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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
DELAW ARES
CHARTER LAWS
ARE ASSAILED
Writer Asserts ''PrOtec-
ton" Laws In Federal
Incorporation Statutes.
SHOULD PAY STATE

John #. Flynn, well-knOwn finan-
cial writer, in a article in the Sep
tember Atlantic Monthly strongly at
tacks Delaware Lucrative" corpora
ton charter business. Mr.. Flynn eX-
presses astonishment that so much
money in franchise taxes should
come to Delaware, declaring that the
"Only protection which remains for
the people in the great majority OF
States which do not indulge in char
ter-mongering lies in a Federal in
corporation law"
1T is but fair to add, however,
Mr.. Flynn asserts, that Maryland,
Maine, Arizona and West Virginia
are also doing their share to make
America safe for promoters and very
insecure for investors.
1T would really pay the other
States of the Union, which suffer
from Delaware's delinquency" says
the author, ''to tax themselves en-
ough to pay the cost of running the
Delaware government, absolutely
free to that State, if she would just
agree to go out of the business OF
breeding corporations"
Exposure" of Delaware's charter
granting machinery does not come
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OPEN ANOTHER
SECTION OF STATE
DUAL HIGHW AY
Additional Five Miles To
Be Ready For Use By
Labor Day.
DECREASE MISHAPS

Saturday morning, August goth, a
new five-mile stretch of the dual
highway, from Drawers Creek to
Fieldsboro. was opened. On the
morning of Labor Day, an addition
al five mile stretch, from FieldsborO,
south, to Reynolds Corner, one mile
south of Blackbird Will be opened.
Bids were opened on August %,
for the laying of concrete for the
dual highway from Farnhurst to
l-.aers' Corner, a distance of 2.16S
miles, and this fall it is expected
that the laying of concrete from
Farnhurst to State Road will be
started, making a total of about 27
miles of the dual highway for the
DUPONT Boulevard.
Next summer, according to present
considerations, the dual highway
probably will be extended to Dover.
This entire project has been under
taken because of the increasing traf
fic, and as an unemployment relief
measure. A total of ITO men have
been employed on each of the four
sectional jobs, for months. 1t is es-
timated that 300 men have been
working on the extension of the du
Pont Boulevard from Drawers
Creek to Fieldsboro since it started
last spring.
This entire construction job has
been a State undertaking, with the
exception that the Wilmington city
relief committee provided part of
the funds for doing the grading be-
tween Wilmington and Farnhurst,
the difference between
the amount contracted for and the
amount for hiring city labor. All
the jobs required the employment OF
Delaware residents only. A total of
800 men have secured jobs since the
work started year ago
last spring.
The new section is 20 feet wide.
The old main highway, now the
lane OF the dual high
way, is Is feet wide. The new part
Of the dual highway was constructed
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WASHINGTON HITS
BACK AT SPEECH
OF ROOSEVELT'S
Asks Why Governor Did
Not Institute Reforms
He Urged.
ANSWERS CRITICISM
Smell Says They Could
Have Been Put Into
Force In New York.

The State Department and the
Republican National Committee
struck back quickly on Sunday at
Governor Roosevelts opening cam
paign address at Columbus last Sat
uTday.
The National Committee issued a
statement by Representative Smell
of New York, House Republican
leader, inquiring why the New York
Governor has not instituted in his
state the reforms he urged for reg
ulation of the stock exchange and
greater control and supervision of
banks and security issues.
The State Department replied to
the Democratic Presidential nOmi-
nee reference to foreign bond sales
with the assertion that the depart
ment has never approved a single
foreign loan"
Smell said Governor Roosevelt
had many of his facts wrong" EN-
ployed unfair use of spoken words"
and showed "a cOngenital inability
to think clearly"
"The amazing fact is," Smell said,
that all these reforms could have
been initiated by the governor of the
State of New York any time during
the last four years, and that the
governor should know that there is
no constitutional basis for Federal
government regulation of the stock
exchange or the issuance of securi-
ties by business concerns.
"The principal stock exchange of
the country is in New York. 1t is
much more amenable to state regu-
lation than to national. There are
no legal barriers to state regula-
tion
LAS to the issuance of securities,
New York is the great security mar
ket of the country. If Cover
nor Roosevelt really wants to stem
the flow of unsound securities and
control banking commissions, could
there be a more effective place to
apply his theories than at the
source?
"If his program be sound, if it
would cure the economic Ills of the
nation, why has the governor of
New York, a State so situated as to
be able to institute and carry them
through with surer authority and
greater effectiveness than the Fed
eral Government, remained silent
and inert until today, when he
speaks not as an executive clothed
with power, but as an eager seeker
for higher office?"
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DEFINITE BUSINESS UPTURN
LABOR DEPARTMENT FINDS
DURING MONTH OF JULY
Report For July Notes "StrOHg Indications" That
FOrlUard Trend In Employment Not Entirely OF
Temporary Character.

