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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
GUARD
IS LAUDED BY
ARMY GENERAL
Nolan COmmends Regi-
ment For Morale, Esprit
And Devotion
STOVER GETS LETTER

VHigh praise of the morale. eff
cheney and devotion to duty of the
officers and men of the Delaware
National Guard was expressed re-
Gently by Major General Dennis g..
Nolan, commanding the Second
Corps Area, U. S. Army, in an Off
cial communication to Major Weller
E. Slower. the Adjutant General of
Delaware.
General Nolan wrote:
81 have noted with great pleasure
the following statement of the Fed
eral Inspector in the annual armory
inspection report of the 19Sth Coast
Artillery (AA) Delaware National
Guard, which reads as follows:
During the past year the regi-
ment has made marked progress in
attendance, morale, discipline, train
ing and conduct of officers and nom
commissioned officers schools = = -
ALSO the following extract from
the armory inspection report of
Battery "a" 261st Coast Artillery,
Delaware National Guard: This is
an excellent unit with unusually
good personnel throughout
'It is also gratifying to note that
every officer and enlisted man OF
the entire Delaware National Guard
was present at the annual armory
inspection, 1882, a marked improve
ment over previous years, and a
record of which you and every mem
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
SENATE PASSES and HOOVER
SIGNS BTGREVENUE MEASURE
WHICH NOW BECOMES ALAW
Majority Of NelO Rates, Ercises, Tariffs And Stamp
Taxes VIII Go In Effect June 2I; High Income Levy
ADpLicabLe To 1882 Earnings

The new revenue bill is law, bOls-
tering the credit of the government
with the greatest range of taxes
ever imposed by this country eX-
cept during war.
With Spartan absence of cere-
mony, President Hoover transform
ed this giant legislation into stat
ute by affixing his signature Mon
day evening in the presence only
of a secretary, less than two hours
after the final legislative step had
been taken by the Senate.
The majority of the new rates,
excuses, tariffs, and stamp taxes
will go into effect in fifteen days,
or on June 81. The treasury will
Immediately prepare for their col
lection. The new, high income rates
are applicable to the earnings of
the current calendar year and will
be payable on next years returns.
The tax law is to pour $1,11S,-
500, 900 into the treasury during the
fiscal year which begins July l,
and thus restore the national finan-
ces to a cash basis-pay as you go
and no more borrowing aiding to
restore the country's economic life
to its normal great vigor.
It's companion measure, the ma
tional economy program, by which
of the Government
are to be cut to a point equalling
the revenue, is being driven for
ward to completion by the Senate.
The Senate had laid this economy
bill aside Monday to give final ap-
proval to the tax bill, amended in
the conference compromise which
led to acceptance of its rates by
the House last Saturday. There
was a stern fight before this last
legislative step was completed,
centered almost entirely on one
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x, that on electric power.

tax, that on electric power.
More than 80 Senators sought to
have the whole bill sent out to the
conferees again because these had
laid the electric tax on the con-
sumer's monthly bill and extended
it to include municipal power sys-
tens. But an unyielding majority
would not be balked of the major
objective, to get the bill done inn
mediately and put to an end the
lOng-drawn out battling and alter
ing of rates, and the resulting fears
and hesitation of the business and
industry affected by the new tax
burden.
The bill went through 46 to S5.
The opponents were IL Republi-
cans, mostly from the Independent
wing, 23 Democrats and the one
Farmer Labor member.
OF the new laws total expected
yield, the excise taxes ranging
from electric power to cOsmestics,
from automobiles to candy, are to
bring in 100000.
Miscellaneous taxes, which in
clude charges on telephone and
telegraph messages, admission tic
kets, oil pipe lines, safe deposit
boxes, bank checks and boats, are
counted on for $152,000,0O0.
From income taxes, personal and
with many administra-
tive changes reducing possible Ge-
total of $299, 100000 is
to be drawn.
Postal rate increases, including
letter postage are esti-
mated at $16O,OOO,OOO. Stamp taxes
on bond and stock issues, and on
transfers. futures and conveyauces
are listed at $45,500,000.
Gift taxes, the four tariffs on coal,
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
DUPONT HEADS
VETS DRIVE FOR
REPEAL PLANKS
Will Seek To Have Both
Parties To Adopt State
Control Stand
WILL GO TO CHICAGO
Council Representing An
ii PrOhibitiOnists To In
Vite ROckefeller's Aid

