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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
MUST MAKEFUNDS
FOR RELIEF SERVE
SAYS GOVERNOR
Commissions Duty To
Meet Needs Till NOvem-
ber First, He Asserts.
MAY MATCH FUNDS
November 1, Earliest Date
For Releasing u. S.
Money He Implies.

Answering reports that the State
Relief Commission might have to
suspend its operations at the end of
September because of lack of funds
Governor c. Douglass Buck said he
has no information that such con-
dition exists, but that if it does, the
commissioners will have to face the
problem themselves, because they
assumed the responsibility of rum
ming the organization until october
81 with the funds made available to
them.
In that connection, the Governor
said. he would not feel justified in
aEct ating any of the $253,O00 Fed
eval funds available for relief work
in delaware. This money will net
be used for work conducted by the
State Relief Commission until No
vcmbcr l, al least, the Governor in
timated.
Must Not Touch Federal Funds
When asked what could be done
in the event that the State Relief
Commission does exhaust its funds
hefCre \ Hov. l, the Governor replied
tfat some means would have to be
devised to augment their resources.
But Federal funds available are not
to lie touched for State relief work,
at least Until after the expiration Of
the terms of the commissioners,
which is October 81.
Governor Buck pointed out that
the State Relief Commission under
took to spread its funds owed the
period ending October 81.
Jasper E. Crane is chairamn of
the State Relief Commission.
L. S. May Match Funds
Governor Buck did not say any
thing about whether he would re-
appoint the present Relief Commits
sion. sHe is empowered to do so
when the terms of the present COM
missioners expire October 81.
The Relief commission, il was
stated Monday now has enough
funds on hand to complete the relief
work of September. 1t has no other
available funds, however. it was
SAID
II is believed, although not def
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
LESS NEED FOR STATE
AID In SEPTEMBER
As Men Go to Work, Demand For
Assistance Is Lessened.

Expenses of the State Temporary
Emergency Relief Commission will
be reduced still further during the
month of September, according to
action taken by the commission at
its meeting on Friday, August 25, at
its o. .ces in the Delaware Trust
Building at Wilmington.
Each month since March, when
the peak of caring for the unem-
ployed of this state was reached, the
money expended for direct relief
and for work relief has been grad
ually reduced. And the month of
September, it is stated, it will be
less than any month for nearly six
months.
This is due, it is stated to employ
ment conditions steadily improving
through more men obtaining EN-
ployment who had been carried on
the relief rolls of the commission.
Walter Dent Smith director for
Wilmington and a member of the
commission announced that he had
found it possible to pare down his
budget for September in the largest
center where relief has been needed
in the state.
Anothr encouraging feature was
that there is approximately half
million dollars of work for which
the State Highway Department has
Ssked for bids and the labor used on
ehis work will be supplied by the
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
OPEN BIDS FOR
ROADPROJECTS
Will Construct Four Sec
tiOns Of Sixteen Foot
Stag Roads.

At meeting of State Highway
Commission bids were opened fol
seven highway construction projects,
four of which are for 16-foot Stag
roads. No awards were made. The
first estimates considered were for
the construction of a road from
Bacons-Ralphs-Salem school in Sus-
sex county, a distance of five miles.
The estimates were as follows:
Walter Roach and Son, George
town, $15,S12; Field, Barker and I'm
derwood, Upper Darby, Pa, $13,275;
Old Line Construction Company,
Chestertown, Md, $13,250 M. ]. Nc
Dermott, Georgetown, $13,750; E.
Finley Mixner, Dover, $14,575; Fox
Reynolds. New York, $17,S75.
Second contract, Downes Chapel
Hazel School, 4 4/10 miles, Kent
county: George and Lynch, Dover,
$13,O39.50; D. E. O'Connell, Will
mington, $14,456; Continental Con-
tracing Company, Baltimore, $17,-
667; Wilson Constructing Company,
Wilmington, $13,114; E. Findley Mix
ner, Dover, $14,265; w. w. Truitt,
Lincoln City, $1S,S29; Reynolds
Company, Inc, New York, $15,189.
Third contract, Selbyville toward
Gumboro-3 $40 miles, Sussex coun-
ly: Waller and Phillips. Salisbury,
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
OFFICERS NAMED
BYP. o. S. OF A.
Harry j. Schmidt Elected President
At Annual Encampment

