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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
The Storm

The Storm
Glendale like many other place:
has paused, through an easterly
storm which has left in its wake
loss of crops and other severe dam
ages.
While the damages both in lives
and property elsewhere have beer
large, Glendale escaped with
out the loss of single life, and very
little damage to property, but the
crops are nearly a complete loss
The farmers were looking forward
to abundant crops. Corn, tomatoes,
soy beans, to enable them to pay
their taxes, and May interest on
their mortgages, but today in look
ing over their fields, nothing but
ruined crops appear. Corn blown
fiat, some of the corn may mature
but the fodder is not worth saving.
Tomatoes, full of water and rOtting
before they can reach the factory.
Soy and factory beans have been
lashed so badly by the storm that
they will yield only a part of a crop.
The farmers have been hard hit and
if there is any way to relieve them
from their taxes it should be done
The highways have been badly dam
aged and it will cost many thou
sands of dollars to put them in
condition again. The effects of the
storm will be lasting. Some dam
age can not be repaired, but let us
hope we have had the worst and the
future develop that the ingenuity
Of man will soon bring things back
to normal again.
Sewing Units
The most of the sewing units in
Sussex county have closed for the
time being. There is some still
running, but the one at Glendale
has been closed for several weeks.
The writer wishes all could sew un-
til some of the depression now exist
ing has passed by. 1t was a great
help to any community, and aided
the women to do their part in sup
porting their families. There is
very little work for the men to do
at present. The loss of the crops
by the farmers will prevent them
from hiring help. and now looks as
if the relief societies of the state
will be taxed to their uttermost to
keep the poor supplied with some
thing to eat and wear.
If the winter should prove cold
and stormy then the suffering |
among the poor will be great.
Baseball
Glendale, under new manage
ment is playing some fine games of
baseball and are defeating most of
the teams which plays against
them. At Ellendale Saturday a
week ago the Ellendale club defeat
ed the strong Milton club by score
of to 4. L. Conner of Glendale
and Belts of Milton pitched very
good games. Conner allowed five
hits and Belts 4.
The second game of the afternoon
was played between Ellendale and
the Old-Timers. a select team of
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
BETHEL

Captain Ely ]. Cordrey is SPEND
ing a few days home with his fam
lily while his barge is being unload
ed at Seaford. -.
Captain Harry Wright is spending
a few days home with his family.
Miss MOllie Massey was painfully
injured on Monday night during the
storm when the stone road caved in
at Blades.
Rev. and Mrs. Alfred McWilliams
and son, Alfred, Jr, of Camden, N.
j., were mid-week guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Garfield Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Reynolds and
son of Chester, Pa, were weekend
guests of her mother, Mrs. Sallie
Bailey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Williams of
Middletown are visiting his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Williams.
Miss Frances Riggin returned to
Chester on Sunday after spending
several weeks at her home here.
Mrs. Florence J. Furniss returned
home ON Sunday after spending
some time in Clayton with her
daughter, Mrs. Raymond Mabrey.
Uric l.. Smith who is employed in
Chester, Pa, spent the weekend
at home with his family.
Miss Dorothy Fletcher of Middle
town is visiting Miss Margaret Phil I
lips at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. /
William H. Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jennings Quillen and |
children of Philadelphia were guests /
of his parents, Captain and Mrs. w.
]. Quillin on Sunday. Owing to the
storm last week Delmarvia camp .
will continue over Sunday, Sept 8.
Dill Wrotten had the misfortune
to fall out of a tree on Saturday,
striking his head, but is improved .
1t this writing.
Iig saws seem tO have iigpared
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01