A co-ordinated fight for prohibition
repeal was outlined on Tuesday
when representative of anti-prohi
bition organizations claiming 2,50O,
900 members banded together in the
United Repeal Council"
Pierre S. dupont, of the Associa-
tiOn Against the Prohibition Amend
ment, was elected chairman of the
council. Mrs. Charles Fl. Sabin, head
of the WOmen's Organization for Ma
tiOnal Prohibition. Reform, was
chosen Vice-chairman.
Support for their efforts to OBJ
tain incorporation of repeal planks
in the platforms of both major pO-
litical parties will be sought. the
council indicated, from Mr. and Mrs.
John ID. Rockefeller, Jr. Mr.. Rookie
feller on Monday reversed lifelong
battle to repeal the Eighteenth
Amendment.
While the council made no official
announcement regarding an invita-
tion to the ROckefellers, William H.
StaytOn, of Smyrna, Del, founder of
the Association Against the PrOhi-
bitiOn Amendment, said if it docs
not vote to involve him in l will
myself" Mrs. Charles Fl. Sabin,
head of the Womens Organization
for National Prohibition Reform, re-
sponded that 81 certainly shall ask
Mrs. Rockefeller"
StaytOn said Rockefeller some time
ago took under advisement an invi-
tation to take an active part in the
campaign against prohibition.
Members of the council, which in
addition to the organizations repre-
scented by Mrs Sabin and StaytOn
include the Republican citizens COM
mittee, the voluntary committee of
lawyers and the crusaders, will at
tend "a mass meeting in Chicago on
June 13. the day before the opening
of the Republican National Conven-
tiOn.
Present at the meeting were Mr..
DUPONT, Mrs. Sabin, Mr.. StaytOn,
Henry l.. CurTan, former Commits
sioner of immigration at the port
of New York and president of the
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DELAWARE GIVES
BOUNDARY DATA
IN THE DISPUTE
Believes Evidence Found
In England Show Duke OF
York Grant Is Authentic.
ARGUMENT IN FALL

William l.. Rawls, of Baltimore,
special master in the boundary dis
pute between the states of Delaware
and New Jersey, set September II as
the date for the argument by cOun-
sci on the dispute, after the hearing
on Monday. The place for the hear
ing of the argument was not set.
Counsel are to exchange briefs on
August 16.
After the arguments are heard, Mr..
Rawls will prepare his report and
recommendations for presentation to
the Supreme Court.
The hearing Monday was devoted
to the presentation of evidence which
the attorneys for Delaware believe
tend to prove the authenticity of the
grant issued to the Duke of York by
King Charles IL covering land with
in the 12-mile circle around New
Castle. The evidence was obtained
by Clarence A. Southerland, special
deputy attorney general, and Dudley
C. Lunt on a recent trip to England.
They believe it will prove that the
grant was valid and never surren-
dered New Jersey has contended
that the grant was surrendered for
one covering larger territory but
that a new grant was never issued.
Mr.. SOutherland, Mr.. Lunt, Attor-
ney General Satterthwaite and Her
bert H. Ward, Jr., represented Della
ware.
Deputy Attorney General Duane
of New Jersey, prior to the
opening of the hearing offered many
exhibits in the dispute bringing the
total of that states exhibits to
1885. Delaware's exhibits total about
1000.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
STATE HEALTH
BOARD PLANS TO
AID CHILDREN
Will Examine AS Large A
Number OF School Be-
ginnerS AS Possible
START NEXT WEEK

DR.. A. C. JOst, executive secre-
tary of the State Board of Health,
has announced a plan whereby
young children who will begin
school next September will be ex-
amined for any defects in health
that they may be afflicted with. The
health authorities are endeavoring
to examine as large a number Of
the children, who are entering
school for the first time next fall as
can be brought to the examination
points. In this work they are CO.
operating with the Parent-Teacher
Associations or any other organiza-
tions interested in child welfare.
The work will be started next Mon
day. A complete schedule for the
month of June follows:
June 13-
8 to 10:30 a. m.-MillsbOro, white.
10:30 to IL a. m.-Millsboro, col
ored.
l to 3 p. m.-Stockley.
June IA
9 to l Ga. m.-Georgetown, white,
at Health Center.
Toto u a. m.-Georgetown, col
ored
1 to 2:30 p. m.-Ellendale, white.
2:30 to 4 p. m.-Ellendale, col
ored.
June IS
9 to 10 a. m.-Seaford, white.
10 to 12 a. m.-Blades.
to 2:3O p. m.-Concord, white.
2:S0 to p. m.-Concord, colored.
June 16-
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
FATAL TO
BRIDGEVILLE MAN
Henry Owens, Proprietor OF Hotel
OrlOle, Dies In Readlng

