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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

It is not enough to select a light oil
with the thought that 1t will give easy
starting-most Winter engine difficulties
are the result of this kind of selection.
AS a matter of fact, the basic require
ments for correct Winter fabrication are
threefold, as follows:
Three Requirements.
/. The oil must permit rapid cranking
at the temperature normally indicated
in Winter operation.
2. The instant the engine has started
the oil must flow through the oil screen
to the pump and distribute Immediately
to all the working surfaces.
3. The oil must provide adequate
protection under hard driving condi-
lions, especially when atmospheric
temperatures have gone higher than the
normal average.
The motorist who selects an oil which
will not do all of these things Is on the
way to engine difficulties which may
not become apparent until they are seri-
Gus. A good Winter oil is a splendid
example of the fact that a good motor
oil is made, not found.
Behind good Winter oil is wealth
of research and vast manufacturing
accomplishment that may not be APP
parent to the user who thinks Of oil
as something pumped out of the ground.
The difficulty in manufacturing a
good Winter lubricant lies in the fact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
Remedy Troubles

One of the unfortunate things about
repair work Is the risk of new troubles
through the process OF applying rene
dies. The experienced mechanic Is a.
careful to avoid injury to any part OF
the car as he is to find q cure for It's
particular a!lMent.
Many cases of piston slap have been
traced to carelesSness in handling pis-
tons and connecting rods during the
process of installing new rings. Rods
are easily bent, and piStonS can be
knocked out of round by q single tum-
BILE to the floor.
Sometimes in struggling with balky
part the mechanic or the owner will
strain some unit of the car that Is not
equal to this sort of abuse. Carburetor
controls and ignition wiring are espe-
cially subject to such injury. One owner
who dissembled a carburetor on a car
bon-covered workbench got dirt into
one of the air vents and borrowed more
trouble than he had bargained for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
EARLY ROAD BUILDERS
POOR ON GEOMETRY
Motorists Travel Million Of Miles
Out Of Way 90 Q Result,
Il Claim.

One Of the first things q beginner
in geometry learns IN that Q STRAIGHT
line Is the shortest distance between
two points. Those who laid out the vast
majority OF this country's 5000 900
miles Of rural roads, however, neces-
Sartly disregarded this truism, and as
. consequence Americana motorists now
are yearly travelling miMons Of miles
out Of their way.
Fortunately. when communities adopt
progressive paving programs, highway
builders consider not only the grade
and safety factors Of location, but also
directness. To illustrate how motorists
have been going out Of their way, OBJ
serve that Louisiana In building the
new concrete Baton Rouge-New Orleans
airline highway Is shortening the road
miles.
In building 1,o4o miles Of hard-sur-
faced pavement this year Iowa re-
duced travel distances BY wide margins,
and in addition eliminated railroad
grade crossings in large numbers, not
only through underpasses, but also
through elimination of crossings by
Strengthening out road kinks.
In one instance Iowa shortened the
distance between two towns by SIS
miles, eliminated seven right-angle
turns and avoided the four railroad
crossings Of the old route.
These are only q few of the many
items that make paving programs Of
ineStimable value to q community.
Prof. T. r. Agg of Iowa State College
has carefully calculated that where q
highway carries 1000 tons Of vehicles
. day, less than 1000 cars, every foot
Of travel distance saved viii Justify an
expenditure Of $50 to eliminate that
foot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

that protection must be given to NOV
ing parts when the engine is starting,
when the engine temperature may be
below zero, and also a short time later
during operation, when the tempera-
ture will be as high as in the Summer.
This requires q double range ubri-
cant. This double range" feature is
built into the lubricant and Is not in
herent in the crudes or crude from
which 1t Is made. 1t is encouraging to
oil manufacturers who are placing en-
phasis. upon the scientific manufacture
of lubricants that the public Is more
and more insisting upon oils which are
especially processed for Winter use, as
against those which are made to seem
suitable for Winter use by their fluid
ity, but which do not possess the proper
body so necessary for protection to the
working surfaces, when the operating
temperatures are high.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
Treachery Of Slippery Streets.

