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Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10
HICKORY HILL

Audrie MumfOrd has returned TO
college after spending Easter with
his mother, Mrs. Hettie MumrOrd.
I Miss Catherine Miller called on
Miss Ruth Brittingham on Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford MumlOrd
had goose dinner on Easter Sum
day. Those present were Mrs. Het-
tic MumfOrd and children, Miss Eli
Zabeth, Audri, and Walter Mumford,
Mr.. and Mrs. james MumfOrd, Mr..
and Mrs. John Mumford and little
Marion and Mrs. Carey.
Mr., and Mrs. James Johnson were
Salisbury visitors on Thursday past.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Miller were
dinner guests of her aunt, Mrs. Er-
nest COrdrey the past Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kitchens and
daughter, Myrtle and Miss Marie
Hickman made a business trip to
Georgetown on Saturday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hudson, Jr.,
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Al
bert Parsons on Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Lowe and balAga
and Elijah Lowe were callers OH Mr..
and Mrs. Preston Hudson on Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Taylor and
children, of Philadelphia, spent Eas-
ter with her father and mother, Mr..
and Mrs. James Kitchens.
Miss Dorothy Hudson. OF Frank
ford spent Easter with Misses Myr-
tie and Margaret Kitchens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Hickman and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Hudson and
children, of near MillsborO and Mr..
Thomas Parsons, of Milton, spent
Friday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kitchens.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry NAPLES, of
Merchantville, N. j., Mrs. Sarah Zim
mermann and daughter, Anita, of
Philadelphia and Edward Layton, of
Philadelphia, spent Easter with Mr..
and Mrs. John Layton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John F. McCabe and
children and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mil
ler and children were callers in Sal
isbury on Saturday.
Misses Helen, Norma and Alice
Brittingham were dinner guests of
Misses Gladys and Kathleen McCabc
on Sunday.
Some from here attended the Eas-
ter program at Selbyville.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Moore, of
MilIsb6ro.. spent Easter with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert DOnO-
way.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace BraSure, of
philadelphia, was guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Hudson on Sunday.
Leonard West is out again after
an attack of measles.
We are hoping that the pretty
weather continues, as we have had
six rainy Sundays in succession.
The Ladies' Aid of the Houston
NJ. E. 'Chtrch met at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John F. McCabe, We'd
nesday evening, with twenty-three
present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Carey, of PO-
comoke City, Md, we're the guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John MumfOrd last
Mr.. Keyer and friend, of Whining
ION, were the weekend guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Mumford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Lewis and
title son were Sunday guests of Mr..
md Mrs. George DonOway.
il is easy for skinny people TO be
1Odocf
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10

will eat with the President, talk
with him, sleep in the bed where
Lindbergh slept. And then he'll go
back home and help plant the corn
crop, help milk the cows and feed
the horses.
A hero? Certainly. Yet only a
tousle-headed youngster with cal
luses on his boyish hands.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10
DISGRACE (D OF HOME WORK

The scarcity of factory and office
work in many communities the past
winter, has induced a good many
women to take jobs temporarily as
housekeepers or domestic servants.
Many of them appear ashamed of
their employment, as if they had
come down in the world. Also many
of them are said to conceal the ma
ture of their work from their friends
and relatives. They resort to var
ious subterfuges to prevent their
kind of employment from becoming
known.
Also many of the women who are
doing this kind of work, seem very
unhappy about it. Instead of taking
an interest in housework. which
calls for just as much brains as Of
flee or factory tasks, they are sour
and unhappy.
There is no form of labor that
contributes more to peoples COM
fort and welfare, than the care of a
home. There are millions of women
who are not able to perform the
tasks of housekeeping without some
help. Many who are doing this
work, are not physically up to it,
and are wearing themselves out by
trying to do something beyond their
powers.
Many of these women who form
erly had a servant, or "hired girl"
as the country folks used to call
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10
D. |. A. A. SCHEDULES
TO START TODAY
Greenwood Opens With Milford At
Milford This Afternoon.

