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Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
FT. DUPONT WAR
ON MOSQUITOES
Breeding Places for Pests
Along Delaware River
Are Being Destroyed
DELAWARE CITY ACTIVE

The military authorities at Fort
DUPONT under the direction of Lieu
tenant Colonel Lewis H. Watkins,
1st Engineers, Commadant of the
Post, have started campaign of
their own against the mosquito
nuisance on the government reser-
walton and Delaware City. They
believe that, with the cooperation
of local authorities and private cit
liens, an abatement of the nuis-
ance may be realized to an extent
of fifty per cent or more. To eff
feet this abatement, breeding plac-
es for mosquitoes in the vicinity of
Fort DUPONT and Delaware City,
such as small puddles, empty con-
tainers, ETC., are being removed
as far as possible; all high grass
and weeds are being kept down in
order to eliminate roosting places
for mosquitoes blown in from the
surrounding marshes; the burning
of reeds along the river front of
the government reservation and
adjacent areas owned by the Unit
ed States; and the filling in of
swampland adjacent to Fort du-
Pont and which is controlled by
Colonel Earl I. Brown, District En-
gineer, Wilmington District, who
has offered his full cooperation.
State aid for this campaign has
also been requested through the
Governor of Delaware and Mr..
Louis A. Stearns, State Entomolo-
gist. 'The mosquito will only be
conquered when he has nowhere to
live" said Colonel Watkins, in dis
cussing the situation. "All mo-
squitos are not alike. Some spend
their lives in salt water marshes
on the meadows while others live
in fresh water during the larval or
wriggler stage, later forming the
swarms of mosquitoes which tor
ment us during the summer
months. The fresh water mos
quito may be eliminated to a great
extent by not permitting water to
stand in any container,. barrel, pail
milk bottle, pan, tub, bowl gutter,
pool or ditch for more than one
week without emptying. Mosquito
determination can be successful
only if those interested work to-
gether in closest cooperation.
Health hazards and annoyance are
reduced in proportion to the degree
of success experienced in the elm
ination of the mosquito nuisance. :"
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
REV. G. A. COOKE
is REINSTATED
Retired Pastor Wins Fight at
M. E. Conference by a
TwO-Thirds Vote
TO GET APPOINTMENT

The Rev. George A. Cooke, Will
mington, Friday afternoon won his
fight for reinstatement to effective
work in the Wilmington M. Econ
ference, in spite of the vote against
him by the Conference Relations
Committee. Following a lively dis
.cussion of Brother Cooke and his
propensity for stirring up trouble
in the Conference" the matter was
put to vote, and Cooke received
a more than two-thirds vote for
reinstatement, and under the
church law must be given an ap-
pointment at this session of the
Conference. Mr.. Cooke has twice
been retired from the effective
rank in the Wilmington Confer
enece, the first time when he defied
the church authorities and was
ousted from the pastorate of the
Wesley M E. Church, Wilmington,
when he was out of the work for
four years. The last time he was
out of the effective work for three
years. Following the adjournment
of the executive session DR.. Cooke
was warmly congratulated for his
victory by many who had felt that
he was entitled to do pastoral
work if he so desired. Mr.. Cooke,
last spring, in the death of the Rev
H. Dulaney, was talked of for the
pastorate of the Asbury Church,
Wilmington, and now that he has
been restored to the effective rank
may be assigned to that charge.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
Greece Credited With
First Pleasure Gardens

The early history of Greece, which
begins about 800 B. c., provides no
records concerning garden develop
ment. While that country is credit
ed with the first major development
of the arts, it's social customs did
not encourage extensive home
ground paintings. AS a result, many
public areas were improved and the
first real pleasure gardens formed.
These contained seats for rest and
accommodations for recreation. Ex-
tensive landscape paintings were not
made in Greece, however, until after
contact had been made with orr
entail and Egyptian gardens.
About 327 B. c. Alexander the
Great invaded Persia and India. In
these countries he found gardens
similar to those in Babylonia which
bore indications of oriental influ-
ence. But the Persians and the peo-
pie of India We're great lovers of
trees, shrubs, and flowers and in
the latter country the Hindus wor-
SHIPPED many trees. especially after
the adoption of Buddhism, which oc-
CURED during the Fifth century, B. C.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
Howard Wallace on Dry Charge