In these days Of $4,000 to as 900 mile
break lining performance the treaehery
of slippery streets may not send 30
many motorists to the service station
for brake attention. Just the same, no
car owner should overlook the need for
absolutely equalized brakes at this sea-
son. Inequalities that may never even
be suspected on dry, smooth pavements
will show UP quickly in the form Of
skiddtng during the next few months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
CAR USE IN WINTER
NOW CONTINUOUS
Constant Operation Unknown
by Motorists Few
Years Ago.

Most drivers remember the days when
only the bravest automobilist expected
to use his car in constant service dur
ing the cold days of Winter. Today,
thanks to the advances made by auto
mobile manufacturers, accessory manu-
facturers and particularly the manu-
facturers of lubricants, Winter driving
is but little more Of a problem than
Summer driving.
To insure satisfactory, trouble-free
engine performance throughout the cold
months, the selection of the correct
lubricant Is Of the greatest importance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
Allow for Expansion

In using those anti-freezes which have
higher boiling point than water the
car owner can get filling whenever he
desires that will last the entire Winter
One precaution that must be taken
however, is to keep the level from to
3 inches below the radiator overflow
pipe Then when the liquid expands
under heat, none will be lost through
leakage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
KEEP HORN ADJUSTED

Most Used and Most Neglected
Part of Car, Says Jose.
What part of the automobile gets
the mdst constant service and the least
amount of maintenance attention from
the owner?
In the opinion Of Rudolph Jose, vet
ern local car dealer, that unit Is the
horn.
THE horn is needed every hour Of
every day the motorist drives" Mr..
Jose points out land it is o tribute
to the devices sturdy construction that
it rarely fails. However, to an expert
enced ear many horns are not doing
their best because of maladjustment."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

trunk lines Of the future will be nom
stop express ways probably of elevated
constructive. There can be little doubt
that the economic savings will warrant
the development. They offer the most
important single step in the urban
traffic horizon"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
Autos Employ 4,700,0OO.

In the automobile industry as q
whole are engaged directly or indirectly
4,700,000 persons, at an annual wage of
$1,000 per individual, giving to this
group total purchasing power Of over
95, 500, 900 600 per year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
Auto Industry Uses Cotton.

Nearly 10 per cent of our domestic
cotton consumption is used for the max
ing of tires. brake lining, curtains and
upholstery padding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

81 Per Cent Used for Tires.
Eighty-four per cent Of the rubber
used in this country becomes automo-
bile tires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
SEEK TO IDENTIFY
PE|P|NG WOMAN
Hailed as Species of Early
Man Relic Faces Final
Examination.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEIPING, April 23.-Man, woman or
gorilla?
The mask which hides the answer, a
coating of fiinty stone, is coming off the
frontal bones of the famous Peiping
woman" a few grains at time.
Dug from a million year-old geologi-
cal strata northwest of Peiping by w
c. Pei and hailed as a new species OF
early man, this relic still faces its final
examinations at the hands of scientists
First Called Mans Skull.
First the skull was judged to be that
Of man. Then rs more Of its covering
was removed the probability was an
nounced that it is a woman's head. Now
Sir John Bland Sutton has spoken
openly his belief that 1t is nothing more
than member of the gorilla family,
The finest kind Of measurements Of
the mineraliZed bony curves may be
necessary to settle doubts.
Whatever he or it is, this skull cap
makes its home now in the safe CT the
Rockefeller Foundation Hospital in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23