Harry j. Schmidt, of Wilmington,
was elected president of the Del
aware State Camp, Patriotic Order
Sons of America, Tuesday night at
the concluding session of the an
nual State encampment in the P.
o. S. of A. Hall in Wilmington.
Hartly was selected as the place
of the next State encampment to be
held the last Tuesday of August,
1884.
Other officers elected follow:
Vice-president, Leslie F. Downing,
of Wilmington; master of forms, W..
B. Harrington, Cheswold; State con-
ductor, C. c. Roadway, of Hartly;
State secretary, George F. Irwin of
near Wilmington; State treasurer,
E. Y. Williams, of Dover; State in
spector, NJ B. Ford of Cheswold;
State guard, D. C. Moore of Viola;
State trustees, M. T. Galloway of
Laurel; P. W. jenkins of Woodside
and Charles w. Sharp of Whining
tom
The following were elected dele
gates to the National Encampment
of the P. o. S. of A, to be held in
Wilmington, beginning Sunday eve
ming, September "a, at the Delaware
Avenue-Bethany Baptist Church,
with a special service, and continu
ing in the Hotel dupont: W. S.
Cantwell, of Cheswold; c. C. Rod
way of Hartly and f. Y. Williams
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
KENT UNEMPLOYED
TO BE GIVEN JOBS
Mitchell Colt, North Dover Oil Co.,
And Mrs. NJ. H. Schmid Winners

Robert P. Robinson, master of the
State Grange and president of the
Central National Bank, has an
nounced the awards made on the
1888 highway Identification. The
prizes of $25 in each class were Of
fered by Mrs. Henry B. Thompson
Mrs. P. S. DUPONT and Mrs. IreneC
DUPONT.
Mr.. Robinson was chairman of the
judges committee. Others on the
committee were Mrs. Robinson and
Miss Sara M. Snodgrass.
The following statement was is
sued by the committee:
1.-THE committee appointed to
award the prize for road beautifca-
tion, on the road between St
Georges and Rehoboth, have selected
the following locations:
BEST farm and garden-Mitchell
Colt, Elm Grange, just north OF
Macdonough. Mr.. Colt has consis-
tently and continuously kept his
place in admirable condition and
was the recipient of the prize two
years ago.
BEST oil and gas station-The
committee had hard time to de-
eide which of three stations is en-
titled to the prize, but finally de-
cided on the North Dover Standard
Oil Station, Eugene Reed, manager.
The men at this station have made
a wonderful improvement in the
surroundings during the past year,
A station near Cheswold and the
South Dover Standard Oil Station
should receive very honorable men
ton.
BEST roadside market-The selec-
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
At Special Meeting Mon
day Night Committee
Laid Campaign Plans.
HOUSE TO HOUSE
CANVASS TO START
NRA Speakers To Talk
At All Meetings OF LO-
cal Societies.

Milford, thanks to its merchants
and Rotarians, was the first COM
munity to call an N. R. A. meeting
of lower Delaware people. Although
due to the lack of instructions it Is
somewhat late with its house to
house canvass, by way of making up
for the delay it is preparing for a
100 per cent N. R.. A. week to begin
Sunday morning, September 3rd
and to end Sunday afternoon, Sep
tember 10th.
AT special meeting of the Ad-
visory Council held Monday evening,
August 2Sth at the Community
Building, General "Bill" Murphy
outlined the campaign to the col
onels and all others present. Among
those present were Mayor Wilson
NJ. Vinyard, Mrs. Stephen P. Toad
vine, lieutenant-general of the cam
paign committee, Mrs. Harry Petty
john representing the American Lee
gion Auxiliary, Roscoe Galloway
president of the Milford Rotary
Club and Ralph McAllicher COM
mander of the local American Le-
gion post.
Sunday morning, Sept. 3rd all
the ministers of every denomination
are expected to devote their SER
mons to a discussion of the N. RIA.
A committee consisting of Mayor
Vinyard and General Murphy was
appointed to see the ministers per-
sonally.
An N. r. A. speaker to be provided
by Colonel G. L. Grier will address
every meeting to be held in Milfofd.
Societies, ladies' aids. etc. not as yet
provided with a speaker should ap-
ply either to Colonel Grier or Gem
eraI Murphy and same will be sup
piled.
The house to house canvass was
organized last night at a meeting
of women supporters at the Gem
tury Club under the chairmanship
of Lieut.-General Toadvine. CO.
operating with Mrs. Toadvine Col :
onel c. E. Varney in charge of the
house to house canvass was present
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
QUARANTINE ON DOGS
In SUSSEX co. LIFTED
Announcement Made By r. c. VIII
son, Sec. State Board of Agriculture