Fatally injured in an accident in
Reading, Pa, Henry Owens, about 20
years old, proprietor of the Hotel
Oriole, of BridgeVille, Delaware, died
Friday night in a Reading hospital.
The body was removed to Bridgeville
Saturday night, and the funeral was
from his late home Monday after
noon.
Miss Mary Morris, SS, a clerk at
the Hotel OriOle, who was with Mr..
Owens, and who was seriously in
jured, is reported as being in critical
condition in the Jefferson Hospital
in Philadelphia, to which she was
removed from the Reading hospital.
Owens and Miss Morris were injured
in the accident about one month ago,
when the automobile driven by Miss
Morris colllded with an oil truck in
Mr.. Owens was councilman in
for about II years and is
one of the leading citizens. He and
the clerk of his hotel had been' to
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
BONUS MARCHERS
ANDSTATEPOLICE
IN NEAR BATTLE
Shell-ShOcked Man Defies
Captain Henry C. Ray
OF The State Police
ON TO WASHINGTON

A fight between members of the
State Police and a contingent of the
Bonus Army" from Philadelphia,
was narrowly averted Monday af-
ternoOn near the Pennsylvania Del
aware line, when veterans on their
way to Washington were passing
practically the entire day.
The trouble arose when a man
who announced himself as leader of
a group of between so and 60 men,
defied an order of the State Police
about their manner in marching
through Delaware and shouted "On
to Washington, Well Take Della
ware!"
Throughout the day, members of
the State Police were stationed at
the State line to intercept all trucks
in which veterans were being given
a free ride, to learn whether the
drivers intended to take them
through the State. The order was is
sued earlier in the day by Superin-
tendent G. c. Reynolds and Captain
Harry C. Ray in order that no vet
Grams would be stranded in Della
ware.
When one truck containing be-
tween so and 60 men, was stopped
near Linwood. just over the State
line and the driver discovered that
he would not be taking the march
ers on the right route, he let them
out.
The men began marching on to-
ward Delaware and were stopped
at the State line, where members
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
POSTAL RULES
EXPLAINED BY
POSTMASTER
Says No Mail Can Be De-
livered From POstOffice
To Carrier Patrons
COOPERATION ASKED

In order that the patrons of the
Milford postoffice may be fully in
formed relative to the curtailed serv-
ice on Saturday afternoons and hOli-
days, Postmaster Murphy has issued
the following statements:
There will be no money order bust
ness transacted after IL o'clock
(noon) on Saturdays.
No regular delivery of mail will be
made to the residential section Of
the city after II O'Clock (noon) on
Saturdays, except parcel post pack
ages.
Regular business section deliveries
will be made on all days except Sun
days and holidays.
Due to the fact that a majority of
the employees are relieved from
duty at noon on Saturdays and on
holidays and the mail intended for
delivery by city carriers is not rout-
ed, there will be no delivery of this
mail through the windows of the
postoffice. Employees are. not au-
thorized to make any exception to
this rule and patrons may avoid en-
barrassment to themselves and the
employees as well by refraining from
requests for this service.
Special Delivery service is avail
able on all days except Sunday to
patrons residing within one mile of
the postoffice and all special deliv-
cry mail will be delivered as soon as
received at the postoffice.
Numerous requests have been
made for later dispatch of mail in
the evening and arrangements have
been made for the acceptance up to
z p. m. of first-class, special delivery
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
PAGEANT TO Be
GIVEN AT DOVER
CELEBRATION
Over 500 Participants In
Dover Exercises On
June 80
IN EIGHT EPISODES

Close to 500 persons will partici-
pate in the pageant which will be
presented on the grounds of the
State House, in Dover, on Thursday
afternoon, June 30, at 2 o'clock, un-
der the auspices of the Delaware
George Washington Bicentennial
Commission, of which former Gov.
Robert p. Robinson is the chairman.
The pageant will be in eight episodes
and will depict the services of Geo.
Washington to his country.
Mrs. Edith Robertson BOhn, of the
English department at the Whining
ton high school, and former dramatic
coach there, has written and is di
recting the production. She is be-
ing assisted by Miss Mary McClos
key, who is in charge of the dance,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon, who is ar
ranging the musical numbers.
The eight parts are as follows:
An Indian episode depicting the
early life and experiences of George
Washington, to be enacted by a group
of Boy Scouts.
An episode symbolic of War VS..
Peace, in which sixty dancing girls
from the Leaders Corps at the Will
mingtOn high school will participate.
Washington taking command of
the Continental Army at Cambridge
will be the third episode and will be
enacted by soldiers from Fort du
POnt.
The painting of Stanley Arthurs,
hanging in the State senate chamber
will come to life in the fourth epi-
sOde. 1t pOrtrays the Delaware
troops marching to war under COM
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NO FIXED NUMBER
OF STATE ARRESTS
Supt. Reynolds Says Police Are Not
So Regulated