The d. l. A. A. baseball schedule
will open today with games i'll each
of the six divisions comprising %
teams. The league has prospects of
enjoying the most successful in ten
years of existence.
Some of the schools had practice
games the past week, while others
held back in their training by ad-
verse weather, will not swing into
action until the opening day.
Prof. George Hendricks, state di-
rector of physical education has re-
Gently completed an inspection trip
through the state.
The schedule for opening games
follows: Newark at Middletown; du-
Pont at New Castle; Smyrna at
Caesar Rodney;' Greenwood at Mil
ford; Harrington at FELTON,; Delmar
at Bridgeville; Laurel at Seaford;
Georgetown at RehObOth; Lewes at
Milton; Millsboro at Lord Baltimore;
Selbyville at Frandford.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10

BY wasteful cutting and burning
of timber faster than it grows, the
southern pine belt is estimated by
the U. S. Forest Service to be re-
ducing its forest wealth at the rate
of 4O,OOO,OOO a year. 1t is held to be
possible to reverse this process by
promoting reseeding, keeping out
fires, and by judicious timber crop
ping.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10

If she had to do it over again
many a woman would fill her hope
chest with asperin tablets.
l admit that women are foolish,
An experienced wife is one who
cries and then opens the telegram.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10

The people who are always point
ing out their home towns faults, do
nothing to create the enterprise and
initiative that make a community go
ahead.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10

The mistake high society makes is
in thinking its little world is the
whole big earth.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10
HOME TOWN THOrGHTS

The plight Of the man gwhO loses
a quantity of blood in some acci-
dent, might be compared to that of
the town whose business is weak
and ailing because too much money
is flowing out of town.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10

Some philosopher said that every
thing that is exquisite hides itself,
but when business hides itself
through failure to advertise, it may
be too exquisite to appeal to most
people.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10

Then this week came a letter from
man of letters and also a Doctor
in high standing, who formerly re-
sided in Sussex County, Delaware
but now and for many years a resi-
dent of vineland, New Jersey, who
writes:
Vineland, N. J.
April 5, 1881
g." congratulate you upon the
enterprise, public interest and
territory covered in the man
agement of the Milford Chron-
icle.
Very truly, .-,
DIR. Joseph A. Conwell
Here is a letter from an old
school friend who has always been
a loyal Delawarean, and friend of
college and public school educa-
tion:
Amber, Penna.
-...s7a+ April 2, 1881
Enclosed find check for Ie-
newal for another year of the
Chronicle which l read when a
girl, and now welcome to our
home each week for its Della
ware news; and, also for the
standard it maintains for all
moral government, as well as
educational matters. feel
proud that the young generation
is developing such standards,
for themselves, as indicated by
the School Page you have been
printing. You must have secur-
ed a well qualified editor for
that page, for the work done by
several of boys and girls as
signed to several lines, indi-
Gates training for the work of
writing of their themes. I am a
former resident of Kent County
and am amazed at the results
that have come through the
teaching of the public schools.
You may print this, but kindly
omit my name from the sigma
ture.
Yours, etc,
Mrs. II. L. A.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10
FRIENDS EXPRESS
APPRECIATION

1t would not be just to the stu
dents in the Milford High School
who create the School Page which
appears each week in the Chronicle,
to withhold from print in the col
umns of this paper, parts of such
letters which come to the business
Office, as well as the editor person.
ally, SO that those who edit and
write the matter for its columns,
may learn that their efforts are ap-
preciated. Here is a letter from a
reader of the Chronicle for approx
imately a third of a century, now
engaged in banking in Elwood, In
diana, and once a resident of Della
ware:
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10
ElwOOd, Indiana
April 8, 1881.

The Milford Chronicle,
Gentlemen:
Enclosed you will find my
check for $1.5O to pay for the
paper from April 1881 to April
1882. I have been taking the
paper for a long time, perhaps a
quarter of a century; l don't
exactly know how long, / wish
did. l just cannot do without
the Chronicle. / have been very
much interested in the articles
on the page written by the pu-
pills of your High School, espe-
cially those written by Miss
Alice 3reme. They are extreme
ly good.
Very truly yours,
John w. Beebe,
1903 South D st.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10

