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Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
u. S. WANTS DATA TO
AID DUCK COMEBACK
Seek To Provide Means To Save
Diminishing Supply

Along with many other depart
ments of the Federal government,
the U. S. Bureau of Biological Sur
vey has gone notwithstanding
for facts, not gunner, gangsters,
kidnappers or racketeers, according
to a bulletin of the American Game
Association.
1.-The obvious decrease of the wa
terfowl has led many conservation
lists, including an increasing num-
ber Of sportsmen, to oppose certain
methods practiced in wildfowling,"
DR.. w. C. Henderson, Associate
Chief of the Survey, said recently.
"In order to make study of the
effect upon wildfowl of batting
and to gather as much information
as possible in the use of live de-
coys, repeating shotguns, and other
methods employed in taking ducks
and geese, as well as to gather all
possible information in regard to
the relative abundance of both wa
terfowl and shore birds, the Survey
has detailed twelve trained men to
make field investigations of these
subjects in strategic areas through
out the hunting season.
From these studies, with the ad-
dition of the evidence we obtain
from our game protectors and from
our cooperators throughout the
country, we hope to be in possession
of sufficient information to enable
us to decide whether additional pro-
tective measures should be adopted.
Whatever measures may be found
we are confident will re-
ceive the cooperation OF the sports
men.
"If from the concern for the safe
ty of our waterfowl, now so general ]
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Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
CLARENCE JESTER
ELECTED HEAD OF
DEL. GRANDLODGE
Milford Well Represented
At Annual l. o. o. F.
Communication.
LARGELY ATTENDED
President Roosevelt And
Governor Buck Sent
Fraternal Greetings.

The one hundredth annual COM
munication of the Grand Lodge OF
Delaware I. o. o. F., was held in the
Odd Fellows building, Tenth and
King streets, Wilmington, on We'd
nesday, with Grand Master Henry C,
Pennington presiding. The session
began promptly at ten o'clock and
was marked by one of the largest
attendance in the history of the
Grand Lodge.
During the morning session, many
new candidates were admitted to
the Grand Lodge. The balance of the
session was taken up by reports of
the Grand Master and his deputies.
The entire meeting was in charge
of the anniversary committee, head
ed by Past Grand Master Charles
Forward, who had arranged an elab-
crate program in commemoration OF
the Tooth anniversary of the found
ing of the Grand Lodge of Delaware.
Grand Master Henry C. Penning-
ton made the principal address on
the history Of the order in the State
since its institution.
In the course of his address, he
read many letters including the fol-
lowing from President Roosevelt
and Governor Buck:
From President Roosevelt
white House, Washington, D. C.
October 18, 1888
"My dear Mr.. Pennington:
81 am glad to take advantage of
the opportunity presented by the one
hundredth anniversary of the insti-
tuition of Odd Fellowship in Della
ware to extend my fraternal greet
ings and personal good wishes to all
participating in the local and State
celebrations.
VERY sincerely yours,
"FRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT"
From Governor Buck i,
"Grand Lodge of Delaware, T.0.0IE.
Greetings:
"In extending to you fluctuations
upon the occasion of the celebration
of century of progress attained by
this representative organization of
the Odd Fellows of the State of Del
aware, would express to you and
the membership of your local lodges
scattered throughout our State my
best wishes for continued success in
the furtherance of the principles of
love and truth.
"a hundred years is a wide ex-
panse of time, yet you and those
who have gone on before you have
been engaged during this long per-
iod in the promulgation of VOWS
taken with increasing satisfaction to
yourselves. To the fatherIess and
orphaned has been rendered the
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Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
new TEMPERANCE
DRIVE IS URGED
BY W.C.T.U. HEAD
National President Says
Women Will Be Edu-
Gated For Work.
EFFECT OF ALCOHOL