Whether the span of life can be ex-
tended is not matter of day. Re-
search for many decades and IN en-
tirely new fields will be required"
Nobody. he said, wants to live to be
200 If old age means merely senility.
Whether 1t necessarily means that, he
predicted science will find out perhaps
in the next so years by cutting the i'll
ness rate in two. Then perhaps man
will face "a century OF unimpaired use
fitness" with quick. happy ending.
Mr. Frankel quoted a 140-year-old
report to this same American Philo-
sophical Society showing that in 1871
mans average life was about 35 years.
Today he said the average expectation
is so, and it will rise to 70 IF we
can further reduce the incidence OF
transmissible diseases"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
IGNORANCE LIMITS
LIFE, SAYS EXPERT
Ripe Old Age May Mean 200
When Research Completed,
Scientists Think.
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 23.-Man's
chance to live 200 years was discussed
today at the opening of a three-day
session of the American Philosophical
Society here.
He may expect soon, it was asserted,
to add 10 more years so that the ma
jority of us live to 10. Present medical
science may later carry the average to
90. but beyond that lies a barrier-ig-
noranCe.
The beginnings of a knowledge that
may lift even this barrier were de-
scribed by Lee K. FTankel, second vice
president of the Metropolitan Insur-
ance Co.
II am making a conservative state
ment." he said, when say that there
is no evidence at this moment that
human life may be prolonged beyond
its presumed biologic limits. All the EVIL
dence indicates that man, like other
animals. lives an allotted time. All that
has been done thus far has been to
save the wastage of life at the younger
ages.
Man COnquers Environment.
"Yet We must remember that man
differs from other animals, in that ne
is a reasoning being. Certain insects
live a day. The elephant lives 200 years.
These animals adapted themselves 10
their environment. Man has not only
adapted himself to his environment, but
in many instances has conquered It,.
How far this may go no one can tell.
Certain significant researches in the
recent past should be mentioned. Ihey
are at least suggestive
Mr.. Frankel summarized them as
Child's evidence that aging IS most
rapid in youth but slows down there
after. Carrell'S belief that a mans
wears bear mo definite relation to his
real age" Crile's artificial and partly
living cell. chicken hearts kept alive ~
wears in glass dishes, this Springs an
nouncement at Johns Hopkins that rats
fed on diet free from mineral man
ganese lose affection for their young.
Research Will Tell Tale.
Who knows he said. what the
future may hold in store If the theory
is correct that the universe and man
kind are kin and that both are made
up of protons. electrons and photons?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
IRISH MARRIAGES DROP
Statistics Show Fewer Colleens Hit
by Cupid's Darts.

DUBLIN (4').-Cupid's Workmanship
on Irish colleens is getting worse
Vital statistics for the British Isles
show marriages in the Free State have
declined steadily. the last quarters to-
tai being the smallest in the last 10
years.
The birth rate in the Free State
ranks third. ahead of England and
Wales. but behind Ulster and Scotland.
The Free States birth rate is also de-
clining, but 1917 births being regis
tered in the last quarter, also the low
est In 10 years,
Dublin's birth rate is the highest Of
any city in the kingdom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
FISH FOOD STUDIED
one-CelIed Sea Creatures Are
Caught by Scientists.

LA JOLLA, Calf. [P)-About 10000
catches of minute, single-celled crea-
lures of the sea have been taken in 10
years by the Scripps Institution of
Oceanogaphy.
These catches have been made in
canvas buckets from steamers at full
speed, in pals from the surface and
in self-closing bottles at sub-Surface
levels.
Hundreds of thousands of the crea-
lures have been taken in some catches,
says Prof. w. E. Allen of the institu-
ton, and reports have been written and
published for about 10000 OF the
catches.
He calls this census taking of the
food of fish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
Rock Coating Removed.

Cap Dix. N. j. is now de
serted village" From a thriving COM
munity OF $4,000 in war days the pop
ulation has dWindled to less :nan goo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23

Peiping. It is under the sole care OF
DR.. Davidson Black, anatomist OF the
hospital. He believes the ancient bones
are human.
Rock Coating Removed.
With fine tools he is removing the
rock coating the interior of the skull al
most a grain at a time. The priceless
relic, preserved in desert sands for CEN
turtles, must not be ruined by hurried
preparations
When the interior is cleared, the brain
capacity can be measured. and it may
tell of being who had travelled far on
the road toward human intelligence.
In the whole world there are only two
other comparable finds. They are the
Piltdown fragments recovered in Eng
land from geological strata identified
as million years old, and the old
Java man, the much argued Pithecan-
thropus ErectuS, frequently estimated at
half a million years.
Both the others are more fragmentary
than the Chinese skull. Blacks patient
picking may go far toward clarifying
mans antiquity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
Research Will Tell Tale.