A definite upturn in business in
July was reported this week by the
labor department at Washington.
1t noted furthermore, strong in
dications that this upward trend in
employment was not entirely of a
temporary character"
Reports of the United States EN-
ployment service reveal that July
witnessed the first really noticeable
expansion in industrial activity that
has occurred so far this year." said
the departments industrial employ
ment information bulletin.
Conditions in the boot and shoe
industry generally improved. Quite
a number of these factories increas-
ed operations to full-time basis, re-
calling many workers who had been
idle for some time past.
"A decided upward trend occurred
in the textile industry, especially
noticeable in the mills manufactur-
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
MANY CARS YET
TO BIZ INSPECTED
NSAFETY DRIVE
Law In Regard To Inspec-
tiOn Is Plain And Must
Be Complied With.
THE TINE IS LIMITED

Does the official inspection stick
er appear on your windshield?
The Fifth Official Car Inspection
Campaign Bulletin released by w, ID.
Denney, Assistant Secretary of State,
indicates that to date 1856 cars
have passed the inspection and re-
ceived the official windshield sticker
during the first four weeks of the
campaign.
With more than two-thirds of the
inspection period passed only fifty
per cent of the cars have been in
spected. The distribution of cars in
spected by counties are as follows:
New Castle county, 14,OS2; Kent
county, Apt; Sussex county, 5,367;
number of vehicles inspected and
approved from January l to July 10,
5000 State total, 26,666.
Many Delawareans evidently fail
to realize that mechanical fitness
plays an important part in the re-
duction of highway accidents and
that approximately ten per cent of
accidents are due to faulty
mechanical equipment. Campaigns
of the car inspection type will not
make our State 100 per cent accident
proof, of course, but if Delaware
can, by means of the motor vehicle
inspection, cut down or wipe out the
ten per cent of its accidents due to
faulty equipment then it will have
something.
Many of the worn out, unsafe au-
tomobiles will be driven into the ga
rage for the last time. In many cases
they will be found not worth the ex-
pense of making he repairs neces-
sary to secure a certificate of ap-
proval. Many vehicle owners are
Joining in the movement willingly
but at the same time there is no al
tentative. The law says it must be
done aud we are looking for good
results.
Section "a of the Motor Vehicle
Laws of Delaware provides that,
The Department shall rescind and
cancel the registration of any vehicle
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STATE BANKERS WILL
MEET AT REHOBOTH
Annual Meeting OF Association VIII
BE Held September Eighth

The annual meeting of the Della
ware Bankers Association will be
held at the Hotel Henlopen, Reho-
both Beach, Thursday, September 8.
The afternoon business meeting
will commence promptly at two o.
clock, Eastern Standard Time. Fol-
lowing the important business ses"
sion, w. B. Brown, an official of
Moodys' Service, will address the
members using as his topic, Bank
Investments"
The annual meeting and election
of officers of the Delaware mem-
bers of the American Bankers As
sociation will be held Immediately
after the close of the regular after
noon session.
The dinner meeting will be at
seven o'clock, Eastern Standard
Time. DR.. Broadus Mitchell OF
Johns Hopkins University, and Rev.
r. H. McDade of Newport, Delaware,
will be the speakers of the evening.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26

A further search for the sunken
treasure ship DeBraake that went
down off the Delaware capes in 1898
will be continued this week by the
same party of salvagers who made
the first attempt the latter part of
July.
A. c. Robertson of New York, rep
resenting the London Salvage Co.;
John Mitchell of Baltimore, a ma
rine surveyor and Ralph e, Chap
man of New York, connected with
salvaging interests throughout the
east, are expected back in Lewes to
start operations again. They report
ed that the second attempt will last
at least a month. preparations hav-
ing already been made for the
group of ten men engaged to help
with the expedition. The first at
tempt was abandoned because the
party was forced to return at the
close of. a vacation period. However,
it is understood the initial tryout
was not entirely unsuccessful as a
piece of wreckage brought up from
the bottom of the bay on their last
day has been analyzed during their
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
CRYSTAL FOUNT
DOWNS STRONG
DAGSBORO Nine
Defeats DagsbOrO In Two
Games This Week; Har-
ringtOn Also Defeated.
FELTON, TOMORROW

