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Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
LOST

LOST-Hound dog. yellow ears, and
body yellow and leopard. Has Frank
Robinson and "Chick" Crow name ON
collar Finder please return to Hilfs
Restaurant, Milford. 1tp
LOST-In Milton, on Friday evening,
May 8, Ladies' Black Handbag, con-
tanning following articles: Pair black
gloves Oadies), operators license.
small address book, key (to diary).
vanity case Gnitials IN. P.D, ring
that was keepsake. Win finder kindly
notify me? $500 reward will be given
person returning bag ana contents
Phone me at my expense. no questions
win be asked. Maxine Philips. I'tank
ford. Del. Phone SelbyVille 112R23. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15

We solicit your cream in. any
luantity, large or small. Milford
ereamery Company, Milford, Del.
l71-tfa}
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
IN MEMoRIAM

RULLOCK-In sad hut loving re-
membrance of our dear mother. Virdia
Clendaniel Bullock. who departed this
life twenty one years ago, May l2. 1910.
Sadly missed by Georgia and Flor
ence. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15

t'FOR SALE-Plants: Perennial Phlox,
Tritoma. Iris. Sweetwilliam and Holly
hooks. cents each. Larkspur and Ko-
CHA. 10 cents per dozen. Gamma bulbs,
Is cents per dozen-red. white. yellow,
varegated and brick red. Mrs. Harvey
CoVerdale, Milford. a24-tf
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed proposals win be received by
the State Highway Department. at its
office, Dover, Del, until 300 O'Clock p
NJ, Eastern Standard Time. June 10th
1881, and at that place and time pub
licly opened for contracts involving the
following approximate quantities:
Contract 172
Whitehall Neck Road. Motifs Cor.
$50 MI.
3-4HO Acres Clearing
3-4DO Acres Grubbing
$1,000 Gu. YdS Excavation
5000 Gu. Yds. Borrow
$3.50 Gu. Yds. Cement Concrete Pave
1850 Lin. TT. Expansion Joint
1870 Gu. ydt Glass "A" Concrete
1000 Lbs. Reinforcement
500 Lin. Ft IS" Corr. NJ. Pipe
90 Lin. Ft. Is" Il. c. Pipe
60 Lin. 't 18" r. c. Pipe
30 Lin. Ft. "a" r. C. Pipe
80 Lin. FIT. 30" r. c. Pipe
80 Lin. FIT. 3G' r. c. Pipe
5000 Lin. I't. Wood Shoulder Curb
Contract 1856
Port Penn Delaware city 3.674 Mi.
10000 Gu Yds. Excavation
1000 Gu. Yds. Borrow
100 Tons Broken Stone Base
G.lOO Gu. Yds. Cement Concrete
Pavement
1880 Lin. FIT. Longitudinal Metal
Joint
OR $500 Lin. TT. Longitudinal Joint
(NOn- metallic)
5000 Lin. FIT. Expansion Joint
10 Gu. Yds. Glass "A" Concrete
ZOO Lbs. Reinforcement
450 Lin. TT Is" Corr NJ. Pipe
80 Lin. Ft. IS" r. c. Pipe
$50 Lin. FIT. l8" X. c. Pipe
30 Lin. Ft. 24' r. c.. Pipe
20 Lin. Ft. 30" r. C. Pipe
100 Lin. Ft. Relaid pipe, 49, and
under
10000 Lin. TT. ga" Wire Gable
Guard Rail
40 End Post Attachments
5000 Lin. FIT. Wood Shoulder Curb
Contract 1e9
Browns Church. MlddIeford 3.5t5 Mi.
Acres Clearing
Acres Grubbing
10. .060 Gu. Yds. Excavation
$500 Gu. Yds. Borrow
3,54O Gu Yds. Cement Concrete Pave
ment
1000 Lin. Ft. Expansion Joint
10 Gu. Yds. Class "A" Concrete
1,500 Lbs. Reinforcement
500 Lin. Ft. Is" Corr. NJ Pipe
100 Lin Ft. Is" r. c. Pipe
60 Lin. Ft. IS" r. G. Pipe
10 Lin. 1T. "a" Il. c. Pipe
40 Lin Ft 36'' r. C. Pipe
1000 Lin. TT. 3-4" Wire Cable Guard
Rail
10 END Post Attachments
1000 Lin. Ft Wood Shoulder Curb
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15

FOR SAEE-TwO electric signs
These are very attractive signs, made
for the Red Moon Inn at Milford at "A
cost of $4,000. VIII sell both for $2j 90.
The face of these signs can he chang
ed at very small cost. Apply to Bud"
Harrington, Milford Chronicle. ml5-tf
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
BY BEN STERN