Mrs. Ida 3. Wise Smith, president
of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, writing in Liberty under
the heading What the Drys VIII Do
Next" energetically fiays the wet
forces on economic and physiologi-
cal grounds, and promises that the
dry camps will engage upon great
er battle for temperance, even re-
fusing the vets the right to the use
of that word.
Temperance, she says, means to-
tai abstinence. 1t, therefore, "be-
longs to the drys."
1.-THE Nature and effect of alcohol
must be taught with greater exact
ness than in recent years." contin-
ues Mrs. Smith after calling liquor
" drug as dangerous to the Wes-
tern people as opium is to the ORR
entails"
1.-The colored charts showing the
effects of alcohol upon the human
system, the old time stomach plates
and the startling pictures in the
school 'physiologies' and "hygienes'
were discarded because they were
not artistic;' but all over this ma
tion have heard educators say their
life habits toward drink were large
ly determined by these charts. They
did not drink because they saw what
drink would do to them. 1 am in ia
vor of that type of education"
On economic grounds, Mrs. Smith
asserts that people have been led
to think enormously that repeal will
bring back prosperity and fill the
treasury with tax money.
1--WE have heard these promises
until many forget that when liquor
was paying a third of all our gov
ernment bills it was also imposing a
burden of poverty, crime and ineffi-
cheney"
Sales methods do not remove the
problem, she declares. The increas-
ed speed at which we live, the auto
mobile, ETC., make liquor greater
problem than ever. Advertising of
intoxicating liquor should be pro-
hibited. The moderate drinker is
more of menace than the Old Soak
No government can prevent the Di-
vine prohibition that no drunkard
shall inherit the kingdom of heaven.
Women voters are to be asked to
study the machinery of courts, city
halls and state legislatures. I'VE are
asking them," the writer continues,
mot to take the word of the captain
of the precinct where they vote, but
to find out all about the next ticket
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Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
RUSH WORK ON
TWO c. c. c. CAMPS
Mosquito Control Units Taking Shape
At Lewes and Slaughter Beach

Construction work on the two Del
aware Mosquito Control camps at
Lewes and Slaughter Beach, Del, is
progressing so rapidly that a COM
plete outline can be seen of all
buildings including barracks, Of
ficers quarters, mess halls, and
smaller units, with frame work
erected and roofs on nearly all struc-
lures.
The Lewes camp has nine build
ings framed, fifty per cent having
side walls already erected, part of
them with roofs, and the remaining
so per cent skeleton framework in
place. The officer in charge of con-
struction is Henry T. Fisher, first
lieutenant in U. S. Engineers Re-
serve Corps, with Ralph Poynter, of
Rehoboth, heading the construction
crew.
Today a detail of twenty-five C.
C. C. boys arrived at the Lewes site,
and another group at the Slaughter
Beach site, to assist in the construc-
tion. Also under way at the Lewes
site are several small buildings to
be used by State Director Corkran
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AS to the projects themselves, Mr..
Mack said he could not say definite
ly until they are selected and the
plans for them are completed. He
said that the idea was to have ev-
erything in readiness so that tele-
grams exchanged between Delaware
and the Federal authorities would
start the actual work Immediately
afterwards.
It is understood, Mr.. Mack said,
that each of the Is projects in the
three Delaware counties. six to a
county, will be limited in cost to
$4,000, thus the total expenditure
would be 100000. When asked if he
could give a rough approximation of
how many men the IS road projects
would provide work for, and for how
long, Mr.. Mack replied about $4,000
man-days would be sufficient to do
the work, or 250,000 man-hours.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17