IT, is easy for skinny people TO be
modest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Drama El. ,.cted
 In Court When
 SentenceCane
Allesio Ciardo, William Nowsett, and Joseph Probulis Were Given From 10 to 20 Years in Wethersfeld
MOTHER OF PROBULIS PAINTED
 AND WIFE IN HYSTERICS

dramatic that rvaed the best behind the foot lights featured the sentencing of Alesio Ciardo William Nowset and Joseph Probuls when Judge Newell Jennings the criminal side of superior this afternoon the trio to Wethersed for robbng the Sandtz Traurg bank of $3,500
 Cardo and Nowsett given from Is to years each and Joseph Probulis from 10 to 15.
 All pleaded guilty when arraigned in court
 When Judge Jennings pronounced sentence the mother of Probulis fained in heap the floor of the court.
 The wife of Probuis burst into hystercal tears
 "Oh Joseph, the baby the baby she moaned colapsng into chair and court attendants helped her from the
 The Probus have been married but two and have one child.
 The fourth member who participated in the break is serving time at Atlanta, Ga He is Charles Mkaitis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Youthful Slayer Of
 Policeman Died In
 Chair Early To-day

dish of ice cream. A guard was dispatched to a nearby drugstore and the pint of ice cream he brought back was eaten with relish by Hurley. I'm ready now" the youth said.
 Until a week before his death Hurley. the first person executed in this state for the murder of a policeman, had scoffed at religion. But repeated visits to his cell by Father Farrell won him back to the Roman Catholic faith during his last few days on earth and he went to the chair repentant.
 In farewell letters to his parents the youth said he knew when he began his career of crime that eventually he would go to the cleo tric chair.
 Among the dozen books with which Hurley whiled away his last days was "The Life of Robert G. Elliott, Executioner." It was El- liott who threw the switch early to-day.
 Arrested with Hurley in connec- ton with the murder of Policeman O'Brien was Thomas G. Healey. 29. of Pittsburgh. Pa. The latter turned states evidence, however. and his case was mol pressed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
MOTHER TOOK HER LIFE AND THAT
 OF HER DAUGHTER
Wife of John K. Harrison, Sporting Writer of New York Times, Is Princi- pal in Sad Tragedy

Pelham Manor, N. Y, Sept 15. |-UP)-Mrs Constance S. Har- rison, 34, wife of John R. Harri- son, a we'll known sporting wri- ter of the New York Times, com mitted suicide by gas to-day, as- phyxiating at the same time her nine-year old daughter, Jean. The bodies were found by po- lice in the kitchen of the Harrison home. Neighbors had notified DO. 1 lice after smelling gas.
 Harrison, who has been danger. ously i'll for some time, was to be operated on at Presbyterian hospi- tai in New York to-day. and his wife was believed to have worried greatly about his health.
 The bodies of Mrs Harrison and the child were found lying on blankets on the kitchen floor. Propped up at the mothers feet was charcoal drawing of her husband, in a position where she could see it as she lay on the floor. In the child's hand was a book entitled "Margery's School Days," opened at chapter "A Birthday in School" All the jets of the gas stove were open.
 Mrs Harrison was formerly Miss Constance Singleton. She came from Ohio and met Harrison while attending school here. Her husband has been employed by the Times for the past eight years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

Boston. Sept. 15.-UP).-Paul V. Hurley, 20. who as schoolboy won prize for an essay extolling capital punishment, died in the electric chair early to-day for kill mig policeman.
 The execution ended the lawless career of a youth who became a petty criminal at Is and who four years later fired four leaden slugs into the body of Patrolman Joseph P. O'Brien of Brookline when the latter found him with a stolen automobile.
 Eleventh-hour efforts to gain a reprieve proved fruitless and at 12:01 a. m. to-day Hurley marched calmly to the death chamber at state prison. Two minutes later he was strapped into the chair. At 12:10 doctors pronounced him dead. He was the second youngest person ever electrocuted in Massa- chusetts
 Goodbye. father" were his last words, whispered to the Rev. Ralph W. Farrell, prison chaplain. who had administered the last rites of the church.
 An hour and a half before the execution the doomed youth had expressed one last wish-for a big
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
ONLY REMNANT OF GRAND ARMY OF
 REPUBLIC THERE
Annual Session Being Held at Des MOines = Just 1900 Put in Appearance

Des Moines. Ia. Sept 15-(UP)- A remnant of the Grand Army of the Republic talked of younger. sturdier times at the annual na- tional encampment to-day. The uniforms of faded blue hung a hit more loosely from the stopped bod ies of the 1900 veterans of the eos who met to signalize another year of victory against the ravages of time. The 1900 are almost a tenth of all who remain of the 500.000 warriors who once filled the G. A. R.'s ranks.
 The average age of those re- maining is 8S. Insurance company records indicate the last will be gone by 1940.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Rev. Finton Tehan Honored By Anchor
 Clubs Of Country

At the annual meeting of the Supreme Anchor club of America held in New York, Rev. Finton &. Tehan was elected supreme chap lain, the highest honor in the gift of the organization. The Anchor clubs are made up of members of police departments who belong to the Knights of Columbus. The club has fifteen branches in New York city. It also has branches in Bridge port, Boston, Cleveland, Newark, Philadelphia. Washington and many other cities.
 Father Tehan is chaplain of the Bridgeport police department and assistant to Rev. John J. McGivney of St. Charles church. supreme chaplain of the Knights of Colum- bus, and brother of the founder of the order. the late Michael J. McGivney. Rev. John J. McGivney and Rev. Finton c. Tehan are na- lives of this city, the latter son of the late Lieut.. Finton Tehan. for over thirty years a member of the Waterbury police force.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
AN ALL CONVICT
 BASEBALL TEAM
 PROTESTS GAME
They May Appeal to Judge Landis = Grand Jurors Whipped Them Deci- sively Yesterday

Boston, Sept 15-(UP) - The Harbor Lights, all-convict baseball team, to-day considered an appeal to Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan- dis from a 16 to verdict returned against them by the Suffolk coun- ty grand jurors nine. Ringers" were responsible for their defeat. the Deer Island prison players charged.
 They claimed they were under a psychological handicap in having to hit at the offerings of Assistant District-Attorney Danie Gillen, the winning pitcher Another mental hazard was the sight of indictment Clerk John Donovan, playing shortstop for the jurors, they ar gued.
 The Harbor Lights excelled in se-stealing but their desire to reach home was said to have robbed them of many runs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
They Don't Believe
 Mrs. Ceilings But
 Cannot. Ensnare Her

her during his close questioning.
 One New York newspaper to- day, through special correspond ent working on the case, presented an inference that Mrs Ceilings may have known the name of the so- called pirate" who trussed her husband up and threw him over- board. later attempting to attack her in a canoe.
 Mrs Ceilings, however, with stood every assault upon her first story of the night on which her husband disappeared into the wa ters of Long Island Sound. and re- hearsed. minute by minute. the events she says took place.
 During her examination aboard the Penguin. yesterday, she hoist ed an air mattress through the forward hatch of the boat and threw it overheard with some diffi- culty, to show officials how she at- tempted to aid her husband, who. she supposed, was struggling in the water. victim of the "pi- rates"
 Mrs Ceilings is represented by William A. Kelly of the firm of Cummings and Lockwood, a con- cern long prominent in eastern le- gal circles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
} BANK ROBBERS SENTENCED
THOUSAND
 M 0 RE FOR
 CITY VOTE
That Number of New Voters Will Be Made By Tonight = Democrats Gain the Upper Hand

New voters in Waterbury will swell the list of electors by ap- proximately 1000 by tonight. it was estimated early this afternoon by the board of registration sitting for the purpose of swearing in the new members on the voting list. On Saturday 346 were sworn in. Yes terday 430 new voters were made" Up until early this after noon 56 more had been registered and it was anticipated that before the closing time tonight the num- Der for to-day sworn in would be enough to swell the total beyond the 1000 mark.
 This afternoons estimate of the new voters who will have been made by closing time tonight was
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
HID THREE WEEKS TO TRAP BURGLAR
 AND SUCCEEDED
Georgetown Store Had Been Robbed Many Times-Last Night the Burglar and Pals Were Nailed

Georgetown, Conn. Sept 15- (UP)-Patience of State Police- man Leon Merritt and Sheriff James Brady, who had concealed themselves in the James Connery general store every night for three weeks after a series of burglaries was rewarded to-day by the capture of a prowler and recovery of most of the loot. '--~-''r~r'a-----
 After 21 dull, sleepless nights, they were about ready to abandon their vigil when a burglar entered and began collecting goods from the counters. The officers jumped from cover and subdued him.
 The prowler said he was Edward c. Nelson, A, and offered to lead them to a house where two New York bad men" were guarding the loot of previous robberies.
 Strengthened by three addition al state troopers. Merritt and Brady raided the house and drag ged Joseph and Sam Farruggio, brothers, out of bed. They found a .32 calibre revolver under Jo- seph's pillow.
 In addition to the loot, they found a still, two cases of beer and 25 gallons of alleged whiskey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Tracy Attacks Were Refuted
 Very Sharply
Mayor Hayes Has Not Yet Been Nominated, So Chairman Crary Takes Republican Nominee to Task on All Accusa- lions Made
CHARGES SEEM
 TO BE BOOMERANG

Verbal attacks by George B. Tracy, g. o. p. nominee for mayor upon the handling of school mat ters by the administration of Mayor Frank Hayes, present chief execu- tive of the city, bounced off the backs of the democratic leaders to- day like a rubber ball and brought forth no retort. MT Tracy delivered his talk before the Women's Re- publican Club last evening at g. O. D. headquarters and charged that the school department has been spending too much time wrangIing over school sites and has not given enough attention to other matters in connection with the educational system of the city which, in his opinion, are more important.
 Crary Talks For Hayes
 Tn the first place. it was pointed out by Town Chairman John H. Crary, the democrats have not yet renominated Mayor Hayes for the chief executives post. That he will
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
Toll Of Seven Aviators For
 The Past Week
This Latest Missing Plane Had on Board Three
 Men-Left Lisbon Sum- day Morning and Have Only Been Sighted Twice Since That Time
THEY SHOULD HAVE
 LANDED YESTERDAY
fBy United Press)

Long distance flights in the last week have taken a toll of seven aviators dead or missing.
 Don Moyle and Cecil Allen, who started from Tokio to fly to Seattle. were missing over the Pacific and little hope was held that they would be found alive.
 Joseph Lebrix, French flyer, and his mechanic, Rene Mesmin. were killed when their -Tokio plane crashed in the Ural Noun tains of Russia.
 Christian Johanssen, Willy Rody and Fernando Costa Veiga were hours overdue at New York on their flight from Portugal, and 4 was feared they had been forced down at sea.
 New York, Sept 15-CUPl- A Junkers monoplane manned by Willy Rody, Christian Johannsen and Fernando Costa Viega, att tempting a nonstop flight to New
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15

1iineola, L. l., Sept 15. (UP)- tnsistent cross examination of Mrs Benjamin Ceilings into the in- cidents surrounding the murder" of her husband by pirates" who Ioarded their little motor boat, tho Penguin, and threw him over board, to-day brought doubt upon some details of her fantastic story.
 District Attorney Alexander G.. Blue of Suffolk county frankly told Mrs Ceilings that he did not believe she was telling the truth. and indicated that she was with holding important details of the dramatic attacks which ended in her husbands supposed death.
 Disturbed by the repeated ques- tioning of authorities and another rehearsal of the drama, Mrs Col lings Is now protected by her own attorneys. who entered the case "to end unwarranted questioning" of the supposedly murdered mans wife.
 District Attorney Blue. polite. suave, but firm, entered the case yesterday on the supposition that his county may be involved in the alleged piracy. While he maintain ed strong disbelief in Mrs Col lings' story, he was considerate of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
|CENE SARAZEN
 BEAT ESPINOSA
 IN MORNING PLAY
Was Three Up at Close Billy Burke Was ? Up Over Dave Hackney of Lowell

Rumford, R. l., Sept 15-(U. P.) Gene Sarazen of Fresh Meadow, N. Y. was three up over Al Espin- osa of Chicago at the end of the morning round of the initial match play of the professional Golfers As- sociation tournament to-day.
 Sarazen led Espinosa by five holes leaving the 18th. but required three butts on the 14th green. and pulled his spoon tee shot on the short 18th, and also missed three foot putt after a splendid approach.
 Walter Hagen of Detroit, five times winner of the P. G. A. title. played poor golf to be three down
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-15
JOHN HELD WAS DIVORCED BY HIS
 WIFE IN MEXICO
Famous CartOonist Has Been Seen Travelling Around Lately With Claiborne Foster, the Actress

Cuernavaca. Mexico. Sept 15.- (UP)-John Held. Jr. American cartoonist famous for his depletion of the flapper and the postwar jazz age, was divorced by Mrs Ada Johnson Held August l9, 1t was learned to-day. The Helds were married in 1918 when the artist was in the navy and Mrs Held was in the ambulance service [. They have three children.
 Rumors of the divorce were cur rent in New York during the sum- mer but were denied then by Mrs Held. Held was seen frequently with Claiborne Foster. the actress. Held is of Utah Mormon parent age. He Is the autohr of several popular books. contributor to lead- ing magazines. and talented sculptor. Ills drawings of short slirtei fiappers and racoon-coated college boys made him famous.