Ralph C. Wilson, secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, an
nounced on Tuesday that the quar-
antine on dogs on account of rabies
had been lifted in Sussex county.
Mr.. Wilson's official announce
ment follows:
AS no further cases of rabies have
occurred il: sections of Delaware
quarantined on account of that dis
ease, the State Board of Agriculture
cooperating with the State Game
and Fish Commission and the State
Board of Health, does hereby remove
the quarantine on dogs in all sec
tions of Sussex count. This release
of Sussex county effective August
29. 1888.
The quarantine has been on in
Sussex county since early spring
and many cases of rabies were re-
ported during that period.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
WHEAT GROWERS
MEET NEXT WEEK
Meeting To Be Held In
Milford On Thursday,
September Seventh.

In connection with the wheat
acreage adjustment and production
control program of the Federal gov
ernment, as it relates to Kent coun-
ty, Delaware, applications for allot-
ment contracts and other necessary
blanks are being mailed to all the
wheat growers from the office of
County Agent Russell E. Wilson,
who is the wheat administrator for
this county.
After the farmers have received
thsi information, those who are in
terested in this wheat allotment
plan are requested to attend one of
the series of community meetings
which will be held in the county
during the next two weeks for the
purpose of explaining the method of
procedure which must be followed
in securing the benefits of this plan.
These meetings have been arranged
by the county agent in cooperation
with representative wheat growers
in each community, and it is expect
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
VIM. R. MURPHY
HOST TO DEL.
POSTMASTERS
Delaware Branch of The
Natl League of p. MS
Met Here Wednesday
ANNUAL M E E. TIN G.
Group Taken On Tour
Through L. ID. Caulk
Company Plant.
ANNUAL MEETIN 6

Postmaster William r. Murphy OF
this city was host to the members
of the Delaware Branch of the Ma
tional League of District Post
masters at their annual summer
meeting at Milford and Slaughter
Beach on Wednesday.
The postmasters met at the post
Office here at IL o'clock and from
there Mr. Murphy took them to the
L. D. Caulk Company's plant where
George S. Grier took them for a
tour through the plant explaining to
them the manufacture of Mer Den
trifce, Mercitan Lotion, Mercirex
skin cream, the dental alloys and
cements and many dental specialties
which the Caulk Company manufac-
ture. Many of this group had never
been through the Caulk plant and
they were very much surprised at
the size of the plant and the large
quantity of products manufactured.
From there the group went to
Slaughter Beach where they en-
joyed a very delicious luncheon at
the Slaughter Beach Hotel. At the
business session which was held
Immediately after luncheon Alex R..
Abrahams, Wilminston postmaster,
and William R. Murphy were the
speakers. The meeting was the last
that Mr.. Abrahams will attend as
a member of the branch as he ex-
poets to retire as Wilmington post
master in the near future. The
meeting was presided over by S. S.
Dennison, Yorklyn postmaster and
president of the branch. Ex-Con-
gresham Robert G. Houston expect
ed to attend the meeting and make
an address but at the last minute
he notified Mr.. Murphy that he
would be unable to attend.
After the business session Mr.
Murphy showed the group around
Slaughter Beach which he explained
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
STATE PUBLIC WORK
PROGRAM $13.791,OOO
Dover Commission Approves Of 9th
er Projects Costing $1,16G,OOO

Approving 1,166, 900 worth of pub
lie works projects last week, the
Delaware Survey Commission has
brought its approved list of public
works to $13,791 900.
These approved projects will be
submitted by the Delaware Survey
Commission to the Federal Public
Works Board of Delaware of which
l.. Lee Layton, Jr., of Dover, is
chairman.
Projects approved last week were:
Enlargement and improvement to
the Brandywine and Edgewood tu-
bercular sanatoria near Marshall
ton, $4,000.
Recitation Hail. Women's College,
University of Delaware, $241, 900.
Improvement to public water sys-
tenn, Wilmington, S325,000.
New State Armory building at
Milford, 100000.
OF the $13,971 900 in funds ap-
proved for public projects so far
the commission, $10,S31,000 is for
Federal works in the State; 100000
for a State housing project through
use of privatel capital; $426,40S for
municipal projects, and $2,014,49
for State projects.
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
Extend Time For
Auto Inspection
Due To The Bad Storm Of Last Week, Secretary Of
State AILOIUs TIOO More Days; Tomorrow Is The
Last Day For Inspection; Licenses To Be Revoked.

