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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
HOLIDAY TRAVEL
ONSTATE ROADS
TAKESBIG DROP
Decrease Of 5,557 Re-
corded Compared To
Last May 30
DEPRESSION CAUSE
19,499 Autos Counted At
Station No. 2, Monday,
25,O56 Passed In 1881

Evidence that the business depres-
sion has affected motorists using the
State roads was manifest on Mon
day when a check kept from noon
until midnight by members of the
State Police, showed that for the II
hours a total of 19,499 cars passed
Station No. 2. This is a decrease of
5,557 from May 30. 1881. when a
total of 25,O56 cars passed the sta
ton
The tabdlation of the State Police
showed that 11,76S passed on the
DUPONT Boulevard during the r.
hour period. while 1871 motorists
travelled the Glasgow road.
to s p. VI. Busiest Hour
The busiest hours during the day
we're between Z and o'clock last
Monday night, when 1 sos cars pass
ed on the DUPONT Boulevard, and be-
tween 8 and 9 o'clock on the Glas-
gov road, when it was used by 952
motorists.
The complete tabulation was as
follows: dupont Boulevard, noon to
1 o'clock. 566; 1 to 2 o'clock, 583; 2
to o'clock, $50; to 4 o'clock, 767;
4 to 5 o'clock. 912; to o'clock
1882; to Z o'clock, 134S; to 8
o'clock, 1906; to 8 o'clock, 1874; 8
to 10 o'clock 1870; 10 to IL o'clock,
931; IL o'clock to midnight, 900.
The Glasgow road: Noon to 1
o'clock, 1896; to o'clock. 5O2; 2 to
8 o'clock, 49O; to o'clock, 691;
to 5 o'clock. 1872; to o'clock, 700;
6 to 7 o'clock, 9O6: to 8 o'clock,
500; to o'clock, 952; to 10
o'clock, 682; 10 to II o'clock, 525; IL
o'clock to midnight. 355.
The belief was expressed by the
police that the big decrease in the
number of motorists using the roads,
this year. compared with last Me-
mortal Day, is due to the fact that
many persons have put their cars
into garages and use them only for
business purposes because of finan-
cial conditions.
Railroad officials also reported the
number using the railroads was con-
siderably less than that of last year.
The majority of those who purchased
tickets for seashOre and other re-
sorts, railroad attendants said, were
looking for bargain excursion tick
cts.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
DELAWARE-N. ].
BOUNDARY WAR
NEARING CLOSE
Fix June 6 AS Date For
Final Hearing On The
Dispute
TO SUBMIT EXHIBITS
Hearings Will Be Brought
To Close In Wilmington
This Month
TO SUBMIT EXHIBITS

Hearings in the boundary dispute
between Delaware and New Jersey
will be brought to a close in Will
mington early this month.
Attorney General Reuben Satter-
thwaite, Jr., said that Monday, June
6, has been fixed as the date for pre-
sentation of documentary evidence
on behalf of Delaware.
William l.. Rawls, of Baltimore.
special master appointed to hear the
dispute by the U. S. Supreme Court,
will come TO Wilmington for the
hearings. Testimony has been
heard in the dispute over a period
of a year and half.
1t is possible that all evidence,
both oral and documentary, will be
submitted by time of adjournment on
June 6. If New Jersey decides to
rebut some of the evidence to be
submitted it is likely that the master
will return to Wilmington later the
same week
Mr.. Satterthwaite said that Della
ware will submit between twenty and
thirty printed exhibits, some of them
sixty pages in length and compris-
ing evidence obtained for the State
by Clarence A. Switzerland Dudley
c. Lunt and George n Davis, attor-
neys, in their Investigations in Eng
land. The three attorneys have been
associated with Mr.. Satterthwaite in
presentation of Delaware's case.
The dispute involves the boundary
line of the two states in the Della
ware river and Delaware bay.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
SEN. JOHN TOWNSEND
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
War Governor Was 81 Years OF Age
On Tuesday