DATTLE for the Democratic NOM
II ination for President next
year moved into Indiana over the
weekend. 1t probably will continue
here through Dec. %, when New
ton D. Baker, former secretary of
war, and an outstanding presidential
possibility, is scheduled to deliver an
address at Winchester.
The occasion is the annual Will
son day dinner of the woodrow Will
son Club there and Baker en1inently
and particularly is qualified to be
the principal speaker, because of his
close relationship in ideas and po-
litical thought with the war PreSi-
dent.
A record crowd is expected, be-
cause Baker has not made a public
appearance in this state for many
years and also as a result of the
important position he occupies in
the present political picture.
There is an excellent possibility
that a delegation pledged to Baker,
if not by vote, at least in sympathy,
may be selected at the state con-
vention next June.
y
Although Franklin D. Roosevelt,
New York's Governor. is popular in
Indiana, there is an undercurrent
of feeling among Democratic man
ayers here that a middle westerner
would make a better choice for the
presidential nomination and Baker
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
MOTHER SAVES
TWO CHILDREN
Carries Them to Safety
After Blast, Fire.

Grasping two small children in
her arms when a small oil heater
exploded Sunday in an upstairs
room, Mrs. Joseph j. Boring, CSC
East drive, Woodruff Place, carried
them to safety.
In the resulting fire, the home
and furnishings were damaged more
than $1,000.
Mrs. Boring had lighted a bath
room heater, preparatory to bathing
ing a daughter, Elizabeth Louise, 3.
Mrs. Boring returned to the down.
stairs with the child, and shortly
afterward the stove burst into
flames.
Joseph Jr., 4, was near the bath
room when the blast occurred. He
ran downstairs and informed his
mother.
Selling a kettle, Mrs Boring filled
it with water and, returning upstairs
through a dense cloud of smoke, at
tempted to extinguish the blaze,
which was spreading through the
entire upstairs.
Mrs. Boring then ran to the first
floor. and carried the children from
the house. She was under the care
of physician today from the eff
fects of the smoke.
Fire of undetermined origin
caused damage estimated at more
than $4,000 to the Hub Furniture
Company, Ala East Washington
street, early Sunday morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
MEN
INVOKE COURT AID
Brothers Posing as Girls
Seek to Spur Name
Chance Action.

Efforts to obtain an early court
hearing on petitions of the Arm
strong brothers, of near Summit
vile, to change their names from
Geneva and Nola Lee to Gene and
Noel were being made today.
Startling announcement of the
husky farm girls" aged 80 and 81,
that they were men, after a life
time of masquerading as women,
still was the principal topic of con-
versation in Madison county today.
Legal action started by the sis
tiers" last week differs from ordi-
nary change of name petitions in
that Judge Carl Morrow, in this
instance, will be asked to change
their sex legally as we'll as their
names.
Whether or not the court will &C
cept their testimony regarding their
sex, or will require medical exam
ination, could not be learned.
In asking that the petition be
filed, the Armstrong; explained tc
the family attorney, Arthur G. Call
Anderson, that their parents, who
died several years ago, had made
a mistake" and that they wished
to take mems names,
Since childhood the two always
have appeared in public in women's
attire. For the last several years
however, they have worn overaIls
for convenience, while working on
their farm near Summitville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
THEY TELL Me

is the outstanding possibility from
this section.
Whether it may or may not have
a real political basis, the visit of
Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago
and Illinois Democratic leader, and
John F. Curry, New York Tammany
chieftain, to French Lick over the
weekend was too important to be
considered merely a coincidence.
Cernak is out with a favorite son
candidate, Senator j. Hamilton
Lewis, while Curry is in the peculiar
position of looking on the one hand
to Al Smith for orders and on the
other to Governor Roosevelt, with
whom he is attempting to maintain
cordial relations.
=
There has been much talk by OBJ
servers that Curry would welcome
an alliance with Cermak and others
to stop Roosevelt" because of the
Governors order for the Seabury
probe Of Tammany, but whether he
discussed this with the Chicago
mayor is unknown.
Both men have common ground.
in their opposition to prohibition.
and this may have been the prin-
cipal topic of the conference.
But admitting that both have
maintained strict silence concerning
their talks, there can be no doubt
that, whatever the trend, it was al
most wholly political
Can you Imagine them merely dis
cussing the weather?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
GIANT FIRMS
WILL CLASH IN
TELETYPE WAR
Western Union-POStaI to
Fight for Nations Bust
ness Against A. T. & T.
BY CHARLES A. WARDLE
United Press Financial Writer

