussex
county agent, Georgetown and A. D.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
HEAT RECORDS IN
STATE SMASHED
BY HOT WEATHER
Thermometer Registered
1O5 Degrees In Milford
First Time In History
STORM GIVES RELIEF
Mercury Drops Rapidly
AS Cooling Rains Drop;
Lightning Struck House

Delaware, as well as the remand
er of the east, suffered its greatest
heat this week when record read
ings of the thermometer were re-
corded in all sections of the cOun-
try. At Milford the official govern
ment thermometer registered 105 de-
grees on Monday which was the
hottest of the four day record break
ing heat spell.
The warm weather which has been
overrunning the western states for
several weeks past struck Delaware
on Saturday last and the thermom-
eter went to SO degrees at Milford.
On Sunday it stood at 102, only to
establish the highest temperature in
the history of the Milford weather
station which has been in existence
for 4S years. This record on Mon
day was 105 degrees. On Tuesday
the thermometer again read above
the century mark when 104 was re-
corded.
The hottest weather ever recorded
previous to this week by weather
reported by c. ]. Holzmueller here,
was in August, 1918, when the read
ing of 1O2 was noted. The next hot
test day was in August, 1917, when
Soldiers Day was celebrated in Mil
ford for soldiers who were about to
go overseas during the World War.
At that time the thermometer stood
at 80 degrees, but the humidity was
terrible and heat prostratiOns were
numerous.
The heat wave was broken last
Tuesday afternoon when high wind
swept over the State, and rain and
TTr~g TO Paqe 3, Please
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
DEL. CROP ARE NOT
INJURED BY DROUGHT
Apples Are Plentiful, Tomatoes Hurt
In Some Sections

Although extensive drought in
nearly every section of the country
for the past few weeks is effecting
the crops, Delaware's crops have
been only slightly stunted and not
ruined as have other crops in other
parts of the country.
The lawns of the State have been
badly burned in many instances, and
present a brown appearance instead
of the fresh green luster of good
grass. OF the crops or produce of
the State, tomatoes were hurt more
than anything else. In some in
stances it has been necessary for
the grower to replant his tomatoe
patch.
On the other hand the apples of
the State are doing better this year
than for many years previously. The
crop is a good one both in point of
view of quantity and quality. The
apple growers of Delaware are ship
ping from 35 to so car loads of the
fruit each day at the present time
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
FORMER co. ENGINEER
DIED MONDAY P. M.
w. Hart Scott, Well Known HeIe
Died OF Heat Stroke 4

w. Hart Scott, of Townsend, at
one time County Engineer for Kent
county, and very familiar to lesi-
dents of Kent county, died from a
heat strolEe While IN, a hay field>neaN
Townsend Monday afternoon. Mr..
Scott is survived by his mother and
father, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Scott, of
Townsend, and by sister, Mrs. ee
Maloney. He was 40 years old, and
had spent much of his time in lower
Delaware where he had a host of
friends. The funeral was held at his
late home Thursday afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
CARRIERS
MEET AT DOVER
Harry C. Johnson OF
Smyrna Chosen President
OF The Association

The annual meeting of the Della
ware Letter Carriers Association
was held at Dover last Wednesday
evening in the Capital Grange Hall,
with a banquet preceding the busi-
ness meeting in which the wives of
the members were also present.
After the banquet, served by the
women of Capital Grange, George
w. Duncan, president of the associ-
alton, presided and introduced the
speakers.
The Rev. Alfred White, pastor of
st. Paurs NJ. E. Church, Dover, a
former letter carrier in Wilmington,
gave the invocation and also made
the address of welcome. Responses
were made by Carrier w. E. Powell,
of Frankford; Postmaster Simmons,
of Dover, and Postmaster Murphy
of Milford.
Greetings from Maryland were
given by Mr.. Stevens, former presi-
dent of the Maryland Rural Carriers
Association.
Postmaster Abrahams of Whining
ton, spoke of the conduct of the
postal service employees as being
the most noticed of any branch of
the Government. He also defined the
relations of the carrier and post
master with regard to the patron
and his criticisms.
Congressman Robert G. Houston
spoke briefly of the bOasted great
ness of our country, saying that it
should not be OVerestimated and that
each carrier must attain success by
service and loyalty.
At the business session verbal re-
ports were submitted by President
Duncan and the vice president of
the association. Secretary and
Treasurer Harry C. Johnson OF
Smyrna submitted his report show
ing 68 members of the association, a
gain of eight over last year and re-
ported a balance of $136.90 in the
treasury.
Verbal reports were also given by
the presidents of the three local as
sociations, New Castle, Kent and
Sussex.
Discussion as to the securing of
State banner for the association to
be displayed at the meeting of the
National Association each year was
lengthy, a committee appointed to
look into the matter, recommending
that such a banner be secured.
After a discussion as to what
should be on the banner it was fin
ally decided that it should be silk
banner with the State colors, blue
and gold.
Considerable discussion was held
over fixing a salary for the secretary
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
MILFORD WINS GAME
FROM HARRINGTON
Ninth Inning Rally Brings Victory
After Harrington Had Early Lead