The citizens of Milford were in
deed fortunate in being the first and
probably the only city south of Will
mington in which Miss Emily p.
Bissell and Doyle Hinton, co-work-
ers in the Christmas Seal and Anti
tuberculosis movement, made ad-
dresses before local groups. The
people of Milford are again honored
by the fact that Miss Bissell has
consented to an exhibition of her
rare collection of Christmas Seals,
which includes every one ever pro-
duced. The exhibition will take
place in the show windows of two
of our local stores. Today the ex-
hibit will commence in the show
window of the W. T. Grant store.
and Mr.. George w. Perry the gem
eral manager of Grants will be
willing to explain to anyone the
history of the stamps the exhibit
will continue until Wednesday, Nov.
%, it will then be taken to the win
dows of Pierce Bros. hardware, and
will remain there a week.
1t is very interesting to know
especially to the people of Milford,
that one of our young men, Charles
d. Abbott, Jr., an Oxford graduate
who is now professor of English at
the University of Colorado, was the
author of a biography on the Life
of Howard Pyle, the famous Della
ware designer and painter, who de-
signed the second Christmas Seal
in 1908. This seal has been called
the most beautiful of all the seals,
and owing to the great demand for
it by stamp collectors, one of the
rarest. A picture appears with this
article that depicts Miss Bissell sur
rounded by all of the seals, and an
account or rather a history of each
seal and its designer.
The'development of the Christmas
Seal idea since the first one was
created in 1907 by Miss Emily P.
Bissell of Wilmington, Del, has just
been reviewed by Miss Bissell to
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
HOLD CONVENTION
Sessions Held In FELTON, Well At
tended BY County Schools

The nterdenominational Sunday
School Convention was held in the
FELTON, NJ. E. Church, Thursday, The
theme of the convention was "The
Year of Opportunity"
The convention which consisted of
two sessions, an afternoon and eve
ming, opened at o'clock with
song service and devotions led by
the Rev. William Wine, followed by
an address of welcome by the Rev.
H. Caldwell, pastor of the FELTON,
Church; response to welcome by the
vice President of the Sunday school
organization, A. D. Cade; announce
ments of appointments of commit
tees and offering; solo by Miss Mar
guerite Simpson; discussions by the
Sabbath School superintendents;
special music by Canterbury M. E.
Church chair; address by Miss Pau
line Abbertson, head of young peo-
pies work on the Eastern Shore;
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Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
RELIEF PROBE
ORDERED BY
HOUSE VOTE
PREDICTS $25O,OOO DROP
IN HIGHWAY INCOME

The income of the State
Highway Department will
probably be cut $250,000 next
year, due to lowered registra-
tion fees and the Legislature
will likely order the Depart
ment to retire a large number
of county road bonds, w. w.
Mack, chief engineer of the
State Highway Department
said in an address this week.
The income of the depart
ment has been about $2,000,-
900 annually, Mr.. Mack said,
half of which was spent for
road maintenance, police SER
vice and interest on State and
county bonds. This only left
about $1,OO0,O00 for construc-
tion purposes, he said.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
'EX-WIFE SPURNS HIM;
ENDS LIFE AT HER DOOR
Joseph E. Lank Shoots Self On
Front Porch OF Reedy Home

Finding his efforts to have a talk
with his divorced wife over a pos
sible reconciliation futile, Joseph L.
Lank, age 26, son of Joseph M. Lank,
a banker of Milton, fired a bullet
through his brain Monday night on
the porch of her home here on
Washington street, causing instant
death. A suicide verdict was rend-
cred the same night at an inquest
conducted in the Milford Armory by
Coroner Pusey, of Seaford.
According to the police, Lank
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Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
HOUSE RECEIVES BILL
FOR SUPREME COURT
This Is The Same Bill That Caused
Scrap During Regular Session

Creation of a separate supreme
court for this State is provided in a
bill introduced in the House Tues
day afternoon by Representative
Jackson. This is identically the same
bill that was passed by the General
Assembly at the 1881 session and
which was passed by the Senate at
the regular session, last winter, but
which was defeated in the House. 1t
would be an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the State and as such
would have to be passed by two sue
cessive Legislatures. AS the present
special session is still the 104th
General Assembly, it would be pos
sible to enact such a measure now,
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Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
KENT Ali CLUBS MEET
AT FELTON, TONIGHT
Second Annual Banquet VIII Be An
Enjoyable Affair

Arrangements have been complet-
ed for the second annual banquet Of
All Clubs in Kent county which will
be held in the FELTON, Grange Hall
on Friday evening, November 27, at
$3.50 o'clock. The program will be
interesting and entertaining and
will include short talks, vocal Sc
lections and orchestra music. The
speaker of the evening is Dean C. A.
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Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
STATE POLICE ARREST
404 in OCTOBER