Howard R. Wallace, 26 years
old, of near kits Hammock, near
Dover, was placed under $1,000
bail for the June term of Federal
Court by U. S. Commissioner AL
bert F. Polk last week. Wallace
was arrested by Federal Agents
Norman E. Jett and Elmer Riggin,
search of a small building on the
property occupied by Wallace, in
which Is gallons of alleged liquor,
two stills, and two cases of beer
and various equipment were seized.
Wallace is charged with posses
sion. manufacture and possession
of equipment designed to manu-
facture liquor. He was arraigned
before Magistrate w. D. Burton,
of Dover.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
SOME CONFERENCE HISTORY
Organized BY Methodists in 1869
1T is Now a Power

III Is INOft IL II OWCT
The Conference was organized
March II, 1869, the members hav-
ing separated from the Philadel-
phia Conference. The first session
was held in Asbury Church, Third
and Walnut streets, Wilmington,
with Bishop M. Simpson presiding,
and the Rev. S. L. Gracey as sec
retary. The conference is divided
into four districts, now known as
the Wilmington, Middletown, Do
yer and Salisbury districts, but for
several years had a fifth district,
the Virginia district of which the
Rev. A. w. Davis was presiding
elder. This district was merged
with the Salisbury District in 1889,
with the Rev. T. o. Ayers as pre-
siding elder. The Rev. William
Chandler, a minister and physician,
in 1898, was appointed presiding
elder over the entire Delmarva
Peninsula, which was then known
as the Chesapeake district. He
gave the first "altar call'' so far as
is known, in the Methodist Church.
This was at Pivot Bridge, in 1899.
In 1917 the Rev. Henry Boehm was
named presiding elder of the Ches-
apeake district, and in 1919 the
name was changed to the Della
ware district. The work was con-
tinued under the jurisdiction of the
Philadelphia Conference until the
Conference organized
in 1869.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
DELAWAREANS HONORED
James Nj. Tunnel DR., of George
town, Among Those to Win Honor

Among those students at Prince
ton University who have won high
scholastic honors during the first
term of the school year are several
youths from Delaware. James M.
Tunnel, Jr., of Georgetown, who
has recently been awarded the
Rhodes Scholarship from Delaware
was one of the seniors who rated
the second group in the Bachelor
of Arts course. Henry M Candy,
also a senior in the Bachelor of
Arts Course, was in the second
group of senior honormen. William
S. Skelly, of Wilmington, was
named in the second group of the
Bachelor of Arts course of mem
bers of the class of 1888. David
B. Candy, of Wilmington, was rat
ed in the second group for the
class of 1884 in the Bachelor of
Science in Engineering. Henry
Mayer. Jr., of Dover, of the class
of 1885, had first rating in the
Bachelors of Science in Engineer
ing.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT
Miss Gladys wilkins Becomes the
Bride of James II. Scott

The wedding Of Miss Gladys
Wilkins, of Georgetown, Del, and
James P. Scott, of Bridgeville, Del,
came as a surprise to their many
friends of Wilmington as well as
lower Delaware. The wedding took
place Sunday, March 27, at Snow
Hill, Md. Mrs. Scott is a graduate
Of Georgetown High School class
for 1881, and is employed by the
firm of Layton and Layton, George
town. Mr.. Scott is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Norman H. Scott, Of
Bridgeville High School class Of
1880, and is now completing a bus
ines course at Beacon College,
Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06

George John Schulz, a resident
Of Hartly, has just been appointed
colonel Of Coast Artillery in the
Officers Reserve Corps of the U.
S. Army, according to War De
partment orders received at Head
quarters of the Second Corps Area
on Governors Island. Colonel
Schulz has also been Federally re
cognized in the same grade and
branch of the National Guard of
Delaware.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
Couple Leave Dance to Marry

Leaving a dance being given by
the Cotillon Club at the Wicomico
Hotel at Salisbury, Md, Monday
night of last week, Miss Marian
Lowe Owens, daughter of Mrs. H.
Winter Owens, of Salisbury, and
Elwood H. Parker, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur H. Parker, formerly
of Salisbury but now of Washing
ton, were married at the Method
ist Episcopal Church parsonage by
DR.. Samuel McWilliams. Not even
their immediate friends knew of
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
Italians Catch Canned Fish

Intra. Italy.-The fisher-folk here
made an exceptional catch on the
banks and by the port of San Clio
vanni. when barrels of salted eel
and cases of smoked cod and herring
were washed up. The police were
not able to trace the origin Of the
fish, which the villagers consumed.
as there was no indication of own
ership.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06

A group of Maryland sportsmen,
headed by E. Lee LeCompte, State
Game Warden, went to Washing
ton yesterday to appear before the
committee for the conservation of
wild life and ask for a return to
the ninety-day ducking season, if
plans of Mr.. LeCompte are sue
peSSfu1
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06

Revocation of automobile opera
tors licenses for operating cars
while under the influence of intox-
icants for the month of March, so
far show a total of "a, of which II
were from Delaware, three each
from Pennsylvania and Maryland
and one from Virginia.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
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P's.' d May 9Th
[,,,,p1ED BY STATE

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. + he George ,Nocia- wa5a.
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y esni Lodge, ancient 9Iltainia f[es
~ nssons Of virginia, a.
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! ingram has $, been snu'apl ar
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|s,i states will iSs Be n1lu May o Q
l..lns. y Monday night, Nay may :,
E,i,I. E!'i,T. Nay 10, a conference ference
ts, y S,:tsrs of the United teS
sI 4 held, and on !.oI the ioi,
! :, h he annual convention
| ''s''I,, y II washington Masonic
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=, will be held. On IN, rnurs, IS
w =, /, - tbe next day the
I !, s,.ting Of Masonic n, Ll0rag- as1s
EDUCATORS will be heLG; l'1;
! ! I. 5sdicatiOn will be
! ]. Day. a past Crane :
4 the Delaware Grand
,soi a life member Of the
\ association. A commit
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1 Delaware to make ar
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Lodge and subordinate
rucssntatiVes.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06

their plans. Mrs. Parker is a grad
uate of Wicomico High School and
of the Salisbury Normal. She is
teaching at Berwyn.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-06
I......tins FOrgeries

,oi,erSity has a cOllec-
n N sO-called Ireland for
.,Ds,s and letters which
q Hsury Ireland wrote in the
[s1ti century and strove tc
[ srAuted to Shakespeare.
Evening star., 1932-09-19
ONE DEAD, ONE LOST
IN PLANE ACCIDENT
Army Bomber Is Forced Down in
Heavy Water in Hawaiian
Islands.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, September 10 One
soldier is dead, another missing and
two are in hospital today as a result
Of the forcing down of an Army bomber
on the treacherouS waters between
Oahu and Molokai yesterday.
The body of Corpl. John Hart, Oak
land, Calf, was found tangled in the
cords of his unopened parachute.
John w. Long, EliZabethton, N. C.,
was missing. When searches through
half the day and night proved unavail-
ing, Col. Gerald C. Brandt expressed
belief he was dead.
Lieut.. John c. Kilborn and Sergt.
Stephen Rialas were rescued by the
Japanese sampan Ansu Maru from
the bomber's rubber raft, which the pair
inflated after the plane overturned.
The sampan,. ord-flshing craft, cut
loose a big fish to go to the aid of the
airmen.
Lieut. Kilbcrn said his plane was
forced down when one of its motors
went dead. 1t was one Of 26 planes
returning from an observation trip to
the Island of Hawaii
An Army amphibian, coming to the
rescue, was disabled by rough water
when it alighted half mile away. It
was towed to safety by sampan.
Evening star., 1932-09-19
Two Persons Dead
After Farm Fight
With Large Bear
65.Year.Old Man Killed
in Canada and Wife
Dies of Shock.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
EMERSON, Manitoba, September l9.
Two persons are dead here as re-
suit of a farm-yard battle with huge
black bear. The bear killed George
Kawrillia, 65-year- farmer. and Mrs.
Kawrillia died from the shock Of wit
Messing her husbands death.
Reports reaching here yesterday said
the bear came into the farm yard with
the cows. Kawrillia and his son at
tempted to drive it away, but 1t Climbed
a tree.
The only flrearm on the place was a
shotgun, and the farmer fired several
charges in an attempt to bring the ami
NAL down. Wounded In the eyes and
head, the bear fell from the tree and
the two men attempted to kill it with
a knife.
With one vicious slash Of his huge
paw, however, t/e animal ripped open
the farmers abdomen and he was
killed.
The bear limped away, with the
younger man giving chase, armed with
pitchfork. 1t escaped into swamp
and later was found and killed 400 yards
from the scene of the struggle.
KawrilliaS S farm is about miles from
Gardentown, a small village 80 miles
east of here.
BLIND BEAR CAN LIVE.
Evening star., 1932-09-19
HEAD Of GRAIN PIT
RAPS FARM BOARD
Peter B. Carey Says Chair.
man Stone Has Kept Chi
cago Prices Down.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
FRENCH LICK. Ind, September
19.-Peter B. Carey president OF the
Chicago Board of Trade, assailed the
Farm Board and its chairman, James
C. Stone, in a prepared address today
before the annual convention of the
Grain and Feed Dealers National As
Sociation.
He declared continuation of the
Farm Board, or its prototype, VIII
bring "a farm peasantry, politically
controlled and subjected to all the
wrongs suffered by the toilers IN the
fields of Eastern Europe"
Charging Chairman Stone Is
trouble maker Carey said any fair
minded taxpayer would feel that Mr..
Stone should be removed from the
Government pay roll and publicly rep
rimanded for his misconduct as an agi-
tators and exploiter of agriculture at
a time when the exchanges and all
other lines of business are cooperating
with the Government and doing their
utmost to lift the country out OF the
most disastrous depression in history.
ITO perpetuate his job and those OF
his associates" he added, farm groups
have been influenced to go into the
country and fight the Chicago Board OF
Trade, the central world grain market,
the farmers market. Mr.. Stone knows
that fighting markets in this manner
always has proved a price depreSSant
He knows how Farm Board methods OF
this sort have injured prices, that po-
litical attacks on the exchanges lnYarl-
ably drive out investment support, with
subsequent price slumps."
Carey said a brighter outlook for the
agricultural trades now is apparent,
but there are still obstacles ahead in
the way of clearing up three years Of
Farm Board wreckage."
Markets must be unclaimed, the
farmers grain placed in consumptive
channels, the farmers foreign markets
won back and agricultural prosperity
restored" he continued.
Evening star., 1932-09-19
LONDON CLUB PLANS
10th ANNIVERSARY
Boobies Has Occupied Present
Home $50 Years-Costly Gay
eties Mark Long History.
BY Gable to The Star.

By Cable to The Star.
LONDON, Sept. 10 (N.ANA).-The
second or third Oldest club IN the world
will hold its 10th anniversary dinner
shortly It has occupied its present
premises in st. James street for $50
years.
The club was founded by Mr.
Doodle in 1852 in a house in Pail Mall
but its original name was the Savoir
Vivre and it was noted for its costly
gayeties Ten thousand dollars was
spent by its members in 1774 on a
masquerade at the Pantheon. Their,
as now, it was club for country gentle
men. Masters of foxhounds were prom
inent among its members, and at the
end of the eighteenth and beginning OF
the nineteenth centuries it had so many
baronets on its list that it was saying
of the day that every Sir John belongs
to Boobies"
Among notable members Of earlier
days was Edward Gibbcn, the historian,
and King Edward used to preside at
meetings of the Royal Yacht Squadron
in the drawing room.
Many old customs are retained al
the club Members are expected To
dine in dinner jackets or tails" smok-
ing in the coffee room is prohibited, as
the port connoisseur does not like his
wine spoiled by tobacco smoke
The honorary members 1nclude the
Prince of Wales, the Duke OF York and
the Duke OF Gloucester.
Evening star., 1932-09-19
DEMOCRATS ISSUE
Campaign BOOK
Platforms of Both Parties
and Roosevelt Creed
Are Included.
Bv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 19-First
copies of the Democratic party's cam
paign book" for 1882, a paper bound
pamphlet of 103 pages and about one
fifth the size of the 1928 campaign
book, were distributed today at Demo
cratic national campaign headquarters.
The book contains the Democratic
and Republican platforms and the ac-
ceptance speeches of Gov. Roosevelt and
his running mate. Speaker John N. Gar
ner. 1t contains also biographical
sketches Of the presidential and vice
presidential candidates and articles on
leading issues of the campaign"
The first chapter of the book, entitled
Prophecy and Performance" is made
up Of quotatCLs from President Hoo
ver's 1928 campaign speeches and ad-
vertisements contrasted with his pub
lie statements during the present eco
nomic situation.
Then follows a chapter entitled The
Roosevelt Creed" written by Gov.
Roosevelt, expressing his belief in indi-
vidualism and concluding with the SEN
tence:
I'VE must get back to first principles;
we must make American individualiSm
what it was intended to be-equality of
opportunities for all and the right Of
exploitation for none"
Evening star., 1932-09-19
ROOSEVELT GIVEN
RAIL UNION PRAISE
General Counsel Halls Talk,
but Secretary Doak Flags
Governor.