United States Senator John G..
Townsend, Jr., of Selbyville, former
Governor of Delaware, and prOmi-
nent in business affairs, was 81
years old on Tuesday. He was at the
University of Delaware Tuesday
morning to present medals to the
Reserve officers Training Corps.
Senator Townsend, son of John
G. and Meredith (Dukes) Townsend,
was born in Worcester county, Md,
near Bishopville. on May 81, 1871.
He was educated in the schools of
his native district. In December,
1896, he moved to Selbyville and en-
gagged in the lumber and timber bus
mess. He has been engaged in this
business since that time, as well as
operating large apple and peach or
chards and canning plants. He SER
we'd as a member of the lower house
of the Delaware Legislature, 1901
1908.
He served on the staffs of three
Preston Lea, S. S. Pen
newill and Charles r. Miller.
He was Delaware's wartime gov
ernor, and at the same time was
member of the Delaware State and
Sussex County Highway Commits
sions.
In 1880 he was elected United
States Senator for the six-year term.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
MRS. ". H. BEACON
ONCE MORE HEADS
WOM MEN
WiImingtOnian Is Chosen
For Second Term AS Fed
Grafton President
THE OLDEST MOTHER
Mrs. Margaret West, Age
1O2, Of Georgetown Is
Awarded Prize

Mrs. William H. Beacon, of Will
mington. was elected president of
the State Federation of Women's
Club at the closing session of the
thirty-fifth annual meeting held at
Rehoboth on Friday. Mrs. Beacon
is a we'll known club woman of the
State and had served as president of
the Federation from 1928 to 1880.
She also is a director of the Della
ware Safety Council, secretary of the
Prisoners Aid Society of Delaware
and is interested in many other civic
organizations. She is a member, of
the Wilmington New Century Club.
Other officers elected were: New
Castle county vice-president, Mrs.
Herbert S. Drew. of Wilmington;
Kent county vice-president, Miss
Matte Townsend, of Wyoming; Sus-
sex county vice-president, Mrs. R.
B. Hopkins, of Milton; recording sec
retary, Mrs. George A. Pedrick, New
Castle: auditor, Miss Carolina
Morse, Rising Sun; trustees, Mrs.
John D. McCabe. of RehobOth; Mrs.
Edmund M. Barsham, Wilmington;
Mrs. Robert E. Lewis, Dover.
DR.. NJ Dalema Draper, of Milford,
the retiring president, presided over
the session.
Among the resolutions adopted was
one encouraging a nationwide pro-
gram for the better homes move
ment; cooperation with the national
kindergarten association to encOur-
age the enactment of kindergarten
laws providing school for the some
four million American children be-
tween the ages of and 6; petition
ing the Legislature for continuance
of appropriation for Delaware kin
dergartens; abolish cruel traps for
fur-bearing animals; state fund for
pensions for retired school teachers;
and approval of the coordination of
State welfare association and State
The Federation approved the en-
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
STATE R. O.'U. A. M.
TO VISIT CAPITAL
Pilgrimage To Washington Is Plan
ned For Next Saturday

The several councils of the Junior
Order United American Mechanics
of the State are planning to attend
the national celebration of the BIZ
centennial of the birth of George
Washington to be held at Washing
ton, D. c., on June 4. The Delaware
delegation will be headed by J.,
Mark Sweeten, State councillor. J..
Ralph Jefferson, of Smyrna, L. J..
Matthews, of Milford, and Frank
Siegrist. of Wilmington, all officers
of the State Council.
An impressive program that will
last the entire day has been ar
ranged b ythe National Council of
the order, including a number of
pilgrimages to the tomb of the I'm
known Soldier and other points of
interest. The feature of the celebra-
ton will be a parade up Pennsyl-
vania avenue to the Capitol.
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
WASHINGTON COLLEGE
HONOR DELAWAREANS
Harry V. HOlIaway, John Bassett
Moore and Jacobs Receive Degrees

