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Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27
SEAFORD

The United States Yacht, Siwash
under Captain Sweet, is at the Sea
ford Boat Works undergoing repairs
The "Siwash" was built by John S.
Smith the present owner of the Sea
ford Boat Works while he was in a
similar business at Salisbury, Md,
for the late Senator T. Coleman du-
Pont. When the United States en-
tered the World War this boat was
taken over by the Government and
since then has been used as an in
spection boat in and around Boston
1t is expected to take about a month
to overhaul this boat which has
crew of seven men.
The Primary and the Intermediate
Departments of the Methodist Epis-
copal Sunday School gave a chicken
and waffle supper last Friday night
in the basement of the church and
after all bills were paid there was
left in the treasury around $50. This
amount will go toward the enlarge
ment of the Sunday School room.
Mrs. George H. Warrington is
confined to her home on Front street
with illness.
Master James Dutton, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin Dutton, on Cannon
street is threatened with pneumonia.
Mrs. Walter S. Hunter has return
ed to her home in Wilmington after
spending several days here with
friends.
Mrs. Harry M. King, assistant
postmistress, has resumed her dut-
les at the local postOffice after be-
ing confined to her home for several
days the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman COrkran
have returned here after spending
sometime the past week in Mil
bourne, N. }. and Rehoboth Beach, !
Del.
Mrs. Phronie Reed has as her
guest, her sister, Mrs. William H.
Benson, of West Chester, Pa, former
ly of SeafOrd.
Mrs. Walter B. Robinson and daugh |
ter, Elizabeth, have returned home .
after spending a week in Lansdowne,
Pa, as the guest of her sOn-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27
VERNON

Mrs. ShOckley is spending two
weeks with her mother in Milford.
Mrs. Kathleen Gorton has return
ed from a visit in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. John l.. Stevens, of
AndersOntOwn, and Mr.. and Mrs. r.
Wesley Ross have been visiting in
Milford the last mentioned being a
guest of her cousin, Mrs. Kathleen
Gorton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Kemp and
children, of Greenboro were Sunday
dinner guests of b. c. Draper and
family.
Miss Bessie Austin has recovered
from an attack of appendicitis and
returned to her studies in Whining
ton.
Mrs. Kathleen GOrton attended the
birthday party of her nephew in Will
mington. Green was the color
scheme in honor of St. Patrick's.
Mrs. Alice II. Ross and several of
her pupils, who are making fine pro-
gress in music, were invited guests
at the New Castle County Meeting
of Music on Friday afternoon at the
Krebbs School, Newport
Mr. and Mrs. Wood Case and daugh
ter, Louise, have been dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Austin and
daughter.
Norman Wix and family attended
the birthday anniversary of her
brother, Monroe Saunders, of Wood
side. Mr.. Saunders is a former pu-
pill of the writer and one of the
county's most highly respected citi-
Zens.
Mrs. Mary Blades is sofewhat i'm
proved from a broken wrist.
James Anderson, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, has presented Nelson COVerdale |
and family with a radio.
j. e. Bennett, Mrs. Bailey and
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27
Copyright, 1880, by Hoyle, Jr.
ARTICLE No. 21

The following inquiry has Just been
received from a Chicago correspondent
Where your partner bids an opening
no trump understand you give special
treatment to a hand that consists OF
three four-carders, i. E., 4-4-4-1, and
wonder if you'd be kind enough to
discuss this in an article of yours"
replied as follows:
II prefer a suit bid, if held originally
or as a take-out of a partner S no trump,
with one of the four-card suits, with a
hand containing a 4-4-4-1 distribution.
For example, suppose you hold the
following:
Hearts %
Clubs "A, Q,J,7
Diamonds = K, Q, Us
Spades "A, ], 9, 4
The proper original bid is one club
(either Auction or Contract). If your
partner bids one heart or one no trump.
bid the spades. If he again overbids,
show the diamonds. In this way YOU
have given him the choice of three suits
and should thus obtain the best results.
My partner held that hand the other
night and my hand was as follows:
Hearts "A, Q, AZ
Clubs %, 6
Diamonds "A, 1927
Spades @, 10, 2
We were playing Contract and his
first bid was one club. bid one no
trump mo bidding by the opponents)
and he bid two spades. | was now sure
of game so bid three no trumps and he
passed. His correct bid was four dia-
monds and | would have bid six. As it
was, made six odd in no trump but it
was impossible to bid for it.
"Here is another hand, illustrating
the point. / personally held this hand
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27
ADAMS CROSS ROADS

The funeral of Mrs. Thomas Prit-
chett was held at BloOmery Church
on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Williams, Mr..
Clarence Lowe and daughter, Cath
crime, visited G. w. Adams and fam
lily on Friday evening.
Mrs. Earl Adams has returned to
her home from Philadelphia much
improved.
Misses Alice Hastings and Louise
Nelson spent Monday and Tuesday
with Bernice and Reba Adams.
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27

as dealer, and it was bid (Contract) as
follows:
Hearts i, -oQ,z6,4
Diamonds "A, K, Q,4
Spades "A, K, 8, 2
one diamond Opponents didn't bid
at alb, partner - two clubs - two
spades - partner - two no trump
three hearts'-partner-'four hearts
and we easily scored a game that was
not possible at any other bid. His hand
was as follows:
Hearts A, J,o,S
Clubs *, 10, 8, rs
Diamonds y
Spades - 10, 7, g."
Suppose your partner bids one nc
trump, second hand passes, and you
hold the following:
Heart Hearts X, j. 81
Diamonds - K, 10, AZ
Spades X, Q, 9, 6
With this hand two spades is the
proper bid (either Contract or Auc.
tion); and if your partner rebids the
no trump you should bid three hearts
One of these suits should fit in with
your partners no trump and thus as.
sure a game that probably is not posi-.
Bile at no trump. There are numberIess
hands OF this type where proper bid
ding, showing two or more of the three
four-card suits, enables partner to
choose the one that best fits his hand
and thus scores a game not otherwise
possible. Be on the lookout for hands
Of this type and don't hesitate to bid
them. One thing you always can be
sure of and that is that a 4-4-4-1 com
oination plays far better at the proper
suit bid than at no trump"
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Almond Wright, of
near Denton, were Wednesday Wis
itors of her parents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Trice and
son, Reese, of near Chestnut Grove,
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27

daughter, Miss Betty, and Mrs. r..
Wesley Ross have been recent visi-
tors at Townsend and Smyrna.
We are glad to know that Luff
Warrington has recovered from an
attack of typhoid fever. During the
time his sister, Miss Susanne, one of
the most efficient teachers of Har-
rington boarded in.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Austin have
beautifiied their home with choice
shrubbery.
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27

Earl Adams and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Robinson spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs, John Adams.
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27

OE than 100000 letters received by Reynolds
Company at WinsonSalem in the $4,000
prizes IN connection with the ceophane
cigarette packages The photograph shows containing
more than 100000 unopened letters they delivered
Several weeks will be winners
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27

How easy to hate those we envy!
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-27

The woman who really loves chill
dren seldom thinks it necessary to
say so.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
HOOVER OPPOSES
JOBLESS RELIEF
New Wage Cut Meet
ing Called by Bosses
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
LEVELAND, Ohio.-Another
wage-cutting conference will be held
in Washington soon. Herbert Hoo
yer had q conference with William
Doak on the question of opposing
federal relief for the jobless and un-
employment insurance.
The press all over the country
stated that Hoover was unalterably
against any form of "the dole" and
that he intends to muster every in
fluence in congress possible to de-
feat all jobless relief measures.
Industrial bosses will be called to
Washington soon for another con-
ference on wage-cuts. Workers
should understand that this will be
another cut-throat conference like
in 1929. We gain nothing through
these conferences; the bosses only
bring new forms of speed-up and
wage-cuts to the workers so they
can increase their profits.
Now is the time to organize real
strong fighting Unemployed Coun-
ellis to fight for real relief for the
unemployed. We will only secure
unemployment insurance by organ
izing and fighting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15

broken up and threatened to be
fired.
The workers have one foreman
that they love. His name is Mr..
Beck. Every time he hires worker
Beck hides behind the furnaces and
watches that everybody is working.
If he sees that a worker is not 60
ing at the proper high speed he
jumps out from his hiding place and
then hell begins. The same is true
about the superintendent.
Workers, Organize.
Due to the terror in the mill and
the speed-up the workers are organ
izing. A local of the Metal Workers
Industrial League is already organ
lied. Workers wishing to join the
M. W I. L. write to 1922 Walnut ST.,
McKeesport, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
CLEVELAND JOB
MOVE COLLAPSES
Workers Must Build
Unemployed Council
By a Worker Correspondent