Milford continued it's new winning
streak Saturday with an exciting 4-3
victory over the fast Harrington
team, Harrington took the lead in
the first inning when Short hit
home run with one man on base.
They scored another in the fourth,
but Milford came back to score one
in the fifth and two in the seventh to
tie the score. Both teams tightened
up an6i-itt and II looked as though the game
would go into extra >iiIffIR1iisqRgs. =
However, in the ninth inning, Hit
chens singled with one out, went to
second on Vinyard's hit, and scored
on Draper's blow to center. Harring-
ton went out in order in their turn.
These same two teams play here
Saturday at three o'clock.
Saturday before last Milford de-
feated their old rivals, Dover, by
one-sided score of 1876.
The box scores:
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
NEW LINEUP In BOOM
FOR CONGRESSMAN
State Senator SimOntOn OF Whining
ton Has Many Good BackeTs

Many men active in Delaware pol
itics were weekend visitors at Re-
hoboth. and the recent injection OF
the name of State Senator William
A. SimontoR into the Republican
campaign as a candidate for the
nomination for Representative in
Congress was one of the principal
topics of conversation. 1t had been
accepted generally in Republican
circles all along that Congressman
Robert G. Houston would not have
much trouble in gaining nomina-
tion for a fourth term, but the
thrusting of the Simonton candi-
dacy into the situation may mean
trouble for Congressman Houston,
according to some of the observers.
Captain SimOnton has not for
mally announced his candidacy, but
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
DRAPER DAVIS co.
SELL FERTILIZER PLANT
Big Business Here Is Sold To Balti-
more Man-ValIiant Co. Interested

One of the largest business trans
fers to be consummated in Milford
in recent years was completed last
week when Draper, Davis & Com
pany, who have conducted a large
fertilizer and grain business in Mil
ford for years, was sold to George
Whiting, of Baltimore. The firm of
Draper, Davis and Company in re-
cent years has been composed Of
Harry Davis and his sons, James and
Louis. The sale carries both of the
large plants owned here by the Da-
Wis interests, the good will and fix
lures. The business was established
about fifty years ago by Harry pa-
Wis, having been started in 1881.
During all of this time it has sup
piled the farmers for a large radius
with fertilizers and has acted as a
clearing house for much of their
grain. At times it has operated its
own line of steamers to carry its
supplies of raw materials from the
markets to Milford.
Several years ago the old George
F. Pierce factory was sold to the
Valiant Fertilizer Company who Op-
crate other plants in lower Della
ware. This plant was later acquired
by the Draper, Davis Company, and
the Valiant Company retired from
the local field. Rumors in circula-
ton in Milford are to the effect that
the plant has been bought by Mr..
Whiting for The Valiant Company.
in close touch with TIE deal
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
OVER 5000 CARS WERE
INSPECTED FIRST WEEK
Official Stations In Sussex County
Are Announced

It is estimated that over five
thousand cars were inspected in the
first week of the Secretary of States
Car Inspection Campaign which ex-
tends from July Is to September 1,
inclusive. Many of the red stickers
indicating that the car owner has
submitted his car for inspection at
one of the official inspection stations
and that the car had been found to
be in safe operating condition are
noticed on the roads in this vicinity.
Car owners who have not yet had
the inspection made are urged to do
so at the very earliest possible mo-
ment, in order to avoid rush and
confusion in the last few weeks of
the campaign.
1t is estimated that Is per cent of
all fatal motor vehicle accidents are
attributable either directly or indi-
rectly to defective cars, and it is the
hope of the Delaware Safety Coun>
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
INSPECTION OF
AUTOS URGED BY
GOVERNOR BUCK
Delaware Leads Nation In
Fatal Motor Accidents
Reduction In 1929
INSPECT MANY CABS
Owners Are Visiting Ser
vice Stations To Have
Cars Checked Up