At the annual commencement cere-
monies at Washington College at
Chestertown, Md, yesterday, June 2.
1882, honorary degrees were con-
fered upon three prominent persons
of Delaware and the German Ambas-
sador.
Harry V. Holloway received the
honorary degree of doctor of laws;
the same degree was conferred on
him by the University of Pennsyl-
vania in 1914. He was born at Sell
byville, Del, in 1875. and graduated
from Washington College in 1895, and
received his master of arts degree
1898.
The same degree was given Baron
Friedrich w. Won Prittwitz und CAT
from, German Ambassador to the
United States, who delivered the ad-
dress to the graduating class. and
to John Bassett Moore. native of
Smyrna, Del. author and former
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
NEW BRIDGE FOR
FARM H URS 7
Structure viii Carry Dual Highway
Over Pennsylvania Railroad Line

Bids for the construction of new
bridge spanning the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company lines at Farm
hurst to carry the new dual high
way will be asked for within the
next few weeks. 1t is estimated the
bridge will cost 100000. 1t will be
of concrete and steel.
A. G. Livington, bridge engineer,
State Highway Department, reports
that four bridges have been COM
pleted by the State Highway De-
partment, and are ready for the con-
crete roadways when the contracts
are let.
One of these bridges is on the
Washington street extension. north
of Wilmington. over the ShellpOt
creek. This bridge was designed and
constructed with the purpose of
having it harmonize with park pro-
jected for that section. 1t is con-
structed of ashlar masonry. con-
crete. faced with unfinished stone,
carefully painted.
Another bridge is over Drawers
creek. one and one-half miles north
of Odessa. 1t is 12O feet long and
has, underneath, pilings driven to
the distance of 20 feet, the equiva-
lent to a ten story building. The
piles are each IS inches square.
The third bridge is over the APP
poquinimink creek. two miles south
of Odessa. and is 40 feet long. At
Blackbird. 500 feet north of the
town. there is a new type of arch
bridge. using less concrete without
loss of strength.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
RULE WILFUL
NEGLIGENCE IN
FATAL Crash
DEL. SENATORS MAY
MISS CONVENTION

Should Congress still be in
session when the Republican
National Convention opens in
Chicago in two weeks, it is
likely that Senator Daniel o.
Hastings and Senator John G.
Townsend, Jr., two of the Del
aware delegates, will be un-
able to attend the convention.
1t appears probable that if
Congress can not adjourn,
Judge John F. Lynn will go to
the convention as alternate to
Senator Hastings and Frank c.
Hurley, of Seaford, would go as
alternate to Senator Town
send.
Sixteen senators and as
many more representatives
have been chosen as delegates
to the national convention.
Senator Fess. of Ohio, who
will have charge of the con-
vention as party chairman. has
been quoted as saying that he
and Senator Dickinson, of
Iowa, the keynoter, will have
to go to the convention regard
less of whether Congress is in
session or adjourns. Repre-
sentative Smell, of New York.
must be there to take over the
permanent Craftsmanship when
Dickinson's reign ends.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
KENT ASSESSMENT
IS $29,385,4
This Is S1,228,5OO Less Than The
Total For Year Closed

The Kent County Board of Assess
ment having completed the assess
ment of real estate and personal
property for the ten districts of
Kent County have submitted the
same to the Levy Court which has
been approved by the court as fol-
lows:
First district-1767 Capitations;
real estate assessment, $S,1S5,Q6O;
personal property assessment, $77,-
49O Total $3,212,55O.
Second - 1875 Capitations; real
estate, $S,716,54O; personal, S1O1,-
$50. Total $9,81769O.
Third - Capitations 1875; real
estate $2.239,93O; personal, $1S1,69O
Total, $2,371,62O.
Fourth - Capitations, 117S; real
estate. $1,974,99O; personal, $96,56O.
Total, $1,974,55O.
Fifth - Capitations, 2512; real
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
FIVE WILMINGTONIANS
FINED AT GEORGETOWN
Men Had Gone TO Slaughter Beach
For Holiday

Several Wilmingtonians who caus-
ed annoyance at Slaughter Beach, on
Saturday, were arrested by State PO-
Iiceman G. K. Lynch and Irving Vie
mott. They were all taken before
Magistrate Mustard, of Georgetown,
for trial.
Paul White, William H. Armstrong.
Harry Lowrey and Thomas Filings
worth were each fined $5 and costs
for disorderly conduct White was
fined SO and costs for allowing an
unregistered driver to drive his car
and William J. Parsons. also of Will
mington, was fined 800 and costs
on a charge of driving car while
he was drunk and $40 and costs for
driving car without a license. In
default of the fines he was commit
ted to Sussex county jail for 65 days.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
Verdict By Court Settles
Long Disputed Rhodes
Coleman Case
DEFENDANT MUST
PAY $1,000 DAMAGES
Accidents Occurred Near
Milford April 10 Of
Last Year

Chief Justice Pennewil1 and
Judges Harrington and Richards, in
Superior Court on Tuesday, return
ed verdict of wilful negligence,
carrying with it a provision TO The
payment of $4,000 damages against
Mrs Mary Rhodes of Wilmington,
in the action brought against her by
Charles w. Coleman.
The case grew out of an automo-
bile accident near Milford on April
10, 1881 in which Mr.. Coleman's wife
was fatally injured. It was heard at
the March term of Court when the
court ruled the law relating to
damages for injuries or death in au-
tomobile accidents when the victim
was a free passenger was unconsti-
tutional.
The case on Tuesday was heard
on facts, the attorneys interested,
w. w. Knowles and William Potter,
having agreed On a stipulation pro-
viding for damages of $2,500 if the
court ruled gross negligence and
$4,000 if wilful negligence was
shown on the part of the defend
ant.
Mrs. Amelia Reiustle of Philadel-
phia, testified that Mrs. Rhodes
passed her car which she was driv-
ing at a rate of 35 miles an hour
and then cut ahead of her. The car
operated by the defendant, the wit
ness said crashed down an embank-
ment and struck a telegraph pole,
tearing off the top and injuring Mrs.
Coleman, who later died.
Mrs. Reustle said she asked Mrs.
Rhodes, what she was trying to do
and she replied "I don't know"
Alice Coleman, aged 19, daughter
of the deceased, said she heard her
mother caution Mrs. Rhodes to drive
carefully before they left home,
when the defendant said they should
make their destination Georgetown
in an hour or an hour and half.
Five times while driving down the
roadway, the girl said her mother
warned the defendant to drive more
slowly.
The child said that Mrs. Rhodes,
as she passed the Reustle car, op-
ened the door. holding onto the
wheel with one hand and looked out,
when her mother shouted, MARY.
grab the wheel"
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
LEGIONNAIRES TO HEAR
VICE COMMANDER PAUL
Meeting At Georgetown Next Mon
day For Sussex County Veterans

National Vice Commander Richard
F. Paul of the American Legion of
Boston. Mass, will visit Delaware on
Monday, June 6, according to the
announcement made by Colonel
Thomas w. Miller, of Wilmington,
chairman of the Delaware Depart
ment Foreign Relations and Dis
tinguished Guests Committee. Mr..
Paul is the National Vice Comman-
der in whose area Delaware Is To-
Gated. The purpose of his visit.
which has been authorized by Ma
tional Headquarters at Indianapolis,
Indiana, is to address the combined
Sussex County Posts of the Alneli-
can Legion in the Court House at
Georgetown on Monday evening,
June 6, at 1880. Eastern Standard
Time. The purpose of the joint
posts meeting is in furtherance Of
the Legion's policy to have meet
ing annually at which time the sub
ject of Foreign Relations and the
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
LONG ISLAND POTATO
MEN WANT VISITORS
Tour OF World Famous Potato Dis
trict Will Be Held This Month