found not worth the expense of max
ing the repairs necessary to secure
a certificate of APPROVAL. Many We
hicle owners are joining in the
movement willingly but at the same
time there is no alternative. The
law says it must be done and the
State is looking for good results.
Section "a of the Motor Vehicle
Laws of Delaware provides that:
THE department shall rescind, can
eel or suspend the registration of
any motor vehicle which shall be de-
termined by said department to be
unsafe or unfit to be operated, or to
be not equipped as required by law.
Any motor vehicle which has not
been. examined and determined safe
and fit for operation and found
equipped according to law by the
agents of the vehicle commissioner
of this State between the 18th day
of July and the 31st day of August
of each year, shall be conclusively
determined to be unsafe, unfit or not
properly equipped by the depart
ment."
When an automobile passes the
safety test in every particular, the
o. .cial inspector affixes the sticker
to the windshield and gives the own
er a statement showing the approval
of said motor vehicle Identifying the
same by make, style of body, motor
and serial numbers. This statement
is important and should be retained
by the car owner.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01

Automobile owners who have not
yet complied with Delaware's auto
mobile safety inspection laws are
commencing to gather in long lines
at the entrance to the official in
spection stations in a last minute
effort to secure the coverted blue
and gold windshield certificates. AT
ter September End, the closing day
of the campaign, automobiles which
are not exhibiting the official wind
shield sticker will be viewed with
suspicion. Motor vehicles will not
be registered or re-registered after
the close of the campaign unless
proof of inspection during that pc
riod can be presented with the ap-
plication.
The recent severe storm which
ragged throughout the State greatly
retarded the inspection. All the in
spection lanes were forced to remain
closed. Secretary of State Charles
H. Grantland has, therefore, length
ened the Car Inspection Campaign
two days, September 1st and End,
which should be sufficient to ade-
quately compensate for delays
necessitated by the inclement
weather.
o. .cials of the Delaware Safety
Council, the State Highway Depart
ment and the Secretary of States
office agree that many of the worn
out, unsafe automobiles will be
driven in the garage for the last
time. In many cases they will be
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
SCHOOL REOPENS
NEXT TUESDAY
Room Assignments Are
Announced And Other
General Information.

For the information of parents
WHOSE children may not have previ-
ously attended the Milford schools,
the announcement is made that there
will be a cafeteria in operation in
the Elementary School and one in
the Junior-Senior High School on
the first day of the term. A menu
such as the following will be pre-
pared for each school:
Cheese sandwiches cents, ham 5
cents, lettuce and tomato cents,
apple and celery salad cents, fruit
cup 5 cents, chocolate pudding 5
cents, milk cents, chocolate milk
3 cents, orangeade cents, cocoa 8
cents, Dixie cups cents, choco-
pics cents. AS the weather be-
comes cooler, the menus will in
clude hot dishes and different
foods.
Please remember that grades
to 5 inclusive, will attend the
North Street school, and that grades
6 to IL will go to the Junior-Senior
High School building.
The following request is made by
the Board of Education to the pa
irons of the school: Please OBJ
serve the traffic rules that are post
ed at the driveway entrances at the
grounds of the Junior-Senior High
School building. These rules have
been adopted both for the convent
ence of the patrons and for the safe
ty of their children.
The entrance nearer the L. D.
Caulk Company will be used as the
general public entrance for all cars
and for all school busses. The
from this public entrance
will be twenty feet wide. Private
cars which enter to pass the end
door and not to remain are directed
to keep to the right side of the
and pass out at the paved
by the school.
Private cars driven by pupils who
intend to park for the day will en-
ter by the general entrance and pro-
coed by the marked route to the
parking space reserved at the rear
of the school, between the building
and the running track. These cars
will leave by the same entrance
which they came. No park
ing will be allowed elsewhere on the
grounds. Pupils from such cars
may enter the building by the new
door in the rear of the new addi-
tion where steps will be provided.
The school busses only will pro-
ceed around the building and have
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
JOHNSON PLEADS
FOR NO VIOLENCE
NBUY NOW DRIVE
Says Shadow Of 'Intimi-
datiOn Or Boycott Will
Spoil Whole Plan.
VOICES CONFIDENCE
Promises Public To Neep
Wings Of Blue Eagle
Clean, TalOns Sharp