That State Police make no require
ment of any kind of members of this
force concerning the number of ar
rests they are supposed to make in
any given period, was the statement
emphatically made by Captain c. c.
Reynolds, commanding officer of the
department, this week. His state
ment was made in answer to a COM
plant received in a letter. to the
editor of a Wilmington newspaper
which claimed that the State Police
were required to make three arrests
each week and that this requirement
frequently caused injustice to resi-
dents of Delaware who were inno-
cent of charges for which they were
arrested.
1T would be poor policy" said
Supt. Reynolds, for this department
to fix any number of arrests which
our policemen are required to make.
I'VE do encourage the members of
the force to increase the number of
reports which they turn in of repri-
mands which they have made con-
cerning violations of law, merely as
one way in which we may determine
the activity of the members of the
department.
However, we make no require
ments of any kind on the members
of the force in relation to the num-
Der of arrests which they are sup
posed to make at any time. Our po-
licemen understand that if they en-
counter violation of law, except in
relation to minor violations where
reprimand seems to serve the pur-
pose i'm first offenses, they are to ar
rest violators and that is as far as
we go or would care to CO."
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
Richard r. Paul, OF The
American Legion Ad-
dresses Posts In SUSSEX
County.
Declares Preparedness Is
Best War Preventative;
Urges Adequate Army
And Navy.

That most of the men who are
marching on Washington in the
Bonus Army" are being urged on
by Communists and that many of
them are Communists, was the as
sertion of Richard f. Paul, of Bos-
ton, National Vice Commander of
the American Legion at a meeting
of Representatives of the Sussex
County American Legion Posts at
Georgetown Monday night. In order
to keep his engagement at George
town, Mr.. Paul flew from Boston to
New York city, took a train there
for Wilmington and was met in Will
mingtOn and brought to Georgetown
by Colonel Thomas w. Miller.
John Fisher, Commander of Sus-
sex Post No. 8, of Milton, opened the
meeting and introduced State Com
mander H. H. Hanson who express
ed his pleasure over the visit of the
national vice commander. He in turn
introduced Colonel Miller who told
of the speaker having flown a por-
ton of the distance in order to
reach Georgetown.
National Vice Commander Paul
first paid a compliment to Colonel
Miller as the first president of Ffdac
and told what that organization had
done. Each man, he declared, was
taught to be loyal to his own coun-
try and to observe the laws of other
countries in which they might be.
1t was then that he told of the Com
munists using the former soldiers
to further their purposes. He told
of a meeting of 500 former service
men in Boston to make arrange
ments to march to Washington. Two
policemen, who are Legionnaires,
talked to them and out of the 500
present but nine marched to Wash
ingtOn. The former service men, he
said, who took part in this Bonus
Army" plan, were being used by the
Communists to pull their chestnuts
out of the fire.
The speaker said if the League of
Nations could abolish war it would
be a good organization to belong to-,
but he did not feel that it could.
The best way to prevent war, he de-
clared, was to be prepared for it.
This country should maintain a pro-
per army and navy but, while ready
to fight for his country, it is the du-
ty of the Legionnaire to work for
peace. He praised General Leonard
Wood for having established Platts-
burg Camp where so many young
men were trained to be good officers.
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
WELFARE HOME
CONTRACT SOON
TOBEAWARDED
Philadelphia Firms Bid
Of S314,65O E6west To
Be Submitted
ESTIMATES FROM Is
Institution Will Be LOcat-
ed Just South OF Smyrna
On Lake Como