Long Island potato growers invite
potato growers in other sections to
attend their two day potato conven-
ton and tour on June % and %.
The Long Island potato tour is
becoming famous throughout the
country as a big attraction for those
interested i'm growing and handling
potatoes, this years event being its
18th edition. Features of this years
tour and convention will be visits
to horseless potato farms, inspection
of spraying and fertilizer tests, Wis
its to potato stOrages, and talks by
farmers and scientists on the varl-
Gus phases of spud growing. Last
but not least will be a large exhibl-
ton and demonstration of potato
machinery which will include every
thing from tractor and truck spray
ers to electric seed cutters and four
row tractor cultivators.
Usually one thinks of millianaire
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
BUCK IN
FIRST PLANE RIDE

Governor c. Douglass Buck
enjoyed his first airplane ride
last Thursday-a trip from
Washington to Bellanca Field.
With the Governor, were his
wife and their two children.
DOTcas Buck, Z, and Clayton
Douglass Buck, Jr., 8. The
children especially were thrill
ed with the experience. The
trip took an hours time.
Governor Buck and his fam
lily went to Washington on
Tuesday morning, remaining
there until early Thursday
evening. While in Washing
ton, Governor Buck visited
Vice-President Charles Curtis.
Governor Buck presided at a
political meeting addressed by
Vice-President Curtis in Will
mingtOn about a year and a
half ago.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
Find Cells Of ancient Kent Jail
In Dover; Bones Of Prisoner,
Records ShOLU That On Saturday Night, October N
1927 The Jail Was Set Afre By William GreenLy, An
Inmate, Confined There For Horse Stealing.

Workmen excavating under the old
Kent County Building on Dover
Green, adjoining the present old
State House. which is being gotten
ready for moving in connection with
the State building program, ran into
a most interesting thing. From ref
erence to the early history of the
building and maps showing the lOca-
tiOn of the old County building, it is
reasonable to believe that the find
ings of the wOrkmen fully bear out
the fact that under the old County
building there was at one time a
Jail supposedly Kent county's first
Jail where prisoners were kept and
possibly where one or more incar-
cerated therein died, as a few bones
were found between confines Of the
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03

brick walls. Small air holes similar
to those used in the early construct
ed pals can be seen.
The building now being moved
was used for offices for many years
and it is under this very building
that the cells have been unearthed.
Some time between, 1859 and 1863
when JAMES Hamilton was Governor
of Delaware, Samuel Dickinson, John
David, John Vining and Robert Will
cocks and Benjamin Chew were, by
Act of the General Assembly appoint
ed trustees to sell the Goal and lot
in Dover and to purchase another
lot for the building of a new Goal"
1t does not appear, however, that
they sold the jail lot, but on the 18th
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well as winning the Professional
Handicap championship. T. E. Dor
emus, of Wilmington, was second
among the pros with 90 100.
Charlie Jenkins captured the dou-
bles championship with a score of
81 x1OO, topping A. L. Lauritsen,
Wilmington, by three targets. Bill
Williamson was the defending
champion in this event.
Foord cOpped the State single
championship dethroning DR.. w. R.
Pierce of Milford. By winning this
championship Foord is qualifie6 to
represent the State at the National
Shoot this summer. Grier captured
the All-Around Amateur title.
Score:
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
SALISBURY SCHOOL
WILL CELEBRATE
State Normal School VIII Hold
June Festival Next Week

The annual June Joyance. a fes-
tival sponsored by the Maryland
State Normal School at Salisbury,
its elementary department and the
parent-teacher association, will take
place Thursday and Friday, June 8
and 10. The affair is regarded as
one of the Outstand events on the
school calendar, as it regularly Op-
ems the commencement week activ-
tiles. and annually draws guests not
only from Salisbury, but also from
the surrounding counties.
On Thursday, June 8, at p. M,
variety of booths will be opened
to the public. in the main lobby of
the school Dinner will be served by
students of the institution from $3.50
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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, May 25, To Tues
day, May 81, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller, local
weather recorder, reports the fol-
lowing weather conditions in Mil
ford, from Wednesday. May 25, to
Tuesday, May 81. inclusive:
TpmDera FIRE Pain
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
Total Rainfall

Total Rainfall ...... 60
Total Rainfall for May. .5.69 inches
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
period:
Evening star., 1932-02-23
PROPOSES CHANGE =
IN BA|L|FF LAW
Reid Will Offer Amendment
to End Dispute in Ar
Iington County.
BY LESTER N. INSKEEP,
staff Correspondent OF The Star.

RICHMOND. Va, February 23.-The
bailih controversy that has existed
since the first of the year between
Judge B. M. 6Iedrick and the County
Board OF Arlington County would be
brought to a close through one of the
proposed amendments to the Arlington
County Court act that will be offered
this week in the General Assembly by
Delegate Hugh Reid.
Delegate Reid will offer several
amendments to the act, which was
passed at the 1880 session. Most of
these have been suggested by the Bar
Association of Arlington County.
The amendment with respect to the
hbailiff will repeal the whole section
that provides for the appointment of
bailif by the judge of the~County
Court. This would leave the general
law in effect, under which the sheriff
is required to be in attendance upon
Repeal of that section Will remove all
causes of controversy in respect to the
bailiff, Reid says.
Another of the amendments TO be
offered will permit the associate justice
to practice law. This was the original
intent, Reid said, but there seemed to
be some question as to the wording OF
the act in this respect, some attorneys
claiming that the associate justice as
well as the justice was prohibited from
engaging in active practice. This
amendment will also provide that the
associate justice shall not receive more
than $500 annually. At the present
time the associate justice gets one
twentieth of a months pay, based upon
the $4,000 annual salary OF the justice,
for each day he sits.
A third amendment will make all
deputy clerks of the Circuit Court also
deputy clerks of the County Court,
qualifying them to perform the same
duties in the County Court that they
perform in the Circuit Court.
By a fourth amendment. the judge
of the county court would be given the
power to make and enforce reasonable
rules of practice, provided they are
promulgated by court order and ap-
proved by the judge of the circuit court
A fifth amendment permits the court
in civil case to modify, Vacate or sus-
pend Judgment on motion made Wltnln
two days, and sixth con1ers unlawluI
detainer jurisdiction.
The last amendment would provide
that. since the excess monies OF the
county court revert to the county fund,
the county manager will be authorized
to audit the receipts and disbursements.
A State audit is provided for the Circuit
Court
Reid stated that he will ask Senator
John w. Rust to introduce the amend
rnents in the Senate SO that they may
be printed in sufficient number for dis
tributioM among the members Of the Ar
lington County bar. House bills are not
prirted until reported out of committee,
While Senate bills are printed upon
introduction.
Evening star., 1932-02-23

books occurred at King and washing
ton streets before the parade Miss
Marian Duval, Is, of I'll Wolfe street
was struck by an automobile driven by
Alton Brown Of $40 Sixth street south
east, Washington, police reported. The
girl was treated for possible fractured
leg at the Alexandria Hospital.
100 Policemen Busy.
After the parade 1t took the combined
efforts of about 100 trafac policemen,
stationed at practically every intersec-
ton, to get trafic moving with any
thing resembling regularity.
washingtonians motoring to Alexan-
dria in the midafternoon could not re-
turn home until after dark, as every
possible route between the two cities
was blocked with cars.
Capt Ray C. Montgomery. U. s. A,
superintendent of the United States
Park Police, who had general direction
Of traffic over the Memorial Highway,
said there were no serious accidents.