See Festone Tires made the Festone Factory
and Exhibition Building "a Century of Progress" Chicago
Joseph Motor Co., Milford Del
Nailor's Garage Milford, Dell Phone 21S
III. T. Fitzgerald, Lincoln, Del
II. W. Lohand, Milford, Del.
S. A LOckerman & Son, r. F. D. No. 1, Milton, Del
J. H. Pase & Son, Harbeson, Del,
Phone Milton 76 IL
l. c. King, Milton, Del, Phones "a IL, 7IRl2
E. K Rust, BridgeviIIe, Del.
). 4. Lloyd Greenwood, Del.
Frederica Motor Co., Frederica. Del.
4. b. Kust Georgetown, Del.
harrington Service Station, Pennington, Del.
Phone Harrington SO-R-22
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01

Jig saws seem to have jiggered.
Evening star., 1933-11-19
WhatS Wrong Wh Fashions?
its jail

lot of fun one gets out of a bad joke
if ones in the right mood
In the days when women wanted,
above all things, to be loved, they were
mysterious. Nobody knew how or where
their clothes fastened. They hid under
brims and petticoats and fichus and
false curls. The excitement when Lily
Langtry showed an ankle in Hyde Park
was almost as great as when Amelia
Earhart flew the Atlantic. Now we
haven't the slightest desire to hide any
thing at all. Overdrafts, face-liftS and
elopements are common property.
Women want to be amused more than
to be loved or fiattered or subjected or
enshrined. Hence the funny little hat
lets and frocklets and shoelets and coat
lets-diminutive all of them.
Other generations were happy when
they were entrenched behind billows of
chiffon or satin, sheets of whalebone,
ream or two of buttons and a shape
that bore no resemblance to the human
form. Our contemporaries achieve the
same sense of being right with the world
and themselves when they can say about
their apparel: "It is = bit Of joke, isn't
it, but so comfortable. My dear could
do anything in it"
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Evening star., 1933-11-19
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almost as destructive irt a garden that
resembles embroidery in petit-point as
an enemy airplane over crowded street.
] can imagine no reason for the crino-
line except unpresentable ankles And
as the shape of women is one of the
miracles of modernity, 1 see no object
in hiding all the lovely lines which
decorate beaches and beds and saddles
and almost justify the bisexual inter-
probation of shorts.
I don't like evening dresses made of
striped wool or spotted calico, just as I
don't like marble floors made of oilcloth,
or fur coats made of wool; but as long
as they are worn with due respect for
seasons they contrive to look as appro-
pirate as all the other topsy-turVy things
we do. Also they are conclusive proof
that we don't dress for men. We don't
even dress to cut out each other in
beauty or charm or originality We dress
for fun. We dress to amuSe ourselves.
The woolen evening dresses are quite as
often bad jokes as good ones, but. what
Evening star., 1933-11-19


bers of the Town Council, as foll-ws E. E.
Biodgett, w. w. Dyar, John Hansen, L. r.
Grabill j. L. Shear and ]. B. Derrick
ONE of the foremost institutions in Takoma
~ Park today, and one which has materially
helped to make name for the place-as well
as for itself and the entire community-is
the Bliss Electrical School. founded In Wash
ington, D. c., in 1893, by Louis Denton Bliss
At first this was very small affair." as one
might imagine and the first class was COM
posed of only 20 men, mostly from the Census
Office. The first class room was in the War
der Building at the southeast el-ner of Ninth
and F streets, where stood in ehe early days
of Washington the residence of George C.
Whiting. The class met three evenings a
week, and evening classes were conducted for
two years, after which both day and evening
classes were taught for 10 years. when night
instruction was entirely abandoned
From the Warder Building the school moved
Evening star., 1933-11-19

where he was born e5 years ago, De Ruyter.
Madison County, being his birthplace. He
came to this city during the Civil War and
started life by accepting a position as clerk in
the National Hotel. Later he opened the
Temperance Lunch Room, on street between
Ninth and Tenth streets, and his place became
one of the most prominent dining rooms in
the city.
'Mr Gilbert was the first mayor of Takoma
Park. He served three terms as mayor. and
was succeeded by Enoch Mars since deceased.
1t was due to his efforts, it is said that the
Takoma Park Loan & Trust Co. was organized
B. H. Warner, G. M Heaton & Co. and Myron
M. Parker being associated with him in the
enterprise"
The burial services were held on Sunday,
April 81, 1907, at Hines Chapel, IT'S Four
teenth street northwest and were conducted by
Rev. Thomas Culbertson Clark pastor of Ia
koma Presbyterian Church, the palIbearers being
Mayor W. G. Platt Of Takoma and the NM
Evening star., 1933-11-19

4 IORRIS NJ. TITTERINGTON also reflected
lNi credit upon his alma mater Graduating
in 1913 and being interested in aviation. he
went to a Southern field where he became
proficient pilot. During the World War he served
with distinction, and upon his return to this
country became chief engineer of the Pioneer
Instrument Co. in New York City. In that
capacity ne invented the earth-inductor COM
pass and it was with this instrument that
Lindbergh made his memorable flight alone
from New York to Paris in 1927. In $780, while
plotting a plane across Pennsylvania, Mr. Tit
terington encountered thunderstorm, the
plane was struck, and he fell to his death. In
the library of the Bliss School is a bronze
tablet erected by members of the Bliss Alumni
Association of New York to his memory.
Another graduate, C. Roscoe Milford is the
manager Of the Shasta division of the Pacific
Gas & Electric c., while Gus W. Adrianson is
employment manager of the vast Edison organi-
zation and has, to assist him, Robert F. La Mar
another Bliss man. Douglas A. Young, who
came to the school In 1924, recently invented
a marvellous machine which the newspapers
have described as "a one-eyed robot that can
read and sort millions of ordinary printed cards
at a high rate of speed" Takao Iwanami,
japanese, a graduate of 1903, now holds the
position of consulting engineer in the govern
ment railways department for the Empire of
Japan, And many others might be mentioned
who are now holding high positions or who
have left their impress upon the sands of
time
Mr.. Grammer whose tract of land was taken
for the original part Of TakOma Park, once
said: Fools build houses and G. O. Grammer
buys them" He would probably regret this
statement II he could return to earth again
and see his old farm and Takcma Park as It Is
today. - as4r
Evening star., 1933-11-19

formed here. known as the Citizens Association
of Takoma Park, d. C..
Never was the salertness Of the people of
Takoma Park better shown than when they
secured, in 1911, the first branch of the Public
Library. Of course, the board of trustees was
influenced by the 1000 volumes accumulated
by the Takoma Club and Library social and
literary body organized by the late Louis P.
Shoemaker. However, the actual securing OF
the library for this place was due in no small
degree to Angus Lamond a schoolboy chum
of Audrew Carnegie and born in the same
town with the great philanthropist, who waited
upon him when the latter was in Washington
and made a successful plea for branch library
on behalf of the people of Takoma. The La
monds settled near Takoma Park in 1875.
Evening star., 1933-11-19

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23

who are the majority of consumers
in their stores. 1t will mean the
winning of our demands, it will mean
that WEI will be able to more easily
meet the rising cost of prices in the
stores in the valley. They have also
called on the farmer to support the
strike and unite with the workers
in a common struggle against the fin
ance corporations and power trusts.
A group of several hundred large
farmers held meeting in Button
willow to discuss how to break the
strike. Comrade Jack Wright, district
organizer of the Union, forced him
self into the meeting and addressed
the farmers, pointing out to them
that the c. and A.W.I.U. would back
them in their fight against the cor
porations ard power trusts. The
meeting broke up with divided opin-
ions among the farmers. And now
the farmers down that way want to
talk to a U. F. l.. organizer.
Workers United Against Gangs
The farmers "vigilantes" consist
Of such people as Slim Sanders, king
bootlegger in Tulare County, Guy
Lowe, big potato grower, and a num-
Der of American Legion large growers,
who have taken pool-room cowboys
hot for adventure and little extra
cash, into their gangs, arming them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23
Union On Guard
AS u. S. Mediator
Enters Tannery Strike

GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y, Oct. 22.-
The U. S. Labor Department sent a
Mr.. Harmon, labor conciliator to
mediate the tannery workers strike
in Fulton County here, this week.
The strikers, however, have lost faith
in government mediators after their
experience with the local board of
the MIRA. and are relying mainly
on their own strengthened militant
action to win ther demands for
recognition of their union and an
increase in wages.
Despite the distorted statements IS
suing from the local press and the
effort to divide the workers by rails
ing the red scare, the strike has sue
cessfully counteracted all maneuvers
and the workers ranks are unbroken.
Over 1000 of the 2,100 workers in
the industry here have joined the
Independent Leather Workers Union.
The glove workers, some of whom
are organized in the A. F. of L., are
showing great sympathy for the strike
and for the union. Their President,
Praston, Las told them that if 'you
workers want to strike, resign.
Great sympathy is also being shown
by the people in the community and
many small shopkeepers are donating
food to aid the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23
ShOeRepairWO
ACCeptAgreementOf
l,4OO in Boss Assn
Get Union Recognition,
A Hour Week and
Wage Scale

NEW YORK.-A meeting OF the
shoe repair department Of the shoe
and leather workers industrial union
voted Sunday to accept the agree
ment made with international Shoe
Repair and Hat Cleaners Association,
Inc, representing 100 store owners
Of the Bronx. There are 1900 mem
bers in the shoe repair department,
which has Just been organized during
the past three months.
The agreement provides that every
shop agrees to hire help only through
the union; that stores close at 7 pm,
that the workers work A hours a
week, and that the union wage scale
goes into effect, finishers SIS, bench
men $50, au-around men $35.
George Martin, general organizer Of
the department, made the report on
the agreement. He also proposed the
organization of sections Qocals of the
union) in each neighborhood of the
city to guarantee that the agreement
be carried out.
The workers also pledged to dem
onstrate Monday night at Arcadia
Hall, together with the shoe, slipper
and stitch-down workers for recogni-
ton of the union by the shoe manu-
facturers. Fred Biedenkapp, general
secretary of the union, made brief
report, which was enthusiastically re-
ceived.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23
MIunOrIeanS Strike
Wins All But One
Demand for Crew
Men Get Back Pay and
improvement in
Conditions

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 22.-The
24-hour strike of the Munorleans of
the MunSon SIS. Co. resulted in gains
in all but one demand, that of higher
wages. The strike, organized by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
won immediate payment of back
wages, improvement of living and
working conditions, including repairs
necessary to make the ship more sea-
worthy, and the recognition of the
ships committee.
Officials of the International Long
shoremen's Association did every
thing possible to help the company
break the strike. They tried to pre-
vent the longshoremen from support
ing the strike and when the long
shoremen came out anyway, the Of
ficialS told them that they must
return to work because they were
breaking the agreement with the
Munson Line. Through the use OF
threats and blacklist, they succeeded
in forcing some Of the men to return
to work after two hours.
During period of two months the
crew had only received $3.50 of the
wage due them. In many ports they
given vouchers which had not been
honored. In Baltimore they were
again offered vouchers which they
refused. A committee had gone tc
the U. S. Shipping Commissioner who
had promised that they would be
paid the next day. When this promise
was not fulfilled, the men struck
under the leadership of the M.W.I.U.
and won their demand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23
Strikes OF Cotton Pickeys Spread IN California

The Finance corporation sets the
price per bale to the farmer, and then
puts it on the market for as much
as $40 to $40 more than what the
farmer gets. If the farmer finally
succeeds in reaping a small surplus
out of the crop, he usually never sees
it because it is applied to his debts
to the finance corporation.
Dozens of farmers in the strike
area have expressed their willingness
to pay the 81 per 100 lbs. demanded
by the strikers, but they cannot do
it because the large growers and fin
ance corporations completely control
them. The finance corporations which
run the cotton gins, have refused to
gin the cotton of any farmer who
pays more than the present so cents
per 100 lbs.
The average cotton picker can
gather about 200 lbs. per day, while
the hundreds of women and children
in the fields average between 100 and
$50 lbs. per day. 1t is clear that they
are not able to maintain themselves
and families on this wage.
Thousands of leaflets have been
distributed by the United Farmers
League and the Cannery and Agricul-
tural Workers Industrial Union have
called on the small bushes men to
support the thousands of workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23

and attempting to intirnidate the
strikers.
However, they bumped into the
wrong bunch in this valley. The
whole strike is bound tight by the
unity of the American mostly south
ern), Negro( Spanish and Mexican
workers. Many sympathetic farmers
have donated barren land for the
evicted strikers. These camps are be-
ing guarded by defense squads. At
temptS at intimidation have been
futile, the strikers answering every
threat with an increased shout thru
out the valley, mot an ounce of cot
ton for less than 81 per 100 lbs"
The growers are now attempting to
break the strike by starving the
workers back to work, threatening
boycott Of any business house that
donates or even sells to strikers.
And also attempting to bring in the
'red scare" The strikers have an
swered this by saying they must all be
reds and proud of it. The Western
Worker is being sold by hundreds.
There are close to 5000 members
of the Cannery and Agricultural
Workers Industrial Union in the val
ley and more joining every day,
Union men call themselves card
men, wearing their union membership
cards in their shirt pockets, in their
hatbandS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23

bosses. They even sent well-paid
stool pigeons in the ranks Of the
strikers, which failed also.
The bosses and Mr.. Whalen use
the old scab agency, now the skeleton
union of the B. g.. S. w. u, to settle
our strike. This is the same union
which three weeks ago was driven
out by 10000 Brockton shoe workers
This union has been selling shoe
workers for the last thirty five years
and now it's driven out of every shoe
centre.
What To Do
The scheme of the bosses and the
B. 81 S. w. Union is clear to every
shoe striker. The bosses are out to
starve us. But should we go back
under Mr.. Whalen and the bosses
outfit, we will starve working. We
must mobilize all the strikers and
demonstrate before the N. r. A.
daily Daily mass picketing around
the striking shops. We must clear
out the few scabS In the factories
The three B. g. S. Union shops must
be taken out on strike. The entire
labor movement must be aroused.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23
BY CAROLINE DECKER

THE majority of cotton growers in
i the San Joaquin Valley, Cali
fornia, are either tenant farmers, or
small farmers. In either case they are
both forced to borrow from the cotton
finance corporations in order to
produce their crop each year. The
procedure is the same, with the ex-
ception that the tenant farmer has
to also pay for the rent of the land
and does not own even the tools he
works with.
The farmer is allowed $40 per acre
on his loan, Six per cent interest is
Immediately deducted from the loan,
and so per cent of theloan is also
Immediately deducted to pay the
power bill. Then comes deduction for
labor, for hoeing, for seed, etc. After
all the deductions are made, the bal
ance Is divided by the number of
months the crop is worked, usually
about to 7, and what is left the
farmer gets this amount each month
for himself and his family to live on.
A typical example of tenant
farmer, after the above procedure, he
and the in his family were allotted
$25 per month to live on. And if the
weeds got too abundant, he'd have to
pay for a third hoeing out of his
monthly allotment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23
Maher Blocks Tug
Strike; Hands Men
Over to NRA Board
Refuses Solidarity Of
fer of Waterfront
Jobless Council

NEW YORK.-The strike Of $500
tugboat men was prevented Friday
at the last minute by joint action of
the officials of the Associated Marine
Workers and Senator Wagner's local
MIRA. board.
Captain William Maher, general
secretary Of the union, agreed to '1et
the board intervene and to accept
its decision as final"
Tugboat men are indignant at the
action and the Rank and File Oppo-
sition is receiving many inquiries as
to what action the men should take.
Maher refused to meet representa-
tives of the Waterfront Unemployed
Council, who went to the union Of
fices Friday to offer solidarity sup
port to the tugboat men in the strike.