Milford journeyed to Dagsboro on
Wednesday afternoon and played
the Dagsboro nine. At the end of the
ninth inning the score was to in
favor of Milford. Bob Smith, for
merly a New Castle High School
pitcher held the hard-hitting Days
boro nine to measly hits, and one
of these was by the pitcher and the
other by a pinch hitter in the ninth.
All of the boys played good base
ball, especially Lynch who made
several sensational catches in right
field.
4ke Crystal Fount baseball tenn
viii riay the Baltimore All-Stafs on
Wednesday of next week. August ii.
Tha game promises to be one of ,he
be 81 ever to be witu9sa1G on the
local diamond. The Baltimore ALL
Stars IL a team made up of fast
minor league players who found
themselves out of a job when the
teams that they We're playing with
were compelled, due to financial
difficulties, to suspend playing.
Many of the players are former
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
WARN CHILDREN
NOT TO THUMB
MOTOR RIDES
Practice Is Growing In
Larger Towns Safety
Council Manager Says.
DIFFICULT TO FIGHT

One of the dangers which children,
especially boys OF from ten to six
teen years of age, run in relation to
automobile traffic is in begging rides
from passing motorists. This peril
Gus practice, according to the Della
ware Safety Council, is particularly
evident IN the streets of our larger
towns and cities and is a growing
evil which parents, teachers in the
public schools, and the town and city
authorities find difficult to combat.
Though in Delaware it is against the
law for anyone to station himself in
street and thereby embarrass and
obstruct traffic, the police or the
traffic officer hesitate to make ar
rests in the case of offending young
sters, and reports and warnings have
had very little effect in curbing the
practice.
The remedy lies deeper. There is
a vital need in the home and in the
schools for a continuous, persistent
and intelligent campaign against this
exceedingly risky habit. 1t is some
thing which has a doubly deteriOrat-
ing effect on the child's character i'll
that it weakens the moral fibre and
also tends to develope a spirit of
recklessness as regards danger. Both
of these drawbacks to the proper
building up of a boys mental atti-
tude are present in the custom of
to the driver of an auto
mobile for free conveyance for either
a short or a long distance.
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26

ing wooden and worsted goods, rayon
and silk products and hosiery where
thousands of men and women were
re-emplOyed.
Very little change occurred in the
volume of employment in the iron
and steel mills and operating sched-
ules remained far below normal,
however, slight increases were noted
in a few districts.
"Part-time schedules were report
ed as general in the automobile fac
tories.
"The upturn in coal mining in
r'''-'N"' "f the anthracite fields re-
suited in the return to work of sew
O.al tnUdsand miners, but this i'm
provement was not reflected in the
areas, where large sur
pluses of these miners were noted.
"Metallilerous mining remained far
below ~N"mal. except that of gold,
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
DELAWARE FACES
LOSS OF APPLE
SALES IN BRITAIN
Ottawa Pact Provides A
Tariff Of Eighty-five
Cents Per Barrel.
WILL HURT GROWERS
States Diversified Mar
kets M a Ike Handicap
Less Acute.

Delaware's valuable apple mar
kets IN Great Britain are imperiled,
threatening loss to many State
farmers, it became apparent on Mon
day as details of trade pacts signed
at the Imperial Economic Confer
ence in Ottawa put Canadian or
chardists in a jubilant mood.
While the agreements between the
United Kingdom and the Dominions
for four shilling, siXpence per hun
dredweight (about S5 cents a bar
reD tariff Is aimed at the exports to
Great Britain from the Shenandoah
Valleys vast fruit belt and will eff
feet that area much more critically
than it will Delaware, it was pointed
out by Dean C.. A. McCue, of the
Agricultural Experimental Station at
the University of Delaware, that
Delaware also exports quantities of
apples to Great Britain and that the
tariff, If approved by the British Par
Lament and the DomOnion govern
ments, is certain to have a serious
effect in curtailing or ending these
shipments.
Not having had an opportunity to
examine the full text of the trade
pacts, Dean McCue said he was un-
able to estimate in figures the prob
able effect the agreements would
have in Delaware. He pointed out,
however, that the effects could not
possibly be as serious here as in the
Valley, inasmuch as the
British export market is virtually
the only outlet for that areas pro-
duction. Delaware's markets, on the
other hand, are much more diVersi-
fed.
The York variety of apples is the
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
S27,OOO.OO NOW DUE
ON UNPAID TAX
AND LIGHT BILLS
City Manager Banning
Asks Cooperation Of All
Milford Citizens.
WATER SUPPLY LOW

City Manager c. E. Banning, in a
display advertisement which will be
found on another page of this issue
of the Chronicle, is calling the at
tention of Milford citizens to the
fact that an exceptionally large sum
of money is due the city for bills of
various kinds. According to the
statement published by the city
manager this sum amounts to over
$27,000.00. 1t is composed of bills
for light, water and tax bills which
had not been paid to August l. Man
ager Banning also calls the atten-
tion of the Milford residents to the
fact that the floating Indebtedness
of the city amounts to $25,00000 on
which the city is paying interest
charges of $1,53O.00 yearly. He sug-
gests that should the money now
owing the city be paid this floating
debt could be wiped out and the in
terest charges saved to the munich
pality each year. The city has en-
ployed e. L. Kenly of Wilmington
as auditor and has appointed him
as a special collector to collect
these overdue bills for the city. Just
how far the city authorities are pre-
pared to go in collecting the ac-
counts now due is not disclosed in
the statement by the city manager,
but it is believed that those who
have failed to pay up will be COM
PEELED to do so in the very near fu-
ture.
The city authorities have also
called attention of Milford residents
to the fact that the water supply is
low at the present time and have
asked the cooperation of all users
of city water in conserving it. They
are requesting that the use OF
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
BOY SCOUTS CAMP
CLOSES THIS WEEK
A Large Number OF Down State
Boys Enjoyed Training

The camping season for the Rod
ney Scout Camps, ON the Chesa-
peake Bay, near North East, Md,
comes to a close this week. A total
of 70 scouts of the Delaware State
Area have enjoyed from one to four
weeks at the camp this summer.
These scouts have not only had
excellent opportunities for advance
ment in scouting but for an enjoy
able time as well. The scouts from
the Delaware Area have passed
many tests as well as earned a
number of Merit Badges while in
camp. Also they have enjoyed the
hikes, swimming and boating on the
Chesapeake, camp fires, games and
the many other activities that the
camp provides.
The down state troops represent
ed at camp with the number of
boys are as follows:
Delaware 3; Dover No. l, IA; Do
yer No. 2, 1; Dover No. 8, z; Cam
den-Wyoming, 4; FELTON,, L; Har-
rington, 4; Milford No l, 8; Mil
ford No. 2. 5; Milton, 3; .BridGeville,
2; Seaford 8; GEORGETOWN, 1; Lewes
8; Rehoboth, 2; Millsboro, l; Lone
Scouts, 2.
The boys attending camp from
this district are as follows: Norman
Bennett, Sinclair Campbell, George
Draper, Louis Freedman, Edward
Hill, Harold King, Levin L2tchum,
Felix Mick, John H. Potter, Alden
Ramsdell, James Salevan. Theodore
Paul Trader Osborne
Walls, and Samuel Wilson.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
Superintendent Shilling
Announces Room As
SignmeRtS For Glasses
In AH Schools In City.
In The Elementary School
The Grades VIII Haze
Three Teachers. Child
dreR To Be Assigned.

The following assignments of tea
chers and pupils to rooms, grades
and buildings for the coming school
! year have been announced by Super
I intendent Robert E. Shilling:
For the coming school year the
! grades from one to five inclusive
have been assigned to the elemen-
tary school building and portable
/ buildings at the corner of North and
Second streets. There will be three
sections of each of these grades ex-
cept the fourth which will have two
sections only.
Rooms l and 2 will be used as
Office and the nurses room, respec-
lively. The office will again be in
charge of Miss Lena S. Short, while
room 2 will again be in charge of
Mrs. Louise C. Farrow, the school
nurse.
The first grade will be located in
rooms Nos. 8. and on the first
floor of the front part of the main
building mentioned above and will
use the front entrance. The teach
ers will be: Room 5, Miss Marian F..
Heldmyer; room 8, Miss Edith NJ.
Johnson, and room 4, Miss Lulu NJ.
Ross.
The second grade will also use
the front entrance and will occupy
rooms IL and 12 ON the first floor
at the rear of the building and room
II upstairs. The teachers will be:
Room IL, Miss Geraldine Garrison;
room u, Miss Ellen V. Wallace and
room II, Miss Mildred Breisch.
The third grade will also use the
front entrance and will be located
upstairs in the main building in
rooms Nos. Z, 8 and g. The teachers
will be: Room Z, Mrs. Emma w.
Cordray; room 8, Miss Cora D. Sip
pie, and room 8, Miss Dorothy f.
The fourth grade, having only two
sections will occupy the double
portable building in which the
rooms will be numbered IA and Is.
The teachers will be: Room IA. Miss
Cordelia E. Carter and room Is,
Miss Lila H. Hudson.
The fifth grade will occupy rooms
rather widely separated as follows:
Section one, Mrs. Ruth P. Blades.
teacher, will use the front entrance
and occupy room 6 upstairs in the
main building; section two, Mrs.
Florence B. Travers, teacher, will
use the entrance on Second street
and occupy room 18 upstairs in the
rear part of the building; section
three, Miss May Watson, teacher,
will also use the gate on Second
street and occupy the one-roOm
portable building which will be
room 10.
Room 16 which has been used pre-
yiously as the cafeteria will contin-
lie to be used for that purpose.
Mrs. Gladys F. Smith who was
he supervisor and teacher of pub
ic school music in the schools last
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
SERUM SAVES MAN
BITTEN BY SNAKE
NEAR STOCKLEY
Sussex Farmer Rallies
After Treatment; PO-
lice Aid Mercy Dash.
VICTIM RECOVERING
Fluid Rushed from Wash
ingtOn, Wilmington;
Reptile Is Killed.