Who knows" he said. what the
future may hold in store If the theory
is correct that the universe and man
kind are kin and that both are made
up of protons, electrons and photons?
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-22
BUCK SIGNS KENT
PLEAS COURT BILL
Dcputy-AttOrney General Wiley Is
Being Mentioned For Judge

Favored by the Kent County Bal
Association and opposed by the JUS
tices of the peace, the bill creating
a Court of Common Pleas for Kent
county has been signed by Governor
c. Douglass Buck.
1t is understood that the court will
begin operation as soon as Cover
nor Buck appoints judge. The law
requires that the judge must be a
member of the bar with five years
practice. He will receive salary
of $4,000 a year.
In connection with rumors sur
rounding the appointment, the name
of Deputy Attorney General Earl D.
Wiley is prominently mentioned. 1t
is understood that in case Deputy
Attorney General Wiley is named
for the place, a number of lawyers
at Dover will ask Attorney-General
Reuben Satterthwaite to name Err
nest V. Keith. member of the State
Senate, and the man who introduced
the bill providing for the new court,
to Willey's present post.
The bill creating the Common
Pleas Court has been before the
Legislature for at least the three
past sessions. This time it has the
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Milford chronicle., 1931-05-22
STATE SCHOOL BOARD
In ALL DAY SESSION
Delegations Ask For improvements
TO BuildingS-COnsOIidatiOn Results

The State Board of Education met
in all day session at Dover last Fri
day.
The board canvassed the vote on
the Lord Baltimore bond issue which
showed favorable vote.
Reports were also submitted of
the following consultations with
special school districts and those
refusing to consolidate:
Slaughter Neck with Milford spe-
cial, for consolidation, 58; against
consolidation, 4S.
Milford Special with Slaughter
Neck, for consolidation, 8; against,
none.
Lord Baltimore with Muddy Neck,
Sussex county, for consolidation, 6;
against, 0.
Kenton School District, Kent
county, with Downs Chapel, for con-
solidation, 40; against consolidation,
one.
West Hill District, 1856; Sussex
county with Lewes Special School
District, for consolidation, 8; against
consolidation, 2S.
A request IOr an expense allow
ance for the English central COM
mittee in operation in the State was
granted and 5000 allowed.
Superintendent Holloway sub
mitted the completed rules and reg
ulatiOns for kindergartens as au-
thoried by the law passed by the re-
cent Delaware Legislature which
were approved.
Approval of part of the proposed
State board building program in
cludes the following schools and the
number of rooms and additions:
New Castle county-Mt. Pleasant
District, No. 2, 81 rooms, including
gymnasium and lunch room; Alexis
l. DUPONT. special district, eight
rooms and gymnasium; Hockessin,
including North Star and Mt. Pleas
ant, No. 81, four rooms and assem-
bly,; YOrklyn, including Clinton, No.
2S, four rooms and assembly; New
ark (SpeciaD, auditorium and gym
nasium; Townsend, No. 81 and
Blackbird, No. So, if consolidated,
six rooms, an auditorium and gym
nasium; Delaware City, No. So, re-
pairs to old building.
Kent county-Dover (SpeciaD, six
room addition; Milford (SpeciaD,
six-room addition.
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Milford chronicle., 1931-05-22
FORMER FREDERICK
GIRL HURT In CRASH
Miss Marguerite Salevan Is In Phil
adelphia Hospital After MiSliap

Miss Marguerite Salevan. daugh-
ter of the late Thomas c. Salevan,
of Frederick, was injured in an au-
tomObile accident last Friday night
in Philadelphia She was returning
from dinner party given by her
sorority at the Four Horseman Club
when the car in which she was lid
ing was overturned when it collided
with another automobile. She re-
ceived a fractured collar bone. frac-
tured ribs and severe bruises. She
is still confined to the Hahnemann
Hospital, in Philadelphia. Miss Sal
evan and her sister, Pauline, had
planned a trip to Europe, but the
accident has resulted i'll cancellation
of the reservations made for the
trip. The young ladies had expect
ed to travel in France, England and
Holland, and reservations for the
trip had been completed which call
ed for sailing on the SIS Acquatainia
and returning six weeks later on the
SIS Berengaria.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-22
TWINS GRADUATE
AT PINE BLUFF
Former Milford Girls
Making Record For
Themselves
RICHARDS DAVIES