Plans advanced by Gov. Roosevelt in
his Salt Lake City address Saturday
night for dealing with the railroad sit
uation was warmly praised here yes
terday by Donald Richberg, general
counsel for the railroad brotherhoods,
but was attacked by Secretary Of Labor
Doak
Secretary Doak, in a statement issued
through the Republican National Com
mittee, declared that the Roosevelt
plans are the same as those which
President Hoover already has recon-
mended to Congress.
Richberg termed Mr.. Roosevelt's ad-
dress "a broad gauge review of the
transportation problem, with a clean
cut program working out its solution" /"
in a statement which he issued here
yesterday.
Gov. Roosevelt, he said. exposes the
danger Of policy Of drift"
Praises Understanding.
He proposes" Richberg continued,
chat we meet squarely the dangers OF
overbuilt and badly financed, but es-
sential enterprises. which are harrassed
by unregulated unfair competition.
"He shows a sympathetic under
standing Of the inter-related interests
of shippers, investors and employees, and
offers a concrete and comprehensive
program which can be honestly de-
Scribed as both conservative and pro-
gressive"
Doak said "the economic education
Of the Democratic presidential candi-
date seems to be making some prog
ress," adding that in Albany last April,
Roosevelt attacked the administration
for its policy Of making loans to rail-
roads, banks and other institutions. as
serting that 1t was failing to aid those
at the bottom by means Of this policy"
"Since 1t took the Democratic presi-
Dental candidate five months to learn
that loans to the railroads benefited
more than 30000,000 Americans" he
said, obviously 1t will take him an
other five months to acquaint himself
with the fact that President Hoover
not only has saved the railroads. but he
has recommended to Congress the very
plans which Mr.. Roosevelt now adopts
as his own"
Address Figures Scored.
Renick W. Dunlap. Assistant Secre-
tary OF Agriculture, in statement is
sued through the Republican National
Committee, said that Gov Roosevelt in
his Topeka farm speech has been
guilty again of either deliberate mis-
statements or an exhibition Of COM
plete ignorance
He said Roosevelt made the state
ment that agricultural imports compet-
ing with American products in 1928
amounted to only s460, 900 900 whereas,
he asserted, Commerce Department rec
ords show they amounted to Sl,095,-
047,000, exclusive of raw silk, rubber,
coffee, tea, cocoa and spices.
Evening star., 1932-09-19
FARMER IS ATTACKED
AND ROBBED BY PAIR
Man Living Near Tysons Corners
Reports Assault on Return
Home Saturday Night.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TYSONS CORNERS, Va. September
19-Ernest Greenleaf, a farmer living
on the old Court House road near here,
reports that on Saturday night he was
assaulted by two young white men and
robbed Of SIS
Greenleaf said he spent Saturday in
Washington at market and as he drove
his truck into the garage adjoining his
barn, two men, who had been standing
inside the door of the barn, with hand
kerchiefs tied over their faces. jumped
on him from opposite sides. Both at
tackled him with blackjacks, cutting his
head in a dozen places. When he re-
fused to give them his pocketbook, he
said. they forced him down and started
to tie him while they searched him.
Sheriff E. P. Kirby stated he was
working on several clues. which had so
far not given any results. Greenleaf,
whose injuries were treated by DR.. John
Smallwood of Falls Church, said he
thought he would recognize the men if
he ever saw them again.