Captain Edward Reynolds, 50
years old, is recovering in the Mar
shall Hospital here from the effects
of being bitten Saturday by dead
ly copperhead snake. Quick action
of police in bringing serum from
Wilmington and Washington saved
his life.
Captain Reynolds, a former sea-
faring man who has become a far
mer, was bitten about II o'clock on
Saturday morning in the corn crib
ON his farm near Stockley. The
snake was behind some sacks he
was moving and bit him on the left
hand, paralyZing the hand and arm.
Almost Immediately, Captain Rey-
nolds became weak and breathing
grew difficult At the Marshall Hos
pital he received the personal at
tentiOn of Drs. Samuel and William
Marshall.
The first packet of serum, which
was not sufficient for the mans
needs, was brought from Whining
ton to Milford by members of the
Delaware State Police. Members Of
the Maryland State Police brought
the second package from Washing
ton, aided by the Delaware police.
1t arrived early Sunday morning.
None of the serum could be had i'm
either Philadelphia on New York.
The snake. which was about three
feet long, was killed and sent to the
State laboratories. where it was de-
clared to be a cOoperhead, reptile
more dangerous than the rattle
snake to which it is related. 1t is
as venomOusas the rattle
snake, but lacks rattles and moves
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
SCHOOL WILL
OPEN TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 9TH
SENATOR HEFLIN TO
SPEAK AT SNOW HILL

On Wednesday, August 81,
at 8 p. m, former Senator j.
Thomas Heflin, of Alabama,
will deliver an address in the
Opera House at Snow Hill
under the auspices of the
Junior Order United American
Mechanics.
This address is considered
to be his masterpiece, in
which he rises to new heights
of Oratory. In it the Senator
deals with the Bible, the ben
efits of the public schools and
American ideals, in way
that no one could be offended
and everyone comes away
with an unified and keener
sense of the honor and privil-
ege of being an American cit
iZen.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
CUNNING IN MARYLAND
STARTS SEPTEMBER l

Hunting seasons will begin
in Maryland ON September 1,
when the railbird season
opens. it has been announced
by State Game Warden f. Lee
LeCompte.
Railbird shooting is popu-
lar sport along Maryland's
ocean coast as well as in the
Chesapeake Bay sections.
The season for hunting
squirrels is from September
IS to October IS and from No
vember Is to December "a.
However, in Cecil and Allie
gheny counties, squirrel hum
ting is prohibited except from
November Is to December "a.
The open season for doves
is from September l to the 30
and from November Is to De-
cember Is. Dove hunting is
permitted in Cecil county only
between November Is and
December IS.
The wild fowl season is Op-
en- from November 16 to jan
uary Is. o.
The open season for hunt
ing Chinese pheasants,
grouse, rabbit, wild turkey,
partridge is from November
Is to December 81.
A tag must be shown on the
hunter while hunting and his
license must be on his per-
son.
The squirrel season in Del
aware starts on September l
and ends October Is.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, August II, To
Tuesday, August %, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller. local
weather recorder, reports the fol-
lowing weather conditions in Mil
ford, from Wednesday, August II,
to Tuesday, August %, inclusive:
Temperature Rain
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-26
Temperature Rain

Total Rainfall ...... 10
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
period: