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Evening star., 1932-12-20
BALLOON RACE WINNER
COMMENDED BY ADAMS
Lieut.. Comdr. Thomas G. w. Settle
Lauded by Secretary of
the Navy.

Secretary of the Navy Adams yester-
day sent letter of commentator to
Lieut.. Comdr Thomas G. w. Settle
naval inspector of aircraft at the plant
of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation
at Akron. Ohio. for winning first place
in the recent International Gordon
Bennett Balloon Race
The efficiency displayed by you in
the performance Of this duty, and your
accomplishment in winning the inter-
national balloon race has brought great
credit to the United States. and to the
United States Navy in particular" said
Secretary Adams. The department
takes pleasure in commencing you upon
the initiative, interest and skill dis
played by you in the performance OF
this duty"
Lieut.. Condr. Settle Is we'll known in
Washington. as he was on duty In the
Bureau of Aeronautics here.
Evening star., 1932-12-20
FOUR SEEK FREEDOM
PENDING APPEAL ACTION
Bonds Sought for Quartet Con-
victed Year Ago of Liquor
Law Charges.

Attorneys for Adolph r. Moder and
three others convicted of liquor law
violations in District Supreme Court
more than year ago asked the United
States Supreme Court yesterday to au-
thorize Moders release on 81 900 bond
pending the outcome of the case. The
court also was requested to reduce the
others bail to $1,000.
Moder and the others were among
% men prosecuted in connection with
an alleged liquor ring conspiracy. Some
of the others already are serving jail
sentences, but Moder, James Caparotta,
James r. Posey and another man car
ried their cases to the District Court
OF Appeals.
The appellate court was ordered by
the highest tribunal last Monday to
show cause by next January why Mo-
der and the others should not be per-
mitted to file petition for mandamus
to compel action on a motion for a
rehearing.
Evening star., 1932-12-20
Restocking Nile With Fish.

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (P.-Thou-
sands of fish have been carried across
the burning Sahara In cooled railway
tanks in second attempt to stock the
upper reaches Of the Nile. Last year
10000 fish were started across the
desert, but so many died en- route
that the experiment was a failure.
Evening star., 1932-12-20
COURT ORDERS REPORT
ON SEWAGE PLANTS
Delay in Construction at Chicago
Must Be Explained by
April |.


BY the Associated Press
The Supreme Court yesterday ap-
pointed Edward F. McClennen to report
to it by April l on the delay in con-
struction of sewage disposal plants in
the Chicago sanitary district
The court in previous opinion had
laid down limitations on the water that
the Chicago sanitary district could
withdraw from Lake Michigan and
several States bordering Illinois COM
planned that the courts decree had not
been carried out
The court directed McClennen as a
special master" to find the causes of
the delay in obtaining approval of the
construction of controlling work in the
Chicago River and the steps which
should now be taken to secure such
approval and prompt construction"
McClennen is Boston attorney and
a former law partner Of Associate JUS
tice Brandeis.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08
Airway Lighting Has
Become Exact Science

Chicago. Illumination engi-
neers have conquered numerous
unique problems I'm the lighting of
airways over which the mail-pas-
senger planes now fly 10000 miles
nightly.
AT present there are four classes
of lighting equipment for aviation :
Lighting at terminals, lighting at
emergency fields. lighting between
emergency fields-commonly re-
ferred to as beacon lighting, and
course markers-usually called
"blinkers."
The average cost of al these
forms Of light is S315 a mile. There
are about $4,000 miles of airways
lighted in the United States. Air
way improvement, development and
lighting is an activity of the Depart
ment of Commerce.
The little blinkers, which in some
places mark the course at three
mile intervals, cost $3.50 each, while
to 24-inch revolving beacons be-
tween emergency landing fields rep
resent an outlay Of $1,000 each.
The expense of lighting the emer-
gency fields themselves averages
about $1,000 each.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08
ARTHUR w. SPRUANCE DIES
Former Referee in Bankruptcy
Buried Saturday Afternoon