In a speech formally opening the
drive to get the entire nation under
the NRA, Hugh s. Johnson pleaded
with the American people Sunday
night to buy under the Blue Eagle
but to abstain from boycott, intim-
idation or violence"
Promising that wherever the Blue
Eagle flies we shall keep his wings
clean and his talons sharp" John
son said in plainly worded address
that even shadow" of boycott, in
timidation and violence, would
spoil the whole endeavor."
The industrial administrators
speech, constituting marching or
ders for an army of 100000 volun-
teer workers who will canvass the
nation in the drive which began on
Monday, was an attempt to clear up
misunderstanding which have arisen
in the wake Of the NRA's swift NOV
ing recovery campaign.
Voices Confidence In Drive
At the same time Johnson voiced
confidence in the successful culmi-
nation of the drive, and estimated
that even as it begins 70 and 80 per
cent of the nations employers in
trade and industry are under the
Blue Eagle.
Asserting that Monday marks a
milestone in human progress" the
industrial leader said it offers the
American people change to try in
industry the principle on which the
nation was founded, that "in union
there is strength"
Johnson told his vast army of
workers that I'VE cannot afford to
fail" in the drive to get 100 per cent
of the nations employers under the
Blue Eagle.
He told them they must make en-
ployers understand the plan, and
sweep away the fear of honest pa
triotic men" that they cannot do
what the government asks and still
remain in business.
Anyone, by getting certificate
from his local merchants associa-
tion that he cannot comply with the
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
FARMERS SUFFER
Big CROP DAMAGE
Tomatoes, Corn And APP
Piles Appear To Be Most
Affected Crops.

The farmers of Delaware suffered
very severe loss caused by the
storm of last week and while it is
impossible to accurately estimate
the damage to agricultural crops,
it will unquestionably amount to
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
One of the most severely damaged
crops is tomatoes. This commodity
is grown in all parts of the State
and is looked upon by the farmers
as a cash crop. The normal value
o tomatoes to the State of Del
aware each year is $S50,000 to
100000 and while the crop at the
present time is not completely
ruined, it appears that the only to-
matoes harvested will be those
which are on the ines at the present
time. 1t is feared that a large per-
centage of those on the vines will
not mature because the high winds
stripped the leaves from the vines
and in many cases the vines are dy-
ing and there will not be any new
tomatoes mature.
There is a severe damage to corn,
but it is hoped that in most cases
the corn is far enough developed
so the ear will mature. Corn, of
course, will straighten up some;
however, where it is blown down to
such an extent that the ear is lying
on the ground, it is believed the
ear will rot and not mature as it
should.
The damage to fruit is very ex-
tensive. In many cases, from 25 to
go per cent of the apples on the
trees were blown on the ground. On
the early fall varieties, such as
Grimes Golden and Delicious, thee
damage is greater than on the later
varieties, such as Stayman, York
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
HIGHWAY BEAUTY
PRIZES AWARDED
Hope to Place Many Men on Projects
Undertaken BY Highway Dept.

For the purpose of registering the
unemployed in Kent county and if
possible finding work for the jobless,
the Kent county unemployment Of
flee was opened at Dover on Monday.
Although registrations are not made
for specific jobs, it is expected that
placements on the four contracts let
by the State Highway Department
and financed under Title IL of the
NRA will be the first to receive the
attention of the unemployment Of
flee. The labor policy of the Public
Works Board on these projects is as
follows:
81. Opportunities for employment
on projects authorized under its ad-
ministration shall be equitably dis
tributed among qualified workers
who are unemployed-not among
those who merely wish to change
one good job for another.
2. There work opportunities shall
be distributed geographically, as
widely and as equitably as may be
practicable.
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
Safety Council Gives Good Adwce
ToLabor Day Drivers On Highways
Urges AU Drivers To Use Courtesy, Consideration and
Cooperation As They TraUeL During Traffic Rush;
Warns Of Sleepy And FatigHed DriUers.

foremost in mind the three C's of
traffic safety. They are-Courtesy,
Consideration and Cooperation. Ac-
cording to the council, yiu will rare
ly have any difficulty if you always
remember that common courtesy
will give the other driver just the
opportunity he requires to complete
that turn. 1t will give the men be-
hind just the space needed to pass
you in safety. Courtesy demands
that you give a signal when you in
tend to turn or stop. 1t does not
permit you to hog the road. The
traffic "bully" fails to make any
greater progress in the long run
than the courteous driver. He is a
nuisance and a menace.
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