The contract for the construction
of the new Delaware State Welfare
Home, to be erected near Smyrna
this summer, will be awarded as soon
after June Is, as possible, it was
stated, following the opening of the
bids last Wednesday afternoon by
the State Welfare Commission.
Fifteen bids, five of them submit
ted by Wilmington contractors, were
received. The bids were opened at
the Offices of Massena and du Pont.
921 Market street, Wilmington, arch
itects for the new home.
William Steel and Sons, Philadel-
phia, submitted the lowest bid at
$314,65O. The next lowest was sub
mitted by f. V. Warren Company, of
Philadelphia, $3l5,5l0. Other bid
ders are: J. A. Bader and Company,
Wilmington, $32O,171; John N. Gill
Construction Company, Philadelphia
$325,42O; Frainie Brothers, Balti-
more, $685. Philip Lange, Aubu-
don, N. j., $332,726; Northeastern
Construction Company, Baltimore,
$342, 2,600 Wark Company, Philadel-
phia, $343. $50; William M. Francis
Company, Wilmington, SS4S,OOO;
Henry f. Eaton, Inc, Philadelphia,
$349,OO0: Townsend, Schroeder and
Wood, Philadelphia, $352,606; A. L.
Lauritsen and Company, Whining
ton, S360,OO0: Skinker and Garrett,
Washington. $S66,7S2; Cantera Con
struct;On Company, Wilmington,
1919, ,361; John e. Healy and Sons,
Wilmington, $3S1,S10.
A total of 100000 was apprOpriat-
ed by the Delaware State Legisla-
ture, at the last session, for the con-
struction of the State Welfare Home.
It is one of the largest building pro-
in the second episode will take part
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PLAN YACHT BASIN
In LEWES CANAL
Would Accommodate Large Number
OF Small Craft When Necessary

Information has been received at
Lewes that Colonel Earl |. Brown,
United States district engineer, has
recommended that the site of the
proposed inlet from Delaware Bay
to the Lewes and RehobOth canal be
located between the South street
boulevard TO the Bay Shore and the
Pennsylvania Railroad right of way.
The blue print calls for an en-
trance from the bay 200 feet wide
in the channel and gradually WIDEN
ing to width of 1000 feet at the ca
nal, the depth to be II feet at mean
low water.
1t will be necessary for Lewes to
arrange for all rights of way, piers
and bridges. A bridge for traffic to
and from the Cape Helopen side of
the canal will be provided south of
the railroad bridge.
There is a general feeling at Lewes
that the engineers office could not
have adopted a layout for this pro-
ject which would give greater prom
Use for water traffic at this end of
the State than this recommended by
Colonel Brown. With a basin prac-
tically ! 900 feet in width, approach
ed by a 12-foOt channel, haven
for yachts, small boats, and fishing
schoOners will be afforded that will
attract them i'll great numbers to
this side of the bay.
Congressman Robert G. Houston,
of Georgetown, through whose eff
forts fund was appropriated by the
United States government for the
channel in Delaware Bay which as
yet has not been used, will endeav-
or to have part of this fund made
available for the proposed new inlet,
it is understood.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
AIDBYLOTTERYR RENDERED
DEL. COLLEGE CENTURYAGC
Churches And Other Institutions In This State As
Wei As Other States Were Founded And Supported
By A Scheme That Today Is UnIGIOfM.

to raise $4,000 by means of lot
terry for the establishment of New
ark College, as Delaware College
was then called.
In 1921 an act was passed which
provided that "the proprietors of all
steamboats,, stage coaches, and
coaches belonging in the State of
Delaware and employed in convey
ing or transporting passengers for
hire. shall be taxed to support the
Newark College. This tax was re-
pealed the following year, but by
1924 sufficient money had been rails
ed by the lotteries and this trans
portation tax to be invested in
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COMMUNISTS
SEEN BACK OF
*BONUS ARMY''
SUSSEX PEACE CLERK
ISSUING STATE LICENSES

Clerk of the Peace Frank w.
Lawson is busily engaged in
issuing State licenses to mer-
chants, brokers and manufac-
turers. All licenses for the
fiscal period of June l, 1881 to
June l. 1882, expired Wednes-
day, June l.
Those who wait to obtain
their licenses until July will
have to pay a penalty of 5 per
cent. During August the pen
atty will be Is per cent and
September 25 per cent. After
September they are liable to
indictment at the October term
of Court of General Sessions.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10

In view of the current agitation
against lotteries-mOre popularity
known as the numbers" game-it is
interesting to recall that Delaware
over a hundred years ago sanction
ed such means of raising money
to help support Delaware College.
Not only was the college thus aid
ed financially but also churches and
other institutions in this State,
writes Leon De Valinger. Jr., as
sistant State archivist in the June
issue of the University of Delaware
Alumni News which has just been
issued. He reveals that on January
Is, 1918, the General Assembly
passed an act enabling the trustees
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, June l, To Tues
day, June Z, Inclusive

Charles j. Holzmueller, local
weather recorder, reports the fol-
lowing weather conditions in Mil
ford, from Wednesday, June /, to
Tuesday June Z, inclusive:
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-10
7 tIIIpbTdLUTt hdIU
Max. Min. fall

Total Rainfall ...... .95
The following winds and cOndi-
tions prevailed during the same
period: