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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
J. A. FREAR FARM
IS "BEST KEPT"
Place Operated By Charles Marvel
Given S25 Prize By Commission

The commission appointed some
weeks ago by Governor Buck to Sc
lect the best kept farm and garden
without signs ON the public highway
to Rehoboth, and the neatest and
prettiest gas station on the high
way, has recommended the selection
of the farm known as the Second j..
A. Frear farm on the left on the
dupont Boulevard, not far from the
village of Five Points below Dover,
operated by Charles Marvey.
The commission has also notified
the governor of the selection of the
Sunoco Gas Station, Smith Or
chards, located on the DUPONT Bou-
levard near the Cheswold intersec-
ton, as the neatest and prettiest
gas station on the State Highway
from st. Georges to Rehoboth. This
station is operated by Harry Haas.
The presentation of the awards
for the best kept farm and the
neatest station, $25 to each was de-
livered in person to the occupants,
by Secretary-of-State Charles II.
Grantland.
The fund for these awards was
furnished by Mrs. P. S. DUPONT and
Mrs. Henry B. Thompson, of Will
mingtOn.
The members of the commission
appointed by Governor Buck to
make the selections included Judge
and Mrs. w. w. Harrington, Mrs.
Henry Ridgely, of Dover; Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Till and William P
White, of Wilmington.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
MARYLAND CRAB
PLANTS WARNED
BYHEALTHBOARD
Campaign For Higher
Sanitation Standards
Now Being Conducted
ONE PLANT CLOSED
Federal Officials Seize A
Shipment Said To Have
Shown SpOilage Signs

Campaigning for higher santa
tion standards in Maryland's crab
meat packing industry, the State
Department of Health has closed
one Eastern Shore plant and noti-
fed several others that they must
improve their processes.
Announcing this DR.. Robert H
Riley, director said:
"The establishment we have clos
ed may reopen whenever it improves
its methods from the standpoint OF
sanitation. For that reason, we be-
heve it would be unwise to make
the name public and, because it
might reflect on other packing es-
adjustments in the vicinity, we are
Withholding the location of the
plant"
The campaign has the backing of
the United States Department of
Agriculture, whose Pure Food and
Drug Bureau, interested in out-of-
State shipments of Maryland crab
meat, this week ordered shipment
seized because some of it showed
traces of spoilage.
"Crabmeat is easily contaminated
and spoils very quickly" DR.. Riley
said. "It, therefore, requires very
careful handling, and we are trying
now, as ir the past, to see that crab
meat packed in Maryland is handled
in that manner We are campaign
ing toward that end most intensive
ly right now because of the hot wea-
ther, which increases the danger of
spoilage.
"A. L. Sullivan, chief CT the Bur
eau of Food and Drugs, has charge
of the campaign, which involves in
vestigation of all packing establish
ments and conferences with the
packers.
"We are holding meetings in the
various packing centers, chiefly In
Talbot, Dorchester and Somerset
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
AUTO HELD SAFE
If DRIVEN RIGHT
Safety Council Declares
Blame For Crashes Usu-
ally Rests With Driver

There is a deplorable tendency on
the part of some unthinking people
to lay the blame for the many mo-
torcar accidents which occur each
year on the machine. According to
the Delaware Safety Council the
automobile is too often pictured as
a modern death dealing juggernaut
which 1ashes rapidly, recklessly
and frequently in an undisciplined
manner spreading death and de-
struction in its wake. Such charac-
teriZation of the mOtOrcar is mani
festly unfair. The automobile as a
piece of machinery is.nOt unsafe.
The fault more often than not rests
with the driver. 1t is the driver to
be feared, not the automobile. No
less an authority than Benjamin G.
Eynon, Commissioner of Motor We
hicles of Pennsylvania. pointed out
recently that traffic safety is 95 per
cent education and per cent en-
fOrcement.
One of the biggest problems is
the education of automobile owners
and drivers. When we are able to
sell the idea of safety to a suffi-
ciently large proportion of drivers,
then we can expect an appreciable
decrease in motor traffic accidents.
Effective safety education is the
ideal which our authorities seek.
To educate persons in the mass in
subject of this nature is admitted
ly difficult and long task. We can
point out for example that only 5O,-
$40 members of the American Ex-
peditionary Forces were killed in
action and died of wounds in eigh-
teen months of warfare. We can
this with the $500 per-
sons killed in automobile accidents
in the United States in the eighteen
months ending December 81 last.
But this fact makes scant or at
least a temporary impression upon
most drivers. In like manner we can
emphasize the danger of passing
cars on curves or tell the public
that many fatal accidents result an
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
D. ]. LAYTON FOR
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Georgetown Attorney Would Accept
Place On Republican Ticket

