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Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
Celery and Carrots

Holdings of celery in cold storage
in western New York near the end
of December were locally estimated
at about 500 carloads, about ga of
them in Wayne county. This guam
tity is about so per cent more than
remained at the corresponding time
year ago Many of the shipments
are going to market on consignment.
Holders are trying to clear out
stocks by the middle of January in
order to escape the increasing COM
petition that will be met by that time
from new crop celery. Shipments
from Florida are expected to be un-
usually active, although crop dam
age in that section will tend to re-
duce yields and offset the increased
acreage. Prices of Golden Self
Blanching celery in the Rochester
district ranged mostly $1.25-$1.65
per 2-3 crate. Demand is slow and
market dull. City markets mostly
tend lower and prevailing jobbing
range, including much stock of only
ordinary quality, is $1-$$2. Prices
on southern celery are being fairly
well maintained in most city mar
kets.
Not many sales of carrots are re-
ported from eastern producing sec
tions. A few sales at soc to Csc per
100 pounds occurred in the Roches-
ter district. City markets showed
an upward trend, advancing SC to
$1.1O i'm New York, and to $1.15 in
Washington.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08

What both political parties seem
to need now is fewer leaders and
more dough-boys.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08

stock sells at $16-$22 per ton. Prices
show a rising tendency in the east
and have moved sharply upward in
several midwestern markets. Dis
tribution of eastern cabbage ship
ments extends to points in the west
as far as Nebraska and Kansas, and
considerable quantities have been
shipped south. as fell as to the usual
markets in northeastern seaboard
states.
Onion Stocks Lighter
Remaining stocks of onions ap-
pear to be about half of those a
year ago and not much competition
from foreign sources is to be expect
ed unless prices go still higher. A
fairly steady market has prevailed
the last month or SO, and the pre-
ceding sharp price gains have been
we'll sustained. Tendency to hold
for higher prices is strongly indi-
Gated in production sections. Ship
ments are light and truck holdings
in city markets are very moderate.
Firmness prevailed toward the first
of the year in all producing sections.
Demand was active in western New
York and Michigan at around S1.75-
So per 50-pound sack, and slightly
higher for choice stock. Prices in
the city markets have shown in some
cases little difference from the level
prevailing at some country ship
ping points. Gains of about 10c per
50-pOund sack were recorded ON
many sales in New York, Boston and
Philadelphia, an dthe general east
ern range was $1.75 to 1925 for New
York Yellow varieties. Massachu-
setts seed grown stock brought
$1.75 in Boston. Prices at Baltimore
and Pittsburgh tended upward on
best lots of Yellow stock.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
Dover Fruit
Phone $50 Established 1888
Phone $50

"YOu will know tree by Its fruit" ;"
says DIR. r. S. Stephens, optOmetrist,
and the people that eat the fruit
ought to be the judge of the tree.
The apple known as the eye, is a
very delicate organ. He has fitted
forty-two thousands pairs OF glasses
and he has had much experience
along this line of work.
You ask the people who wear his
glasses about the fruit of his labor
and you will see him when you need
anything in his line. He can grind
any lense you may need and has q
new line of frames of all styles.
You will find him at 219 South
State street, Dover.
DIR. r. S. STEPHENS,
Dover, Delaware.
12-6-tf
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08

THE PLACE Refrigeration room of
The Sedbodrd Terminal Company
THE CAR. Ice-couered for IL hours
at 290 belOrO freezing
THE GAS NetO Winter TYDoL
.. Gasoline
STARTING TINES IL .Qoeo,<Z
The Washington times., 1932-09-20

BERLIN Q.N.SO.-A veritable
hells kitchen was prepared by
Kurt Volzendorff, 52-year-old job
less engineer, before he turned
on the gas in his apartment to
end his sorrows and wreak re-
Venge.
BY a mere lucky circumstance
his fiendish scheme did not work.
otherwise, police said, 1t would
have blown up a whole apartment
building and caused innumerable
deaths and property damage.
100 Lives Saved
Volzendorft, a divorced man,
hadn't paid his rent for some
months and was about to be evict-
ed. His neighborS, alarmed at not
seeing him for several days, noti-
fled the police They pried open
the windows of the missing mans
apartment, and entered by way
of ladders. This saved the lives
OF about 100 tenants.
Firemen were called and found
Volzendorff lying dead on tn e
floor of the death trap. The rooms
were filled with thick fumes of
illuminating gas and gasoline.
Shotgun Trap
The suicide, police discovered,
had made his whole apartment
absolutely alright by puttying up
windows and doors. Then he had
The Washington times., 1932-09-20
8 3HOLD-UPSLA|D
To SUSPECT

Lawrence Helpler, colored, 81
was held for the Grand Jury under
bonds totaling $4,000 by Police
Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt yes
terday on three charges Of rob,
berry.
Helpler was arraigned alone on
o charge of robbing Jack Rifle,
storekeeper in the 800 block L st.
N. E., Of $23 early this month, and
was held with companions on two
other charges.
With Arthur Davenport and Lee
Carter, both colored, he was &C
cused of the holdup last month OF
Sidney E. Pearson of the Gulf Re
filming Company Station at Mass
achusetts and Ney jersey Aves
N. W., in which $8.45 was taken
Bond for each defendant was set
at $4,000.
With Davenport and John Lee
johnson, colored, Helpler was held
on a charge of holding up another
station Of the same company at
Twenty-second and E SITS. N. W.,
. few days ago, and all were held
under $4,000 bonds.
The Washington times., 1932-09-20
MORE WHARVES
ASKED HERE

Pointing out that large yachts
visit Washington only to find in
adequate provision, improved IA
cilities for use of water craft here
was recommended by the District
Commissioners yesterday.
It was also recommended that
a pier with suitable head house
should be provided for use of the
harbor police and fireboat head
quarters. The District Morgue
should be removed, it said. Two
or three piers would be ample for
steamboat traffic and one pier
for general public use on a wharf
age basis, the committee held.
Total revenue from wharf
rentals was $40,902.52 for the
year, a reduction of $2,402.53 for
the previous year.
The Washington times., 1932-09-20
J. NJ. ROsser Cleared
In Auto Collision

Justus M. Rosser, of the 900
block K st. N. W., was absolved
of all blame in connection with
an automobile accident last week
on the Grain Highway when Mrs
Florence Mahan, 81, of the zoe
block P Street Northwest, was seri
ously injured.
The accident occurred when an
automobile driven by George
Johnson, Of Gambrills, Md, was
in collision with that of Mr.. RoS-
ser. Johnson suffered a broken
arm while Mrs. Mahan is in
Casualty Hospital with head in.
juries.
The hearing was held before
Judge Lester L. Disney at An
derson's Corner, Md.
The Washington times., 1932-09-20
Successor to Hitz
Tonic at Courthouse

Courthouse circles were agog
with interest today over filling
Of the vacancy on the District
Attorneys staff created by the
unexpected resignation yesterday
of Frederick Hitz, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney stationed in Police
Court.
Mr.. Hitz said he intends to en-
ter private practice. He Is the
son of Justice William Hitz Of
the District Court of Appeals and
was recently married to a young
woman prominent in social Cir
cles here. Mr.. Hitz and Roger
Robb, son of another Court Of
Appeals Justice, were only re-
Gently appointed to prosecutors
posts in Police Court.
The Washington times., 1932-09-20
VengefuL Suicide Hoped
To Kill DiScOUererS

connected the hall door by wire
with q shotgun.
He left the gas taps open and
had also spilled q barrel Of gaso-
line everywhere in the apart,
ment, thus producing an ex'
tremely dangerous explosive mix
ture. Had anybody opened the
door, the mixture would have
been ignited by the gun, and the
whole building blown to atoms.
The Washington times., 1932-09-20
Bible Glass to Hear
Lieut.. Smith Talk

Lieut.. Milton D. Smith, Of the
Traffic Bureau and past presi-
dent of the Policemen's Associa-
ton, will address the Harrison
Bible class Of the Congress Street
Methodist Church next Sunday
The class is composed largely of
policemen and firemen. Former
Police Inspector w. H. Harrison
is president.
The Washington times., 1932-09-20
STREET LIGHTS, TOPIC

The placing Of street lights
throughout Sligo Park Hills will
be agitated before members of
the Sligo Park Hills Citizens AS
sociation tomorrow night. The
meeting is to be held in the par
ish hall of the Church Of the
on Sligo Avenue.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
Fingerprinting Urged
For All u. S. Citizens