Misses Margaret and Rebecca Da-
vies, daughters of Mrs. Minnie Rick
ard Davies, formerly of Milford
will graduate st the Pine Bluff
(Arkansas) High School this year
They graduate with a class of $50
with collegiate diplomas. The gradu-
alton exercises will be held May 2S
in the Sahara Temple (Shriners).
They entered school in Milford in
1919 under Miss Lulu NJ. Ross. In
1928 they moved to Pine Bluff. Their
work in high school has been very
satisfactory. This year they belong
ed to a senior dramatic club. In a
play recently given. Margaret was
given most favorable criticism from
a theatre critic who witnessed the
play. Both had parts in the senior
play, THE New. Poor" under the
direction of Mrs. Arthur Fairfax
Triplett.
Each has worked in the school Ii
brary a period a day for three years.
During the senior year they have
had a course in journalism in put
ting out the school paper, "The Pine
Cone" Margaret has written the
weekly book review Paths Through
Pages" Rebecca has had feature
stories for the last three numbers
of the school paper.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-22
Big INCREASE
IN FARM VALUES
Properties Have More
Than Doubled In Past
Thirty Years

The value of farm property in
Delaware during the past thirty
years, has more than doubled in
value. According to the report of
the fifteenth census of the United
States, in 1880, for Agriculture, the
value of all farm property in Della
ware was set at $83,271,707, cOmpar-
ed with S4O,697, ,654 in 1900. The
number of farms, according to the
report for Delaware, has just about
remained the same, the number in
1880 being 9,7O7, and the number in
1900 being 9,6S7.
An interesting commentary on the
farming situation, which to some eX-
tent contradicts the so often repeat
ed belief, that there is a constant
large movement from farm to city,
is contained in the report. Accord
ing to a report on the movement of
farm population, during the period
of April 1, 1929 to March 81, 1880,
719 persons moved to farms, from
cities, villages or other incorporated
places. The greatest movement to
farms was noticeable in Sussex
county, where 294 moved to farms,
Kent comes next, where 233 moved
to farms and New Castle was third,
where 1872 moved to farms. The
greatest number reported as moving
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Milford chronicle., 1931-05-22
LAWMAKER ATTACKED
BY TWO BROTHERS
One Draws Revolver While Other
Beats Representative Cummins

Representative w. f. Cummins. al
oysterman Of Leipsic, was beaten in
that town Sunday night when he or
derel Two brothers away from his
boat
During the evening Cummins no
ticed Henry Swiggett and Mark
Swiggett, brothers, lettering around
his boat. Earlier he suspected that
someone had tried to sell liquor to
members of his oyster boat crew
and going to the landing, he order
ed the men away.
1t is alleged that Henry Swiggett
drew revolver and while he kept
away a number of persons who
were in the vicinity his brother
Mark Swiggett is alleged to have at
tackled and beaten Cummins. Mr..
Cummins' condition as a result of
the beating was such that he was
unable to go out with his boat to
dredge oysters Monday morning.
Henry Swiggett was arrested by
Lieutenant Ingram and Private King
of the State highway police and TAX
en- to Dover for a hearing.
Mr.. Cummins has served in the
House of Representative two terms
in 1913 and the past session.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-22
DRY PROPONENTS
FORM STATEWIDE
FACT FINDING UNIT
Committee Comprises
Member From Each
Similar Organization
CONVENES At DOVER
J. Henry Hazel Named AS
President; Harold d. Will
son Explains Aims

A State Fact Finding Committee
was formed with Lieutenant Cover
nor J. Henry Hazel as president and
Mrs. Mary Caulk Lewis, of Dover,
as secretary, at a dinner-meeting in
the Peoples Christian Church at
Dover Monday night. An executive
committee composed of a member
of each of the fact finding commit
tees in the State will be named la
ter. The speakers at the dinner
were Harold D. Wilson, deputy pro-
hibitiOn administrator, and DR.. Har-
old E. Tiffany, the chemist who an
alyzes the liquor seized in raids.
Deputy Administrator Wilson de-
clared that these committees would
in the end obtain the enforcement
of the prohibition law. He said in
part:
"The drys of this State are not
Withdrawing from the battle but are
forward with ever increas-
ing fervOr. The Delaware Cooper
ative Enforcement Plan is the an
swer to the liquor problem. Every
unit of government-Federal, State,
county, city and town, must do its
bit. Enforcement is not impossible,
nor more difficult than any other
criminal suppression, with proper
cooperation.
"The citizens of Delaware are
awakening to the need of co-opera-
ton. In some sections, thanks to
Fact Finder activities, we are COM
to get genuine assistance
and are obtaining worthwhile re-
suits. Some communities are still
at the post, it is time to
get busy in these places.
"Insis on a systematic exposure
Of the places that are selling liquor.
Not with the idea of securing evil
lence for prosecution, that is the
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