Daniel ]. Layton, attorney of
Georgetown, has consented to allow
his name to be placed before the
Republican State Convention at Do
yer next month for nomination to
the office of Attorney General. He
is one of the foremost lawyers of
lower Delaware.
Mr.. Dayton has been visited dur
ing the past two weeks by leading
Republicans of Kent and Sussex
counties and urged to be a candidate
for the nomination. That he might
become the psrty's nominee was
stated last week.
After Considering the requests,
Mr.. Layton informed his friends
that he would consent to allow his
name to go before the convention
and if he is nominated will accept.
Mr.. Layton has the endorsement
of Republican leaders of the State
and has been supporting Governor
Bucks campaign for denomination.
He was born in Georgetown, and is
son of the late Congressman Caleb
Rodney Layton and Annie Elizabeth
Sipple Layton. He was admitted to
the practice of law in 1903. He has
served as deputy attorney general.
James R. Morford, attorney of
Wilmington, recently announced his
candidacy for the same nomination.
The office of attorney general is
now held by Reuben Satterthwaite,
Jr, of Wilmington. Mr.. Satterth-
waite, it is believed, may be a can
didate for another Office on the
State ticket.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
SAY BOAT SEIZED
is RUM RUNNER
While No Liquor Was Found On The
Craft 1t Was Held BY Authorities

The alleged rum runner wild
Rose" captured by Coast Guard pa
troll boat CG-2O9 late Thursday
night of last week near the Four
teen Foot Bank lighthouse in Della
ware Bay, was taken to Lewes and
placed under guard at the canal
docks of the Sixth District Coast
Guard service.
The boat was sighted while under
way across the bay and upon board
ing it the coast guard officers dis
covered it was sailing under suspici-
Gus circumstances as the captain
it is said, was apparently sailing
under an assumed name, the name
of the right captain being known to
officials. Charges against the boat
were that it showed failure of new
owner and new master to report
change in master of a licensed yes
sell" A fine will likely be imposed.
The Wild Rose, it is said, smelled
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
PAGEANT DEPICTS
2OO-YEAR HISTORY
OF SALISBURY
Miss Caroline c. Waller
Reigns AS Queen In
COlOrful Fete
LARGE ATTENDANCE
Chamber OF Commerce
Gives Luncheon For Brit
ish Trade Body Head

With historic and symbolic page
antry, Salisbury ON Tuesday night
depicted the 200 years of its history.
1t was the second day of the Bi-Cen-
tennial program.
At noon all official pomp and GER
emony was set aside while a firmer
link was being cast between Sails
bury and the ancient mother city Of
Salisbury, England. Councillor AL
frede Bait, vice-president of the
Salisbury, England, Chamber OF
Commerce, was the honor guest at
a luncheon given by the Salisbury
Chamber of Commerce.
Among the other guests were
Governor Albert C. Ritchie. Mayor
J. S. Rambridge, of the ancient
English city, the mayors brother,
Frank. and also L. Irving Pollitt,
past president of the Eastern Shore
Society of Baltimore city.
On Tuesday the junior mayor and
other boy officials of the city pre-
sented Governor Ritchie with a NOR
roco-bound deluxe copy of historic
Maryland. A book Just off
the press.
The pageant Tuesday night had
cast of $50 men, women and chill
dren and was given in The natural
of Municipal Park
The days program included the
of the tennis tourna-
ments at 2 p. M; the arrival of the
National Guard Air
Squadron for air stunts and old
fashioned games at Municipal Park,
all in the afternoon, followed by the
pageant in the evening. Miss Caro-
lyn Crosby Waller, daughter of Geo.
w. D. Waller, a Salisbury attorney,
who owns the famous Popular
Hill" mansion, which was built by
Major Levin Handy, one of Sails
Dury's earliest settlers in 1895 and
since then has passed on through
The Winder and Waller families
was Queen Salisbury" of the page
ant.
Wednesday was girls day, with
he track, field and aquatic events.
ln that day. too, the boys of Sails
bury took over the reins of govern
nent. Thursday, the Forty-ninth /
3ombardment Squadron descended /
IN Salisbury in series of wartime
The Akron was sched-
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
TALL CEDAR BAND TO
PLAY AT GEORGETOWN
Program Next Thursday Is First OF
Series In County

Evergreen Forest Band, No. 49, T.
C. L., will play a concert of popular
music in the public square at
Georgetown next Thursday evening,
August IS, at eight o'clock.
This is part of the program the
band has adopted of playing in sew
eral of lower Delaware towns dur
ing the summer months.
c. Russell Snyder, County Agent
of Sussex county, is directing the
band and will conduct next weeks
concert.
This band is composed of musi-
clans who are member of the Ma
sonic fraternity and most every
town in lower Delaware is repre-
sented in its membership:
Milford will be visited at date
to be announced later.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
WILL HOLD HEARING
TO LEARN CRAB COSTS
Maryland Fishing Interests Are Wit
ally Interested In Problem

A hearing of vital interest to the
crabmeat industry throughout the
United States and especially on
Eastern Shore waters and the Del
Mar-Va Peninsula, will be held by
the u S. Tariff Commission, in
Washington, d. c., on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 4th, at 10 a. m, for the pur-
pose of considering a requested in
crease in the tariff rate ON foreign
crabmeat.
According to the DelMar-Va East
ern Shore Association, this hearing
is of decided concern not only to
those engaged in the crabmeat bust
ness but all interests of the seafood
and fishermen throughout the Del
Mar-Va Peninsula. The Commission,
under Senate Resolution No. 122,
was directed to investigate the cost
of production of crabmeat, fresh or
frozen, whether or not packed in ice,
or prepared or preserved in any
manner, including crab paste and
crab sauce. This investigation was
for the purpose of obtaining definite
facts regarding the industry in the
OullGu OldICS anu lOlGlSli COullll lCoB
upon which action might be based to
increase the tariff rate on foreign
crabmeat if found that the Ameri-
can producer is at a disadvantage in
competition with the foreign prod
uct. The resolution is in accordance
with section 1886 of the Tariff Act of
1880, known as "The Flexible Pro-
vision" of the Act under which Con-
gress empowered the President of
the United States to raise or lower
tariff rates as much as 500 on the
basis of reports and recommenda-
tions of the Tariff Commission after
of cost and production
in United States and competitive for
eign countries.
The tariff rate on crabmeat is now
1870 lad valorem) and the most the
President could raise this would be
71a@d which would limit the increase
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
FREE LIBRARY IS
WELL PATRONIZED HERE
During July A Total OF 1890 Books
Were Borrowed

July has been busy month in the
Milford Free Public Library, ar
ranging and cataloguing new books,
repairing old ones, combined with
a record making summer circula-
tiOn.
Milford has every reason to feel
proud of the growing interest man
ifested in one of its most worth
while institutions. July year ago
634 books were borrowed during the
month. July, 1882, the circulation
has grown to 1880, representing
readers not only of Milford and vi
cinity, but Glendale, Lincoln, Har-
rington, Pennington and Houston.
The resignation of Miss Edna
Barker as assistant librarian, was
accepted with regrets by the library
board at the regular July meeting
and the secretary was instructed to
write Miss Barker a letter express
sing the commissions appreciation
for her splendid services rendered.
Fifty-eight new books have been
purchased during the month; five
sent from the Junior Literary Guild
and 16 presented by Mrs. George w.
Marshall, Mrs. Wallace MeFaul,
Miss Jane Herson, Rabbi Max Co.
hen and Edward Hill
Four hundred books have been
mended and 81 discarded A few
weeks ago a little child from New
York spending his vacation here,
remarked to the librarian, as he
borrowed a book Here is some
thing l have been wanting for
weeks-we have a library at home
three times the size of this, yet this
has been my first opportunity to
read it."
The library will be open four
times each week: Monday evening
from z until 9; Wednesday after
noon from until 5; Saturday af-
ternoon from 2 until S, and Satur-
day evening from Z until 9 O'Clock,
on the third floor of the Community |
Building.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
WARNING ISSUED TO
MILFORD BATHERS
Secretary OF Board of Health Says
Lake Waters Are Dangerous

DR.. E. F. Smith, executive secre-
tary of the Milford Board of Health
has issued a warning to bathers who
are using the fresh water ponds in
the vicinity of Milford. Our popular
swimming lake was found to be dan
gerous after the Pennsylvania State
Board of Health asked for informa-
ton following the illness of two
children who had bathed in the lake.
The warning issued by DR.. Smith
follows:
AS the fresh-water ponds in the
neighborhood of Milford have been
found by the State Board of Health
to contain B. Coli, which may be of
human origin, we wish to warn the
public of the possible danger of
bathing in them, especially if the
bather has not been immunized with
in three years against typhoid few
er.
Ponds and streams become con-
taminated by the excreta of man or
animals being carried into them by
rains or otherwise. Should the ex-
creta from a case of typhoid fever
or a typhoid carrier drain into them,
there is grave danger of bathers con-
tracting the disease.
A typhoid carrier is person who
has had typhoid fever, maybe years
ago, and is still harboring the ty-
phoid germs and discharging them
from the intestinal or urinary tract,
these discharges being a constant
source of danger to persons coming
in contact with them.
AS the natural drainage of terri
tory surrounding ponds is toward
the ponds, it is almost impossible to
prevent excreta from man and ami
mails from getting into them.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
OFFICERS VISIT
BETHANY BEACH
MILITIA CAMP
New Jersey N a tiOnal
Guard And Regular Army
Men At Camp Hopes
GOVERNOR'S DAY
Elaborate Program Pre-
pared For Occasion of An
nual Visit of Executive
GOVERNOR'S DAY

Commanding officers of the New
Jersey National Guard and officers
from Governors Island, New York,
headquarters of the Second Corps
Area, Regular Army, were guests at
the training camp of the Delaware
National Guard at Bethany Beach
Monday.
The party, which was taken on
tour of inspection through the camp,
included Brigadier General Winfield
S. Price, division commander of the
New Jersey National Guard; Lieu
tenant Colonel Herbert D. Forrest,
adjutant of the 44th Aviation Divi-
sion, New Jersey National Guard;
Major Robert l.. COpse, commanding
officer of the same division; First
Lieutenant Leon d. Hoffman, also of
that division; Colonel Frank E.
Ferguson, Second Corps Area district
commander; Colonel John r. Kel-
ley, officer in charge of National
Guard affairs in the Second Corps
Area, and Colonel j. Campbell
Gilmore, retired, formerly adjutant
general of the Pennsylvania ational
Guard
This group was conducted on its
inspection tour of the camp by Colo
mel George ]. Schulz, Brigadier Gen
eral Weller E. Slower, adjutant gen.
eral of the Delaware National Guard;
Lieutenant Colonel S. B. l. Duncan,
Major James B. Hutson and Captain
Louis B. Hudgins.
The group from the New Jersey
National Guard flew to Bethany
Beach in planes from the Newark,
N. j., airport
Machine gun units under command
of Major John w. Davis put on a
spectacular demonstration Monday
night with the aid of the searchlight
section, commanded by Major Ralph
Kennan.
The machine gunners fired at bal
looms let loose on the beach. With
the searchlight sweeping in great
arcs to "pick up" the tiny targets,
tracer bullets streamed
skyward from the gun batteries.
Hundreds of persons at Bethany
Beach watched the performance.
In athletics Battery G won the
baseball championship of the Sec
ond Battalion by defeating Battery
H. Battery E won the ten man tug
of-war championship of the Second
defeating Headquarters
Battery.
A total of 246 men have qualified
for marksmen, .sharpshoOter or eX-
pert on the pistol range.
In addition to Governor Buck and
his staff the 19Sth Coast Artillery
Regiment on Wednes-
day had as guest General Dennis E.
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
BUSINESS IS NOW
INTERESTED IN
FALLPROSPECTS
Gain In National Conf
dence Argues Well For
Industrial Outlook
RAILROADS BUSY
Banking Quarters Fears
False Hope For Sudden
Improvement May Arise

With business activity reduced to
around one-half of what is widely
regarded as it's theoretical normal
state, easily the most interesting phe-
nomenon of the past week has been
the sharp rise in national confidence
and hOpefulness.
Electric power production in the
final week of July showed a slight
increase over the preceding week
whereas in both the 1880 and 1881
corresponding weeks it declined.
Commodity price indexes advanced,
notable among the weeks gains be-
ing those scored by wheat. But in
juxtapOsitiOn to these encouraging
factors were a further decline in
steel mill activity, production Slip
ping to around Is per cent of ca
pacity and a fairly sharp cOntrac-
tion in automobile output in the last
week of July.
Car loadings for the week ended
July 80 showed a gain of 9557 over
the preceding week, the aggregate
being 51O,6S7 cars. Current loading
figures are being closely watched be-
cause of the imminence of the usual
autumn increase in freight move
ment. This movement should reach
its peak in about ten weeks.
Looking to Autumn
Business executives were perhaps
less concerned with the actual fig
'ures bearing on present day indus
try than they were with prospective
gains which might be registered this
coming autumn. Many of the more
conservative students of business
conceded that there had been changes
of far reaching Importance in the
business prospect.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
FARMER TO PROFIT
FIRST IN RECOVERY
Economists Believe That Better
Prices To Farmer VIII Start Upturn

For the first time since the begin
ming of the present business depres-
sion, most leading economists join
in fixing a date for the beginning of
the industrial upturn. The weighted
-concensus of such opinions, accord
ing to Gage P. Wright, editor of
The Business Economic Digest,
agrees that prospects now favor a
moderate pickup in sales this au-
tumn, with the most extensive bet
terment likely to be registered in
farm sections. Industrial regions
will improve slowly as recovery
in industry leads to increased en-
ployment, payrolls, and purchasing
power, but the farmer will feel the
effects of a price rise Immediately,
say the economists, who point out
that not only will his products COM
mand a higher value, but also his
credit rating will be better. The live
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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
$1O9,OOO ALLOCATED
FOR STATE WATERWAYS

A total of $1O8OOO was al
located by two Delaware wa
terway projects by Secretary
CT War Hurley on Saturday,
out of river and harbor funds
for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1888.
Funds totaling $95,OGO were
made available to the opera
tion and maintenance of the
Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal, and $4,000 for Smyr-
ma River, Delaware, for dred-
ging during the present fiscal
year.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, August 8, To
Tuesday, August 8, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller. local
weather recorder, reports the fol-
lowing weather conditions in Mil
ford, from Wednesday, August 8, to
Tuesday, August 8, inclusive:
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
Temperatnre Rain

Total Rainfall ......... so
Total Rainfall for July. .2.17 inches
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
period:
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-10-18
NOTICE

Notice is hereby gwen for James V. Davis, Administrator of the es- tate of the partnership consisting of James V. Davis and H. c. Davis, deceased, will sell the property belonging to the estate consisting of the following:
 1-Floating trap frame
 6-5-ton cast iron anchors
 24-4OO lb. cast iron weights
 8380-ft. of cable
 (The foregoing property being used in connection with the Bendal Floating Trap.
 only cotton spiller for pile trap 40x160.
 The estates right to one permit to maintain floating trap near Cape Bendal, which trap was op- erated under Territorial License No. 31-507.
 The estates right in certain permit to operate and maintain a pile trap at Naked Island, which trap was maintained under Terri torial License No. 31-508.
 The motor boat "ROEDDA," and equipment.
 at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash at the front entrance to the Federal and Territorial Building, at Juneau, AL aska, on Wednesday, October 26, 1882, at 2 o'clock P. M. of said day.
 The administrator will offer said trap equipment for sale separate and apart from the permits and the boat; and will offer said per- mits for sale separately and separ- ate and apart from the other prop erty; and will offer said gas boat for sale separate from the other personal property, except the per- sonal property belonging and used in connection with said gas boat; and will offer all of the property for sale as whole; and will sell the same so that the estate will realize the most.
 Notice is further given that the administrator has been allowed to bid and purchase said property, the same as any disinterested person.
 JAMES V. DAVIS. Administrator of the partnership
 consisting of James V. Davis and
 H. c. Davis, Deceased. First publication, Oct. IA, 1892. Last publication, Oct. 25, 1882.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-10-18
FEARS FORK

Lefty Gomez, the slim Yankee southpaw who beat the As seven times during the season, has a healthy respect for Jimmie Foxx.
 T never saw Ruth in his prime but in my brief experience up here Foxx has hit them twice as high and far as anything have seen the Babe belt. Boy, that fellow takes cut He hit two homers off me this year that looked as though they never would come down. One was in the opening game, a wallop that cleared the center field fence at Shibe Park near the flagpole and the other was in the last week of the sea- son, with the bases full"
 Bing Miller, in Gomez's opinion,