To the Editor of The Star:
To eliminate the uncertainty Of
Identification in cases Of amnesia and
serious accidents and to positively
identify those who are burned beyond
recognition and buried by the thou
sands each year as unidentified dead,
I would offer the following suggestion:
That the Congress of the United
States Of America install a Public
Identification Service in Washington,
D. c., with bureaus in every city and
town in the whole country, where the
citizens name. address and individual
finger impressions may be placed on
file.
These bureaus to be run independently
OF and to have no connection with the
police department and criminal identi-
ncatlon. Such bureaus would be of in
valuable service to the general public.
For example: The charred body Of
an unidentified man was recently found
IN an automobile which had been
burned in a town in the State of New
York. In this case it would have only
been necessary to take one or more
~ OF and to have no connection with the
finger impressions Of either hand and
compare them with the finger i'm
presSions ON fife In one Of the Public
identify the body Of this man.
To have ones identity permanently
established is very precious thing
and much TO be desired.
WILLIAM F. GROSSKURTH.
Evening star., 1932-03-18

Mr.. BRAND in a more personal way.
We wonder what his country will do
without him." The Toronto Daily Star
Is convinced that history will place
him among the first and the most bril-
liant Of those statesmen who, by reason
Of their services to organized world
society, belong to the whole human
race" and the Houston Chronicle be-
lieves that BRAND, the statesman. win
live forever"
Holding that "his career was as spec
tacular in its variableness as in its con-
S1StencieS," the New York Sun says:
Whatever the rank among statesmen
to which history may assign Aristide
BRAND. among his contemporaries he
came to be looked upon as master Of
every resource and expedient Of politi-
cal craftsmanship. If managing men
Is an art, he was almost foremost In
his day among the practitioners of that
art. Few other contemporary leaders
knew so well when to persuade and
cajole, when to storm, when to please,
when to apply the scourges of invective
and ridicule. On the tribune he could
be dignity personified; in the lobby he
would be jovial in the exchange of
pleasantries with the best of them"
The supreme tribute is paid by the
Milwaukee Sentinel: m. BRAND was
undoubtedly the greatest statesman Of
his generation. If Europe ascendS from
nationaliStic madness in time to escape
catastrophe, the world will sanctify his
memory. For 1t was he more than any
one else whose prodigious labors for an
understanding between the two oppos-
ing factions of Europe have made Euro
peans think, If only a little bit, Of
political peace and economic unity
where before they had thought OF ma
tional prosperity and security as ends
obtainable only behind fortresses and
rows Of ready bayonets."
Evening star., 1932-03-18

that about. Back Of the movement
for resubmission planks in both party
platforms are many men and women
who sincerely believe that the eight
eenth amendment should be amended
or repealed. And with them stand
others who would like for one reason
or another to have prohibition removed
from the coming national campaign
as an issue. The latter group takes the
view that II the Democrats and the
Republicans both agree in party con-
vention that they are willing to have
resubmission of the eighteenth amend
ment, prohibition cannot be a serious
question of debate between the two
parties this year. The resubmission
planks suggest to them an easy way out
of a dilemma in which prohibition cuts
across the lines of both old parties.
The resubmission group has adopted
as its slogan the phrase: Let the peo-
pie decide" 1t is much the same
slogan that was used by the drys when
they sought to have the eighteenth
amendment first submitted for ratifi-
cation. 1t has become clear that a
very considerable number of American
citizens are opposed to the conditions
that now exist under the national pro-
hibition laws, a sufficient number, the
vets hold, to warrant a resubmission of
the amendment.
What is to happen in the event the
Republican and Democratic National
Conventions adopt planks pledging
their respective parties to support 8
resolution Of resubmission? Individual
members of Congress have protested
against any attempt to bind them to
support a resubmission plank. Such
protests have come particularly from
members in the dry South. At the
same time, members of Congress from
wet States have not felt themselves
compelled to follow their party in sup
port Of platform pledges in favor Of
prohibition enforcement. A resubmis-
sion plank in party platforms may,
after all, be merely a gesture, designed
to permit the parties to take the hurdle
Of the coming election without having
to take of on the slippery ground OF
prohibition. The pressure for such
planks is growing stronger.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
Reaction in Manchuria.

Further information is required TO
permit an estimate Of the strength of
the movement reported from Manchuria
designed to overthrow the newly Or
ganized government of the three east
ern provinces" Of China, formed under
the auspices Of the Japanese. Dis
patches state that 100000 volunteers
are marching on Mukden, the former
capital, from three directions, destroy
ing the flag Of the new government in
all the villages they reach and hoist
ing In its stead the Chinese national
emblem. The insurgents appear to
have some semblance OF organization
and are led by q Manchurian named
Tsing Hal. The japanese have pre-
pared for a campaign Of resistance.
While formally turning over the ad-
ministration Of Manchurian affairs to
native" government, the Japanese
are undoubtedly present still In con-
siderable military strength. There is
no knowledge Of the number Of their
troops in the provinces. Not much
confidence Is felt In the fidelity Of those
Chinese military leaders who have
spcused the sauss q tens sepaFsse
Evening star., 1932-03-18
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Reliable Relaxation.
Whatever be the cause of grief,
We know that pretty soon
Well find reliable relief
And sing the glad old tune.
The difficulties great and small
At last we will explain
And try to end them as we all
Go voting once again.
The holidays will swiftly range
Through this uncertain cline.
However much the seasons change
It's always ballot time.
For polls informal we may call
Our feelings to explain.
We take new courage as we all
Go voting once again.
1t is the national sport, indeed,
Whose charm Is never lost
OF every mc-e We haste to read
In sunshine or in frost.
It's even better than base ball
To soothe each mortal pain.
Whate'er befall, we still may all
Go voting once again.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

to keep myself in the background of
the celebration. I don't want the lime
light"
Gov. Roosevelt is proposing to make
two personal appearances outside of
new York State next month. It will
be the flrst time since his presidential
campaign got formally under way that
ne has ventured to travel. He has
promised to come to Washington on
April Is to attend the jefferson day
Democratic roundup here. He will
attend the annual meeting Of the gov
ernors' conference, scheduled for April
"a at Richmond, Va. BY that time
Roosevelt managers will be claiming
that his nomination at the Chicago
convention Is an assured certainty, and
the eyes Of the country will be on him
as never before.
The feminine contingent Of the Cap-
itals journalistic corps, banded together
under the aegis Of the Women,s Ma
lonal Press Club, held their annual
1roilc this week and did themselves
proud. Their skits, satires and parodies
OF current events and current notables,
male and female, were staged for an
audience exclusively feminine, and ac-
cording to the eye-witnesses were of
superlatiye excellence. Mrs. Hoover
and Dolly Gam were absent. Mrs.
Charles Evans Hughes was the ranking
lady present, fianked by the wives Of
all the cabinet members, followed by
the six lady members Of the House
wives OF Senators and such laity as
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mrs.
Alvin T. Hert. Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Alice
Longworth, Mabel Walker Willebrandt
and many more to the number of ESQ.
Martha Strayer, president Of the club,
was mistress Of ceremonies.
How did shell fish come to be ex-
empted from the sales-tax plan Of the
House Ways and Means Committee?
Representative John w. Mccormack of
Boston, who led the successful effort
to spare these morsels from tax burden,
VIII tell you that he owes his victory
10 the poetic propaganda written for
him by Clayton F. Moore, one of the
clerks Of his committee If a poem
saved Old Ironsides, so did verse pro-
tect the Massachusetts, clam. Here
it is:
Let Texas sing the praises
or Its famed Angora ram
1t cannot hold a candle to
The Massachusetts, clami
The Georgia song Of peanuts,
or peaches, too, and jam,
Doesn't go in Harvard's precincts with
The Massachusetts, clam!
And so on for half q dozen stanzas.
Moore Is the son of j. Hampton
Moore, mayor OF Philadelphia, whose
famous poem made the Nation laugh
some years ago. twitting Jack Garner
Tor winning duty on Angora wool in
Democratic low tariff bill.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
Resubmission Planks.

Gov George White of Ohio, Democrat,
elected in 1880 after having had the
Endorsement Of the drys, has declared
himself In favor of the resubmission of
the eighteenth amendment. The Ohio
Governor has not indicated that he is
favorable TO the repeal Of the prohibi-
ton amendment. But In the eyes of
many OF the most ardent drys he has
gone from the straight and narrow
path Those who looked to the Ohio
Governor as the dry hope Of the Demo-
cratic party in this presidential year
will be disappointed.
Gov. White, on the other hand, may
argue as many friends Of prohibition
argue; he may hold that q new vote
on prohibition In the States would show
the eighteenth amendment TO be as
firmly fixed in the Constitution as ever
He and the other prohibitionists who
take this view have faith In the dry
cause and in its support by the Amer
lean people and their State Legislatures
or State constitutional conventions,
whichever may be the vehicle Of
ratification.
Notwithstanding the apparent in
crease IN strength of the vets in Con-
gress, It liz obvious that the drys are
sttll IN Q strong position. Two-thirds
votes In the House and Senate are re-
quired for resubmission Of the eight
eenth amendment to the States, and
should the Congress order resubmision,
then three-fourths of the States must
ratify any change in the eighteenth
amendment. Thirteen States would be
suficient to block any change in the
Constitution on the subject Of national
prohibition.
But the insertion Of q resubmission
plank in the party platforms is another
matter. In the first place. mere ma
;or3ty vote In the Republican and Demo-
amabs Nua1cnaA convsntacns could brinG
Evening star., 1932-03-18

Manchurian government. It Is quite
possible that some Of the alleged hun
dred thousand Chinese who are now
reported to be In movement are from
those armies" that figured last Fall In
the fighting in the northern province.
The taking Of q few villages and
towns in the outlying parts Of Man
churia by the newly active insurgent
forces does not Of itself signify a
formidable campaign. In all likelihood.
they are loosely organized and poorly
equipped and provided with munitions.
They may be little more than the ban
dts" of whom so much has been heard
in the course Of the Manchurian story
Of the past six months. Nevertheless,
they are symptomatic Of a condition
that will probably continue for a con-
siderable period to keep Japan occu-
pied in the effort to maintain the new
government of Manchuria.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
Lesson in Depression
Seen Possible Good
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Economists have become decidedly
chary Of late in their forecasts of the
return of prosperity. The just-around-
the-corner era has gone out of date.
In recent lecture noted economist
hazarded his reputation on a 10-year
prophecy, which seems safe enough.
But prophets or no prophets, we can
reasonably expect that the depression
will end some time. The important
question is: When it ends, will we
have learned our lesson?
No less than 80 times In the finan-
cial history Of the United States has
our country seen depressions. Some
Of these lasted but few months; 9TH
ers, like the present, dragged on into
from these periods, but how? Even
though these events have been writ
ten into our histories; even though
they have been analyzed by experts,
such experts have not always agreed
as to the basic cause Of the return of
prosperity. 1t seems that each gen.
Grafton has to learn from bitter ex-
perience the fundamental lesson that
to speed up production during times
Of prosperity without providing the
means Of disposing Of that product
will inevitably lead to a Cutting of
the market and q period of depres-
sion. If our manufacturers had all
increased wages in proportion to the
increase in production they wouldn't
have made as much money during the
time Of prosperity, it's true, but they
would have earned more than mere
paper" money and they wouldn't be
losing 1t now, either.
How are We to learn our lesson? To
what are we to ascribe economic re-
covery when and If such recovery
takes place? And when we are again
on the road of easy money and lots
Of It, will we take the trouble to look
back upon this depression and learn
from II now to avoid another?
Ine complexity of the situation
makes the answer to these questions
a very difficult one. Ten wears from
now economists will be scratching their
pates and trying to figure out what
effect the moratorium had on the re-
turn OF prosperity, or the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation, or unem-
ployment relief, or the farm loans, or
the baby bond issue, or the anti-hoard-
ing campaign, or the sales tax, includ-
the SIS a barrel on 275 beer-or will
they?
It's indeed hard nut to crack.
But It's a problem the answer of which
we must secure, If we are to earn our
right to that which we would like
to be called-viz., the most civilized
people that ever inhabited this earth,
And not only that. But II these
depressions keep on getting worse and
worse the day may come when tho
Secretary of the Treasury may have
to run up over his multi-pillared edi-
nee the white flag of unconditional
financial surrender. None living today
VIII see that humiliation, but the pres
ent crisis has demonstrated its posi-
bility. GERALD SCHNFPP.