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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
APPROVE $34l,OOO
FOR TEN HIGHWAY
PROJECTS IN DEL.
Bids To Be Asked At Once
On Part OF $1,819,000
Program.
PART OF PROGRAM
Two ThOrOughfares For
Towns Among Those
Given Final Approval.
PART OF PROGRAM

Ten highway projects totalling
$341 900 all in outright grants from
the Federal Government, have been
authorized by the Department of
Agriculture as the first block in
Delaware's $1,819,OOO share of the
$400, 100000 national road construc-
ton appropriation.
Though supplanting in some mea-
sure the regular Federal aid road
grants which hitherto were matched
by funds from the State government,
and though handled through the De-
partment of Agriculture, as the Fed
eral Aid grants were, the projects
are considered part of the national
recovery program and it will not be
necessary for the State to match the
appropriations.
Plans and specifications for the 10
projects already approved were pre-
pared by w. w. Mack. chief engineer
of the State Highway Department
and have been in the hands of the
Washington authorities for some
time.
The chief project yet to be author
ized, but which doubtless will be
constructed with a part of the ST.
478,000 which remains to the credit
of the State following authorization
of the first 10 projects, is widening
of the highway from Dover to Re-
hoboth at a cost of 100000.
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
MRS. MYRA BOLDLY
INJURED In ACCIDENT
Suffers Broken Back, DislOcated
Hip in Motor Car Mishap.

Mrs. Myra Ackerman Boldly, for
merly of Milford was severely in
jured last Thursday night when the
car in which she was riding over
turned while rounding a curve on
the dirt road leading from Willo-
mere Inn to the Georgetown-Reho-
both Highway.
Mrs. Boldly was severely injured
and her husband who escaped injury
had to run nearly mile abefore he
could find a car in which to take his
wife to the Beebe Hospital at Lewes.
At the hospital it was revealed that
Mrs. Boldly had suffered a broken
back, a broken shoulder blade and
a dislocated hip. An X-ray showed
that the spinal cord was not broken.
As the Chronicle goes to press
she is resting comfortably. 1t is
expected that she will have to re-
main at the hospital for several
weeks.
Mrs. Boldly is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Ackerman of this
city. Before her marriage she was
employed at the Milford Trust Com
pany. In her school days she played
on the basketball teams both at
the Milford High. School and Bea-
com Business College and she was
rated as the best forward in Del
aware baseball circles.
Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
STATE WELFARE HOME
TO OPEN THIS n4~ TIL
No Definite Date Named By Com
mission However.

The State Welfare Home at
Smyrna, which was built to replace
the three county hospitals, will be
opened for use the latter part of
this month.
The State Old Age Welfare Com
mission made this announcement
this week.
The commission requested that
the New Castle County Levy. Court
allow it $1,000 towards the defraying
of expenses incidental to opening of
the home. The letter to the Levy
Court stated that before the home
is opened supplies must be pur-
chased and other expenses met. The
$1,000 would be credited to the
charge against the county for its
share of the annual expenses.
Action on the request was deferred
for two weeks.
The commission said that while it
hopes to open the home the latter
part of this month, no definite date
can yet be set.
When in operation many of the
inmates of the three county aims
houses will be removed to the new
home at Smyrna.
Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
MANY STREETSN
MILFORD WILL Be
REPAIRED SOON
Council Considering BOr-
rowing Money From N.
l. r. A. Fund.
GOVT TO PAY 30 P. C..

The regular monthly meeting of
City Council was held on Tuesday
night at the Municipal Building.
A committee representing citizens
either living or having places of
business on the Milford -Rehoboth
Highway between the euts6ff- coFntf
and, MarshalI's mill pond appeared
before Council requesting a city
water supply. The committee con-
sisted of Roscoe Galloway, Fred
Breme and Rodney Stewart. Tine
city is at present extending the city
water lines to the Whistle Bottling
Cos plant on the Cedar Neck road
and Roscoe Galloway, spokesman
fer the committee. sta3nd that it
would be only matter of 500 feet
more to extend the line down as far
as Second street and connect the
line with the one on that street,
forming a wheel. Council author
lied City Manager Banning to make
an estimate of the cost of such an
extension and also of water line
starting at Peabody Ave. and run
ming west on West Front street to
the DUPONT boulevard.
A petition from the Milford Busi-
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
STATE HOSPITAL
STAFF ENJOYS
OUTING ON BAY
Gov. Buck Honor Guest at
Luncheon Of Directors,
Doctors AT Lewes.
TO SEEK FUNDS

A delightful outing on the pilot
boat Delaware, was enjoyed last
Thursday afternoon by the directors
and consulting staff of the Delaware
State Hospital, and women guests,
nearly fifty in number, when the
party came to Lewes as the guests
of DR.. NJ. A. Tarumianz, superinten-
dent of the hospital. Captain Harry
Lyons, of Lewes, a director of the
hospital, and a Delaware pilot, re-
ceived the party on their arrival and
conducted them to the Hotel Caesar
Rodney, where luncheon was served.
During the early afternoon the
guests went aboard the pilot boat
for a cruise around the Delaware
Breakwaters and beyond the Del
aware Capes. A short business ses-
sion was held aboard the vessel, pre-
sided over by Fred H. Gawthrop,
president of the board.
Governor Buck was honor guest at
the luncheon in the HoJel Caesar
Rodney, having come over from Re-
hoboth Beacn where he has taken a
cottage ioI the month.
At the business meeting it was
reported that a total of S4j patients
are being trea,ed at the hospital, 1876
males and 40j females. One hun
dred and three males are on parole
and|5S females. DurlIg the past
month Ii patients were discharged,
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
WARNING GIVEN
ROBUSTNESS MEN
BY GEO. H. DERN
Says Vast Majority Of
People For Program;
Denies 1t Is Too Radical
SOME OPPOSITION

In forceful language, Secretary of
War George H. Dern says that at
tempts to gain selfish advantage
through the National Industrial Re-
covery Act will not be tolerated.,
While stressing the governments
intention 10 see no undue hardship
is imposed upon smaller business
men who may not be able to sign
President Roosevelt's re-employ-
ment agreement Immediately" Seere-
tary Dern voiced a warning to those
who would interfere with the pro-
gram.
"It is with regret that | state that
there has been some opposition and
some criticism of this act to reha-
bilitate industry and to restore mil
lions of men to the payroll, and that
some are seeking selfish advantage"
Secretary Dern said, "this will not
be tolerated"
MY recent tour through the states,
however, has convinced me that the
vast majority of Americans are en-
thusiastic in their support of the
new program. They are not in a
mood to brook very much open in
reference with it, or to be hospit-
able to the suggestion that the recov-
cry act is too radical"
Secretary Dern ridiculed the idea
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
THREE MEN DIE
ONE HURT IN 2
TRUCK CRASHES
Men Operating Trucks OlUHed By The Victor Lynn
Company Of Milford, Met Tragic Deaths On State
Highway Early Last Friday Morning; State Police
Investigate The Cause of The Tragedies.
Christian SWartzentruber Russell Adams And Pres
ton Rogers Death Victims; James S. Ent Taken To
Hospital Suffering From Severe Cut To Arm, VIII
Regain Use of The Member.

Three men were killed and a
fourth was severely injured when
two trucks, owned by the Victor
Lynn Transportation Company of
Milford, crashed early last Friday
morning. The first accident occurred
on the highway leading from Sum-
NIT Bridge to Middletown shortly
after / o'clock Friday morning. The
large truck crashed into an abut-
ment and burst into flames. Chris
tian Swartzentruber, aged q, of
Milford, was the driver. He was ac-
companied by Russell Adams, aged
25, of Lincoln. When the Middle
town fire company arrived at the
scene of the accident they found
Swartzentruber laying across the
body of Adams. 1t is believed that
he was making an effort to pull
Adams out of the way when the ex-
plosion of a gas tank killed them
both. The truck was coming from
Baltimore with load of freight.
About. an hour after the first
crash, the truck coming from Phila-
delphia to Milford, and driven by
James S. Ent, aged 81, of Salisbury,
Md, crashed into a tree north of
Dover. The helper, Preston Rogers,
of Milford, was instantly killed when
he was thrown between the truck
and tree. Ent was badly cut
about the arm and was taken to the
Kent General Hospital in Dover for
treatment. He was severely cut
about the arm, but has made rapid
strides toward recovery this week.
Just what caused the accidents is
not known. Many theories have
been advanced, but SO far as is
known no definite cause has been
found.
The funerals of Adams and Rogers
were held on Sunday. Swartzen-
truber was buried on Monday.
Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
TEN YEARS FOR
DRIVER IN CRASH
FATAL TO FOUR
M. H. L. Morgan Fled
Scene In Sussex After
Hitting Girls Car.
PLEADED GUILTY
Warned He Could Get One
Hundred And Twenty
Years By Judge.

Miles Henry Lee Morgan. age As,
of Dagsboro, was sentenced to ten
years in the Sussex county Jail, after
entering a pleas of manslaughter in
the Court of Oyer and Terminer last
Thursday afternoon. The charge
was the outgrowth of an automobile
collision, at Bayard, in which four
persons were killed on the night of
June 10. He was sentenced to serve
ten years in the Sussex county Jail.
Morgan, truck driver for William
Vickers, of Dagsboro, had been in
Georgetown on the night of the ac-
cident, leaving about Z o'clock. In
the hearing of the case it was
brought out that he had drunk two
bottles of beer. At first it was re-
ported that the collision was caused
by drunkenness.
The truck, it was brought out, had
an overhang of % inches and was %
feet wide. Morgan was going in an
easterly direction on the Bayard-
Roxana highway, when he collided
with a machine owned by Walter
Hudson, of Williamsville, and driven
by his daughter, Miss Anna Hudson,
aged 10. The crash occurred within
a short distance of Bayard, when
Morgan attemptew to pass the
machine driven by Miss Hudson,
who had been crowded off the high
way into ditch. The left side of
the Ford sedan was torn away and
Miss Hudson, and Walter Jester, age
9, and his sister, Nadine, age IL, chill
dren of John Jester, of Chincoteague,
Va, and grandchildren of Walter
Hudson, owner of the car, and Mrs.
Annie Tubbs, aged so, wife of Will
liam Tubbs, of near Williamsville,
were killed.
Morgan contended that another
machine passed him and ran off the
shoulders of the roadway, creating a
cloud of dust so that he was unable
teasee the Hudson car, and because
of this he was unable to- avoid the
accident. On the other hand it was
contended that Morgan was going
around the surve at rate of 40
miles.
Injured in the accident were Dolly
German, aged Is, of Philadelphia;
Joshua Murray, aged II, and Mrs.
Walter Hudson, of near Williams
Vile, this county. They recovered.
After the accident, Morgan at
tempted to swing the truck around
and fee, but he was unable to do so
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
ADAMS INSPECTS
CANAL PROJECT
Taken With Others Over Route OF
Proposed Waterway

Congressman Wilbur l.. Adams and
prominent citizens of the vicinity
of Lewes interested in the proposed
deeper waterway leading from the
Delaware Bay into the Lewes-Reho-
both Canal, at Lewes, gathered in
Lewes on Saturday and went on a
tour of inspection of the location
recently outlined by the United
States Board of Engineers.
The. party, in addition to- Mr..
Adams, consisted of Judge Richard
S. Rodney, Wilmington; DR.. James
Beebe, DR.. U. w. Hooker, mayor of
Lewes, Thomas r. Ingram, David w.
Burbage, Jacob Prettyman, former
State Senator, Joseph l.. Marshall,
all of Lewes, Harry w. Chambers and
Harry V. Lyons, Delaware pilots;
Joseph McSweeney. Rehoboth, and
Howard M. Long, Philadelphia.
The proposed inlet which is to be
500 feet wide and IL feet deep at
mean low water, extending from a
point west of the Lewes Beach cot
tages, across the marsh lands to. the
canal. saving over nine miles as
compared to the present shallow wa
terway, was enthusiastically ap-
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
URGES MORE PLAY
In RURAL DISTRICTS
Home Demonstration Agent Says
Rural Folks Quit Playing Too Soon

People in rural districts quit
playing too early in life and grow
old too soon," according to Miss
Louise r. Whitcomb, home demon
stration agent, who has been con-
ducting a series of community pic
MICS with extension clubs.
play" says Miss Whitcomb, 'is
an important part of wholesale
community life and particularly a
vital factor in the development of the
lives of boys and girls. Games fur
nish the essential requirement for
social development everywhere
Play increases efficiency and makes
life more enjoyable. Play, properly
directed, creates the spirit of good
sportsmanship. And the incest part
of it ALL" she continues to say, lis
that it is all free for most of the
games played at the picnics have
required little or no special equip
ment. But the getting together, the
planning, and the playing of grown
ups and youngsters have certainly
helped to create a better commune
ty spirit"
Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
Nra Structure Takes
On Definite Shape

Delaware's structure of the Ma
tional Recovery Administration is
now taking on definite shape, the ma
jor appointments having been made
by President Roosevelt and General
Hugh S. Johnson, national public
works administrator, and Governor
Buck.
Before the entire NRA and allied
structure is completed here, there
will be several hundred men and
women Gin the service" Some will
be salaried workers. Others may be
S1-a-year-employes of the govern
ment but the majority will be men
and women who have been called up
on by the President to volunteer
their services for their country in an
era which the President has likened
to the World War emergency period.
There will be a revival of the four
minute speakers. There will be pub
lie meetings, conferences and ses-
sions of the various councils and
boards to iron out difficulties that
arise out of the Interpretation of the
Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
APPROVE PUBLIC
WORKS PROJECTS
COSTING S324,52O
Will Make Recommends
tiOns To Federal Agen-
cies For Financing.
TO CONSIDER OTHERS

The Governors Industrial Recov-
cry Survey Commission in Dover on
Monday approved public works to-
falling s324,520 for four State in
stitutions as projects to be recon-
mended to the Federal agencies for
financing under the Industrial Re-
covery Act.
The largest was s162.020 for con-
struction work and repairs at the
Institution for Feeble Minded at
Stockley Officials of the institu
ton had asked for s452,020 The
commission approved two cottages
for trainable cases, two for epilep-
tics, a water system and sewake dis
posal plant at the institution.
Approval was given for S115,000
for improvements at Brandywine
tuberculosis sanitarium. A total of
$540.000 had been asked by State
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
GAME LAWS SUMMARY
AVAILABLE SPORTSMEN
Game And Fish Board Gives New
Information

A summary of the State Game and
Fish Laws, containing. provisions
most likely to be of general inter-
est, has just been issued by the
State Board of Game and Fish Com
missioners, headed by former Gov.
Robert P. Robinson, president.
The summary may be obtained
without cost, upon application to any
Justice of Peace, game warden, or
at the Dover office of the Board.
1t includes the changes made by
the last General Assembly in the
seasons for squirrels, doves, rae
coons and opossums. The season. for
grey squirrel, will open September
Is to November 1, inclusive, with
bag limit to six. The season for the
black and the fox squirrel will open
November Is and run to December
81, with a bag limit of six.
The season for doves will open
September Is and run to November
1, with bag limit of IL. The rae
coon and opossum season opens No
vember and runs to Junary is,
with no bag limit.
Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11

blanket" code and the National Re-
covery Act.
The commander-in-chief of all the
forces throughout the nation in the
NRA drive is President Roosevelt.
Next in line comes General Johnson
as national administrator.
The NRA set up in Delaware thus
far is:
Gerish Gassaway. manager of the
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce,
is the Delaware chairman of the Ma
tional Industrial Administration, in
dustrial section.
Mrs. William H. Beacon, of Will
mington, is chairman of the Women's
Division of Delaware of the Patri-
otic Volunteers. Her duty will be to
organize a great net of women work.
ers who will be much like the four
minute men of the World War.
County committee and municipal
committees under Mrs. Beacon are
yet to be appointed,
An appointment of chairman Of
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
YOUNG PEOPLE OF
W. c. 7. U. ELECT
Miss Margaret Sherwood Of Del
mar Elected President

Miss Margaret Sherwood, of Del
mar, was elected president of the
Delaware Federation of the Young
Peoples Branch of the Womans
Christian Temperance Union at the
18th annual ehcampment of the or
ganization, which closed at Lewes
on Monday.
Other officers elected we're: Miss
Emma Huey. of Wilmington. first
vice-president; Miss Marguerite
Hastings, of Laurel, second vice
president; Miss Elsie Gray, of
Lewes, recording secretary; Mrs.
Stella Warrington. of this city, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Flora
Boyce, of Laurel, treasurer.
More than 80 members of the or
ganization from all parts of the
State attended the encampment, re-
turning to their homes Monday,
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
STATE DRY AIDES
ARE DROPPED BY
US. AUTHORITIES
First Step In ReOrganiza-
tiOn Of Work Under
New Supervision.
FINAL DISCHARGE

The Federal prohibition bureau in
Delaware, together with all others
throughout the country, was wiped
out on Monday by order of National
Prohibition Director A. ". Dalrym-
pie, who notified 352 employees in
the Third Area comprising Della
ware, New Jersey and eastern Penn
sylvania that their services would be
dispensed with on Tuesday. The
order included Commander Penning-
ton of Philadelphia, administrator in
charge of the district.
The order comes as the first step
in the merger of the Prohibition Bu-
reau with the Division of Investiga-
tion of the Department of Justice.
A number of the prohibition agents
discharged expect to be re-employed
under the Division of Investigation.
The order, however, wipes out, as
such, the bureau for this area.
"In accordance with the provisions
of the executive order signed by the
President June 10, your services in
the Bureau of Prohibition are dis
continued at the close of business
August 3. due to consolidation eff
fected in Section of that order" a
telegram from Major Dalrymple
said. "If you are appointed to serve
in the newly organized division of
investigation, you will be notified
promptly"
It was said the telegram makes
final the discharges of ia agents
and girl clerks placed on furlough
month ago, and also will affect all
but $50 of those remaining. These
are reported to be under consider
alton for appointment to the new
division.
The six furloughed members of
the Delaware force in Delaware
were Deputy Administrator W. Med.
Rowan, William Salisbury, at
torney; Agents Chauncey Spering,
Ralph Newcomer, Earl L. Matthews
and William F. Pinder.
While Mr.. Salisbury had not been
on the payroll for some time, he was
nevertheless carried on as an en-
ploye in the prohibition depart
ment.
The four prohibition agents at the
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With no other explanation for the
two truck accidents resulting In three
deaths within an hour other than
fatigue to due to lack of sleep, State
Police intend to more vigorously OBJ
serve the condition of drivers iof
transportation trucks through the
State, c. c. Reynolds said Saturday
morning. Fatigue is a source of
danger to all motorists on the high
ways and analysis of accidents have
shown that the sleepless condition
of drivers has resulted in many
other fatal accidents.
I'VE are unable to find any cause
for the two accidents of Friday morn
ing" Mr.. Reynolds continued.
There were no other cars involved,
and, although the driver of the
truck and trailer that was wrecked
near Dover, said the steering gear
had broken or become defective,
causing the accident, we have been
unable to prove or disprove this, be-
cause of the condition of the wreck
ed truck"
The men killed were Christian
SWdTIleutTuDeT, "a Oh MlllOHus
Russell Adams, rs, Lincoln City, and
Preston Rogers, 25, of Milford.
James S. Ent, 27. Salisbury, is in the
Kent General Hospital. Swartzen-
truber and Adams were killed near
Armstrong; Corner. and Rogers was
killed and Ent injured, near Dover.
Both men were driving Victor Lynn
Transportation Company s-'Ieks and
trailers.
While Coroner W. c. Poore. Of
Kent County, summoned a jury to
view the body Of Preston Roeers. one
Of the three employees of the Victor
Lynn Transportation Company killed
the inquest was deferred until Ent
is able to leave the Kent General
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Milford chronicle., 1933-08-11
MILFORD SCOUTS HOME
AFTER CANOE TRIP
Canoeing Patrol Travels 100 Miles
In Trip TO Oak Orchard, Return

The canoeing patrol of six scouts
from Milford Troop No. 2, led by
Scoutmaster Frank Reedy, ended
their 100 mile, seven day canoe trip
when they landed at the Municipal
wharf at the foot of Washington
street at p. m, Monday night.
Besides Reedy, the other members
of the patrol are: Felix Mick, Will
liam Lewis, Norman Bennett, Os-
borne Walls and Remsen Barnard.
Three canoes, with two boys and
their full camping equipment in
each, made the trip.
The patrol left Milford a week
ago last Tuesday, August 1st at
9.15 a. m. At noon they were at
the mouth of the Mispillion River
where they stopped and cooked
lunch. At 2.10 p. m, DR.. L. o. Ad-
kins came along in his motor launch
and towed the three canoes as far
as the coral beds in Delaware Bay.
From there the boys padded to the
mouth of the Broadkiln River ar
irving there at 6.15. They made
camp on the beach there and stayed
overnight.
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State Troops fire
Enjoying CampL3e
Gun Practice ShOUs Citizen Soldiers Are Adept With
Guns; Moving Aerial Target Struck $50 Times At
Distance Of 10000 Feet By Three Inch Guns

The 19Sth Coast Artillery, Anti
Aircraft, and Battery A, 261st Coast
Artillery, Harbor Defense, Delaware
National Guard, went into active
record training at Bethany Beach
Monday morning in preparation for
the annual visit of Governor C.
Douglass Buck, commander-in-chief
of the Delaware National Guard.
Rigid inspections were conducted
each morning this week by Major
Joseph NJ. Barsky, Medical Detach-
ment, Col. George ]. Schulz, COM
manding officer of the regiment and
by each battery commander.
Under ideal weather conditions the
three 3-inch gun batteries on Mon
day completed the firing of the g.
inch guns. The targets, towed by an
airplane, piloted by Captain John A.
Carr. trailing 1900 feet behind the
plane at a distance of 10000 feet
from the guns, were hit a total of
1870 times. While this completed the
practice firing for these guns, they