! NEW YORK, NOV. 23.-NeWcomb
Carlton, president of Western
Union Telegraph Company, veteran
of years of competition in the COM
munications business, talked today
about his company's lates battle for
that business over "teletype" print
ers.
He described the operation of the
new automatic printer system,
which enables one to send and re-
ceive Geographic messages over a
typewriter keyboard as conveniently
as one may telephone to any other
person operating a similar piece of
equipment.
The new systems were announced
Saturday by the American Tel
ephone g. Telegraph Co. on one
hand and jointly by the two tel
egraph companies, Western Union
and Postal, which dropped four de-
cades of competition to cooperate
in the new business war.
Carlton Not Worried
Asked if the American Tele-
phones simultaneous entry into the
individual "teletype" sending field
would mean serious competition,
Carlton said:
GAS a matter of fact, slept UNI
usually well last night"
The Western Union-PoStal Tele-
graph announcement came almost
simultaneously with the A. T. & T..
announcement, and of that, Carlton
Slyly remarked:
1--WE finished neck and neck on
the publicity for it, didn't we?"
Both organizations are convinced
their facilities for teletype mes
sages are superior. AS matter of
fact, so far as the subscriber is con-
cerned, the mechanics of making a
message call will be practically
identical for the two groups.
When a subscriber wishes to send
a message, he will press a button
on his machine, equivalent to lifting
the telephone receiver from it's
hook. This will light small signal
in front of an operator at a central
switchboard.
Type Messages in Privacy
The operator, in answering, will
plug into the calling line and print
the letter Co." signifying that the
service is ready.
The calling subscriber then will
type on typewriter keyboard the
name or location and number of the
desired party, which will be pub
lished as in telephone directory.
The operator will switch through
the call. When the called party
answers, the operator drops out,
leaving the two subscribers to type
messages back and forth in privacy.
The bill, at the end of the month,
will be for the number of messages,
their long-distance mileage, and
their time, just as telephone calls
are now billed to subscribers.
Transmission of messages between
patrons of Western Union Tele-
graph Company and Postal Tele-
graph and Gable Company has been
worked out without complications,
according to officials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
GENERATORS AT
new PLANT ARE
SET IN MOTION
Power and Light Company
Doubles Production at
Harding Street Unit.

One Of the best equipped of its
kind, the new Harding street gen.
Grating plant of the Indianapolis
Power and Light Company was
opened to the public today.
Producing $4,000 kilowatts pow
'er, the plant doubles the production
capacity of the company, and repre-
sentS investment of millions in con-
struction and equipment.
Light company officials say it can
care for the industrial and domes-
tic growth of the city many years.
Free Buses to Plant
From the new plant runs a fifty
mile 132,000-volt high tension line,
carrying power TO four new sub
stations at Morris street and War
man avenue; Thirtieth street, west
of Flackville; Fifty-sixth street and
the Nickel Plate railroad, and at
Five Points, southeast of Beech
Grove.
These four stations will distribute
the power to twelve district substa-
tons, from which it will be stepped
down to a power for average use.
Free transportation was provided
in buses today, and will be supplied
Tuesday and Wednesday to persons
wishing to inspect the new plant,
located on White river west of
Harding street.
The buses leave Offices of the
company, on Monument Circle,
hourly between 8 a. m. and p. m.
$50 Tons of Coal Hourly
Governor Harry c.. Leslie and
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan are to
be among guests at a luncheon in
the plant Wednesday.
The building, approximately as
high as six-story office structure,
houses two big generating turbines,
boilers, and other auxiliary equip
ment.
Provision has been made to store
$4,000 tons of coal a short distance
from the plant, and the fuel is fed
to bunkers supplying the boilers on
a belt at the rate of $50 tons an
hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
VETERANS ASK
GIFTS OF FOOD
FOR DESTITUTE
1000 Thanksgiving Bas-
kets Is Goal as Requests
Swamp v. F. w.