C. C. Reynolds. superinten-
dent of the State Police, re-
ported that 4O4 persons were
arrested by members of the
State Police during the month
of October. Fines totaling $3,-
O07.50 were paid and $3.50 in
fines were imposed and not
paid, the defendants serving
in the workhouse in lieu of
payment. Reprimands num-
bering 2,605 were made during
the past month.
Of the arrests, 100 were for
reckless driving, AZ for driv-
ing without a license, 20 for
drunk and disorderly conduct
and 25 for drunken driving.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, November s, To.
Tuesday, November IA, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller, the local
weather recorder, reports the fol.
lowing weather conditions for Mil
ford, from Wednesday, November 8.
to Tuesday, November IA, inclusive:
Temperature Rain
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17

Total Rainfall ......... .38
Snow fell on November IA.
The following winds and condi
tions prevailed during the sam
period:
Evening star., 1933-01-04
NEW GRAND JURY
FOREMAN BROKER
Frank P. Morse Selected by JUS
tice 0'Donoghue for Next Three
Months Service.

Frank P. Morse, broker, was selected
today by District Supreme Court Justice
Daniel w. O'Donoghue to serve as FORE
man Of the new grand jury, which will
serve during the next three months.
Seven women and is other men will
comprise the inquisitorial body.
The other grand jurors are Charles
w. Guest, 664 G street northeast; Hor-
ace Browning, TIC Van Buren street;
Sidney B. Miller, 1900 Shepherd street;
Joseph D. Dreyfuss, 1853 Lanier place;
Eugene S. Wilson, jr., 2915 Connecticut
avenue; Leon H. Herbert, $3.50 Sixteenth
street; Mrs. Carolyn M. McAdoo, 1945
Calvert street; Harry D. Palmer, 1401
Columbia road; William G.. Smith, 1893
New Hampshire avenue; Charles r.
Owens, 1417 S street southeast; James
M. Denty. 1886 Seventeenth street;
Walter E. Waddington, 610 Randolph
street; Emile Beauvais, 1921 Connecti-
cut avenue; Blanche H. Randall, so
w street; Herbert r. Stroman, 1906
P street; Alice T. Cogswell, 4815 Four
teenth street; Mrs. Eunice B. Thomas,
1880 T street; Charles E. Storey, IT,,
1881 Geranium street; Mrs. Evelyn N.
Sheriff.. 340l Macomb street; Joseph
A. McNeal, l4o1 Fairmont street; Mrs.
Roberta Vollard, 1921 Sping place,
and Miss Diane E. Smith, Wardman
Park Hotel
Evening star., 1933-01-04
ZOO us. WORKERS
Join IN HOME PLAN
More Members Wanted Be-
fore Association Undertakes
Actual Construction.

With more than 200 Government
workers planning to purchase homes
under the prospective home construc-
tion plan of the Federal Employees
Housing Association, L. L. Collie of the
Treasury Department, chairman of the
association, today conferred with repre-
sentatives Of one of the largest home
building firms in the country, with a
view to discussing possible terms.
Plans for actual construction, how
ever, still are far from being COM
plete, Mr.. Collie explained today. He
feels his association should have many
more members before it will have a suf-
f1cient buying market to lower the price
to the desired level.
Low-Cost Homes Aim,
The Federal Employees Housing As
ISOLATION, which is a non-profit oreani-
cation, Mr.. Collie explained, is a group
OF Government employees banded to-
gether to obtain low-cost homes which
can be paid for over a period of Is
years.
There are no membership dues"
he explained. "The applications when
properly filled out, enable the asso-
ciation to give to building concerns such
information as is necessary in order
that they may present their PROPOSE
tions."
Most Of the employees who have in
dicated their intention Of buying homes
through such a cooperative plan have
CHOSEN to have brick bungalow, To-
Gated in the District, according to a
tabulation of replies to a QUESTIONABLE
compiled by Mr.. Collie.
The survey made of housing needs
OF members OF the association through
the questicnnaire shows that the mem
Ders expressed their choice of types of
homes as follows: Cooperative apart
ment, per cent; row house, 8 per
cent; semi detached, Is per cent; de-
ttached. two story, 36 per cent; bunga-
low, 3S per cent.
ID. C. Sites Favored.
Choice of material was expressed as
follows: Brick, 78 per cent; stone. I8
per cent; frame, per cent.
Choice of location was made as fol-
lows: District of Columbia. SIS per cent:
81 per cent; Virginia, IL per
cent, and undecided, per cent.
IL Is believed that by this united |
movement the association can save its |
members thousands of dollars on their |
homes" Mr.. Collie said.
If each member will get five of his |
friends who are prospective home buy |
ers to join the association and send |
in their applications with the necessary |
Information checked, some real action |
may be expected by early SPRING
Evening star., 1933-01-04
HOLD-UP CHARGED
TO MAN Ill IN BED
Alleged to Have Robbed In
Surance Agent Who Came
to Pay Benefit.

A bedridden man on whom he had
called to pay $40 sick benefit yester-
day held up Earl " Kibler, an insur-
ance agent, and robbed him of between
$50 and $50, he reported to police.
Kibler, who lives in Wheaton. Nd,
declared Robert Bushrod, colored, 1000
block of Columbia road, covered him
with revolver after insisting he was
entitled to $40. instead of $40. Not con-
tent with taking the additional $40,
however Bushrod ordered the insurance
agent, the latter said, to give me all
you've got"
Bushrod was arrested a short time
later and, after being charged with rob-
berry, was taken to Gallinger Hospital.
Purse Snatched.
Mrs. Verna M. Donovan. 1458 Colum-
bia road, reported colored boy jumped
on the running board of her machine
in an alley near Fourteenth and Har-
ward streets and took her pocketbook,
containing 500 in cash and watch
valued at So
Miss India Rule, 1920 Thirteenth
street, said her pocketbook containing
500 was snatched by some one who
climbed on her automobile from the
rear while she was driving in the 1700
block Of p street.
Marcus Walker. colored, 600 block of
Gresham place, reported he was robbed
of S48 by two colored men in an alley
in the rear of the 1900 block of Twen-
ty-third street.
Vance Malloy, TOO block of Lamont
street, said he was. held up by two
colored men on Seventh street, near
Mades court, and robbed Of his over
coat and 25 cents.
Would-Be Robbers Run.
An attempted hold-up was frustrated
when three colored men became fright
ened and ran after Vennett Theodore,
proprietor of store in the TOO block
of Fourth street, failed to comply with
their demands to stick em up" when
the men entered the store.
Non-negotiable securities and silver,
valued at $500, were reported stolen
from the home of Mrs. r. Mueller, 300
block of Ninth street.
More than 5000 in cash and checks
for S43 were stolen from an A. & P.
store in the 800 block of Fourteenth
street by duplicate key worker.
Evening star., 1933-01-04
FEDERAL employees
TO PLAN BANQUET
Entertainment Committee of Dis
trict Federation Will Hold
Meeting Tonight.

The Entertainment Committee Of the
District Federation of Federal Employees
Unions will meet tonight, prior to the
meeting of the District Federation, to
go over plans for the banquet to be
rendered the executive council of the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes January H.
The council will go In session jan
uary to discuss policies for the next
eight months, pending the biennial
convention of the federation, which
opens in Kansas City on Labor day.
The District Federation will present
portrait Of President Luther C.
Steward Of the National Federation to
the executive council at the banquet.
Slogan contest prizes will be awarded
at the same time. The judges, who
are Louis A. Rosafy, Dr.. ]. Franklin
Meyer and Edgar Graham soon will
select the winners in the competition
which closed December 81.
war Department Local 261 of the
federation last night observed the tenth
anniversary Of its founding. The busi-
ness meeting was followed by an en-
tertalnment program and refreshments
in which birthday cake had a part.
The speakers included Ulrey J. BiIler,
seventh national vice president, and
John D. Cloud and Miss Matilda Lind
say, organizers. The program was ar
ranged by Miss Gertrude M. Coyle, the
president,