Governor c. Douglass Buck in a
| statement issued at the State House
this week gave full approval to the
second annual car inspection cam
paign which is being conducted dur
ing the period from July Is to Sep
tember l inclusive by Secretary OF
State Grantland in cooperation with
the Delaware Safety Council.
1.-The car inspection campaign has
my full approval" said Governor
Buck. I'm my inaugural address l
referred to the increasing number of
fatal accidents on our highways. 1t
was a source of much satisfaction to
me to know that DelaWare's reduc-
tion of fatal motor vehicle accidents
in 1929 was the greatest of any
State in the Union. This reduction,
which amounted to Is per cent as
compared with the 1928 record, is
even more laudible in view Of the IL
per cent national increase in motor
vehicle deaths in the same year.
ITO date in 1880 we have improV-
ed our remarkably fine 1929 record.
l am sure that the added safety on
our Delaware streets and highways
in the past eighteen months, as in
tlicated by our statistical record, is
due in no small measure to the
greater appreciation of our motor
lists of the necessity for safe car
operation.
Keeping our mote vehicles in
efficient operating condition with
special emphasis on good brakes,
legal headlights and proper steering
gear adjustments is bound to pro-
duce added public safety.
Il ask the prompt and complete
cooperation of all Delaware motor
lists in the Secretary of States cam
paign covering the inspection and
adjustment of the car safety factors.
This joint effort of the Secretary of
States office and the Delaware Safe
ty Council means much to every cit
izen in the State"
In connection with the automobile
lighting requirements, the Secretary
of State has given approval to the
use of thirty-two candle power bulbs
in legally approved and properly ad-
justed headlights.
Thousands of car owners through
out the State are visiting the Off
cial service stations to have their
cars checked.
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
FAIR TO OPEN
NEXT TUESDAY
Pony, Mule, Horse Races,
Vaudeville And Numerous
Attractions Offered

Now come the gala days, the days
when farmer and villager alike the
State over, leave everything to visit
the fair for at least one day, or a
part of one day.
Back in days gone by there died
the worlds greatest Snowman, Phin-
cas- T. Barnum, coiner of that gem in
the crown of Ballyhoo, Bigger and
Better" And just to use that hack
neyed and threadbare worn phrase
just once again, may we apply it to
something well worth it, that is
coming to our Delaware very, very
soon. Just the Kent and Sussex Fair
which is surely going to be Bigger
and Better" than ever. It will be
held at Harrington, July 29 to Au-
gust 2, inclusive.
This fair has become the outstand-
ing event of the year on the Eastern
Shore. People from distant cities,
veteran fair men, have marVeled
that such a stupendOus affair could
be made possible in a town the size
of Harrington, which, however, is a
goodly sized Eastern Shore town.
The growth of this particular fair
has come from cooperation seldom
seen in such an organization. Clever
planning has made each fair bit
more attractive, a bit more unusual
than the previous one. How we'll
these organization members have
succeeded, may be judged by that in
fallible criterion, the attendance
and what an attendance.
Of the dozens and dozens of fairs
along the east coast, only about five
exceed in attendance the Kent and
Sussex Fair, and these are the city
fairs, such as Trenton, Reading and
Allentown.
The fair will be featured this year
by the greatest live stock and agri-
cultural exhibits ever displayed on
the Eastern Shore. Practically every
exhibitor of last year is back. and
with them many more. The home
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
THEODORE RUSS,
CONVICTED NEGRO,
TO HANG TODAY
Court OF Oyer And Term
iner Refused New Trial
Last Friday
ASSAULTED WOMAN
Convicted At Dover For
Attack Upon Mrs. Mary
Reed, A White Woman

Thedore Russ, negro, calmly wait
ed in his cell this week until ne
takes the short walk to the little
yard behind the power house of the
New Castle County WOrkhOuse this
morning, there to pay with his life
for his criminal attack on Mrs. Mary
Reed, a white woman of WoOdside,
on February 81 last.
There is but one chance that Russ
will escape the death sentence. The
only avenue of escape open now is
by a stay of execution from Cover
nor C. Douglass Buck, which seems
most unlikely.
The Court of Oyer and Terminer,
sitting in Dover last Friday, refus-
ed the request of his counsel for a
new trial on the grounds of newly
found evidence. 1t was the second
setback of plans of counsel, the
State Board of PardOns having re-
fused to commute the sentence to
life Imprisonment.
Only a last minute reprieve by the
governor can stop the execution by
committing his sentence to life i'm
prisonment or deferring it, to per-
NIT the filing of new briefs by cOun-
sci.
Warden Leach said that the con-
demned man during the past few
days has played checkers with the
guards and spent great deal of his
time sleeping He also eats well and
seemed to be in a rather cheerful
frame of mind despite the fate
awaiting him.
The law does not permit more
than 35 persons to witness an exc
cution. Of this number, there must
be a jury of twelve men which are
selected by the board of trustees of
which Joseph S. Hamilton is presi-
dent.
1t is the practice to conduct the
executions as privately as possible
and it is unlikely that outside of the
members of the jury, prison Off
cials and newspapermen, anyone
else will be admitted.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
AMERICAN LEGION
CONVENTION ENDS
WITHFINEPARADE
Major S. B. l. Duncan Is
Chosen AS Department
Commander
AUXILIARY ELECTS
Mrs. William N. Cam
Again Heads That Body
For Ensuing Year

The annual two day convention OF
the Department of Delaware of the
American Legion which was held at
Rehoboth came to a close Saturday
afternoon when more than 200 leg
ionnaires with a number of floats
took part in the annual parade.
There was a land breeze blowing all
day and the paraders and those who
watched sweltered in the intense
heat. Colonel John P. LeFevre was
chief marshal and DR.. Meredith /.
Samuel was his aide. The prize of a
silver loving cup for the best drum
and bugle corps in line from out
side Delaware was awarded to the
Chester organization.
The convention of both the Legion
Auxiliary adjourned previous to the
parade. A place for the next con-
vention was not selected it being
left to the executive committee to
choose between Wilmington and
Lewes, both of which places had ex-
tended invitations.
Major S. B. l. Duncan, of New
Castle Post was CHOSEN COMMANDER
as had been predicted. The officers
chosen were:
Captain H. H. Hansen, of Dover,
vice-commander; John ]. Dugan, of
Wilmington, national executive COM
mitteeman; the Rev. Park w. Hunt
ington, Wilmington, chaplain; re-
elected; delegates to the national
convention, John E. Blackson, of
Laurence Roberts Post, No. 21, Will
mington; alternate for Wilmington,
Thomas N. Leonard, Laurence Rob
erts Post; Colonel Thomas w. Mil
Ter, Delaware Post, No. /; Orville
Little, Newark, J. Allison O'Daniel
Post, for Rural New Castle county;
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
TO DEMONSTRATE
SAFETY AT REHOBOTH
Delaware Safety Council viii Show
Means OF ResuscitatiOn

On Saturday, July 26, at 2:S0 p
M, the Delaware Safety Council
will give a water safety demonstra-
tion on the Beaca at Rehoboth just
north of the fishing pier. The beach
will be roped off and policed by the
Rehoboth Police Force who will
probably be assisted by the Boy
Scout organizations of Lewes and
Seaford. In the event of bad wea
ther the demonstration will be held
on the following Saturday.
At 2:30 p. m. the band from the
Delaware Division of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company will give a
band concert. At $3.50 p. m. Mayor
Conant and Vice President Harold
w. T. Purnell, of the Delaware Safe
ty Council, will each make a brief
address, explaining some of the ad-
vantages to be derived from such a
demonstration. At $3.50 p. M,
through the courtesy of Commander
James A. Price, of the Coast Guard
Stations, the crews, composed of the
following men: Boatswain: (L)
John w. Hudson; Boatswain's mate,
first class, (L) G. ]. Thomas; Surf
men: Savage, Bryan, Simpler, Mas
sey and Ayers, from Lewes and Cape
Henlopen Stations will row down to
Rehoboth and give a demonstration,
in the surf of overturning and right
ing their boats. Fair weather is nee
essary for this event. A breeches
buoy drill will be given by the same
two station crews. A large mast
will be sunk in the water illustrat-
ing ship that is sinking. The crews
will then show the methods used to
carry people safely ashore from
such a wreck.
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