Swamped by requests for Thanks
giving baskets for the needy, Vete-
rams of Foreign Wars are making
plea for more supplies to fill bas-
kets to be distributed Wednesday
afternoon from 2 to 8 o'clock from
its relief station at 90 West Ohio
street.
1--WE had intended to give needy
families about 300 bushel-size bas-
kets," said Arthur Gresham, ma
tional legislative chairman of the
v. F. W., today. But with hun
dreds of requests being received in
every mail, Veterans of Foreign
Wars will attempt to take care OF
at least 1000 families"
Six thousand pounds of potatoes
and turnips, flour and large quantA
ties of canned goods are needed
Gresham declared.
Each basket will be filled with
fifteen pounds of potatoes, a like
amount of turnips, five pounds o.
flour, small picnic ham, bread and
eight cans of vegetables.
Cards are being mailed today tc
families selected by the v. F.. w.
with the cooperation of the Indi-
annapolis clearing house. This is
done to avoid duplication in the re-
lief work.
Seven pests and auxiliaries of the
organization are assisting in prep
arationS for the distribution of
Thanksgiving baskets. E. A. Fox,
commander of the Seventh district
and of Frank Harold PennSy post,
is assisting Gresham in prepara-
lions for the relief work.
All funds available from the adj
vance sale of tickets to benefit
circus to be given in the Riverside
park arena, Dec. %, are being used
in the work, Fox declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
CRASHES into JAIL
Cops Car Hit by Youth
They Are Seeking.

James Sloan, 10, of AS Gerard
avenue, literally crashed" the city
prison gates Sunday night.
Sloan was wanted by police for
questioning. So Radio Patrolmen
Anderson and Wales were dis
patched to the west size to search
for the youth.
Hardly had the officers parked
their automobile, when they nearly
were tossed to the street by a crash
in the rear Of the car.
Leaping out, they gave chase and
captured the driver. 1t was the man
for whom they were searching.
Sloan's automobile, said the officers,
had improper license plates and the
motor number had been obliterated.
Sloan was charged with reckless
driving and vagrancy, and was held
in default of high bond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES
RASKOB LAUNCHES
CAMPAIGN FOR WET
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
10000 Contributors to War
Chest Asked to Reveal
Stand on Dry Law.
BY RAY TUCKER
Times STAFF Correspoudent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-Na-
tional Chairman John J. Raskob'S
long-awaited move to commit the
Democratic party to the anti-prohi-
bition side in the 1882 presidential
campaign materialized today, when
he circularized 10000 contributors to
the 1928 campaign fund in an effort
to obtain their opinion on the queS-
ton.
Raskob's letter set forth his own
wet views, and included a plea that
the Democrats return to a policy OF
states rights and home rule"
He asked for an immediate reply
so he might place the results of his
canvass before the national COM
mittee when it meets here Jan. to
select convention city and discuss
possible platform.
The movement drew immediate
attack from party drys, as did Ras-
kob's first advancement of his views
at the national committee parley
here last March.
Right Is Questioned
Drys questioned his right to take
the step, asSailed his choice of
money contributors as typical Dem
ocrats, and insisted this method in
sured the jury would be packed
against the dry laws.
He pointed out that 54,875, or a
majority of the 10000 contributors,
resided in the wet and wealthy
states of New York, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts,,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio
and Louisiana.
Vets, however, commended the
chairman had the right idea in de-
manding that the party refuse to
puSSyfoot. They also commended he
simply was seeking majority opinion
IN the best way possible.
1t also was noted that the chair
mans QUESTIONABLE permitted reg
iStration of all shades of opinion,
including a decision as to whether
economic problems had become so
dominant that the wet-dry issue
ought to be Subordinated or neglect
ed altogether.
Cites Wickersham Report
The other questions asked whether
there should be any definite declar-
alton, whether the eighteenth
amendment should be reSubmitted,
whether to conventions or to the
legislatures, whether the party
should ask repeal, or RaSkob'S own
"home rule plan"
This contemplates a new amend
n1ent permitting dry states to re-
main dry and wet states to set up
their own liquor systems.
Citing the majority report of the
WickerSham commission as favormg
change, RaSkob declared condi-
tons have not improved.
Only by adopting a sound, con-
structive, straightforward platform, .
insisted the chairman, can the mil
lions of young men and women who
will cast their first vote in 1882 be
attracted to the Democratic party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
RAIL WAY LABOR
TO MAKE FIGHT
ON WAGE CUT
Carriers Plan Immediate
Action to Enforce 10
Per Cent Slash.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK. Nov. ga railway
wage dispute was under way to-
day, with executives planning i'm
mediate action toward a 10 per
cent reduction and labor set to
fight what it termed efforts to make
it pay a dole to idle capital"
Daniel Willard, president of the
Baltimore & Ohio, and chairman of
the railway presidents committee
which has been comforting with la
Dor representatives here. announced
the executives intention Sunday,
after final conference between
the two groups.
His statement was made after
he had received a letter from David
B. Robertson. chairman of the
Railway Labor Executives Associa-
ton. informing him the trainmen
would not accept cut voluntarily
Bigger Dollar" Cited
The employers first step toward
reduction is expected to develop in
early regional conferences to draft
a formal notice to be served on rep
resentatives of the employees of in
dividual lines.
Labor's fight will be planned by
a meeting of the 1900 chairmen
representing all railway unions at
Chicago, Dec. 8.
The presidents asked labor to
accept voluntarily 10 per cent cut
for one year because they said they
considered it essential to restoring
prosperity in the industry.
They argued the reduction in the
cost OF living would leave the
workers wage, even after the cut,
capable of purchasing "substan-
TALLY more" than could have been
bought under present wages when
they went into effect.
100000 Affected
Labor's reply stressed the human
side and insisted capitals "obliga-
tons to the human beings de-
pendent upon this industry ought
to take precedence" Robertsons
letter animated it was unfair to
decrease labor's share of the reve-
nue. dollar so that the capital share
might be increased.
Robertson pointed out that APP
proximately 1,75O,0OO workers COM
prise the railroad unions, represent
ing probably 100000 persons de-
pendent on the industry. He said
100000 of this number are unem-
ployed and another 100000 have
only "the insecure promise of less
than a subsistence wage" Still
another half million may expect to
earn only "a little more than sub
sistence," he stated.
He pointed out that union mem
bers have been contributing to their
fellow workers for two years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
Mum Of Years
By United Press

By United Press
PANA, ILL.,, Nov. ga few
days before Christmas in De-
cember. 1867. T-year-old George
A. Pifer watched three men rob
and murder Elijah Russell, a
wealthy farmer. He kept his
silence for sixty-four years and
Russell's disappearance re-
manned a mystery.
Today the crime was revealed
after T fer told police his story
and r. ssell's skeleton was dug
from the grave where the boy
watchc d the slayers place it.
Pifer told authorities he had
held his secret through the
years because he feared for
his life if he should name the
criminals. Now the three are
dead. Despite the fact the
countryside has changed COM
pletely, authorities found the
grave without difficulty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
G. M. C. ENLARGES ITS
TRUCK DEPARTMENT
Extensive Drive for New Business
Is Planned by Manager.

Extensive Drive for New Business
Is Planned by Manager.
w. G. Rodocker, manager OF the
General Motors used truck depart
ment. announces that his company
is planning an extensive drive for
new business this winter.
The department has moved its
headquarters from Kentucky ave-
rue and Oliver street to larger quar-
ters at 430 North Capitol. Three
new statesmen and four mechanics
have been added to the pay roll and
still further expansion is expected,
Rodocker said.
1--WE believe that conditions are
definitely better, Rodocker declared,
"and we are going to prove 1t. We
expect to see real results, because
we believe the business is there to
Get for any one who viii go out
after it."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
CHUCK'S CAR is HOME

Battler'S Mother Pays SO Tow-in
Fee and Drives Auto Away.
Charles (Chuck) Virgins is a mo-
torist again today, but through no
fault of his.
Saturday the battler's car was
towed in and he announced to the
police department he wouldn't pay
So to reclaim it because it wasn't
worth that much.
But while Chuck was broadcast
ing his song and dance, his mother,
Mrs. Ruth Brown, acted.
She went to the impounding gar
age, paid the fee and drove the car
to her home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
No Din(er)o
az United Press

BIZ United Press
BALTIMORE, Nov. 23.-For-
eign Minister Dino Grandi
knows no wits feel to be with
out cent in his pockets.
AT mess Sunday, the young
statesman had to borrow
money from Commentators
Leonardo Vitell when the COL
lection basket was passed.
Anxiously he leaned toward the
member of his party and told
him of his plight.
Grandi had to borrow again
for the second collection.
He had been credited with
$40 tips to chauffeurs who
piloted him about Washing
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

Rate reductions on round "trip
tickets between Indianapolis and
other principal points on their sys-
TEN we're announced today by Off
Gals of the Greyhound bus. lines.
The fares amount to a little more
than the one-way price, officials say.
Tickets are good for a seven-day re-
turn limit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
FOUR HURT IN FIGHTS
Negroes Shot and Stabbed During
Weekend BrawIS.

Negroes Shot and Stabbed During
Weekend BrawlS.
Fights Sunday resulted in injuries
to four Negroes.
William Talley, 80, of 1861 North
Senate avenue, was shot in the leg
during battle with Roy Gregory,
q, of 341 Darnell street Both are
held by police on a series of charges.
Police are probing a fight in
which Mack Scears, $685. Cotton
street, was cut and his left arm
broken. He is held on a vagrancy
county.
AssailantS of Major Paris, 26, of
1854 Pierson street, and Richard
Haynes, 80, of 422 Blake street, are
sought by police. Both men were
cut severely in brawls.