Arthur Willing Spruance, 81,
2502 Willard Street, Wilmington,
member of the Delaware Bar,
who died Thursday, was buried
Saturday afternoon following SER
vices from his late home at 3. The
burial will be private. Mr.. Spru-
ance had been a practitioner of the
Delaware Bar for 38 years, hav-
mig been admitted after attending
the Harvard Law School in 1894
Mr.. Spruance was born in New
Castle on February i, 1871, but
when six months old the family re-
moved to Wilmington. He attend
ed Friends School and entered the
freshman class at Princeton in
1887 and graduated in 1901. After
leaving Princeton he registered as
a law student with his father, the
late Judge William G. Spruance.
In 1893 and 1894 he attended Har-
ward Law School and was admitted
to the bar at Wilmington in the
Summer of 1894. He was United
States Referee in Bankruptcy for
New Castle county from 1898 to
1908 and a member of the State
House of Representatives in the
session of 1909. He married Miss
Marguerite Cause, daughter Of
Horace w. Cause, who survives
him.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08
BERRY SHIPMENTS
BELOW 1881 MARK
Crops From Southern States
Causing Peninsula Prices
To Be Lower
100000 CRATES SHIPPED

Strawberry shipments from Del
aware, the Eastern Shore of Mary
land and Eastern Shore of Virginia
are far below what they were a
year ago at this time, thus indicat-
ing that the crop in this area is
about ten days later this season.
Up until last Saturday only AZ
car-lot shipments had been sent
from the Eastern Shore of Mary
land as compared with SO for the
same period last year. No carload
shipments were made from Della
ware for the period of May 1929,
although 1920 crates were sent out
by truck In addition to the car
lot shipments made from the Pen
insula up to Saturday, 100000
crates were sent out during the
period by truck. The banner day
last week for truck shipments was
Friday when the Eastern Shore of
Virginia sent out 1902 crates, the
Eastern Shore of Maryland 1852
crates and Delaware 2,218 crates,
or double that of any day. Last
season, 500 carlots by express
freight and boat were shipped from
this area. Delaware furnished Ill
carlots, Maryland 352 and the Vir-
ginia portion of the Delmarva Pen
insula 236 carlots. Fruit brokers
state that the crops in Kentucky,
Missouri and Tennessee are at the
present time driving down the
prices they should receive for ber-
ries from this Peninsula. At some
of the leading shipping points in
Sussex county last week some of
the varieties sold as low as 81 per
32-quart crate. In the Philadel-
phia market on Saturday PENN
sula berries ranged in price from
$1.50 to $3.50 for various varieties;
while few large size sold from
S2.25 to $3.75; proper grades sold
as low as $1.25 per crate. There
was but very little difference in the
markets of Baltimore and New
York from that of Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08
MELANCHOLY STATE
SOLVED BY DOCTOR
Due to Lack of Bromine in
Blood, He Declares.

Berlin, Germany. - Melancholy,
that mental state which so far has
baffled psychiatrists, is due simply
to lack of bromine in the blood, ac-
cording to an astounding statement
which the noted specialist for in
ternal diseases, Prof. Hermann Zon-
dek, recently made before the medi-
cal society here.
Professor Zondek, who was
Stresemann's physician, lately has
studied the chemical composition of
the blood of mentally diseased pa
tients. In every case, he found
that whenever the bromine percent
age in the blood fell below aver
age, symptoms Of melancholy were
detected.
On the strength of this discovery,
Professor Zondek undertook to cure
patients afflicted with melancholy
by injecting small quantities of
bromine into their blood. This cure,
he announced, proved very efficient.
Melancholy, frequent mental af-
Fiction, is also termed Circular
insanity" because the patients
symptoms form a cycle, In which
periods of apathy and despair al
ternate with a normal and even alb
normally joyous mood.
Melancholia is known as a more
benign form Of mental disease than
dementia and paranoia, which con-
stitute other important groups Of
mental ailments.
While these latter forms of insan-
fly are usually incurable and re-
quire continual treatment In insti-
tutions, mefancholia usually i'm
proves under treatment so much
that even return to mental normalcy
is often attainable, although the
possibility of a relapse remains
even in successful cases.
The discovery Of Zondek has led
psychiatrists to hope that from
now on a more effective and radical
treatment than that hitherto applied
will be available.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08
BIGGS ELECTED
COMMITTEE HEAD
Mrs. Mabel f. Derby Elected
Vice Chairman; III. P. Hall,
Smyrna, Treasurer
SPEECHES ARE MADE

The State committee selected at
the Democratic State convention
on May "a, met at Dover Wednes-
day afternoon in the Supreme
Court room in the State House,
for organization and reelected
John Biggs, Jr., as chairman. I'm
Ger the party rules the secretary
of the last State committee, j.
Rogers Holcomb, called the meet
ing to order and stated the OBJ
jects of the meeting. Nominations
were called for the Office Of State
chairman. The only name placed
before the committee was that of
Mr.. Biggs, who was declared elect
ed by unanimous choice. On the
call for the election of vice-chair-
man, it was suggested that the
former custom be followed, that of
allowing the women members of
! the State committee to retire and
select their own nominee. This
was adhered to. There were three
nominations, Miss Marie Lockwood
Mrs. Mabel F. Derby and Miss
Stanislaus Riley. Miss Riley with
drew and Mrs. Derby was elected.
The selection of Mrs. Derby was
ratified by the entire committee.
Hervey p Hall, Of Smyrna, was
unanimously elected treasurer,
which office he has held for several
years. AS to the selection of a
secretary, there were three nomi-
nations, ]. Rogers Holcomb who
has held the office for the past four
or six years; ]. E. Corrigan, of
Wilmington, and Miss Riley. Mr..
Holcomb declined to serve in the
office any longer. Mr.. Corigan
withdrew in favor of Miss Riley,
she being selected unanimously.
Later Miss Riley resigned, stating
/ that she did not think she could
give the time to the duties of the
office. Her resignation was ac-
cepted. Mrs. Johanna S. G. Wolfe,
of st. Georges, was placed in nomi-
nation and was unanimously elect
ed to the office of secretary. Mrs.
Derby, after being elected as vice
chairwoman, presided over the
meeting in the absence. of Mr..
Biggs. After the election of offic-
ers had been concluded, Mrs. Derby
called for remarks, responses being
made by National Committeeman
James M. Tunnel and Mrs. Mar
guerite Dugan Godziak, national
committeewoman. Others speak
ing included Col. John P. LeFevre,
former State Senator; Hervey T.
Hall and others, all speaking along
the line of activities in the party
for the coming year and the good
prospects for Democratic victory
a resolution was presented by Mr..
LYONS which was adopted-that OF
the members of the State Commit
tee aiding and assisting in any way
the county and city committees
during the campaign. The COM
mittee adjourned subject to the
call of the chairman.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08
New Weapon Combines
Arrows and Bullets

Oakland, Calif-A weapon COM
bining the features Of arrows and
bullets was invented recently by
Dean Morrison, Oakland artist and
archer. His arrows, on which he
has sought a patent, are equipped
with explosive tips which, he says,
will kill whatever game they strike.
The arrows may be reftted with
tips after once used.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08

1sls Of Delaware will be
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08

I blIrdened to the extent of at least
i115O thousand dollars year if the
United States Senate retains in the
pending emergency revenue bill the
proposed tax on imported oil and
gasoline. Farmers, who can ill
afford it, will be called on for
S225,OO0 of this amount, according
to computations based on official
estimates of consumption. The tax,
which is in reality an embargo
tariff, would impose duty of 1-2
cent a gallon on oil, and IL cents
a gallon on gasoline. Prices will
be increased in coastal states by
this amount and probably more.
Delaware automobile users alone
will be gouged for nearly a million
dollars, and every home owner who
uses fuel oil will be assessed. The
tax was retained in the bill by a
narrow margin of two votes when
efforts were made to throw it out
on the Senate floor. Discussions
and debates have revealed clearly
that the oil tariff-and those on
coal. oil and lumber-were retained
as a result of open and fragrant
log-rolling, the equal of which has
seldom been seen in the Senate.
Senators from states whose partic-
ular interests would be benefited
threw their votes together and re-
fused to yield to pleas to permit
the budget legislation to
pass unless their own particular
grabs were ratified. Most of the
delay on the revenue bill has been
due to the tariffs and the oil
tariffs has been the cruX Of the
whole fght-from the time it was
introduced by the House Ways and
Means committee in an effort to
trade votes in favor of the sales
tax. The tariffs would perhaps be
justified if they would produce
revenue for the Treasury, but they
will not. Officials Of the Treasury
Department told Congress they
would yield nothing; that they
were in effect embargoes. Yet
they will enable the companies who
will benefit to take huge sums
from consumers at a time when
they cannot afford to pay. The
oil tariff, it is estimated, will cost
consumers in excess of 500 mil
lions a year, and ninety per cent
of that will go to the giant COM
panies who dominate the oil indus
try. A fraction of the remaining
ten per cent may reach the inde-
pendent producers, whose output OF
oil at best is less than half the
country's total. The Senate should
throw out all tariffs at once and
devote itself to the passage Of the
et-balancing revenue bill for
which the country and the Presl-
dent are clamoring as a necessary
step to economic recovery. Self
ishness of a few small groups,
seeking to profit at the expense Of
the country's misery, should not be
allowed to prolong the depression.
It is true that the oil and coal and
copper and lumber industries have
suffered grieviously-but SO has
every other industry. These par
ticular ones have suffered no more
than the others in the oil business
actually less, and there is no rea-
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Smyrna times., 1932-06-08

uate next year. Other Varsity
Club officers chosen were Richard
M. Johnson, Cumberland, vice-pres-
ident; Richard M. Gambler, Darby,
Pa, secretary; Albert E. Dobkins,
Waterbury, Conn, treasurer, and
Albert P Giraitis, Hartford, Conn,
sergeant at arms.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08

Joseph Dickerson, of Milford,
was chosen president of the senior
class for next year, president of
the Varsity Club and football cap
tain at Washington College at the
annual student elections held prior
to commencement. He will grad
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08

Continued on Page Six)
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08
Queen Sells Paintings

Amsterdam.-Exh of paint
ings by Queen Wilhelmina of Hol-
land realized 10000 florins (about
$4,000 which the queen donated
for relief of poor families.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08
Slow to Believe

We are slow to believe what II
believed would hurt our feelings
Ovid.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-08

|IflREl lln}rr, AND
/, n, oil, Coal a. and
I, Make It Re
d Dependent
. The TARIFFS
=. Of its location,
!. s'I5+ts interest !. in having Ing
dil 4 coal, lumber and
o o. i the emergency
y ". s.t11s f4on1 les eenters q
sslissd i dependent u IN
''l IN raw materials.
'', ,,s,ontic Coast sIo'
q 4 from r1r south tl1,,Id AmsF+ e,5t
\ iodustry, automobile :
3,n,sstic consumers OF
d aoIs' i the four tariffs
Sans VENUE ! for the fed
l.' according to test
sial., l.,,,rv officials. They
1.',@'I y IsmbargOes, pure =
p nd 4 while they would
: nj nickel to help bal
=. s.,s.t they would i'm
'IT5 burdens on consumers
'l.st i 4 few small and
,.. s,s' who are demanding
s,rs 5,.lrs in ! time Of general
''@' ora able to en-
.,nfropting the coun-
h tax. according to
tn bassd On official estl-
, assumption, would cost
4 800 million dollars q
!, r,bsbly more. All Of
nm would go to produc-
roce;sOrs, and none Of II
I.igsl treasury-most Of i
M Of major companies
innate the oil industry.
,-roli;tic subsidy made its
n debut in the McCumber-
Bill ten years ago. 1t was
MI as too raw, by the
rstionists. During the in
\ iscsds swarms Of local
have hibernated at the
nd at the slightest pros
zIrsss they have sought
/ enacted into law under
i Or another as a tariff or
kro. Never until the pres
hlTs they had the temer-
nj i as a rider on a rev
Eazre. But now, under
szid guidance Of Writ
asy have injected it into
Eua Bill with the brazen
i. they will rely indefi-
} passage of legislation es-
! the balancing of the
d the preservation of the
credit unless this un-
y subsidy is adopted. The
Ea result Of open vote
nNng the groups seeking
n their own localities, re-
1ruT out the tariffs when
VS. taken the other day.
asiun was the
rlArs having only two
qsrs. Fortunately, the
sio have another chance,
ntul to reconsider was
u will be voted on within
ays Senator's Daniel o.
E md John G. Townsend of
\. md others who voted to
1izlmerS for the benefit
+ VhO have put their own
,lIssts above those of the
aa Fsctify their mistake
u The way for immediate
q lhs bill to balance the
'ax Out the Tariffs
1'a Of Delaware will be
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16
Professor Discovers
Aid for Winter Driving

Chicago.-The serious problem of
starting motors in cold weather,
when more wear and damage is
done in the first few minutes of
operation than in miles of driving,
due to CONCEALED oils and greases
not covering metal surfaces until
they are warmed up, has apparent
ly been solved by new type of
fluid that establishes a practically
indestructable lubricating film upon
gears and bearings, according to A.
]. Diakoff, assistant professor of
mechanical engineering of the Uni
versity of North Dakota, at Grand
Forks.
The fluid, which contains a lique-
fed substance of q highly lubricat-
ing nature, is added to the regular
oil and grease used in the crank
case, transmission, differential, free
wheeling and steering mechanisms,
as well as to the gasoline. As this
liquefied ingredient is claimed to
be heat resisting by its inventor, the
process of conditioning motors with
it has become known as "pyroiliz-
ing" from the Greek forms mean
ing fire oiling.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16
Ferryman Says Nature
Treated Sea Gulls Mean

San Francisco.-After ten years
study Ed Spellman admits he has
not yet solved the mystery of why
sea gulls have fallen arches.
Spellman, ferry conductor on San
Francisco bay, contends that nature
Played a mean prank on the birds
which lOiter around the edge of the
sea. The gulls were not provided
knees.
Man has knees to absorb the
shock when he jumps" explained
Spellman. But when a gull lands
he has to take the jolt on his
arches.
"Ive watched gulls light around
the docks all day, and I'd go home
at night with my feet aching from
just watching them"
Gulls were provided with a cal
loused place on the rear of each
foot to act as shock absorbers, ac-
cording to Spellman. These ''heel
pads" soon wear off.
anybody can see that their feet
hurt" Spellman declared. 'T see
gulls every day lean back on their
heels and look around for a place
to sit down. It's obvious their
arches ache"
Spellman's interest in the foot
troubles of the sea gulls has at
tracted the attention of many com
muters, who ride his ferry daily,
and the subject frequently comes in
for ''round table" discussion during
the trip across the bay.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16
Russian Prince Becomes
Professional Bike Racer

Paris.-Prince Igor Troubetskoy,
descendant of a famous Russian
family, has become a professional
bicycle rider. In company with a
French rider, he win ride in the
middle distance road races. Prince
Igors ancestors gained fame fight
ing the Poles and Germans.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16
First Sneeze Misplaces
Vertebrae; End Fixes 'Em

Wichita, Kan. - Mrs. Christine
Long sneezed heartily-so heartily
she misplaced two vertebrae at the
base Of her neck. 1t left the muscles
of her shoulder and back paralyzed.
Several days later she sneezed again
and the vertebrae snapped back into
place. Her second sneeze soon
brought her complete recovery.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16

You say you have a lot of dis
tant relatlves?"
Yes; they're 50 rich they won't
even notice me-"
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16
Words in Dictionaries

Modern unabridged English die
tionaries contain approximately
100000 words; the French about
10000; German, 100000, and Ital-
ian, 100000.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16

stalwart arm encircled her shoulder
and she knew she would be saved
from the danger of misalliance.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16
=. Nj. Rust

Yard and Warehouse, Delaware ST.,
Phone 270 R 2
SMYRNA, DELAWARE
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16
DOTELL!
Joined.

Mr.. Perfecto-Mr. Pipe ought to
be a great artist.
aIr. Cork Tip-Why SO?
Mr.. Perfecto-Because he draws
so wells
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16
SPICY ITEMS OF
DELMARVA NEWS
Brief News Items of People
We Know in and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Thomas H. Williams, so years
old, of Dover, died early Thursday
morning, shortly after he was
found in a critical condition in a
public garage on the State High
way near Cheswold. The coroner's
jury rendered a verdict of natural
death. Williams was the father of
two boys, aged 18 and II.
Coroner Pearson was called to
Pennington to hold an inquest
over the body of Elijah King, col
ored, aged 40 years who died on
election morning as he was about
to cast his vote. King was enter
ing the election both with his ballot
in his hand when he fell to the
floor dead. King lived about two
miles north of Pennington.
A pretty wedding took place at
Rock Hall on Wednesday when
Mrs. Elizabeth Ware Faulkner, of
Denton, Md, became the bride of
Thomas Nickerson McGinnes. The
ceremony was performed by the
Rev. J. w. Baxley and the bride
and bridegroom have departed on
a honeymoon being spent at At
lantic City and Washington.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-16

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