CBy Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Last year at
election time the cry of the bosses
was: vote yes fourteen times and
put Cleveland to work" This echo
has long since given way to the shout:
where are the jobs and where is
the money!"
The number Of unemployed nears
the 10000 mark in the city of Cleve-
land. Court injunctions, official red
tape and graft are blamed for not
putting the workers to work Most
of the money voted for the unem-
ployed remains idle, so the grafters
and crooks can get all of it.
One of the crooked council was
shot down in order to close his
mouth on the graft situation. This
shows the kind of crooks and graft
ers that run Cleveland.
The only way the workers will get
unemployment relief is to organize
and fight for it. Join the Unem-
ployed Council and force the city and
state government to give us unem-
ployment insurance instead of a lot
of hot air.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15

We we're then crowded into small
cells in a sinking Jail. They gave
us no breakfast and no drinking
water. But from our different cells
we joined voices and made the rusty
old prison walls shake as we sang
con the Picket Line" Solidarity
and many others--and of course 'The
International"
Railroaded
Instead of taking us before the
usual court, which had been dismiss
ing the charges against strikers,
Chief Of Police Tracey fixed it up.
on the orders of the bosses, that we
be taken before Judge Freeman. This
Judge did his duty for the bosses by
listening to the evidence and pro-
nouncing all Of us guilty. Even the
police had to admit that the picket
line was orderly; the only charge was
the technicality about not keeping
ten PAGES apart.
Twelve of us got S. fine and
the rest got a suspended sentence
except Biedenkapp, who was fined
$50 because he was a Trade Union
Unity League organizer. He and sew
en- more of us were sent to the county
jail when we refused to pay the fine.
Jail Diet
We got to the jail at one o'clock
and we asked for dinner and the
warden laughed at us. We got moth
ing to eat until five o'clock that night
when they passed us a piece of half
baked bread and something that look
ed like coffee without any sugar. For
breakfast we got the same fare. For
dinner we were given sloppy soup
with some fatty meat that most of
us were afraid to eat. The cells were
reeking and filthy. All this because
we workers are learning to orgaize
into the National Textile Workers
Union to improve our conditions.
The International Labor Defense
got us al out on bail to appeal the
case.
VIII Spread Strike
We are going to have bigger and
more militant picket lines than ever
at the Colt Mill and at the other
mills here. The workers in Pater-
son, seeing how the bosses and the
police and the A. F. of L. against
the fighting union, the NTWU, will
spread the strike and carry it on to
victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
WAGES CUT FOR
FIRE FIGHTERS
IN NORTHWEST
Thousands Flock To
Fl 9Th t. Forest Fires,
Find Wages Slashed
by a Worker Correspondent

Wy HoIheT correspondent
SPOKANE. Wash.-Out in the
mountains of Idaho, Montana and
Washington, forest fires are raging.
Workers from everywhere are flock
ing in here by the hundreds to risk
their lives as helpless victims of roar
ing flames for the pitiful sum of 30
cents an hour and board. For these
wages they must spend long hours of
climbing mountain sides and sleep
ing "out with the dry cattle"
Five-Cent Wage Cut
Las year the government paid fire
fighters IS cents an hour and board,
this year the food does not cost the
government as much as it did last
year but wages are cut. The gov
eminent must help Europe, you know.
Down at the city free employment
office workers with packs on their
backs swarm like bees around hive
Along Main and Trent AYES, the
second hand district, one sees work
ers buying secondhand shoes, shoes
with hob nails sold last year by fire
fighters after the work was over and
by lumber jacks who were laid off out
in the logging camps.
Many workers are too poor to raise
the price of a secondhand pair of
hob-nailed shoes, but that does not
bother the wage-cutting government
to take advantage Of the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
DUBLIZER PLANT.
FIRES WORKERS.
Girls Earn S12 To S14
A Week
New York, N. Y.

New YORK, N. Y.
Daily Worker
In the Dublizer Condenser Cor
poration we used to have 450 work.
ers. Now there are $50. Every day
some of us are getting laid off for
every little thing. For instance,
when they see someone talking they
come right over and tell you to go
home. The other day I got laid off
for this.
At the same time they told the
others nearby, if they want to go
home, they only have to talk. They
also let workers come in and let
them work an hour or two, then they
tell them to go home, that there is
not enough work. If we say any
thing, they fire us. A man makes
about 20 cents an hour, but there
are very few and are getting laid
off every day They hire girls in
stead for half the money, but the
same work Mostly girls are work
ing there now. The most we girls
can make by killing ourselves is $12
to $14 full time. The foreman holds
the threat over us that if we don't
keep up the others will, that come to
look for work every day.
Workers, how long will we stand
for this? We must do something.
We must join the Trade Union Unity
League, the organization that leads
and fights for better conditions for
the workers. "A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
DIVIDEND CUTS
TO SQUEEZE OUT
SMALL HOLDERS
Steel Barons Move To
Cut Dividends Is Move
Against The, Workers
by a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK, N. Y.-The steel cor
porations action in cutting divi-
dends starts another phase of defla-
ton and wage-cuts. Production is to
be curtailed and in many cases en-
tirely suspended.
Wage reductions are taking place
in increasing number. The steel in
dustries are following the line of all
major industries in the country.
The cutting of the annual divi-
dend rates is a move to squeeze out
the small fry. The cut from ST to
81 share is done in order to hqu-
date the small shareholder and force
him to sell at a low price to the big
shareholders and capitalists. This is
a scheme to rob the steel workers
who have stock. Many workers
bought stock before the crisis at 5000
to $27O share. Now they are forced
to sell at a loss at prices ranging
from $50 to 800 per share.
The U. S. Steel Corporation work
ers, working under the Hoover stag
ger plan, getting only two or three
days a week, naturally are forced to
sell their stock because they need
the money badly.
The robbers are not content to rob
lis Of our wages; they also devise
other methods. Workers, organize
into the Metal Workers Industrial
League and fight these wage-cuts
and the stagger system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
TRIKE TILL WE
WIN, SAYS MINER
ellis How Bosses Cut
Pay In Ohio
Bq A MINER.

DUBLIN, Ohio.--T mined coal for
put 81 years. I came away when
sy started scabbing. I worked for
cents an hour and then they cut
pay to 80 cents an hour for the
ne work.
.ast year we miners got $3.50 a
Y. Now the miners who work, and
y don't work very often either, get
10 q day. + used to average less
IN $14 a week working hard every
in the mines.
Tow I am building roads for the
h bosses to ride on while have
walk. I hope the time will soon
ne when we will tell the bosses
at they have to pay instead of
IN telling us what we have to
TX for. They way we miners can
this is to build a real strong Ma
lal Miners Union and stay out on
Ike until the bosses are forced to
ne to our terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
BOSSES PROMISE
MORE WAGE CUTS
Workers Must Organ
ize and Strike
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. N. Y.-Secretary La
mont, tool of Morgan g. Co., denied
recently that employers had pledged
at the 1929 conference not to cut
wages; what they did, he said. was
to promise to try to maintain wages,
Workers, this is another excuse to
cut our wages, but we must oppose
all these efforts of the bosses to lower
our living conditions by organizing
into the fighting unions of the Trade
Union Unity League.
Lamont also, in discussing the sit
uation in New England, said that the
bosses in New England intended to
shut down the cotton mills to COW
the workers into accepting bigger.
wage-cuts. This shows that the
workers cannot gain anything from
the bosses without fighting. Work
ers everywhere should join the Com
muniSt Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
TACOMA .JOBLESS
ORGANIZING FIGHT
AGAINST HUNGER
Largest Lumber Co.
in Tacoma Closing;
Unemployment Gains
az q Worker Correspondentl

tBy a Worker Correspondent
TACOMA, Wash.-Even the boss
es tell us that unemployment will
be greater next winter than it was
last year. This means more starva-
ton for the workers.
We know that We have less work
and get less pay and that the econ
omic crisis is plunging deeper than
ever before. In Tacoma-as in all
other cities in the country-the char
ity organizations tell us that they are
broke. Here the bosses are prepar-
ing to force the workers to contribute
a couple Of days pay to the commu-
nifty chest or be fired.
Workers are being laid off right
and left. st. Pauls Lumber Com
pany, the largest mill in the town,
is closing on the 18th of August.
The county commissioners claim to
be raising $4,000 for the unemployed
of Tacoma. But this would amount
to only three or four dollars for each
jobless worker and his family for the
whole winter. And even this $4,000
will not be at hand because of the
unsolicited taxes, as stated by Carl
Oslund, chairman of the county
board
Workers, don't starve through an
other winter. Fight for unemploy-
ment relief! Come to the meetings
of the Unemployed Council, 913 Ia
coma Ave. and prepare to demand
real relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
THOUSANDS FIRED
IN BEET FIELDS
Cal. Landowners Reap
Double Profits
by a Worker Correspondent

10y a NOrker correspondent
WOODLAND. CaI--After six weeks
work in Yolo County, where several
thousand were employed in the sugar
beet fields harvesting the crop, the
workers are now being laid off.
Thirty Per Cent Wage Cut
This year we were forced TO labor
much harder and produce much
more. Our wages were cut thirty
per cent. The pay we received was
SO to s13 per week at the most Many
are hiking out on foot after ditching
their machines, because they are I'M
able to repair and buy gas. We
are actually starving now after our
hard labor and have no prospect Of
landing another job.
Double Profit
The growers, however, got more for
their crops this year as compared
to last year. Also they are reaping
double profit because more than 5000
heads of cattle will be moved into
the county to Craze on land harvest
ed of beets. Tests disclosed that the
beet tops left on the ground are
good for grazing purposes, and the
cattle men have contracted to graze
their cattle here.
Such are conditions Of field work
ers in California as compared with
the great land owners. we only hope
that workers can hurry up and get
together and organize to fight for
their living conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
ELLIS INJURED
WORKER TO GO
TO BREADLINES
Welfare Refuses To
Give Relief To
ATHEIST
Portland, Ore.

EOI JIdIlQ, Odbs
ally Worker:
After being severely injured while
oking for work in Portland I finally
as forced to try and get relief from
lie county in taking care of myself.
esterday I went to the County Hos
tai and applied for treatment, as
thought any person, especially a
tizen and taxpayer, was entitled
1 was sent by those in charge
the hospital to the social welfare
lreau to get county aid. There,
hen I informed them that I was
'oke and unable to work even if
ork could be found, I was given a
ank to fill out. The blank in
uded, among the rest of the red
pc, the query as to religion.
put on the blank, None" After
lifting for two hours, while the
,rkS we're wondering what to do
18th an irreligious worker, I was
Id that if I wanted aid I would
i've to go to the Portland Com
ons or to Grandma's Kitchen, the
cal breadlines.
When I informed them that Ihad
, intention of starting in the
eadlines at this late age, I was
Id to go to the County Farm, and
ven letter to DR.. Hess, the county
iysician and superintendent at the
rm. The doctor informed me that
should be very glad to go to these
ly places" and though he was not
Christian nor church member he
lieved in upholding them. This
ctor knows which side his bread is
ttered on and all workers should
alize that all religion and the whole
harity" system is only to keep the
rkers from struggling and better
3 their conditions. The only time
at the workers can get a square
al is when they overthrow the
lole dirty system and put the
rasites to work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
San Jose Cannery Workers Must
Rally to Fight Starvation Wages

was brought home to us San Jose
workers. The necessity of a work
er's paper here on the Pacific Coast
is real. We cannot successfully COM
bat the lies published in the bosses
papers without having our own pa
per. understand there is a drive
being made to establish just such
a paper here on the Coast, the pa
per to be known as the Western
Worker Every cannery worker in
San Jose, after the experience of the
strike, knows the necessity for this
paper, and should rally Immediately
to support the campaign for it.
A Cannery Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
Fight Against EVictions!

EDITORIAL NOTE-BeOw print letter from worker IN
in Chicago who has been with eviction notice. He calls
on the workers to rally and stop the agents of the Chicago landlords
and bosses from throwing his furniture into the This work
like tens of thousands OF workers America realizes that
Communists leading the fight against evction action Of
the workers, led by Communan
tried to stop by numbering three workers 3has stopped
evction in Chicago temporarily least This not
that the bosses will jobess
eviction notices being
this eviction and all eictons ang than
August Bird. The fight against evicsions must
Chicago, Ill
Chicago Workers:
Please come to rescue at away behind in my
rent Looking to get kicked day I've been out Of work
all this year.
Workers please to aid to 1886 West
The baiffs will be here 18th
must be here before evening
Don't fail workers If the profit put out
I'll get another life Washington